One assignment done one chapter to celebrate WAHOO! Also shout out to Jacob Rickshaw for thinking up an awesome name for this genre 'takeover fiction.' Here's hoping it becomes more common among fanficts. Ok so I feel I'll need to address this Red will not have seen any of volume two not even the production diaries simply because knowing all Cinder and Torchwick's plans would be no fun.
I don't own RWBY if I did Nora would have broken Cardin's legs.
"You're a Huntress…Can I have your autograph?"…
"You're Professor Ozpin, you're the head master of Beacon"…
"But why would I need friends when I have you?"…
"You don't even know me"…
"Is she right? Did you make a mistake?"…
"As a girl, I wanted to be just like those heroes in the books... Someone who fought for what was right, and protected people who couldn't protect themselves!"
"Well that's why we're here. To make it better,"…
Red slowly came to, her body feeling like it was made from lead. Grimacing she clutched her head in pain, her headache making itself known. 'That one was different from the rest, they didn't cause nearly as much pain.' Frowning at the thought of her condition getting worse she rose from the bed, trying to ignore the pain. Opening her eyes Red realized she was again in the infirmary, 'I really need to stop waking up in here.' Feeling something on her legs Red looked down and saw Yang, asleep at the end of the bed. Smiling Red gently shook Yang rousing the blonde from her slumber.
"Are you okay sis? I'm really sorry, I shouldn't have gone all out like that," Yang quickly apologized.
Red climbed out of the bed, turning to face Yang with a fake look of hurt on her face. "My dearest sister Yang, are you implying that I'm weak? I'm hurt that my own sister thinks so little of me," she finished with a fake sob.
Yang immediately began apologizing again, her face priceless. Unable to hold it in anymore Red burst into laughter.
"Oh ha ha Ruby very funny," grumbled Yang. "But seriously you okay? This is the second time you've woken up in the infirmary in 3 days," she asked, concern clear in her voice.
Red looked out the window at the moon, unable to look Yang in the eye. "Under the circumstances I think I'm doing rather well," replied Red, a sad smile across her face.
Before Yang could respond she was interrupted by the sound of the door opening. Both of them turned to see the rest of team RWBY and JNPR walk in. Nora ran up to Red, bellowing about how cool that fight was and what her favourite parts were, not even pausing to breathe. Red flinched, her headache acting up at the loud voice literally meters from her.
"Nora I've got a bit of a headache, could you be a tad quieter please?" she begged.
Nora grinned sheepishly before darting back to Ren, who gave Red an apologetic look. Nodding to him Red turned to Yang.
"So how long was I out?" she asked.
Yang shrugged before turning to Blake, who was watching Red carefully.
"You've been out for two hours, Yang only woke up half an hour ago," explained the faunas.
"Yeah then Yang told us to get something to eat and that she'd call when you woke up," continued Nora.
Red looked at them in surprise. "Hold on, you guys were waiting for me?" she asked, confused.
"Of course!" replied Jaune shocked, "you're our friend Ruby, it wouldn't be the same eating without you."
Everyone nodded their heads in agreement, even Weiss. Red's vision blurred as she threw her hood over her head, if anyone noticed her watering eyes, they were smart enough to not comment. 'Maybe I should just tell them, Yang deserves to know at least, she's my sister.' Red blinked where had that come from? Yang was Ruby's sister not her's. Suddenly a voice came over the PA system, causing Red's headache to return with a vengeance.
"Ruby Rose you are wanted at the headmaster's office immediately," it announced.
Sighing Red thanked all her friends before telling them to go back to the dorms and get some rest. Closing the door behind her she walked off to Ozpin's office, 'I don't know whether to be proud or sad that I've memorized the way to his office already.'
"What do you think they're calling her into the office for?" asked Nora.
"Maybe to talk to her about the stage, you guys did do a lot of damage," answered Weiss.
Yang jumped up, "I better go too, might be able to get him to let Ruby off the hook. It was my fault after all."
Pyrrha grabbed Yang's shoulder, leading her away from the door. "Don't worry Yang if that was the case they would have called you up too, he probably just wants an update on her…condition," she finished, pausing to look for the right word.
Yang deflated at this, in truth she'd forgotten about Ruby's 'amnesia'. Weiss and Blake nodded to each other, grabbing Yang they dragged her out of the infirmary.
"You guys go on ahead, we've got some catching up to do," informed Blake, ignoring the struggling blonde.
Red sat in the chair opposite from Ozpin, a steaming mug of coffee in her hand, both of them were silent as they drank their coffee. Honestly Red couldn't see why he liked the stuff so much, still it was a free drink so she wasn't going to complain. Finally Ozpin put down his cup, a ghost of a smile on his face.
"Well Miss Rose you certainly don't do things halfway do you? Three visits to my office in as many days, I dare say this is a new record," he commented, amused.
"Yeah sorry about that, we got really into the fight and kind of went overboard," she grinned, sheepishly.
"Indeed," mused Ozpin, "but that is not why I called you here. Tell me how is your condition going, has anything returned?"
"What are we doing here?" she whispered to her teammates.
"Quite you dolt! You'll get us caught," Weiss whispered back.
"You did want to find out more about what's going on with Ruby," answered Blake.
"Eavesdropping on the headmaster was not what I had in mind!" she shot back.
"Quiet! They've started talking," ordered Weiss.
All three of them pressed themselves up against the door, trying to catch the conversation between the room's two occupants. Yang heaved a sigh of relief in hearing Ruby wasn't in trouble, however her eyes widen and she pressed herself up further against the door upon hearing Ozpin's next question.
"… has anything returned?"
Red stared down at the cup in her hand, debating. 'Should I tell him? It wouldn't be a lie after all.' Taking a deep breath she looked up at Ozpin.
"Actually Headmaster, I've had a couple of memory flashes," she admitted.
Ozpin's eyebrows raised as he placed his cup down, a serious expression present on his face. "Really? This is good it means we are making progress. If you don't mind could you explain these 'flashes'?"
Red nodded, "well I've had three so far, all of them while I was asleep," she explained. "The first two were specific memories, while the last was… different… more like emotions or drives than a specific memory itself."
"Interesting, do you have any idea what could have triggered these memories?" he asked, clearly taking mental notes.
Leaning back Red closed her eyes and began to ponder on the past three days, looking for a connection, to no avail. Sighing Red ran her hand through her hair in frustration before having a brain wave.
"Unfortunately Headmaster I don't know what triggered the first and third," she said opening her eyes. "But I think I know what caused the second flash."
"Oh really, well then do tell," he ordered, intrigued.
Taking a sip from her coffee Red began, "I was heading back to the dorms and I overheard the rest of my team arguing about… something, Yang got really depressed afterwards. When I went to sleep that night I had a dream about the time Ru- I made Ember Celica for her."
They all looked at each other with ashamed expressions. Ruby had heard they argument last night, it was a wonder she even talked to them after that. 'Wait that meant she heard what I said last night. I guess that's why she won't look at me.' Yang decided that she would apologize to Ruby after this, maybe take her out to Vale, let her get out of Beacon for a while.
"Guys I think we should go," she suggested to her teammates.
Unfortunately they were both too absorbed in their eavesdropping to hear. Sighing Yang again pressed herself up against the door, frowning.
If Ozpin noticed Red's slip up he didn't comment. "I see so your thoughts of Miss Xiao Long caused memories of her to surface. Could you please tell me what the first memory flash was?" he asked, instead.
Red thought about it for a moment before shrugging, "Sure I guess, the first memory flash was of me visiting the grave of someone known as Summer Rose."
'Out of all the memories that had to return it had to be that one,' thought Yang clenching her fists.
"Who's Summer Rose?" asked Weiss.
Blake just shrugged, "family member probably."
Yang grabbed them, "alright this has gone on long enough, we're leaving," she growled.
Both of gulped, they hadn't seen Yang this angry since that time CRDL had sprayed her hair black. Yang glared at her teammates, daring them to argue, before pulling them from the door. Throwing them over her shoulders Yang walked back to dorms, ignoring the cries of her teammates, her head filled with plans.
Red was expecting the normal reaction from Ozpin at this news. Instead she was surprised to see his expression turn sombre. He stood up and walked up to Red before taking the empty cup from her hands, his eyes not meeting her's.
"How much do you remember about Summer?" he asked.
"Not much, just the visit itself," she answered.
"I see, well perhaps that's for the best. However if you ever need to talk to someone my door is always open," he offered, escorting her out.
As the door closed behind her Red walked to the dorms, thinking on the last discussion. Just what had happened to Summer that could cause Ozpin to act like that? Deciding to look into to it later she opened the door to team RWBY's dorm.
"What the hell?!"
What happened to Summer? Will it be canon or something far worse? What did Red see in the dorms? And will we ever get back to the canon episodes? Find out in the next episode of Digimon Digital Monsters...wait... shit...
