Ironwood states out of his office, having a clear view of Monstra moving towards the city.

The Ace Ops are standing inside his office, awaiting orders. Ironwood opens his mouth to speak, but is cut off when an urgent transmission activates.

Captain: Sir! You need to see this!

Ironwood and the Ace Ops look at the live feed curiously, Ironwood's eyes widening when he realized where it actually was and turned to look out the window.

The blue lightning storm had grown much larger, and was now moving in a circular motion, as if it was creating a vortex.

Marrow gasps in shock as something emerged from the vortex.

A humongous blue Jellyfish emerged and swam out of the vortex. It's size rivaled that of Monstra's and was possibly even larger.

The Leviathan began slowly swimming through the air and towards Monstra, who had taken notice of the rival creature.

It roared in response, trying to intimidate the Leviathan. But failed miserably, Leviathan's head began glowing.

A wave of blue energy was sent flying forward, it struck Monstra making it reel out of pain.

Ironwood: Bring your army, witch. And I will bring mine.

Salem sat on her bone throne, watching Leviathan angrily.

While The Being stood on a platform within his Leviathan. He would have smiled if he could.

Pietro is putting the finishing touches on part of the Amity Communications Tower when he receives communication from Penny.

Penny: Dad?

Pietro: Penny?

Penny is standing in front of Din, who is finishing up the bomb inside the Schnee Dust mine.

Penny: This does not seem like a very good idea.

She looks down at the bomb, and her sensors tell her that it is a danger.

Pietro: There is a difference between a good idea and our best idea. Sadly, we don't have time for much else.

Din stands up, and Penny touches the bomb's interface, arming it. Meanwhile, Pietro rides the elevating center floor of the Amity Colosseum downward.

Pietro: We have enough systems up and running to broadcast our message and keep Amity in atmospheric orbit. But our thrusters just aren't capable of reaching our target altitude on their own.

On the lowest level of the colosseum's arena, Maria Calavera is piloting a mech and using it to carry a large machine.

Din: (over comm) Good thing we're sitting a live hundreds of pounds of dust.

Maria walks the mech to the center of the platform and puts the machine down.

Pietro: Once we passed into broadcast range, we'll activate stabilizers, re-establish global communications, and boost the message we've recorded out into the rest of the world. After that, we just have to pilot Amity away from all this mess.

Penny arms another bomb in the mines and flies up to a tunnel where yet another bomb is sitting.

Penny: But what if no one is able to come and help Atlas? If I stay behind, I could maybe--

Pietro: Penny, we are not having this conversation again. I'm your father and I'm telling you that you belong on Amity.

Pietro and Maria are riding the platform back up.

Penny: (disappointed) Yes, sir.

Maria: Don't you think Penny has had enough people telling her what to do?

Din looks sympathetically at Penny, but chooses to remain silent.

Pietro: (sighs) Prepare for launch, please. I'm moving us into position.

Penny and Din fly out of the Dust mine and up to Amity Tower. Once they arrive, she sits on the edge of the platform, and Din walks up to Maria. While Pietro works on a computer projected by the machine that Maria placed.

Pietro: All systems are ready. Penny?

Penny looks at him and then gets up and walks over.

Pietro: Amity is requesting launch access... now.

Penny looks at the screen, which says "Connecting..." She looks down, waiting. Pietro and Maria look at Penny, and after a few moments, her eyes glow slightly. The tower's stabilizers activate, glowing purple, and Pietro and Maria celebrate.

Pietro: Oh yes, it worked!

Penny smiles, but then lowers her head. Pietro places his hand on her arm to comfort her, and she looks at him and smiles. He then begins typing on the computer again.

Pietro: Oh, I didn't have time to install seat belts, so I'd advise you to hang on.

Pietro taps a button on his walking chair, and parts of the chair's legs begin glowing purple. Maria laughs and walks away. The bombs in the Dust mine begin counting down from thirty seconds, and Penny begins helping Maria get back inside the mech.

The two are soon distracted by a loud thud, followed by a fireball flying up through the air. Penny flies over to the edge of the platform and looks down to see a huge hole where the fireball melted through from outside the colosseum. An airship levitates up from the smoke, and atop the airship stands Cinder Fall with flames coming from her hands.

Cinder: (excited) And where do you think you're going?

Penny looks back at Pietro, who looks scared. And Din who unslings his pulse rifle.

Pietro: Penny, no!

Against her father's wishes, Penny flies down and floats above the arena to face Cinder, drawing Floating Array. Cinder hops down from the airship with a grin, while Emerald and Neo exit the airship. The countdown on the bombs reaches zero, and the bombs explode, setting off a chain reaction of Dust eruptions. As the colorful explosions intensify, four jets on Amity Tower activate.

The combined force causes the tower to begin flying into the air, which slams Penny into the floor. Cinder drops to one knee and steadies herself with her hands.

Din leaps off the platform, and slowly floats down with his activated jet pack.

In Atlas Academy, Ironwood, and the remaining Ace Ops are gathered around the table in Ironwood's office. A hologram screen is showing a map of Solitas, on which the locations of the Kingdom of Atlas, Amity Tower, Monstra and now Leviathan are marked. A new screen appears, displaying the words "Sensory Alert", while an alarm plays. Yet another screen appears, showing footage of Amity Tower beginning its take-off.

Ironwood: It's time.

He walks away.

In Amity Tower, Emerald has been forced to the floor by the tower's ascent. She looks at Cinder, who is focused on Penny.

But hoped to the side, dodging a blaster bolt. She looks up to see Din flying towards her.

Cinder: I was hoping your friends would be here. But it looks like they left you to do all the work.

Cinder begins spawning dozens of glowing hot glass swords on the floor around herself.

Cinder: (laughs) You're just a tool to be used!

Penny: You do not know what you are talking about.

The tower finishes ascending, and its jets turn off. Cinder grins and thrusts her hands forward, making the glass swords launch themselves at Penny. Quickly, Penny uses the jets in her feet to get up and move backward, then arranges her swords in a circle in front of her and spins them to deflect and shatter the glass swords.

One of the glass swords manages to make it through, stabbing into the wall next to Penny's head and causing her to gasp. She becomes worried but continues spinning her swords. Piloting the mech, Maria hops in between Cinder and Penny, using the mech's arms to block the remaining glass swords. The mech stands tall and begins walking toward Cinder.

Maria: Get away from her, you bi--

Cinder's airship suddenly slams into Maria's mech, knocking it away.

Cinder and Penny look at each other and then begin flying toward each other. However, Penny dodges Cinder and continues past Maria, who is wrestling with the airship. Cinder chases Penny out of the arena, and Emerald turns her attention to the battle between Maria in the mech and Neo in the ship.

Din watched Penny fly out of the Arena, and pressed a button on his gauntlet, rocketing after them.

Maria: Stupid, clunky machine!

Maria manages to slam the airship down onto the floor, and Neo reverses the ship until it breaks free from the mech's grip and floats away. Maria looks around, only to find the airship seems to have disappeared. She then notices Emerald using her Semblance on her to hide the ship from her vision. The ship once again slams into the mech and keeps going until the mech is slammed into a wall. Neo parks the airship and gets out.

Maria opens the cockpit of the now damaged mech and begins climbing out, only to see Neo standing in front of her. In the distance, Emerald calls out to Neo.

Emerald: Let's go!

Emerald hurries out of the arena, but Neo only spares her a glance before looking back down at Maria.

Maria: And what do you want?

Neo leans down to Maria and uses her Semblance to make herself look identical to Ruby Rose. She then grabs Maria and tosses her out of the mech. Maria rolls and gets to her feet, sliding to a stop with a confident grin. On the platform above, Pietro watches as Maria begins dodging Neo's attacks. He hurries back to the computer to check on the tower's status.

Pietro: Please, please, please!

The screen displays an image of Amity Tower above a green dotted line labeled "Broadcast Range". The top of the screen says "Broadcast Signal Range Achieved".

Pietro: Yes!

However, as the tower's stabilizers activate, the text on the screen changes to "Warning! Stabilizer Fail", with a diagram and multiple windows appearing. The screen then changes again to display Amity Tower dipping below the now yellow dotted line. The top of the screen says "Broadcast Signal Lost In -" with a countdown timer for three minutes. The hole that Cinder burned into the colosseum is directly next to one of the stabilizers, causing it to malfunction and struggle to remain active.

Pietro: We're... drifting?

Pietro begins typing on the computer.

Penny flies around the outside of the colosseum. Cinder sends flame arcs at her, and Penny fires lasers in response. Cinder tries to slash at her with swords, but Penny blocks and flies up above the colosseum. There, Cinder sends more flame arcs at Penny, one of which makes contact. Penny uses one of her swords and its wire to swing herself around the roof of the colosseum. Cinder combines her swords into a bow, firing a few glass arrows. The arrows would have collided with Penny, but Din got in the way and blocked with his armor.

The rest sink into the colosseum's roof and explode.

Concerned about the tower, Penny flies away. At first, Cinder gives chase, throwing fireballs and becoming frustrated when Penny continuously dodges them, and she has to dodge Din's attacks. However, she soon gets an idea and stops in her tracks.

Noticing this, Penny looks back at her, using her eyes' zoom function to see what she is doing. Cinder smirks at her over her shoulder and then flies back to Amity Tower, and Penny flies after her.

Inside the arena, Neo repeatedly swings her parasol at Maria, who laughs and blocks every attack with her cane. Neo hooks her parasol's handle on the cane and uses it to throw Maria. Much to Neo's surprise, Maria changes her cane into its sickle form, hooks it on the parasol's handle, and pulls herself forward to land a kick on Neo's head. Maria then hops off of Neo's head, and Neo begins to fall over but catches herself.

Neo charges Maria and leaps at her, but Maria blocks the parasol with the top of her sickle and then folds the sickle's blade down to ram the head of it into Neo's face. She then unfolds the sickle to hook it onto the parasol and pull, knocking Neo down.

Cinder begins shooting flames at the metal beams supporting the communications platform, successfully melting three of them before she hears Penny calling out.

Penny: No!

Cinder smiles when she sees Penny flying toward her, dodges when Penny fires a laser at her, and sends a fireball in return. The two hover above the platform.

Penny: Why are you doing this? Why serve someone like Salem?

Cinder: (smiling) I don't serve anyone. And you wouldn't either, if you weren't built that way.

Penny: That is not... (glancing at Pietro) I choose to fight for people who care about me.

The melted beams begin to give out, causing the platform to slowly sag. Penny stabs her nine swords into the floor and uses the strings to pull the platform up. Using her Maiden powers, Penny begins shooting ice magic at two of the beams, attempting to cool the metal back down. She looks down at Pietro, then at Cinder, who flies over, wraps her legs around Penny's waist, and begins trying to grab her with her Grimm arm.

Penny grabs the Grimm arm's wrist and screams in terror, struggling against Cinder. The ice on one of the beams begins breaking off, and Penny shoots ice magic at it again. Cinder grabs the hand that Penny is using to hold her Grimm arm and applies intense heat that instantly causes Penny's hand to glow white hot. Penny loses her grip from the pain, and Cinder immediately grabs her face with her Grimm hand, which muffles Penny's screams. The Grimm arm begins glowing bright green.

Din unslings his pulse-rifle and took aim, Cinder not paying attention to him. He fired, the yellow bolt collided, and destroyed her Aura.

Due to the shock of losing her Aura, Cinder lost control of her flight and slammed into a wall.

Emerald: Cinder!

Emerald turned and drew her guns, opening fire on Din, the bullets pinged off his beskar armor as he calmly reloaded his pulse rifle.

Emerald died her chains, wrapping around one of Din's arms, he pulled her forward with a blast from his jet pack.

But Emerald pulled something out of her pocket, and tossed a small ball at Din's visor. A bright flash blinding him.

Penny lands on the floor of the arena, near Maria, distracting the latter. Cinder slowly rises and then looks at Emerald, with the two exchanging a smile. Neo takes the opportunity to knock Maria down. She then walks toward Maria, drawing the sword from her parasol, only for Penny to shoot her with a large laser with all nine of her swords, slamming her into the airship hard enough to break her Aura.

Penny flies up into the air to once again face Cinder, who creates a glowing hot glass spear. Suddenly, Penny is surrounded by copies of Cinder, all wielding the same spear, thanks to Emerald inflicting her with hallucinations. Penny levitates her swords behind her and forms a storm cloud above herself.

The Cinders point their spears at her and then charge her, while lightning strikes Penny's swords. Penny activates her vision system's heat signature mode, allowing her to identify which Cinder is real. She gathers her charged swords and uses them to fire a powerful laser at Cinder, destroying the spear and causing Cinder to scream out in pain. Emerald rushes to Cinder's aid.

Emerald: Cinder! No no no! No!

Emerald kneels beside Cinder, who is lying unconscious on the floor. She rolls Cinder onto her back to check on her, while Penny levitates near them. Emerald turns and fires her gun toward Penny, but the bullet flies straight past Penny and hits the machine on the raised platform, barely missing Pietro. Penny watches the bullet, then turns to Emerald and points her swords at her, angered.

Emerald: I know I can't beat you.

The anger leaves Penny's face. Her Maiden eye flares disappear, and she frowns.

Emerald: But I can fill that thing full of holes before you take me down.

Emerald sheds a single tear. In response, Penny lowers her swords and relaxes her posture. The colosseum shakes and rumbles, and Penny looks around. She watches Emerald hurriedly carry Cinder away and then flies away. Emerald gets into the airship, setting Cinder beside her, while Neo starts the ship. Emerald worriedly pets Cinder's head, then looks at Neo, who looks annoyed.

Emerald: Get us out of here. Hurry.

Neo's look of annoyance turns to one of anger, and she flies the ship out of the colosseum.

Penny flies back up to the platform, carrying Maria. She sets Maria down.

Penny: Dad! Are you okay?

She runs over to Pietro and kneels in front of him. The computer screen says "Broadcast Signal Lost".

Pietro: The stabilizer was damaged. We've missed our window.

Penny gets up and runs over to the computer, typing on the keyboard.

Pietro: At this rate, we're likely to drift until touching down just north of--

The colosseum rumbles again.

Penny: I can fix this.

Maria: What?

Penny: Our message is only a few minutes long.

Penny turns to them and continues talking with a smile.

Penny: I can try and hold Amity in place until--

Pietro: Absolutely not!

Penny frowns in disappointment.

Pietro: You're in no condition to do something like this. Even just the temperature out there could--

Penny: It is our only option.

Maria: She is right, Pietro. We have to remember the big picture--

Pietro becomes frustrated, interrupting Maria.

Pietro: I don't care about the big picture! I care about my daughter!

He slams his fist down onto the arm of his chair. He lowers his head and takes off his hat as he speaks.

Pietro: I lost you before. Are you asking me to go through that again? No. No. I want the chance to watch you live your life.

Penny walks over and gently lifts his head so he will look at her.

Penny: But dad... I am trying to.

He takes her hand into both of his and then takes a moment to emotionally gather himself, nodding.

Pietro: Right.

She gently kisses the top of his head. He takes off his glasses and rubs his eyes, while Maria walks over to stand beside him, smiling at Penny. Maria puts her hand on his arm while he puts his glasses back on, and Penny flies outside through an opening in the roof. Penny takes a few moments to look down at Atlas, then up at a borealis in the sky, smiling to herself.

Din slowly shakes his head, the effects wearing off. Realizing what happens he presses a button on his gauntlet.

Penny flies down to the damaged stabilizer and begins pushing on it, using the jets in her feet. Pietro watches the computer screen as the image of Amity slowly rises up through the red dotted line representing the broadcast range.

Pietro: Come on, Penny.

Penny activates her Maiden powers, and the jet she is producing increases greatly in size and changes from green to cyan.

She then heard a noise next to her, turning, she see's Din slammed onto the side as well. His jet pack increasing its thrust.

The computer plays a noise as the tower reaches broadcast range, causing Pietro and Maria to celebrate.

Maria: Yes! Atta girl!

A window labeled "User input needed to continue" appears on the screen, asking "Initiate Broadcast Operational Sequence?" with buttons for "Yes" and "Cancel". Pietro brings his fist down onto the keyboard.

All of the screens in the Atlas military base suddenly display a broadcast color pattern with the text "Atlas Emergency Broadcast System" displayed across the top, emitting a long tone. A large screen on a building in Mantle flickers on, displaying the same image for a moment before switching to a pre-recorded video of Ruby, with Blake Belladonna's voice coming from off-camera. Drunk Mann and Drinking Buddy look at the screen and then at each other.

Blake: Okay, go ahead.