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"So could you elaborate what we will be watching?" Winter asked calmly as the rest of the group began to prepare for another viewing.

"Something cool… but also a bit educational if taken that way." Slayer replied.

"Okay but what is it about? "Saffron asked, annoyed at his answer.

" this Jaune is a genius but he was adopted by Ozpin, Meaning he is an only child. He also has only two real friends, Sun wukong and Blake belladonna. And what we will be witnessing is the beginning of a new world." Slayer informed them, causing them all to wonder what this world will be like.

"Sweet! Jaune and I are friends in this universe also. Hey, are we ever going back to see genie Jaune again?" Sun asked excitedly.

"Maybe if I feel like it. But let's a second." Slayer said as the screen flashed and the room's lights dimmed.

"On that day, every man, woman, and child instantly turned to stone." a voice said gravely as the screen showed a barren and destroyed city filled with statues of people. Some were broken, while others were still pristine with scraps of cloth clinging to their form.

"What in the world?" Port mouthed as he stared at the scene in front of them.

"What happened? Why are they like that?" Roman asked in a dumbfounded tone

"Where's Jaune?" Saffron asked terrified to see him as a shattered statue like some of the ones they could see in the background.

" No one knows why this happened or what caused it. But watch and we'll see where Jaune was on the day it all began." Slayer said calmly.

The screen transitions to a sliding door being swung open by Sun in a blue school uniform.

"This is it Jaune. My mind is made up! I'm finally going to do it!" Sun shouted as he walked into the room which was revealed to be the science lab.

"Do what?" Neptune asked.

"You'll see"

"I have a bad feeling about this." Sun muttered under his breath.

"After five long years! I'm telling her how I feel!" Sun shouted with a brave tone to the occupied lab. The room was filled with both humans and faunus, two of which were covering their ears. There was also a machine on one of the lab tables where a thin boy in a lab coat stood, he had blond hair that ended in gray tips.

"Wow, fascinating. I can't leave the lab right now. But I promise to cheer you on so vociferously my vocal cord will snap." the boy said in a bland tone while looking back at Sun with a bored look.

"There's Jaune… why does his hair look like that?" ruby asked in a confused tone.

"Why does yours?" Slayer shot back.

"I-"

" Doesn't matter, his hair has always been like that. just like yours." Slayer said with a smirk at ruby's and summer's glares.

" Okay but he seems kinda annoyed at Sun. aren't they friends?" Blake asked

"Yes they are but they have had this conversation before and Jaune knows how to give him the push he needs." slayer responded calmly

"Awesome! You mean it? You rock Jaune!" Sun shouted getting near Jaune with a giant grin. Jaune rubbed his ear in pain from his loud voice.

"No you big oaf. I won't project my voice one millimeter for your cause." Jaune said in an annoyed tone.

"One millimeter. Really?" Weiss asked with a sweat drop.

"Dick!" Sun shouted at the on screen Jaune.

"What come on man !" Sun shouted in disbelief

"Look, you felt this way for five year but never said anything? I can't praise such illogical behavior. But I can give you something logical as hell." Jaune says as he ducks a little to extract something from the machine. When he comes back up he is holding a small beaker filled with a near-translucent liquid.

"I've developed this drug as a kind of.. Love potion, it maxes out your pheromone levels. Granting you a 10 billion percent chance of winning her heart." he said with a scary grin.

"WHAT?!" all of the girl save neo shouted

"The fuck?" sun asked dumfounded

"Maybe they should keep him away from the chemistry lab." Ozpin said in a fearful tone

"That won't stop him." Slayer snickering.

Jaune hands it to Sun, who just stares at it before dumping it down the sink next to him.

"Thanks but no thanks Jaune! I gotta do this my way." Sun said with a tone of finality. As he walked away out of the lab, Jaune watched him the entire way.

"Woah are you serious, you made a love potion?" one of the other kids asks as two of the boys look at the sink it went down.

"Come on, use your brain." Jaune replied as he lit and tossed a match into the sink and flames shot out of it scaring everyone.

"That's gasoline."

"What the hell! Was he trying to kill Sun?" Neptune asked as Sun looked scared for a second and the girl finally calmed down.

"Nah." Slayer replied

"I simply refined it from plastic bottle caps." Jaune said with a calm look.

"Huh"

"Consider the molecular structure of polyethylene. It's just like a long gasoline molecule minus a few hydrocarbons. You can tell just by looking." he said smugly with a small grin.

"Well I can't," one of the guys said.

"Me neither." another replied.

"Yeah but if Sun drank it, wouldn't that have killed him?" the first guy asked, getting Jaune to chuckle in response.

"No, the chances of him drinking that, were 10 billion to one. He's dumb but too straight laced." Jaune replied with a small grin as the screen changed to outside the school near an old tree. Blake is looking at a broken limb before she pulls off her bow from her school uniform and ties it around the branch.

"Blake! Sorry I'm late!" Sun said as he got close.

"Wait, so he's there to confess to my little kitten?" Kali asks with a smirk

"yep" the deity's confirms, causing Sun to blush lightly. But then he begins to sweat bullets as Ghira glares at him.

"She likes him too doesn't she?" Yang asks with a teasing smile.

"Also yes. Jaune knows that as well and has just been waiting for them to finally confess." Slayer responded with a smirk.

"Asshole." Sun mutters under his breath as his face flushes red with Neptune snickering at him.

"It's fine so what's going on Sun? You wanted to talk to me?" she said walking closer with a small grin. Sun begins to look even more nervous. Meanwhile on the second floor we see the three guys from the lab staring down at them out one window with Jaune out another.

"100 lien on heartbreak." one with brown hair says.

"300 on her making him cry" a sporty one said

"500 on her calling him a creep" one with thick rimmed glasses said

"Oi fuck off!" Sun shouted, flipping the screen off as Neptune fell out of his seat laughing.

"Why are they betting on him to only fail? That just kinda dumb." Roman said with a snicker

"I bet 10000 she's into him too." Jaune fired back with a smirk opening a can of juice.

"Seriously!?" three shouted at him as sun began psyching himself up to tell Blake how he feels.

' all this time I've been so scared that if i tell her how i really feel about her, she could not want to be my friend anymore. But i can't keep it a secret forever!' Sun train of thought shouted at him, giving him the strength he needed.

"It's like this Blake."

'all right no turning back now.'

"I've kept this inside me for five years and…" Sun began as Jaune watched on and Blake's face began to redden. Jaune however saw something caught him off guard as a green light began to shine over the area.

'Hold up what's that weird light?'

Large humming could be heard as the light spread further and further blanketing the city.

"Quick grab on to that tree! What the hell." Sun shouted as he ran to the front of the tree to try and block whatever was coming . but as soon as the light touched him his skin began turning to stone. But not just him as the screen began shifting to different areas showing everyone across the world was turning to stone statues.

'Why'd it get so dark!'

'i can't move!'

'I can't talk!'

'What's happening'

' help!'

'It's the end of the world!'

'My children!'

Before it faded into countless screams.

"What the hell just happened!" Ironwood shouted in fear.

"A great petrification of unknown origin." slayer responded (an1)

"What about people in the air were they affected?" Glynda asked in a terrified tone.

"Why don't you look?" he said, pointing at the screen.

The sound of a horn blaring could be as the screen showed a massive car pile up. As a statue was now embedded into a vans hood. Above the city a large plane was slowly crashing into it with the pilots and the passenger turned to stone. When it hits the road it explodes . we get a close up of a severed head landing on the ground blazing.

"By the gods…" Pyrrha mutters out at the sight of the destruction.

The screen move to show a small dog barking at its recently petrified owner, it's leash still in her hands

' MOM! DAD! PLEASE HELP ME!' the young female pet owner thought in her petrified state. They could hear her cry within her mind.

' I'm scared… am I dying?'

"That seems like a fate worse than death…" Salem muttered to herself with a hint of fear. She could have been turned into a hunk of conscious stone left for eternity in darkness until she stopped thinking all together. Unknowingly She gained a nod from her ex husband and her subordinate both having fear and disgust on their faces.

The screen transitions back to the recently petrified sun arms still pointed forward.

'Ahhhh!'

'I'M STILL ALIVE!'

' I gotta stay focused or else I'll fade out. Wake up Sun! Blake's smart, I'm sure she probably got away. But I can't die a coward! I have to find her and tell her exactly how I feel!' sun thought with a burning determination

The screen transitions off him to show the same little dog from earlier but now more feral alongside other howling at the moon together. It showed the city being overrun with foliage and monkeys running wild in the abandoned buildings. Street flooding over next to other statues.

"By Monty, how stubborn are you, kid?" Qrow asks in a stunned tone.

Before Sun could respond Slayer cut in

"This version of him, his stubbornness outweighs his intelligence. Your guy's version is about half that if it doesn't involve fighting or a girl." the host said with a smirk. Sun looked like he wanted to argue but was covered by the laughter of his teammate, team RWBY, and some snicker from team JNPR.

"So he's like tai yang when he was in school." Summer said with a snicker, gaining a glare from her husband.

' I got the willpower to survive! I know I do! This could go on for weeks, maybe months! But still.. I GOTTA LET HER KNOW!' Sun's determined thoughts played over a scene of a major city being flooded, a damn bursting, and the progression of the forest retaking the land. The screen focused back on him lying on the ground covered in moss but his clothes were seemingly worn away.

'How many decades has it been? Centuries? Millenia? Well I'm not giving up! I'm going to tell Blake what my true feelings are! I'm going to survive this even if it kills me!' his thoughts played again over the shown progression of the forest and animals reclaiming the land. It played over an ancient looking metal bridge collapsing and a decrepit skyscraper falling/ breaking into pieces.

"How long has it been?" Glynda asked their host.

"You'll see." slayer responded

The screen pulls away and shows a beautiful forested mountain side. Before showing a cave entrance with statues outside it one of which was tangled in a tree root. Heading inside they see sun laying on a pile of hay with some liquid dropping on to his head. Panning down to show his face suddenly a crack appears above his right eye and then a longer one forming on his left eye. A chunk of rock falls away to reveal Sun's blue eye to the world. Sun's eyes gain some light to them as he begins to panic and try to look around quickly. He gives grunts of pain as cracks begin to spread to the rest of his body.

"GaAHHH!" he screamed as The rock fell from over his mouth. He begins to rise as more stone falls off his now naked body.

"I'M FINALLY FREE! I CAN MOVE MY BODY AGAIN!" Sun shouts in excitement his face shows off some new scars that look like cracks.

"Wooh! he's free!" Yang shouted in an excited tone.

"Yeah but how did he get to that cave?" Ghira asked in a concerned tone.

"Maybe someone else got free and moved him there for his safety?" Kali offered helpfully.

"But why Sun and not someone else?" Blake asked.

"Maybe it's Jaune?" Sun offered "I mean we were best friends right?"

"Maybe but how did he or whoever else escape from the stone? In Fact how did you?" Weiss asked in a confused tone.

"Perhaps it has to do with the liquid that was dripping onto his head, miss Schnee." Doctor Oobleck said looking at the cave on screen behind Sun who was looking at a piece of stone in his hand.

Sun decides to move forward and exit the cave as he does he comes across several more people trapped in stone, some still whole while others shattered into pieces.

"Oh no… so like everyone went through all that too?" he asked in a distraught tone. He started at the large collection of different statue people scattered about the valley he was in in different states of whole or broken

"Its horrible. How long have we been like this?" he asked no one before going over to the stone and broken body of a young girl and praying for her. He began moving forward trying to find his bearing somehow.

"Not a bad idea. it's easier to make a plan of what to do when you know where you're at." Sienna responded half heartedly.

"Oh please we both know he is just doing it to find the girl." Willow shot at her with a smirk

'As long as the landscape hasn't changed too much I should be able to follow the river.' he remarked in his head Stopping at a small river to drink before continuing down its path.

' That will lead me to the tree and to her.' he thought as he pulled down some leaves and vines to make some coverage for his lower body. As he walked forward he recalled something similar happening weeks beforehand to a large number of birds throughout the country. Also how both he and Blake tried to take the petrified birds to a vet but realized it was closed before school started.

"Oh how cute" Cinder said with a large amount of sarcasm before making a gagging sound.

"You're just jealous that she has somebody that cares for her while stuck being crazy and single forever!" Nora shot at her with a big smirk at Cinder's death glare.

"Blake…" Sun said in a stunned tone as he moved some brush out of his way and spotted the petrified girl. Walking forward he passes several large roots before coming to a stop in front of her. She was wrapped into vines held close to the tree but still in one piece.

"I could never forget that face, not even after thousands of years. I knew you were still alive. I never lost hope and now." he said in a love filled voice staring at herewith such joy and excitement.

"Oh I'm really proud of you and you're incredible too, tree! You kept her safe this entire time. Like you held onto her. Thank you!" he shouted in an excited tone before he began to calm down and dropped to his knees in front of her.

"Sorry but I just couldn't protect you. In Fact when you really think about it you were actually the one protecting me. I was able to stay alive because of you. It's the truth you were my light shining in the darkness for hundreds even thousands of years" he admitted in a saddened voice as he looked down before looking back at her with determined eyes.

"And now I can finally say it. I started back then but i never got to finish. So what i was gonna tell you that day… is that… that i.." sun stopped as tears streamed down his face as he stared at Blake with pain filled eyes.

" I've loved you for hundreds and thousands of years." he said with a solemn expression on his face.

The reaction in the room was a combination of cheers and 'awes' at the confession which had both Blake and Sun blushing in embarrassment.

"Why couldn't you be that romantic ?" Salem said mockingly to Ozpin.

" Why couldn't you stay sane long enough for me to be that way with you?" Ozpin replied cheekily.

"Calm down dear" Kali said, restraining her husband before he tried to kill the boy in front of them out of fatherly rage.

Sun rose to his feet before climbing up to Blakes petrified form placing a hand on the tree next to her head he looked at her with eyes burning with determination.

"I swear on my life I'll save you! Don't know how but I'll find a way! Okay. so just wait…" he trailed off releasing here was something carved into the tree under his palm. Moving his hand he began to read out the message carved into the bark.

"Follow the river downstream, big oaf" as he read those words his eyes widened in shock. He leapt from his spot and took off running down the river. He ran and ran until he was panting for breath and came to a stop in a clearing. He stared up at a branch where a chuckling could be heard. The camera panned up to show Jaune dressed in tanned leather with written on his chest near the collar.

"Well look who's finally awake, good morning ya big oaf." Jaune said with a snicker. Looking down at Sun while carrying an axe and some sticks.

"Well someone's been busy while Sun was asleep.'' Neptune said with a smile.

"Yeah but that still doesn't answer the question of how he got out in the first place." Weiss responded looking even more confused.

"AHH Jaune you're alive too!" Sun shouted jumping at Jaune to give him a hug.

"DON'T YOU DARE HUG ME WHILE BUCK NAKED! HANDS OFF! I'M NOT JOKING!" Jaune shouted in disgust and planted his foot in suns crying face. They separated and calmed down. Jaune began cracking his neck as he looked at him.

"It's October 5th in the year 5738. You really slept in for a hell of a long time. I've been up and diligently working my tail off for the last six months." Jaune informed him dryly with a large smirk.

"Hold on so it's been.." sun trailed off, beginning to try and count how long it's been since they were turned to stone. He didn't get far before Jaune decided to give him the answer.

"It has been 3700 years." Jaune told him simply.

"That long…" Glynda muttered in a terrified tone.

"Can you imagine being conscious for that long?" Port said in a shock tone.

"How does Jaune know how long it's been if he can't see when he was petrified?" Saffron asked in a scared tone. Slayer pointed to the screen with a grin.

"How do you know what day it is? You got some kind of calendar or what?" Sun asked in a stupor.

"Huh? I figured it out by counting. It was the logical thing to do." he replied as if that was something normal. The screen fade black for a brief moment

"He's joking right?" Salem asked in a desperate tone.

'Four five six seven eigh-' his mind's eye snapped open in a black abyss

"Oh god he wasn't joking…" Salem lamented

"On a scale from one to ten how crazy is this version of Jaune arc?" Whitley asked in a fearful tone

"The one on screen is well above a ten. The one from your world about an 8. You have to be a little insane to be a huntsman nowadays, especially with how he got in." Slayer replied with a smirk.

'Damn almost lost consciousness again. Seems to happen about every eight hundred thousand seconds. Heh, it's about as regular as my bowel movement used to be.' Jaune thought as the screen now shows his petrified body covered in moss staring at the sky.

' i'll need to think and count at the same time run parallel processes 116,427,065,530 seconds. One two three four five six seven' his voice fades out as we find ourselves back to the forest where the blond duo are walking.

"So that whole time you were frozen.. You just counted?" Sun asked in a terrified tone.

"Even if i willed myself awake before then being out here stark naked and no supplies in winter would have meant game over pretty damn quickly. I realized I would have to start things up in the springtime. So keeping an extremely precise account of the time was an absolute must" Jaune replies with a dry tone as they enter a small clearing.

"I mean he isn't wrong... but how did he get out?" port asked in a confused tone

"Well thinking constantly like he was, could have helped with it...but honestly I'm too scared to find out." Doctor Oobleck asked in a meek one

"This human is kind of … kinda frightening" Adam said in a worried tone.

"Agreed." Sienna said quickly

"Alright we're here. We'll need to put a pin in the small talk and get to work." he said calmly, coming to a stop in front of sun, who walked forward staring up in a bit of amazement.

"Jaune… you're telling me. You did this on your own?" Sun asked in a shocked tone as he stared at a small base camp built in a gigantic tree limb with a rack of spears near a makeshift ladder. Under the building were several clay pots that seemed to act as food and water containers.

"Damn he's good." Ruby muttered in a shocked tone at what Jaune got done by himself.

"can our Jaune do that?" Nora asked curiously

"I mean he knows basic carpenter skills and some survival skills. Along with everything else me and my sister threw at him." Saffron said, trying to remember if he could build something like that or if he has built anything like that before.

"And what else did you have him learn?" Yang asked curiously

"Sewing, gardening, massages, fashion, cooking, cleaning, dancing, playing piano, singing, doing laundry, and various other hobbies that we dragged him into. Why?" Saffron asked with a smirk

"So you raised him to be a house husband?" Willow said blankly.

"... maybe but we were a little...very over-protective of him. Whenever a friend of ours tried to flirt with him we sorta convinced him that just how they treat their friends, so he might be a little dense.. Our bad." Saffron said, with a nervous chuckle at the glares she was receiving from a couple of the girls.

"Oh dear gods why?" Terra muttered under her breath at her wife's admittance of making her brother denser than a black hole.

"Perhaps we should see where this world is going?" Slayer offered to try to get this back on track as everyone turned their attention back to the screen.

"Until now I've been lacking manpower and coming up with the bare minimum to survive takes all my time. If I'm going to rebuild civilization, I'm going to need a muscled meathead to do all the grunt work." Jaune said as he began to climb the ladder.

"In other words I've been waiting for you Sun! I was ten billion percent sure you were still alive. You were so hell bent on confessing your love. And for a guy as stubborn as you, even a few thousand years wouldn't stop you from making that happen! You aren't that weak!" Jaune shouted towards him from up in the tree house. Sun gained a resolved look on his face before sending a proud look back towards his friend.

"Yeah, of course I'm not! Alright Jaune if you can handle all the brainy stuff, you can leave the heavy lifting to me. No problem!" Sun's voice shouted over the scene of Jaune using a bow drill to start a fire, while Sun chopped some wood for when it got going. As the fire began to grow, an ember flew up through the night sky.

"It took humanity over two million years to crawl out of the stone age to the modern age. We need to do that in a sprint! I swear we will take back the world! Through science I'll figure out what happened to us and how we broke free!" Jaune said, glaring into the flames as Sun sat across from him.

"I swear I'm going to save Blake!" Sun declared his eyes hardened with his resolve

"We may be a couple of high-school kids but we're going to rebuild civilization from the ground up! You and I will be like Ozma and Salem. together will bring life back to this stone world. This is exhilarating ,get excited!" Jaune said with a smile as the screen faded black.

"He probably should have worded that just a bit differently but otherwise a good pep talk." Ozpin said with a smile.

"How so?" Salem asked.

"Me and you were married and he is comparing them to us. You see where I'm going with this?" Ozpin explained getting her to stare at him blankly for a couple of minutes before scoffing at his explanation.

"He just means they have to work hard to get this world back to normal." Salem replied with a smug tone.

The screen comes back to life with Sun running back to their base camp with a pack full of food wearing similar clothing to Jaune.

" That's definitely a plus sized haul Sun. Do you have a real life cheat code for stamina?" Jaune asked as he stared at the pack of food in disbelief. Sun looked proud of what he had done before begin to hear jaune sorting through the food he grabbed. tossing the piglet aside he began separating mushrooms, vegetables, fruits , and berries from each other. He then began listing off what was poisonous and what was the two sit down and roast some of their food over a fire and Jaune adds some salt he got from pulling it from sea water. They eat up before Sun grabs the now empty pack and takes off in another direction. As Sun ran he came across a grape tree and tried some before cringing at how sour they tasted. After getting over it he began to look around and found more statues before focusing on one intact statue sitting against a tree.

" hey I know I've seen that guy on tv." Sun muttered to himself walking closer to take in the detail of the statue. The man had long flowing hair that reached his back and two horns coming off his forehead. He looked to be very muscular but not overly so.

"Is that me?" Adam asked in confusion

"Yeah it is … what have you done this time to be on tv." Sienna snarkily asked him, getting a light glare in response.

"He's called the strongest primate high-schooler, Adam tauras. Guess he couldn't fight it either." sun said somberly looking at the petrified bull faunus. As Sun wanders off he finds himself back at the cave he awoke from. When he entered he spotted a small cup gathering liquid

"What's that? WOAH! Me and Jaune haven't been here yet so that means someone else survived! I got to know who they are!" Sun shouted happily.

"Someone else is alive!" Ruby asked cheerfully

"But where are they?" Weiss asked in a concerned tone.

"It was me, you idiot!" Jaune said, appearing at the mouth of the cave. spooking Sun into spinning around to meet him.

"Well shit there goes that bit of hope." Yang said in an unamused tone.

"No way! Are we the only humans left for real?" Sun asked in a somber tone.

"We'll get more, that's a top priority." Jaune said in a serious voice before giving sun in awkward stare

"I mean the two of us alone, just a couple of dudes? Can't really restart humanity if you catch my drift?" Jaune stated, awkwardly getting sun to sweat nervously.

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"OhHHH!" Ruby said with an atomic red blush.

"Well I mean he's not wrong" Blake said in an awkward tone.

"But he really, really didn't need to say it." Pyrrha said with a chuckle as Nora was snickering wildly next to her.. Meanwhile on the other side of the room, Sun was imitating his onscreen counterpart as Neptune laughed at him.

"Yeah that's true!" Sun said with a strained voice watching his friend walk forward towards the mess of stone skin on the ground

"Besides, why in 37 hundred years did we break free from our petrified condition?" Jaune asked as he moved.

"The stone rotted away?" Sun offered in a confused tone.

"Well something like that… say this strange mineral had been corroded. Can you chalk up the timing to mere random coincidence?" Jaune asked, waving a small chunk of the stone skin in his hand.

"Six months apart is a relative blip on the radar. There's a reason we both reanimated so close together." he said with a smirk.

"Wait really?" Emerald asked confusedly.

"I just figured Jaune had something to do with it." Nora replied with a knowing tone.

"Well you're half right." Slayer responded, getting the group to look at him for answers; before he turned back to the screen ignoring the looks.

"We drifted up near here. So it would make sense that this cave would factor in somehow. You see that the stuff trickling in from overhead." he said while looking at the ceiling. Causing sun to follow his line of sight a tiny droplet of liquid falling into a cup below.

"That's our miracle fluid … made from bat guano. Good ole nitric acid." Jaune said with a smile.

"NO WAY THAT'S CRAZY!" Sun shouted staring up at the ceiling

"I'm sorry what?" Weiss asked in an annoyed tone.

"Their miracle cure is made from guano?" Whitley in a confused and slightly disgusted tone.

"What is that!?" Sun shouted/asked.

"I did expect that question, but I'm not going to waste my breath explaining it to you." Jaune said a tired voice. The screen cuts to a stone bird as the nitric acid is poured onto it.

"Let me guess you pour that stuff on it and the bird wakes up?" Sun asked, watching Jaune pour the liquid onto the bird statue.

"How I wish it were that straight forward." Jaune tiredly responded as they both began to stare at the stone bird…. But nothing happened. And Jaune gave a tired sigh.

"Someone get that kid a drink. He sounds like he needs it." Qrow said while taking a sip from his flask.

"I don't think alcohol will help in this situation, Qrow!" summer growled at him with a glare.

"I've been working like a mad man on this project using every last method I could think of." Jaune said, picking the bird up and walking into the shack next to them. As Sun entered behind him, he stopped cold, seeing the wall of stone birds in front of him along with all the tools jaune had built by hand to help with his research.

"Over and over. Again and again. It's like something from a fantasy world. Is it all mineral? Are there any living cells underneath? I don't have a laboratory for in depth analysis." Jaune said in an annoyed tone, placing the bird alongside the others.

"So basically what you are telling me is there are things that science can't explain." Sun said in a stunned tone before jaune started to chuckle.

"There we go that tired old cliché! Truth is it never quite stands up to the scientific method. Science is often a slow process… some liquor might speed things up." Jaune said, bringing a hand to his chin in thought.

"Now we're talking!" Qrow shouts happily

"I'm sure he has a better reason for the booze than you do brother." Raven responded.

"Still mean he has to make some I'm gonna write this down " Qrow said bringing out his scroll and getting ready to type it out as his former team and nieces sigh in frustration.

" I wonder how exactly they're gonna make it?" Nora asked in a confused tone.

"Perhaps it'll be the same way the ancient mistrals used to make it " Oobleck offered.

"Combined with the nitric acid it could make something potent. What is commonly known as nital." Jaune said as the background behind shows some picture of the bat guano labeled as 'nitric acid' and a picture of a wine bottle labeled 'ethanol', before it shows a brown bottle labeled 'nital etch'.

"Which is an industrial strength etching agent." Jaune explained with a shark-like grin.

"What did you say we needed?" Sun asked, twitching slightly.

"I said we could make nital. It gets into the ferrite grain boundary-" Jaune began as he turned to his friend with a blank look.

"No! Don't confuse me with some science talk. I mean the part about liquor!... wine comes from grapes yeah?" Sun asked/ cut off Jaunes' lesson? He reached into his bag and held out two handfuls of grapes.

"And that is a type of alcohol isn't it?" he asked as Jaune stared at him before giving a big smile.

"Not bad, ya big oaf!" Jaune said proudly. The screen changes to late afternoon as Jaune plucking and crushing grapes by hand over a pot. Then sun comes out with an even larger pot and begins to stop the grapes as hard as he can.

"Hm yeah we'll have you handle all the neck down work from here on out it just the logical choice." Jaune said just watching him go.

"That looks like fun." Ruby said excitedly.

"Kinda does." Yang admitted.

"So they are doing it that way. I wonder how it will taste?" Oobleck asked, getting a snort from his fellow teacher.

"Barty, I've known you for a long time...you can't handle your alcohol." Port responded with a chuckle, getting a glare from Oobleck in response.

"Making wine is an extremely simple process. Crush your grapes or fruit, put it into a container, and stir it everyday until it's ready to go." Jaune's voice is heard as they watch Sun and Jaune pour it into several smaller pots.

"But if we tried to do this in our time we'd get arrested for not having a license" Jaune said as Sun stirred the pot of wine with all his might.

"I thought of something. Underage drinking is a crime too." Sun said as he slowly poured the wine through a sieve into another pot. Jaune sitting next to him snorts in response.

"Not a problem! After all, we're both a little over 37 hundred years old!" Jaune exclaimed holding up a clay wine glass

"That's not how that works Jaune!" Pyrrha shouted at her idiotic, genius leader.

"But technically he's right." Ren said before flinching from her and Saffron's glare.

"No trust me he isn't" Saffron said with an aura of malice around her.

"Oh yeah that's right!" Sun says before giving a big laugh. Before he brings the pot to his mouth and takes a big gulp. Meanwhile Jaune swirls it before taking a slight sip.

"Not bad. Way better than expected but it's ten billion times worse than what was on the market." Jaune says as Sun is coughing up a lung trying to get it out.

"Lightweight!" Qrow and Willow shout at the boy

"Oh Fuck off!" Sun shouted back

"... how does he know how bad the wine on the market tasted?" Terra asked with a deep glare.

"Ozpin was trying his best, leave him be." Slayer responded meekly. The headmaster facepalmed at this statement.

"How did he get a hold of it?" Ozpin asked.

"Well you were in space so he didn't really need to sneak around to grab it." Slayer responded with a grin.

"Why was he in space? Salem asked in a confused tone.

"He's an astronaut. He always wanted to be one. He was on the space station with some other people working to complete whatever mission they were sent on." Slayer responded.

"Wait, that means they were in space when the planet was hit with that petrification wave or whatever. Right?" Saffron asked with a hint of concern.

"Oh they were before taking a drop pod down to the planet-side with everyone else on the station afterwards... He died thousands of years ago." Slayer said in a saddened tone.

"Well that kinda sucks." Neptune muttered as the room felt a bit more disheartened at that.

"That was so easy! Just stomping grapes and waiting around?" Sun asked, getting over his coughing fit, to stare at the pot in front of him.

"One step at a time my friend. Though I hate to say it, our pace will slow down. This will be a course on distilling wine for dummies. Our goal is to acquire some brandy." Jaune said, staring at his friend. The two get up to head outside and begin.

"Distilling huh? No idea what that means!" Sun said as he jumped down while Jaune climbed down slowly.

"I knew you said that. It's heating, cooling, and dripping. That will concentrate the alcohol." Jaune said plainly as they began to build a large distilling pot with bamboo drip pipe over. They palace over an open flame and place a smaller pot near the end of the drip

"Don't worry people in ancient mistral were doing this with clay pots in three thousand BC! And if they can do it then so can we! Now get excited Su-" Jaune began a hyped up speech only to be cut off as a break in the pot makes a hole where wine comes gushing out from. Then the entire thing breaks apart drenching them in warm wine.

"And you failed…" Roman said with a snicker.

"They just gotta try again later" Qrow said with a smirk

(be the adam and eve of this stone world ost #8 plays)

"Oh hey, some new music to add to my playlist!" Ruby said head bobbing to the beat.

"I won't lie it sounds pretty good" Saffron said happily

"This is some music to listen to while you work" Terra said calmly as she held Adrian close to her. Adrian was giggling at the pretty noise he was hearing.

As the music played they saw Jaune was already working on a second pot while his clothes dried. Meanwhile Sun was trying to get him to eat something. An overhead shot of the forest to show the night turn to day before going back to Jaune waking and propping the lab's front drapes up with a branch. As Sun walked up, Jaune carried out a small pot and started telling him what to do. They both went about their day sun collecting food and Jaune building another distilling pot. They took a break for lunch before going back to work. Time began to march on as Jaune finished the pot and began distilling, taking a break to make some marked cups for scientific purposes. More time passed even faster as it was winter and the snow around the lab was almost as tall as Jaune. Sun shows that progression of time by having a pretty good beard grown by now, only noticing when he went to wipe snow off Blakes statue. Then Jaune helps to show him how to get rid of it with some clams to which sun does it as fast as he can.

"Pfft~ what the hell is that hahaha '' Yang says while laughing at Suns now puffy face.

"Shut up! I'd like to see you try using them and see how you turn out!" Sun shouted in embarrassment.

The screen then shows Jaune and Sun inside the lab pouring their newly made attempts at nital over the stone bird and….. Nothing happens.

"That's a bummer," Mercury said in a disappointed tone.

Jaune's kicks a pot in frustration before making a realization about how it should work.

"Listen up big oaf! It isn't that there are things science can't explain, not in the least. There are rules behind everything that happens. Science is just the name for the steady pain in the ass effort to find out what they are" Jaune says as they both watch the last he poured the nital on begin to crack its stone prison and free itself. Sun gives a pumped scream of joy while Jaune sits down to take it in.

"Wooh! This means they can free everybody else!" Nora shouted happily

"Finally they can rebuild the world!" Kali cheered with a big smile on her face, her husband sharing that smile but just a bit more quietly.

"Now I wonder who's gonna be the first one to be revived?" Yang said teasingly towards Blake who glared at her.

"I've been experimenting for a year now. It actually didn't take as long as I imagined. Slow and steady wins the race. I'm gonna beat fantasy with science as my only weapon!" Jaune said with a calm smile on his face. The screen fade to black with these final words being spoken.

"Oh hell yeah, Get excited!"

"I'm excited; fearless leader!" Nora shouted passionately

"Same here, we'll get to visit this world again?" Saffron asked happily.

"Some time in the future but for now there are others we must see. For this next one I would recommend putting Adrian into the cradle, " Slayer said as the aforementioned cradle reappeared to take the small child.

"Why is the next one that scary?" Cinder asked calmly.

"Not really but i would say to do so unless you want him to see Jaune in a fight getting bloody and bruised." Slayer offered, terra and saffron whispered to each other before nodding to one another.

"We'll keep him out for this next one besides it my turn to hold him." terra said, grabbing her baby and cooing at him softly, getting some giggles from the boy. The cradle sunk into the floor disappearing once again.

"So this next world is going to be a fight?" Tai yang asked

"Well yes but a bit more professional." Slayer replied, setting the world up quickly.

"In what regard?" Glynda asked

"One word: boxing"


Hope you guys enjoyed this bit of hell. I'm going to regret what I'm doing next but I hope you people enjoy it.

An1 : this was the best answer i could give because i haven't gotten too far in the manga so i don't know what it really was.

An2: why did i include the music because it's a really good soundtrack. Why else?