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Yang loved her little sister, but she also knew she needed to spread her wings a bit, and not just hang around her. Sure they could be on the same team, but Ruby did need more friends, so she’d kinda sorta thrown her to make some.
She was sure she’d be fine…probably.
Of course hearing that her sister had been involved in an explosion that had put her, and another huntsman hopeful into the infirmary before the initiation had even started was…not remotely at all what she’d planned.
She could only hope she hadn’t made a massive mistake, and resisted the urge to sprint toward the building with her sister in it, following along behind the headmaster, and another teacher with blonde hair, and a riding crop.
Did they allow corporal punishment here? Or was she just kinky? Questions for later, once she was sure her sister was fine.
Weiss grunted as she rubbed at her forehead. “Knowledge transfer seems to have been a success. Aura?” she asked herself as she flicked her wrist, and a small glyph, strong, and vibrant hung there, before various small summons manifested on her bed with but a thought.
After a moment they all vanished except a Beowolf with electric blue fur that was the size of a cat that hopped off the bed, and padded away.
“Appears to not only be intact, but joined together,” she muttered as she flicked her fingers, and a myriad number of glyphs appeared before she nodded. “Acceptable, even beneficial outcome.”
“He was gnawing on my toes,” a voice complained as dark hair, and silver eyes met her own blue.
“A terrifying creature,” Weiss deadpanned as she scooted over, and gently gave the bed a pat.
Before Ruby could take the offered spot, the summon did so instead. Ruby just rolled her eyes, and grabbed the furball before she got under the covers, and set the thing between them.
“I can’t believe you’ve taken the poor thing’s spot,” Weiss teased as Ruby huffed good naturedly.
Ruby cast a quick glance around, and Weiss nodded to the corner where the faint shimmer of a glyph could be seen giving them an early detection system, coupled with a small Nevermore perched nearby.
“We didn’t go as far as we planned,” Ruby said simply as she scratched the small Beowolf who rolled onto its side to beg for more pets.
“We did not,” Weiss agreed with a frown. “Theories?”
“That we made a mistake on the calculations?” Ruby offered. “Or that it was more intensive on our fuel than expected?”
“For lack of any other evidence that’s as good as we’re getting. I’m…sorry about your mother.”
Ruby only shrugged. “It was a long shot at best anyway. I’m sorry about your grandfather.”
Weiss inclined her head. “Thank you. I take it pretending, and going along with things isn’t ideal?”
Ruby gave her a lopsided grin at that as she picked up the Beowolf, and made it ‘dance’ with her hands. “Where would be the fun in that?”
“We hadn’t planned on preserving the timeline, but this is quite the deviation we’re speaking of.”
“Are you actually worried?”
“Not about Salem,” Weiss admitted with a wave of her hand. “There are other variables that could cause us issues. Your sister will be most irritating to deal with.”
“Ah, Yang means well,” Ruby said in defense of her sister before she winced. “Usually.”
Weiss scoffed, but didn’t disagree. “Ozpin?”
“Any reasons not to?”
“Many,” Weiss returned shortly. “Any reasons to?”
“It would be really really funny,” Ruby pointed out, her eyes crinkling with suppressed mirth as she set the Beowolf back down on the bed.
Weiss felt her own mouth twitch at that. “It would. Plus we could lean on him, get some…exceptions.”
“Oh ho, kinky,” Ruby joked before Weiss actually blushed to her mortification.
“I forgot how rampant hormones screwed with my control,” Weiss growled in annoyance.
“I mean at least you aren’t insisting you’re straight this time,” Ruby pointed out as Weiss rolled her eyes.
“Indeed. I just liked it better when we could banter to make our friends uncomfortable without turning into a blushing mess.”
“At least you’re still taller than me for a year or so,” Ruby offered as she hooked their hands together. “And hey you can kill your dad this time if you want!”
“Ah, the joy of patricide,” Weiss said fondly before she hummed. “My mother might prefer to do the deed herself, although…we’ll have to see. We have a lot of more important things to do if we’re to prevent the worst of it. At least from here.”
Her eyes flicked toward her summon that was perched who called to them. With a flick her glyph vanished, as did the summon.
Showtime.
David Ozpin was a man who had lived countless lives, and seen most of what he thought the world could throw at him, but even he was confused by the young women in front of him.
Ruby Rose was a fundamentally good person who wanted to be a huntsman, and help people. She had silver eyes, and had nearly apprehended Roman Torchwick because it was the right thing to do.
She was talented for her age with a moderate amount of Aura.
Weiss Schnee was the heiress of one of the largest corporations, and he’d expected a somewhat spoiled young woman who would need to grow into her own.
From what he’d been told she was moderately proficient with her glyphs, and had made no headway on her summons, with an Aura that was on the lower side of the measurable scale, but highly efficient with it.
The women in front of him were absolutely not that. He watched Miss Rose interact with her sister with one eye as the other watched Miss Schnee, a young woman who should have been very against others being in her personal space, lean into Miss Rose, and had several summons in the room with no sign of exhaustion.
Had his agents been incorrect? What was going on with the two of them?
“So did you make a friend?” Yang asked, trying to tease seeing her baby sister so close with another person was already more than she’d hoped for.
“Eh, kinda,” Ruby said mischievously.
Yang tilted her head quizzically at that.
“We’re married. Weiss Schnee, or was it Weiss Rose?” Weiss asked Ruby as she introduced herself to a shocked Yang.
“I think we decided to hyphenate,” Ruby said as she tapped her lips. “Rose Schnee I think.”
“Why not Schnee Rose?”
“Alphabetical,” Ruby answered glibly as Weiss playfully narrowed her eyes with a scoff.
“Of course.”
“I…you..what?” Yang asked.
“Sorry we forgot to invite you,” Ruby apologized, purposefully misunderstanding her sister. “We’ll do it again, and let you know when this time, right?” Ruby asked her bed partner who shrugged.
“Depends on how many puns she makes between now, and then,” Weiss said with an easy going shrug.
“Miss Xiao Long, while you no doubt have quite a few questions, I need to speak with them as the school’s headmaster to determine their eligibility to undertake initiation.”
To her credit Miss Xiao Long appeared to want to argue before her sister assured her she was alright, and she left the room to wait outside.
After the door closed a glyph sprung to life, making a faint buzzing sound.
“It emits sound to help with eavesdropping,” Weiss supplied as Ruby beamed with pride at her.
“Yang would totally listen in if she could.”
“You both appear…rather well acquainted for having just met if you’ll forgive me for saying,” he put in as he weighed his options on how to proceed.
“Oh, well we’re from the future where Salem had you killed, like a dozen times since now,” Ruby said brightly as his jaw went slack in disbelief.
Weiss looked at Ruby, and nodded. “You were right, this is much funnier.”
“I don’t-”
“Your first life was a man named Ozma, and you see-” Weiss continued as she gave him an abridged version of his own life’s history to prove their story true.
It was insane, impossible, and yet these were secrets that none knew. Not even Salem knew about the relics locations, and yet…
“So anyway here’s what we need from you,” Ruby said after a moment of letting him absorb their story.
“I…I just…”
“We did just shatter his worldview,” Weiss allowed patiently as she looked at her nails. “I forgot I still bit these back then.”
“Still pretty,” Ruby offered, pressing a kiss to the fingertips.
“Still a lothario,” Weiss countered as she pinked a bit with a scowl.
“Just for my wife!” Ruby said brightly. “Can you blame me?”
“Of course not, but we are on a moderately strict time schedule. So if you’d allow us out of here, and cede to our demands.”
“Swear to me. That this will work. That I can fix things, that we can free her, the world,” Ozpin said desperately.
For the first time the time traveling couple’s eyes showed something other than amusement.
“We promise.”
“I’m sorry you had to fix my mistakes, that I…all that I allowed to happen.”
“It’s hard for us to be objective. We’ve only lived part of one life, and you’ve lived so many more,” Weiss admitted. “There’s plenty we’re upset about, but…you tried.”
“Maybe you didn’t do as much as you could,” Ruby said as he winced, and felt truly wretched. “But you did try, and that’s more than most people did.”
David Ozpin straightened up, and nodded. “I’ll want progress reports.”
“Eh, maybe,” Ruby said with a grin. “The marriage is first though. We do nothing else until we have that, and the other thing in our hands.”
“You’ll have to take an assessment,” he said.
Weiss’s return smile was almost enough he considered forgoing it. Truthfully it unnerved him in ways even Salem’s never had.
The fact that Miss Rose appeared enamored by it more than anything sold him on their relationship.
“You can stop, Miss Schnee,” Ozpin stated as the young woman glared at him and he corrected himself. “Rose-Schnee.”
Finally she relented, and removed her rapier. “This is the quality of a huntsman these days?”
Miss Rose elbowed her in the ribs, and shot her a look.
“He’s newly graduated, so a better metric to gauge your provisional licenses on,” he explained as Weiss nodded thoughtfully as the man left the room as fast as he could manage.
“You might want to find someone much stronger for Ruby.”
“Miss Rose?”
“I have summons, and glyphs. Ruby has speed, power, and wields a horrifically powerful scythe.”
“That’s also a gun!” Ruby chimed in with a grin, clearly not bothered by the bloodtrail the other huntsman had left. He had Aura he’d be fine, and Weiss was always very surgical in her attacks.
For a moment he almost shivered. “I dare say this is a fine enough demonstration. Along with your written tests no one can doubt your qualifications.”
“They will anyway,” Weiss said with an eyeroll. “But that’s fine. Keep them under wraps for now. We’ll only use them when we need to.”
“How soon will…”
Weiss flicked her hand, and a visage of his wife stood there, angry hateful…no…at peace. The anger that clouded her face was gone as if it had never been there.
“Your wife is a non issue. We need to wait until her subordinates are here to take care of them in one fell swoop. There are others, but we have plans for them as well.”
“We’re gonna break Cardin’s legs probably,” Ruby said with a shrug.
“I…beg your pardon?”
“He’s a racist bigot, and Velvet holds back to not kill him. We’ll just teach him a lesson.”
“He’s a lot nicer once we explained everything to him,” Ruby said brightly.
“He never stopped crying whenever he saw one of us in the future after we ‘educated him’,” Weiss confided with an amused smile Ruby shared.
“We gotta find time to deal with Adam too,” Ruby muttered. “Actually…hmmm.”
“What devious plan are you cooking up, love?” Weiss asked as Ozpin tried, and failed not to feel both awkward, and a mostly irrelevant third wheel to a pair of time travelers flirting, and planning murder.
It was a strange feeling.
“Blake needs to make the choice to reveal herself on her own terms this time. We gotta keep Neo from going insane, Hazel needs like, a lot of therapy, Watts needs something, Penny needs to get isolated from the network, Emerald, and Mercury need saving if we care, Tyrian needs taken care of, and Cinder needs…actually what did we decide with her?”
Weiss frowned. “I think we decided to give Amber her maiden’s magic back, and offer a chance to spare her life.”
“After I get to beat her to within an inch of it for hurting you,” Ruby growled as Weiss smirked deviously.
“Yes, after that.”
“Good. Oh, and for what she did to Penny. And Sun, and-” she was cut off as Weiss put a hand over her mouth. She waited until Ruby nodded, and removed it. “Sorry rambling.”
“That’s quite alright. If we wrap up everything quickly enough then we can both find a honeymoon we agree on.”
“Miss Schnee, Rose-Schnee,” Ozpin corrected himself when she glared at him, and he felt utter dread overtake him. “I just…perhaps I can be of some assistance.”
“Oh, well if you want,” Ruby said, almost like she’d not considered it.
Weiss cut in then. “Honestly, we assumed you might have been stuck staring at the image of your wife for a while longer, or wanted a vacation.”
“It would be remiss of me to not at least try to assist you,” he said as the image of his wife was set on fire, and began screaming before the summon melted into a puddle that Miss Rose began to pour some sort of soft drink into.
“She’s gonna have such a weird meeting,” Ruby said glibly, knowing how the act of summoning her would work now that she was technically alive again. “That voodoo doll thing is so cool.”
“We’ll go make her swim into the ocean later so she can be crushed by the pressure over, and over until we make time to deal with her,” Weiss offered, sounding like she was talking about the weather, and not what should be the worst threat to humanity that ever lived.
“I…”
“Hey, you take a break ok?” Ruby said cheerfully. “We’ll contact you when we need to talk again alright?”
“It was nice of you to forgive him,” Weiss brought up some time later on as they went into Vale, perks of their new licenses. That, and basically the ability to selectively ignore the rules.
He’d also handed over several codes Ruby probably shouldn’t have, but Weiss approved of. Ruby had only promised her she had something ‘hilarious in mind’, and knowing her wife as she did Weiss was sure it would be just that.
Ruby shrugged. “I mean at least he tried to do something. He did a lot of really dumb things too, but he tried. If we wanted to get revenge on everyone who didn’t do enough we’d probably just end up doing Salem’s job for her, and I don’t wanna carry around hate like that.”
“What can I do for you today?” a middle aged man asked as he looked to be about to close up shop for lunch.
“I’m Weiss Schnee,” Weiss said, using her maiden name to get his attention. “And I have a need to purchase something. Immediately. In cash. Is that a problem?”
“We don’t wanna mess with your lunch break,” Ruby put in cheerfully.
“We would need your discretion, but would make it worth your while,” Weiss promised.
“I can always stand to lose a few pounds,” the man answered, almost salivating at the thought of the promised sale. “I’m at your service.”
“Perfect,” Weiss said, almost purring the words. “Here’s what we need.”
“Welcome to Tukson’s-”
“You’re gonna die,” a young woman’s voice spoke calmly as he nearly launched himself backward.
“You did it again,” another woman with white hair chided the first with a sigh before she turned to him. “A pair of mercenaries, not us,” she added when he tensed. Honestly, if they wanted him dead he wouldn’t have even known. “Are coming to kill you, very soon. I would leave town, and not tell anyone.”
He looked around, clearly broadcasting his desire to flee with his inability to pay for it. At least until a bag of lien was dropped on the counter with a thud.
“Ooops. I dropped it,” the woman with white hair said flatly, putting no effort into sounding convincing. “Perhaps that can pay for a catalogue when you get your new shop set up.”
“I…are you…?”
She waved him off. “I’ve lost more in couch cushions.”
“It’s true, I found it!” the woman with dark hair cut in with a giggle as she looked around at the books. “Oh, I always wanted to read this one!”
“You can have it, and any other ones you want. Are you?”
“Positive. I just need one small favor from you.”
Tukson tensed at that as she waved him off.
“I just need you to send a message. Nothing harmful. Do it, or don’t. It’s a request I suppose,” she stated as the black haired girl continued to stack books on the counter excitedly saying what she was going to read now that she had time, or that Bake would want. Or was it Blake?
Either way it was about the strangest day he’d ever had. Still, it’s not like he had a choice. The woman in front of him screamed danger. Both of them did.
It was in the way they acted, an act of fools, for one of them, but their movements were economical, precise, and they gave off the presence of predators at the top of the food chain, utterly sure of their place in it.
“What’s the message?”
“So why are we here?” Weiss asked her wife as they sat on top of the roof across the street from Tukson’s books. Now that it was late at night, they’d unlocked it, and Ruby had put a cardboard cut out that was barely visible through the window.
Why she was doing this she hadn’t told Weiss, but she trusted her. It would be absurd, and cause no end of mischief, but she trusted her with her soul so it was a no brainer to follow along with Ruby’s whim.
“I had a surprise!” Ruby said. “You know how Ozpin gave me all those cool codes?” she asked as she hit a button when Mercury, and Emerald entered their field of view.
“I do,” Weiss confirmed as she watched Mercury, and Emerald enter the building.
“What was that?”
“Well, you remember how we had to come back before our anniversary?”
“Ruby Rose what did you do?” Weiss demanded with an amused smile on her lips.
“It’s Rose Schnee now,” Ruby said snootily.
“Of course. How could I forget?”
“Forgiven!” Ruby said as the sound of whistling became louder. “Anyway I tinkered with those dumb lockers we had to use.”
“How?” Weiss asked as she looked up into the air, and saw dozens of them streaming toward Vale. “You didn’t?”
“I so did. Wait for it.”
“Won’t they die?” Weiss asked, not overly concerned if they did. They’d wanted to help them, but if they died, well they died.
“Eh, I think they’ll be fine, but they were just the excuse I used,” Ruby admitted.
The first locker hit the roof then, and penetrated earning a screech from presumably Emerald before another one followed, and then several more right in front of the window she was sure Mercury was about to leap through.
They then began exploding, launching fireworks into the night sky, and Ruby stood up giddily as she hit a button on her scroll. “May I have this dance?”
“You’re insane,” Weiss said with a laugh.
“Yeah, well you married me,” Ruby retorted in mock offense as she held up her ring, and boy hadn’t Yang loved seeing that.
Ruby made a mental note to do something nice for her soon. “You’re stuck with me. FOREVER!”
“My win then,” Weiss said as she allowed herself to be pulled up, and they started dancing to the music as the fireworks continued to illuminate the night sky.
“Ruby, the people in the buildings nearby?”
“Fine,” Ruby assured her as she spun her gently as the image of a snowflake appeared in the air before another firework exploded, and a rose was shown inside its confines. “Non-flammable, and I went ahead, and made sure any businesses were closed nearby, and called in a tip to the authorities to pick up the two of them with the knock out gas inside the lockers.”
“You really did think of everything,” Weiss teased. “I’m jealous. What if you managed to plan such a wonderful evening for another woman?”
“I can only do it for you,” Ruby said brightly. “The light of my life!” Somehow Ruby had managed to say it right as yet another firework went off, and Weiss giggled softly. What a dolt.
“Smooth Mrs. Rose Schnee,” Weiss said, clearly touched as she took her turn to spin Ruby who giggled, and used her semblance to spin like a top for a moment, and then dipped Weiss once more.
“I love you, Weiss,” Ruby said sincerely, and for one moment Weiss was able to forget everything else as she leaned closer, and pressed their lips together, robbing them both of breath in short order.
They leaned their foreheads together for a moment as the sound of sirens started to fill the air. By the time the police had removed the unconscious mercenaries from the building the two were long gone, leaving no trace they’d been there.
They had other work to do.