AN: And we are back baby! Ruby is in trouble! So is all or Arkham! Penny's Bastion counterpart is on the loose and boy! Is she Friendly! Also a lot of people die.
"Hello! I am Nickel! Who are you?" The tall odd girl with a pure white loose fitting one piece asked her eyes blood red her hair a sharp pink as Ruby blinked.
"I'm Ruby-"
WARNING! Something's not right about this girl! Ruby! I recommend extreme precautions! Her eye said locking onto the girl smiling offering a hand, Ruby smiled as she nodded.
I got you.
"Thanks," Ruby said gripping the sleeve of the girl as she pulled herself up not touching her outstretched hand keeping her flesh away from hers as she was yanked up.
"AH!" Ruby eeped as Nickel pulled her up smiling warmly at her fellow Bastion student. Nickel pulled Ruby up like she weighed less than air, yanking her in the air making her legs flail out.
"Ah! Nickel!?" Ruby shouted her face flushing as she was pulled up high into the air. Ruby kicked out as she was pulled back down to the floor. Nickel smiled widely at her as Ruby gulped.
"Nickel! You are really strong!" Ruby said as Nickel smiled showing off rows of white teeth as she cocked her head.
"Thanks, friend Ruby! I know that I am strong! I was built tough!"
"I see..." Ruby trailed of Nickel seemed off, she grinned widely not moving an inch her death like grip on her wrist seemed to never once fade-
There is something wrong with her. Her eye said zooming in it scanned her as an ERROR flashed on her display.
Error?
There is something wrong! I can not scan her! It's like she is deflecting my scans-
"Oh! You have a bionic eye! What model is it? Can it project energy blasts at enemies from over twenty feet and what kind of wattage and power output does it utilize in its attacks?" Nickel asked cocking her head as Ruby paused not sure how to reply.
"I... yes? It does use energy attacks but I don't know the power wattage of it, or how much energy it uses."
"Oh, a shame! I will have to find it out from you at a later date!"
"Ummm sure? I mean yeah! I can hang out with you?"
"Of course you can! You said we are friends! You said so yourself so I would be hard-pressed to not hang out with you, friend Ruby!" Nickel said sliding her feet together as she grinned warmly, Ruby felt her blood turn cold something was wrong with Nickel, something was very off.
For one Nickel looked perfect, literally perfect. Everything about her seemed perfect, her face was a flawless circle her skin gleamed with a near spitshine and she-
She is not blinking. Her eye said as Ruby paused she wasn't blinking, her bionic eye had recorded most of their conversation and after looking at its own logs Nickel had not blinked once.
I... how can she not even blink?
"Friend Ruby? Is everything ok? You seem to be distressed, what is the matter? If you feel troubled just ask your friend Nickel and she will help you through it!"
"So... you gonna say something or do I say something?" Venke asked as Jaune paused, him Venke, and Mika all looked at the newcomer, Nickel was her name and Jaune did not know what to think of her.
She seemed to be a new friend of Ruby who had joined them for lunch-
"She's not eating," Venke said as Jaune paused it was true Nickel was not eating her meal not that she had any. Ruby had her traditional plate of cookies, Jaune a burger, Venke steak, and Mika fish and seafood. Nickel had none she just had an empty tray with an empty glass on it as she smiled.
"So... Ruby... tell me again how you met Nickel?"
"Oh! Well, we bumped into each other in the hallway and then we sort of became friends?"
"Exactly! Me and Ruby are now friends! I hope that we all will be friends as well!" Nickel said smiling to Jaune cocking her head and-
"She's not human." Mika deadpanned her eyes narrowed into slits her green eyes locked onto Nickel as she let out a growl.
"Not human? Friend Mika I am as human as the rest of you!"
"Friend? Since-"
"Ok! Mika, Nickel is our friend, she is Ruby's friend so she is also our friend ok?" Jaune asked as Mika glared at Nickel like she was a parasite. Feasting off the host of the four of them.
"I don't know who she is." Mika spat as Venke rolled his eyes.
"She's Ruby's friend there is nothing more to it. She found a friend what's so hard to believe about that?"
"Thank you friend Venke! But I am more than Ruby's friend! I am your friend as well, and you mine! This is a friendship circle! Not a lone line."
"I... sure." He said as Ruby's eye zoomed in.
She does not have germs.
What?
In a five-foot area around her, there are no microbial organisms.
What? How is that possible?
I do not know, but somehow there are no microbes within five feet of her they are...
They are?
Dead. Something about her is killing them when she moved the surviving ones fill in the void but wherever she goes she is sterilizing the area if that makes sense. It's like she is culling life around her.
That... that really does not sound very good.
IT is not very good, I do not know how this will affect us we will need to think of a way to find out just what she is-
"Ok! Scoot over I needs a fucking seat."
"Zach?" Jaune asked the boy came with Hino both with trays full of meat, lamb, and pork.
"Hello. It is good to see you."
"Save it, Hino, they don't need a damn hello."
"It is nice to see you too Zach."
"Look who got some balls, Jaune how the hell are-
"Hey! Zach!" A voice said as a boy an initiation student walked up to him smiling as he reached out a hand Nickel moved her left hand flying back her bare palm briefly for the smallest of seconds grazed his palm and-
The boy popped, literally, he exploded like a water balloon. Blood flying everywhere painting the seven of them in offal. Death was not something new to anyone in Bastion, the death of one student especially an initiation student was nothing to bat your eye at. As the student's life ended while their lives end was nothing special being covered in over a gallon of blood, bone, organs, and puss was definitely something the students did not like.
"What the fuck!?" Zach screamed flicking his hands his body painted crimson, Jaune spat out a piece of meaty flesh raising his pistol as the plasma-based weapon hummed to life, he thought they were under attack!
"Ruby!"
"I'm ok!" Ruby said spitting out blood Hino gagged her brown skin painted the color of Kage's armor.
Hino spat out the blood cleaning her drills on the table glaring at Nickel who sat still as a statue her eyes still unblinking as she had enough he hissed as he wiped the last bits of blood from his face.
"Nickel!?"
"The fuck was that?!" Zach hissed as he got the last bits of blood off of him.
"Did he try to attack you!?" Zach yelled as Nickel paused her head cocked long lines of bloody flesh flinging down hanging off her pale cheeks like some kind macabre cobweb.
"No. I do not believe he was being hostile to me. Why?" Nickel asked cocking her head making those long gooey red lines of flesh with odd pieces of bone sticking out sway like some kind of horrific windchime.
"Then why the fuck did you do... that!? To him!" Zach yelled gesturing at the brust students grisly remains as he waved his arms lacking the vocabulary to describe this trauma…
"I do not know what you are talking about, I did not attack him." Nickel said a frown on her face.
"Are you telling me that he just fucking popped!?"
"No."
"Then what are you saying Nickel? And please give me an answer I will like." Jaune said pulling out his pistol taking it from his face and putting it on the table he let the weapon hum as he glared death at Nickel.
Who to her credit took his by now intimidating death glare in stride not even blinking.
She never blinks. Jaune thought as he shook his head
"Well I do not know what you think I did but he touched me and that tends to happen whenever people touch me."
"What, they just fucking explode!?" Zach said the indignation clear in his voice as she nodded?
"Yes. That is exactly what happens when people touch me. They often find it hard to keep their internal organs inside of them and this is the result." She said flicking a bit of flesh off her face as Jaune gagged.
"You... you make people explode?" Jaune asked doubt in his face as Nickel nodded.
"Yes. But only if the made direct skin contact with me otherwise there is no risk!" Nickel said as if that made it any fucking better.
"You... you just fucking kill anyone that touches you?" Jaune asked his fear seeping into his voice as Nickel nodded.
"Yes. I do not like to do it but it is a sad fact of my life."
"How?!" Ruby asked her bionic eye glaring at Nickel her laser charging in preemptive defense measures.
"Oh! I can explain! I have a built-in organic repulsor field on me! It acts as a defense from organic enemies!" Nickel said proudly as all of Arkham except Mika backed off inching away from the petite death dealer as Ruby spoke.
"You! You are killing germs!"
"Ah, you noticed? Your eye I take it? Yes, my organic repulsor field neutralizes all microscopic life in a five-foot radius of my current location! If a more compact organism touches me they are annihilated instantly!" Nickel said with a fist pump, that sent a wave of blood and what looked suspiciously like brain flying towards Jaune making him duck.
"So... so you just fucking touch someone and they pop?" Zach asked black eyes shaking in fear as Nickel nodded.
"Yes! Please observe!" She said as she turned to initiation students walked by ignoring the carnage as any good Bastion student would.
"Observe friends!" Nickel said taking out her hands poking both students in the neck.
There was a sound like a wet bag of sand being ripped open both students popped! Blood flew like a rain shower, the awful smell of innards filled the air as the two students were shredded like a sack of flour!
Their trays clattered to the floor make horrible sinking sounds as the fell into pools of offal Arkham and their two friends gagged almost vomiting as Nickel smiled.
"See! I just need to touch someone for my organic repulsor field to activate!"
"You mean your fucking murder field!?" Zach said spitting out what looked like a sick ball of pulp. the boy was covered head to toe in blood just like everyone else, Jaune was still spitting out more awful tasting meat as only Mika frowned taking her hand and licking it once before frowning.
"They taste better if you take the time to cook them. Raw is never good everyone knows that! Damned amateurs making us look bad!" Mika hissed as Jaune ignored her as he glared at Nickel.
"You. You are not here to hurt us are you?"
"Why would I? I have no reason to."
"I... good. But why are you here?"
"I... I do not know! I do not know what I am doing in this school do you?"
"I... I've never met you before in my life. How would I know anything about you?"
"I... I do not know. But I was hoping that you would! I am quite lonely not knowing about myself, but! It is good that I have friends here to support me!" She said patting Ruby's blood-soaked head making her eep!
"RUBY!" The entire table yelled at once as Nickel frowned.
"Calm down friends. As long as I avoid direct skin to skin contact there is no danger. See! Observe while I touch Friends Zach's back!"
"You will fucking not!" Zach hissed as she slapped him on his back.
He screamed! A total un-masculine feminine scream left his lip as she slapped him on the back. His eyes shutting as nothing... her hand bounced off his back armor coated in gore.
"You see! No skin to skin contact and you are perfectly safe!"
"I don't feel fucking safe," Zach grumbled as Nickel paused.
"Not that any of you were in danger! You are all my friends and I would never let anything like that befall you! You do not harm your friends after all! Right?" Nickel asked a hint of worry in her voice like she almost offended them.
"It's... it's ok Nickel no one is mad at you." Jaune said reassuring her as let out a sigh of relief.
"Oh good! I thought that I had in some way offended you! I will do better in the future!" She said as she bowed to them.
All of the teams looked awkwardly at her as if not sure just how to react to such a murderous and lethal presence in their midsts.
DING! Jaune felt his scroll go off looking down he let a frown fall over his face.
"You have got to be shitting me." Jaune hissed as Kage raised his eyebrows the boy had shielded his tubers and steak making sure no offal landed on them and was back to, as usual, eating his meal like three people had not been reduced to globs of meat, puss, and bone in the span of less than a minute as he sighed.
"Something wrong Boss?" Kage asked taking a tuber pouring salt over it and stuffing it in his mouth.
"Besides the death and mayhem? Yes. Ludo just called he wants us in his office for a mission." Arkham groaned the did not know what hell Ludo was going to throw them in but none were eager to take the first step into it.
"Well it was fun knowing you lot, hope you don't die too bad this time," Zach said already taking out a cigarette.
"If I'm covered in fucking gunk before one I'm going to fucking smoke damn it." He hissed as Jaune sighed, he could also-
"Here you go," Kage said putting a cigarette in his mouth lighting it once as Jaune nodded inhaling deeply.
"Thanks, Kage I needed that," Jaune said as Kage nodded.
"Sure thing it looks like today is going to be a long fucking day."
"Friend Kage! Friend Jaune! While I do respect your autonomy and I know I am a new friend and as such am much lower on our social ladder but must you consume products that will end your lives sooner rather than later? Is that a wise choice?" Nickel asked as Jaune groaned today just got complicated...
"I must say that the line of thinking you have shown me is quite a fascination! I did not think that since your life expectancy is so low that any self-harming products that produce negligible short term gain at long terms harms would be insignificant!" Nickel said the new tag along for Arkham had followed them not that they asked for her too but she seemed to get attached and since no one wanted to risk pissing off the girl who could pop you like a balloon she was allowed to come along for the ride.
As they walked Ruby was texting trying to get the blood off her scroll semi succeeding but finding it difficult there was over a gallon of it on her, after all, she needed a shower badly. That and a new pair of clothes.
Ruby. I do not know if you have read this but I have found a development in the case files. As it turns out the old theory of them being eaten is now out of the window. After careful digging and I mean that in the most literal way possible, we have determined that the amount of mass we found at the crime scene is a near perfect match for the missing teams. As in they were not eaten but shredded by something. Whatever this is, it is not a Grimm. Keep your eyes out for anything unusual and keep your head down. I can't have my favorite debate partner taken out so soon can I?
Merrick texted her as Ruby paused her eye zooming in.
They were not eaten? So they were shredded, Ruby you know what this means?
No, I do not.
RUBY!
You saw the footage! There was nothing in it with her! How can she have done that? Unless she can go through walls you mean?
No, I do not.
RUBY!
You looked at the video feed! There is no way that she could have done it! Besides we don't have any other proof so we need to keep this to ourselves. We will go to Merrick after this and we will see what happens then. Ruby thought, putting the argument to end as her eye sighed.
If you say so I still think trusting her is a bad idea.
Who said anything about trusting her? I'm just curious about what she is Ruby said, her scroll beeping! According to it, Nickel was whatever the hell the Mechanics had lost track of, not that it made sense to her.
I guess we will find out soon enough. Her eyes said as they reached the massive wooden door.
"Ok everyone let me do the talking," Jaune said as the team nodded the door swung open and they plus Nickel moved as one.
"Ahh, team Arkham I have been expecting you-
What happened to you?" Ludo asked his cocky smile vanishing as he froze team Arkham looked like they had been in a spray of blood and guts.
"Incident in the cafeteria," Jaune said as Ludo nodded.
"I see now onto the mission this is going to be a rough one alright? There is a town fully overrun by Grimm and I need you all to clear it out before the sun rises tomorrow-"
"Hello, Ludo!" Nickel said jumping forward as Ludo froze his jaw fell open as his glasses fell down his face a look of pure terror overcame his face and even Miss Heil looked ready to scream bloody murder.
"Nickel!? How did you get out!?"
"I don't know! Now, what mission are me and my new friends going on?"
"N- NONE! Team Arkham your services are not needed as of this moment... please go back to your room and take that with you!" Ludo said fear in his face his body pushing back as he eyed Nickel like she was some kind of monster in human form.
"Sir? You ok?" Jaune asked never seeing the enigmatic man so scared. Ludo looked like he had actually seen a demon. Nickel was terrifying him and Jaune was going to milk that train.
"Sir this is Nickel she-"
"How are you alive man!?" Ludo shouted no composure in his voice he was shaken terrified, his eyes darted back and forth he knew what Nickel was and her apparent not killing them was shaking him.
"How am I alive? I was not killed."
"But how!? It is right there!"
"It? What it sir? I only see my team and Nickel."
"Do not toy with me Arc! How the hell is it not attacking you!?"
"Attacking him? Why would I attack my friend Ludo?" Nickel asked as Ludo paused an odd look on his face before an enigmatic grin appeared.
"Well then if she is your friend? Why don't I make some arrangements for your team Jaune? To see how friendly you are."
Ludo said a predatory look on his face as Jaune looked at Kage, the boy had an irritated but not surprised look on his face still coated in offal.
"Sir?"
"I think that Nickel! Would be a fine addition to your team! Think an Auxiliary member!" Ludo said clapping his hands as Jaune froze.
"Nickel? On our team?"
"I won't stand for it!" Mika said stomping her foot on the ground glaring at Ludo who rolled his eyes.
"Miss Heil?"
"You do not have a choice in the matter, girl." Miss Heil said choosing her words carefully glaring at Mika her blood eyes not leaving the girl as she growled.
"Sir. I do not think that it would be wise to let her stay in our room-"
"Friend Jaune? What is wrong? Have I done something to offend you?"
"N-no Nickel I just do not want any accidents to happen. I mean you might tap us or we might tap you and we don't want that to happen now do we?" Jaune said in his most diplomatic tone as Nickel pause.
"I would not do that and my reflexes are more than enough to avoid any clumsiness on your part, I assure you friend Jaune! That I pose no threat to this team and will only be an asset!" Nickel said saluting as flesh flung out form her arms smacking Jaune and Ruby on the head making Ruby quail.
"Sir-"
"The decision is final, you now have a fifth team member Jaune you are the leader make sure Nickel is welcome," Ludo said as he licked his teeth.
"Well you know what they say, it never rains in Bastion but it does pour," Merrick said looking at the solid mass of assorted pulped meat on his tray. He was poking around the evidence if you wanted to call the shredded remains of three teams to evidence that.
Really it was like someone had just stuffed them until they exploded.
"A dangerous semblance if it exists," Merrick mumbled as he sighed.
"This is a right mess, good and proper you know?" Merrick asked as he looked up the sound of walking boots filled his ears as it appeared that one of his contacts had finally decided to show up after taking their damned sweet time to come to him.
"What's a mess?" Ruby asked walking next to her handler shooting him an icy glare that Merrick ignored, he was above such petty things, as Ruby walked next to him.
"Well besides the whole situation?"
"And the table," Ruby added dryly making a heaving motion as Merrick starred at his scroll.
"Fascinating only non-organic material was affected."
"Say what?" Ruby asked leaning in as Merrick showed her his scroll.
"The students, it looks like any artificial body parts are in working order, they were not affected by whatever was attacking these students though I am starting to think that there was no attack to speak of," Merrick said as he narrowed his crimson eyes.
"No fights?"
"Yes, look it seems that after an extensive splatter analysis that I had to do personally, something that I regret to inform you have taken minutes from my life."
"Poor you, whatever would I do if you died a few minutes earlier?"
"Maybe be a bit less sarcastic? I could kill you, you know?"
"That would waste me, and you told me more than once that you absolutely hated people who wasted anything, I think I am rather safe for now."
"Do not get cocky, Rose. I like using you I do not need you." Merrick warned as he shook his head.
"Back to business, it looks like from splatter reports that they burst literally and from what we can see it looks like they popped, I will need to find a better word." Merrick sighed as Ruby shook her head.
"Actually popped is a very accurate way to describe it," Ruby said looking down at Merrick's scroll as he paused giving her a curious look as he raised one eyebrow to her.
"What does that mean Rose? What do you mean accurate?"
"Well, I mean what I said, that is an accurate way to describe what happens to them trust me," Ruby said shaking her head as Merrick sniffed.
"You smell like blood, a lot."
"I was covered in it today."
"A fight? I'm assuming you won?"
"Not really but I think I know what is killing people?"
"And you did not start off our conversation with that? Rose that is not what a debate partner does. Please tell me anything you know so I don't look like more of an ass." Merricks said as Ruby grinned her bionic eye zoomed out and-
"Down!" Ruby yelled hitting the floor Merrick acted without thinking just as a whip! Of a round passing by the area where his head was, came as he fell.
He hit the floor of the classroom that he was using as a makeshift examination room grunting regretting using the room and not the official IA quarters to do his work.
"What the hell!?" Ruby yelled pulling out Crescent Rose, as Merrick drew his knife and pistol taking a look over the fragile desk to see two faunus students firing and walking in.
"It looks like our friends from the church have come bearing the good news, how grand." He hissed dipping back down behind the desk, Ruby groaned taking her gun flipping it upside down as she pulled. Crack! The gun fired and a scream of pain was heard.
"I didn't hear bone shatter."
"His aura is up!" Ruby hissed back as Merrick rolled his eyes.
"Excuses never make you grow up Ruby!" He hissed shooting up from cover there were four more faunus three male one female he aimed his hand cannon for the one on his knees there was a loud bang! That filled the air followed by another the one on the ground had his head vanish in a puff of red and pink the one next to him met a similar fate as the hand cannon broke apart his aura as Merrick fell back to curses as a fresh hail of gunfire filled the air.
"You see? Not that hard." Merrick said tossing his head at the enemies now swearing bloody murder at them.
"Oh don't be a fucking show off!" Ruby hissed as she popped out of cover her eye scanning the environment.
Six hostiles all armed, all moving, aura full on all of the scanning, aiming targeting solutions mapped fire! Ruby pulled the trigger four bullets fired, two broke the aura of one man killing him the others shattered two auras, the female, a lion faunus with a tail had part of her skull caved in by pure kinetic force falling to the ground screaming in agony as another man was blown back several feet.
Ruby dipped down as the surviving faunus poured on the fire, their wooden desk suddenly appearing very unstable as bullets ripped it apart.
"I think we need to find a new place to hide!" Ruby said already panicking they needed to get out of here and quick!
"Move!" Merrick said as they both rolled out of the way of the bullets. Rolling to a fresh desk, Merrick nodded his head to the few enemies still attacking.
"Well? What are you waiting for? We can't stay here!" Merrick said as Ruby sighed nodding as she jumped over the table.
Run! Her eye said as she kicked off her semblance blurring up she slicked down at one man taking off his leg in one sweep of her scythe.
He screamed in pain making it easier for her to switch into sniper form blowing his head off with one long crack! His body twitched a fresh shower of blood erupting from his head as Ruby groaned.
"I just washed!" She hissed before tossing herself flat barley avoiding the fire of another student, a bull faunus white silver horns.
"You ass! He-"
The man screamed Merricks knife sunk into his ankle slicing clean past his Achilles' tendons. The man screamed falling to the floor as he yanked out his blade before stabbing him in the back of the head in one fluid nothing.
The next moment there was a bang! Of fire as a man was lifted off the ground.
His head erased by a hand cannon blast.
"That is how you do it." Merrick teased as Ruby growled her whipped out her auto-mauler for the retreated three there was a harsh BRAKA! BRAKA! Of fire as the weapon kicked! Turning them into meaty red paste. Ruby growled as she finished killing the enemies she sighed putting away her gun her arm the one without as much bionics in it hurt something fierce.
It felt like her bone was rattling like a tin can and-
"Well, that was fun."
"No, it was not." Ruby spat as-
The door flew open five more students in church clothes stormed in guns up-
FIZHT! There was the sound of crackling electricity that flowed into the air followed by the harsh antic scent of Ozone. The students popped, their bodies popping like wet balloons blood flew splattering both Ruby and Merrick painting them a deep crimson.
Both teens froze not knowing what to do the messy pulped remains of their enemies covered them hanging from the ceilings in dangling mass of red and white offal as-
"I just showered!"
"What the hell-"
"Friend Ruby! Jaune sent me!"
The voice of Nickel said as the girl skipped in happy go lucky energy pulsing Nickel skipped in smiling warmly as she bowed to the two of them.
"Nickel!? What are you-"
"Friend Jaune has told me to come to get you! Now-"
"Nickel!?" Merrick shouted his voice finally losing any trace of calm as Nickel paused.
"Yes? That is my name who are you?" She asked as Merrick grinned.
"Me I am a friend of Ruby."
"A friend of hers is a friend of mine!"
"Good! Now them Nickel since you are here do you want a job?"
An: Well! That was a chapter! Arkham gains a new member! Ludo is fucking scared for once! And Penny's Bastion double is now in full swing! The next part of the story is the first mission for Arkham plus Nickel and well... that's going to be fun! Until next time Brave Sir Robinson is next and then Dragonslayer! Until then? Omake...
Omake. Hero of remnant part Two, Friends of yours?
"Jaune? You know her?" Yang asked the Battle sister raising her combi melta aiming it at Sienna who looked like she could care less that a gun that could vaporize her from reality was being aimed by a person that would love to do nothing more than vaporize her from reality and was probably thinking of doing it as she spoke.
Jaune instantly moved in front of Yang to prevent an incident, he did not need that headache. A full-on war with Menagerie would not be a war that the Imperium could not win, hell Menagerie would have their teeth kicked in.
The Imperium was simply too large and vast and with more resources to throw at the smaller island pseudo enemy often neutral area. Jaune held up his hands to Yang to calm her as he smiled.
"Wait! She is a friend! Please don't kill her!"
"You are friends with a faunus from Menagerie?" Yang asked raising her eyebrow her melta now pointed squarely at Jaune himself making him sweat.
Sisters of battle were never known for their tact in combat, more of a blunt force weapon that could light people on fire and send them screaming to their deaths while laughing and chanting in the process.
As Yang waved her weapon around Jaune panicked he felt his face go slick with sweat and he knew that he needed to say something before this situation went from awkward to deadly.
"OK! Yang this is my friends Sienna! And Sienna this is my friend Yang!" Jaune said as Ren slid to his side the phlegmatic aide and best friend of Jaune took up his position as Jaune nodded.
"Commissar," Ren said not making much contact but nodding once at Sienna who smiled.
"Hello Ren, how are you?"
"Ma'am."
"Sienna! What are you doing here? In the Imperium? Away from Menagerie? And around me!" Jaune hissed not sure that he should be talking or shooting her and-
"Ma'am." A faunus soldier said as he walked in behind her bis armor a bright tan with a blue mark on his arm, signifying rank. The man was one of ten, ten faunus soldiers in high tech armor appeared-
"You brought soldiers!? To Imperial territory!?"
"They are my bodyguard detail. I need them to keep me safe-"
"This looks like an act of war if you ask me," Yang asked walking forward lifting her weapon once more like all of the soldiers drew their weapons puls girles charging up with a sharp whine of power cells reaching a maximum.
"Oh? And they point their weapons at a member of his holy order? That is asking for it." Yang said licking her lips as Jaune felt his boots shake.
"Yang!" Ruby hissed falling in behind the commander of the 118th was nervous silver eyes flickering as-
"Ok! Everyone calm down! we are all friends here-
Jaune's words were interrupted as a bang! Rang out a Genestealer that no one had seen fell dead missing its head on the floor as-
"Jaune."
"Emerald?" Jaune asked the green haired inquisitorial aide walked up putting away one auto pistol as she nodded.
"Who the fuck are you?" Yang asked as Emerald ignored her. Walking up to them.
"Jaune Ciaphas Arc. You are hereby required to attend to Pyrrha Nikos Inquisitor of the Imperium as soon as possible. Please let me escort you." Emerald said as Sienna and Yang paused as both women lowered their stances and turned to him as one lilac and blue blinked and-
"Friends of yours?"