Chapter 24: Well... This Was Unexpected
Luna's mind was restless. It was like she was staring through endless darkness with nothing in there but memories. Events of her life played like a movie in her mind, all her trials and achievements are shown before her, all completely out of order. She saw her father carrying her on his back, her mother reading her bedtime stories to Nova coming back to that alley, covered in dirt and grime, holding out a plastic bag of food for her and she would just sit there and eat in depressed silence because she knew he worked hard for her and he would never take any for himself.
Memories she had surely thought forgotten were being shown back to her, welling up emotion within her core and her eyes stung. Not from lack of sleep but from the hot tears that flowed from them. She missed them so much, her parents. Her mother's colourful hair and her father's goofy faces. Precious memories she wished never to forget again.
The memories began fading before her as the darkness of her mind was beginning to brighten to white light. "WAIT DON'T GO!" She called out to the fading pictures but to no avail. She wanted to stay in this moment, with the peace of memories forever. The reality, was often disappointing as she was forced to awaken.
Peeling back her heavy eyelids, the bright sunlight of the room entered her eyes, causing her to squint from the sudden intense luminosity. Glancing around she could see pale green walls and heard the beeping of machines. Slowly, she got up and rubbed her eyes open, her body felt like shit, everything was sore and her stomach was starving.
She glanced down at her arms and saw IV strips attached to them, the memories of her previous encounters came rushing back and she inhaled sharply. Her heart rate spiked and the beeping of the machine increased. She needed to find her brother, her friend., Where was she? What happened? Were they all alright? She felt a panic attack coming on from the anxiety her situation was giving her.
Almost instantly, a pair of warm hands encircled her and a soft, familiar feeling overcame the small girl.
"W-Wha..." She stammered out unsure of what was happening. Someone was hugging her? And she didn't hate it? Why?
The person was rubbing circles on her back, whispering, "It's alright… it's fine, everything is okay now," the woman who was holding her said. Her voice is soothing and calming.
"W-Who… where…"
"It's alright Luna, Nova and the other's are fine," the figure released her to gaze upon her face. "Miss Ellie? What are you…" her words died in her mouth as the woman before he came into full view, hair, ears and all. Only one person in the world had those features. Luna felt her heart stop as she gazed upon the person before her.
"Hello my little sapphire, it's been a while," Elain said a loving smile on her face, tears forming in her eyes.
"M-M-m.." she couldn't speak, the words dying in her throat as tears began to pour from her face. She glomped her mother in a tight hug, nuzzling into her neck. "H-How is this possible… y-you were…" she could barely speak. Elain just held her daughter and explained everything.
Ruby awoke the next morning incredibly feeling refreshed. It was honestly the best sleep she'd ever had in her life, all the fatigue of their last mission now completely gone and she felt as though she could take on the world.
The events of the previous night played in her mind, the feelings she held bubbling up in her to the point she felt as though she were on cloud nine. The tuft of white hair sticking out over the covers just above her face was proof enough. Smiling contently she cuddled closer to her boyfriend, draping her hands over his wide, muscular… soft chest?
That's weird, did he not always have solid pectorals? She pondered. Her eyes were still muddled over with sleep, she scrunched her face in confusion and gave the chest a light squeeze. Yup, definitely soft, she shot up in bed now, alert and confused. Glancing down at her sleeping boyfriend she could tell, something was off. She rolled him onto his back gently hoping not to wake him, thankfully all it elicited was a soft mumble.
White hair with orange tips… check. Black horns… check. Scaled cheeks… check. Things seemed to fit, so what was it that was so off? His spikey hair was now straight and wavy, maybe it was just the effect of his conditioner?
She was about to shrug it off when the door burst open to reveal a quite eerily smiling Yang.
"Good morning dear sister!" She said marching into the room, the tone of voice, scarily happy. Even stranger was that it was morning, and Yang was never this happy in the morning.
Ruby eyed her suspiciously, "Morning Yang…" she returned hesitantly, sitting up in bed, her hair sticking up in several places.
"Where is he?" she said darkly, her mood instantly doing a complete one-eighty.
"What are you talking about?" Ruby played it off, awkwardly laughing.
"That white-haired son of a bitch!" Yang roared. Ruby just made an eep and pointed to the bed where they were sleeping.
"I'M GONNA KILL HIM!" she yelled with fury making a move for the sleeping dragon. Ruby instantly got up and blocked her sister's path.
"Yang stop! Why are angry with him?!" She tried to appease her sister's fury.
The brawler placed her hands on her hips."You slept in the same bed.. with a boy... alone... instead of coming back to our room! That is NOT okay! I don't care if he is our close friend if he touched you that means he's dead!" she returned with vigor. She looked at Ruby and realized what she was wearing, "You're even wearing his clothes!"
"What do you mean, I've fallen asleep with him on multiple occasions how does this make it any different, besides I thought he had your approval?!" Ruby flailed, dodging the fact that she was wearing his hoodie.
"Those were different! One was to save your life, the other times we were around so it was just mild teasing! He might have my approval but that doesn't mean you guys act outside your age gap. You're still my baby sister." Yang deflated at that last part.
Ruby blushed and looked at the floor, "I appreciate you being so protective of me but... you'd think by now you'd know him better. We just fell asleep. That's it."
"Then why are you wearing his clothes." The blonde pointed out.
"Because Luna's couldn't fit me and I didn't want to wake you..."
"Ugh fine... your not-boyfriend gets to live..."
Ruby turned dark crimson at the mention of the b-word causing Yang's face to morph from light to mild confusion then pure shock.
"Something happened didn't it..." the blonde observed, "What. Happened."
Ruby began twirling her thumbs, "Um... don't freak out but... we kinda sorta...confessedtoeachother..."
Yang felt her world stop, "Oh... my...god... so are you...?" the blonde pointed at them.
"Yup," Ruby said with emphasis on the p, "he's my boyfriend now."
"Okay now I have to enact the 'older sister' mode," she said calmer, her eyes and hair still glowing. "HEY LIZARD GET YOUR ASS UP!" she yelled.
There was a distinct shuffling of sheets and a high pitched groan… wait high pitched? "Ugh, Yang it's like eight in the morning go back to bed…" a feminine voice said?
Nova rose from the pile of sheets, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes, his… long white hair draped down behind his shoulders, parts of it sticking up at the top. His black long-sleeved shirt now hugging his figure from the excess material being held down under him. Wait... excess material? This shirt fit him like a glove before… did I lose weight?
His muddled thoughts were ripped from him when Yang spoke up, "You have some serious explaining to d-" her words died in her throat as she got a good look at Nova.
Ruby confused at her sister's sudden halt she turned around and fell victim to the same thing, both of them wide-eyed and slightly terrified.
"Huh, what are you two gawking at…" Nova said, his voice definitely more feminine and higher pitched.
"Wait is that my voice?" he repeated confused, "No that can't be right… are you guys playing some sort of trick on me? Yang is this revenge for the hair incident?" the more he spoke the more the voice seemed to… fit.
When the two didn't respond Nova grew extremely concerned, "Guys? Ruby? Red you there?" he looked to his girlfriend for a response, he snapped his fingers a few times for attention.
She just shakily pointed her finger at him. Her mind was currently exploding, when Nova rose off the bed she thought it was someone else, the idea she had been sleeping in a bed with a stranger terrified her. Yet when he got up, and she saw all his features, unless he had an older sister she didn't know about, that was unmistakably Nova Alexandrite Flareheart.
"Ah- Ba- B-B" Yang stammered out.
"What is it spit it out damnit!" he said quite unnerved by the level of shock on the girls' faces. Ruby just gestured for him to look downward.
Nova felt his neck muscles lock, refusing to let him look down. Through sheer willpower he forced himself to turn his head to look at himself.
His arms were much more slender than before, most of his solid muscles were gone. He pulled off the covers to see himself practically swimming in his old shorts, and to make things worse… there were two objects obstructing his view. Oh god no please don't tell me… his hands reached up to touch his chest.
His face paled, "HOLY FUCK!" a loud resounding swear of alarm caused the remaining members of team ASHNRWBY to flock into the door, Nitro who'd woken up earlier that morning and had just come brushing his teeth had raced to the source of the noise.
"Hey did one of you girls stub your toe or someth-" Nitro started but he to join in the jury of surprise. "Weiss are you okay?"
Hex placed her hand on her brother's shoulder, "I don't think that's Weiss…"
The heiress in question pulled up beside him, "No... I'm over here... is that Luna? She looks... taller..."
"Nope... Luna's still in the infirmary..." Blake pointed out, looking visibly shaken.
"N-Nova? I-Is that you?" Hex asked shakily, her hands trembling from the sheer level of shock.
"Who else would it be?" came the snarky reply that sounded rather bitchy in the feminine voice. "Glad to see you up and running Nitro," he said referring to Nitro's previous condition.
"B-But y-you're a…" she stammered.
Nova hoped to god he was dreaming, "I'm a…?"
"You're a girl," Blake stated matter of factly managing to regain her composure.
Nova felt his brain snap at the mention of reality, he was really hoping this was a vivid hallucination but the look on everyone's face was too much to be faked.
Almost like a white blur, he rushed to the bathroom and looked in the mirror to gaze upon the truth before him. Yup there he was…. Er she was.
White hair with orange tips down to his upper back, slightly larger eyes, shapely face, and slender build. Broad shoulders replaced by smaller curved shoulders, his arms slender and non-muscular. His pectorals replaced by a pair of C-cup breasts and his rock hard abs were gone and he had more like a really well-toned stomach now. The combination of wider hips and shapely legs completed the build of his...her... body.
He looked like an older version of Luna. He had the same height as Weiss but with longer hair and bigger breasts. He also sounded a lot less bitchy. There was one last thing he needed to check. Swallowing hard, he lifted his pants... and sure enough... someone had robbed him of his family jewels. The great 'staff' of Nova was completely gone.
At this stage, all his shock had turned to disbelief. He came out of the bathroom he had to sit down for a second, muttering "They're gone... they're gone... I'm doomed..." He hyperventilated for a few moments before finally speaking "Can someone please explain to me what the fuck is going on?"
"That's what we wanna know!" Hex said waving her arm.
"My leader is now a girl," Nitro said in shock, "I did not see a chapter on this in the textbooks."
"Speak for yourself! My boyfriend is now my girlfriend?! How does that work?!" Ruby exclaimed earning a shocked look from everyone.
"BOYFRIEND?!" They all said simultaneously except for Yang.
"You two confessed? Finally!" Hex said fist-pumping. "Which one of you said it first?"
"Hex this is hardly the time… and it was me," Nova said confirming earning a groan from Weiss and Blake.
"We lost the bet," Blake said dejectedly.
Nova and Ruby looked mildly annoyed, "You bet on us confessing? Wait, was everyone aware that we liked each other?" Nova asked curiously.
"Yeah... Weiss and I bet that Ruby would confess first, everyone else bet against us." the catgirl pointed out causing the new couple to deadpan.
"We can sort this out later, we need to find your mom, she'll have an idea about what's going on," Ruby said as she pulled a still frozen Yang outside.
"I have no idea what's going on," Elain said taking a sip from her coffee, remaining completely calm as the members of team ASHNRWBY stormed the room in a mass of confusion and hysteria.
"Come on mom, you must know something, any idea how this could have happened?!" Nova half screamed as he flailed around in his sleepwear. His breasts bouncing around from his erratic movements, a hypnotic motion that had Hex staring. Yang had to snap her fingers in front of her poor girlfriend's face, barely able to peel her own eyes away.
Elain raised a hand to silence them, everyone looked in in bewilderment as the wolf Faunus calmly got up from her chair, and in one fluid motion, chugged down the rest of her coffee then walked outside the room.
"… What just happened?" Weiss asked. There was a brief respite of silence before a loud slapping was heard, Elain came back into the room with a red mark on her face.
The wolf-lady coughed into her hand, "My apologies." as if she didn't just slap herself.
"Did she just…" Yang said concerned.
"WHAT THE FUCK?!" Elain screamed gawking at her son… err daughter?
"That's what we said," Ruby said placing her hand on her hips, the short girl rather confused and disoriented. Her emotions were running wild with Yang making her angry then her boyfriend turning into a girl.
"Ugh, can you people shut it? A girl needs her beauty sleep…" A small but, irritated voice piped up from the infirmary bed. Everyone turned their heads to see Luna rising from the cot, looking quite disheveled.
"You're awake!" Weiss said happily, she and Ruby wrapped the small girl in a tight hug.
"ACK! Can't…. breathe… release meee!" she squealed then feigned to die from suffocation.
Blake chuckled at the little drama queen, she was just as happy as everyone else to see her favourite blue dragon awake again but physical displays of affection weren't her thing.
"Oh, right sorry, forgot you were injured," Ruby said releasing her with a 'tee-hee'.
"Come on Ruby, trying to kill your future sister-in-law in front of her mother is not a good thing," Hex teased causing Ruby to turn the colour of her name.
"What's that mean?" Luna asked confused, the bashful look on Ruby's face and lack of denial caused a lightbulb to go off in her brain. "You didn't…"
Yang grew a devilish grin, "Yup, and Nova was the one to confess first," she said with a smug look earning a high five from Luna.
"My brother finally managed to grow some balls… where is he by the way?" she said looking around the room. Nova had ducked behind Yang and the others earlier when she awoke but they betrayed his location.
Elain almost fainted by the mention of the term.
"You might want to rethink that choice of wording… he might have actually lost them instead." Nitro said earning a snicker from the others. Elain just sat there rubbing her temples trying to figure out the situation.
"What's that mean…." She questioned but eyes bulged when Yang and Blake moved aside to reveal a hiding Nova tugging at his oversized shirt.
He raised his hand shyly and waved it, shooting her a lopsided awkward smile.
"Is that… tell me that's not…"
"Hi sis, glad to see you're awake," he said rather awkwardly.
Luna just looked at Yang, then at her brother, then at Ruby who just shrugged.
"Excuse me while I go wake up from this dream," she said calmly attempting to go back to sleep but Elain grabbed her daughter by the hand.
"Well sorry to disappoint you, dear, but it seems your brother is now… your sister."
"I'm going to need some time to process this…" Luna said curling up into a ball.
"Is she gonna be okay?" Yang asked concerned.
"She'll be fine," Hex replied.
"So um… what are we gonna do about me?" Nova asked moving the hair out of his face and placing it behind his ear. The morning light shining on his face at an angle that made his concerned pout look absolutely adorable to everyone in the room.
Weiss and Blake clutched their hearts while Yang had to hold onto Hex for support. Ruby could do nothing but stare and feel her heart flutter.
"Oh god, he's cute… I feel like...I just lost as a woman…" Weiss muttered now wanting to curl into a ball herself.
Nova blushed furiously, "Guys this is serious!" he yelled flailing around. Yang had the incredible urge to hug the new girl.
"I mean, in all seriousness, you did swing both ways so maybe it's not entirely a bad thing?" Nitro offered in some semblance of the bright side.
"Maybe that has something to do with it? You know, Nova being bi and all," Yang placed her hands on her chin.
Elain studied her son for a moment, "No I don't think his sexuality has anything to do with it. This is the first time an Aspect… err rather anyone I know, spontaneously transform into the opposite gender…"
The older woman looked over Nova, gauging his sizes, looking at his features, she was in full doctor mode. "Were there any signs prior to this? Anything that could've hinted towards this transformation?"
Everyone in the room thought for a moment, Nitro was the first one to say something. "He did start acting strange since he came back from the infirmary the first time…" he recalled.
"Strange? How so?" Elain asked.
"Well… they weren't very often but he would have random bouts of… femininity?" he said unsure if that was the word.
They all began to think back to the past. "Yeah! I remember stuff like that, he would sometimes fuss over the way his clothes looked on his figure," Hex said a thumb resting on her chin.
"And that time he was seriously asking me about makeup?" she continued.
"And the extreme shift in personal hygiene care?" Luna piped in, finally regaining herself.
"AND THAT TIME HE WAS TALKING ABOUT PUTTING HIS HAIR UP IN TWIN TAILS!" Weiss said in realization, her eyes widening.
Elain looked at her son with a raised eyebrow, that seemed to say 'twin tails? Really?' "Hey, I thought it was cute at the time… oh my god…" he said in horror realizing his own words.
"Okay so was there anything common between the times you were… feminine," Elain folded her arms interrogating him.
Nova thought for a moment, "… it usually happened after… after I used my powers!" he said in realization. "Could my powers have something to do with it?"
"Maybe… thought it is unlikely it's due to you being the Aspect of Fire... The Aegis gene never manifested such mutations." she rationalized.
"Well my powers didn't actually become useable the way they are now until I took the nanomachine cells," Nova said causing Elain's eyes to widen. She'd completely forgotten he'd been injected with her prototype serum.
"Of course! The Aegis formula, why didn't I think of it sooner!" she messed up her hair, her wolf ears twitching.
"… huh?" everyone in the room was confused.
Elain straightened her hair out again, "The Aegis formula prototype that I made using Nova and Luna's DNA, were modified with Nanomachines right?"
Everyone nodded, remembering the explanations of Randolf Wulf.
"Well whenever the nanomachine cells reacted to the Aegis gene, they would shut down. They needed a catalyst to bond with in order to store energy, before being placed with the actual serum. I spent years trying to find a catalyst but when the White Fang captured me and put me to work, I came across a rather interesting idea." She said a wild look in her eye that made everyone shiver.
"See, one of their top brass members came back one day with the blood of…. Get this… the Fall Maiden!" She said waving her arms.
"I'm sorry I think I misheard you… did you say, Fall Maiden? As in the four Maidens? They're real?" Hex mentally slapped herself.
"Well, of course, they're real, silly, if super-powered Faunus exist then obviously super-powered humans exist too," She said gesturing to Nova and Luna with a tone like 'duhhh'.
Everyone in the room had a mental shut down for a minute to process this. When they did they all groaned. "Of course… I feel stupid.." Weiss cursed.
"Anyway, I used the Fall Maiden's DNA as a catalyst to stabilize the Aegis formula. So when Nova took those cells into his body, he was placing female genes into his system, and normally that wouldn't be a big deal but Maiden DNA is powerful so for him it would've been like getting a hormone imbalance." She finished, took a deep breath and then went back to thinking, her previous vigor gone.
"That doesn't explain how you became an entirely different gender… it should've just made you a little gay if anything," she said causing everyone's sweat to drop at her crass way of explaining.
"Maybe it has something to do with his semblance?" Ruby input finally finding her voice.
"Semblance? What's your semblance?" Elain asked Nova.
"Adaptation, my body can use aura to adapt to any environmental condition or… physical change!" he snapped his fingers.
"Well, that explains it. When you were half dead on the bed," Elain said amidst Yang's snickering at the rhyme, "Your body was absorbing any help it could get, and that included female genes. Meaning your body adapted to the Fall Maiden gene that was running dominant in your body at the time… it must have taken some time to fully transform you…" She formulated.
"Yeah, I only transformed this morning after that serious emotional episode I had last night," Nova waved his hand and rolled his eyes.
"Oh that's right you confessed to Ruby, I guess you must've been overloaded on emotions that it kickstarted the transformation," Hex inferred to which everyone looked at Ruby.
"Hey don't look at me this isn't my fault." She shrugged.
Nova groaned, "No one's blaming, you love." Ruby just blushed at being referred to as 'love' by her boyfriend...err girlfriend.
"That reminds me… I owe you a pummelling," Yang said dangerously.
Nova made a cute eep before ducking behind Weiss. "Weiss save me!"
Weiss looked torn for a moment, "Yang, come on, leave him be, you wouldn't want to punch 'that' would you?" she gestured to Nova who, at that moment employed one of Ruby's most notable tricks… the super cute puppy dog eyes.
Yang stared down at the adorable white-haired girl, her fist raised. It's a dude, it's a dude it's a…. fuck… she lowered her fists, closing her eyes and biting her lip, "Ugh you are so lucky you're cute…" she relented.
Nova sprang up happily and hugged Weiss. "Yay I get to live!"
"For now… when we manage to change you back… you'll get it." Yang chuckled darkly, causing Nova to simmer down.
"More like 'if' we manage to change him back. I have no idea if this will be permanent or not, we are dealing with a clash between Aspect DNA, Maiden DNA, and his own semblance. The only way I see it would be to beat him within an inch of his life then inject male DNA back into him and hope his semblance adapts him back to a guy. Even then it's not 100% sure to work, he could end up dead for all we know… I'll need to do some experimenting." She moved to her medical drawer.
"What do you mean by… OUCH!" Nova yelped in pain as Elain stuck a syringe in his arm.
"Hold still you big baby," she said as she drew a decent amount of blood from him.
"I'm going to use this for testing. In the meantime, you should probably get used to that body. I'd explain how the female body works but I think you girls got it covered. Also, you should get some food, I just drew a lot of blood from you so you'll be a little weak." Elain took the syringe back to her medical supplies ushering out everyone, grumbling about not wanting annoying teenagers disturbing her work.
This left Nova feeling rather panicked. He was now a she. He would need to readjust his lifestyle, try to fit in and operate as though nothing has changed. How was he supposed to face his classmates? His panicking was torn when he felt a sudden wave of dizziness causing him to almost collapse. Luckily he was caught by Ruby who held him close.
"Nova are you alright?" she asked concerned, taking her hand and brushing the hair away from her… girlfriend's… face.
Nova leaned into her palm, "I'm ok, I guess I'm just dizzy from blood loss…" the newly formed girl responded.
Everyone cooed at their interaction, Hex felt her nose bleeding. "This is some prime girl on girl action… could his be heaven…" the purplette spoke causing Nova and Ruby to break apart in a blush.
"I need to shower if I'm going into the dining hall…" he said, the realization dawning on him what was about to happen.
A devilish glint came in the eyes of Yang, Hex, and Luna causing Nova to flinch away in fear.
"Oh no… no no no, no you will NOT!" He yelled in protest.
Yang grabbed his left arm and Luna grabbed his right and hoisted him slightly off the floor. "You are not getting away this time…" Yang said evilly.
"My uniform might fit, though 'she' might be more Weiss' height…" Hex looked at the heiress who just shrugged, "My skirt should fit 'her', but she's a bit more top-heavy than me…" Weiss said a little peeved.
Nova paled, "I am NOT wearing a skirt…"
"Oh, but you will…" Hex said with a devilish smirk that sent chills down Nova's spine.
"Come on 'Alexandra', we need to get you outfitted!" Luna said as they carried away Nova who squirmed in protest, kicking and flailing helplessly in the air.
Ruby and Weiss sat inside their dorm, waiting on the others to come out. Nitro had gone ahead to the cafeteria and Blake sat atop her bunk reading.
"So… Ruby," Weiss said looking at her partner who was lying back on her bed. Ruby got up and gave her a quizzical look.
"You like Nova right?" she asked awkwardly. Ruby nodded, "I really like him… like, like-like him…" she blushed.
"Do you love him?" Weiss returned with a serious expression. Ruby's brows furrowed, "Well… I'm not sure what love feels like… but…"
"But..?"
"But… I the feelings I have for him can't be summarized by just words, you know? I mean he literally became my boyfriend yesterday... but I feel it... deep within me, I think I really do love him." The red leader chirped giving Weiss a shit-eating grin.
"What do you mean think?" Weiss countered.
"Well, all I know is, that thinking about a world without him by my side is really… depressing. If it were me or him, I'd choose him any day over what I want. He just… he makes me feel so happy inside, like that part of me that's been missing my whole life." She returned.
"Sounds like love to me," Weiss smiled, content with the answer she was given, she trusted her leader's judgment. "Now that he's a girl… does that change anything between you?"
Ruby stopped her musings and her brows furrowed again. "Why would it?"
"Well because.. he's you know… she?" Weiss raised an eyebrow.
Ruby smiled, "Silly Weiss, just because he's a girl right now, doesn't mean I feel anything less for him. He could be a piece of wood and I'd still like him the same."
Weiss just stared baffled, "So you're into girls too?" she looked confused trying to understand her leader's mental.
"Pfft what? No, just him," she replied giggling like Weiss had asked a stupid question.
Weiss was about to interject when the door opened, Yang and Hex standing in the doorway.
"Ladies and Ladies, I will now present to you... Alexandra Flareheart," Yang said as she and Hex stepped aside to reveal Luna walking in with Nova.
Nova's hair was done in a natural fashion. Its waviness and natural bounce made it easy for Yang to brush it into a flowing hairstyle, with one part extending to 'her' right as a straight piece while the left was a wave at the top that flowed down to 'her' shoulders and lower back (For reference either Luna Lovegood from HP or Elsa with her hair down at the end of Frozen 2).
He was wearing a red long-sleeved sweater shirt with a white undershirt and a red plaid skirt that went just above his knees. The colours matched his eyes and made his hair stand out. The outfit was accompanied by a pair of black tights and flats, overall 'she' looked gorgeous even if it was casual clothing.
"Ruby close your mouth you're drooling," Yang said with a smirk. "Weiss you to, you might catch flies," Luna said with a certain smugness. Even Blake who was normally quite composed dropped her book and gawked.
"C-Can you guys quit staring… I know I look ridiculous," Nova said holding his left arm with his right and looking down at the floor, his breasts were accentuated by the action.
Ruby had to mentally slap herself, "Weiss…"
The heiress nodded to her partner unable to tear her eyes away, "Mmhmm?"
"I take back what I said earlier… I might be gay now," Ruby said. Nova just blushed furiously.
"Same…" Weiss said absentmindedly.
"I think we outdid ourselves," Hex said proudly, high fiving the others.
Ruby walked up to Nova and looked him in the eye. Weiss nudged her partner and made a sound that was supposed to cue Ruby.
The red leader composed herself, 'Ah... Nova, you look… so pretty…" she said in awe.
Nova just blushed harder, "A-As long as you like it…"
"AWWWWW!" Came the resounding reaction.
"C-Can we just go get food already I'm starving," Nova said grabbing Ruby by the hand and walking out the door.
Nova is now a girl(Temporarily). Bet y'all weren't expecting that. To the ones that actually pieced together my hints over the chapters since the nanomachine injection, props to you for not just writing it off.
This story just got a lot more fun to write.
'Til next time, stay awesome (^_^)
