Chapter I: From Earth to Remnant
At Beacon Academy, there have been good days, there have been rough days, and then there have been days that go from good to weird, to weirder, then to flippin' awesome. Such as one particular day, after all the chaos that ensued from confronting Roman Torchwick with the White Fang. First, they found themselves in an all-out food fight in the cafeteria, which they had a blast with, then they ended up stuck in their dorm rooms for the rest of the day.
That was when the day going well turned into the weird day when they say a giant tower of blue and gray light strike the ground with a loud slamming sound deep in the Emerald Forest. The girls of team RWBY all looked to each other with the same confused and curious looks, same with the members of team JNPR, before they were all summoned to the Headmaster's office.
As they entered the room, they found the old headmaster, still with his silver mop of hair and emerald coat and pants and mug filled with nothing that isn't coffee, sitting at his desk with his hands together at the fingertips and naturally in deep thought. By his side was his blonde, buxom second in command, Glynda Goodwitch, in her usual tight white button-down shirt and just as tight black skirt with leggings.
Then they noticed a new face in the room, one that they had never seen before, save Weiss. He appeared towering over the rest, looking to be six-foot-four, wearing a white Atlesian military uniform with a red tie and white gloves behind his back. There was what seemed to be a small metal patch above his right eye, though no one could tell what the piece of metal was or what it might have been covering. He had a predictable military cut of dark black hair with grey on the sides, and steel blue eyes that looked like they were staring into the souls of all the students present. He glanced over to Ozpin and looked ready to say something but the Headmaster raised his hand to silence the tower of a man before he could even say anything.
"Students, for those of you who don't know him, this is General James Ironwood of the Atlas military and Headmaster of Atlas Academy. Though you are not here to meet him." the blonde combat instructor announced in a "strictly business" tone as she turned her attention to the two first-year teams in the room.
"Then if you don't mind us asking Headmaster Ozpin and Miss Goodwitch, why are we here?" asked team JNPR's resident ninja, Lie Ren.
"Look Prof if this is about that little scuffle in the cafeteria, it wasn't that bad, just a tiny elementary food fight." spoke up the buxom blonde brawler of team RWBY, Yang Xiao Long.
Professor Ozpin put his coffee mug to his mouth to mask his grin before teasing the brawler, "My dear Miss Xiao Long, I eagerly await the day when you find someone who is able to catch the heart of an adventurous thrillseeker such as yourself."
"Then he could be able to stop your horrible puns. Or maybe teach you to make better ones." Yang's partner, team RWBY's very own cat Faunus kunoichi smirked, while the brawler waved off the two.
"Yeah well sorry to disappoint you two, if there were anyone who would be willing to do something like 'improve' my already perfect sense of humor then I'd be interested, but unfortunately, every guy wants me for this package you see here." she gestured to herself.
Ozpin chuckled at the little argument taking place in front of him before Glynda coughed to get their attention, "Headmaster, students, now is most certainly not the time for fun and games. As to answer your question mister Lie, you are here because we want you to investigate the beam of light that shot into the Emerald Forest."
"Um… no offense Headmaster, but why do you think it should be two teams to investigate this?" JNPR's leader, Jaune Arc asked.
"Well, mister Arc, it's because that after the light struck the forest, there has been an increase of Grimm activity and it seems that they are all headed to the striking point of the light. Your mission is to investigate and to bring whatever or whoever the cause might be to the Headmaster. Understood?" Beacon's deputy Headmistress answered.
The teams looked to each other with varying degrees of worry, excitement, and curiosity. They've been sent on missions together before and have gone on plenty of dangerous missions chock full of Grimm, but one in the Emerald Forest? With all the Grimm gathering in one place where some weird beam of light from outer space struck the planet? Is this Jack's manic laughter broke ita job for first-year teams? Then again, the eight of them have been through more than most. All doubts and concerns were put aside rather quickly when they were brought out of their heads by the beckoning voice of the combat instructor.
"Come now! Aren't all of you supposed to be huntsmen and huntresses in training? You do what's to be expected of you. We expect you to investigate this." Goodwitch said.
"Don't worry Ms. Goodwitch! We'll do whatever it is you ask, and we'll do it better than you expect!" team RWBY's leader, Ruby Rose, declared in her usual childish manner; much to Ozpin's amusement and Ironwood's unseen annoyance.
"Of that, I am sure Ms. Rose. Before you head out, however, take this with you." nodding at her superior, Glynda handed Ruby a small piece of metal, "What you have there, Miss Rose, is a tracking device for a small surveillance drone to follow. With the drone following you, we will be able to see everything that you see. It also has built-in movement sensors to register any movement made by anything other than the eight of you."
The two teams, minus the resident Atlesian, were in awe of the excellent example of Atlas' ingenuity and technology, "Now do hurry along, all of you. The bullhead will drop you a few yards away from the exact spot, and it will be leaving in five minutes so I'd start running if I were you." Ozpin chuckled again.
At that, the two teams rushed out of the office and nearly jumped into the bullhead. While running, they kept discussing why they would be sending two first-year teams to the forest and what that light could have been. As they were getting on the bullhead, they all felt a chill run up each of their spines. They turned back to the forest, and each one had the same gut feeling: something or someone powerful is about to be discovered.
"He… ack… we're… ake… piece… shi… WAKE UP JACKASS!" Luke ordered to Jack before he kicked his brother awake.
"GAAH! WHAT THE HELL MAN?! I THOUGHT WE WERE PAST THIS! NO MORE PUNCHING OR KICKING ME AWAKE UNLESS FOR EARLY MORNING TRAINING OR FOR PAYBACK!" Jack shouted back.
The two stared each other in the eyes until Jack keeled back in laughter like a madman and Luke began to laugh. That's when Luke stopped chuckling and looked to his brother, and he liked the new look. He was still in the same black tactical combat jacket they got on the black market but on top of it was plate armor pauldrons on both of his shoulders and more plates running down the outer side of his arms down to his hands. The best part was that they had flame patterns that fluctuated like real flames. Of course, then he was still wearing his jeans with the extra pockets and kevlar knee pads he sewed in himself, his fingerless black combat gloves, and steel-toed combat boots. Hellfire and Brimstone sheathed on his back, his gauntlet to turn into the shield on her left forearm, and his becker tac tool on his belt.
His brother looked like a badass in the outfit, although none of it beat the literally flaming armor down the arms of the jacket.
"Well, Hellfire looks like you're living up to your nickname even more than before," Luke smirked at his friend, who laughed even harder until he looked at his old friend, which stopped his laughter cold.
"And yet here you are showing me up again like it's your reason for freakin' living. COME ON MAN! You look too badass for your own good!" he mockingly shouted.
That's when Luke looked to himself and even he had to admit; he DID look badass. He had on a white sports shirt and above that was a grey jacket, what sort of looked like a pampered down and hoodless hiking jacket, then he felt he had a large, military issue backpack slung over his shoulder.
He looked further down to see he was in his usual black cargo pants and sneakers reaching above his ankles, colored the same grey as the jacket and black like the pants; there was a small bit of composite armor on the outer sides of his thighs. Then he looked at his hands and saw he was wearing the same fingerless combat gloves as Jack, black with an opening on the backs. Finally, he saw his ka-bar in its sheath on the armor on his left leg, his P99 in a holster patched onto the armor piece on his right leg, and as he felt the hilt of Ragnarok on between his back and his pack, he grew a small smile, looking forward to trying out a poly weapon.
"Well then… we're here so… what now? Do we look for this Beacon Academy that Nexus mentioned or test out our weapons?" Jack asked in as much of a serious tone as he could muster.
His question got answered when they heard a low growl and looked around to find themselves surrounded by what looked like five dozen beowolves and ursa. The two brothers put their backs to each other and slowly turned counterclockwise to face all of the Grimm that surrounded them. One of the beowolves leaped out at Luke but soon found itself on the other side of the forest. The rest turned to see Luke's right fist outstretched where the beowolf was.
Jack scoffed as he looked over his shoulder to his friend, "You haven't even unlocked what they call 'aura' yet, and you're already showing off. But anyway, shall we… mon frère?"
"Let's."
Teams RWBY and JNPR were walking through Emerald Forest for about five minutes until they caught up with a pack of beowolves, all of them headed to the same place. Ruby spoke into her scroll to the two teams, "Alright here's the plan: Ren and Blake stick to the treetops as we follow the pack from behind. Once we get there, we wait and see what they're after, ok?"
The teams nodded into their scrolls and responded with ok's, then they followed along with the pack.
"So what do you guys think we'll find? Pancake monsters from outer space? A meteor full of pancakes?" Nora, JNPR's hammer-wielding heavy hitter, manically raved into her teammates' ears.
"Nora, I doubt that there would be anything in outer space made of pancakes." JNPR's spartan, Pyrrha Nikos, chuckled at her friend's antics.
"Well, then what is it that we're expecting to… to… … whoa…" RWBY's heiress, Weiss Schnee began.
Yang turned to her sister's partner with a confused look, "'Whoa'? Since when can the princess say something so simple?"
Weiss said nothing but pointed to the clearing right in front of them. When everyone turned in the direction to see what she was pointing at, their eyes went wide with surprise and curiosity. In the middle of the clearing were two tall guys, both looking to be six-foot-one, with thick dark brown hair but each with a different haircut, one wearing a mullet with a fade, the other with a usual looking short haircut just reaching his jacket collar. The one with the mullet had a well-built body, though not quite that of a bodybuilder, a narrow chin, square jaw and had two ragged looking blades in both his hands and his armor looked like there was a fire inside of it.
They saw the two surrounded by at least five dozen beowolves and ursa, then suddenly one single beowolf jumped at them, and before any of the Beacon students could move to do anything, they watched with eyes as wide as saucers as the other one punched the beowolf in the face. It was sent flying away from them and leaving a trail of destruction in its wake.
That was when all eyes turned to the other one, and also when Yang realized what got the princess to stutter. As if the one in with the mullet wasn't handsome enough, the other one put Sun's partner to absolute shame. He didn't have the same outstretching hair as his friend, but it was just as thick, he also had a somewhat leaner body than his friend, but it almost looked as though he was even more muscular. He had what looked like the most masculine face structure there could be, even more than his friend, and a military tactical backpack with a sword handle sticking out between him and the pack.
When they all looked at his grey jacket, his cargo pants, and his gloves, they couldn't help but wonder what team CFVY's leader, the fashionista Coco Adel, would say if she were to see his fitting style. They pushed those thoughts aside when they realized what they just saw and couldn't stop staring at the one with the outstretched fist. Ruby began to blush as red as her cloak, Weiss' mind went blank, not knowing what to think yet, Blake started to picture the stranger as a samurai and her in a yukata, thoughts which she immediately shook her head at to dispel.
Then there was Yang, whose heart began to race as fast as her bike. That was until the other boy's voice broke them all out of their thoughts. When they heard him say that neither of them had even unlocked their aura yet, they were all thinking how that could be possible. Then they got back to reality when the one that punched the beowolf away drew one of the most terrifying longswords any of them had ever seen. He held it in one hand, then with a voice that sounded so deep that it could have come from the ocean, the two charged into the packs.
First, six beowolves went after Jack, in a tightly formed ring. Jack merely smirked before letting go of the handles of Hellfire and Brimstone, grabbing onto the chains welded onto the bottom of them. With a single movement, he leaped into the air, spinning at a diagonal angle and slamming the blades down on one of the beowolves. Then Jack wrapped the chains around his forearms and swung the beowolf on the end of the daggers into the rest of them that surrounded him. His smirk grew more prominent when he activated the pistol modes for Hellfire and Brimstone, proceeding to fire at the beowolves as they flew a few meters away from him.
"HEY, I GOT SIX! HOW MANY YOU GOT MAN?" Jack yelled at his brother as he turned to see a beautiful sight.
Luke didn't bother answering as he continued doing what he was doing. He propelled himself out of the trees and faces of the beowolves, slashing at them at high speeds. He saw a dozen bodies beginning to fade away by Luke's feet then watched him cut two ursas in half with a single upward strike of Ragnarok, then leaned his upper body backward as a larger beowolf leaped to slash at him with its claws. Before the back of his head could hit the ground, Luke leaned back up and grabbed the beowolf that charged him by one of its hind legs, twirling it through the air before he threw it with enough strength to break its neck with a loud CRACK and send a dozen beowolves and ursa falling back. Before he could let his guard down, three more beowolves sprung at Luke's back, only to quickly be slashed apart in one horizontal swing. "I lost count at twenty a few seconds ago," he shouted back.
"Have you even" Jack slashed right, "tried out" then slashed left, "the other mode on the sword?" Jack shouted while slashing at the beowolves that jumped at him.
"Oh right!" Luke charged and stabbed an ursa in the chest, forcing it onto it's back, "It's just been too long since I've used a sword! Been having too much fun."
Jack turned back to his friend with wide eyes and a teasing smirk, "Did you just say you're having fun?!"
Luke stood up on the fading body of the ursa, glared at Jack and groaned out loud, "Oh bite me Jackass!"
"HEY!" Jack jokingly shot back.
That was when the ground began to shake slightly, and the Grimm started to back away. Suddenly a giant ursa major burst out of the woods with a ferocious roar that made the beowolves and smaller ursa back away in respect towards the major. It's body a pitch black fur with giant white spikes protruding from its back and claws and a mask the same white with red eyes and runic patterns on its face. It was unlike anything either of the earthling brothers had ever seen before. The major got on its front paws and let out another roar, bringing the beowolves into a group howl and group roar from the rest of the ursa.
"Uh, Luke?" Jack asked while staring at the beast, "Is Remnant a realm from Norse mythology or something?"
Luke looked up to the major and tilted his head before answering back, "Well, I'm not all that sure, but I can see why you'd ask that."
Luke then jumped off the rapidly decaying corpse and stood next to his brother, turning to him he strategized, "Switch your weapons to sniper mode and aim for the knees, then once it's immobilized, aim at its eyes and the rune on its forehead."
"What about you? What will you do, get me an opening?" Jack turned to his friend with concern evident on his face.
Luke turned and gave him a reassuring smile, "I'll be pulling a few hits and runs with Ragnarok in sword mode, just make sure you hit the sweet spots when you need to. Oorah?"
Jacks concerned look was replaced by one of sheer mischief and confidence, as it always does when Luke gives the word, "Oorah."
Luke drew back Ragnarok, resting the blade on his forearm and pointing to the side. He bent down getting ready to charge and darted to the major's left and slashed at its arm. It let out a loud growl and swung its front right arm towards Luke, who launched himself off the side of the tree he landed on. Luke kept himself from staying in one place, darting from treeside to treeside, a patch to piece of ground, and moving like a bullet, all the while slashing and stabbing the major's legs with movements just as quick. As he predicted, the major kept trying to cut at him with its front legs and paws, all while keeping itself balanced on its hind legs.
Jack watched at a distance through the scope of his sniper rifle; he couldn't afford a moment of distraction to his beautiful masterpiece of a poly-weapon. As Luke kept the front legs of the major moving, he was leaving small openings for Jack to fire at the rear kneecaps, both of which Jack was able to disable with only two shots. The only thought going through his head was gratefulness that he talked Luke into training him every minute of every day for the past seven years. Once Jack neutralized both kneecaps, Luke stopped moving right in front of the major, his back facing Jack. While he stood there, the major lifted its head to roar and bit at him, only to see him staring it down with a look of unbreakable defiance. It scared the major, in turn scaring the surrounding Grimm.
"DEADSHOT!" Luke roared like a commanding lion, followed by another shot from the sniper rifle.
Like a living being on the brink of death, the major let out a final roar of unbridled rage and fear until the bullet hit it in the target of a rune on its forehead, silencing it for good. The impact of the bullet forced the head back as the white skeleton-like part broke to pieces, flying through the air. As the body fell forward, Luke stood his ground and sheathed his sword behind his back, though not moving another inch as the body fell straight toward him… only to land a few measly feet from him. When the body hit the ground, it shook and almost immediately began to slowly dissolve away into black dust. Luke turned to face the surrounding Grimm with a glare that could rival looking into the double barrel of a shotgun, making them run away from the two who just took down one of the biggest Grimm in the forest in less than a minute. Luke let out a sigh and plopped himself down on the ground.
"Nice shot Jack, I'm glad you chose to make your poly weapon a sniper too." Luke turned over his shoulder.
"Yeah well, I couldn't do it without you distracting it and giving me an opening. And look, I know that you're already above average in all physical categories, to put it mildly, but you're still mortal. Just make sure you don't take all the risks, okay Luke?" Jack knelt in front of his friend with another concerned look in his eyes.
Luke smiled at his friends care and concern for his well being before smirking teasingly, "You already take the biggest risks hanging around me pal."
Jack smiled and stood back up, "Yeah well, I still gotta even the score on life saves and I still gotta prove I'm more badass than you are. That and I still need to get you a girlfriend for the love of-"
Luke's palm found the back of Jacks head before he could finish the thought, eliciting a laugh out of the head-slapped joker. "Well then what now? Do we keep looking for this 'Beacon Academy' the old man mentioned? I mean, it's not like we have anywhere else to go right now."
"Very true." Luke responded, "Though I think it would be a better idea to wait until the six people watching us from those trees back there and the two from the trees here and there to show themselves."
Luke raised his voice at the last sentence and pointed to the three spots in the trees around them, forcing a small 'EEP' from the direction of the first six he mentioned. Jack just shook his head, "Again. Show off."
A few seconds passed by, and still, no one came out to confront them. Eventually, Jack got tired of waiting for the audience to decide what to do, "Look, we already know you're all there, whoever you are, so you might as well come out! We don't bite… well at least he doesn't!" he pointed towards Luke, who put his hand to his low hanging face and gave an exhausted sigh.
There was a sound like leaves fluttering in the wind, and Jack turned to see a short girl in a black corset-like dress, skirt and a red cape. Her hair was as black as her clothes and the tips of her hair as red as her cape. Behind her was a trail of rose petals that were slowly beginning to fade like a Grimm's remains. She just showed up so suddenly that when Jack turned around and saw her, he jumped back in an almost comical manner. She made a small bow to the two.
"We're really sorry for not showing ourselves sooner, but we were sent her to find out why the Grimm were surrounding this area. Not to get involved or anything." the Little Red Riding Hood clone apologized.
'Some dark version of Little Red Riding Hood? Dark creatures called Grimm?' a single glance between the two earthlings gave each the same thought, 'We're in a fairy tale world, aren't we?'
"Don't worry. All's forgiven. Oh, also, Grimm? Is that what those things are called?" Luke quickly replied to the apology, the last part of which put a confused look on the girls face.
"HOW DO YOU NOT KNOW WHAT GRIMM ARE?!" another voice screeched into Jack's ear.
Jack fell onto his back with ringing in his ears, same with Luke. The latter regained his senses first and looked up to see another attractive girl, only a bit taller than the first. She had long, dull silver hair in a ponytail on the right side of her head. Her clothes were the same white as Lukes jacket, except her coat was smaller, shorter, and more like the kind of jacket worn on top of a high-end dress, which it looked as though she was also wearing. The hem of her skirt seemed to even be in a pattern of endless snowflakes. Luke immediately realized that she was some version of Snow White, taking in the whole "snow" theme.
Jack soon regained his senses shortly afterward, though the little sonic boom did nothing to change his personality, "That was the loudest thing I've ever heard, and I've been in the front row seat of a Greta Van Fleet concert."
The white-clad girl wore a look of shocked frustration and looked as though she was getting ready to chew Jack out. At least until Luke coughed to get her attention raising his hand before she could speak, "I'm sorry about my friend there, and I'm sorry we aren't making much sense to any of you, but even I have to admit that was somewhat uncalled for."
The girl in question looked even further appalled and turned away from the two with a frustrated scoff. All the while, the near-redhead was keeping herself from letting out some built up laughter. Luke and Jack looked over to where the almost silent laughter was coming from, and the little scene brought genuine warm smiles to the two. The redhead then looked back and saw the two boys smiling, delivering a healthy blush to her face. Jack's smile quickly moved back into his usual smirk, "Ok. Well, since that's over with, CAN THE REST OF YOU JUST COME OUT ALREADY?! NOW YOU'RE BEING RUDE!"
With that, the rest of the spies revealed themselves in the patch of grass to the earthlings, and they were the most diverse looking friend group the two had ever seen. From the two trees came a tall ravenette wearing a tall bow on top of her head, a long black sleeve from her forearm to below her shoulder on her left arm, black wraps around her hands, black leggings that had some sort of symbol on them, and what looked like a white dress shirt under a short black suit. When her golden eyes locked with Luke's hazel, she turned away with a dense blush and while Luke kept his cool on the outside, in his mind he mentally facepalmed himself, knowing just what lied ahead if Jack caught that. All while that was going on, Jack was trying to figure out what fairy tale she could've been from, seeing as how it was turning into a pattern with the two people they've seen up to that point
From the other tree came an eastern looking boy with long black hair in a ponytail down the middle, unlike the snowflake girl. There were a few strands of pink hair down on the left side of his head, right next to his pink eyes. He also wore a green tailcoat with black lines down the edges of the robes, white baggy pants, and black boots. To Jack, he looked half ninja and half samurai, to Luke, he kept thinking back to old Chinese history classes and watching Mulan with his parents.
The last four figures came out of the woods one at a time. The first was a tall, lean guy with a mop of blonde hair, scuffed up jeans, black boots, and underneath a chest piece and two shoulder pauldrons was a black hoodie. Luke and Jack looked at him and saw an absolute lack of confidence in the way he stood. It was a sad sight for the two brothers. Next walked out a tall, beautiful girl with long crimson hair in a ponytail. Rather than leggings, her legs were decked out in armor, along with her chest and stomach, and what looked like a tiara on her forehead. Unfortunately, or in Jack's case, fortunately, the top of her chest was still plenty visible, along with her shoulders, though her forearms wore the same armor as the rest of her. She looked like an Amazon warrior, both the earthlings couldn't help but picture her in the same outfit as Wonder Woman.
Almost immediately, a burst of pink and orange shot through the forest onto the patch, revealing another short girl with the weirdest colored hair either of the earthlings had ever seen: carrot orange. She wore a short pink skirt, white sleeves like the ravenette's, a black sleeveless jacket and a white shirt with a heart cut out at the chest area. Neither of the two earthlings could think of any fairy tale with an orange-haired speedster girl.
Just when they thought they had seen everything and everyone, what could only be described by the two as an angel strolled out from the woods. She had what could only be described as a glorious mane of golden hair that reached past her waist and mesmerizing lilac eyes. She wore the shortest shorts the two brothers had ever seen with a transparent skirt looking cloth behind her reaching down to her knees. She also wore thick heeled boots that reached up to her knees, a purple bandana tied around her left knee, a short jacket that left her stomach and large chest wide open, it being barely covered by an orange cloth with an emblem over her left breast, and finally two golden bracelets on each wrist.
It didn't even take them half of a minute to figure out that she was this world's version of Goldilocks, either that or one of the beautiful valkyries from the Norse mythology Luke loved so much. When she looked at the two, she quickly looked Jack up and down, but when she looked Luke in his eyes, she gave him a seductive wink and waved her fingers. Jack expected the ever so stoic and silently suffering honorary brother of his to just give a little unfeeling smile like always, only instead to see him give her a small but genuine smile and nod his head. To anyone else, the action wouldn't mean much, but it spoke volumes to Jack.
'FINALLY! Oh, this is going to be so much fun!' Jacks mind was exploding with thoughts and plans from the revelation he came to.
"Well hey there strangers, you must not be from around here huh?" The blonde girl spoke up in a fake cowgirl accent.
"Yeah well, another universe entirely doesn't exactly count for 'around here' I'd imagine." Jack chuckled, much to Lukes annoyance.
"Um… what?" the smaller girl in black asked in confusion.
"Did you have to say that so bluntly? I mean did you need to say it like that?" Luke chastised his brother while shaking his head.
"Alright look, I know this isn't going to sound at all believable to any of you, but my friend here is right. We are, literally, from another world." Luke decided to explain the situation as fast as possible to the group.
There wasn't a single face without wide eyes full of shock or confusion. Eventually, however, the orange haired girl spoke up, "So… does your world have people made of pancakes or at least waffles?"
A small silence loomed over the group as they comprehended what the naturally hyper girl had asked until it was broken by Jack's manic laughter. He laughed so hard his back hit the ground, and he was holding his sides, struggling to breathe through the seemingly unending laughter. Luke just gave a blank look at his dying friend as he rolled back and forth on the ground, mentally laughing just as hard at the absurd question he was just asked. Then he turned to the girl who asked the question, wearing a slightly more amused face, "Um, no we don't have people who are made out of pancakes, we just have regular pancakes, chocolate chip pancakes and a bunch of other kinds of pancakes, some really ridiculous like pineapple and papaya pancakes, but no people pancakes."
A feeling of dread washed over the Remnant kids as they turned to see their friend with a manic grin and a bit too much energy threatening to escape. "Did… you just say… that your world has… FRUIT PANCAKES?! RENNY! YOU MUST ASK FOR THE RECIPES POSTHASTE!"
The eastern looking boy, now known as Renny to the two earthlings walked over and held his hand out to Luke, "Well whatever world you're both from, it's nice to meet people from another world. My name isn't Renny by the way, it's Ren, Lie Ren."
Luke took Ren's hand and respectfully shook it, "The pleasure's all mine." then the revelation sunk in, "Wait, is the fact that I mentioned we have pancakes with fruit the only thing you needed to hear to tell I was telling the truth about us being from another world?"
Ren nodded, "Well it was enough for my friend Nora and I, since we've never met anyone who's done that" he gestured towards the orange haired girl going on about pancake revolution or something, it was hard to tell at the speed she was talking, "though I'm sure the rest will need some more confirmation. It is quite the dubious claim to make of course."
Jack managed to calm down somewhat, though when he stood up, he still let out a few strained chuckles and more ragged breathing. "We… heh… we come from a place where people put FRUIT IN their pancakes, whose weapons are guns OR swords, "
The ones of Remnant looked to each other with the same questioning glint in their eyes until Luke spoke up again, "Look, we don't know much of anything about this world, other than the fact there are some people here that use something called 'aura' to fight against some dark creatures like these things. We were… plucked, for lack of a better word, out of our world by some deity, who gave us our armor and these… poly-weapons. Then he sent us here to make our own lives or unlock our aura or something."
"If what you're saying is true," the blonde in the hoodie spoke up, "then why did the deity choose you two to come here?"
The two earthlings looked to each other, trying to see if the other had an idea on what to say. Neither wanted to admit what they went through on their world, the individual hells each one had to survive and live with.
Before the rest could catch on to the silent debate the two were having, Jack beat them to it, "We, uh, went through a rough time for the longest time and us surviving it was like passing a test for the deity, and he decided it would be best if we were sent here… I think..."
The others were about to protest when Jack raised his hand to silence them again, "Look, I know you probably want to know everything, but there are some secrets that we would prefer to keep locked in the closet so to speak."
They all nodded their heads in understanding, though it was quite apparent to the two earthlings that they wanted more, and Luke decided to provide, "Well anyways, my name is Luke, Luke Silver. This," he then gestured to his fellow earthling, "is my old friend Jack Hell, and the world that we are from is called Earth. I guess in a way you could say we're pretty much like brothers after everything we've been through together. What about you guys, what're your names?"
The cloaked girl smiled as she stepped up to Luke, "It's very nice to meet you, Luke and Jack, my name is Ruby Rose, over here is my team, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, and my sister Yang Xiao Long."
Yang gave Luke a sultry smile and leaned in closer to whisper, "But you can call me whatever you want big boy~" she ended with a wink.
Luke smirked right back to her, "Oh I'm sure I can come up with something in time, Sunny's just a bit too obvious."
Jack stared at his brother, dumbfounded, while Yang's sultry smile turned into a surprised grin, "Wow, how did you know that was in my name?"
Luke grinned back, "The language that your name is in is a language on Earth as well, though I imagine it's called something else here."
The ravenette, now known as Blake, moved between her partner and the earthling, stepped up to Luke and Jack offering to shake their hands, which they obliged. "It's very nice to meet you too. Sorry about my partner here, she can be a bit of a handful sometimes."
"Oh trust me, I don't mind one bit." Jack grinned with a smooth, toothy smile.
That was until Luke head slapped him, though not before he could finish his sentence for once, not that it mattered since it just switched his attention to his honorary brother, "What? You jealous? It's about time, considering all you got to offer a girl."
Luke shot him a glare that could rival a specific blonde combat instructor's death stare; only Jack just kept laughing in his face. Yang looked away and quietly snickered to hide the blush creeping onto her face. This did not go unnoticed by her team, each of whom had varying reactions to yet another small revelation. Ruby was dumbfounded, never in her entire life had she ever seen her sister act so embarrassed or shy, she just couldn't believe it. Weiss wasn't quite as shocked as Ruby, though she was thoroughly surprised to say the least, slightly pleased, but also slightly annoyed, though she didn't know why the latter. Blake wasn't as shocked as Ruby but far more than Weiss, though looking back towards Luke, the Faunus girl could understand why her partner would be acting like that. As her mind drifted even more towards Luke and his friend she turned her face away so they couldn't see how big her blush was becoming.
After the little banter, the other blond walked up to Jack, "It's nice to meet both of you. My name's Jaune, Jaune Arc. You've already met Ren and Nora, and this is my partner, Pyrrha."
The redhead, Pyrrha, stepped forward, waving her hand "Hi there! Nice to meet you."
Jack stepped forward with a warm smile and shook each of their hands, "It's nice to meet all of you. Not every day that people who spy on you actually introduce themselves like amateurs." he grinned devilishly at the last part.
Everyone aside from Luke, Ren, Nora, and Yang blushed from the sudden accusation. Meanwhile, Jack smirked at the little bout of chaos he caused, Nora giggled, Yang laughed out loud and both Ren and Luke but their hand to their face in annoyance to Jacks antics. As the blushing ones in question started to stutter apologies, Luke lifted his hand to stop them and told them, "Just ignore him, he's always like this. There just isn't any off switch to his personality."
The first three women of team RWBY nodded in understanding as they turned to face their brawler, who stuck her tongue right back at them. Jack noticed this, and a look of panic came to his eyes and just kept his cool enough to keep from blurting when he said, "Don't get the wrong idea, however, if he's able to tolerate me all these years then I know I'm still doing somethin' right."
Luke shook his head in faux annoyance, lifted by the kind-hearted laughter from the Remnant students, then that ended by the exclaiming gasp from RWBY's little leader. "OH! I completely forgot! Didn't you guys say something about looking for Beacon Academy?"
Luke and Jack both quickly looked to the little reaper with serious looks, the former saying, "Yeah, why do you ask?"
Ruby raised her hand with pride as she shouted, "We are students from Beacon Academy! We can take you there!"
The two Earthlings grew their warm smiles back at Ruby's exclamation, until Weiss elected to be less generous and just scoffed before uncaringly ordering at Luke as if he was a dog. "Whether or not you want to, you're going to have to since our headmaster sent us here to find the cause of that ray of light striking the ground."
Everyone grew surprised looks at the heiress' sudden hostility to the seemingly friendly stranger. Yang may not have been grinning, but she still found a way to land some teasing, "Geez Ice Queen, why so cold all of a sudden?"
"Headmaster Ozpin sent us here to bring back whatever caused that column of light, we've found them, now we still have a mission to do." Weiss scoffed back to the brawler.
"Well, yeah but, they've been so nice Weiss. I don't think you needed to be so icy when they've been so warm!" Ruby tried to chastise her partner, only no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't pull off the angry glare.
"It's ok Ruby. We know how it is. Also, now that I think about it, it may be best if we go to Beacon with you guys, that way we can learn more about this world." Luke said as he eyed Weiss wearily.
"Well, he thinks it's time for us to rejoin humanity, so who am I to argue. Plus, most of you seem nice, and it's been a very long time since we've been with nice people." Jack smiled at the Remnant kids, most of whom smiled back.
"Alright, people! Take us to your leader!"
Author's Notes:
And here is the next chapter, where we get a few gears moving regarding the story. So the thing is, I already had this chapter written out, or mostly at least, so that's how I was able to post it a week after the prologue. However, life is about to get busy for me again so I definitely won't be able to post anything weekly. Sorry about that.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy this next segment of the story and look forward to what's to come. I can't say for sure when the next chapter will be added, but I will make sure it will be when I'm sure it's ready.
Once again, special thanks to SunWukongMogar and BlackLight181 for being my beta-readers.
Finally, feel free to leave a review and some constructive criticism, it's always very much appreciated. 'Til next time!