Volume 9 Chapter 1: A Place of Particular concern

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Narrator: This is the story of a girl, who had a lot of problems...

The screen remains black, sounds of an explosion are muted before eyes blink to Ruby's point of view of what happened in the Evacuation Central Location. Team RWBY and SRM and Penny turn to find an explosion caused by Cinder and Izolatte. Ruby panics as the evacuees run in fear before quickly blinking, transitioning in black.

Yang: Ruby!

The scene transitions to Neopolitan attempting to attack Ruby, but she was tackled out of the way by Zeke, who took the brunt of Neopolitan's slash and broke his Aura. Ruby then constantly blinks in a panic as she watches Zeke being thrown backward, tumbling bodily over the platform. Later, Ruby helplessly tries to reach Crescent Rose, but watches it slide over the edge and falls into the abyss. Later, Ruby is clinging onto Neo's ankle as Cinder glares down on them. Ruby's Silver Eyes are seen glowing faintly.

Cinder: And you... should have never been born...

Cinder uses the Staff to smash Neo's hand, causing her to lose her grip and fall. Ruby starts to fall with her, and the glow from her eyes disappears. After Ruby falls down, Blake holds Ruby while swinging Gambol Shroud to back up to the platform, but its ribbon gets burned off by Cinder. Ruby helplessly watches Blake fall before disappearing into the abyss.

Ruby opens her eyes to find herself surrounded by floating red balls. She looks down to her hand encoated by one of them before it begins floating from her hand. Ruby then sees Neo delivering a punch at her.

Ruby tries to defend herself as she grabs Neo by both of her hands

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Ruby tries to defend herself as she grabs Neo by both of her hands. Neo tries to grab Ruby by the neck as Ruby pushes Neo's hand away from her. Neo uses her Semblance to transform into Oscar, and roughly pulls her hands away from Ruby. Neo glares as she transforms into Yang as Ruby defends herself. Neo punches away Ruby's hands and grabs them, again transforming into Penny. Ruby struggles as Neo armlocks her, strangling her. Ruby almost loses her breath but she breaks free from Neo by kicking her legs backwards. Ruby tumbles over and watches Neo in the distance as they both fall through the clouds.
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Out of focus shore, beach, trees and cliff stretches into the distance.

Penny: Ruby!.... Ruby!..... Ruby!

Ruby bolts upwards, panting moments before surveying the area. Large conch shells and six-armed starfish intermittently dot a sand-colored beach that seems to stretch for miles in either direction. In the distance, Ruby sees two very intact moons seemingly orbiting each other as they slowly orbit... wherever she is. Ruby stands up and wrings out the water from her cloak.

Directly in front of her, sits a tropical albeit equally strange forest. The palm trees form odd bulbous shapes, some wrap around each other while others appear to be two or three trees stacked together. The tree in the center, however, is enormous towering over the distance.

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