I was planning on releasing this as a New Years sort of thing, but was delayed. Anyway, I'm LittleZbot, and I recently adopted a RWBY/Dragon Ball Z Crossover by TheFrozenCrow titled A Change of Heart? The Silver Saiyan has arrived on Remnant! The story had an interesting plotline and several ideas and openings for exploration, so I thought I might as well take the opportunity. A typical chapter consisted of 700 Words, with the first two chapters both being less than a single page long. As such, I'll be expanding on the story quite a bit. The chapters may be short, but remember what I'm working with. One chapter here = one chapter there. I've discussed this story with the original author and will continue to do so. There will be changes and deviations from what was originally written, but nothing so great as to entirely change the basic plot. If you want to read the original story, there is a link on my profile. Enjoy!

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Despite all appearances, the world of Remnant was not a particularly strange place. Sure, there were evil monsters made up of darkness that tried to kill you at every turn, entire cities often were reduced to rubble and never rebuilt, and there were a crapload of guns, but most other worlds with intelligent life were much the same. Sure, the basic appearances were different; the monsters might just be insane murderers, the cities might be preserved as historic artifacts, and the guns might not be built into other weapons, but the core of it all was still there. In fact, Ruby had quite decided that she'd rather live in Remnant than any other world in existence. Not that she'd had much experience with other worlds, unless you counted the school cafeteria, which some did, but she knew that Remnant was her home; it was where she belonged.

Besides, she'd much rather meet an Ursa than a human with the spirit of one. Humans could hide their true nature. Grimm couldn't.

One more similarity: meteor showers.

Now, Ruby didn't know if there were meteor showers on other worlds; heck, she didn't know if there were guns or even people on other worlds, but even if there were, she wouldn't trade Remnant's for them if they threw in all the gold in their world along with it. Possibly because she really could care less about gold (It's just a shiny heap of rocks. What's so special about it?), but more likely because she loved Remnant's meteor showers just that much. Tonight was the appearance of a meteor shower that only occurred once every seven years. It was probably the most beautiful meteor shower she'd ever seen, in part because she'd never seen one before.

It should be said that Remnant's meteor showers weren't nearly as impressive as they were made out to be. True, there were dozens of meteors flying through the sky, but they were all very small, hard to make out, and just appeared to be moving white dots. Ruby didn't care much about that, however, nor could she when she had no experience with meteor showers to begin with.

She sat at the window, gazing into the night sky with awe on her face. She'd seen falling stars before, certainly; but never so many of them one right after each other. The fact that it was her first made it that much harder to look away. She almost felt possessive about it, like the shower was hers and hers alone, and to look away would be betraying the hundreds of meteors that had flown all this way just for her. It helped that she was the only member of Team RWBY watching it; Blake and Weiss had expressed no interest, and Yang had fallen asleep more than an hour before the shower began.

The only other person in the room awake was Blake, who sat silently reading a book. Every twenty seconds there was the sound of a page turning, indicating the she was making progress, but there was no other sign of activity. Blake herself looked like she might fall asleep soon.

Without looking away, Ruby tried again to get Blake to share in the experience. "Blaaaake."

Silence.

"Come on, Blake, don't be such a party pooper! Everyone else is asleep and I'm soooooo lonely!"

"Why would you be lonely?" Blake asked indifferently, eyes still intent on her book. "You have those giant rocks to keep you company."

"But it's not the same!"

"Maybe you could name them. Would that help?"

Ruby clapped. "Yeah! That's a great idea! Okay, that one's Joe, that's Steve, and that looks like a Charles…" she was silent for a few seconds. "Blake, they keep leaving. I can't name them all if they won't even stick around to hear their names!"

"How rude." Blake muttered.

"I know, right? A real friend would never do that! Right, Blakey-Wakey…?"

"Ruby, if you don't want to watch the meteors, then go to bed. I'm not watching them with you. And never call me that."

Ruby snorted. "So much for being a real friend."

Blake pretended not to hear.

After nearly a full minute, Blake heard Ruby's voice again. She was muttering something, and a quick glance told Blake that she was dying to let it out. Blake glanced toward her and sighed. "What is it?"

Ruby let out a devilish grin. "Every party needs a pooper-"

"Ruby, shut up."

"Ugh, you're no fun. You won't even let me finish my song!" Ruby pouted.

"Because it's a dumb song that you should have grown out of a long time ago."

"But I didn't!" declared Ruby, obviously quite proud of the fact.

"No, you didn't," Blake agreed, and went back to her book.

Another minute of silence passed. "Blake?"

"What?"

"What time is it?"

Blake glanced at the clock next to her bunk bed. "Three."

"In the morning, or the afternoon?"

"Neither."

"What?" Ruby, possibly for the first time in hours, turned around, surprise etched into her face. "But it has to be one of them! Unless…" her eyes widened. "Do faunus have a different time…thinger or something?"

Blake sighed again. "I was joking, you idiot. Look outside and see for yourself."

Ruby turned around to face the meteors again. "Um, in in the morning?"

"Prob-"

Blake was cut off by a shout from Ruby. "Blake! The meteors are gone! I stayed up almost all night to watch them, and I didn't even see the end!"

"What a shame." Blake muttered, though a corner of her made found it interesting how the shower just happened to end during the ten seconds Ruby was looking away.

There was a groan from the bed opposite of Blake. "Please tell me I was woken up because of something important."

"Weiss!" Ruby cheered. "Finally, I have somebody to share in the tragedy with! Come here, bestie!"

"I swear, if somebody isn't dead, someone soon will be," Weiss growled.

Ruby backed off. "Okay, okay, I get it, you're not really a morning person. That's fine. That's toootally fine."

"Morning?" Weiss groaned. "It is not morning already! It can't be!"

"Technically, it is," Blake commented, eyes back to her book.

Weiss grabbed the clock sitting next to Blake and breathed a sigh of relief. "It's only 3:13. I can sleep for at least three more hours." She lifted her head and glared at Blake. "How dare you lie to my face! I would've thought that you, of all people-"

"I didn't lie," Blake interrupted, calmly slipping a bookmark into the book and closing it. "It's 3:13 a.m., which is technically morning."

"You know that's not what I meant!"

"Oh?"

"Um, guys?" Ruby broke in. They paid no attention.

"It's morning when the sun comes up and there's light outside!"

"What if morning classes started at 6, and it was still dark out? Would it be morning?"

"Guys?"

"That's different!"

"Not really."

"GUYS!"

Yang snorted in her bed, almost waking up from the noise before exhaustion claimed her once again.

Weiss stood up and whirled around, facing Ruby. "WHAT?"

"Not to alarm you or anything, but there's another falling star."

Weiss stared at her. "That's it?"

"And it's getting close. Like, scary close."

Weiss sighed. "Ruby, falling stars are literally meteorites burning up in our atmosphere. In order to get through and actually land, it would have to be huge! Close to the size of-"

The ground suddenly shook violently, knocking the girls off their feet. Blake's bookcase fell to the ground, and Yang dropped off the top bunk and hit the floor with a thud. On the bright side, she was finally up, jumping from the ground and activating the Ember Celica out of habit.

Then, as suddenly as they began, they stopped.

"Well, to be fair," Ruby announced. "it was pretty big."

Yang blinked, getting the feeling she'd missed out on something. "Um, what was?"

"The meteor that just crash-landed here," Ruby announced cheerfully.

Weiss turned on her. "Ruby! You didn't tell us that when you said it was close, you meant right above the building!"

Blake got off her bed and slowly walked toward the window.

"I told you it was close! I even said scarily close!"

"Yeah, well, this is more than scarily close. This is terrifyingly in-your-face close!"

"Guys?" Blake interrupted. "Was this there before?"

The girls crowded around the window, Yang still incredibly confused. All inhaled at the same time.

Not so far away, there was a trail of incinerated grass, and dozens of trees leading into Emerald Forest were snapped in half, broken trunks sticking out of the ground like misplaced toothpicks.

"So…" Ruby ventured, "who wants to check it out?"

There was a slight silence while everybody contemplated this question. Weiss was the first to break it.

"I'm sorry, Ruby, but…I just realized that I have a very important place to be right now." Weiss promptly turn around and crawled back into bed.

"That's your bed," Ruby pointed out helpfully.

"And your point is?"

"Come on! This is a mystery! And this mystery is gonna be a whoel lot more interesting than just sleeping the day away!"

"How can you even call this day? It three in the morning!"

"3:16."

"Oh, yes. Those sixteen minutes make all the difference." Weiss snorted. "If you want to check it out, Ruby, you'll have to do so without me."

"Aw, but that's no fun!"

"Ruby," Yang sighed. "I don't know what that was, but I don't think any of us really want to go find out. Let's let one of the actual huntresses or hunters deal with it, maybe?"

"I'll go," announced Blake, surprising everybody.

While Ruby let out a shout of glee, Yang turned around, facing her with a raised eyebrow. "You will?"

"Why not? She's not going to shut up until she finds it, and at night Emerald Forest can be riddled with monsters. I don't like the idea of leaving my bed and book to inspect a fallen meteor for no reason, but I like it more than the idea of Ruby going out alone and getting caught off-guard by a Beowulf."

Yang shrugged. "Well, good enough for me. I'll go with you."

"You were…strangely easy to convince." Blake noted.

Yang didn't reply, but she did let out a grin.

"Yay! Now almost everybody's coming!" Ruby shouted. "What about you, Weiss?"

Weiss turned from face to face, looking shocked. "Are you all insane? Going out into Emerald forest in the middle of the night to simply investigate a meteor that you have no idea where is?"

"Yep!" Ruby confirmed happily.

"Well, I…but…I have to…" Weiss turned around, looking for a face that showed some support. She didn't want to leave, but she certainly didn't want to be left alone. Finally, with a groan, she caved in. "Fine. I'll go with you. But only if you promise to only be half an hour. I'll need my sleep for tomorrow."

"I never doubted you for a second, bestie!" Ruby proclaimed.

"Don't push it. Half an hour, understood?"

"Of course!"

…

Two hours later, the entirety of Team RWBY was still looking for the meteor.

"Half an hour, half an hour I said…" Weiss muttered. She looked up to the sky. "And wouldn't you know it, the dawn's coming up! Isn't that wonderful?"

Ruby didn't seem to catch the sarcasm. "Ooh! It is? Can I see! I can't see over the treetops! Somebody, lift me up!"

"Relax, Weiss," Yang said, "We'll find it soon enough."

"At this rate, we'll be late for class. Late for class because of a stupid meteor that couldn't have bothered to be in the half of the forest we've already searched!"

Blake suddenly paused. "I hear something."

"It's Emerald Forest," Weiss retorted. "There are thousands of things for you to hear."

Blake didn't reply. She slowly continued walking, acting cautiously.

"Come on, guys! I really wanna see the sunrise!" Ruby moaned.

"Honestly, Ruby," replied Weiss, defiantly tramping past her. "I don't know why you even-"

She was cut off by her own scream as she fell into a fifty-foot crater.

Ruby raced up. "Weiss, you found it!" she cheered.

"I noticed."

Blake arrived beside Ruby and gazed down into the crater. "Um, guys, I don't know much about meteors, but I'm pretty sure they don't look like that."

The "meteor" was perfectly round, little bigger than a human, and covered in polished, gleaming metal with a single, see-through, circular window.

"Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh!" Ruby squealed with delight. "We found an alien spaceship!"

Weiss had finally noticed the large object she was next to and stood speechless. It wasn't long, though, before she recovered. "Well, can we un-find it? I don't want to be here when slimy, green, repulsive aliens begin to-"

She found herself interrupted by her own scream for the second time in two minutes as part of the spaceship began to lift up, revealing a door. She, along with the rest of Team RWBY, stared into the blackness inside the ship until a figure emerged.

Yang was the first to speak. "What…is that?"