Hello again! MotherUniverse here! Welcome to another chapter of Guns and Roses!
So, I hoped you liked the last chapter, or the first one in the case of this story. Anywho, I hope my characters where in character, and everything was tied up and neat etc. And I hope you like this chapter as well.
Disclaimer: Don't own RWBY. Sorry.
And I don't think there's anything left to say, so without further ado, on with the show!
Chapter 2: Welcome to Team Nikos!
Ruby had to say, she expected the work environment of the worlds greatest detective to be a bit less, well, crazy. She expected strict and professional; it's what the news articles made Pyrrha Nikos out to be. Even Yangs stories of working with the team didn't depict the place to be like, well, this.
A woman with short orange hair, wearing a white T-shirt with a pink sparkly heart on it, a pink skirt, white boots, and biker gloves, who Ruby recognized to be Nora Valkyrie, was running around the office with one of Yangs boots. Yang was chasing her, trying to get the boot back, and a Mistrialin man with long black hair in a pony tail and a pink streak down a part of his bangs, wearing a green and black bagua kung fu shirt, white slacks, and black shoes, who Ruby was able to recognize as Li Ren, was running after the two woman yelling, "Nora! I told you not to eat that much sugar!"
Then there was Pyrrha Nikos herself. Her clothing made her look sophisticated enough; her pretty red hair was put back in a pony tail, and she was wearing a red pencil skirt, black tights, a gold blouse, a dark red blazer, and gold high heals to top the look off. Ruby had to admit, she looked more fabulous in real life than in the photo's, and the photo's where enough to make anyone with good taste oggle at her. However, unexpectantly enough, she had joined in on the boot chasing.
Pyrrha was currently standing on the other side of the room, as Nora stood at the top of Pyrrha's desk, boot in hand. Yang was about to climb the desk to grab the boot, when Pyrrha yelled, "Nora! Throw it here!"
Nora threw the boot to Pyrrha, who caught it, and started to run around the room with it, as Yang tried to catch up.
"Come on! I want my boot!" Yang shouted.
"Ren, catch!" Pyrrha yelled.
"I'm staying out of this!" He yelled back, still trying to grab Nora and make her sit back down at her desk. He was failing miserably at this.
"I'm open!" Nora yelled, so Pyrrha tossed it to the original boot thief.
Yang ran up and tackled Nora, but not before Nora threw the boot to a random location. Yang turned as she watched Pyrrha make a run for the boot. She then noticed her sister. "Ruby! Grab it!" Yang shouted.
Ruby ran up to the boot, and grabbed it just before Pyrrha could. Everyone walked up to Ruby out of breath, and Yang grabbed her boot and shoved it back on.
"So, you must be the new one" Pyrrha said to Ruby in between pants.
Ruby looked around at the new faces. She expected uptight professionalism. She just saw the opposite. Ruby had to say, it was a pleasant surprise.
"THIS PLACE IS AWSOME!" Ruby cheered.
"So, I'm Pyrrha. Obviously you already know Yang. This is Ren, and this is Nora" Pyrrha introduced Ruby to everyone after they all recovered and had a drink of water after the boot incident. "Got any advice to give her?"
"Always call Jaune for pizza" Nora said.
"Don't eat near the important papers" Yang said.
"Don't let Nora have sugar" Ren said.
"I'll take that into account!" Ruby laughed.
"We're just wrapping up from a previous case," Pyrrha told her, "So we have a lot of paperwork to get through. I think simple wrap-up paperwork is a good warm-up for the real stuff"
Pyrrha grabbed a small chunk of a large pile of papers on her desk, and handed them to Ruby. "Just read through these, and write some things." Pyrrha handed Ruby another document. "This was the case summery. You'll need this. You can use the empty desk near your sister"
Ruby and Yang sat down at the desk. Ruby started to read through the case summery, trying her best to absorb everything.
"You just happened to come here on one of the boring days" Yang laughed. "Usually we're solving cases and doing field work,"
"Well, I guess this jobs not going to be all fun and heroics." Ruby replied. "There's a boring part to everything"
About a half an hour after Ruby started her paperwork, Pyrrha decided to order pizza. The pizza guy got to the office surprisingly quickly.
The pizza guy was a tall blond man with dark blue eyes, wearing blue jeans and a black hoodie with a bunny printed on it. If Ruby wasn't mistaken, the bunny was the mascot of the pumpkin pete cereal. Ruby quickly stifled a laugh at the sight of the grown mans kiddish hoodie.
"Alright! Who wants pizza!" The man cried joyously.
"Did you get the pineapple slice?" Pyrrha asked.
"Of course I did, sweetie!" The pizza guy said happily, giving Pyrrha a kiss on the cheek. It was then that the mans face clicked in recognition for Ruby.
"Wait a minute!" Ruby shouted, enthusiastically pointing at the pizza guy. "That's Jaune Ark! Your husband!"
"Hey! You must be the new girl!" Jaune replied.
"So, you married the pizza guy?" Ruby asked Pyrrha with slight confusion.
"He was actually a hot dog seller when I met him" Pyrrha informed them.
"We get free pizza because of him" Yang remarked.
"Is that why you married him?" Ruby asked Pyrrha.
"No, that's just a rumor"
"Pyrrha, do you want a sandwich?" Jaune asked his wife. Hearing the word 'sandwich', Yang, Nora, and Ren looked at their leader in confusion.
"Yeah, make it black bread. With ham, and pickles, and swiss cheese" Pyrrha told him. The old members of team Nikos looked even more confused by this request.
"Got it!" Jaune said, giving Pyrrha another kiss, and then running out. He then ran back in a few seconds later, realizing he accidentally took the pizza with him.
"Sorry guys! Here's your chow!" He put the boxes on the desk and ran back out.
"Ok," Yang said, "I thought your order of pineapple on the pizza was weird, since you hate pineapple. Then you have Jaune grab you a sandwich. You don't like sandwiches, or where you lying to us about that for the past two years?" Yang questioned.
"Oh, I wasn't lying. I hate sandwiches, normally. I've just been craving them lately" Pyrrha replied casually.
Yang just shrugged, then reached into the pizza box. "Yes! He got me meatballs!" Yang took a bite of the pizza, then suddenly looked disappointed. "It's beef meatballs! I wanted turkey!" She whined.
"Isn't that the same thing?" Ruby asked.
"Not even my baby sister understands!" Yang cried.
"They didn't put pancakes on the pizza again" Nora grumbled.
"Nora, I don't think pancakes on pizza is a thing" Ren informed her, taking a bite of his own, plane slice.
Ruby bit into her own order of stuffed crust. "This pizza is good"
Jaune came in with the sandwich. Pyrrha put a slice of pizza in between the sandwich and bit down. The rest of her team gave her strange looks. "What?" Pyrrha asked.
"Your eating a slice of pizza in between a gross sandwich" Yang stated plainly.
"I think it takes good" Pyrrha justified.
"Does she always eat like this?" Ruby whispered to her sister.
"This is actually a recent development" Yang whispered back.
After the pizza snack, most of the members where getting back to their paper work. "I have an important announcement to make!" Pyrrha told them.
The other four team members gathered by the empty pizza boxes, looking at Pyrrha and Jaune with curiosity and interest.
"Jaune and I are expecting a baby. I'm pregnant!"
The entire room erupted into a series of cheers and congratulations.
"That's so cute!" Ruby cried.
"Well, that explains the suddenly strange eating habits" Yang remarked.
"Congratulations!" Nora cheered with enthusiasm.
"It's about time" Ren quipped.
Ruby looked at Pyrrha's tummy with interest. "Can I feel the baby?" She asked.
"I only found out a week ago, you won't feel anything there" Pyrrha told the curious girl.
"I wanna touch your tummy anyways!" Ruby cheered, patting what would become a large pregnant belly in a few months.
"I'm gonna be a father!" Jaune cheered. "Ren, you can be the godfather"
"Thank you. I am honored" Ren said honestly.
"Can I be the godmother?!" Ruby asked.
"Sorry, kiddo, I've got dibs" Yang told her.
"You don't have 'dibs'!" Nora protested, "We've just found out today! If anything, I should be the godmother, because out of all you woman here, I've known Pyrrha the longest!"
"You're not calling 'dibs'" Pyrrha scolded them. "I'll decide who will be the godmother. For all you guys know I might choose on of Jaune's sisters"
"NOOOOO!"
"Don't do that!"
"Pyrrha, lets be reasonable, you have to choose one of us!"
"I'll think on it" Pyrrha said, stopping the three woman mid-rant. "Now, we've got work to do, back to it."
It was the end of the work day, and Yang and Ruby had just gotten to Yangs apartment, where Ruby would be moving in. There was a spare room, which Yang had been using as a storage room, that Ruby would be staying in, so the two sister's were working to clear out the room, and move Ruby's things inside of it.
It was around 9 at night when they got a nock on the door.
"Oh, the initiation must be starting soon" Yang said in a tone that scared her little sister.
"What's the initiation?" Ruby asked nervously. Yang just shoved Ruby in front of the door and told her to open it.
Ruby hesitantly opened the door to see Pyrrha, Jaune, Nora, and Ren outside the door, all four of them smiling wickedly. Suddenly, Yang threw a bag over Ruby's head.
"HEY!" Ruby shouted in protest, trying to pull the bag off her head, but Yang and Nora grabbed each of her arms, and Jaune and Ren picked her up by the feet. The five newcomers paraded Ruby down the apartment hall, Pyrrha at the lead. One of the neighbors came out to see this strange sight.
"She's my sister," Yang explained. The neighbor simply nodded and went back inside her room.
"What is this!" Ruby shouted. "Put me down! I don't even have shoes on! And is the bag really necessary? Did you have to kidnap me!?"
"Oh, be quiet," Pyrrha told her. "You're gonna thank me for this when we're done," Ruby just grumbled in response.
Cold air told Ruby she was outside. She heard a car door open, and she was suddenly thrown into the back seat of a car, while two of the kidnappers sat besides her, and the two front doors shut. Nobody turned on the engine for awhile.
"Can I take this bag off my face?" Ruby asked, exasperated.
"Nope!" Said Nora's cheery voice from next to her.
Suddenly, the car door opened again, and a pair of combat boots where tossed into Ruby's lap. "Here's your boots, sis" Yang said. Ruby felt Yang climb over her and into the back of the car, and the door was shut.
"Alright! Everyone's here!" Pyrrha cheered. "Let's go!"
The car was turned on, and it began to drive. "Wait! I don't have my seatbelt on!" Ruby screamed. She was completely ignored.
Ruby was led into a building, then, after some standing around (Nora made sure she didn't take the bag off her head), she was lead up some stairs, down a hallway, and into another room. She was then led up some more starts, through a row of chairs (she must've been in some sort of theater), and forced down into a seat. Only then was the bag taken off her head.
"Oh, we're seeing a movie!" Ruby cheered in excitement. "What are we seeing?"
"You'll see," Pyrrha said ominously. Ruby grumbled; she really didn't want to be forced to sit through a bad movie.
After a whole load of cheesy commercials for movies that looked terrible, Ruby was finally able to see what she was watching;
"The Locations of Magnificent Creatures!" Ruby squealed in excitement. It was a spin-off movie of her favorite book/movie franchise, The Boy Wizard, and Ruby had been dying to see the movie for the past few months. Yang handed her a pair of 3-D glasses, which made Ruby even more happy.
The movie was as good as she hoped. With all the magic, and the creatures, and cool workings of the wizard society in Vale instead of Atlas (The Boy Wizard had taken place in Atlas, The Locations of Magnificent Creatures took place in Vale), and of course the main character was a lovable little smol-bean. When the movie was over, Team Nikos marked her as fully initiated.
"I love this team!" Ruby cheered.
The work day started at 7:00 a.m. This schedule worked for Yang, who was a morning person. Ruby, however, was definitely not, so the early mornings where cruel on her. Yang dropped Ruby off at a coffee shop across the street from the work building, and went off without Ruby to park her motor bike. Ruby stood in the long line, ordered a strong coffee, with cream and five sugars, along with a blueberry muffin. By the time she made her order, she realized that it was 6:59, and she was nearly late for work.
"Oh God! I can't be late on my first day!"
She ran out of the coffee shop, rushed through the cars across the street, ignoring the beeping and honking of all the cars. She ran towards the work building, not noticing the white-haired woman who was walking towards the building door.
The two women crashed, and Ruby's coffee flying everywhere, soaking Ruby's hoodie (and making her skin burn) and staining the other woman's white dress, brown.
"Damn it! Hot! Hot! Hot! Hot!" Ruby shouted as the coffee burned her skin. The other woman was even angrier than Ruby was.
"Watch where your going, you dumbass!" The woman yelled at Ruby.
"Sorry!" Ruby shouted in defense. "I was late to work, and I didn't see you, and..."
"Well, you shouldn't be running with coffee in your hands, you dolt!" The woman snapped back. "And aren't you a little young to be working here, anyways?! Only the best of the best policemen work here. It's no place for a child."
Ruby had never hated being small more than she did in this moment. What had she done wrong? She drank her milk, ate her cheese, did all she could to get a decent amount of calcium throughout her life, and she was still nothing more than a pipsqueak.
"I'll have you know," Ruby shouted back, growing angrier by the minute, "that I am 22 years old! A legal adult if you might. And I graduated top of my class at Beacon University, the best school for police training. So I'm plenty qualified to work here!"
"Well, you certainly don't look the part!" The woman snapped back. "It's hard to believe that someone stupid enough to run across a busy street with a full cup of hot coffee could ever make it to be a policewoman!"
"Oh my God! It was just coffee!"Ruby snapped. "And by the way, I'm not just any policewoman! I am a Private Investigator! I work for under Team Nikos!"
"Wha?" The woman asked, slightly dumbfounded. How could this, this, idiot possibly work for Pyrrha Nikos?
"I work for Pyrrha Nikos! So there!" Ruby shouted proudly. She would show this woman who was boss! "And I shot Roman Torchwick in the leg!" Ruby bragged. That part Ruby wasn't exactly proud of, but she would take what she got.
The woman was silent for a few seconds. Ruby smiled. She knew she won the argument. Nothing this woman would say afterwards could steal Ruby's thunder.
"Well then..." The woman started, staring Ruby down, trying her best to look condescending, but failing, as she knew Ruby had her beat. However, this woman was a quick thinker, extremely witty, and good at insulting people. "Congratulations on being the best child to sneak your way into working with Mrs. Nikos!"
Well, that could steal Ruby's thunder. The woman turned towards the building, her heals clicking as she walked away. Ruby scowled. "I'm not a child!" She shouted.
Ruby hoped that this was the only time she would have to encounter that awful woman.
Ruby soon learned that the universe didn't often side with her.
And that's a wrap!
As the world of Remnant is different from Earth, I will make references to earth books, but with different titles. The Boy Wizard is the Harry Potter franchise, and The Location of Magnificent Creatures is Fantastic Beast and Where to Find Them. Neither movies nor books I own.
So, I hope you liked this chapter, I know I did. And whoever can figure out who the woman Ruby got into a fight with get's a cookie (figuratively). But I do think it's kinda obvious. I also hope you liked the tid-bit detail I added with Arkos.
Anywho, there you go! I don't have anything else to say, so I'll just leave it here. Read and review!
~MotherUniverse signing out.