Disclaimer

I don't own RWBY, or any company related to it.

Any of the names other than RWBY cast are fictional and resemblances to real people are purely accidental.

AN: Info for ease of writing and reading :P.

Gentle rose - a sabre sword.

Scarlet rose - rifle

Age - 13 years 6 months 3 weeks

My timeline of V1-3: imgur com /a/ZyoijxK

CHAPTER 20

About seven months later.

Ruby Rose, now aged fourteen and a two month, was sitting in the canteen and eating her dinner, just as she was reaching for her glass, her scroll rang out with a message notification. Taking a sip of water, Ruby reached for her scroll to check the message and saw that she was requested to come to the throne room in five minutes from Sienna.

Finishing her dish fast and putting it back on the return tray, Ruby speeds up with her semblance to the doors of the throne room to meet with Khan.

There she met two guards standing in front, where one opened the left side of the door to let her in with just a nod of greeting. She nodded back and came inside, where she reached the steeps and kneeled with her head lowered.

"Black Rose, you have a new assignment. Tomorrow you will temporarily join a squad under Adam Taurus in Vale and with him next week perform rescue operations of our kind in a dust mine located in the outskirts of the Juger village in Atlas. Adam is a leader of the operation. You will be transported to Vale in our bullhead alongside a few other warriors at four in the morning from pad two on the roof. Be safe, don't oversleep and dismissed"

Ruby bowed after hearing her orders and answered "Yes, high leader", before turning her back to her and leaving the room. Now she had to inform her teacher, doctor Links, about this in the afternoon session that would start in three hours, but for now she went to her room and started checking everything is working and packing things.

'Claws… work and sharp, sword… sharp and maintained, scarlet rose… sharp, olived, maintained, magazines full and checked, clothes… check, stitching kit and medical kit… all good. Charging battery with a cable for emergency, check, cleaning stuff check. Looks like I have everything packed' Ruby mentally counted everything before zipping her bag and checking the clock on her scroll "Twenty minutes left huh" she whispered and sighed, before placing her bag next to the table with weapons and leaving to take the last lessons for today.

"Good afternoon Ruby, for today we will be talking about the biological build of human and faunus bodies, differences and how they work in detail. As you can see I have already prepared a couple of printed sheets with examples, where all tendons, muscles, bones are named. As you can see there is even a poison sack on a scorpion faunus, which we will talk about later today" Links said as he saw Ruby coming in and sitting on her chair next to the bench and checking the papers there.

"Good afternoon Doctor, I wish to inform you that tomorrow I will be going on a mission for some time and I will be unable to attend lessons for some time" Ruby replied, as Links stopped talking, with her head raised and looking straight at him.

The lesson took three hours, before Ruby learned everything and the doctor let her go. She went to the training hall to practise her spear skills and use of her metal claws on moving targets, while evading random rubber balls flying. Getting hit with one hurt a lot, but was not dangerous to health and it was required to wear some kind of eye protection during practice. It became her habit to train there every day after lessons, unless it was Sunday, where she decided to rest. Rose trained until it would get completely dark outside, or a clock would hit nine in the afternoon.

On Sundays Ruby liked to laze around, play games, lie on roof under sun if there was one, browse the week's weapon magazines and sleep the tiredness away.

After training, Ruby took a shower, set up an alarm on her scroll and went for a short sleep. Waking up later due to the ringing tune from her wake up call, Rose stretched herself, after turning off the scroll alarm, wore her clothes, took her weapons and bag, then went to the roof landing pad, with her mask on.

There she met up with a couple of other masked faunus, who just nodded their heads at her and got inside the bullhead. Following them, Ruby sat on a bench inside and secured herself and placed her bag under her legs and weapons on top of her knees.

"Take off in five minutes, prepare yourself" the pilot said as Ruby was waiting. There were three more people getting in after her, making it a total of twelve inside the bullhead.

After a while they took off to the Vale continent to a hidden white fang base, to prepare the plan and meet the rest of the team.

"The flight, if uninterrupted, will take six hours, don't kill each other in the back, you know the drill in case of emergency. Pilot out" on the intercom male voice sounded off bored. Ruby decided to sleep off the rest of the flight.

Waking up again to the shakes of the craft, Ruby looked around and saw that everybody was calm and preparing themselves, by fastening to the seats. Looking at the clock on her scroll, she saw it had passed six hours and fifteen minutes, so they were most likely landing.

Her assumption came out as true, after the intercom lit up red and the pilot voice came out saying "landing in one minute. Prepare yourselves".

As the bullhead slowed and descended, the shaking grew stronger, before suddenly stopping as the craft touched the ground. Ruby unfastened herself, picked her weapons and bag, stood up, secured a sword on a belt and scarlet rose on her back and went to the opening ramp.

As the ramp opened, she stepped out first as althe rest of the people were a little slower to reach the ramp. Outside she saw two people waiting up in front of the ramp, a somewhat familiar masked bull faunus with red hair and a girl with black long hair and cat ears on top without a mask, slightly older than her.

Stepping down she took and shook the man's hand and said "Ruby Rose, send to help in the incoming operation".

"Adam Taurus, leader of the operations in this area, next to me is my right hand Blake Belladonna, also you look familiar, have we met before?"

Ruby took off her mask and asked "I don't believe we met recently, but I think I saw you somewhere before. Can you take off your mask for a while?"

He complied and took it off, letting her see his full face along the SDC branding on his eye. Looking at him with shock, Ruby managed to recognize him and said "Last time we met was the day we both lost our freedoms, before our scars".

He smiled and said with confidence "I remember now. That time we sat next to each other and just exchanged our names. It is quite a twist that both of us are meeting again, after so many years. Well I have to meet the rest of the freedom fighters, but we can talk later and exchange our stories in my tent".

Ruby smiled and nodded her head before stepping aside and standing near the Blake person and giving her a handshake, which she returned, but she saw her eyes widening at the cold feeling her hand gave.

"My right hand is made of metal, that's why it might feel strange, but let me tell you, it is stronger and better than the original one. You can trust me on this" She said with a smile, which only shocked Blake more.

"What happened to your hand?" Blake asked with an uncertainty in her voice.

"Schnee Dust Company mine accident. This was both a blessing and a curse, managed to escape, but not unscratched" Ruby answered with quenched hatred that was waiting to be reignited, causing Belladonna to startle a little.

The older girl decided to not ask any more questions and just stand and wait, which Ruby did the same, as she started to observe Adam as he greeted everyone with a small talk to each of them. After meeting everyone, he turned to them and said "Today is time to rest and get to know each other in this camp. Tomorrow all of us will have a friendly spar and later all of us that are in for the operation next week will be briefed in a sparring ring. You will have to share a tent with the residents selected by mister Green, who is in charge of sleeping arrangements. If you have any more questions, or just want to talk, then you can find me in a tent, the first one to the right of the command one with our coat of arms painted in front of it and for now you are all dismissed" finishing his speech with a smile on his face, as he went from certain leader to a friend later, turned towards the tents and started walking with Blake following him after a moment with head full of thoughts.

Ruby decided to not waste time, wire her mask back and finally to drop her bag somewhere, headed herself to the centre of the camp to find a command tent and hoped to talk with that Green person, to get a place here.

It took her five minutes to find the right tent and get inside, where she said "Good morning, my codename is Black Rose, looking for mister Green?"

"Good morning Black Rose, I am Green and let me check the list… There, you will share the tent with Miss Belladonna since both of you are similar age and same gender. It is the tent number twenty four, you can check which one it is on a planning table here" he pointed the table and continued "you need to take the sleeping bag, unless you have your own, which are stashed under this desk here" he pointed now a desk standing next to wall filled with various things and sleeping bags underneath "that's all for now".

AN: Shorter chapter, because I feel with a heavy heart that I have to make this statement, as it affects the countries that are neighbors to the one I was born and live in.

I know personally and sat at the same table with Russians, Belarusians, Ukrainians, Germans, and talked over network with Serbians, whose I managed to convert, by throwing arguments at them with proofs and their own war crime history…

Russia - I condemn you, your invasion, war crimes and yours orders to shoot civilians, bombing schools, hospitals, shooting, crushing with tanks random civilian cars filled with people. Breaking the deal of green corridors, by using them to advance and kill even more women and childrens. I hope you will change for the better one day, as the last change was done by the red revolution. Don't be fooled that you have democracy - the votes you are putting in are worthless, as the winner is already selected months before with the results already printed. Media of yours are just a propaganda machine run by the government.

More than twelve thousand russian confirmed soldiers have already died, but only five hundred by your media, most of them between 18 to 20 years olds. There are no nazists in Ukraine… The only ones are surrounding Putin - check their tattoos and you will find the truth.

How many innocent childrens have to die for you to abandon the plan to reform the USSR?

Belarus - I hope that one day you will be freed from Russians occupying your country and a puppet government of his. Be strong and don't let Russians break your national spirit.

Ukraine - Be strong in these dark times, Russia is maybe a big country, but they are a paper tiger with nukes that they cannot use on you, without causing WW III and having the world against them. Remember Russia isn't as strong as they want people to think, Moscow was once conquered by Poles, Piłsudski proved that winning against soviets is possible on Vistula river. As long as you keep your spirit strong, they cannot win, but become sitting ducks for bombs and rockets. Слава Україні!

Sława Ukrainie! Fame to Ukraine! Ukraine won't die as long as Ukrainians live.

NATO - stop being cowards. According to Putin there is no war, so there must be a lot of terrorist in Ukraine, so the Ukrainians should be helped under the pretense of war against terrorist organisation.

Germany - stop trying to work around the deals, as your country is most known off. (Geneva, pre-WWII military disassembly and nowadays deals involving Germans…)

Serbia - stop trying to justify Putin and his war crimes, because NATO did that to you too. Look at your history, it is full of your men performing such acts as genocides, rapes and others… Nobody can justify war crime - it is crime, where innocent pays, not justice. I am ashamed of you.