RU🅱️Y - King Ramses' Curse

King Ramses' Curse is the second Halloween Special and the second side-story of RU🅱️Y.
==Summary==
In the dead of the night, after stealing an Egyptian stone slab from the tomb of King Ramses, two Team Rocket grunts are fleeing from the scene of the crime in their car. Pursued by the police, the duo decides that the best course of action is to hide the slab, and return to its location once the authorities have given up the chase in order to retrieve it (for the sake of concealing any incriminating evidence). They pull over to bury the slab at the nearest landmark in sight, which is Beacon Academy's pillars. As they re-enter their vehicle in order to escape, they are confronted by King Ramses himself, who demands that his slab be returned lest the thieves suffer his curse. The confused thieves, unaware of the curse, do not have a chance to react before they are surrounded by a giant shadow, which quickly devour both them and the car. Puzzled by the scene, Ruby watches with curiosity from her team's dormitory, but does not investigate further.
The next morning, Ruby cannot contain her curiosity and unearths the slab. The slab contains symbols of Ramses, water, a record player, and locusts. Ruby shows it to her teammates, but Weiss dismisses the slab as "garbage" and tosses it to Yang's bed. However, Weiss' opinion changes after learning from Lisa Lavender that the stolen artifact is worth one million dollars. Ruby notices that the first symbol, the Ramses, disappears from the slab and tells her teammates about that. Weiss contacts Vale News Network to place an ad for the slab, despite Blake's condemnation of her behavior. Professor Kolorado arrives and tries to reclaim the slab, but Weiss refuses to give it up for free.
That night, the ghost of Ramses returns, and this time threatens Team RWBY. He orders Weiss to return the slab or she would be visited by three "plagues", each worse than the last. Weiss, believing that the ghost is the professor in disguise, gives the ghost her customary response of "What's your offer?" and then slams the window on the ghost when the ghost repeats himself. The ghost unleashes the first plague. The second representative symbol on the slab, the water, disappears, and the academy subsequently begins to fill up with water. While Blake, Ruby and Yang are drowning, Weiss uses her snorkel gear. Ruby swims to the amphiteather and pulls a drain stopper and all the water drains out from the academy thus defeating the first plague much to the ghost's annoyance. Unfazed by the ordeal, Weiss again refuses the ghost's request asking for an offer, initiating the second plague. Again, the representative symbol on the stone slab, the record player, disappears. A skipping record that repeatedly blares "King Ramses, the man in gauze," permeates the air, causing the team audible pain. Weiss alleviates the noise by plugging her ears using cotton, but leaves Blake and Yang suffering. Ruby finds the source of the noise somewhere, destroying the phonograph with Crescent Rose to stop the racket as Yang beats the shit out of the mummy because of her idiocy. King Ramses once again demands the return of his slab. Blake insists that Weiss return the slab, but Weiss still refuses to do so without getting paid.
The ghost then unleashes his third and final plague: the YouTube Copyright Strike. The final symbol disappears from the slab, and the ban symbol begin to delete the academy starting from the roof. As the academy is being banned from YouTube, Blake reads some books as a stress relief tactic. Ruby, Yang and Weiss wrestle over the slab. Weiss finally gives in once she realizes how close they are to being banned from YouTube, allowing Ruby to toss the artifact toward Ramses, which ends the curse. However, Weiss reclaims the slab after the claim had left and taunts Ramses, thinking that he, since he used three different plagues, is now powerless. Annoyed, Ramses simply reuses the third plague by summoning the Copyright again, and Weiss is deleted from YouTube.
Within the carnage in the wake of the copyright claim, Ruby, Blake and Yang are seen watching TV. On TV, Professor Kolorado explains to Lisa that the slab has been returned to the Pharaoh's tomb in Egypt and will remain protected for all time. The end of this episode shows the sarcophagus of King Ramses, where Weiss has now apparently replaced Ramses on the slab, as punishment for her greed.
==Transcript==
It is nighttime in Vale. A red car speeds down the road, driven by a pair of Team Rocket grunts. The car is being followed by a police helicopter.
Male Team Rocket Grunt: Faster! Drive faster! (shakes his partner) If they catch us with it, we are done for!
The female Team Rocket grunt slaps away her partner's hand and slams on the brakes. The car screeches to a halt near a pillar on Beacon Academy.
Male Team Rocket Grunt: What are you doing?!
The robbers exit the car and open the trunk, taking out an ancient object.
Female Team Rocket Grunt: You're right. We've got to hide the thing where we can find it later. There! (points to one of the pillars) In one of those white pillars.
The police chopper is closing in. Its searchlight sweeps back and forth across the road, seeking the members of Team Rocket. The thieves bury their loot: a large stone slab, yellow with age. As they fill the hole in, the chopper draws closer still. The thieves hurry back to their getaway vehicle.
Female Team Rocket Grunt: We'll come back for it when the heats off.
Male Team Rocket Grunt: (buckling his seat belt) And we'll be rich!
Female Team Rocket Grunt: (looking down the road) Hey! What happened to the road?
The screen of your PC crashes. Team Rocket' car is approached by a person. We can't see this person, but we can see their shadow on the hood of the car. The thieves look shocked.
Mysterious figure: Return the slab or suffer my curse.
Male Team Rocket Grunt: Curse?
Female Team Rocket Grunt: What curse?
A buzzing noise is heard as a massive black block approaches them. The Team Rocket grunts scream as the block cover their car. The sounds of buzzing and metal grinding are heard as the camera pans over to show a part of Beacon Academy. After a few seconds the sounds stop, and the camera pans back over to the road. The black block is gone, and it have consumed Team Rocket and their car. Only tire skid marks remain on the yard as the police chopper passes by, still searching for the grave robbers. At Team RWBY's dormitory, Ruby is looking out the window.
Ruby: What's going on out there?
The next day, Ruby digs up outside. She is next to the pillar the slab is buried, standing on the recently disturbed dirt. She starts digging and unearths the stone slab. On the front of the slab are 4 images: King Ramses, water waves, a phonograph, and a locust.
Ruby: Huh?
Inside the academy, Weiss, Blake and Yang are relaxing in near their beds. There is a knock at the door and Yang goes to answer. She opens the door and it's Ruby. She is carrying the slab in her arms.
Yang: Yo Ruby! What's up? (She takes the slab from Ruby) Oh, my. This looks very old.
Team RWBY looks at the slab out of curiosity.
Ruby: (O-S) What do you suppose it could be?
Weiss: Let me have the privilege to check it. (grabs the slab and inspects it) Well, judging by the markings and the obvious age of the relic, I'd have to say it would be... garbage! (throws the slab to Yang's bed)
Ruby: (O-S) Weiss!
Weiss: Garbage! From King Garbage of the Garbage Dynasty. Stupid dolt. Always bringing garbage into the academy.
A special Vale News Network report has started on tv. Lisa Lavender shows a picture of the slab Weiss just tossed.
Lisa: But the big story today... Million-dollar slab stolen from the Tomb of King Ramses.
Weiss: Wait what!? (goes to Yang's bed and returns with the slab on her arms) I'm riiiiiiiich!
Blake: But the anchorwoman says it was stolen, Weiss. My feline senses don't feel something good coming from this, we must return it to its rightful place.
Weiss: She said a million-dollar slab, and that means I get a million dollars. And you know what a million dollars means.
As Blake talks, Ruby is still looking at the slab. The image of Ramses magically vanishes. Ruby wides her eyes in a cartoony way in her panic.
Blake: (O-S) Would you stop thinking about getting richer than you are now and think about the weight of the situation that the slab will bring us if we do not return it soon to the tomb of King Ramses?
Ruby: Guys... I think something weird happened to the slab...
Weiss uses her Scroll and dials a number. Ruby looks at Weiss worried and frustrated.
Weiss: Vale News Network? I want to put an ad in the news. (Lisa Lavender talks, but we only hear babbles from the other side of the phone) Yes, ma'am. You start running that ad right away.
Yang looks out of the window.
Yang: Wow how quick! Someone's already here.
Later, Team Ruby goes outside to recieve the man, which is a Koopa with archeologist outfit.
Weiss: What's your offer?
Kolorado: I am Professor Kolorado of the Institute of the Pharaoh. I've come to retrieve the slab.
Blake: You see, Weiss? We told you it was stolen.
Weiss: (laughs sarcastically) Ha ha ha! What's your offer?
Kolorado: Ma'am, the Institute for the Pharaoh is member-supported. But for every million-dollar donation, you'll receive this sporty tote bag with our thanks. (He presents everyone with a yellow and orange tote bag and smiles.)
Yang: Yyyyyyyeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhh...
Weiss: HAH! How 'bout no?
Later that night, a ominous fog is surrounding the academy. Inside, Ruby and Yang are in the latter's bed hugging themselves in fear. Blake is resting on her bed with her arms crossed in frustration and Weiss is in her bed, holding the slab close to her chest, rocking back and forth and muttering to herself. Her teammates looks concerned at her behavior.
Weiss: Rich, rich, rich, rich, rich. Pretty dresses, tons of make-up, a house in Miami, the whole country in my hands, more Dust for my weapon.
The window starts to rattle. Ruby screams with worry. Blake looks at Weiss in frustration for a while, Weiss gets up, holding the slab, and opens the window. After looking around in the fog, Weiss finally sees their visitor: the ghost of King Ramses.
King Ramses: Return the slab.
Weiss: (shocked) HAH WHAT!?
King Ramses: Return the slab or suffer my curse.
Weiss: What's your offer?!
King Ramses: This night, you will be visited by 3 plagues, each worse than the last. Return the slab.
Weiss: Hah! Nice try, Professor. (slams the window) Who's he kidding? I can see the zipper on that cheap dime store costume.
As Weiss speaks, Ruby looks at the slab in her arms. The picture of the water vanishes, causing Ruby to scream again. There is a clap of thunder, and a single drop of water lands on Ruby's nose.
Yang: Ruby, did you leave the tub running?
Great torrents of water burst of from all around the dormitory. The academy is being flooded. Ruby, Yang and Blake are trying to keep their heads above water as levels reach the ceiling. Blake and Yang screams as the water level rises.
Ruby: Where's Weiss when you need her?
Ruby looks at Weiss underwater with a snorkel and flippers on, still clutching the slab.
Ruby: (Angry) Well, looks like is up to me now!
Ruby takes a deep breath and dives under, past Weiss and out of the dormitory. She makes her way down the hallway, gym, and into the amphitheater. In the center of the amphitheater floor is a drain plug, much like one for a bathtub. Ruby swims over to it and starts to pull. After a moment, she dislodges the plug, causing the water to go down the basement drain. Ruby frantically swims away from the suction. All the water gets sucked down, and Ruby starts jumping like a fish out of the water. Back outside, King Ramses is still standing in the front yard.
King Ramses: Oh, come on.
Back in the dormitory, there are still puddles and water dripping from the walls and ceiling. Blake and Yang pants for air, but they and Weiss are otherwise unharmed.
King Ramses: Return the slab.
Weiss: (shouting out the window) What's your offer?!
King Ramses raises up his arms, starting the next plague. The picture of the phonograph on the slab vanishes.
Upbeat pop music starts to play. "The Man in Gauze" is being broadcast all over the area, causing Yang to scream and cover her ears while Blake clings on the ceiling and started shivering in fear when she had jumped like a cat. Weiss pulls large cotton balls out of nowhere and puts them in her ears to block out the music. Ruby stops jumping like a fish and exits the amphitheater, also covering her ears.
Blake: (still in the ceiling and shaking and shivering in fear) Yang! Do something!
Yang stays silent for a few second, then gains a brave personality.
Yang: It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum, but I'm all out of gum.
Yang punches the door and runs outside, as Ruby search for the source of the noise, Yang, in her stupidity, goes staight to King Ramses and beats the shit out of him, believing that he IS the source of the noise.
Yang: Whew.
Blake, still on the ceiling, look at the window disappointed of Yang.
Blake: Really niga?
King Ramses gets up and waves his arms weirdly. Weiss and Blake, whom latter lands back on the floor, watch from the window.
King Ramses: (O-S) Return the slab.
Blake: Weiss, what are you waiting for? Till we're 6 feet under?
Weiss: (opens the window and yells out of it) All right, but a million's as low as I'll go.
Ramses raises his arms again, poised to unleash the last plague. The image of the locust from the slab vanishes. As Ruby makes her way back towards the dormitory, she encounters her older sister.
Yang: Easy breezy i have stopped the song!
Ruby screams again, Yang turns around to see what is she screaming at
Yang: What!?
YouTube's copyright strike appears, Ruby and Yang runs screaming into the dormitory.
Yang: RUN BITCH, RUUUUUUNNNNNN!!!
The copyright strike pass through many places of Beacon Academy, leaving remains as it moves to the next location. The copyright symbol appears near the upper floor, ready to ban everything and everyone inside.
King Ramses: Return the slab.
Blake runs screaming into the library. Weiss, Yang and Ruby are fighting over the slab; each tries to pull it towards themselves in a two-on-one fight. The copyright symbol goes to the roof and start to delete it.
King Ramses: Return the slab.
Weiss, Yang and Ruby are still fighting.
Weiss: Let go!
The copyright symbol keeps banning the upper floor.
King Ramses: Return the slab.
Blake is in the library, reading up a frenzy. In a matter of seconds, she changes pages from her book, either trying to calm herself down, or knowing she's about to read her last book. In the dormitory, Ruby, Yang and Weiss are still fighting over the slab, but they are interrupted by the copyright symbol. It have breached the ceiling on the upper floor and is slowly approaching Team RWBY.
Copyright symbol: Helloooooo!
Ruby, Yang and Weiss screams in shock.
Weiss: Ok, ok, you can have it!
Ruby takes the slab and throws it out the window. It sails like a Frisbee across the yard and lands off screen. The copyright symbol immediately stop and disappears. We can see the wreckage of the top of the academy. The copyright symbol have banned the entire top floor and about half of Team RWBY's dormitory. Ruby pants as she, Yang and Weiss look up at the sky where the copyright symbol was. In the library, Blake sighs with relief and faints, falling face first into the floor. Cut back to Ruby, Yang and Weiss in the dormitory.
Ruby: (falls to her knees) Whew! Oh...
Weiss: NOOO! I can't believe I did that. (rushes outside to where the slab landed, then picks it up and hugs it) It's mine! Eh?
Weiss looks over and sees that King Ramses is now standing a foot away from her.
Weiss: That's 3 plagues. You're outta ammo, mister. (snickers) And don't think you think you can come around here pushing no tote bags on us neither.
Ramses doesn't move, but the fact that the buzzing starts back up indicates his displeasure with the situation. YouTube's copyright strike is back and approaching Weiss.
Weiss: What's your offer?
King Ramses: Return the slab.
Weiss: (as YouTube's copyright strike descend upon her) Aaaaah!
The following day, the sun rises over the still-destroyed academy. Ruby, Yang and Blake are watching the tv. And who else is being interviewed by Lisa Lavender but Professor Kolorado.
Kolorado: (to Lisa) At last, the allegedly cursed slab has been returned to King Ramses' crypt, where it will remain buried in antiquity for all time.
Blake: I wonder where Weiss is.
Cut to the interior of Ramses' crypt. It is a room made of gold, with ancient egyptian drawings in the inside and a door leading to outside of his crypt. In the center is Ramses' sarcophagus, made of marble. The slab that had been broken off has been returned to its original state, but with a significant change. The image of Ramses has been replaced with that of a creepily standing Weiss.
Weiss: (echoing, from offscreen) Aah! What's your offer?
An iris-out appear as the video ends.
==Characters==
===Major Characters===
*Ruby Rose
*Weiss Schnee
*Yang Xiao Long
*Blake Belladonna
*King Ramses (Debut)
*Professor Kolorado (Debut)
===Minor Characters===
*Team Rocket Grunts
*Lisa Lavender
==Songs Used==
*King Ramses' Theme
*Pomp and Circumstance - Sir Edward Elgar
*King Ramses' Song
==Trivia==
*This is the first RU🅱️Y video to be dubbed.
*This episode, along with The Day TheGamerLover Becomed a Fat Fetish Channel, are the most viewed TGLMU / RU🅱️Y episodes as of now.
==References==
==Memes==
==Image Gallery==
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Category:Side Stories
Category:Season 1
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Category:Halloween Specials