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.

Just as a note, the loops aren't in any form of Chronological order. These are random throughout Jaune's Timeline within the loops.

Special thanks in this Loop to my friend Leviathantamer for not only betaing for me but also helping out with ideas!

Loop 1

The calm morning light gently flowed into the room of one Team RWBY. Three having the most restful sleep they'd probably had in a long time, certainly since this whole time looping thing happened. Or Beats as Ruby and Weiss insisted on calling them. Regardless, they were enjoying the sleep.

"Guys you have to wake up now!"

Or rather they were, until their excitable leader began yelling and shaking each of them at high speed intervals.

"Ugh! Ruby, five more minutes!" Weiss grumbled turning away from the shorter girl and covering her head in her covers.

Ruby persisted. "You don't get it! We woke up late!" She yelled.

"Ngn…. It's only 6 am… On Saturday, Ruby…" Blake groaned as she was shaken awake again.

"No, late in the timeline!" She yelled, hands in the air.

Yang, knowing her sister wasn't going to give up, sat up in her bed rubbing her eyes. "What do you mean, Ruby…?" She asked before giving a deep yawn.

"It's AFTER the Vital Festival!"

That caused them to all sit up quickly before Weiss spoke up. "There's no way we would be at Beacon if that was the case…" She looked at Ruby a bit incredulously.

"I know! That's the weird part, but it is! See?" She quickly held up a calendar to them all.

They all got a bit closer and started looking at it, waiting for it to come into focus for their eyes. Sure enough, it was exactly a week after the Vital Festival would have concluded.

"What? But then how are we…?" Blake tried to form a good question.

"I don't know!" Ruby yelled.

With a glance, the four decided it was time to start a search for information.

A good hour later, after they had decided to divide into two separate groups to gather information, they all met back up in the courtyard of Beacon. None of them looked any more confident with what was going on, than they had an hour ago.

"Okay…" Blake said as she and Yang got to them. "We went around the school a bit, to ask what happened. No one really knew about any attack and well…" She trailed off, looking a bit flustered.

"What?" Weiss pressed.

Yang took over. "We ran into Professor Goodwitch, and she was a bit sarcastic in her answering our questions." She stated simply, not as flustered as Blake. "But she did give us some information on why the school was still standing." She paused for a second and brought out her scroll to show an article. "Apparently, Torchwick and Neo turned on Cinder about half way through her entering Vale."

Ruby took the article and started reading it, with Weiss over her shoulder doing much the same. The article explained that in return for a pardon on some of his crimes within the city. Torchwick had turned over information on Cinder's activities to the Authorities and Ozpin. In return he was let go. "Are you kidding me, they let him walk!?"

"Well I mean he turned over valuable information, so I guess that makes sense…" Weiss said, not confidently, but continued reading. "And this explains part of our find." She pointed out.

"Huh?" Was the collective response before they read the part Weiss was pointing too.

This section spoke of one of the two teens that had been working with Cinder, had been admitted to Beacon as part of an agreement between an unnamed party and the Headmaster.

"That's why Emerald is here; I guess that makes more sense." Ruby mumbled after reading that.

"Wait, she's what!?" Yang yelled a bit, pulling back her scroll.

Ruby nodded. "Yeah, that's what we found. She's actually on team JNPR now… Or I mean PNRE…" She corrected.

"Wait, is Jaune not here?" Blake asked.

Weiss shook her head. "No, they didn't know who Jaune was. Well, Emerald acted a bit funny when we mentioned him, but beyond that they didn't seem aware of him."

"Or Synched." Ruby added.

After a moment of processing, Yang finally spoke up. "Okay, so now we know what happened, but now we need the why." She said with a sigh.

"Then there is only one person who can give us that…" Blake said simply, as the others nodded in understanding.

Roman sighed as the door to his current hide out was blown in and Neo tossed through it. "As if I don't have enough problems…" he grumbled, turning to the source of his current ire. "Little Red and friends… To what do I owe this displeasure?" He asked in a condescending tone, as Neo peeled herself off of the ground in a huff.

Ruby held out Crescent Rose towards him with a glare. "We want information." She demanded.

"Great." He rolled his only visible eye. "On what and why should I even give it to you?"

Yang came forward a bit, cocking Ember Celica and striking a fighting pose. "On the real reason you betrayed Cinder, And-"

Blake glared drawing her double blade form of Gambol Shroud. "And! If you don't, we'll turn you into the cops."

Torchwick laughed at that. "On what charges, I got pardoned, remember?" He leaned forward and poked his head with a grin. "In technicality, I haven't done anything arrestable within Vale, yet."

The four girls flinched, he had them there.

"But, if you promise to leave me alone. I can point you in the right direction." He said simply, an untrustworthy grin spreading across his face.

The four shared a look.

They walked into Junior's Club, with two very embarrassed team members. Weiss and Blake looked around the place, both near red in the face. "We can't seriously be doing this…?" Said heiress mumbled.

"Seriously… We can't really trust Torchwick of all people…" Blake grumbled as she was practically being dragged by Yang.

"Cause we got nothing to lose." Ruby grinned as they made their way up to the bar.

Junior, who was in his usual spot, cleaning a glass like always; sighed seeing them coming this way. "What now Blondie…?" he asked, glaring directly at Yang.

"Come on now Junior! Don't be like that." Yang grinned as she came right up to the bar and, doing what Torchwick said, knocked on it five times. "We're just looking for a tall glass of milk on the rocks." She grinned.

The black haired gentleman paused for a moment, looked them all over, and nodded. "Through there." He motioned to the Employees Only door behind the bar with his head.

The four girls, two not believing that worked, followed suit and went through the door. It led into a long stairway going down, which they followed a bit warily. Once they reached the bottom, they reached a new door and Yang knocked.

A long moment passed before the door opened, revealing a confused looking Winter. "What are you girls doing here?" She asked, wearing flattering business like attire and looking a bit surprised.

"What are we doing here…?" Weiss asked, looking shocked. "Why are you here and not with the Atlas Military?"

"Military… I haven't been with…" Winter paused and blinked. "Oh, you're awake now." She said with a long sigh. As far as she knew, until yesterday, Weiss thought that Winter was working for SDC. Clearly this was a Looping Weiss. Well the SDC work was merely to let her work on pulling some strings behind the scenes to get the company under control. And running it's Black Market Dealings, but Weiss wouldn't know that. Awake or not.

"Awake…?" Weiss asked a bit unsure, before it clicked in her mind. "Wait, you're Syncing now!?" She yelled in shock. Causing Winter to raise an eyebrow.

"Just come in, I don't even know how you got the info to get here." She shook her head.

Before any of the girls could reply, a new voice rang out from the back, familiar. "They probably went for Torchwick after Glynda showed them the article on his betrayal of Cinder. She gave me a heads up that they may be coming."

As soon as Winter moved out of the way, the four girls' eyes widened. "JAUNE!?" was their collective response.

Sure enough, sitting across from the door on a rather plush couch in this very fancy looking room, was one Jaune Arc. He was dressed in a fancy black suit with a golden undershirt and dark blue tie. There was one other in the room with them at the time as well. One that Blake recognized far more than the others. A young dark skinned Tiger faunus woman sat within the room, dressed in a tight red cocktail dress, wearing a feather boa over her shoulders, and seemed to be smoking from a long cigarette holder.

"S-Sienna?" Blake sputtered out as said woman smirked at her.

"Hello, lil Princess. Been having fun in Vale?" She asked before taking a long drag from the cigarette and blowing it out slowly.

"I…" She tried to process what was going on. "Why are you here? Don't tell me that you were endorsing the attack on Vale…?"

"Pff, hardly." She said, shaking her head. "I've taken the White Fang in a different direction. And Adam's little Splinter Cell has been dealt with." She explained simply.

"Um, then… What is going on here?" Yang asked, still unsure of, well everything.

"Well Yang." Jaune stood up smoothing out his suit jacket and putting his hands in his pockets. "You've stumbled into a meeting of Remnant's Top Crime Bosses." Jaune grinned as all four girls' eyes shot wide.

"Okay… Let me get this straight…" Weiss started, after hearing the explanation from the three on what was going on. "You two" she points to Winter and Sienna, "are from Eon Jaune's universe." She watches as they both nod.

"Why call him Eon again?" Sienna asked with a raised eyebrow.

Yang answered for Weiss. "Cause when we first met him, he said he was a couple Eons old compared to our Jaune."

"Exactly." Weiss stated. "But back on subject. The three of you woke up here early, didn't know that you were in an alternate reality version of your normal loop, and decided to become crime bosses?"

Jaune leaned back, swirling a drink in his hand. "That would be it about it." Jaune nodded.

"Why though?" Ruby asked, still very confused and not happy about this at all.

"Cause Jaune has done it a few times, and I wanted in on it for once." Sienna stated. "Plus it was surprisingly easy to turn things around with the White Fang, baring that dumbass Adam, into a massive crime syndicate." Turned out that most of the organization preferred profit over terrorism.

"How come I don't remember this?" Blake asked. Once Weiss focused on it a bit, she did remember that Winter was part of the SDC this time around. "I mean, if you made that kind of change, I'd think I would have noticed…?"

Winter shook her head. "Probably not. From what reports I got and confirmation from Sienna." Said tiger faunas nodded in response. "He basically kept the group under him in the dark to the change, continuing to act on his own."

"The man was very charismatic, so it did make sense for him to be able to pull it off." Sienna stated simply. "I was only able to get through to those under his command once they started operating here in Vale, under Cinder."

Jaune chimed in. "Since they stepped into my main territory, it was easy enough to set up… Clarification meetings." He said a bit cryptically.

"Meaning…?" Yang motioned.

"Jaune found where they were meeting, through Roman, and he and I proceeded to beat the hell out of all of them." Sienna grinned maliciously, her eyes slitting for a moment from the memory. "And a lovely bit of catharsis when I ran Adam through with my Chain Whip."

The four gulped seeing that.

Loop 2

The group followed Ironwood, Winter, and Penny to his office after being freed from the cuffs. "It is so good to see all of you." He said genuinely as they stepped in. Only to stop confused by the fact that all of them were staring forwards stunned about something. "What? What is i-" He paused as he looked towards his desk.

"Got any threes?"

"Go fish."

There sitting on his desk, one currently grumbling as he picked up a card from the deck, were a pair of blonds.

A young male and a young looking older female.

They seemed to be playing on the stomach of a very familiar redhead who was wearing a crop top and shorts as she hung her head off of the front of Ironwood's desk. "Jaune... how long until they show up again?" The redhead asked, half-whining.

She was being their playing field purely out of boredom right now. They'd been here for at least an hour.

"You get bored so easily these day's Pyrrha, why is that?" Salem asked as she looked to Jaune. "Got any queens?"

"You have to be cheating... somehow." Jaune grumbled as he handed two over and watched as a beaming Salem placed a new book down, keeping her score on Pyrrha's chest.

Yang leaned over to Weiss. "Am I seeing things correctly...?"

"Because I'm not even training, or really doing anything." Pyrrha said with a sigh, before finally opening her eyes. "Oh... umm... they're here." She said and blushed as she realized what the scene looked like. "Umm... hello again..." She said sheepishly.

Ruby just looked absolutely shocked and possibly on the verge of tears. "Pyrrha? Jaune? And..." She paused for a moment before the realization finally hit her. "...SALEM?!"

"Salem!?" Ironwood yelled, immediately going for his gun.

"Oh calm down, she's fine." Jaune said as he was trying to think on which card to ask for. "I purified her like three days ago. What took you guys so long to get here? Got any Jacks?"

"Yes, it's been quite boring waiting for you all to arrive." Salem said, as she handed over a Jack to Jaune. "So much in fact that he decided to rescue Pyrrha as well."

"You... purified her?" Ruby asked, absolutely bewildered by the concept.

Weiss had stopped being bewildered and instead moved straight on to being done with all of this. "Alright, this is going to need at least an hour to explain."

"Eh, that's shorter than usual." He shrugged.

Salem giggled. "Yes, usually it's at least a full day." She grinned having collected another book, much to Jaune's annoyance.

"Hold on... What is all this?" Ironwood said as he looked at them, noting Winter wasn't reacting like the rest of them. "Schnee, is everything okay...?"

"No." She grumbled walking over and smacking Jaune on the head.

"Ow!"

"I told you not to run off and do that without me this time! I wanted to see the new process!" She growled at him.

Now this scene had broken the minds of everybody else other than possibly Ironwood. Seeing Jaune and Pyrrha and Salem acting weird was one thing. Two of them had been missing for months, the other was someone they thought would be their enemy.

But Winter? Winter was with them the whole time! When did something like this happen?

Ironwood wasn't doing much better as the scene played out.

"You really didn't miss much, he just used that sword thing to perform the ritual and cleanse the Grimm corruption." She said while pulling from the deck.

Winter blinked. "Sword thing? You mean the Zanpakto, it can do that?" She looked at Jaune in shock.

Said blond was still rubbing his head. "Yes, I was just as surprised as you. It's supposed to be a soul cleansing ritual though, so I guess it makes sense."

"I'm honestly surprised that it worked at all with how much gunk came flying out of her skin. We nearly drowned in it." Pyrrha said, taking care not to disturb the game of Go Fish.

"I'll thank you not to mention that again." She grumbled. "It wasn't pleasant..."

Winter blinked. "Wait what?"

"The Grimm goo came flying out of her pours, it wasn't a pretty sight." Jaune answered as he completed a book and set it on Pyrrha's stomach.

Pyrrha was about to talk and got half of a syllable out before Ironwood metaphorically put his foot down. "Alright, I apologize for interrupting. But what in the world is going on right now?"

Pyrrha raised her head to look at him. "We're playing a game of Go Fish, what does it look like?"

"Seriously General, it's fairly obvious what they're doing." Winter nodded.

"Well to be specific, I'm winning at Go Fish." Salem grinned.

"You're cheating with magic!" Jaune accused her.

Salem shrugged. "You can't prove that."

Loop 3

Jaune first awakened in this crazy ass world little more than three days ago when he was staring down the maw of some insane demon girl. Unsurprisingly when he awakened he managed to save his life and send her scampering for the hills, but this place was still something to behold.

He had... literally no knowledge about this place called Gensokyo, not even from his incarnation who was here. He was just some college boy who suddenly got pulled into another dimension where little more than three steps in and he was almost eaten.

Since then he's managed to learn that he was now in a place called `Gensokyo'. Kind of like what would happen if Japanese Yokai and Kami got their own Nature Preserve, complete with an inter-dimensional barrier that was sturdy enough to make any engineer working on Ygdrassil blush.

The place was strange, it was like it was permanently locked to Traditional Japanese eras, but it also had its own internet and internal plumbing. The tech was schizo everywhere and he was pretty sure he saw a Victorian style mansion on an island in the lake.

"The hell did I do to end up in this kind of FUBAR..." he sighed while continuing to wander around the place. He was sure it wasn't due to what he pulled a few loops back, it wasn't enough to warrant this. "Meh I'll just blame Saotome like everyone else." He shrugged.

As he was wandering, he eventually found himself... actually kind of lost in a bamboo forest. There was a bit of an eerie mist around him. The ground was completely flat, there weren't any landmarks nearby, and the bamboo was sprouting, withering, and re-sprouting before his very eyes.

"This place is just too weird..." he grumbled.

As he kept wandering, he eventually saw something going on, he heard it first. Combat of some kind. When he finally reached it however, he saw two teenage girls absolutely brutally going at each other. The dark haired girl had lasers on her side, while a white haired girl was throwing flames all around the place.

"So, is this how you relieve boredom around here!?" He called out to them.

They stopped, both girls looking pretty badly wounded. The white haired girl was the first one to respond. "Normally they're not this bad. Spell Card duels are a lot safer. We're just immortal, so we can go all out." She calls back.

"Sounds masochistic, but alright." He said a bit stunned by that response. "Why not find something else to do other than beat each other?"

"We both already went through our insanity phases of immortality." The black haired girl responded. "When we found each other again after about a thousand years, we decided to refuel our old feud and kill each other again and again. It's better than sitting around, twiddling our thumbs, and waiting for the sun to die out."

"Yeah, this is pretty much a daily thing we do." The white haired girl said. "Are you lost?"

"Kinda, was sucked in here by some vortex or whatever." He rubbed his head.

"Well, I meant more in this forest." The white haired girl said. "The name's Mokou, I run a Yakitori stand in this forest, I'm also its guide to help lost humans get out of here or to the Eientei Mansion." Mokou explains.

Kaguya offers her hand, covered in third degree burns as it was. "My name is Kaguya, I'm the princess of Eientei Estate." She states "And that vortex sounds like the work of Yukari, she's one of the few who could open a whole in the barrier. She usually does so to help keep the human population alive if the Yokai get too active and not enough hunters take them out."

He lightly shook her hand, trying to keep the dead skin off of his hand. "Don't know why she would grab me then, I don't think I'd be in any danger."

"Could be that either she's hoping you survived the journey to a village and got to making more humans, or that you'd be a strong Yokai Hunter." Mokou offered as a theory.

"She's also a huge trickster too. So for all we know, she did it for her own giggles" Kaguya says with a sigh. "But there's not much that we can do about it. Might as well find something to do here, very very few can freely pass through that barrier."

"Knowing my luck it's probably that last one..." he mumbled. "Well then, let's see about this barrier." He said simply as he called up his computer to start running dimensional scans.

The computer easily picked up on the barrier. It was absolutely huge, able to cover the size of roughly a continent. It was also damn near impenetrable from what his scans could pick up. So many layers upon layers of defense, it was actually starting to lag his computer trying to analyze it all.

He could identify two primary sources of the barrier.

"Reimu Hakurei"

"Yukari Yakumo"

"So the source is actual beings... let's see..." he started scanning for weak points.

He found... none. Or at least nothing that could be defined as a 'proper' weak point. The difference between the average layer of defenses and a weakened layer was about 100,000 layers of individual defenses. Not even close to half...

"Are you... looking for a way out?" Kaguya asked

"More or less. It is impressive to say the least." He said reaching out and tapping the air, watching as it rippled a bit. "It's certainly a strong barrier, from the looks of it has a few intentional weak points, but nothing that can be directly exploited. I am curious though..."

"Curious about what?" Mokou asked, trying to peek at the screen.

He placed his full hand out as space rippled and his form became coated in destruction ki, which he focused into the wall itself.

The Ki tore its way through a good few hundred layers of defense before being caught by one of the layers and dispersed as the layers regenerated. A defensive layer against Destruction. And behind that layer were a few hundred thousand more.

"If you want to get out, you could try heading to Old Hell. I think that one of the Oni from an Incident a while ago made a hole in the barrier." Mokou recalled.

"There's also Suwako and Kanako's Shrine." Kaguya pointed out.

"Oh yeah, they didn't move to Gensokyo till pretty recently, didn't they?" Mokou realized.

"I could, though I was more curious if that would even work." He said honestly as he pulled his hand back.

"Yeah, that thing is proofed against every trick any God or Demon or Mortal could muster." Mokou said with a nod.

"Even the Lunarians with our tech can't just break in or out without permission." Kaguya said

"I see, so which way yo Old Hell?" He asked as he willed away his screen.

"Follow me." Mokou said and looked to Kaguya. "We'll finish our fight later, mangy rabbit." She spat.

Kaguya returned a similar insult as Mokou began leading Jaune out of the Bamboo Forest of the Lost, and across Gensokyo before pointing him towards a forest at the base of a mountain. "In here you'll encounter a Demon Cat. Just knock some sense into her and she'll guide you to the entrance to Old Hell."

"Right, another day, another crazy cat girl." He sighed, shaking his head. Ever since Blake found out his mom was the one writing the Ninjas in Love series... She never left him alone about it.

As he entered the forest, things were starting to get pretty dark when he heard a girl singing and the sound of a wheelbarrow. She was singing... about bringing Corpses down to hell, intermingling a one-sided conversation between verses as though she were speaking to someone.

Finally she came into view, it was indeed a catgirl and her wheelbarrow did indeed have a corpse in it.

"Well aren't you..." he paused. "Something."

"Nya! A human? Ooh, you'd make a nice corpse, wouldn't you?" She asked upon realizing he was there. "I could always use another corpse for my wheelbarrow, wanna join my current guest?" She asked cheerfully.

"Not today, I'm looking for the entrance to Old Hell. Need to talk to an Oni that tore a hole in the barrier." He said, not seeming worried in the slightest.

"You're looking for Kasen? Oooh, that's scary. You'd be much better off as a corpse than trying to find her." The Demon Cat said as she got into a pouncing position. "Why don't I-" She launched herself at Jaune and never got to finish her sentence.

That was due to a foot firmly pressed into her face and then kicking her off to ragdoll across the ground for a second. "Yeah no, just show me the way."

She picked herself up off the ground fairly easily. "Nyaaa~ Meanie! Fine, I'll take you to Old Hell, but you'll have to find Kasen on your own from there. I don't meet the Onis too often." The Demon Cat said with a pout as she went back to her wheelbarrow and started pushing it in the direction of Old Hell.

"That's all I ask." He said following her.

Hell was... oddly cold and pretty much abandoned. Entire city streets were empty, even the odd Yokai was pretty much missing. It was at this point that the Demon Cat started to turn around. "Well, I took you as far as I usually go. Good luck finding Kasen." she said as she ran away.

"Great, that's so helpful..." he grumbled and called up his computer again to start scanning for other worldly beings nearby. Focusing it mostly on demon energy of course.

There weren't a lot, but he did find one. It was actually in this same city.

He started heading towards that.

When he got close enough, he saw her easily enough. She was a tall woman drinking out of a rather wide and flat sake dish, just hanging out on one of the roofs of an abandoned temple.

She was wearing a white shirt with a blue pleated skirt with red trimmings that went down to her knees. On her forehead was a long and straight red horn with a star on it.

She looked up from her drinking and raised an eyebrow. "A human? This deep in Old Hell?" She asked.

Jaune shrugged as he approached. "I'm a weird one and looking for a way back to the human world. Was told you might be my best bet." He said simply.

The Oni chuckled at that. "You got the wrong Oni then." She said with a lighthearted smile. "But I do know who you're talking about. You're looking for Kasen Ibaraki, I'm Yuugi Hoshiguma."

Yuugi leapt off of the building and into the courtyard. "I'll get you to her, but I want to have some fun. If you made it all this way, you must be strong, and I love a good honest fight." She said.

Jaune blinked and shrugged. "Why not, I don't have anything better to do."

"Sweet." Yuugi said only to pause and consider something. "Which one of us should attack first?" She asked

"Is there a rule about attacking first? I'm new here, remember." Jaune blinked, this wasn't going to be a normal fight.

"Oh no, not in a Danmaku fight. I don't paint you as much of a Danmaku Fighter right now." She said, "It's more... I want a good fight, and I don't know how much strength I should use against you. But at the same time, I don't know your strength either and you strike me as someone who's stronger than they look."

"You wouldn't be wrong. You go first, that way if I just die you wouldn't have wasted so much time." Jaune offered, something he learned from the One Punch verse.

Even the Loopers couldn't beat Saitama... And it bothered Ranma to absolutely no end that he couldn't beat the Caped Baldy.

"Alright... are you immortal? Because you're acting like one." Yuugi said, sounding a bit unsure. But if he was confident like that... then she'd go all out at least for one hit.

She surged forward, her balance keeping the Sake Dish from spilling even a single drop as she struck Jaune with enough force to shatter a mountain and fracture a continental plate.

Jaune took the punch to the face and didn't move an inch, the most it did was left a red mark on his cheek. "Nah, not Immortal, just old as hell and end up having a lot of time on my hands." He said simply, adjusting his jaw a bit.

Yuugi blinked as she took a step back. No one in Gensokyo aside from some of her fellow Oni could tank a hit like that with no special powers to lessen the blow.

Jaune was suddenly on her in a flash. "Let's see how much you can take." He brought forward a cocked back fist, coated in Aura and Ki.

When the fist connected, she didn't budge much either. But something did happen.

She dropped her Sake Dish.

As his fist retracted, he found a smile on her face. "Oh, I like you. If I were still into humans, I would've been tempted to Challenge you." She said as she wiped her cheek. "But I'm not even sure I'd win. Let's do this." Yuugi said with a tone of excitement.

The air around her changed, it felt strange and Jaune couldn't place what it felt like. Then her fist came at him so fast, it somehow struck him 10 seconds ago. "I'm a wielder of the Impossible, my feats of strength can defy Logic. Come at me with everything you've got, Strange Human."

Rubbing his cheek and chuckling. "Sure, this could be fun." He grinned before he burst into his Awakening form.

Loop 4

"Look, Luke. If you wanna sit around while another tyrannical regime is taking root, then you can go ahead and drink that weird milk. I'm going to be productive with an eager new disciple." Jaune said while holding onto a confused Rey by the scruff of her shirt.

Rey was absolutely confused about what was going on. One moment she was trying to plead the Luke Skywalker into training her. Next, this blonde man showed up out of nowhere and was holding her like she was some kind of kitten.

Luke just looked at the new arrival and put his face in his hands. When he finally looked up he just asked. "How many of you are there?! I thought I saw you get blasted by a 50-man Death Squad, and before that there was the time where you took a Proton Torpedo to save us, and before even that you were apparently fighting both alongside and against my father in the Clone Wars!"

"Ah good times, I miss lil Snips..." he grinned remembering the young Toguta fondly, sassy little shit that one. "And just one of me, I'm very good at surviving if I want too. Now than, any other objections? Honestly she'd make a far better Grey Jedi than normal one." He said honestly.

"The Gray Jedi? You're still going on about that?" Luke asked "The order that never existed and the only examples that you can list are just unorthodox Jedi?" He asked again just for confirmation. Indeed, none of the Jaunes ever lived long enough to establish their own order.

"The Gray Jedi, who're those?" Rey asked, having given up on being released a little while ago. This man had arms like durasteel.

Jaune sighed as he squeezed his nose. "This is why I tell Ranma just hanging out on Anima isn't good for PR." He sighed. "Sure Palpi knew enough about us to fear us, but that hardly spreads word..." he mumbled and then looked back to Rey. "We're Jedi that utilizes both sides of the force, keeping them balanced within ourselves."

"Wait, there are more of you? Where?" Luke asked, now more perplexed than he was grieving about his past mistakes.

"Well now I'm interested." Rey said. "Maybe he's got something to show for it if his order really is still around."

"Oh no, don't you go encouraging him. This man almost got me wanted by the New Republic in 15 Sectors." Luke said, standing up and marching right over full of vigor through spite. "Plus, I doubt that he even knows half the things I do."

"Hey that was one time! And if I recall, you were the one eager to learn how to transform things via the force." He defended himself. "How was I supposed to know you'd go and rust half a sector of Coruscant! And of course there's more of us, wouldn't be much of an order with just one guy."

"Well, that settles it. Looks like I'm training with them." Rey said with a shrug as she was still just hanging there.

"Oh no, no, no, no. If you're going to train with them, I'm coming with you." Luke said defiantly. "I may have had one bad apple, but they're a whole tree of caramel apples. Someone needs to be around to keep things relatively stable."

"Right, says the guy that can't keep his own nephew in line." Jaune quipped as he turned around to head back to his ship while setting down Rey. "Give the old man his lightsaber back, we'll stop by the Kybercrystal reserve on Anima and get you a more fitting one." He said simply.

Rey got ready to do so, but the lightsaber practically hopped out of her grip and into his. "I'm not saying you're bad teachers, I'm saying that you're very detached ones. Almost more concerned by the shenanigans you can and have caused than with those around you." Luke defended himself.

"Hah, you're in for a surprise then." Jaune grinned as his ship opened and showed a very annoyed looking white haired woman in Jedi robes was standing at the top of the platform.

"What took so long, I don't want to miss Weiss's knighting ceremony." She grumbled while tapping a foot.

"You won't Winter, they need all the Masters present to even do the Ceremony. Kind of hard with the two of us here." He grinned as he boarded.

"Then they better have done some serious reconstruction of the rules and teachings." Luke said skeptically as he boarded as well. Now kind of regretting destroying his old X-Wing. "After all apparently the only living example I had for a while was you, and you're hardly the model of responsibility." He said, addressed to Jaune.

Rey however was a bit more awed at the fact that she was apparently now in the presence of three Jedi Masters.

"He's still being skeptic?" Winter asked as she went to the cockpit.

Jaune shrugged. "He is Anikan's kid, so he's got a hard head. Set course for home, but we'll be stopping by the Kybercrystal Vault, need to get Rey her own saber first."

"Right right, just don't take to long, or Saotome may come looking for us." She said simply while prepping for take off.

"Yeah yeah." He waived off while going to get parts for a pole saber.

Loop 5

The group stood stock still as the form of Salem had formed within the office of General Ironwood, a ghostly form that was only meant to be a message to them. One to bring despair.

"The courageous Huntsmen have defeated Watts... Well done." She spoke with an air of superiority to her tone as she looked down on them.

"And we beat Tyrian." Ruby said as she stepped forward defiantly. "We'll also beat Cinder and any others you send."

Salem actually smirked at that. "Dear girl, their goal was not victory..."

"Then what was it?" Ironwood asked, his tone faltering only slightly as fear and paranoia was taking him slowly. That feeling grew as Salem turned on him.

"To prepare for my coming..." She said simply, the gashes form slightly wavering to remind them this was only an image of her, for now. "The people of Atlas are suffering; give me the Relic of Creation and they will not suffer any longer. It is as simple as that." She held out a hand to him, knowing he would give her what she wants.

Ironwood paused, seemingly weighing his options as best he could in the situation, but before he could answer.

SLAM!

Everyone's heads quickly turned to see the door kicked in by a familiar blond knight, who blinked. The first to recover from the sudden shock was Marrow. "Jaune? What are you doing here?"

"Oh, did I interrupt something?" he asked as guns were trained on him from the other Special Ops members, not that he minded as he walked in and looked up. "Oh, you're talking to Grandma, it must be important. Did Tyrian ever give you that gift I asked him to drop off?" He asked as he made his way over to Ironwood's desk and took a seat with his feet resting on said desk.

She looked at him oddly. "Who are you? And what did you just call me?" She held a slight bit of anger in the last question.

"So that's a no then, darn." He looked amusingly annoyed. "And here I thought he could be trusted to do the easiest of jobs. Though since he couldn't even kill a little girl, I guess I shouldn't be surprised. So, what's up, what'd I miss?"

Yang growled, though if it was because of the way he was acting or bringing up Ruby's near death with no seeming worry, it was hard to tell. "She's demanding the Relic of Creation for Atlas's safety."

"You mean this one?" Jaune asked as he pulled the staff from seemingly nowhere as everyone's, including Salem's, eyes went wide.

"How did you get that!?" James demanded, only the Winter Maiden could something have happened when Winter went to gain the Maiden's powers from Fria?

"That's not important right now." Jaune said simply as he twirled the Staff around. "Oh, and don't worry about the city falling. I replaced the Relic with a much more reliable power source." He waived off that little tidbit as well before looking back to Salem. "So, this is what you want right, Granny?" He smirked wiggling it a bit before her image that had drawn closer, going so far as to swipe it through the smoky form a few times.

"Yes." She said with a cruel smile, she had not expected to find someone willing to turn on them in this way, but she wasn't about to look a gift horse in the mouth. "Will you hand it over?"

As Jaune seemed to be mulling things over, twirling the staff every now and then, the room grew tense. Team RWBY trying to reason within their minds that Jaune couldn't be betraying them, he wouldn't. The Atlas Operatives waiting for the kill order from Ironwood, as the man himself was stunned by the situation.

"Hmmmmmm..." Jaune thought for a bit longer before." Nah." He grinned as his grip tightened on the staff and cracks started forming in its golden shaft.

Salem's eyes shot wide as she tried to act. "NO!" Her form shooting towards him quickly as the others watched in shock as the staff began to glow before breaking and sending out a shockwave that disbursed Salem's form, shattered the windows of the office, and knocked all but Jaune over.

Jaune stood from the desk, dusting the remains of the relic from his hands and started walking around to leave. "Well that should do it, I'm sure she'll be gunning for me now." He said simply as he pulled out his scroll.

"What did you just d-" Weiss had stood up to yell at him before he held up a finger to make her pause.

"Shh, I'm on the phone." He said while waiting for the person he called to pick up. Weiss looked about ready to talk again as Jaune spoke. "Yeah, done on my side Winter, she's gonna be pissed after destroying the Relic of Creation... Yeah... Uh uh..." He paused to listen for a bit as the others couldn't believe what they were hearing. "Yeah no, the Basilisk idea botched... Tyrian probably tossed the egg somewhere..." He sighed before getting angry. "No, I can't just get a new one! Do you know what it cost me to get Harry to give me one the first time? I'm not joining his cult religion thing again, took forever to get all the Cat fur off me..." He paused again to sigh and shiver, the church of Bast was not a pleasant memory. He snapped back when he heard Winter yelling at him. "Huh? Yeah, still here. Anyway, make sure to start targeting the rendezvous spot now, she should be making the whale go faster after that. Just make sure you don't miss and hit the planet yeah? I got a nice casino going in Vacuo I want to enjoy for a bit."

With that he left the stunned room behind, all trying to even start processing what just happened.

"Pff, don't miss he says..." Winter grumbled as she hung up and went back to setting up the targeting systems. "Gives me one of Palpatine's super Star Destroyer ships with the planet killing lasers... And warns me not to miss. No shit." From her position in orbit the gun was trained on the exact spot a giant whale grimm should be coming from. "Will this even kill her? I guess it's not from Remnant... Whatever, at least I'm not on the planet for this one."

Loop 6

"No!" Winter shot up in a start, breathing heavily and a hand stretched out. She felt a cold sweat as she noticed her surroundings, "What... These are my private quarters... At the..." Her eyes widened. She was back at the academy, but how? Atlas Academy had been destroyed over six months ago when Salem had attacked Atlas. She couldn't be here. This must be a- "Ow!" She grumbled having cut off her own thoughts when she pinched and pulled her cheek and rubbed the spot. "No, I'm not dreaming..." She mumbled looking around.

Everything was the same as she usually left it. The room kept clean and proper, the way a Special Agent was supposed to keep things. "But how? I don't understand..." She got out of bed and went to her vanity. When she looked in, she paused, eyes wide once more at the sight she saw. A few pokes and a couple prods at her own face and she could easily tell. "I'm... Younger?"

The feeling was subtle, as well as the sight. The past 3 years had been hard on her, hard on everyone after things started at Vale. While it wasn't obvious to others, she could certainly see the aging that everything had done to her. Slight greying of her white hair, figure that one out, gone, the wrinkles that showed prematurely, and most obvious, her scars were gone.

They had always been somewhat unnoticeable as well, but she remembered the damage done to her. The fight with Cinder to defend Fria, Penny getting the Maiden powers instead of her as planned, nearly losing Weiss completely due to her own thoughts and actions at the time...

"Weiss!" Her head shot up as she rushed to her scroll. Her last memory of Weiss was just before waking up. Some white light spreading across the world, people disappearing into it and trying to rescue her sister from it.

Was she okay, was her team!? Her mother, Whitley, the general!? She had to find out quickly.

Grabbing her scroll she started trying to find Weiss's number, before pausing. The date, it was only three months till Weiss would even go off to Beacon for the first time.

That was the solidifier.

She didn't know how, she didn't know why, but she'd been given a second chance.

A chance to make things go right this time, to save the people she cared about, to save the General's Reputation and keep him from losing himself the way he had.

She wouldn't waste this.

With an exasperated sigh and a sudden flop onto a soft mattress, Winter couldn't help but grin with pride.

Two months, that's how long it had taken her to convince Ironwood she wasn't going entirely crazy. Though if she had been in the reverse situation, even with her respect for the man, she probably wouldn't have believed him either.

She would follow his orders of course, but she'd have been skeptical for certain.

Thankfully she had known a bit of information, thanks to Weiss and their talks, she was able to predict one Roman Torchwick's first robberies. She simply told the information to the General beforehand, and the next day, the exact report came in.

That, coupled with a few other 'predictions', had been what had finally convinced Ironwood she wasn't losing it from stress.

Not that she wasn't just slightly, but that was beside the point.

With that assurance, he had begun working to have the Atlas fleet come to Vale much earlier. Infact, if things worked out properly, they would be there within the first month of classes starting for the first years.

She couldn't help but giggle a bit at the thought of Weiss being happy to see her again so soon, and thankfully for longer this time.

"They certainly don't seem happy that we're here..." Winter said softly as she watched both Ozpin and Glynda's backs as they left.

Atlas had just arrived in Vale, about a full two months before the second semester could even be a thought in the student's minds. The idea worked out between General Ironwood and Ozpin being, that they would allow the students coming for the festival to mingle and learn together for a much longer time period, a way of building unity.

At least, that's how the general had billed it to Ozpin.

"No, he wasn't expecting to see the Atlas forces appearing in Vale." Ironwood stated calmly. "He's never been one to enjoy surprises of this kind, but it's necessary." He turned to her. "In time he'll understand that this was the best move. An early show of power to those working with Salem." He smiled to Winter, hoping to calm her.

"Of course, sir, but not to speak out of turn..." She paused, not sure if she should even say this.

He motioned for her to continue. "Speak, Schnee... Your input on this is something I want." He said honestly.

"Thank you, sir." She smiled, looking a bit calmer. "I think it would be prudent to let Ozpin, and the others in the council of course, know about my knowledge from the future. It will help us be prepared for what's to come and how to handle things." She said honestly. "It would at least help them to understand why you choose to make me the Winter Maiden so soon as well." She added on.

Ironwood seemed to think for a moment, his eyes closed as Winter felt her chest tense, had she gone too far?

"You aren't incorrect Schnee." He finally said, alleviating some of her stress, "Though for right now, we must keep that information close to the chest. It's not that I don't trust Ozpin, he's a longtime friend and a man I know I can trust... But this information may worry him more and cause him to take drastic actions. We will inform them in time." He smiled, placing a calming hand on her shoulder. "Go, be with your sister, I'm sure she's as eager to see you as you are to see her." He chuckled before turning to leave.

"Yes sir!" She saluted with a smile.

"At ease, Schnee!" He chuckled, not turning to see her do so.

Winter smiled as she came to ease, watching the man walk away.

"Well..."

She froze as voice rang out behind her and she spun on a dime, only to come face to face with a blond boy in a Beacon uniform.

The boy grinned at her. "He's certainly a man who knows how to call the kettle black." He finished taking a step back when Winter drew her weapon on him. Though he didn't seem to be put out by it. "Hey there, no need to flash the blade yet."

Winter glared at him, before her mind clicked at the familiar visage. "You're, Jaune Arc... Correct?" She asked, not pulling back her blade.

She remembered the boy, not the most reliable hunter in training she'd ever seen, but by the incident that brought the group to Atlas, he'd seemed to come into his own. Now though, something seemed off. "How much did you hear?" She glared.

"Oh everything, remember it all huh?" He asked her, cocking his head to the side as her eyes widened.

"Wha-what did you say?" She asked, stunned for a moment at his words.

"What's coming, or rather what was coming." He said as he watched her lower her blade. "You aren't the only one to remember things Winter Schnee. And I want to give you some advice.

She was stunned, he remembered too? How, why? What did that even mean? "Advice?" She asked, unsure about the boy.

"Yeah, I'm not going to interfere with what you're doing here, but know this." He paused, a serious look on his face. "If you force actions to happen early or at all... You'll both change everything and nothing at the same time."

She blinked, not sure how to even process what he just said, what any of that meant. She felt anger building as the, the, the boy in front of her was claiming that she couldn't change anything. She swiped out her blade. "What would you know!?" She screamed and looked at him.

But he was gone. No trace of him, only the space he stood, and the words he spoke.

Everything and nothing...

Those words stuck in her mind, before she shook her head in anger. What did he know, for all she knew she was just going crazy from having started over. It was nothing. She would change everything; she would make it better!

She shot awake again, panting, eyes wide, and in a cold sweat looking at her surroundings.

Back in her bed once more, awakened in her room three months before events that would lead to the world's eventual end. A place she'd woken up so many times in now.

She pulled her knees to her chest, trying to control herself as she held them tightly. She had to fight the tears, the feeling of sorrow building in her.

What had she done wrong this time? Why didn't it work? Why did it never work!?

"I tried to warn you."

Her eyes shot open as she looked up toward the voice that had invaded her room.

Looking at her vanity, she found a familiar sight, as words rang in her mind.

Everything and nothing...

"J-Jaune... How?" She asked, shaking slightly, both from the shock and pent up feelings in her mind.

There, sitting at the chair of her vanity, was one Jaune Arc. The one who had spoken to her so long ago, he didn't look smug or mocking, rather he looked... Sad. He looked like he was sorry for her, while also understanding in a strange way.

"I thought it was time... to really talk with you." He said softly, a tone that spoke of honesty and a weight of similarity. Like he understood the pain she was feeling.

She thought back to the last few times that things had started over. After the first time they met, he simply pretended like he had never met her and denied running into her before, not that Weiss thought she had actually met the boy. But after the second time things had reset, every time she saw him, all he gave her was a knowing look and nothing more.

Now, now he was here. Waiting for her as time reset again, sitting in her room and watching her.

Slowly she pulled herself from her bed, tears unknowingly starting to fall from her eyes as she stood. The pent-up emotions, feelings she was holding back, and her own fears bubbling to the surface after being pushed down for so long. She walked towards him, not sure how she was feeling as she stumbled, but caught herself.

"W-why..." She asked, as she stumbled again, body feeling so weak, feeling like she could barely stand in the presence of her situation. "Why!?" She yelled as she fell towards him, landing in his chest as everything hit her at once, tears streaming as she started to beat his chest. "wHy!? WhY WOn't It StOp!? WHy aM I BaCK HERE, AGaiN!?"

In all of it, she kept beating his chest, screaming her thoughts at him. She didn't care how she looked right now, how her presence didn't give the perfection her status as a special op should be shown. All she cared about was why she was here again.

No matter what she had tried, no matter what the end result... She was always back here. It didn't matter if they had won or lost.

Always back here! Always this bed, on this day, at this time!

ALWAYS!

Her fist suddenly stopped as she felt arms wrap around her, her eyes wide as she was pulled into the chest of the blond. She didn't know why, but all she could do then was cry. Cry and stay in the arms that felt so warm and understanding. She wasn't able to process much more at the moment as she stayed there and let everything out.

Sometime later, Jaune looked down at the sleeping woman in his arms, clung to him like a lifeline.

It had been a few hours since she had started crying, about an hour since she finally stopped, having passed out from the exertion and emotional overload.

He gently petted her hair as he felt her snuggle closer to his form, thinking back on all that had happened.

20 loops, that's how long he had let her do things herself. Just over half a century of her trying everything she could to fight off the inevitable.

In the long run, he honestly thought he might have been a bit cruel to let it run so long, to continue to watch her as she would try and fail every time, as things simply started over once more.

"I really have gotten too old... I shouldn't have let things get this far in the first place." He said softly as he lifted her up, feeling her arms instinctively tighten around him, and moved over to her bed. They would be more comfortable there at least, and it would be better for both of their backs.

"I won't leave you alone anymore... I'm sorry I did from the start. From now on, it's the both of us in it together." He said with a soft smile and letting himself drift off as well. He clearly wasn't going anywhere for a while.

Loop 7

"So... your gun is... just a rifle?" Ruby asks as they were at a firing range shortly after initiation. Jaune had spent a while in the workshops making a new weapon and he came out with a... rifle.

"Yup." He hid a grin as he saw the wheels trying to turn in Ruby's head.

It had taken a few loops to set this up, after all, he had to pull it off before Ironwood came around.

He held it up and did a few test fires. "Nice right?"

"Yeah it's... nostalgic." Ruby said she watched it work. It was certainly finely made, he was hitting bulls-eyes with it. "But, well, you went from just a Sword and Shield. To just a Rifle. So I'm wondering if you mixed anything in this time."

"Nope. Just a gun." Was all he said, hitting a few more.

"Maybe it's an... Electro Rifle? A Chainsaw Bayonet Rifle? Or maybe a Modular Rifle?" Ruby asked, feeling a bit weirder about the choice to just make a bog standard rifle as she listed more options.(edited)

"Nah, just a gun." He held it to her. "Here, why not give it a try?"

Ruby sighed as she gave in and took the gun, it felt a bit heavy but that didn't quite register to her as she was so focused on how weird the situation was to her. He could've made anything and weapons were a way to express yourself, so why would he make something so bor-

B A N G

Suddenly Ruby wasn't at the counter for the firing range, she was in the wall about 10ft back. It took her a moment to realize what just happened. But when it did she could only say. "What?"

"What? Too much kick?" He asked innocently.

"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!" Ruby shouted as she pulled herself out of the wall. "No wait, actually, don't." Ruby walked back up to the range, and braced herself. When she fired, she skidded back about three feet.

"Alright, this thing is heavier than Crescent Rose and has triple its recoil and kick. What the heck is this, Jaune?" Ruby asked, absolutely flabbergasted by it.

"It's just a gun. I don't understand what you aren't getting here." Jaune asked as he took it back. "See look." He reloaded it and fired off a few shots, not moving an inch.

"Jaune, that is at least a thousand pounds of recoil per shot, and you're firing it at full auto." Ruby said as she realized how he was firing it. "What in the world is going on here?!"

"What? No, the instructions said that you should only build to the caliber you can handle. This isn't even that strong." He looked at her oddly.

"Oh no no no, you can't fool me Jaune. I built Crescent Rose myself, I know how gunsmithing works and how to measure a kick." Ruby said, getting just a bit upset now that he was trying to make her look weak or something.

"Well I mean I'm not having a problem with it, so I'd say I didn't make it that strong." Jaune shrugged.

Ruby huffed at that, she wasn't getting anywhere with him.

Loop 8

Jaune gave a slight yawn as he returned to his home within the kingdom of Vale, he was just returning from a rather long hunt with one Summer Rose that had been thankfully successful.

This loop had a bit of a shock when he woke up this time, not the fact that he was older, but rather that he was older and around the same time as Summer still being alive.

Normally when this happens, he's either far ahead of her in the timeline or just missed before she went off on the mission to try and take on Salem. He still wasn't sure if it was a mission she demanded from Ozpin or not, but he did know that he'd followed along without her say.

She'd been very annoyed, but thankful as with back up, they were able to successfully delay things with Salem.

Though Jaune was a bit disappointed that he hadn't been able to actually finish that plot line early, as Salem had gotten away before he could start any form of cleansing process he had developed over the years.

The way she had escaped had made him a bit wary, but that wasn't something he'd have time to think about as an orange and pink blur tackled him one step into the door.

"Dad's home!" Said supercharged blur yelled as Jaune caught her. The form revealed a very young Nora Valkyrie, or rather Arc, who giggled as she felt Jaune lift her slightly when they fell. "Welcome home Daddy! Can we have pancakes to celebrate?" She asked excitedly as the young 6 wiggled to try and get down and hug the old blond.

Jaune chuckled as he sat up, still holding her up. "Careful there, Lightning Bolt, don't want to go breaking your old man. Sure, we can have Pancakes, where are your siblings?" He asked, around as an 18 year old Sun came into the hallway, looking amused, and holding the hand of a little black haired boy with a pink streak in his har. "Ah there they are."

"Does this mean I'm done babysitting, old man?" Suna asked with a tired grin on her face.

Ren smiled and waved to him. "Welcome home, papa." He said softly.

"Thank you, Ren." Jaune smiled as he stood up with Nora in his arms, before looking to Suna. "Looks like it kiddo, where's your mother?" He asked curiously. If anyone would have got to him before Nora, it was her for sure.

Suna rolled her eyes and smirked. "Paperwork has her bogged down at work again." She said in a knowing tone.

"Ah, I see, well then we're certainly in for a quiet night." Jaune chuckled, when Urd got hit with the paperwork for the Yggdrasil repairs, that normally took her more than a night to get done with.

One of the many reasons he was happy to not have ascended yet. He just couldn't handle the paperwork.

"Well come on squirts!" Jaune smiled as he took Ren's hand and led them to the kitchen. "Let's go make breakfast for dinner!"

That earned two enthusiastic "Yay!" and one teenage "woo..." Though Jaune knew that Suna was excited for it too.