Chapter 42: Chapter 42: Black and White (2)
~Albus POV~
Penny Polendina.
Penny had short, rather curly orange hair that came down to her chin with a small cowlick on top, and she wore a pink bow on the back of her head. She also had bright green eyes, light skin, and freckles. She wore an off-white old-fashioned styled off-the-shoulder blouse with frill detailed trim and frill flared cuffs that half-covered her hands alongside copper button detailing on the lower parts of her sleeves.
She also sported a short gray pinafore dress with golden trim on the hem alongside four light green stalagmite styled stripes on the lower half of the dress, two on the front and two on the back, accompanied by two matching colored circles above the tips that had a stripe that ran around her waistline, with golden outlines, and a detachable black and light green collar.
She also wore a pair of black thigh-high leg pieces that seemingly were attached to black shoes. The leg pieces had a single green stripe up the sides that appeared to light up.
She had a layer of synthetic skin that concealed her metallic structure and spherical joints, and her irises bore similarities to the shutter of a camera. The skin wasn't strong and could be damaged revealing the metal under it as shown in A Minor Hiccup.
She also wore a silver backpack that contained the Floating Array, her weapon.
<Observe>.
< [Android with a Soul]
Penny Polendina Lv.120 (6000/6000 HP) (3000/3000 AP)
Penny is an android created by her father, Pietro Polendina, with the aid of the Atlas Military and James Ironwood. Designed to be the first synthetic person capable of generating an Aura.
Reputation with Albus [0/100]>
Carefully talking to the android with a should that is known as the best character Penny I replied to her, "Um... hello. Are you... okay? Do you... wanna get up?"
Penny thinks about this for a moment before she leaps back on her feet while I take some steps back a little, "I'm wonderful! Thank you for asking. Yes! My name is Penny! It's a pleasure to meet you!"
Taking this with a smile on my face I began to talk to my favorite character I began to talk, "In that case hello. I'm Albus Goodwitch it's a pleasure to meet you, Penny. And your next words are 'It's a pleasure to meet you!' right friend?"
"Gasp!"
+50 Reputation with Albus [50/100]
Now that is really fast progress.
Surprised by this and to be honest I really don't mind experiencing first-time interaction as she began to reply happily, "It's a pleasure to meet you! Gasp again! Wait for a second… What did you call me? You called me 'friend'! Am I really your friend?"
Nodding at this I replied happily being the first friend of Penny that I was fanboying the fuck out before <Gamer Mind> managed to calm me down as she cheered to herself, "Sen-sational! We can paint our nails, and try on clothes, and talk about cute boys or girls!"
Nope, not gay.
Replying to Penny laughing a bit I tried to make some small talk with her as I spoke, "Hohoho. That's about as basic as friends can be. How about you give me a tour of Vale you seem to know a lot, Penny."
At this Penny nodded her head too simple but really happy about the whole situation as she replied to me, "That's Per-perfect! We can bond and share our secrets by touring around Vale! I'll be the best tour guide ever!"
Nodding at this at least this will be easier to deal with Penny and make her follow some common sense.
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~Third POV~
Elsewhere in Vale Weiss and Blake, both remained silent after their talk with Albus about his opinions of the White Fang as Blake can't deny the fact of his words.
While some of the White Fang are misguided as she claims the fact remains that some are willing to kill regardless as she remembers Adam and the more fanatic members of the Fang being like that.
After all, she was once Adam's right-hand girl on his missions at times but sometimes goes on his own crusade facing off against even times suicidal missions.
Weiss on the other hand wasn't having a better time with Albus' words than Blakes's concerns.
Albus directly slandered her family name in front of her face like that and with some people looking. It will surely cause a storm for his team issues and more Faunus sympathizers on his side that he wasn't even aware of.
Although the branding part seems to unsettle her the sudden transformation in her eyes when the Fear effect was active she saw a completely different person – no monster in Albus' place.
Cold and uncaring that terrified her to admit.
Like a monstrous Grimm waiting to attack until she realized what she saw was simply a figment of her mind. At least she has been trying to reason with herself that was the case at least.
The two seem to be in their own worlds as Yang glanced at Ren talking to him looking in concern for her teammates, "Say Ren… you don't think that Albus's words were too harsh on them right?"
Ren taking a moment to think for a bit began to mutter to himself about the situation easing Yang's worry with her team, "I don't think it's a problem. I can sense their emotions they are disturbed at least, Blake. Weiss's sudden fear at him. But it seems his words have reached to them."
Yang sighs out a breath at this while she scratches the back of her head of the situation, "Yeah. I guess he chewed them out of their views and it was my fault for dragging him in this whole debacle."
Ren nods at this while replying to Yang trying to understand her choice, "I agree. You chose Albus because of his actions to see what words he would use to dissuade them I assume?"
Slumping down hearing Ren reply to this he then confirms it as he replied to her, "I see then."
Yang began to reply again scratching the back of her head about this thinking of another way out of this, "Yeah… but damn he chose to chew them out. Guess that is how his views are on the White Fang and the SDC. Didn't expect him to be that… violent towards the two?"
Agreeing to this Ren then mentions another part of Albus' words that left him wondering making Weiss flinch at overhearing, "Yeah. Then the whole branding them thing? How would you think he knew? Perhaps from a friend then he overheard?"
Yang was about to nod before she briefly stops herself before continuing again as her eyes widen as she came to her own conclusion, 'No. That isn't possible since he doesn't remember his past… but if it was from his Gamer powers though… I mean there has to be a skill to look up people by glance right? Maybe he could've used it with that <Observe> skill he mention and if that was the case…'
Shaking her head of those thoughts out she began to change topics for a bit as she hits Ren's shoulders as they went towards their team, "He got his sources. But that doesn't matter. How about we try to think of a way to cheer up Blakey poo and Ice Queen. They certainly need it about now?"
Ren smiles at this as the two began to walk towards the two depressed girls, "I agree. Maybe we should go to a place to distract the negativity. I can certainly feel it coming from them."
Yang nods at this as they began to try and cheer up their teammates.
*Click*
*Click*
"What!"
"Wha!"
However, before they could though the lights suddenly stopped working causing a small blackout the two widened their eyes seeing that Weiss and Blake are gone…
They searched for a few hours till they started to notify law enforcement about this…
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At the same time of this happening Albus was with Penny showing her the sights of Vale Commercial districts being friendly, "And this right here is the weapons store where people buy their Dust Infused weapons or forging. Tell me Albus are you enjoying your time with me here being your friendly tour guide!!"
Laughing a bit but also toning down his joy hanging out with Penny he began to reply to her nicely, "Yeah. But got to tone down your excitement here Penny. Otherwise, you have been a very good friend showing me around."
She happily takes a head pat from Albus not knowing the custom since Albus took abuse for it as he began to touch his head patting it like an achievement. They took the chance to take the time to briefly look inside the store as Albus was impressed with the weapons.
As he was done Penny began to look at her scroll checking the time as Albus began to see how late he was he thought with nervousness, 'Ah shit. I was supposed to be back 30 minutes ago. I better explain – '
*Click*
However, before he could finish a sudden blackout of lights are out Penny looked to see where her friend went as he went missing, "Albus…? Friend where are you?"
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Elsewhere in some abandoned warehouse caught completely off guard he gets his vision together as he saw what happened till he heard the messages from his head and a scream from out of nowhere.
But he did manage to see a Grimm.
"SCREEE!!!"
An Apathy.
The Apathy is humanoid in shape, somewhat similar to the Imp, but are very tall, with long arms that reach down as far as the ground and extremely long fingers. They have hideous faces, resembling skulls, some even lacking nostrils, and low-hanging jaws.
There are at least four variants to the Apathy's appearance, two being extremely hunched back, whereas the others stand taller.
[Mental effects of <Willpower-Draining> negated by the effects of <Gamer Mind>.]
Game on.
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