HEYYYY... I don't own Max steel! ... Though you probably knew that...

A hand comes down and shuts off the annoying alarm clock, and the sleeping body of Ruby Dread-McGrath sits up tiredly.

"Morning comes to fast." She groans, heading to her closet and grabbing today's outfit. A cherry red shirt, a white crop jacket, midnight blue skirt with black spandex shorts underneath, blue sneakers and a blue headband to finish.

Five minutes later she is sitting at the kitchen island, eating breakfast talking to Molly.

"Smile Ruby, today you start your new school, and I start my new job!" Molly beams looking over to the said girl.

"Yes, because being the new girl is always a fun mom," Ruby grumbles stuffing her face with food.

Ruby arrives at Copper Canyon High school with ten minutes to spare, slamming the front of her bike into the bike rack.

She enters the school, seeing the typical stereotype highschool. The athletes, the nerds, the loners, and of course the bullies. As she walks past them, people turn to look at her, her being the new girl and all.

She bumps into a tall brown-haired guy in a yellow shirt.

"I'm sorry, I wasn't paying attention." She looks up at him, eyes wide startled at the sudden impact.

"Just watch where your going next time." He and his lackeys push past her, making her fall to the floor losing her balance.

"Rude much?" Ruby sighs gathering her books when a hand holds out one of them for her to take.

Ruby follows the nice hand, to find it's connected to a blonde girl, in a green shirt.

"Thanks." Ruby takes the book and allows the girl to help her up.

"No problem." The girl waves her off.

"If you don't mind me asking, who was that guy?" Ruby looks behind her to see the guy shoving a nerdy-looking boy into a locker.

"Bartholomew, but everyone calls him Butch." She smiles at Ruby.

"I'm Sydney by the way, and this is Kirby." She gestures to the lanky guy beside her.

"Welcome to Copper Canyon high new girl." Kirby seems to be a laid back surfer guy to Ruby.

"I'm Ruby, Ruby Dread-McGrath. Nice to meet you." She introduces with a soft smile.

The bell rings, startling the trio of students.

"Well, time for class. Thanks again!" Ruby yells, racing off to her first class.

Time skip after classes.

Ruby starts unlocking her bike, only to see Butch and his cronies run past her laughing, with Kirby following them. Hopping onto her bike, Ruby speeds past Butch and grabs Kirby's backpack midair.

"Come on now, monkey in the middle? What are we, five?" She asks, handing Kirby back the bag.

The surrounding males, a look a bit confused at what just happened before the three bullies realize they were bested by a girl. Only, when they finally process what happened, Ruby is already speeding off down the road.

"AFTER HER!" Butch and his cronies hop onto their bikes and give chase.

Ruby smirks, and speeds... however she notices a blue glow, and that shes left the bullies in her dust. Ruby is startled by the blue glow, she fails to notice the alleyway she turned into was a dead end and crashes. She hits her head hard, knocking herself out cold in the process, not seeing she basically exploded a crater into the ground as she hits it unconsciously.

In THI's secret base.

One, Jason Nott finds out about the massive Turbo energy explosion and informs his creator. Who in turn demands he find the source of this turbo energy, and then gives a call to an old acquaintance.

In N-Teksl's secret base.

Commander Forge Farris sighs, watching as his subordinates place his pseudo niece onto a medical bed in the base's infirmary. Kat quietly walks up behind him, and breaks the ice, "So, this is the infamous Ruby?"

"Yes." Forge answers shortly, watching as Berto looks over Ruby to make sure she's alright.

"Are you worried?" Kat asks, prying for more information.

"About that little monster? No, she's strong and stubborn."Forge smiles, remembering fond memories of his time spent with Ruby. They hear a small groan, and look over to the unconscious girl, who stirs in her sleep, yet doesn't quite wake up yet.

"How is she, Berto?" Forge looks to the young man.

"Nothing too bad, few bruises, and scraps... her arm is cracked and she has a mild concussion. Probably from hitting that dead end so hard." Berto says, not looking up from his tablet with the report.

"Nothing too bad?!" Kat exclaims. "A mild concussions and fracture arm is not, "Nothing."

Forge only has one thought, 'Molly's gonna kill me!'.

A while later, Ruby is slowly returning to the land of the living.

"Boss, she's awake." She hears a muffled voice say, looking around.

"Uncle Farris? Where am I?" She groans, trying to sit up to fast.

"Hey, careful you have a concussion and don't put pressure on your right arm. You could break it even more." A young Hispanic looking male scolds.

"I got her Berto. I'll make sure she doesn't do anything to injure herself further." Forge brushes him off, helping Ruby stand and walk out of the room.

...

"So, you, uncle Jim, my mother and father created this... N-Tek? And you protect the earth? And I was exposed to something uncle Jim and my mother was working on called Turbo energy when I was young?" Ruby sees if she got everything correct.

"And now, you're generating it. Look up." Forge stops them in front of Jim's, his sister Yui, (Ruby's mom) and Mile's honor holograms.

"Wooow, this is awesome uncle Farris! Hey, what's his at the bottom?" She questions, gesturing to Steels offline pod.

"Nothing anymore." He looks away sadly, before dragging Ruby to a door. He gently nudges her into the room before locking the door behind her.

"Hey, uncle Forge? What are you doing?" Ruby looks up at her uncle through the window in the room.

"It's for everyone's protection. We need to contain your turbo energy, for now, the best way to do that is for you to stay in that room, where we can basically suck the excess energy out of you." Forge explains.

"Um... ok... if you say so uncle Forge." Only for her to fall to the platform, as the machine's startup.

Outside the room, and anyone notice, a certain, ultralink pod begins to spin very fast, before it starts zooming to the room.

"Uncle Farris, its starting to hurt!"Ruby screams, curling into a ball from pain.

"SHES GOING CRITICAL!" Berto yells as the warnings reach the red zone.

The door crashes open and time seems to stop for Ruby. While Forge cannot believe what he is seeing. "Steel?!"

"Human, you are about to explode. I can halt you detonation, and we can then flee." Steel explains.

"H-how?" Ruby asks, standing up now that the pain has been stopped.

"Like this." Steel creates an "M" looking thing with his body before slamming into Ruby's chest.

"Now, I will handle the driving, you just sit and watch," Steel says running through the door.

"CATCH THEM, BUT DONT HURT THEM!"Forge orders running after the two escapees.

Steel, using Ruby's head, looks around, calculating every possible escape route, before holding onto a motorcycle and speeding out, even as they shut down the bridge.

"WE'RE FREE!... AND WE'RE FREEFALLING!" Ruby screams as they and the bike go over the edge. Only for a parachute to open up, and slow the fall.

"Ok now that we are not in immediate danger. Just who are you?"Ruby backs away from Steel a bit.

"I am N'Baro Atksteel X377, just call me Steel." He holds out his ...arm-like appendage to shake.

"I am Ruby Dread-Mcgrath. Nice to meet you Steel." She shakes his arm.

"Now, seeing as I am stuck with you, we have to find a place to hide." Steel looks around, scanning the nearby earth formations.

"Wait, wait! Stuck with me?!" Ruby grabs steel, her turbo energy reacting to her emotions.

Steel sighs, "Yes, without your turbo energy I would deactivate, and without me, you would explode."

"You couldn't tell me this before!?... I think I rather have exploded." She sighs, not noticing Steel fritzing out, as a reaction to Turbo overload.

"THROW ME!" "What!?" "You're overloading my circuits, and I am about to go Ka-boom." Steel starts sparking. "THROW ME NOW!"

Ruby throws the poor ultra link high above the canyon, watching in awe as to how far she threw him. Well, before Steel explodes and tumbles back down to Ruby with some large rocks. Ruby barrel rolls out of the way, catching Steel midair fall, away from the falling rocks.

"That was a close one. You ok Steel?" Ruby glanced down at steel with worry evident in her eyes. She looks over him carefully, making sure nothing is broken externally. Steel would have to do an internal search himself.

"WHAT A RUSH!... Oh my head, please be never do that again."Steel request, rubbing his 'head', coming down from his momentary high.

Ruby giggles, "Sure, no problem Steel. Hey, something smells pretty good...-" Steels panicked yell interrupts her. "RUBY YOUR ON FIRE!"

"WHA?! AHHHHHH PUT IT OUT! PUT IT OUT!"

Hey... Turns out I am alive. Who knew? R&R

-Dragonfire Prime