Weapons & Modifications (Part I):

Characters: Weiss, Ruby

Pairings: Whiterose

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters or settings, these belong to Rooserteeth and Monty Oum, may he rest in peace.

Summary:

Weiss comes across Ruby working in the workshop, and she decides she has some time to watch a very intriguing thing happen.

Beacon Academy Rebuilt, Weapons Workshop

Ruby Rose was sitting on a work stool with her tongue sticking out from between her lips as she worked on her most important project to date. Now what should I do for my lovely sweetheart today? Ruby thinks to herself as she looks at Crescent Rose, arguably her child, whose battered casing and form had been taken apart and displayed across two entire weapons tables.

Ruby absent mindedly wipes her oil covered hand on her skirt before returning to examining the horribly disfigured casing her weapon had been contained in. Complete overhaul, this whole case looks like one good hit will shatter it in two, I mean my baby'll still work but that's harder to work without the case. I need a new paint job with how much damage was done. The barrel needs to be looked at least I've actually done some damage with all of my blade training. I also need to see if there's a way for me to make Crescent Rose easier for me to notice/wield despite my injured nerves. I'd need to run tests on what my hand can feel though before I could make such drastic modifications as that, doctors said my hand might have something left there, better see what it is.

Weiss smiles as she watches her girlfriend absent mindedly inspect the 'sweetheart' of a weapon. The younger teenager was wearing her new attire, a much less fluffy black skirt with red designs, a red button up (snap buttons) covering her torso continuing the designs from the skirt except in black, her sleeves are rolled all the way up to avoid having them caught in the machinery. Dust I almost forgot what it was like to watch her do this… I wonder if I should help. The decision though was made for her shortly as Ruby began talking to her weapon.

"Sweetheart I really need you to help me here, I need to overhaul your casing but I don't really know what with? Then there's your colour scheme given the damage you've taken recently, and of course there's the barrel to look at… This might be a bit much for just me… wow I can't believe I've just said that."

"Do you need some help?" Weiss asks hesitantly as she walks up, making sure that her shoes let out noise so as to not scare her girlfriend. Ruby turns and to Weiss' surprise nods in the affirmative.

"I actually do think I need help. Crescent Rose needs her weekly tune up plus… you probably heard me didn't you?" Ruby asks rubbing the back of head awkwardly. Weiss smiles as she slowly reaches up and takes the hand.

"Ruby… I will say this but one of the few things that don't completely annoy me that you do it's this. You're dedicated to weapons and making certain that everyone goes in with the best equipment so they come back. What do you need me to do?"

"Well… how about you start by polishing all of this up," Ruby starts as she motions to the table full of parts on one side. "I've got to start working on a new casing which is gonna mean taking measurements and casting a new…"

"What if I told you that you already had a new casing just waiting for you?" Weiss asked quietly. Ruby's interest was piqued and she turned to her partner and girlfriend.

"Weiss what did you do?" Ruby questions back, her eyebrow rising accusingly, just as Weiss did to her.

"I may have gotten an extremely durable casing made for Crescent Rose, all that needs to be done to it is painting and Aura infusion to make it stronger…" Weiss trails off as she stares at Ruby who seems shocked.

"I don't know whether to be overjoyed or surprised… you never spend time with weapons how did you know?"

"My Dolt… you don't think I thought I was the only girl in your life right? Of course I took a look at the competition… which now that I say it out loud sounds a lot weirder given I'm talking about a weapon… oh Dust what are you doing to me?" Weiss questions back as Ruby shows the biggest smile ever. Weiss is pulled into a tight hug, almost as bad as Yang's bear hugs.

"I could kiss you right now, but I need to do this first, plus I'm covered in grease and oil and you'd kill me. So do you think you could get that casing here soon?"

"Ruby the casing is what's been hiding under my bed you do know that right?" Weiss questions genuinely worried that her partner hadn't figured it out yet. Ruby shakes her head at Weiss, then goes to answer.

"I won't ever snoop, no matter how curious I am I refuse to snoop in your stuff, you will always have your privacy with me," Ruby states proudly before rose petals begin floating through the air only for cases to start piling up in her place. Dust I hate it when she does that!

Three Hours Later…

The maintenance didn't take too long, allowing them to focus on binding Ruby's Aura to the casing and rebinding it to the rest of Crescent Rose. Once they'd finished Weiss smiled at looking at how exhausted Ruby was. They'd been working for hours it was fair that they'd both be a little winded. Once the weapon was reassembled though they had final problem.

"What colours should I use?" Ruby asks the fencer beside her. Weiss smiled as a devious smile came into her mind.

"I know red and black is kinda your thing my sweet Dolt, but what if you did something different this time, given that you and I worked on it together?" Weiss asks a smirk playing on her lips as she realized that she was about to get a say in how her competition looked, oh Dust I really need to be careful or I might start talking to Myrtenaster like Ruby talks to Crescent Rose. Of course this is when a thought pops into her head from nearly a week ago when she was cleaning.

You know you talked to Myrtenaster right then didn't you? You carried on a full conversation with the weapon while you oiled it and maintained it.

Guess it's too late now… Weiss finishes as she turns to her partner, waiting patiently for her suggestion. Oh this is gonna be great!

"How about red and white? It won't be that different and I think it might make the red pop better on your sweetheart. But know this my wonderful Dolt you, if I find out I'm being replaced I promise that your wondrous Crescent Rose will sleep with the fishes to be replaced by an amazing white and blue so you can never stop thinking about me…" Weiss smiled as she let her think sink in for Ruby to go into shock before pulling out the paints.

"I would never replace you with Crescent Rose; you're a much better kisser. Two you give me time for whatever I want when we're alone, how could I pass that up Princess?" Ruby states back with a smile as Weiss blushes a very bright red.

Nailed it! Ruby thought in her head triumphantly.

Author's Note:

Hey so yes I'm going to continue posting these grouped up one shots and some of them will have other chapters with interactions with other characters and so on. Also I'm thinking about opening up a vote about which of the AUs I've started writing which are longer multi-chapter stories to continue and post. Also I am primarily a Whiterose and Bumblebee shipper, so I apologize to those who are not. If you are interested in some of my longer stories message me, and also I may open up to some requests as I start to run out of ideas for stories to write, depends on whether or not people want some of my longer multi-chapter stories. Thanks for reading and I really hope that you enjoyed this installment.