RWBY
RWBY Loops Theater!
By BrokenChosenofEva
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Title: [continued]
Prompt: various
Word Count: 2.4k
Rating: T
Summary: Loops Theater AU. RWBY joins the Loops. Weiss Awakes to the same thing everytime, Ruby blowing her whistle in their room on the first day of classes.
Disclaimer: I do not own RWBY.
Notes: This is not Part of Innortal's "Infinite Loops" universe. Feel free to send me any ideas you have or scenes you'd like me to do. I'll credit you at the beginning of the block where I use it.
Intro is "This Will Be the Day (James Landino remix)", and the outro is "Time to Say Goodbye (James Landino remix)". Find them on YouTube.
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2.a [continued from 1.h]
Yang wasn't sure what to make of Weiss unerringly guiding her to Junior's Club. Even after all the times they'd hung out in... in the First Timeline, she could've sworn she'd never taken RWBY to Junior's. Yet here they were, standing outside the man's club just after dinner at Beacon.
"Ice Queen?"
"Hush, Yang, we'll talk inside." Weiss admonished softly, tapping on her scroll and waiting for a reply before they walked up to the doors.
The buxom blonde followed Weiss inside passed a pair of Junior's Boys, one of whom was shifting his gaze between his own scroll and Weiss, and over to a secluded table in the back corner. She wasn't sure what to make of having the Heiress ignore the nickname, or the guard's odd behavior.
"Ice Queen, Blondie."
Turning, the two Loopers found Junior looking both displeased and nervous. Yang figured her previous visit still hadn't been forgotten, and that explained his nervousness, but she couldn't quite figure out why he'd be almost glaring at Weiss.
"Junior." Weiss gave him a nod, then shot a glare at Yang over what she said next, "Two virgin Strawberry Sunrises. And the anti-listening device."
Yang raised her hands innocently, knowing the white-haired Anchor wanted to prevent any teasing over the drinks. She let it go, knowing she could tease her later.
"Any reason you decided now was a good time?" he set a small box with speaker, not quite the size of Weiss' tiny fist, on the table and a barely audible mix of tones began playing, "I've got a business to run, and they start in an hour."
"Thank you, I know." Weiss dismissed him with a wave, earning another glare before the man walked off, "Well, now we have a little less than an hour for me to explain and answer any questions."
"Why is he so mad at you?" Yang teased, grinning, "It's not like you blew up his bar. That's my speciallity."
"Well, I may have mentioned I knew someone good at... redecorating, if he didn't give me access as I wished," Weiss blushed, but maintained her stoic expression, "and that said person had blonde hair and was right beside me."
"You got him to cooperate with a scroll message?" Yang gaped, shocked, before laughing, "Dust, Ice Queen, I didn't figure you for the under-handed type."
"Decades of practice."
The silent admittance gave Yang pause, and the blonde watched her friend for a moment.
"You've tried to tell me before?"
"Only a couple times," Weiss glanced at Yang, "I spents far more Loops than I wanted trying to convince Blake. It was easier being her 'disturbingly astute acquiantance' than convincing her I was Looping. Ruby... is very trusting."
Her last words were low, and her gaze dropped to match. Yang could've made a joke about feelings for Ruby, but it felt like a very bad joke when confronted by Weiss' now reluctant mood.
"She is." Yang agreed instead, "She always sees the best in us, right?"
"She does."
That simple confirmation of Ruby's nature across Loops, even if not expressly stated, eased part of Yang's worries. She didn't want to have Ruby be something she wasn't.
"Well, unless the Loop was 'Broken'," Yang froze, hearing the capital in the word, "She and Cinder Fall were reversed one Loop. Can you imagine a 'happy-go-lucky' girl bent on destroying Vale? I hope I never see a Loop like that again."
"Me neither." Yang gulped, then turned as Junior arrived with their drinks and left as soon as he'd set them down, "How did you know about this place, Weiss? I never told ya'll about it, only Ruby knew I'd been here before."
"I spent... a long time getting to know you. Same for Ruby and Blake." Weiss' tone was soft, her gaze distant as she spoke, "Playing tag with Ruby was... surprisingly fun. And I enjoyed talking about things with Blake."
"And me?" Yang grinned at the image of Weiss of all people laughing and chasing Ruby around Beacon.
"You could drink me under the table, once we could legally drink." Weiss smirked, silently laughing at herself while Yang chuckled at the combined thoughts of Weiss drinking and still keeping them out of trouble, then both sobered when Weiss continued softly, "And we aren't so different, Yang. You raised Ruby, took on responsibility before you should have.
"You're an exceptional friend, Yang."
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2.b
"Okay, what should we do this Loop?" Yang asked, reclining on her bunk while Weiss merely answered with a groan, "What? I know you gotta be bored. I've only been Awake for something like ten Loops, an I'm bored."
"Do we have to pick something? What about-"
"Nope," Yang grinned, popping the "P" as she rolled off the bed and landed softly, "We're gonna have some fun. How about setting a trap at the docks this time? Maybe bring Penny and leave Blake and Ruby in town?"
"Well... I've never included Penny before..."
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Weiss was quickly beginning to regret this. Penny was far more eager to follow Yang's lead and toy with the White Fang, leaving Weiss herself to handle Roman. The man was skilled, she'd give him that, but compared to all her Loops practicing with Myrternaster he was childsplay.
So Weiss played. She'd enjoyed her "Ruby phase", as she thought of it, and one thing she'd learned from the -now considerably- younger girl was the ability to enjoy what she did beyond the physical and academic excellence.
The icing on the cake was being able to see that Roman knew she was just toying with him, which left him visibly torn between frustration and grudging admiration.
She smirked. One of the things she had learned from her "Yang phase" was how to be impressive, and given her options...
Well, she'd always wanted to see how large and complex a formation of Ice Dust she could manipulate.
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2.c
"I'm sorry, ok!" Weiss called as she followed Yang into the sparring ring after classes, Blake reading in the Library and Ruby planning with Jaune for their 'first' mission.
They had Awoken that morning right after getting their mission assignments, and the first thing Yang had done was glare at Weiss and storm out of the main hall.
"You caught me in an ice formation so fast I didn't have time to trigger my Semblance to stop it from freezing me solid!" Yang charged Ember Celica, "How did you not see us there? We'd been fighting for five minutes!"
"I didn't expect it to actually catch you!" the Heiress drew Myrternaster, checking the Dust cylinder, "And we reset, so it's not like I actually killed you."
"Fine, lets just spar." And suiting actions to words, Yang charged with a bang.
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2.d
"Turn-about-is-fair-play, Weissy." Yang groused, but the effect was ruined by her grin.
"So you lit me on FIRE!?"
"Chill out, Ice Queen." the brawler smirked at her pun, earning a groan from the fencer, "Besides, I thought you'd be prepared for it. You know how riled up I get in a match that epic."
"On fire, Xaio Long."
"Quit whining," Yang sighed, dropping her grin and rubbing the back of her neck, "Look, let's just figure out this Loop's plan. Wanna play it vanilla?"
"Not with you being so obviously trigger-happy." she snipped back, "I was thinking of going full force from the start, try to bring Ruby and Blake up to our level."
Yang snickered.
"Fine, close to our level." Weiss allowed, "Though I'm probably double your Aura reserves by now. You are catching up pretty quickly..."
Yang stopped listening and grinned, the fight with Neo was totally going her way this time.
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2.e
"Note to self: Going full out by this point on a train rigged to blow is a bad idea." Yang muttered.
"Oh, now you Wake up."
"Hello to you too, Ice Queen," Yang groaned, knowing she was in for an epic Weiss Lecture, "Wait, what do ya mean 'now'?"
"I do have Loops without you, Xaio Long." Weiss snapped, arms crossed, "It's been nearly a dozen Loops. And, Dust help me, I'm bored. Enough I'm willing to let you lead."
This, Yang grinned, is gonna be fun!
"First, how do you feel about getting Ruby and Blake in on it this Loop?" the Blonde Brawler smirked, "Cause we are totally pranking Roman at the docks in a few months."
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2.f
Even though she was no longer alone in the resets, Weiss found herself occasionally on the edge of the Statue in Beacon's courtyard. She would sit alone, eyes closed and face turned to the sky.
This was, however, the first time this Loop -any Loop, really- where she was able to really think over things. She'd been so distracted the first few Loops just adjusting to the fact that she was Looping, and then she'd spent time planning out how she could be better and figuring out how her Aura had changed, then just Looping to spend time with her team. She'd never, if she was honest, allowed herself time to think things over as a whole.
And she was beginning to deeply wish she didn't have that time.
It was just after the start of their Second Year, Cinder's mess now months behind them, and they had at least three years before the Fang was again an issue. Though, with Adam dead this time around, they might not pop back up until after the reset, so she wouldn't have to deal with them.
She frowned at the thought. Adam's death was her doing, but she knew Yang had ochestrated it. She'd intentionally put herself in a position that forced Weiss to choose between the two, knowing Weiss would pick her over Blake's old partner. The others might not have noticed, but even with Yang's increasingly good acting -and the fact she was always a bit of a showman anyways-, Weiss could tell the Blonde had set it up.
Blake was still very distant with her, despite Yang and Ruby's attempts to change that, and Weiss was hurt more than she thought she'd be over it. Blake might not be Awake, but she'd put just as much effort into regaining her friendship at the start of the Loop as she'd put into everything she did. Having it metaphorically 'spit in her face' had been a small -but not unexpected- shock.
But she couldn't hate Yang for it. She thought she knew what the Blonde was trying to do.
She just... didn't want it. Or maybe she wanted it too badly to try.
Jaune.
By the end of this year, in the Original Timeline, she'd be dating him. They'd be making plans for a wedding right before the White Fang revived, and the wedding had been set for only a month after what had ended up being her last day. In fact, this was... would be, the very spot Jaune proposed to her.
She felt the tears burn hot on her cheeks, overflowing far too easily, but she didn't care. Not like the Loop where she'd allowed -through simple apathy- for Roman to kill her with his stolen mech.
No, she didn't care if she cried because she found she wanted to. Anything to allow her buried-til-now pain to seep out and give her a small bit of peace.
So she cried, she sobbed with her face in her hands, and didn't notice when the grey skies above joined her.
Nor did she see Yang, just a few feet away, standing frozen in the light rain with a pair of To-Go plates from the dining hall and a spare coat, a shocked expression on her face.
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2.g
"Hey, Weiss?"
"Hmm?"
"You ok...?"
"...I'm fine, Yang, thank you for asking."
"...'Kay..."
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2.h
"What."
Yang laughed at Weiss' expression and lack of vocabulary, twirling Roman's -her- cane around her wrist and treating it like a cheerleader would a baton. Weiss, however, simply stared at the parasol/sword in her grip like it would bite her.
"Relax, Ice Queen," the Blonde teased, pausing to lean over the cane and enjoying how she knew she must look in a woman's suit designed like Roman's as she watched her fellow Looper adjust to being in Neo's normal attire, "I didn't really believe you when ya said sometimes the Loops are weird. But this is hilarious!"
"Hilarious?!" Weiss choked, eyes uncharacteristically bugging out of her head as she switched to gaping at Yang, "We're the villains, Xaio Long!"
"Ya said it's happened before," her smirk grew as she shrugged, "Imagine what we could do if we broke the stereotype! I'm totally pranking Cinder and Rubes!"
Weiss opened her mouth to protest, then snapped it shut as what Yang had said registered. It had been awhile since they last 'broke character'...
The smirk that developed on her face had Yang rolling on the ground in hysterics.
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A/N: Here goes:
2.a Yang begins to learn what Weiss has been through to gain her knowledge.
2.b "I'm bored" leads to... interesting times...
2.c For someone essentially "attuned" to fire, ice hurts when it's a surprise. [obviously, I'm using the "Yang's Aura/Semblance generates heat on command" theory/fanon]
2.d "Fair Play", she says. More like repercussionless revenge.
2.e What did we apparently not learn about "boredom", Weiss?
2.f You are only truly alone when with other people.
2.g Checking up
2.h Weiss hadn't been swapped with the "bad guys" before.