Chapter 8: Gravity
So I know that I said that I would do three shorts but the majority of the good ones were taken by different authors and I feel like it would be an awful read for you guys if I didn't try to bring something that has been done before to you guys. I will say this is more my fault. I had both parts written but when I re-read them; it felt like it was ripped straight from the arc of the multiverse chapters. So I scrapped them and decided to just launch it with the Sigma short alone. Sorry if you guys wanted for me to try and do all three at once and you didn't get the short you wanted.
As for who I had planned for those roles for the other two shorts
Hero.
76:Ozpin
The little girl: Emerald or Penny
Dragons.
Hanzo: Adam
Genji: Ren or Blake
Again sorry I couldn't live up to the promise I made before but I didn't like it and felt that you guys wouldn't like it.
Disclaimer: I don't own RWBY or Blizzard…
The screen glows a little signifying the world is aligned as Slayer head to his seat.
"What are we watching this time?" Glynda asked hoping for something different than the last viewing.
"An unfinished product. I guess you could say.`` Slayer says calmly before continuing because of the looks he received "this world is still growing so it causes certain things to become unfocused. So what we watch is a mystery until we watch it"
"Okay but type of world is it?" Ozpin asked sternly hoping to get to the point
"A world without Grimm, but still needing heroes and creating monster out of men." the deity responded to the headmaster as the room dimmed and screen turned white.
A lovely piano melody played as the white screen began to have equations be written across its surface.
"Gravity." a voice says sternly "Gravity is a harness"
The screen reveals a lab covered in advance technology in the front of it all was a rather tall man wearing a white lab coat with blue accents holding some kind of marker in his hand. The identifying features he had were his cobalt eyes and slicked back blond hair.
"Well you could certainly say he aged well" Yang said out to her teammates, gaining a snicker and few nods.
"I wonder if he works for beacon or the Schnee Dust Company?" Weiss asked her sister
"I don't think so he could be a military scientist given his uniform." Winter responded
As Jaune continues the write out more equations and changing variables on others, his voice continues to talk over his movements. " my entire career has been dedicated to this idea, to this moment."
"I don't know what he is doing but he's damn proud of what he's about to try" Roman said with caution as he got mad genius vibes off of him the second he appeared on screen.
"Decades! If the unifying theories are correct. We will soon harvest the power of a black hole!" Jaune voice says as they see him smile looking over his work before going to tinker with some machine on the other side of the room.
"That is amazing to think this could figure out a theory that could give the power to harness something from a gravitational anomaly like a black hole is simply astonishing." says quickly gaining a few nods from his fellow professors and anyone else who could understand him.
"Nothing will ever be the same!" the screen begins to glitch and freak out before showing Jaune in a blue and gray armored outfit about to leave the testing area before an alert goes off locking him inside as the machine starts.
"Oh this isn't good" raven muttered to herself
Jaune rushed over and tried to stop it manually. But he was too late and a glowing black sphere had already formed pulling him in two different directions as reality seemed to bend making seem as if there were two Jaunes at the same time.
"WHYY!" he screamed in agony "this is wrong. The field is failing" referring to the dampening field that should have kept the sphere in check.
"A classic move of sabotage right there" Roman said out loud
"Yes but this sabotage could have led to the planet being ripped apart!" Glynda shouts at the con man, who only shrugged in response
"AHHHHHH!" he screamed once more before screen glitched once again showing a new are as the screen whirled to show a sleeping Jaune in an orange jumpsuit chained to a gurney. Passing each door before hitting a large bump awakening the man. Suddenly the piano come back much more sinister sounding then before.
"What happened? Did the black hole effect his mind or something? Is that why he is in chains" Pyrrha asked concerned for Jaunes well being.
"What happened?where am i? Why am i being imprisoned?" Jaune ask quickly and terrified but gain no response from his detainees. He began to struggle and thrash as his head seemed to distort screaming "RELEASE ME!"
As he said those words he stops struggling, along with all sound stopping for a brief moment, as an image flash across the screen and through his eyes of him older in black and blue armor, lifting boulders around him without touching them.
"Is that him or is going to be him? Or is it simply his mind playing tricks on him and us" Professor Port said with an air of concern for his student's sanity
The music began to come back to the world as the image disappears and a thought ran threw Jaunes head 'what is that melody?'.
"Wait he can hear it too?" Ruby asked wondering if it's actually playing or are they hearing something only that Jaune can hear.
"Hold it together, hold it together, HOLD IT TOGETHER!" Jaune starts to chant to himself, clutching his head in pain; as reality warps once more showing him occupying three spaces at the same time.
"What's going on?" Ren asked terrified over what his leader is going through
Then they merge once more and change into the Jaune from the testing area trying contain the black sphere "Density, mass, momentum it is too.."
The screen change showing the lab once more but Jaune in his jumpsuit and holding four markers in the air with his mind "it is too much to hold onto" he says in a calm voice.
The screen changes once more to show the testing area with Jaune in his lab coat "I will bring you a new understanding of the univ-" "ViOlEnCE!" he finished in the form he had in the vision as an alarm blare loudly.
The screen changes back to the cell as jaune is laying there looking at the ceiling dead to the world as the alarm blare loudly over head, and the sound of gunshots could be heard. Jaune phases in out of existence before shouting "THE UNIVERSE IS SINGING TO ME!"
"So are we just watching Jaunes dive into insanity from messing with the black hole thing?" Weiss asked in a controlled tone through a pained face.
Then it all return to normal with Jaune just laying there once more. The world began to spin and fall apart behind him. They could hear a whisper of "hold it together, hold it together, hold it together."
Before Jaune shouted into the void he was in "WHAT IS THAT MELODY!?
His eyes then snap forward towards the screen staring straight at them holding his hand out. "Freedom" he says as the sphere reform in his hands "imprisonment"
the world begins to reform around him as the whispers begin to get louder and the sphere disappears. He looks at the screen before getting up from his bed and saying "it's all an illusion."
the screen turns black once more they think it's over
"At least it ove-" Winter began to say before they hear Jaunes voice once more
"Gravity is a harness" Jaune says the screen showing him in his lab coat before the world warp and shows him in his new armor in a barren wasteland
"I have harnessed the harness" he finished in a distorted tone as other people warped around him and the whispers from earlier make a silent chant to him. The screen fades out on Jaune saying something that got distorted by his power.
"Now it's over" Slayer said calmly to the concerned / terrified crowd
"What happened to him" Ruby asked scared of the answer
"I don't quite know. My theory is that thanks to being so close to the man made black hole it damaged his placement in space and time causing his insanity.`` Slayer said unsure how to answer.
"But what about what he said about freedom and imprisonment being an illusion." Yang asked confused on that little bit.
"Oh that's simple he's a man who went so insane that he looped back around to sanity. Simply put it he could have left at any time he wanted but he chose to stay there as he didn't know what to do. Just to clear it up for you." the deity said to the busty brawler who only looked more confused. They went to talking amongst themselves as slayer went to target the next world
Again if you made it through this kind of short chapter sorry i didn't go all out on the overwatch stuff but hopefully you liked it just enough.
See you guys next time.
Next time: "alright, Ozpin. I'm here. Now lets see if we can find what you wanted me to see."
