Ruby Universe: The Movie Chapter 1

Happy Thanks Giving


Parody: Steven Universe: The Movie


The curtains rose on what appeared to be a stage a unseen orchestra starting up with a happy, boisterous tune.

"Ruby
Everyone believes in, Ruby
All across the universe
Ever compassionate, can you imagine it?
Even with us at our worst
Hybrid daughter of a Diamond
Human daughter of a Rose"

"What a revelation
She's a revolution
A Gem that loves and grows"

"Ruby
Have you heard the tale of Ruby"

"Always putting others first
Can you imagine it?
Ever compassionate
Ruby Universe."

As the melodic tone ended it revealed a book decorated with the symbol of a rose, opening it revealed a diamond spilt in four sections of yellow, blue, pink and white. A voice begun its tone breathtaking and mature.

"Once upon a time, the gem Homeworld was ruled by the four Diamonds. White, Yellow, Blue, and the littlest Diamond, Pink." White a breathtaking beauty said to as perfect as she was invincible had fiery red hair and emerald eyes despite her name. The term 'invincible' had been coined behind closed doors a most fitting title.

Yellow was a powerful woman who's eyes were stern and unflinching donning a riding crop and prepared to wage war on any who opposed the giant of a woman nicknamed Winter do to her formally cold indifference to war.

blue once a proud and powerful woman with the sternest glare had mellowed with time. Her cadence becoming softer as her blonde hair grew out. Her riding crop long let go.

"While the other Diamonds conquered many worlds across the galaxy, Pink had only one - the planet Remnant." The page revealed hundreds of small dots colored differently between shade of azure, amber and ivory with only the smallest dot being coral.

"One day, Pink fled the comforts of Homeworld. On Remnant, she made a new home, new friends, and finally, new life, giving up her form to bequeath her gem to her half-human daughter… Ruby Rose." It showed the tiny diamond changing form to the familiar visage of her persona Summer Rose, showing her friends Weiss her Pearl unit, Yang a late blooming gem who she took raised as a daughter and Garnet a fusion of two other gems who defied the social norms of their kind. Finally it showed Taiyang her true love and then her crowning achievement Ruby her daughter.

"Without Pink, gemkind entered an era of despair. But when Ruby Universe learned of her heritage, she reunited with her fellow Diamonds and championed an new era of peace and freedom across the furthest reaches of space." The book closed to reveal White Diamond or who Ruby had dubbed Pyrrha, her smile was pleasant and warm so kind you'd never think such a woman had fought and won countless wars.

"And now, dear gems everywhere, I'm pleased to announce that Ruby is finally ready to take her rightful place on Pink Diamond's throne!" Slowly the camera lowered to show said girl who fidgeted a bit nervous at being presented before the universe. Hundreds cheered at the silver eyed girl's visage, the child who'd changed the course of their kind.

"Um, H-hey everyone…" Said girl blushed even if she was seventeen now she still was no good at these social things.

"So um, like I know your all saying 'yay, Ruby, the new pink diamond!' heheh, but you don't have to put me on a pedestal or anything. Cause I already a home on Remnant with my friends!" All three diamonds blinked surprised leaning forward confused and a bit hurt by their Ruby's words. Outside across the galaxy the world watched the tiny reaper explain.

"It's in a beach house along the sea with my besties Weiss, Yang and Garnet." Yellow looked to the two pearl units filming her eyes giving off that classical Winter glare.

"Cut the feeds." The pearls were quick to comply in a hurry, Ruby turned to the three giantess smiling.

"I did better than I thought." Pyrrha however approached her face pleading.

"Ruby please." Winter followed up.

"You can't go." And finally, Glynda.

"You have to stay…" Pyrrha spoke then a smidge of sorrow in her gaze.

"Your all we have left of her, of Pink…" The floor shook as Pyrrha fell to her knees a plea in her eyes.

"You belong here, with us." Ruby smiled happy they cared about her, but like she said she already had a home. And it certainly wasn't here.

"Uh, thanks, but...no thanks." However the three diamonds hadn't given up yet and begun to sing their final plea.

"Come live with us in the palace
There's a room waiting for you"

"Come on
Come on
Come on"

Each's eyes pleaded not helping the tiny roses nerves.

"Just let us adore you"

Ruby backed away her smile now slightly forced.

"You guys have really gotten better at showing affection, buy I've got my own life to get back to
Don't forget- I'm not Pink Diamond!" three giant hands slapped down before her making the little human lift with the floors trembles and Ruby to fall on her butt.

"Yes, we know that you're not her but you were her's"

Ruby chuckled nervously, feeling suddenly very much less comfortable around her… aunts? Were they her aunts? Questions for another time.

"You know what it meant to love her
And you remind us so much of her" a cold sweat running down her brow she spoke.

"Thanks, but I really gotta go"

"But Ruby!" The three begun to make their own cases.

"I've disbanded my armies and even liberated my colonies!" Winter had, though she still slipped back to her military way of things every once in a while, but not even a diamond was perfect. Glynda spoke next.

"I've ceased shattering those who break our rules! I've even gone to those… 'therapy' sessions you spoke so much of to stop from making others cry!" It was true, she had gotten quite a better handle on her pathokinesis.

"I've been saying "please" and "thank you", even to lower life-forms!" While not appearing very important for Pyrrha the invincible Gem even among the diamond it was quite a statement. After all she stood at the peak of evolution and certainly had the right to look down on all other lifeforms. Ruby however would hear none of it and narrowed her eyes., crossing her arms with a fierce pout.

"What did we talk about?" Pyrrha sighed not seeing the harm in acknowledging one's superiority, it wasn't as though she hated or thought less of those beneath her anyways.

"Uh, equal life-forms, but Ruby, we've done everything you've asked! So please won't you reconsider?" Ruby smiled happily, they had tried a lot and certainly changed for the better just like she knew they could.

"That's great! Good job! Keep it up!" Ruby spoke with such cheer at their words before light suddenly enveloped the tiny rose.

"Bye!" Leaving the three to sigh as the little rose was beamed through the cosmos shooting past galaxies through the vastness of space. Finally, she reached her target passing through the shattered moon and towards Remnant. Landing on the crystal pad she leaped off eager to find her friends, exiting her home she looked to the beach and sun of the beautiful day and smiled slowly hoping in place she begun to hum before opening her mouth to express her joy.

"Here we are in the future
Here we are in the future and it's bright"

She leaned against the fencing of her home looking into the blue sky enjoying the breeze before she broke into a collection of petals storming towards the beach.

"Nothing to fear
No one to fight
I can't believe we've come so far
Happily ever after here we are"

Ruby paused as the gem embedded in her abdomen flashed from the sun's ray. She looked to the rose quartz a hint of somberness coming to her face.

"Once upon a time, I thought I'd always be in my mother's shadow
Answering for her crimes I thought I'd always be in an endless battle"

She remembered her doubt and learning that while her mom had been a ultimately good person she'd made more mistakes then most a sad fact of those with long lifespans.

"'Til I began to own A power all my own"

She rose her hand where a scythe manifested while around her body a barrier formed.

"That I could feel growing stronger every day
And now I saved the world
Not just that- the whole galaxy saved
We did it!
Here we are in the future!"
She spotted a van then and smiled recognizing hers dad ride anywhere and broke into a speeding missile of rose petals slamming into the man before he even knew what was happening.

"Hey Dad!"

"Agh! What the! Oh hey Rosebud!" Tai ruffled her slightly longer locks that rain down to her shoulders.

"Dolt." Ruby turned to the affectionate nickname's speaker and smiled.

"Weiss!"

"Ruby! Let go, 'sigh'"

"Heheh, sorry."

"'sigh' I swear you never grow up."

"Hey I've grown plenty!"

"Yes, yes, we know you drink plenty of milk." Ruby pouted before she noticed the instrument in Weiss's hand.

"What'cha doin?" the tsun pearl unit rolled her eyes before smirking to the rose.

"If you must know I'm learning to play the bass" Tai shrugged.

"I keep telling you it's called a 'base'." With a huff the icy eyed gem propped her hands to her hips.

"Excuse me, B-A-S-S spells "bass." Tai shrugged giving up.

"You're the boss" Weiss smirked proudly.

"Of course I am!" She then leaped unto the van beginning to strum her bass allowing her angelic voice to be heard.

"Once upon a time
I only lived to be of Pink Diamond's service
Until the day the two of us snuck down to be on this planet's surface"

She smiled at the memory, seeing the first time Pink diamond assumed her new life as Summer Rose.

"We became our fantasy
And I was sure she'd set me free
But in the end, I guess I never left her side"

She blushed blue at the memories of before Summer had met Taiyang, of her unrequited love.

"And after love and loss and all the tears that I cried, I find that-"

The father and daughter joined their uptight friend.

"Here we are in the future!"

From thevan a colossal dog emerged a corgi dozens of times larger than what it should be and pink and as a wad of bubblegum where it wasn't black, Summer Rose's familiar.

"Zwei!" Ruby leaped into the giant ball of fuzz.

"I'm heading into town."

"See you at the concert tonight?"

"Wouldn't miss it for the world!" Snuggling into the dog she literally fell into its fluffy fur, falling into a airless field of pink searching for hair instead of fur and pumping straight in all the while humming before emerging from a pink Cardin's short locks like a tiny rocket only to be caught by Garnet who as always knew she would be there.

"Here we are!"

She smiled the fusions way.

"Hey Garnet." Said gem smiled.

"Ruby, I saved you a seat"

"Thanks!" Quickly planting her keister down she noted the milk and cookies already ready for her, quickly stuffing her face she looked to Garnet.

"So, 'gulp' what'd I miss?" Garnet chuckled.

"You're just in time for my favorite part of the story."

"Once upon a time, an Emerald came to Earth with his Ruby soldier"

The scene showed one Lie his appearance like a child with skin as green as jade and to his side was a chipper smiling Ruby unit that'd later go by the name of Nora.

"Emerald's deadly fate was set until the Ruby rushed in to hold him"

Nora tackled Lie away from a blade meant to shatter him, a fate he'd accepted as his but she'd opposed before the two glowed and Garnet smiled at the memory looking at her palms where an emerald and ruby laid in each's center.

"Suddenly they were fusing
Beautiful, strange, confusing
And there I was, a bundle of precious so naïve"

She was the manifestation of their love and the rings represented that that love was both as a gem and how humans loved one another.

"And if you told me this I never would've believed you then but-
Here we are in the future!"

Ruby smiled always loving that part, before she thought it was a tiny bit icky but lately she wished there was somebody she could like-like like that. She looked down at her plate of cookies thinking how Yang would probably love to stuff her face right about now.

"Let me save this" Raising her palm she captured the plate in a pink bubble before teleporting them away another nifty power of hers.

"Hey, any idea where Yangs at? Garnet smiled messing with her shades a cocky smile that came from the fairer of her two gems.

"I have every idea what everyone is up to? 'Heh' You'll find her if you head to Little Homeworld. Take the warp." All to eager to she leaped at it breaking down and rematerializing in the air the warp pad held up by a few ropes. She nearly fell off then and there before a hand grabbed her cape stopping her.

"Woah! Careful sis!" Ruby turned to see Yang smiling back at her walking up to her. Though Yang was older by hundreds of years she was a shortstack a byproduct of her creation, yet her strength was second to none.

"Thanks, Yang!" Said brawler smiled.

"Hey red looks like you managed to barely make it in time." Ruby turned a pout at Roman the sorta moms friend slash enemy turned good bad guy… it was confusing but he was a bismuth a mechanic of the Gems even if he did like to steal from time to time.

Well your timing couldn't be better we were about to install the new warp." Ruby crossed her arms a brow rose.

"And where did you get this pad from?" Said man looked away from her a slight click of the tongue.

"I… might've 'liberated-"

"Stolen…"

"LIBERATED, it from the big girls upstairs last time we visited homeworld." Ruby slapped her face.

"It's one of yellows isn't it."

"Ah, you know me so well." Beside him a smaller petite Gem appeared floating on a pad of sorts. Her name was Neo, an off color who'd used her powers to hide her deformation from the Diamond when she'd served them but now strut around loud (Figuratively) and proud of her ice cream themed self. In her palm was a pad as she worked on the calculations, she wasn't a genius but anyone could learn rocket science after several hundred years. Sending a look Romans way he smirked.

"Sweet, we're already at 83.7 percent completion! How do ya like them apples Red?" Behind them leaning against the machine Roman was using the secure the pad another Gem smirked.

"Only 83.7 percent?" Roman rolled his eyes before looking the Gems way.

"Geez thanks kitten." She shrugged long since growing use to the nickname what could she say she preferred the faunus form to the humans. In her chest was a amber stone as bright and vibrant as her eyes. Neo nodded at Blake's words though not being one for waiting till the last moment unlike Roman.

"Yeah yeah, I'll get going, Oum above you two can be real slave drivers." Snickering ruby left the trio to their antics before floating off with Yang to see the rest of Little Homeworld smiling when she saw all the pretty colors of the many different gems working together. A sight you'd only find on earth.

"Wow, Little Homeworld's growing fast!" Yang snickered before looking to ruby and pouting.

"Yeah so are you Rubes, 'tch' no fair!" Yang then put up her best ruby impression.

"Look at me! I'm an adult, I drink milk! 'snicker'"

"Meanie! And I am an adult!" Yang laughed never getting tired of teasing her little sister no matter how big she got.

"You are to me, well…" She smiled deviously then.

"At least until you snag a man… or girl, I don't discriminate." Ruby's face went pink,

"Yang! I-I, eww, just eww."

"Aww, looks like your still just a kid."

"N-no I'm not! It's just, there aren't any guys around who'd I like, I want a knight in shining armor, but he has to like the same junk I do, except cookies, nobody takes those from me!" Yang snickered again before looking to Little Homeworld and smiling.

"I love this place… that all these Gems wanna make their new home here on Remnant. Wish I'd had this when I first emerged." She recalled the past then.

"Once upon a time, I burst to life inside of the Kindergarten
A product of a war that I had no idea I had a part in"

She remembered being born into an empty lifeless cliffside all around her was hundreds of holes much larger than her the runt of the group.

"I came out late and alone
Knew nothing but my home"

She remembered not know much but that she was abandoned before she'd even been born.

"But I know now exactly who I'm supposed to be
And It's a part of this family!"

She remembered Summer giving her her hand and by extension her family with Ruby as her sister in all but blood and Tai as the father she was never supposed to have. And that family only grew bigger including Weiss and Garnet and now all the gems here. All them she'd protect or be shatter trying.

Appearing from the warp pad Weiss and Garnet emerged smiling ruby and Yang quickly rushing to them, Ruby quickly pulled out her scroll smiling as she looked to them all and readied to take a selfie with the original members of the Crystal Gems.

"If I could just stop right here and be
Finally done
Finally us
Finally we are in the future"

Using her semblance she engulfed them all in a tornado of rose petals flying towards the hillside they always relaxed at.

"Here we are in the future and it's bright!
Nothing to fear
No one to fight
I can't believe we've come so far
Happily ever after
Happily ever after
Happily ever after
Here we are!"

Happily, they all took their seats in the warm grass enjoying the peace and quiet, the breeze cooling them, Ruby looked to Garnet then not a care in the world.

"So how's the future Garnet? We stay like this forever and ever?" Ruby's smiled like always was infectious and sporting one of her own the gem adjusted her glasses a 500 gigawatt smile on her face.

"Of cou-" Abruptly her smile died as a look of fear rushed in its place and she looked up to the sky. Noting her worry Ruby looked where she had noting the darkening cloud and powerful winds beginning to build. Quickly the young rose stood up looking to the ominous sky. And to her horror it parted at the center revealing what looked like a colossal hourglass but with coral liquid at its base instead of sand.

Slowly the large structure descended, the clouds vanishing with its decent, at its top was a rose pink crystal larger than a house. For moment all remained still until a figure stood atop the otherworldly structure.

"Hey, are you Ruby!?" the young rose paused feeling a tad nervous but deciding honesty was the best.

"Y-yeah, that's me." The figure spread a joyous smile yet his tone held an edge.

"Perfect…" Raising his hand it extended and swirled around creating a cone like form, he rose it to his lips and blew. A wail like a navy boats horn filled the earth and with it the bottom of the structure shifted, a menacing drill emerging from it alongside three insect like robotic legs.

Garnet quickly grabbed up the three in her arms and leapt back just in time to avoid the drill that rushed forth impaling the earth as the legs buried deep in the hillside. Yang growled.

"Hey don't ruin our favorite spot you bastard!" The drill buried deeper before a coral line appeared as it fed the liquid into the soil. From the top the figure leaped like a spring to its base where he was visible to them. He was a gem his dirty dim pink heart shaped crystal showing at his chest, several jagged cracks running through it. He wore steel ended boots tinted the lightest shade coral with gloves of a similar make. Both articles of clothing looking a bit comedic on him when paired with the noodlelike arms and legs emerging from them.

Running up he wore a dark top with pointed spaulders and puffy shorts the appearance was… off, yet he looked the slightest bit like a jester. His skin was a slight pink with strawberry blonde locks of messy hair shooting out wildly. He looked up then his eyes unlike the rest of him were a deep lavender. Underneath them three deep crimson lines ran. His smile spread but it didn't reach his eyes as he looked to the four.

"'Heh' ~Well well well, what have we here?~" Raising a hand to his eye curling it, it suddenly elongated, his eye turning into an almost cartoon like telescope.

"~Well let's have a look at the Menagerie~"

"Huh, the runt must be Yang, oh and the public display of affection there has to be Garnet right? And…. Oh wow, if it isn't Snow Angel… So, I guess that means 'she' brought you huh? Well … Isn't, that…. Swell." His teeth gnashed for a moment but it quickly passed. All the while Weiss looked to the figure going wide eyed.

"It can't be...!" The man smiled then his smirk doubling almost becoming too wide for his face.

"Oh, but it can be Weiss, and it is! Though I can't blame you for not recognizing me, after all I got a new style." He ran his hand through his spikey locks his smirk becoming more savage in nature.

"Oh and a new toy of course… and one heck of a plan! So, let's get this show on the road so I can 'kill' this little 'Happily ever After' of yours… once and for all." His tone grew cold for a moment at the last line before he smirked again. Ruby however always trying to be a good girl leaped up hoping to talk.

"Wait, we don't have to fight I'm sure this is a misunderstanding is all. After all maybe you don't know this but I kinda established peace acro-!"

"Yeah yeah yeah. I've heard your little message to the universe, after all I've had it… On Loop! Without warning the boy stretched out his leg the limb rocketing forward kicking the tiny reaper away. Seeing Ruby attacked the other gems pulled out their weapons assuming their battle stances. However instead of showing fear all the strawberry blonde did was laugh.

"Oh… I just loooved that part where my good old friend pink spends the rest of her days on this… Nowhere Planet! With a bunch of NOBODIES!" Abruptly the blonde leaped up his legs like springs. He landed moving almost like a slinky towards Ruby.

"That's right I heard the story over and over again"

He righted himself dancing like a clown his head leaning forward inches away from the rose's the madness in his azure orbs only second to the sadistic rage.

"Gee, it's swell to finally meet her other friends
That's right I heard the story, don't really care for the end
Gee, it's swell to finally meet her other friends"

Jaune scooted near Weiss his eyes mirthful as the pearl tried to run him through with Myrtenaster only for him to dodge shifting his entire body out of its thrust. Finally, he stretched out his hands snatching the pale gem up and quickly he slithered to a tree playing with her feet like she was a upside down marching doll.

"What did she say about me? What did she say?"

Quickly tossing Weiss away he rushed towards his next victim quickly making circles around Yang, the blonde hitting him with her explosive punches, yet they did nothing but make his rubber like limbs vibrate slightly. With a smile he kicked her up in the air before proceeding to juggle the runt with his feet like one would a hacky sack. All the while he rested his face on his hands a mock face of curiosity showing.

"What did you do without me? What did you do?"

Finally though Garnet rushed at him Magnhild ready only for him to shift around it and working it out of the fusion's grasp. With a kick he launched her into one of the injectors legs before shooting out his hands making a bridge to catch her. Before she could say a word the arms begun to shake making Garnet raise and fall completely unable to focus. Jaune leaned in his smile growing as eyes widen.

"Did you play games without me? What did you play?"

Once said Gem was utterly disoriented, he turned his sights back on Ruby and shot forward like a sling before abruptly stopping and spreading out before the reaper. His limbs bent many times over as he worked the cruelest smile he could his eyes glowing and resentful. He towered over her looking like the villain of an old black and white cartoon, Ruby flinched at the odd sight.

"Did you think all this time that I wouldn't find out about you?"

Stretching out his limbs he grabbed each of the gems and Ruby pulling them beneath him slamming into one another. He twirled above launching off his limbs taking hold of the lighthouse's top. Slinging towards it he looked to them his cruel smile venomous as he crouched like a predator.

"Oh, That's right I heard the story over and over again
Gee, it's swell to finally meet her other friends…"

Yang glared eyes crimson.

"The hell, he's making us look like chumps here!" Garnet gritted her teeth.

"I can't find one, I can't see a future where we beat him…!" Unlike the others though Weiss merely stared at the cruel gem looking down on them her face still one of disbelief.

"It really is Jaune, but, but he was never the kind of gem who'd do something like this… What happened to him?!" Ruby looked to Weiss shocked.

"You know him Weiss? Who is he?" Apparently, that wasn't the expected response as upon hearing those words from ruby… From 'her' his pupils dilated and body trembled.

So… You really did forget!

A crack was heard as his gem's body grew a bit dimmer the cracks spreading, he pointed to himself his face resentful.

"Who am I? Who am I? What are you even saying?"

Jaune stomped to the light house's rim his feet denting the metal beneath, he gripped the rim with enough force for it to warp in his hold as he snarled.

"I'm the loser of the game you didn't know you were playing!"

However no sooner did his sneer vanish as he recalled the next step of his little plan.

Oh, now time for some FUN!

Pulling out a tiny cylinder from his gem he smirked evilly before tossing it in the air.

"Let's play another game this time I get to ~Win~"

The cylinder landed in his palm and he quickly gripped it with both hands.

"Lives on the line"

From it a blast of pink light erupted forming a twisted and jagged blade of coral shaded energy.

"Winner takes all"

Swinging the sword into the ceiling of the tower the blade parting it like butter. He smiled pleased.

"Ready or not, Let's begin!"

He sprung from the roof landing straight between the four swinging his blade the four dodging in response.

"Oh, that's right I heard the story over and over again"

Again he kicked at Ruby sending her skidding, his attention then shifted to Weiss, Pink's favorite apparently and he darted her way.

"Gee, it's swell to finally beat her other friends"

Weiss dodged him yet he didn't stop hitting the leg of his injector and using it to redirect his trajectory all the while his body stretching.

"Oh, that's right I heard the story, don't really care for the end"

He wrapped around the lighthouse his body straining from the force.

"Gee, it's swell to finally beat her other…"

The three gems rushed his way and he smiled.

"Other…."

He let himself go and quickly slung back gathering force as he readied his swing.

"Ooootttther Friends…"

A single slash of his energy blade was all it took as he watched the three before him fall forward or at least everything above the torso before they poofed into clouds of smoke. Ruby watched as her family's gems fell to the floor before her, teeth gritted and eyes narrowed.

"That's enough!" Quickly her scythe manifested and seeing it Jaune snickered looking far too pleased with what he'd done.

"D'aww, what's the matter Ruby? Sad cause all you lil fwiends are gone?" His smile was cruel and his snickers sent chills up her spine.

"Well, don't worry..." The playfulness left his tone then as he rocketed forward energy blade raised as eyes were dull but determined.

"Cause you'll be joining them soon!" With a swing the blade tore through her scythe leaving a glowing gnash all the while pink circuitry spreads around her body briefly, before she shook and said marks vanished. Ruby smirked a bit cocky.

"Hm, that was nothing." Jaune smiled though, chuckling slightly.

"Well then… You probably wouldn't mind if I gave it a few more tries then!" Quickly Jaunes slashed into her time and time again, his swings as wild as his laughter as the sword tore into the young rose. Slowly pain begun to blossom in her body as her gem flickered and dimmed. Having enough with it Ruby grabbed Jaune by his wrist her eyes serious while Jaune only rose a brow intrigued.

"Huh? So, I guess you don't poof huh? 'snicker' called it!" she stretched his neck his face inches from her, silver meeting insane violet as his irises shook like marbles in his head.

"Well thats fine, No! In fact its swell! After all your fleshy meat person half won't stand a chance against my injector! Heh. Especially after what I did to your ~Ge-em~" Slowly the glowing coral markings spread across her body and an odd feeling took her making her dizzy. She shook it off or at least tried as Jaune slowly begun to overpower her.

"What are you talking about?" Jaune smiled leaning in close like he'd won their little game.

"Well duh, you weren't always the big ol' hero of the universe were you?" Again he laughed to a joke only he was in on, frustrated Ruby's semblance triggered breaking her down into rose petals alongside his sword. A flash of anger took her as she swung it down at the gem cleaving straight through him. She opened her eyes regret quickly showing as she looked to him however what she saw blew her expectations.

Standing there a smile on his face as he snickered Jaune looked to her despite the left half of his face falling off. He opened his mouth his smile still as strong and genuine as always and twice as insane.

"Checkmate… I wi-" He poofed then exploding into a cloud of coral smoke a bright pink flawlessly cut crystal hitting the floor not a single scratch from before present. Falling to her knees Ruby sighed looking to it a tinge of guilt hitting her despite the fact that it needed to be done.

"'Sigh' let's bubble you before you can do something else nasty to us." Waving her hands over the gem a spherical pink bubble appeared around the gem levitating it only for it to pop and the gem to fall again.

"What…?" Quickly she tried again her hand directly over the gem only for nothing to happen again she tried raising both hands to it desperately exerting herself. Though the bubble begun to form all too soon it popped leaving her an exhausted mess. Not knowing what to do she quickly grabbed her friends before making her way home but stopped before looking back to Jaune's gem. There was a moment of hesitation but it died soon after, after all if she left him here and he reformed he could hurt other gems, or worse people.


Taiyang came barreling in swinging the door opened a look of panic clear on his face.

"Rosebud!" in a worry the man looked around catching said girl on the couch leaning over her friends still hibernating in their gems.

"Are those the girls?" Ruby nodded glumly and seeing that Tai took a seat by her hugging his little rose tight.

"Hey, hey its fine Rosebud, everything will be fine." Ruby nodded.

"So tell me what happened." Ruby's gaze settled on the odd gem out at the table's corner.

"So… I'm guessing it has something to do with that one huh?" Ruby nodded.

"Yeah, Weiss seemed to know him." She looked to the gem that'd ruined everything, what was his hang up, what did he have against her? She looked out to the injector still visible outside it shifting as it slowly allowed more of the ominous coral fluid to seep into the earth making it quake and the life above whither. Ruby looked back to Weiss, Yang and Garnet's gems, what was happening… why was this happening.

Hadn't she saved the day already, so why, why was something so bad occurring now when she was the hero who'd earned her happily ever after! The tiny brunette curled on the couch hugging her knees and stressful tears formed, seeing it tai hugged her close.

"Hey, there there, everythings gonna be fine rosebud."

"B-but, everything going so bad, that 'thing' he brought is killing the planet! Weiss and the others were poofed and my powers of on the fritz!" To show her point she tried to manifest her scythe only for it the fizzle and distort before vanishing.

"I-I don't know what to do… I just want everything to go back to normal!" She felt her father's hand ruffling her head and when she looked up she found him smiling down at her.

"'Sigh' Well, now you know how I feel all the time... but you know what else?" He looked to the table to the gems.

"Real soon those four are gonna do that thing where they glow and float in the air and reappear better than ever!" Taking Weiss's pearl in hand he smiled before as if by his words the pearl begun to glow rising in the air, seeing it Tai smiled knowing ruby was just as happy.

"See." However, to their surprise Weiss didn't manifest but instead a rotating display of that of a snowflake. Soon a Weiss voice spoke up but with no inflection purely mechanical in its speak.

"Please identify yourself."

"Um dad, did Weiss ever do this to you before?" Tai shook his head.

"… Yeah, no this is something new."

"Please identify yourself."

"Um Taiyang Xiao-Long?" The Snowflake spun at the response.

"Greetings, Um Taiyang Xiao-Long. Please state preferred customization options."

"Um... what am I supposed to say here?" Ruby shrugged.

"I dunno…" The snowflake flashed.

"Default settings selected. Please stand by."

Quickly falling to the floor the glyph spun picking up speed before it glowed fiercely and from it a dazzling white silhouette emerged. The figure inside begun to dance as it came into being a pale skinned woman with porcelain skin and hair as white as snow. Her hair was done up in a ponytail directly behind her head while her outfit was icy blue with high heels.

Ruby smiled tackling towards her only for the pearl to quickly shift out of the way letting her eat floor boards before glaring her way. However, it wasn't the usual uppity glare Weiss used but instead one for a threat as she quickly launched before her father arms stretched out.

"Be careful my Um Taiyang Xiao-Long, I will protect you from the foreign enemy." Father and daughter blinked.

"Um what?"

"Rosebud um I'm kinda lost here, you got any idea what's going on?" Weiss stilled turning back to him curious.

"My Um Taiyang Xiao-Long, could it be you have yet to read the instructions." Said blonde rubbed the back of his head a nervous smile spreading.

"Yeah, sure let's go with that." Hearing his words Weiss nodded.

"I see… Forgive me allow me to introduce myself." Turning with a curtsy the pearl unit sung.

"How do you do?
My 'Um Taiyang Xiao-Long'
Thank you for bringing me
into the world
I am at your eternal service
Welcome to your new Pearl."

The formally uppity gem bowed to the rival for her love over Summer as if such a thing had never happened. Tai went wide eyed then as he recalled this form…

"Wait, I've seen her like this before!"

"You have!? When?"

"Back when I first met your mother, though her hair was done to the side instead but other than that she's a dead ringer for back then."

"But how! Did Jaune hit her so hard she got like magical gem amnesia or something!?"

"Maybe she's cracked, when Yang hurt herself bad she was all kinds of mess up right?" Ruby nodded before lowering her head.

"No… Yang's memories were fine."

"Then what can it be?" In response to the question the ruby on the table begun to lift and manifest forming a small figure slightly shorter than even Yang. Emerging was a bubbly ginger haired gem with turquoise eyes and a ruby gem in her left palm.

"Nora!" Ruby rushed to the tiny being who jumped back at being called before going defensive.

"Who are you!? And what's a Nora!?" The girl assumed a fighting stance and seeing iot Ruby was lost for words.

"You too?" Tai sighed.

"We could really use an explanation here…" Popping up Weiss almost excitably spoke up.

"Allow me to explain my Um Taiyang. That is a Ruby guard, hmm, peculiar? Usually they work in groups of 3." Slowly Ren's gem begun to manifest the emerald sparkling as its body formed. The robes were long and rather baggy reminiscent of a Mistralian noble. Though his single magenta eye was covered by his ebony flowing hair his emerald was clear on his right palm. Weiss nodded seeing the boy.

"I suppose that would be the Ruby unit's assignment, an Emerald, such should require more than one but I suppose there has to be a reason perhaps his precognition is lacking." While the Pearl pondered Nora turned to her assignment smiling a huge salute as she looked to her mission… her, very pretty mission. The gem blushed.

"M-My Emerald, it's my sworn duty to protect you! My only duty actually… 'snicker' duty." Ren for his part only responded with a nod.

"I know you'll do everything in your power to protect me… Which is why you won't last the day." Nora tilted her head.

"Huh?" Ren merely walked up to her grabbing the girl's hand making her blush.

"Come now, the malformed one will be manifesting in a moment."

"Wha? Thw who?" Dragging her off the table the tiny pair moved away just as the amethyst begun to manifest. From it a small runt of a gem formed her hair shoulder length but all over the place and eyes the same shade as her gem.

"Yang?... Hey Yang?" Turning the blonde mimicked her wave.

"Hey Yang?"

"What, no, it's me Ruby. No your Yang." Perfectly mimicking her Yang gestured.

"No your Yang." Beside Tai Weiss sighed.

"I swear, just our luck to get a… underwhelming amethyst. My Um Taiyang, perhaps you should request a proper replacement and dispose of this 'error'." Tai cringed at the way she worded it. Yang herself pouted, she didn't know much but for some reason she didn't like the pale gem. Weiss herself turned to Taiyang then.

"My Um Taiyang, what are we all doing here. Are we on an assignment of sorts?"

"You don't remember our home, Remnant or me?" Weiss rose a brow at that.

"I can't say I do, all I remember is my 'Um Taiyang Xiao-Long' as for you lot I assume your servants to him… hence not important enough for me to bother with." Ruby felt her lip quiver yet Weiss didn't so much as flinch at the sight of it. However soon an amber light filled the room and Ruby turned recalling the fifth gem on the table as she watched it rise. Quickly she rushed in front of the others forming her scythe only for it the glitch and vanish.

"Dad, everyone get back now!" The gem glowed brightly however the cracks running across the crystal shaped heart slowly closed becoming little more than faint lines as light filled the room and a form manifested.

"Heheheh…" Ruby swallowed at the giggling.

"Hahaha!" However as the being laughed so innocently it stretched out its hands quickly wrapping them around Ruby's waist before rocketing into her sending both to the floor. Ruby winced before she opened her eyes and met a pair of happy vibrate pink eyes instead of the expected resentful lilac. Sporting the hugest smile was a boy who looked a year or two younger then herself.

Gone was the edgy armor in place was a smoother rounder form. His strawberry blonde hair combed nicely to the side. His top was white his bright crystal positively glowing with life while his sleeves were puffer like his shorts. His feet were covered by the thick pair of coral pink rounded boots.

"I'm so happy to finally meet you!" Ruby blinked as she looked to the heartwarming smile of the shota.

"Your, you're not gonna hurt me?" The blonde looked shocked jumping off the reaper before using one of his stretching limbs to help her up.

"Why would I hurt you?" His smile grew ever wider.

"After all you're my best friend!"

Wha?

Weiss huffed pushing aside Ruby and stomping up to Jaune.

"Listen here, I believe you are confused, such a rare unit as yourself would never belong to something like 'that'"

"Hey!" Weiss ignored the brunette crossing her arms.

"Clearly you are meant to be my Um Taiyang's spinal unit." The blonde tilted his head before pointing to said man trying very hard not to blush at the pretty pearl.

"You mean the old dude." Ruby just stood there for several seconds before it all clicked, and she pointed accusingly.

"You!" Without warning she tackled the blonde.

"What have you done!?" And in response to her all Jaune could say was.

"Oh, is this a game?"


King-Mac-11 has down this parody all the way through without the songs in his fic Arcs of the Multiverse for his 116 chapter. So please read there if you want to see it all immediately.