The moment you've been waiting for, Ruby blows up

Note: the box starts a countdown of 3 when the lid is open

Also, someone posted that the motivation for Adam seemed a bit farfetched, so I will explain a bit, because I saw that the explanation was indeed lackluster:

The Majority of Atlas media is not Faunus Run, but human run, and they do not condemn the other companies in public, so when they praise the SDC Adam won't believe what they said because they said the same things for other companies. Also, the Atlas branch is by far the hardest to control because the racism is strongest

Chapter 2: Explosion

Ruby reached out through the bars of the gate and brought in the box, it felt slightly heavy, but Uncle Qrow had always said that she was stronger than the average Faunus or Human. The box was around 8 inches wide and 10 inches long, and 5 inches in height, with ornate green, red and gold designs all over it. Yang and the Schnee children came running over to inspect the item that came in.

"What's the box sis?" Yang asked as she looked over the fancy object. Winter, Weiss and Whitley also looked around in curiosity, the seemingly harmless and fancy box drawing their attention from their game of hopscotch they were playing moments ago. "I don't know Yang, a strange girl brought it over, and the box says it's for Uncle and Aunt Schnee, from the… um…" Ruby paused, trying to read the text beside the From on the Box "Bedonna's?...Bellona's…". Winter took a closer look and recognized the name: "Belladonna's"…

Ruby began to twitch her ears, unable to hold back anymore, she quickly began fumbling with the box. The box did not yield at first, but then Ruby saw a peculiar button on the top, so Ruby did the Ruby thing to do, push it. It opened, and when it opened, Ruby detected a peculiar smell, and her eyes widened, remembering just what that smell was.

"Uncle Qrow, what are those fancy crystals?" Many shards were lined up in front of a shop called "Dust to Dawn". A large hand ruffled her hair and ears, and she quickly put up her hands to protect her fluffy little ears from her Uncle's calloused hand "Those are dust crystals Ruby, Burn dust specifically" her uncle laughed as her ears perked up with sudden interest: "can we touch 'em?" The hand appeared again, this time resting on her tiny shoulder "Unfortunately, Dust is not for you, kiddo, at least not right now," he spoke, silencing her with his index finger before she could ask the inevitable Why Not? "if you drop them, which you certainly will, they will explode, and let me tell you, an explosion does not look good on you kid..."

A loud series of quick beeps forced Ruby out of her memories, and she broke into a cold sweat. "THE BOX IS MAD!" she hollered, and Winter, the oldest one of the bunch (and the only one with her semblance unlocked), quickly threw glyphs down in a desperate attempt to move the small group away from the IED.

Tai and Hivern's heads whipped around when they heard a strange beeping sound, and saw that the box was making that sound. Hivern lay her own glyphs to mover the children including Ruby, who had dropped the box. It looked as if the children were safe, and the adults let out a sigh of relief, only to realize the group was missing two people. Winter, in her desperation and panic, had not put a propulsion glyph, but rather a restricting glyph on herself. She looked to the right to see that Ruby was also stuck in one, so she quickly nullified the glyphs and started running towards her mother. Ruby was also running back but realized the beeping had quickened to a considerable rate, she then knew that she and Winter would not outrun whatever this box had in store for her, so she did what any good friend would do to another, shield Winter with her own body.

The bomb exploded and Ruby opened her mouth to scream, but found out she couldn't, she felt as if someone had punched her really, really hard in the chest, leaving her out of breath and unable to speak. Ruby felt a scorching hot pain all over her arms and legs, she then lost feeling in her legs, flesh warped and blood flew and dried as the bomb hit Ruby full force. Ruby made one last attempt to mouth her father's name as she reached for the horrified glances of her family and friends, briefly wondering if Winter was safe from the box as she felt more pain, and then nothing at all as the world went dark.

Trees were bent, flowers were uprooted, and walls once pristine were cracked and dusted with red as the bomb exploded. Winter bounced up and down a few times before she stopped at a wall, she then looked up, ears ringing and eyes watering, as her mother rushed up to inspect her, and then gape in horror at something behind her as she too went unconscious. What Winter would've saw if she stayed awake, would have been Ruby, arms and legs bent at unnatural angles; her left foot and right hand completely taken off, bone showing at the tips. Ruby's back was an angry pattern of red and black, still smoldering where the bomb hit her, shards of the box also covering it. Ruby's face was the one thing left untouched in the incident, blood pooling around her mouth and nose, the look of shock and fear plastered with now closed silver eyes, and ears eerily twitching when the girl was clearly unconscious.

Before Tai knew it, he was running across the front garden to where Ruby lay. Hivern quickly dialed an ambulance on her scroll, praying to whatever higher being that Ruby would survive long enough to be stabilized by the paramedics. Yang wailed at the sight of Ruby battered and bloody on the ground and began running to her father and crying for Ruby to wake up, Weiss and Whitley also crying in shock when they saw the condition of Ruby's body. The ambulance took Ruby and away, and that was the last time Schnee Manor would ever be without guards, carefree days now gone.

Qrow Branwen was at home listening to the radio, nursing a shot of root beer in his hand, he had promised to drink less from now on, Tai had taken up teaching in Signal and it was up to Qrow to watch Ruby, and the little scamp had proven herself, time and again, to be the most dangerous thing alive to all furniture that existed. He and Tai had once taken the kids to school registrations, and Ruby then managed to turn a couch into a steel skeleton in 52 seconds. Qrow chuckled to himself, and then frowned when he heard the tune "Bad Luck Charm," scroll ringing with Tai as the caller. Qrow answered the call, then quickly launched out the door and hastily locked the door as Tai relayed the day's events, tears dripping from his corvid eyes as he transforms into a crow and flies as quickly as he could to the Advanced Atlesian Medical Hospital Stay alive kiddo Qrow thought you're the one of the few things keeping me sane, and I'm not ready to lose you yet.

It was Quiet when Qrow arrived at the waiting room, the attendants directing him their had displayed looks of sorrow when he mentioned Ruby. He opened the door, and the first thing he saw was Tai and Yang sobbing their lungs out, the Schnee family sitting beside them in sorrowful silence. He quickly sat besides Tai, a few tears leaking down his own grizzled face, and the two embraced, sandwiching Yang in between."It's going to be okay" Qrow said "Ruby's gonna be fine...She has to be" Qrow himself felt his voice crack in the very end, but it didn't matter. the door opened, and a nurse came in with a solemn look: "May I speak with the family of Ruby Rose?"

Ruby opened her eyes, looking around and seeing a serence and graceful landscape, full of green. She squinted her eyes, and saw a figure in the distance and gasped, she would recognize that white cloak any day. Ruby ran towards her mother, shouting her name, and just as her mother turned around and parted her lips, Ruby was sucked out of the paradise, and woke up to hear the few words that would haunt her forever: "Ruby Rose's body is failing her, she will not live to see the next week."