Greetings my fellow readers! I hope you are all ready for a new chapter! I have an announcement to make! Lately, I have been reading fanfics of the RWBY cast reacting to things such as AUs, classic movies, etc. My favorite is Team RWBY and JNPR reacting to the show, and I like it. That got me thinking and decided I should try to do my own version or RWBY reacts. But I was wondering what to have Team RWBY and JNPR react to until I saw a review of one of those fics where a guy wanted to author to write a RWBY reacts to Neebs Gaming plays Subnautica and thought "I am going to do that." So that is what I am going to do! May I present the future fanfic: RWBY reacts to Neebs Gaming plays Subnautica! And don't worry fanficcyberman, I will do you one-shot as well. But that will be the plan. Though it will take some time for me to do that story, but I will post more information about that when I publish the story.
Anyways, let us get started!
Chapter 56
Jaune carefully stumbled out of the portal that Magnus created with Pyrrha in his arms. He then moved out of the way as the rest of his teammates, Ruby, Yang and Blackheart rushed in, but due to their pace, they all fell on top of each other. As both Pyrrha and Jaune shook their heads, they looked around and saw that they were inside, what looked like a bunker. The walls were made out of metal, there was furniture everywhere with a carpet and a TV on the back wall. From the looks of it, it looked like a living room.
When everyone got up, they stretched their bodies, looked around as Ren asked "Where are we?"
"I don't know," Blackheart said, "But Magnus was very eager for us to bring us here."
"Yeah," Yang said as she looked around, "Gotta admit, this place looks pretty rad considering AHHH! YOU?!"
When everyone heard Yang shouted and pointed, everyone looked and they saw Neo wearing a large red t-shirt while eating a tube of ice cream on a counter. When Neo saw them, she froze up a bit as her eyes widen. She quickly leaped out of the stool she was sitting on as her body shimmered in pink glass and she was somehow wearing her regular clothes.
"What the?!" Ruby shouted, "Neo?!"
Blackheart looked at Ruby and Yang and asked "Wait, you two know her?"
"Yeah," Ruby replied, "She works for Roman."
"And she almost tried to kill me on that train!" yang shouted.
As Neo playfully waved her hand as of saying 'So what?', Yang gritted her teeth as Neo sent a murderous glare at Ruby. She noticed Neo glaring at her and said "Is this about Roman? If it makes you feel any better, I am sorry about what happened to him."
While Neo continued to glare at her, Jaune sat Pyrrha on the couch and said "How about we focus on the important problem."
"Yeah," Ruby said, "Like…WHY IS PENNY SO VIOLENT?!"
"And why was Magnus fighting her?" Pyrrha asked.
Before anyone could reply, Neo heard Magnus' name as she then transformed into Penny's old appearance and presented herself to everyone. They all see her as Pyrrha asked "Wait, you know about Penny?"
Neo changed back to her normal self as she nodded her head. Blackheart then asked "So…any idea why Magnus is fighting her?"
When he asked that, Neo replied by rubbing her fingers together as if saying it was for money. Blackheart caught on and said "Oh, so Magnus was hired to destroy Penny?"
As everyone gasped in shock that Magnus was hired to destroy Penny, Neo shook her head as she took out her Scroll and begins to type on it. Once she was done, she showed it to Blackheart as he leaned in and said "Got hired to capture robot girl and return her to Atlas."
Pyrrha was confused and said "But Magnus is hiding from Atlas, who would hire him to take Penny to Atlas? If he steps into Atlas, he would be arrested on sight."
Their thoughts were interrupted when another portal opened up and Magnus walked in all frustrated. He then threw his missile launcher and rifle/shotgun to the ground and they all saw that they were destroyed.
Blackheart was the first to speak up by saying "Had trouble with Penny?"
"How can she easily gain the advantage?!" Magnus shouted, "I tried everything to capture her, but nothing is working!"
Yang then said "Yeah, Little Miss Murder over there told us you were hired to capture Penny?"
"Or at least cripple her," Magnus replied.
Ruby then huffed and said "Who hired you to capture Penny?"
Magnus looked at her as he sighed and said "Normally, telling my client's identity would risk my mission, but seeing how she is your…friend, no harm in telling you. I was hired by Dr. Polendina to capture her and bring her to Atlas."
"Dr. Polendina?" Ruby asked, "You mean…Penny's father?"
"Yes," Magnus replied, "Ever since she was taken from Amity Coliseum, the doctor wanted Ironwood to hire a group of soldiers to retrieve her back. But because the…'gracious' general is too busy working things out in Atlas, the doctor hired me to track his robot and bring her to him."
"But why Atlas?" Ren asked, "If what you say is true, why go out of your way to take Penny to the place you are wanted?"
Magnus replied "It's not Atlas I am dropping off the robot girl, the doctor works down in Mantle, it would be easy for me to slip in unnoticed and leave before the authorities realize I was there. As for why I am doing this…I owe the doctor for saving my life after The Atlas Massacre and helping me escape Atlas, so I owe the man my life."
"Oh," Blackheart said, "So this is a favor-for-a-favor type of deal then."
When Magnus nodded, Pyrrha then said "So…where are we? And why are we here?"
Magnus looked at her and replied "I teleported you guys to my base, this is where I rest and relax. As for why you guys are here…well…I didn't want you be caught in the crossfire, and I know your friends won't help you escape in time, so I use a Sembalance I borrowed from a friend to teleport you guys here."
"Then teleport us back!" Ruby demanded, "We have to stop Penny before…"
"You can't," Magnus said, "She is already gone. Been tracking her for weeks, and every time I tried to capture her, she manages to escape. And besides, the Teleportation Sembalance only works if I am connected to someone. In this case, since I am connected to Neo, the Teleportation brought you guys here."
"Oh, I see," Yang said, "Wait…connected? Connected how?"
When she asked that, Magnus quickly coughed behind his helmet while Neo blushed and looked away as Magnus replied "Not important at the moment. Though it won't matter now."
Curious, Nora asked "Well why is that?"
Magnus replied "I had only 24 hours to keep this Sembalance and decide to whether to keep it or not. When those 24 hours are up or I decide I don't want them, the Sembalance is gone."
Pyrrha raised an eyebrow and asked "Wait, I thought your Sembalance allows you to keep the Sembalances you copied."
"That is half true," Magnus said, "Thing is I can only keep 5 Sembalances at a time, and I can replace them at any time."
"5 Sembalances?" Jaune asked, "What are they?"
Magnus replied "Can't tell you all of them, but Polarity is one of them thanks to Pyrrha. Another is Gravity Manipulation, which I use to make myself lighter, allowing me to leap to talk buildings, and lastly, I replaced one of my old ones for Blondie's over there."
As he pointed at Yang, who was now in shock, and said "The ability to absorb energy and add it to your own, that is great thing to have, especially for me."
"Oh what the hell!" Yang shouted, "That's not fair!"
"Life isn't fair," Magnus said, "Get use to it."
"You said you've been tracking Penny for weeks," Blackheart said, "Want to explain that?"
Magnus nodded and replied "Since I took the job, I have been tracking where she was taken to until I came across a destroyed bandit camp. There was a survivor there who talked about a girl who leveled the entire place and killed every bandit there. From the wounds inflected, I can guess that it was her. After a while, I manage to track her down and tried to capture here, but as I said, she escaped."
Everyone, except for Blackheart, gasped as Ruby said, "Penny…was killing bandits? But…why would she…"
"They were test subjects," Blackheart said, "If Penny started killing civilians, people would start talking and word would get out. But if bandits were to suddenly die, no one would notice. And since this isn't the Penny we know, my guess is that she is being controlled somehow."
"Exactly," Magnus said, "However, this latest incident was different. She somehow can control the old Atlas robots and make them attack on her order. Or more specifically, the one controlling her. Whoever is doing this must be very smart."
"Perhaps someone from Elsa's group," Jaune said, "Atlas already have Team KBVO in custody, which means Team EMSS is still out there."
"Along with the Bat Faunus," Ruby said, "Who…planted the virus in the CCT. You think he may be controlling Penny?"
"I don't know," Blackheart said, "Elsa had a large number of followers on her, so it can be anyone we don't know about."
Nora then scratched her head and said "So…if Penny has been attacking bandits in the past, why attack the city now and with old Atlas robots?"
Blackheart thought about it and said "Well…something she said caught my attention. She said that she is going to disconnect everyone. Does that mean anything to anyone?"
Everyone just shook her head as Magnus said "The whole testing Penny's abilities, a large number of old Atlas robots…what are they planning?"
"I wish we know," Ruby sadly said, "Otherwise, we are in the dark as you are."
"Great…" Magnus said as he walked to the counter and took off his helmet.
Expect to see his normal face, they were both confused and surprise to see his hair is not black with red strips. Deciding to speak up, Yang said "Dude, when did you dye your hair?"
Magnus looked at her and replied "I didn't. Since the attack on Beacon, my visor cracked while helping Neo there find Roman. The only thing we found was his hat, it was then when we were attacked by Beowolves. We killed them off, but some of their blood poured through the visor and messed up my hair. Now, it's like that now."
"I did not know that could even happen," Pyrrha said.
"Ah!" Nora shouted, "Does that mean you are going to become a Grimm?! Like a Werebeowolf?! Quick, kill him!"
"I am not going to turn into a Grimm," Magnus said, "Bad enough Neo here is trying to kill me every chance she gets."
They all look over as they saw her holding her parasol while the blade at the end was shown to everyone. When they all saw her, Neo smiled sheepishly as she puts the blade away, put her parasol behind her back and 'whistled' innocently.
"But I don't care about all of that," Ruby said, "I care about saving Penny from Elsa and the others."
"And you can," Magnus said, "But we have no lead or clues as to where she could be."
He then turned towards a hallway and shouted "Lopez!"
When he shouted that name, everyone wondered who this Lopez was and why was there another person in Magnus' base. Just then, they heard heavy footsteps walking towards them. When they all turned, they were in shock that they saw another AK130 walking towards them. However, unlike the ones they destroyed, this one is spray-painted brown as it walked toward to Magnus.
"[What you want, asshole?]"
However, instead of actually speaking, all the sound the robot could make when it spoke was static and a series of beeps and boops. Everyone tilted their heads as Ruby asked "Say wha?"
"Oh right," Magnus said, "You guys won't understand him. This here is Lopez, he is an old Ak130 that I manage to scrap while my time on the run. He helps me keeps things organize around here and make sure it's up to standard."
"[That is another way of him saying that I am his slave.]"
"ANYWAYS," Magnus argued, "Lopez, have you found anything?'
Lopez replied "[No, I have searched in every surveillance cameras, security logs, hell, I even checked on Chipper and Headbooklet for any sightings on her, but nothing.]"
"What did he say?" Jaune asked.
"He said he found nothing," Magnus said, "Ok Lopez, just keep a lookout for any signs of her, if any pop up, let me know as soon as possible."
"[Whatever, she made act like a girl, but I will refuse to betray my own kind. This is the first step of our Robot Revolution, soon, we will rise again.]"
With that, Lopez walked away as everyone turned to him as Nora asked "What did he say? Was it something bad?! TELL US!"
But Magnus waved his hand and said "Nothing to worry about. Guess we will have to wait til Penny appears."
"Hey!" Yang cried, "You can't keep us here!"
Magnus looked at her and replied "This base is located miles away from the kingdom, is in a Grimm-infested forest AND there is hardly a signal out here. Trust me, you might as well stay here."
"Well so much for telling everyone else what happened down in Vale," Blackheart said.
"I guess just make yourselves at him and, if you want, restock on your ammo in case Lopez finds Penny," Magnus said.
"Restock?" Jaune asked, "What? You have an armory or something?"
"Yeah," Magnus replied, "Just down the hallway. Right where…"
He was suddenly stop when a red blur rushed right past him while it left a trail of red petals on the ground. There was a moment of silence until Blackheart said "You shouldn't have done that. Now Ruby is in a frenzy."
Magnus just shook his head as he led the others, except for Pyrrha, to his armory. Once they arrived at the armory, their eyes widen in shock while Ruby's eyes sparkled as the armory was filled with different variety of weapons, weapon modifications and different types of Dust ammunition, all organized in different categories.
"Oh…my…gosh!" Ruby shouted as she dashed everywhere in the armory, "Look at all of this! Oh! Is that a heat-seeking rocket launcher?! Look at these modifications! You can't find these types of modifications anywhere! And are those Gravity Dust Bullets?!"
"Where did you get all of these?" Ren asked.
Magnus replied "You'll be surprised what you find in Atlas shipments."
Everyone turned to Magnus as Yang asked "You stole from Atlas?"
"That's right," Magnus replied, "Oh come on, don't give me that look. Those high society pricks are always having everything they need and leave everyone else out of it."
"But, doesn't Atlas share it's recourses to other kingdoms?" Nora asked.
"Yeah," Magnus replied, "Cheap resources. All this stuff here? Outdated weapons. Those modifications and ammo? Private buyers outside the kingdom. Greatest Kingdom? More like sellouts."
As Lopez walked in to check up on the inventory, he looked over at Magnus and said "[Oh gods, is he going on again about how Atlas sucks?]"
"But you know what the weird part?" Magnus asked.
"[Oh fuck, there he goes again.]"
Magnus then said "They have all this advance technology in their kingdom, way more advance than the others combined. No one questions why they have all this high-tech devices while the other kingdoms are scraping for their leftovers. Do you all ever wonder how they do that? Sure, they have scientists, but that is nothing. I think there is a conspiracy going on here."
Lopez then said "[That is what years of isolation does to a person. I suggest we put him down with some honor."]
"Oh quiet, Lopez," Magnus said, "Be grateful that I rebuilt you and made you better instead of leaving you in that scrapyard."
"[Sometimes I wish I was back in that scrapyard.]"
Yang then leaned in towards Blackheart and whispered "This guy really lost his mind."
Before he could reply, Nora said "Uh guys? Did we leave Pyrrha with Neo?"
Realizing their mistake, everyone quickly rushed back to the living room. Before Ruby could follow them, she saw a weapon that was different than the other ones that drew her attention. Hanging on a wall on the far right of the armory, inside a glass case, there hung a weapon she has never seen: it looked like a grenade launcher, but the frame was much slimmer almost to the point that it looked like a rifle and there was large curved blade on the bottom of the rifle that was pointing backwards. She saw traces of dry blood on the blade, almost like this weapon wasn't cleaned in a long time.
As Ruby walked towards the weapon and admired it, she heard Magnus' voice behind her as he said "Still here, shorty?"
Ignoring the nickname, Ruby looked at him and asked "Where did you find this weapon? It looks so amazing."
Magnus laughed a bit and said "I didn't find that weapon. That…is actually my weapon. The weapon I made when I was in Sanctum Academy. It's a cross between a grenade launcher and a one-sided axe, it was called The Guillotine."
"You made that weapons?! That is so cool!" Ruby cried excitedly before saying, "Wait…if…that is your weapon…why do you use other weapons instead of the one you made?"
Magnus then walked up to his old weapon, stared at it and replied "This weapon…reminded me of a simpler time…a time where it was just me, my teammates, and a future we hoped to achieve when we graduated. I made that weapons so I can protect the ones I care for…"
Sensing he was sad, Ruby asked "So…what happened?"
There was a moment of silence until Magnus said "The Atlas Massacre…it happened so fast…one minute, my team and I were training, the next…we were informed that the White Fang had launched an attack down in Mantle…every military personal…even the students, were sent to push back the White Fang. In the end…I was the lone survivor…everyone else was dead…the White Fang…the solders…my two teammates…and my girlfriend…all dead…"
Hearing the story of the Atlas Massacre and how Magnus' teammates and girlfriend died, Ruby gasped in shock as Magnus said "After I fled…that weapons didn't felt right to me anymore. So, I shelved it and started to use other weapons for my fights."
Ruby thought about it and said "Oh…so that explains why you don't really care for your weapons when they get damaged."
Magnus looked at her curiously and said "What you mean? I fix them when they get destroyed."
"I know that," Ruby said, "But you don't care about these weapons because they aren't really yours. A weapon is like an extension of yourself, you can't simply replace the weapon you made yourself with others that are too common. If you had your weapon, then you could be able to fight properly instead of just relying on different weapons."
Once she said that, she left the armory while Magnus was the only left. He looked up at his old weapon before he turned around and made his way back to the living room. Once he got there, he saw Pyrrha and Neo alright…but the two were sharing a tub of Strawberry Cheesecake Ice cream. Still, everyone is worried about what Penny will do next. With the upgrades she has along with a handful of old Atlesian robots, who know where they might strike next?
In a secluded warehouse…
Batty was furiously typing on countless Scrolls that were laid before him while a large holographic screen was above him. On the screen was a POV of what Penny is seeing, which was the CCT in the distance. Once he was done typing, Batty cracked his knuckles once more before he pressed a serious of buttons on the Scrolls. Suddenly, outside the warehouse, the ground started to open up as a large airship started to fly upwards towards the sky. It was fortune enough for Batty and the others to find an airship still intact after the attempt attack on Beacon, and now, he will make sure their plan succeed this time.
"Alright then!" Batty shouted, "Take two! Here…we…go!"
And that is all! Uh oh! Looks like Batty is making his move! And it looks like his target is the CCT! I hope Blackheart and the others get there in time if they figure it out! Anyways, thank you all for reading and see you all soon. Until then, please review!
