"Dear diary, I'm back. It's been 3 months and 5 days now. The trip was more than everything I had imagined. I never thought I would be dragged down to the bottom of the sea by a giant monster, nor I would ever find a crashed spaceship in the middle of the ocean, but what can you do."

"Indeed, That's was quite an adventure." - Ozpin nodded.

"And I found something amazing, a device can make everything I can ever want."

"Yeah! That was awesome." - Ruby shouted.

"And It was taken away from me by a crab, a fucking crab ."

The screen showed Jaune pried open the wall behind the Fabricator. Inside is a strange-looking four-leg creature with a giant glowing eye on it back trapped by the wires.

"I don't think It's a crab." - Blake said.

"I don't think he cares right now." - Yang leaned to her partner and said.

"I tried everything too, but I can't turn it on again. That crab must have damaged the important parts somehow."

The screen showed a compilation of Jaune trying to fix the Fabricator and fail.

"No no, what are you doing?" - Ruby groaned. - "Don't pull it out. It's not supposed to go there."

"I think friend-Jaune did more harm than good." - Penny shook her head.

"Not all is lost though, the strange gun I found actually is a Habitat Builder. It's basically a handheld version of the Fabricator.

The screen showed Janue testing the device.

"Wow." - Ruby awed.

"That small?" - James shocked.

"It's not as powerful as the Fabricator though. It mostly for building large and uncomplex objects or habitat stuffs hence the name."

"But I only have one working battery, I can't waste it."

"He should use it to build a decent shelter for himself." - Winter advised.

"I don't think he will." - Ozpin said.

"There are two things I learned from the trip:

- One: Be prepared for anything. There's no way that giant creature is the only one in the ocean.

- Two: Not all passengers died in the crash, there're many escape pods were deployed. And I need to find them."

"Indeed, there should be some traces left behind by the survivors." - Ozpin nodded.

"If he lucky, he could find a fully functional Fabricator again." - James agreed.

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"Dear diary, it's been 3 months and 6 days now. There are so many things I needed to prepare for the next expedition. First things first, a better ax, one can't easily break, I need to upgrade the stone tied to a stick to full metal one. And to do that I needed a furnace, luckily there is an easy way to build one.

The screen showed Janue used the Habitat Builder to build a container.

"That could work..." - Ruby tilted her head. - "But the container can easily melt."

Jaune then stacked some rocks to the inside wall.

"Much better." - Ruby nodded.

"The hardest part is learning how to forge, luckily I just needed to stitch 2 pieces of metal together, not build one from scratch. It still took too many tried though."

The screen showed a compilation of Jaune's attempts.

Ruby cringed.

"Next thing is a raft, this will take some time."

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"Dear diary, it's been 3 months and 15 days now. The raft is coming together smoothly, I even put some upgrade to it."

The screen showed Jaune mount a metal plate to the raft.

"I still need to prepare more before the next expedition. There is some interesting the Habitat Builder can build but I don't have the material for. Tomorrow I'm intended to dive near the island and hopefully find some of them."

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"Dear diary, it's been 3 months and 13 days now. I don't know how but the island doesn't actually have a foundation."

The screen showed the island from underwater. There are 4-5 giant pink creatures attach to the bottom of the island.

"Wow" - Everyone awed.

"Those creatures are keeping the island from sinking?" - Oobleck amazed.

"Ah, Ancient Floater, interesting creature, isn't it?" - Author said.

"What exactly are them?" - Oobleck asked.

"It actually is 2 species living in symbiosis, The pink main body is the dominant creature and the gel-like substance is a mesh of microorganisms capable of forming a sealed vacuum protecting creature."

"How do they float?" - Ren asked.

"They produce a thin layer of helium stored within the outer membrane."

"Their life cycle is very interesting." - Author explained.

"The young one attach and leech on to anything they can. But if they live long enough they can raise landmass to the surface"

"The landmass they raised have increasing sunlight and encouraging plant growth. Then as older plants decay, organic residues and nutrients seep into the rock and are consumed by the floaters."

"That..." - Oobleck lost his word.

Everyone took a minute to absorb the information.

"Yeah, by far this is the most unique creature I have ever seen." - Author praised.

"I was like standing there for 10 minutes, tried to wrap my head around what I had seen. Anyway, lucky for me I guess, the island's bottom has so many minerals stuck out and I didn't need to dig for any of them. I mean I just pull a big chunk of diamond bigger than my head out of it."

"The island was ripped out of the earth after all." - Author explained.

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"Dear diary, it's been 3 months and 25 days now. I got everything ready: Food? Check! Water? Check! Weapon?"

The screen showed 5 metal shaft sharpened in one end.

"Ehhh, good enough. The only thing I'm lacking is how to avoid giant monsters like one before. There is no good solution I can think of."

"All he can do is hope." - Ozpin nodded.

"Anyway, the plan is to go back to the crashed spaceship and get some more supplies. Then if nothing changes, I will survey the surroundings again. There should be an escape pod somewhere there that I missed. Next is... I don't know. I can't just go blindly and search, it's very easy to get lost if there aren't any landmarks. That's it."

"That's not much as a plan." - Winter said.

"He doesn't have much to work with." - James nodded

"Well, I hope to see you again."

I know the Habitat Builder can build the Fabricator. But in this story, it can't. I have to nerf it down to have some logical sense.