Chapter 1

Mission Gone Wrong

I woke up to the sound of a loud alarm going off. I got up from my bed in the Storm Barracks in The Night Blades' clan Dojo. I quickly put on my Immortal skin Volt Warframe. It had the Eos attachments and the Storm helmet. I had the clan's symbol, a black Nikana on my right shoulder (like the rest of the clan) and the Emblem of the Hunt on the other. I had an Imperator Syndana and my suit's colors were red and black with red energy. I grabbed my Amprex, Angstrum, and Dragon Nikana; all of which followed the same color scheme. I ran out into the halls to find many of the other clan members dashing through the halls to the Clan Grandest Hall. I followed them into the center of the Dojo.

When I got there, our Warlord Excalibur stood in front of the screen on the wall, Lotus sitting patiently at the other end. Excalibur had a pure black Excalibur Prime Warframe with a black Imperator Syndana and only had a pure black Dragon Nikana, the signature weapon of The Night Blades. Soon, the entire clan of 50 Tenno stood before the screen, waiting for Lotus to speak.

"My fellow Tenno, Vey Hek has appeared again. He has been kidnapping your brothers. We do not know why, but we believe that this is the reason," Lotus put up a picture of several creatures that resembled earthlike ones, but were much larger and were all red and black with white masks. They had armor on them with Grineer design. My fellow clan mates started speaking amongst themselves. Lotus waited for them to stop.

"These creatures have abilities that mimic those of Zanuka from the Alad V crisis. I have chosen you, Night Blades, to find and destroy these abominations once and for all. I am sending coordinates now," Lotus then disappeared from the screen. We all waited for Excalibur to speak.

"I know you all must be anxious, Hek has proven to be a formidable enemy in the past. But we have defeated him before, so we will do it again!" Excalibur shouted. We all started cheering. When the cheering died down, he continued.

"Several of these creatures have appeared in the Ceres system. I will assign your squads to each of the locations of these monsters," Several squad names paired with coordinates were on the screen. My squad, Storm, was assigned to the Draco region of the Ceres system. I rushed back to the barracks to gather my squad.

When I arrived, Hydroid and Zephyr were already there waiting for me because I was squad leader. Hydroid had the Triton helmet with an Asa Syndana and was two dark hues of blue. He had an Attica, Pyrana, and Dragon Nikana. Zephyr was grey and dark green and had the Cierzo helmet. She had a Cernos and a Ballistica with the same melee as the entire clan. I acknowledged them with a nod and they nodded back. I began sharpening my blade.

"Where's Banshee?" Zephyr asked after a few minutes. I instantly stopped sharpening at the mention of her name. I will admit that I do have a minor crush on her, but I always push it away, afraid it will affect the clan.

"I have no idea," I replied.

"Funny, you don't usually lose track of her," Hydroid commented. Zephyr chuckled at that. I had told them so they wouldn't tell her. They teased me, but kept their mouths shut around her. Teasing was better than telling.

"Maybe you should use your fifth ability, track Banshee," Zephyr managed to say through her giggles. They both broke out into full on laughter. I glared at them through my helmet.

"What's all the laughing about?" A voice from the door said.

I looked at the door and there she was. She had the Reverb helmet and a Yamako Syndana with the Edo armor attachments. Her colors were black and yellow. She had a Paris and the Haikou throwing stars. I stood up and fully faced her.

"Oh, Zephyr just came up with a joke that only Hydroid found funny," I looked at the Tenno in question who was still stifling her laughter.

"What was it?" Banshee asked.

"I found it offensive, and you would too," I lied to her. We were only teenagers, and it seemed that the intensive training didn't suppress the immaturity of the two Tenno.

"Yeah I can see that," She said, putting her hand on her chin "so, when are we departing for the mission?"

"I guess-"I began before I was cut off.

"Storm Squad report to the hangar immediately, I repeat, Storm Squad report to the hangar immediately," Excalibur said over the intercom.

"Does that answer your question?" I asked, pointing at the speaker. We all got our weapons and ran to the hangar where Excalibur was waiting for us at our ship.

"Alright Storm Squad, this is a simple assassination mission, you took down a Zanuka so this should be no different. You are my best squad. Good luck, and don't die," He said to us before walking off. We looked at each other and entered our claustrophobic compartments.

-6 hours later, Grineer shipyard-

We arrived at the shipyard and the ship dropped us at an open area in the yard. I deployed my Helios sentinel, which had the Ictus attachments and matched me. Hydroid had a custom Carrier with Para skin and attachments. Zephyr had a Djinn with the mandible mask, chrysalis wings and thorax tail. Banshee had a Dethcube with the mech head, jet wings, and capsule tail.

We all started running with the minimap towards our objective. We hacked through the ranks of Grineer, slashing and shooting and stabbing. When we all stood outside the door to the room where the target was, a huge bear-like creature with cybernetic parts charged through the door. We all dodged and noticed that it had cannon similar to Sargus Ruk's on its shoulder. We all jumped around, dodging the bouts of flame and claw attacks, slashing at us but to no avail.

"Oh hello Tenno, pleasure to see you here. I see you found my new toy," Vey Hek taunted from a catwalk above us. We just continued on hacking at its exposed flesh, only to get blocked by heavy shields.

"Nothing's working!" I shouted, trying my best to hack through the armor.

"This is all so entertaining, but I must do my job," He pulled out a remote and pushed a button, causing several metal spheres came out of the bear's back, rolling like Seeker explosives. One swiftly attached to my chest, knocking me over. I tried to pull it off, but it stuck like glue.

"Bye-Bye Tenno scum," He said, pressing another button.

Suddenly, a bright flash came and my ears started to ring. I stumbled around, smacking into something. I rolled on the ground, holding my temples as if it would calm my sharp headache. I felt like I had just been teleported by a Grineer Commander while I simultaneously got hit on the head by a Jat Kittag.

When the pain subsided and my eyes and ears cleared up, I looked around. I was in a cavern, and it appeared to be a lot like a bear den. My teammates were rolling on the floor, holding their temples like I had been doing. We all appeared to be in nests.

'Okay, what's going on here?' I thought.

I shook that away, my squad needed me now. I went over to Banshee and pressed the button on the bottom of her helmet. The helmet dissolved away like a dead infested. Her long black and yellow hair cascaded down her back, also revealing her pale complexion. I thought she looked beautiful. Soon, she opened her amber eyes. She quickly realized that her helmet was missing.

"Why did you take off my helmet?" She demanded.

"The helmet is tight-fitting. It increased pressure on your head, so I took it off so it could clear up faster," I told her, but there was also the reason that I wanted to see her face again. She seemed pleased with my response. I removed my helmet and we waited for the other two to snap out of it. I had short black hair that had red tips with one red eye and one grey eye. We didn't talk to prevent them from feeling more pain. Soon after, Hydroid and Zephyr stood up.

"Oh, so you help her and not us?" Zephyr said angrily.

"Remember when you destroyed that cracked glass from the other room and almost killed me last mission?" I asked smugly, crossing my arms "revenge,"

The two grumbled, knowing it was the teasing too. They removed their helmets, leaving all of our faces exposed. Zephyr had grey hair with dark green splotches and grey eyes. Her face was in a constant smirk, reflecting her personality. Hydroid had blue hair that was light at his scalp, but got darker to the tip. He had deep blue eyes.

Footsteps from the front of the cave attracted our attention to the entrance. We all pulled out our primaries and aimed toward the sound. Soon four girls came into our peripheral vision. They all were dressed in one color, one red, one white, one black and one yellow.

"Identify yourselves!" I shouted at them, powering up my Amprex, causing electricity to crackle all over it.

"Umm, well… my name's Ruby," The red one said.

"I am Weiss Schnee, heiress to the-"The white one began arrogantly.

"Next," Hydroid shouted with a bored expression. Weiss glared at him. Zephyr stifled a laugh.

"Blake," The black one said, still holding her katana towards us.

"I'm Yang!" The yellow one said, surprisingly enthusiastic about her current situation.

"State your purpose," I ordered.

"Well, we were coming here on an average Grimm extermination but, obviously we can't do that," Ruby said, scratching her head.

"Stand down," I ordered my team. We lowered our weapons and walked up to them. There was a long silence.

"Well, this is awkward," Zephyr said bluntly. Everyone except me, Banshee and Blake laughed.

"Well, why are you here?" Blake asked us, ignoring the rest of the group.

"We were on an assassination mission in the Draco region of the Ceres system at a Grineer shipyard, fighting Councilor Vey Hek's augmented bear creature when he attached some devices to us that transported us to this cave," I explained. Blake stared at us.

"You have no idea what I just said, do you?" I asked her. She shook her head. I sighed.

"That means that we are in another star system," I said to no one. Banshee looked at me bewildered.

"How do you know?" She asked.

"Everyone in the Sol system knows Hek. Also, they have no affiliation with any faction," I gestured to the girls "everyone has a faction on the Sol system," I explained my logic.

"Then where are we?" She asked me.

We both looked at Blake, who was still the only one paying attention to our conversation. She looked at me, then Banshee.

"You are on Remnant," She told us. We looked at each other.

"You probably want to follow us, if you stay here you will get attacked by Grimm," She said to us. We nodded and I pulled out my Dragon Nikana. I grinded it against a rock, creating a painful noise that got the other group's attention.

"We're leaving," I said.

"Where are we going?" Hydroid asked.

"Beacon Academy," Blake said, taking the lead "it's a combat school where we learn to fight these Grimm on Remnant," We walked along until Ruby broke the silence.

"So, what are your names?"

"Volt."

"Banshee."

"Zephyr."

"Hydroid."

Long silence…

"What?" Ruby asked.

"What kind of names are those? Don't you have last names?" Weiss asked.

"What? Problem?" Zephyr asked.

"We were in cryopods for a thousand years, give us a break!" Hydroid threw his arms in the air.

"Then how did you get your names?" Yang asked.

"Our Warframes," I said.

"What?" Ruby asked. I used my Shock ability on a nearby tree, setting it on fire. They all looked on in shock, no pun intended.

"These suits aren't just for show, they do cool stuff too," Hydroid said, using Tempest Barrage on the tree to stop the fire.

"Hey, only you can prevent forest fires!" Zephyr said, causing the whole group to laugh.

"What about your weapons? Are they as cool as your suits?" Ruby asked.

"Ruby, you would ask about their weapons," Yang teased. Ruby pouted at her.

"Well, our melee weapons don't do much, they're just swords. Our guns and bows however, may interest you," I said, pulling out Amprex "This is Amprex," I fired it at a tree, frying it again.

"For Lotus' sake man, you're not Ember, cool it with the fires!" Hydroid scolded, putting it out again. Everyone laughed.

"And this is Angstrum," I said, pulling out my secondary. I charged it up and practically vaporized a tree.

"Well that's a bit better," Zephyr chuckled. Ruby was now drooling.

"Well I guess I'm next, well this is Paris," Banshee said, pulling out her bow and showing it off. We went down the line, showing off out weapons and their functions. Weiss and Blake were more pleased with the simple weapons like Paris and Cernos, Yang took a liking in Pyrana, and Ruby pretty much passed out each time a new weapon was drawn.

"I mean, we have the Dragon Nikanas as a symbol for our clan, but we have other melee weapons from before we joined the clan, and we always have them with us," I explained, pulling out my Reaper Prime. We then showed off our extra melee weapons. Banshee had a Glaive Prime, Zephyr had Ankyros Prime, and Hydroid had Nami Skyla.

"Wow guys, you are really interesting," Blake said, looking us over the eighth time.

"Maybe you could tell us a bit about where you come from," Weiss offered.

"Strap in for a long story," Zephyr sighed. We explained the Orokin Empire and its fall, the appearance of the Grineer and Corpus and their endless war, the Tenno's battle to protect the remaining Orokin artifacts, and the terror of the Stalkers. They then started explaining their world to us, about Dust, Grimm, and the role of hunters and huntresses.

"It seems that even though we are so very different, and that we come from totally different places, we are so very similar," Banshee inquired.

"Inspiring," Zephyr said sarcastically, causing everyone but Banshee to laugh. She just scowled at the air Tenno.

"Wait, what's that?" Zephyr asked, pointing at a spire poking out of the treeline.

"That is Beacon Academy," Weiss said as it came into full view. We all looked on, unimpressed.

"Am I supposed to be surprised or something?" Hydroid asked.

"Yeah, this is pretty crap," Zephyr said bluntly.

"Our clan Dojo is more than twice that size," Banshee put them down.

"One of our rooms is half of that," I emphasized the word 'one'. A mixture of surprised and envious faces looked on at us.

"Well suck it up, that's where we're going," Yang said, beginning to climb the steep road to the school.

"See you at the top!" Zephyr said with a two finger salute, using her Tailwind ability to fly straight to the top.

"Cya!" I said, using Speed several times in a row to run straight up the cliff. I saw Banshee fire a grappling arrow at the top, using it to zip straight up to me. I helped her up and we sat and waited for the others to reach us. We began discussing our thoughts about the current situation and our opinions of our new friends.

"Y-you *wheeze* guys s-suck," Hydroid coughed out.

"Suck it up, cupcake. We still have to get inside," I talked down to him. He looked like he died right there. We followed the girls through the various halls and courtyards to reach a rather simple door with an engraved golden plate above it that said 'Professor Ozpin'.

"You wait out here, we'll call you in when we need you," Ruby said, guiding the other girls inside. After about 30 seconds, Ruby called us in.

"Did you really need to keep us out there for a few seconds? Why not just call us it in the first place?" Zephyr asked Ruby. She just shrugged.

"*Ahem*" A man in green at a desk at the front caught my attention.

"Who might you be," He asked me calmly, sipping some coffee.

"My name is Volt, and I am leader of Storm Squad of the Night Blades clan," I identified myself "and this is Zephyr, Hydroid and Banshee," I pointed to the respective person.

"I am Professor Ozpin; I am the headmaster of this school. I invite you to attend Beacon because as Ms. Rose told me, you have no real home," He offered "but you must explain all of the information that you have supplied team RWBY here to me,"

"Zephyr, Hydroid, explain now," I ordered.

"What have we done to you?" Hydroid complained. I ignored him and walked on. As I walked past Zephyr, she whispered into my ear.

"You just want some alone time with Banshee," She snickered. I scowled at her. It was true, and if I couldn't connect to our Dojo, or even the clan in general, I could forget my worries about my feelings affecting the clan. When Banshee and I left the office, I got an idea.

"Banshee, do you have your clan key?" I asked.

"Yeah, why?" She pulled it out.

"I want to test something," I said, taking the key and activating it. It created a portal that lead to the Clan Hall. We went inside and took the key with us.

Inside the base was silent. We looked around the halls and found nothing. No one was there.

"Hello? Anyone here?" I shouted. No response. Everything was exactly the same. Same halls. Same rooms. Same everything. But no one was there. It was extremely creepy. There was only one logical explanation for this.

"Banshee, I hate to break it to you," I stopped and sighed. She looked at me "but we're in a different universe,"

DUN DUN DUN! I hope you guys like the new story, I had to take a break from Distant Echoes because I hit writer's block and lost interest, so this is the replacement. Anyways, review and tell me what you think of it, and tell me what to do. Necrorizah OUT!