Kisdota: Okay so look, after all the RWBY that's happened I'm in a bad spot. I know it's good to put all this drama in a series that's fine, but don't put it in after two whole seasons of happiness.

Volume 3 f***ed me up emotionally, and while no one is dead in volume 4 there's just all this bad stuff happening and nothing was solved. Yes Renora is cannon but it's not enough. I'm not cheering for remnant anymore if anything I hope a majority of humanity is wiped out because everyone in the world is a dick. Everything about remnant is terrible. I need to do this, I need to try and therapy myself into not thinking about this series the same way.

I'm joining in and doing one of these for a long as I can. As I don't have all the information some stuff will be speculated. Here's something to tide us over till Volume 5 which I know will "kick my heart in the dick" (-Something Witty Entertainment).

I feel I should add, if you are doing a RWBY OC centered story, stop it.

Disclaimer: I own nothing of RWBY, or its characters.

Ruby, Age 15

Ruby Rose looked down the clean streets of Vale, the people walking by going through their own daily lives all unaware of the events that would transpire.

A war wages for years that would whittle humanity from a worldwide population to a few meager villages all because of the Grimm led by a twisted woman.

Salem.

In the coming years she would peruse power twisting and manipulating a few people that would lead into a chain of events that would turn humanity against each other.

Ruby would lead her few friends on a journey with the hope of saving everyone from the Grimm and dangers that would come, and for a while things would go somewhat well with few close calls. Yet it wouldn't be enough, the small actions that Ruby did helped people but it would all be for nothing in the end.

The world was already corrupted long before Ruby made her move. The White Fang would take their terrorism to higher levels thanks to Salem's pawn. Governments would turn on each other to protect themselves from dangers that didn't exist thanks to Salem's pawn. Everyone turning on everyone for their own safety for the most foolish of reasons, all because Salem and her dammed inner circle of pawns.

Ruby had learned the hard way; humanity was full of fools and easily controlled through fear. She and team RNJR would be betrayed by those she thought she could trust. Her team constantly put in danger due to Salem and her obsession to stop her just for having her silver eyes. Even with Ruby's old friends and teamates rejoining them and re-forming team RWBY it was never enough, if anything it made things more difficult.

Weiss and her soulless father would do everything he could to bring her back regardless of who got hurt including Weiss herself. Eventually he would sell out his company to Salem after the promise of having his daughter back and having a place in "Her World". This promise drove Jacques to do everything in his power to please his new Master and soon the Schnee Dust Company was at the witch's disposal.

It would be his downfall, his drive to appease Salem would cause him to become even more cruel to his already abused labor force. In the chaos of the breaking world Jacques would eventually be killed by his "inferior" workers, and her brother Whitley would follow suit along with Weiss's mother. Who did it they never found out, it could have been anyone from one of the miners to his own secretary. When the SDC learned Jacques and Whitley's death it became not a time to mourn, but a celebration.

The Schnee Mansion would be looted of every single possession before being burned to the ground, and the Company would break under it's own weight.

Weiss's butler Klein had miraculously been able to track her down and deliver the tragic news.

The Schnee name would forever by synonymous with "Cruelty".

Blake had done everything she could to fix the White Fang, but would come up with no results. The White Fang had been steeped in too much hatred and anger. Constant abuse and racism had turned the White Fangs peaceful protest into acts of terrorism, but when things looked bad and humanity was looking for someone to blame the White Fang would become as vicious as the wild animals they were compared to. Adam would get his wish, the White Fang became a group of murderers no longer differentiating between good humans and bad.

Humans died, no questions asked.

With everything happening Society became even more cold to each other, but Faunas would bear the greatest brunt of the blame. This would lead to more hatred, and more members of the White Fang and even more hatred. Those who tried to remain peaceful were considered weak and killed, including Blake's own Mother and Father.

After years of bloodshed the entirety of the Mistral Reagion became a Faunas only territory. The Faunas had run out of humans to hate but their anger had not been sated. They turned their anger on each other all for the littlest of reasons and the White Fang's purpose turned from equality for all into a fight to the death.

Adam finally understood the fault in his views before being killed by the people he tried to help.

Yang found her mother, after all these years she was reunited with the person she wanted to meet most.

It was in the middle of a freshly looted and killed village.

She met the tribe that Raven came from, she learned of her mothers side of her family, and found out why her Mother decided to abandon her. She met the kinds of people Raven led, their way of survival, and their views on life. Yang was hoping to learn about herself, but now she had more questions. Why had her mother decided to lead these people over raising her, why her tribe used their power for themselves and to hurt the innocent, and why Raven was fine with the fact that she slaughtered a helpless village.

Raven was not a Huntress she was a killer. She and the tribe fought for themselves and didn't care who got hurt. These people had the power to help people and they would rather keep to themselves.

Yang tried to convince Raven to fight with her, to stop Salem. That together she and her could make a difference and help people like huntresses should. Raven could have just said no, could have simply turned her down, but this wasn't a mother she was talking to and she had to be cruel to her.

"When did my daughter become so weak and foolish?"

Ruby and the others left the next day, and Yang would never again want to see her mother.

Her lifelong search had been for naut.

Tragedy after Tragedy, death after death, loss after loss.

After years team RWBY and team RNJR would go through their own personal hells to finally face the menace herself.

Salem.

Ruby, Weiss, Blake, Yang, Jaune, Ren, and Nora had surpassed their limits and become strong enough to kill Salem and her soldiers.

Hazel, Watts, and Tyrian.

They were strong and each one individually was a force to be feared not to be taken lightly. Yet each of them had been fighting each other for Salems approval that they could not effectively work together.

Ruby had learned long ago the true power people had when they came together and made their own hope.

Salem's forces against a team, a team made stronger by facing both Mother Nature and Grimm, were nothing. Outnumbered and outclassed, despite their years of experience, each one of Salem's inner circle fell.

After so long in this broken world killing was not a strange feeling for Ruby and her friends.

It was the first time Ruby and team took a slight amount of pleasure in watching a life be snuffed out.

Cinder was next, she was hoping to face Ruby and make her pay for the pain she had caused her.

Jaune stepped in before she could even get the chance.

The loss of his family and the loss of his love had driven Jaune to become the beast of a fighter that Pyrrha had seen in him all those years ago.

Cinder expected to make quick work of this person, she had known all along that Jaune was a fake who never earned his place in Beacon. She had been training for years hoping for the chance to face the silver eyed girl.

Jaune gripped his great sword with both hands and charged.

With a single swipe and his massive pool of aura the fight lasted a second, Cinders aura and her stolen powers defended her against Jaune's sword like glass against a wrecking ball.

Jaune looked down at the woman who had killed Pyrrha, he wanted to fight more, wanted to make her pay more for his loss and her crimes.

Yet he saw no point as he watched her with a massive gash threatening to let her body split in half. This was not the fight he had trained his whole life for.

Emerald and Mercury saw Cinder go down in an instant, both fearing for their life. They hesitated, deciding whether they should run or fight.

Salem arrived in time to kill both of them and Cinder before she could bleed out.

Cider's dying face of betrayal was a memory Jaune would treasure forever.

With her death and the image of Salem fresh in her mind, Cinders power leaked out of her and into Salem.

Salem had done it, she now had the power of all Maidens, the power to rival gods, shape the world, and rule everything.

Ruby and her team knew what they were capable of when working together.

It took every ounce of Aura they could muster, every plan in the book, every strategy, their knowledge on the maidens and legends, every advantage their semblances could give them.

Without a single loss on her team's side they had done it.

Salem had died, beheaded by Ruby.

A god had been slain by a few battle hardened young adults.

With her gone, and memories of her killers fresh in her mind. Ruby, along with Weiss, Blake, and Yang each gained the Maiden powers. With new strength they felt that nothing could stop them.

Victory would be short lived.

Without Salem the Grimm grew even more out of control. Humanity still wasted their time looking for someone to blame, and their resources and dust needed for survival were few and hard to come by.

More years passed and Atlas with their superior military became the only safe spot in the entirety or Remnant. A very thin defense line now separated humanity from the Grimm.

Even with the new Maidens and the hunters and huntresses who killed Salem it was only a matter of time before the Grimm killed the last of humanity.

And the only creatures that would be left in Remnant would be the Grimm.

One very final hope came to Ruby and her team, in the form of Oscar.

Ozpin was alive, somehow, Ruby would be sure to ask how later.

There was one final gamble they could take. Thanks to Atlas's technology and the Maiden powers there was a bit of magic that could save Remnant and everyone that had been lost in Salem's rein.

Team RWBY and team JNR would go back in time as far as they could possibly go and stop Salem before everything became too out of control.

Time travel, of all the most sci-fi get out of jail free cards they could pull it was time travel.

There was nothing left for Ruby and her friends to defend in this time, everyone was going to die anyway. They all went with the plan, without hesitation.

Ruby with the body of a 15 year old and the mind of a 30 something battle hardened huntress was walking through Vale on the day before she would be accepted into Beacon.

It had been a long time, careful planning among her lifelong friends, and over 10 years but the day had come where she and team RWBYJNR would soon start their year at Beacon, and this time Ruby intended to graduate.

Returning to her weaker and younger body around the age of 5 had been strange for her, fighting for so long and suddenly being thrust into a world of peace. It took time to adjust. Ruby had been hoping that she could go into the past farther and save her mother, but Summer had already been lost at the age of 5.

It was fine, Ruby could live with this loss if it meant no one else was lost.

Ruby took this time to take a look at her scroll and once again read a few messages that she got from her friends.

Weiss

My acceptance letter has arrived, I hope to see you again soon.

Below was a picture of Weiss with her many dust cases and luggage bags, some servants were carrying them off.

Blake

I'm on my way to Beacon, hope to see you soon.

Below that was a picture of Blake at the docks with her mother and father smiling in front of the boat that would take her to Vale.

Yang

Good luck tonight sis hope you get in.

Yangs photo showed her gathering things in her room with Taiyang helping.

Jaune

Spending a night with my family, hope to see you at Beacon Ruby.

Jaune's showed him with her seven sisters mother and father were all surrounding a table all fighting and trying to get a piece of the large "Congratulations" cake that his family made for him.

Ren/Nora

Good luck Ruby, I know we'll all meet again at Beacon/ I'm ready this time let's save the world again.

Nora was holding Ren up in a hug, Ren's mother laughed at Nora's usual antics while his father just stood by her side.

Thanks to their memories of the future each and every one of Ruby's friends were able to, in a string of events made to seem like a coincidence and a little manipulation, became lifelong friends with each other. Maintaining contact with each other throughout their childhood the gang was now a part of each and everyone's life.

The stress of reliving their lives was made far easier with the knowledge that each other still existed.

Ruby arrived at her destination, Dust till Dawn. The store where she met Roman, kicked his butt, and met Glynda who would take her to meet Ozpin and be offered a place at Beacon.

*ring* The store door rang as Ruby stepped in. She began formulating a plan. She needed to be careful and not show off too much of her strength but she also had a goal.

To get Roman off of Cinder's side and try and redeem himself. If there was one thing she learned from Salem it was that the smallest action in people could have the biggest effects on Ruby and the others returned she learned all she could about the people she fought. She learned about Roman's past as well.

Specifically a crime that happened when she was just eight years old that Roman committed in his early days of being a criminal, that was her ticket in.

Ruby looked at the clock and went to the back to read a few of the magazines that were there.

*ring* Right on time, Roman and Juniors henchmen stepped in and started threatening the old man for dust.

Ruby continued to play innocent pretending not to hear anything as she listened to her silent headphones.

"You!"

Time to see if all her waiting paid off.

Ruby turned to see one of the generic grunts aiming his long butcher knife at her.

"Yes?" Ruby asked.

"Put your hands in the air," the grunt ordered.

"… are you robbing me?" Ruby asked.

"Yes!" he answered impatiently.

(Literally 2 seconds later)

The grunt was sent flying out the store through the window.

"sigh and it was shaping up to be such a nice Sunday," Roman complained in front of the cowering store owner, "Take care of her already lunk heads."

The second grunt pulled out his pistol and aimed it at Ruby.

*BANG*

Before he could use the gun Ruby pulled out her scythe in riffle mode and shot the gun out of his hand.

"For the love of- why does a child have a gun?" Roman asked.

"Roman?" Ruby called out feigning wonder.

Roman looked up from the dust he was looking at and looked see the girl who had taken out two of his men.

"So you know who I am, well good to know my reputation is enough to get kids interested," Roman said grabbing his cane Melodic Cudgel about to get ready for a fight, "Beat it kid, you'll live longer."

"Roman? Is that you?" Ruby asked.

"What… yes it's me," Roman told the girl a bit confused at her actions, "Am I supposed to know you?" he asked half sarcastically.

"It's… it's me Ruby."

"Ruby?" Roman questioned, that was all he needed to remember the past.

Seven years ago he was almost caught by the police, a young girl led them in the wrong directions. She followed him a bit curious as to what he was doing.

He remembered that day trying to scare her away and get rid of her. The little girl took an interested in his weapon pestering for him to show it to her. Going awe as the bottom reticle opened up and she made laser noises pretending to shot it. Shooting the hook off the top and watching her follow the end like a dog. Stealing an ice-cream cone from an unsuspecting person and giving it to her. Finding out later that he wasted half the day talking to this little kid talking about being a huntress before he left her.

"You…," Roman suddenly relaxed a bit lowering his weapon, "What are you doing here?" he asked her.

"I… sorta live around here," Ruby said.

"Ah… well… this is a bit awkward," Roman said, "I… see you got your own weapon."

"Yeah, I made it at Signal," Ruby told him.

"Oh so… you're in signal… that's good that's good you always wanted to be a huntress," Roman said, "So you…- WOULD YOU IDIOTS STOP STARING WE'RE STILL ON A JOB!" he yelled. The still conscious grunts immediately went back to taking dust from the store.

"Roman… what are you doing?" Ruby asked.

"Red just… just leave," Roman told her reluctantly and sadly, "We're doing business, you'd be better off not getting involved," he told her.

"Roman… you know I can't just ignore this," Ruby told him.

"Red, I'm dealing with a very dangerous client. It would be best that you didn't get too involved right now," Roman said gripping his weapon.

"I'm sorry Roman," Ruby said, Crescent Rose unfurled into its standard scythe form.

Roman raised his weapon at Ruby letting the reticle pop up as he took aim.

"Tch," Roman quickly aimed down when he saw Ruby's face, "Grab what you can!"

*BOOOF*

Instead of a burning flare a smoky bullet popped out filling the entire store with a blinding smoke screen. Roman and the others ran outside as quickly as they could carrying all the dust they had.

Ruby was outside waiting for them.

"Wha- how did you-!?" Roman questioned confused.

Ruby charged in at the nearest grunt with blinding speed disarming him within a second and spin kicking him to the ground.

The last two grabbed their weapons and ran right at Ruby swinging their blades at her. Ruby with little to no effort ducked avoiding both weapons. Aiming her weapon down she let off a shot launching her into the air above the two. As the grunts turned around to keep their eye on Ruby she had already swung her weapon disarming the two from their weapons and swinging the blunt side of her scythe at their heads.

"sssssshit, well now who's going to carry my stuff?" Roman looked around and saw how easily Ruby had bested the grunts.

"Roman-," Ruby tried to talk to him.

"Save it Red, I don't have time," Roman took aim at Ruby again, this time firing a deadly flare of fire. To Ruby, who's senses had skyrocketed thanks to her experience and semblance, the bullet was moving slowly. She had plenty of time to see Roman cringe as he fired the shot.

Ruby did what she did before and hoped on her weapon firing it off and flying into the air. Once the explosion from the slug died down she turned right to see that same ladder Roman was climbing to get away and meet up with Cinder and her ship.

Roman reached the top where Ruby was waiting for him.

"Wha- HOW ARE YOU DOING THIS!?" Roman yelled in shock.

"My semblance is speed," Ruby told him.

"Oh… yeah that'd do it," Roman said in realization, "Well I don't think it was smart of you to give me that kind of information. Think of what the bad guys could do if they knew your strength."

"You wouldn't hurt me Roman, you're not really that bad a guy," Ruby told him.

"Kid, you don't know what I would do," Roman told her.

Soon the sound of an airship could be heard, Ruby turned around and saw the ship that would take Roman away. Pretending to not notice the sound of Roman's hook launch she felt the back of her cloak being tugged back. Roman pulled as hard as he could throwing Ruby off the building back towards the dust shop.

Landing was no problem for her, and she could have even gone back the second she landed.

However Ruby knew that it would be for the best that Roman got away, for now. She watched as the airship made its escape, at least she kept him from stealing any of the dust.

Glynda arrived on the scene and saw that it was already too late to catch Roman and Cinder.

Ruby knew that knocking out a few low level adults would be enough to get Ozpin's attention and an excuse to let the Silver Eyed warrior into his school early.

Glynda took Ruby in for questioning.

Kisdota: So there you go, let's see if people like this.