Hey everyone, InterestingAuthor here, sorry that I have to say that my last fic is going to be on hiatus for sure. However, when I came back into RWBY Fanfiction and found Earth and Remnant relations something... quite revolutionary. Reading America in Remnant was quite enjoyable, until my mind flickered to another idea once again. This is a prototype fic, a story filled with nothing more but events and short screen time for specific characters, enjoy.

Remnant in Earth.

Prologue: History and the World changes its course.

...

The year of 2001 in the month of December.

California, West-coast USA.

In the Mesquite mines, bulldozers and trucks rolled over muddy pathways while miners began to walk into the tunnels with their mining gear. Lights shined in the darkness, and they began the drilling against the stony walls to find gold or other rare metals.

A single miner brought a drill against the stone wall, pressing hard until he heard cracks.

The cracks spread out, and the miner stood dumbfounded as the wall collapsed, revealing a man-sized cave entrance. He turned off his drilling equipment and slowly entered the unknown area, while other miners gathered in front of the entrance, curious about what he had found. A CEO came inside and saw the miner standing still in surprise and wonder. It was a large, dark cavern of unknown crystals.

The miner touched a crystal, which flashed to life, causing a large surge of unknown energy to blast wind out of the tunnel's exit.

Meanwhile, on the surface, the entire world went into a massive blackout, with even radio communications being interrupted as the aurora borealis in the Artic went out of control and shined brighter. However, the blackout only lasted for thirty seconds before lights and communications were back up once again.

The other miners outside the entrance shielded their eyes until the lights from the cavern faded, then one of the miners from the group went inside to see happened. It appeared to be a place full of crystals of unknown origins, in various sizes and glistering with various colors.

Earth and its history would soon be forever changed.

The next day, the manager arrived at the mines. His secretary came beside him, holding a clipboard full of results.

"Sir, it's unlike anything," said his secretary. "What our miners found was somewhat extraordinary. It appears to be crystals, but glowing ones."

The managers looked at him curiously.

"Show me."

"Over there sir." His secretary pointed towards a group of miners surrounding a cart filled with glowing crystals.

The manager passed some miners who stood nearby and approached the cart. He picked up a small crystal with his hand and inspected it.

"Interesting, this situation is rare. God knows what exotic minerals are yet to be discovered," he said in wonder. "It's really nothing I've seen before. We might have to bring one of these to a geologist to see what it is."

Meanwhile, in the world of Remnant, in the City of Vale.

In the middle of the night, the City of Vale was mostly silent with a few cars roaming the streets and cold winds blowing.

Suddenly, dogs started barking, then an earthquake began to surge, tremors felt in every place around Remnant. People woke up during the quake and began to panic, lights flickered out and the last thing people saw was a flash of light.

USA, California, San Fransisco.

As the sun rose in the morning sky, people began to open shops and go about their business. Suddenly, they stood stunned as they looked into the place where the ocean once stood.

A huge land had appeared out from the massive thick fog in front of the city. The citizens of San Fransisco widened their eyes in disbelief, completely baffled. How could land could appear near the coastlines, about fifteen football fields away from the city, out of nowhere?

...

"This is BBC News reporting."

*BUZZT!*

"We've never seen a huge island, no, land in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean before-" said a sailor in the News.

*BUZZT*

"What in the world happened there?" asked a Fox News reporter.

"What appears to be land in the northern coast of California, we don't know where it came from-"

*BUZZT!*

"An unknown landscape appeared near the western coasts of Australia-"

*BUZZT!*

"We do not know how this land appeared near the west coast of the US, near Far East Asia, and across most of the Pacific Ocean," said US President George Bush. "However, I've received reports from NASA, that their surveillance satellites found five other landmasses near Greenland, south of Iceland and west of Ireland and Britain, in the middle of the Atlantic and another in the southern Atlantic. Also, an island appeared west of Australia in the eastern part of the Indian Ocean."

*BUZZT!*

...

A day passed.

'If there are people, either sentient beings or human beings, living in there,' said President Bush through the radio, broadcasting to the military and the public. 'We are not sure what the result will come to in the future if we ignore it.'

Meanwhile, a fleet of amphibious USN LCACs and helicopters landed at the beach heads in the unoccupied eastern region of Vale Kingdom.

'We don't know anything. We don't know if there are people that are a threat; we do not know who they are or what they're capable of.'

The landing doors of the LCACs opened up. Marines, armored vehicles, and tanks began to roam the beaches while helicopters roamed the skies.

"Move! Move! Move!" yelled a Marine.

'In order to protect our country,'

In the Northern Atlantic Sea, a British Expeditionary Fleet began to split into groups, along with French and Spanish navy ships, some heading north and others to the west of the Atlantic, landing in the beaches of Mistral and Atlas.

'the US Armed Forces and Navy, along with other nations who are aligned with the joint UN Expeditionary forces, have agreed to dispatch military expeditions to these unknown places and alien civilizations we may stumble upon. Let us hope that we will make friendly diplomatic relationships.'

Then a small fleet of transport ships and destroyers from the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Forces dispatched expeditionary forces at the northern beachhead in Vacuo, while to the south, the Chinese landed its own expeditionary force.

At the moment, the City of Vale was in an uproar. Most people began to panic and very few citizens who calmed down were mostly basically hunters and huntresses.

In Beacon Academy, team STRQ watched the news in the hologram, with Lisa Lavender reporting about the massive disorder in the City. She had just finished showing that their moon had been replaced with a perfect round ball and that an unknown landmass appeared by the eastern coastlines of Vale when the holo-screens were disrupted by static.

The CCTs had malfunctioned. Many students in the cafeteria stood worried about what the world outside had become.

December 12, 2001. The world and its history suddenly changed its course. From this day on, the people of Earth and former citizens of Remnant called this event:

"the Great Change."

Prologue end.