Kingdom of Atlas, location unknown, time unknown

General Ironwood stared thoughtfully at the strange golden tower his men managed to unearth.

As his bullhead pulled in for a landing on the entrance that was discovered, he thought how peculiar it was to find such extravagant but rather preserved remains of another ruined civilization.

As humanity spread across remnant in its' younger years, cultures and civilizations of all shapes and sizes began sprouting up.

Until the Grimm that is.

When the Grimm came along they destroyed all that humanity had sought to create, slaughtering human and faunus kind alike, ending many newly created kingdoms and countries who were not prepared for the onslaught of Grimm, this in turn created many ruins of lost kingdoms of the past, a reminder of what was lost and could never be recovered.

Now most if not all of these ruins were dated to pre-Great War usually a thousand or so years prior however some even went further back and as such were not as technologically advanced as today.

The ruins that his troops have stumbled upon however managed to take this precedent and prove it completely wrong.

At first when Ironwood started getting reports in from his men of "Ancient ruined ornate golden structures with an unknown energy source" he like all people would've not believed the report.

Until he had gotten a live stream of the interior of the structures his men had found… and the host of advanced technologies within.

Nonetheless, Ironwood decided it would've been a good idea to investigate the golden ruins himself. As such, he organized a company of his troops and a myriad of Atlesian researchers in order to retrieve anything he could from the ruins that could give a hint to the civilization that left this behind.

"Sir.", Specialist Schnee saluted as General Ironwood passed, giving her a slight nod of acknowledgement to her as he passed.

"What's the status of base camp Specialist?"

"We've managed to set up a camp of operations close to the ruins, about 3 kilometers out. We've also sent in a reconnaissance element of 2 squads to scout out the entrance and the first parts of the interior about an hour before your arrival. We should be hearing back from them soon, sir."

"Excellent, let's get to the command center and wait for the live feed of the recon team then."

"Of course, sir"

Together then, the general and his specialist made their way through their snow covered base camp. Atlesian soldiers still milling about setting up equipment for the researchers and defenses against possible Grimm incursions.

"Live feed incoming from our reconnaissance patrol inside the structure within the minute General.", an Atlesian technician reported as the screen inside the hastily made command center lit up.

"Good, let's see what our recon has rewarded us with", Ironwood replied as he leaned forward in anticipation and curiosity of what laid within the ruins they've unearthed.

"5...4...3...2...1...Live feed incoming now", the tech reported

Gasps of awe and amazement filled the command center as the first video images of the ruins filled the screen.

"Whoever inhabited these ruins, certainly knew how to flaunt their wealth", an Atlesian historian researcher noted as the everyone viewed ornate halls of white and gold coloration.

The soldiers had just entered the structure themselves began to move forward through the massive halls after receiving the command. Every new room they entered followed the exact same color scheme and texture of lots of white and gold colorations alongside the addition of some strange glowing white trees that were often on display within the rooms.

Suddenly the feed from the cameras attached to the soldiers within the structures cut out surprising everyone watching.

"Status report, what just happened?!", a technician asked as the rest of them worked furiously with their instruments to restore the video link to the soldiers within the ruins.

"I don't know the feed just cut out"

"Must be interference from something within the ruins", another tech hypothesized.

"Wait, wait, wait, video and sound feeds coming back in.", the same tech stated as the screen once again lit up.

However instead of gasps of awe like the first time, gasps and shrieks of horror echoed within the room as the video feed returned the view of the atlesian soldiers opening fire on each other.

Blood splattering across the white and gold finish of the walls as atlesian rifles tore through the armored soldiers that wielded them.

Standing above the fallen soldiers was something they never expected to see.

Atlesian soldiers had cut down their own was the realization that echoed through the people that viewed the feed as they saw what should've been the members of the recon team finishing off their team and squadmates.

However, instead of the normal black and silver color scheme that was regulation for atlesian infantry, these soldiers were pure white with gold accents similar to the structure that they were in, with a strange golden circular device that appeared to be implanted onto their face with a golden light coming from the center of the implant.

And just as suddenly as before, the feed cut out once more, leaving people to speculate what they saw.

"What the hell was that!?", somebody exclaimed.

And chaos ensued within the room.

Beacon Academy, Emerald forest, 3 a.m. Valean standard time

The security guard looked up from his Dust station portable to take a glance at the monitors that displayed the entirety of the emerald forest to him, satisfied that nothing had changed he quickly brought his attention once more to his DSP to past the time.

Little did he know, that the moment that he glanced away, a small stingray shaped airship appeared suddenly hovering above the forest and deposited a lone figure into the depths of the dense greenery and trees below.

The figure moved quickly through the trees and surrounding vegetation using superhuman agility and speed unknown to all but the most experienced huntsman to traverse the forest as quickly as it could until it finally passed the edge of the forest to gaze upon the cliffs that Beacon Academy was situated on top of.

"Ordis, drop my archwing on my location."

I'm back at least for now it seems.