This chapter has been done for months, but I hated the quality. I just haven't found inspiration to rewrite it so I decided to post it anyway. All of my favorite Whiterose writers slowly throwing in the towel is crushing my inspiration to write. I promised this story isn't dying though, so I am doing my best for you guys. Enjoy. If there are any of you left...
Ruby groans and drops onto her hands and knees, vomiting loudly.
Weiss sighs. "There goes the moment…"
Yang and Blake were also vomiting, but somehow being more controlled than Ruby.
"I already hate portals…" Ruby complains.
Yang pats at her pockets. "Huh. We couldn't bring those crappy weapons with us."
"We couldn't bring the good ones either," Weiss says simply, pointing out the missing elemental staffs.
They were inside what appeared to be a secure facility, not an inch being anything but metal.
"…in a place like this, do you really think we're far from other good weapons?" Blake asks simply.
"Good point, but why would we need them?" Weiss drops a bag. "I got ammo."
Ruby squeals in delight and starts reloading Crescent Rose. "Why didn't you hand this out earlier?"
"These rounds aren't meant for maggot bags. They're meant for much deadlier things."
Ruby folds Crescent Rose back up and straps it to her belt. "Ok, let's go!"
Weiss looks hesitant. "This timeline is awkward in place… It's like someone made a universe inside of a universe then…someone made a universe inside of that universe…"
"We need a protagonist to advance anyway. Let's just kill the person and bail before anything goes wrong!" Yang argues simply as she pushes Weiss to get her moving.
"For once, Yang sounds logical." Blake pushes Weiss as well.
"Why are you two ganging up on me!?" Weiss snaps.
"Because you're Ruby's waifu, so we kinda need you to make her choices for her."
Ruby skips along ahead. "Yay for cold, bloody murder-!" She stops. "…that came out way worse than I meant for it to…"
"Yeah…it did." Weiss sighs before taking Ruby's hand and pulling her into the next room.
Ruby's eyes glisten as she looks around the next room. "So many weapons!" She squeals excitedly.
"All aimed at…" Weiss points at a red, mechanical sword. "…that weird weapon we probably shouldn't touch."
"Let's touch it!" Yang comments immediately.
Weiss crosses her arms in annoyance. "It's probably set to be blown up the second someone touches it…"
"If it's surrounded by weapons meant to destroy it, then it's gotta be good," Blake adds. "That's like rule number one in the White Fang handbook. Number three in the Beacon handbook."
"That isn't in the Beacon handbook at all!" Weiss argues. "I've actually memorized the whole thing!"
"Neeeerd!" Yang says loudly.
"It had better be cool!" Ruby runs over to grab it.
"IS ANYONE EVEN LISTENING TO ME!?" Weiss screams in annoyance.
Ruby grabs the sword and easily dodges the onslaught launched by the security system. "It doesn't have much weight to it… It may be a toy…"
The sword opens up and extends a beam of blue light from it.
"Nevermind! This is awesome!" Ruby squeals in delight.
Weiss bites her lip and looks around frantically. "We need to leave…"
"Security compromised, Monado stolen. Retrieve at any cost necessary. This is a priority one directive-!" The security system drones loudly and repeatedly.
Ruby frowns and clears her throat. "Weiss-?"
"Yes, Ruby?" Weiss bites her lip harder.
"…I regret nothing."
"Of course you don't…"
"I bet ten bucks that we're gonna be attacked by robots," Blake comments.
"What? No! We're definitely gonna be attacked by aliens!" Yang argues.
Weiss lights up her plasma sword excitedly. "Aliens?"
"…Weiss has always wanted to kill aliens with an alien weapon. Good to know." Yang pops her knuckles loudly before getting in a fighting stance.
A metal claw grabs the doorframe.
Yang opens her wallet. "…I don't have ten lien… Sorry, Blakey…"
A golden robot peeks into the room. "You will not be leaving, Zanza."
Suddenly a blue portal opens behind them, a skeletal hand suddenly pulling them through.
"Nope! Not here! That would be more timeline breakage-!" was all they heard before the world went white.
Ruby wakes up groggily, grabbing the Monado and looking it over. "I…probably shouldn't have this with me…" She hops up onto her feet, looking at the dense forest around her. "Weiss? Yang? Blake?" She was alone. She places the Monado on her back. "I gotta find them." She looks over to see Sans passed out on a rock. "Someone died here… Skeletons are always foreboding…"
A massive hand suddenly makes a grab for Ruby.
Ruby dodges effortlessly, looking up at the monster. "A…titan? So I was in a place with magical weapons and supertechnology, and now I'm in a subpar anime!?"
The world suddenly blurs around her, timelines shifting back and forth.
"WHAT THE HELL IF HAPPENING!?" She screams in panic, dodging attacks from multiple timelines. She saw enemies from movies, anime, and even videogames fly by her.
Suddenly an arm grabs her should and pulls her back into a stable timeline, Ruby's sight fading to white again.
Weiss shakes Ruby. "Wake up, Ruby! Wake up! I can't lose you!"
Ruby shakes her head as she wakes up. "Ow… I'm up…"
"You fazed in the middle of multiple timelines, but…someone helped you." Weiss helps Ruby up. "Take it easy…" She pulls out a small light and holds it in front of Ruby. "Follow the light." She moves it around slowly, watching Ruby's eyes to make sure she was following it correctly.
Ruby seems fine, getting away from Weiss after a few more tests. "Ok… Where are we?"
Yang slams down a titan. "A subpar anime."
"…I would have preferred to remain stuck between dimensions."
Blake shrugs. "I think this anime is fine."
Weiss tilts her head curiously. "I don't understand anyone's interest in anime."
Yang gasps dramatically. "Have you watched Madoka Magica?"
"No."
"Steins Gate?"
"No."
"Sword Art Online?"
"No."
"Probably best she never sees that one," Blake interrupts.
"Yeah…too much of an acquired taste." Yang taps her chin as she thinks. "Star Wars?"
"That's not even an anime, and how could I have seen it if the author hasn't?" Weiss asks.
"Weiss has lost it, let's move on. We gotta kill the protagonist." Yang starts leading them along through the forest to find civilization.
Weiss looks at her little pocket device. "…I'm not sensing the power of a protagonist in this universe. He must be too underwhelming to get power from."
"Could we kill Levi?" Ruby asks.
"Never. Fuck. With Levi," Blake replies sternly. "I want to fucking live."
Weiss still looks oblivious. "Who?"
"The one character that can put up a fight." Yang smiles as she points to large walls. "Civilization!"
"The walls means titans to kill!" Ruby says excitedly.
"If only they were actually threatening… Might have actually been fun…" Yang mutters as she takes the lead, doing so because she knew she could take hits better than the others.
"They could bite off a limb or something. I'm still weary," Blake claims.
Yang chuckles and smirks at Blake. "You really think anything could take a limb off of me?"
"…Adam when he goes full Gordon Ramsey. He'd then proceed to tell you that your arm is raw," Blake replies simply.
Eren suddenly slams onto the ground in front of them, his posture in perfect superhero landing form. "Hey ladies… Things have been rather off recently. A lot of things." He looks up at them. "I'm gonna have to ask you all to turn around and leave.
All four of them go silent.
"…did Eren just go full badass?" Yang whispers.
"The author is probably trying to get into the good graces of the Attack on Titan fans…" Weiss mutters.
Eren glares at them. "I've been killed three times this week and saved by forces I do not understand. First time was to a swordsman in a black coat, the second time was to a guy with a monkey tail and gunchucks, and the third was to a girl with black hair who appeared to be some sort of magical lesbian. So tell me ladies…you think I will let it be four?" He stands up straight and draws his swords.
"…wow. Just…wow… Author's gonna hit the budget for that one…" Weiss grumbles as she draws Mytenaster. "He's worth killing now. He's got enough overhype to generate enough power."
Ruby unfolds Crescent Rose. "Let's see if we do better than Kirito!"
"You think he remembers how useless we called him in our original timeline?" Yang asks.
Eren charges at them, swiping at all four of them with a wide slash.
Weiss jumps away. "Since he hasn't turned into that ugly monstrosity yet, I highly doubt it."
Everyone else jumps away as well.
Ruby yelps when the Monado on her back opens and her vision turns silver. She suddenly sees Yang get her arm cut off. "Yang-!" Her vision suddenly returns to normal, and Yang still has her arm. "Yang! Get behind me!" She realizes quickly that she had been shown the future because she is not foolish enough to ignore the glowey future sword.
Yang rolls behind Ruby quickly. "Got it!"
Ruby blocks Eren's next attack easily. Her vision turns silver again, showing a glimpse of Eren suddenly throwing his sword at Weiss and easily impaling her. She reacts the second her vision returns, grabbing Eren's arm and kneeing his face. "Not letting you do that-!"
Eren suddenly kicks Ruby away. "Too slow!"
Ruby rubs the area she was hit at. "That will bruise…" She quickly gets another vision of the future, tilting her head to barely dodge a blade aimed for her head. "You're actually pretty strong now!" She charges with Crescent Rose. "Weiss!"
Weiss boosts Ruby with a glyph. "I got you!"
Eren steps aside before Ruby can gut him.
"Blake!" Ruby calls immediately.
Blake throws her weapon to Ruby, using her ribbon to swing Ruby around.
Eren holds up his hand to his mouth. "Not gonna let you do that." He prepares to bite his hand.
Yang smirks from behind him. "And I'm not letting you do that~" She punches the back of his head, sending him into the blades of Crescent Rose.
Ruby cuts through the normal human easily and rolls to stop her momentum. "We did it!" She pumps her fist in the air once she was certain it was over.
"You say that like there was any doubt." Weiss holds up her pocket device to absorb Eren's dying energy. "I can make another portal."
"Can…we not?" Ruby asks. "I wanna sit down here for a little while…"
"Ruby, all timelines are starting to corrupt and fall into chaos. I need to be perfectly honest and say we have no time to take a fucking rest." Weiss opens another portal. "Ruby… I don't understand the timelines anymore. I'm realizing that a lot of what we encountered in our world was from these other worlds. A lot of our memories are of a timeline that was already faulty. Our original timeline was broken, but it was ours. We need to return to that one."
"That would explain why we just happened to bump into Kirito and Homura back then…" Blake jumps through the portal before anyone else.
Ruby walks slowly through the portal. "Whatever you say, Weissy~!"
Yang tackles Weiss through the portal. "Taking too long! Let's go!"
Ruby blinks as she realizes she was stuck between timelines again. "Crap… At least nothing is attacking me this time…"
Sun smiles at her. "That's right. Neptune was smart enough to isolate you here!"
"In the middle of buttfuck nowhere?" Ruby asks.
Neptune shrugs. "Never said it was a smart plan. Listen to what I have to tell you a listen well. You're working to repair our timeline, but remember not to repair it too much. Everything in moderation. If you fix reality entirely, it will lead to a chain of events that will lead to the fall of Beacon, the loss of Yang's arm, and the possibility of the absolute end of White Rose shipping in this universe!"
"So you're not gonna try to kill me this time, but you will tell me to not do things perfectly? Ok." Ruby looks around. "Will you guys help us?"
"Nah. We're off the case!" Sun stood next to Neptune. "You've got a high-ranking member of Time Patrol on your ass now! This guy is scary as hell!"
"Lovely…" Ruby mutters sarcastically.
"Whelp! Better open you a portal back!" Sun gets in a weird pose and starts some weird dance. "Fu…"
Neptune mirrors Sun's movements perfectly. "-sion!"
They touch their index fingers at a perfect time. "Ha-!"
What happened next was so bad that Ruby blanked it out of her memory…
Ruby wakes up slowly. "That…was so dumb… Where am I?" She feels the soft grass under her.
Weiss looks around slowly. "…no clue." She looks up slowly. "Why are we outdoors and still have a large ceiling thousands of feet above us?"
Yang swallows nervously as she looks around. "Guys…this is Aincrad…"
Blake looks just as nervous. "Our next protagonist to kill is…"
Ruby looks over the beautiful plains of floor one. "Kirito…"
Yang reloads her gauntlets. "Let's kill a goddamn overpowered bastard!"
"How hard could it be?" Weiss leads the way.
"At least we're not fighting Saiyans." Blake drags Yang along.
Yes I gave Ruby the Monado and didn't have her meet any Xenoblade Chronicles characters. There is a reason for my madness.
More explanation time. This project may have been too big for me to do alone. This is a story that relies on crossovers, and...I was an overly sheltered kid! I only got into watching anime a few years ago, so I really don't know that many. I am taking time to catch up on the best of the best anime that I have been requested to crossover with, but that takes time. Especially when Fairy Tail has a couple hundred episodes and it is the most requested crossover. I just want you all to know that I'm not quitting yet. It will take a long time, but I am not quitting.
So... Next time I finally do what many have requested and make fun of SAO. No matter how much I love that anime, I can admit faults. May the god of this story (me) have mercy on Kirito's soul.