RWBY: It's the Same Type of Stand

CHAPTER 1

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*HEAVY GASP!*

I breathed deeply before choking at the sudden intake of air, causing me to cough with my hand around my throat, attempting to soothe it. I looked around the room, it was clearly mine. But something was off. There was this sense of strangeness surrounding the room.

I slowed down my breathing and calmed the rapid beating of my heart before suddenly getting the headache of my life, causing me to groan loudly before the pain all of a sudden faded away.

"Ugh... That's so damn weird — "

I felt something flow down my nose to my mouth. I licked it. It tasted of iron. I was bleeding? From my nose?

Wait, that isn't the important issue currently. After that beast of a headache, I finally know why this place was so out of place. I gained a new set of memories.

The poster on the left wall of my room, instead of it being an image of Ultra Instinct Goku blasting a point-blank Kamehameha, it was a person holding on a weird mechanical combination of a sword and a gun with the background image of a castle.

A Huntsman, my mind provided as I just groaned. I'm not in Malaysia anymore. Hell, I'm definitely not in Earth no more. I'm in Remnant, the world of RWBY where two divorced parents fight it out in the shadows of a fucked up world with monsters roaming around the land.

But hey, at least I can finally say this.

"Dorothy, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore."

Heh, that's a good one, Adrian.

Wait, is it Adrian or Obsidian now? Eh, I'll go with Obsidian. Also, who even names their kid Obsidian — Huh. The color naming thing is real ever since the Great War? That's cool, it wasn't stated in the web series, but it was an established thing in the fandom...

Now then, the other important matter. Wipe my bloody nose.

Alright simple enough, the next important thing on the list.

"What kind of powers do I have...?"

Since I've transmigrated — Yes, transmigrated. I was falling asleep after a tough day in school, fuck chemistry — through the powers of whatever ROB that sent me here, I should have a power up to survive in this world.

Sifting through the memories of Adrian, well it's me, but I'll just call my past life Adrian, — It was quite a lot, especially since I'm only 14 while Adrian had 17 years worth of memories, its really jumbled together like messy cables of a PC— , I finally found something that was somewhat related to it.

I remember that Adrian played an interactive CYOA before sleeping, and he chose RWBY as the world. Eh, it's a decent decision, the power scaling isn't that bad compared to other weird worlds, I'm looking at you, Oppai Dragon who powers up with the magic of nipples.

And then he went with the powers of... A JoJo Stand?

Let's goooo! Reality bending abilities with a punching ghost that may go ORA ORA? Neat. Wait a second, fuck, he put random instead of choosing. Not neat, Adrian, not neat! Random is not good, dammit!

Massaging my head, I sighed. It should be fine, all stands are amazing if used right, though I really have a bias towards the Stands of the main characters and DIO. Jotaro and DIO could stop fucking time itself, for god's sake.

Wait, it's gods now, isn't it? Plural since there are two gods that literally let our world to fend for humanity itself against the Grimm. Having memories of two lives are so weird.

Alright, think about that later. I've read that to bring out a Stand, I need fighting spirit and resolve... What the fuck am I even supposed to do? Humming, I decided to just wing it. Why not just concentrate real hard and hope for the best?

And so, that's what I did. Looking for something to lift that wasn't heavy yet light, I saw that my gaming laptop had disappeared, which made the heart of mine hurt since I spent a lot to upgrade it with 32 gigabytes of RAM and 4 terabytes worth of storage in SSD.

Replacing it was a simple monitor that was connected to something akin to a phone dock, and it held a white metal grip thingy that was the size of a Switch Joycon.

Walking close to it, I took it into my hand before opening it fully by letting it scan my finger.

In an instant, a screen materialized out of somewhere before solidifying. This was Remnant's version of modern technology. A Scroll, the means of communication here that uses Hard Light Dust with CCT technology.

Alright, this costs a lot of money. 599 Lien to be exact, so I wouldn't want to drop this unless I'd want to get yelled at.

... And I dropped it.

My heart sank as I watched as all my hard-earned money from doing all the odd jobs at school slowly disappeared from existence. My mind yells to grab it, as my body moves to try and save it.

But clearly I was too slow to react, so my mind changes its focus to ridicule me instead for doing such a stupid thing, and that I was going to work my ass off for another 6 months just to get a new one!

If only I could just stop time —

*TIK TIK TIK TIIK TIIK tiiiik!*

... In an instant, the colors of the world disappeared, leaving only black and white.

Everything stops, even the air. I could briefly see the individual air particles floating around me.

The Scroll stayed in the air, and then something overlapped moved from my body before —

*tiiiik TIIK TIIK TIK TIK TIK!*

Not more than a millisecond had pass in that world. Everything was normal again.

But now, a black arm was holding onto the Scroll in place with its blue fingers.

Those weren't mine.

As my eyes glanced higher and higher, I saw the jet black forearm that wore navy blue bracers, to the shoulder that was under a black puffy vest-like straps, along the neck is connected by two individual tubes that lead to behind its back , and then —

My eyes laid onto its menacing sky blue eyes underneath a helmet the resembled a Deshret.

And as if it was déjà vu, I suddenly knew its name. T-This... This was my Stand. My own Stand.

Its name is —

[Back in Black].

...

Damn, only I could have such a sick Stand name.

And the AC/DC reference, double sick.

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[Back in Black] had the same design base as [THE WORLD], I noticed. The helmet that resembled the Red Crown of Lower Egypt to even the body build.

But that was where the similarities end.

Instead of a golden yellow color scheme, [Back in Black] had a jet black color scheme as the primary colors, with navy and sky blue as the secondary.

Well, black was Adrian's favorite, while mine is dark blue. It fits.

Besides the color scheme, there was an additional cloth part similar to [Star Platinum] that covered the crotch area... I checked, and my Stand did not have a dick. There was a bulge though under some kind of metal protector, it was blue too.

And the heart shape designs on [THE WORLD] was not on my Stand. Instead, there were pads similar to sports athletes that decorated the joints of [Back in Black]. And the weird jolly elf shoes weren't present, and a pair of black sneaker boots replaced it with a clock logo at the side.

But the coolest part of my Stand was the back. Instead of twin oxygen cylinders, it was some kind of futuristic backpack with sharp ridges at the side, like Falcon's jetpack from the MCU but without the wings.

Putting my Scroll on my table, I tested with [Back in Black] and found some interesting things.

1. I can control it easily with just a thought. It's like having a second body that had the power of an unstoppable truck, from the claps of air that sounds whenever my Stand punches the air.

2. I can touch my Stand. Tapping on my Stand's shoulder felt like something was touching my somewhere inside my heart. I can also will my Stand to dematerialize but make it so that the Stand was still visible. My hand passing through [Back in Black] was proof.

3. I can see or hear through my Stand. By concentrating on the connection between us — It was like a tether that connects from inside our hearts — I can see, feel and hear from my Stand's point of view. Though I can only maintain it for only 3 seconds max due to the sensory overload.

4. My Stand has a limited range movement, as in it can only move up to 2 meters from my body before it is blocked by an invisible wall. 2 meters was the range of my Stand, so an E rank in the Range Stat, but in turn, the Speed, Power, and Durability must be higher than the norm.

And lastly, 5. [Back in Black] can stop time. As long as I consciously think of wanting to stop time, I will be back in that black and white world.

This was crazy, the ability to stop time was fucking powerful, even if I could only stop time for just under a millisecond. I think that with more experience of using it, the duration would increase.

So it's the same type of Stand as [Star Platinum].

Heh, a JoJo reference.

The drawback for this is that a cool down exists. Maybe it's just a "me" problem, but the cool down was about 10 seconds max before I can use the ability again. The indicator was on [Back in Black]'s bracers, which will light up sky blue when it is available, and navy blue when it's on cooldown.

The second drawback was that I could only use it about three times constantly before I get tired. Like, as if I ran a marathon tired.

This awakening of my Stand and analysis happened in less than an hour. And it was about 9 in the morning...

Wait, 9 in the morning?

OH FUCK, I HAVE SCHOOL!

Quickly running to my backpack, I shoved all my stationary inside along with textbooks for today's subjects before zipping and slinging it onto my back. Reaching for the doorknob of my room's door, I commanded [Back in Black] to reach out towards my table to grab my Scroll that I forgot before opening the door. 

Alright, school time. 

Hopefully Cardin's not gonna punch me in the face again.