Author Note: Hello, This is my first Fanfiction I ever posted in a long while. It is inspired by Gold-Sith's [RWBY Watches The Cinematic Multiverse, and his work is what inspired me to start writing again.
I wrote this fic for three main reasons,
1). I hoped writing this would draw readers attention to check out Gold-Sith work as my way of paying homage as life is getting in the way of his passion,
2). It would help improve my writing skills so I can start writing original Fanfics again like I did before 2020. So wish me luck as I start my journey as a Fanfic Writer once more.
3). Mostly for fun, I had this idea in my head for a while now, and when I proposed it to Gold-Sith, he said that he isn't planning on doing any RWBY reactions to SFM/Gmod videos, leaving the idea up for grabs. So I figured I would do it myself.
P.S. This Fic takes place after Chapter 11. In Gold Sith's [RWBY Watches The One-Shot Multiverse, so if you're confused or want to go in narrative order I recommend reading his work first before reading mine.
Without further ado, let us begin.
In the storage room of the dimensional theater. The gold coated, Emperor Palpatine-looking man known as Gold-Sith is currently placing some film reels into a cardboard box, one of them labeled as Bioshock.
"They're going to love this!" he said with excitement, placing the last reel into the box and carrying them to the projector booth.
Gold-Sith had invited the cast of RWBY to his personal theater to watch movies of themselves as different characters in the multiverse. He's planning on screening the rest of Bioshock with Oscar as Jack to his audience since they loved the first part. But on the way to the booth he hears what sounds like a doorbell ringing through the halls. He stopped and turned to the source of the noise as if it was coming from the backdoor of the theater. He followed the ringing down the halls till he entered the maintenance room where the backdoor that leads outside the back of the theater and into a starry void.
"Huh? Who can that be?" He carefully put down the box full of film reels on a nearby table covered with tools and approached the door where the doorbell kept ringing. "I'm not expecting any visitors, so who could possibly come all the way out here this late in the day?"
As he opens the door, standing in a spacious and starry void is a Deliveryman wearing a green uniform standing at the doorway with a letter in hand and a large present on a dolly, wrapped in a large red ribbon behind him.
"Present for Mr. Gold-Sith." he said, holding out a letter to him. "And I believe this letter is also for you, it came with the package."
He looked down at the letter that said "To Gold-Sith" under a little bow. He couldn't tell who this delivery man is as his face is obscured by his large tinted glasses and fake bushy mustache. Gold-Sith took the letter off the man's hands as he pulled out a knife to cut open the envelope to read the letter inside.
Dear Gold-Sith, for everything you did, providing entertainment to your guests and fans. we're humbly offering you this life-size statue of your likeness made of pure gold for you to put in your office as a token of our appreciation.
Yours truly-
your adoring Fans.
This intrigues Gold-Sith, a life size statue of himself out of pure gold from his dear fans, he never felt so honored. As he finishes reading the letter the delivery man then pulls out a clipboard from under his armpit.
"And if you would kindly sign here, please." pointing at the bottom of the clipboard where there is a dotted line for him to sign.
The Golden Palpatine didn't hesitate, taking the pen that was attached to the clipboard by a chain and sign his initials on the dotted line. Upon finishing, he handed it back to the delivery man and invited him inside.
At Gold-Sith's office, he helped the delivery man carefully squeeze his present through the door frame. It was difficult, but they managed to get the dolly into the room safely.
"So where do you want to put your gift?" The delivery man asked as he pushed the dolly to the center of the room.
"Right over there," he pointed towards the window, "so that every time I walk into my office, the statue will be glistening up the room from the light coming through the window."
With careful maneuvering, the delivery man gently places the gift where Gold-Sith wanted and removes the dolly beneath it. Once he moved out of the way The Glistening Disney Property immediately began opening up his present. Cutting off the ribbon, ripping off the wrapping paper, and cutting open the cardboard with a boxcutter.
With one final cut, he removed the cardboard only to find an empty display case. The case is made entirely out of glass with a wooden base and a brass plate engraved with his name on the front but no gold statue.
He wasn't sure whether to be peeve or disappointed. Unaware that the delivery man is pulling out a comically large golden frying pan out from his overcoat and slowly approaches him from behind.
Just when he was about to ask along the lines of "what gives?", he turned to see the delivery man in the apex of his swing. With one swift motion, Gold-Sith only let out one cry.
"AHH-" [Pang] [Critical Hit] [Shing!]
And just like that in a flash of golden light, Gold-Sith has turned into solid Australium. His body slams upon the floor unable to move as the delivery man chuckled to himself.
"Sorry about that Mr. Australium-Sith!" He said as he picks up Australium-Sith off the ground and places him into the display case, his face forever stuck in his last moments of terror. "It seems that I'll be running this Cinema now!"
He rips off his fake mustache and uniform to reveal himself to be Dr. Livesey from the 1988 animated film, Russian Treasure Island. Except his body and clothes from head to toe are made out of green emerald gems that shine in the light.
"But don't worry." He chuckles as he closes the case door, locks it, and places the key into his coat pocket.
"I'll take good care of your guests while you gleam in your office."
He reaches into his pocket and pulls out a suitcase labeled on the side with a sharpie on duct tape, "TF2 SFM Film's", and makes his way to the booth, where the RWBY audience are waiting.
In the media room where everyone is waiting for Gold-Sith to pull up the next film, Team RWBY decided to tell jokes to each other to pass the time.
"And I said, now that's a Katana!"
Be it with little success. Ruby gave out her punchline expecting her teammate to laugh, only to be met with dead silence.
"Ruby…" Weiss spoke, breaking the silence, "That joke is not funny, it never was funny, and it is never going to be funny." She is sick of hearing that same joke that never lands, wishing the team leader never tells it, ever.
"Oh, come on Weiss!" Yang said, defending her sister, "Not like you'll tell a better one."
The heiress turns her head away from Yang. "At least I don't put puns in every sentence of the joke."
"What's wrong with puns?" Yang said with a smug look on her face.
"What's wrong is that you overuse them to the point that it makes me want to defenestrate you if you utter one more pun."
"Oh come one Weiss. You don't have to do that to make me 'Fall' for you."
Weiss' eyes twitch for a bit as she takes a breath, summons a glyph beneath Yang's feet, and sends her flying across as she screams "Worth it!".
Blake is busy talking to Sun and Neptune to notice the blonde dragon flying overhead before hitting the theater wall. "Do you have any idea what Gold-Sith will be viewing next?"
"I think he'll be viewing more of Bioshock," Said Sun, his words muffled as he chews a banana, "I really want to know who this Atlas fellow is."
"I hope not." Neptune replies nervously, "I'm still not over the concept of being trapped thousands of feet underwater."
"I've been meaning to ask?" The cat Faunus looking over to Neptune, "How did you end up with a crippling fear of water?
"Trust me on this one Blake, you don't want to know." Sun finishes off the banana, "Neptune, don't tell her, you shouldn't have told me, but you did. And I'm telling you, you don't want to know."
Everyone else has been having their own conversation throughout the theater. Ozpin, Ironwood, and the rest of Beacon's staff are having a philosophical discussion about the multiverse ever since Gold-Sith confirmed its existence. Well, all except Winter who is in the middle of arguing with Qrow like an old married couple. Coco is being flirtatious with Velvet, stroking her hair and ears while giving her cute nicknames like hunny bunny. Velvet's face blushes bright red in embarrassment trying to enjoy her carrot cake but secretly doesn't want her to stop. Nora from Team JNPR bounces up and down in excitement, waiting for the next viewing while Ren tries to calm her down.
"When is Goldy going to play the next movie, Ren? I can hardly wait!"
"He'll be here soon." Ren puts his hand on her shoulder, stopping her from bouncing, "he's probably deciding which film to view next."
"Maybe he'll play a film where all of us are together?" Jaune chimes in.
Pyrrha tilts her head looking over at Jaune, "What do you mean?"
"I mean like, every film we have seen so far, whether it's Ruby being a one woman army against an conquering alien race, or trying to redeem everyone from hell. Qrow stopping a drug operation to avenge his family, Ironwood commanding an army against an invading nation, or my counterpart putting on a strange mask to boost his self confidence. All these stories have only one of us be the protagonist. Of course one or two of our friends are there to help the protag. But… I want a story where our's and Ruby's teams, maybe even Penny, are all in the same group working together as if we're all still close friends no matter what universe we're in."
"Well I'm glad to hear it, because I have that exact film just for you!" A voice echoes throughout the theater.
Some of the students were ecstatic to hear Gold-Sith. Only, that wasn't Gold-Sith, the voice sounds unfamiliar, even to Penny. Appearing on screen was not a cloaked man in gold, but a cartoonish man coated in emerald green with a cartoonishly big nose and chin, permanently grinning as he wears a powdered wig, tricorn hat, and noble clothes dated centuries back.
"Oh no, not another one." Weiss exhaled, not wanting to deal with another interdimensional being.
"So you might be wondering where your precious host Gold-Sith is." the cartoonish emerald man explains himself, "Let's just say that he got a terrible case of the Midas Gold."
"The Mida-what now?" Jaune asked, not sure if he heard it right.
"The Midas Gold, it's like the common cold but so much worse."
"What?"
"You see the Midas Gold is a terrible disease that once infected, patches of gold will appear on your skin and slowly develop your entire body till you are nothing more than a golden statue. Gold-Sith didn't know he had it because his body is naturally covered with gold, by the time he realized he was infected, it was too late. Fortunately he called me over and when I saw him ill, I took matters into my own hands."
It was that moment Ruby realized something. "Wait, Gold-Sith was in the room with us, does that mean?!" She exclaimed.
Soon most of the students in the theater have gone into a panic thinking that they're going to soon turn into gold statues. The Emerald Nobleman quickly died down the crowd by snapping his fingers to get their attention.
"Do not worry, the disease only infects interdimensional beings and it is not fatal so Gold-Sith is not dead and is only resting, but he is in quarantine inside a glass case in his office. He'll recover and be back to his normal self in about… three days give or take." The Emerald Nobleman cleared his throat for a bit before continuing, "Till Gold-Sith recovers, I'll be your temporary host and will do my best to accommodate you with food and refreshments as I provide entertainment. But before I do that, there's something I need to do first… one moment!"
He reaches out toward the crowd, his hand becomes massive startling everyone when it emerges from the screen. Ozpin wonders if all beings like Gold-Sith can be able to enlarge their limbs like that, or if it's just special to this Emerald Man. His now ginormous hand looms over everyone as if he's planning to crush them all, both Ruby and Jaune legitimately thought that's what he's planning to do till he places his hand to the side of the room. "Apologies for this, I just needed to make some more room for some incoming guests." he said as he slid his hand across the room, moving all the chairs, tables, and the guests who were still sitting on them to one side of the room.
When Yang picked herself up from Weiss' criticism, she realized the chairs and tables were all heading her way. "Wait! Wait! Wait! Wait! Wait!" she called out, but it was too late. She was immediately slammed against the wall by all the furniture, taking the air out of her lungs as a chair hit her right in the stomach. The room went silent for a bit before the flatten blonde whimpered out, "I'm okay…"
The Emerald Nobleman's hand went back into the screen as it shrunk back to normal size. With a snap of his finger, he summoned more tables and chairs to fill the other side of the room.
Meanwhile, somewhere in Vale hiding inside an abandoned warehouse, Torchwick is going over a briefing with his henchmen. He points to some key locations on the floor plan of a local Dust shop laying on the table.
"And once we loot all the Dust we could carry, we meet here where our getaway vehicle will be waiting."
Neo is sitting at the table with him, but she is not paying attention, reading smut fanfiction on her scroll as Torchwick goes over their next heist.
"Now, are there any questions?"
"Yeah… how long has that been floating there?" one of the henchmen asked, pointing at whatever behind their boss.
Roman, confused by his question, turned his head to see what the hell he was talking about. He looked behind to see an emerald green tear floating behind him.
"What the Fu-"
Just as he swore. The tear ripped open into a rift, sucking both Roman and Neo into it. Torchwick screamed like a girl for Neo as the rift closed after both of them got sucked in. The henchmen who witnessed the whole thing just stared in silence with a calm look to them until their sunglasses fell off revealing their bug-eyes.
"Did… Did they just die?"
In the rift, Roman is still screaming like a girl for Neo as they tumble through the rift for what felt like hours till they were released into a strange theater room.
From the audience point of view. An emerald green rift appeared on the ceiling above the empty chairs and a man with orange hair and a bowler hat fell out of the rift and landed face first to the floor. Most of the students and staff stared in shock as they recognized who it was. It was none other than Roman Torchwick, an notorious criminal who is now roaming free in the theater.
"Well, that was unpleasant." Torchwick said as he got up and dusted himself off. "But at least I'm out of that stupid pla-"
Just before he could finish his sentence, more people fell out of the rift and landed on top of him, creating a huge dogpile. The people who fell on top of Torchwick in order are, Emerald and Mercury, Cinder Falls, Adam Taurus, Arthur Watt, Tyrian Callows, Leonardo Lionheart, and finally Hazel Rainart, who cause everyone in the dogpile to scream in pain as he crushes them all with his bodyweight. The ones who avoid the crushing weight of Hazel's muscle mass are Neo, who quickly deployed her parasol to gracefully float to the floor. And Salem, who uses her magic to stop herself from free falling.
Some of the students chuckled at roman's misfortune, but rest started questioning the Emerald Nobleman's decision on bringing them here. Especially Ozpin who is concerned about his students' safety since they are now all in the same room as the Queen of the Grimms herself. The Professor wasn't the only one as the staff and students recognized who they were as Salem's Inner Circle got up one by one off the pile.
But Salem was the least of his worries as he noticed Hazel looking at him from atop the pile with a look of pure hatred on his face.
"Ozpin…" Hazel growled wanting to charge in and beat the Professor to death with his bare hands right then and there. But soon realize he's not alone as Ozpin has his staff, Ironwood and his assistant, and the students of beacon. If he charges in now, he'll be overwhelmed before reaching the Professor, not after at least taking out one or two of them. So he instead got up off the pile while keeping his hate-filled eye looking at Ozpin.
After Hazel got up off the pile, Leonardo was able to break free. The cowardly lion Faunus soon noticed Ozpin looking at him. Feeling that his cover has been blown, he tries to find a place to hide until.
"Mr. Lionheart? What are you with them?" The Professor asked.
"Oh! Um… Well… I!"
Leon tries to find an excuse until Ironwood notices Arthur Watt getting up.
"Dr. Watt?" Ironwood exclaimed, seeing the man who was reported as deceased, standing alive in a well on the other side of the room. "My men reported you as dead."
Watt gave a large smirk before replying "Am I not." as a witty response.
As Adam gets up next he sees Blake trying to hide herself amongst the crowd, trying to not draw his attention. "So this is where you've been hiding Blake. Amongst all the filthy humans."
Both Sun and Neptune stood in front of Blake, putting themselves between her and Adam as they gave the bull Faunus a death stare.
Soon Cinder, Emerald, and Mercury got up, groaning in pain as their aura heals their bruises.
"I never felt so humiliated." groans Cinder as she relocates her spine.
"I don't think it was that bad." Said Emerald as she tried to comfort Cinder by giving her some backrubs.
"You're only saying that because her chest landed onto your face you simp." Mercury mumbled to himself as he rubbed his shoulder.
"Who are you calling a simp!" Emerald yelled as she overheard her partners mumble.
As the two began to bicker, Neo walked over to Roman who was still laying flat on the floor. She reached down to pick him up but he wouldn't budge, Roman is embedded deep into the ground. As she kept attempting to pull him out of the ground, the Emerald Nobleman appeared next to her in a cloud of smoke holding a giant spatula.
"Here, this should help." He said, offering Neo the spatula.
She grabbed it without hesitation, thanking him with a nod as she proceeded to scoop up the bowler hat criminal. Except, She immediately stopped what she was doing for a second and turned to look at the Nobleman to see if she was not hallucinating. Soon, the rest of the group notice the cartoonish man now standing in the room.
Salem's inner circle stared at him with utter confusion as he gave off a little wave and said "Hello" until Torchwick regained consciousness, breaking the silence.
"Ugg…" Roman groans as he picks himself up, "Thank the Brothers Aura exists or else that would have killed me." He looks up to see the Nobleman standing before him with an uncanny grin on his face startling the bowler hat criminal, causing him to crawl backward on his behind screaming "What the hell are you."
"OH! Apologize, I've just realized I haven't properly introduced myself." The Emerald Nobleman took off his hat and gave a gentlemanly bow to both groups. "The name is Dr. Emerald-Stirling, I'm an interdimensional doctor who specializes in treating patients with interdimensional diseases, and I've brought you all here to watch some multidimensional movies."
They still continued staring, unable to comprehend what he's saying till Ozpin quickly gave Salem and the Inner Circle some clarity.
"Dr. Stirling… may I refer to you as Dr. Stirling?"
"Yes"
"Thank you, Dr. Stirling is part of a group of interdimensional beings that has the ability to travel, observe, and record different universes." he pauses to sips some coffee. "My students and I actually have been brought here by another being like him known as Mr. Gold-Sith who runs a theater screening films of us from multiple universes. We're actually in his personal pocket dimensional theater right now."
"Yeah! His films are awesome!" Ruby chimes in, forgetting she's talking to a bunch of criminals and murderers. "He played in a movie where I'm a space super soldier fighting back against an alien race that threatens the galaxy."
"Velvet and our fearless leader ended up as cartoon characters in their own stories." Nora said, putting in her two lien.
"And one where our dad is a part of a race of alien warriors and-" Yang also chimed in.
Soon all the students are talking about Gold-Sith's films confusing Salem's agents even more as they say crazy things like an underwater city, an artificial planet made in the shape of a ring, a mask that turns you into a cartoon character, and them being demons in Hell.
"Alright Alright, we get it!" Cinder shouted, as she had enough of their nonsense, "Just… where is this Gold-Sift anyway, so we can tell him to take us back?"
The whole room was silent for a moment from Cinder's outburst up until Jaune informed them on what happened to the former owner.
"He's a gold statue now… apparently."
Salem's group got even more confused.
"Let me care to explain," the Doctor cleared his throat. "As I have said, I'm a Doctor, who helps treat interdimensional beings and Gold-Sith is one of my closest friends. I usually come by his cinema monthly to check up on his health, afterwards we spend some time watching movies he collected from across the multiverse. Recently I got a call from him saying that his joints were beginning to feel stiff earlier in the morning before he invited you all here to his theater, and now he is having a hard time moving altogether. I teleported here as soon as I possibly could to do a quick checkup, and after several tests I discovered he has late stage Midas Gold. Usually it can be easily treated if the patient responds quickly enough, but with his body being naturally covered in gold, by the time I figured out what it was, it was too late. Before he turned into a Golden statue, he told me to look after the theater and its guests while he recovers. Once his body turned into solid gold, I carefully placed his body into a glass case that now resides in his office and disinfected the whole theater, made a quick introduction to the current guests, teleported y'all here and here we are."
Something felt off for Ozpin, the last time he saw Gold-Sith, he was completely healthy. No signs of him feeling stiff or irritated like Dr. Stirling describes. He may look into the matter himself next break.
As the Headmaster ponders to himself, Roman finished fixing up himself and he has a few choice words for Stirling.
"Dr. Stirling, I speak for everyone when I ask… WHY THE HELL DID YOU BRING US HERE!"
Everyone jumped back a bit from Roman's outburst. Blake and Velvet rubbed their ringing Faunus ears and Penny adjusted her audio input.
Emerald-Stirling was unfazed, "Oh that's quite simple," he pulled out a piece of paper from his coat pocket. "Mr. Gold-Sith left me a list for me to follow for the next couple of screenings."
The so-called list is a lie as it's nothing more than a crude drawing of his plans of taking over Gold-Sith's theater in crayon.
"One of them being to bring the members of Salem's Inner Circle to the theater for them to watch these particular films. He didn't have time to mention which members to bring exactly so I just bought every member that pops into my head. Hopefully I haven't forgotten someone…
Meanwhile at the Branwen's Bandit camp, Raven was napping at her desk when she suddenly woke up gasping from her slumber. Vernal who was just outside heard the commotion and pokes her head in wondering what's wrong.
"Is something the matter Ms. Branwen?"
"Oh, it's nothing." Raven said, calming herself down, "Somehow I felt a sudden wave of anger and relief wash over me. Like I'm somehow angry that I've been forgotten by someone, but at the same time, I'm relieved that I won't be meeting someone that was looking for me."
Stirling just shrugs. "Eh it's proper nothing. Anyway without further distractions let-"
"Alright, Stop." a voice emerges interrupting Emerald-Stirling.
It was none other than the Queen of Grimm herself. She has been sitting quietly all this whole time and has been listening to the Emerald Doctor for long enough.
"As much as I would love to watch these wannabe hunters be heroes in another universe," she said with utter sarcasm, "I literally have a million better things to do, and I do mean a million. Not a single one of them involves having to partake in movie night with my Ex."
She pointed at Ozpin when she mention him surprising everyone, especially Salem's Agents
Everyone looked over at the Headmaster then to the Grimm Queen then back at Ozpin again, completely perplexed by Salem casually stating that her and Ozpin were a thing.
"Professor? Is it true that you and Salem were…" Glynda didn't want finish her sentence as she noticed Ozpin beginning to sweat bullets as he attempted to drink out of a now empty mug.
"My Mistress!?" Tyrian Asked with complete horror on his face, a rare sight even to the oldest member of the circle. "You couldn't possibly have fallen in love with an old fart like that!?"
"Hey!" Ozpin got defensive when the scorpion Faunus called him old. He may have lived for thousands of years, but Tyrian didn't have to rub it in. "I'll have you know that most of my students said that I am quite handsome despite my age."
Most of the female students disagree with "Uhhhh's" and "Errrrrrr's" that took a massive blow to his ego that he didn't know he had, causing Salem to snicker.
"Of course not," The Grimm Queen clarified, "He was a hundred times more handsome a thousand years back when he was a different man."
"Oh, come on." The Headmaster cried out from his Ex's verbal kicking him while he's down.
"Back then we were happily married, lived in a grand castle, and had four daughters."
Everyone was surprised, especially Ironwood when he heard that not only were they married, they also had kids.
"But that coffee addicting, wacky glasses wearing, divine boot kissing, son of a bitch just gone up and ruined everything!"
"You killed our daughters!" Ozpin yelled, not wanting to take this sitting.
"You tried to take them away from me!"
"You wanted us to rule the world like gods!"
The two Immortals continued arguing with each other for several minutes as the audience from both sides sat in awkward silences, never seeing that side of their leader before. Even the Emerald Doctor awkwardly stood there wondering if it was a bad idea bringing them here in the first place.
"-And you know what! I have this whole elaborate plan set up that will end with the other half Fall Maiden power in my clutches, the Artifact of Choice in my possession, And Beacon burned to the ground. But I think I'll just kill you and your students now, leave this idiotic Interdimensional Cinema, and destroy Beacon myself."
"I like to see you try!" Ozpin
"Tyrian! Hazel!" The Grimm Queen barking orders toward her top agent. "Bring me his head and leave no survivors"
"With pleasure!" The Scorpion Faunus said with complete ecstasy as if he waited all day to hear it.
As the agents of Salem charged towards the professor and the students and staff quickly ready themself for a fight, the Emerald Doctor took matters in his own hands. With a snap of his finger, he materialized a pane of glass splitting the room in two.
Hazel slams head first on the glass as it repels him back onto the floor. Both The Beacon attendees and Salem's Inner Circle were surprised, they let down their weapons as they inspected the glass pane separating the two groups. Hazel got up once more and approached the glass as well. The glass is only an inch thick and it was able to tank his charge at full force.
Hazel looked over at Ozpin on the other side before saying, "This glass won't be enough to save you." and proceed to punch the pane.
He hits the glass again and again but no matter how fast and hard the brute hits the pane, he barely leaves a single scratch.
"Sorry bout that friend," the Doctor apologies, "That pane came from the Fourth Dimension, only a few people can actually break it with ease. I mean, Penny and Nora are more likely to break it but not in the way you think. Now if you would kindly SIT YOUR ASS BACK DOWN!"
In an instant, the kindly Doctor transformed into a massive demon towering over everyone. His horns nearly scrape the ceiling, he emits auras of green flames and smoke that engulfs his entire body, his demonic tail slams on the ground leaving some cracks on the floorboards, and despite his size, his outfit seems to accommodate his form, making him a gentlemanly demon.
Everyone stood silent as they stared in fright. Both Cinder and Salem, who are known as the most cold hearted members of the Circle, are now as terrified as Lionheart. Tyrian and Watt are making mental notes on not messing with Interdimensional beings, especially the ones who constantly smile. Torchwick screams like a little girl and quickly hides behind Neo as she protects him. And Mercury gives up his cool facade as he gets behind Emerald and uses her as a human shield as she yells, "Mercury you mother-".
Adam however is all starry-eyed under his Grimm mask, staring at the Doctor's demonic form before him. "Now this is interesting." He said to himself with a smile on his face. "So the dumb interdimensional doctor is actually a Faunus God disguised… This changes everything."
Bull Faunus looked over at the other side of the glass to the staff and students of Beacon were terrified as well. Both Ozpin and Glynda are visibly shaken, struggling to keep their composure. Oobleck and Port hugged each other screaming, as Ironwood semblance just left his body as his skin turned as pale as his uniform. Qrow calmly puts down his flask thinking he had enough booze for one day, until Winter snatched it from Qrow's hand and chugged the whole canister down, surprising the drunk.
The fact that both parties are terrified by this God pleases Adam Greatly. Forget stockpiling Dust, stealing weapons, and operating Paladins and other dumb human tech. Interdimensional Gods is what he truly needs for his crusade. Once the Faunus God finishes covering for his sick golden friend and sends everyone back, he will summon the Great Dr. Emerald-Stirling to his realm to wreak havoc on the entire human race. Till then, he needs to get under Stiling's good graces, maybe even try to find out what he likes so Adam can use it to his advantage when he makes a deal with the Doctor.
"Now here is what we're going to do," the Emerald Demon said with a deep demonic voice, bending down and getting his face up into their personal space. "We're going to enjoy the movies I'll be screening, eat and drink your treats I'll provide you, and you're gonna like it. And if I see you pull this crap again, so help me, I'll toss you all out the backdoor and into the void where you'll never be seen or even heard from again! Do I make myself clear?"
And just like that, all of Salem's Agents sat back down, surprising Ozpin and his circle. After a moment of silence, Leon spoke up.
"S-So, what film are we watching Dr. Stirling… sir?"
"Oh I'm glad you asked!"
Once again in an instant, he morphs back into his "human" form, acting all cheery and smiling. Pretending he didn't just turn into a demon just a moment ago. He pulls out a clicker out of his pocket and with a click of a button, he turns on the projector showing a massive wasteland with nothing but sand and plateaus on the big screen.
"Our story takes place in a massive desert in the middle of nowhere known as the RoosterTeeth Badlands. Not a single soul lives here, but surprisingly enough, someone purchased it!"
Everybody was shocked but mostly confused by this information.
"What moron would be dumb enough to purchase so much useless land?!" Dr. Watt asked.
"Even my father wouldn't make such a foolish investment." Weiss stated.
"Well these morons of course!"
The Temporary host clicked the next slide showing two gentlemen in suits that both Ozpin and Salem immediately recognized who they were. They are none other than the twin Brothers God of Light and God of Darkness. Except their counterparts are just regular Faunus wearing bowler hats and suits, GOL in gold and white with deer antlers sticking out his hat, and his brother GOD in purple and black with dragon horns sticking out of his.
"Wait aren't they-" Ozpin tried to ask but was interrupted.
"That's right! Those two morons are none other than the very gods you worship. Only instead of being powerful deities from your world. In this universe, they are regular ass Faunus known as Lightmond and Darktarch respectively, and who hated each other immensely."
"Gods or not, they're still a bunch of idiots." Salem quipped to herself.
"The only thing they ever loved in their life is their own father, Monty Oum." The Doctor clicked for the next slide showing an old Asian man in a wheelchair. "They convinced him to buy the land with his own money and moved there. The old man never forgave them for it."
"That doesn't explain why they even want to buy in the first place." Ironwood interjects.
"Maybe they plan to terraform the barren wasteland into a lush forest if they're like their original counterparts." Ozpin said, theorizing the general's question.
"Good guess, but no one truly knows what they saw in the useless land or even what they plan to do with it, as old Mr. Oum had caught a fatal disease from the very land that he had purchased, which killed him soon after."
He brought up the next slide showing Monty's tombstone with his name engraved on it, as church bell tolls in the background. Every student was saddened hearing about Oums passing, especially Ruby as her sister helps comfort her.
"But before passing on his deathbed, the old man had written a will and testimony on his very skin, and turned it into parchment!"
The next slide shows the brothers holding their fathers will made out of his own skin in their hands. And just like that, the student's sadness immediately turned into disgust.
"EWWW!" Ruby and several other students exclaimed, feeling squeamish.
"I feel like I'm gonna be sick." Weiss said, trying to hold her lunch.
"BLEGH!" Nora was already ahead of her as she threw up all her pancakes into a conveniently placed bucket as Ren pats her in the back.
Tyrian however was intrigued. "Using human flesh as parchment? Now that's something I need to try on my next victim."
Everyone of Salem's agents looked at scorpion Faunus with a disturbed look on their face as he said that.
"Anyway," Stirling continued, "In his will, he bequeath each of his sons nothing but half of the useless land, making them have to share if they want to access all of it. But as you can tell, they didn't want to share. So one of the Brothers hired nine mercenaries to seize the other Brother's land by force, and his Brother did the same."
The next slide shows two teams of nine mercenaries, the two immortals recognized the first generation of mercs as warriors, heroes, and mages from times long forgotten before GOD erased everyone, leaving Salem all alone as the Brothers abandon Remnant.
"Wow, talk about petty." Yang commented, "I know I've had my fights with my sister, especially when it comes to cookies, but never to this extreme. Mostly we just settle it with a simple sparring match."
"Or what I called, sibling roughhousing." said Qrow, adding his two lien which Winter did not approve.
"It is petty indeed. So petty that it lasted over a hundred and twenty years, hiring new mercenaries every couple decades to replace the old ones who are past their prime. Don't ask how they manage to live that long, that is another story for another time." The Doctor said as he kept clicking, showing a timelapse where each slide a passing year as newer members replace the old ones who have gone into retirement, as the Brothers get older and crankier, and buildings are being built, destroyed, and remodeled in the background. Up until the last slide where the current two teams of mercenaries, standing in front of two very old and very cranky twins who are hooked up to these strange machines, giving each other death glares, and iconic 2Fort buildings loom in the background of the group photo. "And here we are in the present day, a hundred and twenty years have passed and the feud is still going on."
As the Doctor presented the last slide Ruby noticed the current mercs are all in silhouette "Um Dr. Stirling," She asked "why is the last group in the slide in silhouette?"
"Yeah! What gives?" Nora complained, wanting to know who these current mercs are.
"Oh I do apologize for teasing you like this." Dr. Stirling apologies, "It's just that I didn't want to spoil the surprise by revealing them just yet. You see, I have a couple of shorts that best introduce their… personality you can say. Think of it as an appetizer before the main course, as said course is a bit too much to handle."
"What do you mean by, "too much?" Cinder questioned the interdimensional Doctor.
"What I mean is this universe has a lot going on. A lot of things that make your world look dull by comparison. There's robots that run on money, mutated bread monsters, magical rocks 'and i don't mean the Dust kind', thousands years old roommates, space cakes, Carnivals of Doom, BONUS DUCKS, an evil corporation that sells tiny desks produces, ghosts, skeletons, a magical sentient bomb book, a man who was raised by eagles, a president who is a Pomeranian wearing a sweater, and the seventy eighth greatest snowball fight you'll ever see."
Everyone just looks at the temp host like he just went insane, especially Ozpin and Salem.
The Doctor quickly clear his throat, "In other words, these short films will help you settle in for a bumpy ride."
"Well, what are we waiting for? Let's get started." Adam said with a big smile on his face.
This was uncanny for Blake as she has never seen him this cheery ever since her father stepped down. Come to think of it, she could have sworn she saw Adam smiling when Dr. Stirling turned into his demon form. Just what is he planning?
The Doctor clapped his hands together, "Great! Now sit tight as I set everything up. Till then, enjoy your favorite food or drinks and I'll be with you shortly."
And in a puff of smoke, Dr. Stirling teleported himself into the projector room where his briefcase full of films was sitting on a nearby table. He opens the case and pulls out a film reel labeled 'MEET THE TEAM' in sharpie. He walks up to the projector and removes the current reel of the player labeled 'Hazbin Hotel', carefully wraps the reel back up, gently stores it in its case, and casually tosses it behind him where it makes a cartoonishly loud crash which caught everyone's attention. He then places his reel in, only to realize installing the film into the projector is harder than it looks. The Doctor made several grunts and muffled swears that the audience are now looking at him struggling with the machine. Ozpin asks if he's doing alright, but he quickly dismisses it saying he's not as tech savvy as his golden friend. After a couple of attempts he managed to get the film in, and without delay he called out "Roll Film!" and turned on the projector.
As the film proceeded to do a countdown, The Doctor sat down and took a deep breath. He snapped his fingers to summon a large bucket of popcorn with extra butter as he got cozy. From the corner of his eye, he noticed a board full of blacklisted beings, all with mugshots, full names, and reasons why they were banned. One of them is his own mugshot that read,
'MR. Emerald-Stirling'
Reason:
Popcorn Incident
Mr. Emerald-Stirling quickly ripped it off the wall, crumbled it, and tossed it into a nearby dustbin. Hoping that the guests won't find out and that Australium-Sith doesn't escape his glass prison, in fear that he'll most likely kick Stirling's ass, especially after the Popcorn Incident.
Soon, the countdown reaches zero, and the film begins.
Author Note: I hope Y'all enjoyed this introductory chapter. It took me many months to finish it. I'm good at writing stories, just suck at starting them. I had some script rewrite, rewatched RWBY a couple of times to understand the characters personalities, deal with writer's block after writer's block, forced myself to stop procrastinating (Blame the Elden Ring DLC for that), and sort of rushed it at the end so I can get this chapter posted already.
In the end, I'm just happy I got it done and am a writer again. I was originally planning to start Meet the Heavy in this chapter, but changed my mind after writing 7,000 words. So I'll either do Meet the Team all in one chapter, or do three classes per chapter, where each chapter covers a Defense class, a Offense class, and a support class starting with Meet the Heavy and ending with Meet the Medic.
I'll be posting weekly now that the first chapter is over with, not only covering official valve content, but also the TF2 community as well. That means the Team Fortress comics, SFM and GMOD videos, and official gameplay.
Also, Gold-Sith if you're reading this, I'm sorry that I've turned you into a Australium statue and took over your Cinema, I just thought it was a creative way to promote your work and introducing my persona :), you have free reign to kick my ass when taking back your theater on the next one-shot chapter.
Till then, see you in the next chapter.