Ruby threw the head Schnee against the wall, a loud cracking sound echoed through the bullhead, making the three others cringe. Ruby drove her foot into the man's ribs, making him cry out in pain. She cocked her foot back, but didn't kick him again.
"By my count there are still nine more ribs I can break! Speak!" She shouted.
"Bitch!" He shrieked. She kicked him again in response. He spit out blood. "You've gotta get tired at some point." He pointed out.
She looked at him weirdly, cocking her head, she said. "As if that's gonna happen." She jabbed him in the face with her toe. Ruby then picked him up by the throat, slamming him against the wall. "What do silver eyes mean?!" She demanded.
"It's the sign of a true warrior!" He said, trying to shield his face with his arms.
"You were scared?!" She threw him against the other wall. "Why were you scared of a fifteen year old girl?" She asked, grabbing him again. A loud thud rang through the bullhead as he was slammed against the wall once more.
"Summer Rose almost fucked up my company! I didn't want the same thing to happen again!" He said. She threw him to the ground, pinning him down, she asked another question.
"What happened with Summer Rose!?" She growled out.
"She almost uncovered some things about me that would have ruined the Schnee Dust Company! It wasn't personal!" He was obviously scared of her now, and that's how she wanted it. She picked him up, and smashed his skull against the door frame, barely not using enough force to knock him unconscious.
"What wasn't personal?!" She yelled. "You want teeth?! I want answers!"
"I had to have her killed! I didn't know she had a family until Weiss told me that she went to school with a Rose!" He shouted. "What more do you want? Money? Dust? Weapons? I can get you anything! Just name it!"
Ruby was didn't bother hiding the complete unadulterated rage from her expression. She put her mask back up, and opened the side door, hanging him out by the throat. "
You are no longer of any use to us!" She stated. They were no longer in Atlas, Ren was flying just above the ocean to avoid detection "This is for Ruby Rose!" She dropped him, letting him flail as he tried to grab onto the ship. Ruby immediately closed the door, not caring what happened to him.
[Elsewhere]
"Miss Schnee." Ozpin addressed. He had called Weiss to his office, despite the battle that raged on Beacon's borders. The Atlesian soldiers, human and robotic, tried to tear through the school's defenses, only to be taken down by the students. "I have just received word that your father has been murdered by an Atlesian commander."
"Let me guess," Weiss said in monotone. "Perseus?" The headmaster nodded.
"She has a knack for killing. Very impulsive. This is the same reason that most militaries only accept people over the age of eighteen." He stated, no emotion in his face or voice.
"What are you trying to say?" Weiss skeptically asked.
"I'm saying that, whoever Perseus is, she is young. And this is why they mask her identity." He said. "Whatever her reason is; she is very angry."
"What are you going to do if you capture her?" Weiss asked, sitting down.
"We're going to find out why she's so angry, and go from there." He told her, noting the barely hidden anger peaking through her blank expression.
"You're not going to send her to prison?" Weiss asked. "She killed Father. She killed Pyrrha. And she killed Professor Goodwitch! How could that be excused?!"
"James is a master manipulator. Who knows what he did to gain her full support." Was her reply.
Weiss stood and stormed off, "I'm going to find her." She muttered.
Ozpin said nothing, but simply sent messages to both Blake and Yang, telling them that they needed to walk with Weiss.
[Meanwhile]
"I want her dead!" Winter shouted. "I don't care what you have to do to kill her, just don't let anyone know who hired you!"
The six nodded, looking their former enemy in the eyes.
"May I ask who?" Roman asked. "You can't just start in the middle of a conversation and expect us to know who you're talking about."
"Right." Winter said, calmly down slightly. "Sorry. I've been reciting what I was going to say, and I guess I started at the wrong part." She paused. "Ironwood's Project Perseus. Kill her. She killed my father, so I will hire you to kill her."
[Shift]
"Once we make Weiss admit her sins," Ruby told the others. "This will be all over, and you can go back to your lives, and I'll… I'll find something."
"Can't you just let Yang know that you lived?" Jaune asked.
"Yes." Ruby said. "Let's go tell my sister that the person who's been trying to kill her friend, and who she herself has been trying to kill, is actually me: Her dead sister. I'm sure that'll work out." She scowled at Jaune, who looked down to his feet.
"Can we talk in private for a moment?" He asked Ren and Nora, who retreated into the cockpit, closing the door behind them. Ren had left the ship on autopilot so that he could be a part of the 'meeting' Ruby had called.
"I'm sorry about that." Jaune told Ruby once they were gone. "I just can't stand the thought of my friend having to go off and hide for the rest of her life, while I get to live her dream."
"I can't go back to Beacon, Jaune." She said, sadness was evident in her voice. "Not after everything I've done."
"Okay! Don't then!" He said. "Just know, that whatever you do, I'm coming with you."
She quickly stood, standing face-to-face with Jaune. She had expected him to flinch immediately, but he didn't; he just stood, his facial expression changing from defiant to calm. This removed the scowl from Ruby's face and replaced it with the same calm look he had.
"I won't let you isolate yourself. You're my best frien—" he was cut off by her lips crashing into his. His eyes widened in surprise, but he didn't reject the kiss. She began to pull away, breathing heavily, but he grabbed the back of her head, and returned the favor, this time, they both had their eyes closed. When they opened, their faces were only inches apart.
"You don't know how long I've wanted to do that." She told him, feeling Pyrrha cursing her from hell.
"That was hot." Nora said from the doorway, making both teens jump, their heads bashing together. Ruby almost fell over, but Jaune caught her.
"Nora!" Jaune said, not loosening his grip on Ruby's waist. "I said in private!"
"I know~!" Nora said, stretching out the 'O' syllable. "It's just, we've both been waiting for you two to do that since we met her." She turned back around, sitting down in the passenger seat. "Had us worried when you started spending time with Pyrrha."
"Did you guys make a gamble on my love life?" Jaune asked, glancing back over at Ruby, who was still hanging from his arm. Before Nora answered, Jaune realized his mistake and set Ruby upright, taking his hands off of her waist. Ruby wasn't exactly protesting to the position he had held her in, just silently blushing.
"Everyone except for Ruby and Pyrrha gave bets!" Nora said excitedly. "Ren and I bet on Ruby, because y'know, we like the whole, socially awkward couple thing. Yang bet on Pyrrha, but that's just because she didn't want you two to… Y'know…" Nora made a motion with her hands, her index finger going through a circle made by her other index finger and thumb.
This made Ruby blush even harder. She may have been a killing machine, but she was still a socially awkward teenage girl. "Weiss bet on Ruby because she wanted her to leave her alone. We know now that that was probably a warning sign, but we didn't know then, so it's okay. Blake bet on Pyrrha as well, because it was obvious that she had a crush on you. But it was also pretty obvious that you adored Ruby, and she thought you were pretty nice, so we could really see that going somewhere. If you know what I'm sayin'!"
"Bow Chicka Bow Wow." Ren said, briefly breaking his stoic personality to get Nora's point across.
"What?!" Ruby asked, getting the hint. "Ew ew ew ew ew! I'm too young for that! Ew!" Jaune smiled, surprised that, with every person who wronged her died, the more like her old self she became. Normally it didn't work that way. Jaune nudged Ruby, laughing.
"This makes that thing I said the other day about loving you like a sister really weird." He said.
"I just thought that's how your family worked." Ruby teased, making him shake his head.
"I do not support incest." He told her.
Edited by DemonFoxBK201