Atop Mountain Glenn a tiny rock shifted, falling away until its brothers joined it, and suddenly a whole avalanche appeared of tiny pebbles, running away from the gigantic stone pillar as if their tiny rock lives depended on it. It was then, that the mountaintop burst open, revealing a dark portal crackling with energy and evil. Screams of the dead came from it, growing in intensity until the face of a dark CPU came out, looking directly at Vale with malicious intent, before turning to the floating Ruby Rose.

"I will subjugate this world, and all in it. What makes you think that you can stop me?" She challenged. "I will destroy your home, your friends, and your family unless you give yourself up to me as an offering. If you do this, I will leave your realm and never return. But if you don't..."

She chuckled, caressing the young huntresses face with a single massive fingertip. "There will be nothing left when I'm done."

"Ruby, it's okay. I'm here now." A deep and soothing voice from a woman told me as I opened my eyes. At first I thought it was my mother, because she had red hair and silver eyes, but after I felt and saw the cool touch of a prosthetic limb on me, I knew it wasn't her.

"Who... are you?" I asked, not really in the mood for getting up when I felt so tired.

"I'm Radeon, your mother. Not surprising you don't know me."

What she said didn't make much sense. She didn't look anything like my mom, and she didn't call herself Summer either. I'd never seen her before in my life. It was weird, but I believed her too. Call it stupid, but it really did feel like she was my mother, heck she even looked like me. Or do I look like her...?

"You're... mom?" I asked, not fully able to understand what she was telling me, even if it should make sense.

"Yes, I am. I'll explain everything. Stand up, and I can begin."

Nodding, I followed her instructions and got up, the plain white room around us turning to sky, allowing us an aerial view of Remnant— no somewhere else. Remnant didn't have any continents that looked like that, in the shape of two arrows that were facing away from each other, one smaller than the other. Next to it was a series of three curved lush green islands, and next to that was a small, oval landmass that was completely blue with little lights all dotted around it.

"That is Emdi, our home land." She told me, pointing at the first pair of islands, "And that is Vidi, with Inti right next to it."

"That's where I was born?!" I asked incredulously, pointing at the first two islands.

"That's right. Right in the middle of both the arrows."

"That's cool, but... uh... how do I know you're my mother. I-I mean I pretty much believe you, it's just... you know... to make sure."

Radeon laughed, shaking her head. "It's fine, I can prove it. Now, just need to do one little thing. Give me your right hand."

Afraid, but still curious I held out my hand for her to take. Grasping it, she concentrated and a red light merged at her heart, making its way down across her arm, then mine, and up to my heart. A warm feeling came across me as the orb settled, disappearing as it sunk further and further until there was only a dim glow.

Radeon dipped her head slightly like she was falling asleep, but quickly came back up and shook it off. "Sorry about that. You should now have your full GPU powers. Before I unlocked them, you were just somewhat of a prodigy skill wise. But with them... you'll be an unstoppable force!"

"So... what can they do? The powers I mean."

She raised her hand up, clenching it into a fist as red lights gathered all around her, completely covering her from head to toe. And then it all disappeared like mine did, leaving her with long red hair, a slightly bigger chest, and a bigger version of her metallic arm.

"Now you can do this! Transform into your CORE mode and we shall spar and see what you can truly achieve!"

"Wow! But... how do I do that?"

"Just... uh... hold up your hand and make a fist."

I did it, and felt a surge of power through me as I grew taller, maturing slightly, and my hair reaching down to my hips as I sighed, the transformation over.

"Good job Ruby! Now you just have to make up a name for your CORE mode and we'll start. Mine's Kuma!"

"Alright, then I choose... Godavari! Yeah! That sounds cool, right?!"

"You betcha! Now let's go fight each other like civilized women! With big ass weapons!"

"Yeah! But I don't have a weapon..." I realized, scratching my head.

"That's... a good point!" She agreed, snapping her fingers. "There you go!"

Crescent Rose was now in my hand— or at least a variation. Now it had a second hand hold for me to use, as well a liberal amount of lasers slapped on the side of it that made it look cooler, as well as deadlier.

"Your CORE form also improves any weapon you touch as long as you maintain it! That's why it looks so much cooler!"

"Yasssss!" I cheered, feeling heat seep into me as we readied against each other to fight.

"Now... let's go!"

I groaned, the light of morning coming through my window as a few birds twerped outside. I thought about my dream with the strange woman who claimed she was my mother. It felt so life like, even more lifelike than the visions if that was possible. It also looked so peaceful, but I knew better than to just trust how the outside looked. I would train harder, and harder, because there was something out there coming, and I wasn't going to let it win.