Yes, ROCK (rather RCK) is my other OC Team that is influenced by Warhammer 40K motifs.
Anyways- based on the most current episode- enjoy!
"Cyres." A large machine-like being stood on front of her, black and silver trimmed armor covered most of their features, with a red cloak the is draped over their left shoulder. Their helmet's gray eyes glowed under the visage of the horns. Large bracers hid the clawed weapon the machine has up their sleeves.
Cyres turned from the match below her to smile at the familiar sight.
"It's nice to see you too Akaia," She patted the thick metal plated arm. "Is Rio and Mel here as well?"
"They are with Qrow and Ozpin as we speak," Her gutteral and garbled voice came behind the helmet. "I have two squads deployed on duty here."
Akaia beckoned to two of the large soldiers clad in the same bulky black and silver trimmed armor standing amongst the crowds. They each held large guns in their hands, gray eyed helmets turning occasionally to the crowd.
"We are ready to take action as of now, Mordred is awaiting us at the Monastery Caverns in Atlas." Akaia nodded and dissolved into her own shadow.
"Excellent, Hazurfurn is currently aiding VRDN and SLTE in the Emerald Forest." Cyres turned her attention back to the match.
"Victory goes to Yang Xiao Long and Weiss Schnee!"
No one knew who screamed louder, CTDK or the crowd. Jay was jumping up and down in her seat, Kelly was shy to go all out, instead she cheered like a bit too cautiously, Diane and Cindy were going all out to the point CIndy nearly called forth her semblance in her excitement.
"That's my girls!" Jay screamed out loud and prompted looks from the rest of team. "What?"
The rest of the time proceeded them judging her.
"I'm actually more concerned for Weiss as of right now." Kelly commented as she slipped her scroll back into her belt.
They watched as Ruby and Blake jump over the stands, rushing over to their partners sides. And then watching as they ran off to the side with Yang carrying Weiss.
"Let's go." Cindy ordered. They left the bleachers quickly and disappeared into the halls.
"Congratulations you two." Cindy and the rest of CTDK were visiting in the infirmary for the WY of RWBY. "Quite a match you displayed there."
"Thanks Cindy." Yang gives her a thumbs up, though her arm was wrapped in a layer of bandages.
"How's the burns coming along?" Kelly asked Weiss who is basically almost covered in bandages as opposed to Yang. "Gave us quite a scare when we saw you aura go to zero."
"We got wor-" A loud crash of the door interrupted Diane as a girl with red streaked brown hair bounced in, her tan trench coat covering most of her body. Her arms covered with large silver gauntlets and leather straps going around her torso holding two guns onto her back.
"What's up guys!" The girl's enthusiastic voice rang through the room. Their attention fully to her now as the short girl made her grand entrance. "Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang- congratulations on your victory."
"Mel!" Yang grinned from ear to ear at the sight of her older friend. Mel went over to Ruby and Blake, enveloping them both in a bone-crushing hug. Literally, they can hear their back cracking, making the rest of the people in the room cringe.
"Mel, please do refrain from roughhousing them." Cyres scowled at her as she walked in, a frown of disapproval on her face. Mel dropped the two into heap onto the ground before turning to Yang, completely ignoring Cyres.
"Yang," She hugged Yang. "C'mere!"
Lucking between all of them, they all know Yang is the only one that can handle and return Mel's hugs from Hell.
"Mel!" Yang laughed, putting Mel into a headlock and giving her noogie. "How've you been?"
"Don't move around or you're going to injure yourself again." Both Weiss and Cyres chided.
CTD didn't know how to react in this situation and felt a bit of a odd ball in this.
"Mel, get off of Weiss this instant!" They hear Cyres yelling at Mel.
"Make me princess!"
"You insufferable oaf." Cyres placed a hand on her chest, exaggeration emotions and expression. "After eight years and you still haven't won a Dumbass of the Year Award."
"Hey!"
Blake walked up to Kelly and nudged her, drawing the tall girl's attention while everyone else's is at the display in front of them.
"Can we talk outside in the courtyard?" She asked Kelly, who nodded.
"Wherefore?" Kelly asked before closing the door behind them.
The two faunus' stopped in the center of the tiled courtyard, rather a large garden that is at the furthest from any buildings whatsoever, surrounded by fauna of all kinds- hanging from the arches overhead, crawling up the pillars or off of the trees that bear fruit, giving them all the privacy they need.
Kelly leaned against a apple tree, her eyes trained on Blake as she paced back and forth. Blake clearly has something on her mind, but how to word it- probably not so much.
Though, there is a possible chance she wants to confirm her theory on why CTDK is so friendly her and her team and not the others.
"Are you wondering why we are so friendly to you guys?" Kelly spoke, keeping her eyes trained on Blake. "And wondering it I am involved with the White Fang in any way?"
That got her attention, the girl stopped pacing, gold eyes boring into Kelly's gold and silver reptilian eyes. She kept quiet as beckoning Kelly to continue. She pushes herself off the tree and walks closer to Blake.
"I can tell you this Belladona, I am not," She paused briefly. "But I know you were once one and we CTDK have no qualms about that, neither does the RFP."
Blake is about to speak but Kelly continues, speaking in a low voice.
"I know who you are Blake, and I'm sure you know about me too." She finishes and leans back. "It's all files you have read in the past."
Kelly watched in amusement as Blake glared at her as if she was going to kill her at any second.
"Kiros "Kelly" Lernaean, Komodo Dragon, threat level five, origin unknown," Blake seems to have memorized all her data to the point she can rehearse it out like a memory. But then again, her face is always in a book. "Her semblance is the h-"
"You can stop there." Kelly smiled and pulled off her mask.
"So be it," Blake shrugged. "But what about you mentioned earlier about befriending us?"
"That…" Kelly arched an eyebrow. "Is classified."
She interrupted Blake the second time.
"Then what's your reason for trusting ROCK?" She leaned closer almost able to see the gears turning in the girl's head. "It's the same for the two of us."
Kelly's earpiece beeped, causing a video feed to pop in front of her eyes, the caller tracing to Jay as a map appears, showing her in the middle of a plaza. Kelly reeled back to look at the video feed.
"Something happened?" Kelly excused herself by turning away.
"Uhhh, I'm in a tight spot?" There was screaming in the back and the sounds of gunfire. "Someone went bonkos there's an explosion- a man I think or tw- oof.!"
"Jay?" Kelly had more screens pop up to Cindy. "Jay, answer me."
"S-sorry, I just got hit in the back, I'm fine." She can hear that she is a bit breathless on the other side.
Jay hung up as Cindy picked up.
"Jay is in trouble and there are gunmen I presume in the preceding area I am sending… now." Kelly started without waiting. "I'll meet you there."
"Roger that." Cindy hung up.
Kelly hung up and turned to Blake.
"What about us?" She asked Kelly as she already turned on her heel. "Should we help?"
"If you want to see real blood painting the streets," She ran towards the high walls. "Keep your innocence- mostly that and Ruby don't need to see any of this!"
Kelly disappeared over the wall after running up it.
The final rays of the sun is still high in the sky, almost shrouding their tactical bullhead perfectly from the eyes below. The flight took no longer than six minutes, seven at most to the outermost southeastern part of Vale where the borders of agricultural and residential districts join at the river.
Of all the places, how did Jay end up at the outskirt of Vale again? The area beyond the city is all forest and a perfect place to hide runaways, monsters, fugitives and much more.
The bullhead hovered over the area, not sure where to land at all in the chaos below them. The plaza was chaotic, people running everywhere, gunfire here and messes everywhere. Jay is waving at the bullhead from behind one of the fountain's walls.
"On the rooftop there!" Cindy shouted to the pilot at the nearby flat top building.
The bullhead heaved as it ascended, before jerking to the side.
Diane disembarked first, landing on the roof and running over to the edge where she set up her vantage point with Bleak Dusk. Cindy landed directly into the fray, weapon ready for anything. Kelly landed last with her cannon set up next to Diane, gun spinning and ready to fire.
"Jay!" Cindy slid over to Jay behind a concrete wall. "What is going on?"
"Some explosion and crap and next thing I know there's screaming-" A roar echoed the entire area. "And they have drawn attention to a Minotaur Grimm and a minor breach…"
Cindy peered over the cover, watching a massive bull head ram through buildings with it's massive horns and running over cars as if it was paper, not to mention the buildings are like jenga pieces as chunks of bricks and metal were thrown everywhere. Meanwhile the much smaller grimms were pouring into the city.
"Well… Shit." Both Jay and Cindy said at the same time.
Cindy looked at the tall building where Kelly is standing upon, looking at her for a option. She placed two fingers to her neck, and watched as Kelly relayed the message to Diane.
Diane can be seen deploying something behind Kelly, a small box that began changing into a ammo pack in the shape of a backpack. Kelly shrugged her coat off as Diane hefted it up to her back. It attached with wires and the hook on her back, Kelly can be seen lowering a little with the weight.
The two watched as Kelly's gauntlet shift, becoming as thick as her torso, another handle began forming at the top where she gripped it heavily. The muzzle grew wider and the ammo belt attached itself into the ammunition feed on the side of her arm gun. Kelly's mask slid over her face as she got into a firing stance, knowing her gun is now heavy as she aimed it at the Chimera.
"Ready for firing." Kelly's mechanical voice came onto their earpiece.
"Fire." Cindy commanded.
Kelly braced herself as Ripple Corruption began roaring, the hammer fell onto the first grenade sized cartilage, firing one massive recoil shot. It slammed into the massive grim, causing it to reel back.
Two. Three. Four.
Ding!
The first spent cartridge ejected from the vent, still smoking. The ammunition is special, equipped to fire four charged shots with a revolver technology before the empty shell will eject.
A slow firing gun, but the sheer recoil told its power as Kelly herself struggled with holding- let alone firing it like this. She switched her aim to mowing the first few grimm that was about to jump over the cover of her two teammates.
"Go!" Cindy shouted, she and Jay jumped over the cover to fire the first shot at the unaware and entranced grimm.
Jay began carving into the crowd, swinging left and right, her eyes glowing as she begins going faster and faster.
Kelly paused her firing and jumped off the building with Diane. She grunted as she landed on the asphalt, the weight of this form already beginning to tire her. She sucked in a breath and hefted the weighty gun to aim at the Chimera's face again and pulled the trigger, once again bracing herself.
About five cartridges out she heard the cry of a marauders coming from her side, She unlocked her brace and stance, shifting her weight around smacking him with her large gun with the sounds of bone crunching under the metal. She planted her foot on the second's chest, pushing her back while trying to keep balance. She spat fire into the third one's face because she cannot find her balance in time and his knife was poised to stab her, she watched as the green flame consume him immediately, spreading like oil on concrete. She counted to three in her head before his screaming stopped and there is nothing but a charred corpse on the ground.
"Guys- it's not only grimm I'm worried about anymore." Kelly rammed another person away.
"Got any better ideas?" Diane heard Jay's voice as a familiar sensation of savagery tingling at the back of her mind- courtesy of Jay's radiant aura.
"Nope." Diane slashed at the minotaur's charging legs before rolling away- the attack doing little but agitate the bull to dash towards her. "Crap."
Jay quickly intersected, jumping into the air, Falling Sky's teeth grinding against the great keratin horns with enough power to only diverge it's path a inch aside into a brick wall.
"Can you keep it still dammit!" Kelly's shouting came from behind. They both turned to see a breathless Kelly moving her gun arm around to aim at at the minotaur behind the dust it kicked up.
"Sorry," Jay gives her a sheepish grin. "We forgot about you."
Kelly visibly frowned under her mask.
"Well, try moving around with a four-hundred pound gun that's as thick as a Boarbatusk with additional eighty pounds of ammunition on your damn back." Kelly snapped back, agitation laced in her voice. She only sounds like that when she doesn't sleep or is burnt out. "All while keeping alive when mobility is limited."
The minotaur dislodged itself from the wall and turned it's attention to them nostrils flaring, it;s huge body lowered to charge again. Kelly pulled the trigger again, Ripple Corruption spitting out hot shells every second. They can see chunks of the dark flesh being sheared off at a closer range with enough firepower to stage a standstill between the faunus and the grimm. Kelly's stabilizing foot began cracking and digging into the ground.
"Go help Cindy!" Kelly ordered, pulling something on the side of her gun making the barrel rotate for a momentary pause in firing, steam rose into the air in steady wisps from the vents on her shoulder.
Jay and Diane hesitantly nodded, neither willing to leave the now venerable side of Kelly.
Humans and Grimms?
Cindy growled, firing a shotgun round into a formally dressed man with a dagger before turning to decapitate a Beowulf with one swift stroke.
She looked around in her area of skirmish, every time she turned there would be someone lunging at her, be it Grimm or human. She admit, she is getting tired, more than usual and her chest hurts too. She turned to her right just in time to catch a clawed hand of an ursa with her metal bracer knocking her back two steps before she countered with a heavy slash to it's black underside.
She stopped to catch a quick breath before hearing the footsteps behind her. She swing's Mourning Dawn upwards.
But her arm felt like lead, or did time slow?
Two white bullets struck the lunging woman, the rounds going through flesh like tissue paper. She turned to see Jay and Diane running towards her.
"Is it me or does it feel heavy?" Jay panted slightly, wiping sweat off her forehead, her topknot a bit messy. "As in my arms are boulders."
"Ditto." Diane looked a bit tired, not because she is the one who regularly wields a claymore into combat.
"Let's just get this over with." Cindy hissed watching as the minotaur in the distance fall to the ground as a mass of shredded muscle and bone. Kelly collapsed on one knee, her shoulders heaving as the backpack detached falling to the ground while Ripple Corruption shifted back into it's default gauntlet form.
They lost count of the time they spent in the plaza, by the time they looked up, the buildings already cast a morning glow on the body ridden ground. They remembered they were here in what probably was the evening of the day before. They carefully walked amongst the bodies of civilians and Grimm alike, giving them brief tapps with weapon or foot to ensure that they are indeed dead.
They were sore, bleeding and utterly exhausted but nevertheless glad to be alive. Cindy's bracer was cut through by an hand ax, cutting deep into her forearm rendering her grip useless. Jay's face had blood running after she got smacked in the head by a rock. Diane fared better, only measly cuts here and there. Kelly, showing no visible wounds but showed exhaustion by the sluggish way she walked and how her much sweat was running down her face and how flushed her face was once she ripped the mask off her face.
And there is always dealing with the aftermath of any combat situation.
Kelly looked at each of the humans they have slained in self defense- all indeed human- even though they may be missing a head or limbs, she can tell by scent of the blood.
Diane carefully looked around the breach in the towering, three feet thick natural barrier that protected the city's edges from the outside forces of Grimm.
Jay and Cindy are helping the civilians out of the shelter while blocking them off from the bodies and other hazardous places. The local police and medical forces were called to the scene by Cindy to set up camps and ready medical supplies. None of them questioned of their delay instead felt relief of the welcoming sight of help.
They regrouped after several more minutes of examination, the people ushered them into the medical tent first, thanking them profusely for saving them from the minor invasion.
"Sorry it took us a long time," The police chief said to them as they had their injuries tended to. "We were caught in a delay."
"I'm hoping it is nothing like this?" Cindy asked before hissing as alcohol was dripped into her deep wound. She bit her lip and sucked in deep breaths.
"Sadly it was like this, but not as bad as the situation here." He sighed, pulling out a clipboard and handing it to her. "Several were officers on duty, but most were the attacking civilians."
They briefly skimmed over the report, taking in key details before handing it back to him. Ten officers dead, thirty civilians wounded, fifty dead. Fifth and Howard Street.
"We're investigating this at the moment, it may have been the Whi-"
"No it's not." Kelly interjected him, watching as the nurse put in acupuncture needles into her arm, shoulder and back.
"How are you so sure?" He inquired, walking a bit closer.
"The blood of humans are more… bland so to speak." She looked at him, her tongue flicking once. "Faunus blood have a more tangy scent."
Silence hangs in the air, only interrupted by the nurses and their medical applications.
"Sir, is there by any chance of any human cults or gangs present in the area?" Jay asked, her hand tapped the table.
"I... " They can see him looking confused for a moment. "In fact, someone asked for these files earlier, saying he is of the same special forces as you guys are-"
"Wait, asked you?" Diane looked confused as he is. "But no one in the R.F.P besides us and team EBNY are in Vale, the rest are not in this investigation nor in the specific area of Vale."
"Yeah, Team SLTE and VRDN are still in the forest, MLCT is in the wealthy areas, HLTP at docks and EBNY just arrived at Beacon." Jay read off her scroll for confirmation. "No one has been in this area yet, MLCT is supposed to be here the day after today."
"Did he have any identification marks like us?" Kelly motioned to her left pauldron, the white chalice with wings printed on the dark metal. "We all have them located on our left shoulder."
"Yes he did, but in another location," The officer replied. "Then he just up and left quickly without a word."
Kelly looked at Cindy, who looked at Jay to Daine as they all put two and two together.
"They don't want us finding out." Jay commented. "And that's a good thing because we know we're on the right track."