These loops are a collection of drabbles based off the Looping stories by Author Innortal who's are based on the movie Groundhog Day. In which a character is constantly looping through time and is aware of the resets. There will be crossovers with Innortal's series, so please check those out! They're very good and a lot of fun.
For those that are hoping for a continuation of either my Golden Paladin or Energy Rise series, I'm sorry those are basically dead at this point. I don't have the ability to actually keep with a story long enough to actually finish it. I will say they may end up being referenced in this series of random crud I will be putting out.
Enjoy!
Loop 1
The familiar pain of a landing that he never had the time catch himself after being launched by a very angry Deathstalker. Everytime the reset came he knew that was going to be a major pain in his ass. This was always the starting point for these loops, he wasn't even sure how long he'd been in them at this point.
Years had gone by, he'd absorbed the power of the Relics so many times now, he could feel the pulse of the crown within Beacon. Something that really started annoying him. After all, how do you explain away the reason for why those things come roaming into your dorm during the middle of the night. He'd been arrested by Ironwood after one of his takeovers at least three times, only to die when Ruby crashed the ship he was on, not on purpose. She was busy fighting Roman after all.
The latest loop however left him particularly annoyed. He'd been SO close to fixing Salem, all he needed was a bit of time. But Ozpin, the ever tired old man, got impatient and had them bring the Relics together once again. And like everytime that brought the gods back, who promptly judged humanity unworthy and pressed the reset button. The bastards.
"Hey Jaune, you okay?" Yang asked coming over to check on him since he hadn't gotten up yet. She was worried the dork was dead.
"Yeah… Just, lementing…" He grumbled as he stood up, looking really annoyed, even as Pyrrha along with the deathstalker broke through the tree line. Unlike the others who backed up in fear of the giant Grimm, he headed towards it drawing his blade.
Pyrrha saw this and tried to get Jaune to move to the side. "Jaune no! This thing is a problem for even Pro-" Her eyes went wide as she was pulled aside into Jaune's arm and she felt a power fly past her, the Stalker had stopped. And then died with a split right down the middle of it's body.
Jaune's had flicked his blade before resheathing it and then looking to Pyrrha and paused… 'Oh no, I know that look…' He thought as he saw the "I Want!" look in Pyrrha's sparkling eyes. If there was one thing that turned Pyrrha on beyond being naive… it was power. This was going to be a long loop…
Loop 2
"And what is it you think you're doing in here?" A very irritated and slightly annoyed voice came from behind Jaune as he was fiddling inside the main control computer aboard the Alisem main carrier.
Jaune kept working inside with his scroll connected to it, not even popping out to look at her. "Hello to you too Special Agent Schnee."
"I repeat." She glared blade being pulled out her sword. "What are you doing here."
"Oh calm down, I'm not doing anything harmful, I just don't want to have to deal with Cinder's stupid little virus that she infected the system with, and then you're dumbass of a general getting yours infected with after taking control of this tournament." He'd like to go a few tournaments without Pyrrha and Penny fighting. Having an infinite loop allowed him plenty of time to perfect his hacking skills, when he wasn't training he was generally coming up with some form of code. Hell he swore he once heard Ranma claim that Jaune could code circles around him. And he was the oldest one in these loops. "Now if only I could actually win a fight against him…" He mumbled.
"Excuse me?" Winter glared.
"Well I'm not holding you here." Jaune said only to have to block a swing from her blade with his Aura. "Hey, no poking!"
"Get out of there now!" She ordered.
"Fine fine… I'm done anyway." He side disconnecting his Scroll and coming out. "Bye now." He grinned before disappearing, much to Winter's Surprise. 'Thank you DBZloop.'
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Loop 2a
"Cinder… Aren't we supposed to be going up against Team CFVY…." Emerald whispered into the communicator as she looked nervously at Pyrrha and Jaune. One looking like she was ready to fight and the other looked downright bloodthirsty at Mercury. Well she could tell from her many hours spent with people like Cinder and Adam, to anyone else he just looked calm.
"I tried! But every time I try to access the damn system it sends me to some fucking stupid video with a puppet singing about seagulls!" Cinder yelled back, clearly very mad about about not being able to do anything. She should have full control.
There wasn't much time left to think about it as the start bell went off and both Pyrrha and Jaune where on them quickly.
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Loop 3
Another spray of blood and a dodge, a red haired girl panted before driving her claw like weapon into another mutated villager. "Damn it… Do they ever stop just running at y- Shit!" She dodged to the side quickly as her senses told her something was coming up from behind her, that was about the only thing that worked in this hell hole of a loop no matter how much she tried to awaken her other powers that would destroy this place. She got herself ready for another fight but paused as the figure that attacked her also paused.
"Saotome? Is that you?" A blond masked man asked, he was wielding blades she'd seen on a huntress she met a while back. "You're in this shit hole too?" He took off his mask showing.
"Naruto! Oh thank god a friendly face!" Ranma sighed in relief as she let her guard down a bit. "Please tell me you can use Kurama to blast this place to hell…"
The blond shook his head looking just as tired as Ranma. "No, I can't even access any kind of Chakra… Not to mention I've died here like 40 times and I still haven't reset to a different loop? The fuck is going on?"
Ranma groaned shaking her head. Another hope devoured by this crazy loop. "I don't know, but whatever usually tries to make us live by the rules of the loop is doing a damn good job… The most I have is my dex and senses. Everything else I've got like my Ki and even magic are all fully cut off."
"So we're basically fucked in a FUBAR we know nothing about?" Naruto sighed looking up at the burning Lycanthrope in the middle of the square.
Ranma was about to reply when she was cut off by another voice. "FUBAR? What's that?"
Both drew their weapons and looked towards the voice, only to find another blond with blue eyes watching them from the carriage Ranma had killed a Gunman off of a while ago. He was holding a Blunderbuss and an odd looking weapon that neither of them had seen yet. "Hey Naruto, do you have a bother?" Ranma asked looking between the two, they looked a lot alike.
"Not that I know of…" Naruto blinked, noticing the similarities.
"Name's Jaune Arc," He introduced himself with a bow of his head. "And judging by how much complaining you guys are doing, your either new hunters who aren't jaded enough to attack other ones yet or you're those other Loopers that Goddess… Urel or Urd… She only stuck around to give a basic explanation before rushing off… Told me about." He mumbled waiving off that annoyance.
"We're the latter. Ranma Saotome," The red-head introduced herself and then pointed to Naruto. "And this is Naruto Uzumaki." The other blond waived with one of his blades. "So you're a newbie huh?"
"You also know more about this Loop right!?" Naruto butted in in hope and desperation.
"Right that." Ranma nodded.
Jaune chuckled and jumped down. "Yeah, I've been stuck here for awhile after sort of offing myself by jumping into a Grimm Well… Didn't expect it to try and mix with my Aura and take out half the planet… That was fun."
"You decided to off yourself and it ended up taking out half a planet…?" Ranma asked blinking. She had to admit, that was was a new level of FUBAR.
"Hey it was that or having what is basically my millenia old corrupted Grandma try to get me in bed with her... " Jaune said with a deadpan toned, both of them had to agree, death wasn't that bad of a choice. "But yeah, I think I'm close to escaping the dream. Maybe…" Jaune mumbled, it was hard to tell with this place.
"Hey you're a better guide than most around here." Naruto said with a shrug.
Ranma nodded. "Agreed, I say we follow you. Strength in numbers and all that."
With that the trio started their trip through the horrible world that was Yharnam.
Loop 4
"I will do what I must to maintain balance…" The God of Creation stated as he held his hand out.
Salem tried to protect him, she just got Ozma back, she couldn't lose him again!
"What is the meaning of this?" The ever deadpan tone from the Creation God as Ozma did not return to the afterlife as he intended. He tried putting more power in but still nothing. He looked to his brother. "What have you done? Why will he not return to the Afterlife?" He demanded, but he saw a confused look from his brother.
"I'm not sure.. I only brought him back, nothing more." The God of Destruction stated just as confused. At least till a voice rang out.
"Oh that was me." Everyone looked to the side, to see a blond man munching on a box of popcorn and sitting on one of the crystals that populated the God of Destructions world. It was the older visage of one Jaune Arc, no armor just a simple black hoodie and jeans. "See I was stopping you from doing something that just sends this world on track to a living hell for millennia since you guys can't get the whole being gods thing right." He said simply while taking another handful of Popcorn.
Creation took a more intense stance almost seeming like he was glaring at the man who dared to defy them. "And who are you to claim such a thing mortal, would you choose to earn my ire as this woman has." He gestured to Salem who was holding her Osma close in fear and confusion.
Jaune chuckled. "Tell me, god, do I look like a normal human to you?"
"Ye-"
"Brother, stop!" Destruction called out as Creation tried to make a move on Jaune. "Look at him closer, brother this is no ordinary mortal.. Though mortal he may be."
"What do you…" Creation looked at his brother in confusion before looking back and looking closer, only to step back.
Chains of ethereal light connected from the world around him back to the young man that sat before them, ones that could only be seen by those above the level of mortal. "You… What are? How can you have such a connection to this world?" He didn't understand what he was seeing.
"Not this world alone, this universe. Our time is broken and I'm an Anchor, cursed to keep repeating life till the timeline is fixed. It's been…. Millienna now." Jaune chuckled. "Fucking around and having fun with the timeline is about the only way I've stayed sane."
"You speak the truth... " Destruction stated looking at the man oddly. "And your time has led you to reach the next level and become like us? Why have you not? Surely it would help you to escape the Curse as you call it." He offered.
"Now you know the answer that that question." Jaune chuckled and shaking his head.
Creation, looking slightly less angry nodded. "Yes, the timeline and our universe would fade from existence. You stay because of that."
"Correct! But back to the main point." He stood up and headed towards Salem and Ozma, standing in front of them. "Leave the love birds alone for at least one life time and don't fuck up this world at least once."
"Anchor you may be… but That does not make you better than us." Destruction growled as he took his dragon form and unleashed the power of destruction upon them, he would simply remove the problem.
At least that's what he and his brother thought before a light broke past the stream of power revealing an ascended form of Jaune. Skin darkened with marking similar to Urd and her kind along with Four light wings behind him. It was a form that let him use godly power for a short amount of time, which he discovered by both training with Ranma and the Angel Whis. It turned out the people of Remnant's Semblances where more than just a power of their soul, but rather a partial tapping of the magic they once had before the destruction of the first incarnation of the people of Remnant. Since he discovered it, he named it Awakening. "You are nothing more than gods of a world, you are not the Almighty." His voice carried weight as the dragon backed away. "You have done enough for this world, leave it, or die." He held up his hand and one of the light wings formed into an energy sword.
To insure that they understood what other iterations of them had before this, he thrust the blade forward and blasted one of the wings from Destruction who called out in pain reverting back and holding his arm. "You are no threat to me, and I will not let you threaten this world any longer." He said calmly as Creation went to his brother to help him.
"Very well… We will leave, but the Grimm remain." Creation stated as both brothers left quickly, Jaune could clearly feel them no longer on the world.
"Huh," He reverted back. "They left the moon in tact this time, and no ones dead." He was a bit surprised, he expected them to be a bit more petty then that. Fear does funny things.
"Thank you…." Jaune turned hearing that, it was Salem crying as she held Ozma's hand tighty.
Jaune smiled to her. "Hey, I was just fulfilling the last wish of my grandma, she said to fix things if I ever got the chance."
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Loop 5
"Why are we doing this again?" Winter asked as she was keeping an eye on the controls, she wanted to insure they the made their way towards Tatooine.
Jaune sighed, he was happy to finally have someone to share the loops with like the others. He did, he really did, but Winter had a tendency to still hold a bit of a, "I outrank you" attitude even after so many loops together. "Cause Saotome wanted us to go pick up the baby Skywalker so that he doesn't go without learning how to use the force for too long."
Like many others in the loops they were part of the Grey Jedi order started after Ranma got kicked out of the Jedi order. The war was ended in much the same way that it usually was, Order 66 happened and all the clones, except for the ones that Naruto had made of Ranma's male and female form as a prank, turned on the Jedi Order, all but destroying it. The Fox jinchuuriki had been avoiding their home world Anima up until half way through the Clone Wars.
Turned out he was getting back at Ranma for a prank that was actually caused by Sakura, not Ranma. And the Pigtailed martial artist was not happy about the prank one bit.
"Yeah, but why us? I'm not a babysitter." She said with a crossing of her arms in an annoyed fashion.
"Didn't you basically help raise Weiss with that Butler guy? What was his name?"
"Klein, and that's different! She was family and cute." She glared at her Master, it really irked her she was still just a Knight under Jaune.
"Yeah yeah… I'm sure you'll change your tone once we get there." Jaune rolled his eyes.
Winter looked away, adjusting her jedi robes. "I doubt it…"
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Loop 5a
"Oh my god, he's so cute!" Winter said holding up the giggling baby Luke and twirling around with him.
Obi-Wan blinked at the sudden change in attitude from the normally calm and sotic Schnee before he looked to Jaune, the two had caught him before he got to Anakin's family to give Luke too. "Are you sure this is a good idea? I mean will he be safe?"
"Of course, the Emperor knows to fear the Grey, he's not dumb enough to come running into our sector of space. Hell Saotome alone could wipe out his empire in a flick of of his Pinky." Jaune said with a shrug, which Obi-wan agreed.
"Fine but still…" He paused as he watched Winter use the Force to get Luke higher in the air when she tossed him. "Are you really sure he'll be okay?"
"Relatively, I'm sure." Jaune chuckled watching her.
Loop 6
"Hey hey! Professor look!" Ruby called out as she was riding on the back of a Beowulf to take down other grimm in the section of Mount Glenn they where at.
Jaune looked up as he was called out too and chuckled. "Looking good Ruby, just be careful to not get too comfortable on there."
"Yes sir!" She giggled.
Jaune chuckled as he continued looking for an area where they could get into the hideout that had been made by Torchwick and the Black Fang.
It had been very odd at first, coming into this loop as not just some goofy looking teen blond boy, but rather as full adult, a rarity to say the least within his base loop. Add to that it turned out he was the second combat teacher, allowing Glynda do do more of her Vice Headmistress work instead of having to write lesson plans.
"Ranma warned me about loops like this…" Jaune mumbled as he cut down another couple of grimm that came close to him. Most were avoiding him due to the presence of his Aura. "But I swore he said a younger me would be here…"
Either way it didn't matter, he had to make sure that they stopped the train, yes this was just a recon mission, but he knew for a fact that wasn't going to play out that way.
Blake, who had landed nearby while fighting grimm, looked over to her professor a bit oddly. "Sir are you alright? You're talking to yourself." She paused to dodge a grimm strike before cutting it down.
"Of course, I like to talk to myself when I'm thinking. Helps me with ideas." He said with a simple shrug.
Blake gave her professor a look. "Sir… you know that could be a sign of you going crazy right?"
Jaune was testing a part of the road with his foot and some form of scanner. "I work as a professor at what's basically combat collage… You think I'm not?"
"I suppose that's fair…" Blake blinked. "Um what are you testing the road for exactly?"
"You'll see. Yang can you hit right here?" Jaune marked off a part of the road with an X by dragging his sword across it.
Yang paused in beating up an Ursa and looked to her professor oddly. "Um, why?"
"Just trust me. Everyone else over here please." Jaune said walking away as Yang shrugged and shot into the air.
Blake, Weiss, and Ruby made their way over just as she connected with the ground along with shooting off her Ember Celica. A moment after the impact and explosion Caused a massive crack to spread from her hand a good mile forward from her fist.
"Okay…" Weiss mumbled looking to Jaune with a raised eyebrow as Yang walked over to them grinning, she didn't know why she had to do that, but it was fun. "What did that do exactly, beyond damaging the road?"
Jaune simply was looking at his watch and counted down. "...3...2...1." He pointed towards that area as it started to rumble. The girls looked scared as even the grimm started to scatter before the section erupted with a cascading explosion that included debris from the underground city, what looked like train parts, and Black fang members…? "Good that was just over top of the train then." Jaune grinned at a job well done.
Team RWBY was looking between the destruction and their, now very clearly crazy, professor with a mixture of shock and awe.
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Loop 7
"What the hell were you thinking…?" Winter asked as she looked at the scene before her.
"What? It seemed like a good idea at the time." Jaune defended himself as both Winter and he jumped out of the way of a crashing Gypsy Danger.
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"Watch it you Dolt!" Weiss yelled at her copilot.
"Sorry, it's hard to keep track of the cliff." Ruby chuckled rubbing her head, making the robot do the same thing. "Did we land on anyone?"
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Back outside both Winter and Jaune were looking at a crushed Ironwood. "Still think this was a good idea, Arc?"
"Are you kidding? Even more worth it now." Jaune grinned. He still hadn't forgiven the old man for always acting before asking questions, which lead to him dying early more often than not.
"I'm sure it was no one important." Weiss said simply. "Now get us up!"
"Right! We have a dragon to fight!" Ruby grinned as they stood the robot up and got back to fighting the Wyrm Grimm.
"Where did Jaune even get this thing…?" Weiss mumbled but focused on the fight.
Loop 8
Blake was sitting with stars in her eyes as she held onto her Ninja's in Love book. She was so starstruck right now she didn't even react when Jaune was snapping his fingers just in front of her.
"I think we lost her, Weiss…" He said pulling his hand back and giving a slight chuckle. Much like the two next to him, he'd taken the place of a member of team 7, who just got their team assignment, and was currently wearing Naruto's outfit. That was something that wouldn't last long. He had no problem with Orange, he just liked more blue or black with a darker orange. Blake, who still hadn't budged, was wearing Sasuke's outfit thus being the current last uchiha in the hidden leaf.
Weiss glared at him, sitting in Sakura's outfit. "Are you going to explain." She more demanded than asked.
"What?" Jaune asked while reaching into his coat for some Yen, he had a stash somewhere in his subspace pocket from the last time he was here. "That red really isn't your color?"
Weiss held herself back from hitting him but the glare intensified. "No you idiot! Why are we here? This is some manga that Blake likes to read. It's not real!" She growled. "And I'm so not pinning for Blake!" Weiss blushed, only for it to get even deeper when Jaune gave her a look that said 'bullshit.'
"Right, well going into it would take a long time. Though if Team 7 is the only one that got replaced, I might have enough time to tell you. But point is that we've replaced them and we're gonna be here awhile, so get used to it."
Weiss was about to protest when Blake jumped for joy. "Yes! So many things to do and learn! Oh maybe I can get the Sharingan!" She got close to Jaune who backed up a bit from the sudden closeness. "Do you have Kurama? Oh oh is he nice?"
"Uh, no… Kurama is always with Naruto." At least he had his awakening form to make up for when the God level shit started flying.
The white haired girl sighed as she just decided to roll with it. At least she knew for a fact she wasn't going to be as bad as Sakura… Even if Blake did look cute in that outfit…