Episode 4: "Explanations…Warriors of Universe 7 at Beacon!"
Some time had passed, several hours at least, since Ozpin picked up the last eight students to Beacon Academy, and the warriors who defeated Grimm rather easily with their bare fists.
The team assignment ceremony was conducted, and the teams were formed. Ruby, Weiss, Blake, & Yang became Team RWBY (Ruby) lead by the youngest of the group, Ruby Rose herself. Jaune, Pyrrha, Ren, & Nora became Team JNPR (Juniper), lead by Jaune Arc.
Goku and the others that were in the Emerald Forest, were reunited with their friends and family at Beacon Academy. Introductions were made. And come dusk, Ozpin had The warriors present at the entrance initiation (minus Goten and the younger Trunks), Bulma (Vegeta's wife), Roshi (Goku & Krillin's master), and Hercule Satan (Majin Buu's friend), along with Team RWBY & JNPR we're called to Ozpin's office atop the tower at the school.
Glynda Goodwitch, per Ozpin's request, brought in a bunch of chairs that they could sit in. She once argued with the headmaster about having RWBY & JNPR join the visitors from another world, but the enigmatic man said that the latest students were more aware of their visitors and what they are than she and himself are.
JNPR were the first to arrive along with the 'self-proclaimed' Martial Arts Champion of the world, Hercule Satan, and Krillin. Master Roshi, a bald old man wearing sunglasses and an orange shirt arrived shortly after, and Glynda instantly felt creeped out by him (as he gave off the aura of a huge pervert), and worried what he might do to any of the female students or faculty, deciding here and there that she will keep an extra-close eye on the old man.
Ozpin was about to ask if Team RWBY and the others he called were arriving, but was stopped when in an instant, Goku appeared out of thin air, with the remaining people he called up arriving at the same time as Goku. Though they did appear out of thin air like he did, because they were all touching each other's shoulders or hands (Instant Transmission is convenient, ain't it…) and it surprised Ozpin, Glynda, and Team JNPR.
"Wow!" Ruby said as she let go of her sister's hand, "You weren't kidding when you said it was 'instant' earlier today Goku. Even with my Semblance, it would probably take me several minutes to get here, and you got us here in a second flat! Please teach me how to use it!"
Goku chuckled as he replied, "Eh…sorry, it took me a year to learn how, and I don't know how to teach you how to do it, the aliens who taught me, the Yardratians, would show you how if you met them…"
Ozpin merely hummed an 'I see' silently in response, already having learned something new about this one new visitor in particular, he can appear anywhere in an instant based on, what he figures is a technique he was taught. Ozpin had hoped that Goku could teach the technique to the students and faculty of Beacon, but those hopes were dashed by two reasons…
First, Goku said it was a really difficult technique to learn and that the ones who taught him would be better at it, the fact it took this warrior a whole year to learn it is a bit of a problem. Ozpin couldn't really explain it, but he feels a tremendous sense of dread, that a storm was brewing, and there wouldn't be any time to learn this technique of Goku's.
Second, Goku himself looks to not be a very ideal teacher. Ozpin hates thinking of others in such a way, but he can't help but think that while Goku looks to be a genius in battle, he looked to be an idiot, a moron, everywhere else in terms of teaching.
He took a sip of his coffee as he said, "Now that everyone is here, I would like to first introduce yourselves, for the record. I wouldn't have asked my students present to come as well, if you children didn't already know our visitors more than what myself and Ms. Goodwitch haven't seen or heard observing the initiation test this morning."
A new face came up beside Gohan, a woman with black hair in a bun, and she said quite sternly, "I want to know why on Earth are you having children fighting bloodthirsty monsters from what I've heard, instead of them studying to get steady jobs…?"
Gohan explained to her, "Mom…this is a school for that very thing, these Grimm creatures are in a constant state of war with humanity here on Remnant."
Ozpin knows this kind of person all too well, he knows how to defuse arguments with the likes of her as Gohan introduced her first, "This is my mom, Chichi. She insisted on coming here the minute she heard this was a school training children for fighting monsters."
"I take it that you're Goku's wife then…" Ozpin asked, "…I did overhear Gohan here mention to Yang Xiao Long & Blake Belladonna that your father is Goku…"
"Yeah, we're still not finished with this yet, Mr. Ozpin, was it?" Chichi said with finality, as Goku tried to placate his wife. Then the others introduced themselves…
"You can just call me Piccolo…" the Namekian started off, "I'm a Namekian born and raised on Earth. Initially, I was Goku's enemy and tried to conquer the earth, until circumstances lead to us being considered friends, if you want to see it that way."
This surprised Ozpin, this was, by Piccolo's brief and informative explanation, a definition that made Ozpin think, Piccolo was once a textbook villain. But he had to wonder what kind of circumstances happened to turn an enemy into an ally…
He put those thoughts for later as a turquoise-haired woman introduced herself next, "I am Bulma Briefs. I was Goku's first friend back home, and am a genius mechanic. My father is the owner of a company called the Capsule Corporation, and now I run it more or less."
An inventor, Ozpin was sly, but he had a light, but clearly excited face as his little order was in desperate need of someone on the science angle for the war to likely come. He thought this while in the background, Ruby and Yang were snickering silently at Bulma's name, sounding like 'bloomers'…
"I am Mūten (Master) Roshi. I was Goku's martial arts master when he was a boy." The old man said as he flashed a victory sign. Ozpin likes this news a lot, here was someone who could best teach his students how to use the power Goku just demonstrated.
The others introduced themselves, and Ozpin's opinions on them were, optimistic, to say the least…
Hercule Satan, Ozpin's opinion on him was the lowest (comparatively), he clearly wasn't as capable as most of everyone here, he was not a true fighter, not like these 'Saiyans'…But, the old man saw that he has a good heart, and while he is a coward, he'll stand up to anything when properly motivated. Ozpin saw the major value in Hercule for his friendship of this Majin Buu, whose regarded as one of the toughest of this group.
Krillin and Piccolo were quite strong, he can tell, especially Piccolo. Ozpin noticed something strange when he looked into Piccolo's eyes, it looked like he was seeing two more souls in the green man. He would like to ask the Namekian later in private about this, feeling a strange relation to the warrior.
Gohan was well behaved and has a gentle soul, Ozpin saw this and noticed he had a hidden strength inside of him, a strength that could make the son of Goku the most powerful one here. The headmaster thought that Gohan would be the best choice for teaching how to utilize ki to the students of Beacon Academy, especially after hearing he was a scholar.
Vegeta was proud, too proud in himself, the observant man saw. He was really strong, quite possibly one of the strongest here, and he had a, what Ozpin could best describe as, a harsh bluntness to him. Ozpin knows if he asked Vegeta to teach, the Saiyan will flat out say no, and even if he accepted, Vegeta would likely destroy the children's innocence with harsh teaching that may break them if they weren't strong enough. He was puzzled on the fact that Vegeta said he was the prince of the Saiyan race, and thought to ask him about the Saiyans later.
He turned to the last two, as the Saiyan raised on Earth said, "Yo! I'm Goku! I want to fight against the strongest opponents out there, a real challenge, that's all I really want, and to train!"
While Chichi chastised her husband for his manners, and while he cowered, Ozpin compiled his thoughts about Goku. Ozpin notes in his mind that because of that statement, he saw an opportunity to get Goku to finally defeat 'her', and intended to capitalize on it as soon as team RWBY & JNPR leave. While he's certain Goku can defeat 'her', he guesses he won't put a permanent stop to his foe, Goku from the looks of it, was just too nice.
He turned his attention back to the last one, "And you, young man? I can't help but notice you bear a striking resemblance to a boy who was with Goku's youngest son…"
Trunks sighed as he introduced himself, "My name is Trunks, and before you ask, yes, I share that boy's name. That is because, I am him from the future…"
Glynda's normally composed demeanor during this whole thing was absolutely shattered, Ozpin's was too, as well as the members of RWBY & JNPR who weren't already told earlier.
Ozpin adjusted his glasses as he asked, "You are a time traveler?!"
Trunks grunted a little as he answered, "Yes…but it's complicated…"
"Then, do you have a time machine or any means of time travel? If so, can you show us?" Ozpin immediately had to ask, this was too big an opportunity to lose.
Trunks bowed his head low as he apologized, "I'm sorry, I always carried the time machine I use on hand, but this time, I don't know where it is. I lost it, and based on my memories and the case I carried it in, it just vanished…"
Ozpin didn't show it, but he was saddened that the 'fix-all' solution he hoped was dashed.
Piccolo added, "Not to bother you about this, but there are a few issues if you asked about a time machine for what I think you intended to use it for, then you better forget it…"
Ozpin looked a little confused as Piccolo explained, "First off, according to Beerus & Whis, manipulating time is a serious crime of the cosmos. Second, even if you did manage to change something in the past to make a better future, it would only work for that time, and leave the future you already came from completely unchanged. And third, Bulma is the only one who could invent one, but the information she had to build one was destroyed by Beerus to prevent further manipulation of time, without it, she cannot build one…"
Ozpin nodded as he took in this information about the time machine. With it, he now knows that, even if they had the time machine now, it would be a colossal waste of time to use it like he hoped to.
Ozpin cleared his thoughts as he prepared to ask next, "A shame really, I had thought of a good use for the time machine if you still had it. But, that's water under the bridge now. The question currently on my mind right now…is 'How did you all get here on Remnant from Earth?' As I believe you called it…"
The warriors (& extra) explained as best as they could what transpired before they woke up on Remnant, which boiled down to them just enjoying life until a sudden flash of light popped in front of their eyes, something struck them in the back of the neck, and then, RWBY & JNPR know the rest after that…
Ozpin notes that not all of them said they were hit in the back of the head, some of them simply felt an unnatural amount of drowsiness and fell asleep, or simply passed out. He did ask those not present at the meeting earlier in the day the same question.
Ozpin stated, "This is puzzling…for some of you, I feel that you were brought here by someone, or something…do any of you have a means of going back…?"
Goku had an 'Oh yeah' moment, as he then said, "Oh yeah! Bulma, do you think we can call Whis to pick us up?"
Vegeta slapped his forehead so hard that it left a red, hand-shaped mark on it, as Bulma said, "Didn't you think I haven't tried that already! I don't have that device to call him and Beerus directly…!"
"Who are Whis and Beerus?" Pyrrha Nikos asked, to which Glynda interrupted after looking at the clock, "Not relevant for you, your team, & team RWBY at this moment, Ms. Nikos. The lot of you have school tomorrow and I expect you all to be bright and early by morning."
Team RWBY and JNPR (except Pyrrha and Weiss) slightly whined at that, until Ozpin said, "I know your interactions with our guests make you all deserving of the same answers we want. But, Ms. Goodwitch is correct, and if I believe my instincts, their whole story will last too long for a bunch of new enlistees to stay up…so for now, off to your dorms, and we'll inform you eight about anything Goodwitch and myself learn about our visitors…"
RWBY and JNPR were disappointed, but reassuring words from Goku, Gohan, Piccolo, and Krillin made them accept the decision. After saying their goodbyes, the eight teenagers left the office, leaving Beacon's headmaster and combat instructor alone with the otherworldly visitors.
"Ahem…!" Ozpin cleared his throat as he started the new conversation, "I am curious about these beings you call Beerus and Whis, and I share Ms. Nikos' interest in these two. Care to explain them?"
Piccolo let out a quiet 'Hmph' as Goku answered, "Oh! Beerus is a God of Destruction back in our universe, he's crazy strong! I should know, I fought him some time ago! As for Whis, he's Beerus' attendant, and martial arts teacher! Vegeta and I have been taking lessons from him for a while now…"
Ozpin jolted in shock briefly at the mention of Beerus being a God of Destruction, but was even more shocked to learn that Goku actually fought such a being and survived.
Glynda Goodwitch said after adjusting her glasses (after being shocked herself), "Perhaps, you better explain the whole story about your world…"
Piccolo said, "Master Roshi and myself can best explain our shared history…it is a long story…"
Ozpin nodded and said, "Alright, explain your history…"
The Namekian and old master their world's history (which for readers is the entire Dragon Ball storyline) starting from Goku being found as an infant by Roshi's old student and Goku's adoptive grandfather, Gohan. Going from there to when Goku and Bulma first met, to Goku defeating Piccolo's wicked father. Further on explaining the arrival of Raditz, the older brother of Goku, who in turn made way for the arrival of fellow Saiyans Nappa and Vegeta, and Goku's climatic battle against Vegeta.
Further told were the group's victories against foes like Frieza, a galactic tyrant who destroyed the Saiyan home-world which resulted in Goku turning Super Saiyan, the Androids of Dr. Gero, culminating into the ultimate android, Cell, & their battles against the terrifying Majin Buu, and Goku's ultimate victory against the pink being's pure evil form.
Ozpin and Glynda especially were floored by the further exploits of these warriors, with Beerus threatening to destroy the earth if he doesn't face the 'Super Saiyan God'. The return of Frieza, eager to seek revenge against Goku for his defeat, which resulted in Frieza being killed. The little tournament held between their universe and its twin universe. The incursion of an evil doppelgänger of Goku's called Goku Black from Trunks' future, and his partner in crime, the fallen god; Zamasu. Then, explained a whole tournament between universes called the Tournament of Power, and its most powerful warrior, Jiren the Gray, of the Pride Troopers superhero group...
It took an hour, but the whole story of there's was finished, their opponents from the Tournament of Power were the last foes they faced. They did hint at a situation that happened recently regarding a woman who caused the group a lot of trouble with imperfect clones of themselves and of their foes, but Ozpin noticed how they seem a little…reluctant to talk about this incident, the tell was how a lot of them either seem embarrassed or frustrated when the mention of the incident was made. He decided not to press about it, and subtly told his 'lieutenant' to not press them about it either. The two (and whoever else happened to be listening in) were not informed by Piccolo or Roshi about the Dragon Balls, a conscious decision made by the two, feeling that it would cause all sorts of problems if they mentioned the wish-granting orbs or their variants.
The man processed the truly staggering amount of information about their world, and was left genuinely speechless at their many accomplishments, especially against foes who sound significantly stronger that his personal foe, or the gods of their folklore. He knew that he had to convince them to help his cause, so, he decided to play a gambit by asking them…
"I see you are regular world-saviors, enough so that most people in this world may consider you lot superheroes. Your talents and accomplishments are impressive, even by this world's standards, so I have a proposition…Would you like to become teachers at Beacon Academy, so you can teach our upcoming hunters and huntresses to best battle the Grimm…?"
The group of visitors to Remnant looked at each other, and then began discussing with each other on what to do…
Two hours later…
In a clearing out near Beacon Academy…
Ozpin and Glynda walked outside with Bulma and the other warriors, he was astoundingly thankful they accepted to help him (mostly to Gohan, Piccolo, Roshi, Trunks, & Videl once she was informed) by teaching Beacon's students how to utilize Ki. He offered them housing in the empty dorms at the school, but Bulma and Trunks declined, saying they can handle the housing arrangements no problem.
Ozpin and Glynda were quite confused why they said that, but it became clear once Bulma and Trunks pulled small capsules from these little medicine-case-like carriers, and pushed some buttons on top of the capsules.
"You might want to stand back, Professor Ozpin…" Bulma said as she craned her arm back to throw one of the capsules.
The teacher and headmaster did as she said, and Bulma threw the capsule a couple yards away into the clearing, and with a loud (and admittedly cartoonish sounding) explosion, a spherical house appeared where there was nothing but grass.
Ozpin was pretty surprised, but he hid it well, unlike his companion, who had her jaw wide open with shock at what she saw.
Bulma explained as she tossed another capsule, "This is my father's invention, the Capsule technology he founded the Capsule Corporation with. Practically everyone uses it back on Earth, and they carry anything from cases to vehicles to houses. Or even garages…"
Beside the spherical house, a rectangular building much larger than the house appeared, the garage Bulma mentioned earlier. Ozpin knew he had to get Bulma's help for his inner circle, as her technological expertise will be invaluable to his group, especially if they can incorporate her family's capsule technology.
"So…this is what you meant by having it covered as far as housing is concerned?" Glynda Goodwitch asked, still completely floored with this tech-sorcery she witnessed.
Trunks added as he threw his capsule that made an entire camping set appear, "Yeah…it's through these capsules is how I carried around my time machine, which is a vehicle that could sit a person or two comfortably. It's capsule is missing, and I'm frustrated because of that…"
Piccolo noticed something about Trunks and his words, he couldn't quite place it, but something seemed…
No…I must be tired. I must be mistaken about Trunks… Piccolo thought in his head, as he ignored what must have been him seeing or hearing things.
Ozpin said, "This would certainly make things a lot easier for many people, having access to your capsule technology, Mrs. Briefs…which does remind me…"
"What is it?" Bulma asked as she made sure the house and garage had everything they needed.
Ozpin let out a quick breath, and replied, "You're clearly an inventor, so I have a business proposal for you if possible. I'll provide you with all you need to either find a way home or make your stay here on Remnant more comfortable, in return, I would like you to help me and this little organization I'm a part of regarding scientific fields."
Bulma thought about it, and answered, "Sure, I think it's the least I can do, if we're gonna be here for a while…"
Ozpin cheered in victory within his mind, he succeeded in getting what he requires to best his foe, Salem…
Now comes the first hurdle…
"As for you who've volunteered to teach Beacon's students. To avoid any, let's say problems with Vale's government, let me get you ready for becoming official teachers by the week's end…"
Meanwhile,
In Team RWBY's dorm room…
Ruby Rose, Blake Belladonna, Yang Xiao Long, and Weiss Schnee were all ready for bed, all of them spent the last two or three minutes talking about the visitors from Earth. Weiss found it very strange that wherever they're from, there was no such thing as the Creatures of Grimm, and would not stop talking about it.
Eventually, things started to calm down, and everyone but Ruby were fast asleep. Ruby thought about their new friends from another universe from the sounds of it, especially Goku, because she could tell that Goku was a really strong person. Much stronger than what he displayed earlier in the day.
"I wonder how much stronger he is…" Ruby thought as she stared at the ceiling, "…Goku's already crazy strong if he can do that to a cliff, but my gut is telling me he's WAY stronger than that. I'll ask him…*yawn*…tomorrow…"
Ruby drifted off to sleep, unaware of a figure looking at her from atop a tree, several yards away. It vanished in a blink, absolutely no trace of it being there at all…
To be continued…
Next Chapter: First Day at Hunter School…
Author's & Beta-Reader's Notes:
Well, as you can see, things are raring up to go…
Things are going well as you can see, JLyman and I brainstormed a bit more during the writing of this chapter, and we do have a greater understanding of how this story will play out. It's still a work-in-progress, but the both of us do welcome any criticism and feedback if it helps with the story being better. I also ask for this if any of you also read my other story (Highschool DxD: The Transformers), I want some feedback and suggestions over there.
Now onto some chapter-specific notes;
I did breeze through the introductions to get to the good stuff, mostly because I might've dragged the introductions out longer than necessary. Because, I tend to veer off topic when characters are talking, which is a problem I'm working to remedy.
RWBY and JNPR being with Goku & friends at Ozpin's office was based on the whole 'they know too much to keep out of the loop' kind of deal. So this means all of the members of those teams won't be kept secrets from like most stories involving a RWBY/Dragon Ball crossover.
Piccolo and Roshi's explanation is a shortened version of the Dragon Ball story-line that, I (we) assume you know about already because if you haven't, and you're gonna ask about 'what the heck is a Dragon Ball?', then I ask: 'then what are you even doing here?' We'll try to explain the Dragon Ball side of the story as best as possible in future chapters, but for the most part, this story is written with the idea you already know quite a bit about Dragon Ball. Same can be said for RWBY…
Oh yeah, the part a woman and imperfect clones is a reference to Dragonball FighterZ, which may or may not be canon as of this chapter. I'll leave it to you to decide if so for now…
Most crossovers I've seen involving these two properties tend to make it where Goku and the others stay at the school itself, which didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. So I offered an alternative for this idea that JLyman agreed with.
I do want to include moments in future chapters that have a "Toriyama Gag Manga" moment for laughs to break up any serious tensions further along the story, for laughs. So feel free to send me or JLyman any suggestions to that flare that might work. I did experiment a little using Glynda Goodwitch and her reactions to the Dragon Team's overall absurdness…
Anyways, the next chapter is more or less the Defenders of Earth's beginning of acclamation to Beacon, they likely won't start teaching the students of Beacon (especially RWBY and JNPR) until the next chapter after that at soonest, but look forward to both chapters…
Until next time, this is Gojiradon signing off…
Peace!
