So as you've probably seen, I've decided to rename this comic, Into the Multiverse sounded a little bland, also the girls becoming planeswalkers isn't coming for a while so that sounded like false advertising to me. So I decided to name it based on how Stone got to Remnant, and ultimately how our heroes will escape Remnant when the time comes, through the barrier around Remnant, shattering it and passing through the window into the multiverse.
Chapter 3:
The First Day
The door to Stone's room opens, with a blinding flash of white light, forcing the four girls to shield their eyes.
"Oh crap did I forget to turn the lights off again?" Stone says, reaching into the doorway and appears to flip a switch turning off the light and allowing the girls to see into the door. "Sorry about that, anyway, this is my room."
Walking into the door the girls find that they are in a room about the size of a loft, a small kitchen area to their right with a refrigerator, a stove and an oven with cabinets and a pantry, to their left is a small workshop area with a workbench and cabinets holding tools, calibration equipment, and parts, as well as a closed metal door, and in front of them they see a sitting area with a small couch, 3 chairs, and a TV on a stand containing what appear to be many movies they don't recognize, the sitting area has two doors on either side of the TV, one labeled laundry and the other labeled bathroom, and finally a small sleeping area with a black framed bed with another strange rifle leaning on the frame, this one made almost entirely out of wood and with a bolt action, a small bedside table with a black lamp with a tan shade as well as a bookshelf filled with books sits next to his bed, and a table with a desktop computer next to the table with a raised monitor on it. On the walls are a few decorations, mostly flags and a few posters that look like they are advertising movies that are from his world. One flag on the wall stands out to Weiss, a white flag with a black line on the top and bottom, adorned in the middle is a black eagle with wings spread and wearing a crown, holding a golden scepter and a blue and yellow orb with a cross on it. Yang notices one of the framed posters, a large reptilian creature with spines on its back standing in front of a rocket launching, with an even larger three headed golden dragon behind it, and at the very bottom of the poster are strange symbols she doesn't understand, a language maybe?
"Well, what do you think?" Stone asks, inquisitively, and a bit tentatively.
"Wow… how did you get this room to appear, was it magic?" Yang asks.
"It's my old dorm room from when I was at MSF High. I was able to get the room after I graduated and I've been using it as a home on the go. It also serves as an easy storage area for my weapons." Stone says
"Weapons?!" Ruby asks excitedly
"Yep, I keep them all in that room, behind the metal door." Stone says, pointing to the door in the workshop area, "Want to take a look?" He asks
"Uuh, YEAH!" Ruby replies, using her Semblance to quickly get to the door, surprising Stone a bit.
Stone walks to the door, grabbing a key from a rack next to the door along the way, and putting the key in the lock, the door opens to a dark room, until Stone reaches in and flips a switch turning on the light and revealing a room absolutely filled with guns, swords, axes, and spears on racks and in lockers. On the room's far wall are two large cabinets, one filled with different types of ammunition for each of the weapons and the other filled with parts and schematics for the many weapons.
Ruby's eyes absolutely light up at the sight of all of these weapons, moving quickly from weapon to weapon, "You love weapons too?!"
"Yep, I started collecting one day and I ended up with tons of them, some of these guns are actually extremely rare and even some prototypes I was able to get my hands on," he says, picking up a rifle with a magazine sticking out of the side "Like this, it's an FG-42 paratrooper rifle, only 7000 of these were ever made."
"I'd be happy to let you shoot any of my weapons sometime if you'd like," Stone says to Ruby, her eyes lighting up and nodding quickly to the proposal.
"By the way, what was that thing you just did? Turning yourself into rose petals?" Stone asks.
"That was my Semblance," Ruby replied, still gawking at all the new weapons she's been introduced to. "All Hunters and Huntresses have an ability that is unique to them, hence mine, I call mine Petal Burst."
"Oh so that explains what I saw at the cliff, good to know." Stone says.
"Well thanks for the tour and all but I think we should be getting to bed now." Weiss says, moving towards the door
"I agree, we'll need to be well rested for our first day." Blake says walking that way as well.
'Aww I want to keep looking at the weapons." Ruby says disappointed, but still moving out nonetheless.
"Hey Ruby wait up a minute" Stone says, putting his hand on her shoulder
"What's up?" she replies.
"I think I may want to make a weapon like the ones you girls have, and since I wouldn't know where to begin I was hoping you'd help me." He says, with Ruby showing obvious excitement at his words.
"Of course I'll help you! We'll just need to decide what you want to make." She says.
"I think I already do," he says, unsheathing his Claymore and placing it on the workbench, going into his armory, and retrieving a gun and placing it next to the sword, "I'd like to make one that combines the attributes of these, my Claymore and an FN FAL Battle Rifle."
"Hmm, I think we can do that, all we need is parts, sometime this week we can go into Vale and buy some to make it" she says.
"Sounds like a plan, night Ruby." Stone says, walking with her to the door and closing it behind her, leaving it just a crack open.
The four girls prepare for bed, putting on their nighttime clothes and doing whatever they need to do before they go to sleep. Just as they turn off the lights they see a soft glow coming from the crack of Stone's door, which is quickly shut off, as Team RWBYS all fall into a well earned sleep after the day they just had.
X
"Aah, Emerald, Mercury, what do you have to report" Roman Torchwich says to the two figures.
Emerald Sustrai and Mercury Black have returned to the warehouse from their reconnaissance mission to give their findings to Roman Torchwick and a mysterious feminine figure shrouded in darkness.
"We found the target in question, he matched the description exactly." Emerald says as she pulls out her Scroll and pulls up a picture to show the pair. The picture shows Team RWBYS when they were in the Beacon Gardens, with it focusing primarily on the Man with draconic features.
"Horns, wings, tail, that has to be him. Unfortunately we weren't able to get any closer without drawing the group's attention, Mercury almost got us caught but I was able to use my Semblance to keep us concealed." Emerald says to the pair.
"Hey! At least I was trying to get in earshot of those twerps!" Mercury snaps back at his accomplice.
"Quiet, both of you," the shadowed figure says, stepping into the light, revealing a woman with black hair dressed in a red and gold dress, "We know that he is enrolled as a student at Beacon, so we know where he is and where he will be, that gives us all the time we need to finalize everything else."
"Yes ma'am, we'll get right on that." Emerald says.
"Really now Cinder, can't you get yourself some better henchman?" Roman says in a sarcastic tone.
Cinder Fall simply glares at him with fire in her eyes, Roman chuckles a bit at her attempt to intimidate him. "Well, you two know what to do, get to it." Cinder says coldly to Emerald and Mercury, with the pair walking out in response.
Cinder thinks a bit to herself "Could that guy really be as dangerous as Salem said he was? And is it true that he can use magic?"
X
Weiss sleeps comfortably in her bed, awakening early in the morning. It was the first day of school after all, she wouldn't want to be late to her classes. She sits up in her bed and stretches her arms, waking herself up even more. But suddenly a loud whistle rings out from her left, startling her and causing her to fall out of her bed.
"Good Morning, Team RWBYS!" Ruby says, fully dressed in her school uniform revealing that she was the culprit behind that whistle.
"What in the world is wrong with you?" Weiss says from the floor, getting up to see both Blake and Yang are both fully dressed and Stone's door is wide open, showing him picking out clothes to wear.
"We've got to get ready for our classes, we wouldn't want to make a bad first impression." Ruby says, "First class is at 9 so get yourself dressed."
"Wait, did you say 9?" Weiss says, looking at her scroll.
"Ummm" Ruby says concerningly.
"It's 8:55 you dunce!" she says, hastily putting on her uniform and running out of the room.
"What?! Ruby! You said it was 8:20!" Stone says surprised from his room, putting on his clothes quickly, his clothes consisting of a blue blazer, a white dress shirt, black pants and a pair of brown boots.
"Uh.. To class!" Ruby yells, running out of the room with Blake, Yang, and Stone following close behind.
Jaune, Phyrra, Nora, and Ren, peek out from their door, "Class?" Jaune says, before losing his balance and toppling over onto his team mates.
Jaune manages to dig himself out of the and says "Come on, we're going to be late!" to his team, and runs after Team RWBYS.
Professor Ozpin and Glynda Goodwitch watch from Ozpin's office as Team JNPR and Team RWBYS hurry to class.
"I've been meaning to ask Headmaster, why did you insist that Stone enroll? He looks as if he is older than all of our students graduating next semester." Glynda says to Professor Ozpin
Ozpin smiles, takes a sip from his coffee, and says "Because he is special Professor Goodwitch, one such as his kind has only been seen on Remnant once before, and I don't mean that he is a Dragon. He has great potential, and what sort of Headmaster would I be if I denied someone with great potential entrance to my academy? You saw it once already with Miss Rose."
Arriving to class in just the nick of time, Team JNPR and Team RWBYS take their seats and prepare to learn as much as they can. In the class sits an ax-blunderbuss on the wall above the black board, and drawings of many types of Grimm. Class begins as the elderly teacher, Peter Port enters the room and begins speaking.
"Monsters! Demons… Prowlers of the night! Yes, the creatures of Grimm have many names, but I merely refer to them as prey! Ha-ha!" Professor Porter says, letting out a hearty laugh.
The members of Team RWBYS are seated in the very front row, Yang, Stone, and Blake are paying attention, Weiss is dutifully taking notes, and Ruby is taking a nap, before Porter's laugh wakes her from her rest. Porter begins to go off on a tangent about himself, telling personal stories with not much relevance to the class, as many students now begin having trouble staying awake. As his speech drags on, Ruby doodles a caricature of the teacher, "Professor Poop' as she calls it. snickering at it and showing it to her team and blowing a quiet raspberry, Blake and Yang laugh, Stone chuckles a bit, but Weiss looks very annoyed.
"Ah-hem!" Professor Porter clears his throat, getting the class's attention back, "Anyway, the moral of the story is a Huntsman must be honorable, dependable, strategic, well-educated, and wise."
Weiss looks over to Ruby, and thinks she does not embody any of these traits.
"Who among you believes themselves to be the embodiment of these traits?" Professor Porter asks the class.
Weiss, still angry, raises her hand "I do, sir!" she says.
"Well then, lest find out," Porter says, taking a tarp off a cage with glowing red eyes in it "Step forward and face your opponent!"
Weiss changes back into her normal attire, and with Myrtenaster at the ready, gets into her stance and prepares to fight the creature in the cage.
"Go Weiss!" Yang says.
"Fight Well." says Blake.
"You've got this Weiss!" Stone says.
"Yeah, represent Team RWBYS!" Ruby says enthusiastically.
"Ruby! I'm trying to focus!" Weiss says looking very annoyed with Ruby.
"Oh, um.. Sorry…" Ruby says sheepishly.
Professor Pulls his weapon off the wall "Alright!" he says bringing it down and breaking the lock on the cage.
From inside the cage charges out a Boarbatusk, heading straight at Weiss. Weiss, using Myrtenaster, parries the attack and rolls to the side, readying herself for its next move. The Grimm stands a ways away from Weiss, studying her.
"Hang in there Weiss!" Ruby says.
Weiss now speeds toward the oncoming Boarbatusk, sticking her blade straight at its skull, the two colliding and lodging Myrtenaster into the Grimm's head, as it thrashes Weiss around as she holds on with all her might and struggles to get the rapier out of the Grimm.
"Come on Weiss, show it who's boss!" Ruby yells encouragingly at Weiss, only earning a glare from her. But this momentary distraction was enough for the Boarbatusk to catch Weiss off guard and rip her weapon from her hands, landing across the room with a clang., as Weiss is propelled backwards by the Grimm's tusks.
"Oh no, what will you do without your weapon?" Professor Porter says.
Weiss looks up just in time, as the Boarbatusk begins charging again, she rolls out of the way, avoiding getting trampled under the beast and making it slam headfirst into a desk. Weiss rushes across the room and reclaims her blade.
"Weiss! Go for its belly! There's no armor underneath-" Ruby starts before getting cut off by Weiss.
"Stop telling me what to do!" She says angrily at Ruby, Ruby looking a bit hurt at Weiss' words.
"Weiss, Ruby's right! Aim for its weak spot!" Stone says, backing up Ruby.
Weiss looks a bit annoyed at this, who was he to tell her how to fight anything, sure he killed an Ursai in the forest, but he's only known us for one day, why is he backing up Ruby? Weiss watches as the Boarbatusk jumps into the air, curls into a ball and begins rolling at her, gaining more and more speed as it goes. Weiss, using her Glyphs, jumps into the air, and uses another glyph to propel herself into the beast, stabbing it straight through the stomach, the Grimm squeals as it goes limp and begins disintegrating, as Weiss gasps in relief.
"Bravo! Bravo!" Professor Porter says, "It appears we are in the presence of a true Huntress-in-Training!" he says.
As Weiss stands up and regains her composure, she sees Ruby frowning, still hurt by what she said.
"Well I'm afraid that's all we have time for today. Be sure to cover the assigned readings and stay vigilant! Class dismissed!" Professor Porter says, to which many students begin filing out of his classroom, having actually learned very little due to his self indulgent tangents.
Weiss glares at Ruby and hurriedly walks to the exit past her teammates.
"Sheesh, what's with her?" Jaune asks.
The other members of Team RWBYS look at each other, confused.
X
Weiss is still walking angrily, but from behind her Ruby and Stone turn the corner, running after her.
"Weiss!" Ruby yells at her.
"What?!" She says angrily, turning around to see the Silver eyed girl and the Silver Dragon.
"What's wrong with you? Why are you being-?" Ruby starts before Weiss cuts her off once again.
"What's wrong with me? What's wrong with you!? You're supposed to be a leader, and all you've been so far is a nuisance!" Weiss says angrily.
Ruby scoffs at this notion, "What did I do?"
"That's just it-you've done nothing to earn your position! Back in the forest you were acting like a child, and you've only continued to do so!" Weiss says angrily.
"Hey now, that's uncalled for. Ruby's new to leading others, it's not like she'll get everything right on the first try." Stone says in Ruby's defense.
"And don't you start! You just fall out of the sky and Ozpin immediately enrolls you in Beacon, what's up with that? And we literally just met you yesterday, why are you being so chummy with Ruby?!" Weiss replies.
"Weiss, where is this coming from? What happened to all the talk about 'working together'? I thought you believed in acting as a team?" Ruby says sadly.
"Not a team led by you. I've studied and trained. And quite frankly I deserve better." Weiss says, turning her back to Ruby and Stone. Ruby tries to reach out to Weiss, but as she does so, "Ozpin made a mistake," Weiss says, walking away. Ruby looked saddened by her words.
"Hmm… Now that didn't seem to go very well" the voice of Ozpin says behind the two.
Ruby and Stone turn around to face the Headmaster, holding a cup of coffee in one hand and his cane in the other, Ruby looking to be on the verge of tears and Stone looking a bit hurt by her words.
"Is she right? Did you make a mistake?" Ruby asks Ozpin.
"That remains to be seen." Ozpin says, quietly chuckling a bit.
"What do you mean?" Ruby asks the Headmaster.
"Well, it's only been one day. And I've made more mistakes than any man, woman, or child on this planet. But At this moment, I do not consider your appointment to leader," he says to Ruby then turning to Stone, "or your admission to be among them. Do you?"
Ozpin turns to Ruby, and says "Being team leader isn't just a title you carry into battle, but it's also a burden you wear constantly. If you are not always performing at your best, what reason do you give others to follow you?"
Ruby looks thoughtful with his words, and smiles a bit. Ozpin then turns to Stone.
"And your admission into Beacon at the last minute seems strange to others, they may think you got in for no reason, this means you'll have to work twice as hard to show others you belong here." Ozpin says, Stone looking to be deep in thought at his words, "And on that note, I'd like to speak with you privately if that's alright,"
Stone looks up meeting the Headmaster's eyes, "I guess that's alright," he says. Ozpin then turns back to Ruby.
"You have been burdened with a daunting responsibility, Ruby. I advise you to take some time to think about how you will uphold it." He says to her.
Ruby takes a last look of consideration at Ozpin, and says "Yes sir, I'll give you two some privacy." walking away when she is done. While she is walking she comes to a balcony, seeing Professor Port talking with Weiss, Ruby smiles a bit at her teammate, to which Weiss returns.
"So, what was it you wanted to talk about?" Stone asks the Headmaster of Beacon
"You're a Planeswalker, are you not? You traveled through the Blind Eternities to get here from another plane?" The headmaster asks the Dragon, to which Stone looks a bit surprised at his knowledge of what he is,
"Y-Yes, but how do you know that, from what I saw, this plane has a shield around it, making it hidden and cut off from the wider multiverse?" Stone asks.
"You aren't the first Planeswalker who has been to Remnant, there was another a long time ago, during the Age of Magic." Ozpin says a bit cryptically
"That doesn't explain why you're asking me all this." Stone says, expectantly
"I wanted to ask you if you'd be willing to help me with a bit of a project I've been working on. As you said, Remnant has a shield around it, preventing Planeswalkers from coming in and going out. And as you've probably felt, a few of our students here have what you know as a Spark, four of them being your teammates. I'd like to break that barrier and free them from this cursed plane. But a feat like that will require a large amount of mana, which is where you come in." Ozpin says, earning Stone's surprise
Stone closes his eyes and thinks for a minute, before opening them and calmly saying. "... Ok, I'll help."
xxXxx
So it looks like Weiss is still acting just as she did in the show, but now she's also targeting her anger at our new arrival. I skipped over Weiss' talk with professor Porter cause I didn't think there was much I could add to that conversation, it was mostly about Ruby anyway. How could Ozpin possibly know about the wider multiverse, or the fact that Stone is a Planeswalker, and what exactly could Ozpin want Stone to do to help him.
Obligatory Disclaimer once again (Sorry): I do not own, nor do I claim to own RWBY, Magic the Gathering, or the Mahou Universe. They are owned by Rooster Teeth, Wizards of the Coast, and Akuoreo and MSFHighWraith respectively. And you probably saw I'm using D&D Dragon rules, so I now have to say I don't own Dungeons and Dragons, it's owned by Wizards of the Coast as well.