So, I've decided to write small one shots for RWBY fics. Probably do one for Mass Effect as well. These will be either one shorts or story ideas that anyone is free to take and use.
For some reason, I've wanted to do a Kancolle/RWBY/Stellaris fic after reading Things No Longer allowed involving Ship Girls. Let's do a oneshot for now.
Troopers, Hunters, and Naval Steel, Chapter 1
Remnant, Sanus.
80 AGW/ 2866
"Headmaster Ozpin, at this moment I am questioning your sanity," Sydney said into his comms as he walked into the abandoned village. "For starters, why am I here?"
Meanwhile, at Beacon, much of the student body was watching the Emerald Hunter/ secretly a UN Sub-orbital Drop Trooper from his helmet camera as he was travelling into a very dangerous zone on Remnant.
"To test your skills as a warrior of course." Ozpin said into his scroll that was patched into Sydney's helmet communication systems, sipping a cup of hot cocoa. "You haven't exactly done an initiation besides winning a spar against me so this might be a good substitute."
"Ok, but why am I without a team? Or in a region known to have a large quantity of Grimm Leviathans?" Sydney asked, the MAAWs recoilless rifle out and ready.
"Well, you are an elite warrior of a mysterious military clan. You can handle a Leviathan." Ozpin smirked.
"...Oz, I'm twenty. I'm good, but not an idiot." Sydney rolled his eyes. Was Ozpin trying to kill him?
Considering all the trouble he's done on Remnant, maybe that wasn't out of the picture.
"Still, what am i-" SSSSCCCCCCRRRRREEEE! Suddenly the ground started shaking and a massive Levithan rose out of a lake next to the village.
The Leviathan and Sydney just stared at each other for a second. And then the Grimm took a MAAW round to the face. A massive explosion erupted on the Grimm beast and Sydney took this time to drop the MAAWs and run towards the beast before firing his grappling hook onto the beast's nose.
Whipping out a solar lance (a plasma sword) and jabbing it into the beast's eyes when he smashed into the Leviathan's face, Sydney took the time to violently disfigure the Levithan's head before chucking a high-yield volatile mote plasma grenade into its mouth before leaping off.
Landing deftly on his feet, Sydney watched as the Levithan imploded, covering him and the surrounding village in dissolving grimm blood and guts.
Thank you Darwin for designing those new anti-Grimm grenades. Sydney thought.
At Beacon, everyone's jaws drop at how quickly Sydney took down one of the toughest beasts on Remnant. Even the teachers stared in shock.
"Mr. Ross, you just took down a leviathan," GoodWitch said, trying to hide her shock.
"Yes. So, what am I supposed to do here?" Sydney asked nonchalantly, walking over and picking up the MAAWs he dropped before reloading it.
"I…." Ozpin shock his head. "You're supposed to recover a relic of…of…. Sydney?"
Sydney, finishing up slamming a shell into the MAAWs, looked up to see a horde of Grimm staring at him. Including 4 more Leviathans and a bunch of Wyverns.
Sydney just rolled his eyes "Might as well make it a party", before pressing a button on his helmet. "Wash? Mars?"
The members of Beacon could only hear murmuring on the other side.
"It's your fault you went along with Grissom and South Dakota's anti-Grimm Repellent. And it backfired, thus your detention. Anyways I have an out for you if you want. Yes, I know."
Excited squealing could be heard.
"Great, it's Grimm. A lot of them."
A leviathan roared at Sydney, seemingly not affecting him.
"Yup. Grimm. Wanna help out?"
More excited squealing was heard.
"Great. I'll save some for you! I'm in Sanus, there's plenty of Grimm. Also bring Willy, Tenryuu, and Spirit if they're available."
Excited murmuring again.
"Great! I'll see you in 20 seconds. Bye bye, love you two." Sydney ended the call and aimed his MAAWs at the Grimm. His left shoulder mounted railgun did the same.
"Ok, 20, 19, 18, 17, 16, 15-"
"(Comms) SYDNEY! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!"
That was Yang. "-14, 13, 12, 11, 10-"
BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM! As if by god's call, dozens of massive columns erupted right in the Grimm horde, violently tearing most of them apart. Of all their monstrous strength, the Grimm could not endure ship grade artillery, seaborne and spacefaring.
As if they teleported (which they did), 6 figures fell from the sky. 5 of them landed professionally. The last one though…
USS William D Porter yelped as she landed on one of the Wyverns and proceeded to get stuck on its horn and accidentally stabbing one of her five inch guns into one of the Wyvern's eyes. Cue everyone wincing as in a panic, the Wyvern roared and began rolling over its own horde.
"Oh shit. Willy!" Sydney ran after the marauding dragon, with the rest of the Kansen panicky following suit.
"Wait, no! They're going to run over the Dust tank-"
BOOM!
6 minutes later and one even more wrecked village later.
One minute, the Beacon Students were watching Sydney stare down a horde of Grimm, the next he was practically cradling a small red haired girl with gun mounts strapped to her body.
"Oooowwww." Willy moaned. Being flung around by the crazed murderous dragon was painful.
"You're good Willy." Sydney checked his HUD's medical sensors. "Huh. You didn't take any wounds. And….." Sydney trailed off for a second. "Well I think I owe Amas ten credits."
Sydney helped his 'unlucky' adopted sister up. "Shit, still a good job. You somehow wiped out everything that wasn't a Wyvern or Leviathan."
Willy looked at the carnage she caused, and squealed. "Oh my god oh my god oh my god…."
Sydney took this chance to take a look at the other 5 Kansen to have arrived. "Mars! Wash! Spirit! Tenryuu- Aunty Kongo?"
"SSYYY-DDDNNN-EEYYY!" And a former 32,000 ton battleship kansen, refitted to a multi million ton space battleship ship woman, crashed into Sydney. "BURNING LOVE!"
"Merp!" Sydney and Kongo crashed to the ground. "Auntie- Please- embarrass- can't breath-"
"Hey, Sorry." Kongo leapt up from and then promptly bear hugged the smaller Human. "How's my favorite niece?"
"Merp! Good aunty- please, this is embarrassing." Sydney gave up trying to struggle his way out of Kongo's grip."
Not only were the four other Kansen giggling, but most of Beacon was as well. "Damn Sydney! Your aunt's stacked!"
Sydney promptly muted his comm link as Kongo released him and he collapsed to the ground. Taking a breath, Sydney stood back up.
"Mars, Spirits. How's life?" Sydney turned to the two shipboys.
"Oh the usual. White Fang throws a few rockets at us, flee, we chase them down, capture them, Grimm shows up, we kill them all, the usual. Except that Grimm repellant that South and Grissom made. Uggh." Mars cringed.
"Yeah, Dakota should have done that in a station. So-"
"Hey Syd? We got a Grimm horde coming. Sensors are showing class 12-Z." Spirit was looking off in the distance.
The Beacon students paled. A Class 12-Z Grimm horde consisted of thousands of Grimm. Only the toughest walls could stop them.
But Sydney just raised an eyebrow. "A Class 12-Z? Against not only a reckless and deadly SOBT, but also two destroyers, a Titan, battleship, and a carrier Kansen? I'm feeling sorry for these animals."
Sydney whipped out his M5, the Kansens summoning their riggings as well. "Well ladies and gentlemen of Beacon Academy, its time we showed you how we in the SOBTs and Kansen Corps handle a tiny Grimm swarm. Ready up!"
United Nations Database….Terran-Abyssal War/Kansen Corps.
In 2347, 53 years before first contact with an extraterrestrial force, over a dozen UNS worlds, including Earth, saw several of its coastal cities be violently attacked from the sea by hordes of ghostly ships. This would mark the Abyssal-Terran War, the first war between the UNS and a non-Human entity. The forces of the United Nations Aerospace Force (UNASF) and Maritime Navy would fight hard and initially push back the tides but the Abyssals came in such great numbers that UNAF forces were forced to fight near the coastline to receive support from UNA (United Nations Army) and UNMC (United Nations Marine Corps) artillery units.
Things changed on October 3rd, 2348 when the Earth city of Yokosuka , housing an important base for the UNMN (United Nations Maritime Navy) Pacific Fleet. During defensive operations, the carrier UNMV (United Nations maritime Vessel) Shanxi ran into what appeared to be Human females with massive eco-skeleton mounted weaponry fighting the Abyssals on equal footing. Later revealed to be the personification of the USS Vicksburg (the last Ticonderoga class cruiser to remain in service and last maritime command of Admiral Limburn) was leading a detachment of 20th and 21st century shipgirls. Across the affected planets being attacked by the Abyssals, shipgirls ranging from the ww2 Kido Butai recusing the stricken UNMN destroyer Jess Lark to the HMS Queen Elizabeth carrier battle group pulling a crusader special forces team from danger after they destroyed an Abyssal princess.
With a chance to turn a stalemate into an offensive, the Kansen Corp was formed and the technology needed to summon more shipgirls was developed. Kansen Corps was put under UNSOCOM (United Nations Special Operations Command) under (at the time) General/Maritime Fleet Admiral Victor Ross (one of the few officers in the UNAF to hold duel ranks). Kansen task forces, supported by the UNASF aircraft and UNA fire support units, launched a massive offensive into Abyssal waters and reclaiming over a third of all waters lost during the first year of the war. This bought time for both the UNMN to expand its fleet numbers, UNSOCOM to augment more Crusaders, and for more Kansens to be summoned.
In 2452 and after 5 years of grueling fighting, the UNAF launched one massive offensive to eliminate the Abyssals. Hundreds of Abyssals princesses and masters were destroyed in the fighting and very few were able to escape death. However an unexpected plea from one surviving Princess, Hoppo-Chan, caused the entire offensive to slow down. After a month of negotiations, the Abyssals surrendered to United Nations Forces. All survivors were relocated to the world of Pacifica, forming the Abyssal Free State.
After a major investigation in the 2750s, it was believed that the Abyssals were sentient creatures used to delay the development of Humanity. This is odd, as the UNS was the only nation to every be on the receiving end of an Abyssal attack prior to the Unbidden War. Furthermore, the revelation of the Kansen/shipgirls and that both maritime and space vessels could develop souls rattled the UNS and idea of living beings having souls shot though Solarian Space. Still, the Terran Abyssal War marked a dramatic shift and uptick of military spending, seeing all branches of the United Nations Allied Force, including the maritime navy, Crusader Corps, and newly formed Kansen Fleet. This would come in handy for the UNS's introduction into the galactic community and the Galactic Age of Conflict.
United Nations Database…..Kamusu/Kansen Corp.
Known officially as the United Nations Kamusu/Kansen Corps (though also called the Shipgirls and Boysfleet, The Kansen Fleet, the UN's Titanium Warriors, the Kansen fleet, and the Living Ship Force) is a subdivision of the United Nations Special Operations Command that maintains operations control of all combat capable or supporting Kansen. The Kansen corp has a special place, alongside the United Nations Crusader Corps, as Sol's most valiant warriors.
Kansen/Kamusu (the names are interchangeable) are the souls and personification of ships that have either been destroyed, decommissioned, or scrapped. When a Kamusu/Kansen is summoned, they will manifest as a being of which every species constructed them. Kansen are capable of summoning riggings, which can be described an entire vessel crammed into exoskeletons mounting the various functions of ships including weapon turrets, sensor equipment, torpedo tubes, launch decks, and more. Kansen are also extremely durable despite what their clothes may make one look (a Kansen in nothing more than a formal dress is more than capable of taking tank rounds to the face), capable of taking the punishment that only Crusaders were capable of.
For reasons unknown, only ships that have been decommissioned/scrapped/destroyed for more than 80 years can be resummoned as a Kansen. The reasoning for this is either unknown or classified by the UNAF and as such, no current generation vessels like the Sun Wukong class strike cruisers and the Mithero class Supercarriers have been summoned. It is also known that there have been instances where active duty and intact vessels have summoned ships spirits, like the UNS Taipei being summoned to save Admiral Limburn after Taipei's near-destructive duel with 2 Unbidden Titan class vessels. She would disappear after the third battle of Crimdor would be resummoned during a Fleet Week when Sydney, Victor, and Sophia Ross were present 13 years prior to Sydney's entry into Beacon academy. She now lives as Taipei Ross as the couple of mass destruction's adopted daughter. As a side note, Kamusu riggings are capable of being upgraded to more modern vessels though labor and resource intensive.
(Also note that Kamusu/KANSEN are summoned as either female or male, depending on how they are referred to. This is why ships like the UNS Mars and UNS Spirit of Fire were summoned as male. However, 76 percent of the KANSEN fleet is female due to weird human traditions.)
KANSEN/Kamusu are extremely social and loyal to their respective nations, fellow KANSEN, and families. However, they tend to get a bit.., rowdy. This is why KANSEN are subordinate to units like the United Nations Sub Orbital Drop Troops, Crusader Corps, Army Rangers, and conventional fleet command to make sure they don't cause too much collateral damage (looking at you Iowa for destroying that mining station). Kamusu are also flirty and there have been a large number of marriages between commanding officers and KANSEN (also congratulations to Kongo and Goto's 400 anniversary of their wedding. You're lucky their Kamusu and crusader respectively). Still, having a Kamusu is going to boost a UNAF force's combat power significantly. If you don't fear their tanks, fear the ones who can make smoothies out of solar flares.
P.s, the UNSOCOM has a list of things banned for both Crusaders and Kamusu to do. The list is somehow in the hundreds of thousands, we had to recruit dozens of AIs to track everything down. How the hell did Field Marshal Ross and Hiei poison half of the Great Khanate? Also who replaced the chairs at the Interstellar assembly? Keep good watch over your Kansen your paying for property damage.
Premise: This is a Humanity where there was an Abyssal war but it was triggered in the 2300s. The UNS fought them to a standstill, summoned a bunch of Kansen, then kicked them off their colonies. By the 2800s (when RWBY season one happens), Earth/the United Nations of Sol has a force of tens of thousands of Kansen, Males to Females, seagoing to spacefaring, etc.
So basically an alternative universe to Remnant: Stellar Shock and Awe.
Changes:
Sydney is a member of the UN Sub Orbital Drop troops, due to being more use to craziness that KANSEN emit. Also he was more influenced by his mother's naval side.
Sydney is also a fully augmented Crusader super soldier to keep up with Kamusu, thanks to decreasing augmentation costs brought by the Abyssal Wars.
One of Sydney's adopted sisters is a child-sized Titan Kansen.
Insanity in Beacon is going to rise.
Kamusu squadron to be deployed to Beacon:
Lieutenant Sydney Ross (Male Human. United Nations Sub Orbital Drop Trooper. Commander).
UNS William D Porter (Female Kansen. Fletcher-class Maritime destroyer, refitted as a Puck class railgun Space destroyer).
UNS Kongo (Female Kansen. Kongo Class Maritime Fast Battleship, refitted as Yokosuka class pursuit battleship)
UNS Spirit of Fire (Male Kansen. Space Phoenix class Assault carrier)
UNS Tenryuu (Female Kansen. Tenryu class maritime light cruiser, refitted to Savo Island class space light cruiser)
UNS Washington (North Carolina Class maritime Battleship, refitted as a Spaceborne Galaxy Class Artillery battleship)
UNS Mars (Male Kansen. Mars class Titan.)
Chaos level:...Beacon's screwed.
Anyways, just one shot. I have no idea how to actually write a Kancolle fix so if someone more experienced wants to try, go for it. You have my eternal permission to use this as a basis for a new story. You want to use your own characters? Go ahead.