12-11-2015, 06:14 AM
"You know, you COULD just have asked me about what we spoke about when I convinced you to go to the ball at Beacon. But, I suppose that the Love Ninjas works as well." She hmmed and nodded at Blake's next remark. "I only got taken some minutes after you, but... I don't think I've had any worse moment than then in my life, outside maybe of when I ran away from home with Ruby to pursue a trace about mum. I was... heh. I've found out what it feels like to have real friends, then had them taken from me. If I hadn't been taken I probably would've rampaged a while until Professor Goodwitch or someone else came to take me into custody. And then... I don't want to think about that part. You have no idea how happy I am - even if it turns out that it's just the two of us. But if Ruby and Weiss indeed are here..." She left her sentence unfinished, but her smile going from ear to ear pretty much told everything. "I don't care why I was brought here or by who, so long as it means that we get to be team RWBY again."
Then Blake spoke about Omnilium, and Yang hmmed. She looked around, then double-checked her pockets if the orb she had obtained still was there. Nope, it wasn't, but... she put a palm on her chest and "pulled" on it, drawing out some of the glowing rainbow mass. "This place has some useful means of storage, huh. Well, I'll trust you on it, you're the bookworm of our bunch." And the smarter cookie, she added mentally. Not that she considered herself dumb, but Blake was doubtlessly better than her in that regard - not that she minded, she realized that that was just her, and her way of handling things. She poked and tossed the Omnilium orb around, then stretched and squeezed it as if it was kneading mass that could somehow be shaped into something useful, but the malleable energy always returned to its original round form. Yang then thought of her sister's face, and for a brief moment could see it with all its details, floating there inside the orb - but as soon as her concentration broke, it disappeared again. "Sure looks like these things are shaped by our thought. But what should I... Blake?" She looked up when she noticed that her friend wasn't standing next to her anymore, and grinned when she noticed that she was already lost in concentration. "Alright then, let's see about that." She could already see vague reflections of Blake's Gambol Shroud inside the orb that she was holding, so their combat ability was accounted for right now... what else did they need? Some means of transport. And communication. And proper clothing. Her Ember Celica would have to wait.
She sat down on one of the chairs of the Café, placed the orb on the table in front of her and put both hands on it, then focused. Her Scroll... that's what she wanted first of all. She went through every bit of detail that made up the high-tech device that functioned as a portable computer with smartphone and internet access built in, on its shape, its uses, everything that made it up. Due to its intricacy, she took around ten minutes before feeling the cool metal fall into her hands and, upon opening her eyes, saw the Omnilium transformed into a scroll - although it had a custom paint job and her emblem on the back, which Yang had added since it was forbidden to change the Beacon Scrolls, as they would get passed on to new students at the end of the term. She decided to try it out while waiting for Blake to finish her thing, poked the unknown icons on the surface. "Phone" was pretty evident, as well as most other programs like picture viewer, camera and the like. No maps, which was a pity. Then there was a D and V intertwined with each other to form a fancy logo, which was named "DATAVERSE MESSAGEBOARDS" and popped up some sort of internet with messages from lots of unknown people. Didn't exactly sound safe, but she understood that they were... public? Perhaps they could...
"Hey Blake! Are you finished with your testing? Come on back down, I got something to show you!" She said as she waved her Scroll back and forth. When Blake was back next to her, she quickly explained her findings and concluded with "We could use this to contact Ruby and Weiss, if they are here like we are. We would just need to make the message a little encoded so we can keep it public but without giving ourselves away, but they can understand it."
"Our team name should do the trick. And we can just use our initials to refer to each other."
Yang chuckled and hugged Blake once again. "See? It does pay off to work for a secret organization from time to time! I wouldn't have come up with something like this like you did. Or at least, not as fast."
For a full half hour they sat there, discussed possible formulations and ways to encode their message, but eventually just settled for a simplistic approach - get their attention, share contact details, call one another and see if and how they could meet up. Perfect. Yang typed up a message and showed it to Blake for proofreading, then after some further back and forth Yang managed to wrestle the Scroll from Blake's hands, pin her down and quickly press "Send" before the other one could fight back. By the time Blake had rolled them over and pulled the Scroll from Yang's hands, it was too late, and Yang laughed as she escaped her friend and got up. "C'mon, that way they'll KNOW it was us!" She said. She dusted herself off, which reminded her... "I still need my Ember Celica. And the Bumblebee, if we want to get around this place." Good thing that her bike had plenty of space on the back for a second person. She sat back down and drew more Omnilium from her "storage", then returned to focusing to get her signature weapons back - unless of course Blake interrupted her.
Then Blake spoke about Omnilium, and Yang hmmed. She looked around, then double-checked her pockets if the orb she had obtained still was there. Nope, it wasn't, but... she put a palm on her chest and "pulled" on it, drawing out some of the glowing rainbow mass. "This place has some useful means of storage, huh. Well, I'll trust you on it, you're the bookworm of our bunch." And the smarter cookie, she added mentally. Not that she considered herself dumb, but Blake was doubtlessly better than her in that regard - not that she minded, she realized that that was just her, and her way of handling things. She poked and tossed the Omnilium orb around, then stretched and squeezed it as if it was kneading mass that could somehow be shaped into something useful, but the malleable energy always returned to its original round form. Yang then thought of her sister's face, and for a brief moment could see it with all its details, floating there inside the orb - but as soon as her concentration broke, it disappeared again. "Sure looks like these things are shaped by our thought. But what should I... Blake?" She looked up when she noticed that her friend wasn't standing next to her anymore, and grinned when she noticed that she was already lost in concentration. "Alright then, let's see about that." She could already see vague reflections of Blake's Gambol Shroud inside the orb that she was holding, so their combat ability was accounted for right now... what else did they need? Some means of transport. And communication. And proper clothing. Her Ember Celica would have to wait.
She sat down on one of the chairs of the Café, placed the orb on the table in front of her and put both hands on it, then focused. Her Scroll... that's what she wanted first of all. She went through every bit of detail that made up the high-tech device that functioned as a portable computer with smartphone and internet access built in, on its shape, its uses, everything that made it up. Due to its intricacy, she took around ten minutes before feeling the cool metal fall into her hands and, upon opening her eyes, saw the Omnilium transformed into a scroll - although it had a custom paint job and her emblem on the back, which Yang had added since it was forbidden to change the Beacon Scrolls, as they would get passed on to new students at the end of the term. She decided to try it out while waiting for Blake to finish her thing, poked the unknown icons on the surface. "Phone" was pretty evident, as well as most other programs like picture viewer, camera and the like. No maps, which was a pity. Then there was a D and V intertwined with each other to form a fancy logo, which was named "DATAVERSE MESSAGEBOARDS" and popped up some sort of internet with messages from lots of unknown people. Didn't exactly sound safe, but she understood that they were... public? Perhaps they could...
"Hey Blake! Are you finished with your testing? Come on back down, I got something to show you!" She said as she waved her Scroll back and forth. When Blake was back next to her, she quickly explained her findings and concluded with "We could use this to contact Ruby and Weiss, if they are here like we are. We would just need to make the message a little encoded so we can keep it public but without giving ourselves away, but they can understand it."
"Our team name should do the trick. And we can just use our initials to refer to each other."
Yang chuckled and hugged Blake once again. "See? It does pay off to work for a secret organization from time to time! I wouldn't have come up with something like this like you did. Or at least, not as fast."
For a full half hour they sat there, discussed possible formulations and ways to encode their message, but eventually just settled for a simplistic approach - get their attention, share contact details, call one another and see if and how they could meet up. Perfect. Yang typed up a message and showed it to Blake for proofreading, then after some further back and forth Yang managed to wrestle the Scroll from Blake's hands, pin her down and quickly press "Send" before the other one could fight back. By the time Blake had rolled them over and pulled the Scroll from Yang's hands, it was too late, and Yang laughed as she escaped her friend and got up. "C'mon, that way they'll KNOW it was us!" She said. She dusted herself off, which reminded her... "I still need my Ember Celica. And the Bumblebee, if we want to get around this place." Good thing that her bike had plenty of space on the back for a second person. She sat back down and drew more Omnilium from her "storage", then returned to focusing to get her signature weapons back - unless of course Blake interrupted her.
"(Note to self: insert quote & picture once I find stuff)"
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