"What the hell is with this thing, Old Rusty is right...HOW IS THIS THING NOT COVERED IN DUCT TAPE!" Sun shouted looking over Ruby's truck on orders from Yang; she wanted to see if the truck was still in working condition. To Sun's amazement this piece of junk was still running in its condition. He sighed before pulling out his phone and dialled Yang's number
"Hey Yang here" Yang's voice sounded on the other end of the phone
"Yo Yang, Sun here I finished checking out your sister's truck and well I would like to give her the report in person" Sun said
"Sure we'll be there in ten" Yang said
"Okay see you then" Sun said
"I've got a bad feeling about Ruby's truck" Yang said closing her phone, luckily Ruby was out of the room
"Don't you have a spare car?" Blake asked
"I don't have a, oh yeah I do. I keep it at Sun's garage because ours is full" Yang smiled
"You have an idea what to do with it don't you?" Blake raised an eyebrow
"Sure I do" Yang said grabbing the keys to her Skyline and a second set "Ruby hurry up"
"I'm here" Ruby said crashing into the wall while a brush was sticking out of her hair, the sight of this made Blake laugh out loud
"Yang, how can someone like you who cares extremely good care of her hair be related to a girl who has extreme bed-head?" Blake giggled.
"I have no idea, Ruby get over here" Yang ordered
"Okay sis" Ruby whimpered as Yang fixed Ruby's hair.
"I'll get the car warmed up" Blake said
"No way!" Yang said
"Just suggesting" Blake shrugged.
"You said ten, it's been twenty!" Sun said as the trio showed up "Where's Blake's Mazda?"
"At home they decided I got in the back"
"That's what you get for laughing at my bed hair" Ruby fumed.
"Any who, now I've given your Truck 'Old Rusty' a look over and I gotta say, it's time to him out to pasture. Even if you replace the parts you're looking at probably three months. I'm sorry, even though I'm good I'm not 'that' good. Best to see it to the scrapyard for some moolah and then try and find a new car" Sun said making Ruby upset
"It was dad's" Ruby said as Yang hugged her gently
"I know Rubes, but you know it's getting on a bit in age. Look we can try and buy him a new truck and sent it over to him when he gets back from that trip he's on" Yang said. Their father Akatsuki Xiao Long was an Archaeologist, so he spent eight out of twelve months on the road, that was spaced over weeks at a time, he gave Ruby Old Rusty when she got her license. It was his father's truck before it was passed to him before he passed it on to Ruby.
"I know, but he'll be devastated Grandpa Ryu gave him that" Ruby sighed
"You family Heirloom is a truck?" Blake asked
"Sort of" Yang said.
"I know an old friend of mine who restores near dead vehicle and turns them into display cars, maybe he can do something for you" Blake said softly
"Thanks" Ruby said.
Yang smiled at her little sister, even though there was some confusion and whisperings that Ruby was Yang's half sister the truth was more simple. Yang was born soon after her parents were married, but instead of changing her name Akatsuki convinced Summer to keep her maiden name and that their second daughter inherit Summer's last name. So she could see the reason why people thought they were half sisters. She suddenly remembered something
"Hey Ruby, I want to show you something" Yang said slinging an arm around her sister's shoulder
"What?" Ruby asked as she was pulled over to a section of the garage that had a covered car. Yang walked over to the cover and pulled it off revealing a bright red Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX. on the sides it had an elliptical like explosion shape in black with a rose cut out of it.
"Whoa is that an Evo IX?" she asked.
"Yep, but not just any Evo, its yours" Yang commented chucking the keys at Ruby who caught them surprised
"But" Ruby started
"Look I kept this car as a spare for when my beauty gets repaired, but now that your here you can use it" Yang said, making Ruby smiling as she ran her hands over the car's surface feeling the car's potential, closing her eyes as she ran her hands over the hood to try and get a sense of its raw power.
"Thanks Sis" Ruby said hugging Yang with enthusiasm and love
"You're welcome little sis" Ruby said affectionately, clearing showing how much she missed her little sister. But then the moment was ruined by the sound of an engine approaching the garage.
Driving in as a pink 2006 Mazda MX-5 with magic themed Vinyls, on the front bumper under the headlights going outside inwars were the card suites in this order: Hearts, Clubs, Diamonds, Spades. On the door vinyls were a set of aces surrounded by a light purple being thrown into a magician's hat. The engine stopped and out stepped a cute teal eyed ginger girl, she wore a pink skirt with black and white checks down the sides. A white tank top and a black vest.
"Yo Sun mind if I borrow a lift?" the girl said
"Standard fees apply" Sun said as the girl paid Sun "You got what you want?"
"Yeah, just tires and oil. There in the boot" the girl said pulling out two racing tires and a bottle of motor oil before noticing
"Oh hey Yang, Blake. And who is this cutie?" the girl asked
"What's up, Nora this is my sister Ruby. Ruby meet Nora"
"Hey, I'm Ruby" the youngest said
"Nora" the ginger said.
"Okay Ruby, Nora's kind of our go to girl from audio from music to engine sounds Nora's our crew's expert. She works at the local radio station during the school's lunch period where she will play student's request. However don't request Gangnam style. Nora walked in on it being played before her shift." Blake explained
"What happened?" Ruby asks a bit afraid.
"Nothing bad" Nora said as she used a lift to raise her car up enough to get under it with an oil pan on a trolley to drain the old engine oil out of her 2L straight four cylinder engine "Just stopped it mid song and said 'Nope, nope, no more gangnam style while I'm on air.' But afterwards I play Braveheart by Neon Jungle to soothe some ruffled feathers" Nora said
"Oh trust me it was more than ruffled feathers you had complaints" Yang laughed as she saw Blake lower the garage doors "Blake?"
"One of them was out there" the black cat Faunus said
"Which one?" Sun asked going to a red cabinet and pulled out a sawn off shotgun
"All I saw was a gunmetal grey car with some chrome vinyls!" Blake said
"Mercury, that's all we need" Sun said as Yang pulled out a pair or MMA gloves and strapped them on
"Ruby stay here" Yang said as Nora placed a hand on Ruby's shoulder.
"What's going on?" Ruby asked.
"Mercury Black from the sounds of things, one of Torchwick's racers" Nora said
"Wait Torchwick as in Roman Torchwick?" Ruby asked.
"Ruby, where...where did you hear that name?" Yang asked nervous that her sister would have known that scumbag
"He threatened mum once when she was at work Torchwick said that he would need any Vicodin they had, only Mum told him to buzz off; I was there that day bringing mum some lunch, only whne I got there I saw mum standing firm and not blinking while that asshole pointed a revolver at her. Luckily it was the day our uncle was visiting so he scared off Roman." Ruby explained "OS how do you know him?"
"He runs some of the crime around here namely racing and narcotics, though he slowed down on the narcotics he now organises highly dangerous kinds of races, his crew is the second biggest" Yang said
"Who's the biggest?" Ruby asked.
"Ours" Blake said as they heard a car drive off
"He's gone" Sun said walking over to his gun cabinet while Nora opened the doors, only for a white 2013 Chevy Corvette C7 Stingray in teh drive way.
"Is everyone okay?" the Stingray's driver asked, she had long white hair pulled into a offside pony tail, she was wearing a pair of faded blue jeans, a cyan top underneath an opened white blouse.
"We're okay Weiss" Blake said hugging the white haired girl
"I saw him leaving so I thought I should check in" Weiss said hugging Yang
"Thanks Weiss" Sun said bumping fists with her.
"Yo Nora!" Weiss shouted as Nora replaced the tire on one of her rims "NORA!"
"What?" Nora asked shutting the machine off so she could hear "Oh hey Weiss"
"You okay?" Weiss asked
"Yep, I'm good" Nora said making Weiss sigh before noticing Ruby "And who's is this?"
"Weiss meet Ruby, Yang's little sister" Blake said as Ruby offered her hand to Weiss
"Ruby, as in Ruby Rose I've heard about you, a young teenager who skipped two grades at Haven Secondary school, who transferred over here" Weiss said
"Yep that's right, but how did you know?" Ruby asked
"Mum's on the school board" Weiss said as she saw Old Rusty "What a beauty" Weiss said admiring the truck
"Well its not got a lot of life left in it so I thought that it should" Sun said before a shoe came down on his tail.
"Sun Wukong! You are not junking this truck, do you know how much this could be worth if I let my father's mechanics work on her" Weiss exclaimed
"I was going to say I thought that it should go to an old mate of my to be restore for a display truck" Sun said cradling his tail
"Oh" Weiss said noticing the Evo
"Yang why is your Evo IX uncovered?" Weiss asked
"It's not mine any more" Yang laughed.
"So you think you can handle her?" Weiss asked as Ruby started it up throwing a smile at the white haired girl before driving off.
"Oh yeah she can handle it" Yang laughed as she and Blake got into her Skyline as Weiss pulled her Corvette into the garage.
"What's up?" Sun asked as Weiss exited her car and walked over to the owner and the DJ "I knwo that look"
"There's a race on this weekend and I'm running in it, so I want to make sure my car's running at optimum" Weiss said pulling out her laptop and hooked it up to the car's ECU.
"All right" Sun said walking off.