Hello everyone! I have decided on a main cast; however, the submissions are still open for characters who can appear in the Vytal Festival. Anyway, let's get to it with the first real chapter. Also there will be no more italics in the main chapter.

"Welcome back everyone! I have just received news of the newest development in the Total Reset timeline," Kurt exclaimed. "And it is a wonderful start I do say so myself. It starts out familiarly, but it quickly changes. Let us begin."

It was a normal night in the Kingdom of Vale. Most people were already sound asleep for the night with the shattered moon high in the sky. However with Beacon opening for the new year tomorrow, many aspiring Huntsmen and Huntresses were doing some last minute preparations for their big day tomorrow.

Two such people were Ash Obsidian and Nyx Yozora. From a cursory glance Ash looked like he should probably be in bed asleep as he looked like he had bags under his eyes. However looking into said red eyes would show no tiredness at all. He tried to stick in the shadows so as not to draw too much attention to himself as he made his way into the store "From Dust Till Dawn." However his hair didn't do much to hide him. The blonde hair with black spots, almost like it was dyed, stuck out like a sore thumb, as did his yellow shoes.

Nyx was standing inside of the little dust shop looking for lightning dust when the shop opened up. Her silvery-blue eyes darted towards the entrance briefly before returning to her search. She looked as if she was currently wrapped up in a black cloak.

Ash, having spent the past 3 months in Vale, quickly made his way to the lightning dust, arriving at the same time that Nyx did. The two of them look at each other and gave a slight nod of acknowledgment. In that nod, Nyx noticed redness in Ash's hair. She was about to ask him about it when the door to the shop opened up again, drawing her attention. Her eyes widened a bit and she grabbed Ash's arm and pulled him behind a shelf.

Two very notorious criminals had just entered the shop, Roman Torchwick and his partner Neopolitan. Torchwick went quickly to work and knocked out the old shopkeep before turning to Neo. "Neo, would you kindly go see if there's anyone else in the shop while I begin collecting what we need?"

Neo nodded and began heading up and down the aisles of the shop. Nyx unhooked her two falchions and connected them at their hilts to form a bow. She knocked an arrow tipped with lightning dust before Ash placed a hand on her shoulder. "What are you doing? Let the police or Huntsmen handle this."

"I'm stopping this this robbery obviously. By the time others arrive, it will be too late to prevent this. Imagine how much notoriety you could get from stopping two notorious crim-" She was stopped mid-sentence as Neo's Hush emerged from the other side of the shelf, the umbrella opening up and sending the contents of the shelf into the two on the other side. Nyx's cloaked unfurled from around her body to reveal that they were actually a pair of wings. Ash rolled out of the way of her massive wingspan and sighed. He was hoping that this was going to be a simple shopping trip. He took out his cutlass, Shadow Maker, preparing to help the girl who was currently squaring off against Neo. However a small explosion happened at his feet, sending him tumbling.

"Well done Neo. Well done. You've found a little birdie," Torchwick remarked. Nyx's wings bristled a bit from being referred to like that. She drew back her bowstring to fire an arrow at the man before Neo drew her attention back by shoving Hush into the arrow, dislodging it. Nyx huffed as she turned Midnight Thorn back into the falchions before going after Neo. She wanted to use her wings to take flight, but the shop was too much of an enclosed space for her to do so. Instead she just had to resort to fighting the mute head on.

Ash meanwhile was using Shadow Maker to try and rush at Torchwick and overwhelm him. The master criminal was easily able to block each swing with Melodic Cudgel however while also getting in a few hits of his own. Ash knew that he had to use his semblance to keep up with Torchwick so he reached into his shadow and pulled out what looked like an inverse of himself. The inverse also began to attack Torchwick, putting him in a position where he still was able to block each strike, but the strike he managed to get in were less.

Nyx was having significant problems fighting Neo. Her hit and run tactics weren't working as well do to the enclosed space they were in. She was also getting frustrated by the fact that Neo seemed to be toying with her. Whenever she attempted a strike, Neo seemed to have anticipated it. And even the few times she landed a strike, Neo seemed to shatter like glass and wind up behind her. Even with her aura, she was still afraid that somehow one of her bones would end up like the fake Neos, shattered into pieces. The mute girl's hits were that strong.

However the dueling duos both briefly stopped when they heard sirens blaring. "Neo, I think that is our cue to exit," Torchwick told his partner as he disarmed both Ash and his inverse. Neo nodded and seemed to disappear into the air. "It was lovely you two, but I have more important matters to tend to than beating teenagers senseless." Nyx spread her wings and flew at the man, shocked when he shattered on contact and she tumbled into the street.

"Put your hands where I can see them!" one of the members of the police force yelled when she came crashing out.

For the next few hours, Ash and Nyx spent their time in a jail cell, most of the cops not listening to their story about Roman Torchwick and Neopolitan being the ones who committed the robbery. They both looked up when they heard the door to their cell open.

In walked a female dog Faunus. She had ears that matched that of a Great Dane. The ears seamlessly connected to her light brown hair. She had a light mocha skintone that almost matched the color of her hair. Covering parts of her body were black spots that were probably birthmarks. One of these spots surrounded a pair of bright silver eyes. "You two are very lucky that I was able to convince the officers that you two are actually going to be students of mine," she remarked. She looked at Nyx. "Your grandmother would be very disappointed in you."

"I'm sorry Professor Walker," Nyx responded. "I saw a crime happening and I wanted to stop it."

"That's not an excuse. Now go back to your residences and collect your belongings. You have two hours before the transports to Beacon leave."

"Yes ma'am!" the two students responded, not noticing the other teacher waiting outside the room.

"Zoinks Frankie. I didn't think you'd be so rough on me two of them," Professor Norma Rogers remarked as Professor Walker exited the cell.

"I had to be Norma. It was too make sure they wouldn't do it again."

"Of course. This will certainly turn into an interesting year."

"And there you have it my friends. The catalyst for the RWBY series, changed entirely due to previous circumstances in this universe," Kurt remarked with a smile. "There are so many questions that can be raised, and I hope to find out the answers alongside you."

And that's the end of the first real chapter. I hope you enjoyed it. I would like to thank users Ghost83 for submitting Ash and ShadowWolf223 for submitting Nyx.