RWBY
RWBY Loops Theater!
By BrokenChosenofEva
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Title: [continued]
Prompt: various
Word Count: 4.4k+ [wow, these keep growing]
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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4.a [continued from 3.h]
They'd played things out like Yang had said, keeping to the "script" as best they could while not reverting to being completely "new" as they'd been in their Home Loop. With the exception of keeping Blake from running away.
Of course, not everything went to plan. Even withWeiss obviously, to Ruby and Yang, not really putting her heart into arguing with Blake over Faunus, the raven-haired girl had blurted out "we" just like always and then bolted. Even Ruby's insane speed hadn't been able to find the fourth member of their team. So they resorted to searching Vale.
Weiss, of course, roughly knew what the Cat-Faunus was doing and where she went, but she'd never really gained any real detail and thus found herself searching like before. Ruby and Yang did, as normal, stumble across Penny, but thankfully not into the girl as in the Home Loop.
Truth be told, Weiss was glad for the chance to be alone. Her last Loop... The last Loop had been amazingly kind to her. She'd had her family, her friends and her team had survived to the end, and she'd even managed to subtly advance the timeline a bit so she was married before the end.
But that had been the problem. She'd had everything, and as much as she wanted to be happy, the simple fact that it had all been torn away from her was almost too much. So this Loop, as Yang had so astutely guessed, was going to be 'normal'. Ruby's Awakening had been a welcome and much need surprise, but had reinforced her wish for things to play out as before with only minor changes.
Changes that didn't work, or at least she thought so until a certain Faunus dropped down beside her and started just strolling along.
"So, you Weiss?" hands behind his head, banana gripped in his tail, Sun Wukong calmly kept his gaze in front of him.
"You're that Monkey Faunus from the ship?" Weiss glanced at him disapprovingly, though not for the reasons she once had lifetimes ago, "It's rather rude to not introduce one's self."
"Right, right," he nodded sagely, grinning as he swept around in front of her and gave an exagerated bow, "Sun Wukong, of Vacuo, Faunus extraordinaire! Banana?"
"A pleasure, Mr. Wukong," Weiss smirked at him, accepting the banana but not peeling it just yet, "I don't suppose you've seen a Cat Faunus recently? A girl about my age, black hair, perhaps a bow atop her head?"
"So you know her." he grinned and moved back beside the Heiress as she began walking towards the cafe Blake had once told her she met the boy at, "I decided I needed to see ya for myself. Blake seemed a bit shy about facing ya herself right now."
"Through no fault of her own, I'm afraid." Weiss sighed, "I was not exactly friendly when we parted ways. There was an argument, and I fear she let slip a detail she had not been ready to impart to us."
"Like telling the Schnee Heiress that she'd been rooming with a Faunus?"
"Yes."
"And how do you feel about that?"
"Did she put you up to this?" Weiss smirked, stopping with hands on hips and turning to Sun, "Maybe a script she forced you to repeat back which you had no intention of keeping to once away from her?"
"Guilty." Sun held up his hands, grinning, "It was something a lot more subtle, but that's too many fancy words to suit me."
Weiss rolled her eyes, thinking to herself that she wondered what Blake had ever seen in the Monkey Faunus to actually date him while he stayed at Beacon for the Tournament.
"To answer her concerns, I just wish she hadn't run off." the white-haired Anchor thought back to one of her changed conversations, "We're a team. And as I'd told our leader, we need to stick together to be the best."
"Well, she was planning on catching some bad guys, wanna join in?"
"Rather forthright of you." At Sun's blank look, Weiss chuckled, "Yes, I'll tag along. I suppose this has something to do with the White Fang and a Dust shipment?"
"How did you-"
"I'm the Heiress to the SDC, and the Fang regularly target us." Weiss snorted, "It's a fairly obvious connection."
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4.b
This is a new take on the Home Loop, Weiss thought, looking down into the crib that -as her Loop memories told her- held her sleeping four month old 'daughter' Weiss Schnee, This is going to be a confusing Loop, I can tell...
Her name this Loop was Heather Schnee, one of her mother's more common names in the Loops -and she was ashamed to admit she no longer recalled what her mother's 'real' name was-, and if things otherwise kept to script then little 'Weiss' would one day attend Beacon and meet her friends.
Her friends... On one hand she hoped Yang and Ruby would be Looping and could help her daughter become what she did in the Home Loop, while on the other she hoped they weren't. Though, explaining this change might be rather funny. But if things did stay relatively the same... she could probably expect a White Fang attack in several years that would result in her death.
And, again, she was of two minds on the issue. She wanted to avoid dying -it was never 'comfortable' in any way unless instant-, but... she didn't want to live long enough to possibly recieve the news of her daughter's team dying -and on her very doorstep-. That was one thing she was glad for; her mother never had to hear that her daughter died.
Coming back to the present, hearing the small whimpers from the baby, 'Heather' gently picked her daughter up and began rocking her, That's in the future, though. Let's just enjoy this while it lasts...
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4.c [continued from 4.a]
"You really don't care?"
"Blake Belladonna, are you implying I'm lying?" Weiss huffed, laying on her stomach not far from Blake with Sun crouched nearby as they watched White Fang troops exit a Bullhead, "You let go of the White Fang, and I believe you. Now believe me when I say I'm letting go of any grudge I might have with you over that fact."
Blake's silence was enough of an answer for her, and she took a moment to send a quick Scroll message to Yang and Ruby to keep Penny away from the docks for a bit. Just as she finished Blake gasped, angry, and leapt from the roof.
Grumbling at the near perfect replay of the Home Loop's event between Blake and Roman, Weiss floated down on a Glyph before skating across the ground to stop Roman from firing a follow up blast, while Sun followed and stepped into her place against Roman just like always and she moved to deal with the grunts.
It was a slight stretch for her focus, but she had more than enough Aura to trigger the two dozen Gravity Glyphs that pinned the grunts to the ground while she watched Blake and Sun trade blows with Roman.
Deciding on trying for an early capture of Roman, Weiss set her stance and cast the Glyph she wanted under Blake when the girl leapt back.
"Blake, Time-Speed Glyph to give you a boost!" she'd wanted to call out Checkmate like Ruby had, back in the Home Loop, but Blake wouldn't have known what she meant just yet.
With that added advantage, Blake managed to knock the Master Thief down, but the sudden appearance of Neo -seriously?!- prevented them from actually grabbing him. They didn't even get a shot at the other Bullheads, and Weiss figured it must have been Neo who warned them off before grabbing her boss.
"Really?" the Heiress grumbled to herself as Yang, Ruby, and Penny appeared on the warehouse, "Is his escape perminently scripted or something?"
There was always next time. Though she doubted that would be any more successful...
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4.d
Weiss walked into the clearing out in the Forest of Forever Fall, alone after taking out the few Grimm in the area, and took a deep breath to center and calm herself. She'd wanted to try something, and out here was the best place.
The thought had been sparked after watching Yang with her Aura and Semblance. The Blonde's Semblance drew on the energies of strikes against her Aura, like a capacitor being charged, and she could choose to trigger it for devastating attacks. But Yang could also summon flames around her body when angered or heat the space around her when she wanted.
It wasn't something she'd noticed before, but with centuries behind her she began to notice the 'small things'. And if Yang could generate other effects from her Semblance than simple damage conversion, what about the others? What about herself?
Weiss had -at least since her Aura was unlocked by her father years before Beacon- never been bothered by the cold. She'd even gained a sort of affinity for Ice Dust, and used it the most when not depending on her fencing or Glyphs. What if, like Yang's apparent connection to fire, she had some link to ice.
Drawing from within, and the small Ice Dust crystal in her hand, Weiss spread out her Aura and pushed. Instantly the small area around her was coated in a sheen of frost. Summoning her control of her Semblance, she mixed in the Ice Dust and cast a moderately sized Glyph into the sky above. Pulling on the feel of Ice in the shape above, Weiss slammed shards of ice into the ground around her as they leapt from her Glyph.
This, she grinned, will prove rather useful, I think.
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4.e
Ruby had Woken up right after Weiss had been "taken out" during the food fight, and she had noticed -for the first time- the subtle flow of her Semblance as she powered into her "Red Twister" and threw everything -and team JNPR- into the back wall of the dining hall.
It surprised her, partly from it being the first time she'd noticed how her Semblance was more powerful in the air than on the ground, and partly from from the feel of her Semblance.
It got her thinking. So after when they had some free time she went to the Dueling Arena -the only area really large enough to fully practice her speed- and decided to play with the wind.
Weiss sometimes said "start small and build up, just because you might be a prodigy in one thing didn't make you such in everything"... or something like that. So she started small, focusing on the feel of her massive -thanks to the Loops- Aura and expanding it outwards. The effect was immediate, and brought a few small tears to her eyes.
Roses. The smell was faint, but all around her, and accompanied by a few scattering of petals in the air around her. The same had happened when she'd visited her mother's memorial, months ago -before she fought Roman that first time at the Dust Shop-, though she hadn't noticed the scent as it had been rather windy then, and she'd had both less Aura and less control.
She'd had the idea of pushing out her Aura from watching Ren fight, how he could use his Aura as a shield away from his body and use it to give his strikes extra power. Maybe she'd ask him for some trainging some time, but not right now. She'd also been inspired by Yang's "corona of fire" that, as far as she and Yang knew, had nothing to do with her Semblance and was just an exaggerated expression of her Aura and temper.
Drawing on that, and some of what she'd done for her "Red Twister", Ruby drew her scythe and swung. A burst of rose petals scattered away from her, and a few followed a ripple of air that sliced a training target a few feet away cleanly in half.
An epiphany hit her, then, that maybe her Semblance wasn't speed, per-say, but wind which she used to give herelf that boost of speed. And her petals were part of her Semblance, always appearing around her when she zipped around the battlefield.
She could feel the petals, when she focused, and with a little more experimentation she found she could fling herself from point to point using those petals as anchors to change direction or places to reach.
Smiling, slightly sad at the memories the scent of roses brought up but mostly excited, Ruby knew she'd just found an amazing new trick.
Feeling Weiss enter the Arena, Ruby spun and almost tripped over her own feet as she realized she'd felt Weiss enter. She could even feel her curiosity! She saw Weiss' eyes widen as she pushed her Aura out further, and eventually she felt -though faint- Yang register as well.
By this point most of the massive hall was filled with scattered rose petals, though they didn't reach the far walls -and she knew through her connection to the rose petals that it meant they weren't appearing outside-, and the smell of roses was much stronger.
"Hey, Weiss," Ruby smiled, seeing and feeling the Heiress' surprise and curiosity, "Guess what I figured out?"
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4.f
Yang was in awe as she watched Ruby flash around the battlefield, raining blows on Roman's Paladin and carving out wedges even when it looked like some of her swings didn't even land. And Weiss... well, the Ice Queen's new "Razor Storm" glyph was impressive to say the least.
Not that she was about to be out done, oh no. She just was surprised the two hadn't shared their new tricks with her before hand.
"Time to step up my game." the Blonde smirked, then burst into what looked for all the world like a woman made of Fire with the faint call -drowned out by the roaring flames- of, "I'm super-saiyan now!"
Rushing forward at Ruby's improvised call of "Sunburn!", Yang plowed into the middle of the Paladin and knocked it over. Pushing off, Yang launched herself up and away, landing in a burst of fire and letting her Aura return to it's normal corona of flame around her.
Roman still got away, but Yang couldn't even be mad after how awesome they'd been. The look on Blake's face was nearly priceless.
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4.g
"Hey... Weiss..." turning from her scroll, which had been playing a recap of local news, Weiss looked up at the hesitance in the voice of her Red Cloaked leader and fellow Looper, "Yang said to ask you, when we had a quiet moment, about you Looping as mom..."
Weiss blinked, a weight settling on her as memories of old Loops washed over her. Patting the bed beside her, Weiss waited for Ruby to join her on the bottom bed.
"I've had a few Loops," Weiss reached out and placed her scroll on the short bookshelf below the window, "where I was one of our mothers. Not Blake's, yet, but for you, and Yang, and even myself. Which was a rather odd Loop, since I had my mother's name and Weiss had mine."
Ruby giggled, then sobered and she thought a moment, and the Heiress let her gather her words.
"Did you..."
"Once, the first time." Weiss answered, knowing what Ruby meant, "And again when I was my own mother. The second time I was Summer, I managed to get home. But it hurt me badly enough I never went back out."
Ruby nodded, then hesitantly spread her Aura through the room, the faint scent of roses filling it as a few petals floated to the ground. Feelin Weiss' care, and love, Ruby leaned into her and let a few tears fall.
"I wish I'd been awake for that one... We haven't woken up far enough back for me to spend more time with her..." Ruby sniffled, "What about as Raven?"
"Raven was... a very conflicted woman." Weiss brushed Ruby's hair with her fingers, just as she'd done all those Loops ago, knowing Ruby needed the comfort of a motherly touch while visiting old hurts, "The Loop memories said she loved Yang very much, but something needed her attention far away, and leaving her was... not the right thing -it's never right to abandon your children- but it was what she felt needed done."
"You don't know?"
"Loop memories aren't always a sure thing, I've found." Weiss admitted, "Sometimes it's only enough to 'play the part'. Especially, it seems, if I never really knew them. When Yang and I Looped as Roman and Neo respectively, we didn't gain some special insight to their past. Only the immediate, and it wasn't the best for Roman from what Yang got."
"Do... do you remember what she sang to me?"
"I remember her promise. I know what this scent means to you." Weiss whispered, gesturing to the scattered rose petals, then took a breath and began to softly sing an old song that Summer -and she- had sung to Ruby as a lullaby.
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4.h [team effort with Zephyrus Genesis]
It had been several Loops without her two Looping friends, and Weiss had feared this would also be a Lonely Loop until the other two had Woken up right before 'Summer Break' in their second year.
So, gathering the other two girls -Blake had chosen to stay and train with Pyrrha while Jaune went home to visit family-, Weiss lead them to Junior's club.
Repeating what she'd done Yang's first Loop, the Heiress Scrolled ahead to warn Junior she was expecting a private booth away from his other customers. His disgruntled glare aimed first at her and then Yang -who's second visit was not warmly thought of either- was expected and ignored, though Ruby smiled brightly which seemed to throw the older man off his game for a moment.
Reaching their table -the same one Weiss and Yang had occupied several dozen Loops ago-, Weiss ordered Strawberry Sunrises for the three of them. While she'd never particularly liked mixed drinks, it had long become a tradition for her to treat the team to Yang's signature 'Junior's Club' drink the first time they came to the club in a Loop. They waited quietly until Junior returned with their drinks before starting.
"So!" Yang starts off, after taking an almost Weiss-like drink from her glass instead of the expected gulp, "I wanna hear your most Dust Awesome way of starting a Loop. Like, your first big fight."
"We can guess what yours will be, Xiao Long." Weiss huffs good-naturedly, "I'll start, I suppose."
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Weiss Woke up and opened her eyes in the vast training and dueling hall at Castle White, the Knight across from her. This, she thought with a smirk, is gonna be good.
As she backflipped away from the Knight's downward slash, Weiss drew Myrtenaster and summoned Frictionless Glyphs across the floor while keeping her normal Skating Glyph under her when she landed.
The Knight, predictably, moved to swing again and promptly lost its footing and fell to its back.
Leaping into the air, Weiss selected her Fire Dust and dropped a massive fire-field on the prone automaton. Landing as the Knight returned to its feet -the Anchor stopping the Glyphs on the floor-, it tried to hit her with another downward slice and had it's strike rebound from her saber, which she'd coated with Repulse Dust, before she sliced at its hand with a swing charged with Impact Dust that tore the sword from its grasp.
Sliding back on her Glyph, Weiss smirked as she summoned a line of Anti-Gravity Glyphs along the sides of the sword. Sheathing Myrtenaster, Weiss gripped the pommel in both hands and easily lifted the artificially lighter blade.
Giving a predatory grin at the Knight's hesitation, Weiss "went to town".
It didn't last long.
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Yang snickered at the story, impressed at Weiss rather brute-strength answer to the massive "training robot".
"Oh, let's just say I brought the house down."
"Yang, you didn't..." Weiss groaned.
"What? He shoulda thanked me, he didn't have to pay a single lien for the new skylight!"
Ruby just giggled, bouncing in her seat before launching into her own story.
"The forest was crawling with Beowulf, all trying bring me down like every time I Wake up that far back. But I was prepared, I used Sassafras and BAM! Little Grimm fillets everywhere!"
Ruby waited for them to laugh, or groan, or something, but all she got were blank stares.
"Ruby."
"Yes, Weiss?"
"'Sassafras', Little sis?" Yang beat Weiss to the question, already grinning.
"Yeah," she blinked, confused, "Ya know, the leaves that can make tea of fillets?"
Ruby launches into a description of her rose petals, which her Semblance always leave behind, floating up in the grip of her Semblance's Wind-Control and slicing the beowolves around her into bits. That was when she saw the dawning understanding.
"That's 'fillet', you dunce! Sassafras makes 'filé', which is a powder!" Weiss snaps, but is nearly drowned out by Yang's cheer.
"That's Awesome, Sis!"
"But it's the same word!" the brunette protests.
"No it's not!" Weiss begins ranting, "That's like saying 'steal' and 'steel' are the same! One is theft and the other is an alloy of carbon and iron!"
"Exactly." Yang cuts in, grinning, "They sound exactly alike, but are two different words."
"How did you even know what sassafras was without seeing that filé and fillet are spelled differently?!" Weiss yelled.
"They are?" Ruby blinked, then looked sheepish, "Actually, you're the one who told me. Remember that team dinner before- before White Castle? You were cooking and I asked what that one seasoning was."
"I told you..." Weiss gave her partner a blank stare while Yang started laughing, "...what?"
"You t-told her -hahaha- you told her sassafras could make fillets, Ice Queen."
"I did no such thing!" the Heiress cried indignantly.
"I mean, yeah, I shoulda realized something was off..." Ruby trailed off, then shrugged, "I didn't see how cutting leaves into strips turned them into powder, but..."
"So..." Weiss began, non-plussed, "You knew what filé was, and just didn't think to ask...?"
"I figured you knew what you were talking about!" Ruby defended, and Yang fell out of her seat as she was laughing so hard.
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A/N: From now on it'll just be if there is a crossover or confusion.
Here goes:
4.e Ruby seems faster in the air, and her Semblance could have generated the draw of air needed for her to "pick up" all that debris. But I've chatted with Zephyrus a bit about various things in the series, and we think her Semblance either influences the wind or -as I'm using here- it is actually a Wind-Control Semblance that she just uses for a speed boost. Hopefully I did her justice in her discovery of this subtle difference, as it plays a major role in several future Loops that Zephyrus and I are working on. I really think you'll love them -if only because they will be rather long and develope one of the future Loopers after they Awaken to the Loops. You'll love their introduction Loop as well-, but first we have a three other Loopers to add before getting to them.
4.f This isn't a Merged Loop, and we're assuming -just because I'm the author here- that Remnant has a series similar to DBZ. ("Spruce Willis", anyone? Vol 2, Port's class, Jaune trying to get Weiss to go to the movies with him)
4.g I'm really just making it up -as far as I know-, so don't take this as even kind of canon for Raven and Summer.
4.h Yes, sassafras can be used to make tea from the leaves, or ground into a powder called "filé". [pronounced like "fillet", {fill-AY}]
Addendum: I'm saying that people in Remnant are considered "adults" younger than on Earth, owing that change to the fact that -until "recently" in Remnant History- people often lead dangerous lives either directly or indirectly fighting Grimm, thus leading to much shorter life-spans and growing up that much faster.
Beacon is essentially a college for learning to fight Grimm, the Students relatively independent outside of classes and some missions. We can safely assume they are Adults around 17 years of age. I'm simply removing the American division between "18yr old adults" and "21yr old adults". Adult is Adult. Added to that, Ruby is attending a Combat School -Signal- for possibly a year before she goes to Beacon, meaning she was Fourteen when she began training to fight Grimm.
As seen in Yellow Trailor, while Junior questions Yang on being old enough to drink, he isn't exactly denying her a drink either, nor was she denied access. And it's assumed that scene occurs before Ruby fights at the Dust Shop, thus Yang either isn't yet 17 or only recently turned 17.