She didn't know about the reports of the initial forces, but she learned there were casualties from the British soldiers. Pyrrha walked up on the ramp as she was met with a lieutenant speaking out to those in line. "Alright people, you're all going into another world and its in the middle of winter." He began. "Just get on the other side and an officer will start spreading you out to your unit and get your winter supplies there as well." Then he took notice of her.
The young man stepped forward and handed her a coat, which was surprising since it didn't seem to be part of the military style these soldiers had.
"Ma'am, Colonel Strudwick instructed me to hand this to you once you arrived." He stated. "He doesn't want you to freeze to death." All she could do was smile to him before she joined the trail of soldiers marching into the other world, her home, Remnant. She continued down this path as she witnessed the sights of some of the men being disturbed that they were being sucked in by the hole in reality. It reminded too much of someone she knew as she saw a soldier hesitant to stepping in.
A private behind him criticized him. "Hey, why are you stopping the line for. Get moving!" He shouted, but silenced himself when Pyrrha passed by and touched the hole in reality. While she watched her body break apart into smaller particles, she heard him speak up again. "Look at her, she has more goddamn balls than you. Come on!"
Her body felt a rush of energy unlike anything before, it was as if she was being reborn again by this mere bridge between worlds and she closed her eyes.
Immediately, felt the rush finish as a soldier called her out. "Hey miss, you alright there?!" He asked.
Pyrrha opened them and was met with the sight of snow on the ground of Remnant. It had been a long time since she had seen this in her life and was glad to feel the sense of coming home and finding her way back.
"Miss, are you alright?" She looked to her left to see one of the officers she once remembered, Edwards that was his name.
Her answer was a smile. "It's okay." She began. "I'm just happy to be back home."
"Okay, just want to make sure you don't throw up from that ride of yours." Captain Edwards stated. "What do you plan to do?"
"Oh, I might talk to Sauer." She answered. "Just to thank him."
"Kay, just keep warm. I don't want anyone else to freeze their fingers off." Then the captain made his way away from the hole of reality behind her as she looked around to see the soldiers set up their camp with ease. However, she walked forward and saw that there were guns planted into the ground as the men built trenches and piled sandbags to create a perimeter around the hole of reality. Pyrrha looked past the defenses to see that she was on the frontier, the place where people survive against the creatures of the Grimm, but it wasn't the landscape she was looking at. It was the man who fathered the Grimm.
Doctor Sauer stood high and tall as he wrapped his hands behind his back and it took her some time to realize it, but she was walking towards him. "Doctor Sauer, how are you feeling?"
He turned around to see her with a smile. "Miss Nikos, I was hoping I could see you again. I was just thinking about something which may be worthy of your attention." He was wearing a lab coat, with a red sweater and trousers as he placed his hands behind his back.
"What would that be?" Pyrrha asked. What was this man trying to do? Her mind question him since he was the father of the Grimm.
"It was about the matter of aura. I was hoping that you would see to it that you unlock their auras for their own safety."
"Why can't you-" She cut off her sentence and just realized what was going on. "You are a Grimm... so you don't have any aura."
"Correct." He answered. "However, I wondered if you could give these men some kind of protection as they are vulnerable to my creatures who lurk in these lands."
"What makes you think I can unlock their auras, I'm not sure they even have one?"
"I do know this, all living things beside the Grimm have an aura. Even animals are not an exception to this rule. Besides, Colonel Strudwick told me to forward his request to you. The choice is yours if you wish to dismiss his request."
"Why does he want to ask me?" Pyrrha wondered.
Doctor Sauer looked down at the snow. "Not too long ago, there was battle between Major Blackmore's men and the Grimm." He began. "The colonel wishes to bring his men to map the surrounding area and he doesn't want another massacre like the one that happened here. All he asks is your permission to help the Americans and the British unlock their aura."
A battle raged inside of Pyrrha's mind as she thought about it for some time. Even if I could unlock people's aura, the process is tiring and takes a long time. Then another thought occurred to her. I know I was able to unlock Jaune's aura, but he was from Remnant. This might be different since these people are from another world without aura.
A hand was placed on her shoulder as she looked up to see Doctor Sauer looking down from his height. "I can see that you are fighting with yourself. I'll tell the colonel that you can give him an answer tomorrow morning. Would that be alright?" He asked.
She nodded her head in acceptance to his suggestion. "Yeah, I could use some time to think about it."
"Well then, let us head off to the mess tent." He began. "I hear the Americans have a pot of hot chocolate and I want to get a mug before its all gone."
"Doctor Sauer, you are the father of the Grimm, why do you act like a human when you are not?" The expression on Sauer's face changed. "Is it personal?"
"You could thank Ozpin for that. When I had to hide myself away from my wife, he was the one who taught me some human characteristics I will never forget." He answered. "Now that I mentioned him, I wonder how he is doing?"
Pyrrha's memory of her headmaster had returned, but it was the last memory of him which brought a tear to her eye. "He's gone." She began. "Ozpin is gone."
"Ha, it is going to take awhile for me to believe that." Then she confronted him.
"I know, because I was there when he told me to leave." The huntress of Beacon replied. "I was there when he went missing."
Doctor Sauer pulled his hands on his side as Pyrrha saw him gripping them. "I think our arrival is timing." He said. "This has gone far enough for everyone to handle. I hate to say it, but it is time that I avenged my friend." The doctor walked passed her as his shoes sunk into the snow while the cold air had felt like the temperature was dropping.
Vastano walked into his first class in the Atlas as he took notice of Velvet sitting her seat on the third row of desks raised from the floor. The paratrooper turned to his left to be met with stairs to the upper rows as he moved up the steps to take a seat beside her. However, he was met with some intimidating sights of a couple of students who seemed to show a great dislike for him. Once he took his seat he heard someone speak a low whisper behind his back. "Faunus trash lover."
After reading those history books with Velvet and Coco, Vastano remembered that the faunus were not well-liked by the people here. Luckily, he was not like them since his first meeting with Velvet and some of her faunus friends told him that they were just like nice people. Then he remembered that they were fighting to not be sent to some small zoo on some god-forsaken island he didn't give a shit about. "Morning Velvet." He began. "How are things going out?"
The bunny girl gave him smile and a wave with her hand before she greeted him. "Oh, I'm fine. I just can't wait for class to start."
"Well, you seem to be enthusiastic about school." Then she crossed her arms. "What is that supposed to be?" Velvet wondered.
"Nothing..." Vastano replied.
Suddenly, a small ball of a crushed paper ball flew into Velvet's rabbit ears. "Just shut up you dumb bitch." It was here that Vastano looked at the seat looked up at the fourth row behind Velvet's seat to see there was a blonde teen in brown eyes. "I don't want to hear your bullshit." She was wearing the female cadet uniform as she turned her gaze to him. "What the hell do you want?"
"Why don't you mind your own business?" He began.
"Oh, a guy I shouldn't give a shit about." The stranger answered.
Velvet grabbed his wrist. "Johnny, don't worry about her. She's like this all the time." Then she turned to see her. "Isn't that right, Persinette?"
"Yeah girl, I can't wait to start shopping with you and Coco later."
Confusion was the only word that could describe this situation. "Wait a minute?! You two are friends?!" Vastano called them out. "How?!"
Persinette answered his demands. "I may be crazy and fucked up, but I'm just like any girl. I must have friends to shop with."
"Okay..."
Then Velvet assured him. "It's okay, she just had a rough night with her mom."
The second girl in their conversation spoke up. "Please do not mention that bitch."
"No worries, I'm just explaining to Johnny." She replied.
"Kay, but I got to know. What's your name?" The question referred the conversation to him.
He cleared his throat and introduced himself. "Johnny Vastano, you can call me Johnny."
"So you're the bunny girl's new friend? It's good to see she can find herself a guy to drag around." Persinette answered.
Velvet called her out. "Hey!"
"You know its true when you bring around a guy with you."
Another student sitting beside Persinette had entered their conversation. "Hey faunus trash, could you please shut the fuck up?" He asked. However, Persinette answered his request with a punch to the face. The student fell out of his chair as she cracked her knuckles. "What the fuck?!" Vastano raised his eyebrows.
"Hey asshole." She began. "Unless you want me to break a limb or two or maybe all of them. Find another seat."
"You are a crazy bitch!" He stated as the racist rose out of his seat and made his way to another seat within the room.
"And this bitch happens to have more balls than you do pal so get the fuck out of here." Replied Persinette.
It was here when Vastano looked around to see that he had managed to grab the attention of every student in the room with the exception of the racist student.
Suddenly, the door to the room was locked shut when everyone saw their professor walk into their attention as he walked over to the podium standing in front of the blackboard behind him. He was probably in his forties while his glasses suggested that he was an educated man while he wore the Atlas military uniform. "Good morning students!" He began as the students settled themselves down in their seats. "I am Captain Geoffrey of the Atlas Military," The instructor said as he looked up from his podium and took noticed his students. "but you will all call me Professor Geoffrey. Am I clear?" Many heads had begun to nod as the instructor smiled. "Good, now I will begin passing out the syllabus..."
Captain Durante walked into the command tent as he took a sip of his mug. Then he was met by Colonel Strudwick who allowed him permission to stand behind the radio operators working with their radio equipment. "Alright colonel, mind telling me why I'm here?" The company commander asked. "I was in line for pancakes, I don't see why I have to leave the line for anything."
The colonel smiled. "Well captain, these lads have been receiving strange transmissions somewhere around the camp. I don't know where, but we're getting it."
He took another sip. "I pray it isn't any bullshit."
"Trust me, it isn't."
One of the radio operators perked his head up as he listened to a transmission which sounded like a sound of distress. The voices seemed to be in danger as he turned around to meet the colonel. The radio operator gave his report. "Colonel Strudwick, I've got an SOS call from a town requesting someone to relieve them of some threat called the Grimm." He stated. "I don't know what they are, but it is urgent."
Captain Durante leaned closer to the colonel. "I take that I'm going to do something."
Colonel Strudwick nodded his head. "Of course captain, you're going to help those people out since you have the best survival rate than the rest of the company commanders based off of my report."
"With all due respect, that was the report before my company got their replacements." He stated. "Whoever gave you that was full of BS."
"Considering Fox Company's reputation in confiscating military equipment, I think this is God's way of saying enough is enough. Now you will follow my orders to the letter."
"You absolutely have no idea how much I hate how this is going to do."
"Captain, just rescue those people." He ordered. "I will inform Captain Edwards to transport your men to cover more ground in search of this town."
"Why is that? So I can get there faster?" Questioned Captain Durante.
The colonel's expression had changed. "To ensure that your men could survive your engagement with the Grimm."
Pyrrha felt a familiar feeling of her pocket vibrating as she slipped her hand and brought out the once dead device back to life. Her scroll's battery life had survived long enough to reach 50%, but if she started using it. She would possibly kill the battery life if she wasted trying to see how it was able to work again. However, the thought had hit her like Nora's hammer. She could get help from the Atlas Military if she could, but could probably be shrugged off. It was a risk she had to take.
She searched through her scroll in hopes of finding her contacts and thankfully, the program allowed her to see the emergency Atlas calls for anyone who needed help from the Grimm. Then Pyrrha tapped the Call button as it showed three dots displaying that it was waiting for its call.
Suddenly, she was met by a female message. "Atlas Emergency, what do you need?" The unknown woman on the other side had spoken.
Pyrrha swallowed in order to clear her throat and began to reveal herself to the world. "Hello, this is Pyrrha Nikos. I've been missing since I was taken from Beacon." She said.