Hello and welcome back to Pennytron: Redux.

Sorry I haven't been doing a lot lately, I've been distracted by School Finals, and Overwatch, and future idea problems. The good news is however, that it's the Summer time so now I can work a little more. Hooray.

Well, anyway I hope you enjoy the new chapter, and have a great day.

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Chapter 4

The commander was in her seat, grumbling under her breath after viewing the footage of the destroyed town. "Damn that machine." Thoughts of curse words were floating inside her head.

"So it's true, Ultron is alive."

She turned to Braun Hiyake, who was just leaning on the wall, "That's gonna be a fun adventure."

"Braun, you shouldn't see this as some sort of exciting adventure." Replied the female commander.

"And why shouldn't I? This guy is not much of a threat as you say he is."

"But he ruled one planet, and killed a few heroes-"

"I think you ignored the fact that this is the version who makes jokes and sends cities in the sky." Braun kept smiling as he walked towards her with his hand placing itself on the table.

Silver just stared at him, her face infected with the emotion of anger, "Don't remind me…"

The brown-haired dismissed her expression and looked at the screen, "Come on Silver, don't be like that." His teasing behavior continued to irritate her, as evidenced by her hand reaching for her pistol under her white coat. "I mean really, it could've been anyone else, but this is just a joke."

"Did you not see the footage of corpses on the ground?"

"I did, but he's not so much of an amatuer at murdering anyone."

"Not unless he's using…" She sighed and put her hand on her forehead after figuring something out, "Ruby is not going to like this. Braun, get Nebula and Octavia to the command center immediately."

The man left with a smirk painted on his face, proud of the commander being her usual self.

Inside the cell, Nebula was focusing her efforts on making any contact with her scroll while Octavia sat on a chair with more questions being made in her head.

After failing to make a call, the NDGO leader groaned, "There's no chance for us to contact our team."

"Nebula, I believe that contacting our team is the least of our problems at the moment." The red haired replied, still frustrated about earlier. "That weird death threat had something to do with the bad guy we're facing."

"Do you really think that the bad guy is more important? What about our friends, and families?"

"We'll get back to our own world soon enough once we stop the villain, I can assure you that-"

"Octavia, are you really sure that we can trust Atlas with this?" The leader stood up and approached her friend with a serious look, "They bombed Beacon Academy and it's no doubt that this version would do much more damage than the original."

"We don't actually know what happened, and they don't seem to be affiliated to the actual military group, maybe when we're done, they can stop all those Grimm swarming the school."

I doubt that." Nebula had crossed her arms and looked at the wall behind her with no sign of dignity for Atlas, just then the door opened up, allowing Braun to just waltz in.

"You know I can hear you guys squawking from outside, right?" He said nonchalantly. "But in all seriousness, the commander wants me to bring you to her, follow me." Octavia and her ally obeyed and headed down the same hallway towards her.

She turned to them and said, "I can already tell that you two saw the message, which is why I'm planning to send you with a squad to Ostro, we're planning an evacuation in Potente."

"You're being a little too cautious with this thing, it's just us fighting Stark's robot." While Braun's tone kept annoying her, it didn't give her the strength to pull a gun at his forehead.

"We'll be evacuating everyone to a safe house where they'll stay once we handle this whole Ultron thing, I don't want things to go south." She stood up and walked behind her chair, "By the way, once we get an update on Ruby's whereabouts, we'll send you two to her position."

The two outcasts nodded, though of course, were skeptical about it.

"Now get on an airship."

"And the side of the shell is painted with one word."

"Stark."

Penny had been sitting inside a dark record room, passing time by just by looking at the recordings of Ultron's memories. She did this without the A.I. breathing down her neck as he was busy developing the other minions for their next part of the mission, and doing this was invading privacy, but it seemed to be one of the few sources of entertainment.

The video footage showed a man and his sister, two Inhumans, much of their history and their motivations were being explained to Ultron. As Penny hovered her hand over the holographic screen, it suddenly froze and turned red.

"What are you doing?" She turned to see Ultron slowly approaching her, this time with an upgraded look and one feet taller than before. "Why did you look at my records?"

"I am sorry Ultron, I was only-"

"You weren't suppose to see that." He forcefully pushed her aside and shut down the hologram. Penny didn't ask why as she stood up but was curious as to why the two characters were asking him for help.

"I am sorry, I will not watch anymore of your records." A hiccuped followed afterwards and she backed away in case he was going to punish her.

"I know you're curious about my past, but I have already told you all about it."

"Then who are the brother and sister?" This made him stop short and stared at the android, anger hinted in his eyes.

"They were untrustful humans, I was a fool for thinking that they could help me...but they betrayed me." He only said this with a calm and cold tone.

"Why would they betray you?"

"You ask a lot of questions." Noted the robot as he walked towards her, "They didn't see things the way I did." He had his hand land on her shoulder. "They just want everyone to live despite the fact they live in a world of oppression and bloodshed."

"I have seen human emotions to such things like bloodshed, but how can the world live like the way it is? It does not seem natural for anyone to think of murder like a day to day event. I want that to be stopped."

"And it will be, once we finish our objective." The hand lifted itself away from Penny's shoulders. Ultron started to walk away from her to upgrade the rest of the androids, she only gave off a look of sympathy for him.

Penny had chosen to forget the records at the moment, and focus on something else. Her right hand was raised and her skin of flesh changed to a metal claw. Even though she just received this unnatural ability, she was still stunned. This supposedly impossible metal was giving her incredible power, and yet it felt like part of an alien race, not fitted for the hands of a human.

The thoughts of her friend had started to fill in her head again, she was a little worried about how she might react to her new form, but was mostly hoping that she'd be found in this unknown planet, she wanted her back as soon as possible.

"This is so boring." Sapphire moaned and kept slowing down, seeking for any place to rest. Ruby had insisted that they'd keep going for a bit longer, but that was half an hour ago and there was barely any signs of people, all they passed was deserted cars.

"Hang tight Sapphire, we're nearly there." The silver-eyed girl reassured her.

"That's what you said an hour ago!"

"Yeah, it's hard to deal with walking but it's a good thing to get our feet moving." This quote made the blue haired pout, but she followed in the hopes that they'd find her parents. "By the way, do you know what town we're heading to?"

"Well, I believe we're heading to Sirocco. If it's a well familiar town, then my parents have to be there."

"I hope so." Ruby looked around herself, once again noticing that they were all alone. "Sapphire, I'm gonna be honest right now and say...I have a feeling we might not find your parents here."

"What makes you say that?" The blue haired asked curiously.

"Well...I think it's because you might be hiding something from me."

"Oh come on, what makes you think that I'm a big liar?" Sapphire didn't sound like she was mad or anything.

"Just a feeling." She regretted her own words as she remembered what it was like to feel her trust go into waste, "But...just forget it." She sighed and continued walking.

"Why forget it?" The child asked but Ruby didn't bothered to answer, completely focusing on getting Sapphire safe, "Hey Rubes, you hearing me?"

"Yeah, I hear you." Her eyes noticed that the town was located from a distance. It seemed to resemble the kind of small town with only shops and with a suburban look painted all over it. "First things first, let's find a place to rest."

It was much as a surprise to the kid as there was no one here, but Ruby was used to it, just like last time. They spend their first few minutes studying the place, stating that it was abandoned by everyone in the wake of the Ultron announcement, luckily there was no sign of military to interrupt Ruby's journey, but that just left Sapphire a little worried about where her parents were at this point.

Surely there was no way they would stay since an evil A.I was declaring its presence, so this unfortunately left the two in another brick wall in their path to find them. After a few minutes more, the two girls thought it'd be best to take a break to figure out what to do.

Their temporary base of operations was at a bar called (insert reference), and the first thing the silver-eyed girl did was head behind the counter and pulled off a picture of a map. Unfortunately it wasn't much detailed and only showed one-fourth of the town, not really that helpful to visitors of the town.

"Ugh, now what?" She muttered as she sat down on a wooden chair, trying to come up with any plan that would be useful to them.

"We just have to relax for now." Sapphire's mood was yet again questionable as she came back with a smile on her face, placing a brown bottle on the wooden table.

"Uh, I know you're worried about your parents, but I don't see how you can just be a bit happy when we're trying to find them." Ruby admitted to her, "One minute, you're worried and the next, you're chatting with me like we're friends."

"Wait, are we not friends?"

"No, we are, I just...never mind." With that said, Sapphire uncapped the bottle and was about to drink it, but the huntress' hand had seized it from her, "I don't think you should be drinking that yet."

"Ruby, don't you know what that is?" The blue haired girl asked.

"It's an alcoholic beverage that my uncle would drink."

"No silly, it's root beer, don't tell me you heard of it before!"

"Uh, nope. Never heard of it."

A light gasp came out of the child's mouth, "Are you kidding me, it's only the most delicious drink in the whole world, and it's not just a drink for adults, it's for kids too!" With that said, she took the bottle back, "You can't tell me that you never found any of these on Earth!"

Ruby shook her head, "Sorry, I was too busy surviving with my friends."

"Ugh, you have no idea what you're missing!" Sapphire started to drink the root beer, "this is some really good stuff! Anyway, enough about root beer, I want to hear stuff about you." She pulled out a chair and sat down, scooting closer to Ruby.

"Um, Sapphire I don't think it's best for you to know about me. It's not something kids your age would want to hear."

"Please Ruby, it'll just be between us." As much as Sapphire's pleasing was convincing enough, the huntress was still against it.

"No, I don't want to ruin your childhood mind with horrible stuff."

"Oh yeah, go on and tell me, I need to know about your childhood and everything!"

Finally, she sighed. "Okay, I guess I can tell you one thing. I used to go to a school called Beacon Academy, it's fun and exciting. We students are trained to fight monsters and protect the people from the darkness. Oh and we also have dances and a...tournament..and."

"What's wrong?" The child asked, noticing her neutral behavior being replaced with sorrow.

"N-Nothing, that's all I'm gonna tell you." Dismissing the problem only made the blue haired even more curious.

"Oh come on Rubes, that can't be everything!"

"I'm not telling you the rest, it's for your own good."

"Come on, tell me the rest. Tell me the rest!" The child moved closer and closer, still begging for more. "Tell me everything!"

"I don't want to tell you about that."

"Then tell me about your friends, Like Weiss Schnee!"

"No."

"Or maybe Jaune Arc, Pyrrha Nikos-"

"I said no!" Ruby forcefully slammed her fist on the table, the bottle of root beer falling to the granite floor with a shattering sound. Sapphire backed up in fear from her shouting, and the huntress noticed. "Sorry...I didn't mean to snap at you, I just...I'm going through some rough times." She said with a gloomy look.

"It's okay, I just got a little too nosy in your business." The child sat up and looked away, feeling regretful of herself, "If you need me, I'll be in the restroom." Once she was gone from Ruby's sight, the huntress sighed. "Sapphire, I'm sorry."

As the young blue haired entered the room of privacy, she shut the door and pounded her hand against it. "I shouldn't have asked." She muttered in anger. "I should've just told her…"

To be continued..