Chapter IV: Telling Stories

Disclaimer: I will probably never own RWBY, the people at RT do.

"When you realize you've neglected your Gmail for a while... and then see it had collected about a million messages in retaliation..." ~ ARK


Previously: "Summer?"

Glynda took a second look at the woman standing before her. On second glance, the woman had notable differences between herself and Summer. Her face was rounder, her eyes were sharper, and she generally had a broader complexion.

"R-right, my apologies. You just look so much like her." She could have been Summer's twin.

The woman rolled her visible eye. "Seriously? I'd think the eyepatch with the red rose on it would tell people 'hey, wrong Rose!'"

"'Cause I swear, if I hear-"

"Summer?" An elevator door to reveal Ozpin. His coffee mug dropped to the floor with a thud and broke into pieces on impact.

The raven-haired woman let out a long suffering sigh. "Oum dammit." She turned to the Headmaster. "No, Ozzie. I'm not Summer."

"Of course," said Ozpin quickly. He carefully walked over the shattered pieces of Maple Mug. With a silent prayer to his old friend (that was always by his side), he directed his attention to the silver-eyed woman. "Then may I ask who you are?"

"Ruby Rose, at your service," the woman introduced herself. "Most amazing huntress to ever grace Remnant."

"'Ruby Rose'?" repeated Glynda. The woman did have clothing unusually reminiscent of a certain troublemaker in Beacon Academy.

Ruby snorted. "You might know me as the loudmouth, hyperactive leader of team RWBY."

Ozpin gave the red-caped woman a once-over. "Ms. Rose, I didn't realize a person could grow over a head taller in one night."

"Yeah… I think Team RWBY, my Team RWBY may have traveled back in time, " said Ruby, scratching the back of her head.

Ozpin walked over to his desk. Glynda gave way to her boss and Ozpin slid into the Headmaster's chair. He laced together his fingers. "Time-travel?"

"Preposterous," said Glynda, making her opinion well-known. People do not just simply travel through time.

Ozpin's eyes glazed over. "Have you made contact with your younger selves?"

"We kinda… dropped in on them." Ruby summed up the encounter perfectly.

The Headmaster looked at Ruby. "And do you remember ever meeting your older selves?"

Ruby blinked. "No. That's… actually a good point." She was pretty sure her memory wasn't so bad that she'd forget meeting an older version of herself. She wasn't that old.

"So if it's not time-travel then what is it?" asked Ruby pointedly.

"Perhaps… world-jumping," said Ozpin. He looked distinctly unsettled by the thought.

Ruby nodded slowly. "Like the multiverse theory."

"You are aware of it?"

"When you date a bookworm and author, you tend to learn stuff like that."

"That would make sense," continued Ruby. "We don't remember the event because it never happened to us. And we don't have to worry about paradoxes because this is a completely different world… seriously, how convenient." Now she didn't have to worry about her batshit insane older sister breaking the world.

Ozpin nodded. "Yes, now why don't you tell me and Glynda here how you managed to jump universes, a feat that should be by all means impossible."


"The White Fang?" asked mini-Weiss. "Of course, who hasn't heard of those awful degenerates?"

Blake looked over at Weiss. The white-haired woman had covered her face with a gloved hand.

"Your younger self certainly has a vocabulary," said Blake in amusement.

"Please, don't remind me."

She looked back at her younger self, who had noticeably tensed up. A glint of hope was evident in her eyes as she watched Blake and Weiss and their comfortable positions on each other. Blake touched the other faunus's shoulder.

"Just let it out," she said.

"WellIwaskindofapartofit," said mini-Blake in a rush.

"Er, did anyone else pick up what she said?" asked Jaune. He was promptly ignored by everyone in the room.

"You… were a part of the White Fang," clarified Pyrrha slowly.

"Whoa!" exclaimed Nora. "So you were a part of the mafia?"

Ren sighed. "I don't think the White Fang counts as a mafia."

Mini-Weiss stepped back. "White Fang? You mean you were a part of that group?"

Ruby looked worriedly between the two. "Past tense, right? Not any more? Quit?"

"Used to," clarified Blake. "I'm not in it anymore… they've lost their way."

Mini-Weiss looked to her older self. Weiss closely watched the reactions of the younger teams.

"Weiss?" asked the younger Weiss.

"Woah," said Yang. "Vertigo." She shifted her position, looking uncomfortable. It's not everyday your partner turns out to have a past in one of the most notorious terrorist organizations in Remnant after all. It was so weird she couldn't even think of a pun! Blasphemy!

"Yes?" answered Weiss, ignoring the blonde.

"You know about Blake's past… and accepted it, right?"

Weiss gazed at her younger self. "I think it's your decision to make. If there's one thing I've learned in life, it's that the freedom to choose matters."

"..." Mini-Weiss turned towards the younger cat-faunus in the room. "How did someone like you get associated with the White Fang anyway?"


The expression on her little, little sister's face was priceless. Oh, the shock! Where had Yang gone? And then mini-Weiss had joined in complete disbelief. It was hilarious when Yang had simply flew past them and they didn't even noticed. She missed the days where magic freaked out everyone. Oh, yes, Yang could get used to the whole time-traveling gig.

She flew past Emerald Forest, ignoring the small Nevermores in the sky. Yang Xiao Long was on a mission, and there was no stopping her. After all, she was yangtastic...even she had to admit that was bad.


"Alright so…" Ruby laid out the details of the night before (after? now?) to Ozpin.


"I have a bad feeling about today," said Weiss with a shiver. "Call it initiation."

"Come on!" Yang sling an arm around the petite woman's shoulders. "Warm up, ice queen!" She pressed a light kiss on Weiss's cheek.

"I hate that nickname," muttered Weiss.

Ruby came out of the kitchen, balancing microwaved burritos. "Dinner's ready!"

Blake sat on the couch, writing on her scroll. "What are we doing, exactly?" she asked without even looking up.

"Movie night!" exclaimed Yang. A remote suddenly appeared in her hand. "What'll it be? Game of Thrones? Stranger Things? That documentation they're doing about us for some strange reason?"

Blake looked up from her Scroll, a deadpan look on her face. "Those are all shows, not movies."

Weiss looked distinctly unimpressed by the microwaved burritos. "Is that the best you could do?"

"You try!" defended Ruby. "Cooking is boring." Microwaveable food was so much better in every way. Seriously, who had the time to stand in front of a stove for thirty minutes or so? There wasn't even a difference in flavor most of the time.

"Not really," said Yang. "Just takes some hot skills. Eh? Guys?"

Somehow all three of her teammates managed to make a synchronised face-palm (it took a lot of practice...and they had a lot of sessions).

"Yang," Blake said. "Your cooking inventory includes hamburgers and instant ramen."

"Says the tuna master!"

"At least tuna can make a lot of things!"

"Who in the world makes tuna cake?! Lady, you have a problem!"

Ruby looked over at Weiss as Yang and Blake's argument quickly went into the realm of the unknown. "I still cook better than you, kitchen burner."

Weiss bristled. "For your information, that was an…." The white-haired woman felt her limbs suddenly gave way. In an instant she had lost consciousness and fell limp to the floor.

"Weiss!" Ruby shook her long-time partner. She looked up. Both Blake and Yang had drifting off into nothingness. Yang especially made a loud thump as she fell face-first. Who could possibly be responsible for this? She felt her eyelids flutter downwards. "Ugh…" Ruby struggled but failed to stay awake, falling on top of Weiss.

"Mwahahahaha!" loud laughter resounded through the living room. "Kidnapping is a success!"

"Technically, you haven't kidnapped them yet," pointed out a woman's voice.

"Shut up and let me enjoy the moment."


Ruby jolted awake. Her first reaction was 'what the hell?'. Her second was to leap out of the chair she was sitting in. She moved into a low attacking position, Crescent Rose extending in her hands. Then she blinked.

Serene music flowed through the room she had woken up in. Tables surrounded a circle center. Said center was, for lack of a better word, a bar center. Strangers stared at her with wide eyes. What looked like a barman dropped the wine glass he was cleaning.

Ruby looked back at the table where her chair had been. She instantly recognized Team CFVY and JNPR as well as her own comatose teammates. She centered her eyes on a certain lab coat wearing man.

"...Jaune? Mind telling me why you're holding a giant syringe in your hand?" She deactivated Crescent Rose and several sighs of relief could be heard throughout the building.

The blonde waved said syringe around. "Had to wake you up. Nora thought it would be funny to use my in-progress sleeping dust on you guys."

Said woman leaned back in her seat, crossing her arms behind her head. "Don't you guys like being guinea pigs? I heard Jaune needed test subjects."

"I don't think he meant people test subjects," said Ren drily. "...Nora, where did you get 'kidnap team RWBY' from 'invite team RWBY to the alleyway bar'?"

"Hon, it worked."

Jaune moved onto Weiss. Then he paused. "On second thought…." He walked over to Blake and readied his syringe.

Ruby fell back into her own seat. She looked at the ginger across from her. "Penny, why did you let Nora kidnap us?"

The grey-coat wearing robot shrugged. "I calculated that no matter what I would do, Nora would find a way to achieve her goal."

Nora cackled. "Oh yes, girlfriend!"

"..." Fox turned his head between Nora and Penny. "Coco, I'm glad your boyfriend was the one to pick us up."

The fashionette put her feet on the table to the beaten look of the barmen. "If Jaune had made Nora and Penny get us, I'd have kicked his ass."

Nora whistled. "Whipped."

Jaune promptly ignored his old teammate and inserted the needle into Blake's left arm.

The cat faunus's hair sticked up on its ends. She shot up onto the roof and clinged on, on reflex.

"One down, two to go," muttered Jaune.

Ruby waved at her girlfriend. Blake jumped down.

"What. Was. That?" Blake smoothened out her frizzled hair.

"DON'T TRUST STAIRS!" yelled Yang, jolting awake. She slumped back on her chair. "...they're always up to something."

Yatsuhashi chuckled. He looked around as everyone stared. "What? I thought it was funny."

Blake's left eye twitched. "The first thing out of her mouth was a pun. Of course."

Yang looked around. "Hey guys, what's up?"

"The sky," Blake muttered.

Jaune put use his syringe to the final member of Team RWBY. Weiss's eyes flashed open as three glowing white beowulf appeared. They crash-landed on the table, crushing it. Just as sudden as they appeared, the beowulf were gone.

"... what's going on?" asked Weiss. She looked at the smashed table. "And why are we sitting at a destroyed table?"

"I knew saving her for last was a good idea... " mumbled Jaune.

The three teams fell into silence.

"Well, place looks like a bar... and I'm an expert on bars," said Yang. She raised her hand. "Drink's on me, guys!"


"...and then weird stuff happened and we fell, literally, into Team RWBY's dorm," finished Ruby.

"And you believe the beer your sister bought was responsible for this?" asked Ozpin, not really seeing the connection.

Ruby shrugged. "Yang's the one who knows magic and magic does weird stuff. That comes from personal experience by the way."

"This future Yang knows magic?" asked Glynda incredulously. Future Team RWBY was weird enough, a future where the most hot headed (sometimes literally) huntress-in-training could use magic… she suddenly felt bad for her older self.

"Well, she is the Fall Maiden."

"...excuse me?" asked Ozpin.

"Yang's. The. Fall. Maiden." said Ruby, puncturing in each point.

Glynda pinched her nose. "I'm suddenly very worried about your world's future."

Ozpin stored away the information for later discussion. "And you are certain there was no other cause, possibly from this world, that caused you to travel here? It seems quite suspicious that both future Team JNPR and Team CFVY have not also traveled into this universe, yet they too, drank the beer."

"...no?"

Ozpin looked at the future version of one of his most prized students. "You'd better get on it then."

Ruby glared at Ozpin. "Ozzie, are you telling me that I just spent-" she checked one of the many clocks in the room "-about 30 minutes telling you what happened for possibly nothing?"

The Headmaster just gave Ruby an infuriatingly smug look. Ruby growled.


Yang flew lower and transformed back into a human. She tumbled a little before steadying herself. She looked around the lush forest she had dropped in on.

"I'm sure I saw a village around here somewhere," she muttered to herself. Yang wandered around for a bit. Without looking, she blew away some Grimm with Ember Celica as they approached her. Finally, her ears picked up on some voices. She pushed away leaves to find herself standing at the edge of a busy town center.

"Voila," she said. Her stomach grumbled. Yang grinned. "Let's go get me some food."


Author's Notes: Another chapter is done (and possible polished)! Man, this one was long compared to the others... and I'll probably do a short chapter on Future Yang's adventures in Random Ville next. Oh and how'd you like Scientist!Jaune? It stemmed from a really weird idea in my brain... Also, it's a pain to edit this on a mobile device...


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snoongenz: Do you? Or do you not? (My story's gonna stay humorous either way).

Dev the snake faunus: Nice. Good luck on that computer (tech problems suck.)

dub77: Here's a little bit of future JNPR! I kind of followed a fan theory where a rebuilt (but different) Penny joined JN_R on that one. The grimm thing will be answered next chapter and your idea is actually really cool. What would happen? I know a little about not writing another language that well (Chinese) so props to you to writing eng even though you speak Spanish!

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