LOKE- A RWBY story

Chapter 10- Roman was not caught in a day

My first thought was "I knew her body was to perfect!"
Sure, Penny is a robot. Yes, it shocked me. But I was right!

Penny saw the shock on our faces. She looked between me and Ruby. Finally Ruby said, "Penny, I don't understand..."

"Most girls are born," Penny said, "But I was made. I'm the world first synthetic person capable of generating an Aura." She looked down in shame.
"I'm not real."

I walked up to Penny and said, "Penny, you are real. You may not be flesh and bone, but you feel and sound real to me." I set my hand on her shoulder, and Penny smiled a little.

"Yeah," said Ruby, "You think just because you have nuts and bolts instead of squishy guts makes you any less real that us?"

Penny backed away from us a step. "I..." she began, "You are both taking this extraordinarily well."

"You aren't like those things we saw back there," said Ruby.

"Yeah," I said, "You aren't like those big shiny tin cans. You are something more. I saw it when I met you just a little bit ago. You are more than just a machine."

Penny blushed at this. See? How many robots can blush?

Suddenly, Penny grabbed us both an pulled us into a rib crushing embrace.

"Oh," she cried, "You guys are the best of friends anyone could ever have!!"

"Breath!" Both Ruby and I wheezed.

She released us and we heard the voices of the soldiers down the way.

"You guys need to hide!" said Penny. She lifted both of us up and dumped us in the nearest dumpster.

"Promise me you won't tell anyone about my secret," said Penny. Both me and Ruby nodded "Yes."

Penny smiled and then closed the dumpster lid.

"There she is!"
"Salutations officers!"
"Why were you running? And what happened to those other people?"
"What other people? I've been by myself all day. (Hiccup)"
"You shouldn't of caused such a scene. Are you okay?"
"Just a scratch."
"Penny, your father isn't going to be happy about this. Please, just come with us."
"Yes sirs."

"I can see she is definitely daddy's girl," I commented. Then I heard a rat and both me and Ruby jumped.

We climbed out of the dumpster and dusted ourselves off. I used my semblance to pull most of the organic material out of our clothing.

"So," I said, "What do we do now?"
"Well," Ruby said shyly, "We don't have to meet up with the others until everyone is done."
"So, you wanna go and get something to eat?"
"Sure."

We retraced our steps back to the street that was lined with shops and restaurants. Ruby led us to a noodle shop. The man behind the counter was the same man who drove the Dust truck earlier. He didn't seem to recognize us.

Ruby and I sat down at a table and opened our menu's. I looked down the menu. I frowned, and looked at the next page. It was all noodles. Every dish, every page, noodles. Bowls of noodles, plates of noodles, cups of noodles, everything noodles. The only thing that wasn't noodles was a bowl of fish, with a choice of tuna, salmon, or halibut.

"So, what are you getting?" Ruby asked.

I looked at the menu again. "I think I'll get a plate of noodles, with a side of a bowl of noodles and as a drink, I think a cup of noodles."

I looked up and saw Ruby smiling at me, "You're joking, right?"
I smiled back, "I wish I was."

The old man came over to our table and took our orders. He then zoomed back to the kitchen, and came back with our orders within a few moments. For an old man, he sure could move.

The noodles tasted pretty good. I could taste curry in the plate of noodles, and the spice of green onions and garlic in the cup of noodles. While taking a sip of the cup of noodles, a noodle accidentally sucked up my nose. I sneezed and then coughed, the noodle hanging halfway out of my nose.

Ruby suddenly burst out laughing. I pulled the noodle out of my nose and set it on a napkin.

"You really wanna see something funny?" I asked. Ruby nodded, still giggling. I then stuck my face into my bowl and came up with an angry noodle unibrow with a long noodle mustache. Ruby burst out laughing again and then pulled out her scroll and took a picture. I then did a series of goofy posses while Ruby continued to laugh and take pictures.

After a while we finally finished eating. I paid the check and we walked down the street, looking into the windows of shops. We passed by a bookstore that had crime scene tape all across the door. Shame, I wondered what happened. Ruby pointed out a dust shop she saved a few months earlier. I looked into the window and saw the same old man from the noodle shop. What did this guy do? Work every shop in town?

"Hey... Ruby?" I asked suddenly.
"Yeah?" she replied.
"Did you plan this?"
"What are you talking about?"
"Nothing."
"No, tell me."
"Did you plan for this to be a date?"
"I-"

Ruby's face lived up to her name in that moment, and her face blushed a deep ruby red. I could tell her mind was going into overdrive to process the question.

Third person POV

Do I need say we are in her mind again?

RRB: ......
RLB: ......
RRB: He....we......
RLB: When....how......
RRB: Date.....me.....

Ehwaz's POV

I think I broke her.

Ruby stood in a dumbstruck trance. She looked like she had just been struck by lightning. It didn't help that it was becoming dark, and a street lamp just above us suddenly turned on, creating a halo of light around us.

"Uh...Ruby? Are you okay?" I asked as I moved closer to her. I set my hand on her shoulder and leaned down to look into her eyes. "Ruby?"

Ruby looked at me. She had such passion in her eyes. She closed her eyes and leaned towards me. As she did, I leaned away from her, not sure what to do. Was she trying....to kiss me?!

At that moment, Ruby's scroll rang and played an anime song about corgi's. Ruby's eyes opened and she blushed even deeper. She pulled out her scroll and said, "Blake! This was not a good time- wait. What? Roman Torchwick is in a what?! Okay, we'll be right there."

Ruby turned to me. I nodded. "Roman was not caught in a day. Was he?"