Chapter 10 How do I Teen?
"Miss Six, please do me a favour, Stop coming here!" A very frustrated Nurse cried as Six came to. Six looked around, she was in the hospital with a very worried looking Red head sitting next to her.
"Six your awake!" She cried, pulling the Spartan into a hug, Six smiled and took the hug. However, once the hug was over she turned to look at Locasta.
"Why am I in here this time?" The Spartan asked, admittedly Six knew full well what the answer was but it wouldn't hurt to get it confirmed.
"Your diet is terrible."
So that was real...
"How terrible and what do I need to do to improve it?" Six asked, pulling her shirt up to examine her stomach, and getting quite a surprise when she saw just how thin she was.
"Very, I ran a check on your stomach and it was lacking in basically every group, care to explain to me why it looked like you've been eating basically nothing?"
Six couldn't give one, after her binge session just before the food fight she'd tried to return her diet to what a Spartan usually lived off of, forgetting that UNSC ration packs where enhanced and could give a person far more than they should have been able to.
Six felt ashamed, she'd made such a basic mistake and apparently alarmed Ruby by the expressions the girl was giving her.
"That's what I thought, look I know you girls like to dress up for the dance, but its not worth ytour health to slim down quickly."
Six just looked at the Nurse baffled.
"Wait what, you think I did this intentionally? Is this what normal people do?" Six asked, the Nurse gave her stink eye before replying.
"I have no other motive for you barley eating and its not the first time. Also no its not normal for people to do, why are you asking?"
"Because I didn't know the dance was a thing until last night, I just... the food back home, it went further..." Six muttered, still feeling the shame that she'd forgotten this vital detail. The Nurse looked at her; possibly trying to see if the girl was lying, apparently concluding that she wasn't Locasta shook her head.
"Six if you think what you've done to yourself these last four months was normal than your home... Well lets say I wouldn't go there." She said, sympathy in her eyes for a second before she walked off to go deal with someone else.
Six looked up at Ruby, who's silver eyes still seamed concerned. Six was about to ask something before she was interrupted by Locasta calling.
"You can leave by the way, go to dinner and get some food in your belly!"
Six nodded, then tried to get up, unfortunately for her she was still week and could hardly stand, forcing herself against the wall; her legs wobbling like crazy as they struggled to support her.
Just as she was about to fall Ruby caught her, getting one of Six's arms around her shoulder and taking most of the girls weight of her legs.
"Thanks." Six said, looking at the younger girl who just smiled.
"Its fine; now come on, you need food! And milk, make sure you get lots of milk."
"I will!" Six laughed as she staggered down the corridor, letting Ruby do the steering as the pair made there way towards the food hall.
"Hey Ruby..." Six slowly said as they made there way towards the hall.
"Yeah Six?" The girl asked, her eyes turning to look at the Spartan, who could just about keep her head up to meet them.
"You're the leader of team RWBY right?"
"Erm, yeah; what does that have to do with a anything?"
"How do you do it?"
Ruby stopped an opportunity that Six used to slump onto the ground, her aching legs getting a quick bit of relief.
"What do you mean?"
"I mean... How do you know what to do? How do you know how to react when things go wrong?"
Ruby looked at Six for a few seconds before saying:
"I don't, I've just made mistakes and tried to do better, its all I can do."
"What do you mean?" Six asked as Ruby sat down next to her.
"Well for example I wasn't the best leader at first, I didn't take it seriously and was more interested in goofing off than doing what I was supposed to do." Ruby said, Six couldn't help but remember a crude doodle she'd once seen the girl doing labelled 'Professor Poop.'
"So, what changed?"
"Er, Simple; Professor Ozpin helped me put everything into perspective?" Ruby answered, Six nodded; it added up. Ozpin seamed to be good at doing that.
"Okay, so what did he say?" Six asked. Ruby's response was simpler than she was expecting.
"That it wasn't just about me anymore, I've always been good when it comes to being a Huntress, but I never realised I could drag my friends down with me by not doing my best, so I worked harder for them." She looked at Six, a questioning look in her eyes.
"Why did you want to know?"
Six smiled weekly.
"I was just thinking what Carter would have told me to do if he was here."
"Who?" Ruby asked, thinking for a split second that she'd heard Six say 'Cardin'
"Carter; he was the leader of Noble Team, I was just wondering how he'd react to learning I'd starved myself when food was easily available..."
Ruby smiled.
"I can't say for certain, but I know if I was your team leader I'd tell you to eat properly!"
Six smiled.
"I think your right Ruby, I think your right."
...
"Are you sure you want to do this?" Pyrrha asked, looking across the table at the Spartan, Six nodded, her teeth gritted in determination.
"Yes."
"But, but, no one has ever done this!" Jaune cried, looking at the insane girl who was about to attempt the impossible.
"There's always a first time." Six responded.
"Enough talk!" Nora cried, standing up and pointing dramatically at Noble Six.
"Noble Six, you accept my challenge?!"
The Spartan nodded.
"I do." She said with a grin, her stomach growling as she looked at the orange haired challenger.
"Then let the challenge begin!" Nora cried as she sat down and pulled the stack of pancakes towards her, Six did the same. Her goal was simple; devour more pancakes than your opponent without throwing up or heading to the bathroom.
The two ate like there lives depended on it, both of them seaming to inhale the pancakes, Six was currently ahead because she wasn't bothering to add syrup or sugar, she was just eating them straight up.
Weiss who was watching interested from the sidelines looked at Ruby and muttered:
"When Nurse Locasta said she needed to eat better I don't think this is what she meant."
Ruby just shrugged in response.
"Oh come on Weiss what's the worst that could happen?" Yang asked, before yelling: "Come on Nora I have 500 Lien on you!"
...
"What do you mean your out of pancakes!" Nora cried grabbing the poor Chef by his lapels and shaking him a mad glint inn her eye and sugar plastered to her pace.
"You ate them all!" He said, shaking in fear as Six readied her hammer behind Nora.
"I think he's lying, they must have more!"
"We really don't! EEP!" He squeaked as Nora pulled him further over the counter and the hum of Six's hammer got noticeably louder.
"I refuse to believe two teenage girls ate all the pancakes inn a school that holds three hundred students, ergo you must have more and believe me if your hiding them I will make you suffer."
"I s,s,swear we don't!"
Six and Nora looked at each other.
"I'm breaking his legs." Nora declared.
Thankfully for the Chef he was spared this fate by Jaune who had vaulted over the counter and grabbed some syrup and quickly said:
"Drink these!"
The two pancake crazed girls looked at him, so Jaune quickly elaborated.
"Look they don't have more pancakes, but you can drink these instead and keep the match going!" He said, really hoping this plan worked.
"That is expectable." Six commented.
"You may live, for now." Nora said, giving the Chef the stink eye as the two walked of.
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3 hours later.
...
"This was a mistake!" Nora cried from her cubical before doubling over and bringing up more pancakes.
"Yes, yes it was!" Six cried in the split second she had before hauling more up.
"Really Six? You left an hour ago!" Locasta cried, looking in exasperation at the Spartan and Nora.
"Please I just want something for indigestion... and an upset stomach." Six said, the smell of her breath made the Nurse's nose wrinkle as she breathed it in.
Sighing the Nurse stood up and pulled the bottles out of the cabinet and threw them at the pair.
"Take them and for the love of crap brush your teeth, you leave that on them and they'll rot."
"So not thinking of entering another eating contest?" Yang asked, a smirk on her face as she looked at the Spartan who nodded.
"Never again... Ever." The Spartan said thinking back on the previous days fiasco.
"Shame, still though I'm impressed you took in what you did, fifty nine pancakes each and ten bottles of maple syrup, that's an impressive amount to go through."
Six just nodded, she still felt bloated. She wondered if now was the best time to get a dress fitted, oh well she'd agreed to do it and she was pretty sure most of what she ate was now in the Vale Sewer system as opposed to in her.
The two sat quietly for a second before Yang started talking again.
"So any idea what kind of dress you'd like?"
Six shook her head.
"Yang back home was an eternal battle to stay alive with an unstoppable force that wanted nothing more than to wipe us of the map, there was no rest, not ever it was a literal hell... Dresses took a back seat surprisingly."
"Yeah but so's every other village in Remnant, you must have had some time."
Six shook her head.
"Really?" Yang asked, Six nodded.
"I, How?" Yang eventually asked, Six sat there for a second, wondering how best to explain her situation.
"Well... I was a special case..." She eventually answered.
"What do you mean 'Special case' Six?"
"My home, my original home was overrun by a bandit tribe when I was about five, I think, I'm not one-hundred percent sure on the exact date, I lost my birth family that day..."
"Six that's..."
Six put her hand up to stop Yang before she said anything else.
"Yang its fine, I can barley remember them anyway... Anyway, after that I was recruited into something called the Spartan program..."
"Do I want to know?" Yang asked, looking at Six somewhat worried.
"It was basically a Super Soldier program, I was recruited into it... you needed to be young to join you see... It was tough, brutal even; but I was good, really good..." Six looked down at her, feelings of guilt flooding her from the times when she'd done things like kick an opponent in the face during a rope climbing exercise causing the competitor to fall and break there back, all to make sure she was first. " ...Really good, so I progressed quickly; but in the end... it meant nothing."
Six leaned back in her chair, looking up at the ceiling and sighing.
"I used to think I was the best, that's what we where told, Spartans where the best, that we never died, we just went missing in action, like we could show up at any random time." Six let out a cruel laugh upon saying that.
"But they where wrong, so wrong... Noble team, I lost all of them, I lost Reach... and then I wake up here. I wake up here on Remnant and suddenly I'm only average, everyone around me has natural ability's that outclass me, suddenly everything was worthless, everything I believed was pulled out from under me... my life was nothing but fighting and following orders, that was all I lived for, I never questioned anything, I never disobeyed and I did things I'm not proud of, all because I was told to..."
Six turned to look at Yang, who seamed both horrified and intruded.
"Yet, here I am, buying a dress for a dance with no other reason than I kinda want to go; what the hell is wrong with me!" Six cried, throwing her arms up in the air. Yang sat there for a second before saying.
"Nothing, your moving on and trying to do better, that's the most anyone can ask of you."
Six went to respond until Yang raised her hand and adopted a serious look.
"Six, just stop. Trust me not letting your past control you is the right thing... A long time ago I made the mistake of letting what I thought was missing or wrong control me... it didn't end well... I nearly got Ruby killed..." The Blond looked Six full in the face at this point. " ...Since then... Never, my past will not control me, and you shouldn't let yours control you Six, never."
"Well that went well." Yang said, happily holding the box under her arm. Six nodded in agreement, surprised that she'd found something that looked good on her scared body (The initial suggestion of backless dress had been rejected when Six showed them the massive plasma burn that went through her.)
"Yeah, I guess it was relatively painless..." Six muttered, before she heard something, a voice she'd heard before, Yang also stopped, but apparently thought she was crazy as she kept walking.
Six however didn't stop, she'd always found that investigating was better than figuring it was nothing. She dropped her dress box and sprinted down the alley way, quietly stopping behind a bin.
She was right, she had heard his voice, but she also heard some other voices as she got closer, she really wished she hadn't.
A quick peek over the dustbin confirmed it, Roman Torchwick the crook who had been using the stolen Atlesian mech (Six had learnt most of this at the Noddle store once they had finished eating) was talking with Two Elites, a Brute and four Grunts.
"So we have a deal? Human." The Zealot Elite asked, his red more elaborate armor standing out next to his partners batter yellow set.
"Oh very well, I will talk with my friends and see if I can get a meeting together, however we want the good stuff, none of that second rate crap you tried to pass of on the White Fang, trust me you don't want her, or her boss as your enemy." Roman said, the Brute in the group did not take kindly to this remark.
"Are you threatening me human!" He asked, lunging forward, only to be stopped by the Zealots energy sword.
"We will bear that in mind, as a token of our good will, we would like to give you this." He said, kicking open a crate that stood beside him. Six almost gasped.
How do these things keep getting those!
The crate contained another suit of Spartan armor, a sky blue set that only had armor for one arm.
"Hmm... Impressive, tell me what use is this thing, its missing an arm." Roman commented, this disregard to her team mates remains was enough to infuriate her but now was not the time for anger, now was the time to be smart.
Six crept out from her hiding place, slowly moving around approaching the Elite with the damaged yellow armor, his sword in her sight.
"This armor belonged to a demon, slaying one and acquiring there armor is a significant note of pride for us, we give this great honour to you as a sign of respect."
Roman thought about it for a second before nodding.
"Very well, I aceppt..."
"Hey Six where are you!" Yang called down the alley way, Six's discarded dress box under her arm, completely unaware of the danger she was in.
Dammit Yang!
Cursing Yang's bad timing Six acted fast, lunging for the Sword and igniting the blade, spinning around and driving the blade through a grunt before turning it on its owner, who unable to counter and with a broken shield generator fell quickly.
"Get it!" The Zealot yelled, igniting his own blade, The Grunts ran at Yang, who still in shock activated Ember Celica (Six was personally jealous that her primary weapon could be worn in public with no difficulty while hers couldn't.) The Brute also ran ant the blond once the grunts where mowed down, forcing Six to fight with the Zealot.
The two fought hard and fast, the blades clashing like crazy as they fought to get the upper hand.
"You fight well with that tool human!" The Zealot spat though its mandibles, looking down at the Spartan who countered by saying:
"I know it and it's users well!" She cried as she ducked a swipe and responded with a stab of her own, only to have it parried and for the Elite to respond.
"But how! Unless... Demon!" The Zealot yelled, figuring out Six's origins as he went for one massive swipe... Only to have his head destroyed and Yang drove her gauntlet into its head. The Zealot fell to the ground as his head exploded.
"Six, What the hell is going on!" Yang yelled, Six didn't answer she was looking around for Roman. Spotting him climbing a fire escape Six ran after her, bending down to scope up the Brute Shot the Brute Yang had killed had dropped, before aiming down at the ground and following Nora's (and many others) Example used the weapon to shoot herself into the air, landing on the roof in front of Roman who'd just finished climbing the fire escape.
"Your not getting away this time." Six spat, Roman just looked confused.
"I'm sorry have we met before?" He asked, twirling his cane around as he looked at Six.
"Yes, although I forgot the robot this time."
"Oh that was you! Oh, well that makes sense, you just can't resist butting your nose in can you? None of your lot can!" Roman cried in frustration, Six just smiled.
"Nope, sorry about that!" She yelled, attempting to slash the man with the blade on the Brute Shots underside.
"Well I guess I can solve some of my problems by killing you!" Roman responded, revealing the gun built into his cane and attempting to shoot the Spartan, Who just realized that she was lacking her shield generator.
"You think you can do that!" Six yelled, getting more aggressive with her slashing in an effort to prevent Roman from getting a clean shot at her.
"I guess I'll just have to try and see wont I!"
"You idiot! You seriously think I'd die so easily! Your friends down there couldn't do it what makes you think you can!" Six yelled in response, slashing his cane in half as she cried out.
"Well, not right now, Neo would you?"
Six smiled, that tactic wasn't going to work twice. She turned towards the sound of someone approaching and fired, the Brute Shot didn't kill the other girl but it did throw her of course and cause her to crack her head on the ground as her landing was thrown of.
"Neo!" Roman cried as Six dived for her umbrella, noting the sharpened end she threw it and pinned Roman to the ground through his trousers with the razor sharp point.
Six then darted behind Roman and pulled the blade to his throat, looking at Neo who was just recovering from her fall looked and saw Six, who smiled slyly.
"You can try doing something, but I really wouldn't recommend it, one wrong move and you could be down a boss."
Neo looked enraged but seamed to agree that Six was right and sat there fuming.
"Six what the hell is..." Yang said, having just finished climbing up the ladder, looking at the Spartan, who smiled.
"Yang, could you give Professor Ozpin a call? And possibly the vale police department."
Yang nodded as Six looked around, There was a group of dead Covenant down in the alley, she had retrieved Kat's armor, she could now add a Brute Shot to her collection of weaponry form home, She'd caught two criminals and she'd even managed to get a dress for the weekend.
Today had been a good day.