Ruby Rose vs Maka Albarn

Ruby Rose vs Maka Albarn is the eighteenth episode of Fiction V. Fiction, featuring Ruby Rose from ***RWBY***, and Maka Albarn from ***Soul Eater***.

## Interlude

Out of every weapon that exists out in the world of both reality and fiction, I think we can all agree that the scythe is one of the most badass weapons out there. It's the Grimm Reaper's choice of weapon, after all. And today, we'll be covering two of fiction's best scythe wielders. Who just happen to be your everyday not-so-everyday high schoolers.

Ruby Rose

The silver-eyed leader of team RWBY

And

Maka Albarn

The scythe meister of Death Academy from Soul Eater

I'm Aipom and today I'm here to determine who between these two characters could win a match of Fiction V. Fiction!

## Ruby Rose

(Cue: RWBY Opening 1 Full)

The world of Remnant. Cities left in ruin and abandoned, monsters called grimm roaming the world, and taking the meaning of a multi-tool to a new level. To help combat the grimm rampaging over the world, schools were made to train students to be hunters and huntresses while wielding weapons that act as both a melee weapon and a gun. Anything from gauntlets, spears, or even a trumpet. One of these schools was known as Beacon Academy. And one young girl would end up becoming one of Beacon's most skilled students: Ruby Rose.

Ruby was born to Taiyang Xiao Long and Summer Rose, who passed away shortly after. She grew up with her father and her older half-sister, Yang Xiao Long, as well as train under her Uncle Crow. Summer Rose was a huntress, and this inspired Ruby to follow in her footsteps and become a huntress, to be like the heroes in fairy tales.

Ruby even made her own weapon thanks to some inspiration from Crow, Crescent Rose. Crescent Rose is a hybrid between a scythe and a sniper rifle, and she loves it as if it was her own child. Crescent Rose can change it's form between a scythe and a rifle, however Ruby can still use it like a rifle in it's scythe form.

Crescent Rose fires high-powered shots with high recoil, which Ruby uses to her advantage to increase her mobility and striking force. But when regular bullets aren't enough, Ruby can load magazines of different types of dust, which is used as an energy source in Remnant.

Ruby likes to use three different types of dust. Fire dust to ignite targets, lightning dust fires electricity that can shock it's targets, and gravity dust greatly increases Crescent Rose's kickback to it's shots, letting Ruby fly around and cut through Grimm like a hot knife through butter.

Her skills with a scythe as big as herself, along with helping to stop a robbery and chance meeting with Ozpin, got her into Beacon Academy just two years earlier than most students.

At Beacon, Ruby sharpened her skills a good bit, and was even assigned by Ozpin to be the leader of team RWBY. That name definitely wouldn't get confusing. But despite Ruby's naivety due to her younger age, Ruby's been able to take down several beowolves, decapitate a Nevermore, dodged gunfire, and ate 15 cookies in 10 seconds.

Ruby specialises in speed, quite literally in fact. In the world of Remnant, every living creature but grimm has an aura. Aura is the manifestation of the soul, and hunters weaponize their own. Aura can heal minor or even fatal wounds. And with each aura, there's a semblance. Semblance is the projection of aura, and each one is unique. Unless you're a Schnee. But Ruby's semblance is called Speed, or the more fitting name, Petal Burst. Speed turns Ruby into a cloud of rose petals and dash around at high speeds. She can change her trajectory mid-dash, split into multiple clouds, and pick up others. Though the semblance's healing doesn't make Ruby invincible, and the semblance can break if Ruby takes too much damage.

And like I said, Ruby's specialty is speed. One time, in a food fight, Ruby ran so fast that she made a slipstream that sucked up almost everything in the cafeteria, even making large cracks in the wall behind her from the wind pressure. To be able to pull off such a speed feat, would be literally impossible. But for the wind to crack the wall that much, the wind would've have to be moving as fast as lightning. Which isn't that farfetched, given Ruby and her teammates can match characters like Emerald and Mercury, who have dodged lightning. Taking in consideration the size of Mercury and Emerald and the distance they've covered after the bolts struck, then these two would be capable of moving up to Mach 352 speeds. And Ruby have matched them in the past.

But because of Emerald and Mercury, as well as Cinder, Ruby's life changed drastically when it was at her peak. Her sister accidentally attacked someone, but it was seen as a violent attack during the tournament for students. Her friend, Penny got cut in half in a battle. Hords of grimm were attacking Beacon. And she saw her friend, Pyrrha, get killed right in front of her. All of this caused an ability of Ruby's to activate that was passed down from her mother, and what helped get her into Beacon in the first place: her Silver Eyes.

Silver Eyes is a rare trait, giving Ruby the ability to petrify, paralyze, or even disintegrating grimm. She could even turn this grimm dragon called a Wyvern into stone. And the Wyvern shattered a mountaintop when it first awoken. And while they're mainly for countering grimm, they can still be used against humans. Cinder was caught up in the blast of Ruby unleashing her Silver Eyes, and it ended up damaging her eye and ability to speak.

After Weiss being forced to go back home, Blake running away after the invasion, Yang being sent into a depression after her arm was cut off, and.... all of that, Ruby didn't really know what do to. Until deciding to go to Haven with three of her friends: Jaune, Ren, and Nora.

Sense then, Ruby has greatly improved her skills and physical capabilities. She's still the same weapon-loving girl with a tad bit of recklessness and immaturity at heart, but now she's been capable of much more, like the time she completely knocked over Cordovin's mecha.

Cordovin's mecha was made specifically to fight kaiju sized grimm, like the Wyvern. This is impressive, especially sense Weiss wasn't able to with her ice. And when taking in consideration the size of Weiss and Ruby, the mech, and the ice itself, Weiss was able to unleash around 231.5 tons of TNT. That's enough energy to destroy multiple city blocks. And Ruby was able to do more damage to the mecha than Weiss.

Before, Ruby couldn't control her Silver Eyes all that well. She could only activate them under intense pressure, and then immediately pass out. Like when Pyrrha was killed, or when Weiss nearly died. But thanks to an old lady who had Silver Eyes, Ruby learned to find a way to activate them, as well as not get knocked out cold immediately after. Though it doesn't always work. The Silver Eyes even gave her slight resistance to her emotions being manipulated by these grimm called Apathy, which drained people's will to go on with just their presence.

Ruby's been able to even match Penny, who ended up surviving being cut in half, just needing some repairs. This is impressive, because Penny was able to briefly lift Amity Tower before activating her maiden powers. Taking in consideration the height and weight of the tower, as well as the distance Penny could push before she activated the maiden powers, Penny would be exerting around 7 megatons of TNT.

And despite all the hardships Ruby and her team have faced, Ruby has remained a skilled leader for her team and became a registered huntress, despite her young age. Even Blake looks up to her. And while her current whereabouts are a complete mystery, she will find a way to lead her and her friends to victory, and become just like the great heroes in those fairy tales.

(Cue: RWBY: Ruby Rose Entrance)

## Maka Albarn

(Cue: Soul Eater - Black Paper Moon)

Hundreds upon hundreds years ago, there was a creature known as the Kishin. The Kishin would've sent the world into madness if the God of Absolute Order, Lord Death, didn't trap the Kishin in his own flesh. To prevent something like this ever happening again, Death opened up a school named Death Academy. In this school, students were trained to be meisters and to hunt wicked souls with demon weapons, which were weapons that turned into people. And if you knew anything about Death Academy, then you would know about their star student: Maka Albarn!

Being the daughter of one of the most well known scythe meisters and Death's own personal death scythe, Maka already had a lot to live up to. She became a scythe meister, being inspired by her mother and out of spite to her father because she blamed him for her parents divorced, which is fair. But at least he's trying to be a good dad.

Maka's scythe and partner is Soul "Eater" Evans, who came from an extremely rich family of musicians and had an inferiority complex to his older brother. But he was the first demon weapon in his family, which he used to escape from his family tradition and met with Maka one time while he was playing piano.

With Soul, Maka has been able to kill 99 souls that was on Death's list. If a demon weapon eats 99 human souls and one witch soul, they can become a death weapon, just like Maka's dad. Though they messed up and got a cat soul instead of a witch and had to start from scratch, but its impressive that they were to be able to collect 99 souls.

At Death Academy, Maka learned how to weaponize her soul. For a meister to use a demon weapon, the two have to match soul wavelengths. If two souls don't resonate with each other, then the meister and weapon would be harming each other with their wavelengths. But when they do match wavelengths, they can boost each other's power than just if a person was using a regular weapon.

And while on souls, let's talk about Maka's. Her soul is unique, being a Grigori. This soul is said to appear in only one in fifty million, allowing Maka flight and boosting the power of her soul wavelength. It even gives Maka an Anti-Demon Wavelength, allowing her protection against dark forces such as magic, demons, and immortals. She can also sense souls around her.

But don't think Maka is defenseless by herself. Maka knows the most powerful technique on all of Soul Eater.... The Maka Chop! A powerful move that's perfect for whenever Maka has a book.

But for real, Maka is tough. She can avoid Crona's black blood, tank Blair's Halloween Cannon, and have been comparable to Black Star and Death the Kid. Who the ladder could fly from Nevada to Egypt in less than a minute.

But Maka is far more brains over brawn. She's ranked highest in her class in testing, being a straight A student and being one of the few high schoolers I know that actually likes to study.

And while Maka's school life was going normal, everything changed when she first fought Crona. Soul had accidentally gotten some Black Blood in his system. Black Blood is an invention made by the witch, Medusa. An artificial type of blood that increases madness, which allows any individuals who has the madness to not feel fear. And whenever Maka and Soul resonate, it can improve Maka's strength and heal minor wounds. It could even send her soul into someone else's, though using the madness for too long will cause them both to lose themselves to madness.

But not only did the black blood change Maka's and Soul's school year, but also when the witch, Medusa resurrected the beast that Death sealed away all those years go, the Kishin. And to add to that, one of the most powerful witches started her return against Death Academy. Meaning that Maka and her classmates had to get stronger, and had to do it fast.

And to do that, Maka learned how to use the technique known as Witch Hunt Slash. This technique was made to help take care of witches, demons, and immortals, as well as cancel out magic.

Maka has learned some modified forms of Witch Hunt, which is what the slash originates from. Number Six Hunt Slash and Letter "U" Hunt Slash is when Maka swings Soul in the form of a 6 and U, respectively. And Scythe Weasel whips Maka's and Soul's soul wavelengths around. And Scythe Weasel could even slice through steel pipes.

But when she came to face-to-face with The Clown, Maka had to power up Witch-Hunt to the more deadly Demon-Hunt. This not only makes Soul much bigger, it allows for Maka to fight clowns, the embodiment of madness and fear itself. And to help kill these clowns, Maka learned the technique Letter "I" Hunt.

And those clowns that the Demon-Hunt was made to take on was capable of a lot. A fused version was able to react to light. When comparing Maka's hight to the fused-clown in other panels, and adding in distance, we can find that the Fused Clown can react at 596,848,800 mph. Crona was able to move faster than the Clown, too. And Maka has been able to match Crona plenty of times in battle.

Speaking of Crona, we know that they and Maka fight pretty on par, so we can scale Maka to them. As well as her other team makes, Death the Kid and Black Star. Black Star could shatter one of the moon's teeth, and Crona could cut the Ghost Ship in half. The same ship that bit a chunk off of an island.

And that's not all. Crona was able to completely submerged a Ukrainian city in black blood. The amount of black blood there is 5 gigatons of TNT worth.

Maka's even learned more things about her own soul. She can even use her Anti-Demon Wavelength to counter the madness from the black blood. Pretty useful when she figured out how to make the black blood into Black Blood Armor, boosting her durability, giving her flight, and even enough power to take down one of the most powerful witches, Arachnophobia.

And while Soul likes to act like he's a cool dude, he's still incredibly talented at the piano. So good, in fact, that he can power up others souls, or even completely turn off someone else's soul.

But with Maka's current state, they still weren't enough to take down the Kishin once and for all. So Soul had to become a Death Scythe.... And he actually did. Now making use of the flying part of Maka's soul by sprouting wings in scythe form. Which Maka uses to fly on like a surfboard or a witch. Oh, the irony on that one. But Soul is wicked fast when flying around, being able to dodge lasers. Considering the heights and distances, this means Soul can fly at Mach 120,682.368 speeds.

Maka's own soul perception was even upgraded to the point to where she can perceive the entire souls expanding the entire world and moon.

But then it came time to battle the embodiment if madness, the Kishin, otherwise known as Asura. In this fight, Maka survived being crushed by Asura, and even impaled Asura. But after Asura absorbed her friend, Crona, Maka learned the most deadly technique of all. The Kishin Hunt. This was specifically made to enter into the Kishin.

But when everything was said in done, Maka was able to save one of the most tormented souls in the world, Crona. Doing this is what ultimately defeated the Kishin once and for all. Maka even reconciled with her father. But now the world can rest in peace, free from the madness of the kishin. With Maka as one of the heroes from Death Academy.

(Cue: Maka Madness)

## Fight

(Cue: Mirror Mirror - Official Instrumental - RWBY)

(In an open forest under a starry night, a Beowolf is rummaging around)

(It wonders around, sniffing the air and looking around)

(Up above on a tree branch, dressed in a red hood with a red cape and rose petals flowing from her cape, Ruby stands up above the Beowolf)

(She pulls Crescent Rose out, the weapon instantly assembling it's scythe shape as she jumps down)

(The Beowolf looks up, only to be sliced into two a moment later by Ruby)

(Ruby gets up as the Beowolf turns to ash, but a new beast looms over her)

Maka: Look out!

(Ruby looks up behind herself, a man with large claws and a distorted body stands above her)

(Out of shock, Ruby screams right before Maka jumps through, slicing the distorted man in half)

(A soul is all that's left behind after Maka lands)

(Ruby looks at Maka in complete awe, her eyes shining bright in excitement)

(Soul transforms from scythe to human, devouring the soul)

Soul: That's another one down.

Maka: Phew. Are you alright miss?

Ruby: Oh my gosh!! Did you just transform from a scythe!? How did you do that!?

(In excitement, Ruby jumps around the confused Soul)

Ruby: And you just went FWOOSH and cut that big scary monster in half! It was so cooool!

(Slightly embarrassed by Ruby's praise, Maka doesn't really know what to say)

Maka: Well- I um- I guess it comes from plenty of experience.

Ruby: And you use a scythe, too? Mine's called Crescent Rose. Oh! And I'm Ruby.

(She holds out her scythe, showing it off to Maka and Soul)

Maka: That's nice. My name is Maka, and this is Soul.

Ruby: Wait, I got an idea! Let's have a quick match with our scythes!

Maka: Oh! I'm not too sure about that.

Ruby: Please? I just really wanna see your scythe in action, Maka.

(Maka hesitates for a moment, perceiving Ruby's soul)

(She finds that Ruby's soul looks like a rose, being a pure and hyperactive soul)

Soul: What do you say, Maka?

Maka: You know what? Sure, I'd love to, Ruby.

Ruby: Yay! Thanks you so much! This will be so much fun!

(Soul transforms himself back into a scythe, landing himself in Maka's hand)

Ruby: Oh boy, that's still so cool. Let's do this!

Maka: Heh. You're on!

(Cue: Caffeine (feat. Lamar Hall) by Jeff Williams & Casey Lee Williams with Lyrics)

FIGHT!

(Ruby lunges at Maka and swings her scythe, but Maka counters with Soul)

(The two swings their scythes, the weapons clashing with each other)

(Maka knocks Ruby back when they clashed, quickly dashing towards Ruby)

Ruby: Eek!

(Ruby splits up into a group of rose petals as Maka lunges)

Maka: Huh?

(The petals split into two groups, going around Maka and returning back to normal behind her)

Ruby: Hiya!

(Ruby swings her scythe at Maka, but Maka quickly turns around and blocks with Soul)

Maka: Nice try!

(Maka spins around Soul before swinging him towards Ruby)

(But Ruby catches the blade with Crescent Rose, trapping Soul's blade underneath her own blade)

(Crescent Rose collapses it's blade before Ruby starts to spin around in a circle)

(Maka gets caught up in Ruby's spinning, hanging onto Soul as the two are swung around)

(Ruby unlocks the blade back out and throws Maka up into the air)

(While Maka was in the air, Ruby transforms her scythe into a rifle and aims it at Maka)

(Maka notices the rifle pointed at her and gasps)

(Ruby fires a bullet at Maka, who spins around Soul to deflect the bullet before landing on the ground)

Maka: Your scythe is also a gun?

Ruby: Yeaaah! Isn't it so cool!?

Maka: Yeah, it is.

Ruby: Okay, okay! Back to fighting.

(Ruby lunges at Maka and swings her scythe, but Maka swings Soul, the two blades getting caught in each other)

(Ruby fires a bullet from the end of her scythe, but Maka ducks in time to avoid the shot)

(The bullet pierces through a tree, causing it to fall towards the two)

(They separate their scythes as Ruby looks up, noticing the tree heading towards them)

Ruby: Ah! Look out!

(Ruby splits up into roses and flies away from the oncoming crash)

(Maka looks up at the falling tree and jumps towards it, slicing it in half)

(She kicks the top half of the broken tree towards Ruby)

(Ruby turns back to normal and sees the tree top flying her way)

(Ruby swings around Crescent Rose, chopping up the tree into bits and pieces)

(When Ruby stops spinning her scythe, she sees Maka charging straight towards her with a book in one of her hands)

Maka: Maka... Chop!

(Maka karate chops Ruby on the head with a book)

(Ruby is left dizzy, small Nevermores circles her head and her eyes as spirals)

Ruby: Waaaaa...

(Maka swings her scythe, slamming the back of Soul into Ruby's stomach)

(Ruby goes flying into the air, snapping her out of her daze)

(She catches herself on a tree, sticking her scythe in the tree while standing on the side of it)

(Maka charges towards the tree and swings her scythe through it)

(Ruby jumps to another tree as the one Maka sliced through falls over)

(Maka follows Ruby and slices through the tree Ruby was hanging onto again, but she jumps onto the next tree)

(Ruby keeps jumping trees as Maka cuts down each tree)

(Eventually, Ruby jumps to a tree, but there isn't another tree to jump to)

Ruby: Uh oh!

Maka: I got you now!

(Ruby looks down as Maka cuts through the tree)

(Ruby jumps as the tree falls down, turning into a group of roses as she leaps)

(Ruby rushes towards Maka as a cloud of rose petals and sucks her into the cloud)

(Black petals becomes part of the group of red roses)

(She darts around past trees until going straight up)

(After getting up high enough, Ruby throws Maka down onto the ground)

(Maka lands on her back, stunned, and Soul falling out of her hands and landing next to her, still as a scythe)

(Ruby turns herself back to normal and swings her scythe downward as a wheel)

Soul: Maka! Get up!

(Maka snaps back to what's happening and quickly rolls to her right as Ruby crashes into the ground with Crescent Rose)

(The blade gets stuck in the ground as Maka rolls past Soul and picks him up)

(Ruby quickly realizes the barrel of Crescent Rose is facing the ground)

(Maka jumps back up and lunges at Ruby, but Ruby fires a shot from her rifle to propel herself away from Maka's attack)

(While Ruby is in the air, Maka swings her scythe into the ground and throws herself at Ruby)

(Maka swings Soul towards Ruby, but Ruby counters by swinging Crescent Rose)

(The two weapons clash against each other, knocking back Maka)

(When Maka lands, she stumbles back a bit as Ruby lands)

(Maka looks behind herself and notices she's on the edge of a steep hill)

(Ruby aims her scythe behind her and fires a shot to launch herself towards Maka)

Soul: Look out!

(After Soul warned Maka, she looks back at Ruby)

(Ruby swings her scythe into Maka, knocking her down the hill and causing her to roll down)

Ruby: Oh no! Wait for me!

(Ruby jumps down and slides down the hill after Maka)

(Cue: Soul Eater OST 10 - Harmonize)

(Maka tumbles down the hill until catching herself and striking a tree with Soul, his blade getting lodged in)

(Meanwhile, Ruby is sliding down the hill while standing on her scythe)

Maka: Soul, we need to resonate our souls.

Soul: Got it.

(Maka pulls Soul out of the tree, keeping her balance with one foot on the hill and the other on the tree)

(Ruby fires a shot into the ground to propel herself into the air, lifting her scythe over her head)

Maka and Soul: Let's go, Soul Resonance!

(The two's souls resonate with each other, Soul being lefted up behind Maka as a blade grows on the opposite side of Soul)

(Soul's blade grows in size, becoming the Witch Hunt Slash, and slicing apart the tree behind them above where Maka stands)

Maka: Witch Hunt Slash!

(Ruby looks at Soul's transformation into a bigger scythe in awe)

Ruby: So cool...

(Maka swings Soul in a way that makes a 6, ripping parts of the ground that Soul goes over)

(Ruby snaps back to what's going on and swings her scythe downward, the two blades countering)

(But Ruby is sent back flying in the air from Soul's impact)

(Maka runs up the hill after Ruby, but Ruby turns into a cloud of rose petals and quickly makes her way back towards Maka)

(Maka swings Soul into the roses, but Ruby splits herself up into three groups of petals that travels around Maka)

(Ruby appears behind Maka with Crescent Rose in it's rifle form, aiming at Maka)

(She fires a shot of fire at Maka, having swapped out the magazine with a magazine of fire dust)

(Maka uses Soul to block the shot of fire)

(Ruby is falling backwards down the hill, keeping her rifle aimed at Maka)

(She fires multiple shots of fire at Maka, but Maka swings around Soul to block the fire)

(Maka runs down the hill after Ruby, passing several scattered trees as she continues firing at Maka)

(She knocks away one of the shots of fire, with it accident hitting a tree behind them that they passed)

(The tree catches on fire and falls down, rolling after them)

(While Maka doesn't notice the burning tree coming after them, Ruby does)

Ruby: Look out!

(Her warning causes Soul to look behind them as Maka swings)

Soul: Maka, jump!

(Maka looks behind herself and sees the burning tree rolling towards her)

(Ruby plants her feet into the ground, skidding down the hill a bit before being able to stop herself)

(Maka uses Soul to launch herself upwards into the air as the burning tree rolls past)

(Ruby dashes directly forward uphill, going fast enough to create a powerful slipstream almost instantly)

(Maka finds herself just out of the reach of the slipstream, but it pulls in leafs, grass, and uproots multiple trees)

(It pulls in the burning tree, as well as putting out the flames)

(Ruby stops herself where the tree started burning, the slipstream sending everything it picked up flying far into the sky and into the woods)

(Luckily for Maka, she was able to send herself high enough to avoid being sucked into the slipstream)

(Maka lands back onto the ground, sticking Soul's blade into the ground)

(Ruby runs back down towards Maka, turning into a spiral of roses)

(Maka waits for Ruby to get closer until making a move)

(Ruby turns back, swinging her scythe downward onto Maka)

(But before Ruby could lands a hit, Maka swings her scythe in a way that makes a U)

(The two weapons clash, countering each other)

(The clash knocks each other back, sending Maka down the hill more and Ruby up the hill)

(Ruby keeps running back down towards Maka, but Maka slides down backwards, still facing Ruby)

(The two clash scythes every time they get close to each other, getting closer to the bottom of the hill)

(Ruby stops for a moment and jumps above Maka and swings her blade downward)

(But Maka quickly leaps forward to dodge as Ruby strikes the ground)

(Maka lunges off of the hillside and kicks Ruby in the back, sending her rolling down the rest of the hill)

(As Ruby rolls down the hill, Maka slides down while preparing to swing her scythe)

(When Ruby gets to the bottom of the hill, she sits up dizzy)

(She shakes her head to get herself back to normal and looks around before looking back up the hill to see Maka)

(Ruby quickly gets up and jumps backwards as Maka gets to the bottom of the hill, swinging Soul downwards and slicing through the ground)

(Maka lunges at Ruby after landing, but Ruby turns into a cloud of roses to avoid Maka's attack)

(Ruby travels up above Maka and transforms back, firing multiple shots at Maka)

Soul: Maka, above you!

(A bullet just barely misses Maka after Soul spoke)

(She runs forward, getting away from where she was standing)

(Maka quickly jumps onto and off a tree, lunging at Ruby)

(She keeps trying to shoot Maka, but Maka spins around Soul to deflect the bullets)

(Maka slashes Ruby with Soul, sending her flying into the hillside)

(She lands on the ground and charges at Ruby)

(Ruby charges the magazines in Crescent Rose, putting in a magazine of gravity dust)

(Ruby fires a shot behind herself, getting projected forward by the extra kickback)

(Maka ends up striking the hillside as Ruby flies forward)

(Her cape blows in the wind as Ruby travels in the air with gravity dust shots)

Ruby: Catch me if you can!

Maka: Why are you running!? Er- flying?

Soul: C'mon, Maka. Let's go after her.

(The blade parts of Soul becomes wings instead and Maka hops onto Soul)

(She flies after Ruby, weaving around the trees and hearing the gunshots with Ruby's excited laughter)

(Cue: War - Instrumental - RWBY)

(Ruby flies through the air while laughing in joy and excitement)

Ruby: This is the most fun I've had in awhile!

(Soon enough, Maka catches up to Ruby while flying on Soul)

(As soon as Ruby notices Maka next to her, she let's out a huge gasp)

Ruby: No way... Your scythe can fly!?

Maka: There's a lot of things Soul can do.

Ruby: That's amazing! I'm really glad to have met you, Maka.

Maka: Right back at ya, Ruby.

(Ruby fires a shot that launches her onto the side of a tree)

(She fires another shot, sending her back towards Maka)

(Maka grabs Soul and jumps off, the two scythe wielders both swinging their weapons towards each other)

(But as Maka swung Soul, the two resonated their souls together again)

(Soul's blade becomes much larger and has a blue energy surrounding him, using the Demon-Hunt technique)

Ruby: Woah.... That's big....

(The two clash blades, but because of Soul's now much larger size, Maka overpowers Ruby)

(Maka swings around Soul and Ruby several times until throwing Ruby up into the air)

(She's sent flying up above the trees as Maka lands on the ground)

(Maka jumps onto a tree before jumping off of it to try getting closer to Ruby)

(Ruby looks down to Maka and spins Crescent Rose around as Maka gets closer)

(The two swing their scythes towards each other, but Maka yet again overpowers Ruby and catches her scythe in Soul's blade)

(Maka was about swing Ruby back into the ground, but Ruby turns into a cloud of roses to escape)

(Ruby lands onto the ground to turn back to normal)

(Maka swings down Soul, but Ruby jumps out of the way as Maka slices a tree in half that was originally behind Ruby)

(The two halves fall over and Ruby jumps behind the split tree, switching out the magazines)

(Maka swings around her scythe, cutting dones some nearby trees)

(Ruby jumps back and fires a shot of electricity at Maka)

(The electricity shocks Maka, giving Ruby the chance to dash towards her)

(While Maka was stunned, Ruby slashes her with Crescent Rose)

(She knocks Maka up into the air and aims her rifle at her again and fires)

(But Maka spins Soul around, whipping around her's and Soul's wavelength)

(She cuts through the electricity and levels the nearby tree tops)

(Maka lands on the ground and dashes towards Ruby)

(Ruby charges at Maka as well and lunges towards her)

(Maka swings her scythe, but Ruby turns into a cloud of rose petals to avoid Maka's attack)

(She splits up into three different clouds and reassembles behind Maka, aiming her rifle at Maka)

Maka: I got you now!

(Before Ruby could fire, Maka quickly turns around and swings Soul into her)

(Ruby is sent flying by Maka's attack, being knocked back to the side dozens of feet away)

Maka: I'm getting use to that one.

(Ruby rolls on the ground as she lands, running into a tree)

(She pushes herself back up, seeing Maka running towards her)

(Maka swings her scythe, but Ruby jumps up into the air the dodge)

(The tree gets cut in half and Ruby turns back into a group of rose petals)

(She quickly starts circling around Maka as a bunch of roses)

(Ruby picks up Maka and Soul, adding black and blue to her red petals)

(As a cloud of petals, Ruby dashes around the open forest, weaving around trees until going high up into the air)

(Getting high up above the trees, Ruby throws Maka out from the petals)

(With Maka and Soul in her hands heading back to the ground, Ruby turns back to normal and aims her rifle at Maka)

(She fires a shot of electricity at Maka, hitting her square in the chest and sending her heading to the ground faster)

(Maka crashes into the ground, taking a moment to get back up)

(When she gets up, Maka looks around for Ruby)

(She spots two cliffsides with a wooden bridge connecting the edges, and a couple trees around the area)

(She doesn't see Ruby up above, so she closes her eyes and tries concentrating on sensing Ruby's soul)

(She senses Ruby's soul, seeing it as a rose again)

(However, instead of just a rose this time, there's two silver sparks coming from Ruby's soul)

(There's a slight rustle in one of the tree tops behind Maka, then Ruby jumps out)

Ruby: Sneak attack!

(Maka quickly turns around and swings Soul as Ruby swings Crescent Rose, the two weapons clashing)

(But Maka's swing throws Ruby onto the ground)

(Ruby crashes onto the ground, slowly getting up)

(She has cuts and bruises on her body, but her Aura heals her)

(Ruby's eyes start to glow with a silver light, the two silver sparks from her soul growing brighter)

(Maka charges at Ruby and jumps up, swinging her scythe until raising it over her head)

(She swings downward, but two bright, silver lights beam out from Ruby's eyes)

(Silver light engulfs the area, temporarily blinding Maka)

(It causes her to loose where Ruby was, striking the ground next to Ruby)

(The lights shimmers down to two burning beams of light coming from Ruby's eyes)

(While Maka was still blinded, Ruby swings her scythe into Maka)

(She slashes Maka serveral times with Crescent Rose)

(Ruby then swings her scythe into Soul before striking Maka again, knocking Soul out of her hands)

(Knocking her back a few feet, Ruby fires a shot of electricity right at Maka, hitting her square in the chest)

(Maka goes flying back more, crashing into a tree as Ruby runs after her)

Soul: Maka!!

(Soul transforms back into his human form, his vision starting to return)

(He runs towards Ruby and Maka as her vision slowly returns)

(Maka's wounds slowly heal from Ruby's attacks as she notices she doesn't have Soul)

(Ruby jumps up, lunging at Maka as Maka sees Soul getting closer)

(He slides underneath Ruby, transforming back into a scythe)

(Soul only transforms into his regular scythe form, but Maka picks him up and swings her scythe upwards)

(She counters Ruby's scythe, getting her vision back)

(Ruby lands back on the ground, and Maka swings Soul behind Ruby)

(She pins Ruby between Soul's blade and herself, jumping up a bit and kicking Ruby with both feet)

(She sends Ruby flying over Soul's blade, skidding across the ground)

(Cue: Red Like Roses - Part ll (feat. Casey Lee Williams & Sandy Casey)

(Maka sees the bridge again and gets an idea as Ruby starts getting up)

Maka: Soul, I have an idea. But we have to get to that bridge.

Soul: On it.

(The blade on Soul transforms into wings again as Maka hops onto Soul)

(When Ruby gets up, Maka passes her and flies off to the bridge)

(Ruby switches out the magazine in Crescent Rose and turns into a cloud of roses)

(Ruby follows Maka, chasing after her as she gets closer to the bridge)

(Maka looks behind herself, seeing the rose cyclone following her)

(The rose petal cloud shoots up in an upward slope, turning back to normal and aiming her rifle at Maka)

(Ruby fires multiple regular shots at Maka, but Maka dodges the bullets)

(Maka gets to the front of the bridge and jumps off of Soul before grabbing him)

(As Maka jumps off, Ruby fires several more shots)

(But Maka jumps out of the way of each shot as Ruby does a roll landing)

(Crescent Rose turns back into a scythe as Ruby gets up, standing on the side of the bridge Make entered on)

(Maka stands on the other side of the bridge, staring down Ruby)

(The bridge itself is narrow and made of wood, being held together on both cliffside by rope)

Soul: Alright, Maka. What's your plan.

Maka: It's going to be a lot easier to keep track of Ruby's movements on here. It's not wide enough for her to get on the side of me.

Ruby: You ready, Maka?

Maka: Sure am.

(The two charge towards each other, Maka getting closer to Ruby faster than Ruby to Maka)

(The two clash their scythes, Ruby's silver eyes glowing brighter)

(Ruby starts swinging her scythe much more, pushing back Maka as she defends herself with Soul)

(She raises up her scythe to swing down, but Maka jumps back to dodge)

(After Ruby swings as Maka jumps, Maka strikes Ruby a few times with her scythe)

(Ruby pulls back up Crescent Rose and knocks Maka back across the bridge)

(She charges towards Maka and jumps above her, kicking Maka in the back)

(Maka stumbles forward as Ruby charges towards her)

(But Maka turns around and kicks Ruby back, the two now standing on opposite sides of the bridge)

(The two charge towards each other, swinging their scythes at the same time and appearing on the opposite sides of each other in the blink of an eye)

(The music stops as the two stand across each other, almost nothing happening)

(But the ropes holding the bridge together snaps, being cut up by their one-stroke duel)

(The music kicks back in as the bridge collapses beneath them, sending the two falling downward)

(Ruby stands her scythe, firing shots beneath herself to send herself higher)

Maka: Now, Soul!

(Soul begins playing the piano in his soul, causing his and Maka's souls to resonate with each other)

(Ruby looks down to Maka, but a figure in black darts past her)

(She looks up, seeing Maka flying in her Black Blood Dress and the blade on Soul looking more like piano keys)

Ruby: Wow...

(Before Ruby could fangirl about scythes, she starts falling downward because she stopped shooting)

(Maka charges down towards Ruby, who snaps back to what's happening)

(Ruby turns into a cloud of rose petals and darts past Maka)

(She travels to the side of the cliff and jumps off of the side of the cliff wall)

(Ruby spins around her scythe like a saw blade)

(Maka quickly turns around and swings her scythe to counter Ruby's attack)

(As soon as the two clash, Ruby turns back into a cloud of roses)

(She circles around Maka until turning back to normal above and behind her)

(Aiming her rifle at Maka, she attempts to fire a shot at Maka)

(But Maka flies upwards then charges back down towards Ruby)

(She slams the handle of Soul into Ruby before she could turn back into roses)

(Maka swings Soul around, throwing Ruby off of Soul and into the cliffside)

(Being stunned by the impact for a moment as Ruby starts to fall down, Maka charges to Ruby)

(But Ruby shakes herself back up and turns Crescent Rose back into a scythe)

(Ruby gets back on the scythe and fires multiple shots, projecting herself upwards and towards Maka)

(When the two girls are close, they swing their scythes multiple times, the two weapons clashing)

Soul: Maka. I need you to sense her soul wavelength for me.

(Maka knocks Ruby back into the cliffside, but Ruby quickly changes the magazines out in her rifle from regular ammo to gravity dust)

Maka: Sure. What for?

Soul: I'm going to cancel out that noise.

Maka: Got it.

(Ruby fires a shot behind herself, launching her to Maka and swinging Crescent Rose into her while she's talking with Soul)

(She traps Maka underneath the blade of Crescent Rose, swinging around the two)

(She throws Maka downward before firing a shot of gravity dust behind herself, rocketing her after Maka)

(Maka tries sensing Ruby's soul wavelength, but her silver eyes start to glow brighter)

(She partially closes her eyes but was able to sense Ruby's soul wavelength)

(Maka sees Ruby's soul as a rose with the two silver lights burning brighter than ever before)

(Ruby quickly gets close enough to Maka to swing her scythe, but Maka flies out of the way)

(Maka flies up above Ruby and swings Soul into Ruby as she turns around to face Maka)

(She swings Soul into Ruby, sending Ruby plummeting faster)

(But when Maka strikes Ruby, a red aura appears around Ruby before shattering into dust)

(The two gets closer to the bottom of between the cliffs, the bottom being a meadow of red roses)

(Inside of his soul, Soul plays the piano, the music being heard outside of his and Maka's soul)

(Ruby tries to continue fighting back against Maka as her silver eyes glow brightly)

(But the music overpower Ruby, the lights from her eyes dying down until returning back to normal)

Ruby: What's this music? It's so... Peaceful...

(Ruby drops Crescent Rose, the weapon being released from her grip and falls down quicker than she does)

(Her eyes dull and motor functions completely stop as Soul's music takes over)

Soul: Adagio of the soul.

(Ruby completely stops as she falls, the music stopping as Maka swings around her scythe)

(Maka charges down towards Ruby and quickly rushes past Ruby, slicing her in half with Soul)

(Maka lands onto the meadow of roses, Ruby's body crahses onto the flowers as the petals are kicked up, flying around behind Maka as she puts Soul over her shoulder)

(We get a shot of the roses fluttering around Maka, and Crescent Rose sticking out of the ground near Ruby's body)

## Results

(Cue: Soul Eater - Ending 2)

K.O!

(Maka walks away as her outfit turns back fo normal, and Ruby's cape blows away in the wind with several rose petals)

Looks like Team RWBY is gonna have to change their name now.

This was an interesting matchup. Ruby put up a fight that her team would be proud of, but Maka was a bit too much for Ruby to handle.

Ruby wasn't without her advantages. With her different types of dust ammunition and her semblance, she had some more versatility over Maka. And having direct training under another hunter that uses a scythe, whereas Maka was never trained under another scythe meister. Though Maka's own intelligence could make up for the lack of training directly under another scythe wielder.

However, that's all Ruby had going for her. Despite Ruby's semblance being called Speed, Maka was far faster. The slipstream Ruby made was around as fast as lighting, which would be around 270,000 mph. While it's hard to get how fast Ruby herself was moving, let's say that she was going around those speeds. The Fused Clown reacting to light was calculated at 596,848,800 mph. That's 2210.55 times faster than Ruby's slipstream. Even Soul was 342.94 times faster than Ruby.

Maka was also far tougher than Ruby. Sure, Ruby was able to knock over Cordovin's mecha and her Silver Eyes could petrify the Wyvern that shattered a mountain top, but Maka is on par with Crona, who was capable of submerging this Ukrainian city. Taking the size if the Wyvern and the volume of the rocks being destroyed, as well as the mountain itself, then we can estimate the Wyvern shattering that mountain top would be at most 10.98 kilotons of TNT. But Crona's black blood feat was a total of 5 gigatons of TNT. That is worth 5,000,000 kilotons of TNT and just enough to destroy an island. Maka fights Crona a lot, and that's the same black blood that's in Maka's Black Blood Armor. Even scaling Ruby to Penny lifting Amity tower pales in comparison.

While the argument that Ruby's Silver Eyes could counter the Black Blood and disable it could be made, that's a huge stretch. The Silver Eyes have only been shown to effect Grimm. While it has effected Cinder before, her body has elements of Grimm fused to her, and she's the only thing that isn't fully Grimm that the Silver Eyes have effected. But let's be generous and say that the Silver Eyes can effect anything that's living or nature and evil. The black blood is neither living or nature, being artificially made by Medusa. And even then, it still wouldn't change the huge difference in speed and power between Ruby and Maka.

And while Ruby's aura could heal her and supposedly can heal fatal wounds, auras have been proven to be easy to break and can't really heal fatal wounds unless being amped by an outside source. Like when Weiss got impaled and almost died, if Jaune's aura didn't amp her's to heal her. And if Ruby took enough damage, her aura would break, and Maka was more than capable of dealing enough damage to break that aura.

Sure, Ruby's Speed Semblance could allow her better maneuverability over Maka, but that Semblance and also Ruby's aura were both linked to Ruby's soul. The same soul that Maka could just shut down at any point of the fight, which would've also just completely turn Ruby off as a whole. And with Ruby not having any ways to counter any attacks straight to the soul like that, it would've been over for Ruby, easy as that.

Ruby's training and versatility did put up a good fight. However, Maka was just too fast, tough, smart, and her soul control was too much for Little Red to handle.

Ruby may have Rose to the occasion, but the stacks were So-ul against her.

The winner is Maka Albarn!

## Trivia

* The connections between Ruby Rose and Maka Albarn is that they are both scythe-wielding teenage girls who aspire to be professional hunters of the evil creatures that threaten their worlds (Grimm and Kishin, respectively). Both attended special schools designed for this purpose that were overseen by immortals (Beacon Academy run by Professor Ozpin and the Death Weapon Meister Academy run by Lord Death) and eventually rose to become leaders of their respective teams. Both have mothers who were also students at said schools and who have been mostly absent from their lives, instead being raised by their single fathers (Taiyang Xiao Long and Spirit Albarn). Both have powers that are connected to their souls (The Aura and Semblances are powered by the soul and Maka can use Soul Resonance) and also possess powers considered rare in their worlds (The Silver Eyes and the Grigori Soul). Additionally, both of their greatest enemies are witches (Salem and Medusa/Arachne). Their weapons both follow a gimmick in their world (Ruby's scythe also being a sniper rifle and Maka's being able to turn into a humanoid named Soul).
	+ The creator of RWBY, Monty Oum, asked Ben for this matchup before passing away, but wanted it to be delayed until RWBY was over. So the episode is confirmed to be a Death Battle eventually, but it has yet to happen due to RWBY still going on.
* This almost didn't become an episode of Fiction V. Fiction due to how likely it was to happen on Death Battle during season 8
* This episode was originally not planned for season 1 of Fiction V. Fiction, but the season was one episode short so it was added in
* This is the second episode to feature two returning franchises in season 1
	+ The first episode to do so was Izuku Midoriya vs Miles Morales
	+ The other RWBY and Soul Eater episodes were Yang vs Bakugou and Crona vs Shiro
* Maka Albarn is the fifth character not to speak after killing her opponent
	+ The first four were Crona, Clementine, Ninja Brian, and Travis Touchdown
* Ruby Rose vs Maka Albarn won the "Best Death" award in Beta's Death Battle Amino Award
* Ruby Rose vs Maka Albarn is the thirteenth episode to be featured on the Death Battle Amino
	+ The first twelve was Waluigi vs Papyrus, Star Butterfly vs Steven Universe, Mr. Fantastic vs Plastic Man, Yuno Gasai vs Genocide Jack, Izuku Midoriya vs Miles Morales, Monika vs Giffany, Crona vs Shiro, Clementine vs Ellie, Ninja Brian vs Dr. McNinja, Ban vs Deadpool, Travis Touchdown vs Scott Pilgrim, 2B vs Raiden, and Fox McCloud vs Rocket Raccoon. The next four were Eren Yeager vs Ken Kaneki, All Might vs Koro Sensei, Danny Sexbang vs Hatsune Miku, and Meta Knight vs Beta Ray Bill