I wasn't really happy with the original reactions story I did, from both the lore of my OC to the reactions and even just… the length. I thought id give this another go. Run it up the flagpole. See who salutes.
Summary: The Repository, the world between worlds has been opened up for the members of RWBY to avoid oncoming disaster. Watch as they defy fate and change their destinies with viewings from other worlds.
Pairings: Arkos and Bumblebee. Maybe more.
Side Notes: Do send in suggestions AND Reviews. I take both in equal measure as they keep me motivated
Reviews and Critiques: I do take reviews and critiques, as well as suggestions, no hate, I will Ignore it *insert I don't care song*
Inspiration: Transformers Prime: Darkest Hour
((That's all! Story START!))
It was a quiet night in remnant, and the moon was high in the sky. People going about their business, smiling and laughing as they did so. It was peaceful within the city of Vale. A cloudy day above as the town was going along their own business. It wasn't long after the breach of Vale from the forces od darkness that was Roman Torchwick. Scaring people and reminding them of their situation.
It was of course settled by hunters and huntresses. Something that put their minds at ease now. Sure there were some casualties, something like this always ensured there was casualties but it was limited by Beacons hunter teams, showing that they were indeed capable of protecting people.
It wasn't long before our heroes of Remnant were walking along the street, smiling and laughing as they talked to one another, enjoying the little time off that they were entitled now that they had finished with the semester and the next one was coming, as well as the festival. The Festival meant to bring the kingdoms together, show peace through unity. Each year it would be held in one of the Kingdoms, and now it was Vales.
The students were of course happy to participate in such an occasion. A time to show off their skills to the world and gain fame. To show the world what they were made of. Of course this night was one of relaxing for teams RWBY and JNPR.
"I still think the movie wasn't that bad, Spruce Willis makes some good action films." Said Ruby Rose, the leader of team RWBY. Dressed in red clothing, her red hair seeming to go along with her name.
"Yeah it was great!" replied Yang Xiao Long, the heavy hitter of team RWBY, dressed in yellow with long golden locks, sister of Ruby Rose.
"I still say we should have watched 30 days of night." Blake says with a hum, she was the faunus of the group, being the stealthiest.
"I for one thought we could have chosen a… classier movie" Says Weiss, the Heiress for the Schnee dust company, her white hair almost glowing.
"I didn't think it was that bad" Jaune mumbles softly, the leader of JNPR. He was considered one of the worst among all the teams, but he was improving. Slowly butt surely.
"I agree… it was nice" Pyrrha says, her hands behind her back as she walked next to her partner with a soft hum. The former Mistral Champion.
"Eh could've had more explosions" Nora says with a shrug. The heavy hitter of JNPR. To most she might seem insane but she was steadfast in her friendships.
"You always say each movie could use more explosions Nora" Replied Ren as he walks beside his own partner, hands at his side. He was relatively emotionless compared to most people.
"They could always use more explosions Renny! That's what makes it fun!" She says with a giggle.
"Story is more fun Nora" Blake says, getting a raspberry from the orange haired girl, Ren shaking his head at his oldest friends antics.
"I agree, Action is nice but there has to be a nice story behind it" Pyrrha says with a small smile, humming as they stop in front of a little shop, it looked like a little antique shop. "I've been wishing to pick up something to send to my parents… do you mind?" she asks politely.
"Nah, cmon maybe we can find something to send something to dad too" Ruby says with a goofy little grin as she pulls at Yangs hand who rolled her eyes with a smile.
"Alright then… lets go in" Yang replies as both teams walk in the antique shop. As they walk in, they felt a sense of homeliness. There was antiques that littered the walls of copper coins to models and everything in between. Antique weapons were within display cases.
"Wow… look at all this stuff" Blake says walking over to one of the books, carefully opening it as her eyes skimmed it.
"Its like we stepped back in time" Ren says looking at a tea set. On the display it read: "Japanese Tea Set, 1881" Ren tilted his head curiously at the name before shrugging it off. It must have been what the owners called the set.
"That book belonged to King Arthur of the Round Table" a voice was heard as the turned to face an aging man. He wore dark red robes, holding a sword in one hand and a book in the other as he walks over to Blake. "Welcome to my antique shop, my name is Makarov Dreyar" He says with a kind smile as he coughs into his hand, dust acting up on him again..
"Professor Oobleck would love it here" Ruby says to Jaune who snickers lightly.
"You run this place by yourself?" Pyrrha asks the old man, picking up an ancient targed shield. She was interested in the history of all the items within this shop.
"I do… I get the occasional help here or there but for the most part this shop is all mine" The old man says as he coughs into his hand and makes his way to one of the bookshelves and hums..
"Where did you get all this?" Weiss asks the old man who hums as he puts the book on the bookshelf.
"I run this place myself though my Master brings me items to sell… mostly things through space and time that no one would miss" He says with a chuckle as he walks back to the counter.
"Yeah that makes- wait what?!" Jaune says as he looks at the old man who looks back at the young man with a soft smile.
"I think hes lost it" Yang says to Weiss who rolls her eyes and smacks Yang softly. Not that she didn't believe it, but because of the lack of tact that Yang was showing at the moment to the old man. She was interested in all the items here.
Ruby walks over to what looks like an weapon as her elbow bumps something. She pauses to look to see an old book, open as tilts her head. The old man smiles as he flicks a switch behind the counter and all at once, the two teams get sucked into the book.
(-Ozpin's Office-Beacon Academy-)
Click. Clack. Click.
The sound of a clock was heard as occupants sat within the room. The whole room was filled with gears and clocks abound. Almost a representation of the people who reside in them, protecting the world, every second of the day, without pause.
There was a quiet with the occupants of the room. They are staring at the report that they had been given. It was still jarring to them truthfully.
"What are we going to do?" Ozpin says, staring at the report. He was the current headmaster of Beacon Academy and considered one of the strongest hunters.
"We have Roman in Jail… so that might buy us some time" James Ironwood replies, staring at the report with a sigh. He was the Headmaster of Atlas, a more militant school then Beacon.
"Agreed… its just baffling at the reason he had done it.. he was a simple dust theif" Glynda says as she hums, pushing up her glasses. She was the Head professor for Beacon, handling paperwork and teaching combat class.
"Look, it doesn't matter what the hell his plan is, we need to strike now while the irons hot or well lose the trail" Qrow says as he puts his hand on Ozpins desk.
"You would say that you drunkard, we need to move quietly." Winter Schnee says, the current specialist for Atlas and Weiss's sister.
"And do what? Twiddle our thumbs?" Qrow says turning to face the specialist who looked ready to kill. His nieces were in danger dammit and hes not going to sit around and do nothing while his family was in danger
"Shes not saying we do nothing Qrow, but we have to be careful." Ozpin says looking at the Branwen, sighing as he runs his hand through his hair.
"Dammit the more time we take the faster she enacts her plan Ozpin… I wont have my family die for this secret war" Qrow says.
"Don't worry… well figure something out Qrow." Glynda says as she looks over her scroll.
Click. Clack. Click. Clack.
The occupants perked up at this. This wasn't the sound of the clock. But rather heels tapping against what sounded like glass. They look around to see something that surprises them, a woman was standing on air outside the clock window.
She had long white hair, glowing orange eyes. She wore white and black outfit with black gloves. Her armor and clothes were strange to them. Behind her were, what looked like six spears floating behind her. The look on her face was impassive, almost bored.
Ironwood was quick to react as he pulls his revolver. "Identify yourself!" He yells through the window. The others were quick to draw their weapons, pointing at the woman who made no effort to move. She stared for a few more seconds before she began to walk forward, they stepping back with each step she took, the sound of a Click. Clack. Was heard with each step. When she got to the window, she put her arm forward and shattered them with her spears.
"You humans should be grateful I don't kill you. My name, at least, as close to one I have, is Herrscher of the Void" She says in a monotone voice.
"And what exactly are you here for?" Qrow says holding his weapon as a broadsword at the moment.
"You shall soon find out" She says reaching forward and snaps her fingers.
"Urk" They groan out as they were lifted off the ground with her abilities as they began to float out office as she creates a portal, they stepping and floating through it.
(-Team CRME Hideout-)
The Location was a small warehouse. Dusty and dingy but it did for the headquarters of the ones who orchestrated the fall of beacon. There was crates upon crates of Dust stacked as White Fang Members walked around and did what they were supposed to be doing.
"With Roman in jail and the Vytal Fesitval around the corner, we can proceed with the next phase of the plan." Cinder Fall said, the current leader of their little group and the orchestrator for the coming fall of Beacon.
"Of course Mistress." Emerald, a dark skinned young woman says, her hands on her hips, the illusionist of the group.
"Yeah don't worry, we got this" Mercury says with a grin as he sat on a chair with his legs on the table, He was the heavy hitter, aside from Cinder, of the group.
"…" Neo rolled her eyes but nodded regardless. She was the mute of the crew, one of the best assassins, but she didn't care for Cinder, only caring for Roman, her adoptive Father, who took her in when no one else could.
"We certainly keep moving forward. They don't know any better now that they have Roman. And Yes we will break him out Neo' Cinder says getting a nod from the mute.
"And the Animals?" Mercury says getting a snarl from some of them but they kept at their jobs, lest they be burned to a crisp from the fall maiden.
"Well keep them in line…" She says before hearing the clittering of mice or the like. "Hmmm…"
"Mistress?" Emerald calls out.
"Somethings here…" She says conjuring fire in her hands looking around as the other three in the group pull their weapons and look around before hearing something else.
"You know… My Darling asked me to bring you in… though I might keep some of your… pets for sustenance" a woman voice called out. Cinder launched a fireball at the direction of the voice. Seeing nothing, she kept on guard.
"Come on out and ill make your death swift" Cinder says before hearing a deep laugh.
"oh Im sorry… that implies you can" She says as a figure appears up on the ceiling. At first glance it had 8 legs and a spider like body, but she had a woman body attached to the spiders, she had six eyes and deep purple hair. Her clothes were purple and gold as she looks down at them. More light shone into the room to reveal multiple Fang members strewn up by webbing.
"W-what the hell? A Faunus?" Mercury says surprised by the appearance of the woman as she turns to him.
"Such a cute thing… doesn't match up to my darling husband… My name is Rachnera, and I am here to bring you all in" She says as another fireball hit her, but nothing was on her body. "Like it? A blessing from him. Any and all elemental attacks and physical attacks are useless…" She says climbing down the wall and looks at them.
"Then ill break your neck-Urk" Cinder held the bow in hand before she was tied down by webbing, strewn up as well as a mummy, as well as the others just as quickly.
"Mmm~ I wonder if my Honey could tie me up like that… maybe later~" She giggles happily as she grabs the four of them and began to drag them towards a portal.
(-Location Unknown-)
The world was peaceful. The Realm looked like a large library as books and pages flew about above them, seeming being pulled by psychic abilities and moved with a purpose towards wherever they were headed and needed. A single figure stood at the center. He wore dark red robes with a mask on his face and dark black wings protruding from his back, book in hand and sword on his hip.
Quiet as the book within one of the main chambers flew open, floating before throwing teams RWBY and JNPR onto the floor. Thrown through the Magic Portal that Makarov created. It was within his own realm of expertise but he prefered sword fighting. He turns his face to see Herrscher bring in the Inner Circle and Rachnera bring in the evildoers, including Roman Torchwick.
"Really Rachnera…?" He asks as he pulls his sword and swiftly cut the binds from them as he looks at them, watching them get their bearings. "You two may leave… ill take it from here" He says as Herrscher nods and walks away deeper into the library like area. Rachnera giggles and rushes off to find her husband as he looks at them.
"Welcome to the Archive. I am this sections Archivist. Im sure you have many questions. But I will stop them before you start. My… associates have brought you all here under orders of my Master, Lord Raphael" He says walking over to the desk and puts the book on the desk as he looks at the group who was still gaining their bearings. "No we will not harm you… rather we wish to help you, by showing you the future and preparing you for the events to come" He says.
"Ugh… that's a bunch of… Bull" Weiss says standing to her feet, still wobbly from the portal.
"Yeah gotta agree with the ice princess here" Qrow says as he grips his weapon once more, ready to cleave the fallen angel in half.
"Despite how my associates brought you, you are in no Danger, I will make sure of it, however keep in mind that I did not bring you here, my master has." He states as he looks at the group, ready to fight him, but he stood his ground and looked on.
"What does he want with us?" Ozpin asks holding his cane in hand, eyes staring at him.
"To save you… and redeem some of you" he says cryptically as his eyes looks over the group. "I will treat you all as my guests, because that is what you are. Your realm has been paused while you are here so that we may watch these worlds together and provide you with the necessary training to save yourselves and your race" he says as his fingers traced the book with his fingers.
"How can we trust you…?" Yang says, her weapons extended already and in a combat ready stance as she looks at the angel with the intent to kill.
"Tell me Headmaster Ozpin… What is your favorite fairy tale?" He asks with a small smile that graced his lips. He had seen enough worlds to know what made Ozpin trust him. This caused Ozpin to stiffen, looking at the angel as the others within the inner circle tense up and team CRME to glare at their host.
"I am quite partial to the 'Four Seasons', How about yourself…?" He asks in return.
"Of course, Headmaster, and please.. call me Azrael, But I am quite familiar to the tale of the four maidens and the lonely wizard. Although I hold more interest in 'The Star Protectors' and the 'Moon Knight'."
"The guardian watchers of the heavens and knight… a fantastic story..." The fallen Archangel nods and snaps his fingers as books flew off the shelves and opened, and each one projected them all doing things they clearly hadn't done.
"Do you believe me now, Headmaster of Vale?"
The adults looked around in awe, they could see different worlds and what they were doing. Ozpin looks at the archangel who had a small smile on his face.
"Yes… I trust you now… you brought us to save us from…" Ozpin began to fully make sure that he could trust him. If what he says was true, he had to make sure he was the true article.
"Salem…" Azrael fired back, the headmaster nodding and relaxes his shoulders. This got confused looks and glares from some other people but he didn't care as he snaps his fingers. "There… while you are all here, no hostile actions, semblances or weapons will work here. That means you false maiden" He says looking right at Cinder which caused Ozpin to stiffen, and would have attacked if he had not heard what their host had just said.
"Why did you bring her here?!" Qrow yelled at their host about to choke the woman out as he glares at Azrael.
"My master wishes to see if she can be redeemed… however if she is too far gone, her memories will be erased. The Machinations of my Masters mind are an Enigma… now come… we will get you all settled into the theatre." He says grabbing the book and began to lead them towards said theatre. There was some glares and confused looks.
(-The Archive-Theatre room-)
"Alright find a seat and get comfortable. Ill have some servants bring you some food to enjoy while you watch… after about 4 or 5 sessions we will take a break and take you to the showers and beds." He says watching as they moved to the seats. Splitting up in their respective groups as he nods.
"What will be watching first…?" Glynda asks as she pushes her glasses up, her crop on her lap ready to use as she hums.
"I will not be here to show you but rather im going to leave you all in capable hands for this viewing. I will be back at the end of the viewing to see how you all are doing" He says as he they all watched as someone else came in. He wore a red coat, blue jeans and black boots. His hair was blue with a white streak through it. "He will be your host through this viewing"
"Greetings, my name is Optimus Prime, and I will be here to assist you and guide you. It is a pleasure to meet you all" He says with a small bow, getting waves and hi's in return.
"You all will be watching where Optimus came from. As I had stated before. No fighting." Azrael says as he walks over to the projector. "This is the Multiverse reader… for convenience it will play much like a show or movie, so you may find it easier to watch….now please watch the screen as I begin"
-Viewing Begin-
The Scene opens up to reveal a long track of dirt road, seeming going on for miles. It wasn't long before a red muscle car drove into view. "So there I am on a lookout when out of nowhere these high beams light up my rearview. And then it hits me I'm illegally parked!" This was Cliffjumper.
"Nice car" Yang says with a grin giving a thumbs up.
"Meh, I prefer newer super cars" Roman says.
"Aw cmon you gotta love classics man" Qrow says, also enjoying the look of the car.
"Another parking ticket?" Arcee spoke amusingly, a blue motorcycle was going down another stretch of road.
"Better. The boot." Cliffjumper says with glee in his voice.
"Cliffjumper was never one for discretion" Optimus says with a soft chuckle, sitting at the back with a hum.
"Why is it good that he got a ticket and boot?!" Weiss says with a huff. "Those are expensive"
"Wait for it…" Optimus says with a soft chuckle.
"Big metal tire clamp, impossible to remove." Arcee says amused, already knowing where her partner was going with this.
"Bingo! The local police do that thing and get me all the way down by a block. That's when I kick up my new shiny shoe and BANG!"
"Wait what? I thought Arcee said it was impossible to remove?" Ruby asks with a confused look on her face.
"And he just takes it off easily…" Blake says, familiar with Boots.
"New Yorks finest soil themselves." Arcee says with a little mirth in her voice as she continues to drive down the long stretch of driveway.
"You know me, Arcee. - Mess with Cliffjumper-"
"And you get the horns. Not sure how that complies with Autobot rule number one - 'Keep a low profile'?" Arcee asked knowing what Optimus asked of them, but she knew her partner by now.
Optimus chuckles lightly, sadly.
"Yeah keep a low profile, meaning don't mess with law enforcement" Glynda says with a huff, already disliking Cliff.
"well to be fair I would do the exact same thing if I could" Qrow says with a smirk.
"What can I say? - Patrolling for energon out here is dull and gets me all on lonesome. Almost makes me miss the Decepticons." He says jokingly, almost glad that the Decepticons were gone for so long.
"Decepticons? Energon?" Cinder asks their Host, who said nothing but simply points to the screen.
"So… what are they anyway?" Mercury asks, already knowing that they weren't humans driving those vehicles.
"Like Jasper Nevada's a party? We're alone where ever we travel on this rock, Cliff." She says with almost longing for more autoboots. She was content with her small family she has but…
"Almost sounds like their alone" Nora says quietly, remembering when she only had Nora for the longest time.
"We were… but our family had strong bonds." Optimus says with a smile.
"I'm getting a signal." Says cliffjumper as he turns off the road and makes his way to an exposed crater.
"Need backup?" She asks seriously as she keeps driving, wanting nothing more then to get to her partner and help him out at the moment.
"You can never have enough backup" Ironwood says with a soft hum, the pieces falling into place.
"Backup from what? Didn't they say the decepticons were gone for a long time?" Winter asks getting a nod from Optimus.
"Do I ever need backup? I just found a hole lot of energon." He says as he saw the crystals jutting out from the rock before a shadow cast over him. It was the Decepticon warship. "Decepticons!" He says finally transforming into his robot form. His body a nice shade of red with two horns jutting from the top. He was then blasted into the crater from a cannon as decepticons came out of the ship as they stood at the edge of the crater looking at him. "Arcee, about that backup?"
"Their giant transforming robots!" Ruby says with a glee as she was bouncing at this.
"Fascinating" Ozpin says leaning forward.
"Winter, take note… maybe we can replicate these" Irowood says, getting a nod from his specialist.
"Emerald, you do the same" Cinder says, getting a nod from the mint haired girl.
"Even if we get nothing from this, still, fighting robots!" Nora says with a grin.
Cliffjumper stared at the decepticons across from him as he holds in his standoffish position, before smirking. "Fair warning, boys I'll put a few dents in y'all." He says before transforming into his muscle car form and began to drive up the side of the cliff. Taking to the air before transforming, moving to bring down his fist on an unbecoming decepticon.
"Yeah beat em up!" Nora says with a grin, Ren putting a hand on her shoulder to calm her down.
"So after all this time they come back" Qrow asks as he took another long slip of his flask as he leans back into his seat, knowing he was going to be here for a while.
"Arcee to Optimus, the Cons are back! Cliff might be neck-deep in scrap!" She says as she continues to drive across the roads, ready to rush in and save Cliff.
"Understood. Ratchet, do you have Cliffjumper's coordinates?" Replies Optimus Prime as the large truck continued to drive on.
"The question is, are they going to make it in time to save Cliffjumper" Jaune says. He was outnumbered with an enemy warship above him. Things did not look good for the red autobot.
"That's always the question isn't it mister Arc?" Cinder asks with a smirk, getting some growls but no one stood up to challenger her. This was too valuable an opportunity to throw it away.
"I'm locked on his signal, Optimus. But our team's scattered across timezones." Ratchet replied while he drove down a snowy tundra.
"Arcee, Bulkhead, Bumblebee. Rendezvous back at base prepare to ground bridge." Optimus calls out as they stopped where they were when he called their names.
"Ground bridge?" Asks Ironwood, having an idea already on what it was but wanted confirmation first and foremost.
"It's a form of transportation to anywhere in the world as long as we have coordinants" Optimus replies to the generals question.
"Could we possibly get the blueprints?" Ozpin asks before Optimus shakes his head, knowing they didn't have energon to power the device.
Back with Cliffjumper, he kicks yet another decepticon into the hole he had drove out off, then hitting another before he was hit in his back. He groans in pain. They kicked him around as he had lost his footing before one hits him particularly hard, knocking off one of his horns, being thrown near the energon deposit. "You want the horns? You got them!" He says before changing his hands into his main weapons and aims it at them.
"Weapons built into their bodies?! That's so cool too!" Ruby says in glee as she watched, bouncing in her seat.
"Why wasn't he using them in the first place?" Mercury asks with a raised eyebrow.
"I have an idea why…" Pyrrha says as she watches on.
He began to fire, destroying one of the decepticons instantly, before they began to fire back. Eventually one of the shots hit the energon behind him, exploding it and engulfing him in blue fire.
"That's why" Glynda says knowing that if Cliff fired his own weapons, the others would fire back and explode.
"Didn't they go for the energon? It was stupid for them to shoot it" Roman says kicking his own feet up.
"Yes… they seem less intelligent then the other robots" Cinder says leaning back.
The decepticons dragged Cliffjumpers nearly lifeless body behind them.
"Oh no cliff!" Ruby almost yells out with horror as the autoboot was dragged out of the crater by two more or less clean Vehicons.
"Hell get out of this right?" Yang asks, getting nothing from Optimus who watches, sadly, seeing what he didn't see before.
Back on the warship, Starscream was looking over the battle as he had seen the explosion as his face turns into a scowl. "The energon, it's worthless to me now." He says before turning to see Cliffjumper being dragged by the two cons. Being thrown at his feet.
Knowing it was the end for him, and deiding to kick Starscream one last time, he smirks. "Scream It's been a while So, where's your master?" He said before coughing out some energon.
"Even when he knows hes about to go off line, hes a fighter to the end" Optimus says sadly, closing his eyes.
"Shame he has to die" Ironwood says, already seeing he was a good and loyal soldier, giving a small salute, Weiss doing the same. Qrow would have commented but saud nothing, respecting Cliffs sacrifice.
Said Con scowled as he looks at the defeated Autobot. "Never mind him. I am my own master." He said before plunging his hand into Cliffjumpers spark chamber. "Any more questions? Clean that up." He says watching the autoboot fall before commanding the two cons to dispose of the body.
The Warship took off before a portal opens up. Eventually, one by one the autobots race out and transform in mid air, Optimus being the last one as he looks around for cliffjumper. "An untapped energon deposit."
"Wow look at all of them" Yang says with a grin, loving the looks of some of them as she too was bouncing on her seat.
"The good guys" Roman says with a gag before he continued to watch the viewing.
"What's left of it." Bulkhead replies to his leaders word.
"The first Deception activity in three years." Ratchet says offhandidly as he walks over to his leader.
"That we know of. If they're scouting for energon, they may be preparing for his return." Optimus says cryptically.
"His return?" Blake asks.
"A long time enemy, and old friend, Megatron" Optimus says, looking down in his lap.
"Sounds like hes strong" Cinder says with a hum, getting a nod from Emerald.
They begun to look around the crater, hoping for anything to lead them to their friend. Arcee was the first to jump down the crater, optics scanning the area before something caught her eye. She reaches down and picks up what was left of the horn that was knocked off from Cliffjumper. "No." She says worriedly.
"Cliff…" Pyrrha says sadly as she saw the horn.
"He died for a cause he believed in" Weiss says lowering her head.
"Ratchet, can you track his position?" Optimus asks Ratchet who nods. He opens a panel in his arm and looks at it, before his optics widened at what he just saw.
"No Cliffjumper's life signal just went offline."
There was no words at this, just silence. Not even the villians in fear of antagonizing their host, dared to sat something.
Back on the ship, it was quiet as another decepticon walks up to Starscream. "Soundwave, what is it?" He asks him. The monitor on Soundwaves face began to play a recording.
"Like Jasper Nevada's a party? We're alone where ever we travel on this rock, Cliff."
Starscreams visage turned into a maniacal grin. "Ah, the one called Arcee. Why slay just one Autobot When we still have the advantage of surprise?"
"Isnt he just satisfied he took the life of one of his own people?!" Ruby says with a huff.
"He doesn't care. He never has been one for anyone besides himself and the position of leader of Decepticons" Optimus says shaking his head.
It was twilight now as they stood around a makeshift grave. "We must not allow our anger over the lost of Cliffjumper to impair our judgement. As of today Only we five Autobots remain on this Earth. We owe it to ourselves to the memory of Cybertron, to any Autobots in any Galaxies seeking safe harbour, to humankind. And we owe it to the memory of our fallen comrade to survive." Optimus says as he watches Arcee lay Cliffs horn down atop the grave as she looks softly at it. He turned to face her as he began "Arcee –"
"He has the right idea… don't let mourning stop you from living your life" Qrow says with a small snort and takes a sip, getting a light glare from Yang, but knew it was true. Summer would want them to be happy.
"Shell need time to herself it seems" Ozpin says with a hum as he watches on, sipping his coffee.
Before he could start however, Arcee interrupted him "If Cliff's gone standing around here sulking won't bring him back. So unless anyone minds I think I'll get back to protecting humankind." She says before walking off, then transforming to drive off, leaving her to her thoughts.
This time it was Ratchet who made his opnion known. "Optimus Helping humans will only result in more tragedy."
"Your opinion is noted."
"Seems hes not a fan in humans? Or rather prefer leaving them to their own devices" Ren says with a hum.
"I can understand him in his grief saying that" Jaune says as he lays back into his seat.
Jaune could be seen working at a fast food restaurant. "Welcome to K.O drive in, where every patty is a knockout. May I take your order?"
"Hey look Jaune its you!" Nora says with a happy grin as she stands and points at the screen.
"We can see that Nora. Hes working at a fast food restaurant" Pyrrha says watching on with a smile.
"Its not a particularly glamorous job but it pays the bills" Blake says with a small shrug.
Cardin could be heard through the speaker "Two super combos, extra fries"
"Okay, dos número two's. Anything else?" Jaune replies professionally as he gets the order ready and places them in the bags.
"Cardin?" Ruby asks blinking a few times before shrugging. Thinking nothing of it at first.
"Yeah, some do I get an awesome job like yours?" Cardin says with snark in his voice as he and his friends laugh as Jaune grips the bag angrily.
"Ass… at least he has a job! Hes more responsible then you!" Yang says with a huff and crosses her arms over her chest.
Jaune bit back with some venom in his voice. "So thats two, 'we're not as funny as we think we are' combos, with a side of 'bite me'."
"What'd you say?" Cardin bites back angrily.
"Don't sink to mister Winchesters level Mister Arc, it makes you look as immature" Ozpin says with a hum, getting a nod from the young knight.
"yes professor Ozpin" Jaune says quietly.
"I find it admirable that your working" Pyrrha says with a small smile.
Jaune grabs the mic as he bit back harsher words. He needed this job "Five fithty nine sir, At the window." He says leaving the meals at the window and turns to clean up. The car drives up, and just as quickly, grabs the meals and drives off "Hey! I Have to pay for that." He says dejectedly.
"Asshole" Qrow says simply as he takes another sip of his flask.
"Hes a bully to everyone uncle" Ruby says.
Arcee was driving down the road once more, her mind busy on cliffjumper before something caught her optics once more. Two Cons was sighted in her rear view mirror. "Twins." She said pulling into another parking lot as she hums. "Take five, Sadie." She says as her hologram disengages as her kickstand goes down, shutting down.
"So it's a hologram…" Ironwood says taking notes on this as he watches with interest. Winter doing the same knowing how many lives it could save.
"He found her rather quickly… though if he knew her transformation in a small town like that, it wouldn't be hard" Roman says with a hum. "being in a small town can be a double edged sword, its in the middle of nowhere but its also easier to find you once they know the city your hiding in" Neo, next to him nods as she watches.
"Know from experience?" Cinder asks with a small smirk, which the criminal promptly snorted, not diginifying that with a response.
Jaune walks out, taking off his work hat and picks up the phone that stared going off."Hey, mom, I just got off... No, I'm not going to the dance... Experience suggests I should never cut a rug. Unless I'm stowing carpet... Be careful? Seriously? This is a Jasper..." He says before catching sight of Arcee "I love you. I love you too, mom, I got run. Hello, beautiful. Where have you been all my life?" He says climbing aboard Arcee. "Nice It may take a few K.O. paychecks, But I am gonna own a ride like you someday."
"…I wonder if that's an invasion of space to them?" Emerald says as he watches.
"Well they are under cover so its not like they can say anything if it is or not" Mercury says with a shrug to his shoulders.
It was then he heard someone. Weiss Schnee. "Are you talking to your motorcycle?"
"Weiss?" Ruby asks with a surprised look.
"I don't know… but that Is a legitimate question" Weiss said with a humph s she watches, getting a small smile from winter.
Caught with his pants down, he made a quick recovery. "My motorcycle? No, I mean, yes, yes! It's mine, but I-I'm not talking It Was to you I-I am. How's things, Sierra? Take you for a spin sometime?"
Arcee notices the twins in her review. "Come on, smooth operator, Wrap it up."
"He better hurry or hes in a lot of trouble" Glynda says, ignoring the fact that he was flirting.
Weiss however wasn't as she covers her face with her hands. Remembering all the times that he flirted with her.
Pyrrha was again, a little jealous that he was flirting with Weiss, but says nothing.
"You know my name?"
" We are in homeroom together.I am Jaune. Jaune Arc" He says trying to play it smooth before He and the other around him was shone on by high beams. Seeing their cover blown, Arcee began to drive, and Jaune, not wanting to be thrown off, clung for dear life as they began to drive off.
"Too late, they've been found out!" Nora says with a gasp. "Hold on tight fearless leader!"
"Im right here nora" Jaune says pulling her back down into her seat as he watches, his fingers twitching lightly.
"Do not let go! –" Arcee began before Jaune freaks out.
"Who said that?" He watches as the two pull up before they dodged being rammed together, then driving off quickly.
"I'd be freaking out too if my bike started talking to me" Yang says with a shrug, a little tense watching Jaune in danger like he is but most say nothing, knowing they cant do anything.
"Commander Starscream, target sighted. Accompany by a human youth."
"Destroy them both!" Starscream yells over the radio.
"Starscream doesn't care who he harms…" Winter says with slight disgust, even on missions she took great pains to make sure no innocents were harmed in the crossfire.
They eventually pull into an alley way as they stop. Getting off freaked out. "What are you? –"
Arcee looks at him as she replies. "I don't exist. Tell anyone about me and I will hunt you down." She says before she began to drive off. Seeing the Vehicon turn to chase down Jaune, she cursed "-Scrap.-" She turned and skillfully jumps over the decepticon.
"She doesn't know about the order to kill Jaune!" Ruby says worried for her friend before sighing that Arcee turned around to go and help him.
"Hell be alright" Qrow says with a shrug as they watch.
Jaune continued to run from the vehicon. "I don't even know her!" He yells before Arcee jumps over the decepticon, driving along side him.
"Hop on!" He immediately complies and jumps off before they began to take off down the road.
Teams RWBY and JNPR sigh in relief. Watching as Arcee saves Jaune once more.
"Mister Arc seems to be taking this particularly well…" Ozpin says with a hum.
They continued to drive down the road before they began to fire at the human and autoboot pair. Jaune keeps his head down. "Why are those guys shooting at us?" He yells as they got onto the high way.
"There's no us kid, And they're no guys." She replies back, still very bitter at losing her partner. It wasn't long until Bumblebee pulls into the high way, slamming one of them and throwing him into a spin.
"Here comes one of her friends to the rescue" Blake says with a smile, watching on as Bumblebee helps her out.
"We never leave one of our own alone if we can help it' Optimus says with a small smile.
"Friend of yours?" He says seeing the bout.
"Family." She smiles. They continued driving. Bumblebee kept them blocked before one pulled along side and slams him into the center divider as the other took off ahead.
"Oh no…" Pyrrha says watching as the decepticon rush forward to meet Arcee and Jaune head on.
"Cmon move it Arcee! Lose this joker!" Yang yells.
A small Ruby Rose was playing with a small race car before her phone began to go off. she stopped the car and reaches over and picks up the phone. "Hi, mom .Racing, right up the street. Okay, just five more minutes?" she went back to playing with her car.
Back to Arcee and Jaune, he saw as the road was about to end before Arcee jumped and went off road down into a river bank, which Ruby saw them and dropped her remote. Woahing in surprise.
"RUBY" WBY Yells seeing that a younger Ruby was going to be caught in this war. It wasn't something they wanted to see.
"She was at the wrong place at the wrong time…" Says emerald with a shrug, it happens.
"You have no idea." he says climbing off the bike before he and Ruby notices the decepticons atop the road. They drove down the bank before transforming in mid air, guns at the ready.
It wasn't long before Arcee transforms behind them. "This ends here, Cons." She calls out angrily, the two humans moving out the way as she began to run at them as they fired at her, missing every shot. She jumps into the air and slams one of them with a kick.
"Shes quick… doesn't hit hard it seems though with her smaller body" Cinder says with a him as she watches on now with interest.
"Shes still outnumbered though" Mercury says, gla that theirs finally some action to enjoy. He was a simple man with simple tastes.
"When has that ever stopped us?" Emerald asks him, who shrugs in response.
Ruby asks with astonishment "What are they?
"Talking cars that turn into robots Or the other way around." Jaune replies as he continues to watch the fight.
"When you say it like that, it seems a little silly" Says Blake with a chuckle but was thoroughly enjoying this by now
"This is for Cliff!" Arcee yells with each punch and kick to the decepticon. Seeing it did no damage, she backs up before doing backflips. Eventually she was hit in the chest and thrown back of her feet, sliding along the ground.
Eventually another, Bumblebee jumps from the bridge and transforms in midair, landing on one and punching the other as Arcee gets up with a groan, rubbing her head softly. When they were both on the ground, he noticed he had crushed small rubys car. Seeing he was sad, Ruby replies.
"No problem. Really." It was then he was hit from a blast from one of the decepticons. He was kicked again before stepped on as the decepticons aim their guns at him. Ruby, having some semblance of bravery yells out. "Leave him alone! - Please?" He meekly. Jaune replies before they began to run from the decepticon chasing them.
"Ruby!" Yang and Qrow yell.
"Don't let it be said that she isn't brave?" Jaune says sheepishly, though truth be told he porobably would do the same thing.
"She always wishes to do the right thing. Nothing to be wrong with that" Ozpin says with a small smile.
"Bad call. Come on! Come on! Keep moving!" He yells as they run, Jaune wondering why they weren't blasted yet. Climbing into a sewage pipe to get away from the decepticon, almost grabbed before the con was pulled away.
Bumblebee peeks his head threw the sewage pipes and beeps at them. "Thank you." Ruby replies.
Yang and Qrow let out a breath they didn't know they were holding.
"That's nice of him" Ren says with a hum, getting a nod from Nora.
"Well they are defending humans" Glynda says with a hum.
"Don't look back." Jaune says pulling at Ruby further down the pipes.
"What did we just see?"
"No idea, and I'm not sure I want to find out."
"Agreed" Says RWBY and JNPR.
Bumblebee was once again punched away onto his back as Arcee helps him up. Hearing horns, they turn around to see Bulkhead driving at them before transforming. "Who's ready to rumble?" now that they were outnumbered, they transformed and took off the other way.
Arcee looks at Bulkhead. "What took you?"
He replies with a shrug. "Traffic."
"Sounds about right" Snorted Qrow at this as he took another long sip from his flask. Glad he stocked it up when he did.
They were now back at base as Arcee gave her report. "And the Cons would have been scrap metal if I hadn't been distracted by the human."
"Human?" Bumblebee beeps at his leader. "-Two boys."
Arcee replies. "I guess a second one caught us in action, I don't know.I was a little busy at the time."
"Geeze no need to make it sound like we are a nieucence" Jaune says with a huff, knowing his other wanted nothing to do with giant fighting robots.
"Well you were technically in the way with being there" Blake point s out, which Jaune slumps in his seat, mumbling something as Pyrrha pats his back.
"If the Decepticons are targeting us Anyone perceived as our ally Will be at grave risk." He says worriedly.
Jaune walks out the high school with a sigh, not noticing Nora. He does notice Ruby sitting beneath a tree as he walks over. "Ruby, hey. Look let just, keep this between us and forget anything ever happened, okay?" He said before they heard beeping.
"Jaune." Ruby says excitedly. They saw Bumblebee pull up and the door opens up.
"Oh, not again." Bumblebee beeps at Ruby and Jaune. "He wants us to get in. "
"Nice vehicle form though" Ironwood says with a hum. He always enjoyed classic looking cars.
"Agreed" Ozpin nods.
"Don't do it Ruby" Yang says.
"-No, just me."
"How do you know that?"
"It said so."
"What?"
"Yours is over there." Ruby says pointing to Arcee. He saw the bike and was very hesitant.
"don't we get any say in this what so ever?" Jaune asks.
"Youll be ok Jaune" Pyrrha says with a small smile, which Jaune smiles back.
"I really don't think it –" he says before hearing Ruby was climbing in.
"How is it going? –" The door closed as they took off.
"God dammit Ruby" Yang says, in which Ruby blushes and looks away.
"um… im sorry?" Ruby says sheepishly.
"Ruby? Wait! Stop!" He sighs and looks back at Arcee who was looking at him.
Nora was drawing the bike contently as she hums "Coolest. Bike. Ever. House parents? Ignore." She says hearing her phone before going back to drawing. Noticing the bike was leaving, she went chasing after it.
Arcee was quick to drive infront of him and stops him. "Relax, I just wanna talk to you."
"That's what they always say before your sleeping with the fishes" Nora says shaking Ren. "Don't do it fearless leader!"
"…she gets it" Roman says pointing to Nora, Neo nods, holding up a sign of skull and crossbones.
Jaune groans "Don't you mean you and your new friend?" Her Sadie hologram disappears as he backs up, and she following.
"Kid, there's a lot you don't understand."
"No, I get it, I get it. The first rule of robot fight club is you don't talk about robot fight club. What you need to understand is that I don't want a bunch of crazy talking vehicles Following me around trying to get me killed!" Jaune says wanting to go back to normal. She says transforming to emphasize her point.
"At this point, id be wanting my normal life back too" Blake says with a small chuckle.
"Normal is relative" Weiss says, looking at Nora.
"Look, Jaune, is it? Your personal safety is exactly why Optimus Prime has requested your presence."
"Optimus who? You may be in danger because you are one of the few one of the only who have ever seen us." She says before they heard another voice. Nora.
"Dude, what are you waiting for? Go with!"
"Scrap."
"Nora! Really?!" Ren asks after he stops being shaked, as he shakes his head, his bloodflow going back to normal as he coughs.
"…that is something I would do too…"
"We know you would Nora" Pyrrha says with a small smile.
It was then shown that the two autobots were driving with the three humans, as Nora was hollering in joy. "And why exactly are we taking her?"
"Rules." Arcee replies. They continued to drive until a section of mountain opens up. Letting the five of them through the base. They got into a bigger section that seemed to be big enough to house the robots.
"Rules are meant to be broken ya know" Qrow says, getting an eyeroll from Winter, and a chuckle from Yang.
"It's a wonder you haven't been lobbed in jail yet drunkard" Winter says before turning back to the show.
"Im just that good" She says, earning an Ugh from her.
Ratchet walks up to them, seeing them transform. "I thought they were two."
"Haven't you heard? Humans multiply."
Yang and Blake snicker at the near hidden dirty joke.
Ruby begins friendily. "I am Ruby".
Nora, Excitedly, runs up to Bulkhead with a grin on her face. "I am Nora. Who are you?"
"Bulkhead." He replies unsure at first.
"Are you a car? I bet you're a truck, a monster truck! Do you like heavy metal? How much do you weigh? Ever used a wrecking ball for a punching bag?" She asks excitedly bouncing up and down.
"Don't ever change Nora" Jaune says to the excited Nora on screen and the one sitting next to him.
"I don't plan to fearless leader!" She says saluting him with a grin.
"it's a wonder their still sane sometimes" Yang say with a teasing grin, getting a smack from Ruby.
"So if you guys are robots, who made you?" Ruby asks curiously.
"Oh, please." Ratchet rolls his eyes before hearing the foot falls of another, seeing Optimus walk up to the humans.
"We are autonomous robotic organisms from the planet Cybertron. Also known as Autobots."
"So cool" Ruby says with stars in her eyes as she watched.
"Agreed" Jaune says watching with interest. He loved Sci-fi stuff. And fantasy. Well almost everything really. He wasn't particurlaly picky.
"Cybertron…" Ozpin hums with the name rolling off his tongue.
"Bit on the nose" Glynda says with a chuckle.
Jaune, taking the lead steps forward "Why are you here?"
"To protect your planet, from the Decepticons." Optimus replies.
"The jokers who tried to bump us off last night?" Arcee spoke up, arms crossed, and reminded them who they are.
"Okay. Why are they here?" Jaune asks as Optimus kneels to get to eye level with the humans.
" A fair question, Jaune. In part they are here because our planet is uninhabitable. Ravaged by centuries of civil war."
"Even across space there will always be conflict" Ironwood says with a shake of his head. He didn't like conflict. He almost hatted it, but that didn't stop him from being a protector of Human and Faunus kind.
"It's a shame… but it no doubt happens" Winter says.
"Why were you fighting a war?"
"For most, over control of our world supply of energon. The fuel and life-blood of all Autobots and Decepticons alike. The combat was fierce and endured for centuries. In the begining I fought alongside one who I considered a brother. But in war, ideals can be corrupted. And it was thus that Megatron lost his way."
"Adam…" Blake murmurs softly, looking down. Seeing this, Yang reaches over and grabs her parthers hand and squeezes, more a friendly gesture then a romantic one.
"Were here for you Blake" She says quietly.
Blake hears this, turning to her partner and smiles.
Nora yawns "Is there gonna be a quiz?" she says getting a look from Jaune.
"So what is Megatron Or any of these have to do with us?"
"Megatron has not been seen or heard from in sometime. But if his return is imminent as I fear, it could be a catastrophic."
"A leader who can properly lead? Yes that could be" Glynda says as she watches on, almost fearing what was coming.
"Any good leader could lead his forces to victory…" Ironwood says.
Soundwave walks up to Soundscream playing the message. "Those transmissions are emanating from deep space. I would hate to waste the energon Unless you are absolutely certain. Then lock on transmission coordinates And activate the space bridge." He says with almost regretful sigh.
The decepticon does just that as the bridge was activated in a ring like structure. Eventually a single figure came through as he transformed to show the terrifying visage of Megatron. "Decepticons! I have returned."
"HES BACK!" RWBY and JNPR yells together, seeing the fearsome visage of the decepticon leader.
"God hes ugly…" Emerald says shaking her head.
"This does not bode well for Jaune and the others…" Ozpin says as he grips his cane a little, hoping that they would be alright.
"We can only pray and hope they'll be alright Ozpin" Glynda says as she pushes up her glasses who only nods in response of this.
"5 bucks says one of thems killed' Mercury says to emerald who simply rolls her eyes and smacks the silver haired brawler.
(-000-)
The lights eventually came back on as They turned to see Optimus already standing. "I wish to thsank you all for indulging in my tale. I am fairly certain you will see more of myself and this universe. I do hope you enjoyed it and learned, at least a little bit from this." He says with a smile as he bows his head lightly.
Of course it wasn't long before the Archangel strolled into the room once more, holding another book in hand az he lays it on the table. "Good to see you all took this world rather well… Now I will explain a few things that you all may wish to know before we continue. I will show you a total of five or so worlds, each housing a different lesson for yoi to learn. After those five worlds, we will then take a small break where you have your own rooms, as well as having a dining area and a bathing area as well as recreational areas." Azrael explains as he hums. "Questions?"
"You say each world is to contain a lesson… what lesson was this one supposed to convey?" Ruby asks curiously.
This world was to convey the importance of two things… teamwork and grieving. I hold no illusions that we each greive in our own way, but we must do so in our own way or we become monsters, in the image of our former selves." He explains as Ozpin looks down at this, having seen it many times through his life. And it never gets any easier to watch. "Regardless… Teamwork will always be important, as such, asking for help is never a sign of weakness." The Archangel says looking at Ozpin, who said nothing feeling the gaze on him.
"Before we continue…" the Archangel continued before spreading his wings and grasping a golden spear. He floats over to some of them before throwing it at one of them. And quickly, it spears Cinder through the heart, who gasps.
"Mistress!" Emerald yells out as she reaches out o grab the spear, before her hand phased through it.
"Celestial steel… no mortal can touch it" he says before grabbing rhe spear and pulling it out, revealing an orange orb that has been speared as well, but there was no hole where the spear had skewered her.
"What…" Began Cinder as she clutches at where the spear had gone through her heart.
"My Lord wanted me to remove this from your grasp. He holds no illusions what you will do with the maidens powers, and as such, cut you off from it. Any order he gives, I follow" he says holding it up to the light as he examines it.
"What will you do with it…?" Qrow asks the flying angel.
"Isnt it obvious? Give it back to its rightful owner" he says before humming, floating over to Ozpin and gives it to him. "This is a sign of trust from our lord that you will give it back to Amber and not Miss Nikos. Giving her this will heal her wounds and allow her to pick the next maiden of her choice." He says as Ozpin nods at this.
The archangel, retracts his wings and makes his way back over to the player and slips in the new world for them to watch, getting a glare from Cinder, but he didn't care. He had followed his masters orders to the letter. Now to see where this goes.
Whoooo 10k Words… its been a long time since I had done a chapter of this length, and truthfully, it feels nice to finish it. Of course compared to my other stories, this one will be all new and hopefully beta writtened but im not too worried about it. Truthfully I did this in hopes of improving my own skill at writing. So if it seems alittle less refined then my Fires of War story, you know why.
Anyway, I do take suggestions and I am planning to add some things that would make this story unique. Notably, lemons. Though I will do more then just that. I like to be a pioneer, a trend setter and I hope to see more lemons in these reaction fics.
ANYWAY Do send in your suggestions and requests.
(Preview)
"Im Deffinatly going to be the bestest Valkyrie Ever, Aunt Himeko!"
"Kiana. Be brave! Push on! You can still end this story the way you want!"
