Anon: Are you sure this is a necessary format to take?
Billy: Oh come on! It's a really interesting way of doing Author's Notes, plus the both of us are technically the authors of this shit so, both sides of the story, right?
Anon: I'm just saying, we haven't really asked KingMac11 for us to use this sort of format considering he used it.
Billy: Eh, he didn't really say it's his so, why the fuss?
Anon: ...If we're getting reported for this, I'm blaming you- OH WAIT, it's your account so fuck you anyways! HAHA!
Billy: Oh laugh it up, now if we're done, we best not waste any fucking time and get this shit rolling!
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In the far deep reaches of space... actually it's beyond space but- you know what? Fuck it, we're going with the latter, AHEM! In a realm that exists beyond space and time, between dream and reality-
THAT'S FROM PERSONA AND WE'RE GONNA GET SUED! DO IT AGAIN!
Everything?
Yes, everything.
Goddammit, anyways. Beyond Space and Time lies a dimension that does not adhere to the laws that bound the very world you're living in, for this dimension is made up of... hang on.
Oh WHAT NOW?! SERIOUSLY, WE'RE DELAYING THE READERS FOR TOO LONG!
I was wondering if "Chaos and Order energy" are bound by a certain fandom/series.
Well, no, every fandom uses Chaos and Order stuff in varied ways, why- oh, now I see, yeah you're good. Go on.
Thanks, anyway! For this dimension is made up of both Chaos and Order energy, through Chaos everything can be possible but it is through Order that peace and balance are maintained. For this dimension has a simple name: "The Theater".
For The Theater allthroughout the Multiverse, for in every universe, it is constant but exists in a variety of ways and forms and shapes! Ah but I know what you're wondering, "Why the hell do you keep talking about the fucking Theater?" Well I say shut the hell up and listen because we are about to explore the many shenanigans and bullshit between two otherworldy beings that are a part of a species that exists in every Theater in the unknown yet known Multiverse.
This is Anon and Billy's Theater...
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In the messy as fuck Theater of the two dunderheads I've mentioned, we see dunderhead number 1 enter through the door off on your right.
"I can hear you, asshole!" Said dunderhead number 1, "And stop calling me dunderhead! I have a name." Sorry, this was AnonNoir, he was, well a Noir Detective sprite, he wore shades, a fedora and an overly large trench coat to hide his micropenis.
"Hey!" Sorry, hehe, but anyways we see Anon surveying his and his brother's Theater and came to a conclusion, "Wow, you weren't kidding when you said this was messy as fuck." I know, there's popcorn bags and empty drink bottles everywhere, you can even see the occassional rat scurrying around the place- WHO THE HELL WAS IN HERE ANYWAY?!
"The hell should I know?!" Anon asked, a dumbass question considering it's also his FUCKING THEATER.
"Well, excuse me if I didn't know, I was busy recording a universe somewhere." Ah yes, I forgot that Anon and his brother belong to a species known as "Authors", pretty much they record shit that's going on in a certain universe and archive it, you may know them by many names like "Gods"-
"We're not Gods, but our Boss is, somewhat." Yeah they're not but in some cases, they are, they're also "Archivists" "Writers" and many more titles that even I don't fucking remember.
But I digress, we see dunderhead number 2 coming in through the Theater doors in front of Anon.
"Huh, so we uh... removed the filter on this guy?" Asked dunderhead numero dos, also known as BillyBombastic (who is definitely not related to YeagerBombastic, I swear to God), he was- well a talking bomb, he had a bomb for a head and just put shades on it to look cool, even if he's not (Ouch), along with a fancy butler's outfit, gloves and all.
"Yes Billy, we have removed the filter on this guy unless he has any universes to narrate, right?" Yes, quite. But anyways, these two happen to be gay for a certain blonde bastard.
"We're not gay for Jaune Arc, we just think he had so much potential but his universe eventually decided to fuck him over anyway." See? Even gets the brothers to speak like twins.
"WE ARE TWINS, DUMBASS." See what I mean, but speaking of universes fucking over certain people... wait a fucking minute.
"What now?" Billy asked. If we're in a Theater...
"Yes?" Anon said. And there's nothing to do...
"Uh huh- wait... ah shit." It was then Billy became a mind reader and knew exactly what I'm thinking, cue the transition.
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Ah, the World of Remnant, so full of life, splendor and... well, it's honestly shit if you're living in post-Fall of Beacon, but luckily, that time period is definitely not the one we're focusing on today.
Oh look! It's our favorite scythe-wielding, cookie-loving, prodigy team leader of Team RWBY, Ruby Rose! [Epic Applause]
Walking with her was the Heiress to the SDC, resident Ice Queen and total washboard, Weiss Schnee, the Ninja Cat Faunus and avid reader of "Adult Literature" (*cough*), Blake Bellaboot- I mean, Belladonna and the fiery, short tempered, blonde (not that blonde, not yet) brawler of the team, Yang Xiao Long.
Here in prestigous Beacon Academy, it's been just a week since the Breach in Vale and Torchwick being behind bars (Because that's definitely not some piece of an overcooked pie baked by some angry, psycho-bitch. Amen. Amen.), and they were about to walk back to their dorm room from classes when Ruby noticed something, strange.
"Hey guys, do you ever feel like we're being, I dunno, watched?" She asked curiously.
"Don't be ridiculous, Ruby." Weiss replied in her usual way.
(*coughs* bitch queen. She had a traumatic childhood that made her that way. DON'T CARE, but let's keep going)
"If you've noticed, we seemed to be the only ones here."
"Yeah, and if anything, they might just be looking at me." Yang cheekily added, prompting a sigh from Blake.
Just then, Team JNPR's door crashed wide open, revealing the much energetic, pancake-loving Nora Valkyrie... panicking? Usually we never see the ginger grenadier panicking unless... oh.
"Nora, for the last time, Jaune's still buying the flour needed for the pancakes." And out came the ever calm and collected Lie Ren, childhood friend to Nora and definitely not Nora's crush, no! (*snorts*)
"But Reeeeen, I need them now! Nora hungry!" Nora stubbornly replied with an un-Nora-like frown but immediately went back to her usual bubbly self when she saw Team RWBY, "Oh hi! You seen Fearless Leader anywhere? Seems to be taking long buying the flour."
"Nope, sorry Nora, haven't seen Jaune on our way back." Ruby sadly replied, much to the dismay and impatience of the pink bomber.
Just then, they heard tired panting and turned to see our Man of the Hour, the blonde (yes, that one.), slightly toned, lovable dork knight himself, carrying what seemed to be an excessive amount of flour.
"Ren... here's... the flour you wanted." Jaune said panting, handing out what seemed to be a large sack of flour to Ren, the size of which can be comparable to their dorm door.
"Uh, this may be a bit too much-" Ren wasn't able to finish his sentence when Jaune cut him off saying.
"Nope! If I... want to be tournament ready... need... strength training." And 'strength training' was all the poor blonde had the strength to say before passing out, eliciting a fight-or-flight response from... well you know who.
"Jaune!" It doesn't take much second thought to know a certain redhead rushing in from the JNPR dorm room to check if her secret crush was okay.
Huh and I seemed to forgot that Team RWBY was there the whole fuckin time because Ruby Rose also went down and check to see if her first friend and second bestie (First is Weiss, obvious reasons. I'm curious, whose side are you on? White Rose? Lancaster? RoseGarden? If this shit's gonna be ANOTHER FUCKING HAREM, Narrator, I SWEAR TO FU- Let's keep the flow going, gents!) was okay when suddenly both sister teams felt a massive earthquake which seemed to jolt our blonde underdog back to full energy to yelp at the sudden earthquake.
"Wh-wh-what's going on?" He manage to stutter out, hanging on to his partner for dear life, not noticing an atomic blush from the Amazon (or Spartan? Doesn't matter. Ha! Either way, she's dead! ...Seriously? Anyways.)
"Earthquake!" Ruby screeched, hanging on to her sister for dear life as well, not noticing that poor Yang was running out of air, fuckin hell, the grip strength on this girl...
It was then that their world seemingly started to crack and said cracks had blue light coming from them along with little lightning bolts and BAM! The floor below them crumbled, sending both Teams RWBY and JNPR down a white spiral vortex thingy (You know which ones I'm talking about. Narrator, I think that's called a "toilet", I'm sure you know of it. *Gut busting laughter* Ah, your wit never ceases to amaze me, brother.). Sending them to the unknown... yeah you know what's gonna happen next so... Cue transition.
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Back at the now clean and pristine Theater, we see our two favorite hosts getting ready for what's coming.
"Yeah and I'm veerrrry excited." Anon totally exclaimed in sheer excitement, "Fuck you." He said lovingly. Hang on, aren't you both supposed to, you know, hide from view until they come here? Speaking of...
A portal opens... right outside the Theater and in some movie lobby? Huh, and out came Team RWBY and Team JNPR, albeit in a pile.
"Ow..."
"Get off me, you dolt!"
"Who touched my hair!"
"Whee!"
"Jaune, where are you?!"
"Pyrrha, you're sitting on my face..."
"I'm sorry!"
Once both teams are well, not in some sad excuse of a dog pile, they realized..!
"This is not Beacon." Ruby stated the obvious, followed by...
"Of course not you dolt, we must be in some kind of movie theater." Weiss replied, still tending to her aching back.
"Ooh, freaky, hey you think they got pancakes here?!" Nora asked, still hungry for the disks of glory.
"Nora, it's a movie theater, I don't think they serve pancakes." Ren replied, oh if you knew... speaking of which.
"WELL! I can assure you, Mr. Ren that this Theater does serve pancakes." A flamboyant, yet mysterious voice calls out from the lobby's intercom, gaining the attention of everybody.
"Who goes there?" Blake demanded, after a while of being Blake.
"Who we are does not matter, the question is: what are you, all of you in fact, doing here?" Another mysterious, this time calm, voice asked through the intercom. (Yeah, because I'm very sure your voice was totally calm a while ago, Anon. Fuck off.)
"Uh, well there was an earthquake a-and then the floor just crumbled and we uh, fell down?" Jaune stated, unsure if his assessment was right.
"I hate to say it, but I agree with Arc, there were cracks all over the halls as well." Weiss added, begrugdingly agreeing with the blonde knight.
"Hmm, well it seems that we know the answer to your predicament." The calm voice replied.
"You do?" Ruby asked.
(Wait, we do? What is it this time? Some different, emo/edgy and dark version of these bozos plan to rape the canon timeline, and the Multiverse in the process, so we pull Canon!Jaune along with some other versions of him to- THAT'S, from The Chronicle Theater so no, plus Jaune's here and we're the Hosts, not some old version of Jaune who runs the Theater, plus everything we're gonna show, at least in theory, isn't just about Jaune. It's not? So it has to be the "canon timeline bad, Hosts angy, Hosts reset timeline with rainbows and butterflies shooting out of everyone's asses" excuse, right? ...What? N-no! Not, exactly at least. *Sighs* Just trust in what the Boss wrote on the script and in what the High Council, *turns to reader and whispers* that's all of you, decides on what to do next. Alrighty... wait, who's talking-? YOU DUMBASS. OH SHI-)
"W-WHY YES, Miss Rose, we do! IN FACT, it is better to show than to tell, don't you agree? This is a Theater, IS IT NOT?!" The loud voice replied, stuttering at first (Pfft. Shut up.), much to the annoyance of a certain faunus in the lobby.
"Well, mysterious voices, lead the way. Should be fun, right guys?" Yang, trying to be optimistic, despite their precarious situation, asked the others who simply nodded as big neon arrows suddenly lit up, showing them the way to the Theater.
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When they arrived, they arrived at a white and gold themed Theater, with white and gold movie chairs on the sides and a central aisle leading to a big blank screen shrouded by white and gold curtains. They were awestruck by the sheer beauty of the Theater, Weiss especially considering the many theaters and operas she went to.
"PLEASE!" The loud voice boomed over the Theater, scaring the absolute shit out of them as the voice continued, "Take a seat, but do not sit down!"
(Seriously? What? Doesn't hurt to put a reference)
"But in all seriousness, please sit down, the seats in fact would actually convert their colors to your respective and favorite ones."
They tested it, on the top row sat Team JNPR with Jaune's seat remaining unchanged, Nora's being a Light Pink and Aqua Blue, Pyrrha with Bright Red and Bronze and Ren with Green and Magenta.
On the bottom sat Team RWBY, Ruby's being Dark Red and Black, Weiss with White and Ice Blue, Blake's being Black, White and Purple and Yang having her chair Bright Yellow and Hot Rod Red.
"Whaddaya think Team RWBY and JNPR? DO YOU LIKE IT?" The louder voice asked.
"It is very comfortable." Weiss admitted, "But that doesn't explain why we're here."
"Right, but before we explain why you're here when you shouldn't be, give us the honor and the pleasure to introduce ourselves." The calm voice humbly asked, everybody nodded as the curtains unveiled revealing the dunderhead twins!
"WE'RE NOT DUNDERHEADS!" Right, sorry but unfortunately you said that in front of...
"Pftt!" As expected, Yang, Nora, Jaune and Ruby busted a gut and laughed very hard, Blake and Ren chuckling silently whilst Pyrrha blinked and Weiss?
"Excuse me?" She asked deadpanned, not really impressed with the impromptu introduction made by the dunderhead- ahem! The Hosts. (Oh hardy-har-har, Narrator, laugh it up, I know you're laughing.)
"Ahem!" The loud voice, belonging to the gentleman who has a bomb for a head and shades cleared his throat(?), prompting the rest to STFU! Ahem! As the gentleman with a bomb for a head introduced himself, "GRRRREETINGS!" He started, rolling his r's for effect.
"I AM WILLIAMUS BOMBASTICUS III! SON OF WILLIAMUS BOMBASTISCUS II!" Williamus Bombasticus III, son of Williamus Bombasticus II (Why was that necessary? Because yes.) introduced himself with an overly-exagerated bow, "BUT! You can call me BillyBombastic or just Billy, pleased to make your aquaintance!" He then shook the hands of the guys and kissed the hands of the girls, which surprised but earned the respect somewhat from Weiss.
"I am Aaronus Nolanus Oliverus Nicolaus Noir. Long name, I know." Aaronus Nolanus Oliverus Nicolaus Noir (Again, unecessary. Even my name is not that long. ON WITH THE PLOT) introduced himself with a much simpler bow of the head, "But you can call me AnonNoir, or either Anon or Noir, either or, really."
"NOW, no need to introduce us with your names as we all know who you all are." Billy said, lingering his stare unto Jaune in particular for a bit before clapping his hands and suddenly the doors adjacent to the screen opened revealing 8 floating tables as they plopped down in front of the guests. With Billy's snap, fancy looking food menus appeared on the hands of the guests.
"My brother was always known to be... excessive, but please take your orders, the main course will be served later, snacks for now." Anon stated. (Ah, now I know why the Theater was really messy... Billy, you're cleaning this up after, right? U-uh, o-on with the plot now! *nervous laughter*)
"Uh huh, we were always known to be kind and serve our guests in the most hospitable way, unlike others." Billy said, muttering the last part out silently enough that not even Blake could hear (Yeah no offense to most of the other guys but they really just make their versions imagine it and poof! Well we do it too but fancier, I guess.On with the show people!)
"Yes quite but anywho, I'm sure you all taken your orders and the snacks will be given to you... now." Just as Anon finished his sentence, the snacks poof right on top of their tables.
"Cookies!/Pancakes!" Ruby and Nora squealed, munching on them quickly.
"Well, I hope you're all tended to for your needs, but anyways, onto why you're here." Billy gestured to the screen which lit up, showing Remnant from space, which awed the guests.
"That's our home... from space." Jaune said, amazed.
"Indeed, but that's not important, this is." Billy then made a pinching gesture with his fingers and the screen zoomed out to the many universes, amazing the guests even more. (Very presenting there. Of course!)
"Now, I'm sure you've been familiar with the Multiverse Theory, who here has?" Weiss, Pyrrha, Ren and Blake raised their hands.
"GOOD! Good! Now what if I tell you that this "theory" became..." With one upward swing of his arms, the many universes on screen went out of the screen and into the Theater like that of a hologram, showing the guests with what seemed to be scenes of different universes.
"THE LAW OF THE MULTIVERSE?!" Billy asked flamboyantly with arms spread wide.
(I'm sorry but, law of the Multiverse? Now you're just pushing it, Bill. Hey! It's on the script. It is? *reads script* Huh, so it is)
The guests were amazed once more, Jaune more importantly as he pointed out one scene with...himself?!
"Uh guys? Look!" He exclaimed, pointing towards the same universal scene, the rest of his friends looked and were shocked.
"Jaune, that's...!" Ruby called out, speechless.
"Ah, I see you've found one, but that's not important." Billy then pointed and tapped a universe colored in red labelled "Remnant Prime" which then shrinked as he pinched both ends of the sphere and stretched it until it was a sort of a red string, albeit fractured.
"What is important is this." Billy then held the string of Remnant Prime before the guests as he tossed the string in the air, which enlarged the string, making the other universes disappear until it became what seemed to be...
"A... timeline?" Blake curiously asked, which earned her a nod from Anon.
"Not just any timeline, but your timeline." Anon said, "Do you notice something?"
"Yeah, it looks... broken?" Yang guessed.
"BECAUSE IT IS!" Billy exclaimed, grasping the blonde's shoulders, taking her by surprise before releasing her, "Granted, your timeline is not exactly broken, but fractured."
"Fractured? Ooh, ooh! Like a bone?!" Nora excitedly guessed, which earned her a 'so-so' hand gesture from Billy.
"Not exactly, BUT I LIKE YOUR ENTHUSIASM! Anways! Yes it is fractured because certain events in the future, of course, BUT ALSO PAST, were altered not according to what the original timeline intended to happen." Billy explained, albeit a bit animatedly.
"Excuse my language for this, but he means to say your timeline is fucked." Anon bluntly clarified, pulling a lien card out of his coat to place it on Ruby's swear jar.
(*Stutters* Seriously? The Swear Jar? Well, she's technically still a kid, plus we have to respect her rather naive tendencies. I guess so but, hey Narrator! *Sighs* We're really stretching this "Prologue", as the Boss calls it, really long and thin but, what? You're not narrating the part where every lien goes to the swear jar everytime someone curses, right? No, it's not productive and it can prove to be redundant. Ah, ok back to the plot.)
"But why?" Jaune asked.
"Well to put it simply, your universe's timeline wasn't exactly... planned out properly from the beginning." Billy replied, earning shocked looks from his guests.
(Technically, it was planned out from the beginning but from the Fall of Beacon forwards, ehhhhh... Yeah, he's not wrong. Damn right he ain't.)
"What do you mean by that?" Weiss asked.
"Bill, you please." Billy nodded and with a snap, the timeline disappeared and 3 squares appeared on the movie screen.
"Exhibit A." The first square revealed Summer Rose's grave, shocking Ruby and Yang.
"M-mom's grave." Ruby said, tears threatening to cry out. (Because recalling traumatic experiences is your secret pleasure, 'Nonny Boy. I-it's on the script.)
"Summer Rose's "death". Others speculated she simply disappeared without a trace. The reports claimed she was killed by Grimm, is this right?" Anon asked the reaper, his shades appeared to glint in understanding.
"Y-yes, it did." Ruby hiccupped.
Anon nodded to Billy and the bomb-headed Author clapped his hands twice as the timeline appeared before them in a hologram again and with a snap, the time period labeled "Summer Rose's Death" along with Summer's grave as its marker was replaced with a marker revealing an injured Summer embracing her family along with the label "Summer Rose Narrowly Survives Attack", prompting shocked gasps from the guests, more importantly from Ruby.
"Wait a second." Jaune said, making everyone look to him, "You're saying that Ruby's mom's death, it wasn't supposed to happen?" He guessed.
(Damn, he catches up quick, smart kid. Where he's somewhat improving on the Brawns, he achieves on Brains... mostly. Mostly? He's still fucking dense, Anon. At least Pyrrah's death was sort of an eye-opener. Wow, that's dark bro, even for you.)
DING! DING! DING!
"RIGHT YOU ARE, ARC-MEISTER!" Billy exclaimed, prompting golden spotlights to focus on Jaune and confetti to shoot out from the corners of the movie screen, the screen turning on reading "WINNER! JAUNE ARC!".
Said blonde knight, sheepishly chuckled while scratching his head, meanwhile his team clapped at their leader's answer.
"Ahem." Anon cleared his throat, making Billy blink before snapping the spotlights off and the confetti to disappear in a flash. Awkwardly laughing before clearing his throat, Billy continued.
"BUT YES, you're right Mr. Arc. In what we'd like to call "The Canon Timeline", Summer Rose was sent on a dangerous mission to Northern Mistral and was supposed to return home ALIVE, but with some injuries." This made Ruby and Yang's eyes widen in hope.
"S-so, Mom was coming home?" Ruby asked, hope evident in her voice.
"Yes," Anon replied, "But, for some reason..." His voice trailed as he nodded once more to his brother who nodded in earnest as Billy clapped twice and the Theater light dimmed as the movie screen turned on to reveal Summer running away from several Grimm, with injuries evident on her body, it seemed that she was depleted of her Aura, she phoned for an emergency evac via Bullhead and was told to head for certain coordinates, she ran and ran until the sky... cracked?
The audience released a breath they didn't know they were holding as they realized that...
"This happened as well back at Beacon!" Took the words right out of my nonexistent fucking mouth, Blake. But anyways.
The rest seemed to agree as the world around Summer seemed to crack until the ground shook and crumbled, revealing the same vortex they fell in except it was blue in color as Summer fell with a scream and with that the screen went to static and the viewing ended.
The audience was silent for a while, until Ruby broke the silence. "So... where's my Mom?" She asked, staring at the two Hosts before them with nothing but confusion and worry for her mother.
"Well if you have noticed, the vortex that Summer fell in was blue. Now while that might be irrelevant, what was the color of the vortex that all of you fell in?" Anon asked.
"Ooooh! Oooh! It was white!" Nora eagerly replied, spilling some syrup in the process, much to the Hosts' and Ren's chagrin, the ginger mumbled a sorry at this with a faint blush.
"Not to worry, Miss Valkyrie, we all can get overexcited but YES! See, the colors of every vortex can indicate where and when the victim would likely land at: If it was Red, then it would be Time Travel but it varies depending if it were to be past or future, White which would mean that the victim would most likely land in a Theater and before you ask, yes there are multiple versions of this very Theater HOWEVER, different Theaters mean different Hosts." Billy explained and was about to continue when Blake raised her hand to ask.
"What do you mean, different hosts?" The cat-girl asked in curiosity, which definitely doesn't get her killed, am I right?! (...Guys?)
"Well, it certainly doesn't mean different versions of us, but different Hosts entirely and since this is the Multiverse, any and everything can be possible so there could be one Host on one Theater but many on the other, capisce?" Blake nodded which prompted Billy to continue where he left off.
"Anyways, Yellow means a different dimension/universe entirely, like I said, it's the Multiverse so the victim could be ANYWHERE! And lastly the Blue vortex, the most dangerous and the funky fucky of the bunch." This caused the audience to tense up.
"Oh you have the right to tense up, kiddos, because if you fall in a Blue vortex..." Anon's voice trailed, for effect? (Nah, it's just to give 'em a little spook, which you'll see in 3, 2 ,1...)
"T-to what? To WHAT DAMMIT?!" Yang banged the table as she exclaimed in panic, worried that Summer might have suffered a dire fate. Ah there it is. (Told ya)
"Well... it's not exactly life threatening but essentially it's a uh... how do you put this?" Billy snapped his fingers a couple of times in rapid speaking of, do you mean a randomizer? "AHA! Yes! A randomizer! Thank you brain!" ...What? (Me saying "Thanks Narrator!" Wouldn't be very fucking sane of me, would it? No, but I think Nora might've gotten it because... you know. Oh, I see what you mean.)
"A randomizer?" Ruby asked with a tilted head. An action that was KAWAII AS FUCK! (Siiiiiimp. SHUT IT!)
"That's what I said, YES! Basically, the Blue Vortex can transport the victim to either some random Theater or possibly a random universe at a random time."
"The latter being a sort of mix between the Yellow and Red vortex." Anon told the young reaper, who nodded.
"BUT, we must move on to Exhibit B." Billy clapped his hands as the screen went back to the three squares and the next square showed a Beacon ravaged by Grimm. This alarmed the students of Beacon.
"WHAT?! What happened to Beacon?!" Ruby asked, panicked at the state of the school.
"Unlike in Exhibit A, which was in the past and we can freely talk about it, this, along with Exhibit C, are events which haven't taken place yet, in other words..."
"It's from the future, I'm guessing?" Yang said, recalling what Billy said earlier about certain events in the future being altered, this earned her a nod from Anon as the Detective-themed Host continued.
"And since it's from the future, unfortunately we can't freely talk about the last two events as it would further fracture and damage your timeline's continuity and there would be alterations and unforeseen and dangerous consequences."
"Uh... what?" Jaune asked, confused by the many rather complicated words being jumbled together.
"What my brother means to say is, we can't talk about the future otherwise your timeline will just continue to be changed and fucked up from its original and intended course." Billy corrected, which brought clarity to the young Arc.
"Anyways, this is the "Fall of Beacon" as some have called it, I will not state how this happened nor who caused it for obvious reasons, but I will tell you when and just when." Anon explained.
"And that's..?" Ren wondered.
"Why, somewhere around the near end of the Vytal Festival, that is all I will say." Billy's voice at the last word became strained as he stared at the timeline carefully, crossing fingers and biting his lip and hoping that the hologram timeline wouldn't fracture further but thankfully it didn't, which brought a sigh of relief to the butler-themed Host.
"What was that all about?" Yang asked.
"Well, I was hoping that the little hint wouldn't do anything to further fracture and screw up the timeline but thank the stars it didn't." Billy explained.
"So this "Fall of Beacon" wasn't supposed to happen too, I'm guessing?" Weiss asked, making both Hosts nod.
"Yes, and this was what was supposed to have happened." Anon snapped his fingers and the Fall of Beacon label and marker in the timeline changed to a picture of Beacon but on a sunny day with celebrations and banners everywhere and it was labeled "End of the Vytal Festival". This brought smiles to the students, preferring this event over the other one.
"Wait, so who won the tournament?!" The red reaper asked, bouncing on her seat as the others were eager to hear but Anon simply sighed.
"That, unfortunately, we can't tell you." Anon said, but he smirked, "But no one said about taking bets at who would win though."
"If anything, I'm betting we've won!" Yang confidently said with a wave of her hand. Oh if you knew... (Ayyyuup!)
"Yes, yes. Moving on to Exhibit C, ANON!" Anon simply sighed at the loud mention of his nickname.
"Yes?"
"Could you please do the honors now?" His brother shrugged and clapped his hands as the third and final square revealed to be... a statue of Pyrrha? This brought confusion to the audience
"Um... what exactly are we looking at?" The heiress inquired.
"Huh, just a statue of... me?" Pyrrha was confused as she was drinking a glass of water.
"Ah shit, it's zoomed in, hang on." Anon did the same pinching motion to the third image as it zoomed out to reveal flowers below the statue and a sad looking Jaune.
It didn't take long as Pyrrha did a spit-take and choked on her water (Yeah, I would too if I realized I was fucking dead.)
"Pyrrha!" Jaune rubbed his partner's back as she coughed out the water. (Oh, there would be more "rubbing" later on, I bet, *cheeky giggle* ;). Real fucking mature there, Billy. What?)
"What's this supposed to be?" Ruby asked with a shaky voice, not liking the look on the on-screen Jaune's face.
The Hosts looked at each other and sighed at the same time as they both said with sad looks, "The Death of Pyrrha Nikos".
Jaune's head swiveled back to the Hosts, shock and sadness evident in his face, "WHAT?!" He yelled out.
"P-Pyrrha will d-die?" Ruby muttered out, tears threatening to shed again.
Needless to say, the rest of the audience were shocked by this, more so Pyrrha herself but then realized something.
"Wait a second, you said that this wasn't supposed to happen, right? That my death was all but an altered event?" She asked the two Hosts, this question brought the hope back to the Beacon students.
"D-does this mean... Pyrrha's not gonna die?!" Jaune asked, unknowingly pulling the redhead Invincible Girl a little too close in his arms, eliciting a squeak and a massive blush from Pyrrha. Not that she minded, right boys?
(YEAH! The proper ship that should sail... for me at least. Hoo damn, dodged a mahoosive bullet there, brother dearest, don't wanna incur the wrath of the Lancastrians or the White Knights, if you catch my drift? Yeah, too fucking close, I'll be honest.)
""Not Gonna"? Why, SHE WASN'T SUPPOSED TO DIE!" Billy declared with a finger raised, gaining cheers and celebrations.
"Okay, ladies and gents, settle down." The students did as such as Anon continued, "Now, the "canon event" that was supposed to happen is one of, if not, THE MOST important event in your timeline, especially, and more particularly, for... certain people, present within this very Theater and I repeat, this event is the most important and most critical one in your timeline, that if left to be undone and for the altered event to be left unchecked, could spell doom for the future of your timeline after this specific eventand could also spell doom toyour whole universe." Anon explained cryptically, his gaze lingered upon the aforemention certain people but his line of sight was covered by his shades, which brought only confusion and dread to the students, what made this event so important?
"Well... what's the event! Tell us!" Nora excitedly requested, as did the others, eager to learn of this important "canon event".
"Well, that's the thing, we uh... we don't know." Billy helplessly shrugged, as did his twin.
"You... don't know?" Ren asked in confusion.
"See, that's the thing, whenever we try to snap or clap the Canon Event into view, it would just do this!" Billy tried to snap the Canon Event, but a marker that had an image of a heart-shaped lock appeared in the timeline along with the label "Locked" and said marker appeared just over the "End of the Vytal Festival" marker. The locked marker shook in response to Billy's snap as if denying the Host access to the event.
Strange, but why does the marker have a heart-shaped lock? Pyrrha mused but she had a sneaking suspicion as to what the event is supposed to be but held her final judgements back. Unbeknownst to her, the two Hosts can read her thoughts and looked to each other and engaged in a mental conversation.
"She knows, doesn't she?" Billy mentally asked his brother.
"She has a sneaking suspicion, but she just might have an idea." Anon replied.
Sighing at the same time, the Hosts turned back to their guests as the ninja of Team JNPR asked the Hosts, "So why is the third Canon Event locked exactly?"
"That's the thing, we don't know but my brother dearest might have a theory and a solution as to how to unlock this final event. ANON, THE STAGE IS YOURS!" At Billy's final statement, a section of the floor before the Hosts elevated, forming a stage-like platform.
Anon stepped onto the platform to explain things further, "Well, I coined this the "Multiverse Awareness Theory"."
"Multiverse...Awareness Theory?" Ruby asked, confused.
"Yes. I theorized that if the characters that can help progress a fractured timeline, that's you eight along with several others," The detective-themed Host gestured to the audience before continuing, "To its Canonically desired outcome, which are pretty much the "Good Guys" of a story, if you will. If these Good Guy characters were to be exposed to the vast Multiverse, taking in its residual radiation-"
"R-radiation!?" Weiss exclaimed, alarmed, along with the others.
Anon, however, raised his hand in assurance, "Hang on, let me finish." The audience quieted down but are still worried, "This residue, which Bill and I liked to call "Multiranium" is not radioactive in nature, in fact it functions and behaves much like Oxygen but with a few key differences."
"Like what?" Jaune asked.
"GLAD YA ASKED." Billy took over, rudely shoving his brother out of the platform, much to his annoyance, "Terrestrial organisms, like you guys, can only be exposed to Multiranium if you're in a foreign, non-universal environment, which is science talk for "If you're not in your home universe"."
"And where is this "foreign, non-universal environment"?" The cat-faunus asked.
"Well, you're in it right now." Anon simply answered, surprising the guests.
"Wait, so we're exposed to this weird Multi-thingy-ma-jigg right now?!" Nora exclaimed, looking at her arms wearily but in a comical manner.
"Yes, Miss Valkyrie, you are in fact exposed to Multiranium just by being in the Theater, seeing as this is a place that exists beyond Space and Time and outside any universe." Billy explained, "BUT WE'RE OFF TRACK, SO I'M GIVING THIS SMALL-ASS PLATFORM BACK TO ANON NOW, SORRY BUDDY." Billy moonwalked his way off the platform as Anon walked back and continued his explanation.
"Thank you Billy. Anyways, if the Good Guy characters were to be exposed to enough Multiranium for a good amount of time while being absent from their home universe, it would force the fractured timeline to a full stop, after all how would a timeline work properly if the important characters aren't present, right?" The audience nodded at the Host's logic.
"But anywho, if the characters were exposed to enough Multiranium for a good enough time, the side effects of the exposure would start to well, take effect of course. What are these side effects? These include: Full Exposure and Sheer Awe of any and all things foreign, whether it be technologies, history, possible alternate universes and the like, both good and bad, and Full Awareness and Gradual Acceptance of anything beyond your logic and the natural rules of your world."
"Essentially, what my brother is saying, these side effects are essentially you guys being exposed to any and all the possibilities of the MULTIVERSE!" The butler-themed Host clarified flamboyantly.
"As I was saying, the side effects would not only affect you guys, and whoever would come here that is a Good Guy and is important, these effects would go on and affect your timeline as well, like a sort of Ripple or Bleeding Effect, that would theoretically make your timeline exposed to Multiranium as well through its inhabitants."
"Basically," Billy butted in again to simplify and shorten his brother's somewhat complicated explanation, "You guys are tethered to your home universe and since any action or decision done by you guys would always have an alternative route, a "what if" scenario if you will, by being exposed to Multiranium..."
"We would be aware that there are possible alternative outcomes that can actually happen, consequently giving the same awareness to our universe and essentially forcing a "factory reset" of sorts and restoring our timeline to its Canonical setting, right?" Jaune suggested, much to the surprise of the others and to the Hosts somewhat.
"Who are you and what happened to our Vomit Boy?" Yang jokingly asked, impressed by the knight's assessment, much like the others, earning a surprised look from her fellow blonde.
"I-I don't know, it just... somehow got into my head for some reason.." The knight replied, also not knowing how he gotten to say those really smart words.
"Hmm, it seemed that the side effects have started to take affect, and with Jaune Arc being the first affected of all people, unsurprising." Billy commented.
"Unsurprising? What do you mean by that?" Pyrrha asked, concerned as to why Billy claimed it was unsurprising for her partner to be the first affected, Jaune was curious as well.
"Later," Anon decided, "But Mr. Arc is right on his statement, if the Good Guys are exposed to enough Multiranium, it would induce the side effects unto their home universe, which would slowly but surely restore the timeline to its Original and Canonical state." The Host finished as he stepped down the platform, which began to descend back into the floor.
"And TRUST US when we say that there are a FUCK TON of alterations in your timeline, the three that we showed you are but the main ones." Billy said.
"Yup, and once your timeline reaches a certain point of its "Restoration Phase", I think it would theoretically unlock whatever the hell is behind this lock." Anon added, tapping the locked Event irritably as it kept shaking.
"So how do we do that?" Yang curiously asked, "We can't exactly stay here doing nothing."
"Good question." Billy said with a wide excited grin, "Because I know of a perfect alternative."
"And that is?!" Nora asked with an equally excited grin.
"Well, I was showing you the Multiverse and this place isn't called "The Theater" for no apparent reason, is it?"
"Indeed," Anon continued, "By being exposed to different universes, whether just being in the universe itself or by just watching it, your exposure to Multiranium and its side effects speeds up drastically." The detective-themed Host explained.
"In other words, WE'RE WATCHING THE DIFFERENT UNIVERSES OF THE MULTIVERSE!" Billy exclaimed with arms open wide, as the hologram of the Multiverse showed once again.
"Woah, really?!" Ruby asked, stars in her eyes.
"Not only that, since we're gonna fix your timeline, we'll be viewing different versions of yourselves." Anon stated, earning looks of shock from the guests.
"So that guy in that one universe..." Jaune trailed, realizing what he saw from the hologram.
"That was a different version of Jaune?" Ruby asked.
"Ha! ONE OF MANY!" Billy replied, "In fact, most of the universes we're gonna view here feature HIM!" Billy pointed towards the resident dork knight, whose eyes widened at what the bomber-head said.
"ME?!" Jaune asked, "Uh, why me though?" His friends wondered the same.
"WHY YOU?!" Billy asked incredulously as he stuttered before continuing, "L-LOOK HOW MANY THERE ARE!" He clapped as suddenly a hologram with different universes that featured Jaune appeared, which numbered in the millions.
The blonde knight's jaw dropped comically at the sheer number of universes that featured him, the same could be said for the rest of Team JNPR and RWBY, with Weiss having the utter look of shock and disbelief.
"In the vast Multiverse, Jaune Arc is many people, from many differing beginnings." Anon explained.
"HE IS A GREAT HERO IN SOME." Billy piped in, making the guests smile that the blonde was a hero, none so than Pyrrha and Jaune themselves, with the redhead spartan being proud of her partner/crush, and Jaune feeling somewhat jealous yet happy that he achieved his dreams, even if it was a different version of himself.
"And in others, an evil villain." This shocked and saddened the guests, who thought that Jaune would never be evil but at the same time wondered, what made these versions evil? (Other than his friends leaving him and his family disowning him for his fake transcripts? Other reasons factor in but yes, those two are mainly the motivators for an Evil!Jaune.)
"But nonetheless, he won't be the only one featured in these viewings despite the number of Jaunes out there." Billy said.
"I concur, there are also different versions of all of you, but that won't be up to us." Anon added.
"What do you mean by that?" Blake asked.
"Well, we as the Hosts of this Theater and Authors, those who record the events and universes of the vast Multiverse, merely answer to the High Council and the Boss." Anon explained, giving a wink to the "High Council", that's you guys reading this.
"High Council?" Weiss asked with a confused frown on her face.
"The Boss?" Ruby wondered too, oh if only she knew... (I'm surprised Nora wasn't going all "4th Wall Breaker". Oh please don't jinx it!)
"UNIMPORTANT, what is important is the fact that the screen will show one of your emblems to show who's gonna be featured in what universe, for example..." The screen then showed a familiar pair of twin golden arcs...
[SUPER BADASS CLIFFHANGER]
Anon: Wait, that's it?
Billy: Yup, 7k words is a bit too much.
Anon: And that's saying something. But anyways.
Billy: Yes! I hope you enjoyed this long ass prologue because this disaster of a fanfiction is inspired by the RWBY React fic legends like King-Mac-11, 12interestingname34, animegamer89, JC OF THE FUCKING CORN (Without the "fucking" part because he's a damn legend) and many more.
Anon: Yes, it's been a while since my brother went back to writing fanfiction ever since his... well whatever he wrote last year.
Billy: Hey, I'm actually planning to delete whatever the hell I was writing because I'll be honest, that fic I don't know, I must've been drinking something.
Anon: I'll take your word for it... for now.
Billy: Uh yeah, ANYWAY. For those who just read this shit, thank you very much! And since this is a RWBY React fic, I'll take some suggestions that I think would be noice from you guys, although I have some ideas of my own.
Anon: Indeed, so as always, Read, Review, Follow and Favorite and we'll see you in the next one.
Billy: AND STAY BOMBASTIC!