Blood Red Shadows
Chapter 17: Act I, Chapter 16: ...Ye Who Enter Here (RWBY Chapters start here!)
Previous Chapter Next ChapterAlex, Vanoss, and the others went through that forest
None were sure what to do. Alex was still trying to recover from their previous attack. Despite everything, Alex still felt as though this was all his fault.
"Stay low, everybody." Vanoss said, quoting his one of his previous videos.
"This is creepy as shit..." Delirious sounded pretty scared.
"It's just a forest, there's nothing in here that can hurt us, well, maybe, but we can just shoot it." Alex sighed. Alex was always slightly disappointed in the crew. Here they were, in another alternate universe, and they were acting like children.
A low growl sounded from somewhere beyond the forest.
"What the hell was that!?" Lui asked, pointing a rifle in every direction.
"Quit messing around, Delirious." Alex chided.
"That scared me, oh god!" He said.
More growling.
"This isn't funny, guys. Cut it out." Wildcat said.
"Where the hell is that coming from?" Alex asked nobody in particular.
Just then, giant, wolf-like creatures with what looked like bone sticking out stalked out of the bushes.
"What the hell is that thing?!" Vanoss screamed as everyone started shooting.
"Oh, my god!" Alex screamed.
"IT'S TIME FOR ARNOLD TO SAVE THE DAY!!! YAAAAAAAUGH!!!!!!!" Terroriser cried out, pulling out a machine gun and charging at the creatures.
-Meanwhile-
"Uuuugh, this is sooo boring!" Ruby groaned. Ozpin had sent Team RWBY out to investigate increased Grimm activity in the Emerald Forest. Sure, it was nice thinking back to initiation, but pretty much nothing went on in these patrols. What's worse is that to cover the vast amount of ground, the team had to split up.
"Ruby, I know this sucks, a lot, but this is our job. It can't always be fun and games!" Weiss scolded.
"Why not?" She wimpered.
Someone was calling from the data pad, possibly her teammate Blake or her half-sister, Yang.
She assumed correctly. The small screen lit up a picture of her and her sister, with the words 'Yang Xiao Long' scrolled underneath.
Ruby swiped her finger to the right, to answer the call.
"Hey, Yang, what's up?" Ruby asked.
"Hey, Ruby, listen, do you hear anything?" Yang asked, it was a pretty odd question, even for her, in spite of being Huntresses-in-training.
Ruby listened closely. Accompanied by gunshots and growling, she heard this.
"AAAAAAH! WE'RE GONNA DIIIIIE!!!!!"
"Delirious, keep them off me!"
"What the hell are these things?!"
"Daithi, cover me!!"
"I'M TOO FAT!!!"
"A group of people being attacked by Grimm?" Ruby asked.
"Yeah! We have to hurry!" Yang said before hanging up.
Alex was having a difficult time fighting these things. They were fast, powerful, bloodthirsty animals. And they were completely outnumbered, to make matters worse.
Their weaponry only succeeded in killing one or two of them, so everyone had to constantly kick or shove or shoot them to keep them far enough away.
They had few core advantages, Alex was wearing armor, and the others could just respawn, as they often did.
But the fight was tiring, more so than invading Twilight's castle....
...If it were on fire...
... And if there were 3 Sigmas...
...Who were also on fire.
Basically, this sucked, no pun intended.
One of the monsters lashed it's claws at Alex, sending him skidding back. Pulling out the .44 Scratch, he blew the bastard's brains out.
The others were getting swamped by these things, he couldn't let that happen!
Alex charged at the monsters, pulling out a knife and stabbing them repeatedly, to little effect.
The monsters merely shoved him off, with one snapping at his visor.
Alex reached for the .44 Scratch, which was just beyond his reach. Looking back at the monster, it scraped his visor something fierce, even breaking it a little.
Alex punched the thing in the face, sending it reeling back, giving Alex enough time to grab the gun and kill the damn thing.
He looked back at the others, the monsters were snapping at them, and all they could do was shoot them to death. Alex covered them with his revolver. Blowing the overgrown rats to smithereens.
More charged at them, how many were there?! Alex braced himself for this onslaught, raising his revolver, he pointed it at the nearest one and...
A large fireball blew the thing up in front of him, others froze into blocks of ice, or got slashed by what he assumed was a flickering shadow, or get shot with some very powerful weapon.
Appalled by what transpired in front of him, Alex looked behind him, seeing other monsters dying in the same fashion.
"Friendlies! Friendlies!" Alex screamed to his team, they may try something stupid, which was very common. He couldn't start off with a bad reputation here, just because his team fought against...whoever helped them.
"What the hell just happened, everyone okay?" Alex checked on his team.
A few resounding yells told them they were fine.
"Who the hell was that?!" Vanoss asked, looking around.
"Hold your fire, they helped us kill these things. Maybe they're trying to help." Lui said.
"God knows why." Alex muttered. To the best of his knowledge, they were fugitives, criminals, hell, he would even go as far as 'terrorist'.
"Hello?" He heard someone say, it sounded like a girl, roughly Alex's age, if he were to guess.
"Hey! Over here!" Alex waved frantically to nowhere in particular, if someone was actually here, he was damn thankful.
"Yo!!! Come over here!!!" Wildcat yelled.
Four girls walked out of the bushes nearby. All holding various weapons. Obviously their saviors.
"Hey." Alex waved awkwardly.
"Hello, sir!" The blonde one waved back, rather excitedly.
"Who are these guys?" The white one seemed rather suspicious.
"Well, it would seem best to introduce ourselves, we have no idea who these men are." The black haired one said. He agreed with that statement, it would be best to be acquainted with these girls, who knows, they may be the only ones.
"Of course, I'm Alex. Alex Walker." He introduced.
"I'm Vanoss, and this is Delirious, Lui, Mini, Daithi..." Vanoss pointed to each one in succession.
"Hi." Delirious said, in the way that reminded Alex of that one spongebob episode... Ah, childhood. It was long gone now.
"Well, hello Alex and Vanoss, and...ah...others, I'm Ruby." The red one said.
"I'm Weiss."
"Blake."
"...Are you sure those are your actual names?" Yellow asked.
A quick nudge from Blake straightened her out.
"Oh, I'm Yang."
"It's been nice meeting you, but...well, we have no idea where we are." Alex said.
"Yeah, come to think of it, none of us have ever seen them before." Weiss commented.
"That's because we ain't from here!" Vanoss interrupted.
"What do you mean?" Blake asked.
"It's a long story...that I only like telling a few times a week...and only tell in at least 1000 word segments." Alex said.
"Well, that's different." Yang notices.
"It's still long as hell, and I would just love to tell you about, but..."
"...you aren't from Vale at all, are you?" Ruby asks.
"No. Not at all." Mini said.
"Then, where, Atlas? Minstral?" Blake asked.
"No." Moo said.
"Outside the kingdoms, maybe?" Weiss asked.
"Not even from anywhere on your map." Alex said.
"How about this, you come with us, we'll talk to Professor Ozpin, and we'll sort this out." Blake said.
"Oh, crap, are we under arrest!?" Alex groaned, pissed that he would have to deal with this kinda crap already.
"No. You said you're not from around here, right?" Yang asks.
"Yeah. Well, they did." Alex pointed to them. They sold him out!
"Well, we just want to know why you're wandering around the Emerald Forest." Weiss told them.
"Fine." Alex groaned, holding out his arms, expecting to be handcuffed. The girls looked at him with a gaze that just said 'Seriously, dude?'
"Just...follow us. We know how to get out of here." Blake said.
"Come on, guys." Alex told the crew.
The group of about 15 walked through the forest, frequently checking their corners and raising their weapons at every sound.
Another growl. This time, much lower.
"What the fu- what the hell?!" Vanoss asked.
"At least I've got my adult diaper." Nogla whispered, much to everyone's disgust.
"Jesus Christ, Nogla." Basically sighed, he, like the others, were pretty much done with this kind of thing.
That growl again... Where was it coming from?
A large bear-like creature burst out of the forest!
"Weapons free!" Alex ordered. Vanoss and the others got to work shooting the thing, only for the bullets to have no effect on it whatsoever.
Alex pulled out the .44 Scratch, cocked the hammer, aimed down the sights, and blasted it back, sending it flying into a nearby tree, knocking it over.
The girls also attacked the creature. Alex found this was a good time to study their fighting styles, in case they were to turn on him.
Ruby shot her scythe-gun at the ground, leaping in that same instant, she slashed at the Monster's gut, it held the wound in, but didn't stop it's relentless attack.
Weiss stood in what Alex assumed was a fencing stance, aiming specifically for the gut, the cylinder on her weapon spun until it reached a red projectile, she lunged out at it, causing a good sized explosion, but it still kept going.
Alex charged at the monster, punching it with his armored fist, pulled out his revolver again, and blew the monster's guts out.
More gunfire! Alex turned behind him to see Vanoss and the others struggling to bring down another one of those monsters.
Blake wrapped her weapon in what he assumed was a black ribbon, throwing it at the monster, and using it as an anchor to pull herself to the monster, slashing at it until she leaped off.
Yang's gauntlets seemed to rotate, and she went in punching it, her weapons blowing chunks off said monster.
Vanoss and his crew noticed the weak spots on the beast, and concentrated their fire until the thing fell over and died.
"We have to move! Where's the exit!?" Alex asked.
"We're close enough. Follow me!" Ruby said, running to an enclave.
"You heard the girl, move!" Alex ordered, they all followed Ruby into that enclave into what appeared to be a steep cliff, they could climb it, but it would be difficult.
"This way! The cliff isn't as steep over here!" Yang yelled. Firing both gauntlets and propelling her upwards.
"Well, that's hardly fair, come on, guys!" Alex told the crew.
In the arduous process of climbing up the cliff, Vanoss started singing.
"Going up the cliff! Going up the cliff! Goinupthecliff! Goinupthecliff!"
"Evan!!" Nogla screamed indignantly.
"Going up the cliff! Lemme hear you say 'cliff'!" Vanoss sang again.
"Shut up, Vanoss!" Wildcat groaned.
"Stop referencing your old videos!" Delirious yelled.
Well, that 45 seconds of hell was over. And everyone made it up to the top pretty safely, Vanoss and his crew only died a collective 18 times, a new record!
Ruby and the others directed Alex and the others to an airship nearby.
"Miss Rose! I didn't expect to see you already." A man wearing a long jacket seemed almost delighted at the sight of the young girl.
"Professor Ozpin? What are you doing here?" Ruby asked.
"A pilot flying over The Emerald Forest saw these men fall out of some sort of portal. I personally wanted to meet them." Ozpin said.
"How did you know?" Alex asked.
"We have cameras all over that forest, plus a surveillance airship flying around there at all times. My condolences for the loss of your friend, Mr. Walker."
"So you heard that, huh?" Alex sighed.
"No need to be concerned. I also noticed your compatriots' unique ability to appear back in the world after death."
"He saw my special alone time!!!" Delirious seemed pissed. He had asked to use the bathroom a while ago. Ew.
"Unfortunately, yes." Ozpin groaned.
"How many special times do you have, Delirious?" Moo asked, laughing a little.
"24, but that isn't the point!!" Delirious answered.
"I don't even want to ask." Weiss groaned.
"Good. Because... WILL YOU QUIT THROWING ROCKS AT ME?!?!!" Delirious yelled at Vanoss, who was in fact throwing rocks at him.
"I would, but it's too damn funny." Vanoss laughed.
"Gentlemen," Ozpin interrupted, "Considering the fact that you suddenly appeared in our world is too serious to just leave it be. We will take the airship back to Beacon Academy, and discuss this further."
"You heard the man, get on the plane." Alex told them.
Alex, Vanoss, and the others had to split up because the planes could only hold eight passengers at a time, not including the pilot.
One of such airships consisted of Alex, Vanoss, Delirious, Ruby, Weiss, Blake, Yang, and Ozpin. The others got their own airship that would arrive shortly.
Alex himself stepped onto the plane, getting into one of the seats between Vanoss and Ruby.
"So, where exactly are you from?" Ozpin asked from across the seats.
"Originally, a place called Earth was my first home, I escaped and went to another place called Equestria, and that only lasted about a month, more or less." Alex told him.
Well, Alex surrendered, where ever he would go, questions would ensue.
-Meanwhile-
Twilight and the other former element bearers had another conference to discuss on how to handle this attack.
"I don't get it. When Alex and I fought, all he said was that he didn't have any choice. And that Rainbow would've been happy to answer." Twilight said.
"How the hay would Rainbow know?" Applejack asked her.
"Why would Rainbow have anything to do with that ruffian?" Rarity asked.
Rainbow herself started to look a little sick.
"Come on, Rainbow, we are friends, aren't we?" Pinkie beamed in her usual manner, in stunning contrast to Rainbow's composure.
"Okay... Winchester was right about Alex attacking this 'Area 51' place." Rainbow sighed
The former elements had a collective gasp.
"But not about Bohemian Grove."
"Whatever do you mean?" Fluttershy asked.
"A-Alex didn't have anything to do with Bohemian grove, but one of his neighbors called, they said he looked similar to one of the men who did it, they arrested him...killed his parents...destroyed his home... And the guy who turned him in got 50,000 dollars." Rainbow reluctantly began.
Twilight and the others looked appalled.
"Winchester tortured him for weeks, trying to get information that he didn't have. They knew he had nothing to do with it and they still tortured him! After about a month...Winchester was about to kill him. But the guys who did it saved him. And he was forced into helping them." Rainbow Dash continued, her voice shaking.
"Alex found out that they were going to use this 'Die Glocke' thing to conquer the world. But Alex found out, used it, and destroyed it before they could even use it."
Twilight was stunned. Winchester was the evil invader?
"Some of the fault had to have been Alex's. he killed four people!" She insisted
"Winchester followed him to Equestria. Winchester wanted to finish what he started. Alex attacked Canterlot to find something to clear his name, and when he saw that wasn't going to work, he escaped again! Winchester chased him out of Equestria, and WE HELPED!!!" Rainbow yelled, guilt ridden.
"Princess." A voice sounded at the doorway. Twilight's personal Inquisitor friend to find Alex after he attacked Canterlot.
"Sigma! Alex is actually innocent!" Twilight said.
"Nobody is inherently innocent, Princess. Alex killed a total of 147 good soldiers, and yet you have the nerve to call this man innocent." Sigma explained.
"You're still going after him?" Rainbow asked.
"Him, his friends, everyone." Sigma elaborated.
"His friends?" Rarity asked.
"Yes. I already killed one. The others are sure to fall once I discover where he is hiding."
"What?!"
"Winchester's old comrade, good soldier, shame her loyalties laid with...someone else."
"What happens now?" Rainbow asked.
"I have my ways. Walker committed a heinous crime. I won't stop until he has paid the ultimate price." Sigma smiled, as if the idea delighted her.
"No! I forbid you!" Twilight ordered.
"By the way, I quit." Sigma walked out. Leaving Twilight and the others guilt-ridden and scared.
"Winchester, it would seem as though Twilight and the six musketeers know everything. What now?"
"Get the White Fang together, it's time for Plan B." Winchester said.
"My pleasure." Sigma said.
Next Chapter: Act I, Chapter 17: Beacon Of Hope Estimated time remaining: 10 Hours, 34 MinutesAuthor's Notes:
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