Escape From Remnant: A Tarkov X RWBY Crossover

Chapter 34: A World In Darkness

When Yang first looked into what was beyond the door she had just opened, it was chilling, to say the least. Dozens of dead bodies everywhere now reduced to skeletons, all having died in incredibly violent ways like the ones on the surface. There was a great pile of them backed up against the door that looked to be the remains of women and children with more in a semi-circle around the pile. The ones in the semicircle had makeshift defenses in front of them. Oh God...these people had died fighting the grimm...this was the part about sealing off mountain Glenn was about. These people had been trapped there left to die by the government in the metro system.

"Jesus..." The first one to come up behind Yang was Texas, who could only mutter the word seeing the carnage before.

"They died fighting." He continued, he took a step into the underground part shining his flashlight into the pitch black darkness. So many skeletons, so many dead. The station had been transformed into an underground city by the looks of things made out of whatever scavenged materials they could find or had brought down with them. Now everyone made their way down from the top into the station, there was no words to be said other than Akula, making the sign of the cross and saying a small prayer for the dead. Even Zwei physically retreated into Ruby's bag, giving out a small, fearful whimper as he did so. The 4 mercenaries flashlights combined managed to illuminate the way forward.

"Stay behind us, see if you can find anything to illuminate the back while we see here. No matter what, do not separate." Texas said.

The girls all clustered up behind the mercenaries as they made their way deeper into the pitch darkness. Eventually, they could no longer see the light from the entrance they had come in from making their way through the catacombs.

"This looks right out of metro 2033..." Akula drew the stark resemblance of the area to that book. Indeed, the station was something akin to Artyom's home of the VDNKh station. Shacks of makeshift homes, shops, and even agricultural and farming areas were present. Not one bit of land was wasted, and they had only gotten to the ticket booth gates where you'd go to pay for your metro ride fare. There must've been over 100 people living down there, plus everywhere they went, there were still the remains of dead bodies plus the signs of battle.

Along the way, team RWBY found one skeleton clutching a lantern in its hand. The girls weren't exactly particular about looting the dead but staring into the inky dark void with the only illumination being not in their control it was good to have a light source they could manipulate on their own. Not even Blake's faunus cat eyes famously able to see in the night better than humans could help her down in the inky darkness.

There was no grimm down here so far as well. Only animals seemingly present were moths, bats, and rats of which there were the most off. Everywhere the light reached, rats would be seen scattering into the darkness.

From the ticket gates, they made their way down into the station platform via staircase. It was a single line station, so the layout was more straightforward than something like a station that allowed passengers to transfer over to different lines. There were trains at the platform seemingly stopped there strategically by the previous occupants of the station to serve as additional rooms. This part also had mostly nothing of note, not too dissimilar to the parts above. Now, there was only one way they could explore through the tracks. Floridaman ripped a map that showed the station layout of the whole metro from one of the display cases it was in beforehand, allowing the group to navigate.

"The things I'd do for some quad nods right...now..." Floridaman shining his light around where he was going to walk infront trailed off as he finally found something of note. He shined his flashlight, where he had first noticed it and was in awe immediately. Everyone noticed it, a giant hole in the metro wall that didn't seem to have an end in sight within it, just a literal black hole of nothingness. The only likely explanations were that something large and strong borrowed its way down into the metro and broke the wall, or an absolutely massive amount of something probably like grimm did so.

"Well, it looks like we found out how they died." Texas mentioned drawing the co clusion that whatever that broke the wall had killed all the former inhabitants of the metro station.

"So what shall we do now?" Weiss asked.

"I suggest we take a break, it's should be sunset on the surface by now." Blake suggested having been keeping track of time even while underground.

Texas checks his watch, and she's right. The time was indeed around 7 plus so that meant the sun would've fully set by now.

"You're right. Let's find some random room at the side of the tracks and take shelter there. We'll figure out what to do afterwards, then while resting." Texas said. He pointed his rifle down the tunnel, bringing to light a great deal of what was ahead trying to scope out if there were any separate rooms by themselves they could take shelter in. There was nothing he could see all except of a bundle of wires running diagonally on the wall ran somewhere towards something. He walks forward, his rifle, and by extension flashlight mounted upon the rifle still trained dead centre of the tunnel.

The bundle of wires running horizontally began to bisect, splitting off into dozens of individual bundles or their own singular wires until it all eventually led to a door. There was a path that offshoot itself from the platform running along the tracks connected to the wall. There was a sizable gap between the extended walkway and the tracks so nobody could unintentionally get side swiped by a train and the platform was raised so it sat flush with the actual train at form meant for regular commuters. It was even made out of the same material, red brick, meaning it was seamless.

"I'll check that room out. Maybe we could rest in there." He circled the light around the door. Everyone else pointed their lights at the door as Texas scaled up onto the extended walkway platform. Everyone was expecting something to just grab and pull him in as he opened the door, but nothing happened as he checked the easy corners.

"Looks like a generator room." He reported what he saw, a massive backup generator, multiple of them enough to power the whole station in case anything went wrong. The generators were grey in colour and looked more like computer servers, they probably took some weird sci-fi fuel source, unlike the diesel generators Texas familiar with. The generator room was bisected into 3 distinct sub rooms inside. None of them had a door, only an empty rectangular hole where a door usually would go was there indicating it was a different room.

On every surface, there was a thick layer of dust indicating no one had even stepped a foot onto the room for a long time. He signals everyone else to come closer and see the room out for themselves. Team RWBY was somewhat...opposed to staying in such a dusty place while the men from Tarkov were used to it already.

"Looks dusty, we got ripstop, right?" Akula asks.

"Of course we fucking do! I packed like 3 of those things!" Floridaman exclaimed.

"Well girls! this is where we will sleep tonight." Texas turning over to the girls with a smile behind his half mask informed.

"Could we..sleep somewhere else...?" The very thought of sleeping in such a filthy place disgusted her, she wasn't no unwashed pig.

"Shut the fuck up and put a tarp over the floor or some shit." Moron in a passive aggressive tone kindly suggested to her.