Ruby along with Ren and Nora left Atlas Academy and went looking for Jaune, due to leaving him there. Once word got back to Ironwood that the rally was attacked and that Jaune was possibly captured, Ironwood gave orders that Robyn and her Huntresses were to be arrested, however, not one of ORN or RWBY liked that, so they all split up to look for Robyn and hopefully get Jaune back, they also wanted to check in on Professor Polindina to make sure he, Penny, and Maria were ok.

"You think he's ok?" Ruby asked

"I hope so, I don't think Robyn would kill a huntsman" Ren replied

"I don't know, with everything going on, she just might," Nora said

Ruby groaned, "this is all my fault!" Ruby said "I should've grabbed him when we had the chance"

"Look, it was a situation that we needed to get out of quick, not to mention it was his fault that he stayed behind," Ren said

"he didn't do anything wrong he made sure that the girl on stage was safe, he did something neither of us did," Nora said with a glare at Ren

things between the two were now getting somewhat worse, not to mention this whole situation was testing everyone's relationships. Yang was questioning Ruby about how she was handling everything that was going on, Ren and Nora were also not seeing eye to eye with the situation too, and even some small tension was building up between Weiss and Winter. However, Ruby was going to do what she did best and that was fighting through her feelings and trying to lead her friends against Salem.

"Let's see if we can find them where Robyn's most active," Ruby told them "I'm sure we can find them and see if we can get Jaune back.

The two agreed and followed Ruby to where Robyn was mostly active in robbing Atlas Supply trucks.

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While Ruby, Nora, and Ren were looking for Robyn, she was currently with Jaune and Fiona heading to Professors Polindinas lab. Jaune had told them about Salem and the threat she had on the world, which he also told her was the reason they needed the amity arena, so they could spread the word of Salem. After their many questions, which Jaune tried to answer best, he had somewhat convinced them about Salem, however, Jaune still wanted to make sure that his assumption was right, he knew someone had to hack into Atlas's network, but he knew that currently, the only ones he would think of were Atlas's top scientist, he was the only Atlas Scientist that Jaune knew and he trusted Polindina very much.

He entered the lab only to find Maria tinkering with a gadget, she heard them enter and looked at Jaune

"Well, Hello again Jaune," Maria said

"Hey, Maria, hows retirement?" Jaune asked with a smile

"Very well actually, but I guess I do miss going on crime sprees with you again," Maria told him with a chuckle

Both Robyn and Fiona looked to Jaune with a confused look before looking at Mara

"Jaune, who are these two?" Maria asked

"oh right," Jaune said "Maria I'm sure you know Robyn Hill," Jaune said gesturing to Robyn

"A pleasure to meet you," Robyn told her

"Likewise Ms. Hill, big fan of your work," Maria told her

"And this is Fiona Thyme" Jaune gesturing to Fiona

"'Ello" Fiona greeted

Maria looked at her and smiled, "hello Fiona" Maria greeted

"Now that introductions are out of the way, is Professor Polindina here?" Jaune asked

"yes, he's upstairs looking at the footage," Maria said "damn people, framing her like that" Maria cried out

Jaune nodded, "well I'll go see him"

"I'm sure he'll be happy, but if you wouldn't mind leaving these to here to chat, It does get lonely here," Maria said with a smile

Jaune eyes her, he was getting the same feeling off of Maria, like he did when his mother or sisters were going to embarrass him, however, that can feeling of embarrassment could wait. Jaune headed upstairs and hoped that Maria didn't tell them about how they got to Atlas.

Jaune reached the second floor and saw that the Professor was indeed looking at the footage of the incident and he was looking at it, hoping to catch every detail. Jaune knocked on the doorframe and the doctor quickly turned his head in Jaune's direction

"Ah! Mr. Arc!" Pietro said "what can I do for you?" he asked

"It's about the events that happened last night" Jaune replied "I have an Idea that I wanna make sure of"

"What is it?" Pietro asked

"The building that was attacked last night had the power cut off, all of its power, yet the rest of the street had its power on. I know for a fact that for someone to do this, they have to be Atlas's top scientists, The General of Atlas's army, and the councilor of Atlas" aune told him "I've already ruled out Ironwood, and there's no way Jaques Schnee had that type of clearance, however, this also brought me back to one group"

The gears in Pietro's head began to turn as he was coming to the same conclusion, "you think an Atlas Scientist did this?" he asked

"I'm sure of it" Jaune replied, "do you keep in contact with any of them?" Jaune asked

"Somewhat" Pietro replied "however two of them went missing a long time ago" Pietro replied

"Could you still show them to me" Jaune replied "It's possible that they may be working for the same people who framed Penny"

"Sure" Pietro replied

Pietro went to his desk and the to his computer, he then accessed Atlas's network then accessed the files on the other four Atlas Scientist that he worked with, each one opened and he then turned to Jaune and moved away from his computer

"here you go," Pietro told him "those are the other scientist that I worked alongside with, each has been updated since a year ago but some of the information is still pretty the same as it was years ago"

"Thanks, Professor" Jaune replied

Jaune sat at the desk and looked at the first file, which was about an Atlas Scientist named Docter Gerat Grey. He was a black man with grey hair, he seemed happy in most photos. Jaune looked at his current whereabouts and found that he was living in Vacuo with his family. Jaune knew that it couldn't be grey both due to the distance the matter of family, he was sure that Salem didn't want people who had families to work for her as that might cause complications.

The Next file belonged to Professor Richard Brown, he was a white man with brown hair. Jaune looked at his information and found that he had passed away a few years back, so he was already not an option, however, he'd keep it in mind.

The next one was a female scientist by the name of professor Ella Fall. Jaune had to do a double-take as he thought he had seen Cinder herself, the woman almost looked just like her, but the difference between the two was her smile was soft and kind, while Cinder's cunning and smug, Jaune sent the file to his scroll in case there were indeed related, he didn't want to take a chance on knowing more about her. However, he had found out that she was missing and she was last seen in Eastern Vale. Jaune kept her in mind for the hacking but he didn't feel like it was her.

The next was someone who Jaune took an interest in once the face and the name was brought up. Dr. Arthur Watts. Jaune had sworn he had heard of him before but he couldn't think where, then when he looked at his whereabouts, Jaune saw that he was pronounced missing before the fall of Beacon, in fact, he went missing just a few weeks after the first few weeks of that year began. Jaune looked at the man and indeed, he seemed formal and proper, however, Jaune could see the fire of ambition behind them. Jaune looked more into his information than the others and found out that most of his projects had been rejected by none other than James Ironwood. Jaune instantly knew that this was the guy, despite what the others might think, Arthur Watts was the guy.

Jaune sent Watts file to his scroll and he thanked Pietro and left, telling him that he had found the guy and that they were gonna bring him to justice.

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"Are ya for real!?" Fiona cried

"Yes" Maria replied "All his idea to get here"

"I never thought he had it in him! I mean the lad completely looks like a golden boy!" Fiona said with a chuckle

"I got that feeling too," Robyn said with a smirk "but then again, never judge a book by its cover"

"Yes, Jaune does give off that impression, but trust me, if I was a few years younger, the things I would do to him, I-"

"Oi! Back off Bubby! I already got him" Fiona told him

"Really?" Maria looked at her with a smile and a questioning look

Fiona nodded

"Huh, and here I thought he would date Ruby or her sister at least," Maria said

Fiona was a bit confused about why Maria had thought that but she shrugged it off. Finally, Jaune came downstairs he looked at them with a smile, he looked over to both of them and nodded,

"Well we'd better be off now, it was nice meetin ya Bubby," Fiona told Maria

"Likewise dear" Maria replied

The three left and began heading back to the base, Jaune pulled out his scroll and opened it up and tapped on Ruby's contact. It rang for a few minutes before finally, the call went through

"Ruby? Are you there?" Jaune asked

[Oh my gosh! Jaune where are you!? are you alright!? your not hurt are you!? what did they do to you!?] Ruby asked

"I'm fine Ruby" Jaune replied with a smirk "Look I need you to meet me at Robyn's base, can you do that?"

[wait, why there?] Ruby asked [what's going on Jaune?]

"I'll tell you when you get there, for now, call the others and tell them to meet me there too, and whatever you do, don't tell Ironwood or anyone at Atlas where we are going, got it?" Jaune asked

[alright] Ruby replied [but this better be important]

"it is" Jaune replied

[alright, see you and Robyn's] Ruby said

"see you there" Jaune replied

He hung up the phone he continued to walk with Fiona and Robyn back to their base. While they did so, Robyn walked a bit ahead of them, leaving the two to talk. Fiona looked at Jaune and noticed that he looked like he won the Vytal Festival, he looked like the happiest he's ever been, and she kinda understood why, Jaune had told them about the Grimm Queen and how she couldn't be killed, but that didn't mean she could be stopped. Fiona understood why he seemed like he had finally caught a break, because of everything he's been through, he finally found some hope.

She'll admit, She was skeptical of Jaune when he had his friends were at the rally, and she was even more skeptical on how they knew one of the Ace Ops, which made her worry that Robyn was right, Ironwood was trying to get rid of his competition and the rally was gonna be an ambush. She almost felt scared when the lights went off and then she heard the screaming of people, she was afraid that Ironwood had made his move and was going to kill them all. When she saw Jaune appear on stage with his weapon out, her heart sank, she thought she had actually found the right guy only for him to kill her and her boss, but she was wrong. Jaune was there to protect her and Robyn from that Tyrian guy, it also eased her mind when he helped heal her instead of running off with his friends when they were accused of attacking them. Fiona was still skeptical when he was knocked out, but she wanted to believe that Jaune wasn't who she began suspecting he would be, which is why she asked Robyn to use her semblance on him, and when she saw both Robyn and Jaune come back from her questioning, she knew that he was indeed a good person, and that made her happy, which of course lead her running and hugging him.

"Fiona? you ok?"

Fiona was pushed out of her thoughts when she heard his voice, she turned to see Jaune looking at her with a bit of worry on his face. She smiled at him and nodded

"Yeah, I'm fine" She replied

She then took his hand in hers and Jaune almost seemed surprised at what she was doing, but she smiled as they continued to walk as they held hands

"Everything fine," She told him once again.