Hey everyone. Here's a little side series I'm adding into the rotation that I'll be updating from time to time as the ideas come. It's basically a RWBY edition of the PSA's Red Vs Blue does during their seasons, and my take on what they'd entail. It may involve items on my 100 themes list which has been on hiatus for a bit as I've focused writing on my other works, speaking of which, will continue to be updated. I've just been busy since I've been back at school recently. More will come for those, and hopefully this gets some good reception as well. I hope you enjoy and I'll see you lads and lasses next time!
The view pans downward as we come into view of two young teenage girls, one short in stature with red highlights in her brunette hair and the other much taller with two rabbit ears poking out of her brown locks of hair.
"Hiya, everyone! I'm Ruby Rose from the popular web series, RWBY!" Ruby greeted with a smile.
"And I'm Velvet Scarlatina from the same show." Velvet bowed respectfully.
"For those of you who have been fans since the beginning, you know we here at Beacon have already had story arcs about valuable life lessons," Ruby began to explain. "Like standing up to bullies and being true to yourself."
"That's right, Ruby." Velvet nodded. "But there is another problem we need to address that can't be personified in our show, and that's-"
"YARR!" A voice from behind them screamed out as a sugar-hyped Nora came barging through between the two, wearing an eyepatch and admiral's cap as she towed a wagon full of syrup bottles along behind her. "Ye'll never take me booty from me!"
She was followed in quick succession by a very annoyed platinum blonde with her riding crop grasped tightly in her hand. "Miss Valkyrie, come back here with the cafeteria's stock of syrup this instant!" Goodwitch ordered as she chased the redhead, leaving the two girls slightly bewildered.
"...Piracy." Velvet finally finished.
"To better help explain what piracy is, we've brought in a team of experts to help us out! Here they are; Emerald Sustrani..." Ruby introduced as she gestured to the dark skinned thief to her right.
"Um...Is this really happening right now?" Emerald asked, confused what was going on.
"Roman Torchwick..."
"Relax, Sweetheart. This isn't canon. Why do you think I'm here if everyone saw me get eaten?" Roman asked as he suddenly happened to be next to the master caper.
"And Scarlet David!" Ruby finished as the crimson-haired swashbuckler appeared next to Roman.
"Wait, wot?" Scarlet asked with a confused expression. "Why am I here? I've never pirated anything in my life."
"Oh, really?" Roman leaned in. "You're sure about that, Kid?"
"What are you insinuating?" Scarlet asked, now more uncomfortable than he was confused.
"I think Roman's getting at the fact that pirating material things isn't just getting a boat and hunting for treasure." Velvet explained.
"Precisely, Honey Bun!" Roman grinned. "Emerald, let's walk our friends here through the different types of piracy that happen every day."
Movie Piracy
Emerald sat in the center of Professor Port's classroom, which had been converted into a makeshift movie theatre for a student funded movie night. All sorts of students, from Beacon or other schools alike, sat around as they watched a film starring a much younger Professor Port in an embellished action flick that was still in black and white. "If you haven't seen at least one of these kinds of warning commercials during a trip to the movies, you're about as blind as Fox and as deaf as Miles Luna when it comes to hearing the anguished cries of the RWBY Fandom for him to stop." Emerald explained.
"Hey!" Fox and Jaune complained in unison before being shushed by nearby movie-goers.
Continuing, Emerald looked around. "Now there's a written list of the don'ts to do in movie theaters. You don't text because it's rude..."
A few rows up, Yang was on her Scroll sending a message to Ruby before an elbow from a bulky man in red sunglasses got her attention.
"Hey, do you mind?" Junior asked. "That's rude."
"So is your interrupting of my text." Yang fought back before turning back to her phone.
"You shut off your phone because taking phone calls during a movie is annoying..." Emerald added.
Down in front, everyone groaned at the sound of a ringtone set to EDM music, and more so as Neon actually answered its call. "Hello? Oh my gosh, Hey, Flynt! Where are you? You're missing such a great movie!" she gushed before a flying spear pinned her phone to the wall beside her.
"Take it outside next time, you annoying hairball!" Dew called from across the row of seats.
By now, two fights had broken out between Yang and Junior and Neon and Dew, luckily spilling out into the hall as the rest of the audience sighed in relief of peace and quiet being restored.
"And finally," Emerald finally finished. "There's recording the movie for your own distribution." She then gestured to Mercury as he held a small video camera towards the screen, recording the movie for himself. "This is a form of piracy because it takes away a fraction of the actual box office gross. If you get caught doing this, you can be federally prosecuted."
That last statement was punctuated as the silver haired hitman heard somebody clearing their throat next to him. He turned to see Sun and Neptune holding their badges out at him. "Junior Dectectives! You're going to jail, dirtbag!" Sun ordered.
"Yeah! Our badges make it official!" Neptune added.
"Ah, well I guess you caught me.."Mercury shrugged before suddenly pointing out something behind them. "Hey look! Team SSSN fangirls that want autographs!"
"What? Where?" The two asked together as they swiveled their heads around, giving Mercury the time he needed to escape.
Music Piracy
"Another example comes from a similar form of entertainment." Roman said as he sat in the middle of Beacon's library, specifically nearby the computers available for student use. In fact, some were currently using it, including a few students from out of town.
"Oh, sweet! The new Achieve Men album just dropped!" Reese commented as she clicked the "Buy Now" button on the band's web store, only for a pop-up to alert her the CD's had sold out. "Really? Dammit!"
"Hey, that's no big deal." Flynt spoke up, looking over from his monitor next to her. "I just downloaded it off this sharing site."
"Oh, cool. Can you send me the link?" the skater girl asked.
"Sure...for twenty lien." Flynt smirked.
"What? That's a complete ripoff!" Reese protested.
"Hey, when your family business goes under, ya gotta make money somehow." the trumpeteer shrugged.
"Only problem here, kiddies..." Roman raised a finger as he stepped in on their conversation. "...is that musicians work hard to make that money, so making money off something they poured blood, sweat, and tears into is really not cool."
"And illegal downloading onto these monitors is prohibited as well." Goodwitch said, tapping her crop in one hand while the two students gulped at the thought of being in trouble.
"Wow...I had no idea those could be considered as piracy." Scarlet wondered aloud.
"Well, now we do, Scarlet." Velvet said as she patted the buccaneer on the back. "And with that, we'll see you next time, everyone!"
"Actually, Velvet, there's one more we haven't talked about yet." Ruby interjected.
"Oh, we haven't?" Velvet asked, unaware of what Ruby meant, since this wasn't in the script.
"Yep. Copyright Infringement!" Ruby shouted as she shoved a folder of papers in the rabbit Faunus' face. Upon looking through it, she came across a court summons and numerous pictures of her and her weapon in action fighting off hacked robot drones with light copies of Team RWBY's weapons. "Crescent Rose and its design belong to Rose Weapon Productions LLC and we have evidence you copied its use without my consent! Your illegally copying of weapons ends here, fiend!"
"Wha-Ruby!? You're suing me?" Velvet gasped in shock.
"You can ask that to my lawyer." Ruby humphed as she gestured to Weiss, who stood behind her in a suit and skirt that made her look like a younger version of her sister.
"How did I even get roped into this?" Weiss sighed in disappointment of herself.
"We'll see you in court, Velvet." the scythe wielder glared as she stormed off with the heiress serving as her legal advisor in tow, leaving the Faunus girl completely confused.
"Is this really happening?" she asked again, only for her ask to fall on deaf ears.