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S1E16- A slightly Crueler Cruller

" A slightly Crueler Cruller." Appeared on the screen.

"Cruller?" Blake wondered.

"It's a kind of donut, Ren! Can you make me cruller again? I haven't had it in years!" Nora asked.

"I made you donuts last week." Ren said. "That does remind me, we haven't seen Donut since the grenade, we might be seeing him this episode."

"You're probably right." Pyrrha said.

The scene opened to show Donut in pink armor talking to Grif and Simmons.

"Yay, he's in a different color. Now we can tell Sarge and him apart." Ruby said.

"And it's pink! I love pink." Nora said.

Donut: "Dude, this is sweet! Command was so happy that I got the blue flag, they gave me my own color armor!"

Grif and Simmons look at each other

Grif: "Uh… hey Donut?"

Donut: "What?"

Simmons: "Um, about your armor…"

Donut: "What about it?"

Simmons: "How do I put this… Your armor is, um… It's a little, um… Grif, uh, you wanna help me out here?"

Grif: "It's pink. Your armor is fricking pink!"

"Whats wrong with pink?" Nora asked looking around.

"We don't have a problem with it." Pyrrha said.

"They might though." Jaune said.

Simmons: "Yeah, that's it. Pink."

Donut: "Pink, my armor's not pink."

"Uh, yeah it is?" Nora said. "I'm not colorblind am I?"

"No, it's pink." Ren said.

Grif: " Pink ."

Simmons: "Yeah, definitely pink."

Donut: "You guys are colorblind. Why would they give me pink armor?"

Grif: "Hey, donask, dontell."

Yang burst out laughing.

"what?" Ruby asked.

"It's a joke about being gay in the army." Weiss explained, annoyed.

"Because it distracts soldiers or something but-" Yang couldn't finish because she was laughing too hard.

"Very offensive," Blake muttered.

"I just like the pun." Yang chuckled.

Weiss grumbled, "The whole Don't ask Don't tell thing was never a rule either thanks to Ironwood, just a joke with the soldiers."

Simmons: "(over Grif's laughter) Heh, that's not funny."

Grif: "(laughs a little more) It's a little funny."

Donut: "Look at it, it's not pink. It's like uh… a lightish red."

"That's the literal definition of pink." Nora pointed out.

Grif: "Guess what: they already have a color for lightish red. You know what it's called? Pink ."

"See? But why do they not like pink?" Nora said.

"I don't know, maybe because it's a girly color." Jaune said.

"Pink can be a masculine color." Ren said, touching the pink part of his hair.

Donut: "I hate you guys."

Sarge: "(running up the ramp with Lopez in tow) Well hello, dirtbags .… and a fine hello to you, madam."

"Wow, he can be polite." Weiss said over Yang's and Jaune's laughter.

Donut: "It's light red ."

Sarge: "Don't get your panties in a wad there, Barbie. Do you have a package for me?"

"Yay more references." Yang said sarcastically.

Donut: "Yessir."

Sarge: "Excellent."

Donut: "(holding up a mechanical unit) They said this speech unit should work with Lopez."

"Speech unit? Lopez?" Pyrrha said, confused.

"Ohh, Lopez is a robot, that's why he never talked." Yang said.

"Robots can talk." Ruby muttered.

Grif: " Speech unit?"

Donut: "(handing the unit over to Sarge) Here you go."

Sarge: "Affirmative. Command was fresh out of speech modules when I first started building Lopez, but once I get this baby installed, I'll finally have someone intelligent to talk to.… No offense, Simmons."

"He built Lopez? That's impressive." Pyrrha said.

"It takes whole Atlas factories to make AK-130s" Weiss said.

"AK-130s?" Ruby asked.

"The original Atlesian Knights, before the AK-200's, the newer ones." Weiss said.

"I don't understand why they took out the swords from the Atlesian knights, or why they made them less bulky. They're way easier to fight than the originals." Blake said.

"How would you- oh, from your time in the White Fang." Weiss said. "Well, it costs way less to make them now. And they're more

accurate and remain active longer, they're mainly meant for mid range combat against Grimm."

"Hmm, makes sense." Blake said.

Simmons: "Oh, don't worry, I know who you meant sir."

Grif: "Wait a second, Lopez is a robot?"

Simmons: "Of course he is. You didn't notice that he never talks?"

Grif: "I just thought he was a really quiet guy."

Sarge: "And the fact that he sleeps standing up and drinks motor oil didn't get your attention."

"How could a teammate not know someone's robot? Wouldn't it be obvious." Weiss asked. "Especially with all that."

Ruby chuckled to herself, knowing that they had all met Penny yet none knew she was a robot.

Grif: "Well I, I did think the motor oil thing was a bit odd… Uh, I just thought he was trying to impress me."

Simmons: "Hey, sir. You really should ground yourself before handling that card."

Sarge: "How come?"

Simmons: "Because static could damage the card."

"That's a myth." Jaune said. "Saphron explained it all to me."

Sarge: "Come on. That's an urban legend they use to sell those stupid bracelets. And I suppose pop rocks and soda's gonna make my stomach blow up! (a visible electric surge as he inserts the card in Lopez) Yow!"

Simmons: "Sir. I won't say I told you so, sir."

"But it is a myth?" Jaune said, confused.

"It's just the show making a joke." Ren explained.

Sarge: "Good. I'd hate to make Strawberry Shortcake here my new favorite Private."

Donut: "It's not pink, it's lightish red!"

Cut to Caboose and Tucker outside the blue base. Tucker's armor is clean

Caboose: (exhales) "Ah, man, uh, you know, this stuff does not come off easy?"

Tucker: "Yeah, this was a lot easier when we were cleaning just my armor."

Caboose: "Yeah, I know that, that's I think because you know uh, you didn't do anything ."

Tucker: "I'm sorry, what? It's kind of hard to hear you over the sound of your constant team-killing."

"If I was Tucker I would take Caboose's gun from him." Pyrrha said.

"If I was Tucker I would shoot Caboose." Yang said.

Jaune and Ruby started laughing.

Caboose: "Ah, ah, aaahhhh ha ha ha ha ah yeah, ah yeah aha, ahhhhhhhhhhhhh… Don't make me mad."

Back to the red base

Donut: "So, what happened to me anyway? I recall something about a spider on my head?"

Grif: "Right. That was a grenade."

Donut: "And the last thing I remember, is a loud bang, and then Simmons fainting…"

Grif: "Ha! Told you so!"

Simmons: "I did not faint."

Sarge: "Done and done. Lopez. Activate speech unit!"

Lopez: "Buenos días. Y la gracias da por activar mi función del discurso. Soy el número de modelo cero uno cero uno uno tres cuatro ocho ocho dos tres. Me llamo es Lopez."

"Is that another language?" Ruby asked.

"Yeah, this pretty much confirms the different universe." Ren said.

"How? This could just be a really obscure language." Weiss said.

"Weiss, there hasn't been another language other than the one we are speaking right now for hundreds of years. If another language exists and is still being spoken, it would have to be from the most remote areas on remnant." Yang said.

"Why aren't there other languages on Remnant anyway?" Jaune asked.

"Prof- I mean Doctor Oobleck explained it, the Grimm caused humanity and Faunus to band together early. Language barriers had to be dropped so everyone started learning and speaking the same language. Dialects exist but ever since then, no one had any ability to form a new language." Pyrrha explained.

Ren nodded, "Settlements that couldn't communicate were often alone against the Grimm, they couldn't call for help as easily."

Donut: "Am I the only one not understanding any of this?"

Lopez: "Me llamo es Lopez."

"Hmm, he probably said my name is Lopez." Ren said writing in his notes.

Grif: "Lopez, he just said Lopez! I understood that. I can speak Spanish!"

"Spanish? Weiss look that up." Ren ordered while writing in his notebook.

After a few seconds Weiss groaned.

"Nothing! But that still doesn't prove anything. Maybe they made the language for the show!" Weiss said.

"Weiss, that's crazy, who would make an entire language for a tv show?" Ruby asked.

"In some of my books languages have been made up." Blake said.

"But those are books." Ruby said.

"I hate to side with the Ice Queen and Kitty on this one but..in Game of Kings they made up multiple languages, and you can learn them." Yang said.

Weiss smiled and triumphantly.

Sarge: "Lopez. Speak, English ."

Lopez: "Mi procesador Inglés tiene malfunctioned. Sé habla solamente español."

Simmons: "Huh, I think you shorted out his speech unit with that static, sir."

Sarge: "Maybe Princess Peach here picked up the wrong model."

"Princess peach?" Nora muttered.

Donut: "Seriously dude. For the last time. Not pink."

"Pink." Everyone grumbled.

Sarge: "Lopez. I order you to speak a language we understand."

Lopez: "Negativo."

"Negative." Ren said.

Sarge: "Well this is just dandy. Lopez. How, do, we, fix, your, speech, u, -nit?"

Grif: "Why are you talking so slow? He understands us just fine. Maybe you should try listening slower."

"Listening slower? I hope he's being sarcastic." Blake muttered.

Sarge: "Lopez, would you like to shoot Grif?"

Lopez: (raising his gun) "Sí señor. Gracias."

"Si… could mean yes or affirmative." Ren said.

"Are you going to decipher this entire language?" Pyrrha asked.

"Ren is super smart!" Nora yelled happily.

Grif: "No, stop! Uh, alto, alto!"

Simmons: "Alto means tall, you dumbass."

Ren noted that.

Grif: "Then why do they put it on stop signs?" The screen faded to black.

"Well that's the end of the episode, start the next one please. Ren asked.