Alex smiles as he leads Ruby around the old streets as everyone is back in the barracks and enjoying some food they brought. "So…what do you think? Cool place to live?"

"How many can this place hold?" Ruby asks.

"Hum…I would say easily a million," Alex says nearly blowing Ruby's mind.

Ruby looks to him surprised. "Really? That much in just this one?"

"Yeah, and that is without repurposing the recreation district over there," Alex says referring to the huge park area.

Ruby blinks slowly to it. "I just…wow…you must have made it well back in the day."

"First settlement here," Alex informs.

"Well what did you do?" Ruby asks as she looks around to the many buildings of many sizes and shapes.

"I was a part of the grimm unit, but before that, I was an interceptor. I was deployed to deal with dangerous creatures like the grexes," Alex informs.

Ruby smiles a bit. "Did you know anyone personally?"

"Yeah, but most are now gone and those in grimm unit, we really didn't get along most of the time. Something about the process made us very aggressive with each other unless a clear leader was there," Alex informs.

"So you never got a chance to even settle down?" Ruby asks worried a bit.

"No, and the question of reproduction was an iffy one. We were so busy putting everything together that we couldn't spare anyone and it was to dangerous to raise them here," Alex informs.

"Ah…I see. So now…?" Ruby asks watching him.

"I'm not even sure we can procreate now that we think about it," Alex says unsure.

Ruby is now more worried. "So…why are you even dating us?"

"I think that is obvious," Alex says before kissing her cheek.

Ruby blushes and smiles a bit. "But…you said you are not sure you can…procreate."

"Does that bother you?" Alex asks.

Ruby looks away at that point. "Well…I um…"

"Come on. Konata will throw a fit if we don't survey this part of HQ," Alex says.

Ruby looks to him sadly as he walks off. "Do you want kids?"

"Are you offering right now?" Alex teases, showing Yang's influence on him again.

Ruby frowns and blushes heavily. "Alex. I'm serious. Do you want kids in the future?"

"Truth is I never thought about it. I guess it can Yang for a little while longer," Alex says smirking at his pun.

Ruby frowns at him and crosses her arms. "Really?"

"Hey. It was good. Yang, hang," Alex says smirking and chuckling.

Ruby blinks just facepalmed. "Why do I want to go out with you?"

"Because you love me," Alex says leaning onto her.

Ruby rolls her eyes and looks to him before becoming heavily worried. "Are you sure you can't have children?"

"I don't know. Maybe, maybe not," Alex says completely unsure.

Ruby leans on him now and sighs. "Guess we have to find a way to make that happen, huh?"

"Yes, so you hoping to find something?" Alex asks as they come to a door.

Ruby hums. "No…not really. In fact, I don't know what is around here."

"Really? You don't want to find another weapon like what we found in the barracks?" Alex asks smirking.

Ruby giggles and laughs nervously. "Well…"

Alex smirked before leaning in and kissing her.

Ruby smiles and kisses back before pushing him softly. "Okay. You win."

Alex smirks before trying to get the door open and fails to do so.

Ruby rolls her eyes and keeps smiling. "Want help?"

"Yes please," Alex says in defeat,

Ruby keeps giggling as she walks over and starts to help with the door as Alex does as well till they managed to get it open.

"And this time I don't get lectured by Konata," Alex says happily as they head into the dark corridor with flashlights.

"Oh please. You will be facing that soon enough," Ruby says giggling still.

"Now let's see what is down here," Alex says as Ruby and he walked through their exploring.

"And what is this spot?" Ruby asks as they look around the destroyed hallway as windows were smashed as vines and plants were overgrown all over and lights flickered.

"Not sure…oh. It's one of the depots for our vehicles like cars and aircraft for the defence forces," Alex says when Ruby's flashlight lit up writing on the walls.

"Um…Alex?" Ruby asks confused as she tries to read the writing.

"Yes?" Alex asks.

Ruby points to the writing as she looks to him. "What does this say?"

"Vehicular storage area four," Alex informs.

Ruby raises an eyebrow as she tries to understand all the words.

"Come on. Let's see if we have any vehicles left as they couldn't have taken many," Alex says.

Ruby smirks a little. "Can you actually drive something?"

"Of course. I was taught how to drive most of the vehicles we use. Not a helicopter but those saw less and less use as time went on," Alex informs.

Ruby smiles sadly. "Guess you lived a better life back then."

"Yeah. The human race has had a regression and innovation with the dust element of this planet," Alex informs holding her close.

"So…what's the fuel here then?" Ruby asks, looking for any dust.

"Um…it is a mix. We didn't develop practical dust powered engines so we relied on solar or stuff like oil," Alex informs.

"That's…old…" Ruby says as she tries to keep looking around for anything useful.

"Well, we still have better weapons and stuff," Alex reminds as they come to another large shuttered door, obviously to let the vehicles go through like the one outside.

Ruby hums before looking to him. "Are you going to stay here now?" Ruby asks as they find a power switch and turn it on, bringing the lights online and starts raising the door.

"I can't stay. It would be lonely when you girls leave. So we will just grab so…no," Alex says excited seeing what was in the storage area after the door opened up.

"What is…?" Ruby asks, stopping at the sight of the wheeled vehicles.

"Ruby, stay right here. I will be right back," Alex says before using his speed to zip away before she could reply.

Ruby pouts as she puts her hands on her hips. "Just like Yang."

Ruby kicked her feet as she waited and soon she saw him running back, carrying Konata over his head.

Konata hums as she looks around before her eyes ended up on the vehicles and starts to gasps happily and drool. "Alex…?" she calls out shakily.

"Yes, I know. They left the Skells!" Alex calls happily.

Konata shrieks happily and spins on him and hugs him tightly. "Greatest gift ever! I love you!" she yells before jumping off and lands onto one of the machines and nuzzles it happily.

"Is this a big deal?" Ruby asks confused.

"Oh yes," Alex says smiling greatly.

"I'm taking this back home!" Konata cheers and laughs.

"We will need to find a ship big enough for it," Alex says lost in their own little worlds.

"Hello?" Ruby asks forgotten.

"We are going to have get you guys up and running," Alex says reminding Ruby of how she is with a new weapon.

Ruby sighs and smiles. "At least he's like me too," she says to herself.

"They must have tools around here somewhere," Alex says before spotting Ruby and composes himself. "Ah, Ruby. We will be here…all night…maybe for a few days. You mind going back and informing everyone of this for us?" Alex requests.

Ruby stares at him as Konata kept nuzzling her vehicle before sighing and waving him off as she walks away. "Okay…we have been here for a few weeks already. What's a couple more?" she asks herself shrugging as she knows she can't stop him.

"Thanks," Alex calls happily.

"You sure we shouldn't go and check on them?" Emerald asks as Mercury sits on the bed, obviously having hormonal troubles.

Cinder smiles and shakes her head. "No. Even if we go and try and talk to them, they will probably be too engrossed in their…vehicles. At least we have time to ourselves to study this place."

"Well at least our team has gotten better looking," Emerald says smirking.

"Hey!" Mercury yells before trying to go back and bring her blushing down.

"Would you just use the machine over there and get some new clothing," Cinder requests as she was trying to wear her old clothing.

Mercury frowns. "I'm still trying to get use to this body. Give me a break!"

"Well your breasts and ass wouldn't be straining your clothes if you did it," Emerald points out smirking.

Mercury glares at her. "Shut up."

"Enough. Mercury, just get into the machine," Cinder instructs a little annoyed as they had been doing this for days now.

Mercury groans as she gets up and goes to it. "Fine."

Emerald smirks as Mercury was forced to undress and steps into the machine with nothing but her birthday suit. "Oh, we are so going to have you seduce enemy agents with your feminine wiles," Emerald says.

Mercury glares at her as she steps in.

"Have fun," Emerald says as it closed up.

"I can't help but wonder if those changing pods were made for convenience or to speed up the time it takes," Cinder says as Mercury stood in the machine waiting, hearing everything they said.

"What do you think it will give her?" Mercury asks smirking to Cinder.

"Scanning," an automated voice says, scanning Mercury with a light blue beam.

"I'm thinking…skinsuit. This place…seems like it's needed for heavy work and going outside there…yes…skinsuit. Maybe metallic color," Cinder says out loud.

"Subject: Female. Hormonal levels: High. Would you like to enable…option?" the automated voice asks, skipping a word.

Mercury raises an eyebrow at that, somewhat confused. "Um…sure."

"Acknowledged," the voice says as the pod opened up a bit and a chair slides forwards a bit. "Please take a seat and relax to continue."

Mercury is still confused as she walks over a bit and takes a seat. "Better not be stupid."

"Please relax…program preparing," the voice says, skipping the word again before the seat started to recline a bit like a massage chair.

Mercury sighs as she closes her eyes. "Damn. This is getting stupid. Might as well get some things when we get back home," Mercury says before her arms and legs were locked into place before her torso and neck was also restrained.

Mercury raises an eyebrow as she tries to look at them, only for the soft cuffs inflate and start to squeeze her neck and arms before stopping short of squeezing the life out of her as it adjusts a bit and then stops. Mercury tried to struggle a bit before seeing a helmet coming down towards her head.

"Oh come on. How is this for clothing?" Mercury asks out loud.

"I bet she will be in there for a good while having to choose her clothing. So want to get lunch?" Emerald asks outside.

"Sure. I am getting hungry," Cinder says, leading her away.

Mercury growled before the automated voice spoke again. "Blocking exterior noise for…program," Mercury was going to try and struggle more when the black that she could see seemed to fade away and she was in a blue room and a woman materialized, wearing a blue secretary outfit. "Welcome to the breeding program."

"Breeding program?!" Mercury yells, struggling more, but found she wasn't restrained anymore.

"It is my job to help prepare you for your impending motherhood. Humanity calls this basically Sex Ed," the secretary says.

"Heck no! I don't want this!" Mercury yells as she glares at the hologram.

"Please select from these choices Lieutenant," the hologram says as options appeared in front of Mercury in a language she couldn't read.

Mercury is now confused. "Lieutenant?" Mercury asks, but the hologram didn't reply. "Wait. This is a machine, so it must have a limited response system…hologram, identify me," Mercury instructs.

"You are Irina Akulov, rank is lieutenant and currently a team leader of the interceptor sub branch of blade," the Hologram informs.

Mercury blinks before looking to the options and frowns. "What are these options in greater detail?" Mercury asks and the hologram didn't respond at all. "How do I end the program?" Mercury asks.

"Three parts must be completed before program can shut down when in green alert," the hologram informs.

"Fine. Random choice," Mercury says annoyed.

"Command accepted," the hologram says as the room started to shift.

Mercury raises an eyebrow as she kept looking around, confused about what is to happen, but if related to the breeder program, it won't be fun for her.

"Lesson, pregnancy and the effects it has on your mobility," he hologram says before Mercury felt something shift in her body.

She looks over herself and finds nothing out of place and raises an eyebrow to the hologram. "What is happening?"

"Simulating pregnancy," the hologram informs.

Mercury blinks before feeling something shifting on her stomach and looks to see her stomach growing. Mercury gains some wide-eyes as she places her hands on her stomach in an attempt to stop it from growing, but it just stops after a bit of growing as it strains her clothing.

"You are now six months pregnant," the hologram says before a course appears with stairs and railings. "Complete this course to finish lesson."

Mercury growls to herself and steps forward and feels the heavy weight before looking down to her large stomach. "Oh boy," Mercury says before starting to walk the course, having to stop at times to rest or right herself until she finally reached the end after much difficulty.

"What have you learned Lieutenant?" the hologram asks appearing beside her.

Mercury pants as she looks to the hologram. "It's hard to move like this."

"Answer…acceptable. Would you like to repeat the lesson?" the hologram asks.

"Oh heck no," Mercury says bitterly.

"Confirmed. Would you like to continued random selection or manually one?" the hologram asks as everything resets and Mercury's body returned to what it was before the lesson.

Mercury sighs in relief as she pats down her body. "Damn…random."

"Command accepted. Beginning breastfeeding lesson," the hologram informed and the next thing Mercury knew she was naked again.

Mercury quickly covers herself as she could feel her breasts being sucked by some unseen force.

"How are the stoves and other cooking appliances by the way?" Cinder asks.

"Good. In fact, they automatically turn off when they start to burn," Ruby says.

Cinder hums as she thinks to herself. "I might be able to do something then. These seem much more better than ours all the way."

"Alex and Konata do keep saying our tech has regressed a bit," Ruby admits as she pulls out a pie from the oven.

"Maybe we should steal some of these things," Cinder says smirking.

"How would power it?" Ruby asks.

Cinder shrugs. "Steal a generator too."

"Come to think of it, where are the generators?" Ruby says before slapping Emerald's hand as she went to take the pie.

Cinder looks out the window. "Maybe down low near the lake."

"Where is the grimm anyways?" Emerald asks waving the hand that was smacked.

"Maybe they are just on our lands," Ruby says, thinking out loud.

"I meant the ones who lead us here," Emerald says.

"Oh. Busy," Ruby says rolling her eyes.

"Lesson complete," the hologram says as Mercury pants.

"What have you learnt?" the hologram asks.

"That…I have to feed the babies or it will not feel the pleasure," Mercury says.

"Correct. Please select next lesson…request to end program as soon as possible found. Starting program for finding a potential match," the hologram says as it started searching through a database.

Mercury stops as she looks to the screen scrolling through names in a different language. "Wha…?"

"Potential matches found from those who have used their access in the last…years is one. Starting now," the hologram says skipping a word like the automated voice did.

Mercury frowns. "Who is it?"

"Identification: Alexander of Grimm special unit," the hologram says, showing Alex in a different set of clothing.

"Alex?" Mercury says confused.

"Only male matching search requirements. Beginning…," the hologram says skipping a word again.

"What?" Mercury asks confused. Mercury watches as the air in front of her shimmer a bit before another hologram appears and shows that it's Alex in the clothes that she has never seen before. "Alex?"

"Subject is a part of the first responders to all threats posed to NLA," the hologram informs.

Mercury reaches out and her hand passes through Alex as it reforms. "I really don't want this."

The Alex hologram reaches out and actually hugs her, feeling real as ever. Mercury tries to push him away but he only hugs her tighter at that. "You're a good wife," Alex whispers as the environment starts to shift.

Mercury starts to lose strength in pushing him away, then slowly becomes slack as Alex holds her on the beach that now formed. "Alex?"

"Shh. Just rest for now. Take is easy and enjoy," Alex whispers as he slowly sits down and lays her against him.

Outside the virtual space, unbeknownst to others, Mercury she was still secured to the chair and looking at a screen as it hypnotized her. After some time, the headset detached and lifted up as the restraints deflated and retracted. "What happened?" Mercury asks, unable to remember what had happened.

"Beginning dressing. Please select options," the automated voice says.

Mercury rubs her head as she looks over the choices that show up in front of her. She kept rubbing her head as she starts to choose some clothing that looks good and like her old outfit. But then came the underwear and she froze.

"Is there no other good choices? I have more options available," the automated voice asks as a timer was counting down.

"I…" Mercury hesitated at that point.

The timer kept going till it ran out. "Time expired. Beginning and filling in missing choices," the automated voice says.

"Wait, what?" Mercury asks shocked.

The machine started to make a humming noise as Mercury could only wait nervously before the machine started to act.

Mercury looks around and sees a few pieces of clothing come out of the walls as it approaches her. She started to move to get away from most of it before the underwear comes at her first as she now realizes she has been naked the whole time while also seeing that the underwear is like a lacy light blue bra and pantes and pushes it on her and ties off her bra. Mercury yelps as she covers herself and a pair a sleek pants comes onto her pants and then a straight blouse that made her look like she is wearing the old clothing she had.

"Process complete," the automated voice says before releasing her.

Mercury groans as she looks herself over and walks out as the door opens. "Not bad…but the underwear…?"

"Ok Ruby, take us to see where they are," Yang says fed up with waiting as Emerald laughs as Mercury.

Ruby sighs. "Fine. But I doubt they would listen to you," she says leading them out.

"So which…" Yang stops when they hear the roar of an engine.

"What is that?" Blake asks.

"YAHOOOOOOOOO!" They hear Konata cheer as two futuristic bikes the size of a car drive up to them with one red, the other a mix of white, dark blue, light blue, and red lights.

"What the fuck are these?" Emerald asks as they all stare at the two large bikes.

"Hey. Got a few working," Alex says over an intercom.

"Of what?" Weiss asks.

"Oh and it gets better," Alex says before the vehicles started to move again and turn into robots at least five times their height.

"Well…this is something," Cinder says raising an eyebrow.

"These are Skells and they were made to deal with powerful threats. Your robots got nothing on these," Konata says proudly.

"I would bet," Cinder says bitterly.

"Ruby, why do they remind me of you with a new weapon?" Yang asks as Ruby whistles innocently.

"Is there more?" Cinder asks smirking at the prospect of getting her own.

"Yes, but all of them need major maintenance and replacement part to get these two running we had to take some parts from a few," Konata informs.

"Can you at least come out so we can see you?" Yang asks smiling at their enthusiasm.

"One moment. Putting it on standby mode," Alex says before the cockpit opens.

Yang smirks now. "Have fun with your toy big boy?" she asked teasingly.

"I think, oh yeah…oh and they can fly," Alex adds.

"Fly?" Blake asks a bit surprised.

"Yes, fly," Alex repeats, getting down.

"Um…?" Ruby starts.

"What?" Alex asks as Konata still hadn't gotten out.

Ruby slowly points to the one Konata is in.

"Konata!" Alex calls.

"Yeah?!" Konata calls back from inside her cockpit.

"Get out here," Alex calls.

"Aw!" Konata whines as her cockpit opens and she stands and frowns to them.

"Come on down," Alex instructs.

Konata sticks her tongue out at him as she jumps down and crosses her arms and pouts.

"Come on you. It's lunch time," Alice says picking her up and carrying her away as she smelled a apple pie.

"Gimme!" Konata says drooling as she reaches out towards the smell.

"I think she smells the pie. Who baked it?" Alex asks.

Ruby whistles innocently as she looks at something interesting on the ground.

"Oh Ruby," Alex says smiling walking up to her before hugging her.

Ruby smiles and looks to him. "Well…I was hungry."

"Come on. Let's go Mr. hasn't probably eaten in days…or even slept," Weiss instructs.

"Cinder?" Emerald asks as the rest left.

"Yes?" Cinder asks.

"What are we going to do?" Emerald asks.

"Let me think about that," Cinder informs.