GT Short: Switch-A-Roo

GT Short

Switch-A-Roo

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Knock! Knock! Knock! Knock! Knock!

‘I am going to deck whoever is pounding on that door so hard in the pelvis, scientist all over the world’ll have to run studies on how one woman can harbor so much anger in a single punch.’

That was the mindset of a certain groggy blonde as she pried her face from the comfort of her nice, soft, cool pillow. With the power of 1000 gods, she had to force her body to lift itself from the amazingly awesome bed she had been taking her long mid-day nap on. Her hair was messily strung over her face. A string of silva trailed from her mouth to the pillow. She could only muster up the strength to barely open one eye, the other refusing to expose itself to the blinding light of the afternoon sun.

To be honest, any other time she would have said, ‘Screw this, back to dreamland I go!’ However, the constant knocking- no, banging- no, hallows of a million souls (that’s what it pretty much sounded like to her at the moment) made drifting back off to sleep near impossible. She could just ignore whoever was trying so hard to get her attention until they left.

Yeah, she could simply-

“Yang! Yang, answer the door! Come on, Yang, open up!”

Oh dear god, it was Jaune! That annoying voice of his was never gonna let her ignore him! If she didn't answer the door, he’d probably just keep going, ‘Yang! Yang! Yang! Yang! Yang!’ like she were fighting Giygas, or something.

Her face slammed into the pillow as she had to resist the urge to burst out crying at having to seriously get up. Life wasn’t fair. She just wanted to take a nap. Was that really so much to ask? Was it really something she didn’t deserved?

Grumbling incoherent swears, she willed herself to rise from the bed, every muscle in her body screaming at her not to. It was a task like no other. A task even more strenuous than fighting a fully grown Grimm. A task more demanding than having to fight five at the same time. A task more impossible than trying to get Ruby and Nora to sit still for more than two seconds after eating a fresh batch of her cookies!

Okay, that may be pushing it a bit. The point is: Yang was having a hard time answering the door.

She dragged her feet across the ground, resisting the urge to topple over to the floor right then and there. Her mouth stretches open as she lets out a loud yawn. A hang reaches to her behind and scratches her shorts-clad butt cheek.

She reaches the door currently being beaten like a drum and groans. Jaune was, yet and still, squealing like a castrated pig from the other side. She had to shut him up.

So, grabbing the door knob, she doesn’t even bother to twist it before flinging it open like a piece of paper, the knob making a hole in the wall upon impact. She’d have to explain that to Ruby and Ozpin later, but she could not give two shits right now.

From outside the room, Jaune stood frozen, his hand raised like he was about to unleash another round of knocks on her now open door. For a moment, he and Yang stood staring at each other, no words being exchanged. After a good minute, Yang decides to get on with it.

“What…?” she says with a raspy, obviously angered voice.

Jaune snaps out of his stupor and tries to respond. “Yang, you won’t believe this! I was just doing some homework at my dorm, and… Okay, that’s a lie, I was actually playing this new video game I bought the other day, but I have been doing homework, because Pyrrha told me I had to if I wanted to keep up with my classes and not get F’s and stuff. But, anyway, that’s beside the point! S-So I was just sitting alone, playing my games, eating my food, having a grande ol’ time, owning dudes in the online multiplayer, bunch of noobs! And while I was doing that I-“

Suddenly, Jaune’s endless rambling was cut off abruptly when Yang covered his talk hole with her hand. She looks at him with half dead eyes, and says, “Jaune…”

“Y… Yes…?” he squeaks with a muffled voice.

“Get… to… the damn… point…”

With that, she let’s the younger boy go, he giving her a stupefied look. Scratching the back of his head, he speaks. “Um… well… just look…”

He steps back, moving out of Yang’s way. With a sigh, she peaks her head around the doorframe and gazes down the hall. The moment she does that, her eyes fully open, the sight not at all being what she expected.

From behind the corner of a hallway intersection, two red heads walk into Yang’s view, two girl’s Yang could easily identify as Ruby and Pyrrha. Only, something was a bit off. While the two girls looked like themselves, they weren't exactly… themselves. For one, as far as Yang could remember, she recalled her little sister being more on the short side, Nora being the only other person who stood lower than her. And she definitely recalled Pyrrha being just as tall as Yang herself.

So, the question in Yang’s mind was, at the moment: why was her short sister currently standing taller than the amazonian teen at the moment?

And that was when it all hit her, and when Yang had to actually bring a hand up to keep her jaw from hitting the floor, something she was having an even harder time doing than getting out of bed just a minute ago.

And when the thing causing this reaction from Yang is Ruby currently standing dressed up as Pyrrha, and Pyrrha standing next to said little red girl, wearing the attire the little sister would normally be wearing, can you really blame her?

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Yang slowly turns to the blonde boy. “Jaune, I will let you personally squeeze my bobabroos if you can tell me how in the hell you managed to get these two to do this.”

Jaune gives the woman a large grin. “You can keep the offer. I will be more than happy to tell you this story.”

They both turn back to the targets of interest. Yang whips out her scroll and fiddles with it for a moment. “Oh we are so getting Blake in on this.” She points her scroll at the two redheads. This causes Ruby to look up, alarmed. “Say cheese, you two.”

“Yang, no-“

Flash!

And thus the picture of a lifetime was forwarded to a certain Blake Belladonna.

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“Okay, first of all, look at these two real quick.”

Yang complies and looks over to the two girls currently sitting on Ruby’s bed. Pyrrha sits upright and calmly. She waves innocently at the onlooking blonde, a small smile on her face.

“Hello,” she says politely.

Yang waves back. “Hello.”

Ruby, on the other hand, had her back to the wall and face buried in her knees. Yang could practically feel the heat of Ruby’s embarrassment resonating off the young girl. The older sister had to do her best not to let out a laugh. The poor kid’s probably on the brink of dying by this point.

She turns back to Jaune, who stood up beside her own bed. “Okay.”

“Now, tell me these girl’s don’t look like they could be long lost sisters, or something,” Jaune says.

“No, I most certainly see it. You can only imagine how amusing this actually is to me. How in all that is good and right in the world did you get my sister, Ruby, a ticking time bomb of anxiety, to not only strip out of her jacket, let alone her clothes, and then switch out with Pyrrha’s, honestly, much more reviling outfit? Did you, perchance, drug these two, Jaune?”

Jaune chuckles. “Yang, I swear on my left testicle-“

“Good lord, what is the matter with you two?” Pyrrha asks from the side, sounding appalled by Jaune’s rather colorful choice of words. “Why would you say something like that?”

“-that I did not manipulate, drug, trick, and/or connive my way into getting this outcome. I am going to tell you exactly how this went down. Word for word, this was the exact conversation we had that got us to this point.”

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“All right, let’s hear it,” Yang says.

“No, Yang, I need you to hear me out right now. What I am about to tell you is the truth and nothing but the truth. I can not make up what I am about to tell you.”

“Okay, got it. Now what happened, dude?”

“Yang, I don’t think you’re understanding me here. This is-“

“Yeah! I got it! ‘Nothin’ but the truth’! I get the memo! Now would you just get on with it?”

“Okay, okay, just making sure we understand each other.” He claps and rubs his hands together, preparing himself for the epic tale he is about to bestow upon Yang’s ears. “Now, here’s what happened…”

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A Few Hours Ago

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“Hey, you two look alike.” Jaune says, walking into the room as Ruby sat on the sofa playing video games and Pyrrha sat on the other side watching. “Wanna cosplay as each other?”

“Sure.” Pyrrha shrugs.

“I… I guess that could be fun…” Ruby answers.

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Present Day

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“ARE YOU F**KING KIDDING ME?!” Yang (rather loudly) curses.

“My goodness…” Pyrrha says, covering her mouth at Yang’s foul language.

“That was a swear, Yang!” Ruby chastises.

“I know, right?” Jaune answers, laughing. “I couldn’t believe how easy it was either!”

“I can’t get you to go to an amusement park with me and yet cosplay is the thing that gets you to come out your shell?!” Yang yells at Ruby.

The red head shrinks back, shaking nervously. “I-I-I-I-I t-thought it w-w-would be f-f-fun…!”

“But of all things, why was this the thing you’d be okay with doing?! You are the weirdest kid I have ever…! Gahh!”

“Now-Now, Yang, to be perfectly fair, there is a little more to this story than Jaune let on,” Pyrrha defends the little girl.

“Wait, so that wasn’t all of it? That isn’t really how it went?”

“No, um, actually, Jaune was being truthful, that is exactly how that conversation played out. But it was only after our initial talk.”

Yang slaps her hand to her face. “Okay, first off, Ruby, what were you even doing over at Jaune and Pyrrha’s dorm in the first place?”

“Hang on, I got this,” Jaune says, clearing his throat to speak. “Right, so, remember that game I mentioned I had just bought recently? Well, I kind of didn’t wanna play it all by myself, so I had Pyrrha maybe join me… and she failed miserably. Not the most adept at playing video games, bless her soul.”

Pyrrha bows her head. “Sorry…”

“It’s cool, Pyrrha. Anyway, so, with Pyrrha kind of out of the question, I had to find a different person to share the joy with, you know? Unfortunately, I, uh, don’t really have many friends to call over. The only people I really know are Pyrrha, Weiss, who isn’t really present at the moment, you, who’d probably knock my teeth out if I bothered you during your nap time to play some games, Blake, who I really don’t know all that well, Nora, and Ruby. Based on my options, and the fact I kind of wanted to spend some quality time with the little red plush toy over there-“

Ruby waves. “That’s me.”

“- I decided to see if she’d be down for some gaming.”

Yang lifts a brow. “What happened to Nora?”

“Funny you should mention that. I’ve played a lot of games with Nora since she’s moved in.”

“And?”

“Kicked my ass in every single one of them.”

Yang’s eyes widen slightly. “Wow.”

“Yes, Nora is actually quite the skilled video game player,” Pyrrha chimes in. “It was like watching a fully trained Huntress slay a Grimm. Or a blacksmith forge a weapon from scratch: a sight that needs to be seen in person to truly be appreciated.”

“Yes, Nora’s a master at Smash Bros. Whatever,” Jaune says, an obviously sour tone in his voice. “Anyway… Because Nora was so good at whipping my butt, I decided, for this game, I was gonna have the upper hand. I’d train my butt off and get good at the game before she challenged me again. That way, we’d both be on equal playing ground.”

“Cheater,” Yang says.

“What?”

“Jaune, cheating is wrong. You’re a meanie,” Ruby says, giving Jaune a look of disappointment.

“Wait, no, that’s not-“

“What kind of guy cheats against a 13 year old girl? Come on, man, is that really the attitude a Huntsman should have?” Yang chastises.

“Stop! It’s not cheating! It’s called training, okay?! I was training!”

“In Jaune’s defense, I believe he was in the right for his actions,” Pyrrha says on Jaune’s behalf. “If you’ve seen Nora partake in video gaming, Jaune has the right idea.”

“Oh, of course his partner would say that, Pyrrha,” Yang says. “Besides, you’re just backing him up because you wanna jump the guy’s bone.”

“Yang, being his partner has nothing to do with me trying to defend a good- wait, what was that last part?”

“Can we please get back on the topic of why Ruby and Pyrrha are currently sitting hear wearing each other’s clothes?” Jaune says.

Everybody quiets down after Jaune’s outburst of annoyance. At being reminded of the fact that she was, indeed, wearing Pyrrha’s outfit, Ruby goes back to her little corner in embarrassment once more.

Jaune sighs. “Now… So, yeah, I called Ruby to play some games. To my utter surprise, she actually agreed to the playdate and we had us a grand ol’ time. It really was a blast, right, Ruby?”

From her balled up position on the bed, Ruby raises a shaking hand and gives a thumbs up.

Yang looks over at Ruby. “Oh yeah, you and I did use to play games like that, didn’t we? You still enjoy them, Rubes?”

The redhead looks up a little from her spot on the bed. “Y… Yeah, actually. I… forgot how much fun they were.”

Yang leans back on her bed. “Hm. Good to know…” she silently says to herself.

“Now, me and Ruby were playing games, having a good time, making jokes, drinking lemonade, not doing homework; basically everything that amounts to a perfect day,” Jaune continues the story. “That’s when Pyrrha here waltzes in and treats Ruby and I to a home cooked meal! She didn’t have to, we didn’t ask her to, she just did it, because Pyrrha’s a boss who is way too nice for her own good.”

Pyrrha lightly blushes. “I… I don’t know about that…”

“But that’s when it happens. She sits down on the sofa and decides to watch us play our games. I glance over to talk to her and while I’m turning to look at Pyrrha, a quick glimpse of Ruby passes by. So when my eyes land on Pyrrha, I notice something odd. It took me a minute; had to do a double take, but an idea suddenly hit me like a ton of bricks. I look at Pyrrha and I ask, ‘Hey, do you think you could, maybe, let your hair down for a sec? I wanna see something.’ Of course, she looks at me like a I’m crazy at first. Gonna be honest, could swear I saw a killing intent in her eyes after I asked her that."

“No you didn’t Jaune,” Pyrrha retorts, an amused smirk on her lips.

“Pretty sure I did. But then she decides that it’s not a big deal and complies. I ask her and Ruby to stand by each other so I could get a good look. When they do… I freak out.”

“He actually did. I recall him running to his room, screaming something about having ‘the best idea in the cosmos’. It was quite… odd, to say the least. A few hours later, he returned, presented the idea and… here we are.”

Yang whistles. “Wow… Cannot believe that worked, man.”

“Can you imaging how I felt?” Jaune responded. “It was honestly an idea that I thought was gonna be shot down in flames. At the very least, it wouldn’t have surprised me if Ruby teleported out the apartment right then and there. When I got her on board, I had to look to the lord himself and ask, ‘What witchcraft have you bestowed upon this humble teenage loser?’”

“Jaune. Please don’t call yourself a loser,” Pyrrha chastises the blonde boy.

“Oh, uh… sorry, Pyrrha.”

She shakes her head, smiling. “I will say, the idea was a bit strange. However, after Ruby agreed, I found myself getting oddly… anxious about doing it. Can you two be honest with me for a moment? Am I the only one who’s always wanted to try on this cloak? I… truthfully feel… ‘cool’ wearing it.”

“Oh my god, I thought I was the only one!” Jaune says.

“Hell yes I’ve wanted to wear that thing,” Yang says. “But Ruby here would never let me.”

“Wait, you’re her sister and you’ve never gotten to wear it?

“She would always say I smell like sweat and never let me try it on.”

“You are a liar,” Ruby retorts from her corner. “You’ve gotten to wear it plenty of times before. The times I didn’t let you wear it were because you actually were covered in sweat and other stuff I don’t even wanna recognize!”

“I’m a junior huntress, you midget! It comes with the job!”

“Well, hey, since Yang and Pyrrha got to have a go, can I put it on, too?” Jaune asks.

“Hey,” Ruby says. “Everybody gets one. Pyrrha was the lucky one this time. She’s really sweet. And she smells nice…” She says that last part under her breath.

Pyrrha gives a sweet smile to Ruby. “Why thank, Ruby. I think you’re sweet, too.”

“I would complain that I’ve known you longer than Pyrrha has… but, no, Pyrrha is pretty easy to like. I mean, really now! Just look at that winning smile!”

All eyes direct to the amazonian woman.

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“Damn, she’s even got the cute smile down,” Yang says.

“These two have to be sisters! This cosplay idea is going down in the book of my greatest achievements!”

“Oh good, you finally got one in there.”

“Bite me.”

“By the way that reminds me: Ruby how do you even know what cosplay is? Who taught you that?”

Ruby fiddles with her red hair. “Blake did. She showed me what it was about a week or two ago. She even mentioned being a fan of it herself.”

“Really?” Jaune ask, surprised. “Blake? I really didn’t peg her the type to take interest in that kind of stuff. Oh yeah, speaking of her; Yang, didn’t you text Blake to come over here?”

Yang perks up. “Y’know, now that you mention it, I actually got a response from her while you were telling your story. Get this, all she typed back was ‘HOLD POSITION’ in all caps.”

Jaune scratches his head. “What is that supposed to mean?”

“Perhaps she was simply afraid we’d wander off before she made it here?” Pyrrha tries to help.

“Okay, but why did she say it like this was a mission, or some-“

Bang!

All eyes direct to the bedroom as the sound of the apartment entrance being slammed open resounds from outside. For a second after that, there is only silence.

“U…Um…” Yang stutters.

Bang!

This time, the bedroom door swings open. Standing in the entrance was a familiar looking black haired woman. Her hair was messy as if she’d been taking a nap just like Yang had been. That was only proven more likely by the baggy, wrinkled shirt thrown on, sloppily tossed over a purple bra and equally baggy sweatpants. Her dark hair hung over her eyes, shadowing them.

“What in the-“ Yang starts.

That’s when Blake’s head shoots up, revealing her baggy, red eyes; the eyes of someone who had, indeed, just woken up from a nap.

“Cuteness proximity at 100%…” she says with a voice unlike her normal one. She looks around the room quickly, but then her eyes land on Ruby, who looks on with a fearful expression. “Target cited… Initiating abduction.”

At that very moment, the window between Ruby and Yang’s beds fly open, and a pink and orange blur shoots in. Beside Pyrrha, an orange hair child appears with arms wrapped the older woman, a rather creepy smile plastered to her face.

“N-Nor-”

In the blink of an eye, both Pyrrha and her kidnapper vanish into thin air.

That’s when Blake makes her move and jumps from the door all the way across the room to land on Ruby’s bed in front of the girl, effectively scaring the living daylights out of her. Suddenly, Blake pounces and sinks her teeth into Ruby’s (or, er, rather, Pyrrha’s) top, quickly jumping out of the window with the young girl in tow.

And then, just like that, everything was just as quiet as before, albeit the scene now missing two redheads. Jaune and Yang sit dumbfounded.

“…Well…” Yang starts.

“…Huh…” Jaune continues.

“…So… I’m thinking that Blake… really liked Ruby’s cosplay…”

“…Yeah… I think I just saw Nora kidnap Pyrrha, too…”

“…Guessin’ that… she somehow found out about the cosplay…”

“Not really sure how, though…”

And with that, the two blondes can only bask in the rather strange turn of events the day had taken so suddenly. It was safe to say that neither of two would truly ever understand what they had just witnessed…