"Is this... real food?" Ruby asked as she touched what was in her plate with a fork.
"The Hippolians were nice enough to give us some seafood. Doc already said all of this is edible and I test drove it." Jaune reassured as he finished serving the grilled fish to everyone. Blake didn't wait to take a bite. As soon as she put it in her mouth she started purring, and everyone eyed her in surprise as she ignored the stares and kept eating.
"This can't be this good!" Weiss protested as she took a bite of her food, her face mellowing immediately. "My life is now complete and I have no more regrets."
"You all stop being dramatic. Sadly we couldn't carry as much as we wanted, but it does taste way better than the fake stuff." Jaune added as he sat and started eating, followed by everyone else, all surprised how real food tastes.
"At least we were able to refill our vats with organic matter." Goodwitch commented, trying her best to not show how much she was enjoying the food.
"And we did a nice upgrade on our ship! Maybe next time we can add a giant robot mode to punch other ships in the face and a frozen yogurt machine!" Nora added her two cents, and once again they weren't sure what she was being serious about and what not.
"Talking about them, we aren't going to explode due to putting alien tech on our ship, will we? I mean, it is like trying to put a shotgun round in a sniper rifle." Yang said, and Ruby left a small squeak out, and everyone wondering if she has tried that already.
"We are constantly monitoring the new additions, and everything is working as intended." Penny added as she sat with the crew as always. It would be a few days before they finished the warp, so they were relaxing a little.
"Hey, Jauney, how's the music?" Dr. Verd asked and Jaune hummed the quite romantic tune he was hearing at the moment, unaware quite a few members of the crew had hearts on their eyes as he did. "At least whoever is singing is varying the repertory."
"With my luck, it is like the sirens in old legend and it is some half fish half woman entity that wants to drown me." Jaune commented.
"I know exactly what I want to do with you." Yang answered and Weiss immediately hit her ribs. "Ouch! This is not funny anymore, princess!"
"At least we agree with something!" Weiss snarled back.
"Well, since we are all trapped in this warp for a few days, why not we all take a day off? Penny can keep an eye on everything AND take a day off at the same time." Jaune commented, and Penny nodded happily.
"The advantages of being a dual-core." Everyone laughed a little, till the captain noticed a certain feline crewmember eyeing him and his grilled fish. It was the biggest, hardest to resist eye he ever saw, and he sighed while he gave the rest to Blake. The girl nodded slightly and started eating the fish happily.
"Does this count as an indirect kiss or just when people drink from the same cup like Ruby does with Jaune-Jaune all the time?" Nora asked making Ruby, Jaune and Blake blush madly.
"Those are all accidents and I only discovered this thing about indirect kiss from you!" Ruby shouted from her seat, while Nora just giggled.
"I-indirect k-kiss?" Velvet murmured, but Coco took notice.
"You know what is better than an indirect kiss? A very direct one." The brunette commented, making the bunny blush and steam coming from her ears.
"I think we had enough of that. So, tonight is game night, whose turn it is to choose a game?" Jaune asked, and the tension descended at the table, as one by one they all stared at the person whose turn was to choose the game, and they all remembered that there was no god, only the cold emptiness of death.
Yang was the one to choose the game and started laughing evilly.
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"Captain Arc, I demand you to forbid this game!" Glynda said as they prepared the table at the mess hall for a friendly game of... Truth or Strip.
"Come on, it will be fun! We all know Penny can't play any game that involves logic since she is a computer, literally. This way she can participate and we all will all have fun!" Yang proclaimed as she prepared her scroll. The rules were simple: the fifteen crewmembers would write a question, usually a very personal one, in the scroll, and Yang would read the question. You could answer it or remove a piece of clothing. "Come on, there are fifteen of us and we use seven standard pieces of clothing. You don't have to remove any… As long as you answer honestly, and I have a lie detector in my scroll. You lie; you remove two pieces of clothes."
"This is ridiculous." Glynda and Weiss said at the same time.
"Look, we all agreed with the gaming night rules. All games are valid as long as they don't endanger the ship or the crew. Otherwise we would have difficulty finding people to play certain games, like your very own baccarat." Jaune justified, and Glynda didn't anything as she loved baccarat despite the uncultured crew dislike for the game.
"Fine, since we all agreed to it anyway." She relented, and Yang fist bumped the air.
"So, here the seven standard pieces of clothing: jacket, shoes, socks, pants, undershirt, bra and panties. If you don't wear a bra, we count the shoes individually." Now start inputting the questions. And do your very worst!"
Most wouldn't even dare putting questions, but considering half the crew wanted to get revenge on the other half for pranks, and many wanted to get Yang over her teasing, and there was a few that really wanted to see part of crew with as naked as possible, especially a certain blonde, they indeed put the most daring questions on the scroll.
"OK, let's start. Choosing a question at random… 'First kiss'. Aww, that is sweet. Mine was when I was thirteen with a cute pink haired girl in combat school." Yang answered truthfully.
"Never being kissed." Blake said and she glared Yang before she could answer. "And no, I don't want to fix it."
"IT WAS AN ACCIDENT!" Ruby yelled all of sudden.
"YOU WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO TELL!" Weiss answered back and everyone glared at the two girls.
"OK? Mine was Claire on the first day in combat school." Neptune answered with a proud smile.
"Wait, I kissed Claire in the first day of combat school too!" Sun shouted and the two boys noticed they both were saying the truth. "I CAN'T BELIEVE IT! I INDIRECTLY KISSED YOU!"
"Is that how this works?" Blake questioned.
"It is now." Yang retorted, laughing loudly.
"Combat school, Aqua, cute Faunus girl." Jaune said on his turn, making Velvet blush in happiness as Jaune wasn't against kissing Faunus girls, while Pyrrha and Yang lamented don't having his first kiss.
"Uh. Easy! Renny!" Nora giggled enthusiastic. Ren blushed terrible.
"It was an accident." He explained.
"So not was!" Nora grinned making him blush harder.
"Never being kissed…" Pyrrha answered shyly, but eyeing Jaune.
"You should kiss Blake and fix that." Yang grinned.
"NO!" Both girls answered Yang at the same time. Meanwhile Velvet removed her jacket as there was no way she would reveal she kissed Coco to 'practice' a little.
"Nameless boy that was pestering me thinking I was a girly boy when I clearly am a boyish girl. His face was priceless." Coco grinned and laughed.
"My first kiss was with Captain Arc." Penny said, and they slowly turned to Jaune, three girls in special had murder stares.
"It wasn't like that! My sisters told her that was the way to greet a superior officer! I am glad I convinced her otherwise before the trip started!" Jaune defended himself.
"Your sisters… I can believe that. OK, Glynda!" Yang turned to the commander, and she immediately removed her jacket.
"It was with me after we tried a few beers in combat school. That was my first kiss." Doc said, and Glynda glared daggers at her old friend.
"Thanks for telling them AND making me remove my jacket, Shen."
"You are very welcome, Glyn."
"Wow, ok, after this bombshell, the next question is…"
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A.N.: I will make this an occasional omake for when I am looking for a pause. I am now accepting questions for them to answer! Do your worse!