Chapter 12: I meet myself and do other things.


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(June 11, 2017) So this is finally getting updated after an extremely long period of time.


I slowly opened my eyes to find myself in a black void. Okay... where the fuck am I? All of a sudden, there was a red flash of light and in its place was a figure standing before me My jaw dropped. He was wearing was a dark brown leather jacket, dark blue jeans, a pair of tennis shoes, a triforce necklace, and a smirk on his face. All the while being in a relaxed form and his hands in the pockets of the jacket. His facial features were exactly like mine, but he had a pair of glasses on. Is this guy me? But I don't wear glasses!

"Fucking finally! I was wondering if I was going to find me somewhere." he said in a way I would say.

"Who the hell are you?!" I demanded.

He scratched the back of his head. "Well, I'm you from another dimension. Where I'm from, I'm a fanfiction author. I brought you here since you are a self-inserted character. Since I changed my appearance, you have to change as well." I didn't say anything.

"Prove it."

"How?"

I paused. "Tell me one of my secrets that only the real me would know." He rolled his eyes and sighed.

"Fine, I'll whisper it to you. I can't believe you are making me do this. You know you believe in the multiple earths theory/infinite worlds theory."

"Just do it!" I shouted.

"Christ, fine." He walked over to me and whispered something in my ear. I felt my body immediately get hot, my face flushed, and other things that I didn't feel like mentioning. When he moved away from my ear so he was facing me, he had the same exact reaction.

"I believe you, but did you really have to remind me of that one?" I asked him.

"Oh come on! We know how that affects us, so I knew you would believe me if I told you." he said after taking in a sharp breath.

I crossed my arms. "So, what am I going to do differently?" He handed me a couple of small cases.

"These contain your glasses and your new sunglasses. I found out my eyes were kinda shit, so now I wear glasses." I went ahead and tried them on and he summoned a full length mirror. I looked at myself with my glasses and then my sunglasses.

"Where is the light source coming from?" I asked offhandedly.

"It's my dimension, so I have creative freedom here." He said. I shrugged my shoulders before looking at myself again.

"Okay, there is a difference that makes it better; but fuck this is going to be difficult to get used to."

"I know the feeling." he replied with a grimace. "It's a bitch." There was an awkward silence between us, which I knew was a common thing in my personality.

"Are you not at all freaked out by the fact you met another me?" I asked with a bit of curiosity.

"What do you think?" he deadpanned. I laughed.

"Just making sure." I looked at myself again. "Is that it?"

"Yep."

"Going to do this to other me's?" It was more of a statement than a question.

"Yep."

"Okay. I guess you should send me back." I said.

"I'm not dumb." we laughed. It was then I felt like I was falling.

"OH YOU ASSHOLE!" I yelled out.

"WE ARE ALWAYS ASSHOLES!" he called down to me with a hysterical laughter.

My eyes opened to find myself back in my bed on Remnant. I sat up and looked over to my right and saw the two pairs of glasses that other me talked about. I cracked my neck a few times before starting my daily routine. Last night's events were not really all that surprising to me. I mean, meeting another version of myself and that person basically stating that I might be a fictional character in a fictional universe would rack at most people's brains. It totally leans towards the side of fourth-wall breaking. However, this kind of paradoxical/supernatural shit is what I love so much. I was honestly rather excited to meet another version of me. I grabbed my glasses from my nightstand and looked at myself in a bathroom mirror. I frowned.

I look so nerdy. But it honestly isn't too bad. There is an improvement visually speaking. Makes me wonder what other people would think of me now that I have to wear these.

I shrugged my shoulders as I headed downstairs to make myself some breakfast before I would start my morning training routine. I decided to keep breakfast light and just have an apple with some buttered toast. With my music drowning out everything I enjoyed the comfortable solitary silence. After throwing away the core, I walked outside to begin my routine.

I stretched myself out across the field, my muscles burning while my body was sweating something fierce.

Probably wasn't the best idea to provoke that small Beowolf pack on my way back from my jog. Fucker made me use my lighting since I was unarmed. I sighed. At least there wasn't a whole lot of them, unlike last week.


I had already killed 12 of the 15 Beowolves that were chasing me halfway across the forests of Vale. I blocked an incoming strike from two Beowolves who thought it would be a good idea for them and their pack to gang-up on me. I grunted as the impact shook me for a bit.

"You think you're so clever to try and get the upper-hand on me, well let me tell you something..." I kicked back the third Beowolf who grazed my cheek earlier. "You picked the wrong time to piss me off!" I charged Black Lighting with energy and struck Beowolf number three in the face. I heard a growl to my right and charged lighting into my shield and bashed in the sound's general direction. I charred Beowolf number two. I met the gaze of Beowolf number one, and overcharged my lighting ball technique. The resulting impact caused a mini explosion which sent small splinters my way. I ducked behind my shield. I surveyed the damage as my adrenaline began to dissipate and leisurely walked my way back home.


And I was armed that day too. My mind always forgets the simplest of things. Wouldn't surprise me if I suffer for that. I need to make sure that doesn't happen again. I yawned as my eyes began lazily following the clouds. I knew I wanted to take a nap, but was too lazy to move.

"Gah!" I scrambled away from whatever touched me only to be greeted by my Master laughing at me.

"Why did you do that?!"

"Because I like scaring you. Also, you have been out here for six hours." I was confused. "Yes, it was that long. Also, what's with the glasses?"

"I met another version of me who wore glasses and so now I wear glasses."

"You say it like it's no big deal. You were not at all surprised at encountering another version of yourself?"

I sat myself up. "I mean, yeah I was. But you have to understand that I believe in the whole multiverse and infinite earths theory. It was actually really exciting." My Master only shook his head at me.

"Only you wouldn't be fazed by something like that."

I laughed. "That would only be someone like me." I got up and dusted myself off. "I think I'm going to head over to my part-time job in Vale. If you want me to get anything from the store, better to ask me now."

"What? Are you going to be in Vale all day?"

I shrugged. "I don't really know. I might just wander around for a while." He just looked at me and sneered. "What's with that look?"

"What are you talking about?"

"That sneer you just did! Why?"

He hand-waved it away and started to head back inside. "Nothing. Just have some things on my mind. I don't need anything, but that shouldn't stop you." He left me alone while whistling a tune. I couldn't really think of anything as to why he would act like that, so I just decided to head over to my job.

I decided to stay extra long to make up for as much of the time I was gone, much to my boss's appreciation. I promised him I would be back here tomorrow and we closed up shop. The sun was halfway through its decent and I decided to just wander around Vale. I pulled out my Scroll and hit random. The loud guitar riffs combined with a serious amount of djent blasted in my eardrums. Allowing the music to consume my surroundings. Despite the chillness of the air, it was still a fairly pleasant time to walk around. It's the kind of cold where it's cold enough to warrant wearing a jacket, but not so cold to warrant a winter jacket. Pretty much fall temperatures. I decided to walk over to a random park bench and reflect as I try to do so every so often.

I still can't get over the fact that Cinder might be evil. These gut feelings just won't go away! Have I made my mind so set on being forever alone that I can't accept the idea of falling in love? I shook my head. That wasn't true if our last encounter was anything to go by, where I did state to myself that I fell for her. But I don't really understand as to why that happened? I scrunched up my shoulders. Seriously! We've only been seeing each other for maybe a few months at most. I rarely keep myself in contact with her because I'm too scared and a bit lazy. How much of my antics does she even put up with? I think the most she really gets out of me is when we have those really far-out conversations about rather mundane philosophical shit. If you can even call it philosophical. I got up and began walking around aimlessly all the while my music was still playing. I mean, if we did get together, how far would we even go? I don't even want to think about marriage. Raising a family. Oh god... I would have no relatives to attend it! Plus wearing a tux... I felt my stomach turning into knots. Jesus Christ... me in a tux. I always said that I wouldn't live to see the day. I laughed to myself. Karma's a bitch. I pulled out my Scroll and found Cinder's number. My fingers hovering over her number, and my heart pounding within my chest. At the last minute, I shut my Scroll off. Get a hold of yourself! You're not supposed to be acting like this!

With my mind filled with these thoughts, I headed back home. I really didn't feel like talking to my Master as I am sure he was wondering what I did today.

This was pretty much the routine for the rest of my second year on Remnant. I would wake up, train, go to work, and then train again if I had the time. The kind of training I did varied between sparing matches, aura concentration, using my lighting abilities, or reading up about the world. On rare occasions I would go back to my waterfall base and test out my poisons while only creating potions when necessary. All the while keeping minimum contact with both Saga and Cinder as I figured they would be too busy to have time to talk to me. The rare occasions when I was able to talk to Saga it always ended with him trying to tell me to talk to Cinder and my conversations with Cinder ended with me avoiding sensitive subjects, much to my disdain.

Before I knew it, I only had a couple of months left until the new semester. Already knowing how completely out of my league I would be with basically everyone attending, I felt really depressed and stressed out. Unfortunately for me, I am not very good at hiding my emotions while in this mood, and my Master suggested that I should try and talk to someone. After going over all of this in my head, I decided to work up the courage to call Cinder.

"Hi Opals."

"Hey. I'm sorry for not talking to you for a while. I've been really busy and all." I half-lied.

"It's okay. I... I'm happy that you called." She wasn't really sounding like herself.

"Are you doing okay? I messed up again, didn't I?"

"What? No! It's not your fault! I've just had a lot to think about." She sounded really defensive all of a sudden. I was confused and concerned. I knew I wasn't keeping in touch, but I didn't think she would be this mad at me.

"Okay. Well, if you want to talk to me about it, all you need to do is ask." I tried my best to ease whatever what was on her mind.

"I appreciate it." She seemed to mutter. "So why did you call me?"

Okay, now I could tell something was wrong, but I didn't want to push her away from me. "I just wanted to tell you that I am going to be attending Beacon next month. I thought I should let you know in case I don't get the chance to talk to you for a while." She didn't seem to acknowledge my statement, but I waited regardless.

"That's good to hear. I hope you do well." I didn't like how closed off she was sounding, so I decided to play a little bit of devil's advocate.

"So, what's been going on with you? Anything interesting happening over on your end?"

"Look..." I heard her sigh as she cut me off. "It was nice hearing from you, but I haven't really been having a good day. And before you ask, I can handle it on my own and I'll be okay. If I need you, I'll call you later. Can you do that for me, Opallios?"

I was surprised that she called me by my real name. She hasn't done that in a while. "Okay. If you say so. I'll talk to you later then."

"Thanks for understanding." Although the way she said it didn't sit well with me.

"It's not a problem." Before I could say good-bye and good luck she ended the call. A huge part of me was really concerned as I thought that I had really messed up, but my gut was telling me that she would be okay as I probably called her at a bad time. If it was anything like talking to my friends back on Earth, sometimes the best thing you can do as a friend is to give them some space. This still didn't sit well with me. I had a really bad feeling about this.

"Hey, Opals! I need to talk to you!" I heard my Master call me. I headed downstairs to find him looking over a holographic projection of a map on his Scroll. He looked up briefly and gestured me over to him. "I got a call from one of my old hunting buddies that he heard rumors of a mixed town being oppressed. The problem is that the local authorities don't give a rats-ass about the Faunas and he's a bit far away to reach said town on foot."

"So I'm guessing that you are going to go there on your own?"

"Nope. You're coming with me."

"But why? I don't think I would be of much help to you."

"Look. If you want to be a Huntsman, then you are going to help me with this. I know your school-year is starting soon, and I figured you getting some on-field experience would do you some good. If you want, you can consider this a final test as it were." He turned to face me. "I have to admit you have improved a lot, but you are still not Huntsman material. Promise me you will keep on training once you attend Beacon."

"Of course I will."

He nodded approvingly. "We will be heading out for the site two weeks from today, which leaves us time to gather supplies as the actual trip itself will take about two or three days on foot. I personally recommend that you use the first week to train and the last three days of the second week to relax. I'm going to need you at your best once we leave."

And that was exactly what I did. Soon enough the end of the second week was here, I told my boss of how I was going on a mission, and he wished me luck. I also decided to try and talk to Saga and Cinder one last time. Saga was jealous of how I got to go on a mission, but Cinder didn't pick up her phone and she had been doing this since our last conversation. I used to leave messages to tell her that I hoped she was doing alright and that I would be here if she needed me, but she wouldn't return my calls. After a while, I stopped calling her. I decided to not tell her about the mission I was going to go on. I only hoped that she will be like herself when I return in one piece.


(July 7th, 2017) I found out that RWBY Vol. 5 will be premiering on October 14th. If I don't get a lot of my questions answered – like Jaune's Semblance for example – then I will drop the series. I am honestly getting rather annoyed that every Volume has left loose ends and concepts unfulfilled. I will still support the show through other means, but Volume 5 needs to answer so many questions.


(January 6, 2018) AUGH! IT'S BEEN TOO LONG! IT'S BEEN SO LONG!

Words cannot express how awful I feel right now. I feel like I should stop writing all together after this. My god.

So a few things happened since I last touched this story -

RWBY Volume 5 has a bunch of highs and lows. The time of writing, I am all caught up and Episode 12 should be coming out soon for me to watch it.

I saw The Last Jedi, and it wasn't as bad as what I've seen in social media. It's a 3/5 or a 6/10 for me.

My next set of college classes being in less than a week, but I only have one class and it's on a Friday, so maybe I can put some time in to write again.


Now that all of that is out of the way...

Alright. Only 4 more Chapters to go before the end of this arc. Thanks for sticking around for so long. Your patience speaks volumes.

Next planned story updates:

Team DRGN (Dragon)

RWBY: An Elysian Tail

The White Knight's Shadow

RWBY Vampire story Rewrite

This has been TheTriforceofAwesomeness, and I will see you guys later.

Peace!