Jack awoke, phone in hand in some kind of dramatic courtyard. Around him stood four girls, whom he swore were red, yellow, black and white through his blurred vision.
"I...ugh..."
"Hey There! Don't move, we're going to get a teacher..." The red one announced. She seemed to be younger than all the rest.
"Teacher...? I'm in a school?" Jack asked.
"Well... yeah. Where did you think you were, silly?" The red one answered.
"I wish I knew... none of this looks familiar." Jack admitted, remorsefully.
"Darn. Maybe you'll recognise it once you fully recover from your injury?"
"Maybe so..." Jack put out there.
The red one ran off out of Jack's view.
"Why's he dressed so... boringly?" The yellow one asked the others.
"Maybe he just likes that or something. I don't know." The white one answered.
"He really doesn't dress that flamboyantly." The black one added. No, now that he could see better, she wasn't black - she was just dressed in black, and had jet black hair.
"Yeah, but he's clearly here at Beacon, where we all dress up like this." The yellow one retorted.
"Beacon...? Like the thing in a lighthouse?" Jack questioned.
"Yeah, kinda." The red one answered. Suddenly, a woman dressed in purple with long blonde hair came running over, along with the red girl.
"What happened? Who's this?" The woman in purple asked.
"We don't know Glynda, but he was just lying here. He sounds hurt!" The red one answered her question with urgency. So this purple woman was Glynda, huh?
His vision was starting to come back to him now, along with his strength. He gripped his phone, as Glynda tried to help him up. He shook her off, not recognising anyone around him or where he was.
"Get off me!" Jack shouted out.
"Listen young man, you can either let me help you or I'll simply pick you up with my wand. Your choice." Glynda threatened.
"Wand? You're kidding me, right?" Jack replied, with an albeit sarcastic tone. There was no way this woman had an actual working wand, that wasn't possible.
"Right, that does it." Glynda waved round her wand and Jack levitated off the ground, whilst emitting a purple glow.
"Woah! Woah! Woah! What the fuck!?" Jack screamed, obviously shocked into submission.
"Never question Ms Goodwitch, rookie." The yellow one unnecessarily added.
"Thanks, blondie!" Jack retorted. He was panicking. What was this crazy technology? Magic isn't real, and everyone knows this. He had to try something, anything! He desperately struggled, and by some miracle, he nearly got free of Glynda's magic.
"Garrhg! God!" Jack cried.
"Ah!" Glynda shouted. She was stunned. Nobody was supposed to be able to move when under her spell, let alone nearly break free. All the girls were shocked, as was Glynda.
"Tell me, young man... what is your sembelance?" Glynda inquired.
"Wha... Sembelance?" Jack questioned. Everyone looked around at each other. "Okay, if that dumbfounded reaction wasn't clear, what the hell is a sembelance?"
"I think you know what a sembelance is, young man. Now what I want to know, is how on Earth you were able to nearly break my hold on you. That's impossible." Glynda stated.
"And holding someone in the air with a wooden stick from 5 feet away isn't?!" Jack retorted.
"It's my sembelance. Now I'm going to ask once more before we go to see the headmaster... what is your sembelance?"
"Please... I'm telling you! I haven't the faintest clue! Now please put me down!"
Glynda seemed to consider the idea for a brief second, then dropped him. The purple glow disappeared, and Glynda started walking towards him.
"Thank you! Now, please-" Glynda interrupted him by grabbing him by the collar of his jacket and dragging him, presumably to the headmaster of this messed up school.
"Girls, please accompany us to Professor Ozpin's office. He may want to know where you found this fool." She said that last word with particular malice. The girls trailer behind, exchanging sorrowful looks to Jack and at each other.
Jack was still being dragged for what felt like a comedically drawn out length of time before they reached the headmaster's office. Ozpin, did Glynda say his name was? What a peculiar name. The group entered a large elevator, and Glynda threw Jack against the wall of it to stop him from trying to escape.
"Now, before we get to Ozpin, I'm giving you one chance to talk."
"What?"
"You heard me. Talk. Who are you, first of all? What's your name and where do you come from?"
"I-I-" Jack was dumbfounded. This conversation was happening so fast!
"Stop stuttering. Just answer the questions."
Jack realised that there was no getting it of this, and he began with his name.
"My name... is Jack Hodgson. I'm from Liverpool, England."
"...What?" Glynda asked, completely confused.
"Excuse me?" Jack retorted with. He had given her a completely reasonable answer.
"You said England, but no England exists."
"What? Yeah it does. It's a first world country. You can't have not heard of England, you're speaking English."
"That's completely preposterous. I can't have not heard of an entire kingdom, there's only four."
Jack's face shot up pale.
"I'm so sorry, miss... er... Goodwitch, was it? But what the holy hell are you talking about?"
Just before he could get answers, the elevator dinged. They had arrived.
From Team RWBY's perspective
"What do you guys think they're talking about in there?" Ruby asked the rest of her team.
"No idea, but knowing Glynda, it can't be good." Yang answered.
"A guy just shows up on our doorstep, talking about a place that doesn't exist, with no knowledge of what sembelance is, and has the strongest magic resistance ever known in a human or Faunus? That, to me, sounds incredibly strange." Weiss added.
"And what do you think that old scroll he had was for?" Blake further questioned.
"I don't know. It doesn't look like any make I've seen, and I've basically seen them all." Weiss answered.
"You know that this calls for, gang?" Yang posed to the group.
"Second investigation!" Ruby screamed out in childish hyper excitement, just a little too loud. The whole group went completely pale, and stood in a circle staring at each other. The door opened, presumably for their punishment for shouting out about an investigation, but instead of Glynda on the other side, it was Ozpin.
"Girls, would you care to come inside and join us? I have a feeling you are going to need to get rather... familiar with the new boy."
Team RWBY stared at each other meekly, and entered Ozpin's office. They looked straight ahead, and stood in front of Ozpin's desk as he sat down.
"Glynda, please may we have the room?" Ozpin requested.
"But Professor, I-"
"Glynda, please."
Glynda seemed to hesitate, then left.
"Very well then. Now Team RWBY, this is Jack." They stared confidently at Jack, who stared back and waved meekly.
"Hi Jack." Ruby greeted. Jack and Ruby were the same age.
"Erm... Hi, red girl."
"My name's Ruby. Ruby Rose. This here is my half sister Yang Xiao Long, this is our resident book nerd Blake Belladonna, and my total BFF for life Weiss Schnee!"
"...White Snow? Snow White?" Jack inquired. What strange names!
"No you dolt! Weiss Schnee! They sound nothing alike!"
"Now Jack, remember, here on Remnant we don't have... German, did you say it was?" Ozpin reminded him.
"Y-Yeah. German."
"What?! Professor Ozpin, are you saying... that Jack isn't from Remnant?!" Ruby asked, shocked.
"Yes Ruby, I am. He is from a dimension where we do not exist, and neither does Aura and sembelance."
"What?!" Weiss screamed, shocked. Here, they had an extra-dimensional traveller!
"Now you see, Jack's coming has been foretold for centuries in one of our old legends." The entire room was gripped. "You said you are from Earth, correct?"
"Yeah, that's my planet." Jack said, unnerved.
"And that is the one described in the tale of the chosen king." Ozpin said, with an uncharacteristic excitement.
Ruby, obviously unnerved by this, asked Ozpin to explain himself.
"Professor, what does that mean?"
"It means, that someday Jack, somehow, these four kingdoms will become yours to rule over."
"I-I-I... I have no words. I'm literally so confused right now." Jack managed to splutter out a sentence.
"How about, where do we begin?" Ozpin replied, cool as ice.
Jack took a moment to respond. So much so that Ozpin didn't wait for him.
"The legend states that a team will need to be assembled, comprised of members from both Remnant and Earth. It speaks of these 8 powerful warriors coming together, and combatting a legendary evil. I believe you 5 before me are these warriors. Now Jack, I obviously want to get you home to your family, but could you please consider staying and leading your team to victory against this foe? After all, you have more to lose than any of us."
"What do you mean?" Jack inquired.
"This is your planet on the line. As it's rightful heir, it's your duty to fend off any threats to its wellbeing."
"But this isn't my planet! I don't belong here!" Jack stood up and slammed his hands on the desk.
"I'm... sorry to hear that. We unfortunately don't have the technology to get you home, so for the time being you will have to stay with your new teammates." Team RWBY were shocked by this. He was a member of Team RWBY now!? He was going to be rooming with them?!
"That... is... AWESOME!" Ruby exclaimed. She was so excited to be sharing a room with her new friend. Naturally, her teammates winced at this.
"Ahem. Well, carrying on, what's that device you have in your pocket?" Ozpin asked. Jack was slightly unnerved by this. He must have a very keen eye to see a phone in his pocket.
"It's a phone. It calls people, it sends texts, it plays games, and it browses the internet." Jack informed Ozpin.
"Ooh, yay! Gimme gimme gimme!" Ruby snatched the phone and loaded up a game on it. She wandered off to the offices couch and sat there playing games on Jack's phone. Jack and the rest of Team RWBY turned around and giggled between themselves.
"Er, well, Jack, I have a small request. Would you please consider a medical examination? I feel that you are technically an alien, attempting to detect any deviations in your anatomy from our own would be most beneficial."
"Wait, what? Sorry, I kind of zoned out at 'medical examination'." Jack confessed.
"He wants to see if you're weird." Yang said, answering his question.
"If that would be okay." Ozpin added.
"Yeah, sure thing. I've got this weird cutting pain in my forearms I'd like to get checked out."
"Okay. I'll contact the school nurse and tell her you'll be down momentarily. Miss Rose." Ruby's ears perked up.
"Holdononesecondivenearlygotthehighscore!" Ruby shouted out.
"Ruby!" Ozpin commanded, mildly annoyed. Ruby dropped the phone on the couch.
"Eek! Erm, yes Professor Ozpin?"
"Could you please show Jack to the nurses office? And the rest of you, please go back to your dorm and wait there for these two."
"And what do we do once they're back?" Yang inquired.
"It's the weekend, isn't it? Have fun."
So that's the first chapter! Let me know what you thought, I've got a bunch more chapters to come!