AN: OK! Here we go! The first arc of the next pillar is on the way! Something is eating students, will Ruby find out what it is before it is too late? Will Jaune and Kage's talk go somewhere? What about Ruby's new friend and double allegiance? Find out in the next part of Bastion!

OS. Oc incoming if you read Endangered Species you already know her!

"It ate them?" Ruby asked her eyebrows raising as she looked questioningly at her scroll. She looked at it like Merrick was speaking another language as her bionic eye narrowed on the device.

"That is what I said Ruby, something is eating them, and as a proud member of the Bastion Internal Affairs organization it is my duty to look into any under student casualties." Merrick's tone gave Ruby a full force hit her telling her just how annoyed and irritated that the boy was at was to him no doubt a minor inconvenience and not the deaths of students in training.

"I... ok I'm guessing you want me to look into it?"

"You read my mind, sending coordinates to your scroll right now meet me here as soon as possible, I'll be waiting," Merrick said clicking off his scroll link as Ruby sighed.

"Dammit, where is Jaune when I need him?"

"He is training with Miss Velvet Ruby, you know that he told us." Her eye said zooming out analyzing the scroll as Ruby sighed.

Standing up grabbing her scythe from the bed. Crescent Rose was still in bear immaculate condition the hell that was Bastion did not stop her incessant weapon maintenance hell it made her even more likely to do it. If her baby died, she would die too.

Even if Ruby had more weapon the Shoozi tied to the side of her left let by twin nylon straps was a welcome addition to her arsenal, the blade embedded in her arm, or the blade that was her arm was also useful.

"And my eye can shoot lasers, that's nice," Ruby said as her eye zoomed out.

"I can shoot lasers at our threats, but you must give me the power to do so, if not I can not attack."

"I know eyey now come on let's get going and find out just what the hell kind of mess we are going to be in this time," Ruby said sighing.

"I will make a guess that Merrick has made a mistake and is using us to cover it up and do his dirty work." Her eye said it's irritation clear as Ruby nodded.

"Sounds about right," Ruby said before leaving her team Arkham dorm rushing out in a flurry of red rose petals as she left the empty dorm by itself as she went to go see what the hell was awaiting her.

"Ah! Ruby so glad you came." Merrick said his voice as cool and slick as she remember he spoke like someone who was trying to be your friend only to backstab you the second you breathe wrong. The albino handler of hers did not even look up from his scroll he was standing in front of a closed-door tapped off with yellow-red tape looking down at his scroll his blood red eyes scanning it as Ruby sighed.

"I'm here just what the hell is happening?" Ruby asked not in any mood for bull shit, she wanted to get this over with as soon as possible. She had already taken time of going to Jaune where she may or may not tell him she loved him-

"Good to see you, Ruby, well if you had not noticed we have a bit of a problem on our hands."

"No shit, you said something was eating people? The hell does that mean? What's eating people in Bastion?"

"If I knew the answer to that question Ruby I do not think that I would have gone through the trouble of calling you down here to look now would I?" Merrick asked as Ruby felt her eye twitch.

"He is not our friend."

"I know that." Ruby thought to shake her head as Merrick finally blessed her to see his sharp red eyes that still hurt to stare at directly.

"Well in case you are wondering we have a problem over the past few weeks there has been a growing about of unaccounted for student deaths that are beyond our initial estimation."

"Beyond? What does that mean?"

"In a school like ours, there will be a certain amount of inevitable accidental deaths. We take a previous guess of how many students will face accidents in their time here and as long as the number of casualties does not surpass a threshold we see no need to directly intervene."

"That's a cold way of saying you are allowing death."

"Death is not something you can easily avoid Ruby, I'd assumed you would know that by now, I mean you have seen your fair share of death and you have taken your fare tally of flesh in your brief time here."

"I did what I needed to do."

"I know that, and I don't doubt that at all. What I doubt or what I want to know enough to doubt is just what is happening to our fellow student.s"

"You said something was eating them? Why do you say that? What could be eating them?"

"Ah, let me explain while we do not know if something is eating them the state of the bodies has let us to think that it had to be some kind of creature judging by what kind of state the bodies were left in."

"What kind of state? Were the chewed? Half-digested? Is there chunks of meat around?"

"Oh, there is more than just that whatever is attacking our classmates is a bit of a carnivore and is strong enough and worst of all smart enough to stalk, ambush and overpower ground of Bastion students with little to no effort on its part. I am sending you relevant information to your scroll now shall we take a look at the crime scene? This is something that you should see yourself." Merrick said sliding his hand over his scroll Ruby's beeped in confirmation she got the date and nodded.

"After you."

"Ladies first," Merric said his voice infuriatingly smug Ruby wanted to punch him as the door swung open-

"GAH!" Ruby felt a wall slam into her face, right away her nose was assaulted by a rotten, putrid scent, the smell of rotten meat and a land dump rolled into one assaulted her nostrils. She wanted to vomit, the awful smell of death and decay flooded her as her eyes widened. The room was a massacre, blood-spattered the wall,s the floors everywhere! It looked like someone had taken a spray cannon filled it with blood and began to blast the area.

The room was a slaughterhouse sprays of blood fill almost every single corner of the cold grey walls, the floor was littered with small chunks of meat and offal. Ruby's' boots squelched as she crossed the crimson one hand over her mouth as she fought back the urge to vomit.

"What the hell happened here!?" Ruby hissed her stomach rioted bile formed in the back of her throat.

"It is unpleasant to look at isn't it?" Merrick added his own eyes looking down a genuine look of discomfort and distaste on his thin, pale face, it was the single most human emotion that Ruby had ever seen on him and it was honestly a bit bothering.

So you can feel? She thought as she fought back her bile looking at the squishy chunks of human flesh and the virtual ocean of blood.

"What the hell happened here?"

"We don't know, four students walked into the room approximately twelve hours ago," Merrick said as Ruby's scroll began to blink, she clicked a button as it flashed white a wall of blue shot out of her tablet.

The wall of blue formed and shaped Ruby and Merrick's scroll flashed out filling the charnel house with a wall of blue light that formed itno the figures of four Bastion students dressed in green armor.

"Initiation students," Merric added as Ruby cocked her head.

"The hell is that?"

"Holographic projection, it is useful for the Internal Affairs to be able to process camera fed into three d holograms for analysis, you will see team TRSH or Thrash enter the room," Merrick said the four student's two human two faunus the human skin pale as milk the faunus tanned like burnt chocolate entered the room.

"As you can see they enter the room, at nineteen hundred hours the other day. At that point, they do not leave. They never exit and nothing enters the room. When a team of initiate students stumbled on them, later on, they found this... mess."

"Wait nothing entered the room?"

"And nothing left."

"What about vents? Could something be in the ventilation system?" Ruby asked her hey scanning the area.

"There are non in this room Ruby it is not well used and so has fewer ventilation there is only one way in and one way out, and we saw four healthy students enter and this... is what is left. A DNA test confirms it is them."

"The enemy may still be in the room!" Her eyes said as Ruby's hands flashed to Crescent Rose-

"Calm down Ruby, we have lone since served the area, trust us after seeing that there was no way in or out besides the door we came in pretty well armed to secure the room as you can see nothing was in here but death. We don't know how this could have happened, and this is not an isolated incident."

"Not isolated? There is more?" Ruby asked a feeling of fear came from her spin as she gulped.

"Yes, there have been dozens of these incidents."

"Dozens!? How have I never heard of them!?"

"Bastion is not a special place, often when a team dies, it serves as an opportunity for other teams to take things like prestige and items. And we have been covering this up. We do not want to start a panic among the students if something is hunting them."

"But something is hunting them! People need to know to protect themselves!"

"Ruby that is a good point but if we tell them that something is killing them and that this something is doing it so well that there is no sound of a fight, weapons left in holsters and without a single trace, not the faintest idea of what the hell is doing so would start a panic," Merrick said with the patience of someone talking to a small child or someone clearly beneath his level of knowledge. Ruby glared once as she looked at the charnel house of blood and guts.

"So it killed them, and they never fought back?"

"All weapons were found and recovered, all long ranged ammunition was in the holsters no magazine or pack had expended a single shot, and all melee weapons were locked up tight. No one drew a blade nobody fried a shot they just died." Merrick said his voice losing its normal, indifferent, friendly tone and became one of irritation.

"So something is smart or lucky enough to kill a team of students, does so without and sighting and is somehow able to leave the room without being seen."

"Yes, that is what we know."

"Could this be a student? I mean a teleportation semblance maybe?"

"That is not something that we had not considered, but we keep a firm grip on all the semblances of all the student's semblances. So far no one with a teleportation semblance was anywhere near here. And the ones that do still would not be able to do... this." Merrick said gesturing to the bloodstained walls of the room.

"They would need to kill overpower and... pulp a whole team without a so much as a shot being fired? I know of none who could do that."

"So what do you think? Student?"

"We have been entertaining the idea of a Grimm..."

"A Grimm!? How!?"

"Some kind of infiltration type? Maybe something that won't appear on camera? Ruby this is something that we do not know what we are dealing with and we need to find out soon, or else things will get worse." Merrick said shutting off the hologram as Ruby gulped...

As Ruby left the horrors house, Merrick called out.

"I'll be in touch! If anything comes up you will be the first to know."

"Got it!" Ruby said shuddering as she left she blurred off desperate to get as far away from the horror show as humanly possible and-

Ding! Her scroll rang as she paused a strange icon of the Mechanicus appeared on it.

"Hello?"

"Ruby? This is Crawl." A strange disembodied voice said as she gulped her other master spoke as she shuddered.

"Yes, sir!? What can I do?"

"I need your help as it turns out one of our labs has a had a security breach."

"What?"

"Something has escaped..."

"You look like hell." Kae drawled taking out a cigarette and lighting it.

"I feel like hell training was rough today." Jaune groaned yawning once as he walked down the empty Bastion hallways. The two teammates and now friends walked together as they moved side by side. The two marched in lockstep not taking a step out of synch as they steadily moved forward.

"Cigarette?"

"Sure I need it," Jaune said taking an offered white stick taking it in his mouth Kage lit it making Jaune groan. He needed this the feeling of sweet pleasure filling his body as the chemicals from the cigarette entered his body.

His muscles relaxed, and he felt himself clam, his muscles un-tense, and he let his hands fall to his sides.

"Thanks, I needed that," Jaune said taking a deep drag from the cigarette. He felt the way his body just released his limbs flowed free as she inhaled and blew out a large white cloud of smoke in the air.

"Fuck that was what I needed, why can't we get these in Beacon?"

"Because that is a good school. They have an image to keep up, and they tend to want hunters to look all squeaky clean and not covered in blood guts and the pulped remains of their friends."

"Ouch, you make it sound like all we do is kill monsters and watch people we love die in terrible, brutal fashion."

"Have we done anything else since our team started out?"

"Do you love anyone?"

"I like myself, I don't hate you and Ruby's ok."

"Thanks, I don't hate you either."

"Do you hate anyone? I mean you made it sound like you didn't like being bullied back in Beacon." Kage asked as Jaune froze, he let a small grin split his face.

"I was being bullied you know?"

"I do, what the hell was that about? Something about you not belonging in Beacon?"

"No... it was because I was weak. I was too weak to stand up for myself, and I had to stand up to stop that. I was weak then but I won't be weak again, I'm strong now I won't let that happen to me again." Jaune said a hint of steel in his voice Kage saw his hands grip his weapons his pistol and sword shook in his palms as he needed.

"I seed noted you don't like being bullied makes sense."

"Now that I think of it no one seems to be bullied in Bastion, why is that? It seems like this school would be ripe with that, I mean you can kill your fellow students how come people just seem to get along?"

"Simple, bullying is an act of privilege."

"Privilege?"

"You bully someone because they are weaker and they can not fight back, in Bastion you can kill. If you don't like someone you can just take them out and if you bully someone? Sure you might be stronger than then now but later on? In the field or when your back is turned? Knives, poison and sneak attacks can take down the best of us. Bullying others here is a risk not only are you making a target on your back; you are not protected from any retaliation from the others."

"So you are just asking for it then," Jaune said as Kage nodded taking another long drag from his cigarette.

"Sure are you are one drawing attention to yourself, two making everyone know that you are picking on someone weaker that makes you look weak that only incites harm to your own person. And three in Beacon what's the worst that would happen? A slap to the wrist? On both? Here you can have your fucking head gone." Kage hissed as Jaune nodded.

"Makes sense."

"Besides to much fucking work, we spent our time trying to earn our way back into normal life sure we kill each other on a day to day basis, but we don't bully. If you are going to fuck someone over do it all the way, kill them or leave them alone. No use making it longer than necessary." Kage said not seeing why people really tried to bully. If you wanted something you take it, generally and if you want to make someone serve you, that was an odd thing to do.

You needed to do it right not the way Jaune's bully did the key difference between successful, and that debacle was one very, important concept retaliations.

You tend to not want to bully extort someone, anyone, really who has in any way shape or form power over you. Be that physical psychological or in Jaune's case powerful friends who might just kneecap yours for talking shit.

Jaune was weak of that Kage had no doubt when he first saw Jaune he thought that he would fall over and fold like a house of cards the first time a Grimm yawned to his general direction and if not for an impossible amount of character he would not have lasted so far as to fall into Bastion.

This was a key thing to know especially if the person you blackmail might just save your life, you tend to want to keep people who can save your ass happy as a rule of thumb a rule his bully seemed to finally get.

"I... that all is so far in the past now it feels like a dream, Beacon, Pyrrha, freedom. I wonder if they miss us?"

"I doubt it, no offense but you are technically dead, you and Ruby are not with the living anymore, and as far as they are concerned, you are deep in the cold dead ground." Kage sucked har taking half of his cigarette down making a harsh coughing sounds as he finished a drag.

"Good stuff. " He said as Jaune nodded his hand still on his sword hilt.

"You think that they will even want to see me back for Vytal? I mean after everything?"

"I think want is too strong of a word they will definitely be surprised to see you san's all the bullet holes in your body of that I assure you."

"What... what do you think I should tell them?"

"Tell them? The hell do you mean tell them? What do you want to do write an autobiography of your time in the worst place on Remnant to them?"

"No I mean... should I say I'm sorry? If I could have called you earlier, I would have, but things got so messy. I mean I 've been keeping Ruby safe for so long I forget about my old team."

"You do know that she does not need any of us to keep her safe? She could kill just about any one of us with little to no issue except Mika if she got the drop right?"

"I know, but she's my best friend, and I want to protect her more than anything in the world," Jaune said his cobalt eye slighting up as Kage sighed.

"Sure, if you want to be a white knight for her go ahead, I'm just saying look out and don't think too much on this."

"Don't think this is important to me."

"I'm not saying that it's not, if they truly are your friends then they will be happy to see you no matter what," Kage said as they took a corner the two began to climb a dizzying spiral staircase that leads them to the armorer, Kage had been talking of showing Jaune something before they went back to the dorms something about weapon upgrades that he was working on.

"That's the thing..." Jaune paused a wave of doubt crossed his face as Kage cocked his head.

"What's a thing? Are you trying to tell me that you really didn't have any friends at Beacon? Ruby tells me other stories, and I don't think that she is capable of lying let alone doing it for someone she likes."

"Someone she likes? She likes everyone."

"You are an odd man my leader. I hope that you get that head cracked open one of these days."

"Thanks, I needed to hear that," Jaune said rolling his eyes as she went back to his speech.

"I... have you ever thought that your friends were not really your friends?"

"Nope. Not once." Kage answered with such assuredness and quickness that it made Jaune blink.

He expected a sarcastic response and a hint of a viel insult, not a straight face honest to god answer that he could not detect a hint of deceit in it.

"You... you have never felt that?" Jaune asked the two climbing over the ridge of the staircase as the two continued the walk to the armorer.

"Nope. Once you are my friend, you are my friend. I've never doubted anyone once in my life. And I don't expect to do so in the future."

"You never had doubts not even once?"

"Nope, I am guessing that you have or you would not be speaking to me about it."

"I... Ruby's team and to an extent mine I... I've been thinking about them."

"Great you are thinking should I be scared?"

"Quit being a shit."

"Quit trying to get me killed!"

"You made it our alive in the end. Why are you complaining about it now?"

"The last time we left Bastion you tried to sell me off as a sex slave!"

"That was not that bad! You would have like it! I saw the face of Salem. She was good-looking man!"

"You would have sold me! Sold! S, O, L, D, SOLD! You know why I don't like that!"

"I... fine that was a bad call but come on we all lived isn't that what matters?"

"In the end... yes as long as we all walk out more or less alive what am I complaining about? Not like any of us beside you and maybe Ruby expect to live to see our thirties."

"Why are you so pessimistic?"

"Why? I have a collar on my neck that ma blow off my head in a moment notices, I live in one of the worst places in the world, and my future is looking like risking my life for people that don't know me will not thank me and will not know I exist so I can excuse myself for being a bit of a dick ok?"

"I... look I was just thinking..."

"Here we go again."

"Stuff it, my friends did not know me."

"Did not know you?"

"They... they thought I was weak."

"You were weak."

"I know! I know! And I fought, and I, and I finally got stronger! Right now I know I can beat anyone from RWBY! Maybe even my own team!"

"Good for you now live until Vytal and beat their asses into the arena floor on national tv ok?"

"I... They looked down on me..."

"You were weak. I would have looked down on you. Or ignored you really either or."

"That is the problem! They will blame me for this!"

"For what?"

"When we get back Ruby is hurt! They are going to take one look at her and one at me, and I instantly get the blame!"

"The blame?"

"Her sister is going to lose her shit! Yang always thought I was weak if she sees how hurt Ruby is she's going to try to kill me!"

"You just said you could beat her ass, how is she a threat?"

"She's not! I could take Yang! But her, Weiss maybe even Blake!? They will blame me for Ruby being injured!" Jaune hissed his fist balled up into tight knobs making Kage look at his leader curiously.

"How is that a bad thing or your fault?"

"Because they don't know jack shit! They don't know how hard I fought! How much I did to keep her safe! The sacrifices I made the struggle I did! Everything that happened is automatically going to be Ruby is the victim! She is the one who took the hit for Jaune! Jaune is the weak link who got Ruby hurt when nothing can be further than the truth!"

"If it's not true why do you care? If people talk shit to you, ignore them. It's not that hard man just do it." Kage said like it was the simplest thing.

"But they will speak! They will say I hurt Ruby! That her pain is my fault-

"Fuck me," Kage said not missing a beat killing his cigarette sucking it dry stamping the remains on his boot with a hard thunk.

"Fuck em if they don't like you or try to judge when they were never ther then they can all go to hell," Kage said lighting another cigarette as Jaune sighed.

"I... I know I'm just tired of being blamed for things... I know I was weak. I know I was the liability, but I tried, and I got better."

"There you go you got better you are better than you where in Beacon what are you worried about?" Kage asked enjoying another long drag of smoke Jaune sighed taking a drag sucking his down to half as he paused turning to Kage.

"I just want to be better, I need to be better not just for Ruby but for me man. You get it?"

"You want to get better I get it. I like it keep it up, and one day you will be better now come on we need to get these weapons looked at for a second."

"What are we going to look at? I mean I don't think that my weapons can be upgraded anymore."

"Maybe not but you can always check plus you need to take a second to look at something I got something special to show you."

"Really? Am I going to like it or is this going to be the first time you end up almost getting me killed?" Jaune asked a thin smile on his lips Kage shook his head giving him another smoke.

"Just suck this and followed me."

"I don't like guys."

"Hah, that makes one of us."

"What?"

"Eh, I'm not picky now come on. We got to get some upgrades."

Ruby was having a bad day, something was eating her classmates literally. OVer two dozen teams had gone missing in the last two weeks, and so far there was literally nothing no evidence no suspect, not nothing! I was like something was hunting them pulping them into a fine mist and then vanishing into thin air!

"Ruby I do not know what could be doing this, form the information we were given by Merrick it is not a student, and there is little chance a Grimm could have gotten into the school I am stumped." her eyes said as Ruby nodded she had no idea what to think only that she needed to find out what the hell was going on.

"Maybe we can ask Jaune? Not tell, tell him but spitball with him?"

"That might not work Jaune is smart; he will ask questions that we might not be able to answer. Let us keep this to ourselves for the time being."

"That makes sense fine I guess I need to work this one out for my own good, dammit I-

Ding! Her scroll rang someone was calling her?

"Hello?" Ruby asked as a rushed panicky voice came from the other end.

"RUBY!"

"Felicia? That you?"

"Yes, it is I don't know how to say this, but there is something I need your help with!"

"And what is that?"

"Well, you see I'm looking for someone! Something!"

"Something?"

"Yes something is missing from one of our labs and I need your help to find out just what the hell it is!"

"Felicia, you sound a bit worried are you feeling ok?"

"NO! No, I am not! Ruby if you see anything out of the ordinary just call me! And do NOT let it touch you! FOR GOD'S SAKE DO NOT LET IT TOUCH YOU!"

"Felicia I-

"Incoming object!" Her eyes said as Ruby was suddenly tossed off the ground something hit her with enough power that it lifted her up and off the ground, Ruby gagged her body flew ten feet back her world spun as she skidded on the ground.

"Ow! What the hell!"

"Ohh my goodness! Are you ok!" A sharp voice said as Ruby groaned her eyes rolled in her head spots dance in her one natural eye as she cleared her vision she saw a girl standing above her she was short, barely taller than Ruby she had short, unruly hair that looked like it had never so much as seen a comb and was colored a bright fiery red hair and pink eyes?

Her skin the color of milk and she wore a pure white and red outfit. White shirt that hurt to stare a color of white so bright and sharp that it stabbed to stare, her outfit was flawless not a bit of dust or dirt on her white shirt and top with blood red lines down it. She smiled warmly as Ruby shook her head.

"OW! You hit me!"

"I did, and I am so sorry! I will not do so again!" The girl said as Ruby sighed.

"It's ok. I got to go through."

"Goodbye!"

"See you, friend," Ruby said as the girl gasped her hands flew to her face as she blurred up to Ruby her eyes burning?

"Did you just call me friend!?"

Dejavu?

"Yes? I did my name is Ruby-

"Hello, friend Ruby! My name is Nickel!"

AN: And that is it! Ruby is on the hunt for whatever is munching her classmates. Jaune and Kage are getting some upgrades and had some heart to heart. And Ruby meets a new friend... Look out everyone cause Nickel might turn you into chump change! Thanks for reading and The Apprentice is next!

Omake. Hero of Remnant part 2 part 2 four Never enough enemies.

Jaune was well used to the sight of death, the dead dull look in some pour bastards eyes as they let thier life drip out of them the way the mouth's of the damned hung open screaming some silent cry to whatever god's they believed in. Jaune never felt much pity for the dead, mainly because they were often trying to do the same to him. No sense felling mercy for this trying to kill you. Jaune thought as he ducked the swing of a blade some foolish enemy had tried to take him off at the neck, a large man with a brown skin the color of milk chocolate and hair as black as night swung a saber him Jaune ducked raised his pistol pointing it between his eyes and pulled the trigger. There was a quick flash of light followed by a hiss of penetration and the smell of burning flesh.

Fisht! The man fell he dropped his bland and fell to his knees, Jaune was already moving the dead would stay dead for the most part and if they did not? Well, then he would just have to order a small fleet to virus bomb the city simple. As he moved another man attacked this one got itno melee and ate a gut full of Crocea Mors for his efforts. The man screamed a sound so high pitched and painful Jaune winced. He saw the man's guts shredded by his roaring chain blade.

The weapon tore out his guts killing him in a few seconds Jaune dug his blade in almost severing him in two the man fell without a word. As he died the horrible bark of a bolter filled his ears along with the antic smell of prom. There was a loud fwoosh of flame as Yang came to his side her combi-bolter blaring out a massive column of flame.

"Hah! Am I too hot for you?" Yang asked the screaming man falling to his knees her fell crying to some god for mercy as she incinerated the poor sod. As he fell her bolt rounds tore apart the scant enemies approaching them massive explosive rounds that could penetrate armored vehicles tore into flesh and bone. Burrowing into enemies before detonating them into meaty chunks of flesh and bone.

Jaune winced as the dull thud, splat of her weapons bark filled his ears.

"Really Yang, puns?" Jaune asked loosing off two shots with his pistol two enemies dropped hard their bodies hit the floor bolts in their chest and forehead Yang grinned as she smiled evily wreaking havoc on the fleeing enemies.

"You know you love me!"
"More so that I should," Jaune said as the fight raged on the city street fight turned into a massive as the few imperials tore the enemy apart with bolt and las.

"Sir, I think we have this one," Ren said hell pistols flashing a few traitors became twisted melting piles of flesh and bone dying a very painful end.

"I think so to Ren."
"Shall I make tea?" Ren ingqure phelgamtic and ufnlappabel as he always was.

"Sir! The enemy is in full retreat!"
"Hell yeah! Go us!" Yang sais Ruby snapped Jaune a sharp salute and he nodded his head to her.

"Good work everyone but let's not get cocky something is very wrong here," Jaune said kicking a body two extra clawed arms came forward the side as Ruby gasped.

"Hybrids!" The commander yelled as Jaune nodded.

"Sure are."
"Hell do I have to purge the whole hab block!?"
"I don't know Yang but what I do know is this we have a Genstalr infestation and I need to call an inquisitor..."