Fifteen students, trapped in a school where they are forced to play a Mutual Killing Game. Makoto Naegi may be your average student with peculiar luck, but with hope in his heart, he fights to uncover the truth of the Mastermind and end this nightmare. With the Ultimate Detective, Kirigiri Kyouko, and the Ultimate Male Model, Dio Brando, surely he cannot fail. Can he?

A collection of short RWBY stories of all kinds, ranging from alternate directions, to canon routes as well. Different teams? Good and bad swapped around? Childhoods of the characters themselves? All of these tales and more are here in this collection of tales. Chapter 23: Weiss knew she could do good in Atlas. It just meant betraying everything, and everyone, she held dear.

It wasn't that Weiss was totally unhappy with her team. After all, she had the famous Pyrrha Nikos fighting alongside her, and Ruby seemed to have more than a fair amount of combat skill. It was just that Team JPWR would be much more efficient, had Ruby not been made leader, and a certain Jaune Arc was absent from the team. That was just her opinion, of course.

Jaune wanted to be the hero, like his family always had been. Protecting the weak, doing what was right, and slaying monsters just seemed right to him. It was only now that he saw that the true monsters were the ones ruling Remnant, and that they were just as cruel and vicious as the worst of Grimm. After all that had happened, Jaune was going to stop them, no matter the cost.

Different choices create different worlds. Some have a different Soul Reaper be the one who gave the Substitute his first taste of spiritual power, others have the one given the power be another and some even change before or after the events. A gaze into these possibilities, these shards of a wider mirror called reality, reveals many things and how they could have been different.

In another world, the Bee and the Demon replace the Snake and the Seeker of Justice in Aizen's plans. Only the Gotei 13 have the strength and resources to prevent his plans from entering fruition, but the pain of treachery remains if only in a different shape. Many dear friends will have to be cut down on either side and no one will be safe. AU