Looking Through Jaune Arc's Multiverse

A Generic Beginning Pt. 2

"Now!" Jaune reaffirmed.

Winter, despite reuniting with her sister, felt her resolve strengthen. She had thought she lost her sister because of this monster. She swore she wouldn't.

"You... Are going to PAY. For everything you've done!" Winter shouted to the woman who took so much from her. She lifted off the ground and flew to the gateway that would take her to Vacuo. Jaune followed on foot behind her.

Cinder looked to the staff in her hand, before taking off into the gateway back to the Vault under Atlas. As soon as she disappeared, the shortcut they made with the staff shook and began dissolving.

Ruby connected the dots and grew fearful. "No..." she whispered.

Nora and Ren had a similar train of thought. After Yang fell, team RWBY had seen what happened when they fell off the paths. Winter had seen it when Weiss fell. She remembered failing to save her sister's friend.

Jaune ran as the dissolving trail was catching up quickly.

"No, no... please no." Ruby continued muttering. Yang grabbed her hand in support for what she, unfortunately, knew was going to happen.

Winter noticed, and looked over her shoulder, and saw the trail about to give way under the boy's feet. She turned and reached her hand out to him, but unfortunately, she noticed too late, as her momentum carried her through the gateway. And that was a one-way trip.

Saphron held her son tighter. "Please... please make it." She wanted assurance that her brother was alive and well.

Jaune continued to run toward the portal that took the others to Vacuo. The path was disappearing right behind his feet. In an attempt to cross over, he leaped at the portal with a shout. Sadly, it was not to be, as the portal dissolved as well. It disappeared before he could reach it, and with nothing to catch him, he fell.

"AAAaah!" He fell further down, until he too dissolved, into golden sparks. Just like the path that dropped him, and just like team RWBY and Neo.

Then the screen blacked out.

"NO!" Ruby and Nora shouted. They didn't want to believe it. Ruby turned and cried into Yang's chest, while Nora did the same for Ren. Right before them, they saw their friend fall, and vanish into nothing.

Yang hung her head as she held her sister. Not knowing what to say or do, other than attempt to comfort her. She felt a hand on her shoulder as she turned and saw Blake was the one who placed her hand there. Their eyes met, and they both nodded. Ruby needed their support. Yang turned her head back and rested it atop Ruby's, and Blake squeezed her shoulder. Weiss covered her mouth with both hands, eyes wide.

Saphron turned and hugged her wife, tears falling down her face. Terra held a hand up to her mouth, shocked, while she wrapped her other arm around Saphron and their son. Adrian, seeing her distress, hugged his mother, not fully understanding what was wrong. (Babies and their lack of object permanence.)

Ren just stood in disbelief. Neither he nor Nora knew what happened when someone fell off the pathway into the void. Seeing their leader seemingly turn to nothing was heartbreaking.

"What's with the tears?" Again, sounding insensitive, Dee spoke up.

Those who were close to the young Arc only looked to the apparent god. Before anything could happen, Tee kept his brother from talking. "What he means is, Jaune Arc is not dead."

This put something very dangerous into the hearts of his friends and family. Hope.

"He's not?" Ruby's voice was still broken from her sobs, as she wiped her tears away with her palms.

"Like we said," Tee said. "He's alive. We just don't know where he is. We think it's some sort of pocket dimension? Maybe some form of Limbo? The plane of existence, not the game."

Again, preventing protests, Dee started. "Look, your world's creators are planning something big. We don't quite know what that is, but it involves Jaune, to an extent."

This seemed to placate their stronger emotions, and let the gods continue.

Tee looked to his wrist, which had nothing on it. "Yikes! We took this long?" He held his wrist up to his brother and pointed, "We better wrap it up."

Dee's eyebrows shot up when he saw Tee's wrist- again, nothing on it- and nodded. "Okay, the long and short? We figured with all the suddenness of everything, you could use a tiny break. Like we said, we've stopped time in your world, so you have nothing to worry about. Down the hall to the left, there are some rooms. Go and have a rest. There's more we want to tell you when you wake up. It can wait until then."

Twirling his finger, they all turned around to the door that they came in from. The fatigue began setting in, and rest did sound nice. They walked out, and to the rooms, they had been told to go to.

Now alone, the brothers looked at one another.

"Still think this was a good idea?" Tee asked.

"I'll admit, it's not as easy as they make it look."

Tee raised a hand and flicked his brother's forehead. "Puto."

"Fuck you."

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Holy shit. This took way longer  to write than I expected. 

Any who, I really hope this one turned out decent. Again, I try to think of what the characters would actually say and do in these scenarios, and my god is it hard to keep track of all of them. I'm pretty sure I didn't even mention Emerald in this chapter. And I'm torturing myself adding five more. 

While writing this, I did have an existential crisis, so that's why Tee is the way he is. Like his brother said, he's not normally like that. It happened while I was reading some comics. My god... DC and Marvel know what they're doing with their Multiverses. Or I guess... Metaverse? Omniverse? Very existential. Made my brain hurt.

Sorry that it's just the intro so far. I don't think this is the last part, hopefully it is though. I really want to get to the reactions. I want to do one specific one in time for Halloween.  Thank you, and bye!