A/N: Hello ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to my first fanfic. To be honest with you guys I wrote this story as a way to cope with the season 3 finally of RWBY. At the time I was going through some tough stuff in my life and it didn't help that I had just saw my favorite female character of all time die in front of me. It also destroyed the great and beautiful Arkos ship that was literally confirmed right before she died. Yeah, it messed me up pretty badly. But everything is good now. This story is inspired by All the Little Things by Kisdota-The Freak Gamer. His story helped me get through my slump so please go check out his story it's really good.

Now I'll be honest I personally don't like the time travel fanfic idea too much. I've always seen it as an excuse to make people's favorite character, or characters, as OP gods that stop all the problems from happening. Now I know not all these stories are like this, it's just my years on has shown me this pattern. I think the idea can work if the characters are stronger just not Op. Also, while some of the problems do get fixed I would like to see new problems arise that is in a way time pushing back against the characters.

I don't own RWBY in any way shape or form. If I did Pyrrha would still be alive and Arkos would be sailing strong

Well that's enough from me so let's begin with a certain red hooded teenager.

As Ruby kept running up the Beacon Tower thoughts of worry and doubt kept clouding her mind. Not only would she have to fight the mysterious mastermind behind the invasion of Vale but she would also have to find a way to stop that Grimm Dragon that was continually making more Grimm. However, the one thought that was constantly repeating over and over in her head was the call that Weiss got from Jaune. The leader of Team JNRP was begging for them to go save Pyrrha that she was outmatched against this woman at the top of the tower. Ruby can still hear the anger, fear, and sadness within each of Jaune's words. To her it sounded like Jaune's heart was breaking.

Each step Ruby took felt heavier and heavier. Not only were her thoughts getting to her but the higher altitude was also making it hard to breath. The air just kept getting thinner and thinner the higher she went up. Her arms were feeling exhausted from fighting and holding up crescent rose all night. The bruises from the fight she had with Roman and Neo on top of the air ship started to ache.

Once Ruby got half way up the tower she began to hear explosions and saw debris falling from the top. Luckily the debris wasn't too big and any of the bigger stuff like furniture or concrete slabs flew right past her head. The higher up she got, the more the explosions started to get louder and stronger. Soon the tower itself was starting to shake violently. A few times the shaking got so bad that Ruby almost tripped while running.

For most people seeing all of this would have instilled in them enough fear to make them want to turn back, but not Ruby. In fact, this pushed her to run faster! Whatever Jaune was getting at must have been true, whoever this woman is she is immensely powerful and Pyrrha, while also being stronger herself, would definitely need her help.

One bit of somewhat good news is that Ruby didn't see that Grimm Dragon circling the tower or making any new Grimm from its drops of inky black goo. Now the Dragon Grimm could be behind the tower and was still making more Grimm but at least it isn't making any more Grimm in the city.

After a few more minutes of running Ruby saw the whole top floor of the tower get knocked over the edge. Ruby quickly switched her scythe into its sniper rifle mode and started shooting the debris that was in her way. Thankfully Weiss's glyphs were able to absorb some of the recoil from each of her shots so Ruby wasn't slowed down too much. It took a few magazines but she was able to make the path to the top clear again.

Seeing the top floor get pushed off confirms Ruby's fear of her having to also deal with the Grimm Dragon. While Ruby didn't see Pyrrha's body in the debris and didn't hear or feel any more explosions, she was still worried for her friend's safety.

Once Ruby reached her destination what she saw will scar her for the rest of her life. Cinder, the exchange student she met in the hallway before the tournament, was standing triumphantly in front of a kneeling defeated Pyrrha with a bow in her hand and an arrow pointed straight at her friend's heart.

'Pyrrha!'

Before Ruby could use her semblance in an attempt to safe Pyrrha, Cinder had released the arrow from its string. All that could be heard at this moment was the arrow passing through the air and Ruby letting her weapon hitting the ground with a loud clink.

In the blink of an eye, the arrow had pierced Pyrrha's chest and into her heart. For a second time froze around Ruby.

All the emotions she trying to hold back, all the hate, anger, frustration, sadness, guilt all of it began to erupt.

'I couldn't save Penny and now I can't even save Pyrrha! What's wrong with me!? If only I stopped the White Fang sooner than none of this would have happened! If only I stopped Roman when I first met him none of this would have happened! If only I had known that Cinder wasn't who she said she was then none of this would have HAPPPENED!' Everything in Ruby just snapped and in her emotional state she let out a mighty roar!

"Ppppyyyyyyrrrrrrrrrrhhhhhhaaaaaaa!"

A bright light emitted from Ruby and began to consume everything. Cinder didn't even get a chance react before the light consumed her. In seconds the light consumed all of Vale and within a minute it had consumed all of Remnant.

All Ruby could see right now was pure white but when she stopped screaming it all suddenly faded into darkness.

Location: Ruby and Yang's house. Time 8:00 AM

Ruby was laying down in her bed with her bright red covers rapped all around her body like a cocoon. It didn't look like Ruby was having a nice dream, she had a scowl on her face and was constantly twisting and turning like she was running away or maybe even towards something.

The dream was getting so bad that Ruby bolted up from bed with her eyes wide open and her arms extended forward as if to grab something.

"Pyrrha!"

After waking up from the nightmare, Ruby began to see that she wasn't on top of the Beacon Tower but instead in her bedroom.

"It was all a dream…. oh, sweet dust it was just…"

Before she could finish her thought, Ruby began to look around 'her' room and she noticed it wasn't how she remembered leaving it last.

There was toy weapons and Legos scattered all over the floor. The self didn't have any of the Grimm figures she collected. Even the pictures on the wall were replaced with posters filled with cartoon characters.

"a bad dream…."

Confused, Ruby was about to get out of bed to examine where she was except something caught her eye that made her immediately freeze. The mirror across her room in front of her bed didn't show a brave fifteen-year-old huntress in training. Instead it showed a small five-year-old girl wearing puppy pajamas.

Panic began to set in to the already confused Ruby. 'Why am I a little kid again? What was that white light? Wha- '

"RUBY"

Jumping from the sudden call for her name Ruby turned her head to find her sister Yang standing in the middle of the door frame. Yang also looked young, around seven if she had to guess, she was breathing hard and was covered in sweet. Tears were also cascaded down her face and she is shacking like she saw a ghost.

"Yang do you re- "

"Remember the invasion of Beacon? Yeah, I remember Ruby." Yang said while holding on to her right hand. "I remember everything that happened."

Seeing Yang this shaken up unsettled Ruby, she always saw her sister as a tough take no bs from anyone type of person. Now she looks like she's a war veteran returning home for the first day in years.

"Ruby, why are we in the past?" asked Yang as she walked into her sister's bed while wiping the sweet and tears from her face. "What happened while I was knocked out?"

It took a second for Ruby to muster up the courage to recall all that happened but after feeling a comforting hand from her sister on her shoulder Ruby began to explain everything that happened at Beacon Tower. To say Yang was mad to hear what happened would be an understatement. No longer was Yang shacking from panic, now she was shacking from sheer furry after hearing that a close friend was killed. Hell, furry was even too weak of a word to describe how angry Yang was feeling. "That slimy Bitch! Next time I see her I'm going to beat her into a bloody pulp!" For a second Ruby could have sworn she saw Yang's eyes turn red. This was weird because the first time Ruby ever saw Yang's eyes turn red was when her semblance first kicked in.

All that anger Yang had soon started to be replaced with pure sadness. "Why did it have to be Pyrrha?" The tears that Yang was wiping away started to come back and no matter how much she tried to wipe them away more just kept streaming down her face. "Why did any of this had to happen? So many innocent people died that day. Why couldn't we stop this from happening?"

Ruby wished she had the answers. Even though she knows that Cinder and her team were the ones to blame for the invasion of Vale she still didn't know why they did it. What did they have to gain from attacking Vale? Was it to discredit Atlas and its military? Was it to destroy Beacon tower? Or was there some other reason that Ruby didn't know about?

Well, all Ruby knew was this was their chance to stop any of that stuff from happen.

"Yang as much as I want to stop Cinder and stop the invasion of Vale, we need to find a way to contact the others." Hearing this cause Yang to stop crying and look at her little sister. "We may not be the only ones that went back in time. If we can get in contact with the others we can make a plan to change the future for the better."

The idea of changing the future made Yang smile and began to wipe away her tears. "Oh, come on Rubes that's simple all we need to do is grab our scro…oh dang it." Yang facepalmed realizing that idea wasn't going to work

"Exactly at this age none of us had scrolls, so we need to find another way to get a hold of the others."

While Yang was pondering a way to get in contact with the others, Ruby jumped out of bed and went to the window. Outside she saw that there were orange and brown leaves scattered all over the ground outside and there were decorations ranging from a scarecrow dressed up to look like her uncle, cobwebs covering their mailbox and pumpkins hanging from the trees with carvings of different Grimms on them.

"All these decorations…. is it Halloween? If so then that means today is- "

"Happy Birthday Ruby!"

Both girls jumped in surprise, they turned to see a bright flash of light blinding the both of them. After rubbing the glare from their eyes, the sisters saw their father standing in front of the door. Taiyang was holding a plate stacked full of pancakes in one hand in the other hand he was holding a camera to catch his daughter's surprised look and he was wearing a party hat on top of his head.

"Now why is the birthday girl out of bed? Today is your special day you should be relaxing. Yang were you pestering your sister?" Taiyang asked the still dazed blonde.

"No dad, I was checking to see if Ruby was still asleep. I saw she was up so I decided to 'treat' her to one of my special happy birthday hugs." Yang laughed while squeezing Ruby so hard that it looked like her eyes were popping out of her head. Her sister groaned at the bad pun and the birthday hug of death, while her father snickered. "Keep it up Yang and one day you may become a comedian." The thought of Yang becoming a comedian made Ruby feel sorry for any future audience members that may have to suffer though her sister's terrible jokes.

Once Yang finished giving her sister a 'hug' Ruby climbed back into bed and grabbed the plate of special pancakes that her father made her. One bite from the pancakes made Ruby's eyes turned to stars and her taste buds were blasted into heaven. Turns out her father had made his special cookie dough pancakes. This caused Ruby to start scarfing the heavenly pancakes like they were her last meal.

"Wow, slow down kiddo you don't want to chock now."

Too late. Suddenly a huge piece of pancake got lodged in Ruby's throat. Ruby tried hitting her chest in an attempt to loosen the food, but it was in vain. Panic started to rise in Ruby as her face was starting to turn blue and she kept on pounding on her chest like she was a gorilla. Her dad was about to perform the Heimlich Maneuver on his daughter but by a stroke of luck the last hit Ruby made to her chest had loosen the food lodged from her throat. With an audible gulp everybody in the room made a sigh of relief.

"Sorry dad, the pancakes are just that good." Ruby said while sheepishly scratching the back of her head

Taiyang couldn't help but laugh at his daughter's antics. "It's all right kiddo, just slow down next time. While I'm flattered you love my cooking so much I don't think it's worth dying for." Ruby couldn't help but put on the biggest, warmest, childish smile she could muster. "How about you take a small break from the pancakes while I go grab you a glass of milk to wash that down?"

"Sounds good dad, thanks."

After their father had left the room both sisters listened to make sure that their dad was out of hearing range so they could continue with their conversation. Once they couldn't hear his loud footsteps against the staircase the sisters continued where they had left off.

"Do you think dad knows about the whole time traveling thing?"

"No, he would have said something to us by now. Besides he didn't remember me chocking on my food."

"Wait you knew you were going to choke from eating so many of those pancakes that fast and you let yourself do it anyways?!"

"Well I wanted to see if dad would remember before and stop me from eating so fast." Ruby said with a blush on her face while pocking her fingers

"Dammit Ruby, that was dangerous! What would have happened if dad couldn't save you? You could have died and our plans of saving Beacon would have gone down the drain!"

"I'm sorry, I tried making the pieces smaller so it would be easier to loosen just in case I did chock. I needed to see if we could get dad's help with our plan."

"Please don't do that ever again." Yang pleaded while scratching her head in frustration

Before the sisters could continue talking they heard their father's footsteps right outside the door. " Here's a very special drink." Once in the room Ruby saw that her father had a tall glass of chocolate milk with her favorite red twisty straw she loved when she was a kid. "For the very special girl of the day."

Greedily grabbing the drink Ruby started to chug the delicious beverage causing her dad to laugh again.

"Looks like you traded one extreme for another. Just be careful of the- "

HIC

"Hiccups"

Frustrated at the new problem Ruby decided to put down her drink on the night stand beside her and return to the heavenly pancakes.

"Glad you like your breakfast Rubes. Your mother showed me how to make these pancakes a while back. She knew you would fall in love with them."

An uncomfortable silence filled the room after the mention of the girls' mom. Even Ruby's hiccups suddenly stopped. Ruby set down her fork and turned to face her father.

"Dad is mom going to be here for my birthday?"

With a sad look on his face Taiyang knelt down in front of his daughter. "Sweetie mom is on an important mission right now, she's not going to be back home for another few days. Don't you remember me telling you this last night?"

It took all of Ruby's willpower not to cry. Even though she was able to go back in time she still couldn't get to see her mother or even stop her from dying. How could life be so cruel right now? She has the chance to make a better future but she still can't have her mother in it?

While still trying to hold back the tears from leaking out, Ruby put on a bright smile for her dad. "My bad dad I must have forgotten."

Even though Taiyang could see through the forced smile Ruby was giving him he was happy that his daughter was trying to stay strong.

"Okay then, I have to go to Signal to pick up some assignment I left last night. Your uncle Qrow should be her in a little bit to watch over you two until I come back." Taiyang turned to face Yang. "I need you to watch over your sister until your Uncle arrives all right Yang."

"Don't worry dad it will be a piece of pancake watching over Rubes."

Laughing at the terrible pun Taiyang got up and went straight to the door. Before he left though he turned back to the girls.

"Oh, before I forget both of your costumes arrived in the mail last night. If either of you want to try them on the boxes are at the front door."

"Thanks for the heads-up dad we'll try them on later." Yang said while Ruby looked like her head was in the clouds.

Ignoring his young daughter's blank expression, Taiyang proceeded to leave the house but not before calling out he loved his kids and that he'll see them later.

Once the sound of the door being closed and locked was heard Ruby jumped out of bed and went to her preschool backpack. Rulers, coloring books, crayons and other kiddie supplies were sent flying into the air as Ruby was looking for something specifically. Yang was able to dodge all the supplies that was until ruby chucked a thick binder full of weapon pictures and articles. That hit her dead straight in the fore head causing the blonde to tumble over.

"OW, Ruby what are you doing?" Yang asked while getting up and rubbing her bruised head.

"I got it!"

After so much digging and searching Ruby finally found what she was looking for. A pen and notebook.

"So, I got hit in the head by your big binder because you were looking for something to write with?"

"Uh" Ruby turned to see her sister with a huge bump and steam coming from her forehead. "Oh, I'm sorry Yang I forgot you were behind me. When dad was taking about our costumes arriving in the mail I figured out the perfect way to get in touch with everyone."

"Wait you're going to mail letters to everyone? How are you even going to do that, you don't even know anyone's home address."

"Now that is where you are wrong big sis."

Ruby began to write everybody's address from both team RWBY and JNPR.

"Wait how did you get everybody's address?"

"Well before the tournament I asked for everybody's address so when we all graduated from Beacon I could make a surprise visit at their homes."

"Well I'm not complaining. Let's figure out what we are going to tell everyone."

All day long the sisters began working on what they were going to write in each letter and what the overall plan is for everyone. Sadly, Ruby couldn't write a letter to Pyrrha since she probably lived in a different house before she became a champion. Luckily Ruby was able to get the address of the village that both Ren and Nora had lived in as children and learned about its destruction by the Nuckelavee. Later on, Yang would have to try and convince her uncle Qrow that she heard a rumor about a devastating Grimm that was on its way Kuroyuri.

Location: Ruby and Yang's house. Time: 11:38

Once Yang could hear her dad snoring she stealthily snuck over to Ruby's room. Yang tiptoed to her sister's room and quietly closed the door behind her. There underneath the covers was Ruby with a flashlight reading over each and every letter. Making any corrections she could.

"Ruby how are those letters coming?"

"Almost done, I just have to make a few corrections to Jaune's letter and we should be good." After a few minutes Ruby pulled the sheets off of her and presented Yang with four crisp clean letters to the rest of the gang. "We're all good now."

Before Yang went to grab the letters, she had to ask her sister one question. "Are you sure you're ready to go through with this Ruby?"

"Of course, I am Yang. Why is there a problem?"

"Well I wouldn't say that there's a problem. It's just…." Yang was trying her best to try to find the right words. "What if what we are doing right now will only make things worse?"

"Yang how could things get any worse? Beacon was destroyed, hundreds of people were slaughtered, and both Penny and Pyrrha were killed! Tell me, how in the name of dust could it possible get any worse?!" Ruby quietly yelled at her sister letting all her emotions pour out of her.

"I don't know Ruby, I honestly don't know. But I've watched enough time traveling movies to know that what we are doing right here could lead us opening up another can of worms."

"I understand Yang but…. we have to try something…."

Tears began to cloud Ruby's vision as she tried to continue her speech while rubbing her eyes. Seeing Ruby get so upset had kicked in Yang's big sister instincts, the blonde brawler went over to her sister and wrapped her in a comforting hug.

"Too many people died that day Yang. I can't just ignore such a terrible event just because I'm scared of what would happen if I were to try and stop it." The continuous amount of tears was getting so bad that Yang's pajama shirt was getting soaked. She didn't care though, all she cared about was being there for Ruby. "I know I could make this worse but I could also make things better. I just don't want to see any more of my friends get killed because I was too slow."

"It's okay Ruby, I just want to make sure you're ready for whatever comes next after this. Don't worry I'll always support you no matter what you do."

After wiping away her tears Ruby gave Yang a warm smile and handed her the letter. Yang quickly and quietly went outside to put the letters in the mailbox. While watching her sister run to the mailbox from her window Ruby couldn't help but anticipate what was to come next.

'Next time we meet Cinder things are going to be different. We all will be stronger and more prepared for your plans. I promise, nobody is going to die while I'm around.'

And that's all folks what did ya think? Love it, hate it, tell me what you think. I'm always open to constructive criticism. Also, I'm looking for a beta reader. I'm not the best when it comes to grammar plus I would like to make sure I stay in line with everyone's personality so I'd like to have another pair of eyes checking over my work.

Because I have a busy schedule I can't say when the next chapter is going to come out. But I doubt it will take longer than a month but we will see.

Are you guys excited for Volume 5 like I am? Tell me what do you think we will be seeing in this volume.

Peace