"Mon...ty?" Shade questions, raising an eyebrow. The man before the recon specialist nods.

"Monty Oum to be precise." The man states, nodding. "And you, Mr. Kurogane, are the one that can change everything." Shade's eyes widen, before they narrow.

"Explain." The scout demands. Monty nods, unaffected by Shade's tone.

"Well, in order to do that, we must start at the beginning. I am Monty Oum, and I created your world." The mysterious man says. "I had ventured beyond the realm I call home in order to create a world full of wonder, and in turn I created my sons to watch over my world."

"The two brothers." Shade states. Monty nods.

"Yes, for a while, us three watched over this world. However, I grew weak from my time away from my home, and I was forced to leave." Monty supplies. "In my departure, I left my sons my power of creation, a force you've come to call the Will of Oum."

Shade furrows his eyebrows, thinking, "Then why is our world so messed up?" Monty sighs.

"Without my guidance, my sons decided to create their own image, but they both had conflicting views." The man then touches Shade's forehead, and the scout sees images of towering titans battling each other, the world in ruins and flames. "As you can see, they fought, and their battles soon reached the world they were supposed to protect. In an effort to create a ceasefire, my sons decided to leave this world to create their own version of Remnant. They," Monty then scowls, "Didn't bother to disable their machines and experiments."

"So the whole reason humans and Faunus have to fight is solely because they were careless?" Shade scowls. Monty nods. "Bloody hell."

"I understand your anger." The apparent creator says. "But now, now we have you. You are here."

"Speaking of that, where exactly is here?" The scout asks.

"This is... a realm between realms. In theory, you've entered the Will of Oum, and thus, I am able to communicate with you." Monty answers. "I had watched, unable to return to fix my sons' mistakes, waiting for someone who was able to enter the will. Someone who had a soul that mirrored my own. Someone who embodied my wishes, and hopes of what humanity could be."

"What was that?"

"As cliché as it sounds, the spirit of heroism." Monty answers, as images flash around the two, each detailing a specific moment in Shade's life where he had risked himself for the sake of others, finally ending at Shade's suicide run to end the Wrath of Oum. "A spirit of self-sacrifice. A will to find a new angle, push beyond your limits to keep people safe." Monty stares at Shade. "Everyone in your world has some reason for doing things. Most of the Hunters become one for the glory, others for the adventure, some even because of the money. You, are a part of the select few that became a Hunter not because you wanted to, but because you felt that you had the power and capability to protect those who cannot protect themselves." Shade doesn't respond, staring as his life is played before his eyes.

"Why did it take so long? Why are you talking to me now?" Shade finally asks.

"Because I couldn't pull you into the Will of Oum." Monty says. "I cannot interact with your world on the physical plane, so I had to channel my power through your body, ending the cataclysm as well as pulling you here." Shade nods. "You are here so I may speak with you, give you knowledge. Time flows differently in here however. Everything you have seen as all been on a mental plane, while your physical body rests. As we have talked, I have been giving you knowledge, tactics, and skills to survive and tame the ruins my sons left behind."

"So what? I'm some sort of chosen one?" Shade snarks. Monty chuckles.

"In a way, I guess." The creator laughs. A glowing blue portal appears behind them, icy winds blowing into the area. "That is your cue, my friend." Shade nods uncertainly.

"Monty? How much time has... passed?" The scout asks.

"Around three to four years. I am sorry Shade." Monty answers earnestly. Shade nods, stepping towards the portal. "I was unable to save your Aura, since the explosion was needed to stabilize the Cenotaph. Your weapons were also destroyed, outside your survival knife. I'm afraid even I do not know what lies on the other side, and if you will be in danger or not." Shade chuckles.

"No Hunter is a one-trick pony, Monty." The scout grins. "I am fairly skilled with my fists and knife, and I'm resourceful enough to survive for a time." Monty laughs outright.

"Ah yes, how could I forget?" The creator chortles. "Goodbye, Shade Kurogane. I hope we do not meet again for some time." Shade nods in response, jumping into the blue portal as a bestial roar echoes through the white area. "Do stay safe."

-The World of Remnant: Three years after the Wrath of Oum-

"Alright Team RWBY, simple mission, reset scanning gear to scan for signs of a destabilized relic." The voice of Oscar Pine echoes through the comms of the four Auras. "Placing a waypoint to the first tower."

"Thanks Oscar!" The cheery voice of team leader, Ruby Rose sounds out. Her dark red Striker-type Aura flies in the front of the makeshift delta formation the four-person squad was flying in. "Okay, so we don't know what brought these towers down, so Blake?" A dark purple Blitz-type frame turns its head slightly to look at Ruby.

"Yes?" A smooth feminine voice responds.

"I'll have you scout the perimeter. I'll provide fire support with my rifle." Ruby says, Blake nods. "Weiss?" A white Tempest-type Aura turns its head. "And Yang?" A yellow Brawler-frame turns its head as well. "I'll have Yang land in first and do a close quarter sweep with Weiss providing Close Air Support."

"Understood." Weiss's prim voice responds.

"Yeah! Let's rock this!" Yang's boisterous voice causes everyone listening the wince. Ruby sighs.

"Alright, get to it team!" The red leader says, as they arrive at their waypoint. The four split off, scanning the clearing to find... absolutely nothing. "Huh?" The rest of the team was equally confused, but they go about their duties bringing the scanning network online again. Oscar then gives them the waypoint for the next three towers, and the team runs into simple Beowolves.

"This is... odd." Blake states. "For this little opposition for our scanning network going down."

"Yeah, somethings strange." Ruby muses. "Oscar, anything from the scanners?"

"One second, still getting data... " Oscar trails on, shifting through incoming data. "Oh shoot! There's a destabilized relic! Setting a waypoint now!"

"Oscar?" Weiss asks, shocked as the team takes to the skies once more.

"See the ruins around you? How they're oddly shaped? It's theorized that a relic reversed gravity for a day." Oscar says, and the comms go silent.

"O-oh shit." Yang eloquently says.

"All power to thrusters, we need to get to that relic." Ruby says. The team of four blast off. The four Huntresses fly through inverted waterfalls before diving into an old ruin with a sparking relic inside it.

"Gather the echoes to help stabilize the relic." Oscar says, and the four fly around collecting glowing orbs and returning them to the relic, but it was too late, as the relic explodes outwards creating a swirling blizzard around it.

"Gather the fragments!" Ruby shouts. The four move around as frost Beowulves spawn inside the storm. Yang focuses on fighting off the monsters as the other three gather the parts to repair the relic. Weiss and Blake inserted theirs, but Ruby's got jammed by ice inside the slot of the part. "Shit!"

"Rubes! I can't hold them off for long!" Yang shouts, as a large Beringal begins to crawl out of the swirling blizzard vortex. Weiss and Blake try to push in the fragment with Ruby to no avail. Yang even jumps back to try to help as the Beringal begins to fully emerge, until it falls over dead, a knife lodged in its skull as a black haired man stands over the corpse, as he steps out of the vortex fully, his clothes were ripped into shreds, but the girls could make out the outdates design of the underarmour Hunters wear. The male's green eyes scan over the girls before he pulls out his knife and wipes the blood off the blade.

"Brawler, punch the fragment in with you melee, make sure to overclock the servos for it." The man says. The four girls blink behind their helmets, before Yang punches the fragment and it locks into place. The vortex stops, as the man scans around. "The Invertigo Ruins."

"I'm sorry?" Weiss says?

"Oh, nothing. When I was in training I had to stabilize this relic, gave the place a nickname." The man says.

"I'm sorry but who the heck are you?" Yang asks. The man blinks.

"Oh yea, sorry." The man scratches the scar over his right eye. "I'm Shade Kurogane, Recon Specialist of the Thundering Wolves."

"….Holy shit." Ruby mutters.

"Language!" Weiss shouts. Blake remains silent as Yang stares at him.

"Very funny." The brawler says. "Shade Kurogane died during the Wrath of Oum, sacrificing himself to shut it down. "Shade" shrugs.

"You have a comms specialist on the line, yeah?" He questions. Ruby's helmet nods. "Alrighty, little radio dude, run the ID code Oscar Hotel Niner Six Four."

"Running." Oscar's voice echoes through RWBY's comms. "O….oh shit."

"Oscar talk to me." Ruby says.

"It's him, it's really him." The comms officer says. "ID codes are something that aren't that secure, but are changed for monthly, or before a sortie. They can only be used once before they're changed. His code came up positive. The ID image is a splitting image of the man before you. He hasn't aged a day."

"If you really are Shade Kurogane, why haven't you aged?" Blake demands.

"That…. Is a long story. For now let's say it's….. classified until I can talk through it with Ozpin, if that old goat is still alive."

"Oscar call us in a Bulldog." Ruby says, "Suit power is running low anyways."

"Ruby, are you sure about him?" Weiss hisses.

"Even if he's lying, he'd be surrounded by Beacon's best student team." Rose says. "No matter how skilled he is he won't be able to take us all on at once." Shade shrugs slightly in agreement.

"If you're really Kurogane." Blake says, "Then you have a lot to catch up on."

"I believe I do, my fellow Recon."

A/N: AND We be back. I'm done with college and have a break of work, so I got time to write. I wanted to get Will of Oum out once more.

Update Order afterwards.

The Fairy's Creed: My Fairy Tail fic.

Full Speed Ahead: HaiFuri is a great anime and I need to update my fic.

DeadZone: Since it's a large fic, this will be last so I can get me other onces up.

Revamp of Soldier's honor, (maybe).