Project ORION (a RWBY fanfic)

Chapter 16

The night air was cool to Stalker as he quickly moved around the landing pad and as he approached two Elysium Knights standing before a dropship, he noted that neither were human and that both were genuine robots.

At least I wont have a guilty conscience. Thought Stalker as he walked up behind them and grew claws as he jabbed his hands knife-style into the robots necks, severing the main AI cores from the body and both dropped in a heap as Stalker slid them under the dropship to hide their bodies.

He approached a mech as he looked it over and he wish he could just get in it and pilot it around, destroying everything in sight. But doing so would make this stealth useless and as he moved on, two human guards suddenly went past and he went invisible as one of the guards said, "Have you heard about the new operation the General is planning? I hear its a huge undertaking."

An operation? What is Ironwood up to now? Stalker watched the two soldiers slowly walk along and as he looked around, he decided to head away to see if he could find out more about this operation.

Even if that meant he would have to infiltrate the largest airship Ironwood had in his airfleet.

Alexandria was currently done with Ruby's scythe and as she put it aside, she looked back at Stalker's scythe. It was amazing what she had found but now was the most critical part of the whole thing, how she was going to make it better. She looked around her workspace when she looked back at his 10mm shells that he used and then picked something up next to them. She picked up and looked over the Gauss coils as she suddenly got an idea.

The next day....

Ruby slowly yawned in her bed as she stretched and as she looked around, she noticed something with what looked like a bow on it. She slowly slid from her bed as she went to the desk and picked up her folded scythe. She gave it a look over and then unfolded it as she smiled to see that it was still good as new. She looked around but she noted that Stalker's scythe wasn't anywhere to be found, which was troubling because today was the arena matches and he was probably going to be challenged by someone.

Mainly her because she felt like she needed to have at least one real go at him.

But when she looked around, she saw that he was surprisingly still asleep and still snoring softly away and she slowly put down and folded Crescent Rose as she took up the note and read it to herself.

Dear Ruby,

Your scythe was fully operational and had no problem. Its awesome to meet you in real life. Tell Stalker his scythe is almost ready. I'm just polishing it up.

Sincerely, Alexandria.

Ruby smiled but she hoped sincerely that Alexandria would be done before the matches happened because as much as she knew that Stalker was good with his claws, he needed his Hunter scythe in battle just like every other Hunter and Huntress.

She looked over at the boy and watched as Yang woke up and as her sister stretched, she said to Ruby, "Morning. Did Stalker go off again?"