Ruby Rose | Team RWBY (eyesofsilver) wrote in valarlogs, @ 2018-08-08 20:36:00 |
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Entry tags: | !complete, !partner thread, ruby rose, yue katou |
Who: Katou and Ruby
What: Meeting!
When: During the Warcrafting: Part 2
Where: The Agency
Warnings: Low
Status: Partner Thread | Complete
As much as Katou wouldn’t admit it, getting back into the swing of things at the Agency felt pretty good. Sure, there couldn’t always be a demon invasion for him to take his aggression out on, but when they came along it was always a good time.
He’d killed a few of the demons, but he knew that the Agency had wanted to study them and whatever the toxic energy covering them was. He wasn’t too worried about getting sick from them - unless whatever it was was also a dioxin, he was probably in the clear - but he’d still wrapped the demon in a tarp, slung it across his shoulders in a fireman’s carry, and made his way to the science division of the Agency. He didn’t usually make a habit of hanging around with all the science nerds, and didn’t really know his way around, but he walked into one of the offices, figuring they were all more or less the same. He dropped the body from his shoulders onto an empty table. “Yo, anyone home?” he called.
It was Ruby’s first foray into the crazy in an official capacity. Seeing at how her strengths in science were in the engineering aspect and there hadn’t been time to try and create something to fight back. So she had done the other thing she was good at. Fighting. Long distance fighting. But fighting all the same. Thank goodness for Crescent Rose!
Now she was back in the lab which….she would probably never get over the tech from different dreams and the advancements she hadn’t gotten to see while in school. It was exciting and she loved getting to learn how to use it.
While Ruby had her headphones on initially as she’d been doing some minor repair to Crescent Rose so she could go back out and fight, she blinked as she looked over and saw someone there. Right. Headphones off, she made her way over to Katou.
“Um, hi?” And she was confused by the body on the table. Why was there a body on the table. “I think the morgue is in medical?” She wasn’t sure. She was still learning the layout but a dead body in a tarp tended to go to a morgue.
“It ain’t like medical can do much for this guy,” Katou said, grinning and pulling the tarp back to reveal the demon within, its head neatly severed from its neck. It wouldn’t take much deduction to reason that the wound had come from the katana Katou had strapped to his back. “Anyway, was told to bring this to you science dorks. Something about whatever energy’s covering this thing?”
Ruby just stared at Katou in confusion. Mostly because she had mentioned the morgue, so obviously she knew that there wasn’t anything that could be done about the body. Wasn’t that where dead bodies were supposed to go? Though if there was something that needed to be looked into, then she could see why the body would be brought here. Or left in the morgue and have Jemma or Cosima go look at it. She supposed Nathanson or Bernard could as well, she tended to avoid them though so she wasn’t sure where their particular expertise lay.
“Um. Right. Okay, I guess the table is a good enough place for it until Jemma or Cosima gets back.” Because dissecting and all of that? Definitely not Ruby’s area of expertise. And she knew that Cosima had studied genetics and Jemma...well, she ran the Science Division for a reason. Give her tech and tools and things to build, that was what she did.
“What about you?” Katou asked, raising an eyebrow. “I mean, you’re like, right here. Can’t you like, science at it?”
Did he..not know that there were different divisions in science? That it wasn’t all just one giant umbrella?
“I mean yeah, I’m right here, but I’m not biochem or genetics. I’m engineering. I build things. Jemma and Cosima tend to handle all the biology stuff.” Like if she had someone there to guide her, maybe she could do some things but even then…
Katou scowled and scratched the side of his head, not quite sure what he was supposed to do here. Should he just… leave it here and hope that the right person eventually showed up? He’d be a better help outside, killing more of these things, than standing guard over a corpse. Not that he didn’t have some experience, from the dreams, of guarding dead bodies.
“Can’t you call someone?” he asked after a moment.
Ruby ignored the scowl. She was pretty used to it and well… there wasn’t anything she could really do about it. This wasn’t her area. She was only there to do some work on Crescent Rose and then get back out into the fray.
“I can try Jemma, but I know she was out doing field medic work and something with a cure.”
It was worth a shot at any rate. She was the best suited for what Katou needed. Pulling out her phone, she dialed the biochemist and told her what was going on before looking back to Katou once she hung up.
“She said she’s about twenty minutes out barring any delay.” Meaning running into the undead.
Right, the cure for whatever it was that was dropping people. Katou wasn’t exactly human these days - at least not physically, though his soul was definitely still human and always would be - and so he wasn’t too worried about getting sick, so he’d nearly forgotten about that on top of everything else. Not his area, really.
“Twenty minutes, huh?” Katou said, looking around. “I can probably entertain myself for that long,” he said, making his way around the table where he’d dumped the corpse, and looking around. It didn’t take long for his gaze to fall upon what seemed like a giant scythe. And… was that a trigger on it? Was it a gun, too?
“This is badass,” he said, grabbing it and hefting it up to his shoulder like a rifle. “This thing really work?”
While Jemma had let Ruby help make the anti-serum to save Qrow, as a rule, cures and all of that weren’t here area of expertise. It had just been really important to her that she help in saving her uncle because it was her fault he’d been poisoned in the first place and she’d been in a really bad place mentally with all that had been going on in the Dreams and life and suppressing everything. So she was more than happy to stick to building things.
As Katou said he could probably entertain himself for the twenty minutes it took Jemma to get there, Ruby had been about to say she could watch the corpse given she had been working on Crescent Rose when…
He picked up Crescent Rose and Ruby started to flail internally. If it weren’t for the fact she had her cloak on, she probably would have freaked out.
“Yes. It works. I’m doing work on it right now before heading back out.” She loved Crescent Rose and could talk about her (yes her) forever if given the chance. But someone she didn’t know was handling her and she was just relieved that there were no Dust cartridges currently in place.
Katou was almost tempted to pull the trigger, but then decided against it. Even if he aimed it at some empty wall, he didn’t know the firepower on this thing and he wouldn’t want to get in shit for firing some sort of rocket launcher or something inside the Agency. Instead, he gripped it by the handle with both hands and took a couple of practice swings. “This yours then?” he asked, glancing from the corner of his eye at the girl. “There’s this dude in my dreams who wields a scythe. Uriel, the angel of death.” Uriel had almost become something like a father figure to Katou, in the end. He’d even built him the body that Katou was currently inhabiting.
It was getting harder and harder not to tell him to just give Crescent Rose back because he seemed the type that if she said that, he’d just….not and give her even more of a hard time and that was the last thing she wanted to deal with at the moment. So it was just….trying to focus on the questions, wincing whenever he took a swing and trying to find something to do with her hands.
“Yep. I designed it and everything. I mean my uncle helped me but it was part of my training.” Now could he please put Crescent Rose down?
Ruby wasn’t wrong in that. If she had told him to give it back, he’d be even more inclined to keep it away from her at all costs, laughing the entire time. “Ain’t this thing a little too big for a little girl like you, Little Red?” he asked, quirking an eyebrow before giving it another couple practice swings and dropping it unceremoniously back where he’d found it, almost bored. It would be a lot more interesting if he had a few more of those monsters outside down here to swing at.
After dealing with bullies and then the jerks who always got upset that she got higher grades, she tended to have a pretty good read on situations like that and while internally she was panicking and literally cringed when he dropped Crescent Rose, she wasn’t going to make a big deal about it, instead just going and picking it up so she could make sure he didn’t knock anything out of alignment. He shouldn’t have just because it was made to go up against Grimm of all sizes but some mechanisms were delicate, especially since she’d already been doing some minor repairs.
So once Crescent Rose was back in her grasp and she was able to look over her to make sure nothing was out of place and that the work she’d been doing hadn’t gotten messed up, she shrugged.
“Nope! I mean, I’ve never had any issue with it.”
Katou frowned a little, watching her with the scythe and wondering if he should feel bad for dropping it. It didn’t look like there’d been any damage done though, from the way she looked at it.
“Think you could build me something like that?” he asked after a moment. “I mean, Shiranui,” the sword strapped on his back, which he vaguely nodded toward, “usually does the trick and if it don’t then my arm ain’t so bad, but I wouldn’t mind having something with a distance to it.”
One could never be too certain, especially since she was planning on going back out in the fight once everything was in its place and Jemma was back to deal with the corpse. But it didn’t seem like any damage had been done and Ruby let herself relax.
Then Katou was asking if she could build him something similar and she perked up. While most of her inventing and building was in the non-weapon department here and it was where her passion was because she was helping people (since there weren’t constant Grimm that needed Huntresses like in the dreams), she was always excited about new projects.
“Sure! I’d just need to know any specifics you might like, ideas and the like and I can come up with something that would suit you!”
Katou frowned to himself. “Well, I’m pretty good with blades,” he said, and punctuated his point by extending his claws</a>. “Maybe some kinda throwing blade? But like, one that’ll come back, because retrieving them again is a pain in my ass.” He could even throw a sword, his sword, with deadly precision in the dreams, and had practiced a few times in the waking world, though that was a practice he hadn’t done in a long time.
Trying not to geek out about the claws, Ruby instead just focused on what he wanted. Blades that could be thrown but also retrieved. That sounded do-able. She’d need to look at different metals for the blades but that wouldn’t be too hard. Leaning Crescent Rose against the wall, Ruby pulled out a piece of paper to do some preliminary quick sketching and ideas on what she’d need, calculations and the like.
“Retrievable throwing blades, that I can do!”
Katou grinned and hopped up so that he was sitting on one of the counters. “Make sure they look badass,” he added, watching as she drew up some sketches. “Apparently I oughtta come talk to you science geeks more often.”
“Can do!”
As if they would look anything but badass. People each had their own personality and what worked for them. In her dreams, weapons were the extension of the Hunter or Huntress, it was why they made their own weapons at Signal. But she could definitely figure out how to make the blades work and that they would be distinctly Katou just from this conversation. And probably some digging on the Network to get more of a feel for his personality. It was important.
“It never hurts.” Says the girl who took forever to decide it was okay to branch out and talk to people.
Katou sat, swinging his legs off the counter for a moment. It really was boring down here. And he could do for a smoke. “You alright if I leave our little friend here with you?” Katou said, jerking a thumb toward the corpse.
“Yep, I’m good with that.” She had work to do on Crescent Rose as it was. Plus more preliminary ideas on the throwing blades if she had the time before Jemma showed up. Otherwise she’d just finish her repairs on Crescent Rose and get back into the fight. Whichever came first, really.
“Cool. Try not to get too close. Thing’s like, toxic I guess.” He shrugged. He didn’t really know how it worked, and he didn’t care that much. “I’ll see you around, Little Red.”
Toxic. Thrilling. Ruby just moved a bit further away before nodding to Katou, “See you around!”