A/N: So, this is a story I've had in my head for about four years now, and with CW starting to roll out their Crisis on Infinite Earths, I figured now was as good a time as any to finally write this. This might lead into a prequel story featuring RWBY/JNPR's counterparts from Remnant Two—and yes, I went through the trouble of creating a multiverse designation for just about every story I've written with the actual show's timeline taking the spot of Remnant One. Spoilers for Volume 7 and maybe Crisis On Infinite Earths, btw.
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Crisis On Infinite Remnants
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Ruby couldn't believe that Penny did it. She had seen Tyrian. Even as she watched Penny fly away from the dark alley she, Marrow, Nora and Ren inhabited Ruby just couldn't believe that anyone would ever consider Penny a violent being.
"Ruby Rose?" An unfamiliar voice suddenly called from behind her. Ruby spun around, greeted by the sight of a chameleon faunas, dressed in a weird, blue uniform that looked like it was straight out of one of Ruby's comic books.
"Who's asking?" Nora abrasively asked, she and Ren stepping in front of Ruby. After what had just happened, they didn't want to take any chances with someone else trying to take Ruby.
"My name is Ilia Amitola," she said, "I'm the Harbinger of those chosen to preserve the multiverse. You and your friends have been summoned." Ruby had no time to respond, and was suddenly swallowed by a blue cloud. Two more blue clouds appeared and swallowed Ren and Nora as well.
[Shift]
"Ilia?" Blake asked, shocked to see her friend from her White Fang days, especially dressed in such a weird fashion.
Ilia nodded, "Your team has been summoned."
"Summoned?" Yang asked. "By who?"
"The god of light." Ilia answered, allowing both Blake and Yang to be swallowed by the same cloud.
[Shift]
Jaune walked with Oscar and Weiss as the three left the theater. Weiss hadn't really cared what they'd gone to go see, so long as it got her away from everything she and her team had been struggling with.
"I'm just saying," Jaune continued his friendly argument with Oscar. The two had been arguing about the film's contents since the credits began to roll, "I didn't expect them to kill him off so soon! There's four parts left, and one of them has his name on it!"
"It's dealing with the multiverse!" Oscar shot back, "We could get another version of him—!" The conversation was cut short by the sudden appearance of Ilia. The three jumped back, gripping their weapons tightly.
"The four of you have been summoned by the god of light to help preserve the continued existence of the multiverse." Ilia said.
"What?" Weiss asked, only for the three of them to be engulfed in a blue cloud.
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Remnant 5
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Yang ran a rag over the exterior of her beloved car; Baby. It was a '67 Chevy Impala. A family heirloom, given to Yang by her father, it was her most prized possession. It was one of the few things in this world that meant everything to Yang, her little sister being another.
"Yang!" Her aforementioned little sister called from the other room of the bunker. Yang groaned.
"What is it?" She annoyedly asked. No response. Yang sighed, and pushed off the car, grabbing her pistol just in case. "Rubes?" She called again. Again, no response. Ruby was starting to worry her now. Ruby always answered. Yang wandered into the library, catching the back of Ruby's head in the map room. "Ruby!" Yang scolded, "you scared the shiiii—!" Yang didn't finish her sentence, her eyes catching on the doppelgängers of both herself, and Ruby, both accompanied by some of the many people they'd met over their years of hunting. "What the hell?" Yang wasted no time in pulling her pistol, but the woman leading them—the one Yang didn't recognize—launched her gun from her hand.
"Yang!" Ruby—her Ruby—scolded. She turned back to the woman, "Ilia, tell her what you told me."
"The multiverse is in danger. You and your sister are the key to helping gather the heroes needed to defeat the god of darkness." Ilia told the two. Yang's eyes slowly shifted to her sister. Ruby tilted her head, as if to say, 'we gotta'. Yang repeated the action, but with a more stern expression, carrying on the silent conversation with, 'absolutely not'.
"Can you guys like read minds or something?" Ruby's doppelgänger asked. Both the sisters turned back to Ruby, narrowing their eyes in confusion.
"No," Yang chuckled, "that would be cool though."
[Shift]
Ilia finally explained to the group what was going on and why they were summoned to another world; the god of light was having another fight with his brother and as usual, the rest of the universe was going to have to pay for it. The god of darkness had decided to just end everything, which was the opposite of what his brother wanted. It was outside the god of light's powers to stop his brother, so he had decided to rally a force of his creations, hoping to bring an end to the end and restore the worlds that had already been destroyed. Now sitting around the tables of the bunker's library, an eerie silence filled the room.
"So, what's the plan here?" Ruby-5 finally asked, breaking the long silence between the people of Remnant 5 and Remnant 1.
"No, no no no no!" Yang-5 interjected, "This is another one of Jaune's bullshit stories!" She pointed an accusatory finger at Jaune Prime.
Ruby Prime stood, "Jaune had nothing to do with this." She defiantly told her alternate older sister.
"Miss Rose is correct." Ilia told the sisters, "This version of Jaune is not the god you take issue with."
"Wait," Jaune said, "I'm a god in this universe?"
"Yes," Ilia told him in monotone, "but the king in his castle is not the god we seek. We seek the god among men: The Man of Steel." Yang-5's jaw hit the floor.
"We're gonna get Superman in on this?" She asked, as all bitterness in her voice was replaced with a childlike excitement.
Ilia nodded, "Your world is not the only where Mr. Arc is a god."
"Oh, superheroes?" Ruby Prime asked. "I'm in." Yang-5 reached across the table to give her sister's doppelgänger a high five.
"See, Rubes?" She asked, "this version of you knows how to have fun." Ruby-5 looked at Yang-5 with a look they all understood; 'why are you the way that you are?'
"The two of you are to also retrieve Miss Schnee and Miss Rose's doppelgängers from Remnant 2, while you are there." Ilia told them. Yang-5 and Ruby Prime just nodded in acknowledgment before being engulfed in a blue cloud. "Blake, you and Miss Xiao Long will have the task of retrieving the Yang Xiao Long from Remnant 85. She is a pilot and an integral part in this operation." They nodded and braced themselves for teleportation, closing their eyes and tensing up. Both of them were engulfed by a blue cloud. "Mr. Arc and Mr. Pine," Ilia continued, "the two of you are to find a woman banished from death, cast adrift between the worlds of light and dark."
"That's helpful." Jaune sarcastically said before he too was engulfed in a blue cloud, whisked away to Remnant 14.
"Mr. Ren, Miss Valkyrie; I need you to find the Rose of Iron. She is lost, and you will help her find her way home." They both simply nodded before they were teleported to Remnant 616.
"What about us?" Ruby-5 asked, motioning to Weiss and her: the only two left.
"Miss Xiao-Long, you are to wait here for the angel's return—." Weiss swiftly interrupted Ilia.
"Your last name is Xiao Long? And not Rose?" Weiss asked. Ruby-5 nodded.
"That's what you have an issue with?" Ruby-5 asked.
"Time is short." Ilia reiterated, "Miss Schnee and I still need to retrieve Qrow Branwen, Winter Schnee and James Ironwood from Remnant One." Just as with the others, Weiss and Ilia were consumed by a blue cloud, zipped back to their world.
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Remnant 2
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Ruby wasn't sure what to make of the Yang from Remnant 5, but this Yang was—for one—really good at tracking people down, having addresses, place of employment of all of the targets, including their closest friends and family within an hour. Jaune was a reporter at some Valean newspaper Ruby had never heard of called The Daily Planet, and Ruby of Remnant 2 was a forensic scientist. Weiss was essentially just Weiss; a spoiled rich kid, but this Weiss was different; much more… eccentric.
"Which one do we go to first?" Ruby asked Yang. The blonde woman rolled her eyes, muttering something about how Ruby was a rookie and a noob and her Ruby would know exactly what to do.
She sighed, "You go find yourself at the local police department, I'll go find Supes. We'll meet back up in like an hour."
"That seems a bit too easy." Ruby noted.
"It won't be." Yang told her. "It never is."
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Remnant 1
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Qrow jumped a foot when Ilia and Weiss appeared from a portal in front of Ironwood and him, immediately pulling his weapon on the two.
"Where the hell are my nieces?" He angrily asked.
"They're…" Weiss paused, "It's complicated."
"They—as well as the two of you—have been called by the god of light to preserve the multiverse." Ironwood and Qrow looked at each other in disbelief.
"I guess it's not that complicated." Weiss muttered to herself.
"The hell is a multiverse?" Qrow asked.
"An infinite collection of universes," Ilia explained, "some almost exactly like our own, save for a single difference, and others are vastly different. For example; there is a universe in which Weiss Schnee attempted to murder her leader with the help of Pyrrha Nikos and Cardin Winchester. Now, on your world, this may seem improbable, but in another, this is just the way things happened." Ilia sighed, "Unfortunately, we will need the help of that version of your niece. The two of you are to convince her to return to Remnant 1 with you."
"How are we going to convince a dead girl to help us?" Qrow asked.
"I never said she died." Ilia told him, "her broken body was passed into the care of James Ironwood. You will find her by The General's Side." And with that final clue, Qrow and Ironwood were engulfed in a blue cloud, taken away to Remnant 16.
A/N: I think I'm gonna end it there, mainly because I kinda wanna put things that will enter the continuity of stories like Iron Rose and Grave Walker on that story, but worlds like Remnant 16–that takes place between Chapters 2 and 3 of The General's Side on this story. In other words; it's gonna be a mess.