RWBY: Against All Odds
Chapter 2: The Beginning of the Hammer God's Rampage
"Very well!" Yang smashed her fists against one another. "Let's do this!"
Ruby pointed at the night sky:
"Yeah! Team, our mission today is to pay back Ren and Nora in time so that we can stalk Jaune and Pyrrha in their date! Who is with me?!"
"""We are!""" Answrered Weiss, Blake and Yang at the same time.
"Then let's do this! Ren, where is the enemy school?"
Ren received the hot-blooded gaze of team RWBY, but...
"About that..."
Nora laughed a bit and said:
"We kinda hoped you four could figure it out".
THUD X4
The entire team RWBY fell to the ground.
Meanwhile...
In the movies.
Jaune and Pyrrha couldn't look at each other nor pay attention to the film.
Pyrrha looked at her own hand while remembering the tips.
'Okay... I have to put my hand in his chair... So that he can put his hand over mine. But still... It's too bold... Not to mention, our hands will be touching each other's'.
While Jaune was having a similar dilemma:
'Okay... Still not the time. They said for me to grab her hand when the time comes. But still, to do that here... And in the first date not to mention it...'
The blushing couple unknowingly became the center of the attention. Many of the movie watchers were actually cheering for the duo instead of paying attention to the film.
"Alright!" Blake circled a few spaces on the map. "So, Nora and me will go this way, to the club Yang crashed to get info".
Ruby nodded:
"Yang and me will go to the black market merchant. Maybe he got some info?"
"Yeah!" Yang smiled. "Not to mention, I want to get my hands on a missile launcher for my motorbike".
Weiss looked at the map.
"This leaves me and Ren to get back to Beacon and get info with other students".
Ruby, Blake and Yang looked at Weiss and the ice girl nodded while thumbing up.
'Do not worry, I shall get the info on dating extracted from Ren'.
Back to the movies...
'Okay... Here goes!'
Holding back her embarrassment, Pyrrha put her hand on Jaune's chair. 'I did my part'.
Jaune looked at the hand and blood rushed to his face.
'Calm down, calm down! Confidence, man! Confidence! You can do this. It's merely holding hands. We are already dating, this is nothing much!'
Yang and Ruby's side...
Ruby picked all of the materials:
"Let's do this!"
Yang held the missile launcher:
"I always wanted to put weaponry on my Bumblebee!"
Weiss and Ren's side...
Weiss was observing as the silent Ren walked ahead.
'If I do what I must quickly, I may get time to talk about dating tips. However, this will prove difficult considering the situation. I mean, I need a way to impress him too for him to help me, so I have to wait for him to need help. However, waiting for too long means we won't be able to infiltrate the movies and take pictures of Jaune and Pyrrha... I need to-'
"Hmm... I guess it will be harder than I thought" muttered Ren.
Weiss opened her eyed wide: 'my chance!'
Ren turned to her:
"Do you have a-"
"Yes, I have an idea!" Weiss haughtly declared that. "I will need a hairclip, a chicken and a pair of boots!"
Ren didn't know exactly what to say.
"How can those things..."
"It's a Schnee Family way to collect information and get attention. Do not worry, it's impossible to mess this up!"
6,3 minutes later...
BOOM
"How could I mess this up?!" Said Weiss with a look of disbelief.
Ren was breathing heavily for so much running.
"Ah... Ah... I don't believe the third years will be happy when they find that chicken in their dorms... Ah... Ah..."
"AAAAAAAAHHH! SOMEBODY HELP ME! THAT CHICKEN IS GONNA- NOOOOOO!"
Ren tried to ignore the screams of the victims as he turned to Weiss.
"What?!" The girl was between a frail line of anger amd sadness due to her failure.
"So?"
"I... hum... Err... Will need a rat, a gauntlet and a bag of sand!"
"None of that again!" Ren interrupted her.
The boy in green calmed himself down and noticed her unusual behavior. It was just like before with Jaune. She wanted something.
"Do you want to talk a little about that?"
Yang and Ruby's side...
During the 6,3 minutes of Weiss' plan, the sisters managed to make more progress than it could have been imagined.
After a trail of destruction left in the streets, Yang stopped her bike and got off along with Ruby in front of the losers.
Yang took off her helmet and held the defeated boy bu the collar:
"You lost the street race, team YOLO!"
"Yeah!" Ruby agreed with her sister. "Now tell us all of your information on Jammer!"
Back in the movies...
Jaune decided he needed to man up.
He needed to do something.
He needed to do that.
'I can do this... I can do this...'
Jaine raised his hand...
Looked at Pyrrha's hand on the chair...
Blushed and...
Cheers and applauses came at the same moment he covered Pyrrha's hand with his. While the couple believed it was due to a scene of the movie they were(n't) watching in truth...
FLASH
Many of the watchers were watching their scene and rooting for them. Among them...
Sun sent the photo he got to Blake.
"To think she would call me in the middle of the movie to take pictures of them together..."
The monkey boy grabbed popcorn and shifted his attention to the movies.
Weiss and Ren...
"Fine!" Weiss admitted it. "I just wanted to get tips on it..."
"On... 'It'?"
"Dating! You and Nora make it look so easy and Blake and I kinda wanted to know how to do this type of stuff, okay. I mean, the way Jaune and Pyrrha looked together... It's envious, you know?"
"..." Ren looked at Weiss while analyzing her. "This may sound wild, but did you try asking him, Neptune, out?"
"Who do you take me for? Of course I tried! I tried going to the arcades, maybe try playing Dance Dance Rebellion, but he refused. I tried to go to a club Yang recommended together and he refused again. And I tried going to the movies, but he and Sun had to play Mario VS Donkey Kong, it's frustrating!"
Ren sighed.
"Look, Weiss. If you wanted help, you just needed to ask. You didn't need to release a wild chicken in the third years. I will be glad to help you and Blake with dating later, okay?"
"Really?!" Weiss had a smile in her face.
"Yes" Ren nodded with a calm smile.
"Oh yes!- Wait! This type of wingman thing, I need to hug you, or brofist, or-"
"For now" Ren interrupted her and extended his hand. "Just this is enough".
"Good".
Weiss accepted the handshame while thinking:
'It would e problematic if I hugged him and some sort of misunderstanding appeared'.
While Ren thought:
'Good, I didn't need to hug her. It would be problematic if I raised flags and my nightmares turned out to be real and I had to deal with a hardcore sadist Weiss later'.
Back in the movies...
Hands were touching one another, but eyes weren't meeting themselves.
Neither Jaune nor Pyrrha could say anything after what was done and steam was about to come out of both of their ears.
After 5 minutes had passed, they decided to check their pockets simultaneously for the tips they had received.
After Jaune grabs your hand...
After you grab Pyrrha's hand...
Slowly look at him/her... And KISS him/her!
""THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE FIRST DATE!"" Shouted both of them simultaneously.
Attention of was attracted as expected, but instead of caring about the people watching the movie (them), the gaze of one another fell on the paper they were reading.
While both Jaune and Pyrrha were blushing due to everything that happened, they couldn't help but...
"The same?" Asked Pyrrha.
Jaune nodded:
"I guess so?"
Both of them smiled and resisted to laugh. The first date between both of them and they weren't even controlling their own actions.
Only puppets with strings moved by team RWBY (and Ren and Nora), due to their lack of capabilities to do anything.
Such situation could only be called laughable.
One expecting a date as if dreaming. The other, manipulated in asking her out without realizing.
"Haha..." A laugh came from Pyrrha's mouth. "Hahahaha!"
Jaune tried to control himself.
"Team RWBY sure pulled a prank on us... Hahaha..."
'Well...' Pyrrha looked a Jaune. 'One thing I learned: expecting things to happen while I can do something about it isn't good'.
"Pyrrha?" Jaune was surprised as she got up.
She pulled his hand and said:
"Come" she smiled calmly, making his heart beat faster. "I think it's best if we get out of here".
Jaune only nodded and got up.
Ruby and Yang's side.
Ruby couldn't believe half of what happened:
"I can't believe we actually managed to track down Jammer's location... And we didn't think to check it on the internet in Facescroll..."
Yang was a little less (albeit still a lot) worried.
"I can't believe we just sent that information to Nora..."
Both of them trembled.
"IMMA SPY ON THEM!" Was the response they received.
They sent Nora to Jammer. The academy filled with assassins in training.
Ren and Weiss' side.
Weiss loomed at Ren with a wry smile and said:
"... And, to sum it up... Nora is going to invade the mercenary school".
"..."
BLINK BLINK BLINK... THUD!
Ren fainted on spot.
Outside of the movies...
Pyrrha and Jaune walked together.
Althought the time that passed were mere seconds, they felt like it was hours ago that they fought the awkwardness of the movies.
Yet, now they were standing together while lookibg at each other.
No awkwardness.
No embarrassment.
No fear.
Pyrrha's beauty captivated Jaune, but he no longer lost his cool.
As such...
"Pyrrha" he felt he needed to say something. "If you give me another chance, I will make it a normal date".
"Jaune..."
"I will ask you on my own, with my own plans. Just like it is supposed to be".
Pyrrha smiled in response and made one step closer.
However...
On that time...
"WE ARE HERE!" Shouted a female voice.
"WAAAAAAH!" Cried a second.
Jaune and Pyrrha instinctively turned their heads.
Yang was on a bike with tire marks spread all over and Ruby was thrown in the ground due to the manuever.
"Yang?"
"Jaune?"
"Ruby?"
"Pyrrha?"
"Yang?"
"Pyrrha?"
"Ruby?!"
"Alright, STOP!" Shouted Yang while releasing flames. "What's going on?! Why are you two here? We contacted Ren and Weiss!"
Jaune and Pyrrha looked at each other.
Pyrrha decided to talk first:
"Well, we got out of the movies just now... Why are you so..."
"Wait what?" Yang looked at Ruby. "Weren't they..:"
"Oh my god..." Ruby took out her scroll. "Oh no..."
Ruby passed the scroll and Yang read the schedule of the plan.
'They should get out of the movies, walk a bit and in the crossroad of Street 13 and Street of Demise...'
Yang was dumbfounded.
"We just cockblocked them..."
Jaune was even more surprised:
"What is this all about?"
"I AM HERE!" Shouted a new voice.
The four of them turned around to see Ren and Weiss running at their direction. Ren in particular seemed way too worried.
"What do we do?!"
"Again!" Shouted Jaune. "What's going on?!"
Ruby was the first to talk:
"Nora is in a swarm of assassins now."
"I still can't understand!"
"Okay, here is the brief" said Weiss. "Yang defeated team YOLO in a street race, got the location of the school, but told that toNora, so she infiltrated Jammer and must be surrounded by mercenaries in training right now".
"We have a team called team YOLO?" That was the only thing Jaune understood.
Pyrrha was even more dumbfounded.
"Why would you search for a random school?"
Ren facepalmed.
"For the love of... Fine, let me explain!"
10 minutes later.
"So, to sum it up" said Jaune. "In the tournament, we will be fighting a school that trains bounty hunters, you people tried to get information on them since a few of their students invaded Beacon, which led you to challenge the only team that infiltrated Jammer, team YOLO. Which got you information on the location, but Nora decided to go right away without any prior planning and may be in danger right now?"
"It's a bit more complicated" said Ruby. "Jammer's director has a bit of immunity to law, which means they can do anything they want with Nora".
"Wait" Pyrrha was surprised. "He is immune to law?"
"More importantly!" Said Weiss while looking at the Jaune-Pyrrha pair. "Did you two kiss?"
...
BLUSH X2
The pair backed away while averting their gazes. Before Weiss could misunderstand that, Ruby said:
"We kinda interrupted them in the last part..."
"Nooooo!"
Ren was at the limits of his patience.
"Look, I can solve that later! We need to rescue Nora now!"
"Wait" said Ruby. "You can solve it later".
"Yes!"
Yang grabbed Ren by the shoulders.
"You need to tell me your secrets".
"OH MY GOD!" Ren backed away from Yang as if he saw a ghost.
As if he had been in a completely different situation, Ren started to look like a madman.
"Oh no..." Jaune understood that look. "You triggered his trauma..."
"His trauma?" Yang didn't understand.
"It's all happening again!"
Jaune tried to calm him:
"Ren that was nightmare!"
"No, it was a sign! You will see! In the end it will turn out Yang was actually a sex-maniac furry with crossdressing fetishes and everything will repeat!"
Weiss and Ruby were dumbfounded, but Yang's reaction was even more dumbfounding:
"How did you know about my fetishes?!"
"I WAS RIGHT!" Ren backed of one step and...
The boy in green fled without looking back.
Pyrrha was dumbfounded. Jaune couldn't believe it. And Weiss...
"You are a furry?"
While Ruby...
"You have crossdressing fetishes?"
And Pyrrha...
"You are a sex-maniac?"
"SHUUUT UUUUP!" Yang was red to her ears.
"Well..."
Jaune was about to speak, but Yang grabbed him by the collar with a blood filled gaze while tears appeared in the sides of her eyes.
"Okay, got it! Rescue Nora!"
Yang released him.
THUD.
"Jaune" Pyrrha helped him to get up.
Ruby looked at her scroll.
"Well... Regarding that... We sent Blake with Nora. So, should anything happen... Oh, who am I kidding? They are dead!"
"Wait!" Jaune had an idea. "I have a plan!"
Ruby, Weiss, Yang and Pyrrha looked at him with attention.
Jaune said:
"We can get into Jammer, pick Nora and erase all evidence of us there. I will need a rat, a gauntlet and a bag of sand!"
Weiss smiled:
"YES!"
While Yang facepalmed and Ruby seemed to lose all hope.
"What?" Jaune looked at Pyrrha seeking help.
She had a wry smile, but said:
"Whatever you plan, I will follow it, Jaune".
Jaune smiled in response.
The amount of things that just happened was crazy. What he was about to do was even crazier, but looking at Pyrrha calmed him down a bit.
"Haha..." He laughed a bit. "Okay, forget what I said. Let's just go to that school".
Heretic notes:
Merry christmas and happy new year!
Man, I did a long chapter but this pacing is still too slow for me. As this is, I can't actually feel it going dar- I mean the plot twists happening any time soon.
Yeah, totally not going dark. It's not as if I planned this to go dark and screw up with the feels of the readers.
Clearly a light-hearted read. Totally.
Well, this has been the Heretic Lord, who didn't update in actual christmas nor new year because that's too mainstream.