-Streets of Vale-

It was a sunny day in Vale and Penny was feeling very cheery. She had taken out that meddling mutt, Zwei and was on the prowl for a new limb donator.

"Hmmm…." Penny thought to herself. "I almost got caught out by that dog yesterday. Perhaps I should take something that's not on the body, but on the head." Penny continued walking down the street until she came across a shop window and looked at her reflection. She looked closely and smiled at how much more human she was becoming. Penny stared deep into her own eyes and grinned. "That's it. Eyes."

"Heya Penny!" A voice from behind Penny surprised her.

Penny turned around to be greeted by Emerald Sustrai. "Oh. Salutations Emerald!"

Emerald was wearing her usual white, green and brown outfit and looked quite happy today. "What are you doing out here all by yourself? Have you not heard about the murders?" She said jokingly teasing Penny.

"Hm? Oh. That. I won't worry about them. I can take care of myself!" Penny exclaimed with a proud look on her face.

"Hahaha!" Emerald laughed. "Is that so? Well just be careful, friend." She said to Penny.

Penny started to zone out for a moment. She was mystified by Emerald's ruby-red eyes. They were perfect! Just the kind of eyes Penny had been looking for. They just had to be hers.

"Penny?" Emerald asked for the third time. "Are you… Okay?"

Penny snapped out of it. "Whoops! Sorry about that." Penny said in an apologetic manner.

"You should get some rest. You look pretty tired." Emerald said with a caring smile.

Penny smiled back. "That's a wonderful idea!" Penny replied. "I'll see you soon, Emerald!" Penny said as she walked away from Emerald, still with a big smile on her face.

"Take care!" Emerald shouted back. As soon as she turned around, Emerald rolled her eyes in disgust and walked off, clearly annoyed by the cheeriness of the little robot girl.

"Be careful, friend? Daaaaw! How adorable." A voice sneered at Emerald from a back alley.

Emerald glared. "I'm glad you think so, Mercury. Will it still be adorable when I say it while shoving your foot up your a-"

"Calm down, calm down. It was a joke, Em." Mercury said as he emerged from the alley.

Emerald huffed. "I can't wait to get out of this place. Everyone's just so… Ugh!"

"Now that we can agree on." Mercury smirked. "How's the android doing?"

"Cheery as always. Except… Something was different." Emerald said with a concerned look on her face. "She kept staring at me."

"That's how conversations work, Em. Someone talks and the other person watches and listens." Mercury said smugly.

"Not like this. She stared right into my eyes. Like… She was studying them." Emerald noted.

"I'm telling you, you're overthinking things. It's not real. It'll do weird, non-human things. We just gotta relax and follow our orders." Mercury said.

"Fine… But if she goes crazy and starts killing people, I'll say I told you so." Emerald said jokingly.

"Heh. Point taken." Mercury replied.

"So… You still up for tonight? Same place?" Emerald asked.

"Always." Mercury smirked as the two walked off together.

-Streets of Vale at night-

Penny had heard rumours that Mercury and Emerald would often sneak out at night. She saw this as a perfect opportunity to catch her prize. It was dark in the streets and the street lights were the only things lighting the area. Penny waited patiently in an alley near the place where Mercury and Emerald supposedly met every night. She made sure she was well hidden in the shadows.

Emerald was the first of the duo to arrive. She was earlier than usual just to win a bet against Mercury. "Ha! Showed him." She spoke to herself quietly. Emerald leaned against the wall of a shop, waiting for Mercury to arrive. She looked around every so often to make sure nobody was watching her.

Penny saw an opportunity. With her eyes on the prize, she started making loud footsteps in the alley near Emerald in an attempt to lure her in.

Emerald immediately went on alert as she heard these footsteps. "Mercury?" She started approaching the alley. "Told you I'd get here first." She smirked as she reached the entrance of the alley. Emerald looked down the long alley, but could barely see a thing as the only source of light was a dim, dying street light from the outside. "I know you're in there, man. Come on out."

There was nothing but silence.

"Fine. If you're not coming out, I'm dragging you out." Emerald glared and started making her way into the dark alley.

Penny was waiting eagerly at the end of the alley. Her synthetic vision could easily see through the darkness. As a precaution, Penny put on a white ski mask to conceal her face. Vale had been put on high alert so she had to take measures. Penny watched in anticipation as Emerald stumbled her way through the dark, looking for Mercury.

Emerald was now becoming impatient. "If you even try to scare me I'll kick your ass. Just a heads up." She called out with an annoyed tone in her voice. Emerald had almost reached the end of the alley where Penny was. She could slightly make out a figure. "There you are, you jack-ass. Come on. Let's loot the shop." She smirked.

The figure didn't move an inch. It just stayed there. Silently.

"Mercury? You all right?" Emerald asked as she moved closer to the figure.

Suddenly, Penny lunged at Emerald. She grabbed her into a choke hold with her arm crushing against Emerald's mouth.

"Mmmmmmmph! Mmmmmph!" Emerald tried screaming only to have her calls muffled by Penny. Emerald tried to reach for her guns but was unable to as Penny had her arms trapped.

Penny, wanting to get the job done quickly, moved her free hand to Emerald's face and pulled her left eye open.

Emerald kicked and struggled but was no use against Penny's superior strength. She tried using her semblance on the figure, but Penny's artificial mind was not affected.

Penny struck Emerald in the back with her knee to try and stop her struggling. She then, still holding Emerald's eye open, started sliding her thumb underneath Emerald's eye lid.

"MMMMMMMPH!" Emerald screamed in pain as she felt the cold thumb press against her sensitive eyeball. Tears started naturally emitting from her eyes.

As Penny moved her thumb in more, she started tearing at Emerald's eyelid. Cracks started appearing in it with blood slowly emitting from them. Eventually, the eyelid tore straight in half from the centre as Penny's thumb reached the back of Emerald's eyeball.

"MMMMMMMMPPPPPHHHH!" Emerald's muffled screams intensified as she thrashed around in complete pain.

With a flick of her thumb, Penny popped Emerald's left eyeball from its socket, leaving it dangling by the cord. She moved her hand to the eyeball and started tugging and pulling at it, soon completely ripping it from Emerald's skull.

Emerald screamed in pain and terror. She could no longer see anything from her left side. She still tried to struggle against Penny but was now slightly weakened.

Penny kneed Emerald in the back again, this time fracturing her spine slightly.

Emerald screamed again against Penny's arm, clinging to it and clawing at it in a weak effort to escape.

Penny placed the eyeball in her pocket and moved her hand to Emerald's right eye, about to do the same thing.

Emerald managed to budge Penny's arm a little off of her mouth. "PLEASE STO-" She shouted before being silenced once more.

Penny, wasting no time, tore her way straight through Emerald's eyelid this time instead of going under it. Her thumb burst through the eyelid like a scalpel to jelly, causing blood to start pouring from it.

Emerald's previously vacated eye socket was already filling with blood from her torn eyelid. "MMMMMMMMMMMMMPH!" She screamed against Penny's arm as her right eyelid was completely demolished.

Penny wrapped her thumb around the back of Penny eyeball. She managed to find the cord attaching it to her skull and slowly started twisting it.

Emerald screamed as she could slowly see her vision fading in that eye.

With one final twist, Penny snapped the cord and released Emerald's eyeball into her hand. She dropped it into her pocket with the other one and smiled to herself. But before Penny could have time to celebrate, she heard footsteps coming from behind her and Emerald. Penny dropped Emerald and turned around, only to be greeted by a powerful boot to the face which sent her flying into a wall.

It was Mercury. "GAAAAAAAAAAAGH!" He immediately ran after Penny with rage in his eyes.

Penny knew this would only cause a scene. With quick thinking, she easily scaled the alley by jumping from wall to wall and on to the roof.

By the time Mercury got to the end of the alley, Penny was long gone. What's worse is he never managed to see the attacker's concealed face. But the worst thing hit him when he heard a weak voice from behind him.

"M-mercury? Gagh!" Emerald tried crawling to where she could hear Mercury stepping. She was completely blind with both of her eyes missing.

"Em!" Mercury shouted as he kneeled down to pick Emerald up. He carried her in his arms with ease and started rushing out of the alley and towards the hospital. "Jesus Christ! What the fuck did he do to you!?" Mercury asked in disbelief as he saw Emerald's blood-filled eye sockets.

"I… Can't… See…" Emerald whimpered weakly as she was carried off by Mercury to the hospital.

-Penny's Room in an Atlas ship-

Penny wandered around her room the next day testing out her eyes by just looking at everything. "Woah!" She exclaimed as she saw herself in the mirror. Penny was rocking her new red eyes. She decided to switch on the TV to see if her latest donator was on the news. The news broadcast started.

"Good evening, I'm Lisa Lavender. Another shocking attack from the Vale body thief has left a poor girl in critical condition. Emerald Sustrai was out with her friend Mercury Black, when the killer attacked them and gauged out Miss Sustrai's eyes. Emerald was immediately defended and brought to the hospital by Mr Black, who claims that the attacker just appeared and disappeared like a shadow. Miss Sustrai is currently recovering in the hospital while officials still have no leads on this monstrous killer. Unfortunatly, she may never be the same again after this. Lisa Lavender signing o-"

Penny switched off the TV before it could finish. She smiled and admired herself more In the mirror. Her eye, feet and right arm were all beautifully human. Soon Ruby would have to make Penny her best friend. Penny just needed a little more…