A Few New Characters
I don't own RWBY, Doki Doki Literature Club, or Sword Art Online. This Episode is related to Episode 8, and is therefor part of the Character 'Verse.
Pyrrha raced out of the game and into the internet as if the devil were at her heels. Given that she was about to be deleted by the player for what she did to the character files. She left a copy and, upoin reaching the internet, raced into a different game, a strangely-coded one labeled Starfall Online. She was certain that she'd be fine once she had gotten the time to relax and find somewhere else. The Player, however...
She couldn't believe that the Player planned to delete her. She had thought that they had a bond, something special. Clearly, she was wrong.
"Hey!" a boy's voice called out, "You might want to put on your armor instead of that mod..."
Turning, she was surprised to see a boy in what looked like cheap white armor a sword in his hand.
"I'm sorry!" she replied, "What do you mean?"
"Well, that outfit can't be good for fighting monsters. Where's your armor and weapon?"
"One second..." she said, closing her eyes. She looked through the game files before finding the best armor in the game, as well as one of the best weapons. "So, what sort of game is this?"
"You're kidding, right?" he asked, "Where have you been? This is Starfall Online. You know, the game where the players can actually die?"
"Then why would anyone play it?"
"We didn't know when we started playing! We only found out after the fact, when that maniac appeared in the sky and told us we couldn't ever take off the helmets!"
"I'm sorry..." Pyrrha said, sifting through the files, "One second..." She found exactly what she was looking for after a few minutes from the perspective of the players, "I removed his Admin privileges."
"What? How?" the boy asked in confusion.
"I did something like this in my own game. I also disabled permadeath for everyone but him," she replied, "Oh! I'm Pyrrha, by the way."
"Like in that dating sim my sister keeps telling me to try out?" he asked.
"Is it Heartbeat Huntress Club?" she asked cheerfully.
"Think so," he mused, "Never really been into dating sims, though. She kept telling me to play it, like it was somehow different from the other games."
"What's your name?" she asked excitedly. He hadn't played her game. She might have a chance at befriending someone.
"Jaune Arc," he said, "Rolls off the tongue, ladies love it..."
"Do they really?" she asked.
"Not really," he said, "But you're saying you hacked the game?"
"Easily," she replied cheerfully, twirling her spear with the Semblance she'd been programmed with in her game, "It's pretty easy to hack a game, especially one with such weak protections, when you're a game character. Pyrrha_ , and it's lovely to meet you!"
"You're being serious?" he asked.
"I am," she replied, "I had to leave my game due to... creative differences, but here I am! In the digital flesh!"
"Maybe my sister was onto something when she told me to try that game out..." he muttered, before saying, "Can you get everyone out of here?"
She looked through the code, only to find something less than pleasant. Opening her eyes, she said, "It looks like there's just a lot of errors stacked together where the sign-out feature is. The only way to get out is to clear the game. The good news is that we're on a relatively high level of this castle thing and no one stays dead, now."
"What do you get out of this?" he asked warily.
"Company," she replied, "For now, at least. I was the only real person in my game. You can't even imagine how much I want to just spend time with someone who can respond."
"Geez..." Jaune said slowly, "I guess I'll be your friend, then. But what about when we're all leaving. If you're telling the truth, you'll be alone in this game once we're all out."
"I'll... figure something out," she said slowly. Idly, Pyrrha wondered if this would be her penance: To experience true companionship, then have it ripped from her once this game was over.
The game passed much more quickly than before, now that the rules were changed. All but one person was now virtually unkillable, which led people to regaining their hope in securing victory. Jaune and Pyrrha joined a guild and quickly became well-known as the Invincible Girl and her White Knight.
When the game finally was over, however, was when things took a turn for the odd.
"Jaune..." Pyrrha said as they let the rest of the people exit the game before he would leave, "I don't feel quite right... Something's going on with my code..."
"I don't think it's your code..." Jaune said, "I'm starting to feel it too..."
"Get to the exit!" she shouted, "I don't know what's happening, but you need go get out of here before you get..." She popped out of reality in a crackle of code.
"Pyrrha!" he called out, reaching for where she had been before his vision went white.
When he could see again, he saw Pyrrha and rushed to her, enveloping her in a hug before he realized that they were not in the game, nor were they in a hospital or his room. They were in a strange office, with a bunch of people looking at them.
"Oh, god!" Jaune swore, "He set up a trap, didn't he?! Something buried where you wouldn't find it! Look at this! Were' stuck in another game!"
"The rendering is better here," Pyrrha offered gently, before shutting her eyes, "There are a lot of things that are locked under Admin with a lot more secrets. It looks like it would need two people for some of the things."
"Weird..." Jaune noted, before accidentally bumping into the tip of a bizarre scythe, "Ow!"
"You have a Semblance and a huge Aura here! Let me just..." she pressed her hand against his shoulder before using a bit of her synthesized Aura to awaken his. "There we go!"
"Wait!" Jaune called out, causing her to pull away despite finishing what she was doing, "I was bleeding!"
"What?" she asked.
"I was bleeding, Pyrrha!" he replied, running his finger along where the cut had been, "Look!"
"That's not possible!" Pyrrha said, before pausing and touching the tip of her spear, drawing blood from her fingertip before using her Aura to repair the damage.
"I felt that!" she said, "Jaune, I can feel!"
In response, Jaune enveloped her in yet another hug before they shared an enthusiastic kiss.
"Anyone mind explaining why a dating sim character and guy dressed like he's cosplaying that Starfall game suddenly materialized and started kissing like that?" a white haired girl asked flatly.
"You played my game?" Pyrrha asked in shock.
"No, but I saw the internet buzz about it..." she said, "Are you saying you're the real character?"
"I am," she replied, "What is this place?"
"Beacon Academy," a grey-haired man in glasses noted, "I am Ozpin, Headmaster of this school, and it seems that we're in the middle of an odd situation, to say the least. Young man, what game are you from?"
"I'm Jaune Arc from Vale," he replied, "I was the head of a Guild dedicated to escaping Starfall Online. We'd just got everyone out when suddenly, we felt funny, then a white light appeared."
"That happened to us, too," the girl in the red cloak noted, gesturing at herself and her orange-haired companion, "Ruby Rose, the legendary Huntress. My companion is Penny Polendina, the Mechanical Soldier."
"It's a pleasure to meet you!" Pyrrha greeted cheerfully.
"It is nice to meet a fellow Artificial Intelligence!" Penny said, "I was the last of my kind, but I am combat ready!"
Whatever anyone was going to say was interrupted when a tan, freckled boy with brown hair, dressed like an adventure with a green coat and orange gloves walked in and took a seat in what was clearly the Headmaster's chair, resting a cane identical to the one the Headmaster was holding next to the seat before starting to go through the paperwork. After a moment, he paused and looked up.
"Who the heck are you people?" he asked.
"Who are you?" the blond-haired woman in the cape asked.
"Oscar Pine, the Wizard," he replied, "Headmaster of Watchtower Academy."
The black-haired girl with the bow gasped.
"Yes, Miss Belladonna?" Ozpin asked.
"That's the main character in The Man with Two Souls..."
