Missing Universe

In a room outside of reality a young man sat on his bed looking at a scroll. Well, he had the appearance of a young man, but in reality, he was, in fact, quite old. He had white hair tied back in a small pony tail, while his bangs covered his left eye. He wore a green button-down long sleeve shirt with black slacks and brown boots. He watched as Team RWBY, Team JNR, Qrow, Maria, and Oscar approached Atlas.

"I really hope one of the two of them gets their head out of their ass! This universe could finally use some peace and quiet," the man thought. He let his mind drift to happier times in his past; times where his family was together and all was right.

Suddenly, the image on his scroll flashed out. "No!" The man said out loud, "No, no, no, no, where'd they go?"

He began flicking his finger across his scroll as fast as he could. He passed universe after universe until he came to the spot this specific universe was supposed to exist.

"No," he said again, this time in sadness instead of anger. The universe he had so hoped would turn out, was gone.

"No! They had so much more to do! That world has to be made right! It can't be gone!" He cried as he said these words; for although he was a powerful being, that universe was still home.

His scroll chimed, snapping him out of his sorrow.

"A proximity alarm?" He questioned.

He checked his scroll to see a small indicator on it. "It's too small to be a full universe. It must be a remnant of one!" He mentally chuckled at his own joke. "Okay, but in all seriousness, what is this?"

He tapped the light curiously. There was a bright flash of light, and suddenly a whole lot more people in his bedroom.

"Uh… what happened?"

"Don't know kiddo. It was dark and then got really bright all of a sudden."

"What was with that light show?"

"Oww, and I thought the silver eyes were bad!"

"What? Cinder?"

"Ruby Rose!"

"Well hello there, Little Red. Ya miss me?"

"Torchwick? But, you're dead!"

The young man was astounded to find the major players of his universe standing in his bedroom. Snapping out of his shock, he realized the situation was looking more like a fight. Grabbing his spear, he chucked it right in the middle of the group of people. Using the wind dust built into to he forced them all away from each other.

"All right, break it up!" He said demandingly, "Now, I don't know how you all got here, but there will be no fighting in my domain."

"Uhh… your domain?" a voice asked.

He turned to the voice to find it belonged to one Ruby Rose. The girl had her head tilted slightly, as if trying to figure out what that meant.

"Well, I mean this is my bedroom," the man said rubbing the back of his neck, "I guess domain is a bit of a strong word."

"No, domain is the right word," a familiar voice called out, "You don't have to hide your nature from us young man."

The man looked at the voice; his embarrassed look turning to one of anger. "Ozpin," he muttered under his breath. True enough, he was staring at the form most people in the room knew as Professor Ozpin.

"Wait, what?" A younger voice was heard from the crowd.

Eyes settling on the source, the man saw it belonged to a very confused Oscar Pine. Being Ozpin's current host body, he had some difficulty seeing the man in front of him.

"Yes Oscar," Ozpin began, "It seems that some form of power here has separated us. Why I do not know, but I believe you do," he paused a slightly sinister smirk appearing on his face, "Vert."

Hearing his old name, the young man flew into a rage, "That is not my name, old man! I don't need to follow your stupid color constrictions anymore! I have access to every universe known to the world and chose my own name, Dad!"

Ruby looked at the two men and was shocked that she hadn't realized it sooner. The two men looked almost identical. The only difference was that the one with longer hair looked significantly younger.

The younger man continued, "It's Gordeau now. To answer your question, I have no idea why you're here. I was watching the universe to see if you and Mom had made up yet. Surprise, you haven't! Then the world just disappeared! I found a remnant of it and it turned out to be you!"

"Pfft… you mean you found a rem…" the blonde saying those words was cut off by Gordeau.

"Yang, I already made that joke in my own head you don't need to repeat it."

Yang Xiao-Long shot him a look of challenge, "Hey, I'm the pun master around here!"

Gordeau looked at her and smirked, "Oh, I'll challenge that later."

As he and Yang glared at each other, his scroll got a message. He turned to it and read it out loud.

"It has come to my attention that a universe has been lost. A universe that you have a distinct connection to. Your task must now be to find this universe at all costs. Assemble the following people, watch the other universes, and find yours. This will take some time, so be considerate to your guests, and I mean all your guests Gordeau. Here is your list: Roman Torchwick, Ruby Rose, Cinder Fall, Professor Ozpin, Yang Xiao-Long, Jaune Arc, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, Pyrrha Nikos, Nora Valkyrie, Lie Ren, Sun Wukong, Mercury Black, Emerald Sustrai, Taiyang Xiao-Long, Neo Politan, Raven Branwen, Adam Taurus, Qrow Branwen, Winter Schnee, Oscar Pine, Ilia Amitola, and Summer Rose."

As Gordeau read the list each person gave some form of acknowledgement that they were there. Obviously, the room had been so caught up with the family drama they hadn't looked around because four names caused gasps and different reactions when they were called.

Torchwick's name was met by a large number of groans and face palming, save for Neo who ran up and gave him the world's biggest hug.

"Heh, missed you too, you little sociopath." He reciprocated the hug.

Pyrrha's was met by a gasp from the students who turned to find her standing behind them.

"Hello again!" she said as she waved excitedly.

Nora was about to tackle her old teammate in a hug of tears and joy, but Ren put a hand on her shoulder, stopped her, and glanced at Jaune.

"Pyrrha?" the knight asked tears forming in his eyes, "Is that really you?"

Instead of answering, Pyrrha ran up to Jaune and kissed him the same way she did during the Battle of Beacon.

Pulling away from him she asked, "Does that answer your question?"

Jaune sniffled and wiped his face, "Just don't push me into a locker this time, okay?"

They embraced each other tears streaming down their faces. Eventually they opened up their hug for Nora and Ren, who eagerly rushed in tears in their own eyes. In this space Team JNPR was complete once more.

Adam's name was met with one scowl, one frown, and the cracking of someone's knuckles.

The most emotional response was to Summer. There were no words just tears as Ruby leapt and clung desperately to her mother. They were shortly joined by Yang, Taiyang, Qrow, and even Raven. Even if she was the reason Team STRQ had failed she wanted to be there for them now. Yang had really touched something in her with that speech.

Once the Rose-Xiao-Long-Branwen family had separated, Weiss spoke up, "Excuse me, but what do you mean our universe is lost? Is there more than one? And how did you bring back the dead?"

Jaune and Neo gave her very worried looks, they had just gotten back the ones they loved and didn't really care how. Everyone else seemed to have the same questions, except for Qrow, who walked over and punched Ozpin in the face.

Yang pinched the bridge of her nose, "Again Uncle Qrow? Wasn't once enough?"

Qrow shrugged, "Hey, last time I punched the kid. I felt the real deal deserved it this time."

Gordeau sighed and began to explain, "What I mean, Weiss is that, yes, more universes exist than your own. In fact, there's an infinite number of different universes. Some of them are exactly like yours with just small differences. For example, Blake gets a haircut and has short hair the whole adventure."

Blake audibly gasped, but thankfully everybody else was trying to comprehend multiple universes. "I was actually thinking about cutting my hair soon. I just didn't know how it would look."

Gordeau continued "Others have major changes like the Grimm never existed." He paused while he let that information sink in "Now before I continue, I should explain who I am. I am the son of Ozma and Salem. I was born with the ability to see snippets of these other universes. Fifteen years after that my parents had their big blow out which caused the entire family's deaths except Mother and myself. I was instead transported to this room. I received a message similar to this one saying that I was needed to keep certain universes intact. I could alter this space to suit my needs and should begin my job right away. So, I now watch the multiverse as we call it. I make sure universes don't disappear. Yours is actually the first one to ever do so. As to bringing back the dead, I didn't do it. I am not a god; I am a watcher. I have power over this space and that is it."

"So, what's to stop us from just killing you now and taking over this place?" Mercury asked snidely.

"Well, first off Boots, nobody has their weapons," Gordeau replied smugly.

Everyone looked and saw that this was true with a "What? No, where is she?" coming from both Ruby and Summer.

Taiyang and Qrow laughed at this, "Like mother, like daughter."

Yang and Mercury had other reaction though, both noticing that their respective limbs had grown back.

"My legs!"

"My arm!"

"Second off," Gordeau continued, "there's that. This place gives everyone in it a respectable healing factor, enough to grow back limbs or even," he narrowed his gaze, "vocal cords."

Neo gasped, an actual audible gasp, "I….I c…can t.. talk?" The words stammered out of her mouth.

Torchwick laughed, "So that's what it sounds like! I'm happy for you kid."

Neo spoke again trying and failing to keep these words inside, "Roman is back and I can talk? Best day ever!"

Ruby laughed at this realizing the ice-cream themed girl kinda sounded like her in this moment.

Gordeau rolled his eyes, "Anyway, I've left semblances on save two. Qrow you're welcome. Don't thank me just be happy. The other one I've turned off is the master thief over here," he gestured at Emerald, "I can't have her messing with my head."

Emerald began pouting at this, "I thought that could be our ticket out of here!"

Gordeau continued, "Even with these conditions there are three people in this room who could beat me. One of you won't because were family, Dad."

Ozpin, having recovered from Qrow's hit, smiled at him and gave him a knowing nod.

Gordeau turned away as he continued, "As for the other two, do you really think you could beat me with my younger sister's powers?" He turned his head as he said this revealing a green wing around his right eye.

"WHAT!" Cinder and Raven both yelled the wings coming to both of their eyes as well.

Nobody was surprised at Cinder's reaction, but Qrow just stared at Raven.

"It was you the whole time! How many more secrets are you hiding Raven!" he screamed at her.

"None," she replied, "I actually thought Yang had told you this one already. She found out in the vault."

Yang face palmed, "Mother, I was trying to protect you."

Raven was actually touched that her daughter did that for her.

Pyrrha was the next to respond remembering the conversation about Amber before the Vytal Festival, "Wait, I thought Maidens could only be girls?"

"You are correct Miss Nikos," Ozpin explained, "The Maidens can only be young women. Their power comes from my four daughters who were killed in that battle."

At this Gordeau snapped his fingers and the story Jinn had told was relayed into everyone's minds, even those who probably shouldn't have known.

Roman looked at Neo, "Um, something tells me we never should have gotten involved in this, huh kid?"

Neo nodded feverishly being frightened back into her old ways.

Mercury and Emerald, overhearing Roman agreed. They gave each other a knowing glance. They had both been thinking they were in over their heads, this just proved it.

Cinder began to realize there was more to her mistress than she thought. She also saw how Salem had used all of humanity as tools for her revenge. "Am I also just a tool to you Mistress?"

Adam didn't give two shits.

Raven leaned back against the wall. She had guessed Salem was unbeatable this just confirmed it.

Ilia and Sun looked at each other. The two had not realized what was at stake. Had they known they both would have stayed with Blake and her teammates instead of leaving for their own goals.

Taiyang punched the nearby wall. He was furious but, unlike Qrow, knew that taking it out on Ozpin would accomplish nothing.

Winter on the other hand, reacted in a way that surprised everyone, but Qrow and Weiss especially. Winter kicked Ozpin in the face. "You sent MY SISTER on an impossible quest? I don't care if it is for the fate of mankind, I will never forgive you!"

Weiss was surprised because the only other time she had seen Winter that angry was at Beacon when Qrow provoked her.

Qrow was surprised because she basically had the same reaction to the news he did, "Maybe we're not so different after all."

Pyrrha and Summer had the exact same reaction, they both fell to their knees and started crying. "I died for this?" Summer turned to look at Ozpin, "I missed out on the life I was supposed to live because you set me on an impossible task?"

Pyrrha joined in, "You told me I could make a difference. You told me I could help change the world! Now I find out that was impossible. I died for nothing."

Ruby and Jaune went to comfort the two respectively. This must have been a giant shock to the two deceased warriors.

Ozpin, recovering from Winter's assault on him, resumed his line of thought, "Anyway, to answer Miss Niko's question all my children could do magic. My daughters magic became the Maiden's powers when they died. Vert," Gordeau growled but Ozpin continued unaffected, "never died so he kept his powers."

Ruby suddenly thought of something and gave Ozpin a confused look, "Then why didn't Jinn mention him?"

The lamp on Ruby's belt expanded and Jinn appeared out of a puff of smoke.

"Because he is a manipulative son of a bitch!" she yelled oblivious to who saw or heard her.

"Ahh, Jinn," Gordeau responded, "you've never been this nice to me before. And need I remind you which one of us was jealous? One of us can see all realities, the other can answer three questions every hundred years about the past or present. Hmm, I wonder?"

Gordeau's sarcasm was not lost on the room.

Torchwick laughed, "I like this guy already!"

Qrow and Tai chuckled while Yang fell on the floor holding her gut.

Ruby turned to Ozpin, "What's their problem?"

Ozpin chuckled, "They dated for a while. It's complicated but let's just say it didn't end well."

"Ohhh." Ruby responded before Jinn let out a huff and disappeared back into her lamp.

"Well," Gordeau pointed to a wall and a door suddenly appeared, "We should begin, the universes won't watch themselves."

AN: So I know a reaction fic shouldn't have this long of a intro, but I wanted to do something kind of unique. I also know that an OC can ruin reaction fics. Gordeau from this point on will only be there to clarify universes that don't follow Remnant's rules. If you the readers want me to do more with him let me know but I don't think I will unless you really want it. Also note that Gordeau gets his name from Under Night Inbirth. His look however, comes from Reiji in Akiba's Beat. I decided on that look first then realized it actually looked like a younger Ozpin. Seriously look it up and then tell me he doesn't look like Oz. As to what universes the team will be reacting to, I have a few prepped up and ready. The first one involves a treasure hunter, a reporter, and a statue of gold. I will also be completely finishing a story before I begin another here.