Red (And Blue) Like Roses: Volume 1

The First Step

When one considered everything, Sarge was an incredibly patient person.

He had dealt with space pirates, genocidal A.I, government conspiracies, blue team problems and Grif. So when it came to the last three years of his life, trapped in a little girls head with blues and no shotgun. Sarge was able to exercise his enormous capacity for patience once more.

It helped that Ruby, was a red through and through.

Intelligent. A master combatant. Fantastic with machines. Wearing exclusively the colour red (with a smidgen of black). It was no wonder that Ruby reminded him of a younger, more female version of himself.

Now Sarge had a once in life opportunity to spread the influence of red team to a world mostly free of the blues. Sure the inability to enact violence on his enemies was a bummer, but the opportunity to create a new generation of reds, free from the inevitable evil of the blues? That was worth it.

And now they were entering beacon. What he has been told to be the best combat school around, perfect for the next faze in his training of the youngest red.

"Sargent."

"Yes, Caboose?"

"This is a very big place."

"That's the point bluetard."

Sarge just wished he had better choice of friendenempanions. (A combo of: friend, enemy and companion.)

Still... Caboose wasn't wrong, the ceiling of the beacon hall was easily the size of 10 to 15 warthogs and was nearly a football field in length. It meant for a lot of potential reds. Speaking of...

Sarge turned his head in the direction of Ruby and this 'Blake' character, the newcomer seemed mostly silent so far. Giving out monosyllabic responses, which was matched by Ruby who seemed to be running her mouth faster than Carolina with her speed booster.

"-and then yang got angry. Like really, really angry and totally punched him through the wall, but she got a detention for it, but on the bright side no one tried to steal my books again."

Sarge remembered that day, it was a fun one.

But Blake seemed more confused than anything, "but why did they try and take your books?"

Ruby shrugged "cause they couldn't beat me in combat class. " She put her hand up to her chin, "which isn't much of a surprise, really, cause of my aura."

Blake opened her mouth, but before she could get a word out a loud voice called out

"Ruby! Over here! I saved you a spot"

It was Yang, waving her arm to signal Ruby, Caboose was already by her side.

"Oh! Hey, I-I gotta go! I'll see you after the ceremony!" Then Ruby went off faster than Blake could reply. Leaving the possible ninja to shrug and wander off.

Sarge went over to the familiar faces

"Well, i-a made a friend."

Seems they didn't even wait for him to start the conversation. Rude.

Yang went still for a moment "a friend?"

"Yep."

"As in another, living person?"

"Yep." Ruby replied.

Sarge saw the signs before it happened and tried to warn her, "look out Ruby, she's gonna-"

But it was too late.

Ruby's face went red as her namesake as Yang crushed the younger girl in a hug that rivalled Caboose's (Sarge often wondered who was stronger), who promptly tried to join in only to phase through the two girls.