Darkness was all that Shade could see. Whether he was dead, dying, or in a hospital bed, he couldn't be sure. He felt warm like he'd been sunbathing for a while. Nothing hurt, but that could be due to the shock. He started to hear a voice. He couldn't understand it, but he knew it was a voice.

He flinched at the sound, and whoever the voice belonged to seemed to notice.

"Yang! He's waking up!" The voice said. It was definitely female, that was for sure. It also sounded young, probably belonging to a teenager… and for whatever reason, it sounded a tad familiar…

He felt a sharp stab of pain. He couldn't tell where it was located, but it was enough to make him jolt. Light suddenly engulfed his vision as he opened his eyes and took in a gasp of air before collapsing into a coughing fit.

"Whoa! Slow down! You're beaten up pretty bad." His rescuer ordered a tinge of worry in her voice.

Shade was lying on his stomach on what he guessed was a beach. He started to slow his breathing, trying to breathe without coughing.

"Yang! Come on! This guy needs some water!" She said, trying to get someone's attention.

"On it!" Another voice replied. Again female, but older than the first, and if he'd wager a guess, her name was Yang.

"Hang on, my sister's going to get you some water." the first girl said in a comforting tone.

"P-part… partner" Shade said before collapsing into a coughing fit.

"Ssssssh. He's okay. A friend of ours took him to a house not far from here. He looked pretty bad though." the girl said, trying to comfort him.

She succeeded in damping his worry for his partner if nothing else. He doubted a civilian would lie to him. Still, he had to find him as soon as possible. Their neural link had been cut mid-battle. He knew that test where the link was severed could be disastrous. It didn't seem to be affecting him, but he had no clue if it Hunter was faring the same.

"Here Ruby," Yang said, identifying her sister as Ruby.

A few seconds passed as someone held a canteen to his mouth as he drank. The water was refreshing, enough to stop his burning throat.

After the canteen was empty he tried to roll over onto his back.

"Yang, let's help him roll over," Ruby ordered.

Heaving him over, they managed to get him on his back, giving him a chance to look at this surroundings. One; he was indeed on a beach somewhere, and two; two young girls, one who he guessed was about his age with wild blonde hair and a rather… large, chest and another who he guessed was a couple of years younger with short black hair, dyed red at the tips. He took note of the fact that she has similar features like his aunt but disregarded the information for now.

"What's your name?" the older one asked.

"Shade," he answered. It was hard to speak, but not unbearable. "Where Am I?" he asked.

"You're on the island of Patch, off the coast of Vale," the younger one answered. "I'm Ruby, and this is my sister, Yang."

Shade started to sit up, he had no idea where 'patch' or 'Vale' was, but he'd never been at the top of his class in geography either. If he were to wager a guess, he'd say he was probably somewhere in Hawaii maybe. Though how he'd gotten that far would remain a mystery.

"You said my partner was okay, where is he?" He asked.

"He's at our cabin about a mile that way," Ruby answered, pointing behind his point of vision. "He was pretty beat up, we only found you because he woke up for a moment and mentioned his partner before passing out again."

Well, that was convenient. Hunter had always managed to wake up in the middle of the night and say something before passing out again. Shade never thought it could be anything more than an annoyance at best, but here it was, saving his life.

"Thanks." Shade said.

"Come on, let's get you back to the cabin," Yang said as she and Ruby helped him to his feet. "Hopefully, Teresa is patching him up right now."

"I doubt I can walk all the way." Shade said, grunting as they held his arms over their shoulders.

"Don't worry, we can carry you." Yang replied with a warm smile, "But if I catch you touching anything, I won't be sorry."

[...]

When Yang and Ruby carried Shade into the cabin, he saw Hunter still wearing his armor, laying on a couch asleep. A blonde-haired woman with silver eyes walked into the living room carrying a first aid kit.

"You find him?" the woman asked.

"Yep," Ruby responded helping Shade over to see where Hunter was. "Oh before I forget. Shade this is Teresa, she helped carry your partner here."

"Thank you." Shade said then turning his attention to Hunter.

Teresa nodded and went back to work getting everything needed to patch the two pilots up.

"He's been asleep since we found him," Yang said. "Do you know if he's okay?"

Shade frowned. He had no idea what the side effects of disconnecting from the drift so suddenly would be for his partner. It might be as simple as nausea, or it might have put him into a coma.

"Hopefully he'll be Okay. Let's just hope he wakes up." Shade answered simply, getting a nod in response from Yang.

"I'm gonna go find dad okay?" Ruby told her sister before Teresa called from the other side of the house.

"Over here, Ruby!"

Ruby hurried off towards the kitchen where Teresa and her father was. Yang turned and faced the young Jaeger pilot and carried him over to a second couch.

"Hope you don't mind the couch. We don't exactly have any spare rooms. Teresa is using our only current spare one." Yang said, setting him down on the said furniture, giving him a view of his partner.

"I'll be fine, if I can sleep on it I will." he replied, "Think you can help me out of this armor though?" he asked, gesturing to the cracked and broken armor. He had an under suit on, so it wouldn't be as if he was indecent.

Yang grinned, before helping him get out of the destroyed suit. She almost seemed a bit disappointed when she realized that he had the under suit on.

A few minutes later, Ruby walked back into the living room with Teresa and a man who Shade assumed was the sister's father.

"So you're the kids my daughters and their teacher found washed up on the beach, huh?" The man said. "I'm Taiyang, but you can call me Tai."

"Shade Royal. And my partner asleep on your couch is Hunter Green." Shade answered as he sat upright.

"If you don't mind me asking, are you two from Atlas? And if that's the case, what kind of armor is that?" Tai asked.

Atlas? Where was that? "If you don't mind I'd rather not answer, I will say me and my partner just took on two Kaiju. And my guess is Hunter probably has a broken arm under that armor." Shade said. He probably did, all things considered. Getting an external limb torn off can make your nerves and muscles do sine crazy things to your bones, not to mention the odd angle of his wrist.

Tai looked confused, and Shade wasn't the least bit surprised. Two Kaiju attacking at once? That was unheard of.

"Look is there some way I can contact the military?" Shade asked. Chances were high that everyone thought they were dead, might as well clear it up before they panicked.

"I'll see what I can do," Tai answered, suspicion clear on his face. He then walked into another room starting to dial on what looked like a phone.

"So… what's a Kaiju?" Ruby asked. "Your partner mentioned them when we found him."

"Ruby!" Yang exclaimed.

"What?"

"He's exhausted!"

"That doesn't mean he can't talk!"

"He just said he and his partner just fought two- what did you call them?"

"Kaiju." Shade said simply, a bit surprised why she asked.

"See! Whatever those Grimm were, they had to be huge!"

"I doubt that! If they were that big then either Teresa or I would have sensed them!" Ruby argued back.

Grimm? Shade was confused at the name, what did she mean by sensing them, and also he was even more confused when Ruby asked what Kaiju were. Maybe even a little concerned.

How could they never hear about Kaiju? Granted he knew there were ignorant people inland, more and more the further you got, but how could these girls not know what Kaiju were? They lived on the coast for crying out loud! On an island even!

Still, he did manage a chuckle at the two sisters arguing. He only wished he knew where he was.

[...]

Tai was… concerned. Who were these boys? They were wearing what looked like state-of-the-art armor, were washed up on shore, and couldn't be older than Yang!

It only gave Tai a bad feeling when they asked him if there was a way to contact the military.

Why would they be asking about that?

Pulling out his scroll he dialed Ozpin's number.

"Hello?" Ozpin asked on the other end

"Hey, Oz? Think you could do me a favor?" Tai asked.

"What is it?" Ozpin asked.

"Can you look up the names 'Shade Royal' and 'Hunter Green' for me? Tai asked, hoping they'd show up in the Headmaster's systems.

"Why, who are they?" The headmaster asked warily.

"No clue. They both just washed up on the beach… Their gear looks like it's from Atlas, but they're too young to be military." Tai explained.

Ozpin paused, and Tai could almost hear the man thinking, "I'll look into it." Ozpin said flatly.

"Thanks, Oz," Tai said before hanging up. What an adventure this would turn out to be.

Back in his office Ozpin sat in his seat for a moment before turning towards his guest. "So Tenga, where were we?"

[...]

Shade woke up in the middle of the night to find the light in the room turned off. Tai had gotten them both some clothes to change into. Shade had gotten his and Hunter's injuries treated with the help of Teresa. After he got his wounds treated, he had gotten dressed and with the help of Tai of course, had gotten Hunter out of his armor, and into some new clothes. Though, Hunter had not woken up throughout the entire process, which worried Shade a bit.

Shade decided to take a walk outside, to clear his head a bit. A midnight walk never hurt anyone. But as he opened the door and looked up at the sky, his heart skipped a beat. The moon wasn't supposed to look like that

The moon was shattered.

[...]

In a dark soulless place, mere days before the pilots were sent into battle, A dark queen stood over a great pool in the hellscape she called home.

The queen simply looked into the dark pool before her. It was not like the rest, the others all spawned Grimm of some kind. But this one had been dormant since it was created.

"Why so shy?" the queen asked.

Reaching down she touched the surface of the pool and stirred the liquid with her hand. It was not thick and oily like she had expected. It had a smoother, thinner texture.

As she stirred, the liquid started to become clear, still not like water, but clearer than any of her other spawning pools.

Instead of seeing her reflection in the pool, she saw something else. It looked similar to her own hellscape, but it was somehow… Different.

There were tall spires all throughout the image, with what looked like giant Grimm-like creatures disconnecting from the towers every so often, only to fly, or swim, upwards.

She could sense that these creatures had a goal, not unlike her own. She smirked at the thought, feeling that they would be quite useful. All she had to do was figure out how to control them.

[...]

Shade almost couldn't believe what he was seeing. The moon, the thing that shined down on planet Earth, was shattered into thousands of pieces. He wasn't even going to try and think how the physics of that would even work.

He quickly touched his side where his wounds were at their worst. A sharp pain quickly ran through his side. Shade sharply hissed at the pain. He wasn't dreaming. Where was he? Why was the moon shattered?! He had to get answers.

"Are you alright?" A voice asked from behind him.

Shade quickly turned around and saw Teresa standing at the base of the stairs fully dressed and what looked like armored shoulder plates, armored plate skirt and a large sword on her back.

Shade stood there for a few seconds before answering. "Sorry, I was going to take a short walk outside. My injuries weren't as bad as I thought but they still hurt." Shade said as he hissed at another sharp pain from his side.

"You shouldn't go outside for a while in your current state," Teresa stated as she equipped a new set of titanium alloy arm guards before putting on her wrist guards. If one thing fighting Priscilla taught her, it was that losing your arms could mean certain death for not only yourself but those you are protecting as well. She wasn't going to let that cheap trick Priscilla pulled on her going to fool her again. She spent the last two weeks testing what metals could protect her from a sword, like her claymore and found this alloy did the job quite well.

"There's a pack of beowolves nearby and with how injured both you and your partner are, you both wouldn't last long." She deadpanned.

More questions began to pile up on one another. Why was she wearing armor and armed like that? And what on earth was a beowolf? He had to know what was going on.

"Why are you heading out?" Shade asked.

"I have to go track down that same pack. I need them for Ruby and Yang's lessons tomorrow." Teresa said simply. She walked past Shade and out the door towards the forest. After Shade lost track of her, he turned back into the room and sat back down on the couch. After a few moments of trying to make sense of his situation, Hunter suddenly woke up, Gasping for air in a panic.

"Hunter! You're awake!" Shade exclaimed with a mix of surprise, hope, and fear. "Whoa, calm down, calm down!"

It took a few seconds, but Hunter's breathing started to slow to a normal range, and his heart rate soon followed. The panicked look in his eyes faded as well.

Hunter quickly looked around the room and then at Shade. "Where are we?" Hunter asked, wary of their surroundings.

"I have no idea." Shade answered with a sigh, before sitting back on the couch "I don't know where we are. But we sure as hell aren't on earth."

Hunter looked at him, confused before examining the room around him.

"Well we're in a cabin," Hunter remarked, still confused, "Seems pretty earth like to me."

"Trust me. There is no way we are on earth." Shade said flatly "The people here have never heard of Kaiju!"

That made Hunter stop and think. Living in the American deep south, he'd never had much contact with Kaiju before the program, but even then, they were still very aware of the Kaiju threat.

"I've tried all our contacts, nothing is working." Shade said, "And on top of that, a lot of stuff I've seen so far is absolutely impossible."

Hunter tried to process what he has just heard. Not on earth? He thought it would have been impossible. But then again, giant monsters had started climbing through a portal in the pacific about twelve years ago.

"So you're telling me that we somehow got transported to some other planet?" Hunter asked, "Where Kaiju don't exist?"

"Do you know why the moon is shattered?" Shade responded.

Did he hear that right? "Did you just say that the moon is… shattered?!" Hunter exclaimed, raising his voice.

"Shhh! Keep quiet. There are other people sleeping." Shade said, "And yes the moon is shattered. My reaction was about the same as yours."

"I need to see this" Hunter said. He attempted to get up, but when he moved his right arm he cried out in pain.

"AHHH!- what the- is my arm broken?!" Hunter asked in shock, looking down at his arm, now wrapped in a rather well-made home brew cast.

"Yeah, It broke when we were fighting the two Kaiju, myself and two of the other people here patched it up." Shade remarked, gesturing to Hunter's arm being wrapped up. "You actually just missed one of them heading out to track a group of creatures called beowolves. I'm afraid to find out what they are."

"Are you okay?" A young voice asked, which Shade recognized as Ruby.

Hunter and Shade looked to see a half-asleep Ruby, wearing pajamas and standing halfway down the stairs looking at them.

"It'll be fine Ruby, go back to bed." Shade said, praying silently she hadn't overheard them.

"Says you" Hunter mumbled, "I'm the one with the busted arm."

"Shut up you'll be fine." Shade deadpanned.

Ruby started to walk back up the stairs to go back to bed.

"Okay, so who was that?" Hunter asked.

"One of the locals," Shade answered, "But before we do anything else, we need to make sure your arm doesn't come out of that cast."

[...]

Shade spent all night helping patch up Hunter, and when they both woke up, at 11:38 to be exact, They spent the rest of their day reading in the family's library with Teresa when she returned that morning.

Suffice to say, the more they read the more it confirmed them being on another planet, or worse, another dimension. They read about a strange material known as 'Dust' which was supposedly some kind of power source and propellant.

And that there were an entirely other species on this world, 'Faunus' as the books had called them. They looked just like normal humans but with a single distinct animal trait. They also learned about the four kingdoms, (Vale, Atlas, Mistral, and Vacuo), The creatures of Grimm, Aura, and Semblance, as well as huntsman and huntresses.

However, there was never any mention of Kaiju or the breach.

As Teresa got up and left the library, Hunter finally spoke. "Well, we are definitely in some kind of anime." He remarked, letting his head fall into the book he was reading.

"And we weren't already? Come on, we were fighting huge monsters in a giant mech, how much more anime can you get?" Shade retorted.

"We lived in ocean Gundam. These people do have superpowers." Hunter stated, "So maybe My Hero Academia or something?"

Shade snorted, "well we'd better come up with something to say, it's not like we can just be cryptic emo's like in traditional other-universe stories."

"Which one?"

"Do you ever read fanfiction?"

They soon came up with a cover story to explain why they had armor that looked like it came out of a sci-fi movie.

Shade and Hunter were testing out a new and experimental Atlas equipment, and when they were attacked by Grimm, they had to eject and swim towards shore. As for why they were so close to Vale, they decided that it was an aircraft and that they were flying it from Atlas to Vale and back, but then got attacked.

However, they did agree that the people who saved them deserved the truth. If they didn't want to send them to a mental hospital that is.

Shade walked into the living room just as Ruby, Yang, and Teresa walked into the house from that day's training lessons. Sighing, hoping that their plan would work and they wouldn't get sent to some mental institution.

"Hey Yang, Ruby? Can you two find your dad and bring him here, I feel like me and my partner have some explaining to do." Shade said

A few minutes later, Ruby, Yang, Teresa, and Tai were sitting at one end of the table, and the pilots were sitting at the other.

"Where do we start?" Shade asked rhetorically.

"We're from another world, Where we fight giant monsters called Kaiju, by piloting giant mechs," Hunter stated bluntly.

The four people in the room with the pilots just stared at them with confused looks on their faces.

"Does the word subtlety mean anything to you?" Shade asked his partner with a slight glare attached.

"Hey, I'm just glad we're not dead right now," Hunter stated.

"Wait- you're- wha?!" Ruby sputtered.

"That basically summed it up." Shade said, "Though I would have to be a bit more discreet about it."

"So you're telling me, That you two are from some other world?" Tai asked, clearly skeptical.

"Pretty much. Shade and I are about as close as our world gets to a huntsman." Hunter explained.

Did you say something about a robot?" Yang asked.

"They're called Jaeger's. They're about 275 to 300 feet tall," Hunter said. "They also take two people to pilot."

For about half an hour, they explained what Jaegers and Kaiju were and how they got to Remnant.

"And that's when I woke up on the beach." Shade said, finishing his explanation.

Tai just sat there with his eyes closed, his hands on his head and looked like he was thinking. Teresa just stared at the two pilots with the same blank expression on her face but Shade could tell just from the look in her eyes that she was in deep thought as well. Ruby and Yang, however, looked like their jaws would fall off at any second.

"Soooooo… do you believe us? Or do you want to send us to a mental hospital?" Hunter asked.

"DOYOUHAVEAPICTUREOFAJAEGER?HOWOLDDOYOUHAVETOBETOPILOTONE?INEEDACOOKIE!" Ruby said all at once, speaking far too fast for anyone to keep track of.

"Is she okay?" Hunter asked.

"She's obsessed with weapons, you should have seen her when she got Crescent Rose to work for the first time." Yang deadpanned, "So you're from another world?"

"Remind you of anyone?" Hunter asked Shade ignoring Yang's question. Shade simply nodded before turning his attention to Tai.

"Well, what about you Tai?"

"I think I need to process this a bit more," Tai answered before getting up and leaving the room.

"How many have you killed?" Teresa asked suddenly.

"Three not counting the two we just recently took on," Hunter answered. Teresa simply nodded and went back to her thoughts.

"What about you two?" Shade asked.

Ruby and Yang looked at each other.

"You thinking what I'm thinking?" Yang asked her sister.

"Probably not, I was going to ask if they have a picture of a Jaeger!" her sister answered, "Do you?"

"As a matter of fact," Hunter said with a smirk, Shade, did our phones survive the water?"

"Oddly enough, yes, that and apparently they use the same charging cords here on Remnant as they do on earth." Shade answered, "Except for yours, they still don't have any iPhone chargers."

"SCREW YOU APPLE! WHY DID YOU MAKE ME BUY YOUR STUPID PHONE!?" Hunter yelled.

"Huh?" Ruby asked, a bit taken back from Hunter's sudden outburst.

"Eh, he's just mad that the phone he bought doesn't use the universal USB charger."

"So like the Schnee companies scroll that failed a couple of years ago?" Yang asked, "Those things had their own charger and everything, but they were so expensive that nobody wanted to pay for them."

"Huh, yeah that sounds like Apple. Anywho, I'm gonna go grab my phone." Shade said before walking out of the room.

A few moments later Shade came back holding two rectangular cases. The two pilots open the cases revealing two rectangular objects.

"These things are our equivalent to scrolls." Hunter stated, "Except they're called phones, and are pretty bulky."

Hunter pressed a button on the 'phone' and the screen instantly came on.

Hunter messed around on the phone for a minute before handing it to Yang. The picture on the screen was a selfie of Hunter with Shade and a massive metal giant in the background.

"Whoa." Ruby and Yang said together. Teresa looked at the picture. Her eyes widened and it confirmed what she was thinking. There are things out there worse than the creatures of the abyss.

[...]

Ozpin had spent the last several hours searching for the names that Taiyang Xiao Long had given him after his guest had left to an unknown place.

He had searched Atlas' system for them and came up empty-handed. No trace of 'Hunter Green' in the school or military system.

However, something else had caught his eye. There was no trace of Shade 'Royal', but apparently nearly Twelve years ago, a young child with a similar name was lost at sea.

Shade Schnee.

Ozpin didn't know why this caught his attention. He then thought about the fact that Tai had stated about their ages.

Neither looked old enough to be in the military. Which meant that they had to be under the age of twenty-one, As the military never accepted anyone not old enough to be a huntsman.

Shade Schnee disappeared at the age of five, which would place him now at seventeen.

He had to figure this out, These two had washed up on patch with state of the art armor, and with injuries that should have hospitalized them.

Of course, there was something else bothering him. The day Shade went missing, was also the day Summer Rose went missing. Still, this young man Tai had found needed further attention.

He decided to call Tai back before calling it a night.

"Hey, this is Tai." An exhausted voice answered.

"Hello there Tai. I have… a request." Ozpin stated.

"What kind of request?" Tai asked, curiosity becoming evident.

"I would like you to keep an eye on the two young men you found."

"Why, you find something on them?"

"Perhaps," Ozpin said.

"Well I hope you do, cause if not, I think these two might have a few screws loose," Tai responded.

"And why is that?" Ozpin asked.

[...]

A/n: Wow that took a tiny bit longer to write out than I thought. Oh well.

For those who are wondering why I wanted to write this story. I got the idea when I was helping Rocket write Jaegers and Grimm. And when I was Diagnosed with A.L.L. T-Cell leukemia I was determined to get this idea rolling. It's been over 16 months since then and I'm quite happy with the results and look forward to doing more.

Also a side note last weekend a few interesting things were released at RTX. New RWBY volume 7 poster (looks awesome btw) and the announcement that DCcomics is making a RWBY comic, oh man I can't wait!

B/N: New RWBY poster looks amazing I agree! New character designs and everything. Kinda disappointed they had to replace Qrow's voice actor, but only time will tell how he does.