"Illegal use of powers during rush hour and robbery resulting in bodily injury. You are the incarnation of evil." Kamui declared as he landed on the top of the station.
"Pre-emptive…" Ruby started.
"...Binding…" Kamui continued.
"...Lacquered Chain Prison!" They both finished as roots from Kamui's arm ran towards the villain, who covered his face.
"Canyon Cannon!" a giant woman yelled, giving the final blow to the villain
The villain was knocked down, the new hero making her way over to him while cameras flashed her way.
"Today is the day of my debut. My name is Mt. Lady. A pleasure to make your ass-quaintance." Mt. Lady winked, shaking her ass and bending over slightly for the cameras.
More cameras flashed her way while Kamui Woods stuttered, "Sh-She's getting the credit…"
"Along with the superpowers, came an explosive increase in crime." Ruby narrated as the now smaller sized shark faunus was hauled off by MT.Lady and Kamui Woods.
"Gigantification, huh? She looks like she'll be popular, and it's an amazing quirk, but thinking about the damage to the city that'll go hand in hand with its use…Could her might be limited? Maybe a weapon that converts the energy from her growth into physical strength? But how is she affected by the square cubed law? Is her mass and density altered? Is she wearing a hyper density costume?" Ruby muttered under her breath, writing it down in a notebook.
"You wanna be a hero, don't you? That's great! You can do it!"
Ruby looked up from her notebook in surprise before smiling at the citizen from before, promising, "Yes, I'll do my best!"
Title screen 'Episode 1: Ruby Rose: Origin'
A class of students sat at their desks while listening to their teacher rambling.
"Since you're all third years, it's time for you to think seriously about your future." the teacher explained.
Ruby wrote in her notebook before looking up from it as her teacher snatched up a bunch of papers.
"I'll pass out handouts for your future plans now, but you're all pretty much planning to go into the hero course, right?" The teacher then grew scales and rhino horns and proceeded to throw the papers in the air as all the students showed off their quirks.
"But using your powers at school is against the rules!" the teacher told his students.
"Teach! Don't lump us all in the same group. I'm not gonna be stuck at the bottom with the rest of these rejects!" A blond bombshell(Literally) confidently declared while leaning back in the chair, her feet on the desk while brushing her long hair ignoring most of the lesson till now.
A cut in voiced by Professor Port came to explain who was speaking:
['Yang Branwen Quirk:Bombshell it allows her to turn any bodily fluid into an explosive Gel that she can ignite at will.']
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After Waking up and doing some stretches the girls began to watch the screen again. While at first they were awed by the power of quirks and how much this Ruby knew about them.
It was slowly diminished when they began to realise that not every hero was as well…'Herolike' as they thought. Weiss was quite displeased with Mt Lady and while Yang respected another girl who was cool with flaunting the goods even she had to shake her head at doing it while innocent people could get hurt.
Blake didn't have anything to really comment on as she was still questioning how a human or faunus that could spawn wood from their body and have it be considered biological.
When they got to the classroom, Yang just smiled as it reminded her of the friends she had lost at Beacon and how rowdy they were when everyone first decided they were gonna be Huntsmen and Huntresses.
"Why does she have to be so mean?!" Ruby glared at the screen but softened a bit when she saw the grimace on her actual sister..
"Yeah that name really fits… I like her confidence is what I meant." Blake noted with a slight blush when Yang wiggled her brow at her.
"Is no one going to comment on how unprofessional this teacher is because I find it quite concerning. I mean surely not every student wishes to be one of these so called heroes? If that was the case why even pass out the career planner at all it's a waste of time and paper!" Weiss frowned while stroking her chin as she tried to lean in closer to read the scattered pieces of paper but after not getting any result she slumped into her seat puzzled.
"Weisscream is right. I mean it is a regular school right not a Combat School like Signal or Beacon? It's not like they did any training or anything so how could they even fight the villains like that giant shark guy?" Yang seeing Weiss's failed attempt got up and rewinded the viewing and tried to find any useful quirks from what the class displayed and didn't find anything as impressive as Mt. Lady or Kamui Woods.
"So is no one gonna mention the human dreidel?" Blake pointed at the kid with a wooden something as a head who had also excitedly demonstrated his quirk at the prospect of being a future hero.
"It kinda looks like a cloths-pin doesn't it" Ruby who walked up with Weiss began to analyse the quirks as well.
"No it's clearly an Inkwell..No that can't be right can it?" Weiss, also confused at the genetic monstrosity she was seeing, was quite befuddled as well as astonished.
After debating on what it could be as well as the possible function of such a quirk the girls came to the conclusion that it was pointless and went back to watching the viewing but not without all four developing a distaste for this particular student for wasting their time.
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The class started screaming at Yang, yelling things like, "That was uncalled for, Branwen!" "So Rude" "If only she wasn't born so hot then I'd-"
"You all should shut up like the weaklings you are!" Yang laughed over the protests.
"Oh, if I remember correctly, you want to go to U.A, right, Branwen?" her teacher remarked.
"U.A? That national school?! It was in the top 0.2% of the year. Only 200 people got accepted last time, you know!" The students gaped while Ruby looked worried, putting her head on the desk, making herself look smaller.
"That's exactly why you guys are just weaklings! Not willing to put in effort to be the best" Yang raised her voice over the others, jumping on top of her desk as she declared, "I aced the mock test and got number 1 in the Physical. I'm the only one at this school who could possibly get in. I'll definitely surpass All Might and become the top hero! My name will be inscribed as the Top Hero in History!"
"Oh yeah, Ms.Rose you wanted to apply for U.A, too, right?" the teacher remembered.
Ruby flinched as her teacher spoke, slightly raising her head to see all her classmates turn to her, then proceed to burst out laughing.
"A powerless quirkless freak? They have rules against that right?" One of the girls in the class asked, hunched over in laughter.
"Th-They got rid of that rule! There's just no precedent…" Ruby stuttered while the class continued laughing.
Yang aimed an explosion at Ruby's desk, sending her to fall backwards.
"Hey, Briar!"
Ruby glanced up at her half sister as she shouted, "You're below the rejects! You're quirkless! How can you even stand in the same ring as me?"
"No, wait, Firecracker! It's not like I'm trying to compete with you or anything! Believe me!" Ruby cried, backing to the wall. Looking down, Ruby softly spoke, "It's just that it's been my goal ever since I was little. And well, I won't know unless I try."
Seeing her half sister on the wall about to cry, Yang stepped back about to ease off after all attacking an already defeated foe is something weaklings do to act stronger, that was until she heard the rest of what Ruby said and went from angry to pissed off.
"Whaddaya mean, unless you try?! Are you taking the test for fun?! You Saying my Goal is game to you!" Yang shouted as the class around Ruby became ominous shadows, Yang Grabbing Ruby by her collar put a burning hand near her chin causing Ruby to flinch.
Seeing her reaction Yang quickly pulled back her arm before exclaiming, "See no way to do anything to stop me! What the hell can you do to villian then? You're quirkless!"
Ruby unable to muster a response just got teary eyed and looked away. Yang seeing this just let out a dissapointed sigh and muttered about weaklings and backstory fodder before returning to her seat. Just as a few classmates of the two were about to laugh Yang let out a massive heat wave with her quirk.
"Who Said you other fodder characters could laugh! Ain't a single one of you strong enough to challenge me either." With another rush of heat the class quited back down allowing the teacher who was nervisouley hiding behind is desk to come back out and continue his lesson.
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"I can't imagine what kind of pain this Ruby is going through. To make it worse it's her own sister." Blake sympathized with this version of her team leader the most being a victim of discrimination herself she at the least had her family and other faunus to comfort her but from what they've seen so far this Ruby didn't even have that.
"I can't imagine going through that, and then your class watching it. Even worse is that they have the nerve to join in when they are too scared to try for U.A themselves." Weiss added.with a huff " As arrogant as that Yang is She at least has the credentials to back it up though it pains me she was right these classmates of theirs are indeed losers and weaklings."
Yang herself was seething with fury at the screen, her eyes shifting from wanting to tear up and hug her trembling baby sister and glowing in rage at her other self trying to sear a hole in the arrogant girl's head with her gaze.
Raising her arm towards Ruby she quickly launches her entire body forward when she sees the subtle twitch in her sister's eye.
Ruby herself didn't notice but Yang did she had spent most of her life studying and memorizing even the most subtle changes in her expressions, Ruby had been wary of Yang before when they were younger but this wasn't something as minor as being scared of a pillow to the face or the exaggerated face she made being unable to dodge a quick jab during training,
This was something she never wanted to see in her sister's face again ever since that day when she almost lost her.
It was a deep look of fear and betrayal towards her.
Yang hated every moment of it even if the look itself barely lasted a second before Ruby was pulled face first into her chest with a massive hug that she only let go of when Blake tapped her shoulder and pointed to the now unconscious Ruby.
No matter how much she tried while Ruby slept, the viewing refused to change.
Even when she woke up Yang could tell her hug only barely remedied the situation. The only thing she could do now was pray it didn't get any worse.
While the other girls resumed watching the viewing, Yang squeezed tightly on her seat and threw back a few more drinks wishing she knew specifically what was in her uncle's flask as she was getting the feeling she was soon gonna need something stronger than her usual strawberry sunrise.
The others didn't notice but she did and like most problems in her life it all came back to one name.
Branwen.
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"Someone!" yelled a woman on the street stuck under a pile of green goo.
A villain ran through the streets, mocking, "Catch me if you can!"
"Huh? There's no hero around."
When a few civilians questioned about a hero, a man had exited a store, listening before he started to grow in size.
"There is always a helping hand in the darkness" came a booming voice behind the panicked civilians that when they heard eased them and let them continue about their day.
"Why?" the man began, catching the sludge villain's attention as he smiled, "Because I am here!"
The scene changed to Ruby on her scroll after class.
"The incident this morning is all over the headlines! I wanna hurry up and go home so I can write it in my notebook." Ruby whispered as she grabbed her notebook to put in her bag before Yang snatched the notebook from Ruby's hand.
"We're not done talking yet, Briar." Yang sneered, holding the notebook.
"Yang, what's that?" one of her friends asked as Yang showed him.
"Huh, 'Hero Analysis for the Future'? Seriously?"
"I-It's fine, isn't it? Give it back!" Ruby told Yang.
Yang swept her hand through her hair before punching the notebook with an explosion in her fist, scorching it.
"That's mean…" Ruby gasped until Yang threw it out the window, Ruby shrieking, "What?!"
"Listen, I'm the only one strong and capable enough to be a hero. You know the principal called me the only student who will make it into U.A from this mediocre junior high school? I mean it makes perfect sense, I'm a perfect fighter,I have the perfect body,I-" Yang rambled with her hand smoking from small explosions while Ruby looked like she was having a heart attack.
"She's so cool," one of Yang's friends thought.
"We should probably stop her soon." The other friend thought, after all, Yang could go a bit too far sometimes.
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"That's her reason? Fuck! It's perfect for someone like her." Yang was about to reach her limit. No she had already passed it several times over seeing how this version of her acted. She had her doubts but the rant just now confirmed it. No matter the world or even if she stayed or not. Raven Branwen would always be a horrible mother.
"Indeed out of the failures in that class Ruby and Yang are definitely the two who have the most potential." Weiss stated shakily, rubbing her hands before wringing them out in her lap. She noticed how bad the tension was and despite her and Blake's best efforts she feared it would boil over fast.
"You're supposed to be a hero, Yang." Ruby remarked quietly causing Blake to twitch and once again curse her ears. She could only hope her friend really means it and drags Yang or Ruby out of there before things escalate any further.
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"-don't apply to U.A., nerd." Yang smiled angrily with her hand on Ruby as smoke steamed from under her palm. Ruby looked up at Yang nervously before one of Yang's friends reminded her that they were gonna miss training. So she and her two friends walked away, Ruby looking down.
"Come on, you could at least say something back." Yang's friends who reminded her sighed while walking away.
"Don't say that. She's pathetic. She still can't face reality." the other said while walking out with others on her way out Yang turned around to give some parting words to Ruby.
"-you wanna be a hero that badly, there's a quick way to do it.You see my mom she's an old hag but that means she's smart she knows of this thing called semblances that they used before quirks." Yang walked over to pat Ruby on the shoulder to finish her friendly advice. She even saw a small spark of hope in her 'Sister's' eyes.
"The problem is you gotta have it unlocked. I went searching and it turns out you get it during a near death experience or something so why don't you go and take a last chance swan dive off the roof!" Yang smiled while patting Ruby on the back and pointing out the window for emphasis.
Ruby flinched before turning around to face Yang; who made sparks from her palm, grinning, "What?" Before finally leaving Ruby there alone.
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Ruby got up from where she was sitting and started walking towards the bathroom away from where her team and sister were sitting.
"Where are you going, Ruby?" whispered Weiss who looked between her partner and to Blake who got her silent message of taking care of Yang. while she consoled Ruby.
"I…Just want some time alone Weiss." Ruby whispered, glaring at her sister. Even if she knew it wasn't the Yang she was in the room with. But something just felt wrong about her sister saying that to her and smiling. Even if her sister looked hurt by what happened Ruby just couldn't be near her right now.
"What do you plan to do now? This can't go on forever Yang,Ruby needs-" Blake asked as the two watched Weiss slowly trail after sobbing Ruby.
"You don't know what she needs!. You always act like you care about someone and then you run just like her!." Yang took hold of Blake with her robot arm. "All Because you can't handle being close to others! Because you're not the one she's scared of! You don't know what it's Like! You-." Blake grabbed her bow and used it as a makeshift garret to choke the air out of Yang.
"And you're so perfect then!? I'm not your mom Yang and neither are you." Looking her partner in the eyes, Blake loosens her grip as she adds.
"Don't take your anger out on those who care about you. We both know that's not the real you. Unless you want what we just saw to be the real you." Blake asked as Yang let go, escaping Blake's bow and raged, destroying everything around the viewing. Punches,kicks,throwing everything she could grab all of it rendered useless by whatever power that Alaya had that removed their weapons and caused the room to constantly repair itself.
"I was brash and stupid like that at one point. Thought I was the best and above the world, it cost me an arm the second time. You already heard about how bad it was the first time…Before Haven I told Raven I would do anything to protect Ruby..She said it was impossible since I had to help myself first. " Yang began now barely calm and moving her way to sit beside Blake again.
"Told her she was wrong..Seeing it thrown back at me like that it..It hurt" Yang no longer mad finally let her tears flow over partners shoulder.
Blake put one arm around Yang's waist and with the other grabbed her chin to look her in the eyes.
The despair in them was overly familiar to Blake. She had failed to save people who mattered to her from it before;Her father when he almost died leading to his retirement.,Illia when the despair got too much for her,Adam when she first saw him murder innocent people,Herself when she realised all of the above was her fault.
Even worse, she had already failed Yang once back at Beacon. Back then Yang rushed to her aid and what did she do? She ran like always. Not this time. This time she would help Yang.
"I'm sure Ruby is as scared as you are Yang, You both are scared of doing nothing and letting the other lose themselves. The screen showed how justified that fear was but that's all it does it just shows us what could be in another world Yang… It may be you but it's not..us " Leaning Close and grabbing strands of blond hair Blake twirled them around before slowly moving them behind a pair of blushing red ears.
"Yang, I know it's not the solution you need but.." Blake closed her eyes and leaned forward. She tasted honey and strawberries. As the two heads of hair Black and Yellow entangled, a bumblebee-like pattern formed between them.
"I wouldn't say that Kitty. If it comes to it, you're better off taking my breath away more than usual. You said I'm strong, right. So how about I show you just how much I can lift?" causing her to let out a quick yelp, Yang swiftly lifted Blake and brought her to the chairs which changed into a bed as the two collapsed onto it forming the bee-like pattern more intensely.
After catching her breath and drinking several glasses of water, an exhausted Blake covered up Yang before the other two could see them.
"You're a real smart-ass, you know that Yang?" Blake said wiping her mouth as she spit out the stray strands of short yellow hairs that clung to her teeth along with trying and failing to sweep out the long yellow streaks that clung to her hair before with a few more swipes harmoniously merging with her own black locks.
"Well I got that from my Mom." Yang mocked her with something that only one super mom she met had heard. Seeing a deadpan stare on Blake's face Yang leaned in once more and revved her robotic arm.
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"Fine, I get your point. Now then, what information do you have for me that you haven't already told me? It won't change anything Ruby. It simply isn't possible for your sister to be that cruel to you." Weiss was upset at what she saw as much as the rest of the girls and while she and her siblings were not as close as Ruby and Yang.
"You should know that better than anyone..So why are you still crying?" Holding in a sigh Weiss continued to rub and pat the back of her team leader who during all her crying would sporadically empty the contents of her stomach in the lavatory with Weiss as emotional support.
She couldn't understand how even after this long she would still feel so upset. Alaya had made it clear if not from her words then the already aired Viewings that it was clearly not the same world and the different versions of them could act drastically different than the people they were used to.
It shouldn't change anything about how the four of them viewed each other.
While she could empathize and even sympathise with her due to imagining her and Winter in the situation. For Weiss it was slowly starting to grate her nerves with how much Ruby was sobbing and acting like the child that well she was…
Weiss had forgotten that for as much as she and everyone relies on her, Ruby is by far the youngest and least experienced on the team.
"Headmaster Lionheart's betrayal.." Ruby spoke up immediately. "He was working with Salem and killed people..Yet Ozpin still wanted him to have a satue and be a hero... I think i understand it now a little anyway."
"That lying bastard. And Ozpin and Qrow still trust him." Weiss grit her teeth. "Ruby he was scared and caused hundreds of people to die for him to live.What good he did in the past was used to hide his actions so people wouldn't panic."
Weiss pulls Ruby up and straightens put her team leader,Weiss looks into Ruby;s eyes."Ruby listen to me.You are nothing like him even if you can understand his fear.Yes,you both feaared losing something but he feared for his own life,You fear for others."
"Look at me Ruby Rose! Tell me in all the time we knew each other as Yang ever done something to really truly hurt you? Do you understand Lionhearts fear or Ozpin willing to sacrifice our trust to keep people safe. Which headmaster do you understand?"
Weiss cups Ruby's cheek and forces glossy silver to look directly into a icy determined blue.the stare holding until the dam behind the silver is repaired no longer willing to break.
"Ozpin...I understand him.I felt it the way Yang looked changed.I knew it wasn't her but i couldn't look at her the same way.I needed to remember what she was not who i saw who she could be."
Seeing that Ruby looked a lot better than before,Weiss finally let loose a sigh while washing her hands of any lingering filth from her leader as while she loved Ruby she did not love her germs.
Ruby now that she could think clearly there was something she wanted to ask Weiss ever since they reunited. "So..do they know about-."
"I never told anyone that you're the reason I wanted to leave Atlus. Not only that but you are in fact still the only living soul that knows as a kid I wanted Bunk Beds." Weiss Choking up admitted what she knew Ruby wanted.A secret that proves Weiss is still her no matter what Ruby sees or saw. "Not even Winter knows that." as much as that was a regret from her childhood looking back on the idea the age gap between the three of the schnee siblings was simply too much for such childish whimsy.
Such whimsy and flights of fancy were best when indulged with Ruby and no one else.
Unlike when they involved Yang and Blake, When it was Just Weiss and Ruby The two would never have to call out team maneuvers or think of consequences during those moments. After all it was just a special bond that clicked between them allowing them to do it on near instinct.
"Oh Weiss I-" Going in for a hug ignoring the already small distance of the bathroom caused her to trip on her own cape.
"Don't touch me!" Weiss, without even looking, catches Ruby in a hug and with one arm opens the door to the bathroom.
"I...Thanks Weiss. But um.. Don't tell Yang but you're like the sister I never had." Ruby affirmed going hand in hand with Weiss before returning to her seat near the unmoving Blake and Yang who were now asleep.
"Dont Bother them Ruby. The two of them can hardly move I believe." Weiss, already noticing how Yang and Blake were practically drenched with a certain smell along with an obvious afterglow decided to also be proactive.
So once she secured the blankets to stop any unfortunate reveals. Grabbed Ruby's hand again and with a slight upward turn of her nose steered Ruby to join her in turning their own chairs into bunk beds to share between them.
When they woke up and everyone was refreshed they silently agreed to watch the rest of the veiwing or at least however much more Weiss and Blake could stomach as while their intervention helped it was clear Ruby and Yang were still not all that well.
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Ruby walked outside of the school building in the rain alone.
'Idiot! If I really jumped, that would mean you instigated a suicide! Think before you speak!' Ruby thought as she walked behind the school . She looked over to find her notebook in the water with some fish nipping at it.
"That's not fish food, stupid. That's my notebook. Stupid..." Ruby whispered as she picked her notebook out of the water, scaring the fish.
'Stupid bastard. Things weren't this bad before.' Ruby clutched her notebook in her hand. As she glanced back into the water it rippled and her mind was brought to the past.
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A Younger Ruby popped from behind a wall with an All-Might figure in her hand, yelling, "Dad!"
Ruby excitedly led her father to the family computer where he just laughed and typed in his password and after a few seconds pulled up a video of All-Might and his most popular save.
"Jeez, you've probably added ten thousand views just by yourself, Sapling".
*BRING *BRING* looking over to the phone on the wall Taiyang planned on ignoring it until he saw the caller I.D
"An old friend's calling me so. I can't watch it." her father said as he fired up the computer while Ruby bobbed her head back and forth.
"That was an old video. A disaster that happened a long time ago. The video that caught the symbol peace's first save he debuted right after." Ruby narrated as the video played.
Ruby stared at it in awe as her hair started lifting up, with a grin on her face growing bigger and bigger.
"He's so cool! Once I get my quirk, I wanna be just like him, too!" Ruby laughed while her dad watched her with a worried look on his face. The screen transitioned to doctors office with a old man holding a clip board
"You should probably give it up." a doctor said bluntly in his office.
"That's… Is something wrong with her after all? Most of the other Kindergartener's quirks have already manifested. She's the only one…" Ruby's father told the doctor.
"Excuse me, but you're fourth generation, right, sir? May I ask about your quirk?" the doctor asked.
"Yes, of course. I can breath fire *Fwoosh*" A small gout of flames came out of Taiyang's mouth before he started coughing and drank an entire bottle of water and continued his conversation with the doctor.
"Though it burns my throat a lot so I don't use it and my late wife could move anything that weighs less than 200 lbs at around 80 miles an hour." he explained while picking up Ruby's figure that she dropped at the news.
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"I understand it now. We already knew these quirk's are like a biological semblance and are passed through DNA So, if Ruby got her quirk,It would be one of those, or a combination. And the fact that she doesn't have one is concerning as she wouldn't be able to accomplish much in society without one." Blake stated, the TV repeating the same thing she said.
" If my Dad can breath fire then it checks out the other me, Yalter can make it but still it feels weird i mean it's not like she can control whether she gets a quirk or not.Judging her because of something she can't control that's-" Yang who turned her head towards Blake who Nodded in understanding while Yang shot her a sad smile.
Blake started sniffing, "I just can relate to her a bit,okay." Blake sighed, wiping her eyes before deciding she had enough emotion for the day and dozed off.The others waited for her and when a groggy Blake woke up the veiwing Resumed.
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The doctor explained to Ruby and her dad about the body parts, referring to the pinky toe and finished with, "That means she has no quirk."
Rain poured outside of an apartment complex. The same video from before plays in the background. Ruby's dad stands at the door fidgeting unsure of how to handle things.while Ruby watches the same video of All MIght from before.
"Dad He saves everyone with a smile no matter what trouble they're in. He's such a cool hero." Ruby whispered, spinning the chair around to face her dad.
Her eyes start to fill up with tears when she sees her own father's teary eyes.
"Can I… be a hero too…?" Ruby wondered, her shaking finger pointed at the hero on screen.
"-Ruby! I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" her dad cried, hugging his daughter.
"No, that's not it. That's not it, Dad. What I wanted you to say back then was…" Ruby narrates as the memory fades.
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No one spoke letting the veiwing pause.
Weiss bit her lip remembering her own father and all the things she wished her parents would say to discourage her.Weiss thought back remembering the one thing she always wanted from her parents.
Ruby teared up seeing what her life would be like if her father never said those words to her,The ones that inspired her to be a Huntress.
Yang huffed and downed another drink and did her best to not cry.She remembered how when she left home for the second time though he didn't say it she could feel it in her heart the words from her father silently helping her and encouraging her forward.
Blake pouts and squeezes Yang's cybernetic hand so hard it begins to groan.She remembers the words that always led her down a path in life whether good or bad she always felt she could continue on in when she remembered the way she was told those words.
All four girls of RWBY in their minds heard the words:"You're worthy of it,You too can be a Hero"
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'You decided back then, didn't you? That's right. Don't worry about what other people think! Hold your head up high and plunge forward!' Ruby thought as she walked forward, laughing to herself.
Suddenly a sewer grate pops open slamming into a wall as a creature made of Slime and sewer ooze came out and loomed above Ruby from a few feet away.
Ruby stared in horror before uttering, "A villain?!"
"A medium-sized invisibility cloak…" the sludge villain grinned.
The villain races for Ruby as she tries to run away. Her notebook falls to the ground as the villain grabs her body and starts forcing his sludge down Ruby's throat.
"-take over your body. Calm down. It'll only hurt for about 45 seconds. You'll feel better soon." the sludge villain assured.
Ruby tried to grab at the sludge villain. 'I can't… breathe…'
"You can't grab me. I'm fluid! Thanks for your help in my escape. You're my hero kid." the sludge villain explained.
Ruby tried over and over to grab at the sludge.
'My body… There's no strength… I'm dying… Am I dying? Somebody… Somebody…at least I managed to be a hero to somebody,' Ruby thought, growing weaker and weaker.
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"NOOOO!" Yang thrashed around the room as the screen went dark and the viewing ended.Her anger and grief letting her destroy the room no matter how much it was repaired.
Ruby herself sobbed into Weiss's shoulder.Seeing what might be her ow death hit her hard.She clung to her own final thought.'At least i managed to be hero to somebody.She managed a tearful smile realizing that no matter the world Ruby Rose will somehow be a hero.
Ruby Imagined her mom smiling the same way wherever she was.Did she too die knowing she was a hero? Ruby sobbed harder into Weiss thinking that maybe she did live up to being like Summer Rose.
Weiss just sat silently patting Ruby and holding back her own tears,Knowing that what her partner needed right now was a stalwart shoulder to cry on.Weiss let out a single tear that fell down her cheek mixing into Ruby's constant stream.
Blake let out a choked sob feeling the urge to run away and leave the room to be alone and process but seeing Yang rampage,Blake got up and joined her Partner in in destroying everything in sight beyond the crying Ruby and Weiss.As her fist tore through the chairs Blake whispered a prayer for the fallen Ruby of that world.
After hours of venting the team of girls fell asleep together in one big group hug centered on their leader.Ruby for a moment felt that even if she died now that everything might be okay.