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Prologue: The Primordial Dilemma

It was 5:00 AM. My eyes opened at the dim light of the room, the grey ceiling that had been the first thing I've been seeing since last week greeted me once more as I got up from my small futon.

I let a small yawn leave my throat, giving quick glances to the pairs of bunk beds set on both my sides.

Two of them were currently empty as their occupants/owners were happily sleeping together with their respective partners.

You would think I would have been happy to find myself summoned in the RWBY universe, to join Beacon and encounter the main cast.

I suppose I should explain who is the narrator here:

Hello there, I'm Shaun Reyter, the generic dude with average grades in high school that for some reason found himself stuck in quite the predicament.

I think the first clue that this idyllic reality was far from perfect was right when I was chosen to be the 5th member of a canonical full-female team.

But I knew that things were not faring well with me the moment the events of the first days at Beacon Academy ended differently from what I could remember.

While having some attrition among each other, Ruby and Weiss warmed up to each other. It was surprising as their early rivalry was something that characterized the first half of Volume 1 and it was even more shocking when I got the first sign that their relationship went beyond mere friendship, finding the bathroom assigned to the team occupied by the two girls.

Their moans were mostly hidden by the strong stream of water running in the bathtub, making it quite difficult to truly say that they were doing… That.

I had hoped that the case was an isolated one but to my chagrin I found out that Yang's sense of adventure wasn't limited to men.

I noticed that she got together with Blake the moment the cat Faunus decided to ditch the black bow and started to get possessive of the blonde's attention, sometimes getting skittish when she felt that the brawler was being flirty with someone the Belladonna didn't like to have around.

A team full of lesbians, the wet dream of many dudes with dreams.

Boy, I hate this.

The first week passed and thankfully nothing else seemed different but maybe it was just some mistaken thought of mine as I didn't go beyond Volume 2 because I started to focus more on school to improve some bad grades and went to forget about it until now.

Do I feel kind of dumb at the thought I was mostly unaware of the future events? Yes but also no. While that could have given me a sharper edge to use with the 'grim' circumstances, this could have been all nullified by the unpredictable twist to the plot that could happen, just like the one that characterized last week.

My musings finish the moment I entered the classroom and went for my seat.

A little smile as I passed in front of team JNPR, the four members keeping their canon attitude and chemistry.

"Shaunny!" Nora spearheaded the greeting of the group as I sighed at the childish nickname.

"Good morning to you too, Nora." I returned a nod to her partner's direction as he bowed his head at me. "Ren."

"Good morning, Shaun." "Hello Pyrrha." The amazon nodded as the leader of the team groaned in his hand, a considerable stack of paper in the section of the desk in front of him.

"Goodwitch's homework?" A defeated sigh left his mouth and I hummed to myself. "If you want I could let you copy from my notes-" "But that wouldn't be right and-" I proceeded to sigh before slapping the panic out of the blond teen.

"Jaune, we are in school and we are not going to die if you copied once in a while."

He continued to be hesitant as I sat down on the chair next to him and so I decided to bring out of my pouch the aforementioned notes I have written for studying.

"Just don't straight-up copy it, change some words with synonyms and the teacher will not catch up with the trick."

He grimaced and seemed ready to refuse the kind offer when Pyrrha put her hand on his shoulder and gave it a soft squeeze.

"Sometimes the best thing to do in a situation isn't right or just… But this is an harmless choice."

"Really?" He sounded childish for a moment, then he nodded to himself. "Y-Yes, I can see that!"

And so Jaune returned to his mad attempt to finish his undone papers, I noticed that Professor Port had entered the room and was now looking at the present students, nodding in my direction as I stood up and approached the teacher.

Why? Well, it would seem that behaving like a 'normal' student was akin to prodigious youths and.. He picked me as an assistant for the lessons.

Nothing overly-tiring as my duty was to either help him with moving Grimms inside some cages for demonstrations or help him in narrating in a more acceptable tone his tales from his glorious past.

It was quite surprising learning that Port had once been asked to seek candidacy within the Council of Vale because of his extensive experience with Huntsmen-related topics.

"Mr. Reyter, I see you are as punctual as ever."

I nodded at the boisterous tone of the portly professor. "Kind of difficult catching sleep nowadays, professor."

"Those girls are quite tiring, I guess, and I suppose their attitude is just as their parents had when they were students in Beacon."

Team STRQ was a legendary team, knowledge relative to the members being scarce at best as they resigned a decade or two ago.

"But let us focus on the main attraction of this glorious day! Today we will be joined by Professor Oobleck for a combined test of History and Grimm Studies."

I frowned at this. A combined test? With Oobleck?

Speaking of the coffee-addicted teacher I almost jumped as an hand patted my shoulder.

"And you shall help us with the correction of the test as we are going to get twice the usual class for the exam."

I blinked at the logic. "B-but that means I cannot do the test if I'm helping there-" "That is because you don't require to do it."

… "What?"

Port was the one that decided to explain this confusing development.

"Mr. Reyter, you have shown an impressive sense of responsibility and knowledge in this first week and we think you can be entrusted with this duty as a mean to see if our trust is well-placed."

"I-I don't understand-" "I'm sure it is quite mind-boggling to hear this unique proposal but the headmaster has agreed to the possibility to reward your excellent record of good behavior in class and outside."

"We are still debating if it should be a shallow economical reward or a glorious trophy for you to have and show to your friends and family."

I flinched at the last bit, remembering that it's been a full week since I last saw my parents and… I hope mom is doing well.

My sad thought ceased as Port gasped at being unexpectedly elbowed by his colleague. "Professor Port didn't mean to bring any ill memories, Mr. Reyter. Please take a seat as we finish sorting the papers for the test."

I nodded and quietly took the seat on the right extreme, preparing to deal with the newfound job and… They were here…

The exam began and I felt some weird feeling in my stomach as I was relatively doing nothing but staring at the faces of my fellow students, braving and sometime failing to deal with the test.

I felt safe, coldly so, and I was genuinely surprised when I noticed quite the different and curious reactions of people I knew.

Team CRDL was surprisingly being the one group with the most 'relatable' reaction, keeping a good poker face and gawking once in a while during the whole exam.

Team JNPR was holding up well, Jaune and Nora being helped smartly and covertly by their partners where it was possible.

Team RWBY… looked like it was a lost cause. Blake's eyes were wide open, dreadful realisation reached her as she had not truly paid attention to Port's lessons. Weiss was in a frenzy, trying to help a trembling, pale Ruby and an uncaring Yang, while also doing her own exam.

Oobleck 'teleported behind her' and told the heiress to quit with the cheating, causing her to almost melt to the embarassment-panic mix that was dictating her actions in that moment.

An hour passed and all the papers were given to the three of us as we started to correct them quickly.

I was the slowest at first, since I tried to initially use the correction book offered by Port, then I got the gist of the right answers and started to quickly finish my own share of paperwork.

Finally everything was fully done and I was given the permission to go to the cafeteria and enjoy my lunch together with the other students.

As I reached the massive room, I found my back slapped painfully by a smirking Cardin Winchester.

"You got quite the promotion, S. Quick question: is there a chance you could have-"

"Sadly no. The papers used IDs to identify students and I couldn't do much with that."

He nodded a little as a twitch almost changed his smile in a scowl. "Dang! I hope we did good then."

I patted his shoulder with a determined smile. "Failing even with Velvet's and my help? That is nigh impossible." He sighed as he started tsd to walk toward his waving teammates. "I suppose I am just suffering the aftermath of that nerve-wracking exam, man. See you later." "See ya."

Without losing a beat, my eyes found the person I needed to find in that moment.

Velvet Scarlatina was the shy 'Senpai' girl that was too kind to react to bullies. When I first saw her getting bullied by Cardin, I decided to change the encounter to gain the best out of it

CRDL was quite sluggish in their studies and it took the delightful offer of help to catch up from me and the member of CFVY to get them to stop to bully the Bunny faunus. Five days of tutoring and Velvet got a small group of followers protecting her from older classmates that wanted to harm her.

When I poked at her shoulder she twitched in surprise and turned to find me smiling.

"S-Shaun!" Her pouting was adorable, especially since her face would crack once in a while with traitorous smiles.

"Velvet." I sat by her side and placed my plate filled with food near hers. "Hope you had a nice morning."

She nodded quietly, then she suddenly grinned. "I heard that professor Port and professor Oobleck had you helping them correcting the combined test. Congratulations!"

"It was nothing." I muttered quietly but soon a smile broke through my composed mask. "I also heard that someone was asked out."

She blushed mightily as the girl was reminded of that predicament.

"C-Coco was surely joking and-" "She is doing some mad shopping and it is not one of her usually-planned 'raids'."

… "Really?"

"Yatsuhashi said this and you said he was-" "Trustworthy- OMG, SHE IS SERIOUS!"

At this point smoke was leaving from Velvet's human and faunus ears,her face almost ready to turn in a tomato.

"Velv, you are overreacti-" "I don't have anything to wear-" "Why do you think she went for a shopping spree?"

… "Oh?"

"I think she is planning to gift you a nice dress and- you can do it!"

"B-but the pressure-" "Fades before the mutual love you two have for each other."

She blinked and then sighed calmly. "I will… try."

"And win."

Her face fell right on her waiting hands. "I am going to ruin everything…"

I gave a pat to her back. "Nah, you will do fine and take the girl of your dreams."

"And you will try to find someone for yourself?"

I flinched at the direct question. "W-wha?"

She sighed tiredly. "Shaun, I have known you for just a week but I consider you my little sibling, do you think I can't see you are hurting by staying alone?"

"B-but I'm not alone-" "Cardin uses you for free, willing help, JNPR are still dealing with their own growth and your team…"

"Is already off doing 'stuff'?" Velvet's cheeks reddened at the 'reason' why team RWBY had deserted the cafeteria but my mind was contemplating the words of the senpai.

I was always there to help around, never asking anything back and would always get the short end of life's stick. No one genuinely capable of making time for some chatting about… general things.

Maybe I should seriously consider this dilemma…

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AN

What happens when you are unplugged from your own PC and don't have to do anything for ten hours? You create new stuff with your cheap phone and bored mind.

This exist and.. it's going to be dandy as it will not follow the canon plot.

Why am I doing going to go with the plot? I want to make a stable RWBY fanfic series without Shipping pushing the story forward.

This is why the original evil and twist are the Team RWBY Pairings. This is why I will deviate thanks to an original idea from the whole Volume 3 madness and make it something that doesn't have to end with the fall of Beacon ruining pretty much the dynamics of the early chapters of the story.

Am I against pairings? I am not. I love Whiterose, I love Bumbleby, Renora, Arkos and so on... but I despise when it replaces the good fuel of the first episodes, the best ones in my opinion as they keep a faithful representation of the story as it was intended to be.

So that means...?! Adam is not going to be 'only' the abused/abusive angsty ball, Arkos ain't dying the same moment it begins and Cinder will honestly have a proper backstory once for all.

What about the available ships? Whiterose, Bumbleby, Renora, Arkos, Crosshares, Seamonkeys, Funky Beats and so on.

When Chapter 2? Maybe on Tuesday.