A hooded figure stands in a dark room. The door behind him opens and another hooded figure stands at the doorway.
"Sir, the preparations are completed. Now we just need the order and we'll launce operation Multi-view." At this the first hooded figure turned.
"Good. Now, RELEASE. THE HOUNDS!" the first hooded figure said while dramatically raising his arms and raising his voice. His voice deep and booming off the walls revealing how empty the room is.
"…uh Sir, you know that they're not canine in anyway, right?" responded the man at the door. The man in the room deflated.
"Ugh, you know what I mean, just send the recovery group out." Said the man with his voice seeming to have lost the power it held before.
"Right away Sir!" the man at the door walked away From the entrance of the room disappearing down a corridor that seemed to go on forever.
The hooded man stands once more alone and chuckles to himself. "Soon."
Elevator doors open as in walks a young blonde man of…average stature. That young man is none other than Jaune Arc, leader of Team JNPR. He's nervous and with good reason too! See, Professor Goodwitch had just called him down to the Headmaster's office to discuss his transcripts that got him accepted into Beacon Academy in the first place, transcripts that he forged. Once in he stood inside and sighed as the doors closed on him.
'I knew that I'd be caught soon, but I thought I could at least make it to end of the year.' Jaune thought and prepared himself for all that was gonna happen to him. The doors open revealing Ozpin's office and with it the Headmaster and his second in command waiting for him expectantly.
"Ah. Mister Arc, sorry for the sudden call but it is something of grave importance." Ozpin said while pulling out a file labeled J. Arc. The young Arc gulped loudly. "Now, your transcript here-" the man was cut off as he collapsed on the desk he was situated at.
"What the-" Glynda responded before she too, collapsed on the floor.
"Ahh! Professor Ozpin! Ms. Goodwitch! Hold on I'll call for urk-" Jaune yelped in panic before he felt a sudden pain on his chest and fell to his knees. Before he lost consciousness, he could've sworn he saw…Bunnies?
"Ooohhh…my head what…happened" said a small girl in dark clothes and a red hood as she stood up from her spot on the floor before realizing, 1)she wasn't at lunch like she had remembered she was and 2) Her team alongside Pyrrha, Ren, Nora, Ozpin, Glynda, and…her Uncle Qrow? As excited as she was to see him, she overheard some other voices that she knew weren't from anybody on the floor as they were just now waking up.
"Seriously they were all you can find?!"
"Well you said to get them quickly!"
"Yeah but what about Team SSSN huh? Or Team CFVY!? Did you even bother to look for any of the baddies?"
"My platoon couldn't find them in time, you know we had to rush it for the main power to work! But look! We found Qrow passed out in a Bar and that does half the work for us and thankfully the Wizard and the Good Witch were close to the Main power so that was an easy enough grab?"
"Yeah, but now we can't possibly hope to get half of the reactions we were planning and now we need to fill out that space with actual story! I swear, you could've at least- oh crap, they're waking up. Quick! Grab the 'secret weapon' just in case!"
Ruby then started panicking, a weapon?! She reached for Crescent Rose only to find her trusty Scythe/Sniper Rifle not to be in it's usual place. "Guys! GUYS! Get UP! We've been kidnapped!" Ruby whisper-yelled
"Mhmm…whaa?" arose a sleepy Yang upon hearing her little half-sister freaking out more than usual. Only to find she was right, they were in an entirely different place than she last remembered. "Oh what? Ruby what's going on?" said the blonde huntress only to be shushed by her sister.
"Shhh! I hear people talking earlier something "getting us" and "Main Power". I don't know! Help me wake the others up!" and as she did so Ruby started to inspect her surroundings a little more
It seemed to be an empty room with a bunch of square shaped holes in the walls. The room walls seemed to be carpeted with a soft rug-like material. The room itself was actually sloped downwards, with the floor being wooden, throwing off the little girl's center of gravity at first. She would've actually enjoyed the room if not for her being brought against her own free will, nonetheless she and Yang accomplished her mission of waking everyone from their sleep.
"Where are we?" said Blake getting weird vibes from the room, good or bad she couldn't tell yet.
"Hey! Weren't we at lunch a second ago Ren?" asked Nora once waking up and realizing that she was no longer eating her Pancakes that she normally would be devouring around now.
"I believe so." responded the quiet man clad in green.
"Wait, where's Jaune? Professor Ozpin, didn't he go off to talk to you ?" Pyrrha asked the older man, rising in slight panic upon not seeing her partner anywhere around.
"Actually, I was talking to him before-" the man didn't finish his sentence as the ceiling dropped lights from squares on the room and illuminated a hooded figure standing on a flat end at the end of the slope.
"Greetings! Welcome and may I be the first to welcome you to my humble pocket dimension! My name is- WUAAHHH!" the hooded figure was interrupted from his speech as all the Huntresses and Hunters got in fighting positions and a charging Yang baring her fists at him. Just barely dodging her attack he fell on his butt making his hood fall back, revealing a tanned young man with scruffy, long dark hair.
"You better start telling us why you kidnapped us and took our weapons and it better be a good reason or I'm gonna start swinging fists at things around here, starting with you!" threatened the golden-haired brawler though sounding more like promise than anything else.
"Uhmm, you're all my prisoners? The boy said in a jokingly way only to then notice the room start to heat up from the blonde's hair practically lighting up on fire.
"Wrong answer" she said and brought her fist back to start the pummeling of her new victim before she started to hear a skittering noise behind her sounding like…claws? She turned around to find a purple, small bunny running towards her. "What the-" she was then cut off as the bunny jumped over her shoulder and landed on the boy, before disappearing altogether. "Huh?"
"Now! Before I was so rudely interrupted," the boy now appeared behind the group petting the purple bunny and surprising the group. "*ahem* WELCOME TO MY VERY OWN POCKET DIMENSION!" the boy said with a booming voice before coughing into his hand. "Hello, I'm Blas! Nice to finally meet all of you!" the boy extended a hand to the small reaper.
"Uhm…hi I'm-" the girl however was cut off by the robed boy.
"I know who you are Ruby Rose, I know who you all are!" the boy barely avoided a left hook by Yang via teleportation again.
"How do you know us?" asked Blake
"Well, if your partner would stop trying to kill me I could try to explain the situation!" the boy, Blas, said in a matter-of-fact way.
"Yang, stop! We need to know why we're here and if you could just let him explain I'm sure we'll know," said the white haired girl, trying to calm down her rampaging teammate, "though know this "Blas" if it's money or dust or whatever else that you are looking for, you picked the wrong people to kidnap." Weiss said in a cold manner while glaring down the man, still petting the bunny.
"Thank you Miss Schnee, now let me tell you the quick version. You are all characters in a show my people watch. You are the products of a great world created by amazing people who have truly made your world as awesome and badass as it needs to be!" he exited out of rambling mode and looked at his guests who looked lost and or scared by what could possibly be a nutjob.
Ruby, unsurprisingly, was the first to recover from the shock. "So you're saying that our lives aren't real?" asked the girl with a slight panic in her voice but she tried her hardest to be brave.
"What? No! You guys are real! To your fans! You inspire so many to make things using you guys as catalysts! You guys affect millions of people's lives! Ugh, I messed up…" Blas turned away and started to shy away into a mumbling mess on the floor.
Ruby calmed down a bit as did everyone else hearing such, uh…nice things. "Ok. So let me get this straight: We are characters in a show a show called.." at this she leaned in hoping to get an answer from the man, but also to try and get him out of his slump.
"RWBY" he mumbled out before standing up and calming himself down, ready to answer the young girl's questions.
"right…and we 'inspire' people?" she said hoping to get another answer from Blas.
"Yes, as is the case with most things. People tune in to watch your adventures and cheer you on as you fight forces of evil unlike any we've seen in our world!" the boy said sounding excited again the bunny seemed to have disappeared.
"Right! And earlier you said we inspire them to "make". What do they "make" and what do they have to with us?" a quick look to the rest and Ruby confirmed that, that did seem to be everyone's question on their mind.
"Universes!" Blas said a little too excitedly.
"Universes?" asked Ozpin, finally deciding now was as good as time as any to ask about something that seemed huge and otherworldly.
"Oh right…uh…think of it like this: your story is already set in stone but thankfully for your fans, its still being written. We tuned in from when Ruby fought Torchwick at Dust to Dawn till more recent events." He looked around seeing if everyone was following along, so far everyone seemed to be understanding. "Alright, your story is so great many of us have turned to other ways of seeing more of you. So, using their talents they made universes with you guys as inspiration. These universes are shared to themselves and sometimes to others as we relish in all that you guys did, could've done, and what we wished you'd do."
"Wished we did?" asked Glynda now her curiosity piqued.
"Uh, yes mam'. This is what the majority of these universes are. They are what we wish would happen with you guys in the main story, whether it be some or more characters having more screen time, some hooking up, or even just a different world entirely at times."
"Wait what was that last one?" asked Blake.
"Nothing! Nothing important at least!" said Blas while looking away guiltily. "Look, the point is; while you might not be in our world doesn't make you any less real than any us. And while I can't speak for everyone I'd like to thank you for being a part of my life." He said while nervously looking away. "Any who, enough about that, let's talk about why you're here."
"Yes, I've been trying to figure out for quite some time now." Said Ren ever so calmly.
"Okay so one of the universes that are made by my predecessors are called "react" fics. See the thing is, this my first actual Universe! And I wanted to make a great one, one that many people want to enjoy!" the boy said enthusiastically
"So what are these "react fics"?" asked Weiss now finding it slightly easier to talk to the man.
"Right, see the premise of those universes are solely made so that you guys can react to other Universes that have one character in common throughout each Universe." He checked once more to see if they were with him, "Now normally my predecessors would've abducted you and given you no other choice but to be a part of their Universe but I am trying to be different, so I give you the choice," at this a door opened behind him. "You guys can leave and return to the canonical timeline but…Hey!" he stopped mid-speech realizing everyone was making their way to the door.
"What?" asked Nora genuinely confused as to why the man insisted on them staying.
"You guys aren't even a little curious as to who the subject of the Universes are or what they are?!" asked the man baffled.
"Uhm actually Blas, I think I've had my fair share of inter-dimensional viewings for one lifetime." Said Ruby as she turned around looking slightly guilty at refusing the young man's request.
"IT'S JAUNE!" he said in a last attempt to get their attention and grinned when they stopped dead in their tracks.
"Have I got your attention? Good. Now in this fic, if you decide to stay, you can view Multiverses upon Multiverses of Jaune in different worlds, while being accommodated in state-of-the-art viewing technology!" he snapped his fingers and just then 10 seats popped out of the ground, looking quite comfortable. "Of course, I am a fair man and food and drink shall be provided by our hard-working staff!" he snapped his fingers and just then even more purple bunnies hopped out from the cut out squares on the walls. "And some of these universes might have some valuable information that can prevent catastrophic events from happening." He said
"Events worse than the Vale Breach?" said Ruby hopefully.
"Events abysmally worse than the Vale Breach." He said confirming the small reaper's hopes. "So what do say guys? It seems like a fair trade to me! You guys get to take a much needed break, get to have all the food and drinks you could ever need, find out things that can save your hides, and you guys can see huge 'what-ifs?' in your lives!" he said in a sales pitchy type of way.
"Wait, what's in it for you?" asked Yang finding all this suspiciously too good to be true.
"Well like I said earlier I want to make Universe I can be proud of, one that everyone can enjoy!" Blas said.
"And this... is it?" asked Ren, knowing that there must be more to this.
"Well, technically, yes and no. See I'm not the most creative type and my "Universe-making" skills aren't the best, so this is more like practice! I'll make a Universe that I think people will like and I'll go from there!" the scruffy man said.
"Hmm, sounds like a fair trade to me, let's do it! Plus we get to see our fearless leader in so many different places! It'll be GREAT!" said Nora equally as excited as the robed man.
"Well, it might be interesting." Said Pyrrha
"It'll definitely be nice to take a break from all the classes. Sure." Ren said in his stoic way as usual.
"Vomit-boy centered Universes, huh? Well maybe there'll be one where he isn't that much of a dork? PFFFT! Nah!" Yang said while agreeing.
"While it might be fun to see all this, I think getting information about future events might help us stop them or at least prepare us for them." Blake said while looking towards Ozpin and Glynda and both nodding along to her statement.
"I think, I just need the rest. Who knows maybe, there'll be a Universe where Arc isn't hung up on me?" Weiss said being 100% serious.
"It'll be like watching a movie with Jaune as the main character! How cool is that!" said Ruby with about as much excitement as Nora.
"Hey, I'm fine with any place that offers booze. You do have some right?" Qrow asked in a dead serious tone, to which Blas just nodded aggressively.
"So everyone agrees?" Blas asked with a hint of hope in his voice. He was answered by a mixture of nods and verbal replies.
"Ok great now give me a second while my assistant gets the contracts."
"Contracts?" asked Pyrrha thrown off by the sudden need of legal action.
"Yeah, but don't worry it's more to hold me accountable for your health and you guys just have to watch a certain amount of Universes." He turns to greet his "assistant", another man in a hood.
"Wait how many are we watching exactly?" asked Ruby now sort of worried at the sight of papers being passed around.
"Oh just a few, twenty five?" he said then flinched back at the choruses of 'whats!'.
"That's so many! We have a life to live! We need to prepare for the Vytal Festival!" said Yang getting on the defensive.
"Yeah, time is frozen so you've got all the time in the world." He said while picking up a stray bunny off the floor.
"But…but…HOW?!" asked a pretty peeved Yang.
"Simple! These are Plot-Bunnies! A very rare species of bunnies that have the magical power of convenience!" Blas said as he raised said Magical Bunny above his head.
"Oh come on you don't expect me to believe-" the blonde was interrupted as Blas pet the bunny and not a second later Pyrrha, Nora, Ren, and Ruby walked up to them and handed in their signed contract.
"Alright we got our first four, anyone else?" Blas said as he turned and grinned at Yang and seemed to mouth the words "check mate" at her. Not a second afterwards Weiss, Blake, Ozpin, Glynda, and Qrow turned theirs in as well.
"What?! Guys why?!" Yang practically yelled.
"Sure it might be a lot but, he did say they would be different each time right?" said Pyrrha apologetically at her friend.
"YEAH YANG! C'mon it'll be fun! Plus the contract says they'll be short!"
She turned to the group that turned theirs in second and they all gave her a look that she knew meant 'if Ruby already made her mind then we can't change it' she sighed then glared at the man and his shady looking associate and signed the paper and practically shoved it into the young man's chest.
"Alright that's everyone! He said and then turned to the south wall, touched it and made his hand glow. The wall pulled back then flipped revealing a huge screen nearly the size of the wall it was hidden behind.
"I'll be here for the first Universe and then I'll leave as I don't want to intrude too much, I will leave my associate in charge of maintenance." He wrapped an arm around the taller man only for said man to smack it off. "Alright everyone sit wherever you like! Any seat is open and please, if you need anything just ask the bunnies!" he gestured to the seats and everyone obliged and sat in the seats. Essentially they settled for the obvious one of Kids on the bottom Adults on top and sat as Qrow, Glynda, Ozpin in the top and Ruby, Weiss, Blake, Yang, Nora, Ren and Pyrrha at the bottom seats. The screen. Then comes to life as the screen starts counting down
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