Into the breach

Author's note: Hey everyone! I am still alive swear just been hectic past trying to get this chapter don. That being said here it is! I would like to Give a very special Thank you to SirStonewall for not only helping me find grammar and punctuation errors, but also helping me finalize details and a general idea on what to do for this chapter since I was kind of at an impasse. That being said Enjoy the Chapter and make sure to read the author's note at the end! Oh i don't own anything except my scatterbrained mind the rest is the property of Rooster teeth and Monty Oum.

Chapter 3: Red riding hood, a firefight and bunny ears?

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Vale, Remnant, August 25th, 2014

1500 hours

Ruby Rose

Huntress in training

XXXXX: Ruby XXXXX

I look down at the unconscious man in front of me. He looks in pain as I check for any major injuries thanks to all the blood on his clothing…OH MY GOD there is blood all over him!

"Whatdoidoishegoingtodiewhereisadoctor!?" I yell frantically towards some of the bystanders nearby all of them completely lost at what I screamed at a higher pitch than normal. Finally, one of them deciphers what was said (screeched) and proceeds to dial the emergency responders.

I quickly look back to the bleeding man in front of me as I try to get his weird coat and gear off.

it is made of black leather, with a buckle on the waist area it has long rectangular pouches with buttons and flaps that look like they hold something in them. I finally manage to unbuckle it and move it out of the way.

"Come on! Almost…there! Got it!" I shout triumphantly as I manage to find how to remove the white jacket from his body what shocks me is not the Grey uniform underneath but the amount of blood coming from his upper left shoulder. Normally it would be no big deal since his aura could heal him. But it hasn't even started yet almost as if he doesn't have it activated.

I hesitantly place my hands against his injury and push hard against it, trying to keep the blood from flowing. My body is moving of its own accord thanks to the first aid training all huntsmen and huntresses receive to help with moments where one cannot reach a hospital or field surgeon or medic.

"u-um sir if you can hear me I am here to help" I say nervously as I try to figure out what to do from here. I look around first at him and then the ground he is on to find some sort of identification my eyes roam across a glint of metal near his right side as I look I see something weird it looks like a weapon but his body is covering it for the most part.

I hesitantly and gently tap his face trying to wake him up. As I do I notice he is young maybe twenty at the most. I soon get frustrated after a couple minutes and start to tap a bit harder he slowly starts to wake up from what I can see and let out a sigh of relief then proceed to go back to trying to keep his wound closed. Once I focus on his injury I begin to notice more details about his uniform. it had green shoulder straps with white trimming around it and a weird silver V on his left arm resting halfway between the upper deltoid and elbow joint. His black leather gloves are thick and worn meant for cold weather what surprises me the most is how worn and weathered his uniform is, what I do next is work on unbuckling his helmet it is weird but kind of neat in a way as it doesn't cover his whole entire face like some helmets or only the top of the head and leaving the mouth open like the atlesian helmets. After managing to get the helmet undone I notice his hair is cut in a military style but it is interesting in its own right his hair is light brown almost like cream filled coffee.

I look down at his chest and see a silver eagle on the right side of his chest flush with his pocket over his left breast pocket is a beautiful flower with six yellow looking bulbs surrounded by white petals in a double star formation, I have not seen anything like it before it is definitely unique.

I shake my head and focus as I see a bulge in his left breast pocket and proceed to try and check what is in it, but I hear the sound of an ambulance siren and stop short.

As I look at him I notice his eyes are opening slightly they are the brightest blue I have ever seen. I sigh in relief as the emergency personnel get closer, I get up as the paramedics arrive and go about collecting him and his things as they go to load him into the ambulance.

XXXXX Heinrich XXXXX

"Heinrich!" a soft and melodic voice calls but all I can see is white. Why are my arms so heavy I try to move them but nothing happens, soon my vision becomes a bit clearer I see farmland and a small two-story home in the middle of it all.

"Come on Heinrich we need to start planting the crops for the season!" the voice calls out again with excitement.

"…"

"…"

I look around again and see a young woman around five-foot three near an oak tree next to the house as I get closer and see her face is covered by her brunette colored hair and a wide brimmed sun hat.

I continue to make my closer to her as more details start to become apparent for instance she is wearing denim overalls, a light green long sleeved shirt with the sleeves rolled up to the elbows, and brown leather work boots.

As I get closer I notice that everything is something I haven't seen in a long time…home everything is suddenly thrown about as it fades to black and I start to open my eyes and see a peculiar sight silver disks are staring at me then they quickly look away followed by the sounds of boots crunching dirt as two men arrive and pick me up.

Xxxxxx 5 minutes later xxxxx

I slowly look around I am inside some type of medical vehicle as I get loaded up into it I start to panic as they strap me down as they start to speak I notice they are speaking English.

"Amerikaner!" I quickly begin to struggle against them catching a lucky break one arm comes free i proceed to send a right hook at the man on the right catching him off guard he is knocked back as his fellow paramedic is reeling back in shock he lets go of my other arm.

Big mistake I proceed to get up unknowingly reopening my deltoid injury but my adrenaline is pumping and mitigates if not downright removes the feeling of pain making it easier to do what happens next which is reacquiring my equipment which they conveniently left sitting nearby on one of the shelves not wasting anytime i grab my MP40 and keep it aimed at them as i grab the rest of my gear and start to make my way to the exit.

They are trying to say something but i can't understand a word they are saying so i respond in kind.

"NICHT BEWEGEN!" I shout and make sure my weapon makes an audible click as the charging handle is pulled back and goes forward ensuring a round is chambered.

After several tension filled minutes they slowly back away and out as i watch them go I hurriedly get my equipment on refusing to be caught off guard without my full gear. In record time i am complete as i place my field pack on my shoulders containing my parka and winter trousers as i am now in my fieldgrau trousers and top with jackboots on aswell i place my helmet on minus the white covering meant for camouflage. The helmet has the coat of arms for Germany which is a shield with the upper left to the middle in red with a black strip cutting diagonally from the upper right corner to the lower left with white taking up the lower right segment of the mark which is on the wearers right side of the helmet near where the ear would be located. On the left side of the helmet is the unit marker which is a shield that is primarily red with a white stripe cutting width wise through the center of the emblem representing the 44. Infanterie-Division (1938-1943 before emblem switched.)

Having secured my equipment I quickly exit the vehicle and take cover, as I begin to look around I notice that there are only civilians around the area out of habit my weapon snaps down to low ready as i make my way out of the current area unsure on where i landed but regardless i need to reconnect with my unit and start to make my way out of the forest but stop when a young girl no older than fifteen is standing across from me she has a look of confusion when she sees me standing with my weapon.

" Geh jetzt zurück!" I shout as she starts to get closer and starts to speak

"S-sir calm down please! I don't understand what you are saying" I say desperately to try and calm him and have him disarmed. What I was not ready for is what would happen next.

The sounds of sirens suddenly fill the area as police are seen running to the commotion and the first and stupidest thing someone can do is pull a weapon on a tense soldier.

"Freeze!" one of the four officers shout as they pull out their side arms and aim at me.

What they weren't ready for was for what happens next as I quickly and on instinct open fire on the officers, hitting two in the chest, one in the arm, and the last in the leg.

Xxxxxxxx Ruby xxxxxxxX

I watch in complete horror as the police drop like rocks from the rounds penetrating their bodies and then the weirdly dressed man looks at me and motions his head in a 'get out of here' gesture as he quickly jogs away to try and elude the police. He doesn't notice a camera following his movements.

Xxxxx Ozpin and Glynda xxxxxx

"Oh my.. this seems to have escalated." The headmaster for the most prestigious huntsmen academy on remnant says while sipping his coffee mug while looking at his scroll. Seeing the actions of one very confused soldier and the poor young huntress in training who is too shocked to move as she watches the officers get shot.

"Ozpin we can't let some random man with weapons run around like this! We need to do something!" His assistant proclaimed angrily as she watches the same events unfold.

"Jmm you are correct Glynda let's send one of the second year teams to capture and secure him." He replies stoically.

"We only have one team that is available right now, team CFVY who have just finished a extermination mission and are currently enroute to the academy." She says

"Reroute them to the city park and have them secure this man alive if possible, if he is too dangerous they can use lethal measures." He says in response to her statement.

"Consider it done" she says as she sends a message to the bullhead to change course and take the team to the park.

Xxxxx Team CFVY xxxxxxx

Coco is a teenage girl with fair skin, short dark-brown hair, and dark-brown eyes. She has wavy locks on one side of her face, dyed with a gradient that starts in dark brown and transitions to caramel. Her clothes consist of a long, cocoa-colored shirt with a dark brown waist cincher. She wears long, dark brown trousers with ribbons on the left side and a brown belt with bullets. Above it, she wears another cocoa-colored belt of bullets with a gold crosshairs buckle. What appears to be a drape of black skirt hangs on her right side. She wears a pair of dark brown, high-heeled leather boots with buckles.

Coco Adel the resident beacon fashionista and second year team member of CFVY is upset..no livid. She and her team had just finished a extermination mission up north and were on their way back to relax. then a message from professor Goodwitch saying they had to go subdue a lunatic in the vale city park who shot and injured four police officers and causing mass panic among the civilians in the area as he hunts for oum knows what.

She sighs and looks to her partner, a well built young man with scars across his body his eyes are milky white as if he was blind and then there is is weapons to blades connected to his forearms. He has copper colored hair, a dark orange short sleeve shirt black jeans and sneakers as well he is currently sleeping as he waits arms folded across his chest.

She takes in her other two companions Yatsuhashi Daitchi, and Velvet Scarlatina. Yatsuhashi is a tall and strong built teen of asian descent he is a man of few words. He has a long short-sleeved robe, which he wears on one shoulder over a black muscle shirt. The robe is fastened at the waist by a leather armored belt with two pouches on it. He also wears brown pants and black-and-green boots. His left arm has a five-layer arm guard which extends up past his shoulder. He also wears a pair of bracers as well as a pair of black gloves with green plates on the backs.

Velvet is wearing a light brown body suit with the torso, arms and upper waist area being lighter with the legs being in a dark brown leggings and light brown shoes with bronze bracers starting after the base of her hands and ending at the halfway mark to up her forearm. She has bronze plating covering the front half and heel of her feet.

As Coco looks around she sees Velvet sit up straight and her rabbit ears go rigid as they get closer to the park and gunfire becomes easier to hear.

"Whats up Velvet?" Coco asks out of concern as she looks at her ramrod straight teammate. She notices something odd Velvets face is contorted in confusion and slight worry.

The V of CFVY looks at Coco and lets out a sigh.

" I hear gunfire and screaming, sounds like whoever the police are fighting is a tough one, but it has me worried. How many will get hurt or worse die before he is brought down?"

"To be honest velvet I hope nobody dies and as few as possible get hurt"

XXXXXHeinrichXXXXX

"Scheiße!" I shout as I duck back into cover as the police pepper the cover I am behind which is a boulder just big enough for a crouching man to take cover behind.

I frantically look around as I hear and feel my heart hammering in my ears. I let out a grunt in annoyance as another sniper round from the little girl's weapon hits the boulder a bit too close for my liking, sending shards of rock flying inches from my face.

"Kann es noch schlimmer werden?!" I yell as I bring my weapon over the top of the boulder without looking and let loose a prolonged burst return of submachine gun fire from my Maschinenpistole. The burning hot brass casings of the 9mm parabellum rounds landing on the boulder and falling off to the surrounding forest floor or onto my uniform.

As if the world has a sick sense of humor an aircraft I have never seen before comes flying into the area, expecting a strafing run I duck down as close as I can to the ground and huddle up to the boulder as close as I can in order to make myself as small as a target as possible to the possible incoming fire. Oddly enough the gunfire is nowhere to seen or heard.

Out of morbid curiosity I peek over to see why I am not in bits and pieces around the area, and what I see causes my jaw to drop. The aircraft I previously thought was going to strafe my position and end my life is hovering, not flying, or floating, but hovering! Its engines facing towards the ground and emitting a high-pitched whine.

As I watch this I notice something odd, I am no longer being shot at anymore. I am surprised but soon notice why the hatch facing towards the grouping of law enforcement and silver eyed girl open. Wait...open! I quickly duck back down and pull out the thirty-two (32) round stick magazine from my weapon and inspect it… okay sixteen (16) rounds left in the magazine. I have seven (7) full magazines left which equals two-hundred twenty-four rounds (224) total in reserve for my MP40 my PO8 i have four (4) magazines of eight (8) each to equal out to thirty-two (32) rounds for that, I also have my knife and all five of my grenades still.

I slide the magazine back into my weapon and pull charging handle back and get it in the fire position as I do so I quickly take their distraction to aim back at them and wait as calm as one can being stuck somewhere you do not know and outgunned and no form of relief. So not so much calm but trying to appear the part in hopes to keep them ducking for cover what I was not prepared for was four people to step out the side and land on the ground the first was a rather large and well built man of asian descent garbed in a outfit of different shades of green along with green colored armor and a large sword on his back, the second was a petite female in a primarily brown get up along with a beret and aviator sunglasses sporting a black and gold colored hand bag. Third out the door, falling the few feet to the ground is a dark-skinned man, sporting a pair of strange bracelets.

Last out is a girl with long brown hair, dressed in some odd form-fitting clothes and… wait, are those animal ears on her head?!

I feel my eyes bulge slightly but quickly calm down and begin to fire in the new arrivals direction aiming to scare and force them into cover, making it easier to handle the growing numbers arrayed before me. The effect is almost instantaneous as they all quickly spread out into the available cover and keep low. After going through the current magazine for my weapon I drop down and remove the current empty and useless magazine in the weapon and place a full magazine into the magazine-well prior to pulling the charging handle back, priming it to fire again. As i go up to fire I see the bunny eared girl with her hands up above her head, Is she surrendering? Out of curiosity and refusal to fire on an unarmed combatant I lower the muzzle down to a low ready position so as to not appear hostile, but also showing I was capable of quickly defending myself should the need arise.

Xxxxxxxx Velvet xxxxxxxX

I feel my heart hammering as I take cover next to Coco, the rounds from his weapon hit around the area, no particular target meant for them. As it stop I look to Coco nodding my head at her then to his location.

"Coco I think we can still reason with him, I am going to try and have him put his weapon down." I say to her.

"Are you sure Velvet?" She looks to me with nothing but concern in her eyes.

"Yes." I say back with conviction, but deep down I am worried it may go south bad.

She sighs and nods at me as she motions Fox and Yatsuhashi to be ready just in case.

I smile at her and take a deep breath and stand up and slowly raise my arms above my head. Walking slowly towards the man who was shooting at us I see him pop up with his weapon aimed at me. I freeze slightly expecting to be shot but he slowly lowers his weapon down after several very tense and heart pounding seconds he motions with his head to come closer as well as saying something in a language I do not quite understand.

"Komm zu mir!"

I carefully bring my left arm down he tenses but does not raise his weapon as I proceed to point to myself then to him in order to clarify. He nods, his weapon aimed more or less at my feet. I slowly start to walk over there in order to not scare him into firing again at any brisk movements that may happen.

Once I get within arms reach I see clearly he is sleep deprived, on top of that I notice he has an injury that is bleeding on his left upper arm along with the sick smell of iron from his blood still flowing out of it. I slowly lower my arms, and again he doesn't move to aim at me. He surprisingly slowly lets the front part of the weapon go and slowly dangles it at his right side, barrel aimed at the ground. I give a small smile partly in relief and partly in nervousness. He nods at me and then comes the hard part: trying to get him to give himself up. So I try my best to get the request through.

I proceed to point to his weapon and then slowly to the ground as well as saying it.

"S-sir I need you to please put your weapon down." He looks at me confused when I speak, but more or less gets the message as he gives his reply again in that strange language.

"Willst du, dass ich mich ergebe?" He says as he motions to the ground then his weapon, then one arm mimics going up in the air like I did earlier. I deduce he is asking if he has to turn himself in peacefully and I nod slowly. Praying he will be receptive of the Idea.

I am shocked that he nods slowly and goes to place his weapon down, but then disaster strikes. One of the police officers pulls his pistol from it's holster and aims at the man. Before I know what's happening he is grabbing me and pulling me down to cover as he shouts something in that language of his.

He has me as close to the boulder as possible, and going so far as to cover me with his own body as he opens fire on police as well as my team. I am at first shocked but then terrified that it went out of control so fast. I start to Feel my eyes start to moisten and tears start to fall. I look up at him and reach for his shirt and tug it slightly he looks down at me as best he can his eyes widen slightly seeing my current state.

"Stop! Please don't! Just give up, please!" He looks like he wants to shove me off but can't bring himself to do so and stops firing. He takes cover as the police pepper our cover forcing him down. He looks at me and yells what could be deduced as curse words at the police before he looks back at me and gently rests his left hand on my head, gently rubbing it, saying something I assume to be comforting words.

"Alles wird gut. Sorge dich nicht." As he finishes saying that he Peeks over and quickly ducks back down as more rounds fly our way what he doesn't notice is Fox and Coco come rushing forward towards us.

Xxxxxxxx Heinrich xxxxxxxX

As I duck back down I try to keep the young woman beneath me, as protected as possible from any possible stray rounds that may fly her way. As I go to return fire I am taken off guard as the dark skinned man and the woman in the beret are surging forward, they are less than ten meters from me when I pull my weapon up and pull the trigger, but panic when it doesn't fire. I look down briefly and see that mud and debris from not only the Soviet Union but also from the boulder have lodged into the bolt causing it to stay stuck in halfway between cycling a new round into the chamber.

"Verdammt!" I shout as I quickly look up and receive a hard right hook to the jaw from the dark skinned man, sending me back onto the ground as I struggle from not only the pain but fatigue and blood loss. As they get closer I shakely pull out one of my Grenades and hold it close to my chest, quickly unscrewing the cap before grabbing the white cord in my fingers.

"fernbleiben!" I yell, pulling the cord tight, but not using enough tension to arm the fuse. At this they all halt in their steps, and the bunny-eared girl stands to shelter under the arm of the large man.

Xxxxxxxx Velvet xxxxxxxX

I stare wide-eyed at him as I hide behind an equally surprised Yatsuhashi. Nobody dares to move as we all watch him quietly. I notice his heart is beating faster than normal, along with blood slowly pooling on the ground. His terrified yet determined expression shows this is an absolute last resort, but he's not afraid to dedicate to it. I see Coco is tensed up heavily, ready to pounce, and against my better judgement I speak.

"G-guys relax and stand back a bit. he's scared and just needs space and someone to calm him down." I say to them and they look flabbergasted but slowly nod. I slowly come from behind Yatsuhashi and slowly raise my hands up, motioning to his injury then to myself. I am praying he will nod yes and let me look at it and work towards disarming him without further injury.

He eyes me suspiciously at first but nods slowly having known I was trying to peacefully resolve things earlier. Slowly I make my way over to him, being mindful not to scare him into pulling the cord. A few tense seconds later I am next to him and slowly kneel down and gently prod his injury to gauge how bad it is. He lets out a hiss of pain after I do so and proceed to point to his injury, then mimic a roll of bandages he nods and rolls onto his right hip slightly by propping his left leg firmly on the ground and lifting up giving me access to his first aid kit if the red cross on it is anything to go by.

I pull out a couple rolls of bandages and what looks like a powdered disinfectant. I move back and gently hold his injured side and slowly help him to his back as i begin to pour the powder into the wound and he grunts in pain a bit.

"Bare with me the hard part is almost over. Promise!" I say as i begin to wrap his arm up in the bandages being mindful to make them tight but not overly so to cause anymore pain and irritate the injury to much. After finishing that I go to remove his helmet and use it as a makeshift headrest for him to lay his head on.

He tenses up but lets me as I gently raise his helmet off his head and fit it snugly under his head. I sigh in relief and then come back within his eyes sight and gently smile. As I smile as I do I can't help but take in how sad a state he was in physically and by the looks of it emotionally.

Deciding to go out on a whim I slowly rub his head gently running my fingers through his dirty and sweat caked hair in order to help calm him down like he did me, He looks at me confused but his body loses some of its tension. I smile and slowly hum a tune my mom uses to help me calm down (cue All our days by Casey Lee williams and Jeff Williams)

He seems to relax slowly as I hum slowly and carefully I reach for the grenade in his hands, looking at him pleadingly to let go of it and let me take it from him. What shocks me is a look of not anger but fear and a mixture of comfort in seeing as i try to comfort him and get him to relax. He at first tenses up his grip but let's me take it from him and set it aside. I rest my non head rubbing hand on his left breast pocket and feel something in it but don't comment.

He slowly reaches towards his right trouser pocket and rummages around trying to gain purchase on the object in question. As he pulls it out I notice it is a rectangular photograph, as he brings it out to look at i see it is a picture of him an older couple on either side of him along with them is a another person judging by the hair but the face and rest of their body is covered by his thumb. He looks to me then looks back to his photo as he slowly and hesitantly removes his thumb from covering the fourth person. My mouth is agape as the last person in the picture is a spitting image of myself without the bunny ears. As the revelation dawns on me i notice another very important piece of information...there is a ring on each their left hands more specifically the ring finger. But when I quickly look down I notice his ring is missing.

He looks at me with hope in his eyes but quickly shakes his head as he finally starts to say something over and over again as he shakes his head harder. Beginning to have what appears to be a panic attack.

"Nein! Nein! Nein!" he keeps repeating it over and over again as he starts to break down and hyperventilate as his eyes widen in shock trying to grasp the situation.

Not knowing what else to do I gently pull him into a tight embrace as I gently rub his head and whisper comforting words into his ear as I rock him back in forth slowly in order to help him calm down. I gently lean back to look at him and notice the haunted and dead look in his dull brown eyes which have seen so much destruction and loss in such a short time. The whites of his eyes are bloodshot from lack of sleep.

After looking blankly at me for a moment he clenches his eyes shut and leans his head on me, his tears washing some of the encrusted mud from his face as he shakes. He says something saddening, purely by the way he says it.

"Astrid tut mir leid! Es tut mir leid!" He keeps saying the same phrase over and over again as he grips me tightly and continues to shake as his tears continue to fall. I can tell he is completely broken on the inside, and out of instinct tighten my embrace of him as I keep gently rocking him back and forth.

"Shhh everything will be okay." I say softly as the rest of my team looks at the scene going on without any idea how to proceed. On one hand they want to get us separated, but on the other they hate seeing a person so emotionally broken.

After several minutes him letting out all his pent up emotions he starts to calm down, and I notice that all the adrenaline seems to have left his system as he slowly starts to close his eyes and falls asleep in my arms. I feel obligated to continue to hold him and gently rub his head as he sleeps.

Soon the sound of a bullhead is heard as it lands several feet away. We collect his scattered equipment and Yatsuhashi carefully picks up the man and sets him on the stretcher in the middle of the passenger compartment. I sit next to him and continue to rub his head to help him relax as Fox and Coco gently strap him down enough so he doesn't get hurt. Once everyone is set we take off and start the trip back to beacon.

Author's Note: Hey all I hope you enjoyed this chapter of Into the breach! If so or you have recommendations on how to make it better or more enjoyable feel free to let me know! Please feel free to drop a review and if you enjoyed it then please hit that favorite button! Also there is a translation down below if you are wondering what Heinrich was saying! Before I go i would once again like to give a very special shoutout and thank you to SirStonewall and I highly encourage you guys to go check out some of his work they are amazing reads! Till next time everyone Giblets out!

(Translations)

Kann es noch schlimmer werden?! - Can it get any worse?!

Komm zu mir!- Come to me!

Willst du, dass ich mich ergebe? - Do you want me to surrender?

Alles wird gut. Sorge dich nicht. - Everything will be fine. Do not worry.

fernbleiben! - Stay away!

Es tut mir leid! Es tut mir leid! - I'm sorry! I am sorry!