RWBY Volume 3.1

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Hi all, this is a fanfiction synopsis I wrote two weeks after the season finale for RWBY volume 3. Kept thinking about Pyrrah and a sermon I heard about death. Hope you all enjoy it. Please feel free to respond with critique and offer your insights! Apologies in advanced for the terrible backdrop, I haven't used blogspot for a while and I'm not sure how to change the color for the background!

RWBY Volume 3.1

Ruby gets to go back in time and transfer her consciousness to when the team are eating at the stand after their first 4 person match in the vital festival. Team JNPR enters the scene and a tearful Ruby runs and embraces a Pyrrah that is alive. She sees a glance of Emerald and Mercury and charges toward them, spouting words of hate, anger, and "I know what you're up to! I won't let you destroy Beacon!" (Alternatively, Ruby sees Cinder and outright attacks her in a fit of rage, only to be subdued by the authorities)

As events play out, Ruby does her best to prevent the outcome of volume 3. Things do progress for the better, but a final encounter ensues with Cinder. Pyrrah steps in the way of an attack aimed at Jaune, and is severely wounded. Ruby witnesses this, and in a moment of shock and desperation to prevent her previous death, Ruby unlocks her Silver Eyed power. She defeats Cinder with the help of the Spirit of the Fall Maiden and causes her to flee ). As Pyrrah begins to slowly die, Ruby cries out to the previous fall maiden and asks what must she do to save Pyrrah. The Fall Maiden replies that only with her own life can she save Pyrrah. As she thinks upon this choice, she sees Jaune give a kiss to Pyrrah, and with that, Ruby knows why she came back; to prevent Pyrrah's death, even if it means her own. Ruby emerges from communing with the Fall Maiden's spirit and as she steps toward Pyrrah, team RWBY arrives and Yang (she still has her arm since the team listened to Ruby and took steps to preventing their injuries) cries out to her sister, asking her what she is doing. With tears in her eyes, she says "This is why I came back. I will rewrite the fate of Achilles with my own life. I love you Blake, Weiss, and Yang my dear sister. Do not go quietly into the night. Rage against the dying of the light and one day, I will see you on the other side." With that, she imbues the fall maiden and her own life power into Pyrrah, much to the dismay of her team and those surrounding the area.

Ruby is buried next to her mother. On her tombstone is written "Rage against the dying of the light."

After mourning and the passing of time, the rest of team RWBY, along with Pyrrah, who feels responsible for Ruby's passing, go on a journey to hunt down Cinder and her leader Salem.

Ruby awakens in the aether, back when she was given a choice to go back in time. The Wanderer (another name for time lord whatever) tells her that it was not the past; rather a simulation that he created to see how Ruby would fair in preventing the fall of Beacon and tells her that soon she will awake in her world where the events of volume 3 were not prevented. She awakens in camp with Jaune, Nora, and Ren. Crying incessantly, jabbering that she failed to save Pyrrah, Jaune is beside her and hears it all, comforting her by saying she did the best she could and that Jaune does not hold it against her. He does not know that Ruby went through a "simulation" and Ruby doesn't bother to tell him what happened in it (this is subject to change. If she does try to tell him what happened, it will be concluded by both of them as a dream).

Later, we will find out that the Wanderer was lying. It was not a simulation, but rather an alternate timeline that was created the moment Ruby's consciousness was transported back into the "past." 

We find this out because PWYB (Pyrrah, Weiss, Yang, and Blake) from the alternate timeline appear in Ruby's original timeline to save her from certain doom (this will hopefully happen in an epic battle). Their appearance will be different from before, ranging in different haircuts, clothing, and certain demeanor that will be determined (Perhaps Weiss would be less whiny and condescending etc). The four women from the other timeline embrace Ruby and tell her because of her sacrifice, Salem was defeated and a new form of balance and harmony was created between humans and Grimm. Each person from the alternate timeline would get to speak to their other selves from the original timeline and offer insight as to how to overcome their respective difficulties (Weiss and her dad, Blake and Adam, Yang and the loss of her limb), except for Pyrrah, who speaks to Jaune knowing that the Pyrrah he knew is dead. She speaks to him of moving on, for it is what she would want her Jaune to do should she perish one day before he does. She speaks over him a new prayer to further unlock his power. They do not share a kiss, for Jaune, out of maturity, knows that this Pyrrah is right and that he must let go of the Pyrrah he loved and find completion with it (they do share a tearful hug though :D ). The team RWBY from the alternate timeline are sad that this will be the first and only time they see Ruby after her passing in their world, but are comforted knowing that she is living on in this world. Yang wonders if she truly will see Ruby on the other side after their passing, and Ruby can only say they will see. After a tearful embrace before PWYB depart back to their own world, in unison they recite the last two lines from Dylan Thomas' poem: 

"Do not go gentle into that good night.

Rage, rage against the dying of the light."