Summary/disclaimer: Time for another chapter of Cybernetic Couple. Enjoy the 900-word chapter. I don't own RWBY, Monty Oum and Rooster Teeth do.
(Pietro's Lab.)
Ruddy slowly entered the room and cracked his neck before he shook the water off his head. He hummed and then he sat down on a chair and looked at Pietro.
"I wonder what's going on next. I checked the wall; nothing has broken it. I do want to point out that the rain is annoying." He said before Ruby entered.
"So… Your Ruby, huh? I heard all about you with Pietro and all of that." He said before Pietro spoke up, turning to Ruddy and humming.
"Sergeant, you know that the Grimm aren't the only threat, right?" He asked, Ruddy shrugged and turned to look at the doctor.
"I know, but I don't really have a choice when it comes to that, doctor. I work for the military, I kind of have to report to them from time to time. I'm a warrior, not a scientist, no offence, you're the one who made Penny, I didn't." He said, he looked over his weapon and Ruby blinked.
"Your weapon is a revolver?" Ruby asked, Ruddy nodded and turned to the girl.
"I would like to say yes, yes, it is. I'm one who prefers to put the enemy down hard. I also want a weapon I can use within seconds, a handgun does both of those things." Ruddy said, Ruby nodded before Penny walked into the room and towards them.
"Ruddy, I am glad you've returned to here. I was wondering where you went." The girl said, ruddy put his weapon away and then he shrugged, his clothes soaked to the bone by water.
"I was making sure there was no Grimm within the city and the outer wall was ok, I shudder to think what would happen if they managed to break the outer wall. I know we'd all be dead if they smash the wall." He said before he turned to Pietro.
"I thought you created the wall, doctor. I heard from General Ironwood years ago that you created the wall and all the defenses keeping the city safe." He stated, Pietro chuckled with amusement and tapped a few keys on the computer.
"I did create the code, but the cybersecurity for the city isn't perfect. Atlas doesn't update the code in Mantle, it does for its own city. I created the wall to make sure that all of the Grimm stayed outside and weren't in danger from the Grimm and the outer environment." Pietro said, Penny turned to look at Ruddy.
"You serve as a soldier for General Ironwood, right? You should know more about the wall then anyone else." Penny stated, Ruddy hummed and rolled his eyes.
"I shouldn't, I'm not very high ranked enough to really do anything. I'm a sergeant, Penny. I do the lower ranked things, I'm not a colonel or anything like that, I lead a few soldiers and such. I don't have much clearance as you seem to think I am." He said, ruddy got up and walked to the computer.
"I still want to know how they managed to hack the security. We keep the security codes locked up and it hasn't been updated since Arthur Watts… I'm sure his death took away anyway to hack into the city, only the council and General Ironwood would have such clearance to the computer codes." He said, Pietro turned to the computer while Penny and Ruby walked over.
"Doctor Watts?" Penny asked, Pietro turned to Penny with a frown, he turned to the computer and started typing at the computer, his fingers flying over the keys.
He scrolled through massive lines of code only a cyborg like Penny or Ruddy could follow.
"We're dealing with a lot more than a single hacker. I have my own ideas of who's behind this, but I don't know for sure yet at the second. I'm going to keep checking and report to the general within the hour. Penny, can you please take your friends to their rooms? I need to be alone to think for the moment and I don't have much time to check if I'm right." He asked, Penny turned to Ruddy and Ruby, both of whom looked at the cyborg with amusement and then waved his hands back going and forth.
"We're not going to be doing much anywhere… Get me if you need me, doctor, I'm going to talk to General Ironwood and then make sure that everything around the lab is fine before I get back to sleeping." Ruddy stated before he walked out of the room, Penny watched her friend leave before she walked after him. Ruby looked at Pietro before she looked at Penny and followed them both out of the room and into the next room, Pietro sighed.
He continued to type at the screen, Penny couldn't know what the truth about Watts was, she'd never be able to think clearly again.
Author notes
Phew, another chapter done! I want to point out this story will be probably contained within season 7. Next chapter will end up being in a week and will show Penny and Ruddy training and then show Watts and Tyrian planning. Until then, Lighting Wolf out!
Ps: Raven will be updated soon and Ruby might get another update on Thursday or so.