Warning: I haven't watched RWBY yet. Only read fanfictions and wiki. Reactions and dialogue of characters may sound off and I may get some info wrong.
The void was still its white color, but now a giant holographic screen was in front of them.
An empty chair in a pink room.
...
Ruby whistled awkwardly. Weiss checked her nails. Blake let her eyes roam the room for something more interesting. Yang snapped her fingers at the screen as if it would do something. Jaune scratched his head. Pyrrha put on her faux smile to hide her impatience. Nora's eyes closed and her head slumped. Ren waited patiently as he kept his partner from falling over. Sun squatted and played around with his monkey tail.
...
Ozpin adjusted his glasses. Goodwitch took deep breaths to calm down her rising irritation. Qrow took a drink. Raven gritted her teeth. Ironwood frowned harder. Winter tapped her foot. Penny took the time to check her systems.
...
Salem glared intensely. Cinder gained a tick mark. Adam shook and imagined having his sword back at his side. Roman took off his hat and spun it around his finger. Neo tilted her head from side to side.
...
One of them had enough. "This is a wast-"
"BOO!" Nora leaped out of nowhere onto the chair, knocking it and herself over. "OW!"
An intermission screen with a chibi Nora was shown.
Screams and sharp inhales of breath. Jumping and a step back. Falling on butts and slight flinches. Everyone had at least one of these reactions at the suddenness of on-screen Nora.
When she collected herself and realized what just happened, Nora praised, "Good job other me! You sure scared us. Take care of that boo-boo though. Aww, look at that tiny me! So cute!"
Weiss placed a hand over her heart. "In battle and in idiotic pranks. I swear, does every version of this girl have some desire to frighten others?"
"Most likely," was Ren's response of defeated acceptance.
While cursing the Valkyrie girl, they all composed themselves and watched the screen.
"Hello viewers!"
Other Nora's happy smile and friendly wave had the opposite effect.
"Oh my Oum, she can see us?!" Sun exclaimed while backing away.
"Hello other me!" was Nora's excited greeting.
"Oh my gosh! Does this Nora have magical universal powers like F?" Ruby speculated.
Nora seemed too eager at the idea. "Then that makes me an omnipotent goddess! Bow to your goddess mortals!"
As the others started thinking similarly (and, in JPR's case, fearing such a notion), Ozpin was the first to notice and point out, "There's a play button on-screen."
That raised eyebrows from the group when they too saw it. The triangle-shaped play button. They saw that alternate Nora stopped moving. They all could only make one conclusion. To test their theory, they waited.
"Your Queen and the Best Girl is back with another segment of," a title card depicting chibi Nora behind a desk ranting to chibi Ren sleeping on a chair. "Nora Talks and Talks!"
Jaune started. "Is this a-"
"DustTube video?" Pyrrha finished.
"It seems to be the case," Ren said.
Winter wanted to facepalm. "I fail to see the relevance. What does, Nora was it, her DustTube video have to do with parallel universes and alternate realities?"
"Well," Nora answered immediately. "I'm not a DustTuber. Other me looks like one though. This universe might be a what-if. Y'know, like, "What if I was a DustTuber?"" Firstly, she liked the titles she gave herself. Also, "Nora Talks and Talks?" What a wonderful sounding segment. Maybe she should follow her other's example once she gets back home. Oh, and have Ren edit and film the videos. He better not sleep like his adorable chibi though.
"A small change like that is enough to warrant its own universe?"
"I'm certainly no expert," Ozpin said to Winter. "but I assume many parallel universes are created through alternate histories, different people, and the choices we make, no matter how significant. There could be a universe nearly identical to our's in every way, but the only change is that Ms. Rose decided to drink juice instead of milk one morning."
"Never!" Weiss, Blake, and Yang deadpanned at their leader.
Ironwood spoke up, "Even so, I imagine that some of us were expecting to see something more significant than a simple online video."
"Our host's secondary goal was to entertain us," Penny stated. "Perhaps this video will be entertaining us in an amusing manner."
No one could really argue with that. Some were still seeing this "universe" as a waste of time though. Seeing as there was literally nothing else to do, they didn't have a choice in watching.
"It was movie night yesterday, so me and my friends decided on watching a horror movie," a cut to Nora stomping on a DVD case. "And! It! Was! So! Dumb!"
"That's a bit of an overreaction."
"More like underreaction." Honestly, it was slightly unnerving how in-sync RWBY, JPR, Goodwitch and Ozpin were at that moment.
"Ooh, we should watch a horror movie too!"
"Only if it's that "Dog Rain" movie."
"Ruby, that's not a horror movie," Yang shot down.
"Speak for yourself," Blake disagreed.
It was at this time they all realized that the video stopped whenever they talked and played again when their attention returned to it.
It went back to Nora in front of the camera. "The worst part was that I had a nightmare about it last night." A cut to a chuckling Nora with her face in her hands. "And it was dumb too."
"Everybody in my dream was acting dumb, and we kept getting killed off for dumb and obvious reasons." Nora clapped her hands. "So today, I'm going to share with you my fool-proof guide on," a title card pops up saying Nora's next words. "How to Survive Horror Movie Killers." A small caption read, "not actually fool-proof" at the bottom.
"Ooh I can't wait. I bet I have a ton of useful advice." As she sent her sympathies to her other for stupid dreams, Nora herself was already mentally making a guide that she hoped would match her DustTuber self's.
"This sounds interesting." Yang's friends agreed and could only wonder what alternate Nora would say.
Neo was slightly intrigued. She hadn't seen any horror movies in a long time, and thus she doesn't remember any of the premises or clichés. She wasn't a fan of them anymore since she could just commit any of those murderous acts herself, as a sort of re-enactment if she desired. This was a sort of chance to relive those simple movie watching experiences.
"The first step is to avoid getting into horror situations in the first place."
"Isn't that obvious?"
Yang answered with a huff, "Weiss, trust me when I say that no horror movie character ever has that thought. They always have to get involved. Idiots."
"Amen." Jaune and Yang shared a high five.
"You watch horror Jaune?" Pyrrha asked.
"With my sisters." Ah yes. Seven sister, Pyrrha remembered. It was almost expected that at least one liked that genre and dragged some of her family members to watch with her.
Nora gestured with her hand, "Something like this."
It cut to a scene with Team RWBY in a car, with Yang in the driver's seat, stuck in the middle of the road. "Well girls, we're empty," Yang announced.
"Nice ride." She got a glimpse of her other's convertible. Golden color with red and orange flame designs across the car doors. Parallel Yang clearly shared similar tastes with her. "I prefer Bumblebee as a motorcycle, but this isn't bad at all."
"You could be more responsible with it," Qrow half-heartedly lectured.
"Course I am. Besides, DustTube video. I'm sure I'm pretending."
Ruby and Blake took in the appearance of their parallel selves. They didn't look too different besides a change in clothing. Ruby pouted at her other not having her cloak while Blake envied how her cat ears went uncovered.
"How far until the next town?" Blake asked.
Weiss brought up her scroll. "6 miles."
"Hey," Ruby got their attention and pointed outside her window. "Isn't that the haunted house that belonged to that serial killer?" A creepy house was shown, shrouded by fog with dark thundering clouds above it and a lightning bolt struck the air.
Ah. The obvious "something-terrible-happened-here" location. How could Neo forget?
Jaune nodded. "That's usually the first problem, yes."
"I give up all hope for the characters if they decide to stay in places like those," Yang groaned.
"To be fair, it's not like they know they're in horror movies," Blake argued.
"When they're told straight to their faces "Hey, this place is haunted," that should raise an alarm, but no! They're like "Hurr durr, what could go wrong if we stay here?"" Blake saw her point. She read some novels that had similar premises, and while she gave them all the benefit of the doubt, not many will do the same.
It cut back to Yang, pushing the car towards off-screen . "Fuck that!"
Standing in front of a window in the house was a masked killer, watching the four leave. "Aw man."
The Beacon students had a small laughing fit and Neo hid her amused smile behind her hand. Winter's face softened when she saw her sister trying to hold herself back while Torchwick noticed his subordinate's reaction and smirked himself.
"Oh man, you have no idea how much I want to see that in a movie!" Yang managed to say while clutching her stomach.
"If that ever happened, I wouldn't even be mad. It'll be so worth every Lien," Sun declared as he chuckled.
As Ozpin watched his student's having fun, he also took notice of the "killer," who, even if they were hidden well, possessed an incredibly familiar figure. He wondered about the reactions when the "killer" will eventually be revealed.
"Or this."
Professor Port and Doctor Oobleck were in police uniforms, standing over a dead Cardin. "Looks like that new serial killer got another one," Police Port said.
"Peter and Bartholomew?" Goodwitch raised an eyebrow.
"It seems alternate Nora managed to rope her professors in her videos," Ozpin noted. "She must be on friendly terms with them."
"So Cardin's dead," Jaune said evenly.
"Sucks for him," Nora gave her condolences. Ren hummed in agreement.
"Indeed," Pyrrha flatly said.
"Aw man, why wasn't I the policeman?" Sun pouted.
"I thought you were a junior detective," Ruby remembered .
"That's why I would be perfect for this role."
"And they're still on the loose," Oobleck added. "I hear all of their victims lived in this neighborhood."
The camera moved to Team CVFY, who overheard. Coco pulled out lien from her purse. "We're taking a vacation."
A zoom out showed the killer overhearing from behind a house. "What?!"
This roused more chuckles from the teens, who gathered themselves quickly after. "Team CFVY." Much like her team, Weiss didn't see anything too different about them.
"A shame they're not here," Yang said. "Bet they would've loved to see all of this with us." A round of agreement followed that statement.
Pyrrha frowned. Why did the killer sound so familiar?
"If that doesn't work out and you find yourself stuck in a horror movie situation, then here is the next thing you do." Big red letters appeared, taking up the whole screen. "Don't Have Sex!"
There were looks of disbelief from the teens, Winter with a jaw drop, Goodwitch suddenly feeling less enthusiastic from the video, raised eyebrows from Ironwood, Qrow, Raven, and Ozpin, eye-rolling from Cinder and Adam, no reaction from Salem, and Nora, Neo, and Torchwick smiling at what's to come.
"Is that a common occurrence in horror movies?" Penny honestly did not know. Ruby wanted to answer, but couldn't. Ironwood and Winter didn't want to answer at all.
Yang collected herself from the suddenness and turned to android girl. "Occasionally. When it does happen, one of them is usually killed after." Penny nodded at the new info.
On a bed was a shirtless Ozpin on top of a smiling Goodwitch. Ozpin was leaning in. Nora commentated over the scene. "You screw, and you end up screwed! You're guaranteed to die in, like, the next five minutes at best."
"What?!"
"Woah!"
"Eew!"
"Oh my Oum!"
Everyone's attention was on the "couple" in the room. Goodwitch's mouth was wide open and her face was simultaneously pale and red. Ozpin had his head down to avoid the looks. He hadn't felt this embarrassed in a long time. Salem didn't know whether to feel disgusted at her half naked enemy or amused at the small blush on his face. Raven and Cinder thanked the fact that finally something interesting came up in this "universe."
"Headmaster and Headmistress. I can see it," Qrow "congratulated."
Raven couldn't let the opportunity to mock Ozpin pass. "About time old man."
"Old is right. I've misjudged you once again." Salem apparently couldn't either.
Ozpin thanked his thousands of years of experience for how quickly he composed himself. "Our relationship is strictly professional."
Goodwitch coughed. "Professor Ozpin is correct. There is nothing scandalous between us two!" Even Ruby was surprised at how fast she said that.
"Quick to denial," Torchwick jested with a serious face. "Don't worry. We can keep secrets."
"Nothing scandalous, I assure you!" Goodwitch declared. "Let's move on!"
"Wait," Goodwitch stopped Ozpin, who looked confused. "Isn't there a serial killer on the loose?"
Ozpin instantly got off the bed and put his shirt back on. "Let's try again next Friday."
The killer groaned from outside the room.
"Oum no..." Goodwitch hid her face in her hands. The chuckles and "knowing" stares from her students, acquaintances, and villains were too much for her to handle. She couldn't believe that other Nora made parallel Goodwitch play such an embarrassing role with other Ozpin. For that matter, how did her other allow herself to get caught up in other Nora's activities? On second thought, maybe she was better off not knowing.
Ozpin took a deep breath while hoping his death glare could smite the smiling Salem.
Ironwood had a look of envy as he watched the parallel versions of Ozpin and Goodwitch.
Pyrrha kept trying to figure out who the masked killer was.
Back to Nora in her chair, who shrugged. "But hey, at least you died after a good round of boopin' am I right?"
"You're darn right other me!" Nora raised a fist, which Yang joined in eagerness.
Ren just sighed with a small grin.
Nora held up three fingers. "Number three, stick together. Obvious right? Not to horror movie characters. They always think that splitting up to "cover more ground" is better for some reason. And before I forget, number four: don't investigate in the first place! Leave it to someone else! Your chances of dying go up by 56% if you do that! I totally did the math on that right," Nora finished with a sage nod.
While doubtful on the calculation, Neo could agree on those steps when it came to horror movie survival.
"I'd believe it," Jaune said with a shrug.
"I was thinking 57% actually." Nora nodded at her calculation.
"More like 100% to me," Blake semi-joked.
Yang patted her partner's shoulder. "Woah, too much Blake. Gotta account for that slight chance you'll live. 98% seems right."
"Not 99?" Sun joined in.
Someone didn't want to feel left out. "It's actually 98.12. Get you facts straight Yang," Weiss said.
Pyrrha giggled. "How accurate."
When she heard her serious Ice Queen partner crack a joke, Ruby couldn't hold it any longer. She was on her knees and pounding the floor with uncontrollable laughter.
"General Ironwood sir." James looked down at the android. "When Remnant is repaired, may I watch horror movies myself?"
"Ask your father."
It's good to see Weiss having fun, Winter thought fondly.
Team SSSN were in a forest at night. Sun gave the word, "Alright, let's split up. We could find more clues that way."
"There's my team," Sun said. It sucked that they weren't here. with him Stupid universe. At least their parallels and his own looked fine.
"And you making a dumb decision," Blake added.
"Hey," he raised his hands half-heartedly. "I'm sure that's just part of the script."
"Or," Neptune objected. "we can NOT do that."
"C'mon man, I wanna solve the mystery!"
"And I don't want to die!"
"Can't we just go home?" Scarlet said.
"We can play Clue." Sage pulled out the board game from nowhere.
Ruby could've sworn the board game was called "Inkling."
"Fine," Sun said before pulling out accessories. "but only if I can wear this hat and smoke this pipe."
"Why didn't I think of that?" Those would've been perfect to go along with Junior Detective badge.
"Splitting up and smoking? How shameful," Nora scolded with an I'm-trying-to-be-serious-like-Ren face.
Yang tisked. "And that tacky hat worst of all."
"Can I at least have a magnifying glass?"
"You may," they allowed.
"Small victories, I suppose."
They all left, and a (frustrated) figure popped out from behind a tree with a knife. "Oh c'mon!"
Pyrrha knew who the killer was now. She giggled with the others, who found the bad luck this killer was having funny, as she imagined the reactions.
Nora had her own pipe in her mouth. "I do not condone smoking." She blew bubbles. "Heh heh. Boop. Boop."
"Ren, I want a bubble pipe."
"No Nora. Not after last time."
RWBY and Sun wanted to ask, but thought otherwise. Jaune and Pyrrha long ago learned not to.
She threw the pipe away and held up her hand. "Five: plan your escape route. Dead end equals bad end, so never go to places like the basement."
Escape routes rarely helped when one is actually in tense situations, but figured that it couldn't hurt. Neo let it slide. Also, the basement. Basements usually aren't known for how pleasant they are. In film anyway.
"Never go to the basement," Nora firmly stated.
"Never." Yang agreed.
"Basements are bad." Jaune concurred.
Ozpin thought of Beacon Academy's own "basement," leading him to think about Amber. While he trusted F to take care of universal repairs, checking Amber's condition would be the first thing he would do once they all returned. He had to make sure her she was doing alright. It was a bit of a shame that she wasn't here, but with Salem literally a few steps away, it was likely for the best.
"I live in a dorm, so my dead end is the rooftop. Luckily, my escape route is right over there!"
The camera cut to the other side of her room. Nora was standing in the open window. "I think I can survive the fall from here!"
"Hey-"
"No Nora/Ms. Valkyrie," JPR and Goodwitch rejected. Her chances of survival were actually pretty good with aura, That didn't mean they'll just let her though.
"If there was a tree there, she could climb down it."
"Which reminds me," Weiss began. "Don't climb the tree to our room again, you hear?" Sun quivered at the icy glare and he quickly nodded.
R.I.P.
Nora Valkyrie
'I think I can survive the fall from here'
A sad tune played on-screen. Nora and her friends bowed their heads in silence. "Her time came too soon," she whispered as she wiped an imaginary tear.
"She's in a better place," Ren said as he patted her back.
"Must you?" Winter asked in exasperation.
"I'm mourning the loss of my nieces' friend." Gulp. Gulp.
Raven shook her head at her brother's antics.
"And finally, we reach the most important step of all. If you somehow could not do any of things I've said before, at least follow this one. "
The ones interested in this reality, minus Neo, stood at attention at the "most important step."
"In horror movies, what do the characters do when the killer is right in front of them and they're about to be murdered?"
"Scream?"
"Run away?"
"They either just stand there screaming or run away!"
Yang and Jaune bumped fists at their predictions.
Neo nodded. Yes, the victims more likely than not tended to do that. Some of her own thought they could take her on though.
Speaking of...
"I bet I can take a killer with no problem."
A new scene was on. Nora grabbed a plate of waffles out of the fridge and placed it on the table, licking her lips.
Nora shrieked. "Waffles?! You traitor!" She hoped the killer would shank her other then and there.
"This truly is an alternate universe," Ren said, equally as surprised at his partner. The same went for the rest of his teammates if their expressions of shock indicated anything.
Ruby suddenly imagined a version of her hating strawberries and liking veggies. The horror!
Turning down fish and bananas. Just thinking about it scared the two Beacon Faunus.
Ozpin thought about hot cocoa, and pictured a parallel of his drinking coffee instead. A reality almost as frightening as Salem.
The Grimm woman suddenly had the urge to slap Ozpin right in his face. Strange. Urges involving that old man usually involved defeating and killing him instead.
Out of instinct, she dodge, just in time to avoid the knife, which stabbed the waffles.
Nora gave a thumbs up as she cheered for the killer in her head.
Taking advantage, Nora headbutted the killer, making them let go of their knife and having the mask fall off. The camera went to the killer's face, revealing their identity.
Eyes landed on the "culprit," who nervously laughed at the attention.
"You're the killer?" Jaune asked in slight shock.
"I never would have thought," Weiss muttered.
"How could you?!" Yang exclaimed in faux betrayal.
Cinder smirked. "How the mighty fall."
Can we move on, Adam thought tiredly. He was chanting that in his head the entire viewing.
As if reading his thoughts, the "killer" gestured to the screen to keep watching. Their attention went back, but not before the Beacon students gave one last suspicious look.
Nora narrowed her eyes. "Pyrrha, I should've known. You always did have shifty eyes."
Pyrrha felt her face. She didn't have shifty eyes, did she?
Pyrrha took out a second knife and charged.
WHAM!
Pyrrha dropped to the floor after Nora punched her in the face. Nora put up her fists and hopped in place. "Let's go bitch! I can take ya!"
Rude, Pyrrha thought as she loked at Nora.
"It's all showbiz Pyrrha."
Pyrrha got up, got back her knife, and swung wildly. Nora took steps back and dodged every swing. When Nora hit the wall of the kitchen, Pyrrha went for a stomach stab. Using all of her might, she placed her hands on the walls and kicked at the killer's chest with both of her legs.
Pyrrha staggered back, dropping her knife, and Nora somehow caught herself. She wasted no time and ran to the killer, reeling her fist back. She threw three punches to Pyrrha's face and ended with an uppercut, sending Pyrrha into the air and falling onto the ground. With a roar, Nora jumped onto Pyrrha. The two couldn't be seen anymore, but punch sound effects popped up.
The punches now sounded wet.
Even if it was a DustTube video, some of them couldn't help but wince.
Neo took in wet sounds. It didn't match real life, but hey, sound effects could only go so far.
Nora got up with a satisfied smile. She went back to her meal, threw the knife away, and ate the waffles, with her bloody hands.
"Boo! Boo! Dirty waffle lover!"
Jaune patted his partner's shoulder. "Sorry for your loss."
"I'll get over it."
Back to Nora in her chair, she was eating waffles as well. "Sorry, I got hungry during recording," she said with her mouth full.
"Heathen! I'll break your legs for betraying The Pancakes!"
Her team, once again, had to restrain her.
"And that was my guide on How to Survive Horror Movies! I bet you're feeling more confident about your chances, huh"
I guess, were multiple thoughts.
Nora was not one of them.
KILLWAFFLES!KILLWAFFLES!KILLWAFFLES!KILLWAFFLES!KILLWAFFLES!KILLWAFFLES!KILLWAFFLES!KILLWAFFLES!KILLWAFFLES!KILLWAFFLES!KILLWAFFLES!KILLWAFFLES!KILLWAFFLES!KILLWAFFLES!KILLWAFFLES!
"I know I am. I'm ready for any killer coming after my butt." She leaned in and whispered. "Now I better get going before Pyrrha decides to come back to life and get revenge on me. That usually happens in horror movie sequels right?"
Yep, Neo confirmed. So many sequels.
So many bad sequels.
"Video's over! Your Queen dismisses you all! Until next time!"
While she was still in her rage, Nora would admit that that outro was pretty awesome.
*KNOCK*
*KNOCK*
*KNOCK*
"Who could that be?" Nora walked over to the door and opened. "Hello?" She then got decapitated.
The camera cut to outside the door, showing Neo sheathing her blade.
"Hah! Take that you fake!"
"Please stop Nora."
"Kay Kay! I'm feeling better now!" RWBY, JPR, and Sun let out a relieved breath.
"Ah, good to see you haven't changed a bit." Neo held up a peace sign to her partner.
She picked up Nora's head by the hair, showing it to the camera.
"Oh right," Nora's head groaned.
"Oh my gosh, her head's talking!"
"It's just special effects and editing," Weiss reminded Ruby, who ignored her.
"My guide was on horror movie killers, not actual killers." Neo winked to the camera before the video cut to black.
"Not one bit." The ice cream themed woman's response was to take Roman's hat. The thief didn't bat an eyelash at her pettiness. He'll get his hat back eventually.
Adam was relieved. Finally, it's over.
BLOOPERS
Never mind. Back to agonized internal screaming.
Cinder and Raven were starting to feel somewhat the same.
"BOO!" Nora leaped out of nowhere onto the chair, knocking it and herself over. "OW!" She got back up. "No I got this!"
The second time, she failed to jump and ran into it. "Ah! My foot! Ren, massage my foot!"
On her third attempt, she landed on the chair, almost perfectly. "Yes!" That's when she noticed it starting to topple over. "Nonononono!"
Nora finally got it on her fourth attempt. "Yeah, first try!" Ren was heard chuckling in the background.
"I bet I can do it first try!"
"Ooh, I want a turn!"
Ren, Weiss, and Yang shook their heads at their partners/sister.
Ozpin, on top of Goodwitch, looked to the camera. "Just to make sure, this isn't for a porno right?"
Many snorted trying to contain their laughter, while the poor man choked on air and the headmistress once again had her face in her hands. For once, Ozpin was glad he wasn't drinking hot cocoa. He was sure he would have been able to keep it in his mouth, but the risk was too high. It could've been all over Glynda, and he didn't want her steaming red from both embarrassment and anger.
Goodwitch hesitantly left a gap in her fingers to continue watching.
Nora laughed as she told them, "No it's not, now say your line."
A cut to Ozpin actually kissing Goodwitch. "No, you leaned in too fast!" Nora chided off-screen.
Regret.
Cat calls and cringes Goodwitch saw aimed at her and her boss no doubt. She closed the gap and her eyes while she attempted to shut them out.
The next scene has Ozpin stopping right as Goodwitch said "wait". She went in for the kiss anyway. "Come on you two. Do that in your time."
"Apologies," Goodwitch sheepishly said. "Force of habit lately."
"Oh yeah! You go profs!"
"How romantic."
"Again, eew!"
Winter could've sworn Ironwood said at something.
Penny heard it. "Lucky bastard..."
If she had mustered up any composure, it would've been destroyed at that instant. The confirmation of a relationship between the two and that it was not acting was too much for Goodwitch. Someone must've lit her with Fire Dust because the steam coming from her face had to come from somewhere.
Ozpin never thought he would do this, but he turned to Salem. He begged, "Kill me now."
"I never show mercy."
Damn that Salem. Damn her and her smirk.
He should be glad that was all she did.
Raven changed her mind. Sitting through that video was worth it for this one moment alone.
At least her Mistress was having fun. As much as she enjoyed the teasing thrown at the Headmaster, Cinder would have preferred to move on already.
Pyrrha was in the kitchen, singing and playing a game. "Oh, I have all my fingers! The knife goes chop chop chop!"
Various gasps. "What are you doing?! No, put that down!" Pyrrha screamed at her other.
With wide eyes, Yang quipped, "Your other is pretty ballsy Pyrrha."
"You play five finger fillet Neo?" She pointed to herself and shook her head, then she pointed to Roman and nodded. "Heh. Poor guys."
Raven remembered the few members of her tribe doing this out of boredom. Good players, they were.
They continued watching. Parallel Pyrrha kept demonstrating her skills as her knife hit the spaces between her fingers. The students were antsy, hoping there wouldn't be an accident. When she started to speed up, there was much hand rubbing, teeth clenching, and yells. Pyrrha especially looked ready to faint.
Ironwood subtly looked down at his not metal hand. Losing five fingers was enough, thank you. No need to lose more.
Penny watched in interest. Other Pyrrha looked like she had good precision if she went this long without any cuts or stabs. The android wondered if she could perform this game herself. She didn't have to worry about injuries herself, and she could make accurate calculations on where to stab.
"And if I hit my fingers then my hand will start to bleed!" Various cheering was heard from off-camera as they celebrated with Pyrrha.
Pyrrha took deep breaths. "Oh good. It's over..."
Fortunately, her composure returned during the time. "You will not replicate what we just saw. Understood?"
"Yes Professor Goodwitch," said the students. Despite that, Jaune, Nora, and Ren imagined their team member doing this game with her semblance. Would she be better or worse?
The large screen went away. "Pre-recorded message: You have finished viewing this world. The next world shall start in one minute. End message."
Nora pouted. Even if her other sucked, she wanted to see more of herself as a DustTuber. Maybe she could become one herself? Yes, brilliant! She was so going to use "Nora Talks and Talks" as a segment, and even come up with better ideas more more videos. That intro and outro about Queen and Best Girl? Yeah, she was taking that too. It was only fair. She knew she couldn't do this alone though. Perhaps Ren could join in to show off his cooking in side videos. And take care of the editing while he was at it? Perfect!
Ren knew what Nora was thinking. He hoped she would forget about it once they returned home. It seemed like such a hassle.
Neo was satisfied. Reliving the simple days of critiquing dumb horror movie tropes was fun. Lately it's been more business and less relaxation. Perhaps this "vacation" from Remnant was something she needed. Well, she planned to take advantage.
The others, sans Adam and Cinder, too enjoyed this "world," though Goodwitch would not openly agree. It was nice shift in tone from the previous world.
Ozpin's embarrassment was the only upside to Salem and Raven. It was a big upside to be fair.
The void was changing. Time for the next world. Unless it was another video.
It better not be, Raven, Cinder, and Adam hoped.