RWBY Fanfic

Continuation

Learning Love part 2

Penny was not used to feeling uncertain. She had analyzed several hundreds of romance novels and watched series after series of romantic comedy vids. Penny was sure that Ruby would prefer a basket of bullets to one filled with puppies, and she did not have an ailing grandmother Ruby could help assist across a road.

She had spent the last few days wandering the streets of Vale as usual. Each street corner she rounded brought the anticipation of a surprise meeting. Every piece of red clothing held her attention for moment longer. Yet, it seemed like Ruby had not come to town today either. It should be expected; Ruby was training hard at Beacon and didn't have time to come see her each week.

"Gah! I said I'd only take five minutes Neptune!"

A disgruntled faunus was making his way down the street holding a map of the city. From the tail and his general gait, Penny deduced he was a monkey species of faunus.

"Excuse me, do you need assistance?"

The young faunus gave her an odd look, she could see him sniff the air.

"Yeah actually," he finally said before handing her the map. "I've been trying to find out where this Beacon place is, but my teammate left without me. Think you can help me out?"

"Of course!" Penny answered enthusiastically. "Just give me one moment."

Accesing archive….Downloading local mapping data.…Point of interest [Beacon] located….Compiling direction data….

"Uhhh."

The young man was still holding out his map for Penny, who was staring off into the distance. He stepped closer and examined her curiously. He once again sniffed at her curiously, wondering why this human didn't have a scent on her.

"You okay in there?" he asked as he tapped her shoulder with his finger.

"No need to worry!" Penny answered loudly, causing the blonde faunus to stumble back. She pointed down the road.

"You go down three blocks this way, take a right, four blocks down from there, cutting through the city park will save you five minutes, then just go down Forest lane for two blocks, take a right and the airship station should be on the left."

"Uhhhhhhh."

"Would you like me to take you there?"

"That would be awesome."


Penny was excited as the airship touched town at Beacon. Her father had explicitly told her not approach the campus before the festival officially began, but surely that didn't apply when she was helping a visitor?

"Wow, this place is huge!" Sun exclaimed. The blonde faunus had introduced himself as Penny acted as his guide. He seemed carfree enough, though Penny believed he was carrying some contraband. But that could wait until their next meeting.

"Yes it is!" Penny agreed, marveling at the campus.

The other passengers started walking towards the center of the campus, so Penny and Sun followed suite. It seemed as if most of them were participants of the festival, students that had travelled from across Remnant to test their skills.

"I think I see my teammates over that a-way," Sun told Penny. "Thanks for all the help. Hope to see you at the tournament!"

She watched Sun leave, and found herself alone. The large crowd that had got off the airship had dispersed, and so she walked on. She was familiar to Beacon Academy's layout and buildings from the video surveillance.

She was inside the first year dormitories when she had reached the limit of her accessible knowledge. If what she could research was correct, Ruby's room would be somewhere near her.

Foosteps echoed down the hall. A clack of heels, and thud of boots. Penny, not wanting to be discovered, hid inside the room she didn't detect heat signatures from. Still, the footsteps grew closer, louder. Penny looked around the room for a place to hide, and settled for under one of the beds. A few moments later, two people entered the room. The girl with familiar black boots sat on the bed Penny was hiding under. The other, was standing in front of her.

"I told you not push yourself too hard."

"Owowowow. I said I'm sorry."

Voice recognition activated….first speaker identified [Weiss Schnee]…..second speaker identified….[Ruby Rose]….

"Let me see it," Weiss commanded. She and Ruby

"Okay, just don- OW!"

"Come on. You can take a few hits from an Ursa. (pause) It looks like its just a sprain."

"How am I going to do combat drills with this?" Ruby asked.

"Here."

Penny could see Weiss walk away to where she had set down her rapier. There were several clicking sounds and soon she was back to Ruby.

"A sprinkle of ice dust should help with the swelling," Weiss told Ruby. "You're going to have to rest and let it heal naturally."

"I still have one good arm."

"Don't make me encase your arm in ice."

Penny could hear Ruby pout above her, and smiled to herself. She was so adorable, like a budding flower. She checked her internal clock, and hoped that the pair would leave soon. As much as she would love to pop out and surprise them, she felt that this might be crossing a line.

"So Yang and Blake…?" Ruby asked.

"They're going to keep training for a bit longer," Weiss answered.

"Um…" Ruby started, hesistant. "My mom always kissed my injuries when I was younger."

"Oh?" Weiss responded, a hint of teasing in her voice. "But you aren't a child anymore."

"Right," Ruby agreed, dejected. Penny stifled her surprise when she felt another weight land on the bed.

"We all agreed to be more open with each other right?" the heiress asked her leader.

"Right," Ruby replied, softly.

"So if you want something, then come out and say it."

There was a silence. Penny remained motionless, wishing more than anything that she could turn her sensors off for once. For the first time in her life, she wanted to shut down, to turn off all access to the outside world. But only her father had that control. Which meant she couldn't stop hearing and recording everything that was occurring.

Analyzing noise patterns….Heavy Breathing….Light contact of skin….Soft moan….Gentle creaking of mattress springs….


Penny eventually found an opportunity to leave. However, she could not help replaying the audio of her time under the bed. It was ironic, the only information she wished to know was the intensity of their pleasure, but that remained a mystery to her.

She walked silently home, not bothering with her usual chipperness. Something was wrong inside her. There was a pain that needed maintenance immediately.

"I can't find anything anywhere," the mechanic told her, as he examined her software and hardware components.

"Please keep checking," Penny asked him. "There is absolutely something… something wrong."

"I don't know, this is the fifth time I've checked. Normally you could just tell me where the problem is."

Penny shook her head.

"Then the only thing I can think of is a reboot," he suggested. "You know, restart you from this morning and see if the problem goes away."

Penny fell silent. Her memories were the only thing that made here human, but was being human worth this much pain?

"Your call," the mechanic said.

"Penny thought for just a moment longer, and gave him her answer.


Author's Note: Sorry about the short release after a skipped week, but midterms and such equals lots of studying. But I am interested in if you liked this update. Feel free to leave some feedback as I read everything.