1(Thessaly - Jakana City - Jakana R&D Black Ops Facility)
(Third Person POV)
Jakana R&D Black Ops Facility, as it implies in its name, is located within Jakana City, one of the more older cities of Thessaly like the Imperial City or Calados. The facility's information is highly classified to low-ranking troops, only higher echelons of Imperial Military know of the facility, and mid-ranking and high-ranking IOMI officers have access to the facility itself. Due to the high requirement of security clearance, should the facility ever be exposed or the information to be compromised, the entire facility is to evacuate and salvage all data and samples before self-destruction.
Jakana R&D in particular, is dedicated to the world of Remnant, bringing in various samples from said planet to the facility to study, be it for weaknesses or strengths to harvest from. Commander Lyle Reiner, is the current director of the facility, overseeing operations and reporting to Imperial HIGHCOM.
One project in particular that the Commander was overseeing would be that of an Atlesian AI that was extracted from Amity Coliseum during the day of the Fall of Beacon and the attack on Vale itself. It was just barely recovered in time as the AI core was heavily damaged, fortunately Atlesian officials had chalked up her remains as lost during the Grimm invasion.
"Commander," Doctor Woods greeted, not looking away from his terminal. "I've looked over the extent of her damages numerous times, and it is certainly not pretty."
"The recovery of Penny Polendina is a priority Doctor." Commander Lyle told him, hardly an emotion present in his voice. "She is an ally of the Emperor, and we will not return her to Atlas, not with our current relationship with them."
"That's the thing Commander, Miss Polendina can only be 'saved' by her creator, Doctor Polendina." He protested, turning towards Lyle with exhaustion. "We simply do not have the instruments, equipment, and knowledge to recover her!" He waved his hand over the entire lab, several scientists were idle. "Even if we've learned much of this 'Aura' to create suppression devices for them, we have not learned enough of it to work on artificial Aura's." Doctor Woods rubbed his temples in frustration. "Fortunately, her body has been completely reconstructed, but without her AI core or Aura, the body's useless."
Commander Lyle scowled, "Find a way to recover her, or I will find a replacement that will Doctor." He crossed his arms, the two IOMI Commandos behind him stood silent but tense. "Have you tried using members of the Imperial Hunter Division, they no doubt have more knowledge on Aura, correct?"
Doctor Woods snapped his fingers, his eyes widening in realization. "That's it!" He shouted excitedly. "If I can recall, Huntsmen and Huntresses use an incantation to activate a person's Aura within someone. That could possibly work with Miss Polendina here, the reactivation of her soul could possibly revive her."
"Even if the IHD is a part of the Imperial Military now, they're still relatively new and cannot be fully trusted yet." Commander Lyle muttered to himself. "There are a few veteran Hunters that can be trusted, and I have a candidate in mind."
"Who would that be Commander?" He asked hurriedly, the activation of Penny Polendina on his mind only.
"Qrow Branwen..."
(Jakana R&D Black Ops Facility)
(Third Person POV - Elsewhere in the Facility)
While the reactivation of Penny Polendina was elsewhere within the facility, several researchers of the R&D department had work on the various specimen of Grimm held in captivity, Class-Four Forces capturing said Grimm for the sole purpose of finding more weaknesses to the Grimm.
"Quite interesting..." Doctor Lena Harriett muttered to herself, scribbling down notes on the Grimm Beowolf held in a sealed chamber before her. "Specimen #14 has shown significant signs of weakening over the course of two days, reaction time and attack speed has slowed when security forces have entered the chamber to transport #14 to another area." She looked up, moving a stray lock of her brown hair away from her face. "#14 has been deteriorating over the course of several hours on the second day, black particles have been seen peeling off the specimen, and it is now no longer clawing against chamber walls or glass."
Doctor Lena is the leading researcher for all subjects relating to the matters of Grimm from Remnant, having two months worth of research on the Grimm, compiled with information provided from Remnant's own examinations on the Grimm, there was little information on them. Deathstalkers, Beringels, Nevermores, and various other Grimm have lasted longer than the Beowolf in the sealed chamber before the good Doctor, proving that the Beowolf is indeed the most weakest among Grimm-types.
"More information is needed on this specimen," She muttered to herself, tapping her pencil against her chin. "Possible Alpha Beowolf needed for further examination of Beowolf-type Grimm..." She turned towards a pair of IOMI Commandos, lowering her clipboard. "Security, terminate the specimen, I'm done here." She ordered them, and they nodded, moving out the room and next to the Titanium-A doors leading to the sealed chamber.
As Doctor Lena exited the observation room, she ignored the later suppressed sounds of howling and gunfire, with it soon ending, signaling the end of the Beowolf. Various researchers and IOMI Commandos passed by her, each of them looking quite as busy as her as they passed by over a dozen containment chambers holding Grimm of various types.
Deathstalkers rammed their stingers against containment chamber viewing glass, rooms beings adapted to their large size as their type big and small showed the same behavior. Beringels were almost-literally bouncing around in their chambers, raging and pounding on the walls as researchers calmly observed them. A small Nevermore's razor-sharp feathers bounced off the metal walls of their prison, doing it in a likely futile attempt to break out, Griffons showed the same behavior but had their beaks pecking at the glass, as if it could sense the Humans and Abhumans behind the glass. The oddest behavior shown from the Grimm-types were mostly from the sole Goliath in the facility, captured during the Fall of Beacon by multiple Hero-Class forces for 'fun'.
The old and large Grimm merely stood in its chambers, a large room located below the observation floor of Jakana R&D, it clearly unnerved the civilian staff observing it as the Goliath's eyes showed... intelligence and it coincidentally looked straight at a researcher through a ONE-WAY viewing glass, it was also cause for security staff to be cautious around the beast.
Of course, what the staff didn't know was that Salem saw through the very eyes of her own 'children', regardless of them being on another world entirely. Fortunately, Salem couldn't do jack-shit against Thessaly, even if she could have her children gather up on Thessaly, break out, and go on a rampage, she still had to deal with the invasion by Imperial forces in her territory.
