Snippet 277
Dustpunk 20XX 3
Genre: Adventure/Drama/Cyberpunk/Crime
Pairs: Emerald/Mercury
AU-Type: RWBY
Tags: Rational Fic, Neo speaks, Time Displaced RWBY has a rough patch, Cyberpunk 2077 inspired, GTA elements too, Referencing some of Psyga315's work, XanTech's here.
Notes: Some details to note here, basically ignore most of the RWBY novels as I won't be acknowledging them for this (or the Neo one for any of my work as it's hot garbage).
Ruby would wake up first given she had gone straight to bed last night. She stretched before going straight into the shower. She feared what became of her uncle and father…her heart ached knowing they were probably wrecked over it. However, she made it a goal to seek them out in due time.
The reaper was just simply that the Maxiwear underwear was an okay wear and moved to get dressed. She got on a red racerback, a pair of worn red durable custom-printed jeans, white mid-top sneakers, and red tinted aviator sunglasses. She slipped on her fingerless gloves along with the rocker jacket before leaving.
In her Type-66 Avenger, she fast traveled to the Quicksilver camp. She did not have to come here for food, but she was here for the salon to get a haircut. That along with just getting away from her teammates for just a few moments to be alone.
"Morning.'" Nirvana greeted. "Welcome to the Quicksilver Parlor, stranger. Home to punk hairdos, piercings, makeup, and tattoos thanks to me and my twin."
Ruby found herself with a lot of options and decided to go all in. She got her hair restyled to an undercut on one side, with the longer hair on top styled into a sweeping, asymmetrical bob. Its strands were tousled, and she had it dyed a natural red.
"I'll go for tattoo…I'll give one of your arm-sleeve designs a shot, but can I ask for a modification to it?" Ruby requested.
She wound with a right arm sleeve tattoo of an intricate design featuring red roses with green stems and leaves with thorns, black ravens, and a Beowolf skull.
"A work of art, right there." Nirvana complimented. "Want to break your piercing virginity too? Got plenty of studs for all parts of your body."
"Not now…" Ruby said sheepishly before paying the bill.
~DP~
Blake was next to wake up with a touch of post-orgasm clarity and a very much stained bed. Given she was only staying for the night, she decided to leave that to the cleaning lady before going off to shower and quick shave with a razor. She wouldn't have minded the bustier on its own, but she was a bit too 'furry' for her liking. Not like she had a razor to use while stuck on the Forever After.
"Not a clean shave, but it'll do." Blake mumbled to herself before finishing her shower.
She was just relieved the underwear they bought wasn't poorly made, just generic to look at. Fashionable underwear can come later, she thought as she got dressed. While blue was not really her color, the syn-weaved armor-coated yukata was something she fancied even it was clearly a bit old. Plus, she was aware there was a dye place at the Quicksilver camp. She slipped back on the fingerless gloves and the steel-toed boots. She tied a black paisley bandana around her neck pulling it up to cover her mouth. To her relief, the Sir John Phallustiff counted as a weapon and went in her Inventory.
Blake walked out into the sun before checking the map. Weiss and Yang were clearly still asleep, but she noticed Ruby was at the camp.
"May as well." Blake said, going over to her car.
She [Fast Traveled] to the camp and Ruby at a food stall having a breakfast burrito.
"You cut up your hair?" Blake asked before making an order for food. "And got black lipstick…"
"I wanted a new do…and I wanted to feel mature. That's why I got the lipstick." Ruby remarked. "You going to get a cut and an inking too?"
Blake thought about it as she was given her tuna melt. Ultimately, she decided on doing so as she finished her meal. Ruby would introduce her to Nirvana. Blake got her hair styled to be long again with a high ponytail that went down to her upper back and bangs framing her face that even hid her right eye. The ends were dip dyed purple.
She opted for a more ornate tattoo that took up all her back of a panther surrounded by roses. Nirvana whistled in appreciation at the handiwork of her twin as Blake got back on her yukata.
"Could you direct me to where I can get my clothes dyed?" Blake asked as she paid for everything.
"My other sis, Shel. She's usually hangs around Calistena." Nirvana said as her silent twin nodded.
"Is Bec a mute?" Ruby asked curiously.
"By choice." Nirvana said as Ruby decided not to pry further.
Ruby and Blake went over to Calistena's area of the camp to find her with a slightly bigger capsule house along with RV next to it.
"Calistena?" Ruby called out.
"Ruby? I almost didn't recognize you with that haircut. But hey, good to see you, I'm expanding my business to where I've partnered with someone to be a clothing vendor. It's a limited stock though." Calistena remarked. "What can I do for you?"
When they told her, Calistena opened the RV to show them to Shel only to awkwardly walk in Shel with her shorts down, finishing herself off with a dildo club of her own.
"What? It's been a while…" She said clumsily getting her pants and underwear back up.
"Ruby, Blake, this is Shel…my business partner handling the limited clothing sales. I help her with her dye business." Calistena said. "My friends require your services, give them the employee/family discount."
She left the RV as Shel asked what was needed.
"This yukata. I'd like the blue parts of it dyed black." Blake explained.
"Do you one better and get it customized with a pattern. My way of saying sorry you had to see that." Shel remarked. "So take that off and I can get to work. But let me make sure you have a clean chair to sit."
Blake would wait idly reading a magazine in the RV as Calistena showed Ruby the limited stock.
"Most of this stuff is old stuff from XanTech's various clothing lines. One of the twins oversees about three outlets and they liked my proposal of me selling their crap that was going to be thrown away so they don't have to pay all that much for disposal." Calistena said confidently. "I could even sell some of it to that vendor in Redsands East and corner the market out of the wastelands. Speaking of which, just hope you're available to help."
Ruby would buy a few paisley patterned bandanas before Blake received her yukata back looking completely refurbished. It was now black and light gray with a floral pattern on the ends. As Blake got it back in, it felt almost brand new and that warranted a tip.
~DP~
Yang wakes up with a light headache given the drinking she did last night. Though given how much Weiss drank last night, Yang had to put her in her bed for the night. Weiss was still snoozing next to her as Yang went to take a cold shower. She was just happy that thanks to the System, the Maxiwear underwear that they got adjusted to their sizes. Never having to worry about any clothing not being in her size? A welcome boon. She tried on a worn white cutout bodysuit with a stitched diamond pattern only bemoaning that the color wasn't yellow. It'd be Penny that would inform her of a place at the Quicksilver camp to dye certain clothing items.
"Good." Yang thought taking it off. "I can get it dyed and come back here to change into it later."
She threw on a black and grey syn-cotton t-shirt, a pair of torn-off yellow and gray blended shorts, and a pair of old yellow and white hi-tops. Weiss would wake up with a hangover pounding her head.
"You drank a lot last night…" Yang said as Weiss groaned.
"I'm not going to ask if I said anything dumb…" Weiss said getting up. "I'm going to take a hot bath."
"Hurry up, we need to go to the camp. The others are there." Yang said. "And I'm going to wait at the car."
Weiss, at least, would be quick about it. She came downstairs in an old white BITCH branded tank top, a pair of black leather straight cut pants with a brown leather belt, and graying steel-toed boots.
"You good to drive?" Yang asked.
"Frankly, no." Weiss said using her microcube to store her bike. "I'll ride with you.
A [Fast Travel] later would have Weiss end for the 'ambulance' to get something for that hangover. Yang noticed Nirvana at work and debated getting a haircut and probably a tattoo. At any other time, she would have never considered it. However, the knowledge that her original style is her default and getting it back would be easier than cannon. On the practical side of things, she knew she couldn't exactly look like herself. So, she 'bit the bullet' and went over for a cut. The end result was a retro chin-length bob with curls that framed her face that Nirvana called the 'O'Neil cut'. She paid for it deciding against getting a tattoo at the moment and went off on her way to get to Weiss.
"Weiss, you ok?" Yang asked as Weiss was coming back from the medics.
"A bit…but I never expected you to cut your hair." Weiss remarked.
"It's a different world." Yang said dismissively. "And I get my long hair easily, anyway. But how bad was the hangover?"
"Ugh, docs said I only drink enough to be a bit over twice the legal limit." Weiss remarked. "But I way as well get a haircut…and a tattoo."
"Weiss, you're not serious." Yang said in disbelief.
"Yes, I am. I need to fly under the radar. And quite frankly, I seriously regret this big stupid braid…it's a nightmare to maintain." Weiss said before going straight to Nirvana.
Food could wait, Yang thought…she had to see this. Yang was at a loss for words to hear Weiss request her hair be put into chest-length dreadlocks. Weiss took off her top insisting she was ready to be inked and got her emblem restricted to a diamond design on her back. Weiss put her tank top back on before paying Nirvana for a job well done.
"You really did it." Yang said amused.
"And now you're buying me breakfast." Weiss said dragging Yang to the food stall.
Yang would comply before the two would catch up to the others.
"About time you woke up…here. I got these from Calistena." Ruby remarked giving a Yang and Weiss a paisley patterned bandana in their color. "Calistena now sells clothes too. Even going to share some with that vendor we bought from in Redsands East."
"Neat…I just need to get this bodysuit dyed." Yang said as Ruby showed her to the person in charge of that.
Weiss would buy a few pieces of clothing from Calistena before getting ammunition for her weapons. Yang came out of the RV changed into a yellow cutout bodysuit with a stitched diamond pattern.
"Calistena, you got any good boots, some sunglasses, gloves, and a cowboy hat?" Yang asked.
"Definitely. Allow me to help."
Yang would get a brown pair of cowboy boots, a matching cowboy hat, brown fingerless gloves, and a brown and beige bomber jacket to nearly complete the look. Yang tied the bandana around her neck as Calistena tossed Yang a pair of golden rimmed aviators with a red tint.
"Consider the glasses a freebie with strings attached." Calistena teased.
With that, Team RWBY took their leave…all switching to their motorcycles to read down Interstate 9.
(A/N: I want to take my down with the miniseries given the schedule is a bit more loose compared to my other works. I also wanted to give Team RWBY time to breathe as they got ready to mix their first proper Fixer. It was also kept short as I wanted to do my research more to make it somewhat accurate to CP2077 at the most.)
