The full shattered moon shines down upon a clearing as a smouldering ember lands on a rose. The flame is extinguished and the rose destroyed as the wind from a herd of Grimm races past.
Maybe Red's like Roses!
Maybe it's the pool of blood..
The innocents will lay in
When in the end you've failed to save them?
Their Dying Eyes!
Are wide and white like snow
And now they know
The cost of trusting you's obliteration
In a round room, five teams stand. Teams RWBY, JSKT, JNPR, SSSN, and Emerald, Mercury, and Cinder. Her amber eyes sparkle with flames as Grimm overrun Beacon.
Mirrors will shatter….
Crushed by the weight of the world…
The pillars collapse!
In shame….
Ozpin and Goodwitch stand in front of a mirror that collapses to reveal the Atlesian fleet, and Ironwood stands on the bridge. Jawsome stands in darkness while a dark copy of him stands in light. Both dissolve as they turn.
There'll be no light…
There'll be no love….
There'll be no hero in the end
who will rise above…
A fierce battle between Yang and Mercury. Weiss against Emerald. Blake against Adam. Ruby fighting Roman and Neo atop an airship.
And when it ends…
The good will crawl!
The shining light will sink in darkness
Victory for hate incarnate
Misery and pain for all…..
Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and many others rushing to meet a horde of Grimm. Jawsome and Cinder each throw flames at each other.
When..
It…
Falls...
The resulting explosion dissolves into…
Project RWBY
Welcome to Part 4 of Project RWBY! We (the dev team) went around and cleaned, added some new stuff, some polish. We hope you enjoy the tournament arc of Project RWBY.
Story-: Play through story Acts to increase your Emblem count, upgrade characters, and unlock extras.
Mission: Play through missions with a set goal, and difficulty parameters to keep you on your toes.
Extras: Access extras, such as the demo gallery, sound test, and more.
Options: Optimize your Project RWBY Experience.
Act P
Act 1
Act 2
Act 3
- Act 4
Act 5: Locked!
Act 6: Locked!
Act 7: Locked!
Act 4-1: Round One: Rage Awakens
It's that time, time for another Project RWBY chapter. Well, since you guys sent in ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, I got bored, decided 'fuck it, time to bullshit', started writing *evil laugh*. Tournaments, new weapons, and new threats await!
DISCLAIMER for the DISCLAIMER:
This was never mentioned. I assume it's common sense. But this is just in case. Plz don't sue me RT/SEGA/whoever else I rope into this shit.
DISCLAIMER:
I own nothing in this work of fiction besides my characters, events, characterizations, food items, glassware, alcohol creation devices of any kind, weapons, and general shit writing. Please don't sue me.
Seriously, please don't. I have no money.
SECOND DISCLAIMER:
If a scene is skipped over, it pretty much stayed the same as in canon. I am dubbing this the 'Brother on Board' rule, since that's where I first saw it articulated. We're in for the really long-ass haul, don't have time to write every little detail. Or money.
All things considered, Weapon-making wasn't so hard.
Just heat the metal until it was red, mold it, shape it, etcetera. Team JSKT found that out when they forged themselves new weapons, unwilling (and able) to pony up enough cash to pay the Weaponmaster to do it again.
Jawsome had made a longsword version of Ruby's Crescent Rose, minus the shooty part, which he called the Ecliptical Rose. Swapping Dragonbone out, it felt different, more lightweight, than the bulky bone cleaver.
Sonic had created Light-Speed-Dash lookalikes, with blue energy flowing through them, which he'd dubbed Booster Shoes (Creative).
Tails had finished tinkering with all those parts from before the docks, making a device with two screens, from which he could remotely control drones that he'd made.
Knuckles had declined, saying his Hammer Claws combined with his abilities were enough. They met with Team RWBY on the way out.
"So, what ya got?" Ruby asked, bouncing up and down on the balls of her feet.
"Took a page from your book." Jawsome remarked, drawing Ecliptical Rose with his left hand, extending it into it's scythe form with a flick of the wrist.
"COOL!"
"Made me some air-using shoes." Sonic said, knocking his shoe against the ground.
"Well, you made them just in time." Blake said.
"Why?" Knuckles grunted, arms crossed as they walked.
"Tournament sign-up starts…. Now." Weiss said, looking at her watch as they walked onto a shuttle that would ferry them up to their destination. The floating Amity Coliseum, representative of the four kingdoms, where the Vytal Tournament was to be held. The eight walked into the lobby, admiring the view. Ruby and Jawsome walked up to the registration desk, while the rest drifted off to the brackets and a live feed of Oobleck and Port providing color commentary to the current match…. Which is to say, explaining the rules, as there was no match.
"Two teams, signing up!" Ruby said. They slotted RWBY in as the first match, against a team from Haven, ABRN. JSKT were after, taking on Team SNST, from Shade. As the bracket updated, the leaders wandered over, noticing Team JNPR, SSSN, and CFVY as well, this round of the tournament the only round where matchups weren't randomized. RWBY was called out, but the match would not begin for a while, allowing JSKT to mosey over to the armor shop conveniently right there. Jawsome swapped to the Coliseum Set, a durable desert-camo hoodie with tan shorts and fingerless gloves, Sonic chose the Wind Set, a black and white shirt and white pants, which increased his agility, the two paid, and the four went to their seats to watch the show.
"Now, it seems we have an astonishing bout ahead of us, wouldn't you agree, Professor?" Port said, jovially, as per usual. His voice echoed through the stadium and many home speakers, many watching the event broadcast.
"Doctor." Oobleck corrected in deadpan, before brightening up again. "And yes Peter, this match is sure to set the tone of the tournament!"
"For those just now joining us, welcome to the Vytal Festival Tournament, broadcast live from Amity Coliseum!" Port gestured grandly, his image dominating the screen that would display fighter's Aura levels. "Now, if this is your first time watching, or competing, allow us to run through the rules."
Oobleck held up three fingers while a holovisual of what he was explaining popped up. "The tournament is divided into three distinctive rounds, team, doubles, and singles. Age and school year are irrelevant! In this tournament, only skill determines your result!"
Port nodded, another holo coming up. "A team member is eliminated from the match when either their Aura drops below a certain threshold, or by ring out! The victors of this round select two of their members to continue onward. The winners of that round will select who advances once more, who must then fight their way through the final bracket to achieve victory for their kingdom!"
"Yes, Peter, this will certainly be a spectatable spectacular!" Oobleck said, cleaning his glasses. "No one tuning in will disagree with that!"
"And why would they?" Port answered. "Now, to our first match; Team RWBY of Beacon Academy!" The crowd cheered as the mentioned team waved. "Versus Team ABRN of Haven!" More cheers. Two separate holograms appeared over opposite sides of the battlefield, each spinning until the RWBY side stopped on a symbol for fire, the ABRN side stopping on one for ice. The battlefield split in half as the elements surrounded the starting platform.
"And let the match COMMENCE!" Port shouted as both teams drew weapons and engaged, both team's statistics appearing on the screen both had been using.
Amity Coliseum: Vytal Tournament
RWBY: Round 1
Team ABRN
RWBY immediately split up, Ruby and Weiss moving for the ice field, while Blake and Yang leaped backwards into the solid lava. The girl in the dark blue hoodie with light green hair on a hoverboard began to ride around, while the others charged at the other team. Immediately, Yang and the dark girl in the robe began trading explosive punches, trading blows as they moved about. Hoverboard -girl dashed at Blake, who blocked with her sheath, twirling the ribbon-gun around. One of them with an assault rifle took aim, but a shot from Ruby's sniper-scythe froze him. Weiss used a black glyph to kick the head of the guy sneaking up behind Ruby, and the match went on from there.
"Hmmm, RWBY's really improved lately." Sonic said.
"We all have." Tails said, finangling around with his drone device.
"They seem to be working as a team more than they did."
"Hey, they aren't us. They actually had to learn." Knuckles chuckled.
"What, like after the fifty-fourth time Eggman tricked you?" Sonic said.
"DAMMIT HEDGEHOG, I WILL SEVER YOUR SKULL FROM YOUR SPINE!"
"Great." Jawsome's head was firmly in palm as his teammates began to fight.
The Vytal Festival grounds. Not the coliseum's level of over-the-top, but it was somewhat fancy.
"...Is anyone else hungry?" Ruby asked.
"No." Jawsome said. "Besides, I think Sonic and Knuckles beat their being hungry out of each other."
"I might have worked up an appetite." Blake said with her hands behind her head. Her stomach loudly seconded.
"Well, if only there were somewhere on campus to get food?" Weiss said. "Oh." She gestured. "Wait."
"It's alright Weiss." Ruby said, taking her shoulder. "I forget about the fairgrounds too."
"I was being facetious?" Weiss said in deadpan.
"Well, if you were hungry, why didn't you say so?" Ruby said.
"Weiss." SMACK! "Leave the snarkery to me." Jawsome said, dropping his hand from where he'd laid a dope slap on Weiss.
"You kinda fail." Sonic said behind his hand, holding in snickers.
"I know just the place!" Yang said, pointedly ignoring Weiss's glare, while everyone else tried not to laugh.
"Hold on!" A voice stopped the eight from leaving. "Might be hard to eat without this?" The owner, Emerald, from Vacuo, held out a red wallet.
"Nononononono…" Ruby muttered at lightspeed as she checked her everywhere.
"You need to be quicker on the draw." Emerald said, tossing the wallet to her.
"Yea, but I usually don't have to worry about watching my pockets because no one tries to steal from me blahblah…" As Ruby plowed into her tangent, her team assuming the exasperated pose (apply hand to face, covering eyes), JSKT began to walk off anyway, leading the ranting team leader and facepalming team away.
"Gotta say, not bad." Sonic said as his bowl rattled emptily on the wood counter. Noticing Blake's face buried in the bowl, he smirked "Guess Blake's in kitty heaven right now." The bird flipped in his direction did nothing to stop his snickering as Weiss produced a card to pay for the food. What did was when the card was stuck into the wood, shuriken style, as the stall runner, who seemed to run every damn business establishment in Vale, tapped a display reading 'Denied'.
"Oh…" Weiss trailed off.
"In the words of a wise person whose name I cannot come up with now, 'Not good.'" Jawsome said, picking his teeth with the point of the Pyrobuster.
"Good thing we're here!" The seven (Blake was in a cat-atonic state (what the hell am I doing)) glanced at the voice, which turned out to be Pyhrra's.
"Good timing." Tails checked his watch. "Our match starts soon."
"Then let's get to it!" Sonic dashed off.
"HEY! WE CAN'T RUN AS FAST AS YOU, YOU BLUE FOOL!" Knuckles raged after his running teammate.
Team RWBY took their seats as Amity Coliseum's displays revved to life, team Aura displaying on the status screen. While Team SNST stopped at 100, the usual, Team JSKT's went up to 250 each.
"How do they have so much Aura?" Yang asked, leaning over the rail.
"Perhaps Mobians have higher levels due to their environment?" Blake questioned, cocking her head. The arena environment display began to spin, landing on desert behind SNST, and wind behind JSKT.
"Three!"
Sholve readied his discs, Nero cocked his pistols, Sare her staff, and Tyro his pike.
"Two!"
Jawsome drew his blades, Sonic settled into a combat stance, Tails activated his drones, and Knuckles held up his fists.
"One!"
Time seemed to stop as both teams tensed for the start.
"Begin!"
Amity Coliseum: Vytal Tournament
JSKT: Round 1
Team SNST
Sonic dashed towards Sholve, dive kicking towards SNST's leader, who dodged as threw two discs. Sonic knocked them away quickly, leaping after at high speed. Tails angled his drones around the field, hovering in the wind zone as he ran support. Knuckles dug into the ground, coming up to punch Nero with a nasty uppercut. Jawsome and Tyro met, blades locked against steel pole, as Sare twirled her staff, muttering. The match was off to an explosive start.
Sonic caught a disc, spun under another, and flipped away from two more. He continually dodged the near endless stream as he made his way towards the opponent's leader. Chucking his disc back at him, Sonic leaped into the air, spun into a ball, and focused his velocity down. Ever since the ARK incident, he figured out he could shift his velocity any way he wished, which worked best pointed down. The spiny ball he was crashed down, but Sholve had quickly rolled, throwing a green disc. It whistled as it careened towards it's target, four blades of wind surrounding it like an ethereal chakram. Time slowed for the supersonic hedgehog as he activated his new equipment. The Booster Shoes could do just that, boost. Everything seemed to slow as Sonic, already used to seeing at high speeds, dodged, then leaped at his opponent with a kick prepared.
"Supersonic Boost Kick!" He called as his foot collided with Sholve's midsection, bending him around it until Law 3 kicked in and sent him flying away like a missile. A simple ring out. Sonic dusted himself off as he heard an elimination chime sound. After that, he also heard a roar of rage.
Knuckles tunneled underneath the arena surface, digging through like a hot knife through cheese. Above, Nero peppered the ground with bullets. Sensing his distraction, the echidna made himself known with a leap and strike from the Hammer Gloves. Deciding to fight above ground, he tore a chunk of sandstone from below the dusty grains, and held it in his palm. Nero growled, inserting two different clips into his pistols, aiming both at the red echidna.
"Limitless Pistol Bolt!" He called, holding both triggers down as an infinite stream of lead fired towards Knuckles, who blocked with the chunk. The stream was interrupted by the chunk flying towards him, which he dodged, and finding that the red echidna was gone.
"No, here I am!" A bolt of lightning struck dead-on, sending thousands of volts through SNST's short-range fighter. As he keeled over, he wondered where the bolt had come from, until everything went dark.
Tails hovered in the Wind zone, staying in the air via an updraft, navigating T-01 Medí-bot, and T-02 Hawk-bot. Medi was currently hovering near Sonic, while Hawk was flying over head. Oddly, he hadn't seen Jawsome and pike-guy's duel anytime recently. However, he did notice a staff wielder spinning said staff and speaking a mile a minute.
"I see…" He muttered. "She's bending the light to create a mirage that they've disappeared. Odd. Why would she be only helping him?" Fingers flying over his device, he directed Hawk to attack and Medi to return to him. Hawk's beak gun and talons distracted her from her casting, as the mirage wore off. However, once it did, Jawsome's Aura meter plummeted until it was nearly at elimination. Tails sent Medi to assist, and noticed the pike glowing with blue energy. Water energy.
Jawsome was down on one knee, leaning on the Pyrobuster. Ecliptical Rose had fallen from his left hand, and he knew one more hit spelled elimination. He felt both tired and… energized? Looking inward, he tried to channel that energy.
Tyro looked on in confusion as the red and black hedgehog shakily stood up. He'd hit him with so many Water Dust infused attacks he should have been eliminated. The confusion turned to palpable fear as the hedgehog's stance solidified.
Jawsome opened his eyes, unaware of the fact they were now red, and a small ray of black had formed.
"This is the end… FOR YOU!" He roared in rage, the Pyrobuster's blade also becoming red. Picking up Ecliptical Rose, he began to slash in front of him as he drove towards Tyro. Each slash created a blade of wind that struck the pike wielder. He jumped and drove the Pyrobuster down, creating a small shockwave. He'd drained half of the opponent's Aura by then. He slammed the ground again, then his vision went red. Growling, he launched at Tyro, swinging his blades into the ground, kicking up debris and shock pillars. Finally, he extended Ecliptical Rose to its' scythe form, and sliced. Tyro collapsed, his Aura depleted, as the victory bell sounded.
"The victors are Team JSKT!" Port announced, Beacon, Atlas, and Shade students cheering. Jawsome shook his head as the red mist cleared, feeling his vitality returning. He looked up to see Tails's Medi-bot healing him. He flashed a thumbs up at the fox.
"You guys were awesome!" Ruby squealed as she bounced on the balls of her feet in front of JSKT.
"Missing a letter." Jawsome said.
"Well, you put on a real show." Blake commented. "That was a great comeback, Jawsome"
"What, the rest of us are chopped liver?" Sonic said indignantly.
"You were all awesome!" Yang said throwing her arms over the three chromatic Mobians's shoulders.
"Uh, thanks." Knuckles said.
"So round 2 is randomized?" Jawsome asked, after watching the antics of his friends and team.
"Yes. We decided Yang and I should continue on." Weiss remarked.
"I suppose we should as well." Tails put a finger to his chin in thought. "How about Jawsome and Knuckles?"
"Tails, I was nearly eliminated in that battle, and you know it! Why else was Medi healing just me?" The team leader protested. "You and Knuckles should go on!"
"I think you and fox-boy should go." Knuckles stated. "It seems like you work well together."
"But-!"
"I say-and I can't believe I'm agreeing with this-Knux is right." Sonic said. "Tails can provide range and support."
Jawsome fired a shard. "Duly noted." Sonic drawled.
"Why aren't you inputting?" Jawsome somewhat desperately asked RWBY.
"Not our team, not our place." Blake shrugged. "You've figured it out anyway."
"Come on…."
Jawsome: Burst Mode unlocked!
Burst: Rampage unlocked!
Act 4-1 Complete!
Emblems: 17
A Note from Jawsome
What's up bitches and bastards (always wanted to say that), I bring you this chapter drunk on water after having extricated myself from a pile of One Piece fanfic, which is somewhat addicting. Special mentions go to This Bites!, a Self-Insert, and New Game Plus, a Peggy Sue, for being awesome, hilarious, and awesomely hilarious. Oh, and I got tired of mass murder in GTA V.
I may have a problem.
….Nah, not possible.
Your friendly neighborhood sociopath,
Jawsome
P.S.: Looked up quasi. Means 'almost'. Seriously.
P.P.S.: Damn you TV Tropes, for having me open a half million pages and kill my laptop's FPS.
P.P.P.S: Who wants hot abridged series references?
P.P.P.P.S: Everything before Act 0-1 has been exiled from continuity.
P.P.P.P.P.S: I need to stop these holy shit.