An Arc to the Past

Chapter 8 & 9 were originally one chapter. Enjoy.

Chapter 9: A Breach of Panic

Jaune was sleeping against the ground.

The hard, dark stone ground. Dark, purple hue crystals protruding out the ground and stone walls of cliffs. Large puddles of blood were seen in various places around the area. The sky and clouds were red. The smell of the death was in the air.

Jaune moaned as he got up to his knees and rubbed his head. He looked up to see a very tall and large tower in the distance.

Jaune gritted his teeth as he grabbed the two-hander Crocea Mors from the ground. He started heading over to the tower.

A growl was heard making him look to see an Alpha Beowulf coming his way along with a pack of Beowolves. Jaune decided to book it. The Grimm gave chase after the blonde.

He continued to run and run towards the tower.

Out of nowhere an Ursa Major came charging in from the side and struck Jaune in his side, sending him flying away and skidding against the ground.

Jaune groaned with pain, but quickly managed to get to his feet to see that the Beowolves, Alpha and Ursa Major were coming after him. Jaune turned and ran, only to find he was met with the wall of a cliff. Jaune looked up to see it was pretty tall. He turned back to see the Grimm slowly stalking over to him, surrounding him.

The Ursa Major roared as it charged over at Jaune, with the Alpha and it's lesser following its lead.

Jaune quickly hopped up onto the cliff wall and started climbing it, managing to avoid a charge from the Ursa Major, whose head slammed against the cliff wall.

The Grimm all looked up to see Jaune climbing up the cliff with two-hander Crocea Mors tied onto his belt. They all refused to let a form of life get away in their own home turf. They all started climbing up the cliff to catch Jaune.

Jaune looked down to see the Grimm being tenacious and climbing up after him. Jaune quickly climbed up with more speed, not wanting to be a horde's meal, especially after coming so far. After some time, Jaune made it to the top, but the Grimm were getting closer to the top as well. Jaune looked around to find something, anything to help with his predicament. He found a large crack beneath his feet. Gaining an idea, Jaune raised his two-hander sword up, surrounded it in white aura along with his arms, strengthening his power and with a battle cry, he stabbed Crocea Mors hard into the crack, sending a large burst of a shockwave into the crack, causing the edge of the cliff to break apart, causing an avalanche of rock, which struck the climbing Grimm.

The Grimm roared from the attack, until they were all crushed to death by the debris once making contact with the ground.

Jaune panted out of habit instead of actual fatigue. Jaune wiped the sweat from his brow. Jaune turned back to the tower and saw flying Grimm circling it. Jaune gained a look of determination, now having his resolved steeled even stronger.

Jaune sprinted towards the tower. He managed to get down to proper level without having to take any leaps or any parkour style what-so-ever, or more accurate attempts. Jaune saw a bridge leading to the main entrance of the tower and increased speed.

'I'm coming guys!' Jaune thought.

Suddenly the ground shook, causing Jaune to pause with weariness.

Out of the ground came roots that grew in size with thorns. Jaune hopped back a few times as now a whole forest of thorns were in his way.

"Oh come on!" Jaune shouted with annoyance.

A large roar was heard, causing Jaune to flinch.

He turned to see if there was anything behind him, but there was nothing. Jaune started to pant out of anxiety. No way was he sticking around for whatever the hell made that noise. Jaune turned back to the forest, now in his battle stance with his two-hander raised high, ready to charge. Jaune gave a battle cry as he charged forward and started slashing at the forest of thorns.

After cutting up some thorny roots, the thorns of some unharmed roots immediately grew and went to stab Jaune. Jaune managed to move back in time, but he got injured by the thorns.

Jaune looked over his body to see that his arms and cheeks and sides of his head were grazed, but his aura healed him.

The forest of thorns moved and coiled tighter like a snake.

Jaune narrowed his eyes. Reattaching his two-hander to his belt, Jaune deactivated it, taking out the original sword of Crocea Mors out of the modified sheathe/shield, then took out the sheathe, attaching it to his arm and extended it into a shield.

Jaune gave a battle cry as he slashed at the roots, only for the sword to get stuck. The root that was hit protruded its spikes further out to stab at Jaune, but the blonde managed to block the attack with his shield, pushing him back along with his sword out of the root.

Jaune growled with gritting teeth. He looked up at the tower once more with narrowed eyes. Jaune focused his aura to his arms, causing them to glow white. Jaune gave one more battle cry as he slashed at the roots, cutting them apart like butter.

Jaune was now cutting into the forest of thorns, getting deeper and deeper, reaching closer to the main entrance. Jaune finally managed to break through the forest of thorns and was now running across the bridge. Suddenly ice crystals rained from the sky, striking the bridge, causing crystals of ice to grow in front of Jaune's path.

Jaune stopped and looked up, only for his eyes to widen with horror.

Staring down at him from high atop the tower was none other than Salem.

Salem just stared down at him with no form of emotion shown. Jaune could just tell from her eyes that she disregards him. Not seeing him as any kind of threat whatsoever.

Jaune gulped as she continued to stare down at him.

"A knight who wants to play the hero. Should have turned back. Now though, for disturbing my garden… face the powers of hell." Salem said as the wind picked up with the sound of the wind now roaring.

Flying from up behind the tower came a looming figure.

Jaune took a step back with shock as he saw a large Grimm with long wings stretched out high above the tower. It then descended down to the bridge. Jaune's eyes widened as he ran away, before the new Grimm slammed atop the bridge, causing a shockwave that sent Jaune flying and screaming. Jaune skidded against the ground, ending up near the forest of thorns.

Jaune looked up with horror as the new, large Grimm stood upon its hind legs and roared, showing off its full glory.

A Grimm Dragon!

Jaune blinked his eyes in horror. He now had to face against the same Grimm that invaded Beacon and singlehandedly destroyed the Beacon Tower… all alone.

The Dragon breathed in some air and shot out a stream of Grimm essence at Jaune.

Jaune quickly ran back into the forest of thorns to avoid the attack.

The Grimm Dragon stalked over to the forest and looked right in to find any sign of Jaune.

Jaune panted with fear as he hid within the forest of thorns. He noticed the exhale of breath through the nose of the Grimm, feeling the moist wind, obviously reeling back in disgusted. He flinched when his back pressed against the tips of the thorns. He moved a bit away and noticed the thorns shift. Jaune quickly managed to avoid getting impaled by spikes, but was still grazed. He heard growling behind him, making him turn to see the snout of the Dragon. Jaune's eyes widened in fear as he saw the Grimm sniffing with its nostrils close to him.

The Dragon growled knowing Jaune was still alive.

Jaune quickly concentrated his aura to his sword arm. When he noticed the Dragon's mouth starting to open, Jaune quickly swung down on its snout, managing to actually scar the bone.

The Dragon reeled back and roared, before diving its head back into the forest of thorns, breaking some of the roots apart. Jaune flew back a bit, and skidding back against the ground, but he was stopped by thorns, cutting and impaling him a bit.

Jaune screamed with pain, but it was drowned out by the roar of a Dragon. Jaune tried pulling himself out of the thorns, but it was like they were trying to constrict him. Jaune roared as his aura amplified and burst, causing the thorn roots to release him. Jaune panted as he looked to him arm to see he was healing.

The ground shook as the Dragon got closer, breaking down the forest of thorns.

Jaune got up and started slashing his way out, trying to get away from the Dragon.

Salem looked to the mess below with a disinterested look.

"Coward. Just as I suspected." Salem said as she turned and walked away.

Jaune continued to cut his way out, but suddenly he heard a pained scream. A familiar one that made his eyes widen in horror.

"Ruby!" Jaune screamed, turning to the tower, to see the Dragon blocking his way. Jaune's pants turned into hyperventilation as his mind started to wander. He started to see Ruby on her knees in a black room.

The darkness had ember coming closer to Ruby. Ruby looked up with fear. She reached her hand out as the ember came close to touching her.

"Jaune." Ruby spoke. Ruby started to glow orange, but then he form morphed into a taller girl with longer hair tied in a ponytail wearing… battle armor. "Help me." Pyrrha spoke, before bursting into ember.

Jaune's eyes were wide and iris glowing gold. Jaune's aura surrounded him, but it started flicking from white to gold. Jaune panted lightly, but then he started to growl as his face was twisting into rage and his teeth slowly gritting.

The Dragon looked down at Jaune with red glowing eyes. It reared its head back and gave a menacing, bellowing roar.

Jaune roared as well as he grabbed the hilt of his sword with his arms glowing gold and the edge of the sword doing the same. Jaune sent a strong slash to meet the Dragon, but a golden blade of aura shot from the blade of his sword and struck the snout of the Grimm, creating a very large scar.

The Grimm Dragon's eyes widen as he stumble back and roared with pain.

Salem stopped as she perked up a bit with surprise. She turned and walked back to the window to see the Dragon risen up on its hind legs and roaring as a mist of darkness flowed out of the scar now on its nose.

"What in the world just happened?" Salem questioned with narrowed eyes.

Jaune panted as his eyes were flickering from gold to blue repeatedly.

The Dragon started to fall back down to the ground. Jaune's eyes flicked back to blue, causing him to blink in shock as the Dragon was about to stomp down.

Jaune turn to run off, but as the Dragon stomped its front feet against the ground, causing a shockwave that sent Jaune and roots of thorns flying off. Jaune slammed against the wall of a Cliffside. He landed on the ground and moaned with pain. Jaune rose on a hand and his knees as he held his forehead with his other hand. He looked to the side to see his sword and grabbed it.

"Boy!" He heard a voice from above, causing him to look up to see a dark haired woman in red armor and a big mask similar to a Grimm's. "Up here. Now!" The woman shouted. Jaune blinked his eyes in surprise.

'Isn't that…' His train of thought was interrupted by the deafening roar of the Dragon, causing him to cover his ears. Suddenly he was gripped by the armor and pulled over by the same woman with the mask now having half her body sticking out of a red portal.

"I don't like repeating myself. Climb Up the Damn Cliff!" The masked woman shouted, before releasing Jaune and heading back into the red portal.

Jaune blinked his eyes, but he managed to gain his bearings back and started climbing up the cliff.

The Dragon roared again as it was ready to charge.

Jaune turned back to see the Dragon approaching. Jaune sent aura to his arms and legs and quickly started leaping his way up the cliff. Thank goodness his training helped him gain an iron-clad grip.

The Dragon head-butted the Cliffside, causing Jaune to lose his grip, but he quickly managed to stab his sword into the side of the cliff, keeping him from falling. The Dragon looked up to see Jaune was still on the cliff, taking out his sword as he continued to climb up the wall. The Dragon gave a roar that sent Jaune flying up.

Jaune screamed as he flew up into the air, but luckily landed onto the cliff. Jaune groaned as he turned on his side. He perked up his head to see that the woman from before was gone.

"That was Yang's mom… wasn't it?" Jaune started getting up to his feet and held the side of his head. "I have been knocked a few times here today though, so… was it…"

Suddenly he heard noises of rocks crumbling.

The Dragon climbed up the Cliffside.

Jaune turned to see the Dragon's head poked up, before the rest of its body followed.

Jaune turned and ran off, taking a tactical retreat. The Dragon climbed up to the top of the cliff and went after Jaune. Fortunately for the Grimm, Jaune didn't really have any place to go.

Jaune skidded to a stop as he reached the edge of the other side of the cliff he was on. Jaune gulped as the Dragon's booming footsteps came closer to him. Jaune turned to see the Dragon lean back on its hind legs, taking a deep breath in and then fired a high power concentrated stream of essence at Jaune. Jaune quickly brought his shield up and blocked the attack, but it force him skidding back closer to the edge of the cliff.

Salem blinked her eyes at the sight. Maybe there was nothing of interest after all.

Jaune gritted his teeth as he started feeling pain from outside and entering inside his body. His skin felt to be melting, yet it was fine. His organs were spinning, but they were remaining still. He felt surrounded by fire… guess that was the closest accuracy right now. His mind was also spinning. His eyes were losing light. All he was seeing was darkness.

Is this the power of Grimm essence?

Jaune was losing breath, until… he wasn't breathing anymore.

'Guys… Ruby…' Jaune thought as the light in his eyes were fading. Despite the shield protecting him, the Grimm essence was still so powerful that it did not need to make complete contact with him to affect him. It just needed to surround him like a wildfire surrounding a defenseless fawn. 'I can't… make it… help…' Jaune's eyes were starting to close. 'Help… I can't… go on…' Jaune's eyes closed. 'I'm sorry… everyone…'

"Jaune." A voice spoke.

'Huh?' Jaune's eyes slowly cracked open.

"It's okay to fail. The best of us heroes can fail… but even when danger is consuming us… our spirits, for the sake of our name, home and people, must never yield."

'Dad?' Jaune thought as he heard his father's voice.

"Like your mother says, it's okay to be scared, but never let it eat you up." Jaune started to pant. "All Arcs have a strength inside them. Anyone can stand up to danger, but it's how we deal with it, especially in moments of pain, that your true power can take hold."

Jaune's eyes were narrow, but his iris was glowing gold along with his aura surrounding him.

Salem stared down with a stoic expression.

'Another dead Ozpin. All thanks to your lead. Why must you just send people after me head first instead of having a real plan?' Salem thought with a stoic frown. "Still beating a dead horse. Learn Salem. Learn." Salem said to herself with closed eyes.

The Dragon stopped its blast of Grimm essence. It glared down at its work, only for its eyes to widen.

Jaune was still standing with his shield still up. Jaune panted as his eyes glowed gold for the minute, but once they turned back to cobalt, he fell on his hand and knees.

Something shocking had just happened that hadn't happened for a time now.

Salem was surprised. Or perhaps… shocked. Her eyes were wide. She could not believe the sight.

"How… how did he survive that?" Salem questioned to no one in particular.

Jaune was sweating with wide eyes. He looked up at the Dragon to see it growling. It narrowed it eyes at Jaune, while Jaune continued to stare at it with wide eyes.

The Dragon reeled its head back as it started to breath in air to its lungs. It fire a black ball of Grimm essence at Jaune.

Jaune quickly reacted and brought up his shield, only for his shield to get sent flying out of his grip from the Grimm-ball and was sent flying over the edge of the cliff. Jaune panted as he looked over the edge to see it flying down to the ground where a bunch of Grimm resided. Jaune turned his head to see the Dragon roar as it was on its hind legs.

Jaune was on his knees staring up at the Dragon.

"What do I do now?" Jaune asked to anyone; anyone who could hear him.

Salem looked down at the blonde in particular.

"What will you do now?" Salem wondered.

Jaune looked around for anything. All he found was his sword. He reached over and grabbed hold of the hilt.

The Dragon slammed its feet back down on the ground and locked its eyes on Jaune.

Jaune held his the sword in both hands and stared at the blade. It shined. It was so shiny. It never looked so shiny since… he first saw it.

"Listen up all of you. This could be the first you ever see this or you've already seen our treasure once already." Jaune's father's voice echoed in his head. The shadow of a tall man with slick back long hair holding a sword and surrounded by several other shadowy figures, smaller than himself. "This is our family's greatest treasure. The sword and shield, trust me it is a shield, but it's also a scabbard. Crocea Mors. The sword that our ancestor, the Great Joan Arc had asked her closest friend to create for her, only for it to be passed down to her son, Arthur, who pulled it out of a magic stone which was kept as the safe guard for the sword to be held within by Joan's friend, the Great Blacksmith of Mantle, and used for many battles that lead Arthur to justice against evil and to rise as a legend and hero. This sword is passed down in our family, generation to generation, used in countless battles that were all to bring victory not only to Arcs, but to the name of nobility itself. One day, this sword will be in one of your hands. When it is in your possession, honor it. Battle with it. Treasure it. For whosever's hands it is inside… it will be in the hands of the warrior of its choice. And this sword, never chooses wrong, no matter what. Honor that."

Jaune stared at the sword with soft, shimmering eyes. They then hardened into a steely gaze. His eyes glowed gold.

"There is a saying Arthur said every time he faced off in an impossible battle when using this sword. A motto that not only gave him piece, but strength. He closed his eyes and said these words."

Jaune closed his eyes as his aura shined golden around him with small balls of light coming off his form.

Salem gripped her chin with intrigue.

The Dragon stalked over to Jaune with Grimm essence leaking out the sides of its mouth, ready to fire.

Jaune calmed his breathing as he remembered what his father had spoken word for word.

"Sword of Truth... fly swift and sure. That evil die…/ Sword of Truth... fly swift and sure. That evil die…" the sword started to glow bright gold, brimming with a shining, blinding bright light.

The Dragon rose up, standing on its hind legs as it breathed in a deep amount of air, ready to destroy Jaune with one last blast of darkness.

Jaune's grip tightened. His eyes opened wide to reveal glowing gold eyes.

"AND GOOD ENDURE!/AND GOOD ENDURE!" Jaune screamed with his father's voice echoing within his head.

Jaune reeled the sword back and before the Dragon could fire its blast one more time, Jaune threw his sword.

The sword flew straight like an arrow and shined gold, like a heavenly spear, going straight into the Dragon, striking it in its black heart, causing it to roar with pain.

Pure agonizing pain. Instead of black, misty Grimm essence coming from its new wound, shine a bright golden light that spread out, incinerating the Dragon. The Dragon started to fall.

Jaune's eyes were wide.

"Oh shit." Jaune said, before summoning aura to his legs and sprinted off to the side as the Dragon came falling.

Jaune managed to jump out of the way before the Dragon slammed atop of the cliff's edge, breaking it apart upon impact. Jaune rushed as fast as he could as the cliff collapsed apart from the weight of the Dragon. The ground beneath him broke apart. Giving one final leap, Jaune jumped with his hands extended out as he tried to grab the new edge of the cliff. Jaune managed to grab the edge of the cliff. He sighed with relief. He tried climbing back up, but the edge crumbled more. Jaune's eyes widened, before the edge broke apart causing Jaune to start falling. Jaune gasped as his life flashed before his eyes. Or at least… the times with Ruby.

Suddenly a hand grabbed his wrist.

Jaune looked up to see it was Yang.

Yang pulled Jaune up back onto the cliff.

Jaune panted on his hands and knees. He was suddenly flicked on the side of his forehead.

"Ow, hey." Jaune complained holding the side of his head as he turned his head to a smirking Yang sitting next to him.

"Don't be melodramatic. You're not that beat, are you?" Yang said with a smirk.

Jaune blinked his eyes as he stared at her. He hung his head and sighed. Jaune started to laugh, which confused Yang.

"Uh… you're not going crazy, are you?" Yang asked.

"No, no." Jaune said as he laughed a bit more before controlling himself. "I'm just relieved. I thought I was going to die." Jaune said turning his head to Yang with a smile.

"Well, can't say I disagree." Yang said as she stood up and looked over the edge to see the last black mist of the Grimm Dragon disappear, leaving only the sword of Crocea Mors laying down below. "Damn, Vomit Boy… who knew you had it in you." Yang said with wide eyes, still in shock.

Who could blame her?

Jaune Arc of all people just killed a Dragon Grimm single-handedly with no help whatsoever. And with only one move too.

"You know Yang… I think it's time for a change." Jaune said, causing Yang to turn to see him still on his hands and knees. "The old Jaune is gone now. Vomit Boy is no longer my name. For now on… call me… Vomit Man!" Jaune proudly proclaimed with a big grin and his fists pressed against his hips.

Yang stared at Jaune with an unidentifiable look. She blinked her eyes. Her mouth started to twitch. She suddenly giggled. She then finally started to laugh. She fell on her butt as she held her forehead, continuing to laugh.

Jaune followed Yang's lead and laughed with a grin.

The two laughed as if there was no care in the world, even if they were center of the Deadlands.

The two started to regain their composures as they got back to their feet.

"Nice to see you've lightened up Vomit Boy, I mean, Man. You should kill Dragons more often." Yang said with a smile.

"Hey you say it like I've had the longest stick up my butt for a while." Jaune said patting his pants of dirt.

"Not longest, just… had a lot of girth to it." Yang said with a smirk. Jaune just looked at her with a dull look.

"Tsk… what is with that mind of yours?" Jaune questioned. Yang just chuckled with a grin as she slugged Jaune arm. "Ow." Jaune said as he rubbed his arm, still possessing a dull look.

Yang looked down below, looking at Crocea Mors, surrounded by a horde of Grimm.

"You're gonna need that, aren't you?" Yang rhetorically asked, pointing down to Jaune's sword.

"I can just go in and use my fists. I'll fight my way to get to Ruby!" Jaune said with a determined look. He started sprinting off towards the tower, but he was apparently going nowhere.

"Hold your horses, Jauney Boy." Yang said, holding on to the back of Jaune's armor.

"Don't call me that." Jaune said with a dull, annoyed look.

"While I appreciate the enthusiasm to get your knuckles dirty, especially for my sister, you're not as good with your fists like I am." Yang said.

"Well I can't just wait here and do nothing!" Jaune shouted.

"Give it a try. For at least five seconds." Yang said with smirk, causing Jaune to raise an eyebrow. Yang released him, then slammed her fists together, causing her to burst with a flame-like aura as her hair rose up into the air and her eyes red. She then hopped into the air, did a flip and dived down to the floor below where Crocea Mors and the horde of Grimm were. "Dive Bomb!" Yang shouted as she slammed into the ground, causing an explosive shockwave in the shape of a dome expand, consume a good number of the surrounding horde, incinerating them.

"Yang!" Jaune shouted as he ran over to the edge. He saw her get up to her feet, dusting the shoulders of her jacket, still retaining a smirk, as she held Crocea Mors in her other hand.

"Heads up, Jaune!" Yang called out as she threw the sword Crocea Mors to Jaune. Jaune jumped back as is stabbed into the wall of the cliff. He gripped it with both hands and pulled it out, almost falling off the edge, but managed to balance himself. Jaune sighed with relief, but gasped when he noticed the horde surrounding her.

"Yang! Oh my Gosh! I'm coming down to help!" Jaune called out, ready to climb down.

"Do that and I'm throwing you back up there!" Yang shouted.

"Huh?!"

"I can take care of this. I'm way stronger than I ever was before. Besides, I've always wanted to take on much tougher Grimm." Yang said.

"But you can't do it all alone!" Jaune argued.

"Jaune, listen to me. I'll be fine. If you really want to help, help my sister!" Yang said.

A King Taijutu came up behind her, with the black head trying to swallow her whole, but Yang flipped up, fired a bullet into the air, rocketing down and one punching the black headed snake to death, crushing its skull, then fired a concentrated twelve round bullets at the white headed one, causing it to swallow the rounds before its head exploded.

"Jaune… please promise me. You'll protect my sister. No matter what you'll protect her." Yang said.

"But Yang-"

"Promise me, Vomit Man!" Yang shouted with red eyes and a stern expression.

Jaune stared at her, knowing she was full on serious, not going to take no for an answer no matter what. He sighed with defeat.

"I-I promise. I promise I will protect Ruby." Jaune said.

"No matter what." Yang said, right before an Ursa pounced at her, only for her to grab it by the throat and punching it in the face knocking it out with its tongue out before letting it fall to the floor.

"No matter what." Jaune said.

Yang slowly smiled.

"Go get her, Prince Charming." Yang said with a smirk.

"Right." Jaune said with a nod and turning back towards the tower, until he realized something. "Wait… what did you call me?" Jaune asked, turning back.

"Here!" Yang shouted tossing Jaune his shield, which he managed to catch in his hands. "What's a knight without a shield?" Yang said with a smile. "Now go!"

Jaune just nodded understandingly. It was hard for him to leave her here, but he trust Yang with all his heart. He knew she'll make it through this. Still stings to leave her though. Jaune hardened up and turned to walk away, but he noticed something red next to Yang with a strange sound. Jaune's head perked up, right before he heard the sounds of shotgun fire and blades. He smiled, knowing that Yang wasn't alone now.

Which means he can focus on his goal.

Jaune looked up towards the tower with a steely gaze, only for his eyes to widen when he noticed Salem staring down at him.

The two stared at one another with wide eyes.

Cobalt eyes stared with shock and horror into red soulless, yet… shocked eyes.

"What are you?" Salem questioned breathlessly, still in shocked at what happened.

Jaune continued to stare as he panted a bit out of anxiety. Suddenly a torrent of flames shot out of the tower, knocking Jaune out of his daze. Jaune's eyes went from wide, to narrow with a determined gleam in them.

Jaune slid down the Cliffside and sprinted back through the now destroyed garden of thorns and sprinted along the bridge heading for the main entrance.

'Hang on guys. I'm coming. I'm coming Ruby… I'm coming Pyrrha.'

"Dicks out for Harambe."

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Jaune shot his eyes open.

"Got to pour a little sip out the Bombay."

Jaune turned his head to his scroll as someone was calling him.

"That's for every life that was takin' the wrong way."

Jaune quickly grabbed his scroll and checked to confirm who his suspicions said it was. And indeed it was Ruby.

"We just trying to get by, but we pray for you all day. (Monty). I'm trying to get-"

Jaune quickly picked up.

"Ruby? Hello?" Jaune answered, but all he heard was the ruckus from last time. Jaune looked to his scroll to see the call ended. His hand tightened around the scroll. 'She's on the train.' Jaune thought with a serious look.

"Jaune." Jaune looked over to see Ren had gotten up rubbing his eyes. "What happened? Did you have a nightmare?" Ren asked.

"Nightmare?" Jaune questioned. His 'dream' flashed through his mind. "No… a memory." Jaune said closing his eyes remembering that day. Jaune's eyes opened as he now got serious. Jaune planted his feet on the floor and got out of his bed, starting to get dressed.

"Huh? What's happening? Are the pancakes ready?" Nora questioned with sleepy eyes and drool leaking from the side of her mouth as she and Liversnap perked their heads up.

Pyrrha sat up rubbing her eyes. She blinked her eyes and narrowed them as she noticed Jaune putting on her hoodie.

"Jaune?" Pyrrha spoke up. Jaune put on his chest plate, catching Pyrrha's attention. "Jaune! What's going on?"

"I got a call from Ruby. It sounds like she's in a ruckus." Jaune said as he stared putting on his gloves.

"Maybe she accidentally butt-dialed you while in a fight with Grimm." Nora said waving it off.

"Can't be. I heard the sounds of a running train. I don't think she's fighting in Mount Glenn anymore." Jaune said, catching everyone's attention.

Pyrrha sighed, knowing where this was going.

"You're not heading out." Pyrrha said planting her feet on the ground.

"Someone's got to stop me then." Jaune said putting on his other glove.

"Liversnap!" Nora exclaimed as she hopped off her bed, causing Liversnap to follow her lead. "Restrain!" Nora ordered pointing at Jaune. Liversnap gave a roar and rushed at Jaune, but one glare from Jaune, Liversnap skidded to a halt, stood in place, before turning and walking away hanging his head as he whined. "Aw~, my poor baby!" Nora said with sadness as she went over to her pet and hugged him as he continued to whine and rub his head against Nora. "You tried Liversnap. That's all that matters." Nora said very motherly, but then she act childish and stuck her tongue out at Jaune.

Jaune rolled his eyes and turned towards the door, only to see Pyrrha already in front of him with one hand up while she rubbed both eyes with her other hand.

"You know what I'm thinking of." Pyrrha said. She then stopped rubbing her eyes and looked to Jaune. "Jaune, you can't just keep running head first with no plan at the first sign of trouble, even if it does involve someone precious and close to you."

Jaune groaned as he looked to the side.

'That has always been your problem.' C Ozpin said telepathically.

'Why do I sleep with you again?' Jaune thought with annoyance.

"Instead of charging into danger, let us just inform the Headmaster of the trouble. I'm sure he will take care of things." Pyrrha said.

"And take the chance of him sending help in the morning instead of now? I don't think so." Jaune said.

'You don't trust me that much?' C Ozpin questioned.

'There is a whole list of reasons, Ozpin. A list.' Jaune responded mentally.

"Headmaster wouldn't be like that." Nora said. "Would he?"

Saber yawned as he stretched on Jaune's bed and hopped off.

"Saber, who do you think is right? Me wanting to go in and save Ruby-"

"Without a plan." Pyrrha added, earning a dull look from Jaune.

"Or Pyrrha's plan to tell Ozpin so he can send help?" Jaune asked the Grimm kitten.

Saber walked over to the two, sat in between them, then looked to both of them. After a moment, Saber walked over to Pyrrha and rubbed himself against her leg, giving his answer.

"What? Traitor!" Jaune exclaimed with annoyance.

Pyrrha smiled as she knelt down and picked up the Grimm kitten.

"Thank you, Saber." Pyrrha said with a smile.

'To be fair, Saber is thinking intelligently. He has proven yesterday that he comes up with a plan before engaging in conflict.' C Ozpin said mentally.

'Not now.' Jaune thought with annoyance. "Fine. We'll go with your plan." Jaune said as he walked out the door with Pyrrha, still holding Saber, in tow.

"Say Ren." Nora spoke up as the blonde and true read head of the team walked out.

"Hmm?" Ren looked to Nora.

"Don't you find it weird that Team RWBY got a second year mission? I mean only first years were allowed downstairs at the time, so why was there a mission for second years when there was only freshmen yesterday? Kind of fishy when you think about it." Nora explained.

Ren blinked his eyes in surprise. Nora just made a very valid point… while everyone else, himself and Jaune included, did not think twice on the matter.

Guess people should give Nora more credit more often.

"Well whatever. Let's go make midnight pancakes Liversnap!" Nora said with a grin, earning a delighted small roar from her Grimm pet as they rushed into the kitchen.

Ren sighed as he then heard the sounds of utensils making noise.

She uses her head, but she still remains unfocused at times.

"Ren, help us out!"

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The following morning was the same routine.

Nora got out of bed and started hopping on everyone else's beds to wake them up.

"Wake up!" Nora shouted as she hopped on Pyrrha's bed, waking her up along with Saber, who decided to sleep with her for the rest of the night. "Wake up!" Nora shouted as she then hopped on Ren's bed. "Wake up, wake up, wake up!" Nora repeated over and over as she bounced on Ren's bed repeatedly.

'Why does she always do it more than once only to me?' Ren thought with annoyance.

"Wake up!" Nora shouted as she hopped onto Jaune's bed. "Oh… Jaune's already awake." Nora announced.

Jaune just continued to stare up at the ceiling with a stern expression.

"I couldn't sleep." Jaune said.

"Because of Ruby?" Nora asked, earning a nod from her team leader. "Tsk. You got hit with the arrow bad, boy." Nora said before hopping off the bed.

"Please don't say arrow." Jaune said. Thanks to Cinder, he does not like arrows. Jaune pushed the covers off himself and got out of bed.

"You slept in your gear last night?" Ren questioned.

"He's obsessed." Nora whispered a bit too loudly as Jaune went to the bathroom.

Pyrrha sighed with sadness as she pet Saber.

'Ruby's one lucky girl.'

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Team JNPR was walking towards the bullheads to get over to the small town where the sheriff was expecting them to be his deputies for the day.

Jaune was walking ahead of the pack with a stern expression on his face. Excalibur was on his back, Crocea Mors tied to his belt and Silver Eye and Arc Gold in his holsters. He was ready to fight. Saber, disguised as a cat, was walking beside him, knowing they were heading for one heck of a battle.

The rest of his team were looking between one another, worried about Jaune's attitude. They've been down this road before. When Jaune was like this, probably nothing could stop him. Pyrrha probably, but that's only because he was wearing armor. Other than that he could fly away from them all if he wanted to.

"Um, Jaune, I am sure Ruby is just fine." Pyrrha said.

"Pyrrha, please don't say stuff like that unless you are a hundred percent sure." Jaune said looking to his partner.

"Sorry~." Pyrrha apologized.

"He's pretty darn protective of Ruby." Nora whispered to Ren. "In fact, overly-protective. Of a lot of people the more I think about it."

'I don't blame him. He's already been through this before and experienced our demises. I think I'd be more shocked if he was very calm.' Ren thought, remaining calm, yet ready. Jaune already informed him of today being what is known as 'The Breach', so he was prepared to fight with all his strength. Guess he'll have to wait a while before being a deputy.

Nora suddenly appeared behind Jaune and started rubbing his shoulders, causing him to stop in place.

"Relax fearless leader, I'm sure your girlfriend and the rest of her team are just fine. Have a little faith in them, just as much as we all have a great amount of faith in you." Nora said hopping over to Jaune's side. Jaune looked to Nora with surprise at hearing her say that. "Besides all your focus should be on us being… Deputies!" Nora cheered at a high volume with her fists thrust into the air.

Jaune managed to cover both of his ears before she had the chance to bust an eardrum again.

"I was prepared that time." Jaune said bringing his hands down. "By the way Nora, where is Liversnap?" Jaune asked, noticing that the hyper girl's pet Ursa was not glued to her side like usual.

"Oh. I've decided to have him stay here. Reebok said his robots can babysit him while I'm away. I don't feel that it's smart to take a pet Grimm I've only had for not even a week out into a populated area. At least not yet." Nora explained, surprising Jaune and the rest of the team.

"Wow. That's a… very mature decision, Nora. I'm proud of you." Jaune said with a smile.

"Thanks! I figured it would be the smart thing to do." Nora said with a smile and a salute, but then she got gloomy. "I just feel bad though that Liversnap won't be with me for a while." Nora said with a sad pout and teary eyes as… her body lost its color?

What?

(Reference to Volume 3, Chapter 1.)

Nora suddenly felt Saber scratching her leg lightly to get her attention.

"What is it, Sabe?" Nora asked, earning a dull look from the kitten.

'I don't think he cares for that new nickname.' Jaune thought.

Saber suddenly pointed a paw over behind them, making them turn as they saw a big brown fluff ball making its way over with a cute small roar.

"Liversnap!" Nora exclaimed as her pet Grimm, in its disguised form, ran over to her entering a hug from his caregiver.

"Well he sure is as persistent as you." Jaune complimented.

"Oh~, sorry, sweetie. I love you and hate it when we're apart, but I don't know how people will feel when you're around at the small town. Plus, you still have a bit of a bad habit of following people having bad days. Please understand, I'm looking out for you." Nora said with a pout as Liversnap whined. "Plus, I'm worried about you getting into a fight when Jaune's around. I don't want him to accidentally vaporize you."

"I wouldn't call it vaporizing. More like incineration." Jaune said bringing up a hand as some gold aura came from it like steam.

"Hey! Keep it a good thirty feet from Liversnap!" Nora said with narrowed eyes as she got in front of her pet disguised Grimm, covering him from any attack.

Suddenly everyone heard a sound that drew there attention to the city of Vale, where the sound was originating from.

"Oh no, that doesn't sound good." Nora said.

"Red alert. A Grimm invasion." Jaune said with narrowed eyes.

"Does this mean we're not going to be deputies?" Nora asked.

"Looks like it." Ren said.

"Nora, tell Liversnap to hide back at Reebok's workshop. I think you're right on the nose about him not being close to me today." Jaune said.

"Liversnap, listen, I know you can understand me, so please listen when I tell you that you have to stay in Reebok's workplace." Nora said holding Liversnap's face. Liversnap gave a roar of protest. "No, no. Listen!" Nora cupped Liversnap's face and knelt down. "You know I love you. All I ever want to do is defend you and even though I know you're very powerful and we're the best combo ever, I need you to trust me and listen. Please stay here. No matter what you hear, no matter how much sadness, anger and misery you feel, do not come to the city to fight with us. Understand?" Nora explained. Liversnap gave a small roar as if pleading. "No Liversnap." Nora said a bit more sternly. Liversnap lowered his head, before nodding, understanding the situation. Nora moaned with a pout feeling bad, but she had to put her foot down to protect her baby.

Team JNPR stared at the sight with wide eyes.

They did not know what was more of an astonishing sight. The disguised Ursa understanding everything Nora was saying like it has already grasped human speech as second nature or that Nora was being a mature, responsible mother-figure… and to a Grimm no less!

"Saber, how about you stay and keep Liversnap company?" Jaune suggested, kneeling down next to Saber. Saber looked to him with half-lidded eyes. Saber just trotted over to Pyrrha, walked behind her then hopped onto her back, latching onto her sash.

"What in the?! Saber! What are you doing?!" Pyrrha exclaimed, surprised by the kitten's action.

"Maybe he's looking for treasure." Nora suggested.

Jaune's eyes widened and cheeks reddened at the prospect of treasure… with the location his pet is searching for so close to… Pyrrha's… bottom.

… Well it is consider by many men, Jaune included, to be a treasure.

Saber hopped off of Pyrrha to show he had a golden key in mouth.

"Ah ha! He was looking for treasure!" Nora exclaimed pointing at Saber.

"Huh?!" Pyrrha was immensely confused.

Saber walked over to Liversnap and dropped the key in front of him. Ren knelt down to take a closer look at the golden key.

"I think that's the key to the cafeteria's meat locker." Ren said with shock.

Liversnap hopped up onto his hind legs and clapped his front two paws together.

"Huh. Guess Saber took it and hid it on Pyrrha for safe keeping." Nora said.

"I… I didn't even… I can't believe… how had I never noticed this before?" Pyrrha questioned, still shocked and confused as she held her red sash.

"Guess Saber's the most skilled guy on our team." Nora said as Liversnap took the key in mouth then swallowed it, but Saber gave a mad cat sound of protest, confusing Liversnap.

"Hey rookies! What the hell are you doing?!" They all turned to see Team CFVY with Professor Port rushing over to get on a bullhead. "Red Alert Means Get Your Ass in Gear! Get to the City! Now!" Coco yelled as she, her team and Port sprinted to a bullhead.

"Who the hell are you calling rookie, brat?!" Jaune shouted out of instinct.

"I'll remember that Arc!" Coco yelled as she and Team CFVY, along with Port, hopped onto the bullhead.

"She does have a point though." Pyrrha said.

"Right. Let's go!" Jaune shouted as they all turn and rushed to a bullhead.

"Hey guys!" They all stopped and turned to see Reebok rushing over wearing his green long coat and Seymour flying beside him. "Can I ride with you?" Reebok called out.

"What about your team? Didn't you go on a mission yesterday?" Nora asked.

"Our mission got cancelled yesterday. I already told them I'm heading out to protect the city. I don't think they believe me though." Reebok said.

"Dude that is not how a team should act." Jaune said, not liking Reebok's team.

"Yeah, well, story of my life." Reebok said with a shrug.

"Can we go now?" Nora asked starting to get peeved.

"Yeah, sure." Jaune said.

"Flying Saucer, take care of Liversnap for me!" Nora exclaimed before running off.

"My name is Seymour." Seymour said.

"You heard her, Seymour." Reebok said.

"Understood, sir." Seymour said with a tilt forward A.K.A nod.

"Well, let's save some lives!" Reebok said as he hurried after Nora with Pyrrha and Saber following.

Jaune and Ren looked to one another.

"Not right that team of his." Jaune said shaking his head before he and Ren hurried after them. Making it to the bullhead, Jaune placed his hand on Ren's shoulder. "Ren, we'll make it to that village another time." Jaune said, earning a nod from Ren before they went in. 'Huh. Deja vu.'

The bullhead closed its hatch and started taking off.

Liversnap took a step forward and gave a small sad roar.

"I understand how you feel, my friend. I wish I was there for young Alexander. Even if I cannot do much, I still wish I was there with him." Seymour said.

Liversnap gave another sad roar as he watched the bullhead fly off. Liversnap turned his head to find a few still on deck.

Nora looked through the window of the bullhead, staring down at Liversnap with a quivering pout and tear eyes.

"Alex." Nora spoke up, catching Reebok's attention.

"Did you just call me by my real name?" Reebok asked.

"About that armor we talked about… I want to make a small change." Nora said turning to the green haired genius with a serious expression.

Down below at the dock, Vlad strolled over in a Haven uniform with his hands behind his back, smirking.

"So this is the Breach you informed about?" Cinder asked making her way over with Emerald and Mercury.

"Yep." Vlad simply answered with a smile.

"So what happened? Isn't it originally supposed to be days away?" Emerald asked.

"I never said that. I said when the train makes contact, this city will be in alert. I never said with day." Vlad said turning his head to her for a moment before turning back to the sight of the city. "Rose and her team discovered them a few days early and it all lead to this. Just as expected."

"And you didn't warn up because?" Emerald asked.

Vlad's smirk widened.

"I planned ahead. Plus… it's just a little bit more fun."

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The bullhead Team JNPR and Reebok were on was getting closer to the city. The town square had smoke coming from it.

"Looks like town square is where most of them are." Reebok said with a radar in hand with red blinking lights.

"What's that?" Nora asked, pointing to Reebok's invention.

"Well… remember when I took Liversnap's tooth?" Reebok asked feeling a little nervous bringing up the subject.

"Very much yes. Also, I need it back for the tooth fairy to visit my baby." Nora said with half-lidded eyes, pointing to Reebok.

"Well, I used the essence connected to it to help make this bad boy. It's a radar that identifies Grimm in a surrounding area. I call it… the Grimm Radar." Reebok explained.

"… That's a terrible name." Nora said.

"I know. I suck at them." Reebok said with a frown and hanging his head.

"How about… the Malice Seeker." Nora said with a grin and raising her arms up with wiggling fingers for dramatic effect.

"… That's… even better." Reebok said with a smile. "We can call it M.S. for short-no, not that. Not that at all. Just Malice Seeker." Reebok said, taking back his comment.

Suddenly the bullhead moved a bit.

"What was that?" Nora asked.

Jaune and Pyrrha head over to the cockpit, which had no pilot since the bullhead was on auto-pilot, and looked out the window. Suddenly the face of a monster bat with a Grimm mask slammed into the window, causing Pyrrha to scream.

"Sanguine!" Jaune screamed causing everyone, especially Reebok to flinch in fear.

A whole horde started to assault the bullhead.

"They're trying to breach the hull!" Reebok shouted.

"Everyone, cover your eyes!" Jaune shouted. Everyone quickly did so, as Jaune shined and exploded with bright light, causing the Sanguines to screech and scatter. Jaune sighed, which was the sign for everyone to uncover their eyes again.

"What were those?" Ren asked.

"Sanguines. The vampires of the Grimm world. They suck the blood of any living thing and turn them into zombies to kill and fight for them." Reebok explained.

"Yeesh. Well good thing they're out there while we're in hear." Nora said with a smile.

"… Nora, have you ever seen a horror movie before?" Reebok asked.

"Only like two. Why?"

Suddenly a Sanguine broke right through the window, causing everyone to scream. Jaune quickly grabbed it by the neck, surrounded his fist with golden aura and punched its head into oblivion.

"Oh~, that was hot!" Nora exclaimed with an amazed grin.

"Incoming!" Reebok screamed pointing out the destroyed window as more Sanguine flew straight at the damaged window.

Jaune immediately took out Silver Eye and Arc Gold, Ren readied Storm Flower, Pyrrha changed Miló into her rifle mode and Reebok changed C.I.C. into a pair of gauntlets that had barrels for firing protruding out of the knuckles as they all opened fire on the horde of Sanguines.

"Nora! Break Open the Hatch!" Jaune shouted.

"Aye, Aye!" Nora exclaimed with a salute. She quickly ran over to the hatch and started slamming Magnhild against the hatch. After a few good hits, it broke open.

"We're bailing!" Jaune shouted.

They all ran off and hopped out of the bullhead.

Team JNPR landed atop of a building. Reebok managed to turn C.I.C. into a jetpack and landed next to them.

The Sanguines broke right through the bullhead, going in one end and out the other. Suddenly a blue ball shot out and slammed into four of them, ricocheting off and falling down towards the building they were on.

Once making contact, the ball disperse, turning into Saber, still disguised as a kitten. Saber looked to them with dull eyes.

"Don't blame us. You're usually not around helping out. How do you expect us to remember you were around?" Jaune said.

Saber just went 'hmph' and turned to them with his tail raised.

"I think he's angry." Nora said.

"They're coming this way!" Ren shouted pointing one of his Storm Flowers up at the horde coming their way.

"Good!" Reebok shouted as he had a metal spherical device with gold decal on it, twisted the top part of it causing the gold decal to glow and then tossed it to Jaune. "Throw it!" Reebok said pointing to the horde.

Jaune threw the device at the horde and upon contact, exploded into a shockwave of golden light that completely incinerated the horde of Sanguines. Their screeches of pain were the last sounds the oversized bats made.

"You weaponized my aura into a grenade?" Jaune questioned with shock.

"Well yeah. You're semblance is the only thing that can one hit kill these things. Why wouldn't I do that?" Reebok said with a shrug.

"Alexander, can your weapon morph into a scope to see what's happening at the town square?" Pyrrha asked.

"Of course." Reebok said as with a thought, his Commander In Chief shifted into a telescope. Looking through it, he zoomed to see what was happening at town square. "Teams RWBY are there fighting, along with Team CFVY. Professor Oobleck-"

"DOCTOR!" Oobleck's voice screamed, causing everyone to flinch.

"How does he do that?" Jaune questioned with a raised eyebrow, shocked and amazed by Oobleck's inhuman sense of hearing. At least when someone doesn't refer to him as a doctor.

"A~nd Professor Port are handling things with them. Wow. Professor Port really knows how to handle himself. He just crushed a King Taijutu's head with a big twin stomp and sliced the other head off like it was a day at the park." Reebok informed. "And speaking of a King Taijutu, one is cornering Ruby!"

"What?!" Jaune screamed.

"Is that a corgi?" Reebok questioned with confusion, noticing Ruby and Yang's pet on the battlefield.

"I'm Coming Ruby!" Jaune screamed as he spread out his Arc Wings.

"Oh! I can get there faster!" Nora shouted with a grin.

"Nora, no!" Ren called out, but Nora shot up into the air, got atop the weight top of her Warhammer and fired a round to send her flying towards the battlefield. Ren ran over to the edge of the building panting with fear that Nora will get hurt or worse. The memories of what Jaune told him happened to the Nora of his timeline rushed through his memory.

Luckily when Nora made it and got close to the two headed snake Grimm, she fired one of Magnhild's rounds once more and slammed it atop of the black head King Taijutu's head, slamming it into the ground.

"Sup pal of mine." Nora greeted Ruby with a smile. "Your boyfriend's been going crazy worried for you since you called." Nora said making Ruby blush with a smile.

"Took him long enough! You'd think he'd fly here after the call." Weiss said as she fought a Beowulf.

"Oh, that was mostly Pyrrha's fault." Nora said, causing Ruby and Weiss, after she decapitated the Beowulf, look to her with raised eyebrows. "That came out wrong. I should explain more."

"Later. Now we got to fight!" Ruby said, getting a nod from Nora and Weiss.

Back with JNPR, Reebok and Saber.

"Well she took care of the Grimm, easy." Reebok said.

Ren sighed with relief as Jaune put a hand on Ren's shoulder.

"You two worry too much. You know we girls can handle ourselves just as well as you two." Pyrrha said, feeling a bit disappointed in the male members of her team, before hopping off the building with Saber following.

Ren and Jaune looked to one another with blinking eyes.

"Uh, something future related about this?" Reebok asked, lowering his C.I.C. telescope.

"Let's go." Jaune and Ren said in unison before hopping off the building.

Reebok just transformed C.I.C. into a jetpack and flew towards danger with the others.

Back on the battlefield, everyone was fighting all the Grimm roaming in the town square.

Coco shot a Death Stalker to pieces with her mini-gun.

"Too easy." Coco said.

"Ha! Of course it is! Now an Arpax. Beat that and I'd give you extra credit." Port said.

Coco just rolled her eyes.

"You fought an Arpax?!" Reebok shouted as he came down to ground level, then transformed his C.I.C. into a giant left arm that was bigger than a Paladin's arm that blocked a Death Stalker's stinger, and then fired a blue beam of energy that vaporized the Grimm down the middle, letting its sides fall to the ground where it turned to black ash. "Whoa! That's incredible!" Reebok said with amazement.

"Ah, yes. A fine story behind it." Port said proudly with a smile and fist pressed to his chest, while Coco tilted her glasses and had a gaped mouth at what Reebok just did. "That I will save for later." Port added before giving a battle cry as he shot faster than a bullet towards a Death Stalker and slammed his fist through its face right where the eyes were, then lifted himself atop the Grimm and jumped high and slashed the stinger right off with his battle axe blunderbuss like it was butter, effectively killing the Grimm. Port slammed onto the ground with a stomp and fist. He stood up and gave another battle cry before rushing over to kill more Grimm.

"Huh… you know, I really am seeing how he is able to fight such powerhouses." Reebok said, while Coco's jaw dropped.

Who knew Port had it in himself?

"Nobody move!" Sun appeared with Neptune alongside him. "Junior Detectives!" Sun exclaimed, showing off his new badge the inspector gave him and Neptune.

"We have badges so you know it's official." Neptune said with a grin showing off his own badge before he and Sun fist bumped.

(Remember when that was a thing before Ruby Chibi? … Yeah me neither.)

Suddenly Jaune came down from the sky and landed down the stairs in front of the two, on one knee and his fist pressed against the ground as his Aura Wings spread out for a sec before they dispersed.

"Whoa~." Sun and Neptune said in awe at the hot entrance.

Surrounding Grimm stopped and looked to Jaune, sensing a great danger within him.

Jaune slowly rose up, standing up straight with a serious, stern expression as his eye shined gold for a moment.

The Grimm were wary of him.

An Ursa suddenly charged at Jaune from the side, but Jaune simply punched it in the stomach, completely obliterating it into pieces of gold before dispersing.

The Grimm nearby perked up with wide eyes staring at him with shock and fear.

Jaune grabbed the hilt of Excalibur on his back, took it out and slammed the tip against the ground as Jaune's aura caused the broadsword to glow gold and white, while some of his aura illuminated on his shoulders.

All the Grimm nearby blinked their eyes. They all turn and ran off.

The students were confused on why most Grimm, even the Deathstalkers and King Taijutu, were running off.

Sun and Neptune saw the whole thing with dropped jaws.

"Whoa~~." They said before climbing down the stairs.

"My bro!" Sun cheered with a grin as he wrapped an arm around Jaune's neck.

"Who'd have thought you had enough in you to scare a whole horde of Grimm!" Neptune exclaimed with amazement, putting his hand on Jaune's shoulder.

"You get used to it after a while." Ren said as he showed up.

Everyone in the area heard a noise from above making them all look up to see the Atlesian Fleet had finally arrived.

"Where the heck were they?!" Coco shouted.

Jaune looked around to see everyone, but Port and Oobleck, staring up at the fleet. He got miffed.

"HEY!" Jaune screamed causing all the students to look to him. "What Are You All, Newbies at This?! Your Focus Should Be On the Grimm! Not the Fleet!" Jaune shouted; his inner Atlesian soldier arriving at the surface. Jaune quickly took out Arc Gold and fired a bullet that sped pass Ruby and nailed an Ursa in the face. Ruby 'eeped' before turning to see Jaune had saved her. "Sorry for the scare honey!" Jaune called out, feeling bad about scaring Ruby.

"Whoa, only two days and you're already calling her that? Nice man." Sun said with a grin before whipping out Ruyi Bang and Jingu Bang and Neptune took out his special sci-fi looking gun.

Jaune just looked to them with a raised eyebrow. It was normal to him to call Ruby 'honey', so he didn't understand the big deal.

Ruby blushed red with wide eyes before turning away with a smile, before she gave a battle cry and used her semblance, Rose Burst, to speed forward and slash apart three Beowolves.

The students resumed their fight while the Atlesian Fleet were shooting down the Grimm at the town square and the Nevermore in the sky.

The bullheads above opened their hatches to reveal Atlesian Knight-200s, which dropped below and joined the fight. The Atlesian Knights were holding their own quite well.

Reebok looked around to see the Atlas bots doing fine, but they seemed so… primitive in his eyes. Reebok sighed shaking his head. He remembered what Jaune told him back on the bullhead.

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"And a laser cannon! And grenade launchers! And a cup holder!"

"Nora, Nora, one thing at a time. I'm an inventor, not a miracle worker. I mean they are possible, but even I need time to make those things." Reebok said, sitting down on the floor of the deck.

"But you can still do the first one, right?" Nora asked leaning closer to his face.

"Yes, yes. Very much possible so long as Jaune cooperates." Reebok said turning his head away with a blush on his cheeks.

"Why are you blushing?"

"Because I'm not used to being this close to girls." Reebok said rubbing the back of his neck.

"Nora." Jaune spoke up as he stopped next to her. "Mind if I speak to Reebok for a second? Alone."

"Yeah, sure. Only if you help him out with something that I need." Nora said.

"Sure." Jaune said with a nod. Nora stood up straight and gave a salute, before rushing off to Ren's side.

"Whatcha need, pal?" Reebok asked as Jaune knelt down in front of him.

"Reebok… I need you to listen to me. I know this may sound selfish and stupid at first, but you need to listen to me." Jaune said. He looked back to see Nora talking to Ren, while Pyrrha was sitting on a seat petting Saber on her lap. "I need you to refrain from summoning our little project to help out today." Jaune whispered.

"Say wha-" Jaune put his hand over Reebok's mouth before he yell out completely.

"Look, I know it sounds wrong, very wrong, but you have to keep yourself from summoning them into action. The moment they are revealed, Vlad and his cronies are going to find a way to counter them. If they join the fight today, our best plan of attack might not work the way we want them to next time. It is imperative that they remain a secret until the Vytal Tournament Attack." Jaune said, putting his hand away from Reebok's mouth and putting it on his shoulder.

"But-but what if there's a situation where they could save lives?" Reebok asked with worry. Jaune looked to the side with somber eyes. "Jaune?" Reebok's voice hitched a bit with fear.

Jaune closed his eyes. He sighed.

"General Ironwood always says that no matter what plan you have, there will be sacrifices. That's why it's always important to think things through and know when to take action. Either now or later." Jaune said with a frown. "If we do it now… we will lose many more lives later."

"But… but…" Reebok was starting to feel queasy.

"I know that this is a lot to put on someone your age, but nothing is fair when it comes to war. It's either now and lose the advantage later or lose some lives now, but save a greater number later." Jaune said with his eyes closed. His hand on Reebok's shoulder tightened. Reebok looked to the hand then back to Jaune. He knew this was especially hard for him as well. He saw the world end, many lives die, and to let a few innocent people pass on just to protect more innocent further down the line? This must be crushing his soul. "It's your choice in the end. I just wanted you know… be prepared." Jaune said, releasing Reebok and walking over to the window.

Reebok stared to him with wide eyes. He looked down with somber eyes. He tightened his hands into fists.

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Reebok stared at the ground with somber eyes. He heard a roar making him turn and aim his giant mechanic fist at an Ursa trying to sneak attack him, but Weiss came and slice it in half.

"Keep your head in the game." Weiss said to Reebok.

"Right. Sorry." Reebok said with an apologetic nod. Reebok then morphed his giant mechanical arm into two separate gauntlets with glowing blue cores at the palms. He fired two shots at two Beowolves heads, blasting them apart as Weiss sped over to more Grimm to kill them.

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Away from the action, Atlesian soldiers were ordering and guiding people to evacuate to a safe location.

A male ram Faunus stopped and turned looking worried, but then developed a smirk. He turned and grabbed another Faunus, a female fox one, covering her mouth as he put her in a headlock. He dragged her into a corner as he took out a small black pellet.

"Hey, did you see that?" An Atlesian soldier said to another one.

"Yeah. Let's go." The other Atlesian soldier said.

The two hurried over to the alley. When they stopped in front of it, they felt a steamy exhaled nail them. They looked to one another with wide eyes before looking back into the alleyway.

Suddenly a pair of red glowing eyes appeared in the darkness of the alley.

"Holy…"

"Shit."

The two screamed drawing attention.

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Back on the battlefield, the Grimm were dropping like flies.

Cinder came with Emerald and Mercury to kill Grimm to make their roles as 'allies' convincing. The Grimm were a means to an end, so they did not care if they took the existence of a few.

Glynda joined the fight, smacking Grimm left and right with her telekinesis and rebuilding destroyed parts of the city.

Roman Torchwick climbed out of the debris of the train that caused the accident to begin with. He moaned with pain as he held his forehead. Someone had immediately grabbed him and raised him up high.

"Thought I forgot about you?" Yang rhetorically asked with a smirk. Jaune punched his daylights out, feeling satisfaction. "If only you were your midget friend." Yang said with her fists pressed against her hips.

Vlad and his faction (Chary, Gavrilo and Edgar) had arrived onto the scene, watching it all unfold. They were following Cinder's lead and make it look like they were allies as well. The four had stoic expressions as they watched things unfold. They were unaffected by all this carnage and misery.

Nearby Grimm perked up their heads and looked to Vlad and his team. They Grimm always acknowledged Vlad whenever he was around.

'Attack us. It may seem like a weird request coming from me, but I wish for you all to attack us to keep our cover as our enemies' allies. So give your lives to us. So sayeth your king.' Vlad communicated to all the Grimm through a mental command as C Salem around his neck shined purple.

The Grimm got the message and gave battle cries before charging in forward to attack the four.

Gavrilo grabbed a large jagged sword from his back, charged forward and slashed apart six Creeps, twelve Beowolves, three Ursa Majors and stabbed his sword right through the head of a Deathstalker, killing them all instantly before they all vanished into black ash.

Chary walked forward, whipping out a pair of scimitars, then threw them, with one slicing the heads of a horde of Beowolves in half along with the bodies of two Alpha Beowolves in half and the other scimitar going into the air, slicing the head of a Nevermore off with ease. The two scimitars came circling back like boomerangs and returned back into Chary's possession; all the while she kept a stoic, uninterested expression.

Edgar sighed. He hated doing this kind of stuff. Especially when putting in effort. Putting in a good amount of effort annoyed him. He walked forward and as a Beowolf Alpha tried to bite his head off, he grabbed it by the neck, lifted it up off the floor then in one quick moment crushed its neck, instantly killing it. The Alpha turned to dark ash. Edgar still showed no emotion, even as he kicked an Ursa Major away like it was nothing.

Vlad simply walked forward with his hands behind his back. This was nothing more than a stroll through the park for him. He sent an uppercut to a charging Ursa Major, and kicked a Boarbatusk away after it rolled its way over to him at high speed. A Deathstalker charged over and slammed its stinger atop of Vlad, but the tall teen vanished before contact and was now above the head of the giant scorpion Grimm and stopped one foot atop of its head, crushing it with ease, turning into ash the next moment.

'I do feel bad for them. They are on my side, but certain measures need to be taken for victory.' Vlad thought with a frown. Vlad suddenly heard a nose in his left ear. He pressed his finger inside it, waited a moment, before smirking and punching a Creep away without any effort.

"Looks like the danger has been eliminated." Oobleck said. Zwei barked in agreement.

"Who's your new friend?" Port asked his old friend.

"Team Ruby's canine companion. He is very talented in combat." Oobleck said.

"Another pet?" Glynda asked with annoyance. "How many times must that rule be broken?!" Glynda shouted causing Oobleck and Port to flinch with fear, while Zwei barked, blissfully ignorant of the situation.

The bullhead above landed below.

Yang picked up Roman, who moaned with pain, and started dragging him to one of the bullheads.

"We can take it from here." Mercury said as he and Emerald walked over to Yang. Yang shrugged and handed Roman over to them. Emerald and Mercury escorted Roman to a bullhead. "You never looked better." Mercury said with a smirk.

"Same to you. You pull off the hero look quite dashingly. Do it more often." Roman said, making Mercury glare at him.

The Grimm in the area were vanquished.

"That was surprisingly easy." Blake said.

"You can say that again." Jaune said. He noticed an Atlas soldier stumbling over to them all. His movements seemed sluggish, with a bit of a limp. He also looked pale. Like a… oh shit.

"Hey, that guys doesn't look too good." Nora said pointing to the sluggish looking Atlas soldier.

"Look Out!" Jaune shouted, pointing at the soldier.

The soldier, out of nowhere, brought up his gun and shot at them all. Luckily everyone managed to get away in time.

Pyrrha quickly brought up her hand, halting the soldiers movements.

Sun and Yatsuhashi tackled him down to the ground.

"What is your deal man?!" Sun shouted.

Jaune walked over, knelt down and took off his helmet. The Atlesian soldier, possessing a beige crewcut and jade eyes, had a very pale face, black around his eyes and was moaning like a zombie. Jaune gently grasped his chin and turned his head to show odd a pair of holes in his neck.

"He's been brainwashed and sucked." Jaune said.

"Huh?" Sun questioned.

Reebok ran over and gasped at the sight.

"Sanguine bite marks!" Reebok shouted.

"Sangu-what?" Sun asked, feeling majorly confused.

"Sanguines?!" Port shouted with shock.

Velvet's bunny ears twitched.

"You guys! I hear wings flapping." Velvet called out.

"Velvet, look out!" Blake shouted, pointing behind her fellow Faunus.

Velvet turned to see something coming down at her from the sky. Velvet screamed as she hopped back, but got claws on the arm. Velvet fell on her back and looked up to see an extremely skinny humanoid bat Grimm. It gave a loud screech causing Velvet to scream in pain as she held her ears from the pain.

"Velvet!" Coco cried out.

The Sanguine took advantage of her stunned state and took a step forward, but suddenly something large crashed atop of it.

Velvet looked up to see a shocking sight indeed.

There atop of the now crushed and dissolving Sanguine, was none other than Cardin Winchester, standing on his own two feet atop of the Grimm with his right fist pressed against his hip and his other hand holding his mace proudly which lied on his shoulder. He had a toothy grin that shined. He looked down to Velvet and extended his hand to her.

"Need a hand?" Cardin asked in a suave manner.

Velvet blinked her eyes in surprised.

"Uh huh." Velvet said as she reached her hand over and grabbed Cardin's allowing the Winchester to help her up.

"Huh. How long do you think he planned that for getting here?" Yang asked with her hands on her hips.

"Probably the whole trip." Coco said with a frown.

The rest of Team CRDL joined up with their leader and everybody else.

"Are we late?" Russel asked, hoping they were.

"For the first wave? Yes. Although you're in time for the next." Jaune said.

"Oh joy." Russel said with a frown and shoulders slumped.

"Look!" Yatsuhashi pointed towards somewhere in the sky.

Everyone looked to see hordes of Sanguines flying towards the town square.

"Oh my God." Neptune said with fear.

"Everyone! Make sure to not come into close contact with these Grimm." Jaune spoke up. "You see that soldier there? Those Grimm, Sanguines, did this to him. They will suck your blood and inject a chemical into you which effects your brain, turning you into their zombie slaves. Keep your distance, if you have no long range capabilities then stay close to one who does and look out for one another. Things are about to get deadly!" Jaune ordered.

Everyone nodded understanding the situation.

The Atlesian Knights fired at the horde as they were coming in closer.

Roman smirked at the sight as he was escorted onto a bullhead.

As the horde got closer, Coco was the first to start shooting. Everyone else started joining in, causing Sanguines to fall from the sky, dead.

The Sanguines screeched as they increased speed.

Cardin loaded a fire and lightning dust crystal into his mace. Once supplied, he held the trigger, causing the mace to open up and charge up a growing sphere that looked like a Sun with lightning coursing around it. Once the Sanguines were in close range he fired, sending the ball rocketing to them, and upon contact exploded, taking a good portion of them; melting their bodies.

Cardin smirked, but suddenly a flash of light struck. He turned to see that Velvet took a picture of him.

Velvet looked to him with wide eyes before grinning nervously.

Cardin blinked his eyes.

"Did you catch my good side?" Cardin asked with a smirk.

The horde was still approaching, despite their numbers dropping at a fast pace.

Zwei growled at the sight, but sensed something.

Saber gave a loud kitten roar, causing Zwei to turn to him to see he was growling at something behind everyone.

Zwei turned only to bark at the sight.

"What's with the animals?" Russel asked.

Reebok heard a loud beeping noise. He took out his invention, the Malice Seeker and noticed two groups of blinking light coming towards a group of blue blinking lights with a gold and green light.

"Oh crap. Pincer Attack!" Reebok screamed pointing at what Zwei and Saber were looking at, that being another horde of Sanguines soaring toward them at high speed. "They're about to make contact!"

"Coco, Ruby, Ren, Blake, Sky, Weiss, Neptune handle the other end!" Jaune shouted. They all listened and turned, firing at the horde behind them. "Reebok, you got any more of those grenades?" Jaune asked as the green genius was kneeling down as he worked with his weapon which was in its brief case default mode.

"Way ahead of you." Reebok said taking five of the Arc Grenades from his coat and putting them inside his open case, before closing it shut. He transformed his weapon into a rocket launcher with a scope, turned, placing it upon his shoulder and fired all five Arc Grenades into one compressed shot, and once it connected, it created a large explosion that annihilated the entire horde in front of them.

"Hot damn." Jaune said with shock and wide eyes, as he and the others facing the now gone horde's direction were completely shocked.

"They're breaking through!" Weiss shouted catching their attention.

Sanguines came in diving ready to attack.

One went after Velvet, but Cardin smashed it in the face with his mace, crushing in into the ground.

Velvet hopped over Cardin and kicked another that tried to bite him away.

The two nodded with gratitude to one another, before continuing to fight any other Sanguines breaking pass firing range.

All attention turned to the other horde, but the sound of yelling and more fire draw some of the others attention, turning to see men in suits, fedoras and wearing red tinted sunglasses running away with some shooting behind themselves.

"Aren't those…" Yang said narrowing her eyes. She noticed Junior along with the Malachite Twins running with them. "Junior? What the hell are you doing in the streets?!" Yang called out.

"Not now, blondie! Running for my life here!" Junior shouted as he fired a rocket from his rocket launcher at… whatever was chancing them.

Jaune turned to see Junior and his men running, but from what?

The answer shocked Jaune.

Running through the streets and climbing the walls of buildings was a hefty amount of new Grimm.

They were four legged lizards with rectangular snouts, sharp teeth and armored plats on its back, shoulders, tail and small spikes protruding out their spinal areas and one spike coming out the tip of its tail.

Jaune's eyes widened in horror.

"SWARMERS!" Jaune screamed.

"Oh dear Sally, No!" Port shouted.

"What the hell are those things?!" Russel screamed with fear. This moment of shock costed him as a Sanguine grabbed him with its feet. "No! No! Help!" Russel screamed. His body acted on its own and slashed at one of the ankles, causing one of the Sanguine's feet to let go, but the other still kept its grip. Luckily Dove shot it dead, causing it to release Russel who fell to the ground with an 'oof'.

"Keep your head in the game." Dove said.

"Aye, aye." Russel said, his voice muffled with a thumbs up.

Glynda growled with annoyance and rage. She directed her riding crop toward buildings and suddenly they broke apart into debris and formed a wall in front the group of Swarmers, separating them from both her group and Junior's.

"Alexander, do you have enough ammo to use that same attack you did before on the last horde?" Glynda asked.

"Yes, ma'am!" Reebok said as he transformed his rocket launcher back into a long briefcase.

"Everyone let the Atlesian Knights handle the horde of Sanguines. Focus all your attention on the wall I made. The moment you see those slimy creeps open fire." Glynda ordered.

'Couldn't have said it better myself.' Jaune thought as he spun his gun in hand, before aiming both pistols at the wall.

The Atlesian Knights focused fire on the Sanguines, but there were so many coming at the same time.

"Shit!" Cardin shouted as he tightened his grip on his mace.

Once a Sanguine came close, he slammed it with his mace. One made it behind him, but before he could react, it was slashed in half by none other than Yatsuhashi.

Fox suddenly came and slashed two apart easy with is blades.

"Uh… thanks." Cardin said.

"Guess it will be us just in case they come close." Yatsuhashi said.

"I don't think so." Cardin said pointing at Reebok, who loaded five of his Arc Grenades into his briefcase then transformed it back into a rocket launcher with scope.

Reebok aimed it at the horde of Sanguines and fired his five rounds into one grand compacted blast and once making contact, created a giant explosion that completely incinerated the entire horde like a nuke.

Those who saw were in awe.

"Impressive." Yatsuhashi said with wide eyes.

"Now we can focus on that wall." Cardin said, but suddenly shots were fired at them. "What the hell?!" Cardin shouted.

Out in the distance were a large number of pale Atlesian soldiers firing rounds at them as they sloppily made their way over to them.

"More zombified soldiers!" Reebok shouted as he changed his rocket launcher into a large boxy stun gun and fired six rounds all at once that flew directly at six of the pale soldiers, striking them, effectively paralyzing them.

"Fighters skilled in speed, take care of them!" Jaune shouted.

Ruby, Blake, Weiss, Ren, Fox, Velvet, Sun and Russel rushed off to take care of the soldiers with Zwei and Saber following.

Swarmers started to make it to the top of the debris wall Glynda made.

"Here they are!" Neptune shouted.

"Those Bastards Ruined My Club! Whoever Kills the Most, Free Drinks for Half a Year! Age Won't Matter!" Junior shouted.

"Oh Hell Yeah! Free Strawberry Sunrises for Me!" Yang shouted with a grin.

"Only if you get more than me!" Coco called out as she then open fire, killing a number of Swarmers.

Everyone opened fire on the Swarmers. The lizard Grimm were falling and roaring with pain before dispersing into black ash.

"Reebok, you got anymore Arc Grenades?" Jaune asked.

"Like fourteen, but if I can't just use them like that constantly in these situations! No matter how dire! I mean something bigger is going to come anyway, right?" Reebok said.

"Bigger?" Nora questioned.

"This is all carefully planned out! They sent the smaller ones first, then sent out the next bracket! It's like a wave of enemies in a survival game!" Reebok shouted.

"He is correct! Someone is planning all this behind the scenes. There is no way Sanguines and Swarmers would be in the same place at the same time like this! It's all being coordinated by some mastermind." Port said.

"I highly doubt it's the White Fang. No way would they be this organized and with Grimm no less." Glynda said as she assisted the speed fighters in detaining the zombified Atlas soldiers from a distance with her telekinesis.

Jaune narrowed his eyes.

'No way. No way he would be able to… in less than a month? What's up?' Jaune thought as he continued shooting.

"They're making it to the ground!" One of Junior's henchmen shouted.

"Melanie, Militia, take 'em on!" Junior shouted.

"Got it, boss." Melanie said sounding very uninterested as she and her sister got ready with their weapons.

"Wait! Be careful! These things can shoot out a venom that can blind you and burn worse than salt and alcohol on an open wound!" Reebok shouted.

"Calm down, short stack. We can handle ourselves." Militia said.

"Better listen to him. Even Deathstalkers, King Taijutus and Nevermores are nothing compared to a horde of these bastards. Be on your toes." Jaune said.

"Don't tell us what to do." Melanie said, but then a bullet sped right between the twins, causing them to yelp and stiffen up straight. The culprit being Jaune with Silver Eye.

"Did you see coming?" Jaune asked with narrowed eyes. The twins shook their heads. "Then don't be overconfident. Ursa Majors are considered snacks to these guys." Jaune said as he killed more Swarmers. "Also protect your neck at all times. They like going for the jugular."

"I can vouch for that." Port said.

Yang roared as she fired her shotgun shells from her Ember Celica to go flying straight towards the Swarmers.

"Yang!" Jaune screamed with fear.

Yang sent an axe kick to one, fired a shotgun shell to send her flying to another and elbow it flying, then flew forward, delivering an uppercut to a Swarmer's jaw then fired another shotgun blast, blowing his head off. Yang fired a blast below to dodge a bite from two, the fire up sending her rocketing down, slamming her fist into the skull of one, killing it and when the other tried biting her, she spun around dodging in time, but it managed to snap some hair off. Yang's eyes glowed red with her hair bursting and risen up like fire. She gave a roar and slammed her fist into the Swarmer's skull, killing it.

Suddenly a Swarmer bit her leg, causing her to scream in pain. Another shot out a blast of bile-like substance at Yang's face.

Luckily Jaune managed to appear in front of her and blocked the bile with his shield of Crocea Mors, which followed by an acidic sound and steam coming off from it. Jaune had pierced Crocea Mors through the head of the Swarmer that bit Yang, piercing so deep that it even stabbed into the pavement. Jaune quickly grabbed something from a pouch connect to his belt and tossed it at the Swarmer that shot its bile, traveled around in an arc motion and going right through the head of the Swarmer as it made a U-turn and returned to Jaune's hand.

"Who says boomerangs are stupid?" Jaune said with a smirk.

"Uh-"

"Don't ruin it Yang." Jaune said with dull eyes.

Swarmers surrounded them and came charging their way.

Jaune summoned Arc Wings, causing them to hesitate, the brought out Excalibur, raised it high as it glowed gold and gave a roar before stabbing his broadsword into the ground, causing a shockwave of golden energy that sent the nearby Swarmers flying.

A Swarmer rolled against the ground, but as it skidded to a halt, it charged as it made a sort of regurgitating sound, then jumped into the air and shot its bile at Jaune.

Jaune noticed, but couldn't block in time, so he pushed Yang away and jumped back, but he was struck on the chest plate. Some of the bile splashed into Jaune's eyes. Jaune screamed as he held his eyes.

"Jaune!" Yang screamed. She was so preoccupied with Jaune for the moment that it was enough time for a Swarmer to pounce at her from behind, but luckily in came Port, grabbing both Jaws of the Swarmer and then with one mighty thrust, broke them apart even further, killing it.

Port quickly grabbed Yang and hurried over to Jaune, but he was suddenly pounced by seven Swarmers, biting into him.

"JAUNE!" Yang screamed.

Jaune roared as he burst with golden energy, sending the Swarmers off of him. He grew a pair of Arc wings.

"Tally-Ho!" Port shouted as he rocketed into the air with Jaune flying away, following his lead.

The Swarmers were getting closer to our group of heroes, and lesser (Junior's group). One clamped onto Jaune by biting Jaune's leg.

Jaune screamed as he hit the floor and skidded over to the group. He took out Silver Eye and shot it in the head, killing it.

"Monty, Jaune!" Reebok hurried over as Port landed and released Yang. Reebok took out a scouter/scope looking thing, attached it to the side of his head. The scouter viewed Jaune's wound on a microscopic level. "I heard these things had powerful chompers, but to bite deep enough to even pierce the marrow… dear Oum!" Reebok said with shock.

"If I didn't surround myself in my semblance once I got blinded those things would have torn me apart easily." Jaune said as he felt his aura healing himself.

"And I ran in without a care." Yang said to herself with wide shocked eyes. If Jaune and Port hadn't come in… she would have been eaten alive. She didn't even last more than five seconds against those things. She managed to keep her limb, because she subconsciously activated her semblance, and after the beatings she took from today and yesterday, she was able to keep her limb, but it still felt as painful as hell.

"Now you see how dire the situation really is." Port said, preparing his blunderbuss. "Keep your distance, Miss Xiao Long." Port said before firing at the horde.

Yang looked to him with wide eyes, but nodded in response. She turned and readied to attack, but she winced and fell to one knee holding her left leg.

"Son of a-"

"You might want to let that heal for a minute or two." Port said as he continued to fire.

"A minute?!" Yang shouted with shock.

"Or two." Port responded.

"Glynda!" Jaune shouted, earning the Headmistress' attention. "Use your semblance to make a maze! We need to spread the horde out!" Jaune shouted.

Normally Glynda would not take orders from a student, but seeing as it's really a thirty two year veteran huntsman time traveler in the body of a Beacon freshman, she'll make this an exception.

Glynda started to glow purple with aura as she raised her riding crop. The nearby buildings started to break, until they crumble with debris now flying into the air.

Ruby knocked out another pair of zombified soldiers, but then looked up with wide eyes as she was staring at what she considered the closest to an asteroid belt she ever be near.

"Wow." Ruby said breathlessly, however when she looked over to the other group, she saw Yang and Jaune kneeling and sitting on the floor looking a bit out of it. Ruby got worried at the sight, but she calmed down a bit.

Jaune walked over to Yang and place a hand on her shoulder. She looked up to him, before she started feeling… stronger!

Yang looked to herself to see her golden aura surrounding her, healing her and making her stronger. She noticed that Jaune's hand was glowing white. She got up to her feet and looked to her hands with wide eyes. She never felt so stronger.

Jaune took his hand back after it stopped glowing along with Yang.

"What was that?" Yang asked.

"Aura Amplification." Jaune said nonchalantly.

"Since when did you have that?" Yang asked turning her head to him.

"It was the first ability I unlocked." Jaune said with a shrug.

Yang looked to her hands and tightened them into fists as they both glowed like flames. Yang gave a roared as she sent a punch that sent a fireball of aura that flew over to a group of Swarmers and exploded upon contact, sending them flying with some being eradicated.

"Oh, Hell Yes!" Yang said with a grin.

Shadows loomed over them, causing her to look up to see debris surrounded by purple aura floating over them and over to the Swarmers. With the flick of a wrist, Glynda sent the debris down, stabbing into the ground and into the Swarmers as well, and formed a large maze, spreading the remains of the horde about.

"Everyone focus and fire when you see the red of their eyes." Jaune said as he readied Silver Eye and Arc Gold.

"No need!" Reebok exclaimed as C.I.C. started morphing. It took the form of a large dome pack on his back with two mounted cannons that were pressed onto Reebok's shoulders and there were two rods poking out the pack with hands that Reebok held onto that had triggers on them. "Brigade Out!" Reebok shouted as he pressed the triggers.

The canons on his shoulders glowed blue within the barrel and out flying came… hummingbirds?

Flocks of robotic humming birds with blue lights illuminating from their breast flew out of the barrels of the cannons and flew ahead towards the maze of debris.

When several Swarmers started making their way out of the maze, they were met with the robotic hummingbirds, who ignited into small blue explosions of plasma upon contact, incinerating them. Granted they weren't completely incinerated, that would take a number of them, but one of them had enough energy inside them self to melt their heads off.

There were countless of these hummingbirds travelling within the maze to destroy all the Swarmers.

Everyone looked with wide shocked eyes and some with dropped jaws.

"Alex… what can that thing not do?" Jaune questioned with disbelief at what he was witnessing.

"It cannot make an expresso." Reebok answered. "Coffee and tea on the other hand-"

"You have got to be kidding me." Jaune said with slumped shoulders, sill in disbelief.

Suddenly they heard screaming making them all turn to Junior's gang to see one of his men screaming bloody murder as he was lightly constricted by a new Grimm.

The new Grimm was a large millipede, but had long blades poking out the sides and tops of its exoskeleton body that looked as thinly sharp as razors. It also possesses arthropod-like mandibles and two pairs of red glowing eyes on its Grimm mask. The creature also has a second head on the other end of itself and both heads possess a knife-like spike protruding out of their heads.

"OH GOD! HELP ME! HELP ME!" One of Junior's men screamed bloody murder as the spikes from millipede Grimm went deeper into his body.

"What Is That?!" One of Junior's men screamed in horror.

"A Milli-Shredder!" Port shouted with shock.

The Milli-Shredder gave off a screeching sound from the head facing them, then finished off the suited man by fully constricting him, leading to his spikes fully bisecting him apart.

The students stared in horror.

They… they had never seen this before.

Team CFVY has, but it's still not an easy sight to see.

This death… is a clear picture of what they signed up for to stop from happening.

Ruby was effected the most. She stared in pure shock and horror. She stared at the body with horror. His blood leaked out from both halves of his body, but they started to rise and scatter in the shape of rose petals. Ruby's breathing started to hitch from the fear and depression as she saw a pale face of a woman with hair like her own instead of the true victims face.

Someone then grabbed her by the arm making her turn to see it was Cardin's teammate, Sky.

"Come on, we're falling back." Sky said as he started leading Ruby away.

Ruby turned to see the group ordered to detain the zombified soldiers now running back to the others as a number of soldiers were detained, but some were being eaten and killed by more Milli-Shredders who were coming out from the ground.

The Milli-Shredder who had done the first kill screeched again as it charged over to Junior's group.

Junior's group was firing upon the monster, but it quickly went into the ground.

Suddenly the ground under the feet of the group cracked apart, then more Milli-Shredders popped out and attacked, killing them.

"Shit!" Junior cursed as he ran away.

"Boss, wait!" One of his men screamed, but then noticed the ground beneath his feet cracked. He looked to Junior who ran off, leaving his group. The henchman gritted his teeth with anger. "Coward." He said, before a Milli-Shredder popped out, constricting him and then returned into the ground, dragging the henchman to his screaming death.

Glynda looked around panted with worry. Milli-Shredders were surrounding them and the Swarmers were breaking through to get to then, albeit a few. Glynda gritted her teeth with rage. She focused all her aura, causing her to glow with a second coat of purple aura surrounding herself. He eyes shined purple. She gave a roar, aiming her riding crop towards a building, causing it to break apart on one side and reconstruct into a slope.

"I'm running low on humming bird bots!" Reebok shouted as more and more Swarmers were making it out of the maze and getting closer to the group.

"Everyone up here! We need to get to higher ground!" Glynda shouted, gesturing over to the slope of the building she made with her own semblance.

"What she said! Move Out!" Jaune screamed.

Everyone quickly ran up the slope to get to the top of the building.

Junior's men, or at least what's left of them, rushed over to join them.

The Grimm followed after them up the slope, but once everyone got to the top, Glynda focused her energy once more to break apart the slope and even compress it all into a ball of debris with the Grimm inside. She raised it up high and slammed it down into the ground, crushing the Grimm inside.

After that she sighed and fell upon one knee.

"Ms. Goodwitch!" Blake spoke up with worry.

Yang walked over and knelt down next to her with her hand on her back.

"Are you okay?" Yang asked with concern as her combat teacher/headmistress panted with fatigue.

"Yes. It's just been a while since I've used a technique like that. Not like I used to be." Glynda said.

"You used to do stuff better than that?" Yang asked with surprise.

Glynda sighed, smiling a bit.

"When you dedicate yourself to guiding younger minds to a stronger future, you tend to sacrifice your own progress and stability for the sake of what comes after. It's a fact of life. I have no regrets though." Glynda said looking to Yang.

Yang didn't like the sound of that, but she definitely respects Goodwitch much more now as both an educator and a huntress.

"Well you're not out yet." Yang said with a smirk.

"Uh, guys." Velvet spoke up. She was looking over the edge of the building. "Those lizard things are climbing up." Velvet said.

"Yes, Swarmers are known to be able to climb upon almost any surface. It does not surprise me." Oobleck said.

"Well there are more coming in through the holes in the ground that those bug ones made!" Velvet exclaimed pointing to the holes the Milli-Shredders made that now had Swarmers climbing out of them.

"That explains things. Swarmers are known to enjoy nesting in caves, cavern and tunnels. Especially damp, moist ones." Oobleck explained.

"Hey guys… I just realized that the airships above us aren't firing at the Grimm surrounding us!" Sky spoke up.

Jaune looked up to see they were firing into the city.

"There's something bigger." Jaune said with narrowed eyes.

"Really?! Where?!" Nora exclaimed as she ran over to the edge of the building to look over. However she noticed people still on the ground. It was Vlad and his team. "Hmm?" Nora looked down to them.

She noticed the one of them, the one with the silver hair in a long spikey ponytail (Gavrilo) ran over to a hole made by a Milli-Shredder, took out a pair of fire dust crystals and threw them into the hole, took out a pistol and fire a plasm shot inside the hole, causing the fire crystals to explode, creating a geyser of fire effect from the hole. He ran off as a Milli-Shredder crawled out and roared with pain before disintegrated.

Nora gasped.

"You guys! He just-"

"Nora, Over Here!" Jaune shouted, causing her to back away from the edge.

A Swarmer popped out from the edge and went to bite her, but Jaune quickly shot it in the head, killing it.

"They're making it to the top!" Port shouted.

"Nora!" Reebok shouted as he reached into his long coat and took out a few bottles of gasoline. "Make a ring around everyone with these!" Reebok screamed as he threw four bottles of gasoline to the Valkyrie.

"Got It!" Nora said with a salute.

"Everyone get closer together!" Reebok shouted.

Everybody did so as Nora quickly made a ring of gasoline around everyone with the four bottles, using up three and a quarter. Reebok took out some dust crystals and tossed them in various spots on the ring of gasoline. The Swarmers and even Milli-Shredders made it to the top of the building, but with quick work, changing his C.I.C. into a pair hand cannon handguns and fired at the fire crystals, setting the ring ablaze.

The Swarmers and Milli-Shredders tried to engage, but they retracted from the sense of intense heat of the fire.

Ruby looked around the ring of fire that blazed with the Grimm on the other side, having an expression of anxiety. She knew she was getting into an intense profession when she accepted her early admission into Beacon, it's still a different story to see it all for yourself. She shook her head and ready Crescent Rose for anything coming at her.

Jaune looked to her, worried about how she was handling this much intensity, but to see her toughen up, even when things turn into a vision of hell (literally the closest image), made him smile. Even at the worst of times, she found the strength to keep going and refused the idea of surrender.

"Reebok, how good are you at target practice?" Jaune asked turning to his best friend as he readied Silver Eye and Arc Gold.

"How about I show you?" Reebok rhetorically asked as he changed his hand cannons into one whole rifle.

"Get down!" Jaune shouted right before he and Reebok opened fire.

Everyone got down as both Jaune and Reebok started firing at the Grimm outside the circle of fire, nailing them in the heads. Jaune and Reebok managed to kill the coming around, but more came.

Suddenly Zwei and Saber hopped out of the ring of fire.

"Zwei!" Ruby cried out.

Zwei barked as the roars of more Grimm were heard.

Jaune hopped out of the ring of fire to find Zwei was swinging in the air as he held and iron teeth grip on a roaring Swarmer's tail, while Saber was bouncing from Grimm to Grimm in his blue ball mode, even breaking off a Milli-Shredder's head spike.

Milli-Shredders suddenly broke out of the bottom of the roof, roaring causing some of the girls to scream.

"That's It!" Jaune screamed as his eyes glowed gold and then roared as a shockwave of golden aura burst from his body and sent Grimm flying off the building and harming the Milli-Shredders that popped out from below, while at the same time dispersing the fire.

Yang roared as she fired at the stunned Milli-Shredders, with the others following her lead, killing them.

Jaune panted as he rubbed his face.

"Why didn't you do that before?" Cardin asked, looking to Jaune.

"They didn't crowd on us before like that." Jaune said. Zwei barked as he stopped next to Jaune's right foot, while Saber stopped at his left foot.

"I hate these bugs!" Weiss shouted.

"Then let's burn 'em!" Nora said with a grin. Weiss looked to her with a dull look.

"Sure~. That should be easy." Weiss said sarcastically.

"… I feel you are making fun of me." Nora said with a narrowed eyes pointing at Weiss, who sighed, shaking her head. "Seriously though, let's just put fire dust crystals inside their holes like that silver headed guy from Team Jerk did a moment ago." Nora said.

"That can work. Both species greatly dislike flames more than other Grimm. The Milli-Shredders especially." Oobleck said.

"I still got some hummingbird bots left." Reebok said as his C.I.C. re-morphed into its pack mode with handles. The back of the pack suddenly opened up to reveal five slots in the pattern of the fifth side of a dice. "Anybody got fire crystals put them in the slots except the middle." Reebok said. Jaune, Weiss and Cardin put in their fire dust ammo that they carry into the slots, with Jaune putting two in. "Nora." Reebok took out another bottle of gasoline and tossed it to Nora. "Put this in the middle slot."

"Aye, aye!" Nora gave a salute with a grin. She went over to his back, took the cap off the bottle and placed it in the middle slot.

The pack closed up and released steam as it now glowed red decal. Reebok walked over to the edge of the building, looked down and pressed the triggers on his handles, summoning his hummingbird bots out of his cannons, but now they were glowing red and tweet up a storm.

The red hummingbird bots flew down to ground level and went in the holes made by the Milli-Shredders.

After a few moments, geysers of intense fire shot out of the holes, rising as it looked like a pyro-technic show.

"Oh~~, cool." Nora said with a grin as she put on sunglasses to save her eyes from the now bright light.

"Where did you get those?" Weiss asked.

"Hey!" Coco shouted, mad that her sunglasses were taken.

The sounds of Grimm screaming, yes, screaming, in agony echoed throughout the area as the fires raged on, until they slowly faded away.

Everyone stared in awe.

"What the hell just happened?!" Cardin exclaimed.

Down below, Vlad's Team had steered clear in time and were forced to cover their eyes from the light made by the fire geysers.

"My eyes…" Vlad said as he rubbed both his eyes with his left hand to relieve himself from the pain of the bright light.

"What the hell was that?!" Gavrilo shouted.

"Smells like ignited gasoline." Edgar said.

"Can you even smell gas anymore after it's been ignited?" Gavrilo questioned.

Vlad pulled his hand away from his eyes and looked up to the heroes up on the roof. He and the others noticed the hummingbird noises earlier. They managed to see they were artificial beings used as weapons from the dark green haired one of the bunch. Vlad narrowed his eyes at Reebok.

Back up on the roof, everyone was still flabbergasted.

"Seriously, what happened?" Cardin asked, still shocked by what happened.

"Simple. I hyper powered the remaining forces of my hummingbird bots with the fire dust crystals you guys spared and had them coated in gasoline, so when the cluster made it deep down into the tunnel systems made by the Grimm they ignited causing a chain reaction that covered the majority of the system, thanks to the added bonus of gasoline to increase the fire power." Reebok explained.

"That's… that's amazing…" Weiss said with pure shock and amazement. "You have to patent these things!"

"Huh? Why?" Reebok asked.

"Why?! You can become more than a millionaire! Hell I think even more than a billionaire! You might actually become a trillionaire!" Weiss exclaimed.

"But I don't care for currency. I just like to invent." Reebok said with a shrug.

Weiss' jaw dropped. How can someone like this exist?! So much talent and yet he does not care to focus all of that to earn much deserved lien?!

"Okay, I'm with the Ice Queen here. What is with you? You can make bank, man." Russel said.

"It's called enjoying life itself man. A respectable life. Trust me." Jaune said with a soft smile.

"HELP!" They all heard a scream.

Jaune looked over the edge to see Junior running for his life from a number of Swarmers.

"Oh, looks like there are still a few Swarmers. And Junior looks to be their new meal." Jaune said. Melanie and Militia walked over to the edge next to Jaune. "Whoa. I totally didn't notice you guys were up here with us." Jaune said.

"Jerk." Melanie said.

"Hey you, smart one. Can you make a chain or claw for him to climb up here?" Miltia asked.

"Uh, yeah, I can." Reebok said as with a thought, C.I.C. turned into a large backpack with a crane poking out the top with a claw that looked reminiscent of the claw game that arcades, amusement parks and movie theaters have (That Are Cheap as Hell!).

"Wait! Why should we help him? He abandoned us. What group needs a leader who does that to his loyal men? He deserves to get chomped!" One of Junior's men spoke up with the other agreeing.

"True, but he still signs our paychecks." Melanie said.

They couldn't disagree with that.

"Yeah, true."

"Yeah, yeah."

"Okay, save him."

Reebok walked over to the edge and used his claw to reach down and grabbed Junior by the pants.

Junior was lifted up to the roof, but before he could meet the roof's surface, Melanie held a hand up, informing Reebok to let him hang in the air.

"Guys! Good work! Now, uh… how about putting me on the roof with the rest of you?" Junior said with a grin. His men narrowed their eyes at him. "Hey, hey, come on, I'm getting a wedgie here."

"We want compensation!" One of his boys spoke up.

"Yeah!" The rest shouted out with their guns raised high.

"What?!" Junior screamed.

"You abandoned us! We lost more than half the crew! We want something more if you expect us to work for you again!" Another henchman shouted.

"You dolts!" Junior shouted with rage.

"Drop him!" A henchman shouted.

Reebok looked to the twins to get a nod from Melanie. Reebok started to lower his claw device.

"Wait, wait, wait! Melanie~, Miltiades~-"

"Miltia." Miltia said, not wanting to be referred by her full first name."

"Whatever. You two wouldn't let me drop, would ya?" Junior asked with a grin.

"Of course not, Junior. So long as you provide all of us with raises and triple time." Melanie said.

"T-T-Triple Time?!" Junior sputtered.

"The boys have a point, Hei. You did abandoned us. All of us." Miltia said with narrowed eyes.

"You want to make this right? Show a little bit of your 'caring side'." Melanie said.

"Wha… but… duh…" Junior didn't know how to react.

"Better hurry. Those Swarmers are climbing up to taste a worm." Jaune said, pointing down over the edge.

And it was the sight of screeching ugly lizard Grimm climbing to get to him that led to his next few words.

"You Win!" Junior shouted.

"Come again?" Melanie as putting her hand to her ear.

"You Win!"

"One more time. I don't think Miltia heard you either." Melanie placing a hand on the shoulder of her smirking twin sister.

"You Win! You Win! You All Win!" Junior screamed.

"What do we win?" Miltia asked.

"Oh Come On!" Junior cried.

A Swarmer hopped up and went to bit Junior's legs off, but Reebok raised him higher, avoiding the bite, which caused Junior to scream.

"You Win Triple Time!" Junior screamed.

"What about our raises?!" One of the henchmen shouted.

"They're the same damn thing!" Junior screamed, but then he was lift high up again as a Swarmer almost got him, making him shriek. "Okay! Okay! You Get Raises Too! Just Help Me~!" Junior cried, even actually shedding tears.

Melanie gave Reebok a nod.

Reebok brought Junior over to the roof and released him.

Junior panted on his hands and knees. He swore another bite attempt from one of those things and he was going to crap himself.

The Malachite Twins extended their hands to him, allowing him help to get up. He took their hands and got up to his feet, only for his crotch to meet a twin knee attack.

"Consider that proof of our reconciliation." Melanie said as Junior was bent over in pain.

"Got it. Thanks." Junior said in a high pitched voice as he was bent over with his hands covering his boys while Yang's laughter and Jaune's bullet fire on the Swarmers was all he heard in the background. That and white noise.

… Ouch.

"Dude, the twins should be our bosses. They're so much cooler." One of the henchmen whispered with a smile.

"Mm hmm." Another henchman said with a nod and smile.

"Whoa… now those are women." Cardin said with a grin as he nudged Russel.

"Uh huh." Russel said with a dumb open mouth grin and nod.

Velvet looked to the two boys and rolled her eyes as she sighed.

"… Did… did I just assist with extortion?" Reebok asked with an uncomfortable expression.

Once he finished off the Swarmers, Jaune looked to the sky to see that the ships were spread out in the sky firing into other parts of the city.

"What the hell is going on out there?" Jaune asked. He looked down to see the remaining Atlesian Knights, who were spread so few, were running off deeper into the city. "Something worse it out there."

"No shit." Melanie said.

"What could be worse than being covered by all those creeps?" Cardin asked.

"Believe it or not, a lot more." Port said.

"This is not right. I may not know much about the White Fang like James, but I do know that they cannot be this thorough. This level of attack has much more thought and skill to it. I highly doubt the White Fang is behind it all, when they've mainly been known for dust embargo thefts." Oobleck said.

"You believe someone higher up is behind is?" Yatsuhashi asked.

"Without a doubt." Oobleck said with his glasses adjusted.

Glynda narrowed her eyes as one thought came to mind.

'Salem.'

"Hmm… if memory serves right… I believe there is someone who has experience with Grimm." Port said rubbing his chin.

"What? Someone has actual experience with Grimm? As in working with them?" Blake questioned.

'Peter can't be talking about Salem. He's not part of the inner circle, along with Oobleck. Who else could he mean?' Glynda wondered.

"Yes actually. There has been someone. In fact… his original home base was in Mount Glenn." Oobleck said, shocking the students.

Down below, Chary heard the sound of grinding metal.

"Look Out!" She shouted as she, Edgar and Gavrilo leaped away.

Vlad on the other hand just took out Eclipse, surrounded himself and his weapon in a good amount of aura and blocked an oncoming Atlesian Paladin-290, causing a shockwave.

"Whoa~! What?! Did you see that?!" Nora shouted, pointing down at Vlad and the now damaged Paladin.

"An Atlesian Paladin-290!" Weiss shouted. They all looked to find the mecha was severely damaged with tears, dents and scars everywhere on it.

"Whoa… it looks so… primitive." Reebok said.

"That looks primitive to you?" Coco questioned.

"Well yeah. You can tell by the design that it can be easily hacked into while the driver is still inside. I mean, come on! It's like a red flag waved in our faces!" Reebok exclaimed, gesturing to the now damaged mech.

"How… what… what in the world could do this… to such an advanced form of tech?" Weiss wondered still in shock.

"Define 'advanced'." Reebok said with half lidded eyes.

"Dude, come on. Be a little more tolerant." Jaune said, making Reebok slump a bit. Sure, he's a genius that can make Atlas' inventory look like can openers, but come on, she a little consideration.

Velvet's ears twitched.

"Wait… do you hear that?" Velvet asked, turning her head.

Everyone looked to her.

"Uh… no." Cardin answered.

"What do you hear?" Russel asked.

"It sounds like… footsteps. Large ones." Velvet said as she started to shake. "And loud growling." Velvet shook with a fear.

Now people were getting worried.

"Hey, uh… squirt." Cardin spoke up looking over to Reebok, who looked to him in response. "By any chance… are those tears in the mecha down by any chance… made by teeth? By something big and probably… familiar?" Cardin asked now getting worried.

Reebok blinked his eyes, then looked down to the mecha before his frown grew deeper.

"If I say 'no' I wonder if the universe will listen and give me a break for once today." Reebok said.

The sounds of booming footsteps came closer. Now everyone was hearing them, along with growling. Something rounded the corner of a street. Steam came out of its nose.

Everyone's eyes widened with shock and fear.

"Oh." Reebok said.

"Shit." Jaune added.

A Gigante (Carnotaurus Grimm) roared with its head back.

"OH MY GOD! IT'S THAT THING AGAIN!" Neptune screamed as he hid behind Sun.

"I… I don't believe it… an actual Gigante!" Port shouted with shock.

"So they do still exist! But scientist always believed that if they weren't extinct then they should reside in the Deadlands." Oobleck said.

"Well they've become pretty common here!" Russel shouted.

The Gigante roared and charged at Vlad.

Vlad just stared ahead with a stoic expression.

The Gigante had its mouth wide open, ready to eat him, but its eyes widened as it got close to him.

Suddenly Edgar cam and slammed his foot, covered in midnight blue aura, into the side of the Grimm's face, sending it slamming into a building.

Everyone's jaws dropped at the sight.

"Wow." Yang said with amazement and wide eyes. She looked to the side to see Melanie and Miltia. "I danced with that hunk." Yang said with a smirk, boasting to the twins, making them look to her.

"Hmm. Not bad." Vlad said, still looking at the dust cloud where the Grimm now resided, inside a now destroyed building, crumbling atop of him. "Good judgement call." Vlad said as he put Eclipse onto his back.

Edgar just remained silent looking at Vlad.

"So… is that it?" Neptune asked.

Suddenly one of Junior's henchman was bitten down up and eaten by a Gigante on the other side of the building, causing everyone to scream. All of Junior's men and Junior fired at the Grimm.

The Gigante roared as it slammed its head against the building, breaking part of the roof apart. Some of Junior's men fell, screaming, while everyone managed to back up in time. The Gigante started to feast upon the ones at the bottom, but it only managed to eat one, when it was shot in the eye, courtesy of Ruby's Crescent Rose. It roared with pain and rage.

"Oh, I don't think you should have done that." Russel said, feeling extremely anxious.

"There's Another One!" Neptune screamed pointing across the town square as one more appeared and roared, before it started charging.

Jaune knew what was going to happen next. His girlfriend just pissed one on the side of the building off and another is 'Leroy Jenkins'-ing his way over.

This won't be good.

"Brace Yourselves!" Jaune screamed.

The two Gigantes head-butted the remainder of the roof, causing everyone to scream as they went flying.

Glynda groaned with pain, but suddenly she got pissed.

Her eyes widened with anger as her eyes glowed pure purple with her body completely surrounded by glowing bright purple aura. Glynda screamed as the buildings around them and the streets broke apart instantly and shatter. Even the ground beneath the feet of the Gigantes broke and shattered apart, causing them to slip and fall. The debris came together under her and the group and formed into a large platform under all of them, safely catching them. She manipulated the platform to lower everyone to safety, and once the deed was done, she and her eyes stopped glowing.

"Whoa~… That Was Awesome!" Nora cheered with a grin.

"Yeah. I never knew you had it in you Miss Goodwitch." Yang said with a smile, but then she noticed Glynda on the floor panting and sweating. "Ms. Goodwitch?!" Yang hurried over, knelt down next to her and picked her up a bit as the headmistress continued to pant as her whole face was drenched.

"She pushed herself to her current limit." Oobleck said.

"I remember back in the day that a technique like that would not have winded her so easily." Port said. "However she has been stretching muscles today that she hasn't used in quite some time. Over a decade if I remember correctly."

Yang looked to Port with shocked wide eyes, then looked back to Glynda who continued to pant.

"And yet she still managed to pull it off. Miss Goodwitch… you're a true badass." Yang whispered.

Glynda softly smiled at this. Despite how tired she was, she was happy to hear such words, and from Yang of all people. That means a lot to her.

The Gigantes stomped their way over.

Cardin growled with rage as he packed a fire and lightning crystal into his mace's slots.

"I'm Tired Of You!" Cardin screamed as he rose up and aimed his mace at the closer of the two Gigantes. A fireball similar to a Sun with lightning coursing around and through it formed at the tip of the mace and then was fired at the closer Gigante, causing it to roar in pain as its face started to melt.

It gave one last roar as it fought the pain, but a blue beam with mist of ice surrounding it froze its head, surprising the other Gigante, seeing its comrade's head be frozen in a block of ice, before it was then shatter by two concentrated blasts of energy.

The remaining Gigante looked to the humans to see Reebok, now with C.I.C. being a freeze cannon looking like a cross between a mini-gun and laser beam, and Jaune with Silver Eye and Arc Gold aimed at him.

Both huntsmen-in-training narrowing their eyes at the Grimm.

The Gigante blinked its eyes, before it turned tail and ran off to cross the town square.

"Whoa… did you two just scare a Grimm of that size?" Coco asked with shock as she and the others were stunned and amazed by the fact that not only was a Grimm running in fear, especially a fucking dinosaur Grimm! But that it was scared away by a person who was a dorky weakling months ago and a total nerd who pretty much is a hermit scientist.

"Gigantes may be considered extinct Grimm, but they still use their heads more than the common Grimm we're all used to. In more ways than one too." Reebok said turning to the others. However when he did, he turned pale with a horrified expression on his face. "Uh… uh, uh, uh… uh… J-J-J… Jaune…" Reebok was shaking like a leaf, earning his best friend's attention. Reebok pointed to something behind the rest of the group.

Everyone looked to see a seven foot tall large, muscular, bulky Grimm walking over to them casually, but had bloodlust in its eyes. White plates for abs and pectorals, white short spikes on the back of its forearms, four fingered claws and three toed claw-like feet, hind legs and a white Grimm mask that covered the top of its head with three red slit eyes and three horns spiked back.

"Jaune… it's that thing." Ren said with shock and fear evident in his expression and voice.

"A Hunter." Jaune said with a worried expression.

"Hunter? You mean that's the thing that found the both of you and destroyed the cliff you were on?" Blake asked with new shock and worry.

"Huh… so that's it?" Nora questioned with a raised eyebrow. "I imagined it being bigger." Time seemed to slow down as faster than the eye could see, the Hunter was behind Nora with its claw ready to strike her from behind.

However, it was bisected in half thanks to Jaune, who quickly surrounded himself in his semblance to increase his speed and mind process in time to save Nora.

Nora looked behind herself with wide eyes to see the Hunter in two and turning to ash that went with the wind.

"Nora!" Ren ran over and hugged Nora. He was so scared. He almost lost her.

"I… I didn't even see it move." Nora said, still immensely shocked by what happened.

"Then you won't be able to see them move either." Reebok said pointing to the same spot where the Hunter was.

Everyone turned only to all turn fearful as they saw a small, but decent amount of humanoid Grimm walking down the streets in a calm manner.

They comprised of Hunters, but also two other Grimm species.

Razors, which are large, muscular Grimm with long spikes poking out the back of their wrists, which ranged from long, thick single ones, thinner twin thick long spikes and ever thinner trio of spikes (reminiscent of Wolverine). They had spikes poking out of various places on their bodies, like elbows, forearms, their backs and even out the heels of their three toed feet, and their looks were complete with Grimm masks that cover the top half of their heads with two spikes coming off the back of them and sharp teeth.

Finally Razor Thins, which looked just like the Razors, but with a much more slim build, comparable to a swimmer's body. They also didn't have as many spikes poking out of them around their body like their thicker counterparts, but still had spikes poking out of a few of these body part and some even only had a sole spike coming off the back of their heads.

"H-Hunter… Razors and Razor Thins!" Reebok exclaimed.

"Oh my." Oobleck said.

"Retreat." Jaune ordered.

Everyone listened and quickly made their way to the town square, with Yang carrying an exhausted Glynda bridal style in her arms. The sounds of booming was heard. Everyone looked around to find more Gigantes walking over into town square, a few of them roaring.

"How many of these things are there?!" Russel shouted.

Suddenly large tentacles erupted from the ground across from the group, who skidded to a halt.

"What now?!" Ruby screamed.

"Kraken!" Reebok screamed.

"Oh come on! What's next?!" Weiss yelled with annoyance.

Neptune screamed in a high pitched voice as he pointed ahead.

Across the other end of the town square, far behind the tentacles were Insectators, rushing over with their massive arms and roared aggressively.

Russel became stiff as a board as his eyes were widened greatly.

"We're dead." Russel said.

"Aren't those the things that don't stop attacking no matter what?" Yang asked.

"Insectators. Sadly, yes." Jaune said.

"Oh shit." Yang said.

"Huddle up, close together! Back to back!" Port ordered.

Everyone listened, except Jaune, with their weapons ready as they formed a ring.

Junior's group did the same thing, but with their own ring of people.

The Grimm were surrounding them.

Jaune looked up to the sky to see any Atlesian ships.

"Well… fuck." Jaune said gesturing to the sky.

The group looked up to see Griffons flying in the sky, attacking the ships, even effectively taking some down, seeing as there were clusterfucks of them.

"This is so not good." Coco said.

"So what do we do now?" Yatsuhashi asked.

"Fight. Until your last breath." Port said.

"That sounds… pretty morbid." Velvet said.

"I know. I will not lie. Things are not looking well for us." Port said.

"We are completely surrounded by rank B and rank A Grimm. Our chances are indeed bleak." Oobleck said pushing up his glasses.

"… So… are you saying this might be it?" Velvet asked shaking like a leaf with her ears slumped.

"Don't let them get to you." Jaune said stabbing Excalibur into the ground, causing the others to look to him to see his back to them. "I won't lie. This might be our last stand, but do not show them that they are getting to you. Put on your brave face and if you fall, do it staying strong. They may tear us down, but show no fear or they will truly win. These things may have strength and bloodlust, but they can never comprehend or come close to having a strong spirit like us." Jaune then turned his head to them with a serious expression. "So toughen up… because I for one am not giving these things the satisfaction."

A Razor appeared in front of him, but as it sent a slash down at Jaune, the blonde brought up his hand, countering the attack by pushing the attack up with the back of his hand and then with a roar, Jaune used his other hand to punch the Razor in the gut so hard, its eyes bulged as it screeched in pain. The Razor fell to the side as it started turning into ash.

Jaune grabbed the hilt of his sword, shot forward and roared as he rocketed to a Gigante, slashed at its legs, causing it to roar in pain as it fell to the ground. Jaune hopped into the air with Excalibur risen up high and with a battle cry he stabbed his longsword into the skull of the Gigante, ending its life.

Reebok followed Jaune's lead and transformed C.I.C. into a giant pair of robotic arms with blue lenses on its palms. He turned to a Gigante who was rushing over to them all. Reebok rushed over with a battle cry, using his giant robot arms as legs to rush on, and when he got close he sent a flying uppercut to the chin of the Gigante, sending it flying up in the air while the dark green haired genius screaming from intensity of the situation.

Junior's men screamed as they started shooting at all the Grimm surrounding the area.

A number of Griffons start to descend to attack.

Cardin looked up, nudged Russel, gesturing to the sky filled with Griffons.

Russel opened up his vest to reveal his lanky body and numerous dust vials in little pocket within his vest. He put in lightning dust vials into his daggers, charging them with a static force surrounding them. Russel yelled as he threw his daggers into the air at the Griffons, striking a few of them, before they went back to Russel boomerang style.

Cardin packed in two lightning dust crystals into his mace and once the Griffons got to a close enough range, Cardin held a certain trigger on his mace as then a stream of lightning shot into the air, striking Griffons, paralyzing them and killing them as they hit the ground. Cardin laughed with a prideful grin.

Hunters, Razors and Razor Thins charged forward at the group.

Oobleck quickly moved forward to them, aimed his flamethrower thermos at them, but pressed a special button on his weapon as then a special sound which sounded like a combination between a train whistle and pan flute came out of the hole of his weapon that was then aimed over a number of Hunters, Razors and Razor Thins. The Grimm caught in range of the sound stopped as they heard Oobleck whispering something.

"Now." Oobleck finished his whispers and snapped his fingers.

The Grimm caught in range of the sound turned and roared as they charged over to their comrades and started attacking them.

"Hmph. It does not matter what it's directed at, Grimm will always have the lust to kill no matter what. So dangerous and yet so simple." Oobleck said.

Port roared as he now played a game of chicken with a Gigante. After dodging a bite from the Grimm, via roll, Port gave a mighty battle cry as he sent aura to his legs and rocketed up, using his axe/blunderbuss to slice off the head of the Gigante with ease.

Once Port landed on the ground, he noticed another Gigante charging at him and was now in point blank range with its mouth wide open. Port, being the experience huntsman that he was, easily moved to the side, dodging the massive bit easily, and then slammed his fist into the eye of the Gigante, causing it to explode upon contact.

The Gigante screeched with pain as it pulled its head back, but Port hopped into the air with his fist revved back and gave a roar as he dived down and slammed his fist into the top of the Gigante's skull, crushing it as the Grimm immediately turned to ash.

"Hmph. Not so tough for something that likes to use its head a lot of the time." Port said with a proud smile and fist to his hip.

His fighting instinct kicked it as he managed to slide away in time to avoid a slash from a razor. Peter noticed that some of the hair of his moustache had been cut off. He watched the follicles descend to the ground and a very slow motion, as if time itself was slowing down to emphasis the importance of this tragedy. Port stared down at the hair strands that were once connected to his mighty moustache; all the while he was being surrounded by Hunters, Razors and Razor Thins.

"Did you just injure my facial hair?" Port asked.

The Razor that attack him readied its arm back for another slash, but it was suddenly delivered an uppercut faster than the eye could see, causing it to ascend off its feet, before a numerous amount of attacks faster than the eye could see was struck all over its body, before its head was crushed into oblivion, exploding once the final hits were laid.

The Grimm surrounding Port watched with wide eyes as they watched their comrade fall to the floor, dead and dissolving into ash.

Port's fists were steaming as his axe/blunderbuss was reattached to his belt.

"So that is how you wish to act. So be it. Know that now I will show no mercy!" Port shouted as he grabbed his jacket and with a mighty roar he ripped the jacket apart, showing off that he actually had a well chiseled body, but still had a bit of a gut, but with some of the most impressive abs you'll ever see.

The Grimm around him blinked their eyes.

One Razor turned to Hunter and roared a bit to it, with the Hunter responding with a small roar of its own and shrug.

Suddenly Port's fist drilled into the gut of the Razor as it was then sent flying into another Razor, then Port slammed a side kick into the gut of the Hunter it communicated to, sending it flying.

A Razor charged over and sent a slash, but Port sidestepped the attack and sent a hook to the Razor's elbow, causing its arm to bend the wrong way, but before it could scream, Port sent an uppercut to its jaw, grabbed it by the side of its head and sent its head slamming into his rising knee, breaking apart its mask and bones underneath.

A pair of Razor Thins came at him with a pincer attack, but Port somersaulted back, dodging the deadly slashes and once he landed on his feet he gave a battle cry and rocketed forward, delivering two crosses at the faces of the Razor Thins, sending them flying back.

A Hunter rushed over and sent a slash with its claws.

Port managed to duck under the attack and send an uppercut, but the Hunter blocked the attack with the palm of its other claw. Although the impact was still strong enough to push it back a step, allow Port an opportunity to hop back to get some distance.

The Hunter growled with narrowed eyes, while Port tightened his fist, but delivered a back kick to a Razor trying to jump him from behind.

The Hunter roared as it charged forward and sent slashed and punches, but Port showed off skills of a professional pugilist by bobbing and weaving around the attacks.

Port sent a rising palm up, sending the Hunter's right arms, then sent a right jab, but the Hunter used it left arm to block the attack, with a cracking noise heard after.

The Hunter fired a rock that it had kept in its mouth at Port.

Port managed to dodge at the last millisecond, only earning a graze across the right side of his head.

The Hunter took the chance to send a slash with its right arm back at Port, but Port luckily retracted his left arm back on guard, saving him from major injury and only earning claw marks on his forearm as he skidded back a bit.

"Ha! Tis only but flesh wounds!" Port shouted as his wounds began to heal thanks to his aura.

A Razor Thin rushed over to him, remaining low as it ran and went for a rising dual slash, but Port slammed his hand atop of its head, slamming it hard into the ground, cracking it apart, then brought the Grimm up, flipped it in the air and delivered a kick that sent the Razor Thin flying into a Razor, which led to them flying away.

"Let's see if you've got the skills to actually do real damage." Port said with a smirk under his manly moustache as he returned back into his boxer stance.

The Hunter rushed forward, but Port burst forward and went for a punch, but it was a feint as he actually quickly performed a sweep kick on the unsuspecting Hunter, and once it's back touched the ground, Port grabbed it by the legs.

"Do You Think I Would Not Be A Step Ahead and Anticipate Your Plan of Attack!" Port yelled as apparently all the remaining Hunters, Razors and Razor Thins jumped him to finish him off. In other words the Hunter he was facing was just a red herring, but he would not be fool by what he considers such a simple trick. "Tally-Ho!" Port cheered as he started spinning in places, performing a classic wrestling technique with the Hunter in his grasp, slamming into its comrades, sending them flying. With a roar, Port released his hold and sent the Hunter flying straight through the head of a Gigante, effectively killing the larger Grimm before the Hunter slammed into a building and immediately turning to ash upon impact.

Port cracked his knuckles, but sensed more Grimm, a Hunter, five Razors and two Razor Thins coming his way.

Stroking his moustache, Port chuckled with his back turned to the charging Grimm. A Razor leaped at him, but Port was faster as he turned and delivered a devastating punch to its abdomen, then delivered a knee straight into the now broken jaw of another Razor, a punch into the face of another, a flying ball kick to another's face, a two fisted slam atop the last Razor and finished by grabbing the heads of the pair of Razor Thins, quickly sent aura to his arms as he developed enough strength to lift himself off the ground before he could be slashed apart by the pair of Razor Thins' claws, balanced atop their heads for a sec before crushing them within his bare hands and landing gracefully on his feet.

Port dusted his shoulders of imaginary dust as now only a Hunter was in front of him.

Port chuckled with a smile as his moustache twitched. Suddenly Port roared with his eyes wide, with the Hunter mimicking his actions, then the two shot forward at one another with their fists cocked back. Port roared as he and the Hunter sent their punches, but Port was faster thanks to using his aura on his arm as he slammed his fist right through the stomach of the Hunter while dodging its punch at the same time.

The Hunter's eyes were wide as it started to dissolve.

Once it was gone, Port pulled his fist back and dusted it off.

Now with all enemies that once surrounded him dead, he pressed his fists against his hips feeling triumphant.

"Respect the moustache." Port said with a proud smile.

He quickly rushed over to find more action.

From afar, Blake and Yang, who now was kneeling in front of Glynda, who she put down gently onto the floor, stared with bulging eyes as they were in pure disbelief at what just happened.

"… Okay… I don't know whether to be amazed by all that or disgusted at seeing our teacher shirtless." Yang said.

Roars caught their attention, making them turn to see Insectators coming their way.

Yang growled as she got to her feet and started firing at them beasts, with Blake providing support fire.

A tentacle suddenly broke out from the ground, shocking the two girls.

Yang quickly grabbed Glynda as she and Blake hopped away in time. However when they did, an Insectator tackled Yang to the ground. Yang groaned as she looked up only to gasp when she saw the Insectator rush over at Glynda.

"NO!" Yang screamed as she burst with her semblance. She shot forward, grabbed the Grimm by its tiny hind legs and lifted it over her head before slamming it into the ground, but that wasn't enough for her. She got atop of the creature, grabbed both of its jaws and with one swift motion, ripped its jaws apart.

Blake stared with shock. She could not believe Yang could become so bloodthirsty.

… It pretty much unnerved her.

Blake noticed more Insectators coming at Glynda.

"STAY AWAY!" Yang screamed as she rushed over and started going ballistic on the horde of Grimm.

Blake watched with shock at the brutal massacre Yang was committing on the Insectators, but her hidden cat ears twitched as she heard booming footsteps coming closer. How she can hear this throughout all the chaos is anyone's guess other than she's just that good. Blake looked to see a Gigante rushing over at Glynda.

Blake quickly sprinted to Glynda, grasped her into a bridal carry and managed to dodge the bite of the Gigante by the skin of her teeth, and managed to leave a clone of ice that once bitten into, froze the Gigante's mouth shut.

Once Yang finished the Insectators, she turned to see a Gigante with its mouth frozen and Glynda in Blake's arms, which could only mean one thing…

Now Yang Smash!

With a battle cry, Yang shot towards the Gigante with her whole being covered in fiery golden aura and fist cocked back. Yang delivered a devastating punch straight into the right leg of the Gigante, breaking it right clean off, leaving the Gigante to fall to the ground with only one leg and not two to support it.

Good job that did.

Yang hopped up and delivered a diving stomp atop of the Gigante, crushing it a bit, but not enough to obliterate it. Yang shot her head and fists up into the air as she roared, like an amazon who overcame an epic challenge against an apex predator.

Blake just continued to stare at her partner and best friend with wide eyes as she was completely stunned. She didn't even noticed that Sun walked up next to her.

"Wow… I knew Xiao Long can get intense, but… damn." Sun said.

"What a woman." Neptune said breathlessly with wide eyes.

Sun looked to Blake, who still was carrying Goodwitch in her arms. Sun clapped his hands together as he created a pair of his light clones. Sun placed a hand on Blake's shoulder, causing her to flinch and turn to him.

"We can handle looking over Goodwitch. You help out the others." Sun said with a supportive smile, while Neptune behind him gave a thumbs up. The three heard Yang roar, causing them to look to see her rushing over at another Gigante, getting under its underbelly and then sent a rocketing uppercut to its… well who knew a Grimm's eyes could get that wide, as it was sent flying straight into the air and over to the other side of a building. "And~ try and calm down Xiao Long before she can't tell what's an enemy and what's an ally." Sun said.

"Okay." Blake said with nod, before handing the unconscious Glynda over to Sun's arms. Blake rushed over towards Yang to hopefully calm her down before anything between her killing a friend by accident through her rampage and running out of gas too soon.

Vlad and his team, along with Cinder and her faction, watched from an alleyway to see the battle going on.

"For a bunch of rookies they aren't doing half bad." Cinder admitted. "Then again, they do have a pair of veteran huntsman with them. Oh, and of course a time travelling one."

"Gigantes aren't really much so long as you know to go for their legs. They learned from that, but they are making sure to stay clear of the humanoid ones as best as they can, while still on guard in case one comes at them." Vlad said.

"How come they just don't attack the smaller prey?" Gavrilo asked.

"Grimm like those three species search to destroy the most powerful of the bunch. Normally they would attack the most vulnerable in the bunch, but usually when there is one that far exceeds the rest, then they'd rather take them out first before the rest. That is why they are attacking the two conscious teachers first instead of going for the fodder. It's an action based on logic and pride. Although there are also theories that they are attracted to those who release certain dominant pheromones." Edgar explained.

"Or they're either compensating for something." Emerald said.

"A possibility if only they did not produce asexually." Edgar said with his arms crossed.

"Are there any Grimm that get down to dirty business with others?" Mercury asked.

"A few." Edgar said.

Vlad pressed his finger against a listening device in his left ear.

"Roger." Vlad said, before turning to his group. "Atlesian forces are coming by. Let's take to the roofs." Vlad said.

"I hope there are more of your little tools to come." Cinder said with a smirk.

The group turned to go deeper into the alley, but after a few steps, Cinder brought up a hand and grabbed something invisible and burned it, causing something to screech in pain.

Falling from the wall was a now visible Furcifer. Suddenly more Furcifers appeared in the alley way, ready to attack the group, but once Vlad stepped forward, they took steps back out of fear and respect.

The one that had its tongue burned by Cinder wanted some payback, so it rushed around to get to her, but Vlad suddenly wrapped an arm around Cinder's waist, causing the chameleon Grimm to cease. The Furcifer gave a confused hiss.

Vlad suddenly grasped Cinder's cheek and kissed her, shocking everyone, especially Cinder.

Emerald stared with her jaw dropped.

Once Vlad pulled back from a very surprised Cinder, he looked to the Furcifer, causing it to scrunch up in fear before running off out of the alley. Vlad looked to the other Furcifers, causing them to shake with fear as they all scaled the walls and turned invisible.

Vlad released is hold on Cinder.

"What was that?" Mercury asked.

"Convincing." Vlad said as he walked forward.

Cinder blinked her eyes as her face returned to a normal stoic expression.

"Hmm." Cinder said, sort of, before following.

"This… is the greatest… day… ever." Mercury said with a grin, while Emerald shook with rage and her convertible revolver-sickles tight in hand.

Back in town square, the students were started to get tired.

"Why Are There So Many?!" Sun screamed as he kept on firing with Jingu Bang as he had Glynda draped onto his shoulder.

Reebok screamed as he fired plasma shots from his giant robot hands at incoming Grimm of Gigantes, Insectators and even Razors. He failed to notice a Razor Thin managing to get behind him, hopping over, ready to slash him apart with a dual slash strike, but it was suddenly cut in half by a sword. Reebok sensed the sensation of force behind him, making him turn to see a Razor Thin dissolving as a familiar sword came back towards its user.

"I'm combat ready!" Penny exclaimed with a smile and salute. More of her swords ejected from her back and went after surrounding Grimm as she made her way over to Reebok.

"Penny! My Hero!" Reebok cheered with a big smile, causing Penny to blush. "Hmm? Is something wrong with your body's temperature?" Reebok asked with surprised eyes.

"No. I'm just blushing. Isn't it exciting?" Penny said with a bright smile.

"A blush… I… I made you blush?" Reebok questioned with shock.

"Hey Love Birds." A voice spoke as then a Gigante was sliced in half. Skidding against the ground was none other than Qrow. "Attention on the fights around you." Qrow said as with the snap of his fingers, the two halves of the Gigante he killed fell to the ground and stated to dissolve.

"Uncle Qrow!" Ruby cheered as she rushed over and hugged her uncle. "I'm so happy you're here! Where have you been?!" Ruby exclaimed.

"I was just bringing the cavalry." Qrow said as he pointed up to the sky.

In came more bullheads from Beacon.

"Back up." Ren said.

"Finally!" Nora exclaimed. Suddenly a Gigante stomped over to them, causing them to tighten up their stances as it roared at them. "I Call Its Legs!" Nora screamed ready to run forward.

"Nora, Wait!" Ren shouted, but Nora rushed forward with Magnhild reared back ready to attack, but the Gigante was ready to bite down on her. Ren's heart stopped, but his body moved on its own as he rushed over to stop Nora from getting eaten.

However, something rushed over and slammed into the right leg of the Gigante, causing it to stumble and moan with pain as it raised its leg a bit, but this moment provided Nora enough time to go in and completely wreck its remaining leg, causing it to fall onto its side.

Ren roared as he turned and rushed over to the down dinosaur Grimm and slit its throat with dual slashes from his StormFlower.

"See? Told you I can handle it." Nora said with a proud smile.

"Please don't do that again! You only managed to survive because you got help from… Liversnap?"

"Liversnap?" Nora questioned as she turned her head to see her pet Ursa, still disguised as a bear, shaking his head as he was on his bum; no doubt dizzy from head-butting the large Grimm's ankle. "Liversnap!" Nora exclaimed with shining eyes. Liversnap gave a cute roar as he got to his feet. Nora rushed over and hugged her pet. "Oh~… bad Grimm! I told you not to follow me." Nora said pulling back a bit with her finger up, but one lick to the face from Liversnap and any annoyance was immediately melted away by love. "Aw~, I can't stay mad at you, my little steed." Nora said with a smile as she hugged her pet tighter.

"Hmm. Looks like he has taken more after you than expected." Ren said as he raised his right StormFlower and fired at a charging Insectator, nailing it through the head; killing it.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Nora questioned. Liversnap roared as a few Insectators came their way. Nora looked to her pet only to notice something making her gasp. "Liversnap! You have a saddle!" Nora cheered with a grin, looking to her pet's new saddle that looked technological with a leather seat for her to sit upon being successfully wrapped around Liversnap's entire torso. "Whee~!" Nora flipped into the air and landed on the leather seat of the saddle. "Let's break more things Liversnap!" Nora exclaimed with an edgy toothy grin and pointing Magnhild ahead.

Liversnap bucked, rising to his hind legs as he gave a roar as a battle cry before charging forward into danger as he and his master attacked with no mercy t any Grimm.

Ren stared at the pair for a few moment. He suddenly sensed a disturbance. Quickly he slid to the side in time to avoid something that grazed his cheek… and it was slimy! Ren fired at whatever was behind him, nailing something. To his surprise it was a chameleon Grimm. Furcifer he believed was the name. The situation had gotten worse when more appeared next to their fallen comrade and let out hisses and screeches, wanting vengeance.

"Oh boy." Ren said with wide eyes.

A bit away, Jaune extended his hand and shot a spirit lance into the head of a Razor. Jaune was panting a bit as his heart was racing, but he wasn't really tired. Far from it.

Yatsuhashi parried a Razor's slash attack, then went for a downward slash. The Razor jumped back, but as the blade struck the ground, a shockwave formed a crater that sent the Razor flying. Yatsuhashi was panting a bit, feeling tired. He had never faced this many Grimm before, and ones so powerful.

Suddenly he felt immense pain behind his leg, across his biceps and wrists and one across his throat. He fell to his knees as he held his throat. His voice was hoarse as his hand hit the ground. He felt great pain.

Jaune managed to look his way as his eyes widened with horror. Surrounding Yatsuhashi were three Razor Thins, hovering over him as if he were a wounded deer. Jaune's heart stop as all he saw was red with the four figures being black, but with the down one having ooze coming out of its torso.

One of the Razor Thins raised its arm high, ready to end their target.

Jaune was frozen with fear.

Before his body could finally move, the Razor Thin about to attack was shot dead by Coco.

The other two hurried off to avoid being shot to death by Coco as Fox hurried over to help Yatsuhashi.

Jaune's legs shook as he fell to his knees.

'Goddammit! I didn't move… again!' Jaune thought with gritting teeth as he held his head with his hand.

Bullheads hovered over the town square with the hatches starting to open. Hearing the sound, Jaune looked to the sky to find new students joining the fray.

Jaune raised an eyebrow as he got to his feet.

Suddenly someone jumped out. A person with a hooded long coat jacket jumped out with their hand raised up and glowing baby blue. A group of Hunters, Razors and Razor Thins were below along with two Gigantes and once the person met the ground, they slammed their baby blue glowing hand onto the ground, causing a baby blue shockwave to pulse throughout the ground as the Grimm were suddenly levitated up off the ground and floating in mid-air.

Another person hopped out as several saw blades shot out from their garments and went all around the area in the air, slicing up the Grimm around them into pieces before the blades retracted back to the person, who was now floating off the ground.

The first person was as tall as Jaune with a dark grey hooded long coat with silver lining, an armored high collared vest, baggy grey pants with long knee high steel toed boots. On their hands were silver gauntlets that baby blue lenses at the palms. With the hood over the person's head you could barely make out their face, but up close you could see that they had a lean face with light blue eyes and a light violet asymmetrical pixie cut hairstyle that was shaped to hug the head closely.

The other one was a female with long platinum blonde hair with bangs covering her forehead, grass green eyes. She wore a grass green overalls dress with the dress part being puffy, a white puffy blouse, black bangles, but the most interesting parts of her outfit were her footwear and hat was connected onto her dress. A pair of long heel boots that stopped at her thighs, but they were mechanical, technological boots that were rackley color with sky blue lines on the front going vertically down the heel and ones at the bottom of heels. All around her puffy dress were saw blades connected to it, one on each of her shoulders, one on the backs of her hands and one on her chest.

Jaune blinked his eyes.

'Who are these two?' Jaune thought. He heard bullets firing, making him turn to see Ren running firing at a few Furcifers chasing him. Jaune readied Silver Eye and Arc Gold, but a long, thick sewing needle sped pass his head and charged forward at the Grimm, going right through its head, killing it.

Jaune turned to see a tall person with combed back hair bronze hair that had two strands poking off the border and hanged over the outer sides of the forehead, and he had smoked brown eyes. He wore a red long coat that stopped behind his knees and had gold lining along with five gold rings wrapped around the forearms, with long, thick sewing needles stabbed through the coat along the waist side, a plain white shirt, long black pants and pointed black boots; he also had a leather strap wrapped diagonally around his torso and a black leather belt around his waist, both acting as holsters for more long thick sewing needles. In their hands was a flute.

The person liked their lips before playing on his flute as then a few needles left his person and charged at the Furcifers.

The needles flew around and curved around the Grimm, going through their bodies like super bullets, slaughtering them in less than five seconds.

Jaune and Ren watched with wide eyes and gaped mouths as the needles returned to the flute player's person.

"Nice work, Kurt." The hooded person said, earning a whistle response from the flute player.

Another person, a male with hazelnut skin, landed next to the floating blonde. He had black long hair that was tied in a ponytail, blue eyes and thins lips. He wore a royal blue kurta tunic with a white floral design over the left pectoral, loose yellow pants (Hindu pants), black leather jutti as footwear, bead bracelets wrapped around the wrists and a pair wrapped around each of his biceps and he had a necklace of made of flowers with most being white, but had three hot pink flowers with one in the middle of the chest and the other two under the collar bone on the right side and other on the left. He had a silver quiver on his back that held numerous arrows and possessed a silver composite bow in hand.

"Looks like a war zone." The hazelnut skinned teen said.

"Not even close." The hooded person said. "Move out." The person said with a hand gesture as the four then rushed off to help others.

"Who are they?" Ren asked, looking to Jaune.

"Ren… I have no freakin' idea." Jaune said, clueless on who these people are.

Weiss was doing her best to defend, but she was getting surrounded. She was suddenly slashed all around her body by a Razor Thin then the Grimm head-butted her, sending her to the floor.

"Weiss!" Ruby screamed, before rushing over.

The Razor Thin raised both its arms and gave a menacing scream, but a long, thick needle went through his head, instantly killing him. The Razor Thin fell to the side, turning to ash as Ruby made it to Weiss.

Surrounding Grimm were surprised and confused. They heard a whistle making them turn to see a smirking brunette, licking his lips with his flute in hand.

The brunette played a song as other long, thick needles came off his person and started floating. The Grimm blinked their eyes with surprise by what is happening. Suddenly, with the sound of a tune, a Razor had its head pierced by another needle, faster than the eye could see, shocking the rest, before they were all suddenly attacked and killed efficiently by the rest of the needles. They tried to fight back, but the needles were faster.

Once the short song came to an end, all the Grimm, which consisted of Razors and Hunters, even a Razor Thin or two, fell to the ground dead and turned to ash.

Once it was done, he winked to a shocked Ruby, before turning on his heel to face a charged Razor who sent a stab at him at point blank range, but he moved his head to the side before playing on his flute again as a needle went right through the Grimm's skull, killing it in an instant, before passing it by as it fell to the floor and disintegrated.

Ruby stared with wide eyes.

"Wo~w." Ruby said with sparkling eyes.

"No way…" Ruby turned to see Reebok, still with giant robot arms, stared at the retreating person with wide eyes. "That… that was…" Reebok suddenly squealed with excitement as his eyes and mouth, now an open mouth grin, widened and sparkled with wonder.

"Uh, Reebok, a little help." Ruby said.

"Oh! Right!" Reebok scurried over and changed C.I.C. into a jetpack. "I got just the thing! Luckily Jaune had enough energy to spare." Reebok said as he took out an ebi-pen looking device.

"Spare?" Ruby asked. Reebok pressed the ebi-pen into Weiss' neck and injected something.

"Did you see that?! Do you know who that was?!" Reebok exclaimed with a look of pure excitement.

"No, but I love his weapon!" Ruby exclaimed.

"That guy who saved you and Weiss is Kurt Hamelin! The Piper!" Reebok exclaimed.

"Huh?" Weiss started coming to.

Ruby gasped with a huge grin.

"… I have no idea who that is!" Ruby said back.

"Who is?" Weiss asked grabbing her head.

"Weiss!" Ruby cheered hugging her best friend/partner.

"He's a third year at Beacon! He's part of Team RKLY!" Reebok exclaimed with a grin.

"What?! Team RKLY?! They're Here?!" Weiss questioned with shock. The playing of a flute made her turn to see the person known as Kurt, playing on his flute which caused his needles to soar towards other Grimm more Razors and Razor Thins. "No way." Weiss said wit amazement.

"I know, right?" Reebok said with amazement.

"Yeah. He weaponized his flute to send out specific frequencies to his needles that have a sensitivity to sound that makes them fly in different ways depending on the tunes played!" Ruby exclaimed with amazement.

"I know, right?" Reebok said with amazement.

"Hey! What are you kids doing?!" Qrow shouted making the three flinch. "This is an invasion! Get your asses in gear!" Qrow shouted, before slicing off a Hunter's head.

"Yes Sir!" The three exclaimed with a salute and weapons in hands before rushing off to continue fighting.

"First years, am I right?" Port said as he grabbed the jaws of a Hunter and ripped it apart with his bare hands! Bare Hands, Damn You!

"Yep. Too green." Qrow said with a smirk, before turning into a crow, flying away in time to avoid getting eaten by a Gigante. Qrow flew up above the Grimm's head, dived down as he transformed and with a roar, sliced the Gigante's head off in one easy swing. Qrow grinned as he landed upon the ground.

A bit away, Yang panted as her sweat was turning to steam.

"Yang, how are you doing?" Blake asked.

"So angry… so angry… need a steak." Yang said, panting.

'She's running on emotion alone. I don't think her body can last longer.' Blake thought with worry.

A Gigante stomped in front of them. Blake and Yang got into their fighting stances and got ready to take it on. The Gigante roared as it charged at them, but as it got close, it was hit by a pulse of energy, causing it to fly off its feet to the side, but as it did, it was slowly moving in midair, almost to a crawl. The Gigante was confused looking around with confusion.

It wasn't the only one.

Blake and Yang were confused as hell on what is the ever living damn is happening?

The hooded person walked over, raised their arms and with one swift motion, brought their arms down as the Gigante slammed into the ground, breaking it apart. The Gigante cried as it was feeling pain! Crushing pain.

The right hand of the gauntlets the hooded person wore glowed brighter, as then side of the Gigante's torso deepened, collapsing into itself.

The Gigante cried with pain, until a sickening crack was heard and then followed by silence. Its head fell to the ground as it was disappearing into ash.

Blake and Yang stared in shock.

"Whoa." Was all Yang could say.

"Regroup with your team. You'll last longer that way." The person said walking away.

"No man tells me what to do." Yang said with narrowed eyes.

"I'm a woman." The hooded person said.

"Oh… alright." Yang said with wide eyes as she felt embarrassed. The sound of what sounded like a stampede was heard making Blake and Yang turn to see a flock of dinosaur bird-like Grimm rushing over into with some screeching. "Oh, what now?!" Yang shouted.

"Harbingers." The hooded woman said as she took out a sphere with a blue button on it from her coat, pressed the blue button and threw it at a high speed at the flock. The sphere expanded and exploded with a blue pulse as the Harbingers now were pushed off their feet and were floating in midair. "Lucia!" The hooded girl called out.

"Right!" The floating blonde from earlier called out as she flew towards the flock of Harbingers with saw blades coming off her clothes and once meeting them, sliced them apart faster than five seconds.

"Wha… whoa…" Yang said with wide shocked eyes. She turned to see the hooded woman walk away. "Who are you guys?" Yang asked.

"We're Team RKLY." She turned and pulled off her hood to reveal her light violet asymmetrical pixie cut hair that hugged the sides of her face. "Reagan Sarpedon." She introduced herself. "Now get to your teams." Reagan said as she walked away and blasted a charging Hunter that she saw a mile away, despite its speed.

"Whoa… not bad." Yang said rubbing her chin and nodded.

"Are you… are you checking her out?" Blake asked with wide eyes.

"Come on. Regroup!" Yang said as she hurried off to find her sister. Blake put her question on hold and hurried to follow her partner.

Jaune and Ren were fighting back to back, firing at Grimm.

"Oh no. More of those Harbingers." Ren said, causing Jaune to turn to see that more Harbingers were entering the fray, traveling through various streets.

"WHEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Someone called out as a person flew through the air upside down as liquid shot from their hands and truck the Harbingers below, but after a moment, they froze up, covered in some sort of gel now.

The person landed and tipped their top hat.

It was a young lady with alabaster skin, freckles on her cheeks, strawberry blonde hair that was combed back that it was spiky at the back sticking out from the back of her head and she had a hazel right eye, but had a heterochromia left eye which was half magenta and half jade green. She had a dirty green top hat with a magenta band around it with a card that says ten out of six (10/6) on it, an open twin tail coat with the right sleeve torn off and used as… a bowtie tied around her neck? A dress shirt, magenta pants and men's steampunk boots. She had a pair of steam punk gauntlets with large, long circular cylinder vials around it carrying certain liquids inside them.

She adjusted her sleeve-bow-tie with a grin.

"Well… that's… is there a word for some oddness?" Ren wondered.

An Insectator rushed at Jaune and Ren, but it was shot with a pink liquid… that then formed into a bubble, comparable to gum, with the Grimm inside, reasonably confused.

Jaune and Ren stared at the bubbled Grimm with wide eyes.

"… What?!" Jaune exclaimed.

"How is that possible?" Ren questioned.

"Nice to meet you gents." Jaune and Ren turned to see the young lady taking off her hat and bowing to them with her arms out. "Madeline Matter of Team UMBR at your service." The young lady, now known as Madeline, introduced herself with a grin and an English accent.

"Team UMBR?" Ren questioned.

"Yeah, you know, third year tier! Don't you two know anything? And they call me mad." Madeline said with a grin as she put on her top hat and fired liquid from her steampunk gauntlets at an Insectator, turning it into a gel covered statue with its mouth wide open.

"That's not essentially about madness, but more ignorance." Jaune said with dull eyes.

"Don't have a diction for that." Madeline said. "You're Jaune Arc, right? Heard some things about you in the girls' latrine."

"… I don't know how to feel about that." Jaune said.

Madeline tipped her hat and leaped up high in time to avoid a slash of sliver energy.

Jaune and Ren jumped away in time as it sped pass them and slashed a Hunter in half. The two looked to see another young woman strolling through the crowd of frozen gelled Harbingers, swaying hips to the side with left hand on left hip and a cutlass resting on her right shoulder.

She was a brunette with her hair tied in a ponytail with two bands, one of them tied around the halfway point of her pony tail, two strands of hair from the sides of her hair that curved up at the ends and a long bang off the right side of the border of her hair that hovered over the right side of her face. She had an orange pirate captain's hat with skull and cross bones on the front, an orange pirate bust with gold threaded lining and gold buttons (with a nice bust underneath it, pressed under the fabric I will say), gold rings around the biceps, bracers that covered her forearm and hands, except the fingers, with the left having a skull on it, pale beige pants, long brown female pirate boots with gold buckles against the front of the feet, and also had an eyepatch over her left eye with skull on it. Her right eye was unique, heterochromia as well, but had a blue ring of royal blue around icy white colored iris. She also had three silver colored gem-looking things under her right eye.

She smirked as she backhanded a frozen Harbinger, breaking it to pieces.

"I salute to you, boss!" Madeline exclaimed, standing atop a light post, saluting to the newcomer.

"I'm guessing you're the leader… and the person who almost cleaved us." Jaune said.

She walked to them, pushed Jaune away and sent a horizontal slash that sliced off a Gigante's leg off.

"Not bad." Jaune said. Jaune took out Arc Gold, held the trigger, causing a red sphere of energy to glow at the end of the barrel, then fired at another Gigante, that was roaring, went into its mouth and burst, blowing out the back of its head, killing it as it then fell to the floor.

"Show off." The young woman said with a smirk as a group of Insectators rushed her, only to be slashed apart faster than the eye could see.

"Who is she?" Jaune asked, looking up to Madeline, only to find her gone from the lamp post.

"Silver Ula's her name." Madeline said, causing Jaune to jump with a scream. "She's the boss of my team." Madeline said with pride and her chest puffed up.

'Silver Ula. I think I read about her somewhere.' Jaune thought scratching his chin.

Suddenly the sound of glass breaking was heard, making them turn to see a behemoth of armor ramming right through the frozen dino-bird Grimm.

The armor was brown and stood eleven foot, ten inches tall, had a dome head with side slit eyes, bulky collar area, giant fists, rocket jets on the back of the feet and a long, giant cannon tied around its back by chains that formed an X across the torso area.

"That's my mate, Brokk. Our weapon's expert. Don't let the size fool you. He's a wee person." Madeline said with a smile.

"I heard that!" Brokk shouted as a long, thick blade protruded from his left fist. He roared and dashed at a rocketing speed towards a Gigante, leaped up high despite the mass of the armor and grabbed onto the Grimm's neck, before stabbing it.

"Hmm… this area seems to be bigger than it looks, carrying all these big fossils around." Madeline said as her gauntlets produced round globs of jello-like substances in her hands and tossed them at the legs of two Gigantes, which burst and expanded, keeping them in place, confusing the Grimm pair with one picking at the gel-like substance, before they ignited, taking out their legs and burning the picky ones face as they both fell to the ground on their sides, defenseless.

"Nice weapons." Jaune said.

"Thank you." Madeline said with a tip of the hat, before running off. "Happy Not Birthday!" Madeline called out as she hurried off to help others.

"Uh… what?" Jaune questioned.

Nora laughed with a grin as she slammed her hammer into a Harbinger, sending it flying into the face of a Gigante.

"Nice shot! Happy Not Birthday!" Madeline called out as she fired at Insectators, covering them in gel.

"Thanks! Happy Not Birthday to you too!" Nora called out, standing atop of Liversnap, waving at her. The Grimm covered in gel ignited, incinerating the horde. "I like her style!" Nora said with a grin, before turning Magnhild into a grenade launcher and started firing at nearby Grimm.

Back with Ren and Jaune.

"From the looks of things… I think we're winning." Ren said to Jaune.

"Yeah… guess there really isn't nothing to worry about." Jaune said with a shrug. Suddenly an Atlesian shipped slammed into a building upon crashing down. "Why don't I learn?" Jaune said, holding his forehead as he shook his head.

The two looked up to see the Atlesian fleet being attack by flying Grimm.

"Are those Griffons?" Ren questioned.

"Not just them." Jaune and Ren turned to see Reebok with advanced binoculars on. "There are also some Dust Flyers up there too!" Reebok exclaimed.

"Dammit! How many Grimm from all around the four corners of the world are there here?!" Jaune shouted.

More Atlesian ships came crashing down.

Reebok quickly turned C.I.C. into a pack with speakers sticking off of it and a radio in hand.

"Alert! Alert! Atlesian Ships Crashing! Evasive Maneuvers!" Reebok screamed into the radio, causing his voice to be heard throughout the town square thanks to the speakers on his pack.

Everyone looked up with shock. Now they had to worry about the Grimm and falling ships?! Great Monty Oum, When Will It Stop?!

Silver Ula surrounded her cutlass in silver energy and then sent a slash of energy at a ship, which caused it to instead of being cut in half, threw off its trajectory upon impact so that it would hit an uninhabited building.

Ruby quickly used her semblance to grab Weiss and rush away from a crashing ship.

Qrow roared as he sent slashes that through off the ships with force created behind them and Port following his lead.

"Dammit! This Is Crazy!" Sun screamed as he, with Glynda still in his arms, his light clones and Neptune sprinted off to avoid a crashing ship.

"SUN!" Reebok screamed, throwing two ebi-pens at the monkey Faunus, who had a light clone grab it. "GIVE IT TO GOODWITCH!" Reebok screamed.

Sun listened and had his clone give the headmistress two ebi-pens to the neck.

After two seconds, Glynda's eyes shot open to see ships crashing down.

"Release me." Glynda said with a glare, causing Sun to skid to a halt and put Glynda to her feet.

Glynda focused much of her energy and used her aura to stop two ships from crashing and lightly put them down. She sighed, but another ship slammed behind her, Sun and Neptune, making them turn to see the wreckage.

Suddenly a reptilian Grimm with bat-like wings crawled on the surface of the down ship.

It had a reptilian torso, reptilian pigeon-like feet, legs similar to a bird, reptilian bat-like wings, long tails with round tips that had spikes protruding looking like mace and a sharp, lean head with two large spikes protruding out the back of its head in a V formation.

The Grimm screeched like a velociraptor as it hopped off and flapped its wings fast, building up enough speed to make a dust cloud around the three, but Glynda was in no mood for games, so she used her telekinesis to grab the reptilian bird Grimm and repeatedly slam it against the floor over and over again, until it was literally pounded into dust.

Glynda pushed up her glasses with a 'hmph', while Sun and Neptune looked to her with wide eyes.

"Okay, how can someone be so hot and scary all at the same time?" Neptune whispered to Sun.

On a roof, Vlad was looking down at the damages. He looked up to the sky to find his avian Grimm attacking more ships and flying in the air. Vlad snapped his fingers and pointed upwards.

His team nodded, understanding their leader's command.

They took out firearms, Chary having twin pistols, Gavrilo a rifle and Edgar a hand cannon, and fired into the air, striking the Grimm.

Vlad turned Eclipse into Gatling Gun/Rocket Launcher mode and fired away.

They have to keep up appearances. No matter what.

"Hey, are there any Grimm that are blue?" Gavrilo asked.

"Blue Bloods and its next two metamorphosis states. Why do you ask?" Edgar answered then asked.

"Is that it?" Gavrilo asked pointing up at a winged being with a blue Mach cone around itself.

"No." Edgar answered.

Up in the air a blue Mach cone with wings flew through the sky, slicing up avian Grimm apart. It was clearing out Griffons and Dust Flyers off of Atlesian ships.

Seeing it as a threat, the Griffons and Dust Flyers flew straight at it, trying to gang up on it. A large number of Griffons and Dust Flyers did just that and attacked it, but they were all shredded apart by a blue twister from the center.

Flying down, the blue being sliced up more Griffons and Dust Flyers on its way down. The blue being went all the way down towards the town square, heading towards Reebok, but once close to the ground it flipped, taking human form and landing behind Reebok, who was blasting Grimm with a pair of armor gauntlets that were smaller versions of his behemoth robot arms.

Reebok perked his head up with surprise as he turned to see someone with their back to him.

"Aaden?" Reebok spoke up.

"So this is where you've been. Ground zero. Ballsy short stack." The person in blue known as Aaden said, turning to Reebok.

Aaden had a… unique hairstyle, with it being slicked back, but feathered up at the end, looking like a cockatoo's unique feathered top, preferably similar to a Sulfur Crested Cockatoo… if its head was blue. He was shirtless showing off his abs, but he wore an open blue jacket with a Greek word for Freedom (Elefthería) down the right sleeve in black letters and it stopped halfway at the abdomen, blue cargo pants with two suspenders hanging off the sides of them at the waist, black combat boots and had a pair of royal blue lensed goggles over his eyes. On his back was a semi-dome pack with closed up metal wings. His weapons of choice were a pair of gauntlets that looked like the talons of an eagle, and he had some talons sticking out of the front and back of his boots.

Dust Flyers and Griffons descended down to kill the blue bastard who killed their comrades, but they were shot down by Aaden thanks to the tri barrel guns on the back of each of his gloves.

An Insectator rushed at him from the side. Reebok brought his hand up to fire, but it was shot in the head by Jaune.

"I had him man." Reebok whined.

"You whining about not being able to kill a Grimm? That's new." Jaune said with a smile.

"That's what I was going to say." Aaden said as he was finish firing at the flock of flying Grimm that now spread out to get away from him.

"So… is this the blue teammate you mentioned yesterday?" Jaune asked as Ren walked up next to his team leader.

"Yeah. This is-"

"I am the Blue Justice of team RRAD!" Aaden extended a right arm to the side, stood on one legs as his suspended leg was in a kneeing formation and his other left arm in a fist pump. "The man who patrols the skies with talons that represent freedom to all with a soul!" Aaden stood on both legs, pressed together and his arms crossed over his chest in an X. He then snapped his arms out to the side as he got on one knee, crouching over. "I Am Aaden Icarian!" Aaden shouted with pride as his mechanical wings spread out wide.

Jaune and Ren stared at Aaden with wide eyes, completely speechless on the… interesting introduction.

"My… my team likes to do poses." Reebok said with his face in his palm.

Jaune had to cover his mouth to make sure to not release a snicker that could have turned into a full blown laugh.

Ren just remained silent. He was used to odd things people do thanks to Nora, but even she would not do something like this… would she? Well at least not in the middle of a battlefield.

… Right?

"Alex why didn't you pose with me? This is why we spend a good chunk of free time on." Aaden said standing right back up to his feet.

"Do we… have to do it everywhere we go?" Reebok questioned, obviously embarrassed by his teammate's display, scratching the side of his head as he had red cheeks.

"Yes. It is how we will be remembered more. It is to contrast us from many others. We are the most colorful team. At least that's what Red says." Aaden said.

'It's actually kind of welcomed to me.' Jaune thought with a quivering smile as he tried to contain laughter.

"Uh, sorry to interrupt, but perhaps we should focus on the Grimm surrounding us." Ren said while Jaune was hunched over snickering up a storm as he held his mouth tighter and held his stomach.

Suddenly an Atlesian ship crashed behind him and Jaune, causing an explosion that sent them flying forward to Reebok and Aaden's feet, with Reebok covering his face from the blast's shockwave.

"And the ships. Yes." Aaden said. "Red will be here in a moment." Aaden said before crouching then rocketing back into the air.

"Great… more embarrassment." Reebok said with his head hanging, before he fired at a charging Harbinger, sending it flying back.

The Harbinger flew over a debris of stone and slammed into a lamp post. Russel poked his head out behind the debris and looked to the dino-bird Grimm to see it shaking its head of pain before getting to its feet and running off.

"This is getting hectic." Russel said with a frown. He noticed his partner slam away not one, not two, but three Insectators with one swing of his mace.

Cardin was growing stronger.

Cardin looked for some more ass to kick, but he noticed Velvet beating the crap out of three Razor Thins with a stranger blue, yet transparent scythe similar to Ruby's Crescent Rose and even using her fighting style, taking them down.

'Damn. If she was that skilled to begin with, why did she let me get away with pulling her ears?' Cardin thought with surprise.

Velvet had finished them off, but she failed to notice a Harbinger charging at her. She was pushed away, but not by the Grimm, but by Cardin, who took the hit for her.

Cardin went flying until his back hit a down Atlesian ship.

Velvet looked to him with wide eyes. She turned to the Harbinger that turned to her and squawked. Velvet narrowed her eyes. For once… she was very angry.

The Harbinger charged at her, ready to bash her with its dome shaped dense head.

The scythe in Velvet's hand morphed into the form of a blue, transparent mace that looked exactly like Cardin's. With one might swing, she broke through the skull of the Harbinger and sent it flying into the air as it dissolved into ash.

Velvet turned her head to Cardin to see him rubbing the back of his head. She hurried over and knelt down.

"Are you alright?" Velvet asked.

"I can take a tank. What about you?" Cardin said turning his head to her.

"I'm fine. Thanks to you." Velvet said with a smile.

The two heard a growl making the two turn to see Insectators surrounding them.

"Ah shit." Cardin said.

An Insectator roared, but suddenly a shadow loomed over it, before its head was stomped onto by a pair of razor short heels. The rest of the Insectators looked to see their dead brother turn to ash as in its place was Melanie Malachite. Now they were pissed.

Melanie could care less. She scoffed with a flip of her hair, before she rushed the Insectators. They tried bashing and biting her, but she was took quick and faked them out into attacking first, allowing her to counters. She sliced them up easy. They were tough, especially in the arm department, but seeing as they were more brawn than brain, they were simple to deal with.

Velvet helped by changing the transparent blue mace back into Crescent Rose and sniped some, helping out Melanie since it was obvious that these Grimm were too thick for her weapons, her bladed heels, to handle.

Once all were dead, Melanie fixed her hair before looking to Cardin.

"You owe me a drink for that, big boy." Melanie said with a stoic expression.

"Now that's a woman." Cardin said with a grin.

Velvet looked to him with dull, annoyed eyes as she made a purse lips sound. (You know which one.)

A tentacle came from the ground, shocking the three, but it was suddenly sliced off and hit the ground, immediately turning to ash.

"You have good form and nice movement… but you still need work to fight on this caliber of intensity." Someone spoke behind the cloud of ash.

"Who are you?" Cardin asked.

"A friend." The cloud started to dissipate to reveal a violet haired girl smiling to them with her fist pressed against her chin. "Call me Idetta."

More tentacles sprout out from the ground around the town square.

Penny used her blades to travel around and slice them apart.

'A Kraken. From the looks of the size, only a child. An adult would have surrounded and ended us already if it desired. Threat still considered high with so many varied ranking Grimm around. Must focus efforts on eradicating appendages. Plan must be initiated soon.' Penny thought.

A Gigante stomped behind her and roared, ready to bite her apart. She was prepared for it, but someone roaring came in and slammed right through its legs, breaking them apart, causing the Grimm to fall and die.

Penny blinked her eyes at the sight. She turned to see someone in red with a pair of fiery gauntlets with the ends looking like the maws of hounds, which were on fire, standing there with fiery red aura surrounding him.

"Thank you for your assistance." Penny thanked him with a smile.

"I am the Red Fury!" The young man started moving their left arm in a circular motion. "The Great Dog of War!" He started moving his right arm in the same circular motion. "I show my enemies no mercy! I am the leader of Team RRAD!" He spun on his heels facing Penny and slammed his fists together as red fiery aura burst from them. "I Am Red of Thrace!" Red shouted as he thrust his fists up into the air with pride as red flame-like aura surrounded his gauntlets.

(Is a tall teen with crimson hair that was spiked up, kind of in a similar style of Sage's, a red shirt with a design of a battle axe on the shirt, army green cargo pants, black and laced boots, red fingerless gloves that also covered the forearms and had black X designs on the back of the hands, a single headphone over her left ear and a pair of red visor sunglasses. In case anyone wants a quick refresher.)

"Nice to meet you. I am Penny Polendina." Penny introduced herself with a smile.

'… She's not impressed.' Red thought with a thin mouth.

"You are part of Alexander's team, yes?" Penny asked.

"Yes. I am his leader." Red said standing up straight.

"Sensational!" Penny exclaimed with a smile as her blades shot up and stabbed into multiple Griffons that tried to attack him from above, piercing them through their chests. "It's good to know that he has such reliable teammates, considering I've heard he usually stays alone in the workshops. I'm happy you are here to assist." Penny said with a smile as her blades came back to her.

Penny turned and walked off to assist more.

Red lifted up his visor sunglasses to reveal his red iris eyes with an eyebrow raised.

"The people that kid meets." Red said before lowering his visor sunglasses and continuing to fight.

Back with Sun, Neptune and Glynda were faring well. Well, mostly Glynda. Despite being down for a time, she was still leagues better than Sun and Neptune.

When a total of twenty Insectators rushed at them, she just used her telekinesis to lift up a ruined Atlesian ship and slammed it atop of them. Simple.

Neptune transformed his gun into a trident and stabbed it through the head of an Insectator and once pulled back, turned it into a guandao and sliced another in half that tried to suck bite him.

"Ha! I got two of them!" Neptune cheered with a grin. Suddenly he was punched and sent into another down Atlesian ship.

"Neptune!" Sun cried.

"We're in… lockdown." Neptune said before hitting the ground face first with an 'oof'.

Sun looked to find a group of Hunters glaring at them.

"Uh… are these… the tough ones of the three?" Sun asked.

"Yes." Glynda said walking in front of Sun, pushing up her glasses. "I count seven."

"Make that more." Sun said as now Razors walked by to their sides to join the fray.

"Seven Hunters and six Razors. I have my work cut out for me." Glynda said, showing no fear, despite being surrounded.

"Seriously?!" Sun shouted.

"Third years can safely handle these creatures, and I already graduated Beacon. Two years early." Glynda said with a stoic expression, but brimming with pride and power.

"But you were knocked out not even five minutes ago! You can't be ready to handle this many with my help!" Sun argued.

"Quite right." A voice spoke, causing the Hunters to look behind themselves to find someone standing atop of a down Atlesian ship, posed in an A la quatrieme ballet position. Suddenly she appeared in front of a Hunter as then a moment later, it was sliced in half.

The girl had violet asymmetrical pixie hair that covered half of her right eyes and was spiked out at the nape of the neck (if anyone knows Zone-tan's hair, it's similar to that, minus the swirling ponytail) and she had violet eyes. She wore a tiara, a violet corset with black frills at the top where her cleavage was, violet long gloves that did not cover the palms and fingers of the hands, but was connected to silver rings around the ring fingers, lavender leggings and violet bedazzled slippers.

She had her arms up with wrists crossed and was on one leg.

The Hunters turned to her. One tried to smack her away, but it was paralyzed as she danced right through it, looking as if her leg just fazed through its body instead of actually harming it.

The newcomer did a ballet performance piece around the surrounding Grimm, looking as if she was going right through them.

Once she danced around all of them, she twirled and gently went to the ground with her legs folding to the side and her arms waving a bit, but remained out to the sides.

"Résonnant." (Resonating) Her voice echoed as transparent violet images that looked like husks of herself performing the previous dance moves appear, resonating with a glow, with some of them right through or even inside the surrounding Grimm and then they exploded with burst energy that became smoke and dissipated with the Grimm ashes long gone beforehand. The young lady gently rose to her feet and brought her hands together. "It is good to see you again, Headmistress Goodwitch." The ballet enthusiast said with a respectful bow.

"Idetta Odette. It's nice to see you keeping up with your practices." Glynda said, still remaining stoic, despite being very happy and proud to see an old student of hers.

The young lady now known as Idetta, gave a polite and appreciative curtsy to Goodwitch.

"… Okay. No way could someone make ballet that cool." Sun said, still shocked by what happened.

"I beg to differ. Nice moves." Neptune said with a finger up, still feeling dizzy.

Harbingers and Insectators rushed over at them, scaring Sun and Neptune, who now hopped to his feet and hid behind Sun, but Glynda and Idetta remained calm as they saw what happened next a mile away.

Out of nowhere, Sage came and sliced the Grimm in half in one mighty swing.

Sage sighed, before turning to Sun, glaring at him.

"Where Have You Been?!/Where Have You Been?!" Both Sage and Sun yelled at each other as they walked over to one another. "Where Have I Been?! I'm Asking That! / Where Have I Been?! I'm Asking That!" They both yelled again.

Scarlet then landed next to them, coming from nowhere.

"Hey guys." Scarlet spoke up, but he noticed the two were clearly annoyed. "Anyway, the city seems to be evacuated and the rest of the Grimm are coming here as the Atlesian Guards said." Scarlet explained.

"Wait… this is happening all through the city?!" Neptune yelled with shock and fear.

"Yeah. It's crazy! These Grimm pop out of nowhere like those Whack-a-Beowolf. Only difference being the "Grimm" in that game are easy to whack." Scarlet said.

"Teams that have been travelling around the city are coming to the town square. However what concerns me is that so far I only see two other third year teams here, when a team like Team BNBN should have been here before myself." Idetta explained.

"That's not good then." Sun said.

"Team BNBN might have been intercepted." Glynda said.

"By the White Fang?" Neptune asked.

"I doubt it." Glynda said narrowing her eyes.

A bit away, Ruby sliced a Harbinger in half. She panted, finally feeling fatigued again. She fired a sniper shot from Crescent Rose nailing a Dust Flyer in the head, sending it falling to the floor. Ruby fist pumped with victory.

Weiss managed to back step from a Razor's attack and when it went for another slash, she summoned a glyph that deflected the attack, before Weiss summoned a glyph under her feet and shot forward, stabbing it in the chest, then used her fire dust ammo to burst her rapier, Myrtenaster, causing the Razor to scream. Weiss jumped back to avoid and attack, but the Razor managed to leave a deep gash on her arm, making her cry in pain.

The Razor, now with its chest literally on fire, roared with its head reeled back and rushed towards Weiss, only to be shot in the head by Ruby's Crescent Rose.

"Weiss, are you still able to keep going?" Ruby asked with concern.

"I'm fine." Weiss said as she took out the Refresher Capsule Reebok gave her and popped in two pellet into her mouth and bit down on them, regaining breath before putting the container away. "I have another arm after all." Weiss said as she used her undamaged arm to continue the fight.

Large tentacles sprouted from the ground, surrounding them.

"Oh boy." Ruby said with displeasure.

"How many of these things does this coward have?!" Weiss shouted.

The two readied their weapons as a tentacle came at them, but a sword came out of nowhere and sliced it apart.

"Nobody hurts my best friend." Penny said with an annoyed look as her swords rushed to cut apart the rest of the tentacles.

"Penny!" Ruby cheered with a grin as the synthetic android cut apart the tentacles.

Weiss sighed with relief, but an Insectator managed to sneak up on her and pounced, ready to crush her head in one bite, but it was punched in the face by Yang, sending it flying into the side of a building.

"Keep your eyes open, princess." Yang said with a smirk.

"Stupid, stupid, stupid. What would Winter say?" Weiss muttered to herself as she repeatedly slapped her hand upon her forehead.

Three Harbingers rushed Yang and Weiss on a three way attack, but Blake managed to appear, grab Weiss by the collar and wrap her ribbon around Yang's waist, then hopped away, leaving an fire clone that burst upon the three way impact, injuring the Harbingers as they fell to their sides. Blake landed on her feet while Yang and Weiss fell on their butts upon impact.

"Man these things are tough." Yang said as she stood up, dusting herself off as the ribbon released its hold on her. She then opened the chambers of her Ember Celica and reloaded them. "But all four of us together, they got no chance!" Yang said with a grin as Ruby joined the rest of her team.

"Let's show them Team RWBY still has some steam!" Ruby exclaimed, earning agreeing nods from Weiss and Blake and thumbs up from her elder sister. Ruby smiled to them, but then her mouth dropped and eye went wide as she noticed something.

The rest of Team RWBY turned to see a Gigante with several Insectators and Harbingers by its feet and several Griffons and Dust Flyers floating near its head.

"They look very… organized." Weiss commented.

"Check it." Yang said pointing up to someone standing atop of the Gigante's head.

Someone in yellow.

The girl had hazelnut skin and black hair that stopped at her upper back and had volume to it and had golden streaks on some of the locks, and she had honey golden eyes. She wore a yellow vest with black lining, zipped up, but showing some cleavage, with a high collar, yellow cargo pants and black combat boots that were open toed, silver bracelets wrapped around her forearms and fingerless black gloves.

She lifted her hand up and aimed it at forward.

"Attack." The girl said with a smile.

The Grimm roared as they charged forward, but instead of attacking other students, they were attacking other Grimm.

"Whoa~. How did she do that?" Ruby wondered.

"The Yellow Thread of Hope is here!" The young lady exclaimed standing up on one leg with the other brought up in a kneeing position and both arms extended to the right side. "The one who guides threads of gold to tame evil! Restrain it from committing dark deeds!" She spun on her heels, now with her back facing the town square and her arms crossed with her hands erect up. She then turned to the side crouching and her head dug into her arms. "Team RRAD's sole female member!" She quickly stood up on only her left leg with her right still in a kneeing position in midair and had her left hand extended completely out and right hand hovering over her right ear so as not to cover her face; also three thread made of golden light connected to her fingers from each hand glimmered for a second. "I Am Ariadne!" The final member of RRAD spoke with pride.

Team RWBY… didn't know how to make heads or tails of this.

"Uh… okay." Was all Yang could say.

"She's part of Alexander's team?" Weiss questioned. "That… was so…"

"Awesome!" Ruby cheered with a grin and shimmering eyes.

"No!" Weiss shouted.

Walking beside the Gigante that Ariadne was standing atop was a tall young man with tan skin with shoulder length hair that was slicked back and had smoky brown eyes. He had a muscular body with Hawaiian tattoos down the pectorals and sides of his abs and had some down his shoulder and halfway down his arms, stopping at his elbows. He wore an open sienna colored high collared vest, black cargo pants, bandage tape wrapped around his ankles and calves, a pair of sandals, long fingerless gloves, a necklace was numerous shark teeth attached to it and around the waist of the pants was a belt of leaves. In his hand was a tall white staff/club-like weapon with a very large hook at the end of it kind of looking like a bone. It also had red tribal marking all around itself and rope tied into a band around the center of it.

"How can someone so pretty be so lame?" The new person said, shaking their head.

Suddenly the sounds of marching was heard. Coming behind them were troops of Atlesian soldiers marching in to help with Atlesian Knights and Paladins joining the fray from other streets.

"Back-up has arrived!" Nora cheered with a grin and her Magnhild raised up, while Liversnap bucked up and gave a deep roar.

It was now numbers against power and now it was looking to be in Vale's favor.

The tall tan skinned young man strolled over as if there was not a care in the world; whistling even while spinning his hook/staff-club weapon in hand. He noticed tentacles shooting from the ground.

"Oh~, a target!" The young tan skinned man said with a grin. He stopped spinning his weapon and aimed it at one of the tentacles and fired the hook at it with a chain connecting it to its staff/club bone structure. The hook stabbed into the tentacle. The tentacle went back into the ground causing the tan young man to skid closer to the hole. "Whoa, whoa, whoa!" The young man exclaimed as he skidded to a halt near the hole. "Don't think you'll evade Raihau, little calamari!" The young man now known as Raihau shouted with a grin. He heard growling making him turn his head to see Hunters and Harbingers surrounding him. "Hmm… four Hunters and six Harbingers… child's play! One arm is all I need!" Raihau exclaimed with a grin as he now used only his right arm to hold onto his weapon and now had his left hand up into a fist. "Bring It!" Raihau said with a big toothy grin.

"Perhaps I can provide a better solution." Someone spoke up.

It was Team RKLY's fourth member, Yadu Rama.

He took grabbed a steel arrow and faster than the eye could see, stabbed steel arrows into each of the Grimm. The steel arrows were strong enough to pierce the bone armor and muscles of the Hunters and even the skulls of the Harbingers; and trust me the latter is no easy feat. The Grimm didn't seem to worry much with the new appendages since they were still standing, well, except for the few Harbingers that had their skulls pierced, but Yadu grabbed three different colored arrows. One blue, one red and one yellow. Using his bow he was ready to fire the three multi-colored arrows, but instead of firing at the Grimm, he aimed up and fired them into the air, where they burst, with the result being a dark cloud created afterwards and expanded. The sound of lightning was heard from above.

A few of the Hunter's blinked their eyes, before they looked to the steel arrows in their bodies.

They knew what was going to happen next.

One actually said 'uh oh' in a screechy voice before lightning struck the steel arrows, electrocuting the Grimm impaled by them. The Grimm fell to the ground dead and turned to ash.

"Yeah, well… I could have done that with one hand." Raihau said.

"You should focus more on your catch of the day." Yadu said.

"Please, have you forgotten my semblance?" Raihau said with a grin. He gripped his staff club with both hands and pulled with all his might.

The ground beneath broke apart.

Jaune looked to the ground to notice cracks and fissures.

"What the?" Jaune questioned.

"Bingo!" Raihau shouted as he pulled with all his might once more as breaking out of the ground was a large Grimm. A Kraken. Once the ground broke apart, people around the area went flying from part of the town square floor breaking apart as the Grimm flew straight into the air high above everyone. "Ha! Gotcha!" Raihau shouted with a toothy grin.

The Kraken shot its tentacles down at the ground and building, piercing into them and grabbing any inner structure like pipes and girders and despite breaking them apart, the attempt managed to slow down its ascension enough for it to only rise a bit above more and start to descend down at the town square.

"Did you account for that?" Yadu asked.

"… No." Raihau said still grinning, but now it was a nervous one.

Down below the sound of dials turning was heard, but not by all. Just to the user.

Jaune pressed both barrels of Arc Gold and Silver Eye together as he held onto the triggers. Jaune narrowed his eyes as the end of the barrels glowed orange. Sphere of energy grew from then ends and expanded before they merged into one. They grew into a larger sphere and illuminated. However it started to swirl, even starting to splash outward a bit.

Surrounding people, even Grimm, looked to see the sphere of energy growing larger and larger. It coursed with orange lightning that coursed around Jaune himself, luckily protected by his aura, and striking the ground, charring and breaking it.

"Whoa~." Was all Nora could say as she and others were staring at a grand large sphere of energy.

Ruby stared with amazement at the sphere.

Pyrrha was speechless at the power just two pistol were producing and obviously she wasn't the only one.

Jaune gained a determined glare as he felt the evil of the Kraken right above them all.

"Dual Overdrive." Jaune said before releasing the triggers, causing the giant ball of energy to fire straight at the roaring Kraken.

The ball of destructive energy went straight into the mouth of the Kraken, and then when reaching the end of within it, the Grimm imploded a bit, before exploding, with the energy of the attack growing in mass and glowing so bright that it forced everyone to cover their eyes and the surrounding Grimm to roar with pain at the feel of something so bright.

After a few moments, the light faded as all that was left were small traces of ash that were once the Kraken.

Jaune spun his guns in his hands and put them back into their holsters.

"Nice shot." Ren complimented as he appeared next to Jaune.

"WOW! Those Things Are Awesome!" Nora cheered as Liversnap rushed over to Jaune. "That Grimm was nothing!" Nora exclaimed with a grin.

"Of course. It was just a baby." Jaune said with a smile. Nora, Ren and Liversnap stared at him with wide eyes.

"THAT WAS A BABY?! WHAT THE HECK! How Big Is an Adult?!" Nora screamed.

"Let's hope to never find out." Ren said.

A bit away from them, Team RWBY looked to them.

"That was a baby?" Blake questioned with almost bulging eyes.

"That was a Baby?!" Weiss screamed.

"That's what I heard him say." Blake said.

"Whoa… this job's going to be tougher than I thought then." Yang said with wide eyes scratching her hair. She didn't expect there to be Grimm this dangerous and only an infant too? She's going to need to work her butt off.

"So~ Awesome!" Ruby cheered with wide eyes and sparkling eyes.

"What?!" Weiss screamed as she turned to Ruby.

"All that packed into two guns! I can only imagine what Maximum Overdrive looks like!" Ruby exclaimed with a grin.

"Those things can fire something stronger than that?!" Weiss screamed as she, Blake and Yang were shocked by the statement.

"Yeah! I can't wait to see it someday! I wonder if one can kill a Grimm as tall as a skyscraper!" Ruby spoke quickly chock-full of excitement.

"Let's hope we don't find out too soon." Weiss said with a dull look.

"So Jaune told you about it, right?" Blake asked.

"Yep! On the day of the morning pillow fight. You know, when he told me to get Yang in the leg."

"You only got lucky that my attention was on Blake." Yang said with a frown, dull eyes and fists to her hips.

"He showed me Silver Eye, told me how it works and then tricked Cardin into thinking Silver Eye was gonna blow up after he switched to Maximum Overdrive and aimed it at us."

"HE WHAT?!" Yang screamed with new rage as her eyes turned blood red and hair burst and rise up, moving as if made of flames. Yang started to breathe heavy with steam coming out of her nose, looking to find Cardin, and she found him with Velvet and Melanie. "WINCHESTER!" Yang screamed.

"Huh?" Cardin turned his head, only to be struck by what people would call a literal fire ball and sent flying with it, breaking through a down Atlesian ship.

"Oh My Gosh!" Velvet screamed with fear and worry for Cardin.

"Glad that wasn't me." Melanie said with wide eyes and her arms crossed.

"How can you say that?!" Velvet screamed before running over to save Cardin.

"Like you weren't thinking it." Melanie said not bothering to move unless a Grimm was coming at her.

Up atop the building that Vlad's group was atop, he was staring down at Jaune.

"Sir, what kind of technology was that?" Chary asked.

"Something only believed to exist in a different time. One of those pistols, the silver one he named after his wife's eyes, was made by Atlesian scientists. Small in size, they managed to create an ultimate handheld weapon that could destroy a whole horde of titanic Grimm in one shot." Vlad explained.

"Those small things pack that much punch?" Gavrilo questioned as he, Chary and even Edgar were shocked.

"What concerns me more is that he has two of them. He only possessed the silver one before, but now he has a gold one that's identical in power and design. Something that shouldn't be possible with the technology of today… and with the minds of today." Vlad said pressing his fist against his chin.

"So basically there's an egghead who has the skills to replicate an unreasonably, illogical weapon that shouldn't exist until over a decade from now?" Edgar rhetorically questioned.

"From the looks of it, it seems there's a genius out there that actually rivals Sever." Vlad said.

"Unless it is that dwarf." Gavrilo said with narrowed eyes.

"What makes you say that?" Chary asked.

"The brat's clearly unhinged! Besides, he's got the face of a backstabber!" Gavrilo exclaimed.

"No, no. Sever would never betray me. He's insane, but not stupid. Should be very clear on that." Vlad said.

"Then who else?" Gavrilo asked.

Vlad scanned through the crowd below, until his eyes were sent on a student green haired student wearing green as well.

"I have a suspect." Vlad said.

"Sir." Chary spoke up standing up straight with her arms behind her back. "The numbers are dwindling at a lightning fast pace. What is the next course of action?" Chary asked.

Vlad stared down at the much damaged town square to see the Grimm dying fast with the inclusion of higher classmen of Beacon and Atlesian troop joining the fray. He started to smile wickedly.

"I'm afraid we have to kick in overtime a bit early." Vlad said as his wicked smile widened with glee.

Down below, things may have been in Vale's favor so far, but that doesn't mean there still wasn't a source of chaos down below.

"I WILL KILL YOU! I WILL MESS YOU UP SO BAD NOT EVEN YOUR MAMMA'S GONNA LOVE YOUR FACE! I WILL TAKE THAT MACE AND SHOVE IT SO FAR UP YOUR-"

"Miss Xiao Long! Please refrain from vulgarity. I know we're on a battlefield, but show some restraint." Glynda said pushing up her glasses as she held Yang in midair with her telekinesis, keeping her from continuing to assault Cardin Winchester. "Especially after you tried to beat a student to death." Glynda said referring to Cardin, who was on the floor with his head on Velvet's lap.

"HE TRIED TO SHOOT MY SISTER!" Yang screamed in retort.

"It was months ago Yang! I've gotten over it." Ruby said.

"That Doesn't Mean I Should!" Yang yelled.

Cardin had a black left eye, a broken, bleeding nose, his right eye swollen shut and cheek swollen as well and he was missing a good number of teeth. His body also wasn't looking too good.

"Poor guy." Velvet said rubbing his forehead gently.

"Whoa~, what boar of a beast did that to him?" Nora asked as she, riding on Liversnap, made her way over with Jaune and Ren in tow.

"I wouldn't say boar. More like a dragon." Jaune said as he pointing a floating, flailing Yang Xiao Long.

"RAAAAAAAAARGH!" Yang screamed as her eyes blazed red and… is she…

"Cool! She's foaming at the mouth!" Nora exclaimed with a grin.

"That's not cool." Jaune said.

"Great Googly Moogly!" Reebok ran over once he noticed Cardin's condition with Coco, Fox and Yatsuhashi making their way over to reunite with their teammate.

"People still say that?" Nora questioned as Reebok knelt down next to Cardin as C.I.C. reverted back into its briefcase form and then he took off his coat.

"Wow. What hit him?" Coco asked.

"Yang." Nora answered.

"And you couldn't at least save a spot on his face for me?" Coco asked looking to Yang, who was still floating and flailing with anger.

"Go For His Legs!" Yang screamed with rage.

"Yes!" Nora cheered with a toothy grin and fist thrust into the air.

"Deal." Coco said with a shrug.

"Coco!" Velvet exclaimed her team leader's name, not approving of her attitude.

"God, how can you kids be so violent?" Jaune wondered to himself and his hand on his forehead.

"You're a kid too." Coco said leaning over to Jaune, tilting her sunglasses down as her eyes looked to him stoically.

"And yet still more mature than you." Jaune said shaking his head with his arms crossed.

Coco narrowed her eyes.

"You get one of those Arc." Coco said before pushing up her sunglasses.

Reebok took out a syringe with gold liquid inside and injected it inside of Cardin's neck.

Cardin's aura shined a bit as he groaned.

"What hit me?" Cardin asked.

"ME!" Yang screamed.

"Bite down on this." Reebok said as he took out a wooden object as he gently placed it in Cardin's mouth.

"Uh, why is he supposed to-" before Velvet could finish, Reebok grabbed Cardin's arm and relocated his arm together, causing Cardin to scream, making Velvet flinch with her ears drooping.

Reebok took out two ebi-pens and injected the liquid inside into Cardin's bicep and triceps. His case opened up to reveal a technological skeletal arm. Reebok grabbed it and attached it onto Cardin's broken arm as wires wrapped around the arm and glowed blue a bit. Reebok gently pressed his arm against various spots are Cardin's arm.

"Still feel pain?" Reebok asked looking to Cardin.

Cardin managed to utter a mumbled 'a little' from his covered mouth.

"Excuse me." Everyone turned to see Penny. "Sorry to disturb, but I feel I should inform about something important." Penny spoke up.

"H-Hey Penny." Reebok greeted his crush with a smile, but then he noticed his team leader Red next to her. "Oh… hello Red." Reebok greeted his leader with a hand up.

"Pipsqueak." Red greeted his teammate.

"Dude, come on. Don't call him that." Jaune said.

"Your girlfriend here sensed something." Red said looking to Reebok, causing the green haired genius to have wide eyes and his whole face to turn red.

"Seismic activity from something much greater than the Gigante is coming this way." Penny addressed.

"What?! Where?!" Jaune and Reebok screamed with shock and fear.

"How exactly do you know this?" Glynda asked.

Red suddenly tapped his index joint against the side of Penny's head.

"She's a robot." Red answered.

"What?!" Weiss, Yang, Nora and Velvet exclaimed.

"Actually I'm a synthetic android. The first to possess an actual soul." Penny explained causing everyone to stare at her with bulged eyes.

"Oh My Gosh I had No Idea!" Ruby exclaimed putting on an act of shock and surprise, glancing side to side.

Yang looked to her sister.

"Wait. You knew?!" Yang shouted.

"No I didn't!" Ruby exclaimed.

"Yes you did! I've lived with you your whole life! I know when you're lying!" Yang argued.

"I should have guess James would do this someday." Glynda said lifting her glasses and rubbing her eyes.

"Penny, you said it's bigger than a Gigante. Can you identify what size it might be?" Jaune asked.

"You knew too?!" Yang exclaimed.

"Uh… I knew as well… just to make things clear and not turn anything awkward." Reebok said with his hand up, looking side to side.

"Well to answer your question Jaune, it's… much bigger." Penny said.

"Oh shit." Jaune said, not liking the situation.

"And it's here." Penny said, right before the faintest sound of large stomping was heard.

"Miss Goodwitch!" Glynda turned to see Idetta hurry her way over. "Lady had just called me. Deadly Grimm have arrived."

"We heard. What types are there?" Glynda asked, releasing her telekinetic hold on Yang, letting her fall to the floor with an 'oof'.

"Better question, what is making that stomping noise?" Coco asked.

"The seismic activity feels to be coming from a being that is the same size as the surrounding buildings." Penny said.

"So good news: is we're not fighting a skyscraper. Bad news: it's still big." Coco said.

"If that's the case, then I feel I know what's making that sound." Idetta said.

"It's arriving right now." Penny said.

"Everyone get ready!" Jaune shouted taking Excalibur out.

Everyone got ready with their weapons.

Cardin rubbed his head as he got to his feet. He looked to his right arm that had the skeletal robot arm attached to it and flexed his muscles.

"Huh…" Cardin knelt down and grabbed his mace. "Not bad work." Cardin said as Velvet stood up next to him.

"I just saw something!" Yang shouted pointing to a building.

If one looked closely then could see the top of a white head. Something big was walking behind the building.

A giant four finger claw grabbed the top of the building, crushing it a bit before whatever it belonged to turn the corner.

Everyone looked to the new giant creature with wide shocked and fearful eyes.

It was as tall as a building, far bigger than a dinosaur.

It had a head in the shape of a skull with the jaws being elongated down, sharp teeth, red glowing eyes with Grimm mask markings all over the top of its head and by the sides outer sides of its eyes. Its torso was long and its arms almost touched the ground, but its legs were short and bent. Its torso was armored with white bone plates, shoulders had white bone spikes poking out, its three toed feet and knees had bone plates, right forearm and back of the hands were bone plates, but out of all of them its left arm was the most armored. It was extremely large and thicker than the rest of its body and looked to be made completely of bone and was in the shape of a club, or even a martial arts punching arm shield, with red Grimm marking all over it; the only part that wasn't hard bone was its left hand that our heroes couldn't see right now. Also the bone covered arm can move like a regular arm, as if the bone part had no restrictions to movement.

The beast itself looked similar to an ogre, or orc or even a troll! Minus the fact it doesn't have a nose, but a hole similar to a skull.

The new Grimm growled with its mouth a bit open, showing off its sharp teeth and drooling mouth.

"What is that?!" Pyrrha, running over to her comrades with Saber and Zwei, shouted with shock and rising fear.

"A Scourge!" Reebok shouted with fear.

The Scourge roared with its arms thrust into the air. Everyone flinched at the volume, with some covering their ears, until it was done.

"Let's Kill It!" Nora screamed with her Magnhild raised into the air.

"Fire At Will!" A member of the Atlesian army shouted as all fired at it.

The Scourge brought its left armored arm up, using it as a shield against the heavy fire, mainly from the Paladins, then slammed its armored arm into the ground and started rushing forward, sliding his armored arm against the ground, acting as a ram.

"Spread Out!" Jaune screamed.

Everyone hurried away to avoid the ramming attack, except for the third year Idetta.

Instead her eyes glowed red. She got into positon and started dancing and twirling as an aura of purple surrounded her. A dark cloud appeared above her and expanded. Once the Scourge got close to her, she leaped into the air and did a split and slammed her hands onto the ground with her head hanging as a large amount of lightning struck down from the dark cloud and pierced the Scourge through the head, obliterating it.

Idetta swiftly got to her feet, turned her back to the headless Grimm with a smile and hands up, before leaping up high into the air, back flipping above the dead Grimm that started turning to ash and landed behind it as it disintegrated.

"Sublime." Idetta said with a smile, but then she noticed two more Scourges. "Oh bother." She said with a frown.

Jaune skidded to halt as he looked to see two Scourges. Paladins and Atlesian Knights rushed pass him to engage the giant Grimm. Suddenly the sound of bricks being crash apart caused Jaune to turn his head to see a new, yet familiar Grimm to arrive.

"Son of a bitch." Jaune cursed as he saw a Rampage standing in front of a destroyed building. No doubt rammed into by the four legged Grimm.

(Design Recap: Rampage – a large Grimm bigger than and Deathstalker and Nevermore. Dinosaur-like in appearance; resembling a triceratops. It has a tri-tip on the end of its tail, patches of white armor around its body (tail, torso and legs), stumped nails, mammoth-like tusks and a large rectangular white head piece atop its head with small spikes and horns on it with two rows of holes, three holes on each, going down the headpiece (the head piece is similar to Bastiodon's head from Pokémon) and its eyes glowed red.)

The Rampage narrowed its eyes at Jaune, with the blonde returning his own in kind. The Rampage kicked its front foot back a few time, while Jaune gripped the hilt of Excalibur and started to slowly whip it off his back. The two stared at one another, both holding hatred for one another.

The Rampage lifted itself up on its hind legs and roared, before charging at Jaune.

Jaune pulled Excalibur out, but before it was fully unveiled for combat, two Paladins tackled the Rampage into the side, sending it away with them.

Jaune stared with wide eyes for a few moments.

"Well that ruined the moment." Jaune said.

Another roar made him turn to see another Rampage send a Paladin flying away and continuing to charge its way to Jaune. It was so close that Jaune was only able to jump to the side at almost the last second. The Rampage was about to swing its head to the side so its tusk could send Jaune flying, but Jaune shot Golden Arc to the side, giving himself a boost, managing to dodge to large tusk in time.

Jaune skidded his feet against the ground to a halt.

The Rampage hopped off its feet and made a 180 turn before landing and skidding to a halt, facing Jaune. The Rampage roared as it charged at Jaune again. Jaune narrowed his eyes, ready to fully unveil Excalibur.

The tip of the Rampage's tail glowed, then its throat. A it got close it opened its mouth and fired a concentrated beam of solar energy at Jaune.

Jaune leaped up, but then hopped into the air, committing a 360 spin in the process. Nearby Paladins and soldiers were struck by a sum of the solar beam itself before it faded after reaching a short distance.

The Rampage thought that by the time it finished, Jaune would have landed and been struck by its solar beam, but Jaune was still high into the air and had Excalibur out with the blade being surrounded by golden aura.

Jaune aimed Arc Gold behind himself, held the trigger to create a power shot (which is on the normal setting I might add) and fired, sending him rocketing down towards the Grimm and with one slash, dug so deep into the Rampage's back he sliced deep into its spine. Jaune hopped off of the Rampage's damaged back, back flipping away and landing on the ground, watching the Grimm slowly disintegrate at the golden energy from the attack started to consume it.

"Simple as that." Jaune said with a smile as he spun Arc Gold in hand and put it back into his holster.

The ground shook like a mini-earthquake. Out breaking through the ground were Sub Venandis.

(Design Recap: Sub Venandi – a giant subterranean Grimm with a millipede-like body with a skull for a head and fangs.)

"Oh for the love of Pete, how many tough Grimm are there?!" Jaune shouted.

Suddenly a roar was heard as a blast of a frosty beam fired into the area, freezing Atlesian Knights and Atlas soldiers.

Jaune turned to see a path of ice with frozen Atlesian Knights and Atlas soldiers. He noticed from a distance that there was Gigante with icicles sticking out the sides of its torso, back and all around its neck and possessing curved ice horns out the sides of its head.

Suddenly more Gigante with elemental appendages started showing up.

"Oh come on!" Jaune shouted with annoyance as a Sub Venandi tried to chomp down on him from behind, but a javelin was sent flying straight into its eye, causing it to roar with pain as it shot back.

Pyrrha came running in, grabbing Jaune and running off with him. Pyrrha brought a hand up, summoning her javelin Miló back to her with her polarity, causing it to go right through the rest of the head of the Sub Venandi, killing it.

The other two Sub Venandi burrowed back into the ground, giving chase of the two.

"I saw that coming, ya know?" Jaune said.

"Then react quicker!" Pyrrha shouted.

Jaune sent aura to his legs and stopped in his tracks, and using the momentum of Pyrrha moving forward, pulled her back to him, bring her up close to him, slow dance close, which made her blush seeing his stoic face so close to her surprised, blushing one. Jaune sprouted her Arc Wings and flew into the air, before the Sub Venandis implemented a pincer attack with them both using head-butts that instead collided with one another instead of crushing their targets.

Jaune was flying in the air with his arm around Pyrrha's waist, keeper her close and far from hitting the ground. Jaune looked down to see the holes made by Sub Venandis made had more Swarmers coming out.

"I guess there are more of them lurking around." Jaune said with a frown. "Pyrrha, what happened to Saber and Zwei?" Jaune asked his partner.

"They both took on a Grimm together that tried to assault me through my blind spot. They pushed it back, but I haven't seen them since." Pyrrha said.

"Dammit, this is getting hectic." Jaune said with annoyance.

"Look Out!" Pyrrha cried pointing down. Jaune looked to notice a nova-like blast coming at them.

Jaune quickly flew around it, taking evasive maneuvers.

"Oh Come On!" Jaune screamed as he saw a Magnam Gigante joining the fray, roaring with its head up high. "What Next?!" Suddenly another Magnam Gigante broke through a building and roared, followed by two more. "Why don't I learn to shut up?" Jaune said with a frown.

Down below, Atlas soldiers were being crushed, eaten and struck by forces of nature shot from dino-mouths freezing, burning and even electrifying them, left and right.

Several Atlas soldiers were rushing across the battle field that was once the town square, not a mess of rock, cracks and other debris. They saw a powered up Gigante bite down onto a Paladin and lift it up, shaking it. Another Paladin fired rockets at the side of the Grimm, causing it to roar and release the Paladin in its mouth and fall to the floor.

However the Paladin that took it down was rammed by a Rampage, sending it flying into a building, breaking it apart.

"Duck and cover!" One of them shouted.

They all hurried behind some wreckage of an Atlas battleship.

One of the soldiers panted as he pressed the side of his helmet, causing the lenses over his eyes to retract into the helmet, revealing a pair of blue eyes. He was panting as his heart raced. He never expected a simple breach in defense in a town square to be this hectic.

"What's the game plan now?" Another soldier asked.

Suddenly one of them was tackled by something big, sending him right through the debris.

It was a Hunter and it started wrecking the group of soldiers. After back-fisting a soldier away, sending them flying, then grabbed another Atlas soldier and used him as a human shield, taking bullets from some of his colleagues. The Hunter grabbed some of the wreckage and ripped it out. It now was using a sharp metal piece ripped from an Atlas battleship as a sword and a dying Atlas soldier as a shield.

The Atlas soldier with the blue eyes managed to back away from the beast. He took something off his back, looking to be similar to Jaune's add-ons, and attached it to his rifle, turning it into a bigger gun. A grenade launcher. Putting in ammo, the sound of loading and cocking his new weapon, caught the Hunter's attention.

The Hunter turned to him, using the now dead Atlas soldier as a shield against bullets. It narrowed its eyes at him.

The soldier aimed at the beast, but it suddenly appeared in front of him. The soldier almost froze with fear, but his finger managed to move on its own to attempt to fire. The Hunter was about to slice his head off with its sharp piece of metal makeshift sword, but it was struck by a blue ball, sending it slamming against the battleship wreckage.

The soldier's eyes were wide as his trigger finger stopped. He looked down to see the blue ball became a kitten. The soldier raised his eyebrow at the odd sight.

The Hunter roared making the soldier turn to him.

The soldier once again aimed his grenade launcher at the Grimm.

The Hunter raised its sharp metal weapon, ready to throw it, but a bark was heard, before a corgi came and delivered a head-butt against the Hunter's skull, then kicked off, which provided enough time for the soldier to fire a grenade filled with ice dust. Once it impacted, it burst, now solidifying the upper half of the Grimm with some icicles poking off its frozen form.

The kitten spun into a blue ball once more and fired at the Hunter's upper body and shattered it apart.

"Whoa, nice." The blue eyed soldier said as the blue ball became a kitten once more. "Thanks, uh…" The soldier walked over, knelt down and grasped the metal name tag on the kitten's collar. "Saber. I owe you one." The blue eyes soldier said, standing up, smiling down at the kitten.

Saber suddenly gave a loud roaring meow as it was looking to the side.

The blue eyed soldier turned to see a Harbinger dashing over, head first.

The soldier and Saber hopped away in time.

The blue eyed soldier aimed his grenade launcher at the Harbinger as it skidded to a halt and froze it with an ice dust filled grenade once it turned around.

Zwei barked to Saber and turned his head, causing the kitten to turn his head to see a Swarmer pouncing at him.

Saber hopped away, but the Swarmer managed to bite down on his collar. The lizard-like Grimm shook its head, causing Saber to grow dizzy, until he slipped out of his collar, slamming into the wall of the down Atlas battleship.

The blue eyed soldier turned to notice a new Grimm. A sabretooth tiger cub Grimm. He noticed a Swarmer roar at the kitten Grimm, before dashing at him.

Upon instinct, the blue eyed soldier dashed to intercept.

Luckily Zwei managed to bite down on the Swarmer's tail, throwing off its momentum. In fact, Zwei was strong enough to stop it in its tracks.

The Swarmer lifted its tail and swung it, causing Zwei to fly off.

The blue eyed soldier managed to tackle the Swarmer away, then fired an ice grenade at it, freezing it in place. The blue eyed soldier sighed, before turning to the Grimm kitten that shook its head free of a daze. The soldier didn't know what to make of it. He had a feeling that this was the kitten that saved him, but… it was a Grimm! Something meant to kill life, and yet it saved his own

And now he saved it… from another Grimm.

The sabretooth Grimm cub gave a meowing roar as it noticed Zwei was now surrounded by four more Swarmers.

Rolling into his blue ball form, his picked up high speed, causing a dust cloud to form from the velocity the ball was going at. After picking up enough speed, the blue ball fired at the Swarmers that pounced at Zwei. The blue ball form slammed into the face of one Swarmer, then ricochet to another, then another's and then the final one, sending all four flying.

The blue ball formed back into Saber, who landed on his feet next to Zwei.

The blue eyed solider took his chance and fired his ice grenades at the Swarmers, freezing them all in place.

He looked to Saber, shocked that once again, a Grimm saved a creature of organic life and most likely a soul. He's heard that thing about dog's having no souls, so he isn't really sure on the matter.

Zwei barked and hurried over to Saber's collar, retrieved it and returned it back to the kitten.

The blue eyed soldier walked over to the two. He knelt down next to Zwei, who turned his head to him. Extended his hand to the corgi, Zwei got the message and gave the collar to the soldier. Despite the chaos happening around them, the soldier remained calm as he undid the collar and wrapped it around Saber's neck, attaching it.

Saber transformed back into his one white striped black kitten form. Saber looked up to the blue eyed soldier and nodded in appreciation with Zwei barking with joy.

The two four legged creatures hurried off to fight off more Grimm.

The soldier stood up and watched their retreating forms. He blinked his eyes, before smiling.

They always say at Atlas to expect the unexpected, but he felt even this would have flabbergasted the highest of echelon would expect or believe this.

A large stomping was heard making the blue eyed soldier to turn to see Magnam Gigante, roaring as it was a bit away from him.

All the Atlesian soldier did was reload his grenade launcher with fire dust ammo with lightning ammo this time and aimed it at the Magnam Gigante, before firing.

Away from this action…

Nora and Liversnap were rushing all throughout the battlefield that was once the town square with Nora smacking any nearby Swarmers with her Magnhild, while Liversnap rammed into them and even sent them flying after a charge.

"Nothing can stop the power combo of Nora Valkyrie and Liversnap, the Ursa of Terror and Justice!" Nora cheered with a grin. However a Harbinger suddenly sucker charged them, slamming its hard dome skull into the side of Liversnap, sending the Ursa flying with Nora flying off of him. Nora slammed onto the ground back first with a hard 'oof'. "Maybe pause us, but we're not done!" Nora shouted. She heard bear moaning. "Liversnap?" Nora sat up to see the poor disguised Grimm on his side, scrunched up with pain. "Liversnap!" Nora cried with fear and worry for her pet. Nora turned and growled with rage as the Harbinger squawked loudly in a dino-bird fashion and scrapped its foot against the ground a few times. "Oh you just pissed off the wrong, Mamma Bear!" Nora shouted as she got to her feet and readied Magnhild.

"Kid! Get away!" An Atlas solider called out.

"Shut Up! Don't Get Involved!" Nora screamed with pure rage written all over her face, scaring the soldier and anyone who saw her. Nora growled as she turned back to the Harbinger. The Grimm narrowed its eyes at her. "I'm going to do more than break your legs, chicken." The Harbinger gave a roaring squawk, before charging. "Yeah, well your mother too!" Nora shouted as she twirled Magnhild in hand.

As the Harbinger was ready to bash her with its skull, she thrust the weight of Magnhild into its skull, causing a shockwave as the two stumbled back. Nora quickly changed her Warhammer into grenade launcher mode and with teeth gritted and grinding, she fired all her explosive dust ammo at the Harbinger, blowing it to oblivion.

"Nobody messes with my Liversnap." Nora said with an angered expression. Liversnap roared, causing Nora to turn to see Liversnap rushing towards her. "Liversnap!" Nora cheered with a grin and her arms wide open, but Liversnap charged forward at ramming speed. "Liversnap?" Nora gained a look of confusion, before Liversnap rammed into her, sending her flying. Nora rolled against the ground and was now on her back. 'Liversnap, why?' Nora thought with tears, but it turns out, Liversnap saved her from being struck by a Magnam Gigante that blasted him with lightning, sending him flying and skidding away; his fur charred. "LIVERSNAP!" Nora screamed, getting to her feet, but then she was struck by lightning from the same Magnam Gigante, sending her into a building.

The Magnam Gigante trekked over to where she went flying.

Liversnap moaned with pain as he slowly got up to his feet. His disguise collar was short circuiting, revealing his true form. He noticed the Magnam Gigante walking over to a wrecked building. Liversnap looked around for his master, but she was nowhere in sight. He put two and two together, and started to growl with rage as he glared at the Magnam Gigante. Liversnap charged at top speed and head-butted the Magnam in the ankle.

The giant Grimm looked down to find the 'bear' from earlier, which turned out to be an Ursa. He knew they were the same because the Ursa was wearing the same saddle. The Magnam growled with annoyance before swinging its leg, causing Liversnap to fall off and land on his back.

Liversnap quickly rolled to his side and got on all fours, now roaring at the Magnam. Liversnap charged, but the Magnam Gigante remained calm as it stomped its foot down forward towards Liversnap's charging direction, as a stalagmite shot out and struck Liversnap sending him skidding back.

The Magnam Gigante trekked over to the down Liversnap. A Grimm that protected life and fought its own kind to preserve the life of a child? Even a Grimm isn't stupid enough to ignore a fact like this. Grimm like this Ursa need to die, no second thoughts. Even Grimm have pride. The Magnam Gigante stopped in front of the down, moaning Liversnap. It opened its mouth charging up a blast of lightning within its throat. It raised its head as electricity coursed through its body, but before it could do anything else, it was pulled away a bit, shocking and confusing it. The Magnam turned its head to see the girl from earlier, Nora, was holding it by its tail.

Lightning coursed through Nora's being as her teeth were gritted so hard that gums were showing and her eyes were literally glowing with both powered-up lightning and rage.

"LEAVE… MY… BABY… ALONE!" Nora screamed as she started swing the Magnam Gigante around and around with all her new might. The Magnam was lifted high into the air and after reaching a high velocity, release it, causing it to fly off into the distance, roaring all the way into the sky until it was no longer seen anymore. Nora panted with anger, but then she remembered who she saved. She turned to see Liversnap still down, but worse, Atlas soldier were getting near him with rifles ready. "NO!" Nora screamed as she suddenly appeared over Liversnap. "NOBODY TOUCHES MY BABY! NO ONE! RUFF! RUFF, RUFF, RUFF, RUFF!" Nora was so pissed and overprotective, she was acting like a mad dog with her mouth foaming.

The soldiers… yeah, they weren't going near her.

Liversnap moaned as he lifted his head to see Nora.

"Liversnap!" Nora hugged her baby. "Oh, mommy's so happy you're still alive. Thank you for protecting me. Good Ursa. No, you're the best Ursa." Nora said as she hugged Liversnap closer, giving him all the love he needs and he returned it by licking Nora's face and rubbing his cheek against her own.

The surrounding soldiers stared at the sight with wide eyes.

"Well there's something you don't see every day." A soldier said.

"What this girl is, is something you don't see every day." Another Atlas soldier said.

Away from this action…

Ren was combating a Razor in a one on one battle. Ren played it smart and just dodged the best he could. Razors are powerful, that much is certain, but they seem to be so aggressive that they don't think about conserving stamina when they spot prey and they definitely don't think out a plan like the Hunters.

After dodging some attacks, the Razor sent a power stab, but Ren ducked under, surrounded the blades of StormFlower with his aura and sent dual slashes across the Grimm's neck, slitting its throat, before kicking it in the chest, sending himself flying away from it to give himself some distance. Once a good few feet away, Ren stared at the Grimm, expecting it to die, but it just stood up straight and traced one of its fingers across its neck, chuckling evilly with a wicked smile, as if insulting Ren.

Ren took a step back, shocked by the Grimm's sturdiness. Or is it that StormFlower isn't enough to take on these beasts.

The Razor started calmly walking over to Ren, not seeing him as a real threat, so it would just enjoy the pleasure of intimidating him.

However the blade of a halberd connected to a chain came flying and was about to bisect the Grimm in half, but the Razor leaped into the air avoiding it in time. However that was planned as Dove came diving with his sword ablaze and sliced off the Razors head off.

Once landing upon the ground, Dove spun his sword in hand and the chain of Sky's halberd retracted back into the staff, reforming the halberd to its whole form again.

Great. Now Ren was getting his butt saved by… those other two of Team CRDL. Seriously?! He's getting his butt saved by two guys whose names are constantly forgotten by him and his friends, except Jaune apparently, while he couldn't do much.

Ren looked to StormFlower with somber eyes. He's had them for a long time, but it seems that with much more powerful Grimm out there that they might not be up for the test when things get more difficult in life.

"You doing okay?" Sky asked walking over to Ren.

"Contemplating." Ren said staring at his automatic pistols/sickle combo weapons.

"You know, if you ever need an upgrade, just ask Reebok. He improved all of our weapons. Hell he even made Jaune's Excalibur and guns from what I heard. No doubt he could make something that packs a big punch yet still fits you." Sky explained.

Ren looked to him.

Not a bad idea actually.

"Thank you for the suggestion." Ren said with a nod. Ren looked to the side, causing Sky and Dove to turn to see a Magnam Gigante roaring at them.

"How many of these big ass ones are there?!" Dove screamed.

The Magnam Gigante took a stomp over to them, but a pair of purple pray mantis-like claws attacked to chains shot toward the Magnam Gigante and stabbed deep into its neck before pulling it down, causing it to roar in pain.

The person using the weapon was a tall, fit dark skin man with long white hair that even covered his face, but on the front of his hair where his face should be was a gold design of an eye inside of a triangle. He wore a snow white jacket with fashion shoulder pads, zipper area being golden, white belts wrapped around the forearms with golden buckles and two white straps attached to the back of his jacket, black fingerless gloves, black skin tight vest under his jacket that was unzipped a bit to reveal his chiseled pectorals, black leather belt with golden buckle, long midnight blue pants with belts wrapped around the calves with golden buckles and black glossy leather loafer looking boots. He had a golden chain necklace around his neck that had an oval shaped mirror attached to it and over his pectorals.

The person was pulling on the Magnam like it didn't weigh much, even though it was fighting back.

Two dust powered Gigantes charged at the white haired young man, but one had a lamp post thrown right through its head, impaled into its cranium and killed. The other one stopped and turned its head only to have a large metal fist fired at its face, breaking its jaw as it fell to the floor.

The Magnam Gigante roared as it tried fighting back against the claw chains, but a massive hunk of armor rushed over, got between its legs and sent a back punch that was so powerful it knocked one foot off balance, causing the Grimm to fall to the floor.

Brokk, the giant armored man of team UMBR, leaped into the air and delivered a powerful dual stomp upon the Magnam's head, crushing it beneath his armored feet. He brought his handless arm up as the iron fist from earlier went back to him and reattached.

"I'm surprised you helped me." The white haired young man said.

"Don't get any ideas." Brokk said. Suddenly he was hit by a bile substance from behind, courtesy of a Swarmer. "Damn Mother-" suddenly more Swarmers broke from the ground and attached onto him, biting and scratching his armor.

The dark skinned white haired young man was ready to use his claws, but suddenly one of the Swarmers were sliced apart. The rest were shot at the heads, loosening their grips.

Brokk roared as his armor turned completely red and aura burst from it, sending the Swarmers flying and dissipating into ash.

"Looks like you're going to need to say thanks again." The white haired young man said pointing one of his chain claws to a girl in black who had just killed the Swarmer that spat bile at Brokk.

"You okay?" Blake asked.

"I could have handled that." Brokk said walking away, causing Blake to raise an eyebrow.

"Don't worry about him." The tall dark skinned young man said to Blake.

Brokk suddenly roared, causing the two to turn to him to see Brokk charging at a Scourge that was smashing Atlas soldiers to death along with slamming away Paladins firing at it with plasma blasts and missiles that had no effect on it, except annoy it, especially when struck in the head.

"Should we-"

"No. He won't tolerate it anymore." The white haired young man said. "The names Prateek by the way." The dark skinned you man introduced himself to Blake with his hand extended to her.

Brokk roared as he ran as fast as he could, but then the rockets of his suit fired causing him to increase speed, ready to attack the giant Grimm, but suddenly another Scourge came in and punched the first one in the face.

"Huh?" Brokk skidded to a halt, now confused on what just happened. He looked up at the Scourge that attacked its comrade only to notice Madeline atop its shoulder, patting the side of the Scourge's head as her own top hat was atop the Scourge's head. "Dammit, Madeline! That was my kill!" Brokk shouted.

"Don't look at me. Doris is the one controlling this thing." Madeline called out.

"Damn, stupid mouse." Brokk said with annoyance.

"Oi! Don't curse out my mouse, bloke!" Madeline shouted. The Scourge that was decked by the controlled one roared as it got to its feet, ready to get some payback. "Good day, sir!" Madeline exclaimed as she stood up straight with her head held up and adjusting her sleeve bow-tie. The Scourge she was on moved forward, ready to fight one on one with the other Scourge it pissed off.

"Guh, dang loon." Brokk said with annoyance, turning around only to find a Rampage smashing away a Paladin. Brokk grinned from within his armor. Brokk rushed at the Rampage. The Grimm turned to him. Narrowing its eyes, it kicked its front foot back a bit and charged at Brokk. Brokk skidded to a halt, seeing as he got the Grimm's attention, then he dropped to his hands and knees as the long, massive cannon chained to his back started to glow red from the barrel. "Become Ash!" Brokk screamed, but suddenly a Gigante bashed into the Rampage's side, shocking Brokk, as the dino-Grimm stomped on the Rampage's side. Golden strings shined near the Rampage for a moment, then golden spots on the skin of the Grimm shined for a moment as well.

The Rampage's eyes shined gold for a second. The Gigante took its foot off allowing the Rampage to get to its feet.

The Rampage roared before it charged at a group of Harbingers, sending them flying.

Brokk got to his feet and looked up at the Gigante to see the sole female of Team RRAD, Ariadne to smile down at him with a thumbs up.

"I DON'T NEED ANY HELP!" Brokk screamed causing Ariadne to flinch, along with the Gigante under her control.

She developed a dull look before ordering the Gigante to walk away.

"Jerk." Ariadne said as she and her ride moved along.

A bit away from this…

"ICE FLOWER!" Ruby's voice echoed as she and Weiss used their combo with Schnee Heiress summon a glyph and infuse ice dust into it right before Ruby starting firing rounds in it as well, sending ice enhanced sniper bullets out that went flying towards Grimm. The two were targeting the ones that weren't of massive size, like the Swarmers, Harbingers, Hunters and Razors. The Razor Thins had completely run out some time ago. At least that was an upside.

What wasn't an upside was when one of the bullets nailed a Rampage in the eye, causing it to roar in pain and new rage.

"Whoops." Ruby said with new worry.

"Nice going, Ruby." Weiss said with annoyance, but was more afraid of the Grimm that now had its sights set on them.

The Rampage glared at them with now only a left eye as its right eye was completely frozen with ice crystals sticking out.

"It's gonna come right for us, isn't it?" Ruby asked.

"Yep." Weiss said. However the white haired maiden noticed something attached at the tip of the Rampage's tail. "Is that… a Nova crystal?!" Weiss exclaimed with shock.

"What?" Ruby looked to Weiss, but then her partner bolted towards the Grimm. "Weiss!" Ruby called out with worry and fear for her partner.

"It may be small, but I must have it!" Weiss exclaimed with a grin.

The Rampage roared as he charged forward. Weiss turned on her heels as she summoned a glyph under her feet, causing her to dash off to the side. The Rampage skidded to a halt, just as Weiss summoned another glyph that caused her to dash to the left, then another that had her jump high into the air where another glyph was summoned, sending her rocketing towards the Rampage's tail, slicing the tip off and grabbed the crystal.

The Rampage roared with pain as it stood up on its hind legs.

Weiss landed and thrust the crystal up into the air as she had a huge grin on her face.

"It's Mine!" Weiss cheered as the Rampaged stomped back onto the ground, turned to her with glaring narrowed eyes. "It's mine, it's mine! No One Can Have It!" Weiss shouted as she ran off with the Rampage chasing after her.

Ruby blinked her now wide eyes as she watched her partner run off like a bit of a mad woman with a big dino-like Grimm chasing after her.

"Huh… those Nova crystals must be really cool if Weiss went a bit bonkers for a small piece just now." Ruby said. Unknown to her, something was sneaking up behind her.

Up above in the sky, Jaune was panting as he stared down at all the destruction. He was looking left to right, seeing Atlas soldiers, Atlesian Knights and Paladins get sent flying, crushed, slam and just straight up demolished.

A Rampage charged at a group of Atlas soldiers, and once struck, Jaune saw everything black figures in a red world with black fluid coming out the human figures.

A Scourge roared then slammed its armored arm upon a Paladin, causing Jaune to see a red world with something crushed gushing black liquid.

Jaune heard screaming making him turn to see Swarmers spitting bile at the faces of Atlas soldiers, causing them to scream that their faces were burning. Some took off their helmets, only for Swarmers to pounce upon them and bite down upon their face. The result being as one would expect, but Jaune still saw all in red and black.

Jaune panted with his breathing being hitched. He was sweating profoundly.

Pyrrha was sweating as well, but for different reasons. Jaune's aura was spiking to the point that she felt them affect her body temperature.

"Jaune... Jaune! Jaune, you're heating up." Pyrrha said moving Jaune's shoulder, trying to get his attention, but he remained wide eyed with fear, panting as his body was being drenched in sweat. He reached a shaking hand to one of his pistols, but he was becoming a wreck. Pyrrha was absolutely worried, but she managed to notice something. Down below, a Razor was sneaking behind Ruby with its arm raised, ready to slice her apart with its one large, long, thick claw. "JAUNE! RUBY'S IN TROUBLE!" Pyrrha screamed.

That did it. He was knocked out of his horrified state and turned to notice Ruby was about to be sucker clawed by a Razor.

"NO! RUBY!" Jaune screamed.

"Jaune! Throw Me!" Pyrrha shouted. She grabbed his face and forced him to look to her. "Throw Me Now!" Pyrrha ordered.

Jaune just roared as he threw Pyrrha with all his might down towards Ruby and the Razor.

Pyrrha quickly brought out her shield and as she managed to get in between Ruby and the Razor, she brought up her shield, only for when the Razor struck, which led to a scream.

Ruby perked her head and turned, only to see Pyrrha lying on the floor, scarred again diagonally across the chest with her shield sliced in half again.

"PYRRHA!" Ruby screamed as she ran over to the injured warrior.

She held the down and unconscious Mistral champion in her arms to see she got another injury over to the chest, but as the last one was from upward right down diagonally to lower left, this one was up left down to right bottom. Together would make a perfect X over her chest.

The Razor roared as it made its way over.

Ruby tried to grab her Crescent Rose to deliver a headshot, but the Razor was already in front of the two red heads with both arms raised, ready to finish things. However it froze in place with wide eyes as it felt a terrifying, or at least terrifying to itself, presence behind itself.

Behind it was a light of gold with golden wings.

It turned its head, only to have its face to be immediately grabbed. It roared, but its head was immediately incinerated; its body falling to the floor, before dissolving into ash.

Jaune stared down at the disappearing cloud of black ash with a stoic expression.

"I'm sorry." Jaune looked to see Ruby hugging an unconscious Pyrrha close to herself. "I'm sorry I was weak." Ruby said with tears in her eyes.

Jaune's eyes widened, hearing Ruby say that. He walked over, knelt down in front of her and placed a hand on her shoulder.

"You shouldn't be sorry for that. Pyrrha knew the risk. The best you can do is learn from this situation." Jaune said to his girlfriend, whose eyes didn't look away from the unconscious Pyrrha's face. Jaune continued to stare at Ruby. "Ruby… take Pyrrha and get away from here. Get to any of our comrades." Jaune said. Ruby sobbed, continuing to stare at Pyrrha. "Ruby, did you hear me?" Jaune asked.

Ruby stared at Pyrrha for a moment, before wiping her tears away with a sleeve.

"Yes." Ruby said with a nod.

"Alright." Jaune said. He placed his hand on Pyrrha's chest and sent his aura to her, causing her own aura to react and start healing the wound at a livelier rate. Jaune had then helped Ruby with getting Pyrrha up and managed to put the Mistral champion onto Ruby's back.

"Oof! She's heavier than she looks." Ruby said.

"Imagine her being awake when you said that." Jaune said with a smirk.

"I-I'm sure it's mostly the armor." Ruby said feeling nervous and bad about what she said.

Jaune couldn't help, but chuckle. He suddenly kissed Ruby's cheek, causing her to blush.

"Good luck. Make sure she's safe. Make sure you're both safe." Jaune said with somber eyes.

"You can count on me." Ruby said with a nod and a more serious expression. Ruby suddenly got on her tiptoes and kissed Jaune on the cheek, surprising him. "Stay safe too." Ruby said as she then quickly rushed off, using her semblance.

Jaune watched the scattered petals fall to the floor, leaving a trail. He slowly closed his eyes as he started to open the flood gates, allowing all dark memories to flow.

He started seeing flashes of people bleeding, lying dead on the floor, cough before falling to the floor, being stabbed, shot, choked, etc. and being attacked by Grimm.

Jaune bit his bottom lip so hard it started to bleed.

But the worst was yet to come…

Jaune started remembering the deaths of all his loved ones. His family and friends.

Certain ones came to mind.

A Dragon Grimm breaking through glass and eating a white haired woman, a tall dark haired man with a robotic arm being stabbed by a giant blade, a blonde woman tossed off of a cliff with a noose around her neck, a cat Faunus stabbed by four tentacles then once spread out in a snap was torn apart, a blue haired young man drowning in dark blood colored liquid, a blonde with a monkey tail on his hands and knees before his head was sliced off, another white haired woman, only taller than the last, charged forward only for a darkness with red glowing eyes surrounding her before quickly consuming her, a tall blonde man holding his throat as he coughed with black mist surrounding him before falling unconscious upon the ground, a dark spikey haired man lying on the ground, trying to support himself on one arm, only to get shot directly through the head, an orange haired girl being eaten by a snake, a dark haired man with a magenta streak through his hair shooting himself through the head, a long blonde haired woman being sliced bisected in half horizontally across the waist, three young, small figured being surrounded and then consumed by darkness with red glowing eyes and finally a woman in a red hooded cloak being stabbed through the chest.

Memory lane was breaking his heart… he was counting on it... and it was working.

"Stay Away!" Weiss screamed as she was continued to be chased by the Rampage. She summoned a glyph that increased her speed, then another beneath her feet, causing her to leap high into the air, back flipping over the Rampage. She landed upon a higher level of debris, being higher than the Rampage.

The Rampage turned to her with a growl and narrowed eyes, but it suddenly perked up its head with wide eyes and its head turned to a certain direction.

Weiss raised an eyebrow at the sudden behavior.

The Rampage started to walk away, confusing Weiss.

Weiss watched the large Grimm walk away, completely ignoring her.

Weiss hopped off of the debris and watched the Grimm walk away without a care in the world.

"Well that's odd." Weiss said. Suddenly a blast of red sped pass her, making her flinch, but the moment she noticed rose petals floating in the air and descending to the ground, she knew who that was. "Ruby?"

A bit away, Yang was panting as she was with Goodwitch. The two have been working together, fighting together and watching each other's back. They were both panting as they were surrounded by Harbingers and Swarmers.

Goodwitch had been putting the most effort in their fight, but she was reaching her limit once more. Yang was acting more as a support for her, against the ones that managed to slip by her and go for an unguarded weak spot.

The Swarmers hissed with some having green saliva dripping from their mouths.

Three Swarmers fired bile at the two, but Goodwitch quickly used her telekinesis to stop them in midair and form them as one.

Yang fired blast at the Grimm, forcing them to spread out to avoid the blasts.

Goodwitch split the bile into many pellet shaped pieces and forced them back at the Swarmers and Harbinger, managing to blind some of them, causing them to scream.

"Nice one!" Yang complimented.

"Thank you, but it's still not much. We're going to be bombarded any moment now." Goodwitch said.

"Then I'll make a path." Yang said as she opened up the chambers of Ember Celica and put in new shotgun ammo rounds.

"That plan won't work. Even if we do make a path, they would catch up. Mainly the Harbingers." Glynda said.

"The bird ones?" Yang asked, just as one charged at her, ready to bash her with its skull, but Glynda used her telekinesis to skid it to a halt in front of Yang, allowing her to uppercut the damn thing into the air.

"Yes. These ones are able to run up to sixty seven miles per hour. So it would be easy for them to chase us and used their heads." Glynda said.

"Jeez! How come we weren't prepared for these?!" Yang screamed as the Grimm with slowly stalking their way over, enjoying the feel of a helpless pray while it lasted.

"I'm afraid these are reserved for second year learning. A fact that I feel must change now." Glynda said.

A Harbinger gave a roaring squawk before charging at the two, but it skidded to a halt in front of them and perked it head up looking to the side.

Yang took her opportunity and punched the bird away, sending it flying. Yang panted with red eyes, but they returned to lilac as she noticed all the other Harbingers and Swarmers were looking somewhere else.

They all ran off to a certain direction, leaving Glynda and Yang alone.

Yang and Glynda were genuinely confused, both having raised eyebrows and blinking eyes.

"That was odd... does it say anything about that in the text books?" Yang asked the headmistress.

"No." Glynda said.

A being of red rushed over, alerting Glynda who quickly used her telekinesis on it, freezing Ruby, carrying Pyrrha piggyback style, in the air.

"Ruby!" Yang exclaimed.

Glynda released her telekinetic abilities, allowing Ruby to fall to the floor with an 'oof', as she was crushed beneath Pyrrha's body.

"What happened?" Yang asked walking over to the two.

"Careful. Pyrrha's hurt." Ruby said.

"What happened to her?" Yang asked.

"What happened?" Weiss asked as she made it over to them.

"Pyrrha got hurt." Ruby said.

"How?" Weiss asked.

"Buff Grimm with razors out of arms." Ruby said.

"Sounds like the one that attacked us back in the Emerald Forest." Blake said as she showed up. "All the Grimm are heading somewhere else." Blake informed.

"Hmm?" Pyrrha started to wake up. "Wha…" Pyrrha held her, feeling like her lights were sent out. "What's happened?"

"Pyrrha… can you get off me please?" Ruby asked causing the Mistral Champion to look down at her, before shrieking a bit and hopping to her feet.

"Sorry~." Pyrrha apologized with remorse, but then she flinched grunting as she held her chest and stumbled a bit.

"Pyrrha!" Weiss quickly went to Pyrrha's side and made sure she didn't fall over.

"What happened to…" Pyrrha started, but she heard sobbing.

"I'm sorry." Ruby said, now on her knees. "I should have paid more attention. Then you wouldn't have gotten…" Ruby felt guilty as she wiped away her tears.

Pyrrha had a somber expression, staring down at Ruby. She gently knelt down and place a hand on Ruby's shoulder, causing the reaper to look to her.

"I do not and will never blame you for what happened. What matters is that you're safe. This wound is nothing compared to your safety." Pyrrha said with a gentle smile.

Ruby sobbed a bit with teary eyes. She suddenly hugged Pyrrha, surprising the champ out of the blue.

"It's something to me. I don't want it to happen again." Ruby said.

Pyrrha gently patted Ruby's head as she returned the hug.

Yang was pouting at the scene before her.

'That's my job.'

They all heard whistling making them turn to see Kurt, from Team RKLY whistling to them.

"Uh… what?" Yang asked.

Kurt whistled again, as if trying to communicate.

"Use your words." Weiss said with a dull glare.

"He said…" The leader of Team RKLY Reagan, walked over holding her hands up as a Hunter was floating in front of her right hand and a Harbinger was floating in front of her left hand, both crying with fear, before he tightened her hands into fists, causing their bodies to scrunch up and roll into a ball, before the gravity around them tightened to much that sickening bone cracks were heard, before they started dissolving into black ash. "The Grimm are all heading towards your blonde friend." Reagan said pointing to a certain making everyone turn only to gasp to see all the Grimm making their way towards Jaune.

"Jaune! No!" Ruby screamed.

Kurt whistled to his leader.

"Beats me, but to attract all of them?" Reagan narrowed her eyes at Jaune.

All the Grimm, from the Swarmers to Rampages to Scourges were making their way over to Jaune. They never felt such a high amount of negativity before, and from one person? It almost felt like being offered an opportunity to take a sip of God's liquor from his famous chalice.

"Jaune, you've gained their attention. Now would be a perfect time to take action." C Ozpin said.

And take action Jaune did. He reached into one of his pouches and took out a lightning dust crystal. He put half of the crystal into his mouth and sent aura to his jaws to increase the biting force of his teeth.

C Ozpin knew what he was planning and all he could say was…

"Oh bother."

Jaune bit the dust crystal in half and started chewing it up into smaller pieces, before swallowing them up. After a few moments, and Swarmers getting so near him they were ready to bite his face off, Jaune's eyes burst open as they were pure yellow with lightning coursing out the sides of them.

Suddenly faster than the eye could see, the Swarmers and Harbingers were all sliced apart to pieces.

Jaune was a bit away on one knee with his sword, Excalibur out to the side. The Grimm looked to him with confusion as he stood up straight. Suddenly he vanished as a Magnam Gigante's head was sliced off and Jaune above the stump where the head used to be attached to. Jaune quickly put Excalibur on his back and took out Arc Gold and Silver Eye faster than the eye could see, before shooting out rounds of ammo that had been enhanced with his aura and current lightning powers all around below, nailing Swarmers, Harbingers and any remaining Hunters, Razors and Razor Thins.

Once Jaune landed on the ground he sped pass between the legs of a Gigante, flew up, grabbed it by the tail and with all his might, swung it with all his might, sending it slamming into another Gigante.

A Scourge rushed over to crush Jaune, but he disappeared and appeared above the building tall Grimm. The Scourge brought its heavily armored arm up to block, but Jaune flew down faster than the eye could see with the sound of metal in the air.

After a moment, the Scourge gave a moaning roar of agony as it was slowly being split apart as it turned out to be sliced in half from its head to groin. The beast turned to a cloud of darkness that spread out through the area.

Jaune flew straight into the air and curled into a ball as he glowed with electricity coursing throughout his body. He then let out a huge roar as he snapped his body open with arms and legs out as golden electricity shout all throughout his body and struck the nearest soulless entity.

The surrounding Grimm from large to small roared and screamed in pain before they exploded, with the larger ones having their heads struck and exploding instead of their entire bodies. Only a few Grimm were lucky enough to stray out of the attacks radius.

Two Rampages and a few powered up Gigantes knew their chances were very slim. Even if they can somehow defeat the number of humans, bots and mechs that outnumber them, this golden winged child was going to wipe the floor with them, so they did the only smart thing to do.

They let out a bellowing roar into the sky that sent shockwaves throughout the area.

"Oh no." Glynda said with new worry.

"What's up?" Yang asked.

"… They're calling for help."

"Oh That Idiot!" Reebok shouted with annoyance, meters away from the others. He was with Aaden, Ren, Nora and Liversnap.

"What's wrong?" Aaden asked.

"He ate a dust crystal, that's what's wrong!" Reebok shouted.

"Wait… Jaune's that strong because he ate a dust crystal?" Nora asked.

"Yeah, but I doubt he ate a whole one. He most likely had a little bit to give him this boost, but- what are you doing?" Reebok noticed Nora take out five vials of lightning dust ammo and opened them all up with a grin. "Nora, No!" Reebok shouted, but it was too late as Nora swallowed all the powder inside.

Nora smacked her lips as her tongue moved, only to stick her tongue out in disgust with reveal some yellow on it.

"Gross. It tastes worse than chalk." Nora commented, and to a lesser extent admitted to eating chalk before. "Oh, cool, my tongue is-" but before she could finish that sentence, electricity spark from her tongue and then she felt it course all throughout her body. "Oh~~~~~, I feel… I feel…" Nora then shot off of Liversnap and into the air screaming "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" as an immense battle cry with her Warhammer in hand, striking up into the air as lightning shot from it and into the sky. Nora landed upon the ground in a bent position with Magnhild held tightly within her hands and coursing with lightning, along with herself. Nora stood up straight as she showed off a brightly shining toothy grin and her eyes glowing gold. "It's time for RAGNAROK!" Nora screamed before faster than the lightning, she appeared above one of the roaring Rampages and crushed its skull with Magnhild so hard, it created a large shockwave that dug a deep hole into the ground; looking like something Yatsuhashi would unleash.

"Whoa… nice." Aaden said.

"Not Nice! Bad! Very Bad!" Reebok shouted.

"HEY! Everyone Eat Dust! It Makes You Super Powerful!" Nora shouted before she dashed all the way towards a Gigante's leg, breaking it off with one swing. "I Wasn't Even Trying That Time!" Nora exclaimed with a big toothy grin.

"Oh Gods! Now she's spreading the word!" Reebok cried.

Cardin, hearing what Nora shouted, took out his fire dust crystal with a raised eyebrow. Stomping was heard, making him and everyone look around to find more Grimm, ranging from the smaller, weaker ones like Beowolves, all the way to large ones like the Scourges, making their way towards the town square.

"Screw it." Cardin said as he bit down upon his dust crystal and bit it in half, then chewed on its, before breaking it down upon it enough to make it small enough for him to swallow. After he did, he waited a few moments, before his eyes widened as his irises glowed red for a moment. He grinned as he held his mace tightly. He gave a battle cry as he charged towards a group of arriving Creeps and when he was a good distance close to them, he slammed his mace down into the ground as a trail of fire plumes chased towards them group and once making contact with a few, exploded into a shockwave of fire, sending more Creeps flying. "Yes!" Cardin cheered with a grin.

"Huh… not bad." Aaden said, before taking out a wind crystal.

"Aaden, Wait!" Reebok cried out, but his teammate ate part of his wind dust crystal and swallowed it. His eyes widened as he felt light with his eyes shining green for a moment. He suddenly sped off, picking up harsh winds as he flew straight at a horde of Beowolves and Ursai without the use of his mechanical wings.

"I'm guessing it's not good to eat pieces of dust crystals." Ren said.

"No… no it is not." Reebok said with a frown.

Back with the group consisting of Team RWBY, Pyrrha, Glynda and the RK of team RKLY, they saw what three more students eating dust crystals was able to do with a new boost of power.

"I don't believe it. I've heard of infusing dust into clothes and even into your body through puncture, but I didn't expect eating them to be a very helpful way for combat." Weiss said with amazement.

"They're not." Reagan said.

Yang was too busy having her attention on something else. She was grinning seeing her fellow colleagues powering up just by eating dust crystals. She decided to jump into the trend. She reached her hand over to Weiss and faster than the heiress could react, she took a fire dust crystal from one of her pouches tied to her belt.

"Hey!" Weiss shouted.

"Yang, No!" Glynda shouted, but Yang quickly chopped down onto half of the dust crystal.

"Huh. It's kind of like rock candy." Yang said while chewing, before she swallowed. "If it tasted like crap." Yang said with a pout. Her eyes immediately widened, before she roared as her body exploded with flames, but the flames did not hurt her or burn or char her body in any way; instead a large plume of fire surrounded her very being.

Yang dug her foot so deep into the ground that it formed a crater, before she fired forward with a roar and her fist cocked back before she was in range of a Rampage and slammed her first right through its face, causing blood and black ooze to shoot out as its entire face was caved in and the rest of its head broke apart like concrete struck by a wrecking ball.

Weiss, Blake, Ruby and Pyrrha stared with wide bulging eyes at the simple feat Yang pulled off just by eating part of a fire dust crystal.

"Weiss, can I have one?" Ruby asked.

"No." Weiss said with a dull look.

"Oh come on. Just a nibble of that Nova crystal. Please~." Ruby pleaded with shimmering puppy dog eyes and a hopeful smile.

"Are you high or crazy?! I'd rather have my skin peeled like an orange!" Weiss shouted, stepping away from Ruby.

"Miss Rose, you do not wish to do that. Devouring a dust crystal, even half alone is harmful to the body. Granted because it would enter inside the body where it is most sensitive that means the body utilizes its magical properties easier and to a much stronger degree than normal methods, even more so than puncturing the skin with one, but it works as a double edged. Despite granting the devourer power, it is only a temporary boost and eating too much causing dust poisoning." Glynda explained.

"Dust poisoning? You mean the dust messes you up from the inside after having too much? How bad?" Ruby asked.

"All depends. If you're used to consuming dust this way than you build up an immunity as you get used to it, but even so too much is still a bad thing. Even a whole dust crystal devoured by an amateur can lead to very serious consequences." Glynda said.

"That should have been obvious." Weiss said.

"Wait… Jaune's been eating those things, so… he's been poisoning himself?!" Ruby screamed with worry and fear for her boyfriend.

"Essentially!" Reebok's voice was heard in the distance.

"Jaune, you idiot." Pyrrha said as she, Ruby, Weiss and Blake looked up at him.

Jaune raised a hand as he started firing barrages of Spirit Lances at various Grimm, striking them in the heads. He tightly gripped the hilt of Excalibur and gave a battle cry as he rushed over towards three Scourges and sliced their heads off.

Jaune flew up higher into the air, but managed to turn his eyesight to see Vlad's faction firing at the arriving Grimm from the roofs.

Vlad's eyes met Jaune's. Vlad had a widening smirk upon his face, while Jaune narrowed his eyes. Vlad's eyes looked down, causing Jaune to follow to notice he was looking to Reebok, who was firing guiding rockets from a multi-chambered rocket launcher the C.I.C. formed into. Jaune's eyes widened with fear as he knew what this meant.

'He guessed… and now he knows!' Jaune thought with rising fear.

'Guess my hunch was right. You're emotion and love of others turn you into an open book, Jaune.' Vlad thought with a grin.

Jaune got angry as he gave a battle cry as he dived down towards the ground, picked up himself before he made contact with the ground and flew forward straight into a horde of Grimm and sliced them all apart, the smaller ones and slicing the legs of the bigger ones apart.

Reebok continued to fight with Ren beside him, but then he sensed a vibration in his neck from the micro-chip inside, alerting him that he was getting a text from his scroll. He took it out to notice a message from Jaune that turned him pale.

Vlad's got his eyes on you. He's on to us. Do not summon the Order of Arc no matter what. We have to be on our toes. – Jaune.

Reebok's frown widened as his shoulders slumped.

"I'm dead." Reebok whimpered.

A Swarmer pounced from behind him, but a saw blade from nowhere sliced its head off.

Levitating over was Lucia of team RKLY.

"You should be more aware." Lucia said.

"I'm dead." Reebok whimpered.

"Are you okay?" Lucia asked with some concern.

"What's with the shrimp?" Silver Ula, leader of Team UMBR, made her way over, with Red and Penny.

"Alexander?" Penny spoke her close male companion's name with concern.

"I'm dead." Reebok whimpered.

"Quit exaggerating." Red said with his fists to his hips.

"I'm dead." Reebok whimpered.

"STOP SAYING THAT!" Ula shouted within Reebok's ear, leaning closer to the green haired genius.

"… I'm dead." Reebok whimpered.

Ula blinked her eyes with an eyebrow raised.

"Weird~. That usually works." Silver Ula said standing back up straight with her left hand on her hip.

'What in the world has got him so spooked?' Ren wondered after he finished off a several Creeps. He heard Liversnap roar, making him turn to see the Ursa running towards Nora, who was on her hand and knees, moaning with pain as she held her stomach. "Nora!" Ren called out as he ran over to her.

"I don't feel so good." Nora whined as Liversnap tapped his snout against her cheek to see if she could go on.

A bit away, Cardin was leaning against a wall of debris, holding his stomach in pain.

"Damn… I wonder if this is what a stomach feels like after having beer." Cardin said with a strained voice.

An Ursa Major rushed over at Cardin, roaring as it was ready to kill, but Velvet hopped in out of nowhere and slammed a double kick to the face of the Grimm, sending it flying away.

Velvet turned and rushed over to Cardin.

"Are you alright?" Velvet asked, placing a hand on his shoulder.

"I think I just ate something bad." Cardin said as his cheeks puffed up a bit as he fought back the function to vomit. "What happened to Melanie?"

"The girl in white? I saw her run off with her sister and the rest of her friends when the Atlas forces got here." Velvet answered.

"Bummer." Cardin said hanging his head. "What about Russel? You've seen him lately?" A scream was heard causing the two to turn to see Russel sprinting away from several Creeps and Beowolves. "Never mind. He's doing fine."

A bit away, Yang had her hands on her knees, panting as her face was drenched in sweat.

"You think this is enough to keep me down?" Yang asked with gritting teeth. Her eyes widened with rage as they turned red. "THIS IS NOTHING! I'LL TAKE YOU ALL ON!" Yang screamed shooting up with her fists tightened and her arms out to the side as in front of her came a horde of Grimm of varying size.

"Yang!" Ruby cried out as she, the rest of Team RWBY and Pyrrha rushing over to help.

"The Cavalry Is Here!" Sun shouted as he and his team rushed over to help as well.

With the amount of Grimm rushing over, Yang needed all the help she needed, especially since her stomach wasn't acting right.

Away from this, Aaden was on one knee panting as he held his stomach. He suddenly vomited out of nowhere.

'What the hell's happening?' Aaden wondered as he was being surrounded by Grimm.

Creeps and Swarmers rushed at him, but they were sliced apart and then Aaden was suddenly lifted off the ground and went flying into the air.

He looked to see Jaune had saved him.

Jaune looked around to the ground below until he found Reebok with others. Jaune flew down towards them and once getting close, gently placed Aaden next to Reebok.

"I'm dead." Reebok whimpered. Jaune suddenly slapped him in the back of the head. "Ow! Thank you." Reebok said with a stoic expression as he rubbed the back of his head.

"Guess fly boy beat me to the punch." Ula said, before turning and sending a silver blade of energy flying that soon cut a Rampage horizontally in half.

"Jaune! I'm dead!" Reebok shouted with fear as he grabbed his best friend by the chest plate.

"I see you got the message. Just stay calm and listen to my instructions." Jaune said gently pushing Reebok off. Jaune wiped some sweat from his brow.

"The dust crystals effecting you too right now." Reebok said.

"I'll be fine." Jaune said.

"Not for long. If you know about that little power up then you had do have known about dust poisoning if you're not careful." Ula said.

"You should have warned me about that Alex before I flew off." Aaden said rubbing his stomach.

"What part of 'He ate a dust crystal, that's what's wrong' DID YOU NOT UNDERSTAND?!" Reebok screamed as he started to bop his fists lightly atop of Aaden's head and back.

"Ow! Alex, what the hell?!" Aaden shouted, shocked by Reebok's behavior.

"Guys!" Ariadne called out as she rushed over, meeting the rest of her team, only to see the genius of the ground bopping their aerial expert for some reason. "What did I… never mind. I just got info from an Atlas solider with handsome blue eyes that we might need to evacuate back to Beacon along with civilians." Ariadne said.

"What?! How come?!" Red shouted with shock.

"This whole incident is city wide! Grimm keep popping out of nowhere! The whole city is being overrun by these guys and more keep coming out of nowhere! There's looks to be no end in sight! The only way to save everyone is to retreat to Beacon with the surviving populace." Ariadne explained.

Everyone just stared at her in shock. They could not believe the problem was this big. This whole time they were only fighting in the center of an all-out storm.

Jaune bit his lip, causing it to bleed, but the blood quickly evaporated.

A Paladin went flying over them and landed had, breaking apart internally except for an arm that completely came off after contact.

"That was the last Paladin." Penny said.

"Oh my Oum…" Aaden said with shock.

"Everyone." They all turned to see Ren, carrying an unconscious Nora on his back with Liversnap walking beside him. "They sent out a call. They're sending heavily armored ships to pick us up." Ren informed.

"What about the city?" Lucia asked.

"I'm afraid they said they are bringing in a fleet to take care of the mess. A large one." Ren said with a frown.

Everyone couldn't speak.

This… was unbelievable.

In order to save lives, they city might have to be destroyed.

"No." Everyone looked to Jaune. "That's not gonna happen." Jaune said with narrowed eyes.

"Jaune… please no more risky ideas. You've pushed your body far already, too much and you might do critical damage to yourself!" Reebok said. He knew Jaune was thinking of doing something insanely risky. It was just obvious at this point.

"I made a promise to never let this shit happen again! I'm sick of people die all around me while I do nothing!" Jaune shouted.

"Jaune, you've done more today than anyone else. Don't push yourself more than necessary." Ren said, now being in fear for his team leader's life.

"I'm gonna find Ruby." Jaune said.

"Ruby?" Ren questioned, before Jaune sped away.

"Jaune, Wait!" Reebok screamed. "Goddammit!"

Teams RWBY, SSSN, Pyrrha along with Glynda and half of Team RKLY were fighting off surrounding Grimm, but things were getting overwhelming.

"What happened to your friend? You know the one with those arrows from earlier?" Neptune asked Reagan.

"I had him help out the Atlas soldiers. They looked like they needed his help more than us." Reagan said.

They all heard screaming as they saw Raihau, of team UMBR get sent flying across the town square.

Kurt whistled something.

"Yeah I figured." Reagan said.

"What did he say?" Pyrrha asked.

"He said they'll have to cancel the Vytal tournament at this rate." Reagan translated.

"Dammit… I hate these things… I HATE THESE THINGS MORE THAN ANYTHING!" Yang screamed followed by a Hunter roaring as it and other Grimm charged at them.

"Incoming!" Sun screamed, but suddenly the surrounding Grimm got sliced apart. There standing with them was Jaune.

"Jaune!" Ruby and Pyrrha cheered with glad smile.

"Hey, Reagan, right? You strong enough to make a big path towards there?" Jaune asked pointing to a certain direction.

"Hmph." Reagan concentrated aura into her gauntlets, causing them to glow brightly. She roared as she sent her hands towards that direction, causing a force of gravity to break through Grimm and debris that lead to Reebok and his group. "Simple." Reagan said, but Kurt whistled something. "Shut up!" Reagan exclaimed.

"Everyone group together with them." Jaune said before he unleashed a roar and sent a slash from Excalibur with so much force, it sliced a good number of Grimm.

"Hell no! We're standing here with you to fight!" Yang shouted.

"Blake?"

"Shut up and move, Yang." Blake said as she grabbed Yang's arm and managed to put the blonde on her back.

"Everyone go, now!" Glynda ordered.

Everyone hurried off to meet their comrades, except Ruby and Pyrrha.

"Glynda gave you an order." Jaune said.

"We're not leaving you behind with these guys!" Ruby exclaimed.

"I'm not going to fight all these guys alone." Jaune said.

"You're not?" Ruby asked as she and Pyrrha were confused.

"No. I'm going to take them all out in one shot." Jaune said with narrowed eyes.

"WHAT?!" Ruby and Pyrrha screamed.

"Jaune, that's insane and stupid!" Pyrrha shouted.

"She's right! You can't-" suddenly she was silenced as Jaune brought her close and locked his lips to her own.

Certain Grimm, such as Hunters, Razors and Harbingers raised their eyebrows in confusion at this.

Humans… their strange behavior of… whatever the hell this is, is just damn confusing.

Jaune slowly separated from Ruby and stared down at her wide eyes of wonder with somber eyes.

"I don't want to lose you." Jaune said with a sad tone. He grabbed Pyrrha's hand and brought her close as well as he hugged the both of them close. "I don't want to lose either of you. Please… just let me do this." Jaune said as he started shedding tears, shock the two red heads. "I can't lose you both… not again." Jaune whispered.

"What was that?" Pyrrha asked.

Jaune quickly flew off from the horde of Grimm with Ruby and Pyrrha in his arms. He dropped the two off with the rest of the group that united with Reebok's seconds earlier, then flew off into the air.

"What is he doing?" Weiss asked.

"He… he said he was going to take them all out in one shot." Pyrrha said.

"WHAT?!" Everyone yelled.

"Maximum Overdrive." Ruby said as she was on her knees. "He can't mean that…"

"I don't think so. Jaune explained that setting to me and I can tell you that it's not even useful in a situation like this." Reebok said.

"Then how else does he plan on doing that?" Sun asked.

"He took something out of his pouch." Lucia spoke up.

"Another dust crystal?" Weiss asked.

"That's stupid. Look what it did to these three." Reagan said gesturing to Yang, Nora and Aaden, who were still very sick. "How does eating one going to take all these Grimm out?" Reagan questioned.

Reebok wondered as well, until he realized something. He turned pale.

"Penny… can you tell what kind of dust crystal he has?" Reebok asked with a layer of fear in his tone of voice.

Penny stared up at Jaune and increase the magnitude of her vision into scope-like vision to get a better look of the crystal and identify it. When she did, she gasped.

"It's A Nova Crystal!" Penny shouted.

"NO~~~~~! JAUNE YOU IDIOT!" Reebok screamed holding the sides of his head with tears coming out his eyes.

"HE'S GOING TO EAT THAT?!" Weiss screamed with shock as she, Glynda, Reagan, Kurt, Ula and Lucia had looks of fear and worry on their faces.

"How bad is that?" Sage asked.

"One solid Nova dust crystal has enough power in itself to be able to power an entire city for a total of one hundred years! Even the shaving of one is powerful enough to power a laser that can take out an entire mountain!" Weiss yelled, shocking everyone who did not know the magnitude of power just one simple rare crystal possesses.

"He's going to eat and explode… that's how he intends to do it… he's going to blow up to take out the Grimm invading the whole city… JAUNE YOU IDIOT!" Reebok screamed as he repeatedly slammed his fists into the ground.

"Then we have to do something!" Pyrrha shouted.

"I'll shoot him down. I can set my blasts to a compressed stun shot to stop him." Neptune said, putting on his goggles.

"No! It's too risky! If you accidentally fire the Nova dust crystal you'll be detonating an atomic bomb throughout the entire square! Even if it's from a stun shot." Weiss explained, stopping the guys she… likes, kinda, currently.

"And him eating it and blowing isn't as bad?!" Sun shouted.

"Jaune's semblance is a non-lethal energy pool to anything with a soul. In fact, it increases the strength and health of anything that possesses a soul, even organic life such as plant-life. Us humans and even animals and plants can not only survive the blast, but even be reinvigorated by it, while all the things with the opposite power will be destroyed, i.e., the Grimm." Reebok explained.

"But even so, he eats it, he will die!" Weiss exclaimed.

"Didn't he give you half of his?" Yang asked.

"Even so, half of a Nova crystal can still kill someone upon infusion, let alone ingestion!" Weiss shouted. "No way would he ever be stupid enough to eat one!"

Up above, Jaune put a tiny bit of aura to increase the pressure of his fingers and broke off a tiny piece off, before pocketing the rest of his crystal into his pouch.

"You're right. He's just still a little stupid to eat a tiny piece though." Reagan said.

"Jaune, No!" Ruby screamed.

Jaune opened his mouth, put the fragment into his mouth and swallowed it. A moment after he did, his golden aura burst out of existence as now Jaune just floated into the air with blank eyes.

Everyone stared up with wide eyes as they were shocked and speechless... mostly speechless.

Sun still had a mouth

"Not what I was expecting from all the drama that happened a moment ago."

The monkey Faunus was interrupted when Jaune burst with new power.

Jaune screamed as the air around him was being distorted.

"Jaune!" Ruby screamed with fear.

Jaune continued to scream as his skin started to change. From his eyes a golden hue started to spread, changing the pigment of his skin and even clothes into gold, making it look like he was turning into pure energy. Jaune screamed as his whole being changed to gold energy. He grunted as he hunched over, holding his stomach with his knees bent. Out slowly coming from his back were wings, sprouting, looking more like actual wings instead of wings made of energy. Jaune groaned with pain as he felt them grow and grow little by little, until he unleashed a scream and spread his body out as the wings shot out into large fully matured angel looking wings, but it didn't stop there! As now another pair of wings came out of his back, be it a bit smaller than the first pair, but still a decent size and then another pair came out from his lower back; they were much smaller compared to the other two.

Jaune released a breath as he was finish… metamorphosing, I guess.

He looked like a six winged angel made of golden energy.

Everyone, and I mean everyone, from students, huntsman, Atlas soldiers and machines and even the Grimm themselves, stared up at him.

Up on the buildings, Vlad's team and even Cinder's team, were staring up at him speechless. They didn't know what to make of it. They were amazed yet were fearful all at the same time, but the scariest part about it all to them, was that their hearts were calm just by staring at the angelic figure, and that can scare a person much worse than anything else in this world.

"What… the fuck… is that?" Mercury questioned with shock and confusion.

"Uh… boss?" Edgar spoke up looking to Vlad.

"… This is new." Vlad said. He wasn't sure how to feel.

Normal people, or at least evil ones, would feel immense fear of their sworn enemy reaching a plain of pure power that could obliterate them faster than they could think, but for him… it was still Jaune. Still the person he had delivered much pain to, even broken down once before, and who delivered just as much pain in return. There are just some things that happen that should surprise you, but… don't.

Jaune was breathless. Literally, he wasn't breathing right now, but he didn't need to continue living at the moment. He looked to his left hand for a moment and then his right. He flexed his fingers feeling a new sensation just by the slightest movement.

"I… feel… everything… like… little fragments of even the air… brushing against my skin. Against my own cells." Jaune spoke as his voice echoed and was at a loud volume for everyone to hear, despite just talking in a normal sense. "I… hear… everything… pain… screams… noises made by monsters…" Jaune looked ahead as he felt he could see all the destruction miles in front of him. "I… see… everything… and… I'm pissed." Jaune gritted his teeth.

Jaune gripped his chest plate, the area over his heart, but it suddenly started to melt. His entire armor was melting and his clothes slowly disintegrating. Jaune groaned with gritting teeth as he hunched over a bit. He started to growl with his teeth bare. He started to hunch over more, scrunching up into a ball. The air around him started to move itself as it looked to be that he was creating a heat wave.

Everyone started to pant as they felt the heat coming off of Jaune; their pores secreting massive amounts of sweat.

Jaune started to growl as his chest started to hurt.

"Jaune! You have to release your energy! All of it! If you don't you will die from an overload of power!" C Ozpin shouted.

Jaune growled as he felt his heart beating so fast his thoughts were being outmatched by each beat. His chest was hurting. Everything was hurt.

"Jaune! RELEASE IT NOW!" C Ozpin screamed.

Jaune let out a roared as his body shot out and exploded with a golden wave of energy.

Everyone screamed as they were consumed by the golden explosion.

The Grimm in the area roared with agony upon contact as they were immediately incinerated, atom by atom.

In the explosion, everyone was not feeling pain. Instead they all felt stronger. They all looked to their hands as golden energy passed by them.

"Huh?" Nora woke up looking around herself. "What's going on?" Nora asked. She heard a roar making her turn only to see Liversnap flying away with the explosion. Nora's heart stopped as he eyes widened with pure fear and then… misery. "LIVERSNAP!" Nora cried with her hand extended out.

The mass of the explosion grew more and more, looking like an atom bomb!

The explosion spread out more and more with people screaming and Grimm roaring and screeching in agony as the whole city of Vale was consumed.

The whole city was consumed by a dome of bright golden light. This last few what felt like hours, but was really seconds. Ten at the most. The dome of light dispersed revealing the City still standing. The only damage brought upon it was by the Grimm, who were all now… dead.

All the citizen blinked their eyes to refocus their eyesight. When good enough they looked around to find all Grimm dead, and then learn that they were… all better. Extraordinarily better! Any injuries inflicted and near death situations completely fixed by this completely enigmatic circumstance.

Back at the town square, the remaining Atlas soldiers started to cheer with their weapons raised.

They were still fuzzy in the details, but all they knew was that an angel of victory had granted them victorious with a blast of its power.

All the students looked to themselves feeling strength and looked around to find all Grimm gone, as if they were never there, but the damage they caused still remained.

"Whoa… that was… cosmic." Ula said looking to her sword as it shined for a moment with the whole blade being silver, reacting to her aura.

Kurt did a sexy whistle as he flexed a muscle.

"You're not kidding. That blast made us…" Reagan was still in immense shock flexing her fingers as she felt stronger than she ever felt before.

"BADASS!" Yang screamed with joy as she hopped off of lake and into the air with her fists up. "I don't know what the hell Vomit Boy did, but I've never felt this powerful! It's like legal strength enhancement given to me by the Gods!" Yang said with a toothy grin flexing her bicep. "Holy shit… my muscles are bigger… Awesome!" Yang cheered with a fist pump.

"LIVERSNAP!"

Everyone turned to see Nora walking away with shaking legs with her hands to the side of her mouth. "LIVERSNAP! HERE BOY! COME TO MOMMY!" Nora yelled, but no answer. "Liversnap!" Nora called out as she started to tear up. "LIVERSNAP! COME BACK!" Nora cried out, but still nothing. "LIVERSNAP!" Nora cried as she star on her knees as her whole face twisted with sorrow. "Come back… come home… Liversnap…" Nora put her face into her hands as she started to sob. "No… Liversnap. Come back to me. My baby." Nora started to cry.

Ren knelt down next to her and placed a hand on her back. He also had a sorrowful expression. He too, greatly, loved Liversnap.

"So that Grimm really was tamed. I guess what they've… he theorized is true." Reagan said.

"Fuck that quack. A Grimm's a Grimm. Shouldn't be balling over it." Ula said looking to the side with a stoic expression.

"SHUT UP! I'LL KILL YOU!" Nora screamed as she was ready to attack Silver Ula, but Ren, Yang, Sun and Blake stopped her.

"Nora, Stop!" Ren shouted.

"Yeah, it's not worth it!" Yang exclaimed.

Nora sobbed with pure sorrow upon her face. She fell to her knee and continued to cry. Ren knelt back down and brought her close, allowing his life-long friend and… perhaps more, to cry upon the breast of his shirt.

"He didn't deserve it. Not him." Nora said as she continued to cry. Ren's eyes saddened even more, just seeing Nora crying broke his heart. He wrapped his arms around her and hugged her close. "Not Liversnap… I want Liversnap back Ren." Nora said.

"I know… I want him back to." Ren said closing his eyes, holding Nora close. "Nora… you still have me… I promise I will-" Ren suddenly felt pressure pressed against his side, surprising him. A small roar caused him and Nora to turn to see none other than Liversnap, surrounded in a golden sphere with a hexagonal pattern for the surface. "Liversnap?"

"LIVERSNAP!" Nora cried with joy as she hopped into the air and then onto the force field around her pet; however she slid right off it like a bird off of a window.

(Somewhere an old crow was shuddering at the thought. Many memories.)

"Wait… that's my…" Reebok spoke up with surprise written all over his face.

The golden sphere disappeared and went back into Liversnap's saddle. Suddenly popping out of the technological saddle Liversnap wore was none other than Seymour.

"I do apologize for taking a piece of your secret project without permission Sir Alexander, but I figured it would be needed. Liversnap here was just so tenacious to get to Miss Valkyrie here." Seymour said.

"Is that a flying saucer?" Ula asked as she, Lucia, Reagan and Kurt stared at the flying bot with surprise.

"Liversnap!" Nora cheered as she hopped onto her Grimm and hugged him close, wailing loudly with joy. "I Was So Scared! I thought I lost you! My Baby!" Nora cried.

Liversnap licked Nora's cheek to calm her down. The Ursa felt a hand on his head making him turn to see Ren smiling at him.

"I'm happy that you're safe as well, Liversnap." Ren said with a smile.

Liversnap suddenly tackled him to the ground and started licking Ren all over his face, much to the dark with magenta streak haired student's displeasure.

"Aw~, I knew you both love each other." Nora said with a big bright smile.

"Seymour, Come On!" Reebok screamed as he ran off with his bot following after him, causing everyone to watch their retreating forms in surprise. "Find Jaune's signature! It's probably feint!"

Seymour scanned for Jaune's energy signature.

"And dropping. We must hurry, Sir Alexander! Follow my lead!" Seymour shouted as he floated towards a different direction with Reebok following close by.

"Wait for me!" Ruby screamed as she and Pyrrha hurried off with the rest of their friends (Team RWBY, JNPR and SSSN) following after them, along with Glynda and Penny.

Up above atop a building, Vlad and Edgar were screaming with pain, Vlad holding his eyes and Edgar his chest, as they were scrunched up on the ground, reeling in pain.

"Sir!" Chary and Gavrilo hurried over to Vlad's side.

"Damn Light!" Vlad screamed.

"Go check on Edgar." Chary said to Gavrilo.

"Do I have to?" Gavrilo asked with a frown and unenthusiastic tone. Chary sighed, shaking her head.

"I'll do so then." Chary said as she stood up and walked over to Edgar to see if he was fine.

"Uh… you gonna live boss?" Gavrilo asked down to Vlad, who growled.

"What's with him? That blast actually felt great." Mercury said as he, Cinder and Emerald made their way over.

"For us, true, but our leader's semblance is the opposite of Jaune's. It harms and cancels out his own power, so in turn it will hurt Vlad since he is the conduit of the opposing power source. At least when met with a large quantity of energy." Chary explained.

"And him?" Cinder asked looking to Edgar who sat up, holding his stomach.

Down below, something small crawled out of a hole in the ground. It scurried around, noticing soldiers patrolling around the area. It noticed an unconscious and slightly burnt half naked body on the floor. It scurried its way over to him.

"He's this way!" Seymour spoke up as he hurried over to Jaune with Reebok following.

"Jaune!" Reebok screamed as he ran over and slid down next to him. C.I.C. which was in the form of power gauntlets, changed into a pair of special technological goggle looking similar to steampunk goggles. Reebok pressed a button on the side of them as they started working. Reebok gasped as his teeth then gritted with fear. "Seymour! Get the worker bots here with 'The Box' warp drive speed!" Reebok ordered.

"Sweet mercy!" Seymour exclaimed as he started beeping in certain sequences.

"Jaune!" Pyrrha screamed as she and Ruby ran over.

"Hold It!" Reebok screamed with a hand up, causing Ruby and Pyrrha to skid to a stop.

Pyrrha and Ruby looked down to Jaune with fear and worry, and tears spilling.

Parts of Jaune's skin was burnt, even along his face, and his clothes were messed up, with only fabric of his white shirt sticking out from the waist band of his jeans, in fact his jeans were torn up, but the tears looked to have only happened by signs of incineration. The rest of his clothes were gone.

"Jaune…" Pyrrha took some steps forward.

"Pyrrha, I'm serious, you can't touch him right now. He's in critical condition." Reebok said with his hands up and forward, ready to keep Pyrrha away as she moved forward.

"Jaune…" Pyrrha said as she reached her hands to grasp Jaune, but suddenly she was hugged from behind by Ruby.

"Pyrrha, please, listen to Alex. We have to trust him. Put your trust in him to help Jaune." Ruby said with her eyes closed as she held tightly onto Pyrrha.

Pyrrha was shedding a flood of tears as she stared at Jaune's down form.

Suddenly worker bots from Reebok's lab appeared in a flash of blue light, each carrying parts of a big box. They floated down to their master and placed the large box next to him. Reebok immediately opened it up.

"What's going on?" Yang spoke up as the rest of teams RWBY, JNPR and the whole of Team SSSN arrived.

Reebok took out a needle, dipped it into a bottle of white liquid, most likely alcohol then flicked the tip.

"Saving my best friend." Reebok said with a serious expression. He inserted the needle quickly, yet gently into Jaune's bicep, making the blonde knight give a yell of pain.

"Jaune!" Pyrrha screamed as she rushed over, but she was pushed back by Seymour who used a gravity beam to keep her away.

"I'm sorry Miss Nikos, but Master Alexander-" Pyrrha suddenly sent Seymour flying off to the side, allowing her to run over, but suddenly Reebok aimed a pistol at her, causing her to stop. Everyone stared at the green haired genius with pure shock.

"I'm sorry Pyrrha, but Jaune is in critical condition. If you apply pressure to Jaune's body you will disrupt the circulation of his aura even further, leading to permanent damage. If I don't apply the right procedure needed for him, his career as a huntsman will be done for good." Reebok explained.

Pyrrha started walking back gasping with terror. She had almost ruined everything for Jaune out of impulse. She fell to her knees saying and doing nothing, but shedding tears.

For once in her life, Pyrrha felt both useless and powerless.

Reebok put the pistol away and continued with his procedure. He was busy inserting needles into Jaune's body, causing the Arc to groan and yell with pain.

"What are you doing?" Weiss asked.

"I'm inserting these needles into his body, acting as dam-like barriers to keep his aura in place. Eating that tiny crystal fragment caused severe damage to Jaune's circulatory system for his aura. His aura is leaking out and if it's not treat, he will never use aura again." Reebok explained, shocking everyone.

Ruby and Pyrrha were speechless. If one wrong move was made, Jaune's dream to become a huntsman would be over.

"Can you fix him?" Nora asked.

"Not right now. All I can do is keep his aura in place, but I need to get him to a medical bay with the proper amount of tools to properly fix the situation." Reebok said.

Suddenly the sound of a body falling to the ground was heard. Everyone turned to find Glynda on the floor.

"Miss Goodwitch?" Weiss spoke up.

Suddenly Yang fell to the floor, followed by Sun.

"Yang! Sun!" Blake shouted. She suddenly wailed as she fell to her knees.

"Blake, what happened?" Weiss asked. Suddenly she also fell to her knees.

Pyrrha suddenly fell to the floor.

"Pyrrha!" Ruby screamed as she went over to her, only to fall to her knees. "Ah! Something hit my leg!" Ruby cried out, but everyone else was falling to the floor.

"Malfunction." Penny spoke up as she was twitching with her eyes sparking with electricity. "Malfunction, malfunction. Electrical disruption to circuitry." Penny said before fall to the floor, cracking it.

"Penny!" Reebok and Ruby screamed with fear and worry. Seymour quickly flew in front of Reebok, only to be struck with something, causing him to spark with electricity before falling.

"Seymour! No!" Reebok screamed as he grabbed his old friend.

The only ones conscious were Weiss, Blake, Ruby and Reebok.

All around the area, the student and huntsman were either falling unconscious or onto their knees.

Suddenly shockwaves burst from the top of buildings and spread throughout the area, causing all remaining Atlesian Knights and all weapons to short circuit, causing them all to fail.

"Attention to all!" Those remaining looked up to find three people atop a building.

They all wore long black coats that extended all the way to their calves, black knee high boots, black pants, black armored vests, black fingerless gloves and armor on their shoulders, forearms and front of the calves. They also possessed a technological white steel left hand with a black orb attached to the palm of the hand. They all wore iced slate colored helmet that covered their heads with black visor lenses, except for the one in the center. The center one wore a jet black technological helmet with a red visor lenses and two rectangular pointed appendages coming off the sides of the top of the helmet. They all had a silver emblem on their chests and smaller versions of them on the left breast of their coats; their symbol being a flexing silver arm and a diagonally downward outstretched arm facing downward left and held a dagger with the blade pointing down.

The two on the sides were holding special advanced rifles with some filter vents in the barrel of the gun that glowed blue.

"Congrats on your survival! We did not expect things to go this way." The middle one said loudly for all to hear.

"Who are you?!" Down below, an Atlesian solider, the same with the blue eyes who was now with Zwei and Saber and on his knees, shouted; demanding answers.

"We are allies to White Fang. Indeed your enemies. We… are the Black Arms. I am one of the generals of our organization. You may call me, Talon." The middle one, now known as Talon, spoke.

"Black Arms?" Ruby questioned.

Reebok's teeth were chattering as his eyes were bulged, staring at the group.

'Vl… Vlad's people… how?' Reebok thought with pure fear.

"To answer any inquiries, we are responsible for the attack of the more advanced Grimm." Talon announced.

"You caused this mess all throughout this city?!" The blue eyes Atlesian soldier shouted with new rage.

"Correct!" Talon shouted.

"Why?!" Blake cried.

"Isn't it obvious? It is our debut to the world. And as our master says 'It is best to make the introduction as memorable as you can'." Talon said.

"All this… was just an introduction to you?!" The blue eyed Atlesian soldier yelled with rage.

"Let the world know that we are officially declaring war on all four kingdoms! Our goal is the world itself! And our starting point will be Vale!" Talon declared, causing fear and worry through everyone. "And now, before we depart… allow us to burn this day further into your memory." Talon snapped his fingers.

More Black Arms members walked closer to the edge, but they had hostages! Human and Faunus adults, tied and gagged.

"They can't mean…" Weiss spoke with pure wide eyes as she, Blake, Ruby and Reebok had horrified expression on their face.

"Just so you know we mean business." Talon said as the rest of the Black Arms members readied their weapons.

Reebok gasped. He took out his scroll, put it on the floor and quickly changed C.I.C. into gauntlets forms with pads on the palms, showing off that they were the only things working, and quickly rubbed his hands together, causing a spark of electricity, then placed them on his scroll, bringing a new electrical current to it, causing it to work again. He quickly went to a special sequence of buttons and was ready to press an app on the phone that was the Arc clan symbol with angel wings sprouting out the sides of the emblem. He was ready to push it, but he stopped as he remembered Jaune's words from earlier.

"I need you to refrain from summoning our little project to help out today." Reebok's breathing hitched as Jaune's voice echoed in his head. "Look, I know it sounds wrong, very wrong, but you have to keep yourself from summoning them into action. The moment they are revealed, Vlad and his cronies are going to find a way to counter them. If they join the fight today, our best plan of attack might not work the way we want them to next time. It is imperative that they remain a secret until the Vytal Tournament Attack."

Reebok bit his bottom lip as he started shedding tears. He closed his eyes as his teeth dug deep into the skin of his lip. His eyes shot open as he changed C.I.C. into a rifle mode and aimed it above at the Black Arms, but it was shot out of his hands by a Black Arms member.

Talon brought his hand up as his thumb and middle finger were ready to snap.

Reebok's eyes widened with fear knowing what was going to happen next.

Snap.

"No!" Ruby screamed as she tried to move forward with Crescent Rose, but she fell face first as her legs didn't respond.

Reebok slammed his arms down against the concrete with his head hanging and tears flooding. He saw nothing… but he heard rounds of ammo firing.

Everyone conscious, minus Reebok, stared in horror as they saw, almost in slow motion, the innocent people above being shot into relentlessly by the dark colored militia.

The bodies, now having holes in them, fell off the building they were atop with small trails of blood floating off behind them.

What felt like ages, the bodies descended until they met the pavement.

Ruby stared ahead where the bleeding bodies laid. Her eyes started to leak tears as she continued to stare. Rose petals fluttered from the bullet holes and flew to the sky. Ruby laid her head down to the side as she continued to cry.

Weiss and Blake stared in horror.

For Weiss this was unspeakable. She knew there were some bad people in the world, but people willing to go this far, harm this many without any sign of remorse, even acting like it wasn't that exciting, was just sickening for her. In fact, that's what happened. She was so sick by the sight that she vomited.

Blake stared at the bodies as well. A corpse was nothing new to her. After all, she's been with Adam for like five years. However, this was something else. This was an act made by the people who had ruined the future. They went this far just to state a debut? How… how cruel. He tightened her hands into fists and teeth grit as she looked up, glaring up at the militia.

"You Monsters!" The blue eyed Atlas soldier screamed as all other started to yell with rage.

Up above, Talon pressed the side of his helmet for a few second, before continuing on.

"We'll have to take our leave now." Talon said as he now held a black pellet in between his index and middle finger. He cracked it in between his fingers and tossed it off the building as black mist came out of it.

Upon contact, it broke apart and released a hefty amount of mist that was surrounding the building. The mist grew and grew as it was reaching the top of the building and kept on growing.

Everyone watched with wide eyes, not sure what was going on, but it was obviously not good.

Once reaching a tall height, a pair of red glowing eyes appearing in the black mist.

A loud screeching roar penetrated everyone's ears, causing them to cover them. They all looked to see a behemoth of a Grimm.

It was extraordinary large via length size, looking similar to a serpent, but it had six bird-like wings poking out the sides of its long body; three on each side. Its head was dragon-like with a long mouth and snout that had a spikey tip at the end and horns spiked out the top of its head with two long and thick ones in the front and a shorter pair out coming out behind the first pair, a long tail with an end similar to a fish's tail fin. It had numerous white bone plates attached to its underbelly that had countless holes within the whole underside and it had a bone mask around the eyes with red markings around it.

(Think a combination between Phalanx from Shadow of the Colossus and Red Eyes Black Dragon.)

The Grimm's long body was coiled around the building the Black Arms members were on. Its head was near the edge of the building. The members of the Black Arms walked atop of it, now on the back of its neck.

"Have a nice rest of the day." Talon said raising his left hand up as the black orb glowed with some red a bit.

The Grimm roared as it then flew off with the new threat, the Black Arms, on its back. It dispensed black sand from the holes in its underbelly to cover its tracks as now everyone was being surrounded by the substance as the Grimm riding off away from the city.

It took a while, but the black sand storm had dispersed.

Everyone was silent.

The last few minutes were shocking and speechless.

New enemies, coming in declaring war upon the world and taking a few lives themselves after being responsible for many others in an all-out city infestation of soulless beasts. Soulless beasts that they can control.

Gods help them all.

Ruby just laid upon the ground. The side of her head rest against the pavement. She couldn't comprehend what had happened. All she knew was things had gotten worse. She was not prepared for any of this. She then heard sobbing. Her eyes looked to Jaune and Reebok.

Reebok was sobbing. He could have saved them. He could have saved those people… but he had to make a choice. Gods forgive him for letting them fall.

Ruby gained a bit more determination, seeing her friend cry over this. She started to crawl towards him. She managed to reach his side. She managed to balance upon her knees, flailing her arms a bit as she almost fell over, but kept her balance. She placed a hand on his back, making Reebok flinch.

Reebok looked to her to see somber, yet comforting eyes.

Ruby gave him a hug, trying to comfort her friend. Reebok cried on her shoulder, going a bit deeper into the embrace. Ruby gently patted Reebok's back, then rubbed it.

She knew this event was tragic, but she didn't expect Reebok to be so torn up that he'd break down from this.

If only she knew…

Reebok pulled back from her, revealing his sobbing face. He wiped his sleeve against his nose, before turning towards the box. A shaking hand grabbed one of the needles. After a few failed attempts, courtesy of his shaking hands, he managed to dip the needle in the alcohol. He brought the needle back and was ready to put it in Jaune's body, but his hand was shaking. He was afraid to screw up and ruin Jaune's life.

After a few moments of nothing, he felt a hand wrap around his own. He turn to see it was Ruby, helping keep his hand steady.

Appreciative, Reebok gave her a grateful nod.

Together, the two continued the procedure to help the one of the most important people in their lives.

Up above, the retrieval ships of Atlas fleets arrived, ready to assist.

!

!

Later, everyone was being treated. Luckily because of the blast Jaune emitted, people didn't need any serious treatment. The only treatment needed was to reawaken the stunned soldiers and students, and the legs of others who were not knocked unconscious.

Pyrrha moaned as she fluttered open her eyes.

"You're awake!" Pyrrha looked to see Ruby smiling down at her. "I'm glad!" Ruby said. Pyrrha sat up to find Ren and Nora, the latter atop of Liversnap, by her side as well. And a bit away from them were Weiss and Blake, standing by Yang, who was sitting atop a rock, rubbing her neck. She was apparently laying atop an Atlas anti-gravity stretcher.

"What struck me?" Pyrrha asked. She heard someone clear their throat, causing her to turn to see General Ironwood.

"Apparently you were struck by a compressed electrical shot as thin as a sewing needle. It struck you directly in the brain stem, disrupting the electrical flow of your nervous system. Luckily no harm came to your body, just the electrical flow of your nervous system was greatly dampened." Ironwood explained.

"Reebok figured it out. He even found out that those zombie soldiers are now all better thanks to Jaune's blast. All they need is more orange juices and cookies, if you know what I mean." Nora explained.

"Jaune!" Pyrrha exclaimed as she looked around, only to find him resting next to her.

"Reebok took care of him. His aura levels are well now. All that's needed is to treat his burns, but thanks to his semblance no real damage came to his body." Ren explained.

Pyrrha stared at him with sad eyes.

"Jaune…" Pyrrha moved her legs off to the side and got to her feet, only to stumble, but Ruby caught her. "Thank you." Pyrrha said down to the young reaper.

"You saved me earlier. Least I could do." Ruby said with a smile. "I mean, I could do more. You did take a nasty hit for me." Ruby said looking to the ground, twisting her foot side to side.

"What are friends for?" Pyrrha said with a smile. Ruby smiled back. The two walked over to Jaune, who was breathing fine. Pyrrha reached out her hand to his and gently grasped it. "Jaune… you fool. Why must you give us heart attacks?" Pyrrha said with teary eyes.

"He's getting real good at that lately." Ruby said with somber eyes and a sad smile.

"Yes… yes he is." Pyrrha agreed with a sad smile and nod.

The two stared at his calm, gentle face with soft smiles.

"We are so going to kill him when he gets better." Ruby said.

"Yes. Yes we are." Pyrrha agreed as Ruby giggled from her response.

"Clear!" A voice spoke as electricity was heard. Pyrrha and Ruby looked to see Reebok in front of Penny, who was on another anti-gravity stretcher, with his hands, which were covered in gauntlets with pads for the palms, right over her chest. Penny was surrounded in electricity for a few moments, before Reebok took his hands off of her.

Penny blinked her eyes before slowly sitting up.

"Hmm?" Penny looked around until she saw Reebok next to her. "Alexander? What happened? And why is your face red?" Penny asked.

"It's… well… you were shot at with a compressed shot of electricity that struck your nerve core at the back of your neck, which caused a temporary shutdown, interrupting the proper flow of electricity to your brain. As to why my face is… well… I had to restart you up by placing… my… my hands to your… chest." Reebok explained with a red blush at the end.

Penny blinked her eyes in confusion.

"Is that last part embarrassing?" Penny asked, tilting her head.

"I… well… to all organic females that's supposed to be a 'no-no' for boys to… place any parts of themselves there. At least when their lives are not in jeopardy." Reebok explained.

"I see. So no more 'no-no's'." Penny said shaking her head. "Um… besides lives being in jeopardy, is there any other occasions where a boy can touch a girl on the chest?" Penny asked with the tip of her index to her bottom lip.

Reebok stared at her with wide eyes for a moment before his whole face turned red and… steam then coming out of his ears.

… Hmm… well… only in anime.

The sound of someone clearing their throat was heard, making them turn to see General Ironwood.

"General Ironwood." Penny got off the anti-gravity stretcher and gave a salute to the Atlesian general. "Salutations."

"At ease." James said with nod. He then looked to Reebok, who stiffened under his gaze. "You must be the genius who made warp drive." Ironwood said.

"You heard of that?" Reebok asked rubbing the back of his head.

"Some time ago, yes." James said with a nod. "I'm surprise that your technology was the only one working after those numerous EMP blasts." James said pointing to Reebok's gauntlets.

"Oh, well, it does work on electricity, but my silicone/sodium based nano-bot restarted the rest." Reebok said.

"Silicone and sodium based nano-bot?" Ironwood questioned.

"Oh, yes, well, you see, C.I.C. is mostly made up of microscopic nano-bots. One of them has a silicone based outer shell with prods poking out its surface that only work one way, sending out electrical sparks which are conducted within the inner shell that case a sodium based coding, perfect for conductivity from the nano-bot's core that sends the electrical energy through the prods, sending it other nano-bots, creating a chain of electrical energy that reignites all of them back up. Happens in less than a nanosecond." Reebok explained, causing everyone to stare at him with wide eyes.

"Uh, I'm confused. So it has a shell… made of something and has… salt in it?" Ruby questioned.

"Ugh~, my brain hurts." Nora said with boredom as laid atop of Liversnap.

"I see. How exactly does this creation work?" Ironwood asked, very intrigued by Reebok's genius.

"Well…" Reebok rubbed his chin, trying to find the best way to describe his invention. "Think of the nano-bots like construction workers. They take apart an already existing structure and then reform it into something new, like tearing down a skyscraper and reusing the material to make a mini-mall, only think of them going at the speed of atoms through an atom smasher." Reebok explained.

Everyone, minus Ruby and Nora who were confused at the last part, stared at Reebok with almost bulging eyes.

"That's… the most amazing thing I've ever heard." James Ironwood said with genuine shock and awe.

'With a genius like that… how come he never enrolled into Atlas? With his natural gift and the technology there he could revolutionize the entire world!' Weiss thought with pure amazement.

"Ugh~, I'm still lost. What are atom smashers? Because they sound awesome." Nora asked.

"Atom Smashers are particle accelerators that fire moving photon beams that contain three hundred sixty two mega joules of energy. These beams contain enough power to slice through a human skull in a nanosecond." Penny explained.

"Whoa! What?! That's Awesome!" Nora cheered with a grin and her fists shot into the air.

"That must be many nano-bots to work with such a complex machine." Ren said.

"Yup. 2.3 million." Reebok said.

"WHAT?!" Everyone shouted.

"How do you have so many?!" Weiss exclaimed.

"I farm them. All you need is an X nano-bot and a Y nano-bot. Together the two produce millions upon millions of blank nano-bots. All I do after that is put in the coding for their function afterwards. It's not an easy process because there are so many to collect and you got to do the math to determine the proper amount for what you want, but… well, you get what I'm saying." Reebok said with a shrug.

James stared at Reebok with a look of awe. He closed his eyes and smiled.

"Ozpin is very lucky to have someone like you in his academy. I know I'd be proud to have someone like you." James said with a smile.

"Oh… well… thank you, sir. That's a huge honor." Reebok said with a bashful, yet happy smile and blush as he rubbed the back of his head.

"Don't let him sweet talk you into anything." Qrow said as he made his presence known. Everyone turned to see him drinking from his flask.

"Uncle Qrow! Where have you been?!" Ruby exclaimed.

"Well… an old… associate I guess you can call them showed up and told me about our new friends. I went to where a group of them were hiding, holding a few people hostage." Qrow explained.

"So you captured any of them?" Ironwood asked.

"… About that…"

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!

Lying on the floor and some on their knees in a building, were a few members of the Black Arms, panting.

"Well… I'll admit you guys got some skill, but you still got some green spots on you." Qrow said with a calm look on his face as he kept a hold on the hilt of his broadsword/scythe/shotgun combo weapon, Harbinger, just in case they try anything funny. "Anyway, if any of you needs to sleep, might as well do it now, since we're going to be having a long 'talk' later anyway." Qrow said.

"For our lord." One of the members said.

That same member pulled out a pistol, causing Qrow to react by pulling Harbinger out from its holster, but to the old crow's shock, the Black Arms member turned the firearm on himself and pulled the trigger, sending the bullet straight through his head from the lower jaw where the barrel of the gun was pressing against.

The rest followed the first member's lead and committed suicide with bullets through the head, killing them all.

Qrow watched with wide eyes. He couldn't believe this. None of them even hesitated. He's never seen something like that before.

Their bodies suddenly burst into flames.

It was probably a failsafe designed into their clothing so as to rid the bodies to keep anybody from performing an autopsy on them.

After all, dead bodies can speak the loudest and tell the most interesting stories.

Qrow just reattached Harbinger back onto the holster on his back. He sighed while shaking his head.

"A damn fine mess."

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The students stared at him with shock and disbelief.

"I don't believe it." Weiss said with shock and disbelief. "You said with no hesitation?"

"None whatsoever. These guys are serious. They're not afraid to kill or die. They're prepared for anything for whatever the hell it is they're fighting for." Qrow said.

"Then that settles it… these guys are a much bigger priority than the White Fang." Blake said with angry narrowed eyes.

The rest of her team stared at her with shock. The last thing they ever expected was for Blake to consider anything else before the White Fang. Well… except maybe their friendship.

"The council are going to have a field day over this." Ironwood said, rubbing his temples.

"Excuse me, General Ironwood… a senior of ours said that this might cause the Vytal Tournament to shut down. Is that true?" Yang asked.

"That is for the council to decide. Not myself. Probably not even Ozpin." Ironwood said.

"Tch. Fucking vultures." Qrow said with a sneer before drinking up more liquor from his flask.

The sound of electricity was heard, making the lot turn to see Reebok performing defibrillation upon Seymour. The next second the bot was on and floated into the air.

"My… what a terrible experience." Seymour said.

"Thanks for defending me." Reebok said with a smile.

"If I still have the power, I will always do my best to protect you, sir." Seymour said. Reebok smiled to the bot and gave him an appreciative smile.

Reebok turned to Ironwood.

"Sir, if it's okay, may I please take one of your ships to get my friend back to Beacon to finish medically treating him?" Reebok asked Ironwood.

"Of course." Ironwood said with a nod.

"I'm riding with you guys!" Ruby spoke up.

"I as well." Pyrrha said with a nod.

Reebok nodded understandingly, knowing he would not be able to convince either of them otherwise.

"By the way, what happened to team SSSN?" Pyrrha asked.

"They went around to check if everyone's alright. In fact, everyone is travelling around the city to see if that blast really helped everyone." Ruby explained.

"And Goodwitch?"

"She's fixing up parts of the city. Starting with the town square, all the way on the other side."

Atop of a building, Vlad and Cinders teams were looking down below at the mess that was made. Goodwitch was busy using her telekinesis to reform things back to normal, but it was obvious that she is going to be doing this for a long while.

Cinder smirked down at the aftermath below.

"I'll admit, your men know how to put on a show." Cinder said with a smirk, looking to Vlad.

"Hmm." Vlad smirked, before turning and walking away.

"You!"

"Hmm?" Vlad looked to find Adam Taurus across from him, gritting his teeth with rage as he had his red bladed chokutō, Wilt, held tightly in one hand, and his scabbard/rifle, Blush, in the other. "What do you want?" Vlad asked.

Adam released a roar and charged at Vlad at high speed, but Vlad simply took out Eclipse and blocked Wilt with ease and pushed Adam's other arm up then grabbed the wrist tightly, to keep him from using Blush.

Adam growled as he glared behind his mask.

"What do you want?" Vlad asked again with a stoic expression.

"You Killed Faunus!" Adam yelled.

"… Yes, I'm aware." Vlad said, still stoic.

"How Dare You! You and Your Filthy Band of Humans committed-" Vlad push Wilt away and delivered a head-butt to Adam's face, causing the bull Faunus to tumble back, holding his face as he felt a crack upon his mask.

Adam growled with anger as he was ready to charge again, but the sounds of guns cocking diverted his attention to behind himself, to find Talon and four other Black Arms members.

Talon cleared his throat as Adam put all his attention on them. Talon and two other Black Arms members pressed a few buttons on the neck area of their helmets, causing steam to come out as they opened up a bit. They took of their helmets to reveal themselves.

"Who are you calling human?" Talon asked as it was revealed that he had icy blue eyes and spiked back black hair, but at the border you can see black feathers sticking out and slicked back. Beside him was a tall dark skinned young man with a dark grey crewcut and a horn sticking out the bridge of his nose, and there was also a peach skin girl with long brunette hair and scales at the neck area.

"You're… you're Faunus." Adam said with shock.

"I don't see any need to choose between an army of humans and an army of Faunus. All are welcomed into my organization." Vlad said, pressing the tip of Eclipse into the ground and folding his arms over the pommel of the hilt while leaning forward.

"And you have them kill their own kind?" Adam questioned with annoyance.

"Why not? You do the same as well, and despite any circumstances, a kill is a kill." Vlad said, causing Adam to growl. "Great work today Talon. How are our golden boys doing?"

"They are fitting into their roles perfectly sir." Talon said with a small bow.

"Great. Today is one big success." Vlad said with a smile.

!

!

Later, in Ozpin's office, the Headmaster was having a not so cheery talk with the Vale high council.

"Today was a disgusting day, Ozpin." The head councilman said.

'That goes without saying.' Ozpin thought.

"Numerous lives were lost despite most of the population surviving through unknown methods and now people are questioning our authority and skill in defense."

"I take it this means that the Vytal Tournament is cancelled." Ozpin said as he grabbed his mug.

"On the contrary, plans will proceed as schedule." A councilwoman said.

"Is that so?" Ozpin 'asked' as he took a sip of his coffee. 'Idiots.'

"We have decided to give full control of defense to General James Ironwood for the event." Head councilman said as a screen feed of General Ironwood was on the side of Ozpin's digital floating screen.

"Thank you, councilman. Our kingdom is happy to lend as many troops as it takes to ensure that this event runs as smoothly, and safely, possible." Ironwood said.

"And we thank you, General." The councilman said.

"And I'm guessing this means we'll be expecting much heavier artillery in the coming month." Ozpin said.

"We need it. Our kingdom is officially in a crisis."

'And yet you don't cancel the coming events.' Ozpin thought.

"We are putting our trust into the hands of a powerful ally, to not only protect the public, but also strengthen our bond. We have also inform Mistral and Vacuo of the incident for them to better prepare themselves for these Black Arms members."

"Will that be all?" Ozpin asked.

"For now… but after this festival comes to a close, we are going to have a serious discussion regarding your position at Beacon Academy. General Ironwood's reports of these last few weeks have left us somewhat… concerned. I'm sure you understand."

The feed to the Council of Vale was cut off, leaving only General Ironwood on the screen.

"This is the right move, Ozpin. I promise. I will keep our people safe, you have to trust me." Ironwood said.

"I do James. It's just the council I don't have much faith in." Ozpin said.

"While I agree that continuing with proceedings of the festival is a very… flawed move on their part… but it is their decision. Not ours." Ironwood said.

"James… at least do me one favor." Ozpin said.

Ironwood closed his eyes as he exhaled through his nose.

"What is it, Ozpin?"

"If anyone asked for details on the explosion during the incident, tell them it was thanks to an experimental device Atlas had used as a last resort." Ozpin said, surprising Ironwood. "Mister Arc is currently recovering from the incident and from the reports of his current health, things look rather troublesome for him at the moment. I do not wish for any unnecessary attention for him. Not only from our enemies, but from other neutral parties on the situation."

"Such as the council I'm guessing." Ironwood said. "Tell me again, why you do not trust them."

"Although I know there are some good people on the council, there are still some who would take advantage of the situation. Taking the situation and letting it be known to either the public or a selected few to gain an amount of control. Using the fear and influence they have over the situation to their own advantage, only 'doing good' for their own agenda. Fear of a stronger power is a very crafty tool, especially when it's an opportunity for our enemies." Ozpin explained. "I know you, James. You always think of protecting the innocent and serving the public trust. That is why I trusted you with this information, because no matter which path you choose, you always think of defending the world's people before anything else."

Ironwood had the faintest of smiles. He was happy to hear that.

… He needed to hear that.

"Thank you, Ozpin." Ironwood thanked the Headmaster.

"Good luck, James." Ozpin said.

Their feed was cut.

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!

Inside of a large Atlas ship, Ironwood had just cut his feed to Ozpin. He turned and walked towards the cramped one person cells of the ship, and I mean cramped.

A pair of Atlas soldiers saluted to their General as he stopped in between them and stood in front of the door of the cramped one man cell. Opening it up, he stood in front of Roman Torchwick.

"Leave us." Ironwood ordered.

"Yes General." The pair of soldiers said before heading off, leaving the General with the small time hood. "I've been informed that so far you've refused to cooperate with the authorities."

"I know this may be hard to believe General, but uh… I'm not the biggest fan of local law enforcement." Torchwick said.

"How about the world's strongest military power?" James questioned with his arms crossed.

"Oh, gladly! So long as those Black Arms guys are willing to pay for the drinks." Roman said with a smirk. Ironwood narrowed his eyes. He grabbed Roman by the collar of his jacket, raised him off his feet and brought the criminal closer to him. "Hey, hey, hey! This jacket costed a good amount of stolen money."

"What do you know about them?" Ironwood demanded answers with narrowed eyes.

"Other than they have tacky outfits with heavy metal boots, not much else." Roman said.

"Liar!" Ironwood shouted. "They said they were allies to the White Fang, which means they are your allies as well. You know more about them than you let on."

"Oh let me guess you figured that out just by staring into my mesmerizing eyes? I know I'm appealing, but-" Ironwood growled with gritting teeth. "Maybe I know more, maybe I don't, but if you want to really know so badly… you're going to have to say please first." Roman said with a grin.

Ironwood narrowed his eyes. He tossed Roman back into his cell.

"One. Last. Chance. Who is behind all this?" Ironwood asked, done playing games.

"Isn't it obvious?" Roman questioned. "You're looking at him." Roman proclaimed proudly with a smirk.

Ironwood stared at him with a stoic expression.

"Maybe a few nights in the trench will make you more… cooperative." Ironwood said before closing the cell up.

"Oh the trench~. What a classy name." Roman said within the cell. He heard General Ironwood's footsteps walking away. "Oh no, wait, come back. I forgot to mention they are fantastic at playing their roles." Roman said in a low tone as Ironwood's footsteps soon grew mute. "Hmph." Roman smirked as he sat back more into his seat. "They really are good at their job."

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The sounds of beeping penetrating the hearing of a young man.

He groaned as he started to crack open his eyes. He slowly opened his mouth and uttered his first words after awakening.

"Ow." Jaune said.

"Oh good, you're awake." Jaune looked to see Reebok in a doctor's coat looking down at him. "If you weren't injured right now, I'd beat your head in for that crap you pulled a day and half ago."

"A day and half? Well at least it wasn't two." Jaune said.

"Great, you're cracking jokes. I'll inform the others." Reebok said with a smile as he turn and headed to the door. "Oh, right." He stopped and turned back to Jaune. He took out a scroll and typed in something. "Your mother called yesterday."

"What?"

"I told her that I'd call her when you'd wake up."

"What?!" Jaune screamed.

"Was that Jaune?!" Ruby called out behind the door.

"Here you go." Reebok placed the scroll on the table next to Jaune and pressed a button that caused a large digital screen to appear out the scroll with an icon of a ringing phone on it.

"Darn you." Jaune said with narrowed eyes.

"Is that anyway to thank the man who saved your life?" Reebok joked with a smile as he made his way to the door.

Suddenly someone picked up.

"Jaune?!" A woman's voice cried, causing Jaune to flinch.

"H-Hi mom." Jaune greeted his mother as he turned his head to see his mother.

His mother looked very youthful for her age.

She had crème colored skin and long blonde hair with several bangs over her forehead and long locks down the sides of her face, framing it and she had emerald eyes.

"Oh My Lords! My Baby!" Jaune's mother exclaimed with teary anime eyes.

"Mom, don't worry. I'm okay now. See?" Jaune said with a gentle smile.

Too bad the sight of your son with a completely bandaged torso, biceps, forearms and hands was not considered anything 'okay' to look at.

"Don't worry your great auntie's foot!"

"Oh you had to put that image in my head." Jaune said with a frown as he put a hand on his head.

Suddenly a face of screeching person came into view, causing Jaune to scream.

"Dammit, Janine!" Jaune screamed, as the girl reeled back laughing.

"Jani, you know it's not nice to scare your brother. Especially in the condition that he's in! I mean look at him!" Jaune's mother scolded the young lady.

"Sorry, mom. Old habits die hard, you know?" The young lady said with a grin.

She was a brunette with her hair tied in a ponytail, had alabaster skin and she has golden eyes, but what was the most distinguish part of her were her arms, that had feathers on them, meaning that she was indeed a Faunus.

"How about trying to find mice someday to kick in your sick jump scaring thrills. Or is that too much effort for you?" Jaune said with a frown.

"Oh, but Jaune~, you're the only mouse I love to scare." Janine said in an overly sweet voice with her hands interlocked and pressed against her cheek as she fluttered her eyes.

"Nice to see you never change." Jaune said resting back into his bed.

"Well I have matured far early than anyone." Janine said with a proud smile and her chest puffed out with her fist pressed against it. "Hey girls, it's Jaune!" Janine called out.

The sounds of rushing feet were heard on the other line before four more girls appeared on screen.

"Jaune! Hi!" A red eyed, lavender haired girl around his age greeted him.

"Have you been studying?" An emerald eyed blonde with glasses and hair up in a ponytail spoke up.

"Are coming back home yet?" A young blue eyed blonde with a wavy ponytail and sharp bangs over her forehead asked as she greeted her elder brother.

"Jaune." A young blue eyed, blonde girl toddler with a pixie haircut with some locks sticking out the back of her neck and messy bangs over her forehead spoke his name.

Jaune could help, but laugh a bit as he had a bright smile on his face. It was nice to see most of his sisters again.

"Are you happy to see us?" Janine asked.

"It's probably opposite day." A blonde with her hair in a ponytail said adjusting her red framed glasses.

"Girls, you know I don't like those types of jokes." Their mother said with a frown as she held a young blonde toddler in her arms.

"Jaune!" A voice screamed as suddenly someone rushed towards him and hugged him.

"Ow, ow, Ruby, love you, but pain, pain, pain." Jaune said feeling pain from being hugged by his girlfriend.

"Oops. Sorry." Ruby said as she released Jaune with an embarrassed blush on her cheeks. She then noticed several females, mostly blondes, staring at the two, mainly her, with wide eyes. "Uh… hello." Ruby greeted them with a wave and bashful smile, only for her and Jaune to cover their ears as all the girls screamed with glee.

"No way! I don't believe it!" The blonde with red framed glasses said with a wide smile.

"It can't be, but I heard the L word!" Janine said with a cheeky smile.

"Jaune, Jaune! Is that your girlfriend?" a young blonde girl asked pointing at Ruby.

"Uh…" Jaune picked into his ears to refresh his hearing.

"And don't lie, mom told us you do thanks to a green haired friend of yours." A girl wearing a black bandana with shoulder length lavender hair that had some volume to it and the ends of her locks curved upwards.

"What? Reebok!" Jaune shouted turning to his friend who let the others, Team RWBY, JNPR and Sun and Neptune, see him.

"I'm sorry, but your mother is so sweet, yet forward. It's hard not to be so casual with her." Reebok said with a shrug.

"Not unless she starts getting too protective of you." Jaune mumbled.

"I'm standing right here. And don't mumble when you talk, Jaune." Jaune's mother said.

"So this is Vomit Boy's- I mean, Jaune's family?" Yang asked, leaning her head over to see the other women.

"Vomit Boy? Oh, I have to hear the story on that!" Janine said with a big grin.

"No you don't." Jaune said with a dull expression.

"Yes I do."

"You won't die not knowing."

"Yes I will, in the next ten seconds… so dish."

"Nothing special. He just has motion sickness issues and vomited on my boots." Yang explained.

"Oh, classic ladies' man, Jaune. Guess that's one way to make a move on a beautiful woman." Janine said with a smirk and arms crossed.

"Why the effort to tease, Tweety?" Jaune asked with a dull look.

"Don't call me that. That's offensive."

"No it's not." The lavender haired girl said.

"Sh." Janine shushed her sister. "So anyway, a room filled with girls. You must be living the dream, Chicken Boy."

"Chicken Boy? Okay, now it's your turn to dish." Yang said.

"Oh hell no!"

"Jaune, language. You're in the presence of maidens." Jaune's mother said.

"Like a week after Jaune could finally walk, he ran through a brood of chickens and accidentally kicked one. They chased him all throughout the pen." Janine said as she and other sisters laughed, remembering the memory, while Jaune's friends laugh at the funny moment. All the while, Jaune moaned with annoyance.

"Boy that must have hurt for a toddler." Sun said with a grin.

"Right, a toddler." Janine said as she stopped laughing and glancing to the side.

"So~ ladies. Do those pretty faces come with names?" Neptune said trying to be charming.

"… If Jaune is giving you tips on women then stop listening to him, for your sake." The spectacled blonde said, causing Sun and Yang to burst out laughing while Neptune's shoulders slumped as he had a gloomy look on his face.

"I already love these girls! Come on, Chicken Vomit Boy, introduce us to your family like a really gentleman." Yang said with a toothy grin.

"Oh no, don't combine the two!" Jaune exclaimed as his sisters laughed, causing him to sigh. "Well the oldest looking one, the brunette so you don't get it confused with my mother, is my third eldest sister, Janine."

"Nice to meet you all." Janine said with a friendly smile.

"You're a Faunus." Blake said, surprised to see that one of Jaune's sisters was a Faunus.

"Why yes I am. Say you look familiar. Are you related to a Belladonna by any chance?" Janine asked.

"That's actually my last name." Blake said.

"Oh! By any chance are you related to Ghira Belladonna?" Janine asked.

"Uh… yeah. He's my father." Blake said looking to the side with somber eyes.

"You're the daughter of the White Fangs old leader?! Nice to meet you! My name is Sylvia! I'm an arachnid Faunus." The lavender haired girl with the bandana greeted Blake with excitement and a smile.

However, everyone, minus Jaune and Reebok looked to her in shock. Who wouldn't be when the biggest voice against the White Fang in their group is the daughter of the previous leader of the group?

Noticing the silence, Sylvia relaxed a bit with a look of confusion.

"Did I say something wrong?" Sylvia asked.

"The White Fang is a sensitive subject for Blake." Jaune said.

"Oh. I'm sorry Miss Belladonna." Sylvia said with an apologetic look on her face as she looked to the ground. "I like your father more than Sienna Khan, if it makes anything better." Sylvia said very shyly.

Blake smiled as she looked to the lavender haired girl.

"Thank you. It does." Blake said with a smile, which in turn calmed Sylvia, who smiled back in return. Blake turned to Jaune and asked "How come you never told me some of your sisters were Faunus?"

"Nobody asked." Jaune said with a shrug.

"Yeah, well nobody was going to ask with how you look." Sun said. He then grabbed Jaune's blanket and raised it up to look underneath.

"What the hell are you doing?!" Jaune shouted as he grabbed his pillow and covered his junk area.

"Seeing if you have fur." Sun said looking to Jaune.

"I'm not a Faunus, dude." Jaune said.

"Yeah. Janine and I were actually adopted." Sylvia said with a smile.

"Oh… so this is-"

"Yes, this is very awkward." Jaune said with a dull look.

"Sorry." Sun said releasing the blanket. "At least you're wearing undies."

"In a room filled with girls."

"… I fail to see a problem."

"With my family watching."

"And now I see a problem." Sun said feeling embarrassed. It didn't help that Jaune's family giggled.

"You got some funny friends, Jaune." Janine said with a smile.

"Hi! I'm Jenna! Jenny for short!" The young girl with the wavy ponytail greeted everyone with a smile and wave.

'That's the same name length.' Weiss thought.

"My name is Amber. Jaune's fourth elder sister." The young blonde lady with the glasses said as she adjusted them.

"And this little darling is Starlight." Jaune's mother introduced the toddler in her arms.

"Hi." Starlight greeted the group with a wave.

"Starlight can be a name?" Sun questioned.

"Oh! She's just so cute! I just want to eat her up!" Ruby said with an adoring smile and blush as she moved side to side.

"Oh my goodness, she is so precious!" Weiss exclaimed with a look similar to Ruby's.

"Yes, she is a precious little sweetie, isn't she?" Jaune's mother said with a smile as she delivered an Eskimo kiss upon her daughter's nose. "And my name is Julia Arc. It is nice to meet you all." Julia introduced herself with a smile.

"Nice to meet you too. I'm Ruby Rose." Ruby introduced herself with a bright smile. "This is my older sister, Yang." Ruby introduced Yang.

"Hi there." Yang greeted them with a smile and wave.

"That over there is my bestie-"

"No." Weiss said with a dull look.

"And partner, Weiss Schnee."

"It's an honor to meet you all." Weiss said with a polite smile and courtesy. "I've heard some tales of you before Madame Julia."

"Oh please, just call me Julia. No need for formalities." Julia said with a dismissive wave and red blush on her bashful smiling face.

"And you all know Blake… who introduced herself earlier. Kind of." Ruby said gesturing to her Faunus teammate.

"It's nice to meet you all." Blake said with a smile and bow.

"They're part of my team. We're Team RWBY." Ruby said with a smile and fist to hips.

"Silver eyes, I see." Julia said rubbing her chin.

"Hmm?" Ruby looked to Julia, wondering what's so interesting about her eyes. I mean, yeah they're rare eyes, but still, they're just eyes like anybody else's.

"Oh sorry. I was just surprise. You don't find those so often, you know." Julia said with a smile and dismissive wave.

"So are you Jaune's girlfriend? After all, he said he loves~ you~." Jenna said with a teasing smile.

"Why yes she is!" Yang said with a toothy grin as she put both hands on her blushing sister's shoulders. "She's not half bad, huh? Ruby say hi to your future in laws."

"Yang!" Ruby shouted her sister's name as her whole face was red.

"Oh~, you hear that Jaune? Looks like her sister just gave you her blessing. Hurry and get her parents so we can start planning the wedding." Janine said as she and rest of her sisters grinned, causing Jaune to groan with embarrassment as he had his face in his hands.

"Sisters." Jaune said pulling his face back.

"I know you pain." Ruby said placing a hand on Jaune's shoulder.

"Ahem!" Jaune and Ruby looked to see a miffed Nora, atop of an undisguised Liversnap, with her arms crossed.

"What?" Jaune questioned.

"Hello~! Ruby introduced her team!" Nora said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"Oh, right. Mom, girls who enjoy my humiliation, these are-"

"Hi! I'm Nora!" Nora quickly butted in with a bright grin. "And this is Ren." She grabbed Ren and pulled him close into a one arm hug.

"Hello." Ren greeted his team leader's family.

"And this is Pyrrha!" Nora introduced the Mistral Champion.

"Hello." Pyrrha greeted the Arc clan with a smile and wave.

"Pyrrha Nikos?!" Jaune's family, minus Julia and Starlight, shouted with shock, causing Pyrrha to flinch.

"And this is Liversnap! My pet Grimm! I found him as an infant not even a week ago and trained him to be a defender just like us! Say hello Liversnap." Nora said with a grin as she hugged her Ursa, who gave a small roar. "And we're Team JNPR!"

"… Okay, now I have seen everything." Janine said as she and the rest of her family were shocked with wide eyes. The fact that there is an Ursa in the room, not killing people, and is tamed to protect people… it's a new wonder of the world.

"You'd have to have seen everything to say that." Jaune said.

"Mr. Nitpick." Janine said with a dull expression.

"I'm Sun by the way. Came here from Vacuo. Leader of my own team. Your brother's a really cool guy." Sun said with a grin.

"Cool, huh? Guess Jaune can cross that out from his bucket list." Janine said.

"Janine, enough." Julia said.

"Sorry, mom, but there's just so much lost time that I felt I have to make up for." Janine said.

"Which you could reserve for another time." Jaune said with a dull look.

Neptune cleared his throat.

"Oh and this is my partner Neptune." Sun introduced his friend/partner.

"Ladies." Neptune greeted putting on the charm with a pearly white smile and giving a 'what's up' point to them.

"Drop that flirting attitude unless you want a bop in those pearly whites." Jaune said with a stoic, yet annoyed expression.

Neptune quickly covered his mouth in fear. He'll admit, Jaune's sisters, the ones around his age, and his mom, are dynamite babes, but no way was he going to admit that t the cost of his million dollar smile. (Minus $999,990. Hey Oh!)

"Whoa, Jaune. You look and sound like dad right now." Sylvia said, causing Jaune to flinch.

Jaune's eyes were wide for a moment, but then they softened.

"How's he doing?" Jaune asked.

His family noticed his change in behavior.

Julia noticed something in Jaune. A look in his eyes that made her smile.

"Your father is doing just fine. As always he's protecting our town and keeping order." Julia said with a smile.

"Like a true Arc!" Jenna exclaimed with a smile and fist pump.

"Jaune's a true Arc too! He saved the entire city of Vale!" Nora exclaimed with a grin.

"I'm sure he is with how much he's been growing since his time at Beacon." Julia said with a supporting motherly smile.

"No, I'm being serious! He ate a Nova Crystal and blew up, killing all the Grimm! That's why he's stuck in bed!" Nora exclaimed with a grin.

Jaune's mother and sisters stared at Nora for a few moments. They slowly turned their heads towards Jaune, who was now feeling uncomfortable, knowing what's coming next.

"WHAT~~~?!" They all screamed with dropped jaws and bulging eyes. All except Starlight.

"You Idiot!" Janine shouted, showing genuine worry and fear for her little brother via tone and expression.

"Are you suicidal?!" Sylvia exclaimed, staring at her brother with pure shock.

"How are you still alive?" Amber asked with a wide eyes.

"Why did you blow up?" Jenna asked as she had a look of sadness and worry and was shedding tears.

"Boom." Starlight said, still confused on the much of the situation since she is still a toddler. The only thing she understood was explode.

Julia suddenly pushed all her daughters, minus Starlight away as she got close to the screen revealing shaking eyes that shed seemingly unending floods of tears and a quivering frown.

"Why would you do this? Why would my baby do something so reckless? What happened to my little Bun Bun?" Julia questioned as she continued to cry.

Yang and Sun started to snicker at the name 'Bun Bun'.

"Bun Bun." Sun said as he and Yang tried covering their mouths. A good smack to the heads courtesy of Blake and Weiss sure shut them up.

"I did what I know was right for everyone. I don't regret it and I'd do it again if I have to." Jaune said with a calm, yet serious expression.

"Oh No! You sound just like your father!" Julia cried.

"Jeez mom, everything's alright now. Stay calm." Jaune said feeling a bit uncomfortable as he rubbed the back of his head.

"No I Will Not Be Calm! My Baby Almost Died~!" Julia cried even louder. "Give it to me straight Doctor Alex! How bad a condition is my baby in?" Julia cried looking over to Reebok, which lead to the digital screen turning over to him. All possible because… science.

"Mom, I'm alright. Nothing's wrong with me." Jaune said with a soft smile.

"Uh… yes there is." Reebok said, gaining everyone's attention. "You see… after I performed a stomach pump-"

"What?!" Jaune exclaimed with shock.

"My Baby!" Julia cried.

"I had to fix your aura systems. Things did not look good man, and they still aren't. After you ate that tiny fragment of that Nova crystal your body became comparable to a nuclear reactor." Julia cried more. "Your body was being destroyed at a fast rate from the sheer power inside, but luckily your semblance was healing you just as fast, however in doing so it was pushed into overdrive, breaking the limits of your aura flow. Your body was building up with so much energy that if you didn't release it all in one go like you did, then you really would have blown up." Reebok explained.

"So Jaune literally became a bomb?" Yang asked as she and everyone had wide eyes.

Jaune sisters poked their heads behind their mother as they were listening with intent.

"Essentially." Reebok shrugged. "His body wasn't able to handle the power. He was literally cracking apart. However after he expelled all that power from his body, his semblance at least managed to heal his body enough for him to retain only burns as physical damage, but his aura circulatory system was shot. His aura was leaking out of his body and if I hadn't acted quickly, with help from Ruby halfway through, his aura would have completely escaped his body and with a shot circulatory system without any aura to flow, Jaune's reserves would have been forever crippled. Ruining any chance of a future of being a huntsman."

"By Oum, Jaune… I never knew you were so ballsy." Janine said.

All the while Jaune was staring with horror. He figured the worst thing that would happen would be that he would die, but now he learned he almost crippled himself, ruining his chances to not only become a huntsman again, but also ruining any chance he had of defeating Vlad mano y mano really shook him to the core.

"How exactly is he still alive?" Amber asked.

"Well that's also thanks to his semblance. Both Jaune's semblance and Nova dust are non-ionic energy sources, similar to that of the Sun itself, so they were at least able to be compatible from the get go, giving him a better chance at survival than many others on the planet, but of course even a tiny fragment of a Nova crystal is packing a heck of a lot of energy, so it was obviously overpowering his power, but luckily Jaune's power output at the time saved him by the skin of his teeth."

"Please give it to me straight doctor. My heart can't take anymore… what is wrong with my son?" Julia asked as she was a hot mess; eyes all red and puffy from constant cry and she looked ready to faint at any second.

"Well, if he takes it easy, and I mean take it easy in the normal sense, Jaune." Reebok said with a stern expression to emphasis his point. "He will be able to use his semblance to its full capacity again."

"Wha… full capacity? Wait… you mean…" Jaune stared at Reebok with wide eyes.

Reebok sighed.

"I'm afraid that you're not going to be able to use many of your abilities for a while. By my estimation, the only ability you can perform now with not much worry is you Aura Amplification ability." Reebok confessed, shocking everyone. Those who were more shocked were Jaune and his friends. His family didn't know what he was fully capable of after all.

"What… the… Fuck?! You're Telling Me I'm Back to Square One?!" Jaune screamed with rage.

"Jaune, Language!" Julia cried.

"No Arc Wings?! No Spirit Lances?! I Can't Even Train to Unlock Another Power?!" Jaune screamed.

"Damn Jaune, how crazy is your semblance?" Janine asked as all his sister were surprised that their brother's signature power was able to do more than any semblance in the world.

Jaune slowly put his face in his hands.

"All that effort… wasted." Jaune said breathlessly as he felt his confidence fleeting.

"Now hold on, nothing was wasted. You can still regain them. You just need to take it easy for a while. Your body and semblance are still amazing when it comes to their healing capabilities. I'd say that in a month or so you'll be able to use your powers again, however you might still feel a little pain for a while after that, especially after a certain period of extension when using your abilities." Reebok explained.

"So Jaune's going to be alright, so long as he doesn't go reckless again?" Pyrrha asked.

"Like he's been doing a lot lately." Yang said.

"Jaune and reckless? Those are two words never conceived to be possible at all." Sylvia said.

"Hold her." Julia said to Sylvia as she handed her Starlight, before promptly fainting.

"Mom!" Sylvia cried as she and the others were worried.

"Mom… please get up." Jaune said. The girls helped their mother back up to her feet, with Amber fanning her. "I'm sorry." Jaune said looking to her. "It's seems all I've been doing lately to you is giving you fear. I'm a bad son." Jaune said with a sad expression.

"No you are not! I don't ever want to hear that coming from you again!" Julia shouted with an angered expression that not only scared the Arc kids, but the other students as well. "Jaune… I really am proud of you. I truly am. It's just a mother's job to worry no matter what. Granted this level of fear you've brought upon me with your new devil may care attitude deserves a whooping." Jaune gulped. "But… I'm just happy you're safe. That's all that matters to mother first and foremost. Please don't go saying such things about yourself… for me." Julia said with an expression of genuine care, concern and kindness.

"… Okay." Jaune said with nod.

"Well… there is a bit of good news." Reebok spoke up, earning everyone's attention again. "The Nova incident was also a bit of a double edged sword. In time as your body and aura system heals, your reserves will also increase tenfold."

"Are you serious?!" Jaune exclaimed with shock and amazement.

"Of course. As if he wasn't 'perfect' enough." Weiss said with dull eyes and tone and arms crossed.

"Hell Yes!" Jaune cheered as he hopped to his feet, only to groan as he fell onto a knee.

"Jaune!" Pyrrha, Ruby and Jaune's family cried.

"Regret." Jaune said falling onto his hands and other knee.

Reebok and Sun quickly hurried over, helped him up and rest him back onto his bed.

"I forgot to mention that… um…" Reebok reached for something on a nearby chair, grabbed it and handed it to Jaune. A cane. "You're going to need this for a few days."

"Son of a mother fucking-"

"Jaune Clancy Arc! How many times do I have to say 'Language'! Your sisters are present!" Julia scolded her son with much disapproval of his words.

"Sorry mom." Jaune said with an apologetic look.

"Heh. Clancy." Yang said with a grin as Sun, Neptune and Nora snickered, causing Jaune to glare at them.

Julia sighed holding her forehead.

"Everyone." Julia spoke up, earning the attention of others. "Please… look after my son for me. Make sure he's safe." Julia said looking to them with an almost pleading look.

"No problem Mrs. A. We got it handled." Sun said with a grin and thumbs up.

"It's a chore, but it's worth it to make sure he sticks around longer." Weiss said with a small smile.

"Yeah. It's more work than you think, surprisingly, but it's worth it like Weiss says." Yang said with a smile.

"He does get rude and hotheaded at times, but don't worry! Pyrrha here can just magnetize him to the wall if he tries going lone wolf again. She the president of the Keep Jaune Safe Club." Nora said with a grin with Liversnap roaring in agreement.

Pyrrha blushed at this.

"Well… I am his partner and a close friend. His safety is one of my greatest concerns. If not my greatest." Pyrrha confessed with a blush.

Jenna and Sylvia gasped as all Arc ladies noticed the signs. Apparently Jaune actually is a ladies man.

"We'll all make sure he's kept safe, Mrs. Arc. I promise." Ruby said with a salute and smile.

"I do as well. I'll look after his condition to make sure everything is fine, so none of us have to worry… for about a month, knowing him." Reebok said with a smile.

Julia's smile widened as she got teary eyed again, but this time out of joy. She could see from the smiles on their faces and by their words that they truly cared for Jaune as more than just a friend even.

"Thank you all. I'm so happy that my son has such great friends." Julia said with a smile. "And a very nice girlfriend as well. Such a pretty one too." Julia said with a bigger smile, making Ruby blush with a bashful smile.

"Say what is it that you like about my brother the most?" Jenna asked.

"It can't be his 'famous' pick-up lines." Janine said.

"Those were dad's pick-up lines. Nothing, but hand me downs." Jaune said.

"And you were dumb enough to fall for them." Janine said with her arms crossed.

"Mom, did you ever fall for dad's lines?" Sylvia asked.

"Oh goodness no, they were terrible." Julia said.

'Thanks a lot, dad.' Jaune thought with a frown.

"Was it his butt then?" Jenna asked, surprising everyone.

"Jenna!" Julia exclaimed, shocked her daughter knew such a thing.

"That's what Dana says she usually falls for." Jenna said.

Ruby, Pyrrha, Weiss and Blake blushed red, while Yang and Sun laughed their heads off.

"And like that our time is up. Tell dad, Diane and Dana I said hi." Jaune said as he went to press the end call button on his scroll.

"Jaune if you have kids with Ruby, what would their names be?" Jenna asked.

"Angel, Eon and Summer." Jaune instinctively answered, only to smack his hand over his mouth. His sister's and mother squeal with joy.

"He's already picked out names!" Sylvia cheered.

"Goodbye." Jaune said with an annoyed expression.

"Bye, bye." Starlight said goodbye to her brother with a wave.

Jaune quickly ended the feed, causing the screen to return into his scroll. He sighed as he rubbed his eyes. He suddenly smiled.

'It was nice to see them again.' Jaune brought his head back, still smiling with somber eyes. 'I missed them.' Jaune thought as is smile widened more as he felt a sense of warmth in his heart. He turned and sat atop his bed, but he noticed the looks everyone was giving him.

Weiss, Pyrrha and Nora were staring at him with wide eyes with the latter grinning, Sun and Yang were snickering, trying to contain their laughter, Neptune gave him a thumbs up, grin and wink, and Ren and Reebok just remained calm as they knew this already. Blake tried to look shock, but Jaune could tell it was a front. And of course, poor Ruby… her entire face was redder than her hood. If that was possible.

"Well you sure have your life planned out." Weiss said, followed by Yang, Sun and Nora laughing.

"Okay, I knew you love my sister and have been after her for a while, but I did not expect you to be so organized about it and so crazy about her." Yang said with a grin. "If I become an aunt before graduation, I will put you in a cast though." Yang said with a red eyed glare and pointing her finger at Jaune.

"Yang! That's It! Out, Out!" Ruby started pushing her sister out towards the door.

"What? I look after you and this is the thanks I get? What nice sisterly love you have." Yang said with her arms crossed as she allowed Ruby to push her out.

"We better let you get some rest anyway." Weiss said as she turned and headed off with the others.

"Loved your family, dude. They were a riot!" Sun said with a grin as he and Neptune headed out.

"Sure were! I wish I had sisters like those! Feel better fearless leader!" Nora said with a wave as she was riding off with Liversnap. "Oh! I almost forgot!" Nora hopped off of Liversnap and landed atop of Jaune bed. Jaune looked up at her only to see the scariest glare and angered expression he'd ever seen. "You dare do something like that again with Liversnap nearby and I will crush your bones." Nora said with a narrowed eyed glared as she brought a fist close to Jaune's face.

"… I'll keep that in mind." Jaune said. For the first time in ages… he was afraid of Nora.

"Good!" Nora exclaimed with happy face before hopping off the bed and back onto Liversnap. "See you later, blonde alligator!" Nora said goodbye with a toothy grin and wave as she rode Liversnap out the door, but not before giving an 'I'm watching you' gesture to her team leader.

Jaune blinked his eyes.

"I deserved that." Jaune said.

"And a bit more." Ren said. He placed a hand gently on Jaune's shoulder. "Feel better, Jaune." Ren said with a smile.

"Thanks old friend." Jaune said with a smile, making Ren's widen more, before he headed out.

"Get well, Jaune." Blake said with a smile and bow.

"Thanks Blake." Jaune said with a smile. He watched as Blake headed out. Now it was his turn to be suspicious of her. 'Could it be that she somehow… knows?' Jaune thought. He noticed Pyrrha still standing beside him. "What do you think is more surprising? That Blake and Ren are pretty similar and don't interact more with one another or that we expect that from the two most silent people we know?" Jaune joke with a smile.

He heard the door close making him look to see that Ruby had closed the door.

Her head was hanging with her eyes closed. She looked up to Pyrrha and nodded.

Suddenly Pyrrha smacked Jaune across the face.

Jaune's eyes were wide. He lightly touched his red, stinging cheek. He looked to his partner to see her sobbing with tears pouring out from her eyes.

Jaune continued to stare at her sad face for a few silent moments.

"I deserved that."

Pyrrha put her face in her hand as she sobbed a bit more.

"I'm done asking 'why'. Today… it just opened up my eyes. On not how reckless you are… but how fearless you are." Pyrrha said, surprising Jaune. "No one… no one… I don't even I would ever do what you did."

"… Never say never. I know you'd do the same thing for others as well." Jaune said with a somber expression. He reached over and gently grasped Pyrrha's hand. "You're fearless too… and so strong, in body, mind, heart and soul." He gently rubbed his thumb against her knuckle. "I can't promise I'll never do completely reckless things anymore, not when the fate of others are involved… but this has taught me something… and that's the greatest danger I could ever face is myself. I almost ruined everything. For a lot of people I love."

The room was silent for a few moments.

"True… but you did it for so many more." Pyrrha said as she pulled her hand away from her face to reveal a calm, yet somber face. "You've amazed me in so many ways, even before your transformation… but out of all of those things that keeps amazing more and more… is the strength of your heart." Pyrrha said.

"I'm sorry I scared you." Jaune said.

"It's fine. It wasn't the scariest thing to me though. It was what happened after." Pyrrha took a deep breath through her nose then gave a quick exhaled. "I have never felt useless before in my life. Not once… but seeing you there lying on the floor… if it wasn't for Reebok, I would have ruined your life. If I had grasped you… hugged you… I would have ruined your future… your dreams… I would have ruined your life. I couldn't do anything to help. I felt so…" Pyrrha sobbed as she shed tears. "There was nothing I could do… all I did was cry." Pyrrha said as she choked up a bit.

Jaune stared at her with sad eyes. He had only seen Pyrrha like this once. He didn't think he had to see her like this so soon.

Ruby stayed silent the whole time, letting Pyrrha speak her emotions. She didn't want to see a friend like this. She never wanted to see anyone like this. Worst of all, she didn't even know what to do to help.

Jaune gently placed the bottom of his new can onto the tiled floor. He slowly stood up with the help of his new walking stick. He made his way over to Pyrrha. Once in front of her, he gently wrapped his arms around her and brought her close into an embrace.

This was the best he could do for her for now.

Pyrrha leaned into his embrace, placing her face against his bandaged chest and continued to cry.

Ruby stared at Pyrrha's sobbing state. She felt so heartbroken over the poor girl. Ruby instinctively took a step forward and reached her hand out, but she stopped herself. She felt she would make things worse. Before she pulled back Pyrrha suddenly grabbed her hand and pulled her in and hugged her with one arm. Ruby's eyes were wide with shock, but they softened as she hugged the poor girl and to an extension, Jaune, tighter yet softly.

Jaune stared down at them both. The two red heads. The two most important people to ever come into his life… and now in this one.

"I'm grateful for you both." Jaune confessed.

Pyrrha sobbed.

"I'm grateful too." Pyrrha confessed.

"Me too." Ruby said.

Reebok was leaning against the wall staring at the sad sentimental moment with somber eyes. They were so caught up with one another that they forgot he was still with them in the room. He remained silent. They needed this. The three of them deserved this moment with one another.

After some time, the three separated, staying silent. Jaune sat back down upon his bed and looked down to his lap, while the girls stared down to the ground. Now came an awkward silence.

After a moment, Ruby suddenly slapped Jaune across the face.

"Ow! What the heck?" Jaune looked to his girlfriend with a confused, holding his stinging cheek.

"I felt that I needed one in too. Sorry." Ruby said as she looked to the ground with an embarrassed blush, twiddling her fingers.

Jaune and Pyrrha blinked their eyes as they stared at Ruby.

Pyrrha started to snicker a bit, before she giggled with her hand over her mouth, while Jaune chuckled with a smile. Ruby looked up to them with an embarrassed smile. Pyrrha managed to compose herself and sighed.

"I'm going to leave you two alone right now." Pyrrha said, earning the two's surprise. "Jaune… just try not to be so reckless. At least for the time of your recovery." Pyrrha said.

"I'll try my best." Jaune said.

Pyrrha nodded. That's the best she can hope for. She turned and headed for the door, but as she was about to grab the doorknob, she felt someone grab her hand, making her turn to see Ruby.

"Uh… I wanted to thank you… again." Ruby said trying her best to look Pyrrha in the eyes, but she had guilt in them. "How's your wound?"

"It doesn't hurt anymore… but I'll admit it's still there." Pyrrha said.

"It's my fault." Ruby said with a sad expression and tone.

"Instead of blaming yourself, learn from what has happened today. That's the best we can do for ourselves and repay for others." Pyrrha said kneeling down a bit, placing a hand on Ruby's head. "Besides, I'm okay with this injury. It speaks a lot to me. I'm happy with this so long as you are safe." Pyrrha said with a smile, causing Ruby to gently smile up to Pyrrha.

"Well… at least it'll look cool. You know, depending if you think it's cool." Ruby said twiddling her fingers.

"I think it is pretty cool. I'll admit I earned one just like it before back in the Emerald Forest when I defended Blake from the same Grimm. Razors are powerful. Nonetheless, I will admit it is very interesting now, I suppose, to have two scars across my torso in the shape of an X." Pyrrha said.

"That does sound cool. I wish I had one." Ruby said.

"No!" Jaune and Pyrrha exclaimed loudly with fear and worry, causing Ruby to flinch.

Pyrrha cleared her throat a bit.

"Sorry. It's just I'd rather you not. I don't want you getting hurt." Pyrrha said.

"I figured." Ruby said with a shrug. Pyrrha ruffled Ruby's hair, making her pout as she held her head, making Pyrrha giggle. "Stay strong, Ruby." Pyrrha said before standing up straight. She opened the door, walked out and closed it behind herself. She heard a bark making her looked down to find Zwei and Saber, not in his natural Grimm appearance, in front of her, down at her feet. Pyrrha smiled gently before kneeling down to them. "They'll both be just fine. The two of them just need some time alone together." Pyrrha said, petting Zwei's head and scratching Saber behind the ears.

Within the room, Ruby stared at the door with somber eyes.

Jaune all the while stared at Ruby's back. Jaune knew that Pyrrha left them alone to discuss something together in private. The thing was, what?

Ruby remained silent after Pyrrha left.

"Ruby." Jaune spoke up, causing the Silver Eyed girl to turn to him. "I'm all ears." Jaune offered to listen to anything she had to say.

Ruby looked to the floor with her somber silver eyes. Her legs were shaking a bit, but she found the straight to move forward. Ruby was making her way over, but her legs were still shaking.

Jaune slowly got up from his bed feeling concerned for her. Ruby suddenly stumbled, almost falling to the floor, but Jaune quickly managed to step forward and catch Ruby in his arms. Jaune stumbled back, but luckily managed to land back onto his bed. Now he was sitting up, leaning back a bit as he held Ruby in his arms, looking down to Ruby with somber and concerned eyes as she cried onto his chest.

"Ruby?"

"I was scared. I still am." Ruby said as she sobbed into Jaune's bandaged chest.

Jaune's eyes softened. He gently grasped the back of her head as he brought her a bit deeper into his embrace.

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to worry you this much." Jaune said with closed eyes.

"It's not just that. It was everything else!" Ruby said, causing Jaune to open his eyes to look down to her. "I saw… so many bad things. I saw people die, Jaune! I never knew it was going to be this bad!" Ruby cried. Jaune's eyes softened more as he grew a bit teary eyed for Ruby. "I want to help. I want to help and do right… just like my mom… but I never knew it could be this bad. I never knew that other people would be this horrible. I thought all I'd have to worry about were the Grimm! Not these people! Not people. I know bandits exist, but I didn't think there were people who would go this far for selfish reasons. I always thought that we would help one another, not cause more problems. This isn't what I expected."

Jaune held Ruby tighter. This pained him so much. Seeing her like this. It gripped his heart and was crushing it. This was a moment he'd had to prepare for again someday. A piece of Ruby's innocence being destroyed. He just didn't expect it this early. Hell… he never wanted to see it again.

He let Ruby continue to cry on his chest for a bit.

He had to at least try and say something. He needed to say something.

"Nobody can ever expect stuff like that. What's more is that no one like us can ever get used to it… even if… we watched the whole world die with our own eyes." Jaune started to shed tears. "We'll never get used to it. Ever. Even if it happens to someone we don't even know or just met."

"I don't ever want to get used to it." Ruby said.

"That's good. It means you really do have a kind and beautiful soul." Jaune said. Ruby sobbed a little less from hearing this. "Ruby… I can't promise stuff like this won't keep occurring, even if the problem now gets fixed or erased later on down the line… but I can promise that so long as you stay strong and determined, and keep your heart opened to love and to others who want to be with you and stand by your side… then you'll be fine. You can cry and feel that the world is just a mess sometimes, so long as it doesn't change who you are; your core. As long as the Ruby Rose who dreamed of helping people and protecting the innocent from evil still sticks around no matter how bad things get… then the world… and I don't have to worry about much for the future." Jaune said softly as he gently rubbed the back of his girlfriend's head.

Ruby sobbed a bit.

"It hurts." Ruby said.

"I know." Jaune said softly. 'Trust me, I know.' Jaune thought.

"I wish I was as strong as you." Ruby said.

"I don't. Because I know you'll be stronger." Jaune said with pure sincerity. Ruby couldn't help, but smile at this. She loves Jaune as both a boyfriend and best friend. "You're the light of my fire… please let me be your rock." Jaune said. Ruby's cheeks reddened as her smile widened.

"Okay." Ruby said very simply yet with genuine emotion. This caused Jaune to smile.

The two continued to hug for some more time, just enjoying the other's embrace.

The two started to separate. Neither of them wanted to, but they knew they needed to.

"Well… I'll let you get some rest." Ruby said looking to Jaune with a soft smile. "I'll come by tomorrow."

Jaune leaned forward and wiped away her tears.

"You better." He said with a smile.

Ruby's smile widened. She turned and headed for the door. Reebok opened the door for her.

"Take good care of him." Ruby said to Reebok.

"You know I will." Reebok said with a smile. "Thanks by the way. For the help before. I don't think I got the chance to say so." Reebok said, referring to Ruby's assistance with saving Jaune's life as a huntsman, right as Ruby went out the door.

"Yes you have." Ruby said.

"Then I haven't thanked you enough." Reebok said, causing Ruby to giggle.

"Goodnight Reebok. Thank you." Ruby said smiling to the green haired genius, before she left.

Reebok closed the door. He leaned against the wall and sighed as he slid down towards the floor sitting on it. He scratched the top of his head.

"That bad, huh?" Jaune asked.

"It was all a nightmare." Reebok said. He got back up to his feet and walked over to Jaune. He sat next to his best friend and looked to the ground with his hands on his knees.

"So what happened?" Jaune asked.

"Well… I did what you said… I refrained from summoning the Order of Arc." Reebok said as his voice cracked.

"That bad?" Jaune asked. Reebok nodded. Jaune brought up a shaking hand and placed it on Reebok's shoulder. "I'm sorry for doing that to you… Alex." Jaune said.

Reebok took in a deep breath in through his nose as he sat up straight. Lips sucked into his mouth and eyes becoming a bit watery.

"Next time we'll save many… next time." Reebok said as tears came shedding out from his eyes.

"Right." Jaune said gently patting Reebok's shoulder.

He felt extremely guilty over forcing his friend, his best friend, to refrain from summoning their greatest asset to save lives. However it was necessary. Vlad already found out that Reebok is now in league with Jaune, so now eyes will be on him. If Vlad found out about their secret project, then in the coming month, no doubt it would all go to waste. They had to make sacrifices in order to attain greater victory and save many more for the future. It's just a part of strategy… and war.

Reebok gulped back a sob and wiped his sleeves across his face to wipe away tears coming from his eyes.

"J-Jaune." Reebok spoke with his voice cracking. "There's… there's something you need to know. Something big." Reebok said.

Jaune's eyebrow was raised. He felt he wasn't going to like what Reebok was going to say.

"First off, your armor melted off thanks to the heat of your body temperature from the Nova crystal. Excalibur and your pistols somehow survived. Most likely because they are surrounded by some type of unique energy thanks to the process of your travel through time." Reebok explained.

Okay, nothing bad so far. He was happy he still had his weapons. C Ozpin was still wrapped around his neck so things weren't too bad so far.

Reebok then explained what had happened at the town square while Jaune was unconscious.

Silence consumed the entire room for what felt like years.

After some time…

"WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!"

Yep… he did not like it.

Jaune took Reebok's coat, wore it and then rushed off towards the door, moving a bit unbalanced as he rushed while using a cane.

"Jaune, wait!" Reebok called out. Reebok ran out the room to find Ren in the hallway with his back to him, no doubt seeing Jaune hurrying off. "Ren, why are you still here?" Reebok asked.

"I actually wanted to talk to you about something. About getting a new weapon, but that can wait. Where is he heading?"

"To confront a great evil." That was all Reebok could say with fear on his face.

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Jaune was hurrying through halls of the school with a look of pure rage on his face. He made it to the dorms where the exchange students reside in the East wing. He travelled up the stairs. He had too much adrenaline in his body to wait around and take an elevator. He made it to a certain floor and dashed the best he could through the halls. He made it to a door that had a sign that said 'Enter at Your Own Risk' nailed onto the door. He burst right through it.

"VLAD!" Jaune screamed with rage.

Inside the room, Vlad's henchmen/team were just sitting around doing nothing important; just sitting around.

Edgar was sitting cross-legged on his bed, looking to Jaune with a stoic look.

Gavrilo and Chary were sitting on the same bed. Gavrilo looked to Jaune with a raised eyebrow, while Chary was looking through her scroll, not giving Jaune any attention.

A rotating chair was planted in front of a window with someone sitting on it. The chair slowly rotated to face Jaune, to reveal Vlad smirking at him with on leg over the other.

"Jaune. I was expecting you." Vlad said with a casual tone. "Nice stick." He gestured to Jaune's cane.

"You son of a Bitch!" Jaune shouted as he made his way over.

"Well this is an honor." Gavrilo said with a grin. "To be graced by the hero of-" Jaune suddenly slammed the top of his cane into Gavrilo's teeth, causing him to wail in pain as he fell back on his bed, holding his teeth.

Chary glanced over to the silver haired member, but she returned her sights back to her scroll the next second.

"How the living hell did you actually managed to get your army ready?" Jaune questioned with a glare as he stopped in front of Vlad.

"You're a smart person, Jaune. I'm sure you already know the answer to that." Vlad said leaning to the left with his right index finger pressed against his cheek.

Jaune tightened his grip on his cane.

"You've been here longer than me. Much longer than me." Jaune answered.

"Correct." Vlad said bringing his left finger up. "I mean how else could it be possible for me to find these three and make it as far as I am now in the same amount of time I was here as you?" Vlad rhetorically asked, gesturing to his teammates.

"How long?" Jaune asked with a glare.

"Hmm." Vlad scratching his chin with the fingers of his right hand. "You've been here for, what? Two months so far?" Vlad asked pointing to Jaune. "In about two months myself it will be a complete year since I've transferred over."

Jaune's eyes widened greatly in horror.

"A… A year?!" Jaune exclaimed recoiling back with shock and disbelief.

"Almost. In about two months." Vlad corrected.

"This whole time… why?" Jaune questioned as he shook with his eyes narrowed and biting his lip. "Why didn't you already initiate your plan? Why is all life still here?!" Jaune questioned.

"Isn't it obvious?" Vlad asked with a shrug. "I was waiting for you." Vlad answered, causing Jaune's eyes to widen. "Four months into my time here, I managed to collect enough members to join the Black Arms, and found all the necessary members of my faction, of course. Pretty easy when you find your personal genius first. Once I felt I had enough, I travelled to find you. To find the man who had defeated me and ruined my plans. And I did. I found you Jaune… or at least the child you once were." Vlad said with narrowed eyes as Jaune stared at him with a stern expression. "To my surprise I came across the exact opposite of what I expected." Vlad started to get out of his seat. "Instead of the man I had my most epic battle with, I found a dork who couldn't even hold his damn sword right, had fear written all over himself in my presence and the most shocking of all facts, HE DIDN'T EVEN UNLOCK HIS FUCKING AURA!" Vlad screamed as he stood up straight in front of Jaune, towering over the blonde knight. "The rage I felt knowing that the fool in my choke hold was the man who had killed me and took away my chance to bring my dreams into reality was nothing more than one of the weakest people you'd ever meet in your life boiled my blood to the point I thought it was going to burst out through my skin. I wanted to kill you so bad, but it would not have been satisfying at all. Sure if would have been a bit enjoyable to kill you in front of your little sister." Jaune's eyes widened with rage at hearing that one of his sisters, most likely Jenna, had the misfortune to witness her older get beaten almost to death. It boiled his own blood. "But it wouldn't have felt as fulfilling as killing you, the man who indeed stopped me. So I let you be and left, but I knew you'd arrive someday Jaune. You had nothing left back there, and there was no way you could have rebuild at all. Not with all plant life and animals dead and sources scarce. All I did was just plan and wait. Patience really is a virtue."

"Well now I am here. You got the perfect chance to kill me now." Jaune said with narrowed eyes.

"True, but then too many questions would come arise. Other than that… it wouldn't be as fun as what I had decided months ago after I met your former self." Vlad said reaching his hand up and scratching the left side of the back of his neck. Jaune tightened his fist. "Hmm? You gonna ask? Hmm?" Vlad asked.

Jaune gritted his teeth with rage at Vlad's facetious attitude.

"What… did you decide?" Jaune asked through his gritting teeth.

"I decided… to make everyone else suffer. Not just your loved ones… but everyone on this damn world, before my mass genocide." Vlad answered, causing Jaune to glare up at his with grinding teeth.

"YOU BASTARD!" Jaune yelled as he grabbed the collar of Vlad's Haven uniform with his left hand. Jaune was shaking with rage.

Vlad slowly brought his right hand up and gripped Jaune's wrist tightly.

"I will take everything from the people you love. Everything they love, be it family, friends, home or lover. I will also destroy the kingdoms themselves. They will fall before the rest of humanity fall." Vlad gently pulled Jaune's weak hand away from his collar. "It won't matter if you live to see it. You know what I plan now, and if you die before then, then I will enjoy continuing on, knowing that you're cursing yourself for eternity. Desiring punishment for your failures only for that punishment to be the cries of sadness and anguish from your friends and family. From your people. No eternal rest for you." Vlad said crushing Jaune's wrist a bit, causing him to groan with pain. "Oh yes… I'd kill more than just the people on this planet to see the look on your face as it happens." Vlad said as he released his hold on Jaune. "Now get out of my room. Your weakened state disgusts me." Vlad said before sitting back in his seat and rotating his chair back to face the window.

Jaune's teeth were gritting hard. His hand tightened hard, with his left into a fist and his right tightly gripping the head of his cane. He slowly turned back towards the door and made his way out.

Edgar, Chary and Gavrilo watched as the blonde walked out the door, with the latter still holding his mouth.

Jaune walked out the door and closed it behind himself.

"Freaking bastard wrecked my teeth." Gavrilo said with his voice being muffled thanks to his hands. "Can I get a free swing at him before you kill him?" Gavrilo asked Vlad.

"Are you really going to do it? Destroy the kingdoms before the people?" Edgar asked.

"Yes." Vlad said, pressing his fist against his chin with his index and thumb holding it. "I take things to heart. What I say and do and what others say and do. When I say I'm going to do something, I do it. There is nothing that will change my mind." Vlad said as he stared out the window staring into the night sky and the shattered moon.

Edgar just blinked his eyes, continuing to look to Vlad for a few moments.

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Walking down the hall, Jaune had a pissed look on his face. He had a tear escape his eye, but he quickly wiped it away. He couldn't cry now. People are in worse danger now than ever.

And all because it was his fault. His fault for being weak.

No… no one should blame themselves for that… but he can sure as hell blame Vlad for his own conclusion!

Jaune was getting closer to the elevator, when he heard someone clear their throat. He turned his head to find Ren leaning against a wall with a hand behind his back and a fist near his mouth.

"How long have you been here?" Jaune asked.

"A bit after you barged into their room. Reebok told me to keep my distance." Ren answered.

"Good. Last thing I want is for him to know that you know as well." Jaune said walking forward to the elevator. Ren followed and pressed the button for his team leader and friend.

They waited in silence for the elevator to come up. The sound of a ding came about as then the doors opened. The two walked in together, turned and Ren pressed the designated floor for them to travel.

Once the elevator doors closed and it started to move, Jaune sighed as he pressed his faced into his hand.

Ren placed a hand on Jaune's back, providing support.

"I screwed up, Ren." Jaune said.

"No you didn't." Ren responded.

"I know. I just felt like saying that." Jaune said as he pulled his face back from his hand. "Things aren't looking good."

"Mm." Ren nodded in response.

"We got to keep a closer eye on this. On Reebok to make sure he's safe, on everyone to make sure them and along with everything they care about is safe and the kingdoms as well. It's a lot of work." Jaune said.

"Protecting all life for the future always is. It's what we're learning here." Ren said.

"Yeah." Jaune agreed before scratching his ear. "So anything up?" Jaune asked.

"I actually asked Reebok if he could make a weapon for me." Ren said as they reached their designated floor with a ding signifying their reach in destination.

"Really?" Jaune asked as the elevator doors opened up. "What of?" Jaune asked as they walked out of the elevator.

"I was thinking it over for a time and now I've decided on a Jian." Ren answered.

"Not bad. I heard that's The Gentleman of Weapons. Who else better to wield one then you?" Jaune said with a smile.

"I'm sure there are others." Ren said as he opened the main entrance door for Jaune.

"So you've decided on what the firearm function will be?" Jaune asked.

"Not yet." Ren said, following close beside his friend.

"Well what spurred this idea anyway?" Jaune asked.

Ren closed his eyes.

"I wasn't doing effective damage against our enemies days ago. The Grimm were so powerful that StormFlower wasn't doing anything serious to them. I felt I needed a much stronger weapon to face off against them. It is what I need." Ren explained.

"Makes sen-"

"Jaune. Arc!" A voice called out.

"Oh no." Jaune stiffened as he recognized that voice. He slowly turned his head to find a very miffed Pyrrha Nikos marching her way over to him and Ren. "Pyrrha, hey… I was just heading back-"

"I hear from Nora that Reebok asked Ren to follow you after you barged out of the medical bay to Oum knows where and in the condition you are in?! Great job keeping your promise!" Pyrrha shouted.

"But, I was just-"

"Save It!" Pyrrha yelled as she grabbed Jaune by the ear. "You are going back this instant!" Pyrrha shouted as she dragged Jaune away by the ear, but made sure she kept a steady pace for him to follow her with ease.

"Ow, ow, ow! That seriously hurts!" Jaune complained.

"Well that's why you shouldn't have left the medical bay!" Pyrrha exclaimed.

Ren stared at the sight with surprised eyes, but then closed them as he had a smirk on his face.

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The next day, everyone was inside of Port's class.

Teams RWBY were sitting down with the sister team, JNPR, minus Jaune, talking.

"I suggest tying him down to the bed. Makes it sure he stays in one place." Weiss said.

"Nah. I'm sure Vomit Boy would have found a way out of those two." Yang said.

"Of course he can! Because he's Jaune." Nora said with a smile.

"Yes. Yes he is." Pyrrha said rubbing her forehead.

"Hey." They turned to find Cardin. "Is Jaune doing alright?" Cardin asked.

"Well he's awake. That's a start." Pyrrha said.

"Then why isn't he here?" Velvet asked popping up behind Cardin, surprising the Winchester.

"Well, as Alexander has told us, his reckless action, despite saving many throughout the city, caused his body to break apart. His aura was leaking out from his system and would have led to him officially retiring from Beacon and being a huntsman." Weiss explained.

"How awful!" Velvet said with shock and concern as she had her hands over her mouth.

"But he's going to be alright, right?" Cardin asked, feeling worried for Jaune.

"Don't worry, Reebok took care of everything. He's safe now. All he needs to do is rest up and in a month or so his powers will return to normal." Ruby explained.

"He better be resting up in there." Pyrrha muttered with her arms crossed.

"What?" Ruby asked.

"Nothing." Pyrrha said looking to the side to avoid eye contact.

"Students!" Everyone turned to see Port at the top of the stairs. "Please… take you seats." Port announced in a normal tone, but it held so much authority that everyone went to sit down in their seats out of fear of crossing him.

Port heading down the stairs, with his footsteps echoing throughout the room.

Everyone remained silent as they were feeling nervous and anxious from just hearing Port's steps alone as the veteran huntsman made his way down the stairs and to his desk.

Once making it to the bottom of the stairs, walking over and stopping in front of his desk, Port turned and faced the students.

"I will not sugarcoat this. Things are looking grim. And it is not because of the beasts of the same name." Port said. Everyone remained silent. "Two days ago this kingdom had been the victim of the biggest Grimm attack the world has not seen in ages. We were all lucky that it was handled and that a good number of people survived. The details on how will remain classified for a time, but what is certain is that we can't be taking things slow anymore. Therefore we are advancing our lessons." Port explained.

Yang raised her hand.

"Miss Xiao Long… what a surprise to see you raising your hand first. What is your questioned?"

"Advancing how?" Yang asked.

"Good question." Port commented. "Seeing as the level of Grimm that have attacked range from first to third year, we will be advancing to the third year regime."

"Seriously? Then what are the third years and higher going to learn?" Cardin questioned.

"Funny you should mention that Mister Winchester. You see, the third years will be assisting us teachers in preparing you. In turn not only helping in your growth, but also helping them improve leadership and social skills." Port explained. Ruby raised her hands. "Yes Miss Rose?"

"Speaking of the third years, are they doing alright?" Ruby asked.

"Yes. They were merely unconscious or stunned from the events thanks to the new terrorist group known as The Black Arms. I in fact was struck by one of their stun shots in the spinal cord, right down to the tailbone, almost leveling me into a paraplegic state, but luckily I was treated in time along with everyone else. So there is nothing to worry about now, at least when it comes to medical concerns." Port explained. Everyone stared at him with wide eyes. He just confessed he was almost put in a wheelchair like it was no big deal! How the hell can someone say that so casually? "Now then, let us continue with-" there was knock at the door. "Come in." Port called out.

Opening the door was none other than Coco.

"Uh, hey, we were directed to come here to learn." Coco said.

"Ah yes, I was expecting you lot. Please come in, there are enough seats for everyone." Port said.

Coco opened the door wider as she entered with the rest of her team and more second and first years coming inside.

"Coco! Hi!" Velvet called out with a wave.

"You are all just in time. I was just about to introduce our special learning tool." Port said as the second years were being seated.

"Special learning tool?" Yang questioned with a raised eyebrow.

"Before I show you what we'll be using for the next week and then after your two week break, I wish for those who have been in this class to know that… I know that you have not been paying attention at all." Port said causing all who were originally signed to the class to flinch. "Miss Xiao Long, I know you sleep, check boys out and don't write anything down unless it's more material for your stand-up routine." Port said, shocking Yang. "I know Miss Belladonna reads her books, even having the gall to read 'Ninjas of Love' once here." Blake stared with almost bulging eyes as she dropped a book in her hand. "And Miss Rose… I know of your little Professor Poop portrait." Port said looking to a now scared Ruby.

"Uh, uh, I can explain!" Ruby exclaimed.

"Oh and of course Mister Winchester. I know of those videos you watch, mainly about young maidens in bikinis washing cars and bullheads with soapy suds. Kind of funny how you did not like Faunus before and yet you enjoyed to watch young female ones on your scroll." Port said causing all eyes on Cardin, who glanced side to side with his cheeks red of embarrassment.

Velvet had her hands over her mouth as her cheeks burned red and Coco tilted her glassed to stare at him with dull, yet judging eyes.

"Fine, I'll admit, I was a hypocritical douche and deserve any scorn that was and will be directed at me. I'm sorry." Cardin said trying to show how sincere he is about the regret of his past mistakes.

"Admitting yourself in the wrong is a big step in the right direction in being a huntsman and a true man." Port said. "There is a reason why I did not bother with any of you. I am not here to babysit anyone. I am a teacher who is here to teach you all, not a parent or guardian. When you do wrong it is all on you. If you choose not to pay attention, I will not try and get your attention. You all came here to learn to be huntsman, and like real huntsman you will make mistakes depending on your choices. Each of us teachers have our own form of punishment. Oobleck puts you in detention for the slightest of error, Glynda forces you into battle if you are showing disrespect and disinterest… I leave you be only for you to fail, even miserably, for not paying attention when you needed to. Just as we all have different forms of punishment for you, there are different forms of consequences for your actions, as students and huntsman. I tell you all this now because we are taking off the kid gloves. What you do next… is all up to you. You may continue to ignore the lessons or you may pay attention to what I have to teach. All of it is your decision. Choose wisely." Port finished explaining.

Everyone stared at Port with wide eyes. They never seen this side of him. It seemed kind of… cool.

Wow, that is something no one expected to think.

However it was clear as day now. Port is a man of great authority and while unorthodox, is rather effective in a way. Shows him in a new light for everyone to see. It's rather… impressive.

Port walked over to his desk, slammed his fist atop it two time, tapped his finger once then kicked the side of it, causing it to break apart a bit as steam came out, shocking everyone. The desk opened up to reveal a large technological device that had buttons and keys on it.

Everyone was in awe.

"Everyone… prepare yourselves." Port pressed a sequence of buttons on the large keyboard. What followed was a hatch opening up as a black ball came out. A pulse of energy came out of the ball, causing all the lights to turn off, shocking everyone. Lights shined out of the black ball like a disco ball.

Suddenly holographic images of Grimm appeared, causing everyone to flinch and get into battle stances.

"Calm yourselves, they are all holographic images." Port said.

"Oh my God." Cardin said with shock and amazement.

"There's so many different species." Blake said.

"Whoa! Look at that one!" Nora exclaimed as she pointed at a certain Grimm next to Port.

"Ah yes, I remember this one." Port said as he reached both hands over and spread them out, causing the image to expand. He did this a few more times until the students got a clear view of the Grimm.

The Grimm had a muscular upper body with extremely muscular arms, possesses a scorpion tail for a lower half of its body, and it has a heavily armored top on its head (looking like the head of a Grimm dragon mixed with a crocodile head).

"The Brutus. I remember coming across this thing for the first time. An experience I will never forget." Port looked to the ground with a somber expression. "Rest in peace, Arty." Port said in a low tone. He noticed Weiss with her hand up. "Yes Miss Schnee?"

"How big is this Grimm exactly?" Weiss asked.

"As big as the stadium arena of the Vytal tournament." Port answered, causing everyone's eyes to widen with shock and new fear. They'll have to face this thing sooner or later in their lives. "Anyway, we won't be discussing this one for quite some time. Right now we will be learning of the Grimm that were a part of the attack days ago." Port typed in a sequence of keys, causing all the Grimm holograms to vanish, except for a select few. "These will be the ones we'll be learning about. The Hunter." A life size hologram of the Hunter came into view. "The Razor and its sub species, the Razor Thin, Gigante, Sanguine, Dust Flyer, Swarmer, Milli-Shredder, Harbinger, Insectator, Furcifers, Sub Venandi, Kraken, Rampage and finally Scourge." Holograms of said Grimm appeared, some life size and others not for the fact of being too huge when it comes to life-like scale. "We will start off with these ones and then move to other Grimm."

"Uh, Professor Port." Ruby spoke up raising her hand.

"Yes Miss Rose?" Port addressed Ruby.

"What about that really big one that took away… the bad guys?" Ruby asked, now remembering the lives lost by the terrorist group.

"Ah, I was wondering who would acknowledge it first." Port said as he typed buttons on the keyboard, before a new, much larger, hologram of a Grimm appeared above the rest. "That one you saw, the winged serpent type Grimm, is known as a Sand Flyer. A high ranking Grimm that is best saved for near the end of the third year term, seeing as it is a crafty and powerful Grimm. We won't worry about it now, but we will discuss it before the start of the tournament, that I promise." Port said. "Now… let us start with the simpler of the bunch." Port used the device to disperse all the holograms, except for one. "The Insectator. Basically the most straight forward Grimm." Port said. "Oh and Miss Nikos."

"Yes?" Pyrrha responded.

"Seeing as Mister Arc is currently out of commission for a time, would you mind informing him of our lessons today?" Port asked.

"Of course professor." Pyrrha said with a nod.

"Excellent. Now back to our lesson." Port said with a smile.

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Meanwhile, as class was going on, Jaune had managed to leave the medical bay again, this time with permission, as he headed for a certain underground place.

The elevator door opened allowing Jaune to walk out and entering the Beacon Vault. The sounds of a cane hitting the ground in a repetitive rhythm echoed throughout the area. Jaune made his way closer until he was at the end of the vault where a comatose Amber was resting within the life support chamber.

"You sure about this?" Jaune asked.

"Yes. It is time I contributed as well." C Ozpin said. "I will show you how to work this." C Ozpin said as he glowed a bit.

Jaune made his way over to the controls and worked his, or C Ozpin's, magic. He pressed a sequence of buttons just as instructed through memory transferred. The tank that held Amber opened up, letting out some air.

Once it was open all the way, Amber started to choke up.

Jaune quickly hurried over, taking off C Ozpin. Once making it in front of the crippled Maiden, C Ozpin glowed as he risen up into the air and in one motion, put himself around Amber's neck.

Amber choked up a bit, but she started to recompose herself. She panted a bit, before starting to breathe easy now; all the while C Ozpin glowed brightly.

Jaune hurried over to the controls and typed a sequence in causing the tank to close back up. Jaune walked back in front of the tank and looked at C Ozpin, now attached to Amber, residing under her collar bone now.

"Remember. No one, not even the other me, must know of this."

"Wow. You're now even keeping secrets from yourself. Literally. That's a new level for you." Jaune said with a hand to his hip.

"Better safe than sorry." C Ozpin said. "I am sorry I cannot continue with you from this point on for a while."

"I'll be fine. I have everyone else, so I want really be alone." Jaune said with a smile. He then frowned a bit. "I'll admit I… will kind of miss you for a while." Jaune said, rubbing the back of his neck.

"And I with you, but we must make certain sacrifices."

"I know." Jaune said looking down to the ground for a second. "Thanks. For the help… friend. I don't think I said that before." Jaune said looking to C Ozpin.

"You didn't need to. However if we're on the subject of gratitude… then I'd like to thank you for taking this chance with me. I know it was much to ask, but I really am grateful you decided on it, Jaune." C Ozpin said.

"Wasn't hard. I had nothing back there." Jaune said with a frown as he looked to the floor with sadness.

"We'll change that this time. I promise." C Ozpin said.

"I know. I promise too." Jaune said looking up to C Ozpin. "Later Oz." Jaune said.

"Goodbye for now, Jaune." C Ozpin said.

Jaune turned and headed back towards the elevator, determined to move forward and strive to protect all he cares for and all life on this planet.

C Ozpin was left alone with the damaged Maiden. Some wounds were reopened.

'I'm sorry, Amber. No matter how hard I tried, even now, I still couldn't do anything for you… but I will fulfill something for the future. For all us. In the end… we will be victorious. That I feel we will indeed accomplish.'

End of Chapter 9

Gosh darn that was a lot. Originally longer, but thank goodness I decided to split it a bit.

Anyway as you all saw, or read, I added new original characters and Grimm.

The new original characters, at least those who aren't of Reebok's team, are third years. I honestly wished that RWBY would have introduced more upperclassmen instead of just Team CFVY and… well no one else.

So I decided to introduce my own characters. Every last one of them based upon fairytale, mythological and historical characters. It took staying up at night a bit to come up with these guys, but thank God for the internet and all its info. They will play a part in the future as I had Port mentioned, so it won't be last we see of them.

The new Grimm were all originals of mine. So far I've made 121 original Grimm myself, but I don't think I'll be able to put them all into this one story, especially since my head can still come up with more Grimm if I wanted to. So far I try not to think creatively when it comes to Grimm, in worries that I make more that might never be used, but as the French say 'C'est la vie!' (That's Life!).

Anyway, thank you all for reading, being so patient and I hope you all enjoyed.

Takeshi1225, Out!