This somewhat casual admission left team RWBY confused. How could they not know where "here" is. Were these people simply lost or something?
"What do you mean by you don't know where 'here' is?" Qrow asks, sounding rather suspicious.
"Well, last we checked we were underground and in an area that hadn't been snowing." Aya explains, "Also when I say we were underground I mean we hadn't left the underground. We were there and now we are here with no time in between for travel. What is more, we can't get a signal to contact anyone which shouldn't be possible."
This last line is particularly confusing to team RWBY and Qrow as the CCT Network had been down for quite some time. Unless these four had gone out of range for quite awhile it wouldn't make sense for them to not know about that. Also them having not shown up here on purpose was… confusing.
"I believe I can answer some of your questions if you would like." A feminine voice sounds. Everyone looks around, but finding no one new they are all just left confused.
"Apologies, you can't see me. One moment." Appearing seemingly out of thin air is an incredibly young looking girl floating in a leisurely manner smirking as she arrives. Still with no one knowing what is going on everyone prepares for a fight.
"Relax, I am not here to hurt you and I am not responsible for them being here. I just noticed what was going on and decided it might be interesting to observe. As for the explanation, well to begin I am legally only allowed to do so much, however as the person who summoned you four." The girl says gesturing towards Aya and company. "Originally intended to explain what they wanted, but was barely able to send you to this world and is now recharging to send his message, I offered to deliver the message for him to speed things up a bit." the girl finishes casually.
This has unfortunately left everyone more confused. Apparently someone sent Aya and her friends here, but had run out of power before they could explain why? Who was this person and what did they want done here? Perhaps at the top of this list is who was this little girl and what was her deal?
"Alright so we were sent here by someone, but how about we start with who you are?" Aya questions not really knowing where any of this was coming from.
"Hmm, fair enough. For now you can call me Two, I am a Dimensionless, and you can consider us unbelievably powerful tourists." Two explains.
"You don't look particularly powerful to me." Kagura remarks, looking Two up and down. Two raises an eyebrow at this seemingly bemused.
"I have enough power to erase all matter in this universe several million times over. Would you consider that powerful?" Two explains mockingly causing everyone to tense as they wondered if she was serious or not. "Still that is immaterial as we aren't supposed to interfere in your affairs much. (Although there is that one thing I want to do)" Two finishes muttering the last part.
Aya decides that even if they don't know if this strange girl is telling the truth or not it may be best if they skip ahead and figure out why they were here.
"So then why were we sent here?" Aya asks.
"Ah yes! I suppose I shall go over the short version and then the long version. The short version is that the person who summoned you into this world would like you to help team RWBY with what they are doing and you four will be sent home when you are done." Two explains to Aya, pointing to team RWBY when they are mentioned. "The Long version is that your summoner is that there are technically three worlds involved here. Earth where you four come from, Remnant where you all are now and your summoner's world who is something of a third party in all of this and is mostly just being a good samaritan. Time is currently paused in your world and you four won't age while you are here so if you live then when you return home you will have grown stronger, but not need to worry about anything bad happening that you weren't available to stop. However, if you die here then you will return dead in your world so I recommend not dying if at all possible. As for information about this world I would recommend learning that from team RWBY here." Two finishes.
For a moment there is just shocked silence at what Two just implied. Someone had apparently, arbitrarily sent four people to deal with someone else's problem. Even team RWBY felt it was rather selfish especially as they now knew just what they were up against. Because of this it is unsurprising that Ruby was the one to object.
"I don't think we can just get someone else involved, and if you're so powerful surely you can send them back right?" Ruby pleads. Perhaps counterproductively as it is this selfless act that touches the hearts of Aya and Saaya in particular.
Two finds this amusing however as she is well aware of how Ruby would act in this situation and how little it mattered.
"Afraid I am not going to be doing that little Rubes, in fact I intend to do practically the opposite!" Two laughs. "See legally speaking people like me aren't supposed to interfere because if two of us stand against one another whatever we are fighting over is liable to just end up destroyed. Still no one is likely to complain if I bring Anna over here."
This catches Aya's attention as Anna is a close friend of hers and she doesn't want her put in danger for a fight she has no involvement in. Surprisingly Two is able to answer her before Aya can even raise an objection.
"Don't worry Aya unlike you four Anna will be safe in this world. She can die, but that will just result in her getting sent home prematurely perfectly fine." Two answers, Aya still wants to say something but is even more surprised by the rebuke, "Also, it isn't up to you Aya, it will be up to Anna, do you think she would want to leave you four alone in this situation? Now, I am going to go see if she wants to be involved." With that Two disappears, but hardly seems to be gone for a second when she returns with Anna in tow.
"We're back. Also, I am basically done here, but I will be watching your adventure with some interest so if there are any questions, ask now." Two states surprising the group of nine with how abrupt everything has been.
Perhaps it is unsurprising that Weiss is the one to question if all of this is real.
"How do we know anything you have said is the truth? And this talk of other worlds sounds like nonsense to me." Weiss questions incredulously. Two just glances in her direction and for a second Weiss loses her grip on reality before quickly returning to normal.
"One you can't know that I am telling the truth and I don't care if you believe me. Two, I suggest comparing powers as there are plenty of things each of you would find normal that the other will find very strange indeed. Anyone else? No? Goodbye then." Two answers before apparently deciding she is done with the conversation and disappearing not leaving anytime for the rest to actually ask a question.
"Well I guess that's settled then. How about you five explain what is going on then." The newcomer Anna asks. Somewhat surprisingly she is the most normal looking person from these apparent world travelers dressed in what look like casual business clothes with a pistol sidearm at her waist.
Team RWBY and Qrow look at one another before sighing as they realize that these five are probably stuck with them for the time being.
"Alright we'll explain on the way, but we have quite a distance to travel still so lets get back to the bike." Qrow states just sounding tired and defeated at this point.
The trek back to the bike and trailer is short and after a short introduction to Oscar and Maria the newly expanded group is heading for Argus. The explanation provided about Salem went over much better than they expected with Kagura even laughing a bit about their problem. It wasn't until it was explained how Kagura and Saaya had nearly helped their mother end the world that they realized this sort of problem was almost old hat if a bit more complicated thanks to Salem's immortality. It was slightly more alarming when Aya teasingly told of Saki almost taking over the world on her own, but the atmosphere made it clear that she was safe to be around now.
With the plot laid out it was unsurprising that everyone went silent for a bit as they considered just what they were up against. It was equal as unsurprising that Ruby would be the one to break the silence as she freaked out over the new weapons.
"Soooo. Can I see your weapons!" Ruby asks practically vibrating in her seat.
This not being the most normal of requests has Aya and friends raising their eyebrows. Before laughing at the absurdity of the request. Still Saaya's friendly nature leads to her being the first to bring out her weapons.
"Well here are mine, my chainsaw is called Atlantis I built it using O-Parts" Saaya begins explaining only to be interrupted almost immediately.
"O-parts?"
"Umm, it's a kind of lost technology where we are from. I don't really understand how it works, but it has made my weapon super deadly." Saaya answers awkwardly. Only to have a new person reply in a darker tone
"Oh it's deadly alright." Weiss grumbles still thinking back to her own encounter with a weapon like that. "What do you even need one of those for anyway!"
The trailer is immediately quiet not expecting this sort of outburst from Weiss. Still Saaya can see that she probably had some issues with a similar weapon before so tries to explain kindly.
"Well, i'm… not the best with swords, but a cutting weapon is pretty important where we are from so this was my alternative." Saaya explains, shyly scratching the back of her head.
"Why would a cutting weapon be so important?" Yang asks slightly miffed as she had never been held back by Ember Celica before.
"Well it's important because we need to spill lots of blood if we want to continue fighting at peak performance." Saaya explains with all the intensity of asking someone about the weather.
For a second there is silence as those from Remnant are shocked at the casual admission of them needing to spill blood. Bad people did that, good people only did that when they had to, but otherwise the role of a huntsman was to fight Grimm not to hurt people.
Anna may not have known the specific circumstances of remnant, but she was well aware of how bad spilling blood sounded. She was more okay with it because she had been friends with Aya for a long time now, but it had still been disturbing to first learn about. Fortunately, their blood powered abilities were fine to use as what they typically handled were undead which didn't care much about bleeding and nobody was particularly concerned when they were put down.
"Blo-" Oscar begins to say nervously, but is cut off by Saki.
"Oh right, when I killed that weird bear and it disintegrated into that black stuff I got a similar boost to when we cut something in half." Saki says, sounding perhaps a bit too excited. Fortunately for everyone Anna sees where this is going and decides that now is perhaps a good time to cut in herself.
"OKAY, so how about I explain a bit about our world before you all assume that these four are some sort of psychopathic murderers." Anna rambles, not even stopping for breath concerned about what these new faces might do with the short explanation given by Saaya.
Sure enough the people of remnant quickly turn to her and nod as after their first fight with Kagura it is unclear how a fight against all four would go. Bad probably. On the side, Saaya puts her hand to her mouth realizing what she said sounds terrible, Aya already had her head in her hand knowing from personal experience how this looks, Saki is unconcerned, she doesn't really care about most people's opinions of her after all, finally Kagura looks like she doesn't get why this is a problem.
"Alright to start off the five of us are part of the Zombie Punitive Force or Z.P.F for short. As it says in the title this means fighting a large quantity of the undead who do not feel, but do bleed. These girls have a bloodline that was basically designed to do two things. Fight undead and fight each other. The way it does that is by killing undead and getting a boost from that. There have been… dangerous occasions involving each of them, but they are not bad people nor are they murderers." Anna's explanation is both long and brief, but it does ultimately do the job of calming those from remnant down. The undead may not be a thing here, but they do have movies and it isn't that hard to just consider these undead to be their worlds version of Grimm. This assumption is a bit off, but fortunately for everyone nobody has the courage to ask for or offer any additional details.
"Maybe we should save any other talk for later cause we have arrived." Yang calls back. Everyone looks forward and sees Argus. Still a little ways away, but the hill they are on gives a nice view. For team RWBY this is a relief as they are almost to relative safety, meanwhile Anna and Aya are left wondering why this city appears to be so small, more the size of a large town than the massive cityscapes of Chicago, New York or Los Angeles and why it have such a massive wall? Still these are questions to ask later as the newly expanded group finally arrives in the next part of their journey to Atlas.