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Chapter 6: Tai's Junkyard

The cast of RWBY were still laughing about the previous scene, but quieted down when the screen switched on and the next scene began playing.

(on screen)

The Iron Giant, now fully assembled was sitting quietly in the barn when Ruby entered with a stack of comic books and a flashlight in her arms.

"If you're gonna stay here, you gotta keep better track of yourself, sheesh." She said, remembering the debacle with the giant's hand earlier. "Anyway, I thought you'd like, you know, a bedtime story or something. I've got some really cool ones." Ruby told the giant and held up her collection of comics.

(off screen)

Ruby and Jaune leaned slightly forward at the mention of comic books, being avid readers themselves, they were always on the lookout for new stories to be read.

Weiss rolled her eyes at her partner and the blonde haired knight, she knew of their taste in literature was childish in her eyes but didn't say anything.

(on screen)

"Mad magazine, very funny." Said Ruby, holding up a comic. "The Spirit, very cool." She held up another. "Boys Life, eh?" she shrugged before her eyes lit up with excitement. "Oh, here." She said and held up a comic with a man in a blue superhero suit with a red cape and a S on his chest. "This guy is Superman. Sure he's famous now, but he started off just like you. Crash landed in earth and didn't know what he was doing. But he only uses his powers for good, never for evil. Remember that." She finished seriously and placed the comic on the pile of others.

The giant, who had been listening intently suddenly noticed the comic under the one Ruby was just talking about. He used one of massive fingers to move it and found the comic with a massive robot destroying a city on the cover.

"Hmm" He hummed in interest.

Ruby glanced down at the pile and picked up the comic. "That's Atomo, the metal menace. He's not the hero, he the villain. He's not like you, you're a good guy. Like Superman." She said cheerfully a placed the Superman comic on top of Atomo's.

"Superman" the giant said softly when a rumbling got their attention. The giant clutched his metal stomach in surprise and looked to Ruby for help.

"You're hungry aren't you?" she asked and the giant nodded. "But I don't have any metal here. Just follow me."

(off screen)

Yang suddenly had a question, "Hold up, if the giant is made of metal then how does his stomach rumble like a human's?" she asked in confusion.

Penny however had a theory, "The rumbling most likely serves the same purpose for him as it does for people. It indicates when it's time to eat to regain energy for him to function at full capacity." The synthetic girl answered.

Ironwood and Winter nodded in agreement, "I agree with Penny's assessment," said the General. "Without a regularly intake, the giant's capabilities will decrease, so a warning system, the 'rumbling' was most likely built in as a warning for when it's energy levels are too low."

"Oh," Yang simply said, her head spinning a little from the explanations.

(on screen)

Ruby and her giant friend were a good distance from her home and the red cloaked girl climbed onto the crouching giants hand.

"Pick me up, okay?" Ruby told the giant who without warning stood up to his full height, making the girl fall to her stomach from the sudden rush. Standing up, Ruby was awed by the height she was at, she could literally see for miles! "Whoa!" she gasped. She then pointed forward and said, "Okay, now, march!"

The giant complied, and began walking forward. The sudden movement threw Ruby on her back, but she quickly got back up and clutched one of the giant's fingers for support. Looking down, she was once again awed at the height of the giant of the giant and the sound of he's massive footsteps.

"Heehaw!" cheered the young rose in absolute joy as they marched through the county side in night.

After a few minutes of walking through the forest, the pair were on a big hill when they spotted the glowing lights of the town.

"Oh yeah, that's Patch." Ruby told the giant. "Nice place, huh?"

"Patch?"

"Yeah, I was born right down there-!?" said Ruby while pointing to the town when the giant suddenly charged forward without warning.

"Paatcch!" he shouted and began running towards the town while giggling to himself.

Ruby was trying to stay balanced on the giant's palm but was struggling. "No, stop! Look out for the cow!" she yelled as they narrowly missed stepping on an unsuspecting cow. "Come on, no. Please stop. No, STOOPPPP!" Ruby shouted loudly, finally making the giant stop in his tracks, just as they were about to enter the town.

"We can't go there yet, people just aren't ready for you yet." She said to her friend with a hint of regret on her voice.

The iron giant lowered his head and let out what sound like a sad whimper before turning and began a slow march back through the forest, his eyes downcast the whole time.

(off screen)

Everyone felt sympathy for the giant, but they also knew that Ruby's 'other' did the right thing by stopping him.

"Poor giant, all he wanted was to see the town." Nora sadly mumbled out.

"You know he can't," said Ren. "The moment he steps foot in that town he would be attacked or worse."

Nora huffed angrily, "I know that! Doesn't mean I have to like it."

"People will always fear what they don't understand, and that fear will make them do irrational things." Blake said, thinking of how Faunus were treated simply for being a little different and how the White Fang was now feeding that fear with violent acts. She made a silent vow to stop them at all cost.

"That's stupid! Why can't people just get along?" Ruby angrily questioned.

"That is a wish we all have, but I'm afraid it's one that almost impossible to achieve." Said Ozpin. "But I believe in time, people will be able to live without fear of each other, no matter if they're human, Faunus or robot." He finished, getting smiles from everyone in the theatre.

"Still as inspiring as ever, huh Oz?" chuckled Qrow before turning back the screen to watch further.

(on screen)

After stopping the giant from nearly stomping into the town, Ruby and the giant were now walking slowly aside one the backroads. Ruby, still in the giant's palm was trying to cheer up the sad metal man but was having little luck.

"That was close, we can't go running around like that, okay?" she told the giant gently. Giant nodded in acceptance and then noticed an abandoned car on the side of the road.

"I guess that would ok to eat, it's been there for months." Said Ruby, making Giant salivate greedily. However, a pair of headlights in the distance got the young girls attention.

"We gotta hide!" she panicked, making the giant confused. "You know, hide? It's when, you- - You know, when you. Just get behind something quick!" she yelled, making Giant frantically look around for a hiding spot.

(off screen)

"Pfft! Oh man, how are they gonna hide? There's nothing big enough to hide that massive body!" Yang laughed out loud.

"Guess we'll just have to wait and see," drawled out Blake.

(on screen)

"Don't move," whispered Ruby to Giant as she hid behind his head and watched as a pickup truck pulled up and the familiar blonde haired man she met in the diner climbed out, Taiyang she recalled. She watched as Tai hooked up the abandoned car to his truck and climbed back in before driving off, not even glancing at the massive metal man standing by a sign holding up a burger while saluting or the girl glancing at the sign on the door of the truck.

(off screen)

"Now that's, hiding in plain sight. Nice quick thinking kiddo, you even fooled me." Tai praised his daughter and ruffled her hair.

Ruby swatted her father's hand away and playfully pouted, "Thanks dad, it was nothing really."

(on screen)

As the truck drove away, the giant reached out in distress as it's meal was towed away. He let out a pitiful sigh until Ruby patted his metal cheek. "Our troubles are over," she said and instructed him to follow the road and eventually they arrived at the junkyard where the massive piles of scrap metal were making the giant salivate.

"This is it," gestured Ruby with a smile. "All you can eat."

The giant needed now further persuasion and began picking up piles of scrap and shoving them into his mouth. He chewed and swallowed a car in seconds and picked up another one to feast on, but when he took a bite the cars horn began baring loudly.

Ruby clutched her ears and frantically told the giant to turn it off. Not knowing how, the giant first sat directly on the car but that only muffled the loud sound. Seeing as that did nothing the giant picked up the blaring vehicle and repeatedly slammed his fist into it, but even that didn't quiet it down.

"Turn it off!" Ruby desperately whisper yelled and glanced at the house where Taiyang lived and hoped he didn't wake up.

After his latest attempt failed, giant stood up, drew his arm back and hurled the screaming car as far as he could. The car hit the ground a distance away with loud crash and fortunately shut off the horn, but unfortunately woke up Tai as well.

"Oh no," Ruby said to herself when the porch lights turned on. She ran as fast as her legs could move and made it to the porch just as the front door opened and Tai stepped out in a robe and was armed with a crowbar.

"Alright, who's out there?" He shouted and then noticed the panting girl with red hair tips in front of him. "Hey, I know you. Squirrel girl."

"Ruby," the girl panted, out of breath from the sudden sprint.

"By night known as Ruby, got it. Come inside kid." The blonde man said and allowed the girl to enter his small home and shut the door behind her. "Sorry about the crowbar but you'd be surprised how many people want to steal scrap. But, man, once I turn it into art, I can't give it away. I mean what am I? A junkman who sells junk or an artist who sells junk? You tell me."

"I like it, I think," Ruby said a little unsurely as she looked at all the different sculptures that Tai had made and placed around the house. She'd admit that while they looked a bit strange there was something special about them, like it just screamed Taiyang. "Listen you're not gonna call my mom are you? She doesn't know I'm out." She asked worriedly but jumped in surprise when she looked out the window and saw the giant eating more scrap without a care in the world. Noticing Ruby watching him, he waved happily at her. Thinking fast, the young Rose pulled the blinds down before Tai noticed.

The junk artist just waved her off, "Don't worry kid, it's not my style to report a girl to the authorities." He said casually.

(off screen)

"Wow, those are some nice looking pieces. How much you think they'd go for, huh Tai?" Qrow sarcastically asked his friend.

"Quiet Qrow! You wish you had my artistic talent, and I'm pretty sure I could make a decent amount of cash, unlike you who 'borrows' from people and never repays them." Tai huffed and crossed his arms.

"I don't know what you're talking about," Qrow drawled out.

"Of course you do! You still haven't paid me back the 200 Lien I gave you for 'supplies' that turned out to be booze!" Tai angrily bellowed while pointing a finger at the dusty crow.

"That's enough!" came the shout of the bespectacled professor Goodwitch. Tai and Qrow sat up straight and gulped as the blond woman's cold eyes swept towards them.

"You two will be quiet and behave or so help me I'll immobilize the both of you and have Winter castrate you with a rusty blade as slooowww as possible, do I make myself clear?"

"YES MA'AM/YES MA'AM! CRYSTAL CLEAR!" They both shouted and took their seats while cold sweat fell from their faces.

Glynda huffed and turned back to the screen, not noticing the looks of awe, and fear being giving to her by the students nor the looks of respect she got from Winter and Ironwood and the look of admiration and amusement from Ozpin.

(on screen)

"I'm gonna have some coffee, what do want? Milk? Or… milk?" Tai asked the girl.

"Coffee's fine," she replied confidently, but Tai raised an eyebrow. "I drink it, I'm hip." Ruby tried to convince the man.

Tai looked at her unsurely, "I don't know, this is espresso, it's like coffee-zilla." He told he and gestured to the box in his hand.

"I said I'm hip," Ruby said again with pop in the P.

Tai shrugged his shoulders and began preparing two cups of coffee.

(off screen)

Tai, Qrow and Yang were frantically waving their hands at the screen in hopes of stopping the Tai's 'other' from making a big mistake, much to the confusion of the others in the theatre.

"Don't do it you fool!" You don't know what you're unleashing!" Tai yelled.

"W-what are you guys doing?" Ruby asked her strange acting family.

Yang answered her, "Ruby you know what happens when you have too much caffeine. Remember when you tried that new energy drink, the one with the claw logo? You used your semblance and circled the island in less than a minute with Crescent Rose screaming, and wouldn't stop shaking for an hour until you finally crashed!"

The rose themed girl blushed in embarrassment as she recalled the rush she got from drinking that energy drink.

(flashback)

"Ruby! Stop right now!" Yang yelled at her sister who was running through the forest at high speeds after drinking the new energy drink. The blond brawler was riding her motorcycle Bumblebee but still was falling behind her sister who was leaving a trail of rose petals behind.

"Never! I'll never stop! My name is Ruby Rose, and I'm the fastest Huntress in the world!" she proclaimed while speeding through the forest, eyes wide in excitement due to the overload of sugar and caffeine, her heart beating much faster than normal and as she ran into a clearing, she spotted a large group of Ursa's. A savage grin broke out on her face as she pulled out Crescent Rose in its scythe mode and charged forward.

"LEEERRROOOYYYYY JEEEENNKKIINNSS!"

When Yang finally caught up, she found her sister literally vibrating on the spot near a pile of dead grimm that began to evaporate. "Ruby, what happened?" she asked incredulously.

(flashback end)

Ruby shook her head and resumed the viewing and she hoped that her on screen counter-part didn't do anything like that and since there was no aura in that world, she wouldn't have a semblance to activate.

(on screen)

"She moved me up. Now I'm even more fitting in. I'm getting all A's; my mom says 'You need stimulation'. I go, 'I'm stimulated enough right now!'" Ruby rapidly spoke all in one breath after taking a few sips of coffee.

"That's for sure," Tai mumbled in amazement as he watched the now caffeinated girl pace up and down his small home.

"She's like 'nah nah, you need a challenge'," she continued. "So now I'm challenged…to keep my lunch money because of all the moose's who want to pound me since I'm a shrimpy dork who thinks I'm smarter than them. I don't think I am, I just do the stupid homework, if everyone just did the stupid homework they could move up a grade and get pounded, is there anymore coffee?" she finally finished ranting and held out her empty cup for more.

(off screen)

Ruby was once again hiding her blushing face as she and everyone else witnessed her caffeinated rant. "Stop laughing, it's not funny!" she embarrassingly ordered her teammates who were trying hard not to snicker.

Yang put her arm around her sister and said, "Ah come on Rubes, it's not so bad. At least you didn't start running around the junkyard yelling 'I'm the fastest huntress in the world!'" she teased.

"Yaaang!" Ruby whined and pouted in embarrassment.

Nora then walked over, "Don't be embarrassed Ruby, you're not the only one who's gone crazy after drinking too much caffeine. I remember one time when I drank an entire pot of coffee and I swear I travelled to someplace called the 'real world', and Jaune was there and said that we're all just in a simulation and are being worshiped by giant people who write songs about our life and make clothes with us on it, it was so weird!" the orange haired bomber spoke with enthusiasm.

Ren nodded, "It's true, when she came to, she told us of how there were others who were 'freed' from the 'simulation' by a Pyrrha look alike called the 'great one'".

Team RWBY looked at their sister team with disbelief written on their faces.

"Your joking right? You have to be joking, that story is too unbelievable to be real!" Weiss exclaimed standing up from her seat.

Pyrrha shook her head and said, "I'm afraid that everything she said is 100% true. Nora might have a crazy imagination but this was too extreme even for her, so it had to be true." The red headed Spartan explained.

Weiss just nodded mutely and sat back down, deciding that the headache from trying to rationalize anything Nora does was not worth it.

(on screen)

Tai had waited patiently for Ruby to finish her rant before speaking, "Look, it's really none of my business kid, but who cares these creeps think, you know? They don't decide who you are, you do. You are who you choose to be." He said, giving her a great piece of advice, making Ruby smile at the kind words and giving her something to think about.

(off screen)

Tai nodded at his on screen counter-parts words and turned to his daughters. "Remember girls, don't let anyone try and change you. You get to decide who and what you're gonna be and no one else. Like I said, it's your choice."

"We'll remember. Thanks dad, you're the best." Yang said and hugged her father, with Ruby following suit.

(on screen)

A noise outside drew both Tai and Ruby's attention. "Did you hear that?" asked Tai who stood up and picked up his crowbar and headed for the door, despite Ruby's pleas for him to stop. He cautiously walked outside, crowbar held up to defend himself and Ruby if necessary. After a few seconds of walking around and not finding anyone, the artist turned back to his home and froze when he saw the back of a massive metal man sitting on the roof eating pieces of scrap.

Ruby, understanding why the man froze ran out to try and calm him down before he panicked. "It's okay!" she yelled, hoping to calm him.

"My god!" Tai said in shock and fear.

"He isn't gonna-"

"Run kid run!" Tai shouted and scooped the girl into his arms and ran as fast as he could to the exit.

The giant, hearing Tai's shouts, turned and saw the man carrying his friend away. Narrowing his eyes in anger, the giant gave a massive leap and landed directly in front of the fleeing duo, stopping Tai, who gave a surprised yelp before turning around and ran back to his house, only for a massive hand to block his path. Seeing no other way out, he dropped to the ground with the Ruby underneath him to shield her from the massive robot.

"It's ok, he isn't gonna hurt me!" Ruby desperately tried to explain, but it was at that moment Tai was picked up by the scruff of his robe was now hanging directly in the giant's angry face.

Seeing the terrified man picked up, Ruby knew she had to stop the giant from seriously hurting the man who did nothing wrong. He was just trying to protect her from what he thought was a dangerous machine.

"Don't squash him! Do not…squash him. His name is Taiyang, or Tai. We like Tai." She nervously told her metal friend.

"Taiii" Giant said, draing out the I a little and making the blond man cover his face in fear. After gently placing the terrified man down, the giant went back to eating from the piles of scrap while Ruby tried to explain who the giant was and how she found him.

"So… where'd he come from?" asked Tai while shakily drinking some tea he made to calm his nerves.

"He doesn't remember," answered Ruby. "He's like a little kid.

"Little, yeah," Tai laughed. "Wait a minute," Tai said suddenly, "You can talk to him?"

Ruby shrugged, "He can't say a lot of words yet but he understands things pretty good." She explained.

"I see." Tai said and laughed nervously with Ruby as they watched the giant eat from the massive piles of junk.

Ruby then looked to the ground and softly said, "He needs food….and shelter."

Tai said nothing, he just stood from his seat and poured his tea on the floor before walking back into his house and slammed the door.

(37 minutes later)

"You got plenty of room here, this place is perfect." Ruby pleaded from outside.

"Go away," came Tai's tired voice from inside.

"I can have him break the door down, you know I can." Ruby angrily threatened.

At that Tai flung the door open, "Ruby, I can't hide it here!"

" 'Him' not 'it'," She sternly corrected.

"Whatever. You don't even know where 'he' came from or what the hell 'he' is!" Tai said loudly, hoping to convince the stubborn girl to change her mind.

"He's my friend," she said with tone of finality.

Tai let out a tired sigh and grumpily walked back into his house while mumbling to himself, "Yeah, what am I? Am I your friend? Bring some Franken-bot with out-of-state plates, make me change my tune. I don't like that jazz, God I'm tired." He said and collapsed on the couch.

"So can he stay?" asked Ruby.

"Tonight. Tomorrow, I don't know about tomorrow." The tired man said before closing his eyes and falling asleep.

Ruby smiled at her accomplishment and skipped to the sleeping form of the giant and patted his head. "Sleep tight. I'll see you tomorrow," she whispered and began her walk back home.

(Screen darkens)

When the screen darkened, the people of Remnant stood up and began stretching their limbs and began discussing the scene they just watched.

"So we've learned a few more things from this viewing. The giant can repair itself to full capacity, has warning system similar to our stomachs when it needs to eat and can apparently sleep to regain its energy like a person." Said Ozpin to his colleagues who nodded in agreement.

"Whoever designed and built the giant must have been very brilliant, much smarter than anyone on Remnant, except for one." Ironwood said the last part to himself as he glanced at Penny animatedly chatting with the two teams of Beacon. "Pietro, what would you think of all this?"

"James? James, are you ok?" asked Glynda in concern.

Shaking his head clear he replied, "Yes, I'm fine Glynda, just a lot on my mind. Thank you for asking." He said reassuringly.

(With the teams)

"Come on! I need to try it for myself! Just one time, promise!" Nora said pleadingly at Ren who was holding a can of energy drink with a claw as its logo. The same drink that made Ruby go berserk Nora wanted to try and see what would happen, but Ren animatedly refused and her teammates agreed, not wanting to risk whatever damages Nora would cause.

"We can't risk it, it's too dangerous Nora. You know we wouldn't do this if it wasn't absolutely necessary." Jaune said in his best leader voice.

Nora pouted childishly and stomped off to a vacant seat in the back to sulk. Suddenly her eyes lit up with a devious glint, she silently asked their host Ethan for a can and instantly one appeared in her lap with a note attached.

"Nora, I'll allow you to drink this because I'm curious as well to see what happens. I'll fix whatever damages that might be caused so you have my permission to 'GO WILD'!"

At the end of the note was chibi drawing of Ethan giving piece sign. Giggling, Nora snapped open the can which got everyone's attention. Ren's eyes widened in fear and desperately ran towards his girlfriend to try and stop her. Sadly, he was too late, as soon as the liquid poured down the bombers throat her eyes shot open and her pupils dilated as electricity seemed to glow within them.

Magnhild somehow appeared in her hand and she raised her weapon high as thunder boomed in the theatre.

"I HAVE THE POOOWWWERRRR!" Nora yelled to the heavens and then all hell broke loose.

END.

A/N: Hey guys I'm back after a while and I apologise, life just got in the way as well as many other things, but I'm back now. I hope you've enjoyed the chapter and if you did leave a review to let me know.

In the chapter I mention a energy drink and if you haven't guessed what it is, it's Monster. And now I've allowed Nora to have some of it….what have I unleashed?

Let me know in the reviews what you'd like to see our mad bomber girl do with her new found energy, the more chaotic the better. I'll give a shout out to the reviewer with the best suggestion in the next chapter.

That's all for now, stay safe and keep well. I'll see you all next time. Ja Ne!