White Fang Rally
The rally was going alright, nothing out of the ordinary. Just a regular rally…
Despite the fact that there was an Atlesian Paladin mech on display, showcasing to the new recruits the power of the White Fang.
This was being watched by four Jaeger robots hiding in the rafters. They were recording it, which was being broadcasted for all the commanders back on Dragon Fortress. The other three Jaegers and the Jaeger Commander were waiting outside in case something went south, which was expected. However, there was much left to be seen.
It was when the notorious criminal of this world, known as Roman Torchwick, came to view at a faunus rally, and started speaking did the Jaegers realize something was up. They zoomed in on him, their attention majorly focused on Torchwick.
REMCOM, 12th Military conference room
"Sir, what exactly are the Jaegers doing?" Lt. General Ari asked. "Why do they seem so attentive to the criminal?"
General Allen smirked, and pointed to Lt. Generals Hakow and Jen, the latter passing a folder to Lt. General Ari. "I am aware your group hasn't received any yet, so I guess now is a good time as any. The Jaeger units are sentient." Lt. General Hakow explained.
"What?" Lt. General Ari asked. "You can't be-"
"I am serious. While they are smarter than the average soldier, they still require general orders. While commencing those orders, they do excel. Other than that, they do nothing." Lt. General Hakow continued. "They are the best human sized androids we can build."
"And what about the Jaeger Commanders?" Lt. General Ari asked. "The file isn't in here."
"That is because they are Grey's pet project. They are classified, and not allowed to be accessed by the HMF, for obvious reasons." Lt. General Jen answered. "Now, back to observing."
Jaeger Squad
The Jaeger Commander was staring down at the area in front of the warehouse, where the rally was happening. It was unsure of what was truly happening in there, as the Jaegers only reported unusual activity, and the rally was by the book so far. If only something would happen…
"17 Actual, this 17-4. Reporting peculiar activity." Jaeger 17-4 reported. "Two individuals, a cat human and a monkey human, sporting strange weaponry. They seem to be hostile to Torchwick, according to vitals."
17 Actual nodded. "Those must be either Huntspeople or two training to be so. My guess, from the ages, is the latter. Looks like things will be interesting-"
"Actual, they have shot the junction box. All three targets are moving out." One of the Jaegers with 17 Actual reported. It pointed to a wall, where a Paladin mech burst through, chasing the two smaller humans. "One is confirmed in a Paladin prototype."
"The orders are simple then. 17-4, your squad will pursue the trio. My squad will deal with the remaining White Fang." 17 Actual ordered. "Move out, I have relayed the info to REMCOM and CombatCOM."
"Is it wise to report this to Combat Command?" 17-4 asked.
"It will be fine, the HMF will probably disregard it anyway." 17 Actual responded. "They're still too busy with Sigmantium."
With Blake and Sun
"Blake! What is that thing?!" Sun shouted/asked.
"I don't know! Just call everyone to help us! Tell them we're heading towards the highway!" Blake shouted back as a response.
Sun took out his Scroll, and called the others, relaying the information. They ran by Yang and Neptune, coincidentally the same time Sun answered Yang's question of where they were.
Blake turned around, seeing Yang and Neptune behind them and the mech. They approached the highway, no sign of Ruby or Weiss joining them at that point.
"What now?" Yang asked.
"We need to get it off the highway!" Neptune answered, while starting to take shots with his rifle at the Paladin.
"Blake, I'm in position!" Weiss said over a responder device.
Weiss landed on the highway, and summoned an Ice glyph, throwing the Paladin off balance when it hit the ice patch. It fell off, and landed on the ground. Team RWBY, with Sun and Neptune behind them, followed it.
17 Actual and squad
"17 Actual, they have fallen to the ground below." 17-2 reported. "Orders?"
"Follow them down, and stay in the shadows. We will interfere when the fight starts dying down. Do not let the mech get destroyed." 17 Actual ordered. "Go."
The Jaegers went down, but 17 Actual stayed on the bridge. "Well, you must be very confident in your skills if you think you could tail me."
The figure behind the Jaeger Commander didn't respond verbally. Only twirling a parasol in a physically response.
"I see, a mute. Then it should be easier to dispose of you if you can't scream." 17 Actual stated. The Jaeger Commander pulled out a hilt with no blade, but it powered up, signifying that it was a plasma sword. "Let's get this over with, puny Huntress."
With the others
Yang got thrown into a pillar by the mech, getting a cry of worry from Blake. Ruby came up next to the faunus girl. "It's okay! She's fine."
Yang slowly stood up, and punched her fists together.
"Her semblance allows her to take pain, and launch it back at her enemies!" Ruby explained.
Before Torchwick could launch another attack at the group, a body fell from the bridges above, it's aura shattering as it hit the ground in front of Torchwick. The body was a young female, of caucasian coloring, with clothes of pink and brown, making her similar to Neapolitan ice cream.
"Neo?!" Torchwick shouted.
Neo got up, shaking her head. She looked up, and dodged out of the way as another body fell from the sky, hitting the ground and causing a small explosion. The other skyfaller was around 8 feet tall, with black coloring, and almost human like.
(A/N note: Think of Reaper of COD: BO3)
"Weiss, is that from Atlas?" Ruby asked her partner.
"No, why would you think that?" Weiss asked back.
"Well, we are chasing stolen Atlesian property." Ruby responded.
Weiss shrugged, it made sense.
The robot stood up from the small crater, looking at Neo. "You're running away, huh? I guess I should've expected that from someone of this planet." It said.
"It speaks? What is this thing?" Torchwick mumbled from inside the mech. "Hey! What are you doing roughing up my sidekick?"
"Oh? Sidekick?" The robot asked, pointing at Neo. "I assumed that she was some kind of really smart grunt you kept around for kicks."
Neo didn't take lightly to that, but only scowled at that. Roman was more verbal. "Hey! She's much more than that! Neo's the top of the line assassin, the best you'll find in Vale!"
"Oh look, a brown noser. You must be Roman Torchwick." The robot said, turning to the mech. "Nice trash mech you have."
"Hey!" Both Torchwick and Weiss shouted.
"You must be a Schnee." The robot, somehow, deadpanned.
Ruby cocked her weapon, and pointed it at the robot. "Who are you?!"
"I am nothing to you, at least right now." The robot answered. It turned, and pulled out the plasma sword again. "Excuse me, I have to remove a certain criminal from this trash heap of a robot." It lunged at the Paladin, while other figures lunged at it as well.
"Wait, what are those!?" Shouted Wiess.
"I didn't hear them before!" Blake shouted, surprised.
The robots lunged at the Paladin, ripping the hatch off before Torchwick could even shoot them. They grabbed Torchwick, and threw him out of the Paladin, one jumped in, taking the controls, and running away with it. The other two robots stayed back with the bigger one, turning back to the group of eight.
"17 Actual, we are outnumbered." One of the smaller ones said.
"Then we take out as many as we can." 17 Actual said, readying his Plasma Sword.
The other two readied their weapons. The one on the left pulled out a Plasma Halberd while the other powered up small Plasma daggers on his wrists and had plasma covering his fists.
"I don't like the look of this." Sun said, readying his own weapon. Neptune nodded in agreement.
"Well Red, what do you say we put our fight on hold to deal with these bolt huggers?" Torchwick asked.
"I don't like it, but we have to here." Ruby responded, both of them pulled out their weapons and locked them to the robots. "I'm giving you one last chance to surrender! Who are you?" Ruy shouted.
"We? We are the Jaeger Corps." 17 Actual answered. "Prepared to go home in body bags, runts."
The Hunters charged, the Jaegers did as well.
Beacon, with Ozpin
Ozpin was looking out his window, taking in a nice view of Vale in the night. It was peaceful, as if nothing was actually happening.
But Ozpin knew that Team RWBY, along with two students of Team SSSN, had snuck off to the city to investigate the White Fang. He had yet to contact Glynda about it, fearing the worst from her when he told her. He was hesitant to contact James, knowing he was busy looking for a lost shipment of Paladin prototypes.
Ozpin sighed, and turned on his monitor.
Only to find a news report about a rampaging mech and a bunch of teenagers fighting robots near the highway.
"Oh my, it seems this would be rather problematic." Ozpin said, taking a careful look at the robots. He didn't recognize them, so he contacted his local tech expert on them.
"Ironwood here." The voice on the other side responded.
"James, we have a problem."
REMCOM
"Well, it seems we have finally engaged the enemy." General March remarked neutrally. "This is all going to plan rather splendidly."
"Sir, I don't really understand how this is part of the plan." Lt. General Ari said. "You really didn't explain the plan to us at all."
"Well, I can assure you that we are definitely on track." General March replied.
RWBY, SN, RN, and Jaegers
Ruby and Torchwick were hit away from 17 Actual, while Yang and Blake were having trouble with two other Jaegers. Meanwhile, the remaining Jaegers from the rally had joined the fray, and were keeping the other four busy, unfortunately, busy meant beating.
Ruby swung her scythe at 17 Actual, who caught the blade with his hand, grasping it and throwing scythe and Ruby at Torchwick, who dodged the projectile. He fired his cane at 17 Actual, the shot hitting the robot. The smoke screen left an opening for Ruby to charge in and swing again, only for 17 Actual to dodge Ruby alltogether and rushing at Torchwick. It swung the Plasma Sword, cutting Torchwick's clothes as he jumped away.
"Son of a- How did you do that?" Torchwick asked.
"Cutting your clothes? It's not made of tough stuff." 17 Actual responded.
"Yeah, but my aura-"
"Gesundheit."
"No, you box of frayed wires! My aura is my shield!" Torchwick shouted. "You just cut through it!"
"Whoops." 17 Actual said, and lunged quickly. He was put off course by a sniper shot from Ruby. "Interloping child, cease your actions!"
"Interloping child?" Ruby asked.
"I feel ya, robo warrior." Torchwick deadpanned.
Weiss and Neptune were having trouble with another Jaeger, who was holding a Plasma Spear. This one had obviously seen action, the chassis was riddled with scratches and dried blood.
"Neptune! Catch!" Weiss shouted, throwing an Ice dust crystal. The Jaeger watched it soar through the air, only for it to be shot by an electric shock round. The dust crystal exploded, casing the Jaeger in ice.
"Sorry, Weiss!" Neptune apologized.
"No, that's exactly what I wanted." Weiss answered. "Good thinking."
The ice started to crack, and a hand shot out of it. The ice broke, and the Jaeger walked out. "Ah, what the soldiers back at home would do to have a relationship like yours, Schnee."
"Excuse me?!" Weiss said. "And I have a name!"
"And I don't care." The Jaeger charged, slicing at Neptune before Weiss could react. The spear cleaved Neptune's goggles in half, the broken pieces falling to the floor.
"How in-" Neptune started, before the Jaeger twirled he spear and jabbed Neptune in the stomach with the blunt end.
"Distracted by the loss of goggles? Pathetic."
Weiss lunged at the Jaeger, leaving Neptune to watch as the Jaeger swung the sharp side at her.
Neo, Blake, Sun, and Yang were backing away from the four remaining Jaegers. In the process of the fight, Sun had lost his aura, putting him on the same level as Neo, while Yang and Blake were reaching their limit, Yang had even lost her damage boost.
"We need to fall back! We can't beat them!" Blake shouted. "We can't fight them with Sun and Neo on zero aura!"
"We have to! There's no other option here!" Yang shouted, dodging a sword swing. "They're too dangerous to leave alone!"
"Yang, think about the others!" Blake shouted back. "If we keep going-AHH!" Blake was interrupted when a spear sliced her side.
"Blake!" Yang shouted, only to be punched by a Plasma fist Jaeger. She turned around, only to be faced with four Jaegers. She ran from them, grabbing Blake, who was holding her wound, and motioning Sun and Neo to follow.
Ruby and Torchwick were beaten back once more. Torchwick's clothes were ripped and he was bruised and bleeding. Ruby's scythe had small pieces missing on the blade. Her clothes were tattered, and she had some bruising.
"Torchwick, we need to leave!" Ruby shouted.
"Speaking my mind, Red!" Torchwick shouted, the two jumping away from 17 Actual.
They met with the other four, Torchwick helping with Neo. Ruby immediately went to Blake.
"What happened!?" Ruby asked, in shock.
"She was sliced by one of the spears!" Yang answered. "We have to go!"
"Guys!" The group turned to see Neptune holding a bleeding Weiss. Her head had laceration, just below the scalp.
"No no no!" Ruby shouted, rushing to the pair. Before she could do anything, the Jaegers surrounded them.
"Well, I see this is the end of our little fight. It seems this is the end for you all as well." 17 Actual said. "It has been fun, truly." They readied their weapons, and got ready to lunge, only to stop. 17 Actual put its hand up to where an ear would be, and nodded. "Congratulations, you're being spared."
And with that, they disappeared into almost thin air. RWBY and SN stayed tense, waiting for them to come back. They suddenly found themselves in a spotlight, as an Atlesian airship hovered over them. Ruby dropped to her knees, while Blake completely blacked out from her wound, evoking Yang to cry in alarm. Neptune put Weiss on the ground, quickly getting to work on her, with Sun assisting his friend. Torchwick and Neo disappeared as well, leaving the group behind.
Ozpin's office
Ozpin stared at the screen, looking at the carnage that had unfolded at the scene. It was obvious that his students were outclassed by these robots, and they had left nothing for Ironwood except wounded Huntresses and Hunters in training.
"This is bad, what exactly did I just witness?" Ozpin wondered aloud.
"We just witnessed what happens when we let our students out without permission, Ozpin." Professor Goodwitch answered. "You really need to stop being lenient on them."
"They're kids, Glynda."
"Ozpin, they almost became corpses!"
They were interrupted by a call from Ironwood. "Oz, I have your students. We are treating them right now for their injuries. I'm bringing them back."
"Thank you, James." Ozpiin said, and with that, the call ended.
"So what now?" Goodwitch asked.
"Well, we need information now. This third party seems to be against us, so we need to see if we can placate them, so they don't join Her." Ozpin answered.
Arora, Council Room
Grey was reading a report on the new Jaeger Commanders, when a random general walked in, delivering a report to Grey. Grey thanked the general, and dismissed him. He read it, looking pleased.
"Everything is going to plan. Now, we move on to the next part of Phase One." Grey said, putting the report down. He turned to a junior officer in the room. "Tell the division stationed at Mountain Glenn to move in on the terrorists only when Torchwick returns. When he does, I want only he and his 'sidekick' to be the only survivors."
"Understood, Vice Emperor." She responded, relaying the order.
