(SLOW UPDATES) The Best of Atlas (Male Reader x Rwby Harem)

S2 Ch.10: We're Not Lost...

(Y/N)'s pov

My lungs burnt at I layed face down in the sand, waves crashing a few feet away from me as the tide began to go back down, my allies breathed heavy around me. Our clothes soaked, supplies ruined, and bodies already tired from the hour long swim to shore. I wish I could've slept right then and there; but as I saw the sky turn orange with the rising sun I knew we had to find cover before some patrol spots us.

(Y/N): "Grab your gear... we'll lay low behind those trees." I spoke in quick gasps of air between raggedy breaths. 

Struggling to my feet, I grabbed by duffel bag, and began dragging both it, and myself, further inland. Looking back I could see the girls doing the same thing. 

As I reached a spot far enough into the trees to hide I dropped my duffel bag and sat down. Obviously things haven't gone to plan but we're here now so it's time to figure shit out. I opened up my bag and started pulling out my gear. Fortunately, we expected to swim so I had already put all of my important gear, food, and medical supplies into waterproof plastic bags before hand. 

Unfortunately, the same fighter that shot us down sent a few dust rounds straight through the center of my bag. My weapons were fine but more than half my food and meds weren't. 

(Y/N): "Everyone check your gear. This is a setback but the plan remains the same." Once I had salvaged everything I could, and loaded my weapons, I made my way over to Cinder. "Any idea where we are?" I asked as I crouched next to her. 

She smacked her tablet in frustration as no matter how many times she pressed the power button the screen stayed dark. Taking a closer look revealed that the saltwater had gotten inside and fried it's circuits. 

Cinder: "GPS is fucked and since we never got picked up we have no idea where we are on the coast." The situation wasn't completely FUBAR as Cinder pulled out some old maps of Menagerie. "Our last known position was here... and we swam north-east to get here... so... I'd say we're somewhere around... here." She made a circle motion that encompassed a few miles of the coast line. 

(Y/N): "Well at least we have a rough area." She folded the map angrily as she continued to try to get the tablet to work. 

Cinder: "It's not much better, we're still VERY lost." 

(Y/N): "We're not lost, Cinder, we're in Menagerie." 

I heard her give a light-hearted laugh at my joke before I walked away to check on the other girls. It seemed to be much of the same for them, supplies ruined in the panic to get out of the bullhead, but they were all VERY professional about it. 

Saber: "Son of a bitch. Can you believe it (Y/N)?" She whined while holding up a messy clump of mushed paper. "All our FUCKING toilet paper." She threw the clump into the ground with a wet, splat. 

Tifa: "At least you have a change of clothes, bastards put a hole straight through every shirt I packed." She lifted up her phone to show screen cracked so bad you could see the internals. "Not to mention what happened to my phone." Her attention turned to Raphtalia. "You lose anything trash panda?" Saber gave a death stare on her friends behalf for that insult. 

Raphtalia: "Umm... my book got wet." Everyone looked at her. 

Tifa: "Your... book?"

Raphtalia: "Yeah." 

(Y/N): "That's it?" 

Saber: "Nothing else?" 

Raphtalia: "My bag didn't get shot and everything important was already packed away." I don't know if it was luck or some kinda divine intervention, but I wasn't about to complain. "Food, water, ammo, and some basic camping supplies." She held up a lighter and flicked it on, proving it still worked.