AN: Well, it took a long time, but we've finally got another one. Here it is at last, the latest episode of SLVR Chibi!
[audience applause]
Yeah, thank you! Thank you all! You're great! No you're great, and you know it! You are all absolutely wonderful! So, last chapter's musical numbers seemed to be a pretty big hit amongst everyone, and a few of you did offer up some suggestions of songs that you'd like to see when we hit Chapter 10. I'll go over all of that later when we get down to the review answers at the end of the chapter.
Ruby: Oh boy! I can't wait to see how this goes!
Blake: It's got to be better than what we just saw over at RWBY Meetings.
AN: Uh Blake? It's a Chibi, comedy spin-off for Remnant of the Key. Of course it's going to be more light-hearted than that. If you don't know what Blake's talking about, I suggest you stop now and go read the latest update for RWBY Meetings. Trust me, you'll want to read this after that one if you don't want to feel too much angst, or seriousness, or whatever.
Yang: I thought it was pretty cool in a couple of ways. Not a fan of how you mentioned altering my look at the end of it, but the overall concept you suggested...
AN: Easy, easy, Yang. Don't give anything away about it.
Ventus: You know what's really impressive? How you're getting multiple things out on the same day. I mean, when's the last time that happened?
AN: I think it might've been a past Star Wars day or something along similar lines, maybe? But in this case, what can I say? I felt like spoiling our resident birthday girl a little. Speaking of, if you haven't already, let's give a great big happy birthday to our girl Ruby everyone!
[audience and cast applause while Ruby blushes a little with a bright smile]
Ruby: Aw, you guys are so sweet!
Sora: Not as sweet as you. [kisses Ruby's cheek]
Ruby: Eep! [suddenly turns as bright red as her cape and looks like she's going to faint from Sora's kiss]
Lea: Are we sure it's okay for him to do that?
AN: Again, comedy spin-off for Remnant of the Key. It's fine. [glances around a little nervously before quickly adding one other thing] Besides, Kairi's not here right now, so it's not like she's going to find out even if it wasn't okay.
Sora: I'm just glad you managed to mention one other big thing that's happened to me recently in this.
AN: Well considering how people just. Kept. Asking. It was a little hard to refuse.
Weiss: Wait, what's this thing you're all talking about?
AN: You'll see. Now then, let the laughs and skits begin!...Right after this last quick word.
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Chapter 6: A Bunch of Randomness
Secret Agent Dog
Weiss and Blake were just taking a day to chill in the dorm room, and for once, it seemed like things were going to be peaceful and normal. No sign of Ruby suddenly bursting in at any moment and shouting for some random reason, no Yang going on a pun-marathon with or without her dad, and no potential Keyblade or JNPR-related chaos. Just the two girls and their books. In all honesty, it was a little too quiet, and it did not take much for Weiss to figure out why.
"Hey Blake, do you know where Zwei is?" Weiss asked. She knew that Yang and Ruby did not take the faithful dog with them, and Jaune was not getting the pup to be his sidekick at the moment, so he should be here in the room or really just somewhere close by right now.
"Do you really think I'd be here right now if I knew he was around?" Blake questioned in response, though one could not help but notice how she skittishly glanced around the room in an attempt to locate the dog.
Weiss would have to admit Blake had a point, but she still worried. "I think we should probably look for him."
"Why? He always turns up sooner or later. Just leave him be for now," Blake insisted, mainly because she did not want to go looking for the dog.
Just then, Ruby came into the room looking exceptionally down in the dumps with all of your usual, loud door banging. "I'm bored!" Ruby shouted. She then glanced over to her partner and basically ordered, "Entertain me."
"No. I'm busy," Weiss responded. "Go bother Sora or something."
As much as the idea of hanging out with Sora excited her, Ruby still whined over Weiss not wanting to hang out. Before leaving though, she glanced around and asked, "Hey, where's Zwei?"
Around the same time…
As it turned out, Zwei had snuck off to an out of the way area of the hall where he jumped into an upright standing position and slapped a brown and black fedora onto his head. He then hit a hidden panel on the wall, opening up a secret elevator and dashed inside before anyone could notice. As the elevator descended to its destination, it stopped briefly to allow someone else inside, this time a familiar platypus wearing his own fedora.
"Ruff ruff," Zwei greeted happily.
Perry the Platypus just gave a little chatter in reply while tipping his hat in similar greeting before the elevator reached Zwei's destination, allowing the corgi to exit into his secret lair. Upon getting into his chair, Zwei hit the answer button for the incoming call, but still looked back in wonder as to how Perry had even gotten here in the first place. He would have to think about it later. He had a mission briefing to get through right now.
"Ah, good morning Agent Z," Winter greeted with a nod. "There's a been a string of odd disappearances all around the city of Vale as of late. Not people, thankfully, but several different items, many of which being used in the development of random weapons or devices, along with, surprisingly animal plushies. What sort of devices, we can't guess beyond that they are for nefarious purposes, or even just causing strange things to happen."
Zwei pointed back at the elevator upon hearing the latter of those things, and Winter quickly picked up on his meaning. "No, explaining how agents from other worlds get to ours doesn't count, even if they are some of the best like Agent P. At any rate, we suspect one of the following perps: Roman Torchwick, Neopolitan, or Mercury Black. Your mission is to find out which, retrieve the stolen items if possible, and put a stop to their plans. Go get 'em, Agent Z."
"Rrr, ruff!" Zwei barked in response before blasting out of his secret lair via jetpack.
"Zwei~!"
Why Salem's Really Not in SLVR Chibi (Technically)
Team SLVR, Aqua, Xion, and Terra were all gathered up with Qrow, Ozpin, and Team RWBY right alongside them as they stared down at their newest foe. The very source of all evil and nefarious schemes in Remnant herself: Salem. "Mwahahahaha!" the queen of the Grimm cackled. "At last, my time is here. I have spent years secretly gathering the deadliest and most sinister of beings in this world and amassed an army of Grimm, and now, our moment of triumph is here at last." She then narrowed her eyes with an amused smirk as she noted, "And all that stands in my way is you fools. You stand no chance against my ultimate forces of darkness. Now, what say you?"
The heroes all just glared back silently, Ozpin and Qrow hardly knowing exactly what to do now that their secret foe had stepped out of the shadows. Sure, they have some small advantage with the Keyblade wielders on their side, but who could say for certain if that would turn the tide in their favor? Apparently, said Keybearers were feeling more confident than their Remnant-born allies, as seen by how Lea was stepping forward after dismissing his Keyblade! If that was not enough to make Ozpin and Qrow think the boy had gone insane, the next thing he said certainly was.
Lea simply stood there, staring down Salem and studying all of the members in her secret villain team, until finally, he looked her straight in the eye and declared, "Xehanort did it."
No one other than the Keyblade wielders had expected that, and Salem was no exception since all sense of villainous superiority vanished from her after hearing what Lea said. Now, she merely glared angrily at the heroes as if they had just viciously insulted her mother and asked "Excuse you?"
"The secret, ultimate villain group thing," Roxas clarified on behalf of his friend. "Xehanort did it. With both the first and second versions of Organization XIII."
"More so with the second one since it was made up of what he believed were the most dangerous and/or worthy members for his goals. Plus Demyx and Vexen as backups, and me since he couldn't find anyone else," Xion added on.
"But…But that's not the same…" Salem started to protest, only for Terra to interrupt her.
"After he had another, not-as-powerful group of villains attack a bunch of other places like you're having Cinder, Torchwick, and their henchmen do right now," the oldest of the Wayfinder trio pointed out.
As if the mere uttering of her name was enough to summon her, Cinder suddenly rushed onto the scene and profusely declared, "I have no idea what you're talking about! I-I have never seen this strange, scary, yet incredibly powerful woman before in my life!"
"Cinder, dear, please. Now is not the time for you to embarrass me with your ridiculous antics," Salem scolded, putting an end to Cinder's poor attempts at a cover-up.
"Yes ma'am," Cinder acknowledged before hastily leaving again, hanging her head in shame.
Salem had barely nodded at having at least that going well when a thought occurred to her. "Wait a minute. Xehanort had those villains destroy entire worlds!"
"Well you're having Cinder and those other guys try to destroy the kingdoms," Sora pointed out.
"So it's completely different," Salem tried to insist, thinking she had some new ground to stand on in this argument. It did not seem to hold.
"Yeah, about as different as you are from Xehanort," Aqua of all people snipped in return.
"Oh! Shots fired!" Ventus happily decreed, earning him a good deal of Salem's new ire.
"Tear the blonde one with armor in half," she ordered her forces, prompting them all to charge. Not that Ventus appeared to be worried.
"Xehanort did it," Ventus quickly quipped before batting away the first of Salem's cloaked fighters with an easy swing of his Keyblade.
"Stop saying that!" Salem snapped, no longer caring if the heroes were so much as fighting, let alone beating her forces. "Did Xehanort ever cause one of your allies to turn against you for any reason at all?"
"Yeah. Weren't you listening when Xion mentioned he added her to the second Organization? Oh, and there was also when he had his Heartless possess my best friend," Sora easily recalled after knocking another cloaked figure away.
"Well…um…Did-did he ever seek out some relics, people, or other items of great power to further his goals?" Salem challenged, only to be met with another easy response.
"The Princesses of Heart, old and new seven, and the χ-blade," Lea named.
Salem was running short on patience with how these Keybearers were comparing her to Xehanort, but she still had a few more details up her sleeve. "I have an army of soulless abominations born from darkness at my beck and call."
"You're kidding right? Creatures of darkness? Do we even need to point out the Heartless? I mean, they're fighting your Grimm again right now," Terra reminded her as he indicated a spot where the two types of monsters were indeed battling it out.
Salem had now developed a very noticeable eye-twitch, even as she muttered about how hard it is finding good help, and then ultimately decided, "You know what? I don't have to take this." She then whistled to her forces and declared, "I'm taking my assortment of sociopaths, vengeful individuals, and various types of monsters, both the classic and those of my own creation and leaving."
"Also, Xehanort's responsible for the creation of the Emblem Heartless, so you're technically copying him when creating your own Grimm. Bye!" Lea quickly threw out with a cheeky smile and wave.
Salem just roared in angry frustration before she and her forces disappeared, leaving some very satisfied and proud-looking Keyblade wielders, and completely gobsmacked Ozpin, Qrow, and Team RWBY. "I'm…not sure how to feel about this," Ozpin eventually admitted. "On the one hand, I'm glad we defeated her so easily, but on the other, I can't help wondering if it really has been that easy to stop her after all these years of fighting."
"Hey, I'm not complaining," Qrow shrugged as he turned to leave, giving a friendly smile to Ruby and Yang before he departed. His smiles vanished when he set his sights on Sora though, and he warned the kid, "Don't get any funny ideas with my niece, you got that, kid?"
"Huh? But isn't that the whole point of a Chibi story? To have funny ideas and do random skits with friends?" Sora questioned naively.
Qrow did not believe Sora really did not know what he was talking about, and simply pointed to his eyes and then the Keyblade hero as he whispered, "I'm watching you, Spiky."
Sora could only continue gazing after Qrow as he left, even when the others all began dispersing for something else to do, still completely confused over the show of hostility. He would have asked the others what that was about, but most of them just smiled weirdly and given him wishes of good luck for some reason. Well, weird for Sora, knowing for others. The only one who did not have the same expression was Ruby, who merely gave him a nervous, shy smile and promised to talk with Qrow later about scaring him like that. Sora had not been scared, but Ruby's reaction did make him feel all the more justified in asking his next question, even if no one was around to answer it now. "What did I do?"
Secret Agent Dog Part 2
Mercury was cackling darkly as his newest machine pulled in a number of parts and, surprisingly, animal plushies. What was even more surprising was that he seemed especially thrilled by every animal plushie that ended up falling into his bins of assorted items, and that he seemed to be giving them an extra special bit of care. In fact, he even seem to take greater interest when the plushies were made to look like animals in various outfits, from detective garbs, to superhero, and even a few that were dressed similarly to the various Beacon students.
"Yeah, keep 'em coming, baby. Mercury needs his new collection to be as big as possible," Mercury grinned proudly, right at the moment when a plushie of a black and white dog dressed like Sherlock Holmes dropped in. "Aw, here's a cute looking one," he started to say, only to suddenly end up getting hit by the dog. "Ow! What the-?!" Mercury cried out, only to pause again when he saw the plushie stand up on its own. "Wait a minute. Who are you?"
The plushie completely shed its disguise Holmes outfit, revealing itself to be a real dog. And not just any dog either. "A corgi?" Mercury gasped in confusion. It all made sense when the corgi placed a fedora on its head. "Zwei the Corgi?!"
"Grrr," Zwei growled before lunging towards Mercury.
"Oh no you don't!" Mercury shouted while retrieving a remote from his pocket. One hit of the switch, and a pet carrier had dropped down, trapping Zwei inside. "Haha! I've got you trapped! Too bad, Zwei the Corgi, but you're not stopping my nefarious scheme this time."
Zwei just growled in response as he tried to pry open the carrier, only to find it completely pet-proof. "Yeah, don't bother. It's one of those pet carriers like they use at airports, so it's completely escape-proof," Mercury proudly declared. "I got it at half-price at a nearby thrift shop. Anyways, let me tell you about my evil plan. You see, when I was just a boy, my father refused to let me have anything that could bring me joy, but there was one thing that I was especially heartbroken over not having."
Zwei tilted his head in response, knowing that Mercury likely wanted a lot of things from his dad, so his statement could not be true. "Well, one thing other than my Semblance, and that was my own collection of plush toys. I always thought they were so cute and cuddly, but Dad always said they weren't fitting for a man of evil. I mean, he wasn't wrong, but everyone needs a moment to just get away and forget about who they are for a minute, you know? The closest thing I've ever had is my little Cinder puppet here."
Seeing the sock puppet in question made Zwei flinch back a little, not sure if that was pitiful or creepy. Mercury did not seem to notice though. "Anyways, that won't be a problem for much longer, because now, I'm going to steal all the plushies in the kingdom, so that my collection is better than all the rest. Of course it will be hard for anyone to compete when all the others are gone."
Mercury then went over to a large object hidden under a sheet, and pulled the sheet off to reveal a large, ray-gun like device underneath. "Behold! The Plushie-No-More-Inator! With it, I can zero in on any other plushie collection, and with a flip of the switch, I can make it go off to…well, I don't really know where they'll end up going, but it will be somewhere that no one can get them back from. And with no other plushies out there, my collection will be the greatest in all of Remnant! By default, sure, but a win's a win, and hey, it's not like it's any different from when others go to eliminate the competition." He then looked back at his nemesis and saw how Zwei was not looking the least bit impressed. "What? Why are you looking at me like that? It's a great nefarious plan! Not all pathetic."
Zwei would have disagreed, but he is a dog. He can only talk in barks and growls, so obviously Mercury would never know exactly how low Zwei's opinion of this "evil scheme" really was. Whatever the case, he still needed to stop him, if only because that's his mission. Good thing he already knew how to get out of the trap. One little (read really hard) push, and the pet carrier tipped over and broke open, letting Zwei free.
"What the-?! How did you escape?!" Mercury gasped in surprise, only to turn thoughtful in under a second. "I suppose I did get that half-price deal at the thrift store really easily. Ow!"
The next thing Mercury knew, he and Zwei the Corgi were battling it out. The whole building shook as sounds of punches, kicks, and loud chomps could be heard outside, until finally, their brawl ended up getting out in the open. At which point, Mercury finally reeled back and gave Zwei a hard kick. You would think Zwei could dodge it, but instead, he took the hit, letting out a sad whimper when he did. Everyone in the area somehow heard his cry, and all gasped in horror before turning hateful glares on Mercury.
"He just kicked a poor, defenseless puppy!" Penny cried out with tears in her eyes.
"I'm sorry, what?" Mercury asked as seemingly every girl in Vale suddenly started to surround him, many of them armed to the teeth with weapons. "Hey, hey, hold on now. That's not a defenseless puppy! That's my nemesis, Secret Agent Zwei the Corgi!"
When everyone turned back to Zwei, they did not see a secret agent. Just a regular corgi that could not possibly be anyone's nemesis. The poor, hurt dog was not even wearing a hat! Coco Adel turned back to Mercury after studying the dog for another few seconds and determining it was indeed a regular, hurt dog, and said, "Hurting. Puppies. Is not. Cool."
"Now, now, just a minute. I-I swear he wasn't…I didn't…" Mercury tried to protest, not entirely sure how Zwei switched himself out with a regular puppy, but he did not have time to process as everyone had suddenly started giving him a harsh beat down. He was pretty sure that Emerald and Cinder even joined in at some point just because! The whole time, no one ever noticed how the "hurt puppy" had slipped away unnoticed and back into Mercury's hidden sanctuary.
A few minutes later…
Mercury finally got away from the angry mob he had incurred the wrath of by kicking a puppy, but still needed a moment to catch his breath once he was safely inside his hidden base. "Geez! No wonder people say you shouldn't kick puppies. Everyone loves them so much that they'll form an entire angry mob and beat you up if you ever do," Mercury gasped. He then turned back to his inator, only to see the puppy from earlier tampering with it. "Hey, how'd you get in…?"
In a flash, Zwei had whipped out a new fedora, revealing himself once again, much to Mercury's astonishment. "Zwei the Corgi?!" Mercury gasped, and quickly started racing to stop the secret agent from further tampering. "I don't how you got back in here, or even what you did to that other, regular corgi, but I'm not letting you do anything to mess up my inator!"
Zwei just stared Mercury down before hitting a specific switch on the device, causing it to start rattling and shaking. "Warning: Ray-reverse and self-destruct has been activated. Please vacate to a safe distance."
"Oh no! Not the reverse and self-destruct switch! Why did I even include that on the thing?! More to the point, why did I make the reverse and self-destruct features have the same trigger like that?" Mercury gasped in horror. All of his panicking served as the perfect distraction for Zwei to get away, while Mercury was left to get blown up by his device. His hideout destroyed, his machine gone, and all the plushies now scattered back to their original homes, Mercury could only think of one thing to say at this point. "CURSE YOU, ZWEI THE CORGI!"
"Agent Z~!"
That one Conversation
Lea was happily humming to himself without a care in the world. It was just another day with nothing to worry about but him and his ice cream, and everything seemed to be pretty good. Could he help it if he felt like humming a little tune that he felt like would always be playing every time he went up to the Twilight Town clock tower for ice cream with Roxas and Xion when things were that good? He did wish he could share this good mood with someone else though, and his wish was soon granted when Xion strolled up.
"Hi Axel," Xion waved.
"Hey Xion. Pop a squat?" Lea offered, indicating the open seat next to him on the bench.
"Sure, I guess," Xion accepted, plopping herself down alongside her best friend. The two just sat in silence for a few moments before Xion decided to get to the matter of what brought her here. "Hey Axel, can I ask you a question?"
"Huh? Of course you can. You should know by now that you don't even need to ask," Lea reminded her. He had been answering every little inquiry Xion and Roxas had for him ever since they first met each other back in the old days, so he did not think there was any reason why they would need to ask his permission first anymore.
"I know, it's just…everyone else I ask about this always seems to freak out or just tell me to ask you or someone else before running away for some reason. I didn't want you to react the same way too," Xion hesitantly explained.
Now Lea was a little curious. What could possibly be on Xion's mind that made everyone want to take off without giving her a proper answer? It started to feel like he should field this question before answering, but given how worried Xion looked about asking him, Lea knew he would not be able to offer any resistance. "Xion, I promise whatever it is, I will answer it to the best of my ability as always."
"Thanks Axel," Xion sighed in relief. Seeing this made Lea a little less worried about her question, but then again, seeing his little sister in all but blood smile always put him at ease. He was going to need that sense of peace in just a minute when Xion finally posed her question. "So…my question is this: where do babies come from?"
Was that a massive car crash just now? Had Ruby somehow convinced someone to help her learn how to drive again? Nope. That was just Lea's brain crashing at hearing his sweet, innocent little sister asking him the one thing he never hoped to hear her ask. How much time passed before he could respond? Was it hours? Days? Weeks? Lea could not tell you since all time seemed to have stopped for him. Even when he did answer her, his voice felt very weak and small. "…'Scuse me?"
"Where do babies come from?" Xion hesitantly repeated, indicating this was the part where people usually took off.
Lea did not want to do that to her, but he also did not want to have this conversation; so instead, he decided to try and stall for time. "What uh…What brought this on?"
"Nothing really," Xion shrugged. "It's just that the other day, I saw a bunch of people cooing over a newborn baby that some of their friends recently had, and after seeing how cute the kid was, it made me wonder where they come from. So, I figured I'd ask Aqua since she's so smart, but she said that I should ask you. You were busy at the time, so I decided to just ask some of the other smart people we know. They all just gave me the same answer, or just took off without saying a word for some reason. I think they were kinda scared of something, because some of them turned really pale after I asked. Well, paler in Weiss's case."
"You went to ask the Ice Princess about something before me?!" Lea exclaimed, now feeling a little insulted. To think that Xion would go to Weiss, Weiss of all people before asking him! He could understand if it were Aqua, or Blake, or even one of the professors, but Weiss?! "What could I have possibly been doing when this whole thing started?!"
"You were in the middle of some kind important training thing with Roxas, I think," Xion easily replied.
"Oh…Right…" Lea then recalled.
What he was really doing…
Loud video game noises and battle cries filled the room as Lea, Roxas, Jaune, Ventus, Neptune, and Ren all cheered, whooped, and hollered in their own unique ways, hoping that it would be the motivation Sun needed to topple the current, long-standing champion of this video game tournament they were having. Neptune had been the first to fall, with Ven and Ren going shortly after in spite of their best tag-team efforts, so it was all down to Sun to achieve victory now. It was proving to be quite the close match, with both sides struggling to get one up on the other, but in the end, Sun's hand cramped up at the last second, rendering him unable to effectively counter his opponent's last attack.
"GAME! Sora wins!" the game announcer declared as the victory animation for Sora played on screen, while the real Sora boasted a smug smile at his continued victory streak.
"Aw what?! I thought I had him that time with Pit!" Sun protested.
"Dude, it was proven in that one episode of Death Battle that Pit couldn't beat Sora under normal circumstances. What made you think that would change in Smash Bros. Ultimate?" Jaune questioned.
"I don't care either way. I'm just so glad that I'm actually in this game now," Sora cheered. The others would have shared in this joy were it not for the fact Sora had bested all of them by playing as himself for several hours straight. "So, who wants next game?"
For a time, it seemed like no one was going to take up the challenge, until a small cough drew the boys' attention to someone behind them. To their surprise, they saw Ozpin, Oobleck, and Port all standing at the door with eager smiles and controllers in hand, as the headmaster of Beacon declared, "I believe we shall take your challenge, Mister Hikari."
Back to the present…
'Who would have thought Ozpin and the other professors were so good at video games? Sure, they may not have beaten Sora, but at least they came a lot closer than the rest of us,' Lea mused to himself. That had been a pretty good Guy's Day all things considered, but he was not going to be able to get out of discussing this topic with Xion for the same reason now.
"So can you tell me, Axel?" Xion asked, as if he needed to be reminded that she still had not gotten an answer yet.
"Eh-hehehe…I promised I would, didn't I?" Lea asked in reply, bringing a new smile to Xion's face. Obviously she was happy someone was not going to leave her hanging again, but now Lea was faced with a new dilemma. 'How do I explain this to her? You shouldn't! Her innocence must be preserved at all costs! But I promised I would tell her, and I've already lied to her and Roxas enough. If I don't tell her, she'll think I had lied when I made that promise. But she's Xion! Her innocence! But I promised! But her innocence! Argh! What do I do?!'
Luckily Lea's utter meltdown ended up averted when someone walked in on their conversation. "Hey guys," Ruby waved in greeting. "What's going on?"
'Oh thank Kingdom Hearts! Saved by the Ruby,' Lea mentally cheered. He may have spoken too soon.
"Lea was just about to tell me where babies come from," Xion informed Ruby with all of the very innocence Lea was hoping to preserve.
Unknown to Xion, her answer had drawn a look of horror onto Lea's face. There was very little doubt in the redhead's mind that Ruby was just as innocent as Xion, so he very much doubted that Ruby knew anything about this topic. If that was true then now that Xion had said something about it, Ruby would most likely want to know now too. She got curious that easily after all, and since Lea was already here and apparently getting ready to tell Xion, Ruby would ask him to tell her too, and if he did anything to corrupt Ruby, Yang would likely make him pay in a similarly painful way to how he promised to make the others pay if they ever destroyed Xion's innocence. Lea did not want the amazingly beautiful blonde to murder him for destroying her precious little sister's innocence!
All of the ideas as to how Yang might murder him for corrupting Ruby came to a screeching halt when Ruby gave Xion a confused look and said, "You mean you really don't know? I would've thought someone had told you by now. I mean, I know all about that."
"Wait, you do?!" Lea exclaimed in complete surprise. He had not expected that.
"Of course. Yang and Uncle Qrow told me all about where babies come from," Ruby nodded proudly. "In fact, I can probably explain it better for you, Xion."
"Really?" Xion asked, earning a nod from Ruby. Seeing no reason to argue, other than upholding Lea on his promise, Xion turned her full attention to the young reaper.
"Okay, so when two people love each other very much…" Ruby began, either not noticing or just not caring about the threatening glare Lea was currently shooting at her.
'Ruby Rose, don't you dare…' Lea started to mentally threaten.
"They stay up really late at night to make a wish on every star they can see in the night sky," Ruby finished.
"Huh?" asked Lea, all threats forgotten and slowly being replaced by some new questions of his own.
"They do this every night they can, usually for several nights in a row, and once the stars have received all their wishes, assuming they poured every ounce of love they have into them, a beautiful fairy waves her wand to create a new child, which is then delivered by a magic crow," Ruby continued on, still not appearing to notice anything from Lea.
"But then, how do they all end up in the hospital?" Xion asked.
"That's easy. See in addition to making sure the baby's completely healthy, the parents also end up needing some extra special care due to staying up so late making all those wishes for so many nights in a row. Especially in the case of the mother, since moms are so important in a child's life. The only reason that the dad recovers so quickly is because he's so excited to tell everyone about the new kid, so he ends up just sleeping in the hospital for a little while before going to call all of their other friends and family about the baby," Ruby explained away just as easily. At this point, she finally looked to Lea and said, "Isn't that right, Lea?"
"Uhhhh…Yeah, yeah! Yep! That's how it all happens. You got everything right. Word for word," Lea hastily confirmed with a wide grin that most people could likely tell was fake. Luckily for him, Ruby and Xion were both as trusting as Sora.
"Why didn't you just say all of that in the first place, Axel?" Xion questioned.
Lea was not sure how to answer, but once again, Ruby unknowingly came to his rescue. "It's a little embarrassing for boys to talk about because they don't want to admit how lazy their contribution is in the whole process. Sure, they pour just as much love into the wishes, but most of the energy needed for the fairy to create the baby does come from the mom for some reason."
"Oh, okay," Xion nodded, glad to have that cleared up.
"Just don't go trying it yourself!" Lea hurriedly cut in before Xion could get any ideas, much to the girls' surprise. "I mean, yes, it's important that you only do it with someone you love, but babies are a very big responsibility that only full grown adults are able to handle."
"Oh I knew that. I'm not some dumb kid, Axel," Xion reassured him.
"Well good. I just had to make sure, because some teenagers start getting ideas about trying it for themselves after hearing about the whole thing. They just want to see the magic for themselves as soon as possible without thinking about how ready they are for the responsibility that comes with it," Lea clarified for her.
"Don't worry. I don't plan on trying anything like that for a long time," Xion assured him. She then turned back to Ruby and said, "Thanks for helping Axel tell me about this, Ruby."
"No problem. Anything for a friend," Ruby replied. "Come on. Let's go get some ice cream."
"Oh! Let's ask Roxas and Sora if they want to come. We could make it a double-date," Xion suggested.
Lea just watched as the two girls departed, Ruby blushing and stuttering at the idea of a date with Sora as they went, double or otherwise. He could hardly believe what had just unfolded, and he stayed in that dumbstruck state for several hours. By the time Yang came along and found him, the sun had almost completely set, and Zwei had finally turned up again from wherever he had disappeared to.
"Hey Lea, you okay dude?" Yang asked after giving him a few taps on the shoulder.
That got him back to normal, and allowed him to look over to Yang as flatly as he could when he said, "I just witnessed Ruby giving Xion what could most closely be considered as the talk."
"Oh, r-really? And how-how did that go?" Yang nervously asked, suddenly wondering if she needed to move her sister into a bomb shelter for the foreseeable future.
"I don't know. Maybe you could tell me how it went while explaining how long ago it was you and your uncle had given Ruby that same conversation," Lea prompted.
"Not that long ago, really," Yang hedged as best she could.
"Then explain this whole thing I just heard about late night wishes, fairies, and magic crows?" Lea challenged right after
Now Yang understood why Lea seemed so bothered, despite Xion's innocence still remaining otherwise intact without the girl knowing it. "Alright look, let me just say…" Yang started off, only to stop when she could not think of where to take that. "Well, have you met Ruby? I'm pretty sure even my birth mother would not have been able to handle having that conversation with her. What else were we supposed to say?"
Lea glanced from Yang to where he had seen Ruby and Xion go off to some time ago, before he finally nodded in agreement. Much like Xion, Ruby was far too innocent for this world, and only a purely evil person would want to destroy that.
AN: And there ya go! We got to see the debut of Agent Z, aka Zwei the Corgi...
Some random singers: Doo-be-doo-be-doo-bah, doo-be-doo-be-doo-bah~. Zwei~!
AN: Yes, thank you. Anyways, we also got a little visit from Salem, along with an explanation as to why that will be her only appearance here (Props to the Keybladers for that), and wrapped it all up with Lea just barely avoiding giving Xion the talk. [shivers with nearly the entire cast] Yeah, no one ever looks forward to that.
Sora: Plus you also got in a pretty cool mention of how I'm finally in Smash! Haha!
RWBY: Meh.
Sora: What? What do you guys mean "meh"?
Ruby: You've been in one fighting game, you've been in them all.
Yang: Yeah, our entire team got into a fighting game once.
Weiss: Without the rest of us being made into spirits.
Sora: Hey! This is a much bigger deal, thank you very much!
Lea: I kinda liked how it got mentioned myself. Who would've thought the profs would join in on a guys' game night?
AN: Hehe, yeah that was pretty fun to write. For now, let's answer a few reviews from last chapter, shall we?
First off to "RonaldM40196867", I...guess there might be a little, small, tiny bit of romance, but the main focus is on comedy, so...yeah.
"Dragon Rider 66", not too sure about the first one you suggested. I mean, I know the song you're talking about, but I don't really know if I could really work with it too well. As for the ones, I did hope to try and do something with "Make a Man Out of You", but now I'm kinda curious as to how or even who I could set to "Son of Man" and "One Last Hope", so I'll take them under serious consideration. The last idea you proposed is definitely a good one, but I'm gonna have to really think it over before I can find a song that works for it. Maybe something like "Whistle While You Work" or something like that.
"Spiderfan626", my man! I'd comment on how you didn't recognize the theme song to Darkwing Duck, but we already had that conversation via PM, so I'll just get to the other matters. As for your song suggestions, two words for ya: Absolutely perfect. How do you keep coming up with such good stuff? I'm definitely going to try and work those in for one of the future musical chapters.
"Monkey D. Conan", my old friend. Now that you've suggested the idea for Yang walking in on folks in the midst of such moments being a running gag, I've just gotta do it! Thanks for the idea. As for your suggestions, first off, let me just say, believe me, there is absolutely nothing wrong with having the songs from A Goofy Movie stuck in your head. That is an iconic classic. I loved that movie, and I've got a few of the songs from it on the favorites playlist I made on my phone. Secondly, love the suggestions, definitely going to run with both of them.
"SuperSaiyanFever", you have nothing to worry about when it comes to Neo being used by Cinder, I promise. She'll be fine.
Roxas: Uh, shouldn't you be telling him to put those million glocks away?
AN: Why? They're not aimed at me. They're aimed at Cinder, and I'm sure everyone knows why it doesn't bother me too much if they read the Venom chapter of RWBY Meetings.
"Darkmaster10000000", are you sure about that? [snaps fingers to reveal the Namine, Xion, and Olette who got the "books" were all just Blake's shadow clones in disguise] Haha! Because I'm prepared for anything in that regard! Mostly because I don't want their overprotective parental/older sibling figures to kill me. Even this studio has its limits when it comes to that type of thing. Bt-dubs, the cast loved those brownies you sent, and if I'm supposed to be upset that I didn't get any, I'm not. Ruby and Nora regularly swipe my snacks from me, and that's just when I'm working with the RWBY cast, so I've gotten used to having to live without very many sweets...Okay, now I'm a little sad. Just not for the reason you were probably expecting.
"Guest" of 6/19/2021, don't worry, as I've said a few times before over in Remnant of the Key, Pyrrha's NOT going to die like in canon. She'll be fine. Seriously injured, but fine all the same.
Oh, and "Guest" of 6/20/2021, I'm never changing my mind about sparing Pyrrha if I can find a way to do it. She's awesome, we all love her, and we deserve far more Arkos in our all of lives. Why would I ever want to let that ship sink?! We don't need to kill Jaune's first girlfriend (unofficial or otherwise) to get a powerful impact on his character. Just the experience of the Fall of Beacon can have a powerful impact on the characters, as we saw in multiple cases. Ironwood being one of them. [glares at an image of the general pinned to a dart board, which Qrow and several other individuals are currently throwing darts at]
Speaking of, I must confess, when I originally thought of the Zwei the Corgi skit, I had actually considered having Ironwood be Zwei's version of Major Monogram, but then he went and threatened to bomb Mantle, among many other things that happened in Volume 8, so that got scrapped.
Getting back to review answers, only in a general response, thank you all for your kind words, suggestions of skits and song ideas, and well-wishes. I'll do my best to make sure this story gets updated again as soon as I can, and to make sure this continues to entertain everyone like I hope it has with this update.
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.
Oh, and once again, be sure to check out my YouTube channel "Studio Fandom" and the DeviantArt page "studiofandom" if you haven't already. Always looking for more followers and subscribers on both. And as always...
Please read and review, happy Halloween to all, Happy birthday to Ruby, and I'll see you next time for some more Chibi fun!