A Few Weeks Later...
"For a criminal, Roman Torchwick never knew just how demanding someone could be for stolen objects. The woman he ran into had him and Neo spending so much time out, what was ending up being them stealing practically all the dust in Vale. It had gotten so annoying, that every few days, Roman visited Junior's nightclub to hire some of his thugs just so he could keep up with his 'boss's' demands.
Now normally, if someone hired Roman to steal something and they were incredibly annoying about it, he'd usually end up keeping whatever was stolen if it was valuable or worth selling, if not? He just demanded a higher pay. However, this really wasn't an option with this 'Cinder', the one time he did try to pull out of the job, she lit her hand on fire and asked Torchwick if it would be a good idea. Of course, Roman acted like he was merely joking, taking her hint.
That was why he was at Junior's tonight, Ruby with him dressed in something less obvious then her usual clothes, red sports glasses, and her cape wrapped around her throat like a scarf. Walking in from the front door, Ruby always loved the way the place had been made, with a dance floor in the centre of the building, a DJ on a balcony behind it, bar to the left and lounges to the right. Seeing her dad move towards the bar, she quickly spotted Junior and some of his thugs, noticing their mix of axes, swords and guns somewhere on their bodies or nearby.
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"Red, can you do me a favour? Stay back and keep an eye on things ok?" Roman asks as they near Junior. Nodding, Ruby walks off to one side of the dance floor, which just happens has a good field of view of the entire club. Smiling as his little girl does as he's taught her, Roman walks up to Junior and taps Melodic Cudgel on the chair next to the man. Junior looks up, and upon seeing Torchwick, gets up and says to the man, "Let me guess, you want to get some more of my boys for something?" Roman smirks at this, "Well you know me too well, as I just happen to need some muscle to help me...acquire...some dust."
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Junior looks at Roman, the egotistical man was standing up with his cane under his arm, holding out some lien. Sighing to himself, Junior takes the money and points to a backroom, "Go back, take which ever four of them suit your need." Roman smirks as he walks off. Junior sighs and turns back to his drink.
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Ruby knew that her dad didn't like people knowing who she was so related to so when he asked her to watch the place, she did just that. Once she saw Junior direct Roman to the backrooms, she knew he'd want her to stay around for a bit before leaving. The Malachite twins noticed her and scowled. The girls had a bit of grudge against Ruby when she bet up two of Junior's thugs that tried to mug her, and the twins saw this and got into a fight which was never finished as police had been called by a passer-by.
Ruby was about to move a lounge in the corner of the club when she noticed something. What she did see was someone coming in at this time, which was unusual as usually people were already here or came in a group. What set off Ruby was the person. A woman with long blond hair, lilac eyes and an orange scarf. She was wearing a brown jacket that left her lower stomach open, a crop top that had some black emblem on her left side. Brown belt covered by a pleated brown piece of material reaching around her waist. Underneath this is a longer, white piece of material reaching to her knee on the right side, as well as a pair of black mini-shorts. Brown, knee-high boots and orange over-the-knee socks. A lavender bandana was tied around her left knee.
On her wrists were two bracelets, that to Ruby's trained eye, were obviously some kind of expanding weapon. Watching as she walked up to the bar, she stopped next to Junior and appeared to order a drink. What seemed to happen was Junior sent the Malachites off and started to talk to the girl to which the girl says something before she grabs him by the balls hard. Ruby watches as the girl pulls a scroll out and shows it to the man. Noticing a large number of Junior's thugs rush up to possibly try and help him. The girl lets go and as the club owner walks away the girl follows. As they get closer to Ruby, she hears the blond say, "lets kiss and make up ok?" Snickering at what she said, Ruby watches as Junior bends down a little to try and do just that, before achieving lift-off and flying across the club with a punch to the face.
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As everyone else starts running out of the club, Ruby sits down and watches as the girl's bracelets, as Ruby predicted, turn into gauntlets with shotgun barrels on the fronts. Ruby watches as she starts to do what can only be described as beating the hell out of the thugs. Ruby can't help but sigh when the Bear DJ pulls a machine gun out, making the music stop playing right, it was good music! Noticing the Malachite Twins walking out to the dance floor as Blondie flies through the air with a blast of her shotguns and kicks the DJ off the balcony.
Glaring at the Malachites from under her sports glasses Ruby gets up as they watch the girl reload her gauntlets, jump off the balcony and fires exploding shots down at them. As they back flip away, Ruby pulls out Crescent Rose and fires at Melanie, rapidly forcing the girl away from her sister. While Ruby may not take all her father's teachings to heart, she does know that it's good to get revenge. As Blondie and Miltia start fighting, Ruby runs behind Melanie with her semblance, and smacks her across the back of her head with the gun form of Crescent Rose, before firing her gun into the twin's stomach, which is blocked by her Aura, it does knock her flying back.
Getting up, Melanie runs at Ruby swinging her right leg at her before fainting and switching to her left. Ruby blocks it and swings her gun around, transforming it into its scythe form. Swinging it around, Ruby fires Crescent Rose to gain momentum which the twin can only dodge as trying to block would likely break her leg. As Melanie desperately tries to avoid being hit, Ruby swing's her weapon behind, planting it into the ground and fires, kicking into the girl. The kick launches her flying across the room, smashing through a glass cylinder used to reflect lights.
Looking over at the other fight going on, Ruby retracts her baby into its gun mode and watches the twin get sent flying over her into the other cylinder, with the blond girl standing with a smirk on her face at how easy her fight was. Ruby knows that the twins are skilled, they can be easily defeated when separated as they rely working together.
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Yang fires Ember Celcia into the girl and launches her flying. Smirking at her beaten opponent, Yang actually does a double take as she sees some other girl with a massive gun in her hands. Yang saw both the twins but didn't even notice the little girl had already beaten up the other one, who she see's walking over to her sister as they walk away. Before Yang can say anything, the building's disco lights turn off and Junior walks up, a RPG in his hands. Looking at both the girls, he claims, "You girl's a gonna pay for this." Yang resume her boxing stance as Junior fires rockets off at them.
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Ruby back flips as soon as Junior fires at them, dodging the rockets with ease. Firing Crescent Rose and activating her semblance, she sees the girl fire her guns at the rockets, destroying them. Junior charges at her, his RPG turning into a bat, and swings it at her. The girl manages to block two of the surprise swings but is knocked back by a third, dazed, and is sent flying by a round house swing from Junior. Ruby jumps onto the DJ's balcony and starts firing at Junior, causing him to try and block her bullets. The girl gets up, with her hair on fire and eyes turned red, and charges at Junior who doesn't even see her coming, too distracted by Ruby's sniper fire. The girl throws punch after punch at Junior which quickly break's his bat in half and is sent back flying.
Junior stands up with the broken handle of his weapon in his right hand and some of the girl's hair in his left. He smirks at the girl who, realising that he tore some of her hair out, causes her hair to explode out violently. Ruby laughs as she watches the girl launch herself at Junior and punch a hay-maker right into his face, send him out the building.
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Yang takes a deep breath as the fire on her hair dies out and her eyes turn back to their normal colour. Turning around to the girl in red, who jumped down onto the dance floor again, Yang walks over to her, "Thanks for the help! What's your name?". The girl looks at her before saying, "My name's Ruby, what's yours?" "Yang, so what were you doing here?" Ruby is about to say something when a scroll goes off. Yang watches as she pulls out her scroll and answers it, "Hello? Oh, hi dad...yeah, I did...oooh ok then...meet you at home then? Ok bye." Ruby faces Yang, who is looking at her with a raise eyebrow. "I got to go. See you around!" Ruby runs off before Yang can say anything. "Ok then..." Yang says, walking back to where see left her bike, Bumblebee.
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Ruby ran home with the help of her semblance, arriving there in a few minutes of leaving the club. Ruby was kinda sad that she had to leave that Yang girl, she seemed quite nice. But her dad called her, saying there was something he needed her to do. Ruby guessed that he wanted to get her scope out a place for him or follow someone. She didn't mind doing this, it was fun to her and always provided a challenge. As Ruby walked inside, Neo appeared in front of her, smiling with her scroll out
Showing a picture of her.
At the club.
Fighting the twins.
Ruby gasped at who she considered her sister. "You can't show dad that!" Ruby's beg was cut short by Roman shouting out, "Ruby, come here!" Neo smiled at Ruby as she walked past. Ruby walked into the lounge room where Roman was sitting on the couch, bowler hat off and on the couch's arm. "Ruby, can you tell me why Neo showed me a picture of you fighting those annoying twins? As much as I don't like them and would love to see you knock them around, I doubt Junior would feel the same way." Ruby nervously chuckled before saying to her dad, "Weeeeeeell I might have bet them up and Junior too..."
Roman looked at her, raising an eyebrow as she continued, "But I didn't start the fight! There was this blond girl called Yang that punched Junior, and bet up a ton of his men, and Miltia, and Junior again..." Ruby trails of into the fight itself while Roman sits by, smiling at her. This isn't the first time she got into a fight and he found out, but he didn't really care that much. In the crime world, it doesn't hurt to show people not to mess with you.
"Well Red, all I have to say is good work at beating them up. But now that wasn't the real reason I wanted you to come back." Roman tells his daughter, who sighs gratefully. "Well, uh no not really." Ruby confesses to Roman, who just crosses his leg on top of the other. "You know how I've been teaching you about history and grimm and other things that don't really matter to our line of work?" Ruby nods, "Well you know how I've been hired to get someone a lot of dust?" Ruby nods, having been told a few days ago about why they had been stealing more dust and for who."
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"She's up to something, something big, involving Beacon and possibly the city. I overheard her when I first met her saying they were going to do something there and I need you do get inside the school and figure out what. Can you do that for me?" Roman asks Ruby a very big thing. Ruby looking at her dad, before saying, "Uh ok, but how am I going to get in there? I'm 15 and the entree age is 17, so I don't think I can trick them that I'm not." Roman smiles at what she says. "I have a plan, that should get the Headmaster personally let you in."
"So, Ruby, I'm telling you now, do you want to go to Beacon Academy and find out what this Cinder is up to. Because what she is up to, can only end badly for our little family. If your caught, your gonna have to be able to fight any friends you make off and get away." Roman warns her one more time.
Ruby nods determinedly. "Yes dad." Roman smiles at Ruby, before telling her to go to sleep. Ruby walks off to bed, saying goodnight. Neo walks in from the doorway. "Neo if your sister gets discovered, be ready to help her." Neo tilts her head slightly, "No, don't kill any of her friends, I doubt they would try and kill her anyway. Just get her out of there if it goes down." Neo nods, looking at Roman with a growling expression. "Yeah, if she's having trouble with grimm, help her out as long as you don't get caught. Also, if you can, try and give Ruby some practise every so often."
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Author's Note: Had to update it, didn't load properly, messed up a ton of it.
Well, Ruby has met Yang and agreed to go to Beacon to spy on Cinder, Neo is being guardian angel and occasional trainer
Also, you all seem to like this story, so I guess this story won't be stopping anytime soon.
Until next time, AD