Chapter 1: A New Life, A New Home

Location-Big Mountain Research Facility 'The Think Tank'
Year-2281

I was at Big Mountain because I received a message from Dr. Klien about some new prototype he was wanting me to test out. When I arrive, Dr. Klien showed me an advance version of the Transportalponder that can teleport me to Big Mountain and back more quicker and drains less power from their battery cells. I was listening to him explaining about it...

"...AND WITH THAT, YOU MAY NOW BEGIN TESTING IT." Dr. Klien concluded.

I looked down at the prototype before responding, "Okay, what will I get in return?"

"WELL, IF THIS WORKS, THEN YOU CAN KEEP IT, BUT IF IT DOESN'T, THEN...UHM...10,000 BOTTLE CAPS. HOW'S THAT?" He answered.

I raised my eyebrow before saying, "Alright, but just in case, you might wanna step back a little; who knows, it could explode."

"FAIR POINT, I'LL BACK UP A LITTLE." He said as he backed up before asking, "HOW'S THIS?"

"Perfect, now...wish me luck, I guess." I said before activating the device and then I disappeared.

Location-Unknown Year-Unknown

I then reappeared but not where I know well. I looked around me and noticed that I was in some alley at night. I then looked at my Pipboy GPS only for it to show 'ERROR: CONNECTION LOST. CONTACT YOUR [MISSING DIALOGUE] FOR FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS'.

I sighed and muttered sarcastically, "Great, just fucking great; I have no idea on where I'm at and my Pipboy GPS is not working, but I'm picking up some strange radio stations."

But then I noticed something reflecting off of my Pipboy screen. I looked up and to my shock, is the moon. I thought, 'What?! Why is the moon shattered?! Oh this is not good, not good at all.'

I immediately calmed myself and stood there for a moment, thinking. I then thought, 'Maybe I can find a store of some kind and obtain a map or two.'

I then walked out of the alley only to see, to my left, was a shop called 'From Dust Till Dawn'. I grinned and thought, 'Thank you Lady Luck.'

I walked in to see an elder man, who looked up to see me with the face of uncertainty. I walked up to him and asked, "Excuse me, sir, uhm...do you have any maps for sale? I'm a traveler, you see, and I needed a map for this region."

He smiled and pointed at the back. I nodded in thanks and went to the back to find the maps. I became worried when I saw the map that showed me an unfamiliar place. 'Great, now I'm in some different world that I don't know about with no way back. Might as well make a new life.'

I grabbed the map and heard a voice from the front, "Do you have any idea how hard it is to find a dust shop open this late?"

I looked around the corner to see a group of men with guns and swords, though one is different from the rest. 'Oh shit, they're robbing this place! I have to do something!' I thought.

I then notice a young girl with black and red hood dress looking at a magazine about weapons before one of the men came up from behind her. I grinned and pulled out my Ranger Sequoia and quietly walked up behind him.

"I said, put your hands in the air." the man said to the girl.

"Are you... robbing me?" she said.

"YES!"

"Oh."

She then noticed me behind him and I nodded at her, resulting with her, a smile.

"Why are you smiling?!" he said.

"Because of me." I said as I punched him with my left hand, staggering him as the girl kick him to the front of the shop.

"Thanks." She said.

"No problem, but there is still more of them up front. So what's the plan: Bloodshed or knocking them out cold?" I responded.

"Knocking them out, of course." She said.

"Right... oh crap, here comes another one." I said

We both charged at the guy, crashing through the window with all the robbers dumbstruck. I looked towards my right and see her pulling out...a giant scythe?!

"Holy shit! That is an awesome weapon, you got there!" I complemented her.

"Thanks!" She said as she smiled.

Then the guy in white said to the others, "Okaay...Get them."

Then the men started to run out towards and I replaced my gun with my Katana and clashed blades with one of the men while the other two gotten their asses kicked by the girl with unimaginable skill. 'Wow, that was awesome.' I thought before I punched the guy in the gut with my left and knocked him out with a right.

I then replaced my Katana with 'This Machine' and we readied ourselves.

"Truly worth of every cent, you were. Well Miss Red and Mr. Mysterious, I would think this have been an eventful evening..." the man in white said as he dropped his cigar, "...and as I much loved to stick around..." he raises his cane at us and it was a gun, I figured, "...I'm afraid this...is where we part ways." He finished as he fire a shot at us. We dodged it and notice that he was gone. I then noticed him climbing up the ladder of a building and shout, "There! He's going up that building."

"You okay if we go after him?" She asked the old man.

He nodded and we went after him. She grabbed me and I asked, "What are y-" but I was interrupted as we blasted off the ground onto the roof.

"Please, warn me next time, okay?" I said to her.

"Sorry."

Then we turned towards him and I shouted, "Hey! Where do you think you're going?"

He stopped and said, "Persistent."

We both readied ourselves until a VTOL came out of nowhere and the guy climbed aboard, then yelled out, "End of the line, Miss Red and Mr. Mystery." As he threw a red gem of sorts and noticed a worrying expression on the girl's face. 'This cannot be good.'

He then aims at us and fired as we embraced for the inevitable, but nothing occurred and we noticed a woman with blonde hair casting...spells?! 'What kind of world is this?!' I thought.

Then the blonde started to fire some sort of an attack spell at the VTOL as the guy disappeared in the VTOL. The blonde woman then summoned an ice storm above the VTOL before another person on the VTOl appeared, which so happens to be another girl, and started to throw fireballs at as and made the ground beneath us explode. I then get frustrated and shouted out, "This is a bunch of bullshit."

Then the blonde woman uses the chunks of concrete and launches them at the VTOL, which deflected them. Then the woman, who throws fireballs, made them into dust. Then I saw the red girl's scythe changing into a sniper rifle and started shooting at the VTOL, and I do the same. The result that the she deflected them with ease and made a few more explosions and we all dodged them, resulting that the VTOL flew off. I then said, "Damn, they gotten away." as I sighed.

I turned towards the two girls and the one in red said to the blonde, "You're a Huntress..." I raised my eyebrow as she continued, "...Can I have your autograph?!"

'Are you fucking serious?!' I thought while I did a face-palm.

XXXXXXX

We were at some kind of a Police Station and I turned towards the red girl and said, "By the way, the name is Edward Vaughn, you?"

"Ruby. Ruby Rose. It's nice to meet you, Edward." Ruby responded.

"Likewise." I said before Miss Goodwitch, which I caught on with, walked in and began to talk.

"I hope you two realize that your actions tonight will not be taken lightly. You two put others in great danger." Goodwitch said.

"But they started it!" Ruby said.

I said, "Yeah, they were the ones who started trouble by robbing a store that we were in, but they were only taking colorful dust the store had and not the money."

"If it were up to me, you would be sent to your homes, with a pat on the back..." Goodwitch stopped as she looked at us. Me and Ruby were grinning until..

"...And a slap on the wrist." as she whipped her wand on the table, which made Ruby yelp and me flinching.

"But there is someone that wants to meet you two." She said as a man with silver hair, glasses, and hold a plate of cookies in one hand and a cup of coffee in the other.

"Ruby Rose..." He said as he pause for a moment to lean closer to her before continuing, "...you...have silver eyes."

"Ugh-uhm." Ruby muttered as the man looked towards at me and asks, "And who are you, young man?"

"Edward Vaughn, sir." as I gave him a two-fingered salute.

He then continues, "You have an interesting armor you got there, Mr. Vaughn."

"One, just call me Edward or Ed. There is no need for formalities, and two, thank you. This is the Desert Ranger Combat Armor. It's everything that a true wanderer like myself needs."

"So you're a traveler?" he asks.

"Yep, and all of my combat experience came from first-hand experience, though I came from somewhere you may not know of." I answered.

"Try me." he asks.

"Alright, but can I explain it to you later, maybe an appointment or something?" I said.

"Sure." he said as he turn towards Ruby.

"So...where did you learn this?" He asks as Goodwitch shows a recording of us both fighting.

"S-Signal Academy." she answered.

"They taught you how to use the most dangerous weapon ever design?" He asks.

"Well, one teacher in particular." She answered.

"I see..." he said as he gave the plate of cookies to Ruby, who just inhaling them.

"Woah, Jesus, Ruby! Breathe, or you'll choke by doing that." I said to her.

Ruby grinned sheepishly and offered a cookie to me, "Want one?"

"Sure, why not." I accepted her offer as I took off my helmet and I slowly ate it as the guy continues...

"It's just that I only seen one other scythe wielder; a dusty ole' crow..."

Ruby then said something that I didn't quite understand and gulps up the cookies.

She wipes her mouth and, "Hehe, sorry. That's my uncle, Qrow. He is a teacher at Signal. I was complete garbage when he took me under his wing, now, I'm all like; Oooh, yah..."

I watch her as she do karate chops and I thought to myself, 'That is either adorable or funny as hell.'

"So I've noticed..." he said as he set his coffee down.

"And what is an adorable girl like yourself being in a school for warriors?" He asked.

I stopped to look at Ruby and thought, 'A school that trains people to become great warriors? Damn...'

Ruby answers, "I want to be a Huntress."

I cocked an eyebrow, listening carefully on the conversation.

"You want to slay monsters?"

"Yeah. I only have two more years of training left at Signal and I'm going to apply to Beacon. You see, my sister is starting this year and she is trying to become a Huntress as well, and I'm trying to become a Huntress because I want to help people. My parents always taught us to help others and I might as well make a career out of it, hehe, but I mean the police are alright, but Huntsman and Huntresses are so much romantic and exciting and gosh, you know?!" Ruby said.

I cracked a smile, obviously she has her mind set on a very good cause. 'Reminds me when I was her age, except with the energy she has.'

"...Do you know who I am?" he asked.

"You're Professor Ozpin. The headmaster at Beacon." Ruby answered.

My eyes widened from that. I just heard that Beacon is a well known and respected place and here is the headmaster of the damn place. Just, wow.

"Hello." Ozpin said.

"Nice to meet you." Ruby responded.

"You want to come to my school?" he asks.

"More than anything." Ruby said.

"Hmmph." muttered Goodwitch.

"Well okay." Ozpin said.

I saw hear eyes widened as I realized, 'She had just been pulled out from two years and she is heading to Beacon? Lucky her.'

"And you, Edward..." Ozpin said.

I looked at Ozpin and said, "Yeah?"

"I have also seen you in combat, and might I add, you're well experience, for a 15 year old." Ozpin said.

My eyes widen and thought, 'What?! No wonder I feel more energetic then before, more...younger.'

"Enough experience that might make you a Veteran. When did you start training?" He asked.

"Well, on my tenth birthday, my dad got me a BB gun and a place to target practice everyday when I could. I guess you could say I'm a fast learner." I answered, with a half- truth, of-course.

"And that device on your wrist?" he asks.

"This? This is my Pipboy 3000. It can keep track on my health status, inventory, and GPS...plus a radio." I answered.

Ruby asks, "Inventory?"

"Yeah, like weapons, apparel, aid, and Misc. Basically, I can store everything by digitize the gear into the Pipboy, like a data chip. Observe."

I raise my left had and brought out my 'Lucky', which appeared in my hand. Ruby grinned widely and said, "That is so awesome."

"Yep, and the overall, I'm basically a walking armory." I said, which resulted in Ruby squeal in excitement.

"Very impressive. Now let me ask you something." Ozpin said.

"Go ahead, shoot." I responded.

"Would you like to attend my school?" he asked.

"Well, I've been all over places that are not charted on your maps. Wastelands, if you will. I need to know more about these 'Huntsmen and Huntresses'. What do they do exactly?" I asked.

"Huntsmen and Huntresses are trained to protect people from dangers like the creatures of Grimm." He answered.

"Uh, What's a Grimm?" I asked.

Surprised by my question, he answers, "They are creatures of darkness, with no souls, no feelings, and will kill any Human or Faunus on sight."

"So, basically, you train people to become the ultimate protectors?" I asked.

"In any case, yes. Will you join?" He asks.

I sat there for a moment, then responded, "Where do I sign up?"

To be Continued...