WEISS' DAY OFF
"Ah, it's a beautiful springtime. A time for fun and frolic for most people. But not for this unfortunate girl."
Standing near the front door of a fantsy themed restaurant known as the Wrusty Wizard, Weiss stares outside with a depressed expression on her face. "I can't believe this. It's such a beautiful day and yet I'm stuck here, trapped inside of a prison of high cholesterol." A bell dings in the background, causing her to wince. "This isn't fair,. No one ever comes in on a Sunday." She winced again as the bell dings again. "Why can't Mr. Ozpin let us go home instead?" The bell dings a third time, finally getting Weiss to snap as she turns to face the source of the noise with an enraged expression.
The source of the noise was Ruby Rose, who was pressing the bell on the order window between the kitchen and the cashier booth, giggling to herself as she passed the time up until Weiss runs up and swipes the bell from her. "Ruby! Stop ringing this bell!" She slams the bell back on the window.
"I was just testing it." Ruby explains before backing up as Weiss leans closer to her.
"I'll ring the bel to let you know when there is an order. But..." She leans out to motion to the empty restaurant around her. "There are no customers!" There hasn't been a single one all day and there isn't going to be any!" In her anger, she grabs the cash register and struggles to life it up before succeeding and slamming it back down in place which causes it to produce a bell sound.
"One Wizard Patty coming up!" Ruby calls, thinking that was Weiss giving her an order.
"No!" Weiss shouts in annoyance before being cut off by the cash register opening and knocking her over, spilling a bunch of coins onto the ground in the process.
Ozpin, who was in his office busy writing on a few pieces of paper suddenly pauses as he hears the commotion outside his office. "That sounds like my money dropping." He heads out of his office and spots Weiss on the floor picking up the spilled coins. "My babies! Get away from them you barbarian!" He rushes over, shoving Weiss aside with enough force to send her into a nearby wall as he crouches near his money, clearly freaking out and worried by the look on his face.
"Look at what you've done! Nice, clean money has been soiled! Don't worry, Papa will take care of you. I'll get you cleaned up."Picking up all of the coins as quickly as her could and talking to them in a soothing voice, he rushes into the kitchen. "Clear the way!" He gets to the sink and starts washing them quickly to get them clean. "It's okay, don't cry little ones."
"What's the matter, Mr. Ozpin?" Ruby asks, touching Ozpin's back and startling him enough that he drops one of the dimes.
"My dime!" Ozpin panicks as he watches the dime roll around the drain of the sink a few times before landing on it's side and appearing to be safe as Ozpin sighs with relief. Then, for the sake of comedy and plot progression, the dime suddenly flips up so that it's floating above the drain and gives a wink before dropping in.
"NO!" Ozpin screams before shoving his entire arm down the drain, managing to grab the dime quickly much to his relief. "Whew, I saved it Ruby!" As he tries to pull his hand out of the drain however he quickly runs into an issue as he's unable to pull it out. "What the? It's stuck!" You've got to help me Ruby!" He turns to his employee pleading.
Ruby looks into the sink, seeing the problem immediately and points it out. "You have to let go off of the dime." She explains, seeing the hand was going to be stuck as long as Ozpin held onto his dime.
"I can think of ten good reasons to never let go of a dime." Ozpin answers Ruby's suggestion with a straight face. "There's got to be a better way! Wrap your arms around my waist and pull with all your might!"
Ruby does just as she's told, grabbing unto Ozpin and pulling in rhythm with him as they try to free his hand from the sink. Unfortunately, they didn't count on Ozpin's arms popping off as Ruby throws him backward through the air.
"MY ARMS!" Ozpin cries as he flies through the air, his sleeves flapping in the wind now that they're empty.
"Oh no, not again!" Ruby has a concerned look as she looks at the sink where Ozpin's arms remained attached, on still stuck in the drain while the other was still gripping the ledge.
Eventually, Ozpin comes to a stop as he slams into a wall, grunting as he slides unto the floor. Has he lays there, the force of the impact cause one of the shelves in the kitchen to slant downward, leading to a bunch of items sliding and dropping perfectly on his head. First it was a pot, follows by a glass, a pan, a mug, a treasure chest, a shield, a giant hammer and finally a suit of armor. By the end of it, he was dizzy as his glasses were tilted and a large lump was forming on his head. The final blow was ironically a dime of all things, landing perfectly on the lump and making him wince in pain before finally passing out.
After the crazy accident that just happened, the paramedics had arrived and two were carrying Ozpin out of the restaurant on a stretcher as Ruby and Weiss stood by the door, Weiss holding it open for the paramedics to walk through.
"Wait." Ozpin speaks, causing the paramedics to stop in front of Ruby and Weiss so that he could talk to them. "Weiss... I'm putting you in charge of things around here while I'm gone."
Weiss smiles brightly upon hearing those words as Ozpin is carried into the ambulance with a third paramedic following behind carrying the detached arms. "You can count on me, Sir! Take care. Hurry back. Get well soon. You're in our thoughts. It takes more muscles to frown than to smile."
She continued the positive talk until the ambulance took off, shutting the front door so she could address Ruby, having an idea in mind. "Okay, Ruby, let's get down to business. My first official act as new manager is to give you a promotion."
Ruby's eyes turn into stars as she smiles widely. "AAH! Really?"
Weiss nods. "That's right. You get to run the cash register now." She motions to the cash register which was normally her position.
Ruby slides over to the cash register, still extremely happy as she holds it. "The cash register... Wow! Who's going to work the grill then?"
"You are of course. It's part of the promotion I mentioned earlier. You'll be wearing two hats now. You're going to take the orders and then you're going to make them!" Weiss smiles as she takes off her hat and places it onto Ruby's head, the hat resembling a small blue pointy hat like what a wizard would commonly wear. She also hands Ruby a spatula, the latter holding it closing to her chest in excitement.
Ruby was extremely excited as she feels to two hats on her head. "Ah... this is the best day of my life."
"Me too." Weiss simply agrees, still smiling.
It was then that Ruby noticed something odd, looking at Weiss in confusion. "Wait a minute, if I'm running the register and the grill, what are you going to be doing?"
"Oh, I've got some very important boss-like errands to run. I'll see you later." She begins to walk toward the front door, being stopped by Ruby halfway through.
"Wait Weiss!"
Weiss looks back to Ruby. "What is it?"
"You forgot to teach me how to use... the cash register." Ruby rubs the side of the cash register, acting as if it was some object of great value that must be handled carefully.
Weiss simply gives Ruby a blank stare. "You push the button and put the money inside. Okay, you're on your own." She turns and leaves the restaurant.
Shortly afterward, Ruby is hugging the cash register tightly, crying tears of happiness. "I can't believe this is really happening..." The cash register opens up, allowing her to sit on the box. "Today, I start living!"
As she was heading home, Weiss was feeling happy that she managed to trick Ruby into working at the restaurant alone so she could have a day off for herself. "Well Weiss, you've really outdone yourself this time. A beautiful day of relaxing and pampering... with pay." She rubs her hands together, her smile dropping as she ponders Ruby's situation. "Hmm... I guess I do kind of feel bad for poor little Ruby, all by his lonesome... oh, it'll pass. She's probably just standing at the register with a stupid grin on her face." Weiss giggles at the thought.
Ruby is standing at the cash register with a silly look on her face, tongue sticking out as her eyeballs face different directions.
It wasn't long before Yang enters the Wrusty Wizard with a silly look on her face like Ruby, greeting her. "Hey, Ruby!"
"Hey, Yang!"
"Hey, Ruby, could you give me change for a quarter?" Yang holds out a quarter she pulled from her pocket.
"No problem!" Ruby takes the quarter and bangs on the cash register till it opens up. She then pulls out a massive amount of cash in exchange for the quarter and gives it to Yang.
"Thank you." Yang grins.
Weiss suddenly gasps in horror. "I forgot to show her how to make change! Ah!" She runs back to the Wrusty Wizard in a panic, knowing that if Ruby screwed this up, Weiss was the one that was going to suffer the consequences since she was supposed to be working and be the temporary boss on top of that.
"Ru...!" She pauses as she enters the Wrusty Wizard, seeing that Ruby was the only one there, standing behind the cash register like when Weiss left her. "By." She runs over to the cash register and shoves Ruby aside, checking the money and feeling relief to see that everything was as it should be.
"Hi, Weiss. All done with those errands?" Ruby asks, figuring so since Weiss came back to work.
Weiss moves to the front of the cash register. "No, no. I just remembered that I needed change for this dollar." She holds up a dollar, intending to test Ruby to make sure Ruby could give change properly.
"Oh sure! You want your quarters? Or ten times? Or twenty nickels? Or one hundred pennies? Or one quarter, three dimes, seven nickels, or ten pennies? Or, if you give me a five dollar bill, your options are..." Ruby continued to do the math like a pro, magically pulling out whatever coins she was mentioning at the moment until Weiss had enough.
"Alright, goodbye!" She leaves the restaurant, feeling at ease that Ruby can do change but still annoyed at how much Ruby showed off just now.
Back at her house, Weiss was getting ready to sunbath as she put on a white swimsuit and was setting up a lawn chair with an umbrella and brought with her sunglasses, a sunbathing mirror and sunscreen."This is great. My day off, no worries, just relaxation." Laying down on her lawn chair with her sunglasses on, she applies a bit of sunscreen to her nose. "I'm the boss, I deserve this. Ah..."
She relaxes in her chair, smiling happily. "Everything will be just fine. There won't be any customers today anyways. She's probably just standing there, bored out of her mind." A thought bubble appears as she imagines Ruby standing in the Wrusty Wizard without anything to do.
Standing in her position behind the register, Ruby lets out a yawn. "Hm.. getting kind of bored..." She lays down her head on top of the register and falls asleep, snoring gently. As she does this, the entire Wrusty Wizard erupts into flames without any explanation, causing Weiss to let out shriek and start blowing the thought bubble away before getting up, changing back to her usual outfit and dashing as fast as she could to the restaurant in panic.
As she is running however, she comes to a stop as she realizes what she is doing, looking irritated in the process. "Oh, what am I doing?!" Taking out her scroll, she checks the time on it. "I'm wasting all of my valuable relaxing time, that's what I'm doing! Seriously, what are the odds that Ruby would light the Wrusty Wizard on fire?" Feeling confident the odds were zero, she begins walking back home.
Shortly after she begins her walk back home, a fire truck drives by with it's siren on, heading down the street toward the Wrusty Wizard. This reignited Weiss' panic as she runs for the restaurant again, busting through the front doors and spraying the interior wildly with a fire extinguisher she picked up along the way.
After the foam clears up, Ruby is still standing behind the register as the foam forms a mustache on her face. Weiss walks up to Ruby with foam on her face in the shape of a beard, looking annoyed as she was once again proven wrong.
"Can I help you sir?" Ruby asks, clearly not recognizing Weiss.
"It's me, you dunce!' Weiss screams as she wipes her foam beard of furiously, letting her anger out on Ruby.
"Oh, hello Weiss! How are those errands going?" Ruby asks, oblivious to Weiss' anger as her own foam mustache falls off.
"What's that supposed to mean? I'm very busy." Weiss glares, feeling offended.
"Im sure you are."
"I don't like your tone."
"I'm sure you are." Ruby sings in a high-pitched voice, catching Weiss of guard before going back to her normal voice. "How's that?"
"Just stay here and do your jobs!" Weiss grumbles as she leaves for the third time that day.
"You got it, Ms. Schnee!" While saluting to Weiss, Ruby's spatula gets stuck to her forehead, staying there even after putting her arm down. "Wow, no wonder Mr. Ozpin put her in charge." She admires Weiss' sense of duty, oblivious that it wasn't there in the first place.
Back in her home, the stress was clearly getting to Weiss as she was struggling to get into a chair, her back straight as a board while her held her up as she leaned back. "Must... re.. lax!" With an audible and sharp crack, Weiss slumps into her chair, looking completely exhausted.
She pulls out a hand mirror to get a good look at herself, noting how exhausted she looked. "Look at yourself, you're starting to lose your glow. You need to stop worrying so much!." She points a finger at the mirror. "Now, repeat after me: you will not go back to the Wrusty Wizard."
Before she can do that however, Ruby's reflection suddenly appears in the mirror with a smile on her face. "I will destroy the Wrusty Wizard." She speaks calmly and happily.
Weiss screams and throws the mirror, shattering it before running back to the Wrusty Wizard and bursting through the front door. "RUBY!"
"Have you finished...?" Ruby starts to speak.
"NO!" Weiss interrupts before leaving. "Okay, that's enough! That's more than enough! No matter what kind of sick and crazy fantasies run through my mind, I'm not going back to that restaurant!" She walks into her home, determined to stay put. Which lasts about three seconds before she runs in a panic toward the Wrusty Wizard, gets asked by Ruby if she finished her errands and then runs back home.
At this point, her sanity starts to unravel as she is running back and forth between her home and her workplace, Ruby's words echoing in her head nonstop as she becomes more and more frantic. Ultimately, she stays put at the front door, allowing Ruby to ask her the question.
"Have you finished those errands? How you finished those errands? Have you finished those errands?"
"No, I'm not finished with those errands and I never will be, so quit checking up on me!" Weiss yells at Ruby, walking up to her angrily. "I know what you are up to! Forcing me to come back here every time you mess up!" She beats on the cash register as she talks.
"But, I haven't..." Ruby tries to explain herself but isn't allowed to.
"Okay! Maybe you haven't messed up yet, but you will. You will..." She leans in close, showing that she was starting to lost her sanity from her expression and behavior as well as her dialogue, soon walking backwards out of the restaurant. "And when you do mess up, I'll be there! I'll be there!" She runs back home, laughing like a crazy person.
"Wow, Weiss really is a hard worker. She makes me so proud to be wearing these hats." Ruby rubs her hats happily, completely missing what was really going on with Weiss and how she was unintentionally torturing the poor girl.
Weiss sanity continued it's decline as she began to barricade her front door from the inside, covering it with locks, planks of wood, wielding it shut and even using police tape all in an attempt to keep herself from running back to the Wrusty Wizard to check on Ruby.
"There!" She throws the blowtorch aside and removes the welding mask she was wearing. Her physical appearance was reflecting her mental state as her hair and clothing looked messy, her eyes were all screwed up and she was hunching over as she stood in an awkward pose all the while laughing in random intervals. "Now I have to stay here and enjoy myself! I'm not even going to think about you-know-who at the you-know-what doing i-don't-care. Just going to... relax..."
She awkwardly walks into the bathroom, setting up a nice bubble bath for herself and feeling relief as she sinks in and soaks in the warm water. "Let Weiss' day off... begin." She sits there, finally in place until she hears a laughter that puts her on edge once more. "What was that?" She listens closely, recognizing the laughter that was coming from her bathroom window as Ruby's laughter.
She trembled in the bath, fearing that she was found out. "It's Ruby. She must be spying on me to see if I'm really doing errands. But, but this means that she left her post and that I've finally caught her messing up." Laughing to herself, she approaches the window near the bathroom and pokes her head through. "AHA! I caught you now, Ruby Rose..." Looking down, she sees it's just a rose bush under her window making the laughter due to the wind blowing through it. "Bush."
Pulling her head back into the bathroom, she then notices a silhouette on her curtain, one that looked like Ruby while she was wearing the two hats. "Heh, here's that rubber ducky Mr. Ozpin wanted me to get." Weiss suddenly pulls the curtain back. "I've caught you now! Wait until Mr. Ozpin finds out that you're a... toilet." Instead of Ruby, it turned out to be Weiss' toilet that happened to make a convincing silhouette with the help of bathroom supplies.
"Sweet Oum, you're losing it, Weiss." Weiss holds her head, regaining enough sanity to realize she was losing it. "I have to calm down. If I let this get to me again then I'll just end up running down to the Wrusty Wizard, bursting through the front door, up to that red caped headache Ruby, and she'll say..."
"Hi, Weiss. Are you finished with those errands yet?" Ruby interrupts, appearing in the bathtub before diving into it.
"AHA!" Weiss dives into the bathtub, suddenly appearing in a much larger space, looking around for Ruby. "I know you're in here." She spots Ruby, gasping as Ruby winks at her before diving down the drain of the bathtub. Weiss surfaces in her bathtub shortly after. "She's heading for the Wrusty Wizard! I'll beat her there!"
With the last bit off her sanity disappearing, she jumps out of the bathtub and smashes right through the barricaded front door with ease, soon running down the street with nothing but a layer of bubble foam covering her body as she runs down the street like a maniac."I've got you now, Ruby!"
"Hey, put some clothes on!" A mother that Weiss runs past shouts at Weiss while covering her child's eyes.
"The truth will be revealed!" Weiss screams as she runs past a rock that Yang was relaxing on, the blonde taking notice of Weiss.
"Whoo, right on, Weiss!" Yang cheers for Weiss, providing encouragement without any idea what was actually happening.
Up ahead, Ozpin is walking out of the hospital with a doctor, his arms reattached after his earlier incident.
"Okay, Mr. Ozpin. You get plenty of rest and if things don't seem right, come back." The doctor speaks before heading inside.
"Thank, Doc." Ozpin waves to the doctor, looking toward the street with a smile just in time to see his employee running by naked.
"You can't beat me, Ruby!" Weiss screams, obviously to the fact that she just passed her boss.
A few seconds later, the image of seeing the employee he left in charge of his business running down the street naked and crazy causes his arms to fall off again. He simply walks back into the hospital, deciding it was best to avoid the Wrusty Wizard for the time being.
Eventually, Weiss busts through the front doors of the restaurant, laughing insanely as she approaches as very confused and concerned Ruby, "AHA! I've caught you now! You didn't think I knew you're the rose bush outside of my window! Ha! Or the toilet in my bathroom!"
Ruby could only look on in confusion as her coworker was standing naked in front of her and having a mental breakdown as she rambled on and on about nonsense, getting a lot of saliva on Ruby's face in the process.
"And then you were in my bathtub, and then you...I And you...and i... then you... swam down the drain... and beat me to the Wrusty Wizard." As she finishes her story, Weiss seems to regain her sanity after realizing just how ridiculous everything sounded when she said it out loud. Perhaps she was simply too exhausted to be insane anymore or something after the day she had.
"Um... does that mean you're..." Ruby begins to speak, but Weiss puts a hand on her mouth.
"Yes, Ruby. I'm finished with those errands." I guess I want to take my place back at the cash register. I really do." Weiss smiles as she hugs the cash register, rubbing hee face into it as she comes to accept she can only be truly at peace while doing her job when it was time to work.
"Then, you might want to put these on." Ruby whispers as she takes off her dress and hands it to Weiss.
It was in that moment that Weiss remembered she had run all the way to the Wrusty Wizard without any clothes on, the bubbles that have been covering her body finally popping in this exact moment to leave her naked. She doesn't hesitate to take them and put them on for modesty.
"Hmm..." Ruby appears to notice something as she walks off and walks back with the open/closed sign. "Hey, Weiss, you know what? We forgot to switch the closed sign to open." She flips the sign around to prove her point. "It's almost like we could've taken the whole day off."
As Ruby laughs at the situation, Weiss simply falls to the ground gently, exhausted after the day she just had.
END
Here is the second chapter. As mentioned, I'll be checking back for spelling errors and some tidying so please don't mind them too much if you do notice some. Just want the story to be enjoyable.
The reason I picked Weiss for Squidward is cause I feel like she could be a good pairing if Ruby is Spongebob. I also found it hilarious to picture her going insane from self induced stress like Squadward did in this episode. On the side, my reason for making Ozpin as Mr. Krabs is to allow the opportunity to have Cinder be Plankton for the episodes involving them. Besides, I see him being a restaurant owner if not a teacher.
Please favorite or follow if you like the story and tell me what your favorite moment of this episode is. My favorite part is Squidward finally losing it and running to the Krusty Krab naked. XD