Okay, so it turns out a lot of people loved the first chapter. Guess this means I'll continue writing then. :D

20 Seconds Ago – Beacon Academy, Dormitories West Wing (Room #202)

"… What did you just call me?" Summer stared vacantly at the young girl sobbing in front of her.

"MOM!" Ruby let Crescent Rose go, throwing herself into the other girl's arms. "Mom… I've missed you so much" she managed to say in-between sobs. Summer looked down at the discarded weapon, an ominous feeling in her gut. No. No no no no.

"Nice scythe ya got there, girlie." Suddenly team RWBY realised there was three other people in their room. "It'd be a shame if something broke when you dropped it like that. I should know." Ruby looked up from her mother's shoulder to meet the gaze of whom had addressed her.

"… Uncle Qrow? What're you doing here?"

"… Don't call me 'uncle', kid – I'm only 17. And how do you even know my name? 's far as I know, we've never met before."

"But of course I know your name, silly – it's kinda hard to forget the name of the uncle who taught you to fight after all."

Suddenly something clicked for Summer.

"Girls… would you mind telling us what date it is?"

"Third cycle, fourteenth, year 2400" Blake Belladonna catches onto Summer's train of thought.

"20… 20 years…" Summer staggers and grasps at the table to not fall over in shock.

"Sum, mind filling us in here?" asks Taiyang. Suddenly Yang rises to her feet.

"Wait… if you're Summer Rose… and you're Qrow Branwen…" lilac eyes look over the four strangers until they meet the gaze of the other woman in the newcomer's group. Then they turn dark crimson. Yang makes an attempt to rush Raven, but Blake and Weiss catch her mid-lunge, leaving Yang to flail hopelessly as she's held back by her teammates.

"LET ME GO! SHE NEEDS TO FEEL ALL THE PAIN SHE'S LEFT ME AND DAD!"

"Yang Xiao Long! You calm down this instant!" Blake tells her firmly. "That woman is not your mother! At least not yet. Somehow, the team of yours and Ruby's parents have been transported twenty years into the future – our present." Now it's Taiyang's turn to look incredulous.

"Wait… did that girl just call the other girl 'Xiao Long'?"

"… Really Tai? You get flung twenty years into the future and all you can think of is if you knocked somebody up along the way?"

"Actually, if I remember it correctly, Ruby and Yang are only half-sisters." Weiss Schnee realised she had kicked the proverbial rapier wasps' nest as soon as she said it.

"… Two women? Oh Oum." Qrow chuckles at Tai's obvious turmoil, then something dawns on him.

"Wait… li'l redhead over there, 'Ruby' was it?" Qrow walked up to Summer and Ruby, still hugging, Summer gently rocking the still sobbing girl. "She called Sum 'mom', so that'd be a Tai-Summer fling." He took a sip from his juice box as he carried on. "Blonde Ball of Anger over there is Ruby's half-sister, yet she's kept Tai's surname. Ruby calls me 'uncle Qrow', which, admittedly may just be an honorary title, but…" He comes to a stop before his twin sister, who gives him a downright murderous look.

"Don't. Say. Another. word."

"So… just 'mutual tolerance' between you and Tai huh?" Qrow chuckled and turned around to face the others. "Ladies and gentlemen, it is my oh-so-humble pleasure to introduce to you my beloved twin sister… Raven Branwen."

"I still can't believe I'm the father of two, Qrow. I'm just 17…" Qrow gives Tai an annoyed look as he takes a fresh sip from his box.

"Relax man, you're not there yet. Your old, future/present self is probably still out on adventures with the rest of us. Nothing short of Izhar himself can kill team STRQ."

The two boys of Team STRQ had requested a bit of solitude after the big discoveries, so they had gone up to the rooftop directly above West wing.

"This is all too confusing."

"I hear ya, Tai." He reached out and put a hand on Tai's shoulder.

"I hear ya."

When they returned to the dorm, things had calmed down considerably. Mother and daughter Rose had moved up from the floor to sit on one of the beds, Summer having put an arm around Ruby, who had stopped sobbing for the most part. Blake and Weiss had eventually let go of Yang, who were straining to not assault the woman in front of her.

"Be that as it may Yang but, as your teammate pointed out earlier, I am not yet that woman. You cannot possibly hold me responsible for something I have yet to do."

"You ran from dad. You ran from me."

"I did not."

"You did." Yang rose to her feet, eyes flaring crimson.

"ENOUGH!" Raven rose to meet the gaze of the blonde brawler. "You want me to be your mother so bad?! Fine. Firstly, no daughter of mine speaks to me in that tone. Apologize." Raven spat, her hand firmly on the hilt of Umbrae Corvinus – a convincing threat, had she not been half a head shorter than her future daughter. Yang just stared as her eyes faded back to lilac. Then she did the most unexpected thing.

She laughed.

"Well aren't you just adorable! I kinda see where I get the temper from now…" She stepped forwards and hugged Raven, who tried her best to wriggle loose to no avail. Raven smiled weakly back at Yang.

"You're just as annoying as Tai too, you know that?"

"What can I say, I was a cooperative effort after all." Qrow, who had been listening in, guffawed as he got juice up his nose. Raven glared back at him.

"Stuff it, Qrow."

A few minutes later, everyone had settled down. Blake was trying to help Tai understand that he actually wasn't dreaming. Weiss sat by Yang and Raven, ready to intervene if things heated up again. Qrow was sitting down with Crescent Rose, admiring the work he had apparently been a big part in. Ruby had long since stopped sobbing, but she was still very low on spirit.

"It sure seems like you've had a lot more happen in your school life than I did back then… is Mrs. Aoyama still Combat Instructor?" Summer asked.

"Mr. Aoyama is our CI. He's okay, but strict."

"As a teacher should be, young lady."

"Oh please, 'mom' – I'm a year older than you now." Ruby giggled.

"Speaking of moms, where am I these days? You guys mentioned Tai still lives on Patch and Qrow is out on missions and Raven is god-knows-where, but what of me?" Ruby paled and frowned.

"Mo-… Summer, can I show you something?"

After having retrieved Crescent Rose from Qrow and told everyone they were going on a short trip together, Ruby and Summer had made it to the airship terminals and flown out to a remote forest near the ocean. Summer could hear the waves crashing against the cliffsides in the distance. She then looked at Ruby.

"How far?"

"About 200 metres that way." Ruby pointed to the east. As they got to the cliffs, Summer had a sinking feeling as she saw a single, marble epitaph at the very edge of the steep cliff.

SUMMER ROSE

Thus Kindly I Scatter.

AN: Sorry if this chapter seems a bit rushed and choppy, I had a lot of scenes I wanted to fit in. What a nerve-wrecking way to end it on though!

Umbrae Corvinus is a reference to the final stanza in my favourite poem by Edgar Allen Poe, The Raven.

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