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Chapter 5

As they walked the halls of Beacon heading towards the mess hall, Crescent Rose quickly jogged to catch up with Ruby, who was walking next to the blonde woman wearing a purple bathrobe.

"Ruby. . ." She began cautiously. "Who's this?" She asked.

Ruby looked at her in confusion then looked over at Bumblebee, her mouth making an "o" in realization. "Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you guys." said Ruby, catching the attention of everyone, save for Yang and the twins who were too caught up in their own little game to notice. "The reason Prof. Ozpin called us to his office because of Bumblebee here."

"Bumblebee?" asked Weiss. "As in. . ." she trailed off.

"As in Yang's motorcycle, Bumblebee?" Finished Blake for her, her own eyebrows were raised. Well things just keep getting weirder and weirder. she thought.

"Yeah!" Answered Ruby excitedly, Bumblebee's cheeks were tinted with a light blush at Ruby's exuberant reply. Something which Crescent Rose couldn't help but notice, her lips thinning at how close the two of them were.

"So why was she in Ozpin's office in the first place?" Asked Weiss, her eyes gave Bumblebee an intense look, noting that she only wore a purple bathrobe that ended just halfway down her thighs and the way her hips swayed dangerously close to Ruby.

"Oh um. . ." Began Ruby, thinking back to earlier that morning in the office. She remembered Prof. Goodwitch talking to them, then entering Ozpin's office and seeing Bumblebee argue with him, and then. . .

Once more Ruby's face was as bright as a ripe tomato that morning, bowing her head down in an attempt to hide her blush, muttering incoherently for a moment before saying. "I'm. . . uh not exactly sure why. I wasn't really listening to Prof. Ozpin at the time. But I think Yang knows." Scooting slightly away from Bumblebee.

Everyone, save Yang and the twins, noticed Ruby's sudden change in demeanor. Several curious eyebrows were raised as to why her mood had shifted so quickly.

"So why were you in Prof. Ozpin's office, Bumblebee?" Asked Blake.

She gave a shrug, the movement was smooth, fluid, and nonchalant almost cat-like. "No idea. I was just walking around the school when Miss Blondie-with-her-panties-in-a-knot dragged me there."

That was when Weiss noticed the emblem that was embroidered into the back of the bathrobe and realized that it looked familiar. It was Glynda Goodwitch's emblem. Then she remembered that when the weapons first appeared they were all naked. Weiss' eyes widened once she finally had all her thoughts in order.

"You were walking around the school naked!" She exclaimed, this caught the attention of Yang and the twins.

Bumblebee just looked back at her confusedly. "I guess." She said.

Ruby's face turned, if it was even possible, even redder as her mind quickly came up with an image of a naked Bumblebee, it didn't help that the sash on the bathrobe was tied snugly against her waist leaving very little to the imagination and she felt as if her ears had begun to blow steam.

"Don't you have any shame!?" Scolded Weiss.

Bumblebee just raised an eyebrow at her. "I don't really see what I did wrong."

"You–" Weiss cut herself off as she thought back to earlier that morning when the rest of the weapons didn't seem to have any concern being naked, so it was obvious that neither would Bumblebee. "Never mind. . ."

"Mama Yang, why was Ice Queen yelling at Big Sis?" Asked Ember, tugging on Yang's hand to get her attention.

"Big Sis?" asked Yang.

Celica twisted back and pointed to Bumblebee and Yang figured out what they meant.

"You mean Bumblebee?" she asked and the two nodded in unison. Yang looked up at nothing in particular and thought, I guess that makes sense. With a big, reassuring smile she said, "Don't worry, Ice Queen yells at everyone all the time. Just don't listen to her when she does."

Bumblebee gave Weiss a strange look then turned to Ruby, who by then had once again pulled up her hood over her head, her face almost indistinguishable from the red fabric of the cloak. "Ruby? Is something wrong?" She asked, concern filling her voice.

Ruby jumped at the mention of her name, whipping her head around to try and find the source. "Oh! Uh what?"

"Is something wrong?" repeated Bumblebee.

"Um, no, no nothing's wrong. Why would there be something wrong? See I'm perfectly fine!" Replied Ruby, taking off her hood and flashing them with an overly bright smile to prove her point.

Bumblebee, Crescent Rose, and Weiss all knew Ruby well enough to know that her smile was just a little bit too wide for it to be nothing, but it didn't seem that it really bothered her, so they all kept silent about it.

Crescent Rose had finally caught up with Ruby and fell into stride next to Ruby, giving Bumblebee a sideways glare. Bumblebee stuck out her tongue in response. Ruby, oblivious to the exchange happening right over her head due to being quite a bit shorter than the two women at her sides.

By now they had finally entered the mess hall which was already occupied by several teams. Some heads turned to see who came in and were surprised to see team RWBY accompanied by a pair of little girls, grown women, and what appeared to be new students.

Several students quickly recognized Bumblebee, and those with tissues plugged up their noses quickly looked away, having already lost enough blood that morning.

Nora along with the rest of team JNPR waved for them to come over to their usual spot in the long tables. They smiled in return and headed towards them.

"Good morning, Ruby! Good morning, Yang! Good morning, Blake! Good morning, Ice Queen!" Shouted Nora from across the mess hall, Weiss' lips thinned at that last greeting, but didn't say anything.

Then Nora let out a high pitched squeal when she caught sight of Ember and Celica holding Yang's hands. Nora jumped from her bench ready to glomp all three of them, but was quickly stopped by Ren, who grabbed the hem of her shirt and sat her back down. Nora made a sound like a whimpering puppy and pouted in Ren's direction, but he didn't budge.

Once they were close enough, Jaune spoke up first. "So what happened in Prof. Ozpin's office?" then his eyes drifted to the new girls who accompanied team RWBY. "And who are these guys? Exchange students?" He asked.

Ruby rubbed the back of her neck nervously. "It's kind of a long story. . ." Said Ruby.

"Well why don't you tell us while we eat. I am quite curious myself." Said Pyrrha. "You should also introduce us to your friends." Her usual small smile gracing her face.

Ruby nodded at Pyrrha's suggestion and sat down across from her. Bumblebee and Crescent Rose quickly sat next to Ruby on the bench, both trying to sit as close to her as possible. Myrtenaster waited for Weiss to take a seat next to Pyrrha, before sitting down herself a reasonable distance away from Weiss. Yang lifted up Ember then Celica onto the bench where Ren and Nora sat, before sitting down herself. Finally, Blake and Gambol Shroud sat a little further from the rest of team RWBY for the sake of personal space.

Team JNPR, save for Nora who was too distracted by the twins, raised an eyebrow at the strange display.

"So Ruby, I assume that the reason you and Yang were called to Prof. Ozpin's office has something to do with," she glanced at all the new faces, "them."

"Well, yes and no." replied Ruby, wobbling her head from side to side with her hands raised like scales, though her movements were slightly restricted due to being nearly squished between the two young women at her sides.

Pyrrha's expression told Ruby to continue her explanation after quickly glancing at Bumblebee and Crescent Rose, seemingly oblivious to the slight discomfort they were causing Ruby, their entire focus was to attempt to kill the other by giving the other the coldest glare they could muster.

Nora reached over past Yang and pinched the cheeks of Ember and Celica. "You two are so adorable!" she exclaimed pulling Pyrrha's attention away from Ruby and her two companions, "I could just eat both of you up like pancakes!" She let go of the twin's cheeks, much to their relief, and she quickly moved towards Yang. "I didn't know you had kids, Yang!"

Yang's eyes widened at Nora's assumptions, a light blush tinged her cheeks at the thought. She'd always known that one day she'd eventually find someone nice, settle down and have kids of her own, but Nora thinking that Ember and Celica were her kids? Well one could say that they were in a way, and now that she thought about it, she did act motherly towards the small hyperactive twins that were her weapons and so far she thought that she was doing a good job. But Yang knew that she'd never be as good a mother as Summer Rose.

Yang had always looked up to Summer. Even after she learned that Summer wasn't her biological mother, she still admired her for being such an incredible mother. Waking up in the morning and having her bright smile greet her at the start of the day while Summer prepared breakfast, a small Ruby still a toddler and rubbing the sleep from her eyes while clutching her Beowolf plushie. She was swept up in the arms of Tai Yang, Ruby laughing and giggling as he blew a raspberry on her tummy. Summer gave Tai Yang a kiss once he sat Ruby down on her chair. Summer would always have a batch of cookies for her and Ruby once a week, and on the odd occasion she would be called to duty as a Huntress she'd be back by the day just in time to start preparing dinner.

That tireless energy, her boundless love, and everything else about Summer Rose were qualities that Yang had strived for when she had passed away. Yang had done her best to try and fill Summer's role at their home, but she was only a child back then. Now that she was older she could try her hand at it once more.

"Not really," said Yang, cutting a small piece of pancake, dipping it in some syrup, and feeding it to Ember then another piece to Celica. "It's kind of hard to believe, but this morning when we woke up these guys showed up in our room saying that they're our weapons turned human."

"And you believe them?" Asked Jaune, now looking cautiously at the rest of the girls sitting with team RWBY.

Just when Yang was about to answer him Ruby spoke up, her squeaky voice floating over the din of conversation and reaching their ears. "Um, Bumblebee, Crescent Rose, could you two ease up a bit? You're both kinda squishing me." The rest of them turned to see Ruby cramped between Crescent Rose and Bumblebee, whose glares directed towards the other, which had started out surreptitiously, were now clear for all to see.

The moment Ruby had spoken up they immediately stopped what they were doing and glanced down at the young girl, eyes widening they quickly separated from Ruby, giving her enough space, their cheeks pink and heads were bowed down in embarrassment.

"I agree with Jaune, It is quite the farfetched claim." said Pyrrha, bringing the conversation back to focus. "I can't imagine how in the world your weapons would suddenly become humanized."

Ruby, now free of the bodily vice arms, shoulders, and breasts of Bumblebee and Crescent Rose, answered her. "We didn't believe them at first either. But when Yang showed them that my weapon Crescent Rose was still in the room. But when she," Ruby nudged her shoulder at Crescent Rose's arm, "touched my weapon, there was this big bright light at came off of both of them and she disappeared and my weapon was left behind. When I picked it up again after a while my weapon started glowing again and she reappeared in my arms holding. . . I guess you could say she was holding herself, and that's when we figured that they were telling the truth."

"Well if you're sure. . ." replied Pyrrha, then continued. "So I assume that you're Crescent Rose," her gaze went from Ruby to the tall woman with long hair, "you are Myrtenaster." Looking to her left at the girl sitting next to Weiss.

"Finally! At least someone here got her name right." Exclaimed Weiss, glad that Pyrrha got her weapon's name right.

"Gambol Shroud." Continued Pyrrha, making eye contact with the dark skinned girl next to Blake, who immediately broke said contact and looked down at her lap, as if trying her best to avoid being noticed. "And lastly Ember and Celica." She finished.

Both twins waved at her and she gave a friendly wave back, chuckling lightly as Yang wiped a bit of syrup off of one of the twin's cheek in a almost picturesque motherly way.

"But who is this?" She asked, gesturing with one hand towards Bumblebee.

"Oh! This is Bumblebee, Yang's motorcycle." Said Ruby.

"But I thought you guys said only your weapons turned human?" Asked Jaune confusedly.

That was when Yang–after finishing off the pancakes that were left over from Ember and Celica, who were now playing a game with Nora–decided to join into the conversation.

While they both tried to explain the entire situation to Jaune, there was something going on underneath the table.

Crescent Rose surreptitiously made a sideways glance down at Ruby who was amicably explaining once more to the confused Jaune. Crescent Rose smiled slightly at the sight, but then her gaze slowly drifted upwards to the woman who was sitting next to her precious Ruby.

Bumblebee.

She had never expected that Bumblebee would somehow also be turned human. While she didn't know how or why she and the others had turned human, but out of all of them Bumblebee certainly was at the bottom of the list.

Bumblebee had immediately raised her suspicions the moment Ruby returned to the room with her, not to mention the fact that she was walking a little too closely next to Ruby for her liking. Crescent Rose had remembered of the time that Ruby began working on Bumblebee. While at the time she didn't really know that she was working on a motorcycle, Crescent Rose did notice that Ruby was spending quite a bit of time in the garage for several weeks. But since Ruby didn't spend any less time with her, she never paid the motorcycle much mind.

Allowing her thoughts to drift away from such topics, an idea came to mind and a sly smile grew on her face. Crescent Rose slipped off the slipper she wore and slowly slid her foot to where she guessed Ruby's own was until it came to a sudden stop. The sly smile on her face widening as she slowly began to trace her foot up and down the length of Ruby's leg, tracing the soft curve of her calf. She reveled at the feeling of Ruby's soft skin on her big toe, sensually drawing lines and circles along her lower leg.

Strangely Ruby didn't react at all to her ministrations, Crescent Rose expected a small squeak in surprise or another blush on her face. Instead she seemed to be getting into it as well, stretching her leg out to let Crescent Rose play with her more. Something which she gladly complied to.

Crescent Rose let her big toe continue its way lower until she reached Ruby's foot, drawing lines and circles on the soft delicate skin. Crescent Rose could feel Ruby's skin reacting to her touch, for every light stroke from her foot seemed to leave a trail of goosebumps on Ruby's skin.

Crescent Rose was just beginning to enjoy herself when she suddenly remembered, Wasn't Ruby wearing her pajamas? She thought, then looked past Ruby's lap and saw Bumblebee's leg was stretched out right where Ruby's was supposed to be.

Realizing just whose leg she had been playing with, Crescent Rose promptly pulled back her foot from Bumblebee's leg. She watched as Bumblebee's thigh seemed to shift about, looking for what she thought was Ruby's foot that had been dancing across the skin of her leg.

A devious smile found its way on Crescent Rose's face and she once more extended her foot to meet with Bumblebee's, once she came into contact with the other's foot, Crescent Rose raised her foot and stomped right on Bumblebee's toes.

Bumblebee let out a yelp and her knee jerked up and knocked under the table, causing a few dishes to jump.

Everyone stopped what they were doing and gave her a strange look. By then Ruby was done explaining to Jaune and was now ravaging a stack of waffles.

Bumblebee grinned uncomfortably, her cheeks pink in embarrassment. "Sorry 'bout that." she said. "I just stubbed my toe, it's nothing."

Everyone else simply nodded and went back to eating. Bumblebee rubbed her sore foot with the other and looked over to see Crescent Rose trying her best to put a neutral expression on her face as she idly played with the food in front of her.

Bumblebee narrowed her eyes as she figured out just who had been playing footsie with her, and it wasn't Ruby.

Once the throbbing on her toes stopped, Bumblebee guesstimated the exact location of Crescent Rose's shin. She extended her leg out just enough, that she could reach it, and kicked back using her heel.

Bumblebee felt the hard contact of Crescent Rose's shin along with hearing the sharp gasp of pain coming from the taller woman. A few eyes rose from their plates and placed their attention on her and Crescent Rose tried playing it off as nothing, taking a bite of her food and ignoring the looks she was getting. Bumblebee smiled and gave Crescent Rose a sideways glance.

Crescent Rose scowled at Bumblebee, her expression clearly saying, If that's how you want to play it.

Bumblebee smirked, Show me what you got.

The two of them shuffled on the bench so that their knees were angled towards the other while their upper bodies faced forwards as if nothing were amiss.

The ground rules were non-verbally set.

Anything goes.

First to cry out loudly in pain loses.

And lastly, Ruby should remain untouched and not suspect a thing.

Their sideways glares were kept locked on the other and the clatter of forks and knives on plates couldn't cut through the tense air floating between the two. They both waited silently for the signal while putting up a facade of normalcy in front of the others.

In their peripheral sight they both watched as Ruby slice through her waffle doused in syrup and pierce it with her fork.

The world seemed to move in slow motion as Ruby brought her waffle up to her mouth and the moment she closed her lips around it did the two women make their moves.

Bumblebee made the first move, and quickly jabbed with one foot, aiming for where she approximated Crescent's shin would be. If there was anything to level the playing field it was that neither of them could see where the other's legs were and had to guess its location, and from what she could feel from the contact that her foot made she had hit her mark. She could feel the soft whoosh of air that went past her own shin as Crescent Rose retaliated against her opening attack. Bumblebee smirked internally until she felt a sharp kick to the side of her knee.

Pain shot up from Bumblebee's knee to her brain as she bit back a yelp of surprise before it could escape her throat. The corners of Crescent Rose's lips curled upwards ever so slightly, Bumblebee wasn't expecting that was she.

Pressing her advantage Crescent Rose once more lashed out with one of her legs for another assault. Landing three consecutive blows right on Bumblebee's shins.

Bumblebee flinched back away from the attack then a quick moment before heading once more into the offensive. Instigating with another quick jab and pulling back, out of reach from Crescent Rose's counter attack.

While Crescent Rose's kicks were stronger, Bumblebee kept her distance and played it smart. Kicking Crescent Rose squarely on her shins or squishing a few toes if she got lucky, but even then, Crescent Rose was still able to land a few kicks of her own with her longer legs.

But those longer legs of Crescent Rose were proven to not just an advantage. The moment Crescent Rose kicked out once more, she overextended allowing Bumblebee to trap her leg and leaving Crescent Rose in an awkward position. Taking advantage of the situation, Bumblebee began to tug and pull Crescent Rose towards herself. Crescent Rose could feel her body start to slide off the bench. Keeping up the facade, she put down her utensils and gripped the bench with her hands and pulled back trying to regain her upright position.

The two women began an intense, yet silent, tug-of-war with Bumblebee having the advantage. It was almost all that Crescent Rose could do to just stay in her seat on the bench while trying to twist her way out of Bumblebee's grip on her leg. After a particularly sharp tug from Bumblebee, Crescent Rose felt herself shift to the edge of her seat, but unwittingly her legs had loosened their grip on Crescent Rose's leg and she was able to readjust herself solidly back on the bench.

Soon enough their under the table engagement dissolved into taking turns kicking the other and seeing who will be the first to fold. Neither willing to back down.

Crescent Rose was just about to send another kick to Bumblebee's shin when the rest of Team RWBY had finished their food and Ruby called to their attention.

"Whew, I'm stuffed." Said Ruby, leaning back and patting her slightly bulging belly from all the waffles she had just consumed. "I think we should be heading back to our room, we still need to pick out some clothes for Bumblebee."

While Crescent Rose was distracted Bumblebee snuck in one last hard kick at Crescent Rose, causing her to yelp in surprise.

Ruby looked at the taller woman quizzically, which Crescent Rose tried to play off as nothing by chuckling and waving her hand dismissively. The moment Ruby looked away she glared at Bumblebee, and if looks could kill Bumblebee was sure that she would've died right then and there, but smirked all the same as if saying, I win.

"Yeah I guess." Agreed Yang, who pulled Ember and Celica away from Nora. "Time to say bye, kiddos."

Both Nora and the twins groaned in protest, but conceded. Nora waved goodbye as Yang listed them both off the bench and on the floor. The rest of Team RWBY and their weapons stood up from their seats and headed out of the mess hall and back to their rooms.

Ruby once again walking between Bumblebee and Crescent Rose noticed that Crescent Rose seemed to be walking funny.

"Hey, Crescent Rose, why are you limping?"

Author's Notes: Well here's the long awaited chapter 5! I'm really sorry for the delay, life got in the way and I wasn't able to have the time to write or whenever I did I just couldn't feel the drive for it. And I'm sure that you've all heard of the death of Monty Oum and it's been so long that saying it now feels dishonest, but I just want to have my say and say

Rest in Peace, Monty. Your amazing work has inspired many people while you were alive and I hope to see more people be inspired by the work you have done even when you are gone.

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