Open letter to the little [CENSORED] that wrote me a review under the name "The Joining" – I am not used to writing longer stories. English is not my first language. The nods to Remnant's Reclaimer and A Raven In Summers Embrace (two of my fav fics out there, tbh) were a little something called a homage, you might want to look that one up in a dictionary. Lastly – If you're so chicken to only say the things you did behind the anonymity of a guest review, you might want to consider the fact that nobody's forcing you to read this story. Have a nice life, and don't bother coming to read my works ever again.

Summer Rose sunk to her knees, face to face with her own mortality.

She could sense the presence of her future daughter walking up to her, reassuringly putting a hand on her shoulder. She tried shutting her eyes, but the haunting words on the gravestone – her gravestone – was like etched on the insides of her eyelids. Tears started to well in the corners of her eyes.

"How… how did I die?" she said to the gravestone.

"We don't know." Ruby answered, tears silently trailing down her cheeks.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN, 'YOU DON'T KNOW'?!" Summer rose to her feet as she spun around to face the older girl. Ruby recoiled a bit at the sudden shouting, but moved in to hug the distraught girl in front of her.

"You went on a mission one day and just… never returned." Ruby was hugging the sobbing Summer, tracing tiny circles on her back with her hands when she suddenly felt as if someone, or something was watching them.

"Get ready, mom… I don't think we're alone."

"Sum's… dead?" Taiyang slumped into a chair.

"I'm sorry, dad…" Yang sat down beside him and put a hand on his knee. Raven hadn't said much during her daughter's tale, but her eyes spoke volumes of her thoughts. Whomever had dared to hurt her teammate, leader, and above all friend… they would suffer dearly. I'm starting to understand what mission I ran away from my family for…

"We can't begin to understand what's going through your minds right n-" Weiss began, when she was suddenly cut off by Qrow, his juice box uncharacteristically set aside on the table.

"Damn right you don't! You're not the ones having been sent 20 years into the fucking future to meet up with your damn nieces and their team!" Yang shot him a crimson-eyed glare, perfectly mirrored by her younger mother. The rest of the group just stared at the furious teenager, who up until now had been the most relaxed about the whole ordeal.

"You don't know a fucking thing about learning that your team leader, your friend, will be dead within the next 20 years! Your sister running off on some crazy crusade for Oum knows what damn reason!" Suddenly there was two heavy hands on Qrow's shoulders, and two angry, crimson eyes meeting his.

"Excuse me? We don't know the pain of loss? Penny, why don't you come out and say hello to my dear uncle."

Summer unsheathed her chain-axes as she saw the beowolves' red eyes gleam in the dark shadows of the treeline. She swung them around in slow, anticipatory circles around herself as Ruby unsheathed Crescent Rose beside her. As the first beowolf lunged towards Summer, she gave it a low double left uppercut with both blades, sending the corpse flying backwards into the oncoming pack. The two girls worked their way through the first wave, hacking away at their assailants in a maelstrom of blades. Summer's blades swung around her like a protective dome of razor-sharp pain, hacking anything that dared to get close to bits. She glanced over to where Ruby was, only to see her get cornered by two particularly large beowolf specimen. She was about to shout a warning, when the older girl disappeared in a shower of rose petals. Milliseconds later the two beowolves heads exploded downwards as two loud cracks echoed through the glade. As soon as Ruby landed from her escape jump, she speeded inside her future mother's protective blade swings.

"Impressive stunt. I'm guessing your semblance is speed." Summer glanced backwards at Ruby.

"Pretty much, yeah. Works really well with Crescent Rose too." Ruby hefted the rifle in her hands and shot two more beowolves.

"… You named your weapon like a family member? Please don't tell me my disappearance had anything to do with that." Summer grimaced as she decapitated two beowolves with one blade while simultaneously pulling a third to the ground with the chain of the other axe.

"No, I just had a… difficult… time connecting with other people when I was younger. Weapons were simpler."

"Ah, good to hear… I think?"

Ruby aimed for the next beowolf and pulled the trigger. Click.

"… Shit."

"Sal-you-tations friends! My name is P.E.N.N.Y.!"

The hologram floated over Yang's right forearm in front of Qrow's surprised face.

"I lost my right arm in defence of this school and my teammate. Blake got stabbed in the stomach, and one of our close friends got fucking shot by two arrows that nearly got her killed had Ruby not intervened. Don't talk to us like we don't know anything." Yang practically hissed at Qrow, who had turned quite pale as the hologram of Penny met his gaze.

"Relax, Yang. They've been under a lot of stress in a short amount of time. Snapping is understandable." Damn it, Blake. You always say just the right things to calm me down…

Yang let go of Qrow with a disapproving look.

"Ugh, fine."

The beowolf lunged just as Ruby's fresh magazine slammed home. She hoisted Crescent Rose above her head, blowing the still flailing beast clear of the muzzle with a thundering shot. As the remains evaporated into nothing, Summer obliterated its two replacements with quick swipes by her chain-axes.

"There's only a few of them left! We've got this!"

"Don't get cocky Summer, nothing good comes from that." Ruby replied as she shifted Crescent Rose back to its scythe mode. And that's when it appeared. A massive alpha-beowolf, with shoulders easily broader than Ruby and Summer combined. On its massive forepaws were claws that would make any dagger smith jealous. As it growled it bared an impressive set of teeth, red eyes firmly set on the two girls in front of it. Prey.

As it ran towards its adversaries, Summer leapt into action, only to be slapped aside like an impertinent child. Ruby dealt it several slashes with Crescent Rose, only to have it ripped from her hands and thrown aside. The alpha beowolf pinned her to the ground, raising claws to strike at the defenceless girl.

The last Ruby remembered seeing before the world turned into darkness and pain was five claws racing towards her blurring vision.

AN: Okay, yeah. This'll be canon to FYSX-verse. It's official.

Penny kept her holographic nose out of the discussion because she didn't want to feel intrusive.

Summer-Ruby-Beowolves fight is the result of thinking "what if we did the Red trailer, but with two girls?"

I'm sorry for the constant cliffhanger endings, it's easier to finish up oneshots. xD

I do not own RWBY, that's RoosterTeeth and Monty Oum.