Chapter 11

Shade was currently running towards team RWBY's dorm since Ruby had informed him that she had 'accidently' told her entire team about him and Hunter being pilots for a giant robot from another universe.

As Shade, Rona, and Ruby passed team SPHR's dorm, Shade quickly stopped and ran inside the dorm, startling both Hunter and Petra.

"What's going on?" Hunter asked setting down his note book he was using to help him with his homework.

"Hunter, Petra, stop whatever you're doing and head to team RWBY's dorm." Shade said while digging through the dresser both he and Hunter shared, pulling out a large green duffle bag and slung it over his shoulder.

"WILL SOMEONE TELL ME WHAT ON REMNANT IS 280FT TALL AND WEIGHS 7400 TONS!?" Rona nearly shouted as she gasped for her breath.

Hunter just covered his face and groaned, while Petra looked at both of them with a confused look on her face.

All four of them quickly left the dorm and caught up to Ruby who was nervously shaking outside her team's dorm room door. Judging by the noises coming from inside… well, it probably wasn't pretty. As soon as shade opened the door…

"How could someone who isn't clinically insane claim to be from some other universe?!" Weiss yelled at Yang.

"Have you met Shade or Hunter? There is no way either of them is a nutjob." Yang shot back.

"Nutjob? Maybe, but clinically insane? I'm pretty sure I would know if I was." Hunter said as he entered the room.

"Please! Tell me this is some kind of elaborate prank!" Weiss said eyeing the duffle bag Shade had on his shoulder.

"Nope" Hunter said emphasizing the 'P'.

Weiss just stared at both of the pilots. Shade face palmed at Hunters lack of subtlety but otherwise didn't react.

"What is everyone talking about?" Petra asked.

Shade sighed "Ok, Rona, Petra you both may want to sit down for this." He stated.

As both Petra and Rona sat down next to team RWBY, Hunter closed the door so no one could interrupt the conversation that was about to take place.

"Well. This will get awkward fast." Hunter said.

"You think?" Shade deadpanned.

"So." Weiss said skeptically "I have heard something impossible from my team leader, and I would like it if you could please confirm or deny her claims."

"Ruby, what, exactly, did you say?" Shade asked as he set the duffel bag on the ground.

"Well… Weiss was asking about the two of you, and when she asked how we met, I told her you had washed up on Patch," she explained "And I… accidently mentioned your really cool armor and it kinda just snowballed from there."

"Schnee-balled?" Hunter attempted.

"Hunter! Now is not the time for German puns!" Shade said.

"German?" Weiss asked confused.

"Long story. One that actually intertwines with our current situation." Shade said flatly.

"I'm still lost on what you're all talking about." Blake stated.

"Ok, to understand what you're about to hear, you have to believe the impossible." Hunter said.

"Personally, I would prefer to show you but my phone has died and there is no charger that is compatible with it on remnant and Shade's doesn't have the app that will help with this explanation."

"Can I see this 'phone'?" Weiss asked with a confused look on her face.

Hunter reached into his pocket and pulled out a large rectangular object and handed it to Weiss.

"It's their world's version of a scroll." Yang stated while Weiss looked over the iPhone in her hand.

"I may be able to help with this." Weiss said as she grabbed her scroll of the charger and put Hunter's iPhone on it. The phone suddenly turned on and started charging its battery surprising both Shade and Hunter.

"How the heck did you manage to get it to work?" Hunter asked with a shocked look on his face.

"It has the same charging port as my scroll so I just plugged it in." Weiss stated showing her scroll.

"Well, while we wait for Hunter's phone to charge I guess we should start explaining." Shade sighed.

Over the next half hour Shade and Hunter explained what Jaeger and Kaiju were, and how they got to Remnant. Ruby and Yang remained quiet while Shade and Hunter were talking. Blake just stared at them, and Weiss just stared in shock. Both Petra and Rona stared at their partners while covering their mouths with their hands.

"And that's when we got to Beacon." Shade said.

"So… what do you think?" Hunter asked

"I…" Weiss stuttered.

"Yes. The answer is yes." Hunter said.

"Am I dreaming?" Blake asked.

"No. The answer is no." Hunter said.

"Wow." Rona said "that was… different."

Petra just stood in silence for a few seconds.

"AWESOME!" she shouted "You two are from a different world!"

"Yeah, I guess we are." Hunter said.

"What's it like there? Do you have movies? Ooooooh what kind of Grimm are there?" she asked.

"Woah. Slow down, first, yes we have movies, second, we, actually don't have Grimm." Shade said.

This shocked everyone in the room. "No Grimm? That place must be heaven!" Petra exclaimed.

"Still, it's worse there than here in some ways." Shade said.

"What do you mean?" Rona asked, slightly wary now.

"For one, up until twelve years ago, and even now to an extent, wars were all over the place, both world wars, Vietnam, the civil war and plenty more." He said listing off several.

"And that was before the Kaiju attacked. Now entire cities have been wiped off the map thanks to them." Hunter said

"And it's only been getting worse, the Jaeger program is losing funding so it's getting harder to build them, and the Kaiju are getting bigger every time they come through the breach." Shade said.

"Not to mention things have been getting bad ever since Gypsy," Hunter remarked "we've been losing Jaeger's left and right."

Everyone in the room went dead silent. The world that both Shade and Hunter came from was this bad?

"So… You said it's been getting worse since 'Gypsy', what do you mean by that?" Blake asked.

"Five years ago a state of the art Jaeger was taken down by a category three Kaiju," Shade answered "Up till then, only two or three Jaeger's had gone down, and those were older less reliable ones."

"The ones that had gone down before were Mark ones, Gypsy was a mark three." Hunter clarified.

Petra, Ruby, and Yang had a blank look on their faces, while Rona, Blake, and Weiss just stared in horror at the two pilots.

"Ok, so what's German?" Weiss asked, breaking the silence.

"German is a language where we are from, originating in the kingdom of Germany. Which also brings up the fact that the name 'Jaeger' is German for 'hunter'." Hunter said with a grin on his face.

"Technically, Germany hasn't been a 'kingdom' since the middle ages." Shade stated.

"Really? I'm pretty sure it's some kind of kingdom." Hunter said.

"No, now, it's a democracy." Shade corrected "How could you not know that?"

"Eh, I'm not a geography buff." Hunter said simply.

"That's politics!" Shade exclaimed.

"Eh, same difference." He retorted.

"So… the German word for Hunter is Jaeger." Yang stated.

"Correct." Hunter answered.

"Then your name is a pun!" Yang exclaimed gleefully.

This statement was followed by a chorus of groans from everyone in the room.

"Wait, so what did you mean by 'Schnee-balled' earlier?" Yang asked.

"As a matter of fact, Weiss' full name actually means, 'White Snow' in German," Hunter answered "Hence why I tried to make a snowball pun."

This sent Yang to the ground laughing, and caused Weiss to groan.

"Well, In any case, I suppose your story is at least semi-believable." Blake said "Its length alone gives it credibility."

"That's what Ozpin said." Shade stated.

"Wait, you told Ozpin about this?" Weiss asked.

"Well, He, kinda found out on his own." Hunter said.

This surprised everyone in the room. They knew the professor was perceptive, but finding out that the two were from an entirely different universe was very unique.

"Well, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, he is the headmaster for a reason." Weiss stated.

"True enough." Blake agreed.

"So… what's in the duffel bag?" Petra asked.

"I felt like not all of you would be completely convinced with our story, so I decided to show everyone here our armor." Shade said eyeing Weiss.

Hunter immediately grabbed the zipper and opened the duffel bag to reveal two sets of cyan colored Jaeger armor. Blake, Weiss, Petra, and Rona gasped when they were handed pieces of the armor. Some of the pieces was damaged, but most of them was still intact.

"What is this?" Blake asked pointing to the symbol on the shoulder piece of Hunter's armor.

Everyone quickly looked over at the symbol Blake was pointing at. On the shoulder piece, a large winged bird with a single star above its head and between its wings was shown.

"That," Shade said with a ton of pride in his voice "Is the Pan Pacific Defense Corps' symbol. My aunt was the one who made it in the first place. She made it to help rally everyone together and make it the Jaeger program's symbol of hope."

"Speaking about Shade's aunt, she is also the leader of the weapons and J-Tech division of the Jaeger program." Hunter stated.

"Wow your aunt must be really cool if she can do all of that!" Petra exclaimed.

"Yeah she is." Shade sighed.

A very loud beeping noise interrupted shade before he could say anything else. Everyone turned and saw it was coming from Hunters iPhone.

"Yes it's done charging." Hunter said grinning from ear to ear.

Hunter quickly grabbed the phone off of Weiss's charger and set it down on the floor in front of everyone in the room. After quickly unlocking it, he pressed a small app that had appeared on the screen. The screen quickly changed to the same symbol on the pilot's armor and a large circle appeared around it.

"Welcome to the Pan Pacific Defense Force information app." An AI Voice said.

The circle split into 5 equal pieces, with each piece quickly changed different colors.

"So who here wants to see what Jaegers looks like?" Hunter asked.

Everyone quickly nodded their heads as Hunter pressed the top center part of the circle. The screen quickly changed to a group of 23 different pictures of robots.

Above the pictures was a quote which read,

"There are things you can't fight. Acts of God. You see a hurricane coming, you get out of the way. But when you're in a Jaeger, suddenly, you can fight the hurricane. You can win."

-Raleigh Becket, Pilot of Gypsy Danger.

"Whoa," Yang said as her eyes widened as she read the quote. "Is that true?"

Both Shade and hunter nodded their heads. "I still remember our second time we were deployed." Hunter stated "The Kaiju just had to appear during hurricane season. That is one fight I will never forget."

"Yea it's one thing to fight a Kaiju in normal conditions, it's a whole other story when you have to fight it in a Typhoon." Shade sighed. "I'm just glad we had Striker Eureka to back us up during that fight."

"I thought they were called Hurricanes?" Hunter said eyeing his partner.

"Where you grew up they are, but not off of the coast of Sydney." Shade retorted.

"Who's Striker Eureka?" Weiss asked.

"Press the second to last picture." Hunter answered.

Weiss pressed her finger on the screen and the picture quickly expanded showing a giant robot with the words 'Striker Eureka' on the right side of the screen. At the bottom of the screen it showed a total of seven different looking creatures and two men standing next to the bottom of the foot of the Jaeger. Ruby went starry eyed as she picked up the iPhone and carefully examined the Jaeger.

"Feel free to look at everything on that app," Hunter stated "We are going to head off to the gym."

And with that both pilots left the room, glad they were out of that situation they found themselves in.

….

"Man, I was not expecting that to happen today." Hunter deadpanned.

"I have to agree with you there." Shade said with an exhausted look on his face.

"You know what I miss right now." Hunter said as they entered the locker room to the gym.

"What?" Shade asked eyeing his partner.

"Your Aunt's chocolate chip cookies!" Hunter exclaimed.

Both Hunter and Shade's stomachs started rumbling loudly at the mention of said cookies.

"You just had to mention those cookies, didn't you?" Shade said glaring at Hunter.

"They're just way too good!" Hunter shouted.

"I have to agree with you there." Shade said remembering his childhood memories. "But you do remember what happened to you the last time you had them. RIGHT?"

Hunter just nervously scratched the back of his head. He knew all too well what happened that day.

Flashback…

Summer had just made a giant batch of her famous chocolate chip cookies to celebrate both Shade and Hunter's first ever, and solo, Kaiju kill. She also had put the entire kitchen and mess hall into lockdown while she baked due to the almost destruction of the entire Jaeger launch zone, mess hall and kitchen last time she baked the cookies. But there was just one chocolate chip cookie left on the serving tray and both Hunter and Cherno Alpha pilot Aleksis Kaidonovsky were fighting tooth and nail over that last cookie.

"Hey, Hey! PUT ME DOWN!" Hunter screamed as Aleksis picked up Hunter and held him high in the air making him face the ceiling. At that moment the Cherno Alpha pilot threw Hunter at full strength towards the Wei Tang brothers, knocking all three of them over as they tried to dash for the final cookie. Hunter got up as fast a physically possible and jumped Aleksis, knocking them both to the floor. Summer Rose quickly exited the kitchen holding Sun's Light in her right hand, pointing the white blade at both Aleksis and Hunter's heads, while holding the final chocolate chip cookie in her left. The look on her face said it all. She was pissed. Sword or not it scared everyone in the mess hall.

"KITCHEN, NOW!" Summer shouted looking at the to pilots.

"Y-Yes ma'am" they both said as they rushed into the kitchen awaiting Summer's punishment. Hunter noticed a single white rose petal floating behind Summer's back as he went inside. "Shade, Mako, can you both get the triplets to the infirmary?" she asked while turning back to the kitchen, sheathing Sun's Light. Both Mako and Shade rushed over to the triplets, caring them on their shoulders to the infirmary.

In the kitchen, both Hunter and Aleksis was giving each other death glares. Summer stepped up right in front of them, angrily looking at both pilots. "WHAT ON RE...EARTH WERE YOU TWO THINKING!" she yelled at them. Both pilots tried explaining themselves but was cut off when summer unsheathed Sun's Light. "Both of you are to clean every dish in here for the next two weeks starting today." she said pointing the blade over to the sink full of dishes. "And as the second part of your punishment you both will be helping me with weapons maintenance on both of you Jaegers."

"Yes ma'am." they said to summer.

"If any of you skip out on your punishment, I WILL Dismantle your Jaeger."

This statement shocked both pilots. But they knew that she literally meant every word. Summer Shepherd was one of the only few people in the entire Jaeger program that knew the ins and outs of every Jaeger. Hunter and Aleksis both ran to the sink and started washing the dishes.

...Present day

"Yea I'd rather not suffer Summer's wrath again." Hunter said.

Shade just laughed as both he and Hunter walked out into the gym to do their usual training session.

….

Petra, Rona, and team RWBY was still back in team RWBY's dorm discussing what they had just found out about Shade and Hunter.

"So, what do you all think?" Rona asked.

"Well, the two of them told me and Ruby as much before we came to Beacon, But they never said how bad it actually was." Yang said.

"To be honest, the whole prospect of their world is… horrifying." Weiss said.

"LOOK AT THIS JAEGER!" Ruby squealed, holding up Hunter's phone. Everyone looked and saw a huge military green Jaeger kill a Kaiju with just its fists by punching its head clean off.

"Whoa!" Yang exclaimed.

"It fights just like you do Yang." Blake stated.

"Yea it does. Kinda reminds me of when i did that to a Beowolf last week." Yang said.

"You find the guy's Jaeger yet?" Petra asked.

"Not yet, I'm still looking." Ruby answered going starry eyed at every Jaeger she looked at.

Ruby flipped the screen page to the next Jaeger showing Diamond Banshee. "FOUND IT!" she shouted showing the Jaeger. Sure enough on the bottom right corner of the screen was both Hunter and Shade fully dressed in their armor.

"Wow, I would love to see that Jaeger." Petra joked.

"You and me both." Ruby said.

Ruby started scrolling through another part of the app labeled Jaeger Program Heads of Staff. The first picture showed the Marshall standing next to the window overlooking the Jaeger launch bay with his hands behind his back. 'Marshall Stacker Pentecost, head and leader of the PPDC's. Former Pilot of the Jaeger Coyote Tango, he and his co-pilot Tamsin Sevier took down Kaiju Onibaba in Tokyo Japan on May 15th, 2016. Later Tamsin Sevier was told that she had cancer, they both retired from being pilots while Stacker Pentecost stayed in the PPDC training new pilots of what they might face when fighting Kaiju. Eventually being promoted to his position in the PPDC today.'

"Wait, so that's who they were talking about when I first met them?" Petra asked.

"They were talking about him?" Yang asked back.

"Yea, they said he was being all up-tight or something like that."

Ruby flipped to the next page on the app where is showed Tendo Choi standing in front his station at the LOCCENT operations center. 'Tendo Choi, Loccent Chief and J-Tech second command, Tendo is the man who oversees major operations when Jaegers are deployed and the person who names and classifies every Kaiju that emerges from the breach. When he is not working in the LOCCENT, he is helping the J-Tech Chief fixing and maintaining the Jaegers.'

"Wow, he must have a lot of work on his hands if he does all of that." Rona said

"He has my respect if he can do all of that." Weiss said.

"Of course you do." Yang said as she and Blake rolled their eyes.

Ruby flipped to the next page showing Dr. Hermann Gottlieb standing in front of his chalk board and a model of the breach off to his side. 'DR. Hermann Gottlieb, the mathematician of the PPDC's science team, he is the one who wrote the code for all the mark-1 Jaegers. He currently is researching the exact nature and physics of the breach, even recently coming up with the model for when the next Kaiju emerge from the breach and where they will attack.

"Looks like we just found the guy for Professor Peach's next date." Yang said jokingly.

"I doubt it Yang. It says here he already has a wife." Rona said.

Everyone laughed at the statement. "Well lets see who's next." Ruby said as she flipped the page showing Newt. Newt was standing next to an autopsy table with a giant Kaiju organ on top of it, that he was dissecting with smaller pieces scattered around the table and floor. 'DR. Newton (Newt) Geiszler, part of the PPDC's science team, he studies the Kaiju themselves by dissecting Kaiju organs and remains to find out how they work and more importantly, what their weaknesses are. Also, his research saved millions of people and millions of dollars by finding out how to treat and neutralize the toxic factor of the Kaiju blood, also known as Kaiju Blue.'

Both Petra and Rona's eyes widened in surprise.

"He did that?" Rona asked.

"Looks like it." Petra responded.

Weiss just looked at Newt's picture and threw the phone back at Ruby as she ran to the bathroom emptying her stomach. Both Yang and Petra laughed at Weiss's predicament.

"HAHAHA ohhh, so it looks like Weiss can't handle gross stuff all that well." Yang said wiping a tear from her eye.

"She will have to get used to it if she wants to be a huntress." Blake said. "Coco did say that next semester professor Peach is making us dissect some frogs."

"Please don't remind me." Rona said with a disgusted look on her face.

"So Ruby who is n…" Yang paused as she looked over to her sister. Ruby's eyes had widened in shock, tears flowing down her cheeks and her right hand covered her mouth. Ruby's entire body was trembling as she held Hunter's iPhone, looking at the next person on the app.

"Ruby what's wrong!" Yang said with deep concern in her voice.

"M...Mom"

….

A/N: YAY! So, this AN is being made long after I wrote the original chapter. This chapter is actually a heavy overhaul done by rsclaymore, who at this point, is my beta reader! He's done an amazing job rewriting this chapter, and he's also rewriting chapter 12, so expect that rewrite to come out in the following weeks!