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AN: Hey everybody! This is Jitterwhack coming at ya with a new story. We've all seen time travel fics, but I wanna try and add my style of it. And if you remember how I sneak feels and stuff, then prepare for some of those things.

Chapter 1: Do-over

Ruby Rose has done it. After so much sacrifice, she finally has Salem on her knees in front of her. Behind her, Jaune stood with the corrupted body of Pyrrha Nikos with his sword stabbed thorough her chest and hers through his. Ren and Nora were no longer with them as they had fallen in a cave in fighting a Grimm wave. The rest of Team RWBY were nowhere to be seen as they had fallen one by one. Gritting her teeth at all her loss, she raised her scythe in the air with silver eyes flaring furiously.

SHWING!

"I win." Ruby muttered, scythe embedded into Salem's heart.

"Too bad you couldn't save all of them." She rasped out in her dying breath. With that said, the witch had dissolved slowly with the last look be a mocking smile.

"You're right." Ruby muttered, turning to see Jaune hanging by a thread with death close to taking him. "I couldn't save them all. …But I plan on doing it the next time."

While traveling with the others, Ruby had been getting strange dreams. In it, someone explained to her the possibilities of her powers. Of how her eyes and her semblance made it possible to change the tides in her favor. She couldn't make out a face, but for some reason she felt admiration and a deep pull to whoever was speaking to her.

She played it off as nothing, but after talking with Ren and Jaune, she started believing in the dreams. They said that it must be a sin or an omen. A lesson in disguise that were one of the mysteries of Remnant itself. Taking the advice, she learnt many ways to control her powers. And now, she was to use one she thought she'd never have to use.

"R-ruby." Jaune gasped, trying to keep his eyes open. "What're you doing?"

"…I'm sorry Jaune." She whispered, flaring her eyes up. Tears were falling from the corners of her eyes and running down her cheeks as she readied to use her semblance. "But I cant live in a world with all of you gone."

"Ruby. NO!" Someone shouted from behind her. But it was too late. The reaper had combined the power of her silver eyes with her semblance. She kept running until she finally saw what she was looking for.

New Day

"Oof!" The little reaper grunted as she felt pain. "Why?"

Ruby Rose woke up to someone bodyslamming her in her own bed. Looking to her attacker, she had mixed feelings seeing her older sister with her head dug into her belly. Happy, because her sister was alive. Vengeful because of the pain she was in.

"Wake up sis." Yang said while ruffling her sister's hair. "Breakfast is ready and it's time for school."

"Yeah, yeah." The reaper grumbled, rolling out of bed and putting on her slippers.

As she was going to the kitchen, an odd sight had caught her eye as she was on her way. Sitting in the living room couch was a woman who looked like an older version of her. The only difference was that the woman had a white cloak instead of a red one and was a bit taller. She knew she wasn't seeing things because her older sister had walked over to give the woman a morning kiss on the cheek before heading into the kitchen to eat. Her mother was alive.

"Mom?" Ruby whispered, feeling her eyes sting. It had worked. Ruby Rose had changed time.

"Mom!" The little reaper hugged her mother as she saw her in the living room.

"Woah there." Summer Rose laughed. "What's all this about? You usually hug me after eating breakfast."

"I'm just so…so- hrrgk!" Whatever Ruby was to say next was cut off as she felt a splitting headache and her nose dripping as her body started convulsing.

"Ruby!" Summer shrieked, holding onto her daughter. Yang had came running in hearing the commotion. "Yang! Call a doctor. I think Ruby's having a seizure!"

"I'm on it!" The older sister said urgently, running to the phone.

As the two panicked over the youngest in the house, Ruby was going on a very trippy ride.

Mindscape

"Are you sure about this?" Summer said, giving her husband a smile and a kiss.

"It's cool." The old blonde said, not letting go of her. "You just stay with the kids and I'll handle the big bad Grimm."

"You're such a dork." The mother laughed, rolling her eyes. "Just come home soon. The bed feels awfully big without you next to me."

"Ooh." Taiyang wiggled his eyebrows. "More reason to come home quick."

*flash*

Summer was sitting in the living room with Yang on sitting next her and Ruby on her lap. The two were crying while Ruby slept soundly through their sobs. In the young blonde's hand was a picture of their dad.

"It's going to be okay Yang." Summer sniffed, kissing the two girls on the forehead. "We'll get through this together."

*flash*

Taiyang was waking through the snow with gauntlets equipped and torch lighting the way. As he continued to walk, he didn't notice a glowing stinger hovering behind him until it was too late. Without any warning it had sailed down at a quick speed to the father's back and -

Ruby's bed

"Dad no!" Ruby gasped weakly, opening her eyes in shock and despair.

She forgot about the drawbacks of time travel. Her mind needed to absorb whatever memories the new timeline had made. She'd keep the old memories of the past timeline, but space would need to be made for the new ones. To do that, the brain would morph and go into overtime to get up to speed with the new timeline events. If she wanted, she could even peek into the timelines of the people she was close to. The voice in her dreams had called it psychometry. When she made contact with her mother, she had lost control and used it without proper preparation.

Beside's seeing her dad's death, she saw her mom and sister along with her trying to move on from it and succeeding. Summer had to work twice as hard to be a good mother while also earning enough money as a huntress to bring food and money to the table. She could remember all the hugs and kisses, Yang training hard with mom to be a future huntress, Qrow visiting to keep in touch and train Ruby, and even the two sisters pushing Qrow away when they suspected he was trying to make a move on their mom.

"Ruby." Her mother sighed, placing a hand on her daughter's. "You're okay."

Summer Rose had sat by her daughter's side the whole day. The doctor had come over to see the problem but couldn't find anything wrong. Ruby was the spitting image of health with no signs of irregularity besides an almost above average high blood sugar.

"I-I saw it." Ruby sobbed, clutching her mom's shirt while sobbing into her chest. "I saw how dad died. It was a Deathstalker."

"Ruby…" The mother whispered, tightening her hold on her. Yang and her had to tell Ruby how Taiyang had died when she asked why she didn't have a father. "It's okay. It was only a nightmare."

Not able to say anything more, the little reaper could only continue to cry in her mother's arms until Yang joined in.

The next day

"Are you two sure you'll be alright?" Summer asked her two daughters as they were dropped in Vale a week after Ruby's episode. "The mission I'll be on will be just a few hours, so call me if anything."

"We'll be fine mom." Yang rolled her eyes. "We're just headed to the library and then some dust shop. It's fine. I still don't know why Ruby wants to head over to the dust shop. We're fully stocked as it is."

"I just need to get a few more canisters for an experiment." She lied. Truthfully this was the day she bumped into Torchwick and thwarted his plans, getting her an early enrollment into Beacon.

"Okay." The mother said, getting into her Bullhead. "But just in case, don't hesitate to call me on anything, alright?"

Getting a nod as they walked off, Summer watched as her kids became nothing but dots as she was flown away to kill a beast of unknown origin or purpose. With Yang around things might be a bit trickier, making it a very narrow window of opportunity to get into the school. She'll make sure everything goes okay.

With Ruby and Yang

"So where are we really going?" Ruby asked her older sister. In all her timelines, she's never seen Yang enter a library if it didn't include a cute boy or a special event.

"To the library." The blonde said as if it was so obvious. "I'm still iffy on my Dust chemistry mixture, so I'd like some reference besides the Dustnet."

This was a new one. In her past time line, Yang was party girl. She was still a bit boyish, sometimes she was a bitch, but she still acted like the usual Yang. Just how much had her jump change?

"Why are you looking at me like that?" Yang asked, brow quirked by how her little sister was gazing at her so weirdly.

"Nothing." Ruby said, deciding to test out her psychometry later. "I'm just wondering what I'll get in there."

With her past memories still intact, Ruby would be able to have her scythe back in it's Salem killing form. With more time on her hands now, she could even add more upgrades she wasn't able to do.

Days ago, she was tempted to travel back in time once more to save both her dad and mom, but a dream had informed her of the consequences of using time travel. Where death has taken, it will always take. No matter what she does, someone is bound to die in that time frame. There was no changing it.

Now that she thinks about it, what would this mean in trying to save Pyrrha? Or Penny? What about the rest of NPR and WBY? The last time line had them all die besides her. She couldn't just accept it as it was. If she saved them all, who would die?

"You okay?" Yang asked, snapping her sister out of deep thought. "You've been quiet for a really long time now. Longer than usual too."

"I'm fine." Ruby lied, the feeling in her gut getting worse. "I'm just …feeling anxious on this book I'm reading. I don't know if the characters will live or die."

"I know that feeling." The older sister nodded, having read her share of novels. "Sometimes I get caught up in who ends up with who or the important choice that seems so hard to predict."

"If only life was a novel." The little reaper sighed. "You could just rip a page out, remix it, and have the happy ending you want."

"Yeah but I think with the lack of control and feeling of inevitability, you have a deeper appreciation for the ending and a sense of relation to the characters not getting the perfect ending most people of society vie for." Ruby had to stop her mouth from dropping. Sure Yang was a smart girl, in her own way, but to be this smart and deep was something else. Maybe having a mother figure instead of their dad around caused a deep impact on her.

"O-okay." That's all she could say at the moment. It wasn't because she didn't understand her sister's words: it's more of the fact she couldn't get used to Yang sounding this smart.

As Yang continued on about her view on the remixes and the overused formulas, they had finally made it to the library. If Ruby was lucky, she could use her psychometry in a secluded area to personally see how much had changed. It was actually easy for her to find a spot since Yang had buried herself deep in a tick textbook.

"Let's see how much has changed." Ruby whispered, holding onto a picture of her and her sister she got from her wallet. Concentrating on the photo, Ruby felt the insides of her head twitch and pulse painfully as new information flooded her mind.

Flashback

"Happy birthday Yang." Summer smiled, handing a book over to the blonde girl.

Happily opening her present, Yang was presented with a fairy tail book. In Ruby's last timeline, she remembered her dad getting her a baseball bat and ball along with a few other sport toys. What hadn't changed was Qrow stopping by to give Yang a pair of kiddy boxing gloves.

"Thanks mom." Yang smiled, opening up the book to see it's contents.

Timeskip

"Who is this person?" Yang asked Summer with tears in her eyes, holding a photo of team STRQ. She was pointing to Raven. "Why do I look like her?"

"…I'm sorry Yang." Summer whispered, kneeling to be eyelevel with her. "That's … you see… I didn't give birth to you."

"So… she's my real mom?" Yang asked, not believing what she was hearing.

"…If you want that." It was clear Summer was hurt by what was happening by the tears about to leak out.

"Where is she?" Yang asked, photo being crumpled in her hands. "Why isn't she here?"

"…She died, Yang." It would take a few days before the two patched up their relationship.

Timeskip

"I cant do this!" Yang grumbled, head on the kitchen table as she tried to do her remedial assignments. Her physical education was top notch, but everything else was below passing. "I swear, Uncle Qrow has it out for me."

"Don't be like that." Summer smiled, patting her daughter's head. "Maybe you just need to look at it from a different angle. Maybe if you think of it like game. It's how I made learning fun."

"Learning fun?" The blonde scrunched her nose. "I don't think so."

"Try it." The mother insisted. "Think of history and tactics like Remnant the Board Game, Grimm studies like that Pockey game you girls like to play, and Dust class like …"

"…That awesome anime with the blonde guy with the metal arm!" Yang smiled, getting where Summer was getting at. "Thanks mom."

Timeskip

"I don't think this is a good idea Yang." Ruby said with a lisp. The two were hiding in the hallway as they eavesdropped on their mom and uncle's conversation.

"Shush." Yang muttered, eyeing the two adults in the living room. "I think Uncle Qrow is trying to replace dad."

"I don't know Qrow." Summer sighed, taking a sip from her cup. "Maybe I should ask her first. It's a big decision. Who knows how she'll take it."

"Ah-ha!" The blonde daughter shouted, revealing herself and her sister. "I knew it! Well my answer is no Uncle Qrow!"

What happened next was a huge misunderstanding as the two adults explained that they were discussing Ruby's early training with Qrow in scythe wielding. Although, Yang was still suspicious of her uncle when she saw his dejected look when Summer refused any sort of romantic relations between the two.

Timeskip End

"Guh!" Ruby groaned, feeling her nose dripping slightly from the new information flooding in. It wasn't like the first time since she was prepared for it all. "So Raven's dead?"

That posed another question. If Raven is dead, that means another life was spared. The only question is, who was it?

"Yo Rubes, you done yet?" Yang asked, popping her head into the corner she was hiding in. "I finished a few minutes ago, and it's been like an hour now."

"I'm done." Ruby forced herself to say calmly. "Why don't we head off to that dust shop a few blocks over. I think it was called Dust til Dawn."

At the Dust Shop

"So if I combine a wind and an ice, my shots will have a longer range and a faster cutting force?" Yang asked the old man.

While Yang continued to chat with the old man on the many combinations of dust, Ruby pretended to be in her spot when Torchwick and his gang had showed up. And right on cue, they had arrived just in time. The only difference was that Yang was with her now.

After dispatching the small time crooks, the two sisters had chased the notorious criminal to the roof where Cinder was piloting the ship.

'Not this time.' Ruby snarled internally, taking aim at the Bullhead's engine. If she took Cinder and Torchwick down now, then chances are her friend would be saved. It might sound selfish considering another life may take their place, but it's all she could do for now.

"Ruby what are you doing!" Yang shouted, seeing her sister fire mercilessly at the ship. "You'll kill them!"

'That's the plan.' She muttered darkly, smirking at seeing the wing explode and the ship careening downwards.

Sadly, instead of a loud boom, the ship was levitating in place. Looking behind them, they saw Glynda stomping over towards them with crop in hand to hold the criminals in place.

"I think you two should follow me." She muttered, eyeing the two younger girls with narrow eyes. All the while, Yang kept her eyes on her sister as if she didn't know who she was looking at.

Interrogation room

The sisters had been separated. This was going according to plan for Ruby. From what she could hear, Cinder and Torchwick would be placed in holding and heavily guarded. With Glynda and possibly Ozpin around, there was little chance anything bad could happen.

"Ruby Rose." The headmaster said, entering the room to greet her. "My colleague has told me a lot about you."

"Okay?" Act natural, Ruby told herself. Play things right and she'll be back with friends. The lack of cookies was a small disappointment though.

"Tell me, where does an adorable girl such as yourself learn to wield one of the most deadliest weapons?" The aged man asked, walking towards her with cane tapping on the ground.

"Signal Academy." She said meekly. Play it by the book.

"…Really?" Ozpin muttered, halting beside her with a glare fixed on his face. "Because if I recall from the records we dug up, your mother has you enrolled in Lantern Academy."

That was a mistake on her part. She hoped this was a mistake that could be overlooked.

"Tell me, Ms. Rose." He continued, leveling with her. "Do you know who I am?"

"You're Ozpin." She gulped, feeling nervous. "Headmaster of Beacon Academy."

"Correct." He nodded, standing up straight once more. "And did you know this room is being unwatched?"

"What?" She asked, not expecting that question. What Ruby felt next was pain. "Ow!"

"Congratulations Ms. Rose." The headmaster said bitterly after hitting her in the head with his cane. "You broke the time stream."

Hearing Ozpin's change in tone, Ruby finally figured out who the voice in her dreams belonged to. She was in the same room as the man who taught her how to use her time-traveling powers. More questions buzzed inside the little reaper's mind along with the fading pain.

To be continued…

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… Oh shoot! Yeah, one more thing. There's going to be a lot of turmoil and change in characters. Yang's obvious bookish smartness should have tipped it off. As for who lived while Raven died? I'll leave that up to you all. This story sort of incorporates the timelines of my other fics, so if you can guess things then you might get what might be happening. Let's hope you don't get it too right in your guesses. It takes the fun out of the suspense.

And what's this? Ozpin being revealed as the mentor of her powers? What could this mean? Is he a friend or a foe?

Look forward to the next chapter!

Next time on Ruby Dustpoint:

"I'm keeping an eye on you Ruby." Ozpin muttered, walking out the room.

"If you're sure about this sweety."Summer pouted, letting go of her youngest. "Take care of her Yang. And always remember to call me every night."

"Need help?"

"I'm sorry."

"The same company that went bankrupt overnight."

"Thank you, for bringing up my family's excruciating past failures."