"Why did Weiss' breasts remind you of something?" Blake asked.
"Her aura tanks, which as far as I know aren't breasts, reminded me that since I made her sister an angel, at least I'm assuming Winter is her sister, I should make her an angel as well so it doesn't cause friction between them," Xander explained.
"Oh," Weiss said, relieved, "Yes I would like that. Thank you."
Xander licked his thumb and brushed it across the white haired girl's forehead while tapping three Mana, causing white wings to sprout out of her back as her aura flared a pure white.
"Do they look bigger?" Yang asked.
"At least half a cup," Nora agreed before Weiss instinctively wrapped her wings around herself.
"Um… how do I control these?" Weiss asked, peeking out from her feathery cocoon.
Xander tapped a Blue Mana and booped her on the nose. "Boop!"
"Oh,' Weiss said, looking confused for a moment before nodding to herself. "I see. I should have realized that."
"Doesn't look like it's helping with the wings," Nora pointed out.
"Probably working on her mental problems," Yang said, "and she'll eventually figure out the aura and wings on her own, besides in the meantime she's a free nightlight."
Everyone waited but Weiss didn't respond, lost in her own thoughts.
"Well, we've got a red Ruby and a blue Ruby, the only thing we're missing is a green Ruby," Yang said with a smirk.
"Wait!" Ruby called out just before a red haired Yang appeared.
"What?" Yang asked, stunned.
"I name thee Ember," Xander said.
"Oh god, there's two of them," Blake groaned.
"Rings please," Ember said cheerfully.
"Sure," Xander agreed, pulling a number of rings out of his pocket and separating out six of them before snagging a second clear one as well. "Forgot colorless," he explained before charging the rings and passing them off, handing the second colorless to Bonnie.
Ruby giggled at her older sister's stunned expression.
"How many people are you planning to copy?" Nora asked curiously.
Xander shrugged. "As many as asked to. The school has room for a lot more students after all."
"Orders?" Ember asked as she used the blue ring to give herself Flight.
"Try to be a good person, live your life the way you want to," Xander replied.
"Why do they ask for orders?" Ren asked.
"Anyone I create or resurrect is basically under my control and absolutely loyal," Xander replied, "but I don't need servants so it's my way of freeing them."
"Still loyal though," Ember teased.
"I'm an easy person to be loyal to," Xander said and puffed out his chest, "I'm great!"
It took a couple of seconds for the laughter to die down.
"It still seems weird to just *poof* people," Ruby said.
"It is weird, but none of the people I've poofed have ever complained," Xander told her.
"Dying is easy, living is hard? Does the light in the refrigerator go out when you close the door? Does cheese like or hate darkness?" Ember asked.
Everyone including Xander stared at her.
"Sorry I was looking for something wise to say about living being better than not and kind of wandered off track," she admitted.
"The only way I'd do the 'I didn't ask to be born!' thing around Xander is to emotionally blackmail him for something," Bonnie offered.
"I wouldn't do that!" Ruby exclaimed.
"I'm not a clone of you, I'm just sorta you, closer than an older sister, but still my own person," Bonnie told her.
"Also emotionally closer to Xander," Ember said. "I really like being me, cause I'm awesome," she and Yang high fived, "and he's responsible for that."
"So morally you're in the clear," Juane said.
"Do you have to explain this sort of thing a lot?" Pyrrha asked.
"Fairly often," Xander agreed. "People are a lot more accepting of cyborgs because they don't start off as people, much like babies."
"Babies are so people!" Ruby cried out, horrified and backed up by everyone else.
"No, babies are blank slates that become people as they learn to people," Xander said.
"Babies are human or faunus, babies are people," Ruby said firmly.
"Babies don't start out as people," Xander disagreed. "They start out as adorable, stinky, and loud little bundles whose entire mental architecture is continually being rewritten. The size and complexity of their brains advances at an insane rate. I'm not sure when they become people, but even then they are insane people because like I said, their brains are constantly changing. Really it applies to teens too. Random floods of hormones that make cocaine seem like nothing do not help with one's mental stability."
"I don't know where to start on that," Weiss admitted.
"What makes a person a person?" Ruby asked, confused.
"Conscious thought and a knowledge of self?" Xander half asked, half answered. "I'm not really sure, but anyway babies don't have it at birth, but they have the possibility… No, they have the inevitability of it, just like T-800s. Anyway people never comment on the morality of making T-800s just like people don't complain about making babies."
"Babies are precious," Ruby said firmly.
"They are the future people, so yes they are," Xander agreed.
"I mean they are precious for being what they are," Ruby said with a frown.
"Which is a member of a family and future person," Xander said. "If they were stuck being babies their whole life it would be horrible."
"That's true… but I still feel like smacking you for some reason," Ruby admitted.
"Because I don't value them being babies but for being developing people?" Xander guessed.
"That sounds right," Ruby agreed, "even though what you said makes sense."
"Feel free to smack me in the back of the head or punch me in the shoulder for massively overthinking things and bringing you along for the ride," Xander suggested.
Ruby timidly punched his shoulder.
"A bit more than that," Xander said with a grin.
Ruby reared back and smacked his arm, jarring him in his seat.
"Ouch and much better," Xander told her.
"Just to be sure, you aren't suddenly going to be making babies, right?" Yang asked.
"Why? Are you volunteering?" Xander asked with a grin.
"Ack!" Yang blushed. "Ruby smack him!"
Ruby punched his shoulder and Xander laughed.
"Did you go through all that just so you could make that joke?" Weiss asked suspiciously.
"No, but I saw the chance and had to take it," Xander replied. "Anyway rest assured I won't poof any babies into existence unless deliberately asked to poof babies into existence, because growing up sucks."
"Growing up is great!" Nora complained.
"Okay, then who here volunteers to be turned into a kid again so they can grow up all over?" Xander asked. There was dead silence at the table. "Anyone?" he asked. "I hear it's great."
"Pass," Ember and Bonnie chorused.
"Yeah, I got all the advantages without any of the downsides, I'm good," Bonnie said.
"Looking back on growing up is great… because it's over," Xander said, "I quite like being an adult."
"I had a lot of fun growing up," Juane offered.
"That's because looking back is like looking into a drug filled haze and only remembering the very high and very low points, and you tend to avoid thinking about the low points if you can," Xander said. "The best time in your life is now because it's the greatest mix of freedom vs responsibility you'll ever have, plus random hormonal surges that make cocaine look tame like I mentioned."
"It's disturbing how much sense that makes," Weiss said.
"So, does anyone else want a turn?" Xander asked.
"I always wanted a sister," a tall guy with dark orange hair said from a table away.
Xander snapped his fingers and a tall girl with dark orange hair appeared.
"Well fuck," she said with a frown.
"I name thee Joan," he decided.
"Don't like existing?" Yang asked with a frown.
"Nah, it's not that," Joan said, "It's that we're a bit of a prick."
"Hey!" the orange haired guy complained.
"Cardin is a bit of a prick," Yang said, getting nods from around the table.
"Bro, you know it's true," Joan said.
"Well I don't think I'm a prick," Cardin complained, "so why do you?"
"Got a glimpse of Xander's mind and the shit he's been through," Joan said, "it really helps you take a look at yourself. Thankfully I can also see we could become awesome with some work, a lot of work, but the potential is there."
"Well… fuck," Cardin said and sighed.
"Rings please, and make an extra blue, we're going to need it," Joan said.
"Sure," Xander agreed, "and remember, try to be a good person and live how you want."
"I only promise to try," she joked as she accepted and put on the rings, except for the extra blue that she passed to Cardin. "Use this and scoot over so I can sit down."
"I don't want a brother, though I'm curious what one would look like," Yang said.
"Same here," Blake agreed.
"I wonder how they're going to explain to their parents that they're suddenly twins?" Ren said.
"Same way we are," Yang replied, "with a video link, since like a couple dozen people are recording all of this."
"Next world I think I'll try and be more subtle," Xander decided.
"Can you do subtle?" Weiss asked as her aura shut off and her wings vanished.
"I can try," Xander replied. "I admit I'm not really good at it, but then I keep running into places that need a lot of help and it's hard to do that and not make waves."
"You've set off tidal waves here and the world looks brighter because of it," Nora said.
"Yeah, thanks for that," Yang said.
"We're really going to get mom back," Ruby said, "I'd help you make all the waves you want for that."
Yang opened her mouth and Ruby was suddenly covering it with both hands. "No! Bad Yang!"
"By bringing up sex it could have implied Ruby needed to sleep with him and you know she would for Mom," Ember pointed out, making Yang wince.
"If it was needed I'd take the hit for her," Bonnie said. "Xander is super easy."
"I'm not that easy," Xander said, amused.
"Ruby is training to be a huntress, someone who regularly risks her life to save strangers," Ember pointed out with a grin.
"Okay, huge weakness of mine," Xander admitted. "I'd be a pushover for her."
Ruby blushed and hid inside her hood.
"Didn't mean to put you in that position Rubes, sorry," Yang apologized.
"It's okay," Ruby said softly, bright red.
"There's no need for anyone to sleep with me," Xander assured them, "I help people just to help people with my only request being try to be good people."
"Him being a huge ho for heroes is just a personality trait, not a requirement," Ember added.
"Good people deserve to have good things happen to them," Xander said, blushing a bit himself.
"Which your penis counts as?" Yang asked with a grin, both her and Ember bursting out laughing.
"I should not have made two of her," Xander groaned. "Can we run for it?" he asked Ruby.
"Yang is pretty fast," Ruby said, "and I don't have her stamina."
"She has smaller aura tanks than I do," Yang said smugly.
"Boop," Xander said, tapping Ruby on the nose, "Flight granted, let's fly for our sanity!"
"Do you have sanity?" Yang asked.
"Or for ice cream," Xander said with a shrug before Ruby grabbed his hand and pulled him into the air, heading for one of the upper windows.
"Did you just scare off a god with your awful sense of humor?" Weiss asked in disbelief.
"Our humor isn't that bad," Ember said, "he's just being dramatic because he finds it funny."
"Or maybe she wants some privacy to have her way with him," Nora suggested cheerfully.
"What?!" Yang exclaimed.
"No," Bonnie said, rolling her eyes and grabbing some of the food Xander left behind, "Ruby just doesn't want to let him out of her sight till Mom's back but wants to escape the teasing."
"That makes sense," Yang said.
"But what if Ruby decides to seduce him just to make sure?" Blake suggested.
"She won't," Bonnie said confidently.
"So… what do we do after lunch?" Nora asked.
"Lord Xander hid a movie theater and coffee shop somewhere in the school," Ember said, "let's find it."
"Why would he do that?" Ren asked.
"Because it was funny or seemed like a good idea at the time," Bonnie said with a shrug.
"Does he have any self control?" Weiss asked. "Nevermind, I already know the answer to that one."
"No self control, a weakness for Ruby, alone together…" Blake hinted, recalling one of the romance novels she was reading having MCs with those traits and where it had led.
Yang stopped then turned to Ember and Bonnie to get their response.
Bonnie shook her head and ate some fries.
"They are both huge dorks," Ember said, "they are probably perched like gargoyles while eating ice cream and talking about nerd stuff."
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"Watching from the rooftops we can see the pale underbelly of the cesspit of crime beneath us!" Xander declared.
"Behold the wild lawlessness of the average Beacon student," Ruby exclaimed, pointing with a fudgesicle.
Far below them one of the students looked around in confusion before noticing the keep off the grass sign and quickly getting back on the sidewalk and hurrying away.
Xander and Ruby exchanged grim nods trying and failing to keep a straight face as they giggled.
Typing By: Abyssal Angel
Beta By: Abyssal Angel and Mist of Shadows
TN: I wonder how many are gonna jump to the instinctive defense of babies like Ruby did before they realize he's basically saying 'tomaeto, tomahto'. XD