A/N: I do not own neither Dawn of War, Warhammer 40k or RWBY those belong to Relic, Games Workshops and Rooster Teeth. Also for those of you who haven't noticed yet I have completely redone the story for plot and originality reasons.
After their little skirmish Captain Gray and what was left of his company are been taken as prisoners under the custody of the small force of 23 Blood Ravens Space Marines including Sergeants Cyrus, Tarkus and Thaddeus, under the promise of taking them to their superiors.
Remnant Surface
Location: Beacon Landing Area, Atlas command ship
Time: 10:30
General James Ironwood, supreme commander of the atlesian military and headmaster of Haven Academy was starting to get worried. It has been plenty of time since Captain Gray has last reported and has been trying to contact him for the last 10 minutes. It wasn't just the state of his men that worried him but the possibility of failing after the bald declaration of how to proceed in this kind of situations. Although he knew that the best way to engage against the 'Queen' was with shock and fear, but failing this self-appointed task would just undermine his point so he needed to win this, to prove that he was right.
He remained in his seat for a few more moments, immobile, reading the security reports, status of the ship and important meetings in his Scroll, waiting patiently for the captain to report again. "General? General do you read me?" A voice with a bit of static came over the radio and Ironwood was broken out of his state.
"Captain Gray is that you? What is the situation? Have you apprehended the intruders yet?" The general asked desperately wanting answers.
"No general." One could sense the tiredness of the tone from over the radio. "They have destroyed our entire contingent of Atlesian Knights and taken me and my squad prisoners. Fortunately neither I nor any of the human soldiers were injured and these estrangers expressed that they wanted to talk to you."
Ironwood was a bit shocked by the information Gray just provided, apparently these trespassers managed to destroy over one hundred of Atlas newest combat robot and capture some of its men as prisoners. But why they wanted to meet him? Did they want ransom from his soldiers? But they could have asked him to come to the forest. So what was the purpose this?
James line of thought was cut short when Ozpin strolled into Ironwood's room. "General, I take that your operation is going well?" Ozpin asked in a calm manner.
He knew what Ozpin had meant by that, that sentence could be translated to 'Have you screwed it out yet?' The general sighed and then turned his head towards him, "All of the combat robots have been destroyed, the human portion of the company has been captured and now they are heading this way to talk to me for whatever reason." James turned to the radio, "thank you captain I hope we will meet again shortly." And then he turned off the communicator.
Ozpin pondered over the words the general just said while thinking carefully of what to say next. He knew the general cared for his men even if his methods came to clash with those of the headmaster, Ozpin still respected his friend for that. He putted a hand on his shoulder.
"General, if you don't mind I would like to accompany you in this meeting." Ozpin requested.
"All right, it is your academy after all." Ironwood answered
"Very well then, I will prepare myself for their arrival and warn my students about our new… visitors."
James jumped a little in his seat when he heard the last word of Ozpin's sentence. "Visitors?" Ironwood said with a confused look as to how Ozpin called the ones that had his men tied down.
"Yes." Ozpin took another sip from his mug. "These men have expressed the desire to approach us in a diplomatic way and have not hurt your men from what you have said to me; also they haven't attacked us right after they turned off the camera system on the Forever Fall which led me to think that they may not be here to cause harm."
"Aren't you worried if they try to attack us when they arrive?" James asked with concerned curiosity.
"As always we will prepare for the worst, I will alert the teachers and the most senior Huntsmen for ensuring maximum security during this meeting and to make sure that no one gets hurt." Ozpin looked at the watch strapped on his wrist. "And we should do it quick. Have they told you when will they arrive?" Ironwood shook his head. "Then all the more reason to hurry." The headmaster stated while heading to the exit.
"Hey Oz." Ironwood called Ozpin just before he leaved and the headmaster turned to face him. "I'm sorry for acting like that back on the tower." The general said.
Ozpin gave him a smile and responded. "It is all right James; you do not need to worry about that, we do always make mistakes sometimes." And with that the headmaster left to organize the arrival of these strangers. While Ironwood stayed in the room of the ship organizing some of his troops for the event.
Meanwhile the headmaster was heading to his office when his was intercepted by Glynda Goodwitch. "So how did it go?" The blonde professor asked. She knew about Ironwood's plan, Ozpin told her after he left, and even though she thought an action should be taken out, but not in the way James carried it.
"Quiet well actually; he even apologized to me for his previous behavior, although I doubt he will try to change that. Also we will be having some new visitors." Ozpin said.
"Ozpin please don't tell me that those who sabotaged the camera system are coming this way." Glynda said while pinching his nose she also knew about the plan the headmaster had in mind and frankly she thought it was one of his craziest plans up to date, the only reason she accepted it was because said plans always seemed to result in one way or another like Ruby Rose or Jaune Arc.
"Well they chose a diplomatic solution and haven't caused any important damage, ao yes they are coming here." Ozpin responded while Glynda just sighed hoping it would not turn into a disaster.
Remnant Surface
Location: Thunderhawk Gunship, in route to Beacon Academy
Time: 10:30
After reporting to Ironwood about the result of this disastrous mission an eerie silence dominated the interiors of the Thunderhawk. The gunship as Gray observed was a bit larger than Bullhead with more armor and more heavily armed. The captain eyes continued to survey its interiors until his gaze landed again on the so called 'Blood Ravens', there were five of them in there with him and his squad the three sergeants and two more helmeted giants. One of said giants turned his head to the captain who quickly averted his eyes feeling a chill run down his spine, his eyes then turned to the position of his squad who were huddled together, and their heads hung low in fear of making eye contact with the Astartes.
He began to feel suffocated by the atmosphere on the gunship so his hands slowly reached out for his helmet and started removing it from his head. The captain's face had a few wrinkles, his tired eyes were of a steely grey color and his head was covered by a grey colored cropped hair style.
"Captain", one of the marines said, it was one of the shortest of the group but still surpassed Gray and all the members of his diminished company in height. Cyrus approached the captain who was shifting nervously on his seat, "if all the soldiers of this planet are as easily scared as them I can't even fathom to imagine what would happen if they had to battle the horrors we fight." He thought while approaching to him, meanwhile the captain just looked at the approaching who had long blonde hair and a glowing mechanical red eye that seemed to pierce into his soul with his stare.
Cyrus stopped in front of him looking down at the sitting figure of the atlesian captain and then he spoke. "We would like a description of this planet military and fighting prowess, if you could." Cyrus spoke in a suggestive tone, the motto of the Blood Ravens was 'Knowledge is Power' and they needed knowledge of who they will be working with. Gray just nodded meekly scared of the thought of what would happen if he refused.
Remnant Surface
Location: Beacon Academy, Kingdome of Vale
Time: 10:40
Most of the local and exchange students of the Academy were currently grouped in the Main Hall, the most senior ones have been called away for more specific instructions; they have been surprised to say the least, it was uncommon for the headmaster to make callings such as this which turned the Main Hall into mess of whispers and rumors.
"Students if I may have your attention." The voice of the headmaster came from the loudspeakers and all the students snapped to attention immediately, effectively silencing the room from the cacophony of hushed tones that predominated just moments ago. "I have gathered you here to inform you about some… unexpected guests that will be coming here to visit us. They will be arriving shortly if you wish to see them. That is all you are dismissed." And with those words said all of the teams dispersed resuming their chatter on an even louder volume some deciding to return to their previous activities others preparing for the mysterious arrivals.
Team RWBY was something along the lines of the later deciding to bring theories of who these strangers might be or how they will look like or why they came here. Ruby was wondering what kind of weapons they could have or if they had any weapons at all, Yang decided she didn't care that much about it opting for waiting until they arrive. Weiss and Blake seemed to be the only ones to put a minimum amount of serious effort into the subject.
"Ruby could you please stay quiet? The mature persons are trying to discuss something." Weiss said pointing at Ruby childish behavior.
"So-sorry Weiss." Ruby quickly apologized. "Is that there are so many people out there with so many different kinds of killing machines which could cause enormous amount of destruction at their wake!" She said that with an evil gleam in her eyes.
"Could you at least not say it so loud or just keep it to yourself." the Heiress retorted and quickly turned back to her conversation with Blake, Ruby for the other part just stuck her tongue at Weiss while she was distracted.
"Don't worry sis, Ozpin said they'll arrive soon you just need to wait." Yang said as she putted her arm around her sister to give her a kind of support. Ruby just looked up to her sister and nodded, trying to hold the excitement of hers.
Remnant Surface
Location: Beacon Landing Area, Kingdome of Vale
Time: 10:55
"Sergeants we are approaching to our destination." The pilot of the thunderhawk said to the passengers on board, Cyrus had been questioning Captain Gray for the last twenty-five minutes about Remnant military power. From what Cyrus learned three of the four kingdoms relied on citizen levies, only Atlas had a professional military which was beginning to use fewer men and more machines. The captain explained that the atlesians were trying to remove men from the dangers of the battlefield an idea Cyrus would have laughed at if he wasn't so cynical. Cyrus was beginning to think this planet was not worth the trouble until Gray told him about the Huntsmen and Huntresses. Warriors who trained in special Combat Schools to help 'uphold humanity', "well it seems it will not be an utterly waste of time and resources after all." Cyrus thought.
"Sirs we have arrived." The pilot of the thunderhawk warned as the gunship slowly started to descend and finally landing with a loud *thud* because of all the heavy weapons and armor it carried, a few seconds after it landed the door of the gunship opened revealing its passengers to Beacon.
When the students laid sight upon the strangers their eyes became wide and their mouths hanged agape. What they saw was nothing short of a sci-fi or fantasy show, there were five of them four which seemed to be at least seven feet tall and the other that seemed more normal had a mechanic red eye on the left side of his face. This giants clad in crimson red armor with the sigil of a Nevermore on their massive shoulder pads emanated an aura of intimidation and behind them were some soldiers of the atlesian military. The students were starting to ask themselves what Atlas troops were doing with these people.
In front of them stood the headmaster, Ozpin, and to both of his sides Professor Glynda Goodwitch and General James Ironwood. While the professor and general took a step back when the Astartes approached them the headmaster didn't even flinched and stood there staring at them none of them uttering a single word. Until Ozpin decided it was enough and talked to them.
"Welcome to Beacon Academy I am Ozpin, headmaster of this institution and these are my partners." He said motioning at Glynda and Ironwood. "Professor Glynda Goodwitch and General James Ironwood, who was the one who sent the 'diplomatic' team after you."
The marines quickly caught the hint, Tarkus responded, "greeting to you too headmaster I am Sgt. Tarkus of the Blood Ravens, these are my brothers-in-arms Sgt. Thaddeus and Sgt Cyrus. Our Commander will surely arrive in a few moments so we can discuss things properly." Just on cue a merely ten seconds another red gunship appeared over the skies and landed, this time it only carried two passengers, this ones though wore a more ornate armor and carried themselves in a more confident manner.
The two of them kept walking until they stood in front of the headmaster. "Greetings I am Force Commander Aramus of the Blood Ravens Space Marines Chapter, we came here as ambassadors of His greatest majesty The Emperor of Mankind to bring His light to this world. This is Captain Apollo Diomedes, my second-in-command." Aramus motioned to the man at his side.
"Wha-whait a moment. Where do you come from?" Goodwitch questioned a bit taken back by the introduction the commander just made, but before the Astartes could respond Ozpin raised his voice.
"It would be better if you followed me to a more private place, away from prying eyes." The headmaster said the last part barely above a whisper.
"Very well headmaster. But let it be known if this is some sort of trap you will pay dearly." Cyrus said in a low tone voice so that only those close around him could listen.
The headmaster paid little mind to the threat and signaled them to follow him, unlike Glynda or Ironwood who were starting to sweat a little. The Blood Ravens followed Ozpin into the Academy while the mass of students who were still a little confused began to disperse.
