Edit: I've gone back through my old chapters to rewrite them to flow better as well as grammer. Plot remains unchanged however.
A Few Weeks Later...
For a criminal, Roman Torchwick never knew just how demanding someone could be for stolen objects. The woman he ran into had him and Neo spending so much time out, what was ending up being them stealing practically all the dust in Vale. It had gotten so annoying, that every few days, Roman visited Junior's nightclub to hire some of his thugs just so he could keep up with his 'boss's' demands.
Now normally, if someone hired Roman to steal something and they were incredibly annoying about it, he'd usually end up keeping whatever was stolen if it was valuable or worth selling, if not? He just demanded a higher pay.
However, this really wasn't an option with this 'Cinder', the one time he did try to pull out of the job, she lit her hand on fire and asked Torchwick if it would be a good idea. Of course, Roman acted like he was merely joking, taking her hint.
That was why he was at Junior's tonight, Ruby with him dressed in something less obvious then her usual clothes, red sports glasses, and her cape wrapped around her throat like a scarf.
Walking in from the front door, Ruby always loved the way the place had been made, with a dance floor in the centre of the building, a DJ on a balcony behind it, bar to the left and lounges to the right. Seeing her dad move towards the bar, she quickly spotted Junior and some of his thugs, noticing their mix of axes, swords and guns somewhere on their bodies or nearby.
"Red, can you do me a favour? Stay back and keep an eye on things ok?" Roman asked as they neared Junior. Nodding, Ruby walked off to one side of the dance floor, which just happened has a good field of view of the entire club.
Smiling as his little girl did as he'd taught her, Roman walked up to Junior and tapped Melodic Cudgel on the chair next to the man.
Junior looked up, and upon seeing Torchwick, got up and said to the man, "Let me guess, you want to get some more of my boys for something?"
Roman smirked at this.
"Well you know me too well, as I just happen to need some muscle to help me...acquire...some dust." Roman said with a dismissive wave.
Junior looked at Roman, the thief standing up with his cane under his arm, holding out some lien. Sighing to himself, Junior took the money and pointed to a backroom, "Go back, take which ever four of them suit your need." Roman smirked as he walked off. Junior sighed and turned back to his drink.
Ruby knew that her dad didn't like people knowing who she was related to so when he asked her to watch the place, she did just that.
Once she saw Junior direct Roman to the backrooms, she knew he'd want her to stay around for a bit before leaving. The Malachite twins noticed her and scowled. The girls had a bit of grudge against Ruby when she bet up two of Junior's thugs that tried to mug her, and the twins saw this and got into a fight which was never finished as police had been called by a passer-by.
Ruby was about to move to a lounge in the corner of the club when she noticed something.
What she did see was someone coming in at this time, which was unusual as usually people were already here or came in a group. What set off Ruby was the person. A woman with long blond hair, lilac eyes and an orange scarf.
She was wearing a brown jacket that left her lower stomach open, a crop top that had some black emblem on her left side. Brown belt covered by a pleated brown piece of material reaching around her waist. Underneath this is a longer, white piece of material reaching to her knee on the right side, as well as a pair of black mini-shorts. Brown, knee-high boots and orange over-the-knee socks. A lavender bandana was tied around her left knee.
On her wrists were two bracelets, that to Ruby's trained eye, were obviously some kind of expanding weapon. Watching as she walked up to the bar, she stopped next to Junior and appeared to order a drink. What seemed to happen was Junior sent the Malachites off and started to talk to the girl to which the girl says something before she grabs him by the balls hard. Ruby watched as the girl pulled a scroll out and showed it to the man. Noticing a large number of Junior's thugs rush up to possibly try and help him, the girl let go and as the club owner walked away, the girl followed.
As they got closer to Ruby, she heard the blond say, "Lets kiss and make up ok?"
Snickering at what she said, Ruby watched as Junior bents down a little to try and do just that, before achieving lift-off and flying across the club with a punch to the face.
As everyone else starts running out of the club, Ruby sat down and watched as the girl's bracelets, as Ruby predicted, turn into gauntlets with shotgun barrels on the fronts. Ruby watched as she started to do what can only be described as beating the hell out of the thugs. Ruby can't help but sigh when the Bear DJ pulls a machine gun out, making the music stop playing right.
It was good music!
Noticing the Malachite Twins walking out to the dance floor as Blondie flew through the air with a blast of her shotguns and kicked the DJ off the balcony.
Glaring at the Malachites from under her sports glasses Ruby got up as the twins watched the girl reload her gauntlets, jump off the balcony and fire exploding shots down at them.
As they back flipped away, Ruby pulled out Crescent Rose and fired at Melanie, rapidly forcing the girl away from her twin. While Ruby may not have taken all her father's teachings to heart, she did know that it's good to get revenge. As Blondie and Miltia started fighting, Ruby ran behind Melanie with her semblance, and smacked her across the back of her head with the gun form of Crescent Rose, before firing her gun into the twin's stomach, which while blocked by her Aura, it does knock her flying back.
Getting up, Melanie ran forwards at Ruby, swinging her right leg at her before fainting and switching to her left. Ruby blocked it and swung her gun around, transforming it into its scythe form. Swinging it around, Ruby fired Crescent Rose to gain momentum which the twin could only dodge as trying to block would likely break her leg. As Melanie desperately tried to avoid being hit, Ruby swung her weapon before her, planting it into the ground and fired, launching her around in an arc and kicking into the other girl. The kick launched Melanie flying across the room, smashing through a glass cylinder used to reflect lights.
Looking over at the other fight going on, Ruby retracted her baby into its gun mode and watched the other twin get sent flying over her into the other cylinder, with the blond girl standing with a smirk on her face at how easy her fight was. Ruby knew that the while twins are skilled, they can be easily defeated when separated as they rely working together.
Yang fired Ember Celcia into the girl and launched her flying. Smirking at her beaten opponent, Yang actually double takes as she sees some other girl with a massive gun in her hands. Yang saw both the twins but didn't even notice the little girl had already beaten up the other one, who she watches as she limped over to her sister as they stumbled away. Before Yang can say anything, the building's disco lights turn off and Junior walked up from a stage, a RPG in his hands.
Looking at both the girls, he claimed with an angry tone, "You girls are gonna pay for this." Yang resumed her boxing stance as Junior fired rockets off at them.
Ruby back flipped as soon as Junior fired at them, dodging the rockets with ease. Firing Crescent Rose and activating her semblance, she saw the girl fire her guns at the rockets, destroying them. Junior charged at the girl, his RPG turning into a bat, and swinging it at her. The girl managed to block two of the surprise swings but is knocked back by a third, dazed, and is sent flying by a round house swing from Junior. Ruby jumped onto the DJ's balcony and started firing at Junior, causing him to try and block her bullets.
The girl gets up, with her hair on fire and eyes turned red, and charged at Junior who didn't even see her coming, too distracted by Ruby's sniper fire. The girl throws punch after punch at Junior which quickly shatter his bat in half and knocks the kingpin back flying.
Junior stood up with the broken handle of his weapon in his right hand and some of the girl's hair in his left. He smirked at the girl who, realising that he tore some of her hair out, caused her hair to explode out violently.
Ruby laughs as she watched the girl launch herself at Junior and throw a hay-maker right into his face, sending him out the building.
Yang took a deep breath as the fire on her hair died out and her eyes turned back to their normal colour. Turning around to the girl in red, who jumped down onto the dance floor again, Yang walked over to her.
"Thanks for the help! What's your name?". The girl looks at her before replying.
"My name's Ruby, what's yours?"
"Yang, so what were you doing here?" Ruby was about to say something when a scroll goes off. Yang watched as this Ruby girl pulled out her scroll and answered it.
"Hello? Oh, hi dad...yeah, I did...oooh ok then...meet you at home then? Ok bye." Ruby faced Yang, who was looking at her with a raised eyebrow. "I got to go. See you around!" Ruby running off before Yang can say anything.
"Ok then..." Yang said with a shrug, walking back to where she left her bike, Bumblebee.
Ruby ran home with the help of her semblance, arriving there in a few minutes after leaving the club. Ruby was kinda sad that she had to leave that Yang girl, she seemed quite nice.
But her dad called her, saying there was something he needed her to do.
Ruby guessed that he wanted to get her scope out a place for him or follow someone. She didn't mind doing this, it was fun to her and always provided a challenge. As Ruby walked inside, Neo appeared in front of her, smiling with her scroll out.
Showing a picture of her.
At the club.
Fighting the twins.
Ruby gasped at who she considered her sister. "You can't show dad that!" Ruby's beg was cut short by Roman shouting out.
"Ruby, come here!" Neo smiled at Ruby as she walked past the mute girl. Ruby walked into the lounge room where Roman was sitting on the couch, bowler hat off and on the couch's arm. "Ruby, can you tell me why Neo showed me a picture of you fighting those annoying twins? As much as I don't like them and would love to see you knock them around, I doubt Junior would feel the same way."
Ruby nervously chuckled before saying to her dad, "Weeeeeeell I might have bet them up and Junior too..."
Roman looked at her, raising an eyebrow as she continued, "But I didn't start the fight! There was this blond girl called Yang that punched Junior, and bet up a ton of his men, and Miltia, and Junior again..." Ruby trailed off into the fight itself while Roman sat by, smiling at her.
This isn't the first time she got into a fight and he found out, but he didn't really care that much. In the crime world, it doesn't hurt to show people not to mess with you.
"Well Red, all I have to say is good work at beating them up. But now that wasn't the real reason I wanted you to come back." Roman told his daughter, who sighs gratefully. "Well, uh no not really." Ruby confesses to Roman, who just crosses his leg on top of the other. "You know how I've been teaching you about history and grimm and other things that don't really matter to our line of work?" Ruby nods, "Well you know how I've been hired to get someone a lot of dust?" Ruby nodded, having been told a few days ago about why they had been stealing more dust and for who.
"She's up to something, something big, involving Beacon and possibly the city. I overheard her when I first met her saying they were going to do something there and I need you do get inside the school and figure out what. Can you do that for me?" Roman was asking Ruby something very big thing and he knew it
To his surprise, Ruby looked at her dad, before saying, "Uh ok, but how am I going to get in there? I'm 15 and the entree age is 17, so I don't think I can trick them that I'm not."
Roman smiled at what she says before responding. "I have a plan, that should get the Headmaster personally let you in. So, Ruby, I'm telling you now, do you want to go to Beacon Academy and find out what this Cinder is up to. Because what she is up to, can only end badly for our little family. If your caught, your gonna have to be able to fight any friends you make off and get away." Roman warns her one more time, making sure she knows the stakes at play here.
Ruby nods determinedly. "Yes dad."
Roman smiles at Ruby, before telling her to go to sleep. Ruby walked off to bed, saying goodnight.
Neo walks in from the doorway. "Neo if your sister gets discovered, be ready to help her." Neo tilts her head slightly, "No, don't kill any of her friends, I doubt they would try and kill her anyway. Just get her out of there if it goes down." Neo nods, looking at Roman with a growling expression. "Yeah, if she's having trouble with Grimm, help her out as long as you don't get caught. Also, if you can, try and give Ruby some practise every so often."
Author's Note: Had to update it, didn't load properly, messed up a ton of it.
Well, Ruby has met Yang and agreed to go to Beacon to spy on Cinder, Neo is being guardian angel and occasional trainer
Also, you all seem to like this story, so I guess this story won't be stopping anytime soon.
Until next time, AD
