Mercury: *walking through Beacon’s armory and finds a rifle* Hm, been awhile. *he goes to a bench with it and quickly strips it before putting it back together again* Still got it.
Ruby: How’d you do that so fast?
Mercury: Years of practice.
Cardin: Oh yeah bet you can’t do it faster than that.
Mercury: Heh wanna bet? *starts the process again even faster than he had previously* You were saying?
Cardin: Oh yeah?! 100 Lien you can’t do it blindfolded.
Mercury: *takes off his hip flag and ties it around his eyes before stripping the rifle and reassembling it for a third time, before firing a round and twirling it like he’s inspecting it*
Cardin: That thing was loaded?!
Mercury: No I put the bullet in after I put it back together. *takes the blind fold off and sees Ruby is in front of him*
Ruby: That was so cool! I don’t think I’ve seen anyone besides Uncle Qrow do that before! Was your weapon a rifle before you made your boots?!
Mercury: *blinks and has a flashback to Marcus Black’s A+ parenting with a lot of weapon training* Something like that…
Ruby: Oh! Can we discuss rifles?! Crescent Rose is a sniper! What caliber do you prefer?!
Mercury: Uh tell you what give me your scroll number, and we can maybe talk about it over coffee or gelato.
Mercury: Ok we have more to discuss than that.
Cinder: What’s this I hear about you having a date with Ruby Rose?
Mercury: What? No the chick saw me messing with a rifle and wanted to pick my brain over it.
Cinder: *raises her brow* That’s all?
Cinder: Fine, just don’t let her now what we’re up to.
Mercury: Whatever, all I know is I made a cool 100 lien.
Ruby: Yang it’s not like that, he’s just gonna talk guns with me.
Ruby: He said over something called gelato.
Blake: Ruby it sounds like he’s trying to take you on a date.
Weiss: *from her desk* You don’t take someone for gelato just to talk guns, dolt.
Ruby: *face going red* Gah! How did I not see this?!
Yang: To be fair Rubes most of your experience with boys is hanging out with Jaune and Ren.
Yang: Tell him to take a rain check?
Weiss: Look just tell him you’re not interested.
Ruby: I just wanted to talk weapons, I didn’t want to get a boyfriend!