RWBY A Day in the Life of Crime
Chapter Two: Ruby's Grand Goals for the Grimm Gang
Ruby Rose dunked one half of her palm sized chocolate chip cookie into a glass of cold milk before she bit into it, her legs swinging back and forth under the table of the local bakery in childish delight. "Man, I'm so glad I'm the boss of one of the biggest gangs in Remnant. Now I can buy all the bakeries in the world I want! Cookies for days!" Ruby exclaimed joyfully, taking another big bite of her cookie and closing her eyes in pleasure at the delightful texture on her tongue.
Cinder, who was sitting across the table, chin propped in her hand as she watched Ruby eat, let a small smile grace her lips. She loved watching the girl when it came time to eat her cookies. She was the very epitome of childish innocence and cuteness, not that she wasn't cute on a regular basis doing whatever task she'd be doing, mundane or otherwise. "How many more bakeries do you have to buy out before you own all of them?"
"About three dozen more, I think," Ruby answered thoughtfully as she reached for another cookie from the plate of thirty cookies she had ordered. "Once I own them all then I'm going to rename them Ruby's Bake Shop, starting a chain store franchise. And we'll sell the best cookies worldwide! I'll make tons of money. And the best part will be that I will get to eat them for free since they'll be my cookie company." Her enthusiasm for this was endearing and Cinder couldn't help but smile once more at the girl's future goals for the gang.
"Maybe you should buy out the flour and sugar factories all over Remnant as well. That way you'll only have the best ingredients for your baking process," Cinder offered helpfully, picking up a cookie from the plate and taking a dainty bite of it. The chocolate chips just melted in her mouth and she enjoyed the gooey texture of the dessert. It was the only other snack besides Ruby that she really enjoyed this much. It was probably because she associated Ruby with cookies, thus when she ate the sweet goods she was reminded of her boss.
"I've never thought of that before!" Ruby said with a gasp. "Thanks for bringing it up. I can't make the best cookies without the best ingredients. Put that on the agenda for next week, Cinder. We'll start taking over all the flour and sugar industries in the city. And then we'll spread from there, and take over the other baked good related factories," the brunette instructed, reaching for yet another cookie.
"Sure thing," Cinder reached for the Scroll in her pants pocket and put that on the list of things Ruby wanted to do, right next to finishing a season of Cake Boss, cuddling with Cinder, and having a slumber party with the henchmen. Putting it away she asked, "do you have any other store you'd like to hit up this day? What about checking out some of the bakeries we have yet to conquer and start terrorizing them so that we can soften them up for our eventual takeover?"
"That sounds like a plan. I was going to put it off but now that I think about it, it probably wouldn't be smart to do that. Recently the bakeries have been targeted. Already two bakeries have been snatched up from right under my nose." At this Ruby's expression turned a bit dark as she glanced into the cup of milk on the table before her, imagining her enemies faces swirling in it. "And I won't lose to my competition anymore."
"You're talking about Sweet Tooth Nora and Reticent Ren?" Cinder asked gently, not wanting to rile Ruby up more than she already was. She liked a mad Ruby, it made her more feisty in bed, but they were in public right now and she didn't want Ruby to go on a rampage and thoughtlessly slaughter those in the vicinity. It wouldn't be good for business.
"Yes." This time Ruby took a harsh bite of her cookie, gnashing the dough in between her teeth. "They've been purposefully getting in my way, halting my plans for complete world domination of bakeries. Their too brazen. But I won't let them get anymore from me. I'll nab those stores before they do," Ruby promised vehemently and finished up her cookie, reaching for another one and shoving it into her mouth, then another and another. Cinder arched a brow, watching the girl stress eat. Ruby wasn't even enjoying the cookies anymore, just shoving them in as she angrily ranted. "And then they'll have no choice but to give up when they see they've been out maneuvered. In fact, how dare they even try to challenge me in the first place."
At this Cinder placed a gentle hand on Ruby's outstretched hand on the table that had curled into a fist. Her other hand stopped, cookie mid-air. "Ruby, be calm. Don't worry too much about it. I'm sure you'll have no issues getting what you want."
Ruby let out a sigh, composing herself. After a second or two she was back to her normal smiling self. "You're right Cinder. I shouldn't worry. Nora's and Ren's gang are crumbs of the cookie, while we're the whole cookie. I shouldn't let them spoil my appetite." At this Ruby began to eat her cookies more slowly, enjoying them once more.
Cinder retracted her hand and let Ruby focus back on her snacks, her legs swinging under the table once more in joy. But the girl's calm was shortly interrupted by her Scroll going off. "Now what?" she grumbled, looking at the caller id and frowning.
"Mercury, what did I tell you about interrupting me during cookie time?" she admonished her henchman.
"Uh, to not interrupt it unless I wanted to be flattened like a cookie," Mercury repeated something that his boss had told him countless times. He shivered as he said this but he had something important to convey and so went on with the call. "But this is important, boss, I swear."
"What could be more important than me enjoying my cookies in peace?" Ruby huffed.
"Nothing, nothing!" Mercury stammered to answer. "But this is about your bakeries!"
Ruby, who had been on the verge of hanging up with the retort of, "exactly, nothing is more important so stop bothering me!" was paused by his comment about the bakeries. "What did you say?" she asked, holding her Scroll closer to her ear.
"Boss, their under attack!"
"Under attack?" Ruby asked, her brows rising in concern.
"Yea. You remember the one we just bought? The one directly in front of that rival gang's one? Well, yea, that's the one that's getting attacked right now. Two criminals are smashing the glass and making away with all your cookies!"
"No," Ruby's voice was a horrified whisper. "Have you sent forces to apprehend them?" Cinder watched with worry as Ruby's face paled. What was the news that was being delivered to her? It looked really bad.
"We have, but boss," Mercury seemed a bit sheepish at this. "We kind of suck and need help. The two criminals are super powerful. And they have wicked cool and dangerous weapons. We aren't anywhere near their cool and wicked level. So our asses are getting kicked!"
"Who are the two criminals?" Ruby asked, her voice now getting dangerously low and her free hand curling up back in anger. She had a sneaking suspicion of who they were but she wanted to be sure so that she could bring her A game to the fight.
"One's a girl with orange hair and a huge sledge hammer. She's also prone to laughing gleefully. And the other is a tall Asian boy with a purple highlight in his hair."
"It's them," Ruby said more to Cinder than to Mercury. The older woman nodded her head in understanding. Then to the boy on the phone Ruby said, "I'll be on my way. Don't worry. I'll protect my cookies!" She then hung up on Mercury's relieved sigh and picked up the glass of milk, chugging it in one go. She set it down with a clunk on the table, her hand tightening around it. "It's Sweet Tooth Nora and Reticent Ren. Their outright targeting my stores now. I won't allow them to get away with this." Ruby stood up, her red cloak swirling around her. She cast a sad look at the unfinished plate of cookies. She would have to finish them later.
"Get them wrapped up and delivered to me later," Ruby instructed Cinder as she strode towards the door.
"Wait, I want to go with you," Cinder said as she got up from her seat too.
Ruby shook her head, a no on her lips. "This is something I need to handle myself. It's me they are taunting, me they want to fight. Beside, I don't want you to get hurt. After all, your safety and health are the reason why I do this, Cinder." Then with a small smile, Ruby brushed out of the store, the little bell on the doorway jingling merrily as she exited.
Cinder let out a sigh, shaking her head. That girl. She could be very fixed on something when she allowed herself to be. Cinder then turned on her heel, after she could no longer track Ruby's progress from the store's wide glass window front, and waved down a store employee so that he could wrap the cookies up to go.
A/N: So I decided to expand upon this little world the two girls are abiding in. Next chapter will be a continuation of this chapter. But most chapters will not necessarily be continuations, just more of sporadic scenes, although they will more or less be in a linear time frame unless otherwise mentioned. If you guys have requests for any characters from the RWBY world that you would like to see in these drabbles then feel free to comment in the reviews and I'll try to come up with a story for them and add them.