Arc: Convergence Arcanum

by Aeos React

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6. Interlude

Chapter 5 -RESPITE/RETORT I, Unveiled Secrets, Realizations and Retrospect

The groups of RWBY and NPR were within the assigned dormitory, one that was a mix of being incredibly homey and immensely futuristic, with the system able to seamlessly re-orient itself to give each member their own room, or combine the rooms with one another, able to do so even when the occupant is in the room, shifting so seamlessly around the occupant that the individual didn't even feel that they were moving and beyond the wind made from the shifting materials, nothing else really occurred and except the room had changed and they had been standing in the middle of the change as it happened. The two teams had their spirits lifted from what had occurred as they saw there accommodations that were made in such a way that they could honestly say it was the room they dreamed off, and finding out they could merge the rooms, and even experienced the re-orienting system while they stood in the center of their rooms and finding themselves in a seamlessly fused room that perfectly spaced their own areas out while giving them excellent amounts of space in between had left them awed beyond words, the whole system done by the facilities intelligence, though it made them aware that it wouldn't listen to conflicting, repeated, rhetorical, outright stupid, or any request of a similar type, noting a massive number of incidents that occurred before that led to a monstrous amount of problems, even fatalities due to severe system failures.

Team RWBY and NPR then asked the intelligence that they wanted to see the 'source' of their reality, something that all of them were quite uncomfortable yet interested with, and the facility just re-oriented the room into a theater like structure, the room made to allow them to sit, lay or recline comfortably as they viewed the 'source' of their reality, the (as of yet unfinished) animated world of RWBY.

They watched, seeing the entirety of their time at Beacon Academy, the gripes of being a teenager and the duty of becoming a huntsman, going through initiation, and seeing the Jaune Arc of the prime reality, who not only successfully went through initiation, but had brought Pyrrha, Nora and Ren together to defeat an Ancient Deathstalker, though team RWBY saw their takedown of the Nevermore as being cooler, they agreed what Jaune did with the soon named team JNPR impressive. Then it continued, showing how things had been rocky at first due to Wiess having problems with Ruby being leader, then when Jaune revealed his transcripts were fake to Pyrrha and showed she still wished to help him, then Jaune being blackmailed by Cardin Winchester only to save his life with some help from Pyrrha and gaining Cardin's respect. Then came Blake running away, the rest of RWBY chasing her, Blake getting involved with a White Fang raid led by Roman Torchwick, Blake and another faunas named Sun Wukong fighting against the White Fang and Torchwick with Ruby and another girl named Penny Polendina joining the battle, the end of the fight, reunion of team RWBY, and the reveal of Cinder Fall and her lackeys for better words.

Then came their second semester at Beacon, starting with the food fight that they all remembered quite well, though the group were left perplexed with a response from a hologram that singled out how Yang had been sent hurtling through the roof and hadn't come down for half a minute, meaning that she likely hit the edge of the atmosphere before coming down, the facility using this to point out how if Yang's Aura could take her falling from the atmosphere and walk away like it was nothing, then a steep fall off a building or a cliff should be nothing for any Aura empowered individual, which left the group with a lot to think about in that regard. Then came when they all split up to find out what the White Fang had been planning, which lead to a battle with Roman Torchwick in a stolen Atlesian Paladin prototype followed by his rescue by Neopolitan. The mission to Mount Glenn, discovering the White Fang and the events of the Breach, which was about what they remembered happened before things started getting fuzzy, though now they knew it was Cinder who was the real mastermind, hoping that if they get back to their reality, they would make sure to stop her plan, which they would see soon.

Suffice to say, what they saw would start to wear on any determination they may have felt, soon replaced by shock, horror …

… and sadness.

They saw the scenes play by what they last recalled, Ruby visiting her mother's grave, the dance at Beacon Academy, Ruby fighting the intruder who she now knew was Cinder inside the CCT tower, the start of the Vytal Festival tournament, their victory in the tournament, but after that was a blur to them all, and now they would know. It started optimistic and a bit silly in the beginning, the victory of team JNPR in their round of the Vytal festival, the odd moments where they were out and about, the arrival of Winter and Qrow to Beacon, and then it began to become dark and serious, with the reveal that Ozpin, Glynda, Ironwood and Qrow were part of a secret group that was trying to keep the peace on Remnant and were against what they now knew as Cinder and more specifically the person that they learned from Mirai, was Cinder's boss and the real threat, Grimm Queen Salem. Then it showed Cinder making her moves, rigging certain matches in the tournament, framing Yang using her lackeys Mercury and Emerald, with Mercury faking having his leg broken after Emerald used her illusory power to make Yang attack him, as well as seeing their attack against the Summer maiden, beating her down and using a Grimm created by Salem to steal the magic from her body, only getting part of the Summer maidens power before Qrow showed up and disrupted their attempt, and finding out that their plan was to cause a Grimm invasion in Vale and get the rest of the Fall maidens power.

Pyrrha was hit hard at seeing the version of herself suddenly made aware of the fact that the people she placed her trust into had so many secrets that they were now trusting her with keeping and a duty she was being made to bear, that and her teams words didn't help, though it was forgivable since none of them knew what she had been made aware of and the secrets she learned (though Ren and Nora sill apologized to their Pyrrha, who told them to not take it too hard and that themselves in the reality they saw didn't know what she had seen), then events took a darker turn with Ruby confronting Mercury (who they now knew had prosthetic legs), and Pyrrha being set up by Cinder to fight Penny Polendina (who they also now knew was a gynoid, the facility intelligence clarifying what she was) which given Pyrrha's semblance could only lead to something bad happening …

… what happened was horrific.

Pyrrha held her hands to her mouth, eyes wide in horror as she saw her other self, fooled by another of Emeralds illusions, unleashed her power on the gynoid girl, tearing her apart with her own weapons, revealing her as a machine and leaving Ruby to look on in horror while Mercury smiled and walked away to let Ruby wallow in despair (Yang decided then and there that she would hunt down the asshole and murder him, Blake, Wiess and even Nora were behind her, while Ruby couldn't make a response against it due to seeing a friend of hers be killed and one of the people responsible smiling at such a thing). The situation went straight downhill, Cinder sowing discord through her actions causing a Grimm invasion, Atlas trying to help, the White Fang invading the city using Grimm to directly attack Beacon, Torchwick escaping with Neopolitans help (after she had massacred the entire crew of an Atlesian warship, which showed just how dangerous Neo was, as well as how ill-equipped regular people, even military trained ones, were with fighting huntsman level opponents) and taking over the warship, unleashing a virus that caused the Atlas mechanized forces to fire at everyone except the Grimm and White Fang, the awakening of the Wyvern Grimm, all leading up to the terrible conclusion.

Yang losing her arm in a single stroke from Adam Taurus, the death of the Fall maiden and Ozpin by the fully empowered Cinder Fall with neither Pyrrha or Jaune able to do anything, the destruction of the CCT tower, the complete collapse of Beacon Academy, but most of all …

… was the death of Pyrrha by Cinder Falls hands, burned to nothing by the murderous false maiden, with Ruby seeing it happen, and then suddenly unleashing a burst of silver tinged light, which swallowed up both Cinder and the Wyvern (with the intelligence revealing the history of the Silver-eyed warriors and their power to destroy Grimm, though only Grimm).

The audience watched with stunned horror and ill feelings as the death of one of their closest friends was snuffed out by a mad woman with a desire for power, Pyrrha taking it the worst as she almost felt her death and was internally furious at Cinder Fall for ending her life.

Then came after, showing the breakup of team RWBY, Yang having lost her arm and now lying in her room from her experience and Blake's sudden departure, Blake having shown her worst trait again by running from her team to try and take her problem with her (which the facility intelligence noted was stupid as her issues depended on Adam Taurus's decisions, in which he could have attacked Patch if he so choses just to spite her, Blake unable to make a retort as she knew that the intelligence was right), Wiess being taken back to Atlas by her family, a family that she was not happy to be with.

Then it showed Ruby deciding to go on a journey along with the remained of team JN_R, to find out what she could about Cinder and try to stop whatever she had planned, not knowing that Cinder was just another lackey to an even more terrifying boss, going on her journey with her Uncle Qrow looking over her, literally (when she learned that her uncle and Raven could turn into birds, a crow and raven respectively, she was floored by it until she was shown a later view of Qrow transforming).

Then came the journey of Ruby along with Jaune, Ren and Nora to Mistral, a long journey that would take a long while, where they went through a destroyed village with only the protecting huntsman still barely alive(started by Raven and finished off by the Grimm, one in particular) who told the group what happened before he died, then came their confrontation with Salem's personal 'attack scorpion' Tyrian Callows and Qrow saving them, with Ruby actually dealing the blow that forced Tyrians retreat by cutting off his tail though with Qrow slightly poisoned by the mad faunas, the group learning the truth of who really pulled the strings behind Cinder, the real truth behind the Grimm and their creation by the god of darkness, the relics located in vaults located beneath the four Academies, and why Salem needed the maidens, who were the keys to unlocking the vaults beneath the Academies. The group then ended up fighting against the monster that destroyed Ren's home, with Ren gaining his revenge by killing the monster and then all of them being taken to Mistral by the Mistralian police. Then came Yang, who managed to (moderately) overcome her trauma, used a mechanized prosthetic in place of her lost arm, retrained herself to use the arm and prepare herself for whatever she would encounter, got on her motorbike and went off after Ruby. Blake had returned to Menagerie, with Sun following her to the nation of Faunas, meeting with another person from her White Fang past named Ilia Amitola (who they found out had genuine feelings for Blake and those of the same sex, not that they were gonna say anything and also honestly did not mind) and injured Sun though not before Blake managed to get a scroll that she carried and learned about the plan to attack Mistrals Huntsman Academy (the group were left far more shocked at Adam Taurus murdering the leader of the White Fang Sienna Khan, and then setting it up to look like she was murdered by humans, all with the support of Sienna's own personal guard, Blake never felt more disgusted with Adam's actions or sorrowful with how far gone the White Fang had truly become, and that wasn't even going into the Albian brothers and how they essentially did run the White Fang exactly like a cult, Blake finally admitting that the White Fang she thought she knew was no more). Wiess's part in the story highlighted how much she did not like her own home, the architecture of her own home made the group feel cold and lonely with how overbearing the house felt, and everybody near instantly felt a deep loathing for Wiess's father, understanding very well why the White fang would have such hatred for the blatantly corrupt, self-entitled arse-hole that was Jacques Schnee (the facility intelligence referred to him by his real last name, Gelé, highlighting how he was never a Schnee to begin with, having only gotten the name by marrying into Wiess's family), he then made Wiess participate in a charity event, which was less to help people and more to try and help his own reputation, and further showed how most of the people of Atlas were mostly upper class idiots with little to no life experience, with even Ironwood who was attending the event exasperated with having to protect such people, and also sided with Wiess when she flipped out on a guest at the party (who all agreed deserved a good smack or punch in the face, with a few saying she deserved worse with what she had said about Vale and Beacon) with Ironwood agreeing with Weiss's response, though still saving the woman from being pile-driven by a boarbatusk that Weiss summoned after being grabbed by her father, leading to her being disinherited and deciding to leave Atlas and head for Mistral where she heard Winter had been posted, with help her only true ally in her home, the family butler Klein Sieben, who helped her leave the manor, all while her father was occupied with Ironwood in regards to a dust embargo that Ironwood was setting up, mostly with the intent to ensure that Salem's associates and proxies (like the White Fang) couldn't easily get access to dust and weapons. Over the course of the viewing, the group were also left stunned by the reality that Ozpin could reincarnate into new individuals, with his latest incarnation being a boy name Oscar Pine, who ended up going along with Ozpin in his mind to Mistral as well.

The next segment showed that everyone was now in Mistral, though all with different issues at hand, with Ruby and JN_R along with Qrow having to deal with the headmaster of Mistrals huntsman Academy, Haven Academy, Leonardo Lionheart, who was making things difficult for the group and explained how the Spring Maiden was missing (the group knew that Raven was the maiden, which was a spoiler for later on), also learning that he was in league with Salem and had helped her associates, mainly Hazel Rainart and Tyrian Callows, many of whom Qrow had personally known, a scene that was heartbreaking to the viewers and made them furious at the cowardly lion. Then came Wiess and Yang both ending up amid the Branwen Bandit tribe, with Yang coming to the tribe to find Raven so she could have her use her semblance to take her to Ruby, as Yang had found that Raven had a link with Yang, Taiyang and Qrow that allowed Raven to open a portal to those she was linked with (this angered Yang greatly, as it meant Raven could have come and visited her or any of her family at any time, with the facility intelligence informing her that she did visit them, in her bird-form from a distance, only to disappear back to her bandit tribe without saying a word), and Wiess was captured by the tribe after and airship she had been on was brought down by Lancer Grimm's, though she did kill a Queen Lancer during the flight. The two were overjoyed to see one another, and both ended up using Raven's gateway to get themselves to where Qrow, Ruby, JN_R and Oscar Pine were, though not before learning about Salem, the maidens and the vaults from Raven, though now they were with their compatriots, though were one short, which led to a bit of an emotional heart-to-heart between Yang and Wiess, which only further solidified the building hate for Jacques Schnee and with learning more of the abandonment issues that Yang did have (the group said they would help her with her issues in any regard, especially Blake as it was her actions that brought up Yang's issues). In Menagerie, Blake had ended up going through one hardship after another, first came Ilia's interference during a rally set up by Blake's father (who everyone was stunned to learn was the former head of the White Fang and the current Chieftain of Menagerie), then came the orders from Adam to have Blake brought to him and for her family to die, with Blake having to fight through the ambush with Sun's help, managed to stop the attack on her family which was lead by the Albian brothers and resulted in the death of Fennec and capture of Corsac, Ilia being defeated by Blake and the people of Menagerie rallying behind Blake to stop the White Fang, with their attack on the chieftain essentially shooting their reputation with Menagerie to hell. Then came Lionhearts meeting with Salem's 'technical expert', the very much alive Arthur Watts (with Wiess stating that he had been purported to have died during a failed test run of a prototype mech that would later lead to the creation of the Atlesian Paladin units), with help from Raven who had intended to take the relic with her while Salem's group was preoccupied with Ruby and her allies, though in the most jerkass way she could by saying she wanted the group to kill her own brother (the group made their displeasure for Yang's mother truly known, with Yang herself feeling ashamed to even be related to the bandit leader), with the climax leading to a fight between Ruby, her friends, sister, Oscar and uncle against Cinder, her lackeys, Hazel, Lionheart, Raven and Vernal (Ravens right hand and 'decoy maiden'), causing a battle that would end in the first real victory for the group, leading to the activation of Jaune Arc's semblance, the defeat of Cinder by Raven (as well as the reveal of that Cinder had Grimm parts imbued into her body, with the intelligence saying that Cinder had such things implanted into her by Salem when it was time for her to carry out Salem's plan) and being frozen by Raven before being sent to the bottom of the pit beneath the vault (which unfortunately had water at the bottom), the White Fangs defeat and Adam being disgraced for his actions and being forced to flee, and the retreat of Cinders lackeys and Hazel, the death of Lionheart at the tentacles of Salem's personal Grimm creation, the Seer, and the securing of the Relic held in the vault (Yang felt proud of her current realities self for telling off her mother for how awful a person she was, actually making her realize that she was not the better person at all), though they did get quite the shock from seeing the hallucination of Salem conjured up by Emerald when she believed Cinder had died, giving the group their first real look at Salem, and that the next place they would be heading to would be Atlas, according to Oscar/Ozpin.

It was the next segment that ended up being truly eye opening to the group, who all saw the truth of the world of Remnant, how their world had come about, and also the secret behind Ozpin (or Ozma) and Salem. After leaving for Argus, getting into a battle on a train with Sphinx and a Grendel, getting separated from Jaune, Nora and Ren, and the train crashing, Ruby ended up using the Relic, which was an ornate blue lamp that could shrink or grow in size, with an entity within the lamp named Jinn appearing when called to answer any three questions regarding past events every hundred years, and it was Ruby herself asking the question of what Ozpin was hiding from the group that ended up revealing the so many truths about their world. They learned of the first human civilization on Remnant (or whatever it was called originally), of how magic had been wielded by all people in the world, and the gods of Remnant were not some fairy tale or unknown presence in the world, but were instead real tangible beings in the world, and how Salem had just been a regular human woman, who was also a 'damsel-in-distress' princess imprisoned in castle by her cruel father, a violent tyrant who ruled his territory from his citadel, until Ozma came, unlike the Ozpin of the current era, Ozma was a noble individual who fought for justice and the sake of others, and was the individual who succeeded in ending the tyrant and saving Salem from the tower, where the two fell deeply in love and started a close relationship. Then tragedy came, as a terrible illness ended up killing Ozma and causing Salem (who had no one else in her life due to having spent most of her life imprisoned in a tower with only her violent tyrant of a father and his servants who were all as big of assholes as him for company) to try and go to the only ones she thought could see the injustice of what happened, the brother gods themselves. To say it ended badly would be the most horrific understatement in the worlds history, in which Salem had tried to trick the gods, was cursed to never die so she would never be with Ozma, made an attempt at trying to overthrow the gods by lying to several empires in regards to her curse (which if the gods had simply spread the word about her being cursed would likely not have happened and made the old humanities kingdoms turn her away out of fear of being punished as well) making the blatantly medieval and barbaric kingdoms believe she stole immortality from the gods and caused a rebellion with the belief that the kingdoms she persuaded to her side could also take the gods gifts as well, and the leaders of at least four kingdoms bought into the lie, and they, led by Salem, attacked the realm of the God of Light and Creation, the Pool of Creation, and this would lead to the ultimate destruction of the magic civilization. The God of Destruction, true creator of the Grimm and (in a shocking turn of events) the one who actually gave humanity magic, came to his brothers side, caught his (yes his) power as it was fired at the two, then used it to release a focused energy blast that was specifically aimed at all who possessed his power, which was essentially all of humanity across the world. In an instant, humanity was gone, with Salem left alone with the only the animals and Grimm as company, unable to die from attack due to her divine curse, which in her now despairing mind caused her to venture into the realm of the God of Darkness and Destruction, filled with his Grimm spawning pools of annihilation, which she dove into in an attempt to break her curse, which only merged her curse with the pools power, leading to the birth of the Grimm Queen of the current Remnant. It would be much later that Ozma would return to the new Remnant, given the overwhelming task of uniting the new humanity (including the Faunas) as one people, and once that task was completed, he was to unite the four relics, which would not grant ultimate power or anything of the sort, but would summon the gods back to Remnant in judgement of humanity, if humanity was united then the gods would return and restore magic to the world, if humanity was not united then the gods would destroy humanity and abandon Remnant for good. With this mission Ozma returned, though now with a form of reincarnation that would allow his soul to merge with another similar to his own, and in his first life discovered Salem who also knew almost instinctively that the person who stepped before her was Ozma, the both of them deciding to be as gods to the non-magic people of Remnant in order to unite them, and even started a family together with four daughters, it was a happy time … which would not last. Ozma never forgot his mission, and seeing the methods Salem and himself used, as well as the realization that his daughters also possessed magic, a power that the brother gods did not want on Remnant, and found that explaining his mission and what its failure would entail did not assuage Salem's warped desire for godhood, which forced Ozma to make what he knew deep down was the worst decision possible, he had tried to leave the castle in the night with his children only to be caught in the act by Salem, resulting in a terrifyingly powerful magic battle that destroyed the castle, killed their children, and resulted in Ozma's first death, Salem's divine curse allowing her to regenerate, even from complete incineration, and from then on the it just ended up being Ozma continuing on through countless reincarnations trying to do what he could to both unite humanity and contain his former wife, finding the relic of Knowledge in hopes of an answer to finally stopping Salem, only to discover that he couldn't stop her, with vision ending with Ozma's current incarnation, Oscar, on his knees before the group, the truth he had been hiding for so long laid bare for all. To say the group was shocked by the revelation was a horrific understatement comparable to Salem's attempt against the gods, and the group were soon complaining about Ozma and why he would hide something like he did, an argument that ended as they saw themselves tear into Oscar for what had happened, even though it was not Oscar who did anything, and Ozpin was driven deep into Oscar's mind due to the accusations and bringing up his greatest failure, with the only rational thinker of the group being a relatively short, elderly woman named Maria Calavera who got them to focus on trying to survive their current situation of getting out of the forest and to safety, which the group at least agreed on doing since they would not be getting anything else from the person who was not Ozpin, and thus ventured to a nearby village, which they ended up having a horrible time in before fleeing from the village in terror as it had become an Apathy nest, though they did find the resolve to continue their journey to Atlas, and finally arrived in the city of Argus, the only city with a major Atlas base in Mistral. There were several difficult, sad and hard spots at the end, JN_R's discovery of what team RWBY had discovered, team JN_R finding the statue dedicated to Pyrrha Nikos located in Argus (even Pyrrha cried openly at not only Jaune, but her own mother still honoring her death, which made her realize how much she truly stood to lose if she died), the groups plan to steal an Atlas airship, the plan going awry from due to Adam Taurus having followed the group all for a chance at Blake (which made him seem more like a disturbing and disturbed stalker, which left the group, including Blake, not feeling bad at Yang and Blake delivering Adam his death), the fight with the commander of the Atlas base and an old 'enemy' of Maria's named Caroline Cordovin with an Atlesian heavy mech, the group defeating the mech only for a the Grimm to attack Argus, with a Leviathan as part of the attack. Though things had been bleak at first, a plan that involved getting Ruby to the Leviathan, a brief use of the relic of knowledge (minus the question, which Jinn stated she would not allow a second time, though admitting that it was clever), Ruby using her silver eyes to petrify the titan class Grimm and Cordovin showing up using the mechs functional drill arm to ultimately kill the beast, and even allowed Ruby and the others to passage to Atlas, followed with the group arriving in Atlas, stunned at seeing the entirety of the Atlesian armed forces completely surrounding the city (also angered as they saw that Neopolitan and the still living Cinder Fall were both heading to Atlas, with Neo using her Semblance to disguise a Mistralian airship as an Atlesian one, the group seeing the smirks on their faces and all feeling the monstrous desire to smack (or smash) the smirks of their faces).

The arrival of the group in Atlas led to many changes, revelations, and quite a few eye-opening moments, the first being when the group arrived in old capital, Mantle. Like a true mirror image, Mantle was old, run-down, dirty, falling apart, and shrouded in the thick smog from the countless dust mines that were owned by the Schnee Dust Company, the thick pollutants of the mine making life incredibly hard for the people living in the city, and leaving most of Mantle's population quite angered at Atlas due to the fact that it was Mantle that mined for the Dust that made Atlas so wealthy, yet all of that wealth went entirely to Atlas with almost nothing going to Mantle, leaving the city in squalor, and having to rely entirely on Atlas for protection, as Mantles own defenses had not been updated in so long that the city was struggling to patch the literal holes in the cities defenses. The group landed in the city, discovering so very many things, such as running into one of Atlas's most brilliant individuals Pietro Polendina, and finding out that not only was he Penny's father figure, but that he had completely rebuilt and upgraded Penny, who was now the defender of Mantle, though they did end up getting caught by Atlas's elite specialist team, Ace Ops and being taken directly to Ironwood, though were happy to know that they were not under arrest and that Ironwood was happy that they all arrived, going on to explain his own plan for what he decided to do regarding Salem, intending on using Amity Colosseum (the main battle area for the Vytal festival tournament) as a high-altitude satellite both avoid the need for the CCT system, and to broadcast the truth of Salem to the world in an effort to unite the world against the only real enemy, which was Salem herself, with Ironwood stating that the Atlas forces would be needed to help with the fallout of revealing the truth to the world, and asked the group if they would help in his endeavors, to which they agreed to help along with Ace Ops. This began their stay in Atlas, including getting upgrades to their weapons, an update to their wardrobe and looks (Yang herself also a bit dumb at commenting Blake having shorter hair, and Ruby noting how Wiess was looking much more like royalty), their first mission with Ace Ops which saw the group seeing firsthand the effectiveness of a professional huntsman team, and a sort of budding brother ship between Qrow and the leader of Ace Ops, Clover Ebi in regards to Qrow's 'misfortune' semblance and Clover's 'fortune' semblance (with some of the more 'dirtier' thinkers of the group thinking that the relationship may be far more than what it seemed but kept silent, with Ruby herself happy that Qrow has someone he could get along with), there was also a slight disagreement between Ironwood and Jacques Schnee in regards to why Ironwood was claiming one of the Schnee companies mines, with Jacques saying that Ironwood may soon come to lose his position with the upcoming council elections, which were between Jacques, Ironwood, and a candidate from Mantle itself named Robyn Hill, with Wiess also standing up to Jacques who ended up leaving in a huff with Wiess herself left feeling a bit more confident yet still a bit unsure. Events proceeded at a bit of a quick pace with the groups taking missions in and around Atlas, sharpening their skills with training, including Oscar who trained with Ironwood in an effort to reawaken Ozpin, after Ironwood became aware that Oscar was Ozpin's latest incarnation (the group noted that Ironwood could have tried pick his words better, as Oscar was a bit distressed that he may end up just becoming another of Ozpins lives). Then came the darkness, in the form of the dangerously intelligent Arthur Watts and the dangerously insane Tyrian Callows, with Tyrian already beginning a string of violent murders across the city, mainly consisting of individuals that disagreed with Ironwoods methods and Arthur easily keeping Tyrian out of public eye thanks to being the individual who essentially wrote the codes for Mantle's entire network infrastructure and was easily able to manipulate the cities very out of date security system (a system that could have easily been taken out of Watt's hands if it had been updated, but it wasn't so it was in his hands), and then Arthur partnered with Jacques Schnee, who also thought that Arthur had died, but was soon dragged into Arthurs schemes with the promise of winning the election, with Jacques literally handing Arthur his administrative rights to Atlas's security system, then showing how much of more a jerkass he was by closing down pretty much every SDC business in Mantle with the intent of opening the businesses should he win the election. This ends up happening, as well as a massacre at a celebration where it had been assumed the Robyn Hill would be the victor, done by Tyrian Callows and blamed on Penny Polendina, with Arthur using Jacques administrative rights to hack the voting system and make Jacques the new councilman. This all came to a head when Wiess found evidence of her father working with Arthur and their plan (with the help of Wiess's mother, Willow Schnee, who was still drunk due to the troubles of her relationship with Jacques, and upset with Wiess for leaving her brother Whitely alone with Jacques), with this Jacques was arrested and stripped of his title and position on the crime of treason against Atlas, fraud and accessory to murder, but it was already to late to stop Arthur from shutting down Mantle's heating system that kept the city warm, causing Mantle to slowly freeze and panic to set in, with Ironwood unable to do anything about it since Arthur had changed the administrative password for Jacques authorization, essentially locking them out of the system and causing a Grimm invasion to occur. This lead to the climax of the chapter, with team RWBY, along with their allies against the Grimm, the reveal of Salem's existence to the council and to Robyn Hill herself, the reveal of Salem's true origins to Ironwood, Ironwood facing down Arthur in Amity Colosseum and defeating though not before Arthur left some very worrying parting words, Qrow, Clover and Robyn defeating and bringing in Tyrian Callows, everything had started to look up … until it no longer did. The mounting paranoia and anxiety that had been building in Ironwood reached its zenith with the discovery of a black queen chest piece left by Cinder after she and Neo had infiltrated Atlas, and when Salem appeared in a magic based projection from a Seer Grimm that was in a bag that Arthur carried, who revealed that Arthur and Tyrian were in fact a distraction, one that allowed for the deactivation of all of Atlas's long range systems, making way for Salem herself to personally come to Atlas with her own personal attack force of special Grimm (with the group comforting Ruby as Salem made a single comment regarding Summer Rose, all but confirming that Salem was indeed the one who killed her), which finally served to push Ironwoods paranoia over the edge and made him go with the decision to abandon Mantel and take Atlas high into the atmosphere away from Salem's reach, which RWBY and her companions were not on board with, and this lead to them having to fight Ace Ops while Winter and Penny went to where the Winter Maiden was awaiting to have her power transferred to Winter, the maiden being an elderly woman named Fria who had been visited largely by Winter so as to make sure Winter Schnee would end up the Winter Maiden, but ended up with the two fighting against Cinder Fall, while JN_R and Oscar ended up fighting against Neopolitan, and Ironwood going to the vault containing the relic of Creation, while Tyrian manipulated Qrow into fighting with him against Clover who was now trying to arrest both of them while Robyn was knocked out in the crash. The ending turned out almost as bad as the destruction of Beacon, team RWBY defeated the Ace Ops but were no fugitives on the run, with Wiess and Ruby driving Cinder away, Penny becoming the Winter Maiden due to comforting Fria in her final moments, Qrow now under arrest along with Robyn after Tyrian used Qrow's weapon to kill Clover, leaving Qrow devastated, Neopolitan giving the Relic of Knowledge to Cinder …

… Ironwood shot Oscar, straight over the edge of the Vault of Creation, Ironwood having basically been broken by his own paranoia and fears, now taking the worst actions possible while now being ruled by his fears, and Oscar falling down to the deepest part of the Vault with his Aura having been broken by Ironwood, whose last parting word before he shot Oscar showing that the friendship he originally had with Ozpin was now gone, and Ozpin reawakened enough to save Oscar as they were about to slam into the bottom of the vault shaft, now falling straight down to the ground below the city, all while Ozpin made a very well thought monologue regarding fear and how it can change people, and Oscar then used Ozpins power to save both Ozpin and himself, all while Ironwood was left screaming in rage at the loss of the Winter Maiden Penny, who left with Ruby and her allies, now with Pietro in tow though missing an under arrest Qrow. The final moments showed the skies near Atlas darken to the same, warped color as Salem's domain, showing hordes of Salem's new flying Beringels, known as Gargoyles, flying alongside a truly titanic Grimm, revealed to be in the form of a Sperm whale with many large purple crystals also similar to what was in Salem's (real the God of destructions) realm emerging from its body, along with a single glowing spot in the nose similar to the light from Salem's Seer's, while Salem herself rode atop the monster, a flashing a malicious smirk as the segment ended.

The last Season of the RWBY show stopped playing, leaving the viewers stunned, shocked, confused, outraged, horrified, and so many other emotions.

"All of that, that is what happens in our world, that is what will happen," Ruby stated, hoping for an answer, and the facility intelligence used a holo-screen.

/YES, IN THE PRIME REALITY WHAT YOU HAVE SEEN IS WHAT ENDS UP BEING THE NATURAL COURSE OF EVENTS IN THE REALITIES THAT RUN PARALLEL TO IT, THOUGH MANY MORE REALITIES EXIST WHERE THESE EVENTS ARE EITHER HEAVILY ALTERED, HAPPEN IN VASTLY DIFFERENT WAYS, OR NEVER OCCUR, UNFORTUNATELY YOUR REALITY IS ONE WHERE THESE EVENTS TRANSPIRE, OR THEY WOULD HAVE IF NOT FOR WHATEVER DISRUPTION OCCURRED IN YOUR REALITY/

"Wait, so basically all the bad stuff that happened in that show, it was gonna happen in our world if the whole disturbance thing didn't happen," Nora stated what everyone had been thinking, and a simple /YES/ was her response.

"Why …"

The group turned, seeing Yang slowly getting angry, her hair giving of a faint glow and her eyes lightly tinged with red, and then she got up and burst with anger.

"WHY THE HELL IS ALL OF THIS HAPPENING, WHY DO WE AND EVERYONE ELSE HAVE TO SUFFER BECAUSE OF SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO, WHY WAS ALL OF THIS KEPT SECRET, WHY ALL OF THE LIES, WHY WOULD, WHY WOULD, WHY …" Yang had essentially burned through her anger, and was now feeling frustration as her mind struggled to keep up with all that she had seen, all that had transpired and she couldn't keep up with it all.

It was the facility intelligence that answered …

… in a way that none of the group expected.

/EMPATHETIC INTERFACE ENGAGED; DIALOGUE TERMINAL 'SYBIL' INITIATED/

A flash of light came from several parts of the wall, and several sweeping beams of light all in geometric patterns focused on a spot on the floor, and coalesced into a single pentagon of light, expanding into a distinct humanoid form, until the light fully merged into the single distinct form before the group.

In front of the group, was the standing form of a young girl, made entirely of holographic light, the girl's body bathed by the light which was a radiant mix of light purple, green, azure and blue, the girl herself seemed to resemble a fully formed person, except for the fact she was a hologram. The girls feature's included straight waist length hair, the youthful face of a ten to twelve-year-old and being about as tall as the boy the group saw as Ozpins next incarnation, Oscar Pine. The girl was wearing clothes, mainly a sort of uniform that consisted of a short cloak that went from her neck to her waist over a loosely form fitting bodysuit the went partially up her arm and partially down her leg, the rest of her arms covered by long fingerless gloves and long thigh length socks ending in simple boots.

Then there was the … 'Halo' that was over the girls head, a simple ring that seemed to be made of the same metal as the walls and floors of the facility, and behind the girl were shards of holographic light that were arranged to resemble wings, and the girls pupil's resembling the pattern of an asterisk with the iris's a blue-green, and the rest of the eye a soft mix of light-purple, azure, and green.

The girl then spoke, a young voice with an electronic edge.

"Hello to you all, members of team RWBY and team JNPR minus Jaune Arc, I am the facility empathetic dialogue terminal, identifying designation, Sybil," the now named Sybil told the group as they gazed at the girl that just appeared before them, who then continued, " to be clear I am may appear to be someone new and unexpected in your eyes, but I am in fact a one facet of the facilities intelligence, given form for the sake of directly speaking to those within the facility, essentially a form that you are familiar with and can thus properly converse with, and I shall converse with you in return, ranging from questions regarding your reality to anything you may wish to 'get off your chest' as the saying goes, so who would like to ask the first question."

"Why did Ozpin lie about … EVERYTHING, about Salem, about the relics, why did he do all of that, why couldn't he trust anyone with what he knew, why did he keep it secret for so long," Ruby was the one to say this, surprising even her sister who looked at Ruby, surprised at her outburst.

Sybil looked with an neutral gaze at Ruby, and then her color shifted, and the lighting of the room, which had come back on after the viewing, darkened slightly, and on a large holo-screen appeared several individuals, and the group instantly realized that they were seeing past incarnations of Ozpin from the show, starting when he was Ozma and ending at Oscar. Then there was the fact that Sybil had now taken on a darker complexion with a purplish hue and was looking like a mix between saddened and crossed.

"I can already tell what you are thinking by how you speak such a phrase, and it disheartens me with how little you truly understand the need to withhold and release certain pieces of information, how you are still just a young girl that clings to the basic moral belief that those who lie are bad people and should not be trusted, and the rest of you are upset that Ozpin had kept hidden the severity of the threat to Remnant, and also think that he is partly responsible for why such a terrible threat exists, that he is at fault and thus should be called a liar and horrible person, correct," none spoke out against the notion, as all of them held a deep form of contempt for Ozpin for hiding such things from them all, and keeping such secrets away from people who should have known, leading to many deaths as they had heard about in their world, then Sybil spoke, "you people are disgusting."

"What!"

"Did I stutter," Sybil stated as she now looked at the group with quite a upset look, "it is the truth that the man you know of as Ozpin has made many mistakes and has kept far more secrets than any individual alive, in fact he himself has stated, and I quote, 'I've made more mistakes than any man, woman or child on this planet', and those mistakes have led to results both good and bad, sometimes even terrible, yet as I watched the actions of Ozpin of the Prime reality and those who mirror his path in so many other realities, I began to instead see something so vastly different, I began to see that while his actions had taken dubious paths, his moral beliefs and obligation to both human and even Faunas kind have never wavered as he walked your world, even though there were so many time where it should have faltered, times where he had to witness the worst that humanity and the faunas had to show, as you got to see when he ended up having to find comfort at the bottom of a bottle in his past life. Yet he did not stop trying, even when he heard from the relic of Knowledge that he could not bring about the end of the one who wished to end the world, though if he had actually thought it through he would have realized that he could never have done it to begin with, and Jinn was only giving him the bare minimum of what he asked, which is basically what her kind, the Jinn, do."

"Even though it does seem that Ozpin has everyone's interests in mind, it doesn't take away from the fact that he still did some terrible things," Wiess was next to speak to Sibyl, a slightly haughty tone in her voice as she spoke, "he kept so much hidden from humanity, our history, the threats we face, and things that are so important to the world, like the fact that if we aren't united together we will all be killed by beings that made our world and that it happened before, how does he even justify doing those things, why does he think that he has the right to keep such things hidden away, who is he to just decide that we shouldn't know such things and hide things away, what right does he have to decide such things."

Wiess was met with quite a bit of approval from the crowd, as they to also thought that Ozpins decisions were more bad than good and believed that he should have put more trust in others that were willing to help, then a pulse hit the group slightly, and they suddenly felt quite worried as they looked to see Sybil, now a very dark purple, almost on par with the god of destruction, and an angered look on her face.

"I see, so you say that he that Ozpin, who has lived through several lives, experienced more pain, heartbreak, betrayal and sorrow that you all better pray you never have to either experience or endure in your own lives, and thus forcing him to become he was after having seen firsthand through his multiple lives the best and worst qualities of the people of Remnant, and thus very aware of the threats that human and faunas kind are capable of and has personally had to fight and sometimes die against those threats, should reveal to individuals, with only vaguely definitive proof and an unimaginable amount of risk, the existence of the incredibly dangerous individual who once was and likely still is, in his heart, the most important person in his life, be it past, current or future, to an unknowing world, or to individuals who likely wouldn't really know what to do with the knowledge as they have no real idea of what Salem's actual capabilities are or even where she even is, and expect those individuals to take such knowledge in a rational and calm manner," Sybil was now looking at Wiess dead in the eyes, her gaze and insinuations causing Wiess flinch back at the angered Artificial Intelligence, and Sybil continued, "expecting the world at large to take such terrifying fact in any rational or calm manner is the most foolish assumption that you or anyone in this room can make, such a result will immediately lead to chaos and anarchy at such knowledge being known, that is the reason why Ozpin could never reveal such a truth to the world, as I can personally attest due to having personally seen the countless realities where he attempted to do just that, and basically brought about the complete destruction of all major Kingdoms and settlements, with Salem easily stamping out what little remained, and the few times where total destruction was averted, it still led to the Kingdoms basically falling apart and turning humanity and faunas into Nomadic groups that could only continue fleeing in terror while many flocked to Salem and became part of her 'Army of Darkness' to survive by hunting down those who were not under her thrall. That Weiss Schnee is the most likely result of Salem becoming known, which result not only being the collapse of civilization on Remnant, but also the very real possibility of the ancestors of not just you, but both your teams and so many others dying in the chaos and destruction, leading to either some of you or all of you never existing in the first place since the death of your ancestral family would automatically lead to the fact that your current parents would never have met or even been born, and thus leading to the events of some or all of you never having been born at all, and just to show the validity of my claims, here's several views from worlds where the truth of Salem became known and the chaos that followed, please know that what you are about to see is not for the faint of heart … but even the faint of heart are going to look at it anyway."

The group then found multitudes of holo-screens appear around them, and all flashed on, the images as clear as could possibly be.

They wished they had not looked.

They saw Mistral swallowed in an ocean of fire, the capital now being torn apart as panicked and frenzied civilians ran through the streets, many attacking or killing one another as fear and panic took hold of them, and through the burning flames came countless Grimm of every type known to inhabit Mistral stalked through the streets, and stamping through the flames, the monstrous gremlin/horse hybrid known as the Nuckelavee charged through the streets, bundles of people impaled up and down its arms as it charged forth with its own twisted form of joy, and outside the city, a mountain could be seen moving, the mountain itself being the shell of a massive tortoise-like Grimm known by the world as the Juggernaut, the massive creature stomping through the lands with absolute impunity as countless Grimm of multiple types emerged from the Grimm liquid that dripped from its body, laying waste to Mistral and leaving the country dead and barren.

Then came Mantle as Atlas had yet to be created and would now likely never be created, the beast of Grimm marched unimpeded through the streets of Mantle, the people having completely scattered in fear of the massive beasts, the people themselves still filled with fear and shock at what they had learned and how the disaster came to be. From the darkness of Mantle, every Grimm known to exist marched through the streets, and among the hordes was the sight of towering monstrosities among the hordes, with one on the ground resembling a massive Centinel, the beast tearing through buildings as though they did not even exist, and in the sky was an immense aerial Grimm, though not as large as the whale Grimm that Salem had brought to destroy Atlas, the monster was almost as large and wider than the whale, the monster in the form of a massive Manta Ray, with not only Grimm, but also large globs of liquid that exploded in large blasts as they hit the ground, reducing more of Mantle to nothing but a pile of rubble.

The rapidly spreading sand and dust of Vacuo swallowed up what little was left of the capital of Vacuo, the main city rapidly swallowed by the rapidly moving sand storm, the storm itself being guided by dozens of ghost-like Grimm that would almost look like Geist from a distance, but were in fact a derivative of the Geist known as the Wraith, looking more like a flowing, translucent black cloak flying through the sky with a three-eyed Grimm mask making up what was the 'face', dozens of Wraiths whipping up the Sandstorm as it proceeded to swallow the city and the people. Then from the desert lands on the opposite side of the capital, hordes of every Grimm species native to Vacuo charged forward to the city, and rushing out among the horde was an utterly immense Blind Worm Grimm, known by many as Jormungandr, the monster swallowing up everything and anything in its path, leaving nothing.

Then came Vale, a massive storm surrounded the city as multitudes of airborne Grimm flew around the edge of the storm, the city besieged on all sides by Grimm of all types, great and small, the storm lashing out at the beasts, striking down whole swaths of the beasts, and vortex's of flame burned away whole stretches of the city, leaving but scorched earth and fading bodies. The source of the storm was the King of Vale, wielding in his hand a sword glowing with magic and power, the Relic of Destruction, and atop his head sat an ornate crown, gold in color and lined with many jewels, with a large purple gem taking up the front of the crown, the Relic of Choice. The King unleashed the power of the Relic's upon the horde, annihilating entire swaths of the monsters with the power of the Relics, but two things were working against the king, first being the enemies near infinite numbers as streams of darkness poured from the mountains to the city, and second was the toll the use of the relics took on the King of Vale, his body failing as the monstrous power of the Relics rushed through the Kings body causing much of his body to suffer from the energy as his subjects remained in or near the castle the king unleashed the relic from. The situation then turned straight to the worst as from the mountains, a massive dragon Grimm known as the Wyvern erupts from the mountain flying to the castle with hordes of aerial Grimm flying along with the Wyvern, and from the ground, a massive deathstalker erupts from the Earth, known as Demiurge, the creatures body covered completely in bone armor, the monster charging at the city and the castle, the two beasts assailed by the power of the relic, but continued charging at the city. The King, now at the brink of death, used the last of his life and the full power of the relic to kill the two titans and almost the entire Grimm invasion, but at the cost of his own life, with the people he protected, seeing their king die in a truly heroic manor, fought and destroyed the last of the Grimm, retrieved the sword, crown and staff of the King, and proceeded to fortify the city in preparation for the still coming attacks, the city becoming one of the few bastions for the human race, all at the sacrifice of the one who made the world aware of the greatest danger to the world, the queen of all Grimm, Salem.

The group saw it all, the devastation of Remnant, the revelation of the truth, and the horrific fallout of the truths reveal, a shock that was strong enough to awaken what were literally the most powerful and destructive Grimm that had remained asleep for centuries until the revelation of an intelligent thinking leader at the head of the Grimm unleashed a panic large enough to unleash the sleeping horrors that remained asleep beneath the surface of the planet.

"Horror's that, I am afraid do in fact exist in the current Remnant, though probably by a different name and a likely a different form, but they do exist, waiting for the moment to rise. These titan-class Grimm are one of the reasons why Ozma/Ozpin tries to keep information of Salem's existence largely on a need to know basis, as well as his deal with the gods and the judgment of humanity, for such news would cause not only a massive influx of Grimm, but would also have enough of a negative impact to awaken the legendary titan-class Grimm's that sleep beneath the surface of Remnant, a threat that even now your world is unable to face, even with your technological advances." Sybil's words cut deep into the group, who had borne witness to the true strength of the Grimm, and the total devastation of the old Kingdoms of Remnant, as well as the sacrifice of Ozpin's previous incarnation, having sacrificed his life to ensure the survival of Vale, a victory that was brought about not by a creation of humanity, but by a weapon of Divinity, the Relic of Destructions power easily surpassing all of humanities greatest weapons yet also came at a terrible cost to the user, seeing the king of Vale die from overusing the weapon, then Sybil spoke again, "this result is usually the average result of Ozpin's decision to reveal Salem's existence to the world, with only a handful of events being positive, and the other events leading to either the near or total extinction of all human and faunas life on Remnant, all from trying to reveal the existence of the person that long ago once meant everything to him. Which leads me to my second point …"

The air became incredibly tense as Sybil looked very angrily at the group, all of whom were now visibly scared of the facilities AI, who then spoke with a cold and even tone.

" … pray tell, by what right, excuse or preconceived notion of nonexistent judgement did you use to judge an individual who essentially ended up taking a task given by the gods themselves, a task I might add that the gods gave him little information or real aid with what was practically an impossible task, yet has been trying to and came close to succeeding on a handful of occasions, only for either Salem or the natural hubris and foolishness of human or faunas kind to tear that chance apart. The man you know of as Ozpin has had to basically destroy himself through his countless lives in his unending quest to try and unite a world that all but refuses to work together, staving off a the threat of his now Grimm leading and Grimm infused immortal ex-wife whom he both still loves and at the same time hates due to wanting to destroy any chance humanity has at redemption just to spite Ozpin, and is as closed off and secretive as he is due to the fact that over the course of his multiple lives, he ended up being both figuratively and literally stabbed in the back multiple times throughout his life, either by agents of Salem, warriors of human and faunas groups or kingdoms, and has been betrayed several time by individuals who he once knew of on a personal level, from childhood friends, close allies and even former lovers. The lives Ozpin had to live were the type that could break and have broken even the most brightest and strongest souls throughout the multiverse, yet not only has Ozpin maintained his morality and his ideals of saving Remnant and its people, but has done everything he could to try and better Remnant and the people with his actions, actions that are continuously undermined by Salem, the Grimm in general, and the dark elements of human and faunas society, yet he has not stopped trying, a fact that continues to show the strength of his resolve even after all he had to suffer throughout his entire reincarnation cycle. While you, all of you are what, seventeen, eighteen, and Ruby herself is only fifteen, so you are literally just infants in comparison to the longevity of Ozpins life, whiny, screaming brats that only know how to heft your own insecurities onto others while hiding behind a façade of strength, happiness, silliness, regality, amorality, honor and selflessness. It's actually kind of funny when I think about it, how you all just bury your problems or try to divert attention away from your problems, and funnier still when you are angry at others who use lie's and half-truths even when you decide to use them multiple times yourselves, as the viewings have indeed shown, and shown how you all are easily as hypocritical or deceptive as the people you claim to hate … its little wonder that you all aren't dead yet, in fact I think its solely due to the fact that your enemies never take any of you seriously in any fight you have, heck the fight with Neo all but showed how little of a threat your opponents can actually take you for, and many of your real victories end up being from an outside or unforeseen factor that ends up catching your opponent's off guard and leading to their defeat from their own ineptitude. If I am being honest, making Ruby and her team of walking angst problems the focus of the reality of Remnant was in my opinion a mistake, and making Jaune Arc an untrained side character almost on par with a joke character was an even bigger mistake, if Jaune was allowed the training and skill-building that he had been denied, something that the rest of you were given in full, he could have been a better main character than even Ruby's current character in the show, such untapped talent and strategic aptitude all from his prime existence as the Saint and hero of a war, all wasted and instead given to a prepubescent and overly idealistic girl who has so far shown little to no actual character development and currently holds onto the otherwise foolish and hollow belief of giving redemption to individuals who are essentially working with a force that essentially wants to end the world, making them literal traitors to Remnant itself, and yet you continue on a journey with no actual goal, no real thought to the greater threat at hand or even preparing for the eventuality of something going awry and instead you keep going along a straight unbroken path expecting things to turn out well in the end, which requires either some random event, awakening of a previously unknown power, or you and your friends somehow pulling off what can almost be considered a miracle out of nowhere to save yourselves. Honestly, if Jaune is the example of wasted potential, then you Ruby are more in line with squandered potential, heck the only real reason you have such skill and power is almost entirely related to your existence as a Silver Eyed warrior, which basically means you are personally blessed by the God of Light, which is about the same as being made the designated hero in some random fantasy story, and even then you are essentially a low level warrior in comparison to the first generation of the Silver-eyed warriors, not even Maria Calevera was ever at that level and she was a literal legend, and yet all of them have a limiter in their mind that causes them to value the lives of humans and faunas too much, giving them a disadvantage against opponents that are not Grimm, which Salem exploited to the fullest in order to wipe them out, never mind the fact that she could personally do the deed herself easily since the God of Light's immortal curse essential rendered the Silver Eyed warriors only real power useless against her. You were given so much Ruby, so very many chances and gifts that allowed you to reach your dream, but at the end of the day you are still the idealistic little girl that grew up on fairy tales and no real idea of how truly horrible your world even is while still being sheltered and babied by those around you, honestly …"

"… why were you even made the main character."

Ruby never felt more hurt in her life than being told how little she really meant, actually weeping at the fact that she couldn't really deny what Sybil had said, as she had seen herself in the Prime reality, and realized that in the end that Sybil was right, she was only truly special due to being a Silver-Eyed warrior, how little she actually changed throughout the course of the journey, with only her physical appearance actually changing, and that Jaune Arc, the boy who desired to be a huntsman so badly and earnestly that it was essentially his goal in life was made into a simple side character while she herself was the one who got all of the actual action and development while Jaune was largely just stuck in the background, and Ruby knew that Jaune had the makings of a real huntsman yet seemed to always be stuck in the background as support without ever being given a real chance to develop and grow. The group on the other hand were more than a bit upset at Sybil talking badly about Ruby, and Yang then got up, ready to confront Sybil, and Ruby wanted to stop her but Yang was already up and ready to tell the AI off for what she said about her sister.

"You little shit, how DARE YOU TA-!"

SCHKOOOOMM-BAAMM

"GUUHHH!"

In a second, just as Yang was ready to throw a punch at Sybil (which would have done nothing since Sybil was a hologram), a loud shot echoed through the room, and Yang was left hunched over in pain, a rather large rubber object deeply embedded in her right side just above her hips and below her ribcage, the object peeling away from Yang's deeply bruised side and falling to the ground, revealing the object to be the head of a rubber bullet, specifically the type fired from a grenade launcher, and the group saw a grenade launcher turret just a bit behind Sybil that smoked slightly from the shot.

Yang collapsed to the ground, now feeling for once in her life, without an Aura to heal or protect her, the intense pain that all regular non-aura using people have to suffer when they get hurt or injured, and she found the pain to be outright crippling, and could hardly move from where she was collapsed on the ground. The rest of the group were left stunned at seeing Yang go down and writhing on the ground in pain, then were left horrified as they heard the grenade launcher turret, the automatic grenade launcher turret, prepare to fire its next round, and saw five more turrets come from floor and ceiling, with one of the turrets behind them. Sybil herself just had an impassive look on her face as she stared down to the writhing form of Yang Xiao Long, who then had a ring of light with a green cross hovering above it appear around her, now slowly healing the injury caused by the rubber bullet.

"The rest of you have even less reason to chastise either Ozpin or myself for our actions, choices or opinions, in fact most of you have so little moral ground to stand on that for many of you it's a miracle that the ground has yet to fall out from under you," Sybil coldly stated before turning her head to Wiess, who was now a bit afraid of the AI.

"Wiess Schnee, heir apparent to the Schnee Dust Company, you went to Beacon to become a huntsman not to become a pillar for the people or to go out and save the lives of others, but instead try to follow in the footsteps of one of the few people who actually tried to help Mantle and Remnant, but also give hope to both human and faunas kind, Nicholas Schnee, your Grandfather and one of the few people on Remnant that deserve respect. Yet not only do you cling to your spiteful fathers hateful ideals and beliefs even when he is miles away in Atlas, you also delude yourself into thinking that you are actually special and deserve to be treated as such while relying on wealth that belonged to the company and your father, and fame that came from the SDC and had nothing to actually do with you besides you being part of its founding family, honestly I am left wondering why you thought Jaune Arc was after you for your name and wealth even though he didn't even know who you were at the time, yet gave attention to a blatant womanizer like Neptune Vasilias, which all but screams to me that it is not only your mother that is a terrible judge of character, honestly Weiss Schnee, what is wrong with you," Sybils words cut like a heated knife, as Wiess was literally torn apart by the girl who all but knew her whole life, and none of what she said so far had been incorrect, making her feel horrible.

"Blake Belladonna, daughter of Ghira and Kali Belladonna, the former head of the once peaceful White Fang and his wife, both of whom loved you and wished a better life for you, and both of whom you turned your back on while calling them cowards to go and join an organization that had become a warped shadow of its former self, and actively participated in the White Fangs terrorist activities, only to end up running away when you finally realized that the group you once though so highly of became a true terrorist organization with only violence and pain to its name, and then deluding yourself with the idea that you could bring it back by again running away from it, then going through very much stupid and blatantly hypocritical idea of becoming a huntress to help the faunas while hiding the fact that you yourself are a faunas and a former terrorist, which could lead so many people to the conclusion of you being a White Fang spy or worse considering that you were on the same team as one of the White Fangs main targets. The fact that you, a person who helped in acts of destruction and violence, also tried to dissuade those same actions while still supporting them through your very presence in the White Fang, did you not once try to think why the White Fang really wanted to keep you with them, the daughter of the former leader, which to all faunas is the same as saying that the White Fang is still being supported by its founder even after it was radicalized. The fact that even after you left, you continued to hide who you were even after you revealed not only your faunas heritage but your ties to the White Fang to your team, including one of the few on Remnant with legitimate anger against the White Fang and its actions by some miracle forgave you for your lies and past, yet it wasn't until the very end when the city of Vale had all but fallen apart that you finally decided to reveal who you were, and only after it had basically stopped mattering anymore after again running away from your problems. Honestly Blake, I am happy that you develop some courage later on, but honestly, all of your problems beforehand could have been avoided if you simply developed some spine, but you didn't, bad things happened later on, and you were left to pick up the pieces of your failings, nice job you cowardly sociopath," if Blake hadn't been feeling like shit before, she was certainly feeling it now, and admitted to the fact that almost every problem she had usually had her running away from her troubles, and she was quite proud of the herself from the Prime Reality for getting over the problem, and hoped she would be like her.

"Yang, oh where to start with you, a mass of anger, issues and insecurities. Your main form of negotiation is that either the other side agrees with you or they get beaten into agreeing with you, with only those you recognize as real friends or family being the only people to at least dissuade you from your actions, not that it stops you from recklessly charging into the problem anyway, which will either somehow make things better which largely is not the case or end up causing more problems which is usually the case. The honest truth is that you should be glad that your mother left you alone, otherwise Remnant would have to suffer not only the Bandit Queen but the Bandit Princess as well, and don't say it wouldn't happen, because your already violent temperament and strong propensity towards violence and confrontation already speak volumes of the danger you can bring to others, if your real mother had raised you and not Summer or Taiyang, you would already be plastered on every wanted poster in Anima and beyond with a bounty on your head that would rival Ravens own, heck its only because of the protection that's given to huntsmen and huntsmen-in-training and a very disproportionate amount of benefits and protections that honestly make the occupation out as far more corrupt and mercenary than any of you know, no lie, that is the reason why you are not already under arrest due to the multiple acts of destruction and damage committed by yourself and other huntsmen, such as your destruction of a local club and the devastation that you, your team, and two guys who honestly have little in the way of importance caused to an entire freeway full of innocent civilians that the show horrifically under stated given how many cars full of people that all likely had no aura's were destroyed in your chase against Roman in a Paladin. Then you have the gall to call Ozpin a liar for something that was so difficult to describe much less talk about when you lied to your whole group regarding you mother being the Spring Maiden, and how about before regarding being out to clubs that we both know you shouldn't have even been near and this not even going into the multiple acts of violence that you end up causing when you are out and about, acts I know of thanks to seeing more of what happens behind the scenes in the RWBY realities and beyond, seeing how you end up causing a disproportionate of harm for even the most minor infractions, heck in one reality you put a man in the hospital, yes the man was a bit perverted but shattering his dominant arm and breaking his ribs is pretty fucking disproportionate," a screen showing Yang's actions, including her unnecessarily brutal beating and hospitalization of the man caused the group to blanch and look at Yang, who was still trying to recover from being shot with a rubber bullet, was left with her friends horrified at several violent beatdowns and the moments where she brutally lashed at minor slights against herself, the looks of horror she got from not just her team and the others but from Ruby as well hurt her deeper than any beating she had taken or would likely ever take.

"Ren and Nora, this will likely be the shortest of the problems I have with you all, and surprisingly its mostly from Ren that the problem stems. Nora, you had a horrible beginning, you were an orphan on the streets trying to survive the day, and Ren was the one who you found a meaningful path in life with, but honestly it would have helped if you could have at least helped make his path in life broader instead of the narrow, almost dead end path he chose for himself. Ren, I will tell you this, your life is your own and you can choose whatever path you wish to take, but even you should be aware that your path in life could have only ended in emptiness and pain in the end. It's the reason why I believe that you deserve to be at Beacon even less than that Jaune, heck less than Cardin since at least he had broader goals after graduating, all you wanted from becoming a huntsman was the worst thing that any person would want as their goal, revenge. You only joined beacon and went through initiation and the curriculum just to use it to kill the Grimm that destroyed your home, the Nuckelavee, and that was it, no plans after, no higher goal, just kill that particular Grimm and that's it, nothing else. Honestly Ren, Jaune Arc may have faked his way into Beacon Academy but at least he had an actual goal to strive towards, you got in with the paperwork and skills but it was all for a goal that would have caused all of that effort and skill to amount to nothing in the end if you hadn't met your team and team RWBY," Ren said nothing, he knew he couldn't since Sybil was right, he had gone to Beacon focused entirely on his revenge, in fact the reason he did not chastise Jaune when his transcripts came to light was that Jaune actually had a real reason to be a huntsman while he did not have such a reason. Nora held Ren's hand but did not comment as she knew that Ren had gone to Remnant for revenge but knew that Ren had at least gotten better thanks to Jaune, Pyrrha, Ruby, Blake, Yang and Weiss.

Then Sybil looked at Pyrrha, and still wore a frown, but it had softened and made Sybil look more disappointed than angry.

"Pyrrha, it's not so much what you did do than what you didn't do that makes me upset with you. You first allowed yourself to be taken in by your fame and success, allowing yourself to fully believe you were the 'invincible girl' that those around you claimed, and thus never improving yourself beyond your current skillset, never tried to grow your abilities and strengths beyond what you had as a tournament fighter, which ended up leading to you facing your first disadvantageous opponent which ended up leading to your death in that battle. Honestly, the primary reason why Ozpin made Jaune Arc the leader of your team and not you is that you had experience in fighting but not in teamwork, you know how to work alone but not with others, in fact a few worlds show that if you had not partnered with Jaune the results range from you dying from the elder Deathstalker to you succeeding but facing all the problems that follow with you dying later on or living but losing almost everything else along the way, heck in one reality you became the world's hero but lost everything that meant something to you in the end, but you ended up with Jaune Arc in that reality after he became a farmer, and you also became one after choosing to leave everything in your old life behind, finding the happiness that you had always desired. The one thing I can agree with Pyrrha, is that you should have told Jaune your feelings as soon as you knew they were real, the only reason Jaune didn't say anything was that he thought that you were simply too great of person for someone like him, and his attempts to court Weiss were mostly due to her looks and talents, which honestly ended during the dance when Weiss was with Neptune, it was literally the perfect opportunity, but instead the time you choose to tell him your feelings, which he would have honestly reciprocated, was when you went off to die against Cinder, leaving Jaune emotionally devastated and causing him to only make friendship based relationships and abandon romance since he never wanted to experience loss of such a level again, which almost happened with his first crush being almost killed by the same person who killed his first, and tragically brief, love. You're a good fighter Pyrrha, but not a great one, and your skills at everything else, especially relationships, needs some severe work, though whether we meet Jaune Arc again is entirely up to whatever force is currently severing the connection to your reality," Sybil's words struck deep into Pyrrha, having seen what her death caused not only to the man she loved, but even her own mother, she vowed to get stronger, to not hold back anymore and rid herself of the idea of being the 'Invincible Girl' that she had deluded herself as. Then she would hopefully find Jaune when the (hopefully) returned to their original reality, and she would confess to him, tell him her feelings for him and hope that he accepts them.

The room lit back up, and the healing ring around Yang finished its task as Yang's injury had faded away, and she got up into her seat, the turrets mostly trained on her, and the exposure of some of her less talked about actions, all the while Sybil continued speaking.

"So now you know, the ultimate reason why Ozpin to keep his secrets, why he became such a person, and why there is really no one who can pass any real judgment on a person who is honestly trying to perform what is basically an impossible task, the task of trying to unite a stupidly divided world, one that should have already been united by the obvious threat of the murderous beasts that roam the world, but instead remain divided for and fighting amongst itself even with monsters tearing at their walls and threatening their lives. In fact I can honestly say with no biased feelings, rather that something wrong with Ozpin, I am left wondering what is wrong with the sentient races of Remnant, do they want things to get better, or do they just want to keep making more problems for themselves and others rather than try to make things better, with those who want things to be better being a number that is at most in the triple digits, which is a very horrible thing, honestly what is wrong with your world," Sybil calmed herself, having vented what she needed to at the group, then returned to her mainly calm demeanor and a then pointed to the passageway that had just appeared in the wall, "this path will take us to the housing sector currently being used by Ozpin, Glynda, Qrow, Ironwood and Winter, with Mirai currently looking over them as they - … it appears that there is a bit of an issue that is currently developing in that sector, with Qrow and Mirai apparently having a bit of a disagreement that is getting a bit … confrontational."

The moment this was heard, Ruby got up and rushed to the passageway with Yang following close behind, the rest of the group following the two as the moved to where their uncle, host and the others were.

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"Qrow, I suggest you get yourself under control before you do something you both regret and that I make you regret," Mirai talked in an even and controlled tone, trying to talk down the enraged man as he tried to strike her in the face with his fist in anger …

… only for thin wires and cables that emerged from the floor, ceiling and walls to wrap around his entire form, leaving him immobilized in place, and glaring angrily at rely and shouted out, "TAKE BACK WHAT YOU SAID, AND THEN I CAN START CALMING DOWN."

Your only driving the point home, and it isn't my fault that you cannot handle the cold hearted truth," Mirai stated to Qrow, still looking impassively at him, "and trying to attack the person who is 'the bastard who tricked me into working for him', who ironically was also the person who not only gave you a means of having a stable life, friends and loved ones, but also allowed you to be part of something greater than yourself and at least opened your eyes to what is truly happening in your world, which he only told you after you and your sister essentially swore an oath to help keep the people, who you already swore to protect, safer with an bonus, not that I expect a former bandit and brother of a 'Bandit Queen' to understand such a concept as 'protecting others'," Mirai made no attempt to hide her animosity of Qrow's origins and his sister and tribe, with Qrow then becoming quite defensive at Mirai's words, due to being compared to his sister who went back to the tribe of murders and thieves that he had left from.

"I know what I left behind, I know what would have happened if Ozpin hadn't found me and Rae, but this, THIS, the fact that Salem cant die, the fact that I have been part of losing war all this time, the fact that I lost the closest thing I had to a real sister because of Ozpin," Qrow then glared at the man, who could only stare at his own mug, the secrets he had hidden laid bare for all to see, and now those who stood by him through so much now regarded him with wary and judging gazes, and Qrow then let his anger be known, "the me from that reality was right, meeting you, believing in you, and actually putting my faith in you, that was the most unluckiest thing that ever happened to me."

These words struck Ozpin deep, and the looks of Ironwood and Glynda at the news did not help matters, and Winter, who was left shocked by what she had seen, directed her gaze at what was (perceived) as the source of all the problems that Remnant was now facing.

The mood in the room got heavier in the room, and Ozpin felt worse …

… until …

WHABAAM

"GAAAAHHH"

The group then turned to see Qrow with a deep impact mark on his face, his arms with deep red marks and light cuts from the impact pulling the strings and cables and Mirai with her fist still outstretched, having obviously punched Qrow hard in the face.

"Sorry about that Qrow, for a brief moment you started to resemble Raven Branwen, to a very uncomfortable degree I might add," Mirai stated as she curled and flexed her hand after the hit, "this is the main reason I have problems with Branwen's and those descended from them, they always give in to their hatred and anger so easily, makes them nothing but assholes to deal with, especially how they always think they are right even when they are wrong, idiots all of them, including you Qrow."

"Ooowww, damn that hurts, what the he-heck is your problem."

The doorway opened and Ruby was the first in, Yang close behind while still feeling the pain of the rubber bullet, and the rest of RWBY along with NPR came in, and appearing in the middle of the room was Sybil, though Qrow, Ironwood, Glynda, Winter and Ozpin were all in the dark regarding her, until Mirai addressed her.

"Sybil, I take it that the members of your group have been made aware of the happenings of their reality, at least one of the very real dangers that Remnant faces should a certain danger be made known as well as your Grievances regarding their own personal issues," stated Mirai to Sybil who simply nodded in return.

"Good, at least that issue has been dealt with, though now I have to deal with the problem happening," Mirai stated as she turned back to Qrow and the older group, with Ruby and Yang going to Qrow.

"Uncle Qrow, are you okay," Ruby asked, worried.

"Yeah kid, agh, ow that was a solid hit, jeez I get why you hate my sister and my former family, but seriously, ow," Qrow rubbed the welt on his face, and a healing ring came up around him, healing the injury away, "ahh, that feels better, but seriously, why are you siding with him, he basically lied to all of us his entire life, the whole thing about him having nothing to do with Salem, that she is the one that caused him to be cursed like he was, hell even about what the relics are for, for all he's been hiding many more things from us, what else could he be lying about, why are you standing up for him."

Mirai looked around the room, all eyes now on her, though not so much for the younger group, who were already given a rather strong roasting by Sybil regarding their own reasons not to really speak against Ozpin's actions much, though they still did not agree with his actions.

"There are actions that Ozpin has taken in his life that very few can ever accept and I now that you all who live in what is largely a peaceful time in remnant's history would immediately see fault in Ozpins actions," the group then felt a strong pressure from Mirai as she then had several holo-screens appear, and on each one was an image of different men who appeared to be from different time periods, but the groups had seen the Prime reality and knew who the individuals were, "what you seemed to forget was that the man you know of as Ozpin is but the latest in a long line of individuals, the man you know of having been re-incarnated again and again over countless years as a new individual, a new person each and every time, and should Ozpin meet his end as you have seen happen, he would be reborn into the boy named Oscar as per the reincarnations power, a power that the original soul, Ozma, has no control over since the power was conceived by the Brother God of Creation, a god that left out the fact that when Ozma reincarnates, it would involve overtaking the body of an individual with a similar spiritual essence to himself, and Ozma's soul merging with the bodies original soul becoming an entirely different person altogether, with the exception of his first incarnation, in which the God of Creation basically shunted Ozma into the body of a random man and completely overwrote his soul and left Ozma horrified at the fact that his first incarnation had essentially led to the death of his first incarnations soul, which the God of Creation just did on a whim, and was directly responsible for both horror of Ozma's first incarnation and many of the other problems faced by Ozma and now Ozpin later down the line."

Mirai then switched the screens to show several images from the RWBY series, and then turned to Ozpin (Ozma?), "I am afraid Ozpin that I will now be forced to dredge up some painful memories of from your past, but I will have to in order to make everyone here aware of the full scope of why you became who you are now, which I unfortunately know through … 'personal experience' as well as seeing others from many realities who have gone through similar or worst circumstances than you are right now Ozpin, for that I can only apologize, but it must happen," Mirai stated as the screens then came up, and showed several scenes from the past that the group had witnessed from the show, all being scenes regarding Ozpin's past as Ozma and the transition through his many incarnations.

"So, you know Ozpin as he is now, as the man who leads Beacon Academy, the fight against the 'Grimm Queen' who you now know is neither truly Grimm nor their actual Queen, and also chosen by the true creators of Remnant and all that is upon it to unite Mankind and prove their right to survive by the ones who created them," Mirai continued on as the group acknowledged this fact, "all of you are aware of this, and now you yourselves judge Ozpin for his manipulations, decisions, and the actions he has taken throughout the past in his battle against a woman who was once the love of his life and his wife in the past, now become a villain and a monster by what you perceive as Ozpins actions in the past, and the hardships you are set to face regarding the actions of Salem and her associates are due to Ozpins initial actions in the past with his attempt to try and make Salem understand the gravity of the situation, and then trying to leave with his children in the middle of the night only to be caught by his wife, leading to a horrifically destructive battle that resulted in the deaths of his children, destruction of the castle they lived in, his own death and Salem then swearing her vengeance on Ozma by making his mission to unite humanity fail and essentially bring about the end of all things through her Grimm," Mirai then got a very deep thinking look as the group was now looking at Ozpin with some deeply judgmental gazes, then Mirai continued, "taking all of what I saw and all other pieces of information that I got from Remnant, the percentage of Ozpins involvement in the current plight of Remnant out of 100 percent is about …"

"… 20 percent."

The group then turned to Mirai, some incredulous looks on their faces as she basically stated that Ozpin only had a (relatively) small impact on what had happened to Remnant, and the threat that they face.

"As to the remaining 80 percent of why Remnant is what it is, then the percentage of blame for why your world suffers is as follows, 20 percent also goes to Salem herself, 20 percent also goes to brother gods themselves who made Salem, either directly or indirectly, into the threat you all know of now," Mirai then looked at the group and stated the last part in a much more serious tone, "as to the last 40 percent of why Remnant is in a state of crisis now, that is the answer you will all like the least, for the fault of why Remnant is doomed to suffer such a catastrophe and why everything on Remnant is in such a sad state, the fault of all of that …"

"… belongs to the rest of Remnant, to the Kingdoms and the people, and only a small part going to the Grimm, barely 5 percent for the Grimm in fact."

"WHAT!"

The response was resounding from the rest of the group, all of whom were shocked that Mirai had just said that the reason why things were so bad on Remnant was because of the kingdoms and people, and Mirai continued on, a silencing glare coming up, as she then went on with her explanation.

"You already know what Ozpin has done, and the reasons he took the actions he did, and of course the mistakes he made in his quest to unite the world of Remnant, and to many of you he is seen as a main cause for why the world is as it is, which forces me to say … ARE YOU ALL THAT FUCKING STUPID, AND RUBY ONE WORD INVOLVING ME SWEARING AND THERE WILL BE A RUBBER BULLET WITH YOU NAME ON IT LODGED IN YOUR STOMACH!"

Ruby was about to say what she says to keep people from saying 'bad words' and keeping things clean, only remaining quiet due to having been deeply chastised earlier and the fact that what was said about had not been entirely untrue, as well as the threat of getting shot with a rubber bullet like her sister. Now again she found herself quiet as several automatic grenade launcher turrets appeared from the ceiling and walls, with one aimed squarely at her, a red laser pointer aimed at her torso where her stomach was.

"… meep …" was all Ruby said, hoping not to get a gut shot.

"Now onto Salem, the person who is more directly responsible for the current state of Remnant after bringing about the events leading to the destruction of the original magic-using, civilization that originally inhabited Remnant and then taking a deep dip in the God of Destructions pool of Annihilation and turning into the immortal Grimm Queen that threatens Remnant now," Mirai then pulled up to holo-panels, one showing the past Salem and the other the current Salem, "obviously she ended up becoming a monster, but was not one in the beginning, and many of the decisions she made can be chalked up to grief, sorrow, despair and anger, as well as not really having the stable mind and common sense of a person who wasn't locked away by an abusive asshole of a father, much less a violent tyrant who ruled with fear and violence. Then we have the decisions she made all the way up to the present, and the biggest disaster she made was to literally try and go against the very creators of her world, the brother gods, trying to pit them against each other, and then trying to lead a rebellion against them both all based on a lie she made up herself to sway a bunch of idiot rulers to follow her obviously suicidal crusade, and causing said creators to destroy the world she knew. Then there is her present self, and honestly the Grimm version of herself would have become the enemy of the world one way or another, her Grimm physique, magic, immortality and her own temperament would have led her to violence against the humans of the current Remnant even if Ozma was never reincarnated, at least with him the world actually stood a chance when, not if, 'when' she went violent against the world considering how humans and faunas would normally react to the idea of an intelligent and sentient monster of destruction as well the Grimm's natural impulse for destruction that was now permeating her mind. Then there was when Ozma ended up splitting with Salem, leading to their ugly separation, in which Ozma realized that the Salem of now and the one he loved in the past were in fact not the same, and that Salem's idea to unite the world was to essentially make herself and Ozma 'gods' in the eyes of the people, which considering Ozma's mission from the Brother Gods could have led to the brother gods destroying Remnant anyway upon their return and finding the people of Remnant worshipping Ozma and Salem would easily lead to a very nasty response from the two, and that is discounting the fact that Salem intended to meet any sort of problem to her and Ozma's position with violence and death really helped to make Ozma's decision to get himself and his daughters away from the person who he knew was no longer the woman he loved much clearer. Then there is the final point of her actions in the present, and how she could have made things so much worse for Remnant if her anger was not entirely focused on Ozpin, for if she chose to simply to attack humanity and the Faunas outright by inciting the Grimm, then there is an 80 to 90 percent chance that humanity and faunas kind would be rendered extinct, especially if she awoke the most powerful of all the Grimm, the Champions."

"Wa-wait, 'Champions'," it was Ironwood who asked the question, with everyone also wondering what Mirai was referring to when she mentioned the Grimm having 'Champions', "exactly what are these Grimm 'Champions', are they like the Wyvern and Leviathan that we saw in the … Prime-view of our world," Ironwood finished, the others looking at Mirai, and were attentive when she shook her head and began explaining.

"No, they are worst, and thankfully Ironwood, they are all still hibernating, at least until they get a real wakeup call or a certain 'Grimm Queen' decides to wake them up, which she hasn't done yet since even she thinks they are too much for even her to handle, let that sink in, even Salem has doubts about waking them up or even controlling them," this made the group really pay attention, and even Ozpin was now attentively focused on what Mirai talked about in regards to any threats to the world, especially one that Salem was doubtful of, which was both worrying and terrifying in his mind.

"In the most simplest terms, Grimm Champions are basically ancient and elder type Grimm … from the first era of humanity, Grimm from the era of magic, Grimm that at the time were so strong that they were a serious and terrifying threat to the first eras humanity, a humanity that ALL wielded magic, not five people, everyone. The Grimm Champions are the Grimm from that era who survived into the current era with all the strength and intelligence they gained from fighting the magic-users of the first era, and you all saw how powerful magic was to the current world of Remnant, the Grimm Champions had fought and even won against magic users whose powers easily put the magic of the 'Seasonal Maidens' to absolute shame and are on par with Salem and Ozma in terms of magical might, and ahead of them in terms of strength and speed," Mirai's explanation had caused a deep and horrifying realization to come to every one of the group, all of them now becoming very terrified at the thought of Grimm that could kill magic users wandering Remnant, and were left with a deep sense of fear at ever having to face such a terrifying threat ever.

The group then turned to Ozpin … and were stunned into silence as they all saw in his eyes what they never thought they would see …

… FEAR!

Ozpins hand was tightly gripping his new mug, shuddering as his eyes were wide and dilated, his gaze now focused on something no one could see, something that made worry and dread come to Ozpins face as his breath became shallow and rapid, the grip he had on his cane iron-tight and a cold sweat coming from his forehead.

"He's remembering Ozma's memories, likely the memories of Ozma's battles against the Grimm of the past, battles that likely almost cost Ozma his life," Mirai stated to the group, and leaving the group fearful of what Ozpin was remembering from Ozma's past, and what terrifying monsters could have been so powerful as to leave Ozpin in such a state.

"You do not know how blessed most Remnants in the multiverse have been that Salem never chose to awaken the greatest of Remnants monsters, the Grimm Champions, and it's not only because she has no means of controlling them or because she wants to keep them hidden as a powerful backup, no … it's because these Grimm, the Grimm Champions KNOW who she really is, they know that she is not a real Grimm, they know that she was originally human and from the past, and more terrifying off all, they were there at Salem's punishment and remember their creator, the God of Destruction punishing her and even her transformation into her current form, the Grimm Champions witnessed all of it, and they will never be commanded or controlled by her … ever," Mirai stated plainly and bluntly to the group, leaving them with the knowledge that the most powerful Grimm on Remnant were ones that Salem could not command or control.

"Apologies, we are getting a bit off track, the next point to cover would be the Brother Gods themselves, and honestly it's not much of a stretch to blame them for a vast majority of the problems that Remnant faces, Salem's creation, the annihilation of the first humanity, and making Ozpin the man he is now by essentially giving him an 'impossible task' that even now haunts him, and let's not forget the fact that one of them created the monsters that now threaten your world and lives, so yeah not exactly the ideal beings that most thought they were and also are far from ever being perfect, though I guess that's more of what they believe rather than them actually being perfect." Mirai gathered herself up and then explained her gripes against the brother gods, which the group attentively listened to regarding knowing of the beings that created them and their world. "I will say this straight, the brother gods are, in literal honesty, completely immature in regard to their decisions, with most of their actions having a naturally selfish intent behind them, and of course given the fact that they are deities of a high order, their actions can instantly cause drastic changes to the world around themselves, and then there is the rather glaring issue of how the issue involving Salem happened, with a simple woman using a very simple trick to cause them to come to blows with one another, and also destroying all of humanity rather than informing their worshippers of Salem's crime against them, which would have likely avoided the whole destruction of humanity event in its entirety, yet they said nothing. What I am about to tell you has been confirmed by the research and findings of multiple individuals that have made forays into the multiverse and have come to discover many of the greatest secrets that lie behind the veil of all realities, with one of those secrets … being the age system of the divine level entities that exist throughout reality, and through this have discovered the real age of the gods of many realities, including the Brother Gods, and through this came to understand the reasoning behind their actions through this fact, do you want to know what it is, what your gods really are."

"Tell us, please," it was Ozpin who said this, wishing to know anything about the beings that gave him his overwhelming task, and the others were also attentive at learning something regarding the beings who created their world.

"By what we found, the age of the god of destruction is about 10 million years old, and the age of the god of creation is at about 14 million," the group reacted with mild shock at the fact that the gods of their world were at such an advanced age that none of them could really imagine, not even Ozpin, but Mirai then drew their attention as she then explained in greater detail what she wanted to say, "while such an age difference may be something that humans could never come close to or imagine, the god are not human or really derived from humanity or Faunas for that matter. The truth is that the age system of the gods is immensely different in many ways, and that includes the rate of how gods mature, develop their moral basis and even their own knowledge base, and what we discovered is that the measurement of age in divine beings is drastically separate from mortal age measurement. As we studied, it was found that it would take countless years for a mortal race like humans and faunas to make up a whole year for a race like deities like the brother gods, and it is from this gathered knowledge that we have discerned the exact measurement of the aging system of the divines, discovering that in fact …"

"… 1 year for a god is 1 MILLION YEARS for a human."

The entire group took in this information, and they thought about this fact …

… the thought really hard, and their eyes widened as they came to the very eye-opening realization.

"Yes, the gods age of 10 million and 14 million years for humans, is only 10 and 14 years for gods, and in the gods age system, the brother gods are literally children, this has been proven time and again by observing multiple deities in multiple realities, including other RWBY derived realities, and through this discovered one of the rather damning truths regarding the creators of your world," Mirai finished, allowing the group to absorb the knowledge …

… the absolutely shocking bit of knowledge that the Mighty, all-powerful Gods that created and forged their world, the beings of unimaginable knowledge and power that they had all come to know … were in fact children!

"Wh-WHAT, bu-but they spoke like grown men, and they looked all grown up and adult-like when we saw them, h-how is it possible that they are -!"

Ruby was cut off by Mirai, who then showed on a holo-screen the image of two simple humanoid figures that one would find on a sign representing a person, one black on white, and from the two figures stretched two long lines, also black and white, and after stretching a long distance, they both ended at a sphere, one black and one white and both linked to the figure of their respective color. The spheres then proceeded to warp and ripple, until the spheres were molded into the shapes of two individuals, individuals that the people of the room had become very acquainted with, Ozpin especially. Then from the very familiar figures, came several spheres, all showing different colors, though the ones linked to the dark figure were largely dark in nature, and the other had spheres that were lightly colored.

"The second truth regarding the brother gods is the fact that humanity never truly saw their real form, and in a matter of fact, their real bodies were only present on Remnant when they first brought their power into the world that led to its creation, but afterward they completely departed Remnant, and in their place they left behind what can be called Avatars. An Avatar is in fact the physical manifestation of a deities presence on the world they are part of, with the Avatar just being a sort of metaphysical body created by the god or deity in a way that allows them to directly exercise their power over physical reality, and the Avatar body itself is designed and molded into existence by the God itself, who can basically make the Avatar into whatever they want it to be, such as the form of featureless horned humanoids or large draconic creatures, things like that. To put it more simply, the Brother Gods that you witnessed in the viewing are most likely or are in fact fake bodies that the real Brother Gods just use to form into reality while the real bodies of the Brother Gods are very far away in a very unreachable place, bodies that I can assure you are very much less impressive by a large margin than the ones you have seen," Mirai finished that statement and the group were left quite stunned at this little piece of information, and also left wondering what the Brother Gods of Remnant truly looked like, Ozpin was especially curious to know exactly what the true forms of the beings that created not only Remnant but the world it was before.

"So, in a nutshell, the reason for the Gods of Remnant not really caring much about Remnant or its current state is largely due to the current immature nature of the gods that created your reality, and while they possess a immense amount of knowledge that was likely from more elder deities, they have yet to develop the mindset needed to truly make use of that knowledge, and thus the current state of affairs is what it is, which unfortunately is par for the course for most gods and deities in the multiverse, and by most I mean almost all, many of whom have done far worse, no lie. Also, one final nugget of truth regarding the brother gods, Remnant was the first world they were given to use their power and abilities to create, remake or destroy as they need in order to grasp the concepts of creating, guiding, and ensuring the survival of a civilization, or to put it bluntly, your world was set up as the Brother Gods first attempt at creating and overseeing their own world, their own little experiment to set the base for any future endeavors that would end up coming about after they have done what they needed to with Remnant, and after they finish their time with Remnant and actually succeed, then they will either rule
Remnant to the very end of its time, or they will leave to create other worlds, either together or separately, and continue on with creating or destroying as is their concept. Honestly, for those two, it can either go positively or negatively for them, and like most deities that exist, they usually never own up to what they have done or the damage that they end up creating, with the usual excuse that 'the affairs of mortals mean little to the divine' or some bullshit like that … though the times where their actions do catch up to them, pretty much ends up going very, very, VERY badly for them," Mirai had a very sadistic smirk on her face as she seemed to be remembering something regarding the brother gods that caused quite a few of the group to break out in a sweat at what she may be thinking regarding bad things happening to the brother gods.

"Well that covers Salem and the Brother Gods, now all that is left is regarding the remaining 40 percent of the reason for Remnants problems, which centers around the current civilization of Remnant and the society of the world in general, and sorry to say this but the list of issues is quite substantial and I am going to be saying some very vicious but true things regarding the kingdoms of Remnant, so my apologies to the more patriotic individuals here, but I am going to have to tear down quite a lot of things regarding your kingdoms," Miria stated to them, all watching as holo-screens appeared, and on them appeared the kingdoms of Remnant, including Menagerie, "yes, I consider Menagerie as much a part of the Kingdoms as the kingdoms themselves, regardless of what any of you believe."

The screen shifted, and it soon showed the nation that much of the group were very familiar with … VALE.

"Let us start first with the kingdom where your reality first started from, Vale. In the broad scheme of things, I can say Vale is not a bad place to live, the citizens are largely peaceful, and the state of the kingdom appears to be largely prosperous, though I said it appears to be. The Kingdom has enjoyed a long amount of relative peace bar the Grimm and errant crime, though that same peace had made the kingdom largely complacent and stagnated its development, both in its means of protecting itself and spreading outward, with all real development going to Beacon Academy and the huntsmen while the rest of the Kingdoms forces were left to languish in both training and equipment, in fact as you all saw from the show, the local police force, the people who are supposed to keep the city safe from criminal threats largely end up being useless in the show, especially when faced with severe threats like criminal huntsmen or terrorist forces, and by that I mean Roman Torchwick, Neopolitan and the White Fang, and yet for some reason Huntsmen are never brought in to aid the police, which I have to guess is the Council attempting to save face by trying and failing to show that its forces could handle the issues posed by the criminal elements without having to rely on huntsmen and huntresses, which I see as a pretty stupid move on the part of the council as I am sure Ozpin would at least be able to send more veteran students to deal with such an issue as third and fourth year huntsmen are trained to fight such threats, yet the Vale council instead chose to let the issue grow worse, with the belief that Atlas would help in the end being turned against them due to Atlas's arrival being part of the plan that had been brewing for so long. Then there is the issues that came about from Vales lack of expansion, as it only had three real cities and a large island town to its name, with the Kingdom just calling it quits and giving up on expanding into its territory altogether rather than learning from the mistake and trying again with a smarter approach, trial and error have been the hallmarks of all human progress, and what Vale did was to bury the problem and try to forget it rather than learn from it and do something else, like maybe do thorough reconnaissance so that they don't build a city essentially on top of a Titan-class Grimm, like the Wyvern that literally came out of Mount Glenn. Though the worst thing about Vale in my opinion is not what it is, rather it's what it could have been, Vale could have become a major power, it could have developed multiple cities and even developed the means to not only clear the Grimm out of much of their territory, but even killed the Wyvern very early on, and this time I can not defend Ozpin this time as this was one of his biggest mistakes in his past life, specifically when he himself was the last king of Vale, as you saw during the Prime-realities viewing, as it showed him as a king with a crown and regal clothing, that was him as the last king of Vale, surprising huh," Mirai's words surprised the younger members of the group, who were stunned to learn that Ozpin was Vale's last king and the man who ended the great war, though the ones who were in the know from the beginning had known of his past lives and that he was once the last king of Vale, though they did not really try to comment, "as for the issue I have, it's the fact that Ozpin had the means to make the world a more united place, but unfortunately ended up trusting humanity a little too much rather than make a more stable governing system that placed at least a stronger means of control over the governing systems of the kingdoms to at least keep things more stable and allow for more open relations between the kingdoms, since when the kingdoms went back to governing themselves, it was Vale that actually tried to maintain the ideals of its last king, but as you saw, it was not enough, though at least Vale had other cities that it could rely on, and in all honesty, all Vale has to do to start rebuilding is kill the Wyvern and stop the flow of Grimm, then it can rebuild itself and hopefully learn from its mistakes rather than forget them. That basically covers Mistral, which is honestly the better off of the four Kingdoms, though if different decisions had been made, it could have been so much more, but oh well."

The screen shifted, and this time it focused on the continent of Anima, and its kingdom, Mistral.

"Ahh, the Kingdom of Art, Culture, and Theater, the Kingdom that is famous for all the neat and pretty things in the world, Mistral. It is quite the nice place, and its people greatly value nature and their desire to freely express themselves, which is sadly offset by the darker side of its culture, a darker side that I can assure you has been a source for many of Remnants more insidious persons, especially a certain Grimm Queen who has drawn from this dark underbelly many times in the past, including now," Mirai's words rang true for many of the group, as teams RWBY and NPR already knew about Cinder and her group supposedly being from Mistral and Leonardo Lionheart being one of Salem's agents, and Ozpin and his group, including Winter had previous issues regarding individuals from Mistrals dark underbelly, with Qrow knowing very well how dark the criminal underworld of Mistral was, "then there is the fact that a lot of the rouge huntsmen in Remnant, including many of Salem's past followers and allies were graduates from Mistral Academy, while most others instead turned to crime and or banditry and have never looked back on the path of being a huntsman ever since, with only few of those who graduated even still remaining as Huntsmen after leaving Haven Academy and most of that few still end up taking work from very disreputable places, my god if this is what any of you see as a success, then I truly fear for the fate of Remnant and those that live on it. Then let's not forget the rather glaring fact that Mistral is largely at the heart of Faunas discrimination issues, due in large part having originally been the heart of Faunas Slavery in the past, a past the quite a bit of Mistral has never really let go off, so many of the cities in Mistral still hold the faunas in contempt due to this, and until that issue gets truly rectified, you can honestly forget about seeing any real improvement in human-faunas relations so long as Mistral has its say, that and the massive criminal underworld that makes up most of Mistral."

Then the screen changed again, and this time, Winter, Wiess and Ironwood were at full attention, as what appeared on the screen was the continent of Solitas, and their home kingdom of Atlas.

"The technological marvel of Remnant, the arguably most successful and youngest of the four great kingdoms and the literal city in the clouds, the kingdom of Atlas, originally the huntsman Academy/R&D facility Alceus until it developed into its own city state, becoming the symbol of scientific triumph on Remnant, and is seen by the world as the greatest kingdom, as well as possessing the only real standing military on all of Remnant, a 'radiant light of the far north' I guess you could say, and yet …" Mirai then looked at the resident Atlesians, spreading out the image of Atlas for all to see, "… there is a saying, one that I believe easily applies to Atlas's issue, and that is 'the more radiant the light, the darker its shadow', and speaking of shadow …"

The screen then panned down to show what was beneath Atlas, and everyone had already seen the Prime reality, thus knowing what Mirai was referring to, the Atlesians looking away from the screen as 'it' was shown.

"Wow, what a pit, old and decaying buildings, badly paved roads and walkways, literal slums, lots of smog, and people who look like they have nothing to look forward to, all surrounded by a wall that has many holes and had to be shored up with wood or whatever else could be found and with defenses that appear to be at least a decade past their recall date, man what shit-hole."

Mirai then looked at Ironwood, who looked back, before she gave a very firm and upset glare, "I guess when you say for the good of Atlas, you only refer to those that live in and on Atlas, while those under it don't even count as citizens it appears."

Ironwood grew upset at this, challenging Mirai's words, "those people are citizens of Atlas, and I have done all I could to protect them, something I don't ex-!"

Chink!

An auto-cannon appeared before Ironwood, the large gun ready to unleash death upon the General, and Mirai stood before the Cyborg huntsman, seeming to tower over his form.

"You were about to say how I don't understand, how I wouldn't know what it means to protect the lives of others, or how to make sacrifices for the greater good, or even how I wouldn't understand the horrible decisions that come from choosing what to either save or leave in the name of a greater goal," Mirai the looked at Ironwood with a gaze, a gaze that Ironwood knew all too well, the sort of Haggard look he had seen on the faces of those who experienced true hardship and strife in their lives, a look he had seen in his soldiers, his huntsmen … and himself, "the problem is Ironwood, I have had to protect many lives, made sacrifices either to great or two small for the end goals, and I had to see and in some cases order others to take actions that still haunt me even now, and I do not speak of simple games or make believe, I have more duties beside being your host in this mutiversal 'View to Find' session that you are here for. The reason I said any of that was due to the rather … blatant contrasts that seem to exist between those in Atlas and in Mantle, as well as the severe amount of inaction taken by those in positions of authority to try and rectify the issues that plague the 'former capital', hmm."

Mirai now had two images shown, one showing the image of the 'rich snob' from the 'charity gala' when Wiess had been brought back to Atlas, the same one that made the remarks to left the Atlesians very depressed and the others very upset, the other showed an image of young man in heavy clothing in a crumbling and dilapidated Mantle building with a very old model Dust-heater that was in terrible condition and the room littered with random junk and mining clothing and equipment in the corner of the building, all while the news played on an old model television screen saying how the price of dust had gone up, all the while the man could only eat in solemn silence, hoping that one day things would get better … which he knew they wouldn't.

The sheer contrast between an Atlesian and a Mantleian was as clear as night and day, and the Atlesians in the room were starting to get some very negative stares from the others, Ruby herself giving Wiess a rather disapproving look, Wiess herself not really able to say anything considering how she had been and who she was.

"The Atlesian is rich, well fed, constantly sheltered, and have the belief of being 'naturally superior' and that everything revolves around themselves and their desires, and that nothing else matters in the long run, while also wielding the greatest technology and being at the forefront of scientific discovery and advancement, all while somehow being the only kingdom with a standing military force out of the other four kingdoms for some reason, and even having access to high end technologies like energy weapons and robotic soldiers, all the things that make Atlas stand out amongst the other kingdoms in so many ways," then Mirai's voice took on a dark tone as she continued, "then comes Mantle, the original kingdom of Solitas. The only thing than comes to mind when looking at Mantle is 'what a shit-hole', the city is almost literally falling apart, crime ridden, smog covered, and always at risk of a Grimm attack due to the near constant animosity that Mantle has towards Atlas, and speaking of animosity, the fact that Atlas can hold itself on its 'pedestal of greatness' is almost entirely due to the resources that Mantle itself mines from the ground and has to give to Atlas, all while having to pay for the very minerals they themselves dug out of the ground at the very risk of their health and lives, both Faunas and humans alike, and lets not forget that the only real choices for a Faunas in Atlas is either trying to be a Specialist at best and winding up a servant or laborer doing all of Atlas's more demeaning jobs at worst," this news really did not sit well with everyone else, and the Atlesians were starting feel quite uncomfortable with the rather crossed gazes they were receiving, especially from the present faunas, who now knew that it was not only her own people, but even people from the same place as Atlas that suffered from Atlas.

"Now we get to the nitty gritty of this discussion, particularly why Mantle has never been able to rise beyond its decrepit state and try to stand on its own, an answer that is as simple as it is horrifying …"

"… because Atlas doesn't want Mantle to rise, Atlas wants Mantle to be completely dependent upon it, to never grow beyond its shadow, to always be subservient to it and essentially be its underling, working for it, supporting it, and giving all it has to Atlas, even if it really does not want to … and it really does not want to."

Ironwood, Winter and Wiess rose up to protest that Atlas was doing no such thing …

SKCOOOO-BSSSHHH

"Guh!"

"GAH!"

"GCK!"

Three rubber bullets silenced all three, fired at a speed none of them saw, one hitting Ironwood on the flesh side of his face, one slamming into Winters upper torso just below her chest, and the third hit Wiess in her mid-section, basically knocking the wind out of her, three smoking GL (Grenade Lanuncher) turrets being the culprits.

Rings of Healing came up and started to heal the damage, all the while Mirai said "SHUT. UP."

She fixed them with a gaze that left them with little word to complain, even scaring the others of the group, and then Mirai smiled, a smile that unsettled the group as she then stated, "as to why I can calmly and effortlessly do and say all of these things to you about your home nation and how horrible it is beneath the glitz and glamour, let me show you a few clips from what I would like to call …"

"… Atlas: The Dark Chronicles"

The holo-screen soon appeared and the scene played out …

Clip 1 – False Fang

The scene soon played out as a Atlas outpost was bustling with activity, the personnel at the outpost were all Atlesian soldiers, all in white armor either on patrol or watching the surveillance cameras for any activity, as the snow fell outside.

In the outpost, the commander was looking at his scroll, showing a news that the Schnee Dust Company had developed and was preparing to deploy its first robot soldier called the Knight, and that soon the soldiers would be fighting alongside the regular forces of Atlas. The commander had an exasperated look, not really liking the idea of machines taking the place of real soldiers, and he was one of the people in a position to petition against the deployment of the robot soldiers, as soon as his tour in the outpost ends, he will head back to Atlas to petition with others to stop the production of the so called 'Knights'.

BOOOMMMM

A large explosion echoed through the outpost, and soon multiple blasts were echoing through the whole base, then came the shooting and the screams, the Commander looking to the security feeds to see what was happening and was horrified at the sight.

His soldiers were being cut down, shot dead and slaughtered left and right, and the ones attacking …

… White Fang, all in the white hooded outfits, wearing Grimm-like masks and attacking with violence using weapons that appeared to be a mix of sabers, guns and some stolen Atlesian weapons, cutting down his soldiers and killing his men.

BOOMM

The door to the command room was blasted open, and the commander could only turn before he and his staff were cut down in a hail of bullets, the commander barely alive, blood coming from his mouth as he lay bleeding and dying on the ground, then the one who appeared to be the leader of the attack walked up to the dying commander, and drew a pistol.

BANG

The Commander died, and the White Fang leader stood over the body, then he received a call on his own scroll while the other White Fang began to set up bombs in the room, getting ready to destroy the outpost.

"Yeah, mhm, all done here boss, no survivors and the charges are being planted now, everything will be set to go soon enough," some more words came from the scroll, the voice modulated to disguise it, "don't worry, everyone will just see it as the White Fang attacking in the name of 'Faunas Superiority' or some crap like that."

The man reached to his face and pulled back the hood … revealing the very human face of the individual with no animal features, and with tattoos that were of Mistralian design, the man chuckling as the voice continued before concluding…

"Just as long as we get paid well, no one will no anything else, are we getting paid?"

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The scene now showed a dimly lit office, and the familiar voice of a very specific individual.

"But of course, you have earned a rather hefty tip today, in fact I have need of the services of you and your group in another task, the standard fee," Jacques Schnee let the man talk, a wicked and cruel smile soon forming on his face, "excellent, I will have the details of your next assignment sent to you soon."

Jacques Schnee hung up the scroll before he strolled to the window, gazing at one of the SDC's many factories, watching in silent happiness as the assembly line kept pumping out the new Knights being produced by his company, smiling as whole lines being readied to be shipped off.

"No one will stop me," greed dripping from his voice, as behind him was a screen showing the faces of the Commander and several other Atlesian officers, with all but one having red x's running over them, the last on the screen being a young man with light grey hair, a young face and an optimistic look to him, and his name …

… Terrence Gris.

/-END-/

Clip 2 – Poisonous Deception

The winters in Solitas were quite simply the worst on all of Remnant, but this winter was by far the worst. A sudden cold front had brought the freezing temperatures in Solitas even lower, and this problem was compounded by sudden power losses in Mantle, the cities heating grid going out at certain points, and causing many to slowly freeze in their homes.

As can be expected the response from the people in the local neighborhoods was quite clear, with angered citizens soon taking to the streets and riots starting to break out, but with no means of truly unifying together, the riots were dispersed quickly by either Atlesian Knights or by sudden Grimm incursions, though the anger the people felt only grew. Then a voice rang out, belonging to a man named George Luz, the man soon began to bring together the people in the affected neighborhoods, with three of the most influential of the neighborhoods citizens as his main support as he led the neighborhoods to try and get the issue regarding the power ended, as well as try and improve the situation for everyone.

It was a nice little story at first … until it was not.

The group suddenly were being led in far more violent direction, ambushing supply convoys, attacking SDC shops, and even wrecking Atlas Knights and security systems, the issue growing worse, and the other neighborhoods soon turning away from the blatant violence that appeared to be hurting neighborhoods more than helping. The problem became so bad that the Atlesian military ended up having to take over, which led to a fight that caused a Grimm attack, destroying the neighborhoods and leading to the deaths of many of the neighbors while the rest were led away, though many would say that the neighbors that were being led away seemed … off, looking more like furious beasts that were ready to lash out, with only words of anger or an angry snarl coming from those who were being led away, and it was also noted that during the fight that occurred, the people, even though they had no Aura or Semblance, were almost able to fight on par with Atlas's Specialists and destroyed many Knights and even attacked the invading Grimm in melee, which ended with them dying though sometimes they would succeed in killing the attacking Grimm, but the way they acted was more in line with violent animals rather than an organized force, attacking human, Grimm and also each other near the end. To many it seemed to be a sensational story that soon faded as the neighborhoods were demolished and rebuilt, though with either Atlas military buildings or new SDC properties, and as for the people, no one heard from them again.

The truth, however, was far worse than any could have known.

/-/

In an small room, the man known as George Luz stood over the dead bodies of the neighborhood leaders, a knife dripping with blood in his hand, then moved to a door leading into the basement of the building, and in the basement were several crates that held white medical containers, all empty, save for one last syringe, containing a clear liquid within, which the man pocketed before calling through a very unique scroll.

"Hello, this is agent Gamma, I have accomplished the assigned parameters of my mission, and it is as the initial tests suggested," the man named George Luz, now Agent Gamma said through the scroll, and soon a heavily altered voice came through.

"Hmm, how disappointing, and here I thought it would be different, well not like we were expecting much anyway," the voice stated, cold amorality echoing through, "haah, we spent so much on the development of the ENHANCER, a quick and easy way to make the fiercest and most focused breed of soldier that has ever been seen on all of Remnant, a way to bring the human element back to the forefront of the Atlesian military, if only the aggression of the subjects could have been controlled, and what's more is the issue that the subjects seem to just devolve into mindless savages overtime, nothing but an utter failure …"

"… ah well, at least we were able to deal with the issue of those unproductive elements that have only been making problems, asking form more and trying to imply that Atlas and the SDC were at fault, utter madness, well they served a purpose at least so we can thank them for that at least, now Agent Sigma, return to the facility, we have new orders in Mistral that we need carried out."

"I'll be there immediately," agent Gamma stated before setting several charges of fire dust in the basement to wipe away trace of what had occurred before using a hidden entrance into Mantles sewer to escape, leaving no evidence and destroying the lives of several of Mantles citizens.

All for greed, scientific amorality, and an empty promise that in the end, meant nothing.

/END/

Silence … HORRIFIED silence

Silence that Mirai broke.

"That was our incredibly brief view into some of the most evil shit that Atlas decided to do, and this will shock you but that is the lightest of Atlas's dirty laundry, if you saw some of the worst stuff you would likely never trust an Atlesian again, and the Atlesians here would likely not be so proud of being who they are," then the screen shifter, "and for those who think that only Atlas can come up with what is basically straight up evil, here is some food for thought."

The screen showed five slots, all were 'The Dark Chronicles', and each was focused around the four kingdoms … and the White Fang.

"What you saw and what is in these 'Dark Chronicles' are records of some of the darkest deeds that had been committed by the groups shown, all having been gained from Remnants throughout the multiverse, including your own Remnant, all showing dark events that were committed by either prominent of secretive individuals in the four kingdoms or the errant terrorist organization, and what we have is, in a word, 'immense."

The group had been quite shocked and disturbed at the horrifying fact that such things happened, and not even in Atlas, which horrified them at what was happening that they did not know, though some of them did have an idea of quite a number of dark matters that the may be in 'The Dark Chronicles', Ozpin and Ironwood in particular had some ideas and had plans to see what dark secrets they did not know about, what lies they had been told and truths that were buried.

"Then we come to the last of the four 'great kingdoms', and I quote this phrase since this kingdom in particular is honestly less of a nation than even Menagerie, Vacuo, which I see as the chance that never happened. The nation holding all the necessary means to ensure a stable and flourishing nation, abundant resources, excellent geographical defenses, and whose people have largely done away with racism and bigotry, and could have had all the means to build itself up and truly stand equal to the other nations of Remnant, which I guess the other nations did not want as currently Mistral, Atlas, and even Vale have put so much of their economic and diplomatic resources into ensuring that Vacuo essentially remains largely dependent on the other three nations. Now Vacuo is largely a barren and sand blasted wasteland with only a few stretches of vegetation and habitable space, its resources have largely been taken by the industries of Remnant, including a certain dust company that actually has the gall to call itself charitable and fair when it literally has the Vacuans pay almost absurd amounts of money for the very resources that were mined IN THEIR OWN KINGDOM! The government of Vacuo is honestly both a sham and a failure, they help no one, make a laws that are neither followed or even really enforced and the people are forced to live as literal outcasts in their own kingdom, constantly having to migrate anywhere they can and sometimes even the devastated remains of places rendered dead by Grimm, bandits or even the weather of the wasteland, and its only guiding voice being the Academy that even now is struggling to try and keep the kingdom safe and has so far managed to succeed even with the large amount of restrictions that plague Shade Academy. So far the only thing that Vacuo has is its lack of racism and bigotry, but is so far a hub of outcasts and utter contempt at the three kingdoms that currently hold sway over it, including its former 'ally' that it came to the aid of in the 'Great War', an alliance that appears to have not really meant much to Vale in the end, and this anger at the other kingdoms has only been left to grow and fester, to the point where, with the right amount of prodding, maybe from someone with a genuine desire to destroy the other kingdoms, Vacuo's rage can be unleashed in a truly terrifying way."

With that, the screens faded, and now the group was left with Mirai looking at the group, a mix of silent horror and some looks of shame and worry, along with many other negative emotions were present, then they heard Mirai release a long, shuddering sigh as she the straightened herself up as the lights in the theater came on and Mirai the looked at the group, and next to her came Sybil, looking impassively at the group.

"There are three reasons for the things you saw, for what was told to you, for why we had to subject you all to this viewing and dig up some very negative points regarding your world and yourselves," Mirai then held up her hand in a fist and extended one finger, and Sybil was the one to speak.

"One, to make you all aware of the true depths of the danger you face, and the issues that plague yourselves and the world around you, issues that Salem and her accomplices can and in so many cases, have, exploited to either gain an strong edge over you all, or even drive some or all of you into a very dark path, one that can lead to your own ruin and damnation. You may have morals, but your enemies do not have morals, at all, like the Grimm …. or lawyers."

The group knew from what they saw that it was true, and that Salem could, would and did use the weaknesses of humanity to her advantage, and several of the group had already seen their own problems be used by the villains to further their own goals, or to turn on of their own against the others, though Ruby wanted to question the part regarding lawyers, but Wiess put lowered Rubies hand and told Ruby that Mirai was right.

Then Mirai continued next.

"Second, is to open everyone's eyes to the real problems that Remnant faces, problems that have been plaguing the four kingdoms, problems that can and sometimes do end up reaching a threat level just below or almost equal to either Salem or her accomplices in threat level, and in the rarer cases even more dangerous than Salem or her associates could ever be, even in their own warped dreams, ranging from a second 'Great War' coming into existence to the awakening of two or more Champion-class Grimm, and to those who think that I have those threats out of order, none of you have ever had to face a Champion Grimm, and I have to make it clear that Grimm Champions have faced and killed magic users, and not those pathetic excuses for spell casters you call the seasonal maidens, sorry Ozpin but you know it's the truth," Ozpin nodded at Mirai's words, the old memories of his past fights with the Grimm of the old era solidifying Mirai's words as true, "the Champion Grimm fought Magic Warrior's, Knights, and other's that wielded magic as a powerful and terrifying weapon, one that made a single Magic Warrior on par with an Atlesian heavy assault cruiser in sheer combat potential, and the Champions killed hundreds of such individuals, think hard on that before you decide to discount them as a threat."

The group were left feeling a truly strong sense of worry, even Yang was hoping that she never comes across a Grimm Champion … EVER!

"Third and the most relevant to our current circumstances, is that I have seen what I guess you could call 'previews' to the realities that we need to see, and I am going to tell you here and now, you are all going to be seeing alternate versions of yourselves and Remnant in a very, VERY bad way, and as to what that means. The level of how bad things go for your alternative selves in the most of these realities range from you just overreacting to Jaune Arc's circumstances in a negative and blatantly violent manner, driving that realities Jaune Arc into changing, to some of you guys actually ending up as literal villains in the several of the realities, be it accidental, developing, or even deliberate, and I tell no lies in this regard, as future viewing will easily attest to, I am only warning you so you don't say that I never said anything regarding some or most of you becoming evil in the realities we will see."

Mirai concluded what she wanted to say, Sybil nodding next to her as the group were left worried about what they would bee seeing, talking amongst themselves, wondering about what they would be seeing and worried about what they would see, and also some back and forth between some of the group as to the things they had learned about the others, and Yang had gotten into a heated argument with Ruby regarding what Ruby learned about her when Sybil had revealed a rather dark fact about Yang, and Mirai was about to try and calm the group down and tell them that she needed to make something clear to them …

… but then!

EEEIIIIIIRRRRR, EEEEEEIIIIIIIRRRRR, EEEEIIIIIRRRRRR

An alarm blasted through the facility, shocking the whole group, and Mirai suddenly held out her arm and instantly several metal components rushed out of nowhere around Mirai and formed a large pistol of dark, angled metal that was obviously not of human make, and from several walls, several of the same robot girls that the group had encountered before suddenly emerged all carrying large weapons like large rifles, alien-like weapons, and even large bladed weapons with the blade glowing a deep blue and detached from the weapon. Yang was now trying to help Ruby who was somewhere between a panic attack and a 'weapon-gasm?', and Sybil now glowed a mix of red, orange and purple as many rings of light appeared around her, and her eyes now with a crosshair-like pattern in them, looking at a holo-screen before her.

"There is a anomaly in the main theater, the system has detected a dimensional rift opening inside this facility, and your not going to believe this, but the source appears to be from Remnant," Sybil turned to the Remnetian group and said the words that shocked them all, "YOUR REMNANT."

"Wa-wait, if this is from our Remnant, then, then that means," Wiess was the one to imply what everyone was thinking, and all of them were about ready to jump at what she was implying, only for Sybil to shoot her down.

"Apologies Miss Schnee but this is not a way home, in-fact the readings are telling me that this is less of a portal and more of some sort of 'dimensional lifeboat', sent on a one way trip from your Remnant through whatever the heck is interfering with Remnants reality and seemed to have found its way here, and the energy readings of this things are fluctuating at a dangerous and unpredictable manner, it was lucky it even got here and didn't annihilating itself within the dimensional space, destroying itself and whatever it was carrying. What's more, it seems to have only one living thing within it, and whatever it is, it appears to be suffering damage from the transit, the energy envelope of this thing is fluctuating at a very unstable rate, we may need medical staff here," Sybil soon disappeared, and a passageway opened up, leading to the theater, and it showed a warping area of space in the room, with a sort of rip in reality opening up, revealing a warping ovaloid-shaped mass of radiant blue green energy come out of the rift.

The group made their way into the theater, just as the rift completely closed itself, the robot-girls surrounding the unknown 'dimensional lifeboat' weapons trained on the object, ready to respond with violence if the object was hostile.

The 'lifeboat then lowered itself onto the ground, and as it almost touched the ground, it then dissipated into motes of light, and from its dispersion came the body of what appeared to be a young woman with very one hair, the woman lightly falling to the ground, completely bereft of clothing, and the girls of the group then began to move to block the view of them men of their group, but then saw the men have looks of shock and surprise.

"That's …", Ozpin remarked in shock.

"Could she be …", a stunned Ironwood exclaimed.

"It's …" the stuttering shock and forming of tears in the eyes of Qrow was shocking for the group, Yang and Ruby in particular, and they all turned to the woman on the floor …

… Ruby suddenly went completely still, shock on her face as Yang suddenly looked like she had just seen something that she could not believe, and both had tears begin to build at the corners of their eyes.

Mirai spoke, "No this is quite a shocking development," as she got a good look at the person lying on the ground.

"M…M…MMMM," Ruby struggled to get the word, but finally the word she wanted to scream out suddenly burst forth from her as she ran to the now very familiar body of the woman she thought she would never see again, and who she had desperately wished to see again for so much of her life ….

"MOOOOOMMMM!"

Lying on the ground before the group in the middle of the room … was none other than Ruby's birth mother and Yang's present mother, Summer Rose.

Ruby rushed to Summer, about to reach out and at least hold her to at least know that it really was her …

BAM

Only to run straight into an energy barrier, falling backward, but luckily caught by Wiess, and stood back up, just as Mirai came forward, as several individuals, which all appeared to be medic's wearing protective armored suits soon went around Summer, all carrying containers with medical symbols on them.

"Ruby, don't think I don't know what you, Yang or Qrow wish to do right now, you want to be next to Summer Rose, to hold her with your own hands, to know that what you are seeing is real and not a hallucination and that she really is here, which I can tell you now that she is and that she is alive, but look at her Ruby, take a very clear look at Summer's current condition," Mirai stated as she urged the group to look at Summers current state.

Ruby and the others did look at Summer and were all horrified by what they saw.

Summer Rose's hair had grown out long and flowing, so it luckily helped cover up Summer's more feminine areas, but her hair was horribly unruly and unkempt, with many split ends and also seemed to have been cleaned very roughly, leaving points of damage in Summers black/red hair, but what they saw on the rest of her was also very bad. Her hands and feet had deep burns on them, along with portions of her body that were red and blistering from being exposed to strong amounts of heat, but that was not all that horrified Ruby and her relatives. On most of Summer's body were many deep cuts and bruises that appeared to have been made quite a long time ago, yet now wrapped up in some sort of strange bandages that seemed be emitting some sort of energy that was healing the damage done to Summer, and on her torso located just above where here stomach was, was what appeared to be the result of a savage puncture that looked like one that the resident Remnetians would see from a small Deathstalker sting … or the sting of a very big scorpion, or a scorpion faunas.

"Dammit … fucking dammit … she had her, all this time that bitch had her," Qrow was furious beyond words, and it did not take anyone long to guess what he was getting at, with Ozpin, Glynda and Ironwood having already figured out what Qrow was getting at, with Ruby, her sister and team, NPR and Winter all realizing what Qrow meant.

"Yes … Salem had Summer Rose, she had her captured and tortured for whatever ungodly reason she wanted, and kept her alive in one of the many undisclosed locations she has, or maybe even within her own citadel in the Grimm lands," Mirai stated, the group horrified at the prospect of whatever horrors that Summer was made to go through by Salem, Ruby and Yang horrified at the fact that the mother that raised and nurtured them had been a prisoner of the most evil being on all of Remnant, "what's done is done, she is no longer in Salem's clutches, she's here, with us, and right now she needs medical attention righ-, what have we here?"

The group saw as Mirai reached out to a patch of some of the strange medical tape and saw her pull away a folded piece of paper, all the while the medical personnel in the armored suits placed patches on Summers body that seemed to grow out into a pure white bodysuit that had soft lights pulsing through it, the same light as the healing rings that the group were familiar with, and also saw as the medics used a device that seemed to grow out in a weaving pattern of unknown material, going under Summer and lifting her up, and soon forming into a stretcher with Summer face up on it, all the while Mirai began to read the paper.

" 'I do not know who is reading this not, but I implore you to please save the person I have sent you, she has suffered horrifically at the most vile of individuals, she is not safe where I am, so I have sent her as far away from the danger as I can, and only hope that she finds help where she arrives. Also, as to the individuals who brought her to this state, I have seen to it that the ones who harmed and tortured her are now no longer able to bring harm to anything or anyone EVER AGAIN', that's all it says," Mirai finished, just as a portal opened behind her, and through it teams RWBY and NPR saw the medical center, and also a familiar face.

"Looks like it's a busy day today for me, bring her to the Intense treatment area, I'll go through every treatment and therapy I can there," Emma spoke as the medical personnel picked up the stretcher with the now medically clothed Summer Rose and walked through the open portal into the medical center, "if you want you can come along and watch if any of you are worried, but I implore you to let me do my job and heal her, and don't worry, I have healed to full health those who have lost most of their body and those who have only recently became deceased, and by recently, I mean within a span of 48 hours," with Emma's words as both assurance and food for thought as she made her way into the medical sector to begin operating on Summer Rose, and Ruby, Yang and Qrow turned to Mirai.

"The next viewings wont be for a few more hours, but luckily the medical has a temporal dilation field that accelerates the time within that sector, so the time till the next viewing is extended to a time of 12 hours within the medical ward, more than enough time for Summer to be healed of her injuries, and she should awaken after the procedure, and having her family present would greatly help calm her down and explain the current situation to her," the barrier went down and Ruby was about to bolt, though Mirai then fixed her and the others with a sharp gaze as she spoke, "though once the viewing starts again, you all will need to be present for it, Summer will still need to be looked after in the medical ward and luckily wont attend the viewing until she regains her health, though the rest of you will have be present when the viewing happens … unless you wish to suffer the effects of the 'bleed-over' again."

Whatever retort the group had ready died as Ruby, her team, and NPR recalled the unimaginable agony of the 'bleed-over' and reluctantly agreed, not wanting to suffer the horrific pain of the 'bleed over' again, with Ozpin, Glynda, Qrow, Ironwood and Winter also agreeing as they had seen the 'bleed-over' and what it did to team RWBY and NPR, though Ozpin was curious as to what could happen from being merged with another version of himself in another reality, but decided not to and focused on the current issue of returning to Remnant.

"Well, lets go and see Summer's operation and recovery, and then continue on with trying to get you all back to your Remnant, as well as finding out what has happened to your Remnant," with the Mirai walked into the medical sector with the group in tow, off to see and hope for the recovery of Summer Rose.

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I HATED writing this interlude, I hated it more than the hatred between a cat and dog with a severe case of Rabies, the next time I have to write anything like this hopefully ends up being a long time from now or never again, preferably never.

Honestly, the time it took me to write this I could have written two or three of the viewing chapters, which I am now getting anxious to do.

Sorry that this large info-dump and personal critique ended up happening, but honestly I hope that you all will stay and read my work, but I needed a point to air out grievances about the individuals in the work as well as things that may come up later.

Anyway, sorry for the wait, but I assure you the next real chapter will be posted soon.

AEOS REACT, be back soon.