Chapter 1

A/N – Chapter one of the rewrite of Victorious Imagination in Remnant. The main team will remain the same as the other story but resemble the personality I gave them rather than the original ToQgers. They will still have amnesia for future reasons. There will be some other changes to the story and some modifications that I will make along the way. The Grimm Shadow Kaijin will stay as will the Stealth Ressha.

Disclaimer: I don't own RWBY or Ressha Sentai ToQger. They belong to RoosterTeeth and Toei. I do own my OC's while Brave Kid owns his three Grimm Shadow Kaijin.

"Talking"
"thinking"

"Henshin Itashimasu!"
'"Ticket and another talking together'"

Starting Station: Return of Darkness

Legend speaks about the formation of man from dust. Religion speaks of two brothers of light and darkness who created Grimm, Man, and Remnant. Fairytales speak of an old wizard who gave four maidens unspeakable powers and warriors with silver eyes. Each has their own hidden truths about the world within. However, there is one nearly forgotten myth known to only a handful individuals in the world.

This myth speaks of a force of darkness that appeared through a vortex in the sky. This darkness would make villages disappear using mysterious black machines. Their dark nature tamed the grimm that plagued humanity, and the world began to fall to the darkness. Their legions of combatants started to overwhelm humanity as several towns and villages were lost to the darkness. However, in the fight for survival, five warriors filled with light appeared with their own rainbow colored machines similar to the darkness and began to repel the dark forces with their power. These five, pushed back the darkness casting it away from the world, disappearing soon after. This myth speaks of a war between two opposing factions in the days of old. A battle between the light and the darkness, hidden to the world. However, as with all legends and fairytales of old, there is always a truth to each tale.

Everything was dark. Clouds of inky smog floated around the empty abyss as the sound of a train whistle echoed around. A small light shone through the darkness revealing a single black train with a skull theme traveling through the darkness. Within the train stood a large purple being wearing a black and white dress. Nearby stood the slightly transparent smoky body of a man wearing white clothing and a purple mantle.

"Its time for us to return to the darkness Z" the purple being said having a feminine voice. The ambient clouds of darkness were slowly being absorbed by the transparent man as they continued onwards through the pitch black void. As it continued onwards, three more train whistles echoed around them as more black trains appeared. Two of them quickly slammed into the side of their Kurainer as the third slammed from above. "He found us!" She said as she began to steer the train in a panic. A dark laughter echoed across the room as communications were made.

"It seems the time has come for me to take the reigns from you Z!" The voice said over the intercom.

"Grand Duke Hei".

"Once you're gone, I'll have nothing to stop me!" The three Kurainers brutally slammed against their train as sparks began to fly. Each blow caused the train to be knocked slightly off rail for moments at a time until finally it derailed causing its inhabitants to be knocked to the side. The three trains then left the area, their job done as smoke sizzled from the derailed train. From the wreckage, Gritta pulled herself out of the Kurainer. In her arms was a now corporeal body Z as she laid him down on the darkness below as several compartments of the Kurainer began to burst and explode. Loud laughter echoed mockingly in the distance before fading.

"It seems that we are stuck now" she said sadly as she stared at the destroyed train before her. As she did so, she noticed some rusted old rails near the side. Holding onto Z carefully, she began to walk along the rusted tracks through the darkness. As she walked, the ground seemed to thunder beneath her as she soon came across a welcome sight. In front of her was a dusty old station with rusted tracks. What she found on them brought memories to her chest as she held a white handkerchief fondly.

"Schwarz-Sama". In front of her was an old black Kurainer with a golden point with multiple eyes and tusks. Entering, she activated its engines as lights began to shine within the control room. Groaning, the Black Ressha slowly began moving along the old tracks as it started picking up speed. As it did so, Gritta paid little heed to the many primitive villages they were now passing by filled with the trapped souls of humans and humanoids with animal traits. As she continued going deeper into the darkness, a crackling vortex appeared in front of them. On the opposing side, the ruins of an old castle overrun by vegetation could be seen. Seeing this as a chance to allow Z to heal before needing to get rid of the Grand Duke, she made the train enter the vortex. As the black train exited, a pulse of dark energy burst across the planet as massive amounts of darkness began to pool towards the ruins. They circled the area as the vegetation began to unravel revealing several tracks going about around and through the bottom of the castle. Figures began to move about shrouded in darkness while creatures as black as the night began to gather. The whole island was quickly engulfed into darkness as a translucent barrier formed shrouding the island from view.

Darkness swirled into the ethereal body of Z as he started to squirm about. His closed eyes burst open as a pulse of dark energy poured off his screaming body. The dark pulse spread across the world with only a few sensing the trouble that would come. Standing up, the darkness coating him lessened as it revealed a silver body with red lines wearing white clothing.

"Where are we?" He asked looking at his arms in confusion.

"I don't know Z" Gritta responded as the Kurainer pulled into the castle. As the train entered, the sky changed to a dark purple as black clouds and smoke covered the island. Walking around, they soon found a large throne room like those seen in a medieval castle, yet the room had tattered purple curtains around the various windows.

"This castle seems familiar" Z said as he walked up to the throne. A shock of mental pain went through his head as some memories started to resurface. As he began to ponder these sudden memories, he noticed several black furred animals with white bone armor walking around the castle walls slowly. "Creatures of Grimm, so we are back in this remnant of a world". He sat down on the throne as four large Grimm entered the throne room from a large opening, growling at the emperor. Among them was a large black furred bear covered with white spiky bone armor, a werewolf like creature with a cut across its left eye, a giant black scorpion with a glowing stinger, and a large bird. Gritta stared at them for a moment as the Beowolf glared back.

"It feels as though these creatures are also created from darkness" she said observing the cautious movements of the Grimm. The Beowolf then charged at the two Shadow Kaijin with its claws in the air. Holding out his hand, a pulse of darkness was launched from Z, knocking back the Beowolf along with the other three Grimm. The Grimm felt an overpowering pressure covering their bodies as the intense darkness pushed them down.

"You will yield once more!" He shouted as his eyes flashed black. Gritta gasped slightly as she saw a small sparkle within the empty black eyes of the emperor before the pressure was lifted. "Now bow down".

As he released the pressure, the four Alpha Grimm silently bowed before the emperor. Very quickly, things began to go wrong as they started to convulse rapidly. Their bodies began to change as they writhed about in pain and panic. Black shadows morphed around their figure as Z's residual darkness forced itself into their very being.

"Oh? It seems that they are mutating" Z said in amusement as he leaned forward to watch what would happen to these four animals.

The four Grimm were in intense pain and agony as they transformed. The Beowolf's body began to crack and morph into itself creating a more humanoid and masculine shape. The black fur covering his upper body began to morph together forming a leather rockers jacket while the white bone protrusions formed several studs. His legs began to morph to look more humanlike as the fur formed together with the bones transforming into pants with small pieces of leg armor. The head shrunk down into itself as the bone spikes on its head formed a single white mohawk. The white mask covering its face split over the head around the mohawk, revealing a snarling wolf face with the large scar still on its left eye.

Next to change was the Ursa as its body pulled itself bipedal. It began to morph into a similar shape to the Beowolf, yet it grew a more muscular and fuzzy appearance. The white bone armor around it grew as it expanded around its whole body to form white armor with red markings and spiked shoulder guards. The fur on his back began to split on the sides as bone armor formed beneath it, transforming the skin into a bearskin cape. Growling loudly, its skull began to morph upon itself as the bone armor glowed before transforming into a helmet which soon fell from the Ursa's face. It retained its ferocious bear themed face while its red eyes glowed ominously.

The deathstalker groaned out as it suddenly fell to the ground lifelessly. Its outer shell cracked as the glowing stinger suddenly fell, transforming into a golden cane themed after a scorpion with the tail extending outward to the point. Just before the cane could touch the shell, a black hand broke free from the white exoskeleton grasping it firmly. The white exoskeleton burst open revealing a humanoid creature that was masculine in appearance. Its body was covered in a slim black exoskeleton and his face still resembled a scorpion. The outer exoskeleton that was its former body dispersed into black particles before forming Italian aristocratic clothing along with a large black overcoat with a white deathstalker on the back. Meanwhile, a black scorpion tail extended and waved around behind him.

The fourth creature was unlike the others. As it transformed, its body began to form a more feminine shape. Two arms burst from its body as the large wings slowly moved closer to the back. Its body shrunk down to a smaller form as it slowly became humanoid. Around its shoulders was a black feathered capelet while also forming a black hooded robe with a feather design. Her mask remained on her face as the head became more humanlike. The feathers formed long strands of hair as the top part of the beak combined with the white mask while the lower fell revealing white skin and a humanoid mouth with black lips.

As soon as they finished changing, they quickly knelt before the throne. Z stared at them weakly as he brushed off Gritta's arm.

"Tell me your names my Grimm Generals" he said as they looked up towards him. The first to talk was the Ursa Major turned Shadow.

"My name is Agro my liege" he said in a deep voice as he held up a large war hammer. "I pledge myself to be your guard as the strongest of us all and leader of the Ursa tribe". The Beowolf Shadow grunted mockingly toward the Ursa as he turned to the Emperor.

"Please, as if you could be stronger than me" he stated standing up as a black and blue guitar axe formed from his remaining bones that had fallen from his body. "I am the Alpha of the Beowolves, Duke Lupo" he stated as he struck a chord on the musical weapon. The Deathstalker merely clicked his tongue at the wild antics of his fellow grimm as he stared poisonously at it.

"As if someone as wild as you could have the grace and cunning of an aristocrat. Especially one who was harmed by a young human girl and was forced to retreat here" he spoke as Lupo turned growling. "My lord, I am Baron Scorpio of the Deathstalker family".

"Shut up you insignificant insect!" Lupo shouted as he went to strike Scorpio only for Agro to step between them, his armor withstanding the blow of both Lupo's axe blade and Scorpio's cane. The remaining grimm general remained silent as she simply stared at the ground towards Gritta's direction. Gritta felt nervous as she slowly walked up to the remaining grimm.

"What is your name?" Gritta asked as she stood in front of the Nevermore Shadow. Very smoothly, the grimm shadow was holding onto Gritta's hand as she kissed it gently.

"Milady, I am Avis of the Nevermore Corps" she spoke as she remained kneeling towards the large shadow. Covering her head with her hood, she turned away from the others in the room. Reaching to her head, she slowly removed her mask showing her porcelain like face with crimson tribal markings around her red eyes. "I show my face only to you Milady, to pledge my loyalty as your assassin". As she said this, she quickly placed her mask back onto her face hiding it from view of the others.

Z stared at the four mutations before him. Standing up, he clapped graciously towards them as the four quieted down.

"How interesting" he said as he stared into their eyes. "You four seem to have gained more presence about you than the other Grimm. It's as though you four have gained a~". As he was speaking, he suddenly felt faint as he began to fall forward off the steps.

"Milord!" Agro shouted as he caught the weakened emperor. Gritta helped the Grimm Shadow lift Z back into his throne as purple curtains separated him and Gritta from the others. The sound of faint arguments outside the curtains could be heard as Z slowly opened his eyes.

"Z, you are still recovering from your fight with the ToQgers". She started moving her hand towards his shoulder to help steady him only for the emperor to slap her hand away.

"I don't need your help" he said as he leaned one arm on the armrest. "I have my sparkle, now it's time for the Shadow Line to expand once more". Nodding, Gritta turned to leave the curtains only to stop just before moving them.

"Grand Duke Hei is trying to usurp your place as leader of the Shadow Line. I will take care of that problem" she said as she left the curtains. As she did so, the arguments between Lupo and Scorpio stopped as they turned towards their empress. "You four are to expand the shadow line to bring darkness to the world," she started "You May do whatever you wish as long as it helps the Emperor in his healing". As she spoke, Gritta silently thought to herself that she was starting to sound more like her mother and Baron Nero.

"Ahh? Why should we listen to you huh!?" Lupo shouted pointing his guitar at Gritta. A pulse of dark energy poured from Gritta's very being forcing the Grimm Shadows to kneel with Lupo falling to all fours.

"You may not realize this, but I was the Empress once before and still retain some of the power I used to have" she spoke as her eyes turned blood red while her voice became more mature. "I can devour your power easily you insolent dog". As the pressure died down, her red eyes returned to their usual look as Gritta looked upon the kneeling Lupo. She held out a single Pawn piece from her hand as darkness began to infuse into it. Very quickly, the piece grew in size as it changed shape gaining arms and legs along with a flail.

"Pawn!" It said as it went off to patrol around the castle.

"Castle Keeper Pawn will take care of the castle and gather Kuros. Now go create darkness to expand the Shadow Line!"

Bowing once more, three of the four generals then left to do as they were bid as several Kuros started to appear around the castle for construction. Gritta looked over to the remaining Grimm General finding it to be Avis.

"Shall I accompany you on your mission Madam?" She said kneeling towards Gritta only for the large purple creature to shake her head.

"Avis, I need you to go out and learn how the world has changed since Z's last visit to this realm". Nodding, Avis turned to leave only to turn back around.

"Shall I inform Milady's sister in law that her brother has returned?"

Gritta turned her head in confusion at this remark.

"Sister in law?"

Avis nodded as she awaited her orders.

"Yes, The Emperor's younger sister has been stuck in this realm without the support of the shadow line since they sealed away this realm" Avis said informing Gritta. "However, it appears that the seal has been broken with your arrival to this realm".

"I see, then inform her of our arrival when you can". With her orders given, Avis opened her large wings to take off into the sky. "Take this with you" Gritta said holding out a small piece, "if you infuse your darkness into this pawn, it will summon a Castle Keeper Pawn for your use". Thanking her empress, Avis took off into the sky while holding the Pawn close. Gritta began to wonder what this mysterious sister of the emperor would be like as she made her way to Schwarz's Kurainer. "I'll deal with that when I return" she said as she took off into the sky as a portal opened. Just before she went into the darkness, she noticed five glowing crystals on different sides of the island before they quickly shattered. Five glowing pillars of light burst from the crystals before they seemingly disappeared from the darkness around them.

On the shores of the island, a single man awoke. He started to cough violently as a black sludge left his body before dispersing into particles. His hair was short and messy while he wore a tattered red tunic and black pants.

"Where am I?" He said as he looked around. Around him was the shattered remains of a red crystal with a black center. Staring into the sky, he found everything to be purple as a black smog wafted around him. Confused at his surroundings, he decided to pick up the largest chunk of crystal on the ground finding it fit nicely into his hands. As he did so, the remaining crystal shards floated around him before imbedding themselves into his body. A sharp pain went through his head as the black smog entered his body. After a while, the pain stopped as he tried to remember the last thing he was doing only to find nothing. The sound of footsteps echoed around him as several bipedal wolf creatures surrounded him.

"It seems there is a human in our island" A voice said as Duke Lupo walked onto the shoreline.

"Where am I and why don't I remember anything!?" The man shouted as he held the shard close. The Grimm General laughed at the man before pulling out his guitar.

"I don't know but I do know that you won't last long in the darkness". As he said this, he played a loud note on the instrument causing a burst of sound to knock the man back. "Kill him". The beowolves charged the downed man as he got to his feet. He began to quickly dodge under the swipes of the wolf creatures as he quickly formed a fist around the red crystal, never noticing as his eyes were shrouded with darkness. His hand started to glow with light as he slammed his fist into the chest of a Beowolf, shouting out as he did so. The burst of light from the blow knocked back the Grimm as a large explosion of swirling light and darkness burst from the shoreline. When the light cleared, Lupo stood from a sand mound as he found that the man had seemingly disappeared.

"Tch, so he blew himself up. What's the fun in that". As he turned to leave, he never noticed that a certain Nevermore had watched the whole encounter.

"That Light was extremely powerful" she said to herself before narrowing her eyes to the crater left behind. "A light of that caliber won't be easy to get rid of".

Small waves washed ashore a small beach. Seaweed covered the coast as a single mound of wet clothing and plant life laid facedown on the sand. The sand grated as a black and red figure walked along the beach, stopping just before the wet mound of cloth. Black boots kneeled next to the man, wiping the seaweed off him finding him holding tightly to a small toy red train.

(Next Time on Victorious Imagination in Remnant Reboot)

"Welcome to Patch"

"'He/I is/am not a Puppet!'"

Several black creatures rampage through a city led by a mysterious black creature.

"ToQ Change!"

A/N – There we go with the first introductory chapter of the rewrite for Victorious Imagination in Remnant though the title may have changed. You may have noticed that I added a Fourth Grimm Shadow. This one is of my own creation as I felt why not have a Crow in charge of Kuros? Also, because birds. I hope my writing has improved since I first started writing so I hope you enjoyed. This is Daozang Signing out.