The medical professionals at the hospital Usopp was staying at told him that he was now fit to be released. They also told him that his recovery was 'miraculous,' but he was pretty sure he'd been told the same thing the last time he visited this very hospital. Although, his injuries were admittedly far more serious this time around. While his burnt flesh and broken bones healed nicely, the slash on his chest scarred. Usopp didn't mind it that much though. At least it wasn't on his back. If it was, then his warrior's pride would be wounded, and of course Zoro would never let him live it down.

From both his current and prior visit to this hospital, Usopp could tell that the doctors of this world were quite skilled. While not as skilled as Chopper, their advanced medical technology more than made up for the difference. He figured that if Chopper ever saw what a hospital looked like in Remnant, then he'd absolutely have stars in his eyes.

Opening the hospital door, he managed to slam someone else who was probably about to open it themselves. Looking at the unfortunate soul, he was surprised to see that it was actually Jaune.

"Jaune?"

He also noticed that Nora and Ren were at his side, helping Jaune get up from the ground.

"Wait… Usopp?! So you're alright after all?!"

"Is there a reason I wouldn't be?"

The three just stared, dumbfounded for a moment before Nora could think of a response. "Oh, I don't know, maybe since the doctor last night said that you had lost a lethal amount of blood and he was surprised you were even breathing?"

"That wouldn't be the first time a doctor said something like that to me."

"It's the first time we heard it, though," Ren retorted.

"We're just glad you survived," Jaune said.

"...Well, I'm glad too. Thanks."

Although, looking at the three made his thoughts drift to Pyrrha, and Usopp's gaze fell to the floor. I really let everyone down.

Jaune put a hand on Usopp's shoulder. "You did what you could."

"I just… I should have taken training more seriously at Beacon. I wasted so much time that I could have used to unlock my Semblance or practice other things."

Ren patted his back. "The fault lies with Cinder, not you. Don't forget that."

"And maybe your Semblance is already unlocked," Nora said, "I didn't know what mine was until I was struck by a lightning bolt after all."

"You're all too nice..."

Which makes the fact that I failed everyone that much worse.

"There's some other things that happened that you should probably know about," Jaune said, "If you feel like you're ready, though. It isn't exactly good news."

Usopp let out a breath. He really wasn't in the mood for more bad news, but at the same time, putting it off wasn't going to do him any good. "I may as well hear it now."

So Jaune gave him a rundown of what he had missed. From what Usopp could tell, there were several important points that were worth noting.

First of all, Ozpin was missing, although his death was very likely considering the circumstances Jaune last saw him in. Second, the CCT was down, and with it, global communications. The last thing the world saw was Atlesian robots siding with Grimm and the White Fang, as well as Usopp losing to the Wyvern. And the third and perhaps most important thing was that Blake was missing, Weiss was taken back to Atlas, and Ruby was unconscious. And of course, Yang was still recovering from her traumatic injury, but Usopp had already suspected that.

If Usopp had to summarize the situation, it just seemed like everything was going to shit. But maybe he could salvage something now that he had recovered. "If Cinder and her followers left, then I should probably head over and clear out Beacon. Then someone could get the CCT running again, right?"

Jaune shook his head. "I'm sorry, but even for you, clearing out Beacon right now would be a suicide mission. That massive Grimm you fought was frozen, but it's also attracting vast quantities of Grimm to Beacon. And it's not like they're all simple Beowolves or Ursai, I've heard that Leviathans crawled out of the sea to enter Beacon, and Goliaths are crowding the streets. Massive Nevermores are also patrolling the skies, so there is no clear way to finish off the Wyvern either."

"Well… shit. It's even worse than what I fought at Mountain Glenn."

"Yeah, it's pretty bad. Some initial estimates put the number of Grimm in the tens of thousands. I don't think anyone really knows what to do about it, but at least none of those Grimm are attacking Vale for now. But enough about that, why don't we pick up something to eat?"

"Do you mind if I ask you something?" Jaune asked.

With his mouth full of noodles, he simply shook his head.

"Well, it's just that do you think you could get your strong pirate friends to help out? If they're at least as strong as you, then you'd be able to take Beacon back if you worked together."

Usopp swallowed his food, and then laughed. "They sure would be helpful right about now, wouldn't they? But unfortunately, getting their help right now is impossible."

"Like, impossible-impossible or Usopp-impossible?" Nora asked.

"It's impossible-impossible."

Jaune looked down in shame. "Oh… I'm sorry, just forget that I brought it up."

"No no, they're not dead or anything... It's just..."

May as well tell them. After everything that happened, worrying about them thinking I'm crazy seems trivial.

"It may be hard to believe, and I didn't tell any of you about it before because it is that crazy, but I'm not from some random undiscovered island, but rather another world entirely."

Jaune, Nora, and Ren stared at him for a while, which was expected. He let them stare and digest everything, hoping that they would believe him, but preparing to laugh it off if they didn't.

Ren was the first to speak. "How can you be sure?"

That's promising… it's not a flat out denial of possibility.

"The moon in my world isn't broken, first of all. And my world also has a massive continent that circles the entire world, something that definitely doesn't exist here. I could list more if you wanted, but I don't see a point."

"I see," Ren replied. Silence followed for a few moments before it was broken again by Nora.

"So… technically, you're an alien?" she asked.

"I'm human!"

"Considering how fast you recovered, your long nose, and the fact that you could survive on less blood than a normal person… You being an alien actually explains so much!"

"I can see the long nose argument, but milk and Aura explain my recovery speed," Usopp countered.

"Like hell they do!" Jaune said.

Usopp laughed. "Oh yeah, and being treated in a hospital also helps."

"That's still not... oh forget it. But, that does explain why you can't get your friends to help. You arrived here alone, didn't you?" Jaune asked.

"Yeah… But, do you all actually believe me?"

"At the very least, this doesn't fit the pattern of what you'd normally lie about," Ren said, "If you talked about how travelling between worlds as some sort of personal feat, then I'd be more skeptical."

"He put it better than I could have," Jaune said, "I'm just curious how you even got here."

"I'm not even sure… I just fell into a hole that opened up in the ground, and not too long after that I fell into the water next to Vale. It happened around nine months ago, so I was just in time for Beacon's Initiation. One of the reasons that I signed up for Beacon was that I thought I might find a way back home. I was so worried about what my friends would have to fight without me that I used all of my free time trying to return to them. Of course, I barely found any leads and it was a mostly fruitless endeavor… Ruby helped me too. Besides helping me research, she also helped me believe that my friends are still alive, and that getting home was in fact possible. But, maybe if I had used that time to train-"

Jaune held up his hand. "I'm gonna stop you right there. There was no way to know that something like this would happen. You were already leagues ahead of everyone else, so at the very least I wouldn't have focused on training if I was that strong. Anyways, I can also try to help you get home if you need it."

"Me too," Nora said.

"I'll give my support as well," Ren said.

"I'll gladly take you all up on that, but not right now. Cinder is my priority right now, as I wouldn't be able to face my crewmates with pride if I left you all to deal with her by yourselves. But yeah, considering that I don't even understand how I got here, it's impossible to try and get any of my crewmates here as well."

"But it could happen naturally like it did with you though." Nora said.

"That's… well, you're not wrong, but if anyone strong from my world arrived here, they would probably just be a scumbag. And even if they are a good guy, if they're a marine, they would try to kill me for being a pirate."

"So we just need to get lucky."

Usopp twitched. "That isn't happening."

In the throne room of the White Fang, their leader seethed while watching the recording of Beacon's fall. "What the hell is this?!" he asked, "Why is the White Fang helping with this madness?!"

The guards could only look at each other nervously at their leader's outburst.

"Who the hell was in charge of Vale again?"

"Um… it was Adam, sir," a guard replied.

The leader clenched his webbed hand. "Dammit, tell that bastard to come here right now!"

"Right away sir!"

His eyes bloodshot, no one dared to bother him further. His gaze wandered back to the scroll from which he watched the recording continue, barely noticing something that made his eyes go wide with shock.

The human fighting the Wyvern was undoubtedly one of the four that he remembered assaulting his park. It happened decades ago, before his hair started to turn gray, so the finer details were getting fuzzy for him. However, that long nosed man was definitely there.

Arlong stared out blankly, lost in thought. A part of his history that he never thought he would have to deal with again was now staring him in the face.

Zoro wandered the streets of Wano's Flower Capital, searching everywhere with both his eye and his Observation Haki. A part of him was looking for people with crescent moon tattoos on their ankles, but his focus was searching for Usopp.

It had been six days since he disappeared, but he was seemingly nowhere in the entire country. Raizo had infiltrated the prisoner mines in Udon, but he wasn't even present there.

Of course, there was always the possibility that they missed him somehow, so Zoro and everyone else resolved themselves to continue searching while maintaining their cover. He passed by the carpentry place where he would normally catch Franky working under the name of Franosuke, although he quickly noticed something wrong.

Where the hell is Franky?