RWBY: Just A COG In The Machine

No Rest For The Weary

Isaac woke up against a tree with a breath of fresh air and his Lancer in his arms just like how he had died. He looked around and saw that he was in a clearing of a forest of some kind.
"Mom! Dad!"
Isaac called out as he jumped up excitedly, thinking he was dead.
"Amy! Kowalski! Anyone?"
He looked around and when he didn't find anyone he noticed a collection of weapons next to the tree he was leaning against when he woke up.
He found Amy's Longshot with her bandolier that held her knife, Philips' Retro Lancer and Boltok holster, Kowalski's duffle that was stuffed full of ammo and explosives, and Collins' Gnasher with his name, rank, and serial number still on the side of the weapon on a piece of duct tape. Each piece of equipment had Isaac's respective friends COG tags wrapped around either the grip of a weapon or the handle of the bag.
Isaac dropped to his knees and collected the tags and held them close to his chest.
Isaac took a deep breath to keep himself from breaking down right there.
"I'm sorry I couldn't join you guys. Thank you for lending me your strength. I'll make good use of it."
Isaac said as he stuffed the tags into a pocket inside of his armor.
He then collected the weapons of his dead friends and put them inside Kowalski's bag. Isaac put Collins' Gnasher along with on his own Lancer on his back and Philips' Boltok on his waist and secured the duffle bag to his back, ensuring it wouldn't fall off if he were to sprint with it on.
Isaac then heard a faint growling nearby.
He turned his head to the sound with his Lancer pointing in the direction of the sound, believing it was a Wretch or some other creature the Locust had under their influence. What came out instead was a black werewolf that had red eyes and had bone armor on portions of its body.
"What the fuck are you?"
Isaac muttered as he kept his weapon trained on this strange creature.
It howled and other creatures similar to it jumped out of the treeline along with a creature that looked like the wolves only it was bear with bone plating and red eyes.
"Ok then. You wanna play?!"
Isaac started his chainsaw bayonet.
"LET'S FUCKING PLAY!"
Isaac yelled as he charged the creatures with a war cry.

Ozpin sat at his desk, staring at this man who had been cutting down Grimm like nothing. This blue armored man cut Grimm down with a chainsaw bayonet with ease and broke the monster's bones with punches and kicks and of course simply cutting down scores of Grimm with the weapon's primary function of being a rifle.
More than a few times he would execute the Grimm in brutal ways that made the Grimm stop for a moment in shock at what had happened to their dark brother.
This ranged from cutting the Grimm bottom to top with his chainsaw, beating them to death with his hands or weapon, or slitting their throats open with a blade.
He was interesting indeed.
What made him more interesting was how he seemed to arrive seemingly out of know where. A few cameras went offline in the Emerald forest and there he was, holding his chainsaw rifle close to his chest and surrounded by weapons and a bag.
Best to get information from the source rather than speculate what is going on.
"Glynda. Can you please call Team CVFY and tell them to meet me down by the Bullhead docks. I have a retrieval mission for them."
Ozpin said as he took another sip from his coffee.

"So what are we retrieving Professor?"
Said a girl with a brief case and a set of sunglasses and a black beret.
"It's not a what as it is a who, Ms. Adel. There is a young man who seemed to stumble into the forest and we are going to pick him up."
Ozpin explained.
"I hope he isn't hurt. The forest is crawling with Grimm."
A brown clothed girl with rabbit ears of the same color said with worry.
"If he has been here this long and the Headmaster found a living man and not a deceased one then he will be alright."
A large teen said with a large sword.
"Hope your right Yatsuhashi. Still one guy vs an entire forest of Grimm can't be easy."
A blind teen said with dark skin and red clothing.
"All the more reason we are going to help him out Fox."
Coco said.
"I'm at the landing zone. Call when your ready for a pickup Headmaster."
The Pilot said as he and his students off loaded from the Bullhead.
On the left side was a cliff with trees surrounding the clearing the group was in.
The students equipped their weapons and formed a small perimeter around their Headmaster.
"Now where is our mystery man?"
Coco asked as she scanned the area with her briefcase that she unfolded into a minigun.
"Wait for it."
Ozpin said with another sip of his coffee.
An explosion sounded on this cliff and a Ursa Major flew back and rolled down the cliff with a portion of its body missing along with a large chuck of its head.
The blue armored man jumped out of the treeline onto the top of the cliff and ran straight toward a beowolf.
He shoulder charged the monster and stomped on its bone head with a sickening crunch.
He then fired his weapon in the direction of a few more beowolves that were cut down in an instant.
"You think you can take me! I've been fighting my whole life!"
He yelled as he ducked under a swipe from another beowolf.
"I've fought at Operation Hollow Storm!"
He yelled as he kicked a beowolf in the ribs with a crack as the side of the chest caving in with a sickening crunch and the Grimm was finished by a swing of the chainsaw under the rifle with a shower of black gore.
"Jacinto!"
The armored man quickly swapped his rifle out for a large lever action shotgun and blew a beowolf in half and punched another in the face, cracking its bone mask.
"All the way to the end of the Locust War!"
He grabbed a stick with a red spiked ball on it and upper cut the Grimm with it and it stuck there. Before the Grimm could react the man kicked the wounded creature into a group of its fellows before it blew up into a dark meat pile with only one surviving as it tried to crawl out without its legs, whimpering as it tried to save itself.
"You ain't taking me down yet you mother fuckers!"
The blue armored man yelled with rage as he walked up to the dark creature and stomped on the beowolf's chest to keep it in place and finished it off with a shotgun shell, turning the Grimm's skull into nothing but a distant memory and a gory mess.
The Beacon team and Ozpin stared in amazement as this one armored soldier took down an entire pack of Grimm seemingly without breaking a sweat.
"Oh! Hey down there!"
He blue armored man called down with a wave of his arm and his weapon in the other.
"Give me a few! I'll join you in a sec!"
He yelled as he swapped his shotgun for the rifle with a chainsaw and slid his way down the cliff and jumped up and jogged to the front of the group.
"Good to see someone that doesn't want me dead. I'm Sergeant Isaac Carver."
The blue soldier identified himself as.
"Headmaster Ozpin of Beacon Academy. These are my students. Coco Adel, Velvet, Fox, and Yatsuhashi."
Ozpin said, introducing his students as he pointed them out.
"Good to meet you all."
Another howl pierced the air.
Isaac quickly spun around and let loose another burst from his rifle and downed five more beowolves.
"Fucking hell! How about we talk someplace more secure? These things haven't let up on me since I woke up."
Isaac said, his weapon still pointed outward.
"Agreed. Pilot we are ready for a pickup."
"Affirmative. Landing now."
The pilot replied as his Bullhead landed behind the group.
Isaac observed the craft.
"What the hell is that thing?"
He asked.
"It's a Bullhead. You haven't seen one before?"
Coco asked.
"No, not really. This thing looks like it can barely take a hit from a few Lancer rounds. Not to mention how much space for the passengers despite its size."
Isaac said as he backed up into the transport with his eyes still pointed outward and the Beacon students and Ozpin with him.
Once they were all onboard they lifted off and headed to Beacon.
Isaac took a breath under his helmet.
"You know it's ok for you to take your helmet off. Your safe."
Velvet said in a reassuring tone.
"Sorry. But I prefer to have it on. Until I'm sure we won't get shot down or shot at I'm keeping it on."
Isaac said.
"So where did you acquire those weapons? Did you create them yourself?"
Coco asked.
"No. They-"
Isaac froze up.
Remembering the final stand at the outpost and the painful deaths of his friends and the screams that echoed through the fight with the very weapons that Isaac carried with him now.
"Sergeant? Sergeant are you alright?"
Ozpin asked in a concerned tone as the soldier just stood there, frozen, and staring into space.
CVFY called his name and rank trying to get his attention but to no avail till Yatsuhashi shook the soldier by his shoulder.
"Soldier. Are you ok?"
Issac shook his head and looked around, as if taking in the sights of where he was.
"I'm sorry. Didn't hear you. What did you guys say?"
The occupants of the Bullhead looked at each other for a moment.
"We asked where you got the weapons you have on you."
Fox said.
"Well..."
Isaac pauses for a moment.
"They are from a few friends that I won't be able to see again for a long time."
Isaac said as his hand crept to his pocket and wrapped his hand around his friend's COG tags.
"I see."
Ozpin said lightly, knowing that the young man's friends are most likely gone.
"So"
Isaac coughed in his hand.
"what's with the rabbit ears?"
Isaac asked Velvet.
"Well. Um."
Velvet hesitated and didn't meet the gaze of the blue glowing helmet.
"What about them?"
Coco asked aggressively.
"Coco it's ok. I'm a Faunus."
She said softly, slightly afraid of the reaction the Sergeant might have.
"What's that?"
Velvet looked up in surprise.
"You don't know?"
"No not really. Should I?"
"Really? They had a whole revolution to fix the inequality issues between Faunus and humans."
"Plus there's a rights group turned terrorist causing all kinds of trouble."
Coco and Fox said respectively.
"Not ringing a bell."
Isaac said cluelessly.
"What kind of rock have you been under?"
Coco asked as she pushed her sunglasses down to look at Isaac.
"Now. Now. Be nice. The Faunus are humans with animal traits such as tails, ears, horns, and other traits. They are seen as animals by discriminatory people and treated poorly sadly."
Ozpin explained.
"That's just screwed up. If anything I'd say it's a cool little advantage. Then again that's probably why us normal folks don't like abnormal things like that. Makes us jealous and lash out against it for being different."
"Wow. I never really thought of it like that."
Velvet said with a small smile on her face.
"So how old are you Sergeant?"
Yatsuhashi asked.
"You carry yourself like you have many years of experience."
"Thanks but I'm not that old. I'm just 18."
The Beacon occupants looked at the Gear with shock written on their faces.
"We're coming up on Beacon now."
The pilot announced.
Isaac looked out the window and stared in wonder at the academy.
"Wow. It reminds me so much of home."
Isaac said with a smile evident beneath his helmet.
"Welcome to Beacon Academy Sergeant Carver."
Ozpin said.