"Fascination breeds preparedness, and preparedness, survival."
-Peter Benchley

(This continues right as the page beforehand starts)

Ruby: Well that was a thing...

Tom: So, what now?

Jei: I have an itinerary already.

Mal: Woah! You're so quick dude!

Ruby: Sounds boring.

Jei: It starts with weapon making...

Ruby: *sound of a trapped rat* Nevermind! But I have to go though, my dad's calling. Bye.

Mal: Arriverderci!

Ruby: Okay, I'll just assume you said good bye then.

A day has passed since their run-in with the mysterious being, Fate and them being thrown into Remnant. For a bunch of highschoolers, they were handling it pretty well. And, with Jei's experience as their friend group's pseudo-secretary and Mal's bag filled with many miscellaneous, yet surprisingly crucial stuff, they were able to plan out the following month before the start of classes. Here is just the important bits they did.

After a month or so of part time jobs, world studying and gear crafting, they were finally able to prepare just in time for school to start.

Now gearwise, Jei was the well rounded fighter type as he was well versed in both dual sword wielding and archery. So he crafted himself two scimitars, a white and red one named Pidgeon; and a black and purple one named Sparrow.

These also combined to become a bow named Nightingale, as a line of Hardlight Dust becomes the bowstring and since he worked for the dust shop keeper they saved earlier during the past month, he also had access to some dust crystals he used in tipped arrows(as well as the food they lived off of as the old man also owned a cafe).

He also had a battle uniform which resembled Dante's signature red jacket, but with a black leather tunic inside the jacket and black tactical pants and boots.

Zeph, being a world war history/gun fanatic got a temporary part-time job cleaning and maintaining guns in a gun shop. Despite all the possibilities he found for potential weapon candidates, he decides to stick with our world's weapons including a blue M-24 fitted with a telescopic scope, and silencer he calls Blue

A pair of custom made, nearly identical M1911A he named Delta and Echo, with Delta being the one with the stronger impact and Echo being the slightly faster one

And a nodachi named Masamune which is a faithful recreation of his uncle's katana, Muramasa(not the real one), albeit, slightly blue colored rather than his uncle's white and green. He also wore a skull half mask, which further obfuscate his appearance, giving him a mercenary/soldier vibe.

With Mal and his preference to protect rather than to attack, he decided to let karma bite his opponent's butt. With a little help from Ruby, he was able to forge two shields, Sol and Luna, each being identical to each other apart from Sol's golden sun-shaped insignia and white color, and Luna's golden crescent insignia and black color.

Now what make these shields special is the fact that each have a circle-shaped kinetic sensor on the front of each shield that, when coming in strong physical contact with anything, would trigger a chamber filled with dust on the inside when it is active. It also can swap Dusts sheerly by clicking a button on the palm which is triggered by clenching the fists quickly.

His penchance for liking many things, including medieval armors led him to the design of his armor. Combining traits from various different sources, as well as mementos from his old world, he decided that his armor would be just three plates of metal strapped to his shoulders and chest, as well as a white cloak. He then has a thick white jacket underneath his metal armor and gauntlets that have a magnet function so he could recall his shields, should they get launched. Aside from that, he also drew a bunch of crosses made of his blood around his armor as a remembrance of the family he is trying to go back to.

And finally Tom, who, with how complex his weapon function was, took the most time to make. He basically wanted gauntlets which essentially fire kinetic force alongside dust as a projectile. So, after a bunch of research, as well as all four of them combining their knowhows with Ruby helping as well. They came up with his weapon, Beowulf.

It is a pair of black gauntlets which can store in and release enough kinetic power to launch an Ursa major ten meters into the sky from a range of four meters. Couple this with the fact that it can combine said attacks with dust as well as the sheer attack speed of Tom means it would be absolutely BRUTAL in close quarters.

Exhausted from creating weapon and wanting to focus more on speed, Tom decides to forego the idea of armor and just wear what he already got. Which was his sleeveless yellow hoodie, thick blue jogging pants and boots.

After the month or so of preparations, practice and part time jobs, the four then said goodbye to the kind people who took them for part time jobs as well as the owner of the studio they rented. As a final remembrance to their temporary house, Mal plants a seed from a fruit he accidentally kept in his bag from the other world at the back of the studio. The last snack, given to him by his mother, a bundle of home grown lanzones fruits.

However, he kept a few seeds so he can use these as landmarks for the places he feel attachment to. After that they were off to Beacon their first Bullhead ride towards where they might stay for the rest of who knows how long.

Time skip from within the Bullhead...

All four of them were now on their first ever bullhead ride and into Beacon as well. As they looked around, the four of them decided to split off to do different stuff. Zeph was looking around, admiring the many weapons as he creepily and silently stared at them, save for the Darth Vader-esque breathing noises he makes because of his mask. This was due to Zeph being the type to only talk when he is either with friends or if he feels he needs to. Tom was at one of the seats sleeping like a rock. Not much else, really. Jei and Mal walked around when suddenly they got bumped by a blonde who was ready to hurl making Jei exclaim "Watch it!". Someone in the crowd perked up from hearing his voice. That same person then pushed around the crowd until they went up to the two boys.

It was none other than the red-hooded scythe wielding. silver eyed Ruby Rose and behind her was her blond haired, lilac eyed sister Yang Xiao Long.

Ruby: Oh hey guys!

Mal: Hello!

They then proceeded to do a friend clap they apparently learned earlier which gone along the lines of left high-five, right low-five, right spin, left fist bump and double high five(which failed and ended up as a face to face tackle and hug, which both quickly pulled away from with their faces being red as dragon fruits from the impact.)

Yang: *smirks* Could it be?

Yang then holds Mal by the hands and stares at him eye to eye with their faces being uncomfortably close to each other making Mal extremely flustered. She then sported a massive grin and hugs Mal, crushing his face into her bosom saying "Oh my gosh, my sister is actually dating!!"

While this happened, Ruby flailed her arms, blushing redder, spouting denials while Mal tries to get off of Yang's monsterous grip screaming out a muffled "GAAAAHHH, BAD TOUCH! BAD TOUCH!" Jei, on the other hand, just shakes his head with an uneasy smile and muttered out "Yare yare..." After a minute, Mal started coughing and Yang notices blood on her shirt as she screams startled by it as she pushed Mal off. Mal stumbles off with Jei concernedly going to his side as blood was dripping from his mouth.

Mal: S-*cough*sorry, I just have a lung disease that does this to me whenever I feel enough stress. *cough*

Yang: W-well I'm sorry there. By the way, my names-

Mal: Yang Xiao Long, nice to meet you.

Yang: How did you-

Mal: Know? Ruby told us. Anyways, name's Mal, short for Michael Espina.

Jei then makes a polite gesture towards Yang.

Jei: Hello, I am Jedidaiah Abarres, pleasure to meet you. Call me Jei.

Yang: Oh, a gentleman type. I see~

Jei: I wonder, you say you are sister's with Ruby? How come you don't share similarities with her?

Yang: Oh, we're half sisters. Different moms and all.

Suddenly a Hologram of Glynda Goodwitch appears from a 3d projector.

Yang: Who's she?

Goodwitch Holo: Good Morning everyone I am Glynda Goodwitch.

Yang: Oh.

The Hologram then started to talk about Beacon, but the four of them didn't pay much attention to it.

Mal: Anyways, you should meet our other friends.

He then pulls out his smartphone and calls the two others over.

Yang: Woah, I haven't seen those types of scrolls being used since I was five.

Mal briefly glares at Yang for calling his phone old and then resumes waiting for someone to pick up. After a few more minutes, he closes his phone, frustratedly say "I give up. I am going to go look for them manually then. Please stay, like right there.", and begrudgingly walks away. Jei, nervously scratches his head, politely apologizes and hurriedly follows Mal leaving the two sisters shrugging and then continue to chat.

After a minute or so of walking, Jei finally catches up to Mal, who was still trying to find his two other friends. Jei then abruptly stops Mal and forcefully turns the younger boy towards him.

Jei: Do you not know what you did was rude?

Mal: Yeah, but I feel worried for those two man. They might get lost, ya know?

Jei: Fine, but don't leave me for dead, man. I'm not gonna stay with them, awkward silence is annoying.

Mal: Okay then, let's g-

Mal then rams into yet another person, who drops on someone else.

Mal: Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry.

???: Quite alright.

The woman stands up to full height, which was taller than Mal to his dismay, and straightens the bronze circlet on her long crimson hair. She then smiles and says "Hello there." while cheerfully waving her hand.

Mal does the same and says "Hello, the name's Mal and yours?" After which he extends a hand to shake. Mal knew her name exactly from the show but decided to not mention that as she was uncomfortable dealing with her popularity.

She then grabs the hand and shakes saying "My name is Pyrrha."

Jei: Um, guys we need to help this guys.

Jei then points to a blonde haired boy wearing a white hoodie, white plate armor and sword sheathed to his side. Right now, he was vomiting on the floor.

Jei: Mal, quick, I need a plastic bag, a seasickness tablet and water.

Mal then pulls up his cape, and brings down a bag he had underneath his cape. There he took out the three things he was asked for and Jei carries the semi conscious kid to a seat, gave him the tablet and handed him water. He then begrudgingly sweeps the vomit with a mop nearby into the plastic bag and threw it away. After five minutes the blonde boy started to feel better. He then looks up to see all three of them look at him, startling him.

Jei: What's your name dude? How many fingers am I holding up? How do you feel?

???: Wh-wha? Okay, okay, one at a time. Name's Jaune Arc, um eight? and uh, I'm better now, thanks and who are you three?

Jei: My name's Jei, the guy in white's name is Mal and the red haired girl is Pyrrha.

Pyrrha: Hello there!

Jaune: R-right, thanks. Anyways...

The four of them then talked for a bit before Mal says "Alright, it's been nice talking to both of y'all. But we really need to find our other friends." To which both of them resumed their search for their friends.

Meanwhile with Zeph and Tom...

After getting tired of looking around, Zeph sits down next to a semi-asleep Tom.

Zeph: Hey...

Tom: Yo.

Zeph: I'm bored.

Tom: So am I.

Zeph: Do you have something you wanna talk about?

Tom: Meh... howbout we make friends with someone

Zeph: Nah, too anti-social for that biz.

Tom: Well, *grunts standing up* I'm not gonna waste away waiting for us to land. I'm going to talk to someone.

He then plays eenie meenie miney mo looking to pick out someone to talk to. His hands then land on a pair of people, a hyperactive looking orange haired girl and a black haired Asian boy with a pink streak on his hair.

Tom: Eh, sure why not.

Seeing Tom approach someone, Zeph just sighs, gets up and joins his friend. When he realized who his friend is going to, his eyes widened in slight shock and elation. However this was not visible due to his ever present mask.

Tom: Yo, yo, yo, wassup, I'm Tom. Nice to meet ya.

Asian: Hello there, I am Ren.

Ginger: HIYA! My name is Nora!

Tom: Oh, and my friend behind you is Zeph.

Both Ren and Nora were then startled by Zeph's Darth Vader breathing noises as he says a muffled "Yo..."

Nora then went down from Ren's arms and said "Well, put it there." and thrusts her hand forward. After Zeph accepts the handshake, he was met with a vice grip so strong that he made a scream which could only be described as a wounded goat whose wound is being washed with hydrochloric acid.

After his hand was put down, he started rolling on the floor in pain. After eventually recovering from it, he stood up and they began conversing. The conversation slowly became a heated argument between donuts and pancakes to which Zeph sarcastically comments "This is life's most important question".

Eventually, Mal and Jei finally arrived, with Pyrrha and Jaune tailing them out of curiousity.

Jei: Oh there you two are.

Mal: Oh hey Tom, Zeph, Nora, Ren!

Nora: Pancakes are still be-all Oh hello there random person I've never met before. Waiittt... how do you know who I am?

She then adopts a suspecting look on Mal. Zeph in the background was swaying his head from left to right slowly. Completely forgetting about how important this secret was, Mal non-chalantly says "Oh, we're from a different dimensio-"

He was then cut off by his three teammates tackling him. Jei then nerviously laughed scratching the back of his head.

Jei: He's just joking.

Jaune, Nora, Pyrrha and Ren then looked at them with a mixture of surprise, worry and confusion.

Jaune: Yeah, no. I would've thought he was joking around at first, but your reactions says otherwise. I kinda believe him now.

Nora: Woah! Are you like

Nora(fake robotic voice): aliens from a different world?

Jei: *sigh* The cat's outta bag now, huh? (Good job you careless idiot...)

Tom: And we ain't ET.

Zeph: *nods* Mhm.

Jei: Yeah. I know, crazy right? We actually come from an alternate world called Earth.

Mal: Get... off... can't... breeeaath!

Tom: Huh? Oh! Oh sorry dude.

Pyrrha: As difficult as that is to believe, I actually surprisingly believe you.

Jaune: Yeah, me too. Welcome to this world... I guess?

Ren: This is just another piece of crazy piled on top of an already massive pile of crazy for me, it's safe to say you all are not lying.

Nora: OH! WASSIT LIKE THERE? ARE THERE FLYING SAUCERS AND STUFF?! DO PANCAKES STILL EXIST? DO YOU HAVE LAZER PISTOLS?!

Tom: We ain't ET!

Jei: *sigh* Okay I guess, I'm not sure, yes they do, and lasers are still too low tech to be used for pistols.

Mal: Th-there's also no grimms there.

Zeph: Or faunus or aura or semblances.

Nora: Boo! Your world sounds boring!

Zeph: Oh contraire my friend. Lots of fun things happened.

Mal: W-well I mean with a world with billioms of humans, something fun definitely can happen at any given m-moment.

Zeph: I wanna show you what things we created just a few decades ago.

Zeph then whips out his phone to which Nora comments "Woah..."

Zeph: Amazed by just this? I'm sure that-

Nora: No it's just, I've never seen anyone use a scroll model that predated the great war

Everyone then either snickered or tried to hold back the laughter.

Zeph: It's not the phone I wanna show you it's this.

He then turns the phone on and plays a video, specifically, a documentary about the evolution of technology from world war 2 till now.

One one hour documentary later...

Zeph: What do you think about that?!

Nora: The fact that you people fought that many times without either aura or semblance in wars the scale bigger than the great war...

Zeph(inside head): Oh she's totally impressed.

Nora: Y'all are some edgey mofos!

Zeph: Bruh...

Ruby: THAT WAS AWESOME!!!

Ruby startles everyone making them all jump back, with the exception of Jei who drew out his swords and Mal who cowered into his cloak saying "My ears!".

Ruby: Oh sorry about that.

Yang then exits the crowd and gives a two finger salute to everyone, saying "Yo".

Yang: Rubes got worried after an hour has passed so she decided to find you guys and I just followed.

Yang then spots Mal checking his bag on floor and Tom who was leaning on a wall, chilling and a sinister smirk grows on her face. She then leans closely towards the face of Tom, making him extremely uncomfortable.

Tom: Ah... um... may... I... help you?

She then faces Mal and asks "Whose the hottie over here?" making Tom beet red.

Mal: Oh, uhm, that's Tom, Thomas Pasobillo.

Tom: N-n-nice t-t-to me-meet you!

Yang then examines him from torso upwards and then licks her lips as she stares into his eyes.

Yang: ~You wanna... go~

Finally breaking, Tom lets out a scream which one can only describe as tires screeching during a drift. Yang then bursts into laughter as her plan worked.

Yang: *pants from laughter* Calm down, calm down *wipes tear off eye* oh your reaction was priceless.

Ruby/Mal: That was mean!/ You broke him!

Tom then slowly slides to the floor as his mouth starts to froth.

Yang: Hahaha! Anyways, the name's Yang, Yang Xiao Long.

She then offers him a hand, which he shakily took.

Tom: T-t-t-tom...

Jei: What can we say about our gilded boxer, great fighter, terrible flirter.

The bullhead then lands as the pilot says "We have arrived." Every other student then picked up their bags and were walking outside.

Pyrrha: Anyways, I think we should all go now. See you all later?

Ren: Yes. let us.

Yang: Yeah totally.

Jaune: See you guys on the flipside.

Ruby: That was cringey.

Everyone then separate from each other as they gone to pick up their bags.

The door opens as Mal says. "Welcome... to Jurassi-I mean Beacon."

Tom: Nice save there dude...