Chapter (Tilted Infinity Symbol) 8: Voice Actors and Overused jokes.
"I can't believe we're resorting to finding a piece of paper!" Emerald whined as she and Mercury walked fast to catch up with the Faunus known as Sun Wukong.
"I'm with you on this one for once." Mercury Black, for once agreed with his fellow minion.
"It's always, 'listen don't think' with her! Sure she scares the crap outta me, but really? At least don't send us to do menial tasks!" The green haired master thief complained.
"Amen to that baby spice." Mercury spoke out.
It was at this moment Emerald stopped and looked to her associate. "The heck is wrong with you?"
"Huh?"
"You… sound different."
"I do?"
"Yeah you sound more… famous."
Wait, what are they talking abo… holy crap! Yuri Lowenthal is voicing this guy!?
"I have no idea what you're talking about." Oh my gosh it is him! I could have sworn it he sounded different in volume 2!
"I dunno, I thought your voice was different last time I heard it…" Well he was Sukazu from Code Geass and Suaske from Naruto; both were idiotic jerks…. So he's still pretty much playing to his strengths here.
But there is a difference this time: at least Mercury knows he's a jerk.
"I've always sounded like this." Oh Yuri Lowenthal, you talented actor you!
"Hmm, oh right, I guess I always just like to tune you out."
The two dropped the conversation like a dead baby and moved on with their meaningful lives as henchmen.
It wasn't long before they spotted their target: The blonde monkey Faunus, Sun Wukong enjoying popcorn from a high balcony with on a sun bench with binoculars nearby.
The blonde student from Mistiral noticed his two new visitors and quickly got up. "Whoa! Uhh sorry! Was I taking your private spot?"
The two minions looked at each other at the implication and they both stepped away from each other and lurched in disgust.
"Errugh! I'd rather do it with a dead cow!" Emerald spat.
"I pity all dead cows everywhere. They don't deserve such a curse." Mercury added quickly.
Sun shrugged his shoulders. "Meh well then, how can I help you guys? And I hope it's quick because I am enjoying the view from here."
"Well—wait. What view?" Mercury started before noticing the explosions in the background.
"Oh my friend is in a lot of trouble, and while it would be a good idea to go and try and rescue him, I thought I'd just sit back relax and enjoy the chaos from my snack filled stache balcony from here. Wanna join me? I got two more binoculars and a chest full of snacks?" Sun spoke out as he pointed out to an unused pair of beach chairs with binoculars.
Emerald started. "Listen, we're—"
She got interrupted when her fellow minion spoke out. "You know. I think we'll take you up on that offer."
"What?" Emerald started before she was pulled away by the guy with synthetic legs.
"Look, Cinder did say that we just need to ask him some questions don't we? And the guy is obviously willing to answer them easily. I say we take his offer and we can do this clean—this time we won't even have to clean up after ourselves."
"You just want the snacks don't you?" Emerald narrowed her eyes.
"I'm a simple man with simple needs," He turned away from her before going back to Sun. "We'll take you up on that offer!"
"Oh great!" Sun said as he was on the edge of the balcony fence with his own pair of Binoculars on. "Aah man that was waayyy to close for comfort!" He laughed as suddenly a small explosion was seen in the distance.
"I'm taking it that explosion was your friends?" Mercury smiled before taking a pair of binoculars. As he got up next to Sun, the Blonde Faunus' tail came up, offering a corndog. "Oh thanks I was feeling hungry."
Emerald was surprised. "What are you guys? One of those creepy people that like to watch others?"
"I am offended you would say that!' Sun turned back while Mercury kept eating the corn dog. "I am Sun Wukong, leader of Team SSSN and one of the best stowaways in Remnant!"
"You sound more like a poser." Emerald rolled her eyes.
Sun gasped, clearly offended by this. Mercury looked on with interest.
"Oh yeah? Well at least this 'poser' isn't unarmed…" Sun mockingly smiled as his tail lifted up… Emerald's weapons?
"Wait what!?" The master thief looked back to her hips where her holsters were now empited.
"Ooh dude! Nice burn!" Mercury high fived Sun.
"How did you do that!?" Emerald cried out.
"I'm also a master of the sleight of hand!" Sun beamed proudly.
"Haha. How cute," Emerald scoffed again, but this time a smile was coming up her face. "You think you're some kind of master theif?"
"Well not to brag, but I didn't pay for any of these things! … Don't tell Neptune." He added the second part quickly.
"Dang it Sun!" Neptune shouted as they ran after Doctor Oobleck.
"Neptune, Sun isn't here." Ren pointed out.
"Oh right sorry. Don't know what came over me."
"Ha! If you really were a so called 'master', you would have notice me, stealing your Scroll!" Emerald taunted as she tossed a yellow banana styled Scroll in her hands.
"Hey!" Sun looked to his pocket empty. "That has my music!"
"Who's the master thief now?"
"You think you're hot stuff don't ya?" Sun put down his binoculars and tossed her back her weapons.
"Ooh, I'm not just hot stuff, I'm the best!" Emerald returned the favor.
"I'm sorry, I don't know which planet considers you the best, but this is Remnant, where I have the best time not paying for anything in my life."
"Oh really?" Emerald eyed.
"Yep." Sun took a step forward. "It looks like there's only one way to settle this."
"And what do you propose?"
"A thief off! We go after something so valuable, so well guarded, that the person who steals it, is regarded as the Best Thief ever in Remnant!" The blonde Faunus declared.
Mercury was now eating some of the left over Popcorn as he watched the back and forth. Oh this was getting good.
"Alright! I like the sound of that! I'll steal whatever you think is impossible and shatter what poor delusions you have of being a master thief!"
"And when I win, not only do I get bragging rights, but you have to admit it in front of the whole school that I am better than you!" Sun declared. "Oh and pay for my dinner. I'm kinda in the mood for something expensive."
"You're on, but if I win, you'll do those things instead!" Emerald pointed out.
"Well it's decided," Sun turned to Mercury. "Since you are the obviously, the innocent third party."
Emerald scoffed and laughed.
"You get to decide what we have to steal—but has to be very hard! Go big man!" Sun urged to the third party.
Mercury was having the best day ever. Probably even a close second to when he killed his dad. "Hmm something near impossible to steal?"
What could he choose though? Nothing too big, like something from Ozpin or Cinder, he wanted this to be fun, not them dying. What could he do… wait. Emerald hasn't been very friendly with him recently hasn't she? Ooohhh he had just the idea!
"Alright then, the winner of this Thief Off… has to get me the most currently well protected object in school! … Pyrrha Nikos' panties!"
The two gawked.
"Oh you pervert!" Emerald stomped her foot and gave an evil glare to the smirking boy. "I will not—"
"I'll do it." Sun said solemnly, steeling himself.
"Oh of course you would! You have to be a pervert too!" Emerald screamed.
Sun looked at her with strangely serious eyes. "I may be labeled as a pervert by Society, I may be estranged by my new friends at Beacon, I may lose my credibility as a hunter even! But I will not be called anything less than Sun Wukong, the guy who stole the impossible! My honor as a thief will not be broken!"
Mercury slow clapped in utter respect. "You sir are a true man."
"You are an idiot!" Emerald screeched.
"But you do realize," Mercury had that same smug smile on his face. "That because he accepted the terms and you didn't means that he wins by default?"
"What!? But the target is stupid!"
"Haha! Looks like I'm the best Thief in Remnant! It was all natural to be honest!" Sun proudly beamed.
"Oooh no!" If these idiots wanted to play, then she'll play. She was not going to let some stupid pervert out shine her in her best skill! "Fine then! I'll take on this challenge! But when you lose, you and that other idiot will do whatever I say for the rest of the day!"
"I accept!"
"Wait what?" Mercury looked at Sun.
"May the best thief win!" Sun cried out before jumping off the roof.
"I will!" Emerald seethed before vanishing in thin air with the help of her semblance. "AND I WILL GET HER PANTIES FIRST!"
Exactly twenty three seconds later, the weight of what she just yelled out hit her like a truck.
Mercury was left alone with Sun's snacks.
"… Aww well at least I won't be bored. … Shame about that Sun guy. I kinda don't want to kill him for giving me free food and the best entertainment I've had in years. Monty, think you can give him a pass when this place burns?"
Penny Polendina was elated. Why you ask? Because she was allowed to walk around Beacon before the festival started! She could meet with friend Ruby and engage more in socially mundane activities such as….
Error: data not found.
Hmm odd. Was there a maintenance error she wasn't sure off? She couldn't access those files. Oh well, this was still acceptable! She could still probably *Error* with Designated Friend: Ruby!
Now… where to find her?
No… she wouldn't be in an area that was currently set on fire. Hmm, one would think Beacon would have acceptable fire extinguishing abilities. But she doubted friend Ruby would be there in the middle of the fire. Or do anything with fire really.
"I will burn you alive, Jaune!"
"Why is Weiss trying to hit me with fire Blasts!?"
"HA! You think your pitiful flames will stop me!? I did not come all the way here to be stopped by a mythological Corgi!"
Penny turned to another direction, to which there looked to be explosions and other elemental based dust shooting around, along with several screams of a boy and a boy with a shrill voice. Her instruments almost classified them as a girl's scream, but her processer was top notched.
Hmm, Friend Ruby could be in this situation, but she is not the type of person to carelessly destroy public property.
Pyrrha and Ruby were smashing their way objects, and some people to get to where Jaune's scroll signals was.
Jaune paled as he and the other two narrowly avoided a very powerful explosion. "Oh Monty no! They destroyed Professor Port's Room! … Wait no, I don't actually care about that."
"Who actually jogs in doors?" Ren wondered as they chased Doctor Oobleck down the halls.
"Bark! Bark!"
"STOP CATCHING MY ARROWS LIKE STICKS YOU ACURSED—"
So where could friend Ruby be? Hmm… isn't that her half sister in that direction?
Yang and Nora were facing the wrath of Ms. Goodwtich.
"Do you have any idea how much damage you two have caused?!" Clearly she was somehow oblivious of the other rising damage costs that were happening conveniently on the other sides of the school.
Strange, how could one miss a burning fire and a multitude of dust explosions?
"But Ms. Goodwitch our national safety is in jeopardy!" Nora tried to reason while she herself was not mentally stable.
"Ms Valkirye, I have no idea what you are talking about. Nor do I care. The most I care for is for this school to remain a safe, calm, and peaceful environment."
I activate the Trap (Plot) Card: Murphy's Law! This allows the Author to activate the most over used cliché in story telling history that still is entertain(able)!
A building nearby has been set ablaze! A mass of screaming students have been seen running away in a different direction!
Glynda Goodwitch has momentarily stopped functioning!
"Sppt! Yang!" Nora whispered not so subtly. "I don't think we should be here anymore!"
"Well we learned our lesson teach, bye!" Yang quickly said as she, Nora, and Penny left—
Wait a sec.
"OK, I think we lost her." Yang gasped before she noticed the other orange haired girl in their group. "Penny?"
"Greetings half sister of Ruby Rose!" Penny waved at the larger girl then she looked at Nora. "Hello again Nora!"
"Hey Penny!"
"Whoa Whoa stop." Yang looked between the two. "You two know each other?"
"Why wouldn't I know her?" Penny asked innocently.
"Yeah? We carrot tops stick together!" Nora embraced Penny in a one arm hug and then they both smiled at the same time.
… What? You're expecting me to explain? I didn't even know either of them met!
"Nora, have you seen Ruby anywhere?"
"Wait! How did you two meet!?" Yang spoke in the background.
Nora rubbed her chin as the screams of Students intensified outside. "Can't say that I have."
"Oh Monty! Run away! Rose and Nikos have gone crazy!"
Yang turned back, thinking she heard about her sister, but then shrugged it off. Her little sister was an angel!
AN ANGEL OF DEATH—
"Oh wait!" Nora suddenly said, catching the girl's attention. "My fearless leader, Jaune Arc probably knows where she is!"
"Janue Arc?"
"Jaune!"
Penny tilted her head while Yang brought her fists together. She had unfinished business with that punk…
"Now if only there was a way to find him…" Nora mused again as the sounds of girlish screams were in the back ground.
"Why is everything on fire!?"
"It's Patriarch Schnee! He has come for my Insignificant Soul! Woe! The End is Near!"
"Jaune, are you on drugs right now?"
Yang blinked as she looked around. "Hey? Wasn't that just now: Neptune, Jaune, and Ren—exactly in that order?"
"Nah it can't be them. Ren's voice sounds different." Nora dismissed.
I'm sorry Mr. Neath Oum. You're still doing an amazing job.
Penny looked around and pointed to a group of runners. "Those joggers could know where our friends are?"
"Good idea, Quarters!" Nora gave the nickname to the girl. Hey wait a sec, doesn't Penny literally become Quarters late… oh. Oww. Oww! "Let's go catch up with them! Team Orange is go!"
"This is just like when we first met!" Penny excitedly exclaimed as she ran after Nora.
"No wait seriously!?" Yang called out before going after them. "How did you two meet!?"
{Author Notes}
OK, I have obviously, and somehow lost control of this story. May Monty forgive me for what I have done to his characters...
Though on the plus side. How many of you guys can point out stories where Emerald and Sun talk about stealing, or Nora and Penny meeting up? I think there's kind of a fun potential for the other lesser characters to meet than just the main eight.
But that's just my two cents.