Billy: Is it Nora time?
Anon: I think it's Nora time
Bunny: I'm sorry, but what's Nora time?
Billy: Well it's time to fuck around and find out because it's time for another rendition of Vytal's Hope. This time, it's Nora time
Disclaimer: The Three Dimwits known as Billy Bombastic, Anon Noir and Bunny do not own RWBY. RWBY belongs to Roosterteeth and Monty Oum (RIP), please support the official release
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Nora jumped out of her seat in utter joy...
Only to land face first on the ground like a pancake.
"Oww..." Muffled the ginger as she pulled her face out of the floor and proceeded back into her seat.
Billy cleared his throat as he began to speak, "Well, anyways-"
Only for the screen to glow red.
"OH COME ON!" Billy yelled out in outrage, his face red like a cartoon bomb about to explode. Disclaimer: He doesn't literally explode, no innocent Bomb heads were harmed in production of this chapter.
"I'll go get it." Bunny said, walking out of the Theater to collect more victims- I mean, guests, hehe.
"So more guests this time? Should be fun." Sun said, leaning back in his chair.
"Not for us..." Anon muttered as the bunny-themed Host came back with a somewhat pleasant expression. "That was quick."
"There were only two, makes my job helluva lot easier!" Bunny said in a chipper tone.
"HOW COME SHE GETS TWO?!" Billy whined, crying crocodile tears.
"Penny!" Ruby cried in delight, seeing the android in disguise. I HAVE NO SHAME IN THAT REFERENCE.
"Ruby!" Penny cried back, embracing her first friend. I say embracing when I meant, "crushing her friend alive with the weight of her whole mechanical body", poor girl.
"Why..." Ruby croaked.
It was then that RWBY's resident farm boy (And Jaune's punching bag) walked inside the Theater with a shy, yet curious expression.
"U-um..." Farm boi stuttered, not exactly sure what's going on, as Anon approached him.
"You can go sit with the students, kid." He told him as ol' farm boi nodded.
As he sat down though, he was approached by Ruby, who managed to get herself off Penny, along with her team plus the android.
"Hi! I'm Ruby." The reaper introduced. "This is my team and that's Penny."
"I'm Weiss Schnee, pleasure to meet you." Weiss introduced with a curtsey.
"Blake Belladonna." The cat faunus nodded in greeting.
"And I'm this little rascal's older sister, Yang!" The blonde introduced with a bright grin.
"O-Oscar, Oscar Pine." Oscar responded, taking Ruby's hand and shook.
Ozpin looked at the young boy with a curious expression.
"Something on your mind, sir?" Goodwitch asked as the Headmaster simply shook his head.
Seeing Oscar Pine was rather surprising for Billy so he pulled Bunny to the side and asked her about it.
"Where or rather when is this farm boy from? Post-Fall or pre-Fall?" Billy asked in a hushed tone.
"Pre-Fall, we can't take our chances with a post-Fall Oscar and royally screw-up the timeline more than it already is." Bunny explained, earning a nod from the Host.
"Makes sense, can't have two Ozpins in the room, one is enough for my sanity." Billy snarked, making the girl in the suit giggle.
"What are you two talking about?" Penny chirped with an innocent expression.
Billy yelped, latching on to Bunny as she dropped him.
"N-NOTHING, Miss Polendina." Billy denied, gently pushing her towards the younger viewers in the Theater. "You can go sit with your friends now."
The android gave them a look before smiling and proceeded to skip towards the Beacon teams, who were in Oscar's personal space, poor boy.
Why do I feel like punching him? Jaune thought, before shaking his head. NO! No punching faces, what I thinking? Oh if only you knew, Arc. But TOO BAD, this is a pre-Fall fanfiction so NO ANGST AND NO PUNCHING FARM BOYS, at least not too much.
Anon cleared his throat, earning everybody's attention as he spoke, "Alright, this next one is a continuation of that other world with ol' knight in golden armor over there."
Jaune sheepishly chuckled while Oscar and Penny were a bit confused, luckily Nora happened to be a great storyteller so she provided the exposition on the situation.
That is to say, it's rather exaggerated but it's true, but hey, Ren was there to correct her.
"And then he chopped the Nevermore's head off! Blood spilling everywhere! And it fell, dead!" Nora finished dramatically falling into the arms of her partner. Oscar was pale from the gruesome retelling while Penny simply smiled and applauded the blonde's skill.
"Technically they crashed before Jaune used his shield to chop the Nevermore's head." Ren corrected.
"Ah, details, Schnee-tails." Nora got off and waved him.
"Heh, Schnee-tails." Yang and Qrow snickered, they are so using that one.
"Hey!" The Schnee sisters yelled indignantly.
"ANYWAYS, NO FURTHER DELAYS BECAUSE WHAT TIME IS IT?!" Billy pointed to the audience, expecting an answer before adding. "I don't know either!"
That drew some chuckles before Billy spoke again, "BUT REGARDLESS, IT'S NORA TIME!"
"Yeah!" Nora cheered, excited to see her cool self on the screen.
The screen then showed the familiar emblem of the Valkyrie and the viewing began.
It was a dark and stormy afternoon, a ship rocked back and forth against the waves as her crew struggled to keep her afloat and not endanger the passengers. Lightning could be seen dancing about in the clouds and struck the waters while thunder followed with its ever crashing roar.
Several miles from the Coast of Western Vale.
"Off to a good start." Qrow snarked, taking a swig from his flask.
"By my estimate, this takes place long before the age of firearms." Penny guessed, her jargon earned the curiosity of others in the room who didn't know her true nature but Ruby came to the rescue.
"She's a bit eccentric." She said, borrowing a word from her ever shrewd partner.
From within the lower decks of the ship, several passengers had worried looks on their faces.
"I can't see any land in sight!" One son told his father as he looked from one of the windows as water splashed in his face.
Meanwhile, a young woman with orange braided hair and turquoise eyes was seen cleaning the head of her war hammer with a cloth. She wore a mix between mail and lamellar armor, with a fur coat keeping her warm.
"I look so cool!" Nora gasped before she shrieked at the sight of her on-screen self.
Ren had a blush that was followed by a slight trickle of blood running down his nose before he quickly wiped it off as he was shook by his partner, who had an eager look on her face.
"Can you do that braid on me? Please?" She pleaded with those puppy eyes.
"Alright, maybe after the viewing." Ren said, sighing with a smile.
"Yay!" The ginger celebrated.
Not together-together, sure. The Arkos duo thought with a sweatdrop.
"Sea Feilong! Off the starboard bow!" One of the crewmates yelled out in panic.
"Uh oh." Ruby said.
"A Sea Feilong that close to Vale?" Port worryingly mused.
"I thought they only live in deep water?" Sun asked.
"Maybe it was attracted to the panic of the passengers." Scarlet guessed nervously.
"My other can take it!" Nora said, but she too was a bit worried.
"All hands to stations, make sure the passengers are safe inside, prepare for battle!" The captain barked.
Hearing the roar of the Sea Feilong, Nora stood up. Discarding her coat as she picked up her helmet from beside her and placed it on.
Back outside, the sea Grimm was doing some damage to the ship, killing some of the crew already as it prepared for another round of its lightning breath.
Nora then picked up an intricate looking crossbow that was shaped like an eagle and loaded an arrow with a rocket attached, but not before putting a little bit of her aura on to it.
"Wait, where's my grenade launcher?" Nora asked, a little miffed that her beloved Magnhild wasn't there to deliver punishment despite there being a hammer.
"A grenade launcher wasn't a thing during this time but a rocket arrow with aura infused Fire Dust was the closest thing to an RPG you could get." Bunny explained.
Ironwood was intrigued at the ingenuity of the explosives during the viewing's time period as was Winter while Ozpin simply smiled, having remembered those times during his past incarnations.
Nora saw that it could work and maybe a cool looking crossbow was neat but pouted at the lack of grenades nonetheless.
As the Sea Feilong was about to fire off a lightning bolt, a whistling was heard.
The crew saw an arrow whizzing across the air towards the Grimm until it struck it straight in its snout, unsurprisingly it did little damage.
"EHH!?" Nora screamed incredulously, the others were shocked as well. "Where's the big boom!?"
"Wait for it." Nora's voice was heard as the captain turned to see her with an eager, and excited grin before...
BOOM!
The arrow exploded as the sea Grimm's white armor protecting its face was destroyed.
"YEAHH!" Some of the more excitable Huntsmen-in-training cheered.
"THERE IT IS!" Nora yipped. "What took so long?"
"Rockets at this time still had those fuses that take a certain amount of time to ignite the Dust but an aura infused rocket speeds up the process." Anon explained.
"Ohhh."
"It's still not out of the fight." Ren gravely said.
Snarling, the Sea Feilong fired off a lightning bolt straight at one of the crewmates.
"No!" Some of the audience yelled out.
Only for Nora to jump in front of the blast, taking the brunt of the blow as she convulsed.
"Nora!" Ren called out worryingly.
The ginger stood still for a moment, twitching occasionally before her head shot up to glare at the Grimm with a look that was a terrifying mix between a snarl and a toothy grin. A glowing runic tattoo pattern then appeared on her face which ran down vertically down one of her eyes and stopped near her cheek.
"Scary and cool?" Neptune asked Sun with a nervous look.
"Scary and cool." Sun agreed with an excited look.
"Shut up, an awesome tattoo?!" Nora gasped.
"This girl is gonna be the death of me." Ren muttered, earning a reassuring pat from Jaune.
"Oh you'll so regret that." Nora whispered through gritting teeth.
The Sea Feilong roared as it charged forward to trap the ginger in its maw, only for Nora to return the roar with a snarl of her own as she ran forward to meet the Grimm head on, war hammer in hand.
"Wait!" The captain tried in vain to call her out.
As the Sea Feilong was mere inches from Nora, she jumped, dodging the attack and struck the Grimm with a sideways swing, sparks of lightning whizzed out the hammer's head.
Landing, Nora swung the Grimm again with enough force to knock the monster back into the water.
"Home run!" Nora and Yang cheered.
"Awesome." Oscar muttered, this was what a Huntsman was like? You have no idea, farm boy.
Panting, Nora took off her helmet with one hand and hefted her hammer over her shoulder as she faced the remaining crew with a bright grin.
"You're welcome!" She said as the Sea Feilong rose back up again and trapped the ginger between its teeth, surprising Nora as she screamed.
Sounds of people calling out Nora were heard, especially Ren.
Nora meanwhile shivered, trying not to imagine what it'd be like to be in between those teeth.
But before the Grimm could ever dive back down, Nora with hammer in hand, gathered what remaining strength she had from the lightning she absorbed and raised her weapon up on high. The scene was like something from a painting.
With a yell that could be heard for a mile and could pierce the heavens, she brought down the hammer and struck the Grimm's eye.
As it did, a bolt of lightning came crashing down on where the hammer had hit its target, electrocuting the Sea Feilong as it twitched and convulsed in pain until it exploded into large chunks.
Nora, free from the now dead Creature of Grimm's hold, fell freely until she managed to grab on to the ship's rigging, saving herself from falling to the water as she climbed down into the deck.
"Did she just call down a bolt of lightning?!" Jaune asked shockingly.
"That was just extreme." Taiyang admitted.
"You don't say." Qrow added
"Can I do that...?" Nora asked in an almost whisper-like tone, not believing what she saw.
"She still had some electricity in her, making her conductive and using her hammer as a rod, so she technically redirected lightning." Weiss mused, trying to rationalize what many would call an impossibility.
"Miss Schnee was actually pretty close in her assessment." Billy spoke up.
"The Nora Valkyrie of this universe has a semblance similar to your own Nora except with the tattoos, the fact that she can discharge the electricity that she absorbs and just like what Miss Schnee said, Miss Valkyrie here becomes a human lightning rod." Bunny explained.
"In fact, from what I hear of your own world, semblances can evolve and thus, who's to say that your own Nora could evolve her semblance to have similar abilities?" Anon alluded with a smirk.
"So I can!" Nora said excitedly.
For some reason, Ren felt like there would be more chaos than before, the sentiment was shared with the rest of Team JNPR and for some reason, Goodwitch felt a brief migraine just hearing Anon's statement.
Landing, Nora retrieved her crossbow and happily skipped towards the lower decks.
"Wait!" The captain called out. "Just who are you?"
The ginger looked back with that ever bright smile.
"Nora Valkyrie, sir! Don't you forget it!" She said. The screen changed to the four panels, with Jaune's lit up as Nora's panel followed with her striking a pose with her hammer and the letter N below.
With that, the viewing was over.
"That was beyond awesome!" Ruby squealed, stars in her eyes.
"I know, right?!" Nora agreed.
"I agree, Friend Ruby. To think it was possible to see other universes in a movie screen." Penny added.
"Well, I'm glad you all enjoyed that little teaser because now it's a good time for an intermission!" Billy announced.
"An intermission?" Ironwood asked.
"A break is what he means, but we have a little something to lighten the mood but we'll tell you later." Anon explained.
"For now." Bunny snapped her fingers as the room's interior changed from a theater to more of a homey, yet fancy ass common room. Complete with bean bag chairs and couches, a little bar with a robot bartender, some tables and chairs, heck even the fuckin movie screen shrunk to look more of a home theater screen. Goddamn, the magic is real up in here.
"Get comfy and relax!" Bunny told the guests, who began to mingle. Her bunny suit now sporting a maid outfit as Anon changed his clothing to suit a waiter while Billy remained the same.
"Seriously?" Anon sighed exasperatedly.
"Oh, you look just fine." Billy waved him off.
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Anon: Well, that was somewhat shorter than our last one
Billy: It had enough action
Bunny: Really? I felt like it was lacking but eh, it was good enough I guess
Billy: WELL, we might as well leave that to our esteemed readers to put their thoughts on today's chapter in this Theater of Madness
Anon: Might as well. Anyways, we apologize if this took a bit longer, school and working on my revised novel on the side can fuck up the schedule somewhat
Billy: Yeah, but hey at least this shows that we're not giving up on this shitshow anytime soon
Bunny: Of course we're not, our list of ideas is still long, too long in fact
Anon: Well, we're not exactly gonna do them all but we do as many as we can
Billy: So yeah, what are your thoughts so far on our little intrepid misadventures?
Anon: As always, be sure to Read and Review
Billy: Favorite and Follow!
Bunny: Stay Tuned For The Next Chapter!
Anon: Stay Cool and Anonymous
Billy: AND STAY BOMBASTIC!