Disclaimer: RWBY and its characters are owned by Rooster Teeth in Austin, Texas. The OCs however are mine.

Chapter 1

Blake's POV

A woman who looks to be in her mid 30s is lying against a broken stone wall. There's blood dripping down the left side of her face and a broken white mask is laying beside her. Although she still looks relatively human, minus the cat ears on top of her head, it's the Grimm like features which draw attention to her.

She has a dark black stripe with a thin bright white outline stretching from just below her human ears all the way to the edge of her eye sockets. Her mostly Amber eyes have blood red slits down the middle taking up half the irises. The skin of her eye sockets and eye lids are dark black and there are 3 red stripes that run from the bottom of her eye socket all the way to her eye brows. She also seems to have a 3 foot long black cat tail with a sharp white bone spike on the end. She is wearing an open, torn up black tail coat with a dirt caked white fur lining, a soot stained sleeveless white halter top, black knee length shorts wrapped in purple ribbon and a pair of black steel toed combat boots with gold trimming and 1 inch heels.

She slowly opens her eyes, nearly blinded by an orange glow which surrounds her. She slowly gets to her feet and starts to move around. She notices broken desks and cubicle walls tossed all over the area, leading her to guess that she must be in some sort of office building. She wanders the area in a daze, looking for anything that might tell her what she is doing there. She notices a binder with the Atlesian Military's symbol on its half burnt cover before the sound of an explosion draws her attention to a hole in what remains of a wall.

She heads to the opened wall to take a look outside hoping to figure out where she is. The scene before her is practically that of a nightmare. Amongst the shattered, burning buildings, she sees enormous black monsters running rampant on the streets in front of her. She sees a makeshift barricade of broken vehicles and debris at the far left of the street, with dozens of soldiers firing on a fast approaching wave of wolf like creatures while enormous black birds and giant Dragonfly like creatures can be seen clashing with massive warships in the skies above.

The Dragonfly monsters seem to be firing beams of white energy out of their eyes which is cutting through smaller ships like a hot knife through butter. Behind the barricade she sees what looks like a make shift camp situated at the entrance of the building she is currently in. The camp is filled with soldiers running from place to place, restocking and reinforcing the various barricades.

Eventually, an orange haired woman wearing a tattered white top with a heart shaped cut out at the center of the chest and a pair of pink lotus flowers on each sleeve, a shredded black and pink corset that starts just below the breasts, a pink knee length, pleated skirt with a huge rip on the right side and soot stained thigh high white boots with pink laces blasts a hole in the wall behind the dazed cat woman using a large silver and pink war hammer, but the bloodied woman doesn't even seem to hear anything.

The orange haired woman quickly runs up to the dazed woman, screaming something she doesn't seem to understand. When the orange haired woman reaches her, she turns the woman around and starts to shake her, screaming something in her face. The dazed black haired woman doesn't even acknowledge her existence, so the orange haired woman slaps her across the face, hoping to snap her out of her confused state..

The blood covered woman's response is to pin the orange haired woman to the wall in front of her. Just as she is about to strike the other woman in the forehead with her gun blade, she recognizes who exactly said woman is. She diverts the strike to a point next to the woman's head at the last possible second, narrowly avoiding a tragic mistake.

The Orange haired woman, who is not at all distressed by the attack, simply says "Thanks for the concern Blakey but I really don't need a hair cut right now, besides, don't think your taking the phrase 'A little of the top' a bit too seriously?" Blake drops her weapon and falls backwards into a seated position before screaming "OhmygoshNoraI'msorryIthoughtyouweretryingtokillmesoIjustreac-." Nora quickly interrupts her by putting a finger to distressed woman's lip and saying "Whoa calm down, you're talking too fast for me to understand you! Wow, that just sounds weird when I say it. Especially when you're the one I'm saying it to, is this how everybody else feels when their talking to me? It seems rather annoying now that I think about it."

While Nora is in the middle of her rant, Blake ignores her and takes the time to get her thoughts together before her eyes widen as she remembers what led to her being knocked out in the first place.

"WEISS! Nora we have to get to Weiss, she's still battling her brother Whitley upstairs!" she screams. Nora's expression immediately grimaces at the mention of the former heiress' name before she tries to explain what she found. "Blake..." she says, but she just ignores Nora's interruption and continues her hysterical tirade saying "We have to get to her before she gets hurt! There were a lot of Grimm up there with us." Nora quietly grabs Blake's shoulders, looks her in the eyes and says "Blake..." "I don't know how long she can hold out on her own. we were already exhausted from fighting our way to the building anyway." she continues as Nora tries to grab her attention. "Blake, please..." Nora says, causing Blake to respond by screaming "NORA, WHATEVER YOU'RE TRYING TO SAY CAN WAIT, WE NEED TO SAVE WEISS!"

Nora's eyes start to tear up as she reaches behind her, grabbing a blood stained Rapier and placing it on Blake's lap, shocking her into a stunned silence. Nora solemnly says "Blake, I'm sorry. We've been trying to find you and Weiss for at least an hour. I found Myrtenaster just a bit ago. I couldn't find a body, but the amount of blood surrounding it..." After a few seconds of silence, Blake begins tearing up as well "No... NONONONONONONO! I can't accept that! It's bad enough that we lost Ruby. I can't lose Weiss too!" Nora responds by saying, "Blake, I really don't thin-"

The conversation is interrupted by the sound of growls and roars as a tall woman with a large mane of knee length blonde hair leaps backwards and landing in front of the hole in the wall, firing blasts from a pair of mechashifted arm cannons, silencing her unseen enemies. She seems to be wearing a heavy 2 piece black curiass. The top half of the armor has a yellow flame below a pair of white Crescent Moons dominating the front of it, the lower half consists of a pair of black plates covering her stomach and lower back with flexible chain mail covering the sides, a pair of black spaulders with built in rerebracers covering her shoulders and upper arms, black greaves with a black metal belt which has a white chainmail half skirt coming out the back, and black boots with a pair of large, sharp western style spurs on the back.

The pieces of armor seem to have yellow circuits which lead toward the yellow flame in the upper part of the chest that seem to be channeling energy toward the glowing symbol. Once the sounds of combat cease, the woman transforms the two cannons into a pair of robotic black and yellow forearms and looks to her side where spots Nora and Blake. She walks toward the pair and appears to be about to say something before she sees the blood stained sword in Blake's lap and the tears in the eyes of both women.

The smile on her face immediately vanishes and she starts to tear up herself as she slowly walks toward the two women. The woman says "I'm sorry, but we need to go, the Grimm are overrunning the city, Jaune and my uncle should be down in the bunker by now and Ironwood is using what's left of his forces to buy enough time to do what we need to do. There's nothing we can do to save Atlas now, but we can still make a difference elsewhere."

"NO! I'm not leaving without Weiss, Yang! We've lost so many people, I can't lose her too! I'm going to find her." Blake screams, "There's no time for that Blake! There's already Nevermores and Omega Menuras circling the city, the seismic readings suggests that there's a large horde of creeps and other subterranean Grimm on the way, we've already got Goliaths, Rapkars, Nucklavees and other Elder Grimm in range of the barricades and Ironwood said he's picking up an energy signature which is most likely the formation of a large portal just outside the city, which probably means there's either a large horde or a Titan class Grimm on the way.

Ironwood's flag ship has already gone down along with most of the Atlesian fleet and at least 85% of the city is already lost. We have to go now or Weiss' sacrifice will have been for nothing." Yang says in an attempt to talk some sense into her "I DON'T CARE! I'll fight them all if I have to!" Blake tries to get up before she restrained by Nora who looks her in the eye and says, "Blake, getting yourself killed isn't going to help anybody, you said the exact same thing to me when we lost Ren on Patch." "This is different, we still had a chance back then, we don't anymore, the Grimm Queen has already won. Now let me go so we can find her." Blake says.

She pushes the two away and runs for the exit before she is intercepted by a red eyed, firey haired Yang who turns her around and yells, "SHUT UP Blake! You think I don't know what it's like to lose people I love? Just look at what happened to Ruby! You're the only Faunus that was able to resist that virus when it broke out, if we lose you then Summer, Jaune and Ironwood's plan is going to be useless. You know the only way a vaccine can be discovered is if Beacon's staff has access to you. Besides, Weiss is strong, I'm sure she's already down there waiting for us." She says as she notices a colossal man with a large sword and a pale green suit of samurai armor enter the room followed by a dark skinned man covered in scars.

Yang gives the big man a discreet hand signal pointed towards Blake. The man silently moves in behind Blake as she continues arguing. "No, I'm not going without Weiss, what happened to Ruby was bad enough, I can't lo-" Blake screams before she is interrupted by the flat side of a large sword with a hooked tip colliding with the back of her head. Nora screamed in surprise "AHHHH! Yatsu! You can't just sneak up on people like that! Seriously, you're like 7 feet tall and your wearing 100 lbs. of armor, how the heck can you be so sneaky?!" The large man in green armor just shrugs.

"It had to be done, Blake wasn't going to come any other way." Yang says while she picks up Blake's unconscious form. Just after Yang finished her sentence, the building begins to shake under the immense pressure of a roar so powerful that even the ground beneath their feet seems to quake in fear. In seconds later, a large section of what remains of the roof collapses, sending dust and debris rushing through the room. Through the cloud, the four people are clearly able to see 2 glowing red eyes gazing back at them. As the dust clears, group is able to clearly see the form of their attacker.

The creature's skin is as dark black as his mane like hair and beard. It appears to be wearing a tattered purple coat with dirt and blood covered fur outlining the outfit. A large metallic buckle holds a purple sash which sits above it's dark brown pants. On its face, there are 2 white stripes which curve upwards from the farthest visible side of his cheeks to just at the lower corner of his eyes before curving just below the eye sockets and meeting at the bridge of his nose.

At the center of his forehead is a third dark red eye. One would almost think this eye was a tattoo if it wasn't for the fact that the dark black pupil was moving to meet the gaze of the four people there. "Ghira..." Yang gasps in surprise. The five individuals gaze in silence upon the Grimm tainted visage of the once proud Chieftain of Kuo Kuana and former leader of the White Fang. With a calm look on his face, he quickly assesses his environment. Upon seeing the unconscious form of his former daughter, his expression quickly contorts to that of pure psychotic rage.

He leaps toward the unconscious Blake before he is slammed by Yatsuhashi's sword, knocking the Grimm like creature through a wall and multiple buildings.

Yatsuhashi's POV

The swordsman turns toward the group. "You need to get Blake out of here, I'm going to hold the Panther as long as I can." Yatsuhashi tells the two conscious women. "Not happening big guy, we both know that's a death wish." Yang says. "You've known the plan for weeks now Yang, you had to realize this was a possibility. I only had one objective for this mission and that was getting the three of you down to the basement. My survival is not required to succeed so long as you make it down to the machine. You don't have time to help us take him down, so go now. Tell Coco I'll say hi to Velvet if we don't make it." Ghira emerges from the smoking ruins in an explosion of concrete and dust, extending his claws and charging at the group. "GO!" Yatsuhashi yells.

"He's right Yang," Nora says as she grabs her shoulder, "We have to get to the basement so move!" Fox stays where he is and stares at the large man silently. "This is my fight Fox you need to go with them." The scarred man simply raises an eyebrow at that statement. "Think about it Fox, if the Panther is here, then that means the Monkey can't be far behind. They need somebody who can intercept him when he shows up." he says. The silent man continues to stare for a second before he silently leaves the swordsman behind.

Ghira tries to lunge at the fleeing group but is intercepted by a shoulder tackle from Yatsuhashi. Ghira gets back to his feet and charges at the man with his 3" long bone claws only to be blocked by Yatsu's massive sword. The two men exchange glares of absolute contempt as neither man appears to give way under the massive collision between Man and Faunus. In attempt to break the stalemate, the faunus tries to land a kick at the swordsman's left knee only for him to release the claws and jump back in order to avoid the kick.

He then swings his sword toward the faunas' stomach, hoping to land a hit, only for the older man to dodge at the last second. He is met with a set of claws colliding with his chest, knocking the swordsman on his back. The faunus tries to end the fight with a slash to the swordsman's throat, only for him to roll out of the way and leap back to his feet.

The force of the claws hitting the floor was enough for his claws to break through it, causing his claws to get stuck. The swordsman takes advantage of the brief opening by slamming the flat edge of his sword into the faunus head knocking him into the floor, creating a crater at the point of impact from the savage amount of force before jumping backwards and landing in front of a stone pillar in order to give himself some space. Ghira lies on the ground completely motionless as the swordsman charges toward his prey, intent on ending the fight with one final strike.

At the last second, Ghira rises into a four point stance and pounces toward the swordsman hitting him with a shoulder tackle that sends them both flying through the pillar behind him. At the moment of impact, the swordsman feels a sharp pain in his chest. The swordsman makes it to his feet, his breathing short and painful, as he hears the building begin to groan under the stress of losing one of its three major support pillars.

"Okay, calm down and assess the situation. I can tell by the way I'm breathing that I somehow managed to puncture one of my lungs. That means I probably won't be able to draw this fight out long enough for Qrow and his team to get through. The safer bet would be to find a way to restrain him. Judging by the sounds this building is making I don't think it will be able to stand up to this fight much longer either," he silently thinks to himself before he gets an idea.

"But maybe that's a good thing. I don't have enough strength to destroy the pillars myself, but perhaps I can find a way to trick him into doing it for me."

As he starts to get up, the swordsman tosses a small piece of debris at the faunus, hoping to send him into a blind rage. He charges at the swordsman and starts swinging his claws, only to miss as the swordsman dodges the attacks without fighting back. The strategy works as the faunus begins blindly charging the swordsman like a mad bull. The swordsman narrowly avoids the former chief, jumping closer to the door while the creature crashes into the wall.

The swordsman dashes down the hall toward the central office of the building, hoping to lure him toward the main support pillar for the building with the faunus following close behind. The creature begins picking up debris scattered along the hall tossing it toward the swordsman who narrowly avoids being hit by chunks of drywall and warped steel girders.

After a long pursuit, the swordsman arrives at his destination and bends over while leaning on the central support beam. Trying to make it seem like he is on his last leg to further entice the faunus. "Alright you prick, you think you're so powerful? Let's see if you can survive a five story building falling on you." He says. The faunus takes the bait and lunges toward the swordsman, not even caring to listen to what he said, slamming him through the support beam in the process.

The building begins to violently shudder before it collapses in a cascade of stone and steel, crushing both of them under the massive weight.

Yang's POV

As the four run though a narrow hallway, Yang says "Okay, I'm a little worried that there's no sign of the Monkey right now. He's usually always close by when the Panther is around. Keep your eyes open everybody, we can't let him get the drop on us." A few seconds later they reach a door and walk onto the rafters of a basement warehouse where they are met by the sight of a massive battle between man and Grimm.

Part of the floor above the warehouse appears to have been torn open by a particularly powerful Grimm. On the far left corner, Winter Schnee and Coco Adel are engaging a large group Creeps and Lancers, with Winter using both swords to cut down the lizard like grim down while Coco is shooting down the wasps with her minigun.

In the dead center of the room, Taiyang Xiao Long is engaged in battle with a massive, Centipede like Grimm. He is wielding a large, flaming bearded battle axe with a 6 foot long gold metal haft and a brown leather grip with a spiked silver pommel on the end. The axe head is 3 feet tall and 4 feet long. He when the centipede strikes down toward him, he mechashifts the axe into a Rocket Launcher and fires a rocket at the creatures head as it lunges to bite him before jumping out of the way.

Doctor Oobleck and Junior Xiong are fighting a group of Ursa Majors when they are nearly caught off guard by a large Deathstalker. Junior manages to mechashift his bat into a Rocket Launcher and shoots the Deathstalker before turning his weapon back into a bat and swinging it into the head of an Ursa Major.

A gray haired Qrow Branwen, and an older Jaune Arc are on the platform with a pair of identical twelve year old girls and a seventeen year old girl with red tipped blonde hair battling a large group of Beowolves and Ursa. The two girls are wearing tan jackets with yellow t-shirts underneath and a pair of black shorts. They both look like miniature Yang Xiao Longs except for the fact that they have blue eyes.

Glynda Goodwitch is close to the rafters, using her Semblance to bury a Nucklevee under a large pile of massive metal shipping containers. "Still no sign of him... guess we'll have to worry about that later. Alright Fox, looks like you're partner could use some help over there so get to it. Don't tell Winter about Weiss right now, we need her focused on the task at hand." The silent man nods before leaping off the rafters and across several containers before landing next to the group.

The sounds of battle are enough to bring Blake back to her senses as she opens her eyes to see the face of her former partner Yang Xiao Long. "Hey there sleeping beauty, hope you had a good cat nap because it's time for us to fight." Yang says before putting Blake down.

"You'll probably wanna charge up for this one Nora," Yang continues as she tosses a taser over to Nora "we're gonna need all the power we can get in this fight." Nora jabs herself with the taser as a look of pure bliss crosses her face. "Oh yeah, that's the stuff. TIME TO BREAK SOME LEGS!"

Just as the three women get ready to jump down to the floor, the Nucklevee bursts out of the pile of metal with one of the containers heading straight for Miss Goodwitch. At the same time, the Centipede Grimm facing Taiyang lunges to bite him, only to be blocked by his mighty axe. The Grimm and the Hunstman are locked into a battle of strength, but the creature is slowly winning the fight, forcing the man down to one knee. Nora immediately jumps in front of Miss Goodwitch before swinging the mighty Magnhild at the flying metal box, knocking it straight into the Centipede Grimm. The other two women hit the ground half a second after Nora's heroic save causing a wave of relief to briefly appear on Goodwitch's face.

"Alright ladies here's the plan; Blake, you're the fastest one of us here right now, so I need you to get to the platform as fast as possible. My uncle, my husband and my niece can handle themselves, just don't let those monsters overwhelm my girls. Nora, you stay here and help me and Miss Goodwitch deal with the Four Horsemen reject over here, tell Glynda to get to the corner once she's done, Winter, Coco and Fox look like they could use a hand, then make your way to the platform as well. I need to make sure my dad doesn't get hurt trying to fight whatever that thing that is attacking him is. Don't t-"

Yang is cut off as the ground begins to shudder, momentarily distracting both man and Grimm. Yang's scroll starts to ring so she switches it to speaker. "Yang here, what's going on up there Jimmy?" "What's your status Xiao Long?" Ironwood asks as the battle resumes. "We're just about to get to the portal, but we got a lot of Grimm down here in the warehouse." Yang says as another, more powerful shudder shakes the building, "We're gonna have to take it slow to fight our way through the Grimm though if everybody's gonna get out of this alive good thing time's on our side right n-."

Another quake starts, making the steel rafters collapse to the floor behind them. Yang's face begins to transform from a look of confidence to one of fear, after a short delay she sighs before asking "Alright James what do we got up there? Is it Morning Wood? Blocky? Oh Monty, please don't tell me it's the Blob. Last time I fought that thing it took weeks to wash all that goop out of my hair."

Ironwood's POV

Above ground, a red Portal is closing behind a massive tree like Grimm which is slowly walking toward the city obscured by the smoke of the burning buildings. The behemoth towers over the ruins, standing at least 1000 feet tall. The monster is roughly 700 feet wide from shoulder to shoulder and has thick 500 foot long arms with a pair massive 300 foot wide spiked balls where its hands would normally be.

The seven remaining Atlesian Battle Ships open fire on the massive monster lumbering toward the battlefield in hopes of slowing it down, but this seems to be more of a minor irritant to the creature than an actual threat. The creature lashes out with a massive right hook, hitting nearby ships and crushing it before the wreckage is sent flying toward a second ship, causing it to explode on impact. The debris of the two of the mighty war ships is sent flying across the horizon by the sheer force of the blow as General James Ironwood looks on with a grim expression on his face as he hears the sounds of battle on the other side of the radio.

"I'm sorry Xiao Long, but it is. The Grimm Queen has sent a Colossus into the fight. It's over for us, but you can still get your people back to the past. We can't save Atlas, but we can still save the refugees in Vacuo. We'll send the refugees in Vacuo and as much of our military as we can through the other machine to a point roughly one month after you arrive to give you time to settle things. Tell Glynda and the others to retreat the moment you all go through."

General Ironwood switches his channel back to the Atlesian Military's radio frequency. "This is General Ironwood. I just want everyone to know that I am proud of what we have accomplished these past few months. The fact that the creature standing before us is even here is a testament to the level of resistance we have put up to defend our home land. If Atlas must fall this day, then let's just make sure to take as many of these monsters as we can with us. Do whatever it takes to slow the Grimm down." He says.

"The reserve fleet at the ruins of Mantle needs to make their way to the backup base in Vacuo to help protect the refugees. This is my final order as General of the Atlesian military. I hereby promote Winter Schnee to the rank of General of what remains of our forces. It was an honor to serve with you all. Over and out." General Ironwood returns the radio receiver to its position and grabs his revolver before walking out of the tent, climbing up to the top of the barricade and firing at an endless horde of Grimm alongside his soldiers.

Blake's PoV

"Okay, new plan," Yang says, "we don't have time to help everyone so we need to go straight for the machine. That still means we have to get through the Nucklevee and whatever that thing my dad is fighting with is. I'll get Glynda to help Coco, Fox and Winter make their escape while my dad helps Oobleck and Junior get out of here, let's move."

The three women begin to make their way toward Miss Goodwitch, but they are immediately intercepted by a group of Creeps which crawl out of a hole left by the Centipede Grimm. Blake leaps into the air and throws her one end of her Kusarigama towards an area just behind the pack of creeps allowing it to penetrate a crate behind it before pulling herself to the rear of the creeps.

Yang yells "Nora, Ice Bomb." Nora jumps over the group of Creeps dropping ice grenades into the Grimm below, freezing them in an instant. Yang immediately follows up by releasing a stream of fire from her mouth which engulfs the group of Lizard like Grimm super heating the ice and causing an explosion which destroys the group.

They continue running through basement until they get close to the fight with the Nucklevee. Yang lets out an ear splitting dragon-like roar to draw the Nucklevee's attention away from Glynda, who capitalizes on the distraction by using her Semblance on two large pieces of twisted metal, shaping them into spears before using them to pin the Nucklevee's arms to the ground. Yang runs towards Glynda while shouting out "Thunder Cat."

Nora channels her aura into her hammer and fires a bolt of lightning from the weapon, stunning the Nucklevee momentarily. Blake then leaps toward the incapacitated Grimm with Gambol Shroud in its Katana form. The blade begins to glow with a black aura and streaks of red and white lightning can be seen arcing across the blade. She swings the katana down through the Nucklevee's skull, slicing into the Grimm before the blade exits through the front of the horse's chest, killing it instantly as Glynda falls to her knees out of breath after her last attack. Yang makes her way over the former teacher to help her to her feet.

Blake hears Yang explaining the situation above. She sees Glynda grimace when Yang mentions the Colossus. Glynda makes her way towards Winter and Coco while Yang returns to Nora and Blake. "Alright, all we need to do now is get through whatever that thing my dad is fighting to get to the machine, me and Nora are probably too slow to get past the thing but you should be fine Blake-" They are interrupted by a girlish scream, "Go keep the blonde that just got done screaming safe, and make sure to protect the twins too," Yang says with a wink. "Got it," Blake says with a faint smirk on her face before darting past the Grimm.

Yang's Point of View

Nora drools at the sight of the Grimm Taiyang is currently fighting as she quietly says "So many legs." "Nora snap out of it, we need to take that thing out fast, breaking it's legs won't help considering how many it has." Yang says as Nora begins to pout. "Ugh, fine." she says before firing grenades at the large Grimm in order to distract it.

"What are we looking at dad? I've never seen one of these before." "I'm not surprised, you usually only find these things deep below Remnant, probably got stirred up by the massive number of Creeps moving around below the city and came up through an old mineshaft. They're called Burrowers, don't bother trying to break through the shells on top of their bodies, their armor makes a Deathstalker look like it's made out of tissue paper.

The best way to deal with these things is to wait until they're about to spit. They have a pair of white sacks toward the back of their throats that hold a volatile cocktail of explosive chemicals, if you shoot the little holes where the spit comes from, they'll combust, roasting the thing's internal organs.

They also have small openings between each plate of armor which you can pierce in order to damage it's spine and paralyze it, but that would require good aim or getting in close, neither of which is a good idea since they move fast and the spikes on their bodies makes it dangerous to get too close. Avoid the spit though, it's highly corrosive once it's exposed to oxygen. We're lucky that this one seems to be rather small, most of them are about twice this size. It's still an elder Grimm though so be careful." Taiyang says.

"Got it, go help Nora distract the thing and try and bait it into spitting, I'll see if I can't make the shot." Yang says as her right arm transforms into long a rifle barrel.

Taiyang charges at the large creature with his weapon in its axe form. While Taiyang and Nora attempt to coax the creature into spitting, Yang aims her gun toward the creature's face and takes a second to get a closer look at it while waiting for her opening.

The creature seems to be about 35 feet long and has large black oval shaped segments covering the length of its body. Each segment seems to have two 3 foot long white bone spears coming from the center of each part on both sides likely meant to keep enemies from getting too close or to use its body as a secondary weapon. It has hundreds of razor sharp black legs, likely meant to help it kill anything it tramples. It has also has 6 glowing red eyes on its face, two large feelers jutting out of the top its head and a pair of 6 foot long white bone pincers to hold its prey so it can spit it's acidic payload at its enemy without missing.

Taiyang leaps in and swings his axe at the large creature, but it responds by swiping its tail at him, knocking him into a nearby metal container. Yang cringes at the sight of the large dent left in the metallic wall as her father falls to the ground face first. Luckily his Aura was able to keep the bone spears from impaling him, but he seems to be unconscious. Nora fires another volley of grenades at the in attempt to draw its attention toward her, but the creature ignores the attack as it rears up and prepares to spit acid at the temporarily disabled man.

Yang quickly hops in front of her father and fires a round into the creatures mouth while Nora grabs him and hops to safety. Yang leaps back as the bullet hits the sack causing an explosion which forces an inferno down the creatures throat. The Grimm flails around in pain for a few seconds before collapsing to the floor.

Taiyang quickly regains consciousness and gets off the ground before he stumbles toward his daughter who catches him. "Whoa careful dad, you don't wanna break a hip now do ya? Pretty sure you're Life Alert button won't get any reception down here if you fall and can't get up." Yang says with a huge grin on her face as she gets her father back on his feet.

After taking a few seconds to catch his breath, Taiyang responds by saying, "You know you're gonna be old to one of these days," his face splits into a grin and a mischievous glint appears in his eyes, "In fact I'm pretty sure I can already see a little bit of grey in your hair." "WHAT?!" Yang screams as she pulls her hair around frantically searching for the offending gray hairs with an expression of absolute panic on her face. Once she hears her father start to chuckle she realizes that he was just messing with her. She punches him in the shoulder so hard that she accidentally dislocates it. "DON'T EVEN JOKE ABOUT THAT YOU JERK!" Yang screams as Taiyang yells in pain before looking at his shoulder.

"Great, now I gotta deal with this." Taiyang mutters to himself. "Don't worry Mister Dragon Man I can help!" Nora exclaims as she grabs Taiyang's arm. "No wai-AHHHHHH!" Taiyang yells as Nora suddenly pulls on his arm, setting his shoulder back in its proper place. Yang chuckles as tears of pain threaten to come out of Taiyang's eyes. "Alright old man, you need to help the others get out of here, Morning Wo-" Yang says before Taiyang cuts her off by shaking a radio in front of his daughters face. "I heard what James said, now get to the machine so the rest of us can move out." Taiyang says as he gestures the girls to move out.

He sighs as the women leave before he says "I still have no idea why James let Qrow decide on the codenames for the Titan class Grimm. I enjoy a good pun just as much as the next guy, but Morning Wood is hardly a proper name for a creature that singlehandedly wiped out the entire Atlesian 2nd Fleet."

Blake's POV

Blake throws Gambol Shroud at one of the support beams on the roof and wraps the ribbon around it before using it to swing herself to the platform. She pulls her weapon back and swings the Kusarigama in a wide arc around her, killing dozens of Beowolves before pulling her weapons back and dashing towards Jaune.

The Arc scion has matured quite a bit since his days at Beacon. He now stands at 6'9" and he has a lean, muscular frame. He also has a 1 inch thick scar which runs diagonally across his face starting from the far end of his right eyebrow and traveling across his nose down to the center of his left cheek before disappearing underneath a full, medium length beard which covers much of his lower face. He has traded in his old armor and his Pumpkin Pete hoodie for a much heavier set of armor. This new armor consists a large white 2 piece chest plate with gold outlines. The front of the upper part of the chest piece is dominated by a pair of twin Crescent Moons. The lower half of the chest piece which covers his stomach has multiple symbols lining it in rows of three.

The first row from left to right consists of a red rose, a red shield with a spear across it and a pink lotus flower beneath the two moons; the second row has a yellow monkey, a brown stitched heart and a grey trident; and the third row has a green clock gear, a golden eagle and a pair of light green swords. He is also wearing a pair of white and gold spaulders with built in rerebracers, white and gold bracers with built in spiked gloves, a pair of white and gold greaves and white and gold metal boots. He also has a white metal belt around his waist which has nine gold crescent moons surrounding it with a red sash which sits just above the belt.

"How's everybody holding up Jaune?" Blake asks. "Qrow says the machines almost ready, we just need to buy a few more minutes. How's your group doing?" Jaune asks. Blake cringes with a pained expression on her face before saying "We found Blake on the way here and Nora found Myrtenaster, no sign of Weiss though. Yatsuhashi had to stay behind to hold off the Panther. There was a huge crash earlier, so my guess is he brought the building down on the both of them. There hasn't been any sign of the Monkey yet, which is weird since he's usually nearby whenever the Panther shows up."

Jaune sends a look of sympathy towards Blake while he decapitates an Alpha Beowolf, "You doing alright? I can't imagine what it's like to think about what your father has become." Blake fires a volley of bullets toward a group of charging Beowolves before she says. "That thing isn't my father, he died on Menagerie years ago. The Panther is just a twisted perversion of the man who raised me." "Alright, but I'm here of you need to talk. Can't have you all mopey around the girl's after all." Jaune replies as he shield bashes an Ursa before slicing it in half.

Blake smirks before responding with "Whatever you say Vomit Boy." She searches the room to see how Yang is doing as she hears Jaune say "HEY! I'm 37 years old for crying out loud. It's Vomit Man now." He says with a smirk as a black cloaked figure darts toward the pair of blonde girls.

Raven and Violette's POV

The two girls are about 4'9" tall, with bright gold waist length hair tied in a ponytail with a black bow and dark blue eyes. They have black bandanas which have a pair of crossed battle axes on it tied around their neck, the color of their symbol seems to be the only difference in their appearance, with one's symbol being red while the other's symbol is purple. The two girls are both wearing tan jackets with low cut black shirts underneath and brown short shorts with white belts which have black half skirts on the back similar to what their mother used to wear at Beacon. They also have on yellow fingerless gloves and black knee high boots as well.

Each girl is wielding a massive bearded axe similar to the one their grandfather uses. The black steel hafts are about 5'3" long and the golden axe blades are around 2'3" tall and 1'6" long at the longest point. On the opposite side of the axe head is a 2' long yellow spike. The top of the axe haft appears to split into two separate parts forming what appears to be a double barreled shotgun.

Despite their young age and small size, they appear to be in the process of developing the same figure as their mother. "Heads up Vi." One of the girls says as she punches a Beowolf toward her sister. The other girl kicks the incoming Grimm, knocking it's head off in the process. "On the right Ray." Violette says before she chops the head off of a charging Ursa's to the right of her sister. "Duck Vi," said girl ducks as the lower part of the haft on Raven's axe mechashifts into a shotgun stock, trigger and fore-end which rest just below the axe blade. She pumps the fore-end and fires a buckshot, obliterating an approaching Lancer before returning the weapon to its axe form and chopping the legs off of a Beowolf. An Alpha Beowolf leaps into the air and looks like it's about to take the girls by surprise until it is decapitated by a broad sword.

A 5'11" tall girl with silver eyes and blonde hair with red tips lands in front of the twins. She is wearing a tattered black cloak, a red long sleeve dress shirt with frilly white cuffs, a black knee length combat skirt with white lace lining and 3 inch black high heels. She is wielding a red 4' long broad sword and a black kite shield with a red and white rose in the center. The broad sword has a rotating dust cylinder in it and the shield has a reactive armor plate on it.

"Careful girls, that Alpha almost had you." She says before sending a column of fire from her broadsword at a group of Beowolves. "Pshh, we coulda taken it, but thanks." Raven says. "I'd be a pretty terrible big sister if I let anything happen to you. I'm also sure Aunt Yang would strangle me if either of you got hurt."

As an Ursa is about to strike the older girl, she presses a button on the inside of her shield which glows blue before using it to block the blow. The Ursa's arms freeze on impact and she hits the Grimm with a shield bash, shattering the frozen limbs and knocking it off the platform.

The girls are about to reply before they are interrupted by the sight of Yang and Nora with a blue glyph in front of them and a pile of squirming Borbatusks on the other side of it. On the other side of the platform, Blake and Jaune look toward the new arrival. Blake starts tearing up as she sees a battered white haired woman appear behind them. "Thank Monty you're okay."

Yang's POV

Yang and Nora run towards the platform, but they are intercepted by a large group of Borbatusks charging right at them half way there. Before the pigs get too close to the pair, they all simultaneously slam into a large blue glyph. Yang turns around and is surprised to see a white haired woman in a tattered red cloak. Her white skirt is torn in several places and her usually white jacket and dress shirt is covered in red. Her left arm seems to be broken and bloody, and there is a gash on the left side of her face which seems to eerily mirror the scar near her right eye.

Her body seems to have matured quite a bit as she has grown to a respectable 5'7". She also seems almost as curvy as her sister. "WEISS!" Yang charges at the former heiress and pulls her into a hug. "Oh Monty, we all thought that Whitely had killed you when Nora found your sword. I'm so glad your safe." "Oh please, do you really think that little runt would be able to best me?" Weiss weakly scoffs.

"Seriously though, are you okay?" Yang asks. "I've lost a lot of blood, but I think I can manage." Weiss said as Yang releases her from the hug. "Right now we need to get you to the objective so we can move on." Weiss says. "Just us? No way, I ain't leaving you here in this condition, your comin' back with us and that's final." Yang states. "Don't be stupid, you know there's only so many people who can go through the machine. There's no way they'll be able to add me into the equation." Weiss says. Yang's eyes turn red and her hair begins to glow, "THEN WE'LL FIND A WAY! I CAN'T LOSE YOU TO!" Yang screams before calming down and quietly saying "Not after what happened to Ruby..."

Before anybody could respond, a massive insect like claw punches through a nearby loading bay door ripping it out of the wall and tossing it aside. A massive Mantis like Grimm ducks down to walk through the large opening before rising back up to full height to assess the battlefield. The massive creature stands at roughly 40 feet tall and a pair of 23 foot long scythe like claws. It's body is covered in large black and white bone like scales and it has large red compound eyes on each side of its head. The creature focuses its attention on the three women.

"Crap, that's a huge Rapkar. Don't know if we can deal with that thing on our own and still make it in time." Yang says. The creature leaps through the air towards the three women, intent on killing them, before it is intercepted by an old man with a scythe.

"Hey there Firecracker, I know I was supposed the be the one leading our little expedition, but I don't think this thing's gonna let that happen. Looks like your husband's gonna have to take charge instead. Let Ice Queen junior take my spot, she seems to be in bad shape." Qrow says. After a few seconds of hesitation, Yang sighs before she says, "You better not die on me old man." After that, the three women run toward the platform.

Jaune's POV

Once the three women arrive, Yang slides into the path of a charging Ursa Major heading for Jaune's left flank. "Alright Jaune, looks like Uncle Qrow's not coming with us, that Rapkar would of caused too much trouble for us to get here in time. He said you're in charge now." "Right," Jaune replies "it shouldn't be long now, the machines pretty much fully charged, we're just waiting for the right opportunity."

Jaune grabs a radio and turns it on before saying "Alright people, we're moving out. If you're part of the expedition, get over here now or you're going to be left behind. Everybody else, get ready to get out of here. You need to get to Vacuo to help guard the refugees. Stay alive so we can see you all again, over and out." Jaune says before he heads to the command console as the expeditionary force gathers at the base of the portal.

As he enters the command code, the machine begins to hum and a blue glow can be seen coming from the edges of the pool-like portal. When Jaune finishes typing in the commands he walks over to the machine as the portal springs to life.

Nora is the first to enter the portal, jumping into the air and doing a belly flop. She's followed by Weiss who is leaning on Blake for support. The silver eyed blonde simply walks off the edge and falls into the portal after Weiss and Blake disappear. Yang grabs a twin in each arm before jumping into the air and diving head first into the portal. Jaune takes a look back at the carnage unfolding behind him. The remaining fighters have converged at Qrow's position, having cleared out the rest of the Grimm and are now fighting the Rapkar.

Coco gets knocked into the air and lands right next to Jaune. "Coco, do me a favor and shut the portal off after I enter it. Blow it up after it closes so the Queen can't follow us and get everybody out of here." Jaune says. "Whatever you say Vomit Boy." Coco responds cheekily. Jaune face palms at the sound of his old nick name before saying "Of course Yang told you about that." He walks up to the portal and jumps in as fast as he can.

Coco's POV

Coco enters the kill code into the command console and the portal begins to fade. Before it can completely close, a black and white monkey like figure jumps into it from a hole in the roof.

As the portal fades from existence, Coco says "Oh boy, that can't be good. I hope they can find whatever that was before it causes too much trouble." She opens a glass panel on the console and hits a large red button. "Alright guys, let's scram, this place is about to get blown halfway to Menagerie." She yells before running toward the rest of the group to help them disengage.

A/N: Here it is, my first serious attempt at a fan fiction series. As I am just starting out as a writer of fan fictions, I have yet to come up with a set schedule for updates, just know that I am trying to establish one. Yes, this is a time travel fiction which features Jaune in relationships with multiple women, but it is different from the dozens of other stories with this premise.

The focus of this story is mostly on Blake rather than Jaune. Jaune's relationships are also monogamous, with the older Jaune having been widowed by Ruby before remarrying Yang. The younger Jaune will also have a relationship as well, but I would prefer to leave that one a mystery (mostly because I haven't truly decided on who he will be with.) Any reviews would be appreciated as they will help me grow as a writer. Thanks for reading and I'll see you next time.