Disclaimer: I do not own RWBY or Million Dollars But. This is just a deviation/fanfiction and Rooster Teeth has sole ownership of said franchises. If I did then I would've made a RWBY movie or something.
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Imagine a world, one full of monsters and instance magical powers, and yes before you comment, this is RWBY we are talking about. Of course they have magical powers.
But what if a single action, a single moment within moments, caused the entire story to go off the rails?
That moment….a simple game. One that would cause unique chaos in the world of Remnant.
This is….
Million Lien…But!
Million Lien…But! Chapter One: Lighting the Flame.
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-Remnant, Sanus, Vale, Unknown Location-
Within the dark and semi dilapidated warehouse at the far side of Vale's shopping district, the walls creaked and groaned from the vibrations of vehicles outside as-
Click.
A refrigerator door opened, showing the famed Neopolitan, second banana to Roman Torchwick, looking for ice cream in the freezer...finding nothing but tapioca ice cream within the frozen container.
She huffed and slammed it shut, going off to find Roman to let him know they needed real ice cream, until she realized he wasn't in the area, making her even more annoyed.
As she walked around the room, annoyed about the ice cream and the fact she wasn't going to be stealing Dust today, she sat on a chair and pouted to herself.
This was especially troubling as apparently, she and the Dumb Dumb were being payed, aka forced, into working for a mad woman with strange fire powers, nothing semblance born that's for sure. And for her, she didn't like it one bit.
But for right now...she was so BORED!
She groaned and pulled out her Scroll to try and browse the net. 'Let's see what's on the CCT Net.'
Upon booting up the search engine, called Schneeful Engine, she started looking for anything interesting, such as random facts or weird trivia that one would tell friends at social gatherings.
But that's when a random pop-up came, making her scowl.
[Bored and annoyed about life? Then play the new hit game of Remnant, Million Lien But! Click here for more information. Production from Cock Bite Entertainment, Atlas.]
'Cock bite? What the...?' she raised an eyebrow before exiting out.
Only for the same pop-up to appear on the screen again.
She growled and hit the X again.
But it kept popping up as Neo began to get frustrated and tempted to throw the Scroll out the nearest window.
'What is wrong with this pop-up!?' she thought, gripping it hard enough to make cracks.
But then a light bulb lit up in her head.
Why not see what this game is and just relieve the boredom she had right now? What's a little virus when she could just get a new one from some poor sap on the streets?
'Eh, what the hay.' She thought before clicking on it, soon becoming enraptured by its contents.
(Several hours later)
Creak.
"Stupid Little Red, stupid Fall, stupid big titted blonde!" Roman groaned while walking into the abandoned warehouse, looking rather annoyed. "Just for once, just once I can get a nice simple heist done without meddling Huntsmen!"
As he looked around, he noticed that Neo...wasn't nearby, trying to see how he was doing or even 'asking' for ice cream.
"Neo? Neo, where are you? I need someone to vent to."
Silence.
"Neo?"
Silence.
"Neo, this isn't funny at all." he deadpanned while not seeing Neo appearing behind him via purple glass shards and smirking with delight. "Neo-"
Poke~
"AH!" he cried out while getting poked on the sides, causing him to spin around and see Neo, waving at him with a smile. "NEO! I've told you over and over not to do that when I'm mad!"
She 'chuckled' while smiling, making Roman soften up, but not by much.
"Neo, why didn't you come down when I called you?"
She pulled out her Scroll and showed him the pop-up.
"Million Lien...But?" He raised an eyebrow. "What is this?"
Neo tapped on the pop-up, opened the Cock Block website, and pulled out the Million Lien...But page.
"...Neo. This isn't helping." He deadpanned.
She huffed and began to type on the Atlas Pad app. "This is a game Dumb Dumb. A very interesting and funny one."
"And?"
"I want you to play with me."
"Right now, I'm not in the mood." He frowned while Neo huffed.
"Why not!?"
"Because I had a bad day!" He yelled. "I was attacked by a girl wearing red, was chewed out by the fire bitch and was nearly killed by a blonde Huntress with a deadly semblance. I mean who even HAS a psychic semblance!?"
Neo looked at him with sympathy while still pointing to the webpage.
"I'm not in the mood for games."
"Not even if it involves getting real lien?"
"Oh please, those are just a scam to trick suckers into going broke. It's rigged."
She deadpanned at him. "It comes from Cock Bite Entertainment, the same sub company as Human Nextwork."
"Wait, you mean the one that made that damn game, Amity Arena? The one that STOLE my likeness for their little beatum up!?" He yelled in disbelief as he really hated that company, especially when they stole his likeness and didn't even get the information on him right. "You want me to play a game involving those plagiarists!?"
"Yes." Neo 'said' with a smile.
"That's even more of a reason not to play!"
"Come on. Just one game." she huffed.
Roman grumbled while looking at Neo's face, slowly noticing that she's using her semblance to make her face look cuter than it normally is, just to butter him up. "That's not going to work."
She frowned before getting an idea and turned into Cinder Fall. "Play the game and I'll make the bitch embarrassed for weeks."
"...how embarrassed are we talking about?" he asked in peak interest.
"Public indecency and possession of Ice Dust lube." Neo 'said' with a smirk.
"Deal." He smirked while Neo changed back and gave a thumbs up in approval. "So, how do we do...what was it again?"
"Million Lien But."
"Yeah, how do we do this exactly? And are there any...ugh, rules to follow?"
"Yes."
"Gods, I'm going to hate this." He grumbled to himself.
(Later)
Roman sighed as he saw on a chair, watching as Neo, who was sitting opposite of him, was placing her Scroll on the table and began pulling up the Million Lien But Rules page. "So, let me get this straight. All we have to do is come up with scenarios about what happens if you want to...keep a million lien. And it can be anything?"
"Yep. And you can add more lien to it if you want to be extra steamy~" she 'said' with a wink.
"And what happens to the winner?"
"Well, you keep the million lien and the requirement it has."
"Wait, you mean I have to DO the stuff in these scenarios!?"
"Yes, unless you say no that is. Then no lien or requirement for you."
"Aw come on!" Roman yelled in bewilderment.
"That's part of the fun." Neo smirked. "Now let's start."
The screen quickly changed to a gold and black background with a lien symbol on the front as thick green letters appeared from the left hand side of said screen.
{Scenario 1: To Be or Not to Be Wolfed!}
"Million Lien, But." Neo 'said' with a smirk as the screen transitioned to a normal Vale street as Roman walked down said street with a smile on his face. "For an entire month, you have to."
The ginger looked at a familiar red cloaked girl and walked in front of her.
"Wolf whistle at everyone you see or meet."
"Wuooo wuoooooooo!" He let out, catching Ruby off guard.
"Eh!?" she gasped while her sister, Yang, walked out of the ice cream shop and looked on in confusion.
"What!?" Roman yelled while looking at the screen.
"And keep the facade up." Neo 'said' from all around Roman, seemilly acting like the narrator of his life.
"Wuoooooo wuooooo." Roman wolf whistled to Yang, making the girl see red as she-
POW!
"Even when getting punched in the face by said person." Neo chuckled as Roman was sent flying across the screen by Yang's left hook punch.
CRASH!
Hitting a garbage can in the process as the screen changed back to the abandoned warehouse and to the real Neo and Roman.
"That was terrible!" He yelled in disbelief. "No amount of lien is worth getting punched in the face!"
"Even if it helps your 'swashbuckling' nature?"
"It's not swashbuckling, it's sophisticated gentleman thief. And I'm not going to do that." He huffed as Neo nodded.
"Well, I wouldn't do it either, I'm mute remember."
"Let's just forget this game, I can make plenty of lien without getting decked in the nose."
"Oh come on, we haven't even started yet."
"...just how many 'scenarios' are there?"
"Three, sometimes four or five. Depends on the number of people and the number of 'friends' we have, which at this point, is one." she said while pointing to herself. "Me."
"Great, just great." He grumbled before getting an idea. "Oh, that's a good one."
The screen quickly changed to a gold and black background with a lien symbol on the front as thick green letters appeared from the left hand side of said screen.
{Scenario 2: Hugging Confusion, With Tongue.}
"Million Lien, But!" Roman said while the screen transitioned to a Valeian ice cream shop as Neo walked in to get something delicious. "You have to give every guy that passes by you a hug."
She looked around before seeing a blonde boy with a black hoodie walking out of the bathroom, somewhat relieved as he looked at his Scroll.
Grope!
"Ah!" he cried out while getting hugged by the midget.
"But you can't say why. At all."
"Easy enough." Neo 'said' to the screen as Jaune looked absolutely confused.
"Oh? Easy enough? Well, let's try and spice it up a little." Roman smirked as Neo raised an eyebrow at the bodiless narrator. "For the additional price of a million lien."
She looked confused while the blonde felt his cheeks turning pink.
"You have to smooch them on the lips." Roman chuckled as Neo pulled Jaune down by the shirt and started to kiss him on the lips.
"Mmmmm!?"
"Tongue included."
Neo rubbed the back of Jaune's head before sliding her tongue inside.
"Mmmm!?"
"So what about girls?" asked Neo, pulling back from Jaune's lips as Yang walked by with some ice pops.
"Fair game as well." Roman said as Neo quickly jumped on Yang and began to kiss her.
"MMM!?"
The screen changed back to the abandoned warehouse and to the real Neo and Roman, as the criminal mastermind saw Neo smirking to herself.
"Mmmm, that could work." Neo 'said' with a hum, making Roman blink in surprise. "I might take that one."
" Wait, seriously?" Roman said in surprise. "You're fine kissing random people?"
"Yep, especially if I kill them afterwards." She smirked. "Unless they offer me some ice cream, that is."
"Neo, that's the same as accepting candy from a man in a van."
She shrugged. "Not my problem they are stupid."
Roman facepalmed. "That's not the point."
"Then what is it then?"
"I...ughhh!" Roman cried out in frustration, unable to accurately tell his second banana about the severity of her naivety.
Neo chuckled before getting an idea.
The screen quickly changed to a gold and black background with a lien symbol on the front as thick green letters appeared from the left hand side of said screen.
{Scenario 3: Good Deed Randomness!?}
"A Million Lien-" Neo said while the scene changed to reveal Roman drinking coffee at a local cafe.
"That's a lot of lien." Roman interrupted as he drank his coffee.
"But. Every day for a year, you have to do a good deed to a random stranger." Neo said as Roman spat his coffee out in shock.
"WHAT?! That's unfair!"
"You didn't let me finish." the unseen narrator huffed as Ozpin walked past the 'fake' Roman. "You have to do a good deed to a random stranger, no matter who or what that person is."
Roman got up and saw that Ozpin's Scroll fell out of his pocket, making him pick it up and hand it to the man. "Here."
"Ah, thank you."
"And the good deed has to be life changing, no pocket change or the million lien is forfeited to charity." Neo said as a random shadowed man grabbed Roman's wallet, filled with the million lien, and ran off with it.
"For charity!?" he gasped in disbelief. "For orphans?! The less fortunate?!"
"Well, yeah. If you fail to do a good deed that's life altering." Neo said with sadistic glee as Roman fell to his knees in horror, only to see a certain red cloaked girl walking past him. "And if the person you help is a girl, 'woo' them for extra lien."
"Are you insane?! I'm not wooing that brat!"
"Not even for extra lien?"
"No!" he yelled while Ruby walked away and the entire screen changed back to the abandoned warehouse and to the real Neo and Roman.
"I see, well I would take it." Neo shrugged.
"Wait, why?"
"Because my-I mean the Vanilles instilled in me a bad sense of 'worth'. I would use this scenario to actually correct some wrongs, even if it's random." She said while Roman nodded, knowing what bad parents they were before he met up with Neo ages ago. "Plus, I get lien, it's a win win in my books."
"...well you can do that, but I'm not going to be charitable, at all. Plus this is a game, it's not like we can actually get the lien." he huffed before noticing that the table had purple cracks, which instantly shattered to reveal several suitcases, all open with millions of lien inside each one. "EH!?"
"Stole some before you returned home."
"But...I...you..."
"So want to play another game?"
Knock knock.
Both blinked as Neo got up and walked to the door.
Only to see a blonde boy at the front door with a puzzled look on his face.
'Um...is this the right place?'
"And just what are YOU doing here?" Roman said with a raised eyebrow as he moved towards the door.
"Oh um...is this Roman Torchwick, criminal mastermind?" He asked while looking at his Scroll.
"Yes, and you are?"
"Jaune Arc, and I came for...a transcript forging." He said while Neo eyed him up and down. 'What's she doing?'
"A forge?" he raised an eyebrow. "You do realize I'm the best criminal mastermind in all of Remnant, right?"
"Yeah, and the master of forgery."
"That's my partner's job." He pointed to Neo. "And she's not going to jus-"
"A transcript forgery? Sure, I can do that free of charge." She 'said' on her Scroll, shocking Roman in the process.
"Neo!"
"What? I'm doing a good deed." She 'said' as Roman recalled the last scenario they did before the blonde arrived. "Now Mister Arc, come inside and we'll discuss the transcripts."
"Thanks, you have no idea how badly I need this." He said with a smile as he walked into the building, not realizing that this moment would change everything...and then some.
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To be continued.