A/N: Last one~ I really enjoyed writing all of these, and I hope you had fun reading them. Although I do wish I would've came up with something better for Ozpin and Velvet, but oh well. I'm gonna go ahead and say my 'thanks for reading' up here instead. All of these were silly and lame, so I'm glad you took the time to bother reading 'em. Thankees~❤ Btw this chapter is the longest one. Go big or go home. Hahah. Anyways, on with the story!
Yang has to deal with karma and a not so odd friend.
Yang and Ruby were walking around the shopping district in downtown Vale. They were just spending some quality time together before the weekend was over, and before they would be buried under numerous assignments.
They did stop in front of a few shops to check out their sales, but window shopping was all they did. It had been a while with only the two of them having some sisterly bonding time.
Yang hummed in content as she waited for Ruby to check out a small weapons shop, when a familiar voice spoke out loudly from behind her.
"Ah! My friend Yang is that you?"
Yang had to stop herself from uttering a groan. There was only one person she knew of that would talk like that.
Turning around she met Penny's gaze, the orange haired girl had a somewhat blank expression on her face before it brightened into a smile of recognition. Maybe she shouldn't have turned around.
Penny skipped over to the blonde, bouncing in place once she stood in front of her. "Salutations Yang! How are you today?" Penny said jovially.
Then she began to turn her head to each side, as if she were searching for something. "Why are you alone?" Then her face turned to one of shock. "Did Blake run away again?" Penny said with a worried gasp.
"I'm doing great Penny, and no Blake didn't run away again." Yang had to laugh at that bit. "I'm actually here with Ruby. I'm waiting for her to leave this shop here." Yang pointed to said shop.
She hoped Ruby would hurry up and get out here to deal with the strange girl. It's not that Yang had a problem with Penny, in fact she found the girl to be somewhat adorkable. It's just that her strange behavior and speech was a bit off-putting for Yang. Ruby seemed to handle the odd girl far better than anyone else anyways.
"Oh that's good to hear!" Penny clapped her hands together excitedly. "Perhaps we should wait for Ruby together then?" Penny looked at Yang with such an innocently eager expression that Yang couldn't bring herself to say no.
"Sure, why not. I guess I could use a bit of company." Yang shrugged.
What's the worst that could happen?
The pair didn't have to wait too long for Ruby to finally emerge from the shop. Yang couldn't help but grin at the look on Ruby's face when her sister spotted Penny. It was a look of dread, or maybe it was discomfort? Whatever it was, Yang found it hilarious.
Penny bounded forward to greet Ruby, clasping her hands around Ruby's.
"Salutations Ruby my friend!" Penny smiled widely while Ruby chuckled nervously.
"Oh, hey Penny, what are you doing here?" The red head asked, looking a bit uneasy.
"I was just walking about town when I saw Yang standing here. Now that we're all together we should all hang out!" Penny exclaimed animatedly, shooting her hands up into the air in a celebratory gesture.
"Well actually…" Ruby began as she looked at Yang sympathetically.
Why was she looking at her like she was about to do something she might regret?
"I have an assignment that needs to be finished and I've got to leave now to do that before Weiss decides to yell at me about it. Sorrygottago!" Ruby said in a rush of words before turning around to leave. "You can hang out with Yang though, she has nothing else to do. See ya later!"
Yang was left dumbstruck as she watched her sister blaze away, leaving behind a trail of rose petals.
Ruby, her own kin and blood, her dear baby sis, had ditched her. How could she do that to her?! What has she done to deserve this kind of treatment?
Well, now that she thought about it, there were plenty of times where Yang had ditched Ruby during unwanted awkward situations. For instance, when they first arrived at Beacon or when Penny had appeared while they were trying to look for Blake that one time.
Huh. Guess this was just karma catching up with her for all those times. Funny how that works out.
Breaking out of her stupor, Yang looked over to Penny, who had just been waving goodbye to Ruby. She sighed in defeat, playing with some locks of her hair before addressing Penny.
"So, what did you have in mind for our 'hang out'?"
Yang couldn't believe she was really doing this. This was something that Weiss seemed more likely to do, being so dainty and all. Yang snickered at that. Heh, dainty. Weiss would probably be yelling at her for saying that.
Penny had suggested they go to a nail salon to have their nails painted. "So much for not spending any Lien today." Yang thought. Her plans to only do a little bit of window shopping didn't quite pan out the way she wanted. Lucky for Penny there was some kind of special going on, otherwise Yang wouldn't have agreed to go on with this activity.
Penny sat in a seat beside her, being all giddy and giggly. She would probably be bouncing in her seat too if the manicurist painting her nails hadn't told her to sit still. Yang had to smile at the scene, it reminded her a lot of Ruby.
Being someone who uses their fists to fight, Yang always found the activity of painting her nails pointless. Why have her nails look good if they'd only get ruined in a fight? She had to admit though, she was really digging the neat design the manicurist was making.
Her nails looked as if they were shining gold. There was a mixture of orange and yellows in the shape of flames designed neatly on each nail. When the two were informed that they could pick their own designs, Yang had picked something that matched her Semblance.
Once their nails were finished and they left the salon, the two looked at each other's designs. Yang had to admit, she was impressed and a bit surprised at Penny's choice for a neon green matrix pattern on black polish. It actually looked really cool and was quite detailed too. Yang admired her nails once more before deciding they should probably move on to the next task.
"Well that wasn't so bad." She chirped cheerfully. "So, what's next?"
Okay, she had to admit it now. She was actually having a lot of fun with Penny.
Yang was changing into another outfit she had picked out. It wasn't exactly anything Yang would normally wear, but now she was starting to reconsider changing up her wardrobe.
After she finished she headed out of the small dressing room to show off her outfit to a waiting Penny. The two girls had been taking turns to change into different outfits the whole time. While some of them had been quite stylish, other outfits they chose for each other were silly. It was entertaining to pretend to be strutting on a cat walk. Though Penny was more awkward when performing the latter.
In the end Yang came out the store with less Lien than she had before entering.
Yang looked up at the sky, it was starting to get dark. She would have to return to the academy soon, before she overstayed her curfew.
Yang surprised herself as she felt crestfallen at the realization she couldn't hang out with Penny for much longer. Penny noticed this and looked at her worriedly.
"Yang? Is something wrong? Did you not enjoy yourself?"
Yang didn't want to make the girl worry. She gave her a toothy grin before replying. "Nah, nothing's wrong! It's just I need to get back to Beacon before my curfew ends." Yang explained.
"Oh! I'm sorry, I didn't even think about that." Penny apologized. "I guess this is where we part ways then." She sounded a bit sad.
"Don't worry Penny, the next time we run into each other we should do something like this again. I had a lot of fun with you today!" Penny's smile returned on her face from Yang's infectious enthusiasm.
"Sensational!" She cheered. "Well I guess this is farewell for now then Yang. I can't wait for us to do this again!" Penny stood at attention and gave a salute, making Yang chuckle and return the gesture, before turning to leave.
Yang then made her trip back toward Beacon. She carried her bags of clothing on one arm as she once again admired the way her nails shimmered in the fading sunlight.
Penny wasn't as bad as she had first seemed. Guess first impressions aren't always that important. Too bad Ruby missed out. Yang couldn't wait to tease her about all the fun she had missed today.
A/N: I notice most ppl make Penny out to be really weird, with all that robotic speech or acting blatantly like one. But looking at the episodes again, I realize that she behaves normally enough to not completely be written off as a robot (tho I totes think she is an android). So that's what I tried to get at here. Penny's just a regular kid like us, wanting to hang out and have fun. Besides, team RWBY is full of dunces who didn't even realize Blake was a Faunus after the whole White Fang shebang, so it'd prolly take em a while to realize Penny's a bot or something XD.