Snippet 42

Deathbeds

Genre: Tragedy/Humor

Pairs: Pink Lotus (Ren/Nora), Bitch and Bastard (Ozpin/Salem), Elder Bird (Taiyang/Raven), Implied Arkos

Parody: RWBY / (Sonic's Deathbed by Antoons)

AU-Type: Meta/Canon-eqsue

Tags: The feels, TW: Losing Loved Ones, This technically takes place after Volume 5, Vernal was not important enough to be in this one

Jaune did not want to go through this again. He already loss so much, but he dragged himself to that hospital with Nora and Ren. He found that everyone had gathered in the hospital rooms. Family, friends, Beacon Staff, and even the antagonists showed up. There on the hospital beds…were Team RWBY. Their heart monitors beeped. Pyrrha was still in her hospital bed on the left with the addition of Cinder in the right. All six were not awake. Penny, who was rebuilt, held Ruby's hand pleading for her to wake up. Raven was trying not to cry.

"Crying is for the weak…crying is for…" Raven repeated as tears were slowly spilling down her face.

Adam and Ilia had nothing from guilt on the mind seeing Blake in such a state. Ilia was rubbing Blake's hand only for it to be swatted away and shoved aside by Sun. Ghira and Kali glared at Ilia and Sun was whispering for Blake to wake up.

Winter was holding Weiss's hand rubbing her head hoping for her to recover. Whitley was bored enough to play the Chinese RWBY mobile game. Salem was holding it in like Raven as she did think of Cinder highly. She was the most competent minion, and Emerald was holding Cinder's good arm. Watts had the nerve to show up with a bucket of popcorn and a beach chair to watch. At least Hazel had the decency to not show up. Ozpin had gotten separated from Oscar leaving the bland farm boy with no real reason to be here.

Hope would glimmer as the injured six opened their eyes weakly showing signs of life much to relief of the crowd. Watts rolled his eyes as a blip come up on Whitney's phone. Checking in, he found out the show was getting another volume and played the trailer.

"No…no….more…." Ruby said weakly as their heartrates shot up.

Their eyes widened as they bore looks of agony before the life went out of their eyes. Raven fell to her knees with tears slipping out.

"MY BABY GIRL!" Raven wailed as she frantically shook Yang to wake up.

Winter was sobbing in Qrow's arms as Jaccques was counting the insurance money he was going to collect. Too bad, Willow had planned to kill him after the funeral. Taiyang broke down losing two people precious to him and he could only offer Raven support. Willow broke out the liquor falling off the wagon after going sober for months. Penny shut down not even wanting to watch this. Jaune and Nora could choke out silent sobs to watch Pyrrha die, but Ren tried to suppress his emotions with his semblance. He had to stay strong for theme. Emerald bawled out in anguish only for Mercury to roll his eyes taking some of Watt's popcorn.

"Good riddance. Didn't need that bitch in Volume 6." Mercury thought glaring at Cinder.

Salem and Ozpin were sobbing for their losses in their arms leaving Oscar to question why he's still here. Jaune got up his semblance to try to save him, but he was stopped by Tyrian who pointed out it was too late, and he should have used it earlier. Jaune's eyes went wide.

"FUCK!" He cried out. "I'm a failure!"

"Damn right." Oscar muttered.

"Oh, fuck you, you underdeveloped meat puppet!" Jaune snapped back.

Jaune had not noticed the strain of Ren's semblance got the stoic teen to collapse to Nora's horror.

"Says the running joke!" Oscar shot back. "Can't save anyone yet wants to be a hero!"

"I'll fucking kill you!" Jaune said tackling Oscar into the ground and punching him.

"Oh ho, so entertaining." Watts said munching on his popcorn.

"You're a real asshole." Ironwood said flatly wiping a tear in his eyes. "One of yours just died."

"Eh, I never liked her anyway. She was always so full of shit, the arrogant bitch." Watts said as Mercury took more of his popcorn. "Hey! Buy your own popcorn, Black!"

Jaune kept beating the shit of Oscar as Kali was strangling Adam while beating him with his own mask. Ghira had always put Ilia's head in the wall to make a hole. Hope faded as the flames of their aura dissipated for good. The funeral had to be planned and prayers for a reboot were made in vain.

Rest In Pieces, Team RWBY, you lived and died as heroes.

(A/N: Darkly humorous yet sad. Honestly, this was an idea I had laying around since I saw Antoon's work. I had to blend the right amount of humor and the right amount of emotions, but I think I got it. And no, Ren did not die! And don't forget to vote on my poll.)