Watching Jaune Again!

by NigmaShady

People of Remnant are pulled into another theater watching different scenarios of one Jaune Arc except there's a twist. What do you mean they go back to their reality? What do you mean he might go into watching himself along with the cast of characters? A different take on the react trend in RWBY fics. (Changed to Rated M in chapter 5) (Discontinued)

18. Spy X Family

AN: Hello everybody, it's good to be back in the react world with all of you to see. Now I do not own the wonderful manga of SPY X FAMILY and I urge you all to support its creator named Tatsuya Endo. It's an amazing ongoing manga that is truly funny with a touch of the right style of family that not a lot gets in manga or in anime. Went through 2 chapters to come up with this one chapter and went through 200 panels and 150 pages.

Sorry for the late update, been dealing with the lockdown and all. Then having renewed interest in Tekken 7 came in along with trying to master other characters. I also read more books to cope with the quarantine. I finished reading Shiver and Smashed by Junji Ito, which makes me wanna buy Frankenstein. I also was reading more manhwa, finally got to chapter 450 of Tower of God then saw the adaptation and I was like 'fuck off Cruncyroll, I know you won't make Rachel the bitch she is.' I finished Distant Sky… makes me wanna do a reaction to it but it is so jumbled and confusing and really fucking dark that I don't know how my audience would like it.

I've also been working a bit while quarantine is alive and well in the Philippines, been helping more often in housework along with just being burnt out a bit in terms of writing the reacting fanfics again. Thanks to Exiled and Composcreator for being the betas in editing this chapter. Thanks to 1000 follows, didn't know that I would reach this point and it took half a year to do so. Also its my first story to reach this milestone.

1)What is the anime that you will die on the hill to defend?

Shady-kun: Jojo and Fate and Makoto Shinkai movies.

Exiled: None as of now.

Composcreator: High School DxD and Digimon, though it's more the Light Novel for the former.

2)How would you improve RWBY?

Shady-kun: End everything in five seasons with at least twenty four episodes in each one that runs 23-25 minutes. Introducing Salem earlier so that there is a grasp in the power levels, I would change her immortality into only can die through battle which shows how much the good guys have to train to have a chance. Give villains like Adam and Hazel more screen time, with the former fleshing out into an actual character and not psycho ex.

Exiled: Make some characters more likeable. Have actual character progression. Not cater to the fans when it comes to romance.

Composcreator: Hard to say. I guess the first would be remap everything out. I for one feel like they had things only partially planned out.

3)What would be your message to people dealing with COVID-19

Shady-kun: Stay safe at home in order to protect you and your loved ones and your neighbors. Don't panic and be sure not to hoard supplies. Never forget that China was late and hid the virus from the world for a month which made it spread rapidly. And anything CNN says in the US… then believe the opposite because it's just silly making it about race and Trump, people's lives are at stake.

Exiled: Stay safe and stay clean. Make sure you all don't actively spread the virus by being stupid. We all know there's some of those types out there.

Composcreator: Your ability to stay at home would depend on your work situation. Other than that, wash your hands all the time, be careful of waht you eat, and read and watch everything you can to keep your mind sane! We've got Doom Eternal and RE 3 Remake to help, even if you don't have the dames watching playthroughs and analysis videos take up a lot f'ing time.

Anyways, I hope you enjoy! Please leave a review and I may likely answer.

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"So which one are we reacting to first?" Coco asked this simple question because they just saw the two trailers, one looked like an action-comedy with a family dynamic within it, the other was just too weird and complicated to understand.

"The first one."

Yang chuckled. "Hear that Rubes, another scenario where the kid in this one is still you."

"Why am I the kid in this one again?!"

The Creator looked at her and with a straight face simply replied. "Because you are the youngest here and technically still jailbait to most men."

There was an awkward silence that was only interrupted with audible face palms coming from others in the audience. The Creator looked at the other divine entity in the room and noticed how she was simply minding her own business. It infuriated him knowing that he couldn't really affect her in his present state. 'It would ruin my plan if I showed them all my true form. Even if I remove that memory, they'd become wary of me as their instinct. Such a pain.'

"Well if there's no more questions, then on to the first one we are here to witness. In this scenario there are two neighboring major countries who are in a cold war with each other. They used to be at war for a long time. But it ended with a peace treaty and a promise to bring the two together. However, both countries want to succeed in their own plans and are willing to do anything."

Raven asked. "Who are these two nations then?"

"They are Vale and Atlas and are currently in a war of espionage to destroy the other."

"Why? Aren't they allies? I thought a long and possibly bloody war would have told themselves that any further fights would be useless." Velvet asked.

The Creator nodded. "Normally that would be the case but both countries' pride on becoming the victor overturns any sound decision for peace. Anyways enjoy Spy X Family."

A black car containing one driver and one diplomat from Mistral was in a hurry to get into the meeting in Atlas regarding further peace talks. The diplomat yelled at the driver cursing at the apparent change of time so suddenly. "Take me to the embassy!"

"Yes sir!" The driver then drove even faster and then he noticed they were on the bend. He let go of the gas and tried to press on the brakes, but he noticed they weren't slowing down! He then mashed his foot on the brake pedal but nothing worked, this alarmed the diplomat.

"What are you doing!" The driver paled when he noticed they were close to the bend and even if he turned they would smash into the concrete. "The brakes aren't-"

The car smashed through the barricade that had once covered the bend and fell thirty feet down onto the streets below. It tumbled across twenty five more feet before coming to a complete stop as civilians ran to see if anyone survived the car crash.

"Looks like the action's already hit us at the jump." Yang surmised since a lot of hunters could already tell that something was afoot. Based on the driver's reaction, it looked like he didn't know about the malfunctioning brakes in his vehicle.

Jaune asked as he looked at his partner. "Was this a hit?"

Pyrrha nodded. "It looks too good to be an accident like a certain politician who didn't kill himself."

"A diplomat from our eastern neighbor of Atlas died in a car accident."

In a prestigious room filled with top intelligence individuals of Vale sat in a meeting to discuss what had occured. The one at the front of the table sighed. "However, our organization sees this as an assasination by far-right extremists from Atlas."

The large television screen flashed to the countries of Vale and Atlas being landlocked with only the remnants of a large wall separating the two dividing these two. "They're planning to spark a war with our country of Vale. We must put a stop to this scheme by any means necessary."

Winter looked aghast while James looked sullen that such an accusation could come from their stalwart allies. Ozpin looked to his old friend in an assured tone of voice. "Remember James, this is a different Atlas and Vale."

James had to calm himself, the relationship shown on the screen was what he theorized happened in terms of relations with the two countries after their war against each other. Juniper simply smirked. "Even allies can secretly be trying to sabotage one another to become the more dominant one."

The head of the intelligence simply realized that his comrades could not think of any plans to stop this plot. But he knew of only one asset to the country who could save it once again.

"... I suppose we should leave this to 'him' then. Our most trusted agent… TWILIGHT"

Emerald chuckled at the codename of Vale's best secret service agent. "That's a dumb name."

Mercury followed up on his comrade's viewpoint. "Couldn't think of anything else? I mean there has to be more that strikes fear into other people's hearts."

In a dark alley that would scare anyone from entering, an informant was meeting with a top leading government official named Edgar who secured a meeting with this agent. In Edgar's hand was photographs. "Here's what we promised."

The stubby man with glasses didn't notice that his fake hair had moved to the side. The guards were so shocked that they weren't able to catch the wig when it flew in the direction of the wind. "Proof that the minister of Foreign Affairs wears a wig. Including the negatives."

Edgar chuckled evilly and smiled like a shark finding fresh blood in the water. "Well done. With these, I can force him to resign."

He had then walked back into the ally and got into his car and quickly drove off. But not without first thanking the brave agent for the information to give him a new position. As the informant was walking away, he shook in trepidation when a voice called out. "Hey!"

The information's face became slack in confusion when Edgar was right in front of him whilst being flanked by two bodyguards. Edgar had his arm forward as if he expected to be handed down something. "Where are you going? Now, hand over what you promised."

"WHAT?!" This yell reverberated around the room as most of the younglings shouted out their surprise even Penny did so uncharacteristically.

Nora gave her two cents. "That's something out of an Operation Impractical movie! Twilight was wearing a mask!"

Ren nodded. "Very smart of the spy to become that politician. He must have assumed that the informant didn't know how Edgar would have walked or talked."

Velvet mirrored such praise. "That was so cool. Everything could have gone wrong but it didn't, this is why I love mystery and thriller spy novels."

The informant simply pointed to the car that was leaving and the Edgar that was standing in front of him. "Huh?! Wha-What are you- But… I… just-"

The informant's eyes widened as inside the car, 'Edgar' simply removed his disguise by pulling out the face mask. It revealed a really handsome blonde with dishevelled hair and a nonchalant expression. "... IT WAS A SET UP!"

"Oh, cool. It's Jaune again!"

"Ruby, it will always be Jaune as a significant character. We are watching the buffoon again." The second ice queen couldn't hear the reply that it wasn't his fault that the Creator liked to show different versions of the Arc.

The spy who had bamboozled the informant and retrieved the sensitive information. Codenamed Twilight, the man was a spy. In an era when a cutthroat information war was unfolding behind the scenes all over the world. The man had survived on this battlefield through his mastery of a hundred faces.

He was now in a five-star restaurant that only the very rich could afford. In a table across a woman who was talking to him while Twilight was busy eating. He had a new outfit on with a dapper blue suit, glasses, and his normally dishevelled hair became geled in. "So anyway..."

The girl was talking to him as she didn't realize he wasn't really listening. "Daddy was all mad and shouting stuff like 'They took the photos of the wig!' Dunno, what he meant, but he was really pissed. Hey, are you even listening to me, Robert?"

He nodded lightly. "Hm? Oh, yes, quite a predicament. It must be troubling to hear from him for a long time."

She smiled in agreement although for him, he didn't really care about what she thought since his mission was done. This meant that she didn't even matter anymore along with this supposed date or relationship.

Once his meal was finished, he cleaned his mouth lightly with the napkin. Cheers and aws rang out in the restaurant as a couple was proposing near their vicinity. The woman blushed as she looked at him but he didn't really think much of it. "HEEEEEY, ROOOOBEERT."

Qrow sipped from his treasure while complaining, "Brothers! Her voice is so annoying, no wonder Tai Jr. is not even interested in listening to her."

Summer giggled from her teammate's perspective. "I think he's more focused on eating and leaving since his mission is done."

He nearly glared just because of that annoying tone of voice when she was excited. "When are we gonna tie the knot? Hm? Hmmm..."

He just stared at her and directly said. "Let's break up."

"That was blunt." A blunt reaction from the cat faunus was followed by other bouts of laughter from the audience.

"...Huh?"

"To be very clear with you Karen. I don't sense the slightest speck of intelligence from you."

"Ouch! Burn, someone get an ice compress for that poor girl!" Coco commented since to be fair it was true.

Cinder was amused. "Certainly something I would say as a form of rejection to any uncultured men looking to commit to me."

Her astonished face already said what he needed to know, he quickly got up and put on his top hat. "Well then I wish you well, Karen."

He walked away since Karen kept on calling his name. Twilight had looked at the file he had captured with the Minister of Foreign Affairs's most damning secret. He was happy when he realized that his job was finished and he had stopped a corrupt government official from trying to start a war. 'I'm sorry Karen. You've… your father has served his purpose.'

"Oh, so that's how he knew how that Edgar looked and probably talked like that. That's a bit low." Tai mused to himself since if it happened to any of his daughters as a form of revenge towards him. That bloke would be under six feet.

Penny was analyzing the ways of spying for intelligence. "Wonderful! Such an amazing art spying is. I would want to procure such abilities for my mission."

James answered the android's curiousity. "Don't worry Penny, you will learn from the best in intelligence gathering."

Glynda then reminded her longtime friend. "I don't think it's right to declare that you will purposefully teach your student how to spy."

"Oh… I was just excited."

He removed his glasses and his hat into a flaming garbage bin. 'I guess it's time to retire the mask of "Robert" as well. Marriage? Ordinary happiness? I threw away all attachments like that, along with my ID papers, the day I became a spy.'

"How can you remove everything just to become a spy?"

Yang decided to answer her partner's question. "Well he does it well enough."

He was now in a raincoat and heavily covered in order to not arouse any suspicion. Even though no one knew his true face like the one he was wearing now. Atlas was looking for him because he had foiled many of their plans to restart the war and conquer his homeland of Vale. He had sat down on a wooden bench next to an old man who was reading today's newspaper.

"Phew." A slight rustle from the old man beside him revealed eyes that one would not normally see from his age. The old man then folded his newspaper and slipped it to Twilight while he gave one to the old man.

Twilight noticed him stand up and give a slight nod before leaving. 'So cipher C then. It must mean there is a new mission that headquarters has given me.'

"Hmm… that was slick. Who knew that hidden messages could be delivered like that?" Tai's comment earned a lot of nods.

James frowned at seeing the exchange of a cipher between two agents. "I have to be stricter in checking any suspicious individuals in my state."

Juniper and Cinder simply smiled since Ironwood didn't think twice about what happened during the prom dance. The general didn't even think that the Vytal Festival could be compromised from students of one of Ozpin's allies.

"Track 5 will be departing for Burlington shortly. Repeat, track 5 will be departing for Burlington shortly." Twilight quickly entered the train, chose a seat and opened his newspaper. He had also gotten a coffee cup from the stewardess which he sipped gently in fear that a stain would corrupt his latest orders.

'Hello, Agent Twilight or should I say, good evening! Good work on your latest mission. Thanks to you, the minister narrowly escaped his fate. You have done a great service for Vale. This may seem sudden to you however Atlas has seemed to ignite more passion for a war. But here is your next mission.'

"No rest for me I guess." Jaune commented, he didn't think his other self was this dedicated as a spy.

Raven asked the question that some had on their minds. "What happened to him to become a spy?"

A man with some scars on his face but his posture was of a weathered war veteran. Twilight instantly recognized him as one of Atlas' heroes in the war; he had cost many Valean lives with his tactics of massive bombardment. He figured that it was going to be another information grab or blackmail.

Even so he kept on reading the mission. 'The target is the president of the National Unity Party, Marcus Black. He's a dangerous man who threatens the peace between the east and the west.'

Mercury noticeably clenched his fists in anger, he couldn't even escape his ugly mug from even the Creator's realm. 'I thought the last time I'd see him was me kicking his ass as the first man.'

'Your mission should you choose to accept it. It is to get close to him and investigate his subversive activities. To accomplish this, your first step is to...' Jaune sipped from his coffee. 'I already know it's going to be have to investigate his closest friends and-'

'Get married and have a child.' He spewed his coffee and started coughing, thankfully his message was not destroyed from his mishap. "EXCUSE ME!"

The audience laughed and even the Void gave a hearty chuckle, no one would expect a mission that important to have that as its main directions to follow. Summer couldn't stop laughing. "Oh! His face is so priceless!"

Nora bellowed a loud laugh as she went to the ground and simultaneously hit it to stop laughing. "Fearless Leader has the weirdest of times!"

"No this can't happen, there has to be another way. HQ is smoking pot if they think this is the way to get this job done." It was as if the newspaper knew what he was going to freak out so it properly explained one aspect about his target.

'Marcus is so paranoid you could call him a hermit. He hardly ever makes appearances in public even with his public position. The only times he shows his face are the get-togethers held regularly at his son's prestigious school. These also function as social gatherings for all the biggest players in politics and industry.'

'You are to have your child enroll in this school so you can infiltrate these meetings. Furthermore, as there is a deadline for this enrollment… You have one week to accomplish this.'

He ripped the newspaper in half in anger. "Seven days to have a kid?! You need eight and a half months for one."

Other people started laughing again from his straight man routine. Ruby was confused. "How is Jaune or Twilight supposed to get a kid?"

Weiss sighed upon seeing Jaune's antics. "Nice way of drawing suspicion for Vale's best spy."

He saw the worried or scared glances of all the Valeans in the train with him. He decided to alleviate their alarmed states by coughing once. "Ahem, sorry."

He waited for all of them to go back to either their habits or simply talking about their days with each other. It's been a long time since he got this mad, not even that doomsday mission got him this riled up. 'Okay… calm down. A spy is done for once he's lost his cool. Especially when it can blow his cover in public.'

'This is Operation STRIX. This plan will be the key to maintaining peace between east and west… as well as the entire world. Your agents are our "shadowless heroes" and your efforts will never be seen by the day. You will receive no medals, and no newspaper will cover your story. But even so...'

He looked around at the happy faces of all the citizens who will never realize how much he had to sacrifice in order to keep order in their country. 'Never forget that the daily lives of our people are built atop your sacrifice.'

He placed the newspaper down and looked at the wonderful countryside. 'Fine then… I've already thrown away my name and face to become TWILIGHT. I'll show you that even fatherhood is just another role to play.'

Pyrrha felt sad that her crush threw away everything for the sake of peace. It even hit some of her fears about Jaune's emerging hero addiction. However the blonde held her hand in comfort, she looked up to see a worried look on his face. "I don't think I can ever be that dedicated to what I want for the world, Pyrrha."

The redheaded champion simply gave a smile to her partner. "Good… I wouldn't want to hit you hard in the head to remind you that you aren't alone. I don't want you to end up having the mindset of saving everyone… just the ones you care about the most."

Twilight in his new persona was invited in by the housing agent who introduced him to a potential home for his 'family'. "And this is our family unit. It comes fully furnished and has AC. Not only that..."

The expert spy went around looking at the different corners and spaces in the room to see if it was an ideal hideout for fitting in. He also checked how easily he can see if someone would place bugs in the home alone if there were any pre-existing ones.

The real estate agent was confused at what Twilight was doing, he'd never seen anyone be like that when introduced to a new home. "Excuse me? Sir?"

'No bugs, and I can easily secure an escape route.'

"Efficient, all in a manner of seconds. He'd be a very valuable agent or ally to have." Ozpin's eyes narrowed at what Juniper had just spoken about.

Jaune smiled as he looked at the housing agent. "I'll take it."

The real estate agent quickly gave him the papers of the place he was staying in, "Alright then, Mr. Arc. I'll need you to sign this paperwork."

'Jaune Arc. Occupation: Psychiatrist. This is my new life now for the foreseeable future since this mission will take a longer time than my other assignments.'

The friendly real estate agent simply asked since he was a bit curious as to why he would buy a home this big for just one. Maybe he assumed that he had a family. "But gee sir, isn't moving into a new home with your family just wonderful? So what's your kid like? A boy? A girl? I've got two sons myself, eight and ten."

"Ah, well..." He looked at the metropolis that was the capital of Atlas. "I'll decide later."

"Huh?"

"My thoughts exactly." Velvet gave her own opinion.

Weiss continued this train of thought. "Isn't it a bit suspicious that a single man is currently looking at a family home with no family at all? That would be suspicious for the people of Atlas."

Winter surmised the behind-the-scenes operation for Twilight or Jaune to arrive in Atlas without arousing any belief that he could be suspicious. "He probably has informants and agents working for him to clear any issues in his story."

Jaune was now waiting for someone to pick up the door to a rather raggedy old building. A balding middle-aged drunk opened the door and looked him up and down. "Wha? Hah? You wanna foster a kid?"

Jaune placed his hat on his chest to appeal to emotions that would make the administrator help him instead of asking more questions. He even put on his best caring smile. "Actually I've heard you handle adoptions at this orphanage? Truth is, my wife and I have been-"

"Sure whatever, just pick whatever you want." The drunk waved him in and simply waddled back to where most of the children were.

Raven chuckled. "Reminds me of my idiotic brother on a bender."

"I do not act like that, Raven!"

Jaune was shocked by his unconcerned expression and actions. "Wha-"

"Don't be shy, just come on in." He was a bit taken off by the implication that this administrator was treating it like one was going to get a new puppy from the animal shelter.

Tai grimaced as he looked at the state of the orphanage. "How can anyone treat these kids like this? It's just sickening!"

Summer smiled and gave a small peck to his lips, she loved his newly adopted fatherly instincts. "Just calm down dear. Not everyone is as great as you in taking care of children."

Their two daughters had mixed receptions of swooning and gagging as their parents had a make-out session while one ex-partner for the blonde simply rolled her eyes. Emerald then asked. "He ain't gonna find a child he needs for a high-end university."

His clean look immediately caused him to be the apple of all the children's eyes, their built-in curiosity asked who he was and where he had come from and why he was here. He dismissed the kids in the hallway and noticed their scruffy appearances and simply walked forward. 'What a rough environment… But the shadier the facility, the higher the chance of these kids having a murky background. It's more convenient if we have less records to change. The mission is to create a family. As long as I have a child, I can make it work.'

He then realized one of his problems was that he never truly had a mission involving being part of a family. He also didn't like kids. 'Actually, I wish I could do this on my own. But not even Vale's most distinguished spy can disguise himself as a child.'

Jaune agreed with his other's thoughts. "I guess there are even some situations where a spy can't do his job."

"Oh, right. If possible, I'd prefer someone who can read and write."

The drunk stopped walking and then someone popped into his mind. "Yeah? Most of these kids can do that… But I know the one you want."

They entered a living room with several more kids strewn all over the living space. One girl was called by the Administrator immediately as she grabbed her lion plushy. "Hey! Ruby!"

Ruby pouted, she was getting particularly annoyed at being typecast as one character in a lot of scenarios. "Why am I the cute girl or the little girl?! I'm a big badass!"

Yang snickered and ruffed up her little sister's hair. "Can't help it Rubes. You were made that way."

Ruby turned her head slowly to the source of the voice and saw the familiar old drunk along with a new face. She stood up and dusted off her simple green dark green dress with a white ribbon, with black shoes and white folded-down socks. Her shoulder-length, light red hair styled in pigtails, curls inwards with a fringe that reaches just above her eyes. She usually wears two horn-like hair ornaments with light yellow accents on the sides of her head.

The old drunk presented her to Jaune. "She's our smartest kid. Doesn't talk much, but… eh, she's a good kid."

He glared at Ruby with a sneer. 'What a creepy little brat. Hope this guy gets her out of my place asap.'

"Kinda stupid for a dude to just tell it out in the open-"

"You are wrong on that part, dear Mercury. What we are hearing for everyone is that old fool's thoughts being broadcasted by a certain someone."

Other's eyes widened in shock, even Ozpin smirked and sipped from his coffee before saying his piece. "Well, we are dealing with some mind reading semblance."

She was stunned that he would actually think that since she heard him. The administrator looked at her and noticed she didn't even introduce herself to Jaune. "C'mon, aren't you gonna say hi?"

"Never mind! I like being a little girl! Look, I can read minds and I'm not in a wheelchair!" She was too excited at the prospect of being like a superhero.

Jaune was very suspicious of this kid that the drunk had picked for him. "Um, excuse me, but..."

'As I recall, Atlas Academy starts at age six. This girl at best looks around the age of four or five-'

"Six!"

Her exclamation of her age confused Jaune since he had not even said anything about the girl's age. "Hm?"

"Six!"

"Man she must be desperate enough to get adopted by him."

"Does it bring back memories, Em."

"Die alone in a ditch, Mercury!"

Cinder sighed as she was reminded of the usual conversations between her two minions. If she didn't need them for the Vytal Festival then she would have replaced them with more capable ones.

Even the administrator was surprised. "You were six? Huh..."

Jaune realized she was talking about her age, however he wasn't convinced. One could simply at any age change their age to whatever they want if no one was really looking for it. 'No, but when you take her height into account-'

Ruby decided to stand on her tiptoes to give the illusion of her 'true' height while Jaune stared at her and was confused by this new action. Sensing that this wasn't enough, Ruby quickly zipped up to the table and grabbed the newspaper and showed the crossword section.

Summer crooned at the actions of the alternate version of her daughter. "Aww, that is so cute! But in all seriousness, can she even solve that crossword? I remember when-"

"Mom! Don't say anything."

"Hm? The newspaper- Wait, the crossword? Isn't that a bit too difficult for a child to even complete?" Ruby started thinking on the words to fill in while looking at the clues.

'Especially for her background. It's trivial for me of course. 1 down is "Homeostasis", 1 across is "Casual Closure", and below that's "Symplectomorphic Map".' She had scribbled down and completed it really quickly while proudly showing her 'intelligence' to Jaune.

"She got it?! Seriously?!" He was stunned by her level of intelligence, with this his mission can be solved easily after all.

Weiss sighed in disappointment. "So much for being smart, she simply cheated."

"Hey! I smartly cheated using my super duper mind powers!"

Yang booed. "That's so unfair. I'd love that when going through Oobleck or Port's exams."

'Wha- What terrifying genius! With her, passing the exam should be a child's play!' He turned to the administrator with a serious look on his face. "I'll take her!"

He thought the paperwork would come but the administrator brushed it aside. "Don't need none of that paper, just take her and skedaddle."

'That takes care of the mission to have a child. Actually it went too well that it makes me a little nervous.' He put one knee down so that he could see Ruby face to face. "Ruby, is this alright with you?"

Ruby looked closely at Jaune and noticed his secret. 'Spy… mission...'

She smiled as her cheeks reddened and her eyes brightened with the hope for more action in her life. 'So cool!'

Tai smirked. "Looks like my baby still has her priorities in order."

Qrow also smiled, he remembered that face when Ruby was littler and wanted something or thought something was amazing. "Brings back horrible memories."

The newly formed father and daughter left the orphanage but not without Ruby saying goodbye to the kids in the rundown orphanage. The 'family' walked together to their new home. Ruby is an esper. Known as Subject 007, she could read minds.

Created by the experiments of a mysterious organization, she later escaped their facility. Since then she's moved from place to place seeking shelter. Jaune looked at her and gave her instructions. "Listen up little lady."

"Ruby!"

"Okay, listen up, Ruby." They arrived at the apartment which was near their room. "Starting today, you're my daughter. But to everyone else, you've always been my daughter. Got it!"

"Yup!"

He then remembered something important to tell Ruby. "And you should call me 'Father.'"

"Pa!"

Tai weeped a bit. "I wish Ruby called me that."

Qrow placed a hand on his shoulder. "She ain't six anymore."

"That works."

Once inside, they noticed an older lady who looked at him and Ruby, she smiled as if she remembered some fond memories. "Hello there. Oh my, your daughter's so adorable."

Jaune gave a gentleman's welcome to a neighbor. "Hello, we're the Arcs. We just moved in today." He looked at Ruby. "Why don't you introduce yourself to this nice lady?"

"I'm Ruby, and I've always been Pa's daughter."

The audience started laughing since that was too direct of an answer for a spy. It also contained some suspicions regarding Ruby and Jaune. Mercury stopped laughing and then said. "I bet he gets caught because of what she says."

Cinder smirked. "Why, that would be too obvious, wouldn't it?"

"Hm?"

'Too much detail!' Jaune had internally panicked a bit when the old lady looked confused at what Ruby had just told her. "Come on Ruby, let's head inside."

He opened the door where Ruby peeked and became shell-shocked, she never thought of such a home for her. "My house?"

"That's right."

She found it exciting like it was the start of a new game, she loved the homely furniture but found one thing in particular. "TV!"

Jaune found no problem with her wanting to watch television since they were home and there was no school for now. For Ruby, she just wanted a television all for herself since she found it crummy to share it all the time with the kids in the orphanage. "You can turn it on if you like."

It turned into a cartoon of a comical spy wearing half a burglar's mask, a brown raincoat and a top hat with a silenced pistol in his hand. The show was called. 'The adventure anime, Spy Wars!'

She pointed at the screen to the spy. "My favorite."

Summer was starting to see a connection on why alternate Ruby thought Jaune was so cool. "Oh so that's why she found Jaune so cool. Aww, she idolizes him!"

"C'mon! It's just because I want to help Jaune save the world!"

Ozpin chuckled. "It seems your protests have fallen on deaf ears, Miss Rose."

His look showed one of disbelief, he'd expect a girl to like peaceful ponies or barbie dolls but spies. 'Of all the things...'

Her eyes brightened at the action of the protagonist of the anime shooting baddies with his special weapon, the silenced pistol. "So cool!"

He breathed a sigh of relief as he sat down. 'First I'll need to stock up on daily necessities. Plus I need to forge her ID and make sure my story sticks to the account of her being my daughter.'

He stood up and was walking to the door which alarmed that her new parent was leaving her. "I'm heading out now. Be a good girl and continue watching your show."

Ruby panicked, she had heard of tales from the other kids of the orphanage. Those tales where the parent would tell the child he or she was going to be gone for fifteen minutes, going to the store, or telling them to sit there and watch TV. It all ended in the same way, the parent was never seen again like a black man's father.

"That's too-"

"Too true." Raven ignored the glares from the others from interrupting Weiss' dialogue midway. She simply shrugged her shoulders. "What? It's kind of true."

She bounced and landed on his leg to hold it like a facehugger. She didn't want to have her chance for adventure and action to go away so soon. Also maybe he might be doing his mission which will be exciting! "Adventure! Adventure!"

Audience started laughing again due to Jaune's reaction to her energetic response to Jaune leaving. Tai had memories of a smaller Ruby who was like that whenever he tried to buy groceries especially after Summer left. "I'm having problems seeing the differences with our Ruby and that Ruby."

His younger daughter simply pouted at being once again thought of as childish. Emerald was aggravated at seeing an orphan like her getting a better life… actually this relationship was starting to look like-

"Kinda looks like you with Cinder-"

"No, it doesn't!" Emerald protested since she knew she wasn't that much of an attention seeker towards the one that saved her from the streets. Even if she knew that love was fake, at least it was better than none.

She squeezed even harder when he tried to kick her off. "What adventure?! It's not even one, I'm just going shopping!"

They both were walking at the market with Ruby excitedly taking in everything. But there was only one she wanted more than food. "I wanna silenced pistol."

"So even alternate Ruby is a weapon nut." Qrow's remark met a retort from Ruby who said something like 'She just saw the light!'

"Fine, fine. If there's one for sale." Jaune didn't care much about what she wanted because he focused solely on his plans for the mission. 'The essence of a spy is to be completely "ordinary," to not stand out even in the slightest. I must become indistinguishable from your average father!'

"AAAAAAAH PAA!" She exclaimed when she noticed she was far away from Jaune but was easily helped by a woman who carried her to the spy. "C'mon dear, when you're small you've gotta hold tight onto Daddy's hand, okay?"

An awkward silence descended onto the two until he decided to hold her hand with his left. He went into thinking about this new development, now knowing he had to hold his 'daughter's' hand when walking. 'I can't defend myself from an enemy attack with one hand occupied… but if I must.'

She was shocked with what she just heard her father think. 'Enemy! It must mean he's in trouble!'

She let go of his hand which confused him, she then looked to her left and right before scurrying away to hide under a table. "...What are you doing?"

"Caution."

"Who knew mind reading could have such complications?" Glynda surmised based on Ruby and Jaune's reaction.

Ozpin shrugged his shoulders. "It comes with using and trying to master one's semblance in combat."

He was utterly bewildered by her actions, all he did was hold her hand so that she wouldn't worry about where he was. 'Does she hate me? Did I do something to put her on guard? Was it too soon to hold her hand? This is bad. I need to stay on good terms with her until the mission is complete.'

What he didn't know was that she was reading his thoughts loud and clear. 'I just don't understand this… creature! This is diplomacy! The first step to world peace is to understand the other party!'

She was dismayed since her eyes widened from that truth. 'Learning about me… is for world peace!' She then approached him. "I like peanuts! I hate carrots!"

The audience laughed again from the very innocent answer since she understood Jaune's thoughts very literally. Ruby pouted since her other self was being mocked. "Hey! It's for world peace!"

"?" Seeing his doubt from what she was doing, she tried to show off her intelligence. She looked at the store with bread and pointed at it. "Back-carry… I wanna be carried..."

He stared at her and with a flat look just stated. "That's not what 'Bakery' means."

Mercury cackled. "Looks like she'll be brought back to the orphanage."

Coco smirked. "I think the crossword can only fool a spy for so long. She needs a hail mary attempt to convince him that she's ready for that academy."

She flushed in embarrassment and entered a general store where she got a poster of her favorite show. She then placed the payment on the counter. 'This is gonna show him.'

He just answered. "How are you going to pay 1 Lien with only 10 cents."

She flustered in embarrassment since he was the one who had to pay for it. He then cupped his chin and stared long and hard at Ruby's actions. 'Is she actually stupid? Was I misled by the crossword results? Hmm… there's still time. Maybe I should go back and replace her with another-'

She started to sob and shout. "NOOOO! DON'T THROW ME AWAY!"

Tai nodded as he saw the direction Jaune's thoughts were headed. "Amazing technique! Now he has no way of rejecting my little girl."

Jaune sweat dropped from the blonde's statement. "I'm pretty sure he'll have more incentive to throw her away-"

"Nope. Because he doesn't want others to follow his movements. If he gives back Ruby then he'd have to come up with a more convoluted backstory filled with holes."

It put a stop to his thoughts as he then noticed that everyone's eyes were on him. Their glares and heated whispers were along the lines of 'What a cruel father.'

"What's gotten into you all of a sudden?!" He panicked when he noticed that he was drawing more attention due to her outburst. But she relented, "I'm a good bargain!"

The audience started laughing again due to her desperate antics to remain in Jaune's good graces. The Creator voiced out. "This show is just overwhelming in its cuteness."

"That's because of me!"

"No." Weiss' retort sucked the life out of Ruby's impression of her impact on this particular scenario.

He managed to placate her when he reached in the groceries and found a bag of peanuts since she liked them. "Here, I bought you some peanuts, so stop crying already."

Her mood instantly got better as her eyes shone with want for the bag of peanuts. "Peanuts!"

He then turned his back to her when she just said. "I'm sleepy, Pa… can't walk..."

"Huh?!"

She was fast asleep while gripping his suit, one arm carried Ruby while the other was holding onto the groceries for later. His face simply told the story of seeing 'Nam. 'It's no use. I can't understand her.'

Qrow agreed with Spy Jaune's sentiments. "I still can't understand her, till this day."

Yang nodded. "I can't do it also. I don't know where the cookie and weapon addiction came from… I thought I was doing a good job."

"Stop mocking me!"

He then noticed the public library and walked there. 'I'll need a manual to decipher her illogical behavior.'

While carrying Ruby in one arm to which the librarian found it cute. Jaune placed his request. "I need everything you have on books and guides to raising a child."

Back home, he had laid the stack of books and guides on the table and begun reading them. He had also placed Ruby on her bed to sleep and kept her door open so that she could easily go to him with whatever she needed.

"The foundation of raising a child is trust." He read in one guide to raising kids. "Try to stop behavior rather than scolding. See things from the child's perspective. Try to keep in mind that children can find it difficult to verbalize their own feelings. No interrogations then if they can't tell me the answers."

He flipped through all the books and immediately understood what they were all trying to say. Which just made the mission even more daunting. 'Is every parent in the world really taking on such a difficult mission?!'

Tai looked at Raven who simply brushed his looks aside. She then answered. "What? She looks alright. I'm not the only one who abandons being a parent, look at the Schnees."

Winter coughed a bit in embarrassment. "Well… she's not wrong."

"For the sake of their future, try to raise them with confidence. So they'll need to learn to think for themselves in the future..."

He then dropped the book as he stared at the still asleep Ruby and sighed. 'Ridiculous. She'll be returning to the orphanage when the mission is over anyway. That's the extent of our relationship.'

Pyrrha winced. "That's cold."

Blake simply stated. "He's a spy, he's only supposed to be focused on his mission's success. It is for his country's well being."

A new day started with the complaints of a child. "NO! NOOO!" In the home of the Arc family, Jaune was holding a study guide on Atlas Academy's entrance exam in order for Ruby to get into the school. However, Ruby opposed this action. "I hate study time."

"I need to judge your academic abilities for the test."

She looked at him with newfound strength in her capabilities. "I don't need to study for the test! I can just read everyone's..." 'Minds.'

He responded in kind with a glare. "You plan to get by with pure cunning then? Now listen here, if you don't pass this test I'll..." 'Fail the mission.'

Jaune frowned at his other self's treatment of Ruby. "He just can't force her to study."

His partner gave a come back. "Well any parent would strive to have their child become successful even if the motive is not that great."

The 'father' growled while the 'daughter' had her mouth open in surprise. He then quickly took his hat and coat to announce. "Whatever, I'm heading out."

He then pointed at her. "And you're not coming today! No way, no how! Just watch the house."

He then slammed the door shut while she was stuck in frozen silence, this state only lasted about three seconds. She then sneaked to the door and opened it gently and then peeked out to see Jaune look back since he noticed her attempt. "Hey!"

He then tossed her back in and shouted. "I said no! And it's dangerous out there!"

He grunted by walking briskly when he turned around and Ruby was hiding behind a storage cabinet in the hallway of the building. "Hey! Don't think I can't see you over there!"

He then pointed at her when she even hid on the stairs and above the ventilation. Ruby just found this new game exciting. 'Pa's so good at finding me! This is really fun!'

Juniper chuckled at the game they were playing. "How cute. She's truly making his life feel like a living hell."

"So… that's why you were late?" A rather stubby looking man just stared at Jaune who was sweating profusely but overall was proud of what he had accomplished to stop Ruby from following him.

"In the end I was able to barricade the entrance and trap her in." He had tiredly grabbed a large cabinet and blocked the door so that Ruby had no chance of getting out. His associate easily stated. "Let's just hope no one reported you for child abuse."

"He didn't have to go that far."

"Well she wouldn't listen, frankly, he should have used the kitchen sink too." Qrow remarked remembering the times he had to babysit.

Jaune crossed his arms under his chest, this mission was grating on his nerves. "I just can't understand children. It's so irritating how they think they can get anything they want by just crying."

"Crying is like their job, Twilight."

The informant gave him an envelope with the Atlas Academy's logo printed on it. "Here's what you asked for. An application form for the exam, and the question sheet."

Cinder smirked on Spy Jaune's plans. "Ah, so he realizes he cannot teach the brat. Therefore, he will simply have her memorize the exam's answers."

Jaune pouted. "That could have helped me if Initiation was a written test."

Ozpin chuckled. "Thank Oum, that I invested in the cannon."

He pocketed the cheat sheet into his chest pocket. "Thanks Frankie, you're a lifesaver."

"It wasn't so easy to get my hands on that, you know."

"I know. No matter how dumb the kid is, she'll manage if I get her to memorize the answers here."

Frankie gave Jaune a folder that had Ruby's picture on it. "Oh, right, speaking of the kid. I fished up all the past records the orphanage didn't have. No records of her birth, age and parentage are both unknown. What we do know is that in just this past year… she's gone through four foster homes and two different institutions. Ruby Williams, Ruby Levski, Ruby Roche..."

'Is she some sort of problem child? Is that why she doesn't listen to me?'

Nora cupped her chin and stared at Ren. "Huh, would 'ya look at that Renny. Other Ruby was kinda like us."

Ren gave a soft smile. "Except we didn't get adopted around that much."

He glared when Frankie smiled at him. "With all those different names, don't you think you two make a good match? Like father, like daughter."

His look didn't stop as Frankie stated. "C'mon it was a joke. Don't give me that look."

"I'm not. Thanks for the tip." He then left Frankie's shop as the informant himself sighed and said to himself. "Geez, I just don't understand spies."

Meanwhile, Ruby had her arms stretched to hold the imaginary sky as her eyes told the entire story of what she was experiencing. '... Boring!'

Summer giggled despite her daughter's protests about being mature. "It's ok my cookie monster. Children are supposed to be like that."

She then looked at the poster that Jaune bought for her. Her image of what a spy should do was all based on her favorite show. 'Spies aren't like what I thought… I wanna recover a bomb.'

She remembered last night where Jaune had locked his room where all of his spy gear was stashed. What he didn't plan for was for an esper to read his mind on what the password for the lock was. She smiled as she started to enact her plan. 'The combination is 6100.'

"I don't think even the best spy in all of Vale can account for a mind reader." Mercury commented to which Cinder smirked.

"I believe he doesn't even believe that they exist."

She entered the room and looked throughout his closet for the silenced pistol or the gun, what she found were weird gadgets that she couldn't think what the usage of it was. She then managed to find a briefcase that when opened revealed a secret communicator. 'I can send messages!'

So she hummed while poking on the various doohickeys on the machine. However the message and signal was picked up by Edgar and his goons. His henchmen said. "Boss, we're picking up a signal. It says 'This… is… Twilight'."

"TWILIGHT?! What is the bastard saying?"

"Tag… you...re it."

The corrupt official seethed in rage over being humiliated twice as he shouted. "Trace the signal! Hurry! We have to kill that son of a bitch!"

"Uh oh! Other me's in danger."

Her partner on the other hand sighed. "And usually someone who'd do this kind of stuff to get into trouble is Blake-"

"Excuse me!"

Ruby wiped the sweat of her forehead, she was satisfied with what she did. She then realized she made a mess over his room with his gadgets everywhere. She immediately thought about what her 'father' would say while holding a gun. 'You bastard… Now that you know I'm a spy, I have to erase you.'

An immediate response was to place everything inside the briefcase where the communicator was. She then stopped as she looked at a hidden camera. "I... can't let him find out either. That I'm an esper."

Nora commented. "Huh? Why'd someone do that? If I had mind reading powers, I'd announce it to the entire world."

Ironwood threw in his sentiments. "It's probably what she was told in the interests of national security or world peace."

Winter was shocked. "Sir, what do you-"

'Ruby, you can never talk about this power with everyone.'

A younger version of Ruby was looking at the three scientists in charge of her development on being a better esper. The one with glasses and a slicked back style of black hair announced. 'It's study time, Ruby.'

'But I wanna draw-'

The scientist retorted with a harsh glare of her desires. 'There's no need for such childish pursuits. We need your power for the sake of world peace.'

She started crying not because of not being allowed to draw but remembering the pain from doing her study time which was training. She was only 3 years old, the tears began raining down when they shouted at her. 'Stop crying! You don't have time for that. Now stop playing around and study or else-'

"So I was an experiment?" Ruby asked as others looked at the Creator for an answer. The deity was going to but he was interrupted by the other divine being who up to this point had said absolutely nothing.

Others actually forgot her existence since her seat was farther than anyone. "Fufu, an experiment? More like a project my dear. Your other self was simply made for the fictional Atlas as a way to create their own version of peace."

The Creator grumbled as others were looking at the elegant woman simply smoking from a sophisticated looking pipe. She simply chuckled at all the attention she was getting. "Don't mind me, just pay attention to the story."

Juniper's eyes widened as her mouth opened and closed wildly like a goldfish gulping for air. It was fear in that moment when looking at her. Ozpin was astonished, he had never seen Salem react like this. 'She's dangerous.'

'She' looked at Ozpin and chuckled. "My, my, any more looking at me mister may cause your ex to get angry at you."

Ozpin's teeth gritted as Juniper sat down while trying not to have a panic attack. Meanwhile the Creator was angry at the Void for stealing his moment. 'What is she thinking?!'

Jaune got back after buying more groceries, luckily he got a cab to bring him back to the apartment. "She hasn't made a mess hasn't she?"

He noticed that the barrier he had placed in the front door of the house remained unmoved. He then realized he was going to have to move it back. "... Oh, right. Well if she hasn't moved-"

His eyes stared at the ground in front of him, he noticed half impressions of footprints along with light skid marks that coincide with the large cabinet he used. He moved the barrier and opened the door, behind it was a henchman who wielded a bat.

On impulse, Jaune's partner shouted a warning. "Watch out!"

"I don't think he can hear you P-money. Besides, I think he knows there are bad guys at his place because of the footprints."

He took a step inside and quickly ducked under the potentially killing blow, an open palm strike delivered to the jaw disorientated his would-be assassin. His friend came in firing a silenced pistol to which he rolled quickly to the table. The bullets hit the bag of groceries, the other henchman was about to fire on Jaune when his nose received a can of sardines.

Definitely broken, he took three seconds to hold his nose in pain and lowered the gun. It was all the time Jaune needed to grab a nearby chair and smashed it on the dude's head. When the one holding the bat was coming to since he had his fingers on the weapon, a swift kick to the temple knocked him out. He looked around for more enemies but found no signs of reinforcements. "... Who are these guys?!"

Ren was astounded. "Amazing… he came up with a battle plan so quickly just from the footprints. That kind of training is unheard of."

Cinder smirked. "What incredible talent. Truly an amazing ally if it was real."

Jaune pouted. "This guy is making me look bad."

Pyrrha retorted as she looked at her partner. "How? Jaune you mastered a technique that another version of yourself could only do."

He rushed to Ruby's room and found her not in it. The entire home was a mess which showed that many were trying to find something in his place. 'Don't tell me she got kidnapped?! By more of these thugs? But why? Dammit, I need to find her!'

He exhaled in order to bring some order to his chaotic thoughts. 'Calm down. Judging by the situation, the enemy either knows I'm a spy or discovered it. I need to go into hiding immediately, or I'm in danger. As for Ruby… there are plenty of other kids. I'll cut my losses and start over.'

"Don't leave me! I swear I'm a bargain!" Ruby yelled since she didn't want to be kidnapped and to be seen again.

"Hate to break it to you Rubes, it doesn't look like Jaune's gonna come to save you."

Ruby fought against her sister's perception. "What do you mean?! Of course he will because he's Jaune!"

"Um… even I have my doubts about my Spy self trying to save you."

The man with the bat woke up and was swinging said weapon towards the back of an unaware Jaune. A thunderous whack was heard and darkness claiming someone's vision.

"So… what's with the brat." Edgar and his other henchmen were in an abandoned building while Ruby was tied up and gagged with tape. Her body was placed in a small shopping cart and she was truly scared. "Ababababababa-"

"Don't tell me she's Twilight's" One of his henchmen replied. "We don't know, but she was in the apartment the transition came from, so we grabbed her just in case."

Ruby realized why she was in this position in the first place, these must be bad guys looking for Jaune. 'It's cuz of the transmission?!'

The henchman continued to explain the events during the raid on Twilight's home. "There was also a barricade outside the door."

"Outside? Why would Twilight even decide to barricade his own home?!"

"We don't know."

Edgar then glared at a nervous bound Ruby with a sneer apparent on his face. "I guess it doesn't matter. If she turns out to have value as a hostage, we can use her as a shield. We'll force Twilight to take the photos of the Minister of Foreign Affairs' wig himself."

One of his younger henchmen simply asked. "Boss… isn't it time we just gave up on the wig?"

Velvet spoke. "That is true. Couldn't that politician just blackmail him in other ways?"

"Hm?" Edgar coldly shot the henchman in the face with no remorse. He smiled when noticing the despair riddled faces of the others. "Hmmm… Honesty's important in politics. Wigs are no good."

"That guy is really evil! He just killed his ally for no good reason!" Ruby shouted out.

Summer gave a soft frown. "There are people in this world who are like that Ruby. The world of crime is very, very dangerous for everyone to be involved in."

Ruby's face paled when that one guy got shot in front of her with a silenced pistol. 'Those are scary!'

He then lit up a cigarette and gritted his teeth. "Plus, the minister's secretly backing the west. That's treason. And anyone who covers up for treason is committing treason too."

Ruby read Edgar's mind and it caused a headache since most of his thoughts were just angry ramblings like 'If she moves… she's dead! Makes me wanna puke… leave to die… the truth… kill kill kill… true face… damned Valeans!'.

She concluded that he was- 'A real bad guy!'

A van screeched to a halt outside of the building, the henchmen instantly knew it as the one that the others used to ambush Twilight at his place. "Boss! Nguyen and the rest of the boys we left at the house are back!"

Twilight was bagged and gagged as he struggled to escape, Nguyen had tossed him to the ground. Edgar was happy. "Boss. We caught a man."

"Good work."

All the other henchmen except Nguyen who wobbled in pain walked closer to Twilight. Ruby's eyes widened when she saw Nguyen and simply stared at him. Edgar squatted and removed the bag over Twilight's head slowly. "Now then, Twilight… How about you return those photos you stole?"

"NGUYEN!"

"Wait… that means Jaune is here to save me!" Ruby's eyes brightened with joy.

Weiss was perplexed. "Surely one who is more focused on his mission would abandon Ruby and try again."

"Hey! He made the right choice!"

The real henchman was trying to say something through the gag but simply signalled with his eyes to look at the shopping cart. They all followed and found no one there which meant- "He got us again!"

Fake Nguyen dashed towards the nearest exit of this abandoned supermarket, his teeth gritted on the obvious betrayal of his instincts on being a spy. 'Shi- This was a mistake. Taking a risk like this, even strolling into enemy territory...'

'I'm a disgrace of a spy.' His fist clenched in clear anger as Ruby sniffled in sadness after hearing her 'father's' thoughts on this particularly dangerous action for him. 'Pa...'

Jaune was confused by his other's actions. "I still don't get why he'd try to save Ruby if it gets him in trouble with his whole gig as a spy."

Glynda guessed based on his impromptu action. "Perhaps there is still some good in Mr. Arc despite his act."

"CHIBYAAAAAAA!" Ruby started bawling out which shocked Jaune but he then realized he was still wearing the mask of one of her kidnappers. Of course she would have thought he was a bad guy and tried to placate the situation as best he can.

"Whoa?! It's okay, I won't hurt you! No need to be scared!" Instead she cried even more and even held onto his shirt.

"WAAAAAHHHH! CHIBUUUAAAAA!" His glower deepened especially when Ruby held on, it got a bit damp but it still bothered him. Then he remembered something he deeply repressed when he became a spy.

'... This is why I hate brats.'

"Ooooohhh, backstory time! Looks like Spy Jauney is gonna reveal why he became a spy and why he doesn't like kids." Nora enthusiastically said.

Coco grinned. "Looks like it. It's always like this in these kinds of scenarios."

'I think I just realized why children crying pisses me off.'

A younger Jaune was crying hysterically in the middle of a destroyed road. Buildings were completely desolated or totalled, non-functioning tanks laid out on the streets. Bodies were found everywhere either shot or buried under the rubble, however the blonde stood there helpless and cried after the death of his family.

'Because it reminds me of my childhood. The isolation and despair from no one reaching out to me. The powerlessness of being able to do nothing but cry.' He now walked upon reaching the exit and placed Ruby down softly so that she could stand on the ground. 'I thought I'd thrown it away, but it looks like my past self has been unconsciously tagging along, huh? No, that's not important right now.'

"My other self has been through a lot..." Jaune was horrified at the aspect of losing his entire family at such a young age. 'No wonder he dedicated so much to being a spy.'

The Creator chuckled. "I bet anyone would want to save their country for such a personal reason."

He kneeled down and got a piece of paper and scribbled down information and instructions for Ruby to follow. "Now look here, little girl."

"Ruby!"

"Now look here Ruby. We're actually a team of pro tag players. And when we find someone with talent, we like to challenge 'em to a surprise match."

He carefully explained but Ruby didn't need to know that he was crafting an allibi. 'Pa's a liar...'

"Of all the possible stories he can make to get my little girl out of there… professional tag players?"

Summer giggled. "I can't blame him, he didn't have much time."

He pointed to the straight road with a left corner. "Now listen up. If you head straight down this road, turn right, and keep walking, you'll find a police station. If you can find a police officer there, then hand them this and you win. Easy enough right, got it?"

He gave her the note. 'When they see this, they should be able to find her a better orphanage. I'll rework the Plan and come up with a method that doesn't rely on a kid.'

Ruby's fears of being abandoned resurfaced and she was about to protest "Pa-"

"Now go! Quickly!" But she decided to play along because she trusted him that he would make the bad guys disappear because he's a spy.

He saw her run as fast as she can through the road. '... A disgrace of a spy? No… My mistake was getting that kid wrapped up in all this danger. Now I remember-'

He turned back to the direction of the abandoned supermarket, Ruby turned around to see that he scraped off the mask of 'Nguyen.' She had heard his thoughts to fight the bad guys but she also wanted to listen to his 'true self.'

'I wanted to create a… where kids wouldn't have to cry.' He then tossed the destroyed mask outside. 'That's why I became a spy.'

"That's so cool!" Ruby's remark gave some members of the audience respite that Jaune was still a good guy. He just hid it under the mask of a spy.

Her eyes widened in happiness, he was just hiding it under a cold exterior that he cared for her. 'Go get 'em Papa!'

Same people then crooned at little Ruby's response, it was just too cute to resist. A cuteness overload if you will as even Yang hugged her little sister in response. "If only you were more like that with me… then I'd have no problem with your cookie and weapon addiction."

Edgar and his henchman ran in near guns blazing searching for Twilight who could have hidden from any corner. The politician shouted in rage. "Don't let that bastard get away! Find that idiot and drag him out!"

One goon had tripped on a wire trap as the entire area became surrounded with white smoke. They then tensed up as if the boogeyman was coming to get them. The material got into their lungs as they started coughing but Jaune did not give them any respite.

One henchman was knocked out as his head bounced on the floor which surprised the others. Another held a gun but knew if he shot then he could hit anyone. "I'm gonna-"

"Did you think I'd let small fries like you catch a glimpse of my shadow?" Other groans of pain and the breaking of bones were heard around Edgar, by the time the flour had cleared up, all of his goons were on the ground unresponsive.

"Hey! Are you kidding me?!"

"Huh? Who knew Spy Sex God was kinda awesome and scary to fight against?" Mercury added as everyone saw Spy Jaune take out all of Edgar's goons.

Yang pouted in disappointment. "That kinda sucks, I wanted to see a fight."

Blake merely pointed out. "Spy Jaune isn't going to fight like you, Yang. He wants the element of surprise when dealing with enemies and he'll use whatever advantage he can come acrosst."

A crunch was heard and Edgar's face paled when he felt the odd metallic shape of a cylinder pressed to the back of his head. A click of the safety going off caused him to nearly piss his pants. An irate Twilight was behind him and his finger was on the trigger, one wrong move and his brains were going to decorate this abandoned building.

"Turn around and I'll kill you."

The amount of killing intent made all the students shiver, they'd never felt that in their lives despite fighting Grimm. Qrow smirked. "Looks like he ain't kidding around anymore."

He stopped his eyes from trying to look behind at the true face of Twilight, he couldn't say anything except for the spy's code name. Jaune instead decided to begin the conversation. "Hello Edgar. Or should I say, good evening? How's Karen?"

Edgar's face became even paler at the mention of his wonderful daughter. "How-"

"Of course I know it. I'm a spy. That's my job. I know everything about her, from her height, weight, shoe size, and favorite food, to how many moles she has on her body. And while they're compared to you they're almost cute, she's also committed a number of crimes."

"Stalker."

"No, he's a spy, Coco. Get your facts right. She was part of the mission so of course he had to know everything about her."

"... Chill bun bun."

"Don't be stupid! She wouldn't-"

"Edgar!"

A single utterance of his name had stopped the retort from the corrupt politician as he once again realized the gravity of the situation. "I also know just how much you care about her. So listen closely."

He inhaled as the gun pressed even more onto Edgar's head. "If you want her to have anything close to a normal life… then don't mess with me ever again. If you understand, then get outta here."

He left the building while carrying his jacket in his hand, he then noticed Ruby squatting down on the sidewalk playing with a colony of ants with her finger. "Ruby!"

"Aww, she stayed!" Summer crooned, even if she wasn't with her baby. It warmed her heart to see Ruby being part of a family that loved her. She could tell that alternate Ruby was getting to alternate Jaune's professional and unfeeling heart.

"Pa!" She ran to him and immediately glomped on his leg, her tight hold shocked him. "PAAA!"

He thought she would have just decided to leave to go back to the orphanage. She did get kidnapped. "Why are you still- I mean what are you doing outside of the house?"

Pyrrha placed a fist on her open palm, it was like a Eureka moment had happened. "So that's why he wanted to not involve Ruby in his plan against Atlas."

Jaune smiled. "Well that's why he wanted to be a spy. To make a world where children didn't have to cry."

She calmly explained her situation to him. "I was playing tag with some old men."

"I… see. Did you have fun? But it's still dangerous for you to do that." He came to the epiphany that he had to explain why he was there. "But man, I just happened to come down here for the shopping, but it looks like it's been boarded up, huh?"

'Pa's a big fat liar.'

She squeezed on his leg. "... It was kinda scary. I wanna go home. Our home, Pa."

This had silenced Jaune as he carefully looked at Ruby. "... Is that… alright?"

"If you leave me I'm gonna cry." He then remembered what Frankie had told him about Ruby's past in being adopted.

"I see. Then let's go home." He patted her head softly twice, she blushed in happiness because even his own thoughts revealed that he wanted her to stay. They both got into a cable car and Jaune had discussed moving to another home because he wanted to find a new hideout because it still might be compromised even if he threatened Edgar.

Tai smiled. "I definitely approve, his fathering is like a diamond in the rough. Sooner or later he will reach my level."

"Any kid would not like their parents to be like you." Qrow's remark made his blonde teammate grit his teeth in annoyance. For the blonde big bear, no one would understand how he felt about raising his kids. It was all he had left.

"There's a dangerous snake I found living inside our home yesterday. It's time to move to another one, are you alright with that?"

"Hate snakes." She smiled knowing what he was really thinking about again. 'Pa's a big fat liar. But… a cool liar!'

"I wanna live in a castle." She enthusiastically gave her proposed place of living.

"Boy does she aim big."

"I don't think Lover Boy would-"

He chuckled and patted her head again. "If there's one for sale."

"Never mind, I forgot this was Jaune we were talking about." Yang had to eat her previous statement, who'd be that serious about buying a castle for a home.

Juniper felt that someone was talking shit about her behind her back, that person would rue the day of not being able to understand how important a castle is for a person.

"When we find a new home, you're gonna have to study."

"Muah?!"

"This time you'll just have to look at the answers and memorize them."

"Cool!"

In one of the buildings that holds entrance examinations of Atlas Academy as Ruby was taking the exam with kids her age. She heard Pa telling her that she can do it, it hit her even harder especially when she got stuck at the Mental Abuse Towards Humans part.

She instinctively used her powers to read the minds of the others but all she got were kids in varying degrees of despair. But all she got unraveled her confidence. 'It's so hard!' 'I don't get it at all!' 'Eeny meeny miney mo-' 'Mommy!'

She started sweating since none were thinking of the answers but then she remembered how hard Jaune made her memorize the answers. With renewed faith, she decided to follow her gut.

A week later, the pair arrived at Atlas Academy to see if Ruby's number was included in those who passed the entrance exam. "K-212… K-212"

Jaune's eyes brightened, they shone with such happiness that was missing when he became a spy. He pulled Ruby to his arms and lifted her up with enthusiasm. "You passed! You're amazing!"

"I'm amazing?"

"You're great! You're so amazing! Ama-?" He wobbled backwards and fell unceremoniously on the ground.

"Pa?"

Qrow chuckled. "Haven't seen that kind of a reaction ever since Ruby killed her first Grimm. Young Tai over there was so wrapped up in worry that when the danger was over he collapsed on the spot."

"I don't know if he was worried for Ruby or for his mission?" Velvet asked.

Jaune answered. "Why can't it be both?"

His soul had just left his body, his tired and sunken eyes looked at the sky, his shock at his state. Ruby on the other hand was trying to make Jaune stand back up. "Don't leave me behiiinddd!"

'As soon as I relaxed, all the fatigue caught up with me at once… Wait, relaxed…? Me? Twilight?' Back in their new home, Jaune was now dead tired on the couch, his loud snores echoed in the living room. While Ruby was sniffling at what had just occurred. "... Pa died..."

Blake chuckled. "Well he does look like a corpse washed on the beach."

Ruby laughed. "It doesn't help that he's foaming at the mouth."

"Delivery!"

Anya opened the door to find a friendly mailman with an envelope from Atlas Academy on his hand. "Hello, is this the Arc residence?"

"I'm Ruby Arc."

"Alright, could you give this to your mom and dad?"

"I have no Ma."

The straight forward response made the mailman feel uncomfortable at possibly bringing back bad memories. "?! Oh… sorry… um- have a good day..."

She then brisk walked to the asleep Jaune. "Pa! The mail came." She knew how it was important to see the response of Atlas Academy since it was important to the mission. She tried to hit him with the envelope but the super spy was still asleep, she then noticed her chance.

She rustled in between Jaune and then closed her eyes while cuddling his arm. This was the most warmth she felt in her life and she didn't want to let go of this state.

"Awww, that's so adorable!" Said most of the female audience that didn't include Cinder and Juniper.

However, Jaune's reflexes kicked in as she fell off the cough with him sitting up. "UWAH?! Are you after my life?!"

He then sat on the couch and realized something incredible happened. 'How could I fall asleep in front of someone else?! This is bad. I need to get a grip!'

"Pa! The mail!"

He took the envelope from her hands and tore it open. "Mail? From Eden Academy?"

He quickly read the information in the letter, he quickly froze since Ruby noticed that he wasn't even thinking anymore. "What's wrong, Pa?"

He glared at the information and read it aloud. "... Information about the secondary exam. This will certainly show if you will be in Atlas Academy. The three person interview. The child must attend with both parents. No exceptions will be made, entering with only one will cause an automatic failure."

She stared at her father in shock. "... There is no ma."

The audience laughed at her very straightforward response to their situation. Even Ruby wondered. "How's Jaune gonna find a mother?"

The father-daughter duo were now staring at heavy maked-up and crossdressing Frankie in order to become the pseudo-mother. After close examination, the silence was broken by Jaune. "It's no good."

Followed by Ruby's one-two. "I don't want this ma."

"Looks like it'll be impossible for you to play the mother, Frankie."

While the others laughed at the attempt of crossdressing to create a fictional mother. Emerald grumbled. "For a super spy, he sure is bad with disguises for other people."

Coco tried to remove the horrible sense of fashion from her mind. "Maybe it only works for him."

Frankie was outraged, he worked hard to get into this emasculating get-up. "With your skills, couldn't you have made me a better disguise?! C'mon, seriously?!"

Jaune gave a tired filled sigh. "There are limits to working around your height and figure."

The informant stomped in anger whilst mumbling that Jaune didn't care how much he really cared about his effort. Ruby tried to pacify him with a snack from her bag of peanuts. "Have a peanut."

Jaune was on the couch thinking very hard on how to progress Operation STRIX despite this hurdle. 'The Atlas politician, Marcus Black, is plotting war, and the Valean Intelligence Bureau has given me a top secret mission to stop him. To do so, I was assigned to infiltrate the prestigious Atlas Academy. He'd managed to clear their entrance exam, but who could have predicted that the entrance interview would require both a mother and a father?'

He sighed since there wasn't any other way or plan to complete the interview. "... Oh well. I guess I'll have to get married."

Jaune was confused, if it was him he'd be excited and anxious about trying to find a woman to settle down with. But his alternate self looked at it like an annoying chore. "What's so troublesome about that?"

Qrow simply said. "You'll get an arrow to the knee or a ball and chain wrapped around your neck."

Summer giggled. "Perhaps your alternate self feels like it will be a problem for his identity and his mission."

In the city hall, three female workers were gossiping about what was going around in their country. A long haired blonde commented about an incident that happened yesterday in the city hall. "Did you hear? A burglar snuck into the office. And, like the only thing he touched was the shelf where we keep women's personal data. Isn't that gross? This guy's a total creep!"

One with brown hair and a pink bow responded with her own perspective. "Still not as creepy as our section chief. He was toooootally undressing me with his eyes this morning."

Another one who was smoking her cigarette had let her long black hair fall down to her shoulders after being stuck in a hair clip for so long. "You can blame your shirt skirt for that."

"WHAAAT?! But my boyfriend likes it! You've got a great figure too, Sharon! You've gotta show it off!"

Sharon basically ignored her coworker after exhaling smoke and inhaling it again. "Not when you have kids you don't."

Cinder grimaced. "Why are we listening to such inane prattle?"

Weiss nodded. "I agree, this feels like it serves no purpose."

The Creator shook his head. "You'll see in just a moment."

The blonde then looked at the other occupant in the break room for her opinion. "Hey, what about you? Isn't it like creepy? What do you think, Blake?"

Blake Belladonna, her long hair kept in a hairband, looked at the blonde since she didn't understand what was really being asked. "Yes?" She was currently pouring coffee into a small cup.

The blonde pouted but laughed at her answer, she then noticed that Blake was simply pouring coffee for their boss. "Kya ha ha! Is that the chief's coffee? Wanna put a booger in it."

The suggestion went over Blake's head. "Eh? I never knew. Does mucus make it taste better."

Yang chuckled. "I think I like my partner who sucks the life out of everything. Rather than the ditzy assassin."

Blake pouted. "I'm not... that bad."

The brunette and the blonde immediately were silenced due to Blake's question. They then started to chuckle at her 'reasoning.' The blonde decided to ask. "Blake… how do I put this… you're really... private, huh?"

"Eh? Is it bad?"

"I know what you mean, Camilla! It's like she's in her own little world! No man's ever coming near her!"

Blake growled at that airheaded brunette of a co-worker. 'No man is ever coming near me… If I really wanted I could use my assets to ensnare any man.'

However her teammates couldn't quite agree. Weiss nodded. "Yes, her standoffish way of trying to entice men can only work on those who are addicted to her."

The cat faunus growled. "Oh yeah! Name one."

Her peppy team leader happily supplied the answer. "You have Sun who's heads over heels for you and kind of stalks you. Then you have your ex who's really edgy and a leader of the White-"

"... Fine, you win."

Sharon reprimanded the brunette for her rather backhanded compliment. "Hey. Watch it, Millie."

Camilla continued with what Millie had just pointed out. "But you've got such a good baseline, Blake! If you were a little more fashionable, you could be like, totally popular!"

"Ha..."

Millie also added to what Camilla was talking about. "Oh, I know! I can recommend you some cosmetics!"

Blake decided to speak her mind. "Well, I don't really care, as long as it doesn't interfere with my work..."

"WHAAAT? But aren't you like, 27? You could be in trouble if you don't watch out."

Mercury spoke out. "Yeah, it is suspicious for someone that old and beautiful to have no luck being with someone. They could be a spin-"

Everyone except the two divine beings shivered at Glynda whose killing instinct magnified from what the cocky assassin had just said. "I have no time because I am overworked!"

A growl had escaped from her lips as Ozpin chuckled. "Glynda, the boy was not talking about you. But you placed yourself in a- GWOH!"

Ozpin found himself on the other side of the room, his poor body had crash landed due to someone's semblance flicking him like a wet paper bag. He slumped over, no one thought he was dead because of his body continuing to twitch. Glynda simply looked away and crossed her arms in contempt.

Blake didn't know Camilla's reveal about suspicion being placed on females around her age. "Seems like there are a lot of spies and stuff these days. So people are getting reported for the littlest things. Like, I hear that just the other day some lady around 30 years old got reported for living on her own. The neighbors just said she was 'suspicious!'"

James grunted in disapproval. "Why would Atlas even consider that as an enemy spy?"

Qrow laughed. "You're Atlas. Anyone who doesn't fit in the prim and proper or military category is an immediate suspect."

Millie laughed at what Camilla was reporting. "Seriously?! That's hilarious!"

Blake bowed to her co-workers because they shared this useful information, she didn't want to have to deal with the Atlesian Secret Police. "I see. Thank you for the warning."

Camilla then had an idea for her awkward co-worker. "Oh, I know! We're having a party at my place this weekend. You should come too, Blake. Just remember to bring a date with you."

Blake just listened to them talk about how they didn't think she could bring a date to the party. She didn't really mind it because it wasn't really needed. After her work, she returned to her simple home that she lived by herself. The telephone rang as she immediately answered it, she recognized the voice on the other side. "Oh, Adam?"

"Hey, sister. How've you been?"

The audience started laughing at the revelation of Adam being Blake's brother in this scenario. Team RWBY was getting a kick out of it except for Blake herself.

Her face turned into a combination of utter surprise and disgust, imagining her mentor slash ex-boyfriend as a brother was horrifying in the least. 'Good Brother… is he at least not those sister-loving types.'

She smiled, she missed her brother a lot. He was always busy working and not having enough time to visit. The worrywart always called her to make sure she was alright. "Oh, you know. I'm fine. And yes, I've been getting my work done properly too."

"I just worry about you, sister. You've always been a little weird."

"I-I'm normal! That's so rude!"

Yang interrupted with her own perspective. "Nope, she's not. She loves to eat tuna, hates dogs and is easily distracted by laser pointers."

She ducked several swipes from her partner who was very keen on defending herself that she wasn't following those racial stereotypes… it wasn't working.

"But… isn't it about time you settled down? Got married? Don't you know any nice men?"

She grimaced at hearing this topic again however it was now coming from her brother. It must mean that it is suspicious for her age to still be single in Atlas. It was unfair, she was just twenty six.

Adam continued. "Actually, there's been talk that I'm getting a promotion soon. Which could mean I'll be busier than ever with work. But I'm not so sure I want to accept it. The way you are, I just can't leave you alone. I only got this far thanks to everything you've ever done for me, Blake. I'm really grateful. So I just want you to be happy, you know?"

She smiled at his concern. "... I know. Thank you, Adam."

Blake smiled, this Adam might be a bit different even if he showed some of the real one's tendencies. "I like this version better."

Ruby giggled. "Don't tell that to him. He might"

"Would you like me to introduce you to someone?"

She was shocked that her brother would go that far. She didn't want her situation to be a burden on him. "What?! N-No, I'm fine! A-Actually, I'm going to a party this weekend! I'm bringing a date, of course!"

"WHAT?! Y-You have a boyfriend?!"

Coco chuckled. "Liar. She's just doing that so her bro doesn't freak out on how no one is getting with his amazing sister."

Velvet muttered. "I don't think it will go that far."

She stuttered through her answer, she realized it was an out-of-the-blue response since she never told her brother previously that she was in a 'relationship'. "Er… yes! Ah… ha… ha… So you don't need to worry alright?"

"I see… that's… wonderful. Is this your friends from work?"

She patted herself on the back, she was relieved he wouldn't ask anymore questions about her 'relationship'. "Yep, that's right."

"Then afterward I'll have to ask Dominic since he's dating one of your friends from work. I want to know what kind of man he is."

Jaune knew an oopsie when he heard and seen one, experiences dealing with older and younger sisters have taught him this. "Damn… Blake is screwed if she can't find someone."

Pyrrha smiled. "Jaune, I think by this point… It can be fairly guessed that she'll find you and you guys will hook up."

"How are you so sure?"

Pyrrha cupped her chin in thought. "Something of a running gag in these scenarios, so its to be expected."

"Huh?" Since when did Adam know about her friends from work relationships!

"You're too trusting, Blake. If he's no good for you, I'll have to chase him off." She tried to interrupt him but he continued. "I won't accept that promotion until I know you're with a nice guy."

Yang grinned. "Well even if he isn't in love with Kit Kat in that way. He still takes it too far with what a brother should do."

Penny's eyes widened in a sort of Eureka moment. "Spectacular! The depths of sibling love cannot be defined in such words. Would you do that, Friend Ruby?"

Ruby shook her head. "I honestly don't think I can reach that level."

This was too much for Adam to just drop on her, what happened to talking things out. "Oh no, you don't have to go that far for-"

"I can't wait to meet him! Goodnight, Blake!" She placed the phone into the receiver and instantly started to panic. 'What do I do?! I have to invite someone before the party!'

She paced the room back and forth to find the answer to her current problem. 'If he finds out I was lying, I'll go from a "little eccentric" to "a pathological liar" and he'll trust me even less! Not to mention his promotion! I need to find a nice man and-'

The phone rang again and she quickly brought it to her ear and shouted. "No, Adam, I was joking!"

"Oh? Did I interrupt a rare sibling quarrel?"

Blake was surprised to hear who was on the other end of the line. "AH?! Boss? Sorry I thought it was-"

"Good evening. A 'customer' needs your attention Thorn Princess." Her once meek disposition became very cold as she listened very carefully. "The Royal Hotel. Suite number 1307."

"Customer? Why such an expression for serving a customer's wants?" Penny asked.

The others got what sort of 'customer' was being referred to based on her rapid change in expression. Mercury grumbled. "Would have been better to switch it to target."

"Sorry, lady. This whole floor's been reserved. I'm afraid I might have to ask you to go back from where you came from." Two bodyguards were in the hallway as if they were guarding someone very important who was inside the door behind them.

The other bodyguard looked to another who had just entered by opening the one door. "Hey! Did anyone call for a woman?"

"Not that I know of."

"Um. Excuse me." The two bodyguards were stuck, frozen in time as they witnessed the woman pull out a long ice-pick. "I was told that this is where I could find the esteemed treasonous scum?"

Cinder was impressed, her choice of weapons could be used in her arsenal. 'It would be far easier to create dual ice-picks made out of dusts than regular swords. Also could double as a surprise weapon since everyone expects it to only be used for stabbing.'

Ruby had an excited grin on her face as she stared at Blake and the other Blake with the long ice-picks. The cat faunus immediately knew what this meant. "No."

The door exploded as two dead bodies with holes in their temples entered the room. The occupants were aghast, especially the target of this assassin. "What's going on?!"

The third bodyguard stumbled into the room while looking very pale. "An intruder! A single woman is- GRAH!"

He fell with three ice picks being lodged into his spine causing him to fall face first to the unforgiving floor. The clacking of heels alerted the others. "Excuse me. Brennan of the auditing board… correct?"

It was Blake but she was wearing a black gothic type dress with black leg-boots and in both of her hands contained her two weapons. "I'm terribly sorry… but-"

"I'll be taking your life if you don't mind."

She was now washing her hands on the sink, no assassin wanted to arouse the suspicion of the common people. The suite was the scene of a massacre with everyone having puncture wounds on their necks and heads. Codename Thorn Princess. Hailed as the greatest contract killer under Atlas, she'd been drilled in killing techniques since a young age. She's taken on one dirty job after another at the command of her employer.

Many were certainly impressed by her killing ability since the room she was in had many issues. There were about six men inside the room, all were armed and were presumably trained in combat however none of that mattered to Assassin Blake.

Right now she was pouting because the stains on her hands were difficult to remove, not only that her dress that she was eager to use in the party had been torn by one of the bodyguards. "What do I do? This was my only good dress. I can't go to the party like this. I need to have this fixed up as soon as possible."

Mercury sweat dropped at her concern. "Really… the only damage she got was her clothes. Man, those bodyguards must suck."

"Or she's really good in her occupation." Cinder gave her opinion, her fighting style had no wasted movement. Every single action she did against an opponent was for the purpose of killing.

She then looked at her handiwork and sighed. She remembered what her brother and friends just told her over the phone and at work respectively. 'Don't you know any nice men? Single? At that age? Just remember to bring a date!'

"... That is impossible. When it comes to housework… all I can do is clean up messes."

The next day, Ruby simply wanted to know one thing. "You can't find Ma."

"Hmm… it's a tricky matter."

She didn't want the option of having Frankie as a mother. "Am I gonna have Scruffy's girl?! I don't want that!"

On cue, Frankie opened the door, on his two arms was a stack of documents. "So you want a woman who's okay with child-raising divorcee… is elegant enough to seem upper class and is willing to legally marry you within the next forty eight hours?"

He then slammed the documents of all single women of Atlas that he got in city hall. "It wasn't that easy to get all this info ya' know. If a goddess like that even existed… I'd like to meet her myself. Can't even land a date for poor old Frankie."

"Man, my other's standards are really, really high."

Ren chuckled. "Well it's for the mission. But I think we know by now it's going to be Blake he's going to meet."

Nora cheered. "Yeah! We're not all gonna act surprised on who Jauney's gonna be in every show."

Before Jaune could thank Frankie for his work, he looked to his right and found Ruby staring at him. Half of her lower face was blocked by the couch, but her eyes showed him sadness. "Does… having kids make you unpopular? Am I… in the way, Pa?"

He rubbed her head gently. "No, you're not in the way. This is all to get you into school, remember? Now, don't worry about it and go watch some TV. Isn't your favorite show coming up?"

Tai smiled. "He's being sweeter nowadays towards my little girl."

His daughter immediately responded in a cheerful tone. "Of course he would! I'm too adorable to ignore!"

Yang snickered. "Here I thought you hated being typecast as the adorable, cute or little characters in these scenarios."

She hurried to the TV, she didn't want to miss her favorite cartoon. "Thanks Pa!"

When Ruby was too concentrated on her show, both Frankie and Jaune looked through the dossiers of the potential mothers. The scruffy man asked. "Actually… wouldn't it be easier if you used a female spy?"

He sighed since he remembered those particular missions in his career. "Because of all the spy hunting going on, a lot of them have been caught. And none of the suitable ones are left."

Frankie remembered how much of a witch hunt the Secret Police was doing nowadays in Atlas. "Oh, right. People are really into snitching on each other these days."

Winter smiled at the efficiency of the Secret Police in finding enemy agents. "It looks like Atlas is still incredible in its security."

"Quite so… I wonder how the more capable Jaune will handle finding a suitable mother."

He kept looking at the women but none could catch his eye especially for the requirements in Atlas Academy. "We're so short staffed that they've been sending other missions my way. Like more reconnaissance on possible moles and taking down a smuggling ring."

"Wow! That's unpaid overtime! What a sweatshop being a spy!"

"All the more reason to wrap up this quickly. The fastest way would be to find someone with "special circumstances" whose interests align with ours. I'd rather not take any unnecessary risks, if this was a normal mission then I'd forge one for the woman I choose."

Frankie pointed at Ruby who was fighting imaginary bad guys just like the spy in the cartoon. "If you ask me, that's risky enough already. She sure doesn't look like a girl from a good home to me."

His sweat dropped when Ruby cutely started to sing and dance to the show's ending. "Good point… I'll need to do something about her appearance."

"But why? I don't need to change a thing. Right, Weiss."

"... I give no further comment."

"What does that mean?!"

They visited a boutique in order for Ruby to have a more high-class appearance in terms of fashion. Ruby looked interested at the dresses, Jaune on the other hand was listing the trends he'd like to see his daughter wear. The seamstress then approached Ruby and asked. "Okay miss, please come here for the measurements."

Ruby looked scared as she turned her head to look at both Jaune and the older woman over and over again. She addressed her father with panic evident in her voice. "Are you selling me off?!"

The audience started laughing again at her preconceived notions of Jaune giving her away when the super spy was adamant of doing the opposite. Summer giggled. "He's not helping her disprove that notion."

Qrow smiled. "Because he wants the brat to behave."

He just nonchalantly stated. "Not if you're a good girl..." He then watched her get her measurements from both the seamstress and the store's owner. "Where does she learn these words?"

He noticed the three women who were working in the boutique, even if they were a bit farther away from what the naked eye can see in details. Being a spy meant he trained his vision to surpass certain limits. 'So the seamstress is already married, since her golden ring has not been damaged. The store owner was on the list… but she has a criminal record from political protests in her past. It's risky. Also she's a little old. Under ideal conditions, it could work if-'

His thoughts ceased when he felt a presence behind him and nearly jumped out in fright when he heard a feminine voice say. "Excuse me!"

People laughed at Jaune's exaggerated response to Blake's arrival where the assassin was able to sneak behind the spy. The cat patted herself on the back on the ability to even beat an alternate Jaune due to the fact that so far he was simply overpowered in his portrayals so far.

The old store owner's face brightened with joy while Jaune watched their conversation. "Oh, it's been a while Blake. I see your dress has a tear in it dear."

Blake nodded. "Yes I'd like for you to fix my dress. But can I ask you to hurry? I need it really soon."

'She got behind me so easily… Who is she…?' Jaune then tried to go down the list of names he had memorized about the single women in Atlas. 'Blake… Blake...'

'... She was on the list. Blake Belladonna. Age 27 with no history of marriage or divorce. Both parents died when she was young, leaving her to raise a younger brother. Both siblings work as civil servants. Nothing seems suspicious based on her-'

"Excuse me..." He looked to Blake who was staring at him. "You've been staring at me for a while now. Do you need something?"

Pyrrha chuckled at how Blake was able to catch Jaune looking at her when the spy only glanced at her. "Her senses are really alert at any time, which could pose a problem for Jaune."

Glynda then said. "I wonder how they will work this out since they are on different sides."

He was stunned… it was impossible for him to fathom. He swore he only glanced for three seconds. His face reddened in embarrassment over his failure as a spy. "Uh… no. Sorry. I was just thinking how beautiful you are. Sorry."

She then slid across the space between them, and looked at him straight in the eye. "As in my appearance left a positive impression on you?"

"Huh? Well… yeah."

Yang snickered from the surprised expression of Assassin Blake on Spy Jaune's opinion of her looks. "Looks like my partner is thirsty."

"She's not, it's just to cover her tracks in order for her brother to not worry."

Ruby opened her mouth to say her opinion. "Or maybe to make her lie work."

She saw her lightbulb moment appear, here was a man who was interested in her. It could now be of use to have him fake as her date to her co-worker's party. "Um-"

Ruby came pattering down to Jaune. "Pa! My length is established!"

Blake turned around in shame for asking a married man for a proposition like hers. Ruby was curious on who this new lady was talking to her father. "Who's she?"

"Another customer."

Blake was exhaling deeply trying to cover her anxiety. 'That was dangerous! I almost invited someone else's spouse! I've heard that you can get killed by the wife like that. Well, in my case I'd probably kill her first. No I mustn't think like that, or someone might realize that I'm a hitman. I need to be more 'normal' around people.'

Ruby was shocked as the fact donned on her on who this mysterious lady was. 'A… A hitman.' She then looked at her dad and this new woman. 'A spy… and a hitman… SO COOL!'

Weiss groaned in irritation. "She's just bored and wants a sitcom of a situation to happen in her family."

Velvet answered. "Well… isn't this technically a comedic sitcom about spies and assassins."

She was starved for entertainment. But she needed to listen to their thoughts about one another, maybe it was good. So she read her father's mind first. 'Hm… I was considering asking her to play the wife but… she's got sharp instincts. It'd be too risky.'

Her dream was fading so she hoped Blake's mind was different. 'I was considering asking him to play my lover at the party, but… I'd like to avoid a "bloodbath".'

NO! Her dream was dying so there was only one way to save it. She hugged her own body and wiggled left and right while speaking in a sad tone. "Aw… I'm so lonely without a Ma."

The audience once again laughed as a response to the overly dramatic actions of Psychic Ruby trying to get her ideal family into reality. Ruby pouted since he felt embarrassed by her alternate self performing this overly acted display of wanting Blake to be her mother. "If it wasn't so cute then I'd be really mad she'd do such a thing."

Jaune was confused from this random action. "What's gotten into you?!"

She continued to wiggle left and right while wailing. "There is no MAAAAA!"

Blake asked. "Is your wife not with you today?"

Jaune answered. "No, well, you see.. Actually my wife passed away two years ago. So I'm raising her on my own without a woman's touch."

Weiss smirked. "It seems that both versions are really good with lying about their lives."

"Hey!" Pyrrha defended her partner's integrity since for her it was two different situations. "Their lies about two different stories."

Weiss' eyebrow raised in defiance but she knew her point would not be understood by the champion. "Whatever."

Blake found her hope once again thanks to a weird little child. 'So I can ask him out without getting killed...' "Um, actually..."

Now the three were outside the store where Blake simply told of her circumstances in needing Jaune. The blonde spy simplified the stuttering mess into, "You want me to pretend to be your lover?"

She looked down and rubbed her hands shyly. "That's right. I ended up telling my brother that I had a boyfriend… so if it's not a bother do you think you could come with me to the party?"

She then looked at him and exclaimed. "Um… I don't have any ulterior motives! And I'll pay you back, I promise! I just… want my brother to stop worrying."

Jaune immediately answered. "I accept."

"That was too quick." Emerald remarked, she thought his instincts being a spy would tell him to think more.

"Of course he'd go for it, he is the Sex God." Mercury surmised.

"Just shut up, Merc."

"Really?!"

"But on one condition." He went into detail about their situation and what Ruby needed. ".. and there you have it. So in exchange, I'd like you to play the mother at the interview. With everything going on around the world, the future's looking more uncertain than ever. I need my daughter to have the best education. It was even my wife's dying wish!"

Ruby looked at him with a smirk. 'Pa's a liar.'

"I'll only need your help this one time. Please." He looked carefully at her reaction to his tell-tale. 'First I get her to take on this small favor, but by the end I'll make her agree to get legally married.'

"Fearless Leader is so devious in this one. Forcing one to agree to getting shot in the knee with an arrow."

Jaune defended his honor. "I wouldn't do that. I respect women."

"Simp just like Icubbz." Nora retorted.

'What a nice man…!' Blake was utterly inspired by his selfless act for his daughter. "I-I understand. If you'll have me, then I'd love to help."

Yang sighed in disbelief. "And my partner is still an airhead."

"Shut up." Blake growled threateningly, she both hated and loved this alternate version for being an airhead and an amazing assassin.

He gave a nice smile. "Thank you! I'll see you at the party on Saturday."

"Right!"

The two were now in the supermarket, buying supplies for themselves. Jaune looked at an excited Ruby who had been like that ever since he agreed to be with Blake. "Okay, I found you a sitter for Saturday, but I need you to be on your best behavior."

"Peanuts. Bribe."

She was fairly easy to convince. "Fine, fine."

Once they reached the counter, a nice old man with a toothbrush moustache smiled at them. "That'll be 10 Lien, Ribbit."

He carried the groceries in one hand while the other took ahold of Ruby's. "Come again, Ribbit."

He then looked at the coin that the old cashier gave him. He immediately knew that a hidden code given to him, under a light and a small magnifying glass he found a cipher hidden in the coin's surface. 'Details on my additional mission, huh?'

Qrow smiled as he whispered to Ozpin. "Maybe we should do something like that, Oz. Makes it cooler than just sending your messages via scroll."

Ozpin chuckled. "I'd rather save us time and effort, Qrow."

'Recover artwork stolen from Vale and take down the smuggling ring. Aim for when they make contact with the buyers at 1800 Saturday.'

"Satur...day.'

"Oh no… he's going to be late for the party with Blake. My other self will have no Ma."

Yang snickered. "Wonder how Lover Boy is gonna handle this one."

Blake threatened Spy Jaune. "He better not stand me up."

On a rooftop, dressed with what could be associated with robber's gear, Jaune and Frankie were on the lookout for the smugglers. Jaune was very calm about this however Frankie was panicking. "So naturally, I need to clean this up quickly so I can make the party. Assist me in this endeavor."

Jaune sweat dropped. "Looks like he'll stick to both endeavors… but couldn't he get better help for this job."

Pyrrha chuckled. "Probably not."

The scruffy man retorted, he wasn't ready for the more physical aspect of being a spy. "Slow down! I just sell information! My fighting ability is garbage tier! Plus you still haven't paid for everything else!"

Jaune grimaced, he'd been too preoccupied on Ruby that he forgot the other parameters of the mission. He placed his mask to cover the bottom half of his face. "There are seventy eight works of art here, worth around 500 thousand lien each. If one or two go missing in the chaos, I doubt they'll ever be found."

Frankie smiled as he imagined how much he could buy with just 500 thousand. He gave Jaune a thumbs up. "You can count on me! I invented some new spy gear just for today."

Mercury laughed. "Well that was easy."

Emerald smiled. "Sounds like a certain thief we know."

Said certain thief had sneezed and nearly caused a dust explosion, his fanciful henchmen looked at him in confusion. Roman simply threatened them with Melodic Cudgel and they continued their job in stealing, the thief sighed. "Someone's talking shit about me, I just know it."

Jaune smiled since Frankie was easy to motivate thanks to his greed. 'Useful guy to have around.'

At a train station near where the party was going to be held at, Blake was looking at the people who were coming out but no sign of Jaune. She took a look at her watch and noticed he was- "Jaune… he sure is late. I hope he hasn't gotten into an accident or anything."

A warehouse exploded while Jaune and Frankie were running away with the art intact. All the smugglers were firing their guns at them, yelling for more to chase after the two. Jaune told Frankie to place the art in their getaway vehicle which was a minivan, while the super spy took a look at their enemies. The scruffy man yelped in distress when a bullet had nearly grazed his ear since he could hear it whiz pass him. "You lied! You never said there'd be this many of them! I thought this was a smuggling ring, not a goddamn army!"

Cinder chuckled at the hilarious misstep from the two. "It seems our Super Spy made an error in rushing for the completion of this mission."

Yang snickered. "He was too busy thinking about getting the Bellabooty."

Blake growled. "I swear Xiao Long, I will end you!"

"2… 4… 6, no- 38 then?" He then charged through the hail of gunfire and took out six men all in one fluid motion that caused Frankie's jaw to remain ajar. "Between the two of us, this shouldn't take more than ten seconds."

Coco chuckled. "Probably for him but not for short and scruffy over there."

Frankie then quickly loaded up all the loot in the van while Jaune gave covering fire from a large metal box near the van. Jaune grimaced when he heard more voices converging on their location. The scruffy associate yelled at Jaune when he whispered to himself about the seemingly endless supply of smugglers. "Get in! I finished loading the van."

Jaune took control of the van and they immediately got out of there and sped to their next destination. Jaune needed to be near where the party was going to be held in order for him to see Blake even if he was late. He looked down at a small briefcase filled with jewelry.

Frankie's eyes sparkled in wonder, this would bring him a large enough fortune to afford what he wanted. "Now which one should I keep?"

What caught Jaune's eye was a particular magnificent looking ring with a pure shiny diamond. He got it despite Frankie's complaints that it was the best one in the collection. "This one's mine. I need it for a disguise."

"Or for tying the knot on a pu-"

Yang had to dodge an irate cat who interrupted her joke, it was corny but give her the freedom to do it. She then had to push Blake's arms away from scratching at her. "Come on… it was just a-"

"Kill… kill… kill!"

Weiss looked at Pyrrha and sighed. "Is it too late to ask for a transfer?"

Ozpin delightfully gave an answer. "It is."

"Shut up! Give it back! I was fighting for my life there, man!" Another car holding two bad guys with one aiming a gun at them appeared in front of them. Then there was a crash-

She looked again at her watch, with disappointment and frustration evident in her expression albeit slightly. She walked slowly away from the train station towards the party, Jaune was late for more than two hours and it was getting close to the time for the party. 'Oh, I see… So this is what they call "being played". For my brother's sake, I need to keep up good relations with my coworkers. So I suppose I'll just go on my own.'

Nora pouted, she was annoyed that Jaune wasn't able to make it. "Blake should demand retribution. She just got stood up by our fearless leader."

"Uh Nora… I got into a car crash."

The valkyrie would remain fixed to her views. "You can walk it off."

The door opened to Camilla's house where all her coworkers with their partners or family were already having fun at the event. Camilla's face showed surprise at Blake arriving at her party. "You're late Blake."

Blake entered and gave them spirits as a present. "I'm sorry."

But the blonde saw this as an opportunity to tease the quiet girl. "Ooh? What's this? Didn't you say you were coming with your boyfriend?"

She quickly answered. "Something came up, so he couldn't make it."

Camilla quickly responded with a sarcastic reply. "Well isn't that a shame? I soooo wanted to meet him."

Blake's three coworkers then fell into a gossip whilst the assassin sat quietly on a couch minding her own business. "What's with that lame excuse?"

"It's just so sad too look."

"Her? With a man? She's definitely bluffing!"

"Should we report her for lying?"

"Haha, yeah! She must be a spy sent to infiltrate our country and sabotage the birth rate!"

"C'mon, are you stupid? She's just a spinster. Leave her alone."

Millie and Camilla both laughed as the latter joked about the normally nice glasses-wearing Sharon. "But you just said the meanest thing of all Sharon!"

Yang was not amused from her partner's coworkers, basically humiliating her for not having a man with her. "Makes me wanna rip their heads off."

Her younger sister also cutely growled. "Yeah! Blake may be like an edgelord but she's still nice."

"Oy! Don't think you can compliment me and then insult me at the same time just to get away from my wrath."

However despite the gossipping, one man with a groovy hairstyle that showed off his light brown hair approached Blake with a worried look in his face. He was Dominic and friend of Blake's brother Adam. "Aw, that's too bad Blake. I really wanted to meet him. Adam is always worried about you, you know."

Blake started to nervously sweat, her brother's friend was here and he was going to relay the news to him. "Um… Dominic. Do you think you could tell my brother that I brought a nice man?"

"Uh-" Dominic was interrupted by his girlfriend Camilla who was looking to twist the verbal knife in Blake's open wound. "Pft. No way! Whaaaat?! Are you that desperate to show off, Blake?! Doesn't that make you look even more miserable?"

Weiss snarled, the insults were gripping on her nerves. "What deliberate defaming… I wouldn't blame if Assassin Blake would snuff her life right now."

"Yeah, gotta agree on 'ya Weiss-Cream. The only one who can make fun of Blake is me."

"Oy! Since when did that happen?!"

"C'mon, cut it out, Camilla."

But the blonde girl continued to grate on Blake's patience, the black haired assassin looked annoyed. "We're like totally telling your brother that you lied to him and came all by yourself. I wonder what face he'd make knowing his beloved elder sister was just a lonely swinger. Hahahaha!"

'Why…? Does she gain any kind of advantage for this…?' Her fingers cracked exposing long nails wherein she was trained to slice a jugular effectively. 'I'm sick of this. If I just kill everyone here, no one can tell Adam that-'

Emerald smiled, finally there was more action that they were about to see from Blake's abilities. "I wonder how she's gonna kill everyone there without them calling for help."

"I mean she is the best assassin in Atlas, she can handle non-armed civilians easily." Mercury surmised based on what she did to the traitor and his bodyguards.

She then shook her head to get rid of those thoughts when Dominic excused themselves out of Blake's way. 'No, no, no. That's no good. I promised Adam.'

She then watched as all the partygoers went into different conversations that revolved around showing off and simple recounting of events. Blake felt that this was all… boring and skin-deep. 'This must be… "normal." I'm sure this is the life my brother wanted for me.'

The three coworkers continued in their gossip since Blake had not done anything besides sitting down, closing her eyes, and listening to everything around her. "What, she's still here?!"

"She's got nerves of steel, huh?"

"I'm surprised she came here all by herself."

She stood up, it was getting annoying listening to what her coworkers were talking about her. 'I see… I was aiming above my station.'

Jaune frowned. "She can't give up now… my other self would surely arrive and help her."

Pyrrha shook her head. "I don't think even your other self has that kind of timing."

"My apologies but..." The crowd looked at her in surprise. "I'll be taking my leave n-"

The door of the house slammed open revealing a well-dressed Jaune who was bleeding slightly from his mouth and from a cut atop his right eyebrow. Blake was incredibly shocked at his damaged appearance but Jaune calmly stated. "Sorry I'm late. I'm Blake's husband, Jaune Arc."

The audience laughed at Spy Jaune's disheveled state along with him announcing himself as Assassin Blake's husband when it should have been as a boyfriend. Mercury chuckled. "Talk about making an entrance. Not suspicious at all."

Velvet giggled but was amazed at his will to get out of that incident and arrive at Blake's co-worker's party despite being injured. "I think the blood loss got to him."

The crowd was silenced in surprise, earlier before his appearance they had thought of Blake as a lonely spinster. Blake's eyes shone in shock on Jaune's declaration and the word 'husband' definitely made her cheeks become red in embarrassment. 'I'm not even married yet!'

She then whispered the truth to him. "Um… you were supposed to be my boyfriend, not my husband."

Jaune gritted his teeth in frustration, the blood loss was getting to him. 'Crap! I mixed it up with my own mission.'

Yang's eyebrows wiggled at Blake who sighed in exasperation. The faunus then looked at her smug partner. "I won't even entertain your train of thought. I am not thirsty! That is blood that's dripping down from him, Xiao Long."

Yang pouted, her punchline never came to existence. "Stingy."

Dominic was worried along with others about Jaune's state. "Um… Jaune? You're bleeding-"

Jaune gave a tired smile. "Oh, please pay it no mind. It was all part of my job."

Dominic didn't know how to respond since even in his line of work… no one was that injured. "So are you a stuntman? Or-"

"Oh I forgot to explain. I am a psychiatrist. Please excuse me. There was an emergency and a patient got a little wild. It happens all the time." He then looked to Blake who handed him her handkerchief to wipe out the dried blood out of his face. "So have you been enjoying the party, Blake?"

Camilla was shell-shocked due to the woman she was proclaiming to be a loner was with a handsome and well-dressed man. "No way… You were married, Blake? Why didn't you say so?"

Blake gave her smugest grin at her alternate's co-worker. "Ha! Can't get men, you say. You forget about my assets that bring them to me."

Ruby's eyes sparkled in remembrance. "Oh, oh. Is it the bella-"

Blake closed her leader's mouth because she feared that she let something slip which could mean another horrible punchline from the blonde. "I regret what I just said."

Blake was embarrassed because she had told all of them of a boyfriend, which meant her cover had to be reestablished. "Um, no I-"

However Jaune had interfered in order to tell his side of the story. "That might be my fault. It's a little embarrassing, but I'm a divorcee bringing a child from a former marriage. It must have been bothering her."

Jaune chuckled. "Man, he comes with a really good excuse that covers everyone's bases."

Pyrrha smiled. "He even made Blake look good in front of all these strangers."

Camilla was incensed and embarrassed that Blake was with such a man. 'Grrr! No way! No way! There's no way Blake can have a husband this smart and hunky! I'll have to ruin her!'

She grabbed the piping hot gratin and planned to fake her fall while tossing it to Blake. "Blake, would you like some steaming hot gratin, straight out of the oven? Whoopsie, I slipped and fell!"

In one quick movement that caused the blonde to be stunned, Blake had caught the tray and the gratin quite easily with a kick. Everyone was shocked and a little part had hit Camilla's nose causing her to whimper in pain.

Coco tilted her sunglasses forward in awe, Blake's kick shocked a lot of people due to the fact that the only gratin that fell was on Camilla's nose. "She planned that."

Jaune smiled as he looked at Blake who lowered her leg and caught the tray with both of her hands. "Blake, I admire that you hate to waste food, but don't you think that was a little shameless? You were showing a lot of leg."

Everyone sweat dropped at that due to the lack of concern from Jaune. As a spy he should be truly suspicious about Blake's capability. 'That's the concern.'

Blake simply asked what everyone was thinking. "So I wasn't suspicious at all."

"It's possibly the blood loss that is affecting his brain at this point." Weiss pointed out.

Blake blushed, in retrospect, she could have simply caught it with two hands but her instincts screamed at her to use her leg. "Oh! Sorry..."

They then took pieces of the gratin and found that it was well cooked. Camilla knew that her ego took a huge hit so she decided to embarrass Blake in front of her hubby. "Excuse me, D'arc?"

Jaune felt a vague sense of normalcy with that version of a last name. Ren looked at him questioningly. "What's wrong Jaune?"

Jaune shook his shoulders. "I don't know Ren… it just sounds good as my last name… like it was meant for me."

"Arc."

Even by showing she didn't know his real name she continued her question, Blake didn't like this one bit. "Do you know what she did for work before she came to our office? What was it again? I hear she'd get called out by strange men to hotels for special 'massages.' Isn't that obscene?!"

Blake growled, she was going to look bad in front of Jau- … She blushed when she realized she had implanted herself into the scenario because Jaune was going to be her partner. Yang realized this from the sudden quiet followed by embarrassed blushing. "Never knew you cared about how you're looked at from Lover Boy's perspective."

The cat growled threateningly at the blonde. "Die in a ditch, Xiao Long."

Nora pouted, she was annoyed at what Camilla was trying to imply. "Hope Assassin Blake kicks her ass."

"That's..." Blake couldn't really come up with an excuse because the truth would compromise her real identity. She never thought her past alibi would be used like this against her. '"Acupuncture massages" are what we called it when I was stabbing people for work…!'

She looked at Jaune, he must have been suspicious of her past actions. "No, Jaune. You've got the wrong idea..."

He gave her a confident and soft smile that shocked her. "How wonderful!"

"Eh?!"

"What?" Others were also confused especially since that would tip Jaune off that maybe Blake may not be so ideal for his mission.

He stared at Camilla with a sad expression. "Blake lost both of her parents when she was young, and worked desperately to support her brother. Even when she had to sacrifice herself."

He reminisced on his first spy mission as a teen where a snatch and grab turned to a thirty minute gunfight that saw two of his friends get killed all in the name of Vale. Both were never honored for their sacrifice while he lived and continued to fight for Vale's peace. "To sacrifice yourself for the sake of others. To endure harsh work for something you believe in… No normal person has that kind of resolve."

He looked at her and gave a firm stare filled with newfound respect. Her response was that of astonishment since no one thought of her work like that. It made her feel special. "You should be proud of it."

Blake felt like Jaune was talking about her, about her sacrifices for the White Fang and what she has accomplished. Her blush deepened when she thought about other things involving Jaune as her knees brushed together.

Unbeknownst to the cat, the real one nodded his head. "I agree."

Ozpin smiled. "Shows how few truly can appreciate what one person has to do to get to where they are."

Her blush deepened, Jaune then looked at the silent crowd and sighed. "... Shall we go home, Blake?"

A small nod delivered her answer as he helped her go out of the room but he first announced their leave. Now in the same van that was used in his smuggling mission, Jaune with sweat dripping down his face like a certain meme yelled. "S-Sorry! I said 'husband' when it should have been girlfriend!"

He was worried since it would cause friction in her story especially to her brother. He also hit himself in the head for being out of it. "What will we say if this gets back to your brother?"

"Um... Jaune… I have a proposal-" Jaune stopped hearing what she was going to say when his instincts told him to veer the van right and hold on for an incoming collision. A car smacked into the side door of the van. Upon closer inspection, he saw two members of the smuggling ring glaring at him.

"Damn they sure are persistent." Ruby added.

Summer chuckled. "Well he did steal a lot from their catch. The reaction is the same as that thief you always try to stop."

Ruby and Yang nervously laughed since there were quite a few close calls with Torchwick. They were anxious to ask about what their mother thought about such actions. But Summer smiled. "Just be more careful."

'What the- Survivors from the smuggling ring?! How did they find me?!' He then looked behind at the back of the van and saw one of the box's corners was flashing a red light and beeping. 'Don't tell me there's a tracker in the jewelry?! Crap! I am getting careless, Twilight!'

Blake was surprised and a bit fearful of those two mysterious men that crashed into them. "What is this? Who are these people?"

'Um… Um...' He truly didn't know what his next excuse was, to anyone it was pretty obvious that someone was trying to kill them. But he didn't want to make Blake panic. "Th-They're my clients. Looks like I haven't cured their hysteria!"

Everyone couldn't believe that excuse and expected Blake to think something was up with his background along with the suspicious men trying to kill him. Even Yang confidently stated. "Looks like Lover Boy is screwed here."

He didn't think Blake would accept this excuse until- "Being a doctor is tough, huh?"

Weiss groaned in disbelief "... You've got to be kidding me."

He felt like five men were giving him loud slow claps on his success. 'Thank Oum she's an idiot!' The van screeched as it entered the industrial complex that Atlas used to manufacture oil and gas. "For now, let's get outta here"

Blake pouted. "She's not an idiot… my other self is just too trusting."

She nearly cried at her alternate self's airheadedness when her leader decided to give a pat on the shoulder along with a thumbs up. "I think your character will improve to notice things easily, Blake."

The two smugglers held their guns professionally as they spotted the van that Twilight used and it was abandoned. "They left the van behind. Anyway we know they're around here somewhere. Split up and we'd find them."

The two were walking slowly and checking their surroundings however through a small alley, Jaune had sneaked in without making a sound. He then threw a large cement block and it hit one of the guys in the face while the other was blown back by his partner's weight to land on the hard floor with the back of his head.

Emerald's comment was the thought everyone in the watching area had upon seeing Jaune nearly cave in a guy's head. "Oh come on! There's no way he can explain that as treatment. He nearly killed a guy in front of her!"

Both smugglers were seeing stars while Blake was a bit surprised by the 'care' which Jaune gave. He then grabbed a lead pipe that was near him. "Are you okay, Blake? This way, hurry!"

She asked a reasonable question. "Excuse me… are you really supposed to hit your patients?"

"Um… well… It's the latest innovation in the world of medicine, it's called concussive therapy. It's backed by cutting edge science." Blake quickly accepted his excuse for harsh treatment of his 'patients.'

The audience laughed at how easy it was for Assassin Blake accepting Spy Jaune's 'treatment' which showed how much she knew outside of her work. Pyrrha smiled. "He has to be the luckiest spy in the world."

'I can't tell, is she sharp or is she dull…?' A smuggler appeared behind them with his gun aimed at Blake. He quickly positioned Blake behind him and threw the lead pipe which smashed the smugglers' nose. "Watch out, Blake!"

He looked up to see one jump from a nearby metal staircase with a knife in his hand. Jaune cursed knowing that he couldn't dodge the attack so he decided to crouch in order for the weapon to land in a not so fatal part of the human anatomy. He heard a loud 'fwoosh' sound and looked to see Blake jump over his body and land a kick to the smuggler's head.

The smuggler holding the knife rolled until a sickening crunch was heard when he landed on the wall. He was perplexed on her ability to dish out a kick that strong. She on the other hand was embarrassed because she let her instincts take over again. "Ah! I'm so sorry! I don't know anything about concussive therapy, but before I knew it I just-"

"..."

"..." Everyone expected Jaune to connect the dots on her suspicious behavior, even her real self watching thought she was fucked.

Mercury looked at the smuggler who was not moving. "I think he's dead."

Cinder smirked. "I suppose it was evident from the sound of his neck hitting the wall is what clued us all in."

Blake continued. "Actually, I'm really good at self defense! I learned it from my brother so..."

"Ha! Ha! Thank you, Blake!" She gave him a real smile and even chuckled, not a lot of people were that eager when they saw her real capabilities.

"Ha! Ha! Ha! You really blew him away, didn't you?"

She even covered her mouth to avoid full blown laughter, her kick did make his patient land funny. "I'm sorry, I ended up blowing him away. Hee hee hee hee-"

Ruby cooed at how adorable their relationship was blooming in front of her eyes. "Aw, this is just so cute."

"She just killed a dude… right in front of him." Mercury protested.

The spray of bullets from a semi-automatic rifle caused them to run away and lay low from the smuggler's attack. Blake was oddly calm for Jaune but he didn't know that this was normal for her. "Um… Jaune?"

"What is it?! Now's not a good time though." He stiffened when she continued what she was going to say. "Can we get married?"

His initial answer was to trip and slid to cause his face to make love to the floor. "Ah! Excuse me!"

"Talk about amazing timing." Emerald stated since a lot of people chuckled at the out of nowhere proposal while they were dodging bullets being fired from all around them.

"What terrible aim just like a Thundertrooper in Planet Wars." Qrow complained.

Ozpin nodded. "They just buried it in a casket with the sequel trilogy."

He then stared at Blake, it may have looked serious but to the assassin because it was a bit cute due to his nose bleeding. "No, I mean as an extension of your condition… You see… apparently an unmarried woman like myself draws suspicion. So as a kind of camouflage..."

'So I can keep up my work as a hitman...'

"Um, what I'm trying to say is..." She looked away for she was afraid of his answer. "Instead of just the one time for the interview… would you mind if we… stayed together? It works out for… both of our benefits!"

'I'm sure this person is the only one… who would accept me as I am now.'

He was silenced for a bit from her heartfelt request. He then realized how this would have been easier for his mission. "Then let's stop by city hall on the way home, and make it official."

"Right now!"

Yang laughed. "Damn, just that quick."

Weiss sighed. "It's all for the mission, I guess is what he's thinking about."

"No time like the present." He tried going into his pockets and then realized what had happened with a menacing glare. The ring that he picked was gone, probably Frankie got it when they nearly collided with their first pursuers. He needed a replacement, lo and behold his eyes fell on a fallen grenade with the pin still held in place.

He grabbed the explosive and dashed to a nearby large crate with Blake in tow while the rest of the smugglers unloaded their bullets to their location. A 'tink' sounded off to the two where he started his impromptu proposal. "I take you, Blake… For better or for worse..."

The girls like Ruby, Blake, Yang and Pyrrha were blushing due to having their own ideas of how Jaune would do this. Even the former White Fang member thought about how it would have been nice using a grenade pin as an engagement ring while he tossed it at her ex…

Mercury laughed. "That is why he is my sex god!"

He tossed the grenade to the rest of the smugglers while they were utterly shocked that death was right in their faces. "For richer or for poorer… In sickness and in health..."

Blake was silent as Jaune slipped the grenade pin as a substitute wedding ring to her ring finger. She didn't even hear the loud explosion since the debris were covered by the cover they were currently hiding at. Her attention was all on Jaune who cupped her two hands to his own. "To love and to cherish..."

Nora cooed in happiness, she looked at Ren who vehemently shook his head. In response she pouted and looked to Jaune and Pyrrha for support. The redheaded champion shrugged her shoulders. "I don't know if others would consider it romantic Nora."

"But it's a grenade pin."

'Until mission...'

'Until murder...'

"... Do we part." Their feelings may differ, between spy and assassin, but they exchanged their vows.

Summer crooned as she looked at Tai. "I wished we had something more romantic like that when I proposed."

Tai chuckled. "Well it was cute either way seeing you stumble through a sentence."

His beloved simply pouted in embarrassment as the couple embraced each other since they didn't know how long this would last. The Creator then looked at them and asked. "Not going to ask how Blake thought it wasn't suspicious about the grenade probably killing all the remaining smugglers?"

Juniper stated. "If she wasn't going to bring it up when he was bloody and then with the concussive therapy. Then it's safe to say that she wouldn't notice the grenade pin as a wedding ring."

The Creator laughed since it was true. "Well we should go to the one I showed previously after this scenario's trailer but there seems to be a problem with the transmission."

"What's wrong?" Jaune asked.

The Creator sighed. "It seems we have some technical issues involving slow speed of the ethernet and a lockdown making it hard to see the other scenario involving a vampire."

Nora pouted, this was the first time the Creator had said such a thing. "So what are we gonna watch?"

The Creator smiled. "Well since the original intention was to show all of Part 1, I guess I have to make do with this."

In a booming metropolis, citizens watched anxiously as all eyes were on a bridge, police had already evacuated all of the people who were on it due to a bo-

Underneath the bridge, a timer reached zero which caused a chain-like explosion that blew up parts of the structure. However some of it was left standing, citizens all around the city were murmuring their concerns. The news reporter shouted while chaos happened all around. "Citizens, this is a serious situation! Before this incident, the terrorist gave prior warning to the police so it seems that not none of the citizens were hurt because the police acted fast-"

"Where's the terrorist?!"

"We can't see him, Chief-"

"Crazy bastard! He really cut the bridge off-"

A young man with bleached blonde hair crash landed on the hood of a police car superhero style. The police trained their guns on him instantly whilst the individual looked at them through his black gas mask with blue visors. The police fired at him instantly but he jumped so far that he was on the other side of the barricade.

The man then threw down a grenade that blew off a couple of the cars and sent some officers flying. He maneuvered around and was behind the chief with a gun to the officer's head. "I'll repeat again. Release all of the prisoners in Vale's Prison within 30 minutes… and give me a vehicle containing 30 million lien..."

His cold blue eyes looked with no hesitation since he closed the gun on the chief's temple. "The bridge from Patch to Vale is going to completely disappear should you not listen to my warnings..."

All around citizens of Vale gave their complaints on the evident hesitance of the police to just shoot the terrorist. "What are the police doing?!"

"He's making outrageous demands!"

He looked at both of the news and police helicopters surrounding the bridge as they looked at him with both guns and cameras trained on him, waiting to make another move. He smiled. 'I wonder when my life changed… when I realized… I became the world's most dangerous terrorist.'

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AN: So that's the trailer for the next chapter, I feel really sad that I can't give you guys Kizumonogatari. My internet's just really bad ever since the quarantine which also is an excuse on why this chapter was so late.

So I will be late again with the next chapter since gotta go help retain my job after this recession due to COVID-19. Props to anyone who will guess what this scenario is inspired from. I may have mentioned it in the earlier author's note of this chapter. May you all stay safe and I hope to see you all again soon.