Requester: MajorBrony95.
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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 Seventy Six, Martyr of Hate.
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-Remnant, Sanus, Vale, Sumire-
Dark clouds filled the sky as within the quiet village of Sumire, a place protected by a wide five mile deep canyon that protected the citizens from the Creatures of Grimm, were busy attending several memorials for the lost souls of the 'Fall of Beacon', a great event that deeply scared the Kingdom of Vale to its core.
Wooden structures looked over the near empty dirt streets, the sounds of solemn music echoing across the village as candle-lit lights dimmed in the windowsills, the only source of light in this otherwise Dustless village.
Yet, in the nearby inn, a single light shone brightly in the attic window, a shadow pacing back and forth in a manic fashion.
CRASH!
SHATTER!
"Damn them all! DAMN THEM ALL!" yelled a voice from within the room, glass shattering upon the walls as the shadowy figure was illuminated by the dwindling wax candle light behind them, revealing themselves to be a tall semi muscular fair skinned young man with short blond hair, dark blue blood shot eyes, wearing a black short sleeved hoodie with detached reddish-orange sleeves, a pure white diamond shaped chest plate with gold lining, white spaulders with rerebraces set under them over his shoulders, brown wrist-length fingerless gloves with small metal plates over the backs of each, two brown belts that criss-crossed around his waist with two small brown pouches on the sides, a long silver sword with a golden hilt placed within a white sheath on his left hip, blue jeans with a white patch placed on the left knee, white socks, black sneakers, and holding a red sash in his left hand as he continually grabbed anything nearby and threw them at the adjacent walls in a fury. "Damn them all!"
As the figure continually threw objects across the now ruined room, a bronze circlet with thin bronze chains studded with teardrop shaped emeralds, laid on the bed, its reflective surface taking in the destructive tirade of this poor soul.
SHATTER!
"DAMN THEM ALL!" he roared with fury before attempting to grab the circlet, only to freeze as he took careful notice of it and relaxed his body for a moment. "...why? Why did you have to die?"
Placing the circlet back on the bed, he expelled a deep breath of despair, feeling like the world hated him and returned it back ten fold.
"...you had so much to live for." he muttered to himself while walking to the nearby table and sat on the mahogany chair, thick cuts etched deep into the wooden structure, as he placed both hands over his face in frustration. "So much talent. Why? Just…why did you have to die? Why…did you leave me alone?"
Hot tears fell down his face as he recalled the moment his world came crashing down, the exact point in time where…his innocence shattered like glass.
A single tower, a single kiss, a single push and then, nothing. A blur of vertigo and then the ground, nothing more…nothing less.
"Why? Why did you…leave me?" he said while holding back the deluge of tears, and failing as he punched the table hard with his right hand, breaking it a little in the process. "Why?! Why!? You said you were my partner, my…my special one. But you left me!? You left me here, alone! Without anyone to..to…care. Just…why!? WHY!?"
As he cried his heart out, the blonde failed to notice the figure sitting on his bed, seemingly having appeared from nowhere, and was playing with the circlet with their left hand.
"Such a trinket." said the figure while sounding slightly disinterested. "A warrior's headdress, a rarity to find one intact, especially in this day and age."
The teen quickly turned his head around to see a short tan skinned woman with long olive hair that went down to her feet and narrowed into a thin pink needle-like tip, dull brown eyes, large crescent shaped fangs, purple lips with a thin line going from the sides to her earlobes, a D chest and small ass, short dark gray nails, wearing a dark purple short sleeved shirt with a gold orb in the center, long dark purple gloves with black lining, a dark purple cloak that went down to her feet with two thin white stripes on the hood, a short black fin-like shirt, dark purple leggings with thin black spine-like stitching on the sides and black slippers, laying on her left side and spinning his most prized possession around her finger…like a toy. "H-HEY! HANDS OFF THAT!"
"Relax, I'm not going to break it." she said while placing it on her head, much to the boy's anger. "Huh, fits like a glove."
"Take it off right now!"
"Ok ok, jeez. Spoil sport." she said while taking the circlet off and placing it on the bed. "No need to be all mad at me. I'm just having fun."
"With my partner's circlet!? Months after she DIED!? Are you THAT DISRESPECTFUL!?" he yelled in rage as the woman just stared at him, with unblinking eyes.
"Maybe, but it's not as disrespectful as the world's demonizing of Pyrrha Nikos, is it?" she said while the blonde growled with anger. "I mean one little slip up and everything thinks she's a murderer. Goes to show you that the media and a so called 'loving' fanbase can do wonders on one's image."
"Get out!"
"Mmmm, no. Sorry. Not going." she said while yawning a little.
"Do you know who I am!? Well-"
"Jaune Arc, the seventh child of a group of sisters, leader of Team JNPR and cheater that used a false transcript to get in." she interrupted as the now named Jaune's eyes widened in shock. "You also like Pumpkin Petes for the cereal, tried to woo Weiss Schnee and were partners with your one 'true' love Pyrrha Nikos. May I go on?"
"...how? Just how do you know all of that?"
"Simple, I'm a traveler. A seeker of knowledge that knows all, sees all and possibly knows who fucked whom." she said while standing up and smirking. "Like say I know all about Nora's attempts to do the dirty deed while you were slee-"
"Nope! Don't even!" Jaune yelled while covering his ears. "I do not want to listen! La la la!"
She rolled her eyes while pouting slightly. "You're no fun, at all. Not like the other yous."
He raised an eyebrow while uncovering his ears. "Eh?"
"To make a long story short, I can travel to other universes, other planes of existences, and I'm." she said while pointing to Jaune with her right index finger. "Here to help you."
"...HA! Good one, good one." he cackled before looking around for a hidden camera. "Good one VVN! Good one!"
"Eh?"
"The cameras, where did you put them?"
"There aren't any cameras here. Sumire is a Dustless village." she said while Jaune started to look at her in disbelief, realizing that she was kinda right. "Besides, why would anyone make a show involving you when they are already out there trying to besmirch Pyrrha's good name. I mean look at Vale, they are calling her a Grimm spawn for letting the Grimm in? Even when it was that Cinder Fall bitch who did it? Funny right?"
"No it isn't and don't remind me!" he growled while moving his left hand towards his blade, only to find it was missing. "Eh!?"
"You're looking for this?" She asked while balancing the scabbard's tip with her left pinky finger.
"How di-"
"Semblance, or something like that. No idea." she shrugged while keeping the blade balanced. "But what I do know is that you've been wronged by the world, and I'm here to help fix that little problem."
Jaune raised an eyebrow before turning the chair around and sat back down on it. "Just who are you?"
"Call me Nox, just Nox." she said with a smile while throwing the blade back at him as he caught it with his left hand. "And as I said, I can travel across universes. I do this for a great plan, a great cause that might interest you."
"I don't know."
"Come on now, you haven't even learned what I'm going to do for you." she chuckled while crossing her legs. "I mean why jump into things half cocked?"
"...um…the teeth-"
"I'm a fish faunus, some deep sea one. No idea what I am exactly." she shrugged before pointing to herself. "But my calling is to find people like you for a certain person."
"What do you mean by that?" he asked in confusion.
"Oh that's simple, the broken and ruined. Those that have been persecuted or denied by justice itself, like you have." she said calmly. "I mean you have been suffering from the injustice of the world, from a certain Silver Eyed girl right?"
He growled as he recalled the only person in the world that had silver eyes.
Ruby Rose.
"I mean don't you hate her? She called you her friend yet she didn't show up when Pyrrha died or when she killed that robot." Nox said with a smile. "She didn't help when the world began hating Pyrrha Nikos, or even showed up to comfort you in your darkest hour. I mean what kind of friend is that?"
Gripping his hands tightly, the blonde teen began to see red, hatred filling his heart as Nox continued her conversation, unabated by his anger filled face.
"And then there are the ones that saw her as a tool, the teachers that pressured her into accepting a 'Fall Maiden's' power without her consent, the fans that loved her for her beauty and not her personality, the corporations that wanted to sponsor her for lien, and Huntsmen that treat her like a living goddess on Remnant, too afraid to come near her yet wanting to challenge her for a meaningless title. I mean why would they gain the title of 'Invincible Girl'? Are they trying to look stupid?" Nox said while Jaune began to grit his teeth, his aura flaring up a little in a brilliant display of white flames. "But anyway, I'm here to help you out, Jaune."
"H.O.W?" he growled in fury.
"Simple, I'll give you some of my bosses' powers. Nothing too big but enough to help you in the long run." she said while Jaune's fury dissipated and he looked at her with confusion. "And as a bonus, you can travel the timelines as you please."
"Eh? This isn't a fairy tale you know."
"True, but I'm still going to grant you powers only a few can dream of." she said while doing a headstand on the bed, causing her cloak to fall over her face. "And all you have to do is swear loyalty to my boss."
"To…who?"
"My boss, they are the big shot around here and the one wanting the plan to work."
"What plan?"
"Can't tell you yet. It's a company secret." she said while falling on her back. "But what I can tell you is that the plan involves saving all known Pyrha's from being killed."
Jaune blinked before cocking his head to the side. "What do you mean?"
"Oh boy, well in every universe or timeline I visit, every single Pyrrha either dies, gets seriously injured or flat out turns into a zombie, mostly the dying part. And then she somehow becomes a martyr for Ruby's 'heroism'. Which is kinda baloney given she is an inexperienced noob." she said while kicking her legs in the air. "And oh boy, in the end, the world just blows up or something. All because she dies for nothing."
"..." Jaune gripped his blade tightly as he could feel the anger rising up once more, like an inferno of rage. "She…died for…nothing?"
"Yep. But if the bosses' plan works, then everyone will get a happy ending." Nox grinned. "And to do that, a few timelines need to be pruned, which is where you come in."
"How?"
"Simple, I grant you powers, you kill evildoers, and then let the timeline destroy itself or as I call it, rebooting it. Simple as pie." she said while Jaune looked down at the floor. "And all you do is have unconditional loyalty to the boss. So all in all, it's a fair deal."
"..."
"Take your time. I'm a patient soul." she said while picking her nose a little. "If you don't have the answer today, I can always come back tomorrow."
"...what do I get in exchange?" he asked with a low, almost robotic tone.
"Ah! The ability to travel through timelines, read other people's emotions and one unique power that the boss sees fit to give you, it depends on the person but it's always fun to see them cut loose. Like a comic book fight." she said with a grin, her jaw opening up slightly to reveal more fangs inside the gum line.
"I see…and can Pyrrha…be avenged?"
"Oh yes she can, by taking the power of the boss, you will make her happy." Nox said while Jaune looked right at her.
"Then…I accept."
Nox nodded before getting off the bed and smiled, the room starting to gain purple glitches on it. "Then let us commence. Just stand up and we shall get started."
The former leader of Team JNPR slowly rose from his seat as the glitches became more and more distorted as the screen suddenly turned black.
(Some months later)
-Patch, Xiao-Long Residence-
CRASH!
BOOOM!
"AH!" Ruby cried out while getting sent back through a burning wall, her body covered in cuts and blood as she held onto Crescent Rose like a lifeline. "Fudge monkey!" 'Who is this person!?'
As she heard the sound of cracking wood, she noticed a shadow coming towards her and turned her scythe into its sniper form.
BAM!
And fired upon the figure, a loud clang being heard as she panted heavily.
'I didn't want to do it…but she killed everyone! She killed dad…Yang, everyone!' she thought to herself while seeing something rolling around the now burning hut's floor.
Clank.
Which soon revealed itself to be a black Ursa-like helmet with two curved purple horns on either side of it and a single dent near the upper left corner as it came to a stop by her feet.
"Really Ruby? Denting my helmet? How rude of you." said a cold voice, one masked with underlining rage, as the figure moved through the smoke and flames towards the Silver Eyes.
Her eyes widened as she saw the figure, revealing themselves as a tall semi muscular fair skinned young man with short blonde hair, dark purple eyes, wearing thick black full body armor sporting curved dark purple spikes on the arms and back, triangular shoulder guards with a dark purple 'eye' in the center of each, black gauntlets, a long red sash around the waist, black greaves, dark purple cuisses, black steel tipped boots, holding a massive black greatsword with a purple hilt in his left hand and a massive rectangular purple shield with a red double crescent emblem in his right hand.
"But then again, you always did take the easy way out." he said with a scowl. "Especially when it comes to others."
"J-Jaune!? B-But-"
"It's a long story, something you don't have the luxury of having." he said before throwing the massive shield right at her, a dark purple aura forming around it as the shield began to spin like a buzzsaw.
SWIIIIIISSSSSSSS!
Ruby quickly got out of her stupor before attempting to dodge the attack, only to get hit in the back several times as she was forced to use her semblance to phase through the metallic 'weapon'.
"Telekinesis, a good power but not enough it seems." Jaune muttered before recalling the shield back to his right hand and fired obsidian arrows from his blade, several red portals forming right next to Ruby as they stabbed into the girl's back and sides.
"AAAAAHHH!"
"Needs something…more painful." he said with a dark chuckle before summoning several white glyphs next to him, forming icy figures of Yang Xiao Long and a maniacally grinning man with claw-like weapons on each arm. "Distract her while I prepare her final arrangements."
'Yang's' body glowed with icy fire as she jumped towards Ruby's direction, her 'companion' cackling in the background, its laugh sounding like breaking glaciers, as a long scorpion tail uncurled from his waist and jumped towards Ruby's right side.
"Ah! What the-Yang!?" she yelled before using her weapon, now in scythe form, to cut 'Yang's' right arm as the scorpion themed man jumped right on her, stabbing her in the left arm with his icy stinger. "AH! Get off me!"
As she tried to escape the ice 'golems', Jaune smirked while a dark red eye sigil appeared behind him, an emerald aura forming around the edges as the former ally watched Ruby's suffering with internal glee.
'Just a few more minutes and then I shall make her suffer for what she did! For what this world DID to Pyrrha!' he thought before seeing the ice version of Yang being sliced in half, dispersing it as the scorpion man was pushed off Ruby's body. 'Looks like Yang and Tryian's combined might have served their use. Oh well, I have more.'
BAM!
SQUISH!
He blinked while seeing blood dripping down his eyes, causing him to look at Ruby with unblinking eyes before turning…to another version of him, who appeared from the shadows and shook his head.
"Nice try." Jaune said as the bloodied copy vanished into purple dust. "But I did obtain Blake's powers before coming here. Can't kill someone that can make copies, although Sun's could've worked if they were tuned in the right way. Meh, oh well."
"Why!? Why did you do all of this!?" Ruby yelled while trying to rationalize her best friend's madness.
"Because you killed Pyrrha!" he growled before his blade gained a black aura and he shot it towards Ruby, just as the sigil began to glow a bright mix of crimson and emerald behind him. "YOU WERE TOO SLOW!"
As Ruby quickly jumped away from the blade, hundreds of black Grimm-like arms appeared from the sigil and began to advance towards her, forcing the girl to jump away from them with the nimbleness of a bird.
WOOSH!
SWISH!
"AH!" Ruby cried out as the blade flew into her right arm, causing her to stall as the arms quickly wrapped around her and pulled her violently back to the ground.
BOOOOM!
"Owie…." she groaned before seeing Jaune putting his weapons on the ground, his eyes glowing a bright gold color as he grabbed her weapon and legs.
FLASH!
Turning them both into gold as Ruby screamed in pain, the sensation of her very legs metamorphosing into precious gold being too much for the girl as her aura shattered from the excruciating pain.
"Can't run now." He said with a dark chuckle before allowing the arms to sink back into his shadow.
CRACK!
"AAAAAHHHHHHHH!"
"I wonder if I can pawn this off somewhere?" he said while lifting up Ruby's broken right leg, the golden surface reflecting in the now ash covered ground that used to be Ruby's home. "What do you think?"
"Ah…ah…Jaune…please…stop…this." Ruby cried while Jaune frowned at her. "This isn't…you. We're BFFs…."
"We were never BFFs. Not in your world." he frowned while throwing the leg a few feet behind him as he stomped on Ruby's left leg, shattering it as he ignored the girl's screams. "You left Pyrrha to die, to be framed for a death she never commited. You let her die before her time!"
"It's not…like that." she panted, her eyes becoming blurry from both the tears and the loss of blood. "I was…busy…"
"Busy? BUSY!? YOU WERE TOO BUSY FOR PYRRHA! MY PARTNER!?" he roared before his eyes glowed a dark gray and Ruby's arms began to transform into stone, falling off after a few minutes onto the ash lined ground. "SHE WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN THE WORLD AND YOU WERE BUSY!?"
Ruby cried out in pain as she saw Jaune's eyes turning from gray to a sinister dark purple, her mind flashing back to happier times.
When she might or might not have had a crush on him.
Simpler times…why couldn't they return back to that time?
"Jaune…please…I never meant for all of this…" she said while Jaune, for a moment, looked remorseful, moving away as he stared at the ground. "I…I lost a close friend…too."
"..."
"Let's just…forgive…" she said while not realizing that Jaune's eyes turned a dark red at the mention of 'forgive', before said eyes turned back to it's dark purple hue. "Pyrrha…would've wanted…that."
"You." he growled before grabbing Ruby by the neck with his left hand, a dark purple energy seeping out of the gauntlet as it quickly enveloped the Silver Eye's body. "DON'T KNOW WHAT PYRRHA WOULD'VE WANTED!"
"J-JAUNE!" she screamed as her body quickly wasted away and her eyes began to dim into blackened husks.
As the Huntress' body mummified in Jaune's hands, his eyes turned into a dark silver color for just a moment before resuming its darkened purple scheme, his lips twisted into an animalistic grin of rage as he threw the body to his left.
SHATTER!
Which turned to dust upon contact, leaving only her clothes as a reminder of the fool that tried to reason with 'friend'.
"I am no longer Jaune, son of Arc." he said before walking towards his helmet, placing it upon his head as the sword and shield flew towards his back and attached themselves to it like glue, dark purple eyes appearing from the visor. "I am a being of a grander plan."
The wind blew against the ash and soot, the figure walking away from the ruined wasteland as he extended his left hand outwards.
ZOOOOP!
Causing a purple portal to form in front of him as the figure entered its deep unknown.
"I am the God of Consumption." he said while turning to look at the ruined world one last time. "And I shall prepare for their arrival. To herald the end of everything and bring forth a new order to this ruined universe."
The screen flickered sporadically as purple glitches formed on the sides, before a single red eye stared at the viewers for a brief moment as everything went black.
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Name/Designation Title: Jaune Arc/God of Consumption (Martyr of Hate Jaune Arc- MHJARWBY)
Age: 17
Affiliation: Omniversal Evil.
Dimension: - 60000866121- 00 MHJARWBY
Abilities: Godly strength, durability, speed, stamina, endurance, agility, intelligence, reflexes, reaction time, and adaptability, high hand to hand combat skills, leadership skills, extremely high aura pool, shield handling and knowledge, swordsmanship skills and knowledge, interdimensional travel, emotional sensing, emotion reading, skill absorption (via Consuming Force), knowledge absorption (via Consuming Force), semblance absorption (via Consuming Force), aura absorption (via Consuming Force), memory absorption (via Consuming Force), life absorption (via Consuming Force), energy absorption (via Consuming Force), magic absorption (via Consuming Force), true knowledge of the Ruinverse, rapid regeneration (via Consuming Force), slowered aging (via Consuming Force), limited eternal youth (via Consuming Force).
Semblance(s): Aura Amp, Consuming Force (a strange 'pseudo' semblance gifted by an unknown entity that is capable of absorbing the powers and abilities of others at the cost of killing the afflicted target. Yet unbeknownst to all, this is no semblance, but a portion of the Ruinverse's vast yet dark energy, twisted and all-consuming to those that exist and capable of great harm or, to a select few, great power.), Various Semblances (via Consuming Force).
Bio: In this timeline, after the events of the Fall of Vale, young Jaune Arc would be gifted Pyrrha Nikos' circlet and sash, causing the boy to fall into a deep despair that would consume his waking hours and sleepless nights for several months. Yet instead of blaming himself for the death of his partner and possible lover, he chose to blame his friend, Ruby Rose, for her death, believing that she wasn't there when Pyrrha was forced to 'kill' Penny Polendina, tarnishing her name in the process on live television, and wasn't there to save her from Cinder Fall's arrow due to being 'too slow'. This hatred slowly spread outwards from Ruby to everyone else that interacted with his partner, believing that the teachers pushed her into becoming a vessel for an unknown power against her will as well as the fans, who now remember her as a 'murderer' instead of a true hero that risked her life for Vale's survival. Hating the world that would allow his partner's death, he cursed Remnant with vengeance in his bosom, catching the attention of a strange woman named Nox, who was the emissary of [REDACTED] and one who could travel throughout the Ruinverse itself. Seeing the hate in his heart and wanting to alleviate the despair Jaune's soul acquired, she offered him a deal, in exchange for his service to [REDACTED] and unconditional loyalty to [REDACTED], she would grant the leader of Team JNPR a power so great that it can allow him to gain the revenge he so sought, the justice for Pyrrha's unjust death, and the means to bring her killers to justice. Seeing this as a means to make Pyrrha's legacy mean something, Jaune agrees to Nox's deal and was granted not only the ability to travel the Ruinverse and read the emotional state of others, but was gifted a large portion of the Ruinverse itself, taking the form of a pseudo semblance called the Consuming Force, a strange pseudo semblance that allows the user to take the powers of others through touch and gain their abilities as his own at the cost of killing the affected individual. Now with the powers of a true god, Jaune began to devastate Remnant to its core, stealing every single bit of its unique properties and killing anyone that he deems 'worthless' in the most brutal of fashions, after stealing everything they knew that is. Yet he saved Ruby Rose for last, to deal with at his own leisure, as he killed every single thing in this timeline. Desperate to bring Jaune back from the brink of darkness, she tried to talk some sense into him, losing her legs in the process, yet this plan was for not as Jaune stole her powers and life as he now dubbed himself the God of Consumption, the instrument of the [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] plan. Leaving his world to rot, he now travels the Ruinverse, looking for allies for a grand design…for what that is unknown, but all shall fear the wrath of a god, a bringer of 'justice' for his only love, Pyrrha Nikos.