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AN: Nope! It's an actual sort of sequel to Those Days. It's still Those Days, but it's Some Days. Still have some hilarity, pop culture references to something, and possible mentions if other fanfic writers, stories, series, and memes.
Chapter 1: Internet
Ruby was no stranger to the internet. She was in the generation that was there when the first Dust-tube video got out. It was also the first place she ever got to watch anime before other people learnt how to make their own sites.
But when she found out she was an internet sensation along with her friends? That was crazy!
Who would think that she, Ruby Rose, would be popular on the internet? There was so many cosplays of her and figurines made in her image she didn't know why she didn't have any of those stuff. Rushing to the cafeteria where her friends were, she slammed a hand on their table.
"Guys! We're famous!" She wave her scroll in the air to her friends.
"You're just realizing that now, Rubes?" Yang asked her baby sister. "We've been in so much trouble fighting the White Fang and Torchwick it's no surprise we'd be famous."
"I'm pretty sure infamous is the word you're looking for since we cause more destruction." Weiss scoffed from her seat.
"I mean we're internet famous!" Ruby amended her words. Sliding the scroll to them, she swiped her hand to show pictures. "See?"
Glancing at the scroll, it was Ren's eyes that bugged out and swiped for the item. "Grimm Eater became a large hit?!"
"Easy Ren." Nora was quick to his side when her childhood friend started to hyperventilate. Taking the scroll out of his hands, she gave it to her leader.
"Wow, Beacon really spread the movie out." The blonde leader said impressed. He gasped in shock when he found figurines of them. "They even have 1/16 size model figurines of us!"
"I know!" Ruby squealed in excitement as she zipped to his side. "I want them so badly now. I need to collect them to complete my life!"
Yang along with the others were whooping at the hype of being an internet sensation. They were even giggling at all the people trying to cosplay as them. The only ones not feeling the hype was Blake, Pyrrha, and Weiss.
"What's the matter with you guys?" The brawler asked the three. "This is awesome! We're like the celebrity teams of Beacon now."
"Yang, check it out." The little reaper came to her sister's side with scroll in hand. "DeviousDraw made a ton of fanart on us!"
Yang whistled at the drawings made of her and her friends. There were good illustrations of The Garden Unit, some cool comic strips she thought were funny, and a nice picture of Jaune and Blake on the motorcycle. There were a few OCs inside, but the brawler ignored them. As for the bad drawings that looked not so well made, she made a note to bleach her brain of it. She could still see them when she blinked.
"Should you tell them, or me?" Pyrrha asked Weiss while Blake shook her head.
"I may as well make this quick." The heiress sighed, getting up from her seat. Clapping to get their attention, she was getting irritated when no one would listen.
"SHUT IT!" Blake shouted over them. Turning to Weiss, she received a quiet thank you. "Go ahead, Weiss."
"Being an internet sensation isn't a good thing guys." She told the group sternly. "You all might have forgotten, but the internet is a very dangerous place nowadays."
"Whaaaat?" Ruby said in disbelief. "What you talkin' about? The internet is really, really great!"
"For porn." Blake added, getting her leader to gasp. "There's a vast collection, for porn. There's always some new sites for porn. People are logged in day and night for porn. And they never stop."
"It's true Ruby." Pyrrha defended the cat faunus. "You all might be seeing the nice side of the fandoms now, but below them way way at the bottom is a darker side."
Ren got what the champion was getting at and pulled his scroll out to do his own searching.
"Imagine the kinds of fans that just want to hate on us just for the sake of hating." Weiss looked Ruby dead in the eye. "They'll say our movie had some flaws, they'll rant on characters, our acting, the effects. Everything."
"B-but we did everything great in the movie and won an award." Ruby said meekly.
"The internet doesn't care, Ruby." The heiress said the hard truth. "It just. Doesn't. Care."
"What is this?" Ren said in slight anger. He was glaring at his scroll like it offended him. "There's someone, no a lot of people, saying that they're me! They're taking credit for my work!"
Scrolling through more stuff, the ninja stopped on something that caught his eye. Ren dropped his scroll and pushed it away from him in disgust. When Jaune picked it up, he looked revolted by the sight he was seeing.
"What is this?!" The blonde said in anger. "Who would draw such a thing?!"
It was a drawing of Jaune and Sun making out under a waterfall naked with the monkey faunus tugging on Jaune's red scarf. When Blake gingerly took it out of his hands and scrolled down more, she along with the rest of the girls saw more images of yaoi and yuri.
"That's kinda hot." Yang muttered, looking at a picture of Blake and Pyrrha having a threesome with Jaune.
"This is horrible!" Ruby said when she caught a drawing of her being raped by Jaune. There was also another shot of her being glazed on the face while she was asleep. "Why would people do something like this to us?"
"It's one of the rules of the internet." Pyrrha said in disgust with arms crossed. "If it exists, there must be porn of it."
"Whoever did this must be a sick pedophile." Yang growled at the pictures of her little sister. "They do realize we're like under eighteen, right?"
"I just went to 8-kun." Jaune said revolted. "It gets even worse."
"How?!" The brawler said in anger. Looking at the screen on Jaune's scroll, she fainted. No words could describe what she saw.
"We have to do something about this." Ruby grasped her head. "They can't do this to us. It's… It's like we've become sex objects to others."
"These guys aren't even accurate with those drawings." Nora piped in. "They got the whole anatomy of us wrong. Who could possibly fight with a chest that big or a penis that huge?"
"Not what we're focusing on, Nora!" The little reaper exclaimed. Turning to Weiss, she was a whimpering mess. "Can we sue the internet for doing this to us?"
Weiss shook her head while Pyrrha sighed at the memory of trying to do the same before.
"We can't exactly sue the whole internet." The heiress said. "These artists drew us, but they didn't give away their names. We have no clue who to sue or what we can get from them."
"You mean besides our dignity and an apology?" Blake said with arms crossed.
Closing their scrolls and stewing in what they found out, the group was sad how their fame turned on them. Maybe they would have found some joy in it, but this was not with their consent. Plus it was creepy seeing pictures of them porking and having weird faces.
Then Pyrrha had an idea.
"Guys." She said with her gears turning. "Remember that one lady online that was teaching Mistrali? She was blonde and wore a blue jacket."
"I think. Her name was Helen Cook or something, right?" Jaune asked his partner.
"Helen Fryer." The redhead corrected. "She went through the same thing and managed to get the dirty art to stop slowly. Obviously she couldn't get rid of the ones already online, but she managed to stop any more from being made."
"How'd she do it?" Yang asked intrigued.
"She threatened to stop teaching." Pyrrha said with a smirk. "It was so heartfelt that she got some of the artists to feel guilty and open their eyes of how they abuse the freedom of the internet."
"Let's do it, then!" Yang and Nora pumped their fists.
"We can make this a podcast that goes live on Dust-tube. All we need is an account." Blake added, ready to put it all to a stop.
"I think Sun has one." Jaune said, ready to call others. "Coco too."
"No. I'll make one." Ren said with steel in his tone. "These fakers and haters and whoever think they can spit on my hard work and claim it's theirs? I don't think so."
When he got up, the others huddled together to give him space. Ren never got angry that much, and seeing him mad was unsettling. It was always the quiet ones.
"Be in our dorm in twenty minutes." He told the seven. "Bring team CFVY along with Sun and Neptune. This is a whole cast podcast."
Nodding, the group went to do their thing.
JNPR Dorm
When the others got to the dorm, it was to a room where the beds were pushed far to the walls and chairs were placed in front of a camera. Stepping in, the group took a seat and waited for Neptune to finish setting up the live feed.
"Are we good to go?" Yang asked, all business.
"All good. We're recording now." The bluenette gave the thumbs up. Carefully making his way around the camera he found his seat next to Sun.
"Hey there folks!" Ruby waved at the camera. "We're the cast for Grimm Eater. You know me! Ruby Rose, The Rose. The final piece to be placed on the coffin."
"Fox. Lightning, the rain transformed." The blind fighter of CFVY waved lazily.
"I'm Yatsuhashi. I'm the Storm." The man said as he hunched to be in the camera's view.
"Coco. The Rain. Message from the skies." The leader of CFVY gave a two finger salute.
"Hello. I'm Pyrrha Nikos." The redhead introduced herself. "I played The Life."
"You all know me. Weiss Schnee, The Snow." Weiss said with arms crossed and a stern frown as she looked at the camera.
"I'm Jaune Arc and everyone remembers Blake." Jaune introduced him and the cat faunus. Blake gave a half wave and nothing else. "We were the soldier and spy in the movie."
"Don't forget us, man." Sun thumbed his chest and nodding to Neptune. "Switch Shot Kongou and Neptune the scientist."
"Sup all." The bluenette winked.
"NORA! Paramedic with Velvet next to me." The ginger said with Velvet under her arm. The bunny faunus was giving a shy wave.
"Don't go forgetting me." Yang said with chest puffed out. "All of you should remember the big bad Yang. Who's afraid of a little fire?"
"And I'm Ren. The REAL Lie Ren." Ren glared at the camera and whoever was watching.
CFVY along with Sun and Neptune were wondering what was up with the ninja. They knew he was mad, but not this mad.
"Moments ago, my friends and I found out our movie spread out to a lot of people outside of school." The ninja said. "Ruby was the one that found out we became an internet sensation hit, and she showed us we had a fanbase."
"I loved the figurines." The little leader piped in. "Can someone comment later where I can order? I want a full set."
"Ruby, focus." Weiss elbowed her leader.
"As I was saying, she found out we had a fanbase." Ren continued. "Later on we found out some of you weren't content with just the movie. Some of you decided to claim you were me and spill out things that weren't true about the movie. Some of you said you could've made something better, which I dare you to prove. Some of you even commented our movie was a fail. But most of all-"
"Who're the sickos making porno of us?" Yang got to the point. "Seriously guys, my sister is still fifteen! It's legal in Mistral, but not here in Vale. So cut it out. We didn't make the movie just so you could turn us into a sex object."
"And not just the girls too." Sun added his two cents. "What's with the naked drawings of me and Jaune?"
"You guys are using our likeness to gain profit without our consent." Weiss stated the legal issue. "Worse, it's pornographic of images of us instead of fictional characters."
"Ok guys, I think the audience gets it." Ren said, trying to get back to him. "All of us worked hard for this movie. The whole group here did it all. We just wanted to win a competition and entertain others. But not how the people on the internet drew us."
"That's why any other sequel or prequel to Grimm Eater will be cancelled." The ninja finished. Sitting down, he had one last thing to say. "Congratulation internet. You disbanded a group. I hope you're proud."
Getting up, Neptune cut the feed and turned off the camera.
"Whoa." The intellectual said, looking at how many views and comments were exploding. "I think we made an online war."
"How many views are we getting?" Sun asked. Peeking over his friend's shoulder, his eyes bugged out. "It hasn't even been ten minutes yet and we have five thousand views!"
"It might be inaccurate." Neptune said in shock. "My connection isn't strong since it's an old model."
"Weiss, what does your scroll say on the number of views?" Yatsuhashi asked, knowing Weiss had the newest scroll model.
Taking her scroll out and finding the video, Weiss copied Sun's reaction to the amount. "It's over nine thousand!"
"Check out the comment section." Jaune showed his scroll to Pyrrha and Ren. "There are trolls saying we're acting like babies while others are shooting them down."
"We can't reach everybody." Pyrrha sighed as she leaned back in her chair. "The best we can do is settle for the majority and hope for the best."
Helping clean up the chairs, the group later would have a discussion whether to stick to their statement of not filming again or giving their fans one more chance. A lot of them weren't so bad, but respecting them as people and not sex symbols was something they had to get across.
Two days later
"Guys!" Ren busted into the cafeteria with sweat on his face like he ran there. As he marched to the cafeteria table, he was gasping for air and was holding out his scroll. "M-message. I got a personal message."
Looking at the message on his phone, the others were surprised on who it was.
Koriarni. The game and movie studio known for great stories and works. And messaged Ren!
"Dear Mr. Lie." Weiss read it out loud for them all. "We stumbled on your video yesterday and understand your concern. It would be a shame for you and your friends to stop because of your identities not being well protected. We have an offer for you and your cast to work for us and have your images licensed and protected."
"Group meeting again?" Nora asked the ninja and leader of the film cast. Seeing him still wheezing, she gave him a choice. "Cough once for yes, two times for no."
Ren coughed once before reaching up to take Jaune's cup of water.
After he recovered and the cast was rounded up, it was unanimously decided that they would work for Koriarni.
END
AN: Some days just aren't funny. I know some of the references might be old, but I'm sure some of you might get them.
Anyways, a lot of you all know I'm back. Don't expect me to do a Kojima and selfie with a mug that says it. I was browsing over some new stories and a few caught my eye.
I might mention them in later chapters. Ok, bye!
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You're all still here? I said anyways and said some other stuff. Go on. …Are you waiting for a teaser for next chapter or something? This may as well be a oneshot thing like Old Days.
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Oh, right! Next chapter will poke fun at Volume 4 and 5. Maybe some references to a movie or dance. Had a list of stuff for different chapters. Okay, for real this time. This is the end.
Chikasha!