My name is Nick and this is the story of how I met some of the best friends I could ever have, or as you may know them the cast of RWBY, but we will get to that later for now let's start on how I got to the planet of Remnant.

It was a night like no other, the moon was brighter than any star in the night sky. I was coming home from my friend's house, where I had spent the previous night.

I was wearing a red T-shirt with a design I made in graphics class, it had a blue logo of a ninja with the name Nick below it. I was also wearing a long-sleeve button-up shirt off top of the T-shirt, it was white and grey flannel. The navy blue jeans I was wearing had a silver chain hooked on the belt loop and the left side pocket.

It was already 4:00 pm when I finally made it home and into my room. When I walked over to my bed, I saw a piece of paper with writing on it. The writing appeared to be directions to something.

'The path to the Remnant of life is lined with Red Roses, and as the White Snow falls the luck of the Black Cat follows you down the road, and only when the Yellow Flames burn you will you find your way to the Remnant.'

I noticed an obvious pattern, there was a very clear destination that I was meant to get to. There were also clear clues I want to follow, so I highlighted all the clues and the destination.

I thought that they all meant what they said as in 'a path of red roses' and 'white snow falls,' but then I figured why would they be capitalized? They must have been names of something or someone!

Then I remembered the show I started watching two years ago called RWBY. It was about a team of teenage girls named Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, and Yang Xiao Long. I remembered the name of the planet they live on is named Remnant!

So it was at that point when I said the message with the names instead of the hints. 'The path to the Remnant of life is lined with Ruby Rose, and as the Weiss Schnee, fall the luck of the Blake Belladonna follows you down the road, and only when the Yang Xiao Long burn you will you find your way to Remnant.'

Sadly, nothing happened, but I had no reason to believe something would, but I still tried again this time so it would sound like an actual message. 'The path to the Remnant of life is guarded by Ruby Rose, and as Weiss Schnee watches you from above Blake Belladonna follows you down the road, and only when Yang Xiao Long lets you pass will you find your way to Remnant.'

With that, a loud noise crashed on my ears and my computer desk started to shake, well it did until everything around me froze in time. I was standing there in shock, as I took a step back I fell into what appeared to be a portal from a Sci-Fi movie.

It took all of five seconds for me to land on the ground. The place I was now seemed familiar but definitely not my house.

Suddenly I heard a voice crack my ears, "Are you okay? You had quite the fall from another world! My name is Ozpin, and you are?" With that I knew exactly where I was… I was on planet the Remnant, the home of team RWBY

I started to freak out when I realized where I was, a world I thought was fictional for the past two years.

Ozpin tried to calm me down. He explained everything to me, but first he introduced himself. "Hello my name is Professor Ozpin, you are?" I stopped and answered his question.

"My name is Nick Firebrand, are you really Professor Ozpin the head master of Beacon Academy the Huntsmen school for the kingdom of Vale, because if you are then what you claim about me falling into a new world is true."

He nodded his head, picked me up off the ground, and began to explain. "Yes I am who I say I am and you are what I like to call a Carrier."

I was even more confused when he said that than I was at first. I wanted to make sure that this was no dream or hallucination.

I reached for his hand to grab it and make sure he was real, and he was. The next thing I did was ask about the term 'Carrier.' He told me what it meant.

"A Carrier is a person who can transport between worlds at will with one of these." He held up a device attached to his cane, it resembled a wristwatch, in a way. "This device is simply called an Atomic Transporter."

He noticed that team RWBY was heading toward us and pointed them out to me. "Do you know who those people are Nick? You might be happily shocked."

I turned to see who was behind me, and it was all four of them, all four members of team RWBY were waiting for me to turn around to see them.

"Whoa, is that Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, and Yang Xiao Long, a.k.a. the entirety of team RWBY? Okay now I have seen everything I wanted to in my life and more. How is this possible? I mean where I come from you're all fictional characters in a show made by Rooster Teeth, so how am I talking to you?"

Ozpin was just as shocked to hear that they were fictional as team RWBY was, he almost seemed paralyzed at the thought.

"Wait you mean you aren't from Vale? Well at least our names are getting out there." Yang spoke up waiting for answer to her question.

"No I'm not from Vale or even Remnant, I live on a planet named Earth, and I traveled here by accident."

Blake was the only one who spoke, the rest of the team were in shock. "Okay, explain a little more mister."

"First of all my name is Nick, Nick Firebrand, and second there was this sheet of paper on my bed that had this written on it." I told them what was on the paper, but none of them believed me. Therefore, I gave Blake the paper.

Sure enough, they believed me when they read it for themselves. "Okay this is really weird, I mean I'm pretty sure that I'm not fictional." Ruby said with a joking tone in her voice.

Yang replied to my comment rather hastily. "Start making some since here or I will personally knock some into you! You have five minutes to get your story together."

Ozpin jumped in to save my life from a mad Yang. "How about I explain everything to you. You see both Nick and I are people called 'Carriers' and we are given the gift to travel between dimensions using one of these. This is a device called an Atomic Transporter. We use these to travel to worlds where we are needed."

Blake seemed oddly interested with this. "How did you get it Professor Ozpin?" He answered as if he was expecting the question.

"Well, it went like this, I was in my childhood house on planet Earth just like Nick was, and I saw a small rock that said the words 'you are needed elsewhere.' I read it aloud and I was transported here to Beacon, were I found my device on the ground next to me. I had apparently applied for a scholarship at the school and got in. I trained just like any Huntsmen and became a teacher here. I never went back to Earth because I felt I was still needed here and now it seems like I have found why I am here. Nick I am here to train you to be a great Carrier!

I decided to listen to him for now since I didn't really have a choice. He put me in a student room in the same dorm as teams RWBY and JNPR.

He wanted me to stay calm and get some rest for the next morning. He said that if I wanted to know all the secrets of being one of these 'Carriers' then I would need my sleep.

Soon they all left except Yang. "Hey, I'm sorry for earlier, you know when I threatened you."

I looked at her and laughed. "You know I would expect nothing less from you Yang. After all you aren't the best person at first impressions, I of course am referring to Junior."

She laughed as she replied. "Yeah, but if you knew why I was there in the first place you would understand. It was kind of one of those moments where I didn't care what I did, you know what I'm talking about right?"

I looked at her and reminded her that I knew the whole story about her mother, or at least as much of the story as she knew.

"Yang it's okay, you will find her. I know you don't know me yet, but know you. You're not one to give up before you find your goal complete!" She smiled at me.

"Thanks Nick, I looking forward to getting to know you more, as is everyone who knows you're here. Have a good sleep, see you in the morning." She left and it hit me like a ton of bricks, I'm in Beacon, as a student, this is going to be awesome!

That night I had a weird dream, I was with teams RWBY, JNPR, CFVY, CRDL, and SSSN. We were all on the Vale walls overlooking the outside of the kingdom.

The trees in the distance started to shake. All of a sudden, a Goliath was at the wall and a voice I recognized, but couldn't put a face to, said, "This is what we prepared for people, let's take this thing down right here right now!" With that everyone leaped into battle and I woke up.

Now I wouldn't think anything of it except two things lead me to think about it more. The first one was, I've never dreamt about RWBY in any way before, so why now? The second one is my dreams have a tendency to come true in roughly nine months.

I got out of bed to see Jaune, Nora, Pyrrha, and Ren, a.k.a. team JNPR waiting for me at my door. "Whoa, hi guys, what are you four doing waiting at my door? Kind of creepy don't you think?"

Nora was the first one to reply. "We just wanted to see the alien for ourselves. You don't look like an alien. Where are your antenna and green skin?"

I laughed at the question. "Apparently aliens are the same on Remnant as on Earth. Yes, by the way, I am technically an alien here. I'm not from a different planet, I'm from a different universe. I believe that Remnant is to this universe is as Earth is to my universe. So technically I'm not an alien because this is my home planet just in an alternate reality."

Jaune stepped in. "I'm confused, but that doesn't matter. We're actually here because Professor Ozpin told us to send you to his office when you had a chance."

I replied as quickly as I could. "Oh yeah I could do that but first let me change. Hey I don't know my way around so could you guys show me where to go?"

We left to see what Ozpin wanted with me. We walked the entire campus before we went to his office. Team JNPR took me on a full tour of the school before showing me Professor Ozpin's office.

When we got there Pyrrha, Ren, and Nora had to go to a class, Jaune's class didn't start for another thirty minutes though so he stayed with me for a little, while I waited for Ozpin to be ready for me.

We went up the elevator to his office. I could see the entire city of Vale form his office. We finally made it to the top and I was surprised with what I saw.

There was a door on each side of the room, I wanted to know what was behind each door. Ozpin started to talk to me in a way that made him sound like he was trying to confuse me.

"Hello Nick, I see you got my message for you to come see your destiny." I tried to play along best as I could. "What is my destiny to you? I mean after all it is MY destiny."

He replied quickly. "Yes well, I won't know what my destiny is until you choose yours right here. You may have noticed the two doors on each side of the room when you came in. You will choose a door to walk through from the two, if you walk through the left you will be returned to Earth with no memory of what happened here, if you walk through the right you will become a student at my school with some personal classes from me."

"Before I choose I want to ask you a few questions. What is the benefit of staying here? I have a home and family on Earth that are probably freaking out trying to find me right now."

He replied just as quickly as the last time. "On the contrary, they don't even know you're gone. Remember time froze when the portal opened, who says it isn't still frozen?" I wasn't really surprised by what he said, so I asked my next question.

"What's the catch to staying? Opportunities like this don't happen without there being a catch." He hesitated this time.

"Well, if you choose to stay you will be in danger, as all students are. However you showing up here does mean more than a new student."

I interrupted as quickly as he did earlier. "What are you talking about? Stop dancing around the truth!" He replied with anger in his voice.

"A new Carrier showing up here is a warning. I don't know exactly about what but it is a warning for a huge danger that you will have to face."

I was shocked by that news. "I will have to face a great danger all on my own if I stay, but if I leave I won't be here to stop it who will?! There is a reason I am specially chosen to do this, I will stay!"

I walked through the right door and saw what was inside. It was a huge training room that was linked to a hologram projector. I turned to my left and saw a bedroom with two beds in it.

It almost looked like one of the student team dorm rooms. "Why is there an extra bed here?" Oz spoke up after following me into the room.

"Well I never said you would be alone. Similar to Huntsmen, Carries do not work alone, you will have a partner, but we have to wait for them to get here."

It didn't take long for me to realize that, after one month, I may have to go to Earth and 'accelerate' the process of getting a teammate.

I also realized that it would take some convincing to Ozpin for me to leave. It was a nice month though, nothing major happened.

I spent all my time with teams RWBY and JNPR respectfully. They welcomed me with open arms, as you would expect of heroes in training.

But I was a little shocked when Jaune offered a spot on his team until I had my own. I explained that, number one they are not the same kind of teams, and two it just wouldn't be right to him or is team.

Besides for now I'm doing pretty well on my own, I topped the list in Goodwitch's combat class, with a little help from the red headed Spartan and a blond Knight I know letting me train with them.

One night Jaune turned in early so Pyrrha asked if I still wanted to train, my reply was a simple "yeah sure."

We went to the roof and trained for a while then I wanted to talk to her about her relationship with Jaune. "Hey Pyrrha, why won't you tell Jaune how you feel about him?"

She was mid sip of her water when I asked this, she almost spit it all over me. I waited for an answer then I remembered that Cardin's window was right below us and that he could hear us.

"Actually let me take care of something really quick." I walked to where I knew the window was and jumped down into the room.

"Hello friends, my name is Nick and you don't need to tell me your names, I already know them. I am just here to politely ask you to close this window while my friends, Jaune and Pyrrha, are training on the roof. If that is too much for you to do, then I just ask that you do not eves drop on us. Thank you for listing and good night."

I left through the window and waited for it to close behind me, it didn't. I went back to team CRDL's room and was a little more straight forward this time, if you know what I mean.

Sure enough when I left that time the window closed behind me and I went back to the roof. I explained where I was and what I was doing to Pyrrha and she laughed at my 'direct' method of dealing with people like Cardin Winchester.

I asked her to answer my previous question and she did. "I just feel, I don't know I guess I want him to make the first move. I mean it isn't like I'm dropping hints every day of the week to him or anything! Does he just not care?!"

Her tone was beginning to show signs of anger and intent. I tried to calm her down by reminding her that Jaune wouldn't date her if she snapped his neck. She had calmed down and I continued what I was saying.

"I just feel like if you have feelings for someone you should act on them. Why wait for the socially awkward knight to ask you when you can do the same back?"

She paused to ponder what I had said. She looked up at me and said, "thank you for your words of wisdom. You are right I need to act on these feelings and hope that he feels the same way."

She gave me a hug and left to go to bed for the night. I did the same and returned to my room that was down the hall from the same dorm teams JNPR and RWBY live in.

I got to my door and heard another one open behind me. It was Yang leaving her room. She walked up to me with a look of curiosity in her eyes.

She spoke with a faint questioning tone of voice and a subtle 'who are you' look on her face. "Hey, could I talk to you?" She spoke in the most serious way I had ever heard her speak.

"Yeah sure. Here, why don't you come in and we can talk for a while." I let her into my room and little did I know that it was exactly that she wanted to talk about.

"So how are you liking our world?" I replied to her question even though I knew it was just to break the ice.

"I like Remnant, a lot actually. Great food, awesome cities, but the best part, is the people. All of you have been so nice in the past month. Anyway what was it you wanted to talk to me about?"

She looked up at me from my desk chair that she was sitting in. "What is Earth like? From what I've heard it is very different from here. Even your room is different. By the way how did you get all this stuff? When I was in here last it was an empty room with nothing more than two beds."

I answered the second question first because it was easier, plus it gave me time to think of an answer to her first one.

"Well you see, Ozpin has been teaching me how being a Carrier works. He told me that anything I own on Earth can easily be transported here with a little practice. It took me a while but soon enough I got my room together with some of my stuff and here you go.

Now as for Earth, it actually isn't as different as you might think. Really the only difference is are that instead of four kingdoms we have seven continents, that are split into countries, and those countries into provinces or states, then they contain cities.

Also there are no Huntsmen or Huntresses as you know them. They still exist, they are just regular hunters though. You see there is no need for Huntsmen because there are no Grimm on Earth!"

She seemed utterly shocked at the concept of a world without the Grimm, a world without constant danger outside of the kingdoms. She just couldn't believe it. I assured her that it was the truth.

We kept talking for a while until we both felt the need to turn in after two hours. She left my room and I went to sleep.

I was still thinking about my dream from one month ago and how I was afraid it was one of the ones that would come true sooner or later.

I didn't want to focus on that at the moment though so I just went to sleep. Sadly my brain was not done. I had a second dream about that attack on the wall.

This time I could see some of the faces around me I could see that Ironwood, Ozpin, Glynda, and Penny of all people were on my far right.

I could also see something even more shocking, Emerald, Mercury, Cinder, and Roman were all on my far left ready to fight just like the students of Beacon.

I was in awe at the fact that all of them were there. I knew it was a dream but for some reason I still believed that it would come true.

I had been transported to Remnant and told that I must defend it from a great danger at some point, who's to say that this wasn't a prophecy of what I would have to defend it from.

I could only hope that my teammate, whoever they were, would get here quickly, or I might just go back to Earth and get them myself.

I woke up the next morning in a great mood. I headed to team JNPR's room to see if Pyrrha and Jaune wanted to do an early morning training session.

I got to the door but before I could even knock the P.A. system called out in a loud voice that I recognized as Ozpin's, "would teams JNPR and RWBY along with Nick Firebrand please report to my office as soon as possible."

With that both teams came busting through their doors and bumped into each other and me. They explained to each other that they were going to get the other team to let them know then head to my room, instead of my head, to get me.

We all took off towards Ozpin's office where we entered with a little bit of anxiety toward what would happen. According to them he didn't do this unless something really important was happening for any reason.

We got to the top of the tower and noticed that the room that I was shown over one month ago was still there. Ozpin didn't seem like himself at all. He didn't even speak he just motioned us toward the window. We all walked over and he finally began to speak.

"What do you all see out there?" Everyone gave him their own answers but I felt the need to wait for a second. Everyone stopped talking and I finally said what I saw.

"I see, nothing. Nothing but a blank land scape of a city and a safe haven. Why do you ask?" I had a sneaking suspicion that this had something to with my lack of a teammate.

My suspicions were answered when he said what he saw. "I agree, I see nothing. No new buildings, ships, or people appearing out of nowhere.

Nick, I don't see your teammate anywhere. I've been thinking that maybe you should go back to Earth for a while."

Everyone was shocked at what they heard but I knew why he wanted me to go and more importantly why he called the others with me.

"You want me to find candidates for new a Carrier on Earth and you want me to take some of my friends with me, don't you?"

He looked up from the window to reply to my question. "Yes I do, and you're right, I want you to take some of your friends. It is your choice on which ones though."

I looked at him questioning why he wanted some of my friends to go, but that was not my next question. "How many can I take with me? I imagine there is a limit or why wouldn't I take all of them."

He held up four fingers and spoke my answer. "Four, you can take four. You see a Carrier can take two people with them across the multiverse. I can bring two and still have enough power to get back to Remnant but you will only have enough for the way there until the next day. So who will it be?"

I turned to look at my eight friends and think about who to take with me. "So just to clarify, I am going back to Earth to find people to be fellow Carriers to help speed up the process of finding a partner ?" he nodded his head and I gave my answer.

"In that case I choose…"

But I was interrupted before I could finish what I was going to say. It was Ren who had interrupted me. "That won't be necessary, because I am your partner! My real name is Monty Oum and I am from Earth just like you."

We were all shocked at what had been said. He went on to explain that he had shown up here a while before I had, roughly six months, which was the same amount of time that was mentioned in volumes one and two of the show.

He also explained that said show was a telling of his time on Remnant. The last thing he told us was the most shocking thing I heard that day.

"I left Earth right before my body there had died because I felt like I was still need on Remnant. Now I know why, I'm meant to be your partner in the crisis that will come to this world soon."

With that I pulled him aside to question him on why he didn't want to come clean to me for the past month of me being here.

He went into a lot of detail but it came down to he didn't feel it important till now, because he did not know the whole partner part either so he just thought it was a coincidence.

Which was fair but even still, I felt betrayed in a way, but that wasn't important. What was important is that my partner had been here the whole time and I could finally progress with my life on Remnant.

Ren was still a Huntsmen in training so he still had regular classes, but that was a good thing because it gave me a chance to join some of those classes as well.

I also joined team JNPR to make it easier on Glenda and Ozpin since they still had a school to run. Now all my problems had been solved and it was time to move forward, or so I thought…