RWBY inspired story, OC's, altered characters, different stories, diverged plot, etc.
Jaune Arc as MC …. In a way, my own possibly twisted way(s), multiple MC's, angst, tragedy, sci-fi, new ideas (I hope), and more …
Multi X-over
This suddenly came to me, organizing it into something clear was a nightmare.
Arc: Convergence Arcanum
Prologue-
Jaune Arc, coward, liar, inept, and unsure of himself, yet at the same time brave, honest, quick-witted, intelligent and quite kind if given the chance.
In the aspect that is known, he lied his way into a chance at greatness, was easily discovered and forgiven, gained great friends, becoming close to a girl he considered to far out of reach for someone like him, then saw the life of relative peace he had fall apart, lost the girl he realized he loved in a horrible way, yet rose up to achieve greatness, gaining the strength to stand against the darkness that threatened everything he and everyone around him knew, and followed everyone through to victory gaining the dream he had held for so long.
However, this reality was but one facet of his existence, what if events progressed differently, what if things had been different, certain people reacting differently, events transpiring in a different way, and other such alterations, either through circumstance, reality, or some outside force.
What then …
"Uhh.." stated the voice of a young girl as she slowly got up from the floor, and then started to gaze around the space she inhabited, finding herself in an expansive corridor, lined with what looked to be a mix of intricate and very well sculpted pillars of some sort of mineral that resembled a dark marble or light obsidian, and walls made of a very advanced and sophisticated metal that seemed to flow with a strange and almost aetheric energy.
The girl herself got up and looked around at where she woke up and then noticed that she was surrounded by three other girls, girls she happened to know quite well.
"Yang, Blake, Wiess," she said as she looked at the three, her voice a little over a whisper as she looked at them, hoping they were okay.
The three stirred at her voice, and soon they began to awaken.
"H-Huh, uwwhat, Ruby, what's going on," Yang said as she rubbed the exhaustion out of her eyes, and stretched a bit, the action being closely observed by the sharper eyed of the four.
"Y-yeah, Ruby what's … going on," the second girl, Blake who still had a slight blush from seeing Yang stretch herself (and making more noticeable one of her more eye-catching features), looked around to see that they were in a different place altogether.
"Ruby, where are we, what happened," the last girl Wiess said as she gazed around at the hallway they were in, while also trying to remember how they got there.
The first girl, now identified as Ruby, also tried to think about how they had gotten he-!
Ruby gripped her head as she began to see images of her life, where she had been and other such things.
"We were … at Beacon 'guh', we decided to go looking for someone, we were walking somewh-wh-wh-whegyaaaa!"
Ruby felt as a splitting headache erupted through her skull and curled up on the floor holding her head as she desperately tried to remember what she was trying to remember.
Normally Weiss, Blake and obviously Yang, would immediately had gone to Ruby's side to see if she was okay given what was happening …
… were it not for the fact that they were also on the ground, with brain splitting headaches of their own, as their attempt to recall something, anything from what had happened before they awoke here, yet their attempts to remember instead ended in mind-searing pain as they felt their heads were splitting apart.
They gave up after that but still felt what they should be remembering is something of great importance to them, but they shelved that thought for now.
"So, Rubes, any idea where we are," Yang said as she looked around the large open hallway, they found themselves in, watching as the lines of energy flowed through the floor and into other halls, "is this somewhere in Atlas."
"No Yang, this is not Atlas," Wiess spoke as she got up from the honestly very pristine floor, seeing how the light illuminated the hall, doing so in such a way that there was little in the way of shadows throughout the whole hall, "this place, I have seen a lot of some of Atlas's best technology, and some of the finest architecture that was created in Atlas, but even I have to admit that this place is … unique."
Blake looked around at the rest of the hall, seeing the pillars as they pulsed with energy, travelling from the floor to the ceiling, and from ceiling to floor, then she heard something from the edge of her hearing, "Hey, everyone, I hear something down that hall," Blake got everyone's attention as she pointed to one of the hallways up ahead.
No sooner did she do so when the heard a soft dull thrum of something going down the hall up ahead, with the source soon coming into view.
A sphere of pale light-grey light, that seemed to be housed in three rotating rings of a silver-blue metal floated into view, coming from one of the hallways.
The four girls could only blink in confusion as the sphere slows down, seeming to acknowledge their presence by lightly blinking itself four times, then it slowly continued its way, the wall opening to reveal another pass-!
No, the wall and the material behind the wall began to instead reorient itself into a new passage altogether, the path becoming a straight even hallway with little else in the hallway beyond the flowing line of energy running along the wall.
"Whoa," Yang said, stunned at what she saw, as well as how silent it all was as it happened, "We are definitely not on Remnant anymore."
The other three were still visibly stunned, having nothing to say to refute her words, with Blake honestly worried inside about where they were, Wiess who was equal parts worried but also intrigued at the technology that was used for such a feat, while Ruby herself was also both worried and intrigued though in a way that diverged from Wiess.
"If I had something like that, imagine what I could do for my baby," this train of thought was followed by Ruby imagining herself in the middle of a pack of Beowolve's, with all of them charging at once only for her to hold out a hand, and in an instant have shards of metal slice those Grimm to pieces before forming in her outstretched hand as a beautiful more futuristic version of her beloved weapon.
Yang for her part just looked nervous at Ruby as she saw the look that Ruby gained when she was ready to do something weapon-related, which tended to result in her doing something crazy, insane, or both to someone's weapon.
The less said about how Ruby tried to combine Myrtenaster's dust cartridge function to Ember Celica, the better it would be overall, the chewing out Wiess gave Ruby over disassembling her weapon had been something to remember.
The four just followed the light through the forming tunnel as it continues onto its destination, wherever that was, until the path opened to a large entryway that led to outside wherever they were.
They froze rock solid, eyes taking in the sight before them, they themselves raising their hands to pinch themselves to make sure they were not dreaming what they were seeing, and they were not believing what they were seeing.
"WHAT…" Red
"…IN…" White
"…THE…" Black
"…WORLD!" Yellow
The sight they gazed at was beyond what they were prepared to see, as before them was …
… a city on a city …
… a sci-fi space colony …
… something that only an alien super-civilization could make.
They stood on a large open area about the size of the Beacon Academy school ground with several pillars that seemed to have floating parts around the main pillar, each having a holographic display coming from it, displaying information the seemed to display information for … something, a direction, an ad, some sort of news?
Of course, this was ignored by what they saw, the view of a vast city, no vast was to small of a word to describe what they saw and was also far to hollow and vague to describe everything about the city.
"Thi-thi-this whole city, is built around a city, on top of a city, all around a city, and I can see outer space through spaces at the edge of this city," Ruby exclaimed as she gazed out further into the ever expanding super structure city, that she thought only existed in sci-fi films/books/comics/etc.
"There's so many buildings, and they all look so different, so advanced, almost alien, look at that one," Blake stated as she pointed to a building … that was floating with sections detached from one other, the building being a sleek high rise tower made of a cobalt-silver looking metal, the building having an almost geometric shape to it, incorporating a square, two triangles, a rhombus, and an octagon structure at the top, all parts having flowing veins of energy running through the structure and somehow keeping the building up. A quick look around and the members of team ruby saw many other buildings like or of similar layout to the first, though some seemed to have branches of some sort of grey-white crystalline material supporting them, with many of the buildings being massive in scale.
"Guys, are you seeing what I'm seeing, because I am seeing a city on top of a city, that's on top of another city," Yang pointed out to what she thought was a particularly massive tower, but was in fact a megastructure of a city built on top of another city, with large pillar-like structure, and the taller building supporting the weight of the city built atop it, and a third city atop the second, that had smaller buildings at the top, but had what could only be a very large park with a small forest in it.
"…"
When team RWBY didn't hear anything from their W, they all turned to wonder what happened …
… and found Wiess Schnee standing complete statue still, the light in her eyes dimmed, and completely unconscious.
"Helllllooooooo, Wiessssss," Yang waved her hand in front of the catatonic girl, but no response, "yep, she's out of it."
"Well, we can't really leave her like this," Blake said from the side as she approached the frozen girl, then leaned next to her and whispered something in her ear.
In an instant, Wiess went from catatonic to livid as she glared death at Ruby screaming, "RUBY, YOU BETTER NOT HAVE TOUCHED MYRTENASTER, I STILL HAVE NOT FORGIVEN YOU FOR LAST TIME!", screamed out a very irate Wiess.
"H-hey, it was an honest mistake, I just thought it'd be cooler i-," then Ruby trailed off as she realized something, "Wiess, where is myrtenaster?"
Wiess was about to say that it was where she always holstered it, only to fall silent as she realized that her rapier was not where it was supposed to be, and that was not all.
"Wait, where's Crescent Rose," Roby stated as her precious was missing from her person.
"My weapons gone to," Blake stated in worry as she looked to see Gambol Shroud missing as well.
"Who took my weapons," Yang stated as she looked around for her weapons, Ember Celica, which were no longer on her hands.
CLICK
They all heard a sort of clicking noise and turned to see where the sound came from.
They had to do a double take to make sure their eyes were working right.
Because what they saw was what seemed to be some sort of, robot-girl-plane thing, floating near them, wings on her back with an engine on the center of her back, the legs ending in a sort of engine module allowing the robot girl to remain balanced in the air, and holding out an arm that was aiming what seemed to be some sort of unknown weapon, which seemed to be two long thin panels that were parallel to one another, ending in some sort of gun stock-like configuration that was merged to the robot-girls right arm.
"Uh", Ruby started to say …
VWWWOOOOOSSSSHHHHH, VWOOM, VWOOM, VWOOM
Then from beneath where they were standing, half a dozen of the same robot-girls of the same type came up, all aiming weapons similar to or different from the first girls weapon, some with both arms with the same weapon, some with very large rifles, others with what appeared to be rocket launchers, with others having weapons on their wings, either being some sort of gun or pod, or, well, missiles.
Then something else came up that all but erased whatever thoughts the four were having, as they could only stare as what appeared to be a massive airship with the appearance of two massive wings merged to a large robotic construct, multiple propeller like engines on the wings, and from beneath were multiple containers connected to the main structure beneath the wings, ten in total, out of which flew more of the robot girls, and the center portion which was the robotic portion had a large center area that was several large components connected to the sizeable center portion located just behind the nose of the ship, with the structure ending as two long pylons that seemed to be either landing struts or legs.
Then the whole airship began to turn to them, lowering itself and getting closer to where the four girls stood, the robot girls also following close to the airship, with some flying to the platform, taking up position around team RWBY.
The team became tense as they were surrounded by the flying armed robot-girls, and they would have started to try and prepare for a fight, except they realized they had no weapons with which to fight with, and they were entirely at the mercy of the machine girls, though their attention was on the biggest threat, the airship, which finished its rotation and now faced them, the size of the large ship putting into perspective how out their depth they were.
Then the ship stopped moving as it was now parked nose first at the platform, the four able to see a bit of the top and saw the multitudes of gun turrets and missile launch ports on the top of the ship, and then.
CLACK, VRRRRMMMM
An area above the nose of the ship suddenly began to open, revealing what appeared to be a large hallway leading deep into the ship, and then they heard and saw as something came out of the hall and to them, revealing a sort of large mechanical construct that to the four, bore a slight resemblance to a brain, only mechanical and with many machine components jutting out of it, and also that the front was open revealing a hollowed out area …
… and inside they saw another robot-girl, only without the wings and engines and weapons, but was instead hooked directly into the brain-like structure, with metal wires running from the center of the back into the machine brain, and her legs ending in the form of what would be low heeled women's boots, with the tips pointed and had a metal frame around them, but were in fact the robot girls feet, having been built that way obviously.
The girl jumped out of the brain, wires trailing behind her as she jumped to the ground, landing directly in front of Ruby herself.
The girl was roughly the same height as Ruby, give or take a few inches shorter, but she looked Ruby square in the face, eyes glowing neon green in color as she stared into the silver-eyes of the young girl, then looked over to Yang who was wondering when she would have to move to defend one of her friends and/or sister, or attack the robots, then to Wiess who was trying to figure a way out of their situation, knowing that using her semblance could cause the robots to attack them, and finally to Blake, who was nervously looking around, not seeing a way out of this.
Then the girl, in a rapid motion, raised her hand and swiped it to her side, and all the robot girls lowered their weapons as the team could only look on, having felt a rising panic from the gesture that was now slowly going down as the robots lowered their weapons and were now in a neutral stance, noticing the eyes of the robots glow a soft grey as they began to move back to the ship, a few still hovering around the team.
Then from behind the main robot, the platform began to reconstruct itself, forming a ramp that lead from the ground behind the robot girl, back up to the opening where it had emerged and where the brain was, it then spoke to the team.
"You wish to know," the robot girl spoke in a soft yet firm voice to the team who looked at her as she stood in front of them, "you wish to ascertain why you were brought to this place, why it was you, but as to why you are without your armaments, I would say that it was a formality that we do not wish for conflict and that most who come armed tend to make incredibly rash decisions when armed and nervous, though in this case, it was because the means we used to bring you all here were quite limited in comparison, limited in that we could only bring you yourselves and that which was close to your physical forms, such as your clothing, while yours weapons, even those that were close to you are much more difficult," the girl stated looking at Yang who knew she spoke of Ember Celica, which were heavy bracers on her arms in their inactive form, though she only looked at the girl instead of talk, which the others thought was strange of her since she was known for her boisterous behavior.
"The means to bring one through dimensional boundaries to a different reality is incredible complex and intricate, even by the standards of machine intelligences, such as ourselves," the girl directed them to the other machine girls, all of whom looked at them, with some looking at them from the Airships connected bays and from where they were, "the difficulty of bringing non-living material through the boundary was something that has yet to be truly thought through, with only a few such constructed or artificial means able to make the transit, and you should count yourselves truly fortunate that it was mastered to this current level."
The four looked at the machine girl, with more of a questioning gaze then anything else, wondering what the girl meant, "W-what do you mean when you said we were 'truly fortunate'," Ruby questioned?
"Originally only small objects or material could be safely passed through via the system, though only after a sizeable battery of tests and trials, while larger objects, such as living creatures, would either be completely rendered into a viscous meaty putty of their constituent material components, completely atomized leaving only an ashy residue, or completely annihilated from reality itself and cease to exist," the girl said, incredibly nervous at suffering such horrifying fates, with the girl still continuing on, "though after further trial and error tests, as well as much darker trials that we believe you do not wish to know about, we brought it to a level where living beings could be safely passed through, though it was only recently that updates allowed for your level of transit."
This confused them and raised a question, this time Yang spoke, "Whaddya mean by that, what the heck happened before we came through," she stated, stepping up to the robot-girl, a questioning gaze on her face.
"Originally, the transit would safely bring a living being through, though the tests were mainly implemented on non-sapient creatures, such as insects, birds, reptiles and lesser mammalian life, not discounting other forms of non-sapient life from other areas you likely have no knowledge of or ever heard about," the robot girl stated to them before ending, "however, when tests with sapient life-forms was done, it was found that while they emerged fine, a certain problem came about, that while not an issue for non-sapients, was an issue for sapients, and thus had to be rectified."
The four were about to think about what it was when the girl told them anyway.
"Clothing," she stated.
Then as the answer began to sink in, did the members of team Ruby suddenly start to sport rather noticeable blushes on their faces as their minds formed the final image, and they were now blushing hard realizing that they could have woken without an article of clothing on their bodies.
"I believe that you are aware of the issue now, so I would like to apologize that your armaments were not able to make the journey with you, but that is unlikely to be rectified in the future as the Architect does not take well to armed threats appearing within it, as a few occasions have led to some violent altercations," the girl continued, and then said, "Architect happens to be the designation of the superstructure that houses all you see, in fact this is one of the administrative portions of the Architect, which is housed in its own region of the structure, other areas are located farther into the Architect, though that shall be for much later, for now we must see to the current task."
Then the machine turned to them, "the reason for your current presence, awaits there," the machine then pointing to what seemed to be a large gateway located at the very edge of the mega city, and the girl then began making her way up the ramp and turned to team RWBY as she was only halfway up, "come along, I have been ordered to take you to the destination, post haste, and if you are wondering, while this craft is largely Autonomous, it does have an area for crew or passengers when needed, which should be quite to your liking," the robot girl said as she continued on up the ramp, team RWBY following behind, wondering what it looked like inside the ship.
The robot girl reached the brain, hopping back in, team RWBY following close behind as they entered the ship, the 'brain' sliding back into the ship from its place, with the team following it close behind, until the brain reached a large central chamber, which had ample space for the 'brain' and the team to fit.
Then a side door opened, allowing the team to enter what was basically a rest area, with several couches, an sort of vending machine with several pre-prepared food items inside, a viewing deck that opened up to show the view outside the ship, showing the city passing beneath as they made their way through the superstructure.
"Its almost time," the robot operator of the ship said, and as they were about to ask what it meant, it began to brighten up outside, the team having arrived seeing the city in a nigh-like state, with the stars showing through gaps in the city, and seeing the sheer size of city being larger than anything they had seen made them think they were on some sort of mega-space station like in science-fiction, then as the light spread, the team had to look away a bit to keep from being blinded, then it stopped and they were able to see.
"OH", spoke Ruby, her eyes completely wide as she looked in every direction she could see, unable to comprehend the sight she bore witness to.
"MY", Blake stated, here sense of caution and apprehension about their current situation practically wiped away as she saw a sight she could not even begin to comprehend.
"GODS", Yang said in complete shock and awe at the sight that she could not even begin to comprehend what she was looking at.
-THUD-
The three turned to see Wiess passed out on the floor, her eyes now white as her pupils had rolled back into here head, as she lay sprawled out on the ground, her body twitching from the shock of seeing what she had seen.
"Wiess," Ruby shrieked as she saw her teammate and friend completely passed out, helping her comatose body up, "Wiess, speak to me, say something, anything, just let me know you're okay!"
"UUUGGGGHHHHH," was the only thing that came out of her mouth, and a line of drool, which made a certain blonde wish she still had her scroll to get a picture, as she hardly ever saw scenes such as this with the heiress.
"Good, she's okay, but what is all of," Ruby gestured to what she was seeing outside, "THAT?"
"Well, for us it is a Massive, Galactic-scale, continuously expanding, Megastructure, built to roughly the complete size and scale of a small solar system, with three planets orbiting around a central point, the point itself being one of the main sources of power for the whole structure, which is a star, specifically a scaled down yellow dwarf star, called Lumen, with the other power source being the multiple anti-matter energy relays that exist as the core for the main cities and in the space between the cities, we should be passing one now I believe," stated the Operator of the craft they were on.
They saw what she spoke of as the passed by massive facility, the whole thing having a cylindrical shape as rings on either end seemed to pulse with energy, and panels arranged around the ends of the rings seemed to absorb the energy from the rings, and they could each panel briefly pulse as the energy seemed to be sent out to, somewhere.
"Or as known to humans as, a Dyson Sphere, or at least quite a number of human civilizations refer to it as such," stated the operator, "also I do believe introductions were never made, though not like a have no knowledge of who you are team RWBY," the operator stated to them matter-of-factly.
Uh, how much do you know," Ruby said, and the robot girl looked at her, giving a knowing smile, and snapped her fingers.
Holographic screens came up, and they saw that it showed them, and their lives.
They saw Ruby annihilating Beowolves at her mother's grave (Yang cheered Ruby and Blake was impressed), Yang destroying a bar (the looks Ruby and Blake gave made her nervously whistle as she looked away), Blake and her former partner Adam attempting to rob a Schnee company train (Blake couldn't look at either Ruby or Yang, though Yang held Blakes hand in a comforting gesture, Blake didn't refuse it), and Wiess fighting and defeating the Arma Gigas in pitched battle (RBY all cheered at Wiess action, though Wiess noted the R was much more enthusiastic in her cheering).
"We are aware of the life that is centered around you, as well as those around you, and so much more, be it the past," the robot girl stated, showing more holograms of their lives, showing them more bittersweet moments of their lives, Yang's almost ill-fated journey with Ruby that almost led to a horrible end at the jaws of Grimm were it not for a certain crows intervention. Then it showed the argument between Jacques and Willow Schnee, with Wiess having heard the outburst and tearing up while huddled outside of the door to the dinning hall. Blake was shown at a rally of the old non-terrorist White Fang, and then showed her being hit by a mistral officers night-stick and then being nearly mauled by a police dog, with another White Fang member barely getting her out. Finally, it showed Ruby, as a young girl, crying in Yang's arms with their father, who was also tearing up, held them close as they stood before the grave of Summer Rose, after a the funeral was held.
The four girls had varying reactions, as they were now much closer together, holding each other in comfort and warmth as they saw some of the darkest moments in the lives of their teammates, this time doing so equally with one another.
"Then there is your present," followed by screens showing the teams life at Beacon Academy, the teams initiation, their battle against the terrorist White Fang, battling Grimm during the Breach of Vale, with the four of them getting closer through these events, and their victories in the Vytal festival tournament.
The team felt at ease to the happy memories that they felt, and the challenges they faced and overcame as they fought, worked, and lived together, truly happy that they became a team together.
"Then there is your future," the robot girl spoke, before the screens flared to life, showing them fighting in the Fall of Vale, the team watching in horror as one of their classmates was killed by the woman who instigated the Fall using the Grimm and White Fang, their classmate being Pyrrha Nikos, and the woman being a person Ruby had met named Cinder Fall. Then it showed Blake taking Yang out of the main school building, Blake clutching Yang's hand tightly and Yang squeezing back as they saw Yang's arm had been cut off, and in the building it showed the visage of a White Fang warrior Blake knew very well, Adam Taurus. Then it showed the team going separate ways, with Blake fleeing from Vale in fear in an honestly vain attempt to keep Adam away from her friends, Yang stuck at home having lost her arm and Blake leaving, Wiess being taken back to Atlas by her father for 'her protection', and Ruby watching her sister and feeling heart break at all that happened.
The team could only watch in stunned and horrified silence at the scenes of the fall and what happens to them afterward, then new screens appear, this time showing Wiess in Atlas succeeding in mastering her summoning. Blake in Menagerie with her parents and the people, proclaiming that they will take back the White Fang. Yang in Patch getting a new cybernetic prosthetic and leaving on her motorbike headed to catch up with Ruby.
However, as the team looked in hope and pride as their future started to change for the better and that they would join together again …. Something …. Happened?
As they saw Rubies path, as she prepared to head out to mistral to try and find out anything about Cinder, the screen showed Nora Valkyrie, Lie Ren, andfkd 09r03mgvl;ffdg456!
"AAAGGGGHHHHH," they all screamed out as a horrible pain assailed their heads as the final person seemed to just warp out on the screen, appearing as a warped humanoid smudge, whilst they felt severe pain erupt through their brains and their visions going a myriad of colors, some of which they were not sure even had names or even existed.
"What … happening …. All … HURTING," Yang growled out as her brain felt like it was being ground up by an industrial scale boring drill, the others not able to form words through the pain.
It was only after the pain had ceased, that they were able to think clearly once more.
"Wh-what the heck just happened," Wiess said, "why did that happen, and who was the final person."
Thee robot girl gazed at them, then simply stated.
"You will soon find the answer to your questions and more, because we have arrived."
Then the front hatch opened, revealing the ship to be at the entrance to an utterly massive structure, one that was about the size of one of the large city blocks in the megastructure, yet this seemed to comprise of a single structure, with each part of the structure linking to a massive central structure, as though the other buildings had grown outward from the central structure, the structure itself being in the form of massive six sided prism, larger than anything they ever knew, with multiple entrances and windows throughout.
They had appeared at one of the large entrances, which before their eyes shifted in shape, texture and color to resemble a large gate with six pillars, three on each side embedded in the wall, and the doors of the gate having halo pattern with a metallic sheen to it, with a simple pattern in the center resembling an arching structure.
Then silently the doorway opened, the four feeling a rather strong sense of foreboding from the entryway and the lobby itself.
"This is where we part ways RWBY, the one who has the answers you seek lies within," the robot girl soon turned to enter her larger half, but before that.
"Wait, we didn't get your name," Ruby stated.
"Yeah, we gave you our names, even though you already knew them, but you still have at least say your name," stated Blake.
The robot girl turned to them, then looked away in thought, then it closed its eyes, breathed in and out (even though it doesn't need air), then turned to them with a sort of wistful look.
"Okay, my name is the name of the ship itself, which is its designation," she stated, "and that designation is Arsenal Defense System ADS-1563, ID-578035, designation: Redemption XXI."
With that the now named Redemption jumped into its brain core, then the core shifted back into the main ship, the opening now closed and the ship soon pulled away to fly back to its city block, with several of the other robot girls flying alongside the ship.
Team RWBY looked on as the ship left, waving goodbye as it left, until it was soon out of sight.
Then they turned back to the currently open doorway, looking at the entryway and the seemingly endless hallway that led within.
"So," Yang said, "who goes first."
The other three just looked at Yang with a slightly exasperated look, then Yang grabbed her partners arm and walked right inside, Ruby and Wiess following right behind them.
As the passed through the door, the area they landed on suddenly disassembled itself and merged into the building, with the door almost soundlessly closing behind them, with the doorway itself soon merging into the building and disappearing, leaving on the smooth exterior of the building.
Team RWBY made their way down a the hallway, headed toward their destination, wherever it was, though of course many of them were currently a bit apprehensive at what was happening and the memory of what had happened back in Redemption still left them more than a bit rattled.
"Girls, I know that Redemption said this was the only way to find our answer, but even think that maybe we should think this through," Wiess said, trying to be a voice of reason.
"We already came this far, and were already here," stated Blake as she gestured to the hall they were in, "after coming this far, do really think we even can turn back."
"Yeah besides, if anything does happen, I'll just deal with it like I do with any problem, even if I don't have Ember Celica with me," Yang stated as she slammed her fists together, a grin on her face as she looked ready to fight, "so don't worry yourselves over anything, let's just-'Ghhkk'?"
Yang bumped into Ruby, who was looking out into a large room, and Yang turned to look at Ruby to ask what was up, but her words died at what she saw in the center of the room, Wiess and Blake soon sharing her shocked stare.
At a quick glance it looked like a human male, a boy who seemed close to their age, wearing long light blue jeans that seemed a bit worn, a pair of simple hunter boots, had armor worn over a hoodie, and at their hip was a sheath for a simple longsword.
However, everything else was wrong.
The body of the individua was made of a strange shining, black-colored substance, one that stained parts of the pants black, dripped off of the arms and head, all of which had a shape similar to a young man, simply gazing forward.
However, it wasn't the individuals physical form that disturbed them, rather it was his resemblance to someone they knew, or at least, they thought it was someEaern TVeW KtW SgsSHGJFwefTd,djkibx. ghssAGGHHHHHHHHHH!
Their heads were assailed with horrible pain, as something began to form in their minds, something that at first felt like a memory that was simply forgotten, yet was also of such immense importance that they should not have forgotten it, not even as a joke.
"AAAGGGHHH, Wha-wha-What was it, s-s-some-thing, it w-was im-por-tant, what was it," Ruby struggled through the pain, struggling to remember.
"UUURRRGGHHH, what was IIIITTTT, it WAS something important, what WAAASSSS IIIITTTTT," Wiess shouted out, trying to dredge up the memory.
"GRRRR, think, THINK, THINK, DAMNIT WHAT WAS IT," Yang growled out in a frustrated voice as she squeezed her head with both hands as she barley stood through the pain.
"GGGGHHHHHKKKKK, EEERRRRHHHH, AAAAAAGGGHHHHH," Blake let out frustrated shouts as she felt like her head was splitting.
Then a screen came on, then another, and another.
Then the screens began showing images of them and …. Someone?
Ruby was having a nice and calm conversation with the individual, Yang was making some joking quips to the individual, the person was trying to serenade Wiess with some music (which only seemed to annoy Wiess), and the individual was trying to strike up a conversation with Blake.
Then it showed missions in which they were with another team, called _NPR.
No, the first word, it was … it was, wa-!
A memory flashed through, the memory of inititation, where the teams were formed, and the team named before them was named, its name was ….
… JNPR, Juniper.
Then a sudden jolt shot through their heads, and then, slowly but surely, the figure in their mind began to become clearer and clearer, the image of the leaser of team JNPR.
Slightly messy blonde hair, a slightly dorky manner almost similar to Ruby, weak at a glance but a lot of determination, and finally an strong sense of honesty, courage, and intellect that showed itself when it was needed, with the problem only slightly being the person and more the people he was leading.
There was more to him, they knew there was more, but these stood out to them most.
A person that seemed unimpressive and that no one would really pay attention to or look at, an average everybody in the eyes of many people and a nobody to most others, yet to them he was not average or a nobody, he helped them, did something important for them.
This person, who they could now see clearer, the leader of team JNPR who others saw as unworthy of the position, they knew better, that he had potential, that he could be someone great.
The name of this person, all of team RWBY focused on this fact, on his name, his identity, that his name was … was … WASSSS!
Then the unknown individual dispersed into the air, but not like the Grimm, rather becoming small dark glimmering particles, slowly dispersing into the air, and the particles flowing to a now opening door that had formed on the far wall, and seemed to flow into an individual on the other side of the door.
The individual wore what seemed to be a full body armor, similar to the metal that made up the walls of the building around them, with a long flowing cloak draped over them, and the person looked at the four girls as the glimmering material seemed to slowly intwine itself into the cloak, the hood obscuring most of the face, with lower half showing a rather feminine look to it, and as their voice passed through their lips, a very similar genetic pattern to themselves.
"Welcome, " came the warm welcoming voice of a young woman, probably at their age at least, "we are happy you have arrived here at Qaunta Aeterna, but before we proceed, I wish to ask you but one question before we proceed."
The woman then shifted her gaze to all of them from beneath her cloak and seeing all of them were paying close attention to her, she gave a soft smile at them and then stated her question, the question was.
"Are you all familiar with the name …
… Jaune Arc."
OMG, None of you would believe the writers block I had between my last work an now, but as I looked at the RWBY works of other authors featuring Jaune Arc, I began to want to create one of my own, though with my own personal touch.
Some of what read seemed low-key, yet in others there was some real passion put into it, and eventually I just wanted to make one of my own, though of course, this one's going to be my way.
All can say is that I hope you enjoy reading and post your own opinions out.
Aeos React, OUT!