Merry CRSMS is a Christmas special installment of The Alan 10 Adventures. It takes place between Parts 2 and 3 of RWBYA.
Plot
[The scene opened up in the Nomaly home. Christmas decorations were hung up, including a tree that had several bright colors. Despite the festive appearance, there was an obvious void in the mood. Jessica walked into the room and placed down a box gifted to Alan, looking at it with a sombre expression. The sound of the front door opening was heard. Jessica looked up to see Devin and Mason, wearing their ID masks to appear human, walking into the home.]
Jessica: Anything?
Mason: We checked out Richard's place and beat the shit out of Emina and Envy, but just kept on that both Alan and Richard left to some alternate world.
Devin: From what I could tell with mind reading, they were telling the truth.
Jessica: Did Alan go on purpose?
Devin: Sort of? Richard kidnapped Alan because he needed both Clockwork's time beams and Blamurai's sword to open up a portal to the other world, but Alan chased after him through the portal.
Jessica: Damnit. So it's not a case of just chasing after them.
[Alexis entered the room. The doorbell rang, and Alexis answered. Her face lit up for a moment before overcome with realization.]
Alexis: Oh. It's you.
[At the door was the Alan-looking Agent, whose bright smile fell at Alexis' response.]
Agent: "It's you?" I travel two thousand years from the first Christmas, and all I get is "Oh, it's you?!"
Alexis: No, I- [sighs] I'm sorry. It's just... Alan's missing.
[The Agent's face become filled with concern and confusion.]
Agent: Catch me up.
[A train station was seen not far from the shoreline. Qrow and Winter approached the heroes, giving out the train tickets.]
Qrow: Alright, here's the plan. [turns to Team JNR and Oscar] We're gonna take the Relic of Knowledge on our train.
Winter: [turns to Team RWBY and Alan] While we take the Relic of Creation on ours. Grimm will still be attracted to them, but things will go a lot easier if we have them separated for now.
[The whistles of the trains were heard.]
Ruby: I guess that's our cue.
Jaune: You guys be careful.
Weiss: You, too.
[As the heroes split off to their separate trains, Winter looked at Alan.]
Winter: Alan.
[Alan silently turned while continuing on his way to the train.]
Winter: From what I've gathered, you have an understanding of the Relics, yes?
Alan: To some extent. I wasn't able to get all the information from Ozpin's mind but... There's some there. Baseline knowledge, pretty much.
Winter: [sighs] I suppose that will have to do.
[Winter then went to give Alan the Relic of Creation, only for him to back away with his hands up.]
Alan: Whoa, whoa, whoa! [points to right wrist] You do know what happened the last time I had a super powerful weapon, right?
Winter: That's exactly why I'm giving this to you. You've lost your means of self defense, and until you get a new weapon, this may be your only chance at holding your own.
[Alan sighed and reluctantly took the Relic of Creation.]
Winter: I'll see you on the train.
[As Winter walked away, Alan looked down at the Relic and muttered to himself.]
Alan: My only chance, huh? Yeah... Assuming Oz even left us with any uses...
[The two trains eventually took off. It wasn't too long before Grimm started trailing them. Alan looked out the window to see the creatures approaching.]
Alan: Looks like we've got company.
Winter: You stay here. If things get out of hand, you've got the Relic.
Alan: Yeah. The Relic. Right.
[Team RWBY and Winter exited the train to get to the top. Alan looked out to see Team JNR, Qrow, and Oscar doing the same. All of them readied their weapons.]
Blake: We're following your lead, Ruby.
Ruby: No one's dying this time.
[The Agent's brow furrowed as he pondered the situation as explained by Alan's friends. There was an awkward silence broken by Mason coughing, grabbing the Agent's attention.]
Mason: Anything?
[The Agent sighed and stood up.]
Agent: I'll be frank, I don't know what to do. It's an odd situation that I've actually dealt with before, but I don't quite remember how I handled it. It was all the way back during my first face.
[As the Agent said this, he looked at a reflective decoration on the nearby tree, examining his current face. He took a deep breath then turned back to the group.]
Agent: There's not really an easy way to go about doing this. Chronosapiens and Time Lords aren't exactly on good terms, and the Samswordones are extremely solitary. Even if they understood how their swords make a time beam into a multiverse beam, they wouldn't tell us.
Alexis: You've got a time machine. We could just pick up two Alan's from his timeline, they could go Blamurai and Clockwork, and we'd be able to get him.
Agent: If only it were that simple. I may be a rogue Time Lord in way of interfering with events instead of just observing, but I try to keep to the big rules when it comes to the laws of time. And trust me, the first one is a big one.
Jessica: And the first law of time is?
Agent: No crossing within your own timeline. Meeting past and future versions of yourself is a no-no.
Devin: Statistically speaking, wouldn't that just happen at some point?
Agent: Well, yes, but unintentionally meeting yourself just because it's bound to happen is different from, oh, I don't know, bringing in three different versions of the same person to the same point in time and space, on purpose.
Mason: And the TARDIS can't just take us there because...?
Agent: Well, that's simply because...
[The Agent grew a curious look on his face. He then peered outside at his time travelling porta-potty.]
Agent: Huh. I don't actually know why. Y'know, this is my seve- [pauses, pretends to clear throat] eighth face, and I've never tried to travel to another multiverse with the TARDIS. Well. First time for everything.
[The group quickly exited the house then entered the TARDIS. Alan's friends then looked around. The curvy, wooden supports leading up to the top center of the console room now had golden bands on them. The black walls with bright white circles for lights had smaller, white circles between the larger ones.]
Jessica: You've redecorated.
[The Agent looked up at her with a smile. Jessica's face then turned to a scowl.]
Jessica: I don't like it.
[The Agent's face fell and he rolled his eyes.]
Major Events
- Alan gains Raijin, an electric bo staff that also acts as a whip and a gun.
- The Relic of Creation's power is used, revealing it to hold a deity known as Ginnungagap that can create three things for the user every one hundred years. Alan mentions that this applies to Jinn, the deity within the Relic of Knowledge, as well, as she can answer any three questions for the user every one hundred years.
Characters
Earth-1799.A
- Alan Nomaly
- Alexis Dwyer
- Jessica Nietzsche
- Devin Lorenzo
- Mason Babadzhanov
- The Agent
Earth-ERTH
- Ruby Rose
- Weiss Schnee
- Blake Belladonna
- Yang Xiao Long
- Jaune Arc
- Nora Valkyrie
- Lie Ren
- Qrow Branwen
- Oscar Pine
- Winter Schnee
- Sun Wukong (debut)
- Scarlet David (debut)
- Sage Ayana (debut)
- Neptune Vasilias (debut)
- Coco Adel (debut)
- Fox Alistair (debut)
- Velvet Scarlatina (debut)
- Yatsuhashi Daichi (debut)
- Ginnungagap (debut)
Allusions
- The interaction between Alexis and the Agent at the front door is a nod to the Teacher's Pet movie.
- The method in which the Agent gets contact to Alan is the same in which the Doctor contacted Rose across universes in the Doctor Who episode, Doomsday.
- Alan references Quantum Leap when comparing the holographic projections of his friends to Al Calavicci, the character who appeared as a hologram to Sam Beckett in Quantum Leap.
- The "You've redecorated. I don't like it." gag from Doctor Who was used.
Trivia
- This is the first holiday related episode of The Alan 10 Adventures.
- The title of the episode is meant to be a RWBY-fied version of "Merry Christmas."
- This is the first episode of The Alan 10 Adventures to not include any transformations.