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Drag Through a Drive By

Genre: Tragedy

Pairs: Tauradonna, one-sided Blake/Ilia (on Ilia's side), Birds of Red and Yellow (Summer/Raven/Taiyang)

Parody: RWBY/Camp Camp/GTA | Menace II Society (1992)

AU-Type: Modern 90s' AU

Tags: Faunus still exist, Racism TW, Homophobia TW, Ghettos are filled with the poor faunus screwed over, Blake's basically still the privileged princess she is, Adam's O-Dog, Ilia and Blake doubly serve as Kaine, Sienna serves the role of A-Wax and Ronnie, Evil versus Evil, The city this places in essentially Watts, GTA SA references, Tauradonna is supposed to be seen an unhealthy ship, Blake does appear in this one, Summer is not dead in this reality

(For the sake of my sanity and everyone else's, the age of Blake, Adam, and Iila are different than canon. Blake's 17-18, Ilia's 18-19, Adam's 21-22.)

Ilia had come to a realization that she needed to leave the ghetto of Watts. She just could not bring herself to stay after stomping in Reese's cousin like that with Blake's aid. She knew there was a chance it could bring her in the police. However, Arslan had sent the video of the robbery to the cops. Blake had always told Adam to stop waving it around like a badge of honor. She had gone on about how it could ruin her reputation over and drag us all into prison. Ilia was not listening only hoping she could leave this place before something happened. She had already gotten thrown out of her grandparents' home for what she had done so far.

The morning sun battering down Watts as the scene sets upon a home within the ghettos. Specifically, Raven Branwen's. She was the former leader of the Branwen Bandits years ago with Qrow, but it all fell through over the years. Meeting Taiyang and Summer changed her and Qrow. However, despite her relationship with Tai and Summer, she was still bound to the life down here. Years later, she partly regrets coming down and missing out on most of her daughter's life until recently. Yang would come down to visit with Ruby, and them, doing so, rocked her with a fear they would get hurt. So, she came to a decision to move back with Taiyang. Ilia saw this as a chance to get out of the ghetto. She was already staying with Raven at the time because she felt safest there. This was the chance of a lifetime! Yang and Ruby were helping load up the car. Ilia came out of the house as Sienna's cub playing with his Hunts Man action figure on the sidewalk. She waved back, but admittedly concerned to why a kid would be out and about on the streets on a Saturday morning.

"Thanks again for helping me pack. Although, where's Summer and Tai?" Raven said carrying out a suitcase.

"Mom had a doctor's appointment and Dad had to go with her." Ruby said innocently. "And thanks Weiss for coming out to help us."

"Yeah, whatever. Let's just hurry this up." Weiss said going back inside to use the restroom.

"Let's just hurry up and get out of here." Blake said paranoid.

"Blake, be cool. There's been no warrant placed out for us." Adam said being calm and collected.

"Adam, that doesn't mean we don't. The police have the fucking tape! Eventually, they can get to it and get us arrested! I don't want to see the inside of a prison!" Blake said panicking.

The toughness Blake played off to intimidate others was crumbling and Sienna rolled her eyes at it. She finished her packing into her own car as well and came up to her son.

"Sean, time for us to go kiddo." Sienna said ruffing his hair not noticing a slow approaching car.

Thump-thump…

The green muscle car coming down had an infamous reputation that made it feared throughout the neighborhood. It tended to be the last thing some would see. An instrument for the tainted saints to deliver carnage and death.

Thump-thump…

Reese and her crew readied their guns and Sean's eyes went wide with fear.

"The…the….Green Sab…" Sean stammered before Reese screamed, "What's up now, motherfuckers!"

BLAM! Bullets poured out the Tec-9s, MAC-11s, and SMG tearing up the place. Sienna tackled her son to the ground to shield him having to endure several bullets. Bullets tore through the air with Ruby screaming and panicking all over the place. Adam was still strapped and delivered returning fire only really being armed with a pistol. All his shots missed. Bodies hit the ground as Reese yelled for the driver to take off leaving behind a mess literally dirt, blood, and bullets.

"Hope you choke on them bullets!" Reese said as the Green Sabre took off.

Adam, by some twisted miracle, was not injured at all. The others were not so lucky.

"Oh my god, Yang!" Raven said ignoring her own injuries to scoop her up daughter who had several shots on her left arm and side. "Please speak to me!"

Yang coughed up a bit of blood and asked, "Is Ruby all right?"

Raven looked over to see Ruby face down in a pool of her own blood and shook her head.

"Fuck. Why did they even shoot us…" Yang said before passing out from blood loss.

Sienna forced herself up despite the plan and was just glad her cub was safe. Adam had a shaken look on his face loosely holding the worn pistol in his hand. Weiss, oblivious to what had just occurred, came out of the bathroom and take out her headphones noting how quiet everything was. She walked out and screamed in terror at what she just saw.

"Ruby…oh my god…" Weiss said turning her over staining her with the redhead's blood. "What happened?"

"Drive-by. But what I want to do is why?" Raven said looking to Blake and Ilia.

Blake was not even moving, and Adam was trying to wake her up. Ilia laid on her back riddled with bullets and looking up at the sky panting. She was trying to fight to try alive despite her body failing on her…

After stomping on Reese's cousin like that, I knew I was gonna have to deal with that fool someday.

Ilia weakly looked over at Blake who Adam was pleading not to die on him. Police sirens were loudly blaring as Raven was screaming at Weiss to "get some fucking help".

Damn!

I never thought he'd come back like this, blasting.

Flashes of Ilia and Blake's fight with Reese's cousin replayed in her mind.

Like I said, it was funny like that in the hood sometimes. I mean you never knew what was gonna happen or when.

All her past events that summer were quickly flashing through her head. Tears began to spill from Ilia's face as Sienna was breaking down. Cops and EMTs had arrived…

I've done too much to turn back, and I've done too much to go on. I guess in the end it all catches up with you. My grandpa asked me one time if I care whether I live or die. Yeah, I do. Now it's too late.

The last thing Ilia saw the life go out of Blake's eyes and Adam being dragged into a cop car with no resistance at all.

Blake, I'm so sorry…

That was morning Ilia went out…not with a bang, but a whimper.

|Epilogue: Ruby, Yang, Raven, and Sienna would make recoveries, but the shooting left Yang in a wheelchair for a few months. Ruby was never the same after finding out why the shooting happened…she never did forgive Blake for not telling them. Weiss would need therapy to cope with all she saw that day. Raven saw this as motive to never look back at the ghetto even making up with her brother. Sienna would make her escape with her son, but not unscathed either. Hospital bills left her in debt. Reese and her gang? Still at large. Blake's funeral had many attending, but nobody came for Ilia…nobody cared. In Blake, they saw a waste of life, in Ilia, they just saw a waste.|

(A/N: The tearjerkers aren't ending now This scene was hard to write at first even after re-watching the final scene of the movie. But I had to twist a few scenes. Weiss was not even supposed to be in this one, but I realized she would fit for this scene for the sake of having someone fret over Ruby while Raven freaked out over Yang.)