Vipers on Remnant

Chapter 2: An unforeseen truth

"This is the public sector, there's the marketplace and trading post here to allow us to buy, sell and trade practically anything, the medbay is also here because it's kinda close to the hangar..." Eleanor was cut off as there was a screaming coming from the medbay,

"Who's that?" Ruby asked, a tone of worry in her voice

"Oh no." Eleanor muttered as she sprinted over to the medbay

Ruby sprinted after her upon entering she found Eleanor trying to restrain Kaiden onto a bed while Grace was casting some sort of spell on a strange fungal-like growth growing from his back, covered in moving, pulsating, pod-like growths, emitting orange spores

"Keep him still!" Grace yelled, her Trinity Gauntlets casting a heal spell onto the growth,

"Trying!" Eleanor yelled

"Alex get the fuck over here!" Grace yelled down the intercom, moments later Alex burst into the room and began casting a Cryo spell, slowing movements for Kaiden, Grace took the opportunity

Grace moved her hand closer and intensified the spell, the growth visibly decreased the pods burst, Alex threw Ruby a Respirator, Donning one himself, the room locked down and everyone breathed through them for a while as a green gas filtered in the spores disappeared, the growth's disappearance showed a huge scar running down Kaiden's back with three small pods still on his back, Ruby approached, a look of fear in her eyes,

"Oh god, Eleanor... why is Ruby, I-I'm sorry you had to know..." Grace approached Ruby and crouched down to her level,

"W-what's wrong with him, will he be ok?" Ruby whimpered,

"It's speeding up, go to the Bio-lab, use the new samples to carry on formulating a cure, it needs to hurry, those samples should hopefully do it, I'll stay here with Kaiden and Ruby." Grace spoke quietly

Alex nodded and signalled for Eleanor to follow they both brushed a hand over Ruby's shoulder trying to offer any comfort, then the only sound in the room was Kaiden groaning and the sound of Ruby and Grace breathing

"He is afflicted with the technocyte virus after fighting a stage 5 infested named Phorid, we're working on a cure, but it's getting worse, what you saw was a spike in it's severity, it hurts him when that happens, a lot, I've kept it under control as best I can, but I can't do much more, sorry, but there's no sense lying to you, you'd find out eventually, just hoped it'd be later..."Grace trailed off after seeing a tear fall from Ruby's eye, she wiped it off and stood up, walking back over to Kaiden,

"How're you feeling?" Grace asked soothingly

"Like I was hit by Lech Kril's hammer then punched by a Bombard's slam" Kaiden chuckled as he grabbed his tank top and pulled it over his head,

"well... that's not an improvement, but at least it's gone down again" Grace spoke softly

(Later that day)

"So this Ozpin is the head of this place that you brought us to?" Alex asked exiting the Dojo,

"Yeah, he's kinda cool.." Ruby was cut off

"Hey sis, where've you been?!" Yang yelled

"Who're you?" all the Tenno said in unison

"I'm Ruby's sister Yang, this is Weiss and Blake, Who're you?" Yang said after gesturing to Weiss and Blake,

"We are the Blood vipers, Warriors called Tenno, I'll explain more later, now we're off to meet Ozpin apparently, Ruby thinks it's a good idea." Alex said as he and the other tenno continued following Ruby

Upon reaching Ozpin's office the Tenno entered and all bowed, all assuming the at ease stance after they stood again, Team RWBY followed them in,

"No need to be so formal when you haven't even introduced yourselves, and why you're here" Ozpin spoke,

"We are the Blood vipers, a group of Warriors called Tenno, masters of the warframe, we got here due to an unforeseen event experimenting with Rift energy, this caused us to warp ourselves and our Clan Dojo from our own dimension to yours, the clan currently consists of the tenno you see here, and Ruby." Alex explained

"I see, and what are these Warframes?" Ozpin asked, sipping his coffee

"We will demonstrate them, I'll start, Warframe Hydroid." Kaiden said, water swirling around him as he morphed into his warframe

"This is hydroid, one of many warframes, Hydroid has control over water, it is one of my Backup warframes." Kaiden Spoke,

"I see, so you all have one Warframe that is your main Warframe? I would like to see your favoured warframes." Ozpin asked

"Ok then, Warframe, Zephyr." Grace said and wind began to swirl around her as the warframe formed,

"Warframe frost." Alex grunted

"Warframe, Ember" Eleanor called

"Warframe, Limbo" Kaiden called

All the Tenno morphed into their preferred warframes and their weapons along with it

"So, these warframes all have names, yet I know none of your names, might I ask them?" Ozpin asked

"I'm grace, my friends call me Harmony due to the powers of another warframe I have, This warframe is the warframe of the sky, Zephyr, agility is her strength." Grace explained

" My name is Kaiden, and This is Limbo, Master of the Rift, able to control rift energy to shift me, allies and enemies into and out of the rift plane." Kaiden explained

"I'm Alex, this is Frost, colder and deadlier than space itself, master of ice, I can control and create it." Alex explained

"I'm Eleanor, but my friends call me Raven because of my hair colour, this is Ember, Firey and Volatile, able to create and manipulate fire." Eleanor explained,

"I see, I'd like to see what these Warframes are capable of, Can you use a sparring arena?" Oxpin asked,

"We have a non-lethal combat arena in our clan dojo, We only duel there, You may accompany us to see the duelling room and the duels, if any students want to challenge us we'll duel each other." Grace explained

"Team RWBY, would you like to duel these warriors?" Ozpin asked

"I will, I want to duel her." Yang said, pointing at grace

"Why me?" Grace asked,

"You seem easy to beat with the whole healer thing" Yang smirked

"Ok then, fine by me, but I don't have to use the healing warframe." Grace snickered back

"Anyone else?" Ozpin asked

"I'd like to fight Alex." Weiss sniffed

"That's fine by me princess." Alex chuckled

"It's heiress." Weiss growled back

"I'd like to fight Kaiden." Blake spoke quietly,

"Ok then." Kaiden replied

"Ms Rose, would you be ok duelling Eleanor or should someone else duel her?" Ozpin asked

"I'm fine duelling her." Ruby replied,

"Very well, now I must ask how are we going to get to this Dojo if it is'nt on the grounds, because one of my students would've informed me." Ozpin replied

"It's not on the grounds, its in orbit, so we use this device, a handheld torsion beam generator to generate a gateway to the Dojo, like this." Alex explained as he opened the gateway

Ozpin got his cane and went over to the portal, following the Tenno and team RWBY into the Dojo and he too was taken aback at it's size, the tenno lead team RWBy and Ozpin to an elevator that took them to the arena (The room in the Orokin Void that has the arena looking room below what looks like an amphitheatre) There were two other elevators for combatants

"The first match is, Yang Versus Grace" Ozpin announced

The combatants took their place on the Arena floor and readied themselves...