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Hello again, this is tkdboy2000, with another chapter of Red vs Blue X RWBY: Division. God... I really need to get an actual upload schedule. How long has it been? Six months? Seven?

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Yes, I'm well aware, Iota. Here's hoping people haven't lost interest by now. I don't think they have, but still.

I'm sorry for the highly sparse uploads. I'm not the best at writing, and I tend to have trouble keeping people in character. I'm not killing the fic. Just don't expect many updates from me

Division

A Red vs Blue X RWBY story

Chapter 4: Contact: M, T, RNJR

Ruby Rose was having an... okay day. While the weather had been nice for the past few weeks, they haven't had anything to do save for the fairly common encounter with Beowolves. Whenever they arrived in a village, the first thing they did was offer to take down Grimm in exchange for Dust. They haven't gotten much, but every little bit helped. But this village has a local Huntsman, and didn't need any help, so they were turned down this time. They did mention a fireball, but for some reason, they weren't too concerned, and told RNJR not to worry about it, either. A few hours later, they were attacked by a couple of Beringels. Everyone came out of it fine, although Jaune got punched in the groin. But they still came out of it okay! It wouldn't keep her spirits down!

"Ruby..."

She was vaguely aware of Jaune to her right, but she was too absorbed in her own thoughts to respond to him. She had to try to keep everyone's spirits up, even if they lost the map again. And hey, they still had plenty of ammo. There was no way they wouldn't make it to Mistral!

"Ruby."

Nope, no way at all! Nothing was going to discourage her! Even if Weiss went back to Atlas... and Blake ran off... and her sister is in bed with a critical injury that she could have prevented-

THUD.

"RUBY!"

It took Ruby three seconds to realize she was face down in the dirt. She groans and gets back up, then looks down to see that she somehow tripped over a tree branch. "Where did that come from?" She asks herself, when she notices something.

"Hey guys?" Jaune asks. Seems like he noticed it too. "Why is the top of the tree singed?"

"It's not the only one..." Ren states as he looks in the direction the fallen tree was pointing. There was an entire line of burned and downed trees scarring the entire forest.

"Woah, what kinda Grimm did this? Let's fight it! I'll go break it's legs, then Ren-" Nora started, before she was cut off.

"It probably wasn't Grimm," Ren states, "Grimm can't use Dust, and Grimm with weapons are fairly rare, so it's most likely that either humans or Faunuses caused this."

"What a waste of perfectly good Fire Dust," Jaune tries to jokingly remark. The others just stare at him.

"Not the time, Jaune. Sorry," Ruby states.

"Whatever! Let's just follow the trail! We might find something helpful!" Nora shouts.

"O-or something dangerous!" Jaune counters. Too late. Nora was already running off.

After a few minutes of running after Nora, they started hearing something. It sounded like metal hitting metal. They managed to catch up to Nora and pull her behind a tree when they saw what looked like some sort of highly advanced ship. There were to people standing next to it, wearing Atlas-like armor. One of them was wearing maroon armor, the other was wearing teal, aquamarine, or some similar shade of greenish-blue. The maroon one was holding a strange purple weapon, and the teal guy holding what looked like a rifle, while he had something that looked very... odd strapped to his left thigh. He seemed to be repeatedly smacking something inside the ship with the butt of said rifle.

"Atlas specialists?" Ruby pondered.

"But I thought Atlas withdrew all of their troops..." Jaune muttered under his breath.

"Hello there!" Nora shouts as she walks out from their cover.

"NORA!" All three shout as they run out from their cover in an attempt to stop Nora. Too late. The teal and maroon guy had already seen them, and had drawn their weapons. The maroon guy shook his pistol-looking thing, and a bunch of needles started jutting out of it. The teal guy had pulled the... thing... off of his thigh, revealing it to be... woahwoahwoahwaitisthatafreakingenergyswordnononogetagripRubytheseguysseemhostileandtoolate-

"OH MY GOD!" Ruby shouted, her eyes sparkling a little. "Is that an energy sword!?"
"Huh?" The teal guy said aloud, lowering his sword a little. "I mean... yeah. Pretty cool, right?"
"TUCKER!" The maroon guy shouted at the teal guy, Tucker.
"Fuck! I mean, don't move! Back off!" Tucker shouted as he raised his sword again.
"Those orders don't make sense! Do you want them to not move, or back off!?"
"I want them to back off!"

Ruby proceeded to take a few steps back. "Wait, don't shoot! Or slash! Or... whatever that needle thing does. We're not here to hurt you!"
Nora proceeded to groan. "You mean I can't break their legs!?"
"Not unless they make the first move." Ren bluntly stated.

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The two soldiers reluctantly lower their weapons.
"Any sudden moves, and I cut you in half," Tucker says. The maroon guy proceeds to turn to face Tucker and starts bobbing his head up and down. It sounds like he was talking, but it was pretty muffled. Maybe there was some sort of private communication channel they were using. Tucker proceeded to do the same thing. After a few minutes of this, they turned back to face RNJR.

"Okay, since you already know Tucker's name, I-I might as well tell you mine. I'm Simmons."
"My name's Ruby Rose!" Ruby introduced herself. Sarge would definitely try to recruit this one into Red Team... Simmons thought.
"Lie Ren."
Nora popped up between Tucker and Simmons, startling both of them. "NORA!" She shouted.
"J-Jau-"
Before Jaune could finish introducing himself, Tucker and Simmons had drawn their weapons and aimed them at him.
"Felix!"
"How the hell are you here, you son of a bitch!?"
"W-w-wait! Whoever you think I am, I'm not!" Jaune shouts, waving his arms.
The two eventually snapped out of their rage, and slowly lowered their weapons. "Sorry," Tucker says, "You just sound like someone we really hate."
"W-well, I'll try to stay off your bad side, then. Jaune Arc. Short, sweet, rolls off the tongue. Ladies love it," Jaune introduces himself. Nora just shakes her head a little.
"I think you need to work on your material," Tucker says nonchalantly. Jaune slumps a little.
"He's not the only one that needs to," Simmons muttered under his breath.

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"Okay, well, that takes care of introductions," Jaune states. "Now, how did you two get here?"
Tucker doesn't answer as he proceeds to turn around and starts smacking something in the ship again. Simmons, meanwhile, starts trying to find a way to tell the teens what happened without letting them know that they came from space. He just starts thinking about what really happened, and making it believable...

Two days ago...

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-"

Tucker and Simmons had not stopped shouting since the radios in their escape pod went offline. Since no one could hear them, they were free to act terrified.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-"

The burning escape pod proceeds to crash through a couple dozen trees as it began its crash landing. They hit something that looked like a large bird on the way down, although they couldn't really see from where they were sitting. It was through some miracle that the pod wasn't completely and utterly destroyed during the crash, although they lost the heat shield at some point. Thankfully, the built-in thermal regulators in the armors were preventing the local wildlife from getting baked soldiers for dinner. They hit a clearing, and the pod hit the ground hard and started rolling, bouncing off of rocks and knocking over trees like a bowling ball. The pod eventually slowed to a stop and started cooling off.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

They finally stopped screaming when they realized they had landed, and proceeded to crawl out of their escape pod. "Oh thank God," Simmons shouts, "we're alive!"
"Yeah, but we have no team, and very little in terms of rations!" Tucker shouts, a bit hoarse after all of the screaming.
"But we're alive! Just be grateful for what we have! Even if we don't have much, seeing that most of the rations were incinerated on reentry..."
"Man you sound like Donut!"
"Shut up! I'm gonna go make a fire!" Simmons walks off after that. Tucker just stands there, before turning around and starting to attempt to fix the ship's radio.

Simmons did manage to make the fire (In actuality, he just put out the other fires caused by the escape pod, and used a smoldering branch to make a new one), and went out hunting. He came back about an hour later with a few rabbits to cook and eat.

A few of the townsfolk came by and asked what was going on. The townsfolk asked if they were Atlas specialists. The two soldiers just rolled with it and said yes. What they weren't expecting was the entire town being sympathetic towards them and giving them various things to pass time, such as history books and extra food, and some strange glowing crystals. They saw some people with strange animal features, but didn't question it yet. Different planet, different species. At least the natives were fairly well along in their development, albeit a bit ancient.

Simmons, being the intellectual of the duo, was the one who actually read the books. They were on a planet called Remnant, the crystals were Dust, and there were creatures called Grimm that roamed the planet, drawn to negativity, and there was a second species of people on the planet called Faunus, who were discriminated against. Tucker took the Faunus part entirely serious, listened to every word, and felt sympathetic for the Faunus. At least, until he read about the White Fang. While he still feels sympathy for the Faunuses, he feels nothing but contempt for the White Fang. He called it "the Second Civil War."

Dust was used to combat the Grimm. "We crash-landed and Tucker started complaining. Loudly. I'm frankly amazed that we didn't run into these things." Simmons stated. He was kinda unnerved by the Grimm. Tucker, meanwhile, didn't care; If they survived the Meta and a war against, as he put it, "the shittiest fucking corporation in existence," they can survive just about anything.

What was really alarming to them was that Remnant didn't seem to be on any of the star maps the ship used when they crashed here. Or at least, if it was, it was under a very different name. There were several planets that had several moons after all.
"Maybe it's just an unexplored planet. Like, it was discovered, but not explored because of the human-esque natives." Simmons pondered aloud. "Good thing we happened to develop two of the same languages as them." He noticed that some of the texts were written in Japanese. Maybe Lopez could read them.
If we find Lopez... Simmons thought to himself.

"Something happened on our ship and we had to abandon it. Fortunately, most of us were able to get into escape pods." Simmons states. Hey, it wasn't the whole truth, but at least it wasn't a flat-out lie.

"Wait, that's just the escape pod!?" Ruby shouts, surprised that something that looks so advanced is merely the escape pod for a larger vessel.
"I'm more concerned with what happened to the ship the pod came from." Ren says.
"Yeah, what did happen to your ship? Did you guys blow it up!? That must have been awesome!" Nora says.
Tucker drops the wrench he was using.

Simmons just stays silent.

Two days ago...

Simmons heads into a room, and sees a giant-ass computer.
"That must be the navigation system. Looks like everything's up to date. Better not touch anything. I don't this ship to end up like the last one."
Simmons starts to walk away... before tripping over a cable, pulling it out of the computer. The sudden force caused by the cable getting pulled on somehow knocks over the entire computer, and also causes several cords to become disconnected from the back of it. "Oh shit!" Simmons shouts as he turns around and starts plugging random cables into random ports. "Whew, that was close..." Simmons says. He then looks down to see a cable labelled "Do Not Unplug. Main Power."

"Whoops..."

The alarm starts blaring.

"Well... we're not entirely sure ourselves... A-all we know is that the ship tried to power down, change course, and fire its main cannon at the same time something in the vehicle bay exploded, but that's about it..." Simmons says, his voice cracking slightly. He still wasn't entirely over his nervousness issues when talking to girls. He left out "slipspace" because he didn't want to give away the fact that he and Tucker were spacemen.
Tucker went back to punching something in the ship.
"Uh, Tucker?" Ruby started, "What are you doing?"
"Trying to fix the radio, that's what!" Tucker shouted as he continued smacking the radio with the butt of his rifle.
"By repeatedly banging on it?"
"It worked last time!"
"...He's not wrong," Simmons stated blandly.

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"Well," Ruby started, "If you're doing alright, then we should get going."
"Going where?" Simmons asked.
"Haven Academy! We're going to continue our training!" Nora shouts.
"We're going with you." Tucker says, dropping his wrench again. "The Creatures of Grimm are dangerous. You'll need someone to-"
"Oh, no, we can handle the Grimm," Ruby states.
"We-wait, really?" Tucker asks, bewildered.
"Yep! That's what the Academy trains us for!" Nora says.
"Oh. Well, we're going with you anyways! Better than being cooped up here!"
"But Tucker, we still need to find the rest of the teams!" Simmons shouts at Tucker.
"Come on, Simmons. We killed the Meta. You know, the Scariest Fffff-" Tucker cuts himself off as he looks at Ruby. "-fffreaking Mute in the Galaxy, and waged a war against a corporation. I'm sure they're alive!"
"But still-"
"Besides, I can't seem to fix the radio. Even though I'm doing what I did last time."
"Okay, yeah I guess that's fair."

The two start packing up their rations and get ready to get going. The teens heard Tucker say something about "the Scariest Freaking Mute in the Galaxy," but they assumed he was just being metaphorical.
"You're still going with us?" Jaune asks.
"Hey, anywhere is better than this junky escape pod. I'm just gonna go return these books to the townspeople, then we'll be on our way." Simmons states as he walks off. He uses his short-range helmet radio to contact Tucker.

"I'm hearing a surprising lack of 'Bow Chicka Wow Wow's from you. You're in the presence of two girls. Why aren't you doing that anymore?" Simmons asks.
"Because one looks underage and the other one's taken," Tucker states, after making sure the teens couldn't hear him. He was currently looking at Nora, who seemed to be staring in the general direction of Ren. "I don't mess with jailbait, and the taken girl looks like she doesn't accept substitutes."
"Oh. Well, that's surprising. Normally those things don't stop you."
"When have I ever-"
"The girl that told you she was 19."
"That was just the one time, and she made the first move! I learned my lesson!" Tucker cuts off his mic and radio after saying that, just so he could have the last word.
"Tucker? Tucker!? Don't just mute me, damn it!"

A crow was sitting on a branch, watching RNJR's progress. It was flying along when it saw the Atlas specialists. The crow dove behind a tree, and a black fog enveloped it, before transforming into the ragged Qrow Branwen. He overheard the entire conversation, including the part where the specialists would be accompanying the teens.

"Well, that's a relief. They have more protection. Shame it's from Atlas, but right now..." Qrow stares down at his waist, where Professor Ozpin's retractable cane was hanging from his belt. "... beggars can't be choosers. Especially with Vale gone."

He turns back into a crow and flies off, before bumping into... a ball of light? "Ow! Watch where you're going, stupid bird!" The orb says with a female voice, too young to be the Salem's, before said orb flies off and ducks behind a nearby tree, tailing the maroon soldier. "Thank God... this side journey oughta delay the pizza quest for a long time." Qrow heard the orb mutter to itself.

Pizza quest? Qrow thought to himself as he sat on his branch, watching the aquamarine soldier.

I feel like this chapter was absolute shit. Like I said, I have a lot of trouble keeping characters in... well, character. For some reason, I have more trouble with RWBY's characters compared to RvB.

And hey, look, there's Huggins! Told you the Shisno Paradox would still be canon!

"Shisno what-now? And who the fuck if Huggins?"

"Isn't Shisno a derogatory term for human?"

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"Correct, Omega."

Oh, right, you all weren't there. You wouldn't know.

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Calm down, Eta, you'll be fine.

Anyways, copyright shit.
Red vs Blue and RWBY belongs to Rooster Teeth.

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