This is probably my favorite chapter...fair warning though...a really bad joke is in it.
Chapter 12

Tarcas

In a store not to far from where Ruby, Ranger and Luna are an alarm went off.

"Do you guys hear that?"Luna asked her friends. Ranger and Ruby nodded.

"Let's check it out." The three girls ran down the street towards the sudden alarm.

"Just do it lady! I don't want to have my robots hurt you." A strange little man with crazy wild orange hair yelled at a store clerk to give him money.

"Look we're a convinience store we don't have much money in the first place. And I think your robots are arguing with each other." The clerk pointed and the little man turned to see two of his robots apparently arguing.

"Number Seven! Number Nine! What is it this time?" The Number Nine robot turned and spoke to it's master in a robotic tone.

"Number Seven made a cruel joke. I want it to appologize to me." Number Seven rolled it's head and their master looked confused.

"How are you making jokes? Why are you upset? You're robots! Act like it." The Number Nine shook it's head.

"I want an apology." The little man rolled his eyes.

"Fine. First, Seven what did you say to Nine?"

"I asked him why is Number Nine afraid of Number Seven."

"And why is that?"

"Because Seven Eight Nine." The Number Seven Robot seemed to be laughing at the joke.

"...I hate you all. Just shut up." The strange man pinched the bridge of his nose in frustration.

"What are you doing there?" Ruby yelled out to the small man.

"Well apparently we're telling jokes instead of robbing a store." He shot a look at the two robots. Luna popped her head into the store.

"I love jokes!" She ran up, holding her stuffed ursa close to her chest, and knelt next to the man. "My name is Luna. What's yours?" The little man gave the girl a strange look.

"I'm Monton." Luna smiled at Monton with Ruby and Ranger behind her rather confused.

"I'm just happy that you're not here to rob anyone. Can I hear some of your jokes?" Luna looked really excited and couldn't wait to hear a joke. Monton didn't know how to process this girl and her gullibility.

"Um okay...well let me think. Wait no! I'm not here to tell jokes!" Monton's frustration confused Luna. She stood up with a pout on her face.

"You said you were here to tell jokes. Now you say youre not. Which is it?" Ruby walked up to Luna and whispered in her ear. She mouthed an 'Oh' and blushed furiously.

"You should leave now before the police show up. Or you can stay and get your butt kicked!" Ranger challenged the man and drew Cold Grief. Ruby followed suit and drew Crescent Rose. Luna stood behind them and hid her face. Monton had an awkward evil smile on his face.

"I wouldn't do that, my robots are already aimed at you we would take you out before you could even move." Luna's eyes shot open and looked at the robots. She handed her ursa to Ranger and took her hoodie and sweatpants off to reveal a massive metal object on her back. Her body was so fragile looking it looked like that thing could crush her. She only had a skin tight white outfit covering her body and her hands were wrapped in bandages.

"You lied to me. You embarrassed me. And now your robots are pointing their guns at my friends? Unnacceptable! Tarcas! Activate!" Luna yelled out and the object on her back slowly wrapped around her entire body. It was almost like it was alive as it consumed her body. When it stopped moving she was now covered in a suit of robotic armor that made her almost three times her size. A scary deep robotic voice sounded off.

"Tarcas online. Combat systems functional." Ruby and Ranger stood dumbfounded by the terror that was in front of them. Luna lunged at the robots with the help of rocket propelled boots and started beating the robotic life out of the poor automatons. The robots aimed their guns at the machine and it turned and held up both arms and shot out several darts that hit the remaining robots in the head. The darts blinked for a second then made small explosions. Monton was frozen with fear on the ground. Tarca stepped towards him and stood right in front of him. It raised both arms up into the air, like it was going to smash him.

"Luna don't!" Ruby and Ranger yelled out to their friend. Monton shut his eyes tightly and prepared for the worst.

"Tarcas! Offline!" Luna yelled out. The suit complied and slowly turned back into the strange metal object that sat on her back. She grabbed her hoodie and sweatpants and redressed. Ranger handed her back her ursa and she gave it a hug. She leaned in close to Monton, hands on her hips.

"You Mr are not a nice man. Now say sorry." Monton blinked twice.

"I'm sorry. It wont happen again I promise." Luna's scowl instantly turned to a smile.

"Good. Now we can be friends!" Luna offered a hand to help the man up and he took it, still confused.

"Friends...right. I think I'm just going to go home. Maybe some other time." Monton slowly walked out of the store and away.

"Okay Mr. Monton! Lets hang out some other time! Bye!" Luna was acting like a completely different person. Ruby and Ranger walked over to her still amazed.

"Um...Luna, what was that?"

"He said sorry so I let him go." Luna smiled and Ranger shook her head.

"Not that. What was that, that armor robot thing."

"Oh! You mean Tarcas? That's my weapon and friend." Ruby and Ranger looked at each other then back to Luna.

"Okay, what is Tarcas?" Ruby asked her.

"Tarcas is my mom's most recent design. It's the Tactical Automated Robotic Combat Assault System. Or just Tarcas for short." It took a bit but Ruby and Ranger wrapped their head around the crazy design and just nodded. Soon following the police showed up and took their statements about the situation. After dealing with all their questions the police let the girls go and they continued down the street.

"So what does your mom do that involves crazy robot suits?" Ruby asked Luna who still had a beeming smile on.

"She's the chief security officer at the Schnee Dust Corporation. This is just her prototype. I'm supposed to test it out at Beacon while becoming a huntress."

"Makes sense. What a better way to test it then against the grimm and random robbers." Ranger added.

"So...does your family get along with Weiss's family?" Ruby asked hoping it wasnt to dangerous of a question.

"I don't know. Mama never talked about work around me. Some days she came home and her smile didnt seem really there. Others she was the happiest ever. It's hard to say." Ruby let out a sigh of relife and tried to quickly change the subject.

"So you sure seem attached to your stuffed ursa." Luna blush a little noticing she was the only one carrying it where as the other girls had it in a bag.

"Well it's the first time I ever made one. And it was on a special day. So it means a lot to me." Ruby and Ranger let out a few giggles.

"No worry Luna, I think it's cute is all." Ruby hugged the girl and Ranger followed and hugged her from behind.


Latter that night when everyone was eating dinner, Ruby and Ranger was telling their teams about what Luna had done that day only to be interrupted by Yang and Kilo.

"Alright big guy lets go! Round seventy eight! I plan on getting my fortieth win today!" Yang slammed her elbow on the table waiting for Kilo to grab her hand. He smiled at her.

"Forty huh? Well I think i'll even the score instead." Kilo grabbed her hand and the two went at it. The rest of the group rolled their eyes for the seventy eighth time at them and continued their conversation.

"That girl certainly is an interesting person." Raven spoke up first. Blake nodded in agreement.

"No joke, not only stopping a robber but then making friends with him?"

"I'm more interested in that Tarcas thing she has. I wanna see it!" Eppi jumped up in excitement. He looked around the room and saw her sitting over with the rest of team Tidal. His excitement died down and he sank back into his seat. The group of friends shared a laugh with each other. A thud on the table drew the friends attention and they saw Kilo with both arms up in the air victoriously.

"Ha! I told you I would even the score." Yang smiled at her rival and shot a challenging glare.

"You just wait until tomorrow! The number forty win is mine." Kilo laughed at her rival.

"We'll see. I don't plan on loosing even one more time to you." Kilo and Yang stared at each other with devilish smiles on. You could almost see the tension building between the two.


Monton sat in his house completely baffled by the day he had. Not only did his robbery fail and his robots destroyed, but the one person who he hated most right now, that girl who stopped him, he liked the most. The strange little man had a lot to think about and what to do.

Stupid joke i know. But that's how i picture cheap robots with personality. What did you guys think of TARCAS? :3