Hey guys! StarWars here! Time for the second half of the Beacon Dance Arc! I really don't have anything else to say, so let's just get to it.
BGND: The Beacon Dance: Fun and Infiltrations
(Beacon Ballroom)
Patrick and Ruby were standing next to the refreshment tables, chatting about random stuff. So far, the Weapon Fanatics have had a few slow, which was just Patrick holding Ruby by her waist, Ruby wrapped around his neck (She wouldn't admit it, but the lady stilts did help in that regard) and just the two of them spinning slowly around the dance floor. They also danced to the more catchier songs, where Patrick really let his moves shine.
"Where on Remnant did you learn to dance like that?" Ruby said while giggling.
"Honestly, I just let my body move to the music," Patrick admitted, "And apparently it knows what it's doing."
The two of them talked for a bit before Jaune, who's wearing a suit that looks like His Beacon Academy uniform, but instead of a regular tie like Patrick, it has a bowtie, walked over to the refreshment tables.
"I see you're hiding at the punch bowl too." Jaune said as he approached the table.
"Not really," Ruby corrected the Blond Knight, "We're just tired from all the dancing. Patrick especially."
"Yeah, as much as I would like to keep dancing," Patrick stated, "My body needs to take a break."
"To Patrick's spontaneous dancing." Jaune declared as he raised his glass of punch to do a toast, which Ruby giggled and the three of them clink glasses.
"Sorry things didn't work out with Weiss." Ruby apologized to Jaune
"Meh, it's fine. Neptune's pretty 'cool'. I get why she went with him." That made Ruby raise an eyebrow.
"What do you mean?"
"Well, come on, not many people can pull off blue hair." Jaune then started to drink his punch
"No, I mean, Weiss came to the dance alone." The made Jaune do a spit-take.
"Man, people should not drink while they're talking to other people." Patrick commented as JNPR's leader was hacking up a lung.
"Uh, what?" Jaune asked the Red Reaper.
"Yeah, she's right over there." Patrick said as he pointed towards the Ice Queen, who was wearing a short, white, sleeveless dress in the same style as Ruby's but without the sash, and white pumps, and trying desperately to coax life out of a wilting white rose. She tried it a few times before giving up and looking visibly upset.
"Yeah, she said that she had too much to focus on to worry about boys." Ruby explained. Then the three of them heard laughter which drew their attentions to Sun, Blake and Neptune, laughing amongst themselves while the Hydrophobic was doing some impressions and other silly faces. Jaune growls at the sight
"Hold my punch." Jaune growled as handed his drink to Ruby and walks into the crowd. As soon as Jaune was out of sight, Ruby took a sip of his punch, which Patrick just snickers at that.
"So... Patrick." Ruby spoke up, trying to create another conversation, "I've been meaning to ask you sense the start of the year, why do you have so many weapons?"
"Well, being the Titanium Vigilante requires being able to adapt to each situation; if I need to be stealthy, I'll use the LaserMores. If accuracy is the key, I use Excalibattle Rifle. Scatter Master is for when I'm in close quarters. And Chain-Breaker is for when I can go all out.
"Ah... that makes a lotta sense." Ruby agreed as the two of them headed for the second floor, "So where did you get the inspirations for them?"
"Well, not only am I a Weapon enthusiast, I'm also a nut for a lot of things; Star Wars, video games, etc. So most of the inspiration came from my favourite things; Chain-Breaker's machine gun mode was based off the Z-6 Rotary Blaster Cannon from Star Wars and the hammer was based on the fact that my favourite in the Fable franchise is the hammer. A shame Lionhead studios went out of LaserMores' Plasma Sword mode was based off the lightsabers in Star Wars as well, but I can't call them lightsabers because that would be plagiarizing and I would rather not get sued by George Lucan. Excalibattle Rifle is based off the Battle Rifle in Halo series and that old Atlesian legend."
"King Arthur and Excalibur?"
"That's the one. And Scatter Master was based off the Shotgun in the Halo Series as well. What about you? Why a scythe? Not that I'm criticizing you or anything, I'm just curious, that's all."
"It's fine, I was going to tell you about anyway." Ruby said, "I was actually trained to use Crescent Rose by my Uncle Qrow. You see he's one of the few people in this world who know how to wield one effectively, and having a scythe is just so cool!"
"I'd imagine. It does help with the intimidation factor. I mean, I wouldn't wanna mess with someone with a huge honking scythe! I'd be running the opposite direction!"
Ruby just giggled, before noticing her sister looking over the party, "Hey Yang!"
Yang acknowledged that she heard her name, and looked over at the source, "Hey you two! Enjoying yourselves?"
"Yeah! You should've seen Patrick dancing, it was crazy!" Patrick blushed at that announcement.
"Oh I saw, and I've gotta agree." Yang then looks back onto the crowd, and Ruby and Patrick joined her, "You know? I think we really needed this."
"Yeah, and you did a great job planning it too!"
"Aw, thanks!" Yang took the compliment as she reached over gave her sister a one-armed bear-hug, causing the cookie menace to flail frantically and Patrick to chuckle at what he was witnessing, "It wasn't all me, though. Weiss did a lot too." This caused Ruby to stop struggling and look down at Weiss as Neptune approached her and rubbed his neck nervously. Weiss then invited him to sit with her. Yang then chuffed, "Tomorrow it's back to work."
"I'm sure we can handle whatever gets thrown at us." Ruby assured her sister before sudden fits of laughter and giggles drew their attention below. "Except for that."
They then noticed Jaune in a white dress with a blue ribbon, which Patrick couldn't help but start laughing, walking over to Pyrrha, who noticed the Blond Knight and the two of them exchanged giggles and then they started to dance and soon, the other members of JNPR joined in and started dancing a very well synched dance number together. As the dance was going on, if it wasn't attached to the rest of his skull, Patrick's jaw would be on the floor right now.
"I guess JNPR just trumped your spontaneous dancing," Yang smirked, "Gonna try and beat 'em?"
"No way am I gonna beat that!" Patrick declared, then stretched, "Well, tonight's been fun, but I think I'm gonna turn in."
"Yay, I'm feeling a little worn out out too." Ruby agreed, "Mind if I come with?"
"Sure." And with that, Patrick and Ruby headed for the door. However, as they exited the Ballroom, they noticed someone running on the rooftops. "Yeah... that's not suspicious." Patrick said sarcastically, "No, not at all." And with that, Patrick and Ruby started pursuing the figure.
(Beacon Tower)
Their pursuit led them to the CCT tower, where they see an unconscious Atlesian guard in the shrubbery outside the tower.
"Called me paranoid, they said." Patrick whispered to himself as he reached into his jacket and took out one of his LaserMores. He then checked the clip to make sure it was his Electricity Dust clip.
"Why did you bring those with you?" Ruby asked.
"Call it a gut feeling." Patrick said as he moved into the tower. Ruby called in Crescent Rose before she followed Patrick in. When they got inside, four more soldiers were on the ground in the same state as the one outside. Patrick decided to check their pulses, "OK, they're still alive. just unconscious. Good, I'd rather not have this be an international dispute over this." Once they reached the elevator, Patrick pressed the call button for the elevator.
"Where do you think they went?" Ruby asked the Vigilante.
"If I had to guess, I'd say the communications room. That would be the only reason why they would be visiting the tower." Patrick guessed as the elevator reached the ground floor. As soon as it opened, they saw two more Atlesian soldiers unconscious in the elevator, "I don't want to be standing on them, so... let's get them outta here." Ruby nodded as they pulled the Atlesians out of the elevator and out of any foot traffic should anyone notice the scene as well. After that, the Armoured Rose duo stepped into the elevator and rode it to the communications room.
When the elevator opened up to the communications room they found that no one was there, so Patrick walked in cautiously with his pistol raised.
"Hello?" Ruby asked as she walked in behind Patrick, but she stumbled a bit due to her high-heeled shoes, "Is anyone there? Hello?"
Then someone wearing black all over and a black mask over her eyes rose from behind one of the computer desks and walked towards the new arrivals. Patrick quickly used his Semblance to activate his helmet and take a picture of the masked stranger and take it off without anyone noticing. When he was done, he said, "I don't know what you're doing here, but the Tower is closed."
"Also, you know, it's not a masquerade party, so why don't you take off that-" Ruby added before the mysterious stranger summoned glass crystals from a cloud of dust before firing them at the weapon fanatics. Ruby reacted by using her scythe to block the shards so that they didn't hit her or Patrick. The two retaliated by firing a couple of rounds at the attacker, who blocked them with ease, before creating a couple of swords from midair. Patrick grabbed his other LaserMore, swapped them both to Plasma Sword mode and he charged at the intruder, along with Ruby who whipped Crescent Rose around and fired off a round which sent her upward and somersaulting down as the two of them attacked her. The assailant dodged the attack and put the swords together to create a bow and fired three arrows that exploded on impact with the floor, Ruby and Patrick got pushed back and The clocked huntress stumbled on her heels, but managed to hold her ground. Before they could retaliate, The elevator dinged, signalling that someone was coming up. Patrick and Ruby looked over to the elevator as it opened, revealing Ironwood coming out.
"Finally, some backup." Patrick said as he and Ruby looked over at the General, but when they looked back, the person they were fighting wasn't there anyone, "Oh, come on! Seriously?" He then deactivated his Plasma Swords, out them back in their holsters, looked back at the General and scratched the back of his head while nervously laughing, "We're in trouble, aren't we?"
"No, but you're most likely gonna have to tell Ozpin about what happened tonight." Ironwood told the Vigilante.
"Oh, OK. I think we can do that." Patrick said to the General before going to where Ruby was, who was just sitting on of the computer chairs, "Well... tonight was fun, we should do this again sometime, although without the intruder next time."
"Yeah..." Ruby agreed, "I'd like that."
They continued sitting there for a few more minutes, however neither of them notice the screens creating a Black Queen chess piece silhouette for a few seconds before disappearing.
And that was the Beacon Dance! Next time will be the Mountain Glenn Arc! I hope you guys like it so far! I'm trying my best to stay as close to canon as possible, so bear with me folks! We'll be through this before you know it. Also, I still need two more teams for the Vytal Tournament, so if you guys could be so kind and send me your Team Bios before I do the Breach chapter, that would be super! Also, I'm not planning on doing a chapter for RWBY Grimm Eclipse, but the events of Grimm Eclipse will be mentioned in the first chapter of Volume 3 though. So, That's all I have to say, StarWars out!