To say Neo loved her work would be an understatement. What she didn't like is the risk of being seen. Unlike Roman, who prefered the world knew of his crimes. Neo didn't want or need the public display, She wasn't politician or some attention seeking narcissist. But as usual, Roman had to tip off the Vale's finest during a simple heist on a simple jewelry store. Which lead to the thief duo being chased down a dimly lit alley.
"Ya know." Roman started, "They are rather persistent this evening" Neo rolled her eyes. 'If I survive tonight I will ring his neck. I don't care if he's my boss, this is NOT worth jail time.'
The duo broke into the closest door and slammed it shut. Neo held her breath as she heard the clamer of boots rush by. After hearing the boots fade into an echo, Neo sighed deeply. 'VPA may look good in uniform but they are as unreliable as the goons at Juniors. Actually, I prefer the goons. At least they can hold a foot chase.'
"Well. I say that went better than expected." Roman looked at Neo with a half smile. Neo stared back unamused at his actions.
"Well Neo. If I didn't know better I'd think you were plotting my death." Neo simply smiled grimly at him. "O-okay. Maybe you are. Shall we go now?" He said as he pointed in a random direction. 'If I didn't love him like a brother, he'd be dead. He would. Maybe a swift kick in the back-' Neo's chain of thought was disrupted as she felt a faint vibration emitting from her jacket. 'Why is my scroll going off. Who would text me this late? Oh.. Ruby.' Neo smiled as she unlocked her scroll.
"Hey Neo wanna hang out tomorrow after my classes? :D" Neo's smile widened as she pictured Ruby's expression, For a girl who who hunts and kill monsters, she's just too cute.' She mentally chuckled as she typed out a response.
"Sure little rose, I'll have nothing planned."
"Sweeet! My classes tomorrow end around 3, i'll see you tomorrow kay?" Neo typed out a quick reply and put away her scroll.
"Neo! Let's go! Stuff to do, people to rob. Tick tock." Roman said. Neo felt her smile fade as a look of hatred revealed itself. 'That's it. I'm going to kill him.'
'An arcade?' Neo thought as she gazed at the building Ruby had asked to meet her at. 'Well I suppose. it's different than hanging out for dinner or.. a movie. Thank god it isn't shopping.'
"Neo!" Ruby said running up to the tri-colored girl. Neo turned to look but was grappled into a life sucking hug from crimsonette.
"Uhh Rubes, I don't think she can breath." A new voice said. "Oh… hehe. Sorry Neo." Ruby said as she released the shorter girl. 'Damn that girls got some strength..' She looked up and saw a taller girl standing next to Ruby.
"Neo, this is my big sis' Yang. Yang this is my new friend Neo." Ruby introduced.
"Heya Neo, How you doing?" Yang said as extended her hand and smiled. Neo smiled and shook her hand.
"Uhm." Yang said "Not much of a talker are ya?" She looked at Neo with a uneasy smile.
"Oh! Sorry I forgot. Yang, Neo can't talk." Ruby rubbed the back of her head. Neo looked at her and shook her head. Taking out her scroll she typed a message for Yang.
"Hi Yang, It's nice to meet you" Yang read it with narrowed eyes.
"Ahh. Well, that's okay!" Yang said as she patted Neo's back, almost knocking the smaller girl to the ground. "Doesn't mean we can't still have fun!" She said with a large grin.
Neo smiled nervously. 'This is going to be a long day.. I can already tell.' Neo thought as Ruby tugged at Neo's arm towards the arcade.
"Come on! Let's go inside and play some games!" She said as she dragged Neo inside the building.
Neo scanned around the very large room. She was unsure what to make of the scene before her. Being a thief, she had never really been inside an arcade before. Never had to rob one. Ruby bolted off in a random direction some lien to get the girls tokens. Yang looked at Neo, with a look of uncertainty of the smaller girl.
"So Neo.." Yang said. "Where'd ya meet my sis'?" Yang questioned, eyebrow raised. Neo quickly typed a message on her scroll.
"At some Ice cream place. She basically sat next to me and started talking to me" Neo showed Yang the message with a small smirk.
"Hmm… So tell me. What do you do Neo? You dress nicely and Ruby hasn't really told me about you before. Are you a huntress in training too?" Yang had a suspicious look on her face. But as luck would have it Ruby returned with a hand full of tokens. Neo sighed in relief, dodging the interrogation. Even though she could teleport away from the two girls and avoid any form of confrontation. She'd rather avoid being on a huntresses radar considering she isn't the most inconspicuous looking individual with her hair.
Yang took a fist full of the tokens from the smaller girl. "Alright! let's get our game on!" She said with a fist pump. Yang ran off in a direction and stopped at some fighting game. Just as Neo was going to wonder off and explore, Ruby tugged at her again.
"Hey wanna go play some with me?" She asked with innocent smile.
'That smile could stop a bullet I swear..' Neo thought and nodded to the crimsonette. Ruby led her to a machine that had two plastic pistols and the trailer for the game had something to do with shooting. The 'enemies' looked like roadkill.
"This game is sooo much fun!" Ruby said jumping up and down like a child on her birthday. "This is called 'Signal of the Dead' " She said with a cheap smirk. Neo tilted her head at the title and the screen before her.
'Signal of the dead? What's suppose to be dead about it? The people looked alive since they're walking around… Are we just killing students? Kind of seems like a mass murder..' Neo looked at the machine with a confused looked and turned back to Ruby.
Ruby looked confused back at Neo. 'What has she never seen a zombie film?' she thought "They're zombies. Ya know… Dead people returning to life to eat the flesh off of people?" She said with a grim smile. Neo's only response was a look of horror.
'Who would create a game that has humans that are dead coming back only to eat other humans?!' Neo thought as she blinked rapidly, trying to comprehend the point of the game. Ruby noticed this and laughed.
"Let's just put in a token and play. It's really easy. See?" She picked up the red gun, "These are our controler like..things. We aim them at the screen and a little crosshair appears in the color of the gun. We shoot the zombies that approach the screen and we move to different areas. If you run out of ammo, aim off screen and pull the trigger to reload" Ruby demonstrated to the all confused girl. Neo only nodded and picked up the blue gun. As the game started a group of school kids approached them.
"Here we go!" Ruby said with a confident voice. Neo just looked confused.
After an hour of playing 'Signal of the Dead' The girls expended all their tokens in the game.
"We were so close!" Ruby said with her head held down. "We almost had the evil scientist! If only that zombie didn't attack us we could have won!" She expressed her sorrow by waving her arms around like a mad woman. As they walked outside they saw Yang sitting on a bench nearby looking both sad and annoyed.
"Yang? What's wrong?" Ruby asked. Yang looked up at her sister and smiled immediately. "Well! Little sis' I hate losing. And I lost at this fighting game… Soooo… I might have punched the screen in and maybe got kicked out?" Yang said nervously
"Yang….." Ruby face palmed and started lecturing the big sister about not breaking things because she lost. Neo couldn't help but laugh at the sisters.
'Must be nice to have an older sibling to fight with..'