Welcome back people of the world. Enjoy another chapter of 'RWBY REACTS'.
Chapter Two: First Encounter
After everyone had satisfied their hunger and other needs, they retook their seats and waited for the screen to switch on and show them the next scene of the story. They didn't have to wait long as the screen came to life and Ruby's counterpart was seen just arriving home with her bicycle.
(on screen)
Ruby parked her bike in the barn next to the house and after locking it up she made her into her home and heard the telephone ringing.
"Hello, this is Ruby Rose speaking. Who's calling?" she asked on the phone.
"Ruby, I'm really sorry but I need to work late tonight. There's some chicken in the icebox. You can have that and some carrots-." Summer listed off but her daughter had other plans as she lifted the lid of the bread bin to reveal different sweets and cookies.
"I'm way ahead of you, mom" said Ruby while smirking internally.
"I'll make it up to you, okay? I love you honey."
"Me too."
"Oh and Ruby…no scary movies, no late night snacks, in bed by eight, got it" ordered Summer sternly.
"Come on mom, it's me, remember?" said Ruby with a completely false innocent tone.
(off screen)
"Ruby Rose! I thought you were done sneaking junk food to bed. We are going to have long talk young lady" said Tai sternly but was struggling to not to crack at his daughter's puppy eyes as she stared at him. "That's not going to work s-so just stop it now." But his resolve instantly shattered the moment Ruby's lip quivered and a few tears threatened to fall from her eyes.
Knowing he was defeated, Tai just sighed tiredly, "Alright you win, you can have as much junk food as you want."
Ruby pumped her fist in victory while her uncle Qrow patted her defeated father on the back and saying not to feel too bad as many had fallen to her adorableness and that only Summer was immune to it.
(on screen)
It was almost 10pm and Ruby was still wide awake and watching a scary on the tv in a makeshift fort she made out of blankets and pillows. Her eyes were glued to the television set while also stuffing her face with junk food.
"Why, the porpoise can communicate telepathically, Miss Melon. If we can translate at least 15% of their brain matter into ours….we may be able to read minds." Said the man in the movie as he gestured to various tubes filled with liquid and brains floating in them to a woman with him. Suddenly on of the tubes fell and spilled the brain on the floor. "Darn, a perfectly good brain wasted. I think you've seen enough, so how about a nightcap? Let's say, my place?" he suggested.
The woman just giggled, "I was thinking the same thing. Mind reader" she teased.
Ruby just groaned at the flirting but continued to watch.
"Darn, I seem to have left my keys in the lab" said the man as he searched his pockets before walking back to the lab. He opened the door and flipped the light switch, but nothing happened. Because of the darkness he didn't notice the brain on the floor move on its own as if it were alive.
"You're gonna get it" said Ruby with a mouth full of popcorn.
Finding his keys on the table, the man turned to leave but heard a strange sound from the corner of the lab. Deciding to investigate he cautiously walked to where the sound originated from.
Ruby's attention was drawn from the tv to a weird noise coming upstairs. Grabbing her water gun, she made her upstairs to investigate. She got halfway up the stairs when she heard the man on the movie screaming 'no' over and over in fear and horror.
Racing down, Ruby leaped over her fort and crawled right up to television to witness the man's head be covered by some kind of massive brain monster before the whole screen turned to static.
"Come on! Stupid antenna" she frustratingly said before finding a flashlight and climbing out a window and into a tree to climb to the roof.
She made easily to the roof and slowly walked to were the antenna was supposed to be but all that was there was a torn piece of metal, it's as if the antenna was ripped off completely. Surprise filled the girl as she took in this revelation. She aimed her flashlight further along the property and found various fences were and other equipment were smashed or ripped apart. She scanned the floor and found the destruction led to the forest.
Silver eyes widened from the scene as she whispered "Invaders from Mars!" to herself before narrowing her eyes in determination.
(off screen)
The members of team RWBY all recognised the look on Ruby's 'other's' face and they knew she was going to do something extremely dangerous. They were proven right when the on screen Ruby started collecting supply's which consisted of combat boots, a sniper bb gun which she taped the flashlight to.
"You dolt! You better not be thinking of running into that forest all alone with only that toy to protect yourself with!" Weiss said with frustration, anger and concern in her voice. Sure she found her partner could be annoying at times but that didn't mean she would want any harm to come to her.
"I'll be fine Weiss, I'm used to going through forests alone and I'm pretty sure my counterpart knows how to navigate her way through there, so don't worry, noting will happen to her/me" assured Ruby with confidence.
Yang was looking at her sister with pride. Pride for how far she had come from the once shy and awkward girl to the confident headstrong leader she is now. She knew her sister was going to take the world by storm and she hoped she would be there to see it.
(on screen)
After collecting all her supply's, Ruby put on her signature red hooded cloak before saluting herself in the mirror. She ran out the back door and into the dark forest to find who or what was hidden there.
She had been waking for a few minutes and the deeper she got into the forest the more destruction she found. There were sections on the floor that looked torn, some trees were missing sections of bark and there was even a tree that had been completely uprooted and the young girl was seriously thinking she made a mistake coming out here, but she came this far so she wouldn't give up. Gulping, she pushed forward for a few meters but froze on the spot, her silver eyes widened in shock and awe as she found nearly an entire section of the forest was completely destroyed, as if something massive had come through and smashed everything in sight.
A sound from ahead got her attention, as quickly and quietly as she could she ran and hid behind a big boulder and was slightly hyperventilating. Taking a deep breath to calm herself, she loaded her rifle with bb's and after caulking it, broke from her cover and took aim.
She lowered her weapon when she saw she was in front of the power station and the sound she heard was the electricity moving along the cables and conductors. Walking closer to the power station, Ruby scanned her surroundings but could not find anything. She didn't however notice a pair of glowing eyes in the sky directly behind her turn to the power station.
'BOOM'
'BOOM'
'BOOM'
Came the sudden massive footsteps of a massive metal robot that walked with a purpose towards the station. Ruby was momentarily frozen after first seeing the giant walk towards her but her sense of survival kicked in when one the giant's feet nearly crushed her. Leaping out of the way in time to avoid certain death, the frightened girl desperately ran to try and escape but the massive metal giant easily caught up to her and nearly crushed her but Ruby dove to ground and the massive foot missed by inches but crushed her rifle instead.
Looking up from the ground, Ruby watched as the giant grabbed one of the steel support beams and ripped a piece of before eating it in just a few bites. Ruby's eyes widened as the giant began reaching for one of the conductors and the moment it's hands made contact a surge of electricity entered the giant which sent it stumbling backwards into the cables that sent even more lethal volts into the giant.
"ROOOAAARRR!" was the giant's painful scream as it was electrocuted.
(off screen)
The appearance of the Iron Giant had surprised everyone but not by much as they were told it would be in the story. However, seeing the giant being electrocuted and scream in pain was what shocked them as they weren't expecting it to feel pain like a person.
"This is horrible Renny, he's hurting so much" said Nora as she clung to her boyfriend who was reassuring her the robot would be fine.
"How is it feeling pain? Isn't it just a machine?" asked Yang.
Suddenly Penny answered, "Some machines are just as capable of feeling and emotions just as people are. Not all of them are just mindless bucket of bolts waiting to take orders!" she said with surprising ferocity that even surprised herself.
"Wow, calm down Penny, I didn't mean anything by it. I was just surprised that's all."
"I apologise too. I don't know what came over me. I just felt a burning feeling when you said machines don't have feelings."
"Hey, it's not a problem, so no worries" said Yang with a grin. Penny smiled back and resumed watching.
(on screen)
Summer had just returned from her late night shift and groggily walked into her home to find her daughter's blanket fort and snack on the floor. "Ugh, Ruby" she tiredly mumbled.
Back at the power station the giant was still tangled in the cables, screaming in pain as sparks flew everywhere. A surge suddenly cut the power to the whole town.
Summer's house was suddenly engulfed in darkness, she quickly found a spar torch and went to check on her daughter. "Ruby? Honey?" she called but got no response.
Ruby was currently crouched low and holding her head in an attempt to shield herself from the sparks that were flying everywhere. Suddenly the support beams dislodged and began falling directly towards her. As fast as lighting, Ruby sprang to her feet and narrowly avoided being crushed by the beams and ran back into the forest.
At the blacked out house, Summer opened the door to her child's room only to find it empty. Panic immediately swelled up in the woman as she searched the house for her child. "RUBY!" She shouted.
Ruby just managed to get back into the forest and was about to head home.
"RAAAHHHHGGHGG!"
She froze as she listened to the screams of anguish coming from the massive robot. She wrestled with herself before turning to head back to the power station.
The silver eyed girl came back just to see the giant collapse to its knees and its eyes begin to close, while still screaming in agony the giant was going to die soon if she didn't do something.
Ruby face became set with look that screamed determination before she ran into the electric chaos. Narrowly dodging falling debris and electric sparks, Ruby spotted a massive shut-off switch on the wall. Without wasting time Ruby sprinted towards the switch and jumped on the handle to pull it down. A few seconds of struggling was all that passed before she managed to pull the switch down.
The effect was immediate as all power to the station was cut-off. The giant who just a few moments ago on the verge of possible death froze as the power left the cables that were causing it pain shut off. The giant's glowing eyes went dark before it fell backwards and crashed to the ground with a massive boom.
(off screen)
"That was one the most reckless things I've ever seen you do Ruby! You could've been crushed or electrocuted!" Said Tai after watching his daughter risk her life to save the massive robot.
"He was in pain and dying! What was I supposed to do, just let him die? You know I could never do that, if someone is in trouble and I have the power to help them then I'll do it with everything I got."
"But it's just a robot!"
"It doesn't matter! He was hurting and I had to help him! No matter what."
Taiyang stared at his youngest daughter and couldn't help but see Summer overlapping her. "When did you grow up so fast?" he said softly.
Smirking, Ruby answered, "I had good role models" before hugging her father tightly while everyone smiled at the heart-warming scene.
Ozpin and Glynda glanced at other, "She's going to do great things isn't she?" Asked Glynda with Ozpin nodding in agreement.
"She will, and so will the rest of them. They all have the potential to be amazing Huntsman and Huntresses and so much more. But it will up to them to reach that potential and we'll be there to guide the along the way.
Nodding at her colleague and friend, Gynda turned back to the screen to continue watching.
(on screen)
Catching her breath, Ruby cautiously walked to the downed robot and picked up rock. Crouching behind a log she threw the rock against the cheek of the giant but there was no reaction. She then decided to try something else, after picking up another rock she climbed up to the open mouth of the giant and dropped the rock down its throat. The sound of the rock hitting was heard for a few seconds as it fell into the giant.
Ruby listened in awe at how deep it fell but her awe was replaced by surprise when the giant's eyes slowly opened. Once fully opened the giant glanced at a surprised Ruby who squeaked in surprise as the giant began to stand up. Ruby climbed off as fast as she could and began running like her life depended on it through the forest while hearing the massive footsteps begin to follow her.
She came up to a road and spotted headlights heading her way. "Help! Help! Stop! Stop!" she shouted desperately while waving her arms. She glanced back to the forest but the giant was know-where to be seen.
"Ruby? Ruby!" came the familiar voice of her mother.
"Mom!" A relieved Ruby shouted before being engulfed in a bone crushing hug.
"Don't you no better than to wander off at night alone? What if something happened to you?" Summer said angrily at her daughter who seemed to shrink inside her cloak.
"I'm sorry mom" she apologised softly.
All anger left Summer and relief was all she felt as she held Ruby in her arms. "Don't ever do that to me again. I was so scared, I thought I lost you."
Ruby suddenly grinned as she tried to tell her mother what she had seen. "Mom, you won't believe this but something ate our tv antenna."
"Oh, Ruby" sighed Summer, thinking this was one of Ruby's wild imaginative stories.
"No, I'm serious! But it's not sputnik like Mr Port thought. No, it's a robot! It really it is! And the robot, it's 100 feet high and eats metal!"
Her rant was cut off by the stern voice of her mother which made shrink back into her cloak.
"Stop it!" ordered Summer sternly, having enough of her child's wild ravings for the night. "I'm not….I'm not in the mood" the tired mother said finally.
"Come on, let's go home" Summer said as she guided Ruby into the back seat of the car. As they drove back home, Ruby looked out the back window towards the forest and saw a pair of glowing eyes watching her before tilting slightly to the side as if confused.
(screen darkens)
"Whoa, a giant metal eating robot, that's just awesome in so many ways" geeked out Jaune. There were many comics he read that had giant robots in them and they were always amazing to witness, so seeing one on screen easily made his day.
Everyone agreed with the blonde leader of team JNPR, giant robots were just awesome in every way.
"I'm glad that you find the giant awesome, but I will tell that there's more than meets the eye when it comes to this particular robot. I won't elaborate so don't bother asking. As always, refreshments are available and I will let you know when it's time to view again.
END.
A/N: Hello people of the wooorld! This is your author 'ethanthedragon' speaking. I trust all of you are doing well during this pandemic and no harm has come to any of you. This is the second week of my country's lockdown period and I am getting a little antsy being at home all the time. I have found ways to keep me busy with things like reading fanfiction, manga and books, watching anime and movies over and over again.
My caffeine addiction is slowly but surely disappearing (I say this while drinking a flask of coffee). Anyway I hope you enjoy the chapter and again I thank you all for liking this story and keep coming back for more, it means a lot and motivate me to write more.
That's all for now, enjoy your day, be safe and I'll see you next time.
Ja Ne!
