An Old Wizard's Multiverse Respite

by The Hat Of The Hats

On a mundane and routine morning, Professor Ozpin comes across something he wasn't expecting to find in his office. With the weight of the world on his shoulders and the stress of running an academy screaming at him to take a break, perhaps this brief respite with his students, colleagues and even a few strangers is just what he needed. (Reaction Fic)

10. VanossGaming Gmod Prop Hunt

A/N: *Inhales* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH- okay enough of that. To those who bother to read these I'd just like to say welcome back! Unless this is your first read and you skipped all the other chapters to get to this one, (I do it too, you have nothing to be ashamed about) then I'll just say welcome without the 'back' part.

I don't really have an excuse for why this chapter wasn't out earlier... I mean, I was pretty busy but there were a lot of points where I did have more than enough free time to write this but... I just wasn't feeling it. Procrastination and laziness for the win.

Anyways, that's all I have to say for now, there'll be more in the second author's note down below if you wanna read that but otherwise, I just hope you enjoy!

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Presenting: VanossGaming - Gmod Prop Hunt Funny Moments - Little Hunter Edition!

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"You know, it's kind of funny…" Blake spoke up softly, earning Weiss' attention.

"How is any of this funny?" Weiss asked with a glare. Blake only chuckled which earned a raised eyebrow from the girl.

"It's just… It's like the situation has been reversed." She explained. "Earlier, when you left the room, Ruby couldn't stop worrying about you… and now here you are in the same position as her."

Any anger Weiss had melted away as her eyes widened slightly. "I didn't even realize…" She whispered, earning a small smile from the faunus.

"I'm sure she's fine, Weiss." Blake said, placing a hand on her shoulder. "She just needs some time to process things and she'll be back before you know it."

"You mean like how you were going to come back?" Weiss asked. There was a wince from Blake and the white haired girl immediately felt regret.

"Sorry…" She murmured as her head ducked in shame.

"No, don't apologize. You're just worried." Blake reassured her. "But Ruby is stronger than I ever was. She's not the type to run from something like this. Besides, she's got Yang with her. If anyone can set her straight, it'll be her."

Weiss sighed softly. "I guess so…" She murmured, before a small smile graced her lips. "Thank you, Blake."

"Wait, are you actually smiling right now?" Blake asked with a look of faux bewilderment. "Who are you and what have you done with Weiss?"

A quick jab aimed at Blake's arm later and both girls were sharing a quick chuckle. Then the door opened.

"Ruby!" Weiss couldn't keep the relieved shout down as she sprang to her feet. Before Ruby could even open her mouth, she was being squeezed by dainty arms that hid a surprising amount of strength.

"Are you okay?!" She asked worriedly, completely ignoring Ruby's suffering.

"Weiss- P-please… I can't- air…!" Ruby choked out as a faint blueish tone colored her skin. "Why do… people keep- ngh- choking me?!" Weiss loosened her grip with a sheepish expression but didn't release her.

Behind them, Yang couldn't hide how adorable she thought the two were in that moment. Qrow turned his head and gagged as he stalked past them to his seat.

Ren leaned over towards Jaune with the tiniest of smirks on his face. "I think Weiss is taken, Jaune." He said, earning a choke not only from the blonde, but also from the two girls hugging it out in front of them.

Yang, the tease that she was, pounced on the opportunity. With a gasp, Yang opened her mouth and dread filled Ruby's heart before the first word was even out. "I can't wait to become an auntie!"

"YAAANG!" Ruby shouted, absolutely mortified as both girl's pale skin turned redder than Yang's eyes when she was angry.

Mercury also joined in. "Get a room already you two, sheesh!" He yelled with a massive smirk.

"Okay guys, calm down." Coco spoke up with a chuckle. "You're going to give the poor girl a heart attack."

"Well…" Ozpin added before anyone else could take another pot shot at the two girls. "I'd like to welcome you back Miss Rose."

Ruby, after restarting her brain, turned to Oz. "Oh- uh y-yeah. Thanks…" She mumbled sheepishly. "I'm okay now… Yang and Uncle Qrow talked to me and I feel a lot better." She gave a small but cheery smile.

"No thanks to you." Yang snarled as her glare focused on Torchwick. While she wasn't alone, most of the students turning their ire towards the thief, her and Qrow's anger was the greatest. Torchwick just averted his gaze with a scowl. Ruby, however, didn't seem all that angry.

"Yang…" She pleaded softly as she tugged on her sister's arm. Yang's eyes flickered from red back to their usual lilac as she looked down at Ruby apologetically. "Sorry, Ruby…" She muttered.

"Right…" Qrow spoke up suddenly as the girls took their seats. "Well, we promised you all answers. You still wanna hear em?"

There was a bit of silence as the group turned towards Ruby. "Yeah… I think we do." She said softly, causing Qrow to sigh tiredly.

"Alright…"

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By the end of it all, there were mixed reactions. A few didn't take the news too well, Velvet, Neptune and Jaune adopting fearful and worried expressions. Some didn't seem all too concerned, Roman and Neo for example, although Emerald and Mercury were oddly silent. There was something in their gazes that Qrow couldn't decipher, but if he had to guess, it was like a mix of realization, terror and confusion.

Though, what pained him the most was the look on Ruby's face when he told her the reason she was being targeted. Her silver eyes.

"So that's why…" The girl muttered as she was wrapped in Yang's embrace. Ruby brought a hand up to her face and trailed a finger around her eyes. "But… what's so special about them?"

Qrow took a sip of his drink. "It'll be safer if you find out on your own. Rushing these kinds of things is dangerous, especially in your case."

Ruby didn't acknowledge that with anything more than a small nod. She looked up at Qrow a moment later. "I just have… one question…" She muttered and the drunk immediately didn't like the sudden dread that filled his being.

"Is… Was…" Ruby paused as she struggled to get the words out. "Was mom…?" She whispered, causing Yang to snap her head up and turn to face Qrow with a shocked look as the raven haired huntsman cringed.

Even if she didn't finish the sentence, Qrow understood what she was asking. He didn't respond. He simply closed his eyes and averted his gaze, the following silence threatening to suffocate him.

"… Oh…" Ruby whispered after a second as she teared up slightly. "Okay…" She muttered, as she wiped her eyes. She had already wasted all of her tears earlier and didn't have much left. Yang, who would usually be raving and shouting at the revelation, was silent, just trying to process what this all meant. Instinctively, she felt her hold on Ruby tighten.

It didn't take long for Ruby to wipe away the last of her tears, though she was far from calm.

"Maybe… Um…" Velvet shied away from the attention, her ears lowering instinctively. "Could we move on?" She asked, clearly uncomfortable with asking the question as she didn't want to sound insensitive, but everyone knew that she just wanted to replace the sadness with something fun.

"I believe it's time." Glynda agreed with a curt nod. Right as the words left her mouth, the screen lit up with selection.

"Shall we?" Ozpin asked as he took a glance around the room. Just about everyone looked ready to move on. "Very well then."

Right as the screen came to life, an upbeat, cheery and casual tune began to play with the sight of a green plushie snake sitting next to an empty glass beverage bottle in a basement type area appearing on screen, although there was a quality to everything that made it seem slightly unrealistic.

Almost immediately Velvet could feel some of the tension in her drain away, though she was a bit confused. "What is this supposed to be exactly?"

"Beats me." Mercury snorted, looking less than impressed. "I swear to god if this is some kiddie shit…"

"Aww…" Coco swooned as she glanced over. "Does the big strong man not like his cartoons anymore?"

Red immediately rushed to Mercury's cheeks as the students snickered at his expense. Emerald especially enjoyed his embarrassment.

"I wanna become one of you." The bottle said with the voice of Adam Taurus as it jumped into the air, before falling back to the ground with a clank.

Blake violently choked on her spit and immediately began to hack and cough in an attempt to clear her airway. "What…?" She muttered in disbelief. "What…?"

In an instant, Mercury's attention was firmly grasped, his earlier embarrassment going forgotten as he focused his gaze onto the screen with a semi-excited grin. 'I take it back… This'll be good…'

"That wasn't who I thought it was, was it…?"Sun asked, equally confused.

"I want to say it's not… but I just can't." Blake said as she leaned back in her seat with a complicated look on her face.

Qrow barked out a quick laugh. "Never thought I'd see the day were the Adam Taurus was apparently a fucking bottle of all things…"

The view then zoomed in, onto the green snake. "Alright, alright, you wanna go on a mission?" It replied as it shook in a cartoonish way with the voice of Blake Belladonna.

"Is that you, Blake?!" Yang asked suddenly with a chuckle building in her throat. It only got worse when Blake's hands flew to her head in exasperation.

"Why is my voice coming out of a stuffed snake?!" She shouted as her left eye twitched slightly. "I'm not surprised at me being with Adam all things considered but what the hell?!" Instead of recoiling at the use of language, Ruby just snickered softly.

"Is it just me or does something seem… off?" Velvet piped in as she narrowed her eyes at the screen.

Coco shrugged. "I don't see anything weird. Why?"

"I'm not sure… It's not something bad but… something just isn't sitting right with me." Velvet responded. "The scenery maybe… or something about the visuals…?"

"Should I go on a mission to become one of you?" Adam asked again.

"Yeah, let's go on a mission." Blake confirmed with a hint of excitement as the plushie snake she was masquerading as drifted and turned, before sliding away comically with the glass bottle Adam was mimicking following. "Alright!" He muttered.

"We haven't even been watching this for half a minute and it's already dumb." Jaune said with a lopsided smile on his face.

"I don't get what's even happening!" Blake groaned tiredly. "What the hell are we doing in… What is that, a storage room or something?"

"That's what it looks like." Yang spoke up stiffly, before she chuckled suddenly. "God dammit, I can't… I can't take this seriously when a supposed White Fang terrorist is a fucking bottle… The plushie snake just sliding on the ground isn't- wheeze- helping either…!"

A snort burst from Qrow's nose before he reached out to grab his drink, only for it to slide away from him. "Huh?" He mumbled as he leaned over and reached for it once again, to no avail as it only slid further away. "Okay, what the hell?" He mumbled as he took a look around.

Seeing nothing suspicious, he stood from his seat and leaned down, only for the bottle to slide away once more. "Okay, that does it…!" He growled to himself as he began to chase after it.

Unbeknownst to him, Neo and Winter shared a quiet snicker and a subtle fist bump.

"C'mere, c'mere, c'mere." Blake repeated as the duo neared a ladder, before the bottle turned towards a garden gnome in the corner. "Uh, I'ma be this temporarily." Adam announced.

"Eh?" Ruby squeaked out at the unexpected announcement.

"Can he shape shift or something…?" Ren asked incredulously. Blake snapped her gaze over to the boy.

"No." Blake insisted, her voice demanding zero speculation. "No, he can't."

Mercury just snickered. "You're telling me he's a master of disguise then?" When Blake's only response was a blank stare, his laughs got louder.

"No, no beco-" Blake began but paused as she quickly thought it over. "Yeah, okay become this guy." She agreed and the bottle suddenly transformed into an identical replica of the gnome in the blink of an eye with a comedic Ding! accompanying it. "Yeah, this guy's good. I'm this guy."

Blake's eye twitched.

Sun struggled to hold in a chuckle. "Oh man, this is awesome." He said with a large grin.

At this point, Winter could only pinch the bridge of her nose. "I'm sorry, but I'm having trouble understanding… whatever this is…"

"You're not alone." Ozpin reassured with a sip of his cocoa. "Although, for someone who is supposed to be a terrorist, this is all fairly light-hearted."

"Become this guy!" Neptune Vasilias' voice, slightly mimicking and mocking Adam's, suddenly cut in as a miniature combine appeared at the end of the room and began to approach them with a weapon raised.

"Wait, what?" Neptune muttered with a small grin on his face. His groove was immediately killed by a shrill shriek.

"What the hell is that?!" The source? None other that Coco. "Who would wear something like that?!"

Surprisingly, it was Ironwood that spoke up. "Is there a problem with it?" He asked. Only Glynda could pick up the slightest insecurity in his tone and couldn't help but grin subtly.

"Is there a pro- OF COURSE THERE IS!" Coco yelled, earning a hiss from Velvet and Blake thanks to their sensitive ears. "Just look at the colors! It's so dull and lifeless, not to mention the suit itself is creepy! I mean, I get it, military uniform and everything, but come on! Even Atlas has better uniforms and that's saying something!" The fashionista moaned.

Behind her, Neo shifted her arms into a shrug, signifying her apparent agreement as Qrow wheezed silently at Ironwood's indignation.

The General threw a glance at Winter and grimaced when he saw the look on her face. Perhaps he should revise the Atlesian uniform…?

"AH!" Adam shouted, panicked, as the gnome turned towards the snake. "Look out, he's coming!" Immediately after getting his warning out, the soft, cheery music shifted to something more fitting of a dramatic chase scene

"Wait… Taurus is actually scared of something…?" Emerald couldn't help but mumble at the events on screen.

Behind her, Torchwick mouthed "What the hell…?" as a shit eating grin grew on Mercury's face.

"WHA- OHODODODOD GO! GO! GO!" Blake shouted incoherently in what sounded like terror as both Adam and herself scurried, although it was more appropriate to say levitated, up the ladder.

"PFFFT-" A hand flew to Yang's mouth to try and muffle her outburst but she ultimately failed when she started giggling loudly.

"What did you even try to say…?" Weiss mumbled wide eyed as Ruby began to snicker quietly. The fifteen-year-old was still down in the dumps but her mood was rapidly improving.

"I-" Blake paused as words refused to form. She tried again but like the first attempt, no sounds left her mouth. In the end, she settled to frustratingly gesture at the screen with a look of bafflement which threw Yang and Nora into stitches.

Both of them quickly reached the top, emerging from a manhole right next to a gas station, and moved as fast as they could all the while shouting in panic. "RUN! RUN! RUN! RUN! RUN!" Blake yelled as they ducked into the gas station.

"A gas station?" Coco murmured with a lopsided grin. "Okay, none of this is making sense… not that I'm complaining mind you, but still."

Ozpin struggled to hold in a chuckle as Glynda and James' gazes grew blanker the longer they stared at the screen. He took a sip of his cocoa and let out an internal sigh of satisfaction, content to watch their brains melt from the apparent stupidity of what they were witnessing.

Once inside, Adam continued forward while Blake turned to the right and went through a side door as the ones chasing them burst through the front entrance right as she closed the door, having just missed her.

"RPGs at the ready!" Neptune shouted as another combine, with Sun Wukong's voice, followed right behind him. "They're inside, they're inside, they're inside!" Sun kept repeating as the both of them ran passed.

"Me too?!" Sun piped up with a wide grin. "Awesome!"

"But what is happening anyways?" Emerald murmured, having given up on her reservations of staying isolated, as she narrowed her eyes at the screen. "We have Blake and… Adam Taurus… who can apparently shape shift and are being chased by those two." She said as she pointed at Sun and Neptune.

Yang suddenly froze and leaned forward as she focused intently on the screen. "Does this feel like a game to anyone else?"

There was a beat of silence as everyone pondered the question, before Neo glanced curiously at the blonde with a shrug, wordlessly asking her to elaborate. Qrow caught on.

"No, no… You have a point." The drunk agreed slowly. "This whole thing doesn't exactly feel like a military operation… If anything, this reminds me of a group of friends messing around."

"That seems about right." Mercury allowed with a nod.

"Doot! Doot! Doot! Doot! Doot!" Adam however, kept making stressed beeping noises reminiscent of machinery as his gnome form scurried away somewhere off screen.

Quite a few people burst out laughing, even Ren couldn't suppress his quiet chuckle.

"Is he serious…?" Torchwick muttered as a snort escaped his lips.

Unbeknownst to those sat around her, a strange glint shined in Penny's eyes as she observed the screen. Then a thought entered her head as she remembered a phrase she'd heard somewhere once. 'Could he be one of… "My people"?' She thought. She only realized she'd said it out loud when Coco and Sun began to die with laughter.

"I can't with you, girl!" Coco wheezed as tears gathered in her eyes.

Penny only tilted her head in confusion for a moment, before she realized what conclusion they must have come to. Surprisingly, laughter bubbled up from her throat as she joined them in their amusement.

The view cut to Adam's gnome as he tried to enter a vent, but the size of his form was a bit too large, making an audible Thunk! sound as he smacked against it. "Blake, I'm too fat!" He yelled. "Blake! Blake! Blake!" He repeated in an attempt to get her attention even as he turned and scurried away to take another path.

Blake couldn't believe her eyes as she watched what was going on on-screen. Her feelings for Adam were… complicated to say the least. She loved him, once, or at least she thought she did. He was violent and spiteful, yet oddly passionate about what he did and charismatic if he wanted to be.

The goofball on-screen was not Adam. He was not the Adam she knew, he couldn't be. Yet as she watched, she was filled with a sense of longing and wonder. She couldn't keep the thoughts out of her head… Was this who Adam might have become had things turned out differently? Had his anger and hate not began to consume him? It hurt just to think about…

Regardless, she was able to sum up her thoughts. "What the hell are we even watching at this point?"

"The culmination of human stupidity?" Blake turned her head and stared at Weiss.

Blake's faunus ears twitched.

Weiss blinked. "Poor choice of words?"

A snort forced itself from Blake's nose.

"Aha, aha, aha, aha!" Blake shouted as the view cut back to her, before her snake form vanished, being replaced with a glass bottle identical to the one from before. She scurried away right after.

The view cut back to Adam again as he tried to cross shopping isles, only to come across Neptune. "AAH!" The combine shouted in a panic, his head vibrating comically as he turned towards the gnome.

"Uh-oh." Sun mumbled with a smile as he leaned forward.

"Oh this'll be good." Qrow added, forgoing his flask and deciding to keep his attention firmly on the screen.

Nora's fists tightened as a wide and arguably psychotic smile split her face in two.

Meanwhile, Glynda's face fell into her palms with a groan.

Adam, meanwhile, lost his shit. "WOOOOOOOOOO-HO-HO-HOOO!" He screamed right before a grenade sailed through the air and smashed into him. The projectile exploded in a magnificent ball of fire and threw him away. "Mother-fucking gnome down!" Neptune shouted with a hint of triumph in his voice.

It took everything Winter had to fight off the grin trying to force it's way onto her face, which didn't go unnoticed by Qrow. "Something wrong, Ice Queen?" He asked with a laugh, his voice barely audible over the howling cackles and wheezes from the other students.

"I… It's just…" She murmured, her expression a complicated mix of confusion, irritation, mirth, amusement and bewilderment.

Neo caught on and gave her a smirk. "Not surprised you've never seen something like this, what with how you Atlesians like to shove sticks up your asses." Her sign read. Qrow burst out laughing again as tears pricked the corners of his eyes. Winter was sure she should have been furious at the remark but she just… couldn't bring herself to be so.

Over at the front of the pack, Mercury was trembling with laughter as he spoke. "This is magical…" He whispered as he struggled not to lose his composure. "I never thought I'd see something so beautiful." Emerald wanted to say something, any snide remark that would come to mind but her brain just wasn't cooperating with her. That being said, she'd be lying if she said she disagreed if the gray-haired idiot.

The view shifted to Blake once more, although there were differences. In the top left corner, a box labeled `PROPS` appeared with Blake's head inside it. Across the bottom however, were all things you'd see in a heads-up display. An HP bar at ONE, a round counter at FOUR, a timer with 3:30 remaining and an ammo counter at ZERO.

"So it is a game!" Yang yelled triumphantly as other confirmatory shouts, mostly from Qrow and Velvet, also rang out. Then, just as quickly as her grin appeared, it vanished. "Wait, you never play video games!" She said, turning her gaze towards Blake.

"I don't…" Blake murmured, trailing off half way with a look on her face that said she was just as confused. "Books are better." She stated after a second.

"Pfft!" Yang snorted. "You're just bad at them!" She ignored how Blake hissed with a playful smirk hidden beneath her glare.

"Does anybody know what kind of game this is then?" Pyrrha spoke up with a raised eyebrow, before landing her gaze on Ruby.

"It's Prop Hunt." She spoke up with a smile, slightly strained and subdued due to earlier but there was a hint of cheer that left her friends breathing subtle sighs of relief. "The props hide and the hunters try to track them down. It's pretty fun but I think fighting games are better."

"You're a bitch-ass-bitch…" Adam muttered with some salt directed at Neptune even as Blake kept panicking and scurrying around the store.

A long, drawn out wheeze from Coco cause a few eyes to turn to her. "I can't…! Seeing someone you have a pre-established image of acting and talking like this just kills me!" Her words were followed by highly amused giggles.

Velvet just shook her head with a fond smile.

"Where'd she go, where'd she go?" Sun asked, only for Neptune to scream as he spotted her. "SECOND ISLE, SECOND ISLE!" A barrage of gunfire erupted behind her and bullets crashed all around her, fortunately missing her and allowing her to slip away. "Second isle, second isle…" Sun repeated to himself as he made his way there.

Blake shifted herself onto one of the shelves but Sun spotted her immediately and tried to fire on her, causing her to run. Meanwhile, in the background… "Clean up on isle two, clean up on ISLE TWO!" An explosion sent Sun cart-wheeling into the air before he smacked into the ceiling and fell out of view. "NO, SUN!" Neptune shouted as Adam burst out laughing.

"YEAH!" Nora shouted excitedly even as she laughed.

"I…. But yo- Uh- Wha-" Snorts from both Yang and Blake turned into giggles as Weiss' brain promptly short circuited.

"Dammit!" Sun yelled, even if he couldn't wipe the smile from his face.

"What the hell, Sun?!" Neptune shouted, mere steps away from dying of laughter.

"Oh right, forgot to mention!" Yang piped up. "Usually, if you hit a prop that isn't another player, you take damage and eventually die."

"Ah, that explains it." Sun muttered as his chuckles died down.

Even as Adam was barely keeping himself together, Blake bobbed and weaved through the mess caused by the explosion. "Holy shit, oh my god!" She kept muttering to her self as she went, before she turned a corner and propped herself onto a shelf, successfully hiding this time.

"DAH SHIT, I THOUGHT I SAID ISLE FOUR!" Neptune shouted as both Sun and Blake joined Adam in his hysterics.

"You know… this is nice." Ruby spoke up softly, only earning the attention of her own team due to the roar of laughter being to loud for anyone else to hear her.

"I know right?!" Yang asked with a cackle. "This just keeps getting better and better." She paused when Ruby shook her head.

"No, I mean… Well, okay, that too." She admitted with a sheepish smile. "But, it's just nice to see how someone who isn't exactly a good person in our universe is just having fun with his friends… It just makes me feel nice."

"It humanizes him too…" Weiss admitted as the thought struck her. Until very recently, the White Fang were the bane of Weiss' existence. She hated them and everything they stood for, thought them no better than the Grimm the masks they wore symbolized, and yet, even if it was a different universe, here she was watching one of it's leaders just… having fun… and not just with random people either. Sun, Neptune and even Blake was there. "It makes me wonder…"

"What could have been?" All three of them turned towards Blake, who had a pained look in her eye. "Yeah…" She said, recalling her earlier thought. "Me too…"

"Sun's tiny fucking body hit the ceiling…!" He barely managed to choke out in between laughs. The view quickly cut around 40 seconds later to Blake now being a gnome back in the basement as Adam continued. "Everybody's just fucking screaming and then- wheeze- in one of the isles to the side- heh-, you just see an explosion and then one of the tiniest rag doll bodies did a cartwheel and hit the ceiling…!" He recounted before bursting into giggles again. "It was so funny!"

Blake, meanwhile, was hiding behind a corner as Neptune approached, before she rushed away after being spooked. She crashed into a pile of boxes as she turned into one of them just as Neptune turned the corner. He saw the pile shake, which was enough for him to come over and investigate.

"Well, that was subtle." Weiss said dryly.

"Shut up." Came the mumbled reply as Blake did her best to hide the blush on her cheeks.

"Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy…!" Blake muttered, clearly stressed as Neptune began looking around. "Where are you?!" Neptune asked with a little too much sadistic joy in his voice. "Come out with your hands up! I know you're behind these boxes, Blake!" He said as he began to throw the boxes around.

"You know, you're kind of fucked." Coco said abruptly with a chuckle.

"Oh, come on!" Nora refuted as she waved her hand dismissively. "She'll be fine!"

"I mean…" Sun began but paused for a second. "Neptune is pretty dumb, so…"

"HEY!" The person in question shouted with irritation as the other laughed.

"Noooo...! I am not!" Blake insisted unconvincingly and she froze when Neptune tried to shift the box she was mimicking. Luckily for her, he moved on without much suspicion. "She's not behind the boxes." Adam said, trying to help her out.

As Neptune removed one of the other boxes next to her, he revealed the very same vent Adam had tried to enter earlier. "There's a hole- there's a hole behind the boxes by the way." Adam said nonchalantly right before a record scratch cut through the sudden silence.

Neptune's smile fell abruptly as he stared at the screen with barely composed snickers sounding around him. "You've gotta be kidding me…"

"Neptune, please…" Jaune groaned as he brought he pressed his hand together and brought them to his lips.

"At this point, I'll be more surprised if he doesn't fall for it." Winter murmured, to which Qrow and Neo burst into chuckles.

"There's a hole?" Sun asked incredulously as Blake and Adam burst out laughing. Neptune, having assumed she'd run off, turned and followed to try and catch her. "Now I lost her… God… fucking…" He mumbled in annoyance as Adam continued to giggle.

"NO!" Neptune yelled with anguish in his tone. "GO BACK, DUMBASS! SHE'S RIGHT THERE!"

"I'm sure you'll get her next time, Friend-Neptune!" Penny said cheerfully in an attempt to console him.

"How are people this stupid…?" Emerald mumbled, genuinely asking herself the question. Unfortunately for Neptune, she wasn't as quiet as she thought she was being and those near them lost their shit all over again, leaving Neptune to smack his hand against his face and sulk.

As soon as Neptune was gone, Blake moved as fast as she could. She made it to the back door before transforming into a milk carton and booking it outside. "Yeah, you definitely lost her you dumbass!" Adam said as the two of them continued to laugh.

Neo covered her mouth with a hand as she snickered. "We are never going to let him live this down, are we?" Her sign read.

"He'll wish!" Roman barked out a chuckle as she shook his head in amusement.

Neo blinked at the crook for a moment, before she playfully rolled her eyes and scooted next to him and curled into his side. Although he was surprised for a moment, Roman didn't waste any time putting a hand on her shoulder and pulling her a little closer.

"Wow…" Sun muttered in irritation before Adam spoke up again. "She was one of the boxes, you idiot!"

"WHAT?!" Neptune yelled as Blake and Adam burst out laughing all over again.

"Dolt." Weiss muttered, earning a quiet giggle from Ruby as Neptune looked absolutely abashed.

"WHY AM I THE DOLT NOW?" He yelled, pointing at himself. He paused for a moment and thought his question over, before slumping in his seat as Weiss giggled softly. "Gah! I hate my life." He moaned softly.

"Hmph." Weiss scoffed as she crossed her arms over her chest. "Now you know how I felt when we watched that professor version of Jaune fight Cardin." A howl from Yang had both of them freeze.

"HAAAAHAHAHA! I completely forgot about that!" She yelled as her hands flew to her abdomen.

"I regret this…" Weiss muttered. Now it was Neptune's turn to laugh.

Blake rushed out to the front of the store again, heading for another garden gnome right next to the door. She turned into it successfully, only to then turn into the ice machine right next to it by mistake, causing her to fuse to the original due to the size, and get stuck. A fart noise played to signify her failure.

"What." It was less a question and more a statement which was followed by a violent eye twitch courtesy of Blake.

"I mean…" Mercury mumbled but paused to recompose himself. "You tried." He finally said.

"I realize that this is a video game but…" Glynda began as she pinched the bridge of her nose with a scowl on her face. "How does one fail so spectacularly…?"

"And now you're stuck to it." Jaune said with a grin. "Well… I guess you just have to hope Neptune doesn't find you."

"I'm going to be pissed if I don't!" Neptune added abruptly. "There's no way I can miss that!"

"Oh god-" Blake managed to say before Adam laughing forced her into giggles as well. "You- you put in all this work and now this!" He shouted, the words only causing Blake to laugh harder. "Just hold on!" Blake giggled in an unconfident tone. "Wait, give it time." Adam said, to which Blake had no choice but to listen to.

"Even I'm not confident I'm going to last…" Blake said with a sigh.

"Like I said… Neptune is pretty dumb-"

"Oh, screw you!" Neptune snapped at Sun who only burst out laughing.

"This is fine, EVERYTHING is FINE!" Blake said, much to the amusement of the others she was playing with.

"Friend-Blake, I think you're in denial." The blunt assertion from Penny practically stole the wind from Blake's sails, forcing her into a mild coughing fit as her teammates laughed.

"I'm beginning to think bringing Penny here was a mistake." Ironwood mumbled as his hand rubbed at his forehead.

"How so?" Ozpin replied.

"Pietro would have my head if Penny was exposed to a bad influence." Ironwood answered. Ozpin gave out an "Ah." of understanding, even as he chuckled quietly, not exactly unable, although absolutely unwilling to refute the generals assumption in favor of watching the world burn.

Metaphorically, of course. Ozpin liked to troll, can you blame the guy?

"I have five health…" Neptune muttered sullenly as he continued his search. "Where is she-" He asked before cutting himself off.

"Nowhere." Blake stated. "Go away."

"She's in the- she's in the main isle, she's in the main isle! She's a big ass-" Adam started shouting false advice, but paused as both he and Blake started cackling like mad due to a trashcan Blake had fused into having started violently thrashing about in an attempt to separate itself from her.

"What the fuck was that?!" Adam yelled hysterically. "It just went BDLIP-BDLIP-BDLIP-" He cut off only for the trashcan to start thrashing again, with added in popping and rattling sound effects, causing the both of them to burst out laughing once more.

"Gotta love glitches!" Coco shouted as laughter spilled from her throat.

"Unless they ruin your game!" Ruby immediately refuted with a child-like glare. "I can't tell you how many times I lost a match of Kung Fu Ninja Ultimate Slayer Death Battle 2 because of some stupid bug!"

"Sure." Yang allowed, restraining herself from rubbing salt into her sister's wounds, 'Mad cuz bad.' crossed her mind but she kept her mouth shut. "But the fun ones are always cool to see."

"That's fair." Ruby replied, although her glare refused to fade completely.

"Where the fuck is she?!" Sun asked, completely lost. "I don't see her." The view then shifted to Neptune, who was inside by some coffee machines.

"Neptune, Neptune, Neptune I got- Neptune you just need to cool down, Neptune, you just need to cool down!" Adam said with a chuckle building in his chest as Blake started to protest. "No, no, don't, don't, DON'T!"

Blake and Weiss stiffened when they heard Yang gasp like a child in a candy store. They both turned slowly, only to see her eyes light up like torches, not unlike when she used her semblance, save for her eyes turning red.

"Yang… no…" Blake said- pleaded.

"Yang, yes!"

"Yang, no!"

Weiss let out a shuddering breath, before she turned towards Neo. "I will pay you to kill me."

The young woman made a show of thinking about it, and I mean really thinking about it, before she shook her head with a shit eating grin on her face that practically screamed "No Deal". With a face paler than usual, Weiss turned back towards the screen, bracing herself for the puns that would eventually follow.

Neptune, still confused, turned away and walked forwards, only to slip on a fallen coffee maker and die. "WHAT?!" He shouted in exasperation as everyone else in the game lost their shit. The round restarted soon after.

"ARE YOU SERIOUS?!" Neptune howled as he snapped. "I DIDN'T EVEN SHOOT ANYTHING! WHAT DID I TAKE DAMAGE FROM?!"

"Wow, that's a lot of salt." Mercury laughed.

Ruby turned to Yang with a dry look as she gestured from Neptune towards the screen. "See what I mean?"

It took everything Yang had not to burst out laughing.

---

"Am I golden?" Sun, who was now a prop, asked as Blake and Adam, who were now the hunters, spawned in and entered the store.

"Ooh!" Velvet's eyes shined as she leaned forward. "Team swaps!"

"Don't let us down, Blakey!" Nora cheered as she punched a fist into the air.

Neptune couldn't help but grumble as he turned to Sun. "You better not lose this." He said.

Sun just chuckled and rubbed the back of his neck.

"Very." Neptune answered, causing Sun to give out one of those molester chuckles. It was easy to imagine a mischievous grin on his face as he rubbed his hands together.

"What was that chuckle…?" Coco asked as she turned towards Sun wide eyed.

"Oh my gosh!" Ruby shouted, pointing a hand at the screen. "That was the best cartoon villain laugh I've ever heard!"

"Is this what I've been reduced to?" Sun asked even as he laughed good-naturedly. "A cartoon villain?"

"Yep." Ruby answered with a confidence as if her words dictated the law. Of course, she popped the P.

"Is he golden…?" Adam parroted as he began to scan the shelves inside the store, before a sigh left his throat. "Lemme sniff him out, lemme sniff him out." He said as he approached the nearest shelf.

Roman couldn't keep his mouth shut. "There's a joke to be made here somewhere… OW!" His words were followed by a smack to the back of the head, courtesy of Winter. Green eyes glared at icy blue which glared right back. Eventually, Roman huffed and looked away as Neo and Qrow snickered.

He stopped, cleared his throat, grabbed a pumpkin and sniffed it loudly, before he flicked it across the room, causing it to crash into the wall behind him. "He ain't this pumpkin…" He murmured softly in a deep voice. Blake barked out a quick laugh at the sight.

"What the hell…?" Yang forced out in between breathless laughs.

"Why is this so dumb?" Emerald asked herself, hating herself for actually smiling at this crap.

"Okay, I can't… I'm sorry but the more I watch this, the more I like this version of Taurus." Coco breathed out as she giggled.

Dumbfounded as she was by what she was watching, she could still understand what Coco meant. Then a thought hit her. "What would Adam say if he was here watching this right now…?" She muttered to herself. Would he be angry assuming he wrongly interpreted a joke his own alternate self made? Or would he laugh just like she was? Maybe he'd just be confused… She couldn't really say.

Next, Adam stopped in front of a banana. He gave it a sniff once more, before he flicked it behind him, knocking over a lamp in the process. "He ain't this banana…"

"Is he going to do that for every item in the store?!" Weiss asked incredulously, forcing a wheeze down at the ludicrous idea.

"Yes, yes please…" Velvet moaned as she shook with restrained laughter. "I want that to happen very much…"

"You sure?" Neptune asked as Sun wheezed loudly. "Remember, he was golden."

Adam ignored him and continued onward. "He ain't this baby…"

"Does he have to say it so seriously?" Pyrrha asked as a half-amused, half-concerned smile split her face.

"Oh come on, that's the best part about it!" Yang giggled. "Dammit, why can't our Adam be like this? I'd have loved to meet him!"

"Tell me about it…" Blake muttered with a soft smile, realizing that Yang was mostly joking as she said those words. Honestly, she wouldn't mind it too much either.

"He ain't that teddy bear." Blake murmured, mimicking Adam. There was a beat of silence before more laughter forced itself out of Sun's throat.

"This is too good…!" Sun snorted.

"I like this other version of the cat better." Qrow spoke out after swallowing a sip of his drink. "More carefree, less of a broody emo."

"Excuse me?!" Blake yelled aghast as Yang wheezed with mirth.

"I mean…" Ruby muttered as she twiddled with her thumbs, a hint of red creeping onto her cheeks. "He's not wrong…"

"Ruby!" Blake gasped, practically oozing with betrayal as her team giggled at her plight.

"Is he a cocktus…?" Adam mused quietly as he crouched in front of a potted cactus on the shelf with a rocket launcher aimed directly at it. The way in which the word was said caused everyone to laugh, even as Adam maintained a serious persona.

Ozpin for once had to physically restrain himself from laughing as he watched Glynda adopt an expression mixed in with so many emotions while simultaneously coiling like a spring about to snap, only for it all to release as the Deputy-Headmistress went limp in her seat, seemingly finished with existence itself for the next few minutes.

Even as many of the students lost it and started hollering with laughter, not so much at the word itself but more at the way it was said and who said it that got to them, there were a few that felt red creep up their necks and settle on their cheeks.

"Ugh…!" Ruby moaned as she shook her head to dispel the nasty thoughts. "I'm never going to get that image out of my head!"

"A…" Penny paused as she rolled the word over on her tongue. "A cocktus…?" A silence so deafening followed her words that you could hear a pin drop, minus a metallic sort of trembling, whether from fear, anger or laughter was unidentifiable, which originated from Ironwood. "What's a cocktus?" Penny asked as she glanced over at Team RWBY.

"I am perfectly aware of what a cactus is," Penny continued, blissfully ignorant of the horror filled stares the girls were shooting her. "but the way the word was said leads me to believe it was deliberate and not an error in his speech."

There was silence again for a few seconds before Yang spoke up.

"Penny?"

"Yes, Friend-Yang?" Penny replied.

"Stop talking."

"But-"

"Stop. Talking." Yang demanded a second time with a very subtle hint of desperation. If one were observant enough, they'd notice Ironwood and Qrow boring holes into her head with their gazes.

A confused look crossed Penny's face, as if she just didn't understand what was going on, before she paused for a second and stared into nothing. Several more seconds of silence passed, during which it was easy to imagine cogs turning in her head, before her eyes grew wide and, even if she didn't blush, everyone could tell she'd realized what she'd said and became highly embarrassed.

"Oh…" The poor girl mumbled. "I see…" She cleared her throat and pointedly began to ignore everyone in the room.

Mercury threw a piece of popcorn into his mouth. "Awkward…" He whispered with a grin.

He picked up the cactus, sniffed it again, before letting it drop to the floor. "Definitely not that cocktus." Blake stated with amusement in her voice as Adam walked off.

There was a cut as the timer jumped from 2:00 to 1:35. "Alright, hold on, hold on!" Adam suddenly spoke up. "Isle one, he's not there. Isle two and three… I think he's in here…!" Adam said as he walked into the third isle from one end as Blake observed from the other.

"Alright, this is an opportunity that I'm gonna take advantage of." Coco announced as she slammed some lien onto the coffee table in front of her. "How much do you wanna bet Sun is going to die or that Adam will kill himself like Sun did earlier?" She pointedly ignored the monkey faunus' shout of irritation.

"Oh!" Ruby was up first. She threw a few lien cards at Coco who fumbled to catch them all. "I say Sun lives!"

"We're really doing this again…?" Torchwick mumbled as she shook his head, before throwing over a stack of lien. "Same as Red." He said after a moment. "I'd love to see that idiot blow himself to shit."

"Fine!" Qrow huffed before he threw his own stack onto the table in front of the brunette. "I bet the monkey boy gets his ass handed to him!"

Ruby whirled and silver eyes met crimson red. "How many times do I have to teach you this lesson, old man?!" She yelled with a fire in her heart. Yang immediately burst out laughing as a choked frown overtook Qrow's face.

Emerald and Mercury shared a look, the former dumbfounded while the other was amused. Mercury threw a small stack onto the table for the hell of it but Emerald refused to participate.

"Isle three! LEAP OF FA-" Neptune shouted but was interrupted as a rocket from Adam, which was aimed at his feet, blew both him and the entire isle into the sky in a large explosion. There was a canopy of startled laughter from Blake, Neptune and Sun.

"Not in isle three!" Blake called out as if she was speaking into a walkie-talkie with a slightly deeper tone.

"I hate my life." Qrow mumbled as the money was redistributed, trying his best to block out Ruby's whoops and cheers.

"Tisk tisk, Birdbrain." Roman mocked, causing Qrow to groan louder and shove his face into his hands.

"Now don't you go blaming that on your bad luck." Winter said as she gazed at Qrow with disappointment. "That was plain stupidity and you know it."

Blake continued on, walking towards the cash register as she kept searching. "Where they at…?" She muttered to herself as she looked around.

A moment later, a gold bar scurried across the floor, accompanied with a sound effect that resembled rapid, yet quiet footsteps. Blake just barely caught it in the corner of her eye.

"The f-" Blake murmured before her brain caught up to her. "AH, HARAD!" Blake shouted in an incomprehensible mix of `Hey` and `Hold on` before she launched a grenade at it. "YEAH!" She shouted in triumph as a pop up that read `Hunters win!` showed up at the top of the screen.

"You absolute barbarian. Can't you at least retain some semblance of comprehension when you talk?" Weiss asked bluntly, causing Ruby and Yang to burst out laughing and Blake to blush. The heiress paused for a moment and smacked her tongue against the roof of her mouth for a second. "You know, I thought I'd have said that to Yang…"

"Fuck off!" Yang shouted as Blake chuckled in turn.

"God dammit!" Sun yelled meanwhile as he simultaneously threw his hands up in frustration.

"Failure!" Neptune shouted as he pressed a finger against Sun's bare chest. "You had one job!"

"I'm trying my best okay?!" Sun shouted back.

For once, instead of looking on with confusion and concern, Penny actually giggled as she realized they were both just joking.

"HE IS GOLD!" Adam shouted. "I fucking knew it!" Blake only laughed good-naturedly before Adam spoke up again in a deep, accented tone. "He's golden, I knew it."

---

The round restarted, with Adam and Blake once again as props. From the sewer, a T-posing character model of Blake emerged. "Follow me, follow me, follow me." She said as Adam, disguised as a bottle, emerged after her. "Okay, hold on, hold on… Where're you going?" He asked as he followed Blake into the store.

"Hold on, what?" Blake asked, somewhat startled.

"Ah!" Mercury piped up with a smirk. "T-posing to assert dominance, classic strategy." He nodded sagely afterwards, earning a few chuckles from those around him and a scowl from Blake.

"So that's what you look like as a 3D model… Not bad to be honest." Yang acknowledged with a nod.

"It doesn't exactly do you justice either though." Sun muttered, more to himself than anyone else. Blake felt her cheeks warm ever so slightly at the indirect compliment.

Blake didn't answer. "Follow me." She said once more as she went behind a shelf. "And… and…" She murmured, before her character model suddenly vanished and was replaced with a green plush snake with a Ding! "Kapooya." She murmured softly as Adam wheezed.

There was another Ding! as Adam also transformed into a snake. "Every time…" He chuckled, causing Blake to laugh as she made her way to the freezer.

Winter groaned softly into her hand with a small smile on her lips. "Not again…" She murmured, although there was no denying this was amusing to her.

"Should we be concerned that this version of you seems to have a fascination with plush snakes?" Ren asked, a ghost of a smile on his lips and a twinkle in his eye.

"I mean, they are pretty cute." Nora admitted before Blake could respond.

"Okay-" There was another Ding! as Adam turned into something else off-screen. "OH NO- I'm- I'm pretty much the same thing…" He said as he followed Blake through the open door.

"What… what happened?" Jaune asked, seemingly afraid of the answer to his question.

"Did he get stuck like Blake did earlier?" Emerald asked as she turned over towards them.

"Kinda doubt it." Coco said with a shrug, before a grin split her face. "He probably just turned into something stupid."

When Blake shut the door, she got a good look at what Adam had turned into, which was a computer monitor, and burst out laughing. "No you're not! You're not pretty much the same thing!" Regardless, with the Hunters entering the store, there was little Adam could do at that point.

"A computer monitor of all things?!" Qrow burst out laughing with those words. "Oh dear god, someone help this man…!"

"He could just change into something else though." Velvet interjected, nevertheless she was still smiling like an idiot.

"Course he can." Roman spoke up with a huff, a small amount of cigar smoke wafting into the air from a newly lit cigar. "But something tells me he's going to do something stupid… Like the rest of them tend to." He finished.

"I'm kinda mad that I can't argue…" Sun said with a contemplative frown.

"They're snakes, they're snakes, they're snakes." Sun repeated as Adam and Blake got into their hiding spots.

"I'm disappointed that he has to announce that." Emerald muttered, a few giggles bubbling up in her wake.

"I'm missing a piece…" Adam muttered. There was a beat of silence before a second later, he spoke up again. "Blake, you need to- you need to help me."

"He did the stupid again, didn't he?" Ruby asked with a sheepish smile.

"At this point," Blake began. "I would be more surprised if he didn't."

"Are you what I think you are?" Blake asked as she spied an orange plastic bottle in the corner next to a wooden crate. Right before Adam could answer, Sun opened the door and entered the freezer as Neptune shouted "She's a slithery little sneaky snake!" as he kept searching elsewhere.

"Okay." Qrow acknowledged with an appraising look. "Not a bad spot."

"It is a little out of place, though." Penny countered. "Then again, I believe there is a decent chance it'll work out in his favor."

"Yeah…" Adam answered Blake, though there was a tiny amount of anxiety in his tone. "Do I look okay? I think I look okay…" He asked as Sun walked right by Blake, who immediately booked it to a stack of nearby crates and hid behind it. Sun didn't even notice. "Yeah, you look- you look great." She said and if one listened closely, you could practically hear the adrenaline in her words.

"Sun… Buddy…" Jaune began with a quiver in his voice. "What are you doing…?"

"How did you not see me…?" Blake murmured with a wide eyed look. "How did you not see me?!"

"Come on, guys!" Yang shouted as she giggled in his seat. "We can't possibly be this stupid!"

Adam, who had seen what had happened, barely held in his laughter. "Oh, see you later…" He murmured, but he lost any composure after Sun walked by again with Blake avoiding him without a problem a second time.

"Ok, I'm done." Sun announced suddenly, before he slumped back against his seat and closed his eyes as everyone started cackling at his expense. Even Neptune nudging him didn't stir any reaction.

"I think we killed him." Neo's sign read even as she covered her face with her hand while she laughed.

"Is cardiopulmonary resuscitation necessary?" Penny asked with a completely serious look.

It took everyone a second to process her question before they lost it. "No, Penny!" Coco hollered even as tears began to gather in her eyes. "We don't need to do that!"

"Snrk-" The snicker gave everyone pause. Everyone slowly turned towards the red-headed girl, only for her to snicker again until she couldn't hold it any longer and was openly laughing.

Ruby's silver eyes shined with pride. "They grow up so fast…!" She whispered tearfully.

"What…?" He wheezed as small chuckles bubbled past his lips. "Holy shit, you got his ass…!" Blake strained to keep in her laughter at Sun's evident confusion, but was also similarly baffled. "WHAT…?" She asked herself as Adam finally burst out laughing. "How the fuck did you do that?!" Though he didn't get an answer.

"Alright boys…" Adam spoke up after Sun had left the area. "They're not just midgets, they're retarded midgets."

"I… I can't take anymore of this…" Blake mumbled, trying and clearly failing to hold back her laughs. "This is so stupid…"

Yang's eyes suddenly sparkled with mischief. "Wake up, Sun! You can't win your girlfriend over while you're passed out like that!" The effects were immediate.

Sun shot out of his seat as if something had burned him with a strangled gasp, before he fell to the floor where he began to cough and sputter. Blake was no different, having gone stiller than a board with eyes as wide as saucers.

"YANG!" Blake yelled after turning towards her cackling partner once she'd overcome her shock. "WHAT THE HELL?!"

"I mean, It worked didn't it?" She responded with a smug smirk. Blake's cheeks flushed bright red.

"I hate you." The raven haired girl mumbled as she pointedly looked away from her and Sun on the other end of the row both.

Eventually, both Sun and Neptune returned to the area Blake and Adam were hiding in, though they burst into giggles when Blake juked Neptune as he walked by. Unfortunately, when Sun, who wasn't falling for the same trick again, came by, all it took was a rocket launcher to kill both of them at once. "OH GOAHD!" Blake's yell once again turned into incomprehensible gibberish as Adam screamed bloody murder.

"NO!" Adam yelled. "YOU GOT US BOTH KILLED YOU DUMBASS!" There was a trombone playing in the background in the classic failure tune as the both of them laughed their asses off. At the top of the screen, `Hunters win!` was displayed again.

"Finally!" Neptune hollered in exasperation.

"Took you a while…" Roman muttered with a smirk.

Emerald couldn't help bursting into subtle giggles at the sound effect. "Is that a trombone? Really?"

"It is pretty funny, huh?" Ruby asked with a giggle of her own.

"What were they?" Neptune asked as Adam and Blake kept choking on their laughter. "I don't- They were snakes." Sun replied, evidently surprised at having killed both of them at once.

"Wow…" Mercury mumbled with a chuckle. "That is some serious bad luck." There was a wince from behind him and the silver haired boy immediately felt a tiny pinprick of guilt.

"Oh, uh… Sorry…" He said lamely.

"Nah, you're fine." Qrow reassured him with a grin.

"It's weird how we thought Blake had the better disguise, though she got Adam killed too…" Weiss mumbled with a contemplative frown.

"Well, she was playing with fire at the end there…" Pyrrha admitted, to which Weiss couldn't argue.

"Oh my god…" Blake moaned as they finally got their laughter under control. The round restarted again soon after.

Once again, Blake was on the hunters team, although she was joined by Neptune this time. On the Prop team was Adam, Sun and now Mercury Black, who's heads were all displayed in the `PROPS` box at the top of the screen.

"Hold up!" Mercury shouted as a grin split his face. "I wasn't expecting this!"

"Oh, Mercury is there too?!" Ruby squealed with a smile. "Awesome!"

"You're gonna be the first one out." Emerald stated with absolute conviction. "Change my mind."

Mercury just snorted. "Alright, fine! I'll take you on!"

"Hey, Blake. You need some gas?" Adam spoke up in an accented tone as Blake scrounged around outside the store next to the gas pump.

"What the fuck is that voice…?" Coco mumbled with the beginnings of a chuckle forming in her throat.

"Yeah." Blake replied, her tone also accented.

"Why are you doing it too?!" The chocolate haired girl whirled towards the cat faunus, now openly giggling.

"Someone kill me…" Blake mumbled as she hid her face in her hands.

"Oh this'll be good…!" Nora muttered with a grin on her face as Ren braced for the incoming chaos he could just feel was going to break out.

"I got some inside me." Adam replied, causing Blake to pause from confusion. "Just twist off my cap and bend me over…" There were scattered and hesitant laughter from the group. "Oh my god…!" Mercury chuckled.

"Excuse me…?" Weiss mumbled, understandably horrified.

"This is amazing… this is so amazing…!" Yang moaned as she held in her giggles.

"What… what… what…?" Blake mumbled with flushed cheeks, only serving to make it harder for Yang to hold in her chuckles. "What the hell is going on?!" She finally exclaimed after a few moments.

"If I ever run out you can just put the nozzle inside me and refill~" Adam continued in a tone that screamed erotic. This time the group couldn't hold back their amusement as laughs and wheezes drowned out any other sound.

"This can't be real…" Coco whispered with so much excitement in her eyes. "It just can't- It can't!"

"Cover your ears, Penny." Ironwood said like a protective uncle as he placed his hands over them. If one looked closely, you'd see the glazed over eyes commonly seen on a husband preparing for impending doom at the hands of their significant other.

Penny blinked curiously for a moment, before simply accepting the order. "Um… Yes sir?" She mumbled, although nevertheless did as told.

Ozpin turned his head to look at Glynda. "Is everything alright, Glynda?" He asked.

"Shut up." The Disciplinarian responded in an uncharacteristically cold manner as she continued to stare into her palms.

"Of course, my apologies." Ozpin muttered before he turned away just in time to hide the breathless chuckle that spilled from his lips. Miss Adel laughing like a lunatic wasn't helping him keep his composure.

"Shut up!" Neptune yelled, although by his tone one could tell he was smiling.

"Where are you?" Blake asked as she abandoned the parking lot and entered the store. Adam continued without answering. "If you ever need a high you could just open up the cap, stick your nose right in the hole…"

"Oh my god, shut up, shut up!" Blake groaned as she rubbed her eyes in an attempt to make them unsee whatever was playing in her mind. "I'll never get those images out of my head again, oh my god!"

"Woah…That's really kinky…" Neo's sign read, before the text was replaced by more. "You know, I'm wondering what he's like when he isn't acting like a raging, raving lunatic all the time…"

Roman blinked with mild concern. "You're not… You're not thinking of…" The crook couldn't finish his sentence as Neo cocked an eyebrow at him with an all too familiar glint in her eyes.

"I don't know." Her sign read. "Am I…?"

Roman groaned. "Fuck me…" He hissed as he rubbed at his eyes.

"I'm afraid I'll have to pass."

"I'm good."

"I will shove my cane so far up your asses, it'll come out shit-stained!" Roman hissed, which only caused Winter and Qrow to start chuckling at his expense.

As Blake was inspecting a gas can, a stack of cash fidgeted on the ground in the corner of her vision, with the words "Mistakes were made" popping up on screen. It took her a second to register but once she looked over, Sun tried to run while screaming before Blake blew him up. "Got him!" She announced as Sun giggled in defeat.

"Now that was just… Unfortunate." Qrow said abruptly. Yang blinked as she turned to stare at her uncle.

"Did… Did you just make a pun?" She asked, which caused Qrow to flash a smirk.

"Uncle Qrow, no- MMPH!" Ruby screamed, horrified, but her mouth was covered by Yang before she could plead any further.

"I never thought I'd see the day…" She mumbled while wiping a tear from her eye, all as Ruby writhed and struggled in her grip.

"Rest in peace, Sun." Jaune mumbled as he jokingly clasped his hands together in prayer, quickly joined by Neptune, Coco and Mercury.

"You guys suck." The monkey faunus said simply, eliciting chuckles all around.

"Wait, wait, wait!" Neptune suddenly called out. "There's one more!" He said, before a pop was heard and Mercury screamed in defeat. "NO!" He yelled, before sighing. "God damn it…" Both Sun's and Mercury's faces disappeared and only Adam remained.

"Shit!" Mercury screamed. He whirled to face Emerald after her laughter filled his ears. "I was second out, I still win!" He yelled.

"Sure, whatever." She allowed, although her smug smirk didn't drop. "How does 'winning' feel then?" Mercury just grit his teeth and tore his gaze away.

"Hah… Loser." She mumbled with a satisfied grin.

"Alright, where's this… where's this gas canister…" Blake mused as she pulled out a rocket launcher. "I'm just running around~" Adam answered, earning more hysterics from anyone paying attention. "What the fuck…?" Mercury muttered, obviously disturbed.

"This is getting harder to listen to by the minute…" Pyrrha admitted as she shifted uncomfortably in her seat.

"Tell me about it." Ren muttered. "Although it doesn't look like everyone agrees with us." Both of them turned towards Nora specifically, who was snickering violently.

"You need a quick high you could just open up the cap, stick your nose right in my hole~" Adam spoke up again, putting emphasis on "my", which earned some chuckles from Blake, although it sounded like she wasn't sure if she should find the situation funny or disturbing.

"Please don't tell me this is how he was when you were still with the White Fang." Roman spoke up as he suppressed a huge grin.

"NO! No, no, oh god no!" Blake denied vehemently as she shook her arms back and forth with an embarrassed blush on her cheeks.

"Yang…" Ruby moaned in despair as she gathered her strength to turn to her sister. "Cover my ears, please… I can't…"

Yang, having been too busy laughing her ass off to realize this might not have been something Ruby should have been listening to, quickly clamped her hands over her ears.

"Thank you…" Ruby sighed in relief as the noise was blocked out.

When Blake left the back room and walked into the front of the store, Adam spoke again. "Put that rocket away you big baby bitch." The group spontaneously burst out laughing again. "You ain't gonna be doing nothing productive with that. You gon' spread my insides, I'll start a fire!" There was a quality to Adam's tone that made him sound more and more insane as he talked.

"The sheer amount of disturbing images being planted into my head…" Weiss groaned with her head in her hands. "I just want this to be over…!" Her voice quivered slightly with a barely restrained giggle.

"I just can't figure out where he could be…" Qrow mused as he scratched his head. "I've been wracking my brain for the last couple of minutes and I still don't have a clue."

"There can't be too many places for Taurus to hide, especially considering what he's hiding as… I'm more surprised they haven't found him yet, although I can't exactly blame them with how hard they're laughing." Winter said, a small, subtle smile curving her lips.

Neo's eye twitched as she stared at the two, before she held up a sign. "Or, you know, maybe he's not a gas can?"

Qrow blinked, before he sighed. "I'm pissed that that didn't cross my mind."

Finally, Mercury had enough. "This has been the most elaborate, misleading clue in the history of Prop Hunt!" He said as Adam cracked up with hysterics.

"Do I even need to say I told you so?" Neo's sign read as she quirked a smug eyebrow.

"Shut it!" Qrow hissed back which only sent the girl into a fit of silent giggles.

"You've gotta be kidding." Jaune moaned, his lips turned upwards into a grin so large his cheeks were beginning to hurt.

"I… I want to be mad…" Neptune started, his lip quivering with mirth. "But this is just too damn funny…"

"Is he not a gas canister?" Blake asked with amused confusion, to which Mercury snorted. "He is not a gas can at all!" Adam's wheezing only got worse as Mercury continued. "Not even close!"

"He's enjoying himself way too much." Mercury noted with a chuckle of his own.

"Who wouldn't?" Coco asked as she lazily glanced over. "Fucking with your friends is one of the funniest things you can do."

"Hmm…" Mercury hummed. "Kinky."

There was a pause before Coco's cheeks practically burst into flames. "Oh you asshole!" She chuckled heartily. Mercury only laughed with her.

"It was a poor choice of words…" Velvet admitted, a hint of red creeping up her own neck.

"Close that second fridge door you dumb bitch!" Adam suddenly broke the silence which caused everyone else to crack up. "The milk's gonna get warm…"

Emerald groaned. "Of course he's hiding as a carton of milk… Why am I not surprised…"

Roman coughed into his hand. "Last time I checked, bulls can't produce milk. Unless…" He trailed off as Neo pinched her thumb and index finger together, before making thrusting motions.

Emerald's face froze and then tensed, as If she was straining to withhold a snarl. "Words can't express… How much I hate you right now…!" She hissed, only serving to make Roman and Neo laugh.

"You doing okay, Blake?" Yang asked with an amused grin, even if there was a hint of red on her cheeks.

"No…" Blake mumbled hoarsely with a vivid flush on her cheeks and a far-away look in her eyes. "I want to go home…"

"Honestly…" Weiss began, a blush of her own visible on her pale skin. "I'm surprised you're the one most affected, what with how much smut-" The heiress was interrupted by Blake hissing very much like a cat and clawing wildly in her direction, earning wild cackles and hysterical giggles from those around her.

"Why are you talking like this?!" Neptune asked, or rather squeaked, evidently incredibly creeped out.

"I think we all want the answer to that question…" Velvet whispered with a grin.

"Does that necessarily mean we want him to stop though?" Coco asked.

"No!"

"YES!" Blake's desperate shout only served to fuel her embarrassment as Yang's cackling returned two-fold.

"Ain't nobody like the WARM MILK!" There wasn't even a second before the hardest, loudest wheeze that night erupted from Adam's throat before hysterical laughter filled their ears. "I- I can't… I can't do that voice!" He choked out with the others joining him in his mirth soon after.

"Aww…" Coco moaned even as laughter spilled from her throat. "Can't say I blame him though. If I was him I'd have cracked up and broke character a lot earlier than he did."

"Isn't doing other voices also pretty hard though?" Ruby asked before turning towards Weiss. "I mean, you had to practice singing a lot to get as good as you are right?"

"Of course." The heiress answered. "It's much more difficult for someone who hasn't trained their voice."

"I doubt Taurus has that problem here-" Sun said with a broken off wheeze which made a few people chuckle. "Oh my god I'm wheezing my ass off…!" He said as he broke down laughing

"Y'all going to the movies later you could make yourselves some microwaved popcorn…" Even as the other's laughed and wheezed, Blake immediately zeroed in on the snack bar at the corner in the store. "Grab yourself a hot dog… or while you're at it, maybe a cup of coffee…"

As soon as the words left his mouth, Blake turned towards the coffee machines and the stacks of coffee cups on the other end of the counter.

"And he's killed himself." Torchwick snorted, before turning towards Blake. "If you don't find him here, I will mock you until the day you die."

"At this point, I wouldn't blame you…" Blake responded quietly as she rubbed her palms against her head, seemingly nursing a head ache.

She walked over and started rummaging around, only to find a singular coffee cup that was just a little too perfectly placed and a little too stiff. "Wait a minute!" She said, promptly before a rocket threw her body away in a cartwheel and blew Adam into smithereens.

"There we go!" Mercury cheered with a brief clap. "Any longer of that and I was gonna lose my mind."

"But what was that rag doll?!" Nora added with a wheeze. "Oh my god, that was amazing!"

"That was actually… a pretty good spot." Qrow admitted after he'd brought his drink away from his lips.

There was hysterical laughter for a few seconds before it calmed down slightly. "Found him!" Blake announced suddenly from her face-down position on the floor, which cause everyone to burst into laughter again before the screen went black.

"Wait, that's it?!" Nora screamed before she slumped in her seat. "Boo!"

"I think it's a good thing…" Weiss added as she leaned and let her head fall, which lead to her staring up at the ceiling. "I wasn't sure how much more of that I could take."

"It was pretty funny though, you can't deny that." Neptune added.

"No, we're not arguing on that," Yang began as her lips stretched into a smile. "that was some of the funniest shit I've ever seen but it was so stupid I could feel my brain cells dying…"

"I think I have an aneurysm…" Blake mumbled, earning a loud snort from the blonde sat next to her. "I'll be back, I need to go cool off for a second…"

"I think we all need to cool off…" Qrow said as Blake opened the door to the restroom and walked inside before shutting it behind her.

"That's enough internet for me today." Mercury spoke up abruptly with an accent that was all to familiar to those who frequented the internet. "I am going to wash myself... with holy water…" As he talked he raised his hands and slowly pulled them down, making a gesture which resembled falling water. "to get rid of all the stupidity I saw today."

"Yes!" Coco shouted with a laugh. "Exactly that! Oh my god, yes!"

"I suppose another quick break is in order then?" Ozpin asked with a small smile.

"We might as well." Yang said with a nod. "I can show Emerald and Mercury around in the meantime since they're new here."

"Oh, hell yeah!" Mercury pumped a fist into the air with a look of gratitude.

"Very well then. We'll return in let's say… 15 minutes?" There were no objections and so everyone went off to do as they pleased.

"Ah…" Torchwick muttered as he leaned back in his seat. He pushed his bowler hat over his eyes and raised his legs onto the empty seat in front of him. "I could use a quick nap…" He muttered. Then a tapping on his leg interrupted him.

"What is it, Neo?" He asked as he removed his hat. "I'm trying… to sleep…" His neutral look was replaced with a scowling frown when his green eyes met silver.

"Uh… Hi…?" Ruby muttered with a small wave and a nervous frown.

"Fuck off, Red." Roman muttered. "I am not in the mood."

"Wait, I just want to talk!" She said hurriedly, waving her arms frantically in front of her for a few seconds.

"What part of 'I am not in the mood' did you not understand?" Torchwick snarled back.

"Please?" Ruby squeaked as she closed one eye and braced. When Roman didn't respond she released a breath and straightened. "Come on, Roman… I just want to talk for a few minutes. You owe me that much." She stated, much to Roman's ire.

"I don't owe you a thing!" The crook hissed as his one visible eye glared into Ruby's own. A small hand from Neo on his shoulder caught his attention.

"What?" He asked bluntly. There was silence for a second as her heterochromic eyes flickered from Ruby to Roman and back. Eventually, she sighed, before she flicked her head towards the door.

"You can't be serious!" Roman hissed in bewilderment but Neo's gaze didn't change. She just stared resolutely into his own, before she nodded, causing Roman to groan. "Fine!" He hissed and shot out of his seat before making his way towards one of the doors.

"Umm…" Ruby mumbled with a hint of nervousness as she stared at Neo. "Thank you?" She said, although it came out more as a question. Neo didn't do anything for a few seconds before an extremely small, yet exasperated smile crossed her lips as she gave a subtle nod.

With her confidence fully restored, Ruby beamed a smile of her own before taking off after Torchwick.

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Ruby found Torchwick leaning against a wall within another room with a lit cigar in his hand. His scowl deepened when he saw her coming. "I just can't understand what the hell is going through that head of yours." He hissed after several seconds of awkward silence.

When Ruby, didn't respond, he sighed, clearly frustrated. "Let's just get this over with. What the hell did you want?"

"You were right…"

In all honesty, Ruby was expecting Roman to have misheard her like the characters did in so many TV shows she'd watched. She'd expected him to rant and talk for several seconds before actually processing what she'd actually said, but that didn't happen. Instead, he just stared at her with bewilderment. He didn't lose his hostility and his glare told her he'd rather blow a hole in her chest with his cane, but it was muted.

After several more seconds of awkward silence, he finally spoke. "Say that again…" He said softly.

"I… I said… you were right." She began, hesitant, but she quickly found her courage and steeled herself. "About what you said earlier…" She continued. "You were… pretty harsh… and kind of mean, actually… But that doesn't change the fact you were right."

The more she talked, the more Roman's jaw fell open, the more his eyes widened and the more his guard dropped. "I didn't really realize it until you pointed it out, but I guess I was just looking at everything through rose-tinted glasses…" She ignored the feeling that Yang was laughing at her for the pun she'd unintentionally made.

"Are you… You're not actually thanking me, are you?" Torchwick asked in a tone so quiet, Ruby wouldn't have heard it had there been any other sound in the room.

The silver-eyed girl blinked as she thought it over. "I guess I am, aren't I?" She eventually said with a sheepish smile.

"You're crazy…" Roman eventually mumbled out. "There's no way you don't have a few screws loose."

"Is it that hard to believe?" Ruby asked as she titled her head slightly. "I mean, I watched someone I love very nearly… die… partly because of me." She forced out, clearly uncomfortable. "Even if it hasn't happened yet, the thought that it could and would have happened were it not for us being brought here… it terrifies me."

"I already lost my mom…" She didn't notice how Roman's jaw tightened. "She'd always read me storybooks about brave heroes that would slay giant monsters and save people… And aside from the emblem on my belt, those memories are really the only things I have left of her… I don't know what I'd do if I'd lost someone else…"

"Stop." That one word, as intended, stopped her dead in her tracks. "Now just why the hell… are you telling me this…? The last time we met, we were on terms that weren't anywhere near good… And now here you are spilling your life story to me… Why?"

"Well… I'm trying not to look at things in two shades…" When Roman didn't respond, save for a cocked eyebrow asking her to elaborate, she continued. "It didn't really hit me until… just now really. That Adam guy… he's apparently supposed to be this big bad terrorist leader but… not even a few minutes ago, we were watching that same person laughing with friends and having fun… and it kind of made me wonder why he wasn't like that in our universe… and I mean really wonder, I get that faunus don't have it too good, I've seen it happen but…"

"I get it." Torchwick cut her off harshly.

"Right…" She mumbled with a blush. "Anyways…" She continued with a small cough. "I guess I just wanted to use the opportunity to get to understand you a bit… I want to know why you do the things that you do."

It took a few seconds for Roman to realize she wasn't joking. "You're actually serious… Now why the hell do you think I'd be spilling anything to you? I hate you, Red. You've been the cause of all my problems ever since we first met! Everything was just fucking dandy before you came along! But no, you couldn't just leave well enough alone, could you?!" The crook snarled, getting more and more heated as he spoke, calm words eventually turning into shouting.

"But why are you so upset over this?" Ruby shouted back, frustration fueling her words just as much as her anxiety. "You're supposed to be some notorious criminal with loads of money already hidden away! Why do you care if you don't get away with robbing a small Dust shop in downtown Vale?!"

"BECAUSE IF I DON'T DO EXACTLY AS THAT WITCH TELLS ME TO, SHE'S GOING TO KILL ME!" He finally screamed, only to freeze as the realization of what he'd just said hit him.

There were several seconds of tense silence as both Ruby and Torchwick broke out into cold sweats, although for separate reasons. "…What…?" Ruby mumbled after she found her voice.

"Dammit…!" Roman hissed under his breath, but he took a deep breath and continued. No use trying to cover that up now. "Do you really want to know why I hate you, Red? It's for various reasons. I hate you for your attitude and outlook. Even if you had a change of perspective, you can't make big changes like that in an afternoon. To you, regardless of what you just said to me, there's still black, ME, and white, YOU!" He snarled. "Grey doesn't exist to you! Not yet!"

"I hate you because of what you have that I don't! Sure, I have money, but do you think that makes me happy?! No, it fucking doesn't! You have good, caring friends, you have a loving family, you haven't had your innocent world-view shattered like mine was when I was still just a child! Hell, you might have lost your mom, but at least yours was taken from you! Mine LEFT me!" He roared, forcing Ruby to take a quivering step back. "I'll admit it… I'm envious of you, Red… But the biggest reason I hate you, is because if you keep interfering with my heists, my employer is going to burn me alive! And I wish I was joking!"

"I don't want to die, Red." Roman quietly admitted after a few seconds of silence which let Ruby process his words. "Despite how shit everything's turned out, I still plan on fighting tooth and nail… So I want you to know this… When we get out of here… If you try and stop me again… I promise you, with all of my heart, that I will kill you. Do you understand?"

The only response Roman got was a small, fearful nod. He sighed and walked past her in the direction of the theater room, but he paused for a second. "Hey, kid…" He started, catching Ruby's attention. "Since my words earlier seemed to help you… let me give you some more advice."

"Leave Vale while you still can." Torchwick said, his voice calmer and much more sympathetic than earlier. "If you don't… don't expect to live past sixteen. Consider that the extent of my mercy."

With that, Roman walked away... and Ruby could do nothing but watch with wide, fearful and worried eyes.

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A/N: You know... I'm not sure if it's weird that I like the interactions I have before and after the actual reaction part of the chapter... MORE than the actual reactions... Is that weird? I think that's kinda weird...

If I'm being honest, this chapter was more of an experiment. Don't get me wrong, I love Vanoss, he's funny and entertaining as hell, but I wasn't too sure how writing one of his videos into a chapter would turn out. I've seen it done before (On Wattpad, God help me) and those never looked to good too me, so I said: "I bet I could do this better!" and I guess I kinda did? I'm not exactly unhappy with this chapter, but there's this nagging feeling in the back of my head that I could have done it better, though that might be the writer's block in me talking.

I also tried to give some characters some... loosely defined character development, mostly focusing on Ruby, Penny (She's less robotic now! YAY!) and I guess Roman to an extent due to that interaction at the end, although I don't know if that classified as development for him... Character depth might be a better term? No fucking idea if I did a half competent job, or if I kept the gang properly in character, but I have what I have. If it's shit, let me know and I'll try to do better next time. If it's not shit... Let me know, please, so I can inflate my ego to a size that can match Watts' or Jacques'.

But yeah, I probably won't do another reaction chapter about a gaming video again for a while, unless I find a really good one, cause at times I was really struggling to put words to paper. For next chapter, I have two ideas in my head right now... I've been thinking about doing either Assassin's Creed Rogue (Since no one has made a react fic to that game and I fucking loved it back in the day) or Far Cry 3. People have done a lot more of the second one, but they always focus on the tutorial mission where Vaas shouts at Jason and Grant. I'll have to start with that one but I'd eventually like to make them react to Vaas' death and even Hoyt Volker at some point. (That guy is heavily overshadowed by Vass sadly, he's a great villain).

One more thing I wanna say has to do with last chapter that I forgot to mention when I posted it. It was about how no one really reacted badly when they found out Qrow was a bird like they did in the show since... Can we all agree that was kind of stupid? So I just decided to give them the more positive and hyped reactions that I did since I thought it made more sense than them being pissed for no reason.

And finally, I want to address a comment that said they were confused when Ironwood or Ozpin didn't recognize Tyrian since, apparently, they had him in their database as a registered serial killer which was mentioned in volume 7. So... I could say that I thought it was more interesting if they didn't know who he was, which is true, or that I forgot about it, and I did, but that's missing my point. I'ma just come out and say it, I have NOT watched RWBY past Volume Two. Outside of Twiins iink/Judgmental Critter reviews or short moments on Youtube, I have not actually sat down and watched RWBY. My entire knowledge of RWBY is from the fandom WIKI, fanfiction or Youtube. So, if I have the crew do/say something that contradicts the show, it was either intentional or I just didn't know about it. Take that as you will.

That should be all I have to say this time around. If you enjoyed this chapter do consider throwing a favorite and a follow my way, or a review if you want to praise/roast my fic. Just be polite about it it's the second one and all is good. My PM's are open and I'll respond to anyone who writes to me, be it with a question or a suggestion. With that, I'd just like to say thanks for reading and I'll see you next time!