The Remnant Armada

<Qrow and Summer getting drunk together>
 
Qrow, slurring: “I’m going to tell Taiyang that you love him”
 
Summer, also slurring: “Oh yeah? Well then I’m going to tell Raven that Taiyang loves her”
 
Qrow: “Oh yeah?”
 
Summer: “Yeah!”
 
Summer, calling out to Raven: “Hey, Raven, Taiyang likes you!”
 
Raven in mock shock as she bounces baby Yang in her arms: “No, whatever gave you that impression”
 
 
 
<Team RWBY escort a team of civilian merchants through the forest. The path ahead is suddenly blocked by a group of bandits. Team RWBY ready their weapons in anticipation of a fight>
 
Bandit Leader: “Surrender and we won’t hurt you”
 
Ruby: “We’d never give in to the likes of you”
 
Bandit Leader: “Shame, we might have even seen to letting you join up with us”
 
Weiss: “What makes you think we would ever want to join a bunch of degenerates like you?”
 
Bandit Leader: “I assumed at least one of you might have a bit more sense than that given your current predicament. Help us and I could I even see my way to letting you have your pick of the booty”
 
Yang: “Yeah right. Besides, there’s four of us. How exactly do you expect to-”
 
<RBY glance over to see Weiss missing. They look back over to see her standing beside the Bandit Leader>
 
Weiss, with Myrtenaster drawn: “Give up, resistance is futile”
 
Yang: “Weiss! What is wrong with you!”
 
Weiss: “Silence! Now drop your weapons and come quietly. And I get the short one with the black hair and the scythe”
 
 
<Taiyang sits bouncing baby Yang in his arms>
 
Taiyang: “She’s so lovely. Have you ever thought about, maybe having another one?”
 
<Raven stares at Taiyang>
 
Raven: “Tell me something. What does this…”
 
<Raven holds her palms close together>
 
Raven: “…and this have in common?”
 
<Raven spreads her palms further apart>
 
<Taiyang looks at her quizzically>
 
Raven: “They both represent my anatomy at various points in our marriage. It also helpfully illustrates what I will do to YOUR anatomy if you ever come near me with it ever again”
 
<Beat>
 
Taiyang: “Duly noted”
 
 
<Ruby idly singing to herself as she cleans the dorm listening to her headphones>
 
Ruby, singing: “I’m just wild about Weiss. And Weiss is wild about me. The heavenly blisses of her kisses fill me with ecsta-”
 
<Ruby turns to see Weiss standing in the doorway, a stunned expression across her face. Ruby quickly pulls off her headphones>
 
Ruby, nervous: “Hey Weiss… how much did you hear?”
 
Weiss: “Ruby, who exactly were you just singing about?”
 
Ruby, panicking: “Yang!”
 
Weiss, sceptical: “So you just happened to be singing, about your sister, that the ‘Heavenly blisses of her kisses fill you with ecstasy’?”
 
<Beat>
 
Ruby, flatly: “Yes”
 
Weiss: “You really are a dolt”
 
 
One of the recognised effects of working as a Huntress is the impact of the severe adrenaline spike as a result of the intense situations they regularly experience. As this surge of adrenaline fades it can have severe impact on their mood. They can start off feeling euphoric, become restless and ultimately fall into depression (Up, Horny, Down).
 
<Weiss returns to the RWBY dorm to find Ruby and Yang hunched over on their bunks, staring listlessly into the distance>
 
Weiss: “What’s up with you two?”
 
Ruby, deeply depressed: “I spent the entire afternoon roleplaying with Penny, naked and spanking her butt while she begged me not to force myself on her. I’m coming to the realisation that I am the most despicable human being alive”
 
Yang, equally depressed: “I debased an educated Faunus woman with a collar and lead”
 
<Beat>
 
Ruby, still deeply depressed: “I think I’m going to cry”
 
Yang, also still deeply depressed: “I want to turn myself in somewhere”
 
Weiss: “Well it seems you two are now firmly entrenched in your down stages”
 
<Weiss glances over to notice Blake curled up in the corner of the room facing the wall>
 
Weiss: “What did Blake do?”
 
Yang: “She was the one holding the lead”
 
 
<Team RWBY are attending a Beacon Cultural festival. They walk past a Faunus Fortune-telling booth>
 
Weiss: “I don’t see how this could really be considered cultural, it’s all just a con”
 
Blake: “That’s just a prejudiced stereotype”
 
Yang: “Blakes right, there is some truth to it. I went to a Fortune-teller once. They told me that my fortunes would soon change and I would be going on a long and difficult journey”
 
Blake: “So what happened?
 
Yang, grinning: “He’d stolen my wallet and I had to walk home”
 
<Blake stares annoyed at Yang>
 
Ruby: “I thought it was a load of tripe”
 
Weiss: “Ruby, I never pegged you as a sceptic”
 
Ruby: “No, his act was telling the future by reading animal entrails. I thought he was selling them. You know, as a treat for Zwei”
 
<Blake stares at Ruby and Yang, annoyed>
 
Blake, frustrated: “You two aren’t helping”
 
 
<Weiss charges forward, unleashing the full force of her attack against the hapless training dummy. Ruby, Blake and Yang watch from the spectators stands overlooking the training area>
 
Yang: “Weiss is looking pretty tense”
 
Blake: “She’s always tense”


Yang: “I mean more than usual. Normally I would suggest taking matters into your own hands but I suspect even that’s not going to do it anymore”
 
Ruby: “Well we’re all a little tense. After all, exams are coming up in a few weeks and then there’s the combat finals…”
 
<Yang looked across at her young sister the same way she did with Zwei when he finally realised he would never be able to catch his own tail>
 
Yang: “Oh, Ruby. Please stay as sweet as you are when you grow up”
 
 
<Weiss steps into the RWBY dorm to find Ruby sitting cross-legged on the floor surrounded by parts and tools>
 
Weiss: “Ruby, what are you doing?”
 
Ruby: “The standing fan was making a lot of noise so I’m disassembling and cleaning the motor. You know, fan service”
 
Weiss: “And why are you all sweaty wearing a tank top and shorts?”
 
<Beat>
 
Ruby: “It’s hot”
 
<Beat>
 
Ruby: “Also fan service”
 
Weiss: “You’re a dolt”





Three years I've been writing this. Three years, 51 chapters and nearly 300 pages worth of writings. What a waste of perfectly good data storage capacity.

Seriously though, thank you both to those who stuck with me from the beginning and those of you who've joined recently and caught up this far. Merry Christmas (Or equivalent holiday greeting) and see you all again for 2021.