Chapter 2 Weapons
Thanks for the support for the story. Sorry the chapter isn't as long as the last one but I plan on focusing on one thing per chapter mostly so there was nothing left to write about as far as weapons go. Hope you enjoy nonetheless
With Ruby and Rainbow Dash. Rainbow Dash POV
"So whatcha got in mind Ruby?" I asked as she zipped through the armoury from shelf to shelf.
"Well first we have to see what you can use. Then we have to make designs for your weapon. Then we have to build it." She stopped for half a second before running off and coming back with an ungodly sword that was bigger than me! "Why not start big?"
"That's a little too big. Don't you have anything... Smaller?"
"Right... How smaller?"
"Alot smaller.
After several failed attempts at weapons choices Ruby was running out of options."How about some guns?" She asked as she handed me a small black gun that had a brace for my arm. From Ruby's lecture on the way here about weapons. This was a Sub-machine gun and the brace was called a stock.
"I like it, but hows about two of them, one for each hand you know? Be way more awesome."
"Awesome idea! I'll get to work on the plans right away. What do you want to call them?" I thought for a few moments but after tossing aside many cheesy ideas I decided on something that would help me to remember home.
"The Wonderbolts."
"Sweet! Also, plans done." She smiled, holding out a surprisingly detailed drawing of something like what I was holding, without the stock and with grips for my hands so I don't drop them in a fight.
"How did you draw this so quickly?"
"Well when I said get to work. I really meant, find the drawings." She laughed nervously pointing to a crate full of drawings with Ruby's stuff. Written on the front.
"So when do we start?"
Applejack
"Well why'd you take me all the way out to a sparring ring in the gym. Ain't we s'posed to be looking for a weapon for me to use?"
"Well yeah we are but you look like your no stranger to a brawl. Those arms don't get that toned without some fights under your belt."
"Well you wouldn't be wrong there partner."
"Exactly, so I persuaded Johnny over there to spar with you." Yang winked at me, pointing to her breasts and nodding.
"My name's Noel, Yang."
"For the purpose of this exercise. You are Johnny. Now show Applejack what you got. Oh before I forget, AJ You can borrow my weapons for this. I think you'll like them." She tossed her gauntlets to me as I walked up to the ring having forgone my shirt in favour of my tank top so I could move more freely. "And begin!" Yang grabbed a bucket of popcorn and sat down on a stool by the ring, watching intently.
"Don't think I'm going to go easy on you just cause your a girl. If your friends with Yang, your more lethal than an Ursa. I'm not taking chances." He declared proudly, approaching cautiously, his fists raised. On each of his arms were two long blades that looked like they could be extended and retracted.
"Whatever you say sugar." I shrugged before taking a step towards him and trying to activate Ember Celica. Only they wouldn't, no matter what I did they wouldn't open up. Leaving me weapon-less against an opponent who wasn't planning on giving me any breathing room.
He lunged for me with a vicious hook, when he swung his fist, the blade on that arm extended outwards. Threatening to cut straight through me. in the heat of the moment my body took over and I didn't even register what I was doing before I had even done it. I ducked under his swing, tossing him off balance. I drove my knee into his stomach as he bent over and dropped my elbow into his back, sending him lying to the ground with a cough.
"Can I have my babies back?" Yang laughed. "Guess you don't need em. I think I'll just take the easy route and make you some armoured fist guards and leg-guards.
Fluttershy.
The entire time I was with Jaune and Pyrrha I was fidgeting constantly. I was nervous here, even with my friends to begin with but with somebody I had never met and the boy I had a massive crush on despite having only met him that morning I could barely stop myself from trying to run away.
"So Fluttershy, what weapon did you have in mind?" Jaune asked kindly, looking through something on his "Scroll" I still didn't understand what they were but they seemed useful.
"Well I'm not actually much of a fighter so I don't think there is any point in me getting any weapon." I really didn't want to impose myself on these people for being so kind.
"Even something simple for self defence? What about a shortsword. Or maybe a hidden dagger?"
"What's a hidden dagger?" I felt so dumb asking because of the way he said it like it was an everyday thing.
"Well it's like a small knife that you hid up you sleeve in a mechanism that when you activate it the blade slides down and into your hand making it so you don't need an awkward sheath."
"If it's not too hard you to make I suppose that would be more than enough for me." I tried my best to talk to him normally but his smile made it so hard.
"It's no problem, I'll get to work. I'll be back as soon as I can." He left the room leaving me alone with Pyrrha. After a few minutes of Pyrrha staring at me I spoke up.
"Is something the matter? You're awfully quiet."
"Nothing at all. It's just you seem to fidget whenever Jaune talks to you." I sensed some hostility in her words and I was proven right moments later. "You have just met Jaune, if you think you can take him from me, dream on." She stood up and walked out of the room quickly not even glancing back at me. Pushing Rainbow Dash out of the way when she bumped into her.
"Jeez what's her problem. Hey what's up Fluttershy, something the matter, you don't look so good."
"No I'm fine, honestly."
"I know when you're lying Fluttershy, is it to do with Pyrrha? I'll deal with her if she's giving you a hard time you know?"
"I's just... She thinks I'm trying to take Jaune from her."
"So they're dating already?"
"Well she never said they were but I think that's what she meant when she said that." At that moment Jaune walked back in with a stick with several protrusions on the side that slid up and down.
"Oh hey Rainbow Dash, you done with Ruby already? Can I take your hand Fluttershy? I need to measure for the handle of your dagger." I nodded slightly while pushing up my sleeve, trying not to stand up and run off in a nervous fit.
"Yeah she's working on my weapons right now. Say I got a question."
"Shoot." He replied casually. Clearly not noticing the fact that I was freaking out silently in my seat while he held my hand.
"You seeing anybody? Romantically I mean." She winked. Leaning back in her chair.
"Well I uhh no um not at the moment." He stammered, trying to focus on his work. "Why do you want to uhh know?"
Rainbow Dash burst out laughing, clutching her ribs as she nearly fell out of her seat. "I'm just messing with you pal, Alright Fluttershy, I gotta run. Have fun you two." She added with a subtle thumbs up in my direction.
"Your friends are in interesting bunch Fluttershy." He laughed while standing up, having finished measuring for the hidden dagger. "Where did Pyrrha go?"
"I don't know but she seemed in a hurry so it must have been important." I lied, hoping Jaune would believe me.
"Guess she's bored without a partner to work with and nobody to talk to now that everyone is busy. You wanna come watch me make the dagger? Better than you just sitting around here doing nothing."
"Sure. I'd like that." I smiled back, I stood up and pushed my top back up over my shoulders.
Twilight
The walk to one of the weapon workshops in the school was nearly entirely silent. How Blake could be so quiet was beyond me but I didn't feel it would be right to try and force her into conversation.
When we finally got the workshop, Blake plucked several things off the weapon racks, occasionally glancing back over to me and looking me up and down.
After she had gathered quite a lot of weapons, she layed them all down in order on one of the tables.
She explained what each one was and what kind of fighting style was involved with them when she saw that I wasn't even moving to touch any of them.
"The first one is a longsword. It's a light offensive weapon with a long reach. You would mostly use that in small groups or one on one while using a shield.
The second is a conversion staff. Each head is modular. Meaning you can interchange the weapons on each side. It's a good all round weapon because o its long reach and tough build
Thirdly is an axe, they are mostly offensive weapons but with slight modifications can be good defensive weapons. Not much else to it really." She went back to silence after explaining all three weapons. All three of them looked like they were made for me, I guess she had a good eye because each of the three were easy to hold and swing about when I picked them up.
But the one that I felt most at ease with was the staff. It just felt sturdier than the others and the fact that t was good defensively also made it ideal. "I guess I'll take the staff."
"That one is just a training spear, I'll have to make you your own one myself, with your input of course. I'll get some paper and we can get to work on designs for the spear head." She spoke in a monotone voice that made her seem disinterested.
We worked in silence for quite a while, only exchanging small talk when necessary after I made a rough sketch of what I wanted for each head and Blake went about modifying it to be suitable for the staff.
When we had finished we had the designs for my spear head. It was long and curved with a round section cut into the back of the blade for catching weapons when blocking and disarming enemies. The head was built into a chain in the main body of the spear so at the push of a button I could fire the blade out and swing it to attack. Blake had the idea for that part.
"I'll get to work on this straight away. If you want you can wait around or head to the cafeteria to get something to eat. I'm sure of of your friends will be there already. Probably Ruby's partner if I know Ruby like I think I do. Rainbow Dash was her name?"
"Yeah that's her name but if it's all the same, I'll wait around. I'd like to be able to help if you need any."
"That's fine by me. I'll let you know if I need help."
Pinkie Pie.
"So Pinkie what kind of weapon do you want?" Nora shouted with glee as she bounced up and down on the spot.
"Back home I had a party cannon that I used once or twice to fight, so a cannon!" I replied while matching her jump for jump. Ren just stood to the side with a blank look on his face.
"Okay!" Nora shouted before running off and sorting through several gun cases. "How about this?" She handed me a huge revolver (Nora and Ren explain all about weapons on the way over) I pointed it at the target in the shooting range and held the gun in one hand. Ren moved to stop me from holding it like that but before he could I fired off several shots.
Each shot echoed through the room, nearly deafening us. But rather than recoil like the gun was supposed to it was held in the same position I had it in the first place. Ren was completely stunned but Nora high fived me and waited for a response.
"Do you have anything bigger?"
"Coming right up." Nora came back carrying a huge Rocket Launcher. "How's this?"
I took the Launcher happily and aimed for the targets. Ren, who seemed to be there just to make sure we didn't destroy the place, put his fingers in his ears and flinched away.
As soon as I fired off the Launcher I knew I had found my weapon. The rocket flew straight for the dummy and upon impact obliterated it, leaving nothing but burning bits of training dummy. Gummy snapped his jaws happily and went to work gnawing on the not burning pieces.
"Can you make the two weapons into one?" I asked with a broad smile. Ren only groaned and put out the fire quickly before it got out of control.
"So have the six chambers of the revolver built into the Launcher but instead of bullets they're rockets?"
"Exactly! Also can we have a second smaller barrel that only shoots confetti?"
"Sure can! Let's go!" Nora and I ran off to the workshop, bypassing Twilight and Blake as we ran past. Ren struggling to catch up to us as he sprinted towards our destination. Wherever that was.
Rarity
Weiss and I had long decided what weapon I would use. After having seen her use her Rapier with such grace in the forest I had wanted to have my ever since.
We assembled the Dust Rapier fairly quickly using pre made parts supplied by her fathers company to Beacon. When we had the finished product it looked very bland and didn't look nearly as appealing as Weiss'
"Don't worry about your Rapier not being very decorative. We'll just go through the basic movements and stances to make sure your weapon suits you before we decorate it to your liking. That way, should it not suit you, we will not have wasted any parts."
"Simply brilliant idea. So how should we begin?"
After about an hour of hard work, I had finally got a sense of the basics of using a Rapier. Weiss had nearly lost her patience several times but once I explained that I was still getting used to my new body she calmed down. Once or twice we heard explosions from the workshop that Twilight and Pinkie had gone into, they must have been caused by Pinkie. There was no way Twilight would cause such large scale damage.
"I think we have your weapon. I suppose we should disassemble it to engrave it." She placed her own Rapier back in place on her waist and set to work taking my own apart.
In next to no time at all Weiss had taken my weapon apart and had placed the parts into a machine with a screen that displayed all of the parts.
"Now all you need to do is take this pen and draw the designs you want onto your weapon parts. Remember to take you time."
"Back home I owned a boutique. This should not be too hard a task for me, it is like drawing up designs for a decidedly complicated dress with many oddly shaped sections. This will be no trouble whatsoever."
"If you say so Rarity. I will be in the next room practising, call me if you need me. I will be more than happy to assist should you need it." Once she left the room I set to work on the screen making rough designs that I would work into the metal.
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