"Does this place have pudding?" Neptune asked as if her life depended on it. Even without looking behind her, Neptune could feel Noire's patented 'I might kill you now.' stare. Neptune wasn't going to turn and confirm her suspicions; a Noire you can't see can't hurt you after all. Neptune was also too occupied by the existential question of food.
"Pudding?" The yellow haired girl asked.
"Yeah I eat it all the time but I think it's supposed to be a dessert. It's all sweet and jiggly."
"Ohh I know what you're talking about. I haven't had that for a while." Neptune was relived to hear her words. The black haired girl with the cat ears just stared in disbelief.
"Yang what are you talking about?" Said girl asked
"You've never had pudding Blake?" Yang asked but quickly changed. "Oh right, never mind."
"Glossing over why you want pudding so much, I don't think we have any here." Yang said after turning to face Neptune.
That was it. It was all over. Neptune collapsed onto the ground next to Noire. There's no pudding here; how could she go on? Pudding was her life! Maybe she could find some other food to fill the void, but it wouldn't be the same.
"There's probably some ingredients in the open kitchen if you want to make some." Yang sounded like she was trying to cheer her up.
Neptune stopped and stared at the words coming from the blonde. There was still hope after all! However one glaring flaw still remained.
"I kind of don't know how to make pudding." Neptune admitted to the floor.
"Ugh fine then. Come on Neptune I'll make some." Noire sounded irritated.
Neptune couldn't believe her ears. Was Noire actually trying to be nice to her? Was her inner tsun finally breaking down? Was it possible that Noire really cared for Neptune? All of this was lost upon her decision to tackle Noire in a hug.
"W-what are you doing Neptune?!" The twin tailed girl shrieked.
"Awww thank you so much Noire!"
Neptune continued to nuzzle the speechless Noire for several minutes until she heard someone clearing their throat.
"You two might want to umm, re-position yourselves. I wasn't expecting to see that much love or... uhh personal garments."
To say that the whole school heard Noire's screaming would be an understatement.
The quartet sans Noire was now sitting at one of the tables outside of the kitchen Noire was busy working in. The remaining three had decided to exchange information while they waited.
"So, Neptune was it?" Yang started. "Noire said that this is isn't the first time you've ended up in a different world."
"Well it's usually me not Noire. Protagonists luck and all." Neptune said like it was obvious.
"Umm alright then." This was weirder than dealing with Ruby on a sugar high.
"So what do you do in your world then?"
"You're talking to the one and only main character of the story! Murderer of monsters, heroine of harems, and consumer of Compa's delicious pudding!" It sounded like the lavender girl had rehearsed this speech before.
Before Yang could say anything, Noire poked her head and interjected her opinion. "That is only partly true. I wouldn't say you have a harem at this point."
Yang looked at Blake who just shrugged. "Is it that much weirder than us?" Yang thought for a minute. No they weren't too dissimilar. At least so far.
"Pudding is ready." Noire strolled in holding 4 cups of the dessert. "I made you two some as well."
"Thanks Noire." Yang said casually.
"I appreciate it but I'm not that hungry right now." Blake said with a slightly distracted gaze.
"Come on Blake, when was the last time you had pudding?"
Blake shot an blank stare at her. "Alright fine then, more for me."
The group broke conversation to eat their food. However Yang was too busy thinking of a way to get Blake to try the pudding. 'This is really good. How can she not like this?' Suddenly she had a bold idea. Carefully extracting a small amount of the food on her spoon she slowly made her advance. Blake was staring off absentmindedly as the spoon neared her face; she quickly turned her gaze upon Yang whose face switched from concentration to an apt imitation of Ruby's puppy face. Rolling her eyes, Blake took the bait and silently ate the pudding off the spoon. Yang focused on her expression and watched for the subtle hints that Blake did display. She offered Blake her own dish which had remained undisturbed and Blake quietly started eating. Yang was sure she caught a knowing glance from Noire but it might have been her imagination.
"Here Neptune, you can have the rest of mine." Noire pushed her half empty cup towards the purple girl.
"Yaaay! More pudding!"
"So Noire," Blake started after wiping her mouth with a napkin. "You seem a bit less... that." She gestured towards Neptune who was currently attacking the remaining pudding in front of her.
"Yes, out of all of us, Neptune is the one who is consistently crazy. Although some of us aren't too far behind."
"Well in that case you are probably better suited to explain what is actually going on." Blake reasoned.
"I can give you guys the quick version. Unless you want to be here for a few hours that is."
Yang gestured for her to continue.
"In our world, Neptune and I are CPUs; we each rule over our respective nations and are revered by our citizens. This faith which we call Shares gives us energy and can take physical form as a crystal. In addition to the two of us, there are Blanc and Vert. As for what we actually do, that really depends on the day and the person. My sister, Uni, and I spend our time doing political work and developing new technology. Blanc has her hands full with Rom and Ram, her younger twin sisters. Vert just plays MMOs and doesn't do work unless she needs to. Neptune here spends her time eating junk food and having her younger sister, Nepgear, cater for her." Noire finished with a slightly irritated tone and side glanced at Neptune.
"So it sounds like your world is pretty safe then." Yang said. Lucky them, they don't have to deal with grimm.
"Sort of. Most uncivilized areas have monsters running around but the guilds offer jobs to clear them out." Noire paused for a minute. "Occasionally we have a big problem like a terrorist group or similar evil group, but nothing like that has happened in quite a bit."
"We've got a similar situation here." Yang stated. "Outside of the four main kingdoms and a few towns, there isn't really anything. This world is full of grimm, evil monsters that seek negative emotions. Academies like Beacon train Hunters to go out and fight them."
Noire waited a minute and then remembered something from that morning. "You two said your teamates were gone right?"
Oh no. Yang had completely forgotten about her sister and the heiress. "Yeah my sister, Ruby, and her partner, Weiss. You guys were in their beds this morning."
Yang quickly pulled out her scroll and tapped Ruby's icon and selected the location feature. After a few seconds of loading it returned with 'Recipient Not In Service' and Yang started to get worried. Blake saw this and put her hand on Yang's shoulder.
'Don't worry, I'm sure they are fine."
"What's wrong?" Neptune finally chimed in.
Blake to the time to say Yang's thoughts for her. "Ruby's scroll isn't sending a signal back which means it's either broken or out of service."
"Ummm about that." Noire spoke uneasily. "If we woke up in their place, it might be reasonable to assume they are in the same situation."
Blake and Neptune spoke their fears at the same time.
"Weiss is not going to like that."
"I just hope Blanc doesn't hurt them, they sound fun."