What this?! Another update?! And so soon? Oh my! A Orginal au. If you liked to see it as a full fic let me know. I wrote the Au, Reaction done by my friend Bssaz97. Enjoy.
The members of the audience began reconvening to their seats as the next viewing was about to begin. With the many different worlds they had seen, there was no telling what they would be seeing next.
"Wonder what kind of world we'll see today," Yang states.
"I have a good feeling about this one. Maybe it'll show us as expert huntresses on a mission to save the world!" Ruby enthusiastically told her team.
"...Ruby that's what we're currently doing in our world." Weiss replies with an unimpressed look.
"Ohhh yeah… Well maybe it'll be different!" Ruby adds, causing her teammates and sister to roll their eyes.
The screen rolls and shows Taiyang at home on Patch, making steaks on a grill with a huge smile on his face.
"Finally, the girls are coming home after so long." Taiyang mutters to him "Better to start cooking now before the girls come. Tai's face falls into a frown.
"Hey look Yang it's Dad!" Ruby points out, excited to see her father once again. Even if it was on the screen.
"Yeah. Actually, this looks exactly like our house back in Patch." Yang was a bit confused why the setting of this world was so similar to their own.
Most of the world's they've seen thus far were much different from their own. Which made her think of what could possibly be different about this world compared to theirs.
"Oh yeah. That's right. Ruby's bringing her boyfriend here. Tai sighs and adds another steak to the grill and turns to yell into the house.
"Say WHAAAT?!" Ruby's eyes grew nearly twice their size and a look of shock had grown on her face.
"Ruby… has a boyfriend?" Blake questioned.
Nearly in her peer group turned their eyes from the screen and looked to the crimsonette in shock. Ruby notices their stares and quickly grabs her hood and covers her face in embarrassment.
"Red has a boyfriend in this one? Now that's something I never expected to see today," Coco stated before turning back around to face the screen. Her team followed as well.
Ruby whimpered to herself, while she was slightly embarrassed about the revelation of her alternate having a boyfriend she was curious as to see who this said boyfriend was.
"ZWEI! DON'T EAT THIS EXTRA STEAK, IT'S FOR RUBY'S BOYFRIEND!" He didn't get a response. Taiyang sighed again. "Guess he's asleep. He mutters to himself. He took the steaks off the grill and as he walked back into the house he heard the door open and heard his daughters yell into the house.
"WE'RE HOMEEEEEEEE!" Taiyang rushed up to his girls and hugged them tightly. Yang and Ruby hugging him back just as tightly.
"Whoa you two look the same as you did back in Beacon!" Nora stated. Her expression started falling as soon as she mentioned the last part.
Ruby had removed her hood and she began recalling past events. If she was right then this was taking place at the time when her and Yang went back to Patch to visit their Dad shortly before the Vytal Festival.
Hopefully they wouldn't have to revisit those memories during this viewing.
"Hey Dad!" Yang cooed looking at her father with a smile.
"Did ya miss us?" Ruby asks,smiling as well.
Taiyang pretends to ponder on it for a while before grinning at them.
"Nope." He said jokingly to both, laughing when Ruby and Yang punch him in the arm lightly. Taiyang looks around a bit. "Uh. Where is this boyfriend of yours Ruby?"
Ruby's eyes light up. "Oh he's coming with our bags. Trust me daddy. You'll love him!"
Taiyang lets out a snort. "We'll see."
Yang began to look around the house as well. "Where Zwei? I thought he would be down here to greet us?"
Taiyang saw that Zwei was indeed not there and grumbled to himself. "That boy. ZWEI! YOUR SISTERS ARE HOME!"
"Sisters?" Both Ruby, Yang, and Qrow said at the same time, leaving all of them very confused. Zwei was indeed a part of the family, but he was still Corgi after all. So why did Taiyang refer to him as though he wasn't such?
Their question was answered very quickly.
Zwei's ears twitch at the sound of that, and a thumping comes from up stairs aside the noise of something falling down the stairs, before Yang and Ruby could react a black blur launch itself at them. A Ten year old dog faunus boy with curly unkempt hair color that matched Ruby's and little corgi ears was hugging the two tightly raising his head to show silver eyes beaming with joy.
"Ruby! Yang! I missed, I missed you, I missed you! He cried out hugging them tighter. The girls laugh and hug him back.
Ruby's, Yang's, and Qrow's eyes reached the size of dinner plates and they couldn't believe what they were seeing was real.
Ruby was the first to speak and began visibly shaking, "Oh my gods...Zwei- he's...he's..."
"Sooo Adorable!~" Ruby/Weiss/Yang/Nora cooed as the good little boy she remembered from Beacon was now literally an adorable little boy.
Blake, the rest of ALP(N), Qrow and Ozpin were shocked beyond words. This certainly was not what they were expecting at all today.
"Wait who's Zwei?" Oscar turned to ask Qrow.
"Well...in our world, he's the family dog. But in this world it seems like he's the youngest child?" Qrow said but still seemed unsure of himself.
As he remembers, Summer only had one child in the form of Ruby. But this world's version of Zwei shares many of the same traits that Summer and Ruby have/had….but why was he a faunus? Was this world's version of Summer a faunus? These questions were beginning to cause Qrow a headache so he resigned himself to just watch the viewing. Hopefully some of his questions could be answered.
"Hey Zwei!" Yang greeted ruffling his hair.
"How's my baby brother doing?" Ruby asked lightly, pinching his cheeks letting go when he tried to swat her hand away.
"Oh!~ Look at his hair, his lil ears and his lil cheeks. I just wanna pinch them all day!" Ruby cooed. She never had the privilege of having a younger sibling, so seeing that her alternate had one left her somewhat envious.
However, she still loved her family after all and wouldn't trade them for anything. But she could at least relish in the moment for as long as she was allowed to.
Zwei kept smiling and went to babble on about what he did while they were gone, about the games he wanted to play with them when he was interrupted by the sound of bags hitting the floor and looked behind Yang and Ruby to see a very tall Blonde.
"Jeez girls. You had to make me carry all of those? Jaune said while giving Ruby and Yang a halfhearted glare.
Suddenly the room became silent once more, a very recurring theme happening in this viewing as the reveal of Ruby Rose's mystery boyfriend was revealed.
The two team leaders both looked towards each other if only for a brief moment before turning away and blushing up a storm. The members of their teams, minus Weiss as she was too engrossed in looking at tiny Faunus Zwei, observed both reactions of Ruby and Jaune before turning back towards the screen. They could discuss this matter another time, as they still had a viewing to see.
Qrow, however, saw the short display between the two and his eyes narrowed. He had a feeling he was going to have to keep a close eye on those two. Particularly Jaune.
Ruby grinned and walked up to Jaune and began to slowly rub his arm. "Aww was it too much for my big tough guy hm?" She cooed snuggling up to and turning to her father and brother. "This is my boyfriend Jaune!" She shoved him in front of them. Jaune nervously looked toward Taiyang and reached his hand out.
"Hello sir. I'm Jaune Arc." He said keeping a stutter out of his voice and his hand steady
Taiyang raised an eyebrow at that. "Arc? …...What is your mother's name?"
"Uh Jeanne?" He still had his hand outstretched. Taiyang let out a large groan and grabbed Jaune's hand firmly shaking it.
"Nice to meet you Jaune." Tai said, with a forced smile leaving Jaune and Ruby confused.
Yang's eyebrow quirked, "What the heck was that about?"
"Is this not normally how your Dad reacts when either of you bring a boy home?" Blake asks her partner.
"Actually, Ruby and I never brought any boys home. At least I never did, too risky and I knew he would overreact. Ruby on the other hand hasn't dated anyone in… ever. But that's not what I was talking about."
"What did you mean then?" Blake looked confused.
"It's more with how he reacted when Jaune told him his mom's name. It's just weird I guess, Dad didn't talk too much about his days as a student in Beacon so maybe he's got some form of beef with Mama Arc." Yang theorized. She leaned towards where Jaune was seated and nudged him, "Hey VB."
"Hm What? I'm sorry Yang did you want something?" Jaune asked, looking very tense.
"You know about any beef between your mom and a guy named Taiyang?" Yang inquired.
"Oh. Uhhh, no I don't remember her mentioning anybody by that name. At least to my knowledge. Wait, isn't that your Dad's name?"
"Yeah I just wanted to ask you since I don't know anything about any beef between our parents. Oh well, question for later. Thanks anyway." Yang patted his shoulder with her prosthetic hand before leaning back towards her seat.
Ruby turned to Zwei who looked at Jaune oddly. "Say hi to Jaune Zwei." Zwei latched himself to Ruby's leg and shot a glare at Jaune.
"Hello." He said quietly, clutching her tightly which caused Ruby and Yang to till her head at their baby brother's odd behavior. But a knowing look came across Jaune's face Immediately. But he said nothing for the moment. Taiyang claps his hand to get everyone attention.
"I'm sure you guys are hungry so let's eat!"
A knowing look also appeared on Jaune's face as he sat in the audience. While he may not be… dating his best friend in this world, he recognized all to well the signs of a threatened sibling. He himself had acted the same way when he himself was around Faunus Zwei's age. While he may not know exactly what the young boys feelings were, Jaune knew where they were coming from.
Zwei had sat close to Ruby the entire time and tried to keep her attention on him and not Jaune. After the dinner when Jaune stood, Zwei smiled brightly.
"Leaving already? Oh noooo" He said faking sadness. I guess you're going home now….."
Many in the audience soon were beginning to now understand what exactly was going on now.
"Aww~ Looks like the little brother is threatened by Jaune-Jaune over here." Nora nodged her fearless leader.
"Nora, please…" Jaune practicality begged his energetic teammates/surrogate sister.
Ruby giggles and pats Zwei's head.
"No silly. Jaune's gonna be staying with us for the next months before we hit the road again!'
Zwei's eyes widen and he tears up
"Oh no, poor baby." Weiss almost wept at the broken-hearted expression on the poor boy's face. Many of the other members of the audience also felt sympathetic.
"You're leaving? But you just got back!" he whimpered. Yang sighed a bit.
"No Zwei. We're leaving in a month." She replied, still finishing off her steak and turning to look at Tai. "This really good dad." Taiyang thanks her while Zwei glares at Jaune.
"But why is he staying here?"
Ruby tilts her head. "Cause he's got nowhere else to go?"
"Why doesn't he go home?"
"He lives in Mistral Zwei. It's pretty far and it's easier for him to stay here."
Zwei growled and crossed his arms and turned away from them. "I'm not sharing my room with him." He says looking at the floor. Ruby laughs a little.
"Course not. He's sleeping in my room." Taiyang raises a finger to complain but Yang stops him and shakes her head with a look that says "Don't even bother." To which Tai reluctantly complies with. Ruby could be really stubborn.
"Wow, your Dad is not how I was expecting him to be," Blake states.
"Yeah Dad doesn't get angry as much as Yang does." Ruby replies.
"Yeah...Hey wait a minute!" Yang's eyes narrowed.
The members of RWB(Y) and ALPN laughed at her expense. Yang sighed.
"Yeah, yeah. Laugh it up."
"Fine." Zwei begans to stomp up upstairs into his room and slams it shut. Ruby looked a bit annoyed and worried.
"What's his problem?" Ruby asks turning the others? Yang and Taiyang shrugged and Jaune remained silent. They all talk for a while before heading to bed.
The next day had come and Jaune had gotten up and ate breakfast with the family. Zwei never looked at him and ran up into his room when he was done. Ruby taps him on the shoulder.
"Maybe try playing with him? He just met you and I'm sure he's just being shy." Ruby said smiling. Jaune sighed a bit.
Jaune shook his head at what Ruby's alternate self was presuming to be the issue at hand.
"It's not that he's shy. He thinks I'm gonna steal you away." He thought to himself. But he nodded and started to walk up to Zwei's room knocking before walking in. the ten year old faunus glaring at him immediately.
"What?" He said quite rudely.
"Whoa shit. He may look like Red but he certainly doesn't act like her." Mercury said honestly surprised.
"Be quiet Black! Zwei is a good boy and he shall remain that way!" Weiss threw this way.
The villains in the room only rolled their eyes at the former heiress's retort.
Jaune looked around the room and saw it was a Ten year boy's dream. Poster of plenty of shows, A xbox and a ps4 the works. He looks at Zwei to see a bunch of toys around him and he walks up and picks up a toy that looks like a ghost kneeing to Zwei's eye level and smiles at him.
"Hey I was hoping I could play with you, maybe I can be… Ghostface? Zwei looked at Jaune like he was stupid.
"His name is Ghostfreak." Zwei states turning his gaze from Jaune to play with his other toys. "And I ain't playing with him. I'm not crossovering over Ben 10 with Transformers."
"Hey Merc, wake me whenever this snooze fest is over. I'm gonna take a nap." Emerald whispers to Mercury.
"No promises."
"Well why not?"
"Because they don't take place in the universe."
"Well maybe ghost freak can use is ghostfreak can use his powers to end up in the Transformers Universe with Optuis prines." Jaune had clearly said the worst thing possible because Zwei's face went red and he started screaming at him.
"IT'S OPTIMUS PRIME AND GHOSTFREAK POWERS DON'T WORK LIKE THAT! GET OUT! GET OUT OFF MY ROOM!" Jaune hopped up and speed walk out Zwei's room into Ruby, looking a bit assumed.
"Didn't go well? Ah wait don't tell me… you say Optimus Prime name wrong."
Jaune glares at his girlfriend as she laughs at him.
"You knew that was gonna happen."
Ruby stops laughing to give Jaune a smirk.
"I didn't. But it was still funny."
"Well… that went as well as I expected." Jaune stated.