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"l just can't even right now!" Weiss shrieked as she threw down her newspaper which declared
her disgrace for the world to see. She couldn't believe it. Two years of high quality meals to the
best of the best and it all came crashing down to some self proclaimed food critic who thought
they were god’s gift to fine dining?
What did that hack who probably couldn't even prepare her own cup of noodles even know
about fine dining? Nothing! She was Weiss Schnee! A Five star Chef trained by the best chefs that lived and breathed today-
"Ok Weiss. It's just one critic. You can do this. You can salvage your reputation, and make a
comeback," Weiss consoled herself before she looked down and saw the article under her own.
A glowing review from Mable Macintosh, the very same critic who'd lambasted her just above praising some youtube chef. "Ruby Rose, but how? Why? What makes her so special?" she asked out loud as she scrutinized the article praising the chef despite her mundane methods, so she decided to watch her videos to see what makes her special. ”I bet she can’t tell a steak from a porkchop.
“Welcome back to Ruby cooks and today we’ll be cooking steak chops.” The fuck’s a steak chop? Weiss wonders as she watches the video then she sees Ruby bring up: a small steak, a porkchop, carrots, and potatoes. “...You’re joking?” she asked as she started tugging her hair. Then she continued watching the video expecting to see what abomination she would cook up only to see that somehow with some sort of black magic, she made it edible.
She continued to watch Ruby’s videos until she watched her most recent video where announced that she’s hoisting a cook off to help earn money for charity. Weiss now knew what she needed to do. "Let's see how she fares against a real chef." She said as she rolled up her sleeves, she went to the cook off. When she arrived there were a lot of people, most were simpletons but thankfully there were some actual contenders, one she recognized. “Blake, is that you?” The cat-like woman turns around when she hears someone calling her name. “Oh weiss are you here for the competition or to simp over my sister in-law like everyone else so far?”
Weiss' face was flushed with red “I'm here for the cook off, mine you.” she said with what little dignity was left “now where do I sign up?” she asked. Blake pointed to the donation box next to a portable atm with a sign that says “$1 to watch, $5 to eat and greet $10 to compete” so she donated one… thousand.
Everyone at the cook off looked at the humongous donation and realized Weiss, the famous chef is in the cook off and she means business, Ruby face was red in idol crush as Weiss winked at her. “Yang I can’t.” Ruby said as she couldn’t believe that Weiss Schnee was at her cook off. “Come on Rubes you can’t get flustered over a disgraced chef.” Yang replied while holding her sister. Ruby then grabbed Yang’s collar “You call her a disgraced chef. I call her the most elegant and graceful woman in the world, not to mention my inspiration so please treat her with respect.” Ruby argued, Yang looked behind her sister and saw something that she would have loved to see. “Sis can you turn around real quick?” Yang asked, Ruby turned to see a hyper blushing Weiss standing behind her. The two froze as they stared into each other’s eyes while Yang laughed in the background. “Umm Ruby I think it’s time to start the competition." Blake replied, Ruby snapped out of it and announced that the cook off was about to begin.
The first round was the standard BBQ round where everyone had to barbecue a large meat object. Weiss chose Yorkshire ribs while Ruby chose a brama steak. The competition was heated, Literary. The fires were high and the smell was intoxicating. After the 30 minute timer went off the judges were waiting and one of them was Mable Macintosh the self proclaimed food critic.
After Blake, Yang and the other contestants were judged it was Weiss’s turn. “Oh look, the tasteless bimbo.” said the spiteful woman, so that’s how she’s going to play. “tasteless says the right person” Weiss snarked back. The other judges already knew about their history but Ruby just told the two to leave the review behind them and make amends. “You’re right, I should apologize.” Said Weiss as she apologized to Mable “Well apology not accepted, one out of ten” Mable replied, A judge named Bill stood up and spoke “Come on Mable you’re the one who started throwing hands.”
“Oh shut it you sentient box of soap.” Mable snapped back. “Are we going to have a problem here, Miss Macintosh?” Yang asked as she pumped her shotgun she used to kill the venison that she cooked. “No ma’am.” replied the judges. The next round began and it’s dessert time. Weiss made a nice large cake with snowflakes and Ruby made two cakes but she noticed how Ruby only took one of them to be judged.
"Tasty cake." said Bill, "Classic Weiss Schnee cooking." Said the other judge. "It’s just another generic snow theme cake." Said Mable, "Okay that's the one thing we can agree on." Weiss thought to herself. "Well I think it’s pretty." Ruby mumbled to herself. Ruby, despite being the so-called "queen of sweets" made a lackluster cake that looked like she just bought it if everyone didn't watch her bake it along with its twin. This gave Mable a question.
"Where's the other cake?” She asked, Ruby just said she made that one for fun but Yang laughter suggested something else. “Wow, did you really just bake Weiss a “call me” cake?” She asked while she howled in laughter. Ruby and Weiss looked at each other, blushing redder than Ruby’s apron. “May we see it?” Asked Larry, the judge. “No, just give me one out of ten.” Mable decided to look at the cake for herself.
"This cake looks amazing but why did you put your phone number on it?" She asked as she was about to cut it. Weiss grabbed the judge’s wrist. “The hostess said that this one was not intended to be a part of the competition and that she made this as her way of asking me out.” Weiss said with murderous intent. “Well she’s wasting her breath if she wants to go out with-” Mable was interrupted by Ruby slugging her in the face. “The only waste of breath here is you.”
Ruby said while rubbing her hand.
“How ungrateful and after I gave you that amazing review.” Mable said as she rubbed her face. “I don’t care about stars and reviews, I just wanted to make good food for people. And Weiss' cooking is amazing, not to mention my inspiration.” Ruby Replied. Then Mable picked up the call me cake and smashed it in Ruby’s face. A fight had broken out between the two while Weiss and the other judges tried to break it up. Ember Celica got involved when Yang shot her in the sky. Yang got everyone’s attention and said that Mable should leave before she lets Ruby’s fans tear her to pieces as she pointed towards the angry crowd of spectators. So Mable left in disgrace and Weiss helped Ruby clean up.
“I wanted to give you my phone number.’ Ruby sniffled, Weiss couldn’t help herself anymore and decided to use the leftover cake mix to whip up something real quick. An hour later Weiss gave Ruby a cake saying “I’m free this tuesday” along with her phone number.