I tried coloring Puzzles in didn't like it bailed. Also was at work so I used what I had. Doodles
Basically the plot of "Rerun-away" is that Rubi gets both sent back in time and to the smg4 universe ( kinda recycling the one draft dump idea I had for "welcome to the gunshow")
She basically runs through the events of smg4 post puzzlepark with some changes do to her being there.
okay before I get into the chapter, this is a sort of One Draft dump situation. As in I write the first draft, do a quick grammar check then dump it somewhere. Kinda like I did with a fnaf fic on this site that I then revised to make my Eight Parents AU on AO3 .
So this version of this story might likely get abandoned at some point. not gonna lie, buuuuut since people seemed interested in this thought expiriment I will try to wrap it up before writing the other Gunshow fanfiction that I've been drafting up in pencil at work. that one involves my Fanchild Rubi but it also involves time travel so ..... listen I like time travel and this show had it canotically happen without paradoxes I'm taking full advantage. ENOUGHT AUTHOR NOTE RAMBLES lets get into the thing you guys care about. THE GUNSHOW
“ So Smg4, smg3, meggy, Bob, Tori, Wpnz- I mean Future Wpnz,”
“ F-W works if it's faster," F-Wpnz offered, Smg4 waved him off.
“ Okay, so F-W, Puzzles, and anyone else?” He called around the room for volunteers.
“ We really shouldn’t make the team too big,” F-Wpnz pointed out, “ Hell I would even recommend bringing Puzzles but I know if I go through the door alone the doorman will call Riddles to report I showed up.” He explained, looking over at the tv man, “ I need to run out to the nearest shop first actually, because this,” F-wpnz gestured to the orange jump suit, “ Won’t fly.”
“ It’s not like I’ve had time to change, what with being on the run from the law, this crew, and…” Puzzles glanced at Wpnz Prime but didn’t say it.
“ Nah, I get it, I’m just saying,”” F-Wpnz moved past Puzzles, “ Just try to reduce the team to me him, and . . . maybe 3 others while I’m gone, the apartments big, but it’s not that big.”
“ I’ll see what we can do. ..” Smg4 sighed heavily.
“ Should I go with you?” Puzzles asked, “ You know for …. Reference and-”
“ I know what you look good in Shakespear don’t you worry,” F-Wpnz assured him, his eyes doing a once over on the Tv man. Puzzles’ face turned red again.
“ What about my size-”
“ You think I don’t know my husbands size? Boxhead what do you take me for!” F-Wpnz laughed, he started to walk away but turned back,
Suddenly he reached out and gripped Puzzles’ chin and turned his head one way then the other.
“ Hmm…. you need some tv polish, I’ll get that too,” He mused to himself, “ Anyway I’ll be back.” He walked away. The crew watched him go, then looked back at Puzzles whose whole screen was red.
“ Well…. Wasn’t that…. Um….” He stumbled over his words, “ Quite the gentleman isn’t he?” He settled on.
“ Don’t get used to it Asshole,” Wpnz prime called, Puzzles looked over his shoulder, “ That guy isn’t me. He’s not the guy I’m going to turn into. You don’t deserve something like that, and if you let him make you think you do then you’re insane.”
“ Wpnz-”
“ No seriously does anyone here think this guy of all people deserves the happily married fairy tale ending?” Wpnz prime cut Puzzles off and gestured to him. The group was quiet. Puzzles glanced over at Meggy who didn’t meet his eyes or defend him.
Not that he expected her to. Puzzles released a sigh and turned away.
“ Thank you.” He finally said, making the group look at him for surprise.
“ What?” Wpnz Prime asked.
“ Thank you.” Puzzles said again, “ For reminding that this life that your future self is more than likely a scenario that has a slim chance of happening. Wouldn’t want me to get comfortable. . . I’m gonna go…” He started down the hall, then headed for the storage room.
F-wpnz knew something was wrong when he returned, there was an awkward tension and his past self was kicking the already broken tvs now.
“ Where's Puzzles?” He asked.
“ He went to go chill in the storage room.” Smg3 told him, F-Wpnz hummed, then moved to Karen, pulling something out of the shopping bag in his hand.
He offered Karen what remained inside the bag.
“ Thought the kids might like this,” He offered. Karen peeked inside and saw it was full of some minecraft themed toys and candy.
“ Can I talk to you?” She asked, F-Wpnz hesitated, then nodded.
“ Sure uh, here or privately?”
“ Lets step outside, Mario,” She called, making the red clad italian turn, “ Can you watch the kids for a second.
“ Lets-a go!” He agreed and hurried over to her, taking the bag before returning to play with the kids. Karen followed F-Wpnz outside, once there he leaned against the side of the tactical vehicle he stole and crossed his arms.
“ So….Mr.Puzzles huh?” She asked.
“ What about it?” F-Wpnz asked. Karen crossed her own arms.
“ I guess nothing, this is less about Mr.Puzzles and more what you said to … yourself earlier.” She admitted, F-Wpnz frowned then rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly.
“ Ah . . . yeah I guess that was a little . . . harsh of me to say-”
“ Harsh? It was down right cruel,"Karen snapped, “ You admitted in front of everyone that I wasn’t good enough to sacrifice for! That your kids were not good enough to sacrifice for!”
“ I never said that-”
“ Yes you did! You said you couldn’t give up that life for me but you could for him!” She shouted as she pointed at the door. “ Why wasn’t I good enough for that?” F-Wpnz’s frown deepened, “ And don’t get it twisted I don’t want you back but I want to know Why!”
“ It’s complicated Karen, I don’t have a simple answer for you, he means a lot to me-” F-Wpnz tried.
“ And we didn’t?!” Karen interrupted, “ What did he have that we didn’t?! What does he do that we couldn’t-”
“ HE FUCKING WAITED FOR ME!” F-Wpnz shouted, “ FUCK!” He turned and punched the side of the car.
“ . . . what?” F-Wpnz let out an angry sigh.
“ You want a simple boiled down answer, " he waited. You left. “
“ You abandoned us!” Karen snapped in disbelief.
“ You left while I was on a contract! You didn’t even wait til I got home to leave me!” F-Wpnz reminded her, “ I had to track your bitch ass down!”
“ I told you I didn’t want that life! That I wanted to settle down if we were having kids but noooo you know best!” Karen snapped back, “ And now I found out you did settle down with HIM!” F-Wpnz started to answer then held up a finger.
“ Wait, wait, wait a second. Pause,” He put his hands in a timeout pose.
“ … what?!” the cat woman sputtered in confusion.
“ TIME OUT! In a second, give me a minute please!” He snapped, then turned his back to her. It took a minute for Karen to realize he was doing breathing exercises.
“ Okay.” He sighed, then turned back to her. “ I think I know the answer to this but tell me anyway, what's your definition of Settle down?” He asked, Karen blinked in confusion.
“ Um… well you know, getting a house, working 9-5, raising the kids.”
“ No more crime?” F-Wpnz asked, “ No more action?”
“ Well… yeah…” Karen nodded.
“ We didn’t do that…” He stuffed his hands in his pockets, “ Puzzles and I still go out and do stuff, we don’t want to give up that life. I never had to sacrifice that. You and I… I think we wanted different things, and Puzzles and I want the same things… so it’s easier to make sacrifices for him. Because they’re smaller and align with what I want, I dunno…” He let out an exhausted exhale.
“ Karen I don't have the answers for you, I don’t wanna say oh if I had stayed in our original world I wouldn't have gotten with him, because I don’t know if thats true but I can’t deny that him being the only thing I have left of that life …. It plays a part.”
“ I guess I didn’t think of that…” Karen admitted.
“ I do miss you and the kids, this has been nice getting to see them…. I hope they can see that hot head in there can change… even just a little…” He smiled weakly, and Karen gave a soft smile back.
“ Yeah it has been… nice…even if your past self wants to undermine the whole damn experience.” She laughed bitterly.
“ What do you mean?” He asked, Karen shrugged.
“ He basically swore to never let himself become you. Told Puzzles he didn’t deserve this happily ever after you got going on.” F-wpnz clenched his fists.
“ God damn it….”
“ It’s just disheartening I guess, seeing how you could be and knowing he’s so stubborn he refuses to let it happen.” She laughed weakly.
“ I refuse to let that happen.” F-Wpnz promised her.
“ How are you gonna do that?” She asked, “ Jump start their reconciliation?”
“ If I have to, I’ve worked too hard for this life to let that hothead undo it… But first I gotta rescue my husband from his own demons so are we done here?” He held up the bundle of clothes he was holding. Karen gave a nod.
“ I guess there isn’t much more to say… You should apologize to the kids when you get a second for what you said earlier.” She turned back to the door.
“ Yeah… I will.” he agreed as he followed her back inside. Except while she headed back to the main area he took a left to find Puzzles.
He found Puzzles in the storage room and hugging himself as he sat on the boxed.
“ I’m back,” He called, and the TV jumped.
“ Oh… hi…” He mumbled, not looking at F-wpnz right away which allowed him to tuck a majority of the clothes he got aside so it was out of sight.
“ Here's your disguise,” He tossed Puzzles a Hawaiian shirt with a pair of bright white shorts.
Puzzles’s face when he held the shirt out in front of him was hilarious.
“ Oh… uh….” He expected the tv to blow up but to his surprise Puzzles just set it aside, “ It . . lovely, thanks…”
“ Man, what past me said must have really gotten to ya, huh,” He pulled out the actual outfit he got, “ That was supposed to be a joke to get ya riled up, here,” He held out the bundle.
“ Oh thank god,” Puzzles took it and examined the real outfit, “ I mean Beggars can’t be choosers and all that ... .oooh purple?” He asked, holding up the bowtie.
“ Yeah, I didn't want to get you confused with mine, you know, his is red.”
“ Ah.”
“ You wanna talk about what happened after I left…” Puzzles shook his head.
“ No… after all he didn’t say anything that wasn’t true did he?” He started to examine the deep purple pants with question marks on it. When Puzzles looked up at F-Wpnz with a raised eyebrow the gunman shrugged.
“ You know the doppelganger trope, with the gun, and I can’t tell which is which, I’m trying to avoid that.” Puzzles chuckled.
“ Fair enough. Can I .. change alone?” He asked, gesturing to the clothes. F-Wpnz sputtered and turned blue.
“ Ah shit, right, yeah, sorry I um, yeah,” He backed out of the room, “ Habit sorry.” He shut the door, and went back down the hall to knock some sense into his past self.
Which was like talking to a brick wall that didn’t even want to talk to you. So he resigned to talk to SMG4 instead about their plan, then apologize to the kids.
“ The team we’ve settled on is me, Meggy, you, and Puzzles, the others are gonna stay here in case Riddles finds this place.” Smg4 explained, F-Wpnz nodded.
“ Sounds good to me…” he looked over as Puzzles joined the group again. Now clad in the usual white dress shirt, purple bowtie, and pants with question marks all over it, “ Heeey, looking snazzy, did you use the tv polish I got?” He asked, pointing to the obvious rust stains on the back of the tv.
“ You gave it to the kids by accident,” Karen called, and handed him the bottle.
“ Ah shit thanks,” F-Wpnz grabbed Puzzle's arm and all but forced him to sit down. “ You guys keep talking, I’ll to this.”
“ I can-”
“ You can’t see back here, I got it Shakespear don’t worry.” Puzzles didn’t have another argument so he just gripped the fabric of his pants as his screen turned red again. F-Wpnz gestured for Smg4 to start talking while he applied the TV polish.
“ Right so um… figured we’re driving you to your apartment, you two are going to tell the door man you’re hosting a movie night, which is why we’re here, we’ll search the apartment, get the coding laptop and get out.”
“ Pretty straight forward." Meggy agreed. F-Wpnz glanced at his past self out of the corner of his eye, he was staring at them. His fists clenched at his side.
He tried to think back to when he first fell in love with Puzzles. Sure nothing was built until they got here and found each other but….
Maybe it was that night on the motorbike. When he looked at Puzzles over his shoulder and saw him grinning in pride at having fooled the police.
Maybe it wouldn’t take much to convince his past self to consider a reconciliation after all. After all, as angry as he was he was also jealous.
He smirked at the plan forming in his mind.
“ Sounds good to me,” Once he finished applying the polish he wrapped his arms around Puzzles’ chest and hugged him as he rested his chin atop the TV's head.
Puzzles froze for a moment then relaxed, laughing nervously.
“ You guys wanna head out now or in the morning?” The walking gun continued as if nothing weird was happening.
“ Movie nights make more sense at night,” Smg3 pointed out.
“ Fair enough, Come on pookie, let's go,” F-Wpnz laid it on thick, as he let a hand trail down one of Puzzles’ arms to grab his wrist.
“ Oh uh… o-okay.” F-Wpnz let Puzzles have the passenger seat while the others got in the back.
Then he started the engine. But he didn’t move right away.
“ What are you uh… waiting for?” Puzzles asked, F-Wpnz smirked and held up three fingers.
Then two.
Then One.
“ ALRIGHT FUCKERS hold on!” Wpnz prime slammed the door open and started jogging towards the car. Toomp not far behind, “ If you think you can just leave me here while you go out and seek some action you got another thing coming. F-Wpnz shrugged.
“ Sure why not, two more won’t hurt, get in the back.” He smirked, and he saw Wpnz-prime glance at Puzzles in the passenger seat before snarling at his future self and moving towards the back of the car.
“ Um won’t there being two Wpnz be a problem?” Smg4 asked as Wpnz prime climbed in and found a seat.
“ Nah, we’ll just say he’s my cousin or something,” He put the car in gear and pulled away. He adjusted the rearview mirror so he could watch his past self in the back. He had chosen to sit right next to the window that separated them from the front seat. No doubt he could keep an eye on Puzzles. Not that he’d admit that.
“ It’s a shame you wear the ring under your glove in my time,” F-Wpnz said casually, Puzzles gave him a confused look.
“ Why? Wouldn’t it make this whole ruse easier?” he asked, “ Less continuity issues.”
“ Nah because then…” He reached over with one hand and took the tv’s, “ I could use it as an excuse to go ringshopping for you all over again~” He winked and Puzzles laughed and pulled his hand away, looking out the window.
“ Don’t be silly…” F-Wpnz glanced at Wpnz prime in the mirror again. He was actively trying not to watch. Making F-Wpnz smirk in amusement. Was he still like that? He’d have to ask his Puzzles once they got Riddles out of the way. Might be worth working on if he could be played like a fiddle like this.
They arrived at the apartment complex and parked the car.
“ Alright,” F-Wpnz got out of the car then hurried over to open the door for Puzzles, “ Show time?” He offered his arm. Puzzles hesitated, then, blushing, took it.
“ Show time!” he agreed with the same passion he had back in the day. This sucker can’t resist an opportunity to show off his acting skills. F-Wpnz smiled at him as he glanced past the tv at Wpnz-prime whose lip was curled back in a snarl.
F-Wpnz winked, and his past self's eyes went wide as he no doubt realized he was doing it on purpose.
Though the motives were probably unclear.
“ Alright this way, let me do the talking, Puzzles, baby you saw how your future self acts normally right?” the hitman asked as he guided the group ahead.
“ Uh, yeah I can improvise some lines if I need to,” Puzzles agreed.
F-Wpnz glanced over his shoulder to make sure Wpnz prime was watching before he pulled his arm free from Puzzle’s and wrapped it around his waist.
“ Good.” Puzzles tense but said nothing. The door man straightened when he saw them.
“ Mr.Wpnz, Mr.Puzzles, welcome back… having a dinner party?” he asked as he held the door open for them.
“ Yeah, we’re doing a little movie night,” F-Wpnz said as he swiftly moved past.
“ I see… and why are there two of you?” The doorman asked, F-Wpnz looked back at his past self.
“ That’s my cousin, he just got out of a rough marriage, so we’re letting him get back on his feet.”
“ OH FUCK YOU!” Wpnz prime snapped.
“ As you can see, he’s still bitter about it.” F-Wpnz sighed, and Wpnz Prime snarled at him.
“ Just… don’t let him cause trouble.” The doorman ordered, and F-Wpnz nodded.
“ Don’t worry about it, we'll take care of him, he’s all bark anyway.”
“ Show you all bark you son of a-” Wpnz prime started but the door man interrupted.
“ Mr.Puzzles, going for a new look sir?” He asked, Puzzles didn’t even hesitate to bat his eyes and do a sort of spin to show off his outfit.
“ Why yes, do you like it! I thought a change of place might keep some of the snoozing viewers engaged, and if it’s not liked we can always go back,” He shrugged it off and returned to lean into F-Wpnz side.” What do you think George?” The door man, George, chuckled.
“ I think it looks sharp as ever Mr.Puzzles, have a good day.” F-Wpnz waved him off as they hurried to the lift. Once the doors closed Puzzles stepped away from F-Wpnz. Rubbing his arm uncomfortably.
“ The hell was all that?!” Wpnz Prime snapped at his future self, “ You usually all lovey dovey?!”
“ Yes.” F-Wpnz stated bluntly.
“ Look, can we just keep our cool til the jobs are done?” Smg4 asked, and Wpnz started to growl but Toomp tapped him to catch his attention. Then he glanced at the back of Puzzles head before releasing a breath.
“ Fine.”
The elevator doors opened and F-Wpnz led them to their door. The apartment was big, there was a living room space with a very large home entertainment system, a halfway wall that separated the kitchen from the living room as well as a dining table in the corner.
Meggy paused as she noticed something.
“ You check the bedroom, I’ll check the office, “ F-Wpnz pointed to the respective doors.
“ You guys search here, and the bathroom and the guest room.”
“ You got it!” Smg4 gave a thumbs up and they separated to do as they were tasked. F-Wpnz pushed open the office door and began sifting through the many drawers and shelves when he didn’t see it sitting in its usual spot on the desk. The walls were lined with blueprints and plans.
He found notes Puzzles had made while designing the damn program.
“ All this mess over a stupid comment I didn’t even mean…” He grumbled as he crumpled one of the notes in his fist. “ Whatever…. I need to fix this…”
Recently, we've noticed some worries amongst the fanbase regarding Mr. Puzzles and Mr. Wpnz.
We're here to tell you not to worry too much about it!
Regardless of whether you ship Gunshow, are curious to see where other relationships between character will lead, or just view them as friends and don't approach the shipping aspect, we can assure you of one thing that will remain a constant:
I haven't decided if she's biologically Wpnz and Puzzles, or if she's adopted or created the possibilities are endless but I was playing with it at work
Decided she goes by "Rubi" not " Ruby", and she's obsessed with going viral or trending... And also violence.
I was going for an anime girl meets monster high vibe idk
Also:
But wpnz could also be like this with his canon daughter. . .
I haven't decided if she's biologically Wpnz and Puzzles, or if she's adopted or created the possibilities are endless but I was playing with it at work
Decided she goes by "Rubi" not " Ruby", and she's obsessed with going viral or trending... And also violence.
I was going for an anime girl meets monster high vibe idk
Also:
But wpnz could also be like this with his canon daughter. . .
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