Artyom led the way with his flashlight on and his lighter acting his torch. As his footsteps continued to trudge through the strange sacks on the walls, he heard Winter speak. "Artyom, what is this stuff?"

He paused in his tracks and looked over his shoulder. "I don't know. All I know is that the spiderbugs make this stuff. Just watch out for the large bulging sacks, they might contain one."

"If I told my sister about this, she would never believe me."

"Why is that?" The Polis Ranger questioned before continuing on the path. "Is she afraid of spiders?"

"Definitely. Weiss would freak out that these creatures exists."

On his left, Artyom moved his lighter close to the torch, only to ignite. "I wouldn't blame her." He whispered. "Even I don't like to be around these things." Then he reached down to the bottom of the torch, stuck in the sacks of the spiderbugs. After pulling it out, he reached down for his revolver and led the way. Soon, he paused in his tracks and raised his revolver up towards the ceiling.

"Artyom, what's wrong?" Winter asked.

"Do you hear that?"

Deep in the dark tunnels, the duo heard men shouting in the distance, but their words were followed by gunfire. "Keep the light on the fucker!"

Another voice made a battle cry. "Heil Reich!"

Content with the last words, he looked back to the specialist. "They're close."

"How can you be so sure?" She questioned. "They might not be there."

"Nazis are the only ones who have that saying. Not a lot of people outside of the Reich know about this." Artyom explained to Winter. "Anyone who does, gets plenty of scrutiny or a bullet to the head."

"You seem to know more about them than I last remembered." Specialist Schnee recalled.

"I've passed through the Red Line-Reich frontlines, I've had my fair share of sneaking past their executions." As they continued to step closer, the gunfire in the distance grew louder. "Let's go." He said as his torch began to burn through the cobwebs that plagued the tunnel. Their boots splashed at the small puddles within the tunnel; however, their presence seemed to disturbed something else in the darkness.

The sounds of chittering echoed through the tunnel along with tapping on the wall. Then behind his back, Artyom heard Winter's sword drawn. "They're behind us."

"I know." He replied before he reached for his bandolier of grenades and pulled three vials and handed them to Winter.

"What are these?" Bringing the grenades on her hip.

Turning away from the specialist, he answered and lit the way. "They're incendiary grenades. You'll need them to keep the spiderbugs away."

After going through the dark path, Artyom noticed the fence on the left side of his way. Then a sudden surprise made him bring his revolver to bear as the multi-legged bug smashed into the fence with its fangs trying to break through.

"Winter, stab the fucker!"

Specialist Schnee was quick to lunge her sword into the arachnid as it's blade broke through its armored body. When the mutated creature stopped moving, she pulled her weapon out in disgust as its blood dripped from its body. "My god, it reeks." She commented. "I'll have to clean my sword once we get out."

"Time to go."

Fighting theses spiderbugs disturbed Jaune. The creatures of Grimm were one thing, but these creatures were something different. A horrific monster, whose skin burned away at the light. He drew his sword and stabbed one of the creatures in the head before pulling it out. Unlike the Grimm, these creatures bled, staining his sword with its green blood.

Then he heard a cry from behind. "Watch out!" Hans screamed as he stood beside him with his gatling gun to bear. When the barrels began to spin a hailstorm of bullets, his flashlight was shown on the bodies of the spiderbugs coming from the left side of the tunnel. "Kids, stay behind us!" He ordered

Jaune did as he was told while he and Velvet watched the Nazis shine their flashlights on the dozens of spiderbugs.

"Shit, we need some fire. Does anyone have incendiaries?" He demanded.

A Nazi pulled out a yellow-green vial and tossed it at the waves of spiderbugs that swarmed the Nazi troopers. Once their glass case was broken, a spark erupted as flames touched anything within the vicinity, including the mutated creatures. Soon, its light shined on the arachnid creatures as they steered away from the flames. Those caught in said fire, were screeching in pain while the fire burned away at their armor.

Jaune watched with horrid fascination as it's skin began to transform into a dark crimson color as the bodies burned away. The young man's observation ended when one of the Nazis was met with two creatures descending upon him. He tried to fight back, but his bullets did little to divert the spiderbugs away. "Help me!" He cried out. One of the bugs had a stinger for a tail and began to attack the Nazi on the ground.

The boy took the initiative as he drew his sword and raised his shield. He bashed the stinger away with his shield as he hacked away at second spiderbug. Then they backed away, hissing at him with hate, their prey being saved by this huntsman-in-training.

The Nazi on the ground, looked up at him and pulled himself off the ground. "Thanks, kid. I owe you one." He replied before shining his light on the spiderbugs. "Hans, when are we going to get the hell out of here?" The man asked, backing away from the waves of spiderbugs.

Jaune looked over to the heavy trooper, who wasn't firing his weapon, but rather leading the party elsewhere. "I'm trying to find a way out." As the Nazi rearguard fought off the spiderbugs, he lead them with his flashlight looking into the darkness. However, he was met with an end. "There is a door in our way!"

"Can we open it? We're losing ammo faster than we can kill these fuckers!"

Hans looked to the sides, only to be met with disappointment. "Goddamn it, I found the controls, but we need to find the power source. If only we had torches…"

To Jaune's and Hans' surprise, Velvet spoke up. "You guys find the power source, I'll see if I can hold them off."

There was a momentary pause as Hans turned away from the two great doors and looked at the bunny faunus. "Are you crazy? You don't have a weapon on you. Hell, even Jaune has a sword. What can you do?"

Velvet's face express a smile. "I can show you." Soon, she began to walk towards another wave of spiderbugs. As she walked past the Nazi soldiers, she began reach her hand out towards the monsters as the Nazis and the huntsman-in-training noted her lack of fear.

"Velvet, get back!"

The guns stopped firing as the the faunus caught the party and the spiderbugs' full attention. Behind her back, a strange light glowed from a small box by her waist as the blue hardlight flew towards her fingertips. No one spoke as the strange phenomenon slowly formed a minigun into her hands. Then she began point the weapon in the direction of the spiderbugs and then she fired.

Gunfire erupted and flew towards the numerous arachnids with strange projectiles penetrating through the mutated. Even if the hardlight bullets missed, the light was enough to force the spiderbugs back. "Find the power source!" She shouted.

Jaune looked at the stunned Nazis, who glanced at one another with quiet comments about the faunus girl. "Holy shit, good thing she's on our side."

Then he heard Hans speak up. "See if you can find some kind of outlet and use a charger to open the door."

Most of the Nazis began to disperse from their defensive formation as they focused their flashlights around the locked steel door that was in their way. Only two did not participate as they guarded the tied up old man. Now that Jaune noted about it, the man made little attempts to fight back against the Nazis. Was it because the men were far more stronger than him? Did he no longer see the point in resisting? It didn't comfort Jaune with his silence.

"Shit! We don't know where to open the doors."

Jaune heard a loud click that echoed throughout the tunnel. Looking past Velvet fighting off the spiderbugs, he saw a bright light appear on the far side of the tunnel. However, another click followed with more lights appearing. Just like a stack of dominos, the lights flickered to life within the darkness. The speed of the lights quickened as Jaune and Velvet covered their eyes at the sudden arrival of the brightness.

After hours of being in the darkness, the group found itself blind, but Jaune did his best to see the spiderbugs. He no longer needed to worry as the creatures scrambled away from the light. Unlike the fire or Velvet's hardlight weapon, they began to flee to their tunnels from whence they came. Yet, it was not enough as their bodies burned away at the presence of the light. "Woah." Surprised at the sight of so many bodies, Jaune was amazed at the deaths that have occurred.

Velvet's hardlight weapon dissipated as she looked over her shoulder. "Did you guys find it?"

He looked behind his back and found the Nazis looking around. However, Hans shook his head. "No, we didn't. I didn't do this. The lights came on themselves. Either someone is here or we're just lucky."

Then a loud groan was heard from the doors as they slowly opened. The party was quick to turn around and aim their weapons at the door while it opened. The doors took their time, but once there was enough room for a man to step through they found two figures standing on the other side. Silence fell upon the group when the doors were fully open.

Hans raised his hand and walked passed his men. "Who are you? Answer me?" He ordered with his gatling gun spinning up.

The two strangers stepped forward into the light, one was a man and the other was a woman. The man expressed a weary, freshly shaved face, who almost looked like the Nazis. However, the other person was dressed in white, but her face almost reminded him of someone else. Someone he liked…

The man reached for his neck and removed a pair of dogtags and showed it to them.

Jaune didn't understand why he did that, but he noticed Hans lowering his weapon. "Men, stand down. We have a Polis Ranger with us."

Once the stranger put the dogtags back to his neck as he looked directly at the head of the Nazi group. "I heard you and your men fighting the spiderbugs from afar."

"Why are you here?"

"I'm looking for a few people." The stranger replied. "A young boy and a girl with rabbit ears."

The Nazis tensed up as they gripped their weapons. "What do they mean to you?"

"I'm currently on a rescue mission just to get them back to their home." Then his gaze fell upon the tied up old man. "Strange that I would find you here."

Hans glanced over to his prisoner. "You know him?"

"Yes. He's the head of a cannibal group that once captured me at one point. How did you capture him?"

"We were scouting. Now that you mention they were cannibals, perhaps purging all of them was worth it."

"I would say so. Too many people became their victims."

"I see." Hans replied as he nodded. "Well, you want these kids to come with you? Seems a bit weird that the Order would send a Ranger to rescue a few kids." Then he looked to Jaune and Velvet. "Although the girl would interest the Gestapo, I think it's preferable that she didn't come across those men."

"Strange. Why wouldn't you bring them to the Gestapo?"

The masked heavy trooper allowed a chuckle to escape. "We have enough mutants to worry about." Hans looked over to the two students. "You two, go with him. He'll help you out." He commented.

Jaune and Velvet reluctantly stepped forward, bypassing the Nazi troopers. When Jaune looked at the tied old man, the boy saw hatred in his eyes. There was nothing good about him as the Nazis began to move him away. Then he looked to the stranger and the woman standing there. "Who are you?" He asked.

The man glanced over to the woman next to him before returning his attention back to the boy. "I can tell you later."

Hans spoke up with his last words. "Farewell, Ranger. Thank you for rescuing us." He waved a hand to the strangers and turned away from him as he organized his party to follow him.

When the Nazis finally departed, Jaune and Velvet found themselves looking at the duo standing before them. "So, who are you guys?" Velvet questioned.

The Ranger smiled. "My name is Artyom and my companion is Specialist Schnee."

Jaune's eyes began widened at the mention of the Schnee. "Wait, you're a Schnee?!"

The woman raised an eyebrow. "You know about me?"

"I do know someone, Weiss Schnee."

"Looks like my baby sister has made an impression." Winter replied.

"So... why are you here?"

"Ozpin sent us since you went missing." The specialist answered. "This man is our guide in this world."

"World?" Both the human and the faunus said in unison.

"It's… complicated." Artyom answered. "However, this isn't a good place to talk about it. Let's head back to D6 before we're met with morespiderbugs."

Author's Note: Here is an update of the story, but I should mention that I won't be active for a bit. Got some stuff to handle right now.

Guest: Good to read your review.

blaiseingfire: It's working. Yes.

TheShadowOfZama: You can thank the games for doing that. I recall in Last Light that you can hear conversations of the guards and their daily lives and to me, it really humanizes them. Even if you, the player, decides to go loud some of the Nazis actually make an attempt of "Please, I surrender!" moment. If you shoot them, the game gives you a bad morale point which allows me to make the Nazis have their human side.

As for their interactions with Velvet and Jaune, their human side is brought out since you can never know when a Nazi's wife has some mutations or his baby has hair everywhere that isn't normal to most humans. So in some manner, the Nazis are just doing their jobs while trying to keep their heads connected. Because they're not under the watchful eye of the Gestapo or some higher commander, they can act less inhuman.

As for the gentleman moment, I'm happy I did something right.