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 Sixty, Yunikuron Incursion.
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-Unknown location-
Blanc. The world was blank as the screen seemed fixated in a single direction…..yet within this location, where could one's sense of direction be located?
For this was an empty white void, devoid of everything that made reality…reality in a sense.
And yet…..something stood out against the endless dimension of unending 'snow'.
That being a short fair skinned young girl with long near shoulder length black hair with deep red tips, silver eyes, a D cup chest and small ass, wearing a white long sleeved high-neck décolletage blouse with brown straps, brown studded wristbands on the arms, a black skirt with red tulle underneath, a black overbust corset with red strip holding it in place, a black belt bordered in red holding a magnetic clip and several strapped on bullets on the sides, a small brown backpack on her back, a long tattered red cloak with a single silver rose clip on the right shoulder, torn black thigh-high stockings that reached to below the hem of her skirt that had the image of a long-stemmed rose on the sides, red-soled black boots with four straps and buckles, and had a massive deep crimson scythe hanging on her back by two black straps, who seemed….confused about what just happened to her.
"...eh? Where…where am I?" She muttered to herself while confused, seemingly trying to not panic. "Wasn't I in Mistral? Wait…oh gods….I'M DEAD!"
And like that, she began to run around the void, her eyes wide with panic as she seemed to defy the laws of physics, appearing upside down and appearing in more than one point in time.
As she continued to run around, she began to see flashes of her own life, from her childhood to her young teens….and her regrets.
So many regrets, from never getting Yang's body type to never getting a boyfriend, all of these tiny and large regrets rushed into her mind before she suddenly stopped and took a deep breath.
"Wait wait wait. Wait a second, if I'm dead then why do I still recall my past? I mean I'm no expert at ghosts but don't ghosts forget their past or something? Ugh, this is ridiculous, I'm a weapons nerd, not a ghost nerd!" she yelled while pinching herself on the arm. "OW! Ok, I'm not dead….thank the gods. But….why am I here? And….where is everyone?"
Looking upon the endless void, she felt….unnerved, like she was supposed to be elsewhere but was also having trouble recalling what that was.
"Mmmmm, maybe there's an exit here?" she muttered before bending down and knocked on the 'floor', only for her hand to pass through it and appear right above her head. "Ok…this is freaky."
However, as the girl looked around, poking the sides of the void and seeing her arms moving in every direction, she didn't notice a figure standing right above her, upside down to be exact.
"What brings you here?" the figure said, appearing right in front of the girl as the shorter girl jumped back in shock.
"Ah! Don…wait." she muttered while looking at the figure a little more closely.
Which revealed themselves to be a short fair skinned woman with short shoulder length reddish black hair that was tied in the back in a semi half up and half down style 'ponytail', green eyes, a F cup chest and small ass, wearing a white hooded cloak that was red underneath, a black high-neck décolletage blouse with studded wristbands on the arms, a black and white overbust corset, a black skirt with white tulle underneath, gray leggings and knee-high boots with red soles, whose face seemed emotionless and cold.
"M-Mom!? But…how!? You're dead!" she yelled in shock as the woman didn't react to the sudden outburst. 'Wait….am I dead!?'
"I am not your parental unit." the woman said coldly. " I am assuming this form, for your primitive mind would not understand nor comprehend the immense power of my true self. Yet I am surprised, for no mortal has ever attempted a forceful 'astral projection' upon my very being."
The girl blinked before something flashed into her head.
Her purpose, her mission.
"You have come far from your ruined planetoid's surface. A world devoid of purpose and cosmic awareness, stuck between order and chaos, between foolish mortals and immortal tyrants."
"You….I remember now, you were the-"
"Ruby Xiao Long Rose, human from another reality beyond my own. You speak only when I command it, when I desire it." the woman said with a frown as her right arm rose up and formed a single red grid-like void, endless as the night sky itself, with a single wave of her hand. "If not."
ZAP!
"AAAAAHHHH!" Ruby screamed as red lightning shot and burned her body, red flames licking against her very skin before the woman waved her hand and the grid vanished, replaced with the same empty void of white.
"I shall obliterate you and allow the endless expanse of space to ferry you into the next world."
"Ah…..ah….ah….." Ruby panted in pain as her body started to heal from the intense burns inflicted upon her, causing the woman to raise an eyebrow for a brief second.
"I see, you are blessed by a being of light. Just like the lonesome parasites of my own reality, those bionic mechanical spawn of my brother." she said with aggression, her hood slowly twisting into two white horns as she spoke contempt for the 'brother'. "Yet your god abandoned you to this fate, a childish machination for a tiny deity. Pitiful."
"Ah….you." Ruby groaned while standing up. "You are the one that…ate our moon."
"That logic is sound, yet I did not consume it, I became that moon's core. Like I did in ages past, but even with that celestial rock as my new body, it is broken, weak. I desire only to regain my strength, to regain my true power for my task." the woman said as the horns curved inwards. "Now, state your business mortal or begone from this place. I have no patience for the likes of mortals."
"..." she looked down as she recalled a single line of thought.
Her world was being destroyed.
"...you are the one destroying Remnant, causing everyone to fight for their lives." Ruby muttered while looking at her 'mom' with a frown. "Don't you have a heart?! Our planet has suffered enough from the Grimm! And now YOU'RE destroying it!"
"It has been suffering long before my arrival, thus I only hasten its slow demise."
"You monster! You are destroying our world, ruining everything!" she yelled before getting zapped by red lightning. "AHHHH!"
"Such words are useless to one beyond the bounds of Vector Sigma, my circuits have had enough of your words." she frowned while Ruby's body started to catch on fire. "Prepare for oblivion."
"AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!"
As the silver eyed girl's very being started to be pulled apart by an unseen yet malevolent force, her humanity started to fade away and instinct began to kick in, one more primal than the oldest Grimm.
The need to exist.
"AHHHHHHHHH! W-WAIT! I-AAAAAHHH! WANT A-AAAAAAHHHHHHH! BARGAIN!" she screamed out in pain, her left side melting away to reveal pure white bone as the lightning vanished instantly.
"Speak." the woman said coldly but with a small amount of interest.
"Ah….ah….I want to…make a deal." Ruby panted while her body started to regenerate from the burns at a slow rate. "I….I will do anything you want, just….spare Remnant. Please."
"..."
"Please, have mercy! Please, stop destroying the planet and I will help you in anything, even…finding other planets." she said while tears formed in her eyes, knowing she had broken her own creed and fantasies as a Huntress.
But this was for the greater good, to save everyone, to….give the world hope, just like Pyrrha did.
"...very well. However, your bargaining posture is….highly underwhelming." she said while moving closer to Ruby, although in her eyes it happened in a matter of seconds. "This is my bargain, serve me along with three others of my choosing, and your miserable husk of a world will be spared."
Ruby's eyes dilated as the deep green eyes seemed to peer right into her soul, unblinking yet unfeeling.
"If you refuse, I shall resume my current objective and you, blessed child of light, will be left to rot in the burning remains of your world's core." she said while her cloak rose up and slowly morphed into a pair of white bat-like wings. "I will give you the means to travel across the vastness of space along with armies to command, a new body and new powers to use at your leisure. But if you disobey me, even once."
WOOOOSH!
"AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!" Ruby screamed as her body was suddenly enveloped in a flaming tornado.
"I shall rip the very core from your body and prevent you from ever facing whatever god formed your eyes." she said with a scowl as the girl screamed in pain.
"AAAHHHHHH!" Ruby cried out before the tornado vanished and she fell on her knees, looking up towards the woman's cold face once more. "Ah…I…..I….I accept those terms. But please….just fix Remnant, leave it…alone." 'I'm sorry….I couldn't…be a true hero.'
"Heros are false, never forget that." the woman said as Ruby's eyes widened in shock. "And remember, you have no other master, but I."
"...yes. I understand."
Zoooop!
The Huntress' eyes blinked as the void became an interlocking network of green grid-like lines as the inky blackness began to absorb her into the darkness.
"Excellent." the woman said before vanishing into the darkness as well, the screen flickering every so often before all went silent.
(Elsewhere)
-Remnant-
The cosmos, endless and beautiful yet terrifying as well to those that call this oxygenless void 'home'.
Yet, as the camera turned towards the direction of this solar system's third planet…..an unnatural cosmic event was occurring, one not seen since the days of the 'gods'.
For on the rightmost portion of the easter hemisphere….was a massive metallic gray planetoid with orange sports, a massive ring of spikes orbiting the planet yet were connected to it by four 'towers', large orange spikes covering it's equator, two curved orange 'horns' on either side of a massive orange hole and a deep crater with a yellowish core that seemed to be lined with large orange 'teeth' that curved outwards, 'biting' downwards on the planet like a circular tick, molten rock and debris falling deep into its 'maw' as gravity seemed to be pulling the planet apart at the seams.
CRUNCH!
CRUNCH!
CRUNCH!
CRUNCH!
The 'teeth' continuously broke down the thick crust of the planet, the molten magma and igneous rock falling into the endless abyss before suddenly stopping, a green beam of energy erupting from it's maw as the planetoid moved farther away from the planet itself.
As the energy beam coated the destroyed portion of Remnant itself, thick metallic plates and wires jutted from the right side of the 'demonic' planet's surface, embedding itself onto it's exposed crust and quickly filling in the hole, recreating its continents and crust with layers of unnatural metal.
Within minutes, the damages done to the planet were nullified, the green beam changing to a pure white hue as a figure floated in between the distance from both the repaired planet and its predatory 'savior'.
That figure being a thirty nine foot tall metallic gray skinned humanoid woman with short metallic black hair that went to her cheeks, deep golden eyes, a J cup chest and wide ass, thick deep purple armor on the arms, legs, chest, shoulders, back and torso with black scale-like markings, a deep purple triangular shaped skull-like hood with silver curved serrated teeth lining the sides and circular deep navy blue eyes on the back of the 'hood', thick semi triangular deep purple shoulder guards that went to the elbows, a circular black orb in between the chest with a single ringed planet symbol etched in its center, a long deep purple six clawed right hand with two curved black sickle-like claws overlapping the smaller gray appendages, a long deep purple cylindrical gun attached to the left hand with long black feather-like spines around the muzzle and sides, four thick rectangular metallic gray treads going from the shoulders to the legs like a cape that sported feather-like edges, twelve circular gray wheels attached to the lower back, a deep purple rectangular 'skirt' running along the hips and long three toed feet with thick deep purple cubicle coaxial guns acting as the toes, whose expression was filled with cold malice as her body expelled a tainted black aura.
"Behold. Centrinus." spoke a booming dark voice that echoed across the airless void, disregarding all forms of physics, as three shadowy figures appeared next to the humanoid female, obscured slightly by the passing debris field of Remnant's old crust. "And these are your troops."
Creak.
Woosh.
From the left side of the horned planet came a small rectangular opening, which allowed a deep black airship with curved horn-like wings, to float in the gravity devoid void before moving towards the figures.
"And this is your ship. Now, go." the planetoid 'spoke' as the figures floated near the ship. "Locate planets worthy of destruction, make sure the seeds of chaos echo across the multiverse."
"Yes, we shall." the woman said before using her legs like rockets, flying towards the ship along with the shadowy figures, the cockpit opening up while the engines began to blaze to life. "None shall escape our sights, my lord Unicron."
As the ship flew away from the restored planet, the second cosmic 'visitor' followed soothe, leaving the now moonless world to its own devices.
The screen began to become coated in a layer of static before everything went black, only for a set of strange alien words to flash upon the screen as it was slowly translated in yellow.
[All worlds belong to Unicron. Beware, gods of this realm of madness, for none escape the Chaos Bringer.]
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Name/Designation Title: Ruby Rose/Centrinus (Yunikuron Incursion Ruby Rose- YIRRRWBY)
Age: 15
Affiliation: Ultimate Evil.
Dimension: - 50023456712000- 01 YIRRRWBY
Abilities: Enhanced strength, speed, durability, adaptability and agility, Silver Eyes (Formerly), Huntress training, scythe handling and knowledge, sniper rifle handling and knowledge, HCSS handling and knowledge, command over 'Heralds of Unicron' (via Unicron's influence), Cybertronian physiology, technological and bio-organic 'scanning', transmetal/technorganic physiology, extreme longevity (via Cybertronian physiology), linguistic understanding and knowledge, mass/matter shifting (via Cybertronian physiology), zero gravity/space resilience/survivability (via Cybertronian physiology), interdimensional travel (via Cybertronian physiology and Unicron's influence), high speed self transformation (via Cybertronian physiology), thick armor plating (via Cybertronian physiology), sharp claws and teeth (via Cybertronian physiology), limited flight (via gliding), cannon handling and knowledge (via Cybertronian physiology) mounted gun handling and knowledge (via Cybertronian physiology), Deinonychus physiology (mimicked via Cybertronian physiology), Centurion Mk 3 tank 'physiology' (mimicked via Cybertronian physiology), Triple Changer capabilities (via Cybertronian physiology), heightened apathy (via Unicron's influence), heightened intelligence.
Semblance(s): Pedal Burst/Speed (formerly), Angolmois (a tainted version of a semblance, a blacked parody of a semblance to be exact, that allows the user to increase their own strength through the use of a mysterious energy source, capable of near godly power. However, it corrupts the user's mind and causes them to become destructive in nature, yet without a constant supply of the unknown energy, the user will die.)
Bio: In this timeline, set during the aftermath of the Battle of Haven, the world would face….a cosmic 'storm' from beyond the Ruinverse itself, from a place in time and space that few beings would ever imagine. For in one reality, within the Transformers Multiverse, called Primax 490.0 Gamma, the end of one story brings ruin to this one, for within that reality, Unicron, the scourge of the multiverse, devoured Cybertron and nearly consumed the entire universe had the deity not incur the wrath of the Confederation of Terran Worlds and the Cybertronian Empire, who with the help of former evil Prime Liege Maximo, banished the entity outside the known multiverse. Unlike most versions of the Planet Eater, this version remained a 'Multiversal Singularity' due to being pushed out of Primax 490.0 Gamma right before the Shrouding, a great event that strengthened the dimensional boundaries of the Clusters in the multiverse and nullified the concept of 'Multiversal Singularities'. Appearing in this reality from a portal temporarily connecting Primax 490.0 Gamma and the Ruinverse together, the monstrous planetoid discovered and began feasting on Remnant's moon, transforming its ruined surface into a new physical body for it to use. Facing the complete destruction of the planet, both Atlas and Salem bolstered their forces to defend the now panicking inhabitants from this monstrous threat, staving off the force for a brief time before the deity began consuming the planet, causing massive damage to the Anima side of the planet in the process. In the confusion, however, Ruby Rose's Silver Eyes began to activate on their own accord and caused her mind to 'connect' with the Chaos Bringer's mind, allowing her to interact with the being. Pleading for the safety of Remnant, she implores the deity for mercy, offering anything to keep her home safe, which surprisingly worked as Unicron, merciful in a malicious way, offered her a choice. Serve him and spare the planet or refuse and allow the world to be consumed. Without hesitation, Ruby accepted the deal and, along with Mercury Black, Emerald Sustrai and Oscar Pine, were transformed from simple organic life forms into Transmetal Cybertronian lifeforms, akin to Maximal/Predacon like Cybertronians, capable of destroying small moons with their advanced weaponry in exchange for their morals corrupted into more 'willing' mindsets. With his new heralds, Unicron recreated the Anima portion of Remnant with his own metallic body, leaving it to 'heal' as he travels the Ruinverse, hunting other Remnants for sport, feasting on their molten cores unimpeded by either gods or relics. For the cosmos belongs to chaos, all things belong to Unicron!