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This is from Kamen Rider Gaim Episode1.
As the group sat in the middle of the theatre, JNPR sat right behind RWBY. "Are we sure we can trust this guy?" Blake asked as they sat down. Despite agreeing, they were still had trepidation about this Curator. However despite her words, she had a plate of tuna sashimi from the kitchen along with a ice matcha.
"I mean he can probably destroy us with a thought given how he canceled out our semblances and aura at the drop of a hat," Ruby said already munching on a strawberry parfait, with a plate of cookies right next to it.. "If he wanted to kill us he had every chance to do so earlier. Also thank god these seats have large desk surfaces for our food!"
"..." Yang frowned despite having popcorn and nachos and some strawberry soda. She was huffing as her purple eyes were tinged slightly red.
"What's going on with you?" Weiss asked from the other side of Ruby. She had just taken a mineral water and some chicken salad. Yang pouted and didn't answer from her spot. "Don't tell me you're still angry that the person didn't let you have alochol."
"I just wanted a strawberry sunrise damn it!" Yang complained. "What's wrong with me getting that?"
"He probably just didn't want you making a mess when you get drunk," Weiss haughtily replied.
"I'll have you know I can hold my liquor thank you very much!" Yang said eating some popcorn.
Behind them Ren just shook his head, having some popcorn as well not being too hungry at the moment. "You shouldn't be so crazy Yang! We're here to watch after all!" Nora giggled as she drenched her large stack of pancakes with syrup.
"I agree. I mean there's nothing wrong with what you want but we should at least respect the owner's wishes," Pyrrha said as she nibbled on her beef gyro with some grape soda as well.
"Fine..." Yang sighed.
"Okay guys," the Curator said over the speakers. "The first one is ready, if you have any questions I'll respond to clarify!"
"Got it Mr. Curator!" Ruby said giddily. Despite the situation, she was getting to hang out with her friends! Now only if Jaune was here. The lights in the theatre dimmed and the screen lights up.
The scene opens up to few words in some odd writing with a deep male voice narrator speaking.
"That's some weird writing," Nora said scratching her head.
"It's seems like ancient Mistrali, especially from the eastern sector of the kingdom," Pyrrha informed them.
PLUCK THE FRUIT OF HEAVEN.
The scene shifted to one of a lot of overgrowth that was slowly filling the scene. Behind all of it was a large circular tower with a ring on it but soon it too was covered in the plant life.
"What's that place?" Ruby wondered as she nibbled on a strawberry.
"That place will be described later, so do not worry Ruby," Curator said. This was enough for her.
The scene changed once more before it showed an armored man sitting atop a horse. They had on dark blue under armor, with golden lines along their legs and arms. Along his waist was an odd looking belt buckle. He had an orange chest plate that seemed to be attached to shoulder pads of the same color. The armor was finished with a horned helm with a visor that looked like...an orange slice?
It was silent for a moment before Yang started to laugh. "Oh my god! That looks both ridiculous and good!" she said slapping her knee. Nora was right beside her in laughing.
"I don't know it looks kinda cool," Ruby muttered. Weiss rolled her eyes.
"While the colors are good it seems a bit gaudy," Weiss said. The white haired girl pulled a face, not liking what she was seeing.
"It looks also reminiscent of Mistralian armor..." Ren noticed it scratching his chin.
"I think they were called samurai specifically given the helmet he has," Pyrrha informed them.
The scene pans up and shows a horde of Grimm standing behind the warrior. They filled a barren field that had numerous trees in the distance. With the same odd writing saying "Glory" right next to the warrior's head.
THAT THE WORLD MAY BE DYED IN YOUR IMAGE. IS THAT THE GLORY YOU SEEK?
"Wait what!?" Weiss shouted in surprise. Everyone was shocked to see such a large number of Grimm behind one person.
"Is he leading the Grimm into battle?" Blake asked the Curator.
"That...I cannot answer. I have seen this world before from start to finish and it is a great tale but I cannot answer for it may spoil," he responded. That didn't put anyone at ease at all.
The screen shifted to another warrior on another part of the battlefield. This one was in red, silver and yellow armor. The details weren't as pronounced as the camera zoomed back. This time the word for "Burden" appearing behind him. Unlike the other person, he was on a motorcycle with a rose headlight.
IS THAT BURDEN ONE YOU CAN BEAR?
"Please...please tell me that's not what i think it is..." Weiss groaned as the grin on Yang's face grew even wider.
"That knight is themed after a BANANA!" Yang laughed again.
"Jeez what's wrong with this world?" Ruby asked.
"Maybe it's their custom?" Ren offered trying to figure out the situation of the world as well.
And just like the orange armored warrior, he too had an army of Grimm behind him. But unlike his counterpart, there were some floating machines. Near the front of the army composed of Grimm was a brown warrior. His armor was more simplistic compared to the others and had been inspired by an acorn! In his hand was a tiny hammer as he prepared himself behind the knight on the motorcycle.
"He also has a Grimm army!?" Weiss shouted.
"That is not good at all," Pyrrha whispers. "Not one but two people able to control Grimm? That's a large threat to us the kingdoms if that did exist.
"Are we just going to ignore the fact that there's an ACORN on the battlefield," Nora giggles.
The camera pans up showing the armies were in the formation of...fruit.
"Stop! Stop! I can't take it!" Yang gasped as she saw just how utterly ridiculous the entire thing was. Nora was holding her sides. At this point Ruby started to laugh as well and even Blake cracked a smile. Ren was confused by the whole thing but went along with it.
One was a sliced orange, the other was a banana. Then there was a third that was in the shape of a melon!
It then zooms in on the melon army watching atop the hill. The army was also filled with various Grimm but these were backed up by what looked like green Atlas Paladins.
"Wait...Atlas? They have a hand in that army?" Ruby asked confused.
"That would explain the paladins," Blake frowned. "But why are they green?"
"BECAUSE THEY'RE WATERMELONS!" Nora shouted in hysterics, this set off another round of laughter from Yang, much to Weiss's annoyance.
Sitting in front of the entire army were two armored figures. One was in white armor with a green chest plate, obviously based on the melon. The oddest thing was despite the white under armor, this being had similar outlines along their arms and legs as the orange warrior but in black instead of gold.
"They look important. I mean they're all shiny and sitting down at a battlefield after all," Ruby pointed out.
"Their design looks also Mistralian compared to the Valean ones from that banana guy," Blake said, eating a slice of sashimi.
"Do you think Melon here is related to Orange somehow?" Yang teases.
Kneeling next to them was a being in green and purple armor. Their armor was far more ornate than everyone else's with the gold that obviously stood out. However their motif stood out for having giant grapes on their chest.
"Hey! Bitch stole your color scheme Renny!" Nora pouted angrily at the warrior.
"Nora, I don't own the rights to the colors of green black and purple," Ren sighed.
From farther away, a familiar woman woke up. Roots and vines that were covering her, slowly removed themselves as two eyes opened, one yellow the other blood red like the Grimm. Dressed in all white, and oddly with blonde hair with a flower as an accessory, was one familiar woman. Standing up, it was revealed to be Blake Belladonna!
"Wow, you don't look have bad as a blonde Blakey," Yang teased her partner elbowing her slightly.
"Are you just going to ignore the fact that I have a Grimm eye?" Blake whispered in surprise. This made everyone look and in fact Blake did have an red glowing eye. "Did something happen to me Curator?"
"Nothing has happened to you Blake. That's not even you," the voice said from his box.
"But it is a version of me."
"Again it's not you Blake so do not fret."
Approaching the battlefield, her presence distracted the orange warrior for but a moment.
KNOW THIS. THE LIVES OF MEN ARE NOT OURS TO CONTROL, NOT EVEN OUR OWN. WE CANNOT DEFY THE INEXORABLE THAT CARRIES US.
The flower on Blake's head was blown off by the wind and fell to the floor. That was the signal needed to ignite the war. The orange clad warrior let out a shout with a very distinct voice.
"Wait...I know that voice!" Pyrrha gasped.
"It's Jaune's! He's the orange samurai!" Ruby cheered.
"But why would he be controlling Grimm?" Weiss asked, making her partner deflate.
"Maybe he's gotten control of them and using the Grimm for good?" Nora said allowed.
"Using the Grimm for good? Don't be preposterous."
He charged into battle with his Grimm following. The banana warrior roared too, his voice garbled by the mask as he brought out a hi-tech spear that looked like a peeled banana. He too charged forward on his bike. His own army charging forward as well. Both sides were shooting at each other with some sort of lasers.
BUT IF THAT FATE WERE TO CALL YOU...
TO CHANGE THE WORLD?
TO CHANGE THE COURSE OF THE FUTURE?
YOU CANNOT DEFY YOUR FATE.
As their clash neared, the white warrior stood up for a better view, and the camera pans to everyone watching at least once. The two charging leaders near each other and then...Multiple giant zippers dragged themselves across the screen for a scene change.
"What the fuck?" Yang cussed in surprise.
"Yang language!" Ruby chastised he older sister.
"But giant zippers Rubes! That doesn't make any sense!"
The scene comes back to one of the various malls within Vale. The open area was flooded with people, both human and Faunus, all enjoying their times with each other. The camera zooms in on one little sheep Faunus boy who was crying. "So you've lost your mommy huh?" said a calm voice.
The camera shifted to show off Jaune in a restaurant uniform standing before the kid. "Well sometimes life sucks and you want to cry." The blonde human got on his knees and put his hands on the boy's shoulders. "But you can't let that beat you. You can take it on like a game. One you win in which you find her without crying."
"That does sound like something Jaune would do to keep a kid calm," Pyrrha giggled at the advice. Blake just smiled knowing Jaune was helping out a Faunus kid in need.
"No matter what it is everyone has the power to put up a fight." He nods at the man boy and smiles. "So, what's the first thing you're going to do?" The boy stopped sniffling and wiped away his tears.
"Find my mommy," the young boy replied with conviction.
"You go kid!" Nora cheered.
The smile turns into a grin as he nods. "Right!" The next thing they see is Jaune and the boy shouting out for his mom. Jaune was sure to hold the child's hand to ensure he doesn't get lost again. When the a sheep Faunus came running she thanked Jaune who waved her off. However she paused when he approached his motor bike that had deliveries on it.
"Sir, did you stop your job to help my child out?" she asked worried, hugging her son.
The groups felt their hearts warm a little at the sight. After all it wasn't every day someone just stop their work to help out a kid in need.
"Ah, it's fine," Jaune said as he waved his hand. "The curry is still nice and warm!" However he looked at his watch and gasped. "But I might be late!" Hopping onto his bike Jaune hurried driving to his client. Barely getting there in time, the blonde smiles and was thankful he managed to finish his job on time. Now only to get back to the curry store and get more deliveries! He took one look towards the center of Vale, where stood Schnee Tower.
"Hey! It's the tower from the opening scene!" Ruby said.
"Schnee Tower? In the middle of Vale?" Blake replied looking over to the white themed girl. She looked just as confused as everyone else.
It was the base of the Schnee Company in Vale, where they had began providing the citizens with free or cheap dust, CCT and utilities over 20 years ago.
"That's...awfully nice of them." Weiss mumbled. She knew her father, Jacques Schnee, would never in his life do that. That was hundreds of millions of lien down the drain if he did. And her father was nothing if not a shrewd business man.
"Is that why the Faunus seem to be less hostile here?" Blake wondered. If this world was more kinder to the Faunus and their cause, given the state of how the Schnee Company works, it may show a better understanding between the two groups in that world. It also made her a little jealous.
On his way back to the store, Jaune stopped at a park when people started running from it. "Huh...isn't this Team Gaim's dance place? Why are people fleeing?"
"Team Gaim?" Ren asked.
"Team Gaim is a group of people banded together known as Beat Riders," the Curator informed them.
"Beat Riders?" Yang smirked. "Sounds like some sort of gang."
"In a way it is given its just a bunch of teens banding together. But their purpose isn't to beat each other up as you expect Yang. It is to ride the beat of music, dancing their hearts out. Hence the name Beat Riders."
"That sounds so cool! Renny, Pyrrha! We should make a Beat Rider team!" Nora clapped her hands.
"We'll need Jaune to teach us to dance at the very least," Pyrrha chuckled. After all during the Vytal Ball they did somehow dance in sync with one another flawlessly.
Looking over a very tiny slope, he saw why. There was a tiny Beowulf rampaging about. Not only that but it was going to attack someone! With his course of action set, he drove forward and smacked against the Grimm with his bike.
"Woo! Go Jaune-Jaune!" Nora cheered.
"That poor bike..." Yang moaned.
With a quick look around the blonde spotted what he was searching for. There on the ground was an strange looking lock with what looked like a seed on it. It was also broken too. He quickly grabbed the thing and opened it. That was when a giant zipper was formed!
"Wait! Those are what that giant zippers are for?" Weiss asked.
"Yes it seems in this world that the Grimm can be summoned via zippers that pass through dimensions," The Curator responded. With how far they were into this scene he was sure he could give them that.
"But why zippers?" Yang demanded.
"I don't know the complete rules of that world. Sorry," the Curator apologized. He did but that would spoil the story if they somehow go back to this in the future.
The tiny Grimm jumped in and Jaune closed the lock, forcing the zipper to close. Jaune let out a sigh of relief, before turning to face the would be victim. Only to reveal Blake in some dance clothes. "Jaune..."
"Hey it's you!" Ruby told her.
"I can see that Ruby," Blake calmly replied.
"And not blonde either," Yang continued.
"Yes, that much is obvious."
"Without your bow," Weiss finished. That one made Blake turn to the screen once more and she was indeed right. That version of her didn't have a bow on. She wasn't afraid to show her true nature, once again enforcing her beliefs that that world was closer to what she wants. A place where they were the races got along.
"You alright Blake?" The cat Faunus didn't seem all that happy to see him. However everyone else in their group seemed more than excited.
"Uh oh, did you and Vomit boy have a fight?" Yang smirked.
"OH! I see Weiss, Ren, myself and Nora! They all have matching clothes with Blake," the redhead Spartan said with a smile. It seemed that their group was still together in that one.
"What! Why aren't we there?" Ruby asked pointing at herself and her sister.
"Yeah!" Yang shouted.
"Maybe you're on another dance team?" Ren offered.
"We better."
"Jaune!" The blonde turned to the people around him. Those who were part of his dance group. Once friends he and Blake made throughout the years growing up. This was Team Gaim.
"Hey you guys alright?" Before they can answer they heard some jeering coming from the dance stage in the park. Standing there was another dance group, all dressed in black and red uniform, all looking far more sophisticated compared to Blake's team. And most of all, all of them were various types of Faunus. This was the White Fang.
"Oh great, it seems like they are still here," Weiss grumbled. "And still seeming like assholes."
"At least they're just truly misguided people on this one," Blake sighed in relief. "Just a bunch of hooligan street dancers."
"When you recall your Grimm first you lose," a well dressed Monkey Faunus said with a smirk. "Which means we win by default, do we not?" He closed his own lock as his own miniature Grimm jumped back into a summoned zipper. An announcer from the stereo system around the stage announced "YOU WIN!"
"SUN!?" Blake shouted in surprise. Not only for the monkey Faunus being on the White Fang's group but also being fully clothed. That was jarring to sat the least.
"So let me get this straight. They have these weird stuff that lets them control Grimm, some sort of lock, and they use it to do battle with tiny versions of Grimm?" Ren asked.
"Yes," The curator replied.
"Maybe that's how Jaune from that beginning controlled that army of Grimm!" Ruby said in a bout of inspiration. "Maybe he has just a thousand locks or so!" While plausible that was ridiculous it was a better explanation than Jaune just going evil.
"Yeah," Pyrhha said happily. "That makes a lot of sense."
Blake glared at him before glaring at Jaune and walking off. This obviously confused the young man. This caused Jaune to chase after her, dragging along his bike, but not before picking up her hat that had the team name on it. "Blake wait up. Blake, come on at least don't forget your hat."
"You're the one who called Beat Riders dumb kiddy stuff." Blake hissed at him, grabbing the hat from the boy. "So go back to being all responsible and adult! Just don't bother us again."
"Wow Blake, tell him how you really feel," Yang snickered. "Did Vomit Boy turn Lover Boy for you?" Pyrrha, and subtly Ruby, tensed up at the implication.
Blake rolled her eyes but turned back to the screen. "If you haven't noticed Yang he left our dance group. Of course I would feel betrayed."
"But you're other self is so angry. Maybe she likes this Jaune." In response she got a slice of tuna thrown at her face. "AHH! MY HAIR! NOT MY HAIR!"
"Serves you right," Weiss smirked. Given that they don't have semblances, she didn't have to fear for some sort of revenge.
As she was about to walk away from Jaune, Blake stopped when someone was approaching them. It was their dance group's leader, Sage. The dark skinned teen was dressed similarly to Blake, which included bright colors, namely white and blues. "Blake, are you alright?"
"Isn't that one of Sun's teammate?" Ruby asked. Both Weiss and Blake nodded. "We haven't heard him speak much."
"I'm sorry, Sage. You gave me that Lock seed and I screwed it all up and now the White Fang stole our stage."
Sage sighed before shaking his head. "How many times do I have to tell you to wait for me if something goes down?" he asked.
"I can't call you for everything Sage!" Blake defended herself. "You've got things to do..." The cat gave a slight bow before brushing past him. "I'm sorry." Sage and Jaune watched as she left, with Sage running a hand through his green hair.
"Seems like you don't want to be dependent on them," Ren noted.
"Of course. I would never want to completely rely on others," the only Faunus in the room responded.
"But don't forget that we're here just in case you need a helping hand!" Ruby said hugging her.
"Or a giving you a good punch to knock you back into your senses," Yang said using a hot towel teleported by the Curator to clean her face and hair. "Also just you wait Blakey. I'm going to get revenge. You won't know how, you won't know when but I will get my revenge."
He sighed before turning to Jaune. "Hey it's been a while huh," Sage greeted. Jaune just gave a wave and looked away, a little embarrassed to be talking to Sage after ditching the crew to look for a job.
Zippers appeared for a scene transition.
It changes to the front of a store called Drupers, where Sage and Jaune were sitting inside. It was a fancy cafe with a giant fruit stand in the middle of it island bar. They were listening to the "Beat Riders Hotline" on the TV hosted by a man known as DJ Sagara.
"He seems like a fun guy," Yang nodded along, very much enjoying his energy.
"Beat Riders Hotline's always looking for comments and clips from our audience!" Said the bombastic voice of the man on screen. "If you see a hot battle going on downtown, or..."
"It's different after you took off," Sage sighed as catching the blonde's attention.
"Everyone's big into the whole Grimm Game now." The bartender/chef, Qrow, of the store informed them as he walked over and placed parfait and juice before them. Jaune followed his line of sight and saw that Qrow was looking into the room over where two people were sitting.
"Uncle Qrow!?" Both Yang and Ruby shouted.
"Uncle Qrow?" Weiss asked.
"Yeah he our drunk of an uncle," Yang replied.
"Also the one to teach me how to use my baby" Ruby exclaimed. "Although I can't see him running a cafe. A bar maybe but not a cafe. Especially one for fruit."
"This is the one you want right?" a man in a bowler hat asked a young teen. He showed him a large pad with an image of a Lock Seed on it. The man in the hat was dressed in all black and looked rather shady.
"Roman Torchiwick!" Ruby pointed out.
"It seems like he's dealing out...Lock Seeds was it?" Weiss frowned. Her eyes spied the number on the tablet and frowned. "Those are rather pricey for one."
"So he's like a slimeball dealer?" Nora stuck her tongue out. "Once a criminal always a criminal I guess."
Roman smirked as he turned towards a large carrying case and pulled out a lockseed within a tiny glass case and handed it to the teen. "The city is crawling with Lock Dealers," Sage sighed as the boy stood up and left. "Team Rankings may as well be a big list of who has the most Lock Seeds."
"It's sad to see really," Jaune said as he began to eat.
"So a lot of them aren't dancing anymore? That really is sad." Pyrrha agreed with the counterpart of her crush.
"You think?" Qrow said scratching his stubble. "Better to have you kids battling in a game than fighting for real. Nobody gets hurt that way. I'm just happy my nieces are in Patch away from all this craziness."
"Is it really though? Ren asked.
"You'd think that wouldn't you but they easily could though!" Jaune countered before putting a spoonful of yogurt and orange into his mouth. The camera pans to Sage who looked unsure and then to Roman who was looking over his tablet. "Who knows what these Grimm things are right? And who even put those locks into circulation in the first place?" He stopped talking when a commercial for the Schnee Company came on the TV.
ZIPPERS!
It was now night as Jaune returned to his apartment only to be berated by a woman slightly shorter than him. She too had blonde hair, but not as bright as his. However, despite her stature her pose and manner of talking would always cause the boy to become sheepish. So as he laid his head down on their dining table, she spoke from the kitchen. "What's the matter with you? Trouble at work again?" she asked, however there was some concern in her voice too.
"Who's that?" Nora wondered as she got a refill of pancakes.
"One of Jaune's older sisters," the Curator responded. "One of seven in your world but only one in this one."
Pyrrha silently asked for a notepad and pen to take notes on how to impress said older sister and potential sister-in-law.
"Hey, Saph..." Jaune groaned. "What does it mean to be an adult?" This caused Saphron breathe a sigh of relief before giggling.
"What a mature question to ask," Weiss approved.
"It means being able to take care of yourself," Saphron said happily. "And you're already paying your rent and buying your own food Jaune. You've become an adult now too Jaune." The younger brother looked at her, still uncertain of what she meant by that. Standing up he began to help her with preparations.
"With a simple answer, " Ren replied. A lot of people would already fit that description but even he was unsure if he was an adult by that sort of explanation.
"Looking after myself is about all I can do," Jaune complained a little as he grabbed some groceries that weren't being used. "My hands are full with work." Walking over to the fridge, he put the food away and continued. "I've had to drop just about everything I used to really care about to do it. How's that any different as to how I was living before?"
"Jaune..." Saphron looked worriedly at her little brother.
"If that's what growing up is like I don't want any part of it," Nora said. "I mean giving up all my fun time with others? Pass." Yang and Ruby were nodding their head while Weiss frowned. The white haired girl understood that growing up needed some sacrifice but not to the extent that this Jaune was experiencing.
"I want to transform, into someone strong enough to do everything." The two siblings looked at each other before Saphron cracked a smile.
"You just don't wake up one day and everything is different Jaune," Saphron said. "LIfe is not that easy kiddo!" She gave him a playful punch to the gut, which actually makes Jaune flinch.
"That's right sis! Show him that tough love!" Yang cheered for her fellow older sister.
The older sister takes his hands and reassures Jaune. "Just take things slow, and you'll become the adult you wanna be." He was about to thank her for her words of advice only to see that she had also just placed a carrot in his hand. "Now get to peeling."
This caused a round of laughs from the teens.
EVEN MORE ZIPPERS TO CHANGE THE SCREEN!
What followed next was a day to day montage of the people's lives with some narration from Jaune. With Jaune doing not one, but two jobs (food delivery and construction work). Meanwhile Blake and some of Team Gaim were practicing their dance routine. Part way through, Blake takes a break and looks at the sky as Jaune is at a stop light doing the same.
"It's like chapter 17 of Ninjas of Love..." Blake whispered to herself when the protagonist and his lover were going through turbulent times. Which made her blush thinking that it was a similar thing her counterpart and Jaune were going through.
"Ever since our parents died, big sis has been my guardian. However, I don't want to impose on her anymore. But..."
Jaune parked his bike and left the curry store that he worked for. His shift was done and he was on his way home when he got a text from Sage. "Hey come meet me, I got my hands on something cool?" Jaune read out loud. Scrolling down on his scroll, he saw an image was attached to the message. Some large unwieldy device was on it. "The heck is this?"
"Wasn't that orange warrior-" Ruby asked.
"Samurai," Pyrrha interjected.
"Orange Samurai wearing that in the beginning?"
"We get to see Jauney's origin story!" Nora bounced up and down in anticipation..
"But why does Sage have it?" Weiss said.
"Maybe he gives it to Jaune," Ruby said eagerly.
Seeing no harm in it, he walked to the meet up place, only to see that Blake was there already. "Hey!"
"What are you doing here Jaune?" Blake asked as she approached him."
"Well, Sage called me here. Have you seen him just yet?" As they turned the corner the two stopped, eyes wide. There in front of them was a large zipper that lead into the place where Grimm came from. The regular grass and plants on this side of the building also seemed to grow larger and stranger, with flowers they've never seen before sprouting.
"Oh no. That can't be good..." Ren frowned.
"What are these things?" Blake asked as she inspected a purple flower."
"Where do you think this goes?" Jaune wondered as he stared at the large hole in the dimensions before stepping in. Blake worried about her once friend, followed after him.
"Is he an idiot? Wait don't understand, we know he is," Weiss sighed.
"And I think I'm bad enough to follow him through," Blake followed in Weiss's example.
The world through the zipper was a large forest but that wasn't weird. Both Blake and Jaune had to rub their eyes a couple of times due to the weird gradient over everything. Some colors were darker, other brighter, all in all it was assaulting their senses. It took a couple of seconds before it became normal enough to walk.
"Ouch that's hurting my head from just staring into that," Nora said swaying a little in place.
"Where is this place?" Blake asked as the two walked. Jaune shrugged as he was both awestruck and confused by this place. Only to be pulled by Blake to hide.
"What are you-" Blake shushed him before pointing into the distance. The blonde looked to where she was pointing only to gasp. There were two Grimm, Beowolves, eating some of the fruit in the forest. "Aren't those the Grimm? Are we in some sort of Grimm Nest?"
"Is that how Grimm are made? Where they come from?" Ren wondered.
"That's insane though! Think about it. Grimm coming from another dimension?"
"Well that could explain why they are so different compared to human or Faunus."
As he took a few steps back, Jaune's eyes were drawn to a pair of those fruit that the Grimm were eating. Two shaky hands reached out and grabbed them. He could feel his heart thumping in his chest as his senses were on fire again.
"Uhhh...whats happening?" Pyrrha asked.
Touch smell, and sight, all three of them were telling Jaune, no demanding Jaune, to take a bite of the pink inside beneath the scraggly red coating of the fruit. He even opened his mouth to take a bite.
"No! Don't Jaune! Don't eat it!" Ruby warned.
"The fruit is controlling your mind Jaune!" Nora yelled.
It was only a scream from behind the boy that stopped Jaune.
"Oh thank god," Pyrrha relaxed.
"Did you forget who's the only one who can be screaming right now?" Blake said in a deadpan manner. This caused the redhead to blush.
Turning around, he saw Blake face to face with a feline looking Grimm. It had black skin with green armor like chitin on top that connected to a lion-esque head. It's left hand was clawed sure, but its right was far more deadly with how long it was.
"What is that!" Yang shouted.
"I've never seen that type of Grimm before!" Blake said in response.
"Why is it green?" Ruby wondered in both fear and fascination.
"Maybe it comes from this world?" Ren provided. "it's amror also look like some type of pottery found in Mistral."
"Shit! Blake!" He grabbed his friend's hand and they both booked it into the forest, the Grimm hot on their tail. They ran for what felt like minutes before they hid themselves behind a tree. "You think we lost it?" He was trying to catch his breath as was Blake. Something did catch her attention.
"Hey Jaune look," the Faunus said to him. He looked over and saw the device that Sage was talking about on the floor. Jaune grabbed the device and inspected it while, Blake did a quick look around. "If this is here that means Sage would have been too."
"Well he's dead," Nora said nodding her head.
"Nora!" Pyrrha gasped.
"Well that's how it is in most horror movies!"
"Well, she's not wrong..." Yang muttered. "If something is usually left behind it means the other person is dead."
"This kinda looks like a belt buckle," Jaune guessed. As he went to mimic putting it on his waist, the two were surprised to see the device literally summon a belt around Jaune's waist, with some weird face design appearing on the left side of the buckle.
"That looks so cool," Ruby asked with stars in her eyes. She looked over the thing wondering how that happened. "Where does the belt come from? Why did that image appear? Why is there a sword on the middle?"
Not only that but the two fruit in his hands suddenly transformed into Lock Seeds! One was an orange, the other was a strawberry! "Did-Did they just become Lock Seeds?!" Blake nearly stuttered.
"The fruit that the Grimm eat, are what Lock Seed originate from?" Pyrrha asked.
"It only makes sense after all," Ren hypothesized. "The Grimm they use to fight is by unlocking those seeds. So it would make sense that the Lock Seeds originate where the Grimm came from."
"Does that mean all these fruits are-" The two looked around at the near hundreds of fruit. Only to be interrupted by the green Grimm appearing once more.
The two ran out of the zipper into and back out to their world. They ran into an industrial zone near the meeting place as the Grimm gave chase. Running past some barrels they hid in an alleyway, squatting down to hide their presence even more. "What was that thing?" Blake gasped. "Was that also a Grimm?"
"I don't know that," Jaune replied. Looking at the Lock seed in his hand, the blonde was inspired with a crazy idea. Just then the Grimm roared out, green energy spilling from the armor and causing massage damage and destruction around the area. Blake and Jaune covered their faces and thankfully none of the debris hit them.
"Okay, now I know this world is completely different," Yang pointed at the screen. "What sort of Grimm that small shoots out freaking laser beams!"
"Blake get out of here. I'll draw his attention on me and you can go while he's distracted," the former dancer told his friend. He turned to leave only for Blake to grab his shoulder.
"What!?" both Ruby and Pyrrha shouted.
"What are you thinking?" Blake demanded, the fear and worry etched on her face.
"Just find someone, anyone! If you don't we'll both be killed!" Without waiting, Jaune ran onto the street and appeared before the Grimm. "This way you monster!" After making sure it was focusing on him, Jaune turned and ran. Jumping over various piles of equipment and rubble, showing off his dexterity. The Grimm meanwhile ran forward, demolishing everything that stood in his way.
"He's gone crazy," Weiss frowned. Her fingers digging into the arms of the seat. She too was worried for the dolt.
Sadly Jaune had come to a stop as a fence and some building supplies blocked his path.
Thinking quickly, he grabbed a nearby pipe and started to smack the Grimm, to no avail. It back handed Jaune with its large claw, kneed him in the gut and then thrown through fence. He spat out some blood as he struggled to get up.
"Jaune no!" Ruby cried out. "Just run away Jaune!"
"We all know he wouldn't do that," Pyrrha said with fear. "He's too stubborn.
Panting, his left hand accidentally touched the belt on his waist and the indent in the middle. In his right hand was the Orange Lock Seed. The blonde stood up glaring at the Grimm. He clicked the Lock Seed, having it unlock.
ORANGE!
"Orange?" Nora tilted her head in confusion. She wasn't the only one as they entirety of both groups were suddenly surprised.
Hearing a zipper, Jaune looked up to see a circular zipper appear before his head going back to the Grimm Nest but something else was there. Floating in the center of the zipper was some sort of glow orange metal. This seemed to confuse the Grimm.
However, Jaune had a hunch already in his mind. Placing the Lock Seed inside the indentation of the belt, the blonde secured it. There was a small hoop as to where the lock went through.
LOCK ON!
"I feel like something cool is about to happen," Ruby excitedly bounced in her seat.
The belt started playing some music as he looked at it confused. This was as far as his hunch got him honestly. "Now What?" Jaune grabbed the handle of what looked like a tiny sword and shifted it downward. It made a cutting effect opening the Lock Seed in a different way than before. This time instead of the lock coming undone, the face of the orange was cut open.
Soiya!
"Uh...What?" Jaune looked up just in time for the orange metal to fall on top of his head. he could feel something forming over his body as the belt continued its announcement.
Orange Arms: The Path of Blossoms to the Stage!
The camera showed a very confused Jaune's face within the metal. "Wait...I'm an orange now!?" he shouted as a helmet and visor covered his head.
"Did he really just say that?" Weiss groaned. "Now is not the time to be asking those type of questions!"
It cuts back to the orange armor slowly undoing itself, forming the chest plate, shoulder pads, and the back of the helmet. Once it was fully undone, Jaune had transformed! Donning orange armor, with a small hand sword in his right hand with a blade that looked like an orange slice. On the left hip of his belt was a much longer blade.
Yang, Ruby and Nora stared at the armor now fully understanding what happened. "SO COOL!" the three shouted. Pyrrha was glad to see that Jaune had gotten some sort of armor and probably a fighting chance. Weiss was still lost to the absurdity of it all. While Ren and Blake just absorbed it all, appreciating the view.
"WHOA!" The samurai looked himself over obviously confused but at the same time excited. "This is soo...AH!" Jaune shouted as the Green Grimm pounced at him, forcing him to grapple.
This made a few of them laugh. "And just like that, immediately lost badass points," Yang laughed.
He took a few hits to the back, complaining "Hey that hurts!" Jaune stood up straight and miraculously threw the Grimm over his shoulder. The armored warrior looked at the Grimm that fell onto its back and his hands. "Can I...Can I take him on like this?"
"This reminds me of when he was just learning to fight," Pyrrha giggled.
"You mean a few months ago?" Nora teased. This earned her a slight shove from the champion but it was all good natured.
However in his distraction he was attacked again, making Jaune move back and block the attack with the sword.
Weiss facepalmed at how bad Jaune was.
"W-Wait hold on!" he shouted as he used the orange sword to block the attacks, causing sparks to fly. Despite his flailing, Jaune managed to get in a few hits though, causing the Grimm to shout in pain. In retaliation, he threw Jaune through some barrels and onto another street.
"This is just...I can't describe how both bad this is, but this is just hilarious," Yang grinned. "What's with the wild swings?"
"He just got the sword Yang," Ruby defended her friend.
The Green Grimm smacked away the sword and began to choke Jaune with his left hand and reared his right to strike him down. In a panic, the orange samurai patted his body and felt the handle of his other weapon. "That's it!" Thinking quickly on his feet, he grasped the handle with his right hand and drew the katana from its holder, slashing the Grimm away from him.
Blake paused when it showed off the katana. It gave her some bad memories of her previous partner, Adam. The faunus ha to shake her head though. That was Jaune and not Adam on the screen.
Using this to his advantage, he rolled over and grabbed his short sword in his left. "Okay...Okay I got this..." Jaune said to himself as he did a few practice swings with both. When the Grimm ran away, Jaune chased only to stop as he the young man saw the Grimm jump onto the third story of the construction site. "He jumped that?"
At its new position, the Green Grimm roared, its armor glowing as energy burst forth destroying the cars around Jaune. Thankfully his armor protected him. "Gods I hope I don't have to pay for those."
"Focus on the fight you dolt!" Weiss roared in anger and embarrassment for him.
"But I guess it's my turn too!" Jaune jumped, the armor empowering him but halfway there he starts to flail his arms in panic, barely making it to the right floor's ledge...only to be punched by the Grimm back onto the floor.
Cue another round of laughs.
"Just you wait dam it!" Looking around Jaune found his answer, stairs!
"NOO!" Yang was grabbing her sides laughing. "Stop it! I can't handle it!"
Quickly climbing it even in his bulky armor, he made it to the third floor. "Your wait is ov-uh!" His speech was interrupted as he was kicked in the side by the Grimm.
"I hate to admit it, this has been very Jauney," Nora gasped for air as the two of the people fought on screen.
The two exchanged some quickly hits between the monster's claws and his blades, only to end up in a deadlock. In a fit of inspiration, the samurai saw that there was an extra feature on the katana he had, a ring on its cross guard. Pulling on the tiny ring, a single dot glowed along the blade. Quickly, he pulled the trigger on the sword and an energy bullet fired from the cross guard. "AH! That scared me."
"It's also a gun!?" Ruby drooled. "How? TELL ME!"
"Rubes calm down!" Yang said having to tug on her sister's cape to pull her back.
"But I need to know! What powers it? WHat sort of dust odes it use? Why a pull lever!?"
Pulling the ring again, Jaune fired off four shots to give him and the Grimm some room...only to run out immediately. "Wait let me re-" He couldn't reload as the feline like Grimm interrupted him.
As he backed away, the freshly turned samurai saw that there was a hole on the bottom of the short sword's handle. "Wait do these..." Pushing the two handles of his weapons together, he heard a small locking noise. While the blade of the orange sword faced one way, the katana faced the other. "Holy shit they do!"
"MINE!" Ruby roared trying to get o the screen.
He gave it a few spins before trying to attack the Green Grimm who kept running up higher and higher the building. "Hey quit running!" They dueled a bit and Jaune almost slipped on the stairs, this gave the Grimm an opportunity to grab his opponent and throw him down onto a lower level.
"Of course he'd trip and fall," Blake sighed shaking her head.
"Well, he has been gotten better..." Pyrrha said with a flush.
"Ouch..." Jaune groaned as he stood. He also heard ringing in his ear...
"And now he's gotten a concussion," Weiss threw up her arms.
However the ringing only got louder when he turned and saw...a blonde Blake dressed in white descending the stairs?
"Or maybe not..." Ren said blinking.
"Blake get out of there! Jaune told you to get away!" Ruby looked at her Faunus teammate who seemed confused as Jaune was.
"Blake?"
"Be warned," Blake said to him, her voice echoing off akin to the ringing.
"That's not weird at all," Yang scoffed.
"Blake is that you?"
"Your choice now will turn the course of fate. Continue down this path." Jaune had to blink for every time she moved down more steps, Blake seemed to blur. "Continue down this path, and there is no turning back. You will have to keep fighting to the bitter end. Until the world is dyed in your image."
"Wasn't that what the opening said?" Pyrrha noted.
"Did Blake here tempt Jaune into becoming a world conqueror and her his empress?" Nora mused. Two heads swiveled towards Nora with a slight glare, and Blake blushed. That was part of Ninjas of Love, Dark World. And she could imagine herself in the place a the dark empress with Jaune as her Overlord and all the fun things they can get into.
"No no. NO thinking like that. Life is nothing like the books," Blake said to herself.
Jaune took a step to approach her but had to turn as the Green Grimm dropped before them. "If that's what it takes to protect you I will."
Cue the blush appearing on her face again and the dark intent on Pyrrha's. Ruby pouted and mumbled something incomprehensible to herself.
Blake frowned as he said that, but there was a certain...acceptance to it. She reached over and undid the lock of the Lock Seed, with the face still open.
LOCK OFF
Jaune turned to Blake as she handed him the now opened Lock Seed. The Green Grimm took this time to attack, but Jaune not only managed to block but counter! He slashed it upward, sending the Grimm careening onto the ground.
Jaune followed by jumping. He turned to face Blake, who pointed at his weapon. Getting the hint, the samurai locked the Lock Seed into the handle of the katana, right above the trigger of the weapon but right behind the nose of the gun part.
"Wait! There's more!?" Ruby giddily shouted.
LOCK ON!
He turned to see if Blake was still there but she had vanished. Meanwhile the sword was announcing something.
1! 10! 100! 1000!
"Why is it counting?" Weiss asked in confusion.
The Green Grimm burst forth from the rubble and roared, energy flying towards Jaune. This time he was prepared. Spinning his combined weapon, he deflected the attacks. "Eat this!" Jaune shouted as he made a two slashes. This time orange energy appeared from his blade and flew towards the Green Grimm, incasing it in the orange energy...in the shape of the fruit of the same color.
He spun the combined weapons until it was the orange blade that was facing the Grimm.
ORANGE CHARGE!
With a battle cry, and an orange glowing blade, Jaune surged forward and slashed the trapped Grimm. He stopped a few feet away and took a deep breath. Behind him, the energy orange was sliced in half as was the beast, disintegrating in the process.
"Now that was badass," Yang clapped as everyone cheered the battle's finish.
Jaune slowly took the Lock Seed off his weapon, back onto the buckle and closed the face. All the armor vanished save for the belt buckle on his waist. He was panting as he stared at his hands. This was the state Blake found him in moments later. "Jaune?" she asked.
"Wh-what?" Jaune asked confused as he saw that Blake was back to her normal black cat self.
"So that wasn't Blake," Ren said. "Then who was that?"
"I'm sure we'll be informed more if we get back here," Blake responded obviously intrigued what that version of her did in this world.
"What happened to the monster? Did you beat it?" she asked worriedly, especially after she saw the blood on his face. Jaune could only look at her.
"Blake...I really did...transform." Jaune said as he looked at the Orange Lock Seed. A single zipper appeared this time, going across the screen showing off the Team Gaim Logo and Jaune's two Lock Seeds as it fades to black.
The lights turn back on and all their food vanished. The Curator appeared before them and smiled. "So what do you think of the world of Gaim."
"It's different that's for sure," Ruby nodded. "But no less fun."
"I'm intrigued as to why everything is fruit based," Ren said.
"I have a question," Blake said raising her hand.
"Yes?" The Curator replied turning to her.
"From everything going on in that world do they have Semblances and Aura?"
"Ah no not in that world. That world the Grimm were never truly present and have only appeared within the past two or so year. They've also been confined to those Lock Seeds and moderated by the Schnee company." Blake nodded at the answer. "Well for now you may use the bathrooms while I go set up the next world."
As he vanished and reappeared in the projector room he got a phone call on his Scroll. The name that appeared as that of the Cameraman. "Yes?"
"So I have good news and bad news," the Cameraman Jaune says calmly.
"Okay, let's hear it."
"Good news I found their world."
"That's great! So quickly too so what's the bad news?"
"It's starting to implode from some sort of mishap." Both the Curator and Cameraman went quiet. "I can fix it don't worry but it will take some time. But I will evacuate some people and drop them there a couple at a time."
"And who will they be," the Curator asked curious.
"People vital to their story," the Cameraman responded. "Both good and bad. However I can only do them in small groups. You and I both know that even though I can hop dimensions I can't bring too many with me."
"Very well. Get to it. I won't inform them for now but I will prepare for more guests."
"Got it. Speak to you later." The Cameraman hung up and the Curator sighed.
"I guess I should put up a barrier...just in case.
That's the chapter. I tried to think of a good reason as for some many people into the theater without seeming out of place. So there we are. You can leave reviews and likes as you wish. I'll start responding next chapter.