Hello guys, here is a new story from me, I will also try something new with this, I will start a website with some of the concept art and explanations, it is in my profile

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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks-Arthur Miller

Ruby Rose first joined beacon with a childish attitude and extreme passion for justice, she had joined at just 16 years old and was by far the youngest student at beacon, she had few friends, just Velvet and Blake (unofficially) yet despite her friendliness people hated her for how she was favored by the teachers and out of sheer jealousy for the shadow she cast over their school. Even Yang was also no different but for another reason, she didn't like the idea of adopting a stranger and had always been cold to Ruby but now seeing herself overshadowed her ego could not be contained.

RWBY was a ticking time bomb of opposites that would never fit together and would only last as long as the teacher's gaze was on them. And now the time was right…

Ruby lay on the roots of an ancient tree, her cloak torn, her clothes in ruin, several shards of her precious scythe in her hands, she had held out against the hordes of Grimm until her Scythe broke and a Grimm gad slashed her, a red stain just above her left hip

"So this is how it ends?" Thought Ruby, her demise advancing upon her with a white smile "no friends beside me, no heroic last stand, just death" as the Grimm drew closer, she accepted her fate and closed her eyes waiting for the final blow, a blade sliced through the air and she heard a roar from the Ursa Major.

She opened her eyes, the Forest floor was littered with mountains of Grimm corpses she had slain earlier, she looked up and she saw a man in a uniform of sorts. He wore an overcoat with some sort of webbing hanging lose in leather pouches and black combat boots and gloves, he had black hair and was wiping his sword with the hide of one of the freshly slain Grimm.
As if feeling her stare the man turned to stare back. He had a visibly bald head aside from a few tufts of Black hair around the side, he stared further and asked

"What are you doing in these parts eh?" Coming up to her and kneeling down in front of her hunched form "You're miles away from civilization… you don't look one of the villagers" he looked down at her scythe "No, you must be a hunter or a madman to come here, which are you?"

Seeing that now he wanted an answer Ruby obeyed and told him "I was here on a training exercise but my friends abandoned me here"

"So that's it… You're a Hunter-in-Training right?" She nodded "(sigh) I see, well I can't leave you here now or my wife would kill me, and you want that wound looked at right? How about you come with me. We aren't too far from my extraction point, how about you join me? Eh?"

Ruby looked up at her savior and quickly accepted his offer, she may not know much about medicine but from how her whole blouse and corset were stained crimson

"Excellent, I'll give you some basic first aid and then we can head on over there" He opened one of his pouches and produced a tampon, some bandages, a bottle and tweezers. Checking the bottle he swore lightly and chucked it to the side, he looked back at Ruby and told her "Well looks like I'm out of anesthetic from all the people I've been saving lately, we'll have to do this the old fashioned way" as he picked up a branch and snapped of a chunk, "Bite down" he said offering her the twig, she did so reluctantly but continued looking at him in interest as to how he would prevent her death. The man unsheathed a small utility knife.

"You do know what you're doing… right?"

"Well you don't have much choice do you? But technically… Yeah, I've never had any real in-depth training but if I know enough to fix myself countless times I probably know enough to fix you"

The procedure was painful but necessary as the man began to operate on her. "Say, what's your name? on second thought don't answer or the gag will fall out, and we wouldn't want you screaming and calling the whole forest to us eh?" he said as he attempted to remove her corset. "You know this thing kinda saved your life, heck if it hadn't absorbed whatever hit you you'd be in far worse shape. (Crack) whops, I hope that didn't hurt"

"No, but my corset is certainly broken now" Ruby mumbled through the gag

"Beater the corset than a bone. Anyway, bite now this may hurt" having removed the corset the man roughly stabbed the tampon in and quickly bandaged her side. Indeed it did hurt, not as much as it did earlier. "Easy on the wood girl, or you're going to get a mouthful of splinters to go with the stab wound" she stopped biting and indeed felt slightly better "Now try standing up" said the man packing his tools up "I need you able to walk if possible but tell me if it hurts, alright?"

She tried to stand up, but could only do so with a grunt and instantly clutching her side "No, I can't"

"Yes you can, you stood up didn't you? You can walk… but hold onto me while doing so"

"What's your name by the way, you couldn't tell me earlier, how about now?" asked the man as they walked further into the endless red forest

"Only if you tell me if you know where you're going, cos se seem to be going in circles"

"Alright then, the forest is covered in paths where people often walk, we're on one right now, you can tell by how the leaves are rather beaten here, almost to a mush in fact. Anyway, what's your name?"

"Huntress-in-Training Ruby Rose, or perhaps just Ruby now" said Ruby looking sad

"What do you mean?" asked the man curiously

"I don't want to talk about it. What is your name by the way?" answered Ruby in an obvious effort to steer the conversation away from her personal life

"Alright, I'm not going to intrude on that that. The name is Phill, Phill Philipson, No idea what my mother thought when naming me that(heh)" he looked down towards his watch "anyway I arranged to be picked up at 4:30 and now it's 4:32… The driver is obviously late, it shouldn't be long before he arrives.

Indeed it wasn't long before the few birds left in the trees were spooked by an engine's chugging. Along trigged an armored personnel carrier with only two or so crewmen visible smoking from an exposed roof hatch.(imagine a FV432-Look it up) Dressed in an autumn oak leaf camouflage the metal beast had slightly sloped sides and a single door at the back, no cabin was there to be seen aside from a few vision slits at the top alongside a single machine gun manned by a bored looking crewman; he wore similar attire to Phil but wore a crash helmet as well as Oak Leaf colored overalls over his coat.

"Phill… That you?" shouted the crewman over the edge of the machinegun, attempting to outyell the engine of the APC

"Yep, that's me, you're running a little late innit?"

"Yeah whatever, stop complaining or walk, that's how we do things in the mechanized" he paused and shouted "Besides. All them logistics guys were bogging us down in paper so it's not really our fault anyway" He gestured for the two to enter.

Phill threw him a thumbs up and leaned down to Ruby "that's our ticket, ladies first" and pushed Ruby towards the APC, She climbed in and found the inside to be covered with wires toolboxes and god knows what else, but the two long padded benches were certainly nice to sit on compared to their earlier walk.

"Hey Phill, whose the girl?" yelled the same crewman at Phill just as he was coming into the armored back

"She got lost in the woods…"

"Yeah right, next you'll be bringing them over in a white van"

"Chill Gregory or your sick disses are gona set the forest ablaze and command will have my ass for it"

"I was only joking; any friend of yours is a friend of mine. She has got one nasty gash right there, she can lie down or something if you move some of the boxes and I'll tell the driver to drive easy, k?"

"Thanks mate, you hear that Ruby, you can get some rest and I'm sure that wound will heal far better if you don't move around" noted Phill while moving some of the boxes to free up a bench "here, have a lie down I'll wake you when we arrive"

Ruby decided not to argue as she was indeed quite drained and that she knew that her aura would heal her up if she slept. And off she went, despite the loud engine and the banter of the three above Ruby Rose went to sleep.

This is a re-write, the original can be found on my website (Link is on my profile)

Hope you enjoyed!