Disclaimer: I do not own RWBY as it is the IP of RoosterTeeth.

The man had exited a portal followed quickly by two others. He was an average sized man at about 5'6" with short clean cut black hair. He wore black Vans with blue shorts with a open red vest, showing off the deep scar eight point scar on his chest.

Following behind him was a boy and a girl, both around the same age and in their teenage years. The boy wore a cloak with blue denim jeans and a white t-shirt underneath and white Vans with dark-brown hair that went down to his neck. The girl was dressed in a black long sleeve t-shirt with similar blue denim jeans as to the boy and wore black Vans with white laces and had long black hair that went part of the way down her back. While the man had green eyes that seemed to pierce everything they stared at, the two teens had similar silver eyes that seemed so full of life and want for knowledge.

The man takes a few steps from the portal and closes it before looking back at his two companions. He seems to take a moment to take them in before speaking. "I should be gone two hours at the most. Razoul, take care of my daughter in the meantime."

The boy now known as Razoul seemed to flinch as the man's eyes looked at him before responding as best he could. "You don't have to worry about that Master. She will be in no harm while I am here." Razoul finished off his statement with a bow that showed understanding in it. The girl on the other hand looked completely offended as she glared at her father.

"Are you serious? I can take care of myself father. Razoul doesn't have to look over me like I am a pet." She fixed Razoul with a glare when he went to open his mouth and say something. The man just laughed at his daughter's response and understood the reasoning. "Father, I wanted for Razoul and me to come along so we could do something fun for once while we wait for you to meet with your friends."

The man's expression hardened showing what he thought of his 'friends'. "I would hardly call them that. We are in more of a relationship with a mutual benefit." The man turned around and looked to the sky. "Val, I know that you don't like the idea of Razoul protecting you like that, but this Earth is very dangerous. It is so dissimilar to our own. Sure they have heroes here to protect the peace, but they are weak..."

Val laughs at that. "Father, to you everyone is weak." Razoul just nods agreeing with Val.

The man just rolls his eyes at that, but relents to the comment. "Be as that is, I still feel better with Razoul here being on alert. Which is why he has my Kitestsu." The man then nods and turns to leave. "Be good while I'm gone you two."

Razoul and Val just nod absent mindedly and run off, while the man just shakes his head. After he is sure no one is around he takes off into space to the agreed upon location. He arrives not a moment later only to be greeted by one of the two 'acquaintances'. "Yoe, where is Neio at. We agreed to meet here at this time. He can't be running late now can he."

Yoe, who is in his true form which is a humanoid reptilian with a tail looking quite similar to that of a dragon only with a giant afro on his head, just stares firmly at the man not speaking to him. Unaware that something is wrong the man just continues to question his companion on where this 'Neio' is.

That is at least until the man ducks under a right hook shot from behind him. "Woah woah woah." The man jumps back to look at his assailant before his eyes widen at who he sees. "Neio, what are you doing? I came just like you asked me to, so we could talk. I..."

Neio, a tall man wearing nothing but gi pants and has spikey silver hair, glares at the man before speaking to him with pure condensendence in his voice. "Talk? You think we came to talk. Ha, I came here to take you out so that you can't interfere with my fight."

The man just looks confused at that. "Fight? Who are you going to fight that you think that I will get in the way of you fighting?" He doesn't notice that Yoe began to do something behind him. "Why would I get in your way? You are acting like you are going to do something stupid so take out the one that will actually question what is going on."

Neio just smirks at him as he notices Yoe is finished. "Well Jeremie, I guess I can fill you in on what is going on. First off, I found an enemy beyond our multiverse, I wish to fight them and to kill their strongest. Second, You won't stop me." As he finishes, Jeremie's vision flashes as light fills it and he only notices it for a second that he was surrounded in a crystal before he was lost to the outside world.

The young woman looks at the man in shock and disbelief. She wasn't sure if she heard correctly what the man had just said. How was it possible? He was stuck in that stupid crystal for 5000 years? He supposedly wasn't even from this world in the first place, wasn't from Remnant? No he said he was from Earth, the Earth of another universe. "How..."

The man cut her off. "How is this possible? Well the only way I can see this as a possiblity is if something happened while I was sealed away. I believe I know what happened too." The man just smiled at the girl. The girl wasn't much in his eyes. She wore a black combat dress with red lace and black knee high socks and even combat boots. She had silver eyes, probably the most unique thing about her, with black hair with red highlights on the tips.

"You see Ms. Rose, I believe that when they sealed me in that crystal I was hidden away on Earth and overtime the landscape and overall world just changed due to the invovlement of these Grimm you say inhibit this world. It is sad though too." He looked sullen at that.

Ruby Rose, age 25, was a full fledged Huntress and was known to be a silver-eyed warrior. Most didn't even know what that was, but she knew. She forced her uncle to tell her everything after the Fall of Beacon, the combat school she had attended at one point in her life. After that moment, her uncle Qrow had decided that he had to train her himself so that she wouldn't get killed by the Grimm or even the White Fang for that matter.

She knew that he wanted only to protect her, and she appreciated the gesture. She really did, but then again she knew he knew that she could take care of herself quite well. She doesn't know what happened in that time she was away, but it was bad. With Pyrrha dead, the rest of Team JNPR tried to survive for her sake, well mainly Jaune. It was five years ago that Nora had died protecting a group of refugees against some King Taijus. Ren didn't last to long after that since she died in his arms, with Jaune dying two years ago when Jaune and Ruby went to confront Cinder Fall and her master Salem.

Ruby hated it. Her friends were so mercilessly killed while she could do nothing but watch the fireworks. It was a wonder to her father Taiyang why she was always training with Qrow, but really she wanted to just end this war and kill Salem, the leader of the Grimm. Well this training was more for killing Cinder Fall, not really Salem anymore, not since Jaune's death at Cinder's hands. It is interesting how one gears for revenge after watching your best friend get burned alive.

Time moves fast for her, it is her semblence after all, but here she is checking into something for her uncle Qrow. It has been ten years since anyone has last seen Professor Ozpin, the Headmaster at Beacon. Qrow had been looking for him all this time, personally Ruby thought it to be a lost cause. She didn't care that he was an old friend and that he was supposed to be very important to their cause, she just wanted to get this mission over with and go back to hunting down Cinder.

She stops when she hears some bushes rattle, and some twigs break. She is quickly prepared to fight, her Cresent Rose in hand, which is a highly customizable high powered rifle and scythe. Quickly shooting out of the bushes came five Grimm, all of them Beowolves, basically black werewolves. They all had minor armor on their faces, babies really. Ruby didn't even need to think about it as she cleaved through the first three with a quick slash and a little tap into her semblence, while the other two lunged at her previous position not even realizing that she had moved. Red petals were all of the warning the two beasts recieved as they shared the same fate as their brothers.

"Tch. So annoying that was the fifth pack I've run into today." Her voice came out smooth but rough in the same note, the same way a general of an army's came out. Just as quickly as she pulled out her weapon it was already in its holster on her back. She continued walking through the empty forest not really sure where she needs to go, but she wasn't going to let that stop her.

As she stepped through the bushes and into the next clearing, she realized belatedly that she was sent soaring into the adjacent tree. She got one look at her assailant before she hit the tree and began to fade out of consciousness, and it was one big Beowolf, definitely an old one as it had so much armor. The thing was nearly all white! She realized it a moment later, the big bad wolf had come to finish her here and now. It was so sad she could almost laugh at the stupidity of the situation.

She sat there and waited for her inevitable death for a few minutes before she could focus her eyes again only to realize that the Grimm was fighting someone or something. She couldn't actually tell, for all she knew it could have been an Atlesian Knight Mk.6 or it could have been a rogue hunter. She didn't get to see the rest of the fight as the darkness had pulled her into unconsciousness. It happened so fast she missed the worried look of the person approaching her.

The man had carried Ruby back to his little cavern he had stayed for the past couple thousand years. He saw no harm in it, especially when the shadowlings were on the prowl like that. He hated Neio for this. He knew that this was Neio's fault, it had him written all over it.

He didn't know what to think when he finally broke free from the crystal ten years ago, but he belatedly realized that he was left alive for a purpose. He believed he knew what that was, it was all a game. A giant CHESS GAME! How dare Neio turn his love of the game into a life or death situation.

He looked over the girl and patched her up to the best of his abilities without being to invasive. He knew this girl must have been through a tough time by the way she slept so fitfully. It reminded him of some people, himself included. He shook his head as he went to his little lab area he created after he awoke in this world. For now the girl could rest, later he would learn more about this world.

As Ruby came to, she noticed that her head hurt badly and that she was on stone like she was in a cave. She knew that she would have to get up slowly if she didn't want to alert whomever she was with and to stop herself from getting vertigo. She had woken up enough times with a head injury to know that no matter what she shouldn't force herself. So with as much care as she could, she had pulled herself up and took an inventory of injuries noticing that her main injury was already patched up with primitive bandages.

After she finished with that she began to look around the cavern she was in. It was large but also seemed to hold many machines, most of which she had never seen before. It was weird and quite frankly creeped her out. There wasn't much to look at besides the lights on the ceiling and the machines that were giving off there own light, so she quickly noticed a man in a torn red vest and blue shorts with short black hair checking a few of those machines. She quickly made note that he had her Cresent Rose on the table near him. 'Darn, this just became harder to get out of here'

As if the man sensed her thought turned to look at her. "Ah, good you are awake. I was wondering if that beasts sneak attack did more damage to you than I could find." The man seemed genuine enough, but she also had learned over time that some hid their true self under a facade. When she didn't relax, he picked up her weapon and tossed it to her. "It is interesting."

Ruby found herself confused at this statement mainly because this person said it with no clear context, for all she know he could be talking about the weather. 'What is this guy on about?' When the man laughed she realized that she had actually spoken that last thought aloud.

"Sorry, I don't mean anything bad by that. I was just noticing that you have silver eyes." She noticed that he had a sullen look on his face as he said that making her wonder why. The man quickly sobered up though putting on a cheerful expression again as if he found the perfect temperment to repair his broken weapon. "Never mind that though. I have a proposition for you."

She was instantly weary because of his last statement. "What kind of proposition? Why are you asking me? Why did you save me?"

In response the man chuckled as he walked over to her, making her activate her gun mode on the Cresent Rose. "Woah there." He put his hands up to try and placate Ruby. "I am not going to hurt you. You see I have been looking for information about the status of this world and I am unable to assertain this information on my own. This is where you come in and help me out. I give you some information, you give me some information. How does that sound?"

Ruby quickly processed that and realized that this could be beneficial for her if he had any information about Ozpin. She then nodded and asked her own question. "I guess that will work but I want this question answered. Have you seen Professor Ozpin? He is tall and wears a dark green suit with glasses and white hair."

Her hope about finally ending the search for the professor was shot the minute the man in front of her shook his head. "Sorry, I have never seen a man like that." The man looks down and begins to think before looking up again. "Sorry that I can't help you there, but I would like to know the state of the world as current."

Ruby nods and then begins to explain to him what is going on all over Remnant before he stops her asking a big quiestion. "Wait a second, when did the world get called Remnant. What the hell happened while I was sealed up?" Ruby looks at him confused before he explains that he is from before the Grimm showed up and how he was meeting up with his acquaintences K.O. Yoe and Neio. He spoke of how they ambushed him and how he was sealed away.

Ruby then asked him. "Why is it sad though?" She was having a hard time processing what was going on at this moment. Was she still on Remnant or was she in some messed up illusion that Emerald was able to create. She shook her head and focused on his reply.

"It is sad because I thought that Neio was smarter than this. I never thought that he would unleash his shadowlings onto Earth like that, nor did I ever suspect that he and Yoe would ever seal me away. I don't even know what to think about this situation. Turning this into a literal game of chess and from what you told me, I assume that Ozpin was the King piece." The man looked away and frowned. "It is weird though, the game as over the moment Ozpin disappeared... Unless of course he did so on purpose."

Ruby looked even more confused as she stoped his little rant. "Wait what? What do you mean disappeared on purpose? Why would he do that?"

The man laughed. "In chess, the main objective is to get the opposing king piece into a position where it has lost known as checkmate, and so far there has been no checkmate. I believe Ozpin hid himself so that this Salem person would never gain a checkmate on humanity, as he seems to be a target to this person." His logic seemed to be fine but she was still confused about it.

"If they are playing this like that then why is he the king, when there are more important people to humanity." Ruby didn't like this and she had a bad feeling that something was very wrong about this whole thing.

The man looks at a random corner of the cave before responding. "I believe he is the king piece probably because he has some history with Salem. He was probably a good friend before he did something to betray her. It may have started as a friendly game too, but time does not fix all wounds." He looks down at Ruby before holding out his hand to her. "I, Jeremie Scott, would like to ask you Ruby Rose to do me a favor."

Ruby takes Jeremie's hand and they shake and she asks, "What is this favor?" She couldn't help but feel hope surge through her like she was going to write a major wrong that has occured. It was intense and quick as she waited for Jeremie to respond to her question.

Finally, he responded. "I would like to ask you to go back in time and find me in the past and help me. I want you to help me find the four ancient generals and to destroy them. If I want to gain my power back then that needs to happen." He pulls out a bag. "Here eat this because if I do then it will only go to waste as it won't restore my strength."

Ruby takes the bean out of the bag and looks at him before he responds to the look. "That is called a senzu bean. They are a magic bean that restores a fighter's strength and will fix all wounds on a person." She gives him a skeptical look before she decides to take a leap of faith and eats it. Immediatedely, she feels every wound she had sustained restored and that her fatigue went away and her strength came back in full.

She laughs and gives him a serious question. "How will I go back in time? It's not like you have a time machine in here. I doubt that you can actually do that."

If anything Jeremie seemed to be offended by her doubt in him. "I'll have you know that time travel is quite an easy thing for me to do. The only problem is that I can't open a portal that can sustain my being in it without forsaking this planet."

"Forsaking this planet?"

Jeremie looks down at that. "Yes, my lifeforce is what is keeping this planet alive. You see the shadowlings or Grimm as humanity call them are made from shadows and will suck out the life of a planet. If I wasn't here then this planet would not be able to sustain life on it anymore." He shakes his head. "I can only send you back once, so if you are going to do this then I will need you completely prepared."

Ruby then asks an important question. "How do your past self to trust me and to go with me?"

Jeremie thinks for a moment before handing her a dagger. "Give him this as a token of good faith and tell him that 'if Razoul wasn't dead I would have killed him myself for doing that.'"

Ruby looks at Jeremie incredously before taking the dagger and putting it with her scythe. "Are you sure it will work?"

"Yes I am positive it will work. I will be sending you to when I first woke up in this time, which is ten years ago." He either didn't see or didn't care about her shocked look on her face as he just continued. "If you help me do this then I will help you with that revenge."

Ruby begins to smirk at the thought of being able to kill Cinder. "Alright, when do we do this?"

Jeremie sits down into a meditative position and smirks as well. "We start now. You will be sent back into your younger body and only your semblence will remain through the trip, well besides he dagger I gave you anyway." Jeremie lifts up his hand before ripping it down causing Ruby to begin falling and her consciousness fades away. "Good luck." That was the last thing she heard before she was gone.

Alright guys first chapter completed. So what do you guys think. Review and let me know, since I want to know what you guys think about this.