A/N: Hey this is just a RWBY story idea I've had for a bit and couldn't take my mind off of it. So I decided to write it out so I could focus on my other stories more. This is a test chapter on the idea so if you like Favorite, Follow, and Review or just DM me, and if enough people like it, then I will continue it. Anyways I hope you enjoy the chapter.
Roman Torchwick decided that now would be a good time to rob a dust store a dust store where a certain brunette with red tips was inside; a decision he wouldn't live long enough to regret.
Roman and his hired help entered the dust shop and walked up to the old man who was at the counter. "Alright, old man this is a robbery. We'll be taking all of your dust, so just shut up and stay out of the way and we'll be out of your hair in no time, and you won't be hurt."
Seeing that the old man understood Roman turned to his goons and said, "Alright boys start getting all the dust in both crystal and powder form."
One of the goons went to collect some powdered dust he noticed a girl in a red cloak. He walked up to the girl and said. "Hey, Girly?"
When he didn't get an answer, he grabbed the girl's shoulder and turned her around.
Ruby Rose was standing in the dust shop listening to music when the goon grabbed her shoulder and turned her around. Ruby was dressed in her usual attire, but had a shoulder holster holding a large pistol, that looked too large for someone of Ruby's size, under her right armpit, and had a silver lantern on her right hip with a lever to open some shutters on the lantern, and 601-CGH printed on it.
The goon noticed the headphones and pointed to his ears. Ruby understood the gesture and removed her headphones. "Are you robbing me?" Ruby asked noticing the weapon he was holding.
The goon grunted. "Yes."
"Oh," Ruby replied.
The goon and Ruby went through one of the shop's front windows. Hearing the crash, Roman turned to the other three goons and said, "Go see what that is."
The three goons ran outside to see Ruby standing over their comrade. They raised their machine guns, but Ruby was quicker and shot one of the goons with Crescent Rose, sending him into the wall. The other two opened fire on Ruby, who easily avoided the bullets. Ruby closed the distance between her and the two goons and cut them down.
Roman walked out of the shop and said, "Worth every cent, truly you were."
Ruby got into a fighting stance, and Roman said, "Sorry, Red but I must be going."
Roman raised his cane and fire an explosive round at Ruby, who launched herself into the air to avoid it. When she came back down, she found Roman gone and looked around. She quickly found Roman climbing the ladder on the side of a building.
Ruby reached the roof of the build Roman was climbing to find him in a bullhead. Roman tossed a fire crystal at Ruby's feet and shot at it. Ruby closed her eyes and crossed her arms in front of her face, bracing herself for the explosion. Ruby heard the explosion, but never felt it, so she opened her eyes to find Glynda holding up a purple glyph protecting Ruby from the explosion.
"We got a huntress," Roman said and switched with the pilot of the bullhead, who appeared to be a woman.
Ruby fired a few rounds at the woman, who blocked the shots with her hand. Ruby scowled and thought about opening her lantern, but decided to hold off on it.
Glynda made a hailstorm above the bullhead causing ice shards to rain down on it. Roman moved his head to avoid an ice shard that went through the windshield.
The unknown woman cast five fire glyphs beneath Glynda's and Ruby's feet. Glynda jumped backward to avoid it, while Ruby jumped forwards.
Alright, now it's time to bring out the big guns. Ruby thought as she stood up. She collapsed Crescent Rose and holstered it. Ruby grabbed the pistol in her shoulder holster; the grip was so thick Ruby's fingers barely touched each other. She pulled the pistol from the holster with her left hand.
Ruby's pistol was called Door Knocker and was a single shot break open reload. It fired over-pressurized 14.7-millimeter ammunition, the most common Ruby used was High-Explosive Armor Piercing (HEAP) rounds; though she does have an assortment of other rounds. Door Knocker was designed to penetrate the strongest of armor while being fired at point-blank range. The gun got its name from that since it was like Ruby was knocking on the Grimm's door when she fired it; also the aftermath of what the bullet did to the body wasn't that pretty either.
Ruby used her right hand to pull her hood up. Afterward, she used the same hand to grab the small lever on her lantern and pulled it down, opening the lanterns shutters, allowing an eerie silver light to shine. When Ruby opened the lantern her eyes fully opened and her pupils constricted, while the silver light from the lantern and the shadow cast by her cloak made the silver lantern light cast her body and eyes in an eerie silver glow.
The unknown woman's eyes widened in surprise. Glynda could only see Ruby's back, but could still see the glow of the lantern that illuminated the area around Ruby.
Ruby started to walk towards the bullhead and the unknown woman cast a fire glyph beneath Ruby's feet. Ruby ignored the glyph and kept walking. When the glyphs went off it missed Ruby as she had already walked out of the glyph. The unknown woman scold and cast three fire glyphs in front of Ruby, creating three columns of fire that made a wall in front of Ruby. Ruby kept walking right into the wall of fire as if it wasn't even there in the first place.
Glynda's and the unknown woman's eyes widened in shock as Ruby walked into the wall of fire, and their eyes widened even further as Ruby emerged from the wall of fire unfazed by it, even though her clothes were slightly burnt, and there were a couple of places on her clothes that were still on fire.
Ruby raised her pistol and pointed it at the unknown woman. The unknown woman was surprised when a wave of fear washed over her. Ruby fired. The sound of the gunshot caused Glynda to flinch slightly as the sound hurt her ears; the unknown woman was fair enough away, and the sounds of the bullhead jets helped cancel out the sound. The unknown woman moved her head to the left, avoiding the bullet as it flew past her and through the metal hull of the bullhead.
Ruby placed her middle finger on a curved piece of metal that extended from the trigger guard and squeezed it. Door Knocker broke open just past the trigger guard and the spent round ejected from the pistol with a trail of smoke. She rolled her left sleeve up, revealing a leather ammo gauntlet filled with ammo for Door Knocker. She loaded a new HEAP round into Door Knocker. When Ruby placed her right hand on Door Knocker to close it, steam or smoke, it was hard to tell which, came from under Ruby's hand as she closed Door Knocker.
Ruby continued to walk forward. The unknown woman raised her hand and sent a torrent of flames at Ruby. Glynda snapped out of whatever kind of state she was in just to watch Ruby fight and hit Ruby forward. The torrent of flames missed Ruby, going over her head as she tumbled to the edge of the roof, a small wall around the edge of the roof.
"Let's go." The unknown woman ordered Roman.
The jets of the bullhead turned from vertical to horizontal and started to fly off. When the bullhead started to leave Ruby vanished into a flurry of red rose petals that turned into small silver flames before dissipating. Ruby reappeared in the air on the left side of the bullhead. Inch and a half long metal claws extended from the fingers of her right hand. She slammed her right hand into the side of the bullhead, digging her claws into the hull.
The unknown woman heard the bang of Ruby's hand hitting the hull of the bullhead and peeked her head out to see what caused the noise. The unknown woman's eyes widened in surprise to see Ruby clinging onto the side of bullhead.
With Door Knocker still in her free hand, Ruby pressed its barrel against the hull of the bullhead. The unknown woman was confused as to why Ruby was aiming at the ship instead of her until she looked back inside the bullhead. Her eyes widened when she saw several crates of dust, which were in-line with the bullet line of Ruby's pistol. Without thinking the unknown woman jumped out of the bullhead. Just as the unknown woman jumped out of the bullhead, Ruby pulled the trigger.
There was a half-second delay between Ruby pulled the trigger and the explosion of the bullhead.
The explosion engulfed the whole bullhead, and Ruby while pushing the unknown woman away; almost sending her off the roof, she wanted to land on. Glynda gasped and covered her mouth, able to see the explosion, as the bullhead only went four and a half blocks before it exploded and dropped to the ground in a burning pile of scrap metal.
Glynda quickly ran over to the crash site in search of finding the young girl alive, completely forgetting about the unknown woman. Glynda searched the surrounding area of the crash site figuring, and praying; Ruby was thrown from the explosion instead of being caught inside. Glynda let out a sigh of relief as she found Ruby sitting against the side of a nearby building.
The right side of Ruby's blouse and cloak were burned, and blood covered Ruby's right torso; Ruby's aura had stopped the bleeding. Glynda couldn't see Ruby's right arm as she was using an unburned part of her cloak to cover it up. "Are you okay?" Glynda asked approaching Ruby.
"Yeah," Ruby said rising to her feet wincing slightly. "Aura took care of most of the damage, just a few small pieces of metal that need to be removed and my aura can take care of the rest."
"You sure?" Glynda asked.
"Yes," Ruby replied.
"That's good, but you're going to have to come with me," Glynda said.
"Am I in trouble?" Ruby asked.
Glynda could tell Ruby already knew the answer to her question. "That is to be determined."
Ruby shrugged and muttered. "That's better than I usually get."
"Did you say something?" Glynda asked not hearing what Ruby muttered.
"Nothing," Ruby said.
Glynda took Ruby to whatever building she did in episode 1. When they entered the room Glynda from in her tracks, and Ruby bumped into her, causing Ruby to wince slightly. In the room was Headmaster Ozpin sitting across from a woman with short white hair, hazel eyes, and glasses. The woman was dressed in a black blouse and skirt under a white lab coat. "Hello, Glynda it's been a while." The woman said with a small smile of amusement.
"Yes, it has been a while, Dr. Schwarz," Glynda replied with a small forced smile.
"Hello, 601." Dr. Schwarz said leaning her head to the side slightly to get a better look at Ruby. "You're injured. What happened?"
"Exploding bullhead filled with a few crates of dust," Ruby replied.
"Come I will patch you up." Dr. Schwarz said, standing up from the table.
"You can't just walk in here and take this girl, Ruby, out of here. Do you know what she just did? Not to mention you have some explaining to do as well Doctor." Glynda said glaring at Dr. Schwarz.
"Yes, I am aware of the fact that 601 killed Roman Torchwick and his associate." Dr. Schwarz said.
"Ah, the woman jumped out of the bullhead before it exploded." Ruby corrected cautiously, knowing she was now officially in trouble.
"Did you get a good look at the person's face?" Glynda asked.
Ruby nodded.
Glynda opened her mouth to speak, but Ozpin cut her off. "Glynda. I realize your feelings for Dr. Schwarz and her… practice are quite negative, as well as are my own." Ozpin saw Ruby lower her head and frown. "But we shouldn't let our own feelings towards the doctor stop her from treating her patient."
"After I finish treating Ruby's injuries you can talk to her all you want Glynda." Dr. Schwarz said and grabbed Ruby's left hand, taking her to another nearby room.
Glynda gave an angry huff and said. "I can't believe that woman. Using a kid for her experiments."
Ozpin didn't say anything and just took a sip of her coffee. He had a feeling that there was more to Ruby's story than it appeared, and he would have to ask Taiyang or Crow about it if Dr. Schwarz didn't tell him. He knew Dr. Schwarz well enough to know even she wouldn't use a child for her experiments without a good reason.
In the infirmary Ruby was sitting on a bed with her burned cloak folded up next to her on the bed, while her burned, and ruined, blouse and sports bra were in the trash. Dr. Schwarz was sitting in front of Ruby with a wet washcloth in hand, taking a few seconds to look over Ruby's fit toned body that even Yang's didn't match. Dr. Schwarz cleaned the blood off of Ruby's torso. Ruby winced slightly as the water and cloth stung her open wounds, but it was nothing she was not used to; her body could contest to that.
Ruby's body was covered in scars. She had a three clawed diagonal scar that went from her left shoulder to her right hip, a burn scar that covered her left bicep, a jagged scar from a piece of metal on her right side of her stomach; her back had a five clawed scar going horizontally across the middle of Ruby's back, eight bullet entry wound scars from a .45 (the bullets didn't go all the way through Ruby), and a thin straight vertical scar from Ruby's right shoulder blade to her waist. Though Ruby's must noticeable scar was her metal right arm that connected at her shoulder.
Dr. Schwarz finished cleaning the blood off of Ruby and picked up some tweezers. "This will sting a bit." Dr. Schwarz said with a small smile.
Ruby snorted in amusement knowing it was going to hurt like hell. Ruby's face cringed in pain and gripped the bed sheets tightly as Dr. Schwarz removed the metal bullhead fragment. As Dr. Schwarz removed the fragments from the wound Ruby's aura activated, healing the wounds without a scar.
After Dr. Schwarz had removed all the fragments from Ruby's body, she looked at Ruby's right arm. "Looks like the explosion took off most of the fake skin. I'm going to run a diagnostics test on it to make sure it wasn't damaged." Dr. Schwarz said. "Try as I might I still haven't made a prosthetic arm that can take the same kind of punishment your body can."
"Is that a compliment?" Ruby asked.
"Yes." Dr. Schwarz said and attached a few cables to input/output ports located under a layer of metal that she slid out of the way.
Dr. Schwarz attached the other end of the cables to her scroll. The screen showed a digital image of Ruby's metal arm and several rectangles with loading bars. After the loading bars had shown 100%, the box turned green, showing that the arm was in perfect condition.
"Your arm is in good condition." Dr. Schwarz said.
"That's good," Ruby said.
Dr. Schwarz took out an unmarked spray can from her coat pocket, and shook it, before spraying Ruby's right arm. Skin seemed to spray onto Ruby's arm as Dr. Schwarz sprayed Ruby's arm. After Dr. Schwarz had finished spraying Ruby's arm it looked like a regular arm, you couldn't even tell it was fake, except for the fact that there was a lack of fingernails. Dr. Schwarz took out a small case of short fake nails. She opened the case and put the fake nails on Ruby's hand, sliding into place perfectly as the hand was designed.
"There, good as new." Dr. Schwarz said.
Ruby flipped her right hand over a couple of times before bringing her left hand up next to it. Ruby's right hand looked pristine, while her left hand had callouses, a couple of small scars, and nails that have seen better days. "Better than the other." Ruby sadly joked.
Dr. Schwarz felt a pang of sadness go through her heart, which for some unknown reason Ruby was the only person to really bring out such an emotion. There was something special about Ruby that let her breach any and all walls that a person puts up and get to anyone's heart, even if it's just a little. Dr. Schwarz couldn't understand what it was about Ruby that made her so special. She knew it wasn't Ruby's silver eyes and the legend behind them, which Ruby and Dr. Schwarz knew was true, and it wasn't the fact that Ruby was part of the "Cursed 6" either. But Dr. Schwarz knew that whatever it was it truly was something special, and she wanted to find out what it was.
"How is your sister?" Dr. Schwarz asked, changing the subject.
Ruby instantly smiled brightly at the mention of her sister. "She's doing great. She got accepted into Beacon."
"That's good for her. Beacon is a good school." Dr. Schwarz said.
"Yeah, though she has been talking about getting her hair cut short," Ruby said.
Dr. Schwarz was surprised by the news. "You are talking about your older half-sister Yang right? Long blonde hair that goes ballistic if even a single strand of it gets cut?"
"Yeah, but she has been talking about it for four months now, so I doubt she has any intentions of actually doing it," Ruby replied.
"Hm." Dr. Schwarz nodded in understanding.
If Dr. Schwarz remembered correctly, Ruby had an injury four months ago that left her bedridden for a couple of weeks. Dr. Schwarz checked her scroll for the file. She found the file and opened it revealing that the injury she was thinking of was a broken right leg, which caused her to have to stay in bed for three weeks to recover. Dr. Schwarz knew that to Ruby being confined to a bed and not being able to move was basically torture to her; not in a claustrophobic way, but in more of a she likes to move and not be kept still kind of way.
"Let's get you back to Ozpin and Glynda; they don't like to be kept waiting." Dr. Schwarz said standing up.
"I still need a shirt," Ruby said.
Dr. Schwarz took off her lab coat and handed it to Ruby. Ruby sighed and put on the lab coat on, buttoning it up. Dr. Schwarz smiled in amusement as her lab coat hung very loosely on Ruby as she was almost a foot taller than the younger girl. Ruby pouted at Dr. Schwarz's smile as she knew that the lab coat made her look even younger and smaller, as her arms were too short for the sleeves and the tail of the coat dragged across the floor. Ruby scooped up her cloak in her arms, and they went back to the room Ozpin and Glynda were waiting in.
When Ruby and Dr. Schwarz walked back into the room and Glynda and Ozpin saw Ruby they gave a puzzled look. "My clothes were ruined, and I had nothing else to wear," Ruby said.
"Please have a seat, Miss Rose," Ozpin said gesturing to the seat across from him.
Ruby sat down in the chair and noticed a plate of cookies. She looked at Ozpin, who gave a barely noticeable nod and grabbed a cookie. Ruby took a bite out of the cookie waiting for Ozpin to say something, while praying it didn't involve the words "you", "are", "going", and "prison"; though the words "isolated cell where you'll never see the light of day again" crossed her mind.
Ozpin pulled up a video of Ruby using her Crescent Rose. "Now where did you learn how to use one of the most dangerous weapons in Remnant?" Ozpin asked.
Dr. Schwarz cleared her throat getting everyone's attention. "If you're going to criticize my work at least give it the proper recognition."
"Are you sure that you want to be known as the woman who made the most dangerous weapons in the world?" Ruby asked.
"They are the most dangerous weapons." Dr. Schwarz said. "It also means they are the most powerful."
"Anyways," Ozpin said shooting Dr. Schwarz a glare for interrupting, "can you tell me where you learned to fight like this. The only person I know who uses this kind of weapon is a dusty old crow…"
"That's my Uncle Qrow; he taught me, so I don't have to keep relying on the Doc's weapon so much," Ruby replied.
"So do you attend classes at Signal?" Ozpin asked. Usually, he would have access to that kind of information, but it appeared that Dr. Schwarz had hidden, or erased, any information on Ruby after her eighth birthday.
"Define attend," Ruby replied.
"Are you currently enrolled in Signal and take classes there?" Ozpin clarified.
"Well I was actually expelled from Signal on the first day, but I still sneak into the classes," Ruby replied sheepishly.
"Why were you expelled from Signal?" Glynda asked.
"Well some guys were picking on a faunas girl, and I tried to get them to stop, but wound up getting into a fight with them instead. I didn't have a lot of practice with Crescent Rose by then, so I was still relying on Door Knocker and the lantern to fight with. And long story short I wound up breaking a couple of their bones and putting them in the hospital for a week. Later that day I was suspended then expelled a few days later." Ruby answered.
"I see," Ozpin said and took a sip of his coffee to contemplate Ruby's answer.
"I think 601 should start attending Beacon this year." Dr. Schwarz said.
Dr. Schwarz statement got mixed reactions. Glynda looked at Dr. Schwarz like she had lost her mind. Ruby looked at Dr. Schwarz surprised. Ozpin looked at Dr. Schwarz curiously.
"Why do you think that?" Ozpin asked.
"When I was treating 601's wounds she informed me that her half-sister, Yang Xiao Long, is going to be attending Beacon. My research has shown that 601's relationship with her sister is quite a positive one to 601. If Yang was to move away from 601 to Beacon, it would be detrimental to 601's health, and helps her deal with the side effects." Dr. Schwarz said.
"What kind of side effects are you talking about?" Glynda asked.
"Severe nightmares, physical scarring, mental distress caused by the nightmares." Dr. Schwarz replied.
"Physical scarring?" Ozpin asked.
"I have scars on my body from wounds I've received, that I'm self-conscious about, and Yang helps me deal with self-esteem issues they cause," Ruby said. "Oh, she also helps me with my social awkwardness, but that's not really a side effect of the lantern and Door Knocker."
"I see. Well, when you put that way it is hard to say no to the kind of request." Ozpin said.
"Sir, you can't be serious. Letting one of Dr. Schwarz's monster attend Beacon would be a disaster and a danger to the students." Glynda said.
"Glynda." Ozpin scowled.
Glynda couldn't figure out what she did wrong until she remembered Ruby and that Glynda had inadvertently called Ruby a monster. Glynda quickly turned to Ruby to apologize but was stopped when Ruby casually said, while reaching for her sixth cookie. "Relax, it's not like I haven't heard it a hundred times before already. Besides, I already consider myself a monster, and would say it's a pretty accurate description."
Ozpin and Glynda were surprised by Ruby's words and felt sad that a young girl like Ruby would consider herself a monster. They turned to look at Dr. Schwarz, who said. "She signed a contract with a warning of what to expect."
"It's better than being confined to a bed for the rest of my life, or dead, so I can't really complain," Ruby said.
Ozpin opened his mouth to ask what Ruby meant by being confined to a bed for the rest of her life but felt he has had enough depressing information for one day. "Alright, I think that's enough for day," Ozpin said standing up. "Welcome to Beacon Miss Rose." Ozpin then turned and left the room.
Glynda sighed and followed Ozpin out the door a few seconds later.
"What just happened?" Ruby asked confused by why Ozpin would suddenly end it there.
"Just someone who has seen the evilness of this world a few times too many." Dr. Schwarz said.
Ruby nodded in understanding. The world can certainly seem ugly at times… especially through theses cursed eyes of mine.
