10 Days after GATE

Vale City

Kingdom of Vale

Remnant

Ruby Rose was always a quiet girl, whether at home or in public. Ever since her mother disappeared, she was like this. Whatever happiness she had she put into making cookies, killing low threat Grimm, and maintaining her sniper-scythe; Crescent Rose. She had brilliant silver eyes, midnight hair with red tips. Ruby had a pale complexion. She wore a red cape and a black corset that had red skirt trimmings.

Ruby's partner was Weiss Schnee. She had White-grayish hair and sky blue eyes with a pale complexion. She wore a white dress and silver tiara. Weiss was almost always cold to other people, except to her own teammates. Ruby's teammate Blake belladonna was a cat Faunus. She has black hair and amber eyes; she also wore a black and white blouse. Blake was quiet like Ruby and loved books. Blake's partner was Yang Xiao Long, who is also Ruby's cousin. Yang has lilac eyes and bright blond hair; she also wore brown shorts and a brown shirt with a yellow undershirt. Yang was exceptionally beautiful and loved puns. All of them together formed team RWBY.

Team RWBY was sent out to investigate the something in Vale City. Vale City had fallen several years ago and the Kingdom's capital had shifted to the large town of Patch. The city was a broken wreck of its former self, infested with Grimm. Team RWBY walked through the lower commercial district. This was a stealth mission.

"This used to be such a great city," Yang said solemnly. "I remember when this block was bustling with people"

"I know," Weiss said. The Schnee Dust Company owned a few shops on this street. That was years ago before the Grimm Invasion.

"Cut the chatter, girls," Ruby piped in. "Contact eleven o' clock"

"Copy," the other three girls said at the same time. A pack of Beowulfs roamed down the street, approximately twenty meters away. They were promptly ignored. The situation in vale city was a getting worse by the minute, but not for much longer. About two hours later of sneaking around, climbing, and running they arrived at Vale City Park. Almost everything was the same. Trees everywhere, broken benches and lamp posts littered the place. The same old cracked sidewalk, all except for a giant ancient gate-like structure in the middle of the grassy field, in the middle of the park. The structure sat measuring at the height of forty meters and with the length of forty five meters, and the width of thirty meters; with a seemingly endless tunnel of darkness.

"What the hell is that?" Yang exclaimed, confused by the gate.

"Drones from command spotted this gate nine hours before our deployment. Command wanted us to secure it, so a science team can study it. It supposedly appeared out of nowhere," Ruby explained. "Anyone want to go in?"

"Sigh … I guess'" Weiss said.

"Sure, but we need to be careful," Blake said, with caution.

"Beats being bored," Yang said, being bored.

Team RWBY walked toward the gate. The Red Rose looked behind her as she entered the long dark tunnel. They walked for ten minutes before they got completely shrouded in darkness. They stopped for moment and brought out there flashlights, and they continued walking through the dark and mysterious tunnel. It was pure midnight in the tunnel, but then they saw a small white dot at the end of the tunnel. It was daylight. They had almost been walking for a full hour.

When team RWBY had exited the Gate's tunnel, they were terrified of what they saw. Surrounding the Gate in a defensive half circle was multiple concrete bunkers and trenches with several strange soldiers with strange rifles filling them. Behind the defensive emplacements were strange sloped tracked vehicles with strange cannons on top of them. In the distance team ruby saw skyscrapers higher than anything in Atlas City. The soldiers in the trenches spotted them and pointed their weapons at them. A soldier on one of the sloped tracked vehicles stood up and shouted,

"THIS IS THE UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS, PUT YOUR WEAPONS DOWN AND GET ON THE GROUND!"

Team RWBY saw that they were outnumbered and surrendered. Ruby didn't want fight these people, since she noticed that there was a decaying black Grimm corpse. The United States must have been attacked by the Grimm not long ago. In the distance three large tan trucks drive towards team RWBY.

"Hello, my name is Ruby Rose, what's yours?" Ruby asked.

"Second Lieutenant Emerson," the lead soldier, Emerson, Said. "I am going to ask this once, did you send those creatures?"

"No, we have to fight the Grimm," Blake said. The soldiers seem to relax at that, though most of the soldiers were still stiff. The Tan trucks came to a stop, and a man in a blue suit that had multiple awards on it. He must be a highly decorated officer. Behind the officer multiple soldiers with strange armor walked out of the other trucks.

"Attention!" a soldier yelled. Every soldier stood at attention at the arrival of a high ranking officer.

"At ease," the officer said. "You'll have to come with us."

11 Days after GATE

UN Headqaurters

New York City

United States of America

Earth

"Welcome to earth, team RWBY," said Robert Kneller, the general of the Marine Corps. "Our boys were a little antsy after the fight with the 'Grimm'. I hope you understand that girls."

"We total understand sir, we had our own orders to investigate the Gate," Yang said.

"Well, then there is one other issue to attend to."

"Well what is that, General," Weiss asked. The general turned to the only scythe user in the group and smiled a little. The man had rarely smiled ever to anyone.

"Miss Rose it is to my assumption that you have relations with Summer Rose, is that correct?" the general asked.

"Y-yes sir," the Red Rose answered, slight confused and suspicious at the general's question. "How do know about my mother?"

"You girls and the Grimm are not the first ones to enter our world; your mother was. Summer appear on September eleventh, 2001, this was one of America's darkest days. On that day she saved hundreds in the span of ten minutes before the twin towers collapsed, on that day and I will never forget it. In fact Miss Rose, your mother is on her way from Okinawa Air Base, Japan; it will be about a two day trip."

"My mother is still alive!"

"Yes"