Notice Me, Ruby!
Chapter 9: Prank Gone Wrong
It had been a couple of days since Yang's incident at the library. Because of what had happened, Ruby had once again began to avoid her teammates like they were carrying the plague. This was something she especially did with her blonde teammate, who could barely get anywhere near the younger girl, before she disappeared in a cloud of rose petals. To say the least, Yang was heartbroken by this new development.
Since she didn't have any good ideas, the brawler had decided to ask for the assistance of her other two teammates. Unfortunately, the two girls weren't exactly all that keen on helping their teammate, as they feared what might happen to them for getting too involved in her crazy plans.
The three older girls were at the moment walking through the hallways of Beacon, while Yang was trying her best to get her two teammates to assist her.
"Come on, guys! Help me out!" the blonde begged the other two girls. "I really need all the help I can get! Can't you see how desperate I am?"
"I'm pretty sure it's obvious to a blind person just how desperate you are," Blake answered with a roll of her eyes.
"Yang, you are not going to get us to assist you with your hopeless efforts! So far, you have only made things worse!" Weiss said angrily. "Besides, I just did help you, didn't I!? I gave you the simplest of instructions and you only had ONE THING to do! Yet despite how easy your job should have been, you somehow managed to screw it up! How do you do that!?"
"Hey! I had a good reason for what I did! That damn vending machine was asking for it!" Yang yelled in her defense. "Besides, I really needed that energy drink. It would have helped make things better between me and Rubes a lot..."
"Yang, I am certain that things would have gone just as fine, if you had explained everything to Ruby and had just continued normally from there," Blake said with a sigh. "Honestly, what made you think that it was a good idea to go all Mortal Kombat on a vending machine of all things? You were lucky that most of library's books stayed safe. Otherwise, you would have angered ME as well."
"Guys, I know I screwed up, but I need at least a little bit of help!" the blonde continued to plead. "Just something! A hint, an idea, anything! Just give me something to work with!"
"Even if we gave you something, I'm sure you would just use it for some crazy scheme or plan," Weiss said with a roll of her eyes. "And I'm sure we all know how well those have gone with you."
"THAT'S IT!" Yang suddenly exclaimed excitedly. "I need a new scheme! Something clever! Something that-!"
The brawler's speech was cut off by Weiss grabbing her by the collar and slapping her across the face a few times. The heiress was furious with how her teammate had apparently ignored what she had said.
"NO! No more schemes! No more plans!" Weiss yelled at her blonde teammate. "Every time you have had one of your plans, it has backfired in the worst possible way! Don't you see that they're not working!?"
"B-But they're the only thing I've got for me right now!" Yang tried to argue. "Besides, they have always had an idea behind them, so they do have potential!"
"Like the idiotic plan involving sabotaging Ruby's test? That "plan" had so many holes in it that it was bound to fail! Seriously, what made you think that it would ever work!?" the heiress ranted, before turning her attention to Blake. "I'm surprised that YOU went along with it. I honestly thought that you were smarter than that."
"Well, Yang can be very persuasive..." the cat faunus weakly defended herself.
"Persuasive, my ass..." Weiss muttered angrily. "Honestly, did you two even consider the consequences that could have fallen on us!? We are EXTREMELY lucky that we got away with the punishment we got!"
"But I'm the only one who got punished..." Yang corrected her teammate.
"THAT'S NOT THE POINT!" the fencer yelled at the top of her lungs. "My point is that all your plans have managed to accomplish is make things worse for us! So whatever new "brilliant scheme" you have come up with is best left alone and unused!"
Yang was about to defend herself, but she noticed something red from the corner of her eye. Turning her gaze fully towards what she had seen, the blonde saw Ruby coming out of a nearby room and walk away, most likely heading towards her team's dorm.
"Hey! Are you listening to me!?" Weiss yelled at the brawler, angered over being ignored.
"I just saw Ruby come out of that room," Yang said, her gaze never leaving the door Ruby had just walked through. "What's over there?"
"I think that's the workshop over there," Blake answered. "If you don't have the tools or the space to work on your weapons, you can go there. I'm guessing Ruby must have been there to do some repairs on her scythe or something."
"I doubt it's anything that simple," the blonde said. "I'm willing to bet anything that there's a special reason for her to go there. And I'm going to find out what it is. Are you two with me?"
Blake and Weiss looked at each other, wondering what they should do. On one hand, they didn't want to get involved with Yang's crazy ideas anymore, but at the same time, they knew their teammate's actions could potentially get them in trouble, regardless of their lack of direct involvement. If they went along, they might be able to at least reduce the amount of damage that was going to be caused.
"Alright, we're coming along," Weiss said with a frustrated sigh. "However, I want you to promise us that you will actually listen to what we say. Okay?"
"Sure, I'll listen," Yang replied. 'Doesn't mean I'll actually do what you tell me to.'
The next day, the WBY kept their eyes glued on their young team leader. They were determined to find out what Ruby was up to in Beacon's workshop, so they weren't going to take their eyes off her for even a second. Once the classes were over, the three older girls followed closely behind the redhead, making sure to stay out of her sight. It didn't take long for Ruby to reach the workshop, where she went in without finding out about being followed. The WBY silently walked up to the door and peeked inside. There they saw their young team leader working on one of the computers in the room, which were used by students in order to design new weapons for themselves.
"Any idea what she's doing there?" Yang asked quietly from her two teammates. "She's blocking the computer screen, so I can't really tell from here."
"I think she might be working on one of the weapon design programs," Blake answered. "Maybe she is planning to upgrade her current weapon or even replace it."
"I highly doubt that Rubes would ever replace her Crescent Rose," the blonde said. "That scythe is one of her most beloved things in the whole world. She's not getting rid of it anytime soon. And even then she would only do it if it was absolutely necessary."
The three older girls continued to observe Ruby as she worked on the computer. Eventually the young team leader finished whatever she was working on, turned off the machine and got up from her seat to leave the room. Upon noticing the younger girl beginning to leave, the WBY quickly hid themselves, so that Ruby wouldn't see them as she walked through the door. When the redhead had left, the three older girls went into the workshop, hoping to see what she had been doing there.
"Yang, I think your investigation has just hit a wall," Weiss said as the blonde girl turned on the computer Ruby had been using. "It doesn't matter even if we get to the same computer, unless we have Ruby's username and password, we won't see anything she has been doing."
"Oh, you of little faith! The username is easy to guess, since we were all given similar ones when we came to Beacon! It's basically just your full name and that's it!" Yang said with a cocky smirk. "The password on the other hand..."
"Yeah. That's kind of what I was talking about," the heiress said and rolled her eyes. "The password can be literally ANYTHING. Just how are you supposed to find out what it is? Guessing?"
"Well, I can always try!" the brawler boasted and typed in "Crescent Rose" to the password, only for it to not work. "...Okay, I'm out of any good guesses."
"That settles it then! We've got nothing to do here, so we leave! End of story," Weiss stated and began to leave with Blake following right behind her.
However, Yang suddenly grabbed the cat faunus' arm, stopping her in her tracks. Blake turned to look at her partner and saw her staring at her with an intense look in her eyes.
"What is it, Yang?" the raven-haired girl asked.
"Is it possible for you to hack the computer?" the blonde asked. "Can you get us in?"
"...Huh? What makes you think I know-"
"You used to be in the White Fang, right? I'm sure you've had to do stuff like that back then," Yang said, cutting off her partner. "If you can, then it should be possible for us to get in."
"Alright, first of all, I would like it if you didn't assume things about me due to my past or even remind me of it," Blake said in a slightly angered tone. "Second, even if I could hack into the computer, why should I? What reason could I have to-"
Before the cat faunus could finish her question, Yang put six cans of tuna on the table, causing Blake's eyes to go wide. The raven-haired girl didn't know how the brawler had managed to hide the cans in her uniform, but she didn't care. All she was focused on was the delicious fish treats right in front of her eyes.
"This is just the first part of my payment," Yang stated. "Do this for me and there will be more. Triple this amount, to be exact."
Without even saying a word, Blake quickly took the seat in front of the computer and began to do her thing. She connected her Scroll into the computer, as it held a hacking program she had used back in her days in the White Fang, which should easily allow her to access the computer.
"What the-!? Blake, are you serious!?" Weiss yelled, shocked by how easily the faunus girl had been persuaded. "Where is your pride!?"
"First tuna. Then pride," Blake answered without looking away from the computer.
"You have got to be kidding me..." the heiress muttered while pinching the bridge of her nose from frustration.
It didn't take long until the former terrorist had hacked into the computer, allowing the three girls to see what their team leader had been working on. After Blake had done her thing, she grabbed the tuna her partner had offered while drooling, allowing Yang to take over the computer. The blonde immediately opened up the program students used to design their weapons and started to look for the files Ruby had been working on.
"This brings back memories," Yang said while looking through the files for the weapon designing program. "I remember how I designed my gauntlets with this same program back in Signal."
"You actually designed your weapons yourself?" Weiss asked with a raised eyebrow. "Now that's pretty surprising actually."
"What do you mean by that?" the brawler asked in response.
"I always assumed that someone else designed your weapons or that you bought them from someone," the heiress explained. "I guess you can use your head for something other than hitting things after all."
"Hey! I can do things that require thinking as well!" Yang yelled, offended by her teammate's comment. "Although... I guess I would be lying if I said that I made them entirely by myself. I did have Ruby helping me with a few things..."
"Ruby helped you out?" Blake asked, somewhat impressed by the skills her team leader possessed. "How much exactly did she do?"
"Well, she did make the original blueprints," the blonde answered. "And the models through the program. ...And she's the one who actually built my gauntlets in the end as well."
"So she basically did ALL of the work?" Weiss asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Not all of it!" Yang quickly said. "I came up with the original design!"
"What was that like? A pair of boxing gloves with shotguns taped to them?" Blake joked.
"HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT!? DID RUBY TELL YOU THAT!?" the brawler yelled with a face red from embarrassment.
"...That was supposed to be a joke," the cat faunus replied.
"...Oh," was all Yang could say after letting one of her embarrassing secrets known to her two teammates. "Well, I guess there's no point in hiding it. Rubes is a real wizard when it comes to weapons and other machinery. She has even helped me fix my bike a few times in the past. She's real reliable in those things."
"Still, you're honestly unbelievable. If you couldn't make your weapons yourself, why didn't you just hire a professional for it?" Weiss asked. "My rapier was designed and made by the best weaponsmith in all of Atlas, thus ensuring it's high quality."
"Not everyone can afford having some overly expensive master make your weapons for you, princess," the blonde muttered with a roll of her eyes. "Freaking pampered brat."
"Bite your tongue, Xiao Long!" the fencer yelled, angered by the comment. She then turned her attention to Blake. "What about you? Did you make your own weapon?"
"Not exactly," the raven-haired girl answered. "Back in the White Fang, we had our own weaponsmith in the group that talked to each one of us and made something based on what we wanted. Mine was made with the idea that it wouldn't burden me too much, allowing me to move quickly in the battlefield. Although, I wouldn't have minded, if I had someone like Ruby work on my equipment."
"Yeah... It's pretty cool," Yang said with a melancholic look in her eyes, as she thought about the good old days with Ruby.
A moment of silence fell over the three girls, as both Weiss and Blake saw the look on their teammate's face. Neither of them could bring themselves to saying anything, fearing that they would only upset the blonde further. Eventually, Weiss finally decided to speak up, hoping to change the subject.
"So, what exactly are you even going to do when you find what Ruby has been doing here?" the white-haired girl asked while looking at the computer screen. "I seriously hope that you are not going to do something idiotic, like destroy the files. Or do I need to remind what happened last time you decided to anger her?"
"No way am I doing anything like that again! I learned my lesson!" Yang said while shuddering at the memory of how pissed off Ruby had been over the whole test fiasco, before turning her attention back to what she had been doing a moment ago. "I do have an idea, but I first want to see what she's been doing. Can't help but be curious, you know?"
The brawler soon found the files she had been looking for and opened one of them. It seemed to be a design for a sword that transformed into a flamethrower. This confused the three girls, as they didn't understand why Ruby would be designing such a thing, since she most likely wouldn't use it herself or even her teammates. Yang opened another file and saw that it was another design for a random weapon. She kept looking through the files and saw that they were all the same, weapons that didn't have users they knew of.
"What's all this for?" Weiss asked. "I was expecting her to be making an upgraded version for her scythe, but all these seem to be nothing else than random stuff that no one is using. What's the purpose for all of this?"
"I'm not entirely sure, but I might have an idea," Yang answered. "This could be some sort of a hobby for Rubes, since she loves weapons a lot. She might be designing these just for fun, with the possibility of even making some of them in the future."
"So now that you know what she has been up to, what exactly are you going to do?" Blake asked.
"Just watch," the blonde replied with a small smirk, before connecting her Scroll to the computer. She then copied all of the files of the weapon designs Ruby had been working on onto her Scroll. "That's the first part. And now for the second one."
Both Weiss and Blake went wide-eyed from shock as they watched how Yang deleted all of Ruby's design files from the computer without any hesitation.
"YANG, ARE YOU INSANE!?" Weiss yelled.
"DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT RUBY IS GOING TO DO TO YOU FOR THIS!?" Blake yelled as well.
"Relax, you two. I've got all the files safely copied in my Scroll, so no damage was actually done," Yang said, completely relaxed over the whole situation. "I'm just going to pull a little prank on Ruby. That's all."
"What kind of a prank are you planning!?" the heiress asked, still in shock over what the blonde was doing. "What in the hell could you possibly be thinking of doing this time!?"
"Here's how it goes. I'm going to leave a few files here that have same names as the ones in my Scroll at the moment, which makes it look like nothing has happened at all," the brawler began to explain. "However, when Rubes opens one of the files on the computer, she's going to find something completely different. She gets a small shock, comes looking for us and demands us to give her the files back. But instead of giving them to her, I actually negotiate with her a bit and get her to spend some time with us, which allows us to begin rebuilding our relationship with her. In the end, I'd say everybody wins!"
"And what exactly is going to stop Ruby from simply using her scythe on you, once she finds out what you've done?" Blake asked.
"Oh please, it's just a prank! Ruby's been through plenty of my pranks already, so I doubt that she'll get all that angry," Yang replied in a completely relaxed tone. "Since I have the actual files completely safe in my hands, there's no real damage, right? Besides, I've done far nastier pranks on her, so this isn't even all that bad. This is like hiding her homework from her or something similar."
"...Just what could you have done that's actually more evil than this?" Weiss asked with a look of disbelief on her face. "What could possibly be worse than-"
"I once put a tarantula on her bed while she was sleeping," the blonde quickly replied, cutting off her teammate.
"...Never mind. That is actually far worse."
"Alright, so now that you have your plan all set, what exactly are you going to leave her with?" Blake asked. "Are you going to simply put up a text that says who did it?"
"Nah. That would be too simple. I'm thinking about leaving something that's going to leave an impression on her, and I might need your help with it," Yang answered. "I'm thinking something from one of your Ninjas Of Love books should do the trick."
"...I'm going to ignore the fact that you have somehow found out about the stuff I read for now," the cat faunus stated. "Why would I help out with-"
"I'll give you four times the tuna that I've already promised," the brawler quickly replied, before her partner could even finish her question. In a flash, Blake was sitting next to Yang, working on the blonde's newest project.
"This is too stupid and ridiculous for me. I'm leaving," Weiss said, wanting to have no part in what her two teammates were doing. Before she left, the heiress said one last thing, "Just to be clear, I had NO part in this at all, okay?"
"Oh, stop worrying so much, Weiss!" Yang said with a small grin. "This isn't going to be like my last plans! I doubt anything is going to go wrong this time!"
Little did the blonde girl know just how wrong she was.
Next day, Ruby was heading towards the workshop once again. However, this time, she wasn't heading there alone. The redhead actually had a whole class of young children around the age of seven years with her. These children were from one of Vale's Huntsman academies, where they would start on their journey into becoming the defenders of humanity. The class' teacher was also with them.
You see, the young team leader had been chose by the Beacon's teachers for a special task. She was going to show Beacon to the young potential Huntsmen and Huntresses in the hopes of making a great impression on them and hopefully getting more future students, along with spreading the word of Beacon's great quality. The reason as to why Ruby had been chose for this task was because of her impressive skills that had made her stand out among other students. Not only had she been allowed to join Beacon two years earlier than normal, but she had also kept up with the older and more experienced students, and was eventually even able to surpass pretty much all of them as well.
Being chosen to show around the school for potential future students was a great honor for Ruby, as it would certainly help her in her career in the future, which is why she immediately accepted the offer. So far, things had been going perfectly for the redhead. She had shown almost every part of Beacon, with the children being amazed by everything they saw. Now she just needed to show them their last stop, where she had even prepared something special to show the little guests.
"Ms. Rose, this has been a wonderful tour!" the teacher of the children said to the young guide with a smile on her face. "I honestly had my doubts at first, but I'm happy to say that they were completely unnecessary. I am going to make sure your headmaster hears about your great performance today."
"Thank you, ma'am," Ruby said politely. "However, there is still one more place left on the tour I planned for us and it's my favorite place in the whole school. I also have something special to show the kids there."
The redhead made it to the workshop with the group she was guiding and started to show the place to all the little children in the group. A happy smile spread over Ruby's face over seeing how excited and awestruck the members of her tour group seemed. Now she just needed to do one more thing and she would have completed the tour.
"Now, one of the best things about the workshop here is what you can do with the computers here," the young team leader said, as she turned on one of the computers and made some adjustments that would allow everything she was doing to be shown on a big screen for the whole group. "Beacon has the best possible weapon designing program on these computers, which allows you to work on upgrading your current weapon or to even make something completely new, if you feel like doing so."
Ruby opened up the program she was talking about and opened up one of the files she had been working on for some time now. The real reason she had been designing these weapons was not for the sake of actually building them for her own use, but to have something to show to her tour group today. When the redhead had suggested this to the teachers, they had all liked the idea, as it would show just how advanced their schools equipment was. Ruby herself had always loved weapons and liked working on them, so this not only allowed her to spend some time with one of her hobbies, but it also allowed her to show just how skilled she was. This whole thing was supposed to be the big finale for the tour.
Unfortunately, her plans had been ruined pretty badly.
Ruby had expected the children to make sounds of awe and wonder upon seeing her great weapon design. However, when all she received was silence, the redhead looked at the school's young guests and saw them all staring at the screen with their eyes as wide as possible. Ruby looked at the children's teacher and saw that the woman also had a rather strange expression on her face, although hers was one of absolute horror.
Unaware of what had caused such a reaction with her tour group, the young team leader turned to look at the screen she had set up to show her computer's monitor. Upon seeing what was on it, it was Ruby's turn to have her face change into an expression of horror. On the screen, showing the weapon designing program, was a very detailed model of five people in a rather "intimate" position with each other. And while we could give you a more detailed description of what was happening in the model, this story wouldn't be able to get away with it, even with a M-rating, so we leave the rest to your imagination. Just think of something that would require you to search for very specific things on the internet without the safe search, and could possibly get you arrested even.
It took a couple of seconds for Ruby's mind to get over the shock of what she had seen for her to try to fix what had happened. In a panic, the redhead quickly closed the file that she had opened and she started to go through the rest, hoping to find what she had actually been looking for. However, all she ended up finding were more similar models.
"MS. ROSE! WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS!?" the children's teacher yelled with a face red from anger. "HOW COULD YOU SHOW SUCH FILTH TO YOUNG CHILDREN!?"
"I-I-I-I'M SO SORRY ABOUT THIS!" Ruby apologized in a panic, while trying her best to fix the whole mess. "I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT HAS HAPPENED! IT WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO GO LIKE THIS!"
The scythe-wielder then noticed something. There was a text file among all the files for the models, which wasn't there before. Hoping for it to give her some answers, Ruby opened it up. Upon reading what it said, her panic was quickly replaced with a new feeling, blinding rage.
The text file simply said:
Missing something? Come and get it from me!
-Yang ;)
"OH, YOU MOTHER-!"
Meanwhile in the city of Vale, the three older girls of team RWBY were sitting at a cafe, enjoying some coffee and cake, when they all could have sworn that they heard something. That something sounded very similar to their team leader, and she sounded like she was VERY pissed off.
"D-Did you guys hear that?" Blake asked with a slightly pale face.
"Blake, I felt that," Yang answered as the cup of coffee in her hands was shaking violently. 'How did I screw up this time!?'
Later that night, the WBY were slowly and carefully making their way to their dorm. The reason for their slow approach was that they were afraid Ruby was in a bad mood, which was something they feared from the sound they had heard earlier that day. The three girls were hoping that if they arrived back at the dorm as late as possible, their angry team leader might have gone to sleep by then.
"S-Surely Rubes is asleep by now, right?" Yang asked nervously as she made her way towards their dorm's door. "T-There's no way that she would actually stay up this late for us, right?"
"I'm not sure," Blake answered fearfully. "It sounded like she was really angry. I wonder if she would even be able to fall asleep with that much anger."
"This is ridiculous! You two know that you can't avoid it, so why don't you just go inside already!?" Weiss asked in a frustrated tone. "Besides, you're the ones she wants! I don't have anything to worry about!"
"Really?" Yang asked with a raised eyebrow. "Then mind explaining why you haven't just gone in the dorm already? Or better yet, if you're so safe, why are your knees shaking?"
"D-Don't judge me!" the heiress said with an embarrassed blush on her face. "I've seen how bad Ruby can be when she's angered, so I'm just worried about getting attacked on accident! I want her to at least get her hands on you two first, so I'll know that I'm safe!"
"Despite what she's saying, Weiss does have a point, Yang," Blake told her partner. "No matter what we do, we are going to have to face Ruby again. All we can hope is that she won't be too angry with us."
Knowing that the cat faunus was right, Yang let out a deep sigh and began to slowly open the door. Once it had been opened just a little bit, the three girls saw that the room was dark inside, which could mean that Ruby had gone to sleep. Relief washed over the WBY and they fully opened the door and started to make their way in, only for the lights to suddenly turn on and show them something truly terrifying.
Ruby was sitting on a chair in the middle of the room and she was staring at her teammates with a very angry look on her face.
"About time you three came back," the redhead said calmly, but one could easily hear the anger behind her voice. "Do you have any idea why I've been waiting for you? It has something to do with a recent prank by one of you. Care to take a guess what it was?"
"Umm... Rubes, I know what I out on that computer was... explicit, but you don't need to worry," Yang nervously explained, hoping that she could calm down the younger girl. "The files you had been working on are not lost at all. In fact, I have them safely stored-"
"I'm afraid it's a bit too late for that, Yang," Ruby said, cutting off the older girl and raising her voice a bit. "Those files you took are meaningless now. The only reason I worked on them was for this day only and you have completely ruined that. Would you like to guess what you've just managed to ruin with that little stunt you pulled?"
"W-W-What happened?" Blake asked, fearing the answer. "What were those weapon designs meant for?"
"I am very glad you asked! You see, I was chosen by the teachers to give a tour of Beacon to a group of young children, who are just starting their training to become Huntsmen," the redhead started to explain. "I believe they were at best seven years old, if even that. Now, this was obviously a great opportunity for me, when considering the future prospects it would open up for me. Now, do you have any idea what the last place I showed to those kids was? Or what special thing I had planned for them there?"
The WBY didn't answer the question, as their eyes went wide and their faces turned pale from realization. The three girls really hoped that they were wrong about where this story was going.
"I see that you three figured out what happened," Ruby said, noticing the looks on her teammates' faces. "The files for the weapon designs had been switched with your pornographic image. Would one of you mind explaining as to why in the hell did you do that?"
"IT WAS HER IDEA! SHE DID IT!" both Weiss and Blake yelled while pointing at Yang, hoping to escape their team leader's wrath.
"HEY! What the hell, you guys!? Why are you throwing me under the bus!? What happened to being friends and comrades!?" the blonde yelled back at the monochrome duo. "Besides, you helped me out, Blake!"
"DON'T DRAG ME DOWN WITH YOU!" the cat faunus screamed.
"SHUT UP!" Ruby yelled as loud as she could, silencing her teammates. The three older girls looked at their young leader and saw that her calm expression had changed into one of anger. "I don't care about ANY excuses right now! All I want is a goddamn explanation from you three! Now, can one of you give it to me!?"
"Ummm... Well... You see, Ruby... it was supposed to be a... prank," Yang answered while fearing what would happen next.
"...Excuse me?" the scythe-wielder asked in a deadpan voice. "Did you just say that it was a PRANK?"
"Y-Y-Yeah! It wasn't supposed to cause any harm at all!" the brawler explained. "I mean, we didn't know about-"
Yang's explanation was cut off by Ruby raising her hand in a sign that told the older girl to stop. With her three teammates silent, the redhead took a deep breath, before giving the older girls the most furious glare they had ever seen.
"ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME!?" Ruby practically roared with fury, now standing up from her chair. "YOU MEAN TO TELL ME THAT ONE OF THE GREATEST OPPORTUNITIES IN MY LIFE WAS RUINED BECAUSE OF A PRANK!? IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE TELLING ME!?"
"I... guess?" Yang answered while shaking in terror. Both Weiss and Blake were hugging each other while shaking in fear. "Although, was it really that bad? I mean, surely you can get a chance like this again, right?"
"Oh, I highly doubt that, Xiao Long!" the young team leader began to rant. "Not only did I possibly traumatize those poor kids because of your little "prank", but their teacher made it very clear just how upset she was! Not only was I called a disgusting pervert, an incompetent fool and many other things, but she also demanded Ozpin that I would get expelled from Beacon! You have no idea just how furious she was with me! Luckily, I managed to explain the whole thing to Professor Ozpin and Goodwitch, who both thankfully believed me and decided to let me off slightly with this whole disaster! However, the class' teacher told me that she would tell all the other schools what had happened here today! This will certainly be a mark on my record that will stay with me for the rest of my life! AND IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!"
"Rubes, I doubt it's going to-"
"SHUT UP! JUST SHUT YOUR DAMN MOUTH! I have been through too much crap today for any of your lame excuses!" Ruby yelled, cutting off Yang. "With all the crap you've put me through these last few days, you leave me no choice but to do the one thing that will surely make you listen!"
"A-And what is that?" Yang asked.
Before any of the three older girls realized what had happened, the scythe-wielder used her Semblance to suddenly run up to the brawler, grab her, take her to the chair and had her lay on her stomach on her lap.
"W-What's going on?" Yang asked, wondering just what Ruby was planning. However, she couldn't help but feel like this was somehow familiar.
"Something dad used to do, when you were naughty," the redhead answered coldly.
The blonde's eyes went wide as she started to realize what was going on. Her fears were confirmed as she saw Ruby holding a belt in one of her hands that she was slowly raising up.
"Rubes... No!" Yang pleaded, but it was hopeless. Nothing was going to stop the younger girl.
Without mercy, Ruby began to spank the older girl with the belt, causing her to cry. This went on for some time with Yang's crying getting louder with each hit, while Ruby remained just as angry as she had been at the start.
Meanwhile, Weiss and Blake were watching their blonde teammate get her punishment, while shaking in fear. They were really glad that they had managed to avoid this.
Or so they thought.
"Woah... Ruby's really savage," Weiss said while watching her partner punish the brawler.
"Yeah... I sure am glad I managed to avoid this," Blake said.
"Don't get comfortable just yet, Blake!" Ruby yelled, having just finished Yang's punishment. "Because you're next!"
"Wait, wha-" the cat faunus began to ask, but was quickly put in the same situation her partner had just been in. Now it was Blake's turn to cry, while her team leader spanked her. "Hang on a second! I didn't anything! This was all Yang's work, not mine!"
"Oh, I know that Yang was the main culprit here, but you helped her!" Ruby yelled while continuing to spank the raven-haired girl. "I know for a fact that Yang doesn't know how to use the weapon designing program, so someone must have helped her! She even said it herself!"
"Serves you right, Blake..." Yang muttered while she continued to cry and rub her sore butt. "That's what you get for trying to throw me under the bus..."
"Well, it's good to see that at least I managed to avoid this," Weiss said.
"Your turn is next, Weiss!" Ruby yelled while still spanking Blake. "You knew about what they were doing and didn't tell me about it! You're just as guilty as they are!"
The heiress' face turned pale, as she could only wait for her turn to get punished.
A while later, Ruby was done with punishing her teammates, who were now all crying and tending to their sore behinds. With her work done, the young team leader walked up to the door and was just about to leave, but decided to give one last warning to her team.
"Let this be a lesson to you all. I am done with all the stupid stunts you idiots keep pulling. Keep this up and I swear it will only get worse," Ruby threatened her teammates. "Now, I'll be staying the night in team JNPR's dorm, because I'm still very pissed off with you three. I'm hoping that staying away from you for some time could calm down my anger at least a bit, so keep your distance from me."
After giving her warning, the redhead slammed the door behind her and walked away, leaving behind three older girls in tears.
"Yang, from now on, I don't care what you're planning, just don't tell me about it," Weiss said. "I don't want to risk getting dragged down with you again."
"Same here. This was not worth the tuna you promised me," Blake said.
Yang didn't bother responding to the comments of her two teammates. She was too busy being worried about herself at the moment. The blonde hoped that she would never had to go through such punishment ever again.
Author's notes: And I'm back to doing this story again! Sorry for making you guys wait, but I really felt the need to take a break from this story. However, after getting so much support from you all, I decided to continue. Not only do I hold this story personally dear to me, but it's also becoming my second most popular story on this site, which I'm very surprised by.
However, I may have some bad news. I recently started studying, so I won't be able to work on my stories as much as I could not too long ago. I'm still determined to continue them and I hope to bring them to a finish. Just be prepared that I can't get updates on such a fast pace as I did some time ago.
Also, I do want to give a small apology to Coolgirl for the way I reacted to her previous comment. It just personally irked me a bit, since the idea that I should change the pairing because I've used it so often kind of got to me, when most RWBY fanfics seem to have pretty much the same pairings all time. I do understand the reasoning behind her request and others who also made it, but I'll say it here again that there won't be a change.
Anyways, I hope you guys liked the chapter and will check out the next one, when I get it done.
Until next time.
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