"Wow! I forgot how big the transmit tower looks so close!" Adagio was now regretting going with Weiss and Ruby for one simple fact.

"Hey Adagio, can we get a taco after we're done here?" That fact being that, while she loved her sister dearly, Sonata was annoying. And now there were two of them. Two of them!

"Oh for Faust's sake! Yes Sonata, I'll buy you a taco later. Now please, try to focus..." Adagio looked around and saw Ruby talking to the orange haired girl from that night at the docks. After a second the girl left and Ruby followed. "Sonata, follow Ruby, but try and stay out of sight. That girl is powerful and we don't know for sure if she's on our side or not."

"Ok! You better keep your promise!" The childish Siren ran off, shadowing Ruby from a distance.

Adagio walked up next to Weiss, who was looking at her with a confused expression. "Sooo... Who's Faust?"

Adagio looked at the girl as if she had just asked how to breath. "Uh... Faust is Faust. You know, the Goddess?" Weiss clearly didn't know what she was talking about and the Siren realized her mistake. "Oh, that's right, I keep forgetting how isolated our village is. To put it simply, back home Faust is the name of our village's guardian Deity. She's our equivalent to what you and most other people inside the kingdoms would call Oum." Adagio walked into the elevator and looked back at Weiss. "You coming or not?" Weiss shook her head and walked into the elevator. "I wonder how Sonata's doing?"

'Dunununun, Sonata!'* The blue haired Siren was currently creeping along the rooftops, silently following the two girls her oldest sister had tasked her with watching.

"I wish I could help you Ruby. But I don't know anything about those men."

"Well, what happened to you that night? We were all together and then you just disappeared. Were you kidnapped?" Penny, as Sonata had learned her name was, quickly brushed that worry away.

"Oh no, nothing like that!"

"Well then where did you go?"

"I've never been to another kingdom before. My father asked me not to venture out too far, but, oh you have to understand, my father loves me very much. He just worries a lot." Both Ruby and Sonata knew exactly what she meant, but in Sonata's case it was her sisters who worried about her, they worried about Sunset too.

"But, why not let us know you were ok?"

"I, was asked, not to talk to you. Or Weiss... Or Blake... Or Yang... Anybody really."

Sonata's eyes narrowed. "Suspicious!" Sonata's attention was broken away from the girls when she heard a loudspeaker.

"The AK130 has been the standard security model of Remnant for several years. And they have done a fine job, wouldn't you agree? Wouldn't you agree?" Seeing the holographic image of General James Ironwood didn't bother Sonata very much... But the machines standing behind them were another story. Sonata might have been good with computers true, but she had never liked robots... They were cold, lifeless and generally unsettling to the Siren.**

The way she saw it, they were husks, metal puppets with no reason to exist other than to do work for people too lazy to do things themselves. They didn't have hearts and they didn't have souls. They were simply there... Like the Grimm... A shiver went down the Sirens spine at the thought of being up close to one. "But, the kingdom of Atlas is a kingdom of innovation. And fine, well that's just not good enough is it?" The containers behind the AK130s slowly began to open, revealing what was probably their new, more advanced replacement.

"Presenting, the Atlesian Knight. 200." Yep. The more advanced robots lifted a leg and kicked their predecessors in the back before setting their foot down on the fallen androids. "Smarter, sleeker and admittedly, a little less scary."

'Uhhh, nope. Still just as creepy!'

As the robots began to strike poses, the hologram of Ironwood continued his speech. "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 battle field. However, there are still many situations that undoubtedly require, a human touch. So, our kingdom's greatest minds, in cooperation with the Schnee Dust Company are proud to produce, the Atlesian Paladin!" The image of Ironwood vanished and was replaced by the image of a large manually operated robotic suit.

Sonata had tuned the announcement out as she saw Penny begin to run away, Ruby following suit, followed by two Atlesian soldiers. "Uh oh..." Sonata quickly joined in the pursuit, eventually catching up just in time to see Ruby fall before Penny pushed her out of the way of an in coming truck. "Oh n-" Sonata's words died in her mouth as Penny thrust her hands toward the truck... And brought it to a complete halt. Penny ran away with Ruby following. "Aw come on!" Sonata hopped to the ground before chasing after the two girls.

"You promise you're my friend?" Sonata stopped in her tracks and took a glance around the corner.

"I promise."

"Ruby..." Penny lifted her hands, palms facing upwards. Was that.... Metal? "I'm not a real girl."

Ruby seemed just as confused as Sonata felt. "Penny I-I don't understand."

"Most girls are born, but I was made. I'm the worlds first synthetic person capable of generating an aura. I'm not real." Ruby seemed to be barely phased by this revelation.

Sonata was, in her own opinion, taking this surprisingly well. 'Why am I not getting freaked out about her existence... Ok, I don't like robots cause they don't have a soul... But Penny can generate aura, I saw her do it... So she has to have a soul right? Uhh my brain hurts now.' Sonata decided it would be best to ask Ruby about the girl later.

As Aria walked up to the doors of Junior's club she saw they were open and heard voices from inside. "Blondie! You're here. Why?"

"You still owe me a drink." Yang walked forward and dragged Junior towards the bar.

"Whoa, what a woman." Aria silently crept up behind Neptune as he glanced at Miltiades and Melanie Malachite, the twins who worked for Junior. "Sup." Aria pointed her thumb at him and looked towards the twins.

"Hmph. Whatever." As they walked away Aria frowned and pushed past Neptune heading towards the bar. Junior noticed her and Yang, who hadn't noticed her arrival was genuinely surprised when the man's eyes widened.

"Oh sweet merciful Oum no! Blondie, please tell me she's not with you!" Yang turned around and saw Aria standing there, cracking her knuckles as she did so. Yang looked back at Junior and saw what she could only describe as pure fear. "Look, I'll give you whatever you want, just get her out of here!"

"I'm not going anywhere until you give me the five thousand lien you owe me Junior! And you can avoid having to pay interest if you give Yang what she wants." Aria started to march forward and grabbed Junior by the tie. "Now pay up or I'll show you how nice I was last time I was here." Yang was a little surprised by Junior's reaction to say the least.

"Here! You can have everything we've made this month! Please, don't go crazy like last time!" Aria slowly walked around the bar and reached into his pockets, fishing around until she found his wallet.

"ID, credit card, bank card... Here we go, cash." Aria quickly counted up five thousand lien and pocketed it before tossing the wallet over her shoulder and walking towards the door. "Tell Yang what she wants to know. Lie and I'll start breaking things... I won't stop at just the building this time."***

Sunset, Blake and Sun had just entered the White Fang meeting, each of them having donned Grimm masks. Sunset could immediately tell something was off. "Guys, look, on the left side of the stage." The two Faunus that still had their animal traits glanced to the side and saw a short girl in a white jacket, brown pants and white boots. The problem was that she was human.

A man in a White Fang uniform walked out on stage. "Thank you all for coming. For those of you who are joining us for the first time tonight, I regret that a very special comrade of ours was recently arrested and could not be here today. However, he was able to secure a few things that will be instrumental in our fight against the humans." The man turned around and pulled the large tarp off the massive object hidden beneath it, revealing a Paladin.

"That's not good..." Sunset briefly glanced to the side and saw the girl from earlier looking their way... Then the girl walked off stage and Sunset started to get nervous. "Well, this isn't going to end well..."

"Will all new recruits please come forward."

Three hours later.

Sunset had, surprisingly, been wrong. It had ended well, they had gotten in and out without a problem... Well Sun and Blake had. You see Sunset didn't feel comfortable leaving the Paladin in the hand of the White Fang. So, as she and the others were passing by, she ran onto the stage, hopped into the Paladin, and without any other ideas, started pushing buttons...

So she didn't have the best plan, but it worked out in the end... Ok, she had driven the thing into the ocean after she accidently activated the self-destruct sequence.**** And now she was back at Beacon, in her dorm room, after having already suffered the wrath of Glynda Goodwitch. She had been saved from what would have more than likely been expulsion when Ozpin himself had told her to return to her dorm and get some rest. As the Sirens began to ask her questions she raised her hand to silence them. "I'll tell you what happened tomorrow... I just want to take a shower and go to bed, okay? Okay."

Author's Note

*
In the Equestria Girls world, DC and Marvel exist. Sonata's favorite hero was Batman because, to quote her, 'Bats are cute and clowns are funny.'
**
I imagine Sonata as the kind of girl who wouldn't be able to finish any games in the FNaF series.
***
After being banished from Equestria Aria worked as an enforcer for the Mob for a brief period of time. The pay didn't hurt, but it was mainly for stress relief.
****
Why Atlas had given the thing a self-destruct sequence? The world may never know.