A/N: I just want to say that this story will be a mix of hilarity, and drama. If you couldn't tell.
Ruby shielded her eyes from the sudden light of the sun. Once her eyes adjusted to the light, she took a look around. "Oh my God." She said.
The land was desolated. No life grew for as far as Ruby could see. Destroyed cars were everywhere, rusting for being out for so long. The buildings around them were also destroyed, vines and such growing on them.
"What happened?" Ruby asked. "How long… How long was I out?"
"I don't know." Yang said, also shocked, taking in the destruction of the city they once knew as Vale.
Weiss looked at her father's corporate building, with the family crest on the side, reading "Schnee". The points on the snowflake had long fallen off. The H hanging down. The windows were smashed, and parts of the walls were missing.
"How did the the tower survive this?" Jaune asked.
"That's what it's designed for." Weiss said. "Too bad Father didn't think of missiles."
Ruby sat down on the platform, Zwei pushing himself under her arm. "What happened?" Ruby asked again.
"Someone bombed us." Blake said, still staring at the cityscape.
Ruby looked down at her feet. "What happened to Dad?"
"Try not to think about it." Yang said, sitting beside her sister and putting her arm over her shoulder, pulling her into a hug.
"Do you know what this means?" Nora asked them. They were shocked that Nora was now being mature about their situation. "No lines. Ever." She shattered that surprise, but kept her personality intact. "No lines for what?" Pyrrha asked.
"Anything! Ever!"
"Excuse her." Ren said. "The only thing she needs to be happy is other people."
They all nodded, saying that it was fine. After all, it was just Nora being Nora. The girl had no shame to be herself. That was something they could all agree on. Even Weiss, who once argued with Ruby over what Ruby's opinion was.
"Now what?" Jaune asked.
They all turned to Ruby, who was still staring at her feet. "Give her a minute." Yang told them. "Give her a minute."
The only way they could tell that Ruby wasn't completely broken was that she was slowly petting Zwei's head. After a few minutes, Yang leaned in and whispered in Ruby's ear, resting her forehead against the side of the younger girl's head. "You gonna be okay?" Ruby slowly shook her head, moving so slowly, and so little, that only Yang knew her answer, as she felt Ruby's head move.
"It's gonna be okay." The blonde whispered.
"No." Ruby hoarsely said, holding back tears. The only thing that stopped her from breaking down was that Weiss and Blake were there. She couldn't break. She was their leader. She was supposed to be strong. Show them that it wasn't over. Show them that the world hadn't really ended. She knew that she had to get up. She knew she had to act like none of it bothered her. But she couldn't. She couldn't move. She couldn't speak in fear of breaking down.
Yang pulled Ruby into a tight hug, shielding her from all of this. And then Ruby broke. She began to sob quietly, hoping none of them could hear her, or even see that her body was shuddering with each sob.
"It's okay." Yang told her, tightening the hug. "It's okay."
Ruby wanted to tell her that it wasn't. To tell her that they were going to die. But she didn't. She couldn't. Not that she wasn't able to, but for the same reason she didn't break down sooner.
Ruby stopped when she heard shots. Gunshots. Someone was shooting. Someone was alive.
She pushed off of Yang and began to sprint in the direction of the shots, the others running after her. As soon as Ruby entered the city, a bullet hit the ground in front of her. She stopped, and jumped behind a wall. Jaune, Yang, and Blake all took cover behind the same wall, the others on a wall across the road.
Jaune stuck his head around the corner, pointing the handgun Ren gave him earlier at the sniper, he fired three shots before taking cover again, bullets hitting the other side of the wall. Jaune shot around the corner once more. This time they heard a cry of pain, and a loud thud. Jaune peeked around the corner and saw the sniper, now lying on the road, face down.
Ruby was the first to go forward, grabbing his sniper, some ammo, and a few other necessities. Apparently, Jaune had shot him in the arm and he had fallen off the building. As Ruby went to grab the bullet-resistant vest, he flipped over, and put a knife to her throat. She froze.
Without hesitation, Jaune lifted his gun and put one into the guy's skull. He dropped the knife, and Ruby grabbed the vest.
"Thanks, Jaune."
"Don't mention it. Like, seriously. I'd rather not think of that ever again."
A/N: That's this chapter. Was that long enough? I hope so. Anyway. With the pairings, because I know how much the FNDM loves pairings. I'm doing all the canon pairings. Except one. And I'll also do one of my favorite pairings.