Chapter 22: Intermission

Sorry, this isn't a new chapter, but a small break. It's been a while since we've had an intermission chapter. Expect this every ten chapters or so. Also, updates may be more scarce as my job has really taken another level. Another level in hours. So yeah, I'll still be writing, but only on my days off. In any case enjoy what I have here today, because some people are gonna go crazy.

They were all ready to see what was new, what world they would see next. What kind of adventure the next world would have. Be it pirates to zombies or other interesting things that the multiverse seemed to have. Either way, everyone in the audience were ready for the unexpected.

"Ahhhhh!" To bad the unexpected involved Jaune falling into a deep dark hole that popped out from under him. The poor boy screaming as he fell into what may as well be his doom.

"Jaune!" Nora and Ren shouted in fear. Their leader having instantly vanished away, both showing anxiety and horror at what had just happened.

"Ah!" The same could also be said for young Oscar and his soul bound ally Ozpin who also fell into another deep dark hole. It wasn't long before all of Team RWBY screamed in terror to.

"Yang!"

"Ruby!"

"Winter!"

"Oh no!"

The four girls screeched as they vanished away into nothingness, Winter looking horrified with Qrow showing the same. Adam also looked disturbed and Roman grabbed his seat just in case with a few others doing the same.

"What is going on here!" Whitley went holding tight to the nearest chair. One minute the screen had turned on, the next people were vanishing left and right from the audience. And while he didn't have that much emotional bound to his sister Weiss, he is disturbed by how she just vanished away.

"There goes Jauney Boy." Cardin muttered.

"You!" Qrow then raged knowing the entity known as Mayden could hear him. "What the HELL did you do!?"

"Explain yourself!" Winter went with James and Glynda standing up not wanting anymore people to disappear. Aside from those on the 'Bad Side' and Cardin with Whitley, nobody else stood with them. A good thing to.

"Nope!" Mayden then went sounding happy. "But don't worry, you'll meet them soon enough." Then just like them, portals opened up beneath Qrow, Ironwood, Winter, Glynda, Nora, and Ren who all fell down to their uncertain doom. Pretty much everybody from the 'Good Side' aside from Cardin and Whitley screamed in fear as the portals then closed up. Their screams no longer heard.

"...Hold me." Mercury went to Emerald, who on instinct just held him. If this is usual circumstances, she'd have sooner punched him than actually allow him to touch her, let aside hug her. This time though, she let it go. Because like Mercury and those on the 'Bad Side' she's too freaked out to even care.

"What exactly...is the meaning of this?" Cinder then said in a controlled manner. She didn't like it, but she knows Mayden is more powerful than anybody in this room, more so since they had no idea what he could really do. The being having sent everybody away to what may as well be death.

As such, she wished to know what was going on just in case he did the same to her and everybody else on the 'Bad Side'.

"Oh that." Mayden then went sounding mighty happy. "I just kicked them all out."

"Kicked them...out?" Tock went feeling a bit uncomfortable by what she saw. She usually liked terrified faces, but that was a bit much, even for her tastes.

"Yeah. Believe it or not, I kinda got tired of them being here." Mayden then said in a way as if he had just thrown away a toy he no longer found interesting. "No offense to them, but I've always seen them multiple times in other theaters."

"Other theaters." Whitley said in barley contained fear.

"Oh yeah. You guys are far from being the same ones being in a theater. Heck, as of this moment there are at least around over a dozen or so active right now. With Team RWBY, there friends, a few bad guys such as yourself, watching something right now. Be it another world or Jaune."

"Jaune?" Cardin said confused.

"Oh yeah, you didn't get the memo." Mayden then realized. "In most of the theaters, Jaune is usually the only one scene being the main character, the stud, the man who's watched a lot with him getting the girls to the point where he actually gets the girls while in the theater. Creators do good work there."

"You've gotta be kidding me." Whitley deadpanned.

"Jauney boy is a star in other theaters." Cardin also said in the same tone.

"Yeah. Don't get me wrong, I do re-watch those other theaters, but a few Keepers like myself decide to show more than just Jaune." Sure those other Keepers did fantastic work-the grammatically correct ones-in making their theaters, but Mayden likes other characters being the star. That...and it got way to dull seeing some blonde goofball go from zero to having a harem way too fast. Not interested in love stories, more of a man of action. Like the Headmaster Arc one. Ha! Now that one is funny.

'Besides, I doubt people would react good-especially Jaune-that he somehow gets in bed with every female, which includes the mothers.' Yeah, he can see the girls looking in horror at seeing their mothers in bed with their friend, including themselves. Probably even beat him up. Oh well, they were still good stories. Like the one with Jaune as a Grimm-somehow-or the group where there are multiple players at once. Now that one is awesome. Ah, good times.

"In any case, ignoring Jaune, I got rid of everybody else for one main reason." Many seats on the 'Good Side' soon glew in a bright light. "Because when we see RWBY at the seats all the time, we barely get any love from the others. So, boom!"

Then in a flash of light a bunch of figures were born. Or to be more specific, brought here through the cheating power that is warping. Here in the theater were many people that some of the cast knew quite well.

"Woah, where the heck are we...Cardin!?" A guy with a mohawk said. Looking at his leader who stared in shock.

"Russel!" He then saw two more figures he knew well enough. "No way. Dove! Sky!"

"Holly whats it…." A manly deep voice said with two young and rather stunning woman looking shocked as they found themselves...somewhere. The big guy then looking around when he saw an old 'friend' of his. "Roman!" He shouted. "I thought you were dead!"

"Junior!" Now this surprised the thief a bit. Here he never thought he'd see this guy, not to mention his little bodyguard friends. Neo holding up a '!?' sign above her head. Of course there would be more surprises where that came from. Because pretty soon a few more lights came to show more people were coming.

"Gah!" Falling down a young woman with dark shades and a beret fell on her head looking rather pissed. "Okay!" She shouted raising her hand bag ready to shoot whoever was there, the handbag turning to a miniature machine gun. "Who the hell is responsible for this!?"

"C-coco. Is that you?" Falling near her is a cute bunny girl-a literal one-with actual bunny ears. Wearing a nice tight outfit and having a camera on her. Near her were two other students, one that is big and tall with a large sword, the other had orange hair and dark skin with sharp blades on him and while his eyes says he's blind, this didn't look like a guy to mess with.

"Velvet! Fox! Yatsuhashi!" The machine gun turned back to a bag-to the pleasure of Cardin who sighed in relief-as the leader of Team CFVY jumped and hugged her fellow teammates. "Oh man, what's going on here?" She then asked.

"That's what I want to know." Then, from the side, an unfamiliar voice came that nobody in the room even knew about.

"Whoops." Except for Mayden, having realized he donged up again. Oh well, this should be entertaining.

Because nearby staring at everybody in a calculating cold way is a stunning young woman with long black hair, red eyes, and wears a dark sleeveless mini dress with a white collar and a red tie; she wears a red belt that has a red side skirt cover. She wears it with long black socks and black shoes. She also wears red gauntlets and black gloves.

On her hand is also a very dangerous blade, a blade that Mayden wanted no part of here due to the deadliness that it is. So when the girl suddenly saw her sword missing, she instantly glared at the people and got ready to attack.

"Hold your horses everybody!" Mayden then said to the audience. A mysterious force then grabbing all the newcomers and putting them on their respective seats. All of them now sitting on what may be the disbanded 'Good Side' taking their place. None of them could move at all.

"And again I'm impressed with that power." Roman went wishing he had such power. I mean, to stop an enemy just like that, awesome.

"Wish I had something like that when I faced that brat." Oh, to think she lost to a woman with no eyes. How humiliating. Thinking about it, that woman should be an old lady by now. It would be nice if she could meet that hag and get some good old payback.

"You!" The girl went narrowing her eyes in a cold stare that actually chilled some of the members, sans the hardened ones such as Mercury, Adam, and Cinder. "Just what are you? How are you doing this?" Is the invisible being using one of the emperor's weapons. The Teigu?

"Nope." Mayden said in response to her thoughts. Clearly capable of mind reading to, along with intrusion of privacy. "Sorry girl, but I'm not wielding a Teigu, I'm just that awesome. As for all our guests."

Like before Mayden instantly filled their heads with the information of what was going on. How these newbies have arrived in place of those of the 'Good Side' for the entertainment of an unpredictable being. More or less forced to watch other realms, with benefits of course. Getting good food, seeing neat entertainment, and so on.

This soon made all the new arrivals calm down as they finally understood what was going on. For a second, they thought bad stuff was about to happen. Team CFVY especially thought they were kidnapped by those who were sponsoring the kidnappers. Their adventure in Vacuo was plenty enough, dealing with the craziness of villainous Huntsmen and other types of Grimm.

"I have to admit, this seems ...relaxful." Fox said as he 'gazed' in the theater. Using a special device on him to 'see' properly.

"Oh man, see other worlds. That sounds, well, awesome!" Russel went finding this to be very interesting.

"You said it man." Sky went conjuring up some nice apples before biting into them. Oh, been too long since he had a good one.

"I guess this is better than the rundown club we've been living in." The red Malachite sister said as she drank some wine glad to be in a much cleaner place.

"You said it Miltia," The one wearing white agreed now chowing down on a nice salad. "This seems better than the club. No offense Junior."

"None taken." What with the shit storm that happened with all the Grimm and White Fang crap, business has been rather down. Nobody wanted to visit his place being more worried about the Grimm that wandered the city. Plus his club took a heck lot of damage from some rampaging robots. Damn Atlas.

"Either way," The brawn man said lying back looking content. "I think this will be a nice place to chill out."

"Now I can agree to that Junior." Roman laughed causing the small mob boss to just roll his eyes. Been a while since he met Roman, and honestly didn't want to deal with him. So he summoned up some nice ear plugs so he wouldn't have to hear his whiny voice. Now that's a smart move.

"Why didn't I think of that?" Mercury then said realizing he could have blocked Emeralds voice ages ago. The girl in question just huffing and looking away.

"So, we get to have good meals and a drink. Now that's the life, eh bunny girl." Coco went to Velvet as she began summoning some delicious and expensive food. Velvet doing the same as she felt this would be a rare chance to engorged herself on that famed carrot cake that had been the rage in Mistral. Her ears standing tall as her mouth drooled a little at the pastry.

"..." While everyone seemed more or less okay, both freebies and the old folk, only one felt a bit off about all of this. The one who didn't actually belong with this gang. And by extension, their world.

"Excuse me Mayden, but what am I even doing here?" The girl bluntly asked the Keeper as she had no idea who any of these people were.

"Oh right, you." Mayden said as he stared at the girl.

"Yeah, who is this girl?" Coco asked having never seen her before. In fact, nobody knew who she was, which is very strange. Because one way or another, everyone in the room at least had some knowledge of those here. Yet no one could recognize the girl at all.

"Whoever she is, she's hot." Mercury said not even looking ashamed that he said this out loud.

"Pig." Emerald just muttered. The Malachite sisters also giving him a glare though he paid them no mind. The assassin just giving the newcomer a smirk, who in turn just looked away.

"Man that girl seems creepy." Dove just said with Russell nodding. Maybe it's because they've been beaten up a lot in training classes, but Team CRDL could always tell when a strong person is around. This girl in particular felt especially strong.

Those four boys weren't the only ones to notice as well.

"She seems interesting, hehehe." Tock said chuckling with her pointy teeth showing.

"The human better not get any ideas." Adam said to himself mentally preparing in case this girl somehow struck. This Keeper has proven himself unreliable in containing them from harm.

"Hm." Cinder also kept a good eye with Neo moving a little closer to Roman just in case. The most experienced of them could all tell that this woman is no joke. With the woman herself also noting that more than a few of them had ill intentions.

Were it not for the fact that she's missing her weapon and the strange entity holding her back, she'd have most likely strike back by now. However, she'll wait for the time being, as it seems nobody would attack her. For now.

As for Mayden, he just found himself interested by the new arrival. He had to admit, he never expected this. But hey, this is good stuff. "Hello miss, as you already know thanks to the info, your in a place where you can watch all sorts of stuff. From the good things," A glow could be seen that was golden. "To the bad crap." The gold light then went dark with a farting noise coming out.

"Uh, I can actually smell it." Roman waved his hand.

"Okay," The girl just went looking none amused. "But that still doesn't answer my question. I have important things to do after all." Like stopping the tyrannical prime minister and his army. Aiding in stopping their rule to allow the country to enter a new era of peace and prosperity, and not the horror that it is now. Including the defeat of one of the most powerful women that ran the army, and maybe just see her sister when it was all over.

"Oh, that." Mayden then went. "Yeah, I'm still technically a newbie when it comes to using my powers. So I kinda accidentally summoned you here."

'Why isn't that a surprise.' Whitley thought rolling his eyes.

"Can you not just sent me back?" The girl suggested.

"Eh, don't feel like it." Mayden then said showing he had no intentions to do so. "If anything, I feel like you being here would be rather cool."

"Cool. Cool!?" The girl then said a bit angrily. "I have a team that needs me. Fighting in a battle where even a single person can change the tide. To stop the war against the Empire!"

"Empire? Did we have that?" Sky asked Cardin who just shrugged. Since when did Remnant have an empire? Nobody in the room aware that the girl came from a place much farther than where they were from. Much farther.

"Don't worry, cool your jets." Mayden told the angry girl with a glare that could kill lesser men. "When I do send you back, it'll be like no time has passed at all. Nifty trick when summoning other people." The girl didn't look pleased, but did seem to recede her anger knowing that no time will pass at all in her world.

"So, we're just going to be watching these other worlds for how long?" Junior then asked.

"Who knows." Mayden then declared. "Not gonna lie, I actually don't have a clue. Why?"

"Oh, I don't know." Roman then sarcastically said. "Maybe it's because none of us want to end up into the abyss you sent the good guys in! I mean, no way we wanna die!"

Many of those in the 'Bad Side' didn't say it, but they agreed with the thief. I mean, the entity for seemingly no reason just sent them away for no real reason. And while none sans a few didn't really care for their fate, none of them wished to be next when Mayden got bored of them. Seemed more like a nightmare to be honest.

"Have no fear, I didn't kill those guys at all." Mayden then tells them, revealing they are still alive. "I just sent them to a pocket dimension where they'll be there for a while until I call them back. Nothing to worry about at all. They're totally safe"

….Dimension 8-TY-*X

"Uh...where are we." Moaning while holding her head, Ruby Rose then got up with a killer headache. Beside her were multiple people, all of them being the same people Mayden had kicked out.

"I swear this is worse than any hangover." A nauseous Qrow went as he placed his hand on his stomach. Feeling the urge to throw up, but held it in.

"That damn thing ...Is he trying to get us killed?" Ironwood muttered darkly as Winter grabbed and pulled him up.

"Welp, this is worse than the time I had coffee." Nora stated as she picked up Ren who is currently unconscious.

"Ya think." Muttering sarcastically is Jaune, who woke up in what appeared to be a garbage can. Getting out of it, his blonde hair is a mess with trash all over him, along with a rather large pink bra that somehow found itself on his chest, with pink panties on his head. Nora giggling while Jaune blushed and tried to take both lingerie off, only to find it stuck. Great.

"That maniac! How could he!" Weiss said only to find something strange with her voice that sounded...deeper. Blake looking at her in surprise. "What?"

"Uh Weiss, were you always…" The cat faunus didn't know what to say, only for Winter to notice and gasp.

"W-Weiss." She stammered which now greatly worried Weiss, as she never heard her sister like this. "Were you always a...a boy?"

"Huh? What are you sa...ying." It was then Weiss got a good look at herself and discovered her thin hands have become rather muscular. Her breasts-not that she had much-now gone, and her hair feeling a lot shorter with her being taller. Even worse, she could feel 'something' uncomfortable in her underwear, which didn't feel right.

"Ahhhhh!" The manly scream that is now Weiss-male version-shouted.

"Wow." Oscar said as he saw male Weiss yet found it odd that he's still wearing girl clothes. "Ozpin...did you ever face situations like this?" The boy asked his soul bound friend.

"Yes Oscar I have." Ozpin replied. "While I usually only have a male host, every now and then I do get a female host, just not often." This must be a strange deal for Miss Schnee, who looked horrified, embarrassed, and was now walking a bit funny with her form crouched down a little.

Male urges from the looks of it.

"Uh, just where are we?" Glynda said who also realized Weiss wasn't the only one changed. For some strange reason, she no longer had blonde hair but grey...and looked really old. Like a grandma, the unattractive type to. Qrow and Ironwood looking away along with some of the students. Glynda would frown but her back felt awful, her chest sagging, and she truly did now feel her age. Old.

"Wherever we are, it shouldn't be to bad, right." Yang said confidently while also taking pics of male Weiss in girl clothes. Blackmail.

"I don't know." Blake said. "Whatever Mayden did, he-what the hell!?" This got everyone's attention as suddenly everyone heard a mass explosion.

Boom!

"What in the name-" Winter wouldn't finish it as another explosion went off.

Boom!

Boom!

Then another.

BOOM!

And another.

BOOOOMMMMM!

Once more another.

BOOOOOOOOMMMMMMM!

"Okay, what the heck!" Qrow shouted. Then, as if to answer him a building nearby collapsed. Nowhere near them, but it shocked them all.

"Holy, is that!" Yang went as she saw something coming from the cloud of smoke, with Ruby squealing as she ignored that her skin felt rather icky for some reason. Because what mattered on what she saw.

"Oh my gosh, a giant ROBOT!" From the cloud of smoke, a giant robot indeed came out. Huge, blue, had flame painting and an eyeball and pinball on its arms. With the strangest part of it having what appeared to be...a red car on the top where the head should be.

"That seems, almost like the one in Argus." Ironwood admitted though felt this robot felt stranger. In any case, that still left one question for them all.

Where were they?

None of them noticing a sign that said 'Welcome to New Jersey'. With a warning sign beside it that said, `Beware of giant robot car and alien mechas.'

"Now then," Mayden said totally unaware of the action he had made to the heroes. Not even realizing they will possibly die or face trauma or maybe even have a new adventure. "Who's ready to watch some other worlds?"

"Why not!" Russell went with Dove and Sky cheering him on. Cardin also nodding while glad to have his team back in action.

"I suppose so. We have nothing better to do." Plus, Whitley felt he deserved this break after months of studying back at home.

"Show us the action!" Mercury shouted.

"I'm more into drama." Melanie went with her sister and even Emerald nodding.

"Yeah right. I'm with the kid, action is better." Junior went.

"No way, comedy is the best!" Roman said. "I love it when people get hurt."

"I'm up for a horror world." Tock revealed her favorite.

"Please. I rather have one where a monster eats kids." Neo showed her interest in the sign she brought out.

"Hm." Adam didn't know what he wanted to watch, but figured it'd be okay as long as it was something good. Cinder also feeling the same but hoped it would be a little dark.

As for the strange girl, she just sighed as she now knew she's stuck here for the long haul. Oh well. On the bright side, she could now summon as much food as she could. That would be fulfilling. The best part of all being that she wouldn't get full at all. So she could eat as much meat as she can.

"Alright, then let's get started." Team CFVY laid back and conjured some food and drinks, with everyone else doing the same and paying close attention.

"This will be fun." Velvet said as the screen lit up to show the next world. How exciting.

And so ends this Intermission. Now I can show a world that is rather dumb by nature, but a favorite. And we also see our Keeper ridding the good guys away. Oh well. I'm sure they'll be fine in a world with giant rampaging robots, with the one guys piloting the eXtra Large Robot not killing them. Maybe. Until next time.