Sitting in their dorm roon, all of team MACE was taking in the silence around them. Both attempts made by them to help knock out villains had ended in disaster. Cheyenne had no idea that it would be this difficult to give people the better life they deserve. Elise never imagined that she would be coming up next to so much hardships while trying to adventure out. Kagami just never expected for things to be as hard as they were right now. And Kris, Kris couldn't have been becoming more and more upset with it all. She needed to prove to her mother she could do her own thing. But with constantly losing like this, how could she ever do that?
With Kris and Elise sitting on the lower bed, Kris finally let out a long groaning sigh. She covered her face with her hands, falling backwards onto the bed with a faint umph. "We are completely terrible." She muttered, rubbing her eyes.
"I agree." Elise added, staring down at her boots with her back arched forward. Her fingers slowly fiddled around with each other as she shut her eyes and sighed. "We're awful Huntress in training."
"We are zero for two." The red head lifted her head and glanced up. "We completely stink at this. I don't understand how none of us have been seriously hurt yet. It's pure luck."
"At some point though," Cheyenne finally chimed in with a sigh, sitting on the floor with her legs crossed. "Our luck is going to run out."
"And when that does, we're all going to be officially screwed." Kagami mumbled, sitting on a chair next to a desk. She was staring up at ceiling, leaning back a bit. She gave a sigh, looking down as she arched her back forward. "Maybe we should stop this and just stick to classes before one of us get actually hurt. Or worse."
After that, there was a long pause of silence. No one spoke. The birds outside didn't even seem to chirp at their window. The wind seized it's current as the trees began to become still. Neither of the four could even try to say they weren't terrible at going after criminals. Even if they were first years, others seemed to have much better ending situations.
The gut wrenching silence stood still for what felt like an eternity before Cheyenne slowly lifted up her head. She blinked a few times, staring up at Elise and Kris.
"Since when do you to save each other rather than murdering each other?" She asked, tilting her head some up at the two.
Kagami herself glanced up at that, looking at said two teammates. "Yea... that was a little unexpected. Even from you two."
Both Kris and Elise went stiff, their faces going a pale white before they tinted a faint shade of red. Kris immediately sat up, holding out a finger.
"I was just doing the responsible thing! That's it! No more!" She snapped quickly, her chest quickly rising and falling.
"And I was just returning the favor!" Elise shot out even quicker than Kris had.
Both of them clearly were hiding something.
"Uh..." Cheyenne blinked, tilting her head the other way. She slowly glanced over at Kagami with a raised eyebrow.
Kagami just blinked back, shrugging at her before looking back at the two. "So... what happened between the two of you that we missed?"
"NOTHING!" Both girls snapped at the same time, jumping up onto their feet with hands balled up in tight fist. Their faces each another shade darker.
"It's something." Kagami said, lookig over at Cheyenne.
Said deer Faunus just nodded slowly. "Yea, you guys wouldn't be acting like this if it wasn't."
"Shut uuuppp!" Kris put her hands over her ears and shut her eyes. "Nothing happened!"
"Well something happened." Kagami gave a faint smile and leaned forward. "And as your leader, I demand to know what."
Elise groaned softly, glancing over at Kris before at Kagami. "It was two days ago."
"No!" Kris shot in. "It was three!"
"No! Two!" The farm girl snapped back.
"Three!"
"Two!"
"Three!
"Two!"
"Get to the point!" Kagami shouted, loud enough that it made even Cheyenne flinch.
With a long sigh, Elise's head lowered as she sat down on the bed. "Several days ago then... I was in the school library."
A couple days before, Elisevwas searching through book shelf after book shelf. "Come on... come on... you have to be here somewhere... come on..." She put her finger on the edge of each book, checking the name and author. Finally, she saw one with the author's name of Roy G. B. V. Her face lit up like nothing ever before. She reached out, grabbing the book with a strong grip.
She blinked as she started to pull it out, realizing how it seemed to be stuck. She let off a silent groan of irritation, pulling harder on the book. On the other side of the book case, Kris was gripping the exact same book, her feet braced up against the shelf as she pulled.
At the end of the shelf, a librarian blinked, scratching the back of his head at the two. He just shrugged, turning around to push a cart away.
"Come on!" Elise groaned out.
Hearing her voice, Kris yelped, letting go of the book.
Knowing the yelp all to well, Elise did the same.
Both girls fell on their butts, rolling over onto their stomachs while rubbing their behinds. "The hell..." Kris grumbled, slowly standing up.
"I should ask you the same, Short Stacks." Elise mumbled, pushing some books to the side as she glared through a hole straight at the smaller girl.
"Shouldn't you be rounding up some victums of yours by now?" Kris hardened a glare straight at the farm girl.
They both growled at each other for a moment before stopping. They both blinked, looking over at the librarian who was on Kris' side of the shelf.
"Here." He said, holding out a duplicate of the book the two of them had been trying to get. "So the two of you can both read it." He handed it to Kris before quickly nodding and scurrying off.
"Wait..." Elise slowly looked over at the book Kris was holding then at the one she had been trying to grab. Her head quickly snapped back to the red head as her eyes went wide. "You read Rainbow Time Dancers too!?"
"Yea..." Kris slowly nodded. "Well, I've watched the whole series, I thought I might as well start reading it." She blinked a bit before her head shot up with just as wide eyes as Elise. "You watch Rainbow Time Dancers!?"
"No..." Elise munbled. "We don't have a way to watch it back on my farm so my mama would always read the stories to me."
The two of them just stared at each other through the hole made between the books for several seconds. Suddenly, both their eyes turned into bright yellow stars as they gave off loud fangirl squeals.
In a matter of seconds, the two of them were sitting down at a table with bright smiles on.
"Roy is the best, isn't he!?" Elise let out, her hands waving all around.
"Yeeeeeees!" Kris put her hands on her face. "I love how they made him the Narrator in the show!"
"Quick!" Elise held up a hand with a smile. "Favorite member of the Rainbow Six!"
"Easy!" She slammed her fist down onto the table. "Jacklyne Lantern, the great and powerful girl who can turn back time with the snap of her fingers! She could go back in time and fix anything she wants! And she always has her friends call her Jack because she is tired of people thinking because she is a girl and not a man that she can't do anything!"
"No way!" Elise shook her head. "Pi Kelz is the best! She doesn't take crap from anyone! You make fun of any of her friends and she will send you so far into the future that there will be nothing there!"
The two of them went on for at least an hour before they both suddenly broke into song.
"Rosa Buds, their fearless leader! Jacklyne Lanter, better call her Jack or she'll punch you in the weiner! Lem Eon, the slow one but quick thinker! Pi Kelz, the master mind behind it all! Sky Bird, the one who messes up but learns what she's done wrong! And Ami Thist... she's just the lazy one. Rainbow Six! Together as one! Fight for what is right till the battle is won! Stretching their friendship all across time! Don't worry, have no fear! The Rainbow Time Dancers, are heeeeere! Doctor Darkness has no chance, when he fights up against the best six friends!"
The two of them broke into heavy laughter, Elise holding her stomach while Kris rubbed her eyes. Rainbow Time Dancers were originally made for children under ten, but both of them seemed to adore them more than anything.
"Wait," Elise quickly shot her head up, blinking rapidly at Kris. "We can't tell any one about this. If people find out..." She trailed off, a shiver going down her spine as she trembled.
"You're right... I'm sure others would laugh like mad if they knew we watched a kiddie show." Kris sighed slightly before smiling up at Elise. "You wanna go watch some of the show though? Perrywinkle bought the whole series for me when my mother was a bitch on my thirteenth birthday."
"Yeeees!" The brunet squealed, reaching over and grabbing Kris' wrist as they bolted out the door.
Back in the present, Kagami blinked slowly. "Okay... um..." She looked over at Cheyenne, not knowing what to say.
She seemed just as lost for words too it seemed. She shrugged slowly, glancing over at Kris and Elise who's faces were both a deep shade of red.
"Okay, you know what?" The girl with jade hair finally stood up with a sigh. "I need a walk on that one." She started to walk out, only pausing as Cheyenne spoke up.
"Don't get yourself in any trouble, alright?" The deer Faunus said, glancing over at the other two who lowered their heads with dark clouds of gloom above them. "I still don't want to be stuck with them alone..." She whispered, looking back up at her.
She just nodded, smiling a bit before walking out.
On the streets of Vale, Kagami kept her hands in her hoodie pocket as she walked past people putting up signs for the Vytal Festival. She couldn't help but sigh softly. None of these people knew what Vytal was like now a days. It was no wear near the island they would call peace anymore. She took a deep breath, glancing away from the people on ladders and across the street.
She paused, blinking several times. On the other side of the road, she saw Cheyenne, or who she thought was Cheyenne, in a tan tanktop with white pants on and short boots that barely went up to her shins. Besides that and the dark brown beanie covering her head, she looked exactly like her teammate.
"Wait! Hey!" Kagami looked both ways before bolting across the street after her. "Cheyenne! Hey! I thought you were staying the the dorm with Kris and Elise!" She caught up, reaching out and grabbing her shoulder. As she spun around with a shocked expression, she noticed the faint bit of lip gloss and eyeliner on the girl. "Since when do you put make up on? And more importantly, since when do you hide your Faunus heritage?" She reached up, grabbing the beanie and pulling it off.
At that, the jade haired girl froze and blinked rapidly. "Huh...?" She mumbled out, staring at the top of the girl's head which didn't have antlers. How was that even possible? This had to be Cheynne. It looked exactly like her! Aside from the antlers that is.
"Um..." The girl took a step back, tilting her head with a raised eyebrow. "Prac! Fid! Fif!" She called out, her hands cupped around her mouth.
Kagami blinked as three large shadows casted over her. She looked back, seeing three large and over weight boys with rather hideous noses glaring down at her with crossed arms. The three of them all looked exactly the same, even down to the hairs on their chins. "Uh..."
"This little girl bothering you, Maya?" The middle one said, eyes narrowing down at Kagami.
"Yea." The girl nodded, patting down her head. "She took my beanie. Mom made that for me before I left for Haven."
"She did, did she?" The first one spoke up, narrowing his eyes.
"We don't take nicely to people who take things from others." The last one said, cracking his knuckles.
"Okay..." Kagami sighed, rubbing the back of her head. "Listen, this is just a big misunderstanding which I can't figure out how or what even but if you let me explain, it will make sense." She pointed back at Maya. "See, she's on my team and... yea... that isn't helping." She sighed, her shoulders dropping down. Maybe she should just stop trying to take walks. Every time she did such, even if it was with her team, they ran into trouble. Always.