Reminder: Please read Burning Remnant before reading this fic. Also, this is the chapter when the ideas I had went out of control.

Also, Sho-chan is Byakuran's voice of reason... Not that it helps much when dealing with a world where powers are common. He's rather exasperated by everything at this point.

Irie Shoichi's second life, with three sets of memories, wasn't all that bad. He was born in Atlas, his parents, a pair of Mistral scientists who had immigrated into the kingdom. Sure, he didn't enjoy the military state it was, nor did he enjoy the posturing the upper class members of their kingdom did, but he made due.

Specifically, he ended up being a somewhat underground scientist and doctor, aiding with healing for the hurt Faunus, and providing the machinery and gear needed to improve their safety in the Dust mines.

Then, somehow, he bumped into Spanner, recent Atlas graduate and currently unemployed mechanic, looking for someone to work with. Between the two of them, they managed to recreate the Moscas... with a couple of improvements to one up Atlas' vulnerable tech. Specifically, the Moscas were not like the recently produced and yet to be unveiled Atlesian Knight 200, which were easily hacked if anyone got hold of the command codes or access to the Cross Continental Transmit System. The two ended up using said machines to protect the workshop/clinic they had set up. (Their Faunus customers were a little creeped out by the design of the Moscas, but hey, they didn't care. As long as Shoichi or Spanner didn't hate their kind, they were pretty okay.)

Of course, someone caught wind of their actions, in the form of a former Atlas scientist, but someone both Shoichi and Spanner knew very well. Verde's appearance in their workshop had both been a shock and relief. Mainly because with the presence of all three of them, it was safe to say that there would be more of their friends reincarnated. (Shoichi really hoped it was Tsuna. He really needed some sanity back in their group)

Verde's presence helped them setup second workshop for their machines, under the alias Polendina. It was meant to be a workspace for products they wished to sell to Atlas, to fund their other experiments to help the Faunus (As well as their recreations of Flame tech and research to combine Flame and Dust technology). Minor commisions and repairs here and there, the Atlas Military asking to help with their prosthetics research at some points.

Then, their biggest commision piece came in – Create a robot with Aura. James Ironwood was the one who came in asking for it, a secret told, of how magic was real, and he wanted to know if artifical bodies could be used as a holder for Aura. It was crazy, but between the three of them, Shoichi knew it could work.

The AI creation was easy. Making self learning AI was something all three of them were quite experienced in. It was simply adapting it to Atlas technology that was an issue.

Creating the body was a bit of a challenge, having to ensure the robot looked like a human child. They couldn't depend on Mist Flames since they didn't even have access to that, or holograms, since those could fail at any time. Artifical skin and synthetic hairs was their only choice.

Perhaps the hardest was getting her (Somehow, the robot turned into a female design, and was promptly labled their collective daughter) to generate Aura. Shoichi worked with Penny with her personality. Taught her emotions, and what each of their expressions meant. But it didn't work. At least, not until Verde came up with an idea none of them expected.

If Box Animals often took on the traits of their partners due to their Flames, what if, just what if by implanting a system for Flames to generate, even when dormant, Penny would develop a soul, a real personality, and thus, an Aura?

Shoichi thought it wouldn't hurt to try, and donated some of his Sun Flames to the cause... and it somehow worked.

Penny went from mechanical to life like in her interactions with her multiple fathers, taking on Shoichi's awkwardness and Spanner's strangeness in regards to social norms, as well as Verde's persistence. Her Flames was bright and Sunny like Shoichi's and sang even when dormant. Awakening her Aura didn't take long either.

When Ironwood returned, perhaps they shouldn't have been surprised that the man wanted her to be enrolled in Atlas, to perhaps have her work as a weapon. Shoichi was not happy to let her go, and neither was Verde, interestingly enough. After all, the bubbly girl was their baby. And Spanner? He was their voice of reason. 'Let her experience the world in her eyes,' he said, and both reluctantly agreed.

That agreement was soon taken back the moment they watched the finals for the Vytal Tournament. Shoichi spent weeks angrily chewing Ironwood out about what had happened. Spanner and Verde had instead, sent a small army of Moscas to the stadium, retrieving what was left of their broken daughter.

Her Flame system was still in tact, and so were the computing and memory storage system for her personality. They could still repair her...

And when she woke up, the three of them were startled. Her Flames had awakened, and a slightly frayed fledging bond had formed with a Sky.

Shoichi was reluctant to let her leave a second time. But he wasn't cruel to leave her without her Sky.

(Shoichi knew the feeling of yearning for his Sky. Say what you will, but Byakuran, as crazy as he had been in that Future Past, had really been the only Sky he truly bonded to, and even with the betrayal he brought, he still yearned for his Sky once more.

...Then again. It was possible that their reason for being reincarnated was Byakuran's fault in the first place.)

I went all out with this chapter, being twice the length of most of the others. I think there are a few more of this length as well.

I have 4 other chapters ready to be posted at any time, but I'll do it slowly. Enjoy reading this! And please leave a comment before you go!

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