So good news and bad news!
Good news, I got a new job.
Bad news, I have less time writing.
Other than that everything is still the same.
Except I wrote this chapter all on my phone...I should stop doing that.
Disclaimer: I do not own RWBY.
Everyone exited the theater, the villains far more angry since they were stuck in a vast void of space. Well, at least they weren't falling continuously. Instead, it was just a large empty room.
Of course, everyone had thoughts about what had happened during the entire viewing of that world. Namely, Nora was shaken beyond belief. The fact that a version of her lost everything and was willing to kill Ren of all people. It made her a bit woozy. To the point that she wasn't even eating her pancakes! Of course, Ren was there to comfort her, and her daughter too. She was hugging the teenage version of her mother.
"I still can't believe it," Nora said, voice a little hollow.
"Mother, it's not you," Sif reminded her.
"I know but I still can't believe it."
"Nora. It's not going to happen to us," Ren reassures her. "I won't ever leave you like that." The usually quiet boy leans in and hugs her. "So take this time to calm down okay. Eat some pancakes. And relax." The short girl nodded. "By the way have you seen Pyrrha and Jaune Sif?"
"My Lord is off helping the Curator, while Pyrrha is off speaking to the women infatuated with him," Sif replies calmly.
In another part of the theatre, Jaune and the Curator were focusing their energies together and a few moments later the entire building seemed to shift quickly. Everyone inside was suddenly holding onto as the theater shook.
When it finished several new doors appeared. Over one new door said "sparring room," another had "library," another had "game room."
Jaune and the Curator appeared again, Jaune being a little tuckered out. "Holy moly, helping out create things out of reality drains you huh?" he grinned. Immediately, Saphron and Terra were at his side.
"Are you okay little brother?" Saphron asked. Jaune did a quick look and saw that Adrian was sitting in Sommer's lap as she spoke to Summer. Now that threw him for a loop but he shook his head. That wasn't the weirdest thing he saw.
A version of him kissing a female Ren was odd enough honestly.
"Where are Ruby and them?" Jaune asked Weiss as his sister helped him to a chair near the white-haired girl. Sommer was on her other side while Summer had just stood and left to speak to Taiyang. Winter was busy talking to the other teachers.
"Oh. Pyrrha grabbed her, Penny and Velvet to speak in private," Weiss said as she was busy playing with Adrian. She turned to him and saw his tired face. "You alright dork?"
"Yeah Jaune you alright?" Sommer asked. She looked at her leader worriedly.
"Nah. I'm just not used to reality-warping yet. Time manipulation and space alteration are easy but making something out of nothing? I don't have a grasp of it yet."
"Jaune!" Adrian cheered making him laugh.
"Yes, that is your uncle!" Sommer cooed at the little boy.
"Just how strong are you know?" Weiss asked curiously.
"Uhh...I have about...50 or so borrowed abilities. I'm nowhere near enough of what I need just yet to control my final form." Jaune answered as Saphron took Adrian back and sat down on a nearby couch.
"And how strong is that Jaune?" Terra wondered.
"At full strength, I can probably affect...about two dozen universes at once," he recounted. "At least that's what I assume."
"And despite all that you're still our lovely dorky younger brother," Saphron smiles, and the girls chuckled. Jaune groaned.
"Well if those girls are gathered, where are Blake and Yang? Also Hei?"
"The moment the training room and arena opened, Hei challenged her mothers and father," Tai replied as he approached.
"Huh, we should go see that," Jaune stood as he had regained some of his strength.
Ozpin's group watches them leave. "So what do we make of this Mr. Arc?" Ozpin asked.
"Dunno. We've only seen him for a couple minutes," Qrow replied. "Seems friendly enough."
"He still seems like the same Mr. Arc we knew from Beacon. Just a lot more powerful," Glynda commented. "And a little wiser too."
"I felt the power coming off of him each time he used it," Ironwood responded. "It's not to the level of the Curator yet though if he looks to be tired so easily."
"He does not seem like a threat," Winter said. "If anything he seems like a normal teenager." As she said that, Winter notices her sister rolling her eyes at something Jaune said only for her to slap his arm. At least she has a friend in him too.
"Well have to wait and see I guess," Ozpin sighed.
Once Jaune's group was inside, they saw that the parents were in the stands. Everyone else sat down in the large bleachers within the auditorium of the training room. Inside was a large arena for sparring with training equipment on the other side of the room.
Jaune approached Ghira, Kali, and Tai. Raven sat further away. She did take note of his approach. "Hi there. Name's Jaune Arc. It's nice to meet you," he said holding his hand out to them.
"Taiyang, but call me Tai. Ruby and Yang's dad," the blonde said easily. He smiled at Jaune. "Ruby has some said some dumb stories about you over her letters and phone calls."
Jaune's smile fell and he slumped. "Dang it. I wanted to impress my friends' parents at least." That caused the Xiao Long patriarch to laugh and slap Jaune's shoulder.
"Nah it's fine kid! Your flaws and your misadventures have been fun to listen to. And I'm happy you became Ruby's friend. She has a hard time making them."
"Well, I'm happy too. She and I are in the same boat in the social department." He then scratched the back of his head. "Even with a second lifetime of experience during this whole thing, my social abilities suck."
"Aw. That's okay dear," Kali said patting his head. "I'm Kali Belladonna and this is Ghira, my husband."
"Nice to meet you," the large gruff man said. "The words we have seen with you are interesting. How well do you know my daughter?"
The question threw Jaune for a loop. "Uh...not as much as I like? I mean we talk about classes and study together. Although the most we spoke I think is our argument if comics are literature or not." He then shrugged. "I know she's a quiet girl and likes the privacy I give her though."
Ghira nods. He didn't mind that much. Kali, however, frowned. "If possible would you mind being better friends with my daughter?" Kali asked.
"Uh sure?" Jaune replied. "Why?"
"She needs more friends. I can see that Blake is close to her team and that monkey boy but I know she needs more friends than that."
Jaune nods. "Let's see if she wants it yeah?"
He then turned to the arena where Blake and Yang had gotten their stuff. "Will they be okay fighting?" Summer asked from her position with the other girls.
"The Curator and I placed a shield around the arena. It no stray attacks will be able to hit the stands. That and we made it so people can't die or maimed."
"I do have to question why though," Tai asked as the groups got together and sat down. "Why make all of these rooms?"
"Because not everyone wants to watch the various lives of me," Jaune replied. "So if they don't want to they can go play some games, read books, work out. All from various dimensions mind you. Heck, we even allowed them to go back to sleep. Not everyone has to be in the theater. I mean is as Coco goes to the game room."
"Oh that is exciting," Weiss said. Her mind already going to the library to look for books to read if she didn't want to watch blondes.
"Now enough about that," Sommer said. "Seems like they're about to start."
Yang and gotten Ember Celica back and could feed her Aura coursing through her. She slammed her fist together and smirked. "Let's get it on," the brawler said grinning.
Blake was inspecting Gambol Shroud and found it to be the prime condition. She got it ready as she watched her daughter grabbed a weapon. It looked like some sort of buzz saw.
Sun was acting as a referee. "Are you two ready?" The monkey Faunus asked. The BY of team RWBY nodded. "Are you ready?"
"Revive...Flare," Hei stated. Her ebony hair soon became tinged with orange as her eyes shifted from yellow to red. Even her usually black clothes had obtained orange highlights. "Now I'm ready."
Sun made sure once more before he threw his hands up. "Begin!"
Yang and Blake run forward first with Hei running a little slower than them. She used her bare arm, since she had a tank top on, blocking Ember Celica easily. That surprised the blonde, while Hei managed to block her other mother with the buzz saw. The Faunus from the future pushed them both away. Yang just grinned while Blake frowned.
"So you're a power type like me huh?" Yang asked, hopping on her feet. "A little slow but we can fix that with some training."
"I am not," Hei said.
"What do you mean?" Blake asked as she and Yang went around their daughter.
"My Semblance is something I call Revival, it lets me move between two forms. This is one of them, Flare." Hei responded as she blocked another slash, and then punched Blake in the stomach, sending her back a couple of feet. Pressing a button on the buzz saw, it spun with energy and it sliced through the bullets of Yang's gauntlets. Mother and daughter clashed and their weapons caused sparks as they proceeded to punch and try to hit each other.
When Blake came back into the fray, Hei had to turn and to dodge the surprise attack. "Your punches hurt more than Yang's," Blake frowned. She looked at her bruise that was being healed by her Aura.
"And her defense is high," Yang grinned. She gave Hei a solid punch to the chest and her daughter managed to walk it off.
The duo attacked again, this time using combined attacks. Their skilled counter-attack was making it hard for Hei to fight back. When Blake would attack low, Yang would attack high, forcing Hei to figure out where to block. Even with her high defense, Hei was having a hard time.
"I wonder why she chose that first," Sommer said from the stands as they watched Hei try to and fail to fight against her mothers.
"What do you mean?" Weiss asked as everyone else watched in awe, the memories of the previous world forgotten at the moment.
"Well, Hei's Semblance has two forms. Flare and Hurricane. Both for different situations," Sommer explained. "Flare is meant for more defense and overwhelming strength."
"But that is the wrong thing to do against them," Tai said as he watched the well-oiled machine that was his daughter and her friend.
"Again, that is why I'm surprised she chose that," Sommer frowns.
"Hei wanted to see how strong her mothers were," Jaune grinned. "See how well she stands at this level. And two on one, Yang and Blake are stronger than Flare Hei. But..." The man stopped, and Sommer already knew what was going to happen. "She going to hurt herself if she does what I think she will do."
Hei was panting hard but she seemed undeterred. Her red eyes shifted and became blue. Her hair started to stand on end as she lost the red highlights all over her body. Instead, they were replaced with blue ones that matched her eyes.
Pressing a button on the buzz saw, it split open and then slid to the side of the thing she was holding. Switching it from her right to her left hand, Hei took a ready stance.
"So, you like your hair as much as I do that it changes!" Yang gleefully jumped in place.
"And she seems to have at least some cultural aspects of my family despite being a hand to hand fighter like yourself," Blake grinned.
"Mothers. I would like to thank you," Hei said with a soft smile. "I know where I can improve now. Let me show you a different side of my power."
Hei stood in her spot for a couple seconds before she became a blue blur. Yang was confused as her daughter became like a smudge in her eyes before she felt about ten different hits slam into her stomach rapidly.
She grabbed at it, making Blake look at her partner. "You taught me to never look away from an opponent, mother," Hei said as she appeared next to Blake. The person in question used her Semblance to make a clone that took the hit.
However, even as she was dodging, Blake felt a fist slam into her stomach twice before she was kicked into Yang.
The two recovered quickly and saw Hei. "So...you're as fast as Ruby when you're feeling blue?" Yang teased. Everyone in the training room, except Tai, groaned collectively at the bad pun.
"Yes and I can keep it up constantly," Hei responded. "Unlike Aunt Ruby who does it short bursts. The drawback is I lose a lot of my strength for this speed."
"And the Flare form is the trade-off," Yang said, having understood the relatively simple Semblance. "I get you." She got ready to attack again when Blake stopped her.
"We're stopping this right now," Blake said. That caught everyone, except Jaune and Sommer, by surprise.
"What? Why?" Hei asked. Her Faunus mother touched her ear and the daughter did the same. Feeling something wet, Hei brought it down and saw blood.
"You...you still don't have full control over it do you?" Blake asked. Hei pouted, looking very much like a sad cat.
"No. I need my armor for it and it's been helping but I can't use my Semblance constantly without repercussions. It puts a lot of strain on my body in Flare form, while it strains my mind in Hurricane." Hei sighed before deactivating her weapon. "I concede to you."
"Oh dang it," Yang groaned. She could tell if Hei kept going the young woman may have won! Beaten them honestly. But whatever happens with her Semblance that stresses out Hei's health, Yang knew she had to stop for now. "I want a rematch when you are stronger."
"Of course mother," Hei said with a smile. The crowd came to greet them.
In another section of the building, the villains were hold up in their rooms. Separately, of course, the Curator watching them. While they could not do anything outside of mocking and speaking to the others, this would keep them from gaining morale. He even confiscated their Scrolls.
That made them all the more cautious. Well except for Roman and Neo. Being freed from Cinder, and now her Mistress's, control while they are here was very freeing. Hence why they were in the game room playing some shooting game against Coco and Neptune.
That left a few more people.
Pyrrha, Penny, Ruby, and Velvet had hidden away into the library. The four girls were looking at one another at a table, shuffling nervously.
"I'm in love with Jaune," Pyrrha said. "As much as I wanted to say it was love at first sight, it wasn't. I originally wanted to be his friend because he didn't know I was famous. But over the semester, I found out how much of a nice person he was and that he treated me just like everyone else. It made him more likable to me. I...truly love him."
Ruby and the others looked at her as she admitted that.
"I don't think I can match you in that," Velvet said softly. "I think I just have a girlish crush on him. He's helped me out a couple of times with Cardin. And seeing the numerous worlds makes me see that he is truly a good person. But I don't think I can be the one he needs for it. Even in our world. I...I think I'm going to bow out."
"Velvet…" Ruby whispered. "Are you sure?"
"Yes, I am." Velvet then smiled. She looked at Pyrrha. "Seeing all these worlds made me realize that I'm in a similar situation to you Pyrrha but in Jaune's place. I think...I should give Yatsu a chance."
Pyrrha gave her a sad smile too. She understood where Velvet came from, the champion truly did. So that was why she wasn't going to stop her. Plus one less rival was good.
"I have a crush on him as well," Penny answered. "I've seen videos of him through my work under the General. And seeing him train, working with others, helping, struggling, and all of that he went through. Unlike you Pyrrha, it was love at first sight." The robot turned human grinned. "And I want him to be my friend first. I want to be by his side as well as Friend Ruby's. I wish to be with him. So I will not back down, Friend Pyrrha."
"I see. I hope the best for you then," Pyrrha replied. The two redheads looked at one another before nodding.
"Hey! I'm here still!" Ruby frowned. "I'm also in love with Jaune. He's been my best guy friend and I won't give him up. I want him to notice me more as a woman and since he seems more knowledgeable now, I'm sure he will! So I'm not going to stop liking him. Not for either of you." Her silver eyes glared at Pyrrha and Penny before they softened. "But I'd like us to all be friends still."
"Of course!" Penny smiled.
"I wouldn't have it any other way," Pyrrha laughed.
"And Velvet," Ruby said looking at the Faunus who looked at her surprised."I'll support you with Yatsuhashi!" The other first-years nodded and the girl smiled.
"Thank you," Velvet said. The group shared a hug before heading back to the main lobby.
Jaune waved at them but before anything else could be done, Ruby kissed him on the lips. While Penny and Velvet kissed him on the cheek.
"What just happened?" he asked Pyrrha. The blonde being confused about what happened. Yang grinned and gave him a noogie, while Tai gave him a thumbs up.
"We talked. Seems like Velvet is not going after you anymore," the redhead replied. "But Penny and Ruby are doubling down."
"Huh…" The Champion took the King of Time's hand and they entered the theater.
The screen turns on for a preview:
"We've been chosen for the Vytal Festival," Russel said cleaning his knives.
"Hey wait, those aren't his weapons! They look cooler!" Ruby pointed out.
"Are we watching something with CRDL?" Velvet made a face.
"I know, right? I'd usually be afraid but...I can't help but feel excited!" Dove said as he readied his armor.
"That's also not his usual clothing," Ren pointed.
"What is happening?" Nora asked.
"Then again...we spent all of the semester break doing that hard work to get this strong," Sky grinned as he laid on the bed.
"Why is he buffer?" Yang asked.
"Something is very different here," Blake said.
"What do you think boss?" Russel asked the person looking out the window of their dorm room.
Standing there was none other than Jaune Arc, a little bit bigger than the normal one. He didn't have Crocea Mors on him. It was resting to his side. A small grin on his face. "This is the stage we've been waiting for guys. To prove ourselves to the world." He turns to the team who were all excited as well. "Let's show everyone, especially team RWBY and PRNC (Princess), that we're not to be taken lightly anymore."
"Holy shit," Jaune gasped. "I landed in that world once! Man, that was a wild ride seeing me on that team."
"What happened in that world?" Pyrrha asked.
"I became their leader because Russel accidentally found me first. You got partnered with Cardin. You didn't like it at all."
"What was your team called Mr. Arc," Ozpin asked.
"Team ABLT (Ability)."
So I made the extra rooms so I don't have to react as everyone at the same time. Honestly, that's 30 people, excluding Jaune and the future people. So I'm going to throw people in and out depending on the chapter.
So next chapter the ones in the theater are RWBY, JNPR, Future Girls and Ozpin and Glynda. Making it 13 people. Much more manageable.
Also, this is the last of the three original worlds that I was thinking of doing a full story for. There is one more but that one is to sate my Kamen Rider addiction. I'm going to put a poll eventually to see what you guys want to see more.
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