"Jack the device you put too much Chronon energy it's gonna blow!" William Joyce said as he was checking the console. "Holy shit!" William said covering his mouth, the data he was seeing was impossible. "What?" Jack asked his brother, "The device it was supposed to fix the fracture; prevent the end of time but." William paused he needed to take it all in.

"But what! What in the world is happening" Jack shouted furious, though when the world is about to end due to a device your brother created I think it warrants some frustration? "but it's only speeding it up the process is quickening if we don't get this fixed soon the time will tear itself apart, I need to grab some spare tools, DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING!" William said as he left the building.

"Alright, maybe if I apply enough energy it might stabilize the field, but I only have one shot." Jack said as he gathered the remaining Chronon energy into his hand and shot it at the machine. At the time the energy left jack's fingers, William had just entered the building.

"Jack NO!" William said trying to stop him but it was too late the machine had already absorbed the energy. What came next what a bright light and shockwave that blew everything away when the shock wave reached the brother's it stopped them in their tracks as it did everything else in the building, and the shockwave spread from town to city to continent to the world and finally to the entire universe

Time was frozen; atoms were locked in position unable to move as the end of time took place. Then suddenly Jack was free, he was able to move in the end of time. "What the hell" he said to himself, he touched his face to see if he was still himself.

While Jack was walking around the building to see what happened, his movement attracted the majority of the shifter in the area, they were distorted beings who were once people, but have been robbed of their humanities in the zero state.

Once Jack saw them he tried to run but he tripped over a box, he tried to get up but the shifters held him down they tried to take a piece of him; they tried to change him into one of them to solidify their reign of the Zero state.

But before they finished turning him, William's machine started beeping attracting their attention, the machine continued to beep only the delay between the beeps grew shorter until it got to a point that it was just one long beeping noise.

Then from the machine a blast of white erupted annihilating anything in Its way. The shifters tried to run but were engulfed in the blast, Jack got up and started running in the other direction but it was futile, the blast caught up and swallowed him.

However instead of being erased he still could feel his limbs he looked around and saw that all of his surroundings were replaced by whiteness everywhere, but he was quickly losing consciousness, he had to keep his mind awake or else he would disappear, he tried counting, singing, even math problems but it was still becoming harder to stay conscious.

Then he tried something he swore he wouldn't think about again, his past. After his parents died William basically skipped his teenage years and became the adult of the family, Jack pretty much raised himself. Jack met Paul a few years later they became the best of friends, but we all know how that went down a few time mishaps later and your best friend becomes your worst enemy.

Although it was kinda painful for Jack a trip down memory lane did help, but only for so long, "Come on you big dummy stay awake" Jack said as he tried to hit himself but only to discover that he couldn't feel anything, Jack gave up and let himself go.

H "Soldier how goes the report on the anomaly?" General Ironwood asked as he walked past that very same soldier, to the deck of his command ship overlooking Mistral. "Sir our reports say that the anomaly has stopped and time has returned to normal.

If he didn't see the data on the screen in front of him, the soldier that told him about it would be subjected to various test regarding his health. But no matter how preposterous it may be, the facts are, there was a crack in the space time continuum, luckily for the people of remnant it was small and short only lasting for 15 minutes before disappearing. But the problem remained What caused these this called crack in time? and will it come back.

H Jack woke up to the door opening that revealed a doctor in his mid-thirties. "So you're awake, we have a few questions." The man said "but I guess that will have to wait but for now how are you doing?" Um could you explain how your able to move after the fracture, are you like me or are you a shifter?" Jack asked with a drop of venom in the last word.

"Boy I have no idea what you mean, but I suggest being more grateful to the person who nursed you back to health, though you were really inured. "What do you mean by boy? I'm only a few years younger than you." Jack said to the doctor who now just looked confused. "I don't know what kind substance you were on but I am visually older than you. The doctor said before moving to the stand

"Here check yourself out." The doctor said before tossing a hand held mirror at him, Jack caught and flipped it around to see his face. To say he was shocked would be kind of an understatement, he was overwhelmed with thoughts and questions. 'What it the world happened? Why do look like a 11 years younger? What happened to the fracture?

"I Understand your memories are probably still hazy, you've been asleep for a mouth now so take things nice and easy. I'll come back in a few minutes, but for now your clothes are in folded on your bed good bye for now." The doctor said before leaving.

This was shocking even to Jack who could control time at his beck and call. "Speaking of which." Jack said to himself as he focused his thought onto his right hand, he threw the mirror the doctor had given him in air. Jack snapped his fingers and time completely stopped, not slow down like some crappy time user in a game, no it came to a complete stop. The birds stopped moving the clock on the wall stopped ticking, everything was frozen in place.

he got off the bed and placed his hand below the mirror before snapping his fingers returning time to its normal flow, the birds resumed flying and the clock on the wall continued to tick. As gravity impacted the mirror Jack caught it and tossed it back on the bed. Jack grabbed his clothes and started to slip into them

Jack wore his Blue tinted jacket on top of his light blue shirt, the cloths fit despite that Jack size and weight had shrunk to one of a teenager. he left the room once he was finished dressing up, when he opened the door he saw the doctor who had nursed him back to health he was talking to what looked to be his wife.

Jack stayed out of view to hear their conversation, he didn't know the intentions of the people who took care of him, for all he knew they were going to perform un-holy experiments on him. "Chris we can't keep him here we already have enough mouths to feed." The woman said while looking at a piece of paper.

"Honey we can't just leave him to fend for himself, it just wouldn't feel right." The man retorted, "I know but we already have enough on our hand, we can't keep him here forever." The woman said before pinching her nose.

"Ok how about this, he can stay with us for a few months, and then when the semester starts we can send him a huntsman academy." The man said, as he finished he finally noticed Jack standing in near the door to the room he had woke up in.

"Oh your up, sorry about the house, we don't usually get visitors, Bur come on let me introduce you to my wife, Jack came into the well-furnished kitchen. "Hello my name is Rose, Nice to meet you." She said before extending her arm for a handshake. Jack took the hand shake and said "It's a pleasure to meet you. My name is Jack Joyce."

Well Jack my name is Christopher most people just call me Chris." The doctor began "Now I'm sure you have some questions, but first there Is someone who wants to see you, he's a good friend of mine and I'm a little baffled that he has the time with all the paperwork he does." Chris said as he pointed to the stares. "He's on the room to the right with my daughter.

Jack left the couple and started climbing up the stairs when he heard a man voice coming from the room, it sounded familiar, but Jack couldn't quite place it. As he got the door it was already half open, he could see the couple's daughter, she looked just a little older than himself, with Black hair, she was just a little shorter than him. Although she lacked in the height department, she made up in her appearance

Just as He was about to open the door when a voice called "I see your awake Jack." Jack turned to voice and who he saw shock him, every fiber of his very being wanted to beat him to a pulp again. It was Paul Serene.

As soon as Jack saw his face he went with a right jab, to Paul's face but before the fists made contact, the door to his right opened revealing the teen he had seen earlier. "uh, what's happening here?" She asked with a confused look. "Nothing Jack here was just showing me, that his shoulder still hurt." Jack acted as if this was true and rolled his shoulder he faked tensing up to act like it hurt.

"Oh well it's nice to meet you, my name is Elizabeth" She said with a smile that could melt an Iceberg, "My names Jack." He responded. "Well it was good talking to you Elizabeth, but Jack and I have a few things to talk about." Paul said as he motioned to the door. "Okay see you later Jack" Elizabeth as she went down the stairs"

Give me one reasons why I shouldn't kill you now." Jack said with a seriousness that Paul hadn't seen before. "Well I can give you two. One I came here decades ago as a child your age, I quickly rose in power and acquired a vital position in this government, so killing be would cause an uproar and you would be hunted down. Two. It would be kinda rude to kill the person who saved you.

Before Jack could answer he was interrupted by Paul saying "I can explain what's happened, but it's best to talk away in private." Paul said as he looked towards the stairs to see Elizabeth trying to hide behind the stair railing.

Jack closed the door behind himself, he stood waiting for answers to his question especially one in particular. "Well you're probably wondering how I'm alive? You coming here only proves my theory that only recently turned shifters and Chronon enhanced individuals." Paul said before sitting down and bringing out a note book. "How does me coming here prove anything?" Jack asked before looking at the note book Paul had in his hands. "The theory was that shifter exist in superposition" Paul said, Jack was confused, William had been the science nerd not him. As if reading his mind, Paul said "Let me dumb it down for you, they exist everywhere at once, so when I was taken by the blast I still existed but not in the visible form. So I was moved here earlier than you because I had only recently become a shifter than compared to others like martin hatch.

And judging from that you were also transported here to it means that Chronon infused individuals have a high hence of coming here, luckily the shifter don't exist here." Paul said still a little confusing to Jack but he got the overall message. "Speaking of which-" Jack began but Paul cut him off saying "Yes we are in an entirely different universe, from what I've seen it seems like this is a sort of dump for the multiverse. Old seems to mix with new and magic with science. it's hard to explain. I lost my powers when I got here so travelling back is not an option for me, luckily I can still feel Chronon energy in the air, especially when you froze time for a minute" Paul finished with a smirk, he knew that Jack still had his abilities so making an enemy of him was downright dumb.

"One other question why should I trust you of all people." Jack said with venom in his voice hinting at the betrayal that occurred in his own universe. Paul's eyes narrowed slightly "Well back then I was trying to save our world, this one does not need saving, well at least not from conceptual things as Time." Paul said before turning around looking through the window in the direction far off.

"What you looking at?" Jack said as he tried to squint to see what was there. "Nothing, it's nothing. Let's get back to the topic at hand." Paul said as he returned his gaze to Jack. "Alright you're going to stay here for about a year, after that I'll register you in this worlds wired version of school. "why's the school wired?" Jack asked. "you'll see." Paul replied.

"Now I can't stay for long because I can't really be seen with a person who has no background history here, it would raise some questions and I'm don't want to deal with the press." Paul said before getting up and walking towards the door. "Hey Paul." Jack began. "Yeah" Paul replied.

"Just because you're helping me doesn't mean I trust, show me even a hint of betrayal and… well you they won't have even pieces to register your face." Jack said as he gathered the Chronon energy in the area and formed a time blast in his hands to further drive his point.

"I got it, you have powers, I don't." Paul said as he rolled his eyes and left the room followed by Jack. "Remember you can't tell anyone that you know me yet, okay." Paul stated the obvious. "Heh, is their anyway for me to get back to my universe?" Jack asked. "Not that I know of, or at least not one that wouldn't repeat the destruction of the Meyer-Joyce field.

"where are you going Paul?" Jack asked which drew the attention of the rest of the family, "Sorry that I have to cut my visit short I have some work at the office to get to, and my secretary will kill me if I don't finish it." He answered jokingly. "Yeah, I know a thing about secretary's, see you later." Chris said as Paul left the house.

The room was silent once Paul left, well this is awkward Jack thought to himself, "I'll show you to your room" Elizabeth spoke up evaporating the fog of silence. "okay" Jack said while following here up the stairs once more.

"It's the room on the left, Paul had somethings ready for you, but I wouldn't know he told me not to go in there." Elizabeth said pointing to the exact door. "thanks" Jack said as moved to the door and entered the room. jack walked in and jumped straight for the bed.

As Jack hit the bed something dropped to the floor that Jack hadn't noticed earlier. He moved to the side of the bed and found out that it was a book with a note on it. ~this world is very different from earth; this book will catch you up on most of the things in this world. ~ Paul.

Jack tore off the note and started to brush through the book.

Remnant the world the we live in is divided into 4 large land masses namely: Vale, Atlas, Vacuo, Mistral. These are the largest settlements un affected by the *Grimm*(page 13). Jack stops and flips to the page discussing about the Grimm.

~the world of Remnant is constantly plagued by the Grimm. These are beast made of pitch black darkness that prey and human life, they are drawn to the strongest emotion, that is Fear; there are many variations of the Grimm that live in our world. But one thing is common among them, they show animalistic traits among them only being wiser the longer they are alive and most hunting in packs.

Jack dropped the book when he noticed it was dark. He looked outside and was astounded by what he saw, "Paul said this world is like earth. Now explain to me how the ¼ of the moon being shattered and held by its gravitational pull is like Earth.

1 week later

"Heh Jack could you help me with the dishes." Rose asked.

"Yeah" Jack answered while coming down the wooden stairs. He walked into the kitchen to see stacks of plates. "figures this is still, here you guys did cook up a storm yesterday when Paul came.

"Of course, he usually stops by when he wants a taste of my legendary good food.

" Rose jokes, to which Jack laughed at.

"We'll you can go I'll take care of the rest of the dishes." Jack stated.

"This is quite a large set of plates, are you sure yo can handle this, I could call Elizabeth to help you." Rose suggested.

"Nah, I'll be fine." Jack insisted, turned his attention away from Rose and to the dishes as he started to wash-down them prompting Rose to leave, but before she got far Jack called her name.

"Yes Jack" Rose answered as she turned back around.

"I was just wondering. When did you guys meet Paul?" Jack asked while still washing the dishes.

"Well I would say we met him roughly two years ago. He was pretty banged, so my husband took him in and fix him up. I distinctly remember him bring out a green paper slip and handing it to Chris, my husband accepted it because he thought it was a custom from wherever Paul came from." Rose lengthy answered.

"And when you met him was there something off about him?" Jack questioned.

"Like what?

"Like, staring at nothing, gaps in memory or even sometimes momentary emotional disturbances." Jack clarified

"That's …oddly specific, but no, but he did sometimes say a few gibberish words, but that stopped a few days after he stayed here. Why do you ask?" Rose answered.

"Just… wondering?" Jack paused to think for some time before talking again. "did he ever say anything about me." Jack asked.

"Well I remember him talking about how he felt sorry for what he did to you and a fellow called William." Rose Recalled.

Jack winced ever so slightly at the mention of his brother's name, causing his to accidentally drop a cup. By the time Jack realized that he dropped the cup he activated his time rush and grabbed the cup.

"That's some amazing reflexes" Rose said signing as that was one of her favorite cups.

"So I'm gonna guess that you and this William person are- "

"Were, we… were very close" Jack blurted out interrupting her.

"sorry, William just brings up some bad memories." Jack apologized, he still hadn't gotten completely used to the fact that William is probably dead or frozen, he hadn't apologized to William for what happened in their youth.

"Don't fret I get it. Guess I'll go now."" Rose said as she left the kitchen.

2 days

Jack continued on with his training with the occasional help from Elizabeth as he grew more used to his younger body and the weapon he used. He had spent all his time getting better with his weapon and trying to fit in.

Jack had all taken to reading his hosts many-many books that well informed him of the planet he was on, and the strange things that inhabited it. Grimm, aura, dust. My go what have I gotten myself into." Jack worried in his mind before flipping to another page which revealed another subject related to aura. He brought his finger to the top and began to whisper the word out loud.

"The users of awakened aura have developed skills to combat against the dark forces of the world, these 'abilities' as scientist first labelled them were the skills that an individual possessed that allows them to do amazing feats such as telekinesis and control of heat. Semblances are 99% of the time different, between the family genes as they are a reflection upon one's self. there is one such family that has had its family semblance passed down, that is the schnee family which is the largest dust producing company on remnant, their semblance heritage is the creation of glyphs which have different functions such as speeding up the user and holding an enemy in place."

Jack put back the sets of books with him and stepped outside for a walk. He moved farther and farther away from the house, when he heard the sound of a tree being hit. Attracting his attention, he walked in the direction of the sound.

He arrived in a clearing of trees overlooking a waterfall, he activated his time vision and fond Elizabeth practicing with two daggers against a tree. Jack found a good tree and proceeded to lean on it while watching her fluently move her daggers with grace.

Jack continued to watch until he coughed alerting her of his presence.

"oh, didn't see you there. So what are you doing out here besides watching me" Elizabeth joked.

"ehn decided to take a walk when I heard someone grunting and I came here and found you… hitting a tree, what did ever do to you?" he jokingly asked.

After a bit of silence Elizabeth spoke up.

"So what weapon do you use?" she curiously asked.

"What other weapons are there besides guns?" Jack asked rhetorically not expecting what she said next.

"So you don't use any bladed weapons, at all?"

"Why would I use swords and maces when a gun would do the trick?"

"you really are an odd one." Elizabeth said before thinking.

"What if your put In a situation that requires you to fight without a gun."

"I just run until I can get one, though this conversation has me question does everyone one remnant use swords and blades" Jack asked bluntly.

Elizabeth shook her hand indicating 'half right and half wrong. "we use guns that transform into bladed weapons for melee and ranged combat." Elizabeth explained.

"Well I guess that would make sense." Jack assumed before turning and walking off. But before he got far Elizabeth called him back.

"Yeah" Jack answered.

"So you're saying you don't use bladed weapons, where exactly did you come from."

Jack hadn't been prepared to answer questions about his past, but luckily he had a quick mind and he thought up a quick story.

"I'm…from a very cut off village, we kinda forsake weapons and went with guns instead."

"Must have been some town. So how did you end up here." Elizabeth questioned further.

"That… is something I don't know; I only remember some parts of my past." Jack answered clearly uncomfortable with lying to a person who showed no threat.

"So if barely know your past, how is it that you know Paul?" Elizabeth continued to ask.

"Paul… was a very old friend of mine, emphasis on was." Jack answered yet again.

"Why do you say was, did some- "Elizabeth started before she was interrupted by Jack.

"listen I don't really want to talk about it, alright."

"Alright, I'll stop prying into your life." She says before turning back to her tree. But as Jack started to walk away she called out to him again.

"So what is it this time" Jack asked clearly pissed off.

"Well I was just wonder, since you've never trained with a blade how would you like to start." Elizabeth proposed.

Jack raise his finger to refuse her offer, but then a thought entered his mind. "if the inhabitants of the world, use transforming weapons, it would be best if I learned to-too. "You know what, I'll take your offer.

"Great it would be best if you started out with the basic sword, and you can move on to harder weapons it you want." Elizabeth offered before tossing Jack a short sword.

"So shall we start." Elizabeth asks. Before readying her stance.