I know I haven't written anything even though I said I wanted to type more, but once again, procrastination, writer's block and school have all come together to prevent me from writing.
However, I was hoping by doing something different and writing a less serious story with short chapter length would help reignite the spark inside of me.
So, I am going to do a RWBY react story! Yes, I know these have been done to death and are often questionable in terms of quality, but they're a guilty pleasure of mine to read, especially good ones. So, I shall try my hand at writing one of these.
Ground rules:
#1: Only one story suggestion per person per chapter. I don't want page length reviews with thirty thousand different franchises to try and write about.
#2: The RWBY cast shall be small-ish at first so that I can get better at writing their different responses. If I feel up to the task, I might increase the cast as this story goes on. We will just have to see. So if you don't see your favorite character among the cast, please don't come and ask for them to join.
#3: For any of you wondering, no-Jaune will not be the main focus of this story. I know a lot of my favorite RWBY react stories has Jaune as the main focus of the story, but I want to try and give others a bit of the limelight as well. But yeah, there are going to be more stories with Jaune as either a prominent role or a close secondary role.
#4: Let's have some fun together! Enjoy the show.
RWBY is owned by RoosterTeeth and the other various franchises are owned by their respective owners.
Chapter One: Chaos descends.
It was an average, ordinary day in Vale. The sun was shining, the birds were singing and the temperature was just right for a picnic in the park. The average citizens of Vale were going about doing their ordinary business.
Overlooking the city of Vale is the majestic and awe-inspiring form of Beacon Academy, home to the Huntsmen and Huntresses of tomorrow. The brave men and women who shall face the monsters that plague this world for the good of all human and Faunus-kind. But such a great duty places an immense amount of stress and burden on such young people. Who knows what is going through their heads right now?
"Nora, we cannot switch Professor Oobleck's coffee and Professor Goodwitch's tea just to see what happens."
"But Ren! Think of the chaos!"
Yep. Humanities doomed.
Inside one of the many dormitories that Beacon proudly holds, a young man by the name of Lie Ren sighs after listening to his friend Nora Valkyrie's latest scheme for mayhem and chaos. He has been with Nora since they were children after a Grimm called the Nuckelavee killed everyone in their home. After that horrible incident, the two have been inseparable, being by each other side through thick and thin. Looking back, Ren is glad to have had Nora with him. She kept him together and helped him move on with his life.
However, there are days when Nora's antics and pranks make Ren want to bash his head against a wall.
Ren was about to tell Nora why it is a bad idea to switch the two Professor's drinks around when their fellow Team members, Pyrrha Nikos and Jaune Arc walked into the room after a long training session. Since it is a Saturday, the four of them don't have class and Pyrrha wanted to take this opportunity to whip Jaune into shape.
Judging from his pale complexion and the copious amount of sweat he is leaking everywhere, it appears that Pyrrha decided Jaune is ready for the next stage of his training and so increased the intensity of their training.
"Fearless leader! Are you okay?" Nora shouted as she roughly grabbed Jaune.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Jaune weakly replied, his head rolling backwards as if he is dead, the young man too tired to hold his head up any longer.
"Pyrrha, what did you do to Fearless Leader?" Nora asked, turning towards her fellow redhead.
"Well, since Jaune has been doing so well at training recently, I thought that he would be ready for the next stage of training. Apparently I might have been a bit presumptuous in that thinking." Pyrrha nervously said as she looked over at her leader in worry.
Before anyone else could say something, the door to their dorm was once again opened as the leader of team RWBY, Ruby ran into the room, he signature semblance leaving a trail of roses that blew into the room with her arrival.
"Hey guys! Me and the rest of the team are going to head into Vale? You want to tag along?" She asked, her innocent childlike enthusiasm bubbling forth.
"Sorry, but it appears Jaune-Jaune is down for the count. Pyrrha was a little rough with him today." Nora explained as she showed the exhausted form of her leader to Ruby.
"Aw! I wanted to show you guys this really awesome sweet shop I found." Ruby said as she pouted cutely.
"Maybe later when Jaune is feeling up to it." Pyrrha suggested, not wanting to upset her other friend.
"Nah. I know how bad limbs can hurt after a hard workout. Jaune earned his rest. I'll just take you guys later." Ruby said, the phantom pain of all those very long hours of training her Dad put her though to make her a Huntress flashing through her mind.
"We would be delighted." Pyrrha said to the younger girl. A trip to a sweet shop did sound good to the red haired champion, she hasn't had any good chocolate in a while.
But before the inhabitants of the dorm could continue their conversation, they suddenly disappeared in a blinding flash of light. Elsewhere, the other members of Team RWBY also vanished from sight as well, leaving Beacon short by eight people.
The first thing Ruby noticed when she started to wake up, was the fact that she wasn't in her bed. The soft mattress and warm sheets she has grown used to aren't present, instead there is a hard, flat material below her which is not comfortable to rest on at all.
With a groan, Ruby opened her eyes and saw that the ceiling of wherever she was appeared to be made of silver metallic substance. Three torches where on the sides of the long, rectangular room with a large wooden door at the end.
Ruby then heard groaning next to her and saw her best friend (according to Ruby), Weiss Schnee was starting to get to her feet, her right hand on her head as she tried to clear her head.
"Weiss, you okay?" Ruby asked as she disappeared in a flash of rose petals, only to reappear next to Weiss.
"Yes Ruby, I am fine, aside from this migraine I have." Weiss replied as she tried to alleviate the pounding on the inside of her skull to no avail.
A small groan alerted the two girls to the fact that Ruby's older half sister, Yang-Xiao Long was next to awaken, the sunny dragon rolling over onto her stomach and then pushing herself up and then stretching a bit to alleviate the tension in her spine.
"Ruby, you okay?" Yang asked as she gave her little sister a look over.
"Yeah, I'm good. How's Blake and the others?" Ruby asked.
A groan let Ruby know that Blake Belladonna, the black haired Faunus member of team RWBY was finally awakening as well. Her black cat ears were fully visible as her usual black bow was nowhere to be seen.
Her amber eyes were quickly moving and taking in the sight of the room, no doubt checking for traps, clues to where they are, cameras, etc. The past lessons learned from her time as a White Fang member coming forth to aid her once more.
Once she determined that there were no immediate threats, she slightly relaxed as she got to her feet and turned to her team.
"Everyone alright?" Blake asked.
"We're okay, we were just about to check on Team JNPR." Yang replied to her partner.
Team RWBY walked over to their sister team and checked the members out, Luckily, it appears that Team JNPR is unharmed and a few minutes later, Nora woke up.
The first thing the overly-energetic explosive expert as she awoke was immediately start searching for Ren.
After finding her partner safe and unharmed, Nora calmed down and talked with Team RWBY about what happened.
"Sorry Nora, I can;t remember what happened. I was talking to you guys in your dorm and then a flash of light, then nothing." Ruby replied.
"Same. I was leaving the showers after my training session and then got hit by this flash of light. After that, just a blank." Yang added.
"Agreed. I was leaving Professor Oobleck's classroom after turning in my assignment when I was struck by a flash of light. After that, I cannot recall any memories." The white haired heiress said.
"I was in the library reading my books when I got struck by the light." Blake quietly said, still looking around for any clues, but coming up short.
"Darn! I was hoping you guys had already figured out where we are." Nora said as she frowned slightly.
"From what I can tell, the walls are made up of some material I have never seen before. It feels different, more...powerful, for lack of a better word. It's as if there is a massive amount of energy contained within the walls themselves." Blake said, putting her hand against the smooth silver surface, the material neither cold nor hot, but room temperature. The feeling of immense power flowed just beneath the surface, almost tangible and yet at the same time out of reach.
Before Weiss could ask some more questions, the groaning of Pyrrha altered them that the red haired champion was awakening. Her movements also appear to have gotten Jaune knocked out of sleep as well since the boy was starting to stir as well.
Pyrrha was up on her feet quicker then Jaune, whose muscles were still complaining from the training he did earlier today. After being brought up to speed about how little information the others had, the two started searching the room for clue as well.
Pyrrha tried to use her magnetism on the walls to get more information, but whatever the material was made out of resisted her powers with ease. The material was some kind of metal, but it just didn't budge when she tried to move it.
The group searched every inch of the room and even tried to open the door, but to no avail. However, it was after their third failed attempt to open the door that Ren awoke from his slumber.
The young raven haired male barely had gotten to his feet hen Nora tackled him in a hug, happy to see him up and about again. Ren didn't resist, knowing that trying to get the bubbly ginger off of him was an exercise in futility, so he just stood there and let her get it out of her system.
Once Nora calmed down and Ren was filled in about the situation, he walked over to the door to try and see if he could help get them out.
He didn't have to do anything however, as when all eight students where just two feet from the door, a light blue light shot out and washed over them from head to toe several times before deactivating. A moment later and the doors began to groan, their bulky wooden frame splitting perfectly down the middle as they swung open.
On the other side of the door was a large open library. A roaring fire was blazing inside the fireplace while row after row of books lined the walls, heading up further then the eye could see.
"Wow!" Ruby said, looking up at the books on the upper levels far away from her grasp.
"Dang, this place really makes Beacon look mediocre in comparison." Yang commented. Beacon's library might be vast, but this is on a whole different level. There must be thousands, if not tens of thousands of books and that just from what they could see, n telling how far the tower stretched off to.
Blake cautiously approached one of the books and looked for the title, but the book lacked any word on it's spine. She reached out and gently grasped the spine, but as her fingers grasped it, a jolt of energy exploded out from he book, sending Blake flying away.
"Wow!" Yang cried as she saw her partner fly backwards and land in a pile. A moment later and Yang was by her partner's side. Apparently the book only stunned, didn't actually hurt Blake as her aura hadn't even flinched from that blast.
"See, I told you Ren! Books are evil!" Nora cried out as she pointed towards the offending book with her right index finger.
Ren stared wide eyed at the book, unable to believe that a simple and humble book could actually attack and send a Huntress-in-training flying.
Before the two teams could try and figure out what just happened, a voice from above them rang out.
"Oh? What do we have here?" The voice said, sounding a bit unusual as the voice, while sounding like it belonged to a young male, also had a metallic tone to it.
The too groups spun around to see the speaker and were stumped by what they saw.
Floating around 30 feet above them was a humanoid being. Standing roughly 7' 11", it was a tall being. The being wore a suit of futuristic armor, the armor being slightly thin and apparently built for speed and maneuverability over durability. The armor was white for a majority of the coloring, with a tops of his feet being light blue in color with the middle part being white, with his knee joint itself being black as a single metal plate above the knee joints are golden. Moving upwards, the ebing appears to have several metal plates forming a type of skirt around it;s lower waist, two cannon like object being on either side of the waist with to cylindrical handles above each cannon.
The chest area is black with a Y shape to the coloring, the lower abdomen area of the suit being light blue with a ovular golden portion in the middle of the beings chest with a stripe of red going from the left side of the chest to the right. On either side of the ovular golden section are two white colored vents expelling what appears to be blue particles.
The arm sockets are golden and mainly covered by the large shoulder pads of the being, the shoulder pads having a red triangle at their tips. The arms themselves were white for the upper arms, golden in the elbow area, white for the lower forearm and golden for the hands once again. On the lower forearms are lightly glowing blue rectangular objects for some unknown purpose.
The beings head is mostly white in coloring, having a golden metal plate directly before the neck area. The area where a mouth would be is covered by a face mask that has two small slits going across the middle with a small rectangular goatee structure at the end of the face mask. The being eyes are yellow and appear to burn with an inner fire that leaves those who look into them nervous. Above his eyes and directly on his forehead are four golden fins, two of them about 7 degrees off of the horizontal axis, while the other two were almost perpendicular to each other. Right above the fins is a lightly blue glowing gem.
The most obvious feature above this being is the large eight "wings" on his back, each wing having a elongated dagger shape to them, the top part being abyssal black and the bottom part being dark blue with four golden spots up at the top of the wings. Each of the wings is sending out a thin trailing of what appears to be mall, light blue particles into the air.
A small jet of blue fire is roaring from the beings back as he stares down at the two teams in what appears to be intrigue.
"Who the hell are you?" Yang asks, bringing her fists up as her Semblance activates, her hair igniting into a roaring inferno as her eyes change from lilac to crimson red.
"There are many things that many people call me. My full name is StrikeFreedom10, but you can simply call me, Strike." The newly dubbed Strike announced, eight trails of blue particles roaring from his wings.
Silence descended over the library before Yang began to laugh hard, her form trembling as she tried to contain herself, but ultimately failed.
Even the other members of RWBY and JNPR couldn't stop themselves from laughing at Strike Freedom 10.
"Oh my god! That is a terrible name!" Yang managed to wheeze out as she falls to the floor, her gut in absolute agony from all of the laughing.
Strike just hanged up in the air, seemingly content on letting those standing below him get the laughs out of their system.
"Satisfied?" he dryly asked.
"Yeah, I'm good." Yang replied, finally managing to stop laughing and now starting to get back on her feet.
"Good. Now, I believe I am owed an answer as to why you eight are trespassing in my domain?" Strike asked, crossing his arms across his chest with one non-resistant eyebrow metaphorically being raised as he awaited an answer.
"Well, we kind of don;t know. We were just minding our own business when a bright flash of light erupted around us and then we woke up in that room beyond those wooden door and then we wondered in here and saw the books, Blake tried to grab one and was flung back and then you showed up." Ruby said quickly, gesturing to the opened doors to try and prove her story.
Strike turned towards the doors for a second and then turned back towards the group of eight and stared at them for a few seconds before he said, "Alright, your story checks out."
He then gently landed on the floor, his massive bulk making not a single noise at all.
"Really? Just looking at the doors and then staring at us creepily for a few seconds and you're convinced?" Weiss asked, completely not convinced of Strike's sudden trust in them.
"Yeah. I did a little mental searching through your guy's memories to confirm your story and it all checks out." Strike says casually as he walks over to the fireplace and starts looking for something, completely ignoring the looks of disbelief on the young men and women's faces.
"Seriously? You expect us to believe that you simultaneously searched through eight people's minds? That's impossible, not even the best mental semblance hunters could do that." Weiss stated.
Strike didn't stop searching, only responding with, "There are many things that I am capable that you would deem impossible."
"Y'know, you haven't told us where we are." Yang said as she watched on with slight interest.
Strike still didn't turn to acknowledge the young woman and simply said, "It is a very special place. Ah! Found it!"
Strike grabbed a small cube which glowed with slight neon green energy.
"And with this, you shall be sent home." Strike said as he walked towards the wooden door and aimed the cube at it.
The cube shot forth a stream of neon green energy that struck the door, causing the metallic room beyond the wooden doors to disappear as a large neon green swirling vortex appeared for a moment before the vortex suddenly and violently was destroyed by a blinding flash of light.
Teams RWBY and JNPR covered their eyes as Strike stared at the light in shock.
A few moments passed and the light died down and disappeared as the wooden doors slammed shut with a resounding "boom!"
"Well, that happened." Strike said, still in shock.
"Mind explaining what just happened?" Weiss demanded.
Strike said nothing as he stared the doors for a few seconds. Tiny white particles came through the wooden doors and landed onto Strike's extended palms. Strike looked down on the tiny particles for a few seconds before he sighed and said, "Well, this is going to be interesting."
"What's going to be interesting?' Blake asked, not trusting Strike at all.
Strike sighed and then levitated the small cube back to it's pace above the fireplace and said "I just got told why you eight are here and I gotta say, I am questioning the sanity of my boss. But, he's the boss and I do as he tells me to do."
Strike then turned to the two teams and said, "Okay, so I am going to explain to you all what this place is, who I really am, who my boss is and why you guys were taken here. Sound good?"
The two teams gave each other looks as they silently communicated with one another for a few seconds before Jaune said, "Yeah, I guess so."
"Good!" Strike said as his hands glowed golden as his eyes started glowing brighter.
"Behold!" Strike shouted as the outer walls of the library became transparent, showing what laid beyond the outer walls.
A vast nebula of shifting colors stretched out farther then could be seen, the sight of being in such a glorious and marvelous environment causing the Beacon student to gasp in shock.
"Wow!" Ruby said, summarizing the eight teenagers thoughts fairly well.
"Gorgeous right? I never grow tired of that sight." Strike said as he walked over to transparent viewing area and stared out into the nebula.
"What is this?" Weiss asked, still thinking this is a trick, but coming up sort with answers.
"We are in a spacial rift in the boundaries between realities. Think of it as the eye in a hurricane. In such large storms there are pockets of calm air that the hurricane drags around with it. We are in something like that, it's just that we are in the calm between dimensions instead the calm in a storm." Strike explained to those around him.
"Dimension? Reality?' Pyrrha asked.
"Yep. Ever heard of the Multiverse theory? The one that claims that every decision you guys make or don't make leads to the creation of a new universe where events pay out slightly differently?" Strike asked, immediately drawing a huff from Weiss.
"Of course we have heard of that theory. Everyone has heard of that theory by now. Right guys?" Weiss asked and after a few seconds of not getting a reply, she turned around and saw the rest of her fellow classmates all looking nervously around, not managing to look the heiress in the eyes.
"Unbelievable." Weiss said as she looked at her classmates in disbelief and disappointment.
"Well, that the theory of the multiverse, although true, fails to truly grasp just how massive reality is." Strike said, his eyes flashing as his powers activated.
He, along with the Beacon Students were suddenly floating in empty outer space. All around them were countless spheres, each one of them glowing pure white and where around the size of a basketball.
"What are these?" Ruby asked as she moved to look at one of the spheres.
"Each one of these are a multiverse, a near infinite collection of universes all gathered together around one "Prime" reality from which the rest spawn. For example, you and your reality, the world of Remnant that you all hail from, came from the original Remnant. You are apart of the multiverse dubbed the 'RWBYverse' by me and the rest of my siblings." Strike explained as he led the group forwards, the infinite sea of sphere's surrounding them.
"So, who are you and your siblings?" Ren asked.
"A good question. I am not a divine being, if you are wondering. I am merely a Recorder, a being whose entire purpose is to watch and record everything that happens across countless realities." Strike explained.
"What, everything? Why would you record everything?" Yang asked.
"Because Yang, even realities die. One day, each and every single one of these spheres shall be destroyed, their glow long forgotten as the people who live in them leave, gone forever. Someone has to make sure something remains to show that they did indeed live at one point. Even if new realities come to replace these one, it won't be the same, the people living in them won't be the same. Let me ask you a question: When do you think someone dies?" Strike asks them as he turns towards the group.
The sudden question confuses the young men and women and they can't give a good answer.
"Let me ask again: When do you think people die? When they are shot through the heart by the bullet of a pistol? No. When they are ravaged by an incurable disease? No. When they drink a soup made from a poisonous mushroom!? No! It's when… they are forgotten." Strike says with a solemn voice.
The intensity of his answer makes the Beacon students unable to answer, the thoughts of questions retreating from their minds as they just look at Strike, waiting for him to continue on.
"That question was originally asked by a Dr. Hiriluk from the 'One Piece' multiverse by the way. And I cannot say that I disagree with the man. So long as a single recording of a person's or a realities existence remains, they are never really lost, not completely. So, myself and my siblings all make sure that a record of every single possible multiverse and reality is created and stored away, so that the memories of their existence may forever be secured." Strike said, turning away and then walking on, the rest of his little group following after him.
"So Strike, who is your boss and why is he not letting us go home?" Jaune asked tentatively.
"Ah, right. I did say that. Basically, my boss is the creator of everything. He is the first being to have ever existed in the Omniverse. He created the first multiverse, the first beings, the first stars and much more. He created every single multiverse, despite what some beings would have you believe. Everything that ever has, is or ever will be created is because he lends his will and energy into the creation of such things. So, creator of everything and ruler of everything. What he says goes." Strike said to the group, smiling beneath his face mask as he saw the shocked faces on the Beacon students.
"So, there is a being more powerful then anything we can possibly comprehend who is older then the universe and created everything?" Nora said, to the slight shock of those around her.
"Indeed Nora. He goes by many names, but some he goes by is the One-Above-All, the Presence, Original One, etc. I just call him boss because that is what he is, he is my boss. And the reason he isn't letting you guys go home is because he wants me to teach you guys."Strike said as they reappeared in the library, the students slightly shocked at the instantaneous teleportation.
"What! When you took us to that sphere place, you had to nearly blind us to get there, yet now you can take us anywhere like it's nothing. What gives?" Yang asked.
"Truthfully, I wanted to be dramatic. Do you know when the last time I got to impress someone was? Hundreds of millions if not billions of years ago, so forgive me if I wanted to flex a bit of my power." Strike hotly said, trying to defend his previous actions.
"Whatever. What does the boss want you to teach us?" Yang asked.
"Like I said before, I record every universe and reality that has existed. I can show you these realities so that you may learn from them. Powers and techniques that you can then use to help defend your world. I do have a training area that you can practice what you have learned in safety." Strike explained to them.
"What about food, sleep, water and other necessitates?" Weiss asked.
Strike raised his right hand and snapped his fingers, a wave of energy erupting from the being and the library then shifted. Two new doors appeared next to each other on the opposite side of the library from the original wooden doors. The one of the left said "Ladies" and the one on the right said, "Men."
Another snap and a singular glowing blue orb appeared above the students head.
"Simply request a food or drink from the blue orb and it shall provide it to you. Sleeping quarters have been prepared on the bottom floor, the door leading to them is over there." Strike said, pointing to two more wooden doors that were directly behind and to either side of the fireplace. Again, the one on the left saying "Ladies" and the one on the right saying "Men."
"Wow, that's so cool!" Nora said with stars in her eyes.
"Really? I teleported myself and eight other people beyond dimensional walls like it was nothing and the fact I can create rooms impresses you the most?" Strike asked incredulously.
"Better get used to it Strike." Yang said as she lopped herself on the large couch.
"But I can destroy planets and rearrange galaxies. I am more then a simple carpenter." Strike said, a little miffed by their lack of awe at his powers.
"Eh, whatever helps you sleep at night." Yang said, a massive tub of popcorn in her hands.
Strike huffed as he extended his right arm towards the wall of books lining his library, a singular book lifting up and flying into his hand.
"Before I forget, each one of these books is a record of a universe/reality. By saying a specific set of words, the books shall show you events, places and people as you choose them. Each book is incredibly powerful, so don;t touch them and never try to open them without me in the room. Understood?" Strike asked, getting head nods all around.
Strike then said something a language that the Beacon students could never hope to understand, causing the book to glow golden and fly out of Strike's hand. The book flew until it was directly in front of the fireplace and then the book opened. Golden pages flash forth quicker then the eyes could comprehend until the book was opened exactly in the middle. Once opened exactly in half, the book shot out a stream of energy that solidified and formed a large rectangular black screen like one would find at a movie theater.
The lights started to dim around the library as the screen started showing a count down from ten.
Once the countdown ended, the Beacon student's journey across infinity began.
And that is the end of chapter one of my newest story. Can't really say I have any idea where this one will go, but should be fun writing at least.
The link to the image of the Strike Freedom I used to describe Strike is: Gundam-Strike-Freedom-43801812 on deviantart . com
If you have any comments, criticisms or concerns, leave a Review or send me a PM, always appreciated.
And do tell me about the universes would want to see written and I shall see what I can do. No more one per person please.
And until next time, this is StrikeFreedom10, signing off.
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