The above video was on my youtube home page and when I tell you my heart HURT while watching that gut wrenching piece of media, I am not exaggerating. Now, I like keeping this story as close to canon as possible so its like you guys are part of the actual canon story, you guys are along for the ride, so I don't know how the reunion with Oscar will actually play out in here as I'm still preparing to write stuff for V6 (that'll be fun, just you wait-)

HOWEVER, I NEEDED TO WRITE SOMETHING FOR THIS NOW AND LET YOU GUYS RELISH IN THE PAIN- So my surprise to my lovely readers is an impromptu angsty one shot inspired by an Oscar animatic featuring his VA's work in a different anime, Blood Blockade Battlefront (I think, correct me if I'm wrong). Without further adieu, lets jump into pain! Reminder: NOT CANON TO MY STORY- but depending on the actual canon and how things play out, I may use this one shot as alight inspiration later on, we will have to wait and see. Anyway, because I can't help out, I'm going to try and somewhat set this into canon, if that makes sense? If you saw the last episode of V8 before the hiatus began, that's what I'm going off of. Lets go!

Y/N P.O.V.

Jaune, Ren and Yang advised me to stay outside the Grimm whale and keep an eye out with the other Ace-Ops and Winter while they went inside with the bomb... I can't take this... Ever since Oscar was taken by that talking Grimm, I've been so afraid... 

Of course, our circumstances in general made me scared enough as is but this was a targeted move toward Oscar specifically... This wasn't a random swarm of Grimm attacking random citizens like we were used this, this was way too specific... I hope he's okay, he has to be okay...

...I hope he's still alive... No, wait, I-I can't start thinking like that, Oscar IS alive, I just... I just know it...! If he wasn't, I... I don't need to think about what I'd do because whatever it is, I don't have to do it, he is alive! ...right...?

After a long and anxious wait, we finally heard something from the others, basically warning us that the bomb was in position. It was now or never... The Ace-Ops, Winter and I moved back while Winter gave the General the word, telling him that 'Arc, Ren and Xiao-Long' were on their way out and he could engage the bomb shortly. 

However, in addition to his tunnel vision, General Ironwood also seemed to have selective hearing as he activated the bomb right as the gang was rushing out of the whale. 

The final beeps were faintly heard as it detonated, blowing up the inside and thankfully giving everyone else a little more time to get away from the explo-

-B O O M-

Everyone was suddenly blown away from the scene as the bomb went off, obliterating the whale and seemingly everything inside it. We all landed to the ground quite harshly and a loud ringing could be heard in all of our ears.

I eventually pushed myself up a bit, using my arms to make sure I stayed sitting upward. Squinting and gritting my teeth, I looked around at everyone else. They all looked okay, considering a bomb just went off. My eyes scanned the group until they landed on...

"..O-Oscar...?" Finally, I manage to get out once the ringing in my ears started to stop. 

The farm boy looked up at me... He didn't look too good... Black eye, a large black stain on the front of his clothes... He was bloodied and beaten, clearly having gone through too much in the whale...

"... Huh...? ...Y-Y/N...?" He asked in return, struggling to get to his feet as his knees wobbled. I pushed myself up to my feet as well, trying to get to him. Yang, Ren and Jaune  eventually got off the ground, along with the Ace-Ops and Winter as they began carefully looking around the rubble and the debris for the relic of knowledge.

It was just the two of us there now...

"I-I... I can't believe you... stayed inside that monster alone..." I breathed, not knowing what else to do. There was so much... So many things I wanted to tell him, so much that I wanted to say but... I felt like I couldnt do that to him, not now... I can't unload all the stress and fear I felt for him right after he gets out of the situation that no doubt caused him more fear and pain than I possibly could've felt...

"...o-oh, right... Sorry about that..." Sorry..? He didn't seem to be in the right headspace, not like I expected him to be... But it seemed like he wasn't even there... Like he was trying to imagine he was somewhere else... Maybe he did that while inside the whale...?

"I'm just g-glad you're alright, Oscar... I-I know you tried your very best... You always do..." was all I could respond with...

His reply?

"...O-Oh, right, umm... I, umm... I'm sorry about all the trouble I caused a-and..." Oscar started, his voice cracking and his eyes pooling with tears. He sounded like he was breaking, being torn at the seams... Oscar Pine, over the course of this whole journey, has had to hold back so much and now... He couldn't keep it bottled up a moment longer, he was bursting... The inevitable breakdown finally arrived... And it was heartbreaking... 

He broke down crying like a child, crying so hard that it started to get hard for him to catch his breath. Oscar moved his gloved hands to his face but his tears just flowed through the space inbetween his fingers. In all our years together, I had never once heard him cry like that... 

Like it was instinct, I used whatever strength I had to run up to him and hold him close, wanting Oscar to feel safe and secure while also not wanting to hurt him or make him feel trapped

"I-It's okay, Oscar, I-I'm here, it's all going to b-be okay..." In that moment, I finally felt my own hot tears rolling down my face. "I love you, I'm here... Y-Y/N is here for you... I always w-will be..."

He didn't respond with words as he clutched to my shirt, clinging to me and not letting go... Like he was afraid to lose me, afraid to be alone like he just was again... He didn't want to be hurt anymore...

I kept him there in my arms and held on for as long as I could... I couldn't fix or cure the pain and trauma he just endured but I vowed I would keep my promise... To be there for him no matter what... As his friend, first and foremost...

(Enjoy crying, my friends, and enjoy waiting for chapter 10! It's coming, I promise!-

In the meantime, focus on hugging our boy Oscar! He needs the comfort!)