RWBY
RWBY Loops Theater!
By BrokenChosenofEva
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Title: All the Colors of the Rainbow
Prompt: various
Word Count: 2.9k+
Rating: T
Summary: Loops Theater AU. RWBY joins the Loops. Weiss Awakes to the same thing everytime, Ruby blowing her whistle in their room on the first day of classes.
Disclaimer: I do not own RWBY.
Notes: This is not Part of Innortal's "Infinite Loops" universe. Feel free so send me any ideas you have or scenes you'd like me to do. I'll credit you at the beginning of the block where I use it.
I decided I enjoyed Innortal's stories, and all the stories by others in the same universe, so much that I wanted to make my own series. This is inspired by not not connected to them. This uses the Weiss from my "Clouds and Farms" AU -which means it also uses the "Thirty Days" series- and while the events through Vol-2 are "unchanged", I use creative license for whatever happened afterwards.
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1.a
The Battle of White Castle was a nightmare.
None of Team RWBY had managed to remain together, and that had been their downfall. Ruby had lead them to the pinnacle of teamwork during school, each of them able to work together in pairs -assigned partners or otherwise- or as a complete team, and that had been their greatest strength. But once divided, they began to fall under the weight of the White Fang attack on her home.
Without any ranged support -her gauntlets meant more for close in power- Yang was the first to go down, though she had also cost the White Fang the greatest number of men. Burning brighter than any of them could recall, Yang had burned out in a blast of flame that Weiss knew would forever scar the grounds where she'd died.
Blake died next. In her panic to reach her partner and clear her some room to breath, Blake was stymied in the middle of a group of armoured foes, far out of reach of Weiss' glyphs which could have helped her escape the trap. Her ribbon useless in such close-quarters combat, Blake's comparatively weaker hitting power proved fatal.
Ruby was a red tornado, her swings knocking Fang troopers everywhere as she became a spinning blade of death. Whenever she had room, or as part of another attack, her rifle shots were equally devastating to any more heavily armoured opponents. But without anyone to guard her back when she came out of her whirling-dervish of death or to point out targets beyond everyone else's reach, hits from a patient sniper dropped her.
Weiss wasn't sure how she managed to last so long. Maybe it was the threat of her teammates or Blake's now open betrayal of them, but the White Fang only kept enough people attacking her to keep her from assisting her friends as they took them down one-by-one.
And with each death they sent more men after her, but they needed to as well. Each time one of her friends died, Weiss became even more aggressive, more devastating. Her sorrow and anger causing her to push herself to her very limits and beyond, even as she could sense it draining her Aura and see it emptying her Dust cylinder.
Eventually she had nothing left, and a poorly dodged blow dropped her to her knees even as she finally, finally spotted a Beacon Bullhead transport -with Jaune leaning out the side- arcing over the Castle.
You Dunce, she thought with a smile, the man Blake had called Adam levelling his weapon at her, always such poor timing, my Knight.
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Weiss jerked awake to the memories of a gunshot and pain overlapping the very real sound of Ruby's infernal whistle.
"Ruby! Don't use that!"
And then, looking at her friends alive and well before her, Weiss stared. Ruby with her eternal grin, Yang with her everpresent smirk, Blake with her hidden smile.
It was too much. And as she brushed off their concern -well, Ruby's; Blake and Yang didn't really know her yet, she supposed-, Weiss cried on her bed.
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1.b
Weiss stormed down the hallways of Beacon, leaving her team behind in their room to organize alone while she silently fumed.
She could not believe she'd managed to screw up so massively and get herself killed in the most basic of fights. Killed by a boarbatusk in the middle of a classroom!
But at least she'd confirmed this was some sort of loop. Though she wished she didn't start it with Ruby's whistle ringing in her ears.
This time she wouldn't be so careless. And maybe she'd confront Blake early, earn her trust. She missed the easy companionship the quiet woman gave once they'd become friends the first time.
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1.c
This time Weiss found herself fuming in the library. Blake was the single most paranoid, untrusting woman she had ever met! It had taken nearly twenty, twenty Loops before she'd figured out a way to confront her that didn't leave her minus a friend for the remainder of the Loop.
Ruby had been easier to convince, but the girl was always trusting and easy to talk to once she got the younger girl to focus. Or maybe her patience with said girl had simply developed that far.
Yang, though... Weiss had decided after only two Loops to stop bringing her in on the "club" as Ruby always called it. And getting Ruby to keep the secret was almost embarrassingly easy once she pulled the "do-you-want-Yang-teasing-us" card.
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1.d [inspired by Zephyrus Genesis]
This was new.
Weiss Woke up as she left the Airship, walking down the ramp with her baggage in tow. She waved off the handlers her father had sent along, and took the cart herself as an idea struck her: She was bored, and she remembered how Ruby had always managed to relieve some of that.
Grinning, Weiss took off to where she knew Ruby would be.
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Remembering that Blake wasn't far off -and probably watching- Weiss was very careful to place her cart out of the way -signalling Beacon's staff- and wait for Ruby to bump into her, putting on the appearance of being distracted and uncaring.
-Bump- -Thud-
"Oh my gosh, I'm sorry!"
"It's fine." Weiss couldn't stop her giggle as her plan set into motion. She knew it was out of character for her, but she had been so bored repeating everything, and getting an early start -even if only a couple of days- had given her an itch of energy she wasn't used to, "You're rather young to be at Beacon.
"OH! I'm Weiss Schnee."
"I'm Ruby." the red caped girl offered her hand, blushing at being called out but starting to smile, "Ruby Rose. I got accepted early."
"That's impressive, we'll have to spar sometime." she smiled back, then -knowing her cart would be taken to the lockers by staff- she flicked her hand and took off, "If you can catch me, Rose."
"Hey!"
Weiss couldn't stop laughing as Ruby almost literally flew after her, quickly gaining ground and passing her with her own laughter following in the wind of her passing.
"You mean if you can catch me, Schnee!"
Weiss decided this was definitely going to be a fun Loop.
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1.e [inspired by 1.d, thanks Zephyrus Genesis!]
Imitating Blake had been very relaxing. Simply enjoying books and being able to have an intelligent conversation over what they'd read was refreshing.
She'd known, from the First Timeline, that Blake was an intelligent and insightful person. The most insightful of the group, if she was honest -and here it was very easy to be honest-, and combined with Ruby was the team's moral center. She balanced Ruby's innocence with realism bordering on pessimism, keep them grounded and able to take in Weiss' own pragmatism and be pushed forward by Yang's enthusiasm.
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Yang, however... Weiss might be getting close to a century old mentally with the Loops she'd been through, but her body was still only seventeen. With all the tolerance for alchohol that implied. Especially given how small she was.
She'd realized her "mistake" the first Loop with Yang, the first party she'd gone to with the blonde. But her perfectionist nature prevented her from backing out until she got it "right".
Weiss was glad she appeared to be alone in the Loops during that period. She was ashamed to admit she had become an alchoholic in several of them, and while a reset removed the chemical dependancy it never removed the psychological attachment to drinking. Even when she stopped "hanging out" with Yang, she would find herself sharing a drink with the boistrous girl friday evenings after class, though never enough to again get drunk.
Not that Yang herself was a drinker. In fact, the two of them never started going out to parties -let alone drinking- until their last year in Beacon, where Yang was usually the responsible one. It had irritated Weiss at first how the self-proclaimed "party animal" never had very much, but she eventually realized -after a heart to heart with her in a later Loop- that of course Yang would be the responsible one. She'd had to be mother and big sister to Ruby, and it was obvious how innocent the younger girl was, especially with Yang for a role-model.
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One thing she was glad for, inspite of the horrors of hangovers, was how close she became to each of her teammates. She helped Ruby excel at her studies, helped Blake in getting Yang to take the same studies more seriously, and acted as much as a balance for the blonde as Blake did.
She'd even spent a few Loops manipulating events to be partnered with Blake, leaving Yang partnered with her sister, while still getting them all on the same team by waiting to select her "artifact" until after Yang or Ruby picked theirs.
Not that everything was "sunshine and roses" -pardon the pun- in the Loops for the Heiress. Everytime she Woke up she was reminded of how she'd lost them, and saw them look at her with curious and unfamiliar gazes. It hurt, and each time she buried it behind a smile or grousing about how annoying they could be. Then, they would tease her and everything would be alright until the next reset.
Maybe that buried depression was what finally broke her, when she let things play out with no effort from her and allowed Roman to kill her with his stolen Paladin mech.
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1.f
At first Weiss didn't know what to make of things.
Here she was, surrounded by several other girls in some odd collection of gothic versions of Yang's normal clothing, summoning weapons from thin air and fighting in a nightmare land that would've suited the Grimm better.
"White, is something wrong?"
Weiss turned at what her Loop memories said was her name, and the unusual girl before her dismissed her gatling gun as they crouched behind some of the rubble.
"Black Rock Shooter..."
"Yes?"
"Where's my team?"
If this was what this Loop -or nightmare- was going to be, then she needed her friends. Someone was bound to be level-headed enough to explain this chaos that her memories said was "normal", though summoning a sword the size of a Bullhead transport could prove useful in the next Home Loop.
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1.g [inspired by one of Tasermon's Partner's ideas for my NGE "Instrumentality Loopers" story]
"Headmistress Blake, what did you use for the relics this year?"
Weiss followed her script, her Loop memories saying she didn't know what Blake had chosen -though she suspected it was the same as Ozpin-, and bringing up personal files on four of the students.
And blinked. Honesltly, she really should pay more attention to her Loop memories, even if she'd only Awakened that morning. She'd been more focused on settling in and checking her scroll than looking at what else had changed.
Staring back at her from the screen were the faces, much younger, of her professors from the Home Loop. Ozpin, Goodwitch, Port, and Oobleck. Checking her memories she recalled what her team did at Beacon: Ruby taught History much like Oobleck had, encouraging her students to learn from it and individually bridge the gap between Human and Faunus to avoid repeating old mistakes; Yang was Professor of Grimm Studies, regaling her students with tales of her exploits to drive home lessons on different Grimm.
Blake was, obviously, the Headmistress of the school, and she herself filled the position of assistant to Blake, taking on what was Goodwitch's job in the Home Loops.
"Professor?" looking up, she had to bite back a laugh at seeing Blake reading one of her books instead of checking her scroll as well.
Smiling at the reassuring similarities, Weiss focused back on her scroll and watched a younger Goodwitch and Ozpin team up in a much more coordinated fashion than Ruby and herself had. Switching cameras, she saw Port trying to keep up with the energetic Oobleck after the axe-fighter had taken on several Ursae alone before the green-haired, bat-wielding man had stepped in to finish the last Grimm.
Maybe Port's stories weren't as exaggerated as she'd thought...
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1.h
She would've preferred Blake be the one to join her in the Loops, or even Ruby. But Yang?
Sighing, alone in their dorm for the moment, Weiss picked up the small leather book. She'd missed it at first, until Blake handed it to her and told her to not leave her journal where Yang might get at it. The Heiress had blinked in confusion -she didn't own a leather journal-, before she'd looked at the cover.
There, in bold print, was her name with dates underneath. It wasn't too odd, until she'd recognized the dates; the day she'd arrived at Beacon to the date she'd flown to White Castle for the last time before the Loops started. She'd sat down, fighting to remain calm as she opened the book and began to glance through it.
Some of it had seemed ridiculus, but most had been a mix of terrifying and calming. She knew now what was happening. And she should have taken it seriously when it said others could Awaken, if randomly and inconsistently at first, to join her in the Loops.
While she wouldn't wish this "Reality on acid" nightmare life on anyone, she could privately admit she'd been getting bored again -weird Loops "spicing things up" or not-, and Yang was anything but boring.
She just hoped the blonde got whatever had bothered her out of her system before the Loops reset. Then again, it'd taken her several Loops to get over seeing her adopted family die before her eyes. Though Yang had been spared the sight of them dying -especially her sister-, Weiss had been honest when the Blonde had asked her if she remembered fighting outside White Castle.
Laying down, she decided to show Yang the Guide the next time they could get some time away from Ruby and Blake. She knew of a few "dives" -as Yang called them- that would overlook their ages so long as they didn't try to drink underage.
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A/N: The events from 1.a occur roughly two years after they graduate. Thus, it completely ignores any prompts from "Thirty Days" which imply or state that Weiss and Jaune have children. This also means Weiss' Loops, unlike Asuka's, are roughly six years long -Asuka's Loops are about one year long-.
1.a Weiss and RWBY meet their match, and she wakes up in her first Loop.
1.b Everything Old is New, and Weiss doesn't know what to make of it.
1.c Blake makes Weiss look giddily trusting, and Ruby once again makes her look overly paranoid. Yang just loves a chance to tease.
1.d It's been something like thirty Loops by this point, and Weiss isn't the most adventurous of team RWBY. But boredom is often the start of crazy ideas.
1.e Inspired by her time "relaxing" with Ruby, Weiss decided to try it with the rest of her team. She didn't really think it through with Yang, even when she knew how the girl -later, woman- was both on and off the battlefield. But growing closer to them and gaining such close connections comes at the price of losing their end of the friendship every time the Loops reset.
1.f Well, Weiss has her first "Broken Loop", not to be confused with "Aberrant Loops" which are scrambled versions of the main timeline.
1.g Positions reversed, Weiss isn't sure she likes it or hates it. Glynda always made the position look easy, if stressful. [Tasermon's Partner's idea was basically switching the roles the character's filled with their elders'.]
1.h Yang Wakes up the day after the Food Fight, and after Weiss confirms Yang's suspicions and tells her what happened... well... time to bond.
If anyone reading has any ideas for these Loops, check out Weiss from "Clouds and Farms" and send them as reviews or PMs.