Qrow & Ruby
Last time on Qrow and Ruby...
Yang tries to get to know Ruby, also a mouse named Fieval steals a shinny thing.
Stage 6: Enabler pt2
Act 1
Fievel felt great!
Best he'd felt in years and it was all thanks to the pretty rock!
"F-Fievel... What have you done?!" Tanya asked. She was terrified with the sudden change in her little brother, who had returned home surrounded by a red aura and outright murdered all the other inhabitants in the safe zone, he'd only spared his family.
"I'm trying to help papa! Don't you see Tanya? Now Papa will have plenty of food and space to get better!"
"Wha-but?"
"But you killed all the Doctors!" Fievel's mother yelled. Her shriek woke Fivel's younger sister, Yasha, who began bawling.
Fievel's smile fell, and he stared at his mother in shock. He...he'd killed the doctors? D..did that mean his Papa's fate was sealed?!
Earlier, I asked if you ever wished upon the stars?
Fievel shook his head, no, no, no! He, he'd hurt people?! He-wha-!
What had he done?!
"Ah! I've detected signs of life, preparing to secure!" Penny said to herself upon spotting the small group of mice "However, one seems to be ill, analyzing now..."
Fievel glanced up at the giant who'd just found him, and despaired. He... He didn't want this!
"Energy spike detected! Uploading warning t-!"
The Mousekewitz family, and Penny Polendina, were engulfed in a blinding red light and the shed was no more.
Act 2
"Ruby I understand that you don't want to find the rat, but look at it this way, Qrow can't kill it if you find it first!"
Ruby blinked, and rubbed the bottom of her chin in thought, Yang did have a point. As for Yang, she was just happy that her bonding attempt stopped losing steam. "You make a fantastic point, alright let's go!"
Yang shook her fist in triumph as Ruby motioned for her to follow. The sisters made their way to the backyard where a small shack stood.
"This is a place I affectionately call the safe haven, it's where all the critters live!" Ruby explained as she opened the shacks front door. She was about to step inside, but a foul odor stopped the duo in their tracks.
"Oh god, what's that awful smell!" Yang cried, holding her nose in disgust, and approached the front door to get a better look. Ruby was already on the ground, impersonating a mother bird, and Yang joined her upon witnessing the inside of the shack.
It was disgusting, like a scene straight out of a snuff film, the entire room was painted in blood. What Yang assumed were the corpses of the critters Ruby had claimed were protected here littered the interior.
"What are you two doing just standing around?" Winter demanded as she exited the houses backdoor and over to the two. "Weren't you supposed to be looking for th-! My word, what happened here?!"
"Someth- Something must have gotten inside and murdered all the critters!" Ruby cried, what sort of monster would do such a thing!?
Winter glared at Qrow.
"Don't look at me, I was with you the whole time and we just finished telling Johnny about the situation."
Winter continued to glare, she clearly didn't believe him.
"Hey, hey, hey, even I have standards Ice Queen." Qrow said, pulling out Box resembling a certain Mr. Meeseeks Box from another fandom. This box was white, green, and orange as opposed to the default colors of the original.
Yang spit whatever remaining bile was left in her mouth and asked "What's that?".
Hm? This is a Penny Polendina Box." Pressing the button on top of the box, it summoned a Penny Polendina. "Penny, be a dear and clean this shit up."
"Affirmative!" Penny replied as she summoned a mop modeled after her regular swords "I'm housekeeping ready!" She declared before entering the shack without hesitation.
Qrow tossed the box at the girls, and Yang caught it. "The Penny Polendina Box is a gadget that creates a Penny Polendina for the purpose of completing one given objective. Ruby already knows how it works, so use it to find my rock." Qrow demanded before noticing that Winter was leaving the scene. "And where are you going?"
"I'm all tuckered out for the day, I think I'll head home and try to erase that gruesome image from my mind by being with family"
"But you hate your family?"
Winter didn't reply, and just walked away.
Qrow sighed "Welp, I'm going to the bar, good luck girls!" Qrow said, and exploded in a puff of smoke.
A small crow left the scene.
Yang glanced at the fleeing bird, and then at the box before slowly breaking out in laughter. This was her life now?
Ruby stiffened, and as if acting on instinct, pushed Yang away from the shack just before it was engulfed in a blood red beam of energy and power.
"What the hell?!" Yang cried as Ruby took the Penny Polendina Box from her hands and activated it. A Penny Polendina appeared!
"Ah, hello Ruby! Order 66 has been invoked due to a loss of contact with the previous Penny Polendin-!" She was smashed by a deformed arm like limb that originated from the blinding red light.
"Paaaaaaaapaaaaaaa!" it roared. The limb was attached to a massive blob and it seemed to be made up of everything that had been in the shed at the time. It looked like something out of Akira and the smell it gave off made Uncle Qrows room, after a wild night, feel like an empty hospital room by comparison. Suddenly, the beast paused and slowly turned to glance at them, this was when Ruby was able to identify it's face (a deformation of a mouse, random assortment of critters, and Penny all with an ominous looking third eye.), before it struck.
Both girls let out a scream, and made a mad dash back to the house. Ruby used the Penny Polendina Box to summon a dozen Penny's. They wouldn't last long, with the exception of the original, Penny's were really dumb.
However, they'd by the girls time!
"Is this sort of bullshit normal?" Yang asked as she shut the backdoor and put a chair under the doorknob in hopes of strengthening it.
"Would you be mad if I said yes?" Ruby answered, causing Yang to frown,
The monsters roars could be heard from inside, but Ruby paid them no mind as she ran off to her room to grab something she knew would fix this. Upon obtaining said object and returning to Yang the backdoor was torn from it's place on the wall and Yang got a full view of the carnage. Bits and pieces of Penny's littered the backyard, they hadn't even lasted a minute!
She let out a cry as it prepared to attack, but it was suddenly shot in the third eye that sat in the center of its forehead.
Ruby reloaded.
"and what is that?"
"This? This is my baby, my honey, Crescent Rose!" Ruby proudly replied as she took another shot. The room was to small use her weapons true form, but the sniper riffle should be enough. Then the monster started covering it's third eye with a hand, and Ruby realized her bullets were useless against it's iron hard skin.
"I don't think it's working anymore..." Yang muttered.
"Well popsicles. I'm out of ideas." Ruby said as she continued to shoot, in a vain attempt to kill the beast, when it was shot in it's other two eyes.
"When confronting an enemy who's learned to guard against your attacks, it's wise not to do the same thing over and over again". a deep voice said. Ruby gasped, she recognized that voice! It was...
"Johnny!"
"Ruby please, Call me Dr. Ironwood, I worked hard for that Doctorate." He asked as he casually tossed a grenade into the beasts mouth.
It exploded.
Tossing the girl a special pack of ammunition, and paying no mind to Yang, he asked "Use this and hit it's third eye the instant you see an opening."
"Yes sir!" She replied, and took aim.
The fight was magnificent, too magnificent to put into words.
Act 3
"So what's that?" Yang asked upon noticing the rock Ironwood picked up from what remained of the monstrosity.
"This? This is none of your business Ms..."
"My names Yang."
"She's Qrows niece, and my sister apparently!"
"His niece? Ah you're her girl then..." He muttered, and Yang frowned. Was he referring to who she thought he was referring to?
"Wait, you knew too?!" Ruby asked
Ironwood had the decency to appear sheepish "I'm good friends with Qrows, and was good friends with most of his old team before... Well, you should really hear it from them" Ruby clenched her first, but otherwise appeared unbothered by Ironwood not giving her a clear answer. "As for what this is, just know that it doesn't concern you." He answered, and put the rock in his lab coat. "Although, I would like it if you gave me that Penny Polendina Box"
"No."
Ironwood frowned, and let out a sigh "It was worth a shot." He muttered before leaving. He was probably going to look for Qrow and Winter.
"So... what now?" Yang asked as she took in the damage.
Ruby pressed the Penny Polendina Box.
To Be Continued...