General Ironwood walks along the hallway of one of his most prestigious ships for the Atlas Military. The Admiral he had put in charge was an excellent Faunus man with a tactical mind like he hadn't seen In a long time. The Admiral was one of two people he trusted most. Atlesian Operative Winter Schnee being the other. The General only hopes that the man was ready for this meeting.

He enters the bridge to see the Captain speaking with a Lieutenant. "Our presence here is only for the Vytal festival Lieutenant." The Faunus man says with a cold commanding voice.

"Yes sir. Apologies." The Lieutenant then walked away before stopping and giving the General a Salute with widened eyes. "Ironwood, Sir. General on Deck!" Everyone turned to the General who chuckles waving his hand.

"At ease. Back to your duty's." Ironwood says walking up to the Admiral who gazed at him with a thin smile while the Admiral's piercing red irises contrast to his white sclera. The admirals black hair was done in a militaristic cut, and he wore an Atlesian uniform in a similar style to the General's own. What stood out the most however was the Admirals Faunus trait which gave him deep blue skin. "Are you ready for the meeting Admiral?" Ironwood asks.

The Admiral nods. "Yes." He says turning to his Lieutenant. "Keep everything as I have instructed. I will return shortly."

The Lieutenant shakily nods. "Yes sir. As you say." The Admirals then walks away with Ironwood from the bridge to the hanger. The two enter the Bullhead without uttering a word, and begin descending to Beacon Academy.

"So." The Admiral cuts into the silence like a knife. "I assume we have confirmed the threat was as we suspected?" He asks.

Ironwood nods. "Yes. It was her alright." The General says. "It seems her pieces are in place."

The Admiral smiles. "We then it seems she's ready to sweep the Dajarik board." He says. Ironwood frowns not recognizing the term. "It won't matter however. So long as we can weed out the locations of her pieces we can start whittling them down."

Ironwood smiles thinly. "I agree. This is actually why this meeting is so important." The General explains.

The Admiral's smile widens. "So we've located one of these pieces." It wasn't a question. Ironwood always found it amazing how The Admiral could figure things out before he told the Faunus man. There were times where Ironwood wondered why The Admiral hadn't gotten the job as The General Of Atlas.

"Yes. Possibly two." Ironwood adds.

The Admiral's eyes seemed to glow as his smile grew a sinister look. "This will be most interesting." He says.

Jaune looks down the hallway they wait in as Anakin slowly groans in pain. Pyrrha was off scouting the path ahead with Nora while Crimson stood by Anakin helping him up. "Slowly." Crimson says. "You've been out for a while."

Anakin nods leaning against his teammate. "Thanks." He says appreciatively. "How long have I been out?"

"Almost an hour." Jaune says not turning his gaze away from the hall. "You took a pretty hard hit. Are you gonna be alright?"

"Yeah." Anakin assures. "I've had worse." Anakin finally stood on his own popping his shoulder before grabbing his lightsaber. "Where are the girls?"

"Scouting." Jaune says. "Their making sure our path ahead is clear while we keep you safe. Ren's over there." He says vaguely pointing his sword to the man in green who was standing on a pipe above them.

"And the others on the beach?" Anakin asks realizing how long it's been. "Have we heard from them."

Jaune sighs. "No. We haven't." He says. Anakin tightens his grip as guilt washes over his face. Jaune looks over noticing the look. "We have heard gunfire however so I can assume they are still fighting." Anakin nods. Anakin then pulls out his scroll checking his Aura level. To his mild surprise it was nearly full. He stuffs it back into his pocket before looking to Jaune. Before he could speak however he spotted Pyrrha and Nora returning. Both looked unharmed.

"We're back!" Nora shouts happily. Then she gasps at the sight of Anakin standing. "Is the sleeping prince finally awake?!"

Anakin rolls his eyes. "Yeah I'm awake." He says. "Did you find anything while you were out?"

Pyrrha shrugs. "Not much. The path ahead is mostly clear."

Jaune frowns. "Maybe he's running out of robots." He suggests.

Anakin shakes his head. "I doubt it. My guess is that most of them are either protecting the Doctor or going down to the beach." Anakin suggests. Crimson nods before grasping his head in pain. "Crimson? You alright?"

"Fine." Crimson says. "Just a headache."

Anakin frowns. "Do you need a minute to..."

"I said I was fine Jedi!" Crimson interrupts. His words made Anakin flinch back.

"Okay." Anakin relents lifting his hands as if surrendering. "I won't push."

Crimson sighs. "Sorry. I think something about this mission is getting to me." The Faunus man apologizes.

Anakin nods. "It alright." He says before turning to the girls. "Did you find a path back to the Doctor's room?"

"Yes." Pyrrha confirms.

Nora nods excitedly. "Yeah it's through this really creepy lab room but no one's in there." She says casually.

Anakin looks to Jaune who shrugs. "It's the best we've got." Jaune says

Anakin nods again. "Okay. Pyrrha, Nora? Lead the way."

It wasn't long before the six of them entered the lab room a ways down the corridors. Inside were test tubes text books and various computer systems. Crimson felt his headache get worse as he enters. They all stopped to look at the stuff seeing if there was anything they needed to take with them. Crimson however stopped in his tracks looking to something. It was a terminal that was still active. On it was text from a project labeled Project Phoenix. Crimson frowns reading the notes.

"While most of the requirements for Project Phoenix has been found two ingredients still remain out of reach. Without a Jedi this project can't be completed. Though I've heard rumors of one surfacing in Vale thanks to my source. Now all I need to do is follow the instructions left on the odd device I found practically in my back yard."

Crimson halts reading as he hears Nora accidentally knock over a set of tools. Looking over she was smiling sheepishly as she scooted away from the crime scene slowly. Crimson also caught Anakin staring at something. Crimson decides to walk over to see what his team leader was interested in. Once he got there though his blood froze. Looking to the massive tangle of wires and machinery he saw what sat at the hear of it. It was a red tetrahedral pyramid with gold accents about the size of a soda can. Each of its corners were floating away from the main body though nothing else happened.

Crimson frowns grasping his head. "A Sith Holocron?" He asks.

Anakin was taken aback by Crimson's statement. "Uh.. yeah. How did you know?" Anakin asks.

Crimson's frown deepens as he began massaging his wrist. "The terminal over there mention's it." The Faunus man lies. Crimson then walks back to the terminal while Anakin eyes him all the way. Truth be told Crimson didn't know how he knew about the Holocron. "Crimson." The Faunus man scowls. His name didn't feel right for some reason. Shaking his head he looked back to the terminal and began reading again.

"With help from the odd tetrahedron I was able to get started with the project's preparation's. The dam thing is taking up space however. I need to find this Murakami Orchid..."

Before reading any more Crimson impales the terminal with his weapon several times gaining concerned looks from the others. He then begins looking around before his gaze stopped on something familiar. It was a cage with a machine mimicking a human spine in the back with tubes extending from the machine. Crimson glares at the sight walking over. Using his weapon he hacked and slashed the thing to pieces.

"Crimson what are you doing?!" Anakin shouts out.

"Destroy the Holocron." Crimson says. "That thing is too dangerous to be in anyones hands. I refuse to be a slave again." Crimson's last statement was said more to himself than to Anakin, but the Jedi found himself widening his eyes to it anyway.

Anakin looked to the Holocron wearily before reaching his hand out and pulling the Sith artifact to him. Once in his hand Anakin thought about Crimson's words. After a few moments he decided he trusted his teammate and crushed it in his hand destroying whatever knowledge was inside. It was. Few moments later that Jaune spoke up.

"I don't think there's much more in here. Should we keep going?" The blond asks.

"Yeah." Anakin says looking to the red mist from the crushed Holocron. "Yeah let's do that."

It wasn't long before the group got back to where they were. After climbing up stairs and slicing two of Merlots robots in half they found themselves in front of the hole Anakin had cut into the wall earlier. Inside the same massive room filled with computer screens, tubes hanging from the ceiling, and plenty of Oxygen tanks. In the center of the room was the same pod with the tubes from the ceiling connected with wiring and a heart monitor. In the tube was the exposed frail body of Merlot who's eyes widened in fear.

"No!" He shouts in a raspy voice. "You vile monstrous barbarians!"

"As I said Merlot." Anakin says angrily. "It's over." Anakin then flinches as a spear rushes past him stabbing right into Merlots chest. Looking over his shoulder he see's Crimson was the culprit. Anakin doesn't say a word as Crimson walks over and yanks his spear out of the dead man's chest.

"You were pathetic." Crimson mutters to the corpse. "Not even you could achieve immortality."