*Crank..Crack...Click!*

"Should be tight enough." Ruby said to herself as she places a wrench next to her toolbox that she managed to find in the workshop "Don't you worry sweetheart. Soon the world will see not just how magnificent you look, but how magnificent you work."

*Knock Knock knock*

"Ruby?" Akame called out as she entered, and saw Ruby by her desk with the toolbox, bullets, metals and etc, working on something "...More maintenance on your weapon?"

"Ah! Perfect timing!" Ruby said "Come here! You gotta see this."

Akame walks forward and...She suddenly is shocked at what she sees.

On the table, lays a Jet-black sheath with what seemed like a hole fit for a Rifles ammo clip and reload mechanism attacked to it, with a trigger and finger places right under the said trigger.

"...You actually made it?" Akame asked.

"Yup! By the time it's done, It'll help you to even cut through heavy armor!" Ruby explained "But you might wanna be careful tho, It uses 50 cals."

"...50...cals?" Akame asked in confusion.

"50 Caliburs." Ruby explained.

"...I am actually scared to ask...but...How big are 50 Caliburs?" Akame sweatdropped.

"Like this." Ruby then held up, A MASSIVE BULLET the size of a medium sized bottle!

Akame felt her jaw hit the floor at the display of what kind of bullets the sheat needed.

"With the firepower these badboys provide, And with how good you are with a sword, There'll be NOTHING you CAN'T Cut through." Ruby assured happily.

"...Ruby I...I'm...I-Is that really for me?" Akame asked.

"Well, yeah." ruby nodded.

"...I'm...not sure I can handle it." Akame said "I mean...A bullet that size might dislocate my shoulder."

"Akame, First: You have Aura now. It'll help you handle the firepower much better than you usually would." Ruby explained "And secondly: Of course you can handle it! You're really stronger than I could ever hope to be!"

"...Th-Thanks..." Akame said with a slight blush.

"Don't you worry! I'm a pro at this!" Ruby assured as she went back to the sheath "Just a few more tune ups, some more work, and Our Sweet heart will be complete."

"... Sweetheart?" Akame asked, a little disturbed.

"well, Yeah. She's like a baby to me because I made it!" Ruby answered.

"...I see..." Akame said 'She's clearly too into this weapon crafting thing.'

"So was there anything you wanted to tell me?" Ruby Asked.

"We've got missions for the night." Akame finally informed.

"Oh. Okay." Ruby nodded "I'll be out there in a second!"


"we have 3 jobs for the night." Najenda explained "Ruby, your assignment will be filled in here." She then handed Ruby the paperwork for her mission.

"Gotcha." Ruby nodded and took the papers.

"And for the other two, I'll leave this one to You two." She then handed Mine and Sheele another pack of paperwork.

"Dibs on the last one!" Leone cheered.

"Got it. Then take tatsumi with you too." Najensa ordered.

"Right!" Tatsumi nodded.

And so as all 5 of them began to move out.

"So, Where are you all going tonight?" Ruby decided to ask.

"Red light district." Leone casually answered.

"...Wait, The capital has one of those?" Ruby asked.

"Oooooh~ Curious?~~" Leone teased.

"No way." Ruby waved it off.

"Me and Mine will kind of pass through central park on our way back." Sheele said.

"Why are you even telling her that?" Mine huffed which no one listened to.

"Planning on a surprise visit?" Leone asked.

"Nah, just curious." Ruby answered "But, If any of you wanna We can all just meet up at the central park and go back together?"

"Yeah! That'd be kinda cool!" Tatsumi agreed.

"Sorry. the Central Park and red light district are really distant from each other." Leone explained "It'd take hours for me and Tatsumi to get there."

"Oh. Okay." Ruby nodded "...But, Be careful tonight, okay?"

"Hmph. That should be my line! Since you're still the newbie!" Mine said.

"Awww You don't got anything to worry about!" Leone said as she pulled Ruby into another hug straight into her breasts again "And whenever you're worried it just makes you look really CUUUUTE!"

"Leone...Suffocating...Your air balls...again..." Ruby begged, trying to pull her face out of Leones chest again While Leone just hugs and cuddles and snuggles up to Ruby.

"Leone, Please stop! She needs Air!" Sheele begged.

"Oh boy." Tatsumi sighed, probably used to this by now.


As Ruby splits up from the others, She petal bursts through the roof tops into the night.

As she did, She looks into the capital from high in the sky to take in the scenery at night.

"...I never noticed how pretty the capital looks at night." Ruby said to herself "The others would have loved this view if they were still here..."

As she kept on going, She couldn't help but think how the others would react if they were still here with her? Would Weiss really lower herself into an assassin? Would Blake go back to the way she used to live before beacon? Would Yang and Leone become besties? The questions made her nostalgic of when she was still back in remnant.

"...I guess I still can't let go of who I used to be." She said to herself before landing on a light stand.

She looked into a building she was supposed to raid and kill everyone inside.

"Okay, Enough small talk." she pulled her Capes hood over her head again "Let's do this."

*WOOOOSH*

She Petal Bursts right into the building, Her Cresent rose fully folded.

And she slowly looks up, seeing a group of terrified gangster or mafia looking criminals.


"Will those girls be okay?" Tatsumi asked as he and Leone walk away from where their mission took place.

"...I know a doctor that kinda likes young girls. He's old but he knows his job." Leone answered "I'll tell him what happened and have him take a look at those girls later."

"Heh heh heh, And you call others softies." Tatsumi joked.

"Hey I did it only cause I knew some of them as kids." Leone said "...Besides, Maybe helping out some of the victims aren't all that bad."

"Did you take that one from Ruby?" Tatsumi asked.

"N-No." Leone blushed.

"Awww she's rubbing off on you." Tatsumi said.

"Not my fault. She's just too nice sometimes." Leone said "...Not that I hate it."

"Me too." Tatsumi agreed.

"...But I wish she could just tone it down a little. It gets too pure t handle sometimes." Leone admitted.

"Yeah yeah." Tatsumi agreed.

"...So hey...personal question here," Leone started "What do you really think of Ruby?"

"W-Well...She's...A very wonderful person! She's bright, helpful, heartwarming and...well nice." Tatsumi said "And She's one of the strongest people I know."

'...Yup. He Definitely has a crush on her.' Leone thought mentally.

"Yeah, I agree." She nodded and began to sprint "Now let's go! Whoever gets there first gets to offer Ruby cookies!"

"Hey wait!" Tatsumi called out.


"Dang it! the target had WAY too much protection!" Mine yelled as she and Sheele sprint through the central park.

"At least we managed to get away without any problems." sheele pointed out.

but then suddenly! They both jumped out of the way as a Girl with long brown hair tied to a ponytail with a weird looking puppy jumped out of nowhere and stumped the ground between them.

'Who the hell is that?!' Mine asked mentally.

'She can't be an ordinary guard.' Sheele thought.

"...I knew it. You look exactly like the wanted posters." She said, holding a wanted poster of Sheele "And judging by the Teigu that other girl is holding...she is definitely a part of Night raid too."

Sheele and Mine felt a little unease in the girls tone.

"I knew staying under the cover of night was the right call." The girl kept talking "At Looooong last, I finally found you, Night raid!"


"WAIT WAIT PLEASE WA_"

*Swing!*

"...And that's the last one." Ruby said to herself, wiping away the blood on her Cresent Rose in a room filled with dead bodies.

"Okay. Time to split." She then folded Cresent Rose back on her belt and jumped out of the window, and Petal Bursts into the night.

She lands on a roof top after running for a bit, Her hood still over her head, shadowing most of her face.

"Should probably go back now." She said to herself "Can't stay out for long_"

*WIIIRRRRRR*

"Eh?" She then looked over to another direction "That was...a guard whistle."

*BLAAAAAAST!*

"W-What the heck was THAT?!" She asked as she heard a loud blast next.

She jumped from 2 more buildings and had a clearer view of the location of all the sounds, and her heart instantly stopped beating for a second.

The Central Park.

"...Oh no...Mine! Sheele!" She then uses petal burst and Full speed and dashes through the trees!

*Bang bang bang bang!*

She heard Gun shots. Mini automatics. Najenda told her that the guards carry around those kinds of weapons with themselves.

"AAAAAH!"

Someone screamed in pain? She didn't recognize the voice.

*Bang bang bang bang*

More gunshots.

*GYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!*

"AAH!" She then suddenly stopped as she heard an ungodly roar!

The only thing that could rival such a roar would have been the Nuckelavee from all those years ago back in her own world. which she was Glad she wouldn't have to see one again if there was more than the one she and JNR fought.

For a moment she thought the same giant horse riding creature of Grimm was back from remnant too like her, but thought it impossible as it couldn't have just wondered into the central park undetected.

"AAAAH!"

"that was...Oh no, MINE!" She collected her thoughts and ran faster,

*Bang!*

"AH!"

"Sheele!" She called out, recognizing the second yell of pain.

And when she runs beside a tree...She sees an abomination of god.

Some kind of huge, muscular, darkish red, feral dog, with arms bigger than it's head.

But then, she sees Sheele next, holding off the dog by it's teeth with her scissors...

*sss...ssss...*

...With her Aura showing signs of giving out!

'No!' Ruby panicked 'Not again!' She reached for her scythe 'NOT AGAIN!' She unfolds it 'I WON'T LOSE ANYONE ELSE EVER AGAIN!' She then petal bursts forward, Her thoughts on hyper overdrive! 'I'LL NEVER LOSE ANYONE ELSE EVER AGAIN!'

*WOOSH!*

Sheele and Mine both gasped, and the mosnter growled in shock...as A red Reaper lands on the back of it's head, her scythe around it's neck!

"BAD DOG."

*BLANG!*

*SLICE!*

Using a bullet from her scythe, she used the impact to cut the monsters head off as she is also launched up in the air!

She lands down, and the monsters head also is thrown on the ground!

"...R-Ruby..." Sheele gasped.

"Holy shit..." Mine gasped.

'Wh-Who is that?!' the same Guard girl from before...with her arms missing and...A...Hidden gun INSIDE HER MOUTH...stares at the Red Reaper in shock 'There's no intel on such an assassin with night raid! A-And what the hell is that scythe?!'

Then she noticed the reaper turning to her direction...her face shadowed by her red hood.

"GRYAAAA..."

But she then looks back at the monster, its head starting to move back on its body.

"What the hell...?" Ruby whispered, watching in shock as the monster regenerates.

*Bang!*

"AH!" She then grunts as she feels pain on her shoulder, her aura blocking a bullet!

She looks around, and sees the same girl again...gun smoke rising from her mouth?

'A-Again! How is she not bleeding?! I shot them both with very lethal bullets!' the guard wondered as she stared at the reaper 'Body armor?! No way!'

*WOOOSH*

She then flinches as the red reaper suddenly appears above her, Scythe high in the air ready to chop her in half!

She manages to jump back to dodge the massive blade, only to get surprised as the unknown reaper spins around on her scythe and kick her across the face VERY HARD!

*SPLAT!*

*Thud!*

"GA-HYA!" She coughed in pain and spat out blood, as the hidden gun in her mouth was kicked out as well!

Ruby glares at the armless girl, before noticing the hidden gun she had in her mouth and curiously kicking it up in her hands.

"GYYRAAAAAAAA!"

She then looks back and sees the monster fully healed now!

Sheele and Mine aim their weapons at the monster, but then!

"K-KORO!" The girl speaks up again "F-FORGET ABOUT THEM! KILL HER!" She yelled looking at the red reaper "KILL THE RED ONE! SLAUGHTER HER FIRST!"

Ruby wasted no time kicked the girl again, stumping her face and bashing it hard against a tree! The monster roared in anger and dashed right at her, but Ruby managed to Petal Burst and dodge out of its attack!

She landed a few feet away from Sheele and Mine!

'I'll petal burst and take them both, then run like the wind until my Aura drops!' She thought before preparing to go to her friends!

"There they are!"

"After them!"

"Don't let them get away!"

But all three gasped as they hear and see the guards dashing toward them!

"Oh no..." Sheele said.

"Damn it!" Mine cursed.

Ruby panics as she looks at the giant monster clearly targeting her and only her, and then sees the troops coming their way.

She then made up her mind and uses her semblance again to dash right at the guards whp panic or gasp at the sight of her petal burst, and slashes away at a few of them while The monster roars and bashes away at the guards to get to Ruby!

"SHEELE! MINE!" She then calls out to her friends "GET OUTTA HERE! DON'T EVEN LOOK BACK!"

"W-What?!" Sheele gasped.

"ARE YOU NUTS!? IF NOT THE MUTT, THEN THE GUARDS'LL KILL YOU!" Mine yelled in anger!

"I SAID GO!" Ruby Repeated.

"W-WAIT PLEASE! WE CAN HELP_"

"YOU BOTH ARE JUST DEADWEIGHT!" Ruby then harshly yelled.

...Sheele just looks at shock, surprise...and worst of all, heart break, at what Ruby called her

"...D...Dead...weight...?"

"THE HELL!" Mine angrily screamed "WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE CALLING ME_"

"JUST GO!" Ruby yelled again as she stabs her Scythe into the ground and spins around on its handle in a circular motion, kicking away any guard around her with her hood still over her face!

But then, the dog roared and managed to punch her into a tree, causing the other two to gasp.

Sheele tried to dash forward, but some of the guards got in the way!

"GET HER NOW!" One of them yelled, and swords, spears and other weapons all were aimed ad about to stab into Ruby!

Sheele gasped as she sees this, and kills the guards who got in the way with some of them being shot by Mine, and extends her hand toward Where the guards had Ruby pinned and about to kill!

"STOOOOP!" She yelled.

*WHIRLE!*

...And...some kind of...purple wave was shot out of her hand...toward the guards who were coming at Ruby!

Ruby looks in surprise as the guards all seemed stunned...right before...

"BLEEGH!" One of them just threw up his dinner and dropped on his knees "Oh god...I-I feel like shit...BLEEEGH!" He threw up even more.

"My head...hurts..."

"Fuck! My stomach! Oh god!"

"My chest...hurts..."

"W-Why is...everything...s-spinning...m-my knees feel..."

"Ah! My...My heart! AAH!"

"...What the heck?" Ruby wondered as she watches the guards that almost had her just drop down with different conditions or sicknesses.

"...Did I...Do that?" Sheele wondered, watching from afar at the guards.

"What just happened?" Mine wondered.

"GRRYAAAAAAAAAA!" only for the dog to charge at Ruby again!

"GRRR!" She grunted in anger as she petal bursted into the air!

*BLANG BLANG BLANG BLANG!*

And shoots at every Guard that entered the park, getting their attention!

"GO! NOW!" And with a final warning, Ruby dashes away with not just the dog, but at least 90% of the guards after her!

"R-Ruby!" Sheele called out!

"forget it! We gotta split before more shows up!" Mine said shooting the last guard after them!

"B-But Ruby!" Sheele pleaded.

"We can't help her now! Let's go!" Mine yelled as she used the last ounce of her own Aura to not just start dragging Sheele, but also to run as fast as she could with Sheele following her against her will!

'...damn it...you dumb cookie munching Freak...You better not die so I can kick your ass for calling us deadweight!' She thought to herself as they both ran!


*BLANG BLANG BLANG*

Ruby shot 3 more guards as she ran through the streets!

"there she is!" She heard another platoon show up from another alleyway!

"Oh great." She grumbled.

"Don't let her get away!" And another from from up ahead in the street!

"Crap." She gasped.

"Found her! she's over there!" Another voice from behind her, more guards showed up.

'...damn...' She cursed to herself, seeing that she was fully surrounded now 'I dug my own grave really deep this time.'

Some of the guards attacked her, but she allowed them to get close enough, so she sliced her scythe in a circular motion and cut every single one of the guards that were charging at her in half!

"H-How shit..." She could hear one of them gasp "W-What kind of a monster are we dealing with here?!"

She looks up, her hood still hiding her face from them.

'...My best bet is to run. I can let that monster-dog to catch up while I'm still ahead.' She thought to herself, before looking up 'The Rooftops. I can run if I use them with my semblance. They can't catch up with me on time.'

She then used her semblance again to dash up to the rooftop of a house, and began running with her semblance active.

She looked around and could see the same dog searching for her from a few streets away, and so decided to keep her distance from its direction and just run like hell!

"How is she so fast?!"

She looked back and noticed a few of the other guards jumping from rooftop to rooftop too. Unlike at least most of the other ones, these ones must have been much more agile.

She back flips in midair and fires away at them with her scythe, blowing away most of their heads while some of them were shot through the chest or stomach!

One of the captains watches in shock at what the unknown Red reaper did, and sweats like a pig.

"She's a monster...W-We need the soldiers too! We can't handle her by ourselves!" He ordered.

"Got it!" One of his henchmen nodded and began to run, With the army itself soon to be right up on Rubies butt soon if she doesn't jet it quick!


"M-Mine! Please! Wait!" Sheele begged as they both finally exited the capital into the woods, with a rain suddenly starting!

"Just shut it and keep running!" Mine ordered.

"STOP!" Sheele finally snapped her hand out of her hands!

"SHEELE WE NEED TO..." Mine tried to yell, only to gasp as she noticed Sheeles tears flowing from her eyes.

"...R-Ruby...Sh-She'll...die..." Sheele managed to speak, with hics and gasps in-between her cries.

"L-Look we can't go back in there okay?!" Mine tried to reason with her partner "The capital is literally on high alert now thanks to her stunt! If she keeps on resisting, they'll call soldiers to fight her! And if she survives the soldiers somehow, they'll deploy Specialists and Troops of the empires special troops on her! We can't afford to get caught in all that cross fire now that we've escaped!"

"BUT SHE'LL DIE!" Sheele yelled, tears flowing down faster.

"..." Mine reminded silent and slowly pulled Sheele into a hug "...I'm Sorry...We can't do anything for her at this point...I Hate to say it but..."

"N-no...Please..."

"...She's on her own in this mess." Mine finished.

"no...no no nononono please...J-Just give me a chance I-I can sneak back into the capital a-and_"

"Sheele, We barely managed to get away ourselves. We go anywhere close to the capital now, We'll be swarmed ourselves. hell, some of them might even manage to tail us back to the base." Mine tried to reason with Sheele "All we can do now is go back and tell the others and hope to god that Najenda agrees to a rescue mission for Ruby."

"B-But she...might die by that time or...get...c-captured..." Sheele started to tremble in fear "Y-Y-you know what they do with their prisoners! Right?! Th-They'll torture her! Or...Th-they drug her, break her mind and...sh-she'll be l-l-like a dog a-and...M-Mine PLEASE! I'M BEGGING YOU LET ME GO BACK! I-I CAN'T LET THEM- THEY'LL BREAK HER-SHE NEEDS MY HELP!"

"IF WE GET CAUGHT WITH HER, SHE'LL JUST HAVE TO SUFFER MORE KNOWING THAT WE'RE GETTING TORTURED OR DIED FOR HER!" Mine yelled into Sheeles face "YOU ACTUALLY WANT THAT?!"

"...N-No...I..." Sheele mumbled

"...Then let's hurry." Mine said as she began to walk away "The sooner we report this, the sooner we can form a stronger rescue team. Just you and me won't be anywhere near to enough."

"..." Sheele remained silent and began to follow Mine quietly.

'...Damn Freak...Look what you did to sheele.' Mine thought 'I'll show you who's deadweight once we somehow get your ass out of this mess.'


"Haah...haah...haah...haah...haah..." Ruby panted as she tried to hold herself up by her scythe, surrounded by dead guards laying around her, the rain hitting hard agaisnt her soaked hood.

She looks up, listening well, looking into the night, searching for the dog "...It still hasn't found me...Good. I might have lost that monster for good." She said to herself and made sure that her Hood is still well over her head to cover her face from all her assailants.

She checked her bullet chamber, it was empty. With a click she removed the empty clip and placed another one in...and she noticed beside the one she just slipped into her Scythe, she only had another one left.

'...Crap...I burned through my ammunition way too fast.' She thought to herself as she cocked her Sniper Scythe 'These two get used up, I'm done for in long range combat.'

"There she is!"

*BLANG!*

"seriously?" She said after shooting another guard and started to petal burst away. She still had a little more Aura left, she could still run faster.

but then A troop of...better armed guards blocked her way and began firing with much more powerful guns!

'Th-They're not guards...Those armors...Soldiers?' Ruby wondered as she dashed past the shocked and confused soldiers and ran faster 'They're calling the military on me!' she panics mentally as she started dashing through the Alleys next.

She could hear soldiers yelling and calling out to each other in the alleyways, before 2 of them blocked her way! They pulled out pistols and swords, but she just used her petal burst to dash into them and launch them away into a window as she ran out of the alleyway.

*BANG!*

"AAAAH!" She yelled in pain, feeling a bullet hit her back!

She looked back to her up, and saw soldiers with rifles on the rooftops, firing away at her!

She fired back and dodged, killing the soldiers,

*RATATATATATATATAT!*

"UUGH!" She grunted again, as someone, guard or soldier, she couldn't make out which, unloaded an automatic weapos entire clip at her direction. the bullet hit the side of her stomach, with her Aura shielding her.

She fired another bullet at him or her, and leaned on a wall gasping.

*Sss..sssss...*

"N-no, Come on Ruby, Hold it together." She told herself, feeling her Aura starting to break. She wiped away the water from the rain out of her forehead and eyes, trying to get her focus and breath back.

"GET HER!" More soldiers from her left!

"DON'T LET HER GET AWAY!" On her right!

"THERE SHE IS!" From her above too?

"KILL THAT MONSTER!"

"GRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!" She got out a loud battle cry as she swung her Scythe at the next sword fighter that got close to her!


"...What?"

Tatsumi was the first to speak, as everyone stands in the heavy rain while Sheele and Mine had just arrived.

"Y-You...You left her_" Tatsumi angrily tried to yell, but was cut off.

"YOU FUCKING LEFT HER BY HERSELF!?" Leone screamed her lungs out, enraged at the news.

"What did you want me to do?! Risk my and Sheeles lives too?!" Mine yelled back!

"YOU LEFT HER ALONE WITH THE ENTIRE CAPITAL UP ON HER ASS!" Leone yelled, angrier now "YOU ACTUALLY EXPECT HER TO HOLD OUT BY HERSELF UNTIL THEN?!"

"Sis calm down!" Lubbock tried to lower the heat "If we get into the capital now we might be able to find her!"

"I can sneak in myself with my armor." Bulat suggested "I'll use my invisibility, I can still_"

"No." Najenda finally spoke up, shocking everyone present "...With the empire now on high alert, wondering inside the capital is FAR too dangerous. All we can do now is wait outside of the capital and hope she gets out herself, and then help her escape after she's outside of the walls."

"WHAT?!" Leone yelled "SHE WON'T MAKE IT BY HERSELF!"

"Boss, Please, At least let one of us to search the capital for her!" Akame began begging.

"We can't enter with so much high alert through the capital, AND THAT'S FINAL!" Najenda raised her voice "Now do as I ordered! DO NOT enter the Capital! The moment you see Ruby escape the capital, Then you can act! Akame, Bulat, Leone, Lubbock, I'm leaving it to you. Tatsumi, Help Sheele and Mine inside and check for any wounds."

"B-but I can help!" Tatsumi tried to participate too.

"I know you want to help, but Right now these two need someone for help too. Now go!" With her final order, Akame, Leone, Bulat and Lubbock ran like the wind through the rain, While Tatsumi helps Sheele and Mine to get inside.

"...They'll Kill her...please...don't...let them..." Sheele mumbled, still in a massive heartbreak.

"It's fine...Th-The others will definitely find her." Tatsumi assured.

"They better..." Mine agreed "That Freak still has a lot to pay for."


*BLANG BLANG BLANG BLANG BLANG*

"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!" The Red Reaper, soaked wet and covered in blood, roared out another battle cry as she desperately shot MORE Soldiers on her way as she lands down in another streets close to one of the walls that surrounded the capital.

She didn't care how exhausted, animalistic, bloody or low on Aura she was. All she cared about was to escape with her life intact. To go back to night raid, to keep joking around with Leone, to keep working on Akames new weapon, to keep berating Lubbock on his perverted attitude, to continue her lessons with Sheele, to teach them all how to use Aura better, TO LIVE WITH HER FRIENDS!

She gripped Cresent Rose, before she made a mad dash for the gate way on the main street!

'There's my way out!' She began to run toward the gate.

"Don't let her get away!" More soldiers, much more well armed than the last ones, cover the gate.

"GYAAAAAA!" Ruby, now no different than even Rambo Himself, Emptied her last Ammo clip at the soldiers.

Her way was clear! She just had to make it into the trees outside of the capital! She could hide inside the darkness and the terrain the trees provided as she would make her escape!

She was just about to make it!

...Until.

*BRAANG-GANG-GANG!*

"AAAAAAAAAAHHH!"

'...What was that?' She thought, as she could feel herself falling flat down '...What...hit me? Thunder? no...thunders aren't that strong...it was...aimed at me specifically...M-My body is jolting hard...I-I can't feel anything...'

*sssssss*

'No no no no no my Auras down...I'm can't give up here...I'm almost at the end...I-I can still escape before more soldiers show up...If I just...' She finally could start moving her hands. First she managed to get up on her arms first, and gripped her scythe next to her 'good...now my legs...there...just stand...STAND!'

But the moment she stood up...she saw...a large, strong, muscular, blonde man jump down and stand before her. He had a black and white body suit with armor around it, with two parts of his hair sticking to up(ALL-MIGHT Style), with two golden gauntlets on each hand.

'...Who...is he...?' Ruby asked, too exhausted and hurt to think straight.

"Enough running, Night raid." He spoke, with an mighty and authoritarian tone "You've run this far, but you Will NOT escape me whatsoever."

"Who...are...you...?" Ruby tried to at least mumble.

"I-Isn't that..." She heard a few soldiers a few meters behind her "I-It's General Budo!"

"G-General...?" Ruby got out a weak gasp, not believing that someone with such a high rank was now into the chase after her.

"Surrender now, And I might just consider a VERY, short punishment for your impudence." The General demanded, glaring at Ruby "Or else..."

...Ruby then felt a chill run down her spin, Her entire being was screaming at her to run, to hide, to escape, to even beg for mercy...but not to fight. Her instincts were refusing to even think about fighting this man. What stood before her now...was a monster, far above what she's faced up until now. She didn't feel such fear when she was faced with any Grimm, or Salem herself which she was just filled with rage and nothing else. But now...She somehow could feel how strong this general budo was.

"...I'll make you suffer A THOUSAND torturous deaths." He finished, letting his bloodlust and dark aura to be unleashed into the area. Not even his own soldiers felt safe.

...Her hands started to shake. her knees felt heavy, there was something heavy stuck in her chest! She could feel her heart beating out of her chest!

'...H-He's going to kill me...' she thought, her hood still covering her face, but the general could tell she was petrified even without seeing her face 'he-he-he's actually going to kill me...I-I can't take him on, no way, he-he'll massacre me...I-I gotta run! I got to-no I'm out of aura! where do I even go?! I'm surrounded! maybe if I beg him he'll let me off easy?! Y-Yes I'll...What...What am I thinking...?'

...She felt a little disgust at herself, for even thinking about pleading for her life against the general.

'No...never...I'll...I'll never beg...it-it's probably what he wants...B-but I can't calm down, Everything in my body is screaming at me to just get away...' She kept thinking 'I-I need to...I can...I'll...oh god...' she then felt her shoulders go light as she finally realized what was going to happen '...I can't escape this...I'm...totally alone...he'll butcher me with a flick of a finger and...there's nothing I can do about it...I'm...I'm...totally done for...'

"I can smell your despair child." Budo spoke up again, and Ruby felt more terrified and hopeless "It's only natural that insects tremble in fear against the ones superior to them. However, if you tell me where the rest of your comrades hide, I'll be a little more merciful on you."

"...W-What...?" Ruby finally spoke up with her voice tired and hoarse.

"Tell me The location of the rest of Night Raid, And imprisonment till death is the worst that you'll have." The General offered.

"...A-and...What about...them?" Ruby asked.

"Death." The general answered, plain and simple.

"..." the faces of her friends all flash before her silver eyes...and the thought of them dying filled her with more rage and less fear of at the general.

She'd rather let herself be fed to that monster dog from before than to...wait...

...The dog.

... That's It! that dog!

'...I need to buy some time..." She thought.

"...Go to hell..." she spoke with her voice still hoarse.

"...I see."

Then, ruby blinked under her hood as the General suddenly appeared RIGHT BEFORE HER!

"Then suffer."

*POW!*

"GUH...Ah..." Ruby coughed in pain of the punch that came right into her stomach, and sent her flying up into the air.

She crashed down with a painful grunt, feeling her stomach almost getting ripped apart from inside out because of the pain.

She managed to roll to her side, and sees her scythe on the ground in front of her and reaches a hand toward it.

but the moment she reaches and grabs her weapon,

*Kapow!*

A massive boot slammed into her side and sent her flying again.

she gets slammed against a wall, And falls down again.

The general begins to walk toward her again as she struggles to stand up or to even move.

Every fiber in Rubies body screamed in pain as she could barely struggle to ignore the pain, and tried to use her scythe as a crutch to at least get up on her knees, only to freeze when she feelts the General standing right beside her again.

"Enough hiding." He then reached a hand right toward her hood "It's time to see under the hood."

Ruby panicked as she felt the huge blondes hand reach her hood, and upon instinct, she Slapped his hand away and swung her scythe upwards at the general!

*...splat...*

...All the soldiers present Suddenly gasp or atart moving back in terror, while the general stumbled back a little...feeling something cold and wet on his face.

The reaper stares at the bigger man as he runs a hand on his cheek...feeling the deep, bleeding scar inflicted on his face by Cresent Rose.

"...YOU..." He sounded angry, enraged, VERY much prepared to paint the capital in the red reapers blood.

Ruby gritted her teeth as another punch was thrown, which was covered by electricity this time, aimed roght at her face!

"INSIGNIFICANT WELP!"


"Everyones so rowdy." Lubbock whispered, as everyone hears how loud the capital had gotten at misnight because of Rubies chase.

"The soldiers were also deployed. They're pulling off everything they have to catch her." Bulat spike up with his armor on.

"Fuck this shit. I'm going in." Leone got out of cover and tried to dash into the capital.

"Leone NO." Bulat demanded "We can't just barge in. We can only wait for Ruby to get out by herself and pick her up and escape."

"I don't care!" Leone yelled "She should have made it out by now! Which means she's in trouble in there!"

"I hate to say it, but just running around in the capital right now is way too reckless." Lubbock sighed.

"I can still go in with my invisibility." Bulat assured "I can promise I'll find her in time, or if I can stay there for too long, But i can still try."

"... It's the best option we have." Akame agreed.

"...damn it..." Leone Cursed, feeling useless in the situation.

"Okay. I'll head inside for a little. What ever happens don't_" Bulat tried to finish,

*BRAAAAAANG-GANG-GAAAANG!*

"THE HELL?!" Lubbock gasp as a massive lightning bolt hit the the capital "What was THAT?!"

"...That was..." Akame wondered...before her eyes widen in horror and realization.

"...No...it can't be..." Bulat came to the same conclusion as Akame.

Before even explaining, Akame was the first to disobey Orders and run into the capital!

"WAIT! AKAME!" Lubbock called out as he and the others follow Akame from Behind.

Akame ran and avoids the guards and the soldiers through some rooftops, Following where that thunder was seen.

As she gets into hiding on another rooftop...she sees some soldiers gathering around the man he suspected...

"...Budo..." She whispered in horror.

"The GENERAL?!" Lubbock gasped, as Akame finally noticed the others had cought up with her.

"The hell is he doing here?" Leone asked.

"... where's Ruby right now?" Bulat asked the important question, And everyone was terrified and scared of what Buds could have done to their friend.

But their attention goes back to Budo as he stomps over to a bunch of rubble, and slams his fist into the rubble...And pulls out Ruby's limp body out of the rubble after seemingly punching her into them in the first place.

"Ruby!" Leone gasp and tried to jump in, But Lubbock held her back.

"Are you insane?! he'll kill you!" Lubbock warned.

"She needs us!" Leone argues back.

"Why would he come after Ruby himself?" Bulat asked "Did she kill too many of their troops?"

Akame only watches in shock as Budo held Ruby up, her face still covered by her hood, and gasped as he slammed her head hard into the ground beneath him!

Everyone else either gasped or grit their teeth, trying to find a way to save Ruby from the monster of a man down there.

He held her up again, And they all noticed anger and rage in his face...with a bleeding scar across one of his cheeks.

They figured out that Ruby probably gave him that wound, which in turn damaged his pride and pissed him off hard.

"Who do you think you are to stand against ME!" Budo yelled, tightening his grip around Ruby's head.

"AAAAAH!" Ruby let out a pained yell as his grip almost crushed her skull. Which enraged Leone.

"LET HER G_"

Before She could tell and jump in, Bulat covered her mouth and pulled her back

"Leone no. We can't do anything." Bulat said.

"B-But!" Akame tried to speak up next.

"You go in there; You BOTH will be in danger." Lubbock warned, holding Akame back too.

*CRASH!*

But their attention went back to Budo, gasping as he punched Ruby into a wall, and she fell flat down on her face.

"HMMM! MMMMMMMM!" Leone growled and grunted with her mouth still covered, while Bulat kept holding her back.

"Shit...come on...get up you idiot! Run!" Lubbock hopelessly said to Ruby, who couldn't even hear them.

Budo then grabbed her by her neck and held her up again, Causing Leone to struggle against Bulats grip harder, thinking of nothing but to save Ruby.

"I'll give you one last chance." Budo spoke up again "Tell me where the rest of night raid is, And Your life will be somewhat spared. I won't give you this offer again."

Everyone remains silent, Unable to think of something or act. The rain had stopped by now, everything and everyone in silence.

"...Please...tell them." Akame begged, Shocking everyone.

"Say what?" Lubbock gasped.

"Ruby please tell them. It's not worth it please!" Akame begged, hoping that Ruby could somehow or in someway hear her pleas.

...even the soldiers jolted when they could hear the red reaper trying to answer.

Budo tried to listen to what she had to say...

"...Try...taking...a picture...of your face...your frown will...last...longer that way..."

...and petty, Childish and pathetic joke, with a weak chuckle. That was all she gave the general.

The soldiers were shocked at the amount of guts the Red Reaper had, While her friends were horrified of what the general will do to her next.

...The General himself...was almost boiling with rage like a volcano at the Red Reapers mockery. He still couldn't see her face because of the hood, But he could tell she was looking a little proud of her own jesting.

*BZZZZ-ZZZZZZ*

"Gaaa...ah..." Ruby jolted in the Generals hand as more electrical waves was shot through her body.

"I grow tired of this nonsense." Budo said and tightened his grip around Rubies neck, causing her to gasp more for air.

Leone grunts and screams with her muffled mouth more, As Bulat pulls her back further.

Without thinking, Akame finally reaches for her blade and prepares to jump off!

"Akame no Don't!" Lubbock tried to stop her.

"Don't try to stop me!" She shoved him away and prepared to jump down and dash toward them and save Ruby!

But suddenly!

"GRRYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Suddenly, the same monstrous Dog from before, still in it's berserk form, crashes through several buildings!

It didn't just shock the soldiers and the others, but the general himself!

The dog charged forward toward Ruby with Budo also in the way, and it crashed into them both without any breaks or restraint!

"RUBY!" Akame and Leone both called out in horror, as they saw the dog just run both her and the General down!

all four of them tried to look and find Ruby in the rubble, but Budo only rose up...and Ruby was no where to be seen.

"...Where did she go?" The General demanded "FIND HER! And someone Get that MUTTS USER AND GET IT UNDER CONTROL!"

"...W-where's Ruby?" Leone asked, not being able to see or sense Ruby through all the Debrees.

"Did she run for it?" Lubbock asked.

"...We need to go. Now!" Bulat said, noticing the soldiers scattering all over the capital again and some of them searching out side of the gate.


"...And That's about it" Bulat finished his report, while Tatsumi, Mine and Najenda look stunned, and Sheele is left panicking "We looked as best we could...but we even with Leones tracking skills, we couldn't find her. the scent of blood was way too much in the air."

"...God damn it." Najenda sighed, unable to fully grasp the situation at hand "...If they are willing to use teigu users against us now, but to also involve their most strongest fighters for matters like this, then they are beginning to finally take us serious. We'll begin a full-on searching operation tomorrow for Ruby. And...pray to every god that you know that she isn't dead by then."

Everyone returned back to their rooms with a bitter feeling and sadness, while Najenda remained in the meeting hall "...Ruby...You dumb, brave, stupid fool..."


...Akame couldn't sleep. not even a little. She felt...Guilty, sad, angry...and most importantly, Self-hatred for letting another one of her friends die.

She actually had a chance to do something this time. Unlike her previous teams deaths, She had a chance to save someone she cared about this time! But...She just stood back and did nothing...like a coward.

'...Is this how Ruby felt?' She asked herself as she stares up at the ceiling on her bed '...Not...being able to save anyone you love?'

...She got out of her bed and made her way outside to the kitchen to eat something.

As she walked past Leones room.

*CRASH!*

"GOD DAMN IT!"

"W-What the..." Akame Gasped and ran to the door "Leone? Are you_"

...But Akame stopped, as she heard sobbing next, and then then began making out words along side the lines of 'I should have done something' Or 'god damn it bulat' from Leone inside.

She decided to leave her alone for now. Knowing Leone, She needs some time alone for this.

As she finally made her way into the kitchen...she suddenly stopped by a jar of cookies. The ones with the chocolate chips, kind Ruby adored.

...She picked one up and put it in her mouth and started crunching.

"I promise, I won't let you suffer anymore sadness and agony of losing anyone you care about. bet on that!."

"...That's right...she promised..." Akame said as she ate the cookie "...She can't be dead. She promised me. I know she won't go back on it. So...Ruby...Please...Come back."

*CRASH!*

"AH?!" Her prayer came to a halt as she saw the window to the kitchen room suddenly get smashed open.

She didn't have her sword with her, she could make a run for a kitchen knife. They're sharp enough.

But then, she saw the Window get smashed open more...but a kick from..a red and black boot.

Then...A bloodied, ragged, wet, cold and bruised Ruby crawls through the broken window...her hoodie finally removed from her head, showing her forehead bleeding and scratches and bruises all over her face.

"...R-Ruby...?" Akame felt her voice shacking as tears roll down her eyes.

"...Hey..." Ruby...In her fatal condition...still managed to smile at her with a greeting "...Sorry...about the mess...Heheh...Dang...I got blood on the...cutting board..."

*SPLASH!*

And with a loud splash of blood all over the kitchen floor, she fell down.

"RUBY!" Akame yelled in fear and shock, just as Ruby finally gives into to her injuries and loses consciousness.