Welcome back everyone to another chapter of RWBY WATCHES THE MULTIVERSE. Enjoy!
Chapter 7: Scrap, Art and Chocolate
The theatre was in shambles; it took less than 10 minutes for Nora to smash everything in sight with her hammer that she somehow retrieved after drinking a can of a highly caffeinated energy drink. The Beacon staff, students and those from Atlas tried their best to contain the girl, but no matter what they tried they could not stop the rampaging bomber.
"Miss Valkyrie! You will cease this pointless destruction at once!" ordered an irate Goodwitch at the literally shaking Nora who was currently standing on a massive pile of chairs at the back of the theatre.
"Never!" she shouted, hammer held beside her, "I'm queen of the castle and you are all my subjects! As such, you will obey me and me only or it will be off with your heads." She said with a crazy grin on her face.
A tick mark appeared in Glynda's head as she angrily narrowed her eyes. The blonde teacher was about to march up to the girl when she Nora suddenly froze on the spot, making everyone pause in worry and surprise.
"Nora, you okay up there?" asked Ren in concern.
"I think she just crashed," said Jaune. Sure enough, Nora's eyes rolled back and she fell forward and would have hit the floor if it weren't for a black blur to catch her.
"Nora!" shouted Ren and the rest of the teams in concern as Ethan floated down with the bomber sleeping soundly in his arms.
"She'll be fine, the sugar rush just ended so all she'll need is a bit of rest." Reassured their host. The hooded being gently handed the sleeping Nora to Ren who cradled her close to his body and gratefully thanked Ethan and apologised for the damages but he just waved it off. "No need to apologise, it was me who gave her the drink in the first place. I was curious to see what would happen, I didn't expect her to be this destructive, I'm honestly very impressed with her capabilities." He praised and snapped his fingers which caused a brief flash to light up the theatre and when it died down all the damage that was done was instantly fixed, as if it was never destroyed in the first place. He flashed away just as Nora began to stir in Ren's arms.
"What the…what happened?" Nora groggily mumbled as she woke up. Noticing she was being held, she looked up and her eyes met Ren's. Instead of being embarrassed, she through her arms around her boyfriend's neck and held tight, "Renny! You're holding me like a princess!" she happily said and tightened her hold.
Ren just sighed and sat down in the repaired seats, "No more energy drinks for you Nora. You kinda destroyed everything in a wild rampage."
Nora just grinned sheepishly, "It was so amazing! I felt as if I could take on an army of Grimm and still have power to fight, I need to keep a stash of those drinks for such occasions." She said cheerfully while Ren and everyone else turned pale white at the thought of Nora having her own stash of energy drinks as her secret weapon's, they didn't even want to think of the collateral damage she would cause.
Finally calmed down, Nora sat back down next to Ren and her friends as the screen once again came to life.
(on screen)
Ruby sluggishly climbed through her bedroom window as the sun rose and the day began. It had taken her forever to get back home from the junkyard on foot and by the time she reached home, the sun had already risen. Taking off her red hood and shoes, Ruby opened made her way to her bed and just as she pulled the covers off to climb in, Summer opened the door.
"You're up already?" Summer asked in surprise, knowing her daughter usually wasn't an early riser. "Just making the bed," Ruby tiredly replied and closed her covers.
"That's nice, well come down stairs, I have a surprise for you." Said Summer and headed back down stairs while Ruby just sighed with exhaustion and began to change into some cleaner clothes.
(off screen)
"I wonder what the surprise is, maybe it's cookies!" Ruby excitedly said in her seat. "Mom made the best cookies in the whole world! I wish I could have a plate of them right now," she trailed off sadly, knowing her mother took the secret to amazing cookies to the grave.
Yang, not wanting her sister to feel sad silently asked Ethan of it would be possible to get a plate of their mother's cookies. A note poofed into her lap and read "I'll see what I can do." The buxom blonde smiled and hoped he would come through, she put her arm around Ruby, making them both smile and resumed watching.
(on screen)
The tired girl slumped as she came down the stairs in a clean pair of jeans and a short sleeved button up shirt and of course, her red hood around her neck. She froze when she noticed someone sitting at the dinner table reading the morning paper.
"Morning little red. Sleep well?" asked the familiar voice of Roman Torchwick who put down the paper and grinned and the shocked girl.
"Mooomm?" asked Ruby, hoping for an explanation.
Summer came and set the plates of breakfast on the table and smiled at her daughter. "Isn't it wonderful? We finally rented our room," she happily explained, waiting for Ruby to respond positively, but her daughter just fumed. "I'm not very hungry," the caped girl said and angrily marched away, leaving a confused Summer, and Roman who just smiled smugly and began to enjoy his breakfast.
(off screen)
Everyone was shocked to see the orange haired criminal of Vale appear in the kitchen of Ruby's counterpart and knew that whatever he was doing there, was bad news.
"That creep! He's gonna spend every moment spying on Ruby to try and find the Giant isn't he!? Furiously exclaimed Yang after seeing the man sitting at their table as if he belonged there. "He better not do anything to hurt my sister or I'll swear by the brothers that there'll be hell to pay!"
Tai grabbed onto his daughter to calm her down, as much as he hated seeing another man under the same roof as he's deceased wife and daughter despite them being from another dimension, he still felt the feeling of needing to protect his family from any danger and he agreed with Yang, that if anything happened to his wife and daughter, there would be hell to pay.
He didn't know it, but the rest of team RWBY, JNPR, Qrow and the others were thinking the same thoughts as him and his oldest daughter. "Let's get back to watching, okay?"
(on screen)
(Tai's junkyard)
The junkman, slash artist groggily drank his coffee and opened the door of his house to start the day, only to come face to face with a grinning giant, who looked up in surprise.
"Oh….right," he said tiredly as he remembered the deal he made with Ruby the previous night.
(Ruby's house, Ruby pov)
Ruby heard the telephone ring in the kitchen and answered, "This is Ruby Rose, who's calling please."
"I said he could stay the night, kid. It's morning now." Said the annoyed voice of Taiyang on the other end.
Ruby cringed, and tried to talk quietly as to not alert Roman in the other room. "I'll try to come over, but there's this weird guy here's who's watching me," she tried to explain and smiled awkwardly when Roman entered the kitchen and grinned at her.
(Tai pov)
"What's that supposed to mean?" Tai asked, not accepting Ruby's poor excuse. "I got this big, giant - - Giant thing out here." He said dramatically and moved away from the window where the giant was peeking through and playfully pointing at him.
(Ruby pov)
"I can't talk right now, okay? Gotta go bye." She hastily said and hung up the phone and faced Roman who was still watching her.
"Who was that little red? Friend of yours? He asked curiously.
"Yeah, he's a new kid," she lied awkwardly.
(Tai pov)
Tai couldn't believe that Ruby had just hung up on him. He was so gonna teach her a lesson about respecting her elders the next time she visited. His angry thoughts were broken when he looked out the window and saw the giant eating from the piles of metal, only this time some of his sculptures where also being eaten.
"Hey no, no stop that! Stop it!" he yelled in horror and ran towards the door, only to trip and fall on his face.
(With Ruby)
The girl had just walked into the living room to relax when Roman appeared out of nowhere. "Mind if I ask you a few questions, buckaroo?" he asked and pulled out a notepad. An hour passed as Roman bombarded the poor girl with questions which she either ignored or deflected.
"Why would you tell your mom about a giant robot? What'd you see at the power station? Tell anyone else? How big is this thing? Been in the forest lately? Champ? Slugger? Where you going? Where you going?"
"I'm going out!" snapped Ruby, tired of the constant questions, she grabbed her hood and prepared to leave.
"Why not take Mr. Torchwick with you? Show him the sights." Suggested Summer, making Ruby groan on annoyance. "Oh, mom, the sights?"
"I'd love that." Said Roman as put on his coat and hat. "Give us chance to get acquainted, swap some stories huh chief."
(off screen)
"You called it Yang, he's definitely trying to get answers from Ruby," said Blake.
"I wouldn't worry about Ruby talking, she's loyal to her friends and won't do or say anything that would lead to their harm." Said Pyrrha with the rest of the teams nodding in agreement.
"It's true, she the greatest friend anyone could ask for and I'm lucky she's one of mine," said Jaune.
"Aw, you guys." Ruby said while blushing with a mixture of happiness and embarrassment.
"Alright, enough of teasing my leader, let's talk about your father's horror at seeing his art being eaten by giant." Said Weiss, making the room chuckle loudly as they remembered the pure look of panic and anger on Tai's 'other's' face.
(on screen)
Tai was glaring at the giant in his junkyard, despite his size the giant seemed to have the mentality of a small child. Seeing him eat his precious art had made Tai almost go into a mad rant but he held it in and decided to explain calmly what metals the giant could and couldn't eat. However, his calmness was breaking when the giant picked up another sculpture and began lightly chewing on it like a piece of candy. It was time to lay down the rules.
"There are two kinds of metal here." He pointed to one pile, "Scrap." And pointed to another, "and Art." If you gotta eat one of them, eat the scrap," he said and pointed with his thumb at the scrap. "But what you have - - IN YOUR MOUTH, IS ART!" Tai furiously bellowed at the giant who pulled out the metal in his mouth and held it up.
"Art?" He questioned and began to bend the metal pieces around.
Tai just gave up, not having the energy to stay angry. "Forget it, forget it. It's gone."
The giant places the bent sculpture on the ground.
"It's…" Tai did a double take as he looked at the sculpture the giant made. "That's not bad," he said, genuinely impressed. Maybe he could use this to his advantage.
(With Ruby and Roman)
The young girl was currently sitting in a diner with the government agent and was showing him how to make a deliciously flavoured desert. What Roman didn't know however was that Ruby had a special surprise for the man.
"First, you take a chocolate bar, any bar will do." Explained Ruby as she opened a chocolate bar and held it over a glass of ice-cream. "Do you mind if I…?" she paused.
"No, knock yourself out skipper," said Roman, and watched the girl crush the bar in her hand. "You crumble up the chocolate into little pieces, then kind of stir it into the ice-cream. See?" she finished and passed the desert to the man.
Accepting the ice-cream, Roman asked, "What do you call this again?"
"Landslide," Ruby answered with a hidden grin. "It's new, very new," she said and dropped the empty wrapper in the trashcan which revealed that instead of normal chocolate, it was coco-lax, a very strong laxative."
(off screen)
"Now that's an awesome prank, not bad pipsqueak," praised Qrow to his niece. Yang and Jaune nodded in agreement, "Yeah it's awesome! I can't wait to see it take effect." Yang said enthusiastically. "He's gonna be in for one heck of a surprise, I can tell you that." Said the blonde leader of team JNPR.
The rest could only chuckle in agreement, it was a cunning plan to get rid of the unwanted man.
(on screen)
Roman had a taste of the laxative covered ice-cream and actually enjoyed the flavour. "Landslide. Topnotch," he said and took a few more spoonful's before pausing to speak. "You know Ruby, we live in a strange and wondrous time. The Atomic Age." He said quietly and dramatically. Seeing he had her attention, he continued, "But there's a dark side to progress. You ever hear of Sputnik?" he asked.
Ruby nodded, "Yeah, it's the first satellite in space."
"FOREIGN satellite, Ruby, and all that implies," he corrected and held up his spoon of ice-cream to explain. "Even now it orbits. Boop. Boop. Watching us," he said and put the spoon in his mouth. "We can't see it but it's there. Much like that giant thing in the woods, we don't know what it is or what it can do and I don't feel safe, do you?" he questioned, leaning in close.
"What are you talking about?" asked Ruby as cluelessley as she could manage.
Roman felt his temper rise, "What am I talking about? What am I talking about!?" he shouted, startling Ruby and the other customers who watched Roman stand up and began pushing Ruby back into a wall while ranting madly.
"I'm talking about your goddam security! While you snoozing in your little jammies, back in Atlas we're wide awake and worried. Why? Because everyone wants what we have! Everyone! You think this metal man is fun, but who built it? Solitas? Sanus? The Martians?... The faunus? I don't care! We didn't build it and that's reason enough to assume the worst and blow it to kingdom come! Now you are going to lead me to it, and we are going to destroy it before it destroys us!"
At the end of his rant, Roman had backed Ruby into a wall but before he could talk further, an uncomfortable feeling stirred in his bowels. "Hold that thought and stay right there!" he said and desperately hobbled to the restroom where he sighed in relief. No knowing Ruby had already left the diner.
(Screen Darkens)
Laughter had once again erupted in the theatre, the sight of one of their enemies being pranked was simply too funny not to laugh at. Even Weiss and Winter were laughing at the sight.
"We have to do this to our Roman the next time we see him. The look on his face will be priceless!" said Ruby in-between laughs, making her friends laugh even more at the thought of the most wanted criminal in Vale getting pranked.
"Yeah, and we can get that short ice-cream girl too." Yang said and grinned evilly at the thought of getting revenge on the tiny girl who effortlessly beat her.
(Meanwhile in an undisclosed location)
The multi-coloured girl known as Neapolitan was happily enjoying her favourite ice-cream when she suddenly froze and let out a silent sneeze, and making her drop her ice-cream in the process.
"….."
Mercury entered the room, only to freeze at the sight of a pissed of Neo who was string at the dropped desert with clenched fists and a furious snarl on her face, which promised nothing but pain to whoever caused her to drop it.
The silver-haired assassin wisely back away and left the fuming girl to her own devices. He might be a trained assassin, but even he wouldn't pick a fight with the psychopathic little girl who could disembowel you in 50 different ways with a smile on her face.
(Theatre)
Yang suddenly shivered as a cold feeling washed over her. She shook it off and began talking with her team and friends about what they just watched while Ozpin and the rest of the adults were having their own discussion as well.
"It would seem like the Kingdoms are very paranoid about other continents being able to gather information and intelligents from these satellites." Said the headmaster of Beacon Academy while sipping from his mug of never ending coffee.
Ironwood nodded, "Those in power will always fear and be paranoid about their information being stolen and exposed by others. It's human nature."
"I agree," said Ethan as he flashed in, no longer surprising the occupants who were now used to his sudden entrances. "I come with a gift for Ruby that Yang requested from me, I hope you enjoy it."
"A gift? For me?" asked Ruby curiously and couldn't help but widen her eyes when Ethan snapped his fingers and a trey of cookies appeared in her lap. The familiar sent immediately made her eyes begin tearing up and with shaky hands, she picked one up and took a bite and instantly she knew these cookies could only have been made by one person.
"H-how? How did you get these? Only my mom could've made these," she asked teary eyed.
"How do you think? I asked her," Ethan replied, making Ruby's and everyone else's eyes widen in shock. "Why do look so surprised? Don't you remember that I can travel to other dimensions? When Yang asked me to get Ruby a batch of coolies that were made by Summer, I simply went to a dimension where she was alive and worked as a baker, not a huntress and disguised myself as normal person. After buying them, I returned here. Any question-oof"
Ethan was cut off by a red blur slamming into his stomach. He felt his hoodie dampen as Ruby hugged cried into his chest. "Thank you thank you thank so much!" she cried in happiness. Surprised at first, Ethan chuckled and patted the young huntress in trainings head, "You're welcome Ruby, but if you want to thank someone, thank your sister, it was her request, I was just the one who completed it.
Ruby let go and looked up and her eyes widened in surprise and her cheeks lit up with a massive blush, the reason, her speedy hug had unintentionally knocked Ethan's hood off, exposing his face for everyone to see for the first time.
Their host had mocha coloured skin, dark blue eyes with slit pupils like a cat or reptile and he had brown shaggy hair fell just over his eyes. Though he looked like an ordinary person, everyone was still surprised at his appearance.
"Are you okay Ruby?" asked Ethan, seeing her flustered state and looked up to see everyone staring at him with surprised expressions and some with blushes on their faces. "What's wrong? Something on my face?" he joked, but froze when he finally realized his hood was no longer on his head. "Well…this is awkward."
(END)
A/N: Hey there everyone! I'm really really sorry for the long wait, this year has been nothing but a giant kick in the balls and I had to take some time to just unplug and work on my mental health, but I'm back and will be updating sooner. I hope you all enjoyed this chapter, and if you did, leave a positive review =). That's all for now, see you all soon. Ja Ne!
