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"Would you STOP it with those infernal rock puns?!" Weiss asked for the umpteenth time as Yang made so many bad rock puns as they were scaling the mountain, it even made a few Grimm groan in agony. "It's driving me crazy!"
"One of these days, my puns will make you laugh. I'll rock that funny bone eventually!"
At some other universe…
"GOD DAMMIT, BARB!" Simmons and Church yelled before silently sobbing. "Whoever's doing this, just stop already!"
"I don't know who this Barb person is, but it's got me intrigued." Sarge said. "I mean, even Church is saying it."
"Oh!" Caboose raised his hand. "I know who this 'barb' person might be!"
"Oh please, enlighten us…" Grif muttered.
"This Barb person might be their girlfriends!"
"…That's actually not a bad idea." Tucker said.
"I'm all for that!" Donut said.
"GOD DAMMIT, BARB!" Simmons yelled, as Yang apparently made another rock pun, as they heard Church screaming it as well.
"Makes me wonder if they miss her a lot…" Sarge muttered.
Back with RWBY…
"Alright, I can't take it anymore!" A Hammer Bro shouted and threw a hammer very hard, hitting Yang… and luckily, the power-up was no more.
"…Aww…" Yang pouted.
"Finally… some peace and quiet!"
Thank. You. All of RWB and Lucario thought at the same time.
"…Um, guys?" Ruby asked after they walked for a few minutes of peaceful silence. "Has that been there before?" She asked, pointing to a mysterious house in front of them.
"Never seen it before." Lucario said.
"Hmm, I have a bad feeling about this place." Blake said as they noticed a sign that wasn't there before.
"Welcome to… er… the not-so-haunted house! We have all the stuff you need! We have weapons and cookies!"
Ruby's eyes sparkled. "Weapons… cookies…?! COMING THROUGH!" She yelled, as she ran over, but Yang caught a hold of her.
"Whoa there, little sister. I'm not sure if-"
"We also have a crowd that can listen to extremely ba-… er… Extremely good puns."
"…Make way!" Yang ran in.
"This is a bad idea." Weiss said.
"We also provide tips on how to impress fathers."
"…I'm listening." Weiss said and walked over.
"And we also have the sequel to that totally hot book: Ninjas of Love!"
"They made another one?!" Blake ran in.
Lucario sweatdropped. "This is most likely a trap…" He said as he wandered in, hoping to catch them before they got themselves hurt.
World 6-3: I'm Afraid of No Ghosts!
BGM: Dark Hallways (Luigi's Mansion)
Lucario walked in and saw that no girls were present, so he closed his eyes and his aura saw that the girls were in different rooms. "…Oh boy…" He muttered as he then concentrated and used Double Team as three of them went into the rooms and Lucario himself went into the one that contained Ruby.
"Hellooooo? I'm here for the cookies… and weapons!" Ruby called out, unaware of a ghost sneaking up behind her. "Hello!"
A Boo approached her from behind and got ready to scare the crap out of Ruby and gently poked her. "Just a second, I'm looking for those weapons!" She said and kept walking.
The Boo blinked and then poked her, a bit more aggressively. "Just a second, Weiss!"
Weiss? This human thinks this Boo is just a human friend? How dare she compare a lousy human to a Boo!
The Boo poked her more aggressively, until Ruby got completely annoyed and turned around. "WHAT, WHAT IS IT?!"
The Boo looked at her and then let out a cackle, hoping to scare her, but all Ruby did was stare at the thing.
"…Do you know where I could find the weapons and cookies?"
The Boo stared at her as if she lost her ever loving mind. Luigi was more fun to scare, so why can't he scare a simple girl?
Boo laughed and cackled again, sounding more aggressive.
"…No? Alrighty, thanks anyway." Ruby said and walked away, leaving the Boo completely speechless and facepalming, as it flew over and got up all in her face, cackling. "What is that you want?" Ruby asked as she took a good look at him. "Question, how are you going to scare me with that cute little face?"
Cute? CUTE?!
The Boo blushed a deep red and quickly hid his face. "Awww! You're turning red! That's adorable!" Ruby squealed and then hugged the Boo tightly, much to its chagrin as Lucario ran in and saw what Ruby was doing, causing him to sweatdrop.
"Well… you don't see that every day…" Lucario said.
The Boo tried to squirm out of Ruby's grip and tried to get away, but wasn't having much luck. If all the Boos could see him now, he'd never head the end of it.
But he did wonder how the others were doing…
Weiss…
"Tips on how to impress my father…" Weiss said as she wandered around. "Even if it's not real, I would like to know how to impress him."
Unaware of her, an orange ghostly figure approached her as it went past her… and breathed down her neck, causing her to shiver and turn around, but nothing was there. Stay calm, Weiss… it's all just your imagination. There's no such thing as ghosts…
As she turned around, an orange ghost appeared in front of her in just a split second and screamed at her as her whole body turned pale and let out a scream, causing her to faint as the Orange Ghost laughed and then disappeared.
Blake…
"Weiss?" Blake asked, sounding worried about her as she took off to investigate and then reunited with Lucario, but then before they could get out of the room, the door completely slammed shut, forcing them to get on the defensive, and lo and behold, several Greenies appeared, wanting to cause some havoc.
"Well, this just got interesting…" Blake said.
"Stay on your guard." Lucario said as Blake nodded, ready to knock out some Greenies.
Yang…
"And so, with that Rock Mushroom, I completely ROCKED that hand's world! Eh? Eh? Get it?"
Her "Audience" was nothing more than a Broozer… and he was regretting every single second of his undead life, wanting to trap her and take her out.
Instead, he wished he found a 1-Up Mushroom and jumped off a bridge so he wouldn't have to deal with these obnoxious and horrible puns that this human was giving him.
But he thought of a better idea, the same reason what he wanted to do.
He walked over to Yang, actually, more like ran because he couldn't take it anymore and got ready to punch her, but Yang saw this and punched him away.
"What? You don't like my puns? Well, you didn't have to be 'ghoulish' about it!"
The Broozer's eye twitched as he picked up a chair and threw it to try to shut her up, but she punched it, causing it to shatter. "Alright, you're asking for it, buddy boy!" Yang said as she ran over and the two began a boxing match… but it ended shortly after it started for the Broozer underestimated her and was punched so hard, he went through several walls and rooms of where the others were.
"Was that Yang?" Lucario asked as the Boo finally got out of Ruby's death grip and quickly flew off in embarrassment.
"Wait, I wasn't done hugging you yet!" Ruby exclaimed before sighing. "No fair… but I wonder if I can still find those cookies and weapons."
"…There are no weapons or cookies. This was just a trap." Lucario told her.
"Agh, who in the right mind would make a trap like this and not offer actual cookies?! WHO DOES THAT?!" Ruby yelled and took off in sadness, and joining them was Blake, Yang and an unconscious Weiss picked up by Lucario's Clone.
The Boo looked at Ruby leaving and wanted to scare her… but had a different idea and quickly flew off somewhere as several ghosts looked at the Boo, wondering what it was doing.
As soon as they got to the front door, they heard something as they turned around but saw nothing, but as they turned, they saw a plate of cookies and a glass of milk on the ground with a note that read 'sorry'.
"Cookies!" Ruby exclaimed and dove right on in.
"…Where did those come from?" Yang wondered as they walked out of the Ghost house as the Boo lightly smiled, probably because of the warm hug that Ruby gave it and also gave it a warm fuzzy feeling… if they can feel, that is.
He turned around and floated away, most likely going to be getting quite a teasing of his fellow Boos, but not like he cared anyway. He was scared of humans, but something about that particular human… didn't scare him as much.
End BGM
"Ooogh, where am I…?" Weiss asked, waking up.
"You were scared by a ghost." Yang asked.
"A ghost? Ha! There's no such things as ghosts!" Weiss said, as if she wasn't scared by an orange ghost at all. "Let's just keep going." She said and walked away.
"…And yet, there were plenty there." Lucario said as they followed her and caught up, and as they walked, Weiss spotted a certain puffy white flower.
"Ooo, this looks nice." She said, as she picked it up and put it in her pocket, and then they saw a castle right in front of them.
"This must be it." Yang said.
"Let's go." Ruby said as they all walked into the castle.
World 6-4: Between a Monty Mole and a Hard Tank
BGM: Castle (New Super Mario Bros Wii)
"Let's do this!" Ruby grinned as they ran forward, being careful of some lava pits in the area and they saw skewers slamming into the floor and ceiling, forcing them to tread carefully until they made their way over the obstacles.
It was then that several Hammer Bros and a Sumo Bro was in the way, forcing them to get rid of the Hammer Bros while Lucario took care of the Sumo Bro, knocking it down and off the platform he was on, and squishing some poor certain four Koopas down below.
"…I told you we should've gone the back way…" Yellow groaned.
"OH SHUT UP!" Red yelled.
"Did you hear something?" Blake asked.
"I think it was that Sumo Bro." Lucario replied, as they took off running as they were dodging more skewers that attempted to… er… skewer them, but they luckily avoided them and kept going while taking out some Grimm until they got to the main area of the castle, where they saw a Monty Mole polishing a tank.
"There, good as new!" The Monty Mole grinned and then he spotted them. "…Uh oh…" He said as he quickly jumped into his tank.
"…You gotta be kidding me." Blake said. "We have to deal with THAT?"
Weiss pulled out the Cloud Flower. "Let's see if this does anything." She said and then absorbed it. Her dress gained a cloud-like appearance at the edges of her skirt with a snowflake pattern, making it look fluffy. The ends of the sleeves of her jacket are covered in clouds as well along with her shoes at the tops. Her hair clip changed to have a cloud-like pattern and clouds are circling around her side pony tail and her rapier.
Yang whistled. "Wow… so I guess it's some kind of… Cloud Flower?"
"Hmm, I guess." Weiss said.
"Enough with the fashion! I'm going to kill you!" Monty Mole declared, as the five of them got ready.
BGM: They're Pretty Tough, Should We Be Careful!? (Mario and Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story)
Monty Mole began firing Bullet Bills out of his tank, forcing them to dodge as Yang proceeded to punch the Bullet Bills as Lucario used Aura Sphere on the tank, but the Aura Sphere bounced off. "Ha! Nothing can penetrate my tank!"
"Oh yeah?!" Ruby asked as she ran over and slashed the tank numerous times, but all she got was a Bullet Bill to the face. "YAAAAGH!"
"Ruby!" Blake exclaimed as she fired from Gambol Shroud, but the bullets did jack squat as Yang punched the tank, but all it did was leave a small dent.
"Yawn! Is that the best y'all got?"
"Don't count me out just yet!" Weiss said as she jumped in the air, as the floatiness from the Cloud Flower came into effect, as she was caught off-guard, but immediately focused as she switched her dust in Myternaster to red and made a glyph, as the glyph was now a cloud and it hovered over the Monty Mole.
"Ha! What's a measly little cloud gonna do?" Monty Mole taunted, and then… it rained fire on top of him and inside the cockpit. "YOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!" He yelled, launching out of the tank and dusting his butt off that was on fire. "What kind of cheap magic trick was… that…" His eyes widened, realizing he was out of his tank. "…Uh oh."
He was then punched over to the tank by Yang. "OOOF!" He yelled as he crawled back in and went into the next layer while adding air conditioning to cool off the metal. "Ah, hit me all you want, it ain't gonna work this time!" He said, and then proceeded to fire Banzai Bills as they quickly avoided… then Weiss proceeded to change it to ice and then used another cloud.
"Hmph! Like I said, you ain't gonna do jack squat!" He said as it was snowing on top of him. "Snow? Bahaha! You can do better than that!" He said and then proceeded to fire again.
"Well, that didn't work!" Yang said.
"Actually, it did." Lucario said. "He added air conditioning, right? And where do they always hang out?"
"On the outside." Ruby said. "…What are the butts of air conditioning going to do?"
"Well, let's just say… it's going to make it just colder." Lucario grinned.
"Brrr!" Monty Mole shivered. "Is it getting cold in here or is it just me?!" He asked as it was starting to snow in there too as he quickly jumped out to get himself warm. "Phew! Nice warm weather we're having here!" He said… before realizing what just happened. "OH, YOU LITTLE…!"
Cue him getting beat up again, forcing him to scramble into the tank again, then it added one more layer, and proceeding to fire a barrage of missiles as he managed to get the snow out. "Alright! No more flames! No more snow! I'm going to make it completely invulnerable to your elements!"
…What he didn't know is that the third layer had a little lightning rod on top of it.
"What's with the Lightning Rod?" Blake asked.
"Well, I thought it'd be cute to have a cute little lightning rod on my tank, why?" He asked, as Weiss switched Myrtenaster with yellow dust and then made another cloud, as it floated over and they heard thunder… before a lightning bolt hit the Lightning Rod, making the whole thing be electrocuted.
"Warning, systems malfunctioning. Self-Destruction imminent in 5… 4…3…2…"
"…Oh dag nabbit…" Monty Mole groaned, and then the tank blew up, as he was launched into the sky. "I'LL REMEMBER THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS!" He yelled, as there was a star shining brightly in the sky.
End BGM
"Well, that takes care of that." Lucario said as they all took off, and as they did, they proceeded to hike down the mountain where Lucario had a thought and looked back, then looked at the girls who were chatting and praising Weiss. There was something that was bugging him and it was the Grimm.
He didn't want to leave the girls, but he needed answers on this Grimm ordeal. "Um, girls…" He began as they turned around. "I… hate to leave you but there's something I need to do."
"Aww…" Ruby pouted. "It was fun hanging out with you."
"It was… but I'm pretty sure we'll meet again in the future." Lucario said. "Farewell." He waved them goodbye and took off.
"Well, it was fun having him around." Yang grinned.
"Yeah." Blake nodded as they proceeded to walk forward as they saw a sign that said 'this way to Bowser's Kingdom' as they grinned and ran forward… but unfortunately, they fell into a pit fall.
"AAAAH! WHAT THE HELL?!" Weiss yelled.
"What's going on?! Why do I feel cold?!" Ruby asked as a cannon rose from the ground and then it pointed directly at the sky, but not exactly where the Koopa Kingdom is at, and then the cannon shot them off, as they were all screaming.
Unaware of them all, a Koopa and a Hammer Bro emerged from the bush, watching them fly into the sky as they both fist bumped each other. "Lord Bowser, the trap was a success."
"Good! Now I can finish my preparations in peace! Where'd you send them?"
"Anywhere but your kingdom, that's for sure."
"Sweet! Anywhere but here is good!"
Hammer Bro turned off the walkie talkie. "Let's go celebrate."
"Yeah." The Koopa nodded as they walked off. "Although, I have to wonder… did we send them off to Meringue Clouds?"
Hammer Bro pondered this. "Nah, I'm pretty sure we didn't. After all, not all clouds can hold people."
"Good point." Koopa nodded as they took off, but he couldn't help but wonder if that's where they were going to land.
With Lucario…
It's not like he wanted to ditch them, he wanted to help RWBY save the Mario Bros and Peach, but there was this gut feeling that told him to leave them for now and go somewhere else for advice.
It ached him, for he was fond of the girls, but he was sure he'll see them again.
Still… this Grimm situation needed some answers… and he knew just the right guy in Toad Town, a certain doctor to be exact.
"I'm sure Dr. Toadley will know something." He said and he picked up the pace.
At Beacon…
"Phew, what a day…" Jaune muttered as he wandered in his room to go to bed and realizing he was the first one in there, but whatever, he was tired enough to not care and as soon as his head hit the pillow, he was knocked out cold.
A few minutes later…
He felt something breathing down his neck as he woke up, wondering if it was Zwei who wanted to play and as he turned, it was nothing there.
However, he wasn't alone for there was a Boo that wandered around and found Beacon and his first target was none other than Jaune.
The Boo poked him as he turned around, but the Boo went behind his head. "What the…?" Jaune wondered, as the Boo began to play with him by pressing on his shoulder, and it made Jaune more and more angry.
"Alright!" Jaune hopped off of the bed and got ready to fight. "Who are you?! Show yourself!"
The Boo was right behind him, and he didn't even move… but when Jaune turned his head…
The Boo gave out a loud screech… and then Jaune let out the girliest scream ever.
The door slammed opened, as NPR and Zwei came running in, battle ready. "Jaune, what is it?!" Pyrrha asked.
"G-G-Ghost!" Jaune exclaimed, but as they looked around the room, the Boo wasn't in there.
"Oh Jaune, don't be so silly. There's no such thing as a ghost!" Nora reassured him as they all went to bed.
"Right… no such thing…" Jaune said as he went back to bed, his heart still racing, but soon fell asleep.
However… the Boo was right under his bed and gave a dark chuckle. Someone to taunt forever!
Nighty night, Jaune… you're gonna need it.
Meringue Clouds, anyone?