Chapter 7: Volume 8

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Ruby (POV)
I exit my chute to find Weiss punishing Nora for pushing her in the chute.
Nora- Ow ow. Come on. That was a once in a lifetime experience.
Blake- Good. Cause I never want to do that again.
May- Alright robo-girl. You're up. Which way?
Penny analyzes the entirety of the building.
Penny- We'll cross the bridge then go left, straight, right, straight, left, up, up, right, straight, straight, right, right, straight, left, left. And the name is Penny.
Ruby- Heh.
May- Tch.
May cloaks us all with her invisible semblance and off we go inside. Fast forward one boring elevator ride and we reach the end of Penny's directions.
May- Alright. Where to next Penny?
Penny- Right through central command.

Weiss- Of course.
May- I can't maneuver us through all of that.
Penny- Do not worry. Ruby is capable of traveling at an extreme velocity from one point to another by breaking herself down to her molecular components, thus negating her mass. And then reassembling them at the destination theoretically making it possible for her to transport all of us in the same way as mass no longer matters.
Ruby-.........I uh....what now?
Penny- You can use your semblance on all of us.
Blake- Did Penny just figure that out before you did?
Ruby- Blake, she knew you were a Faunas before I did.
Someone comes over the intercom.
Ironwood (intercom)- A security threat has been detected in the compound. Status alert Level 3....Red. Lockdown initiated. Authorization granted to handle any threats with lethal force.
Weiss- You've got to be joking.
Ruby *mind*- Damn it James.
Penny- The pneumatic tubes have all been closed off.
Blake- We're trapped.
May- We passed a hangar. I can hijack an airship and get us off this floating rock.
Penny- Wait. We can still succeed. We are so close.
Nora- (snaps fingers) I got it.
We go through the door into Central Command still cloaked. Nora sticks out her foot and somebody who wasn't paying attention trips and spills his coffee all over the computers and others. A big commotion ensues which allowed me to do Penny's idea. I even surprised myself when it was done.
Blake- Another thing I don't wanna do ever again.
Another walk and we make it to the Operation room and the Main Terminal

Ruby- Uh, where is everyone?
Penny- This is a highly classified area.
I follow Penny as she takes a seat at the main terminal.
Penny- (deep breath) Hey dad? I'm ready.
Penny's eyes go from her normal green to yellow and Pietro's voice comes through instead.
Pietro (Penny)- (clears throat) This process is a little complicated. So I am remoting into Penny from Amity Coliseum.
Ruby- I see....
Blake (POV)
While Penny does her thing, I hang back with the others.
Blake- I hope the others are okay. I've never seen Yang and Ruby fight like this. Not to mention our boys. Dante just got so angry. And the way he looked at Ethan before he left. His pain must be unimaginable compared to ours. We lost Zack again and it's eating him up inside. It's eating all of them up inside. And to think, it's just Dante and Elias by themselves out there in the cold. I hope they're safe. I miss my Elias.
Weiss- Don't worry. Like Dante said, Zack is still alive and he and Elias will get the Angels to help us. They seem to be helpful us anyway with fighting off Grim, Ironwood's army, and they've been helping the people of Mantle escape. When they were first introduced, it seemed like the leader of the Angels has a personal history with Astaroth so she'll most likely help us take him down and get Zack back. The boys can handle themselves. They've got each other's back. You forget, their bond is that of a brother's bond. That goes for all of them. Same can be said for Ruby and Yang. They're siblings. And sometimes sisters and brothers just have very different ideas about what's right. They butt heads but they come back together in the end.
Nora- I agree with Weiss. Besides, Jaune is a great leader, Oscar grown a ton, Ethan is just as skilled as ever, and Yang is more than capable of protecting them all in a fight.
BW- Hmmm....
Nora-.......And of course there's Ren ummm.......I don't know what he is. Every time I think the two of us are making progress, he.....(sighs) We've been together our whole lives but I feel like I understand him less now than ever, and I don't know if that's his fault or mine.
Blake- When you've been at someone's side for so long, after awhile, they become part of you. But that's just it. They're only a PART of you. Don't forget about the rest.
Nora-........I don't actually know who I am without Ren. (Sad chuckle) Pretty sad huh?
Weiss- Well maybe take this opportunity to find out. Do something only Nora could do.
Nora- Like what? Be strong and hit stuff?
The computer beeps from the main terminal grabs our attention and we go see what it is.
Ruby (POV)
Pietro (Penny)- Uh just have to....there. Downloading the cloned imprint now. When Penny gets to Amity we'll run the launch sequence. Amity's computer will try to connect to the general's terminal but get Penny instead.
Penny comes back to normal.
Penny- And after the launch, I'll come back and help you all with the evacuation.
Pietro (comms)- About that Penny, when Amity goes up, I think you should be on it with Maria and I.
Penny- But they need me here. Right?
Ruby- Well, if you stay far out of Salem's reach, then she can't open the vault. She can't get to the relic. So......
Weiss- Maybe it's for the best.
Blake- Um, we should probably head to the hangar.
Meanwhile in the vents just above
Takeru (POV)
I just eavesdropped on everything said by my lord's former comrades
Takeru *mind*- Amity Coliseum huh? I mean I could take the maiden now but there are four more presences outside that door. As much as I don't like it, I think I'll have to team up with Amano and take them out at Amity. (Silently coughs up blood) Take them out before my time is up.

I go back to being invisible and focus on navigating my way out of this place.
Ruby (POV)
We go back to the door and wait for Penny to unlock it.
Penny- I guess we all have to do some things we would rather not.
The doors open and we're met with a not so pleasant site.

Harriet- Hello kids.
Indigo: That's the end of this one. Hopefully you guys enjoyed it. Later indigo fam. Peace.

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