Hey there! :) I'm writing this chapter right after posting the last one so I'm hoping I'll be able to finish it pretty quick. :D
Thanks to all of you who gave me some support, I was amazed at how many people had read chapter 3 in just under an hour, I'm really grateful so thanks!
Without further ado, here is chapter 4! :)
"Murray?" Bentley called out from his office.
"Yeah bud?" Murray came around the corner to see Bentley tinkering with some electronics on his desk, it almost seemed like he was building something.
"How fast can the team van go?"
"Umm like if I floor it?" Murray scratched his head.
"Yeah, if you 'floor' it," Bentley asked politely.
"Well about 150 kilometres per hour… I think." Murray seemed unsure.
"Excellent! This may seem cheesy and parodic, but with this gadget I'm making if we hit 140 kilometres per hour we'll be able to pull off a Delorean and end up where Sly is!"
Murray scratched his head, "What's a Delorean?"
"You know? From that time travel movie? Marty McFly?"
"Uuuuuuhhh…"
Bentley straightened his back a little and took off his glasses and made his eyes go wide, "Great Scott!"
Murray looked to Bentley with confusion on his face, "Is that like kind of food or something?"
Bentley got discouraged and went back to work on his gadget. "Yeah… it's food…"
"Gotcha! Thought you could run from me did you?" Ruby exclaimed.
"How did you? Just now? That fast?" Sly was flabbergasted. He came from a long line of master thieves and here he was, pinned down by a little girl with black and red hair and a red cape.
Ruby shifted slightly so she could sit down but keep Sly pinned. "You better give Cresc…" Ruby's voice died down as she got a good look at Sly, her face had "confused" and "curious" written all over it.
"Are… you a rare type of Faunus?" Ruby asked timidly, unsure if her question was offensive to the Faunus.
"I'm uh… not sure what a Faunus is," Sly replied.
Ruby observed Sly a little closer, "You're like some weird Raccoon man animal thing?"
Sly looked at Ruby with a cocked eyebrow. "Sure we can go with that." He chuckled. "The name's Sly, Sly Cooper. I'd shake your hand but I've been pinned down by a little red Riding hood," he said with a smile.
"Oh sorry!" Ruby stood up and extended a hand to Sly, both as a greeting and to help him up. "Ruby, Ruby Rose," she said with a smile.
Sly grabbed her hand firmly and accepted the help to get up. "Nice to meet you Ruby. So just a quick question, why did you tackle me to the ground?" He laughed a little to make sure the question didn't feel too direct.
"It's just you found my Crescent Rose and I wanted it back." Ruby shifted on her feet, "sorry about tackling you… I thought you were the bad guy and I can get kinda excited about taking down bad guys." she looked at the ground and rocked back and forth on her boots.
"Don't worry about it, it's fine I get excited sometimes too," he chuckled.
"So um… can I have Crescent Rose back now?" Ruby said while she looked at him.
"Is that this thing?" He unslung Crescent Rose from his back and held it out to Ruby.
"Yeah that's the one!" She ran up to Sly grabbing Crescent Rose in her hands and hugged the monster weapon with a giddy look plastered on her face.
"You uh..." He looked at Ruby, who had been fawning all over Crescent Rose, "...really like that thing don't you?"
"Of course! It's a huge scythe and a high impact sniper rifle in one! I couldn't decide which I wanted the most so I just kinda combined both." Ruby spoke with a childlike vigour he had never seen in anyone.
"So basically it's also a gun?" Sly grinned.
"Yeah pretty much," Ruby smiled at Sly as she attached Crescent Rose onto her back.
"That's pretty cool! Where do you buy a weapon like that?" He asked while he thought about how Bentley would've reacted to such technology.
"Buy it?" Ruby shook her head, "I didn't buy it silly. I made it!" Ruby laughed a little and made a small snort.
Sly was thoroughly surprised. He had been friends with Bentley ever since the orphanage, he had invented so many awesome gadgets, managed to make a time travel machine, and even make trans dimensional and trans time communicators. But Bentley had never created a weapon like Ruby's.
Sly shook his head to stop himself from getting lost in his thoughts. "You would get along really well with a friend of mine, he's also an inventor. He makes all sorts of cool gadgets."
Ruby shook her head "No no I'm not an inventor, everyone who goes to combat school makes their own weapons," she said casually.
"There's more wea..."
Sly is cut off as a voice in the distance reaches them. "Rubes! Wait up!" A blonde girl in the distance waved to them.
Ruby turned around and waved back to the blonde "That's Yang, my sister. She's really nice. Why don't you come meet the rest of team RWBY?" Ruby turned around to see nothing but thin air where Sly was just a moment ago. "Where did he...?"
"Hey sis! You found Crescent Rose!" Yang said with a smile, "told you ya would!"
"Yang did you see someone here just now?" Ruby was confused, now unsure if what she saw was real.
"Uh no just you Sis, why, did you?" Yang looked around, half cautious in case some Grimm were lurking around.
Ruby looked around one more time to make sure "I guess not..." Ruby followed her sister as they made their way out of the forest.
Was that real? Ruby thought, it must've been, he talked, I tackled him. But... How did he disappear into thin air like that? Ruby pondered this for a small time. That's when she saw something blue sticking out of the leg of her boot. She reached down and pulled out a small calling card. It was white and the top half was blue, it had eyes and ears, kind of like a raccoon.
Ruby smiled to herself. He is real.
This took longer than I thought to write :P sorry about that. I'll be trying to dedicate more time to work on these chapters so I can deliver more content for you guys & girls.
Thanks again to all those who take the time to read my work and leave reviews. Seeing the reviews does inspire me to keep writing and they do help when you have suggestions and comments about my work here.
Thanks again! I'll see you all in the next chapter :)
-Alexi1138
