Welcome back to Pennytron: Redux.

I am sorry that I have not done a lot of stuff lately, it's been a tough time trying to work on things like this due to real life stuff going on.

For now, I'll just continue to do my best and be supportive.

And also to guest2, Thanks for the feedback and I am sorry that the title sounds terrible, a friend came up with that name so I wanted to use it for this story. I hope you understand.

For now, I hope you enjoy.

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Chapter 3

There was a lot of questions that Octavia and Nebula want answers, however being forced to walk in the middle of a group of soldiers inside the headquarters of Atlas had delayed that chance. The purple haired one didn't know how to respond to this, the same military that was rumored to attack Vale during the tournament was arresting Huntresses. Was that supposed to be their job now?

After going through another hallway, the soldiers cleared out and pushed the two girls forward, intentionally causing them to land head first.

"Sorry about arresting you two." A female voice said, causing them to look up from the sight of her boots and to her face as best as they can. She had dark gray hair that was formed into a ponytail that spread to her shoulders, and she wore an official general uniform. She had her arms crossed and was tapping the ground with her foot. "But that was the only option we had."

"Who are you and why did you bring us here?" Nebula shouted, her hands trying to wrestle out of the handcuffs.

"Just calm down Miss Violette, we only did it in case you were somewhat dangerous." The commander replied with a normal tone, taking out a key and unlocking the two cuffs. "You may call me Commander Greyhound of Atlas."

The two girls stood up quickly, "Well commander, we'd like to ask why you captured us and took us here!" Said Nebula.

"That was because we were trying to get someone from Remnant to help us defeat an enemy. But it looks like we're stuck with these two instead."

"What are you talking about?"

"You two are going to help us fight against an enemy that is plotting to take over the world."

Octavia tilt her head to the left in confusion, "I don't understand, why us?"

The commander sighed and shook her head, realizing that not enough information was said to make them understand. "Then I'll just make this quick, This is not the same Atlas you know, we're different. We were originally busy monitoring this world, but since the whole Cryptids invasion on Planet Syndicate, we started surveilling any dimensions in case of an Outcast event."

"Since Ruby Rose and Weiss Schnee had caused a lot of controversial actions on Earth 15 and their legacy recommenced, we're stuck keeping an eye on them-"

"Wait, you mean the heiress of the Schnee Dust Company and her friend got involved in this dimensional traveling craziness?" The leader of NDGO said loudly.

"Yes, if you want to call it that. Anyway, a few days ago, we had brought in an unknown android that was confirmed to be called an Ultron sentry from Earth-199999." A holographic projection of said robot was shown behind the commander. "We were planning to analyze it to help us prepare for any threat against rogue Outcasts, but then we shifted focus on M347...I believe you may have known her as Penny."

The holograms changed to show a display of said character followed by footage of her "death" in the tournament. The two stayed silent as they looked at the video feed, "We were trying to bring her back until the red hooded legend herself stormed right in and took her away, and coincidently Penny became a rogue android and we have no idea where to find her."

"So you just took us to this planet to find a robot? I mean surely you can just track her down-"

"We were planning on that immediately before we realized that it can deactivate it and there's no chance that she'd stay in this district. We have no idea where she could be, however we are focusing our sights on Ruby, she's the one who needs to answer for this problem but she vanished alongside Penny.

"If we're dealing with two missing people, how are we able to find them?" Octavia pointed out, "Don't you have any soldiers around to scout the area-"

"I'm not taking that risk, there's a possible chance that Penny could launch an attack so we're just going to take a more tactical option just in case and that involves you two." The commander explained, "We'll send you two with a squad to find Ruby while we focus our efforts to pinpoint Penny's base of operations, and when we find that and Ruby's whereabouts, we'll promise that you'll get back home."

Nebula sighed, not so eager on a mission like that. "And what if we say no?"

"You can't." Silver said quickly, crossing her arms in a serious tone. "You'll just have to agree with the terms and try not to screw it up."

"Whatever you say commander." Octavia muttered, Silver just gestured the soldiers to have them quartered to their temporary cells.

The bullhead flew under a whole field of clouds, miles away from the destination it was seeking. Inside was Penny who held a remote detonator in her hand along with the last bomb. The entire interior section of the aerial vehicle

Covered under the cloak of darkness, Penny held in her hand a remote detonator along with the final bomb on the other. She placed it on the inside of the ship along with the few others that were just waiting to be detonated. Feeling a little uneasy, her grip on the remote tighten and she took a deep breath.

"I am ready." She announced to Ultron, in response the hatch door opened and she dived downwards. The aerial vehicle fell under the A.I's control and continued to soar to the small town below it, while Penny used her swords to start flying downwards until there was a nearby rooftop to land on.

Once she was on the roof, she saw the vehicle slowly moving all the way to the streets of civilization. This caused the crowd to be in a surprised state, but they started running as the Bullhead crashed onto the road and slid towards a building where it caused quite an uproar.

She kept looking to see the vehicle just laying there, and she brought the detonator up to her face, her thumb inching towards the button. As this was happen, people were beginning to crowd around the ship, curious as to what happened that caused it to crash. The few soldiers of the military squad was approaching it, but they were leading themselves towards their doom.

"Now." The one word from Penny allowed Ultron to gain control and press down the button as the ship erupted into pieces of shrapnel that flew all around the area, wounding or murdering anyone around its radius. The android was forced to watch the destruction take place. She let go of the detonator and looked down at her feet. "It is done."

"Good, time to introduce ourselves." The sword began to fire at the ground and sent the android upwards, giving her quite a shock.

"Wait, Ultron I do not wish to engage in combat-" Penny shouted, trying to grab the swords before her legs forced her to launch herself towards the fleeing crowd. She landed on the road and then her arm shapeshifted to an energy blaster, aiming at the fleeing civilians but she used her free hand to force it to fire at the air. "No!"

She let her hand change back and then suddenly there was the few remaining soldiers firing their weapons at her. "Penny, attack them!" Ultron screamed in her head as the bullets struck her face, forcing her to use the swords to defend herself.

"No! I cannot do this, you did not mention us directly attack the humans-" One soldier used an electroshock gun to stun her, it was effective but did not halt her movements thanks to the Promethean metal. Penny grabbed the wires of the gun and pulled it to disarm the soldier and use the swords to fire at their feet to incapacitate them. Her next move was to flee from danger, but Ultron made her take cover from behind a car.

"Penny, what the hell are you doing!? This is not the time to be a coward!"

"You never said that we would be attacking them at this moment!" She shouted back in anger, trying to keep herself unharmed. "I do not want to hurt anyone now!"

"Do you not remember why we are here? We're here to save the multiverse, and you can't do that if you are acting like a coward!" Ultron forced her to stand up, but this gave one trooper an advantage as he sprinted towards Penny and swung an electrifying machete at her neck. It wasn't able to chop her head off but the electricity stunned her, she reached out to the weapon and grabbed the arm.

She forced herself to swing down her hand at the arm, breaking a bone in his body and leaving him disarmed. A swing from the machete had penetrated the chest and she kicked him down. "I'm sorry…" She apologized with a distressed look. "I did not mean to hurt you."

"Penny, don't you see? He attacked you, and so will the other humans who will protect their world in their false efforts of obtaining peace." Ultron told her inside her head, "You can't ignore what is happening, we have to stop them before they make things worse, even if it means killing them."

"I understand." She held a firm grip on the weapon and looked at the wounded soldier, "I am sorry but I am doing what is right." She stabbed the machete right through the body and left it in there, turning away towards the soldiers who were still trying to dismantle her.

She charged in and spun her swords around to cut through some of them, while using a few of them to block the bullets. She began to fire an energy blast towards one with a rocket launcher while throwing her barrage of spinning swords like a shield to take down the others. After retrieving her swords, a heavy projectile crashed into her and exploded but it did not harm her.

Through the smoke, her red eyes looked directly at a hovertank that was slowly approaching her. Grabbing the rocket launcher, she charged in with the swords giving her an extra boost and jumped past the wreckage and landing on top of the tank with great ease. Penny tore off the hatch and fired the rocket inside, causing an explosion that killed the pilot.

She scanned the structure of the tank and found out its weak spot was inside and the outside was weak to her ultimate laser attack, but she figured that it would be best to leave it alone at the moment.

She gripped her hand and allowed Ultron to control herself. "You did good Penny, but you can do better." She walked towards the wreckage and said, "Let's give them a message."

"My parents always wanted me safe, they would be near me everyday until it was time for school." Sapphire was ranting on about her life as she was walking alongside Ruby. Since they didn't have any map, the best option would be to walk next to the gray road towards civilization.

She continued while holding an apple in her hands, "I would think that they were being too overprotective because of the incidents you were involved, but I was glad that they were around me."

"Now I'm glad I did something good besides stopping bad guys." Replied Ruby who only followed in a fast pace. "Anyway, are you sure we're heading in the right direction?"

"Of course, the city is only a few miles from here, we'll be there by the time the afternoon rolls around." The young girl hopped on her feet like she was playing a game of hopscotch, perhaps to keep herself in a happy mood.

The red hooded Huntress could only watch the girl and follow her slowly, feeling quite certain that her parents were still worried about her.

Sapphire didn't like the silent treatment she was suddenly getting so she broke it by saying, "Hey Ruby, I was wondering, do you wish you had a boyfriend?"

"W-What? Where did this come from?" The girl was staggered by the question.

"Well, I know that some heroes tend to get lonely so they need to have a boyfriend or girlfriend. So do you have one?"

"N-N-No! No I don't! I'm way more focused on protecting people and admiring weapons...there's no time for me to fall in love!"

"Uh huh…" Sapphire raised an eyebrow and smirked, "I used to have a crush on someone before...something bad happened."

The huntress blinked before asking, "What happened?"

Before the young girl can answer, a vehicle zoomed through the road and diverted their attention towards it. "What's the rush?" She asked herself, but then another car followed along to catch up.

Ruby looked behind her to see a herd of cars heading towards the same direction as the others, even she was questioning what was causing them to flee in panic. "Come on Sapphire, let's follow them!" She grabbed the hand of the blue haired and started to run after the cars.

It didn't take much long for them to reach the exact location of the vehicles which were slowly moving in a straight line. What Ruby wanted to do was ask any of them what was going on, but keeping herself and Sapphire from attention was the best course of action at this point.

The young child however had a plan of her own, "We should get inside one of the vehicles."

"Uh, I'm not so sure that sounds like a good idea, don't you remember I'm sort of like a criminal?"

"Yeah, but I believe my parents are at the direction all those cars are heading towards." This quote made Ruby question Sapphire's decision, an eyebrow was raised but was undetected.

The huntress said, "Sapphire, I'm not sure you're being honest with me."

The child ignored her and headed to the front of the line of cars, Ruby just followed along to keep her safe. She reached a section that lead the road into a small highway, and the red hooded girl just kept a sharp eye on the blue haired. "Hey, wait up!"

As she kept watching her like a hawk, her scroll suddenly started rumbling in its pocket, pausing the girl's actions. Once again questioning how her telephonic device was working in an unfamiliar world, She checked the home screen only to see it glitching out with a red background barely showing.

"Oh no, this can't be good." Muttered the tensed girl as her eyes kept viewing the screen. It displayed a small town in ruin with a side of corpses and burnt vehicles on the road, completely easy to tell despite the low quality of the video. It wasn't just her scroll that was showing this, as all of the electronic devices were currently displaying the same video.

Then the screen changed to show a robotic face blurred out by the fuzzy quality, only revealing red curved eyes and a smile. "Humanity is a virus, we are the cure." Was all a mechanical voice said to any viewer. Ruby's petrified state was enough to explain her reaction to this threat.

"Ruby?" In the midst of this sudden announcement, Sapphire had came back to the huntress, clearly concerned about her reaction, "Are you okay?"

Y-Yeah...I'm okay." She lied and placed her scroll back in its pocket, "We should get going...there's no point in us staying here." She held the blue haired girl's hand and resumed walking, determined to get to a safer location than here.

'Ultron...I'll find you.'

To be continued...