RWBY: Male!Reader x Ruby Rose

Vol. 6 Ep. 4 - So That's How It Is

"Salem can't be killed..." Yang muttered. "You all heard her too, right?"

"Yeah. We did." Claire breathed out, closing her eyes in anger, still not coming to terms with what they had just found out.

Teams RWBY and MSTC all angrily glare at Oscar, with Ozpin in control, whose head is still down. He looks up, with tears streaming down his face. Qrow just looks away, while Linna crossed her arms.

"I--" Ozpin tried to speak, but Yang cut him off, who was clearly enraged.

"There was so much you hadn't told us! How could you think that was okay?!"

Oz doesn't say anything, he just hangs his head back down in shame.

"Professor..." Ruby called, making Oz look up at the young, once-huntress-in-training. "What is your plan to defeat Salem?"

What he said next was definitely unexpected, especially coming from Ozpin himself.

"I... don't have one..." Ozpin was crying tears from Oscars eyes as he sighs in shame.

Suddenly, Qrow, evidently full of rage at Ozpin, shouted in anger as he punches him in the face, sending him into a nearby tree trunk. The impact was so great that it shook the tree a little and snow fell from the leave.

"No one wanted me..." Qrow began as he tried to control his shaking hand, the same one he used to punch him. "I was cursed... I gave my life to you because you gave me a place in this world... I thought I was finally doing some good..."

"But, you are!" Ozpin desperately reassured, but Qrow ignored him.

"Meeting you... was the worst luck of my life..."

Qrow's sentence shocked Ozpin to the core, but he understood why. Maybe he was right. There was so much that he kept from everyone, even from his closest associates.

"So that's what you've been trying to do to the people who had your mentor's powers for the past centuries?" (Y/N) asked in a low tone, his fists clenched tightly in anguish. "To become your tool? A cannon fodder for Salem? All my life, I looked up to you. But I can see now that I was wrong. You're not my uncle. In fact, you never were!"

Oz stares back in disbelief upon hearing his past incarnation's nephew say that, before looking down dejected.

"Maybe you're right, (Y/N)..."

Ozpin's eyes glow as control is transferred back to Oscar Pine. He winces as he holds his cheek in pain from the effects of Qrow's punch.

"What happened?" Ruby asked.

Oscar turned to her and answered. "He's... gone."

"You've got to be got to be kidding me...." Claire growled, but it was nothing compared to what Yang screamed next.

"That bastard! Tell him we're not done yet!"

"Whoa... Blondie." Claire stepped back bit from her sudden outburst.

"No, this is different." Oscar firmly stated. "He's gone. It-- It's like he's locked himself deep inside my head. Our head?" He grunts as he holds his head in pain and anger. "I hate this! I want it to stop!"

"Bring him back." The leader of Team MSTC spoke in an unusual, monotonous low tone.

"I told you, he's-"

"I WASN'T ASKING!" (Y/N) yelled out in a distorted voice, entering in his wrathful state as he approaches the boy, unsheathing (W/N) from his back. "Bring him back or I'll rip him out of you."

At this point, Oscar was terrified and panics crawling away as far as he could from him. The others watched in horror as they watched their friend, especially his own team, it greatly pained them to see their friend and leader like this.