RWBY
RWBY Loops Theater!
By BrokenChosenofEva
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Title: Red Like Roses
Prompt: various
Word Count: 3.1k+
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. Leave a review if you watched/liked them, and if you go to the art Zephyrus did.
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3.a [continued from 2.h, inspired to continue by Zephyrus Genesis' art on DeviantArt http{:/}zephyrus-genesis{.}deviantart{.}com/art/Role-Reversal-527168098 just remove the {}. You know web addresses and this site. lol]
"Near as I can tell," Weiss whispered to Yang as they lead "Roman's" hired help towards the Dust shop, "We Woke up right before Ruby's first encounter with Roman, so we need to make it good while still getting you away 'scott-free', as they say."
"Relax, Weiss." Yang grinned, glancing at her pink-and-cream themed companion, "I've got this. I'll just let the Loop memories handle the fight, and if things go south you can just grab me like Neo did after the fight with the Paladin."
"I hate not having my Glyphs." Weiss grumbled, but let the matter drop, "I'll go to the roof tops, and keep an eye out. I'm not looking forward to working with Cinder... again."
Yang fought down a laugh, and continued on when Weiss froze and shattered with a simple tap of "her" cane, Melodic Cudgel.
"Well, Boys." Yang chuckled, shoving open the doors to the shop, "Do you know how hard it is to get Dust for cheap? Besides sweeping my floors."
"Just take the money, I don't want any trouble." the elderly man shied back as the goons filed in behind her.
"I don't want the money." She glanced around, before realizing Ruby is too short this far back to be seen over the shelving, "Grab the Dust."
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Ruby was amazing, if "slow" compared to the woman she becomes later in the timeline, and Yang had to fight down the urge to wrap her in a hug. Though the look on her face might be worth it the next time she and Weiss Looped like this.
Plan first, play later, as Weiss had said numerous times in the Home Loop.
She knew Weiss must be reminicing just like she was from her vantage point nearby. She'd have to find out, somehow, what Ruby's team ended up being this Loop. Preferably before getting ambushed at the Docks.
"Hey! Get back here!"
Time for more fun.
"Maybe another time, Red!" Yang called out as she ascended the ladder across the street, smirking. She hadn't stuck around, instead high-tailing it around the 'fight' and to her escape route.
Reaching the roof, the Blonde took off across the buildings to her waiting Bullhead -piloted by none other than Cinder Fall herself-, with the sound of Ruby's signature 'climbing' method echoing behind her followed by the light thud of the smaller girl's boots.
"Wait!"
Jumping into the open hatch, she turned and saluted, ducking when she saw Ruby aim her sniper at her and pull the trigger. It was more from survival instinct than actually needing to dodge -she was relatively confident she could absorb a couple of Ruby's shots by this point and not notice the drop on her Aura-, though actually having her 'sister' shoot at her outside of training was a light blow to her all its own.
The rest of the escape played out as Ruby had told her in the Original Timeline, though she suspected the Bullhead might have faired better under Roman's hands than it did hers.
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3.b
"Yang! Let go!" Weiss snapped from within the Blonde's trademark Ursa-level hug.
"But you're my sister this Loop!" she cheered, grinning, voice low enough the others on the airship couldn't hear her, "I have to give ya a hug."
"That doesn't mean strangle me, you big oaf!" the smaller snow-haired girl huffed, smoothing out her clothes. It had been a surprise Waking up to Weiss Rose, daughter of Winter Rose -deceased-, and sister to Yang Xiao Long.
Having a white version of Ruby's customary Rose on her bolero jacket -in place of her Snowflake- looked rather nice, though. The jacket -in her 'memories'- had been her mothers and very dear to her, much as Ruby's Cloak had been for the scythe-wielder.
"I bet Ruby Schnee is going to make the Original you look like a robot." Yang teased.
"Well of course," Weiss brushed off the joke, alternating between eyeing Yang and the view outside the window, "My Loop memories have you and I behaving no different than Original, so why should she? Or Blake?"
"You're no fun sometimes, Ice Queen."
"I'm selectively fun, Blondie, there is a difference."
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3.c
"Is this what ya meant by 'weird', Ice Queen? Cause it sure fits my definition!"
Yang's yell over the sound of screams, moans, and gunfire from her gaunlets was a mix of amused and panicked as the two girls -and their team- pushed back the hoard of... zombies, if Nora's excited cheers from that morning were accurate.
"I've never had a Loop this far from Home Line, Xiao Long." slicing the head from the last zombie -she internally scoffed at the term-, Weiss moved back to speak more privately with her companion, "Then again, the Loops have an odd... cycle, to them. And the guide says there are other realities than can influence each other and us."
"Wish that didn't include a Zombie Apocolypse!"
"Oh quit whining." Weiss snorted, reloading her Dust cylinder, "You're having at least as much fun as I. This is new, after all, without simply being a remix of our Home Loop."
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3.d [continued from 3.a]
Yang was having trouble catching her breath after looking at the report Weiss had given her concerning Ruby and her Beacon team, and the white-haired woman's frown constantly twitched as she fought her own laughter.
The look on Roman's face as Ruby hugged him while Neo and Blake simply smirked was hysterical. The image -attached to the report- was taken right after the team was named and Ruby designated the leader.
The name of the team wasn't helping either: RRBN, aka "Rubine".
"So, hahaha, what's- snort what's next on the Events List?" Yang asked, barely controlling herself after setting down the picture, "The docks, right?"
"Yes, next month. Cinder has us collecting several shipments of Dust from Torchwick Dust Company, " she snorted at this Loop's alterations to the Original, "that will be there. I'll be leaving everything there up to you, like at the shop, unless you need help."
The Blonde gave a nod, then glanced at the picture again. Dissolving into another fit of laughter, she slid the image over to Weiss who began chuckling herself.
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3.e [continued from 3.b]
Weiss blinked, vision filled by Ruby's silver eyes as the girl leaned in close with her arms behind her. The brunette would've been cute in such a pose, if it wasn't for the scythe held lazily behind her.
"Hi!" Ruby pulled back, planting the tip of her weapon in the ground and letting it hang there as she brought her hands back in front of her, "I mean- Hello! I'm Ruby Schnee! Pleased to meet you."
"Weiss... Weiss Rose." the was-but-isn't Heiress managed, then shot a glare at her 'sister', "You can stop laughing any minute now, Yang."
"Don't -snicker- don't let me stop you from making friends, Weiss." the Blonde got out, unable to stop her giggles at the energetic Ruby's actions.
"Wanna hang out?" the girl asked, grinning at Yang's behavior before turning back to white-themed girl before her, "I don't know anyone here, cause I got pushed up two years, and you look my age so we should be friends!"
Weiss blinked, a short fight between her Original reaction to Ruby's forward attempts at friendship and her "more recent" -for a given definition there of- attitude of accepting a chance to spend time with her team. But it wasn't her team, yet, and she knew how she would want it to play out given hind-sight.
"Maybe after teams are assigned." she allowed, giving a small smile, "We should head inside for the Welcome."
"Yay!" and the girl bolted so fast it drew a small breeze behind her.
"Well, still Ruby alright."
"Quite, Xiao Long... indeed it is."
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3.f
Weiss contemplated her family, the four of them -though this Loop it was only her father and herself-, and how things had changed in her view of them.
Invariably, her father was a strict man. Focused on running Schnee Dust, he rarely had time for his family, and unless she made a concerted effort to spend time around him she often knew little more than the etiquite of Nobility and her own training to become a Huntress.
Some Loops he would be truly married to his work, whether the Loop saw fit to have her mother living or dead, and would rarely appear except to ask in passing how her training was proceeding. Some of those Loops he would scoff at her choice to attend Beacon, or attempt to deny it to her, but she would push on and attend regardless.
Some Loops he was alcoholic after work, or ignored his children. Or, in rare Loops -Loops she always derailed-, he was the abusive parent, commanding his home and business as if they were one-in-the-same.
But there were Loops...
Loops he would be very fatherly, such that she was glad for her Loop memories and their guidance in how to behave. He would come home when he said, support her -and in Loops where Winter was also there, support her as well-, and he would personally escort her to Beacon on that first day.
She cherished those Loops, fervently wishing they had been her Home Loop.
Winter was somewhat less changing, either there or not -often younger, but occassionally older- and often having little impact on her life before -and after- leaving for Beacon. She was often quiet, sometimes bratty, but she almost always supported her sister. The -usually- Heiress quickly decided to encourage a friendship with Winter in those Loops, hoping for something like the bond she saw between Yang and Ruby, and always regretted how she'd behaved towards the younger Schnee in her Home Loop.
Even when the Loop put them at odds, Weiss did her best to bridge the gap between them.
Her sister was, she imagined -during her lonely Loops before Yang Awoke-, what Ruby would have been for Yang had the younger girl picked a different career or had she not been pushed up two years. Curious about her older sister's doings and supportive when needed, if still distant in the -what she accepted as- typical Schnee fashion.
Her mother, however... Her mother was nearly always a powerful yet soft spoken woman, controlling the home much like her father controlled the SDC, but with a much softer guiding hand. The Schnee matriarch was Weiss' constant voice of support, encouraging her through whatever trials faced her in both Huntress and Company training.
Weiss always enjoyed, to the fullest, those Loops where she had a full family. A family she imagined Ruby and Yang must have had before Summer's death.
And because of that, and Loops where she was a mother -rare though such Loops were-, Weiss swore to herself to always be such a person as would make her mother proud. Should she ever escape the Loops, she wanted be the same woman to her own children. She wanted that same kind of family for them.
Deep down, in the corner of her soul that she shied away from these days -these centuries-, Weiss knew Jaune would be the kind of father for their children that she wish hers had been for her.
And as Weiss closed her eyes laying on the fields before Castle White with her head in her father's lap, a living team RWBY right beside her, she let death and the Reset gently slip her from their fingers.
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3.g
Other than waking up a couple of months before attending Beacon, Weiss had decided it was a Home Loop and was treating it accordingly -especially after the last few Loops-. Waiting as she had decades -perhaps more accurate to say centuries by now- ago near the airship docks, Weiss pretended to have more important things on her mind than placing the locations of Aura's she could recognize within her admittedly short reach.
The aforementioned reach was the reason she was caught completely off guard by Ruby's cry of "WEISS!", which triggered a deep seated response even the Loops hadn't 'cured' her of.
"Ruby, no- oof!"
The red missile impacted her at a well -and secretly fondly- remembered speed, bowling them both over and onto the ground. She caught sight of Yang casually intercepting Blake -catching the agreed upon sign for 'I'm Awake'-, leaving her with what she quickly realized was a crying, 15-year-old Ruby Rose.
"Ruby?" she tried to search through her Loop memories, thinking she had missed something. Maybe they were penpals? Or old friends who hadn't seen each other since they were very young?
"I thought I'd failed you guys!" she sobbed, voice soft and clear even through her tears, "I couldn't help Yang, and then Blake was too far for you or me to help, and then something hit me!"
"It's alright, Rose. We're ok-" she started to calm the brunette, hope flaring as she put together what was occuring, but Ruby continued on as if she hadn't heard.
"It felt like my chest was on fire, and ice cold, and then I blinked and Yang was beside me on the airship and the news showed Roman and-"
"Ruby Rose!" Weiss cut-off the rapidly accelerating rambling, pushing up and giving the suddenly tiny seeming girl a hug, "We. Are. Fine. I'll explain later -with Yang there- but first we need to head inside."
"Okay..." was the subdued response, but it was enough to satisfy the Heiress. Standing up, and pulling Ruby up as well, she brushed herself off and straightened Ruby's cloak before giving her friend another hug.
"Come on. We might know how this plays out, but we still have our parts to play."
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3.h
"So... Let me make sure I get-"
"Understand."
"Yeah, ok, understand what you're saying." Ruby rolled her eyes at the habitual correction from Weiss concerning her grammar, "We're in a Time Loop, but only you are Awake for every one of them, and sometimes Yang is there too. And now I'm Awake, and will start Waking up sometimes like Yang does. But not every 'Loop' is the same as our 'first time'. Right?"
"Pretty much got it all, Sis." Yang grinned, her aura just shy of glowing while they talked on the roof, "And have we got some stories to tell you!"
"Xiao Long!" Weiss cut in, scolding, "You will not embarrass her within the first day of her first Loop!"
"Like you waited to start in on things my Unawake self did." Yang scoffed, grinning.
"Only because you started teasing me about being old!"
"You're, like, a hundred Loops ahead a me!" the blonde countered, "That's like five centuries! You are older than me!"
"That doesn't mean I'm an 'old lady', as you so rudely put it!"
Ruby watched the banter, smiling at the easy friendship between her current-and-future partner and her sister, but also felt a moment of something like sorrow. She'd missed so much 'Sleeping' through these 'Loops' they talked about, and the two of them had left her behind. It was like Yang and Weiss were the siblings, and she was the outsider.
But she'd get them back. From what it sounded like -and after a quick glance through the Guide- they had something like eternity to rebuild and get to know each other all over again. She found it was something she was actually looking forward to, for all her ever-present fear of social interaction.
"Alright, enough." Weiss sighed, then began shooing them back inside, "Time for bed, we have Initiation tomorrow."
Once they were back inside, Weiss told them she was going to shower before bed and left.
Ruby paused a moment, watching her leave with a familiar ache.
"That was kinda like mom..."
"...Yeah," Yang sighed, then gave a tired grin to her sister, "She had a Loop, after I Woke up the first time -though I wasn't Awake for this one-, where she was our mom."
"What-" the Brawler shook her head, stopping Ruby.
"Not my place, little sis. Ask her when you have a quiet moment." Yang spoke, voice firm as she continued, "Just not this Loop. We just got you 'back', so let's just follow her lead. I think she wanted a simple 'replay' of our Home Loop."
"Okay." Ruby sighed, then turned to Yang as they neared the sleeping area, "Wait, 'Home Loop'?"
"The first go-around, or as she used to call it: The Original Timeline." the Blonde pushed open the door, "Come on, we got plenty of time to chat after Initiation."
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A/N: From now on it'll just be if there is a crossover or confusion.
Here goes:
3.c Not L4D, just zombies
3.d RRBN, or Rubine. -snicker- yeah, like the sandwich. It's also an old word for "ruby".
3.f Weiss had "a very difficult childhood", with few or no friends -and never anyone like RWBY-, and the Loops gave her a chance to see what could have been -either by chance or her own manipulations-.