Author's Note- Hello fellow Ruinverse and RWBY fans! I hope you enjoy this first ever one hundredth chapter for the Ruinverse as much as I do because to be frank, this is my ONLY 100th chapter in any of the stories I have ever made…ever. I'm just…happy this is out and about. Still this one chapter you're going to be reading is actually based on one of the first collaboration RWBY stories for yugiohfan163's ongoing series List of Oneshots.

Ahem. For a clarification/brief summary of the oneshot in question: it's a reality where Ruby Rose acquires the Flash's super speed abilities via unstable nanobots that would explode from the inside out. She loses them later and it's hinted that Emerald gained the powers in this reality but….it's also one of my most um…'old' stories, I was still working on the idea of writing at the time and it shows. However, I'm proud of it, despite its age and bad execution, because without it I wouldn't have started writing at all and the Ruinverse wouldn't exist. So this chapter is, in my opinion, an altered/darker take on that original oneshot and not the Ruinverse reality of that oneshot…although it's up to your opinions on that one. Here's the link if you want to see it…just be warned it is kinda bad compared to my later writing style. : / / www. fanfiction s / 10509243 / 110 / List- of- Oneshots [Add https and net]

I really hope you enjoy this chapter and if you want to request a Ruinverse timeline for a future chapter, you can PM me. Just make sure to be detailed in your ideas and happy 100th chapter!

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The screen began to bubble and boil as the familiar silver door rose from it's depths, the thick purple chains corroding and breaking apart as the door opened up and bathed everything in dark purple.

From the tainted light, came a single red eye that glared at the screen before the door slammed shut and everything became static, a crumbling rose symbol appearing every so often as the title began to form.

The Ruinverse: Chapter One Hundred, At The End of A Thunderclap.

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-Somewhere on Remnant's Surface-

RUMBLE!

RUMBLE!

RUMBLE!

Thunder, darkness…unending black clouds of thunderous might loomed across the horizon as bolts of lightning crackled and jumped from one storm front to the next, illuminating the screen with its all encompassing glow.

ZAP!

BOOOOM!

From fleeting moments of light, the towering facade of thousands of black metallic skyscrapers, a single glass-like orb of green fixated on the needle-like towers of each one, loomed across the area, seemingly stretching for miles in every direction as the orbs glowed with the brightness of a star.

RUMBLE!

RUMBLE!

ZAP!

ZAP!

As the camera zoomed towards the rightmost side of the 'forest' of metal, the sound of crackling electricity rang across the floraless landscape as sparks of silver and gold appeared and disappeared in a fraction of a second.

ZAP!

ZAP!

[The world…is dead.]

ZAP!

BOOOOOM!

[I have failed…I failed everyone.]

ZAP!

ZAP!

ZAP!

BOOOOM!

[I failed…oh right, I didn't make a proper introduction. Easy mistake given my current train of thought.]

BOOOOOOM!

ZAP!

BOOOOOOOM!

Lightning flashed across the towers of metal and glass as the gold and silver sparks began to move dangerously close to each other, cracks forming on the reflective glass in every direction.

[Let's start on the right foot…gods, I'm making foot puns! Don't act like her! For the love of the gods, don't start acting like your older sister! Ahem…where were we again? Oh right, the introductions.]

ZAP!

KAPOW!

KABOOOOM!

SHATTER!

And lo, in a bright flash of multicolored light and thunder, the entire skyscraper exploded off its foundations, its midsection missing as the top levels began to fall to gravity's might, collapsing the structure and sending it tilting towards its neighbors, breaking its right side as it began a series of collapse akin to a row of dominos.

WOOSH!

Yet on the very next skyscraper, the two opposing bolts of lightning zipped towards the top of the structure and stopped in their tracks, sparks flying across the slowly revealing silhouettes of their 'true' forms, the light of the glass orb forcing the darkness into full retreat.

[I am Ruby Xiao Long Rose.]

ZAP!

ZAP!

Crackle.

Crackle.

The camera zoomed closer to the figures before looming over the source of the silver lighting, revealing a tall fair skinned young woman with short black hair sporting glowing red tips, silver eyes, a E cup chest and wide ass, wearing a long sleeved skintight silver bodysuit with thin pale gold lines on the arms, palms, legs, chest and back, a silver circular domino mask, a large bright gold 'X' emblem on her chest, slim circular silver pauldrons with several yellow Electric Dust crystals embedded into the sides, thin silver vambrace, thick silver cuisses on her upper hips with yellow Electric Dust crystals embedded into the sides and bright silver boots with a single yellow Dust infused heel, whose expression was in a perpetual angered look as her snarling lips revealed a bit of her teeth and her body shot out sparks of electricity from her hands, eyes and back.

[And I am the Silver Speedster, Quick Rose. I am…the heroine of Remnant, or a different version of the one I'm currently in, it's hard to explain.]

"Ah…ah…ah…" the woman panted while her fists sparked with electricity, thunder ringing in her ears as the source of the gold lightning was panting a few feet away from her. "Why…just…why?"

[Well, I could do a long winded story or a short one…mmm, which one…fine. I'll make it semi long for time, since I'm in the middle of saving the day here.]

Crackle.

Crackle.

Crackle.

[Well, I'm a superheroine. Yeah, shocker given that I'm wearing a skintight armored suit with Dust stuffed into it like a hotdog but I am one nonetheless. I saved a lot of people in my days, ever since my first semester of Beacon to be exact, and since my semblance got supercharged one day I've been racing around helping others in need and keeping the world safe and-]

Crackle.

Crackle.

Crackle.

ZAP!

ZAP!

ZAP!

[Ah! Ok, I'll make things quick! I'm kinda trying to fix a mistake I may or may not have caused a while ago and….well….]

ZAP!

ZAP!

ZAP!

As the flashes of thunder and lightning illuminated Ruby's vision, the figure, revealed to be a tall fair skinned young woman with short red hair sporting glowing black tips, bright gold eyes, a E cup chest and wide ass, wearing a long sleeved skintight gold bodysuit with thin dull silver lines on the arms, palms, legs, chest and back, a gold circular domino mask, a large dull silver cross-like emblem on her chest, slim circular gold pauldrons with several yellow Electric Dust crystals embedded into the sides, thin gold vambrace, thick gold cuisses on her upper hips with yellow Electric Dust crystals embedded into the sides, and dark gold boots with a single yellow Dust infused heel, panted a few feet away from the heroine as her expression seemed...emotionless, almost robotic despite the visible signs of exhaustion in her breathing.

[I'm currently fighting myself…my evil self to be exact.]

"Why…just…why do you…have to stop me?" Ruby panted as her copy began to stand upwards, her hands sparking with golden lightning. "Why?"

CRACKLE!

CRACKLE!

"My primary function is to stop The Remnant. Designated target is The Remnant, bringer of the end." the copy said in an almost monotone voice. "By the orders of Lord Ozma, God of Protection, you are to be eliminated."

ZAP!

BOOOM!

Within the span of a few tenths of a second, the gold copy of the Silver Speedster vanished.

ZAP!

POW!

Only to reappear behind the woman, the heroine quickly matching the oncoming right punch with her own left fist, causing a shockwave that vaporized the surrounding raindrops as cracks began to form across the skyscraper's metallic frame.

"Like hell I'm going to let you stop me!" Ruby yelled while both speedsters began to run around the skyscraper's rooftop, throwing punches after punches that continually created more structural damage to the very 'battleground' they were on.

"You will comply with your destruction, one way or another."

[As you can see, I'm fighting for my life! She won't let up and I've been fighting for ten seconds flat! Why can't she learn that I'M trying to save the day!]

ZAP!

POW!

ZAP!

BOOOOOM!

RUMBLE!

RUMBLE!

[So many punches, so many ways to stop her. But how can I if she knows all my tricks? I trained for two years, had the Knights of Roses, aka BBF Jaune and BBFF Weiss, test my limits and powers from the beginning…yet she could match me, no, surpassed me in almost all categories! She's…a mirror of me!]

CRACK!

BOOOOOM!

With a thundering roar, the skyscraper began to collapse into itself, the metallic shards falling into cloud-lined abyss as the two speedsters used the falling debris as madeshift platforms for their continued battle, lighting streaking across the sky as the eye-like fixture's light flicked on and off, illuminating the ground below to reveal a single ocean of black tar at the bottom.

[Shit! I need to end this quickly or I'll be stuck in the muck below…black tar. Just like back then, when the fate of the world rested on our shoulders. Gods…how long has it been since we've been truly happy?]

ZAP!

RUMBLE!

BOOOOOM!

[It was so simple back then. I saved the day and put the bad guys away, so many weird ones too…I mean who calls themselves The Grimminator? That's stupid. Anyway, I saved people from bad guys and the Grimm whenever I could, heck I even stopped some big invasion of Vale, oh boy if that happened then we'd be on the streets or worse by now…ugh. Still…]

BOOOOOOOM!

"You will fail, Remnant." The Golden Speedster said coldly while performing mid air kicks to the Silver Speedester's face, jumping from window frame to broken steel frame in the process as her 'copy' dodged each strike. "Your plan will fail. It is inevitable."

POW!

POW!

POW!

[Even when I was famous, like Pyrrha famous, things….went badly for me and everyone else in my life.]

"It won't fail! I will fix this world back up!" Quick Rose yelled while dodging the opponent's kicks, the ocean of tar growing closer and closer every passing second. "I will not allow a world of worker drones to ruin everything!"

[It started with….Jaune's death. Killed by Cinder Fall's hands….he burned to death, trying to help me on the field at the academy….I should've known she was bad.]

"Your efforts are futile." Volant Rose said while kicking the Silver Speedester's face, drawing blood in the process.

POW!

BAM!

"AH!"

"You will not stop the will of the God of Protection."

[Then came a sudden winter storm, the biggest in Valeian history…and for some reason…my sister's partner, Blake, was blinded permanently. No one knows how or why but…she had to use her ears more. Funny, that was how we learned she was a faunus…no, it wasn't funny, stupid.]

ZAP!

BOOOM!

Quick Rose grunted a little as her eyes darted around, looking at the golden lighting all around her, before grabbing the Golden Speedester's right arm and threw her across the debris field, chunks of metal and glass shattering upon impact as she jumped towards her copy's direction. "Screw your god!"

"AH!" The copy groaned before quickly jumping away from the oncoming right fist, narrowly dodging it as the metal splintered into a million pieces.

"I will stop him and fix everything!"

[A few months after that, after I saved the Vytal Festival from Cinder's evil mitts….the entire Kingdom of Vale was wiped off the face of the map. All because a hoard of Grimm, bigger than the entire Kingdom, just went mad. They…their….oh gods…the slaughter. I…I saved as many as I could. But…Vale was no more and, for some reason, the early warning systems of the towns and cities making up said Kingdom…didn't work. I don't know how but they didn't pick up the movement of Grimm or even alert the Huntsmen during the night…gods, I should've been more efficient, faster even.]

CRACKLE!

ZAP!

Thunder roared like an enraged Sphinx, the sea of tar becoming closer and closer with every passing second as silver and gold lightning zipped across the falling debris, akin to a spectacular fireworks display.

ZAP!

ZAP!

[The Fall of Vale….it was small compared to what happened two months later. For…oh gods….the gunfire, the bombs…the White Fang. They stormed Patch, during a lightning storm no less…and killed everyone on the island, all because they were my biggest supporters. I…I only learned later that it was Adam Taurus's newly formed faction, the Lionized Legion, that did the deed, not the entire organization as a whole…gods…I should've been there.]

"Fix?" Volant Rose said while dodging one of the Silver's Speedster's punches, following up quickly with her own, more calculated, punches. "My data analysis suggests a different scenario. One you are too familiar with, Remnant."

"I am NOT Remnant! I am Quick Rose!"

POW!

POW!

POW!

"History will repeat again, Remnant."

"Stop calling me that!"

[So much pain…yet we persevered. Moving across the world in search of answers. Learning of Salem and the Relics in the process….yet during the final battle between Team RWBY and Cinder, who wanted me dead for my eyes…my partner, my last Knight of Roses….lost her entire right arm to falling shrapnel, from a construction site no less. Gods, the screams…the screams, yet I don't know what happened next. I blacked out but after that…we had to move on, save the world from Salem's madness. Yet…]

POW!

POW!

ZAP!

ZAP!

The Golden Speedster's eyes looked down towards the tar covered sea below and quickly kicked Ruby's stomach with her left foot, sending her backwards towards a black window.

CRACK!

"AH!"

"Possible scenarios of success, limited. You, Remnant, will fail like before." She said before vibrating her hands, causing the very air itself to spin faster and faster as a black tornado went flying towards Quick Rose's direction.

WOOOOOOSSSSSHHHHHH!

'DAMN IT!' Quick Rose thought as she was forced downwards at great neck speeds, right towards the tar below. 'She's not going to beat me! NOT AFTER EVERYTHING I'VE BEEN THROUGH!'

[In the weeks after Weiss lost her arm…the worst disaster in Remnant's history occurred…one that no one would've expected, not even me, and my brain can think just as fast as I could. It….oh gods….the memories…]

WOOOOOSSSSSHHH!

SPLAT!

SQUISH!

SPLAT!

Metal and glass ruptured the surface of the ocean as the eye-like fixture 'floated' in the 'water' like a sinking ship, its light still shining against the encroaching darkness below.

Woooosh!

Clank!

"Ah…ah…" Quick Rose panted while her feet were vibrating the air around them, forming tiny cyclones near the heel and toes that slowed her descent to a crawl and landed safely on a sinking metal beam. "Too….close…."

[The memories…of….the day. The day…the western part of Sanus, home of the entire population of Vauco….sank into the sea. It was sudden, unexpected and…mysterious, for there wasn't any sign of a fault line, volcanic activity or…anything. It just sank…killing every single human, faunus, Grimm, animal, plant and…who knows what else. Blake was devastated by this, so was the entire world…nothing was the same afterwards…nothing I could do…could fix this…tragedy.]

SPLASH!

SQUISH!

SPLASH!

Clank.

"Resistance to a superior force, a scenario you played once before." The Golden Speedster said while landing on one of the nearby beams closest to Ruby as her right eye was raised a little behind the mask. "Are you really that desperate to fix an already broken system that you, in your small minded efforts, would doom the world?"

"This world is ALREADY DOOMED!" Ruby snapped in anger while pointing to the sea of tar. "There is no free will, there are no birds or beasts, the sun is hidden behind the clouds and everyone is working in an endless loop! And you think MY actions of fixing…fixing this horrible world is BAD!?"

ZAP!

BOOOOM!

Lightning flashed in the distance as the 'copy' stared at her 'better' half with confusion, hidden behind a veil of monotone.

"..."

"Well, answer me!"

"..."

[She…she has no idea what I went through! She knows nothing of the final battle that I had to face…with my team backing me up in that gods forsaken land of hers…of Salem, the one that ruined everything!]

"Well!? ANSWER ME!"

"...the words of a Remnant are nothing compared to Lord Ozma, you are but a threat to this world." she said while crossing her arms. "A mosquito that hungers for an open wound that you created."

"YOU TAKE THAT BACK!" Ruby snapped with rage, her eyes glowing bright silver as lightning formed across her body.

[HOW DARE SHE!? HOW DARE SHE INSINUATE I MADE ALL OF THIS….even if it's true…]

ZAP!

BOOOM!

The Golden Speedster blinked as Quick Rose ran towards her, only to jump to the side as she and her opponent jumped around the sinking 'lamp', the two trails of lightning looking like rings of neon. "Anger, frustration, fear and loss. All traits that doomed humanity many times over. The perfect flaw in the age before my lord's ascension to godhood."

"He wasn't supposed to BE a god, he was SUPPOSED to be a headmaster!"

"A lesser calling." She said flatly while keeping one step away from her more emotional opponent. "He deserved only godhood for his acts of heroism, unlike you who keep making the same errors as before."

"I do NOT make mistakes!"

"Then why do the statistics indicate otherwise?"

ZAP!

ZAP!

ZAP!

[I don't make mistakes! I was the one that weakened Salem! I was the one that made her unable to regenerate as my friends restrained her limbs! I was the one that saved the world…I just make bad choices….really bad ones…oh gods….Yang….why did you…why did you get in the way of Salem's attack on my life!? WHY!?]

"SHUT! UP!" Ruby screamed while running right towards Volant Rose, her right arm coated in silver lightning.

POW!

Only to get kicked in the face, sending her flying into a metal beam.

CRACK!

"AAAAHHHH!" Ruby screamed in pain as she felt not only a rib break, but had a portion of shrapnel lodged in between her shoulder socket.

ZAP!

"Silver Speedster, Quick Rose." the Golden Speedster said while standing in front of her counterpart. "Ruby Rose. So many names for a Remnant. A remnant of a failed world that failed to bring true peace, only unending disaster."

"Ah…ah…"

"Your logic is flawed, your methods crude….your actions, akin to a child."

[...what?!]

"Ah…I'm…not…a child."

"Biologically, but mentally, you are." Volant Rose said while crossing her arms. "You are a child in the eyes of Lord Ozma, for he knew of your plans before you ever arrived. But, he did not expect you to be this determined to fix a 'mistake' that can never be undone."

"It can…I undid…a bad choice…before."

The 'copy' shook her head with a mix of pity and disappointment as she turned to her left. "All you did was travel to the Age of Magic, killed two people that were fated to love each other, and then returned like a triumphant heroine after a conquest."

"They were the-"

"The parents of Salem? Yes, they were." the Golden Speedster interrupted with a frown, one that made Ruby flinch a little. "You weren't satisfied in turning her into atomic dust, were you? You were too enthralled in pitiful acts of sadness and loss to think of the consequences of your actions. You killed two innocent people to 'save' your world, hoping to gain your sister's return to the mortal world."

[I…I…]

"You allowed anger, hate and fear to drive your actions. To erase an entire history, its many wonders, scenarios and individual cogs in the machine known as time, for what? A redo? An 'extra life'?" Volant Rose frowned as Ruby felt the harsh words reverberating within her very soul. "You crossed the line when you took the lives of key players that made your timeline stable. Your mission of destruction was doomed to fail, an astounding ninety nine percent certainty of bringing about a new world….the world of Lord Ozma himself."

"Salem….was the monster…" Ruby squeaked out while trying to vibrate her shoulder out of the beam's 'embrace', yet felt her body scream in pain as her aura was on the verge of breaking.

"Monsters, heroes, all projections of free will's stranglehold on humanity's survival. Humans fear what they hate inside their cores, the darkness that all things have." the Golden Speedster said while turning her back to her copy. "Lord Ozma knew this and made humanity free from such darkness, took the gods and made them his own. A hero to some but a monster to others, yet it was essential for humanity's continued existence…something you seek to undo."

"But…he stole the power…"

"With the Stone of Mundi, yes, all to protect humanity from itself. Everything is his design, the skyscrapers, the lanterns, the sky, the ocean of darkness around us, all of this was his design for a world devoid of freedom of choice, for how can peace exist when free will ruins everything? Right, Remnant of the Old World?"

[...]

ZAP!

BOOOOOOM!

"Why….?"

"Why what?"

"Why….why do you go along with him!? He's a monster like Salem! He made Remnant a wasteland!" Ruby snapped in fury, making her counterpart slightly confused. "He took everything away and yet YOU followed him!"

"I was made to fulfill this purpose." Volant Rose said while Ruby clenched her fingers back in frustration. "To protect this world from all threats, including you, Remnant."

"I am not the threat!"

"Delusional to the end." she said while Ruby felt a burning rage entering her heart, her body vibrating at such speeds that she phased through the metal beam itself.

[No…I will….]

"You are a threat, not only to my Lord Ozma, but to the entire time stream." Volant Rose said while Ruby stood up, lightning forming all around her as she moved towards her counterpart with rage in her eyes.

ZAP!

[I…I WILL NOT LET THE OZVERSE EXIST ANYMORE! I WILL FIX EVERYTHING!]

ZAP!

SQUISH!

"Ah!" Volant Rose gasped, blood dripping down her lips as she looked down at her chest.

Only to see two silver and bright gold hands jutting out from her chest, silver lightning sparking around the fingers and exposed wounds.

"I am not the threat, I am the heroine! I am the one that's always right! I am the heroine that Remnant NEEDS!" The Silver Speedster yelled while her copy slowly turned her head to the left, her blood dripping into the sea of tar below them.

"COUGH! Ah…illogical mind, fueled by obsession…bringer of your own…misfortunes." she coughed while her lips quivered a little, seemingly trying to form a facial feature that she never…practiced before.

A sad smile…of hope?

"You…will never succeed…" the Golden Speedster said softly, causing her counterpart to snarl in anger. "Your speed is limited, you can not…fix the world I…protect…"

ZAP!

ZAP!

ZAP!

"I know." Ruby growled before her arms vibrated even faster.

ZAP!

ZAP!

ZAP!

"AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" the Golden Speedster screamed as golden lightning shot out from her body and was quickly absorbed into Quick Rose's body.

"Which is why I'm taking YOUR SPEED, YOU EVIL MONSTER!"

"AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!"

[I WILL NOT BE DENIED MY CHANCE AT REDEMPTION! I WILL FIX EVERYTHING!]

Lightning sparked across the dark atmosphere as the eye-like 'lantern' sun deeper into the sea of tar, a sliver of light illuminating to…strangely peaceful look of Ruby's 'dark' opponent, her hair turning pure white from the energy transfer.

ZAP!

ZAP!

ZAP!

'I'm sorry…Lord Ozma. I…failed y-' Volant Rose thought before the neurons ceased to function, her eyes dull and lifeless as the Silver Speedster, her body now glowing with gold and silver electrical energy, pulled her arms out of the corpse.

SPLASH!

And kicked it into the tar ocean, letting it sink into the depths as she narrowed her eyes.

"I will fix everything." Ruby muttered while gripping her hands tightly. "I will fix everything!"

CRACKLE!

CRACKLE!

ZAP!

KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!

WOOOOSH!

And just like that, in a flash of golden silver light and the thunderous roar akin to the simultaneous death cries of a million Wyverns, the Silver Speedster…no Ruby Rose disappeared, the sky splitting open as fissures opened under the tar sea as the screen faded to orange.

[Please! Let this work!]

(Elsewhere)

-Unknown location-

ZAP!

ZAP!

WOOSH!

Darkness…an untainted umbra stretching for miles in every direction…was the reality that Ruby found herself in as she appeared from a portal of silver and gold, her legs never tiring or even stopping in this frictionless existence.

"Eh? Where am I?" she muttered while shaking her head. "Doesn't matter, I need to head back to the past, stop myself and fix everything!"

[I must fix everything! I must fix everything! I need to bring Yang back, I need Patch, I need to get Jaune back! I NEED EVERYTHING BACK!]

WOOOSH!

ZAP!

ZAP!

Lightning darted across the empty void, illuminating some portions of this realm and revealing several small 'clouds' of primordial 'gas' that seemed to grow and shrink like a beating heart, not that Ruby cared or even acknowledged.

For she was on a mission, and no one, not even the gods, could stop her now, especially at her now doubled max speed.

Yet….

[I need to fix it! It's my job! I am the heroine! I MUST FIX EVERYTHING! Wait….why is it getting brighter?]

In the distance, several thousand miles away from the speeding 'heroine', a glowing mass of dark purple and bright gold 'light' was visible…growing brighter and brighter as Quick Rose ran towards it with a mix of confusion and curiosity.

ZAP!

ZAP!

[Just what is that….a sun? No, it's purple? Who's ever heard of a purple star? Wait…that looks like…]

And lo, from the mass of light, clad in a blazing 'aura' of darkness and starlight, was an…semi translucent and semi solid 'creature' with….blurring features that even the Quick Rose's super powered eyes couldn't properly visualize…yet she could make out five key features.

A long serpentine neck, the jaw of a crocodile, four pairs of curved 'horns', six pairs of 'wings' made out of pure shadow and light that seemed to stretch outwards into eternity, and the silverish purple eyes of a stag.

All these 'features', each one phasing in and out of reality like translucent static, turned its 'head' towards the Silver Speedster and glared at it with knowing eyes.

"RRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOO!"

[A dragon..deer thing? What is that….wait, wasn't there a legend of a dragon in the old fairy tales? Oh…..Oh…OH SHIT!]

ZAP!

ZAP!

Lightning darted across the girl's body as she attempted to stop herself, yet was unable to do so at all as the creature roared once more in defiant rage.

"RRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOO!"

"Shit shit shit shit shit shit!"

[The Dragon God! The maker of the entire world…..SHIT! WHY CAN'T I STOP!?]

Faster.

Faster.

Faster.

These were the 'thoughts' that Ruby's legs had as they propelled the former heroine towards the creator of the Twin Gods, the traveler from another reality, and the source of all things that ever were and was in all of creation.

Yet, no matter how much she tried, no matter how much she attempted to control the gifts she was granted….it didn't matter now.

"Shit! STOP! STOP! I NEED TO STOP!"

[AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!]

For in a fraction of a second.

"RRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIAAAAAAAAAA-"

KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

SHATTER!

The Dragon God's entire form was shattered into a trillion pieces, causing the void to form 'cracks' within its endless form before-

WOOOOSH!

Everything became a blur of white, cracks forming on the screen before shattering as well….replacing itself with nothing….

Nothing at all.

An endless canvas of….nothing to fill the emptiness left behind as the world faded away into white.

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Name/Designation Title: Ruby Rose/The Silver Speedster/Quick Rose/The Remnant (At The End of A Thunderclap Ruby Rose- ATEOATRRRWBY)

Age: 17~18

Affiliation: Omniversal Evil (Unintentionally and intentionally)

Dimension: - 999901234- 90 ATEOATRRRWBY

Abilities: Enhanced strength, speed (greatly enhanced by semblance), stamina, reflexes, durability, adaptability and agility, Silver Eyes, Huntress training and knowledge, scythe handling and knowledge, sniper rifle handling and knowledge, HCSS handling and knowledge (formerly), accelerated healing (via semblance), aerokinesis (via semblance), electrokinesis (via semblance), kinetic energy absorption and negation (via semblance), molecular acceleration (via semblance), momentum absorption and negation (via semblance), magnetic manipulation (via semblance), time travel (via semblance), limited dimensional travel (via semblance), age manipulation (via semblance), reality alteration (accidental/fatal), Electric Dust handling and knowledge (utilized in her suit).

Semblance(s): Petal Burst/Speed (Formerly), Flash (an extremely rare and powerful evolution of any speed based semblance that can only be found in timelines, both in the Ruinverse and the RWBYverse, by those that have somehow forced their own semblances to mutate into this stat, either intentionally or accidentally. Utilizing an unknown magical energy source or any other external force compatible with the user's body, the user can move at inhuman speeds which, if used correctly could alter the very rules of physics itself but if used incorrectly could spell doom to the user's timeline. It is considered a miraculous and unpredictable semblance to obtain, in any timeline and often goes by other names per user.)

Bio: In this timeline, during Ruby Rose's very first week at Beacon Academy, the Relic of Choice, having sensed the dormant powers of the Silver Eyes and their potential for good or evil, 'chose' to unleash a 'thunderbolt' upon the girl during a training session with Weiss Schnee and Jaune Arc, causing the girl's semblance to mutate into the most powerful of the speed based semblances…Flash. This particular semblance, extremely rare in both the Ruinverse and the RWBYverse, not only allowed the user's speed based semblances to become amplified to near god-like levels but also allows the user to alter the very laws of physics itself in various ways, including manipulating the molecular bonds within matter. Due to this 'upgrade' and her own sense of heroism, an excited Ruby, under the advice of Weiss and Jaune, decided to become a real life heroine and, after donning a skintight semi armored bodysuit that uses Electric Dust to contain the excess 'lightning' into the suit, took the world by storm as the heroine Quick Rose, the Silver Speedster of Vale, who favored the use of her new semblance and unarmed combat instead of her once beloved weapon, Crescent Rose. Through perseverance and the help from her two friends, affectionately named the 'Knights of Roses' by Ruby herself, the heroine was able to protect Remnant from both the Grimm and other miscellaneous 'villains' that pop up from time to time, allowing her to prevent the Fall of Vale itself from ever occurring. Yet, even with the admiration of the world and her becoming a household name on par with Pyrrha Nikos herself, as time went on...strange yet tragic events would play out that would bring the heroine to her utmost physiological limits. From the assassination of Jaune Arc at the hands of Cinder Fall, the unknown blinding of Blake Belladonna's eyes during a winter storm, the destruction of Vale by a kingdom sized hoard of Grimm, the massacre of Patch's residences by Adam's White Fang faction, the loss of Weiss Schnee's right arm by a falling piece of metallic shrapnel, and the unexplained sinking of the entire Vaucoian portion of the Sanus continent into the sea, Ruby's mental state would slowly chip away and warp her already young mind from an optimistic heroine to a troubled individual that only thought of protecting others at any cost, yet her perseverance endured…until the day that Team RWBY would face the Queen of Grimm, Salem, within her castle in the Land of Darkness/Grimmlands. During this battle for the fate of Remnant itself, Ruby was able to weaken the immortal to the point of being unable to regenerate her wounds, thinking that Salem would be easier to contain instead of outright killing her as her teammates wished for…yet when the Silver Speedster's back was turned, Salem attempted to summon hardened spikes of pure shadow at the girl in a last ditch effort to eliminate the last Silver Eyes in existence…only for Yang Xiao Long to intercept the attack and die from a punctured heart. This single act of sisterly love, intended to motivate Ruby to become a better heroine, caused the girl's sanity to give into the hate and anger she held back for so long and, in the span of attoseconds, exploded into a murderous rage that allowed her to finally kill the immortal sorceress by grabbing her and vibrating her atoms so fast that…she experienced complete atomic disintegration…aging her into oblivion in the process. The world was saved…yet for Ruby, this was not enough, it was not enough to let Salem die at the cost of her own sister's life, and, in a moment of madness, decided to do the impossible…travel through time to the very distant past to stop the immortal from ever being born. Using her semblance in its most destructive form, unknowingly creating ripple effects in the timestream that CAUSED all the tragedies in her life in the process, Ruby traveled to Remnant's most ancient past, the Age of Magic, and killed Salem's parents on the day they first met, 'saving' the future from Salem's madness in the process. As the heroine traveled back to the present day…she would return not to the world she knew, but appear in a world full of endless black skyscrapers and a sky of never ending storm clouds lit with artificial eye-like stars, for when Ruby changed the past…she neglected the idea of the butterfly effect and its deadly consequences as without Salem to 'temper' Ozma's heart and thus his heroic nature with both love and tragedy, the wizard became corrupted by the many victories and battles he endured as a hero, his mind focusing on the very idea of protection to the point of craving power to 'protect' Remnant's people from all 'threats'. Thus, in a desperate bid to become Remnant's sole protector, he fashioned a staff made from the Gravity Dust and ash wood bark containing the essences of both light and darkness trapped within the Realm of Light and the Land of Darkness and forcibly sealed the Twin Gods within its multicolored gemstone, called the Stone of Mundi, allowing the staff's unique properties to be focused and absorbed into Ozma's body, granting the wizard the powers of a god and eternal life, allowing him to instantly conquer the world and, in a twisted sense of 'protection', trapped humanity itself into an never ending time loop of continuous work, where the ideas of free will and freedom were nothing more than lucid daydreams as they created skyscrapers to the moon in 'reverence' of the God of Protection's 'will'. Completely horrified by this new reality, nicknamed the Ozverse by the Silver Speedster, Ruby attempted to travel back in time to prevent the Ozverse's continued existence yet, in a single attosecond, she was stopped by….herself, a construct created by Ozma, who was unable to leave his own realm due to lacking eternal youth and thus was incapable of fighting a being like Ruby head-on, with all the powers of the Silver Speedster but lacking the emotions of the latter and inverted in color scheme to prevent time from being reset once again and thus eliminating his 'perfect world'. The dark copy, nicknamed the Golden Speedster by her 'copy' and formally called Volant Rose by her creator, quickly attacked the Silver Speedster and, over the span of several minutes, attempted to prevent the other from achieving their respective goals…yet unbeknownst to Quick Rose herself, her 'dark' counterpart, while looking the part of a villain, is at heart like her original self, optimistic and willing to help others as the heroine despite her robotic logic fueled mind dictating her actions, and was only trying to protect her reality from complete destruction. For, in this scenario, Quick Rose was not the heroine anymore, but the aggressor that threatened the 'peace' and the very stability of the time continuum itself through her reckless use of her semblance…not that she cared anymore as even when Volant Rose called Ruby Rose's actions as illogical and bordering on obsession, the Silver Speedster continues to believe that she's the heroine of the story, that she's the only one that's right, and that she has to save everyone no matter what dark actions she uses to achieve that goal. Thus, in a desperate bid to 'fix' everything to the 'original' timeline, she killed Volant Rose and absorbed her powers and life into herself, granting her a boost in speed that allowed her to instantly travel at greater speeds into the time stream itself, obliterating the planet's atmosphere in the process from the sonic boom generated by her speed, yet….as she attempted to travel to the moment she killed Salem's parents, her unstable powers caused her to overshoot the trajectory and instead of the Age of Magic, she traveled to the very BEGINNING of time itself, where she obliterated the 'Dragon' God that would have spawned the Twin Gods and…in a split faction of a second, shattered the timeline itself, it's time continuum fading from existence along with all things past, present and possible futures. All that is left is a nullified void, an abyss of nothingness that will never form anything….a mooted reality left to be absorbed by the Ruinverse itself. It all started with a flash, a single choice to grant the world a hero…yet now, that flashpoint is broken forevermore, all because of the obsession of said hero…a need to protect, a simple action for a tainted soul.