Chapter 2: Future Son and Photos
Ozpin stands overlooking Beacon Academy through the window of his office watching the comings and goings of the students down below. The recent events that have transpired has him on edge about the possible outcomes of said events. One can only imagine the possible chaos that these events will bring but throughout all off this he can't help but smile at how interesting things have become.
"Are you sure that this is fine sir," He turns his attention to Glynda "Don't we already have…"
"I'm sure it will be alright," He states as he turns back to watching his precious students go on with their daily lives at one of the best training academies for potential hunters and huntresses. "While it may be true that recent events has provided an… unpredictable variable to what the outcome may be. The best thing we can do now is to just observe the coming events and see what the best possible outcome can be."
"But still…" She says still unsure about the whole ordeal.
"Worry not Glynda," He says as he takes a sip from his cup "I shall personally see to it that we will find the best outcome from our… unique circumstances."
"If you say so sir…"
"Like I said Glynda, the best we can do now is observe and also," He smiles at the thought "it wouldn't be too bad to find a little entertainment as we do so."
Jaune didn't know what to think about what was currently in front of him. I just wanted to spend some quality time with my team and team RWBY in the library. Strengthening our bonds while having a generally fun time with each other when suddenly this guy pops up right in front of us and says the most ridiculous thing ever. It may be possible that I heard it wrong that's why I try to confirm what the guy just said.
"Uhm… can you run that by us again… I think I might have heard you wrong"
"Of course!" The guy says still not dropping that bright smile he has on his face "My name is Garnet Arc! And I am the son of you and Ruby Rose from thirty years into the future" He says proudly as he points to both me and Ruby.
This… this has to be some kind of joke right. There is no possible way for something like this to be true. I look over to the rest of my friends to see what they all think of this.
I see Nora staring at the guy in wonder before turning to look at me then at Ruby before letting out a squeal of excitement. Ren looks at the boy passively, hard to imagine him being surprised by anything. Pyrrha is looking at the guy with a bit of confusion on her face. Ruby is deep in thought, probably still analyzing what the guy just said. Weiss is looking at him with an annoyed look in her face. Blake is still busy reading her book. And Yang… Yang looks like she's ready to murder me in ten different ways.
"Uhm… is this some kind of practical joke? Did Cardin put you up to this?" I ask trying to get the truth out from him.
"Yeah it must be because there's no way that Jaune would touch my sister in that way, isn't that right vomit boy?" Yang says as she looks at me with a sinister smile on her face as she activates Ember Celica and threateningly cocks her arm.
The guy just puffs his face and looks at us annoyed. He stomps his feet on the ground as he pouts and says "But I'm not lying! This isn't a joke."
Yang is looking more and more ready to grind me into dust and she probably would have done it too had Blake not intervened.
"Do you have proof?" she asks as she looks up from her book.
"Proof?" the guy asks as he looks at us and thinks for a bit.
That's right, he couldn't possibly have any kind of proof to his ridiculous claim. He'll admit that it was all a horrible joke, we'll all laugh at how absurd the possibility of his claims are, Yang wont pummel me to death, and we'll all go along with our happy merry lives.
The guy suddenly smiles and raises his arms "Of course! How could I forget! I do have proof!" He says as he reaches for something in his back pocket.
We all stare at him in anticipation of what kind of proof he is going to pull out when he lets out an exclamation of having finally pulled the object out. He raises his palm and proudly shows all of us…
A small square bag.
So much for proof.
"Is that all?" Weiss asks clearly annoyed at the guy for wasting all of our time.
"This! Is a handy device that we have in the future and we call it the Dimensional Pouch" the guy says as he starts explaining "It can store a large number of objects for us and we can pull out any object we stored at any time we want." He smiles as he looks at each and every one of us. "For example…"
He takes a deep breath and closes his eyes. "Activating Dimensional Pouch…" We all stare in wonder as the small bag suddenly glows bright and quickly opens itself up "what I want is…" a blue glow suddenly appears on top of the small bag "Family photo album!" He states before a book suddenly appears on top of the bag. He grabs the book and hands it to me.
"This… is my proof" He states happily as I stare at the book in my hand.
All of my friends suddenly huddle around me and look at the book curiously. I stare at the cover containing the words "Arc Family Photo Album" unsure if I should open it at all. Maybe if I don't open it, everything the guy said will all turn out to be a joke. Maybe if I don't open it, the guy will suddenly disappear and we'll all go back to our normal lives. A large part of me is scared to open the book and see what is inside but a bigger part of me is curious as to what lay inside such book. The curiosity got the better of me and I slowly open the book up to reveal the shocking pictures that it held inside.
There were numerous photos inside the album but I manage to pick out only a few of them like the picture of an older version of me and Ruby enjoying a picnic at a park somewhere. A photo of an older version of me wearing a tuxedo carrying a gown wearing Ruby in his arms. A photo of an older version of me hugging an obviously pregnant Ruby. A photo of and older version of me and Ruby holding a young baby boy in her arms. A photo of an older version of me and Ruby with a young kid hugging the two of us in the middle. There were many more photos in the album and it all pointed to one thing.
Ruby and I are going to have a family.
Thoughts started flooding my mind after this revelation and my imagination worked overtime at what I just realized.
Me and Ruby having dinner together sharing a single plate of spaghetti. I pick up a fork full off spaghetti and Ruby does the same and we put it in our mouth together. We slurp our spaghetti and we realize that the spaghetti in our mouths were connected. Ruby smiles and continues slurping her spaghetti inside her mouth getting closer and closer to my face until…
The image suddenly changes as I stand in front of an altar wearing a tuxedo with Ruby dressed in a beautiful white gown in front of me. She whispers the words "I do" and I smile brightly and lean in closer to place a kiss on her inviting lips.
Just before I manage to kiss her the image suddenly changes again as this time I am now standing above Ruby as she lies down on a bed. She is only covered by the blankets of the bed and she smiles up at me warmly. "I'm ready Jaune…" She says and I slowly get on top of her. I move in closer and closer to her face before I…
I suddenly shake my head to relieve myself of the images that my mind has created and stare back at the boy who I now know to be my son.
"See, I told you I wasn't lying" He says proudly as he crosses his arms in front of him.
I close the album as thoughts start to fill my mind confusing me and scaring me at the same time. I feel a hand on my shoulder as I turn and see Pyrrha looking at me with concern in her eyes.
"Jaune are you okay?"
How could I possibly be okay? Everything seemed wrong. Everything I know seemed to be lie. I was shocked and I was scared and in that state I did the only logical thing that I can think off.
I ran.
I ran with no destination in mind. I would probably have ran until my legs gave out from under me. I would have probably continued running had someone not caught up to me and quickly shoved me towards a bookshelf.
"You bastard!" I stared at the now red and angry eyes of one Yang Xiao Long. "So you were after my sister this whole time, huh? I should've known… I shouldn't have let you get close to her!"
"Y-Yang… calm down… let me explain" I plead to her hoping that she'll stop.
"No way you're getting out of this Arc," She cocks her arm to ready Ember Celica and aims it directly at my crotch. "I'm going to make sure that you never get the chance to make a child!"
I close my eyes and brace myself for the inevitable pain that I'm about to feel when someone grabs Yang and pulls her away from me.
"Stop it Auntie Yang!" Garnet yells as he stands directly in between me and a murderous Yang. "Dad would never hurt mom! He's always treated her nice and he would never do anything bad to her!"
I stare at wonder as Yang slowly calms down wondering how he was able to diffuse the ticking time bomb known as Yang. The only person I know off that could pull that thing of is Ruby herself. I turn to look at him and gasp as I see exactly how he managed to calm the raging Yang.
He had the same potent puppy dog look as Ruby.
This guy is dangerous.
I stare in wonder as Yang slowly walks over to him and glomps him bringing him into a tight hug.
"So cuuuuuuuute" She squeals in wonder.
"S-Stop it Auntie" Garnet laughs in embarrassment and I'm just glad that Yang isn't out to murder me at the moment.
Nora couldn't hold herself back anymore as she pops up in between Yang and Garnet and starts questioning him.
"So you're from the future right? How is the future? Do we get to ride giant robots where ever we want? Do pancakes ever evolve into something greater? Will anyone invent a flying bed? Who will I get together-together with?"
She continues to bombard him with questions and Garnet looks like he's about to pass out.
"uhh… ahh… I'm sorry Auntie Nora but… I'm not allowed to reveal anything that will happen in the future"
Nora pouts and crosses her arms. "Aww that's no fun…"
"But didn't you already reveal something from the future?" We all turn to Blake as she says that. "You said that you're the son of Ruby and Jaune. Doesn't that and also the photo album reveal that Ruby and Jaune would get married and have you as a son?"
"I'm pretty sure he has a good reason to reveal to us his lineage, isn't that right?" Pyrrha turns to asks Garnet.
We all turn to see the shocked and horrified look that is adorning Garnet's face.
"I… I wasn't supposed to do that!" Garnet screams as he covers his head with his hood and huddles himself in the corner. "What have I done… I wasn't supposed to do that… WHAT HAVE I DONE!" we can all practically see the dark cloud hanging above his head.
"Such a dolt," Weiss says with a sigh "I can see now how he's related to these two dunces"
"Hey!" both Ruby and I exclaim at what Weiss says at the same time. We turn to look at each other at the same time causing our eyes meet, we both blush and quickly turn away from each other.
"That aside… is there any particular reason why you had to go back in time to meet us?" Blake asks Garnet
We turn to watch as Garnet stands up and faces us with a sad expression on his face.
"Yes, you see something happened in this time period" He says as he starts unlacing his left boot "It is causing these disruptions in my time and if I don't do anything about it…" He finishes unlacing his boot and he slowly takes it off. What he showed us caused us all to let out a gasp of surprise. "My whole existence will be erased" He says as he lifts up his left foot showing us that his whole foot was transparent.
"so… you were sent back in time to fix these disruptions… and since you are disappearing, that means the disruptions center around…" Blake asks as she stares at Garnet's foot then over at me and Ruby.
"Yup… my mom and dad getting together" He says with a bright smile as he puts his foot back in his boot. "That's why, for the sake of my existence and the safety of the future. I need…"
I see him get this evil glint in his eyes as he turns to look at me. I do not like that look, it usually means that something bad is about to happen. I was caught off guard as he suddenly appears right next to me. He quickly grabs me and pushes me over to Ruby causing the two of us to fall down on the floor.
I let out a groan of pain as I slowly get on my hands and knees and blush when I see that Ruby is beneath me. "S-Sorry…" I mumble and was about to get off of her when I stop at what Garnet said next.
"I need the two of you to create me."
"Wait… WHAT!" Both Ruby and I exclaim as we both look at Garnet with shocked looks on our faces.
"y-you mean… right now… you want me… and Ruby to…" I stare at him then at Ruby then blush as I notice how beautiful she is sprawled out beneath me.
"Yes, right now!" We hear Garnet say as he suddenly let out a pained groan as he falls to his knees. "A-And hurry! I… I can feel myself slowly fading away!"
I look at him then back down at Ruby not knowing what to do. Should I do it? Should I not do it? But the life of my son is at stake. I remember the pictures I saw at the album and how happy the family is in those pictures. Would I be able to throw away that family's happiness, my happiness, just because I was scared? I look at what the others were doing to see what they think of all this.
I see Nora cheering us on as she has her scroll ready to record everything that we are about to do. I see Pyrrha blushing wildly unable to decide whether to shield her eyes with her fingers or not. I see an angry Yang trying to get to me but is being held back by Garnet. I turn back to look down on Ruby to see what she thinks.
"Jaune… I…" she says as she looks at me and blushes. We both stare at each other for a bit and I wonder if I would be just as happy as the man in the photos were if I did it with Ruby. She closes her eyes in anticipation and I lose all of my doubts. I slowly lean in and prepare to do it for the sake of my son and the future when I was suddenly pulled away from Ruby.
"STOP!" Weiss yells as she continues to pull me up and away from Ruby "I will not permit you two to do anything… indecent in front of me!" She yells as she glares angrily at the both of us.
"Besides, how old are you Garnet?" Blake turns to ask him.
"Uhm… I'm sixteen right now" He says.
"Then if he's from thirty years into the future, that means that there's still at least fourteen more years to go before Jaune and Ruby decide to have him" Blake states as the realization of what she means dawns on me.
"Oh… right… silly me" Garnet says as he lets out a loud laugh trying to pass the whole thing off like it was nothing.
I just let out a small sigh at the whole ordeal that he just put me through.
Garnet steps out of the bathroom, wearing his black Beowulf onesie, into the room that Ozpin has provided for him to stay in. He plonks himself down on top of the bed as he reviews the day's events.
'It's strange how Auntie Weiss was trying to actively seek out dad's attention.' He thought remembering how she quickly dashed to be able to sit right next to him at the table at dinner time and the other times he saw her trying to get his dad's attention. 'Judging from what dad said, dad should've stopped trying to gain her attention after the first dance and it wasn't until much later that they decided to have a more friendly relationship. Is she somehow the cause off all the temporal disruptions?' He asks himself and lets out a small sigh before shaking his head. 'I'll look into it more later but right now I have more pressing matters to focus on'
"Activating Dimensional Pouch, what I want is my Scroll" He picks up his scroll from the pouch before reading through the list of events that he has to make sure to happen to ensure that his mom and dad get together.
'It's good that dad and mom has some form of affection towards each other at this time. But,' He stares at the very first event at the top of his list and grimaces at how close the date of the event is 'will it be enough for them to do the first event.'
He puts down his scroll and prepares to go to sleep promising himself to find the solution to his problem as soon as he can.
'Dad and mom's first date eh…'
Greetings everyone! Celes is here again with chapter 2 of With Kids Like These. I am glad that people liked the first chapter and I hope that you all like this chapter as well. Again any form of suggestion or feedback that you send will be gladly appreciated as I am still a new writer. I hope that you all enjoy this chapter as much as I enjoyed making it.
Also The hotdog man posted a question that I am curious to know as well. If anyone can tell me why the Ruby/Jaune pairing is called Lancaster I would gladly appreciate it for the last time I checked the pairing was called Rose Arc.
See you all in the next chapter!
