Alright. I have seen many RWBY react fanfics and many of them were good, some were focused on dark and depressing like Khor Evik Vlakhavlakh's Remnants of Dimensions, some authors had shown multiple possible futures like BookishTen8, animegamer98, SGArkosfan and some others. Some were not so serious like Aravas' library fanfic and some did reactions to their own fanfic like how Gravenimage and warrior of six blades are writing RWBY reacts to RH. I read all of them and saw how even LordHellPhoenix and NigmaShady wrote one and their fanfics are really good. If any of you are reding this, know that you all inspired me to write this fanfic.
And after some thinking I decided to make my own react fanfic. Although, when I think about it, I am already writing a multiverse-based fanfic, then again it is a Fairy Tail fanfic. Not a RWBY one. This is more of an experiment to see how I would do.
Also, thanks to the author shadowgumballofdeath for starting this trend and shout out to King-Mac-11 and JC of the Corn for popularizing it.
Anyways, let's begin.
I do not own RWBY.
Chapter 1: The Watcher.
Jaune huffed as he was training at the Beacon's fight simulations, he blocked a strike from a robot and hit it with his sword only to be hit by another robot. He grunted as he looked at his aura meter and a look of mild anger appeared on his face before he went to attack the robots again. This repeated for several minutes until his scroll flashed red and he looked down to see that his aura level was at 14%. The training bots turned off and he panted as he stood up and sheathed his sword and took out a towel to wipe his face from all the sweat and sighed as he looked back at the training bots.
'Were this anybody else they would have finished them off and lose only around 10%, yet here I am, unable to destroy even twenty of them at normal difficulty.' He thought as he clenched his fists tightly 'Am I that weak? Is this all that I can do?' Such thoughts were floating in his head before he roared in anger, his body glowed white but sadly went unnoticed by him and he punched a wall closest to him, creating a large dent as well as cracks that spread around the dent. His head held low as he thought back on all the training that he did, The Breach had shown him that he still needed to train, yet The Vytal Tournament was getting closer and he was far more likely to embarrass both his team and Beacon with his performance.
'There is still time.' He thought as he pulled his fist back 'I still have time to train and get at least strong enough to be adequate. If not, then I might as well come clean with my transcripts and either get expelled or at least reprimanded by everyone.' With that thought, he went to his room to discuss some training plans with Pyrrha…
ZAP!
Until a flash of light and a strange sound had him look back. He saw an area that was glowing blue and a large disk like object was lying amidst the training equipment. He raised an eyebrow as he went to it and knelt down beside it. Warily raising his hand, he touched it and felt and saw nothing happen, the glow remained but the device did nothing.
"Is this supposed to be some sort of Atlas device?" He wondered as he picked it up and noticed that it was strangely light given its size.
"Maybe I could show it to the others? Weiss should know what this is." He said out-loud as he tucked it under his arm and went to his dorm, not noticing how one of the buttons blinked red.
"Have you guys noticed that Jaune has been getting distressed lately?" Pyrrha asked as she sat on her bed and polished her spear. Ren was looking over his notes while Nora was lying on her bed with a plate of pancakes.
"Now that you mentioned it, yes I did notice him getting frustrated and depressed." Ren replied as he looked at her and put down his notes.
"What do you think is the cause?" The redhead asked as she put her weapon on the bed.
"I actually do. You remember how the Vytal Festival is getting closer?" He asked and the two redheads nodded "I think he might be getting distressed because of the Vytal Tournament that is supposed to happen." Pyrrha and Nora exchanged a look as they realized what that meant.
"He is getting distressed because he believes he will embarrass us and Beacon with his performance. I have seen him training intensely and getting tired on classes." The champion said as Ren nodded.
"He is pushing himself to prove his place, resulting in his insomnia and distress." Nora frowned at that.
"Well, we can't have him training by himself all the time. Let's go and help our leader get stronger!" Nora declared as her two teammates nodded as the hammer wielder went to the door.
BAM!
Only to get by it as it suddenly swung open, revealing Yang on the other side.
"Hey guys! Why is Nora clutching her cheek?" The blonde asked as her team stood behind her.
"You opened the door when she was about to get the doorknob and hit her in the face." Ren calmly replied as Yang winced at that.
"Sorry about that Nora." Nora waved it off.
"No worries! It's gonna take a lot more than a door and a blonde to knock me out!" Yang chuckled at that as Pyrrha turned to her.
"Why are you all here?" Ruby went around her sister and appeared on the doorway.
"We wanted to know if you guys are up for a sleepover. We thought it would be a good idea if we had a night of fun playing games and watching movies before we start training for the Tournament." NPR looked at each other before they nodded at each other and looked at Ruby.
"Sure, let me just go find Jaune and we will-"
"Hey, what's going on?" A voice startled Team RWBY and they turned to see Jaune in his usual outfit and some sort of a device in his arms.
"Hey, Jaune. We were just asking Pyrrha and others if they wanted to have a sleepover." Ruby replied before she saw the device "What is that thing?" By now, NPR were outside and they saw the device in Jaune's arms.
"Don't know. I found it in the training area. It's really light for its size and looks like something that Atlas came up with." Jaune held the device so that everyone could see it and they marveled as they saw it. It was device in the shape of a disk and had numerous buttons and other stuff, amking it look advanced.
"I have never seen anything like it, not even in Atlas. What is this?" Weiss muttered as she touched it and it glowed for a second but stopped.
"Oh, Oh. Can I see? Can I see?" Nora asked as she shoved everyone aside and took the object from Jaune. She looked it over, spinning it a few times.
"Maybe it's a new weapon? Oh, or maybe it is a new version of a Frisbee?!" Nora asked as she then found a blinking red button.
"What does this button do?" She pressed it and the device sparked before seemingly jumping out of her arms and fell to the ground.
"What the?" something came out of the device and it proceeded to scan the area, flashing red as it stopped on Jaune.
"Potential Reaper found." Was all that it said before it began to glow and had arcs of electricity coming out of it.
"What is it doing?" Blake warily asked as she had her hand on Gambol Shroud as the device spun before shooting a beam at Jaune, who then began to glow as well. His body began to get surrounded by blue lightning and he began to disappear.
"Jaune!" Thinking quickly Pyrrha stabbed her spear into the device, trying to stop it.
"WARNING! WARNING!"
The device began to spark and shake before shooting beams at RWBY and NPR. The students were all covered in blue energy, which began spinning around fast them. They began to glow brightly.
"What's going on?!"
"I don't know!"
"Yang, I am scared!"
The device glowed brighter and brighter as it sparked and the students did as well.
Before they all disappeared in a flash of white, leaving only a scorched floor in their wake.
"Nora!" Ren shouted as he tried to reach out to her, one minute they were at Beacon and the other they were travelling through this strange glowing portal.
"Ruby! Hold on!" Yang shouted as she tried to catch her sister, Weiss and Blake were at her side as they held on to each other so as to not get lost.
"Jaune!" Pyrrha called out as she saw the blonde being dangerously close to the walls. She tried to get to him and extended her hand, he tried to get her as well…
Only for a pulse of energy to shake the portal and a burst of energy knocked Jaune away and right to the walls.
"Jaune!" The redhead screamed as she saw Jaune disappear right before her eyes, his body breaching the walls before a light appeared at the end of the portal.
Somewhere in the void of the multiverse.
A lone figure sat in front of a large flashing screen, his eyes glowing as he saw the events happen across multiple worlds. He frowned at that as the screen stopped flashing and ten different colored cards appeared and went towards him.
He looked over each one and frowned as he saw a pitch black card with a pentagram on it, a blood red one that was dripping blood, a sickly green looking card which was oozing infectious liquids, a pink one with a blade and finally a gold one with a skull on it. The rest of the cards were either crystal blue with a rapier, burning yellow with a dragon, a black one with a claw mark, a shining red with roses and finally a punk one with a Warhammer on it. The cards floated again as he placed them at the shelves before putting his attention back at the screen.
THUD!
Until the place shook and he frowned at that before he heard sounds of scuffle and paused the screen as went to investigate.
"Ughh, what happened?" Ruby asked as she shook her head to get rid of the disorientation.
"I am not sure." Weiss replied as she sat up.
"Where are we?" Blake rubbed her head to shake off the dizziness.
"Ruby, Weiss, Blake. Get off me." Yang groaned as they all had landed on Yang.
"Oh, sorry Yang!"
"Sorry Yang."
"Sorry about that Xiao-Long." They got off the blonde who groaned as she got up.
"Ren! Ren!" Nora called out as she looked around.
"I am right under you Nora." Was a pained groan as Nora looked down to see that she was sitting on Ren's back. She quickly got off him.
"Oops, sorry Ren!"
"It's fine." Was all that he said as he got up.
"Jaune! Where are you?!" Pyrrha shouted as she looked around, trying to find her crush. She looked around the dark place, trying to find any sign of her leader.
"Can someone explain what is going on here!?" Weiss shouted as she looked around the unfamiliar place.
"What are you all doing here?"
The unexpected voice had all of them look up and they stared in disbelief as they saw a person sitting on air while looking at them with his glowing eyes. The person wore a blue hoodie that covered his body, it had metallic plates all over the upper torso, he wore blue jeans with armor plates on the thighs and ankles, complete with metal boots on his feet. His arms had wicked looking armored gauntlets, his biceps were covered by metallic fiber and his face was hidden by the hood, covering the upper part of his face while the his mouth and nose were covered by a mask, a scarf made from red fiber was around his neck. His glowing eyes made them shiver as Pyrrha narrowed her eyes at him.
"What is this place? Who are you?!" The figure did not respond and instead simply stood up on thin air.
"Do you really want to know?" Pyrrha's eyes widened as she felt his presence behind her and jumped back with her spear ready. To her shock, the figure was now behind her as he then moved around, with the others staring at where he was supposed to be.
"Tell us who you are! What is this place?" The figure looked at her before he spoke.
"I-" The rest turned around and saw that the figure was now standing on the ceiling "am someone who knows about you all. I-" He appeared on the ground with his hands behind his back "am someone who sees through many worlds. And I-" he appeared before them with his arms stretched "am someone who sees many futures of many worlds. I am the Watcher, one of the many beings assigned to keep watch over it." Weiss raised an eyebrow at that.
"Keep watch over what?" The figure chuckled before he waved his hands and they were now on a different room. This one had a large screen on the wall, with seats that made it look like a cinema, there were shelves, which stretched towards the ceiling and disappeared into the darkness. Strangest of all, there were cards on the shelves, each of them looked different with different colors and symbols etched into them.
"This," the figure spoke and they turned to him "is the place of infinite viewing. A place where we watch over and make sure that nothing is out of order to ensure its survival." The group looked around as the cards floated over to him.
"What is 'it' that you are talking about?" Blake asked as the cards spun around him as he chuckled.
"The Infinite Multiverse!" The cards stopped floating around him, went to them and began to glow before they expanded and their eyes widened as they each stared at a different card.
Ruby squealed as she saw a different version of herself wielding complex machinery and guns.
Yang whistled as she saw herself fighting with an army of Grimm with an upgraded Ember Celica.
Weiss frowned as she saw an older looking version of herself killing people sadistically with ice powers.
Blake's eyes widened as she faunus and humans living on friendly terms, with some kissing and holding hands, and some faunus children hugging their human parents. She smiled as she saw the scene and saw a brief glance of a slightly older different version of herself holding a little girl in her arms.
Ren's eyes widened as he saw a version of himself who looked a lot like his father and wielded a bow as he fought an armored cyborg.
Nora was giddy as she stared at a version of herself holding an axe and a Warhammer as lightning danced around her.
Pyrrha's breath hitched as she saw a version of Jaune holding a different looking sword with a look of revenge on his face, Nora and Ren by his side with both looking quite different with their weapons looking more menacing as corpses lay around them.
Watcher chuckled as he saw their reactions as the cards stopped glowing and went back to him.
"Each of these cards show a different world, each with different possibilities and outcomes. Some have creatures that make Grimm look like harmless, disabled puppies,"
'I can't imagine anything worse than Grimm.' Yang grimly thought as she tried to think of anything scarier than Grimm.
"Some have humans and faunus as slaves to a different race,"
'That is horrible.' Blake thought as she knew how the faunus were treated and now humans suffered the same fate.
"And some do not have Dust at all."
"How is that possible?" Weiss wondered out-loud "Dust is the energy source of Remnant. It powers everything we have!" Everything from bullheads to scrolls to electricity in people's homes, was all powered by Dust, so the mere thought of Dust being non-existent was preposterous.
Watcher chuckled at that as he looked at her with his glowing eyes.
"Miss Schnee, there are worlds that use the Sun itself as a power source, some use the very atom as an energy and some have…less than moral ways of getting energy. Trust me: Dust isn't the only way of getting power." He let that sink in as Weiss slowly nodded at him.
"That is nice and all, but why are we here?" Blake asked as the Watched turned to her.
"How exactly did you get here?" They all thought about before Ruby snapped her fingers.
"A device that Jaune found! It brought us here."
"Can you show it to me?"
"Sure!" Nora said as she took out the device and presented it to him, the device began floating before going to Watcher's hand and he hummed as he inspected it.
"Ah, this is one of mine. The Multiversal Displacer, a device meant to jump between worlds and bring someone either here or to another world. It wasn't supposed to get you all here." They all looked confused at that.
"Then what was it supposed to do?" Weiss asked as Watcher sighed.
"It was supposed to bring Jaune here, yet it seems that something damaged it and it sent you all here while sending Jaune himself across the Mulitiverse." Blake raised an eyebrow at that.
"Wait, why would you need Jaune? What makes him so special?" The rest looked at him with the same question in their minds.
"Because out of all of you, he is the only one who always survives." Now they looked confused at what he said.
'Hang on. What do you mean by 'always survives?'" Yang asked with narrowed eyes as Watcher chuckled.
"In most of the futures of your world, Jaune Arc is the only one who always survives no matter the odds. Where people stronger than him fall, he always survives, be it by will or tenacity, he is the one who will never die give up. In a way, this makes him someone who can change the course of your history, coupled with other factors about him such as his potential, and all of that make him very important." He said as they processed the information.
'Never gives up, huh? I can see that.' Yang thought with a hum.
'What makes him so important that he can do all of that?' Weiss thought with a huff, she knew that Jaune wasn't as skilled as they were and doubted he would even survive long enough.
'Wow, Jaune can do that?! COOL!' Ruby thought, excited at the prospect of that.
'Our Leader is awesome!' Nora thought with excitement.
'I guess there is more to him than I thought.' Blake thought, curious as to what made Jaune so special.
'Maybe we should help him reach that potential.' Ren thought as he had a smile at the thought of his brother in all but blood being that strong.
'I always knew you had in you Jaune.' Pyrrha thought with a smile, intent on training her partner after they get home.
Watcher inwardly chuckled as he could read their thoughts.
"It isn't only in your world that he can do that. Perhaps you would like to see?" he asked as several cards floated to him and they all stared at him surprised.
"You would let us watch these worlds?" He nodded at Ruby.
"Why not? After all, until I can find Jaune again, it would take time. So let me show you just what I mean when I say that he is special." He gestured them to seat, they did so as drinks and popcorn appeared in their arm seats.
"Food and Drinks will appear every time you want and there is no limit to what you can get." They all smiled as Watcher took out one card and threw it towards the screen. It glowed before he card disappeared into it and the lights dimmed.
A/N: Alright, the prologue is done. Time to start the reactions. Note, I do not know many cartoons, games or movies so I may not have good knowledge over some things.
Thank you for reading this chapter and until next time. Farewell.