Prologue: Arrival

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In the middle of a large theater room, there was a single man, getting everything in the room ready for the arrival of those who he has handpicked personally to see the events of another world.

This "person" had white hair on his head, emerald green eyes, a blue hoodie, black pants, and under his hoodie a black shirt with the word "RWBY" on it, this was one of many writers in the multiverse, Kaizerthewriter, a rookie in his profession, but prefers to go by Kai.

While he got everything ready, he was debating whether or not he should really do this. "Uhg, should I really go through with this?" He asked himself.

The sole reason for wanting to do this was because an author that he looked up to was technically cancelling one of his projects, sure it was accessible through an alternative way, but if there's one thing that a reader looks for sometimes, it's a way to access a good story, but that's just it.

He wasn't that author, he wasn't all that good a writer, he may have an oath of a writer, but that could barely do a lot in the face of a not so amused reader.

He felt a little self-conscious about many things all the time, he always felt like a bit of a failure in others eyes. He sighed. "Aria." He called out. As soon as he said this, an Arachne with the lower torso of a redneck spider appeared in the room, this was Aria, one of Kai's supporters created by him. "Should I really do this? I mean, it is his story and concept." Kai asked unsure of what to do.

Aria looked at him with a sorrowful expression and rose her hand to her face. "No wonder why you created us." She walked over to Kai's right side and spoke up. "It's because of the negative feedback you've been getting lately, is it?"

Kai's eyes widened a little bit. "Well, yeah, it's the feedback." He would have continued if not for Aria.

"Kai, I understand that you have difficulty in following this plea, but look at me." Kai turned to look at Aria only to be met with a slap to the face.

"HEY WHAT WAS THAT FOR!" Kai snapped.

This only made Aria smile. "Finally back to your old self, right." Kai calmed down hearing this, just looked at his retainer. "Look Kai, I know that you're worried about how this will go, you're a special case amongst writers, but you have to understand that you can't let yourself be shackled by other people's opinions. You wanted to be a writer so you could spread your ideas to the world, right?" Kai nodded quickly and Aria smiled in response. "Then simply do so, alright." Aria disappeared in a flash of light, leaving Kai alone in the viewing room again.

Kai thought about all that she said before making a decision with a hardened expression. "My oath, my rules." He said bluntly, as he took out the symbol of his oath, a red pen.

"Oath of a writer. KASSEI-KA SURU!" He shouted as the room was now bathed in a bright light.

After the light dissipated, a multitude of people were in the room laying down on pieces of furniture.

One of them began to wake up however. This person was a woman with ashen white skin, white hair, and a black dress adoring her figure, this was Salem, the leader of the Grimm.

"Huh." She groggily opened her eyes slowly and began to take the scenery around her; she lifted herself up and looked around her to see that her enemies, with the exception of two, were surrounded her unconscious... and then she saw Ozpin's knocked out body.

"Ozpin..." She whispered. She slowly began to shake and get angry, her hands curled up to form fists and her eyes of black sclera and red iris were concentrating on his knocked out form furiously, until a voice rung out in her head.

"What ever you're going to do, I suggest that you don't do it." She was confused as to how she heard that voice, but the sound of a throat being cleared behind her made her turn around, and she saw Kai, who had concealed his presence from Salem until now.

"Wha-" She was going to ask who this man was, but was stopped when the man zoomed up to her and pressed his finger up against her lips.

"Shhhh, just think the words in your head." He whispered.

Salem was confused by this, but went along with it anyways. "Who are you, and why am I, along with all these people, here?" She asked, her voice echoing in her head.

"I'll explain all of that in do time, but for now, I must politely ask that you do what I say, do so, and when this is all over, you will be rewarded."

Salem was becoming more confused with each word spoken. "Why should I listen to you?" She spat at him in her mind.

"I know that this is out of nowhere, but you've got to trust me." Kai pleaded as he took out a yellow necklace with a blue gem embedded in it. "Just put this on, and trust me, if wanted to do anything harmful to any of you, I would have done it by now."

Those words got Salem thinking about his words and decided to go along with it. "Alright then, I'll play your game." Salem said as she put the necklace on, when she did so, her skin and eye coloration began to change back to how they were even before she became immortal.

"A blast from the past, am I right?" Kai telepathically asked her, as one of the people in the room began to wake up, and Kai snapped his fingers in response to this while she wasn't paying attention.

"What happened?" Salem asked.

"I made us both invisible to their eye sight, they can't notice us so long as we don't speak." Kai answered.

This person was a female, dressed in a red and black combat dress wearing a red cloak over her shoulders; this was Ruby Rose, the leader of team RWBY.

"Wha-" She was delirious while waking up, but snapped out of it when she got a good look at the area she was in, she was relieved to find that the members of team RWBY and JNPR were there, but was questioning why other people she recognized were also there, with the exception of a few.

"Yang?" She first ran over to a girl with long blonde hair, and began to shake her in an attempt to wake her up. "Yang, wake up, I think we've been kidnapped."

"Uhg, five more minutes..." Yang snored.

Ruby was contemplating as to how wake her up, until she heard the sound of something popping up behind her, she turned around and saw a large air horn with a clock ticking near the funnel. She immediately began to sweat in panic as the clock hit twelve o'clock as the air horn went off, waking everyone in the room up.

"What the hell!" Yang jolted awake at the sound of the horn going off.

Blake snapped awake and immediately started rubbing her ears in recoil to hearing the blaring sound while Weiss leaped into the air flailing her arms and falling on her back.

"PANCAKES!" Nora screeched waking up.

"Oh god!" Jaune sprung awake along with Pyrrha and Ren.

"I WASN'T ME!" Qrow yelled to the ceiling.

Ozpin simply opened his eyes in response to the sound and rose up from his spot quickly, as did Glynda, Taiyang, Ironwood, and Winter.

Kali was rubbing her ears in recoil to this like Blake but was comforted by her husband, Ghira.

"Neo, is this one your practical jokes again?" Roman asked his accomplice, who shook her head quickly.

Salem covered her ears in recoil to the horn going off, and was glaring at Kai furiously while the writer himself was trying to suppress his laughter.

"What the... where on remnant are we." Weiss asked regaining her bearings.

"A... theater room?" Ironwood said confused.

Everyone began to look around to see where they were, but not before noticing the rooms occupants.

"Mom, dad?" Blake was at a loss of words as to what to say at the time, but recovered when her mother Kali ran up to hug her, wit Ghira following suite.

"Oh my goodness, my little girl." Kali cried while hugging her daughter.

"I didn't expect to see you again like this, but I'm glad." Ghira said hugging his family.

"Winter/Specialist Schnee." Winter turned to see Weiss and Ironwood walking towards her.

"Weiss, general Ironwood, what is all this?" Winter asked.

"Qrow, did you do something." Tai asked, pointing at the man in question.

"What, why me?" Qrow asked shocked.

"Everyone, calm down, there's obviously a reason as to why we're here." Ozpin said keeping his cool.

"Ozpin is right, we need to think calmly about this, and I doubt Qrow had a hand in all of this quite frankly." Glynda remarked.

"Oh, come on." Qrow groaned.

"Uncle Qrow!" Ruby latched onto her uncle's arm as the man stared at her blankly.

He sighed. "You never get tired off that, do ya?" Qrow asked.

"Nope." She said bluntly.

"Dad." Yang ran up to her father and wrapped him in a hug.

"Hey, nice to see you, firecracker." Tai greeted returning the hug.

"Oh goody, love and happiness, and all that sappy stuff." Roman muttered, getting everyone's attention.

"TORCHWICK!" Ironwood roared walking up to him. "Are you the reason why we're here, and if so what's your endgame?" Ironwood demanded.

Neo got between them defensively; with everyone else wondering what was going to happen... until the sound of a snap could be heard echoing across the room. "I can assure you Ironwood, Roman played no part in bringing you all here." Kai said making his and Salem's presence known. "It was all me." He declared putting up a calm and cool demeanor as everyone stared at him and Salem.

"Who are you?" Jaune asked.

"And why are we here?" Ren asked crossing his arms.

"And whose is that woman by your side?" Pyrrha interjected.

"All good questions, first off, let me introduce myself." He raised his arms up, and introduced himself. "My name is Kaizerthewriter, but I ask that you call me Kai." He said bowing.

"Kai?" Kali repeated.

"Cool name." Jaune muttered.

"Next, let the lady introduce herself, would you kindly." Kai stepped to the side to give the Grimm queen some room.

Salem simply breathed in some air and spoke. "My name is Salem, that is all you'll need to know." She introduced herself stoically, freaking out Ozpin, Glynda, Ironwood, Qrow and Roman.

"Good to know, am I right, a simple introduction for a simple woman, moving on." Kai teleported over to the front of the room that had a big theater screen on it. "Second order of business is the reason as to why I brought you lot here in the first place." Kai gulped a little in nervousness before flashing back to what Aria said. He regained himself as he clarified what all the occupants in the room were thinking right now.

"I brought you here to view the fate of another version of Remnant."

"An alternate Remnant?" Ozpin repeated intrigued.

"Sounds like lunacy to me." Glynda muttered before Kai popped up behind her.

"I assure you it's anything but, Goodwitch." Kai said, startling her.

"This world concerns everyone one of you, whether it'd be about the past, present, or future, one that could potentially change your outlook on things." Kai told them.

"What's it about?" Blake asked.

"Is it about how two guys signal-handedly saved the entirety of Remnant?" Nora asked aloud.

Kai was shocked as that answer as he has heard of the story Nora could be referring to from the author he got this whole idea from, but brushed it off. "A good guess, but I'm afraid not." He answered making Nora pout.

"What we shall be seeing is the tale of how a group of vigilantes signal-handedly saved the entire-" Kai stopped to think about his words. "Wow, going off of my description, you almost got it right." He said to Nora making her smile.

"Did you say... vigilantes?" Winter asked raising an eyebrow.

"Well, me personally, that's what I call them, anyways, this is the story of how a group of people were able to change the way in which remnants looked at itself, and believe me this will shock you to the core too." Kai said to them.

"Interesting." Salem whispered, as she hadn't heard most of this before.

"Now then, let's-"

"Wait a minute." Kai stopped and looked at Ruby, who had raised her voice. "Are you... hesitant in doing this?"

Kai was shocked that Ruby, of all people, asked that question. "Wh- wh- what might you be talking about?" Kai stuttered.

"Sorry, it's just that, you have to a motive behind all this, right?" Everyone looked at Ruby shocked as to how she came to that conclusion; Ruby then blushed in recoil to all the attention she was getting.

Kai began to sweat a bit before cracking. "UHG! Yes, there is a bit a motive behind all this." Kai answered pushing his fingers together. "You see, I am a godlike being called a writer, who has the capability to distort any reality aside from his own with the snap of his fingers, only problem with that though is that I became a writer fairly recently, for about little over a month now." He explained shocking everyone.

"Shocking, I know, the main shtick about writers is that they usually amount to positioning different events to happen in certain areas in time and space, than other people, the readers, people who are able to see these newly organized events without interfering with them directly, see them and 'review them', so I decided to join in and do my own thing." He smiled awkwardly.

This confused everyone, including Salem, on multiple levels. "But let's just say that the feedback I get from my work is... um, less than great." He said looking down. This made Ruby regret asking her question.

"Oh, um, ah, sorry, I probably shouldn't have asked that, it seems like a touchy subject." Ruby apologized.

"No, no, it's fine, we need to get on with the show anyways." Kai snapped his fingers as the screen lit up.

"Hopefully, I don't get bashed for this." Kai thought to himself nervously.

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Ladies and gentlemen, say hello to a new fanfiction that I got permission from Phoenix Champion himself to write, Watching Remnants Phantom Thieves. He took down the original fanfic "Reading Remnants Phantom Thieves" from his fanfiction profile, so I decided to write down a remixed variant as a back up for convenience to you all who like his work, if you want the original fanfic, it's over on Ao3, which is the main reason for why I'm putting this here on this site. Putting out there this once, the story "Remnants Phantom Thieves" doesn't belong to me, and this was something I got permission from Phoenix Champion to write.

P.S. I hope that this story doesn't get torn down, and I'll try to update this story as frequently as possible, and sorry if this chapter was me overreacting.