"So let me get this straight," Yang said, "You're trying to figure out a way to change history and save the past me and ruby?"
The big daddy 'nodded'.
"How? The memories we saw in the visions-"
The dig daddy held up a hand and tried to say something in its weird moaning that sounded like, "whoa whoa whoa," then wrote, 'You saw everything up to a certain point, what happened after nobody has said, so with the right… bouts of amnesia and a few records and other bits of information stripped from history we could make it so the two lived but after a hundred years everyone else will think they died in the fight.'
Weiss thought for a second then said, "Hold on, I'm going to see if Martin can come and possibly tell us if this would even work."
About twenty minutes later Martin entered the dorm, "What's up?"
'Moaned explanation.'
"Whoa slow down there buddy, take a breath and explain calmly."
"You understood him?" Blake asked.
"Kind of, I have a translation device installed on my ACG that helps."
"Well this big daddy thinks we could save past Yang and Ruby if we do things right," Weiss said.
Martin thought about it for a while before saying, "I would need to get authorization from my superiors, and have a team go over all the different things that would need to be done, including wiping a lot of memories, but I think it could be done. However it's going to take a while to get everything in place."
"How long would you say?" Ruby asked.
"A year, maybe two. We'll need a lot of men and equipment for this job, till then why don't you four spend your little vacation someplace fun, or would you prefer romantic?"
Everyone looked at each other then said in unison, "Romantic."
Ruby bit into a croissant, "You know Martin, when you said you'd take us someplace romantic… I was thinking more along the lines of Paris or someplace like that. But I must say… this floating city isn't that bad."
Martin looked over at her, "At least the amount of racism has cut down considerably, and I like how the French have mostly taken it over and turned it into new Paris."
"Same here," a voice behind them said.
They turned and saw professor Dewitt approaching with a man walking a short distance behind her holding the hand of a girl that looked about ten years old, "Professor Dewitt?" Ruby said baffled at how one of her teachers could be there, "What're you doing here?"
"And how'd you even get here?" Weiss asked.
"And who're they?" Yang asked.
"I'm here for a vacation just like you, this is my father Booker and my adopted sister Sally, I got here using a tear, and call me Elizabeth while we are here." Elizabeth said.
"Think of tears like portals and leave it at that if you don't want a headache." Booker said.
"Huh," Ruby said, "Well join us, we were just having some lunch."
"Thank you madam." Sally said, sitting at the table and respectfully folding her hands in her lap.
"Wow you're well-mannered for a girl your age," Blake said.
"She's had a hard childhood, I saved her from being what's known as a little sister in…"
"The underwater city of Rapture." Ruby and Weiss said in unison.
"You know of it?" Booker asked, biting into a scone.
"They also know what I went through," Sally said.
Booker looked at her, "How could they possibly know that?"
"Because we were little sisters once too." Ruby said.
"Ruby was born in Rapture and I was stuck there for a few months" Weiss said.
"Yes, I actually remember you Weiss from your white hair. How did you end up as a little sister?" Sally asked
"That was my fault," Martin said, "I let her join me on a mission to search a store for any evidence of Atlas or Fontane and someone threw a flash grenade as we were passing a group of little sisters and I accidently grabbed Ruby here," he said playfully ruffling Ruby's hair.
"Well it all worked out in the end," Weiss said, placing her hand on Ruby's leg. Ruby then put her hand on top of Weiss's who turned hers over as to intertwine their fingers.
"Apparently seeing as the two of you are together," Elizabeth said, taking a sip of tea, "Also I heard a rumor that you two are reincarnations of a princess and her wife, is that true?"
"Yes but all four of us are reincarnations, as well as team JNPR," Blake said, placing the book she was reading on her and Yang's table to take a sip of her own tea.
"Huh," Booker said, "This kind of reminds me of the whole Comstock thing."
"That had to do with alternate realities, this has to do with time." Elizabeth said.
"Oh."
"Don't feel bad, we're still trying to understand it all ourselves," Yang said.
"I must say that the five of you are quite the oddity," a woman's voice said.
Elizabeth pinched the bridge of her nose, "Are the two of you ever going to stop following us?" she asked as the table next to them became occupied by a man and a woman, who looked like they must have been siblings.
"Quite possibly not," the man said.
Weiss put her cup of tea down and stood, "Well I'm going to look around and maybe do some shopping," she looked at Ruby, "Wanna come with me?"
"Sure," Ruby said, putting her cup down and followed Weiss.
They spent the next few hours looking around the city. They had entered a few shops but hadn't bought anything.
Martin had given Weiss an ACG, mostly to help him keep an eye on her. She looked through the teleport options for someplace fun that they could visit. As she was scrolling through the destinations an odd name made her pause, Rose House. Weiss pressed an information button and smiled.
Ruby saw the smile but before she could ask about it Weiss hit the teleport button, grabbed her hand, and they teleported into a wooded area.
As they were looking around they saw what looked like the remains of a building, "Hey Weiss, where are we."
"We're at the forest house. The place where we first shared a bed in our past lives."
Ruby looked at the building, it had held up well over the thousand years all things considered. They heard a snap so they unsheathed their weapons and turned… to see Qrow approaching… looking rather surprised to see them.
"What're you two doing here, shouldn't you be up at the castle?" He asked.
Weiss felt the blood drain from her face and she checked the date on the ACG, "Oops."
Ruby looked at her, "What?"
"Right location wrong time," she said.
"Wrong time?" Qrow asked.
"Yes, wrong time," Weiss squinched her eyes shut. Martin had told her to be careful when teleporting and now she had teleported to the wrong time and had been seen by someone of the past.
"I told you to be careful Weiss," Martin said, walking up beside her.
"Sorry," she said.
"Wait… so the spell worked?! And you two are from the future?"
"Yes they are," Martin said, "I'm Martin by the way, Martin Bible. What happened to the house?"
"Earth Quake. The roofs beams were weak and the quake loosened them enough for it to collapse in on itself."
"Hm, give me a couple minutes, I'll have it fixed up in a jiffy." Martin said, activating a nanite repair function on his ACG and began using it to deconstruct the rubble on the molecular level, then repair it using the deconstructed bits.
"Hm, that's handy," Qrow said, looking over at Ruby and Weiss, "You two look odd, different I mean than you do now."
"Long story," Weiss said.
Qrow turned to face her, "What happened to your eye?"
"You can blame my parents for that," Weiss said, a frown creasing her brow.
"Hm, well you can't replicate everything with magic."
"I wish we could have," Weiss said as Martin waved at them, signaling that he was done.
He had actually done a good job rebuilding the main building but most of the interior couldn't be repaired unfortunately.
"Sorry but I couldn't fix the furniture," Martin said.
"It's fine, I can replace it all, I'm just happy that we won't have to rebuild the whole house," Qrow said.
For the next hour or two Martin and Qrow just talked about nothing in particular while sharing a bottle of bourbon while Ruby and Weiss went upstairs to find that one of the beds had survived. So they decided to just crawl into the bed and sleep till Martin said that it was time to leave.
When they awoke it was to faces that they weren't expecting. Past Ruby and Weiss Looking at them like they had both grown second heads, "Well good morning, might I ask what's going on here?" Ancient Ruby asked.
Martin stumbled in holding his head, "My fault, they teleported to this house without noticing that the location was in the past."
"And who might you be?" Ancient Weiss asked.
"Martin Bible, other Weiss's guardian. Bye the way, has the dragon been defeated yet?"
Ancient Weiss's face grew grim, "Yes, and a month after Ruby and Yang's funeral they appeared in an explosion with a weird guy in strange armor. In case you're wondering how she's here right now."
"Did his voice sound like the moaning of a whale, and his helmet have a glowing yellow circle?" Modern Ruby asked.
"Yes… why?"