Team Player
B turned away from the audience who had just finished discussing what happened in the first mission of Modern Warfare 2 and pressed the button on his seat, starting another mission.
"Stop it for a second." He immediately recognized this voice. It was Salem, "Before we begin, there is something I need to ask you."
B pressed the button again, pausing the mission, "What is it?"
"What exactly are you?" Salem asked, "We've been here for quite some time now and we don't know anything about you."
Watts placed his hand on his chin, nodding in agreement, "This question was actually on my mind as well."
"Mine as well." Ironwood nodded as well, having hard time believing that he agreed with Salem on something, as the rest of the audience turned to look at B. He could easily say that this question was on everyone's mind for a while now.
The masked man stared at Salem for a second, before answering, "I'm honestly suprised that none of you asked this question earlier. The answer is quite simple. I'm one of the watchers of the multiverse."
"Watchers of the Multiverse?" Ozpin asked, wanting to be sure if he didn't misheard.
"Yes." B nodded in confirmation, "There is over twenty of us. Each for each one of the letters of the alphabet. "We all had to abandon our real names to when we were all randomly chosen from our home planet Earth to become the next...."
"Wait! Are you trying to say that all kinds of people can become watcher of the multiverse?" Ruby cut him off, looking a bit horrified by this scenario, "Even the worst kind?"
"This is exactly what am I saying." B nodded in confirmation, "But don't worry, Ruby. Lucilly, the other watchers are all decent people, and there's nothing to worry about."
Ruby let out a relieved sigh and so did a few other people in the audience as her sister stated, "This must be an awesome and exciting job."
"And responsible one." Weiss added to which Winter and Goodwitch nodded in agreement.
"It can get tough at times, but sometimes it can get pretty boring for all of us. That is why we like to visit heroes from the universe that we like." B explained, "For example, right now, V should be doing something the cast of Goblin Slayer, Q should be partying with the mercenaries from Team Fortress 2, maybe she'll finally find out what happens in the last issue of the comic, for which fans, including myself are waiting for about three or four years now, and D should be doing something else as well."
"You and the others watchers can visit any universe you want, at any time?" Salem asked, looking actually curious about it.
"We surely can." B responded, knowing that Salem wasn't the best character to give this information to, but she wouldn't be able to do that much with it anyway.
"At any time? Even now?" Salem wanted to be sure.
"Yes." B answered with a nod of his head, "We even are inviting some people from the other universes to live with us. For example, A invited a few characters from NieR: Automata and, even formed a relationship with Popola, or I invited characters from my favourite cartoon when I visited their universe."
He turned away from the audience, and pressed the button, turning the next mission back on, "Now that, all of you received the answer to this question.Let's get back to Modern Warfare 2, shall we?"
Another mission started with the emblem of Atlesian Rangers spinning around for a few seconds before a familiar map of Remnant was shown to the audience.
"We are the most powerful military force in the history of Remnant." Ironwood's sounded on the screen.
Winter and Ironwood smiled proudly at this statemenent.
The camera moved across the map for a second or two before it started lowering itself down as Ironwood continued, "Every fight is our fight. Because what happens over here, matters over there. We don't get to sit one out."
The audience could spot a few vehicles riding along the road from the above a square appeared on the left side of the screen, giving them a better look at on the same vehicles.
"Learning to use the tools of modern warfare is the difference between the prospering of your people, and utter destruction." Ironwood proceeded to speak.
The camera lowered itself down at the vehicles, giving the audience a pretty good view at the vehicle which was simply called "M104 Wolverine. Heavy Assault Bridge."
Ruby titled her head to the side, "Heavy Assault Bridge? I wonder what does it do."
The leader of team RWBY quickly got her answer. The vehicle stopped in front of a abyss which was preventing the other vehicles from moving forward. The thing on top of the vehicle moved forward and layed itself over the abyss, creating a small bridge, allowing a tank to drive forward.
"You have your answer." Weiss looked at Ruby who let out an "Oh."
"It was quite obvious, though." Ren stated.
"We can't give you freedom. But we can give you the know how to acquire it. And that, my friends, is worth more than a whole army base of steel." Ironwood's voice continued to ring through the audience's ears.
The camera went a bit upwards just seconds before all kinds of guns started appearing on the screen, giving the audience a small presentation of them, starting with a M4A1 assault rifle, with a grenade launcher attachment and then going to SCAR-H assault rifle, which just like the previous gun had an attechment to it, but this time it was a Masterkey Shotgun.
It was followed by General Ironwood continuing his speech, "Sure it matters who's got the bigger stick, but it matters a helluva lot more who's swinging it."
Pyrrha nodded her head to that, "It's true."
"Imagine if Jaune was using Ruby's scythe against a Grimm. I doubt that the effect would be the same." Yang agreed with Pyrrha before turning to look at the leader of team JNPR, "No offense, Jaune."
"None Taken." Jaune shrugged, knowing that there was no need to argue because she was right.
"This is the time for heroes. A time for legend." Ironwood said as the camera located Coco's Adel's current position, which was followed by the General's picture appearing on the screen, "History is written by the victors. Let's get to work."
It was the last thing that General Ironwood said, before the camera lowered itself down on Coco's current position and only a few seconds later, she was shown sitting on a passenger seat in a Humvee which was heading towards a damaged bridge near the town where the battle was taking place.
It was when completely out of the sudden, an RPG rocket went flying from the other side of the river and it unfortunely hit Coco's Humvee who managed to jump out of the vehicle in the last second.
"Talk about starting a mission with a bang." Neptune stated.
Sun nodded in agreement, "We're going straight into the action."
Coco's vision was blurry when she opened her eyes. The first thing that she saw was General Ironwood glancing at the battlefield ahead of him while reloading his Magnum. He turned his gaze down and saw Coco staring up at him.
"Get up, Private Adel!" He shouted to Coco as he grabbed her hand and brought her back on her feet, "Rangers lead the way! Move!"
He pushed Coco forward a bit, causing her to join the fight.
"He could have at least check if she didn't substained any injures when her vehicle exploded." Velvet stated, a bit worried for her team leader.
"I doubt that there was need for that, Velvet." Coco assured her teammate, "I did jumped out of that vehicle when the rocket hit it."
Coco took a good look around her surroundings before taking a cover behind a destroyed car. She could spot an M104 Wolverine, attempting to lay a bridge which would allow the Rangers to get into the city while the Atlesian soldiers protected it from RPGs. A M1A2 Abrams tank was assisting them as it fired at the enemies on the other side of the river.
There was one more thing that caught the audience's attention and it was a Ranger which was right next to her. He didn't seem to care about the fact that he was in the middle of a gunfight as he was eating a freshly opened chocolate bar.
Goodwitch narrowed her eyes and crossed her arms, "Is this soldier eating a chocolate bar in the middle of a gunfight?"
"Talk about a great timing for a snack." Yang chuckled along with Ruby, Nora, Jaune, Sun, and Neptune.
"My kind of guy." Qrow stated.
Summer placed her hand on her chin as a memory flew through her head, "It reminds of the time one when I was on the mission with Qrow and he started drinking his liquor while we were facing off a pack of Grimm."
Winter turned to look at Qrow and shook her head, "I was excepting nothing else from you."
"Screw you, Ice Queen. Don't you remember what our masked fella said about a wise man from his world?" Qrow asked her, "I can have a drink, but I just need to get up in the morning."
Winter exhaled deeply, clearly annoyed by Qrow's response, as he smirked at her reaction. He was going to use this excuse a lot from now on.
"Hunter 2! Keep up the pressure on those RPG teams! If that bridgelayer gets hit, we're swimming, hooah?" Ren declared as he turned to look at Coco who was not too far from him, "Adel! Switch to the M203! Drop some rounds on 'em across the river!"
"Renny is already here." Nora remarked, seeing that her longtime friend was already present in this mission, "But where am I?"
Coco nodded her head as she switched to her grenande launcher attachment. She came out of her cover, and fired a single grenade at her enemies when an unknown voice spoke up, "Warlord, Warlord. This is Hunter Two-One. Requesting airstrike on grid 252171. Target is a white twelve-story apartment building. Over."
Coco loaded another grenade into her grenade launcher before firing it at her enemies, once again as Warlord responded to the call from Hunter Two-One, "Hunter Two-One, this is Warlord. Solid copy. Uh, I have uh, Devil One-One, flight of two F-15s online. Standby for relay."
"Hunter Two-One, this is Devil One-One, flight of two F-15s." Devil One-One spoke up, "Time on station, 1-5 mike, holding at three Sierra northwest, holding area Knife, carrying two JDAMs and two HARMs, over. Standing by."
It was when some enemies appeared on the bridge and started firing at the bridgelayer in an attempt to stop it, which would stop the Rangers from getting on the other side of the river.
Ren quickly noticed that, and immediately knew what to do, "On the bridge, 10 o' clock high! Multiple targets, take 'em out!"
Coco quickly followed her order and looked up to see enemies firing at the bridelayer. She switched from her grenade launcher attachment back to her M4A1 and aimed her it at her enemies and opened fire, intending to stop them from doing anything to the bridgelayer.
"Devil One-One. Target is a white twelve-story apartment building at grid 252171." Hunter Two-One declared as Coco proceeded to take care of her enemies on the bridge, "I need you to level that building. How copy, over?"
Most of the enemies on the bridge were already taken care of at this point and those who remained turned back and started retreating as the bridgelayer started laying down a bridge.
"Solid copy, Hunter Two-One. Rolling in now. Target acquired." Devil One-One explained.
"They're retreating!" Ren shouted as Coco turned her gaze back where it was before her enemies appeared on the bridge, "Keep hitting 'em!"
She reloaded her M4A1 and her enemies turned around, away from them and started fleeing into the city as Coco and her fellow Rangers continued to fire at them, managing to kill a few of them but a good portion of them managed to flee into the city as the bridgelayer was done with laying down a bridge at this point.
"Hunter 2! Bridge complete, we're Oscar Mike!" Ren declared, as he moved out of his cover, "Move out!"
"Oscar Mike?" Fox asked, as he never heard of it, "What does that mean?"
"I don't know." Winter answered, "Never heard of it before."
"It means "On the Move'." B explained, earning nods from the people who were curious what it meant.
"We're movin' out!" Nora declared as Coco started moving towards a wooden staircase which was leading to the bridge.
"And there's me!" Nora said, looking forward to see herself in action.
Coco made her way up the wooden staircase, joining the other Rangers on the bridge. The Rangers surrounding her were either staring at the city ahead of them or getting themselves into the Humvee. She quickly walked over to the closest Humvee and got herself into it. She grabbed a M134 Mini Gun turret and stared at the city in front of her, just like the other Rangers.
Coco smirked, looking forward to see this version of her use a gun like hers, "Now I'll show everyone how to use it."
"Which building is it, sir?" One of the Rangers asked his fellow Ranger, recording the city with his cellphone.
He didn't had to wait long for the answer, "It's that tall one at one o'clock.."
"Hey." Someone called out to them from the other side of the bridge, "Which building?"
"The one at one o'clock! The ta..." One Ranger was about to answer this question but he paused, "Hey, Dave, which building is it, is it the one on the left or the right?"
"The one on the left." Dave laughed as he pointed at the building on the left.
"Hey, isn't this danger close for the task force?" The other Ranger asked.
Nora shrugged, "C'mon, since when does Ironwood care about danger close?"
"I think we should make a mental note of that." Raven whispered to Vernal
"Why?" Vernal asked her.
"Just in case if this version of Ironwood pulls off something like that in the future." Raven explained.
Vernal nodded in agreement, "Good point."
A F-15 flied right above the Rangers and the building which was it's target, firing a missile on it. The building exploded as the Rangers let out loud cheers of excitement as the smoke started to blind their vision a bit, but none of them cared about that because the smoke started to disappear shorty after.
"They sound so excited." Tai and Summer chuckled at how the Rangers were excited by this explosion.
"Awesome!" Nora cheered, sounding just as excited as the Rangers were.
"I see now why Nora is one of them." Pyrrha whispered to Jaune and Ren who nodded in agreement.
"Such a destructive weapon." Ironwood said in awe, thinking how useful this weapon would be against a huge horde of Grimm.
"All right, we're Oscar Mike!" Nora shouted as the Rangers behind the wheels of the Humvees started up their vehicles.
"Oh look! The building's going down!" One of the Rangers said as remains of the building were slowly collapsing on the ground as the Humvee's started making their way through the bridge.
"The network's gonna pay big for this one!" The other Ranger stated, sounding quite excited about it.
Some other Ranger chuckled, "Keep dreaming, Spielberg."
"Spielberg?" Miltia exchanged a confused look with her sister who shrugged.
"A well known movie director from my world." B explained, "He is responsible for many classic movies like E.T or Jaws."
The two Rangers continued to talk with each other, but Coco didn't heard anything they said to each other, because her Humvee already made it's way across the bridge and rode into the city.
"Hunter 2, breakin' away." Hunter Two-One declared as Coco observed the buildings surrounding her as the small building which was ahead of her collapsed down, causing the smoke to engulf the entire area around it.
"Copy Hunter 2." Ozpin responded in understanding as the smoke began to blind Coco's view of the streets.
"All Hunter 2 victors, keep an eye out for civvies, we're not cleared to engage unless they fire first." Ren explained, "Scan the rooftops for hostiles. Stay frosty."
"You see anything?" A Ranger driving Coco's Humvee asked as the leader of team CFVY did her best to scan her surroundings, as she slowly started to regain her normal vision.
"I got nothin' dude." Nora answered, "This place is dead."
"She is going to jinx them, isn't she?" Emerald whispered to Mercury.
Her partner nodded in agreement, "Yup."
"Just how long it will take for these guys to attack them?" Emerald asked him to which Mercury shrugged.
"Overlord, Hunter 2-1. We're passing tunnel Harvey, cross street Elizabeth." Ren called out to Ozpin.
He didn't had to wait long for Ozpin to respond, "Roger that Hunter 2-1, proceed with caution."
"Alright, stay frosty you guys, this is the Wild West." Nora reminded her fellow Rangers as the Humvee drove into a road between the very poor-looking buildings. Coco could spot one civilian running away from them in panic, before taking a shelter in one of those buildings, "Watch those alleys."
"Covering." A Ranger answered as the Humvees approached a building with three completely unarmed members of the people that the Rangers were facing just a moment ago.
"Three-foot-mobiles, balcony 12 'o clock. Probable militia.." Hunter 2-3 exclaimed as Coco looked up at the unarmed militia members who were simply glancing down at the Humvees passing right by them.
"Are they armed?" Ren asked Hunter 2-3.
"Negative, they're just watching us." Hunter 2-3 explained.
"I bet they're scouting us." Nora assumed.
"Eh, but that don't mean we can shoot 'em." A Ranger pointed out.
"Trust your instincts, Nora." Blake said.
"I have a bad feeling about this." Pyrrha said, "These guys can ambush them at any moment."
"Me too." Sun agreed with her, "It is just like you said. They're just asking themselves to be ambushed.
The militiamen continued to eye the Rangers as they drove past them, driving further into the town. They turned into another street, only to be greeted by the sniper bullets ricocheting off the Humvee in front of Coco's .
"And... it happened." Neo remarked.
Coco started to look around herself and the other Humvees, trying to spot the sniper as Ren declared, "All Hunter victors, this is Sergeant Ren. Prepare to engage, we're taking sniper fire from multiple directions."
"Prepare to engage! We're goin' in!" Nora shouted as the Humvees turned into another street and stopped in front of a building which seemed to be some sort of school.
"This is it! Spin 'em up!" A Ranger cried out as Coco started firing her minigun at her enemies who were standing on the roof ot the school in front of her, taking down as many enemies as she could, without receiving much damage from them.
Everything changed when an RPG rocket went flying through one of the windows and hit the Humvee in front of her, causing it to explode, and the explosion killed every Ranger that was inside of it. Coco's vision became blurry for a second as her Humvee was stopped from driving further because of it as the destroyed one was blocking it's path.
"There's too many of 'em! Back up!" Nora shouted as the Humvee started backing down, "Back up!"
Coco's Humvee along with the other Humvee drove into another street and started driving away from the school. The two vehicles started making their way through the city, with the people using the miniguns at this moment taking care of as many enemies as they could right now.
Unfortunely Coco's Humvee was separated from the other one a white car stopped in front of it, preventing it from driving any further.
"Why are they not doing anything?" Ilia asked.
"Push through the car blocking your path!" Roman shouted, "I doubt that they will mind!"
Coco made sure to take out everyone who was in that car before turning her attention to the militiamen on the buildings, firing the minigun as if her life depended on it, because it did.
"We're cut off!" Nora stated.
"Push through!" Ren ordered.
The driver did exactly as he was told to and drove right into the now empty white car, pushing it out of their way. The Humvee started driving again, but it unfortunely never had a chance to reach the other one as an RPG rocket went flying from the roof, hitting it.
Coco jumped out of the Humvee in the last second, landing on the ground as the Humvee exploded right after. Fortunely for her, she wasn't the only survivor. Ren, Nora and the other two Rangers survived the explosion as well and made their way into the closest building. Coco quickly got herself back on her feet and entered the building as well.
"Coco has a very bad luck when it comes to getting hit with the rockets in this mission." Yatsuhashi stated, earning nods from agreement from some of the people in the audience.
"Yeah." Coco nodded, agreeing with what her teammate just said about her and rockets.
"Get off the street! Is everyone alright?" Ren asked his fellow Rangers, earning nods of confirmation from them in response.
"They're movin' around upstairs!" Nora stated as Coco reloaded her M4A1, making sure that she was going to have the full magazine in case if she will have to face any of her enemies.
"Get the hell away from those windows and secure the top floor! Move!" Ren ordered as everyone started heading towards a staircase which was leading to another floor, "Move! Get a flashbang in there!"
Coco nodded as she threw flashbang grenade there, hearing how her enemies started cursing when it exploded. She was the first one to make her way up there and she was greeted by the view of three blinded militiamen. She got rid of them rather quickly as Ren, Nora, and the other two Rangers joined her on the top floor.
They started moving further into the building, taking out anyone who happened to be standing on their way, which wasn't much. There were only two more militiamen on this floor before they reached the exit from this building. The first thing she saw when she stepped through it was the same school where she and her fellow Rangers were ambushed at a few moments ago.
"They crashed this close to this place?" Sky asked, confused.
"I doubt that they were paying to that when they were choosing which way to go." Neptune pointed out.
Scarlet nodded in agreement, "Yeah. They were most likely worried about the fact that these guys were shooting at them from each side."
"Hunter 2-1 to Hunter 2-3. I have eyes on the school, over!" Ren called out to Hunter 2-3, "Squad on me let's go!"
Hunter's 2-3 response came very quickly, "2-1, we are combat ineffective up here! We're taking heavy fire from the school, can you assist, over?"
"Keep it together, 2-3! We're on the way!" Ren answered, making his way towards the school with the others, "2-1 out!"
They quickly took care of the three militiamen that were standing in front of the entrace to the school before they entered the building, only to be greeted by the sight of two more militiamen running down the stairs. They didn't even had a chance to do anything as Coco, Nora, Ren and the other two Rangers took them out without any problem.
"Hunter 2-3, Hunter 2-1, we're in the school. Heavy resistance." Ren callled out to Hunter 2-3.
"Copy that Hunter 2-1." Hunter 2-3 quickly answered.
Ren and the two Rangers started making their way to the stairs which were leading to another floor of the school as Coco and Nora went together into the of the classromms, checking if there were any enemies there, and it was good that they did, because there were two enemies waiting for them there.
Nora and Coco shared a look with each other as they took care of these two men, before joining Ren and the other two on the hallway, meaning that the first floor was cleared out.
"Keep moving! We need to take the heat off Hunter 2-3!" Ren reminded his fellow Rangers as they made their way to the second floor.
They entered the second floor and the first thing that Coco did was taking care of the two militiamen that were shooting from the windows, without either of them noticing her presence before it was too late. She made her way through the hallway and turned to the right, seeing a few more militiamen shooting from the windows, without even spotting her.
"They really didn't notice that their friends were just killed by Coco?" Weiss asked.
Blake shrugged, "Apparently not."
"Good for me, Renny and Coco, then." Nora stated, earning nods of agreement from his friends.
Coco didn't waste any second and got rid of these men, with Hunter's 2-3 words ringing through her ears right after, "Hunter 2-1, this is Hunter 2-3, thanks for the assist! We're leaving on Hunter Three's humvee, over!"
Ren nodded his head to that as he walked past the bodies along with Coco and the two Rangers, "Roger that 2-3."
"Yeah, I'm cutting through history class now." Nora exclaimed as she was checking if the classroom next to them was empty, which luckilly for them was.
She joined her fellow Rangers on the hallway as she proceeded to make their way through the school. They didn't came across many more enemies as they were making their way through the hallways. There were only three more militamen left in the school, and they didn't cause any trouble for them and it was just a matter of seconds before they joined their dead friends on the floor.
"Hunter 2-1 Actual to Overlord." Ren called out to Ozpin as they existed the school and ran into the streets.
"Hunter 2-1 Actual this is Overlord, send traffic." Ozpin instantly responded to Ren's call.
"The school is secure and hostiles are withdrawing from the area. We're just moppin' up now." Ren explained.
"Solid copy Hunter 2-1 Actual, proceed with caution to the rally point." Ozpin said to Ren in response, "EPWs may still be alive. Over."
"Roger that Overlord, thanks for the tip. Out." Ren nodded his head, as he and his squad continued to make their way through the streets, "Squad, watch for enemy stragglers! Let's get to that rally point!"
They ran into the street on their right and quickly spotted a few militiamen running out of the alley. They didn't spot them and Ren's squad used this opportunity to take them out. It was only a matter of several seconds before the militiamen laid on the ground, dead, as Ren and his squad made their way past them, and walked into another alley which was leading to the rally point.
An enemy with a pistol appeared in their view, but they didn't even had to take care of him, because someone else already did that for them. They walked through the alley, passing by two Rangers who were the ones that took this militiamen out, making their way to the rally point where Ironwood was waiting for them with the other Rangers.
"Get the wounded to the shock trauma unit! Use my helicopter!" He said to one Ranger, before turning his attention to Ren's squad. He set his gaze on Coco, before speaking up to her and her fellow Rangers, "Ladies and gentlemen, good work on taking the town. Private Adel, you'll be taking orders from me from now on. I'll brief you on the chopper. Let's go."
It was the last thing that happened in the mission as the screen went to black shorty after.
"Coco will be taking orders from Ironwood from now on?" Blake was the first one to speak up after the mission ended, "I think I know where this is going."
"I knew that I was going to be the one chosen for this operation." Coco smirked.
Fox shrugged, "Otherwise they wouldn't make you the new main character."
"I still wonder about what this operation will be about." Yatsuhashi wondered, placing his hand on his chin.
"Maybe it will introduce us to this new villain that B told us was going to be much worse than Sienna and Cinder." Sun theorised.
Yatsuhashi nodded, "Maybe."
"I wonder when I am going to appear." Ruby stated, "Along with Yang, and Pyrrha if these two Rangers were really talking about her."
"Soon, Ruby. You'll see yourself very soon." B said, pressing the button, causing another mission to start.
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