"Any idea who took her?" Taiyang asked Fury. Fury tilted his head slightly.
"Maybe." He said. "But I hope to God I'm wrong." Taiyang paused for a moment before saying anything.
"I hope you're wrong too." He said.
[Shift]
Ruby didn't know where she was, all she knew was that she was tied to a chair with a bag over her head. She could feel the presence of someone nearby, staring at her, burrowing into her soul.
"You are the great Iron Rose?" A woman's voice amusedly hissed. "I expected more of a fight." The voice circled Ruby, but made no noise when she walked. The bag was suddenly torn from Ruby's head, but the room she was in was dark, so she didn't need to adjust too much. But she didn't see the woman.
"Who are you?!" Ruby demanded. "What do you want with me?!" The woman began laughing. Behind Ruby. Ruby strained to turn herself around, but it was futile. The woman suddenly slid into Ruby's view, and the girl froze. Stood before her was Salem, grinning. Ruby began shaking as Salem stepped closer and placed a hand on Ruby's cheek. Ruby attempted to jerk away, but only gasped as visions began to flood her mind.
The first vision was of herself lying in the center of a crowd with a bullet hole in her chest. She wasn't dead, evident by the fact that her teammates were still trying to stop the bleeding.
In the next vision, Ruby was lying dead on the steps of a courthouse. Her Arc Reactor had been torn out, all of it, even the shaft that went into her chest. Blood pooled around the girl, cascading down the steps as her teammates rushed to her body.
Finally, came a vision of Remnant colliding with another planet.
Ruby let out a horrific scream as Salem let go of her. Tears rolled down the younger girl's face as she struggled to move away from the demon.
"What do you want from me?" Ruby weakly asked again, sobbing. Salem smiled.
"I want to see you broken, begging for death." Salem told her.
[Shift]
Jaune had to say, even though he felt horribly scared for his friend, he was greatly enjoying his suit's flight. Jarvis had managed to trace the last known location of Ruby's scroll, and it wasn't too far away either, so either these guys were amateurs, or they had killed her.
Jaune suddenly made the suit swerve downwards, barreling towards the ground at what seemed like terminal velocity. At the last second, he suddenly pulled up, and landed feet-first with a metallic thud. Ruby's captors suddenly surrounded Jaune, firing their weapons at him. Jaune didn't even have time to react before Jarvis began firing the gun on Jaune's shoulder, incapacitating almost all of the guards, except for one who seemed to be the leader. Jaune quickly strode towards the leader, who hadn't let up on the trigger since the moment Jaune landed. The War Machine slapped the gun away from the leader and grabbed him by the throat.
"Where is Ruby Rose?" He asked, holding the man above his head. The man screamed and gasped, but Jaune was not cutting off his oxygen supply.
"I-I don't know!" He fearfully screamed, flailing his arms and legs. Jaune tried to drop the man, but the armor would not let him.
"That's not what I wanted to hear." The armor spoke without Jaune now. The gun on his shoulder swiveled to point at the man, and fired a round into his shoulder. This time using lethal rounds. The man screamed.
"You fucking shot me!" He shouted.
"Jarvis," Jaune said. "Please tell me that's you doing that." Jarvis didn't respond.
"If you don't begin telling me the truth, you will wish that's all I did to you." The suit told the man.
"Jarvis?!" Jaune asked again.
"Sorry, Mister Arc." Jarvis suddenly said. "I got a little carried away, didn't I?"
"I-I'll tell you what I know!" The man shouted, holding a hand to his wound.
"Don't be." Jaune told Jarvis. "It worked… Just don't do it again."