*Adam, OOH Ruby, Jenkins and Melody are sitting on the couch while Jenkins plays the Crash Bandicoot N Sane Trilogy (Crash 1 specifically).*
Adam: So, did you hear that this game might be coming to Xbox One?
OOH Ruby: I heard a rumor about that.
Jenkins: *Not taking eyes off of game* The Crash IP IS owned by Activision, plus, the captain IS a fan of Crash Bandicoot, so, why WOULDN'T they release the N Sane Trilogy on Xbox One?
Melody: Pissed off Sony purists?
*Everyone else shrugs in response.*
"Alright, I believe that it's Raven's turn to read." Alexander said.
"Makes sense, considering the order so far." Penny said, Qrow passing the book to his twin sister.
Before Raven could read, Tronmaster is heard humming a song.
"What's up with you?" Weiss asked Tronmaster.
"Oh, the remastered versions of a popular trilogy of games from the 90's released today." Tronmaster said.
"Crash Bandicoot?" Alicia asked her boyfriend.
"Bingo." Tronmaster said, as Raven began to read.
[Team RWBY Dorm]
[No P.O.V.]
"Guess we're back to our dorm." Yang said.
"Yeah, but for how much longer?" Blake asked.
"Ruby, stop." Yang said in her 'Big Sister is serious' tone.
"Ugh, I hate it when she gets like that." Ruby said.
"Hehehe..." Yang laughed nervously.
Ruby froe completely at those words, stiffening like a board.
"Only time she's ever like that, is when she's in trouble with me." Tai said, "Which is actually kinda rare."
Yang could see Ruby was acting a little suspicious after she had set her charges in the NG facility, specifically Ruby refused to open her cloak no matter what, "Ruby you haven't opened your cloak since we left the facility." Yang said, "What are you hiding?"
"You know, don't you?" Summer asked Tronmaster.
"Yep." Tronmaster said, a cheeky smile on his face.
"And you aren't going to explain until later, are you?" Qrow asked.
"You guys knw me so well." Tronmaster said, chuckling.
"N-nothing." Ruby said quickly.
"Ruby." Yang urged.
Ruby sighed and opened her cloak up, revealing that she was holding an egg of some kind.
"You know what's in the egg, don't you?" Winter asked Tronmaster.
"Yep." Tronmaster said, barely holding back his laughter.
"An egg?" Yang asked.
"I found it in the facility, I didn't want to leave it to be blown up before it even hatched." Ruby whined.
"Well, that's a good reason if I haven't heard one." Sun said.
"Ruby who knows what could be inside that egg." Weiss said, "It could be another of those monsters that Musaline has created."
"It isn't a monster, is it?" Glynda asked.
"Nope." Alicia said.
"But- But what if it isn't a monster?" Ruby urged failing to notice the egg was moving slightly, "What if it's something really, really nice?"
"I think we're about to find out either way." Blake said looking at the egg as a crack formed.
"IT'S HATCHING!" Nora shouted, before Alicia duct-taped her mouth shut.
"Thank you Alicia." Sun said.
"No worries Sun." Alicia said.
"Huh?" Ruby asked, then looked at the egg, "Oh, it's hatching!" Ruby squealed.
"Time to find out what's in the egg." Jaune said.
"I hope it's something cute." Penny said.
Yang grabbed a towel as the other approached Ruby as the egg shells began to break off bit by bit until something popped it's head out of the top of the egg.
And a small peep came from the head.
"Aww!" the girls said at the same time.
"It's so cute!" Ruby said.
[FF8 OST Odeka Ke Chocobo]
The music started up, having a sort of 8-bit tune to it.
"Wait, what?" Sun asked, confused.
"Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce, one of gaming's most iconic mount: the humble Chocobo." Tronmaster said.
"Chocobo?" Winter asked.
"Oh, before I forget, Ruby, Phoenix Champion wanted me to give you this." Tronmaster said, handing Ruby a Chocobo egg, which proceeded to hatch then and there.
"Aww, he's so cute!" Weiss said, the Chocobo chick peeped in response.
"Yep, the Chocobo has appeared repeatedly in the Final Fantasy series since Final Fantasy II." Alicia said, "When fully grown, is faster than a horse, and has more stamina than one. Plus, it only eats three meals a day."
"What does it eat?" Glynda asked.
"A variety of carrots known as Gyshal Greens." Tronmaster replied.
"And don't worry, we have more than enough for you to take." Alicia said, "Same with the seeds."
"Neat." Raven said, continuing to read.
"Awww..." Ruby cooed looking at the small yellow bird that was peeking out of the egg.
"What is it?" Weiss asked as Yang handed to towel to Ruby, who quickly started to dry the bird off.
"That would be a Chocobo." Shiva said, appearing fully behind Weiss.
"A Chocobo?" Blake asked looking at the bird, trying not to drool.
"Don't even think about it Belladonna." Ruby said, growling.
"Y-yes ma'am." Blake said, shivering in fear.
"Yep." Shiva said pushing past Weiss, "Chocobo are wonderful creatures, a full grown Chocobo is faster than a horse and has more stamina than one, plus they only eat three meals a day, eating exclusively a variant of carrot's called Gyshal Greens."
"As both Tronmaster and Alicia have explained." Winter said.
"It's so cute." Summer cooed.
"I think we have some of those in the fridge." Yang said, "Weiss did stock it with dozens of fruits and vegetables, although those Gyshal Greens are kinda tasty for vegetables."
"I myself love some carrots, celery, lettuce, you get the idea." Tronmaster said, "In fact, lettuce continue the chapter." He added with a chuckle.
"Goddammit with the puns." Alicia groaned.
"Good, keep a good stock of Gyshal Greens and this little guy will never go hungry." Shiva said, "But that's not what's most amazing about Chocobo's. A full grown Chocobo can actually fight, frighteningly well in fact."
"I knew I was forgetting something." Tronmaster said.
"So, it's essentially a commando bird?" Jaune asked.
"Pretty much, yeah." Alicia said.
"Really?" Ruby said lifting up the Chocobo, which was already fluttering it's small wings, just enough to give it a small lift before it plopped back into Ruby's hands.
"And just like in the story, the Chocobo did exactly that.
"Awww..." Team RWBY said in synch.
"Alright, that is pretty adorable." Neptune said.
"Yep, a well raised Chocobo is about as strong as any person." Shiva said, "I've even heard that some Chocobo's can even use magic naturally."
"That is one badass bird." Tai said.
"Yeah, no kidding." Qrow said.
"That's awesome!" Ruby cheered as Yang held out a Gyshal Green to Ruby who took it an broke off a piece to feed it to the Chocobo, "I will call him Boco and he will be my Chocobo."
"Really?" Tronmaster asked, "Boco?"
"Hey, I don't see you coming up with a name." Ruby said indigently.
"Damien, Lucifer, Caliban, Vixen, and Epona." Tronmaster said.
"Okay, smartass." Ruby said.
Yang watched with a smile as Ruby feed the Chocobo chick, only for that smile to vanish as she realized something, "Uh Ruby, how are we going to explain this to mom?"
Ruby froze at that and blinked, "Uh oh." Ruby said.
"No need, I approve." Summer said.
"Good to hear." Ruby said, as Boco rested himself in Ruby's hood.
[OST end]
[Galbadia Garden]
"Yay, the NEO Galbadians again." Yang said sarcastically.
"Great, time for more of these guys." Jaune said.
"Muse has another mission for us huh Widow?" Powder said as she walked next to her fellow NG Commander, this one being the Spider Faunus with a vendetta against the Branwen blood.
"Well, at least we have a name to the face." Qrow said.
"Yeah, no kidding." Yang said.
"Yes Powder." Widow said, "Although I wish it was in the part of Anima Raven was last seen in."
"Okay, why exactly does she have a hate boner against us Branwens?" Raven asked.
"I don't know." Tronmaster said, "I need to ask Phoenix Champion why exactly Widow has such a vendetta."
"Although, if I had to guess, it was something Raven did." Alicia said.
Powder leaned her head back and groaned, "Uuuugh, Widow come on, I'm getting sick of hearing you talk all day about your hatred for the Branwens, that's all you ever talk about it."
"I would imagine how tedious that would get." Ren said.
"Well what do you want? Guy in the elevator small talk?" Widow asked rhetorically.
"Anything but crap about the Branwen's." Powder said, "Anyway let's Clay so we can start the mission."
"Time to meet Clay, I guess." Winter said.
"If he's anything like Slate, I want to kick him in the balls." Blake said.
"Jesus Aunt Blake, what the shit?" Alicia said.
"At least we know where he'll be." Widow said opening the door to the kitchen, "It's where he always- TAIL!"
"I guess that Clay's a Faunus." Blake said, "So my comment earlier was..."
"Completely redundant." Alicia said.
Powder and Widow both ducked when a long, scaly tail swung over their heads and wrapped around the oven door handle.
"I tried doing that." Sun said, "Burned my tail."
"Ouch." Alicia said, cringing.
"Sorry about that." The owner of said tail said approaching the oven with oven mitts on and pulled out a pan that had a perfectly baked brownie in it.
"Alright, that looks delicious." Glynda said.
"It could be a pot brownie." Ruby said, causing everyone to look at her, even Tronmaster and Alicia looked at her in shock.
"Ruby, how exactly do you know what a pot brownie is?" Tai asked.
"I, may have, experimented a bit, back at Signal." Ruby said bashfully.
"You learn something new everyday." Jaune said.
The owner of said tail was a Snake Faunus, Black Mamba specifically, was a man the same age as the other commanders, his black hair was short swept off to the side. His NG Commander's outfit had a jacket that barely reached his waist, on the right side of his face was a Black Mamba tattoo. However at the moment he was wearing a bright pink cooking apron that said, 'Kiss the snake cook.'
"Yeah, I still wouldn't kiss him." Yang said.
"Jeez Clay, who are the brownies for?" Powder asked.
"I'm curious about that myself." Blake said.
"Same here." Summer said.
"Some of the girls asked for one." Clay said placing the tray on the window that opened to the cafeteria, "Wait... Powder!" Clay called out turning to the two women, "W-what brings you here?"
"Oh, so it's not a thing of pot brownies." Ruby said.
"Young lady, we're going to have a talk later." Tai said.
"Muse has a new mission for us." Powder said.
"Well what are we waiting for then? Oh wait." Clay asked throwing off the apron and turning to the female N soldiers that were waiting by the window, "Give that at least fifteen minutes to cool, that way you won't burn your mouth."
"Fair enough caution." Neptune said.
"Yep." Sun said.
"So where are we going for our mission." Clay asked adjusting the leather gloves with metal knuckles on his hands.
"A new variable seems to have slipped a tad bit and showed himself nearby Facility 14." Musaline said, "Machines that do not match Atlesian Knights were spotted heading toward-"
"Please don't say it." All three commanders said quietly.
"I wonder what's got them concerned." Summer said.
"I guess we'll find out soon." Winter said.
"The Centra Ruins... what remains of them at least." Musaline said.
"The what?" Penny asked.
"I don't fucking know!" Tronmaster said.
"Aww fuck." Widow groaned.
"I'm gonna need better ammo." Powder groaned.
"Centra Ruins?" Clay asked, "Muse are you trying to kill me?"
"They must really hate this place." Weiss said.
"No kidding." Ruby said.
"Listen this isn't a mission based on killing, I need you all to be fast." Musaline said, "The locals of Centra Ruins are more than capable of taking care of the variable, but I want you to bring back one of those machines so I picked you three because you are my fastest."
"Well, I guess she puts a tremendous amount of trust in them." Blake said.
"Yeah, even that jerkbag Slate." Yang added.
"Yeah, cause the locals could kill us if we're slower than a snail in Winter." Widow said.
"Okay, that was pretty funny." Jaune said, snorting.
"I'm liking Widow slightly better than Slate." Blake said.
Musaline sighed, "Look you guys, you're my friends, and I would never send you anywhere near the Centra Ruins if I could avoid it." Musaline said, "But an unknown variable could prove troublesome."
"At least unlike Cinder, she cares about her subordinates." Alicia said.
"Or like Adam in the main timeline." Tronmaster added.
"Fine." Powder said, "But I'm gonna need my AP ammo."
"AP ammo?" Winter asked.
"I haven't a clue." Tronmaster said.
"Powder no." Clay said, "Please we're trying to avoid a fight in that place."
"Fine." Powder said.
"I guess Clay's going to be the leader on this mission." Tai said.
[Centra Ruins]
"Time to see what's so bad about this place." Qrow said.
"It can't be that bad." Penny said.
"I fucking hate this place." Widow said as she, Powder, and Clay peeked around a corner.
"Why does this remind me of Lazy Town?" Ruby asked.
"You guys have Lazy Town as well?" Tronmaster asked.
"Huh, neat." Ruby said.
Standing in the middle of the area, around a pile of red droids that had all fallen over from a single stab, was a small green creature with a fish tail and beady yellow eyes, it was wearing a worn brown robe with a hood and brown shoes, it was holding a chef's knife and old lantern lit by a flame.
Suddenly, everyone notice Tronmaster flinching.
"Something wrong?" Jaune asked.
"Y-yeah, I know what it is, but it remind me of something else." Tronmaster said, "Fucking Mirelurks." He added under his breath.
"Tonberry." Powder said loading her gun in its Shotgun form.
"Those things scare the crap out of me." Clay said, "I'm not getting close to that."
"Yeah, that's ugly as hell." Yang said.
"Trust me, I've seen uglier." Tronmaster said.
Widow's weapon had already sent it's arms out and Widow had begun to climb the pillar to check the area, "Deathstalker in coming, it's a big one."
"Ten seconds." Powder said.
"Um, what?" Ruby asked.
"Probably trying to make a bet." Summer said.
"No bet." Clay said as the massive Deathstalker scuttled into the area in front of the Tonberry.
"Well, this isn't going to end well." Neptune said.
"For the Tonberry, or the Deathstalker?" Sun asked.
"Yes." Neptune said.
"Smartass." Sum mumbled.
A hiss like laughter escaped from the Tonberry, despite it's lack of a face save for it's eyes, as it slowly shuffled forward.
"Good lord, that looks ridiculous." Tai said, chuckling.
"Yeah, it does look silly." Penny said.
The Deathstalker's hiss turned from one of anger to one of confusion as the Tonberry shuffled up to it's leg.
"Well, it's dead." Nora said.
"Doink." Was the sound that came from the Tonberry just before it stabbed its knife into the Deathstalkers leg.
Just the sound caused a roar of laughter among the readers.
"Doink?" Ruby said, in between her laughter.
"I think we need a moment to get it out of our system." Jaune said, clutching his sides.
"Sure thing." Alicia said, chuckling.
Thirty Minutes later...
"Feel better everyone?" Tronmaster asked.
"Heh, yeah. We're good." Raven said, continuing to read.
The Deathstalker let out a shriek of pure agony as it lifted it's body in sudden pain before it fell limp.
"AHH!" Blake shouted, covering both her human and cat ears.
"SON OF A BITCH!" Sun said, covering his ears.
"MOTHERFUCKER!" Alicia said, covering her ears.
"Gaah fuck my ears!" Widow shouted as she fell from the pillar.
"Damn my heightened hearing." Alicia said, rubbing her head.
"Here ya go babe." Tronmaster said, holding out a bottle of ginger ale.
"You and your Vernors." Alicia said, taking the now named Vernors, and taking a sip of it.
Unfortunately the Tonberry heard this and spun to face the trio.
"Well, they're fucked." Blake said.
"How can you tell?" Winter asked.
"Gut instinct." Blake responded.
"Oh shit." Powder said.
"Not good!" Clay said as the trio got out from behind the pillar.
"Fight time!" Nora said.
[FF8 OST: Man with the Machine Gun]
"Oum, I love this song!" Yang said, moving her head with the music.
"Phoenix Champion would agree with you." Alicia said.
The Tonberry let out another laugh as the Grimm blood on it's knife evaporated before it slowly began to walk toward the trio.
"Well, that's actually quite unsettling." Penny said.
"No kidding." Ren said.
"Fuck!" Powder said firing all three barrels into the Tonberry, knocking it back slightly, but not halting it's advance.
"How durable is it?" Glynda asked.
"You'll see." Tronmaster said.
Widow leapt in and struck the Tonberry with all six of her mechanical arms, lifting it up and throwing it aside.
The Tonberry bounced twice, but it ended up landing on it's feet not looking worse for wear.
"Uh oh." Ruby said.
"They're doomed." Neptune said, Raiden chirping in response.
"This is why I hate Tonberry's!" Clay shouted punching the Tonberry in the side of the head twice before jumping away, not wanting to be near the thing very long, "They are durable as shit!"
"Yeah, we noticed." Winter said.
"They're essentially like tanks." Alicia said.
"At least Tonberry's are slow!" Widow called picking up one of the broken droids twin bladed staves and slashing the Tonberry with it.
"This one isn't slow, is it?" Ren asked, Tronmaster nodding.
"Wait, are those Merlot's droids?" Alicia asked.
"Huh? Oh yeah." Tronmaster said, his face adopting a scowl, "Damn Darth Maul ripoffs."
At that moment however the Tonberry locked Powder and laughed again, "Oh shit." Powder said as she shifted her gun into it's assault rifle mode and began firing, the bullets alternating from the barrels as they came out.
"Reminds me of the Vladof spingun from Borderlands." Tronmaster said to himself.
The Tonberry didn't bother to dodge the bullets, instead it began to sprint toward Powder.
"Well, she's screwed." Sun said.
"No no no no no no no!" Powder said as she continued to fire at the Tonberry.
"I'll tell you what that's doing to it." Alicia said, "Jack, and shit."
"No you don't!" Clay shouted grabbing the Tonberry and flipping it over his head to slam it's head onto the ground behind him.
Widow jumped in and stabbed the Tonberry with all six of her extra limbs, having the spear tips spin to add the effect.
"Ouch." Weiss said, wincing.
"That's gotta hurt." Tai said.
"Yeah, that looks painful." Qrow said, wincing.
[OST End]
"Well, that fight was, kinda hilarious." Nora said.
"Nora." Penny said, "You're a sick fuck." She added in deadpan.
"You only NOW noticed?!" Ruby said.
"Do you think we got it?" Widow said ash she back up from the unmoving Tonberry.
"Probably not." Glynda said.
"Don't know, don't care." Powder said, "Clay grab a robot and lets- OH FUCK!"
"It's not dead." Pyrrha said.
Powder fired off her weapon in it's shotgun form at the Tonberry, which was getting up, the blast knocked the Tonberry futher back, this time the creature dissolved in nothing, not like a Grimm, it's body just faded from existence.
"I HATE Tonberry's!" Clay shouted grabbing a broken droid.
"Well, that was an interesting chapter." Raven said as the book shut.
"I have a feeling like that's not the last we've seen of Tonberry." Winter said.
"I got it!" Tronmaster said, snapping his fingers.
"What?" Sun asked.
"Penny, you, Sun and Neptune will go after teams RWBY and JNPR, then Tai, and Summer will go after Qrow, Raven, Glynda and Winter in the reading order." Tronmaster replied.
"Huh, neat." Neptune said.
*Adam, Melody, Jenkins and OOH Ruby are now playing Halo 3 co-op campaign via the Master Chief Collection.*
Adam: I wonder why Nintendo hasn't contacted Rooster Teeth and added us into Super Smash Bros Ruby.
OOH Ruby: What, like in Amiibo form?
Jenkins: That would be badass!
Melody: Damien, where are our kids?
*As the four adults continued playing the game, they don't notice a small, baby Kitsune crawl into the vents.*