Monkey Business- Finding a Penny
Ponyville
Derpy, Sparkler, and Dinky trotted into Ponyville and off of a train. Sparkler carried a suitcase larger than herself. Though she seemed to be struggling, the other two didn’t notice. If they did, they probably didn’t care, even though that was unlikely.
“Okay everypony!” Announced the mother of the group. Dinky started hopping in excitement while Sparkler tripped and the suitcase crushed her. She used her limited magic to shove it off of her and sat up, before it fell back on her. Unfortunately, Derpy and Dinky hadn’t noticed, letting the elder daughter’s silent cries from under the luggage unheard or seen. “I know we had fun with the Doctor, but he’s had to go away for a while. So! We’ll be spending the of Summer at home!”
Finally, Sparkler freed herself and blasted the infernal container away from herself. “We don’t even know what month it is…”
Derpy narrowed her eyes at the Unicorn, “Sparkler! What has that suitcase done to you!? You know who’s in there! Apologize!”
Sparkler’s face contorted into one of disbelief and fear, “B-bu-but!”
“Now!” Derpy said, in a tone only a mother could have.
Sighing, Sparkler apologized to the suitcase. She mentally growled when she heard snickers.
“It’s okay~” Whispered a female voice from inside, “I wasn't damaged~”
Though Sparkler was truly sorry, she felt saddened to know she was being laughed at.
The Hooves family started heading home, when all of a sudden, they began to hear something rumbling. When Derpy and Sparkler turned around, they saw a blond monkey faunus carrying a girl in a red dress followed by two other girls and a guy with a white overcoat that was carrying a blond woman. They were coming so fast that they blew past the Hooves family, causing the suitcase that Sparkler was holding to loosen.
“-SCUSE ME!! COMING THROUGH!!!” The Monkey boy was shouting out, while the girl on his back was passed out and hurt very bad. The small group looked to be running towards the cottage on the outside of town, making Derpy and Sparkler seem… confused.
“How for in the past/future did the Doctor take us?” Asked Sparkler. Dinky shrugged.
“Why don’t we ask somepony?”
“Great idea, Dinky!” Said Derpy, “We’ll ask what’s happening!” She trotted up to a random pony, who apparently Derpy remembered as Bon Bon. “Um, miss? Who was that?”
“Would you happen to be talking about Sun?” She asked. “He’s the monkey boy… Some of the ponies around here call him a Faunus though.”
“Who is he?” Asked Sparkler, “We’ve been gone for a family emergency.”
“He’s been in town for the past few weeks, helping out every once in awhile. Not much is known about him, but Pinkie Pie said at a party she hosted that Sun exposed a griffon that was illegally smuggling immigrants from Griffonstone. Lyra herself has tried chasing him all over town…” The Earth pony then sighed. “What kind of emergency have you been on, Ms. Hooves? You’ve been gone for two weeks.”
“My grandfather passed away,” Derpy said. It wasn’t a lie, she’d actually met her great grandfather… And Grandmother, but that was beside the point, he died. “We had to have his memorial.”
“I’m sorry to hear that… If you need anything at all, please let me know. I want to help out my friends as much as possible.” With that, she trotted off, catching up with her roommate Lyra as Derpy returned to her family.
“If we’ve been gone a week… How have I not been fired or heard about this ‘Sun’!?” Derpy asked her kids.
“You asked for a leave of absence… Too bad you’re the only Mailmare in town, everypony’s packages are probably still not d-” Before Sparkler could finish, Derpy was gone. She smiled, “Well, that was easy. Come on, let’s get Penny home-” She froze in place. The suitcase was open… And the contents weren't inside…
“We are so dead…” The two said in unison.
Fluttershy’s Cottage
It had only been a short while since Sun abruptly returned, but in that timeframe, a LOT of things happened. First, he and Sage got Ruby and Yang upstairs so they could get proper medical care. Sage volunteered to stay with Kreed and Raven upstairs to wait for the two sisters to wake up while Weiss and Blake were talking with Fluttershy and Rarity downstairs.
As for Sun, he was outside. The Faunus was sitting in a tree, trying to think about what had happened over the last few hours. It was like the old saying “One Step Forward, Two Steps Back”. The one step forward was meeting Sage. The two steps back was when Adam hurt Yang and Ruby. However, as he was trying to clear his mind, something… unexpected happened.
“Hiya!” A bubbly voice greeted him suddenly, surprising Sun. The voice caused him to stumble forward out of the tree and fall down, colliding with something that did not feel like dirt or ground at all. As he looked up from off the ground, he could see who exactly was talking to him… and what he crashed into. A smiling girl with red hair, freckles, and green eyes. “Hello!”
“GYA!!” The Faunus shot himself backward, colliding the back of his head with the trunk of the tree. “Oww… What the-?”
The girl shot up and took Sun’s hand, “Nice to meet you, I am Penny!” She started to examine him, looking every limb from his arms to his tail, “Wow, I’ve never met a real live Faunas!”
“H-hey! That tickles!” Sun chuckled, looking back at her. “Well, Penny. I’m S-.”
Penny jumped in front of Sun, “Oh! Oh! You said my name! No one has ever gotten my name that quickly!”
“Yeah, because you said it first,” The Faunus deadpanned. “Anyways-.”
“But everyone says Pelly, Lenny, Cenny, Nickle, Dime, Bit, Shelly, Venny, and Seleny! Even when I said it!” Penny said, “And I’m like: ‘Why does Nickle sound like Penny?’ and all I got was a shrug! I mean, what up with that? Penny isn’t that hard to say...”
“To each their own I guess,” Sun sighed. “Names Sun Wukong. Nice to meet you.”
Penny suddenly hugged Sun, “It is a pleasure to meet you Mr. Sunny!”
“Please, just Sun is fine.” He insisted. Now he was starting to think this is what happened when Pinkie Pie hugs Rainbow Dash.
“If that is what you want!” Penny said, her smile getting wider and wider.
“Not too tight!!” He spoke softly, trying to gasp for air. However, it seemed like Penny’s… introduction… had caught someone’s attention.
“YOU!” Weiss yelled, pointing at Sun. “We been trying to find you all day.”
“I was sitting in that tree.” Sun deadpanned, motioning his head upward. “Umm… Penny? Can you please let go? I’m beginning to lose feeling in my arms”
“Sure!” Penny let go of the Faunas and skipped over to Weiss, “Greetings! My name is Penny!”
“Oh god, they’re two of them now. As if one was bad enough.”
“I’m pretty sure Ruby isn’t as dumb as Penny is.” Blake said appearing behind Weiss
Sun facepalmed himself. “Right… Weiss and Blake, meet Penny. Penny, meet Blake and…… Ice Queen.” He chuckled at the last part as he tried to adjust himself and brush the dirt off of his clothes.
“What have I told you about calling me that?” Weiss said as her left eye twitched. However, to Penny, she wasn’t aware to the fact that the name Sun had just said was just an expression.
Penny bowed to Weiss on one knee, “Forgive me, I had no idea you were royalty. Please forgive me your highness.”
“....I hate you so much right now monkey boy.” Weiss said as her face turned red with anger.
“That’s kind of ironic because you’re cute when you’re angry.” Sun chuckled. “Still, on a more serious note, how's Ruby and Yang? Are they still recovering?”
“If you mean the idiot and her sister, then they’re doing fine.” Weiss said rubbing her left cheek. “Though you might want to keep your distance from Ruby when she’s asleep.”
“Let me guess, she talks in her sleep?” Sun asked her.
“There are more!?” Penny asked, eyes wide.
“Yes, there are,” The faunus replied. “There’s Sage upstairs with Raven, Ruby and Yang still in recovery, Weiss and Blake right here, myself and then Neptune and Scarlet… I think right now, they’re just fine.”
“RUNRUNRUNRUNRUNRUN!!!!”
“What that actual F*** is that thing!?”
“Who cares?! Just run!!”
“GET BACK HERE!! NO ONE STEALS FROM AHUIZOTL AND GETS AWAY WITH IT!!!”
“ … Yeah, I think they’re doing just fine on their own.”
“You do realize it’s the Everfree Forest we’re talking about right?” Weiss said. Sun sighed, shrugging his shoulders.
“Neptune has a polearm and plasma blaster while Scarlet has a pistol that's a grappling hook. Your argument is invalid.” Sun sighed.
“Yes, but are they good at fighting a hydra that can regenerate it’s heads?”
“I highly doubt they get themselves in that deep of trouble. Besides, Hydra’s reside in Boggy Foggy Bog…” Everyone just stared at the faunus in silence for a few minutes before he spoke again. “What? Fluttershy told me.”
“... Do your so called friends even know where they are in the forest?” Blake asked. “Because something tells me that you didn’t warn them about that.”
“How was I able to warn them? They stormed out of Manehattan looking for me just as I was arriving with you guys at the train station.” He asked, shrugging his shoulders with his hands in the air.
“Be that as it may, you might want to warn them next time you see them. Other wise they might get into trouble.”
“Right… Warn someone that you haven’t seen in two months about the dangers that they’ve already been through… Doesn’t anyone else see the problem in that?”
“Look, just do it okay? Or do want me to get Ruby to attack you like last time?” Weiss said.
“I’m lost…” Penny said, “And I’m getting the feeling Miss Weiss isn’t an actual queen…”
Sun just facepalmed himself, looking back at the white haired girl. “Penny… do you know what figures of speech are?”
“Fingers in speech? I’ve never heard that before!”
“No no no, not fingers… figures. Like expressions used in conversations.” He tried to explain.
Penny tilted her head, “My brain was wiped of unnecessary concepts as such. I don’t think it’s possible for me to learn something like this so soon after my reprograming.”
“... How does she function?”
“Beats me.” Sun replied. “Maybe we should introduce her to everyone else once Yang wakes-” From the upstairs window, a loud BANG went off as it blew out some of the wooden boards in the upper floor of the cottage. “-up.”
“Well that was quick.” said Blake.
“Let’s hurry before she tries to blow the house down.” Sun insisted, opening the back door and having the three of them come inside.
“Blow the house down? That isn’t nice… Or possible...” Penny stated. Sun chuckled a little at the last part. They were heading to the stairwell, until they heard Yang shout out again.
“Dammit Ruby! Did I tell you to not to do that?”
“But it looks so cool, you expect me not to try it out after she gave that power as a gift.”
Sun now looked at Weiss and Blake in confusion. Not really sure about what they were talking about.
“We met a Displaced on the train that you saw that got wrecked. Long story short she helped us beat up a bunch of thugs on the train. and gave Ruby some kind of dark powers I guess.” Weiss said as she looked at Blake.
“Just be careful when you go in there. It’s bad enough Ruby can be… hyper at times, we don’t need her to wreck the house.”
“Um… Am I the only one who remembers that Raven is in there-? Wait… Where’s Penny?” The Faunus asked, after noticing that she wasn’t behind Weiss or Blake.
“I’m pretty sure she left.” Blake said.
“Right… Ladies first?” Sun offered, allowing for the girls to be the first ones to kick the doors down as they barged in. Only for a ball of dark energy to hit Weiss in the face, causing her to fall downstairs.
“SERIOUSLY, WHY AM I THE ONE TO GET HIT BY STUFF?!”
“Beats me.” Sun sighed. Both Blake and him then stormed inside the room, but he was thrown off guard by what he was seeing. “What the-!?”
“HA! Suck it Yang, you’re not the only one that can hit from far range!” Ruby said as her hands were covered in darkness. “With the stuff that Tabitha gave me I can so wreck ponies or grims faces in.”
“I’m starting to think it was a bad idea to let her teach you how to harness the darkness within you.” Yang said as she cracked her neck. Sun sighed as he stepped in, looking back at Ruby.
“Can we please not try to tear down the cottage? Besides, aren’t you two still healing from your wounds?”
“I’m fine, Ruby on the other hand.” Ruby starts to laugh like a crazy person, that is until she felt herself feel light headed and pass out on the bed. “She keeps forgetting that she injured.”
“I thought that would come back to bite her… How are you holding up?”
Yang pulled out a green crystal before it shattered into pieces. “Little advice, never go anywhere without a healing gem. They help heal you when you’re knocked out.”
“No, I meant from when you got attacked,” Sun told her. “If it weren’t for Sage, you would probably be hurt and have to go to the hospital.”
“I’m fine. Though I do want to sucker punch the guy that did that to Ruby and I.” Sun sighed, asking if Blake, Sage and Kreed can leave the room for a minute. Leaving just Yang, Sun and also… Raven.
“There’s something I need to talk to you about… Raven?”
“Let me stop you before you say anything.” Yang said as she placed Ruby’s headphones over her ears. “Okay continue.”
Raven soon emerged from the dimly lit corner of the room, getting closer to Yang. “Malissa? Oh god… I’ve missed you.”
“H-Hi, mother.” The two of them embraced each other in a warm hug for a short while before letting go, remembering that Sun was in the room with them.
“Yang… Raven… this may be hard to believe, but the one who attacked Ruby and you on the train… was Adam.” Sun paused for a second, letting the shock course through Raven for a minute before turning to Yang. “And the thing is… Adam is your father, Yang.”
“... And now I wanna kill him even more.” Yang said as her eyes turned bright red.
“I know, but I’m a little more concerned for Ruby. When she found out who he was… she wasn’t herself. She wasn’t trying to attack out anything, but just froze in shock. If I didn’t pop in at the last minute, her injuries she obtained would be far worse than the minor wounds that she has right now.”
“*Sigh* As to be expected, Ruby did have a connection with father more than mother… no offense mom.”
“None taken, honey.” Raven told her daughter. Looking back at Sun, he continued to speak to them about him.
“Adam is far worse than any of us. If you have met Kreed, he and the two changelings that are with him are the survivors of a full out massacre that Adam carried out in a siege of the changeling hives. He doesn’t care about others, whether he hurts them or not. He just keeps on fighting… for survival.”
“Fan freaking tastic.”
“And that’s just only the tip of the iceberg… Guess who we ran into a few moments ago… Do you remember Penny from RWBY?” Sun asked the two of them.
“Oh dear god, there are two of them.”
“Weiss said the same thing, ironically.” The faunus sighed. “Will you be able to find a place to stay? Because I’m not sure if Fluttershy and Discord would be too thrilled with the amount of house guests that have been here recently.”
“It shouldn’t be that hard to find a place here, though I think Ruby would want a house of her own.”
Looking back at the snoring girl on the couch, Sun chuckled. “Heh… Hope she knows how to pay rent… Anyways, you should check with Twilight at her castle. Tell her that you are a friend of mine and I think she might be able to hook you guys up with something.”
“I mean a house away from mother, I don’t know if you know this, but Ruby doesn’t get along with mother that well. Especially what happen on her birthday.”
“One of the many things I regret…” Raven sighed. Sun though, smiled a little. He got an idea… a wonderful… awful idea.
“How good is Ruby with living in shacks?”
“What do you mean?”
“Fluttershy told me about somepony that lives in the forest that might work well with her.”
“Ugh, my head. Where the hell am I?” Ruby asked herself as she woke up to seeing the ground beneath her feet, walls made of sticks and straws, Masks everywhere and a bubbling cauldron in the center of the room. As her vision cleared up, she noticed a zebra walk towards her, greeting her in the form of a rhyme. “Why, you are awake. As thought by Ms. Blake.”
“A zebra that speaks in rhyme… I get the feeling that Sun dropped me off here right?”
“The monkey boy did leave you here for your wounds to mend, but he also had a letter to you from your friends.” The Zebra told her, using her hoof to hand Ruby an envelope with her name on it. The girl soon opened it up and what she saw was… surprising.
Dear Ruby,
You might be wondering a few things as to why you are here instead of the inside of Fluttershy’s cottage or at the ponyville hospital (yes, they actually have one of those.). Well, your friends and I have made a collective… decision to let you not just be healed by Zecora (the zebra that’s in the same room you’re in), but to also live with her. This is because Yang told me of the few… incidents that have almost lead to the total annihilation of something or someone that just so happened to piss you off. So, not only is this suppose to be a good living place for you, but also will help you with your… behavior.
You might see that Crescent Rose is with you and your stuff. But some important necessities like food, water and clothes are… not quite in your bag. Your sister has them, but she will only give them to you once you agree to focus on repairing the relationship with your mother. This also includes your… pajamas and some of your laundry that Discord had spotted in the Everfree river. You might want to hurry and grab everything before it drifts out to sea.
Sincerely,
Sun.
P.S. Did I forget to mention that your ammo clips for Crescent Rose are also limited? Yeah… That was Weiss’ idea.
Ruby’s left eye twitched as a crimson aura appeared around herself. “Oh Sun, you evil little monkey. The sooner I figure out how to get out this forest, I’m gonna punch you in the face so hard that...well I don’t what will happen, but I can say this much.” Ruby pulled herself up from the bed, striking a somewhat triumphant pose. “I WILL KICK YOU BUTT FOR THIS!” she yelled before collapsing on the floor in pain. “Ow! My everything!” All Zecora did was facehoof herself as she looked back at Ruby.
“Your friend was just trying to think the best. Now lie down, you need some rest.” The Zebra told her, until the two of them received an… unexpected guest.
The door swung open to reveal Penny with a dazed expression. When she saw Zecora, she screamed. “Stranger danger! Stranger danger!”
“Stranger danger, where?!” Ruby asked as she hid under a cover. “I’m too pretty to get taken away!”
Penny turned to Ruby, “Another one! How many humanoids are there!?”
“I’m not a humanoid, I’m Ruby.”
Tilting her head, Penny asked, “But aren’t you Human? Humanoid was the best word to describe you, Queen of Ice and Black Bow lady. I have no other description for you as a whole.”
“Well you can just call us by our names. For example, you can call me Ruby.”
“Then it is nice to meet you Ruby!” Penny said popping up right next to the redhead. “I’m Penny!”
“Nice to meet you Penny! Question, while you were on your way here. Did you happen to see some clothing lying around in the forest?”
Penny placed her hand on her head in an awkward position, “I don’t think I did. Should I have? Is it a vision test, to see if I see?”
“More like a treasure hunting test really, wanna join me on a quest to help me find my stuff?”
“Of course! I do so wish to partake in a treasure hunt with Ruby!” Penny tapped her head, “Note to self, repair understanding of word structure so I don’t sound like an alien...”
“Yay!” Ruby yelled as she kicked Zecora’s door down. “Onwards to adventure!” She said only to fall down on the floor. “Oh right, I’m still injured.... this might take a while.”
“I’m not bothered! It just means more time with my latest acquaintance! Oh! You want me to carry you Ruby?”
“Yes please, because I can’t move at the moment. And I’m starting to feel sleepy.”
“Okay!” Penny said as she quickly picked up Ruby in a bridal style, “Does this work?”
“Yep, this will work. Now onwards to the bed, best friend!”
“Did you say friend? I’ve never had a friend before!” Penny did as told and set Ruby down on the bed.
“Well now you have one, congrats.”
“Should I go outside until you awake?”
“No way, do you know how dangerous the forest is?” Ruby said as she motion her to get under the cover with her. “As my friend I can have you standing out there, so until I’m back to full health you are staying by my side.”
“Sure thing!” Penny smiled as she sat down and slid under the covers.
“I have a feeling that I’m going to regret having her in my home.” Zecora though as she went back to mix her potions. “Then again, it’s better than being out here all alone.”
Elsewhere…
Back in Ponyville, the rest of Team RWBY and their friends were working on getting themselves… comfortable. Weiss had agreed to stayed at Rarity’s boutique, Sage had decided to live with Twilight Sparkle in order to help her answer some much needed questions, and Yang was living with Raven back at Sweet Apple Acres. The only thing the Monkey Faunus realized at that time though was that Blake though, had no place to stay. She was just sitting on a hill, overlooking the town as the Faunus approached her.
“Hey, you okay Blake?”
“I don’t know why, but something tells that you’re about to get punched in the face twice.”
“What makes you think that?” Sun asked, “If you are thinking about Ruby, let me remind you that Discord was the one who did the Laundry prank. I only wrote the letter.”
“Yeah, but she finds you annoying the most.”
“Only because she doesn’t know how I really am. I may look cheerful, but I’ve been through a lot of sh*t back home if you ask me. Father was a complete jerk and died when I was six. My mom… well… it was hard to talk to her because she was being very protective. I still miss her… but I don’t let the past affect me now.” He told Blake as he sighed. “I may seem annoying, but I am cheerful so I don’t let the events of my past affect how I am now.”
“Not to sound like an ass or anything, but compare to your past, it’s kinda melodramatic compare to the Displaced we met on the train.”
“Wait til you meet my cousin Lance. His mother died due to blood loss shortly after he was born and he watched his father commit suicide in front of him. Now, he’s a Displaced in Maretropolis-.”
“Unless your cousin of your’s know what it like to kill your parents because they wanted to kill you for some stupid cult they were, then don’t expect much sympathy for you or your cousin. All I’m saying is that Ruby is going to punch you in the face for that. Whether you didn’t do anything or not.”
Sun smiled a little and chuckled. “Okay, noted… Hey, I was going to ask you this earlier, but… do you have a place to stay?”
“No, why?”
“I was going to ask if you wanted to stay with Fluttershy and I. She’s open for letting you stay there if you want and really likes you… as a friend of course.” He stated, almost dropping the photo he had of Lance and his family while his hands were in his pockets.
“I take it that picture is that of your cousin?”
“He’s only one piece,” Sun told her as he pointed at Max. “That’s Max and she’s his Fiance’. They’re getting married soon and they are already raising four kids. One that just happens to be a baby Rainbow Dash.” He handed Blake the photograph for her to see as he then redirected the conversation a little. “So, would you like to stay with us? I’m fine if you don’t want too, but Fluttershy doesn’t want you sleeping out in the cold.”
“You make a valid point. Okay I’ll go, but I have to bring Weiss along as well.”
“Why’s that?” Sun asked out of curiosity. “Last I heard, she’s staying at Rarity’s.”
“Wait, she is?”
“Last I heard, she and Rarity were really getting along with one another and soon, she decided to stay at the Carousel Boutique. My friend Sage is staying at Twilight’s since he offered to help her with some things and Yang is with Raven at Sweet Apple Acres. Something involving punching the living daylights out of trees.” He told her. “Plus, Fluttershy’s place isn’t that far from here and if we stay out here longer, Penny might find us… again.”
“Fair enough, let’s go before she brings Ruby here as well.”
End Tail 13