Robotic Voice: "Metroid"
Thinking: "Metroid"
Comms: [Metroid]
Texting: "Metroid"
Chozo: {Metroid}
Whispering: *Metroid*
Talking: "Metroid"
Chapter 2: Arrival
Ruby sat back in the cockpit chair. "Damn, that was something," Ruby said out loud. By this time she had dispelled her armor, leaving her in a black skin tight suit with dark crimson highlights and a slightly glowing crosshair pattern adorned her back. "Yes, indeed it was," replied Adam. "I must apologize, Ruby. Near the end of the mission, Raven Beak hijacked the comms. With the minimal connection I had, I could only make sure you got some information you needed. I couldn't–""It's OK, Adam" Interrupted Ruby, "You did your best, that is all I can ask for. I nearly gave up at the end, myself." After a long moment Adam spoke, "Realy?" Ruby smiled at this, "Yes, yes I did. However, something drove me to keep going." Ruby's face downcast, "Something from my past, before the Chozo. A promise, and someone calling for me to come home." Ruby's hand came up to pinch the bridge of her nose as tears started to form, "I just wish I knew where to start looking. I have tried finding my home before, but nothing turned out." Now it was Adam's turn to comfort Ruby, "I am sure you will find where you came from, and the people there will be happy to have you. Perhaps they may even become proud of the fact that you are the youngest, having joined at the age of 10 no less, and over the past five years became the most accomplished bounty hunter in the galactic federation, and you have saved the galaxy countless times." Ruby couldn't help but smile at Adam's words, "Heh, thanks Adam. That means a lot."
"Perhaps a change of topic is in order. You still need to send in your report and there is the PDA that you got." Ruby turned to the PDA that Quiet Robe had left on the dash. "How about you start filling out the report while I take a look at this," said Ruby, "You know the drill, make it detailed enough that they don't make a fuss, but leave out anything that will have the Federation breathing down our necks." as she picked up the tablet. "Aye aye Ma'am" was Adam's reply. Chuckling Ruby looked at the PDA as it turned on.
The screen showed Quiet Robe, in his usual garments. "This must have been before I met him." thought Ruby. {Hello child} came the birdman's voice speaking his native tongue. {If you are watching this, then you have managed to stop Raven Beak and I am dead. I would have preferred that I tell you this in person, but we do not always get what we want, now do we?} Ruby chuckled at that, thinking of all the times things that could have gone better during her journey. {I am sure you have wondered where you came from. You may have searched, but found nothing.} this caused Ruby to perk up, was this it? Would she finally know? {That is for good reason. We did not find you on just any usual federation planet. We found you somewhere far out of reach from the federation} This caused Ruby to deflate a bit. If the Federation could not reach it, there was very little likelihood she could. {We were researching the quantum fluctuations of particularly out of reach, but dense nebulae when we found a spot where we were picking up communication chatter coming from seemingly nowhere.} this had Ruby raising an eyebrow. "What? Communications don't just come out of nowhere. Things like that only happen… when…" {Yes, quite the anomaly. Further research showed that this was a particular weak point in the fabric of our universe. Being the curious species we are, we decided to try and punch through this weak point and see what was on the other side. We sent a ship through the Gate we built to set up a station to survey what was on the other side. What we found was interesting. We found a lone system in a dimensional pocket. This system had a single habitable planet. We went to set up the station on the planet's moon only to find that half of it was shattered. What could have done it, We do not know.}
A shattered moon? Ruby had seen some weird things, living planets that infect others, two evil clones of herself, but never a shattered moon. But why did that seem familiar? {Once we had set the base up, we started surveying the surface. What we found was shocking. There was a human civilization and, despite having advanced technologies, had not yet achieved any form of space travel. They called the planet Remnant. We decided to send a covert research party to gather samples on the surface. When the research party landed the came across a gravely injured little girl with crimson hair being attacked by black wulfen like beasts. We came across you.} Ruby's eyes widened at this. The Chozo had saved her, she knew that, but she had always thought that it was from the aftermath of a colony attack.
{We took you in and nursed you back to health. It was by Raven Beak's orders that we brought you through the gate to undergo the genetic modifications.} Ruby grew angry with this. Yes, the Chozo had saved her, had given her so much to grow stronger, but Raven Beak had torn her from her family. That bird brained piece of Shit deserved way worse of a fate than he got. {I understand that you must be angry. You have every right to be. But I now wish to right this wrong. This PDA has the coordinates for the Gate as well as all of the access codes for Observation Post Falcon Sight. The base was abandoned shortly after your discovery. May the winds be swift and behind you Ruby.} and with that, the screen turn off, ending his message.
Ruby did not know what to think. Right there in her hands was the key to her past. Her ticket to her home planet. "I can go home…" said Ruby out loud, "I can meet the family I lost…" then the doubts came rolling in, "What if they no longer are alive?" she said hugging her knees, "What if the reason I was found alone being attack by monsters was because they threw me out and did not love me anymore?" By this point Ruby's rambling had gotten Adam's attention, "Ruby?" But his question went unheard. "What if they hate me for disappearing for so long? What if-" "RUBY SAMUS ROSE!" yelled Adam over the speakers, finally getting her attention. "You have faced the Space Pirates countless times, exterminated the Metroids and X repeatedly, faced not one, but two terrifying evil versions of yourself, and saved the galaxy too many times to count and you are here rambling in fear about a bunch of WHAT IFs?! Get yourself together! The Ruby I know and respected in life and now is nothing like this!" Adam's outburst shocked Ruby, yes she had seen Adam in a bad mood, but that was nothing compared to this outrage. "I know you are scared about what will happen, what is nothing new? You have a chance to see your family. Are you just going to let it pass you by or are you going to charge it head on like you always have in the past?" Ruby did not know what to say, "I… I…" "Well? What is it?" Taking a deep breath Ruby looked down for a moment before looking up, tears dripping down her face and mouth turned up in a sad smile. "Yes, just like always… Thank you Adam, I don't know what I would do without you" "You would probably fly straight into a gas giant." Adam said matter of factly. "Hey! That was one time!" came Ruby's indignant reply. "I still had to stop you." was Adam's comeback followed by a "Hmff" from a pouting Ruby.
"Anyway, playing the embarrass the bounty hunter game aside," Ruby said, changing the subject, " Have you finished the report?" "Yes I have, would you like me to put in a note that you will be unavailable for a while?" ask Adam. Ruby smiled, "You know me well" and with that Ruby put in the coordinates for the Gate and entered FTL.
Ruby's ship exited FTL outside a large nebula debris field. Large and small asteroids floated amongst the clouds of hydrogen and helium. Two things stood out to Ruby. The first was a large metal ring, big enough for a cruiser to fly through. The Gate. The other was something that filled Ruby with dread. A light frigate bearing the markings of a specific Space Pirate Commander. Ridley, the draconic alien.
"Shit, Ridley is here and alive!" Said Ruby seeing the dragon fly into the light frigate. "Ready the ship for combat." yelled Ruby, flicking on a few switches. The ship's shields came online, a blue hexagonal patterned cloak covering the Gunship. Hatches on the front opened up to reveal plasma cannons. Across space, the Pirate Ship formed a similar shield and fired its engines, headed straight for the- "THEY ARE HEADED FOR THE GATE!" Ruby punched forward on the throttle, gunning her ship towards the frigate. Gun turrets rotated to aim at the Solar Rose and began to fire. Ruby flew her ship around the blasts skillfully and unloaded a salvo of plasma against the frigate's shields, causing them to flash. "Your cannons may be more than enough to easily down smaller fighters Ruby, but it will take time to deplete this thing's shields." Ruby rolled her eyes, "Thank you Captain Obvious." "Thats General Obvious thank you very much"
Ruby circled around the ship avoiding turret fire while bombarding the frigate's shields. She was so absorbed in trying to break it that she did not realize they had reached the Gate. "Ruby, the Gate has been activated and we are about to pass through it!" Ruby drifted around some more energy bolts to look at the Gate to see the nose of the ship pass through a veil of swirling blue and green. "NO" yelled Ruby in panic, but it was too late as the frigate and Solar Rose passed through the portal.
On the other side another Gate ring activated and the two ships came through. Ruby looked around in amazement. Not too far away she saw a moon, a shattered moon orbiting a blue and green planet. Remnant, her home world. She was finally here after 10 years. Then that amazement turned to rage. Ridley was here, and he was going to ruin everything. She would not let him. Flicking a few more switches and pressing a large yellow button, a new symbol came up on her HUD. "Let me show you why I call this ship Solar Rose," said Ruby, Crescent Rose forming around her.
Under the ship's cockpit, a hatch opened revealing a large Fusion Cannon that started to charge. On her HUD 00% Charged appeared and started to increase. Ruby took aim at the frigates aft, where the thrusters were as the cannon charge reached 36%. "I will not let you ruin my home!" she yelled, and then something happened. With a flash of crimson and silver, Ruby was in her Metroid Armor, this time though, the crimson energy did not manifest around her free hand, instead it wrapped around her arm cannon and started to project into the ship. Ruby's eyes widened, she was doing to her ship what the infant Metroid had done to her during her battle with Mother Brain. The charging of the cannon accelerated, going from 45% to 60% to 100%, but it did not stop there. A warning clackson sounded and red lights flashed as the charge increased to 150%, then 200%. "Ruby! Any more and the ship will blow!" came Adam's voice over the clackson. "Just a bit more" said Ruby, straining as she forced the rest of the excess energy from her escape of ZDR into the ship making the charge reach 500%. As soon as the last bit of energy left her and the Metroid Armor disappeared, she hit fire. A beam of fusion energy larger and stronger than the Hyper Beam shot from the cannon and slammed into the frigate, shattering its shield and destroying the entire backside of the frigate. However this did not come without a cost. The fusion cannon started to overload, forcing Ruby to eject it as it exploded.
Ruby watched as the frigate plummeted towards the surface, headed to a small dark continent away from all the other larger and more vibrant ones. "Is it too much to ask that Ridley died from that attack?" asked Ruby. "With your luck, I would say no." replied Adam. Ruby sighed before letting Crescent Rose dematerialise, "Let's go take a look at that Chozo station. Hopefully we can have some good news." Ruby then piloted the ship to the orbital station.
It turned out that the research base was good news. The base still had a functioning power generator and there were auto miners, refineries, and assemblers, so she was able to restock all of her munitions. Now she was in the command center gathering any data the Chozo had on herself and researching the basics of Remnant. "So they found me on the island that is known as Patch, that must be where my family lives." said Ruby as she read over the Chozo report. "There also seems to be a city or Kingdom as they called it called Vale nearby on the mainland. I might head there first." Ruby then turned to what she found about the basics of the world. "Dust is the main power source, and it can have different effects. There was a war called the Great War that took place about 80 years ago. The four kingdoms Vale, Atlas, Mistral, and Vacuo and the hunter academies. There are the monsters of Grimm that Quiet Robe talked about and the huntsmen and women that fight them. My mom must have been one. And finally there is a second race that are called faunus that are part human part animal that have a single animal trait." Ruby said, lingering on the last one, "I may be classified more as a faunus now than human."
Ruby turned to a holo projector to see Adam in his military uniform. "What do you think?" she asked. "Well, from what I gather this place is definitely a world of bloody evolution that's for sure. Nothing we can't handle. This Dust stuff is interesting, it says that it stops working once it leaves the atmosphere. That's probably why they never got space travel. That along with the Grimm making things difficult." He replied. Ruby nodded, "Yah, I'm sure I can integrate it into my gear planet side. Well, I am going to prepare to head down. Are you good with staying here and managing the station? Just let me know if there is any trouble." Ruby walked out of the room as Adam responded affirmative. "Time to take a look around." She thought.
AN: Hey everyone, here is chapter 2. I know that this is really soon after posting chapter one, but I am on a roll now and I want to get my ideas down. I took a look at Samus's suits and I realized that the phazon suit is black and crimson. Ruby's suit does not look exactly like that, more like the suit in Dread with colors changed. You won't need to worry as there will be no phazon, so no Dark Samus/Ruby… maybe. If you are wondering what Ruby's phazon suit would look like, just take the normal one and add Dark Samus's color scheme. Ruby's Zero Suit looks like the one from Dread if you look it up, just add the jet boots that can easily be seen in Super Smash Ultimate, without the heels.
To try and not make Ruby too OP, I limited her Metroid Armor to when she has absorbed enough energy, kind of like a super state, and when active, will drain the energy excess slowly. She can also transfer energy, just like the baby Metroid did in Super metroid.
Ridley is alive! I had to add in him just to make the conflict a bit more balanced. Where did he end up? You will have to find out.
Again, please suggest upgrades for team RWBY, maybe even JNPR, as well as pairings if you think I should do them.
Feel free to ask questions and give suggestions. I need the feedback to get better at doing this.
Till next time.