Penny strolled through the streets of Vale, confused. She got permission to take a walk, so long as she stayed with her two guards. But both guards went missing. She looked, but was unable to find either of them. A sigh escaped her lips as she continued searching. Was it wise for her to keep walking when both her escorts went missing? Probably not. But, she assumed the guards just went to get a caffeinated beverage. Besides, she has a homing chip built into her, so there was really no need to worry about getting lost. They could always track her.

"PENNY!"

The orange haired girl turned to see a red hooded girl running towards her.

"Ruby?" She asked, surprised.

"You've got to help me." Ruby said, panting. "They're after me."

"Who?" Penny questioned, confused.

"Them!" Ruby said pointing behind her. Four men wearing white suites were running after her.

"Get back here you runt!" One of them said.

"Who are they?" Penny asked.

"No time to explain, we gotta move!" Ruby said, pushing Penny till she started running.

The two girls ran down the street as fast as they could, evading their pursuers to the best of their ability.

"Through there." Ruby said, gesturing towards an alley.

They hide behind a crate, and waited. The four men walked down the alley, looking for them.

"Great, you let them get away." One said.

"Me, you're the one who was supposed to be watching her!" Another said.

"Ugh, he's gonna kill us." A third said.

"Not if he doesn't find out." The fourth said.

"He's gonna find out." The first thug said as they walked out of the alley.

Penny watched as they left. She tilted her head to the side, curiously.

"Ruby who were those men?" She asked.

"Oh, just some friends."

Before Penny could question what she meant, a green bolt of energy hit her. A moment latter, all the green on her body grew dark as she fell down, completely lifeless. 'Ruby' smiled as she lowered her plasma pistol.

"Don't worry, by the time were done, you're gonna have a bunch of new friends Penny." She said, grinning wickedly.

Volume 3: Search and Destroy

Yang was worried. Worried for her sister, worried about what was going on, and worried about those imposters.

'Were they really us from a different world?' She questioned her self.

She turned her head out the window, observing the destroyed tower. Construction crews were working tirelessly to repair it. As she watched the reconstruction efforts, Rico's holographic avatar appeared next to her.

"Still worried about Ruby?" He asked.

"She's out there somewhere, alone, probably scared, and confused." Yang replied.

" I sort of doubt the 'being scared' part." Rico said. "It's Ruby after all, your team leader and soon to be the best Huntress of all time."

"She's still my little sister." Yang said. "And I'm supposed to watch out for her. And yet, I have no clue where she is."

"Have faith." Rico said. "I'm sure the guys are working on something right now to help her."

Meanwhile...

"Uh, is that light supposed to be blinking red and purple?"

"I haven't a clue. Pass the wrench."

Jaune sighed as he handed Burn the tool. The Spartan grabbed it and proceeded to hit the small, calculator like device on the table with it.

"And this is supposed to help, how?" Jaune asked.

"If I can get this thing working, then I can use it to find Ruby by scanning any of the items she used before her disappearance and track either her, or her evil twin." Burn replied. "Since there is probably a small trace of her aura left on her possessions, and an aura is as unique to a person as a snowflake, then I can use it to find an identical match to that aura. Sort of like DNA fingerprinting and all that."

Weiss poked her head in the room, overhearing what Burn said.

"For a idiot, you're pretty smart." She said.

"Hey!" Burn shouted. "I prefer, annoying moron." The Spartan then set back to work.

"Where's everyone else?" Weiss asked, referring to the rest of Burn Squad.

"Matt is having a debate with Nora on 'Pancakes vs. Klondike Bars', Grant is playing chess with Blake, and Hicks is still trying to get out of the wall Velvet threw him into." Burn replied.

"We haven't really talked to Velvet that much ever since the 'incident' that occurred while watching her pet snake." Weiss said.

"SNAKE!" Burn screamed, clinging to the celling. "GET IT AWAY FORM ME!"

"Calm down, there's no snake here." Weiss said. "And I thought Jaune had a feminine scream."

"Hey!" Jaune yelled.

"Anyway, why did Velvet throw Hicks into the wall?" Weiss asked.

"He tired to feed her a carrot." Burn said. It was a well known fact that Velvet Scarlatina hated carrots. She despised them with a passion. The last time someone offered her a carrot, she took his arm. Poor guy. Was stuck in the infirmary for half the year. But, I digress. Back to the main story.

"Well, at least she showed some mercy." Jaune said.

"HA!" Burn suddenly shouted, surprising the two Beacon trainees with him. "I finished it. Now to see if this bad boy works."

"Sir, Destro's FOF tags indicate they're in that building."

"Right, prepare for retrieval. Lethal rounds authorized."

Later...

"Here's Ruby's note book." Yang said, handing the small journal to Burn.

The Spartan placed the device above it, scanning the book. The screen flashed multiple colors before showing a map of Vale with a red dot at one location.

'AURA MATCH LOCATED.' The screen read.

"It works!" Burn shouted. Everyone in the room cheered. "Now then, lets got get our friend back."

Before they could move, the doors blew open, and several men in black armor charged in, wielding SMGs. More like them jumped in through the windows. They all aimed their guns at Burn Squad, team RWBY, and team JNPR.

"ODSTs?!" Grant shouted.

"ONI ODSTs!" Burn said, surprised.

"Fire Team Destro." Said a voice. A man wearing Recon armor with a red visor walked into the room.

"You're under arrest."

Oh dear.

"So, now the stuff from chapter one comes into play."

Yep.

"And right when they were going to get Ruby to."

Yep.

"D #$ks, that's just bad timing."

Indeed. Will Burn Squad make it out of this one? Find out next time.