Hello everyone again. Welcome to the third chapter of Pennytron.
So far this week went a bit well, but I got sick before and couldn't do much at all, but I'm slowly getting better so that's a good thing. Now I've seen the latest Captain America: Civil War trailer and I'm impressed with it, although I was a bit scared during the scene where they showed New York and Sokovia.
And that Spider-man reveal. I think Tom Holland is a good actor for him and the costume looks cool, definitely one of my favorites.
So, now we have that taken care of, I hope everyone has a good time and please enjoy the new chapter.
Chapter 3
Several soldiers were walking down the main hall and behind them was the sixteen outcasts who were handcuffed and unable to say any protests against these guys. The veterans were questioning why these guys were arresting them despite the possibility being the events back on Earth, while the newcomers were trying to figure out what was going on.
Silver was checking on her pistol and then noticed the group just arriving near her position so she placed it back in its holster, "So, the outcasts are here...welcome to Planet Sakuhin." She greeted them, then ordered the troops to remove the handcuffs except for the mystery man.
"Look, whatever it is you want...we can tell you that we haven't done anything wrong." Weiss said to her immediately, "We only just showed up."
"I know, because I brought you guys here."
"What? Then explain why you has to drag us from Remnant and into this world?"
"Weiss, the rest of us are still confused as to what's going on." Octavia said, only earning a nudge from the soldier's' gun to shut up.
Silver nodded, "Right, I'll just have to make this quick then. This is the alternative version of the Atlas you guys know back on your own world, and I'm the commander of everyone here. We're here to protect this world and we've done so for the past twenty-four years, we're completely free of having any baddies strong enough to compel us...at least until now.
Ever since the first major outcast event in Syndicate, we've been monitoring multiple realities, including yours, in case there was any disturbance or rifts that could affect their world and there's a chance that something like this is going to happen to us." Dozens of screens were shown right behind her as a holographic projection. "Nineteen days ago we had a deactivated robot locked up in Delta base who was a bit conspicuous to us when we first tried to speak to him. Last night we then had a slight problem considering our recent project, M374. We finished rebuilding her but then she took off into hiding. One of my men said that her behavior had been changed drastically and now acts a bit hostile."
"So you're telling us that we're going on a rescue mission to find an android just because she's gone rogue?" One of the outcast reprised the information to the commander who just shrugged, as if she was unsure of what the real reason is.
"For now, that's one of the missions we can assign you guys."
Rather than ask about the other objectives, Winter was more questionable towards themselves. "Commander, if I may ask, why did you chose us?"
"Have you not heard? Half of you guys are already well-known outcasts who fought on earth and syndicate, and some of you tried to defend Beacon...some of you did anyway." Silver's tone of disappointment was heard in the last line, "So I see that as a good reason to bring you along for the ride."
"So you're putting our lives as risk in a different world just for a mission."
"Precisely." The commander knew that since Ruby was in this world as well, they have to make sure it stays a secret because it would just mean that her older sister and uncle, and maybe her friends, might try to desperately search for her and this wasn't the time for it.
Qrow had a bit of concern about all of this, "Listen lady, but if you don't recall, you said that you were spying on our world. Then you must know about what happened to Yang after the events at Beacon, yet you still brought her here."
"I know, she's necessary like the rest of you-"
"My right arm is gone and you think that I'm still useful?" Yang exclaimed to her.
The commander just nodded, "I'll have to talk to you later about that, but onto more important manners. I'm trusting all of you to help us out and protect this world, there was already a fear that an enemy outcast would be arriving soon so you're our best bet." Silver looked away and stared at the blank screen on the wall, "Troopers, dismiss the outcasts to their new quarters."
The group had to just accept her for now and leave their suspicions for later, so they quietly began to follow the soldiers, "Wait, you three. Stay here." The mystery man, and the two parental figures of the outcast had turned to the commander.
"I guess I have to apologize for dragging you guys into this, but well...I do have my reasons."
"Then you can start by telling me what is the deal with my younger sister being what you call, an Outcast." Winter said to her.
"Do I have to restate this? Weiss and Ruby Rose went to another world and had to fight aliens and then some military organization and now they are known as legends...and yet you're somehow not astonished by that."
"I'm just...a little shocked…" The sister of the heiress nodded a little, "She did mention fighting off the White Fang but fighting against the enemies of another world...it's something entirely different."
"That's a first." Qrow said in a stern manner, "Plus you seem to be interested in making these kids into soldiers for what they did."
"Qrow, that is not my intention, I only want to have these outcasts help us fight off enemy outcasts and find a missing robot."
"I still think you might make these guys part of a militia."
"Whatever you say." Silver told the uncle, "But you should appreciate what these guys could do."
"Right...you're making a big risk by allowing those kids to come with you, especially that Schnee girl." The mystery man said in a brief tone, and that quickly caused Winter to shoot a glare at him.
"You shouldn't have threatened to kill her, you imbecile." She stepped forward and shook her fist.
"Winter...there's no need to harm the guy yet." The leader stopped the potential argument, "We'll just have to deal with him later, though I do want this guy to answer my questions immediately."
"The only thing you'll get out of me is that I'm here to kill the two girls who ruined the multiverse."
"That's not gonna happen, you should know that." Qrow replied while taking out a flask and drinking out of it, unintentionally making Winter think that he should be acting sober.
"Keep talking like that old man, they're not going to make things right as they said they would-"
"You will not bring harm to my sister, I will ensure that she is safe." The older Schnee sister exclaimed to the man and made Silver chuckled.
"Yeah, said the girl who didn't know that her younger sister was trapped in a school that got attacked by monsters and a pyromaniac."
"I was not able to go after her, they told me to stay at Atlas."
"Right, that definitely shows that you're a great sister."
To add insult to that comment, the mystery man replied, "I have to agree with her on that one."
"Anyway, I have forgotten to mention that this robot that we had before rebuilding M374...it came from Earth-19999, the one that has the Avengers in it."
"I've heard of those guys, they managed to save lives and destroy that robot named Ultron."
"Yeah and they are also the guys that destroyed a meteor city, left a thousand people homeless, and had several helicarriers fall from the sky and then allowed that Stark jerk to build that genocidal robot. That's just brilliant." Silver showed a sign of disgusted at the topic of those heroes.
"You know, if those guys can handle a job pretty well, why not give them a call?" Qrow told her while putting his flask back in his jacket, feeling like his usual drunken self. That quote caused Silver to slam her fist on the table.
"Because those guys are going to ruin this beloved planet just like they did to earth!" She shouted, her attitude completely changed. "I don't care if they are even called heroes but I don't trust them for their little 'incidents' and solutions to problems. I mean look at Johannesburg, the Hulk and Stark got into a fight with each other and endangered people's lives."
"Well they're still a better team than what you have now." The masked person said in his deep voice, "They won't make it out of this alive."
"Look, we're getting off topic right now, I'll just explain this quickly. That robot was one of the Ultron bots in Sokovia and we had him here to do some research on his armor, but we were concerned about the Vytal Festival incident and then shift focus on M374. So the possible rumor that I have is that Ultron is controlling her so we need to stop her."
"You're talking about trying to destroy an A.I that digs around the Internet and can track our movements and makes jokes. Good luck with that one."
"Don't think that just because you're doubting us, we won't allow you to help us fight that machine."
"You're allowing this obedient worm to join us?!" Winter shouted in anger, pointing at said character.
"He said that he'll kill my niece and the Schnee sister. You really think that he's someone that we can trust?" Said Qrow.
"Well, he'll be our meat shield and he won't kill the two legends cause he'll be dead by then." Silver looked away and tapped the keyboard to see if there was any updates from her soldiers.
"That won't work either." The man shook his head, "Trust me, it'd be better if you just get the Avengers to do this and leave me in my mission."
"The Avengers are not going to help! They'll just ruin everything like they did to Sokovia. I will not allow that same mistake to happen!" The commander slammed her fist to suppress her anger.
Qrow was questioning her decisions with Winter doing the same, only with more anger shown on her face. Not only was Silver acting like she was being dishonest with them, but her choices were predicting that she'll put their lives at risk to fight against an enemy. It almost seems wrong.
"Okay, whatever you say. But once someone dies, then you'll have to bring them here."
"I will not guarantee that." Silver exclaimed to the mystery man, then started to look at other two. "I'm going to send you guys to my quarters, I'll give you some more details there when I'm done."
They unwittingly agreed so they started to walk away and down the empty hall.
Winter grumbled, "I do not like those two."
"You'll just have to get used to them ice queen, but we might need to stay on guard in case that man does anything suspicious." Qrow told her, and she stopped to give him a concerned look.
"Qrow…" She began to speak but much less like herself, "Has your niece ever told you about this...Outcast problem?"
This made the uncle only shake his head, clearly he had heard both Ruby and Yang talk about how they fought Torchwick and the White Fang, but not anything like this. Yang had not been through this so why was Ruby not talking about this to him? Maybe it was for their own safety.
Winter nodded back at him, "I see...I didn't really think that she and my sister could actually do something as reckless as this." She continued to walk down the hall, "I'll talk to her when I get a chance."
Qrow decided to leave Winter to wander away for a few seconds and then decided to walk again, only he sighed miserably. Winter was right, this wasn't something usual at all.
In one of the quarters, there was Weiss and she was sitting on a chair while the rest of the room had Yang who was quite mad at the cat Faunus who was in the corner with her arms over her face. The blonde figured that this was a good time to talk, despite the fact that they were in another planet and were just taken in by Atlas soldiers that weren't familiar to them.
"You didn't say a word since we last saw each other...you just ran off…" She said, only making her former teammate feel guiltier. "I thought that you would stop."
"I told you, I was keeping you safe by running away, it's the only thing that I can do." Blake tried to make her understand but of course the result was obvious.
"We're your friends...we're not just some team. We cared about what happened to you back when you told us your secret, and you cared about me when I was framed at the tournament-"
"That was different. This is a real issue, I didn't want anybody to get hurt because of me."
"You weren't the one who brought the White Fang or the Grimm to our doorstep! You were the cat Faunus who ran from a dark past and became a Huntress who wanted to do the right thing! If running away from your friends and everything you loved was the right thing than I would understand, but it's no excuse!"
"Yang, why don't you understand!" Blake stood up and walked to her the blonde brawler, "If you were in my shoes, you'd know what the choice would have to be!"
"Then the choice I would've made is to stay and support my friends!" Yang forcefully grabbed Blake's right arm, the grip was tight and made her wince a little. "If you were really our friend, then you could've done something other than run away from all of us!" She let go and allowed the Faunus to back up, allowing her to feel the pain. "You could've fought the attackers and then came back for us, but you didn't do any of those things...imagine if one of us ran away without informing us. Would you just watch them leave, or will you chase after that person?"
Blake had nothing to say. She didn't know how to respond to that. Yang could sense that feeling so she just pushed her aside and began to walk towards the door. As it opened up, she said, "When you are ready to admit it, just talk to me...I'll be waiting." Then she left.
Weiss was watched the entire thing, not planning on killing the mood of aggression since the conversation started. She didn't know what Yang was going through after Beacon, but she knew it must've been horrible. After standing up, she moved to Blake's side and put a hand on her shoulder. "Blake-"
"Not now Weiss…" The Faunus moved it away and backed up into the corner again, returning to her seated position, "I need a minute…" The heiress decided to accept her request of silence and sat back on the chair, doing nothing to pass the tension of the mood.
Back at the abandoned academy, Penny was standing like a statue and her remaining hand was holding the broken one. All she could do was stand still as a metal arm started to cut her body open and reveal the internal devices that made her active.
The Ultron Knight was in front of her and continued to stare at her, it got a bit more unnerving than she wanted it to be. As the arm moved away, it finally decided to approach her. "If you're going to fight, you'll need this."
He opened up the hand to reveal some sort of small crystallic metal piece that had a smooth surface and shined its light on the room. "This is Promethean skin, it was used for the Promethean robots and they were encased in this kind of metal, but it can be unstable without a host. It has extraordinary gifts that no other metal can come close to replicating."
The hand began to move closer to the female android and then forcefully shoved the metal through some of the structures, causing her to panic and backed up before falling back on the floor.
"Don't be scared, it's not going to hurt you." The words did not reassure her. She again tried to stand up, but failed to do so.
"Can you please get me up?" She asked, the knight did so, and she was on her feet again. Her thoughts right now were circulating on getting her balance back to proper form for later. "Thank you."
Ultron turned away and headed towards the end of the room to check on the other robot, "While you were sleeping, I redesigned some of the androids and sent a few of them to Angel town. Our presence will be announced in a matter of hours."
"Your allies are going to destroy the town?"
"Not really, I'm only going to inflict damage on a few places. It's going to be a starting point for our mission, you'll be preparing yourself for our onslaught on the human race."
Penny nodded a little and looked down, "Yes sir...I understand-" Penny noticed that her body was slowly being covered by an oozing silver liquid that filled up the wound she had earlier, but then it began to spread. "What is happening?" The female android expected a response but got nothing as this liquid continued to spread around her.
She closed her eyes and let it move all around her, she didn't feel it cover her face. She cautiously opened one eye and felt nothing, but checked her body to see what had happened. Nothing was actually changed although when she saw her right arm, it was suddenly being surrounded by the silver liquid and instead of stopping there, it extended downwards.
Penny nervously raised it a little, and was shocked to see that it's color was changing and materializing into an arm. She stood still for a few seconds before she began to move her fingers, they functioned perfectly like before, it was scary that it was like brand new. "Is this what the metal object did to me?"
"Yes, it's abilities are fascinating…" Ultron told her, the female android had her hand turn into a fist and then suddenly it began to transform, continuing to frighten her. It had materialized into an arm cannon, "You can now adapt yourself to survive against our foes and their weapons."
"This material...it is scary and amazing…" Penny moved the cannon around and pointed it at a wall, then it began to reshape itself back into an arm, "Wow…"
"It's a good thing you like it, you'll be using it a lot."
Penny nodded, she then thought of changing it again and it became a claw, with the sharp nails being noticeable. She swung it around to test it out, then she let it reform into her hand.
The Ultron Knight had walked away from her as she continued to examine her new abilities. She was truly amazed by it, but then she got the feeling that Ruby might not like it that she can do all of this now. Hopefully she'd understand.
Ruby groaned as the first thing she saw was the light that was blinding her temporarily, she squinted and stood up slowly with her back against the wall. "Ugh...what time is it…?" She rubbed the eyes and proceeded to walk towards the doorway, hoping to find a restroom and it was very easy to spot in the short hallway.
She entered it and turned one of the faucet of the sink to allow the cold water to act like a waterfall and cupped some of the liquid into her hands to wash her face. She felt shakened up from the cold temperature but it was necessary for her. She looked at the mirror and ignored the water dripping from her face.
"Okay Ruby, today you have to act and find Penny, she's in danger and you have to rescue her, do you understand?" She shouted at her reflection and she answered with a nod. "Good." After turning off the water, Ruby left the restroom and headed up the stairs, she was now on the rooftop where small buildings were seen from the distance and the orange-colored sky and the sun told her exactly what she needed to know about the weather.
"Alright...here we go." She nodded and began to walk back to the door but an old obstacle had returned.
"Stay right where you are Ruby Rose." Two Atlas soldiers were pointing their rifles at her, making the outcast back up slowly despite their demands.
"Uh, hey officers. How are you on this fine morning?" She nervously told them, "Heh...please don't arrest me."
"The commander wants you to turn yourself in for infiltrating a military base and for stealing project M374." One of them replied.
"I'm very sorry about that, I was just depressed and wanted to see my friend again and I was wondering why you guys have her on this random planet instead of Remnant. There are a lot of questions I want answered-" As Ruby tried to finish her sentence, a red plasma blast came from behind and shot the first soldier, the other was alerted but got hit by the same attack.
The red reaper turned around and saw a few human-like shapes approaching the building from afar, she took out Crescent Rose in its sniper form to see through the scope, and it wasn't a good thing to see.
There was a few old modeled Atlesian Knights and they were flying towards the foster home. Ruby quickly placed her weapon back and then started to head for the door, convinced that the robots were coming to attack this place.
"Everyone run! There are evil robots coming to kill all of you! Get out of here-" she began to shout out but then the sound of glass breaking and metal slamming itself onto a piece of concrete was preventing her from giving out any warnings.
She looked towards the wall that now had a hole, and it was caused by the AK-130. "Ruby Rose…" It suddenly spoke and it had the same voice as the brainwashed Penny had, "You're coming with me!"
"No…" Ruby pulled out her weapon again in its scythe form, "What have you done to Penny?"
The android said nothing, it just stared at her as below the floor, several sounds began to surround her. Ruby heard a scream before it was silent and got angry as she started to charge at the android and sliced it entirely before it fell on the ground. The Rose outcast started to run towards the stairwell to stop the androids.
Down below, parents were immediately gathering their children to get them away from the androids as they were entering in the building, luckily the Atlas soldiers were firing at them.
"This is Sergeant Jones to Commander Greyhound, the foster home, Sanctuary, has been infiltrated by old modeled Atlesian Knights! I request immediate assistance!" One of them said as he reloaded his assault rifle, but there was no sound coming from the other side of the comms. "Commander Greyhound, do you read me!"
One of the robots fired a machine gun and the soldiers open fired on it, but it managed to injure a parent before it was dismantled by a grenade. "Where the hell did these guys come from?"
"Don't ask questions now! Just keep firing!"
Ruby entered through a grey door and saw the room which was now being swarmed by the evil robots who were immediately firing their energy blasts at civilians, one was almost hit by the attack but Ruby defended him by firing a shot at the machine.
She swung her scythe at the next robot who did not defend and the reaper followed the attack with a slice on the head and spun around to fire a bullet at the next enemy, which broke its head easily.
"Keep running!" She shouted to any civilian remaining as she fired a round to shut down an android. The magazine was dropped from her weapon and she replaced it while walking towards the door. The stairway she entered in had a lot of people heading down with some of the children around their arms or holding their hands to help them escape the invasion of the robots.
Ruby moved close to the wall on the left and headed down the stairs to move onto the third floor to make sure that no one was in danger. There was only one robot who was throwing a corpse away like used tissue paper.
"Ruby…" The android had knew she was right behind her and chuckled a little before a bullet struck in its 'spinal cord.' The young girl fired again and broke the lights on its head, then it fell down on the floor. She thought that this floor seemed to be cleared at the moment, but then the sound of gunfire was audible from the doorway in front of her and made her raise the weapon to prepare for the enemy.
Suddenly, the little girl from last night bursted in with her arms around her stuffed bunny before she tripped on a broken chair. Right behind her was the Atlesian Knight who had its machine gun hands armed at the child, but Ruby intercepted by firing at its shoulder. "Leave her alone!" She fired again and it broke the chest plate, followed by it's head being blown off.
Placing her weapon back in its slot, she shouted, "hey, are you okay?"
"Y-yeah.." The ten year old said, slowly getting back on her feet. "What was that thing?"
"Don't worry about it, I'm going to get you out of here!" The outcast got to the little girl and then started to move away from the room to evade any more of those machines. Ruby didn't want her to be exposed to the unfortunate deaths that occurred because of this thing so she headed through the stairs that could hopefully lead them to an exit.
Above the stairwell however, there was an Atlesian Knight that was firing the multiple rounds of bullets it contained, hopefully it wasn't killing anyone that might've stayed at that floor. Not wishing to stay any longer, the two reached the bottom of the stairs but a new obstacle was revealed.
It was another robot but instead of being one of the bulky knights, it was more like it came from a different universe. It's silver design was sleek and had red lights shining from the metal joints, the hands were in the form of claws that were sure to leave its mark on something. The face had two red eyes which had a mouth that spread across it as a V shape.
The android turned around and saw the two, the little girl backed away in fear and the outcast stayed by her side. The new robot was going to approach its target but then a round of bullets were trying to piece its silver skin so it chuckled and then had its mouth charging up a powerful attack.
It turned and then a plasma laser shot straight from the mouth and at the soldiers who could not defend themselves from something like this, Ruby quickly covered the girl's eyes to avoid seeing her freak out at this scene. After all the soldiers were killed and only a bit of smoke from the carpet floors were shown afterwards, the robot turned its attention back to Ruby and then used its rocket propellers to grab her and forcefully pin her to the wall, and left the other girl to move freely.
"Ruby Rose, you seem to be annoyed with me." It said to her, "I could just try and kill you for that, but Penny wants you alive so I have to keep that promise."
"Is Penny alright?" That was all Ruby could say, her friend's safety was all she could think of.
The evil robot nodded, but any specific details were left out. The little girl had to do something so she picked up a small chair and threw it at the robot. It instantly broke once it made contact, and it turned its head to the girl and began to charge its plasma ray.
She moved far away as it fired and broke apart the ground, she was lucky to have done something useful. The robot let go of Ruby and walked after the girl, planning to go easy on her since she was only a child. But the outcast wouldn't allow it as she took out Crescent Rose and swung it against its head, causing a major dent on its side. The machine turned to her but she fired a bullet straight at its eye and then swung again to decapitate it. Ruby put her weapon away and came towards the girl who kept her arms around the stuffed bunny.
"Let's go!" She took her hand and started to run towards the open door, completely free of any robotic forces that tried to stop them. The little girl let go and fell to her knees, feeling shocked that she even managed to get out of there alive but also a bit scared of what she just experienced.
Ruby gasped and looked back at the building, noticing the small flames that were around it and the other parents and kids that were freaking out from the attack. Several soldiers were there trying to calm them down but that was obviously unsuccessful.
The outcast looked at the girl who started to hug her stuffed animal again to calm down. "Mr. Bunny, please don't leave me." She whispered to it over and over. Ruby patted her shoulder to comfort her.
"Hey, you two are okay now. The evil robot is gone now." She said, "It is okay."
"No...It's not." The girl looked at her savior with a fretful expression, "He is going to destroy us all."
Ruby shook her head with a side of confidence, "I won't allow that to happen, he's not going to win." Her thoughts said otherwise however, it said that she was going to fail but she ignored it. "Trust me, I'll stop him."
"You can't. He is a lot more dangerous than you think he is."
"Well, Me and Weiss fought off some aliens. I'm pretty sure that taking down a robot overlord and his army seems to be just another day for me." She chuckled nervously, "It'll be easy."
"I hope you are right." The little girl stood up and hugged Ruby as best as she could, "Thank you for saving me."
Ruby nodded, "You're welcome." She unfortunately couldn't stop thinking of Penny and that evil robot. She wondered why it was after her, it could be Penny's doing but she did not seem to be the type to just submit herself to the villain's wishes. This could not be happening and yet it did, whatever was going on had to do with Penny, she hoped that she can stop the enemy before it was too late.
And now the start of Pennytron's wrath will commence really soon.
So I hope you enjoyed it guys. Please review, compliment on some things, and have a good day. I'll see you guys next time, Bye.