*Alicia and Tronmaster had finished their 'alone time' and were now redressed, albeit slightly disheveled.*
Tronmaster: Feel better babe?
Alicia: Immensely.
Tronmaster: Good to hear. So, ready to head back to the reading room?
Alicia: Yep, let's go.
While Tronmaster and Alicia were having some 'alone time,' Jenkins and Melody were with the rest of the readers playing Halo 3 co-op campaign. Ruby was Master Chief, Jaune was the Arbiter, and Blake and Nora were the other two. They were playing the level 'The Storm'.
"Jaune, watch yourself, I'm getting ready to jack that Wraith!" Ruby said.
"Wait, what?" Jaune said, firing a rocket launcher at the Wraith, blowing it up and killing Ruby.
"Wait, since we have Iron Skull on, does that mean-" Ren started, before the game reloaded to the last checkpoint.
"Yep, we restart at the last checkpoint." Blake said dejectedly.
"GODDAMMIT JAUNE! I TOLD YOU I WAS HIJACKING THE FUCKING WRAITH, BUT YOU JUST HAD TO USE THE FUCKING ROCKET LAUNCHER! YOU GODDAMN SON OF A WHORE!" Ruby said, steam practically coming out of her ears, her face being red from anger.
"Um, Ruby..." Pyrrha said.
"WHAT PYRRHA!?" Ruby asked/shouted.
"You might want to look behind you." Pyrrha replied.
It was then that Ruby looked behind her, noticing Tronmaster and Alicia just stepping out of the elevator.
"Well jeez Rubes, tell us how you really feel." Tronmaster said.
Ruby's face of anger, later turned to one of embarrassment. She covered her face with her hood.
"Were you guys playing Halo?" Alicia asked.
"Yep." Blake replied.
"What difficulty, and with which skulls?" Alicia asked again, this time Ren answered.
"Legendary, with all skulls activated." Ren replied.
"You guys did the LASO challenge?" Alicia asked, shocked, causing the three non-embarrassed players to nod yes.
"Weiss, try and coax Ruby out of her hood, Jenkins, Melody, back to the reading room, Qrow, start reading." Tronmaster said, everyone complying.
[Ruby's P.O.V.]
"I guess it's back to Ruby." Penny said.
"Seems so." Glynda agreed.
"Ohh I can't believe my baby sister's going to Beacon with me, this is the best day ever!" Yang cheered as she crushed me in a hug.
"I remember that day!" Yang said.
"Oh brother, I hope I don't have to see me puke on your shoes again..." Jaune said, downtrodden.
"Pleashe shtop." I wheezed getting crushed.
Ruby, who was finally coaxed out of her hood by her girlfriend, looked at the screen, finally spoke, "That hurt being crushed by your monster hug Yang."
Yang soon let go, "But I'm so proud of you." Yang said proudly.
"I'm still proud of you." Yang said.
"Thanks sis." Ruby said.
"Really sis, it was nothing." I said glad I could finally breathe.
"I mean, if you call stopping a Dust robbery 'nothing' then sure." Raven said.
"Yep." Penny agreed.
"What do you mean? It was incredible! Everyone at Beacon is going to think you're the bee's knees!" Yang said.
"Who even says that?" Alexander asked.
'Who even say's that?" Alexander asked.
"That's what I said!" Alexander said.
'I dunno pal.' Ifrit replied, transferring his thoughts to Alexander, and by extension me.
"Can Guardian Forces actually do that?" Winter asked.
"Yep." All the resident Guardian Forces replied.
"I don't want to be the 'bee's knees', okay?" I replied, "I don't want to be any kind pf knees! I just want to be a normal girl with normal knees."
"Normal knees?" Summer asked.
"I was nervous, okay!?" Ruby said, bashfully.
"What's with you?" Yang asked, "Aren't you excited?"
"I was, but I was extremely nervous." Ruby said, Weiss putting a comforting arm on her girlfriend.
"Of course I'm excited, I just..." I said before letting out a sigh, "I got moved ahead two years, I don't want anyone to think I'm special or anything."
"Well, I think your special." Weiss said, kissing Ruby on the check.
"Thanks Weiss." Ruby said, snuggling with Weiss.
Yang then pulled me into a one armed hug, "But you are special sis." Yang said warmly, "Besides, you and I have GF's, you can't get any more special than that."
"It's true." Penny said.
Just then as it was quiet enough to hear the news channel Yang and I were pulled into a strong gripped hug, nearly cutting off our air again.
It was at this moment that Summer grabbed her stepdaughter, her birth daughter, and her granddaughter into a massive hug.
"M-mom..." Ruby croaked.
"We c-can't..." Yang strained out.
"Breathe..." Alicia said.
"Whoops." Summer said sheepishly, letting them go.
"How are my two girls doing?" Mom asked holding us close.
"Now, I guess I would say three. Considering the circumstances." Summer said.
"Yeah, probably Grandma Sum." Alicia said.
"Choking..." I strained out.
"Same..." Yang croaked.
"Any you thought I was bad Rubes." Yang said.
Mom then let go of us and we stumbled forward a slight bit, "Oh, I'm so proud that both of my girls are heading to Beacon in the same year." Mom said proudly.
"I am very proud." Summer said, smiling.
"Thanks Mom." Ruby said, smiling herself.
"Mom!?" I asked in shock now that I could breathe, "W-what are you doing here?"
"I'm guessing that she's going to be a teacher at Beacon." Penny said.
Mom blinked in confusion before her mouth made an 'O' shape as she remembered something, "Oh that's right, I forgot to tell you." Mom said before she beamed at us, "Professor Ozpin called a little over a month ago, I'm taking over Glyn's combat class."
"Wait, I get to teach your combat class Glyn?" Summer asked.
"It would seem that's what's happening with our others." Glynda replied.
That made me and Yang freeze up slightly.
"I would imagine so." Blake said.
"If Summer was teaching our combat class, I would imagine how tough of a teacher she would be." Ren said.
On one hand, Mom's gonna be at Beacon with us which is AWESOME! On the other hand however, Mom's taking over the combat class, which means she's gonna be teaching us how to fight, which is pretty scary.
"Team CRDL is fucked." Pyrrha said.
"That's, probably not untrue..." Penny said.
[Jane's P.O.V.]
"Oh great, time to see how I get my nickname of 'Vomit Boy.'" Jaune said, dejectedly.
I sat in my seat, with a translucent image of Siren sitting next to me, rubbing my back while I constantly used her Treatment ability on myself.
"Oh thank Oum." Both Jaune and Yang said.
"This is helping my not puke, but I still feel terrible." I groaned.
"You know Jaune, there's medication for motion sickness." Alicia said.
"Really?" Jaune asked, Alicia nodding and tossing him a small case full of motion sickness medicine.
"Just hold on a bit longer Jaune, we're almost there." Siren said.
"I'm glad that Siren seems like a motherly figure." Summer said.
"Yep. Raven agreed.
[Ruby's P.O.V.]
"Time to switch back to Ruby." Penny said.
The moment we landed a blonde haired kind in a little bit of armor ran past me so fast I almost thought he'd cast a Haste spell on himself.
"I wouldn't be surprised if my other did." Jaune said.
"Whoa..." Yang and I said.
"It really was impressive." Yang said.
"Yep." Ruby said, agreeing with her sister.
"Just like me when I was your age." Mom said with a chuckle.
"Ah, memories. Eh, Rae?" Summer said.
"Yep." Raven said, agreeing with Summer.
Ifrit and Alexander appeared translucently behind us, "Meh, I've seen better." Ifrit said.
"Ah, you're just full of hot air." Shiva said.
"Ha. Ha. Ha." Ifrit said, rolling his eyes.
"I suppose there isn't much you can see that tops seeing Balamb Garden fly." Alexander said.
"Try an entire city under the sea." Tronmaster said.
"Bullshit." Winter said, only for Tronmaster to show a picture of a city under the sea (thinks of Rapture from BioShock).
"Hmm, I stand corrected." Winter said.
My attention however was taken when I saw the weapons people were carrying, "He's got a collapsible staff, and she's got a fire sword!" I gushed looking the weapons before I started to drift to them.
"I look so cute as a Chibi!" Ruby said.
"You look cute just the way you are Ruby." Weiss said, planting another kiss on Ruby's check, causing the young reaper to start giggling.
Unfortunately for me, Yang had grabbed me by the hood and pulled me back, "Easy there sister, they're just weapons." Yang said.
This caused Ruby and Summer to glare at Yang.
"Ehehehe." Yang said nervously.
"You did not call them 'Just Weapons' Yang." Mom said.
"Oh, crapbaskets." Yang said.
"Uh oh." Yang said worried.
"Meep." Yang said.
"I'll give you the speech about how weapons are an extension of ourselves later." Mom said, "But I need to go and see my office and my quarters are in a condition that I like."
"Sounds like something I would do." Summer said.
With that Mom flat out vanished in a cloud of white petals, her teleportation Semblance.
"Is that actually your Semblance?" Blake asked Summer.
"Yep." Summer replied.
"Uh... I'm getting out of here." Yang said rushing away.
"By the way Yang, THANKS FOR ABANDONIG ME IN THE BEACON COURTYARD YOU DAMN JERK!" Ruby said, yelling at Yang.
"AHHH!" Yang said, falling back off the couch.
"Smooth move you klutz." Blake said, receiving the middle finger from Yang.
Unfortunately she was holding my shoulder and didn't let go until after she started running, pulling me into a slight spin that caused me to get dizzy and fall into a cart.
"Oh, shit." Weiss said, "Ruby, I would like to formally apologize for-" Weiss was about to continue, until Ruby kissed her.
"No need to apologize babe. It's all water under the bridge." Ruby said.
"What do you think you're doing!?" A new voice practically screeched, "You are lucky I had those strapped down!"
"Just so you know Ruby and Weiss, your others don't explode." Tronmaster said.
"Oh, thank Oum." The White Rose couple said at the same time.
I looked up to see a young woman with white hair in an offset ponytail, wearing a pale blue bolero jacket and combat skirt.
"Combat Skirts for the win!" Ruby said, earning a high five from Nora, and a kiss from Weiss.
"I'm sorry!" I cried out, "My sister kind a ran off before she let go of me and it threw me off balance." I said quickly.
"Wow, I was kind of a bitch, wasn't I?" Weiss asked.
"Was?" Yang asked. But before she could continue her train of thought, Ruby tackled Yang.
"YOU DON'T TALK SHIT ABOUT MY GIRL!" Ruby yelled.
"Ah, sweet salty Christ." Tronmaster said, "Blake, get Yang off the floor. Weiss, pull your girlfriend off of her sister."
The girl looked like she was about to shout some more, but a translucent pale blue hand laid itself on her shoulder.
"Thank you Shiva." Weiss said.
"No problem Weiss." Shiva said, smiling.
"Let it go Weiss, she apologized, and it wasn't her fault." The practically naked pale blue woman said.
"I probably should go with a different color for my swimsuit." Shiva said.
"If it makes you look less naked, and makes me less horny, I'm all down for that." Penny said, shocking everyone.
I couldn't help myself, "Is that a Guardian Force?" I asked.
"No, I'm pizza delivery." Shiva said, getting some chuckles from everyone.
This got the woman's, and the girls, Weiss attention, "You can see Shiva?" Weiss asked.
"Yeah." I said getting up, "I'm with a Guardian Force myself, so is my sister." I said.
"Oh yeah!" Yang said, fist bumping Ruby.
"A pleasure to see you again Shiva." Alexander said as he translucently appeared.
"I'll be honest, I always imagined Alexander sounding like Dan Green when he's voicing Yami Yugi." Tronmaster said.
"Alexander my old friend, how are you doing?" Shiva asked.
"Stiff, and with a sore neck." Alexander said, rubbing his neck.
"Stiff." Alexander said, "I hadn't moved a sliver up until a few years ago, now I know hat Diablos feels like after a long sleep."
"Ten thousand years, will give you such a crick in the neck!" Tronmaster said, making him and Alicia laugh.
"Was that a reference to Aladdin?" Penny asked, getting a nod from both Alicia and Tronmaster.
I looked over to Weiss, whose expression had softened up, "So... Hi, I'm Ruby Rose, nice to meet you miss.." I said hoping to make an introduction.
"Lord, I am a socially awkward dork." Ruby said with a pout.
"But you're my socially awkward dork." Weiss said, making Ruby smile at her girlfriend.
"Weiss Schnee." Weiss said, "Heiress-"
"And here comes my introduction." Blake said.
"To the Schnee Dust Company." A third voice said walking over, I looked over to see a black haired girl with a ribbon in her hair, sadly I didn't pay too much attention to her because of the large translucent demo floating next to her, "One of the largest producers of energy propellent in the world."
"Huh, you were right about us not being caught in an explosion." Weiss said.
"Oh my God, you really exploded." Qrow said, dumbfounded.
"I was going to say that." Weiss said annoyed.
"If I didn't, ya know, explode, would you have said that?" Ruby asked her girlfriend.
"Possibly." Weiss replied, "But if I knew you beforehand, I probably would've been more, calm." Weiss finished, giving Ruby a peck on the cheek.
"Oh no." Shiva said.
"What?" I asked the Guardian Force.
"She's got Diablos with her." Alexander said.
"Hey, what'd I do?" Diablos asked.
"You know damn well what you did." Sacred replied.
"Alexander, Shiva!" Diablos said stretching his wings, "My word it's been too long."
"Good, we've met them, now shut up so I can read my book." The black haired girl said turning right around and leaving.
"And you called me a bitch Yang." Weiss said, "Looks like your kitty cat had her own moment of-" Weiss was about to continue, but Yang charged her with a yell.
"AHHHHH!" Yang yelled before Tronmaster quickly redirected Yang's punch with a quick bit of Tae Kwon Do.
"Qrow, keep reading, if you please would." Tronmaster said, Qrow quickly complying.
"Hey come on Blake!" Diablos called out, "They're old friends, give me a minute to do a meet and greet."
"Not for nothing Blake, but your other did seem like kind of a bitch." Siren said, shocking everyone.
"I should probably get going." Weiss said walking away.
"Wow, that was much better than our actual first meeting." Weiss said.
"I agree babe." Ruby said.
Pretty soon it was just me and Alexander, "Welcome to Beacon." I bemoaned.
"Oum, this is depressing to watch." Ruby said, only to get a peck on the cheek from Weiss.
"Hey, if that means we got together, I'm glad that our first meeting wasn't the best." Weiss said, earning a smile from her girlfriend.
"Hey." A new voice said, I turned around to see the boy who had thrown up in the trash can. "I'm Jaune Arc."
"Hey, there's me!" Jaune said, getting a hug from Pyrrha.
"Ruby Rose." I said holding out my hand, then I noticed the translucent being behind him, "Who's your Guardian Force?"
"The Gingerbread Man." Winter joked.
"Huh?" Jaune said, "Oh, that's Siren."
"Hello there child." Siren said walking up to me and shaking my hand, "I see you've found the stiff."
"Oh for the love of Oum, I AM NOT A STIFF!" Alexander said.
"Ow, jeez. Thanks for the tinnitus asshole." Alicia said, giving Alexander a death glare.
"I'm not a stiff." Alexander said, causing Jaune to jump.
"That's what I said!" Alexander said.
"Whatever you say." Siren teased.
"Okay, are Siren and Alexander like, lovers or something?" Nora asked, causing both Siren, and Alexander, strangely enough, to blush.
[No P.O.V.]
"Huh, no narration from a character this time." Raven said.
Summer stood offstage, smiling when she saw her daughter Ruby walk in with a blonde haired kid before heading over to her sister.
"Holy mother of Oum, that's a lot of teenagers." Raven said.
She waited through Ozpin's speech, noticing that there was a white haired girl scolding Yang, 'Wonder what Yang did to upset the Schnee?' Summer thought.
"How about ditching her only sister?" Ruby huffed.
"Summer? I thought you were dead." A voice familiar to Summer said, Summer turned around to see a face she hadn't seen in years.
"Really, who exactly would my other know?" Summer said.
A woman with black shoulder length hair with three caramel colored highlight on it, she was wearing a long, sleeveless, blue rib-knit duster sweater with a pair of white wing designs on the back. She wears matching rib-knit arm warmers, a black ribbon on her left arm, and black cycling shorts with zippers going down the front and a pair of silver buckled black boots.
"Okay, so she's totally the Sorceress, right?" Nora asked.
"Nora, that's stupid." Penny said.
"Rinoa!" Summer cried out, catching Glynda's attention as she hugged her old friend.
"I wonder who exactly she is?" Glynda asked.
Rinoa giggled ass she returned the hug, "You never answered my question Summer." Rinoa said.
"I hope my other has a cover story." Summer said.
"We should probably work on that soon." Raven said.
"Sorry Rin, I was on a top secret mission from Ozpin." Summer said using her cover story, "I can't say anything more."
"Seems like a legit cover story." Summer story.
"Ah well, it's great seeing you again Summer." Rinoa said before looking over at Glynda, "Wow Glyn, the years really haven't been good for you have they?"
"Considering the amount of stress that Ozpin puts me through doesn't help." Glynda said.
Glynda huffed in irritation, "It's the stress that Professor Ozpin keeps causing me in addition to what these student's keep doing.
"Holy shit Qrow, that's, actually a good impression of Glynda." Tronmaster said, "How did you do that?"
"Clean throat." Qrow said.
"I'll bet." Rinoa said, "Then again we always stressed you out while we were attending Beacon ourselves."
"Looks like Rinoa went to Beacon with our others." Summer said, Qrow and Raven nodding in agreement.
"Right..." Glynda said annoyed, "So, why the sudden visit?"
"Okay, we can all agree that Glynda's a bitch, right?" Blake asked.
"Yep." Spoke most everyone except Glynda.
"I hate you all." Glynda said.
Rinoa shrugged as she held up her arms, "I just wanted to visit an old friend while I was in the area, is that so much to ask?"
"It's not." Summer said, smiling, "Anyway I've got to check up on my girls, I'll see you later."
"Actually I've got to go myself." Rinoa said walking off, "It was fun meeting you two again."
"She seems nice." Ruby said.
Rinoa walked off and turned a corner to go out of sight.
"Hmm?" Ren pondered.
But when Rinoa turned the corner her body rippled like water and she was soon replaced by the Sorceress of the NEO Galbadians.
Everyone but Nora, Tronmaster, and Alicia had expressions of shock.
"Holy shit, Nora was right." Yang said.
"Summer Rose... Back from the dead." The Sorceress mused as she walked through a wall that rippled like liquid as she touched it, soon finding herself outside, "It'll be nice having you around again old friend."
Da da da daa daaa daa da da-daaa
"What the hell was that?" Summer asked.
"That, was the victory theme. A common element in the Final Fantasy series." Alicia said.
The Sorceress reached into her pocket to retrieve her scroll as it rang.
Da da da daa daaa daa da-Click
"Aww..." Nora pouted.
"Would it make you feel better if we played the victory theme after every battle?" Tronmaster asked, getting a nod from Nora.
"Yes?" The Sorceress asked answering her scroll.
"I wonder who she's talking to." Raven said.
"Probably Powder." Nora responded.
"Boss, what did you ask to send in case the initiation wasn't satisfying enough for seeing the GF's?" Powder asked over the scroll.
"Damn, she's good." Weiss said, befuddled by her friend.
"An Elvoret." The Sorceress said, "Nothing too powerful, but it should be enough to get at least one of them to use their GF, or at least some magic."
After Qrow read the last sentence, the book snapped shut.
"Alright Qrow, pass the book to Raven if you-" Alicia said as two screams were heard.
"Goddammit, is Jenkins playing a horror game again?" Tronmaster asked.
"FUCK YOU CREATIVE ASSEMBLY!" Both Jenkins and Melody shouted.
"Alien Isolation." Both Tronmaster and Alicia said.
*Jenkins and Melody are hiding behind a couch, as the Xenomorph kills Amanda Ripley.*
Jenkins: Goddammit, I hate this game. WHY DID I AGREE TO PLAY THIS!?
Melody: Hell if I know. But I just remember why I never finished watching the original Alien film.
Jenkins: Same.