After suddenly blacking out from his last battle, Jaune opened his eyes and adjusted to the ceiling lights glaring down on him.

"Yang, call the others!" said a familiar voice. "Jaune's waking up!"

"Ruby?" said a dazed Jaune. "Is that you?"

"Hey, Jaune!" said Ruby. "You feeling okay?"

"I don't..."

Once Jaune's eyes finally cleared up, he sat up and looked around to see where he was. It appeared to be a medical room with Ruby standing beside his bed. The last thing he could remember was defeating System and the world itself seemingly collapsing around him.

"Ruby? Where am I?"

"You're in the school infirmary," said Ruby. "You got knocked out during a training session and had to be brought in here. I'm glad it wasn't anything serious!"

"Knocked out?" asked Jaune. "From what?"

"You don't remember? You were training with your team and you took a pretty nasty hit to the head. Are you sure you're okay?"

"A hit to the head when training?" thought Jaune. "That must be when I blacked out in Forever Fall and this whole mess got started! Man, I knew this was all a dream...or more like a nightmare! I'm just glad it's finally over!"

"Jaune?" asked Ruby. "I asked are you sure you're okay?"

"Yeah!" said Jaune. "It's just...Ruby, you are NOT going to believe the dream I had. I dreamt that-"

"Hey there, sleepyhead!" said Yang as she entered the room. "It's about time you woke up! You were starting to worry your teammates!"

"Where are they?" asked Jaune. "Are they okay?"

"What? Yeah, they're fine. Pyrrha was worried to death about you, but I think she just felt bad she accidentally knocked your noggin. At least...you didn't lose any memories, did you?"

"No, I don't think so. Where is my team right now anyway?"

"They're hanging out with Team CYAN."

"Team who?"

"Oh, they're one of the new teams visiting for the upcoming tournament!" said Ruby. "C'mon, I'll take you to them!"

Relieved that his nightmare was over, Jaune got up and headed to the sparring auditorium where several of the teams from outside Beacon Academy had gathered before the Vytal Festival officially got underway. With one fake tournament out of the way, Jaune could go back to focusing on the real tournament he was initially training for in the first place.

Once they were in the auditorium, Jaune looked around for his teammates, but they didn't seem to be anywhere in sight.

"Huh," said Ruby. "I guess Pyrrha and the others left already. Anyway Jaune, I want you to meet Team CYAN!"

"What?" said Jaune, turning his attention back to the others. Standing by Ruby and Yang were a trio of students - a boy and two girls - in what appeared to be their school uniforms, but each wore a different outfit. The boy wore a uniform that looked strangely familiar to Jaune, while one girl was wearing a green jacket and the other a red sweater.

"Team CYAN, this is Jaune, leader of Team JNPR!"

"Nice to meet you, Jaune!" greeted the spunky girl in green. "I'm Chie Satonaka. These are my teammates, Yosuke Hanamura and Yukiko Amagi, and we're here to represent Yasogami Huntsman Academy!"

"What's up, dude?" greeted Yosuke.

"A pleasure to meet your acquaintance!" greeted Yukiko.

"Nice to meet you too!" said Jaune. "Sorry if I seem a bit out of it. Just woke up from a coma apparently."

"Yeah, we heard," said Chie. "Your team felt really bad about it, but I assured them you'd be okay! After all, I heard Beacon Academy students are some of the toughest students around!"

"You bet!" said Yang.

"Anyway," said Jaune, "I take it you're the leader, Chie?"

"Actually," said Ruby, "in their school, the last letter represents the leader of the team."

"Oh? So where is your leader?"

"One sec," said Yosuke. "Hey, Narukami! Come say hi to Jaune!"

"Narukami?" thought Jaune. "That's weird. That was the same name as the guy who..."

As soon as Jaune saw Narukami stop by, his jaw nearly dropped. Either Jaune had already met Narukami and completely forgot about it because of his head trauma, or he was staring at the same exact person he had initially met in his dream.

"Hello, Jaune-san," greeted Narukami. "I'm Yu Narukami. I'm glad to see you're okay. Unfortunately, we don't have much time to chat. We have to go meet Ozpin for registration."

"I know technically we're rivals," said Ruby, "but good luck in the Keystone Tournament!"

As Team CYAN waved goodbye and left, it took a few moments for Jaune to realize what Ruby suddenly blurted out.

"Wait...what did you say about a Keystone Tournament, Ruby?" asked Jaune.

"You know!" said Ruby. "The annual Vytal Festival Keystone Tournament!"

"The...the what?"

"You seriously forgot?" asked Yang. "Maybe that knock to your head is worse than we thought."

"As a sign of unity," said Ruby, "all the major kingdoms put their Keystone up for grabs? This year Vale is not only hosting, but we're the defending champions after winning the 37th Tournament two years ago!"

"And Team RWBY is going to make sure we keep that crown!" said Yang.

As Ruby and Yang were getting excited for the tournament, Jaune could feel himself feeling faintish and about to collapse.

"What the heck's going on?!" thought Jaune. "This can't possibly be a coincidence! This...this has to be another dream!"

Before Ruby and Yang could ask if Jaune was okay, Jaune suddenly sprinted out of there, not paying attention to where he was going, causing himself to bump into another student head-on.

"Hey! Watch it!" yelled the student.

"Sorry!" said Jaune. "I wasn't looking where I was going!"

Jaune looked up at the very irate student to apologize, only to feel a chill run down his spine when he noticed who it was: Kanji Tatsumi. Kanji's expression suddenly changed when he realized it was Jaune who bumped into him.

"Oh, hey Jaune!" said Kanji. "I heard you were in the infirmary! Feeling okay?"

"Not anymore," said Jaune, not understanding anything going on.

"Oh...is it serious? I can call the doctors again and-"

"No no, that's okay! It's nothing, really!"

"Well...if you say so. But hey, before you run off...can I tell you something?"

"What is it?"

"I really want to thank you for helping me out at the dance. I was really worried people would try to avoid me, but thanks to you, I had a great time!"

"You did? I did?"

"Of course! What, you suddenly don't remember?"

"Well..."

"All right, seriously, are you sure you're okay? You're acting like you suddenly have amnesia or something. I want to help, man!"

"Funny you should say that, because-"

"Well it isn't the sissy little bitches!" shouted someone behind them. Kanji and Jaune turned around to see another familiar face Jaune recognized.

"Who the hell are you, asshole?" yelled Kanji.

"Name's Carmine, bitch!" replied Carmine. "And man, I thought blondie over there was the biggest sissy in this tournament! If everyone is a little bitch like you two, this tournament is going to be a piece of cake!"

"Is that what you think, punk?!" yelled Kanji. "We can fight right now!"

"Fine with me! I'll send you both back to the infirmary!"

"Knock it off Carmine," said a girl who appeared next to him, "before you get our entire academy kicked out."

Carmine chuckled and decided to back off, much to Kanji's annoyance and Jaune's relief, although that relief was short lived when he saw the girl was Linne.

"My apologies for his behavior," said Linne. "While my team isn't as insane as that idiot, we won't go easy on you."

"Looking for to it!" replied Kanji.

Jaune continued to stumble around the academy, constantly bumping into familiar faces all talking about participating in the Keystone Tournament. It wasn't until he was outside of the academy when he finally bumped into his teammates, the only people who can possibly solve this mystery.

"Thank God I found you guys!" said Jaune. "Please tell me this is some kind of dream!"

"It's not a dream, Jaune," said Pyrrha. "Somehow destroying that Keystone caused the Phantom Field to recreate our world...and brought everyone else with us."

"Wait, what?! You mean...this isn't even our actual world?! How...why..."

"I think it's best we allow her to explain it."

"And by her you mean...?"

"YOU. STUPID. OAF!" yelled an angry and familiar sounding posh voice. Jaune looked past his team and saw a very irate Rachel Alucard looking like she was ready to strangle Jaune to death.

"Hey, watch it vampire lady!" said Nora. "You're in our world now, so-"

"Did you forget what I JUST told you?!" said Rachel. "This isn't your world! It's a new Phantom Field that looks and feels like your world because you had to go and destroy the Keystone!"

"Well what else were we supposed to do?!" yelled Jaune.

"Calm down, everyone," said Ren, using his Semblance to make everyone relax about the new situation they found themselves in.

"Can somebody explain to me what's going on?" asked Jaune.

"By destroying one of System's Keystones," said Rachel, "you released the data she had on your world into the Phantom Field, causing the Phantom Field to now take the form of Remnant. As far as everyone else is aware, everything is as normal as it was before System brought you here."

"And how exactly do you know so much about System?"

"She was a creature sealed by my father many centuries ago. Had I gotten all the Keystones before you went and destroyed one of them, I could have sealed her away again and return things to normal."

"But how did she get released in the first place?"

"...I'm not sure we'll ever know."

"It was you, wasn't it?" said Ren.

Seeing Rachel suddenly get tight lipped about how and why System got released caused Jaune's blood to boil.

"IT REALLY WAS YOU!" yelled Jaune. "This is all YOUR fault!"

"What's done is done," said Pyrrha. "Instead of blaming each other for this, let's figure out how we can fix this situation we're in now."

"It's simple," said Rachel. "Win this tournament going on to obtain all of the Keystones and I can reset the worlds properly."

"That's just great!" said Jaune, throwing his hands up. "We went through ALL THAT to get back home, and now we have to do it all AGAIN! I feel like I ended up getting the 'bad' ending!"

"I dunno!" said Nora. "I think it's going to be a lot of fun facing everybody again! I've got a score to settle with that Bloodedge guy!"

"It would be nice to see Mister Jubei again," said Ren.

"And I'm sure our friends will help us too," said Pyrrha. "Together, we'll make sure to get the 'good' ending this time!"

"You had better!" said Rachel. "Gods help us to what will happen if one of those Keystones gets destroyed again!"

"I guess that's our new mission," sighed Jaune. "All right Team JNPR, let's try to win those Keystones...again..."

Just as Jaune survived one nightmare scenario, he was now entering another. Team JNPR now had a new objective on their hands: Win the Vytal Keystone Tournament and return their world back to the way it was.