"Now Goku, what is step one?"

"Step one is sleep until it starts gettin' bright out, boss!"

"Step two?"

He pointed to the drawing of the house then ran his finger over to the spot they were supposed to go. "Mutt and I walk from the house to the... boat, right?"

"Correct, and then?"

"Then I let Mutt drive, and I keep an eye out for Grimm!"

"What Grimm are we gonna run into?" Mutt asked him next.

"Erm,... Wait! The lizard and the ghost, right? The lizard eats people and ghost goes into stuff!"

"Show me the way."

He ran his finger over the map again, from the end of the town than across the blue lines showing the water, stopping at the spot where the swamp stopped, the Bog.

"Good," The boss smiled. "And what are you supposed to do when you get there?"

"Grab a big box lookin' thing from the Bog," Goku tapped the middle of the place, then ran his finger back to the swamp. "Then get it back to the boat and drive over here!"

"Finally, what are you, under no circumstances, allowed to do?"

"Break the box open!"

"Exactly," Mutt gave Goku a friendly pat on the back. "Keep all this in mind, and it'll go off without a hitch!"

"You bet I will!"

"I'm glad to hear that, Son," The boss smiled at him before checking that watch thing on his wrist. "It's almost eight in the evening, why don't you clean yourself up and head to bed? You'll need plenty of rest to get up early tomorrow."

"What about you, Mutt?" He looked over the bearded man standing next to him. "Don't you gotta go to sleep too?"

"Me and the boss have a couple more things to go over, nothing you need to worry about!"

"Okay! See ya guys later!" He went out of the room, giving the two of them a goodbye wave and made for the bathroom. He took off the clothes the boss gave him and tossed it into the box with the window on the door before hopping into the shower. "Hm, might go for a cold one tonight!"

The water sent a nice shiver down his back as he started getting to work rubbing the dirt off him with the soap and the goo you put on it. During the whole thing, Goku kept repeating the steps for the plan out loud, almost loud enough to be heard over the water. Past couple of days, they'd been going over it a lot, meaning he didn't get as much time for the gym like he used to. The boss was pretty strict about Goku knowing the whole job by heart so he had to. It was pretty tough for a while, he'd never learned stuff like this before. It was always things he did with his body but he couldn't do that here, just remember words.

The boss even looked like he might've gotten angry at him for a second yesterday before smiling and giving him an idea. "Try to think of it as... a martial arts sequence."

"Sequence?"

"Yes, remember how you know when to follow up a kick with a punch? Try to do the same with the words, get a feel for what's supposed to come after each one! If you want, you can even repeat it out loud or walk while doing it to help your concentration."

Which is what Goku did and boy did it help to move his body around sort of with the words. After their talk just now, he was pretty sure he got it right but if what the boss said about it being close to martial arts, practicing would only make him even better at it! Once he felt nice and clean all over, he put a towel over his crotch and legs then ran over to his room where his pajamas, fixed up old clothes, Nyoibo and of course, Grampa, were waiting for him.

"Hey! Grampa!" He slapped his hands together. "I finally got the plan down! Me and Mutt're gonna go over and get the boss his important box! Then he'll help us get home!"

He put his sleep clothes on and hopped onto the bed. "Cya tomorrow Grampa!"


8 Hours Later...

The second he heard a knock on the door, Goku was jumping outta his bed, shouting. "I'm up!" He tossed the pajamas off, put his old, fixed up clothes back, put Grampa in his belt pouch then ran for the door, grabbing Nyoibo on the way there and opened it with a surprised looking Mutt on the other side.

"Damn, I didn't think you'd be this energetic,..." He said, drinking that hot, brown stuff the boss told him was called coffee. Mutt wasn't wearing the black suit anymore. His pants were big and brown, so were some things covering his hands. The shirt he had on was like Goku's, no sleeves and white. "I take it you slept well?"

"Yup!" They walked down the stairs where the boss was waiting for them with a big, brown, square looking thing next to him. Goku smiled and waved at him, "Mornin' boss!"

"Good morning to you too, Goku," The boss smiled back. "I'm happy to see you energetic for the trip."

"Yeah, I've been cooped up in this house fer so long I wanna go out." He asked the boss a couple times to go see the city but the boss said no, that he had people who wanted to hurt him there and they might go after Goku for being his guest. When Goku said he'd just beat em up, the boss laughed and said he liked the idea of that but he didn't want to risk it. So, Goku listened to him and stayed in. Although, he was gonna take a look at it again when they went to the docks.

"I know you've felt a little trapped here but I believe this little adventure should more than help with that."

"Hopefully things don't get too exciting," Mutt said, picking the big brown thing off the ground and putting it on his back. He straightened his back then bowed to the boss. "But regardless of what happens, we'll get it done boss, no matter what."

He gave Goku a weird, side look before moving to the door. Goku followed him out but not before slapping his hands together at the boss like he did for Grampa. "See ya later boss!"

The boss' smile got bigger and he nodded. "I have no doubt of that, Goku."

They made their way through the big open yard of the house with Mutt talking to the guy standing there for a second before the door slid open, with the house being on a hill over the city, Goku got a really good and pretty look at the town all over again. It looked way less busy than the last time, with even the big candles outside turned off along with lots of other lights. There was barely anyone out too, making the place look abandoned. But it sure didn't make him stare at the ginormousness of it all. It looked really cool thanks to the big, orange sky above.

But pretty soon, they walked down the hill and into the trees, making Goku lose sight of the town the farther they went in. The dock they talked about was a big line of wooden floor going toward the swamp water with a bunch of smaller, wooden or metal looking things tied to it. Theirs was pretty big, bigger than all the other ones. It was all made of metal, with three black seats on it and a big, bladed thing taller and wider than Goku himself in the back.

Mutt tossed the brown thing on one of the back seats and he sat on the top one. Goku hopped on after him, tapping the thing with Nyoibo. "It sounds tough."

"That it is, and more importantly, pretty fast too." Mutt reached in the brown thing and started pulling out pieces of something metal looking.

"What's that?"

"This?" He smirked. "This is my stick."

Goku's eyebrow went up until Mutt finished setting the whole thing up, that's when he recognized it. "Oh! It's one of those gun things!" The boss told him about those two, how they made little explosions happen inside to fire even smaller metal things to hurt or kill from far away. He even let Goku try one in a place to shoot them called a firing range, it was loud and looked neat but Goku'd honestly just punch, kick or smash with Nyoibo.

"Right you are, it might not smash a Grimm like yours, but it'll help keep me alive out here," He nodded at Goku. "Along with you, my special little bodyguard friend."

Goku giggled at that and set himself down, facing forward. Mutt started doing something making weird noises before a louder one drowned them out. When he turned around to see what's up, he saw the blades in the back spinning faster and faster, so fast Goku felt dizzy just trying to watch them. Then he fell forward and bonked his head against one of the seats when the boat started moving all of a sudden.

"You okay?" Mutt asked, trying not to smile.

"Yeah, I've had worse than this, what'd you do?"

"Started the boat, think of it... like a car, except for water."

"It's pretty loud, lotsa things out there are gonna go after us."

"Don't have a choice kid," Mutt's smile was gone, he had a pretty mean look on instead. "The alternatives are too slow or too much of a pain in the ass to bother with, we're just gonna have to deal with whatever gets thrown at us."

Which wasn't a lot really by the time real morning started turning around, they'd seen some of those big lizards the boss called alligators floating around or sleeping but no Grimm. Goku couldn't see or smell any of em around, but he did like feeling a nice breeze in his face from the boat trip, and the smell of the forest and animals around. Being stuck in the house bugged him more than he thought.

No Grimm around is what bugged Mutt, though, he looked really sweaty the farther they went in, looking for trouble everywhere like something would jump out and eat him. But, that wasn't wrong really, besides the plan, him and the boss told Goku about the Grimm they'd be fighting. The ones who looked like the green lizards were called Lacertus, they were big and fast and jumped out from the water to attack stuff outta nowhere, eating lots of people before they could even fight back!

The ghost, or Geist, one he didn't get. It went into stuff and made it attack you, so a tree could try to hit you or rock would try to squash you. But Goku didn't think that one sounded too scary, he could break trees and rocks real easy and the Grimm doing it wasn't too strong when you took all its stuff away. The gator one's jumping at them outta nowhere was a bigger deal if you asked him.

That almost happened to the halfway through when they stopped for a breakfast break. One of the gator Grimm spotted them from under the water and if Goku hadn't felt it coming by dipping his tail, it would've flipped the whole boat over. It tried to bite him instead and flew right over it when Goku ducked out of the way, pushing Mutt down with him. When it came back up, Goku rammed Nyoibo in its mouth and killed it same as the first one.

After that, they kept a real good eye out on the water and Mutt never let go of the long gun in his hand. The next time they stopped, it was around noon from what Goku could see of the sun through the thick branches. From what Goku could see, the water finally stopped where they landed the boat, but it still looked kinda wet with big puddles all over the place.

"This is the place," Mutt said, doing some stuff with his gun. "Be extra careful here, Goku. The second you think somethings off, go for the kill and don't stop."

"Okay!" He checked Grampa in the pouch again then jumped off the boat after Mutt. The forest was a lot less thick there and getting smaller the farther they walked and the ground kept going up and down with lots of little hills all over the place. A little way in, Goku's nose picked up on a smell he'd... sort of never felt before. It was like bad meat, the kind left over when an animal left bones lying around but it wasn't exactly like it either.

They were going up another small hill, passing by a couple of trees when the smell was almost right next to them. "What is that- Oh man!"

He yelled, jumped back and almost knocking Mutt over. It was a person... Half of one. He'd recognize the black suit Mutt and the boss' guys wore anywhere but it was messed up, the whole bottom half was gone and flies were all over what was left. Goku looked around when he picked up more smells like it and saw two more bodies down the hill, all of them missing... parts too. Arms, legs,... a head for one,... He'd seen a dead person before when he found Grampa smashed to bits, but he was just kinda a read... smear on the ground, these guys, you could tell these were people before...

"Are-are these-"

"My team from before, yeah," Mutt said, sounding creepily calm about it and staring down some weird tube thing on his gun. "The Geist did this, smashing us to bits with rocks and trees,... Only reason I got away long enough was by being at the back of the group and running like crazy to the boat."

"You left em?!" Goku asked, his jaw hanging open big enough to fit a tiger through. "Why didn't you fight?!"

"Kid," He let out a long breath, twisting his mouth like he was eating something gross. "If I stayed I'd be dead and the boss would've sent even more guys to die after us until someone told him where the box is. This way, something good came out of it. Sides, not all of us are as tough as you."

Goku didn't like that made sense for him, he'd run away too when that wolf Grimm cornered him but that was only because he was tired and hungry, he would've fought it if he could've. Mutt didn't and just ran away,... but if he didn't do that, more would've died later,...

"There it is," Mutt said and kneeled next to him, putting his gun close to Goku's face. "Look through the scope." He pointed at the tube thing.

When he did, Goku saw on a bit of ground surrounded by water, the box the boss sent them after. It looked grey and kinda small actually, about as tall as Goku's back and a little wider. Right next to it, he saw another body, dressed totally different from the boss' guys... From what was left of it. There was a big metal thing sticking on the ground next to it, one of those swords he'd seen in one of the bosses' rooms.

The monster who killed everyone wasn't anywhere though.

"The monster isn't here."

"Yeah, and I don't like it at all," Mutt moved the scope away. "This freak was as subtle as a bomb before, but if it starts playing games with us we're in trouble."

"Bait'll work, animals can't resist it," Goku started walking towards it when Mutt grabbed his shoulder.

"What're you-"

"You told me you can't fight it, but I can, if it tries t'smash me I'll be ready to kick its butt!"

Mutt's twisted mouth bent even more and he looked like the night they met, hurting a lot. But that didn't stop him from nodding. "Before you go," he took something outta his pocket, the map they used to practice with! "See where we are now? Just going straight west from here and you'll get back in no time, whatever happens, don't get lost and don't lose the box, got it?"

Goku knew why he was doing it, in-case the Grimm got him. He took the map, nodded and stuffed it next to Grampa in the pouch before heading out. The puddles were pretty big the more he climbed down, so big he had to start jumping over them or using Nyoibo for it, the ground was kinda hard to walk on and sticking to his shoes. After a final, stomping jump, he landed on the patch of ground.

He walked in his combat stance, keeping Nyoibo's top part pointing outside with the back half held next to his side. The smell was bad here too and Goku had to fight the urge of pinching his nose shut to block it out. Instead, he focused on everything else, sight, sound, smell, feel, and his fighting instinct, all his senses like Grampa taught him. But there wasn't anything there, just a dead body, flies and the box.

With a fast grab, he took it, holding it with some little black handle on the top. But before he jumped away, he noticed something shine in his eye from the ground. "Huh?" He looked over to where it was coming from and noticed another box, way, way smaller, buried in the grass but pretty close in looks to the bigger one. "Guess I'll take this one, too." He put the small one under his arm, using that same hand to hold the big one and started jumping back over to Mutt. He got there without a hitch.

"Got it! Found nother one too!"

"Another one?" Mutt said, checking the boxes Goku put down, he took another something outta his pocket, a pointy looking thing that stuck into the box. He looked kinda nervous doing it but it went away when the box opened and he smiled. "Good," He let out a long breath. "It's all here."

"What is it-" Goku tried to check it out but Mutt slammed the box closed before he could.

"Something only for me and the boss to see," He ignored the angry look Goku was giving him and took both of boxes off the ground. "Now let's go, if we head on back we'll be back just in time for a nice, juicy bear."

"B-bear?!" Goku mumbled out, his anger totally going away at the idea of chowing down on some cooked bear meat. "What're we waitin' for?!"

"Hold on! Don't let your guard down on account of the job being half done! Stay sharp and celebrate when we're safe, okay?"

"Oh, yeah, right," Goku giggled, scratching the back of his head before remembering something else. "Hey," He pointed at the bodies lying around. "What about them? We gonna come back for em?"

"We'll see Goku, now come on, I don't wanna stay here anymore!" He gave Mutt another mean look from the back but didn't say anything, he just followed after silently. Nothing attacked them on the way back either, even when the boat started being loud again. Goku sat forward again with Mutt steering, his free hand on the big box and not his gun anymore.

"We'll eat have lunch halfway back," Mutt shouted louder than the engine noise. "Hope you're not sick of-"

The engine went crazy all of a sudden, letting out a noise so horrible Goku felt like someone was scrapping big rocks inside his head. That wasn't the worst part, the boat suddenly stopping and almost flipping over was. It was good Mutt saw the boxes falling outta the seats, he grabbed them just before they hit the water.

"They're okay!" He shouted above the loud engine. "Go check the engine!"

"Okay!" Goku answered and walked to the back where he saw the spinning thing covered with some slimy, green and wet grass all over. Pretty soon, it stopped moving totally. When he tried pulling it out, more of the grass shot up from the water and grabbed his arm like a snake. "What theAAAAAHHH!"

The grass moved so fast he couldn't even try to hold still, sending him flying across the water and smashing him right into a tree. "Ow!" Goku shouted before swinging at the grass with Nyoibo still tied around his arm, smashing right through it in a cut. Then he noticed something in the water, a big, yellow glow getting bigger every second.

"What is going on-" Mutt shouted before the boat went almost over again, he was still holding onto the boxes and just barely stopped himself from going overboard, but his gun and brown thing weren't so lucky. When he saw what was coming outta the water, his mouth almost hit the floor, and so did Goku's.

It was huge, way bigger than Goku's whole house and as wide as the bosses' car, if not more! It was totally covered with that wet, green swamp grass with big rocks and tree branches sticking out all over the place, making it look even bigger and creepier. In the middle of that whole mess, he saw the Geist, a big, bone white mask just like all the other ones, with only one eye staring right at him.

But the thing that got to Goku was the fact he couldn't smell it like the others, and it didn't even growl like them either. It just pushed out something that was way too close to looking like a persons arm and went for the kill.


A/N: Next time, on GRWBY! The epic showdown you never knew you wanted but are totally hyped for: Kid Goku vs Swamp Thing (sort of). Man, this was a tough one, I went through three different versions of this chapter before finally finishing it with this final iteration. Hopefully, it makes up for the lackluster Chapter 6.

Also, I'll be answering some fan questions down below.

KongKing94

So, when is Goku going to use the Kamehameha? - Goku has never seen the Kamehameha, he can't use it. Could I create some Aura-fuelled approximation of it for him later? Maybe but I'd rather he just make a signature move that fits with the RWBY setting.

Odin's Eye

So, will Goku get an Aura and Semblance with all his cannon powers later down the road? - Goku will use Aura as his primary power source and will attain a Semblance later.

Loki's Tongue

Now I have to ask, Will Goku get an actual education? - That would be spoiling things.

Now for my second suggestion. I would love it if Goku gained all his powers in Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z(including the Films and Video Games and spin-offs), Dragon Ball GT(Super Saiyan 4 was awesome and the fact that the Dragon Balls had a dark side if being overused was awesome and I will fight you on this!), and Dragon Ball Super but at a much younger age just to give the world real defenders and so Goku can show the world the full power of the Saiyans and give Beerus a bit more of a hard time before unlocking the powers of a Super Saiyan God and Super Saiyan Blue.

This isn't going to happen and it's not possible: Goku, his house, Nyoibo, and the inert four-star ball are the only things sent over, there is no Roshi or Kami or Beerus or Baby or anything else from DB besides those things. Goku cannot even begin to approach the same level of power he had in DB Earth, much less get powers from training he has no access to anymore. This is a story about Goku and his life on Remnant, dealing with things of that setting as an alien to it, whether he knows it or not, it's not a story about Goku turning RWBY into a DB/Z/GT/Super knockoff where Ultra Instinct Ruby fights Jiren.