Mike woke up, but not in the hotel room. It was a black void.

"No, no, NO! What's happening!? Wait, what's that?" He advanced to a dark blue vortex that was perpendicular to the ground. He felt something at his feet, and he saw his M16. "I think I know what to do," he said as he took the assault rifle and threw it into the vortex.

After three seconds, the vortex spat the gun back. He caught it, and looked at it in detail. It had markings similar to the twins, and it also had a single shot grenade launcher underneath the barrel. He knew the weapon.

"Hello, Skullcrusher," he muttered, before it disappeared.

He looked up, seeing a whole line of firearms. One stood out, as it was the only rocket launcher there. He picked it up. It was a bleached yellow, and it had a sight used for measuring distance rather than making it more accurate. There was a small lock, that held the rest of the rocket, including the firing mechanism, in it. He removed it and held it over his shoulder. He closed it to its compact form and read the name. M72 LAW. It disappeared and so did the armoury. All that was left was a lot of soda machines.

"I guess I can get perked up," he muttered, walking to a yellow machine.

It had the image of a stick man running, along with the word 'Stamin-up'. He hit the machine, causing the others to disappear and for a yellow soda bottle to appear in his hands. He downed it, and he felt faster and lighter. The taste reminded him of lemonade. A bright light illuminated the void, and consumed him.

Mike woke up again, and was in the apartment. It appeared to be early morning. He saw Ian on a recliner, who had also woken up.

'Was that all in my head?' Mike thought, before grabbing his bag. It felt heavier, so he opened it. He moved so Ian could sit next to him. He noticed something else was in the bag.

The LAW.

He dropped the bag like it was on fire.

"Mike, what's wrong?" Ian asked quietly, as to not wake up the others.

"I had this weird dream and in it, I grabbed the LAW. Now it's here. Did you have a dream like this?" Mike asked.

"Yeah, I put my MG into a portal and it gave me the Magna Collider. I then got the PPSh-41, and I got a Vulture Aid. It might be Dr. Monty's way of resupplying us. But what for?"

"Maybe the Grimm that Ruby mention? I heard her say something like you killing them with no problem on our way to the room. Maybe it could be for that?" Mike asked, remembering the youngest mention them.

"No, my Boomhilda can kill one of those things in one shot to the head, so why the extra firepower?"

"I don't know, but let's hope he is making sure we are prepared," Mike said.

"What about you, what did you get? Besides the LAW," Ian asked, grabbing his bag.

"I paped the M16 into the Skullcrusher, and I got Stamin-Up," Ian pulled out a WWII SMG. It had a drum mag and a holes in the barrel. "Lucky bastard," Mike muttered, pulling out the Skullcrusher, and taking out his case to show the speedy perky.

Ian showed the MG, but it had mysterious markings on it, like the rest of the 115 enhanced weaponry. He also pulled out his case, which had Jug, Deadshot, and a new perk. It had a white vulture with a red background, with the words 'Vulture Aid' around it. The two males changed into the second pair of clothes. They finished just as the two sisters enter the room.

"You guys ready for some food?" Yang called out.

"Well, considering that all Mike and I have had to eat for what felt like years was toxic beverages and magic gumballs, we're not opposed to it," Ian said. The two girls were dumbfounded. "We're going to cut right to the chase. We're from another world, and dimension. I know it may sound crazy, but I wish it was all a joke."

"We have been through hell and back, both figuratively and literally, and have seen both amazing and horrific things. But, we're getting ahead of ourselves. This might take a few hours, so I hope you're comfortable. However, it does tend to drag on in a few places, so we'll do our best to minimise the filler. Our story begins in the most appropriate place for a story about traveling through time and space, high school," he began, sarcastically.

"After helping Richtofen take over the zombies, we teamed up with Maxis, Samantha, and the rest of the crew and we did what was necessary. We blew up the Earth," Mike told them. He had covered from that first night in the airfield, to the Pentagon, to going to the Moon. "Any questions?"

"Ian, if you knew this Richtofen guy would do this, why would you go along with it?" Yang asked. They had also told them that Ian knew the future, but that it would be explained later.

"I did it to keep history in line. If I were to deter from it, it could rip the universe apart, or it could result in my death. It was a necessary evil," Ian told her.

"Mike, what happened afterwards?" Ruby asked.

"When we went to teleport back to Area 51, something went wrong or something and we ended up in a nuclear testing site called 'Nuketown.'"

"I had to put Finn down, before Billy and Sal could finish off my friends. Even though he accepted it, I did not want to kill him. But, I had to be the one to pull the trigger. So, I ended the nightmare, and we were all freed from Alcatraz, with The Weasel giving me the Vitriolic Withering and the Afterlife version of Finn giving me the Hell's Redeemer," Mike told them, wrapping up what happened at Alcatraz.

"Wait, so if it was Hell, how did that stuff end up going with you?" Yang asked.

"It'll be explained near the end. I assure you," Ian told her.

"So, where did you guys end up after that?"

"We arrived at what looked to be a mining facility, with Stuhlinger and his crew."

"After I killed the Shadow Man, again, the perfect world, maybe the universe, reset. Monty sent the four back in time, to become the Primus that Group 935 was researching in France, making what is essentially a cycle. Monty explained that this was not our first time doing this, nor was it the second. We had done it hundreds of times, all of them resulting in us dying by the Shadow Man. Everytime we died, Monty would use his power to reset time back to the beginning of the story, kinda like an uber time bomb. Here is the real kicker, the reversal of time caused our memories to be reset, except for Ian's, who he saved. He had given him the task of finding a way to break the cycle so that the universe could be right again. Monty gave us a choice, to either live in the perfect world, or help a world that needed the assistance of us. We chose the latter, and that is how we ended up here," Mike finished.

"This is a lot to take in, but what about Alcatraz, and your home?" Ruby asked.

"Alcatraz was a whole new dimension, at least the hell part was. When The Weasel was freed, I believe, it let him pass on into death, while the others were stuck fighting forever. As for our home, what do you mean?" Ian asked.

"You said that Samantha's zombies are orange, Richtofen's are blue, and the Shadow Man and Alcatraz is red. The zombies' eyes were red, so was the Shadow Man in charge? If he was, then why was Samantha the demonic announcer?" Ruby explained in further detail.

"Oh, yeah now I know what you mean. From what Dr. Monty told me, our home was in a separate dimension, where something went wrong when Richtofen and Samantha switched. Instead of switching, the process fused their two souls together, in Samantha's body. I'm not sure why the eyes were red, maybe it was because Samantha's chance of being saved was forever lost, but it's just a theory," Ian explained fully.

"How were you taken from place to place and through time?" Yang asked. It was one they forgot to explain.

"Okay, strap in, this might take a while. The first, from 2020 to 1945 was Dr. Monty, the same was from the German asylum to that Japanese swamp. From the Theatre to the Pentagon was also Dr. Monty. Same from the Moon to Nuketown, and the same was from the Chinese skyscrapers to Alcatraz, and from there to the buried town at the mining facility. After the town, we were sent to France in 1918 by him again. Afterwards, he took us to Morg City in the 40s and from then it has been straightforward. From the airfield to the asylum was with Dempsey 1.0 and Miller, and from the swamp to the factory and the factory to the theatre was from Richtofen. In the Pentagon, I got us out and Richtofen helped us from the Russian Cosmodrome, all the way to Area 51. He also took us from Washington State to China after we nuked the world. We got out of Nuketown by getting that teleporter up and running and taking us to Washington State. And you know where we went from there," Ian said, taking a deep breath afterwards.

"You mention 1.0 and 2.0s earlier. Can you explain?" Ruby asked.

"I got this. So the 1.0s are all of the different versions of the crew that helped Richtofen take over the world. There might be differences, but they are usually the same. When I say 1.0, I either mean the crew I was with, or the three that we killed after meeting with the 2.0s. Also, the 2.0s are only Primus. They are not anyone else. Did I get it all?" Mike asked Ian.

"Yeah," he said. There were no other questions.

"Okay, that should be it," Mike told them. There was a lack of talking for what felt like years as the two females pondered on the tale they heard.

"I believe them," Yang admitted, breaking the silence, "It seems impossible, but it also is too crazy to make up,"

"Yeah, I feel the same way," Ruby told the two.

"Thank God. Now, this world has a lot of baddies, and we don't have Dr. Monty to give us Max Ammos, so is there a way to make 115 rounds?" Ian noted.

"Maybe you can do it with dust. I know of a store we can go to get some," Ruby told them.

"Yeah, but you guys might need some extra help, just in case those thugs try to fight you. Let me unlock your aura, Mike," Yang said, as Mike went along with it. After the process was complete, Mike glowed with a dark blue light, before it disappeared.

"Woah, what does it do?" Mike asked Ruby, as Yang had to step out. It had taken the wind out of her, when all was said and done.

"It acts like a shield and can heal small wounds. It can also allow somebody to use their semblance. Its an ability or trait unique to that person," Ruby explained.

"Okay, what about Ian? Are you going to unlock his?" Mike asked.

"Yeah, I'll let Yang do that. I'll help you try to bring out your semblance," Ruby asked.

The next few hours with Mike were of him focusing on drawing out his aura into a physical form. Ian had his unlocked, and he was covered in a dark grey, almost black, glow. He decided to watch television, which the latest news story was about some warehouse building that blew up. It used to have dust in it. According to the cops, it was caused by something hot touching it, or it was shot. He paid it no mind, though. However, it did intrigue him about dust.

"Ian, do you want to go to a dust shop with me?" Ruby asked him after Mike said that he can control it on his own. It was evening.

"Sure, I'm actually curious to see it in person," Ian told her. Mike waved them goodbye as he continued to concentrate. "Wow, I've never seen you so focused on something that didn't have to do with blowing stuff up," Ian said to him. He didn't respond. "I'll catch you later, use your communicator if necessary." Ian left him.

The two entered a store called 'From Dust to Dawn.' There was an old shopkeeper, and many different colors and types of dust that was in different places. Ruby grabbed a magazine and went to the back, with Ian following her. He placed his hand on one of the tubes, which held a red dust.

Through the reflection, he saw a group of men enter. Some wore a familiar suit and shades, but one stood out. He was in a white suit, a bowler hat of the same color, with orange hair. He felt a bad vibe come from them, but he decided to wait it out. He hid behind a shelf, and took out Boomhilda.

"Do you know how hard it is to find a dust shop open this late?" he asked the owner, as one of the henchmen pulled out a gun.

"No, please! Just take my lien and leave," the shopkeeper pleaded.

"We're not here for the money," he told the old man. "Grab the dust," he told the goons.

'Crap, I need to get Mike over here, asap.' Ian thought, taking a quick peek to see if he had time. He pressed the button on his earpiece.

"Mike, come in. We have a problem," he said quietly.

He heard a bit of static. "The hell you want?" Mike said.

"Somebody is robbing the dust shop Ruby and I are in. We might need some suppressive fire here if we gotta go loud. Don't engage until I tell you to," Ian told him as he heard footsteps near him. "Get over here, asap." The goon was about to get to him.

'You better hurry, Mike.' Ian thought before he engaged the target, shooting him twice and shocking him.

He heard glass break as Ruby went from the back to the front in a blink of an eye. Ian followed, shooting his rounds at the goon as he passed them. Ruby had pulled out her scythe, and Ian had his Magna Collider. He fired controlled bursts at the goons. One of them tried to slash him with a sword, but was taken down by gunfire. Ian saw Mike with his Skullcrusher behind the downed man.

"Hope I'm not late for the fireworks." Mike said, as Ian refocused fire on other goons. He took out some of the henchmen with the fully automatic weapon, before pointing his weapon at the main guy. If Mike was honest, he would say he looked like a pimp.

"You were worth every cent, truly you were," he said to a downed lacky. "Well, I have to say it was fun, but I think it's time we part ways," he pointed his cane at the three and the bottom turned to a targeting reticle. He fired a flare, which the three dodged. They looked and saw him climbing a ladder to the roof of a building.

"You mind if we go after him?" Ruby asked, which the shopkeeper responded with a nod. Ruby went first, then Mike, then Ian. They reached the roof, with Ruby directly behind the pimp, Mike to Ruby's left and Ian to her right.

"Alright asshole, you're time is up," Mike told him, aiming Mustang at him.

"Persistent," he muttered, turning around. A flying vehicle, similar to a VTOL, appeared behind him. "End of the line, kids!" He took out a red crystal and threw it as the three.

"Grenade!" Ian yelled, taking cover. The pimp shot it, causing it to explode. Ruby tried to protect herself, and Mike fired a shot at him before the explosion.

As the smoke cleared, Mike saw somebody in front of Ruby. She was an older woman, who wore a businesswoman suit. She was blonde, with glasses. There was a purple energy in front of the three of them, almost like a shield. She looked to be controlling it with a riding crop. Mike paid it no mind, instead focusing on the VTOL. He moved to the leftmost side of the roof, and used the twins to attempt to destroy the airship. The pimp ran to the cockpit, and out came a woman hidden in the darkness. All Mike saw was her clothes and eyes, which looked as it was set on fire. The woman used what looked to be fire magic to try to take them down.

"I'll focus fire on the woman. Mike, shoot down that ship!" Ian told him.

"On it!" He fired the twins at the engines, before having to dodge a fire blast. "Ian, switch!"

Mike fired at the woman with Skullcrusher, while Ian fired with the Magma. The woman eventually got so pissed, shat she fired a fast fire blast at the two. They couldn't dodge, causing Ian to be sent flying and for Mike to be caught on fire. He patted it out, before running to Ian. He saw another blast coming for them, so he braced for the worst.

Bang!

A loud gunshot was heard from behind them, and the fire blast exploded in mid-air, safely missing them. Mike turned around, to see a male and female. The male had dark skin, a blue jacket, jeans, tennis shoes, and a duffel bag. In his hand was a knife, which he was pointing at them. The man pressed a button on the knife, causing the blade to fire at Ian. When it hit him, the knife disappeared, and Ian got back up like he was given a second wind. The shorter woman had lighter skin, and was in a dark purple shirt, jeans, work boots, with a duffel bag on her back as well. Her hair was a similar color to Ian's. In her hands was a very large bolt action futuristic sniper rifle. It had a silverish paint job.

"Malik?! Sam?!" Mike asked, making Ian turn around.

"Ian! Mike! Need a hand?" Sam asked.

"Yeah, give us covering fire!" Ian told them, returning to the battle. The two males turned around, opening fire on the woman.

While she was able to block the bullets, some were able to make it past. Mike took out the LAW and fired a rocket at the thrusters, making the VTOL dip down significantly. The woman charged seemed to charge a blast, and sent a wave of fire out on everyone on the roof. While Mike, Ruby, and the woman managed to dodge, Ian was knocked off. The three saw a second attack, a ring of fire, appear around them.

"Hey, magic lady. Ya mind getting us out of this?! Mike asked, making the woman glare at him.

She used some of the metal from the VTOL that was shot off to stop the fire. The metal was melted in a second.

"Come on, you've been out of worse. Think," Mike muttered to himself, reaching into his bag for a way out. His head began to ache and when he tried to hold it, the world around him vanished.

To Mike, he saw a ghost. It was of a man in his thirties, at the earliest. The rest of his features were a mystery. In his hands was a hand axe. It had a wooden shaft and was made of a red material. It glowed a dark blue aura, and it included a rope near the end of the handle. He looked to be offering it. Mike took the axe.

"Thanks, Finn," Mike told him, taking the Hell's Redeemer.

In the real world, Mike looked as if he had something in his hand, but he was not moving. Then, a circle of energy burst from him. It was the same color as his aura. It did it two more times. On the final time, Mike came back to the real world, and looked to the VTOL.

"Burn in the fires of Hell!" Mike yelled, throwing the axe. A blue flow of energy followed the axe. It went on a straight shot for the woman, slashing her right eye. While it did not remove it, a visible scar was present on skin. The axe then took a left turn, hitting the pimp in the cockpit. The axe crashed through the window, before hitting both engines. It then hit the woman's arm, causing her to release the ring. It darted back to the owner, who caught it. It transformed into a visible light, before entering Mike.

"Was that my?" Mike asked nobody in particular. The VTOL decided to retreat.

"Mike! What was that?" Ian asked, coming back to the roof. After him was Sam and Malik.

"I, think that was my semblance,"Mike told them, as the two females who he had saved finally recovered.

"Wait, you're a huntress? Ruby asked the older woman. "Can I have your autograph?!" She squealed.

The five, minus the woman, were in an interrogation room.

"Great, just wonderful. Second day here and I'm already in trouble with the law!" Mike said sarcastically.

"Calm down. Now, I believe introductions are in order. Ruby, this is Malik and Sam. Sam, Malik, this is Ruby. She already knows, so we don't have to pretend," Ian said.

"So, where were you guys?" Mike asked.

"We'll tell ya later, how about you?" Malik told them.

"I blew up a nightclub, met Ruby's sister, and met up with Ian. Not in that order," Mike told them.

"I woke up in a forest, met Ruby, and met up with Mike. Then we rested for a day, and we went to stop a robbery. Then you two showed up and you can figure out the rest,"

"Okay," Malik said, with Sam nodding. The woman from before soon entered.

"Do you have any idea what you five have done? You could have seriously hurt yourselves or someone else. If it were up to me, you would be sent home with a pat on the back," Ruby brightened up, "and a slap on the wrist!" She slapped her riding crop on the table, causing Ruby to jump back, Mike and Sam to tighten their fists, and Malik and Ian to flinch slightly and blink.

"That wouldn't exactly work, we don't have a pace to call home," Mike said, earning a glare from his three longtime friends.

"Then I guess you can explain to us how you were able to acquire that weaponry," as she said this, an older man entered.

He had white hair, a clean face, glasses, and a coffee mug. He was wearing a green undershirt and a black overcoat.

'Is that, Monty?' Mike thought with a shocked face. The other three had a similar look.

"Ruby Rose. You, have silver eyes," he told her. He turned his attention to the other four, "And you four, must be new to Vale. I am Professor Ozpin, Headmaster of Beacon Academy."

"Excuse me, sir. Can my friends and I talk privately for a bit? I believe you might have some business with Ruby," Ian asked.

"Go on ahead." Ian left, followed by Mike, Sam and Malik.

"Okay, did anyone else feel that?" Mike asked.

"Same feeling that Dr. Monty has, yeah." Ian said. "That can't be him though."

"How come?" Sam asked.

"I remember. One time when we arrived at the House, I walked close to Dr. Monty and I got a headache. It was of different experiences we had during different repeats of the cycle. It was gone as soon as I got away from him." Malik told the others.

"Yeah, same happens to me. It's different, obviously, but I do get a small headache. I think it didn't affect us at the end because of the reset Maxis and Sofia did," Ian told them, "And Monty told us that he would care for the Children before we left. I don't think Monty could become a professor and run a school while taking care of them and the Perfect World he created."

"Yeah, but something just feels off about that guy. We might need to tell him about us. Maybe we can get some resources to help us," Mike told his companions. The three nodded, entering the room again.

"Excuse us, but are you done with her?" Ian asked. Ruby was smiling like no tomorrow.

"Yes, I was about to ask for you. Could we get your names?" Ozpin asked.

"Ian Hudson."

"Michael Woods."

"Malik Bowman."

"Samus Hudson."

"Thank you. Now, where are you four from?"

"We have already told it once, so it'll be a bit easier. We come from a different world or dimension. The four of us have been through times of fighting and destruction. We have come to accept what we have done. Our lives were changed on June 2, 2020, in Newtown, New Mexico." Ian began.

"When we arrived at Generator 2, we found a few things. The lower shield part, a blue record, and eight stones, one for each of us," Mike told the two adults, "Richtofen 2.0, the one that didn't take over the zombies, said that they could be important to our survival, so we each grabbed one."

"What did the stone do?" Ozpin asked.

"We had to go from the trenches to the church on the other side of the excavation site. There, we had to place it in a pedestal with water in it and kill zombies near it with melee strikes. On the stone was a fist, to give us a hint. After that, we would have to go back to Generator 2 without stepping in mud. If we did, then we would have to dip the stone in the water and, as Samantha said, 'Start over.' Mike had the great idea of taking the tank from the church to the station at Gen 2. We jumped down when we went over the trenches and walked the rest of the way. We placed them back on the original table and had to get more kills. Then, we would receive the G-Strike. It was a beacon that lured zombies in and called in mortar fire from the Giants. It was, very effective," Ian said.

"So, they were large enough to fit into a person's hand comfortably?" Ozpin asked.

"Yeah, that's all we know about the stones," Mike said. "The disk, however, led to us having a greater chance of survival." He continued, explaining the Staffs.

"When we went down to the chamber under the castle, we found the same pyramid that Samantha was in during our time on the moon. The 2.0s stepped on some panels with symbols on them and the room went into low gravity." Mike told him.

"If you remember, what did the symbol look like?" Ozpin asked.

"I think I remember," Ian said, receiving a slip of paper and a pen. He drew a symbol inside a square.

"And how did it activate?" Ozpin asked.

"Four people stepped on it at the same time, and stayed of it for about five seconds. When one of them stepped on it, the symbol became blue. When it was activated, blue light came from the panel," Malik told him.

"Thank you, please continue." Sam continued the story from there

After explaining their story to the headmaster, the four laid back.

"Well, you four would be right to want to have a discussion about me being related to this Dr. Monty. However, I have not heard of or seen the man. And after hearing of your past, I would like to give you an opportunity to become students at my academy. You can learn about this world, and help other students with your skill. I will let the four of you decide," Ozpin said, staying silent so the four can discuss. The four formed a circle.

"Just like the decision the come here, it needs to be unanimous. I'm in," Ian said, placing his hand in the center.

"We just got reunited, and I'm gonna make sure we all stay safe." Malik placed his hand on the forming pile.

"Yeah, those Grimm can't handle the four of us," Sam said, placing her hand in. They all turned to Mike.

"If what Ian said is true, about Monty wanting to restock us for something bigger than what we might think, then we need to be ready to fight with everything we got," Mike placed his hand in the pile, "And this, right here, is our everything." He smiled at them. The four broke the circle.

"Professor, were in," Ian told him.

"Excellent. We will be leaving at 8:00 am. I expect to see you four there. Now then, Ms. Rose, you are dismissed," Ruby left the room as Professor Ozpin continued, "You four, please follow Professor Goodwitch to a hotel room she has acquired for you four. And take these, your scrolls. You should be able to ask Ms. Rose or Ms. Xiao Long how to use it. Have a nice night, and I expect to see all of you tomorrow."

I don't usually post this early, but the reception from Chapter one made me want to post this now. I am on Chapter five now, and about 18K words, so there is enough content for the rest of the week, if I finish this chapter. Anyways, I just want to say thank you for reading and have a great day.