A brand new world

[Hello]

'Huh wha?'

I look around and there's nothing but darkness

'Oh yeah I died'

'I seem to still have my body though'

'so Is this the afterlife?'

'Kinda boring'

[Hello]

"HOLY SHIT!!!" Some weird-ass bright blue screen just flashed me

"Uhh, Hi?"

[You have been selected]

"Ooookay...For what?"

[To become Carrion]

"Wait carrion?"

[Yes]

"Why would I want to become a mass of dead animal flesh?"

[Not That Carrion]

"I'm pretty sure there's only one"

[Let me show you then]

Suddenly my head is filled with a flash of fast-moving images, An underground lab, an experiment gone wrong, blood, blood, lots of blood everywhere. People, no scientists running for their lives but getting cut down in the process by a red blur, world governments restoring to DEFCON 1, but ultimately getting absorbed? the world razed to the ground.

And at the center of all that is A giant mass of red wriggling flesh.

"Wow," I say amazed 'Kinda ugly tho'

"So I can become that?"

[Yes]

"Cool! so how do I do that"

"I don't exactly know how to get out of here" I look around and the void has not changed in the slightest so I have no clue as to how this screen expects me to escape.

[You will be reincarnated into another world]

"Oh, that makes sense, but which world?"

[RWBY]

"You mean the show?"

[Show?]

"Nothing, anyway when do we start"

[Now]

The darkness someone how manages to get even darker, if that's even possible which it shouldn't be. And next thing I know I lose consciousness.

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Ironwood pov

Scientist: "Sir"

I set down the documents I was working on and turn my attention to him, today has been rather tiring and I really just want to head home for the day.

"Speak"

Scientist: "We have a problem"

"Then fix it"

Scientist: "its something that you will want to see for yourself"

"Fine" I grumble as I stand up from my desk as my top scientists lead me down the halls and into the lower floors.

We are currently situated at a secret base 100km away from mantle going north. This base is mostly used for top-secret projects like the one going on now.

Project Lazuraz

It was a few weeks ago we got reports of tens of independent villages missing, it wasn't zero contact or downed communications, they just vanished into thin air leaving nothing, no houses, no people, and no clues. So we searched around the area, that's when we found a giant mass of skin, blood, guts, and any innards you could find situated near a village. Normally one would write it off as a grim attack but this "Biomass" was sentient, dangerous, and made of the missing persons.

So we captured it, but not without heavy casualties. The creature managed to take out over 100 of my soldiers with tendrils made of skin, but somehow they were as tough as iron, and every time it consumed one of my men it grew bigger and stronger, so we had to bust out the prototype Atlesian knights so that it couldn't increase in size.

It took us 27 hours in total just to reduce the creature's mass so we could cage it. I got a lot of shit from a lot of people who wanted me to just kill it, but I couldn't, not if we could weaponize it.

Anyway, we finally reach the basement and head into the control room. The monster we named "Carrion" was placed 250ft underground with 25ft thick steel walls to keep it confined in a 100 meter both long, wide, and tall pit. We electrified the walls and keept restraints on it at all times.

With how much damage it could do, I wasn't going to take any chances.

"Report"

Scientist 2: "Sir the creatures vital signs dropped"

"What!? How?"

Scientist 3: "W-we don't know sir, one moment it was fine the next it just flatlined"

"Damn" I run my good hand through my hair in frustration. This was supposed to be the one that could end the war, the one that would finally let us live in peace, but of course, it wasn't going to be that easy, nothing ever is.

"Burn it"

Everyone: "???"

Scientist 3: "B-but Sir"

"BURN IT. That's an order" I command as I walk out of the base and head back to the capital.