#red vs blue:zero

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Zero Rewrite AU

Hey so uhhh you know that rvb:zero rewrite au I sometimes post/draw/talk about? Aha,, I have a semi-finished (public copy) doc all about it now!

I'll be updating it semi-frequently whenever I get the chance! The doc so far has some stuff, criticism, info about the AU as a whole. Right now it only has chapter/episode 1 and a partially finished ep2. It's all very self-indulgent and my opinion type beat but hey maybe someone will enjoy it? Idk. It's a serotonin boost and a fun lil side project for me and I like sharing that kinda stuff aaaaa

anyway I hope those curious/ppl who want to find out what in the hell I've been talking about can enjoy it!

Episode 01: Viper Overview: Introduction to “Viper”.

The episode starts with Carolina and Tucker discussing dinner while walking out of Chorus’ General Hospital (the same one Wash was admitted to). They walk towards a corner alleyway as Tucker tries to contact Iris/Grif to get them a ride home.

Carolina: “Well we can get our dinner quicker, once you call Grif”

Tucker: “I know! He’s just not getting my calls.”

Tucker struggles for a while more trying to get in call with Grif, or even sending him a message. He sighs.

Carolina: “No signal?”

Tucker: “Yup. Signal’s down here too.”

Carolina sighs as well.

Carolina: “I don’t suppose we have enough pocket change for a motel?”

Tucker: “Oh I’m sure we will if we share a bed. Bow ch-”

Carolina: “Don’t push it, Tucker.”

Tucker mumbles the rest to himself as he tries to contact Grif again. Carolina looks around the alley as she waits. Getting a little impatient, Carolina tries to suggest moving to a different location.

But before she can finish her sentence, she calls out to Tucker as she pulls him out of the way from an oncoming knife.

Tucker: “Hey-! What the fuck!”

Carolina lets go of Tucker, turning around to see who the attacker was, with Tucker following her lead.

In front of them was someone in black and pink armour, admiring the same knife that was thrown at Tucker. She turns her attention to them, pointing the knife at Tucker.

???: “You. The key, hand it over.”

She calmly says as she slowly walks towards the two. Carolina slowly puts herself in front of Tucker, realising the situation they’re in.

Carolina: “You’ll have to get through me first.”

???: “Agent Carolina. An honour to meet you.”

Carolina: “What? Do you want an autograph?”

???: “No need. I do have a present for you though.”

A blue small lightning flash appears right next to the attacker, another person in black and blue armour appears. With the rising danger, Carolina motions for Tucker to leave.

While Tucker slowly sneaks off, Carolina grabs hold of her pistol.

Carolina: “I think I’ll have to decline.”

Carolina and the attacker banter for a bit. The one in black and blue notices Tucker leaving before unsheathing his own knife and tossing it in front of Tucker. He appears before him, making Tucker jump back, confusing him.

???: “Going somewhere?”

Tucker: “How- You were just- How the hell-”

Carolina, noticing the attacker’s partner's disappearance, calls out to Tucker again. Pulling and dragging him away from the two as they flee.

[Insert fight scene here of Tucker and Carolina fighting the two, fighting to the best of their abilities despite limited weapons, making use of the garbage bin lids. In the end, they are able to escape intact -- though Carolina does sprain her arm -- after running into a public area.]

Tucker: “Did… Did we lose them?”

Carolina: “Looks like it.”

The two find themselves in the busy night market of Chorus.

Tucker: “So…” *pant* “Wanna get some dinner?”

Carolina: “Honestly, I could go for a drink…. But we should report this to Kimball first.”

Carolina walks into the crowd, looking for the Capitol where they could find Kimball.

Tucker: “Seriously? No-” *pant* “-dinner?”

Carolina: “We can get some later.”

Tucker grunts, following Carolina who's already looking for a cab.

[Fast forward Kimball’s office]

An assistant opens the door for the two, Kimball’s still in her office, packing up, looking like she’s about to finish for the night.

Assistant: “President Kimball, you have some guests.”

Kimball: “Not right now I’m-”

Kimball looks up to see Carolina and Tucker, in an instant, she almost drops the paper in her hands, quickly trying to calm herself and be more ‘presentable’. She dismisses the assistant and invites the two in.

Kimball: “Carolina-! Tucker… Ahem, now what do I owe to this unexpected visit?”

Carolina: “Wish we could have met on more, positive terms but, we just got attacked.”

Kimball: “Oh…”

Kimball slides down into her chair. Sighing.

Kimball: “I’m sorry… Crime has been a bit rampant, to say the least.”

Tucker: “Yeah, you wouldn’t happen to have a phone here? We couldn’t get a signal anywhere.”

Kimball: “It won’t work. Communications have just been cut off.”

Carolina: “What?”

Kimball explains that most of the communication towers have been hijacked and that they’re sending a team to check it out tomorrow morning. She offers to provide a couple of rooms at the military site for the time being. Carolina shoots Tucker a look, and Tucker sighs, hanging his head down.

Tucker: “We’re-”

Carolina: “Could we join the team?”

Kimball: “A-are you sure? You’ve already done so much for Chorus, I-”

Tucker: Begrudgingly “We insist.”

Carolina: “It sounds like our attackers are linked to this case. We might as well join now.”

Kimball nods.

Kimball: “Well… Let me show you where you’ll be staying. The team will meet you at 0700 sharp.”

[ END ]

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saturated bestiessss

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some rvb zero face canons 

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R:Zero, EP 2 - Recovery

aha im actually making more of this dumb au i wasnt finished no

first post/ep can be found here ! I’ll be dropping off (i mean i have been ahah,,) for a bit because exams and fear so pls have the next chapter or my stupid little au while I’m gone 

Episode 02: Recovery

Overview: Meeting the team

The scene opens up to a wide, calming, plain desert. The peaceful setting only to be broken up by two warthogs with a motorbike following. 

The leading warthog is driven by Katie Jensen, with Bitters in the passenger seat, holding onto a railing, mostly zoning out. Behind them was Palomo, with their new recruit at the passenger seat. Smith followed behind on a smaller vehicle. Jensen and Palomo have their banter, arguing who could drive faster. 

Jensen gets cocky, thinking she could easily beat him, betting to race him, making the others (except Palomo) uneasy. The two sped up gradually, with Palomo slowly matched up to Jensen’s speed, their vehicles now side by side. 

Jensen: “Oho-ho! You really want to challenge me?”

Palomo: “I’ll bet on it!”

Jensen: “You sure?”

Palomo: “50 bucks!”

Jensen: “100!”

The two go on for a bit, Smith staying out while Bitters staying silent for the most of it, getting progressively more pissed off as the two started bumping into each other. The new recruit getting more and more anxious about being between the two drivers as they drive into one another. Smith, at first worried that they would take it too far, started commentating.

Slowly, they get on Bitters’ nerves, causing him to speak up.

Bitters: “Hey-! Enough with your couple's feud already, someone’s going to get hurt.”

Palomo: “Oh c’mon Antonie~! It’s just a little fun!”

Jensen bumps into Palomo’s vehicle. 

Jensen: “Yeah! What’s wrong? Jealous~?

Bitters: “Jealous? Why the hell would I be-”

Palomo bumps into Jensen’s vehicle, interrupting Bitters, which ended up being the last straw.

Bitters: “Alright, that’s it! Move over!”

Bitters pushed Jensen over to the passenger seat, switching places as Bitters takes the wheel. 

Jensen: “H-Hey!”

Bitters: “Why the fuck does this thing have 6 pedals?!”

Palomo: “What’s wrong? Never drove before?”

Bitters: grunts “Shut up. I got my drivers license before all of you!”

[yes i’ve had this stupid dialouge for ages now, and I’m incredibly stubborn. Also we’re keeping the “you’re insane” line]

They continue their race with bets on Jensen riding on Bitters to win. 

Reaching back to base, Bitters leads but stops first as soon as he sees Kimball, Carolina and Tucker. Palomo swings around as second place, however, overshooting and almost hitting the three, with Kimball and Tucker jumping back while Carolina stays still. Smith arrives last, jumping off and quickly standing at attention, leading Jensen, Bitters and the new recruit to do the same.

Carolina turns around to Kimball, teasing about the time as her ‘elite’ team had arrived late.

Carolina: “0700 sharp, eh?”

Kimball brushes the sand dust off her armour before retorting back.

Kimball: “Well, that was the plan.”

Kimball steps forward, addressing the lieutenant and the new rookie. Palomo quickly jumps off to try and apologise to Kimball, only to get shut down before Smith motions for him to get in line.

The new rookie is noticeably nervous, having to look over to how Smith stands to replicate the stance. Bitters is looking off, not really paying attention, while Jensen looks like she's about to hop around, almost excited for the task. 

Kimball: “I see you all managed to bring our new recruit back, intact.” 

Jensen: “Pssh, Raymond over here was in good hands.”

Jensen threw an arm over Raymond, pulling him into a half-hug.

Raymond: [mumbling] “You guys were driving like a madman.”

Jensen: “Oh right, you were in Palomo’s hands.” 

Palomo: “I can hear you-”

Smith: “Ahem.” 

Smith reminds the others to pay attention. 

Kimball: Disappointed “I’m...aware.” 

Kimball tells them to be at ease before stepping aside to show Carolina and Tucker’s arrival. Palomo starts to pay more attention, getting excited to see his old captain again. 

Kimball: “As you all know, you’ve been assigned to check on the Communication Towers due to last night’s hijack.”

Bitters: “Yeah yeah.”

Smith: “Antoine.”

Kimball: “You’ll also be joined by your old captain, Tucker, and Agent Carolina. They will be accompanying you on your mission.”

Palomo: [whispers] “Yes.”

Bitters: [mumbles] “We’re fucked.” 

Kimball: “C’mon.”

Kimball leads the team, Tucker and Carolina to a meeting room. A hologram of the layout of the communication towers, which Kimball uses to brief the team. 

Kimball: “Got all that?”

Carolina: “Crystal clear.”

Tucker: “Wait no-”

Kimball: “Good. I’m passing the responsibility onto Carolina and Tucker for this mission. They’ll be your captains.” [Whispers] “Sorry to throw this on you.”

Carolina: “Don’t worry, it’s not my first time.”

The door opens where the assistant from before appears. 

Assistant: “President Kimball, you’re needed”

Kimball: [Sighs] “That’s my cue to leave, best of luck to you all.”

Kimball rushes off, running past her assistant. 

Camera follows Kimball as her assistant runs to catch up with her, knocking into another private in pink armour. Saying a quick apology before going back to chasing Kimball.    

Going back to the main team. They all give an awkward look to one another, having barely formally met in a long while. Unsure if they should catch up first or not.  

In an attempt to break the silent tension, Carolina went back to observing the hologram. 

Carolina: “So… what time are we leaving?”

Palomo, Smith and Raymond -- kinda just following Smith’s lead -- looked over to Jensen and Bitters, the two typically being responsible for transportation. 

Jensen: “Probably in about 5 minutes?”

Bitters: “Mattews will walk us there.”

Carolina: “Matthews?”

Bitters: “Depending on what he knows, he might be a little late.”

Panting, Matthews busts through the door, holding onto a tray of freshly baked muffins.

Matthews: “I’m not late!”

Grabbing hold of everyone’s attention. Bitters rolls his eyes (or head) as he calmly walks towards his co-worker, dragging his hand along the table. 

Bitters: “..or not.”

Tucker sniffed the air, realising what had entered his vicinity. Looking back to Carolina before dashing towards Matthews. Carolina called out to Tucker before racing towards Matthews herself, startling him. 

Matthews flinches, falling back and drops the tray, being picked up immediately by Carolina who keeps Tucker away from the tray of muffins by hand. Bitters picking Matthews up to make sure he’s ok.

Matthews: “Gah-!”

Bitters: holding onto him with a hand “You ok?”

Matthews: Standing up “Uh- yeah..”

Bitters: “Also, muffins? Seriously?”

Matthews: “Well I heard Captain Tucker and Carolina didn’t-”

Bitters: disappointed sighs, mumbling “Of course…”

Carolina lifts the tray over her head as Tucker claws at it.

Tucker: “PLEASE! I’m so hungry… I never got to eat dinner.”

Carolina: “So did I. And I’m not letting you finish everything.”

Tucker: “Pleaseeeeee!”

The rest of the team walk over, watching the two fight over food. Bitters walks over behind Carolina, grabbing for the tray while she’s distracted with Tucker. He pulls the tray away from Carolina. The two look back to Bitters, unwary of the others looking at them.

Bitters: “How old are you guys again..”

Tucker: “Dude you don’t understand, I haven’t eaten since yesterday lunchtime.”

Matthews peaks out from behind Bitters, speaking up.

Matthews: “I made you guys muffins-”

Raymond: “Oo-! Could I have one?”

Matthews: turning to Raymond “Y-yeah! I had to rush back to make more…”

Bitters: “Of course.” 

Matthews: “It should be enough for everyone!”

Bitters: “Heard that?”

Carolina and Tucker glance towards, realising how stupid they look, Carolina letting go of Tucker. 

Carolina: “We might have… Overreacted. Apologies.”

Tucker: “‘WE’?!”

Carolina: “Ignore him. Thank you for the muffins…”

Matthews: “Yip-! N-no problem!” 

Matthews whispers excitedly to Bitters, shaking his arm as he rambles nonsense about what had just happened as Carolina grabs a muffin to eat. 

Smith: *Ahem* 

Jensen: “Right! Matthews, is our ride ready?”

Matthews turns to the group, hopping and gaining confidence in his stance.

Matthews: “Oh right, yep! It is. If you all would follow me.” 

Rotating around to the main door, Matthews leads the group out towards the plane centre, making small talks about the plane they will be taking as well as the time they should return. 

Bitters sticks by Matthews as he leads, sometimes overtaking him as if he were impatiently sticking to a routine. Matthews turns around constantly to talk to Tucker and Carolina who follow right behind the two, asking questions about their retirement, how they've been, how the other Captains are, if Grif remembers him, what they were doing on Chorus and so on. Bitters tries to stop him at first before shaking his head and walking forward on his own. Tucker barely manages to answer Matthews before he goes on to another question, excited to see his (at least one of) idols again - with Carolina only chiming in occasionally to mess with Tucker. Tucker is only able to slightly appreciate her attempts at humor. 

Reaching the Terminal, Matthews runs over to present the ship they’ll be taking. 

Jensen: “Shotgun!”

Palomo: “Shot- FUCK!”

Matthews: “Uh Jensen- It’s a two-pilot ship..”

Jensen: “Psh- No worries! Hey Raymond, you know how to pilot a ship right?”

Raymond: “WHAT.”

Palomo: “All of us know how to pilot a ship, so why don-”

Jensen: “Great! C’mon Raymond, I’ll teach you how to skip the stupid tutorial protocol!”

Raymond: “Wait-!”

Jensen grabs Raymond by the wrist.

Raymond: “I’ve only taken one cOURSE-”

And she drags him up the ship. 

Smith: “They’re there for a reason-” Sighs

Bitters: “We’re all going to die.” 

Palomo, Smith and Bitters make their way in, following after Jensen and Raymond. Matthews turns back to Carolina and Tucker who just stood there processing the situation. 

Matthews: “... I think you’ll be in good hands! Heh…”

Carolina: “Comforting…”

Carolina follows after the team with Tucker close behind. 

Matthews: “There's an auto-pilot feature in case it crashes!”

Tucker: Whispering under his breath before he closes the door behind him “Sounds like we’ll need it…”

[ END ]