Special thanks to:
Pearl Darkness. (I miss you)
Hello. Won't say as much in the A/N section. Since I am technically canon inside the DRWBY universe, I'll just do it there!
I do not own RWBY.
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Dear RWBY: Pandemic Special
Start.
"Hello. It's been a while, everyone. Welcome back to Dear RWBY." Ruby Rose smiled at the camera; her usual hyperactive demeanor missing.
"It certainly has been quite a while." Blake Belladonna continued after Little Red.
"I know right?" She replied, "Anyway, we're… uh… gonna…"
She stuttered a bit; her voice gradually lowered to a point where it couldn't be heard at all. After a moment, she let out a heavy sigh and groaned, "Oh man, I knew I should've prepared a script for this. So much for listening to Yang…"
"There's no need for that, Rubes! Just speak from your heart!"
"That's easier said than done. You do it!"
"Well well well. You left me with no choice!" Yang Xiao Long grinned while puffing out her chest, "Guess it's up to the big sis of the leader - at the same time big sis of the team to do it!"
"Yeah yeah." Said leader replied unenthusiastically, "Sorry, I'm really tired."
"Aww Rubes. Come here, recharge your battery."
Ruby's imaginary dog ears perked up as she rushed towards her lover's opening arms. "Thanks Blake~ love you~"
"Love you too~"
"That's fucking gay."
Blake, with Ruby in her arms, shifted her angle a bit so that she would face the person who just made that remark and spoke, "Wow ice queen. A year of not posting any videos, and the first thing you said to our viewers was 'that's fucking gay'?"
"I don't think anyone would be complaining, though." Yang winked at the camera.
"That does sound like Weiss. So very Weiss. Mm." Ruby nodded to her own statement.
"The DRWBY Weiss that is!" Her sister mimicked her movement.
"Hmph."
"Aww don't be upset, babe!"
"I'm not."
"Really?"
"Really."
"Alright then...moving on!" The dragon cleared her throat, then crossed her arms before continuing, "So, we might've called this episode a 'pandemic special', but it actually… isn't quite a pandemic special. In other words…"
"This is a click-bait video."
"Correct, cat!"
"Yeah."
"Aside from that obvious excuse, another reason is that we just have no idea what to name this episode. Like...do we call it 'DRWBY: Announcement Special'? Or 'DRWBY: Announcement'? And we don't really want to just continue the episode number from the last one, since we do have some things we need to tell you guys, and we're not gonna answer any questions in this vlog."
"Yep." Ruby nodded. Although her back was facing the camera (since she was still cuddling with a certain Faunus), her movement was exaggerated enough that one could easily see it.
"So… first of all, take good care of yourselves!" Yang made a thumbs-up towards her scroll that was recording them, "I've heard that there's an actual pandemic going on on your side of the screen, and it's a life threatening one! I mean that's why we named this episode with...this name…"
"That's a quite weird way of saying 'your country'." Weiss rolled her eyes.
"Yang's back at it again." Her partner continued after.
"S'okay, you girls. They are on the other side of the screen, after all. Like literally. There's a monitor in between us, you know?"
"Yeah yeah." The White Rose pair brushed her off casually in unison.
"And because 'pandemic' is a hot keyword these days, our videos will pop up in the search result even if they aren't specifically searching for us. Pretty genius of me eh? Praise the dragon for the increased revenue!"
"I think that's the very definition of a click-bait video, muscle head."
"How dare you call me that, cat?" Yang mimicked a certain heiress' tone.
And the heiress growled in response. A moment after, she huffed, "Of course it would be your idea. Putting aside the fact that this video has absolutely nothing to do with the pandemic, it might be really offensive to some of our viewers!"
"Hey, what good is life if we can't even take a joke?!" The brawler grinned, "Some people...I mean, quite a lot of people use humor to cope with horrible things you know?"
"That's not wrong though, princess." Blake backed her best friend up.
"Of course she isn't. She's the best example of that statement, after all."
"Ouch…" Yang pretended to be hurt.
"See, that's what I meant."
"Aww…"
Silence.
"B-But I must say!" Ruby turned her head and smiled at the camera, trying her best to lift up the mood, "Bottling everything up and hiding behind a facade is not a good thing! That's how a lot of people got destroyed over time! People, like IBurn!"
"What a good way of transitioning! Well done, Rubes!"
"Yeah we don't wanna depress our viewers after all…" The leader whispered.
"That's right. So…" This time, her grin was different from the last one. And the rest of the team recognized that grin all too well.
"Oh no…"
"Don't do what Rubes just said! Confide in a friend! Or just talk to people over the internet! There are people who genuinely care about you, you know? Don't get burned out, like IBurn!"
Weiss groaned and pinched the bridge of her nose.
"Well, at least this one's not as bad…"
"You think so, Rubes? I think this one's really bad though…"
"Really?"
"So is IBurn at it again?"
"It's something different this time, I guess." Yang replied to her lover, "I messaged her the other day, and she said she's already gone back and forth to Narnia for hundreds of times already."
"Huh?"
"That means she spent a long time in the closet, Rubes."
"Oh!"
"Hey now. It's just once in a while that I'm feeling that way! Sometimes it gets really lonely, you know?" A robotic voice responded.
"Oh she's here." Ruby and Weiss spoke at the same time, but the latter's tone was harsh.
"I've been here since the very beginning… did Yang not tell you?"
"At this point we're hardly surprised anymore." Blake shrugged.
"Eh, it's just an occasional blue. Maybe I watched and read too much yur- I mean, media that has good endings, and I ended up getting jealous of them. And then I remembered that I'm still in the closet, and because I'm unemployed now, I stay home all the time. Which means that I need to put the 'straight gurl facade' on twenty four slash seven. Seeing y'all being so gay and glorious made me really jelly. And lonely. Sad face." IBurn spoke, spelling the emoji out because they couldn't be conveyed otherwise.
"That's a nice term… gay and glorious…"
"That's all she's getting out of IBurn's statements."
"Sounds like your sister alright."
"Should I have said 'fabulous' instead?"
"Doesn't sound as good though."
"I know right?"
"Maybe stop reading so much gay stuff to ease that lonely heart of yours." Weiss' words were as straightforward as they could be, "Using it to run away from your problem isn't quite efficient, and not healthy either, I must say."
"Ouch, princess…"
"See, you ended up getting addicted to it."
"Hey, this...loneliness, or jealousy, or whatever you want to call it, will be over at some point!"
A pause.
"But you're right. This is not helping."
"Of course."
"Well… I'll try."
"Okay, counselling done; why don't we get to the point and finish this fast? Rubes and I would like to cuddle somewhere more comfortable than the floor. And before you say anything, princess, the carpet's not helping much."
"..."
"Alright! Now, onto the next… er… announcement…" Yang's voice grew fainter as she continued.
"Time to excuse myself then! IBurn, out! Aha, get it? Get it? Because Yang said I was burn-"
The scroll got shut off by an annoyed heiress before their sponsor could finish her sentence. She mumbled something, then tossed the device to its owner - and it ended up hitting another target.
"Next time aim better, princess."
"Yeah, aim better next time, princess! My head isn't made of steel, you know?" Ruby rubbed her head.
And Weiss just ignored the lovebirds.
"Second of all, we're all doing good." Yang continued, attempting to move the video along, "Because of the pandemic, the creatures of Grimm on our side of the screen are also affected. They're getting a lot stronger, so it's pretty tiring for us as well. See, even though we're still students, because of the severe shortage of Huntsmen and Huntresses, we're also required to help out. Professor Ozpin's assigned us to work alongside a licensed huntsman. Note: that huntsman's name may or may not be a type of bird. A black colored one."
"Speaking of license!" Ruby continued, "Vale council had agreed to prepare a special course for us! We do need a lot of manpower to combat with the Grimm, so they'd decided that students - or anyone at all that can fight - can choose to attend the course, and then go through two examinations. If we pass it, we can acquire our huntsman license!"
"And we've finished our courses." Weiss spoke with a hint of pride in her voice, "The examination is on next Friday, so if we pass it-"
"When we pass it!" Yang interrupted her girlfriend.
"...We will be official huntresses."
"That's what we're after since the very beginning, isn't it?" Blake spoke in a soft tone.
"And we've come so far."
Everyone smiled at each other, briefly enjoying the moment together. They indeed had come so far; they might still be kids, but they were no longer who they were back when they started. They'd grown a lot, and they were proud of it.
"Maybe there's a good thing in every bad situation after all." Yang broke the silence, "We just gotta find it! Be positive, and stay happy, guys!"
"Yes!" Her sister grinned cheerfully.
"Now, onto our last announcement." Weiss didn't want to break the atmosphere, but they only got so much time left. She threw a glance at Yang, and the latter nodded back in response.
"Right. It's about our YewTube channel. We haven't been active for a ye- wait, was it a year? Or more?"
"I don't know. Just make something up and let the viewers fact check it. I'm too la- I mean, I'm too busy right now."
The screen zoomed into the Ladybug pair, who were still cuddling all this time. It then zoomed out to shoot all of them again. A certain heiress was face-palming at the lovebirds, while the other one just laughed.
"Aha...so, now that things over here have calmed down a bit, we're tryin'a shoot more videos. You know, answer questions that are left unanswered for over...twelve months. And about our podcast… unfortunately we'd have to cancel it. We're sorry, but we really don't have the time to do things aside from the regular vlogs."
"I'm sure our viewers will understand." Ruby said.
"U-huh. In conclusion… we're back, sort of! The 'sort of' is important. Mm. The four of us are back! The grumpy Overla-"
"Hey!"
"-dy, the gay cat, the ball of sunshine and rainbow, and lastly of course, the big sis!"
"I'm so glad she didn't say 'the pun-isher."
"Should I have said that?"
"No!"
-beep-
"Welp, that's all for this vlog I guess. Time to get some rest!" Yang's face appeared on screen after the bleep.
"We'll start answering questions starting next week, resuming from our last vlog. That would be DRWBY #59." Weiss spoke nonchalantly.
"Thanks for supporting us throughout the years! We really appreciate it! And if you're wondering where the lovebirds went…"
The screen shook violently for a bit, then it moved near the bunk bed that's being held up by ropes. A hand raised lazily from the bed, then it waved once before dropping back.
"That's Blake saying bye. Until next time, guys!"
-beep-
"Hello guys. For readers who really hate me for my shameless self plugs...you can skip this segment. I've asked Yang to edit this video into the vlog. I mean, it's not exactly a video, since all you can see is a picture of a battle tank with a green circle around it that indicates I'm talking."
IBurn cleared her throat before continuing.
"I just want to thank everyone for reading my stories. Even if I haven't posted anything for so long, there's still people who read my story and left reviews and favorites; even on stories from 4 years ago! And that's all I wanted to say. You can visit my profile for story progress, status and whatnot. I don't want to stuff too much in here, so take care of yourselves, and mask up! Bye!"
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How dare Team RWBY clickbait us?!
Jokes aside… hi. I'm back. See you next time!
I do not own RWBY.
Special thanks to:
Pearl Darkness.