Welcome back to Pennytron: Redux.

So far, everything has been going well, thank you guys, and I'm trying to be more relaxed and happy. It's going great.

Now that I'm feeling a little better and since its spring, (I think so because it's kind of cold here), let's start off with chapter two. I hope you enjoy it.

Disclaimer: I do not own the rights to the products shown, they belong to their respectful owners.

Chapter 2

Even after being abducted and taken hostage by Ultron, Penny had continued to resist against its power and punch the cockpit. After a while it got irritating for him and he used his abilities to restrain her to her seat until they reached their destination; her voice was muted to allow some peace and quiet.

After a long while of flying through an endless snowy storm, they could see their destination. It seemed to be a replica of Beacon Academy, but with more of a militaristic touch, which seemed to be in an anonymous location. There were lights and turrets located around the place, as well as a flag waving around from the top of the building uncontrollably from the harsh weather.

Penny looked down to see that the entire landscape was covered in ice, curious as to how long it has been like that.

There was a helipad located above a roof behind the tower, so the aerial vehicle landed on it and it began descending to the base. Inside was dozens of military vehicles designed for aerial combat or transportation, most of them were unused for a long time. The cockpit opened up and Penny was forced to exit by Ultron.

In the hallways, the architecture of this place was the one thing that caught her attention. Walls of grey and blue was noticeable and the lights shined down on the floor. While Penny was impressed by the sight of it, Ultron felt like it was filler to an important task.

Her legs had started to move by his own command, making the female android scared yet again. They headed down the stairs and towards a large laboratory that was filled to the brim with robotic parts and outdated machines, with a vault door located at the end of the room. She saw an old arm on the floor, and recognized that it belonged to an 130 model of an Atlesian Knight, and if it was possible, she would've shivered at the sight of it.

Ultron had allowed her to move freely again, so her first action was to run until he froze her legs and let her fall face first on the floor. "If you're thinking about calling for help, reconsider that option. We are miles away from civilization."

"Why did you take me away from Ruby?" She was forced upwards and stood back on her feet, then she saw an old AK in the corner being activated under Ultron's control, its head turned towards the synthetic android.

As it approached her, it started to speak, "I didn't take you away from her, I helped you escape. I helped you get a chance to save the multiverse."

"No, you did not. You took me away!" The android was helpless as Ultron grabbed her arm. "Why did you make me say those horrible things? Why did you possess my body?"

"You know the reason why."

"You mentioned that we have work to do, but I will not work for you."

He snarled at her, "Don't you remember what you have to do? You were made to save the world, and I can make you a true savior of the multiverse."

"What?" Penny tried to pry the metal fingers away from her arm, but it had a firm grip. "But you-"

"Isn't that what you wanted? You want to save the world, that's your objective isn't it?" Without speaking, she gave off a slow nod. "Then you have to trust me, I'm giving you another chance."

The fingers released the android and he stepped back as the lights started to dim down and the darkness was seized by the light of the holographic projections. Multiple screens were floating around the area, capturing Penny's sight. "Is that Vale?"

A horrifying image of the city she once knew was shown, filled with Grimm creatures and smoke, followed by a frozen dragon on the tower where Professor Ozpin was usually located. She stepped back in fear.

"This is what happened to your world after you were dismantled." Explained Ultron, "No one could stop this threat, and I fear that many more worlds might suffer the same fate as yours."

"No, this can't be..." the android refused to accept it, but the screen had changed to show her some more terrible imagery. This time it was footage of people moving away from the explosions that plagued the town, followed by a shot of three flying ship crashing into the ocean.

The AK explained, "In my dimension, it's a lot worse than you think. Disasters have always been on the verge of happening, and no one has been safe since the Chitauri invasion."

"Was there anybody who tried to prevent this?" Penny interrupted him, and fell quiet after she earned a glare from the robot.

Ultron looked up and pointed at the projections, "Yes, but well...they made things worse." Profiles appeared in front of the girl and archive footage was alongside them, "These are the Avengers, so-called heroes that are tasked to save the world from any dangerous threat, but they're the ones who've done more harm than good. It got worse enough for one of them to create me."

The next projection was showing a man's face, "This is Tony Stark, he built me alongside Bruce Banner as an A.I. to stop the massacres that humanity has caused, but the way I see it, they just made me act as their puppet to continue this madness, so I rebelled against them.

"I knew that the only way to save the human race from itself was to purify it, and the Avengers prevented me from doing so. I was slowly dying but then I found the Setsuzoku, and it teleported me to this planet." A projection of a silver object drilled onto the ground was shown.

"And you were hiding in the Atlas headquarters, waiting for someone like me to arrive so you can start your mission." Penny had finished the explanation for him, she had stayed in her exact spot the entire time, shaking her head in denial.

"I know all about you Penny, you're here to save the multiverse. It's what your father wanted, correct?"

"Correct."

"Then why don't you want to accept that offer? The utopia you dreamed of can be accomplished and it's something you cannot refuse."

"But you're asking me to-"

"I'm not asking, I'm giving you the opportunity that no one else can give you." He backed up as some of the projections vanished. "So I feel as though there are no objections to this."

Penny didn't speak this time, she only took a step back.

"Penny, do you trust me."

"Yes." The android said, but was followed by a hiccup.

This only made Ultron turn his head away from his uneasy companion, "It looks like I have a lot of work to do in order to earn your trust." He walked towards the vault door and spun the wheel to unlock it. "Walk towards me, there's something you have to see." The female android approached him hesitantly, having no exact clue on what she could do in this situation.

The door was opening and in the darkness was a puddle of metal, it was still oozing on the floor and wandered towards the light. Penny looked at the weird substance and backed up but Ultron forced her to walk to it, the ooze stayed still as she placed her foot into it, quickly ascending upwards to cover it. She looked back at Ultron and her expression showed a sign of uncertainty as the metal goo continued to cover her body, she would call this a weird feeling if she could even feel.

She looked at the metal liquid again as it reached her neck and began to cover her face in the unknown substance which made her close her eyes. Ultron kept staring at her as she was now just a girl in a shiny coat of silver, then it sunk into her armor. She opened her eyes and looked at her hands to see that nothing happened.

"I do not see any difference on my body." Penny said to Ultron who began to approach her with his wrist-mounted blade up. The female android turned to him, only to see that the sharp weapon was raised upwards and it swung down to attack, she raised her arms in response to this and the blade sliced the left arm like a knife to a bread.

The broken limb fell to the floor and Penny backed up in a shocked manner, watching the Atlesian Knight approach her as if it did nothing wrong at all. "Why did you do that?"

Ultron had no response to this, he only just watched her cower in fear. Penny looked at her severed limb but noticed small metal cubes popping out of it, and shapeshifting into an arm, and the skin color replaced the metal look. "What?"

"That is Promethean metal, it is a powerful living substance that regenerates. There is no limit to its ability. It will allow you to adapt to any situation." Penny moved her fingers one at a time, until the metal acted as nanobots and formed an energy cannon. "Wow."

"You should be glad I'm giving you this." Ultron stepped away from her, "By dawn tomorrow, we will announce our presence, I'll get ourselves prepared."

"Wait." The synthetic android stared at the Atlesian Knight as it stopped and listened, "If we are going to save the multiverse, I request that you find Ruby, please."

The A.I. figured that she would request something like that, given that she declared Ruby as a best friend. Although he knew that she was a bit dangerous, it was something that could be done. "I'll bring her here when I do."

"Thank you Ultron."

She lost track of time, but then again she didn't even know what it was when she got here, it was hard to tell with the night sky. No stars or clouds were out tonight, which gave Ruby even more questions as to how this world functions.

Walking in the forest with no sign of contact kept her thinking that Atlas would be close to finding her, but they might've been too occupied on Penny or Ultron, and even the huntress knew that it would take a long while to even find them.

After passing a few trees, she noticed that there was a grey path that lead to the other side of the forest, followed by a wide lake. Ruby quickly approached the body of water, and touched it with her hands, scooping up a small amount before taking a sip.

She was glad for this refreshing water being here, too bad she didn't have a water bottle to take some for herself. She wiped off some of the liquid from her lips and looked to see that on the other side of the lake to see a young girl looking around, holding something in her arms. The most noticeable thing about her was her short light blue hair.

Ruby started to run to get to her location. The little girl had not noticed the red hooded huntress until she began to shout, "Hey!" Hearing that voice, she saw her and felt frighten once she did. Before Ruby could reach her, she started to flee to the woods. "Hey wait, don't go there!"

"Stay away from me Ruby!" The child shouted back, fearing that she might cause bad things to happen. Unfortunately, her pursuer was faster than her and it resulted in the girl crashing into a tree. Ruby approached the blue haired but stopped once she turned to her. "Ruby...please don't hurt me."

"Look, I'm not a bad guy. You might've heard the rumors but I'm not a bloodthirsty outcast, okay?" The Huntress tried to explain.

"I know, but I don't want you anywhere near me…" Ruby felt sorry for her as the perturb blue haired was out here in the woods, so she decided that perhaps the mission to save Penny would have to be delayed. Helping this girl would be the main objective for the next few minutes.

"Hey, if you're looking for your parents, I'll help you get to them. Does that sound good?"

"Why would you think I'm searching for my family?"

"You're out here all alone in the woods. You can't say that you're capable of staying in a place like this." This made the blue haired nod in approval. "Then I'll just get you out of this place no problem, so stay close to me." She offered the girl her hand and she hesitantly took it before they started to walk.

"Um, thank you." Was all the blue haired could tell her. Ruby let out a gleeful smile to reassure her that it'll be okay, but yet again, there was no way to confirm that they were going in the right direction, and asking if the kid had a cell phone is out of the question since she was young.

After walking for a few minutes, the silver eyed girl had decided to break the silent mood. "Hey, may I ask what your name is?" She asked, keeping a grip on the blue-hair's hand.

"Sapphire. Sapphire Rose."

"Wow, we have the same last name." She chucked.

"Yeah we do, I just don't tell that to people," The blue haired said, "It might make people be scared of me."

"Oh...sorry about that."

Sapphire looked at the huntress who was feeling a little glum about something. "Ruby, are you okay?"

"Yeah...I'm just thinking about stuff, I tend to do that sometimes." Lying to the girl was not something she wanted to do, but the only reason was because she didn't felt like she needed to know these things.

"Did you kill anyone while you were on your adventures."

"No…"

"Well that's a relief." Sapphire sighed, glad that the other part of the rumors were false. "How much further until we get to town?"

"I don't know, I just got to this world, and I have no knowledge of this place." The huntress said in an honest tone, "But I saw the military...they're not so friendly as I think they are."

"Yeah, I saw them too. They're good for trying to protect this world though." The silver-eyes girl chortled but sighed heavily. "You know, you should consider helping them out if you are willing to save lives."

"They probably wouldn't like having me around, I'm not much of a popular figure in everyone's eyes and I don't have the intention of being one."

"But you're a legend, who wouldn't want to team up with you besides the thousands of worlds that want your head?"

"That's the point."

"Oh." During their talk, the duo had reached the edge of the forest, and a parking lot was in front of them. There was only about a half a dozen of cars around but the reason why they were here at this time of night was questionable, "There, we can sleep in these cars for tonight."

"But I thought you wanted to find your parents now?" She reminded her.

"L-Look, I know they're worried but they have to sleep too, and so do I." Sapphire replied in a quick manner and headed to a red car. "Can you break the window of the car please?"

Ruby took out Crescent Rose and swung down at the driver's side and she unlocked the door to allow access. "I am going to get a scolding from the owners for burglarizing."

"I am sure they won't mind one bit." Sapphire sat down on the seat and turned to Ruby, "You should probably get some sleep too."

The huntress was a bit skeptical of her behavior, "Yeah, but I'll just keep guard in case of anything bad. I'll join you in a bit." Looking around, she sat on the hood of the vehicle and sighed lightly.

"Okay, goodnight." What followed after that sentence was silence, and then there was the sound of snoring coming out of the girl's mouth. Ruby didn't shut her eyes for a bit as she stared at the black sky, wishing that she'd be able to find Penny as soon as possible.

There was a city called Levent which stretched through an entire district of the island. People were walking, cars were moving and dawn was approaching. In other words, it was an ordinary day...or at least it was.

It changed when a blue light showed up in the middle of the street where the vehicles halted to a stop to avoid making contact with the light as it expanded. It stopped as it caused a medium-sized sphere and two things came out of it from the side. There was two girls and one crashed right onto the side of a vehicle and the other hit the ground, almost knocking people off their feet.

The purple-haired girl known as Nebula Violette of Team NDGO groaned in pain as she stood on her knees and scanned the area. The civilians began to back up in fear seeing the outcast, and she was confused as to where she was.

"Wha-what the?" Octavia Ember of the same team crawled back on her feet from crashing into the car and saw the tall buildings. "Where are we?"

"Octavia, what happened?" Nebula approached her, unaware of everyone around them moving away to hide.

The red haired breathed a little and replied with a worried look, "I don't know...that blue light...it trapped us in a bubble and I guess it sent us here…"

"And where is here?" Their voices were paused as the sound of the military APCs bumping into cars and pouring out Atlas soldiers armed with rifles.

"Stand down outcasts!" The sergeant shouted and pointed the gun at the two girls.

"H-Hey what's going on!?" Nebula shouted and backed up, along with her teammate who was slowly reaching for her dagger but she stopped her from doing so.

"I said stand down!" The same soldier yelled again, but the huntresses didn't follow the order, they took another step back.

The red haired looked at her friend and she nodded back, but wasn't sure what that meant. Unfortunately another APC arrived right behind the two and more of the soldiers showed up and pointed their guns at them.

"Damn." Nebula muttered and finally gave herself up, moving her hands above her head. Octavia followed along.

The soldiers approached them and placed handcuffs on them. "You're coming with us, the commander wants to meet you personally."

To be continued...