I apologize for the shorter chapter, there was an event today, and I spent half a day taking care of 20 kids. Im tired.
These logs will give you a more in depth look at Ruby's new body, and some P.E.N.N.Y.
I use earth metals because we don't know about Remnant metals kappa.
These logs will try to smooth out the time skip I will be doing.
Chapter 14: Professor Logs (1)
AGW 71, October 30th
Ruby's body is now complete, consisting of several top of the line prosthetics, all made of high grade carbon steels, with some graphene underneath, capable of resisting tremendous amounts of pressure and a very high impact strength. Ruby's body is meant to be able to take extreme amounts of strain while being able to hit back with devastating blows, with an Ice dust cannon attached to her left arm, and a gravity dust railgun on her chest for a last resort. Her right arm can also configure into a hammer and machine gun, giving her versatility on the battleground. Ruby's torso not only contains a Gravity dust railgun, but also a six barreled mortar, named "Mist Thrower" in Mantle dialect, called Nebelwerfer, an appropriate name due to all the smoke it shoots out. The Primary function of this device is to destroy enemy fortifications and larger than average Grimm, a weapon best used from afar. A few of these weapons are currently inaccessible to Ruby at the moment, due to the fact that she is a child with unparalleled inquisitive nature, she will have access when she is older. Unfortunately, Ruby's body sacrifices energy efficiency for her strengths, and also suffers from being extremely heavy. In Ruby's case it is not wise to leave for extended trips without extra dust cells. Fortunately gravity dust is not commonly used, and is relatively cheaper than other dust forms.
AGW 71, December 25th
I have helped Ruby attach her newest prosthetics, to help stimulate body growth and not attract attention to her, and I have noticed a few things. A strange energy coalesces and condenses around her eyes, which gets stronger when she gets stressed. Further observations show that Grimm stored nearby for testing are increasingly agitated the closer she gets, which leads me to conclude about the truth of the legend of silver-eyed warriors. This behavior was first noticed when Ruby opened her eyes. They were not the grey color the eye pieces were supposed to be, but instead turned into the most striking of silvers, with little accents at the lower regions of her irises. It appears that the energy comes from her soul, but can only be transmitted through her eyes. I will keep an eye on this.
AGW 73, October 31st
Ruby, now aged 8 on this day, is no less of a terror as she was the day I gave her first body. Crazy kid, I tell you, the rowdiest wolf among all of the children I have been blessed to meet. Today she has managed to freeze half my lab by "accident," leaving me to personally thaw out her "mistakes" with a blowtorch. She is still at large in the facility, and I will find her.
AGW 74, January 12th
Today, Project P.E.N.N.Y. is almost fully complete, but I have noticed something odd. I may have made a minor hiccup in programming emotions. Instead of being flustered and inarticulate when lying, the program will read hiccup instead. Whether if it's because of her actual soul that has been hovering around this room recently, which I noticed due to occasional starts in her Soulhome, or just a computing error I do not know. But what I do know, is that Penny has been frequenting this very room. Her Soulhome flashed just a few hours ago, calling me father, before disappearing, and making a few more appearances after. However, she is still only a few days old, and lacks social and emotional abilities, which is why it was a good thing to have Ruby's mannerisms be a reference to help her act. I do look forward to spending time with her.
AGW 76, January, 11th
PENNY has come to stay, residing in her Soulhome and greeting me with cheer. Her first course of action was to knock over a wrench on my table, much to my chagrin. It appears that by basing some of her mannerisms off Ruby, she inherits her inquisitive nature. I may regret this, but I don't.
AGW 76, October 31st
Ruby, once again, is getting her prosthetics replaced by larger ones. This will be one of her last change before I have to start imitating puberty, which will give me more grey hairs. Tai and Qrow are doing well, though I have not heard the same news from the Schnee family. Jacques is more or less withdrawn from public life, occasionally looking wildly from left to right, as if he expects an attack. Sometimes, in his hands he holds a letter, from an anonymous sender, the paper crushed in his hands. Despite the fact that the SDC had reached record amounts of profit and have gained more support, it seems as if Jacques seems saddened by it. His family is not blind to it, and they have been trying their best to shake him out of his funk.
Ruby's ability to learn new things never ceases to surprise me. Ruby has learned basic weapon crafting skills, her computing systems no doubt helping her measure things to an almost perfect degree, to a degree that would make her fellow students at Signal jealous. She has begun designs for a scythe weapon, based off her uncle's great weapon Harbinger. I would like her to meet Penny, but she hasn't worked out many of her emotions, and would make things certainly confusing for the both of them.
AGW 77, January 1st
General Ironwood visited today, asking about how Penny was doing, I told him that she was doing great, though she missed staying with her mother in the afterlife. Ironwood may have good intentions, but Penny is my daughter. I do not want to push her further than I already have into this world, I want her to enjoy life. Hopefully Ironwood will understand my intentions.
AGW 78, February 24th
Today has been one of the most haunting and painful days of my life. After my successes with the first two Soulhome transfers went well, I got too bold, too confident. I attempted to save a man who was dying, one without family, which led to his downfall. Without his family's aura to guide him to the Soulhome, his spirit never found its way there. I'm afraid I may have consigned this poor man to oblivion, forced to wander the eternities without rest. The Soulhome project is over, never again, the risk of eternal torment and the toll on my conscience is too much. Military applications be damned, it was risky enough to trifle with the forces of life and death, and this failure has proved it. Project New Home is over, its successes far outweighed by the negative results. Ruby and Penny, will be the only 2 on earth to have successfully transferred, and I'm keeping it that way.
The Unknown
The Brother Gods looked upon all of the worlds they had created, overseeing the countless planets and stars. All of them flawed in their own ways, nowhere as near as perfect as their first creation, now a remnant of its forward self. They felt a slight tug of a presence of another being near them, and looked behind them. A single human soul floated around the Expanse, wandering without rest. The Younger brother, the God of Darkness, sighed as he closed his eyes, and raised his left hand. He snapped his fingers, and the soul vanished into golden specks, never to be seen again. However, the Gods were intrigued by the presence of the soul. The Oblivion was their realm, a realm to watch all of the worlds they had created. No mortal, soul or flesh, should have made it into this realm. Tracking the path of the soul, they both nodded, it was time to do a check on their oldest world, despite their promise to never come back until it was perfected.
It was always their most beautiful world, but it was still imperfect, and now they wanted to know why Ozma was taking enough time to make gods annoyed.
Next time you see Ruby, she'll be fighting a hat wearing Torch. Let me know if you want to see me write some of these scenes.
