Chapter 0: The Raven's Nest

It was months after Walter's death, Ayre had continued to work with Raven to sort out the aftermath.

For 621 she had painted 4 swords on her emblem, one for each friend, the blue one was for rusty, the black one was for Walter, the Purple one was for Carla, the yellow one was for chatty.

All with the exception of Rusty was killed by her hands but it doesn't mean she didn't care for them.

It was only after a mission that Ayre had shown herself to 621. She was albino, with medium length white hair, her red eyes radiating coral. she was also quite gifted one can say but 621 wasn't hung up on that info, what stood out the most was that Ayre was carrying a box labeled. "621".

"Raven, I found this It would seem Walter left you one final gift." Ayre had said her voice filled with sadness.

"Thanks Ayre, I'll take a look." 621 would say her voice was in her normal monotone. However, when she opens the box, she sees numerous things. The two items that really caught her eye was a blade. It was of eastern influence, its blade shattered, but it has begun to draw out memories. "Omen" was the name of the blade.

How did 621 know she wasn't sure.

Why did it share a name with her AC? nothing on that front ether.

The second was a picture of 4 individuals, a woman in a white cloak. Her black hair with red tips was noticeable but what stood out the most was her silver eyes. "Summer."

That was her name but ... who she was to 621. The next was a man whose bright yellow hair was the most noticeable thing about him but 621 felt something more was missing. "Tai" that was his name and just like summer. she didn't know why or this painful feeling she felt or why.

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The 3rd was a man who looked similar to her, the same color black hair and the red eye that wasn't due to coral but was natural,

"Qrow" That name brought out mixed feelings. Hurt, familiarity, and guilt, but what truly shocked her was the last member of this group of 4. 621 herself she looked at herself in that picture feeling emotions long forgotten. Sadness, why was she crying, who were they, who was she?

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That's when she spots a USB labeled "the truth" she picks it up and plugs it in. It brings up a video feed of Walter. "Hello, 621 if you found this after my death, now as a final gift to you I wanted to show you something about yourself, you probably noticed the picture and the sword but let me show you how you came under my care in the first place."

The video shifts as it now shows a planet with a broken moon. "See this it's your home world Remnant. I don't know the full extent of what happened to you, but I sent out an old friend of mine to investigate this planet,"

The camera feed shifts to the AC in question exploring and killing creatures that were dark with bone-like armor plates being the only color. Walter continued, "We found these creatures. Grimm is what the natives call them, monsters that are attracted to negative emotions. It was when he explored the country of mistral that we found you." The feed switches again to a camp on fire and Bodies of the dead littering the place and she... she was there bleeding, close to dying. Then a woman with gunshot wounds and many more was seen walking over to the AC her face pale from blood loss, "Help her please we all might not make it, but she can, please whoever you are please help her" it was all the women said before falling to the ground most likely dead.

"It was then that he made a decision. He used an emergency frequency one that I gave him, so I can quickly send down a pickup if things went wrong. It was only after you were in our craft that I knew why the frequency was used….so to save your life I put you in for 4th gen augmentation. It worked but at the cost of something great… Your memories." The feed cuts back to Walter. "So, 621 as you see we took you from your world to save you…but then this all happened…now it's up to you. You're free to do what you think is right." The feed ends. 621 had a range of emotions she wanted to hate Walter but couldn't. He was like a father to her, so she couldn't hate him.

She hated her augments for taking her memories away, but she couldn't as it was those very augments that saved her life. So, she came to a decision turning to Ayre, she speaks with newfound emotion in her voice, "Ayre we're going to Remnant are you coming with!"

Ayre stands looking at Raven, her voice filled with pride, "Of course."

It was a means of taking care of loose ends, but they did and with the help of Walter's Navigation data, along with some favors the red guns owed her.

she had a space faring vessel ready. Loading up her AC "Omen" built with parts of the fallen, the head once belonged to the Raven…her predecessor, to carry on his name she installed his AC's head.

Her legs belonged to V4 Rusty, out of all the vespers she liked him the most…and you didn't hear this from Ayre but 621 did develop a crush on the Pilot of steel haze and later Steel haze ortus. Her arms were from her jailbreak from the vespers, she kept this part to remind herself that no matter what she has a strong will to live. Her booster was a gift from RaD given to her by Carla after "joining" the observers. Her generator was salvaged from Walter's AC, with ayre blessing she installed it, the only thing she didn't take from the fallen was her core.

It took a few weeks of preparation but 621 was ready to find out about her new life.

"All mind has registered your leaving of the planet and has accepted the request your vessel will be granted PCA IDs, we wish you well Raven."

Just like that 621 and Ayre began the next chapter in their story.

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A/n

Hello again. yeah, I know I uploaded the same chapter, but I felt unhappy with how its mistakes. Like the grammar and misspells, that and as one review said in a different story, I need to work on my pacing to that I struggle with a lot. Combine that with the fact I mostly write past midnight (1-5am ish) I wasn't the soundest. One other thing this was a concept story if a story of mine is stuck at one chapter it's because it's a concept that I want to try like warlock known as rose. I have every intention of going in and fixing if. And fix the pacing…but I wanted to see if you all would like stories that that so I'm grateful for the reviews as I pushes me to improve….so as the new college semester starts ill start to look for a beta reader. it is still under 1.5k words as I still intend this chapter to be a prologue.