Before the story starts I want to make it very clear so I don't have to repeat myself, I don't own Highschool of the dead or RWBY and thank you for reading.

Speech patterns:

Hello: regular speech.

I can't believe this: Thought speech.

GET OUT OF MY WAY: shouting.

I can't believe it: mumbling/muttering quietly.

(Because of this): authors note.

Let the story begin.

3rd person P.O.V

Location: Vale central kingdom plaza, Remnant.

Time: unknown (because none of us know when RWBY takes place).

Within the final minutes of the defence of vale against grim assault from a previously sealed tunnel into the kingdom plaza, an unknown mutated grim jumped out from one of the train carts and immediately dashed toward yang. Mercury trying to act the good guy chased after the new grim and slammed the tip of his right boot into the creatures head before it had the chance to swipe at the blonde brawler. Upon finish a small skirmish with 4 beowolves yang quickly turned around in time to see the new creature fallen at her feet with Mercury standing to it's side, before jumping back in shock when they both saw it's spines begin to glow. To Yang's even greater surprise the spines weren't glowing green like the ones her team discovered in an abandon mine near the emerald forest, these ones were glowing a bright magenta colour however before either of them could ponder what was happening the creature exploded into a ball of purple light engulfing the two.

Mercury's P.O.V

Location: Tokonosu city, Japan, Earth.

Time: 4:00pm March 12 2006.

God I feel like I've been thrown into a concrete wall headfirst. After getting up and shaking off the dirt and a painful headache a question hit me when I saw my surroundings. "Where the hell am I"? My eyes instantly widened after saying that, that can't be my voice it sounds way to young. After I gave myself a once over I realised why I sounded like a kid. Great so not only has that light dropped to some unfamiliar place but it's also reverted me back to what I'd think is a 7 year old. Man how am I ever going to explain this to Cinder, Emerald's going to be laughing herself to sleep when she sees me, and Neo… I can't imagine what she'll do when she sees me. I start to walk about while noticing that my legs are real again before I trip and fall on top of someone. After getting back up again I look down at what I landed on and saw an identically young but unmistakable blonde. "Yang".

Yang's P.O.V

The first thing I noticed after stirring back awake was a big weight lifting itself off my body, I quickly sat to notice a grey haired kid looking down at me. "Who are you and where are-. My words froze in my mouth as I noticed I sounded different. The boy looked at me for a couple of seconds before responding. "It's me, Mercury".

"Yeah right there's no way you're Mercury, you're only a child". I said as politely as I could.

"You can talk Yang, have a look at yourself". The boy who called himself Mercury replied with a bit of vinegar.

I looked down to see what he was on about and the first thing I saw was that my chest was as flat as a cutting board. "KKKYYYAAA", screaming was the only thing I could think of doing. I don't believe it I'm a kid too which means that boy IS MERCURY. Man I'm really going to miss my little pups was all I could say to myself as I put my hands on my now non-existent chest. Suddenly I was brought out of my small upset when a hand placed itself on my shoulder, I looked back up to see Mercury with a slight smile on his face. "WHAT ARE YOU SMILING AT", I could feel tears rolling down my eyes as I suddenly realised that we were no longer in vale.

"What're you shouting at me for, you looked down so all I was trying to do was comfort you". Mercury said in a slightly hurt tone of voice.

"I'm sorry it's just I can't sense anyone else, we're all alone on a river bank in who knows where, this place doesn't match anywhere on remnant and to cap it off we've reverted back to childhood". I said in a very scratchy voice, I than started to fall but Mercury caught me in time. All the emotions and everything that happened began to pile on as I burrowed my head into Mercury's shoulder and began to cry heavily while quietly murmuring Ruby's name and that of my friends.

Mercury's P.O.V

Hearing Yang trying to calm herself while quietly whimpering her friends names made me realise that I may never see any of the people that I once new, I'd never get anymore chances to mock Emerald for her supposed theft capabilities, never have another go at Roman for his constant failures to Cinder and never mess about and make fun of how short Neo is. It almost made me feel like I was going to miss them until memories of my past started coming back to haunt me yet again and I was once more reminded of what my father did do me, with that all presence of sadness disappeared and I quickly snapped back to reality while noticing that Yang was still crying her eyes out. "Yang c'mon snap out of it, we've got to find out where the hell we are". As I was saying that I pulled her head off my shoulder and started to shake her slightly, as she brought her head up to face me I saw that I angered her when I noticed that her eyes changed from their cute lilac shade to an almost soul wrenching bright blood red colour and the curves of her face started to etch open. However before she got the chance to shout me into the ground a man standing on top of the overhead began calling down to us.

"HEY YOU KIDS SHOULDN'T BE DOWN THEIR, IT'S GETTING LATE SO THE TIDES WILL START RISING SOON". After heeding the mans advise we both climbed up the stairs to thank, greet and ask the man where we are.

"You kids should be very careful down there, the river can become quite unpredictable at times".

"Thank you for the warning" were the words that Yang stole from my mouth.

3rd person P.O.V

"It's strange, I've gotten to know or see everyone throughout Tokonosu but I've never seen you two before" said the mysterious man with a hint of confusion.

Well that explains the where in our current endeavour but that doesn't sound like any place in Remnant, could it be possible that we're in a different world, both Yang and Mercury thought at the same time whilst Mercury kept a blank face Yang's displayed the utmost mortified look anyone could possibly see from the young brawler.

"you alright there girl, I didn't say anything to scare you did I". the man spoke again with a worried look.

"no it's ok she sometimes has one of her memory flashes, nothing to much to worry about" replied Mercury snidely. Upon finishing his sentence he turned to face a now scowling Yang.

"before this gets to far out of hand I think introductions are in order, my name is Ozokio Yatushama one of the head commissioners at Tokonosu east police station".

"My name is Mercury black, it's nice to meet you" Mercury replied in quick succession.

Waiting a few seconds for Yang to cool down again. " my name is Yang Xiao Long, also nice to meet you" she said slightly shaky as her eyes returned to their normal lilac colour much to the surprise of Ozokio.

"so where are your parents, it's kind of against state law for parents to leave their children unattended".

Looking at each other they knew they had to make up a story that seemed convincing to Ozokio.

Before they could come to a decision Yang quickly turned her gaze back to the off duty policeman.

"we don't have any families, they died in a car accident 2 years ago when Mercury was visiting my place since then we haven't had anywhere to stay" Yang blurted out while Mercury was restraining the urge to face palm at this new turn of events.

"oh, I'm sorry to here that. If it makes you feel you come and stay at my home with my wife and I till your older".

"Thank you sir, we'd like that a lot". Yang replied in an unusually cheery tone causing Ozokio to raise an eyebrow at this sudden change of emotion before shaking it off as it being a response to being shown an act of kindness in a while.

"well I don't to far from here so it shouldn't be to long a walk". And with that they started walking back to the Yatushama household.

It's had to make sense of all that's happened but maybe now I can make good of this second chance at life. In remnant Yang and I were on opposite sides of the coin and destined to fight one another some day but now in this new world with a new chance I think we can both exist on the same side of life. Those were Mercury's last thoughts at the riverbank before he realised they were walking off without him.

"HEY, WAIT FOR ME"! Mercury shouted as he ran to catch up to which Yang mockingly retorted "HURRY UP CAPTAIN SLOW"!

yeah very funny yang. With one last mutter before they reached their destination.

"Right you two, we have a guest bedroom on the second floor just try to familiarise yourselves for a bit".

"honey, who are these children and where are the parents"? Ozokio's wife asked while giving him a questioning look.

"well I found them at the riverbank not far from here, their names are Yang Xiao Long and Mercury black and from what they told me they don't have families anymore". Ozokio said with a saddened tone at the end.

"Oh that's unfortunate to hear, so what are we doing with them"? Ozokio's asked while still giving him a questioning look.

"we'll be taking care of them until their old enough to take care of themselves, which judging by how they are at the moment should be when their 13-14 years of age". Ozokio responded with a confident grin.

"If you say so, you should tell them to get some sleep we'll have to go looking for a school to enrol them into. She said before walking back into the lounge room.

"sure thing". Well this is going to be an interesting turn of events in our lives, oh better get them to sleep than probably hit the deck myself.

Chapter 1 end.

A/N: I thought I'd get this out of my head as quickly as possible, it's been one of the main reasons for my writers block. As for that unknown grim creature I figured that it would be the greatest idea to throw the two polar opposites into this story but at the same time those exploding grim in RWBY Grim eclipse were my inspiration to make that telebomb grim. I hope to make continue writing more chapters for this but as I'm walking through uncharted territory I have absolutely no clue what I'm doing, seeya's.