Chapter 2 Departure from Patch

Key

"A character speaking."

'A character thinking.'

Ruby fell on to Texas, who simply picked her up and laid her down behind the podium. By the time she was done doing this the sizable army of Grimm had arrived, the older Grimm were observing and watching this new human that was standing in front of them carefully. A young Beowulf was the first to mindlessly charge towards Texas, with its claws ready to sink into the skin of its opponent, before it could even reach her it was vaporized by a fourteen-inch high explosive round along with some other Grimm a little further back.

'What are these things mutated animals, a mad scientist's escaped experiments, or are they the result of some radiation leaks?' Texas mused while shooting more beowolfves with her pitifully small secondary battery.

'Plus why do they seem so hellbent on trying to kill me, can't they see how outmatched they are in this battle?' The aged battleship pondered.

Why would these animals act more like monsters than thinking creatures? Why were they after that girl? Most important of all, how was she alive? Last thing she knew was that she was due for another rebuild then, she was sent to the bottom of the Gulf Coast after spontaneously exploding. What did someone summon her or something? But she knew that focusing on the now more important, she didn't know what her enemies full capabilities were, and being lost in thought could distract her, possibly even getting that little girl killed.

An Ursa was sneaking upon her while she was pondering all of this, it raised its claws and struck with the strength of twenty men at her back. All that achieved was shredding the back of her jacket. Now fully aware of its existence she aimed both of the aft turrets and opened fire on the unfortunate Grimm. Disintegrating the ash into just microscopic particles.

'Maybe that was a little overkill, I could've hurt that girl by making that pedestal fall on top of her from the force of the blast.' She worriedly admitted while glancing at Ruby.

With this brief distraction a King Taijitu coiled around Texas, and proceeded to constricting her immediately hoping to kill this strange human. However Texas simply responded by having all of her anti air guns open fire at the absurdly large snake, killing it by making various new holes through every surface of it's body. Now all that remained were ten beowolves, one normal Ursa, and the alpha Ursa. Now hoping to get this fight over with Texas fired at the unsuspecting Grimm with all ten of her main guns. She succeeded in killing all but the alpha Ursa which was somewhat in the cave still, now forced to fight her directly the heavily armored Grimm charged Texas knowing that the primary threat of the turrets were reloading.

"Huh so it seems that your the only one left, I'd say leave or else, but your seem to be a mindless monster, so I doubt you would understand me let alone listen." Texas smugly taunted the charging monster.

Instead of using her main guns, or even the secondary guns Texas instead started shooting at it with all her forty millimeter Bofors. The forty millimeter rounds shredded the alpha Ursa. Thanks to it's massive size and armor it endured long enough to crunch onto Texas's left arm. It's reward for chomping down on her arm was by being shot in the skull six times by one of Texas's three inch guns killing it.

"Man that hurt, I think that broke my skin!" Texas shouted.

'If my arm wasn't strong as steel that would have ripped my whole limb off.' She vividly imagined.

Now that the final threat was gone Texas was left wondering how she was going to bring this girl with her. She could carry her sure, but in the event anything happened on the open ocean she would have to hold on to her and fight the person at the same time. That wouldn't work because it was both impractical and risky to her well-being. She couldn't leave her here unconscious after all one of those monsters might show up and kill her, or worse bring her back to where ever they came from, assuming she'd seen something that a mad scientist didn't want her to see.

"Maybe I can just think the armor off?" The battleship innocently questioned.

It was worth a shot after all she had just fought an unnatural assortment of monsters, that turn into ash after you kill them. Well maybe unnatural was pushing it a little more like monstrous abominations of nature, that was better.

'Um armor off.' Texas hesitantly ordered, however nothing happened.

'Maybe it's rigging off?' She questioned.

Then in a flash of light her rigging turned into blue cubes, and floated into the water together forming the ship U.S.S. Texas in all of its glory. The ship had minor damage done to it's superstructure and holes in the wooden deck.

"That's the most all of those things could do to me, minor damage to the superstructure and deck, even then it was only from those two bears and that twin headed snake." Texas hearty laughed.

"Whelp better leave before more of those things show up and hurt this little girl." She declared.

She walked over to pick up the girl, but decided to examine her first. The young girl had short black hair with hues of red, she was wearing a red cape that seemed torn. Anyway it was fastened around her throat, with a long sleeve black dress, which ended in a black skirt that had a red trim. She also wore a pair of long black stocking and combat boots. There didn't seem to be any injuries, so Texas concluded that it was perfectly safe to pick her up without hurting her. She proceeded to pick Ruby up by supporting her legs and head.

Then jump onto the ship, and went down and searched until she found the captain's quarters. Once in the room she placed Ruby onto the bed, put the blanket on top of her, placed her hat on Ruby's head, and took off the compact scythe from her belt. She left when Ruby was sound asleep. While in said room though Texas changed out her clawed uniform for a clean one.

Assuming the girl just needed some good sleep from whatever made her that exhausted. Texas decided the ship needed to leave from this makeshift port she was currently docked at right away so as to make it harder for any one to track her. She did pick up some radio signals from the island, so she could go there and see if they had maps of any kind, though steaming into a port in a battleship even in war time would attract a lot of attention, and that was the last thing the old battle wagon wanted right now.

14 hours later.

"Uh where am I?" Ruby groggily groaned out, shortly after waking up.

After rubbing her eyes trying to wake up, she observed that the room she was currently in had a messy desk with her scythe on it, a small closet, and an open door. She also noted the trucker hat from that person, who came from that blue cube was on the floor.

'I wonder where the person who rescued me is?' Ruby questioned. 'Oh I hope she's safe!' She added.

Ruby realized that just wondering wouldn't help anyone so she wanted to search for that person herself. Now that she was motivated to find and thank the lady. Her first few attempts at getting up had ended when her legs violently jolted and gave out from the pain they endured while running from those Grimm.

'Maybe I should take it a little slower for now.' Ruby mused to herself, as she tried to get out of bed again, only this time much slower.

After successfully getting out of bed, she picked up her scythe and the trucker hat in search of the woman who saved her life. She found the door led out into a rather cramped walkway which lead outside and to some stairs, however it would be easier to try and find someone inside of a building than outside of one, so Ruby went further into the bowels of the ship. The first few rooms she stumbled upon didn't seem all that note worthy. All the while her stomach had been grumbling at her for some food. She went down some more stairs and

"Huh now that I'm in a mess hall, I hope nobody minds me grabbing a bite to eat, because I'm starving." Ruby sheepishly blurted out as she walked through this very odd building's narrow mess hall.

'Now that I think about it this place sort of reminds me of Atlas's old museum ship, or at least from the pictures I've seen of it.' She added though only in thought.

"Oh good you finally woke up." A voice suddenly shouted from inside the kitchen.

Ruby was kind of glad she found someone because so far this strange building seems to have nobody in it.

"Um hello my name is Ruby Rose who are you, and were you the person who saved me?" Ruby inquired as to whom she was talking to.

"Why hello miss Ruby, name's Texas and I hope you had a good sleep in the captain's bed after you have been asleep for fourteen hours." The living battleship responded while leaving the kitchen and into view of Ruby with two trays of food in hand.

"Fffffffffourteen hours!" Ruby shouted in surprise at the revelation of how much time had passed.

"Oh no Yang, Dad, and Uncle Qrow must be worried sick about me, I need to let them know I'm safe now! Do you have a scroll on you, so I can call them and where on Patch are we?" Ruby hastily asked, Texas meanwhile was shocked that someone could physically talk this fast without stopping for air.

'Oh shit what have I done?' Texas inwardly thought after realizing what Ruby had just said.

"Well um could a radio broadcast work instead of a "scroll"?" The old battleship somewhat confidently asked the young girl.

"It's an odd way of calling a scroll but I don't see why not." Ruby thankfully confirmed to her.

"Good cause I have some very powerful radio equipment connected to the conning tower." Texas answered with a sigh of relief.

"How about we eat and then when we're done we can contact them does that sound okay with you?" Texas questioned Ruby hoping to get her first taste of food before running all the way up to the conning tower.

"Could we please do it now I really don't want them to worry any longer?" Ruby pleaded to her.

"Okay then lets go." She defeatedly responded, because now she had to try and explain to this girl and possibly even her family how a thirty-three thousand ton battleship materialized out of thin air.

"As for your second question where on Patch we are, um well you can see for yourself." Ruby's new accomplice randomly decided to respond as they were just now leaving her hou-.

"Hey um where are we and why is it surrounded by ocean." She asked hoping Texas would respond soon.

"Sure I'll answer your question with another question how did you bring me back to life?" Texas simply responded to her question.

"Well I grabbed a blue shining cube that talked to me using telepathy saying that if I don't grab the cube I'll die by myself, and I was tired after running for about two hours straight." Ruby rambled while doing some terrible voice impressions.

"Wait what do you mean you died, are you a zombie, do you eat brains?" Ruby started inquiring.

"Well to answer your questions, except the last two." A disappointed Ruby could be heard.

"Anyway that cube thing you grabbed seems to somehow have brought me back to life in the form of a human with the ability to either summon the ship we are currently on right now, or turn this ship into blue cubes that become the equipment I used to fight off those monstrous creatures." Texas tried her best to respond to Ruby's question.

"As for where we are well the battleship Texas, but I have no clue what ocean we are in other than the fact that it seems to be similar to the Atlantic ocean, though I would like to ask you or your folks tell me what ocean Patch is surrounded by." She again tried to explain the where to the best of her abilities to Ruby.

Texas then turned around to see what Ruby's honest reaction to all the info she told her, but all the battlewagon could see were stars in her eyes after seeing all the weapons on board.

"Hey can I ask you something Texas?" Ruby asked while still fixated on one of her many twenty millimeter Oerlikons.

"What caliber gun is this? How do you take it off the mount and can I examine it for a little while?" She eccentrically shouted over the roar of the ocean.

"How about I show you all the weapons after we call your family?" Texas yelled back to her.

"Oh right sorry but once I see a weapon I have to see how it works." She apologized, catching up to me immediately.

"Wow that is a thick and heavy-duty door." Ruby bewildered when seeing the door to the conning tower.

"Well it is twelve inches thick." Texas flatly responded to her.

Walking into the room Ruby realized that this must be a command tower.

"What is this room used for?" Ruby asked Texas.

"It's supposed to be used in combat scenarios but for the most part it's a waste of time to move to this room from the command deck, so now I'm going to leave it alone after this one time use." Texas flatly responded to her yet again.

"Anyway here are the communications area so all you have to do is put in the right broadcast frequency and it should work hopefully." Texas tiredly told Ruby.

Ruby tuned the frequency to that of her scroll, which she remembered from when her dad taught both her and Yang how to contact other devices.

Ring, Ring,Phone call, Phone call

"Ugh Ruby turn of your scroll's ring mail." Yang groggily yelled.

Ring, Ring,Phone call, Phone call

'Wait Ruby's scroll only has Dad, uncle Qrow and my numbers' Yang realized.

Ring, Ri-

"Yes Ruby is that you!" Yang worriedly shouted.

"Oh hey Yang are you okay." Ruby replied to her sister.

"Where are you, are you okay, and did you kick any but." Yang asked her sister.

"In the middle of the ocean, yup, and sadly no." Ruby responded.

"Wait how the hell are you in the middle of the ocean." Yang shouted.

"Well you see there was this cave, then I was chased by Grimm, then I found this blue cube that turned into a person, and now I'm on a battleship in the middle of the ocean." She enthusiastically told to her sister.

"So what were you guys doing when I left?" she earnestly asked.

"Welllll about that." Yang hesitantly responded.

(P.S. this is my first fan fiction so any and all criticism is welcomed)