Cuts of RWBY
A RWBY Fic Collection by AndrewJTalon
DISCLAIMER: This is a fan based work of prose. RWBY is the property of Rooster Teeth and WB Animation. Please support the official release.
Even more old classmates meet up: This time, Glynda Goodwitch.
"TEAMS RWBY AND JNPR!"
Everyone froze. Yang cringed. Jaune and Ruby, as team leaders, slowly turned their heads. A familiar stern looking blonde woman stood there, her ever present riding crop tapping impatiently against her crossed arms.
"We didn't do it!" Ruby blurted out.
"Then why have I been getting reports of mayhem around here?" Glynda asked dryly.
"It's not always OUR fault!" Blake stated, yellow eyes narrowing. "This smacks of prejudice-"
"How many students have gotten involved in fighting terrorists?" Glynda asked dryly. Blake winced. Weiss, who had taken public speaking classes, finally got a word in.
"It was for a good cause?" Weiss weakly suggested.
"Also, we have not been involved in any mayhem at all, Professor," Pyrrha said, putting her acting lessons to some good use. After all, she was just convincing enough to sell a box of terrible cereal.
Though as her infamous role in The Invincible Girl demonstrated, very little else.
Glynda sniffed.
"Indeed? Then who else-?"
A large commotion broke out at the foam weapon dueling arena, and Glynda turned to face it. Out of the fenced off area came Isabel Arc, dragging Qrow and her husband out by their ears. Taiyang and Willow followed at a safe distance, both looking amused.
"Owowowow-Honey!" Nick groaned.
"NO! No more destruction!" Isabel huffed. "Honestly, can't I take you anywhere?"
"You're just mad because I was winning!" Qrow grunted, then winced as Isabel twisted his ear. "OWOWOW QUIT IT!"
She yanked them both up and slammed them down onto their feet. She scowled angrily as Nick looked contrite and Qrow scowled.
"I was not mad about anyone winning!" Isabel huffed. "Though my Nick definitely was."
"HA!" Nick stuck out his tongue at Qrow. Qrow glared and shook his head.
"You were not! You're just biased! Tai, I was totally winning, right?"
"Well, on one hand, I'd love to say you were," Tai said carefully, "But at the same time, I also remember when Izzy threw me out a window."
Isabel's cheeks turned bright red.
"I-That was an accident!" One of the best doctors and most fearsome Huntresses on the continent protested, looking in no way like a contrite teenage girl. "You barged in on me!"
"He did what now?" Nick asked, suddenly very serious as he glared at Taiyang. The blond martial artist coughed and shook his head rapidly.
"N-No! I just walked in on her in the shower-"
Nick went for his sword. Qrow rolled his eyes and held up a hand.
"Calm down, Nick! He left his shampoo behind. You know how he gets about his hair. He had the same girly shampoo Izzy did!"
"It is not girly!" Taiyang protested, "Floral accents can be very manly!"
"Yes, that's all it was," Isabel sighed, "So I knocked him out the window before he could explain. I was in a towel. He didn't see anything, Nick."
Nick relaxed, and was all smiles again.
"Sorry Taiyang. You are a bit of a womanizer-"
"It was two women! Just two!" Taiyang groaned.
"But they were at the same time, were they not?" Willow asked, amused. Taiyang coughed and looked to the side.
"No comment," he muttered.
"Ah, so he wanted the full team," Nick said with a sage nod. He beamed and gave them a thumbs up. "Congrats, Tai!"
"NO I DIDN'T!" Taiyang growled. "WHY DOES EVERYONE THINK THAT?!"
"Oh no Tai, don't seduce me with your himbo ways too!" Qrow laughed. He tried to sneak a drink with a back up flask, but once again Isabel snatched it. "OH COME ON!"
"None of that! You need to set a better example for your nieces!" Isabel huffed. Taiyang smirked and crossed his arms over his chest.
"I don't think you can talk about good examples, Izzy. You walked in on Nick in the shower all the time!"
Isabel flushed and coughed.
"Because he nearly drowned himself the first time he used a shower!"
"First time, sure," Tai sniffed. "What about the other times?"
"So did I, but you weren't trying to save me!" Qrow smirked.
"You had Tai for that!" Nick chuckled.
"DAMNIT NICK!" Tai groaned.
Glynda watched the so-called adults argue for a bit longer. She sighed and pushed her glasses up to pinch the bridge of her nose.
"I see," she muttered. "Mister and Mrs. Arc? Mister Xiao-Long? Mister Branwen? Mrs. Schnee?"
Nick turned and beamed.
"GLYNDA! GREAT TO SEE YOU!" He cried happily. In an instant, he was upon her and hugging her tightly. The much slighter woman yelped, then used her telekinesis to pull his arms apart and back away.
"It's good to see you too, Nick," Glynda sighed, "And you as well, Isabel, Taiyang..."
She stared at Qrow.
"Qrow."
"Sup Glynda?" Qrow asked with a grin. Glynda raised an eyebrow at Willow.
"Mrs. Schnee."
"Hello Professor," Willow said with a smile, "Sorry. We're just catching up."
"Yes, I can see that," Glynda deadpanned. She sighed and looked back at RWBY and JNPR. Jaune, Ruby, and Yang were in various states of mortification. Weiss was sipping tea Klein had provided to calm herself, while Nora was pouting at the fight being interrupted. Ren remained stoic, patting Jaune's shoulder, as Pyrrha patted his other one consolingly. Blake was hiding her smirk as best she could.
"I see that you are not resposible for the mayhem here..." Glynda's eyes narrowed. "So far."
"We'll keep it that way?" Ruby offered weakly.
"See that you do," Glynda sighed. She turned back to Nick, who was beaming. "Please try to control yourself, Nick. I'm sure I don't need to give you another detention over the appropriate amount of strength to use?"
"Hey," Nick huffed, "I didn't start that door-breaking contest! Tai did!"
"I have no idea what he's talking about," Tai said, looking up at the sky as the picture of innocence.
"I haven't heard this one," Willow said with a soft smile. Isabel sighed and rubbed her temples.
"No, you haven't. It's stupid."
"That's par for the course for all our stories, ain't it?" Qrow asked.
"Sad but true," Isabel groaned. She smiled weakly at Glynda. "Nice to see you again, Glynda."
"Likewise... Mostly," Glynda allowed.
"So! How's my boy doing?" Nick asked cheerfully.
"DAD!" Jaune groaned. Glynda shook her head.
"Better than at the start."
"That's great!" Nick cheered. "Better than I could have hoped for! Great job, son!"
"Yeah, thanks Dad," Jaune managed weakly but with a genuine smile on his face. He shared it with Glynda, who gave the slightest hint of a smile back.
"You were always so great with kids!" Nick enthused, patting her on the shoulder, "I bet you're a great mom and wife, too!"
A pause.
"I'm single," Glynda stated flatly. Nick shrugged.
"Oh! Good for you!"
"It can be preferable in some instances," Willow opined, staring intently at Nick, "Though not in others."
"Yes, isn't it," Isabel growled, grabbing Nick's hand and shooting daggers from her eyes at Glynda. The green eyed blonde coughed.
"I uh... I'm not looking for anything like that with..." She gestured to Nick.
"Good," Isabel stated quietly.
Nora looked between the adults, and then slapped her hands against her cheeks.
"Oh my Gods," Nora cried, "PROFESSOR GOODWITCH ALSO HAD A CRUSH ON JAUNE'S DAD?!"
"No, of course not!" Glynda sputtered. "That's ridiculous!"
"Yes, yes, who would have a crush on him? N-Not me, that's for certain!" Willow laughed awkwardly.
Silence fell. Nick blinked in confusion and looked between all three women. Taiyang groaned. Qrow hid his laughter.
Nick chuckled and squeezed his wife against himself.
"You ladies should catch up! WHO WANTS TO PLAY BASEBALL? They've got a batting cage!" He cried.
"OOH! OOH! ME! ME!" Nora cheered.
"Good enough for me! Let's go!" Nick laughed. Taiyang and Qrow helped usher RWBY and JNPR away, leaving Glynda, Isabel and Willow in a stand off. Glynda shook her head at the deadly expression Isabel wore.
"I promise you, Isabel, I have zero interest in your husband," Glynda said.
"Not that there's anything wrong with that," Willow laughed, again very awkwardly.
Isabel sucked in a deep breath, and slowly nodded.
"Of course not," she said, managing a deadly smile, "Neither one of you has any interest... Nor had any chance."
Glynda's eyes narrowed.
"I wouldn't go that far."
"Neither would I!" Willow insisted. "You know, if things were different-"
"If they were, we wouldn't be having this pleasant conversation right now," Isabel said, a bit too cheerful as she clenched her fists. "For various reasons. Like mortal injuries."
Glynda sighed.
"You do realize I'm more powerful than you, right?"
"Oh?" Isabel asked eyes narrowed, "Would you like to put that to the test?"
"I was pretty powerful back in the day myself, you know," Willow huffed. Isabel rolled her eyes.
"That why you needed us to save you every time one of your Glyphs failed?"
"They didn't fail all the time!" Willow sputtered.
"And as I recall, all of our matches were inconclusive, Isabel," Glynda stated, her tone dangerous. Isabel smirked and cracked her knuckles.
"Because I never took them too seriously, Glynda. Do you want me to change that?"
Yang looked up at her father as he ushered the teenagers into the batting cages.
"Uh, Dad? There a reason we ran away so quickly from them?"
"Yes," Tai said with haunted eyes. Nick patted him on the shoulder.
"Oh absolutely," Nick concurred. "But I'm sure they'll sort it out without killing each other."
"They always have," Taiyang sighed.
"You know, they're like this because you two are freaking harem protagonists," Qrow stated.
"How could that be?" Nick asked, "I only settled down with one woman! That's not a harem!"
"Same! I only married them one at a time!" Taiyang sputtered.
Qrow rolled his eyes.
"And oblivious ones, too..." He glared at Jaune. "Hey, Kid! You'd better not turn out like these two idiots!"
"Um, sure?" Jaune said with a shrug, "What are the odds of that happening, anyway?"
Yang smirked. Ruby blushed. Weiss pretended to be very interested in the statistics of the Valean Mountaineers Baseball Team, which was having another rotten season. Pyrrha's smile became a bit brittle as she hid a blush. Blake had cracked open a smut book and wasn't paying attention. Nora was already screaming at the non-existent umpire when Ren got a strike.
Qrow sighed.
"Godsdamnit, Kid..."