"Oh, wow, this is a nice place you got here!" Yang says as she saunters into a man's apartment. She scans the sizable front room, quickly glossing over the kitchen area to the couch-bed/clearly-an-unsupervised-man's-hovel before peeking into Blake's room. "I didn't think the bedroom would be so big! You got it good, Blake!"

"Aside from all the attacks, but yeah, mostly," Blake responds, shuffling some of her mess where Yang wouldn't see it.

"It's so adulty in here!" Ruby says, gazing at the simplest of cooking materials and standard apartment furnishings.

"There's what I've been missing all this time!" Yang says, almost comically pushing past Blake. She picks up a stack of video games, most of which were the ones she lent out. Over exaggerating, she cradles them like a mother to her child. "So much time lost… Did you treat my babies right?"

"Yes, I treated them perfectly fine."

The man sits back down on your couch and lets Yang and Ruby explore the apartment. It's been a few days since the whole thing with Ilia and he and Blake have just been relaxing since then, enjoying vacation. They still have yet to hear from the chameleon, but they aren't really worried. And, since it's been a few days, Yang and Ruby have finished their stint at their family home and just got back to Vale; the man and Blake picked them up so they could check out the place and so they could catch up on friend time. The last few days have passed pretty uneventfully, especially when compared to the recent interactions with terrorists. Aside from helping Blake practice at Savage Streets, the man did basically nothing of note.

"So, can I see it?" Ruby asks, excitedly bouncing around, eager for the man to give her what she wants.

"Yeah, here," the man says, whipping out Ruby's semi-present and placing it on the table. "So, what do you think?"

"Awwwww yeahhhhh…" Ruby moans as she looks at the table. "That's what I like to see! So I can play around all I want?"

"Go crazy. Yang, if you want, you can join in to. Looking at you definitely helped with it. Blake already had her turn."

"Aww, how cute!" Yang exclaims. "Because of me, you say? I'd imagine it'd be a bit bigger, then." She pumps her arms, comparing it to the ones she knew.

"Well, it does what it does well. It knocked Blake off her feet the first time." Blake looks away, annoyed. "So, what's your plan?"

Ruby breaks her drooling gaze and takes hold of the man's object. She begins furiously going over it, rubbing her delicate fingers every which way while her breathing got more ragged.

The tiny tinker parks her butt in one of the chairs and gets to work. She pulls out a small case she's been carrying, then slams it on the table with purpose. She continues marking out over the Semblance-enhancing gloves, enthralled by the design and how the man cobbled together a working accessory. Testing the mechanisms, she says, "Its definitely a good start, but I can already see plenty of places to improve! Oh, this is going to be so much fun!"

"Like I said, go crazy!"

Turning away from Ruby, the man immediately hears a blowtorch go off, along with the grinding of screws. Deciding the best course of action was to let a master work, the man turns back to Blake and Yang. "So, she'll be there for hours, right? Wanna watch something?"

"Actually," Yang says, her face twisting into a nefarious grin. "I've been dying to get my games back." She looks at Blake with a raised eyebrow. "And now seems like a perfect time for you to join me, Blake. C'mon, whaddya say? A round or two of Savage Streets?"

Blake glances at the man for a split second, then folds her arms. "Ugh, fine. You're never going to stop bothering me about it, aren't you?" Unbeknownst to Yang, he and Blake had put several hours into the game over the past few days, so the Faunus was readily prepared for a match.

"Yes! You can cheer me on!" Yang exclaims, turning. She steps past the mountain of blankets and pillows, parks herself on the couch, and swaps Savage Streets into the console. "Get ready, Blake!"

Blake casually saunters over to the chair next to the couch and sits down rather unenthusiastically. She accepts a controller from Yang and motions for the man to sit. He ends up in between Yang and Blake, watching the one-sided grudge match. Hopefully, practicing against a novice like yourself would give Blake the ability to beat Yang; though the blonde was the only one with anything resembling a stake, it'd be hilarious if the assumed newbie beats her.

Starting up the game, Yang pushes past the start screens and heads to Savage Streets' versus mode. Without hesitation, she chooses her main in the form of the thong-clad Delta Red and says, "My girl! How I've missed you~"

"I don't think you were that excited to see me," Blake says, rolling her eyes. "Glad to know I matter." It was clear she was exaggerating, so Yang ignored her until she was affronted by Blake's choice of character.

As Blake flicks over the roster of characters, she pretends to judge each one of them for a moment before hovering over Bogey. Letting the screen hang on the disgusting man burping, Yang says, "You're picking him!?" incredulously.

"I've seen you play a bit," Blake answers. "He uses chains, right? That's kinda like my ribbons."

"Ugh." Yang searches around the stages, refusing to validate Bogey's existence. She picks a stage located in an airport and hunches over, smiling wide. "Ready to lose?"

"Depends. Are you ready to beat a person who's never played this game before?"

"Well, when you put it like that, I almost feel bad."

Yang presses go and the countdown starts. After the announcer screams out, "Go!" she immediately tries to rush Blake. The lightweight Delta Red sprints towards the massive Bogey before attempting an attack; Blake manages to throw a heavy punch that interrupts Yang, taking the pace and allowing her to slam one of Bogey's attacks. She was trying to make it look like she knew nothing, and it succeeds.

"Ah, what!?" Yang shouts in surprise as her character is knocked to the floor. As she gets up, Blake uses Bogey's divekick to attack from the air, landing another hit on Delta Red. "Button mashing, I get it."

"Oh, how did I do that?" Blake says, managing to hide the condescending nature of her words. She loudly flicks her controller stick backwards, letting her parry all of Yang's attempts at hits. Throwing Bogey's chain, she catches Delta Red before smashing her into the ground to end the round. "Oh, did I win?"

Suddenly fuming, Yang says, "Well, clearly I'm rusty and you have beginner's luck. There's still more rounds." She immediately starts the second round by activating her special bar; as with most of Yang's real fights, she immediately decimates Blake after essentially blowing her Semblance to increase her damage and speed, and quickly wins the next round with only a few hits taken. "That's better."

"But now you don't have that super bar thingy," Blake points out, informing Yang that she was now at a disadvantage.

"I don't need that to be you!" Yang screams, furiously staring at the screen.

The final round of Blake and Yang's bout starts with both rushing the other. Yang gets the first hit, but Blake quickly breaks out of it and activates her super. Bogey shoves a pepper in his mouth and blazes red, causing Yang to hemorrhage health as Delta Red is hit.. The intensity over a video game is tangible, even though Blake only gains spiteful pride from winning. Yang, meanwhile, loses everything, as she would lose to someone she assumes never played before.

Despite the game clock maxing out at 90 seconds, it felt like the fight was lasting an hour. Both Yang and Blake kept avoiding major damage and blocking any kill shots; Blake was at an advantage health-wise due to her earlier super use, but Yang's bar was almost full. In the last ten seconds, Yang manages to activate her super.

"Yes, yes, yes!" Yang cries as the activation of her bar, increasing her character's power. However, the second she runs forward, Blake throws Bogey's chain, smacking her down and taking the last of her health. "What!? No!" the blonde whines as Delta Red hits the ground and Bogey pulls out a massive donut. "Bull crap! You got lucky!"

Blake's intense face loosens into a smug smile as she places her controller down. "Nah, I think you're just not as good as you think you are."

With a crimson-eyed glare, Yang stares daggers at Blake and says, "Again. There's no way a scrub can keep that up."

Blake takes a surprisingly heavy breath, exhausted by the intense game. "Well, we're not doing anything. I'll humor- is it still humoring you if I'm embarrassing you in front of a boy?"

Yang angrily furrows her brow, her cheeks getting as red as her eyes. Wordlessly, she selects rematch and both girls ready themselves to continue their game.

The man spends the next hour or so watching Blake and Yang fight each other in Savage Streets. As their batches continue, it was clear that Blake was winning far more than Yang was; though there were a few rounds where the blonde took the match, Blake was winning about 70% of the time, and it only got worse as Yang got more enraged. You start to see Yang's glaring weakness as she gets more and more angry, leading to more and more mistakes.

"GGGRRRAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!" Yang screams, nearly throwing her controller as Blake takes another win. She's been getting far worse in the past few rounds due to her rage, as Blake was winning with most of her health.

"Don't worry, she gets like this pretty often," Ruby calmly explains, barely looking up from her tinkering. Her voice was the complete opposite from her sister's, being a very pleasant, almost encouraging tone when compared to screaming.

Blake, far past the point of being polite, was getting a very strong sense of schadenfreude watching her partner fume.

"Hnnghhh One more match!" Yang screams, furiously pointing at Blake. "Winner takes all!"

Blake returns to more of a neutral face, then stares blankly at Yang. "All of… what? There's no reward. And frankly, I'm getting kind of bored." Yang opens her mouth, but Blake interrupts, smugly adding, "I mean, I can only beat you so many times."

"Then we do a forfeit! One last match, and we make it interesting!"

Blake raises an eyebrow. "Oh? What did you have in mind?"

Yang's fury cools into a smug grin, suddenly mirroring Blake's winning-face. Nodding her head towards you, she says, "Oh, I have an idea. How about whoever loses has to clean this apartment? You said you would, but you never got around to it, right?"

"Works for me. That was the plan, but if you do it instead of me, then-"

"-I'm not done," Yang interrupts. She raises an eyebrow and her lips curl into a menacing smile. "Whoever loses has to clean the apartment, wearing that outfit." When Blake's eyes widen in surprise, Yang informs you of the detail, "You know, the one you got from that place. It'd be a little small on me, but I don't think he'd mind~" Yang puts on a cutesy face as she winks at you.

"Hey! I told you not to mention that!"

"Aww, what's the problem? He already knows that you're a Faunus, so what's the issue?"

"Because it's embarrassing! I told you not to talk about it!"

"Should I ask?"

"Ugh," Blake whines, clearly unhappy that Yang brought it up. "I worked for a cafe on weekends; that's where I got the money for my hotel, before they screwed me."

"You're missing the part about where you-"

"UGH. It was a maid cafe." Blake was clearly pissed about that being revealed. "They were the only place I could find willing to hire a student part time, and they paid well enough. I WAS hoping to stay there for a bit and earn spending money, but people were really lax on the whole, 'no touching policy.' God, I know what it's like with me saying this, but I felt like an animal in a cage: meant to be looked at and touched, but not heard."

Yang, now on the winning side, continues to chide Blake. "But she kept the outfit~"

"Because you…" Blake looks at Yang, blushing. "You told me to! She convinced me to keep it."

"You're welcome! Both of you~" Yang winks at both you and Blake. "So, what do you say, Ms. 'So-Called' Scrub? You're clearly better than me!"

Blake furiously grabs her controller and looks at the tv. "Fine. But don't blame me if it's too tight."

Now incredibly confident and far calmer, Yang smirks, saying, "It'll only be tight in the right places, BB. More for him to look at~"

"You do remember I'm dating your teammate?"

"I'll enjoy it, too, ya know," Yang says. "The reason Blake kept the outfit was because I said I'm sure she looked cute in it! Have a little fun, lover boy."

"Shut up!" Blake cried, trying to sound angry but coming across as flustered. The man remembers she admitted to being attracted to Yang, so it was actually likely she kept the maid outfit because the blonde asked with a flirtatious smile.

Before Yang had a chance to respond, the match starts. Both Yang and Blake glue their eyes to the scream, Yang far more relaxed than the now on-edge Blake. The blonde instantly starts a combo, trapping Blake in a series of blows before she gets knocked down. Bogey slams into the wall before hitting the ground, then gets up dizzy. Blake immediately starts randomly mashing buttons, her smug aura completely evaporated Delta Red continued her onslaught, quickly taking off most of Blake's remaining health.

Blake manages to get up, then activates her super mode. However, Yang easy breaks out of the ensuing combo and defeats Blake, taking round one. Blake lets out a defeated breath, while Yang chuckles to herself; the brief respite gives neither the time to trash talk, but Yang starts pleasantly humming to herself. She now had both a round advantage and her super, meaning she was poised to win. Blake was getting more frantic, clearly starting to panic.

The second round starts with Blake jumping forward while Yang calmly backs off. The blonde blocks several hits, taking nothing but chip damage. Blake continues pointlessly attacking, running down the clock; when there was thirty seconds left on the clock, Yang activates her super, increasing her damage and speed to take the pace. Delta Red dances around Bogey, easily avoiding his chains before starting a combo. Yang steadily knocks off most of Blake's health, then backs off once her super wears off.

Yang begins pleasantly humming steadily louder as the clock keeps ticking down. Blake was clearly getting more and more intense, trying feebly to get a good hit on Yang. The sound of smashing buttons came from her side while the blonde was still letting off her tune. The clock quickly reaches the ten mark, then the five mark, then the one mark.

"Dammit," Blake says, defeated, looking at Bogey cry after losing from time out. "Dammit, dammit, dammit. I deserve this."

"You were being smug~" Yang taunts, remembering the hours of Blake being better than her. "Not my fault it bites you in that ass of yours."

Overall, it had been a pretty fun day. You can't wait to tell Weiss about it when she comes back in a few days.