Jaune: Center of the Multiverse

by SGArkosfan

Jaune Arc is a not-so simple young man, with a past shrouded in secrecy. He is also the only chance for salvation in many worlds within the Multiverse. What! Why is that dunce so important! Shut up Ice Queen! *Ahem* Anyway, join us as we explore the past and the potential futures of this brave soul. Adventure awaits! With a sprinkle of romance later on.

16. Revenge of the Arcs Pt 2

Chapter 15: "Revenge of the Arcs" Pt. 2

So many love the last chapter, so I'll go straight to the reviews!

Japnit singh: While that would be cool, Ichigo never learned it while he was a soul reaper (a shame really, Rukia was inside his closet for awhile and she wanted to help protect souls from Hollows, why didn't she teach him some spells?), so I can't let Jaune do it either.

ArcticKnight13: Won't spoil it, it's in this chapter.

jc855191: Hey man, it's cool. I'm glad that you like what I've done so far, and I hear you on Jaune's special status. However, the only reason Jaune is special right now is because he literally died with a stab through the chest. Without a similar experience to give him that jumpstart he needs, which would be horrible for the heroes to even contemplate (and the villains would be hesitant to try since the last time that happened, he slaughtered everyone involved), he would still be the same Jaune. He also has a tremendous amount of Aura as well as training (and his team) to help him with fights, so the chances of him 'gaining' that experience would only shrink as time goes on, the only reason his Aura failed him this time was due to the pain from his headache shattering his concentration.

warrior of six blades: I was originally thinking of James being suspicious of Blake too, but then I thought to myself, 'why bother?' There would be no way either would've known of James' suspicion of Blake unless he moved a team against her as well, and with her in Beacon that wouldn't go over very well. Plus, I don't think she'll appreciate her friend murdering her teammates.

Hellsider1985: What's an Anakin-esc person if you can't slaughter your friends? Besides, how would he be able to convince any of them that what he's doing is right when they just saw him lead an army that killed everyone else in the school? Not trying to diss you or anything, just trying to let you know how letting RWBYNPR live would be a bad idea later on.

The Black Wolf of the Arks: Wait, so no one did a Matrix one yet? Hmm, food for thought. Don't worry about Jaune, he ain't going down that route.

primus101: He doesn't really have Quincy powers here, sorry. The only reason why he has Seele Schneider is because he is one of the few people who's capable of wielding it responsibly (read: "at all"). He also did Shunpo to move at high speeds, though I suppose I should've been specific about that, so my bad XD

Fallout-Man101: Oh trust me, I'm not having them be evil, more like misinformed. The Arcs didn't know that the arrest/assassination attempt was all based on a lie. Jaune is still Jaune, no unwarranted murder. So he'll only kill when he has to, like Huntsmen, but no children will be harmed...at least by his own hand, I should probably point out. Can't really say the same for his army as most wouldn't care either way.

Jaunepool: Oh my, that would be a bad idea. Remember how well Yang and Ruby did when they got their gifts? Smashing into poor, defenseless shelves as they went too fast... BWAHAHAHA! Oh that is hilarious! Gotta remember that!

Zathol: You know, believe it or not, I never made the connection between Mace and Flynt before, sort of how I didn't get the connection between Polendina and Freeman, that was just a happy accident. And while it's certainly hypocritical, can't argue with that, they really don't know who to trust from the Huntsmen Corp. Ozpin has the trust and loyalty of many of his students (past and present), and has deep connections with at least two other Headmasters. Meanwhile, James is Headmaster of Atlas, a General in the military, and holds 2 seats in Atlas's own council. These 2 alone hold a lot of influence in Remnant. I agree, not every Huntsmen follows the Headmasters, but how would the Arcs be able to tell which is which? Plus, when word of this gets out war could still be a possibility. Remember, Jacob and Jeanne are not only leaders of the Arcs, they also hold seats in Mistral's Council. It's like France sending in assassins to kill beloved members of Congress. Lastly, while he is certainly getting to OP status here, keep in mind that he had to die in order to get his abilities. Without that, he's still the blond noodle we all know and love.

bigman22: Thank you! Hope that you like this one as well!

Wolfang21: No spoilers, but there will be a climactic showdown. As for the clones, that's in this chapter, so I won't spoil that either. Just keep in mind while reading this: all characters from Bleach that I show are either confirmed alive, or unconfirmed dead (which to me means still alive; show me a body, then we'll talk).

Jaune Stoppable: Oh no, I'm having a chapter dedicated to that, 'Monkey Fist Strikes', right?

Longdang dark: Not a problem. Now where to start? Well, for the sisters bit, growing up in a large family can be very difficult. The parents are outnumbered 4 to 1. Plus, they probably thought it was cute for him to interact with their sisters like this. Am I saying it's right? No, it most likely had profound negative effects on his psyche. However, the poor boy is seriously at a disadvantage here. I've read fanfics that touch on this heavily, and I can see how the parents could be bad. Now for the training. Well, as you said, they come from a long lineage of warriors. Due to this, they would also know the true horrors of battle. They probably just wanted their children to not become Grimm food (Saphron doesn't look like a fighter, so it can be assumed that none of the Arc children received any training). As for the second bit, well this chapter actually paints somewhat of a decent picture regarding your concern. In this chapter, we'll get to see more of the Arc's past; and how their actions, while considered heroic and honorable to some, can be seen as nightmare fuel to others. But that's in the second half (I think? It's hard to really tell until after you publish).

I thank you all for the support, now I know that many would question what I've done near the end, so an explanation after the end should help you with why I did it. Also, I should probably keep a list of Jaune's children thus far as many are complaining that they forget who they are, and more are coming:

Neo: Lucy

Emerald: Peridot and Garnet

Vernal: Amber

Now onto the story!

Credit for helping me name The Council's codenames goes to King-Of-Gods. Thank you for your help!

Warning: Since many know what crossover this is (at least regarding to Jaune's past), all characters from Bleach playing a role here are either confirmed as still alive, or just unknown; which to me means that they are still kicking. If there isn't a body disintegrating onscreen, then they are not dead to me.

Disclaimer in the prologue.

As everyone tensed in preparation, no one expected an orchestra to begin playing.

(Play "March at the Jedi Temple")

At the sound of the loud music, many jumped in surprise.

Nora shouted, "What the hell, Jack?!"

Jack shrugged, "What? You aren't the only ones watching this." He then whispered "Dormata" while waving his hand a bit, willing Adrian to fall asleep. 'Don't want the little guy to see this.'

"Uh, g-guys?" Ruby shakes as she points to the screen.

Everyone looks, and are surprised. The heroes can only look on, horrified at what they're seeing. The villains though couldn't be happier.

It cuts to an overhead view of the front of Beacon. The screen slowly lowering its view until the audience can see a line of white coming out of a black maw heading towards the school.

The view quickly switches over to a zoomed view of the front steps of the school, where the audience can see that the line of white is actually an army walking up to the doors of Beacon. It then goes to view from behind the front step as a figure in a black cloak steps up first, then a line of troops.

Switching to on a ceiling vies in front of the top step, the audience can see the moving shadow leading them. It then switches back to the front, where a closeup of the shadow shows that it's Jaune Arc.

The deadly expression he's wearing terrifies the heroes, while the villains are cheering him on.

He's marching on Beacon with a legion's worth of soldiers at least. Many were wondering where they came from. Speaking of them, the closeup now gives a clear description of what they look like.

The first thing the audience noticed are the human-shaped skulls the soldiers are wearing over their heads and completely covering their faces, the eyeholes darkened so that nothing could be seen underneath.

After that are the uniforms. They are all wearing the same long sleeve jacket with a black line starting at the high collar and curving down to their right hips. They also have a black sash, which holds up their white hakamas and scabbards. Lastly, they are wearing black gloves, white sandals and black high knee socks, thus covering up their entire bodies with no piece of skin shown (1).

What scared the heroes most was that they are marching in perfect synchronization, completely silent save for their footsteps as to not alert the people inside.

The villains could only marvel at the army, wondering where these soldiers were hiding 'till now. Salem especially wanted to know.

Cinder and Raven thought of all the things they could do with such forces... They blushed as they made a 'mess' in their clothes, another for Cinder.

Some of the heroes were trying not to make one in theirs as well, only for very different reasons.

We then cut to a rather large sinkhole, where a battle between the White Fang and Atlas in underway.

Sienna narrowed her eyes in suspicion, knowing for a fact that she didn't give the order for a base in wherever that place was.

Eve clenched her fists, knowing that this was one of her personal strongholds, and was also one of her main and populated bases.

Cinder also frowned, knowing that this was the location where most of Roman's 'acquisitions' for the White Fang was stored.

We cut to a few Atlas grade bullheads dropping in with reinforcements, constantly shot at with bullets and artillery fire.

It then cuts to the battle, where a medic is seen trying to save a trooper, while being protected by other soldiers. "Sergeant, over here!" The medic shouted, waving his arm to get his superior's attention.

A dropship lands nearby to drop off more troops as one of the soldiers protecting the medic gets shot in the chest by a sniper round, killing him instantly.

"Hurry!" The medic implores, as another security member rushes over to take the other one's place, only for her to get headshot almost immediately and spin towards the ground.

It then switches to a few soldiers fighting off White Fang troops, AK-200's, and several spider droids. One of the soldiers falls from a stray shot while the captain shouts orders, "All red units, let's move! Come on, let's go!"

While the orders are being followed, one soldier climbs on top of a spider droid, and shoots it in a vulnerable section just above the neck, causing it to malfunction and fall to the ground with a large thud.

She, and her squad mates, immediately turns to open fire on another spider droid that was approaching their position.

It switches over to Winter on a hoverbike powered by gravity dust, dodging fire from an AK-200 on top of a ridge, before it was shot in the head by an Atlas sniper on a lower level to it.

It cuts to her rounding a corner, and zooming in on her face where the audience can see her glare, angered by the fact that the White Fang managed to steal so much advanced Atlas tech.

Sienna and Ilia were concerned. The former because of her fellow Faunus dying, and the latter because she never ordered her commanders to steal from Atlas so heavily before.

'Sure, taking some tech would help us in the end, not to mention payback for Atlas constantly putting us down.' Sienna thinks. 'But why would we need to steal so much, and store it all in one location?' Her eyes narrow, 'And how much of it is still hidden?'

She rides up to a trooper who was overlooking the battlefield, before stopping. The soldier heard the bike stopping a couple feet next to him and turned around. Spotting Winter, he takes off his helmet, showing a head of nicely cropped light blond hair, with some gray on the sides, and dark blue eyes.

Winter and Weiss smiled softly at the man, and Ruby looks at her partner questioningly over the gesture.

Winter smiled at her dear friend and mentor, "Commander Arthur, contact your troops." She points to the higher levels. "Tell them to move to the higher levels."

Arthur nods, saying "Very good, ma'am." He starts to move away, but then stops as he remembers something and returns to Winter. Smirking, he says "Oh, by the way, I think you'll be needing this."

He hands Winter her saber that she lost from a previous duel, and she blushes in slight embarrassment as she takes it back.

Winter blushed at this as well, earning a smirk from her dear sister, "Didn't Arthur always tell you that you should take better care of your weapon, that it was your life~?" she teased her, getting her older sister to blush harder and look away.

Ruby asked her, "Uh, Weiss? You know this guy?"

Weiss turns to her friend and nods, "Of course, Ruby. Arthur was once Winter's mentor in the military academy, and would often come to visit." She smiles, "He was a good friend to us while I was in Atlas."

Winter nods, getting her blush under control, but not before glaring at the drunk for laughing at her. "Yes, dear sister. He is also a very capable commander, and an honorable warrior." her tone brightens a bit as she smiles, "He's beloved by so many in the military, and I consider him to be my best friend, and older brother." Weiss nods, feeling the same way.

The rest of her team were surprised, and looked back at the screen with wonder.

James looks at the screen with a fond smile, having served with the man personally, and had a great respect towards him for his dedication for protecting his troops, earning the loyalty of so many within the army. This was also a way for him to try to forget his mistake.

*Clears throat* "Yes, thank you, Arthur." Now smiling back at him, she continues with "Now let's get a move on. We've got a battle to win here."

As she revs up her bike, Arthur shouts with a smile, "Yes, ma'am!" as he puts his helmet back on.

And like that, the specialist rides off down the wall of the giant sinkhole and heads off to a ramp that head to the upper levels.

As the battle continues around him, Arthur hears a beeping sound coming from his scroll and takes it out. He opens it to reveal the small hologram of a shadowy figure. "Commander Arthur," The figure says, his voice showing it to be Jacob Arc's.

Now those three were shocked. Winter shouted, "How can the Arcs contact Arthur?!"

The other heroes didn't like the implications of this, and were worried, while the villains were entranced.

We cut to Jacob and Jeanne Arc still in the trashed hotel room momentarily. "The Clan has been betrayed." Jeanne says, and Jacob finished her sentence. "Execute Order 66."

Cutting back to Arthur, he nods and says "Right away, Elders." The hologram disappears, and he turns to look up. He can see Winter riding her bike up a walkway jutting out of the wall.

The audience wondered what this Order 66 was. The villains were curious, while the heroes felt a deep foreboding settle within.

He then turns to a nearby trooper on an artillery platform, and gestures to her direction, "Blast her!" earning gasps from the Schnee sisters.

The gunner nods in complete loyalty to him, and fires.

The battle rages all around Winter Schnee. As she races across the battlefield, suddenly an artillery shell blasts underneath her, knocking her off the wall of the sinkhole. She looks around just in time to see that her own troops fired at her. Winter falls hundreds of feet to the bottom of the water-filled sinkhole, landing with a large splash of water.

"Winter!" Weiss shouts, hugging her stunned sister.

'Why?' Winter thought, 'Why would he do this?'

James felt like he was punched in the gut, 'Arthur? Why would you betray us like this?'

Cinder, having figured it out, laughed. Her mirth earned the attention of the audience. She turned to the Schnees, "Don't you get it? This Arthur must have been a member of the Arc Clan." She grinned cruelly at their looks of horror.

James shook, Arthur has the loyalty of many of the Atlas military. If he was an Arc, then he could lead an army under their banner against Atlas.

Ozpin looked on with sorrow. Juat watching the Arcs do this made him feel so depressed, and a bit dissapointed for some reason.

Salem was just about the opposite. She once more felt pride, and silently leaned towards Cinder. "Cinder, do make a note of this Arthur for me, my dear." She smiles as Cinder nods to her orders.

Across the way, in another section of the sinkhole, the battle continues. Troops were battling the White Fang across a long bridge. There, Qrow used his weapon to help his men by deflecting enemy fire while returning some of his own.

Now it was Ruby and Yang's turn to feel worried.

Raven clenched her fists, hoping that her brother would flee, while the man gulped in slight fear. Tai prayed that his brother would be ok.

A White Fang grunt fires an RPG and hits one of the nearby Atlas transport carriers, sending the whole thing sky-high in a raging fireball as it scored a direct hit on the fuel tank.

Qrow looks back towards the explosion, before calling his troops to follow him as he went to lead the charge.

"Come on!" He shouts as he raised his weapon high and began to run.

The troops follow him for a few steps before stopping, their weapons slowly raised directly at the man.

"Get out of there Uncle Qrow!" Ruby shouts as the sisters hug their uncle. Tai is breathing heavily, holding onto her wife as she tears up.

Raven glares at the screen, 'Come on Qrow, run!'

Qrow turns around after hearing the clicks of weapons behind him, and sees his men turning their guns on him, before he's blasted by bullets. He tries to defend himself, even deflecting a few rounds back, but the sheer amount of firepower is too much for his Aura to defend against. It was then that his Semblance activated. One, two, then more makes it through his Aura and strikes him around his body. He screams a bit in pain as one round strikes his chest before he spins around and falls to the ground, dead.

"UNCLE QROW!"

Raven looked on in shock, not knowing how to process her brother getting gunned down by his own men.

Tai and Summer held each other as they cried at the death.

The students were horrified by this.

The teachers were shunned at seeing one of their friends brutally murdered like this. Ozpin teared up, while Glynda placed a hand over her mouth as she turned away. James bowed his head in sorrow, knowing that his death, and many more, could be blamed by his actions.

The man himself was scared, holding his nieces close as he watched his own death play out.

The villains cheered at the death of one of Ozpin's group.

In Mountain Glenn, a regiment of Vale security forces are setting up camp across one of the deserted streets. Meanwhile, Glynda is leading a squad up ahead to scout for any potential ambush.

The heroes were dreading what would happen here, while the villains silenced themselves so as not to miss another thorn in their side fall.

They all look around for signs of the enemy, spotting only a few Beowolves and a Creeper.

Just then, her troops turned their weapons on her. She only had the time to turn around in shock before she was shot in the back by a shotgun. The force of the blast sending her crashing to the floor on her front. The view swittches to looking overhead behind a streetlamp as the other troops fire on her shortly after she hits the ground, the lamppost obscuring her body as she's riddled with bullets.

Glynda forced herself to look away as to not to see her future self get killed, while her friends were horrified by the brutality.

The students were openly crying for their teacher, seeing her die like this was terrifying for them. 'She didn't even get a chance to defend herself.' Many thought.

The villains cheered once more. Well, most of them.

Cinder was now starting to get annoyed. While she was happy that her enemies are getting picked apart one by one, she was pissed that it wasn't her that caused it. The perfectionist in her was seething that they were doing it more quickly, and more successfully, than her. Now more than ever, she wanted the allegiance of the Arcs.

As for Salem, she was astonished. 'I've been trying to destroy Ozpin's powerbase for centuries, and you're telling me that all I needed to do was gain the loyalty of a single family?! They're even doing it better than I am!' She was still feeling pride at their successful attempt at wiping out Ozpin's allies so far, it was just mixed with jealousy and self disappointment.

Back at Menagerie, Ozpin drops his cane, and clutches his chest. He soon kneels against a wall in pain as Ghira and Kali who are nearby to see what was wrong. It felt like he was suffering a minor heart attack, sensing that something had gone terribly wrong.

Above Atlas, where the sun was rising, the audience sees from inside a cockpit. The pilot is flying his fighter as he follows a small transport. His face was obscured by his helmet, but the audience can still see his dark blue eyes. Just then the pilot watches as a hologram of Jacob Arc pops up in front of his screen. "Execute Order 66" He orders before it disappears.

Nevertheless, the pilot nods as if he was still there and says, "It will be done, Elder." He then immediately starts aiming at the craft in front of him, firing once he had a lock.

We head to a view of inside that ship's cockpit, where James is seen piloting his ship.

The James in the audience sucks in a breath as he watches this as the villains silenced themselves in amazement that they would get to see the great General getting gunned down by his own men.

Watts was especially happy to witness this.

He was heading towards a landing platform over Atlas's Academy when he was suddenly fired upon from behind. He tries to see who was shooting him when a shot hits one of his engines and suddenly his ship spirals out of control. He drops out of the sky and hits a nearby building, the explosion of his ship engulfing his body and killing him.

James flinched at seeing his future self getting killed like that. 'Why is it always fire?!'

The heroes were once more horrified. They wanted this James to be punished, not killed!

Ozpin was feeling sick, witnessing his friends getting picked off one by one like this. Glynda closed her eyes and tried to keep the bile from rising up.

The students were shaking in fear, seeing a glimpse of the Arc's influence.

Frigga held her daughter as she whimpered as Odin embraced them both in his own way of shielding them.

The White fang was amazed, while Eve was grinning sadistically.

Once more, the villains cheered, while Cinder started to shack in jealous rage. Watts was silently celebrating. Jaune's children were also celebrating, seeing the similarities of this James' demise to the one from their universe.

However, all noise stopped at seeing what happened next.

Just then, over the academy, a black portal similar to the one at Beacon opened up, and a woman
with hazel eyes and long, wavy green hair, along with a slightly tanned complexion walks out with a serious expression. The audience can see that she has a crimson line running across her face and a skull mask of a ram along with a pair of curved horns, making people think that she was a Faunus. For clothing, she wore a tight fitting long sleeved shirt with shoulder pads and puffy cuffs, a black line starting at the collar and going down to the left side of her chest and to the side. She also has white gloves and matching pants that are open at the end, and a pair of white sandals and black socks (2).

What the females noticed most was that this woman was very 'gifted' in the chest department, the shirt not really hiding how large her breasts were. Mercury was drooling at her figure, which earned him a slap from Emerald for acting like a pervert in front of her daughters.

Ilia was blushing up a storm.

Ren stealthily hid his arousal, but not as stealthy as he thought as Nora was seething at this homewrecker stealing her man.

Now Cinder was getting pissed. Salem was also getting annoyed. The Arc's success was incredible, and it wasn't because of either of their carefully thought out plans! They were getting more shit done in a single day, than they have had in decades! They then glare at their underlings, blaming them for the lackluster success they've had thus far in recent years.

The heroes gulped in fear, sensing that her arrival wasn't good for them. They were right.

She unsheathes her blade and raises it high, signaling the army that the audience can now see behind her to begin their charge. The audience, with a sense of fear coming from the heroes, can see that this army was made up of more of those weird soldiers.

We cut to the middle of a savanna, outside Haven Academy, where three hoverbikes race across the wilderness with Leonardo Lionheart in the lead.

The two guards follow him as he grins, focused on the 'road' with the wind making a mess of his hair. Because of this, he doesn't notice one of his guards pressing a hand to his helmet, as if getting a transmission. The man nods in confirmation before looking to the other person, both nod and dropped back further behind the Faunus Headmaster.

The villains stopped celebrating, knowing how important this Faunus was to their plans.

Ozpin widened his eyes, not wishing to see another of his close friends dying.

The heroes were scared, being shown another Headmaster in trouble.

The Faunus in the room were especially worried, seeing as this was one of their more recent heroes.

The view zooms in on the front of one of the bikes as hidden compartments open up and a pair of blasters pop out, which instantly shoots at his position once they got a lock. We cut to just ahead of the trio as he is hit, causing him to crash in a huge explosion, killing the man on collision.

Near the academy, another black portal opens up, this time showing a woman with olive skin, aqua green eyes, thick eyelashes, and short golden blonde hair kept messy with three braided locks. She's wearing a jacket with a high collar, covering the lower part of her face, and stopping just below her chest. The jacket has a zipper running along its entire length, with what appears to be air filters on either side just below the trim. The sleeves completely envelops her arms, ending in black glove-like extensions at her extremities, resembling the appearance of a cat's paw. For lower wear, she's wearing the same as the soldiers standing behind her (3).

'Where does Jaune find these women?!' The ladies with crushes mentally shouts out in jealous rage, seeing that this one also has a stacked rack while also wearing very little in comparison to the last one.

Ilia had a nosebleed at the blonde's choice of clothes, seeing her exotic appearance to be mesmerizing.

Cinder closed her eyes as she began counting to ten in her head. 'How many troops are there?' She opens her eyes, and flames could be seen within. 'And how have I never even heard of them before?!'

Mercury wanted to ogle at the new woman, but a raised hand and a goading expression from Emerald put a stop to that.

Salem's eyebrow started twitching as she sees a pawn, rather than thorn, getting killed. As she sees the portal open up, and spilling out more soldiers she couldn't help but think 'Another army attacking a school...' She stops thinking about it as she clenched her fists. 'Where were you mysterious peons decades ago?!'

Again, this one took out her sword and points it towards the academy, unleashing more skull-helmeted warriors from the portal.

It then cuts over to Shade Academy in Vacuo, where the redheaded Headmistress, Dorothea Gales, and her assistant, a female blond dog Faunus named Topaz Terrier (4), were walking down a path in the middle of the courtyard. Topaz suddenly received a coded message on her scroll.

As she opened it to read, a large portal started opening. And this time, stepping outside was a man, unlike another woman much to the audience's female population's relief.

He is a tall, muscular man with light blue, spiky hair and matching eyes, with green lines below them, similar to eye markings of a cat. His attire consists of a white hakama, a black sash and a ragged white jacket with an upturned collar. The inner lining of his jacket is black and is worn with the sleeves rolled up and unzipped, exposing his chest. He also seemed to have a mask fragment on his right jawbone (5).

Like the others, he takes out his sword, grinning ferally as he does so. Pointing it towards Dorothea, he shouts "Go get 'em, boys!"

At his command, another army of skull-helmeted soldiers came rushing out and converging on a horrified Headmistress, just as Topaz raised a ruby-bladed sword to the back of her head.

The audience was in disbelief, seeing now four massive armies attacking the schools simultaneously.

Ozpin was shell-shocked that Mr. Arc could amass such a large army in such a short period of time, as were Glynda and Winter. The former seeing that her best friend was about to be killed by her own assistant.

Cinder was glaring at the screen, jealous that she wasn't the one leading this impressive army, and not the fact that most of the ones leading them were extremely beautiful women with more impressive figures then her. 'Stupid Arc,' she thinks as she crossed her arms, 'am I not good enough for you?'

Cutting back to Menagerie, a couple of Bullheads are flying overhead as Faunus gunners are standing at the back, firing at the Grimm down below with heavy machine guns. A nearby Nevermore was hit in one of its wings and soon plummets to the ground.

Down below, the audience can see that the battle is taking place on a beach, where Vale security forces and Kuo Kuana Militia are seen battling sea Grimm who are ferrying land based ones as if they were transports.

Treaded tanks roar towards the battle, firing missiles and bullets as they drive through the area.

In a tower we see the leader of the security forces holding his scroll out and talking to a hologram of Jacob Arc as another Nevermore in the background is blasted out of the sky.

He nods, saying "It will be done, Elder." before snapping his scroll shut. He then walks over to a blond Faunus Militia member and quietly tells her the news. She nods and the two heads over to Ozpin who was watching the battle from the balcony.

The White Fang are shocked that one of their own was in league with the Arcs, then remembered being told that the family supplied them with support and manpower during the Revolution. It now made sense to them for a Faunus to be loyal to the Clan if they knew of this information, 'Even more so if the Faunus are Arcs themselves.' Sienna and Blake thought with a gulp.

Ozpin sees the battle raging as Huntsmen attack the Grimm that are coming out of the water, trying desperately to thin their ranks.

Ghira and Kali were standing by a map as the Headmaster watches the battle below.

The soldier and Faunus walk towards the balcony. As they stand close enough behind Ozpin, they raise their weapons in preparation.

The heroes hold their breaths in fear, holding each other as they watch the last Headmasters left alive about to die.

Ozpin was prepared, he died numerous times before. Though he was greatly saddened by this one, knowing that he dies without knowing why this time.

Salem felt some sadness as she watches this, holding her babies close.

Cinder, and the rest of the villains, were hoping to see their main threat finally die.

But faster than the troops could react, Ozpin catches them by surprise and twirls, striking with his cane expertly at their necks. His aim was true, his power so great that he actually snapped both their necks on impact.

The heroes flinched at the loud cracks of snapped necks, though they were happy that he managed to survive unlike so many others.

The villains meanwhile groaned in disappointment. Though Cinder did smirk a bit, seeing the Arcs failed at least once made feel a little better about herself.

The Faunus couple gaped as they turned around to see what made that sickening noise and couldn't understand what just happened.

Just then, the two heard boots slamming into the ground, indicating that more soldiers were on the way. Kali calls out to Ozpin, who by this point was distracted with having just killed two people, to follow them.

Seeing his distraction, Ghira runs over and picks Ozpin up. Tossing him over his shoulder, he follows his wife while carrying the Headmaster with him like a sack of potatoes.

Some of the audience chuckles at this little bit of humor, wanting to escape from this nightmare playing out before them.

We cut to inside Beacon, where the audience sees that the students were already being overrun on the first floor. Fires had broken out in various sections inside, and swarms of these new soldiers buzzing into existence like a signal of their arrival.

The students and teachers could already see several students lying on the ground dead.

In a second floor, Cardin is surrounded by a couple of those weird skull-helmeted soldiers, blocking one of their sword strikes as he's panting from exhaustion, his Aura dangerously low. By his feet are the dead members of his team.

He fights as hard as he could, managing to land a direct hit on one of the soldiers in the chest and pulverizing his ribcage, before another comes up behind him and stabs him through the back. He doesn't do more than gasp as he kneels, then falls to the ground next to his dead friends.

The students and teachers were horrified at this, seeing CRDL all dead with Cardin himself falling mere moments ago. The army sweeping across the school and their fellow students getting slaughtered. They know that this scene was happening with the other schools, which just made them feel even worse.

Cinder was seething, seeing the school fall but not because of her brilliant strategies.

Salem smirked, still upset by the ease of the Arc's victory but willing to let it go as she sees Ozpin's precious school being razed to the ground.

The screen then enters a storeroom on one of the upper levels, where Jaune quietly enters alone.

Seeing Jaune made the students gulp in fear.

There, huddled in the dark corners, are his team along with a few other students, all showing signs of fighting. "Jaune-Jaune?"

The view focuses on Nora as she stumbles over to him, clutching her hastily bandaged side as she hugs him. Smiling painfully, she steps back a few steps and says, "Jaune-Jaune! Oh thank goodness you're ok!" She pants slightly from the pain as the rest of their team steps forward in relief.

Shaking her head she asks, "There's too many of them, Fearless Leader. What are we going to do?" She looks at him with hope that he would have a plan for escaping this slaughter.

His team was crying, pleading with Jaune to stop this madness.

Frigga and Odin held each other as they hoped their daughter would escape alive.

The other heroes felt their hearts hurt at the sight.

A closeup of Jaune's face shows him looking back at them with a pained expression, tears dropping down his face, before showing his back and Nora's hopeful expression to the audience. He ignites his weapon, and her face turns from one of hope, to one of understanding and fear.

Nora leaped from her seat and tried to run towards James, her team holding her back as she screams "You did this!" Earning the audience's attention.

James shook his head as tears fell, "I-It wasn't my fault. He was the one who ki-"

"SHUT UP!" Nora screamed, cutting him off. "You were the one who ordered his arrest! You forced Jaune-Jaune to turn on us all!" She cried as Ren hugged her, bringing her back to her seat. The next sentence broke many of the heroes' hearts, "It's your fault my big brother is gone..."

Frigga took her baby from Ren and held her in her arms, Odin bowing his head as his tears fell.

Cinder reverted back to lust. Seeing the Arc boy about to murder his team, his friends. It brought a sense of longing inside. 'I want you.'

Switching to a street in Vale, its people point and look at the direction of the school in fear. Zooming in on a group, it shows some crying. They knew that they had family attending and now they're watching massive a cloud of smoke and bright red lights emanating from the school.

Saphron sat, looking at the screen with sadness in her gaze, "And thus, our revenge is complete." she whispered.

Terra looks at Saphron in sadness and horror, "How can you say that?" She whispers.

Saphron sighed and looks to her wife, "Sweetie, you must understand that we Arcs are extremely protective of our family. If one of us are in danger, then we all rise up to face it." She takes her hand in her own, then hugs her softly as she starts to tear up, "We just don't suffer fools who would try to harm us."

Terra hugged her back, "But they didn't," she whispers, earning her attention, "it was all based a lie."

Saphron leans back but doesn't break the embrace. She wipes her tears away before looking back to her wife and nods. "I know, I know. But my baby brother still died at the hands of Atlas." She took a glance at the broken General. "In front of my grandparents, two of the Clan's most respected and beloved leaders. Not only that, but his orders had also marked them for death." She shook her head. "They hold two seats in Mistral's Council. Even if we didn't go with Order 66, we would've still gone to war. Even tried to apprehend Ironwood himself with Order 37 (6)," she looked to her wife, who was now pale at the thought of war, and shook her head, "trust me Terra, you do not want to know what that order would've entailed."

Terra wanted to ask, but her wife's scared face told her that she really didnt, that it would've been worse than this Order 66.

Meanwhile, the rest of the heroes felt hollow, their homes were under attack by one of their own. And the next scene nearly broke what was left of their resolve.

The screen cuts to an overhead view outside of Beacon where everyone can see its sacred halls, its majestic buildings, all of it were engulfed in flames and smoke. A few sounds of fighting could still be heard, but everyone can tell that it was over, Beacon had fallen.

The villains were celebrating. While it wasn't their victory, they still celebrated as if it was. 'After all, your victory is our victory.'

Just then, a Bullhead came rushing in, landing in one of the few landing pads that wasn't covered in the smoked out husks of what remained of the Atlassian defense fleet. A few soldiers were seen walking over to intercept whoever was inside this craft.

It soon lands in front of them, and its doors open. Lisa Lavender then steps out along with her filming crew.

The audience didn't know why she came, the students shouting at her to get away from the skull-helmeted soldiers marching over to her.

The troops stop in front of her. She looked at these strangers with confusion and fear. She looks towards the one in front, who she perceived as the leader of this group, and asks, "What's going on here?" She and her crew look at the devastation around them.

One of the guards steps forward and puts his palm forward in a halting motion while announcing, "There's been a rebellion, Ma'am." That got gasps from the civilians and the heroes in the audience, "But don't worry, the situation's under control."

Lisa wasn't willing to just accept that at face value and motioned for her crew to follow her before the announcer and the rest of his men drew their swords and pointed their weapons at them. "I'm sorry, Ma'am." The man says, before gesturing with his head to their ship, "But it's time for you to leave."

Raven, finally over from seeing her brother's death and the Arcs destroying so much over such a small period of time, quietly urged the woman to flee quickly.

Lisa gulps, and nods. "And so it is." She motions her crew to start heading back, glancing behind them every once in a while as they enter their ship.

Suddenly, the sound of something igniting and shouting was heard, and they look back to see Velvet jumping in, rolling on the ground as she slashed at the guards with a solid 'light-copy' of Jaune's weapon and slicing a few of the men, killing them.

"Bun-Bun?!" Coco asks in fear, seeing her friend fighting, and holds her own version in a tight hug. "What are you doing, get out of there!"

Many wondered how she managed to gain a light copy of Jaune's sword, but seeing the wounds she's sporting, and the obvious lack of teammates, sort of answered that. Velvet, figuring out what became of her team, cried as she held onto her friend for support.

One of them shouts, "Get her!" before being sliced across the chest.

Just then more started buzzing in, the noise that are now recognized as their arrival, and began to engage her.

She tries defending herself, but their numbers were too much, and eventually one of the guards slashes at her front, blood splashing out of her as she screams and falls to the ground dead.

"NO!" Many of the students shout in despair, not wanting to believe another of their own dying in front of them.

"NO!" Lisa screams as the doors close and the Bullhead rapidly starts flying away. Some of the guards move to intercept, but one of them says "Don't worry about them," as he kneels to inspect Velvet's body to make sure she was dead. "Let them go."

(Stop "March at the Jedi Temple")

We cut to a cave back at the sinkhole, where we see Winter coming up from the water, hurt but alive.

"At least one made it through this travesty." Ozpin whispered, Weiss holding onto her sister as the two cried in relief.

Salem was impressed that she survived that fall, and noted that if she survived, then others may have as well.

Cinder also noted this. The two also believed that even if a few lived, they would be extremely easy to find and wipe out with their own forces.

Eve crossed her arms and grumbled that the Schnee managed to survive.

She looks around her surroundings, removing her breathing apparatus that she always had on her for emergencies as she does so, before she starts swimming to the wall and begins climbing once she reached it.

A few seconds pass and she manages to climb the wall to a second cave just as two little seeker drones pop out of the water with their searchlights glowing.

Many heroes held their breath and prayed that she wouldn't be spotted.

She sees the drones and pressed himself against the wall of the smaller cave as the drones started searching the first. One of the seekers then begins to enter the smaller cave. As the light shines on the opposite wall and moves to the back of the cave, it accidentally illuminates a huge aquatic Grimm. The seeker paused for a moment, as if saying "Oh shit!", before the Grimm lunges at the thing and consumes it in one bite.

The second drone shines its light on the Grimm as the evil creature tries to grab it. Winter slinks off toward the back of the cave, thanking her lucky stars for the save back there.

The heroes all sigh in relief, ironically thanking a Grimm for helping to save a Huntress.

Back to Menagerie, on some hills overlooking a lake, a column of 8 tanks rolls up on a hill and stops. The hatch of the lead tank pops open, and climbing up was a Faunus commander. She sees several destroyed Bullheads along with several bodies. The vastly different colored/looking uniforms for each individual being more than enough proof that these were Huntsmen.

The commander briefly sneers at the bodies, then opens up a channel for her column, "Nothing here but dead Huntsmen." She then points to the right. "First squad, move to the East." The audience hears various affirmatives, and 3 tanks separate from the rest to carry out their orders.

The Faunus couldn't believe that the Arcs had so many of their people under their influence.

Neither did the humans.

On a separate hill, far away from the tanks, Kali and Ghira, after putting down Ozpin, goes to a tree and pulls down one of its branches. There they see a small transport hidden within the brush. Oz opens the door of the small vehicle, before looking back to the couple. "Goodbye Kali, Ghira. I'll miss you both, you have always been good friends. I thank you for all the help you've given me."

Blake's eyes widened at the news of her parents being friends with Ozpin, 'Maybe that's why I was accepted into Beacon so easily?'

Ghira nods while Kali says "Anytime, just promise me you'll find my kitten and keep her safe." He nods, promising that he'll do what he can, before climbing into the transport and takes off into the morning sky.

We then cut back to the sinkhole, now late in the morning.

There, the audience sees that the battle is over, and the remains of the White Fang have surrendered.

Eve grounded her teeth at her soldiers losing to a bunch of Atlas scum.

It cuts to a balcony surrounded by pillars, where soldiers are marching a few White Fang prisoners into a transport.

It then cuts to another level, where behind one of the pillars, Winter is hiding from a group of her own troops.

She soon sees Arthur walking up to them. 'Arthur, why have you betrayed me?' She notices that the others aren't raising a fuss about his attempt to murder her. 'What is going on?'

She then hears him speak to the squad, "Did you find Specialist Schnee yet?"

One of the troopers shakes her head, "Commander Arc, no one could have survived that fall." She says, and thus proving Cinder's theory of his relations to the Arc Clan.

She watches them as some nearby prisoners are being escorted by more troops into some of the transports.

Arthur sighs in frustration, but nods to his subordinate's statement, "Very well, good job all of you. Start loading your men on the ship."

The soldiers all straighten their postures in pride as the woman nods, "Yes, sir."

To see these soldiers be so proud of his words... It made many fear of the Arcs having even more sway then they initially thought.

Winter sneaks back to the secret platform, and down a flight of stairs. There, she makes her way out of the cave and onto the White Fang leader's secret landing platform. She runs to the ship parked there, ignoring the corpse of said leader that she had killed earlier, and climbs into the one-man ship.

Eve glares, knowing who was in charge of that base, and not believing that he could've lost to a filthy Schnee.

Sienna also glared, seeing that this Faunus was a member of Adam's group. 'Wait, what do we call his female form? Eve?' She stops to ponder, conveniently forgetting what she was thinking before.

The ship takes off and disappears into the morning sky.

Inside, once she felt she was far enough away from the watchful eyes of her former army, she activates the relay on the ship and punches in several coordinates and codes. A slow beeping sound is soon heard. It quickly speeds up until it is a steady tone. Winter looks relieved as she speaks into her commlink. "Emergency Code 9-13... I have no contact on any frequency. Are there any Huntsmen out there?" Nothing. "...Anyone?"

The Huntsmen lower their heads. They had hoped that more survived, but now were thinking that maybe she and Ozpin were the only ones left.

She began to lose hope when a burst of static is heard, and a fuzzy holographic image appears.

The hologram tries speaking, but it's a garbled mess. Only one word was coherent enough to make it through, "...Schnee..."

Pressing a few buttons, hoping to bust the signal, she says "I've locked on. Repeat."

The fuzzy image comes into focus, it's Ozpin! "Winter Schnee?"

Winter was never as happy as she was right now to see the old headmaster. She breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Headmaster Ozpin! Oh thank heavens. Please, my troops have turned on me, I need help."

Oz nods in contemplation, "I have just escaped from my own men." He paused to stroke his chin in worry. "It appears this ambush has happened everywhere. I'm sending you the coordinates to a ship that an old friend has graciously allowed us passage for." He finishes then his hologram vanishes.

Several hours later, Winter's ship docks with a beat-up old transport ship.

The door to the main hallway slides open, and Winter enters and is greeted by Ozpin and the captain of the ship, a mouse Faunus named Anon Y. Mouse. The three soon walk down the hallway.

The Faunus nods to her, "You made it. That's great."

Oz sighed in slight happiness to see a somewhat familiar face again. "Miss Schnee." He smiles weakly to her, "It's good to see you."

Winter gazed at him in worry, "You were attacked by your soldiers as well, sir?"

Oz nods with a pained expression on his face, "Yes, I was. It was only with the help of the Belladonnas that I barely managed to escape."

Winter looked imploringly to him, "How many other Huntsmen managed to survive?" But was saddened to see him shake his head in sadness.

Anon said what Oz was trying to say, "We've heard from no one." He said sadly.

'No.' Winter was worried as she thought of her sister. 'Weiss. Please be safe.'

He then explained his reason for being here, "I saw thousands of unknown troops attacking Beacon. It's why I went looking for Ozpin."

She looked to the captain, "Have we had any contact from the school?" Hoping for some news about the whereabouts of her dear baby sister.

Oz stops in his tracks, making the other two stop as well, "We've received a coded retreat message."

Anon continued with "It requests for all Huntsmen to return to the 4 academies. It says that something of grave importance has occurred, and that needs all hands were needed to come back."

"It's a trap." Penny whispered, thinking of how many surviving Huntsmen could potentially fall to this deception.

The audience was shocked by number of contingencies the Arcs had in taking down the Huntsmen.

Winter widened her eyes at the Faunus, immediately smelling a trap. "Well, then we must go back!" She looks to Ozpin, "If there are other stragglers, they will fall into this trap and be killed."

Anon shakes his head, "It's too dangerous to return to that place."

Oz though, strokes his head in thought. "You suggest that we head to Beacon and dismantle the coded signal?"

Ruby nodded, "You have to! If you don't, anyone who survived would be in grave danger!"

She nods frantically, "Yes, Headmaster. There's simply too much at stake, and we need to know what is really happening here."

The old man contemplates on this, "We find ourselves in a dark time." He turns to her and nods, "A little more knowledge may light our way."

Back at Beacon, we see Jaune rummaging over Oz's computer, looking for anything that may help him in finding any stragglers. He was in the middle of thanking Terra for supplying them with her decryption software (Terra: "I didn't mean to create it for that purpose!"), when three of the mysterious soldiers buzzed into existence.

Jaune turns to face them and orders "Report."

The heroes looked on with sorrow, seeing the kind light in his eyes snuffed out. The young man who once dreamed of becoming a Huntsman to help the weak, gone.

The parents held their children, with the exception of Raven. She got a hug from Vernal's child, which earned her a glare but a hug back.

The villainesses drooled at his more mature look, wondering how they would go about turning their current version to be more like him.

The three bow in salute before the one in the middle steps forward, "My Lord."

The title shocked many in the audience. 'Just what did he do in the past to inspire such devotion for him?'

"We have received reports from the Generals." He looks directly at his leader, "Their missions are complete. They can sense no high levels of energy anywhere around the academies." Jaune nods solemnly, knowing that with their sensing abilities they could find any survivor within the radius of a few miles.

*Sigh* "So that's it then," he glanced out the window, "every Huntsmen within the 4 cities are no more."

The students, teachers, and even several of the villains, were scared.

The heroes for Jaune admitting that everyone in and around the academies were slain. 'That means that thousands are dead!'

The villains because they had already infiltrated Beacon, and they didn't want to find out that they died too. Salem was back to being jealous, knowing that while her faction had killed many more Huntsmen than that, she had to admit that they never killed so many over the course of a single day.

The soldier then hands Jaune a black scroll. He raises an eyebrow as he takes it. "What is this?"

The soldier went on to explain that the scroll was left abandoned by its owner shortly before they attacked. "It seems as though they were in a hurry, their room was in complete disarray before we arrived."

'Perhaps looking for this little guy.' Jaune thinks.

Salem glared at Cinder, knowing just who that scroll belonged to. Cinder gulped as she felt the glare, though she and her 'team' were glad that they had managed to escape.

He then addresses the three. "Good work, gentlemen. Prepare to move out, but leave a small contingent behind in case any stragglers come here. However unlikely that is, we must remain cautious." They nod and bowed again, before buzzing out of the room.

Jaune sighs and sits down at Oz's old chair, opening up the scroll but noticed that the thing was heavily encrypted. He smirked, "Not for long."

He then went to use his sister-in-law's tool to take apart the security systems of the device.

Watts scoffed at the notion of his work being hacked, even saying "Oh please, it would take days, no weeks, for this child's work to undue my security measures."

It took just 10 minutes before he cracked the thing open.

He looked on in shock as Cinder laughed at him.

'Once again, thank you Terra for giving us this gift.' He then ran through the scroll's contact list before settling on the one with the title MISTRESS as the name.

Cinder stopped laughing, shrinking as Salem glared at her again.

He would've just ignored it, "Probably just a kink of the person who owned it." He says with a snort.

But his instincts screamed at him that this was important. He narrowed his eyes and opened the contact information. In it, he saw nothing but a picture. A picture of someone that he recognized.

Many eyebrows rose up, even Salem was surprised, as Jaune apparently recognized her from when she was still Grimm.

They all pondered how that was possible. Salem thought back to her previous members, trying to think if she had actually employed an Arc in the past. But she ended up drawing a blank. "Curious..." She said with an intrigued expression.

No one noticed her children looking a bit sheepish.

He immediately went to the computer, wondering if Ozpin knew anything about this woman. 'It can't just be a coincidence that this person just so happens to have contact information on her, while Ozpin betrays us.'

Thankfully, he had already cracked the encryptions here as they were just a bit more advanced than the ones on the scroll.

He was looking over the data, seeing a lot in here. Folders full of information about Magic, Maidens, Relics, Silver Eyes, The Brother Gods...

The students were all confused.

Ruby was curious over the one labeled 'Silver Eyes'. She wondered what that meant, before being hugged by her mom and dad in an attempt to make her forget about it, which she did.

"Magic?" Weiss scoffed at the idea, "Please, magic isn't real."

Yang nodded, "Yeah, and Maidens? Aren't they all just a fairytale?"

Many nodded or voiced their agreements, never knowing how many of the adults were squirming in their seats.

Ozpin hoped that Jaune wouldn't open any of those folders, same with Qrow and Glynda. The latter of whom stealthily smacked the back of his head for even having such delicate information stored there in the first place.

Salem looked at the screen, thinking that she'll get some locations of the whereabouts of the Maidens and the Relics, grinning at how the young man just handed this information over to her on a silver platter.

Cinder thought the same thing, even taking out her scroll and recording this goldmine of information.

All of it worthless to the Arcs. *Groan* "We already know all this." He moved on without a second glance, grumbling "This is old news, we've known the truth behind those legends for centuries."

That shocked everyone, no more than Ozpin himself.

Weiss shakes her head and shouts, "Oh for the love of Oum, those are just fairytales! Stories!"

Many voiced their agreements, mostly the ones who didn't know the truth, but a few that did know also agreed in order to help keep the secrecy.

Ozpin wondered how they knew, thinking that perhaps the Arcs have been around for a long time.

Jaune searched deeper, and then he found it. A folder regarding the one he was searching for. He gulps, before hesitantly opening it much to Ozpin's worry. The information inside was pretty bare, only coordinates to a location and a single page worth of information about her. The most important of which was the label Ozpin used when he was addressing her near the beginning of her bio.

"Wife" He whispers in awe.

Many looked at each other in confusion, wondering why that word held any significance.

Saphron was looking at the man with a pale face. 'The All-father... HE'S THE ALL-FATHER?!'

He takes his scroll out, and copies the information in the folder. After that was done, he proceeded to wipe the computer clean. By the end of this, nothing was left.

"Probably for the best." Glynda whispered, smacking Ozpin in the back of the head again while Salem and Cinder seethed at the destruction of this knowledge.

He nods at his work before setting up a call with the leaders of the Clan.

A few minutes later he sees miniature holograms of the Arc Council. He kneels in respect towards his grandparents along with the other two Elders.

They were all wearing cloaks with their hoods up, 'Don't know why, the Clan all knows they are.' he thinks as the identities of the Elders were never really a secret to them, it was simply tradition.

To his far left was a man who, if he didn't have his hood on, had a bald head and blue eyes. He was sort of pale, with some markings over his eyes. He was Dessel Arc, or 'Elder Bane' (7) as was his codename under the hood. He's the oldest currently in the Council. He was also a General in charge of the military department of the Arc Clan during the Great War, refusing to ally with Mistral or Mantle, and instead leading his army to lay waste to Mantle's forces, and helping to bring the war to a quicker end.

Those from Atlas knew of him, and shuddered at his name. Though they didn't know that he was an Arc. This made them very wary, wondering who else in modern history was a member of this family.

Raven also knew about him, and was in awe. She was seeing the man who was basically her hero growing up! She instantly went and took a picture of him on her scroll. After that, she resolved to 'convince' the boy to join her side. 'With his legacy, and our power, we will make such powerful children together.'

Yang asked, "So, what did this 'Bane' guy do during the Great War?"

Ozpin, seeing those from Atlas shiver at the mention of his name again, answered. "It was said that he refused to fight for such a dishonorable cause, and instead allied with Vale. He led an army of his kin to wipe out hundreds of thousands of troops over the course of the war. He ordered his men to leave no survivors, wanting them to 'suffer for their transgressions against the Arcs'. It was this brutality that had forced the final battle between the Four Kingdoms. He destroyed so much of Mantle's forces that they never recovered, and is a key reason why Atlas mostly relies on droids today. To the Kingdom, he is the bane of their existence."

While they thought that Dessel was right in wanting to aid Vale in the fight, the ones who didn't know were horrified that a member of Jaune's family ordered his troops to leave no survivors, 'And Jaune is following in his footsteps.'

"Elder Bane." Jaune says as he addressed him first.

"I don't get it." Roman said, scratching the back of his head, "Why the codenames if their family already knows who they are? And why the robes?"

Jack sighed and rolled his eyes, "It's because of their ancient traditions, and a sign of respect. They've been doing this shtick for millennia, back to the first Arcs."

The audience was stunned, not realizing that the Arcs were that old. Ozpin was now confident that the Arcs simply knew the truth because they were around long enough to witness the events, and kept records of them.

Jack explained further, "Every person who's in the Arc Council are given the title 'Elder', followed by a codename based on what that person did against their enemies, like Bane. The only way you can be nominated is if you display a great feat of bravery or strength in the name of the Clan. If you are selected to be a candidate for one of their positions, you receive the title of 'Lord' or 'Lady'. It's a way for others in the Clan to recognize your current status. This is so that if the Elders die, the Arcs will have several candidates to choose from" He looks to the audience, "Got it?"

They all nodded.

Raven really appreciated this system, 'Only the strong may rule.' She grinned, she really liked this system, fantasizing what her title would be, 'Maybe Lady Revan...' She chuckled at the name, earning weird looks from Vernal and Amber, as she just reversed the vowels in her name.

Vernal raised a point, "But wait, if there are several candidates, but so few positions, won't that cause strife or even civil war between the various candidates?"

Jack nodded, "Normally, this would hold true. However, it is because of the will of the first Arcs, the ones whose teachings and guidance have been ingrained in their very blood for generations, that they would not do so. To them, it would sully their honor by going against the Clan." He looks to the audience, "They would rather die than raise their arms against their family."

The audience were surprised by this information.

The heroes wanted to know the teachings of the first Arcs, to see how their teachings can bring Huntsmen more closer together in their fight against the Grimm.

The villains quickly realized that if they could gain the loyalty of a single prominent Arc, and elevated him to a higher standing within the Clan, then they would get the Arcs on their side. They looked to Jaune, 'And I think we may have found our way in.'

Terra looked to her wife with shock, and saw her smile back a bit sheepishly.

Saphron leaned in and pecked her lips, before whispering, "You are an Arc," she looks at her again, "you are family."

Terra smiles, still a bit apprehensive over what the Arcs have done, but was willing to look the other way, 'Besides, this isn't our fate.' She looks back at the screen, 'Not yet at least. We can change this future, it's not set in stone.' Her eyes turn hard, 'I will not stand by and allow my family to fall like this.'

Unbeknownst to her, Salem's children were secretly smiling, listening to her inner thoughts and thinking, 'She shows the Passion of a true Arc.'

To the center left, was a wolf Faunus with long silver hair done in a ponytail, matching colored wolf ears, grey eyes and light skin. He was arguably the most powerful member of the council and while not an Arc by blood, he was very committed to the Clan. To the point where he had tattooed the symbol of the Clan on his forehead and discarded his old name and took on his title as his new one. Exar Kun, or Grand Elder Vitiate (8).

That name made many of the older adults shiver in fear, while the Faunus sat back in shock.

The other heroes dreaded to wonder what horrors this man did.

Raven approved of the man's loyalty towards the Clan, believing that he would've made an excellent Branwen if given the opportunity.

The Faunus who led thousands of the Clan into battle during the Faunus Revolution. The one who singlehandedly slaughtered nearly a hundred Huntsmen in a single battle. He had personally rescued hundreds of thousands of Faunus slaves before and during the Revolution, leading an army of Arcs with his grandpa joining in. They were later joined up with his grandma who coincidentally also led an army of freed Faunus slaves, and was vicious to any slavers unlucky enough to be captured by him. Using a metal pole with a singlehanded hilt in the middle and packed with concentrated fire dust to burn/cauterize any wound, he was well known for lopping off limbs, similar to how the slavers chopped off Faunus appendages to make them more 'appealing'.

Jaune kept his gaze low as he said, "Grand Elder Vitiate."

The heroes, though horrified of the man's actions, did understand the reasons behind them. None of them condoned the method of slavery, nor what those true beasts did to the poor Faunus, and so felt that the slavers got what they deserved.

Blake and Velvet narrowed their eyes while the former hissed as they heard of their people being tortured like that, and were happy to know that he had managed to rescue so many of them.

The White Fang members were in awe as seeing one of the great heroes of the Faunus Revolution, and greatly surprised when they saw that he was an Arc.

'Impossible!' Eve shouted in her mind. 'I looked up to him when I was growing up, and I never heard of him settling down at all!' Though that was soon curbed by the thought of how this could be used to her advantage. 'The Arcs are run by two Faunus, both have apparently seen our plight and have fought for our freedom in the past...' She narrows her eyes, "They could make wonderful allies." She whispers.

The villains were shocked that they never enlisted the Arcs before now.

Salem was mentally banging her head against a shelf. 'Why didn't I use this family before?! If those Elders were so powerful, why didn't I seize them while they were still in their prime?!' She bemoaned that she didn't find this out sooner. "Well no more." She muttered, narrowing her eyes at the screen. "The Arcs are firmly entrenched within the Kingdoms, if I have them, then the Kingdoms will fall."

To his far right was his grandfather, Jacob Arc. He was the face of the Arcs, and a savvy politician during his youth, he had to be in order to acquire a seat in Mistral's council for both himself and his Faunus wife. However, don't let that fool you, he was a powerful and dangerous fighter as well. Wielding two blades and with the use of his Semblance, he was an unstoppable force of nature during the Faunus Revolution. He was one of the first Arcs to answer Exar Kun's call to arms. He was as crafty in battle as he was in politics, using his surroundings to help him in his fights. In a duel against a slaver leader who tried to sack and enslave a small town populated by Faunus, it was reported that the man was sneaky, tricky... insidious. The last name stuck, and when he was appointed to be the next Elder, he was titled...

"Elder Sidious."

The students sighed in relief, glad to know that the old man didn't commit any horrible things during his youth, and was happy that he was given that title because he simply helped save his family from slavery.

The Faunus were mostly happy that a human from that era was so committed to helping their people, even if they were Arcs.

And lastly, to center right, was his grandma. Jeanne Arc was an interesting character. She was a Faunus that grew up a slave in a city that was home to a tyrannical ruler. She was always disobedient, always running away. During one of her escapes, she came across Jacob, and she was instantly smitten with him. His curly hair blowing in the wind, his happy smile, the way his eyes danced with merriment. It didn't hurt that she caught him while he was taking a bath in a nearby river.

Many were disgusted by her previous status, though the more romantic members of the audience all sighed at seeing this love story from a fairytale play out. They also blushed when they saw a younger and naked Jacob.

After introducing herself, getting a blush and shrill scream of embarrassment from the young man, they began to talk. Over the course of a week they got to know each other and went on a few dates. He told her stories about his family, how kind and honorable they were, everything that her ruler was not. It was wonderful, but she knew it wouldn't last long. She would eventually be found, and after she heard the stories she knew what she had to do.

She chose to sneak back into the city, while 'borrowing' a few weapons from the Arc storehouses. There, she incited a rebellion amongst the Faunus, freeing her people while slaughtering their masters. She then led her people to neighboring slave towns to free more of her kind. While on the march, she came across Exar Kun and Jacob, then Lord Sidious. She immediately pledged her allegiance to the Arcs, and went on to fight beside them, even marrying her love a few months later. She was very deceptive and cunning. One of her more famous moves was to mask her ears, and head inside a city to buy an army of Faunus slaves. Once the purchase had been complete, she ordered her new troops to slay their former masters. She went on to take over the city, and handed command of the army over to Exar Kun, who shook his head and told her that this army of freed Faunus was hers to command.

She was hailed as a hero by the freed slaves and the Clan, and when it was time for her to be an Elder, she requested a title befitting of her actions.

"Elder Traya (9)."

The White Fang had stars in their eyes, seeing another hero from the Revolution.

They were at first against the marriage. However, Sienna and Ilia felt that the man was one of the few humans worthy of wedding a Faunus, seeing as how he helped a town of Faunus in the past, and was one of the first to fight for their freedom. They also saw how this alliance benefited their people in the past.

The heroes, though a bit uncomfortable at her ordering so many deaths, felt that she made the right choice as those killed were just more slavers.

Raven felt inspired with new ideas on how her tribe could be even more effective.

Vitiate raised his hand, "Rise, Jaune Arc." He quickly did so. "Report."

Jaune nodded, before describing the state of the schools, saying how his Generals were successful in purging them, while also announcing his own success.

Salem beamed with pride while Cinder pouted.

Sidious and Traya nodded grimly, seeing the effects the slaughter had on their grandson.

Bane narrowed his eyes, "Are you certain that we should trust these people?" He didn't like how this army, which he'd never even heard a whisper of before today, had hidden themselves for so long. And thus, he held a great distrust for them.

Jaune immediately turns to Bane and narrows his eyes while replying, "I swear on my honor and blood as an Arc, these people are completely loyal to the Clan."

The others in the Council visibly relaxed, seeing how confident he spoke. "Very well," Sidious says as he raised his hand to gesture that this little inquiry was over. "Now then. Have you found anything in Ozpin's office regarding any hideouts that we need to look out for?"

Jaune shakes his head, "None, Elder Sidious. However," he stops briefly as he looks at the Elders with narrowed eyes, "I believe that I may have found something else." Their heads perk up in intrigue. "I believe I may have found the location of the All-Mother."

The Elders gasp in shock, looking at him like he had just told them that the world was ending tomorrow.

The audience looked at each other in bewilderment, "All-Mother?" "What?" and more were asked between themselves.

They couldn't understand why Jaune used that title when depicting Salem.

Pyrrha made her own theory known, "Maybe," she starts, silencing the audience "maybe they don't know about Salem, at least by name. Some had long speculated that the Grimm had to have come from somewhere, and that a 'Queen' had always guided them." The more she said, the more she was confident in her reasoning. "It was never a popular, nor well received theory for obvious reasons. The Arcs must have held similar views, seeing this 'All-Mother' as the leader of the Grimm."

Ren nods, "That does make some sense, after all she did look more like a humanized Grimm," he glanced at the human Salem, "at least before the gods gave us our gifts."

Vitiate stared at Jaune, "Are you certain?" Jaune looks at him with complete seriousness, and nods. He strokes his chin in contemplation, "This is..." he stops to think as Sidious and Traya whisper to each other regarding something else. The audience could only catch small snippets.

"Do you think...actually the One?" Jacob asked her.

Jeanne shakes her head, "... no mistake... One of Prophecy..."

Bane narrows his eyes at Jaune, not liking this one bit. "Enough." He said, getting everyone's attention. "Maybe he is the One," he glanced at the couple, "maybe not. However, that can wait." He looks back and peers deeply into Jaune's eyes. "For now, are you sure that you found the All-Mother?"

Jaune nods his head, "Positive."

Bane nods and looks to his fellow Elders, "I happen to believe that he is worthy, don't you agree?"

Vitiate nodded, "He has proven himself on this day." He looks at a surprised Jaune, and grins. "He has shown his bravery and loyalty to the Clan." Sidious and Traya nod, looking at their grandson with pride.

Ruby looks at her friends in confusion, "Wait, what's happening?"

Blake looks at the screen with a thoughtful expression. "He said that Jaune's shown bravery, and loyalty. Something that Jack said were conditions for..." Her eyes widen as she looks back at her friends. "They are indicators for him receiving the title of Lord of the Arc Clan!"

Everyone was shocked. They all wondered what his title would be. Saphron was beaming with pride at her baby brother getting recognition for his efforts, however terrible they may have been.

He turns back to the still stunned boy, "Kneel, young Arc."

Jaune slowly does so, still in shock. Not believing that this was happening.

With the Elders joining in, Vitiate begins reciting the Code of the Elders. "On this day, you shattered the Peace of your rivals. On this day, you wielded the Passion of our bloodline. On this day, you showed Strength in the face of adversity. On this day, you unleashed your Power against our foes. On this day, you achieved Victory over those who would see us gone. On this day, you Broke the will of your enemies." (10)

Many of the heroes didn't feel right over the implications of this speech. Raven loved it, recording the words with her scroll as she had stars in her eyes.

The heroes felt as if their strength was draining, while the villains were feeling empowered by this code for some odd reason.

Jaune closed his eyes, feeling great honor as he knew what was coming next, yet he felt saddened by how he got this recognition.

This emotion from Jaune made many of the heroes feel as though not all was lost, that some small measure of light from the kind, goofy young man still remained within him.

Ruby, Ozpin, and Qrow suddenly felt a soft warmth engulfing them. They felt a sense of peace, filling them with hope in this dark time. They each looked around, desperately hoping to find out where this feeling was coming from. They felt that they were close, then they looked down. They each felt the warmth emanating from the place where they each stored their letters from the god warrior of six blades.

'It's the letters!' They each thought, before remembering the kind words the god gave them, his heartfelt encouragements of hope for each of them. And like that, they felt their hope for this future restored.

As they remembered what the god wrote for them, they smiled, earning confused looks from those closest to them. They looked to the screen with a newfound sense of determination, 'Thank you. Thank you for believing in us once more.'

After they thought this, they felt kindness emanating from the letters once more, as if the god was thanking them for their kind words through the letters.

As the Code was finished, the Elders stood up and Vitiate says, "Henceforth, you shall be known as Lord..." He pauses to think of a proper title for his actions, then smiled. "Vader."

The heroes shivered at the name, immediately realizing the meaning behind his new title. However, the three still held on to their hope.

Salem took notice of this and frowned. She very much enjoyed seeing Ozpin all miserable.

Still kneeling to the council, the newly appointed Lord Vader says "Thank you, Grand Elder."

"Rise." Vitiate motions him to stand, which he does.

Bane says, "You are Lord of the Arcs, the safety of the Clan resides in you."

Sidious continues, "This news regarding the All-Mother is a bit concerning, the prophecy had not mentioned this..." he stops to think, "Or perhaps, we have simply been misreading it all this time."

Traya looks at Vader, "You have found her location through Ozpin's computer?"

He nods, then says "Yes, as well as how to contact her from another student."

Salem scowls at Cinder for her stupidity.

She looks away as she rubs her chin, "Yet another student. Another betrayal by him then?" She nods, turning back to her grandson. "Give us the information, we will contact her."

The heroes gulped, worried that the Arcs will soon align themselves with Salem. The woman herself couldn't help but grin as she watched these events unfold. 'Oh my, how fortuitous! and I don't even have to lift a finger.' She looks to Ozpin, 'The Arcs will be the key to your final fall, Ozpin.'

"Meanwhile, head to her location, fulfill the prophecy."

He bows, "It will be done."

The Elders nod back, and the transmission ends.

Penny scratched the back of her head nervously, "What is this prophecy they keep mentioning?"

They all look to Saphron, being the only Arc who could possibly answer that.

She looked at everyone, and was going to say nothing, but heard a voice in her head telling her, 'It is alright, you have our blessing.'

She glanced at Oma, who stealthily gave her a soft smile and nod. She then gave a deep breath and sat up.

"The Ancient Prophecy," she began, "was handed down through the Arc bloodline for millennia." She looks around to see that she has the audience's undivided attention, though she did notice some were a bit skeptical. "It was first given to us by what we refer to as The Sacred Four Pillars, the first of the Arc Clan." She closed her eyes as she began to recite the prophecy that all Arcs were forced to memorize so that they would never forget.

"The Age of Two has reached its End, As The Chosen One born of Eight Ascends.

First tested by conquering the Realms of Death, He will lay claim over a Prized Jewel.

Four Pillars guide the Blood through Ages Past, The Heir will usher The Fourth Age's Rule.

The Undying must Fall by His sword Alone, Or else the True Enemy will Reign Supreme.

May the Blood allow Him strength of Hope, Rise before the Two strikes down the Three.

Only Blood may Free the All-Mother's Curse, Release the All-Father who has been Bound.

He finds the Way to the Sunken Legacy, Through Ancient Rings the Fifth has been Found.

He opens the Ark against The Enemy's Power, and Brightens the Stars in their Darkest Hour."

She opened her eyes once more, to see that the audience were looking at her in shock and disbelief.

END

All done for this chapter, as for what happens next, oh boy! However, that won't be for awhile because the Crash deleted all my work for the next bit, so I had to start from scratch. I won't even start for a couple days because this one tired me out.

So here we are: The Ancient Arc Prophecy! If you are a Sci-Fi fan, you'll know what some of those lines meant. So I'll leave you guys to ponder what this all means. For the lack of rhymes here, well not every prophecy has them you know! As for the numbers, trust me, it'll make sense as we move on.

So yeah, Pyrrha's dead...again... Sorry? To be perfectly honest with you guys, she never would've stood a chance. Jaune, while still holding a thin metal(?) rod, can still teleport. And with him moving at high speeds, she would be hard-pressed to catch him with her Semblance. And even if she could, he still has extras. And if by some miracle she managed to fully disarm him, she would've still found it difficult to hit him! While he isn't as fast as before, yet, his speed would've still left Pyrrha extremely confused as she 'knows' that he didn't have any previous training, and thus knows how he fights (having trained him herself). She's never seen him move that quickly before, and all it takes is one moment in a lapse of concentration to lose a fight. Lastly, Seele Schneider is quite possibly the worst weapon she could possibly face off against. The blade would've absolutely cleaved through her sword and shield no problem with its chainsaw-like blade. Only really being slowed down if she used her Aura to protect their entire surfaces from its damage, and even that's a bad idea. First off, that's a lot of real-estate for her Aura to protect. Second, Seele Schneider literally eats energy that comes from the soul to strengthen its cutting power. I'm pretty sure that using her Semblance on it would've gone just as badly too. So yeah, this is an easy win for Jaune, at least in my opinion. She's just not fast enough to stop him from striking at all angles (AN: "Hint-hint people!")

Now, I'm sure you're all probably wondering why the Sith names.

Explanation time :)

While I didn't initially plan for that, I received a LOT of requests for them. I know how the Sith are supposed to be evil, and how the reasons for the Elders receiving their codenames may be a bit convoluted, but this was the only way I could come up with that would have them get those titles without making them be evil. All of the actions performed by the Elders were seen as heroic by the people they helped in the past, those who won their conflicts, but to their defeated enemies they are nothing more than monsters. Same with Jaune, he led the destruction of the Huntsmen Academies, and will be seen as a monster by the survivors and many of the regular population; but once the next chapter is released (with a speech, concrete evidence, and a certain scene), many of those same people will view him and the rest of the Arcs as Remnant's true saviors.

Explanation time over :D

Hope you all have a great day, and I'll see you in the next update. Heads up, the end notes here is pretty big. Also, so that I don't repeat myself, all Arrancars are in gigais. Part of the reason why Jaune went to Urahara. The mask fragments are merely there because they didn't want to hide them. Also, if you're wondering why it took the guy seemingly no time at all to make all those new bodies, well keep in mind that time moves very slowly over at Soul Society and Hueco Mundo. He simply had Urahara make the gigais in the latter location. Same reason for how Jaune managed to gain such a massive force for when he assaulted the academies at the same time.

1. Rudbornn Chelute's clone army. Keep in mind, his fate according to the Wiki states that his fate is 'Unknown', which means that's he's ripe for the picking! See what I did there?... Those who know of his ability will get it :'( Also, if you've seen him in action when he makes his army, you'll notice that he can make a shit-ton of them in a very short amount of time.

2. Nelliel Tu Odelschwanck. I also had her injuries healed. If Grimmjow could get his arm back and back healed by Orihime, then why not Nel? Also, Orihime isn't in this story (would be kind of awkward if she was), instead her character is swapped out with someone else, not telling who. Picture her in her old Espada uniform.

3. Tier Harribel. Picture her with her Espada uniform.

4. Dorothy Gales from the Wizard of Oz, and her faithful dog Toto. I used the other name because apparently it's an alternative to Dorothy. In the movie, Toto is a he but the dog used for the film was actually female, the last name is the name of the dog breed Toto was, and the first name is a type of gem. Also had her with a sword where the blade is made of a solid piece of ruby sharpened to have an extremely sharp edge (hey, if the Aztecs could get away with weapons made of what is basically glass for their actual blades, then I figure I'm alright).

5. Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez. Picture him with his Espada uniform. I decided to keep the scar on his chest as a badge of honor, shows how Jaune was once his opponent and he fought him in the past.

6. Order 37: Capture of a single wanted individual through the mass arrest and threatened execution of a civilian population. Follow-up directives include scenarios for body disposal of civilian casualties and suppression of communications. So yeah, if they ordered this one to find James, Atlas (and maybe Mantle) would be fucked. Just thank the heavens that there isn't a Base-Delta-Zero comparison here.

7. Darth Bane destroyed the Sith and instilled the Rule of Two in order to have the Dark Side concentrated in two individuals, his own order had brought the Sith ultimate victory for a time. He was listed as having blue eyes before they turned Sith.

8. Darth Vitiate was one of my favorite Sith Lords in Legends. He ruled in some capacity for almost 2 millennia, far longer than any other Sith before or after. And Exar Kun was a Sith Lord that didn't try to exert control over the Dark Side of the Force, was the first to become a thought to be impossible Sith force ghost, and was so powerful that it took a much older Luke (who was way more powerful than he was during Episode 6) and his entire Jedi Praxium to take him out. For this reason, he's the leader of the Arc Council.

9. Darth Traya was a Jedi Master and historian, who was exiled by the Jedi High Council because her students followed her former Padawan, Revan, to fight against the invading Mandalorians and later turned to the Dark Side. She later discovered two men who became her Sith apprentices, Darth Sion and Darth Nihilus. She was later exiled by Sion and Nihilus, who stripped their Master of her connection to the Force. After being snubbed by both the Jedi and Sith, she held a disgust for both Orders. I just simply reversed it a bit, instead of being betrayed, she was the betrayer. Also, not doing a note for Sidious, I think that a lot of people would recognize the name and some of his more popular traits by now. As for her plan during the Faunus Revolution: think of Daenerys Targaryen from Game of Thrones buying The Unsullied and ordering them to kill the Masters.

10. 'Peace is a lie. There is only Passion. Through Passion I gain Strength. Through Strength I gain Power. Through Power I gain Victory. Through Victory my chains are Broken. The Force shall set me free.' Since I got the Sith names here, might as well have the Code as well, though I did have to tweak it a lot since the code itself is very sinister by design. If you liked it, great. If not, also great. It wasn't really my most dedicated work, this part :/ This was really more of an add-on than anything else.