Jaune Arc, aspiring huntsmen and wannabe knight, sat on the roof of beacon academy staring up at the shattered moon that hung in the heavens. Ordinarily someone in his position would be celebrating with his friends after helping to stop Torchwick and the white fangs attempt to flood vale with grimm, or as it was simply referred to "The Breach".
"What am I even doing here, i'm not like the rest of them, I couldn't even finish off a single grimm by myself". He thought looking down meeting his reflections gaze in the blade of his family blade crocea mors,
"I thought I could be the hero...but someone like me doesn't even deserve to pick up a sword" this time speaking out loud not expecting some cosmic being to be listening.
"You don't give yourself enough credit Jaune, though that may in part be the fault of your parents for not training you, but I'm going to see to it that you have some examples to follow".
The next thing that Jaune saw after hearing the disembodied voice was a blinding flash of light, then, nothing.
Team RWBY's dorm, moments earlier
"C'mon guys the nights young and we saved the day, let's stay up and have some fun". Ruby pleaded to her teammates as they were getting ready to turn in for the night.
"Sorry rubes but after dealing with the white fang and Torchwick I think we're all ready to get some well deserved rest". Said Yang exiting the bathroom in her nightwear
"As much as it pains me to agree with miss punch-a-lot I'm far too tired to play games and what not" Weiss said cleaning her weapon but just as Ruby was about to pull out her secret weapon a flash of light could be seen outside the window.
"What the fu-" Yang started before a voice spoke.
"Yeah sorry but I'm gonna need you guys to come with me" and with that team RWBY vanished from the dorm room.
With JNPR
"What was that" questioned Ren having been disturbed from his meditation session and felt a sudden lack of aura nearby.
"I don't know but that sounded like Yang" Pyrrha said.
"Can't forget you lot" spoke the voice with another flash of light enveloping the room.
Unknown location
"Let's see who else should I grab" a cloaked figure said to no one in particular while supporting his head with hand before pulling out a clipboard with a list of names. "Ah yes this should be plenty", he said snapping his fingers making people from across the face of remnant disappear.
CRDL
"Then I told the old fart if your mom's vagina was a video game it would be rated E for everyone". Cardin said making the rest of his team explode in a fit of laughter before the room was enveloped in a flash.
Somewhere in the Grimmlands
"With the discovery of the white fangs operations in Mt. Glenn well need a new way to breach vale and obtain the relic, in the meantime Arthur I want you to continue your work on breaching the CCT". Salem said while sitting in her throne at the head of the table before turning her attention towards Tyrian and Hazel. "As for the both of you I want you to continue your search for fall maiden, once she's dead then cinder will absorb the remainder of her powers."
"Hehehehe yes my queen, anything you wish, consider the deed done and the bitch buried." cackled Tyrian while Hazel just nodded his head acknowledging the task.
"Ooo evil scheming so fun but it can wait, I need you all for something important."
Ozpin's office
"Cursed paperwork, i'd do anything to get out of here and away from Glynda." Ozpin mumbled, struggling to maintain his sanity under the ever growing pile of forms requiring his signature, at this rate he was sure that even with aura he would have carpal tunnel.
"Your not going anywhere Ozpin, you dump all this on me and I have classes to teach while you sit up all day." Glynda said using her semblance to place yet another stack of papers on his desk.
"Well Ozpin consider your wish granted and if you're lucky this will take awhile."
Milliseconds before disappearing Ozpin thanked whatever god he could think of for granting his wish.
With Cinder and her group
"What are we supposed to do now, we lost the dust, Torchwick was captured by atlas, and pretty much everything's gone to shit for us". Mercury said laying back on his bed reading an X-ray and Van comic.
"For now we wait until we receive new orders, until then I want the both of you to blend in and do nothing to draw attention to yourselves, understood". Cinder stated more than asked.
"Yes ma'am". Replied Emerald while Mercury shrugged.
"Ah yes I can't forgot little miss hothead, butthead, and beavis."
Before any of them could react the room filled with light
Some bar in the outskirts of the kingdom of Vale
"Then this little shit tells me that if my mother's vagina was a video game it would be rated E for everyone, I almost laughed before I remembered he was trashing my mother so before I did something stupid like kill him I came here to get wasted and find a little company if you know what I mean". Qrow said with a slur striking up a conversation with some old guy who just reopened his dust shop.
"I'll cover his drinks." someone said tossing a few lien cards onto the bar counter before disappearing with Qrow. The old man just sat there downing another shot "I'm getting too old for this crap." He said grabbing the bottle from the bartender.
Arc household
The entirety of the Arc family was gathered around the dinner table having a feast which was customary whenever the children weren't preoccupied with a huntsmen job but at the table there was an empty seat which should have been the place for the sole son of Nicholas and Venus Arc.
"I wish Jaune hadn't run off like that, did...did we make the wrong choice trying to stop him from becoming a huntsmen" asked Venus to her husband as the rest of the family continued to eat in silence
"We did what we thought to be best for our child and no one can fault us for that, but if this is what he truly desires then I see no right in trying to stop him now." he spoke taking his wife's hand into his own giving a reassuring look as they began to clean up then minutes later the front door was kicked open revealing a figure in a dark blue cloak
"God dammit I said quietly." A man adorned in a cobalt blue cloak said chastising the one who had kicked in the door
"You said we should catch them by surprise and what's more surprising than going in through the front while being as loud as possible" another one this time dressed in a red cloak said to the cobalt one
"Um guys the people are looking at me and it's making me uncomfortable." The dark blue one said gaining the attention of the other two who were bickering but before the Arcs could react a canister was thrown through the door and went off releasing sleeping gas into the room
"Will you guys shut up let's just grab them and go, at this rate we'll be the last ones." said a new person who stepped through the door wearing a dark gray cloak followed by a someone clad in an aqua colored cloak
"Eh stop worrying it's not like we've got a shortage of time on this." said Aqua who was followed by red, cobalt, and navy into the home and within a minute the five figures exited the home holding the nine members of the Arc family
Mistral
"Scout out this town and see how many huntsmen are stationed there as well as what kinds of defences they have." Raven said standing in front of a table with a map laid out on it in her private tent as Vernal stood nearby watching while one of the grunts exited the tent to relay the order.
Without hearing anything Raven and Vernal suddenly found themselves blinded as they were whisked away.
Atlas airship
"General Ironwood I'm happy to report that Penny will be completely fine tuned and combat ready in time for the tournament." Doctor polendina said as he and his creation stood side by side in front of Ironwoods desk in his private office as winter stood by his side as a bodyguard.
"Excellent with the recorded data we can start-". Ironwood began before being cut off as a flash went off and after regaining his sight doctor polendina could see he was the only one left in the room.
Beacon sparring rooms
"Alright boys fox and yatsuhashi are off doing their own thing so the two of you are going to be our punching bags for a bit." Coco said turning her handbag into it's chain gun form while pointing it in the direction of Sun and Neptune.
"Damnit Sun what were you thinking." Neptune groaned taking out his own weapon in its gun form already imagining how his bruises were gonna have bruises, aura be damned.
"I mean it seemed like a good idea at the time just a little friendly match between students" Sun said with his iconic grin as he got his weapon into it's nunchuck mode.
"Did you already forget how she killed a beowolf just by swinging that handbag down onto its head"
"Yeah sorry but I'm gonna have to stop you right there and come with me then you can fight each other with fashion accessories later after I'm done with you."
Eleventh verse same as the rest
White Fang base
"OUM DAMNIT!" Adam yelled after flipping a table in his makeshift war room while Banesaw and some grunts stood nearby, the later of which were all terrified at their leaders outburst as Banesaw attempted to calm him down.
"Adam relax." Banesaw said placing his hand on his leaders shoulder only for it to be smacked away.
"RELAX! RELAX! YOU WANT ME TO RELAX AFTER THAT! WE LOST DOZENS OF OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS BECAUSE THAT WHORES PLAN WENT TO SHIT, WE LOST TORCHWICK AND WITH HIM A HUGE AMOUNT OF DUST RESERVES!" Adam screamed in absolute livid fury as venom dripped from every word until he had to take a moment to catch his breath.
"Jesus Christ you need to calm down before you pop a blood vessel, luckily you'll have lots of time to chill where we're going" A cloaked figure spoke immediately earning the attention of every occupant in the room who made a move for their weapons but with their advanced vision the flash of light left all of them blind for the next several minutes, once they had their vision back however, they saw that Adam was gone along with his weapon.
Atlas Prison Transport
"HEY I TOLD YOU WATCH THE HAT" Roman screamed at a guard as he gripped the bars to his cell nearly making them crumple from his grip, no one word his fedora but him, and currently the guard that was keeping an eye on him had tasered Roman and taken it.
"Well Torchwick maybe you should have been a little nicer and not kicked me in the shin earlier" the guard teased waving the hat around just out of Romans reach until the door that lead out of the brig opened revealing another Altas officer who was taking over the guard shift, once the first guard left, having turned over the hat to his replacement, the new guard walked towards Romans cell and returned the hat.
"Thanks Neo he was really starting to irritate me" Roman said smiling at his ice cream loving partner while she smiled back and held up a sign that read "No problem but once your out you owe me a creameries worth of Rocky road for having to wear this uniform."
"Finally just you two and were done" spoke a voice belonging to someone that quickly delivered a chop to the back of Neo's neck before the other shot Roman with a tranquilizer dart. The first figure, who was wrapped in a orange cloak, picked up Neo while the other, who wore purple cloak, opened the cell and grabbed Roman as portal opened in the center of the brig.
"Remind me why we didn't just do the light teleportation thingy?" asked Orange as they walked to the portal
"Because it got boring, plus we don't know when we'll have to run another of the bosses errands so I figured we'd have a little fun" Purple grinned as they entered the portal.
Back to unknown location
"Ow my head" groaned Ruby as she held her head in pain and blinked taking in her surroundings finding herself and her friends sitting in leather reclining chairs and looking directly ahead she saw….a movie screen?
"What the hell" Ruby heard accompanied by a small belch and turned to see her uncle sitting a few seats down from her
"Where are we" this time coming from Ozpin who looked around seeing his students, his friend James, what appeared to be members of the white fang as well as….SALEM!
Ozpin grabbed his cane and went to leap at Salem and go for the kill shot only to be stopped by straps shooting out from the chair binding each of his limbs before pulling him back into his seat, the same happened to several others who made similar attempts while the rest simply watched wondering if they were hallucinating then they all stopped what they were doing as the voice that most of them heard suddenly spoke out
"Hello everybody pleasure to meet you all yada yada anyways I believe most of you are already well acquainted" said the white cloaked figure as he appeared in front of them
"Who the hell are you!?" came from several of the kidnappies
"Now that's the question of the millennium isn't it, well I suppose the closest thing that you can relate me to is a god with a lowercase 'g' and as for who I am just call me Joey."
"Why have you brought us here" Ironwood said reaching for his pistol only to find it missing
"looking for these" Joey said opening his cloak to reveal everyone's weapons strapped to the inside of his cloak while also revealing his attire consisting of black cargo shorts and a white shirt with an image of a charging grizzly bear with an outstretched arm encased in fire but what caught many people's attention was an oversized blue, brown, and silver colored pump action tactical shotgun strapped to his right leg.
"Answer the generals question" Winter said with her voice cold and merciless.
In response Joey closed his cloak and drew back his hood revealing a young man with a tanned complexion, spiked dark brown hair and a matching set of eyes, his looks overall led many people to think he couldn't even be into his twenties.
"I'll answer the question but I'm waiting on just a few more people" he spoke as a door in the back of the theater opened revealing two carbon copies of Joey with the only differences being the colors of their cloaks.
"Alright boss these are the last of them right?" orange questioned tossing Neo into one of the seats while purple placed Roman into a seat next to her.
"Yes thank you both." Joey said making his way towards the other two. "The others finished up a bit ago so we're ready to begin after I give the mortals the rundown." He said extending his fist to the others who fist bumped him simultaneously which somehow caused the orange and purple ones to turn into silhouettes of energy matching the colors of their cloaks which flowed into Joey who smiled before making his way to the captive group
"Before I answer your question I want to ask one of my own, what do you think happens when you make a major decision in your lives". Joey asked motioning with his hand to each individual in the audience looking for any kind of response.
"What kind of horseshit are you preaching!" except that kind of response which came from Yang
Joey signed before taking a breath "What I mean is what do you think happens to the world around you because of a decision you made, for example what would happen if Adam here didn't become an extremist or if Weiss wasn't the heiress to her family's company."
"I still don't see your point human." Adam snarled in disgust at his situation, two schnee's so close and he couldn't remove their heads from their shoulders.
"My point is that different choices and different actions can lead to many different possibilities and the reason i've brought you all here is because of a single person who has more potential than you could imagine, and his name is Jaune Arc."
The last bit left many dead silent as they processed what the person in front of them just said
"Hold up, your saying that you kidnapped us." Yang paused
"Uh huh." Joey spoke
"Brought us to some creepy movie theater…"
"Yep"
"BECAUSE OF VOMIT BOY." Yang screamed as her hair ignited and eyes turned red of blood
"Exactly." Joey said with a shit eating grin as the straps held back Yang.
"What did Jauney-boy do to make us all end up here" Cardin said barely more reserved than Yang.
"Ah but Cardin that's the thing, it's not what he's done but what he can do."
Many now looked confused but Ozpin and Salem both sat calm and collected, as much as one possibly could while their archenemy sat in the same room as them
"You see within the multiverse Jaunes alternate selves easily ranking as some of the greatest of heroes and most tyrannical of villains, each with a story unlike any other, from what I've seen of your universe this Jaune is believed by many of you to be weak, pathetic, and possessing no qualities that a proper huntsmen in training should have."
This caused everyone that knew him to reflect upon how Jaune performed academically and in combat class.
"The reason i've brought you all here is to show you what Jaune has the potential to do and what a few seemingly insignificant, or in some cases, drastic changes to each Jaunes history can do to shape and mold his personality and morals." Joey said before motioning to the screen behind him
"We'll watch these realities through this, while my clones were gathering you I created this to allow us to view any parallel universe and show us the Jaune of each universe."
"And why would I give a damn about one of Ozpin's excuses for a warrior" Raven said earning a glare from both Pyrrha and Yang while Joeys expression turned into one of disgust
"Raven Branwen...you used to be able to call yourself a warrior but now you can only be called a murderer and the worst mother ever, i'd even go as far as to say your as bad as Jacque schnee"
"If you don't think such of me then why bring me here?"
Joey hummed to himself for a moment before answering "After thinking it over I had decided that I should bring as many people as possible, not just Jaunes friends but others whose alternate selves were changed for the better because they met, I brought you here so hopefully you, as well as others in this room, could have the same chance."
There was a dead silence for a few seconds
Before it was appropriately broken by Nora
"So we're gonna see our fearless leader being a grade A but kicker!!." she cheered vibrating in her seat
"Yes and I'm not so cruel as to keep you here without refreshments, simply will it and the room will provide it for you." Joey said and as though to demonstrate a bucket of popcorn was lowered from the ceiling by robotic arms into his waiting hands before he gave it to Ruby "Enjoy the show." He said before disappearing.
"Well might as well try to enjoy this" Ironwood said before a tray with a glass of whisky sitting on it was lowered to him
"indeed" this time coming from Ozpin as he received a fresh cup of coffee and after a few moments everyone had some kind of drink and snack
In a cloaked section of the theater
"Why am I sitting away from everyone else?" Jaune asked as his kidnapper sat down next to him
"Because if you were right there then those close to you wouldn't say what they really thought, this way they can be unbiased."
"I see…" Jaune said slumping in his seat with a blow of Pumpkin Pete's cereal
"C'mon man perk up this is gonna be fun, you get to see how badass you are in other realities and if you're lucky it might help you with your love life." Joey said putting up his foot rest but his words caused Jaune to choke on his cereal
"L-love life!?" Jaune got out still choking
"Jaune I'll be honest you're one of my favorites but your denser than a damn asteroid, that red headed partner of yours is head over heels for you and you don't even notice her"
"Pyrrha? Why would she like me, I mean she's a celebrity and…."
"That's exactly the point Jaune she likes you because you don't treat her like a celebrity, she likes you because your a good person that genuinely cares about her and not her status"
"Are, are you sure" Jaune questioned
"Dude if there is a more literal definition of the writings on the wall then I don't know it, are you ready?" Joey asked picking up a bag of beef jerky while Jaune nodded, shell shocked at the thought of Pyrrha being in love with him.
"Let's not waste anymore time then." Joey said snapping his fingers making a slot machine appear in front of Ruby who blinked at it in confusion. "Pull the lever and the slot machine will pick a universe for us to watch." called out Joeys voice as the three slots were displayed on the movie screen matching the slot machine. Reaching up and pulling down the lever everyone watched the screen as a symbol of a car, a surfboard, and a circle appeared
"Oh this is one of my favorites." and with that the sound of an engine roared through the theater.
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Well everyone if you're reading this author's note it means you've just read the first chapter of my first fanfic and it means that in all likelihood those who don't start flaming me immediately for doing a universe reaction fic (because that idea is sooooo original) will be back for chapter two which will be the first actual chapter of this fic. I promise that going forward I'll do my best to put out quality stuff that people enjoy reading so until next time this is clockwork