A/N: If you don't know what the hell is going on; check out my story "The Crisis". If you do, then I'm Calling Ruby-2 "Flash" just because it's easier. Also, just wanna apologize for how long this took to get out. I started my second semester of college and got a job, so I'm pretty busy.

Also, this chapter contains HEAVY spoilers for Supernatural seasons 14/15.

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Part 3 Of The Crisis

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Remnant Five

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"What did we miss?" Jaune asked, appearing before Ilia in a blue mist.

"Many more worlds have been lost," she solemnly told him.

"Which ones?"

"Forty-nine, thirty-five, forty, fifty-seven, thirty-four, thirty-one, and twenty-four have been lost." She bowed her head in silent respect of the worlds lost.

Jaune sighed, "we need to speed this along. Before more people die."

"Working on it." Ilia simply told him.

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Remnant Two

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The Flash needed to sit down after what her doppelgänger had just told her. It was crazy, but then again; what wasn't with Team Flash? She suddenly found herself feeling faint and short of breath. She waved off a concerned Qrow almost immediately, and while she only meant for him to give her some space, he took it as a sign to leave.

She didn't correct him.

As Ruby explained the events that brought her to this point, The Flash was slack jawed. Everything she thought she knew was wrong. Instead of a naturalistic accident, the universe was created by two brothers? She could hardly believe it, but then again, one of the brothers had sent herself to convince her.

Ruby offered up even more information than what was needed, telling Flash how she knew that the brothers were real; a genie popped out of a lamp, and showed her that the person they'd been fighting—Salem—had actually caused the brothers to abandon Ruby's version of Remnant. Ruby spent time, carefully weaving her and her team's tale up until this point in time, at least that's how it sounded to Flash. To anyone listening in, Ruby was simply stringing together a bunch of random syllables and rambling on, but as a speedster, Flash understood everything Ruby was saying.

"Alright," Flash said, not really needing to hear the whole story, "I'll help."

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Remnant 616

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Nora idly scanned her surroundings as she awaited Ren's return, her eyes not so much taking in the rows and rows of books of the library, more so just looked for a distraction from her boredom. Ren had Nora stay behind, telling her it was so he could focus rather than addressing the real issue at hand: he just didn't want to talk about what had happened at the rally.

When they'd kissed.

Having known Nora for almost his entire life at this point, Ren knew that he could hold out against her pressing a topic for a while, but he wasn't sure this time. Being… together-together was definitely something they both wanted, but Ren was too concerned with the long term effects of such a relationship with his oldest friend to even consider going through with it.

Ren found himself getting distracted by the nature of his relationship with Nora too often these days. He shook off these thoughts and continued searching for any sign of the 'Rose of Iron' on the library's computers.

It didn't take much searching to find it, in fact it was the first thing that came up; "IRON ROSE VANISHES IN CRISIS". It was a newspaper article about Ruby having flown a suit of armor and a missile through a portal above Atlas. That was weeks ago. Under any other circumstances, Ren would assume Ruby had died already, but Ilia's message was clear. She wouldn't be easy to track down.

Or so Ren thought.

The floor suddenly vanished beneath his chair and he was sent tumbling down a flight of stairs. Ren recovered quickly, taking a fighting stance and finding that Nora had come through the floor with him. Must have been a portal of sorts. Who opened it? And why?

The first question was answered almost immediately, as a man suddenly appeared in front of them, delicately floating above the stairs. He wore a blue robe underneath a thick, brown leather belt and a large crimson cloak. The cloak had a rather large collar, making him look more like a colorful vampire than anything else.

With a wave of his hand, their weapons were torn from their hands, and their hands were bound together.

"You come from another world," he said, "why are you here?"

"We're looking for Ruby Rose." Ren struggled against his restraints, grunting as he did so.

"You're too late. She's gone." The wizard told him.

"We were told that she would be," Ren continued, "but that it was our job to bring her home."

"Who sent you?" The man asked.

"Would you believe me if I told you that you wouldn't believe us?" Nora asked. He shook his head.

"Try me."

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Remnant Two

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Yang had a bit of an advantage in finding Jaune, as she knew what the blonde boy looked like. If she couldn't find him, all she had to do was find his desk, and she would have found Superman.

Speak of the devil… Yang strode up to the desk with Jaune Arc's name plate on it. The seat was unoccupied, however. The blonde woman looked around for him, but saw no one who even resembled Jaune.

"Yang?" A familiar voice asked. The blonde turned, and locked eyes with the one, the only; Superman.

"Damn," Yang said, "if you aren't one milque toast son of a bitch?" A smile graced her lips. "The perfect cover." Most people wouldn't have caught how off guard she'd caught him, but she did.

"The perfect cover for what?" He asked, quickly recovering.

"Oh, don't act like you don't know."

"Are you okay, Yang?" He ran his eyes across her body, presumably using his x-ray vision to scan her for anything wrong.

"X-Ray eyes up here!" She pointed to her eyes, and he stood a little straighter, clearing his throat. His gaze still didn't meet hers, but rather her feet. She was getting annoyed at how damn good he was at keeping his cover. She roughly grabbed him by his tie and pulled him along behind her, dragging him to the secluded break room. She quickly closed the blinds and locked the door so no one could see in or interrupt their conversation.

"I-I'm not sure if this is appropriate, Yang." He very clearly protested. She rolled her eyes and stuck her hands in her jacket pockets.

"What's wrong, Kal?" She playfully asked, "you got a girl?—or a guy?—I don't judge." He cocked his head to the side, immediately dropping the mild mannered routine.

"You're not Yang, are you?" He sternly asked. His voice was a lot deeper now. More authoritative. "Brainiac?"

"I wish it was that simple, Superboy." She told him. "Alternate reality."

"And you came to me? Of all people? And not your own sister?"

"I sent Rem One to check in on Rubes." From there, Yang quickly filled Jaune in on everything that had happened up to that point, about Ilia, Remnant One, and the worlds ending crisis. "We need your help."

"That's all you had to say."

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Remnant 616

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They'd come to learn the wizard's name; Stephen Strange. He was the Sorcerer Supreme of this world, and certainly possessed the power to bring Ruby home. The real question was why he hadn't already.

"I don't intervene unless the stakes are world ending." He told them.

"This time they're worlds ending." Ren told the man, who simply nodded.

"It should be easy to locate her approximate location."

"Why do I feel like there's a but coming?" Nora asked.

"But we'd have to occupy the same space the original portal was opened for us to get even remotely close to her present location. That's not even accounting for her having moved in the weeks she's been there." Ren sighed.

Of course it wouldn't be that easy. It never was.

"Can't you just use your magic skills to float us up there?" Nora asked.

"Theoretically, I could, but opening the portal will require my complete concentration, so I might accidentally drop one-or even both of you."

"Then how do we get up there?" Ren asked.

"I know of a few people who would be willing to help."

Remnant Two

Now that the Ruby and Yang of Remnants One and Five respectively had completed their mission and gathered those they had been sent to gather, they met back up, both of them with a civilian dressed superhero in tow. The Flash looked like any other person in her regular dress, but Superman? He looked nearly invisible. People walked all over him just on the way over to the rendezvous point. He got shoved, brushed shoulders with, and more than one person stepped on his feet, but he didn't fall a single step behind. Yang supposed she should admire that, if she didn't already have mixed feelings about Jaune as Superman. Don't get it twisted, she loved the idea of her sister being the Flash, but she just really hated Jaune. Especially after what he did to Oscar.

Although, the Jaune that Yang knew was just a skin suit, really. Used to house the biggest bastard Yang had ever met. At least this Jaune didn't have that god awful beard. The only thing Yang hated more than her version of Jaune was his stupid beard. She hated it! Even when she thought he was a good guy, she'd wanted to shave the damn thing. It bothered her with how uncomfortable it looked. She shuddered just thinking about it.

"Everything alright?" Super-Jaune meekly asked. They were still in public, so he couldn't exactly drop the act.

"Huh?" She asked, caught off guard by how… nice he was. "Yeah. I'm fine." She wasn't used to anyone being nice to her unless they wanted a favor, or to get in her pants. Ruby was just about the only person who was regularly nice to Yang without wanting something. They were all each other had, and they both knew it. Sure, there was-no. She didn't count. She could go to hell.

Yang found herself scowling at the thought of her angel friend, the one she was currently not talking to. They'd had a bit of a falling out after… Cinder's… sacrifice. If only she'd stuck to the plan and not killed Belpheghor, Cinder wouldn't have died. Cinder died because of her. Damn her, Yang thought. Damn her to hell!

Yang was torn from her internal ranting when she spotted the pair of Rubies in the crowd, one dressed like she just came from comic con, and the other like a normal human being. Yang scoffed at Remnant One's outfit. It was so damn impractical! Someone could easily grab the cape, or it could get snagged on something. So much was wrong with how she dressed, that Yang wondered why her alternate self let her baby sister go out like that before she realized that Ruby was stubborn as all hell and probably wouldn't listen anyway. God knows her Ruby didn't.

The two heroes spotted one another before they spotted the other's escort, both lightly jogging to one another. Remnant One jogged to keep up with The Flash, but Yang just leisurely strolled behind Jaune, offering little more than a skeptical stare and a sigh.

Both otherworldly visitors offered the same, wide-eyed and slack jawed reaction when The Flash kissed Superman, however. Yang looked between the two Rubies, Remnant One's reaction telling her that that wasn't normal on her world. 'Maybe they're just really close friends,' Yang internally reasoned. 'Friends who don't mind lip-on-lip contact.'

Remnant 616

The currently present Avengers weighed whether or not to believe the wizard and the two very familiar looking teenagers. They were asking a lot of the superhero team. They wanted to borrow a Quinnjet so that they could fly it into a no-fly zone so that they could retrieve a woman that had been previously thought dead.

"And once that portal is open?" Steve asked.

"The jet goes in it." Strange said.

"Last time that thing was open, it was spewing Grimm," Romanoff cut in, "Who says the same won't happen now?"

"No Grimm will come through. Trust me."

"Why should we?"

"I'm your best chance at saving this girl's life."

"Should we contact her family?" Bruce suddenly spoke up, showing his support for this plan.

"No." Steve quietly said, "I don't want to get their hopes up if this doesn't work."

A/N: Okay, so I'm gonna make this bit a two parter, with the next chapter focused solely on Remnant 616. I meant for a ton more to happen in this chapter, but it's been weeks since I last updated and I need to continue this or I'll stop holding myself to finishing this before I can work on something new. I deeply apologize for how all over the place I've been these past five years, but I honestly have a hard time focusing on one project at a time. It gets to be a grind at some point and the second it becomes a grind, my brain goes, "oh look, shiny object" and then I abandon the project. It sucks! It also just so happened that I fell off of binging the Flash/Legends of Tomorrow right as I started writing this, and I now REALLY wanna write a Halo/RWBY crossover, but I won't let myself until I finish The Crisis, even though I have no friggin clue where to go from the halfway point!

Anyway, next chapter, getting Iron Rose outta the next dimension or wherever the hell she is!