Weapon reveal.

Time: AGW 80, August 10th

Chapter 15: Ruby Rose

Ruby ambled down a street in Vale, heading for the convenience store Dawn to Dust, many thoughts hovering around her digital brain. It was almost the beginning of Grade 10 for her, and Yang had qualified for Beacon Academy. Ruby had wished Yang the best of luck and told her not to copy other people's work, which had earned her a noogie. Now the almost 15 year old Ruby was somewhat alone in Signal, but she would be fine, she had other friends to talk to, so it wasn't that bittersweet. What was bittersweet was how her friendship with Weiss and other members of the Schnee Family had somehow diminished a bit. After that last accident with the transport, her visits to the Schnee Manor became sparse and more restrictive, being limited to only a few areas to explore. Fortunately for her, she was finally legally allowed to stay home by herself, which gave Tai more operating space himself. She and Tai would occasionally video chat each week, sometimes with Weiss present, but ruby wished, oh she wished, that Weiss would speak to her more.

Shaking her head, she arrived at the store, the Shopkeep at the front, greeting her. She returned the greeting and went to the dust cell section, her current batteries needing to be replaced. Her readngs showed energy levels at 30%. While usually it was possible to last for another week, it was always a good idea to have an extra set. She put on her headphones and listened to her favorite song: "This will be the Day." She listened to it and compared the prices and quality of the different type of gravity dust cells, HUD listing down all of the numbers.

Roman Torchwick had planned for an easy day. His new boss, the Cinder woman came around and demanded him to get a set amount of dust. Normally, he would've been fine with all the stealing, a favorite pastime of his. Now? It had a deadline and everything went downhill from there. After looking for henchmen he finally got enough to scratch and found a dust shop open at 8PM on Saturday. He took a deep breath, tired from all the searching and just hoping that at least this last heist for today would go well.

Well unfortunately for him, he was not the only one who was glad this shop was open this late.

The henchman barged in, with Roman behind him, threatening the poor Shopkeep with his infamous Melodic Cudgel.

"Do you have any idea how hard it is to find a Dust shop open this late?"

The Shopkeep was understandably vexed, and handed over his money, expecting the men to leave with it. He did not expect the men to go for the processed dust, each man grabbing canisters and loading them up with the dust tubes, each one turning a color when filled. A henchman spotted Ruby at the back, who was still wondering if she should go with the Endurecell or Energizing Brand. The man came up behind her, hoping to get a bit more easy money. He called out to the girl, yelling for her to put her hands up, she did not. Angered by the fact that the girl wouldn't respond, he tapped on her shoulder.

"Hey kid, you have a death wish or something?!"

The child turned around at that, revealing her headphones and wolf ears, which were somehow pinned down by the headphones.

"Yes? I mean no, but, what do you want?" the henchman got slightly confused when Ruby started babbling incoherently from that point on.

''I SAID PUT YOUR HANDS UP IN THE AIR, NOW!'' This brought her babbling to a halt

''Are you… Robbing me?''

"YES!''

This was the part where the girl was supposed to give her wallet over, but instead, the girl swings, with a haymaker, headed right for his chest, this was going to be easy. He then notices the weird boxes she has on her forearms, something akin to shields, with red and black patterns. Still, it was nothing for a trained man like him.

So telegraphed, I can easily catch this punch. So much for trying to defend yourself -!

Looks were very deceiving, because that punch did not stop when his hand caught it, it kept going, delivering a solid smack to the cheek for the henchman. He went flying towards the wall, which he hit head first, knocked unconscious. Another man checked out the disturbance and pointed his gun at Ruby, telling her not to move.

Ruby darted across the room, rose petals blowing in the gust as she used her semblance. She picked up speed as she turned into petals, slamming into the man's chest and bowling him over, completely breaking his ribs and the window of the store, much to Shopkeep's chagrin. The men stood watching as she stood up from the groaning man, and spread out her arms. The boxes on her forearms glowed a light purple before they lifted off, spinning and folding out into…

"..Two scythes…Goddamnit." Roman mumbled, absolutely pissed, a huntress in training with adept dust control and skill. All they had to do was follow the goddamn plan, and not draw attention to themselves, especially teenage Faunus Huntress in training! He felt very compelled to tear out his hair right there and then, but he had an image to uphold.

"Okay…Get her!"

The men complied, rushing towards Ruby, unaware that unnatural selection would take place. Ruby pushed her arms in front of her, and then struck a pose, palms clapping together. Crescent Rose and Waning Rose spun and slowly floated towards the men, making a barrier of steel they did not want to pass. The scythes then stopped spinning, and actively attacked the men, being controlled by Ruby from afar.

/Emulating user's fighting style…/

Roman saw that his men were hard pressed, so he shot a burn dust shell at Ruby with his cane, hoping to distract her. Strangely, the girl did not dodge and the shell connected, and the scythes stopped spinning, causing the men to look at the small smoke cloud. Roman realized what was happening, and immediately ran for the nearest ladder, calling for extraction. Ruby emerged out of the dust cloud, completely unscathed, save for a few patches of clothing missing.

Waning Rose and Crescent Rose started spinning again, this time connecting at the hilts, making a monstrously long double sided scythe, Waning Crescent Rose. The weapon spun a few times before all the men were either knocked unconscious or passed out from fright. It was then that Ruby realized she forgot about the head honcho Roman, who had escaped to the roof and was climbing into a bullhead. She noticed Professor Goodwitch engaging the enemy bullhead with her semblance, purple projectiles attacking the airship. Ruby ran into action, not wanting to miss an opportunity to aid a professional huntress in combat, and quickly boosted on to the rooftop. The compartment on her torso opened up, and six barrels opened up from her chassis.

Glynda Goodwitch fought the unknown assailant in the bullhead, gritting her teeth as she realized just what she was fighting. This person was most definitely using maiden powers, even if they did not have the full strength a maiden usually had. The bull head started pulling away and Glynda grit her teeth harder, preparing another salvo of projectiles. A thump sounded next to her and there was an odd whirring sound. Glynda looked to the left, and saw one of Taiyang's infernal daughters, Ruby Rose. She wore her signature pure and innocent smile as a six barreled cannon rose out of her torso, and it opened fire.

There was a shrieking noise as six rockets flew out, howling as they raced towards their target. However, in her haste to assist Goodwitch, she had forgot about some of the other problems of shooting a loud and destructive weapon in the city. The six rockets were slightly off target, crippling the bullheads tail instead of the actual compartments. The sounds of the weapon did succeed in waking up the entire block of civilians at 9pm, where many people sought sleep instead of being woke up at night. Ruby only rubbed her neck nervously as Goodwitch descended upon her, dragging her away from the area. Ruby never purchased those cells, and now owes Shopkeep 350 lien.

"I hope you realize that your actions today will not be taken lightly, Ruby Rose. Smashing through a window, toying with your opponents and giving them cruel and unnecessary punishment, and firing a mortar in a civilian area."

"In my defense, they started-"

"If it were up to me, you'd be sent home, with a pat on the back... and a slap on the wrist!"

She slapped her crop on Ruby's hand, a ping ringing out when it connected. Ruby jumped back a bit, scared of triggering an even more negative reaction towards herself.

"Despite all this, my superior is compelled to meet you."

Professor Ozpin walked in carrying a plate of cookies in his hand, his signature mug in the other. He set the plate of cookies on the table, eyebrows raised when Ruby completely devoured the cookies in the plate. Ruby was grateful that she did not inherit cocoa intolerance from her grandmother, but then again she was purely mechanical so it didn't matter. She sighed with pleasure, a cloud of greyish dust rising from her mouth. The room began to smell of cookies, much to Glynda's displeasure.

"Ruby Rose, we meet again."

This was not a lie. Ruby had met Professor Ozpin many times on occasion, usually with Tai and Yang. However, they had never met in this location before, was she in trouble?

"How did you learn to fight like this?" Ozpin asked, showing footage of her scythe windmill knocking men over.

"Signal, or at least my uncle helped me to make and practice basic maneuvers. The rest was just me using gravity dust and imitating my previous maneuvers, making it so that I can fight with two scythes."

"Intriguing, it is not often that I find such creativity and skill among people your age, Miss Rose, I have a proposition for you."

Ruby had a feeling she knew what it was, but at the same time, she wanted to make sure she heard it before she went and jumped to conclusions.

"How would you like to join your sister at Beacon this school year?"

Ruby cheered, throwing her hands in the air, streamers coming from them.

/Critical energy levels…/

Oops. Ruby forgot about that one tidbit. Celebrations would have to come a bit later.

Ruby is a metal girl now, so why stick with one Scythe, two is the answer of course!