List of oneshots part 4
chapter 51
What if Nora was Roman's daughter?
Series: RWBY
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-Remnant, Anima, Mistrial-
"Ugh, trying to navigate this place is like trying to find a hat that fits just right." grumbled a voice nearest to the upper portion of the cities' skyline, the clear mountains looming in the distance as they moved down a set of stairs going downwards into the underbelly of this ancient capital. "Which I still can't find. No matter, just have to find that little Malachite gal and its smooth sailing."
As the figure moved down the stairs, a nearby lamp illuminated the figure's body, revealing a tall young man with slanted dark-green eyes, bright short orange hair with a single bang covering the right eye, wearing a simple black tux with gray pants, white shoes, black gloves with a gray buckle near the sleeves, a long gray scarf that seemed to trail down his back towards his hips, and holding a simple black wooden cane in his right hand, who seemed to be crossed for some reason.
"Still, having to pucker up to this gal is humiliating." he grumbled. "If she wasn't the best info broken in Remnant, or the one with her hand in every bank this side of Anima, I wouldn't even be here. The style of Mistialians are so...bland." he muttered, looking around at the ignorant people, completely unaware that if he wanted to, he could rob them all blind and be on his merry way.
However as he passed a corner, he didn't notice that someone was following him in the shadows.
"Wonder if I should grab a quick bite, food here isn't so bad from what I've heard." he muttered while pulling out his lighter, only to recall he didn't have a cigar at the moment. "Bah! The one time I need it and I neglect to even buy one. Damn it."
As he moved down a deep alleyway, the mysterious figure moved closer and closer to him before tapping him on the shoulder.
He spun around quickly and saw a tall woman with long black hair tied in the back by black ribbons to form four spider like legs, turquoise eyes, a D cup chest and small ass, long purple nails, wearing a long purple long sleeved robe with an exposed diamond shaped opening on her stomach that had a tattoo of a spider in its web etched into it, black high heeled boots with a pointed metal heel, a purple scarf over the neck that went down her left shoulder, and had two gray fang shaped bands on her wrists that seemed to have internal components pointing out from the base of the bands, right behind him.
She bowed. "Torchwick, it is a pleasure to meet you. I am Joro Clavata, right hand of Lil' Miss Malachite, and I was sent to make sure you didn't double cross us."
"What? Me? Do I have the kind of face who'd pull a stunt like that?" he asked while giving his best suave smirk.
"Yes." she said flatly, making the man frown. "But it is to be expected by someone of your...caliber."
"Uh huh."
She looked at him, eyeing every part of his body, and crossed her arms. "Apparently your looks outshine most of our male members."
He smirked. "Well I am the most handsome man in Vale."
"I can tell, but regarding the loan." she said while the man's eyes seemed to glissen. "The boss isn't in Mistrial as of now, she is currently at her daughter's school play in the next village. Won't be back until tomorrow."
"You meant to tell me I came all the way here for nothing?" He grumbled while noticing that the woman was moving her hips in a seductive way.
"Well, it's not all for nothing." she said coyly while moving closer to him. "I'm available, for the right price that is~"
"...how much are we talking?"
"Oh, just a few hundred lien or more, depends on how much you can satisfy me." she said while rubbing his right cheek with her left hand, the nails moving downwards as her appearance made her look very sexy.
"Well, in that case, who am I to say no to a lovely lady?" He smirked while placing an arm around her waist.
"Good, but before we do this. Did you unlock your aura yet?"
"No why?"
"Ah, because unlike those other loose women, I have a vast aura pool." she smirked while the man felt a hint of fear. "Comes from being a former Haven Hunteress, can't get hurt that easily."
'Oh no, what did I get myself into!?'
(Many years later)
-Vale, Docks-
Bam!
Bam!
The battle was high as Torchwick, the now head of the criminal underworld, fired his weapon against the two faunus as he happened to see 'Little Red' charge in with her scythe and quickly dodged the attack.
"Nice try Red, but you can't get one on a criminal mastermind like myself." he taunted while dodging another strike, only to hear the sounds of static in the far corner and narrowingly missed as a hammer impacted itself onto the concrete. "Woah! Watch it!"
"Ha!" laughed a fair-skinned young woman with short orange hair, turquoise eye, E cup chest and wide ass, wearing a collared black sleeveless vest with a blue central front section with red accents, a hammer with a lightning bolt emblem on her back, a white sleeveless t-shirt with a heart-shaped cutout above her breast line in the center, a pair of white detached sleeves on each arm, pink fingerless gloves, a short pink skirt with a single white layer under it, white ankle boots sport pink soles with lightning bolts on them, low heels with pink laces as the tops were folded over revealing the pink lining, a silver armor piece that wraps around the waist, under her breasts and around the back on her neck with metal connecting each piece together at the front, and a turquoise bow at the back of her skirt, while holding a massive silver hammer in both hands as she seemed to be having a good time. "Then try not to move!"
"Nora!?" Ruby yelled in surprise. "What are you doing here!?"
"I happened to be in town, looking for some pancakes since Renny forgot to make me some today, and then BOOM! The dock was on fire, so here I am, ready to break his legs!" she grinned pulling her hammer back up while Roman raised an eyebrow.
"Another friend of Little Red? And here I thought she was too scared for those." he taunted.
"Yeah yeah, let's just fight!" she grinned while charging at him, only for the man to take quick notice of her eyes.
'Turquoise? Why does that seem familiar?' he thought before dodging the attack and fired at her with his weapon, which glazed her shoulder but didn't stop her from charging again. 'And the hair. Something feels off about her.'
As Nora changed her weapon into its signature grenade launcher, the head of the Torchwick Family stopped and raised his hands up.
"Wait wait!" he said while Nora stopped momentarily. "Something's off about you, and for the life of me, I feel like we knew each other from somewhere."
"Eh?"
"I mean the eyes, the hair, something screaming familiar." he said while Blake and Sun looked a little confused. "I know I saw the eyes before. There was only one woman I knew that had those eyes...but who?"
Nora blinked. "Turquoise eyes, huh. First time someone asked me about them since Renny, I mean maybe my mom had them but I never really knew her for too long."
"What?" Roman asked while Ruby facepalmed.
"Nora! Don't talk with the villian!"
"Just hold on Rubys." Nora said calmly. "I want to figure this out too, I mean maybe he knew mom before she abandoned me..." she turned to the criminal. "So tell me Orange, what do I look like to ya?"
The man, completely flabbergasted at being called orange, took a long hard look on the hammer wielding girl, the eyes seemingly glowing like tiny gems as the specter of an old acquaintance appeared next to her. 'Wait. The eyes, the lack of injury on her shoulder, the Mistrialian accent in her words. Wait...no. No nononononononono! No! I-It can't be!'
"Helloooo? Earth to Orange."
"It's...not...I mean...holy shit!" he exclaimed before fainting on the spot.
"...wow. What was that about?" Nora asked while seeing the man's body shatter into pink shards and disappear. "Eh!?"
(Elsewhere)
-Torchwick's Hideout-
The man groaned as his partner Neo sat next to him in a silk chair overlooking the soft couch. "Ugh...Neo?"
She waved while the man slowly got up.
"I had a strange dream. I saw a girl that was also my daughter." he said while Neo pulled out a Scroll and typed on it.
'It was no dream, I saw you faint at the docks.'
"...please tell me you're messing with me."
'No.'
Roman paled while instinctively taking out his lighter and began to play with it a few times. "I...I can't believe it. That girl, I thought...but she...I mean..."
Neo patted his back while the man sighed.
"Joro told me she used protection." he groaned before taking out his Scroll and began to type on it.
'What are you doing?'
"Looking for information on Joro Clavata."
'Who?'
"A one night stand from before you met me." he said before getting two hits.
One hit happened to be a wanted poster of a younger Joro Clavata, who had a bounty of four million lien for the agrivated assult and murder of a Haven student, a hunter to be exact.
The second was a death certificate from about ten or so years ago saying that Joro Clavata died from childbirth, internal hemorrhaging to be exact.
"Oh gods, this cinches it. That girl I met...she...she's my...daughter."
Neo blinked in surprise while typing on her Scroll. 'Really. Huh, that's...really shocking.'
"I know, but what I don't get is WHY lied." Roman grumbled before typing in the name Nora Clavata.
Which got him an error on the Scroll's screen.
"Wait. How is that not...oh." Roman said in complete realization. "That girl was abandoned. No wonder it showed an error, she was expelled from Joro's family, which makes sense given her criminal background. And the hair color might also be the problem."
'Eh?'
"Neo, Mistrialans of the older generation believe different colored hair represents good or ill fortune. For orange hair, it's an ill omen." Roman sighed while clicking the lighter off. "Welp, this is a dilemma. I could always forget about this girl or I could try to bring her into the family so to speak. Any ideas?"
'Kinda late for being all fatherly, isn't it?' she raised an eyebrow.
"Oh hush. I'm not going to be the father type, she's too old for that." he waved off. "I'm just going to...spoil her a little, make her feel a little love in her life. Gods knows how long she lasted in that Grimm infested continent for that long."
'So you're just loaning her goods?'
"Among other things. Nothing high class, I'm a thief not a miracle worker."
Neo rolled her eyes as Roman walked out of the room.
(Some time later)
-Beacon Academy, JNPR's Room-
Knock knock.
Nora, who was currently getting out of the shower, groaned while walking out of the shower, towel around her waist, and opened the door.
Only to see a large package at her feet as her teammates also took notice of the box as well.
"Hey, what's this doing here?" Nora muttered out loud while Pyrrha picked it up and closed the door.
"No idea." Jaune admitted. "But first get dressed-"
"No time!" Nora grinned while ripping into the package as the flap containing the shipment information landed in Ren's hands.
"From Candle Man. Huh, nothing else." he said while Nora opened the box to reveal a long black frilled dress with red detachable sleeves, a pair of knee high black stockings, white opera gloves and a box of makeup inside said box along with a small Jack O'Lantern symbol on the dress' left shoulder. "And that is...kinda expensive. The dress I mean."
"Wow, and fancy." Nora smirked. "Nora likes."
Knock knock.
Pyrrha blinked while opening the door again, only to see another package, from Candle Man, and brought it inside. "Nora, I think you have a secret admirer."
"Ain't that a scary thing." Jaune muttered.
"Not if the admirer is tame with their gifts, Jaune."
Nora opened the box and blinked as it was a mother dress, but a silver ballroom dress with short sleeves and a large white bow in the back. "Huh, kinda fancy there. Mmmm, might look good on Jaune though."
"No no no!"
Knock knock.
Nora grumbled a little as she opened the door, again, and saw another box, which she quickly opened and saw it was a pink and black bra and panties with a note that read 'I don't know the size, but this is for you. Candle Man'. "Holy crap!"
"Told you." Jaune grumbled as Ren noticed something pop up on Nora's Scroll.
"Nora, you might want to check this out." he said while Nora zipped towards him and saw something interesting, and scary.
A notification about ten million lien being deposited in a new bank account, called Candle Man's Princess.
"Ok, that's...a bit unnerving." admitted Pyrrha looking down the halls. "How did they...I mean..."
"I have no idea but hey, free stuff." Nora smirked with a false smile that only Ren knew as she closed the door.
However, when no one was looking, Neo, wearing a mailman's uniform, appeared from nowhere and placed another package on the ground before vanishing into nothingness.
(A few weeks later)
Nora's eyes twitched in annoyance as she seemed on edge for some reason.
This reason, well, Candle Man has been sending her packages full of girly gifts and setting bank accounts in her name for a while now, and it was grading as it has been happening every single hour or so.
Sure it was awesome to have extra cash, but that didn't mean it was any less creepy and weird. Especially when the last gift was a box of tampons.
"If I ever find that Candle Man, I'll break his legs and beat them with said legs!" she growled while getting an email from Candle Man on her Scroll.
This email went as follows 'Hey, want to meet up? If so, I'll be at Xiao Long Palace. Regards, Candle Man. P.S. The tampons weren't my first choice, my apologies.'
"Xiao Long Palace? Isn't that the one Yang nearly destroyed?" she muttered while feeling like this was her only chance at getting some answers. "Perfect chance to see who this guy is, and then BREAK his legs!"
(Later on)
-Vale, Xiao Long Palace-
Music blared across the club as Nora walked in and started walking towards the dance floor.
"Ahem." spoke one of the bouncers. "No minors."
"Ha! I'm not here for booze, I'm here to see Candle Man."
"Wait, is your name Nora?"
"Yep, Beacon Huntress with a hammer." she smirked while the bouncer looked at a small list.
"Ah, Nora Clavata. Candle Man is in the VIP suite." he said while walking away. "Follow me."
"Clavata?" Nora said in confusion before following after him, passing by two twins who were busy putting needles into a doll version of Yang.
(Later)
Nora looked on in awe as she was escorted into a black and red room full of wine, comfy silk curtains, and a set of velvet chairs in the center of a large curved table, the bouncer closing the door behind her as she walked forwards. "Hey Candle Man. Ya here?"
A puff of smoke blew across the room and into her face as the chair, which happened to be turned towards the back, spun around to reveal Roman Torchwick himself, leaning against his cane like a boss.
"Hello Nora Clavata-"
"Orange!? What the-"
"I am NOT Orange! I am Roman Torchwick, greatest criminal mastermind in the world!" he let out in annoyance. "Being called just Orange is the equivalent to mocking me."
"Well Candle Man." she frowned. "Why did you bring me here? And the gifts, oh gods, their bribes!"
"No." he sighed while blowing some cigar smoke rings into the air. "Those were real gifts, no bribes required. As for why you're here, it's pretty simple really, I have some information on your mother."
"...what is it?" Nora asked with a serious look on her face.
"Sit down." he said while watching the girl take a seat on the nearby chair. "Now for starters, your mother is dead."
"I know that! She abandoned me when I was a kid." she frowned as Roman chuckled.
"That was your adopted mother, I'm talking about your real mother." he said before throwing an envelope onto the table that was hidden in his shirt. "Her name was Joro Clavata, former Haven Huntress wanted for murder and the former right hand of Lil' Miss Malachite, Mistrial's greatest information broker."
Nora hesitantly grabbed the envelope and opened it, revealing the woman's image and her information.
"She was known for using retractable stingers on her wrists to inject her semblance, apparently called Poison's Kiss. It melts the organs of anything it touches, but I'm getting off track. She died giving birth to you Nora, but her family hated your hair and sent you to an orphanage just after your umbilical cord was cut." Roman said with a hint of sympathy. "Sad really but that's how the world works."
"...how?"
"How what?"
"How do you know this? How do you know this woman!?" Nora snarled.
"Simple, she had a one night stand with me." he said calmly. "Right when I was starting my criminal organization and apparently-"
"You're what? My dad?" Nora said in angered filled sarcasm.
"Actually, you're right. I'm your dad and you're no Valkyrie, you're a Torchwick."
"...WHAT?!"
"You heard me right, I'm your father." he smirked. "However I only learned about it after you tried to kill me with a hammer."
Nora looked at him in shock while the criminal continued to talk.
"Now I'm no father figure in any way, however I knew that you were in need of more...proper items. Thus I sent you the extra lien and beauty products, to make you feel more like a 'princess of crime' then a beggar." he said while lighting another cigar, not seeing Nora's expression turning dark. "Now you have a choice, either you formally become my dear little daughter and take over the Torchwick name and all it entails or you can simply leave and be marked by my men. Your choice Nora Torchwick."
"My choice huh?" She growled while her hands started to twitch uncontrollably.
"Yes, but make it quick. I have a busy schedule today." he said while not noticing that Nora walked over to a lamp in the far corner.
SMASH!
Until he saw her break the lamp and stab herself in the chest with the electrical components, causing her to gain pink lightning.
"HERE'S MY ANSWER!" she roared before charging at the man, the electricity giving her a massive boost in speed due to her now empowered muscles, as she grabbed him and threw him through the door, sending him flying off the edge of the top floor rail and right onto the dancefloor itself as she ran after him with the fury of a thousand Grimm. "AAAAAHHHHHHH!"
Roman hissed in pain, but quickly rolled out of the way and avoided Nora landing on him with a crash with the music going to a sudden stop, but the lights still going.
She quickly turned and charged at him, using her electrically charged fist, to try and hit the criminal's face.
Roman quickly dodged some of the strikes but got a solid hit in the stomach, causing him to gasp as a punch to the left side of his face sent him tumbling towards the bar.
As this occured, some of the guards stationed around the club took notice of this and pulled out some tasers to open fire on her.
"Ah...ah...wait don-"
BAM!
ZAP!
'Shit!' the criminal thought as the taser points hit Nora's arms and back, zapping her but allowing her semblance to absorb all of that extra power into her muscles.
She let out a loud yell as the electricity sparked around her, fueling her more as she tore the cables off and charged at Roman with her eyes glowing.
'SHIT!' he thought before dodging a blow meant for his face, causing the bar to explode into wood and glass as he ran into a group of his own goons. "Don't just stand there! Protect me!"
"I WILL BREAK YOUR SPINE!" Nora roared while pulling a few electrical cords from the bar's light switch and began to drain them of power, regardless of the now pink spider-like veins forming from her arms or the fact she was in complete pain from the voltage itself. "NO ONE FUCKS MY LIFE!"
"AH! Hurry up before she kills me!"
The men brought out their swords, but were shaking in their shoes as Nora barreled right at them.
POW!
And one got punched in the face so hard his own nose broke off as the enraged woman attacked the goons, using her muscles to snap off one of the swords before grabbing another goon's arm and used him as a living hammer of broken bones.
POW!
CRACK!
"AHH!"
"MY ARMS!"
'Shit! Where's Neo when you need her!?' Roman thought as he quickly sprinted towards the front door, only to be blocked by a large DJ mixer that was thrown at him by the enraged ginger, blocking his only escape. "Shit!"
"ROMAN TORCHWICK!" Nora roared before throwing the broken body of a guard at the criminal, stomping towards the man while her eyes seemed to glow with pure rage. "YOU RUINED MY LIFE!"
"N-Now Nora d-d-ear, I'm not t-o blame here. The Gr-" he stuttered before seeing Nora pulling out a lamp fixture from the nearby wall and began to empower herself again, the veins forming over her eyes as her right hand grabbed a steel grate and pulled it off.
CRACK!
Shaking the foundation of the club itself as she now brandished a makeshift hammer coursing with pink lighting in her right hand.
'How strong is she?!' He thought while realizing that not only did his daughter have the traits of himself, the smooth talking and such, but also both of their tempers, more so from her murderous mother. "W-Wait! Y-You're a Huntress, you can't kill me!"
"I don't CARE!" she growled. "If it wasn't for you I wouldn't be born, BUT you left MY mother! For years I was alone, and then YOU show up and try to act all daddy like!? OOOOOH! I'M GOING TO KILL YOU SO GOOD YOU'RE ASHES WILL BE ASHES!"
"N-Now I know I'm not exactly father material, but at least I'm trying! And that's still something, right?" He stuttered before seeing the 'hammer' raised right above his head. "For gods sake! Listen to me! The choice of being my daughter or not is still valid! Just pick before you justifiably murder me!"
"I HAVE PICKED!" She roared as the screen suddenly cut off.
[Ending One]
-Vale, Roman Torchwick's Main Hideouts-
It's been months since the event at the Xiao Long Club and the criminal empire known as the Torchwick Family has taken over Vale itself, from the shadows at least, and soon enough had enough manpower and lien to control the entire Kingdom for the rest of his life.
As he sat on his newly made silver throne, he felt a little lonely and looked to his right side, where Neo sat on a silver throne playing some game on her Scroll, and tapped her shoulder.
'What?' she 'asked' with annoyance.
"Could you be a dear and get my left hand out of her room?"
'Why me?'
"Because I'm bored."
She deadpanned at him before getting up and walked away. 'You owe me.'
"I know, ice cream on a golden bowl. I know."
'Make it three golden bowls.'
"Fair enough." He shrugged before looking at the ceiling. 'Well...this was something. Learning of the flame bitch's plans and taking her stuff before filling her with bullets is something I'd never do before meeting her. Huh, maybe my lack of self preservation skills was influenced by her?'
BAM!
'Yep.' he thought with a sigh as he knew that his left hand in his operations was...less then happy when someone interrupted her weapon cleaning. 'That's her.'
Neo groaned while holding her head as a fair-skinned young woman with long orange hair that went to her hips, turquoise eye, E cup chest and wide ass, thick black veins on her arms, legs, and eyes, wearing a red dress with short sleeves, a long black collar, golden thunderbolt shaped buttons on each cuff, a short shirt that trailed to her knees, an open diamond shaped midcliff that revealed her bellybutton, a black bow on her back that trailed a little to her feet, a thin strand of black thread around her right hip that sported small silver bolt like knives, long black fishnet stockings that went to her hips, black high heeled boots with a small hammer shaped heel at the back of each, two silver fingerless opera gloves that went to her elbows, a gold choker in the shape of a flaming Jack O'Lantern, and a small white mask with golden accents on her eyes in the shape of a sloth's face as she held a hammer shaped black and red cane in her right hand, walked into the room with a frown.
"Dad! I was busy making Matchmaker shiny!" she frowned while bopping Neo on the head with the hammer side of the cane. "I mean I really wanted it to be as shiny as Magnhild!"
"I know, and I know Neo here is sorry for pawning it off to settle some ice cream related debts." he said as Neo gave him the finger. "But I want to share some bonding time. Like oh say, breaking a few turncoat clients' legs into dust or something along those lines."
"Now you're speaking my language!" She grinned with joy. "Let's go dad!"
With that Roman and Nora left the hideout while Neo went off to do...Neo things. Which was just her using her new 'Fall Maiden' powers to exploit the ice cream industry.
[Ending Two]
-Somewhere in Anima-
It was a calm semi normal day in the forests of the continent of Anima, the birds were shining and everything was good.
Except for the fact that the now Team RNJR were busy with a few heavy stuff as they sat near a small rocky field, for Ruby it was the death of Penny and the Fall of Beacon, for Jaune it was the death of his first love Pyrrha, and for Nora...
It was something more personal.
As the team sat on some rocks, a fair-skinned young woman with long shoulder length orange hair, turquoise eye with pink eyeshadow on the far upper corners of said eyes, E cup chest and wide ass, a white sleeveless turtleneck top with a heart-shaped cutout above her breast line in the center that had a diagonal cut in said heart, a short detached white sleeve on her left arm, an open cropped short-sleeved navy blue bomber jacket, a damaged hammer and lightning bolt emblem on her back, pink buckled cuffs with pink stripes on the sleeves, a red lined collar, pink fingerless gloves, a pleated pink skirt with a white layered tulle, two wide pink belt loops, a pink belt, knee-high pink socks, white calf-length boots sporting pink laces and black low heels, soles and toes, and a massive silver hammer strapped to her back, looked at the ajasoned criffside while looking at a slightly damaged black cane with a red bottom in her hands.
This was her...father's cane, a reminder of something both sickening and strange. For even when she spared him from a justified buttbreaking she still denounced him as her real father. But now, with an invasion of Grimm and her own father kicking the bucket in a fight against Ruby, it...somehow felt empty for her.
Ren rubbed her back while Nora squeezed the cane. "Nora, please."
"I'm sorry Ren." she sighed. "But I can't...you know."
"He was a criminal, the one that helped destroy Vale."
"..." she looked down at the cane. "I know, but even still he was the only family I had, even if I hated him."
Ren looked down, unable to counter that.
"I mean, my mom's dead and..." she said while clutching the cane tightly in her hands. "And I don't know. I liked that he tried but it just felt wrong. He only knew after seeing me beat him up, he made no attempt to find me and..."
"He wanted you in his life, I know." Ren said calmly. "But still, you disowned him and didn't stop him from enacting his part in the invasion. It was all his doing."
"..." she sighed. "Ren. If...If he found me before we met, would we still be...you know."
Ren shook his head and gently moved her head towards him with his left hand. "I don't have the answer for that, but even if you did stay with him, I would still try and become your friend, even though we would be on two different sides of the law."
"...thank you." Nora said with a faint smile.
He nodded while pointing to the cane. "So what are you going to do with it now?"
"...mmmm. Good question." She admitted. "I could sell it, throw it away or let Ruby use it for her sexy Lancaster moments."
Ren shivered at the idea while Nora stood up.
"But I feel like I should keep it." She grinned before turning to Jaune and Ruby. "Listen up you two! I'm ditching the Valkyrie name!"
"Wait, you what?" Ruby cried out in shock. "But why!?"
"Easy." she said while twirling around the cane a little and pointed it and the two ex Beacon students. "Because Nora Torchwick will be taking the stage, not as a criminal mastermind but a hot and sexy Huntress in the name of justice!" 'Take THAT Mister Orange!'
"...say what?" Jaune said in confusion.
Nora deadpanned. "I'm going to turn my dad's bad name into a force for good."
"Oh." Ruby nodded. "...how exactly?"
"By beating the ever loving shit out of all of dad's accomplices." she grinned. "And break their legs with my hammer cane!"
"...hammer what now?"
"Rubys, we need to talk about upgrading my hammer, maybe fuse this old cane with it. Oh! We can turn it into a rocket launcher!" she grinned as Ren shook his head.
'Oh Nora, you are something, that's for sure.' he thought as the screen went black.
What is real and what is fictional? Is one end right or one end wrong? That dear viewer is up to you to decide, for either or is correct for one's own preferences.