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Chapter 4: Labor Pains

Things with Yang had cooled down after she had forgiven her for throwing under the bus. She had to anyways since Blake was now living with them in their own apartment. The once giant cat had told them of how she was an orphan and that Adam was her ex-boyfriend that was also part of a gang called the White Fang. When she couldn't take any more of his attitude and lifestyle, she stormed off to find a better home. It wasn't working well since she had to sleep in the park and use the public restrooms in the park to clean herself.

Instead of rejecting her like other people had done, Aunt Tifania had taken it upon herself to take care of her. As it also had turned out, Tifania was also an ex-gang member from her old days. She was part of a group called avalanche that fought for the rights of the people that were being forced out to a war that wasn't theirs. That's where she met Jaune's dad, and she had stopped there.

So Blake was now their new roommate. She couldn't stay with Tifiania and Jaune since her aunt was still suspicious of why she was found naked in Yang's arms. Although with the way she kept trying to get Blake and Jaune to go out on errands together …Ruby was getting mixed signals. Was her aunt trying to replicate her husband's and her love story?

Another thing that had changed was Ruby's secret.

"Another successful hunt, Ruby?" Blake asked from their couch, not bothering to look up from her book as she heard Ruby slide through an open window.

Yes, Blake had found out her secret. It wasn't that hard since she had walked into a living room Ruby had accidentally turned into a giant digestive tract when she was starving. After Ruby had gotten the room back to normal and Blake had met Crimson, she had relented in keeping the secret safe.

"It was just another Beowulf." The little girl said, taking Crimson off who floated to the coffee table. "There haven't been any symbiotes popping out of me lately, so all things are going easy."

"Speak for yourself." Crimson growled.

"Are you going to be acting like this all day?" Ruby tapped a foot on the floor at her cloaks attitude. "I don't know what's going on with you. You've been snarky and moody since yesterday."

"Well maybe you can eat twenty Nevermores and still be happy." It sassed.

"At least we can fly on Crescent Rose now." She muttered under her breath. "Besides, you said the more Grimm you eat, the stronger we become."

"Just leave me alone." Crimson cried, flying into the bathroom.

"I haven't known Crimson as long as you have, but has it always been like that?" The black haired girl asked her new friend.

"No." She pouted. "It used to be cool and gave me advice. Now it just keeps sassing me."

"Maybe Crimson will feel better tomorrow." She said, patting the freshman's back.

"Thanks Blake." Ruby said, pulling the older girl into a hug.

The next day

"Wake up Ruby!" Crimson called to her in a happy tone.

"You're feeling chipper." Ruby mumbled, still feeling sleepy.

"I am!" It said with glee. Ruby could have sworn she saw it twirl. "Isn't today wonderful?"

"It's a weekend." She muttered, putting her head back on her pillow. "Let me sleep in."

"But I have such wonderful news to tell you." Crimson whined, nuzzling her like a cat.

"What is it?" She whined back, not opening her eyes.

"I'm pregnant!" It squealed.

"That's nice. Congrats." After a few seconds, Ruby had shot up fully awake. "PREGNANT?"

"I know!" The cloak gushed. "I was shocked as you were. But now I'm happy."

"H-how?" She stammered. "Why?"

"That's easy to answer." Crimson plopped on her lap to start it's explanation. "With all the Grimm I've been eating, I've grown more powerful. But with all that power, some waste is backed up in me. So I need to let some of it out. And when I do, it'll be another symbiote, only less powerful."

"…When are you due?" Ruby asked, preparing for the worst.

"Won't be that long." It assured her. "I'd say by noon."

"Great. We have no problems then." Ruby could handle that. They'd just stick indoors until it gave birth.

"About that…" The fabric said in a singsong tone.

"What?" She did not like that tone.

"We… wont be able to transform until then." She felt a migraine brewing. "It put's too much strain on the split."

A few minutes later

"So you're cloak is pregnant." Blake repeated, with Yang staring blankly at her. "…I believe you."

"You do?" Ruby asked, not expecting them to.

"Rubes… I've seen you make things I wish I hadn't." Yang explained herself. "You're cloak being preggers is a lot tamer."

"And I was a giant cat a few days ago." Blake added in. "By now, we'd be stupid not to believe you."

"At least it'll be just us three here." The older sister said, leaning back on her chair.

KNOCK KNOCK!

"…Were we expecting anyone?" Blake asked the two.

"Ruby, are you ready?" Weiss's voice called through the door.

"Oh shoot!" Ruby said, stuffing Crimson in her room before running out. "I forgot I was going out with Weiss to the mall today! I'll be out in a minute!"

"So you're just going to leave your pregnant cloak behind?" Yang tsked, before looking to Blake. "It's a sad day when the new generation wont take responsibility."

"Indeed." Blake played along. "Let's hope the child wont resent her in the future."

"…Fine, I'll take Crimson along." Ruby relented. "But where will you two be?"

"I'm following you." The blonde said, putting on her white coat. "With Crimson and you not being able to transform, you'll need all the help you can get."

"I wanna help you." Blake said. The two could hear the but coming. "But Tifania wanted me to go look for a job."

"No better place to look for a job like the mall." Yang said, putting an arm around her.

Seeing she wasn't getting out of it, Blake had resigned to follow.

Vale Mall

"I think this looks good on me." Weiss said, striking a pose wearing a white shawl. "What do you guys think?"

"Can you even afford it?" Yang gaped, looking at the price tag. "I'd have to make twenty-five deliveries a month to get the one on my size."

As the two got into another conversation about prices and fashion, Ruby was off to the side looking at a pair of boots that were in her price range.

"Find anything you like Ruby?" Blake said, walking behind her.

"Just looking at these boots." She said, pointing it out. "How's the job search coming along?"

"I'm …getting there." Blake said with a sheepish grin. "A few places had a good time frame, but the time and work demand seemed too much for a part-time deal."

"Are you sure you told them specifically it was for a part-time and not a full-time worker?" Yang asked, saddling up to them with Weiss in tow. "Some people ignore that info part, so you gotta be sure you give the specifics."

"…I'm going back to the bookstore." The blonde and Weiss had facepalmed while Ruby had taken the boots to try on.

In the changing room

"Ruby." Crimson moaned when they were alone. She was in the middle of trying on the boots and looking herself in the mirror.

"What is it now Crimson?" Ruby asked worried. "It can't be another portal. I've been feeling fine all day."

"It's not that." It groaned in pain. "I was wrong. …It's happening now!"

"You're going to give birth now?" Ruby panicked, not sure how a cloak would give birth.

"YES!" Jumping off Ruby, Crimson had started flapping about. Soon, it started to grow in size and convulse before tearing itself into three.

"Crimson?" Ruby moved to pick up the three pieces, but the two smaller ones had liquefied and zoomed out of the changing room.

"My babies." Crimson groaned, trying to give chase but failing. "We have to catch them before they try and find a host."

"You don't sound too good." She worried, putting Crimson back on.

"I'm gonna be sick!" Without warning, it had opened wide once more and spewed out two giant bears out of the changing room, destroying the door. They had hobbled off weak, but they were still dangerous to have around. A few seconds later, they heard screaming.

"Aren't those the Ursa you ate the other day?" Ruby was now panicking. She had fully hoped for a day without Grimm appearing.

"Those things take two days to fully digest." Crimson groaned.

"Then let's get them back in you!" She told her cloak, trying to transform. When nothing happened, she asked what was wrong.

"I'm still too tired to combine with you." It explained, breathing raggedly. "Splitting takes a lot of energy and is painful."

"So if we took too much damage in battle, we'd turn back?" She asked, remembering the times they had taken a lot of damage.

"Exactly." It said. "That's why we need to catch my children. They're newborns and are full of energy. They can help us if you become a host for them as well."

"Then let's go find them!" She had bolted out of the changing room with the unpaid boots still on.

With Yang and Weiss

"What is going on?" Weiss whispered underneath the cash register. Yang was right next to her when the Ursa had appeared.

The two had seen Ruby sprint out of the changing room with Crimson around her neck, so they were okay in hiding away from the two beasts lurking in the mall. Suddenly, Yang's phone started playing her ringtone loud, attracting the two beasts to their hiding spot.

"Scatter!" Yang shouted to Weiss, pulling her out of their spot. As they had split up with one beast Ursa chasing them, Yang had answered her phone. "Not a good time Rubes! This better be important."

"It is!" Her sister answered on the other line. "I cant transform right now and the only way I can do that is if I can find Crimson's babies!"

"Well that's just great!" Yang said, toppling a trashcan to slow the Grimm down. "What do they look like?"

"Keep a look out for red blotches moving around." Ruby explained. "There should be two of them."

"I'll get right on that!" Yang growled, running down the escalator hoping the Ursa was stupid not to follow. Sadly, it was a smart one. "Aww come on!"

With Weiss

"Everybody run for your lives!" The white haired teen shouted, alerting everyone that one of the Ursa was chasing her.

"Weiss!" turning to her left, Weiss saw Ruby motioning her to run to her.

"This is all crazy." She heaved, reaching her friend. The Ursa had caught someone and was now devouring him. "Where's a superhero when you need one."

"I don't know." Ruby cried, turning away from the gory scene before her. "I guess the hooded vigilante isn't coming today."

"That beast!" Weiss seethed with tears leaking down her face. ""Why cant it just go away!"

Suddenly, a circled had formed around the Ursa and started glowing a bright white. Stopping from it's meal, the Ursa looked to the glow before it was propelled upwards at an extreme speed. The force was so instant that it was now a pancake on the ceiling.

"…I don't know what just happened, but I'll just call it a miracle." The now calming teen said, not noticing her hair tie faintly glowing. But Ruby had.

"Let's go and find Blake and Yang." The younger girl said, pulling her friend away.

With Yang

The bear was currently still chasing Yang. The floor she was on was abandoned as all the people had run up to the top floor. So here she was outrunning a deadly monster while still trying to slow down to look for some kind of horrible offspring that could help save all their lives.

As she neared the food court, she saw something in the corner of her eyes. Turning to a table nearby, she saw two gooey looking things fighting over a basket of fries. A she ran up to them, the Ursa was now a few feet away from her. As the bear made a loud roar, it startled the two goops and they ran off the table to another area.

"Come back here!" Yang shouted, giving chase.

If things weren't so dire at the moment it would have been a comedic scene to see two goops running from a raging blonde who was being chased by a giant Grimm bear. Seeing the goops heading for a ventilation shaft, Yang dove for them and had caught them both in each hand.

"Gotcha!" She said in triumph. Unfortunately it was short lived as the Ursa had caught up to her. "Oh shi-!"

BAM!

Yang had rolled out of the way from being stomped on by a giant sharp paw. Sadly, she didn't escape the jaws f the beast as it caught onto her leg.

"Aaah!" The beast had not let go and had picked her up. Her leg still in it's mouth, it started shaking her around like a rag-doll, like a cat playing with it's food.

Letting her go, she was flung through the window of a sporting goods store with cuts in her arm from the glass. As the Ursa was about to step in to finish her off, a set of books were flung at it's head.

"Over here grizzly!" Hearing a familiar voice, Yang turned her head to the side to see Blake trying to lure the bear away from her.

"Blake?" As the beast turned to the bow-wearing raven, Yang could feel the baby symbiote's in her hands squirming. Opening them, she saw they were quivering like scared puppies.

"You guys were scared too, weren't you?" She said tiredly, trying not to lose consciousness. "It's okay. Ma Yang's got ya."

"Yang!" Blake shouted, ducking a swipe that would have taken her head off. Sparing the blonde a glance, she saw she was trying to get up and limp out of the store but had fallen on her injured leg.

"No more running away you two." Yang said in pain to the two goops in her hands. After they had stopped shaking, the newborn symbiotes had crawled their way into her cut wounds. "What're you guys doing?"

Right after they were completely in her, Yang felt time slow down as she started to hear childlike voices in her head.

"No more running." One of them said. For some odd reason, Yang felt her whole body burning up in a good way.

"We wanna help you, Ma Yang." Looking down at her leg, she saw it was quickly healing up.

"The bad bear needs to go!" They both cried in her head. She felt more energetic than she's ever felt before

With Blake

"Eat this!" Blake snarled, throwing a huge encyclopedia into the Ursa's open mouth. Ready to stab a rolled up magazine in it's eye, she heard someone whistle. Turning to the source, she saw Yang stepping out of the broken window.

"Let's rock!" The blonde said, fingerless gloves forming on her hands. If Blake had looked closer, she would have seen that they were now on fire too.

As the Ursa had charged at her, Yang had caught it's paw is it descended on her with one hand.

"Payback!" She said with glee. She had done what it had did to her and started slamming it on the ground until she got bored and flung it a few feet away from her and Blake.

"Let us eat mommy!" The voices in her head cried. Without knowing it, Yang's fist had moved on their own and had turned into dragonheads that started munching on the Grimm until nothing was left of it. "Thanks for the meal!"

"You guys are something else." She smiled at the two gloves after they morphed back to normal. Turning around, she saw Blake walking up to her. "How you holding up?"

"I got my job." She said, pointing a thumb to the bookstore she was in. "You wont tell my boss I was chucking books at the thing, will you?"

"Only if we tell everyone that the hooded vigilante came here, beat the bear, then ran off." She bargained. After they shook hands on it, Yang had decided to call her sister. "Yeah. …I got 'em. …I took care of the bear. …I'll tell you when we get back home. …What happened on your end? …So now she knows too. …She okay with it? …We'll meet you back at the apartment."

"How was she?" Blake asked concerned.

"The good news is that their bear is dead too." Yang said, tucking her phone away. "The bad news is that Weiss knows something is up, so we need to make some room at the apartment for a sleepover."

"I call dibs on the couch." The bookworm said, putting a few books away.

"So what should I name you?" Yang said, turning back to her gloves. "…I'm digging Ole Betsy and The Five Avengers. You guys cool with that?"

Her two hands had slapped her at those names. "…A simple no would've worked."

At the apartment – Late at night

The four would have gone home early, but Ruby had forgotten to take off her new boots, and they still had the price tag on. So when the alarms had gone off, she had to stay behind and explain herself. Luckily the security was lenient since a lot of people had done the same mistake when the Ursa attacked. But after all that was settled, they had finally gotten back to their apartment.

"So you're telling me that Ruby is some sort of portal to another dimension and she's the cause of all the freaky creatures that are appearing?" Receiving a nod from all three, Weiss continued. "And not only that, she also turns into the superhero that's been running around stopping them?"

After they had nodded again, Weiss laid back on her sleeping bag to absorb all the information. "So that was you that did the whole glowing thing in the mall, Ruby?"

"I didn't do that Weiss." She denied. "Crimson didn't have enough energy at the time combine with me. And we cant do stuff like that yet."

"Powers like that differ depending on the symbiote and the host." The cloak added in, splayed on the couch. "It was faint, but I could hear the symbiote on your hair tie cast the spell."

"What do you mean my symbiote?" The white haired teen shot up, hearing the cloak's statement. She was at first shocked at meeting Crimson, but the feeling had died down after her friend had started to explain everything.

"Oh yeah." Ruby said in a hush tone, remembering an important detail she forgot to tell Weiss and Blake. "It turns out that you two got hit by a symbiote that turned you into powerful being capable of doing magic and stuff."

"And when did this happen?" Weiss said peeved.

"On your first day and when Blake became a giant cat that tried to kill her ex-boyfriend." She said meekly.

"I tried to kill Adam?" Blake voiced out. "…I'm cool with that."

"So I'm infected?" Weiss brought the attention back to her.

"Hey, we're not a sickness!" One of Yang's gloves said on the coffee table.

"Yeah! We're like, the bestest thing you could ever have." The other continued.

Weiss's hair tie which was still on her head, had made a small yank to show it didn't appreciate being called as such.

"Are we still friends?" Ruby asked, scared of Weiss's answer.

"…" Taking a deep breath, Weiss gave her answer. "We're still friends."

Before Ruby could jump in joy, Weiss had continued. "BUT! This means we all have a huge responsibility of learning how to control these powers and making sure we can stop whatever pops out of you."

"We're like the Sailor Senshies or Cardcaptor Sakura!" Ruby said, trying to get a high-five out of one of them. Only Yang had responded.

"I liked the Fate series." Blake said, fiddling with her bow.

"… I prefer Familiar of Zero." Weiss mumbled, not meeting their eyes.

"Really?" Yang said laying back. "I'm a Cutey Honey fan, but I also enjoyed Touhou."

Soon they were all chatting about their favorite magical anime, forgetting about their worries.

"Hold on!" Weiss said, halting the conversation temporarily. "Does this mean we can all transform?"

"…Well I can, so why cant you guy?" Not hearing a 'no' from Ruby, they had started a new conversation on what they thought their transformation would look like.

END

AN: Yup! Ruby has a new ally. Or make that three. I notice not that many people are reading this like Those Days or NoL. Is it the title? I know how some titles can be misleading. Some of the reviewers of Those Days have said they brushed it off and had only gone to it out of curiosity before getting hooked. …Maybe I should change the title of both of them. Anyone have a suggestion?

ANYWAYS!

NEXT TIME ON RUBY-CHAN:

"We gotta catch it!"

"That thing will give us a huge power boost!"

"Leave me alone!"

"She can't be trusted!"