* Warning! *

Hey guys so yay final chapter to the origin story of Ruby/Red whose excited for it because I know I am, just a quick warning, if you do not like violence then skip where I have marked it because I may have gone a bit over board with this one and just to assure you all I'm not a psychopath and that I am completely sane let me explain, I was just trying to create something to make sure I showed how much Ruby was hurting and to make sure I did that I had some help from some friends on this so it isn't all me.

I remain unconvinced-editor

Well anyways without further delay let us begin.

Chapter 4

Another three years had passed since that day and things had started to take a turn that Ruby found relieving, all the tests she had forgone were becoming less of an occurrence one such example would be cutting off her arm, instead of cutting it off right after it had fully grown back they would do it once a year, but there were also plenty of new experiments such as giving her diseases and infections that should have been incurable but luckily the ones Ruby's mutations couldn't get rid of were taken away by someone with a mutation that could get rid of them for her.

Ruby had just re-entered her cell when the girl walked in, she approached the cells and asked, "Are you ok?"

Ruby nodded as she said, "Yup I'm fine just finished the exercise period, nothing too bad… yet"

Nodding the girl said happily, "That's good, I have some good news of my own"

Ruby asked excitedly, "What is it?"

"I have found a group of people who are willing and able to help me get you out" looking to the cell on her right she said to Raven, "I'll make sure that you two are set free, just be sure to free as many of the others as you can, the more of you that are out the easier it will be for you to get past everyone, and when you do get out of the facility go to the east side of the island there'll be a small boat waiting for you both"

"Wait slow down, when is this happening?" Asked Raven,

The girl answered, "Sometime from now to the next seven days, everything's set for you and Ruby, it's just everything else that's needing to be prepared"

Nodding Raven said, "Ok, we had better be ready then"

Ruby asked as she looked over to the girl, "So will we see you again when we're out?"

The girl turned to Ruby with a frown, "I'm… not sure, I'd hope so" turning to Raven she said, "I have to go, just remember to always be ready"

As the girl began walking away Ruby said as she failed to contain her excitement but luckily wasn't heard, "I can't believe it we're finally gonna be outta here" she then began jumping around like a child on a sugar rush, facing the wall to her left she asked, "Can you believe it Rae? We're finally getting out"

Sighing Raven said, "Ruby try keeping calm, if you get over excited about it all, then someone's bound to hear you and report us"

Stopping in an instant Ruby said, "R-right sorry it's just I've been waiting for this since forever, like oh my god how long has it been since she said she'll try and help us"

With a warm and joyful voice Raven said, "You were thirteen, remember when the experiments started"

Smiling brightly, she said, "Oh yeah what were they doing to me back then?"

Slightly confused and worried about the young girls' tone of voice she answered questioningly, "Weren't they testing or activating your abilities through electricity?"

"Oh yeah that's right!" Ruby said with the most cheerful tone Raven had heard her use in a while,

"Um Ruby are you feeling ok?"

Ruby replied happily as if everything she had said was fine, "Yeah of course why wouldn't I be?"

Deciding to voice her concerns Raven said, "Because you're talking about this place rather fondly and it's starting to make me worried"

"Oh no that's not it it's just that… well it's just that I kinda grew up here andit'salsotheplaceIgottomeetyouandthegirlwhogivesmeallthebooksandIreally reallyhadfunwheneverwetalkedandIdon'twanttoloseyouguys"

Raven stopped for a moment to try and comprehend what the young girl in the cell next to hers had just said before replying, "Ok… I guess I can see that, just don't start saying shit like that again"

"Alright Raven, but now that all we have to do is wait what can we do?"

Shrugging with a small smirk Raven said, "Go to sleep, exercise that's about it"

Groaning in exhaustion Ruby replied tiredly "But I just got back from exercising, I don't wanna"

Waving off the younger girls' complaint she said, "Then go to sleep" sighing in annoyance Ruby decided to listen to her friend and turned to the back corner of her cell and headed towards the bed.


Time did pass quickly like the two had known it would but they were starting to wonder what had happened since the girl hadn't come to see them since she told them of the plan, and what made the situation even more worrisome was that it was fast approaching the eleventh hour at night of the seventh day, Ruby and Raven had begun to question if what the girl had told them was true or not, she had said seven days from that day and it was two hours away from it being the eighth day since they had seen her, Ruby and Raven were about to lose hope until the door opened and the girl was approaching the cells moving in between a fast walk and a jog, she had a bag slung over her left shoulder and in her right hand was an assault rifle, once she stood outside of Ruby's cell she dropped the bag off to the side and pulled six keys from her pocket,

Looking apologetically she said, "Sorry for keeping you waiting I'm short on time, I was able to convince the guard outside the room I'd take the rest of his shift so we have thirty minutes till the attack on the base begins, if something goes wrong then they will start early, these keys open all the cells in this room once you let them out share the keys around" pausing she turned around and shouted, "You hear that, I'm helping you all get out the more of you there are the more of a chance you have of getting off this island, we're in the middle of a lake thirty minutes off from of New York!"

Smirking she unlocked Ruby's cell then Ravens and handed them both three keys each, "Raven the bag and gun are for you" stopping for a moment as she reached for her boot she pulled out a combat knife, "This is for you, Raven is still a human so she'll be getting the gun" she knew Ruby was going to complain if she hadn't said a word, after handing the younger girl the knife and Raven the gun she turned around, "You do remember where to go right?"

Nodding Raven said, "Don't worry I know I'll make sure she's there, even if I have to drag her the whole way"

"Right, I have somethings I need to take care of before this goes down free as many of them as you can, good luck"

Ruby turned back and called out to the girl "See you on the other side!" The girl gave her a smile before walking out the door she had just come from, looking to Raven she grinned, "You ready?" The only response she got in return was a nod before they started opening the other cells and sharing the other four keys around.

The thirty minutes was almost up and Ruby and Raven had both helped release the last of the prisoners just in time and they were all waiting for the first sign of an attack to burst out of the room, the atmosphere was tense no one spoke a word in fear of missing the signal they didn't have to wait too long as they all heard what sounded like a bomb going off and the foundations began to shake, once things had stabilized everyone except for Ruby and Raven had ran out of the room, they waited until they were the last ones there, slowly and cautiously walking out of the room Raven raised the rifle ready to shoot the first thing that came into sight,

They went through corridor after corridor, lab after lab, office after office, the place had seemed abandoned and the two would have thought as much if they still couldn't hear the gun fire and explosions coming back from where they had come from, Raven followed Ruby as they made their way to what Ruby knew as a shortcut, and not too much later they began to slow down as they passed a small gym, Raven gave a quick glance enough to see what was in the gym and asked, "Is that where you went for your exercise periods?"

Ruby nodded as she said, "Yup after this I'm not too sure where to go I was only able to see through that door thanks to the window, once we're through there we're going to have to hope we take the right path"

Raven held her hand out in front of Ruby and walked towards the door she got into position and kicked the door open, before Ruby could comprehend what was going to happen Raven opened fire, it was too quick for any of the mercenaries or Mutants to react and she followed Raven through the door the sight to greet her was indeed grim as she spotted ten dead bodies with the blood still leaking out of them, "You alright?"

She turned her head to Raven and nodded, "Yeah, I'm fine, I just hope everything's going well for the others"

Raven nodded and reached for the next door with her rifle aimed ready to fire again but before she could even grasp the door handle it opened, she didn't even think as she pulled her hand back under the barrel and opened fire, when the spray of bullets had been replaced with clicks she looked to see who she had shot, instead of finding a corpse riddled with bullets she saw a man made of water standing in front of her, "Oh shit"

she was expecting him to attack to defend himself but instead he just stood there looking at her with his jaw dropped in shock, Ruby recognized the man made of water and said with a hint of unease, "Dr Redwood?"

he turned his gaze to her and his posture turned from stiff to a more relaxed one as he turned from water to flesh and bone as he asked, "3-9-5 are you ok?" When he saw Ruby nod, he could see she was unsure of what he would do, giving her a smile he said, "Don't worry I can help you get out, the other prisoners are going towards the north exit meaning we still have a chance of getting you out, but we have to go back to the south exit"

Ruby shook her head as she said, "We need to get to the east side of the island, can you help us get there?"

Showing Ruby and Raven a very surprised look he grinned, "As it turns out most of the east side has holes going through the walls and out to the open, if we move fast enough we might make it past everyone"

Nodding Raven said, "Right you're at the back of the line can you talk while your all… watery?"

"I can"

"Good because your gonna want to stay that way just give me the directions, Ruby might be able to heal but she can still feel pain, bullets just pass right through you, so you'll have the best chance of keeping her unharmed, let's move"

Walking out the door Ruby and Dr Redwood followed behind Raven quickly and they did manage to sneak by most of the Mutants or mercs and they were almost out, "Alright there should be a hole large enough for us to slip through in this room" said Dr Redwood as they approached the door,

Upon opening the door Raven had found that Dr Redwood was right there was a hole large enough for them to slip through, but he had either left out some details or it had been a recent development because the room was now full of Mutants including Dr Stein, fortune seemed to be on their side though because all the Mutants had their backs faced to them and Raven had just reloaded the assault rifle with a full clip before opening the door, grinning like a madwoman she opened fire across the whole room, no one knew what was happening before it was too late as Raven mowed them down with the spray of bullets that went throughout the room, once the clip had been emptied she took cover behind the door and reloaded,

Dr Stein must have seen her because as she had finished loading the gun and got ready to continue her righteous slaughter, Dr Stein shouted, "Subject 2-6-7, how dare you, I will make you suffer!" Raven wasn't sure why Dr Stein was threatening her, she knew what Dr Stein was going to do if she gave the woman a chance and so Raven rounded the corner and took aim, only for the gun to float from her grip, "You, stupid girl did you really think I was going to let you leave this facility alive?"

Raven knew that both Dr Redwood and Ruby were behind her she had to do something Dr Stein didn't know about them not yet, she remained silent as she raised her hands and started walking south west making sure to keep her gaze on Dr Stein, now Dr Stein not only had her back to Ruby but to the hole in the wall Dr Redwood and Ruby could still make it out, so what if she didn't make it, she was happy with that, as long as she got Ruby out that's all that mattered, "Why don't you just shut up" looking to her left Raven saw the girl, the one who had made all this possible standing there and she was aiming a handgun right at Dr Stein, before the good Dr could come up with any kind of response the girl pulled the trigger once, twice, three, four, five times before Dr Stein swatted the gun out of the girls hand with her powers, the girl had shot Dr Stein five times and the bullets had actually hit!

"You! You little wretch! I'LL HAVE YOUR HEAD FOR THAT!" screeched Dr Stein,

*Skip this little bit if over the top violence is not something for you (I won't be putting these in once I reach a certain point in the story.) *

Before anything else could be said there, was screaming? No one knew what was happening until it had already happened, Ruby had come out of her hiding place and charged at Dr Stein with the knife from the girl in hand letting out a mighty battle cry, as she had jumped onto the older woman she shoved the combat knife into Stein's throat, then she pulled it out and ran the blade across her throat before stabbing it back in again, as she pulled it out this time blood was coating her hands and the knife was slippery a bit too slippery it seemed, she dropped the knife and opted to use her hands as she wrapped her fingers around Stein's throat and dug them in deep and forming a closed fist before she pulled her hand back out, right before Dr Stein's life faded from her mutilated body Ruby shouted at the top of her lungs, "NO ONE IS ALLOWED TO HURT MY FRIENDS!" As Dr Stein collapsed Ruby kicked the corpse with her left foot then lifted her right root and crushed the head with a stomp,

*End*

"Ruby?" Collapsing onto her knees as she looked up to meet the girls concerned gaze, she couldn't say anything she wanted to know if she had saved them, but she couldn't speak? "Ruby are you ok?" Her mouth was dry her lips felt like they should be flaking what was happening to her? "Ruby are you ok please just say something anything please just be ok?" Ruby knew she had to show them she was ok but she couldn't speak so instead she forced her gaze to them with a shaky nod, but something felt wrong with her body she looked back down and was surprised to find herself trembling her stomach was flipping now and she collasped,

Raven crouched beside Ruby and pulled her into a hug as she said, "I'm so sorry"

The girl looked around the room quickly and noticed Dr Redwood staring at what was left of Dr Stein, she looked back to the woman coddling the teen and asked, "Raven is Redwood with you?"

Raven nodded but to make sure the girl knew that he was on their side she said, "He's on our side"

The girl nodded before looking back to him "Hey Redwood! There's a boat big enough for four passengers you three and the driver, he's a S.H.I.E.L.D operative, tell him that you're to take my place I'll catch another lift out of here"

Showing his surprise, he asked, "Are you sure?"

Nodding she said, "I'm sure, besides you might be able to tell them what I couldn't after all I'm a hired gun, your one of the doctors here, be sure to tell them everything you know"

Nodding he said, "We have to move, 2-6-7 pick up 3-9-5, you'll have to carry her out"

As Raven picked the teen up, Ruby reached out for the girl before her vision went black.

I honestly surprised myself with this chapter and I don't know what I could say here, but I do hope I didn't go overboard with this chapter, please leave a review to let me know what you thought of this chapter and if you thought I could have done anything different I'm interested to see what you guys could come up with, maybe it's something a LOT calmer than what I ended this with or maybe it's much more darker, either way I'm excited to see what you all think and can come up with.