Hey it's me ethanthedragon! I'm here with a new chapter of RWBY REACTS TO THE MULTIVERSE. I'm sorry to have kept you waiting, I have been busy with a new fic called 'Fighting For Her'. It's a fic set in the 2013 Carrie movie, I won't say too much, just that my 'oc' in that story is going to be making some changes.
Ok that's enough shameless promotion, let's pick up we left off last time. Our cast had just see a train about to collide with the giant. How will they react to what happens next? Read and find out.
Disclaimer: I do not own Iron Giant RWBY, they belong to their respective owners.
Chapter 5: Missing Pieces
"OK, I'm back and have regained enough energy to start the viewing again. So get comfortable everyone." The strange host said.
Team RWBY JNPR, along with Penny took their seats in the front row while Ozpin, Glynda, Ironwood, Winter, Tai and Qrow sat right behind them.
"Alright! Let's see what happens next, the anticipation is killing me!" yelled Nora excitedly, practically vibrating in her seat.
Her teammates nodded in agreement and quieted down when the screen lit up showed the scene was right where they left off.
(on screen)
(CRASH!)
Ruby managed to dive to safety, only to hear a massive impact on the train tracks. Slowly getting to her feet, the young girl was taken by surprise when the body of the giant crash landed in front of her and her eyes widened in shock and sadness when she noticed that the giant was missing body parts. No doubt they were destroyed in the crash. Ruby could only hang her head in her arms with tears beginning to form in her silver eyes, her friend was now gone and nothing but a pile a scrap on the side of the road.
"No, no, no. No." she repeated to herself in utter sadness.
(off screen)
"NO! GIANT! He can't be gone! He just can't!" yelled the leader of team RWBY, no doubt feeling the same sadness as her on-screen counterpart at the apparent destruction of her metal friend.
"Don't worry Ruby! Your giant friend will be just fine," Penny told her friend, who looked at her with questioning eyes.
"How do you know that, Penny?"
"If he can survive entry in the planet's atmosphere and come out of hitting the surface with nothing but a slight dent on the head, then a collision with a locomotive won't keep him down. Just watch, he'll be combat ready in no time!"
Penny's confidence and reassurance helped calm Ruby down and she said a grateful thanks to her orange haired robo friend.
(on screen)
Ruby's crying was interrupted by a massive arm that had no hand, hitting the ground and pushing the once dead giant up and off the ground.
"You're alive!" cried Ruby in relief and happiness that her friend was not dead and only a little banged up. His body parts were scattered all around and his jaw seemed to be disconnected from his face on the right side.
An antenna suddenly popped out of the top of the giant's head and began beeping softly with blue pulse.
(beep)
(beep)
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Ruby then noticed the scattered body parts were all moving on their own and were slowly moving to the giant, to no doubt begin repairing itself. Her thoughts were broken by a voice screaming from the front of the derailed train. "Hello! Anybody out there?"
"We're in trouble now," Ruby said worriedly as the voices got closer. Coming to a decision she turned to the still disassembled giant, "I've changed my mind, you can follow me home. Let's go!" With as speed as she could muster, Ruby ran towards her house with the giant trying to keep up with girl while the body parts followed.
(Mayor's office)
Roman Torchwick was currently gesturing to a map of the town and planning on where to search, when he and the others present heard the secretary answer the phone and say something about a train accident and that it was caused by a giant creature.
Taking the phone from her hand, Roman listened to the man on the other end before turning to the mayor, "I need your car," he said. Getting into the mayor's car, he sped off to the where the train crash was, hoping to find a lead on whatever was causing so much chaos in this town.
Back at Ruby's home, she had managed to get the giant and all his body parts inside the barn next to the house and was now watching in amazement as all the disassembled parts were reattaching themselves perfectly. The right foot, left leg, right hand and fingers and left arm were all reattached with no damage whatsoever. Feeling a bump behind her foot, Ruby looked down and saw a screw that was trying to get past her that was pulsing the same blue glow as the antenna. Lifting her foot, the screw rolled past and right into the giant's waiting fingers. He lifted it to his jaw and after it flew into its place and screwed itself into place, the giant rotated it's jaw a few times before smiling at the starry-eyed girl below him.
"You can fix yourself? Neat-o!" she said in amazement. The sound of a car pulling up made her turn in surprise. "Mom's home. Just stay here, okay? I'll be back. Bye!" she said and waved before closing the barn door.
"Bye." Said the giant and lifted his left hand to wave, but was surprised to see only his arm with no hand attached. He began to search around the barn but there was no sign of the missing body part, he could only hope it would turn up soon.
(off screen)
"Oh that can't be good," Said Jaune. "Wonder where he's hand went."
"It probably got misplaced as they entered the barn or while they were fleeing from witnesses." Pyrrha suggested.
Penny then spoke up, "This reminds of the times I would misplace my body parts when I was first assembled. My father worked really hard to make sure I wouldn't lose them again."
Pyrrha suddenly shivered at the mention of Penny losing body parts. Shaking off the weird feeling, she resumed watching with everyone else.
(on screen)
Meanwhile at the site of the train crash, Roman was interviewing the conductors of the train.
"Go on. Tell him what you saw, Frank." Said one of the men to his friend who had a bandage wrapped around his head.
"You're not gonna believe this, but it was a giant, metal man." Frank told the orange haired man who took out a lighter and lit himself a cigar.
After a few puffs, he asked the men, "Does anyone know where I can get to a telephone nearby?"
One of the men pointed Roman in the direction of Summer and Ruby Rose's home in the distance.
(Rose household)
Summer Rose and her daughter were sitting at their dinner table were a lovely meal had been prepared, and just as Ruby was about to dig in, her mother interrupted her.
"Would you say grace?" she asked her daughter who had a spoon of food near her mouth.
Putting the spoon down and clasping her hands together, Ruby was about to begin, only for her silver eyes to widen when she spotted the giant's missing left hand lumbering through the kitchen behind her mother.
"Oh my God!" the young girl said in disbelief before noticing the look her mother was giving her. She knew she had to keep her distracted and not turn around and see the big metal appendage that was now interested in the pot on the oven.
"Oh, my God…" she said dramatically raising her arms, "We thank you. For…the food that mom…has put in front of and- -STOP!" Ruby yelled, startling Summer and the metal hand, as she noticed one the hands fingers about knock over the pot.
"The devil…" she went on, nodding her head, "from doing bad things and… GET OUT OF HERE!" She said loudly to the hand. "Satan?" elaborated Ruby with an unconvincing grin.
"Go!" she yelled again which finally made the giant hand move away from the stove and leave the kitchen. "Go, so…that we may live in peace. Amen." Ruby finally finished with her head bowed and hands clasped together.
"Amen." Summer said with her daughter but was confused by her strange behaviour. "That was really unusual, Ruby." The silver eyed mother said, looking at her daughter for an explanation.
"Forgot to wash my hands!" Ruby suddenly said and jumped from her seat and ran from the table, leaving an even more confused mother who wandered what was going on with her child.
Ruby ran through the house, her red cloak flowing behind her as she searched for the giant's missing hand. Coming into the lounge she found the hand seemingly relaxing on the floor while watching cartoons on tv. Turning off the television set, Ruby grabbed the hands middle finger and began leading it through the house to get to the front door. As they entered the kitchen, Summer walked in to get something from the fridge but didn't see Ruby who had quickly backed up back through the door. Deciding to take the hallway directly to the front door, they silently crept and were nearly there but they would need to get past the dinner table that Summer had returned too. Thinking quickly, Ruby reached into her jeans and pulled out coin from her pocket. Quickly rounding the corner, she flicked the coin into one of the cupboards in the kitchen, making it tilt slightly.
Summer turned to the kitchen and noticed the cupboard holding the tea cups was tilted slightly, then without warning it fell completely off the wall. Getting up to clean up the mess while wondering how it had happened, she didn't notice her daughter rush passed with a massive metal hand right behind her.
"All right. Come on." Ruby said as they neared the front door. "Shhh!" she ordered the hand and opened the door. Only to be confronted by a man with orange hair, a cigar and cane in hand and wearing a bowler hat.
"Hey there scout. Roman Torchwick. I work for the government-"
Ruby slammed the door closed, cutting the man off. She gave a surprised gasp when she noticed the hand that was behind her was now gone, seemingly vanished into thin air. The doorbell the began ringing as well as insisting knocking at the front door. Ruby heard her mother calling her name, no doubt for her to see who's at the door.
Opening the door, the same man stood there with a smile on his face.
"Hey there scout. Roman Torchwick. Work for the government. Your parent's home?" he asked but the girl just glared at him.
"We're eating." She said coldly.
"Mmm boy!" said Roman, not at affected by the silver eyed glare he was receiving. He crouched down to her level and was about to talk, when the door was opened and he came face to face with the generous bust of Summer Rose.
"Why, hello there." He said with surprise, and took a second to admire the view.
(off screen)
The moment Taiyang saw his deceased wife's counterpart being ogled another man, he exploded, "You get your eyes off my wife's chest right now! Or so help me I'll-"
What followed next was tirade of curses and different ways in which Tai would torture and violently maim the man if he didn't take his eyes off of the mother of his children.
"Wow Dad, I didn't know you knew so many cure words," said Yang with amazement while covering her little sister's ears, thankfully sparing her from hearing anything too scaring.
Catching his breath, Tai apologised for his outburst while Qrow actually looked at his friend with a newfound respect.
(on screen)
Roman averted his eyes and stood up straight and went straight business. "Do you have telephone I could use?"
"Yes, there's one in the kitchen." Summer confirmed and stepped opened the door to let the man in.
"Thank you, thank you very much," Roman said and entered the house while removing his hat and placing it on Ruby's head as he passed.
"Here. Pretend you're a gangster." He told her with a chuckle and left the girl with a hat covering her head and a deadpan look on her face.
In the kitchen, Roman was on the phone with his superior, General James Ironwood and he did not sound pleased.
(off screen)
"Check it out Jimmy, even in another world you're still a government lapdog, figures." Qrow said with a chuckle.
Winter sprang to her feet in defence of her superior, "Watch your tongue! Or I'll be forced to remove it!"
"Give it your best shot, I knew you couldn't wait to get near me and my tongue. Not that I blame you, you'll be amazed at what I can do with it." Fired back the old crow with a challenging and teasing smirk on his face.
A now red face Winter sprang from her seat on would've attacked the normally drunken man if Ironwood hadn't placed his hand on her shoulder.
"Stand down Schnee, don't let him rile you up." He ordered.
"Yes General Ironwood sir!" she growled through gritted teeth and took her seat, while ignoring the snickering Huntsman a few feet away.
(on screen)
"Dammit Torchwick, you call at home for this?" the angry General said as he sat in his chair while watching a movie in his home.
Roman tried to explain what he had seen, "You don't understand. It ate my car."
"And you saw this happen?" asked the General.
"No I didn't actually see it. It went off into the woods." Roman weakly replied, rubbing his face.
"So you don't have any evidence?" Ironwood asked, not sounding impressed.
"But I got an eyewitness!" Roman desperately said in hopes of convincing his boss he was serious.
"An eyewitness with a concussion." Deadpanned the General.
"This thing!" sad Roman loudly, before lowering his voice, not to alert the mother and daughter. "This thing is a menace, it tore up a power station." Suddenly the pacing Roman pulled too hard on the cord, causing the telephone to fall. Quickly picking it up, "It caused a train wreck!" he said firmly.
"What did? Tell me again, Torchwick, and this time…listen to yourself," Ironwood told him.
Sighing, the ginger-haired man spoke, "A giant metal monster."
"HAHAHAHA!" laughed the General over the phone while Roman stared at an oven mitt with a stupid face on it. Turning the mitt around, Torchwick spoke on.
"Please sir. I've got a feeling about this one-" he pleaded but was interrupted.
"That's lovely, Torchwick. But let me try to explain how this works. If you told me you'd found say, a giant footprint, I might send an expert to make a plastic cast of it. Heck, if you get a photograph and I can probably get some troops over there! But you tell me you've got a feeling…?" He ended with a mocking voice.
"All right fine, you want evidence, I'll get you evidence. And when I do, I want a MEMO distributed." Ordered Roman.
"That sounds swell," said the General uninterestedly and hung up while the man was still ranting on the other end.
"I'll want that memo carbon-copied and redistributed. And!-
(click)
The phone went dead and Roman froze mid rant, he stared at phone for a second before he put it back in place, only for it to fall. He tried a second time and got the same result, a third got the same result before he exploded and screamed in frustration and anger as he slammed the phone repeatedly.
Summer and Ruby looked to the kitchen as the heard the frustrated scream from Roman who slowly composed himself. "Hi, thanks for the use of your phone."
Roman was on his way out of the house, followed by the mother and daughter.
"Thank for the use of your phone, Mrs…?"
"Rose. Summer Rose. And this my daughter, Ruby." Said the woman and placing her hand on her daughter's shoulder.
Tipping his hat, "Thank you, Summer, little red."
"That's Ruby!" corrected the cloaked girl loudly.
"Ruby?" said Roman to himself as he climbed into his borrowed car. "What an embarrassing name. What kind of a person would name a kid Ru- -?" Roman's eyes suddenly widened and he looked at the crushed BB gun next to him and read the cut-off letters.
"RU RO. RU RO! RUBY ROSE!" He screamed in realisation and slammed the brakes.
(off screen)
"He finally figured it out! I guess he's not as smart as the Roman from our world, huh?" Yang said with a chuckle, making the others snicker in agreement.
(Secret hideout)
"ACHOO!" sneezed a cane wielding criminal. "What was that? Am I coming down with something?" he asked when a box of tissues was handed to him an ice-cream themed girl. "Thank you Neo, you always now what I need." He said with gratitude which made the girl smile happily.
(Theatre)
"At least our Roman is a competent criminal. His counter-part here looks incompetent unlike the previous world version of him." Said Ozpin while the students shivered slightly at the memory of the previous universe.
"Can we please forget about that world and move on please?" Nora asked quickly, getting understanding looks from everyone. Seeing her childhood friend treated in such a horrible way was not something she wanted to remember.
"She's right guys, let's just keep watching this, ok." Jaune requested, much to the pink bombers relief who the cuddled closer to Ren, who put his arm around her and held her close.
The students smiled at the scene and went back to the screen.
(on screen)
Ruby was about to go upstairs, when she heard knock at the front door. Opening it she was greeted once again by the orange-haired government official who was about to re-introduce himself.
"Roman Torchwick. You work for the government." Ruby cut him off before he could form a sentence.
"III wasn't gonna say that," Roman lied unconvincingly. "I have something for you, Ruby." He told the girl and revealed the crushed BB rifle behind his back and placed it in the girl's hands.
"Your BB gun," said Summer in surprise as she came into view. "Where did find that?" she asked curiously.
"Up at the power station," answered the man with tilt if his head.
"Ruby was out there the other night," explained the mother, peaking the man's interest quite a bit.
"Really? See anything strange, Ruby?" he asked while crouching to her eye level.
"Nothing…unusual, really!" Ruby nervously answered, obviously hiding something, if the narrowing of Roman's eyes indicated anything.
(Fluuuussshhh)
The sound of a flushing toilet made them all look up to the upstairs bathroom in surprise.
"Gotta use the bathroom!" Ruby hurriedly said and placed the BB gun back in Roman's hands before sprinting up the stairs, Roman's suspicious eyes never leaving her.
Coming up to the bathroom, Ruby opened the door, only to find the giant's hand pulling down rolls of toilet paper, almost as if it had just relieved itself.
"WHAAT!?" Screamed Ruby to herself as she clapped her hands to her cheeks in disbelief.
(off screen)
Laughter was all that was heard in the theatre as they witnessed the ridiculous and hilarious sight.
"HAHAHA, omg, di-did that hand, just go potty!?" Nora laughed and clutched her sides as she and her teammates took in what was on screen.
"H-how would it even know what to do?! Was it potty trained!? HAHAHA!" Ruby mirrored Nora as she held her sides in laughter.
Yang however, had to make a crude joke, "Looks like that hand can get the job done, eh?" she much to the embarrassment of her friends, save for Ruby and Penny who either didn't understand the wordplay or were to innocent to know.
"Yang! Do you have any shame at all!?" yelled Weiss with heated cheeks.
"Nope! Not one bit!" she proudly stated.
"Let it go Weiss, you know how she is." Blake said resignedly.
"I don't get it." Ruby said to herself and getting a nod of agreement from Penny, before shrugging and continued to watch.
(on screen)
Back downstairs, Summer was telling Roman about her daughter's strange behaviour recently.
"It's strange, she's so tight-lipped. The other night she couldn't stop talking, I mean, 100-foot robots and whatnot." She said making them both laugh.
"A 100-foot robot?" laughed Roman. "That's nutty!"
"What else did she say?" he suddenly asked seriously.
"No wait, stop!" came Ruby's voice from upstairs.
"Excuse me." said Summer and made her way upstairs to check on her daughter.
In the upstairs bathroom, Ruby was in the process of trying to push the giant hand out the window, but was struggling to get it out.
"RRRGHGHG" She grunted with exertion as she pushed as hard as she could.
"Ruby? What's going on in there?" asked Summer with concern outside the bathroom door.
Roman decided to go upstairs to see what was happening, now noticing the metal fingers dangling behind him outside.
"Are you all right?" Summer asked as she heard the grunts of exertion her daughter was giving and wondered if maybe it was something she ate.
"I'm fine!" grunted Ruby's voice.
"You know; this sort of thing is why it's so important… to really… chew your food," Roman said coming up behind Summer and all he got was a disgusted glare from the woman, making him gulp and turn away uncomfortably.
(off screen)
There was again laughter in the theatre, but one wasn't finding the situation funny.
Ruby's face was red with embarrassment. Her on screen counterpart was making it sound like she needed to drop something huge, with the grunts she was making. "This is so embarrassing!" she cried to herself.
"Awe, come on sis, no need to be embarrassed! It just sounds like you're taking a poop. Everybody does it, its natural. Of course it sounds like a bomb is about to be dropped with all that exerting sounds your 'other' is making." Yang teased mercilessly.
"Shut up, shut up, shut up!" screamed Ruby tried her best to disappear inside her cloak.
"Cut it out Yang! Can't you see she's embarrassed enough?" Weiss ordered sternly and placed a comforting hand on her team leader.
Holding her hands up in surrender, Yang relented, "Alright, alright, I'll stop. Ruby, I'm sorry for teasing you, I promise I'll stop, you have my word."
Cautiously poking her head out, "You promise?" Ruby asked.
"I promise." Yang confirmed.
Finally, Ruby emerged and retook her seat next to her sister who smiled, happy that she was no longer being made fun of.
(on screen)
Ruby continued to push with all her might, before she finally managed to shove the giant's hand out the window. The hand dropped and hit the ground with a loud 'boom'. Startling Roman and Summer
"Ruby!?" Summer said in alarm.
Thinking quickly, Ruby unzipped her jeans and quickly was about to pull them down.
(off screen)
Every male in the theatre instantly closed their eyes tight. Much to Ruby's relief.
(on screen)
"Ruby?!" Summer said again before pushing the door open, only to stop in surprise when she saw her daughter sitting on the toilet with her pants down.
"MOM! A LITTLE PRIVACY!" Screamed the silver eyed girl while covering herself.
"Sorry!" apologised Summer before closing the door, unfortunately right on Roman's face
"HLRFG!"
"Sorry." Summer apologised to the man, "She's been acting strange lately."
Roman could only rub his face in pain.
In the bathroom, Ruby sighed before standing and pulling her pants back up, luckily she was wearing tights underneath, so none of her 'lady-parts' as she called them were seen, especially by a stranger.
Walking to and looking out the window, she saw the hand poking at the barn, before it was lifted up by the giant inside, allowing it get inside.
(Front porch)
"Thank you again Summer." Said Roman as left the household.
"Goodnight Ruby, I'm sure we'll see each other again. Real soon." He said with a wink and glanced at the 'Room for Rent' in the window, before starting the car and driving off.
(screen darkens)
"Well, that was quite a scene," said Ozpin, getting the attention of his colleagues. "Comedic moments aside, we've learned that the Iron Giant is capable of self-repairing himself after sustaining major damage. Also that when detached, its limbs seem to have some form of sentience and can function on their own."
The other veteran Hunstman nodded at the headmaster's explanation. Glynda then decided to add something.
"Not only that, but it seems that miss Rose will now have to find a way to keep the existence of the giant a secret not just from her mother, but a government official who is already suspicious of her. She'll have to extra vigilant of she wants to protect her new friend." The blonde bespectacled professor explained.
"Whatever challenges she may face, I know she'll overcome them, after all she's my and Summer's daughter." Said Taiyang, looking at his children as they chatted with their friends with pride.
"Heh, you got that right Tai, don't forget she's my niece as well and I taught her everything I know." Qrow added as well.
The adults looked at the children in front of them and knew that with them as the future generation of Hunstman and Huntresses, the future would be a bright one. A bright one indeed.
END.
A/N: I HAVE RETURNED! I sincerely apologise for the long wait but as I said in the above 'A/N' I've been busy with another fic called 'Fighting For HER'. Check it out, it's really good if I say so myself.
Before I say anything else this fic as now reached over 200k views, has 132 favourites, 71 reviews, 140 followers, and is part of 4 communities…..
…WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK!
I'm gone for few moments and THIS happens!? I couldn't actually believe it at first, who are all you people!?
Seriously though, thank you all! Knowing that so many of you enjoy what I've written means the world to a mediocre writer like myself. Thank you so much! You guys are awesome!
I'll be working on the next chapter and will update as soon as I can, and I'll also be busy with my other story so, keep an eye out for that.
I'll see you all next time. Stay safe and stay awesome. Ja Ne!
