Chapter 1, Episode 1: Ruby Rose
The night was calm…
The moon, what was left of it, was full…
And Roman Torchwick had a huge grin upon his face. Beside him, walked several professional looking men with hats, and weapons at their side. Each wore a pair of sunglasses that hid their eyes, and made them all the more sinister. Roman took out a cigar and held it up to the small, red monkey creature on his shoulder, who let out a small burst of flame to light it. "Thanks Pansear" the criminal said smugly, "I owe ya one."
The Pokemon responded by saying it's name in a low tone. The group of very OBVIOUS criminals left the alley they were walking through, and looked up to see their designated target...a small Dust shop called, "From Dust till Dawn".
The Group of criminals entered the building and took a look around. It was a quaint little shop, not too much Dust to nab, but still enough to fetch a pretty penny. Roman decided to speak up to the elderly manager of the store as his henchman pointed a gun directly at his face and say "Do you know how hard it is to find a dust shop open this late?"
The man's eyes flashed with fear, and he held up his hands defensively, not wanting any trouble. "Please just take the money and leave!" at this, the man opened the Register.
Roman smirked and responded "Calm down, we're not here for your money." he signalled his goons with a sudden seriousness in his voice, saying "Grab the Dust."
At this the man started sweeping everything off the shelves and into sacks they had been carrying. The Man was in shock. His entire business was crumbling around him. And he was pretty sure he still had a customer in the back! But he couldn't do anything, stuck under the barrel of Roman's gun.
One member of the group noticed a shorter figure standing near the back of the store, wearing a red cloak with the hood up. They had headphones in, which were turned up far too loud, causing the kickass jam they were listening too to be audible to those around them. It also prevented them from hearing the man draw a handgun and tell her to put their hands in the air.
"Hey kid, I said, put your hands in the air!" the irritated henchman said. At this, the figure turned towards him, revealing themselves to be a young girl. Her eyes were bright, and she had a very calm expression on her features.
"Hm?" she took off the headphones, and looked at the man, thinking to herself that he looked rather silly in his criminal getup.
"Put your hands in the air!" the crook said again in a ticked off tone of voice.
The girl calmly asked"Are you...robbing me?"
Frustrated, he said "Yes!" to which Ruby simply responded with, "Oh…"
The way she said, "Oh" sounded more like, "Oh is that right?"
The answer as to WHY it sounded this way, was answered with a loud POP of a Pokeball, and two simultaneous kicks. Afterwards, the man could be seen being launched through the window of the shop, and out onto the empty street. Roman and the other henchman jumped and looked into the corner of the store, where two figures now stood. Both stood back to back, holding out their weapons. The Girl, wielded a large Red Scythe, bigger than any weapon the men had seen. The other, was a Scyther, a Bug-Flying Pokemon. The two had simultaneous smirks of competitiveness on their face.
After seeing this, another goon ran up to them, holding out a gun. After shouting "Freeze!", he was promptly tossed out a window. Standing up and flaunting her weapon around like a pro, the henchmen gaped at what they were looking at. A young girl had just taken down two professional criminals with relative ease. Roman, however, still had a calm look on his face.
"Ok...get her." he said in an annoyed tone.
The Criminals rushed the girls, and each one was thrown through the window and out onto the street. Roman decided to cut his losses, and he skedaddled out of the Store before the Girl could get to him. The Girl ran up to the window and looked at the scattered group. She turned to the cashier, her Scyther by her side.
"Are you gonna be okay?"
At the man's nod, she jumped onto the street, getting back into a pose with her Scyther.
The girl noticed that Roman was actually running up onto the roof. She grabbed onto her Scyther, who flew up after the crook as fast as possible. Landing on the roof, she shouted "Hey!", catching the crook's attention.
"Persistent." He muttered under his breath, as a large heliplane rose up in front of him. He turned and fired off a few rounds at the girl, but didn't hit her or her Pokemon as she and it dodged. But out of nowhere, a loud, high pitched screech sounded. Scyther was attacked by Roman's Simisear, who was trying to hit him with a Scratch. The Bug dodged however, but it was all the distraction Roman needed to get on the plane and return Simisear to it's Pokeball.
As the plane rose, he fired off one last shot that seemed to hit the girl head-on, and began to laugh at his accomplishment. However, it was suddenly revealed that a strange woman had appeared, and completely blocked the shot Roman had fired, effectively saving the girl's life.
Said girl looked in awe, as the woman and her purple cat-like creature named Espeon began firing off several energy based projectiles at the ship, knocking it around in midair. Roman ran to the pilot's seat and shouted over the loud noise "We've got a huntress!"
The woman flying the plane allowed him to take the wheel as she got up to do what was needed. She lifted up her Ultra Ball, and tossed it into the copter, and it exploded in a *POP* and a loud roar that could be heard for miles filled the air. The mystery woman raised her crop, and in sync with her creature, fired off a large, dust infused,
"Psychic Attack!" the Woman demanded.
But the powerful move was suddenly blocked by a large burst of fire that erupted from the hull of the ship. The Mystery Woman's eyes widened, and the Chopper then flew away, disappearing from the city.
After a moment or two, the Scyther was returned to it's Pokeball, and the girl dropped her calm demeanor and rushed over to the blonde haired woman.
"You...You're a Huntress! CAN I HAVE YOUR AUTOGRAPH?!"
Suddenly, we cut to the same young girl sitting at a table with a guilty look on her face. "I hope you realize that your actions tonight will not be taken lightly young ma'am. You put yourself and others in grave danger." the mystery woman said sternly.
Immediately coming to her own defense, the girl shouted "They started it!".
Her Scyther said it's own name in support.
"If it were up to me", the woman said, "you'd be sent home with a pat on the back…" the girl smiled at this. Maybe she wasn't gonna be in trouble after a-
"...and a slap on the wrist" the woman added, slapping her crop on the table., which the girl barely avoided. "But...there's someone who'd like to talk to you."
She gained a confused expression, but something sweet smelling wafted through the air...it smelled...like...LIKE COOKIES!
A door opened in the back of the room, and the young lady looked up to see an older man, holding an entire tray of cookies, with a Glameow on his shoulder, and a mug of something that was probably coffee in his hand. His hair was gray, and he wore a rather rustic set of clothes, with crooked glasses upon his face.
'He looks like a Grandpa…' the girl thought to herself.
"Ruby Rose", the man said, taking a closer look at her, "You have..silver eyes.."
Confused by this, Ruby stuttered out a simple "U-um.."
Which was cut off by the man saying "So...where did you learn to do this?" gesturing to a screen the mystery woman was holding, which showed Ruby dispatching goons left and right. Ruby wondered how in the world they got that footage from that angle without her noticing.
"Signal Academy" she responded shyly.
"They taught you to how to use one of the deadliest weapons ever designed?"
"Well one teacher in particular…" Ruby said in response.
"I see...cookie?" the man asked, placing the tray in front of her. She hesitantly took one and then began scarfing the cookies down like a vacuum.
"It's just that I've only seen one other scythe wielder of that caliber...a dusty old crow…"
Ruby mumble something with her mouth full, then swallowed and repeated what she said after apologizing. "That's my uncle Qrow. He's a teacher at Signal. Me and Scyther were complete garbage before he took us under his wing. Now we're all like hiya!"
Ruby made several other karate sounds as the man looked amused and said "So I've noticed. The bond between you and your Scyther is very strong."
Ruby gave him a smile, and turned to her longtime friend, and rubbing it's head. Scyther let out a happy sounding version of it's own name, and laid its head on Ruby's arm. Scyther was a bit of a softy on the inside, and wasn't as scary as he appeared.
"Now what is an adorable girl like yourself doing at a school designed to train warriors?"
Ruby quickly answered "Well...I want to be a Huntress."
"You want to slay monsters." He said calmly.
"Yeah. I only have two more years of training left at Signal, and then I'm going to apply to Beacon. See my sister's starting there this year, and SHE'S trying to become a Huntress, I'M trying to become a Huntress because I wanna help people. My parents always taught us to help others so I thought 'Why not make a career out of it?' I mean the police are alright but Huntsman and Huntresses are just so much cooler and you get to do this cool stuff-" Ruby was essentially fangirling at this point as she rambled on, finishing with "Y'know?!"
The man gained a thoughtful look, while the mystery woman at his side was rather unamused. and replied with,
"Interesting...are there any other Pokemon you might have on you?"
Ruby's eyes lit up. She immediately took a Pokeball out of her back pocket and released a short, green, ninja like plant creature with rose bouquets for hands. Roserade triumphantly said it's own name. "This is my Roserade!" Ruby said cheerfully.
"Interesting…" he said once again. "Do you know who I am?" he suddenly asked.
"You're Professor Ozpin, the headmaster at Beacon academy."
Ozpin nodded and sat up a bit. "Hello." he greeted
"Hi!" Ruby replied, holding up a hand in a slight wave.
"You want to come to my school?" Ozpin asked, knowingly.
Ruby took a look at her Pokemon, and replied with, "More than anything…"
Ozpin gave a look to Glynda, who simply looked away. "Well okay" Ozpin said with a smile.
Ruby was smiling too. Suddenly, we cut to much later as a tall blonde girl was hugging Ruby way too tight.
"Oh I can't believe my baby sister's going to Beacon with me! This is the best day ever!"
"Please stop.." Ruby said, feeling crushed by the hug.
"But I'm so proud of you!" the blonde said, hopping up and down with excitement as she released her sister from a tight bear hug.
"Really sis, it was nothing…" Ruby said in a slightly annoyed tone.
"What do you mean?!", her sister exclaimed, "It was incredible! Everyone at Beacon's gonna think you're the bee's knees!"
"I don't wanna be the 'bee's knees' alright, I don't wanna be any kind of knees! I just wanna be a normal girl with normal knees…" Ruby said in a frustrated tone. Her sister could be annoying sometimes…
"What's with you? Aren't you excited?" her sister questioned.
"Of course I'm excited! I just...I got moved ahead two years. I don't want people to think I'm special or anything…"
"But you are special.." her sister said, putting her arm around her sister. Before she could continue the TV suddenly boomed out:
"The robbery was lead by nefarious criminal Roman Torchwick, who continues to evade authorities. If you have any information on his whereabouts, please contact the Vale Police Department. Back to you Lisa."
The screen transitioned to the nefarious, Lisa Lavender, one of the best reporters in vale. Facing the screen, she fired off,
"Thank you Cyril. In other news, this saturday's Faunus Civil Rights Protest turned dark, when members of the White Fang disrupted the ceremony. This will have been the third time in recent histo-"
The screen was shut off, and it disappeared, ending the news broadcast.
Faunus, if you may be wondering, are a species of human, only they have very differing parts on their bodies, belonging to that of animals. Because of this, they are looked down on by society. Eventually, a once peaceful protest group called the White Fang rose up, and started rather violently causing Havoc, severing Faunus-Human Relations once again.
But the screen shifted once more, being replaced with a hologram of the Mystery Woman from a few days ago.
"Hello and welcome to Beacon",she said professionally.
"Who's that?" Ruby's sister asked.
Almost as if she heard her, the hologram said "I am Glynda Goodwitch"
"Oh" the beautiful blonde replied.
Glynda continued her speech.
"You are among a privileged few who have received the honor of being selected to attend this prestigious academy. Our world is experiencing an incredible time of peace, and as future Huntsmen and Huntresses, it's your duty to uphold it. You have demonstrated the courage needed for such a task, and now it is our turn to provide you with the knowledge and training to protect our world."
The hologram faded, and Ruby, along with the other people in the room they were within, started "Ooing and Awing at something outside the window. Ruby rushed over and peeked out the window, to reveal a large, sprawling, castle-like building that was beautiful to look at.
Oh, and they were flying in a giant airship. Just so you know.
"Look! You can see Signal from up here…" Ruby said, nostalgia laced in her tone, "I guess home's not so far away after all…"
The blonde wrapped an arm around her sister.
"Beacon's our home now…"
It was at this particular moment, a blonde haired young man stumbled through the ship, and started throwing up in a corner. Ruby giggled.
"Heh...I guess the view isn't for everybody…" the older girl said, stifling a giggle.
"It WAS a nice moment while it lasted" Ruby said cheerfully.
Ruby took this time to indulge on the place she was going to. A place filled with new people, and Pokemon...oh...it made her so happy, she thought she might burst.
"I wonder who we're gonna meet.." her sister said curiously.
"I just hope they're better than vomit boy...oh Yang gross! You have puke on your shoe!"
We simply see the outside of the airship as the two girls make several disgusted sounds, the ship flying towards their future home. Little did they know the adventures they had in store…
Hey guys! This is actually an Idea I had with my friend, he was a HUGE help in writing this, and inspired me to write it.
YES, I will publish those other stories I promised.