AN: Thanks to everyone who read the first chapter of this fic. Here's chapter 2.
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Weiss spent the next half hour or so testing out what this new ability of hers could do. So I can move a couple small objects or a large object, like a chair, Weiss thought to herself but if I try too hard, like moving too many objects or something really big, I feel winded and weak. She was torn out of her thoughts by the buzzer on the intercom going off, indicating someone was at the gate and wanting in. Walking over to the intercom, she answers the call, surprised to see Blake there, an exhausted look on her face.
"Blake? What are you doing here? How did you get away from him?"
"I'll… kind of explain when I get in. It's hard to explain and even I don't understand it entirely" Weiss nods and ends the communication, opening the gate to let her friend in. A bit passes before she hears the door open and her butler greet the guest.
"Miss Taurus, We were not expecting you this evening." She hears Klein say from down the hall.
"Please Klein just call me Blake or if you have to, Miss Belladonna" Blake says for what feels like the millionth time.
"My apologies, Miss Belladonna. Miss Schnee is in her room. I assume she let you in?" Blake nods. "Can I get you anything? I believe we restocked the tea you like at the order of Miss Schnee."
"That sounds great Klein. Thank you" He nods and heads off. Blake takes the familiar path to her friend's room and knocks.
"It's open Blake." Opening the door she sees Weiss sitting at her desk, a spare chair already in the room, situated near the desk. Probably from when she expected me to come tonight. Blake thought as she took the seat. "Wasn't expecting you to come tonight. I thought Adam had you on lockdown."
"He does but... something happened that allowed me to come."
"Please don't tell me you finally snapped and killed him."
"Tempting as that may be no." Blake says with a laugh "I… I don't even know how to begin to explain it. Something happened to me." She stands up and walks over to the decorative wall, leaning against it. "I need you to promise me you won't freak out."
"Blake I'm your friend, of course, I won't freak out," Weiss assures her. Blake nods and closes her eyes and focuses. Weiss' eyes widen as she sees Blake seem to disappear into the wallpaper. "Blake where did you go?"
"I'm right here." She hears the wall where Blake stood speak. Staring harder she sees the form of Blake, her skin and clothes having changed color to match the wallpaper. "What the…"
"I know right?" Blake steps out from the wall and soon her color turns back to normal. "I don't know how it happened but I was in my room reading after sending you those texts when suddenly I had this ability. I was hoping we could maybe figure out what happened together."
Similar to what happened to me. Weiss thought. But a different ability. "Did you eat anything weird recently?"
Blake shakes her head "Nope. Nothing out of the ordinary. Crappy school food mainly. I did buy some food with the check the state sent Adam."
"And that's why he had you on lockdown… again?"
"Yea. But I didn't get a chance to eat any of it."
"This is really weird. Alright before I continue I need to show you something." Weiss points to her phone that was sitting on the bed. "Watch that." Blake does so and sees as the phone seems to rise up slowly and float towards Weiss' outstretched hand, floating until she grabbed it.
"How did you do that?"
"I don't know. Like you I suddenly had the ability to move objects with my mind."
"That's… I was going to say weird but I'm suddenly the human chameleon." Blake says with a laugh, which Weiss reciprocates.
"No trust me there's nothing normal about this. We need to figure out what's going on. We can't tell anyone about this… Not even…" she's interrupted by another buzz at the intercom. Another surprise guest? Who could it be this time? Blake activates the intercom, since she's closer to it.
"Ruby? What are you doing here?" She hears Blake say. Nearing the intercom she sees the energetic redhead standing at the gates, a look of worry on her face, trying to catch her breath.
"I need to talk to you guys I think I'm going crazy everything was normal and fine but now it's not and I don't know what's going…" Ruby begins to ramble.
"Ruby calm down. What's going on?" Weiss interrupts, more than used to the redheads rambling
"I don't even know, but something happened to me. I'll explain when I get in." Weiss opens the gate and ends the connection.
"Klein Ruby is coming up to the…" she begins to shout
"Miss Rose? Was Miss Schnee expecting you?" she's interrupted by Klein speaking down the hall how the heck did she get to the door so fast? I didn't see her parents' car there. Weiss looks to Blake who has a similar look of confusion.
"Kind…of Klein. She wasn't expecting me but she did answer the intercom." She hears Ruby reply.
"I understand. They are up in the bedroom Miss Rose. Do you need anything? A glass of milk as usual?"
"You know me too well Klein" Ruby says with a chuckle. "Thanks." Shortly afterwards there is a knock at the door.
"Ruby it's open" the door opens revealing the redhead, a smile on her face.
"Hey guys. What's up?"
"We were… doing our homework before you interrupted." Weiss answers. "And we'd like to continue."
"I thought you said you guys were almost done with that at lunch today?" Ruby asked
"Besides I… need to show you guys something" she pulls out her phone, makes a few taps, and hands it to Weiss. Taking the phone she sees Ruby run, disappear, and reappear a few feet away.
"I don't have time for your shoddy editing skills Ruby."
"That isn't editing Weiss. That actually just happened today." Weiss gives her a skeptical look "Look you have security cameras here right?"
"Of course I do."
"Look at the footage from when I showed up. That will prove I'm not crazy… kind of… maybe."
Weiss rolls her eyes and pulls up the security cameras on her PC. Rewinding slightly she sees Ruby step through the gate, then start running. Shortly after she disappears, reappears closer to the door, disappears again, and reappears at the door. "It's a glitch in the system. Has to be" I say as I have telekinesis and Blake is a freaking chameleon.
"Fine I'll show you but I need some room."
"Let's go outside. We'll meet you there in a sec Ruby." Blake suggests. Ruby nods and darts out. Blake turns to Weiss "You don't actually think it's a glitch do you?"
Weiss shakes her head "No but I hope so. Otherwise all 3 of us have gained some sort of power. And given how they're completely different from each other…"
"Figuring out what caused them is a million times harder?"
"Exactly." Suddenly Ruby reappeared in the doorway.
"You guys coming?"
"Yes you dolt." Weiss snapped soon the 3 went to the expansive backyard behind the Schnee manor. "Alright Ruby show us this 'cool new power' you've developed." Ruby positions herself so the path she runs is right across her friend's field of vision.
"Alright watch." And she takes off. Shortly after she starts running she disappears before Weiss and Blake's eyes, reappears a few feet down the grass, disappears again, and reappears again before coming to a stop, and slowly walking back up to them, winded.
"I can only do that about twice in quick succession before I run out of breath. But if I keep at it I might be able to do it more than that." The two stare at their friend for what feels like an eternity, before Weiss finally speaks up.
"When did you discover this?"
"Earlier today. I saved a kid from getting hit by a truck." Weiss nods before pinching the bridge of her nose "Did I do something wrong? I know you don't like it when I show up uninvited but I figured you'd know something about this. I mean you're the smartest girl I know."
"Hey" Blake says, faking being offended.
"And you're the second smartest Blake" the 3 share a laugh before Weiss sighs and puts a hand on Ruby's shoulder.
"No you didn't do anything wrong. While I don't appreciate you showing up without any warning… AGAIN, I'm glad you came to us instead of anyone else. Cause" she pauses for a sec "we're in a similar boat."
"Wait you two can teleport to? Cool!"
"Not exactly." Blake corrects "It'll be easier to show you back in the house." The three make their way back to Weiss' room. Once there Blake takes her position at the wall again. "Alright now watch" Ruby's eyes widen as she sees her friend seemingly disappear. Walking up to where Blake was, she pokes her in the arm. "Hey!" she steps out from the wall, like before her skin taking a second to return to its normal color.
"So you can blend in with your environment?" Ruby asks, to which Blake merely nods "COOL! I mean you kind of did that already but now you can be super sneaky"
"I'm glad you're taking this so seriously."
"Hey I mean it's not every day you discover you and your two best friends have superpowers! This feels like a comic book origin story" Ruby's basically bouncing up and down on Weiss' bed in excitement, but is suddenly stopped in mid-air. Realizing she isn't on the bed she looks up to see Weiss extending her hand out, before lowering it slowly down. She also feels herself slowly lower back onto the bed, landing on it with a soft plop.
"Please don't jump on my bed dolt" Weiss states, struggling for breath. "Remember what happened last time?" she points up to where there is a patch in the ceiling, where she made a hole with her head.
"Sorry Weiss. Wait how did you do that?"
"That's my 'superpower' as you put it." Weiss explains "I have telekinesis."
"Telekiwhat?"
"She can move objects with her mind."
"Yes and stopping Ruby like that drained me" Weiss says bending over in her chair.
"Look Ruby we can't tell anyone about any of our abilities" Blake puts a hand on her shoulder "Not even Yang."
"But I tell her everything. Always have"
"I know Ruby. But we don't want this getting out. Who saw you save that kid this afternoon?"
"My mom, the truck driver, and maybe a few other people from the party."
"We'll deal with that if it comes up. But Ruby you have to promise us you won't tell people." Weiss says sitting back up.
"Yea I know. The government might take us and do experiments and stuff. Trust me I won't tell anyone." Suddenly Ruby's phone goes off. "It's a text from Yang."
Yang: Hey sis you have a minute? I just got on break and I need to tell you something.
Ruby: I'm over at Weiss' but sure. Soon her phone starts ringing and she picks it up. "Hey sis what's up?"
"Oh my god Ruby I know this might be hard to believe but… I think I have super strength."
Ruby's eyes widen, she was not expecting that. "You gained super strength?" Weiss and Blake look up when Ruby says that, Weiss motioning for Ruby to put Yang on speaker.
"You're on speaker Yang. What do you mean by you gained super strength?" Weiss asks.
"Well I was lifting this keg at work and it was so heavy and crap and suddenly it felt a million times lighter. Afterwards whatever I lifted felt light as a feather. Although when I haven't tried anything heavier than 2 kegs and after that I felt winded."
"You sure the kegs weren't empty?" Blake asked
"Oh hi Blake. No they were full. They were capped still." They hear a young man say something to Yang off the other side. "Look my food's ready so I'm going to go eat. I'll talk to you guys tomorrow."
"Have a good night Yang love you." Ruby hangs up the phone. "Do we need to keep it a secret from her now? She's in the same boat we are."
"I guess not. Why us though? And why did these powers appear now?"
"No idea" Blake says standing up. "But I'd best get back. Adam should be passed out but I'd rather not risk staying longer than necessary. Unless you need help with the project Weiss?"
Weiss shakes her head "no it's been done for a while. I was mostly tinkering with somethings. I'll show you tomorrow before class." Blake nods and leaves. Weiss then turns to Ruby "You need to be back anytime soon?"
"Mom said to text her when I was done here. I can leave if you need to though."
"Well given how we were supposed to have a study session that was cancelled due to the party and how you're here now" Weiss says with a sly grin as she pulls out a text book.
"OH COME ON!" Ruby complains. "Alright. Don't know how I'm going to focus with all that is going on though."
"You'll manage."
Slipping the key into the lock, Blake slips back into the house. Closing the door quietly, she quickly activates her power, slipping past the unconscious Adam and into her room. Thank goodness he's unconscious. She starts in on her math homework before a knock on her door interrupts her. Opening the door she sees Adam there, a glare on his face, his hand holding up some of the food from the grocery store Blake went to earlier that day.
"Care to explain this?"
"I got groceries before you came home. Nothing to explain."
"How'd you pay? You get that spoiled princess friend of yours to pay for it?"
"She's not a spoiled princess." Blake snaps at him "And why do you care? It's not like you provide food."
"Well I find it funny how my check from the state goes missing and there's food I sure as hell didn't purchase here. So if I were to guess you used the money to buy the food." Blake merely stares at him, not replying. "You'd better hope that check arrives sooner rather than later Blake. Or I'll make sure you pay for every cent missing. I'm leaving. Don't think cause I'm gone you can leave. You are still on lock-down woman."
AN: Another chapter down. Hope you guys are enjoying this fic so far. (Yes I know some might be waiting on A Rose by Any Other Name Ch 11 but that will be going up soon, it's finished I just need to put some touches on it and it will be g2g.)
