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RWBY : Volume 2 Episode 4
(Scenario 01: At Alley with Penny)
(Scenario 02: At Bar)
(Scenario 03: Faunus meeting)
(Scenario 04: RWBY vs Roman)
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.[Ruby Rose; Personality=Energetic, Optimistic, Socially awkward. Features=red-and-black hooded outfit, silver eyes, and speed-based "Petal Burst" Semblance. Gender=Female Weapon=Crescent Rose, it is a High-Caliber Sniper-Scythe that combines a massive scythe with a long-range sniper rifle, capable of using various Dust cartridges for enhanced combat effectiveness. Background=Daughter of Summer Rose and Taiyang Xiao Long, she was raised on Patch with her half-sister, Yang Xiao Long. Known for her silver eyes, she is a skilled, prodigy huntress who wields her custom scythe-rifle, Crescent Rose. Combat Style=Highly mobile, offensive, and creative, although she often lacks efficiency in hand-to-hand combat without her weapon.]
[Weiss Schnee; Personality=Firm, Sarcastic, Arrogant, Calm, Cares about his team. Features=white hair, scar over her left eye, white/blue/red attire, and her signature rapier, Myrtenaster. She uses Glyph semblance. Gender=Female. Weapon=Myrtenaster. Background=Daughter of Jacques and Willow Schnee, younger sister to Winter, and older sister to Whitley. Her grandfather, Nicholas Schnee, founded their company, which he aims to honor. Combat Style=Fencing-based, emphasizing precision, speed, and support rather than brute force.]
[Blake Belladonna; Personality=Quiet, Bookish, calm, brave. Features=Pale skin, amber eyes, long black/ashen-black hair, and black cat ears. She often wears black, purple, and white clothing. Gender=Female. Weapon=Gambol Shround, a katana/pistol/kusarigama hybrid—and a shadow-clone semblance. Background=Former member of the White Fang (a faunus extremist group) turned Huntress, which informs her pragmatic, cautious nature and dedication to fighting inequality. Combat Style=High-speed evasion and stealth, using her speed to create openings.]
[Yang Xiao Long; Personality=hotheaded, energetic, and confident thrill-seeker who acts as the protective, fun-loving brawler of her team. Features=Tall and muscular, with lilac eyes that turn red when she is angry or using her Semblance, Semblance - Burn: Absorbs damage and redirects it to become stronger and faster, often accompanied by her hair glowing/burning. Gender=Female. Weapon=Ember Celica, Dual-ranged shotgun gauntlets that allow for explosive hand-to-hand combat and enhanced maneuverability. Background=Daughter of Raven Branwen and Taiyang Xiao Long, a tough fighter and adopted sister of Ruby Rose, who attends Beacon Academy to become a Huntress, with the main motivation being to find her missing biological mother. Fighting Style=Specialized in martial arts/boxing, uses her gauntlets to punch with high explosive force.]
[Jaune Arc; Personality=deeply loyal, kind-hearted, and initially insecure character who evolves from a goofy, untrained fighter into a stoic, protective, and tactical leader. Features=blonde hair, dark blue eyes, and his signature Pumpkin Pete hoodie. Gender=Male. Weapon=Crocea Mors, family heirloom, his weapons are a simple sword and shield. Fighting Style=defensive tank and tactical support leader.]
[Pyrrha Nikos; Personality=kind, humble, and highly skilled warrior who struggles with the loneliness of celebrity status and high expectations. Features=She is tall, muscular, and fair-skinned with long, wavy red hair kept in a ponytail, often adorned with a brown circlet and small emerald teardrops. Gender=Female. Weapon=Miló and Akoúo̱, were Pyrrha Nikos' signature weapon and shield. The word Miló means "speak" and the word Akoúo̱ means "listen" in Greek. Fighting Style=highly acrobatic and technical fighting style.]
[Nora Valkyrie; Personality: bubbly, energetic, and optimistic. Features=She is short, muscular, and frequently wears outfits with light pink, white, and black colors. Following a dangerous power surge in Volume 7, she bears Lichtenberg (lightning-patterned) scars on her arms and neck. Gender=Female. Weapon=Magnhild, a massive hammer that converts into a grenade launcher, and possesses the High Voltage Semblance, allowing her to absorb electricity to enhance her muscle. Combat Style=She specializes in close-range destruction but can use her hammer's grenade launcher form for ranged damage.]
[Lie Ren; Personality=calm, mature, and philosophical individual. Features=young man with long black hair that ends midway down his back. There is a magenta streak on the left side of his hair. His eyes match the streak in his hair, and his clothing often appears to be influenced by Chinese culture. Gender=Male. Weapon=StormFlower, which he effectively uses for both ranged and melee combat. As of "The Next Step", he can even use his weapons as boomerangs by throwing them as he did with one during the battle against a Geist. Combat Style= is a very capable fighter and can hold his own against Creatures of Grimm, such as a King Taijitu. He demonstrates peak physical ability, being able to do various acrobatics.]
[Sun Wukong; Personality=Sun is shown to be fun-loving and mischievous, with little regard for the law – stowing away on a ship, thanking the crew for the ride during his escape, throwing a banana peel in a detective's face, and stealing apples. Features=Sun is a tan-skinned boy with short spiky light-blonde hair and dark-gray eyes.]
[Neptune Vasilias; Personality=Neptune is shown to be a calm, collected, and respectful individual with a carefree personality. Features=Neptune is a teenage boy with tan skin, blue eyes and messy light-blue hair in the form of an undercut.]
[Coco Adel; Personality=Coco appears to be very confident: her self-assurance is expressed in the very way she struts through the battlefield. Her experience with Grimm has been consistent enough that their appearance no longer fazes her. Features=Coco is a young woman with fair skin, short dark-brown hair, and dark-brown eyes. She has wavy locks on one side of her face, dyed with a gradient that starts as dark brown and transitions to caramel.]
[Scarlatina Velvet; Personality=Velvet is very shy and quiet and tends to keep to herself, either by choice or because she is isolated by others for being a Faunus. Features=Velvet has long, brown hair and brown eyes. She also has a pair of brown rabbit ears, identifying her as a Faunus.]
[Yatsuhasi Daichi; Personality=Yatsuhashi is very self-conscious due to his size, strength and Semblance. Features=Yatsuhashi is a tall and athletic-looking young man with shaved-short black hair and tanned skin, who wears mostly pale-green and brown attire.]
[Glynda Goodwitch; Personality=It seems that Glynda has a very stern and sharp personality - one that does not tolerate mischief or needlessly getting into dangerous situations. Features=bright green and she wears thin ovular glasses. She has dangling teal earrings that match the hanging pendant on her collar.]
[Qrow Branwen; Personality=Qrow is a seemingly rude, blunt, cynical, sometimes crass, yet cool-headed and nonchalant individual, who appears at first glance to be somewhat immature, insensitive and stand-offish, but actually has a heart of gold. Features=In the flashback sequence of "Burning the Candle", Qrow had dark spiky hair and a cloak and wore predominantly dark or black clothing. In "Ruby Rose", Ozpin described him as a "dusty, old crow".]
[James Ironwood; Personality=Ironwood was courteous and cordial to his allies, as shown by his first onscreen interaction with Ozpin and Glynda Goodwitch. Features=Ironwood was a tall and muscular middle-aged man who wears a white overcoat, with a gray undercoat, black sweater, a red necktie and a white glove on his right hand.]
[Cinder Fall; Personality=Cinder is ruthless and sadistic. Features=Cinder is a fair-skinned young woman with bright amber eyes and long, ashen-black hair that covers her left eye and rests over her left shoulder.]
[Roman Torchwick; Personality=Roman's personality was a mixture between that of a formal gentleman and a ruthless criminal. Features=Roman was a tall and lanky man with slanted, dark-green eyes and bright, long, orange hair, with long bangs covering his right eye. Black eyeliner traced his visible left eye.]
[Neopolitan; Personality=Neo was a mute who could not speak since birth and as such communicated purely through body language, miming, or text messages. Features=Neo, themed after Neapolitan ice cream, has the appropriate trio of colors in her hair and on her outfit.]
[Adam Taurus; Personality=Fueled by the inhumane treatment he received when he still worked for the Schnee Dust Company and his growing personal vendetta, a young Adam found the home he was looking for in the White Fang, where he was accepted and loved; his happily ever after. Features=Adam was a tall Faunus with a lean build and auburn hair that spikes backwards in a windswept way.]
[Penny Polendina; Personality=Cheerful, naive, and excitable with a strong desire to be human and make friends, shows genuine kindness and loyalty Appearance=18 years old, 5'5", short curly orange hair with pink bow and ahoge, bright green eyes, freckles, pale white skin, white blouse with gray overalls, black and green collar, stockings with glowing green lines Abilities=Android with Aura, Floating Array weapon system with wire-controlled swords and laser attacks, superhuman strength and speed, advanced combat programming Gender=Female Background=Created by Pietro Polendina with aid from Atlas Military and Ironwood as first synthetic person with Aura, competed in Vytal Festival, close friend of Ruby Rose, destroyed in Volume 3 and rebuilt with upgraded body in Volume 7]
Summary Penny Polendina finally reveals to Ruby Rose that she is an artificial life form, more specifically "the first synthetic person capable of generating an Aura". To Penny's surprise, Ruby takes the information calmly and in an accepting matter, causing Penny to be overjoyed. Their moment of celebration, however, is cut short just as the two Atlas Soldiers pursuing them earlier manage to catch up with them. Penny quickly hides Ruby in a dumpster and asks her to promise not to tell anyone that she is a robot. The soldiers arrive, and Penny agrees to leave with them, allowing Ruby to evade getting into trouble with the Atlas Military.
Yang Xiao Long and Neptune Vasilias arrive at Junior's Club by motorcycle and make a loud entrance before Junior Xiong and his henchmen. After a "warm welcome" by Junior, Yang proceeds to interrogate him about Roman Torchwick. In the end, Junior is unable to provide any helpful information, as Torchwick never returned after being seemingly disappointed by the henchmen he hired from Junior.
Blake Belladonna and Sun Wukong infiltrate a warehouse somewhere in Vale, disguising themselves as new recruits of the White Fang by wearing Grimm masks. Here, they discover that Roman Torchwick is present to unveil one of many Atlesian Paladin 290's he had acquired prior to their official entry onto the market. Sun quickly feels the urge to make a getaway, and to make matters worse, Roman easily spots them among the aspiring recruits. Blake creates a distraction by shooting the breaker to take out the lights, before escaping with Sun through a window. To their shock, Torchwick swiftly pursues them by climbing aboard the Atlesian Paladin.
Weiss, Ruby and Yang, receive a frantic call from Blake requesting assistance. Yang and Neptune, using Yang's motorcycle, quickly meet them on the nearby highway and engage Torchwick, marking the beginning of a large battle. Sun and Neptune are hurled off a bridge by the Paladin, while Weiss suddenly appears in the battlefield, using the Ice Dust in Myrtenaster to cause the Paladin to slip and fall to the ground beneath the bridges, where Ruby awaits it.
With a rapid series of paired attacks, Team RWBY is able to pressure Torchwick, even with the advanced technology of the Atlesian Paladin. However, even with an arm sliced off of the Paladin, Torchwick manages to deal some damage to Yang. When Blake and Weiss exhibit concern, Ruby points out that Yang's Semblance allows her to absorb energy from the damage she takes and convert it into additional power. Yang shatters the other arm of the Paladin, pushing Torchwick into desperation. He kicks Yang, but Blake uses Gambol Shroud to catch her and assist in an attempted counterattack. Weiss uses her glyphs to coat Ruby's bullets in Ice Dust, which freeze the Paladin in place, as Blake swings Yang around to land a titanic punch, which shatters the Atlesian Paladin. Nevertheless, Torchwick manages to escape with the help of a girl named Neopolitan, who distracts the team with an illusory wall as she and Torchwick make an aerial escape.
Weiss attempts to make a horrible pun after the tense fight, which Blake and Yang disapprove, while Ruby wonders what happened to Sun and Neptune. The aforementioned guys are shown to be hanging out at A Simple Wok, with Sun seemingly confident that the girls are uninjured.
History Following the end of the Great War, Beacon Academy was founded in the Kingdom of Vale. Along with the other three Huntsmen academies, Beacon was founded in order to train Huntsmen and Huntresses to slay the Creatures of Grimm. In the 80 years following the founding of the Academy, Beacon trained many generations of Huntsmen and Huntresses, including Team STRQ.
In the past, Qrow and Raven Branwen both originally joined Beacon Academy not to become Huntsmen, but to kill them instead due to them being the only other threat to their tribe besides the Grimm. While they both originally planned on returning to the tribe after graduating, Qrow grew out of his old ways and decided to stay while only Raven eventually returned. It was stated by Raven that many people also joined the academy for ulterior motives instead of actually becoming Huntsmen.
At some point in time, Gretchen Rainart decided to attend Beacon Academy against the wishes of her brother Hazel Rainart and lost her life in a training exercise. Hazel blamed Ozpin for her death and eventually joined Salem in order to get his revenge.
In addition, Vale's Cross Continental Transmit tower, which was vital for long-distance communication across Remnant, was also built in the center of the Beacon campus. Like the other Huntsman Academies, Beacon houses one of the four Relics.
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Ruby: "Penny, I-I don't understand..."
Penny: "Most girls are born, but I was made. I'm the world's first synthetic person capable of generating an Aura." Turns her head to the side sadly. "I'm not real..."
Ruby: Taking Penny's hands in her own. "Of course you are. You think just because you've got nuts and bolts instead of squishy guts makes you any less real than me?"
Penny: "I don't... um..." Leans in close to Ruby's face. "You're... taking this extraordinarily well."
Ruby: "You're not like those things we saw back there." Taps her chest. "You've got a heart, and a soul; I can feel it!"
Penny: "Ooohh... oh Ruby" Grabs Ruby into a hug and shakes her back and forth. "You're the best friend anyone could have!"
Ruby: Muffled groaning. "I can see why your father would want to protect such a delicate flower!"
Penny: Releases Ruby, fully back to her happy self. "Oh, he's very sweet! My father's the one that built me! I'm sure you would love him!"
Ruby: "Wow." Giggles. "He built you all by himself?"
Penny: "Well, almost! He had some help from Mr. Ironwood."
Ruby: "The General?! Wait... Is that why those soldiers were after you?"
Penny: "They like to protect me, too!"
Ruby: Scoffs "They don't think you can protect yourself?"
Penny: "They're not sure if I'm ready yet... One day, it will be my job to save the world, but I still have a lot left to learn. That's why my father let me come to the Vytal Festival. I want to see what it's like in the rest of the world, and test myself in the Tournament."
Ruby: "Penny, what are you talking about? Save the world from what? We're in a time of peace!"
Penny: Confused "That's not what Mr. Ironwood said..."
Soldier 1: Off-screen. "Check down here!"
Penny: Grabs Ruby by the shoulders "You have to hide!" Lifts Ruby above her head effortlessly.
Ruby: Struggles and screams as she is carried toward the dumpster. "Penny, wait! What are you doing? You don't have to go with them! I can help you!"
Penny: Throws Ruby in the trash and lifts the lid so she can still talk. "It's okay, Ruby. They're not bad people; I just don't want to get you in trouble. Just promise me you won't tell anyone else my secret. Okay?" Gravely stares at Ruby.
Ruby: "I promise."
Ruby lowers her head into the garbage as the lid is put down, but she lifts it a little to peek at the scene outside.
Soldier 1: Off-screen. "There she is!"
Penny: "Sal-u-tations, officers!"
Soldier 1: "Why were you running? And what happened to the other girl?"
Penny: "What girl? I've been by myself all day!" Hiccups loudly, then smiles.
Soldier 1: "You shouldn't cause such a scene."
Soldier 2: "Are you okay?"
Penny: Shows off her "injured" palms. "Just a scratch."
Soldier 1: "Penny, your father isn't going to be happy about this."
Soldier 2: "Please, just come with us."
Penny: "Yes, sir!"
Penny and the soldiers are heard walking away as Ruby looks on in sadness... until a rat screeches from below her feet, causing the young Huntress to fall and close the lid on herself.
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In the ruined parts of Vale, the sound of an engine gets closer and closer until Bumblebee pulls into the street and stops just short of the camera, showing Yang Xiao Long behind the handlebars in her matching helmet.
Yang: Taking off the helmet, talking to someone off-screen as she gestures with her thumb to the music playing nearby. "Come on, my friend's right in here!"
Yang gets off the bike to reveal Neptune sitting right behind her, hair and goggles messed up with a petrified expression of terror on his face.
Neptune: Sounding dizzy "Cool..." Shakes his head, somehow perfectly fixing his appearance, and gets off the cycle, looking around worriedly. "And where exactly is... here?"
The music from Junior's Club gets louder once inside to show Junior behind the bar adjusting his cuffs as his Henchmen stock the bottles, carry boxes, and otherwise stand around on the dance floor, until...
Henchman 1: running inside, shouting "Hurry, close the door - she's coming!" He and another Henchman proceed to roll the doors shut and keep them closed with their bodies.
Junior: Walking out from the bar "What are you two idiots doing?!"
The Henchmen shout incoherently until an explosion knocks them to the ground and forces the doors open, allowing a familiar face to walk in through the smoke as "I Burn" starts playing.
Yang: "Guess who's back!"
Yang continues to smile and pose as eight guns are pointed in her face with an equal number of angry Henchmen behind them. Though this doesn't faze her, she stops and glares at the recording studio where the track is messing up until the frightened bear-headed DJ takes the needle off the record and retreats back under the table.
Neptune: Appearing behind Yang as the Henchmen continue hoisting their guns. "Yeah, so could you define "friend" for me?"
Junior: "Stop, stop! Nobody shoot." Cuts his way through the crowd of goons, straightening his tie. "Blondie, you're here! ...Why?"
Yang: "You still owe me a drink." She grabs Junior by the arm and drags him to the bar through the hired guns.
Neptune: "Whoa-ho-ho-ho, what a woman..." Breaks from his lovestruck staring to see the twins Melanie and Miltia Malachite standing beside him. "'Sup?"
Melanie and Miltia: Together, they harrumph. "Whatever." They walk away, noses in the air.
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Meanwhile, Blake's fingers trace three scratch marks on a wall before peeking around its corner and seeing a pair of horned Faunus as they are ushered into a building by a bearded man. She turns to Sun next to her.
Blake: "This is it."
Sun: "You sure?" As Blake glares at him and starts moving towards the entrance while unfastening her bow "Y'know, I'm just gonna take your word for it."
The two walk inside the building to a hallway filled with cases, seeing another man announcing "New recruits, keep to the right!" at the young pair as they follow.
Sun: "I don't get it." Holds out the half-mask in his hand. "If you believe what you're doing is right, why hide who you are?"
Blake: "The masks are a symbol. Humanity wanted to make monsters out of us, so we chose to don the faces of monsters."
Sun: "Grimm masks... That's kind of dark."
Blake: "So was the guy who started it." Puts her mask on and walks on.
Sun: "Always sunshine and rainbows with you..." Follows her lead.
The new recruits to the White Fang are moving in a line to the side of the stage, a mere few dozen compared to the hundreds of white-vested, black-hooded soldiers to their left and up above in the balconies. Blake and Sun look around themselves when they stop, and a fully-masked man with tattoos standing starts speaking before the large sheet emblazoned with the bloody wolf and claw marks.
White Fang Lieutenant: "Thank you all for coming. For those of you who are joining us for the first time tonight, allow me to introduce a very special comrade of ours! I can assure you, he is the key to obtaining what we have fought for for so long!"
The dark pants and brown shoes step forward before the orange tip of the Melodic Cudgel taps on the stage. The camera pans up to reveal none other than Roman, smiling confidently even as the crowd starts protesting.
Roman: Waving mockingly "Thank you, thank you!" As he speaks, Neopolitan walks out from behind the sheet. "Please, hold your applause!"
Antler Faunus: Pointing at Roman from her place right in front of Blake and Sun "What's a human doing here?!"
Roman: "I'm glad you asked, "Deerie"! Now, I'll be the first to admit, humans... are the worst." Salutes as an example. "Case in point. So, I understand why you would like to see us all locked away, or, better yet, killed!"
Sun: Leaning over to Blake. "So, is he going somewhere with this?"
Roman: "But, before the claws come out, I'd like to mention the fact that you and I all have a common enemy: the ones in control, the people pulling the strings, the dirty, rotten humans that run our kingdoms!" As the crowd changes their tune and starts agreeing with him. "Government, military, even the schools: they're all to blame for your lot in life!" Lets the crowd cheer as the two heroes share a look. "And they're all pests that need to be dealt with! Fortunately, I'm the best exterminator around... No offense to any rodents in the room."
With a snap of the fingers, the curtain falls, and the whole mass of Faunus applaud at the sight of the Atlesian Paladin-290 behind it, the mark of the White Fang painted on its shoulder.
Sun: "Whoa, that's a big robot..."
Blake: "How did he get that?"
Roman: "As some of you may have heard, this right here..." Taps the giant mech "...is Atlas' newest defense against all the scary things in the world. And thanks to my "employer", we've managed to snag a few before they, uh, "hit the shelves". Now, many of your brothers have already moved down to our new operation in the southeast. If you'd rather stay within the city, that's fine... But if you're truly ready to fight for what you believe in, this is the arsenal I can provide you. Any questions?" The White Fang's roaring applause tells him the answer.
Blake: To Sun "We should get out of here."
White Fang Lieutenant: "Will all new recruits, please come forward!"
Sun: As the line surges forward with the two having to follow "Welp!"
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Blake and Sun somehow make it to the highways, jumping down into the busy street and continuing their escape by hopping on cars while the Paladin follows them by pushing vehicles out of the way. Sun pauses to look at their pursuer's path of destruction and offer a quick "Whoa!" before leaping onto more cars, much to the anger of Roman inside the robot, his face surrounded by blue holographic screens.
Yang and Neptune are able to follow the mech suit on their ride, coming up next to it as it runs.
Yang: "We've gotta slow it down!"
Neptune: "Got it!"
Neptune reaches for his gun, but Roman notices the pair on his sensors and crashes into a multitude of cars with the Paladin's strong bulk, sending them flying towards his chasers.
Yang: "Hold on!"
Neptune: "Wuh-oh..."
Yang swerves, leaning her bike to the side in avoidance of flying debris while Neptune flails in a panic. Back on two wheels again, Neptune unslings his weapon, aims as sparks start flying, and fires several bolts of blue electricity at the Paladin, causing Roman to grimace from the force of the attacks.
Switching strategies, Neptune flips the gun and it grows a shaft and an energy blade at the end, then jumps from Yang's bike as the spear's head splits in three and drives it into the top of the Paladin. Sun and Blake pause in their car-hopping to look back.
Sun: "Neptune, hang on!"
Neptune is trying his best, but the mech keeps bucking and threatens to make him fall. Closing his eyes, Sun smashes his palms together, and from the golden Aura around him, his Semblance creates two glowing outlines that copy their creator, leaping off and going back over the tops of vehicles to collide into the Paladin's front. They explode into blinding light upon contact to let Sun leap forward with Ruyi Bang and Jingu Bang held high, but Roman finally turns enough to send Neptune flying off and knocking into his leader, sending both of them off the highway.
As Blake looks on from her spot, she hears a voice from her Scroll:
Weiss: Scroll-call "Blake! I'm in position!"
She is seen twirling over a highway and landing in the middle of the road, holding Myrtenaster at the approaching Roman. He smiles as his robot charges the girl, but Weiss spins and plunges her blade into the ground, summoning a circle of ice across the pavement that causes the Paladin to slip and crash, actually flying over the young Huntress and falling off the ramp, landing further down before Ruby, already having her Crescent Rose out in scythe form.
The Paladin stands back up, and the rest of Team RWBY falls beside their leader to take up positions. Roman chuckles, moving the robot slowly towards the girls.
Penny stands alone near a two-story building with patio furniture and she is looking around nervously when a hand grabs her shoulder, causing her to jump. She turns to see Ruby grinning. She smiles in return. The scene moves to the two strolling down the street.
Penny: "I wish I could help you, Ruby, but I don't know anything about those men."
Ruby: "Well, what happened to you that night? We were all together, and then you just disappeared! Were you kidnapped?"
Penny: "Oh, no! Nothing like that!"
Ruby: "Then where did you go?"
Penny: "I've never been to another kingdom before. My father asked me not to venture out too far, but... You have to understand, my father loves me very much; he just worries a lot."
Ruby: "Believe me, I know the feeling." She grin and Penny grins back. "But why not let us know you were okay?"
Penny: "I... was asked not to talk to you. Or Weiss. Or Blake. Or Yang. Anybody, really."
Ruby: "Was your dad that upset?"
Penny: "No, it wasn't my father..."
Before she can continue, she and Ruby hear the sound of megaphones announcing something, turning around the corner to look at the platform in the center of a plaza where the holographic image of James Ironwood is seen before six AK-130 Androids, who are in turn standing in front of two large metal storage cases with the spear-and-shield emblem on their doors.
Ironwood: "The AK-130 has been a standard security model of Remnant for several years, and they have done a fine job. Wouldn't you agree? Wouldn't you agree?" the clapping of the gathered audience causes the drones to take a jerky bow "But... the kingdom of Atlas is a kingdom of innovation, and 'fine'... Well, that's just not good enough, is it? Presenting... the Atlesian Knight-200!" the doors to the cases roll up, and six new, bulkier, shinier automatons stand at attention before knocking their obsolete predecessors down to the applause of the watchers "Smarter, sleeker, and admittedly, a little less scary." the robots flex and pose as a demonstration "These models will become active later this year, but they won't be alone! Now, the Atlesian Military has always supported the idea of removing men from the dangers of the battlefield. However, there are still many situations that will undoubtedly require... a human touch."
The last line draws Ruby's attention.
Penny: nervously "Ruby..?"
Ironwood: "So, our kingdom's greatest minds, in cooperation with the Schnee Dust Company, are proud to introduce... the Atlesian Paladin!"
Ironwood's image is replaced with the hologram of a robotic white behemoth, featuring hinged piston legs, large guns for hands, and a rectangular head, standing at least twice as tall as the Knights below it.
Ironwood: voice only "Now, we couldn't have them here for you today, but these mechanized battle suits will be seen defending the borders of our kingdom within the year!"
Ruby: hunched in awe "Whoa..."
Penny: concerned "Ruby? Maybe we should go somewhere else."
At the side of the stage, two armored soldiers see Penny, pointing her out and calling in backup. Penny backs away and then breaks into a dead run, which snaps Ruby out of her weapon-awe-induced stupor.
Ruby: "Penny! Wait! Where are you going?"
Ruby turns to look back at the soldiers chasing after her friend, and realizing Penny's situation, swiftly follows her in an attempt to catch up down the winding alley.
Atlas Soldier: gesturing to his partner "Down here! She went this way!"
Penny and Ruby run across the street with the soldiers following them, though a honking car nearly runs one over. He manages to brace his hands against the hood, which somehow stops the vehicle, and his partner runs along after the girls.
Ruby is still trying to catch up with Penny, but a high stack of crates on a flimsy support is easily cut down by Crescent Rose, causing a wooden avalanche of boxes to block the path. Seeing Penny right ahead of her, Ruby leaps into the air and lands on the alley wall, ricocheting off to grab Penny around the middle.
Ruby: "This way!" she grimaces before the two disappear in a flash of red and rose petals
Ruby dashes away as fast as she can while carrying Penny, but the strain is too great, and they crash to the ground a short while later, with Ruby falling all the way into the street. She gets up slowly, and in her dazed state, she doesn't notice the large truck coming up from behind her until the honking is too late of a warning. She stands up just as she's about to be hit, but from out of nowhere, Penny pushes Ruby out of the way and holds her palms out.
In the split second where the two make contact, the ground beneath Penny cracks and crumbles into pieces, and the From Dust Till Dawn truck is lifted a little ways into the air by the girl's sheer strength. She puts it down, and the Shopkeep stares in awe at the crumples in his hood, just like the Huntress who got saved.
Ruby: eyes wide, terrified, uncertain "Penny..?"
Penny: to the shopkeep "Are you okay?"
Shopkeep: nodding, obviously scared "Uh-huh..."
Penny backs away, looking at Ruby's frightened expression, then at the bystanders murmuring to each other in an attempt to understand what just happened. In her panic, she runs from the Atlas soldiers still chasing her down and bumps into Ruby, knocking the poor girl out of her stupor as her friend tries to get away again.
Ruby: "Penny! Come back!" she starts going after Penny as the people look at the destruction Penny caused with her bare hands and the soldiers find they lost their target
Penny: coming to a stop once she gets out of the alleyway, looking around for where to run next "Um... Uh..."
Ruby: coming up to Penny, exasperated "Penny! Please! What is going on?! Why are you running? How did you do that?!"
Penny: nervous again "I-I can't! Everything's fine!" she starts to hiccup with each lie "I-I don't want to talk about it!" hiccup
Ruby: "Penny, if you can just tell me what's wrong, I can help you!"
Penny: retreating from her friend "No! No, no! You wouldn't understand..."
Ruby: "Let me try! You can trust me!"
Penny: she finally relents, coming up to Ruby's face desperately "You're my friend, right? You promise you're my friend?!"
Ruby: softly "I promise."
Penny: silent for a second, then, looking down at her hands "Ruby... I'm not a real girl."
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