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I do not own RWBY or Red vs Blue. Roosterteeth owns both. The transcripts used here from RvB can be freely found on the RvB Wiki. I do not make any money from this fanfiction. This is done purely for fun and for the fans of this story. React fics are popular among many and I enjoy writing this story.
I don't want this fic taken down, the support I got on this site is what inspired me to go to college in creative writing and is what led to my first ever true publishing in my college's journal. If anyone does not like this fic for whatever reason, please message me and I'll address any issues I can :)
Author's Note:
Hey, it's been a while. I had completely given up on this story. It got deleted on two sites and life got busy for me. I had grown content with the story being gone. Except I continued to periodically check my inbox, and I felt a mix of guilt and happiness whenever I saw your messages.
You, all of you. You have continued to give me support after over a year of this story being gone. Finding backups, giving thanks for what I wrote and understanding why I refused to try again.
Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. You all inspired me to take the leap and go into creative writing. And you still inspire me, which is why I'm reposting this one chapter. testing to see if it will get taken down again.
Maybe I'll finish reposting everything, maybe I'll finish the whole story ;)
It's great to be back kiddos. If this doesn't get deleted by the time my semester is over, I will start reposting everything.
Edit: Welp, semester is over, I've been officially published in my college's journal and it's all thanks to the support I got from all of you. So it's only fair that I start reposting everything ;)
IMPORTANT BEFORE YOU READ:
Each chapter will act as one episode of Red Vs Blue so if you want to see a reaction for a certain episode just skip to it.
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This was greatly inspired by the one great fanfiction like this that Turniphater wrote called "RWBY and JNPR watch the show" which got deleted shortly after my fics were.
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Huge thanks to EmotionAwkward on reddit for scouring old broken archived pages to find the full fanfic. The versions they dug up are the ones you are reading now. With some edits and fixes from me.
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RWBY and JNPR watch The Blood Gulch Chronicles
S1E1: Why are we here?
"Jaune? Is something wrong?" Pyrrha asked cautiously. Her caution was needed as her friend, teammate, and leader was currently furiously tapping his scroll.
"Yes!" The frantic blonde shouted, startling Pyrrha. "Oh, sorry Pyrrha I didn't mean-"
"It's ok, Jaune." Pyrrha said, chuckling , lightly diffusing the tension. "I can tell it's not me making you so… upset."
"It's this scroll! A weird message popped up and then before I could even start reading it my scroll crashed!" Jaune yelled.
"I can see how that would be distressing." Pyrrha hummed.
"My scroll has never done this before, scrolls never do this, they aren't supposed to turn off while they're still open." Jaune explained, frustrated. "My scroll could have a virus for all I know."
"How would you have gotten a virus?" Pyrrha asked.
Next to them the overactive redhead Nora gasped "ohhh! Has our fearless leader been making some risky clicks! Bad Jaune! Bad!"
"What!" Jaune yelled, face reddening. "No no no no not that no that's not- I don't go on those sites Nora!" It was hard to hear him talk over Nora's evil cackling.
"Nora, I think we would have noticed if Jaune was doing that." Ren calmly stated from the center of the room.
"Ren! Not helping!" Jauneflustered, face even redder. "I thought you were meditating."
"I am" he let out a long breath, shutting everything out once again. Including Nora who had her finger inching closer to Ren's nose.
"It's probably a… I forgot what my sister called it, a zero day virus? No no that's something else. Probably a uh virus that I got a long time ago. Some viruses work like that, like real viruses. They're dormant until a year or two later the hacker activates it when you've forgotten all about the weird email you got or the dangerous website you visited and do whatever it is they wanted to do with the virus." Jaune explained as he looked at his scroll again.
"Ok that's interesting, I guess." Pyrrha said awkwardly before putting on a gentle smile and sitting next to Jaune. "Is there anything I can do? I didn't know you knew so much about electronics."
"One of my sister's has a wife that knows a lot about software and stuff, I wish I'd listened to her more now ugh. I don't know how you could help." Jaune said standing up. "I could ask team RWBY."
"Oh, I thought they were relaxing after the breach. They said they didn't want to be disturbed." Pyrrha explained.
"I thought they were getting ready for the tournament?" Jaune said, confused.
"Speaking of that-" Nora said, getting up from annoying Ren.
"Nope! Nope uh I'm going to go awa- going to talk to team RWBY." Jaune said quickly escaping. Pyrrha tried to protest but he was out the door in a flash.
"Traitor." Pyrrha huffed under her breath as Nora started putting on her workout clothes.
Jaune quickly shut the door behind him and leaned against it sighing in relief. He did not want to go through more of Nora's training, Nora may have an infinite supply of energy But Jaune does not.
Jaune pressed his ear against the door and heard furious weight lifting from Nora and annoyed sighs from Ren. He chuckled nervously before strolling across the hall and knocking on team RWBY's door.
"Finally something happens!" Yang yelled from inside instantly. Jaune barely had any time to react before Ruby's smiling face was in front of him.
"Hey Jaune!" She beamed.
"Uh hey? Can any of you help me with something?" Jaune held his scroll up.
"What is it?" Yang asked getting up from her bunk.
"I think my scroll has been hacked." Jaune said, giving his scroll a shake.
"What kind of websites have you been to?" Yang asked, suggestively moving her eyebrows.
"Ugh not you too!" Jaune said facepalming.
Blake started laughing and Jaune could already feel his face reddening.
"Blake why are you laughing? Your porn books are worse than anything I could ever find online." Jaune said smugly. Yang had happily told Jaune that little tid-bit of blackmail a while ago. "Not that I'm admitting to anything!" Jaune quickly added.
"Ugh, can't believe I have to share a room with such filthy books." Weiss huffed out while doing homework.
"Such filthy books" Yang mimicked "What books did I catch you trying to steal in the middle of the night?"
"Wha! What do-"
"Almost killed me" Blake said angrily, turning a page. She continued to mutter about bunks toppling over and her arms still hurting.
"Ok ok stop!" Jaune yelled before more arguments could start. "Can anyone help me?"
"Uhhhhhhh" Ruby said, tapping her chin. "Nope, software's not my thing."
"Anyone else?" Jaune asked.
"Sorry." Yang said, looking at Jaune's scroll. "Ruby would have been the best person to help but scrolls aren't weapons."
That caused Ruby to gasp excitedly. "Yang! What if-"
"No"
"But-"
"No! Ruby down!"
"I'm not a dog." Ruby pouted.
"Just ask Professor Oobleck-"
"Doctor" Ruby half heartedly corrected.
"Professor Oobleck" Yang continued. "Ask him if he knows anything."
"Ok." Jaune said with a sigh, "Thanks anyway guys- uh girls. Anywa- wait Look! The screen isn't black anymore!" Jaune said happily as his scroll lit up.
Yang and Ruby crowded around him, clearly very interested. Jaune's scroll had a bright loading icon and a bar that moved slowly across the screen. The bar moved fast and once it had finished his scroll opened up to reveal a brand new message from "Redacted"
"Redacted?" Ruby questioned.
"Is that their name or was their name redacted?" Yang asked. Jaune just shrugged.
"Hmm, well tap it Jaune see what they said." Ruby ordered, her curiosity growing.
He did and saw the very long message He had received. "Dear those who received this message." Jaune read aloud.
That piqued Weiss and Blake's interests. They looked up and turned to Jaune and gestured for him to keep going.
"Alright alright! uh ok it says dear receivers of this message. I'm [Redacted], And I have hacked your [scroll] and the seven surrounding [scroll]s-"
"What!" Ruby yelled checking her scroll.
"Now I'm sure this has you panicked-"
"Ahhhh!" Ruby screamed looking at her scroll.
"But it is best for everyone if you just remain calm-"
"Ahh! no,no, no, no! What do I do!"
"Ruby!" Yang yelled, shutting her up.
"Now I have not hacked your [scroll]s for any uncool purpose, only to download one of my favorite stories ever onto your [scroll]s! Found this show deep in the Archives, it's on your [scroll] The remaining [scroll]s are just extra storage space. You can access this show from the new (RvB app!) that is now on your [scroll]. The show is titled Red Vs Blue, you and the other seven are to watch this show, or not. The choice is up to you, free country yadda yadda yadda, the show Red vs Blue however is from a different universe!-"
"What?" Blake asked.
"This is clearly a joke, or a scam" Weiss added.
"This is not a joke or a scam" Jaune read off. Yang chuckled but Jaune kept reading.
"Yes this show is actually from another universe, I won't explain it but I assume those reading know the multiverse theory?"
Ruby started raising a hand. "Uhh"
"Basically every universe exists, every possibility is possible, it's infinite. That's the theory. Like there's a universe where I never existed, a universe where Grimm don't exist, or maybe the difference is something even as small as a fly landing on me or a fly landing on you." Jaune explained.
"Oh, woah! Wow that's so cool what if-" Ruby started going off on a tangent but Yang sighed and held a hand over her mouth. Before the two could start fighting Jaune continued to read.
"I will not explain anything about the show, you will come to your own conclusions. You unlock episode two by watching episode one. A more detailed explanation will be presented in the guide section of the app. Also I will mention this right now before anything happens, just a little tip. You can do whatever you want with this show, but telling others about a show from another universe might come off as Ca-Razy." Jauen looked up. "I didn't embellish that, it's really spelled that way."
"Well it still makes sense," Yang said, shrugging. "I don't believe it came from another universe and I doubt anyone else will."
"I will reveal myself when you finish watching the show! Enjoy." Jaune finished.
Things were silent for a moment. Until Weiss broke it. "Has to be fake." Weiss said bluntly.
"Well, all my storage space has been taken up." Blake said, holding up her scroll.
"Mine too." Yang said, checking hers.
"Nooooo! What about my games? How can I download the next Empire Rush?" Ruby asked.
Jaune ignored her and looked at the new app on his phone. It was weird, when He opened it a loading screen appeared of a spinning futuristic helmet colored red on one side and blue on the other. When it finished loading a welcoming message appeared. He was about to read it until a robotic voice started talking. Weiss and Blake stood up and crowded around him too, along with Ruby and Yang.
"Welcome to the Red Vs Blue app! My name is F.I.L.S.S would you like me to run the tutorial program? " The female robotic voice said as a yes or no option appeared.
"Uh, we should tell my team before we decide anything." Jaune said, they nodded and joined me as Jaune went to his dorm. When He opened the door He sighed.
Ren was back to meditating, Nora was passed out in a sweaty mess with Pyrrha standing over her with a worried expression.
"Yay" Jaune said sarcastically.
It took a little bit but once Jaune convinced Ren to wake Nora up he simply said pancakes and whatever fatigue she felt after her grueling workout was forgotten. Ren and Nora were ready.
"Is something else wrong besides your scroll Jaune?" Pyrrha asked.
"All our scrolls are hacked and that weird message y-" Ruby shouted.
"What! All our scrolls!" Nora yelled.
Jaune's team or more accurately Nora proceeded to freak out for a little before eventually calming down. Jaune showed them the message and explained what he could.
while he explained everyone got situated and comfortable. "So yes or no guys?" Jaune asked.
"Tutorial program? Sounds important." Pyrrha said. And with that Jaune hit yes.
"Excellent! " Filss said. " Before I continue, please connect your device to a TV. "
It took some doing but eventually they organized a tv in the center of team JNPR's dorm, team RWBY was surprisingly fast with construction.
"It's like movie night!" Ruby said happily.
"Except we're being forced to watch the movie." Weiss huffed.
"No we aren't?" Yang raised an eyebrow.
"And we have nothing better to do." Blake explained.
Once it was paired with the TV the screen showed everything on Jaune's scroll with only a slight delay.
"Great! Now this is the main menu, from this menu you can access everything about the app. " Filss continued. The option for play highlighted. "This is where you can start watching the show, this- "
"This is boring." Nora said.
"Yeah, let's just skip this part." Ruby said.
"But, it's explaining how-" Jaune started.
"Its a regular menu, like any other movie. Look! play, scene select, options, it's not special." Ruby explained. "The only new thing is the songs option but that's self expla- ex- explanatory" Ruby said proudly.
"Just use small words." Yang teased.
"I'm eating cookies!" Ruby defended.
Jaune sighed and canceled the training program.
"Uh so, do you all just want to start it?" Jaune asked.
Everyone agreed in some way or another and Jaune tapped play on his scroll. It loaded for a second before starting. Anticipation hung in the air. All were situated watching the TV screen. They had moved bean bag chairs from RWBY's room over for extra seats and used Jaune and Pyrrha's beds as a couch for the rest.
The song "Blood Gulch Blues" by Trocadero started playing with the season one intro. The camera panned down to show Blood Gulch.
"Why does it look so bad?" Yang's grimace was immediate.
"We might get the answer if you would be quiet!" Weiss snapped.
"Hold on, pause it!" Ren shouted, surprising everyone.
"What?" Jaune asked, pausing it.
"If the show is truly from another universe I want to take notes." Ren said, grabbing a notebook.
"That's a good idea," Weiss agreed.
"So you think it is from another universe?" Ruby gasped.
"No but it might be important to take notes from a show shown to us by hackers." Weiss explained which shut Ruby up.
The camera panned down to show Red team.
"Red vs blue? Hmm this is clearly a team, so maybe it's two teams: Red team vs Blue team." Weiss theorized.
"Thanks captain obvious." Yang quipped, silencing Weiss.
The intro continued and introduced each character. Donut was in Red armor.
"Are you getting this Ren?" Weiss asked, Ren nodded.
The camera then swiftly moved across the canyon to show Blue team and introduced each character.
"The tank is a character? Weird.. but cool!" Nora commented.
The intro continued, it showed Vic but he wasn't named and he was still in his gray suit. Then it showed a combination of action sequences until finally fading to black.
"Blood Gulch Chronicles: Season 1" appeared on the screen.
"Why are we here?" Followed.
"I wonder how many seasons there are." Pyrrha commented.
Camera pans up to reveal Grif and Simmons standing on top of Blood Gulch Outpost #1.
Simmons: "Hey."
Grif: "Yeah?"
Simmons: "You ever wonder why we're here?"
"I've always wondered that." Ren said, pausing the show. "are-"
"Stop pausing the show" Yang groaned.
Grif: "It's one of life's great mysteries, isn't it. Why are we here? I mean, are we the product of… some cosmic coincidence or, is there really a God… watching everything? You know, with a plan for us and stuff. I don't know man, but it keeps me up at night."
Simmons: "…"
Grif: "…"
"Wow this show is getting deep already." Jaune commented.
Simmons: "What? I meant why are we out here, in this canyon?"
Grif: "Oh, uh… yeah."
Simmons: "What was all that stuff about God?"
Grif: "Uh… hm? Nothing."
Simmons: "You wanna talk about it?"
Grif: "No"
Simmons: "You sure?"
Grif: "Yeah."
"Strange intro to a show" Pyrrha commented.
"Is this supposed to be a comedy?" Weiss asked.
"Maybe?" Jaune answered.
"Why does it look so bad." Nora said, asking Ren.
"I don't know Nora." Ren answered.
Simmons: "Seriously though, why are we out here? Far as I can tell, it's just a box canyon in the middle of nowhere, with no way in or out."
Grif: "Mhm."
Simmons: "And the only reason that we set up a red base here, is because they have a blue base over there. And the only reason they have a blue base over there is because we have a red base here."
Grif: "Yeah, that's because we're fighting each other."
Simmons: "No no, but I mean, even if we were to pull out today, and they were to come take our base, they would have two bases in the middle of a box canyon. Whoop de fucking do!"
"Seems like the show curses a lot." Weiss grimaced.
"So?" Yang questioned.
"It just seems inappropriate and unprofessional."
Jaune groaned, "and? Nothing anyone should do about it. People should be allowed to make whatever shows they want, if the audience doesn't like it then the creators will change it. Production companies shouldn't interfere with creativity. And if a kid watches something too mature for them then the parents should talk it out with them or-"
"We don't want to hear your rant Jaune." Weiss said.
Yang nodded, "Yeah no preaching."
"Sorry." Jaune mumbled. "My mom was a little strict with what I could watch."
"Of course you were sheltered, that makes a lot of things add up." Weiss hummed.
"Says the girl who grew up in a mansion and went to private school." Blake raised an eyebrow.
Grif: "What's up with that anyway? I mean, I signed on to fight some aliens. Next thing I know Master Chief blows up the whole Covenant armada, and I'm stuck in the middle of nowhere, fighting a bunch of blue guys."
"Aliens? Maybe in this show they figured out how to use dust and go to space." Ren commented while writing something down.
The camera switched to show Church zoomed in with a sniper rifle on Grif and Simmons.
"Oh oh oh! That's so cool it's not animation guys!" Ruby said excitedly.
"What? No way their cameras are that bad." Weiss said.
"No no she's right, look at the way they move! It's a video game." Yang said.
"Yeah wow, they probably move the characters then put audio over the video." Jaune said, amazed.
"Is that why the graphics are so bad?" Blake asked.
"Maybe, graphics used to look that bad in games around 18 to 20 years ago." Ruby said.
"You sure know a lot about video games, are there any games like this one?" Pyrrha asked.
"No but it looks like a shooter, a first person shooter. Basically you control your guy and shoot other guys and whichever team gets the most kills wins." Ruby said as Ren quickly jotted her words down.
Tucker: "What're they doing?"
Church: "What?"
Tucker: "I said what're they doing now?"
Church: "God damn, I'm getting so sick of answering that question!"
Tucker: "Hey you have the fucking rifle, I can't see shit. Don't bitch at me because I'm not going to just sit up here and play with my dick all day."
Weiss groaned at the immaturity.
Church: "Okay, okay look: They're just standing there, and talking, okay? That's all they're doing. That's all they ever do, is just stand there and talk. That's what they were doing last week, that's what they were doing when you asked me five minutes ago. So five minutes from now, when you ask me 'What're they doing?' my answer's gonna be 'They're still just talking, and they're still just standing there!'"
"That voice sounds so familiar," Yang said.
"Yeah I was thinking the same thing." Ruby said, leaning forward.
Tucker: "… What're they talking about?"
Church: "You know what? I fucking hate you."
"Really dysfunctional. They don't like each other at all." Pyrrha commented.
"Hmm, the Atlas military is a lot more organized and disciplined than these soldiers. The advanced armor is interesting though, nothing in Atlas is like that." Weiss explained.
"Well it is a video game." Yang said.
"Looks really futuristic." Jaune commented.
cut to Grif and Simmons at the red base
Grif: "Talk about a waste of resources. I mean, we should be out there finding new and intelligent forms of life. You know, fight them ."
Simmons: "Yeah, no shit. That's why they should put us in charge."
Sarge is standing on the ground, looking up at them
Sarge: "Ladies! Front and center, on the double!"
Simmons: "Fuck, me."
Grif: "Yes sir"
The screen faded to black. And stopped completely, no scene change. It was over.
"What? That's it? That was like five minutes!" Jaune complained.
"Yeah, a really short episode." Yang said.
"Let's watch another!" Nora grinned.
"I still can't think of why that voice sounds so familiar." Ruby said furrowing her brows.
OLD AUTHORS NOTE: The one who sent them the show is not I repeat NOT me self inserting, it is a Red Vs Blue character(s) who sent them the show.
EDIT: 1 MILLION total views for this fic. That is pretty goddamn incredible. I can't wait to announce this with a more heartfelt message in the next chapter of the Freelancer reaction fic(S9E9 reaction). At the moment I am going through all old chapters to edit the format and fix mistakes. I just saw 1,000,080 total views and just wow. I am blown away, I know that number is very inflated from the actual amount of people who have read this fic, very inflated. But I am happy nonetheless. For any new readers, I hope you enjoy reading. I know this is just a react fic and not an actual story but.. it's my true start in writing. This fic let me make mistakes, learn the beginner lessons of writing, and get feedback from the amazing Fanfiction Community.
I hope any of you that hope to write one day know that Fanfiction is a great starting point. Write your fic and write it well, make your mistakes, have fun writing and most importantly. Don't. Stop.
I love you guys. Seeing that overblown, inflated, arbitrary, and honestly incorrect statistic genuinely made me happy.
Thank you, all of you. I hope you newbies enjoy! See you in the upcoming chapters- CeruleanLancer
NEW NOTE: Rereading this I realize how much I have grown as a writer, part of me wants to abandon this story forever. Another part of me wants to see this through to the end because the success of this fic proved to me that I can write. If I am able to, if this story is not deleted. I will edit/rewrite a lot of this fic and repost everything and finish it. Including a rewrite of a lot of this chapter.
I plan on taking a gap year after this semester. I will be working and figuring things out with my family during that time so I can't promise too much. But as long as this story isn't deleted, it'll eventually get finished. I also hope I have time to work on other fanfics. I want to write more real stories, I write my own original stories as well but fanfiction is fun, easier, and I get instant feedback.
With all that being said, hi ;) time to disappear again for another two years.