Hey, guys, GaeaChronos here with Chapter 3 of Kamen Rider Garnet!
Don't really have much to say, so let's get on with it!
Chapter 3
Ruben woke to the sound of his scroll's alarm by his pillow.
Yawning, he reached for it and turned the alarm off. Getting off his bed, he did a few stretches, and unplugged his scroll's charger.
Normally, Yang would scold him about the dangers of leaving his gadgets plugged in, but he just tends to forget.
After a quick shower, he changed into his school uniform, not forgetting to put his red jacket on top of it.
The jacket was given to him by Qrow, as congratulations for completing Crescent Rose. He used to wear a different jacket, given to him by his mother, which he still holds on to this very day despite growing out of it for more than five years.
Reaching inside his pillow, he takes out the Aura Driver, and puts it inside his uniform's pocket.
Upon turning around, he is met with the wide lilac eyes of his sister.
"Umm... Yang...?"
"How was it?"
"How was what?"
"You know..." Yang trailed off, nudging her brother with her elbow, waggling her eyebrows at him.
"No, I don't know." he deadpanned. Seriously, what is up with her today?
"You know, the Ice Queen! How'd you go about it last night, huh? Y'know, when you popped her cherry!"
Ruben' eyes widened, a blush forming on his face.
"I-It's nothing like that!"
"Nothing like what?"
"I didn't, 'pop her cherry', as you'd call it." he insisted, making air quotes.
Yang gasped dramatically.
"You mean she already...?!"
"That was not what I meant and you know it!"
"Come ooooon! At least tell me about it! Weiss wasn't saying anything!"
"Nothing happened last night! And even if it did happen, do I look like I'd tell you something that sensitive?!"
Yang pouted.
"Fine. I didn't wanna have to do this, but if you don't tell me, I'll tell Weiss and Blake about Mr. Fluffles!"
Ruben grew pale at his sister's threat. She'd seriously go that far?!
"You wouldn't dare."
"Come on, Rubes! I just wanna know if she's treating you right!"
"Wait. Isn't that supposed to be the othet way around?"
"You're younger, so..." she stated as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"Yang, nothing happened last night. Seriously."
"Aww, but she was all over you last night!"
"That's because a centipede crawled up her leg last night. A pretty big one too, now that I think about it."
The blonde shuddered. She can't even begin to imagine what it would be like to have something with that many legs crawl over her. But, wait...
"Why were you in the bathroom with her?"
"Uhh... well... that's..."
"Aha! I knew it!"
"Yang, no!"
"You must've been making out in there, and the centipede scared you guys out of the bathroom!"
"It was nothing like that! We just talked!"
"About what?"
"Things!"
"What kind of things?"
"The kind that would make you feel uncomfortable if said aloud, like haircuts, split ends, dandruff-"
"Stop! Not those horrible things!"
"-lice-"
"Nope! Not hearing it!"
The door opened to reveal Blake walking into the room.
"Oh, thank goodness!" Ruben sighed in relief. "Blake, help me out here!"
"Help you out with what, exactly?"
"Get Yang off my back! She won't stop bugging me about last night!"
"Only because you won't tell me what happened last night!"
Blake sighed.
"Yang, knock it off. I'm pretty sure nothing happened last night."
"But, how can you be sure?"
"Yang, we were in the same room last night. I'm pretty sure we would have noticed." the black haired girl deadpanned.
"But..." the blonde crossed her arms, deep in thought. Then, her face lit up in realization.
"Ohh!"
"Finally," Ruben breathed out "thanks, Blake-"
"We killed the moment for you last night, didn't we?"
"... Oh, dear Lord, no..." he facepalmed. She completely misunderstood.
"Well, you won't have to worry about tonight, Rubes!" his sister assured "We'll make sure to get back extra late." she winked as she exited the room. Right as she did, Ruben buried his face in his hands and groaned in frustration.
"This was worse than the time a girl gave me Valentine chocolates back at Signal."
"Why? What happened?" Blake tilted her head curiously.
"She wouldn't stop bugging me about asking her out. Even though the girl made it clear they were just, 'for a friend.'" he said, making air quotes.
"That wasn't so bad."
"Why do you think I said this was worse? She totally thinks me and Weiss are doing it."
"Aren't you?"
"Blake, come on-" he looked up to find his teammate looking at him with a playful smirk.
"Oh, ha ha, Blake. Very funny. I'll see you at breakfast."
And with that, he made his way out of the room.
After a walk to the cafeteria, and ordering his food, he made his way to the tables, finding his partner sitting at one of them along with his sister and Team JNPR.
"Morning, guys." he greeted, sitting beside Weiss as everyone greeted back.
"It's 'Weiss and I', by the way." the heiress commented offhandedly as she ate.
"Uhh... What?" he tilted his head in confusion.
"I had a feeling you said 'me and Weiss' a few minutes ago."
"How... did...?"
"I just know, okay?"
"Oooo...kay...?" he began to eat his breakfast. It was rather uneventful, with the occasional over the top story from Nora, with Ren correcting her. A few minutes later, Blake joined in, seated beside her partner.
Ruben just listened along, enjoying his omelette, until a part of Nora's story caught his attention.
"... And then, there was this weird Grimm that showed up! It was, like, scary strong! My grenades couldn't do anything to it! Only when I hit it with my hammer, then it started to get hurt!"
Ruben looked at his partner, who was also listening to the story with wide eyes.
Ren, to everyone's surprise, didn't correct his partner. In fact, he even added to it.
"It was quite a battle," he began "it seemed that any sort of conventional weaponry wasn't doing much against it." to which Nora nodded.
"Yeah! And it hurt. Like, one punch sent us both flying! But, of course, we won't back down that easily! I jumped at it, sending my hammer down on it, but it caught it.
But, that was part of our plan! With both arms occupied, Ren dashed in, and used his ninja moves-"
"I used my Aura." Ren cut in.
"-And blew that thing's arm off! And then I thought: 'Yes! We can do this!' but that thing was kind of a butt, so it charged at us. Ren got knocked out the moment he got hit-"
"I tried to block it, because it was charging too fast, but I miscalculated how much power was behind that tackle, so I was sent flying to a wall. I wasn't knocked out, but I was definitely disoriented."
"Yeah! And when he got hit, I was like: 'How dare you touch my man?!' and slammed my hammer down on it! But it caught me, and threw me so hard that I was seeing stars when I landed.
And then...
He came in."
"He?" Yang asked. The rest of the table was now intent on hearing the end of the story.
"Our savior! An armored hero, clad in brilliant red armor!" Nora gushed.
"Oh! You guys ran into 'The Red Warrior'?" Jaune asked.
Nora nodded enthusiastically.
"Red Warrior?" Ruben asked. Can't they come up with a better name?! That's freaking generic!
"Yeah." Team JNPR's leader nodded. "He's this vigilante that's all over the net lately. No one's been able to get him in a photo or video once, because whenever he's around, any electronic device shuts off, so the only way to know about him is through word of mouth.
Anyway, Nora, continue."
"Okay! So, where was I? Oh, yeah! So there he was, standing heroically, and asked us: 'Are you okay?' then helped us up. He looked at the monster's severed arm, and was like: 'Wow. Good job weakening it. But you can leave this to me, now." then, he charged at it and kicked it in the gut!
The weird Grimm was sent flying, but he wasn't done yet! He just kept beating it around for several minutes, almost like he was playing with it, and then punched it in the face! By that time, he must've gotten bored with it, so he jumped in the air, and gave it a flying kick so intense it blew up on the spot!
Really wished we could thank him for it, but he ran off as soon as he made sure it was dead."
Then as if on cue, the bell rang.
The two teams rushed to their first class in a panic.
The rest of the day went on as normal. There were a few minor inconveniences, like Team CRDL messing with Ruben and Jaune, but nothing too major.
By the time their last period ended, Jaune decided it was a good idea to try and ask Weiss out.
"So, Weiss," he started "There's this new cafe that opened in Vale, and I was kinda hoping that you might like checking it out with me."
Weiss was about to turn him down, when Ruben cut in.
"Hey, Weiss!" he greeted. "Blake and Yang saw this new cafe that opened in Vale, wanna come with?"
Weiss turned to her partner, and nodded.
"Sure. That sounds nice. Let's get changed out of our uniforms first."
The two then made their way back to their dorm room, leaving Jaune behind.
As the two walked, Weiss noticed that her partner is kind of tense. She looked at him as he sent a text to his sister. He almost seemed... upset.
When they got into the dorm room, Weiss asked:
"Ruben, is there something wrong? You seemed kind of tense."
Ruben flinched, clearly he wasn't aware that he wasn't being subtle.
"It's just..." he sighed, then ran his hands through his hair in frustration. "'Red Warrior'?! Red Warrior'?! Really?! That's the most generic name the internet could think of, and that's what they call me?!"
Weiss was caught off guard. That's why he was upset?! It was almost laughable, that that was what's worrying him. It was kind of adorable, really.
But she would never say that in front of him.
"This is coming from the guy who calls his enemies 'Uniques'!" she laughed.
"It's not funny!"
"Come on, Red Warrior. We don't wanna miss the next bullhead now, do we?" she teased, making him growl out in frustration.
"I hate you guys right now. I'm going to think of a better name for myself when I go out on patrol later." he said, grabbing a change of clothes.
"You're going out fighting again tonight?"
"Yeah. I do that every night."
"Shouldn't you rest at least for one day?"
"Not when there are Uniques around every corner."
That can't be healthy.
"Come on, Weiss. You can change in the bathroom, I'm sure there's no centipede there now."
"You're never gonna live that down, are you?"
"Nope. Now hurry before Yang bombards us with impatient texts."
"Alright, fine..." she said, grabbing a set of clothes before going to the bathroom, but now before letting out a final,
"Red Warrior..."
"Urk-!"
And that's about it!
Ruben: Seriously?! You create a Kamen Rider AU, and there's barely any fight scenes?!
Hey, I'm just writing this as I go along, get off my case!
Ruben: Don't give me that!
Rubes, relax. That's for next chapter.
Ruben: You better.
GaeaChronos is out. Peace!