The scene Opens at the resturant from a previous chapter in the early morning hours. Nora is dancing around Ren who is sittiny down looking as if he's been woken up by a bear attack this morning. Nora as chipper as ever pops up behind him saying,
"Waaaake up! (pokes Ren's cheek) Waaaaake up! (Pokes his cheek again)...WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UUUP LAZY BUUUUUTT! (poking repeatedly bouncing around Ren from side to side)". Ren responds "Nora, I'm awake" Then he falls face first onto the diner. She starts poking his head all over "Come oooooon! No one else is here and OOOOO!" She skips over to the door then sprints full speed toward a Blake and Yang. They notice her too late and she slams into them knocking them over with her only follow up being, "HEYYYYYYYY!" then bouncing right back up and smiling big. Blake and Yang dust themselves off and Yang says, "Good Morning Nora! I see you're as chipper as ever." Blake responds while standing up in her solem quiet happy mood "Yes, It's good to see you." As soon as shes done talking Nora grabs them both by the arms and drags them sorintingly to the diner and appears behind Ren, talking fast ""REN REN REN I FOUND THEM EHO LOOK WHO I FOUND ITS BLAKE AND YAAANNNG! ISNT IT AWAOME THEYRE HERE ARE YOU AWAKE YET REN? REN? REEEEEEEEEEENNNN!?". Rem lifts his head up and responds in short, "Nora, please sit down." She replies "okay!" and smiles with a big smirk and sits. Blake and Yang roll their eyes smiling and Yabg sits down next to Nora, Who then responds swiftly as Yang is about to sit "WHOA WHOA WAIT! Scooch two seats down." Yang replies confused, "Huh? Youuu don't want us to sit with you?". Nora responds "Oh no! There's totally going to be a supruse party joining uss!" Ren lifts his head up, "Nora, was this planned?" Nora smiles, the way she smiled when she first joined beacon and smiled creepy happily when told to "Destroy anything in your path". Yang replies, "What? Who's..." At that moment Weiss and Jaune walk up. "O-oh h-hey you guys" Weiss says looking at Blake and Yang. Yang's eyes widen and her jaw drops slightly suprised to see her. She takes no further hesitations and walks up to her, weiss looks at her and swallows nervously a little afraid of her reaction, then yang hugs her really tight and smiles, "Weisssss! I've missed youuuu! It's good to see youuuu!", Blake also responds with a soft smile, "Yeah, It's, good to see you". Weiss gets a little shakey and blushes trying to hide her emotions, Jaune just pops up from behind her peeking out and says, "Heyyy you know, I'm here too". Yang just looks at him smiling in her carefree attitude says "Hey Jaune!". Weiss lifts her finger in the air and tries to speak being muffled by her face being against Yang's body "Yang, (pause)..you're suffocating me!" Yang squeezes harder and russles her hair and laughs before letting her go. Weiss catches her breath and looks up at her with a scowl, but it floats away as she smiles, "Shall we?" She directs them to the chairs, Jaune sits next to Nora and Weiss and Weiss next to Yang, Blake for some reason decides to switch seats and sit next to Ren. The shop keep comes up to them.
"Ohhh It's you 4! Hey! and you brought some new faces! Welcome! What can I get you all?"
Yang asks for a Noodle bowl with some meat. Weiss stares at the menu and says nothing. Jaune chokes up saying He'd like just a noodle bowl. Nora asks for all the meat and caffenated drinks he has in a rice bowl. Ren asks for what Jaune is having with a bit of spice added. Blake musters to speak "The Usual" as she begins drooling. the shopkeep looks back at weiss,
"Miss have you decided".
Weiss responds after moving her hand from under her chin and sitting up straight, "Yes, I would like a rice noodle bowl that..." she starts listing off a very particularl commands of how it should be done, "It shoukd ve cooked to where its soft but not too soft, It should only be seasoned with fresh ingredients. When you add fish to it please only use cresh fish that has been cleaned properly, and already salted before cooked. Cook the fish seperate from the noodles and be sure that you drawn the fat from the fish AND the noodles without losing any of their flavor. The noodles should be a certain size, not too fat and not angel hair thin.." she keeps going on and on and everyone starts looking at her except for 2 people. Nora, who is just staring at a pot of Coffee and smirking, And Blake who is drooling thinking about fish.
The shopkeep stares at weiss baffled as she finishes giving her instructions and just stares at him waiting for him to move. The shopkeep raises his finger and ponders for a moment. Then he dissappears in a flash.
Jaune looks back and forth at Weiss and Nora who both have him afraid. The shopkeep appears in a flash with A cup of coffee, another cup of coffe, a cup of some mystery drink, a smoothie, and a cup of Soda he sets all of in front of nora, then he sets down water in front of the rest of them and dissappears again.
Nora with sparkley eyes starts gulping down all of the drinks and everyone but Blake looks at her in intrigue, exceot Jaune who looks afraid, "Uhhhh Reeen...Should she..." he is interrupted by Nora slamming 2 cups down and burping really loud and shouting "YEAHHHHHH!". Ren Responds "Nora, I think you should cut back". She starts hyperly going on the offense talking faster than usualv"CUT BACK WHY DONT YOU CUT BACK I CANT CUT BACK ILL NEVER CUT BACK I NEEEEED THISSSSSSSSSSS!" She grabs the coffee pot nearby and guzzles the whole thing down, everyone backs up in their seats, even blake, afraid of whats to come. The shop then appears with everyones meal but weiss's, Blake completely avid with her meal, just starts chowing down like a hungry zombie (without all the noises...mostly). Weiss crisses her arms and demands, "Where is mine you.." he disssappears again without letting her finish. Yang touches her shoukder "Aw cheer up, you probably made him hate you forever and youll never get a meal here but hey! At least your friends get to eat". "Yang, I am in no mood for..." Weiss gasps as the food she asked for is set down perfectly in front of her. The shopkeep says to her, "Dont expect this all the time, Im just being nice today." Weiss too happy to care attacks her food like a hungry child and suprises everyone with how she eats. She looks around and slirps a noodle back into her mouth, "...what?" she blushes realizing how she sounded and gets defensive, "Look I dont eat with ppl very often okay! and I never get this nice a meal plus I had a REALLY long night." She breifly looks back at Jaune then hides her face in her food again. Yang being nosey and not afraid to say anything noticed and makes the comment, "Sooo, You and Jaune had a fun night then huhhhhh?"
Weiss's face turns bright red and she gets mad and starts studderimg, "N-no! Thats not it at all! we!..." Jaune stops her, "She was up late because i couldnt sleep and I...wouldnt let her get back to bed, A-AND NOT IN ANY KIND OF WEIRD WAY...", Weiss responds in a monotone voice, "Jaune, just stop", and she triws to eat her food to move the subject away. Yang nudges Weiss and says, "Ahhh come on you know I'm just kidding."
Blake looks up from her food and says, "Just like old times, only...different in some ways." she goes back to eatting her fish.
The shopkeep speaks up, "You know now that I think about it all of you do seem familiar now, like I've seen all of you together before. I've thought this with the 4 of you nefore but just feel like I'm missing something as to who you are or where I may have seen you before."
Blake finishes her fish and sits up straight and says, "It was the Vytal Festival, the tournament, we were all in it, we ate at your booth there. After this time I know for sure it was you, I remember the way you made your fish."
The shopkeep responds, "Ohhhh yesss! How could I forget, the 4 who almost couldnt pay, and the 4 who joined them. Though, Youre missing one oerson from each group. Where might they be?"
Everyone stops eatting and drops any silverware theyre holding and look up, except weiss, Jaune and Ren who look down. No one says a word for a moment then Jaune speaks up, "They, They're no longer with us, one was, our partner, Pyrrah Nikos. She died during the grimm attack by the mastermind behind that day's events. The other person We're missing...is Ruby Rose, she...she..." Weiss puts her hand on his shoulder and looks up taking over, "She witnessed Pyrrah's death, I helped her to get up the building to try saving her, but it was too late. Ruby survived. A lot of things happened after that, my...our team fell apart, Jaune's team joined Ruby and they went off to a different land. Events for a while happened and, that girl who died that was, an android back that caused the grimm attack, she was Ruby's best friend.." weiss starts losing her composure and Yang turns and hugs her with her arm. Jaune returns with putting his hand on weiss's arm, weiss gains comfidense this way and continues talking after taking a deep breath. "At least Penny was one of Ruby's best friends, I think she loved her, maybe thats why when I started trying to be nicer I was just too afraid to tell Ruby how i felt because, I was afraid I would take her away from sommeome else she loved. Then with time I just, never thought I would be good enough for her, or maybe i was just lying to myself trying to make up an excuse because i was afraid. You two can let go of me now, I'm sorry just...let me say this without any.." Jaune acknowlesges her and removes his hand, Yang looks at her with a bit of a sad face and removes herself from hugging her. Weiss continues in a stronger more confident voice, "I love Ruby, Yes, I still do. Mister shopkeep food guy, Ruby was with us up until 4 or 5 years ago. Her loneliness, and the tredgedy's she'd been through got the better of her. She lost Her Mother when she was young, Penny, and witnessed Pyrrah's death, she didnt even blame Pyrrah for Penny's death, she protected her when the Grimm attacked. But 4 or 5 years ago it just, Something snapped inside her, She asked me something, and I didnt tell her How i really felt, and she must have thought I was rejecting her, so, she snapped. She attacked me. This patch over my eye is from when she attacked me and took my eye that day. It hurts, being hurt by the person you love, but I know she also was and is still hurting inside deeply. She is the reason this town is a mess and that we're on the verge of another grimm outbreak. In my heart, I don't want to blame her, I want to blame myself, but I know I have to stop her. I know I'm not alone, I've had a partner helping me clean up what mess I blame myself for these past few years, (she looks at Jaune) and I thank him. (she looks back up at the shop keep), Ruby isnt a monster as most want to call her who know of what shes done, shes just...broken, damaged, in pain and misery. I don't know what will happen when I finally face her again, As I havent seen her sense she left us those 4 or 5 years ago, but I know I have to be prepared for whatever the outcome is, I have to control my emotions and my urges, and Keep a level head. (she sighs and leans back down at her food) but until then, I'm going to eat this food and be happy that One of the closest friends I've had these past few years has been able to bring me back together with my old teammates."
She eats the remainder of her food and everyone looks at eachother and the shopkeep at her, as they all try to understand what lie ahead, and what used to be.
In the Shadows in the back where the shopkeep would go to cook, a figure is seen, then another walks up beside them holding an umbrella. The first fogure standing there raises her head up after wiling their eyes and they leave the building before they are seen, where the scene fades to black.
The scene reopens with Jaune, Nora, Ren, Weiss, Blake, and Yang walking on the street, well with Nora skipping and practically bouncing around she's so hyper. It's in the afternoon time. "So, where are we going? Yang asks everyone. Blake responds, "I was just following you." Weiss responds, "I was just following Nora", Nora responds, "I was following Jaune!" as she skips in circles around the group. Jaune responds, "I was following Ren!", Ren responds, "Wait, was I leading the group?!". "Yep! and Youuuuu failed mistererr!" Nora answers.
"Well, does anyone have patrol tonight?" Yang asks. Mostly everyone shakes their head except weiss and Jaune. Weiss says, "Well, I always pop in the police station to see if there's anything that needs to be done or needs help." Jaune responds, "And where She Needs to go I usually follow and help out as well."
"Why don't we all join you then? If that's what everyone wants." Ren asks. Everyone shrugs not caring, or nods yes in response. "Well I suppose they wouldn't mind having more capable hands involved. But we still have a lot of time to kill until then" Weiss exclaims. "I know! Let's go to the...uhhhhh...hmmmm " Jaune tries to think. "Why not just sit down somewhere peaceful and rest?" Blake suggests. Everyone cheeerfully agrees, "It has been a long time sense probably very many of us took a break" Yang says. So they head off to a forest where it looks peaceful and no grimm are around and sot in a clearing and just look up at the sky or lay down and read (Blake). The scene pans up to the sky then back down as it turns to night and appears on the town as Ruby and Neo are walking carrying large boxes, Ruby struggles and trips "Guuhwahhh!" she shouts. Neo roles her eyes and sets down thw boxes shes carrying and helps Ruby up, "Th-thank you Neo, Guess I still don't have my strength back" she smiles guiltily, neo picks up one box off of ruby's and sets it on top of ger own then picks them back up. "O-oh yeah I guess I should just pick them back up and keep moving heh...(she whisper mumbles) this is so weird, I've got a teammate who doesnt talk, that likes to be funny, but i cant tell if actually cares about me or is waiting to strike me ughhh" Ruby grabs her boxes and lifta them up and starts walking again.
"So, Neo uh...Nice night right?" Ruby says as she looks back at Neo who nods smiling at her. Ruby sighs unsure how to deal with a quiet partner.
They continue walking until they get to a familiar looking building, and walk inside, "Helloooo? We're baaack, we have your boxes noodle duuude!" The familiar shopkeep appears at the diner. "Oh yes! Hello again! Come on and bring them back this way." He leads them back behind the diner and into the back room and down to a basement where they set them down.
"Thank you girls so much! I thought I wouldnt get my supplies in quick enough. You're welcome if you ever need anything to just ask! Youve helped me so many times I don't know how I can repay you." The shop keep says. Ruby looks at Neo who nods, and Ruby responds, "Well, There is actually something we would like to ask of you."
The shopkeep responds, "Of course! what is it?". "We may need a...(looks back at Neo who gestures her to continue qith facial expressions), uh-uh a temporary Place to stay, from time to time.
"Oh my well, I dont see how that's a problem. I do have plenty of extra space as long as you arent picky." He replies. "Oh no! Not picky at all! heh heh" Ruby says her arm behind her head smiling.
The scene transitions to after theyve gotten the basement setup for them to stay and sleep. "Well there you go! Now if You need anything You know where you can find me, and thank you again for all of your continued help!" The shopkeep tells them. "No problem sir! Ruby Rose and her faithful companion are always here to help!", Ruby says. and at that the shopkeep tilts his head and replies "That naaame...Sounds very familiar". Ruby answers in a squeeky voice, "Wha me? My name?". the shopkeep says, "Yes, I know I've heard of you from somewhere, maybe someome else who comes through here? Ahhh well It doesnt matter Have pleasent dreams Girls!" With that the shopkeep heads back upstairs, into the diner and up more stairs to his appartment.
Neo taps on her phone and send a message to Ruby, that startles her, "EEEP!" She grabs her phone in a hurry and opens it and reads, "Sounds like our visit today coming early wasnt a waste after all. It appears he has a bad memory, I dont fear he will dismiss us after our help. Your plan has looked like it worked out."
Ruby responds verbally to her, "Yeah, Free food, a place to stay in the city, and now we can hide bodies or any captured persons here until we can move them to the cabin." Neo nods smiling. "Also, I have an idea on keeping tabs on things around here, let's make our stay even more comforting to him, so then we can roll into the next phase of my plan, where we will be watching our enemies." Ruby says to Neo.
Neo taps on her screen and walks up to Ruby showing it to her, "Are you ready for that phase?". Ruby looks up with a confident, stern, seriois look on her face, she lifts her hood up slowly and says, "Yes, The time is coming to free ourselves from tyrrany by the police, (the scene transitions To Weiss and her group walking up to and into the police station while Ruby can be heard in the background) and I know just how to do it" As they walk into the police station, Ruby's face is layered over the scene and her eyes open up, brightly showing her silver color and she smiles with a very deep evil smile, Neo is shown next to her, as if the two of them are watching what weiss and her group are doing, they smile the most blood chilling smile and the scene fades to black as weiss wakes up with her group to the police cheif.
END CH 6