They had finally done it. Ruby looked around at the weary Huntsmen and Huntresses around her. Yang looked up at her from a kneeling position, slowly raising a metal thumb. Standing before Weiss stood next to her, leaning on a Dust-spent Myrtenaster. Blake sat to Ruby's left, sighing as she took in the scene around them. She was too tired to stop Ruby from approaching the giant stone statue of the monstrous woman that was Salem. Around the statue lay the shattered remains of the Relics that team RWBY, JNR, and Oscar had gathered over the years. They had activated the Relics while fighting Salem, trapping her in a circle of light, similar to the God of Light's power. Once immobilized, Ruby was able to freeze her with the most powerfully concentrated Silver Eye flash, encasing the Queen of Grimm in stone.

"Will it keep her?" Oscar spoke first. Looking closely, Ruby noticed that the pieces of the Relics formed a perfect circle around the frozen woman. As though in response to the boy's question, a sudden pulse of light from the ground enveloped the statue and appeared to completely cover the entire frozen being in a bright light similar to Ruby's final attack. When Ruby removed her hands away from her face, she found Salem to be encased in what looked like silver.

The war was won. Watts and Hazel were heavily shackled and being escorted by Atlesian guards, and a heavily damaged metal tail was all that remained of Tyrian. Winter stood back by Ironwood and Glynda, who were leading the effort to clean up the battlefield and care for the wounded. Ruby could see Sun and Ilia walking back to the small volunteer army of Faunus from Menagerie celebrating after helping maintain a perimeter against the Grimm.

"Ozpin?" Ruby turned to Oscar. "Are you still there?"

"Yes, Miss Rose." The older man's tone came through the young man's voice. "I think we'll be just fine now."

"What now?" Yang asked, rising to her feet. She extended an arm to help Blake stand as well. "Anything we should do?"

"I am… unsure." Ozpin answered. "The Relics are gone, as is Salem it seems. I trust Atlas to contain the statue in pure obscurity." He watched as Jaune, Ren, and Nora joined the rest of the group, just as weary as RWBY. "I am very glad to see you all in one piece after this whole ordeal though."

"Where to now?" Jaune asked. "Back to Atlas?"

"Perhaps for a little while." Ozpin said. "Though in time, I believe we can make our way back home. To Beacon." The mention of their school brought small smiles to the students' faces.

"Maybe we can even graduate properly after all that." Blake cracked a rare joke.

"I can't really think of anything less than that for a reward." Weiss added, with a sarcastic roll of her eyes. Before anyone else could add to the queue of quips, she heard Winter call out to them.

"Weiss, look out!" Her older sister's shout caused the entire group to turn as a ragged, angry Emerald ran up and threw a cluster of Burn and Spark Dust at them. She was promptly tackled by several Atlesian guards as Winter began running full-tilt towards Weiss and her friends. The projectile landed had at their feet and began beeping. Jaune barely had time to raise his shield as Weiss realized what was happening conjured a dark glyph around the bomb. She gasped when she realized the glyph was immensely stronger than expected and began pulling all eight of them even closer to the bomb. The sound of an explosion, the sound of Winter's voice, and bright light assaulted each of them before the world around them shifted.

Ruby could only describe the sensation as a soft pull then an extremely violent push back before the entire world flipped upside down, right side up, then upside down once more. She was spun around somehow and then the world came back right side shook her head to clear the dizziness and opened her eyes. The scene before them was unfamiliar and completely different from the one they previously were in.

"Where are we?" Ren asked softly, voicing the question on everyone's mind. "Someone's house?"

They appeared to be in a large living room. A blue couch sat facing a flat screen television over a small fireplace. An analog clock told then it was 7:30. Above the fireplace was a floating wooden shelf that held several decorative trinkets. Next to them, Ruby recognized what looked like video game consoles, but she wasn't familiar with the brands or games on them.

Weiss looked over to a modest-sized kitchen, it looked like it was used recently, with a plate and pan in the sink waiting to be cleaned. The small island doubled as an eating area with a few stools pushed neatly under the extended lip on one side. Did a family live here?

Blake pushed gently into the nearest room, the door was luckily unlocked. Inside was a charming little office space with a laptop sat upon a dark wooden desk. Her gaze traveled to the wall opposite the office chair was facing, where nearly an entire wall was dedicated to an extremely large assortment of books. Two leather recliners sat opposite of the desk, framing the bottom of the book wall. A window gave her a view of flat plains dotted with trees that seemed to extend toward the horizon.

"I would advise not looking any further, Miss Belladonna." Ozpin warned. "We're strangers in someone's house. It would be rude to snoop around."

"But how did we get here?" Weiss asked. "Weren't we just in the Grimmlands? With everyone?"

"Yeah!" Nora agreed as she spun around, as though looking for something. "With Salem and everything!"

"Maybe that Dust bomb did something weird?" Jaune's suggestion brought Weiss's recent actions to the present. "And that glyph?"

"I tried to conjure something that could contain the bomb," Weiss explained. "A gravity glyph should have kept the explosion contained."

"Then maybe the bomb was the factor?" Blake said. "What kind of Dust was on it?"

"I only recognized Burn and Spark Dust," Weiss sighed. "I didn't exactly have time to examine it closely, you know."

"Ruby," Yang finally noticed Ruby slowly moving towards the floating shelf above the fireplace, and noticed the troubled expression on her sister's face as she appeared to notice little reaper's attention was drawn to a specific item on the shelf, a small globe. After a few slow, careful turns of the painted orb, Ruby looked up at them, confused.

"I don't recognize anything on this globe." She said, passing it to Ozpin and Yang, who took care to carefully examine it as well. It was obvious that they weren't on Remnant anymore. There were two large oceans and land forms that were vastly different in shape and name to the ones they were from. The country names were bizarre as well. Ruby spoke up once more, her voice almost a whisper. "Are… are we lost?"

"It would seem so," Ozpin concluded. "I believe there are plenty of questions on the table. The first of which needs to be answered: where are we?"

"That would be my house." A new voice broke into the conversation, causing the group to jump and collectively prepare for a fight. At the other end of several pointed guns and blades stood a man in blue pajamas, still blinking away the drowsiness. His short black hair was messy. He had just woken up. "Please don't hurt me, my insurance doesn't pay very well."

"You live here, sir?" Ozpin probed, gesturing for everyone to lower their weapons.

"Yep," Came the curt answer as the man made his way to the kitchen. Silence followed as he filled a steel kettle with water and started heating it up on the stove. He then reached for a mug and a small tea packet from a cabinet and set it on the island. A tired pair of brown eyes looked over the displaced group quickly. Blake saw how his eyes glanced to her ears before continuing to Oscar. He sighed and said, "This is either a dream or I'm gonna have to call the cops on some rather impressive cosplayers."

Yang was surprised to see Ruby step forward first with a hand extended for a handshake. She couldn't help but feel both proud of her for shaking off the shock in such a short time, and anxious about her little sister approaching some stranger in his own house. Ozpin himself was surprised at the sight of the originally shy girl made the first attempt for diplomatic contact.

"I'm Ruby-" She began but was caught off.

"Rose," the man finished for her, his voice still dripping with drowsiness. The reaper flinched in surprise as the stranger continued pointing to each of them and naming them in order. "Yang Xiao-Long, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, Jaune Arc, Lie Ren, and Nora Valkyrie."

"Hey," the hammer wielder complained. "Why am I last?" Her unexpected outburst elicited a soft scoffing chuckle and a shake of the head from the man before he turned to Oscar.

"You are Oscar Pine," said the man. "Though you may be possessed by an immortal wizard by the name of Ozpin that can take charge if he needs to." Weapons rose once more. Slightly more awake, the homeowner instinctively put his hands up.

"Children, please." Ozpin commanded softly. The weapons lowered just slightly.

"So it seems Ozpin is in charge of the body right now," He said. "Or you're all just convincing voice actors as well as well-equipped cosplayers."

"I assure you we are the real deal." Ozpin gestured to the group. Nora even made the effort to tug on everyone's hair to prove they weren't wearing wigs. When she approached Yang though, she was met with a cold lilac glare that threatened to turn red if Nora even tried to touch her hair.

"Can you prove it?" The man asked.

"Why should we have to prove anything to you?" Weiss asked back. Her question was met with a glare and a skeptical raise of an eyebrow.

"Why should I continue to humor all of this instead of calling the police and having you all arrested for trespassing?" He countered.

"Do our weapons count?" Ruby offered. She pushed Yang's metal arm into view.

"Not really," was the man's response. "Anyone with the right resources can have functioning replicas commissioned nowadays."

"How's this?" Weiss said, clearly starting to get irritated. A small white glyph appeared in the air in front of her. With it, she summoned a miniature knight with some sort of buster sword on the floor. The small Arma Gigas jumped onto the kitchen island and kicked the man's mug to the edge of the marble. Ruby caught it quickly as it tipped over the edge, placing it back on the island as the kettle on the stove began to sound off.

"That… definitely works." The man nodded before blinking hard and looking at the group once more. His gaze was much slower this time, taking in the people standing before him.

"So uh," Ruby restarted her attempt at introductions once more. She waited for him to finish pouring the boiling hot water into the mug and watched him wiggle the teabag around, darkening the liquid. "You know all of our names. What's yours?"

"You can call me Kay." He answered. "So how did y'all get in my house?"

"We were teleported here after a fight," Jaune answered. "And... that's all we know."

"Mr. Arc is correct. We don't really know how we got here." Ozpin added. "But to add on to what Miss Rose said, how do you know who we are?"

"It's... complicated." Kay answered, sighing. Blake noticed his eyes traveled to the clock in the room. Was he waiting for something? He sounded much more apprehensive than when he was at the business ends of several weapons. "I could show you."

"Please, if you can." Ozpin said. He wasn't so sure about the nature of the man in front of them, but as long as Kay was cooperating, he felt there was no real threat. The man came off easily as a civilian, but his knowledge truly bothered the former headmaster, who was admittedly notorious for his secrecy over the centuries. How could someone from a world unrecognizable from Remnant know about his specific situation?

Kay, with his mug of tea, made his way to the couch and waved everyone over. Ozpin and Ruby sat on the couch on either side of him. Nora, Ren, and Blake sat on the floor in front of them. Yang, Weiss, and Jaune simply leaned against the arms and back of the blue couch. Kay reached for a small remote turned on the television, with a blue light showing that one of the game consoles had also been activated. A few button presses later and a red logo of a rooster and a set of teeth appeared on the screen.

Blake caught Kay as he sighed and muttered under his breath.

"I swear I've read this fanfiction before."

Author's Note: Heyo there, Kariotic here! For the few curious followers of mine, I decided it was time to change my username to something less personal.

Would you look at that? I'm not dead as a writer just yet! I know I haven't written anything in a while,for both my fanfic and original works, so I wanted to try a fun idea as a way to ease my mind back into writing again. It's nowhere near an original idea, and I know I'm pretty rusty in general, but it just really entertained me while I thought it up, so I thought, 'fuck it, why not?' I hope y'all enjoy reading it as much as I do writing for reading!