"Back on the road." Ruby says as they rode in the car.
Weiss smiles as she counts through their reward. "This can hold out a normal group for two weeks."
"Only two?" Yang asks as she drives.
Weiss nods. "No wonder no one took this job. But…we did get another reward out of this." She said looking back to Alex as he slept against Ruby while holding the sword.
"I am still uncomfortable with him holding it. It will hurt him badly if he even gets a scratch." Ruby says.
Blake hums. "Well, that's why we are heading back home and finding a weapons maker first thing and get it over with. He won't need it immediately so it can stay with them until they finish."
"So what next Ruby?" Weiss asks.
Ruby shrugs. "Don't know. Guess we just take another job when we have a chance."
"Word will spread though. Alex gained a power that obliterated two death stalkers and nearly crippled two others in sight of many with one barely missing it from his Kir cannon." Blake says.
Ruby looks down to Alex worried. "Well, what's the best way? I mean we can't keep him hidden forever."
"Can we still pass him off as your little brother?" Blake asks.
Ruby sighs. "I don't know now." She said rubbing his back as he slept.
"No one knows about him being a grimm but a select few so it is possible." Yang says.
"For a while. They would notice his powers and make a connection soon enough." Weiss said watching him.
"Then we keep them in the dark as much as possible." Blake says.
"That means we have to forget about bringing him along missions every once in a while and forget about taking him to a high population mission spot." Yang said thinking on what missions they can do.
"I am interested in what else he will gain." Weiss asks.
Ruby hums. "Maybe it will be simple, maybe it will be one where it knocks him out for using it."
"Could it be energy consumption?" Weiss asks.
Blake nods slowly. "Maybe. He does need energy from the grimm and darkness."
"With that much power, it has to burn energy quickly so I wonder if he uses the power he takes from grimm to enhance himself or was just using it to restore energy?" Yang asks.
"Could be both. He actually spent the energy from the first time just to speak fully to us without trouble." Ruby said.
"Now he has something that can be on par with Coco's weapon possibly." Weiss says.
"I wouldn't go that far. She did hit one in the balls before knocking it away." Yang said chuckling.
"Her minigun." Ruby clarifies.
Yang shrugs. "He still hit things."
"Like his aunt." Blake says.
Yang grins. "Dang straight."
"Yes and still not letting him get your semblance." Weiss says.
Yang gives them a hurt look. "Now why do you want to deny him a chance to learn all he can?"
"Because he can take a worse beating than you and even with only a fourth of your semblance efficiency and his power, we might lose a few towns." Blake says.
Yang raises an eyebrow. "Not without teaching him. We can teach him control."
"You, control?" Blake asks.
Yang smiles. "I am a great teacher."
"But you can't control yourself." Ruby says.
Yang tries to defend herself but didn't say anything and turns back to the road.
"This is a nice car. How much does it cost?" Ruby asks.
Yang clears her throat. "The week's pay and we still have to fill up the gas."
"I mean to own it?" Ruby asks crying a bit.
Yang blinks to her. "What?"
"How much to buy a car like this one?" Ruby asks.
Yang hums. "About twenty k for something simple. But it's trouble to deal with it."
"Long-term plan?" Ruby asks.
Yang nods. "We have to buy it and everything. Make sure we have no loans against us. Dad told me that you can go into bankruptcy just with interest alone."
"No thanks for loans." Blake says.
Yang nods. "We can't take chances with loans and everything. It would drain out whatever contract rewards we get. Best to stick with a rental for a bit until we build up enough for a new simple car and we can last up to ten years with it." She said getting looks. "Dad taught me ins and outs of big machines and how you are supposed to treat them. Like get a warranty for your washing machine, but not for your computer software. Money laundering assholes."
"What about your bike Bumblebee?" Ruby asks.
Yang shrugs. "Don't use it that much. Besides, I don't think he's ready for that yet."
"Oh, who are you kidding? I saw that new helmet." Ruby says.
Yang groans. "You have to hurt my mood huh?"
"You have permission to take him for a ride on it." Ruby says.
Yang grins now. "Thanks, Rubs."
"Just be back for dinner." Ruby says.
Yang chuckles. "Oh, the places we'll go."
"Taking him to that ice cream shop you always tell me about?" Ruby asks.
Yang nods. "Might as well treat him."
"Yang, watch the road." Blake reminds.
Yang chuckles as she looks back to the road.
"So Weiss, you know what culture the silver sword came from?" Yang asks.
Weiss hums as she looks over what they had. "No idea."
"It doesn't look like any sword I have ever seen either." Ruby says.
Weiss shrugs as she looks over the sword as well. "Me either."
"Oh, unknown." Ruby says starry-eyed.
"Ruby, calm down or no sweet chocolate for you." Yang said smirking.
"Alright." Ruby says rubbing Alex's hair.
Blake smiles to her. "You know, you became a great mother."
"I know." Ruby says.
Weiss sighs. "You know, maybe once he's rested up, we can give him really small ones. Get his own pay to do what he wants with it."
"We are getting him something." Yang says.
"Still, his own pay doesn't sound too bad. It'll be really small things he can do." Weiss suggested.
"Yeah, but not this time ok?" Blake asks.
Weiss nods. "Yeah, maybe later."
"Potholes ahead. Hold Alex." Yang informs.
Ruby grabs onto Alex and the car jumps a little. "Mommy…?" Alex mumbled.
"Right here." Ruby says making sure the sword didn't come out of its cloth.
Alex yawns and slowly looks up to her. "Is it over?"
"We are still driving home sweetie." Ruby says running her hand through his hair to send him back to sleep.
Alex sighs as he puts his head back down leaning against her. "Longer?"
"Yeah, get some more sleep sweetie." Ruby says.
Alex hums quietly as he closes his eyes again.
"He asleep again?" Yang asks.
Ruby nods as she rubs his back. "Yeah. He's asleep."
"Ok. I see somewhere to get food. Who is hungry?" Yang asks.
Blake raises her hand a bit.
"Backseat?" Yang asks.
"Here." Blake said quietly.
"Rub?" Yang asks.
Ruby sighs. "Sure. Why not?"
"Get something for Alex when he wakes up?" Yang asks.
Ruby nods. "We might as well get a doggy bag."
"We're back." Ruby calls.
Qrow looks up from his drinking. "Hey…how did it go?"
"We found something." Ruby says.
Qrow blinks. "What?"
"Silver sword." Ruby says.
Qrow stops. "What?"
"Ancient silver sword." Ruby says.
"Excuse me?!" Taiyang asks leaning into the room.
"You heard us." Ruby says holding up the sword.
"How…?" Qrow tries to ask as he takes a quick drink.
"It turns out the job involved us getting rid of grimm that were surrounding one of those sites where grimm congregate." Yang says.
"And the sword…?" Taiyang tries to pry.
"We took a look in the temple." Ruby says.
"Where's Alex?" Taiyang asks looking around.
"Weiss has him." Yang says.
"And the little guy is hungry." Weiss said walking in with Alex who was mindlessly eating out of a bag.
"What have we unleashed?" Blake asks.
Yang grins. "Hey. He's taking after me." She said a little giddy.
"Once more, what have we unleashed?" Blake asks.
Alex's only answer was to snack on another chip.
"How is your income again grandpa?" Qrow asks.
Taiyang groans. "Not good enough."
"Best start getting some more." Qrow says.
Taiyang groans in dismay.
"Also dad, you have friends that forge right?" Ruby asks.
Taiyang looks to her. "Yeah, what about it?"
"Can you get them to make a sheath for this?" Ruby asks holding up the sword.
Taiyang blinks. "Um…sure."
"Good. We want Alex to have a weapon of his own." Ruby says.
"Excuse me?" Qrow asks raising an eyebrow.
"What? We can't leave him so defenseless." Ruby says.
Taiyang hums. "I'll see what I can do."
"Are we seriously doing this?" Qrow asks.
Taiyang gives him a deadpan look. "Do you seriously want to argue with the girls who act like a mother to Alex?" He asks as Alex stares at Qrow as he kept eating.
"I…" Qrow stops seeing two weapons in his face.
Alex crunches on another chip. "Is the drunk so dumb?"
Qrow holds up his hands in surrender and backs off.
Ruby sighs in relief as she goes Alex and rubs his head. "Yeah, he is. Though he does have his moments."
"What use is he?" Alex asks.
Yang snickers at that as Ruby sighs. "Simply, historical advice."
"And how well is he at that?" Alex asks making Yang start to laugh.
Ruby smiles. "He's…passable."
"I like him more every minute." Taiyang says.
Qrow groans in distaste at that.
"Aunt Yang, are you sure we should be doing this?" Alex asks as Yang puts a helmet on him.
Yang grins as she puts hers on. "Of course. Mommy Ruby agreed to it so it's okay." She said making sure his helmet was on.
"Is it safe?" Alex asks as she cranks the engine after sitting behind her.
Yang smiles. "Of course it is. Now here's the important part."
Ruby bites her nails and makes a chattering sound as she watches from the window as Alex wraps his arms around Yang before she takes off at high speeds and makes Alex fly off before his shadows caught her again and were dragged through the air as Ruby yelps before fainting and fall to the ground.
"Should we have left them go like that?" Qrow asks watching from the couch.
"That's why I sent Blake on their case." Weiss said looking through some contracts she picked up.
"This is black cat calling." A walkie-talkie says.
Weiss smiles and flicks the switch. "This is white princess. What's the situation?"
"They just jumped on a ramp." Blake says.
Ruby yells as she jumps up and heads for the door and slams into it before falling to the ground. "What else?" Weiss asks.
"They stopped at an ice cream restaurant." Blake says.
Ruby sighs in relief at that. "Okay good. Anything wrong with Alex?" Weiss asks smiling at the show Ruby was putting on.
"No. Yang held on tight as she drove." Blake says.
Ruby sighs in relief as she slides down the wall. "Good. You can relax for now until they leave." Weiss said chuckling.
"…he has ice cream on his nose. It is too cute." Blake says.
Ruby giggles at that as Weiss smiles. "Easy kitty. Don't need to cuddle up and rub your tail against him. Just watch and relax and make sure Yang doesn't take him somewhere else."
"Huh? What did he just call Yang?" Blake asks confused.
Ruby looks up at that. "What is he saying?" Weiss asks.
"Did he just call Yang mommy?" Blake asks.
Ruby looks surprised. "Really?" She asks coming over next to Weiss.
"Yeah and Yang looks very happy." Blake reports.
Weiss smiles. "Anything else?"
"She doting on him." Blake says.
"Of course she is." Weiss said shaking her head amused.
"Ok looks like they finished and Yang is getting him on the bike again." Blake says.
"Please be careful." Ruby pleads as she paces anxiously.
"I can't keep up with them at that speed. I'm going to lose them." Blake says.
"Which way are they headed?" Weiss asks worriedly.
"East to the coast." Blake says.
Weiss groans as Ruby begins chewing on her teeth again. "Try to follow. You'll get them soon enough."
"So have a good day?" Yang asks as they sit on a cliff watching the sunset.
Alex nods and looks to her. "Thank you, mommy."
"Here." Yang says giving him some watermelon.
Alex takes it and starts to bite into it.
"This is the life right?" Yang asks holding him.
Alex nods and leans against her as he kept eating.
"My little boy." Yang says smiling.
"I'm sorry. Who's little boy?" Alex asks confused.
Yang smiles softly. "You are."
"Care to repeat that?" Ruby asks.
Yang stops and turns behind her. "Oh…Ruby."
"Uh huh." Ruby says waiting.
"Well, you see…" Yang starts trying to think up something.
"Mommas, please don't fight." Alex says.
Ruby stops and smiles. "Sure sweetie."
"Join for watermelon?" Yang offers nervously.
Ruby stares at her before smiling. "Okay. Move over." She said walking over and sits down beside Alex.
"So how did you know?" Yang asks.
Ruby smiles. "We've been tracking you."
"How?" Yang asks.
Ruby chuckles. "Secret." She sang.
"Why is aunt Blake hiding?" Alex asks.
Ruby looks at him surprised. "How did you know?"
"I can see her bow over there." Alex says pointing to a foliage very far away.
They both look over and sees Blake's bow disappear into the foliage. "It's over Blake." Ruby calls.
"Who are you talking to?" Blake asks behind them.
Ruby blinks and looks behind them. "Still good."
"How did you do that?" Yang asks.
Blake shrugs. "I just walked over here."
"But we just saw your bow…" Yang stopped noticing Blake was missing her bow.
Blake reaches up and feels around her head. "My bow?"
"Decoy?" Alex asks making her smile.
Blake chuckles. "Nice one Alex."
"What did you tie it to?" Ruby asks.
Blake smiles. "A branch."
"So you ok with both being his mother Ruby?" Weiss asks.
Ruby sighs. "Might as well. Can't keep him from calling us mommy every time."
"So why did you follow us?" Yang asks holding Alex close.
Blake smiles. "Weiss told me too. We have to make sure you don't hurt the little guy."
Yang just puffs her cheeks up in response.
"You're a good mommy." Alex said looking at her.
"At least someone has faith in me." Yang says.
"Good at breaking rules." Alex finished.
"And you will be too." Yang happily proclaims.
Ruby frowns. "No, he won't."
"Yes, he will." Yang says.
Ruby leans forward angrily. "No, he won't."
"He will." Yang says as Blake takes Alex without their notice.
Blake sighs. "They're going to be a while."
"Want to go to the beach?" Weiss asks walking to.
Alex nods as he looks back to Ruby and Yang arguing.
"Let's go have fun." Yang says.
"And teach you manners." Ruby said frowning.
"Good luck." Yang says.
Weiss shakes her head. "Come on guys. Let's go enjoy the day away." She said walking away.