A/N: Hey guys, I didn't put a note in the last chapter because I had a dumb moment, so I'm making sure to address everything in this one! This is, as you probably figured out by now, a crossover between RWBY and Republic Commando. I, being a simple nerd, own neither. This chapter is really long, but you shouldn't expect this size of chapter again. I just wanted to hurry up and meet JNPR, and also didn't feel like splitting this chapter up. I will put a note at the start of every chapter that will have the serial numbers of every Commando that is relevant in the chapter. Any fans of either the RC games or books may notice some similarities. While I plan on drawing some similarities between this and the books, mainly, I will not be simply rewriting everything Karen Traviss has done with the characters of RWBY. That would be stupid and no fun. Also I have yet to even think of a release schedule for this, but I should be putting them out once a week, maybe twice if I can find the time. That's all I've got for now, and if you have any comments, concerns, or general feedback, don't hesitate to write me a review! I'll be more than happy to answer any questions you may have. Thanks for reading!

RC-1183 Ruby

RC-1104 Weiss

RC-1170 Blake

RC-1126 Yang

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Heil96 out.

Ruby was growing impatient. "How's it coming Four?" She asked, though she knew the answer already. "Working as fast as I can here Sarge." Weiss replied, not even looking up from the terminal she was busy working on. Weiss was currently slicing her way through a terminal they had found near the hard-light barrier covering the door, their only way inside the base, and unless they wanted to blow through solid rock, the terminal was their only option.

Weiss had been working for over two minutes now. Ruby could feel the dull vibrations of the anti-air guns firing pulsing through her body, every shot a reminder of how important their objective was, and what failure would mean not only for them, but for everyone else trying to fly through the chaotic warzone. No pressure. While Weiss was working, her three teammates had established a defensive position, covering the entrance to the canyon. Blake had her sniper attachment equipped, aimed down the sights at the entrance, while Ruby and Yang kept their blasters in standard rifle form. It helped to be versatile. But strangely enough, no enemies had come after them.

"I'm telling you, we could just try and blast through. Even if we don't have the explosives for it, we could call in an airstrike to get it open." Yang commented, trying to keep herself entertained. "Sure, call an airstrike onto fully functioning anti-air guns. No go ahead, call it in. I bet the pilot would have some choice words for you." Weiss shot back, reminding the demolitions expert of their objective. "We wouldn't even be having this conversation if you could just get the fucking door open." "You want to do this and let me stand there doing nothing but staring at a blank canyon wall? Hmm? No? Then shut up and let me do my fucking job." Yang started to respond, Ruby could hear her taking breath, formulating her response, when Ruby decided to step in. "Shut it you two. I don't need you distracting her Yang. And besides, I would like to maintain some sense of stealth in the complex, which would be hard to do while blowing a hole in the front door." Yang took the hint, but didn't shut up, just directing her thought process elsewhere. "Yeah, stealthy. I bet you we lose stealth within two minutes of being inside there." "What would you bet? We don't get paid?" Blake responded, surprising Ruby. "I'll bet you one ammo clip that we don't make it two minutes in there before having our cover blown." "Betting ammo seems a little lame…" "What else am I supposed to bet, a fucking rock? I bet you the shiniest goddamn rock I can find-."

"Finished." Weiss stated, as the barrier dissipated, and the door opened. Immediately all conversation was stopped, as the team began moving inside the complex. Weiss took point, Yang covering the team's six. The complex was carved out of the rock, as the walls were solid stone. The floors were metal though, and lighting ran across the roof in the form of strip lights.

"Real cozy place, not creepy at all." Yang murmured to herself, seemingly off put by the way the shadows danced on the walls every time the base shook due to the guns firing.

"Advisor this is RWBY Actual, we are inside the base. Requesting orders, over." "Actual this is your advisor, your first target will be the guns target acquisition matrix. Take it out, then proceed to its ammo belts. Destroy those, and then make your way to the guns central power generator, which will need to be eliminated. Be aware, destroying the generator will most likely bring down the whole place, so get ready to book it. Advisor, out."

"If taking out the generator would bring the whole place down, why not do that first? Skip the other objectives." Yang asked to no one in particular. "Because the generator is on the other side of the building, and the other objectives are in between the generator and us." Ruby responded, taking note of building schematics Weiss had downloaded earlier. The team began moving forward, the targeting matrix was only 100 meters out. Perfect.

Team RWBY was silently walking down the halls, their leader noting that the sound of the guns seemed to be getting louder, which she figured was a good sign, when a pair of battle droids rounded the corner on patrol.

"Enemy spott-." Was all the first droid could say as a shot from Yang took the droids head clean off its shoulder mount, while Blake dropped the other droid. Not fast enough it seemed, as the sound of metal footsteps could be heard running towards them from further down the hallway.

"Team grab cover! Enemy contact!" Ruby barked out, ducking next to a wall and readying her rifle, all the while noticing that Blake had wordlessly grabbed a clip and tossed it to Yang before grabbing over opposite from Ruby so they had established cross fire on the droids. Yang almost didn't catch the magazine, seemingly shocked that Blake had even gone along with the bet. Someone's in a good mood. Ruby mused, aiming down her sights as a group of battle droids rounded the corner and immediately got torn apart by four streams of blue plasma fire. With the threat eliminated, the team moved forward, Ruby noticing a spring in Blake's step. Definitely in a good mood. Ruby couldn't, and didn't blame her. She knew how Blake felt, and all the impatience and anxiousness Ruby had felt earlier had melted away, replaced by confidence, and satisfaction. This is what we trained for, and we're finally getting to put it all to use. Her heart was pumping, she felt great, despite the fact that they were in enemy territory and had so far only been stirring the hornets' nest. Can't stress the little things, like how many enemy droids are en route to our position. Team RWBY closed in on their objective, ready to do some damage to the enemy war machine.

Team RWBY came to a sealed door, and by the looks of the building schematics and the distance from target displayed at the bottom of her HUD. The call was now Ruby's to make as to whether or not the team should try for a stealthy entry. While pondering the benefits of either tactical decision, she noticed that the rock walls that had been prevalent were being replaced by a dull metal surface. "Boss? What's the call here?" Weiss inquired, snapping Ruby out of her momentary distracted thoughts. "Well, I don't think that the stealthy approach is still available to us. Stack up." The squad stacked up on the door for a breaching maneuver, Blake and Weiss on the door's left side, with Ruby on the right, Yang set to plant the breaching charge on the door, before joining Ruby on her side.

"Setting charge, clear!"

The door locking mechanism was instantly shattered as the charge detonated, Weiss tossing in a thermal detonator to thin out the enemy forces, and as Ruby looked into the room, she was glad she had decided to forgo the stealthy tactic. Red laser fire began bombarding the teams position, forcing Ruby to duck her head back behind cover as bits of the doorway began melting away where her helmet had been just moments before.

"Motherfucker!" She exclaimed, trying to figure out a way through the current situation. "Yang, Weiss, slap on your anti-armor attachments! Blake, I need you to throw in an ECM grenade! Then we enter the room hard! On my mark team!" She paused, allowing them to make the necessary preparations. Seeing that her team was ready, she prepared herself for the coming moments.

"Mark!"

The DC-17 anti-armor attachment is a grenade launcher that launches high explosive grenades at the enemy target. The grenade was designed to blow through enemy armor, but did massive damage against enemy infantry. Two of these grenades were now hurtling towards the battle droids, their arc, and as a result, their blast radius overlapping to maximize the damage output. Right behind the two grenades was an ECM grenade, shorting out the battle droids functions. While the ECM would only stun a super battle droid, they completely destroyed normal battle droids. The team entered the room, grabbing any cover they could find.

With the droids forces significantly lower than a few moments earlier, the team cleared out the rest of the room. Weiss began making her way towards the targeting matrix terminal, attaching her rifle to her hip as she got closer to the computer. While this was happening, Blake took cover and aimed her rifle down the long corridor that would lead them to their next objective. Yang turned towards her leader, cocking her head as she looked her over.

"Not a bad call there Sarge. Though now that I think about it," Yang said as she surveyed the remains of the droids around her "two anti-armor rounds may have been overkill."

"Yeah well, there's no such thing as overkill if it gets the job done." Ruby shrugged, turning towards Weiss. "Hey Four. How long would it take you to seriously mess up these guns targeting?"

"No idea boss. Could be ten seconds, could be ten minutes." Weiss replied taking her hands off the console, awaiting her leader's decision.

"Sorry Weiss, but we don't have the time for that. Yang, take it out." Ruby decided, both her and Weiss backing away from the terminal to allow Yang to work. Yang started placing the charge on the terminal, while muttering to herself "now was it red green red, or red green green? Can't ever remember this shit."

Weiss began backing away slowly, never taking her eyes off of Yang. "She's joking right? Ruby, tell me she's just joking!"

"Relax Weiss, if she fucks up, you won't even feel it." Blake responded, not a trace of humor evident in her tone. Yeah, she's in a good mood alright. "Not funny Blake!"

"Take it easy Weiss, I finished. You've got the det chief." Yang said, walking towards the group, casually walking away from the demolition charge. "Alright team, get clear!" Ruby said, holding the detonator in her hand, and squeezing the trigger.

Ruby hadn't been looking at the explosion, but her visor dimmed itself automatically to protect her eyes. Her helmet deafened the noise, but nothing could dampen the shockwave that hit her, knocking her off her feet.

"WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT YANG?!" Weiss yelled, stumbling to her feet.

"Must have packed that one with a bit too much of the good stuff." Yang said, rising unsteadily. The terminal had completely disappeared, replaced by a large scorch mark. Yang had clearly used too much of the good stuff in that charge. "No such thing as overkill, huh boss?"

Ruby helped Blake up to a standing position, shaking her head to clear it. "I thought we had talked about over packing charges Yang." "Yeah well that was the only one. Promise."

"Okay guys, let's keep moving forward. We need to get to the ammunition belts quickly so we can do some more damage here." Ruby commanded, taking point as she started walking down the corridor, when the lights flickered, and then went out.

"Way to go Yang." Weiss griped as she switched her visor to low-light mode. "How was that even my fault?!" Yang replied defensively. "I don't know, but that was completely your fault." Blake just shook her head wordlessly, brushing past the arguing duo.

The team made their way to the ammunition feed, which was essentially a large belt being fed up into the ceiling, which is where the guns were. The room it was housed in was two stories tall, with a catwalk wrapping around the belt. Strangely, the room was deserted.

"Alright, Yang, start placing a charge on the belt. We'll keep you covered." Yang moved silently to the ammo feed, and began setting the bomb, her teammates keeping her cover.

"I don't like this…" Weiss said uneasily, gripping her rifle tightly. Ruby nodded her agreement, but didn't say anything more, trying to stay strong for the sake of her team. This isn't right. They know we're here, they sounded the alarm, so where are all the droids?

Ruby's musings were cut short by the sound of an elevator being accessed at the far end of the room. Three rifles turned and pointed at the elevator door, while Yang continued her work. "I'm done here Ruby." She said, taking cover by her team, and training her gun on the elevator. Ruby began to sweat underneath her armor, despite it being automatically cooled. Something was very, very wrong.

The elevator doors opened revealing a large droid, with four legs and a large cannon pointing out of the front end. Pointing at the commandos.

"Move! Now!" Ruby yelled, as she sprinted for different cover, trying to keep her team spread out. "Anti-armor on the double team!" She began to modify her weapon, as the Spider Droid's cannon began to warm up. And pointed directly at Weiss.

Before Ruby could even scream at her to move, the cannon had fired, and Weiss had dodged out of the way, avoiding the firepower of the droid. The wall behind her had not been so fortunate, and had a large, smoking hole in the middle of it. The commando's armor would be useless against the droids weaponry, as even a grazing hit could prove fatal. The droids weapon had begun to heat back up, but the commandos were ready to fight back. Three grenades sailed towards the droid, while Ruby threw an ECM grenade at the droid, hoping to destroy its optics.

When the grenade went off, the droid remained standing, but was stunned, and was forced to take the full brunt of the girl's firepower. The droid stood strong until the fourth volley finally took it out, the droid exploding as it toppled on its side. "That wasn't so bad." The team's leader said with a sigh of relief, Spider Droid's were a notoriously hard nut to crack.

"Yeah, but it took all my anti-armor to do it." Weiss replied, setting her Deece back to rifle form. "Yeah, I'm out too boss." Yang added, checking her gear over to make sure she was unscathed. "One left for me. You?" Blake asked, while walking near Ruby. "I have two, so I'm willing to share, but let's hope it doesn't come to that."

Ruby began to walk towards the teams next objective, but couldn't shake the feeling she was forgetting something.

"Uh boss, the charge?" Yang asked, head cocked, looking at Ruby with one finger pointed at the still armed bomb on the ammo belt. Oh. Right.

"Right, uh, fire in the hole." Ruby said lamely, pushing her thumb down on the trigger, blasting the ammo belt. Thankfully Yang hadn't over packed this one, and no one got knocked off their feet. Now free to resume her prior intent, Ruby set forth for the main reactor, ready to destroy the facility.

The walk to the reactor was long, and filled with enemies. But as Ruby had noticed, it was filled with less enemies than she had expected. Maybe they didn't think this facility was as high priority as other objectives? Maybe the droids got relocated elsewhere? A thought entered Ruby's head, running a chill up her spine. Maybe they're all waiting for us, in the reactor room.

Pushing the thought down, deep down, Ruby continued forward, and approached the door that would lead to the team's final objective. Pausing before the door, Ruby turned around and addressed her team.

"Alright guys, lets run inventory before we go in there. We have no idea what's on the other side, and I'd like to at least know how much damage we can do. Yang, you're up."

"Alright, I've got three and a half clips left for my Deece, four for my sniper attachment, out of anti-armor as you already know, two thermal dets, three ECM's, and full set of flashbangs."

Weiss went next, checking herself over. "Four clips for my DC-17, three for the sniper, out of anti-armor, full set of thermals, two ECM's, full up on flashbangs."

Ruby shook her head at the uselessness of flashbang grenades against droid targets, and nodded at Blake prompting her to begin.

"Three DC-17, two sniper, one anti-armor, three thermal, three ECM, full flash." Blake's curtness in her response caused Yang to shake her head in disappointment, full of disbelief that someone could actually talk that little.

"Alright, Yang, take one of my anti-armor rounds. Give Blake a sniper clip too, I want her full just in case."

Yang nodded her head and as the rest of her team completed their equipment swap, Weiss walked up to the terminal by the door. "How are we doing this one Ruby?" She asked with her head cocked, looking at the terminal. "Sorry Weiss, but I don't see the point of going in quiet. I'd like to do as much damage as fast as possible." Weiss just shrugged, taking up her position at the door, waiting to breach.

Ruby crouched down in position, giving Yang optimal firing lanes if she needed them, instead of worrying about taking her leaders head off. Yang stood in front of the door, tossing the breaching charge up and down in her hand, looking to make sure her team was set, before she began to set the charge. She immediately ran and stood behind Ruby, as the charge began to tick down. Ruby's heart rate began to pick up, ready for more action. Let's rock. She thought, as the door slid open with a dull Whump.

Weiss immediately threw an ECM into the room, hoping to stun as many target as possible. As soon as the det went off, Ruby and Weiss were running into the room while staying low to the ground while Yang and Blake kept them cover from the doorway. As soon as Ruby and Weiss were set up, they began firing at the droids to allow Yang and Blake to enter the room. Ruby counted two dozen battle droids, and three supers. Five of the normal droids had been killed by Weiss's ECM detonator, but none of the supers had been hit unfortunately.

"Focus the SBD's. Yang, anti-armor, hit as many as you can!" The team was moving from cover to cover, their objective behind all the droids. The team was taking out as many of the droids as they could, but the supers were the real issue. Yang's anti-armor round impacted the droids, killing five of the battle droids, and blowing the legs off a super. Blake's sniper rounds hitting the remaining supers over and over again, eventually toppling one of the droids. The rest of the team was lined up now, hosing down the last SBD with plasma fire. It collapsed, and fell backwards, dead on the ground. The team quickly cleaned up the rest of the battle droids with a couple well placed thermal detonators and plasma fire. The team seemed to let out a collective breath, happy to have made it out unscathed.

Ruby began to move forward, Blake by her side. "Alright Yang, set the charge and let's get ready to move." As they moved up, Ruby heard the unmistakable sound of a laser being primed to fire. In what felt like slow motion, she saw the first SBD, missing its legs, propped up by one arm, with the other arm aimed in Ruby's direction. The mounted laser on its arm began to glow red, before discharging two shots. The shots seemed to travel as if through water, as they went towards Ruby, then they passed her. And impacted into Blake's chest.

Blake fell wordlessly, and Ruby could see two bright blue streams of plasma erupt from Weiss and Yang's rifle, finishing off the SBD. Blake hit the ground hard, her rifle dropping by her side, and Ruby was there, checking if she was alive.

"Blake, talk to me!" This is my fault, I should've know to make sure it was dead, it's rule 17 for fucks sake, nononono Blake don't be dead!

As Ruby began to take Blake's helmet off, Blake suddenly lurched over and rolled onto her left side, taking a deep, shaky breath. Weiss was there too, next to Ruby, checking on her teammate, Ruby didn't know where Yang was, that didn't matter, all that mattered was that Blake was alive.

"I'm good. I'm good." Blake said, taking another breath, as if checking to make sure she could. "Just got the wind knocked out of me."

Ruby choked back a sob, still in shock as to what had happened. Weiss gently grabbed Blake's shoulder, putting her on her back, examining the sniper's chest plate.

"Well it looks like the armor did its job just fine Blake. You sure you're alright?" Blake nodded, taking Ruby's offered hand, and getting back on her feet. A loud metallic crunch sounded behind them, and Ruby whirled around, only to see Yang with her boot in the back of one of the SBD's cognitive unit. Judging by the sizable holes in the other SBD's, this wasn't her first time doing so. Ruby chuckled, before getting Yang's attention.

"When you're done Two-Six, I'd like to finish this mission." Yang walked towards the reactor, a demolition charge in one hand, with the other forming a one-fingered salute towards her leader. While Yang was setting the charge, her squad began moving towards the exit. If their advisor had been right, this would be a hell of a bang.

"We're all set Rubes." Yang said while joining her team by the door, Weiss opening it via terminal. The door opened, and the team, made their way through to the exit, stepping outside into the Geonosian sun. Ruby had forgotten just how bleak and red this planet was. She turned away from the building, as did two of her teammates. "Fire in the hole team!" She said, activating the detonator. The complex exploded, but Ruby didn't see it. She felt it, and that was enough. Apparently that wasn't enough for everyone, as she looked to her right and saw Yang staring at the crater that slightly resembled an anti-air complex. "You alright?" Weiss said, giving Yang a playful nudge on the shoulder. "That was beautiful." Yang sighed, chuckling at Weiss's good mood. Ruby turned away from the team, ready to call it a day.

"Advisor this is RWBY-Actual, anti-air has been eliminated and we are ready for dust-off." "Negative Eight-Three, you have a new objective." The advisor replied, cutting short the playful mood. "What is it sir?" "Team JNPR is in deep and needs an assist, and you're the closest ones to them. I'm sending their coordinates to you now. Make sure you hurry. Advisor out."

Ruby looked at her team, giving them a slight nod before running forward. There was work to be done.