Am I A Cyborg?

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Mercury: *sitting with Emerald* You know Em having a kid around changes your perspective

Emerald: You act like we adopted the brat *currently recording Adrian play a little drum set they ‘found’ off the back of a truck*

Adrian: *tongue out like he’s focusing as he plays the drum set*

Mercury: You gotta admit this kid is really cool.

Emerald: Yeah he’s alright.

Meanwhile

Mama Arc: *burning down half of Argus trying to find her grand baby*

Papa Arc: Pookie we can’t afford all the property damage, our insurance is high enough as is.

Mama Arc: Not now kitten whiskers! Mommy is busy! *flips an armored van*

Jaune: Dad I think I have a lead.

Papa Arc: Oh thank the brothers above, what is it?

Jaune: The Gelato said he saw Adrian clinging to the leg of a silver haired guy who ordered enough Gelato to put god in a diabetic coma…he’s words not mine.

Papa Arc: Did they get a picture?

Jaune: No but he gave a positive enough ID we could find him.

Papa Arc: Pray that we do…

Back with our ‘heroes’

Mercury: Remember kid *holds up a picture pineapples on pizza*

Adrian: *holds up a big red X card*

Mercury: Good, and this *holds up a properly made Cacio e pepe*

Adrian: *holds up a green checkmark card*

Mercury: Right again. Now this *holds up a picture of someone break spaghetti*

Adrian: *holds up an angry face card*

Mercury: Right again. *holds up a beautiful bowl of carbonara*

Adrian: *holds up a thumbs down card*

Mercury: Ahhh you saw through the trick, that’s right this one has bacon not guanciale. *gives Adrian a bowl of Gelato* Next we’ll get you ready to swear Omertà.

Adrian: *eating scoops of the gelato*

Emerald: You know you’re a walking stereotype sometimes.

Mercury: I got you gelato too.

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.

Ruby: What’s gelato?

Mercury: Ok we have more to discuss than that.

Later in CMSN’s room

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?

Mercury: Yeah.

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.

At RWBY’s room

Yang: You have a date?!

Ruby: Yang it’s not like that, he’s just gonna talk guns with me.

Blake: Where?

Ruby: He said over something called gelato.

Blake: Ruby it sounds like he’s trying to take you on a date.

Ruby:…Is he?

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.

Ruby: What do I do?!

Yang: Tell him to take a rain check?

Blake: Ghost him?

Weiss: Look just tell him you’re not interested.