List of oneshots part 4
chapter 64
What if a magic label maker appeared in Remnant?
Series: RWBY
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"C'mon Blake, please, I know you were taking notes, just share them with me!" Yang groaned as her partner sighed.
"Yang, I can't keep sharing notes with you just because you were up late again instead of getting some rest."
"C'mon, it takes a lot of effort to keep this hair this good, and I gotta show it off at the club!" She pouted as they made their way to their dorm.
"Is it the same club you got banned from, or a new one?"
"New one, I'm still waiting on those guys to forget about the last time I was there."
'I doubt it, the hole was huge.' Blake thought with a sigh. 'When will she learn?'
"Hey, c'mon, how about I get you another one of those smut books you love, huh?" Yang asked as they reached the dorm and walked in.
"Mature literature."
"Blake, it's smut, pure and simple." She said as she rolled her eyes before spotting something on her bed. "Hey, that's not mine."
"What?" asked Blake, before turning and saw it was a normal label maker one would find in any store. "Since when do we have a label maker?"
"I dunno… hey, maybe it's Weiss', she seems like the buzz kill that would own one." Yang said as she picked it up.
"Then just put it on her bed."
"Hmm, yeah, or…we have some fun with it." Yang said with a grin. "How pissed do you think she'll be after we mislabel everything she owns?"
"Yang, this is stupid."
"Come on, what's so bad about it?" She asked with a grin as Blake sighed.
"It's childish and demeaning, I can't believe you're actually entertained by that idea."
"Oh come on, don't be such a square. Go on, give it a try."
"Ugh, fine." Blake said, taking the handheld device. "Only so you'll stop bugging me." She muttered as she pondered on what to spell. 'Something quick and easy.' She let something come to mind and thought of something. "Alright, got it."
"Great, what is it?" Yang asked, leaning forward eagerly.
She typed in the words into the machine and it printed out a small label saying 'Fish'. "There, something tiny and easy to spell."
"Really Blake? Fish?" Yang sighed as she shook her head.
"I was practically forced to do this, what did you expect?" She asked as she rolled her eyes before peeling off the back of the sticker. "Here, you can have it."
"Gee, thanks." she said as Blake put the sticker on her shoulder, only for Yang to change nearly instantaneously. She instantly shrank down, her clothes fitting her, as she wound up becoming a yellow scaled fish out of water.
"...what?" Blake blinked, trying to comprehend what had just happened as what was once a teammate flopped around on the ground like...well, a fish out of water.
"Y-Y-Yang?!" She cried out in shock. "Wha- how- but- FISH?!"
The now fish Yang kept on flopping around, Blake dropping the tool as her jaw went slack.
Blake just kept staring until Yang started to flap around less, making the shocked faunus realize that yes, her partner was now a fish and said partner was dying. She quickly rushed to pick her up, ran to the bathroom, and hastily went to get the water going in the tub before putting Yang in. "I-It's going to be ok Yang, I'm going to fix this!"
Yang merely swam around in the water, breathing again while Blake though was in a complete panic.
"I-ok, I put a label on you called fish and now you are one… a swimming, healthy, delicious fi- NO!" She shook her head. "Don't do that! Don't even think it Blake!" She shouted to herself. "You can't eat your friend!"
Yang kept swimming while Blake paced and tried to wrap her head around this.
"I-ok, so I put the label on her and instantly changed… can I take it off and make her normal again?" She looked at the fish and reached in, but Yang swam away from the hand. "Yang, come on, work with me here!" She growled as the fish kept evading her grabs. "Yang! just hold still, I'm trying to help you!"
Yang though stayed away from the hands, following instinct to survive.
"C'mon! Just let me help you!" She grunted, reaching for the fish again, and spotting what looked like a tattoo on it reading 'fish'. 'That must be the label!' She tried to use one hand to block Yang and brought the other one from the other end. "I got you now Yang!" She cried as she closed her hands together, catching the fish. She felt it nearly slip out as she moved her fingers to the spot, grabbing it with two fingers, and tried pulling. She tugged as hard as she could, and right before she she gave up, she felt it start to slowly peel off. "Yes!"
She gave it a strong yank, pulling the label right off, and right away the fish turned back into Yang, who had her partner's arm wrapped around her, oh and said blonde was stark naked.
"What…what just happened?" Yang asked in confusion, feeling disoriented. "Wait, why am I wet and naked?!"
"Yang, you were a fish!" Blake cried out, letting go of her partner and grabbing the label maker. "This changed you!"
"What?" Yang looked at her like she was nuts. "Blake, that's crazy."
"No, really, I swear! Just watch!" She said as she quickly typed out a random word and grabbed a shampoo bottle from the shower and stuck the new label on it. The bottle instantly turned into a pencil, making Yang's eyes nearly pop out of her head.
"What the hell… do it again!" She said in amazement. "Wait, was that my good shampoo?"
"Yang, focus! You. Were. A. Fish!" Blake shook Yang by the shoulders. "This label maker isn't an ordinary one!"
"I see…can I try?" She asked as she grabbed the label maker. "I wonder…." She said as she spelled out 'Yang with clothes on'. "If this doesn't work, I trust you to fix me Blake."
"Yang wait!" she cried out as Yang slapped it on her chest, only for her body to get covered in her normal clothes.
"Alright, it works! I guess the more words you use the more detail it can make something, huh?"
"Yang, focus!" Blake cried as Yang got out of the tub. "You're missing the point. How in all of Remnant did something like….that, end up in our dorm, and where did it come from?"
"I dunno, but hey, why look a gift horse in the mouth? We just got something amazing, I say we have some fun with it!"
Blake stared at Yang before shaking her head. "Yang? I know you like fun, believe me, but this? THIS is something we can't use like a toy!"
"Why not?" She asked as she tilted her head. "We know how it works, we can reverse it, what's the issue?"
"We have no idea how far it can go for one. Another? If we lose it, it could end up with who knows who and then we've just doomed who knows how many people to a crazy magical label maker."
"Blake, please, it's not that bad, you just need to lighten up." Yang said as a lightbulb went off in her head.
"Being cautious and on guard doesn't mean I'm uptight." She frowned before Yang snatched the item. "Yang wait!"
"It's fine, just relax Blake!" She said with a grin as she began to type away. Said label read 'A lightened up Blake' before taking it and quickly slapped it on Blake's hand. "There, now you'll have to relax!" She said with a grin. 'Best plan ever!'
Only for Blake's skin to literally glow bright, like a lightbulb, making Yang turn away as the girl looked at herself. "YANG!"
"My bad, my bad, one second." She said as she began to type away again as Blake tried to tear the label off of herself.
"No, not one second, put it down, now." She frowned before getting the label off, her skin going back to normal.
"Got it!" Yang said as she slapped a label that said 'Blake relaxing enough to listen to Yang' on her rear.
"Ooh!" Blake jumped with pink on her cheeks before glaring at Yang, only for the faunus' expression to shift to a more thoughtful one. "Huh, you know…maybe you're right. Maybe using it for ourselves couldn't hurt. If we know what it does, we can be careful. Besides, when will we get a chance like this again?"
"Exactly! I knew you'd agree with me when you'd stop worrying." Yang said with a grin. "C'mon, how about we hit the town with this baby, huh?"
"Sounds like a plan to me, let's really live a little." Blake grinned as she and Yang began to leave the dorm. "C'mon, we better hurry if we want to catch a bullhead to town."
"Relax, if need to, we'll 'rent' one." Yang wiggled her eyebrows while waving the label maker as they headed down the hall. "We-Oof!"
"Hey!" Yelped out Weiss, bumping right into Yang as the label maker was dropped. "Would it kill you to look where you're going?"
"Hey, I could say the same as you Weisscream!" Yang groaned, going to pick up her label maker. "What are you in such a rush for?"
"I'm relabeling the food in the fridge, I wanted to get there before Ruby ate my leftovers."
"Well don't let us keep you waiting, we're going out." replied Blake.
"Good." Weiss said, snatching a label maker off the ground, unaware that it wasn't hers. She went into the dorm while the others resumed their own to go off and party the night away. She made her way into the dorm and stopped in front of the small fridge she and her three teammates shared. "Maybe this time it'll keep Ruby from grabbing something that's not hers."
She opened it up and got to work on making labels for her own personal foods, putting them on in plainview for anyone to see. ``There, now I better label the others too, they better thank me for this."
Like before she started labeling things left and right, not missing a thing, even labeling the smallest of items.
She paused as she saw a small packet of cookies and sighed. "Ruby…. You really should eat healthier…" She muttered, absentmindedly typing in 'carrots' instead of cookies. She slipped the label on the packet, and right as she turned to the milk, the packet turned into several carrots, making her turn quickly and stare at them in shock. "What….wait, those were, but now… how?" She said as she grabbed the carrots, seeing the label now fused to them reading 'carrots'.
She fell backwards, holding them, and rubbed her eyes. "It couldn't be. A bunch of cookies doesn't just turn into carrots like that…" She said as her eyes turned to the label maker. She slowly picked it up and typed out 'pineapple' on it and carefully placed it on the carrots. She watched in amazement as the carrots immediately turned into a large pineapple, the old label disappearing. "Sweet gods! It did it! This…This label maker is…magic." She said, looking at it in shock. "I…I need to see what else this can do, just to be safe…"
With that she labeled the pineapple cookies again, turning it back into the packet, then rushed away from the fridge and looked around.
"Ok, what can I use? What to use…" She muttered before spotting an old packet of cheese. "Perfect." She said as she took it out. She typed out 'Dog' on it and put it on, eager to see the results.
In no time flat, the cheese suddenly turned into a dog.
"Oh my gods, so it doesn't just change inanimate objects…" she muttered, the dog looking around, sniffing the ground before letting out a bark. "Good boy." She said as she looked at the label maker. 'I wonder if I can change part of stuff or if it has to be a full change to work?'
"Arf arf!"
"Shhh…" She hissed before getting an idea. 'I wonder..' She thought as she typed 'quiet' down and applied the label to the dog. Instantly the dog became silent as it kept trying to bark. "Alright, now for the next experiment." she walked over to the couch, grabbing a pillow and made a label, putting it on the pillow labeled 'Ice'. She watched in awe as the pillow instantly turned into a solid piece of ice, the same shape as the pillow. "Yes! This thing can work with anything it seems. Hmmm, oh! I got it!" she rushed over to her weapon, feeling slightly nervous as she wracked her brain over the precise details. 'Ok, I need this to be precise, I'd guess the more detail I add the more precise the change.'
She carefully typed up a label that read 'Extra durable, strong, and light' before attaching it around the weapon. She gasped as her weapon instantly felt lighter, like she was holding a feather. She held it out, giving a few practice swipes and lunges, all of which didn't feel like she was using a weapon at all with how smooth and easy it felt. "This… this is amazing! Wait, can it…" She said as she quickly typed out 'sealed ice dust' before turning to the silent dog and carefully adding the label.
The dog nearly gnashed at her before the label went on it's nose, causing it to suddenly turn into a large chunk of ice dust.
"T-This…This is amazing, this will solve the dust shortage!" She smiled, doing a little twirl on the spot. "This could ensure the country never has to worry about dust ending! Which means generations will be able to sleep more soundly, with hunters all around never running low on ammo and society not falling to pieces from a shortage." She said, listing off all the amazing things the label maker could do. "This will change the world!"
However, that's when the cons started to come to mind, making her stop jumping in excitement. "This… would also ruin the Schnee company, who would buy dust when it can be made for free?" She muttered. "If there's too much, the value would drop. It'd be so common it would be worthless to try and monopolize, which means anyone making a living off it would go into bankruptcy." She muttered as she began to pace back and forth. "If this label maker can do the same for everything, no one will have a job, this thing can do it all."
She looked down at it, the implications sinking in and making her feel scared. "And who knows what it could make if the wrong person has it. If it went to someone wanting to cause harm and chaos, it would be a complete disaster. It would be a massacre in the hands of a complete psychopath." She said as she shook her head. "No… it's better if only I know the true extent of the label maker's powers… I can pass it off as my semblance too maybe?"
Knock knock
"Who is it?" Weiss called, growing nervous suddenly.
"Weiss, is that you?" Jaune called, making her groan.
"Ugh, Jaune not now, I'm busy." She called out.
"Can you spare a minute? I have a new song for you!" He called, making her groan before an idea struck her.
'Maybe… I can change him back, right? This is a perfect opportunity to see if it's powers work on people…' She looked at the label maker and slowly smiled. "Hold up Jaune, I'll be right there." She called as she began to type away.
"Great! I think you're gonna like this one!" He smiled on the other end. 'Today's gonna be the day, I knew it.'
Weiss smiled as she opened the door. "Say Jaune, why don't you come inside and play your song for me, ok?"
"Any request for the lovely lady." he gave a dramatic bow of the head and walked in, missing the eye roll from Weiss. She smirked as he entered, shitting the door and then slapping a new label onto his back. "Oh, well aren't we in a good mood."
"I sure am." She smirked as she saw him instantly begin to change. In a blink of an eye the tall blonde warrior was replaced with a very confused hamster in a hamster ball.
"Squeak." it let out, Weiss crouching down near it, the label 'hamster in a ball' seen as a tattoo on the back of it's fur.
"I see, so it does work on people, and it can turn them into multiple objects at once." She murmured in fascination. "Well now I can say your new look is an upgrade." She chuckled as she picked up the hamster ball and looked in. She stared at the confused rodent before the full weight of what she just did sunk in. "Wait…did I seriously just turn Jaune into a hamster? All because I can't stand him? Oh gods. I did something stupid, impulsive, and without thinking, just like Yang!" She cried as she quickly pulled out the label maker. "I-I can fix this though, no problem…I know, I'll just make sure to add that he doesn't remember this!"
She quickly typed out 'Jaune with no memory of the last three minutes' and slapped it on the hamster ball. She dropped it and watched as he turned back to normal, clothes and all, looking confused.
"Huh? Hey, where am I?" He turned and was surprised. "Weiss? What's going on?"
"You came in looking for Ruby but she isn't here, now out!" Weiss said practically shoving him out of the room.
"Oh, really? Wait, what was I-"
"Out!" She called, successfully shoving him out and slamming the door behind him. She let out a heavy sigh and slumped down against the door. "That was nerve wracking. I can't pull a stupid stunt like that again." She sighed, slumping up against the door. "I can't just turn someone into a rat or a dog, or…or….something bad like that! I need to think these things through."
She held up the label maker, her mind moving around on the possible things she could now create since she was all alone and had a better understanding of it. 'I could create real bunk beds, or maybe a new dress? Those are easy…but they feel underwhelming after everything else I've done with this.'
She got up, looking around the dorm. "Maybe I could spruce up the place. After all, what's wrong with an upgrade in living conditions?" She muttered, standing up. "I can actually make this place look proper, befitting a Schnee."
With that, she started to make numerous labels to stick all around the place, slowly transforming the dorm into what essentially looked like a 5 star suite you'd find at the top of a huge hotel with chandeliers, ornate furniture, clean kitchen, even a fireplace.
"Yes, this is nice, very nice." She said with a grin, growing more used to the strange powerful device. "Let's see…I doubt the others would mind if I improved their wardrobe too, it wouldn't be proper if my team dressed like bumpkins, now would it?"
She quickly went over to their clothes, humming away as she started turning all of them into more fancy versions that seemed to cover more, or seemed more frilly than their styles.
"I can't wait to see their faces when they see the improvements I've made." She said to herself happily. "I think I've outdone myself."
Suddenly she heard the door open and turned around with a smile as she saw it open and Ruby walked in, blinking in surprise as she took in the sight. "Ah, there you are Ruby."
"Weiss? What…What happened?" she asked, looking around. "Did we get a new dorm while I was gone?"
"In a manner of speaking, what do you think? It's perfect, isn't it?"
"It's…..a lot, and bright." she admitted looking at the diamonds from the chandelier. "Mind filling me in? 'Cause I'm lost."
"I fixed our room, isn't it better?" Weiss asked, starting to feel annoyed that Ruby wasn't expressing how amazing her changes were. "It's now more fitting and a lot more cozy compared to before."
"Well it's fancy I'll give you that, bu-wait a sec, YOU did it?" She pointed to Weiss in surprise.
"Indeed, and of course it;s fancy, but isn't it better?" She asked, her smile turning into a frown.
"Well there's some pretty nice furniture, and-AH! My clothes!" She cried, zipping over to her wardrobe. "What happened to them!? They're all…all…puffy!"
"They've been improved, you should thank me for fixing them for you."
"Are you crazy?! Look at it!" she held up the red outfit with a long skirt. "How am I supposed to move freely with all this getting in the way?"
"Carefully and with grace, duh, not like you have any." Weiss muttered angrily before pausing. 'Unless…'
"Who needs grace when I'm chopping their heads off? Oh no! You did it to Yang and Blake's too?! Oh man, Yang's not gonna like this…" she muttered, not noticing Weiss making another label.
'Alright Ruby, let's see how you act after this! If you hate my changes I'll just change you!' thought Weiss as she slapped it on Ruby's neck, making her jump and whirl around.
"Hey! What's that for?!"
"Oh, nothing much." She said with a small smirk. "Tell me, how do you feel?"
"I feel… relaxed I guess?" She said in mild confusion.
"I see, and what do you think of the changes I've made?"
"They're great, why?"
"Oh nothing, just wanted to make sure there weren't any issues." She said smugly. 'This is perfect, I don't have to change Ruby like I did Jaune, I can just 'tweak' her attitude…I suppose while I'm at it I might as well fix some of her other problems.'
"Anyways, do you know where Zwei is? I was gonna see if he wanted to play fetch." Ruby asked as she looked around for the corgi.
"That's not important right now." Weiss was already getting another label ready before slapping it on Ruby's hand.
"Hey!" She cried as she suddenly seemed to grow almost a foot taller. "What was that for?"
"Oh nothing, hold still." she nodded before slapping the other hand.
"Hey! Knock it off!" She snapped as her speech seemed to be a bit more refined than before, and her posture corrected itself.
"Just a moment, stop squirming." She ordered before getting another one on Ruby's cheek, this time the girl's expression going from annoyed to more relaxed and serious. "Just a few more Ruby, you'll thank me for this later."
"Whatever you say Weiss…" She remarked with a shrug as Weiss got another one on the girl's forehead. Weiss grinned as her leader's hair tidied itself up into a bun.
'Good, good, almost there." Weiss said with a grin as she prepared another label. "Now you're starting to look like a proper leader."
"I feel like one…" She said as Weiss kept applying labels.
'This is perfect, I wish I could have done this ages ago!' Thought Weiss before she finally stopped, panting and stepped back to admire the new Ruby. Standing before her was a young woman who was dressed in a red uniform and heels, her face looked stern, hair in a but, and she looked nearly perfect. 'I wonder if she would look better with white hair?' "So Ruby, how do you feel altogether?"
"I feel fine Weiss, I feel like this team has suffered from a lack of discipline under my guidance, that changes today, as far as I can tell the only exception to this lick or order was you." She said as Weiss beamed.
'She's perfect!'
"We need to find the others and get to work. A proper schedule of training will be a good start, along with proper hygiene. Too much junk food won't do us any good if we're going to be proper huntresses."
"Yes, I agree." She said with a nod. "We will have to take every step necessary to achieve the perfect team."
"Then we have no time to waste." She said as Weiss needed.
"Indeed, we do." She said before noticing something. 'Was this room really that dusty before? We can't start a perfect team in such filth…'
"Get your weapon, we'll be doing some sparring outside." Ruby ordered as Weiss grinned.
"Actually, we may have to postpone it, but trust me, this is a necessary delay." She said as she typed out a new label. 'I'll tear it off her afterwards.'
"Weiss, what are you doing?" Ruby snapped, pushing her hand away when she tried to move it towards her back. "I don't have time for this!'
Weiss's eyes widened as she saw her label move back, knocked out of her hand, her eyes reading 'Dutious Atlesian Maid' before it touched her arm. "No!" before she felt her body lose resistance and gained a neutral expression on her face. Her clothes instantly changed, instantly becoming a black and light blue maid's uniform, with a feather duster appearing where her sword had once been.
"Weiss? What are you wearing?" frowned Ruby. "How are you to train properly dressed like that?"
"I cannot fight, I must clean!" She declared, dropping the label maker as she quickly got to work. "This whole place must be completely spotless."
"Ugh, Weiss, I had such high hopes for you." Ruby sighed in disappointment. "Great, now I need to find Yang and Blake and try to get them into tip top shape." She looked down at the label maker Weiss had dropped and scoffed. "Useless, something like this doesn't need to be in our dorm." she grabbed it and casually tossed it outside before going back inside, right as Ren rounded the corner and noticed the item.
'A label maker? Strange.' he thought as he picked it up. 'Huh….neat.' He calmly headed to his own dorm, figuring it would be useful to have on hand. "I wonder how long I'll get to use it before Nora takes it to have fun with?" he mused to himself.
In their dorm, said girl had Jaune in a headlock, making the blonde slowly turn blue due to the grip.
"Come on Jaune, if you can't break out of this, how are you gonna show Cardin what you got?"
"Gah…ack…you're….stronger than….he is!"
"Nora? Maybe give Jaune a little break." suggested Pyrrha. "He isn't learning anything if he passes out, right?"
"Hmmm, fair enough." She nodded, letting go and letting Jaune gasp for air as his face turned back to normal color.
"Thank you…Pyrrha…" he groaned.
"No problem Jaune." She smiled as Ren entered the dorm.
"I'm back, and I brought something." he held the label maker up. "Figured it might be useful."
"Oooooh! Gimme gimme gimme!" Nora called, rushing to the new, shiny device.
"Nora, you don't even know what it is yet." deadpanned Ren as she snatched it from him.
"Well what is it?" She asked as she fiddled with the buttons.
"A label maker. You use it to make your own personal labels."
"Ooh! Sounds like fun!"
'I bet after a few minutes she'll get bored of it.'
"Hmmm, hey I know, let's give Jaune some muscle." She teased, making up a label for 'Wrestler' and slapped it on Jaune's back. "Now you'll be tough no matter what." She chuckled, making him cross his arms.
"Ha ha Nora, real funny." He said, before suddenly being covered in a cloud of smoke. "W-Hey! What the?!"
"Jaune!"
"There is no Jaune…only El Amarillo!" Cried Jaune as the smoke dissipated to show him now buff, shirtless and now in golden tights, with a strange mask over his face.
All of them went wide eyed at their friend, Pyrrha blushing as he flexed his muscles.
"Uh…Jaune?" Spoke up Ren. "Are you…feeling ok?"
"I feel fine…once I have won my belt from the ring!" he declared as Nora stared at him and then the label maker in shock.
"I…..AM NORA, I AM A GOD AMONG MORTALS!" She cried out, holding it over her head with a random spotlight shining on her. "LOOK UPON ME AND TREMBLE!"
"Nora, can you please fix him?" Pyrrha asked, looking at Jaune. 'He…certainly is quite the sight now…'
"Fix him? I already have! He's ready to take on anyone. Even Cardin and his team." she smirked.
"Cardin? He's the one who has my belt! I will claim it and show him what I'm made of!" he yelled before he ran and busted through the door and down the hall.
"Wait, Jaune!" Pyrrha called, torn between going after him to keep him out of trouble, or working to get him back to normal.
"Aw, it's ok Pyrrha, I can make you another Jaune if you want!"
"Nora, take it easy, just put the label maker down, nice and easy…" Ren interjected with his hands up. "We don't need a second Jaune, one is plenty."
"C'mon, it'll be fun! Or would you prefer someone else?" Nora asked with a grin. "I can do anything with this!"
"Nora, I don't think a label maker like that is meant to be used as a toy." He tried to reason with her, but she was already in the middle of making a new one. "You need to give it to me."
"Why? C'mon Ren, think about it, this is an amazing opportunity, we could…oh! I got it!" She said, having a new idea. She quickly typed out a new label, slapped her bed, and watched in glee as it turned into a massive pile of pancakes. "Ooooh~"
"Nora, put it down, now." he tried to order her, but she was already in the middle of biting into the huge flapjacks. "I'm not joking."
"C'mon, why can't you just have some fun?" She sighed before grinning as she slowly turned towards him.
"Nora? What are you smiling about?" he asked, taking a step back. 'She's getting one of her ideas again.'
"Oh nothing~" She said as she began to type out a new label. "Just had a wonderful idea Ren~"
"Nora, no, whatever it is, it's probably not a good idea."
"Oh don't be so silly, it's a perfect idea~" She said as she held it up. "Just trust me and relax, and make this easy~" She said as she tried to stick it on Ren.
"Nope!" he spoke, ducking from it and nimbly moving around her arm as she tried to slap the label on him, making sure to keep moving.
"Gotcha!" She cried as she slapped the label down, only to groan as she missed him and hit Pyrrha instead. "Ren, you made me miss!"
"Pyrrha!" He called as he turned to see his teammate had somehow turned into a body pillow, yet seemed to still be moving around, as if she was trapped inside it. "Nora! Put that down right this minute!"
"No way, this is too much fun! Don't worry I'll fix Pyrrha in a minute, she's fine though, right Pyrrha?"
"Nora! Change me back!" She cried out, kicking the walls of her 'prison' but to no avail.
"See, she's fine! It would have been great if it hit you though, you could have talked, not be able to stop me and…well if you got lonely and cold at night I could uh….forget it!" Nora blushed as she shook her head.
'She's gone mad with power. I'll need to go with something drastic.' Ren thought as he narrowed his eyes and steeled himself for what he had to do next. "Nora?"
"Relax, I-"
"Zwei's eating your pancake bed!" he cried out, pointing behind her.
"What?! Bad dog!" She cried as she quickly turned around, only to see nothing happening. 'Huh?"
Ren took the moment to grab Pyrrha, run out of the room, and down the hall in no time flat.
"Wait, Ren?! Get back here!" Nora cried as her teammate kept running. "You're being stubborn!"
"You're acting irrational Nora, you've gone mad with power!"
"I'm not mad, I'm a goddess!" She declared as she kept running before getting an idea. "In fact, I know just what to do now!" She declared as she stopped and began to type away on the label maker.
'Oh no.' he thought before she slapped it on herself and suddenly came after them, going super fast. 'Damn it!' He thought as he saw her get closer by the second.
"You're mine now Re-" She started, only for him to duck around the corner, and her speed making her too fast to change course. Thus leading to her slamming face first into the wall at the end, and giving Ren and Pyrrha the chance to escape and duck into a janitor's closet.
"Pyrrha, are you ok? What are we going to do?" Ren asked the large pillow quietly
"I don't know, but I can't be stuck like this. It's weird." she let out. "I feel fine but…softer? Look, we obviously can't beat her if she keeps changing reality on a whim."
"What she does with those dials affects anything they touch, but maybe…maybe they can be undone." He said as he looked over the pillow and spotted a tag on it reading 'sentient body pillow that can talk'. He reached down, grabbed it, and tried pulling it off. "Let me try something."
"Ok, go ahead." She said as Ren carefully touched the label, feeling around until he found the edge. When it started coming off her body tingled before she started to feel the softness fading away. When he managed to tear it off completely, she instantly turned back to normal, gasping in shock. "Thank you Ren!"
"Alright, so we've learned they can be undone when these are removed."
"But that doesn't stop the fact Nora is going to run wild with it. How are we going to get the drop on her with it?"
"Well…I might have an idea, it's a risky one, but something I usually do as a last resort when she gets like this." He said as Pyrrha looked at him in confusion. "Ok, maybe not quite like this, but this worked up at least."
"What is it?"
(Later)
"Uh…Ren?"
"Yes? What is it?"
"Are you sure about this plan?"
"Yes."
"But, doesn't it seem….unorthodox?"
"We're dealing with Nora, nothing is unorthodox in this scenario." he replied as the two hid behind a corner while Ren held a string, tied to a stick, holding up a box with a plate of maple syrup under it.
"But…it's just syrup, can't she just make it now?" Pyrrha questioned before Ren shushed her.
"She's coming, quiet, we can't let her know we're here." they ducked down, listening as they heard footsteps and Nora muttering to herself.
"Why did he run… maybe I should make myself sexier? Maybe he won't run if I have bigger tiddies?" She muttered, looking at the label maker, right before noticing the bottle of syrup and perked up. "Oooh, free syrup!" She grinned as she lunged towards it. "This'll go great on my bed!"
Right as she grabbed it, Ren pulled the string and made the box fall over her before he ran over and held it down.
"Hey! What's going on!?"
"Just give up Nora, I have you!" He called as he held the box down. "You're going to stay there until you calm down, alright?"
"Ren? Hey! Let me out! This is a sneaky trick!" She complained. "You said you wouldn't do this again!"
"Nora, you turned Pyrrha into a pillow, I had no choice."
"Ren wait! We still need the item!" Pyrrha called as he froze.
"Oh…right….did you hear that Nora?" He asked as he looked down at the box nervously.
"Oh big time~" She chuckled as he heard something typing away.
"Crap." he muttered before the box launched itself up, slamming him into the ceiling before falling down with a groan. "Ow."
"Yes, it worked! Didn't know if I spelled that right!" Nora laughed as she got up, only to be tackled from behind by Pyrrha. "Hey!"
"Got it!" she let out, pulling it from Nora's grip.
"No fair, give it back!" She groaned as she tried to reach for it.
"No, this is too dangerous." she held it away from her. "Now we're going to find Jaune and-"
"AHHHH!"
The three turned and saw Cardin staggering down the hall, looking banged up and roughed up.
"You three! Get that dork away from me! He's crazy!"
"You will rue the day you challenged El Amarillo!" called Jaune running behind him, before bending his legs and lunged, tacklingCardin to the ground before easily getting on his back and started bending the larger teen's legs back.
"Ow ow ow ow ow! You're gonna break it!"
"I won't stop until you yield for good!" he let out, getting off from Cardin, before raising out his elbow and jumped up, dropping down and bringing it on Cardin's back.
"Jaune, stop!" Ren called, hearing Cardin roar out in pain. "He's had enough!"
"Enough? For all the trouble he's caused, only I shall decide when he's had enough." Jaune grunted as he lifted Cardin up over his shoulders, back to them, gripping him by his legs and arms, before he started to pull, arching Cardin's back at a painful angle with said bully yelling out in pain.
"UNCLE! UNCLE! UNCLE!"
"Alright, that's enough Jaune." Ren called, marching up to the blonde and looking around before spotting the label. He reached down and yanked it off, causing Jaune to revert back to normal, and looking lost. Immediately he then collapsed, unable to hold up Cardin anymore.
"Ow…what…why was I… why was I like that?" Jaune groaned, his head feeling fuzzy.
"Nora." Ren and Pyrrha said together with said girl in a headlock due to Pyrrha.
"Ah…" He said, nodding as he stumbled his way onto his feet. "Nora, what happened?"
"I made you strong, I was going to make everything awesome!"
"By going mad with power." Pyrrha said with a frown. "That device is dangerous, we need to destroy it."
"Agreed. If Nora could get like that, who knows what might happen if someone worse gets it." nodded Ren.
"Wait wait wait, aren't we being hasty? Sure Nora went a bit power crazy, but we can't deny that the machine is powerful, imagine what it could do if we used it for good." Jaune interjected.
"Jaune, she literally turned you into a wrestler."
"Yeah, but still, we were able to fix me, and imagine what we could do if we actually focused, I say we keep it."
"Yeah! You say it fearless leader!"
"Jaune, this thing is an enigma. We have no idea where it came from, how it can do that, or just what the limits are?" Pyrrha said as she held up the label maker. "This is for the best." She said as she tossed it up, nodding to Ren who drew stormflower and tried to slice the device apart. To their shock, his knives banged off them, shaking as if he had tried to destroy an atlesian battleship with them. "What the-"
"It's invincible?!" Jaune cried out in shock.
"Sweet!" grinned Nora. "If we can't get rid of it I call dibs!"
"No!" They cried as she tried to surge forward to grab it.
"Aww come on!" She groaned as she struggled to get to it. "Just…one…more….time!"
"Nora, you're grounded." spoke Ren before taking the label maker. "I'll hold onto it."
"No fair! Give it!" she cried, lunging forward once more, just enough for Pyrrha to lose her grip on her. She grabbed it and tried prying it from Ren's grip, leading to a tugging match before Jaune and Pyrrha joined in. "We could get whatever we want with it!"
"Nora, you turned me into a pillow!"
"I won't this time! I promise!"
"It needs to be put away for good!"
"We need to use it for good!" Jaune chimed in.
"Jaune, trust us, this is for the best!"
"We need to at least try!"
This went back and forth for a minute, them shuffling around, trying to get a better grip when eventually they made a mistake, tripping over the comatose Cardin. All of them yelled as they fell down, the item slipping from their grip and went flying through a nearby open window.
The item fell, landing on a 'student' who was sitting on a bench, enjoying some ice cream. They looked confused and turned to see it on their lap. They looked at it in confusion as they picked it up and looked it over. They kept licking the ice cream, looking up at the sky, then back to it. They looked at it again in confusion as they typed out a random word, 'blue' with it. They took the label and put it on the bench, causing the color to change right away to the named color. They blinked in surprise, their pink and brown eyes lighting up in glee as they revaluated the device in their hands.
They made another one, 'bigger scoops' before taking it and put it on the ice cream cone, causing the ice cream itself to double in size. She grinned in glee as she saw the large scoops sway and start to fall off, the cone never changing size to support the ice cream's new size. She got up and ignored the lost treat before she took off jogging. She skipped happily, her mind full of crazed thoughts, her long pink and dark brown hair fluttering behind her.
(Later)
Cinder was busy looking over the blueprints of the school, double checking the route to take for easier and quicker access. 'I see, so the air vents will actually be slower than the hallways, and too small for me to fit through.'
Knock knock
"Yes? Come in." Cinder called as she quickly threw a blanket over the blueprints. She saw the student poke her head in with a smile, making her relax slightly. "Neo, it's you."
Nero smiled as she skipped into the room, looking around and grinning as she saw it was just her and Cinder in the room.
"So, what is it? Do you have any new information for me?"
Neo gave a brief shrug, her hands behind her back and fiddling with something Cinder couldn't see.
Cinder muttered in annoyance, going back to her blueprints as the petite fighter inched closer to her 'leader'. 'Of course, she was probably out stuffing her face with ice cream.' She thought as she shook her head. 'She's lucky she and Roman are still useful to me or I would have disposed of them ages ago…'
Neo held up a label and quickly patted it on Cinder's back, making her turn as Neo's smile got bigger.
"If you don't have anything useful, then-" she started, only to immediately be covered by a cloud of smoke.
Neo grinned as the smoke dissipated to reveal an ice cream sundae in a red glass container that looked similar to Cinder's dress. She clapped her hands and picked it up while licking her lips.
She grinned as she grabbed a spoon and began to dig into her new treat, glancing happily over at the device that had made it a reality. With this thing, anything was possible, although, with Cinder now a treat, that still left her two lackeys. Then again, Neo wasn't too worried, they had no reason to expect anything from her, and they hadn't seen her new 'trick'.
She kept enjoying the treat, ignoring how morbid this seemed, and emptied the dish, letting out a hiccup, the flavor having a bite to it, but still sweet. She tossed the dish away casually, sitting up with a grin, grabbed the label maker and set off to find the rest of her 'teammates'. Already coming up with the perfect labels for them so she was prepared.
(Later)
Neo hummed happily as she made her way back into the room, in her hands were two new items. One was a large Emerald, and another was a pair of silver dress shoes that almost looked like they were made of metal. Now both of them were more useful and not such a pain to work with anymore. She smiled as she tossed them onto one of the now empty beds and sat down, pondering what she should do next.
On one hand she could go to Roman and let him know about it, given how this is something he'd go nuts to see in action.
On the other hand, she wasn't in any rush to share her new toy, and she had a whole school of people she could mess with, and it's not like anyone could stop her now.
She gave a shit eating grin followed by a devious giggle before she seemingly vanished and headed out of the room. She had a new toy to test out.
(Timeskip)
"Hey Ruby." Jaune yawned, stepping out of his dorm and spotting the team leader of RWBY.
"Morning Jaune." Ruby said cordially as Jaune looked her over.
"I see someone got visited by Neo again, huh?"
"Of course, it's not that hard to see." she remarked, the dog ears on her head twitching slightly.
"You didn't try to pull the tag off?" He sighed, still trying to get used to his friends new appearance.
"I used to have a tail as well."
"Ouch. Well, look on the bright side."
"If you make a crack involving my dog I WILL make you run laps, again." She snapped as he closed his mouth.
"...So, uh… where's Yang and Blake?" He said as the rest of his team filed out of their dorm.
"Yang wound up completely red, so she's trying to skip, and Blake lost all her clothes. All of them, so she's staying out of sight for the time being."
"Gotcha, well we got off light tonight, so I guess we're lucky, huh?" He said as the rest of his team shrugged.
"For now that is." reminded Ren. "She could strike later today, don't forget that."
"I know, I know, but she messed with us a few days ago, so maybe she found a new target." Jaune said hopefully.
"In any case, we should try and get some groceries later for a bribe." Pyrrha spoke up.
"Good call, should we get the classic flavors or try something new to see if she likes it?"
"New, just in case she's getting bored." Jaune said as the others nodded as they made their way down the hall, yet things seemed off, occasionally some parts of the walls seemed to be a strange color, or larger than they should have been. At one point gravity seemed to be inverted. All of which they've been forced to change ever since word got around on what Neo could do without any of them able to track her down and stop her. The only solace they had was that sometimes the tags could be removed if another hadn't been applied, and that Neo could occasionally be bribed to change someone back if she was pleased with said bribe.
Unfortunately the city of Vale had forbidden the school from shutting down, they were terrified of the idea that Neo would move her activities to Vale if she couldn't have fun in Beacon. Thus it led to the local authorities and teachers to try and hunt her down and stop her for good.
The end result was a disaster, those who returned were changed, and it was quickly made clear that they couldn't beat her, and that the diminutive criminal had used the label maker on herself. So they were forced to recognize the fact she was untouchable, at least for now.
As for Neo, she was having the time of her life, and she had no intention of leaving anytime soon.
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Before I forget, I recommend checking out Geo Soul's story involving his oc kid for Lincoln, Rudy Loud. Why? With the hope that someone, an artist mind you, will see it and think 'Boy, this guy looks like he needs some artwork made along with the other Sin Kids'. So if you could go ahead and check it out, that would be very sweet and kind.
