Heeello! Welcome to the sixth actual chapter! I'm not really sorry that it took this long but I am kind of disappointed in myself for letting this shit take so long. I think I'm going to put this stuff out around once a month now...but no promises. Anyways, enjoy!- Poison
RWBY and the Buds watch The Dark Knight
The group was sitting comfortably after the last screening ended. They heard some muffled noises coming from the back of the room. A muffled bang could also be heard coming from a large brass door on the far left of the back. They heard the Major's voice yell "Fuck" as another bang rang out.
"What the-" Qrow started.
Suddenly, the door burst open as a bloody Major stumbled through. His jacket was nowhere to be found, and his uniform had many holes in it. He was repeatedly saying "Shit, shit, shit" over and over again as if it was a mantra. He raised his pistol and shot three times into the room, and the group heard a man scream in pain. The Major got a grenade out from his pocket and threw it into the room as he shut the door. The resulting explosion shook the very foundation of the building. As the shaking stopped, the Major seemed the realize that the group was there. He did a mock salute and said "Viva la résistance!" the Major chuckled as he fell unconscious.
The group in the seats looked at each other in confusion. Qrow seemed to speak for the group as he finished his earlier thought.
"...fuck?"
10 minutes later…
The Major's eyes shot open as he saw he was surrounded by some very confused people. He grunted in pain as he stood up. He read the mood of the room and gave an explanation.
"...I went into a universe where the French revolution took place in 1969." he said, ignoring the still very confused look on everyone else's face. "Now...after almost dying, I have a great idea of a universe to show you guys!"
"Ya know, there have got to be easier ways of you thinking of things to show us." Jaune said.
"Like you would know. This is more stressful than it seems." The Major said "Now… Roman, I'm going to grab your former boss and the two children. Don't...attempt to kill her...please?"
Roman looked at the Major "She can kill me easily, you don't fuck with Cinder Fall unless you plan to either disappear or become the boyfriend of the silver-eyed warrior."
"If you're cool with it...Ah, who am I kidding, I was going to bring her anyways." The Major said as, once again, the group hears yelling as three people *somehow* fall from the sky.
The group sees three people that look familiar. The three in question definitely knew who everyone in the room was, and reacted accordingly. Emerald tried to reach for her weapons, but soon realized they were not on her at the moment. Mercury saw that his 'legs' were now normal again (He didn't know if he should be angry or happy). Cinder herself felt that her maiden powers were gone, but she was smart enough to look unaffected.
"So...everyone, meet your arch-enemies. Cinder Fall is a total bitch, who is also the Fall Maiden, Emerald and Mercury and horrible too...But I think they could be swayed with enough *cough* generous donations *cough*."
"So you are the Fall Maiden..." Ironwood said to Cinder, then he turned to the Major "If you were not here I would have shot her by now."
"If you still had your weapons I probably wouldn't have stopped you. Now Cinder, in this theatre, you will see alternate realities and universes, and I hope you can learn from them. Or not, and just die later on. It's whatever." The Major turned to Emerald and Mercury "I would be mildly disappointed if you two died...so don't"
He then turned his back to them and went to grab a new DVD. The group looked amongst themselves and went to sit down. Not knowing what to do, Mercury followed them. Emerald waited to see what Cinder would do, and when Cinder motioned her to go after Mercury, she obliged.
Cinder went and followed the Major. She found him digging in a closet. "Who are you?" she asked.
The Major stopped and turned to her "...I'm the Major." and he continued his search.
Cinder frowned at that. She crossed her arms, then checked her fingernails "I really don't appreciate you calling me a bitch."
"That's why I did it." The Major replied. He stopped digging "...Why are you over here? You are acting...strange."
Cinder raised her brow at that "Oh? How so?"
The Major stood and turned to her, face showing plainly his confusion "I know for a fact that you are not the 'main universe' Cinder Fall. I also know for a fact that you are still working for Salem. Even so, I expected you to be a lot angrier about...well, everything. I also expected you to be far less pleasant than you are at the moment." He frowned "Hell, even your tone isn't what I expected. So, what's your game?"
Cinder looked at him for a moment, almost seeming to look through him in thought. Finally, she spoke "...I want to know what is going on, but I am also not stupid enough to go in guns blazing. I figure that the best chance of getting all of my answers is by getting on your good side." She turned to go back to the theatre room "As for why I'm not being a bitch, well" Cinder turned her head and smirked at him "Let's keep it a secret between us, okay?" she walked away.
The Major looked at her retreating figure for a while, then back at the closet. He chuckled to himself "...You have, and I will". A few moments later, he found what he was looking for and got back to the main room. On the way back, he grabbed some new clothes too.
"Listen up! I got a new universe. This one has superheroes in it." Ruby and Penny gave a whoop to that. "And also supervillains" Roman gave a whoop to that, which prompted a shove from Ruby. "The clip I'm going to show you has only villains, but we might get to see more later. So...enjoy!" The Major pressed play on his remote, and the screen came to life.
The screen showed what looked to be a meeting that was reaching its conclusion. The group could see Junior on a TV screen, talking to a group of assorted people. Cinder, Mercury, Emerald, Adam, and even Perry were all in the room. The rest of the people consisted of thugs and White Fang members.
"What did we walk in on?" Weiss asks.
"Oh! Forgot that," The Major began "The mafia is talking about how the police are tracking their money. Junior has moved the money to a safe location...without the other's consent." Cinder, Roman, Emerald, Neo, and Mercury all understood the various problems with that. "Granted the police were staging raids on the banks that held the money, but still."
The group in the theatre hears a slow laugh getting closer to the assembled criminals. They hear it too and turn towards the noise. We then see the silhouette of a man getting closer and closer to the group. When the camera turns to face the man, everyone in the audience stiffens.
Roman Torchwick is standing there, but not as the audience knows him. His hair is still the same style, but it's colored a dark, disgusting green. He's wearing a purple suit (AN: I just realized that my last three chapters had someone with a purple suit...huh…) and grey tie. The most striking thing though is his face. He has white clown makeup on, with black circles over his eyes. He also has a big red smile going up to his cheeks, but that's not the worst part. He has a scar also going up to his cheeks, almost like a big, permanent, smile.
"Dear God…" Jaune mutters.
That is a sentiment shared with most of the others in the audience. Penny is furiously trying to find a way to wipe her memory banks, Ruby is kind of curled up on her seat, Roman is hugging Ruby with one arm while looking at his counterpart. He can't help but marvel on just how creepy he looks.
Roman stops laughing and says "And I thought my jokes were bad."
Adam looks at Roman and motions to the White Fang lieutenant from the train. "Give me one reason why I shouldn't have my boy here pull your head off."
Roman looks at Adam "...How bout' a magic trick?"
The people in the audience couldn't help but be confused. Meanwhile, The Major is getting excited. This is the one magic trick he knows how to do.
Adam looks confused too as Roman slams a pencil eraser side up. "I'm gonna make this pencil...disappear"
Mercury smiled and thought 'I like where this is going.'
The lieutenant gets up and attempts to grab Roman. The group is shocked as Roman catches his hand, puts his hand behind the lieutenants head, and slams him eyeball first onto the pencil. This world apparently had no aura because you could hear the audible squelch of the eyeball as the eraser went through it.
Mercury smiled and gave a nice golf clap. The rest of them looked at him weirdly. He shrugged and said "What? I'm an assassin, I can appreciate a good kill when I see it. I might have to use that one later…"
"Tah-daa!" Roman yelled, looking down at his victim "It's...ah it's gone." He then turns towards the others in the area.
Oh! And by the way, the suit wasn't cheap" Roman said "You oughta know, you bought it."
Adam stands up in anger, but Perry stops him "Sit." He says to Adam "I want to hear his...proposition." Adam looks back at Roman and slowly sits back down.
Roman smiles at his friend on screen. Perry is absolutely Roman's favorite faunus. If every White Fang member was like him, work might actually get done on time.
Blake, meanwhile, was having a field day watching Adam get talked down to by some random faunus she never met.
Let's wind the clocks back a year." Roman says "These cops and lawyers wouldn't dare cross any of you." He pauses, seemingly for dramatic effect "I mean...what happened? Did your balls drop off? Hmmm?"
The gave a shoulder punch from Ruby to Roman and snicker from Qrow.
Cinder, meanwhile, was thinking that over. She thought that was pretty accurate. Times change, power shifts. One person with enough will and influence can take someone else's castle and turn it inside out.
You see, a guy like me-" Roman starts
A freak" Adam interrupts. This gains laughter from most of the others.
..A guy like me. Look, listen, I know why you chose to have your little *cough* group therapy sessions in broad daylight. I know why you're afraid to go out at night." Roman pauses once again "The Batman."
The Group watching was confused. "What's 'Batman'?" Asked Weiss.
"Batman is a vigilante who fights crime in Vale. Batman is actually a woman in this universe. She is mistaken for a man because she only goes out at night and most cannot get a good enough glimpse of her to figure out that she is not, in fact, a man." The Major explains " Even when she speaks, she modifies her voice AN: No, they don't just talk like they have lung cancer, act like Batman in this movie has a good voice. Ruby is Batman in this universe."
Ruby jumps up and down and claps happily.
You see, Batman has shown Vale your true colors, unfortunately." Roman continues "Arc, he's just the beginning." He then points to Junior "And as for the Televisions so-called 'plan'...Batman has no jurisdiction. He'll find him, and make him squeal." He makes a clenching motion with his fist "I know the squealers when I see them and…" He trails off as Junior cuts the connection.
Mercury, Qrow, Neo, and Roman laugh at that.
What do you propose?" Perry asks Roman, obviously one of the only ones taking him seriously.
"It's simple we, uh, kill the Batman." Roman replies, gaining laughter from most of the group assembled.
"Darn it, Roman!" Ruby smacks him "Why do have to try to kill me? It's not nice."
"Hey! Alternate universe." Roman said back.
Cinder speaks up "If it's so simple, why haven't you done it already?"
If you're good at something, never do it for free." Roman shoots back.
Most of the criminals or former criminals can agree with this assessment.
"How much do you want?" Perry asks.
Uhh, half." Roman says, and once again the room is filled with laughter.
You're crazy." A random White Fang member says.
I'm not." Roman says "No I'm not."
"That's debatable at this point." Weiss states.
"If we don't deal with this now soon…" Roman makes a sweeping gesture with his hands "Little Bull here, won't be able to get a nickel for his grandma."
That seemed to be the straw that broke the camel's back for Adam. He slammed the table and said "Enough from the clown." He got up, most likely to kill Roman.
Ah tah, tah, tah." Roman says as he gets out of his seat, revealing his jacket has multiple grenades attached to one string that is wrapped around his finger. The rest of the group in there has the understandable reaction of pulling as far away from the Joker as they could.
The audience was surprised. Cinder voiced her thoughts "Interesting...It's almost as if he knew that this meeting would go south. I wonder what his plan was." She looked towards the Major to see him just smiling.
Let's not blow this out of proportion." Said Roman
That got a snicker out of Yang.
You think you can just steal from us and just walk away?" Adam asks rhetorically.
Roman answers anyway "Yeah."
That got a chuckle out of most of the people in the theatre.
I'm putting the word out. 500 grand for this clown dead. A million alive so I can teach him some manners first."
"Wow! He wants me dead even more than you do Irondick." Roman yells at Ironwood.
Ironwood looks at him then turns and asks the Major politely "I would very much appreciate it if I could have my guns back."
"I would, but then I would have to clean the blood out of the carpet, and that's not any fun." The Major said.
Alright, so, listen. Why don't you give me a call when you want to start taking things a little more seriously." Roman starts to dig in his pockets while still showing the grenades "Here's my card." He throws a joker card on the table.
Roman starts humming as he slowly backs out of the room. When he gets to the door, he kicks it open and bolts out of there. On that note, the screen goes black.
"So, now that that's over, I will go disappear to figure out what I am going to do next." The Major says as he runs to the back, ignoring the looks of utter bewilderment on everyone else's face.
'He is so fucking weird' Neo signs.
"Could not have put it better myself." Says Jaune.
[I Have a Poll, vote for what you want my next story to be]
Not as in the next universe, as in the next story
Le End of the chapter. How was it? Not worth the wait? Well fuck you I don't really care. I will not apologize… okay but really I was just not feeling it and never got around to starting it until, like, last week. Anyways, I hope you at least enjoyed reading this. Have a good day/night- Poison.