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Let's see...better explain my idea for the writers in this thread.

Title: Got none, think about one.

It all starts with Team RWBY. After seeing what happened in Breach (let's suppose things went a lot worse than they actually did), they realize they are not strong enough to defeat the Villains, or even the Grimm that are actually strong. If they want to stop Cinder and co., or just be successfull Hunters, they needed to get stronger.

So, Ruby has the "brilliant" idea, of choosing a dificult mission for her team to train. How dificult? For 2nd Year Students at least. The mission: Rescue/Locate a group of Hunters with which communication was lost. Using all the tricks she knows, she convinces Ironwood to let RWBY take that mission. Given what happened not-too-long-ago, Ironwood gives RWBY the whole weekend to rest, they start the mission on monday. Of course, she didn't ask her team about this. WBY is not amused, but know they need to get stronger, and they may as well use the experience.

On Sunday, Weiss, Blake and Yang, as vengeance, get tickets for a horror movie, and invite Ruby, not telling her what it is about. The movie is about the Atlasian government trying to design an organism, a "virus" that could be placed inside a person, to revive them. They are successfull, and call the organism "Recarm".

Months later, there's a breach. Grimm, big Grimm, like Goliaths, are attacking the city, but that's not what worries the government, but the fact that they are very close to the lab where the tests of Recarm are taking place. They send 4 groups of Hunters to deal with the situation ASAP. When they arrive, however, the Grimm have already reached the lab. Some of the scientists were able to escape, others died, the Recarm subjects seem to have been scattered during the attack and chaos. The Hunters fight the Grimm, and after a hardous battle, win, the Grimm falling to the ground. However, the blood of one of the Grimm, falls on top of a Recarm member. No one noticed this, however.

Then, here's the horror part. The Grimm blood, corrupted the Recarm, who corrupted the others. The corrupted Recarm then don't act as they should exactly. They don't exactly revive individuals now, but rather take control of their minds, and bodies, gaining access to all their memories and knowledge. Then, they eat others, living mostly. They use the victim's memories and stuff to rather-perfectly impersonate them, and kill their prey easier.

The Atlasian government realizes this months later. By then, the Recarm virus had spread to around a 4% of the kingdom. They acted quickly, contained the virus, and tried multiple ways to eliminate it. Killing the infected was an option, though dificult because they were pretty much smart zombies with the skills of the victims. They were successfull however...or so they thought. Turns out, the virus mutated. It became able to infect living people, killing the individual before controlling them.

The virus spread very quickly, reaching the 11% of the population in 2 weeks. The government tried to neutralize it at least, but it was hard, as since they could almost-perfectly impersonate anyone, how could they know who was infected and who wasn't? Paranoia rose in the population, which lead to internal chaos and destruction, a huge rise in the mortality rate of the kingdom. Eventually, Atlas fell to ruins not thanks to the virus, but to themselves. Then, a scene, implying that the virus had reached Vale.

And then nothing more as Ruby runs the hell out of the theater scared as fuck. Which, guys, it's a sign for the worse. Come monday. RWBY was on their way to the area of the mission, and Ruby was still scared shitless. Yang teased her about it, while Weiss was not amused of their teammate shaking like if there was an earthquake. Then they started getting worried and tried to calm Ruby down. It worked, slightly.

They arrived at the area indicated by the mission, a cave located in Mountain Glenn, probably made by the citizens to make a safe path to the underground. Going inside, Yang holding Ruby tight in the meantime. They heard some noises, but nothing came out. Blake leaded the way thanks to her Night Vision. Eventually, they found a small group, young adults carrying weapons and some other things. They found their objective...but they weren't moving, probably not even breathing. RWBY wondered among themselves if they arrived late, or if they were just unconscious. Then, one of them abruptly got up, seeming confused, and very hurt, though it seemed he didn't care (or notice) the injuries. He ran towards his apparent teammates' bodies.

Weiss gave the man a moment before asking him his name and what happened. He gave his name, and explained what happened (this part, I leave to whoever writes this). Ruby looked around, scared, and noticed what looked like small black worms running over and inside the bodies, along with how similar they looked to the Recarm virus's infected. The man approached Ruby, wanting to thank her team's leader for rescuing him, even if it was too late to save his companions, a tear running down his face. He held out his hand, expecting a handshake. Ruby, however, was way more panicked than her team expected; in a moment's notice, Ruby pulled out Crescent Rose and sliced the man in half with a quick upward swing.

Weiss, Blake and Yang were absolutely shocked about this, they couldn't believe what just happened. However, before they could say anything, the 2 halves stood back up again, somehow. If they weren't scared now, they would soon, as the rest of the bodies around them, human and faunus, Grimm and non-Grimm, rised, before charging at them. RWBY prepared their weapons and defended themselves, though the "zombie" hunters were as tough as if they were still alive. Ruby was even more panicked now, and fought erratically and with little control, almost hitting her own teammates in the process, which made them be easily defeated. They were about to die right there. Thankfully though, reinforcements -CFVY- arrived, as Ironwood told Ozpin about this, and he knowing RWBY may get in trouble, recomended that Ironwood sent help, ASAP. Team RWBY was rescued, and returned to Beacon. Ruby passed out, and the team was sent to the hospital.

Back at Beacon, Ironwood reads the report of the mission, along with Oobleck and Ozpin. Oobleck was intrigued, and ge reveals how in a previous expedition to M.Glenn, he found a worm-like Grimm that did, well, pretty much the exact same thing the Recarm virus did in the movie. They decided that measures may have to be taken sooner or later regarding that Grimm. Oobleck heads to the hospital, to make sure none of Team RWBY or CFVY is infected. Ruby wakes up hours later, after Oobleck had already performed the tests, which based on his notes about the Grimm, showed that neither WBY nor CFVY was infected. He had waited for her to wake up, and after giving her a moment to rest, performed the test. Supposedly, she was not-infected as well.

Weiss, Blake and Yang, however, were instead worried a lot about Ruby, especially Yang, feeling guilty as they made Ruby watch that movie, which likely influenced a lot of her fear that day. Once Ruby came back to her dorm, her team surprised her with a big hug, and promised to never make her watch a movie like that never again, blah blah yada yada. Ruby was relieved, and felt better.

That night however, while they were sleeping, Ruby suddenly remembered about the movie. And her fear returned, as she wondered many things. How did she know if her teammates were really not infected? How did she know if no one in Beacon was infected too? How did she know if Oobleck was right about no one being infected? How did she know if she was not infected? Those questions clouded her mind all night, though in the end she decided that she was just still scared and there was no way that could be true.

But then, she the next day sees her teammates acting...a bit out of character. Weiss is not being even a bit of a bitch to anyone, Blake is not reading anything and instead acting very protective of Ruby, and Yang was...cooking. And Yang was not that kind of woman. And JNPR was acting a bit weird too (or at least Ruby thinks so). This made Ruby think twice. Maybe there were infected! Maybe they're not her teammates, but imposters! They would end up trying to eat her!

And so, Ruby went from scared, to paranoiac. And eventually, the paranoia reached the point she kills a teammate, a friend, out of fear. Shocked, and practically paralyzed by what she just did, her mind progressively becomes more and more broken by the fear, and she ends up killing a good number of her friends thanks to the paranoia, thinking they were infected. By the end, Ruby starts thinking she is infected, and that only finishes destroying her mind, as she becomes just like the infected from the movie.

Now:

-Something crucial about this idea, is that the characters must be written in a way that makes the audience question, wonder, if they are infected, or if it was all Ruby's imagination.

-That Grimm, I thought of calling it Doppelgànger, though if any of you got a better idea...

-And this is all somehow based on the title of A Grimm Manor. Weird, isn't it.