Reading THOR Alter: Digital Story

by Novice4129

I can't believe Swift himself asked me to make a reading story... I mean... I do have knowledge about Digimon, but... FOCUS! I hope I do a good job with this.

3. Chapter 3

Into Remnant

Novice sighed at what he was about to do, because there were about a thousand ways this could go wrong. "...Black... can't we settle for your Perfect level," the Overseer tried to get his partner to give up her plan one last time.

"Nope," Black said with a smile, "It's Ultimate or nothing!"

"...Man, she really wants to reach her Ultimate form," Hawkmon said, wondering what Black would look like.

"Just hurry it up," Mimi said, tapping her foot on the floor.

"Okay, fine." Novice gave up and stood up, which prompted Black to stand on the floor. Then the man pulled out a black digivice with poison green buttons.

"Hold up, where's your crest," Jo suddenly asked, earning surprised looks from others, "Don't you need that, to evolve her into an ultimate, like Taichi and Yamato?"

It was a fair question, seeing as he was only holding a digivice right now. Novice sighed at the question, "I don't have a crest, because what I use to evolve Black is... something else that I sealed within my digivice." Then he gave all of the Children a serious look, "To evolve Black, is to release it, and under normal circumstances I would rather not."

"Sounds like an excuse," Mimi said in suspicion, a suspicion which wasn't shared by Sora surprisingly.

"Are you letting me show you or not," Novice said, wanting to get this over with.

"Just do it," Taichi said, but he still felt worried for some reason.

With that, Novice held out his digivice, "Restriction 666 release." The screen lit up with an image of a gate with an image of a moon on it. "Opening the Purgatory gate held by the Lunar Lock." The image of the gate opened. "Code Crown of Lust: RELEASE!" And then a poison green crest was revealed before the dark digivice shot a beam of green light at Black.

"BlackGatomon, warp-evolution!" And Black's glowing form already begun to change, from a cat, to something that resembled human in shape at first. Then came the shapes of two sets of demonic wings on her back. Then it looked like some kind of dress formed around her.

"Guys be careful," Gatomon shouted, looking terrified. A terror which was shared by Patamon.

"Gatomon, what's wrong," Hikari asked her partner in concern.

"Patamon, what is it," Takeru also asked his trembling partner.

"D-dark power," Patamon said in terror," Large enough to rival Daemon."

That earned a reaction out of everyone.

"WHAT!?" And everyone stood up.

"That monster we had to seal away, because we couldn't destroy him," Ken said, in fear. Even the combined efforts of Shakkoumon, Silphymon and even Imperialdramon weren't enough to defeat it.

"Lilithmon!" And with that, Black, now Lilithmon, was revealed in all her evil glory. A beautiful woman in a purple dress that had large sleeves. Out of the left sleeve, peaked a dainty feminine hand with nails that are painted purple. From the other sleeve a golden gauntlet covered hand peaked out. Judging by the opening around her legs, there was a skin tight black suit with golden lines, and an opening for her toes with purple nails. There were also two large belts crisscrossing from her hips to her thighs. Then the top of her outfit revealed her upper body above an ample chest, although it was still very low cut to reveal an ample amount of cleavage... Actually, it almost looks like those breasts would spill out from the slightest movement. Anyway, the outfit also revealed her upper back, showing that the upper pair of small demon wings came out of around her shoulder blades, while the lower part came from her lower back. Beneath the sizeable bosom was a a golden circular ornament, which had two long straps of leather stretching over her upper arms and crisscrossing behind her back, ending into golden spearhaped tips. On her neck was a golden collar with black cloth stretching a little past the base of her neck and on her shoulder, with a V-shape forming right above where cleavage starts.

Finally, we get to her beautiful face, purple lips, which were right now in a faint smile. Her eyes were a beautiful cerulean, with purple eyeshadow above them to accentuate them. There was also a black mark in the shape of a bat on her forehead. All of this topped off with black silky hair, which was gathered into a bun that was held in place by what looked like golden wire tied around it, with four strands of it coming down, ending in arrow shaped tips. There was also a golden comb and two golden hair pins right in front of the bun with two more pins stuck into the bun itself from beneath. But there was also a pair of golden horns on her head, which quite frankly looked like some kind of hair ornament... but they're not.

"Hello there little Children," Lilithmon greeted the Children with a friendly and inviting smile. Honestly, some of the guys thought that this woman can't possibly be as dangerous as Patamon and Gatomon make her out to be.

Taichi and Yamato being among the smart guys and not being deceived... but that doesn't mean that they couldn't appreciate the curves that Lilithmon's outfit covered just enough for men to want to see more. They may be smart, but they were still boys in the middle of puberty.

And then Lilithmon turned an almost longing look at Ken, who could now see the great dark power this digimon possessed through her eyes. "S-Stay AWAY!" And it terrified the boy..

"Don't get near, Ken," Wormmon shouted, standing in front of his partner protectively.

"Lilithmon," Novice said, holding the digivice in a threatening manner.

"Alright alright, I understand," the said digimon waved dismissively, "I will behave." She even sounded beautiful. Then she decided to address the Children, "As you may have heard my darling Novice saying, I am Lilithmon. Pleasure to meet all of you." The demon lady did a small curtsey at the end of her introduction.

"L-L-Lilithmon?"Gatomon actually trembled in terror, "As in... one of the Seven Great Demon Lords?"

"Seven Great Demon Lords," Hikari mouthed in question.

"Who're they," Miyako asked, getting next to terrified Ken, with Hawkmon moving in front of them alongside Wormmon.

Gatomon hesitated before replying,"Myotismon mentioned them once. They are seven incredibly powerful Demon Lord digimon... Daemon was also one of them." Gatomon said in terror, because if her memory served, even Myotismon was afraid of them.

"Someone's well informed," Lilithmon said with a smile, "Indeed I am one of the Seven Great Demon Lords. Also known as, the Goddess of Darkness."

"Hold up," Mimi then shouted with a look of horror on her face, "You mean... you've been doing hanky-panky with THAT!?" Those words were emphasized with a finger pointing at Lilithmon, while Mimi herself was gaping at Novice.

"...Yes." The Overseer didn't sound very enthusiastic about it, though.

"Dude," Yamato sounded out, "I don't know if that's insane, or incredibly badass."

"YAMATO!" Sora shouted in indignation, causing the Chosen of Friendship to jump in fright.

"Would you like to try me," Lilithmon, asked with a seductive smile, causing the boy to take a step back in trepidation.

"LILITHMON!" Novice didn't like the flirting,"They're still kids!"

"...So?" the sad part is, Lilithmon sounded genuinely confused.

Novice dragged his palm donw his face, "Just... don't try to seduce them." Then he turned to the Children to address each of them, "You'll have to excuse Lilithmon. Seduction is quite literally encoded into her."

"What do you mean by that," Jo asked apprehensively.

"Do you kids know about the Seven Deadly Sins," Novice asked the Children.

Surprisingly, it was Mimi who answered, "In Christianity, the Seven Deadly Sins are what cause you to go to hell."

"Correct," Novice said, despite his surprise, "Each of the Seven Great Demon Lords carries a Code Crown that embodies one of the sins. The Code Crown Lilithmon carries, represents the sin of Lust."

"So... when you two...," Koshiro said, unable to finish that sentence, as he figured out the implications.

"She's the one who grabs me and has her way with me," Novice said in embarrassment.

"You know you love it," Lilithmon said with a small smirk. Now the Children, especially the girls were beginning to think that Novice is the victim here... One's who understood the implications anyway.

Ignoring the lust incarnate, Novice gave the kids a serious look, "I promise to each and every one of you, that if at any point Lilithmon does something... inappropriate to any of you. I will seal her again." Novice said as he lifted his digivice, "This digivice is designed to contain her Code Crown. I can reseal her power anytime I want, forcing her to regress." It seemed like the last part was directed at Ken, who still looked more apprehensive than the others.

"...Killjoy," Lilithmon grumbled as she crossed her arms beneath her breasts.

"So... you're sure she won't try anything," Iori asked from behind Miyako. Yes, the youngest of the Children was that scared of the scary lady.

"Absolutely," Novice said cheerfully, "To you anyway." That last one he kept in his head.

The Children and their digimon relaxed ever so slightly, with Miyako holding Ken's hand without the two realizing it.

"Now, then, shall we continue with the next chapter," Novice asked the Children as he snapped his fingers to turn his easy chair into a love-seat... Or maybe lust-seat would be more accurate, consider who he's going to share it with.

None of the kids objected, not figuring what else to say about this guy apparently getting banged by the Demon Lord of Lust. Although, Miyako and Ken realized that they were holding hands now, and separated quickly before anyone noticed.

"Anyway, Miyako, you will read next," Novice said as the book started floating towards the surprised girl.

"Why Miyako," Ken asked in confusion, "Shouldn't Taichi be the one to start?" The Chosen Child of Courage was the leader of the first generation, so it would make sense for him to start.

"I have my reasons," Novice explained as he took his seat back, with Lilithmon joining him... And then proceeded to hug his arm into her breasts. After everything he and Lilithmon did in his bed, Novice wasn't exactly flustered at the action anymore. But he kept that to himself, because the lusty demon would definitely take that as a challenge. And then things might get too inappropriate for these kids to watch... Especially Iori, who hadn't said anything about Novice's relationship with Lilithmon... hopefully because he was too confused to even question it.

"I'll do it," Miyako said resolutely as she picked up the floating book.

"Miyako," Iori said in surprise.

"Well... does it really matter who gets to read it first," Miyako asked, "I mean... Aren't you guys curious about what might happen next?"

"...Okay, maybe I am," Taichi said after a moment.

"Taichi," Agumon sounded out.

The Chosen of Courage smiled, "I mean... it was kind of interesting to see how those two reacted to a digimon. I can't help but wonder how other people might react to them the first time."

"Well, you have a point," Yamato agreed, wondering about that himself.

"It could be interesting," Koshiro added in.

"But the last chapter said that the aventure begins in 10 years, can we really wait that long," Veemon asked from his seat.

"Maybe it will skip 10 years," Daisuke pointed out, giving a questioning look to Novice.

"Only one way to find out, isn't there?" The Overseer smiled, before he had to try and ignore Lilithmon's bust squishing against his arm.

Everyone sat back down, signaling their agreement.

"I think I'll let them have a break after the 4th Chapter," Novice thought idly as he opened a holographic screen to do a little something he probably should've done before starting this whole thing... Only to notice there were several notifications of messages on his screen. "What does Swift want?"

As Novice worked on whatever he was working on, Miyako opened the book on the next chapter.

A door was slammed open into a dimly lit workshop, as a young blonde man with a goatee and green eyes stepped inside while still in his pajamas "Gooooooooood Morni-!" and his greeting was quickly cut off by a pair of slippers slamming into his face.

"Shut the hell up it's 6 AM!" came two other voices from inside the dimly lit room.

"Someone's not a morning person," Veemon commented.

The young man, now flat on his back, groaned as he pried the slippers from his face "This is what you two get for working so late on that thing!"

"What thing," Iori asked, in confusion.

"Keep reading," Novice replied without looking up from the messages he was reading.

"Well excuse us for wanting to get this done as soon as possible!" one of the voices, the younger of the two, shot back.

"Besides, we noticed a few bugs last night, well, more like I did." the older of the two voices said, before a light was turned on, not a bright one thankfully, finally illuminating the area.

The 'thing' that they had all been talking about, was a large gate like structure in the middle of the room, the floor around it surrounded by warning tape. Seeing the structure, the young man smiled as he stepped in. "I almost can't believe we're finally breaking this thing out. To think that thing we thought of as kids to find a friend, ended up becoming something that could save a world," he said softly.

"...Did they just build a gate to the digital world," Biyomon asked with wide eyes.

"And what do they mean by saving a world," Gabumon added in.

"I freaking miss Koromon." a young man with light blonde hair and blue eyes sighed out, lifting an old whistle that was hanging on his neck. Their sole memento of a friend they'd made all those years ago.

"Isn't that...," Hikari asked, letting the question hang.

"Looks like it," Taichi replied for everyone.

"You guys really need to stop being depressed about this." the oldest of the boys said, leaning against a workbench.

"Not our fault. We lost a good friend, Azure." the only one who had green eyes said.

And if it isn't obvious by this point, these are Gyro, Pierce and Azure, now a little over 10 years after that fateful night.

"So we did skip 10 years," Ken said, now almost completely calm. Although he was still apprehensive of the Demon Lord that was trying to cuddle with their host.

"It was kind of obvious," Miyako said with a smile as she glared at the demonic digimon. Feeling very stupid for thinking she was a victim of any kind.

Azure sighed slightly. This was a topic that even after a decade, was rather somber for his little brothers, not that he could blame them. Even if he himself hadn't been too close to the little pink blob, he also missed the little guy who'd wormed his way into the family's hearts in a single day and night. Looking at the portal, he remembered how originally it had been conceived as a plan to find said friend, but when they realized they needed an actual destination...that plan quickly became a bust. Now however, it was a different story...even if finding Koromon was no longer the goal.

"Oh...That's sad," Patamon said,

"So without knowing where their Koromon ended up, they can't find him," Tentomon said sadly, his antennaes drooping.

Everyone felt a little sad at hearing that, especially Ken. Because this reminded him all too much of when he was looking for Wormmon.

"Ken, I'm here now," Wormmon said as he bounced on Ken's lap. The little green digimon understood what his friend must be thinking about.

About 5 years ago, him and his brothers had found a new webseries that they quickly became fans of, though it did help that his little brothers had quickly admitted they had developed small crushes on some of the main characters. At first things were pretty normal, then came the shocking plot of the third volume of the series. Suffice to say the brothers agreed it was far too cruel and undeserved...though at first they sighed at the realization that there was nothing they could do about it...or was there?

"A web series," Miyako questioned, pausing in the reading.

"A cartoon or other form of video entertainment published exclusively on internet," Novice replied as he frowned at the last message he received.

"Who do they have a crush on," Sora couldn't help asking.

"You'll find out eventually," Lilithmon said as she nibbled on Novice's earlobe... Earning a not too gentle shove for her efforts.

It was shortly after the fifth volume of the show had concluded that the brothers had remembered the portal they had been trying to make all those years ago, and thus, their plan to go and save the characters of the show, no, of that world, was put into motion.

"...That world... is it, Remnant," Koshiro asked, "It was mentioned in the prologue."

Novice visibly froze at that. He wasn't expecting these kids to figure it out so fast, but then again... Koshiro is arguably the smartest of them. "...Just keep reading." Was the only retort he came up with... With how he reacted, the answer might as well have been "yes".

If they continued to think of it as a show, it wouldn't be fair to the people of that world. It took time, and sooo many all nighters, but they'd finally done it. They'd found the world they were looking for and synched the portal to it. Now all that was left, was to do the fine tuning, and finish up any remaining business they had, cause they knew, once they stepped through the portal there was no turning back.

"No turning back," Iori said, "B-but... what about their loved ones? The rest of their family?"

"Iori." Armadimon sounded out.

"Iori," Daisuke said with an unusually serious look, "...I don't think they have any family except each other."

As much as no one liked that answer, it made too much sense for them. After all, they didn't see a glimpse of the three brother's parents in the last chapter.

"Right, I'm gonna handle the final tests, how about you boys start getting ready?" Azure told his little brothers as he cracked his neck, walking towards the portal.

"Whaddya want for breakfast?" Gyro asked his older brother as he got off the floor.

"Whatever you'll be having." Azure said as he started working on his computer.

"Big breakfast it is then," Gyro nodded. "I think we both need it after last night."

A week soon passed, and the three brothers were now standing before the gate which was about to open. They had to do this quick, as to make sure nothing went wrong, they'd been ready to divert power from the city if needs be. They weren't too keen on that bit of the plan, but as it was, this was going to be a one time deal only, and they did NOT want to have an 'accident' cause the power failed mid-way...though just to be safe they made sure nobody would trace it to them.

"...They were ready to draw power from the city," Jo commented in disbelief, "...How would they even do that?

"These guys are evil geniouses, without the 'evil' part. It's best that you don't question too much," Novice commented, having finished whatever he was planning.

Gyro and Pierce had also decided on their 'Hunter looks' as they called it, while Azure had made their weapons for them, and made sure they practice with those types extensively before giving them the real ones.

Gyro wore a dark blue jacket with a green flame pattern on the bottom edge and the sleeves, a rainbow colored, twister shaped flame printed on the right breast of the jacket. Underneath it he wore a lighter colored blue shirt, white gloves covering his hands, his legs were clothed in long, dark green cargo pants with simple black and green running shoes. Finally, the one thing to break his color scheme was an orange sweatband around his forehead, which had a pair of goggles resting on top of it, though they looked a bit high tech with some small lights on the side, and the usual whistle hanging around his neck on a new chain necklace.

"Huh? Gyro's outfit is a little different," Mimi noted. The ´changes were pretty small but still noticeable.

"Swift was a little lazy recording this," Novice explained easily, "Or that's what I believe."

As for Pierce, he wore a black tunic with a single square button, that had a high collar with a wine red trim. Over that he wore a dark red bomber jacket that had the silhouette of a roaring dragon's head as seen from the side printed on the back, a pair of aviator goggle hanging around his neck, while a black and red tiger patterned bandana was tied around his bicep. Finishing off the look was a pair of wine red pants and black combat boots.

"Doesn't that look like Iori's outfit when he enters the digital world," Hikari asked.

Indeed, the design resembled what Iori wore, only with a few additions and different coloring.

"...Hold up," Mimi then shouted out, realizing something, "This is ten years after the prologue right?"

"That's what we understand, why," Sora replied, wondering what Mimi was talking about.

"...That would mean Pierce is around 15 to 16 years old, so how can he have a goatee already," Mimi pointed out.

"Don't forget he's also supposed to be the younger brother," Novice decided to add, to gain more confused looks, "Haven't you noticed that he's also the taller one of the two?"

Now that he mentioned it... Pierce did look slightly taller than Gyro did.

"...How," Takeru couldn't help asking.

"Wonders of genetics I suppose," Novice replied, not having a real answer to that.

Lastly, Azure was dressed in a blue shirt, with the sleeves folded over his elbows and a pair of black long pants, with a tie around his neck, albeit one with a flame ornament at the top of the tie, giving him an interesting look of a simple office worker mixed with something of someone ready to fight at a moment's notice.

"...That's kind of cool," Jo admitted, already seeing this guy as his hero.

As for weapons, Gyro had a pair of curved swords hanging off his belt, with obvious ports at the pommel to attach them together. He had named the swords Ascalon.

"Wait, weapons," Yamato called out, "Why would they need weapons?"

"And why swords and not guns," Taichi asked, also curious.

Novice smirked a little at the question, "Trust me, the world where they're going, they will need them. Also those weapons do havEEEEEE- Lilithmon! NÄPIT IRTI MUN HOUSUISTA(HANDS OFF MY PANTS)!" Lilithmon had suddenly stuck her ungauntleted hand into Novice's pants. Prompting Miyako to let go of the book and cover Iori's eyes. After some struggle, Novice was able pry the lust incarnate off of him before glaring at her cerulean eyes with his own blue ones, "One more trick like that and I will seal you, GOT IT!?"

"...Yes, sir," Lilithmon said fearfully... or that's what it was supposed to sound like. But it came off as sarcastically meek. She just loved to tease her partner... maybe after this reading session she could break his will at last.

Though as far as Novice was concerned, she was welcome to try. It would always end the same way...hopefully. Anyway, he had more important things to do right now, "Sorry about that. Let's continue." With those words from their host, Miyako apprehensively took the hands off of Iori's eyes and returned to the book.

Pierce had what looked like a simple naginata on his back, though several parts and pieces seemed to be able to come undone or open, almost like it had several secrets and modes hidden within, as such, he had dubbed it Pandora… though it didn't have 666 different forms like the weapon of the same name in Devil May Cry.

"What's Devil May Cry," Iori asked, still confused on both why his eyes were covered and what Novice said in that weird language.

"It's a video game," Novice replied managing a smile despite being molested a moment ago, "Pretty good one too." At least the original 4. Novice hasn't played the reboot, and he had heard that the Dante of that game... isn't very good.

And finally, Azure wielded a pair of kukri knives that doubled as pistols, both of them in black with a white edge to the blades, called Umbrae.

"Wait, they double as pistols," Daisuke asked in amazement.

"Yup," Novice replied, "You will find out why soon enough."

"That sounds cool," the frizzy haired boy said.

"Alright, did you two get everything you needed?" Azure asked. It never hurt to do a final check. He'd already packed clothes, food, and some valuables that they could possibly use to trade for money if needs be.

"Why not just trade them now," Gomamon asked.

"Different currency maybe," Jo replied to his partner.

"Got everything right here." Gyro said, lifting up a rather large, and used, school bag, Pierce doing the same, both bags being simple grey and black with nothing much to them.

"Right, guess we're ready to go then." Azure said as he shouldered a large duffel bag that had everything he had picked up, from clothes, to stuff they could sell to get money of the world they were heading to.

"Sounds like you were right Jo," Takeru voiced his opinion, seeing as the way it was said implied that.

"You know, I know its a bit late, but I gotta admit…" Pierce started, looking at the door. "I'm gonna miss the old place," he sighed, before turning his attention back to the gateway that was now active, the three of them having already checked and double checked to make sure everything was working. "So guys, you ready?"

"You know it! Time go and try to save the world!" Gyro said, pumping his fist up into the air.

"Just try to do it?" Azure asked in amusement.

"I'm being realistic, there's no way we can do it on our own." Gyro told him in deadpan.

"...Just like we couldn't do it on our own against BelialMyotismon," Ken said, having a forlorn look, despite the incident happening practically yesterday.

Azure nodded his head at that "Very true, but, that's what we have the plan for."

"But first we gotta actually get there," Pierce chuckled. "On three?"

"On three," his brothers nodded, the three of them standing before the portal.

"One…" Gyro started.

"Two…" Azure continued, as the three of them took a deep breath.

"Three!" they shouted together before jumping through the gate, and once they went through, the program initialized, and before long the gate went dead, leaving an empty workshop. It was not long after that the Vermillion Brothers were reported missing, with their neighbours saying that the boys just up and disappeared that day.

"...I still find it wrong that they would just abandon everything they knew," Iori said from his seat, glaring at the screen.

Novice sighed at this, "Iori... They're not like you. As I recall you have your mother and grandfather. These brothers... they only have each other."

Iori didn't look like he understood, but he didn't question it anymore.

However, Koshiro had something else on his mind, "I have to wonder though... aside from how they were planning to draw power from the city... How did they even have the means or knowledge to build a gate to another dimension?"

Now that was actually a very good question for the children.

"...I honestly don't know," Novice said with a shrug,"Although... in one version of these brothers... Gyro is a child genius who was able to get pHd at the age of twelve or something like that."

"...You're joking," Everyone said in unison.

"Not joking," Novice said, before taking a thoughtful look, "Though I might remember it wrong. Anyway, as for the resources... Swift didn't say what kind of work Azure was doing... or the level of technology on this Earth."

"...In other words, you have no idea," Tentomon summarized.

"No he doesn't," Lilithmon answered for Novice, who slumped in embarrassment.

Ultimately... the Children decided to forget these details. If only to stop their heads from hurting.

Moments later, a portal opened up in an alleyway, spitting out the three brothers who landed in a heap."Did we make it?" Azure groaned as they got up.

"Gimme a minute." Gyro said, shaking his head, before peeking his head out of the alleyway and looking out onto the street, turning back to his brothers a moment later with an OK sign "Bingo!"

"Right! So, plan review time!" Pierce said with a nod.

"Well, landing in the middle of Vale is checked off of that, thankfully." Azure said as the brothers sat down in a circle.

"Next step is finding out where Jaune lives and give him some training so Pyrrha has more stuff to work with when helping him." Gyro said as he pulled out an actual list from his bag.

"Who're Jaune and Pyrrha," Taichi asked Novice, before getting a gentle shove from Hikari.

"Taichi, I'm sure the story will explain," the younger Yagami said.

"Don't forget we need to also unlock our auras, and get some Dust," Pierce added.

"Aura," Biyomon asked with a head tilt.

"Dust," Palmon added in.

"Aura is the manifestation of a person's soul. It comes in the form of a barrier that shields you from harm," Novice explained, "As for Dust... that's a type of crystal that is the dominant energy source in the World of Remnant."

"Why is it called Dust though," Agumon also asked.

"Because according to Remnant's tales, mankind was born from dust," Lilithmon surprisingly replied.

"Oookayyyy," Armadimon said, giving his partner a questioning look. Unfortunately, Iori could only look just as confused.

"At least I was able to figure out how mechashift weapons work." Azure said, since that had been a difficult part that was thankfully already taken care of.

"Mechashift weapons," Veemon asked.

"Weapons that can shift from one form into another," Novice replied, "You'll see later what that means... You know what, after the end of this chapter, I'll have you all take a brief lesson on the basics of Remnant, beause that will play a major part." On hindsight, maybe he should've done that before, but then again... it would've spoiled a lot of this chapter to the Children.

"Yeah, but, don't forget, for auras, that's all you Azure." Gyro said with a grin as he nudged his older brother.

"Yeah, yeah, I know, get into Beacon as a teacher, have my aura unlocked, then come back and do it for you two as soon as I can." Azure said, waving it off as he remembered what he had to do.

As much as the kids wanted to question, they decided to keep it in and wait until the end of this chapter.

"Well then, let's get to it," Gyro grinned. "We got a world to save."

A week had passed since the brothers arrived in the world of Remnant.

In that time, they had sold off a few of their possessions to get plenty of Lien, the main currency of the world, and thus find a place to stay until it was time for Beacon to start.

"Lien... that's an odd name for currency," Iori commented.

"Euros, dollars, yen, pounds, rubles, pesos, crowns, do I need to continue," Novice pointed out jokingly, making the youngest child blush in embarrassment.

Azure had also started the process of trying to get a job at Beacon, which, from the way things were going, was easier than they had expected.

Though they blamed this on the fact Ozpin had realised he had absolutely nothing on the Vermillion brothers and was curious.

"Uhh... who's Ozpin? And how does he not knowing Vermillion brothers help," Takeru asked, not understanding the logic. And neither did the others.

"Ozpin is the headmaster of Beacon Academy," Novice said with a mysterious smile, "As for why he let them in... Ever heard the saying, keep your friends close, and your enemies closer?"

"Enemies," Sora said in concern," But why would Ozpin consider the Vermillion brothers enemies?"

Novice shook his head at his little mistake, "Well... Not enemies per say, more like potential enemies. But that stems from the fact that he doesn't know who they are, why they're there, or what they want."

"...That sounds paranoid," Gatomon said, in suspicion

"The guy has a good reason to be paranoid," Novice admitted

Because of this, Azure was quickly accepted and had his aura unlocked, he was even planning on explaining things to Ozpin as soon as he could in a way that was believable… though it certainly helped the man was several centuries old and would be more open to believing that kind of story.

"What!?" Came out of everyone.

"I'll explain later," Novice said quickly, "Though not before consulting Swift." He had to add mentally.

At this moment, Gyro was walking around Vale, messing around with his brand new scroll after Azure had come back to the temporary apartment to unlock both of the brother's auras. They'd manage to get a decent foothold in Remnant, so now he was looking into the next phase of the plan. Finding one Jaune Arc, or at least the Arc family.

"So now we get to see this Jaune," Hawkmon commented.

While he was doing that, Pierce was gathering up as much of the relevant history of Remnant they would need to know, thankfully, it was all easily accessible on their equivalent of wikipedia, at least according to his twin.

And if they were right, they should have roughly a year or so before they hit the start of canon, which was plenty of time to figure out their semblances, shouldn't be too hard, since it had to do with who they were, Gyro even had a bit of an idea, considering he did love flying in planes when he was a kid and anything else that went into the sky, and that it had made him a bit adventurous.

"What's a semblance," Daisuke asked, finding it interesting.

"It's basically your own personal superpower," Novice replied earning looks ranging from questioning to starry eyed from the humans. While the digimon showed no reaction... after all, superpowers are normal for them.

As for what his twin's semblance was… honestly, it was hard to figure out, Pierce was all over the place in terms of his personality, but somehow, Gyro felt like it wasn't the deciding factor of his semblance.

"How do you find out what your semblance is," Koshiro had to ask, getting interested.

Novice shrugged as an answer.

"What's that supposed to mean," Mimi asked in mild annoyance.

"It means, your guess is as good as mine," Novice replied verbally,"There's no sure-fire way of discovering one's semblance. Some are unlocked by extreme stress, some are unlocked by accident... A prime example being someone being struck by lightning and not dying."

That example earned some shocked looks.

"Anymore questions," Lilithmon asked, staying true to her word and keeping her hands to herself and just sitting neatly... For now.

He shook his head, for now, he had to focus on any leads regarding finding the Arc family so they could get started on giving Jaune a good foundation for his skills so Pyrrha would have something to work with when training him. That and also so Cardin wouldn't be able to push him around as easily if at all. Going through the information, he finally found something of note. It seemed the Arc family lived in a rather small town, nothing big, and honestly rather out of the way...probably why Jaune didn't even know about Pyrrha.

"...I'm going to guess, but what this says refers to the 'canon' of this world's events, right," Miyako decided to guess. Earning a happy nod from Novice.

At the very least, it wasn't too far from Vale, hell, it was on the same coastline just a few miles away, he could get there easily with a car or motorbike.

With that in mind, he decided he'd be handling the initial meeting right now, as he went to the nearest vehicle rental store he could find, glad that the process for getting a permit wasn't actually long on Remnant.

Minutes later, he was driving towards one of the many exits of Vale on a motorbike, humming the first Kamen Rider theme as he went along.

"Kamen Rider," Daisuke asked.

"A superhero anime... from what I understand," Novice replied, having no knowledge of it himself.

He did have to sigh as he waited for the gate to be open enough for him to go through.

In a sense, Remnant was similar to Attack on Titan, in that cities were enclosed behind walls to keep them safe, the difference was that the threat on Remnant was easier to manage as opposed to, well, Titans. Shaking his head from the thought, he focused on his destination, as the LAST thing he wanted was to be jumped by some random Grimm that might have gotten through.

"What are the Grimm," Hikari asked.

"Creatures of darkness, that have an obsession to destroy all of humanity and anything they have created," Lilithmon answered... While also having a brief musing about how her partner once talked to himself about how he wanted to "Sic Lilithmon on those arrogant hags.". He still wasn't used to having someone other than himself around at the time.

He followed the path, only having to take one turn that had him rolling over a wooden bridge at some point, till he reached a town that, just like everywhere else, was surrounded with relatively high walls, though one side was left open for ocean access, but he could see that they seemed to have harpoon turrets on the towers that lined the parts of the wall closest to the water.

He had to resist snorting as he saw the guards walking along the top of the wall, because of how much it reminded him of medieval stories.

"It kind of does," Taichi had to say.

Eventually, one noticed him, and after making sure he was friendly, they let him inside, parking his rental bike in a small garage near the entrance.

"No address… but considering he has 7 sisters, I'm bound to run into a family member eventually." he muttered to himself as he looked at his scroll before putting it away.

Everyone's eyes widened a bit at hearing that this Jaune guy has seven sisters.

Eventually, he found exactly what he was looking for on the beach.

He could see Jaune, wearing what he supposed was a work out outfit since it was a white t-shirt and blue cargo pants that reached his knees and some sandals, as he swung a wooden sword at an imaginary enemy… badly at that.

Since none of the Children were exactly masters of sword fighting, they didn't comment... Although it did seem clumsy to them.

'You'll thank us for this someday Pyrrha.' he thought with a mental sigh as he prepared himself to basically work Jaune's skills up straight from the bottom.

"Hey man! Yeah, blonde guy! You're doing it wrong!" Gyro called out, walking towards Jaune who looked around in surprise before turning to him.

"...That's one way to make an entrance," Biyomon said, thinking it sounded a little rude.

"Um, I'm doing it wrong?" he repeated in confusion.

Gyro nodded "Yeah, your stance is pretty easy to trip up right now. One shove and you'd be flat on your ass, it might be better to spread your feet wider and get lower to the ground, as not only is it harder to move you, it makes you ready to get into motion faster."

Jaune blinked, before looking down at his feet, and deciding it couldn't hurt to try, did just as Gyro said.

Gyro nodded as he walked around him, before looking at Jaune's free arm "Any reason you're holding it up like that?"

Jaune looked to his free arm at that, blushing sheepishly "Well, I want to use a shield so…" he trailed off with a shrug.

Gyro nodded again, before walking towards the edge of the beach and lifting the lid of a barrel that had a handle on top of it 'Very convenient.' he thought with a smirk as he threw it to Jaune, who dropped the sword as he floundered to grab the lid.

That earned some chuckles from the Children.

Slowly, Gyro's hand met his face, groaning audibly into it 'This is going to be a long day.'

"You think," Agumon said, earning full on laughters for that.

Several hours later, Gyro was sitting on the same beach from earlier, with Jaune lying flat on his ass next to him, panting for breath.

"So, hey, Jaune, if you don't mind me asking, why are you training so much?" Gyro said, glancing at the blonde, the two had exchanged names over the many hours where Gyro did his best to instill the basics into the eventual leader of team JNPR.

Jaune took a few moments to catch his breath "I want to prove to my parents that I can handle myself, that I'm not as weak or stupid or, whatever they think I am."

That sounded a little sad for the Children.

"Do his parents think that he's useless," Ken asked, remembering his jeaolousy of his brother Osamu.

"That, and his sisters are pretty much better than him," Novice said sadly, being all too familiar with Ken's jealousy... Though it wasn't quite the same.

Gyro actually looked directly at his fellow blonde at that, interested in learning what had driven the boy so much in the original story "Oh? What brought that on?"

Jaune sighed as he tried not to get angry at his parents for being overprotective of him and his sisters "My dad's a retired Huntsman, he did pretty well for himself honestly, until a mission that could have gone better where he lost the ability to run, his legs still work fine, but he can only walk. Then a couple of years later, my eldest sister became a Huntress, she was doing pretty well too, then she had her own bad mission, except hers went horrible, and she lost her whole left arm, all she's got now is a stump. Obviously, my parents ended up overreacting, and now are super overprotective of me and my sisters. But they never even fully listened to my eldest sister story's. She said it was her own fault for losing her arm and that she was just too reckless. Well, I'm not the reckless type, I'm not the strongest guy, but I'm good at tactics."

"No denying that," Novice told the Children, expecting to be questioned about that, "Although his intelligence is questionable in other departments." Sadly, he didn't realize that the Children were more concerned about one of Jaune's sisters losing an arm.

"Like bedroom activities," Lilithmon said seductively, leaning against Novice. Which earned her an annoyed glare with just a faint blush at the way she was framing her cleavage at the guy.

Gyro took it all in, committing the information to memory as best he could because of just how important it was to finally learn Jaune's reasons that had pushed him to run away from his family and forge his way into Beacon.

"Wait, what!?" That surprised everyone, also snapping Novice back to attention with their exclamation.

"How did he forge his way into Beacon, and why would he do that, if he was such a horrible fighter to begin with," Sora exclaimed, thinking that Jaune was beyond reckless, despite claiming otherwise.

"Idiocy, desperation, you name it," Novice listed off with a sigh, "He also underestimated the training that lesser combat schools provide for their students. I'll go into details later, okay?" That last one was added, because he seriously had to hurry to deal with a little something that Swift forgot when he sent some help.

At the very least, he intended to only have one of those things happen this time around.

"Tell you what, I'll come back tomorrow with a few notes for you for stuff you should work on. I can see you need help man, but I'm not, well, the best teacher, that would be more my older brother. The best I can do is give you the tools to work with." Gyro explained with a shrug.

Jaune nodded after a moment "Thanks, hopefully it helps me out."

"I'll probably come over from time to time to see how well you're doing… and maybe try to help you get to Beacon if you'd like that." Gyro added with a bit of a grin.

Jaune chuckled "Yeah, I think I would like that."

"Welp, guess I'm gonna get started on a plan and those notes." Gyro said, standing up and brushing the sand off his pants "If you're ever in Vale, don't be a stranger." he added, waving at the still resting Jaune as he walked away.

Roughly an hour later, Gyro finally returned to the apartment the brothers were using at the moment "Hey Pierce! I found Jaune!" he called into it.

"I'm in the kitchen!" his twin shouted back, Gyro heading for that room as he saw his brother reading the screen of his scroll, expanded into tablet mode.

"So, what did you learn?" Gyro asked as he sat across from him.

"A lot… but mostly this." Pierce said, not looking away from the screen as he slid a sheet of paper over to Gyro.

He rose an eyebrow, grabbing the sheet before looking at what exactly was on it, his eyebrows shooting up at what he saw.

An information page on Summer Rose, most likely made a while ago, with a certain part of it being highlighted.

MIA.

Summer Rose was missing in action, yet, after a few years, she was assumed KIA.

"Who's Summer Rose," Sora asked this time.

"That will be explained," Novice said, regretting not giving the kids at least a basic explanation about Remnant. Perhaps then he would've avoided fifty questions.

Gyro stared at the sheet for a few more moments, before putting it down as he looked back at Pierce "Well… if I know my tropes as well as I do, we're going to find her eventually."

"I wouldn't be surprised." Pierce muttered.

The twins sighed in unison after a moment.

They felt like things were only just starting to get complicated.

A year had soon passed.

"Another time skip," Veemon commented. Those were getting frequent.

In that time, not only had the twins finally figured out what their semblances are, but they'd also done quite a few preparations and had learned everything they needed to.

They'd also managed to work Jaune's skills high enough that he was able to just barely get into Beacon without needing to falsify his papers.

"That's good at least," Sora said in relief.

Sadly, they still had to sneak him out of his home along with the family heirloom, Crocea Mors.

Jaune felt guilty, but he just couldn't let his chance pass him by without doing anything.

At the moment, the blonde trio currently stood on the airship to Beacon, though, Jaune had to stay close to the bathroom as he could regularly feel his breakfast trying to come back up.

"We...really need to do something about that…" Gyro sighed. "I doubt this is going to be your last airship ride."

Jaune simply nodded, not trusting himself to speak as he held his hand over his mouth.

"Right, first chance we get, we'll go and see the nurse, see if maybe they have something to help with this." Pierce nodded to himself as he spoke.

"I can agree with motion sickness being a pain," Jo said, having one such incident painfully registered in his mind.

"Definitely better than letting sir pukes-a-lot here spew everywhere." Gyro said as he looked at Jaune dryly, his fellow blonde groaning at the nickname behind his hand.

As gross as it sounded, sir pukes-a-lot earned laughs out of most guys, and even the girls giggled a little.

"I'll get you back for that." Jaune managed to mumble out, before groaning as another wave of nausea hit him, having to run back into the bathroom again.

"Sure you will, just as soon as you're finished needing to puke," Pierce chuckled.

Once the bathroom door was closed, Gyro and Pierce looked at each other.

"Spotted anyone else yet?" the shorter of the two asked.

In response, Pierce simply pointed a little ways away, Gyro following his finger to see one Ruby Rose getting the life hugged out of her by her older half sister, Yang Xiao Long.

"...Hey," Tentomon exclaimed, "Aren't those the girls that we saw in the prologue?"

Now that Tentomon mentioned it, they saw the similarities with the two little girls from the prologue chapter.

"In case you're interested-," Novice then called out, "-the one in the red cape is Ruby, while the blonde is Yang."

The Children and their digimon nodded in understanding.

Gyro laughed awkwardly as he saw the silver eyed girl try to flail out of her sister's arms "Well, at least we found them."

"Are you going to try and stop the explosion?" Pierce asked his brother with a raised eyebrow.

"What explosion?" Everyone asked in concern.

"Wait for it," Novice said with a smirk.

"Probably yeah, would be good if Ruby and Weiss had a better start than canon." Gyro said with a nod.

"So...should we introduce ourselves or…?" Pierce left the question hanging.

Gyro scratched his cheek as he thought about it "I don't know honestly, it might seem weird if we come up to them out of nowhere, plus I don't want to abandon Jaune you know?"

Pierce mulled over his brother's words "Well… when you put it like that, makes sense I guess."

With that agreement, the bothers let things play out as they did in 'canon'...save for the part where Jaune threw up and got puke on Yang's shoes. It wasn't long before they arrived at their destination, Beacon Castle coming into view. Despite themselves, the brothers couldn't help but marvel at the sight of the castle that would be their home for the next few years, and if things went as planned, would REMAIN standing for that long, the two of them scowling at the knowledge of their soon to be enemies. It would be difficult, but they would do what they could to prevent those events from becoming a reality.

All the Children were admiring the huge Castle like building that was Beacon Academy.

"It's so big," Mimi said in wonder.

"Bigger than the one where Mimi became a princess," Palmon added.

"Wait, what," Miyako, and Daisuke along with their partners asked in shock. Ken and Iori just looked surprised.

"Long story," Mimi said in embarrassment.

Though, in the back of their minds, there was something that concerned them greatly. Over the last year, the weather had gotten more and more weird, all over Remnant at that.

A heat wave in Atlas, a constant downpour in Vacuo, sandstorms in Mistral, and snowfall in Vale. It went without saying that these things never happened in canon, and that...made them understandably worried. At best they hoped it was just some freak weather that would eventually blow over, but at worst they were afraid this was one of those situations where the timeline was aware of their arrival, and was now going to try to toss in some curveballs to make sure things went as they did in canon, their efforts be damned.

"Okay... that sounds familiar," Koshiro said, having a bad feeling about this. As did the others.

At the moment, the twins and their fellow blond friend were walking towards the main building of Beacon itself, each with different thoughts on their minds.

As for what brought them out of those thoughts, it was as they saw two sisters interacting with each other.

Gyro, out of the corner of his eye, saw a certain white haired heiress walking, with two butlers pushing her things along on a transport… tray… thing… he doesn't know the actual word for it, but those thing they have in hotels basically for the luggage.

Either way, he didn't break his stride, in fact, he started walking faster, catching up to the sisters just as Yang zipped past Ruby, making her spin in place as she wobbled around.

"Did she just ditch her little sister," Taichi asked, glaring at the screen a little.

Just as she was about to fall over, Gyro got behind her and placed his hands on her back, catching her "You ok there?" he asked casually, but with some honest concern in his voice.

Ruby shook her head of her dizziness "Y-yeah, thanks." she said as she got her feet back flat on the ground, Gyro glancing to the side as he saw Weiss Schnee walk past them, glancing at them for a moment before continuing forward.

He uttered a mental sigh of relief at the fact that the, hopefully, eventual partners, didn't have a rough start like in canon. The only issue was that with Weiss no longer meeting Ruby the way she did in 'canon', there would need to be another way for Blake to meet Ruby. Fortunately, it seemed things were on his side, as just as he thought that, a certain thinly disguised Faunus was walking by.

'Oh this is almost too easy.' Gyro thought with narrowed eyes, before mentally shrugging as his pinky finger twitched, and a gust of wind suddenly blew through the courtyard.

Ruby eeped as she held her skirt down, glad no one was looking down at least, and as for one raven haired feline girl, the sudden wind not only blew some of her hair in her face, but made her lose her grip on her book.

The older girls glared at the screen a little, because they were tempted to think that Gyro was trying to upskirt Ruby. But then they glanced at Novice and his voluptous partner, and chose to withhold their judgement for now.

Conveniently, it ended up smacking Pierce in the face while it was wide open.

Blake winced as she ran up to the group, seeing Pierce's hand twitching "Um… sorry." she said after a moment.

Slowly, Pierce pulled the book away from his face, blushing as he handed the book to Blake "Maybe you shouldn't read this kind of stuff in public." he muttered lowly, yet knew she heard him thanks to her ears hidden by her bow.

"Uhh... what kind of stuff," Iori asked in confusion, which was shared by most of the second generation, including the youngest of the first generation. Even some of the older generation were mildly confused.

"Right... they're still kids," Novice thought, forgetting for a moment that most of them have only begun to understand the concept of sex... among other things.

Blake blushed as she took the book back "Right." she muttered, thinking maybe she should stop reading that in public.

"What is Ninjas of Love about anyway? You know, besides ninjas and… adult stuff." Gyro asked, stopping himself short and changing his last words when he remembered Ruby was standing right next to him.

And that was the word that rang alarm bells. When something is called "adult stuff", that usually meant something highly inappropriate.

"What does it mean," Iori asked, still confused.

"Well...at least it has SOME plot...not that I could really get to read any of it considering the page it opened on," Pierce admitted.

"What was on the page that was in your face?" Ruby asked innocently.

"Yeah, what was on it," Daisuke asked, a little oblivious to the situation. Unlike Ken and Miyako who finally understood the implications with weirded out looks.

"We'll tell you when you're older." Gyro, Pierce and Blake all said in unison before looking at each other in surprise.

"But isn't she older than us," Taichi had to ask.

And that was what made Novice laugh his head off alongside Lilithmon. "Kihhihii... A younger kid knowing more than a teen." The man was able to say through his laughter.

"Why does everyone say that?" Ruby said with a pout as she kicked at the ground.

"That's what I want to know," Iori also added in, because when he once asked his mother where babies come from, she used that exact line.

"So...uh...my name's Gyro, this is my brother, Pierce, and the guy in the hoodie is Jaune." Gyro started, quickly changing the subject. "And you two are?"

"I'm Ruby!" the young reaper bounced right back into happy as she grinned at everyone.

Blake was silent for a moment as she looked at everyone "... Blake." she said curtly.

"Nice to meet ya," Pierce grinned.

"So...you two excited about getting into Beacon?" Jaune asked politely. The twins had thankfully managed to curl away his attempts at flirting, because in all honesty, that had just been ridiculous.

"You know it! I mean, I was already excited before but I still had two years to wait, but now I got in early because I met with Professor Ozpin himself, he was actuallyimpressedwithmethatwassocoolandallIdidwasgowooshandbamandthenboombecauseIwastryingtostoparobberyandthentherewereexplosionsandaplaneanditwassoawesome!" Ruby started before getting faster as she spoke.

"How is she doing that," Gatomon asked in surprise of that girl talking too quickly for them to understand what she was saying.

"Uhhh…." Jaune blinked, starting to feel like his brains were leaking out of his ears. On one hand he knew it would be impolite, but on the other hand he felt the urge to clamp the girl's mouth shut, if only so he could let his brain START to try and understand what she was saying.

The others looked at Ruby silently, before looking between each other and sighing, mutual understanding passing between them.

'What did we get ourselves into?'

"That's what I've been thinking," Gabumon said, earning a chorus of agreements on that.

A few minutes later found the group walking through the courtyard, their trek towards the auditorium resumed after getting Ruby to explain again slowly.

What had surprised the boys though, was Blake falling in step with them, and not making any effort to leave the group.

They didn't know what exactly had caused it, but apparently something had caused the faunus girl to be more at ease around them. Not that they were complaining, as this would make things a whole lot easier down the line.

"So…" Ruby suddenly started, trailing off, before looking at everyone "What do you all have?"

"Uh… what are you talking about?" Jaune asked as he turned to look at her.

"You know, what kind of weapon." Ruby said with a shrug.

"Oh, that." Jaune mumbled, apparently being relieved.

To be honest, the wording WAS a bit suggestive.

"...How is that suggestive," Mimi had to ask, missing the point. Glancing at Novice.

"Don't ask me, I'm just as confused about it," Novice replied. Even Lilithmon didn't seem to get it, and she's the lust incarnate.

"Well, I got these, I call them Ascalon." Gyro said as he pulled out his twin curved blades from their sheaths, giving them a bit of a twirl, before attached them together to show off the alternative mode as well.

"Whoa," The Children commented on the alternative mode.

"Ooohh, what else can they do?" Ruby asked as she looked at the combined blades closely.

"That's a secret till I have to reveal my semblance." Gyro said with a cheeky grin as he stored them away.

Ruby pouted at that, before turning to the others, eyes shining hopefully.

Seeing that, Blake shrugged and pulled out her weapon. "Gambol Shroud," she said simply, revealing her katana-machine gun combo, also showing how it's sheathe was a cleaver.

"...Okay, that looks cool," Yamato had to say, earning mumbles of agreement from Taichi, Takeru and Daisuke.

"And well...I got this sword," Jaune said, pulling out Crocea Mors.

"Cool," Ruby said. "What does it do?"

Gyro and Pierce had to hold back snickers as Jaune clumsily tried to explain how Crocea Mors DIDN'T have any extra modes, except for the sheath acting as a shield.

Well, not yet anyway, they still had to figure out exactly how combining an arming sword with a shield/sheath made a bastard sword.

Novice was ready to answer the question that they would no doubt have, but the kids only looked at him contemplatively before returning to the story. They were sure it would be explained to them.

"Well...the classics are great too," Ruby said at the end of Jaune's explanation, a rather poor attempt at being polite considering her previous excitement.

"Think of it this way Jaune, you don't have to worry about too much maintenance, and because most people would expect something extra from your weapon, they'd act a bit more cautious, which might cause them to overlook some things." Gyro added after seeing Jaune slump.

The blonde knight tilted his head at those words, considering them "I… guess that makes sense."

"So...uh…" Ruby started, not quite sure what to say next. On one hand, she wanted to ask about Pierce's weapon...but at the same time she had a feeling it wouldn't be so good after what just happened.

"Huh? Oh right, I haven't shown my weapon yet," Pierce chuckled. "Say hello to Pandora," he said, pulling out his weapon, still in its default naginata mode.

"And what does it do?" Ruby asked as she noticed what looked like several pieces that could move along the shaft of the weapon.

"I know what's going to move along your shaft later," Lilithmon said suggestively. Earning blushes from the kids who had a vague idea of what that meant.

"DAMMIT LILITHMON!" Novice did not like his partner saying that with the kids around.

"What is she talking about," Iori asked in confusion.

"...We'll tell you when you're older," Miyako said, having an idea because of accidentally stumbling into her older sister's secret ero-collection once.

"Well… what would you like to see it do?" Pierce asked with a grin.

"Can it shoot fire?" Jaune asked jokingly.

In response, Pierce grinned as he twisted two pieces of the weapon, a nozzle coming out just above the blade and a trigger near the middle, which when pulled, made a stream of flames come out of the nozzle, it was thin, but nonetheless, it was fire.

"And there's more!" Gyro said with a grin as he nudged his brother to show off a few more of his weapon's many functions.

Pierce nodded as he started showcasing quite a few alternate forms, such as a trident, a grappling hook, a whip function, and plenty more.

"Uh...is she okay?" Jaune asked cautiously in the middle of the little exhibition, as true enough, Ruby was now drooling with stars in her eyes.

"She's a weapon nut," Novice said in an effort to distract himself of what Lilithmon had in mind, "Actually, I believe there have been jokes about Ruby marrying a guy only if they could turn into a weapon."

"Okayyyyy?" Was the universal reaction to that from the kids, with the digimon just trying to ignore it.

"Eh...probably," Pierce sweatdropped. He couldn't say he was surprised at the reaction, but this was a bit stronger than he'd imagined.

Gyro looked at the little reaper in concern, before reaching into his pocket and pulling out his scroll "Let's see, where is it again?" he muttered, before nodding as he flipped it around and put it in Ruby's face.

No reaction for a moment, before her eyes went to the screen and she snatched it away from him, muttering inaudibly as she looked at whatever was on it, then quickly looked back up at Gyro "You designed this?"

The Chosen Children found themselves curious despite the weirdness that Novice and Lilithmon spouted together.

Gyro nodded simply, smiling a bit proudly.

Ruby looked at him, before smiling brightly "That's so awesome!" she said as she raised her hand up high and Gyro gave her a high five.

Everyone looked at the two of them in confusing, before Blake was the one to break the silence "What did you show her?"

"That's what we want to know," Takeru commented.

"A blueprint for something that's a bit excessive but still awesome." Gyro said with a shrug as he accepted his scroll back from Ruby.

"...so uh...aren't we supposed to be gathering somewhere for the initiation?" Jaune suddenly said, remembering that yes, they WERE supposed to gather.

"Where do you think we've been walking to?" Pierce said as he stopped in front of a large door and opened it, showing that the auditorium was inside, and people were still coming in from other doors or corridors.

"Huh...I kinda thought we got lost just talking…" Jaune admitted.

"Hey wait! I haven't shown off my weapon yet!" Ruby said before anyone went inside.

"Well, go ahead, we probably still have like 10 minutes or something before we need to be inside." Pierce said as he looked inside the auditorium before turning back to the short girl.

Ruby nodded with a smile as she reached underneath her cape and pulled out a large red block like thing, before motioning the others to give her more space, and opening it with a flourish, revealing a very large scythe.

"HOLY SHIT!" Came out of most of the guys.

"LANGUAGE!" Miyako screeched, despite having something along those lines in her mind. As did most of the other girls.

"I call her Crescent Rose, not only is she a scythe, but she's a high impact sniper rifle, and, I made her myself." Ruby said proudly as she compacted her weapon down into its sniper rifle mode, which honestly looked more like an AK-47 in appearance.

"So… it's a scyther rifle then?" Pierce said with a grin, causing a few groans.

"Stop the horrible puns please." Gyro said as he covered his face with his hands.

For some reason, no one in this room thought the pun was bad... Even though it didn't make anyone laugh.

"Oh god he's just like Yang." Ruby muttered in horror alongside him, before she and Gyro looked at each other, and pat each other's backs in silent support for having siblings who loved bad puns.

"How bad are they," Sora asked apprehensively. That pun was tolerable, but she was a little apprehensive about what the worst could be.

"Cringe worthy," Novice replied. He says that, but if the puns are good, he laughs. If it's bad... he might laugh... at how pathetic it is. Then again... in his understanding, puns are a sub-category of wordplay, and his native language... has no equivalent for puns.

After the moment of support had passed, the small group finally stepped inside the auditorium, and were greeted with… an argument.

'Oh you have got to be kidding me.' Gyro thought in deadpan as he saw Yang and Weiss glaring at each other and very loudly arguing with one another.

Both he and Pierce thought they would have to try and break up the argument, before a pair of fists descended on top of the two girl's heads, making their eyes go blank at the sudden impact to their skulls.

Everyone winced at the pain inflicted on these two girls.

Everyone gaped at the scene, none more so than Gyro and Pierce however, as the person who had hit the two girls on the head was Azure.

"That's QUITE enough you two," Azure sighed. "Honestly, you're both part of the next generation of protectors. Please save arguments like this for outside or AFTER the opening speech."

"Dear Oum Azure has balls." Gyro muttered in a bit of awe.

"Damn language," Miyako growled while giving their host a very annoyed look.

"...I should've censored a few things," Novice admitted.

"Like me," Lilithmon joked, before giggling and fluttering her eyes at him.

"That doesn't get me going and you know it," Novice dead-panned at the seductress.

While Yang simply winced as she rubbed her head, honestly as long as her hair wasn't damaged she wasn't going to go ballistic against someone, Weiss was fuming as she turned her glare onto Azure "And just who do you think you are to hit me?!"

Azure simply gave her a dull look "A teacher."

Immediately, Weiss's face went pale, her mouth hanging open in shock at the fact she'd just talked like that to a teacher.

The Children couldn't help it, they all guffawed in laughter. Basically talking back to a teacher, of all people, like that on your first day at school. That was awkward beyond all reason. Their digimon laughing with them, having some idea of what was funny.

"Now then, when you're done putting your blown mind back together, the headmaster will be starting his speech soon. I think it'd be in your best interests to be paying attention," Azure chuckled. "And that goes for you too Gyro and Pierce. I'm not gonna be bailing you out if you get in trouble that's your own fault," he added with a smirk.

It was amazing how Miyako was able to read through her laughter, as everyone else were slowly calming down.

"Hey, we're in the room big bro, so we're safe." Pierce shot back with a wave of his hand.

Azure shrugged with a smile "Fair enough I guess." before walking off to where the other teachers were.

It took the gathered prospective students a full 10 seconds to process that last part.

"Wait...he's your brother?" Yang asked as she turned to Pierce, having moved over to Ruby while Azure was basically scaring Weiss into turning white like a ghost, the snowy themed girl still frozen in place.

"Yeah, he got a job at Beacon and, well, he's the reason we were allowed to take a slightly harder entrance exam since we never went to a training school before, I mean, they had to doubly make sure we had what it takes." Pierce explained.

"That doesn't make sense," Iori commented, "Why make it harder, instead of giving the same treatment."

"It's simple," Jo replied, surprising everyone, "Someone who's gone to "training" school must have skills to easily pass whatever test they have. If someone who hasn't taken the test somehow survives by just luck, then who knows when that luck runs out."

"...That... actually makes sense," Koshiro said.

"God I almost puked like three times during that." Jaune said with a groan as he remembered he too had to pass the harder exam.

"Huh." Yang said, choosing to ignore what Jaune had said "Well… I guess we were getting kind of loud." she admitted, before holding her hand out to the goatee toting blonde "Anyway, name's Yang."

"Pierce, nice to meet you." Pierce said with a smile as he shook her hand.

"Nice grip there." Yang said with a grin as she still held his hand.

"Not too bad yourself." Pierce shot back.

Sora frowned at this, "Is something going to happen between these two or what?"

"What is this?" Ruby whispered as she watched the scene unfold in front of her.

"Something I don't think I want to be a part of." Blake said dully "See you guys later." she added, before walking away from the group.

"See ya later." the remaining three not in a conversation told her back, still watching Pierce and Yang interacting.

However, before the conversation could continue, everyone's attention was drawn to the sound of a microphone being switched on, as up on the stage, a middle aged man with gray hair and black glasses stepped up and began speaking.

"He's probably Ozpin," Ken said, glancing at Novice for confirmation. Shortly after, *Ding Ding Ding* was heard, when the Overseer snapped his fingers.

Gyro and Pierce, for the most part, tuned out Ozpin's speech, as it was more of a downer than anything, so instead they thought about how they should go about doing things tomorrow, as they still hadn't fully decided on that. Ideally of course was that they make sure they partnered with each other, so that if nothing else, they could easily plan their steps in the future. It wasn't long before the speech was over, and everyone was ushered to the room where all prospective students would be spending the night...though why was something that still baffled them, especially when they noticed how there were some students who seemed to like sleeping in their underwear.

"Uhhh... what," Came out of the Children. The thought of sleeping in the same room with boys was a mortifying thought in itself. Doing that in their underwear was worse than that. Although... that mortification is fairly recent on most of them.

"Don't ask me," Novice said, before any serious questions were led to him.

As for the boys, they just had simple t-shirts and pajama bottoms, something they had managed to get Jaune into instead of his onesie.

The screen quickly changed to a picture of Jaune in his onesie.

"Seriously," Yamato said, finding that thing ridiculous.

"You're not alone with those thoughts," Novice said, before smacking Lilithmon upside the head.

"Hey! What was that for?"

"You're not making a comment," Novice said sternly, "And don't try to deny it, I know you too well."

The Demon Lord grumbled as she was rubbing her thighs together... she wasn't sure if she could hold it in much longer.

Speaking of Jaune though, they seemed to have lost… him… oh wow, even the author is surprised by this one.

"Okay, what does that mean," Miyako asked in suspicion.

"Just what it says," Novice replied, "Swift lost track of Jaune when he was writing these events down."

"How did he do that," Ken had to ask.

"There are spells and artifacts that can create one way dimensional windows," Novice explained simply.

By the luck of the gods and everything else, Jaune had ended up right next to Pyrrha Nikos, AKA, the girl that would eventually love him.

"Huh, with any luck since he had no interactions with Weiss, he'll notice Pyrrha better." Gyro murmured thoughtfully as he and Pierce sat down in an empty space.

"If he doesn't well, we can just find a closet and lock the two inside of it." Pierce said with a shrug, eliciting a snort of amusement from his brother.

"Seriously," Sora frowned in a bit of disapproval of such a drastic method.

"Seriously," Novice said seriously, "Honestly half the time I've watched the canon events. I wanted to shout, 'Just kiss already'."

The kids could do nothing but nod at that... And then Lilithmon smirked.

"Poor Pyrrha is so desperate to have Jaune's b- mph!" Lilithmon was interrupted by Novice clamping his hand over her beautiful lips.

"You are not finishing that sentence," the Overseer said with an annoyed look. "And stop looking at me like that," Novice then said, seeing as Lilithmon could be just as expressive with her eyes as she is with her words or actions.

Unfortunately, it looked like few of the older members got the idea of what Lilithmon tried to say. Which made them wonder, why does Pyrrha like Jaune so much... Assuming there's truth to Lilithmon's words.

"Hey guys!" the two heard, making them turn to see Ruby walking towards them with a pillow and blanket in hand, Yang following behind her with a rolled up sleeping bag.

"Hey Ruby." the two greeted her with a wave as she sat next to them, Yang doing the same.

"So, I gotta thank you guys for making friends with my little sister, she really needed it." Yang said with a grin as she patted said little sister on the back, getting a pout from her.

"Yeah, well if it wasn't for Gyro I would have fallen after you ditched me." Ruby told her, crossing her arms and blowing her older sister a raspberry.

"Umm... how old is she again," Jo felt the need to ask.

"fifteen," Novice said simply, "But she's the innocence incarnate. Which is why she's so childish."

"Riight," Jo said, not sure if he bought it fully, but the rest chose to accept it. Although you could say that each and every one of the Chosen lost their innocence with the deaths of many digimon during their adventures.

"I said I was sorry ok?" Yang said placatingly as she held up her hands.

"Oh come on, ease up on her Ruby, think about it this way, if Yang hadn't ditched you, you wouldn't have met us." Gyro told the reaper as he patted her shoulder.

"He's not wrong," Yamato commented.

Takeru smiled at that remark, "Though I think the brothers would've found another way."

No one could argue with that.

Ruby adopted a thoughtful look at that while Yang looked at him dryly "I don't know if I should thank you or punch you."

"Probably a bit of both," Pierce snickered. "That's usually how things go."

"Geee, thanks a lot, bro," Gyro said dryly.

"Oh! That reminds me, I've been meaning ask, which one of you is older?" Ruby asked as she looked at the twins.

While Novice did explain already how Pierce was the younger one, the Chosen Children still found that very weird.

"Me, by like a few minutes, I took more after mom while Pierce took more after dad." Gyro said with a shrug. "And yeah, before you ask, I know Pierce looks older. We get that a lot, especially after he started sporting that goatee."

"Like Gyro said, I took more after dad, who was pretty damn tall, while he took after mom, who was rather short." Pierce explained a bit further.

"That explains the height difference,"

"Yeah, but I also got mom's looks, which means I'm better looking than you." Gyro said jokingly, with Pierce laughing a bit.

"I dunno, I kinda think he looks more cute." Yang said as she grinned at Pierce and even grabbed his arm, squeezing it a bit "Definitely looks more muscular too."

"So then girls, which one of them do you think is more attractive," Lilithmon suddenly asked the girls. Which threw them all in a loop.

"Don't tease them," Novice said, holding up the digivice threateningly, "The brothers are too old for them now."

"...Killjoy." The Demon Lord pouted fiercely. Yes, somehow she makes a pout look fierce to all the Child and one Adult level digimon.

"Oh ah ah." Gyro laughed dryly while Pierce grinned back at the lilac eyed blonde.

"Would you all keep quiet! Some of us are trying to sleep here!" they all heard a voice say, making them turn to see…

"Oh not you again!" Yang and Weiss growled out as they saw each other.

"Ok, how about no argument this time, huh?" Gyro said, getting in between the two girls and pushing them away from each other, being smart enough to push them by their shoulders and not the chest like he would with guys.

"I have to wonder what they were arguing about," Palmon said with a head tilt.

"Who knows," Biyomon shrugged, despite wanting to know herself.

And it looked like Novice didn't know either.

The two girls continued to glare at each other for a moment, before huffing and turning away from each other.

Hesitantly, Ruby went up to Weiss "Um, sorry about my sister, I don't really know what she did to make you angry, but knowing her track record back home, it's probably her fault."

Yang gasped "You dare!" she said, looking at Ruby.

"Dad's guitar." was all Ruby said, making Yang clam up and turn red in embarrassment.

That earned a few raised eyebrows, but the crew decided not to question it this time.

Weiss looked at the shorter girl, before letting out a sigh "You have my condolences for living with someone like her." she said, making Ruby giggle in amusement, while Weiss let a small smile graced her lips "My name is Weiss Schnee."

"Like the company that's run by a hardass?" Pierce asked.

Weiss blinked at the word used to describe her father "That's… a new one… I can't deny it though, father is a bit of a hardass."

Unseen by the others, Blake raised an eyebrow behind her book at the Schnee heiress admitting her father was a hardass, before shrugging, figuring that was a sort of step in the right direction to the girl not being like him.

"Is Weiss' dad really that bad," Daisuke had to ask, since it sounded like he was... strict to say the least.

"No... worse," Novice said mysteriously, which did not bode well with anyone.

Before the conversation could go on further, Ruby let out a yawn.

"Well, I guess it is getting late, let's just get to bed, if we want to talk again, there's always tomorrow." Gyro said, looking at everyone who all gave different signs of agreement before getting to their own sleeping arrangements.

"Night bro." the twins said to each other, bumping fists before getting in their respective sleeping bags.

They had one hell of a day tomorrow.

With that, the book closed itself in Miyako's hands before it returned to the pillar it had been on. And then Novice stood up, "I know I told you kids that I would give you all a short lesson on Remnant, but I have some urgent business to take care of."

"Like what," Taichi asked in suspicion, thinking that he was just trying to run away.

"Swift sent me some help to assist me with this whole thing... Unfortunately, he forgot a little something," Novice said, showing his idea of little with his fingers. "The fact that I had to temporarily disable my security system to let them inside."

"Your... what," Koshiro asked, hearing about this for the first time.

"Anyway," Novice said loudly, he should be arriving right now. And then a section of the circular room shifted open, revealing a doorway which allowed Wisemon to enter.

"...Your security is overexaggerated, I must say," the wise digimon said as his eyes fell on Lilithmon, "So it's true... You do have Lilithmon with you."

Lilithmon gave the Perfect digimon an unimpressed look, "That is very true, now please do your job so I can finally break my 'partner' in." Something about that sentence made all the Children and their digimon to shiver.

Novice wasn't paying attention to it,"You heard what I said as you floated in here?"

"...Yes," Wisemon replied simply.

"Good," Novice said as he made a holographic circle appear before typing something in it and a spark of blue light shot into Wisemon. "I've given you authorization for kitchen, library and this room. Now... I must take my leave for now."

With that, Novice teleported away, along with Lilithmon. Leaving Wisemon with very confused Children and their partners. "...Swift could've told me how scatterbrained he was," Wisemon sighed before beginning to explain things to the Children so they would have at least a basic understanding of what just happened as well as the world of Remnant

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Me: Phew... Now I can finally deal with-MPHHH!

Lilithmon: Time for some fuuuuuun~!