Weiss groaned as she continued walking down the streets.

"It's going to be fine Weiss…" her friend Blake stated.

"Fine!? It's going to be everything but 'fine'!" Weiss nearly shrieked. "12 people have already auditioned and none of them can even play well enough!"

"It's only been 4 days since we put up the ads up… We still have time." Blake tried to reason

Weiss gave an exasperated sigh. She knew that Blake had a point, but it was just so frustrating. She had been waiting for so long to be able to start a band, and now that she had finally reached an… agreement with her father, she felt that there was no time to waste. "We don't have time Blake! I don't have time!"

Her long time friend gave her a sympathetic smile, "Well, we'll just have to put more posters up and do some more performances."

Weiss sighed, "I suppose that's just about all we could do…"

Blake nodded as she quickly adjusted her beanie while they continued walking downtown, but paused when they caught sight of a rather large crowd.

Weiss and Blake glanced at each other in question as they tried to take a look at what was causing a commotion.

A sudden warbling, synthetic sound with beats was heard as they tried to push through the crowd.

"Alright, look Rubes, I know you can make sick beats and sounds with your mouth, but you can't do that here." A voice stated through speakers

The person was answered by a series of beats, causing the crowd to laugh.

"Oh! Oh! So it's going to be like that is it? I see. Fine. I'll take you on." The person stated.

As Blake and Weiss made it to the front, they were greeted with the sight of a girl with short brown/red hair tied up to show off quite a bit of piercings on her ears, standing off to the side with a guitar strapped on her shoulders and had Boss pedals at her feet, and another girl with long wavy blonde hair sitting behind a set of drums. A large van was parked behind them with the doors opened to reveal beaten looking speakers and a bunch of wires coming out from the van.

Red pointed towards the blonde and made another series of beats and even adding voice effects as she stated, "You-You- You're going," she deepened her voice and made it sound like it were going through static, "Down." To top it off, she moved her hands in front of mouth and moved them as she ended with the cliché sad trombone sound effect, "Wah wah waaaahhh~"

The blonde started making some simple beats on the drums, as though building and riling up to a challenge "You think you're so slick don't you?"

Red nodded as she began gesturing and making sounds akin to a disk being scratched and rewound.

"Alright alright, well… try this on for size!" The blonde stated as she began executing a series of rather difficult beats. At the end, she gave a smug grin towards the other as the crowd clapped.

Red nodded, attempting to impersonate a frown as though saying, "Okay, Okay… Not bad" She then mimicked the sounds rather perfectly, even adding some synthetic sounds to the mix causing Blake and Weiss's eyes to widen in surprise. At the end, Red let out a sound of a crowd cheering to everyone's amusement as they followed it with whoops and clapping.

"Alright, fine. You're pretty good sis." Blonde stated, causing Red to execute a rather flourished bow. "How about you make the beats this time and I follow?"

Red tapped her chin in thought and then gave a smirk. She gave one beat.

Blonde mimicked the exact sound on her drums.

Red gave some more beats.

Blonde mimicked again.

Red then made a series of beats and sounds that were quickly followed by the blonde drummer. Soon enough, Red stopped making those beats and allowed the blonde to take over. After a while, Red began making different sounds akin to the bass, although nothing too note worthy. At this point the song started to sound incredibly familiar as stepped on one pedal to loop the sounds she made, then she began making a series of sounds similar to a disc being scratched and looped that as well. What came next though caused the crowd to laugh and cheer as Red started on her guitar. After a while of playing, she leaned forward into her microphone.

"99 problems but a bitch ain't one. If you're having girl problems I feel bad for you son, I've got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one."

Weiss and Blake stood there, mouths slackened as they watched the duo's performance and as Red continued rapping through the song. They were further surprised when Red suddenly began screaming, "SHUT UP WHEN I'M TALKING TO YOU!"

The anger she put behind those words was frightening, some actually jumped a little at the intensity, her eyes glaring at everyone she made eye contact with as she continued the rest of the song.

No one even dared make a whisper to another as she screamed out loud. It was as though everyone were frightened of what she would do if they dared disobey her demand

At some point, her silver eyes met with Blake's amber ones, sending a heated glare as she spat out the last few words.

"I'm about to-" All of a sudden, the speakers stopped blaring as she shouted the last word out, "BREAK!"

The crowd let out a thunderous applause and cheers. Weiss actually had to grab Blake's shoulder to pull her down a bit and yell in her ear, "BLAKE! THIS IS IT! THEY'RE WHAT WE'RE MISSING!"

Blake could only nod as she kept her eye on the beat boxer, who was currently chugging a bottle of water.

"Alright guys, for those who don't know, I'm Yang!" The drummer introduced, "And the girl over there is my sister, Ruby. We'll be here for one more song, so watch us, sing with us, pay us, join us; we don't care! I'm just here to drum up some money," some of the crowd laughed as Yang made the stereotypical sound effects of a pun on her drum. "And Ruby is here to use her mouth in strange ways to make some money." She stated with a wink as more of the crowd laughed. "So we can buy new equipment. But we're mostly here to blast your eardrums and make your beating hearts bleed. CAUSE THAT'S WHAT PUNK ROCKERS DO!" She yelled at the end, causing more people to holler and laugh.

Ruby then started executing bass sounds to help calm the crowd down.

"Alright you guys," Yang began as she began beating on the drums. "We're going to start a new song now, if you want to join in go ahead. We ain't stopping you."

Ruby then stepped on a pedal to loop the bass sounds as she began a riff on the guitar, which immediately caused some excitement through the crowd as they recognized the song. The crowd then lost it when she suddenly leaned forward and howled, garnering more cheering.

"Listen up, strap in

Notify your next of kin

You're about to take a ride a little on the blazing side

Guzzle down your Red Bull…"

It was during the chorus though when Blake and Weiss realized something, Ruby wasn't exactly… singing… To be fair, the song didn't require much of it as the majority of it consisted of speedy speaking and screaming. But to Blake and Weiss's trained ears and vocalizing they were able to tell that Ruby could not in fact, sing in a smooth voice. Every word that came out ended up sounding as though it were growled out. And although she could execute raps perfectly, she simply did not have the voice capable of smooth singing. And that bothered Weiss. A lot. Here they were, executing a fantastic cover for one of the chart hitters, Caffeine by the ever-popular band, CFVY, and they were not able to perform the chorus.

That simply would not do…

So, in all her glory during the instrumental bridge, Weiss strutted to Ruby's microphone, garnering some questioning looks and took the microphone. Before Ruby and Yang could stop to protest though, Weiss leaned forward and began the next verse.

"I'm a cheetah on the plains I'm a highway star,

The supersonic princess in a million dollar car,"

Yang glanced over at Ruby as they both shrugged and gave each other a grin as they continued on with the music. Ruby would lean over to share the microphone with Weiss during the Chorus and belch out the next verse. At the end of the song, the crowd gave them a thunderous applause.

"Thank you! Thank you! Have a nice day everyone! Hope to see y'all soon!" Yang cheered as some people came up and dropped money into Ruby's open guitar case or simply dispersed.

Weiss simply exhaled a shaky breath.

"Great job singing there girlie." Yang said as she walked on over

"Thank you," Weiss quipped as she tried not to stare at Yang's toned arms and sleeve of thorns and roses that were glistening in sweat on her left forearm. "You two played very well. I was impressed." She stated as Blake walked up to them

"It was very… Cool." Blake commented with a small smile. She then turned her attention to Ruby, who was chugging another water bottle down. "You're a very talented beat boxer and rapper."

Ruby put her bottle down and sent a grin to the tanned girl's way, "Thanks!" she said as she pulled her hair tie out

To say that she shocked them with her voice was a mass understatement, and they let it show on their faces. "Is that your normal voice?" Weiss asked

Ruby flushed and scuffed her foot onto the pavement, "Yeah."

"Shocking right?" Yang snickered as she threw an arm over her sister's shoulder. "Who would have thought that this sick ass rapper who can belch out kickass beats had such a fucking childish voice?"

Ruby growled and she punched Yang in the jaw "Shut up Yang! I didn't choose to have this voice okay?!"

Yang merely laughed as she tightened her hold on Ruby, "So, as I'm sure you both know, I'm Yang and this is my damn genius of a sister, Ruby."

"Blake." The dark haired girl stated

"Weiss." The white haired girl quipped

"It was nice meeting you two, but we kind of have to pack up." Yang sheepishly stated as she gestured to all of the equipment around them.

Blake reluctantly nodded as the sisters turned around to get ready to pack up.

"Join our band!" Weiss blurted out.

The two paused and turned around, "What?" Yang asked

Weiss lightly coughed into her hand to clear her throat, "Blake and I are looking for a guitarist and drummer to join our band. We're already pretty decent, but as a keyboarder and bassist, we can't exactly cover many songs even though Blake is also an excellent guitarist. But that's not her primary instrument. Then there is also an issue with performance so-"

Yang frowned, "No." she stated as she began collecting some of the wires.

"What?! Why?" Weiss demanded

"Ruby and I have been doing fine by ourselves. We don't need a band!" Yang stated

"You can't possibly be serious!" Weiss exasperated "You only have 2 members and you excel at wasting time due to Ruby having to stop to create loops!"

"But we've still been doing fine!" Yang insisted, standing to her full height in an effort to intimidate the much shorter girl, "We've gotten a few gigs here and there, we already have a small fan base, and they're still growing! What do you have to offer us?"

Weiss spluttered, she hadn't realized how popular these two actually were and how much they had to offer. "Well… What about original music?!"

Yang gave a smug grin, "Ruby can write lyrics and compose songs."

Weiss blanched, they really did offer a lot. "What about a crew?! You can't possibly have been setting everything up by your-"

"I'm done!" Ruby stated as she closed the trunk of a large van.

Weiss's eyes widened comically as she did a double take. All of their equipment (save for the wires Yang was still holding), were already gone.

Yang gave a smug smile, "You were saying?"

Weiss couldn't form coherent words and ended up spluttering once more.

"That's what I thought." The blonde nodded, and before she could turn away, Blake spoke up.

"We can offer you new gear and equipment regularly." The tan girl spoke up.

Yang paused and turned to face the black haired girl.

"We also have our own space to practice and record music. So you can play anytime, any day." Blake continued

Yang frowned, "But-"

"Weiss here knows a lot of managers, not just locally, but across the country. So your popularity will end up taking a significant increase." The tan girl continued

"Well we could always just go on-" the blonde tried to pipe in.

"Also… If you were to join, Ruby would have significantly less of a workload and she can focus more on playing her part and composing new songs." Blake pressed.

Yang frowned as she glanced over to her sister, who gave her a sheepish smile in return. It was definitely a deal worth thinking about, new gear, a practice space where they wouldn't bother their neighbors and deal with an angry landlord, a boosted popularity, and an easier workload for Ruby.

"Lastly, if we earn a specific amount of sales from revenue by the end of the year, we'll have a contract made with Dust Studios." She finished

At this, the two sister's eyes nearly bulged out of their sockets. Dust Studios! One of the biggest music producers in the world that was way up there with Beacon and Haven Music Industries!

"COUNT US IN!" Ruby stated

Weiss was just about thank Blake before all her hopes came crushing down

"Ruby no!" Yang intervened "We don't even know how well they play!"

"Excuse me?!" Weiss asked, offended

The drummer glared, "We haven't heard you play before, so how are we supposed to know if we'll like playing with you? We haven't even tried to play together yet! We don't even know if we all want to play similar music!"

Weiss nearly growled, but conceded that the blonde had a point. "When are you next available?"

"Uh, what?" Yang asked

"When is the next time you two are free?" Weiss reiterated

"Uh… I guess we're free now. We were just going to head on home." The blonde stated

Weiss nodded and reached into her purse and pulled out a pen and notebook. She quickly scribbled something down and ripped the page out and thrust it out to the drummer. "Meet us here in an hour."

Yang reluctantly grabbed the paper to take a look at it. "Uh…"

"Okay!" Ruby stated as she snatched the piece of paper.

Weiss huffed as she turned and strutted away.

Blake gave a small smile, "See you guys soon."

Ruby cheerfully waved goodbye to the two, throwing both hands in the air to do so.

"Are you sure this is the place?" Yang asked her sister who was in the driver's seat.

"Uh… Yeah…" Ruby hesitantly stated.

"Ruby… It's okay if we're lost. Just tell me."

"Nope. This is the address…"

"Are you fucking with me right now?" Yang asked

"I wish I was…" Ruby stated

"Jesus Fucking Christ! Rubes, this can't be the fucking place! It's just way too fucking fancy!" Yang stated

Ruby had to agree, she and Yang never really went by the upper-class areas so the fact that they were in front of a nice, clean, pretty building surrounded by more… nice… clean… pretty buildings, was kind of shocking to the two of them seeing as they're use to being in the more… not so pretty areas.

A knock on their window caused them to jump, but they were relieved to find that it was Weiss in the next car over on Ruby's side. She motioned for them to roll down the window.

"Just follow us into the parking area." Weiss stated, "Then meet us by the elevator."

The two gave a hesitant nod as they did just that.

While waiting in the elevator, Yang bounce from nervousness while Ruby was simply bouncing in excitement. The moment they arrived to the floor, Yang nearly stumbled out of the box as she followed after Weiss.

The room that they arrived at made Yang's jaw drop.

She was in a music studio… Not a professional one sure, but it was still a fully equipped, high end, roomy, soundproofed, motherfucking kick ass music studio.

"Can I live here?" Ruby drooled.

It was definitely possible seeing as they were actually in an apartment complex.

Blake quirked an amused eyebrow, "If you join our band then you may spend some nights here from time to time."

"Alrig-"

"Ruby!" Yang interrupted, causing the red head to pout. The blonde turned to Blake with a pointed look, "And you! Stop trying to bribe my sister!"

Blake shrugged as she walked off to turn some of the equipment on.

"So just… sit down and make yourself comfortable." Weiss told them as she walked over to the keyboard.

"Actually, if Ruby doesn't mind, I would like to ask her if she can join us for the guitar." Blake piped up.

"Sure!" Ruby smiled as she hopped on over to the tan girl and began tying her hair up.

Yang meanwhile situated herself on the couch.

"What are we playing?" The red head asked as she strapped the guitar over her shoulder.

Blake shuffled through some papers and held them out towards the guitarist, "Here."

"Hm." Ruby held onto the other side of the papers so the two could share it, eyes scanning through the notes. "It'll sound weird without drums, but so far it seems pretty solid. Let's do this!" Ruby grinned up at Blake.

Blake gave a small smile as she glanced over to Weiss who gave a nod.

Weiss began a small count out loud and opened the song on the keyboard. Soon Ruby strummed in on the guitar as Blake joined in soon after.

"Well, when you go,

Don't ever think I'll make you try to stay,

And maybe when you get back

I'll be off to find another way"

Yang was blown away by the passion and emotion Weiss put behind her words. It was completely different from the goofy song she sang earlier. And It wasn't anything like Ruby's singing, where her sister growled and screamed out anger and sadness; Weiss had a clear, high voice that sang with clarity, but with a bite to it, as though she were a cord being stretched a bit too much, ready to snap. Even more surprising was Blake's voice; smoky and smooth as though she belonged in a jazz lounge instead.

She was so drawn into the music; Yang unconsciously began free drumming the beat lightly on her knees. Before she knew it, it came to an end and she stood up clapping.

"That was sick you guys!" Yang smiled "Especially your solo Rubes."

Her younger sister simply grinned in thanks.

"But you two were fucking awesome!" Yang complimented the other two.

"Thanks." Blake stated.

"And, so?" Weiss asked

"So what?" Yang asked

The white haired girl huffed, "So are we going to be a band?!"

The drummer pretended to think about it and grinned, "What the hell? I'm in."

Blake and Weiss both let out sighs of relief as Ruby let out a whoop and cheer.

"… But like… we're supposed to be a fucking sick rock band so princess here really fucking needs a closet change…" Yang stated as she gestured to the formal/business looking attire that Weiss was wearing.

AU: Alright, so I wrote a Rock AU. I put all fault and blame on this fantastic fanart of Blake covered in tattoos on tumblr by adamentred (or Panta Rhei? Honestly, I can't navigate through tumblr very well) and so I was like "Oh… My… Golly… Blake… OhMyGosh… She's hot. And wait, why is she covered in tats? Who cares? She's hot. And I'm not drooling. I'm so not drooling. (I was totally drooling).

And thus I began my research and found that Hot Stuff there was created for a Rock AU, which is… I have to admit. Is pretty great. (Thank Squadron Log – or xekstrin – for this AU) Anyway, it'll be my first time writing something so… uh… Punk… I guess is the term. So my apologies if dialogue involving cursing, and content involved with drinking and smoking seems off and awkward. (Can you tell I'm not comfortable with cursing and such?) BUT! I WILL TRY NONETHELESS! So please bear with me.

Songs used in this chapter are:

99 Problems/Points of authority – Jay-Z/Linkin Park

Caffeine – Jeff Williams

I don't Love you – My chemical romance