Manta airships patrol the skies around the City of Atlas, keeping in communication with each other over radio. As Maria pilots our group's stolen Manta toward the city, we receive radio contact.

"Manta 5-1. Welcome home. Please continue your approach to Atlas docking bay Omega-12. A security team will meet you there. Over." A Atlas Air Traffic Female said on the radio, with me walking over to it.

Everyone abord looked around at the large military air fleet surrounding the kingdom's capital. "I don't understand. What's happening here?" Ruby asked as she looked confused.

"I don't know." Qrow said as he narrowed his eyes.

"But we are here. We got the lamp to Atlas, so I guess we land and get some answers." Jaune said as he looked at Qrow.

"I'm not so sure." I said as I looked around at the other airships.

"I've never seen our forces deployed so aggressively before." Weiss added as she crossed her arms. "If we land in a stolen ship, there's no way the security team will let us anywhere near Ironwood. They might even take me back to my father." Weiss said, with me pointing at her.

"Unless we give him a reason to escort us to him!" I said as I looked at the others. "We're in a stolen ship, bringing a relic to Ironwood, right? So we "crash" the ship, and wait for rescue." I said as I looked at the others. "Well, I will, you go and gather up any information that you can." I said as I looked at Ruby. "She is right, if she is caught there is a good possibility that they will take her to her father, and she wants to avoid that." I said, with Jaune stepping up to me.

"What about you? You're dead to the people, if you just suddenly showed up-"

"I would need to prove who I am, and I can do that quite easily." I said as I looked at Maria. "You need your eyes fixed, so take them with you." I said, with her rolling her eyes at me.

"I'm staying with you!" Blake said, with me lookinf at her.

"No, stay with the team, they will need your stealth to get around." I said as I got in the seat as Maria got up. "I'll fly you towards the lower city and get you all close enough to the roofs. From there, its up to you." I said as I took control over the ship.

"That sounds dangerous." Oscar said, with Ruby patting him in the back.

"Its just like training!" She said as she grabbed his coat.

"Manta 5-1, we've noticed a detour in your route. You are to make your way to docking bay Omega 12 immediately. Do you copy? Over." The Atlas Air Traffic Female ordered, where I grabbed the radio.

"This is Manta 1-5, we suffered major damage during our leave from Argus, we are losing a lot of power here, we going down, I repeat, we are going down!" I said as I started lowering towards the city. "Everyone get ready!" I said as I looked back at them. One by one they jumped out, leaving me by myself. Flying off into the distance, I held my hand out to the crontrols and zapped it with lightning. Once the controls were dead, I used the force to escort the ship to safety, with it coming to a hard stop in a park.

"Manta 1-5, do you read? Manta 1-5, what is your status? We have you down in sector 2." The Atlas Air Traffic Female questioned, with me grabbing the radio.

"Crash landed in sector 2, cargo is in tact." I said as I grabbed the lamp on my side. "Tell General Ironwood that the lamp is in Atlas, he will know what I'm talking about, over." I said as I dropped the radio and left the airship. "Now comes the waiting game." I said as I could feel others making their way towards me.

I frowned at this as they were hostile. Feeling them surround me, I crossed my arms as I waited for them to act first. Hearing skmething coming at me, I looked at it and saw that it was a pair of bolases flew at me. I diverted it to the side, with it hitting the airship. Seeing a streak of lightning flash infront of me, I turned around and grabbed a large woman and tossed her aside, where two arms wrapped around her and pulled her back to safety.

"Speed, strength, reach?" I said as that was extremely familiar. Holding mybhand out, I pulled the speedster towards me. Once she reached me, she kicked me in the chest twice before running away. Seeing something fly at me, I grabbed jt and swe that it was a wire of some kind. Getting pulled, I turned myself around and landed on my feet as I reached the target zone, where I pushed the man away from me.

"STAY!" Someone yelled, where my entire body froze on me. "I got him!" The one responsible said, with me looking at him out of the corner of my eye. With a flick of my finger, he went flying into the tree. "What!?" He said as I stood up straight.

"Is this how General Ironwood welcomes his people home?" I asked as I crossed my arms as I was suddenly grabbed by the man with light arms, and the muscle girl. "Did he not recieve my message?" I asked them as they walked in front of me.

"You're in a stolen ship, we cant let you go." The man with a clover on his side said, placing a fishing pole on his shoulders.

"Let me guess, you're lucky." I said, getting a smirk from him.

"I tend to be." He said as the others got ready to fight.

"Speed, strength, reach, control and leadership." I said as I got into a bombat stance without using my lightsaber. "Got to say, you've got a solid team here." I said, where the speedster ran at me.

"DOWN!" The one from earlier yelled, with my body kneeling.

"But its a cheap imitation." I said as I threw my fingers up and tossed him into the air. Catching the speedster in a head lock, she looked shocked as I spun around and used her as a shield against her tank, sending her flying out of my hands.

I grabbed the tanks head and pulled myself up, dodging the arms that came out of the ground. Tossing myself over to him, the man with the fishing rod got in front of me. Kicking him back, he was knocked into the other one. Holding my hand up, I caught the one I tossed into the air, stopping his fall before he could hurt himself. I then tossed him at the Tank, knocking them both down.

"We're on the same side." I said as I looked at the leader as he tossed his rod at me, with me moving to the side. Seeing him pull it back, I held my hand back and pushed the slab of stone that came at me, shattering it. "I am under the orders of Professor Ozpin." I lied... well, partly. "My orders are to report to General Ironwood if something happened to one of the other kingdoms, and that was Mistral!" I said as I pushed the Tank away from me as she charged, with me sending a metal bar at the controllers mouth, where it wrapped around his mouth tightly.

"Ozpin is dead, if you haven't noticed!" The leader called out as the speedster charged at me from behind, with me lifting her off the ground and spinning her in the air before tossing her over at the controller, knocking them both down again.

"Perhaps... we listen?" The one with the long arms suggested as he walked over to him commander.

"I say we hit him, HARD!" The tank said as she came back at me, with me holding her in the air.

"Talking sounds good, IF its with Ironwood." I said as I grabbed the lamp on my side. "This is classified information, not just anyone can hear it." I said as I lowered the girl. "For the past two years, I've been on a secret mission fomr Ozpin, and because I can't report to him, I have to report to General Ironwood." I said as I watched them look at eachother.

"Ace Ops, we've got unauthorized use of weapons by unregistered huntsmen in sector three." We all heard, making me sigh.

"That would be my team." I muttered as I pinched my nose while shaking my head.

"Care to explain?" The leader asked as he crossed his arms.

"They went to gather information on whats going on, I was ment to go straight to Ironwood, as my job intells." I said as I crossed my arms as he let out a sigh. Suddenly, the controller got in my face, glaring at me while pointing to his mouth, trying to speak. "Right, sorry." I said as I removed it, where he rubbed his face.

"Oh sweet lord my mouth!" He said as he walked away.

"Right, so we get them, then take you all to Ironwood." The leader said as he walked towards me with cuffs. "Its a percussion, you understand, right?" He asked, with me nodding as I walked over to him.

"Yeah, not fully, but this Lamp stays with me, I cant teust anyone who isnt aware of what it can do with it or risk classified intel getting out." I said as I held my hands out to them, where they cuffed me.

"I hate how easily you just toyed with us." The speedster said as she took my weapon. "What is this anyways?" She asked as she looked down the hilt.

"Unless you want to but a hole in your head, I would suggest that you don't look inside." The one with the arms said as he took it away and put it on his hip.

"Wait, you know what it does?" The controller asked as he looked at it.

"Its a lightsaber, uses dust to create a laser sword." The leader said as he started escorting me towards our next destination.

Later

Walking up to the others, they looked at me in shock as we stopped not far from them. "This one tells us that you're all here to see General Ironwood about a top secret mission from Ozpin?" The leader asked, with Qrow sighing.

"Thats right, but we planned to meet up ater we gathered information on whats going on with Atlas." Weiss said as she stepped up.

"Right, you can ask General Ironwood about that in person." He said as they pulled out cuffs. "Don't resist." The leader said as a van pulled up and opened the back, where I was escorted inside.

"Trust them, they are only doing their jobs!" I called out as I sat down at the end. "Oh, and no telling Weiss's father that she is here!" I said, with the leader looking at me.

"No promises." He said, with me nodding as I tried. One by one, the others were loaded into the back of the van. "Good work, team." The leader said as he closed the back on us.

"Hey! What's going on?" Oscar asked as he looked at me.

"We're being taken to Ironwood." I said as I looked back at them. "Not the way I expected, but someone had to use weapons in town." I said as everyone looked away.

"PENNY IS ALIVE!?" Ruby yelled as she looked at me.

"Who?" I asked as I didn't know who that was.

"You fought against her once when you were mind controlled... honestly it was a tie?" Blake said as she tilted her head.

"Then Rika showed up and turned the odds in her favor!" Ruby said, with me shrugging as I was lost.

"Now, this." Qrow said as he let out a heavy sign. "This is much closer to what I was expecting." He finished, with me shrugging as I didn't know what to expect.