I own nothing. RWBY belongs to Roosterteeth, Halo belongs to Bungie/343/Microsoft. The only thing I own is this cookie that has now been devoured by our favorite little redhooded huntress.
Nat had awakened from her dream an hour ago. The dream still swimming through her mind. Who was that girl and why did she feel familiar? And the first part of said dream, who were the other two? Why did the blond man feel so...what is the word, comforting? Loving? The willingness to let herself be and feel vulnerable? She didn't know. It was eleven hundred hours and her armor just finished its diagnostic and integration of the new parts and software. Suiting up felt so good. It felt like she was walking around naked in a population center. So now with her clothes back on, she felt so much better.
" Well, your now clothed and no longer naked kid and damn do you have a nice bod. Built like a tank yet still lean to be a woman with a nice figure. And the scars really give you a rugged look. Any way your armor is green. Is there anything else I can do for you?" Shadow was saying with a bit of a pervy flirt.
Sighing in annoyance she dismissed the flirtiness as part of some sort early rampancy.
" Not now but could you do some AI thing and see if we can equip the energy daggers I stole from one of the elites I killed?"
" I can run some simulations and see. Why? Feel like going Assassin's Creed on some dummies?" He asked.
" Sure. You can say that. I just want a backup in case something goes amiss. That and silent kills would be nice." She said.
" Ok. I will do just that." Shadow said.
She reached over her shoulder and unslung Summers weapon. It had a familiarity to it that she could not place. It was calling to her. Wanting to be used. She looked at it wondering what to do before placing it back on her back.
She walked to the back of the hog and started to rummage around in one of her duffles. Opening the duffle she sees that it was filled with the new BR 55 rifle. She picked one up and gave it a look over. The mat black rifle stood out compared to her white and red armors paint job. She looked it over and saw the ammo reader. Zero zero. Empty. Ruffling around she found a number of magazines. She grabs one and slides it home. Thirty-six rounds ready to rock and roll. Satisfied she places it on the mag-strips on her back. As she pushes the bag back, the bag holding Summers affects popped open with Summers pendant falling out. She stared at it for a long time. It like Summers rifle called to her. She plucked it up from the bed of the hog and held it. She looked at it with mixing emotions. Sorrow for the women who wore it and warmth that she could bring it home being prominent.
Sighing she put it in her soft case before she turned around and leaned on the side of the hog and just dwelled over the past couple of days. Seeing the thing under sword base. Dr. Halsey and Jun's fate is unknown. The flight to Azaud and the Pillar of Autumn. Getting ambushed by a flight of banshee and a phantom with Carter getting wounded throughout the engagement while she and Emile bailed out so he can draw the heat. Fighting and fighting to make it to the ship and deliver an AI fragment. Holding off the horde until Keys came to take delivery. Emile in the Mass-Driver shooting down any and all hostile aircraft. A Sangheili zealot jumping him and shoving its energy sword through him, just to get the same treatment in return as he slammed his kukri deep into its neck. Her fight to take out the cursor with the MAC gun. And the ship taking off. Her long drive collecting weapons and other ordnance for her supposed last stand. And finally the ONI base with the info on Summer Rose.
" You Ok Kid?" Shadow asked scanning her vitals after just standing there for a few minutes.
She let out a sigh, " Yea. Just taking it all in. It was just yesterday that I was on a doomed planet and now I am on a whole new world. It's just surreal I guess. I should be dead but I am not."
" I hear ya. But you do realize that during your little trip in the clouds, a fight has been going on in the town." He told her.
Her eyes widened at that and shot down the ally way. When she came to the fight she saw a man in a dress shirt and pants with a tattered cape paying a strike from a crazy person with a scorpion tail in an open white shirt and pants. He had arm bracers with attached blade giving them the look of scorpion claws. A girl in red then came into view trying to flank the psycho man and help the guy with the big sword. So caught up in trying to help that she didn't notice the timber fixing to fall on to her.
Six didn't waste a beat, she sprinted in. In a few strides, she hit her max and closed the distance in just a few blinks. She grabbed the girl and threw her towards her friends and slammed a fist down as armor lock activated. The timber slammed into her back but bounced off the electric blue aura.
Qrow saw the timber fall. He couldn't disengage from Tyrian to get his niece out of harm's way. He thought that it was going to be over for her. That was until he saw her get thrown to her friends and an armored women took her place, slamming a fist into the ground as a protective blue aura surrounded her with the beam just bouncing off instead of squishing her like a bug. He was surprised but was also in a fight. Fight now surprise second.
Ruby went around to flank Tyrian and help her Uncle Qrow drive him off. She had a bead on him and was just waiting for an opening. When she thought she had it, she was whipped out of the way rolling to a stop in front of Jaune, Nora, and Ren. When she looked up she saw a timber come crashing down on to someone. When it bounced off, she saw a blue aura surround the figure. She couldn't quite make out the detail of who it was. All she saw was a white silhouette of the person. But when the figure stood and the aura burst off, her breath caught in her throat. It was her. The one who ripped an aliens heart out of its chest. The one that had her moms pendent. And the one who now had her mothers weapon. She was filled with so much emotion that she was frozen. Unable to do anything from the shock.
Six stood to her full seven-foot hight as she brought her BR55 to bear. She let loose a burst right past crazy's face. He kicked the other male away and turned to her.
" Hello whitey, if you want to be killed so badly all you had to do was ask. Now stand in line and wait your turn. I will kill you after I kill this fool! HAHAHAHAHA!"
Instead of answering she let loose another volley of rounds right into his head. A purple flash was seen as his aura broke. He growled and went in. He slashed and slashed but her shields took the hits. His tail wrapped around her gun and ripped it out of her hands. THinking he had the advantage he went in close. He stabbed and stabbed at her armored chest. She grabbed and threw him into another house as she withdrew her knife and Emiles Kukri.
Getting in a stance she waited till he came at her again. He emerged like a spirit from the clouds. A mad man with wild eyes that wanted nothing but her blood. He came in striking like a mad man. Left then right then left again and with each strike he delivered, she blocked or parried each strike. And with each strike, he got more enraged. His tail wrapped around her left wrist and she gave a hard pull. He ducked under her punch and latched onto her back, stabbing repeatedly at her neck.
Grunting she slashed at his tail with the knife in her right hand and then stabbed deep into his shoulder. He screamed in pain and rage as he was then thrown to the ground. Rolling to the left he avoided the foot aimed for his face. He scrambled to his feet and deployed the automatic pistols and unloaded on the figure. A golden shimmer came into life with each hit deflecting each bullet that hit.
Qrow must have had a bad batch in his flask because if his eyes were deceiving him, that figure had Summer's weapon. Noble Rose was clamped to this women's back. The bullets just bounced off of a golden aura. Whoever this chick was he doesn't want to get on the bad side of. He looked over to Ruby and saw her in a state of shock and horror. Something had her spooked but he couldn't say what.
Six withdrew Summers weapon and sighted down the sights before she let loose a trio of rounds. The purple shimmer she saw earlier appeared again as the bullets slammed into his chest.
' Energy shields? On an unarmored combatant? What kind of magic is this guys wielding?' Six thought as she glanced at her ammo counter. Half a mag left and this guy was somehow able to block some of her shots. Growling she empty the magazine hoping to get around to slip through his defenses. Only a couple of shots got through and those that did didn't do much more than to chip away at whatever this magic shield was.
An audible "CLICK" was herd as the mag ran dry.
' shit. And he won't give me time to reload.' Nat thought as crazy came charging at her with a vengeance. He swung with his right, she jumped back as his fist past right through the place she once stood. She looked the weapon over thinking about slinging it. After all, other than a bludgeon, what good is a rifle without ammo? Nothing at all. But she didn't want to damage this weapon. It belonged to its owners family and in good condition. She saw crazy leap at her again with those guns drawn and raining bullets down upon her. Her shields finally gave out and she started to take dings. She slid her hands across the rifle. As if by magic it shifted. She didn't know what or how it was doing it but it happened. When it finally transformed it was a scythe that was waiting for action. Acting on impulse she used the blunt end of the weapon to knock this guy away.
The feeling Qrow had in his gut was confirmed as the stranger transformed Summers weapon and used it like a pro. After slapping him away with the blunt edge of the scythe, she twirled it around her waist and slammed the tip of the blade into the ground.
Tyrian who had a seething look of hatred not had a look of confusion. He saw that weapon before. It was with its dead wilder at the bottom of a large pit filled with all sorts of other dead things. This woman must have climbed down and uncovered it.
' How disrespectful. Leave the dead alone. You never know what kind of curse you might uncover.' he thought with a crazy smile.
" You know I fought the person who wielded that blade." He spoke
Six didn't move but was listening.
' He fought Summer Rose? So he must be the one to have wounded her so bad when ONI found her.' She summarized.
For Qrow and Ruby, however, they were shocked, saddened...and angry. Standing in front of them stood the man the took away a mother and wife, a friend and a confidant. For the past twelve to thirteen years they have been looking for her. Hoping her missing in action presumed dead status was false. But Qrow knew better. After five years of her not showing up, he knew she was dead.
" She was so easy to beat, well after the Grimm wore her down that is. I could have taken her but, ohhhh, they got to her first. Heheheh. But her pathetic attempt to survive was amusing. She couldn't even take a hit." he laughed some more " I could have killed her whenever I wanted, but instead I toyed with her. And after I had my fun I left her to die in a pit full of other dead things. For you to have her weapon, hahaha, you must have dug deep for it and desecrated her remains in order to find it!" he finished off with even more insane laughter.
The blood of Qrow and Ruby was fixing to boil over with rage. This man was mocking someone they held dear...and he will pay for it. And Six, well she had rage building up but she knew how to channel it and use it to its full advantage.
Qrow was fixing to step in and take this guy on when he spotted the strangers rifle and blades. He ran over to the discarded weapons and retrieved them. He then ran up to the warrior before she could continue the fight.
" Ma'am, no offense but I would rather you not use my team leaders weapon in you can help it." He said offering the gun and blades. Leaving the blade in the ground she took them and sighted down the scope center mass. Ruby came up on her other side looking at Noble Rose. It was her mother's weapon alright, but if what Tyrian said was true, this women dug up a whole bunch of dead to get it. But at this moment she had to put that aside and focus the guy who wants to kill her. And afterward she would question who and what she was and why did she have her mothers weapon.
Tyrian kept laughing and then charged in, Six's knife still in his shoulder. His main focus on this armored freak. Qrow and Ruby readied themselves but 'white' sprung in and slammed the butt of her rifle into his face. He flew back rubbing his nose. Qrow and Ruby double teamed him hitting him from both the left and right. He blocked both but was unable to block the strike aimed for his stomach. Six delivered a gut kick knocking the wind out of him. Getting even more pissed off he came in for a tail strike aimed for her armored neck. She grabbed the stinger and threw him at the man with the big sword. And said her first words this whole engagement.
" Big man! Heads up!" she shouted.
He turned and saw Tyrian sailing right at him. He readied his blade for a powerful downward strike, ready to take this guys head off.
Tyrian oriented himself mid-air. If he could time it right, he could take Qrow out of the picture. His eyes changed from gold to purple as the venom in his tail charged up a lethal dose to be delivered. As Qrow brought Rozgrise down, Tyrian rolled out of the way and flicked his tail out and scratched his side. Qrows blade slammed into the ground as he looked at where he got stuck. As Tyrian landed and skidded to a stop, he looked up to see his prey look at his wound in horror. He smiled, then screamed in pain as his tail was severed courtesy of Ruby.
Tyrian rolled and howled as blood and other poison came pumping out of his wound. When he turned he saw RNJR, Qrow, and whitey all aiming weapons at him.
"RRAAAAAGGGRRRRRAAAAA! YOU BITCH!" He shouted at Ruby. Whitey reloaded her rifle and was fixing to unload it on his face. He did the only thing that made sense to him. He ran vowing to himself to take vengeance, muttering that Salem would forgive him.
But as he hopped the wall he heard bullets break through the wall with a couple even grazing him.
Qrow dropped to his knees in pain as he clutched his stomach gaining everyone's attention.
" UNCLE QROW!" Ruby cried running to his side dropping her scythe.
Jaune came in asking what was happening, Nora asking who pschyo was and Ren asking how he got here. Nat came to his side and looked at his wound. It needed to be addressed but she didn't have her med kit on her person. Looking towards the ground she saw the mans stinger and retrieved it.
As she came back to the group she realized they were looking at her.
" What?" She asked.
" Is what he said true? About you desecrating the dead to retrieve my teammate's weapon." The man asked.
" Right now you need medical treatment. We can discuss this at my camp." Her voice brokered no argument. He growled as she helped him up and realized his weapon from the ground and gave it a look over. It was a nice looking weapon. A huge single-edged blade with a runic pattern on it. She slung it onto her back then did the same with Summers weapon.
With that, she grabbed Qrows arm and slung it around her shoulder and marched off with the others in tow. It was obvious they didn't fully trust her. She wouldn't have trusted them either. As they rounded the corner of a house they saw the makeshift camp. The hog still parked with removal tools and the diagnostic screen still out and or running. The three males gave a whistle at the ride she had.
Finding a clear enough spot she sat Qrow down and opened his shirt open to get in a better look at his wound. A three inch long cut from the stinger with the poison starting to run through his system. Hefting the man's stinger, she addressed the ninja boy.
" You," She said pointing to him, " in the back of the hog is a duffle full of medical equipment. Grab it and bring it to me." She ordered. He simply nodded and went to retrieve the duffle.
She turned back to the man and examined the wound further. A soft thud was heard as ninja boy came back with the duffle. She rummaged around in the duffle finding the right med kit. As she was looking she herd one of the two females clear their throat.
" Umm, ma'am. Is my uncle going to be OK?" She took a quick glance up and saw the girl she saved. Now that she had time to take a closer look she resembled the girl that was in the past couple of dreams. The red cloak was also a dead give away. But the eye-catcher was the pendant she had clasping her cloak together. It was a rose. Her eyes lingered on it for an extra second before answering.
" He should be. No guarantees. The sooner I get the anti-venom the better." She informed.
" Is what Tyrian said true? That you had to decorate corpses to get her weapon?" She asked.
Instead of answering she opened the med-kit and got to work.
" She asked you a question. Did you or did you not dig up graves to get that weapon." The man growled in both pain and anger.
" Shadow. Do a scan. Make sure no one is eavesdropping." She said.
Everyone looked at her confused as to who she was addressing. They were even more confused when a male voice told her they were fine.
" In a way yes." She said.
The small party was ready to berate her.
" Calm down you over reactive hormone children." Came the male voice again.
" Ok time out. Who is talking!" Jaune shouted holding up his hands in a T.
The lone diagnostic tablet lit up and formed a figure in a black leather jacket, blue jeans and biker boots. He also had long brown hair with a pair of aviator shades on his face.
" That would be me blonde." He said in an unamused voice as he crossed his arms over his chest. " Now will you let her elaborate as to what she said or are you going to try, keyword try, to kill her? Because to be honest if you did fight you would end up dead."
Everyone including Qrow looked at the figure with wide eyes and one thought going through their heads. That being dafuq.
" As Shadow said there is more to what I said. But first what was she to you two?" She asked looking at both Ruby and Qrow.
Qrow was the first to speak. " She was my team leader, one of my best friends, a confidant even and overall a sweet loyal person that would give you the shirt off her back if the need arises," he told her with Ruby taking over.
" She was my mother." was all she said with a somber tone.
Turning away from her task of anti-venom, she looked at the young girl. She lost her mother. True Nat never knew her mother or her life before waking up in a hospital. She was told she got amnesia after a nasty fall during training, but still. To lose someone of parental importance, that must have hurt.
Taking a breath she spoke again. " My condolences for your loss." She said to them. The three held a moment of silence in memory of Summer.
" But to fully answer your question. I retrieved it from a morgue. Figured better with me than let it get glassed." was all she said.
" Why was it in a morgue? And what do you mean by glassed?" Qrow asked.
" Glassed is a term reserved for planets that have been subjected to high yields of plasma. In short, the silica in the sand melts and becomes glass. The world becomes uninhabitable." ShadowHawk said.
" Planets huh. What are you some sort of Atlas astronomer or something?" Qrow asked.
" Does it look like we are some astronomers to you?" Shadow Hawk said.
" No. Not really. But she still did not answer my question as to why it was in a morgue."
" Let her fix you up and we can tell you why a morgue." He said.
Nat had already turned back to the anti-venom and was almost ready to go. Ninja boy and blondy set off to get firewood while the orange haired chick kept watching. The girl in red sat next to her uncle watching as Nat continued to make the antidote for the poison. The man just watched as she worked. Questions clearly running in his mind as to who she is and where she got Summer's weapon.
It took fifteen minutes for the medical kit to come up with an antidote for the man. She injected it into the wound and bandaged him up.
"You should be good for a while. But I would get it checked out the first chance you get." She told the man.
" Was planning on it." He told her. He then got up and looked at her in the eye." Now tell us why that weapon was in a morgue and who the hell you are."
" isn't what she is obvious? She is a supper solder that could rip your skull from your spine through your corn hole with little effort." Shadow said.
The small team of teens looked at the AI.
" What he said is right. I am a super soldier. And one that is damn good at her job." She told them. " And as for finding her weapon in a morgue, I don't have the full details, but a number of years ago a flash was seen outside of a research base. Guess what was found."
She was met with silence as they thought it over trying to figure out what she was saying.
" Ahhh. You guys are stupid you know that. What they found there was her!" Shadow exclaimed.
The rogue looked at the AI as well as the teens.
" The women you know as Summer Rose was found beaten and broken. Multiple lacerations on her body, internal bleeding, broken bones, she must have looked terrible. The doc's their got her stable but she was going to pass, they just slowed it down. What all they found out about her was the energy she produced was that of a shield. A biological forcefield. A clone was made and a blood transfusion was given. The clone received her blood. Not long after, she passed." Nat said remembering the video she found before it got corrupted. " But that was years ago. Fast forward to just yesterday, I was on my way for a last stand on a doomed planet when I stopped at an ONI site. Taking the time to snoop around I found a morgue. I hacked into the computer system and started a burn to erase anything sensitive that could be recovered. That is where I found a project folder named Vale. All I got from it was what I told you. I would like to say more but it got corrupted. ShadowHawk over there is reconstructing it. He also told me to grab her effects. Neither of us wanted those bastards to claim it or let it burn and turn to glass." SHe told them. She got up and went to the hog and grabbed the duffle and brought it to the man and the girl in red.
She dropped it at their feet. The girl looked at her then slowly opened it. What she found brought tears to her eyes. Summer Rose, her mother, was dead. She started to quietly sob as her uncle held her.
" I wanted to bring her gear back to her family. If you are her daughter," She said kneeling in front of the girl, " Then I completed my personal task. And I am so very sorry for your loss. I knew her at some point but I can't picture it. Amnesia will do that to you."
The girl looked at her with saddened eyes and tears running down her cheeks. She wiped them away before she spoke.
" I never got your name. Mine is Ruby Rose." She said.
" Natsuki or Nat for short. Noble six of what is left of Noble Team." She said.
The man grunted as he shifted." QrowBranwen." Was all he said as he slid the duffle closer and rummaged around. Likely to see if everything was there. She withdrew the pendant and handed it to Ruby. She looked at it and handed it back.
" You should keep it. It may jog memories back and I am sure you miss her as well."
Nat was shocked, to say the least. She wanted her to keep a piece of her mothers belongings? Why? She just nodded and slid it back into her soft case.
She turned to the others seeing the blond boy starting a fire with ninja boy sitting with ginger girl on an old couch that was still in good condition surprisingly.
" Ok kids listen up." Qrow said, getting everyone's attention, " We have a lot to talk about."
Nat sat and listened to the tail Qrow was telling. Something about two Gods creating the planet. One making humans and faunas. The other being a being of darkness creating the Grimm. And yet another impossible tale of four women wielding the powers of the seasons.
All making him sound crazy and to be fair the kids didn't sound convinced as well.
She shook her head at all the hocus pokas.
" You know this sounds like a plot device in some sort of anime," Shadow said to her popping up on her HUD with, of all things, a slice of pizza. " I mean seriously! Magic that only young women can wield? Let me guess they were given these powers by some old wizard who is probably also a perv."
Nat just looked at him with a questioning face. " Whats an anime?" She asked.
Shadow looked at her and told her that he would treat her later to what anime is.
She looked over to see Qrow stand up and stretch his legs with a small walk. He was looking up in a tree for a second before taking a drink from a flask. The last thing she heard was him answering a question about if he had more he would like to share.
Nat just leaned up against a wall wondering what to do when she heard her name called. Turning to the others they motioned her to come over. When she did they asked her a few questions.
" So. where did you come from?" Blondy asked.
" Reach." Was all she said.
" Reach for what the sky? My wallet? What is Reach?"
" Reach is a planet. Second only to earth. It's one of our biggest naval and military strongholds. All burned and turned to glass." She said in a somber tone.
" Ok, no offense but that sound too sci-fi and crazy. Planets? Seriously? Who do you think we are? Dust cant work outside atmosphere." The ginger said.
" I will handle this one kid." Shadow Hawk said as she withdrew a datapad. His avatar stood above it still with pizza in one hand. " Does she look like she is some sort of cos-player who can kick ass? No. We are from a doomed planet and if you chose not to believe us that is fine. But we got the evidence to back up each and every claim. Now stay sitting you little brats. Uncle Shadow Hawk is going to tell you a great story." He said as he threw the pizza box into the campfire.
A green and blue planet suddenly took his place surprising the kids and the rogue drunk as he stepped back into view. They were given a history lesson from only a few months prior to the fall. " So you slack-jawed bastards who ruined my pizza, what do you have to say to that?"
No one spoke at first before ginger raised her hand. He nodded and she asked, " How can you eat a pizza if you are a hologram?"
Everyone just looked at her. " What? It's a valid question." She defended
" I just went through pretty much a teams sacrifice, all in vain mind you, and you are more worried about how I am able to eat a fucking pizza?" He asked.
The girl nodded.
The sound of laughter was heard as they looked at the AI. He was laughing and holding his side.
" You," He pointed at her, " I am beginning to like you kid. Asking the real questions in life. Not as much as I do tall dark and white badass over there but I like you as well. So any other relevant questions that I can answer?"
Ruby raised her hand. " What are those bird-like things with the shields or the rifles?"
" Those are jackals. At first one would think they are looking at a newborn pigeon, or big bird after taking meth. They are fugly and a pain in the ass when you get to Halo 2 and play legendary. Their cousins are just as annoying if not slightly more so. Them speedy little pricks. Why?"
Ruby hesitated for a second or two before saying what was on her mind. " I saw the jackals in a dream the other night. Along with you" She nodded to Nat, " we were in a burning landscape with bodies all around us. Human and alien alike. You were the only thing that could stop them. You ripped the heart out of one's chest before you approached me…"
" And offered you your mothers pendant." She finished.
Ruby looked at her surprised. " You had the same dream?" She asked.
" I guess so. Still, I am sorry for your loss."
Ruby nodded with tears forming around her eyes. Ruby felt two sets of arms wrap her. One of her uncle and the other the hard metal of armor. She knew that would be Nat. For some reason, she felt comfort coming off of her like her mother was hugging her instead of a super soldier.
" I recommend you all get some rest. We will head out at dawn." The Spartan said standing up and walking over to the hog. The teens agreed and rooked out their sleeping bag. Nat leaned against the log and watched the fire burn. Qrow sat next to her watching the fire as well.
" IF what you said is true, should we be worried?" He asked her.
" For if, or should I say when, they show up? I don't know. If I can I would like to at least warn some of your higherups about the situation." She told him.
Qrow sighed before talking again. " I know someone who would possibly be willing to listen. The problem is he on a different continent."
" Don't you have a way of contacting him?" She asked.
" Not since the CCT went down at Beacon. Local comms are good. But that is it." He told her.
She sighed at that. No long-range communication.
"Great. I can't make a call to some pizza shop on the other end of the world and have it delivered. It is the end of times I tell you." Shadow said in wining sarcastic voice.
" Shadow, is that all you can think of at the moment?" She asked.
" At the moment, yea I am hungry and craving pizza." He said.
Nat growled. " We should get some sleep." She told him.
Qrow agreed and slowly nodded off to sleep.
After a few minutes she herd him snoring. She gave a chuckel inside her helmat before doing a ping of the area. It came back with a negative. She really didn't know what she was expecting. Since she could run on fewer hours of sleep, even going on days without. She stayed up all night waiting for them to awaken from thier slumber. So she packed everything up back into the hog and waited and contemplated.
On the tree Qrow looked at earlier, a raven sat. She looked each teen over. Qrow was a fool to tell them everything. If he really wanted to keep them safe including Ruby, he should have kept his mouth shut. Now that they were caught up all this, they were as good as dead. Even his neace would not be spared. She already was a target thanks to her eyes. But now that target grew.
The one in white and red armor though, she seems like the kind to handle herself well.
Raven Branwen did not believe for a second what she over herd. Another planet? And aliens, give her a break. They did not exist. Only in Si-Fi would they exist.
She took off needing to find a clear spot, and once she found one she morphed back. After stretching her legs she withdrew her blade and slashed making a portal. She walked through seeing the outdoors of Patch and Yang rocking out working on her bike. She quickly took off into the direction of the cliffs making sure no one saw her. She walked through the woods taking care to not attract any Grimm or any other attention. She hasn't been here for a while. Only when feeling the need to really get things off her chest or to just think.
She rounded a grove of trees and saw her destination. A cliffside with a grey stone jutting from the ground. She approached the stone and then sat down crossing her legs. She stayed there for a second or two just letting the spring-summer breeze pass through. She took a breath before she spoke.
" Hey, Summ. I know it's been a while since I last talked to you, but well I guess I have been a bit busy." She said. We now can see what it was she was really talking to. A headstone. One that belongs to Summer Rose. Thus kindly I scatter was written on it right under her name. " You know, when we were in beacon I always pictured you and my bone head of a brother getting together. Not stealing Tai." She said with a chuckle. " But you and I both know that he needed someone to help raise Yang." She waited as if for an answer. None came of course. But she still talked to her deceased friend anyway.
" You know as of late I have felt something in my semblance. A reawakening if you will. Like you have somehow come back to the land of the living. Crazy I know but it may have just been me needing to see you again." She said to the grave. She then stood up. " I need to go. I can't promise when I will be back, but I can promise to leave Ruby alone. I won't let my men hurt her. For that, you have my word." She then brought a hand to her mouth and then to the headstone.
" I have to go now. I hope to have more stories to tell you the next time I come. Till then sis." She said standing up. She drew her sword again and slashed making a portal. She turned to leave but looked back and gave a silent " Love you little sis." and left returning to her camp.
Ok so belive it or not this was a bit of a pain in the rear. I needed to figger out what way I wanted to go for when Nat come in and fights. I had to flip a stormtrooper coin to decide.
So with the fight up top being the winner, the loser would have had Nat come in and save Ruby instead of Qrow at the begining of the fight.
No Summer and Raven are not related. My head cannon is that in her years at Beacon, Raven would have seen Summer as somthing of a sister. Even saying that she pictured Summer getting together with Qrow. And while I know Qrow is not Rubys father, I like to go with the theory that he is. Why? I don' t know. I know it is wrong but I like the theroy.
The AI I based off of my best friend ( Shout out to you buddy if you are reading ) and when he was acting as my beta, he wanted the Ai to have a sass to him. I orignaly wanted to use deadpool but felt like I could not do the guy justice. But he will still have a bit of the same personality as well as leaning on the forth wall.
So to the refrances. As a guest pointed out and asked, yes Back to the Future was referd to as the hog hit 88. Why? Becasue I wanted a ahha moment or two. Now lets find them shall we? A deck of cards and a rubics cube are obvios, bobble heads, modle cars and planes ( I am a plane junky. Will exlplain in a few ) an OG Xbox. Yes the system that ran one of the greatest games makes a camieo. Lastly is a umm...how should I put it...a womens tool if she feels the 'need'. And who could forget Deathklock. Go watch the things if you havent yet. I am not a Satanist, I am Christian but I just love the beat and it has been a go to tune for me to humm at work or somthing. And a funny moment with the elite just wanting to take a leak. Rest in peace man. It sucks to be killed just looking for a bathroom
And while their is not much to call out to in this chapter, but Assassins creed comes up. As well as Razgriz. The name of a demon who brings death upon the land, and after it sows death and destrution upon the land, it die's. After a perioud of slumber it reawakens as an angle. If you dont get the refrance ( And likely I didnt get the saying right. But close enough.) that is fine. In the PS2 days a few games came out. I only played one. That being AceCombat 5 The Unsung War. I have been in love with planes my whole life. My granddad has been flying sprayplanes for a long ass time and he is well into his years. My uncle flys for the same place I work for, and while my dad dosent fly, he did get his lisence. So flying is kind of in my blood. Now as to why I named Qrows weapon Rozgriz. I havent seen his weapon have a name yet with most being harbinger ( Or at least I dont think it has a name yet. I looked but it did not say. ) but I wanted somthing diffrent.
And Yes I have AceCombat 7 on both PS4 and Xbox one. What can I say, I love planes.
Now..WHO IS HYPED FOR REACH COMING TO MCC AND WHO IS READY FOR THE MCC TO COME TO PC AND STEAM! While I play councel, I am wanting to get a PC to play the MCC on just to check out the modders creations. The only games I played on PC back in the day was Battlefield 2 and 2142.
TO THE REVIEWS! ONWARD! TO THE SACRED ICON!
forthose8675309
Best one in this series so far. My advice try and hold off on the reveal. All the other ones do it to soon and it really effects the quality
I was planning on holding off the reveal till the battle of haven. Atleast when the others get to see who she is under the helmant.
Bowserjrrules
Wow, excellent story so far, I would like to see where this goes, anyway, great story keep up the good work
Why thank you.
Helljumper206
BAT METAL FOREVER!
*inhales* DEVOUR WORLDS THAT RIPE FOR TAKING! RISE UP FROM YOUR THOUSAND YEARS OF SLEEP! BREAK FORTH FROM YOUR GRAVE ETERNALY! I COMAND YOU TO RISE! RISE! RISE!
Guest 1
This is awesome! Please update soon!
Here you go.
RemasteredHype
I need this! It looks so cool!
Ummmm. Thanks?
pokeman1280
This is a good one. Looking forward to reading more.
Thanks dude and hope that it live up to the wait.
1740
this looks good mate hope to see a chapter soon
Well here you go. Thanks for the feed back mate.
Guest 2
Interesting, was that a reference to back to the future?
Yes. Yes it was.
jafr86
Great first chapter, looking forward to reading where you take this story.
Thanks and I hope you liked this chapter.
PaladinSans
I KNOW THIS IS OLD BUT PLEASE UPDATE
Well here it is.
TheFishKing
very interesting, Death Klok would become the new God's of the Covenant
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All I could see is chaos… and more bloodshed...that would be funny as hell though.
kokugatsu
Honestly I like your other story better. why I do enjoy a little bit of a dark story. This feels more like it belongs in a video game not a book. Where the other one feels more like slowly evolving adventure. where you learn things piece by piece. (but they're your stories so write what you feel is best) the coywolf will be waiting for the next chapter of either story. —Sincerely Kokugatsu—
Treats your own. I am not offended at all. Some storys that one puts up can be better than another. But the beauty is that art is in the eye of the beholder.
Guest 3
Where's chapter 2?
Right about here. * points to a random spot in the ocean*
Rebiele
So this is like Remnant of a rose story but with Halo? Interesting, hope this story will thrive well, I will be honest though, I don't think it would make sense to have Summer and Tai together, it's unrealistic to have a couple to get together just because they had a. History, and if Nat is a clone, correct me if I'm wrong, it would make no sense to have them together, so yeah, I wouldn't recommend putting any ships in here, a lot of us find it unenjoyable to read a big crossover story like this one, with ships. Other than that, keep up the good work.
Yes it is. When I was working on this way back when I contacted Ptabs and told that he inspired me to write this thanks to his storys before he put Iron Rose up for adoption. So to anyone else, go read his stuff and drop a like. I am not sure what all I can say but lets just say he is in a rough patch at the momen.
As to your second comment. I dont plan on really doing ships in this. Or at least not making it a big deal like that abomination ending of V6. You know what I am not even going to talk about it here. Happy thoughts. Any shipps would be secondary and natral. And while I do plan on eventully Tai meeting Nat/Summer, you would be right, Summer is a diffrent person now for the most part. So she might move in but one can tell its more out of rutine I gess is the best way of putting it. Once she gets her memorys back she will still love Ruby and to an extent Tai, but not as lovers. More like teammates. Hope I put any worrys at ease.
Badass154
I've figured out who six is, be more subtle
That is completly fine. I knew going in any sence of mystery would be weak at best. But the mystery is for the charters in the story not nessasarly us. But with respect, dont spoil it for those who might not have figgerd it out or just want to play ignerant.
So with that I am going to stop here. So my fellow Ace's, fly fast, check 6 and I will see you guys on the virtual battlefield.