Hey everyone, so after reading JC of the Corn's work "Endless possibilities of Jaune Arc" and Old Wolf Logan's "RWBY Watches Classic Movies", both of which are awesome, I thought about giving this multiverse bit a go. Just fair warning, this is my first time writing a story so expect some grammar errors and mistakes. Now without further ado, let's get this show on the road!
Disclaimer: I do not own RWBY or any other work that I plan to use, they belong to their respective owners (RIP Monty, we miss you still).
Chapter 1: Where are we!?
It is the start of the weekend, a week before the big dance, and Teams RWBY and JNPR were in the cafeteria, without another soul there (AN: wonder how that happened?), and listening to Jaune try to woo Weiss again, to her growing frustration.
"So, Snow Angel, the dance is in a couple days, I thought maybe we cou-" Jaune said.
"Alright, that does it." Weiss interrupted. Before, she was trying her best to ignore what the dunce was dribbling on about and enjoy her lunch, but her patience finally ran out. She stood up, faced him, and glared at him so hard, that his remarks stopped in his throat. "Listen here you dunce, I will only say this once. I will NEVER go out with you. You must be the most hopeless, talentless huntsman in this school, and I cannot think of a single reason why Ozpin thought it was a good idea to let you in, let alone be chosen as leader. You are a disgrace, and honestly, perhaps it would have been best if you never bothered to come here. Just leave me alone and never bother me again!" After her harsh declaration, she took some deep breaths.
The table was silent, Blake was wide-eyed, Ruby and Pyrrha were glaring holes into Weiss's head, and Nora was struggling against Ren and Yang to leap out and break some legs, preferably some heiress' legs. Jaune simply had his head down, his hair shadowing his expression, then he looked up. His goofy smile in place, but his eyes were darker, emptier. He looked at Weiss, her glare still in place but diminished somewhat due to how evident her words took their toll.
*sigh*"Ok Ms. Shnee, I'll stop, sorry for bothering you."
Jaune then stood up, bowed his head, and prepared to leave. Pyrrha tried to get him to stop, but he refused and left. Weiss was a bit surprised and felt a bit of pain in her chest from seeing the idiot so down like that but recovered.
"Good Riddance then."
Ruby could take no more. She stood up and promptly slapped Weiss hard.
"OW!" Weiss rubbed her cheek "What was that for you dolt?"
Ruby simply glared at her and pointed to the other occupants in the table. Weiss looked to see Pyrrha glaring at her with a deathly aura surrounding her, and then noticed Nora still being held back by her partner and Yang, her hand over the mad bomber's mouth so she wouldn't make any loud noises and all three glaring at her, and Blake was looking at her with her trademarked stoic expression, but the disappointment was clear in her eyes. Weiss, after seeing how her words affected everyone at the table, sat back down to finish eating her lunch, while taking small peaks at the spot where Jaune used to sit.
Ruby, not noticing this, went to Pyrrha and asked her. "Hey Pyrrha, is he going to be okay?"
"I don't know" Pyrrha said, now with a sad expression on her face.
Yang, who finally sat down after calming Nora down, asked her with concern on her expression and voice "I'm sorry P-money."
"It's not your fault Yang, you have nothing to apologize for." Pyrrha said, glaring at Weiss again momentarily, letting everyone know who she really blamed. "It's just..." *sigh* "It's just I wish for him to be happy."
Weiss, hearing that, felt worse.
"Jaune has been distancing himself from us lately too." Pyrrha revealed. "He's been acting a bit strange for a while now."
"Huh, how so?" Ruby asked.
"Well, he's been getting moodier and sometimes at night I can hear him mumbling and moving around a lot in his sleep." Pyrrha explained. Yang looked thoughtful and Ruby felt worried for her first friend in Beacon.
"Maybe we should look for him and try to talk to him." Ruby suggested. "It could be serious."
"Aww, is my baby sis worried for her crush" Yang teased, trying and failing to uplift the atmosphere.
"YANG!" Ruby shouted, blushing in embarrassment. "Now is NOT the time." "Yes, Yang" Pyrrha narrowed her eyes. "Now is certainly not the time."
Weiss, after finishing her food asked, "Why are you still worrying over that useless dunce?" (AN. Just a pocket of love, she is)
"Hey ice bitch," Weiss looked affronted at Nora "our fearless leader is not useless, he's real smart and he's getting better from Pyrrha's teachings and MY training regime." Nora glared harder at her for insinuating that her training wasn't up to snuff.
Weiss was about to retort when suddenly a large, green, swirling portal appeared overhead, and soon gravity started picking up the group and sucked them to the portal. Yang, before leaving this dimension, said "Oh man, this sssuuuuu-". Thankfully, the portal closed before Yang could finish her pun. Around the world, identical portals began opening, taking its intended passengers, then closing back up, leaving none the wiser.
In a sub-dimension
In a separate plain of existence, there exists a room about the size of a very large library which goes on for miles, and bookshelves piled high into the ceiling. Instead of being filled with books however, they were filled with what look like balls, floating in place, made of a purple, blue or red crystal-like substance and glowing faintly inside with a hidden light. In place of some of the shelves, there were pedestals, some empty others filled with weapons, clothing, and other interesting devices.
In one part of the room, there is a large plasma screen that is simply floating in midair, and many comfy chairs and couches surrounding it. Two more bookshelves surround the tv on either side and are currently empty. Providing the room with somewhat bright light are different colored orbs hovering in the ceiling, since only one color would make the eyes hurt, and we can't have that.
In one of the couches, a man was currently working on his tablet-like device. He was about 5'9" in height, skinny with some decent muscle on him, and light skinned with short blond hair. His eyes were a normal white sclera and black pupil but what also look like semi-dull, lightly spinning sapphires for irises. For clothes he wore a plain white t-shirt with what looks like a metal ring printed on with a thin, dark grey overcoat over that, covering up a pistol with a slightly glowing crystal in the back end, and having armored shoulder and elbow-guards on top. Thin, fingerless black gloves with armor on the back covers his hands, dark blue jeans with armored knee-pads, and lastly, he wore long black boots that goes over his pants and ends short of his knees with a solid armored plate on the front.
As he was working, he had looked to his right, a glowing orb of purple crystal next to him, then to the clock installed on his tablet, 'Hmm, I wonder when the time is right to return this. Ah well'. Finishing his work, he tossed the tablet away, watching it disappear in a blue light, and after placing the orb in one of the shelves, decided to take a nap. He was in the middle of driving a green rocket ship in space when a portal like the ones before opened on top of him. Soon screaming was heard before multiple bodies fell out, waking him up, and landed right on top of him, shattering the couch and knocking him back out.
"Oh, my head" Yang groaned.
"Yaang, get your butt off of me." Ruby wheezed.
"Sorry Rubes"
"Ugh, where are we?" Blake asked, looking around trying to find her scroll which dropped out her pocket when landing. "Ow, my head." Oh, never mind, Weiss found it, 'Serves you right'.
"Ow, my ears." Velvet moaned since she didn't land right and painfully folded them, and getting help to stand up by her team leader.
"Where are we sir?" Glynda asked after getting up and looked around. "I don't know Glynda" Ozpin replied, marveling at the orbs on the ceiling along with Port and Oobleck.
"Schnee, Polendina, are you both alright?" General Ironwood asked. "Yes sir." "I'm operating at 100% efficiency, general."
"Ah be quiet, you're ruining my buzz" a dusty old crow staggered up. "Silence drunkard!" Winter reprimanded.
Ruby ran to her uncle when she saw him "Uncle Qrow!" she yelled happily while grabbing his arm "It's so good to see you, did you miss me, huh huh huh?!" Qrow just smirked and patted her head with his free arm "Nope." Weiss was always happy to see her older sister and promptly greeted her, "Hello Winter, it's good to see you." Winter turned away from the drunk, and smiled thinly at her beloved little sister, "Hello sister, it is wonderful to see you as well. We have must catch up on."
"Where am I?" Taiyang mumbled, then when looking at his family, went to them to catch up.
Off to the side, a woman with a Grimm helmet and samurai armor stood off to the shadows with her trusted second.
"Mercury, get off." Emerald growled out. "Alright, alright, don't get your panties in a bunch." Mercury said. "Both of you enough, you're getting on my last nerve" Cinder said. "Sorry/Yes ma'am." they both said. Nearby, a walking ice cream cone was silently snickering while trying to get a certain man with a cane to stand up.
When Ozpin got tired of looking at the ceiling, he looked back down while drinking from his mug, only to choke and pale once he noticed Salem and her dark circle getting up as well, with said Grimm queen glaring back at him.
"Wait a moment. If we're all here, wherever 'here' is, then where's Jaune!?" Pyrrha shouted, seeing her friends but no Jaune, looking around for a familiar mop of golden hair.
"Fearless leader!?" Nora exclaimed, doing the same as her teammate. Ren simply stayed quiet as he too looked around for their brother.
Once the adults of the two factions noticed each other, glares and tensions of muscles were tossed around and were preparing to fight, but before anything escalated, a noise from someone unfamiliar to anyone was heard. Said man started to wake back up and groaned in pain. Everyone was startled and most jumped back to gain some distance to see the person clearer while pointing their weapons at him.
When the man picked himself up, he first dusted himself off, thinking 'what the fuck fell on me?' After he got the last of the wood chippings out of his ass, he looked up to see what was going on, most of the women gasping at the difference of his eyes and some noticing how disoriented he looked, and when his vision cleared up, he stiffened a bit once he noticed just who was here.
"Oh." He started to pale a bit, more so when he saw some of the people recovered from their shock and were pointing their weapons at him. "Shit."
"Who are you!" Glynda demanded, worried if this stranger was a danger to her students. The man simply closed his eyes, brought his right hand up to pinch the bridge of his nose, and took a deep breath to calm himself down. After he did that, he raised his left hand and with a snap of his fingers had every weapon burst into smoke (AN. bubbles are better). A few exclaimed in surprise when they saw that happen, some more than others ("My baby, nooo!"), and the man opened his eyes.
"How did you people get here?" He asked while bringing back his discarded tablet, startling a few. "Know what, never mind, I'll get to the bottom of this mess myself." he then started to type up command on his tablet, trying to get a reading of what was going on.
"Excuse me mister..." Penny said, trying to get a name. "G1742-J4-CK35, but you can call me Jack." 'Jack' answered absentmindedly.
"Ok." Yang mumbled.
"Who or what are you." Penny continued.
James hummed in concentration "Well. I, and my race for that matter, are what you could call gods."
Some were a bit hesitant from that reveal, other were skeptical, others in fear.
"Um, s-so where are we M-Mr. Jack?" Ruby stuttered.
"You are in the 'Entremedias', or 'In Between', Ms. Rose, a Nexus Point within the multiverse." Jack explained, putting down his tablet once he read why this happened, and spreading his arms outwards to explain properly.
"Huh?" "What?" "Impossible!" confusion and disbelief were prevalent in the group. Jack nodded along "Yep. As a matter of fact, this place is one that categorizes and stores different universes based around a certain blond friend of yours."
"Really?!" "No way!" "Who?"
Jack just nodded. "Yep, yes way, and this whole area is focused on one Jaune Arc in that order."
Weiss, who stared in disbelief, rolled her eyes and scoffed, "Oh please, how is that dunce so important, and for that matter why waste the space?"
Jack narrowed his eyes and suddenly the room started to shake, and a heavy pressure settled onto the people's shoulders, causing them to kneel or flat-out crash into the ground from the increase in gravity.
"I would kindly suggest that you shut your trap. You don't know anything about that young man, what he went through!" Jack was pissed off at this little brat, waste of space? Him!? Oh no, that shit won't fly, mon senior.
Ozpin struggled to an upright position, his cane helped, and tried to diffuse the situation and not see one of his students die in a gruesome manner. "Alright, I believe that we got off on the wrong foot, let's all calm down." he barely lifted an arm in a peaceful gesture. Soon the pressure lifted, and everyone breathed a bit easier.
"Yes, you are right Ozma," Ozpin and Salem stiffened at that while the others were left confused "I apologize everyone, for my actions. It is just that Mr. Arc is too important a figure within the multiverse, and I've seen plenty of people try to beat him down. He is very important to how your world, every world, is claimed for the forces of good and evil. Life or death, it all depends on him, his life leaves a great impact on the multiverse."
A lot of people were blown away from how important this boy was to the multiverse, many already planning on how to use this boy for their own gains. Goodwitch spoke up, trying to get that out of her mind to focus on what she feels is more important "Not that all this is not important, but is there a way for you to send us back?" She really wants to go home, with her students safe and out of danger *cough*Salem*cough*.
*sigh*"I'm not sure," Jack shook his head "the method in which you arrived in was something I hadn't seen before, but whoever sent you, another of my kind no doubt, had apparently decided that it was imperative that you be here" he explained, causing everyone to feel anxious. "Or maybe they did it because they were just bored, I don't know" he shrugged, and a few face-planted at that.
He then remembered something else and addressed it, so it wouldn't be a problem later.
"Now before I forget, snacks and drinks are permitted here. You just need to ask for something at they will appear in floating trays, and in your preferred amount."
Everyone was surprised, they forgot that since they are in a what is essentially a library, that food may not be present here. Ruby and Nora were first, asking for cookies and pancakes respectively, which promptly showed up in quick order on silver platters, all nice and freshly made. They squealed in joy and dug right in. Everyone saw what happened and immediately asked for their preferred items.
Once everyone got what they wanted, the god looked at his pris-guests, guests, to see if they were ready. Once he saw that they were, he said "Good. Now back to the point of why you are here."
"Well," Ruby looked around "if we were meant to be here, then it's our duty to see this through, for the future of our world."
"Well said, Ms. Rose." Ozpin complimented. Yang rubbed Ruby's head in affection, making her blush a bit from the positive affection.
"Alright then," Jack pumped himself up.
"let's get this show on the road." he rubbed his palms together. "Now then, in order for you guys to feel safe within my realm, I temporarily shut down any and all powers you may have." He paused for a bit so that those who voiced their displeasure over that decree calmed down.
"If you'd look around, you'll see the different-colored orbs and pedestals," several took a better look of what they were/held. "Each of those orbs contain the doorway into a universe, and the screen over there lets us see them with no problem. The different colors represent the theme: Blue represent good/light, Red are dark/evil, and Purple make up possible futures in your own universe (AN: yeah, that last one is mostly romantic ones). The pedestals on the other hand holds weapons, armor, or items that the blond noodle holds deeply in his heart in the viewings. Another reason why your powers are locked, wouldn't want some of these bad boys to create a mess, mostly out of you."
While they were curious about some of the colored orbs, and some afraid of what some of the weapons might do, those who knew Jaune were skeptical of the Red's purpose, they could never see him as a dark or evil person.
Yang scoffed, "Oh please, there is no way that vomit boy could ever be bad as you say." Her friends nodded.
Jack smirked at her "Oh yeah?" He took a Red out of random. "Well, let's put that to the test then." He walked over to the screen and knelt a bit to the little rectangular hole in center bottom and inserted the book. He stood back up and faced the group, who were now pulling up chairs and couches to sit down on: the students in the right, the adults in the center (Raven and Vernal had finally revealed themselves at that point, startling quite a few people, especially Tai and Yang once she removed her helmet), and those labeled as 'evil' sat in the far left and away from the students because they were forced to sit there, thus revealing their true loyalties.
Jack smirked at them as the ceiling lights dimmed, creating a shadow over the top part of his face and unnerving a few in the audience as he sits down on his new seat, in between the audience and the screen. He chuckled as he saw some of them freak out a bit, he tilted his head to the right. "Why so serious?"
END
So, what'd you think of my prologue? Took a while to put this up, the instructions were a bit tricky at first. I'll try to do stuff that other people haven't tried yet or mix up characters if I can't and like them too much to ignore.
Also, I know that this is overdone a bit, but can you think of a more twisted way to start things off? The next chapter will be out in a day or two, still need to proofread it.
One last thing, this will eventually be a crossover, but that will not appear until much later, however some of the ideas I have for them are in Easter eggs that I placed here, some more obvious than others.
Anyway, R&R and hope to see you soon in the next chapter of: "Jaune: Center of the Multiverse"!