Hey guys and girls here is the next chapter that will feature the reactions. I'm going to adding Ozpin, Glynda and Qrow to the audience.
Disclaimer: I do not own RWBY, the belong to Rooster Teeth and Unleashed (Danny the Dog) belongs to its respective owners.
Anyway let's get this show on the road!
Chapter 2: Get Him
As everyone settled down into the seats provided Ethan quickly appeared in a flash, "sorry for the interruption but I nearly forgot to bring these people to view with you", as he finished speaking he snapped his fingers and three new people flashed into the theatre. The first was a man with grey hair wearing a green suit with black glasses, he had a cane in one hand and a mug of coffee in the other, this was professor Ozpin the headmaster of Beacon. Next was a blonde haired woman with normal glasses, wearing a white blouse with a purple cape and riding crop was clutched in hand as a weapon, this was Glynda Goodwitch a professor at Beacon. The last man had black/brown hair, a stubble of a beard and he appeared to be drunk if the flask in his hand was any indication, this was Qrow Branwen, teacher at Signal Academy, veteran huntsman and full time drunk.
"Uncle Qrow!" came the shout of the tiny reaper while leaping onto Qrow's arm, "did ya miss me did you miss me?" "huh nope" was Qrow's lighthearted reply. "Can somebody explain why we suddenly appeared in theatre please" asked Glynda with an icy tone.
"Yes that would most preferable" said Ozpin with a calm tone while sipping his coffee. Suddenly Ethan once again gave the explanation of the multiverse and the reasoning for their viewing.
"Ok now that everyone is settled let's begin with the first viewing." Everyone's eyes were glued to the screen as it came to life and the world came to view.
The first thing that everyone noticed was the slow and steady footsteps of people in what appeared to be a warehouse of some kind. "What is this place?" Asked Ruby. "It seems to be a warehouse or something" came the reply of her sister. They become silent when the footsteps were revealed to be Ren's, but he looked slightly different from their Ren.
For one the Ren on screen was dressed in rags and has much shorter hair, but the most noticeable difference was the metal collar around his neck.
The people of remnant could stare in shock at the appearance of their friend and student. "What happened to Renny!?" was the loud question from Nora who was clinging to the boy with her insane strength. "I'm not sure but all we can do is watch and hope it will be revealed" came his quiet response, but his nerves were shaking at his counterparts look.
The Ren on screen stopped walking and kept his head down in submission until a hand reached the switch on the collar and removed it. "Get him" was the simple order but it had a profound effect on the boy. His head snapped up as if he had broken out of a trance and his eyes dilated in a focus of rage.
"What just happened to Ren?" asked Jaune with worry and confusion in his tone, his teammate and unofficial brother just looked feral as soon as the collar was removed and it scared him a little. "I don't know but it can't be good" was the reply from Qrow as he took a sip from his flask, ignoring the look of disgust from Glynda.
Giving a scream of rage Ren suddenly charged forward and jumped with amazing acrobatic ability delivered a drop kick to two assailants while doing a back hand spring. Quickly getting to his feet punched one assailant twice to the body and head, dropping him to ground, quickly pivoting the side to avoid a sneak attack he spun and raised his leg into a hook kick that knocked the man out instantly.
Just as another tried to attack, Ren closed the distance and delivered a flurry of lightning fast body shots that caused the man to gasp for hair but soon screamed in pain as Ren gave to last punches to his face the breaking his wrist and dropping him with a kick to the chest.
The man turned dog didn't stop there as his to further cause the man pain he jumped up with a yell of rage and landing with both feet on the assailant's back now doubt breaking his spine. "ahhh" the man screamed in agony. The audience watched with total disbelief at the sheer brutality of Ren's beat down. "By the gods what have they done to turn him into this vicious person I'm seeing" said Ozpin to himself, he had seen many things during his time on remnant, good and bad things but this? Seeing one of his most calm and collected students become an unstoppable fighting machine was simply overwhelming.
Glynda was holding in her gasp of horror at seeing her student simply destroy the men with a fighting style that was simply brutal. She of course knew that Lie Ren would be a capable and amazing huntsman from watching his sparring sessions but the Ren of remnant fought with finesse and precision, the Ren on screen fought with massive brutality and overwhelming ferocity, truly living up to his title go 'Ren the Dog'. Nora was trying and failing to hold back her emotions, looking at the other Ren be so brutal in is fighting scared her more than ever, Ren was not supposed to ferocious, he was calm like a gentle breeze. Feeling a hand take hold of hers she jumped in surprise and stared into the eyes of her childhood friend.
"That's not me, and I promise to never become like that", said Ren with a reassuring smile on his face. The whole of team RWBY as well as her own team gave her supporting nods and smiles. Knowing that her friends would support her gave Nora the strength to calm down her nerves and continue watching.
While standing on top the man Ren's ears twitched as head running footsteps coming towards him. Blake made a mental note of this as he reacted similar to faunus with sensitive hearing. Ren rushed towards the approaching man and with a vicious front kick to the chest stopped him in his tracks, the wild boy then leaped onto the man and repeatedly punched him in the face pausing only to punch another assailant who hit him on his side but his punches were ineffective. Leaping of the man Ren was suddenly grabbed from behind by his hair. "Hey you leave Renny's hair alone jerk or I'll break your legs!". "Nora calm down my hair is the least of my worries."
Ren was able to break free by tearing a chunk of his hair off (Yang unconsciously stroked her hair in comfort) and quickly delivered devastating blows that caused the man to sway drunkenly, Ren was then grabbed in a choke hold from behind and quickly grabbed the man who was still swaying by his hair and pulled to get leverage. Kicking the man back ripped a clump of hair from his scalp that made him pass out from pain. Managing to flip himself and the man chocking him to the ground Ren immediately grabbed his face and repeatedly smashed it into the floor until he was no longer moving.
Team RWBY and JNPR winced each time the man's head impacted the floor, the professors looked on with stoic faces but each of the held a grimace at the brutal attack. "I gotta say the kid sure knows how to put someone out of commission" said Qrow with a sip of his flask. Glynda then replied "I know, it's as if he'slike an animal with how ferocious he is."
With the last assailant down Ren starting moving towards the lone man behind a desk who desperately pulled out a revolver and fired. "Ren/Renny!" was the surprised and desperate cry from the students as saw the fire at nearly point blank range.
"REN!" was the call of the man who removed the collar. Quick as lightning Ren leaned back dodging the bullet and kicking the desk trapping the shooter at the same time. Gasps of relief were heard as everyone saw Ren's counterpart escape death, Nora was clinging even tighter now to the boy who decided to let her be as witnessing the near death would be harrowing for anyone.
After the man who shot at Ren was trapped by the desk Ren jumped onto it and grabbed the man and starting landing punches to the chest till a voice called out "thatta boy!" making Ren stop his attack immediately. "It's really quite simple you pay the money back the collar stays on, you don't pay it back the collar comes off, it's a simple set of rules." The man was revealed to be Roman Torchwick, thief, killer, mob boss and debt collector. Seeing the most wanted criminal Vale caused everyone to be shocked, angry and concerned. "Why would Mr Ren be associated with a man like Torchwick?" asked the headmaster in confusion and concern. "I don't know but whatever the reason I hope Ren gets out of it unscathed" said Pyrrha with her concern for her partner growing. "I'm pretty sure his not doing this of his free will" said Jaune. Everyone looked at the blonde knight for an explanation.
Gulping he quickly tried to explain himself, "remember before the fighting Ren had the collar removed and was ordered to 'Get them' by Torchwick, what if he cannot disobey him when he gets orders from Roman." Everyone took their time to digest what they heard, Jaune's theory made sense to them but also made them disgusted at Roman for controlling their friend in such an inhuman way. They decided to keep watching to see if the theory was true or not.
After collecting what was owed to him Roman took out the collar and put it around Ren's neck and locked it, the effect was immediate, Ren's deminor completely changed from being a ferocious attack dog to shy and meek puppy. "Same time next week, you better have my money" said Roman as he Ren walked away to the next debt to collect.
The screen went dark and everyone tried to come to terms with what the just saw. "I know that wasn't our Ren but I still can't believe he would do all of that, I mean he showed no mercy and was so brutal!" Ruby's exclamation broke everyone's train of thought. "I agree with you sis but you have to admit he was pretty awesome when he kicked their butts." The teens rolled their eyes at Yang's comments and decided to focus on Ren's behaviour with the collar.
"It would seem Mr Ren's mind has been conditioned to respond to whether or not he is wearing the collar" said Professor Ozpin. "When the collar is worn he behaves like a meek and obedient animal no offence to faunus miss Blake, but once the collar is removed he becomes a vicious attack dog that only listens to his master, in this case Roman Torchwick."
"For him to behave so radically would have taken years of conditioning, physically and mentally." "Are saying he was tortured?" the question from Nora made everyone feel a pit in their stomach grow. "It is a possibility yes" came Ozpin's reply. With a cry of rage Nora lept to her feet with tears of anger and sorrow falling down her her beautiful face.
"THE HURT MY RENNY! I'LL BREAK THE THEIR LEGS! I'LL BREAK THEIR EVERYTHING! RAAHHHH!." Nora looked as if she was to destroy the whole theatre with her rage until she felt herself being hugged by Ren himself. "It's ok Nora I'm right here and I'm fine." "B-but the o-other you was t-t-tor-." Nora was shaking as she held on to Ren as if he was going to disappear. "I know and he was probably hurt bad but I know he's going to be fine." "H-how do you know?" was Nora's shaky reply. "Cause wherever I am you'll be there too and I'm pretty sure you're gonna help me, call it a gut feeling."
After Ren was able to calm her down Nora reluctantly let go of Ren but didn't let go of his hand. "Now that everything has calmed how are you all feeling after your first viewing?" Everyone save for Ozpin and Qrow jumped when they heard the voice of Ethan the being who brought them. "We're all just a little emotional at the moment" was the reply from Ruby. "I can imagine that, I should've warned you about how dark this world can be." "But don't worry too much Ren's counterpart will find true happiness eventually."
That got everyone's attention. "Really how and with who?" asked Jaune hopping that his friend would be fine and happy. "Yeah what happens to Renny?" Aske Nora with Pyrrha nodding in agreement to the question. "I cannot reveal too much but I can say that you Nora will play a key and vital role in his happiness." Hearing that she'll be the one to make the ninja boy happy had her blushing up a storm.
"You'll have to watch further to see for yourselves but in the meantime take a break and resume when you are done, there are refreshments available and it won't run out." After Ethan vanished everyone got up and had some refreshments, which was cookies and strawberries for Ruby and Yang, tea for Weiss and tuna for Blake. The others also had their preference of refreshments and were discussing what they could possibly see next.
After everyone settled back into their seats the screen light up back to life and the next scene continued to play.
End.
Arthur's note: Hopefully everyone reading this is enjoying the story. This is my first time writing a fanfiction story and I have no clue what I'm doing so please don't hate me right off the bat if it's terrible. The reason I chose Ren for this story is because there are countless stories of Jaune as the main character the teams react to and I enjoy those very much but I decided to the quiet ninja boy some screen time. Anyway please read and review and let me know if I'm completely butchering the story but no flames please. See ya next time.
