*Once more, the intro to RvB plays before showing The Booth, Doc and Chi in their customary places.*
"Good day, ladies and gents!" Chi called.
"I'm Frank 'Doc' DeFre..." Doc began before The Hand of Author slammed down on the desk in front of him. "Yipe!" he, well, yipped, falling backward off his chair, which revealed itself to be nothing more than a stool. Chi snickered at his partner. "What was that for, regenengel3?"
"I can't spell your last name," the woman declared, glaring at the medic. Chi's snickering upgraded to mild chuckling. "So, you'll be introducing yourself as Frank 'The Incompetent One' Doc." Chi's chuckling jumped straight to 'stage villain cackling.'
"Sucks to be you!" he barked.
"B-b-but... !" Doc tried to protest. Regenengel3 cut him off with a glare.
"You're not a very good medic, Doc. I haven't gotten around to having Marley fix that yet. And, I'm the author. So... you're stuck with that name until I come up with a better one. So there," she said, ending with a decisive nod. "Also...disclaimer please?"
"Why do we..." Doc began.
"Regenengel3 does not own RvB or RWBY. She would like to give props to the folks over at Rooster Teeth for their creativity and skill. She does own... most of... okay. So she really only owns Marley. Despite what she'd have us believe about the rest of JEMC," Chi cut in.
"Ya know... I think I'm beginning to develop a complex about being interrupted," Doc muttered.
"Wait... what time frame are you from anyway? I mean, when I started this Spin-Off thingamajig, you hadn't gotten Chi and yet, he was your co-host. So... yeah. What's your time frame?" regenengel3 asked, eying the medic curiously.
"We're actually stuck inside one of those 'Future Cubes' Dex found in the wrecked ship," Doc said.
"Huh. I... guess that fits. Perhaps you should be 'The Tormented One' instead, huh? Also, that explains your fluctuating sanity. You're still in the process of loosing it in a plain of existence that has no concept of the passage of time nor the constraints of space," the young Author mused aloud.
"Wait... you're just now figuring this out? I thought you knew at the start! Also, I'd like to call it a bubble in the fourth wall, seeing as I can communicate with you and the audience," Doc said, honestly surprised.
"Eh heh heh... ye~ah, I stated this on a whim, plucking you two out of Bunny Fluff to be the hosts. The personalities just kinda... happened." Chi noted that the Author looked a little sheepish. "Though, I may have, on some unconscious level, have chosen that time frame for you. I mean, hosting this Spin-Off Show thingy is a lot less boring and maddening then just spinning around in some sort of hammer-space created by advanced, ancient alien tech," regenengel3 went on, eyes slightly unfocused.
"I... I won't even begin to attempt to understand this one," Doc said, shaking his head.
"And with that, I'm Chi 'The Sarcastic One' Church and this is..."
{Show 5: The White, The Grey, and The Goodwitch}
"So, Frank 'The Incompetent One' Doc, what do you think we'll be seeing today?" Chi finished. Doc sent a Helmet Glare(Trademark... uh... all Faceless Everywhere and Their Teammates? Seriously, they're all capable of it on some level. It's a little freaky, to be honest.) "Oi! Stop talking to the audience without us!" Chi snapped, trying to hit regenengel3. And failing. Because he was a hologram. "Oh, Author Powers are so broken," the A.I. groused. Regenengel3 just smiled at him and vanished in a flash of smoke and swirling leaves.
"Now that that is out of the way," Doc said, still sounding rather aggravated. "Let's get this meeting of the teams underway!"
"Wait... is it the teams, or just the three?" Chi asked. Doc shrugged.
"I don't know, I didn't look ahead. Now shush, the show is beginning," he said, directing attention to the scene unfolding just in front of The Booth.
/*/
Four weeks. Just four weeks. That's how long JEMC had been a team. Not all that long right? Well, it was long enough for them to decide... Jay needed a nick-name. "Wait... what?" he asked, shocked when the girls came to him with decidedly disturbing gleams in their eyes.
"You need a nick-name, STAT!" Marley declared.
"I'm 'The Gray Death,' Marley's the 'Surgeon of Death,' because of those syringes she shoots and the fact that she's scarily good at field surgeries, especially given how young she is. Now, you need a dramatic, over the top, nick-name. Preferably one with 'death' in it. We could make a trend!" Emily squeaked. Granted, that was how she always talked, but still. That was a new level of squee. Jay gave her a level look.
"One, only you call yourself 'The Grey Death'. Two, Marley is only called 'Surgeon of Death' because when she goes berserk, she doesn't use her syringes and instead dissects her victims. Me? I'm the nice guy. Why would I have a nick-name with 'Death' in it?" he said. The two girls pouted and Caleb, who had quickly become Jay's best friend, smirked at him.
"I vote 'Red Death,'" he said. Jay glared, hand twitching toward his massive gun blade.
"Traitor," he growled. His teammates felt the barest touch of trepidation at the expression. They'd only been a team for four weeks, but that was enough to learn that Jay was not someone you wanted to tick off. He was good with his sword and what he lacked in skill he made up for in brute strength and bullets.
"Hey now, no need for all that," Marley said, stepping in, putting a hand on his shoulder, and using her Semblance to calm him down. A shiver went down his spine before his fear was dulled by Marley's touch.
"Anyone ever tell you your Semblance is fudging scary?" he asked. Marley winced and withdrew, holding her hand close to her chest. Jay's eyes widen, the artificial calm shattering and allowing shock and shame to fill him as he realized... he'd really hurt his partner. "Hey! I... I didn't mean it like that!" he said, reaching out to her. She shied even further away and Emily sighed heavily.
"Every town has its bullies, and every bully has his or her favorite target. Marley was the favorite of four truly sad bullies. It was stupid, but they attacked her through her Semblance, calling her a freak, a witch, telling everyone not to touch her or she'd turn them into her slaves, get inside their heads and make them kill themselves. The fact that she could... well. It made her scared of herself. I was the only one who'd willingly let her touch me... until she got into Signal's medic program at least. The instructors and upper years understood that while she held great and terrible power that could be used for great evil, it could also be used for great good. They helped her understand that as well but... she still has relapses sometimes," the other girl explained, forcefully grabbing Marley in a hug.
"D-don't to-touch me. I-I'll j-just make y-you feel things," Marley stammered. Jay and Caleb shared unreadable looks before they turned to Marley with determined expressions.
"Marley, your Semblance... does it go both ways?" Jay asked. Marley blinked, confused.
"Can you sense what we're feeling if we touch you?" Caleb asked.
"I-I don't know," Marley responded. Nodding, Jay pulled off his gloves and touched her cheek while Caleb pulled up her sleeve with one hand and holding her wrist with the other. Marley stiffened as acceptance and respect flowed sluggishly from the boys. "Well... that's new," she said. Emily grinned and put her hand on Marley's other cheek, sending the sisterly love and professional respect she felt toward her best friend. The tension drained out of the so-called 'Surgeon of Death' and she slumped slightly in relief.
/*/
Doc looked at Chi. Chi looked at Doc. "I thought we were going to be seeing their introduction to Glenda Goodwitch," Chi said.
"I thought about asking you at the beginning but... how do you know who Goodwitch is?" Doc asked.
"I'm an A.I. trapped in a bubble in the Fourth Wall, which happens to be connected to the internet. After the first Show was initially titled 'RWBY 1', and regenengel3 said she was using characters from it, I looked it up... and you were with me! It'd be more surprising if I didn't know who Goodwitch was. Also, the adult version sounds like Tex," Chi said. Doc shivered.
"Remind me not to get her mad," he muttered.
"And her Semblance seems to be Telekinesis," Chi gleefully continued.
"I thought you were the humor fragment."
"Eh, we Churches often confuse 'humor' with 'snark,'" Chi said with a shrug, totally unrepentant.
/*/
Once the team had recovered from their 'episode,' they decided to really get to know each other, starting with the others Semblances. "I can effect chemicals, making chemistry really easy for me," Emily said cheerfully. "Your turn, Red Death!" Jay scowled at the perky psych student before sighing.
"My Semblance is to..." Jay began only to be cut off by Caleb saying,
"Be adorkable!" The gunblademan turned a baleful eye on the maceman.
/*/
"Hold up! Hold everything!" Doc shouted, waving his arms like a baseball umpire.
"What?" asked Chi.
"Adorkable, gunblademan, and maceman are not real words!" Doc declared.
"You really think she/I care(s) about that?" Chi and regenengel3 asked. The A.I. and his partner jerked around to look at the Author's chair. "Heya," she said, casually waving a hand at them.
"Please don't do that," Doc pleaded. Regenengel3 smirked at him.
"I'll do it when I feel it's necessary," she said.
/*/
"No. It's Aura Manipulation. I can create constructs out of my aura," Jay corrected.
"Oh, like Green Lantern?" Marley asked.
/*/
"SERIOUSLY?! EVEN MARLEY IS GETTING IN ON IT?!" Chi bellowed at the screen. Regenengel3 chuckled. "WHY?! WHY GET HER DOING IT TOO?!" he asked her. She shrugged.
"Because Jay's power really is like Green Lantern and pretty much everyone who might read this knows who GL is. It's so that they know exactly what Jay is capable of," regenengel3 answered.
"Why not give him super speed?" Doc asked. Chi 'glared' at him.
"Again with the DC references?" he asked. The two humans(though the males considered 'human' to be a bit of a stretch where regenengel3 was concerned. Author Powers and all.) gave him blank looks nodded.
"It's just too easy," they said. Chi huffed.
"I hate you both," he said.
"We know."
/*/
"Yeah. Like Green Lantern," Jay said with a nod.
"Well, mine is Physical Augmentation," Caleb said. "Charged up by kinetic energy." The girls gave him a considering look, then nodded to each other.
"Makes sense," Emily said.
"The ADHD might just be a symptom of his Semblance's requirements," Marley analyzed.
"Or maybe his Semblance's requirements is due to his ADHD," Emily put forward.
"I wonder, does it up your speed too?" Marley asked.
"Uhm... yes," Caleb answered, looking a good deal more wary then he had at the beginning. The way the girls' eyes lit caused him to take a step back, now truly wary about the pair.
"Oh, psycho-analysis~!" Emily sang.
"I wonder how it effects in muscles in the long term," Marley purred, grin taking on a manic quality. The boys shared a look and Jay threw up a red wall while Caleb dashed out of the room.
"SCIENCE WILL NOT BE DENIED!" the girls bellowed, swarming up and over Jay's constructs as fast as he could make them.
/*/
"Dang... Marley in science mode is terrifying," Doc said, eyes wide behind his visor. Chi had retreated to his storage unit.
"Tell me when it's over," he whispered in the medic's mind.
"Don't worry buddy, she can't reach us here," Doc told him.
"What about when we get out of the Future Cube?" Doc had no answer to that.
/*/
Caleb ran for all he was worth, getting faster and faster as he went, though he knew he couldn't keep it up for long. He was using the kinetic energy almost as soon as it was fed into his Aura, not to mention the strain it put on his body. Still, he needed to get as far from his female teammates as he could until they found something else to latch onto. 'Headmaster Ozpin. Could he help? Try Ozpin,' he thought, turning toward the Spire. "SCIENCE!" he heard his teammates bellow.
"HELP ME~!" he yelled, pounding through the corridors. Staff and students alike watched in stunned silence as the first year student ran like a Death Stalker was on his heels.
"SCIENCE!" … Or they had... until the crazed duo tore after him.
"Marley! Frozen Calm!" Emily called.
"It's hard to get that deep without contact!" Marley shouted back.
"Try!" Emily demanded. "I can't keep running!"
"GOOD!" Caleb yelled back.
"Stop running! We just want to understand!" the medics bellowed at him.
"No thanks! I choose life!" Caleb told them. "Ah, elevator!" Skidding into the metal box, he jabbed the 'close door' button as if that would make the doors move faster. It didn't.
"QUICK! HE'S GETTING AWAY!" Emily said.
"SINDORA DON'T FAIL ME NOW!" Marley declared, pulling her two large tonfas from the small of her back and loading a paralytic syringe. Caleb watched in fear as the needle sailed toward him and then... it stopped. He staring at the syringe in confusion as the doors slid shut.
"Huh. Well. That happened," he muttered, before remembering why he went to the elevator and hit the button that would take him to the headmaster's office.
/*/
"Whoo! That was intense!" Doc declared, pausing the video and leaning back. "I mean... whoo!" Chi popped up on the desk.
"You were hiding under the desk that whole time, weren't you?" he asked.
"NO!" Doc vehemently denied. Chi continued to stare. "Okay maybe, but you were hiding too!"
"Eh, what can I say, we Churches have a sad, sad tendency to be cowards. Especially toward women. Now, the original's daughter, not to mention his wife, don't have that problem. Course, they're the two we're most afraid of, so that might have something to do with it," the hologram said with a shrug.
"Whipped," Doc muttered.
"Tex."
"Withdrawn."
/*/
Marley snarled at the stern blond. "Who are you?" she growled, reverting her secondary weapon, which she was considering turning into her primary, to its melee form, the wicked olive green blades curving away from her forearms.
"Glenda Goodwitch. Why were you chasing that boy?" the young woman said. Emily tilted her head slightly to the left.
"Glenda... from team GRNT?" she asked. Glenda nodded and Marley turned to her best friend, a question in her eyes.
/*/
"Wouldn't that hurt? Having a question in your eye?" Chi asked.
"Depends on how big the question is," Doc answered.
"You stole my line!" regenengel3 declared, eyes wide and mouth open in surprise.
"Ah, our little Doc is growing up. Oh~! I promised myself I wouldn't cry~!" Chi remarked dramatically.
"Oh shut up," regenengel3 said, cuffing the little A.I.
"Seriously. Broken," said A.I. growled, rubbing his head. Regenengel3 just grinned at him.
"On with the show!"
/*/
"Her team specializes in damage control and urban defense. Their Semblances help with keeping damage to a minimum, as well as repairing it. Glenda's is," Emily said, before the cylinder of Marley's syringe hit her in the head. "OW!"
"Telekinesis? Fascinating!" Marley exclaimed, eyes twinkling.
"Why were you chasing the boy?" Glenda repeated face blank and voice bland.
"Geez, broken record much?" Marley grumbled, causing Glenda to glare. "Fine! I wanted to figure out how his Semblance related to his ADHD, how they were connected, if one manifested because of the other..."
"What if it was because of a poor home life?" Glenda cut in. Marley blinked and Emily slowly made her way back to her feet.
"Are you saying... his parents abused him?" she asked. Glenda's shoulder twitched.
"I really couldn't say either way," she said, turning to leave. "Do try to contain your enthusiasm ladies. It wouldn't be a good idea to break your teammate, now would it?" Marley and Emily shared a look and sighed heavily.
"Leave it to Goodwitch to put a damper on things," Emily said. Marley sighed again and collected her syringe.
"Let's go back to the dorm. Caleb will come back when he notices we're not following him anymore," she said. And so, the two medics returned to their worried Team Leader and informed him that their manic phase had passed, much to his relief.
/*/
"CUT!" regenengel3 yelled, swinging her arms to the side like a baseball umpire calling a play.
"Well... that was interesting," Doc remarked dryly.
"You stole my voice!" Chi declared, pointing a dramatic finger at Doc. The man shrugged.
"Eh, all part of going mad, isn't it? Use other people's voices?" Chi and regenengel3 shivered.
"Ya know, I think it's his acceptance of it that makes it so scary," the author whispered to the A.I. Chi could only nod in agreement. "Also, for those who are curious, here's a small description of Marley at Beacon. Cheers!" Chi snapped his head around just in time to catch a visor full of purple bees.
"Purple bees?! Why!?" he declared. Doc was quite glad he had a full face helmet.
/&/
{Marlene White – member of team JEMC
Role: medic; surgeon. Second in Command.
Main Weapon: Melee Form; Shepard's Crook. Ranged Form; shotgun.
Secondary Weapon: Melee Form; large blade tonfa. Ranged Form; syringe launcher
Semblance: emotion control, capable of inducing calm so deep it drives the victim into a coma or rage so great it causes the victim to go on a bloody rampage. And anything in between.(Ozpin felt a shiver of extensional dread when he read what she could do... though he did note that it was an invaluable resource for a medic.)
Battle Uniform: black boots, dark brown canvas pants, dark brown vest over a long-sleeved, dark green shirt, black utility belt filled with extra dust ammo for her shotgun and vials for her syringes, as well as replacement syringes.}
/?/
"Please leave a review behind of what you'd like to see in the RWBY!Verse.
1) who should they meet next?
2) I have a plan for when Marley meets Teams JNPR and RWBY, so they can show up, but they'd be babies.
3) What RvB/PRCF characters do you want to see next? Keep in mind, Marley is part of Summer Rose's (Ruby's mom) generation.
4) What should the next person's Semblance be and why.
5) What kingdom should they be from and why.
Until next time!
Have a Blessed Day,
regenengel3.