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Chapter 23: Scarlet Fever
Team SSSN were currently sitting in their hotel room without their leader. The chief had called Sun in to do a solo mission as an undercover spy in Junior's club. He's been updating them daily, so they were relaxing knowing he was fine. Neptune was busy finding something good on the radio, Sage was channel hopping, and Scarlet was in the bathroom doing who knows what.
"Geez!" Neptune grumbled, kicking his radio down. "You think that people would've had enough of love songs."
"What's wrong with that?" Sage asked, flipping through the channels.
"Well, nothing at all." The bluenette muttered, scratching his neck. "It's just sort of annoying hearing a consecutive amount you know."
"Welp!" Scarlet barged into the room in a new outfit looking extremely nervous. "Here I go again!"
"Dude. That's the fifth time you've said that." The bulky person of the team said. "You've said that a lot of times, but you keep changing your mind."
"Well this time I mean it?" The redhead of the group said with a smile. "I finally got my confidence up high."
"What're you even going to say?" Neptune asked before changing his accent to mimic a certain bunny. "Hey Scarlet? How you going?"
"She doesn't sound like that." He scoffed at his impersonation. "And I'm just asking her to a first date. I can handle this."
"Well you better make it quick then." The bluenette pointed out. "You're going to lose that girl if you don't take her out."
Scarlet wouldn't have it. Just as he was about to head out, the giant sword user of the team had called out to him.
"Hey dude." He said, turning away from the tv. "Don't make it bad."
Shaking his head, Scarlet had marched out of the room to go ask a girl out. Slamming the door shut on them, dust had kicked up from the floor. Looking to the floor, Neptune put his radio away after coming to a conclusion.
"The floor needs sweeping." He muttered, taking out a broom to clean up the dirt. Before he could get on to cleaning, his scroll played the chief's personal ringtone. "Wonder what's up?"
Picking up his phone, Neptune could hear a panicking crowd on the other line. "You guys need to get here stat. We have a bank robbery in progress with a hostage situation! Penny Road across Abbey Lane! You cant miss it."
"We're on it chief!" Neptune nodded, giving Sage the rundown as they got their stuff ready. Running outside, they caught up to Scarlet who was almost at the front door. "Rain check on your failed date attempt buddy. We got a hostage situation."
"Every time." Scarlet groaned, running back to the room to grab his stuff.
With VPF
"We are willing to negotiate for the hostages, sir!" The chief shouted through her megaphone. "Tell us your demands and we'll see that you have them met."
"Give me money! That's what I want." The man shouted while holstering an LMG. "And an escape carrier that goes beyond the boarders."
"We'll see what we can do." The chief shouted. Looking around, there was still no sign of SSN around. "Where are those idiots?"
"Chief?" Her radio went off. It was Neptune on the other line. "We're currently on a rooftop surveying the area. Keep the guy distracted while we get into position."
"Thank Oum you idiots!" She gasped in relief. "I'll see how much time I can get you. Just don't mess this up."
On a rooftop across the bank
"I'm seeing only one guy at the window, but the thermal on my scope says there are two more guys walking around." Neptune told his team. "This would be a lot easier if Sun was around. He'd just sneak in and untie the hostages."
"So what's the plan?" Sage said, holding his blade at the ready.
Looking at the structure of the place, Neptune saw a skylight in the bank's roof.
"We'll go in through the roof." He started. "We'll need to grapple from another area so we aren't seen."
Nodding, the three ran a few buildings away and had Scarlet swing them to the other area. Getting on the same block as the bank they had ran to the roof where the skylight was.
"Alright guys." Neptune nodded as they readied to jump down. "Don't let me down."
Taking out his scroll, he called in the chief. "We are in position. Be ready to pull through."
With the chief
"Got it Vasillas." She nodded. Taking the megaphone out, she called out to the hold uppers. "We've talked with the higher up on your demands. …Sorry! But we don't negotiate with terrorists!"
What she heard next was a crash as SSN had jumped down and subdued the robbers. The VPF had stormed in after Neptune signaled that the hostages were safe and unharmed.
As Team SSN stepped out of the bank, they were met with screaming girls running up to them.
"It's okay ladies." Neptune waved to them. "It's our job. Just a day in the life."
"Smile!" Before they knew what happened, they were hit by a large flash that had them seeing spots. Clearing their eyes, they saw Velvet holding her camera with a notepad in hand. "Good job you three."
"Velvet!" They cheered, running up to her.
"What brings you here?" Sage high fived the rabbit.
"I'm here for a scoop to put on the school newspaper." She answered. "Think I can get an interview with you guys?"
Sharing a look, Sage and Neptune had a thought to help their friend.
"Well, me and Sage need to stick around to talk with the chief." Neptune started, motioning to their chief who was currently giving the perps their Miranda rights. "But I think we can have Scarlet go with you somewhere private to get that interview. You're cool with that, right Scar?"
"Wha?" The boy in question squacked.
"Yeah." Sage nudged him. "Go with her while we take of things here. We can work it out."
"I guess I'll be taking him with me for a bit." The bunny said with a smile, grabbing Scarlet's hand.
"Take your time." Sage waved to them as they turned a corner. "We are such good bros."
"Amen to that." The bluenette nodded as they shared a fistbump.
With Scarlet and Velvet
After walking for a bit, Velvet had pulled him to an open café where she had sat him down to start the interview.
"So what do you wanna know?" He asked, trying to keep cool. Now that he was alone with her, he was starting to get really hot under the collar.
"I already got enough details on how you guys stopped the robbery, so I was thinking of making a page about you and your team." She started. "You guys might not know it, but a lot of people see you as Vale's personal superheroes. And to the girls: you're like the rockband that came to town and invaded and conquered."
"I don't know what to say to that." He chuckled while scratching his cheek. "Team SSSN is just a Hunter squad."
"Hold on." She held up her hand to start writing. "I need to be writing this down. Is that okay with you?"
"It's alright." He waved a hand. After she had finished writing she had another question lined up.
"Being a Hunter and a Junior Detective, I'm guessing it's very time taxing." She said professionally. "How do you guys manage?"
"It's not that hard really." He said modestly. "I guess it's because we all have each other's backs. And not just them too. We all get by with a little help from our friends."
Nodding, Velvet had continued to write while Scarlet answered all her questions. After a few minutes, she nodded by the amount of info she got.
"Thanks for the interview Scarlet." She said, shaking his hand. "This'll be a huge hit on the papers in school."
"R-right." He blushed. "Maybe we can do this again sometime? …Maybe like …hmrphrr."
"Are you… asking me out on a date?" She asked with a raised brow. All he could do was nod stiffly with a sweaty grin.
"Sure." She nodded, brightening more. "Text me when you're free."
As she walked away, the redhead started hyperventilating the moment she was out of sight.
"Keep it together old boy." He shook in his chair trying to control his breathing. "Let it out …and let it in."
After a few more minutes of breathing exercises, he had walked back to the hotel to see Neptune and Sage waiting for them. Sun was currently in the bathroom washing off the bloodstains on his shoes.
"So…" Neptune nodded with a grin.
"How'd it go?" Sage asked. Sometimes Scarlet hated his team. Like now for instance. If anyone on the team found a crush, there would be a lot of teasing and jeering. "Did you kiss?"
"Nah." The bluenette cut him off. "He probably tried to take it slow. I bet he babbled like with that one chick back in Vacuo."
"Shut up!" The redhead huffed, his face matching his hair color. "I asked her out and she said yes. She's just waiting for me to tell her when I'm free."
"Well say tomorrow bud." Neptune told him on his bed. "The chief gave us a day off tomorrow."
As Scarlet fumbled for his scroll, the two were sharing another fistbump.
With Velvet
After making it to her dorm, Velvet got a message from Scarlet. Opeing the message, it told her the time and place.
Lunchtime. Meet you at the statue in Beacon. Really excited for our date. ;D
-Scarlet
Coco watched as her bunny teammate went from three shades of red with an awkward smile on her face. With her boyfriend on a week mission, she was free to hang with her team and the others. It was lonely for a bit, but she's been getting the occasional texts telling how he's been.
"Anything I should know about?" She stalked over to her teammate.
"That boy took my love away." Velvet muttered wistfully into her hands while showing the message.
Taking the scroll, Coco read the message and smirked. Having a funny idea, she typed a reply before Velvet knew what happened.
Message Sent
"Ah!" The bunny screamed, grabbing her scroll back. "What'd you send?"
Can't w sailor. ( '3')/
-Velvet
"Why would you send that?" The rabbit faunus screamed in disbelief. Before she could text explaining things, her ringtone had went off signaling a message. "Huh?"
"Woah." Coco mused, looking over to see the reply meesage. "Fast typer. That's some serious brownie points."
Cant w honey bunny, ('3') XoXoOoXXo
-Scarlet
"A-ah ah ah…" The photographer of team CFVY was lost for words and thought, so Coco took it as her chance to type something herself.
"You think you can handle me big boy?" She read her message out loud. "And send!"
"Coco!" Velvet erupted, trying to get her scrollback to no avail. Hearing her ringtone go off again, she pulled on her ears dreading the reply.
"Oh ho!" Coco pulled her shades down. "Hear this out Vel. He says he can take you eight days a week. Pfft."
Velvet had ran out of the room to get away from her leader. Forget her scroll, she's going back to letter writing. She had thought Scarlet was a gentleman, but apparently, he was different on the scroll.
With Scarlet a few minutes ago
"Are you even going to message her anytime soon in this year?" Neptune asked the frozen redhead. Scarlet had been staring at his scroll for minutes.
Not taking any more of it, Neptune grabbed the scroll to message Velvet for him. After two seconds, he finally sent the message.
Message Sent
"What did you do?" Scarlet shouted, grabbing his scroll back after snapping out of his shock.
Lunchtime. Meet you at the statue in Beacon. ;D
-Scarlet
"At least it was tame." He muttered. He wasn't expecting Sage to grab the scroll away from him after his ringtone went off. "Come on!"
"Ooh!" The bulky teen said, reading the message then showing it to Neptune. "Check it out."
Can't w sailor. ( '3')/
-Velvet
"We need to reply back." The bluenette smirked.
What happened next was Scarlet trying to get his scroll away from his friends who were playing keep away from him.
"Type in eight days a week." Sage advised Neptune. "It doesn't make much sense, but it's goofy enough to work."
"I'm out of here!" Scarlet shouted, running away from the two. He had a plan to go to Beacon and tell Velvet his teammate's shenanigans.
At Beacon
"I hope I'm not too late." Scarlet muttered as he reached team CFVY's door and knocked on it. Coco was the one to answer it holding Velvet's phone. "Is Velvet here? I need to tell her a misunderstanding."
"Hold up." The leader said, looking to the scrollthen to him. "If you're here, then who's been messaging Vel's phone? …Sage and Neptune?"
"Yes." He nodded, glad that he had cleared his name with someone. "…Why do you have her phone?"
"…Reasons." She said meekly with a small grin. "If you're looking for Vel, go check her office."
"Thank you!" He sighed with a heavy breath. As he left, he didn't see the mischievous grin growing on Coco's face.
"So those two were the ones, huh?" Typing quickly, Coco sent the most lewd and dirty message to freak the two out. She'd thank Blake later for lending her Ninjas of Love. "Let's see them reply to that."
The Velvet Room
Velvet was in the middle of playing a console game. She had tried to invite Ruby to a game, but she was currently hanging out with Jaune doing a rap battle. She honestly didn't know the younger girl could rap. But she guessed her speed semblance helped in it's own way. Hearing a knock on her door, she had called over saying it was open.
"Velvet?" It was her date for tomorrow looking extremely sweaty for some reason. "Coco said you'd be in here."
"Hello Mr. Davis." She said crossly. She wasn't mad at him, but the messages were too much for her. "What brings you here? Our date's tomorrow."
"I know." He said with arms raised defensively. "But there a bit of misunderstanding. I was hoping that we could work it out. I didn't write you those messages. It was Netune and Sage messing with my scroll. I didn't even send a message at all. It was all them."
"…So you didn't send me that we'd go at lunch?" Hearing the hurt tone in her voice, Scarlet decide to keep to honesty, but be quick with the recovery.
"No, I didn't." Before she could say anything he continued. "But I wanted to write it. I really wanna take you out and show you a good time."
"…What else do you wanna do?" She whispered, stepping closer to him.
"I-I also wanna treat you to a nice meal and hang out with you more." Some reason, the look she was giving him was getting him more hot than when they were at the café.
"I think there's something else you wanna do." She prodded him with a teasing smle.
"I-I wanna hold your hand." He squeaked out. She made a soft giggle while standing in front of him.
"We can do a lot more." She whispered into his ear. "But you have to show me you're worth it."
Nodding his head, Scarlet walked stiffly out the door never turning away from her until the door was shut in his face.
"See you tomorrow for our date …Sailor." The redhead could imagine steam coming out of his neck from the heat he was radiating.
Back inside with Velvet
The bunny faunus was currently hiding her face with her bunny ears while rolling on the floor in embarrassment.
'Stupid stupid stupid!' She cried internally. 'That was so embarrassing! Curse you me! Curse you Blake! Curse you Ninjas of Love!'
Velvet didn't know that Scarlet knew Coco was the one messaging his scroll. So she thought to play the role Coco put on the scrollto get one over on him. By how he was acting, she'd say she overkilled it. But at least she knew he was interested in her as more than a friend.
With Scarlet
Walking back to his hotel, Scarlet was on cloud nine knowing his date tomorrow would be great. He had everything planned out. Jaune had suggested a place he used to work in with all the others nodding in agreement. Apparently, it was a hot spot for couples to go to.
Opening the door to his hotel, he was greeted to his two teammates sitting at a corner far away from his scroll on the floor.
"Dude." Sage muttered, staring at the phone. "You're girlfriend is into some kinky stuff."
"I don't know whether it's hot or creepy." Neptune shuddered, using a chair as a shield.
Picking up his scroll, Scarlet dropped it in shock after the first few words that were written down. He got over it later after remembering that it was Coco with Velvet's scroll.
"Ah, girls." He sighed, jumping into his bed to get ready for tomorrow.
With Sun
"Are you sure you're not a spy?" A goon asked Sun once more as they were loading a bag into a van.
"You gonna ask me that every time we get paired up?" Sun said wearing a fake beard. It would have been more believable if the beard was blonde and not black with a pricetag still sticking out. "Cuz I can find someone better to work with than you."
"Easy." The goon said defensively. "I'm just being cautious since we caught that other spy two days ago."
"Yeah." The monkey faunus laughed. "The idiot's beard was so fake he had to superglue it on."
"HAH!" While the goon laughed, Sun placed a tracking chip in the bag for Reggie and the others to follow.
END
Omake
"-Wont the real Yang Xiao Long please stand up, please stand up, please stand up?" Finishing her turn, Yang handed the mic over to Pyrrha. "Beat that Pyr!"
Yang had found her little sister doing rap with the others and tried to outshine them all by making it a competition. The competition was to do verses that were fast and hard.
"Alright Yang." As Pyrrha cradled the mic in her hands, she turned to Jaune to give her a beat. "I'll show you all I do is win! Pyrrha goin' in on the verse cause I never been defeated and I won't stop now. Keep your hands up get 'em in the sky for the homies that didn't make it and the folks locked down. I never went no where. But they saying Pyrrha's back. Blame it on that Conjure. The hood call it Pyrrha-Yac. And I'm on this foolish track, so I spit my foolish flow. My hands go up and down like Yang's boobies go. My verses still be serving, tight like a million virgins. Last time in a deadly fight, now I'm in a safer version. Can't never count me out. Y'all better count me in. Got thirteen bank accounts, accountants count me in. Make millions every year, Mystral's champion. Cause all I do, all I, all I, all I All I do is win!"
The Mystral champion dropped the mic near Yang's feet and walked back to sit next to her team. Weiss was supposed to go next, but had dropped out feeling she couldn't beat the Amazon. Everyone else was too shocked seeing Pyrrha 'Goody two shoes' Nikos saying some of those words.
END
AN: Yup. Here's that Bunny Pirate chapter. Believe me, I've had close run-ins with friends almost ruining my texts. Good thing I have contingency plans for a lot of things. Even contingency plans for my contingency plans.
Can you guys spot the song references I hid in this chapter? You'd have to be a nineties person or someone who listens to old songs to find them.
ANYWAYS!
Those Days ends in a few chapters. The movies will be in a different story called Rainbow(RRYNPJBW) Studios. That's where you'll see the Metal Gear Series and a few others.
Next up to be updated: Ninjas of Love: Blake's Version.