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boWhen Salem attacked Atlas, Atlas joined with team RWBY to defeat the great evil at the cost of minor repercussions.
But perhaps, I wonder, might there have been a different outcome? If no alliance had formed, If Ironwood’s determination had carried him to victory, how different would the fate of our girls be?
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Ruby Rose sits in her cell. Her weapon had been taken away and her hands hand been strictly cuffed behind her back. She was still in her standard battle outfit but all of her pouches and gear had been removed leaving just her base outfit. It had all happened so fast. They’d tried to run but the ace ops were on them, and they never stood a chance. They’d tried to save Mantle but just ended up here. Ruby felt so frustrated at her failure. Now she sat in this cell while the general decided what to do with her and her friends.
Eventually, her cell door opens and four armed Atlas drones enter her cell followed by a masked solider wheeling a gurney. “On your feet.” The solider commands.
“This is wrong! What the general is do…”
“Silence inmate.” The soldier barks. He approaches Ruby and unfastens her cuffs. No sooner is she free of them, however, is she thrust towards the gurney where new cuffs are applied to hold her in place. These new restraints go over her: Wrists, ankles, stomach and neck. The young huntress is left with very little movement. Ruby struggles. “Please. We were trying to help.” The soldier does not bother with a response. He simply reaches for his belt and tears off an adhesive strip which he firmly plants over Ruby’s mouth. “mpfpff!” Ruby pleads with her silver eyes but the solider is already wheeling her away.
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Ruby is wheeled into a lab-like room with a large pod set off to the side. Off in the corner was a sectioned off cubicle and to the side was a table full of various bondage implements. The adhesive strip is ripped from her mouth painfully and she’s turned to face General Ironwood who is sat in a chair. “I tried to trust you, Ruby.” His voice is flat, cold. “I let you keep the relic. I trusted you about Robyn. I gave you your licenses. So why?”
“You were going to abandon Mantle. We couldn’t let you…”
“I had to save the people I could! I’m the general. My job is to make the hard decisions! I’m sorry if that upsets you but in war, you cannot save everyone!”
“We had to try.” Ruby looks into the general’s eyes to see a sad, broken man. Crippled by the burden he carried. Ironwood lets out a sigh. “I will give you one more chance. Please, join me. Together we can…”
“No.” Ruby shakes her head. “You’re a monster.”
“Maybe I am.” Ironwood slowly rises from his chair. “But I’m not the one who lied. What happens next, is the consequences of your actions, and your actions alone.” He stands by the doorway, taking one last look back at one of Ozpin’s prized students. “I’m sorry it came to this.” Then he’s gone.
One of the doctors in the room approaches Ruby with a needle who struggles frantically but is unable to stop the injection with immediately starts to make her feel… drowsy… Her eye lids start to get heavier and heavier until she drifts away.
When the sedative takes effect, one of the doctors ensures she is asleep then turns to the others. “We have three minutes hand me the stitches.”
“Here you go.” One of the other doctors hands him a box. “Fresh from the R and D team.” Atlas had been looking into new ways of keeping a prisoner quiet. Their eventual solution was the contents of this tiny box: dust stiches. Tiny thread coated in dust to make they near unbreakable. They worked by attaching themselves to a person’s aura and would be completely unremovable until the persons aura was broken at which point, they would simply fall away without even leaving a mark. The stitches in the box were about two centimetres long and about two millimetres thick. The doctor puts on his special gloves and picks up a pair of tweezers. He carefully takes the first stitch and positions it at the corner of Ruby’s mouth. The moment the end makes contact with her aura, it fuses on settles. The second end is brought down over her mouth and fused in place. A second stitch is brought towards her and applied so that it crosses the first stitch in an ‘X’ pattern. More and more stitches are applied over her mouth in a criss-cross pattern with each new stitch greatly reducing how much Ruby would be able to open her mouth. By the time the final stitch is applied, eight total crosses had been applied over her mouth and when the doctor tries to open her mouth, they’re pleased to find that her mouth can no longer even a single millimetre with stitches that she had no way of removing. The doctor sets the box down while they all wait for the girl to wake up so they could move on to the next stage of her imprisonment.
Ruby’s eyes slowly begin to open. “mmmm…” She groans while trying to set up only to be met with a reminded of how tightly bound she was. Her eyes shift to the doctors. “mpfpfff mpfppffgf… mfpgpfdpff?” She tries to open her mouth only to find something holding it. With a smirk on their face, one of the doctors holds a mirror to Ruby’s face allowing her to see the stitches keeping her mouth closed. “Mpfpfpfpff!” her eyes widen with horror and she begins to frantically struggle to the slight amusement of those around her. The doctors allow her to simply wear herself out until she slows down. “This next step you’ll have to do yourself.”
“Mpf?”
“You need to change into your new suit. You’re going to have to strip naked to put it on. You can use that cubicle in the corner to change.” He places a hand of one of her wrist cuffs. “Don’t try anything stupid, got it?”
“Mpf…” Ruby gives a resigned nod.
“Good girl.” The doctor’s face is consumed with a smug aura. Ruby’s head falls back as her restraints are removed. She doubted this would be for long, but it was a nice feeling for now. She steps off the gurney and is immediately handed a folded-up outfit and a metal belt. “Put the belt on first.” The doctor steps away. “You need to be mostly naked for the suit to work. We’ll know if you try and weasel out. It only gets worse for you if you resist.”
“Mpf…” Ruby stares over at the cubicle and begins her approach. She couldn’t believe she was doing this but if she disobeyed now, what would happen to her friends? To Yang? She wasn’t willing to risk that, so she chose to comply.
Inside the cubicle was simply a bench and a mirror. Ruby looked at her sewn up mouth. “mpfpff…” She tried with all her might to open her mouth, but it was no use. She had officially lost the use of her mouth. “Mppfff…” She sighs. The general had lost his mind but now she had no way of helping him. How could she help anyone like this?
Ruby reluctantly begins to remove her gloves, then her corset. She moves on to her skirt which reveals her red panties through her tights. Next, off comes her top exposing her matching bra. “Mpf…” She blushes as she catches a glimpse of herself in the mirror. Finally, she removes her tights leaving her in only her bra and panties. She sighs and then picks up the metal belt. It didn’t look like much. It just looked that a metal band with padding on the inside that would go around her waist. Still, she didn’t have a choice in the matter so on it went. The belt clicks into place around her waist. Ruby looks down at it when it suddenly starts to vibrate. Panels fold out going between her legs and basically forming a pair of metal panties. There is a sudden, very strong blast of air inside the belt that completely destroys Ruby’s regular panties and removes them. “mppfff.” Ruby jumps, trying to grab the metal contraption but it retracts itself until it’s pressed to tightly against herself for her to be able to remove it. What are they doing? Ruby thinks to herself while heading towards the main outfit. Then… Suddenly, a girthy plug extends out from the belt and goes right up her butt. “Mpfffffffff!” Ruby yelps. The feeling is repeated when a second plug suddenly shoots up into her other hole. “Mppfpffffff!” She pulls at the metal belt in a desperate attempt to get these plugs out of her. How will I Pee like this? She thinks to herself. “mfgmmfmgmfmgmfrrrr!” She tries to pull the belt off but it’s no use. “Mpff…” She whines. She would have to put the new outfit on over the belt.
Ruby walks jerkily over to the outfit. It looked like it was latex and appears as though it would cover up everything below the neck. Ruby nervously inspects the outfit to see if any other hidden plugs were going to shoot out. She couldn’t see any and so she nervously began to put the suit one. The material clings to her skin as she tries to slide her legs into place. She pulls the material up her let until her feet meet the end of the bodysuit, covering her just like a pair of latex stockings. Material glides up her legs and Ruby prepares to move on to her arms. She slips her arms into the sleeves and works her fingers into the gloves. She repeats the process for her second arms and the moment she does, the blast that had claimed her panties, returns to claim her bra which flies out in tatters behind her. at the same time, the zip on her back begins to move up its track while at the same time, squirting out a special glue along the zip and on the extra piece of material to fix the zip and seal over the zip to prevent tampering. At the end of its track, the zipper breaks out leaving the glue to set and track the young huntress inside. “Mpff.” Ruby jolts at the shock of everything happening at once, barely even processing the fact that she now had no way of getting out of this suit.
Ruby looks at herself in the mirror. The suit was skintight and made movement was a slight struggle in certain areas. If she looked closely, she could just about make out her nipple through the suit which made her face fill with embarrassment. Looking behind her, she saw the way the material hugged her rear. Knowing this was how she looked, Ruby had reservations about going back out to the doctors. Still, there was no way out of here, no vents in this cubicle and upon her arrest she been injected with a chip that would shock her if she tried to use her semblance so that wasn’t an option. All she could do was do what the general ordered and pray he had a change of heart. Feeling her heartrate quickening and legs starting to shake as the gravity of her situation set in, Ruby Rose prepare to face her fate with as much dignity as she could. Steeling her breath, Ruby leaves the cubicle.
Outside, the doctors are waiting. One of them has a screen that’s reading Ruby’s biometric data through nanomachines in the suit she was wearing. All of them glance over at Ruby who nervously looks around the game. One of the doctors goes back to the table of Bondage implements. “Stand here.” He points.
Ruby is presented with a pair of small leather mittens. Ruby had seen her sister messing around with them before so she knew what they were but never thought this would be how she ended up trying them. “Your hands.” The doctor orders. Ruby presents her hand as the first mitten is brought over her hand. The buckle is pulled tight. The doctor reaches for the table and picks up a small welding rod is used to fuse the buckle shut so the mitten can now no longer be removed. The mitten held Ruby hand in a padded sleeve that prevented her from having any use of her hand but was not particularly uncomfortable. While she’s transfixed on her now useless hand, the doctor takes her other hand and repeats the process, completely removing Ruby’s use of her hands. Ruby rubs her mittened hands together, neither mitten shifting at all. The doctor tugs at the mittens to make sure they don’t come off and gives a satisfied nod.
The neutralised huntress watches on as the next item of her eternal confinement was chosen. The chosen item ends up being a white leather straitjacket. The jacket is opened and held out. “Put your arms through the sleeves.”
“mpf…” Ruby submits the use of her arms as she allows the sleeve to be pulled over her arms. The material just like her current outfit, was formfitting and very tight although the added layer of her suit did mean that while is made movement somewhat awkward, it was not uncomfortable, just like her mittens. It seems that even though she was essentially being bound so she could be forgotten about, care was being taken to avoid unnecessary discomfort which was something at least. With her arms fulling in the sleeves, the straps are pulled to close the jacket behind her. The straps are pulled taut and just like with the mittens, the buckles are fused shut. With the jacket fixed on, Ruby’s arms are guided into a self-hug position in front of her. the sleeves’ straps are brought together and promptly fused. A strap on the front of the jacket is then brought down over her arms to further hold them in their current position and fused just like everything else. Ruby tugs and pulls at the jacket but nothing gives and the young girl is still inescapably bound. Beyond just her hands, Ruby Rose had lost the use of her entire upper body at this point. The doctors give a series of firm tugs at the straps to ensure they would hold. They proceed to take a step back, ready for the next stage.
Ruby watches as the glass pod she had seen in the corner of the room as wheeled towards her. it’s a long glass pod with an area where she’s clearly meant to lie. From what Ruby had been told, she would be laid down in this pod and a special liquid rubber would be poured over her and totally encase her. after that. She would be taken out of the pod and transferred to a prisoner storage wing to be forgotten. Unless the general changed his mind, Ruby knew she was never leaving that room now. The lid of the pod is opened and the platform for her to lie on extends out to give space for Ruby to sit down. “Please be seated whilst I restrain your legs.” The doctor picks up a military grade leg binder with more buckles just like her jacket. At this point, what could Ruby do other than watch them taker her legs just like they had her arms. The sleeve goes all the way from her ankles to the middle of her thighs. That now all too familiar sound of buckles being welded buzzing in the once heroine’s ears. She tries to pull her legs apart or even at least shift them wound each other but the legbinder was tight enough that you could see her thighs bulge slightly over the top.
The doctors check the reading on their monitor to ensure Ruby’s health was stable. Satisfied with the results, they feel safe moving on. Inside a small box sit a set of opaque silver contact lenses designed to blind the wearer. These lenses are presented to the bound Ruby. “This are going over your eyes. You will not feel anything. Okay?”
“mppfpmpf…” Ruby nervously nods her head. Before she can even finish, a hand grabs her head to hold it still while the lenses are lined up and lowered down towards her eyes, gradually cutting off the huntress’ vison more and more until the lens was fitted over her eye and all sight in that eye was blocked. Without releasing the grip on her head, the second lens I placed over Ruby’s other eye. Darkness was now the only thing that surrounded Ruby Rose now. Not content with simply a single layer of blinding, a large metal blindfold is produced, this one also designed with cups that would sit over the wearer’s ears. The blindfold slides into place with a cut-out for her nose that would prevent it from sliding out of place. It was also the piece that was going to keep the rubber from getting in her nostrils. Ruby blindly looks around, nervous at the hands she could sense hovering around her head. The earpieces extend a small tube into Ruby’s ears where it quickly begins to ooze liquid rubber which fills each of Ruby’s ears, rapidly setting and creating an air-tight seal that preventing any sound reaching the girl. Mute. Blind. Immobile. Deaf. There was nothing left for Ruby Rose. However, this was not the end. More was still to come.
“mfpfpff.” Panic consumes the senseless girls and hands grab and shift her bound form so she is down lying on her back on the bed. She feels the bed sliding back into the pod. She lies there a moment, theorising that the pod cast currently being sealed so they could encase her. an anti-gravity field opens inside the pod, this would levitate the girl is the air and ensure that all sides would receive an even coating of the liquid rubber and ensure that there were no structural weaknesses that Ruby might be able to exploit in order to escape her binds. “mpffff.” The words escape Ruby’s mouth but all they are to her now are vibrations in her throat. Had she been able to see, she’d have noticed the doctors preparing the activate the machine. Constant tapping at monitors and readouts calculating a variety of probabilities. Once the rubber set, the conductive rubber would be able to provide nutrients to the young girl while also being able to manage bodily fluids meaning that once all was said and done there would be no reason to ever remove the traitor to Atlas from her rubber prison. The final calculations process, the procedure ready to progress. One of the doctors opens a communications line to Ironwood. “General, all readings are green. The prisoner is ready for humane encasement storage. Requesting permission to proceed.”
“Permission granted. Thank you.” The general nods. His cold glassy eyes unnerving the doctors slightly. “Please proceed.” The line cuts off.
“You heard the general.” The doctors return to their screens to make the final preparations.
A green light above Ruby’s pod begins to pulse. The sound of whirring gears fills the room as the canisters of liquid rubber below the pod is extracted through a pipe. A metal mould raises from the base of the body and encloses around the subject inside to ensure the rubber could properly take shape. The thick liquid oozes into the mould, it’s cold embrace finally alerting Ruby as to what was happening. She doesn’t resist. There was nothing she could do anymore. Her dreams of being a hero like her mother ended here. The rubber slowly enveloped her as is filled more and more of the mould. Luckily for her, the rubber was filled with thousands of nanomachines that were allowed air to pass through so even as the rubber climbed over her face, she had little trouble breathing. Ruby felt grateful for now that her eyes were covered so she wouldn’t have to deal with getting rubber in her eyes. The last of the rubber drips into place and immediately, the tap closes and air is rapidly circulated around the mould to set the rubber. The process takes about eight minutes in total at which point the fan deactivates and the mould retracts revealing a perfect cocoon. Looking at it, it retained the basic shape of a human however no identifiable feature that would reveal who was inside could be made out. The rubber cocoon floats in the anti-gravity. For no other reason than curiosity, Ruby struggles as hard as she can but beneath the thick rubber, her movement very restricted so heavily that they were only just noticeable to the eye. “…” a faint whimper can be heard if you listen closely, the rubber further silencing a voice that had already been taken away. The anti-gravity is slowly deactivated, lowering the cocoon down back onto the bed.
There a hiss let out as the pod is broken, breaking the previous airtight seal. A stretcher is wheeled in by a doctor and a prison guard. “You lot done?”
“Yep. Take her away.” The lead doctor throws himself back into her chair as the two people lift the cocoon onto the stretcher ready for immediate transfer. Satisfied that his day was over for her, he turns to his co-workers. “You lot wanna hit the bar?” the relief gives way to a sigh as he slowly remembers there were still three more girls to go through all this with over the next few days. “I think we’ve all earned a drink.” He watches on with disinterest as a girl who only wanted to do the right think is carted away bound so thoroughly and tightly that it would likely take an excavation team if the general ever decided to let her out. Still, that’s what you get for defying direct orders and inciting violence against the person in charge. At the end of the day, that girl had no one to blame for her current predicament but herself.
**
The trolley is wheeled into a dimly lit storehouse. Lining the walls were a series of human sized tubes with transparent fronts revealing they had padded interiors that would keep the prisoner in place but was also soft enough that it had no risk of damaging the rubber. The doctor approaches the nearest free pod and begins to type in the prisoner's information. The system brings up Ruby Rose’s file and the screen displays all the biometric data being broadcast by the suit. This included her heartrate, her breathing patterns, her blood pressure and brain activity. The system was programmed to report any major changes to any of these readings however beyond that, this monitor would take care of everything else. Even if she were to manage to bite her tongue, a sedative would be quickly administered and healing gel would be transferred through the nanomachines to keep her alive. This was it. No way out.
The pod door opens and the rubber cocoon is lifted from the stretcher and hoisted into the body where the density of the padding is adjusted until is snugly envelopes the sides keeping her freestanding. Faint wiggles and jerks indicate the poor girl is still struggling to break free, likely with the true weight of what was about to happen starting to set it and triggering one final burst to try and escape. But it was too late. She was trapped. The door to the pod closes and a welding torch is used to ensure arrangement was permanent. The prison guard notes to himself staring at her through the lid, she looks like a children’s action figure in a box.
Ruby, unaware of where she even was any more, continues her futile struggles. Then… a buzz… the plugs inside her slowly began buzzing. The vibrations continue, building a fire within the huntress building and build until… it instantly cuts off. “mpfpfpf?” The frustrated prisoner complains. Time passes. The feeling subsides. Then… the vibrations return. Again, building and building only to cut off just before Ruby could feel the satisfaction of finishing. This fate now. Bound. Encased. Edged constantly. The staff were long gone by now, leaving the pod alone. The rubber cocoon formerly known as ‘Ruby Rose’ had been sealed away. Both physically, and from the collective conscience of Remnant as a whole. No one knew she was here, and no one was ever coming to set her free.
The end.
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