(Halo x RWBY) Remnants of the Reclaimers

An Exercise In Precision

Blue team, along with all the other three first-year student teams were the first to participate in the field exercise.

Teams RWBY, JNPR, CRDL, and Blue stood on small grey platforms overlooking a cliff. Fred, who was on the far right of the line, wondered if it was some sort of spotting or mapping exercise, or maybe even long-distance target practice. If it was the latter, he knew who would win, glancing over at Linda cradling her almost sniper rifle as she checked the magazine of their newly designed cartridges.

Glynda spoke up, giving the instructions they were to follow, "each team has a selected area, you will hunt this area for a specific Grim, some sort of Alpha that I have painted with a symbol on their backs, your goal is to eliminate the target without killing any other Grim. The first team to get back earns 80 points and each team after earns five points less, so if you were to finish fourth, you would earn 65 points. Killing your target earns 10 points, and you gain another ten for not killing any other Grim, and each Grim killed subtracts one point from those ten, further details have been uploaded to your scroll. Everyone understand?"

Heads nodded down the line. And everyone's scroll buzzed with the new instructions and team specific data.

"Alright everyone," Ozpin said, a little after everyone had seen their scrolls, "I want you all back safe, so stay in your area, do not venture outside of it. Exercise starting in, 5, 4,3, 2, 1...

the square under his feet lurched, and Fred suddenly was launched into the air, as he overcame his surprise, he angled toward his team's section of the Emerald Forest and looked back at his team.

Each of them were flying through the air in a line, though fairly spread apart, he knew they would head to his landing site, the only one they would all see. As the ground approached, adrenaline kicked in, (Or as Kelly dubbed the enhanced awareness state that was triggered by their augmentations, Spartan Time,) and things slowed down, he grabbed his rifle off his back and kept it close to his chest so it wouldn't be damaged in the fall, then tucked, rolled, and tried to soften the impact anyway he could. He hit the ground and the dirt around him shot outward, creating a mini crater. He grabbed his rifle and surveyed the area, it was a simple clearing surrounded by trees, so Fred crouched behind a bush and waited for the rest of his team.

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"Fred, that sounded nothing like an owl," Linda said as she and John walked into the clearing.

A voice called out from behind a bush, "but I've been practicing, and I thought that sounded pretty good." Said Fred, as he poked his head out from behind the bush.

John interjected, "I thought that wasn't that bad, but nowhere near as good as Sam's." Kelly came running out of the trees just then, and called out, "We need to hide, there's a Bear Grim thing chasing me, and I don't want to kill it and have points taken off."

Fred grabbed John's hand and tugged him over the bushes and rocks he had been hiding behind before. Kelly and Linda each scaled a tree, trying to get high into the thick branches just as an Ursa emerged from the tree line on the opposite side of the clearing.

It began to sniff with its nose high in the air and slowly began to move towards Fred and John. Linda looked over to her friend in the adjacent tree, who looked down, then with a look of realization, began to unload her weapon. She then proceeded to wrench the bullet out of its brass casing, Kelly then took the shell and threw it directly at the Ursa's nose. The shell bounced off, but a small plume of dust formed around its head, and the Ursa began to sneeze and started barreling back towards the tree line, batting at its nose.

Linda looked through her scope and scanned the area before giving the all clear. Within ten seconds the team was back on the move, searching for caves, where they were supposed to be able to find the alpha scorpion grim that they were assigned to take down.