Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. -Sun Tzu
No name currently, open to suggestions.
"Come on. Come on." Ruby Rose mumbled to herself, waiting for the holo terminal to give her the information she wanted "Aha." Ruby said, removing her data spike as she turned around to see a squad of Stormtroopers with a familiar man leading them.
"You're under arrest Ruby Rose. For crimes against the Empire." The man said.
"Hello there Roman. How many times does this make it? Ten? Twenty?" Ruby asked, teasingly not worried about the squad of Stormtroopers.
"Hey boys, did he tell you what happened the last times he tried to arrest me?" Ruby asked, smile wide on her face as she moved from foot to foot, "No? Well they're all dead now. Only reason Roman is alive, he's just too cute not to die and I rather like our games. You lot? Well you're rather boring so I kill you lot." Ruby said cheerfully, her blood red cloak wrapping around her body.
The Stormtroopers all look to each other, even with helmets on it was clear they were unsure what to make of the woman's words.
"Don't listen to her. Just arrest her!" Roman shouted at them.
Steeling themselves they all raised their blasters as the front two advanced forward to arrest Ruby who was only smiling in response.
"You didn't tell them did you? I'm hurt Roman, I thought you'd treat your soldiers better than this." Ruby replied.
Throwing out her hands she knocked back all the Stormtroopers and Roman and took off in a sprint, jumping over them all while dropping a thermal detonator in the middle of the Stormtroopers.
She was out of the building by the time it exploded, using the Force to increase her speed. She smirked as she saw a platoon of Stormtroopers waiting outside for her and even an AT-ST positioned at the front of the building.
'He's learning now, better watch out.' Ruby thought to herself as she pulled her two blaster pistols into her hands. Two DC-17 blaster pistols.
She didn't stop moving as she brought the two pistols up, firing as she ran. Hitting with deadly accuracy. She didn't even need to dodge the return fire as they had all moved to cover and those few shots coming her way were wide.
Without a pause she kept sprinting forward while she called her ship to her position. Then the AT-ST opened up, the larger guns throwing up dirt and concrete into her face.
Reaching down to her back Ruby pulled out one of many explosives she kept on her, and threw the rather large device with the help of the Force to plant it right at the walkers feet.
It exploded out with a large ring of fire before imploding in on itself and taking apart the walker in the process.
Smirking as she saw the walker collapse, Ruby sprinted into the open courtyard firing at anything left as her ship came screaming in.
"Love to stay and chat, but I've got somewhere to be." Ruby said, saluting them playfully as she jumped back to land onto the ramp.
Sprinting to the cockpit Ruby disengaged the auto-pilot as she took control herself, and immediately leaving the area.
Finally away from them all it gave Ruby a chance to rest. Her cloak formed around her body as an almost protective shell over the skin tight black under armour she wore, with only a single paladin sitting on her left arm. She also had two thigh holsters for her blaster pistols and a third situated at the back of her waist.
Her silver eyes stood out the most but her short red hair was tied up in a loose ponytail hidden underneath the hood of her cloak.
She was tall, standing well over six feet and was rather well defined but average for her age, although her body was hidden by her cloak.
The ship itself wasn't anything special, a small ship but big enough that it had two private bedrooms, a kitchen and a bathroom space alongside a common area.
It had two pairs of blaster cannons on the front mounted by the sides of the cockpit and another pair on the top in the middle and a pair on the bottom. But hidden underneath all of this was Ruby's personal fighter in case she ever needed it.
Meeting the other traffic of the city world, Ruby was able to blend in and escape from the Imperial building with the data she was after.
It didn't take her long to reach home. Home being in a large apartment block not far from the old Jedi Temple on the planet.
Leaving the ship, Ruby put it back on auto-pilot for it to take those final few steps back to where she parked the ship as she quickly climbed up to her apartment.
Tired and worn out Ruby was ready to just fall into her bed and sleep. Unlocking the door she called out, "I'm home girls." She called out.
"Hello Ruby, good night?" One of her friends and roommates, Mia asked as she came through the door.
"It was, have you all eaten?" Ruby asked.
"We have. There's some leftovers in the fridge for you." Another girl said, her name Naomi.
"Thanks." Ruby said, going to the fridge to retrieve the food.
Then she felt something, something yelling at her about a danger coming. Pulling her blaster from her hand she spun around and pointed it towards the threat she felt.
"She leaves. Now!" Ruby said darkly, blaster pointed towards the new person's head.
"Wait, please Ruby. Put the blaster down and I'll explain." Velvet said, moving to stand in front of the woman she brought out of her room, while the others all looked in shock.
"What's going on?" Another girl, Darcy asked as she came out of her room to see Ruby pointing a blaster at Velvet.
Ruby ignored them all as she used the force to pull her second blaster into her hands while pointing both at the woman behind Velvet.
"I'm being nice. I should just shot her. You clearly don't know who she is." Ruby replied.
"You're a Jedi?" The girl behind Velvet asked in a sweetly soft voice.
"Please will you just hear her out? For us?" Velvet asked as the other girls in the house gathered around the pair.
"You have five minutes." Ruby replied, lowering her blasters back to their holsters, "If I even feel your father close by then I'll personally shot you and show Torchwick your body." Ruby said darkly as the girls of the house all went to sit down onto the couch.
There was Mia who had short blonde hair and brown eyes on sat down on the corner. Next was Naomi who had jet black hair reaching well past her shoulders and blue eyes to match.
After that came Darcy who had similar black hair to Naomi but hers was lighter and a little shorter, reaching just past her chin while her bright green eyes stood out.
Next was Robin who had long blue/black hair that reached well past her shoulders and towards the small of her back and dark blue eyes which matched her hair.
Lastly was Velvet, with brown hair and eyes she was the kindest of the group. Always welcoming and open to listen to people, even if she didn't know them.
They all worked in the Empire in some form, mainly logistics but they were all trained to handle a blaster with deadly efficiency, thanks to Ruby.
They were a close knit bunch, with them all being friends before Ruby came along but she was welcomed into the fold a few years ago.
It took a year before Ruby revealed what she really was, a runaway Jedi from Order 66. Ruby was never short for credits and her friends didn't bother to ask her what it was she did to get those credits, but they knew what it was she did at night.
Attacking Imperials to get some sort of data on something, they never asked what she was searching for, respecting her too much to ask her.
"Talk!" Ruby stated, hand resting on her holstered blaster.
"I want to get out." Neopolitan Torchwick, a rather short woman compared to Ruby, or any of the girls. She had long pink, brown and white hair that reached far down her body and she stood out in a crowd with her pink and blue eyes.
"There's the door." Ruby said bluntly, pointing towards the door.
"Ruby!" Velvet exclaimed, glaring at the woman who only shrugged.
"I mean I want to get away from my father, I want to get away from the Empire. I'm not blind to what it is they do and I want to get out." Neo said.
"Why? That's not a proper reason. Somethings happened to spark this change. And you haven't told me what it is you want to do to escape." Ruby replied.
"She's not the only one who wants to go." Darcy said, speaking up.
"Right. Go where exactly? All you've said about is escaping the Empire. You've clearly thought about this." Ruby replied, folding her arms over her chest.
"We heard a message. A sort of rallying call or something. It was patchy but we managed to hear it." Velvet started to explain before Ruby stopped her.
"I know the message. Are you all saying you wish to join this rebellion that has started?" Ruby asked.
"Yes." Neo said, "I want to escape and so does everyone here, plus a few…friends I know. And well I met Velvet and have known her for a while and she wants the same. She said she knew a friend with a ship, I just didn't realise that was you." Neo replied.
"No." Ruby said bluntly. Turning away from them to grab her food and walk out but was stopped by Mia.
"Why not?" Mia asked.
"Because no." Ruby replied, taking a bite from the food.
"Please Ruby, just meet the friends Neo spoke about. I'm sure they'll change your mind." Velvet said.
Ruby looked at Neo and the others, taking in their looks and seeing that they all wanted this. Sighing, "I'll see them. Why don't you all pack your stuff." Ruby ordered.
"You." Ruby said, pointing at Neo. "You are going to contact your friends, tell them to meet us here. Then I'll decide whether or not I will take you." Ruby said, leaving the room and those inside to go into her room.
"I don't think it's a good idea for them to meet us here." Neo called out after her but got no response.
Closing the room to her door, Ruby let out her held breath. She couldn't deny her friends the chance to do what they wanted, but to defect to the rebels was something else.
She heard the message, of course she did. But she thought it was stupid, even though the Force was calling her towards it and now would be the time to go.
Putting her food on her table she went underneath her bed, taking out the box she had stored under there when she first arrived here with the girls.
Opening to box she pulled out a red, silver and black weapon that was folded up and put it on her bed, then removed the two slightly curved lightsaber hilts sitting inside, next to full Mandalorian armour.
Taking the lightsaber's and putting them on her waist while the folded up weapon on her back. Finishing up she wrapped her cloak back around her body and lifted the box up to take with her.
She picked up her food, quickly finishing the small meal before throwing her clothes back into the box alongside the armour.
Then she heard voices outside her room. Male voices that she recognised instantly, back from the Clone war.
Blasters in her hand she sprinted out of her room and slide to a stop in front of three Clone troopers dressed in part in their old clone armour, helmets at their sides and old blasters on their back with one of them carrying an even older Vibroblade.
Each of them had a red strip running down both of their arms with one of them having a red helmet at their side.
"Clones." Ruby growled out as she pointed her two pistols at them.
"General Rose?" One of them asked, the one with the Vibroblade. Taking a step forward.
Turning to the clone it took Ruby a minute before recognition set it but she kept her weapons raised as she asked. "Inhibitor chips?" She asked.
"Gone. Removed. We got a warning from Rex. It's just the three of us." The one with the red helmet said.
Lowering her weapons Ruby smiled faintly as she said, "You kept it after all these years." She stated.
"Of course General. You were the one who gave it to me and taught us." The one with the sword replied.
"I'm not a general. Not anymore." Ruby said sadly, "I take it you are Neo's friends?" Ruby asked.
"We are General. We want to fight against the Empire, we met Miss Neo and through her Miss Velvet. We want to help." The man said, Commander Grim clone commander of the 19th Clone battalion.
"I see. Fine, I'll take all of you to the base. I hope you're all ready now." Ruby replied, moving back to her room.
Coming back out with her box slung over her back she saw everyone else carrying a small bag of stuff, even Neo had a bag now.
Four hours later.
Once Ruby had gotten everyone aboard and settled she had taken off into space, it was easy to get off the planet and into hyperspace for the long journey towards wherever the Rebels were.
They didn't ask Ruby how she knew how to get to them, and she didn't bother to tell them how she knew.
The entire time except for getting them settled, telling them where everything was and where to go if they wanted to sleep.
After doing that she had secluded herself inside the cockpit for the trip, even though she wasn't needed she wanted to avoid everyone. Especially after everything that happened, but it was clear after four hours someone decided to try and talk to her.
"Um Ruby?" A nervous looking and sounding Neo asked, taking a step into the cockpit.
"Could you take a step back please?" Ruby asked without turning.
"Huh? Sure." Neo said, confused as she took a step back. Only to have the door close in her face and lock.
Frowning she walked back to the common area where everyone was gathered and said annoyed, "She just shut the door in my face." She stated.
"She's thinking. It's best not to disturb the General when she's like that." One of the clones, Ghost replied.
"How do you know Ruby? And why do you refer to her as General?" Darcy asked, sitting forward to look at them.
"You know she's a Jedi right?" Grim asked, receiving nods from those around her. "She had a certain reputation, even before the war broke out. All the clone battalions were assigned a Jedi general to lead them. We were assigned General Rose, we were quick to learn why she had that reputation and we actually got nicknamed the Reapers." Grim said, smiling as he spoke proudly.
"The Reapers?" Mia asked.
"Yeah, wherever we fought against the Separatists we ripped through their lines. It was rare we worked alongside other clones outside our naval and ground units but when we did, we were akin to Reapers, or so they all said. They needed a droid regiment destroyed they would send us. We gained a reputation for shock and awe. Smashing through droids like paper." Grim finished.
"What about Ruby's reputation? You said she had one before the war, what was it?" Velvet asked.
It was Ghost who answered, the one with the sword. "We all don't know much. When she first took command of our unit, well we had certain practises. The generals got a personal guard, the general hated this but she conceded after a certain assurance." Ghost replied.
"What did she make you do?" Naomi asked with interest.
"We had to learn to fight with a sword. She gave the ten of us a sword each and trained us. We…well we could take certain Jedi on with our ability, at least it was the aim. Never really tested it out." Ghost said awkwardly.
"Anyway, she fought a lot with the Jedi council. Mainly over principles as the general would, how would you say it?" Ghost asked, looking at the two other clones.
"She openly questioned them. Over what it was they were doing and the main principles of the Jedi." Griggs answered, the normal trooper.
"Yeah those. But it wasn't something they could throw her out of the order for, so instead sent her off on long missions. By extension we were also sent out with her when the war begun. She also experimented a lot, one of the best sword master I know. I'd say she could give most of the masters a run for their money." Ghost continued.
They all felt a powerful jump in the ship, throwing them forward and even making a couple of the girls fall onto the floor but were quickly helped up.
"What happened?" Neo asked.
"No idea. Let's go." Grim said, standing up and sprinting for the cockpit where they all saw the massive star destroyer with weird semi-balls over the ship with a couple of cruisers escorting it.
"What the hell is that?" Darcy asked, coming up to sit in the co-pilot seat.
"They are gravity wells, old design but never mounted on ships. We used them a couple of times, massive fucking devices to set up." Ruby commented on it as she set about some course corrections.
"They managed to mount them on ships, that's worrying. What's the plan General?" Grim asked, turning to Ruby.
"Ghost take control." Ruby said, climbing out of her chair as she went face to face with Grim. "Make sure they make it safely to the rebellion. Coordinates are all pre-programmed in." Ruby said, moving to leave but was stopped.
"General, I'm not leaving without you. Not again." Grim said, stopping Ruby.
"I gave you an order. You make sure they get there safely. I'll catch up, if not. Well I'll see you later." Ruby replied, moving down to a ladder leading downwards.
"General!" Grim said, moving after Ruby.
"Commander, are you disobeying a direct order?" Ruby asked in a deadly tone.
Freezing up Grim realised what it was Ruby said as he paused. "No General, I'll get them there safely." Grim said, even saluting Ruby who disappeared down the ladder.
When Grim came back he quickly ordered, "Ghost get us ready for hyperspace the minute we're free. Griggs, move to man the top cannon, I've got bottom. Darcy was it?" He asked, seeing a nod, "Man the front one. Whatever the General is doing we're going to at least cover her best we can." Grim ordered as he moved to man the turret.
"Detaching now." Ruby said, as they all heard the sound of a clamp disengaging.
They watched as a heavily modified Delta-7 Aethersprite-Class light interceptor flew away from the main ship, coming out of a mini hanger bay underneath the ship towards the star destroyer.
Ruby shot down the incoming tie fighters and avoided all the incoming fire easily, the force augmenting her flying abilities.
"Hog, prepare to jump." Ruby said as she came up onto the star destroyer.
She had heavily modified the ship to be able to take out light cruisers with sheer firepower alone, with torpedoes and heavy cannons. She had all but removed the old comms and replaced it all with better protection and weapons.
It was before the war when she changed the star fighter to a black and dark red colour scheme to match her and now it was paying off.
Tipping in for her run, Ruby's main guns destroyed the turbo lasers firing at her while her missiles and torpedoes destroyed enough of the domes to allow them safe passage.
"Hog, jump now. I repeat, you have your window. Jump!" Ruby cried out, moving her fighter out of the way of an incoming tie.
Ruby watched as her ship jumped into hyperspace and she quickly fired off a series of disruption pods to throw them all off as she powered up her engines to jump to hyperspace.
One thing she had been determined to change was the fact it had no hyperdrive, and thanks for the help of some ship builders she had done just that, now following her ship into hyperspace she escaped the Empire.
While sitting in hyperspace Ruby decided it was the best to read the data she had stolen from the empire. Hoping that it helped her find who she was looking for.
Two hours later.
When she exited hyperspace she immediately probed with the force as the ships came onto her sensors.
A couple blockade runners alongside some A-wings and a new design that she recognised. Alongside her own ship, though it seemed the A-wings were circling her ship.
"This is Gunfighter, returning to Hog." Ruby said, going to dock with her ship.
"So you finally did it General." Grim said when Rub came into the cockpit.
"I did, hated relying on those stupid rings. What's going on?" Ruby asked.
"They're not letting us close. Seems they're discussing whether or not to let us board and talk." Darcy said, annoyance evident in her voice.
"Right. Give me five minutes to get ready, if we still haven't been given permission to move then we'll go straight to the command ship and board them." Ruby ordered, as she left to go to her room.
True to her word, five minutes later she returned. Dressed in her full armour. The armoured was dull silver and looked rather bulky as it went on top of Ruby's undersuit.
On her two thighs were her holsters and blasters with the third one being at the back of her waist. Two slightly curved lightsabers were attached to her hips while the folded weapon was at her back.
Next her red cloak was wrapped over her body and she had a black Mandalorian helmet with a red visor was in her hand.
"Break away now, launch the countermeasures as well. I don't want them to realise until we're right on top of them." Ruby ordered, placing her helmet onto her head and throwing the hood of her cloak up.
All the girls looked at Ruby scared while the clones had smiles upon their faces as they put their helmets on as well.
Ruby's visor seemed to glow underneath her hood, looking menacing and deadly all rolled into one. Ruby moved away from the cockpit as they came up to the command ship.
Feeling the ship dock with the other one Ruby stood at the door and waited. The others had grabbed blasters but were held back by the clones and also Neo, who seemed to know something.
The door slid open, only for Ruby to vanish through it and the sound of lightsabers activating made everyone run to the door to see what was happening, however they kept their blasters by their side.
Ruby felt the presence of three Jedi, however only two in the corridors plus a young Mandalorian alongside two other aliens.
Ruby ignored all but the two Jedi, seeing two blue lightsabers she rushed forward. Engaging them both with a single dark purple lightsaber she effortlessly switched forms to whichever one she needed.
She blocked both strikes, spinning in time to knock the taller Jedi back and threw the other one with the force back.
Then the Mandalorian attempted to fire at her but she stopped the bolt in the air with the force while she moved out of the way and let it harmlessly hit the wall.
Ruby watched as the two Jedi recover as she felt the third Jedi begin to move so she threw her hand out, knocking everyone over as she put away her lightsaber and unfolded her other weapon.
A large scythe deployed, silver, black and red with a small magazine sticking out at one end with a trigger. Holding it behind her back with the blade near the ground and pointed up, the familiar hum of a lightsaber echoed as the blade lit up in the silver/red colour.
"What the hell?" The younger Jedi asked in shocked surprise, mirrored by the others.
Ruby smiled underneath her mask as she saw the Mandalorian the only one to attempt to fire at her but she just spun her scythe in front of her, absorbing the shot.
"Nice try, I admire the fact that even faced with death you still fight." Ruby said calmly, as she saw a familiar head move past them all.
"Master Rose?" A curious voice asked, slowly walking forward.
"I haven't heard that name in a long time…young one." Ruby said, smiling underneath her mask as she deactivated and folded her scythe away, removing her helmet at the same time.
"You finally did it?" Ahsoka Tano asked.
"I did it years ago. But the council never even saw it. Why do you think we were called the Reapers?" Ruby replied.
"It's great to see you again." Ahsoka said, hugging the armoured woman.
"You too youngling, I'm sorry I took so long." Ruby replied, as her crew slowly came out from the doorway and was introduced.
"Now perhaps we can talk, and learn why it took you so long." Ahsoka stated.
A/N
So this, alongside another SW X RWBY story I've done a little work on are being uploaded together, simply to get a feel of what people think of them and to see if anyone would like to see me write more. What you're seeing is the whole story that I've written so far, so it is a little rough and ends abruptly, but it's simply to get opinions.
Oh and I want to ask. Do people want to see a Mass Effect crossover story with RWBY? Namely replacing a couple characters with RWBY characters, like Ruby, Neo, Ironwood, Ozpin and maybe a couple others. Not entirely sure yet. It would include the characters from ME as well, sort of. It'll be a lot of work but if it's something people want to see, then I wouldn't mind giving it a shot. Then the question would be where should I start? ME1? ME2? Or drop right in there with ME3?
That's it for now, until next time.
So this, alongside another SW X RWBY story I've done a little work on are being uploaded together, simply to get a feel of what people think of them and to see if anyone would like to see me write more. What you're seeing is the whole story that I've written so far, so it is a little rough and ends abruptly, but it's simply to get opinions.
Oh and I want to ask. Do people want to see a Mass Effect crossover story with RWBY? Namely replacing a couple characters with RWBY characters, like Ruby, Neo, Ironwood, Ozpin and maybe a couple others. Not entirely sure yet. It would include the characters from ME as well, sort of. It'll be a lot of work but if it's something people want to see, then I wouldn't mind giving it a shot. Then the question would be where should I start? ME1? ME2? Or drop right in there with ME3?
That's it for now, until next time.