AN: And now ladies and gentlemen, before I go on a brief hiatus from my various creative works, I present to you another chapter of SLVR Chibi!
[audience applause]
Ruby: Wait, what do you mean brief hiatus?
AN: Simple, I gonna be going on vacation in a couple days. Hopefully all the fun and relaxation will help to reinvigorate my creative spirit so that I'm able to put stuff out a lot more frequently than I have been able to for the past couple years, and get me back to where I was before those two years started.
Sora: When's the last time you went on vacation anyways?
AN: Uh...I don't know like 2019, I think?
Weiss: lyoko!
AN: What? I've been busy, and vacations are expensive, plus, you know, the whole thing that followed 2020? Aka the year nobody likes to talk about.
Anyways, enjoy today's chapter, as it explores our own take on one of the only good things to come out of Warner Brothers right now. Timeless classics all of them, and one of the few things that they can't ruin.
Ventus: Well, someone's a little bitter.
AN: Dude, it's not just me who thinks that WB has been making some very stupid decisions lately, be it with DC Comics or really anything else they currently or previously owned. And they've done nothing to help them in all that time since. Prime examples: The Flash movie, Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League, and of course, let's not forget about what happened to our friends from Remnant and their parent company.
Blake: He's got a point.
Yang: Yep. Thank goodness we've found a better home with ViZ Media. Sure, it means we probably won't get anymore adventures with the Justice League or even the Titans, but it's better that than letting them potentially ruin us like they have so many of DC Comics' movies and franchises.
AN: Okay, time to stop hating on WB before this turns from light-hearted comedy and into a really heavy thing that runs the risk of us getting flamed. Announcements and disclaimer please!
If you haven't already, please check out our YouTube channel "Studio Fandom". It's the best place to get updates as to what I'm doing with my writing stuff at the time along with various other content. And if you want to look at some pretty cool artwork, we've also got a DeviantArt page "studiofandom", so check that out too, when you get the chance.
Speaking of the YouTube channel, we're still looking for voice actors for the Remnant of the Key Reading Series videos. Not only that, but we're now looking for artists who might be interested in helping to create images for said videos as well. For more details on what to do to sign on and/or qualify, go check out episode 8 of Studio News for full details on the voice actor stuff. Or even check out the latest episode of Studio News, (that being Episode 12) for all the details on both the voice actor stuff and the artist stuff.
I do not own anything from any of the Kingdom Hearts, RWBY, or RWBY Chibi franchises, or any other franchise mentioned in this story.
Chapter 12: Getting Looney in Here
Hunting Seasons
It seems like a calm, sunny, peaceful day in the forest, with hardly a creature stirring, at least until Professor Port comes jumping out of the bushes with his rifle in hand. Looking to you (yes, you, the reader) Port holds a finger to his lips and says, "Shhh, be very, very quiet. I'm out hunting Heartless. Ho-ho!" He then slowly moves forward until he finds a particular trail of footprints. "Ah! Heartless tracks! One of the most reliable methods of seeking out and finding a beast to blast into dust."
What Port did not know was that the Heartless tracks were actually being planted by a certain Beowolf, and he made sure they led right up to an actual Heartless nest. When he finished laying down the trail of tracks, Mike turned towards the nest and called out, "Boris! Oh Boris neighbor! Perhaps you could spare a cup of salt?"
He then dashes away as fast as he could, leaving no one for Boris the Shadow to see when he came out with a cup of salt in hand. "Did someone ask for a cup of salt?" Boris asked, only for his cup of salt to end up being blasted to pieces and spilling onto the ground soon after. "Huh, I wonder if this counts for the usual jinx of bad luck you would normally get for spilling salt."
Before Boris could wonder any further on the matter, Port shoved his rifle into the back of his head, making his antenna stand on end out of shock. "Alright, say your prayers, Heartless," Port ordered. "I've got you cornered."
Boris did not panic or even look slightly worried. Instead, he just slowly turned around and gave Port a look while calmly munching on a carrot and asked, "Hey pal. Are you looking for trouble? It ain't Heartless Hunting Season."
"Nothing you say will dissuade me from…wait, what did you just say?" Port asked.
"I said it ain't Heartless Hunting Season," Boris repeated.
"It's not?" Port asked, now very confused.
"No, it's Grimm Season," Boris revealed, drawing the ire of the very Grimm that had just tricked him into coming outside for this.
"That, sir, is an ill-mitigated fabrication!" Mike angrily snapped. "It's Heartless Season."
"Grimm Season," Boris shot back.
"Heartless Season!"
"Grimm Season."
"Heartless Seasons!"
"Grimm Season!"
"HEARTLESS SEASON!"
Boris then gave the audience a quick wink before pulling a sneaky fast one on old Mike. "Heartless Season!"
"Grimm Season!" Mike fired back, not realizing he had been bamboozled, and it would not register for a while either.
"Heartless season!"
"Grimm season!"
"Heartless Season!"
"I say it's Grimm Season, and I say fire!" Mike insisted, prompting Port to shrug and raise his weapon again, this time aiming at the confident looking Grimm.
One loud blast of the weapon later sent Mike's skull armor spinning around on his head, and it was only at this moment that he realized something went wrong. "Hmm," Mike hummed before marching up to Boris. "Let's run through that again."
"Okay," Boris shrugged.
"I'll start it this time," Mike insisted.
"Right," Boris agreed.
With that, Mike shoved the rifle in Boris' direction. "Heartless Season."
Boris just pushed it right back to Mike. "Grimm Season."
"Heartless Season," Mike insisted, shoving the rifle away from him again.
Boris then grabbed the rifle to shove again, only to pull it towards him at the last second and say, "Heartless Season."
Like a total fool, Mike grabbed the rifle and fell right into the trap again as he shouted, "Grimm Season! FIRE!" Another blast and this time Mike's skull armor was nearly blown off his head. He quickly reattached it though before glaring right back at his Heartless rival. "Okay wise guy, this time you start it."
"Whatever you say," Boris shrugged, only to find a way to trick Boris again in mere seconds. "Heartless."
"Grimm! FIRE!" This time when the gun went off, Mike's skull armor stayed attached, but his head got a little turned around. "What's the matter? Everything's upside down. Sheesh, I feel like I've had a total change in perspective."
Boris could not help but laugh. "Hehehe, what a maroon! Hehehe, what a big old nincompoop."
Even though he really should be blasting both monsters, Port had to agree with the Shadow and chuckled along with him. "An absolute fool!"
While the other two were laughing at his misery, Mike spotted something that would prove him right beyond a shadow of a doubt. "Aha! You see that!" Mike shouted as he raced over to a nearby sign. "This clearly states it is in fact, Heartless Season!"
"What? That can't be right," Boris insisted, and immediately pulled down the banner to reveal another sign underneath. "See? It's Grimm Season."
"No, it's Heartless Season," Mike insisted, pulling down the sign that said Grimm Season to reveal what was underneath again.
"Grimm Season," Boris argued, prompting the two to start up again, this time while pulling down the hunting season posters.
"Heartless Season!"
"Grimm Season!"
"Heartless Season!"
"Grimm Season!"
"HEARTLESS SEASON!"
The two both stopped short when they saw the last poster did not say either Grimm or Heartless Season. Instead, it said it was Port Season with a very clear picture of a certain professor. The two creatures of darkness turned towards Port with devious looks, making the prideful huntsman smile nervously and sweat a little.
"Uh-oh," was all Port could say before he had to book it out of there, with the other two firing their own guns at the professor.
Even after he was out of sight, the two did not drop their weapons. No, they decided to continue the chase, even as they looked out to the audience for a brief interaction.
"Shh! Be very, very quiet. We're hunting Ports," Boris whispered.
"Ho-ho!" Mike finished, and the two marched off.
Beep-Beep!
Luxu was tired of sitting on the sidelines waiting for Cinder's gang to destroy the heroes. None of their plans were working, and at this point, anything they tried was just going to end up being laughed at like they are all some big joke. So, he is taking things into his own hands, and he knew just who to start with: a certain speedy little reaper.
"Hehehe, everything's going according to plan too," Luxu chuckled, slightly breaking the fourth wall a little when he should NOT be. "Sorry…Anyways, here's how it's gone down so far. Step One: Lure Little Red out into the middle of the desert. Check!"
A short time earlier…
"This is where the distress signal originated from, but I'm not seeing any signs of people in danger or any Grimm," Taiyang told Qrow and his girls. They had decided to take this mission together, mainly because they have not really done much like this since Ruby and Yang started at Beacon and began hanging out with their Keyblade friends from other worlds. "Are you sure you read the mission info right, Qrow?"
"Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, WHOA! Don't put this on me, Tai. You're the one who picked the mission. I'm just here for when everyone needs to be saved and you drop the ball," Qrow instantly argued in his defense.
"What do you mean 'when everyone needs to be saved and I drop the ball?' Are you saying I'm gonna get us into trouble and can't save people without your help?" Tai demanded.
"Technically, you said it, not me, and even then…well, past experiences don't lie. Remember the wagon incident?" Qrow shot back.
"Hey! That was not my fault! I had to work that day, and you were the one who should've been watching the girls," Tai snapped.
"I called ahead to say I was running late! Why did you leave without finding someone else to fill in?"
"And this is why we don't normally take missions as a family," Yang sighed tiredly, prompting a nod of agreement from Ruby. Clearly this happened a lot.
Meanwhile, Luxu was hiding in wait with one of his old Arrowguns ready, all while present day Luxu continued going over how his plan had been going so far. "Step Two: Drop any help Little Red may have brought with her with minimal ammunition and trap 'em in an inescapable room. Check!"
Three shots were fired, and all three nailed Yang, Taiyang, and Qrow, sending them flying back into an Escape Room building that seemed to jump up from the ground out of nowhere. Yang immediately tried getting them out her way, but no matter how many times she hit the walls, they would not even shudder under the blows. Ruby on the other hand turned to where the shots had come from and glared at the sight of Luxu leaping out to chase after her.
"Luxu! So this was all some kind of big trap from the start," Ruby realized.
"Got that right, Little Red. And it's only just getting started for you," Luxu reported before firing at Ruby, prompting her to rush off as fast as her Semblance could take her.
Back in the present…
"Now I just need to take down Little Red, show her captured and beaten self to Sora in order to make him surrender, and we've got ourselves a win under our belts at last. Easy-peasy," Luxu determined and he quickly started getting his next trap ready. After all, how hard could it be to catch one little girl with a mechanical scythe and super speed?
After emptying a few large barrels of oil grease onto the desert road, Luxu was sure it would be even easier than he thought. Once Ruby came rushing down this way, she would go slipping and sliding all the way into a canyon wall, leaving her dazed and confused long enough for Luxu to capture her. Luxu could only chuckle at how clever and genius his plan was, and he quickly took cover upon hearing Ruby coming.
Still using her Semblance to run, Ruby came rocketing through at high speed. Any chance of her slipping and sliding though was quickly dashed when she easily leapt up and flew over the large oiled-up road like it was a small puddle of water on the street. Seeing this Luxu could not believe his luck and stepped out of his hiding place to give chase. He should have watched his footing though, because ended up stepping right into his own trap.
"Whoa-whoa-WHOA-WHOA! AHHH!" Luxu could only holler as he went slipping and sliding along the desert road and into the canyon wall. "Oh man…"
A little later…
Luxu had a new plan now, and he could only chuckle at how clever it was. He carefully maneuvered a large boulder into the path of the road, and once it was in place, he whipped out a couple cans of spray paint and quickly set to work making one side of the boulder look like the road behind it. Namely the side Ruby would be facing when she came down the road.
"Hehe, let's see you try and jump over this one, little girl," Luxu confidently dared. He quickly took cover when he heard Ruby coming again, and then watched with an eager smile for the moment she went splat against the rock. It never came. Instead, the tornado of red rose petals that was Ruby seemed to split into two separate storms and flew around the boulder, much to Luxu's shock. "What in the ever loving—HOW!?"
"You aren't that good of an artist," Ruby critiqued after racing back to explain herself. "This probably would've worked better if you painted a tunnel onto a cliff, or if you chose to do this with a less cloudy sky, or just remembered what time of day it is. You painted a clear sky in the early afternoon when it's partly cloudy at the beginning of sunset."
"But how did you do that thing with the splitting and recombining rose clouds?!"
"Uh…I don't know. I kinda just react and stuff happens," Ruby shrugged, truly not having a better explanation.
Luxu growled under his breath and leveled an Arrowgun at Ruby. "Just need you to go night-night for a second, little girl," Luxu determined and fired. He should have thought it through a little more, because when he did shoot, he was right in front of the boulder he had placed in her path, and it caused the blast to ricochet back at him. "OW!"
Ruby just stared in bewilderment for a few seconds. "Huh. I thought Sora said your shots could turn or teleport when you fired from your Arrowguns. Hm, weird. Oh well. Bye now!"
As Ruby raced off again, Luxu could only groan in pain, "Oh man…"
A little later again…
Luxu was sure he had her this time. One plate full of cookies and strawberries placed carefully on a very thin ledge of a cliff, plus a series of explosive devices that would make said ledge and whoever was on it fall to their doom, all equaled the end of the speedy little nuisance. There was no way she could rush her way out of or around this one. He was sure of it. After hiding again, he watched as Ruby came racing past, only to double back and stop right at the plate of snacks with stars in her eyes and mouth watering.
Seeing Ruby take the bait, Luxu just grinned as he shut his eyes to brace for the upcoming explosion and hit the trigger. Only one problem: nothing happened after he hit the button. Confused, Luxu pressed it again, and again, and again several more times, only to grow more and more frustrated every time it failed to set off his explosive trap. Getting fed up with the lack of booms and screaming girls, Luxu marched over to Ruby, who was still enjoying her snacks to demand what was going on. Ruby saw him coming, but did not do anything to stop him. She could tell he was not going to attack, but before either of them could say anything, Luxu stopped right on top of where he had planted his bombs and they finally went off.
Aside from the fact he had just gotten blown up and the ground beneath his feet was gone, Luxu was not too worried. He was more upset with the fact the ledge Ruby was standing on had not fallen after the explosion went off, despite not having anything to support it. "Grrr, how'd you do that?" Luxu demanded just before he finally dropped. "It defies the laws of physics!"
Ruby waited until she heard Luxu hit the ground below before she hopped off her floating platform and called out, "I never studied law, Doc."
The second Ruby finished, she watched as her former perch finally dropped like an anvil from the sky right on top of Luxu. Somehow, even from beneath the rock he had just been crushed by several miles below her, Ruby could still hear Luxu groaning, "Oh man…"
Ruby just shrugged and turned to race back to her family, thinking Luxu must have gotten the message by now, but still spared the audience a quick wink and two last words of victory. "Beep-beep!"
Sora vs. Torchwick
Torchwick was at it again, only this time he was not looking to destroy Ruby, rob a place, or any of his other usual schemes. This time, he was out to deal with a particular pest in his side: one Sora Hikari and he would not be denied his vengeance on the boy. "Alright, come out and face the music, Sora, you goodie-goodie, spiky-haired, interfering, brat," Torchwick shouted.
Somehow, Sora heard all of that, and he was not going to take it lying down. He came out of nowhere and marched right up to Torchwick and snapped, "Hey now! Just a minute you! Them's fighting words!"
"Yeah, them's fighting words!" Torchwick growled back, but Sora was not backing down.
"I dare you to step across this line," Sora challenged, drawing a literal line in the sand between him and Torchwick.
"Okay," Torchwick agreed and immediately stepped over it.
Sora quickly drew another line in the sand and said, "I dare to you step across this one!" Torchwick did so, prompting Sora to continue drawing lines as he added on to his dare. "This one…That one…That one…This one…This one…That one…"
Several lines later…
"…I dare you to step across this one," Sora challenged once more.
"Oh, I'm stepping, and this nonsense is going to stop the second I do!" Torchwick promised. He really should have looked where he would be stepping before he moved over the last line, because if he had, he probably would have realized Sora had tricked him into walking off of a rooftop of the CCT.
Seeing Torchwick falling to his doom, Sora quickly raced back down, found a really soft mattress and slammed it down at the spot where Torchwick would land. Wait…Sora, why would you do this? "What can I say? Sometimes my conscience bothers me," Sora shrugged. He then grinned a bit as he remembered one important little detail. "But Jiminy's not here right now, so he can't stop me from doing this!"
As soon as he said that, he pulled the mattress away and watched as Torchwick slammed into the ground. Oddly enough, he just ended up looking like someone had stuffed everything but his legs into his hat, but Torchwick still managed to wriggle out enough to try and blast Sora with his gun cane, prompting Sora to book it out of there. When Torchwick got out of his hat completely, he immediately gave chase, only to slam right into a door a second after Sora had slammed it shut.
"Open up that door!" Torchwick shouted as he banged against the door.
"No!" Sora called back.
"Open it up right now!" Torchwick demanded. "Open it! Open it! Open it up or I'll bust it down!"
"Nuh-uh!"
Torchwick immediately raced back and then prepared to bust down the door as he loudly shouted, "CHARGE!"
Sora was ready for this though, as he opened the door at the last second to reveal he had placed a huge cannon right behind it, and Torchwick ended up running right into it. It took Roman a few minutes to realize where he was, and when he did, he quickly panicked. "RETREAT!" Too bad for him, he did not move fast enough, and the cannon went off just when he had gotten out of it. Roman was sent flying as a result, and ended up crashing down right at Neo's feet. Seeing her boss land before her, Neo quickly hid away the pictures of Roxas and Xion she had just been staring at lovingly, glancing this way and that in a panic, until Roman popped up and growled, "Oh I hate that Keyblade brat!"
"Yeah we know," was Neo's responding sign as she rolled her eyes, indicating she was once again wondering how her boss could be such a dumb-dumb.
Meanwhile, Sora could only laugh at how easily he had tricked Torchwick just now, or rather the most recent bout of trickery he had pulled on the "criminal mastermind" today. He only paused in his chuckles to give the audience a quick glance and say, "You know, the really funny thing is, this is the kind of shenanigans we get up to in this chibi-verse everyday when the cameras aren't rolling." He then checked his watch and said, "Speaking of, I've got to meet up with the others to see what we're going to plan for future skits, so I guess that means…That's all folks!"
AN: Hahaha! Ah, who doesn't love some classic Looney Toons stuff, am I right? Ah, man I am so doing more of these later on.
Ruby: Hehe, I got to be the Roadrunner.
Sora: Haha! And I made Torchwick into Yosemite Sam! HA!
Torchwick: [grumbles about being made into Sam]
AN: At any rate...yeah, that's pretty much all we can really say about this chapter, so let's just move on to the review answers now, shall we?
First up, "Monkey D. Conan"...well, there's no fire raining from the sky, and reality seems to be holding together, so yeah, I'd say it was pretty safe letting Riku and Coco meet like that.
Coco: Speaking of whom, tagging to answer the review from "SuperSayainFever" real quick. Let me just say...I have no idea what you're talking about. Me and Velvet are just really good friends. Right Bun-Bun?
Velvet: Yeah, of course, Coco. [glances to the side before whispering] Of course, whether or not that changes in the future into something more than that, we're just leaving up to the creators of RWBY.
Coco: What was that?
Velvet: Moving on! Next review!
AN: I feel like that shoulda been my line, but anyways..."Darkmaster10000000", if it were not for the PM you sent me the other day, I would've scoffed at this review and moved on to my next retaliation prank. Don't worry though, it's been disarmed and there's nothing to worry about now. Right guys?
Stage Hand: [suddenly looks like a deer in headlights] Uh yeah boss! Nothing to worry about it all. We shut it down all nice quickly. Hehe. [suddenly runs off with several other stagehands] I told you guys it wasn't just the other guy in disguise!
AN: Oh boy...Uh, pretend you didn't see that. And just in case, on the off-chance you hear something that may or may not sound like cries of the undead...It's just your imagination. I am still willing to accept your surrender and hear you out about that skit idea you have. Just message me about it whenever you get the chance.
"Dragon Rider 66", glad you enjoyed the last chapter's skits, though I feel I should mention, that little bit with the unions and stuff, it was really just building off this one bit I saw in an episode from Buzz Lightyear of Star Command. Namely the episode "Stranger Invasion". But I do like the idea you had suggested about the Grimm working on making one for themselves.
To answer your question about when Master Sora was talking about the evil versions of him that he fought, I can neither confirm nor deny anything regarding the identity of those particular evil Soras at this time. Oh who am I kidding, it totally was the evil Sora from Keyblades of Future Past. How he comes back, I'm going to leave for later on though when we get to Kingdom Hearts: Trinities. As for who his queen of darkness was, no it wasn't Xion. If you'll recall from that story, she broke free of his control and switched sides. The actual person it is though may leave you very shocked though, but I'm not going to say anymore than that. Also, sorry to disappoint, but Sora Hart won't be fighting any Skrull versions of himself, but he will be taking a very unique approach to things with the Secret Invasion when we get to that in the sequel to Hearts of Avengers.
Otherwise, there's not gonna be any other goof-ups from the spell that sent the other two Soras home. That whole bit at the end was really just a "here we go again" gag at its finest. Not everything I write has a deeper meaning to it, after all. Sometimes the silliness is just there for silliness.
"ThanosGaming", yeah dude, we're all well aware of the stories that ship Lea/Axel with Isa/Saix. The two in question tend to have a small mental breakdown or two every time someone brings them up. In one case it's funny, in the other...yeah, we don't really bring it up around him because of that. I'll leave it to you to guess which is which.
Ruby: Oh! To "TheRedeemer1995", thanks for the congrats, and you don't have to worry about us giving folks hugs. Everyone over there has been really welcoming. Heck, I think Yang and Nora actually had a few friendly arm-wrestling competitions with some of the guys who've been there a long time, and Weiss and Blake have really bonded with other...like-minded individuals. It's been pretty great so far, and I speak for all of us when I say I can't wait until we get to launch our next big thing.
"WhiteRangerPower", you may be surprised as to what direction things go for Neo when we get to that point in the story, so I wouldn't be so quick to judge on any plans I may or may not have for her just yet. Besides, the alternative would be to set her on the same path, and that would end up putting her with Cinder again, and we all know how that ended. That poor girl needs some kind of break and a chance to be around folks who could be a more positive influence after all. I mean, I'm not exactly on board with forgiving her for her part in certain events over in Volume 9, but I think we can all agree it would've gone much differently if Neo had just been given the right chances or met the right people.
Now, that's a wrap for now, so I'll just head on out and hit the lights for a couple weeks so I can enjoy my vacation. Until next time...
What wacky adventures will come next? Who can say for sure? After all, it's all just a bunch of fun and games when you go chibi, and there's no way to know for sure just what will entail along the way.
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