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Wolves That Walk Alone is an ongoing RWBY and Halo crossover fic by TheManThatWalksTheAbyss115.

The story follows Noble Six as he carves a legend of his own while upholding his directives as a SPARTAN under the UNSC after being mysteriously whisked to the world of Remnant when he was about to die on his Last Stand on Reach.


This work of fanfiction contains the following tropes:

  • Animal Motifs: Noble Six is often described as a lone wolf during his time at the UNSC and it persists throughout his adventures on Remnant. Wolves tend to cross his path and even appear to acknowledge him after specific events such as avenging Myne's family by killing Tyrian. Raven Branwen, in her hallucinations, sees Six as a giant wolf towering over her.
  • Adaptation Deviation:
    • The Fall of Beacon does not occur thanks to Cinder being captured much earlier, the Grimm Wyvern being blown up, and the White Fang cell in Vale being wiped out by Six.
    • Six is the one who rescues Nora and Ren from their destroyed hometown and trains them.
  • Adaptational Jerkass: Ozpin is a lot colder in this fic after Six rejects his offer many times, resorting to underhanded methods to force Six to his side from cutting funding to the outer settlements to threatening to expel all of Team JNPR from Beacon if they keep withholding information about Six to him. When interrogating Cinder for information regarding Salem, he does not hesitate to break one of her fingers when she speaks out. Goes straight into Adaptational Villainy when he has Maaya and Myne kidnapped from the settlement they live in.
  • Adaptational Job Change: Summer takes up a job as a baker after Yang's rampage tanks the already plummeting goodwill that the Huntsman community had with the people of the settlements.
  • Alas, Poor Villain: After years of imprisonment by Ozpin and being tortured for information on Salem, the normally arrogant and sociopathic Cinder is now a shell of her former self as she breaks down sobbing in her cell while lamenting how her ambition for power only bought her back to the very situation she wanted to escape, being a helpless little girl. It's no wonder why she begs for either rescue or death.
    • In Chapter 31, the first thing Six does is to rescue and free Cinder from the now-dead Ozpin.
  • Asshole Victim:
    • Tyrian Callows: He murders an innocent family that Six was close with in an attempt to draw him out. When Six finds out, he literally rips him apart after getting all the information he needs from him.
    • Ozpin: He is the second person on Remnant whom Six has taken special satisfaction in butchering after he kidnaps Maaya and Myne to get him on his side.
    • Merlot: He subjects children to horrific and inhumane experiments with Grimm and was about to put Myne through those horrors. He's cut up by Six before being injected with a hallucinogen that causes him to rip himself to pieces.
  • Badass Normal: In a world full of super-powered humans and bloodthirsty Grimm, Noble Six gets by without Aura nor Semblance by using his SPARTAN MJOLNIR V Suit, augmentations, training and skills to overcome any odds placed against him as well as Forerunner weaponry later on as well-earned rewards from Auspicious Spark such as the dreaded Binary Rifle that is more than capable of literally reducing most targets into specks of ash.
  • Became Their Own Antithesis: The White Fang in Mistral resort to kidnapping and selling Faunus who refuse to join them to trafficking and slavery rings, a far cry from the organization's original goals of protecting Faunus from said injustices.
  • Berserk Button:
    • Do not insult or badmouth Six in front of Nora and Ren, Blake herself gets sent to the infirmary when she does that during their match at the Vytal Festival.
    • Nora, in a cheery tone, warns Jaune that if he touches the chest that contains their cloaks made by Six, she will break his legs, and in this instance, she's being very serious. Luckily for him, he only earns a bitten hand when he accidentally touches said container while cleaning.
    • Being a bandit or a White Fang places you in Six's sights as hurting civilians is a sure way to invoke his wrath.
  • Body Horror: The Cyber-Grimm on Merlot's island fits the bill. Not only is it eerily similar to the Cyberdemon from Doom (2016), it also has the added Nightmare Fuel of being able to invoke Half the Man He Used to Be on itself and grow a set of scorpion legs and tail partway through the fight with Six.
  • Boring, but Practical: Six's fighting style and weaponry, when compared to a Huntsman or Huntresses, doesn't rely on flashy moves or Mix and Match Weaponry. He prefers taking down whatever threat there is in the quickest and most efficient manner possible, which he excels at.
  • Bullying a Dragon:
    • Raven Branwen and her bandits try to rob Six, and she narrowly escapes only thanks to her portals. It only buys her a few years until Six tracks her down again.
    • Atlas sending platoons in an attempt to apprehend Six. It goes as well as expected when pitting regular soldiers against a Spartan.
    • General Ironwood, as mentioned above, and Ozpin resorting to underhanded methods such as cutting funds on the outer settlements in an attempt to force Six to their side despite him rejecting his offer many times.
    • Some huntsmen try their luck in arresting Six for his slaughter of the White Fang in Vale, few of them survive.
  • Break Them by Talking: Six to Tyrian. He invokes Cruel Mercy at its finest, which causes the scorpion faunus' already-diminishing will to completely disintegrate.
    Six: "That's if I let you out of here. Suppose I do feel merciful and let you go back to her, what use would you be to her? Not only did you fail your objective in killing me, but you also came back as nothing but a shell of your former self. Imagine what type of disappointment your goddess would hold in you should she see you in such a state."
  • Break the Haughty:
    • Tyrian Callows is physically and mentally disassembled by Six before he kills him
    • Cinder Fall is reduced to a broken shell of her former self after being captured by Ozpin and tortured for information on Salem.
    • Raven Branwen is a proud Bandit queen who abandoned her family and teammates for a life of banditry without hesitation. She gets reduced to a hysteria-filled mess after having her tribe butchered in front of her and being subjected to horrifying hallucinations during her second confrontation with Six, where she finally cracks and laments on how her life may have been for the better if she stayed with Tai and their daughter Yang.
    • Ozpin: No amount of desperate attempt on his part for Six to consider a partnership with him spares the fear and agony of knowing that he is out of his depth and suffering a painful death at the hands of the SPARTAN.
    • Yang Xiao-Long thinks she can beat Noble Six with her Semblance and newfound abilities as the Spring Maiden after her mother's death at Six's hand since she never got the answers she wanted as to why Raven left. Not only does it not pan out in her favor Six cuts her right arm off to access Haven's vault at a later date and stabs her in the lower spine, outright crippling her, before dumping her in front of her home on Patch.
  • Broken Pedestal: Remnant's citizens slowly lose their respect for Huntsmen/Huntresses thanks to Six's deeds and Ozpin's meddling. Yang's rampage essentially sends whatever was left of that down the drain.
    • Summer loses wha little respect Six had for her when he finds that she knew about Raven's banditry but never made any effort to dissuade nor stop her ways.
    • It is implied from Tai's words that Ruby's on much worse terms with Yang thanks to her rampage, not least including all the hurtful things she said about their family.
  • Brutal Honesty: Six does NOT mince or sugarcoat his words. In fact, those who do know him always tell just how blunt he is, to the point where anyone who tries to hold a conversation with him is taken aback by just how blunt he is.
  • Cold-Blooded Torture:
    • Six subjects Tyrian to this after tracking him down for butchering a family that Six was staying with. Tyrian breaks down from said torture.
    • Six has no need for answers from Ozpin when he finds him; he just wants him to physically suffer for his heinous actions before killing him.
    • Merlot is cut apart by Six while being interrogated for information on his activities and the whereabouts of Salem's minions before being injected with hallucinogens by Auspicious and left to die.
  • Continuity Nod: The White Fang call Six a "demon", the term the Covenant uses when referring to SPARTANs.
  • Combat Pragmatist: Six doesn't hold back when it comes to combat, be it by terrifying his enemies into panicking, to even stabbing the Spring Maiden, Raven Branwen, with a poisoned kukri.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: Most of the fights involving Noble Six dealing with bandits, White Fang, and Atlesian Platoons end with him as the victor, and those attacking him dead.
    • Cinder, Emerald, and Mercury attempt to assassinate Amber like in canon, but Six intervenes and not only wipes the floor with them, but also kills Mercury.
    • Six also notes that Remnant doesn't stand a chance against the UNSC or the Covenant if/when they arrive should they choose to resist given the planet's overreliance on Huntsmen/Huntresses and laughable level of technological development.
  • Cruel and Unusual Death:
    • The effects of certain Forerunner weaponry (such as the Boltshot's charged shot, a Pulse Grenade's field of effect, or the Binary Rifle's firepower itself) on biological targets. It literally disintegrates the victim's cells, leaving nothing but ashes behind, as an unfortunate White Fang member finds out. As the weapons were meant to combat the Flood, this is to be expected so that they do not have any biomass to replenish their numbers with after suffering a defeat by their original Forerunner foes.
    • Adam Taurus. Six beats him to a pulp, slices his hand off, breaks off both his horns, then shoves Wilt down his throat and eviscerates him from the inside-out.
    • Raven Branwen has her tribe butchered by Six, is stabbed with a poisoned kukri which causes her to see the mutilated corpses of her tribe trying to grab her, and she dies from the amount of poison and hallucinogens in her bloodstream.
    • Merlot tears himself apart while under copious amounts of hallucinogens courtesy of Auspicious Spark, seeing himself being cannibalized by all of his previous victims.
  • Darker and Edgier: RWBY has never claimed itself to be completely lighthearted, but this fic delves deeper into the darker aspects of Remnant than canon ever did. Settlements falling to the Grimm due to the walled cities and Hunstman Academies refusing to send help is the biggest example.
    • Later chapters also reveal that anyone talking or even trying to look into Six are silenced due to the Council wanting to retain any control over the population before they can revolt.
    • Spending millennia trying to stop an Eldritch Abomination doesn't bode well for one's sanity as Ozpin resorts to more underhanded and downright evil tactics such as denying settlements help while claiming they became too prideful and kidnapping the two people closest to Six in order to force him into an agreement. None of it pans out for him in the end.
  • Dies Differently in Adaptation:
    • Adam Taurus in canon is killed by Blake and Yang running him through with the broken Gambol Shroud. Here he is killed by Six in more gruesome fashion.
    • Ozpin in canon was Killed Offscreen by Cinder during the Fall of Beacon. Here, he is killed by Six gutting him and tearing his lungs out from behind ala Blood Eagle.
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After Summer, Qrow, and Glynda find out that Ozpin had Maaya and Myne kidnapped and sent the latter to Atlas, all three of them decide to not be anywhere near Ozpin when Six comes to Beacon.
    Glynda: "Qrow told me he has a forty million lien bounty on his head already. If the criminals and whatever bad apple in Mistral can't kill him, what makes you think anybody can do anything at this point? You've managed to piss off someone who's not only scared half of Remnant to death, but also kills ancient Grimm like they're mere circus animals. I don't know who's more deranged at this point, you or him."
  • Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Six kills the Grimm Wyvern by using explosives provided to him by Auspicious Spark, thus averting Beacon's destruction
    • Auspicious Spark informs Six that the Forerunners of Remnant managed to kill the Brother Gods eons ago when Six arrives at the Forerunner installation on Remnant, leaving the purpose of combining the Relics up in the air.
    • Six kills the Cyber-Grimm after killing everything else on Merlot's island.
  • Dirty Coward: After Six kills most of the White Fang in Vale, Adam, much like in canon, abandons his remaining followers to die and flees to Mistral to save himself, though Six inevitably hunts him down later and finishes the job.
  • Dramatic Irony: When Raven first escapes from Six via her portals, Six mistakes it for her possessing slip space technology, which he can use to return to the UNSC, thus making it a part of his mission to track her down. Those who watched the show will know that is Raven's semblance and it only works through those she bonded with, which Six only finds out when Raven is dying from her wounds.
  • The Dreaded: Noble Six gains a fearsome reputation among the White Fang and bandits because of his propensity for wiping out their camps without a trace.
    • Raven Branwen has the misfortune of being one of the first bandits he encounters, which she barely escapes from. She is mentioned as being paranoid and quiet whenever someone brings up Six. This fear ends up leading to her and the Branwen bandit clans' demise.
    • The White Fang believe him to be the personification of all the humans they killed.
      • It gets worse when he starts hunting down all the White Fang in Vale, which results in a body count of over three hundred dead terrorists. Many of the members desert or turn themselves in to the authorities, and a few commit suicide in jail in fear of encountering him again.
  • Everyone Has Standards: While Glynda, Summer, and Qrow are on the side of good, even they ditch Ozpin when they see how far he has fallen in his obsession to get Six on his side.
    • Summer, Tai, and Qrow agree to let Yang deal with the consequences of her reckless actions by herself after everything she did up to her defeat at Six's hands.
  • For Want Of A Nail:
    • Without Cinder to help him escape from Ruby's intervention, Roman Torchwick is mentioned to have been arrested during the Dust 'Till Dawn Robbery.
    • Summer Rose is alive due to Six treating her wounds after she's nearly killed by Tyrian.
    • The Breach doesn't happen due to Six killing the White Fang in the Mt. Glenn hideout.
  • In Spite of a Nail: Even with the absence of Cinder, Roman continues his crime spree which causes him to be arrested because of Ruby intervening, and because of that, she still manages to get enrolled at Beacon earlier.
    • Despite not meeting Adam in this story, Yang still loses her right arm and against Six instead.
  • Good Is Not Soft: Insurrectionists, Bandits, White Fang, Atlesian Platoons, Huntsman and Huntresses, and Grimm can attest to the fact Six will ensure humanity's safety by erasing those that he considers harmful to it.
    Chapter 25: He was a Spartan, not a saint. Not everything he did was heroic and he would never claim it was. If it meant that becoming the boogeyman of the frontier to keep the commoners safe, then so be it. He'd gladly take that role if need be.
  • Good Is Not Nice: Noble Six may be continuing his directive in ensuring the survival of humanity but his loyalty is still to the UNSC, which means he will not play by the rules of Remnant's good guys, such as refusing to join Ozpin's group to heavily injuring or even killing any pursuing Huntsmen or soldiers who try to apprehend him.
  • A Hero to His Hometown: Six is regarded as one to the settlement he frequently visits and stays for supplies, to the point where they refuse to reveal anything about him to any of the authorities.
  • Hero with Bad Publicity: The higher-ups of the Kingdoms paint Six as a serial killer and a criminal because of his evasion of their attempts to capture him, not to mention his butchering of the White Fang in Vale and Mountain Glenn. However, many of the lower-class people, not to mention those who live outside the cities, see him as a Hope Bringer because of his actions in cleaning up the outer wilds.
  • He Who Fights Monsters: Ozpin gets hit with this hard thanks to his never-ending battle against Salem turning him into someone who is just as bad, if not worse than, the person he's fighting against. It doesn't end well for him.
    • The White Fang are outright stated to have become as bad as their oppressors with their willingness to sell anyone who disagrees with them into slavery.
  • Horrifying Hero: Six does not mess around when it comes to dealing with his enemies, preferring to dispatch them as quickly as possible. The results are usually quite messy.
    • The results of his raid at the White Fang hideout in Mountain Glenn terrify Team RWBY, who leave the area with haunted expressions. Summer even calls him out later on for traumatizing her daughters.
    • His second confrontation with the Branwen Tribe can be described as the Predator having a field day.
  • Just Think of the Potential!: While the "official" reason Ironwood resents Six is that he's killed entire platoons of Atlas troopers who tried to arrest him and failed each time, the "unofficial"/actual reason is he just wants Six's MJOLNIR Mk. V Powered Assault Armor. While his other UNSC-related weaponry/tech might be interesting, Ironwood desperately wants to study Six's armor due to how powerful/alien it is. Six knows this and so rigged his original worn power core extracted from his armor (he replaced it with a fresh one thanks to Auspicious Spark's assistance) to act as an explosive potent enough to annihilate both him and the armor, thus denying Ironwood his prize even if Six does somehow fall.
  • Know When to Fold 'Em: After her near-death experience during one of Ozpin's missions. Summer starts taking less missions each year in order to keep a steady income for her family. She also withholds information regarding Six to Ozpin out of gratitude for saving her life.
    • Summer, Glynda and Qrow start withholding additional information regarding Six, especially on Myne and Maya, because they know all too well what happens when someone messes with the people that Six cares about, not to mention their wariness on Ozpin's obsession on capturing Six. Later on the three leave Ozpin to face Six alone after they find out the former kidnapped Maaya and Myne.
  • Living Legend: Unsurprisingly, Noble Six becomes one among the people of the Frontier and the lower-class citizens of the Kingdoms.
  • Mook Horror Show: Whenever Six goes to town on bandits or White Fang.
    • In Vale, when Six snipes a high ranking White Fang member being arrested by the police with a Binary Rifle, the surviving members who are also being led away by the police, freak out and scramble for the police van while screaming about the "Demon" coming to get them.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Ozpin manages to do this throughout the whole story until he is killed in Chapter 30 by an infuriated Six. His actions, ranging from denying settlements help in order to draw Six out only serve to further alienate Huntsmen or Huntresses from people outside the city. Trying to use Nora and Ren to get him to come to Beacon and keeping the two under heavy surveillance makes the two resent him. To top it off, he also manages to alienate Qrow, Summer, and Glynda by literally ignoring everything and everyone who's telling him to stop with the unhealthy obsession of Noble Six.
  • Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Salem orchestrates Noble Six's bounty in Mistral in surmising it might draw out the more skilled rogue Huntsmen/Huntresses that lurk in Mistral to kill him. All it did was allowing Six to take out the trash with a lot less effort in tracking them down instead, with the Grimm that arrive in Mistral due to the eventual negative energy fallout from the backlash being easily quashed by Six as well. What a nice turn of events for Six courtesy of Salem herself, as not only did it allow for him to clean up a great deal of Mistral's criminal agents, but even further cemented his already-legendary reputation ever higher, especially after killing Adam Taurus.
  • Only Sane Woman: Glynda serves as the voice of reason when it comes to Ozpin on Noble Six, attempting to rein in his fixation towards him by pointing out that his actions are damaging the Huntsmen's reputation between the people.
  • Oh, Crap!:
    • The settlement's reaction when the family Noble Six was staying with is murdered by Tyrian and Six returns only to find their corpses.
    • The White Fang and bandits whenever they encounter Six.
    • Blake when she comes face to face with Six for the first time, during Mountain Glenn, recognizing him as the one from the rumors she heard during her time in the White Fang.
    • Tyrian when he realizes that Six is not fighting to kill but to capture him.
    • Raven has this reaction after realizing Six has made it into her tribes' camp and killed everyone, excluding her and Vernal.
    • Ozpin when he realizes what a deadly enemy Six truly is after he kills his huntsmen and huntresses with ease and demonstrates the differences of combat prowess between a constantly active warrior and a schemer who usually sends others to do his dirty work.
  • Precursors: After tracking down the signal that responded to his attempts to contact the UNSC, Six discovers a Forerunner Installation on Remnant, along with its Benevolent A.I., Auspicious Spark, who rewards him for his efforts by giving him Forerunner weaponry and repairing his power armor in exchange for activating the other Forerunner Facilities located in the various kingdoms.
    • The Four Relics are heavily implied to be Forerunner Artifacts themselves.
  • Spared by the Adaptation:
    • Summer Rose does not go missing like in canon but instead gets rescued by Six, when he finds her nearly dying from her wounds after fighting Tyrian Callows.
    • Amber survives her attempted assassination by Cinder thanks to Six intervening before she gets her powers stolen.
    • Because of the Fall of Beacon being averted and Cinder's imprisonment, Pyrrha does not meet her fate.
  • Death by Adaptation:
    • Mercury is killed by Six in Chapter 8 during Amber's assassination attempt.
    • Tyrian is killed in Chapter 19 after Six brutally interrogates him.
    • Vernal and most of the Branwen Clan bite the dust when Six tracks them down after many years.
    • Raven Branwen succumbs to overdose when Six stabs her with a poisoned kukri.
  • Shout-Out:
    • In Chapter 7, Six, a silent heavily armored soldier, escorts an infant he rescued in a floating crib. Sounds something familiar from a galaxy far far away.
    • Maaya is a reference to the Guild Girl from Goblin Slayer. In fact, her name is based on the Guild Girl's seiyuu.
    • Chapter 21 is a direct shout out to God Of War, right down to the deer hunting part.
    • Chapter 27 has a scene that is a direct reference to a similar event from a certain Netflix series involving The Punisher
    • Chapter 30 has Glynda make a direct quoted reference to what Half-Jaw AKA Rtas 'Vadum says from Halo 2, put in a different way that flat-out tells Ozpin to go screw himself because his obsession is literally about to kill him in a few hours.
    Glynda: Away from you and hopefully to convince the students not to fight something that's the equivalent to the Grim Reaper. Their lives matter to me, yours does not.
  • Tranquil Fury: Upon learning that the family he was staying with was butchered except for Myne by Tyrian Callows, the normally quiet and stoic Six reverts back into the more cold and detached persona he had when he first appeared on Remnant, which unnerves everyone in the same room as him. He never even raises his voice while fighting and torturing Tyrian.
  • The Mentor: Six, towards Nora and Ren when they were children. Later on, he trains Teams RWBY and JNPR when they are assigned to the settlement he is staying at. He also scolds Ren and Nora for their brutal beatdown of Blake when she insulted Six.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: There is no mention of Emerald after Cinder's arrest and Mercury's death. It's finally answered in Chapter 30 that she was killed at some point while being imprisoned by Ironwood and her corpse dumped in an undisclosed location.
  • What the Hell, Hero?: Glynda calling out Ozpin and Ironwood for their fixation on Six, pointing out the negative consequences of their attempts to force him to their side is causing more harm than good such as getting two Huntsmen killed to Atlesian platoons disappearing all for one man who refused their offer many times over in the past 5 years. Hell, even Salem herself mentions that she doesn't have to do much of anything such as planning against them at the moment since even she's aware of just how idiotic Ozpin and Ironwood are acting due to their shared obsession, unwittingly carrying out her desires in the process.
    She didn't even need to do anything recently seeing how Ozpin and Ironwood were doing her job for her. They were willing to sacrifice Remnant's people and let the world burn in order to capture or kill this man.
    • Six pointing out Blake's hypocrisy in justifying the White Fang's actions as being misguided despite there being irrefutable evidence of their crimes going far beyond misguided.
    Six: You are trying to justify them as misguided individuals, yet seem to ignore the countless crimes they have committed over the years. At first, they had peaceful protests, which is fine in certain locations. Killing innocent civilians is not. It has labeled them as terrorists because that is what they are now.
    • Summer at first, calls out Six for his excessive actions against the White Fang, which terrified her daughters. She finally snaps at him when he accidentally kills Raven with an overdose of hallucinogens and poison. Six turns this around on Summer when she knew about Raven's banditry and did nothing to prevent it.
    • All of Ozpin's allies, sans Ironwood, let him have it in Chapter 30 after finding out that he had Maaya and Myne kidnapped in an attempt to force Six to talk with him.
  • Wham Episode: Several chapters definitely shake things up considerably, examples include:
    • Chapter 10: Six follow a signal coming from an unknown location, after tracking it down to a Forerunner complex. He also ends up meeting 046 Auspicious Spark and it is revealed that he is the only person on Remnant with the ability to access and use Forerunner facilties.
    • Chapter 18: Titled "Another Stray" Six returns to Maaya's Village after activating the Forerunner facility under Patch only to discover that Tyrian had murdered Myne's family, while leaving her the sole, traumatized survivor, with Six planning to tear the man to literal shreds when he ends up catching him.
  • Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Cinder Fall. Her lust for power stems from not wanting to be a helpless little girl again, only to be bought back to that situation full circle when her attempt to take the Fall Maiden's powers gets her imprisoned by Ozpin as a source of information regarding Salem, not to mention the torture she experienced under Ozpin and Ironwood before Six rescued her.
  • Would Hit a Girl: Six's justice knows no gender and will not hesitate in the slightest in killing women who are just as bad or worse than the Insurrectionists he was trained to hunt and kill by the literal hundreds, especially if it's individuals on the payroll of a certain deranged scientist who just can't tell that he too is immediately going to be brutally killed once Six reaches him.
  • Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: Blake calls out Six for his butchering of the "misguided" White Fang in Vale and Mountain Glenn. Six does not have any of that and shuts her up by listing down the crimes they have committed.
    Six: They are not. A majority of them know exactly what they are doing and have no issue killing innocents or people that don't agree with them. Take the ones on the train for example, are they misguided for placing bombs on it with the intention of ramming it into the city?

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