Author's Note: -Insert CoD suicide killfeed emblem-
My Apologies for taking so long, got so many assignments to work on, eating up all my time. I know I said I wouldn't try to take so long, but life doesn't want me to have fun! And all this work is killing my imagination, buuuuut it's holidays now for a little, SO I will have more time to work on it without doing 101 other things, only around 20 or so...
Yaaaaay
Also I blame MGSV: TPP, for making me work on an idea for a story that requires me to get to certain points in order to write stuff that is actually correct.
And Congrats to Kaiser-Frunn and Steel723, you both got them references
Nevertheless, on with the story before I hibernate again!
Also I added a poll in case you don't already know, I need some input
Y/N
Edit: Changed a few spelling mistakes is all
Qrow looked around the cramp space of the bullhead, analysing Team RWBY. He had watch them fight individually at Beacon, as well as their initiation, and the veteran huntsman had to admit, the girls had lots of potential.
Unless they got themselves killed doing things like this.
While Qrow had joked around with them at the dock, he couldn't deny that they shouldn't have done what they did so recklessly. They were going up against an opponent much stronger than them and had only managed to win due to Torchwick being surprised and outnumbered.
Qrow had seen the thief during Torchwick's time at Beacon, and he was a very dangerous fighter when he needed to be, using all kinds of low handed moves and cheap attacks, and although Qrow wasn't exactly impressed by his dishonest methods at the time despite Qrow himself been raised himself using them, he had to admit Roman was the kind of person to do whatever he had to do in order to win.
Ruby was sitting next to Yang and Blake, her Aura already mostly finished repairing the damage from Torchwick's shot. While she did have the kind of attitude that was suspicious of everyone, it didn't take a genius to know that she wasn't the one that led the team on their little goose chase. Schnee and Yang also wouldn't be responsible for it either, Yang doesn't go looking for fights on purpose despite loving them, and the Schnee probably would consider it below her, in their typical arrogance.
Which left the Faunus.
Of course, Qrow knew, Ozpin and all his staff knew that she was via her credentials, which also applied to Qrow while he was at Beacon. Even if he wasn't permitted to know their personal info, Qrow was a trained, professional Huntsmen and was well accustomed to telling people apart. Kitty probably heard from her monkey friend that the Fang would be there and wanted to stop them, though her reasons might vary.
To hazard a guess, she wanted to make humans think that not all faunus are like the crazy White Fang lot, and while Qrow could accept that reasoning, he was old enough to realise the risks that came from doing this kind of freelance work.
Team STQR had been the same, in an ironic sort of way.
Cracking his neck slightly in discomfort, he wondered what Oz had in plan for the kiddies.
Arriving back at Beacon quickly enough, Team RWBY, Sun and the teachers left the Bullhead, to which Ozpin was waiting for them. The headmaster didn't look like he was angry, or even disappointed.
"Thank you, Miss Goodwitch, Mr Branwen." Ozpin said to his two friends and colleagues. He looked over at Team RWBY, none of which looked guilty or repenting. "Would you girls kindly follow me. You too Qrow." The teens nodded and walked away with the headmaster. Miss Goodwitch looked at him with an annoyed expression, knowing he would be unlikely to punish them much.
"Chill out, Glyn, I'm sure Oz has something sorted out." Qrow said to the Deputy, who only sighed and walked away with a tired expression. She had given the girls quite a lecture on the way to Beacon and the last thing she would have wanted was to deal with the Headmaster's antics. Qrow shrug and put his hands in his pockets before walking away in a half-hearted attempt to catch up.
Which left Sun standing in the courtyard. The monkey faunus sighed before wandering off to find his dorm.
Ruby was sitting in a rather dark room, illuminated by a single light with a large window behind her and a wooden door in front of her. Between her and the door, was a plain white table and five white chairs, the one which was empty was positioned with the door behind it. Each of the other four chairs held a member of Team RWBY, with her and Weiss on the sides and Yang and Blake in between them. She moved the one she was on to the side, so in case something came through the window, it would miss her.
There was also the possibility she may have to escape quickly, and this would save precious time getting out of the chair and out the window. However, it was unlikely that she would have to, Ozpin probably just wanted to hear their account on the events that happened but it payed to be prepared.
Qrow was standing in the corner, arms crossed and head down as Ozpin walked in, cane and iconic mug in hand. The headmaster sat in the vacant chair and propped his cane up on the table. Taking a sip of his coffee, Ozpin looked over the girls, examining them before putting the mug down.
"It seems you girls have had quite the evening; however, I would like to talk about certain subjects surrounding your little encounter with a notorious thief and several members of a terrorist organization." Ozpin said, setting his mug down on the table. The headmaster paused, waiting for their response.
"Well, we had a little issue when we discovered Blake was a faunus, but everything that happened at the dock was pure circumstance and luck." Ruby said, to which the others nodded in agreement. Ozpin looked at the girls, before gesturing to Qrow.
"Well, if you don't mind, I would like to talk with each of you privately. Qrow will take you outside. Miss Rosline, you may stay here for now." Ozpin says to the group, to which no one seems to mind. Ruby's eyes narrow slightly in suspicion, before losing the look before anyone noticed. As Qrow led her team outside, Ozpin closed the door and returned to his seat. "Now, I think that we should have a proper conversation Ruby. You don't have to worry about being punished or anything, I just want to know the truth."
"Hmm, that is more or less the truth though sir. How would we know that Roman would be there with the White Fang? Unless your implying one of us works for him..." Ruby trailed off in an attempt to distract Ozpin.
The headmaster however, wasn't fooled by her misdirection. He looked at her with a slight smile, "Now, now. I would never imply that someone at Beacon would willingly work for a man like Torchwick, however I think we both know that you are the kind of person to most likely find out about these things. After all, you knew of Blake's heritage, you never seemed surprised by how she acted."
Ruby looked at him, suspicion in her eyes. "I'm the headmaster of Beacon yes, but I am also a huntsman, it is expected of me to notice these things. Something you do quite naturally might I add." Ozpin added, before sighing. "Listen Ruby, are you sure you don't want to tell me how it happened properly? I promise there won't be any punishments, I would just like to know."
Ruby looked at him, before shrugging. "I don't see why it would matter. We saved an SDC shipment, stop Roman Torchwick from stealing it with the White Fang. I don't see why it should matter anymore." She said resolutely. Ozpin sighed in mild annoyance
"Very well. If you wouldn't mind, I would like to ask you a question irrelevant to our current conversation." Ozpin asked, to which Ruby nodded in curiosity.
"Does the name Summer Rose mean anything to you or sound familiar?"
Ruby couldn't help but get a small frown. Something about that name...seemed...familiar, but Ruby couldn't put her finger on it. Looking over at Ozpin, he had raised one of his eyebrows, asking the obvious question.
"Well, not really, but I might have heard it somewhere before during my life in Vale." Ruby said smoothly.
Not a lie, but certainly not the exact truth.
"Very well, if you remember something, please, don't hesitate to talk to me or Mr Branwen. Thank you for your time, Miss Rosline." Ozpin said, before gesturing for her to leave. Nodding at the huntsmen, Ruby got up and walked out the door. Unseen from the two men, her frown had gotten somewhat more pronounced.
Summer Rose
That is what Ozpin had said, and something about it seemed to ring a memory in her head. An image of some kind of wooden building, and a white cloak stained red...
Ruby grabbed her scroll.
As Miss Belladonna left the room, Ozpin let out a sigh. These girls really didn't seem to want to tell him the full truth, sticking to the same story of random, blind luck and chance, yet he knew that wasn't the full truth. Looking over at his old student, Ozpin said, "Qrow, can you keep an eye on them? I have a feeling this won't be the last run-in they have with the White Fang or Roman Torchwick."
Qrow nodded before asking, "Do you want me to intervene if they look like they might be getting involved?" Ozpin shook his head.
"Did I when your team did something dangerous?" Ozpin asked, making Qrow chuckle and take a swig of his alcohol. "I take it you noticed?" Ozpin continued. Qrow merely sighed deeply.
"Yeah. Little Red didn't want to look like she knew, but she knows something. Whether it's repressed memories or simply not telling us, I can't tell. I'm not exactly a medical professional after all." Qrow said, a hint of regret in his voice. Ozpin sighed before getting up and resting a hand on his shoulder. He knew Qrow still blamed himself on being unable to find who killed Summer and possibly her daughter as well.
"I know you still are trying to find the answers, but please, don't try anything rash again. I doubt I can protect you if you do something like that again." Ozpin said kindly, memories of an angry Qrow, a now disgraced Atlesian Scientist and lots of fighting came to mind.
Qrow merely sighed again. "Then I take it you also noticed her responses to Torchwick? Her subtle naming convention?" Ozpin nodded. It was curious that the girl didn't seem to think lowly of the thief. Ruby had claimed she was raised on the streets, so it wasn't too outrageous to believe she may have encountered the thief before.
"Feel free to ask her about that if you want. If she knows anything about him, that may help." Ozpin asked, to which Qrow shrugged. The drunk sighed, before walking out the room, Ozpin following shortly before heading to his office. Walking around his desk and taking a seat, Ozpin closed his eyes and crossed in fingers, deep in thought.
Ruby Rosline...
What an ironically coincidental name? Was it truly just coincidence or something more...
As team RWBY all walking in to their room, none of them seemed to be interested in anything other than sleep.
Just what Ruby wanted.
As the rest of her team got changed and went to bed, Ruby got up and snuck to the door, scroll in hand. Waiting to make sure everyone was asleep, Ruby opened the door quietly and slipped out. Closing it just as quietly, Ruby looked at her scroll and began to type Neo. A few seconds later, the occasionally psychopathic girl appeared in front of her.
"Hey Neo," Ruby said quietly as the two non-related sisters hugged. "My team's dorm is just in there by the way." Neo smiled, before looking opening the door and having a quick look around for future reference. As Neo was about to close the door, a hand shot out and grabbed it, making Neo gasp silently in surprise and step back.
Out came the Blond Bombshell herself, with a confused, and rather annoyed look on her face. "Who are you, and why are you looking in our room? Preferably before I bust out Ember Celica." Yang threatened, not noticing her leader outside as well.
"Yang, get out here before you wake everyone up." Ruby hissed quietly as Weiss' face twisted slightly and Blake's cat ears, under their bow, flickered. Yang finally noticed Ruby, and expression of surprise on her face, before she stepped outside. "Now, before you go and try something we might regret, this is Neo, my unrelated sister. Neo? This is Yang, she's one of my teammates and a friend." Ruby introduced. Yang held her hand out in a handshake, to which Neo accepted.
"Oh, sorry about that, we just got to bed." Yang apologised. Neo gave a light shrug and tilt of her head. It was at this point Yang realised something
"Hang on a sec...how did you get in here?" Yang asked in confusion. Neo sighed silently before pointing at Ruby.
"Neo's semblance can do lots of things, one of which is a teleportation of sorts." Ruby explained before adding with an annoyed sigh, "Also she can't speak and her eyes sorta do their own thing unless Neo needs them to stay the same. Don't know why and you won't ever tell us." Neo gave a soundless laugh before shaking her head.
Yang looked at the dimilitive girl. She was short. Really short. As in smaller than 15 year old Ruby short. Yet despite this, her body was obviously that of someone of around Yang's age. Her hair was brown and pink, and that seemed to be her whole outfit's colour scheme along with white. What struck out to Yang was the fact her eyes were indeed heterochromic, with the same colours as her hair, but they kept changing sides somehow.
Ruby watched as Yang examined her sister while Neo was doing the same of course. Once the two finished Ruby looked at Yang. "Well, I know this might be random, but do you think we could keep this between us? I'd rather not have the others questioning me about Neo." Yang shrug in acceptance. After all, it wouldn't be a problem, right?
"I see...well, nice to meet you. If you ever want to say hi again, feel free. I might go back to bed." Yang said with a yawn, heading back into RWBY's dorm. Once Ruby was certain Yang wasn't trying to spy on them, she turned to Neo.
"Well then, that was unexpected." Ruby said, her left eyebrow raised. Neo looked at her with a concerned expression that only Ruby and Torchwick could ever receive. "No, it shouldn't be a problem." A raised eyebrow. "No, I'm sure it won't, and even if something happens, I'll be able to handle it, you know that." Neo smiled, accepting her sister's insistence. A moment passes before Neo pulls out her scroll. "Yeah, I WAS going to ask you to bring me to dad's, but I don't think that's possible tonight." Neo shrugged before giving Ruby a hug. "I'll see you tomorrow ok?" Ruby said to which Neo nodded and disappeared.
Sneaking back into her room, Ruby walked over to her bed and climbed in. Yang looked over at her and whispered, "So, would it hurt if we could properly hang out? Like, not in the hallway?" Ruby sighed at Yang's slight giggles before whispering back, "In a day or two, then we can." Yang looked over at her with a smirk, before turning over and heading to sleep.
Ruby sighed and looked up above her.
That might be a problem if Blake insists on fighting the White Fang...
The Next Day...
It was Saturday, which meant a day off for the students of Beacon Academy. Most teams either went into Vale, trained, studied or hanged out with their team and friends.
Team RWBY decided to spend their morning doing their own separate things, before meeting up that afternoon with their friends in Team JNPR to discuss last night. Weiss decided to have a call with her sister, Winter while Blake had disappeared into the library again. Now usually, Yang spent her time either in Vale or training in Beacon while Ruby...sort of did her own thing. Yang had seen Ruby walking around the main building at Beacon, usually looking over at the elevator as if curious to what it was. Other times she claimed to be in Vale, doing who knows what.
Probably meeting with her sister was what Yang guessed now.
Today however, the two decided to go into Vale with the intent to have Yang a proper chance to hang out with Neo. Ruby had mentioned she had a sister of sorts, but she didn't really talk about it to the rest of them. So, Yang was determined to learn what she could about the two today.
As the two walked down a street, they stopped at a small coffee shop, Neo waiting inside and wave the two over. Taking a seat, Ruby gave Neo a hug Yang raised her fist for a fistbump. The mute gave Yang a solid hit with a smirk.
Yang could see this was going the start of something interesting.
"Hey sis, glad you had time today. Is your boss busy today?" Ruby greeted Neo, who shook her head. Ruby nodded before gesturing to Yang. "Good, now as you know, this is Yang. She wanted to have a proper meeting, hence why I asked." Ruby continued. A waitress came over and asked for their drinks, Neo and Ruby both having cappuccinos and Yang asking for a frappuccino. As they waited for their drinks, Yang looked over at Neo and Ruby.
"Hey, so how exactly did you two meet? I remember you said you're not related." Yang inquired. Despite how she might act, Yang was actually pretty observant and could actually remember little things like that, regardless if she didn't seem like she did.
Ruby looked over at Neo, who tapped the table with her knuckles. "Well...I've known Neo for most my life. I was only an infant when she and this other guy found me on streets. They took me in, looked after me, raised me as best as possible. Neo was only 8 at the time, and the other guy was 20 years old. We did whatever we had to in order to live well. Neo eventually became a...bodyguard of sorts, and made lots of lien from that, while I did odd jobs." Ruby said to Yang, who nodded.
"Wait, what about that guy? What was his name and where is he now?" Yang asked, curious that Ruby didn't mention that.
"Uh, well, we never really knew. We called him Candle, since he had a massive stash of candles that he apparently found. As for where he is..." Ruby trailed off for a second. "Well, we also don't know. He left us when I was 9. Just disappeared one night and never came back." Ruby says. Neo shrugs at her. "Yeah, we were used to looking after ourselves, so we were fine."
Yang looks at Ruby and Neo with a rather sad look. "Oh, I'm sorry, that was pretty insensitive of me." Yang said, however the two didn't seem to mind.
"It's fine Yang, he looked after us and taught us well." Ruby said with a small smile. Neo tapped Ruby on the shoulder. This apparently meant something to her, as she turned and faced Yang. "Yang, I told Neo you were only going to keep this between us, she just wants to be certain you won't tell anyone unless you need to." Ruby said to Yang.
Yang looked at Neo. "Well then, I hereby swear that I will not tell anyone about you and keep yours and Ruby's trust." Yang says overly dramatic, which earns a chuckle from Ruby and a smile from Neo. The waitress chose this time to arrive with their drinks, and the three girls spend the next few minutes casually drinking them.
"How exactly do you know what Neo means Ruby?" Yang offhandedly asked. Ruby thought for a moment.
"Dunno, I just spent enough with her that I just know what she means." Ruby says, giving Yang quite a confusing answer.
"Alright then?" Yang says. A moment passes before Yang's next question comes. "So, where did you learn to fight? I know your skilled Ruby, so I think I can assume Neo is as well?" Ruby looks up for a minute before replying
"We taught ourselves, mostly against people that tried to bully us or take our things. After some time, we spent some time fighting in a small arena fight pit, that might not have been quite legal. Candle taught me the basics and after he left, I decided to use a scythe, while Neo has always had some training, not that she'll ever say how or when." Ruby said to Yang, who nodded.
It seemed to Yang that these two were quite the pair. Raised on the streets as kids, learning to fight. Yang couldn't help but wonder how she would have turned out if she was put in the same conditions. A thought passed through Yang's mind, that made her smirk.
"So Neo, your some kind of bodyguard eh?" Yang asked with a smirk, to which Ruby sighed and gave a facepalm. Oh she knew what was coming. "I'm thinking we should have a spar, see just how good you are."
Neo gave Yang an affirmative smirk, even with look on her face downright vicious. Ruby sighed before looking at Yang.
"This is going...interesting." The red cloaked girl said.
"Owww..." Yang muttered as she and Ruby walked into their dorm. Yang had no clue that Neo would be so tough. Honestly, her sister pack on hell of a punch and her acrobatics had left Yang standing around as Neo flipped around the brawler.
Ruby patted Yang gently on the back. "Don't worry, Neo beats almost everyone she fights." Ruby said, trying to make Yang feel less down about it. "But she still won't tell me how she got so well trained..." Ruby muttered to herself, earning a small grin from Yang. As the two walked in, Weiss and Blake were already back waiting with Team JNPR and Sun. It seemed Blake had already told them about her faunus heritage, her bow off and ears out. Jaune seemed surprised by them while Pyrrha and Ren both seemed to not be too shock by them.
They would have to work on that.
As they walked in, the first thing they heard was Nora. "Can I touch them?" said girl asked. Blake sighed angrily while Ren told her off. Of course that probably won't stop the manic, but it would have to do.
"Sorry, we're late. Yang was having a spar with a person I know." Ruby said as Yang got on her bed and didn't try elaborating. Weiss looked at them with a face that screamed 'Are you serious right now?' while the rest of them seemed to be rather uncomfortable with the fact someone beaten Yang and left her like this. Ruby shrugged. "They're a very good fighter." she said cryptically.
Weiss sighed before looking over at team JNPR. "Now these two are finally back, we can get onto what we originally asked you to come here for." Ruby took a seat on her bed as Weiss continued. "So we had that little...conversation, when Blake showed us she was a Faunus, and more or less sorted out our differences, and agreed to see if the White Fang was truly behind the recent robberies. Ruby," Weiss gestured to her leader. "Saw Sun over there hanging out by our window, and pulled him in." Sun shrugged and gave a small laugh as Team JNPR faced him.
"Yeah, I wanted to say hi?" Sun unconvincingly lied. No one seemed to be surprised however.
"Actually, how did you notice him? None of us did, even Kitty Cat." Yang spoke from her bed, ignoring the annoyed hiss from Blake.
Ruby shrugged, "Eh, I saw him. When your raised in a potentially violent area, you learn these things quickly." Everyone else nodded or shrugged. It did make enough sense to them even if it's not the complete truth. "As Weiss was saying, I pulled him out of the tree with my baby and...questioned him." Ruby continued the story while patting Crescent Rose. "He said he noticed Blake was a faunus and want to 'Say hi' to her. He claimed that he heard that Weiss' company was having a huge shipment of dust arriving in Vale last night via the docks, and we decided to stake the place out to see what happened."
Everyone one except Weiss and Blake looked at her, slightly confused. Jaune coughed, "Uh, by stake the place out, do you mean watch it?" he asked. Ruby sighed before nodding.
"AS I was saying, we headed down that night and watched the place." Ruby says, looking at Jaune with that end piece. The knight merely shrugged, slightly embarrassed. "We ran into a girl we met called Penny, and she joined us. So we met up at the docks with Sun and waited till that night. I was off with Penny while we waited. A bullhead showed up while I was gone and landed. Some White Fang grunts came out and started hooking cables to the containers." Ruby finished while pointing over at Blake, who took the hint.
"The thief, Roman Torchwick came out, and started directing them. I snuck up behind and him and tried to see why the White Fang were working with him..." Blake pauses for a second. "They seemed to have made some deal with him and are now working together, for some unknown reason. He got the jump on me with an explosion as more bullheads arrived and knocked me back. Sun stopped him from coming after me for a second while Yang and Weiss took down the faunus that were on the ground. We tried to fight him, but he overpowered us and almost killed me. Yang managed to surprise him and get him off me." Blake stopped after noticing the look on JNPR's faces. This had been the most she talked in one go to them and was really confusing to them, judging by their shocked expressions.
"Annnd so me and Penny showed up, Torchwick surprised everyone else with a shot of blast dust, knocked them down while he escaped. Penny took down the White Fang's air support with some kind of REALLY cool swords that attached to her backpack and could shoot LASERS!" Ruby said excitedly. Even criminals could have eccentricities, like weapon loving.
Team JNPR took this with a grain of salt, even if they believed what Ruby said. Pyrrha looked at her, polite confusion in her eyes. "So, please tell me again. Why did you want to lets us know?" the champion asked. Ruby shrugged and pointed at Blake and Weiss.
"Well, we wanted to have our close compatriots know in case they ever heard about anything that might be relevant to Blake. She wants to try and work out why Torchwick and the White Fang are working together, and any possible assistance would be helpful." Weiss explained, to which no one disputed her reasoning.
Jaune nodded and replied, "Well, we'll let you know if we hear anything or need a hand." Team RWBY nodded. With nothing left to say, JNPR left the room and headed across the hall and into their room. With them gone, team RWBY started to work on seperate things. Ruby grabbed her scroll, and put her headphones in.
Opening her contacts and selecting her dad's scroll number, Ruby waited for a moment as it dialed.
"Hello." Roman said
'hi dad" Ruby replied over text.
"Ah why hello daughter mine, I was wondering when we might get a chance to chat." Roman said, obviously clueing in on what happened last night.
'not my fault, team wanted to find out if WF were behind the robberies. couldn't act like it was nothing after all.' Ruby type, to which Torchwick shrugged.
"Eh, I'll live, shame you couldn't tell me about it. Almost had to actually try against your friends, and you know that probably would end badly even if I didn't try to hurt them" Roman continued.
'sorry, but i doubt i can tell you whenever we do something like that. others may get sus about you knowing about it.' Ruby continued to which her dad sighed in acceptance.
"That's fine, don't want you to risk getting hurt is all. So, has Cinder arrived with her team yet? Or are we still on the waiting list?" Roman asked to which Ruby shook her head.
Ruby notices Yang trying to sneak over to see who she is talking with. 'dad, anonymous, teammate looking over' Ruby quickly typed, to which Roman's screen disappears and changed to a black, empty view.
"So, who you talking to?" Yang asked with an overly expressioned smile. Ruby removes a headphone and looks at her.
"Someone I know from a place." Ruby said. "No one you would know or care about." she continued when Yang didn't move.
"What's it about?" Yang asked with the same annoying smile. Ruby sighed heavily.
"A person. that I know. that sells parts. That I USE. for MY weapon." Ruby says to Yang, who shrugs and goes back over to her bed.
"Alrightly then, it better be that and not some secret lover we don't know about." Yang said, her voice dripping with sarcasm. Ruby sighed before shuddering slightly. Seriously? Her and her dad? Even if they weren't how they were, that would be pretty weird. Looking back over to her scroll, Ruby typed to Roman, 'yangs gone now, can continue'
"Wow she seems to be a intriguing person that has little respect for privacy." Roman said jokingly. Ruby merely shrugged. Roman gave her a small chuckle before turning more serious. "So is there anything else we need to talk about? Oh yeah, I got them micro cameras you wanted, hopefully my seller can procure them soon from Atlas, should be in Vale within the week." Roman said to Ruby who smiled.
'thx dad, also the only other thing i need to ask, is that the headmaster and mr branwen asked about someone that I need to talk to you about in person. ill see you next week about it k?' Ruby typed, and Roman shrugged nonchalantly.
"Alright then, if you think it's important to talk about in person, I got no problem. Well, I gotta go and see what Neo wants, she has that look about her that says she wants to tell me something. Bye Red." Roman said and before Ruby could type back, her dad hanged up.
Well then...this mightn't end well.
Well, hopefully nothing should go wrong.
"Oh you have got to be joking! Little Red's blond friend knows about you!? How did she find out?" Roman shouted in annoyance. Neo shrugged in apology before whipping out her scroll.
"Ohh, so Red asked you to come by and she surprised you. Riight then. I do take it you made enough reason that if blondie does see you with me, Ruby can be linked as innocent and unaware?" Roman asked, his annoyance mellowed over by concern about Ruby. Neo nodded in response, earning a relieved sigh from the thief.
Well it seems that Ruby had a little more to talk about when she came by...
Ruby switched from her contacts and onto her decryption program.
Ruby was honestly confused with how much security was around Penny. Her scroll had been decrypted, and yet little to nothing was on it. The encryption had to be Atlesian Military, the coding was too similar, and yet the only interesting things Ruby could find was two scroll numbers, one addressed to a person designated, 'Father' and the other, more exciting, 'General Ironwood'.
Penny had a direct contact the Atlesian General himself, and yet even THAT had been coded in such a way, somehow only Penny could contact him with some other, non-existent code. The only other thing Ruby could find was something that linked to some other electronic that Penny must own, but why she had two scrolls was beyond her.
And that lead to the other problem.
Apparently, Penny herself some kind of encryption, which made no sense unless she had some kind of...electronic implants of sorts. Ruby discovered this after breaking past the scroll. And breaking through this one was being troublesome. It was constantly adapting, changing in such a way that every time she tried to hack into it, it managed to reject her every time.
Ruby was by no means an expert in hacking, but she knew enough that she could break into the Atlesian Military Network and CCT. This however, was way too hard for her.
Even Neo couldn't break into it.
Penny smiled as her subroutines prevented another intrusion into her personal network. It was curious that the General wanted to test her abilities in cyber warfare, but Penny didn't question it.
Only a few of his technicians knew about her as well as Father. It was obviously one of them.
Ruby sighed before giving up for now. It wasn't worth the effort at the moment.
As afternoon turned to night and everyone fell asleep, Ruby laid in her bed, and pondered.
Who was Summer Rose?
It was familiar, that much was certain to Ruby, and yet she couldn't picture more than a white cloak, silver eyes and hair similar to Ruby's. Faint memories of a wooden cabin too rose, but Ruby couldn't name the place. She was certain she hadn't been there before, the only times spent out of Vale was either escorting products or in the wilderness with Neo, learning to fight the Grimm with her sister.
Who was Summer Rose?
Summer...
Qrow hadn't had a good lead in years. Ruby's reaction was probably the best he had in the last six years, and that one had probably been a drunken hallucination. Even now, Qrow still regretted that night.
That he couldn't find her in time...that he couldn't find her murderers...
Or Summer's child...
Qrow should have stayed in contact with them more. But he had a job to do then and couldn't get back in time to save Summer.
If this Ruby girl had answers, He would find them.
Hearing his scroll beep, Qrow put his glass on the bar and looked at it. Yang sent him another message, wonder what firecracker wanted now? Qrow picking his drink up again and opening the message.
Red eyes widened
Glass shattered
Qrow ran...
Boy did Qrow run. Qrow may not have liked Raven much anymore, but she needed to know.
The image showing on his scroll flashed once more before the man's eyes, one of Yang taking a photo of Ruby in some kind of training ring with another.
Neopolitan
Dun, Dun, Duuuuuun
And so ends another chapter of Torchwick's Little Rose, and boy are things getting...interesting, to say the least. Don't worry, we will go into season 3 before shit REALLY hits the fan.
Seems stuff is going down...What will Roman tell Ruby? Is Ozpin starting to link the dots? How exactly does Qrow know Neo?
And what will he do?
Any advice or helpful criticism is always appreciated, AD