Project ORION (a RWBY fanfic)

Chapter 20

As the dropship slowly descended to the landing pad just outside of Beacon Academy, Ruby could almost immediately tell something had happened here.

"What are they doing here?" asked Weiss as they all watched the patrol of Outlander men march right by just as the other teams of Beacon touched down and begin to offload form their dropships

Ruby and her friends got off and as they jogged away, their was a group of Outlanders nearby and she recognized Chieftain Ragnok amongst them and the man looked at them as he saw them and he jogged over as he said, "You four, Great Chieftain Stalker needs to see you in the infirmary."

Ruby looked at her friends as they quickly ran away to get to the infirmary.

The nurse was just finishing up the last bit of bandages when Team RWBY came in and as Ruby looked at Stalker, his chestplate was off and he had bandages down his chest, a thinner line of red being seen along the bandages. He looked at them as Yang asked, "What happened?"

"A Faunus by the name of Adam Taurus came looking for something here... Kicked his butt but he still got away... any of you know him?" asked Stalker.

"Adam? I knew him from my previous time with the White Fang. Why? Did he do that to you?" asked Blake.

"Yeah... course, I shredded him up pretty badly, so he's probably dead by now." Stalker said as the Nurse soon walked out of the room as she left them alone.

"So... the attack on the city was just a diversion?" asked Ruby.

"I think Adam was working on a long-run objective of either killing or capturing the professors. I think they wanted to both take Vale and the professors if possible but I denied him with good, old-fashion Hit-and-run tactics." Stalker said.

Ruby and her friends sat around Stalker as he then got up and put on his new chest plate and as Ruby looked at it, she realized not only was his armor new and slightly improved but it also had sigils that seemed to be burning on the surface.

"What are those symbols?" asked Ruby.

"I don't know actually what they are made of but they are symbols of Outlander clans." Stalker said to her. "I have to admit to myself, though.. it looks cool."

"And Outlandish!" Yang said with a grin.

Everyone looked at her as Stalker face-palmed before he asked the others, "Does she always do this?"

"I'm afraid so." said Ruby.

Stalker looked over at Yang as she stayed grinning and then he said, "If you excuse me, I need to talk with my friends I invited over."

And with that, he quickly stepped out of the room as the room was quiet.

"I think you scared him off with your bad jokes." Muttered Ruby to her sister.

"Well, can you blame me?" asked Yang.

Stalker walked along as he went through his head about the many clans of the Outlanders. Each clan wasn't really a clan, controlling a outpost or anything, but instead were the last names of almost every Outlander, based off the original lines that left the cities many years ago. He looked down as he began to remember what each symbol, based off of animal or something else memorable, meant: Phoenix, Skull, Deer, Mech, Tank, Bear, Wolf, Eagle, and many more. There was only one symbol on each piece of his armor, showing how many clans were still left but as he looked down on the second one on his chest plate next to the symbol of Clan Phoenix, he smiled slightly at the symbol of a dragon.

For he was Stalker Dragon, the last remaining of Dragon Clan.

He saw Chieftain Ragnok conferring with some other Outlanders and Stalker walked over as Ragnok of Bear Clan looked over and smiled as he said, "Looks like nothing but a scratch. I see you are well."