Chapter 1

A/N Hello everyone this is a story idea I just haven't been able to get out of my head so I hope you enjoy. Before we begin though I want to make it Clear that some characters act a little ooc. Ozpin and Ruby are the most prominent of the examples and before you start complaining about IF YOU DON"T LIKE THE STORY DON"T READ IT DON"T COMPLAIN TO ME ABOUT IT! now that isn't to say constructive critisism isn't welcome because it is. on another note though I do apologize if some stuff does not make sense or something but I tried to think of a semi plausable way for this to actually take place but without further ado I hope you enjoy the story.

Ruby looked out the window of her current residence with a far away look in her eye. If she could Ruby would not change a thing of the past few years even if it meant she would be back at Beacon with her friends learning more to become a huntress. Now she was on the run from those she trusted and the system that failed her. She glanced back at the other occupants in the room. The first was a man in his late forties cleaning a wicked looking blade and whistling a sad tune, Xavier was his name and he had become like a father and mentor to her in the ways of the criminal underworld. Next was Jessica a black haired green eyed wolf faunus who was not so discreetly checking her out. Last and certainly least was Oliver the Blonde was napping on the couch snoring so loud it's surprising there hasn't been a noise complaint. A small smile graced Ruby's features, sure they weren't good people but they were there when it counted at least. Looking back out the window as she thought about the events that brought her here and even though they hurt she wouldn't change a thing..

Flashback (3 years ago)

Ruby was walking through the halls of beacon when she turned a corner and saw Emerald and her two team members Mercury and Cinder talking. She was about to call out to them because they hadn't noticed her yet but she stopped when she caught what Emerald was saying.

"Can't we just kill them all and be over with it yet?" Questioned Emerald to CInder.

"No and you know that just wait we will get our chance we just have to wait a little longer. Any News from Torchwick for when the train is ready?" Cinder asked.

"He said soon. I still can't believe that we're gonna actually let Grimm into the city though." Mercury said and Ruby hid around the corner and held in a gasp.

"Shut up idiot!" Cinder scolded, "what if someone heard that!?"

Gathering her courage and going against her better judgment Ruby Jumped around the corner and unsheathed Crescent Rose. "I did" Ruby exclaimed and ran at the trio swinging wildly. Blinded by rage she was feeling from what she heard she didn't notice the smirk on Cinder's face as she disarmed her and knocked her down.

"W-what how did she do that? I shouldn't have failed so easily." Ruby thought as she felt a kick to the back of her head. Her consciousness started fading and she saw what appeared to be a fourth person come up to the group the last thing she heard before passing out.

"Neo you know what to do." The next thing she knew she woke up in a jail cell.

Ruby looked around in confusion. "What am I doing here?" she questioned to the air.

"You Miss Rose, are hear for attacking three student's unprovoked." A voice said and Ruby looked up to see Ozpin coming around the corner.

"W-What!? I didn't do that they were planning something horrible I heard it." Ruby exclaimed hoping he believed her.

"The evidence proves otherwise." Ozpin said as he turned a Scroll toward Ruby. She saw what appeared to be a security camera feed that showed Cinder, Emerald and Mercury walking down the hall when a person that appeared to be her rushed around the corner and attacked them before a fourth person arrived just in time to stop her.

"What that's not me they were conspiring to unleash Grimm on Vale I swear." Ruby half yelled.

"So you're saying you didn't attack them?" He asked

"W-well I did but-" Ruby was cut off.

"Look miss Rose The video clearly shows you attacking these three student's unprovoked and you just admitted to attacking them, you're not exactly helping your case here." Ozpin explained.

"What but-" Ruby was cut off again.

"Miss Rose if what you say is true then I will look into it but the Haven headmaster is not seeing it that way and they may see fit to try to have you expelled you from Beacon and Bar you from becoming a Huntress so please tell the truth and I will see you at a later date your Lawyer will be here later to give you more details." With that he walked out.

Ruby couldn't believe what she had just heard Professor Ozpin didn't even believe her what hope would she have that anyone else would but at least she had her team they would surely believe her. Ruby waited for her lawyer and when he arrived he spent the better part of an hour trying to convince her to plead guilty though she was having none of it and sent him away. Later her team came to visit her and she was happy to see them though that didn't last long as they also tried to convince her.

"What! No I will not Plead Guilty." Ruby screamed.

"Just do it Rubes it will make things easier." Yang calmly replied. Ruby glanced over at her other two teammates who have yet to say a word but it appeared as if they were agreeing with Yang.

"No and that's final." Ruby said turning away from her team.

"Gods' dammit Ruby just do it you're lucky they only want you expelled you could go to jail!" Yang yelled.

"Only? No they won't only have me expelled but they will bar me from becoming a Huntress!" Replied Ruby.

"Maybe it's for the better." Muttered Weiss quietly but everyone in the room heard it.

"W-what?" Ruby asked as her vision blurred slightly from tears.

"Look Ruby i didn't mean-" Weiss was cut off.

"NO GET OUT, ALL OF YOU!" Ruby yelled at the top of her lungs making her team unconsciously take a step back.

"Ruby i'm sure Weiss didn't mean it." Yang said taking a step forward to place a comforting hand on her shoulder.

"I said get out." Ruby repeated in a deathly quiet voice that made her team comply. As soon as Ruby was alone she sank to her knees and cried.

Ruby sat in the courtroom with a look of total apathy on her face as she waited for the trial to end. Everyone knew how it would and she finally told her lawyer that she plead guilty so it should be over soon.

"Ruby Rose." The judge said and Ruby started paying attention again. "You are hereby expelled from Beacon academy and will be unable to become a Huntress due to your actions on fellow students." Ruby said nothing as she sat there and waited for everyone in the courtroom to file out. Inside her head she was already forming a plan on what to do once she was home. The courts may have ruled her unable to become a huntress but giving up fighting the bad in the world was something she just couldn't do. What she was planning may lead her down a path where she will walk the line of good and bad but really they were relative terms. She also knew what she was planning on doing was going to make some people close to her very sad but she saw it as her only option though for now she had to make it seem like she was pissed off so people would leave her alone.

"Hey kiddo let's head home." her father said leading the way out of the courthouse.

"Hn." Was all she said as she got in the back seat of her father's car. After a long ride to the airport and a short airship ride to patch then another short car trip she was finally home. Throughout the many hours of the trip back to Patch she hadn't said a word to her father.

When they arrived home Ruby went straight to her room but her father stopped her before she made it up the stairs. "Look sweetie I know that being a huntress was everything to you but this isn't the end of everything. Alright?" Taiyang reassured his daughter.

"Yes dad I know but I need time so I'm just gonna head to bed." Ruby said as she shrugged his hand off her shoulder. He said nothing as he watched her climb the stiars and enter her room.

Late in the dead of night with her father having been asleep for hours Ruby was writing the last of three letters the first two were to her old team and to her father. The one she was writing now was for anyone who wanted to read.

To Whomever it may concern

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference

-Robert Frost

She smiled as she finished the Poem by one of her favourite poets. She couldn't help but imagin the looks on her fathers face while he tries to figure out the meaning. Putting the note next to the others on the bed she grabbed her backpack filled with clothes, food and other supplies and Crescent Rose before sneaking out of her house and hightailing it to the nearest train tracks out of Patch. Ruby looked around as she sat in front of the open door of the train cart she was sitting in and took a deep breath today she would start a new life taking the path less traveled by and today she was going to become a sort of anti-hero because the system had failed her made her the bad guy well from now on she would be working outside of the system.

End Chapter 1