Chapter 42

It is the 1st of October on a Saturday morning at the Remnant Encampment. Everyone had a long night fending off a bunch of undead, prehistoric monster that suddenly appeared. The creatures were wiped out with many of their bones harvested for other purposes and the zombified dodos were left to rot due to fear of contaminating the soil when turned into fertilizer for the plants. People had to sleep in shifts in order to keep the monsters away which they do have a lot of people to do so.

Then all of a sudden, over at Team JNPR's house. Nora went out to get some exercise. But something caught her attention. She looked up and sees a giant candy corn coming down from the sky under the white light. Nora's eyes open wider with her jaw dropping along with some drool.

Nora points at it, "Giant CANDY COOOORRRRNNNN!"

She yelled so loud that An went out the front door of her house, "What's going on?! Are there more attacks!?" But when she looked at where Nora is, she sees Nora hugging the giant candy corn and licking it. "What the...?"

Nora then takes a bite out of it but ends up hurting her teeth. She places both her hands on her mouth and falls back on her back onto the pixelated grass. She is in great pain as she rolls around and crying. An tries to help out and comforts the poor girl.

Lie comes out of the house, "What happened?" He sees his mother hugging Nora as Nora keeps her left hand on her mouth. Then he notices the large candy corn instead of one of those supply beacons. A large sweat drop appears on the back of his head, "I think I understand."

Jaune then comes out, "Hey, what's going on?" Then he notices the giant candy corn. He gasps at it, "Giant CANDY CORN!"

Jaune lunges at it with Lie trying to reach him, "No. Wait!"

CHOMP! "YEEEEEEAAAAAAAOOOOOOOWWWWW!" Then Jaune ended-up in the same situation as Nora.

Pyrrha dashes out the door to help Jaune.

Li then gets out of the door of his house in a panic, "What happened?!" He has an ebony bow in his right hand as he notices the giant candy corn. Then he looks at Nora and Jaune covering their mouths. Suffering from trying to bite the fake candy corn that turns out to be a beacon. "I see."

Over at the vault, Ciel and Simmons are working together in a lab with microscopes from Subnautica and Fallout 4, a fluid analyzer, a sample analyzer, a few lab bottles, Bunsen burners and a chemistry station. However, they also have master level alchemy equipment from Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion such as alembics, calcinators, mortar and pestles, and retorts. As of now, Simmons is examining the vigors that were in the containers in the fluid analyzer (and yes I know that the lab equipment has no function in Subnautica but has a function here) in order to understand more about them. He continues to analyze the vigor, Devil's Kiss, along with a scanner. As in an actual scanner and not a plasma pistol.

"Hmm." Simmons says with a curious tone. "Interesting."

Ciel, who is using a microscope, looks away to see what Simmons found. "What is it?"

Simmons turn to face Ciel, "Well...I found out that these vigors stuff is close to the drinkable plasmids from that Bioshock game. As a matter of fact, both of them are made of the same substance. Same that goes for the EVE and salts. They are quite similar to stem cells but a bit more advance."

"Really?" Ciel's own curiosity is piqued. "But what are stem cells?"

Simmons goes into great detail about what stem cells are so we'll fast forward and move on.

Meanwhile, Oscar attends to his crops as if nothing has happened. He continues to make sure that there is plenty of food before the seasons change. But he looked at the trees Jaune planted which are Minecraft oak trees. He notices that they have changed color from green to brown or yellow. But he continues to work on the farm to make sure that there is enough to last through the winter.

Then Penny shows up, "Need any help?"

Oscar stops and looks at Penny, "Hmm? Oh, yeah, sure." He points at the tomatoes, "See if the tomatoes are ready."

"Got it." Penny smiles as she tilts her head and salutes right before checking on them.

Arslan of Team ABRN then shows up, "Can I help?"

Oscar looks at Arslan, "Well, I've been thinking about making a few more greenhouses before the weather takes a turn for the worse. Since we got more people here, we should grow some more crops. If we don't, we may need to resort to eating mushrooms until spring."

"Those mushrooms aren't that bad." Arslan says. "The blue milk mushroom is pretty good along with the carandol. Plus the lothrond should grow in any temperature. But the naugrimbas is less to be desire due to its disgusting taste but I can't deny the medical purposes that they bring."

"What about that earthbread herb?"

"We could use it to make emergency bread but it looks more like a potato. But back on topic, the remmenthond has completely taken over one of the greenhouses."

Oscar stood up, "Already?"

Arslan points at the third greenhouse to the left side of the slope as they can see the medicinal weed has completely overgrown inside the warehouse. They can see the red and thorny plant has covered all the windows and can be seen through the ceiling.

"Looks like we may need to cut that weed back. I'm surprised on how fast it grew."

"You can say that again. The plant may soothe wounds and burns with its sap but it is a very tricky plant."

"I may need to check the herb guide again."

BICORN: New test subjects arriving.

Li Ren has taken Lie and Nora out for a hunting trip despite the new dangers that had cropped up. The three of them take cover in the bushes as they spot a herd of megaloceroses in the redwood forest with their bows.

Nora whispers, "Why are we doing this?"

Li answers, "Since I died when Lie was a child, I never got the chance to tell him the importance of life and hunting. I had so many plans."

Lie places his hand on his father's shoulder. When Li looks at his son, Lie smiles at him. Li smiles back before he ready his ebony bow and ebony arrow aimed at the big elk with the largest antlers. But before he takes fire, the male megaloceros raised its ears and looked at somewhere south as some strong winds blow from that direction. Li lowers his weapon when he sees the megaloceros noticing a change in the air. All the other megaloceroses raised their heads and looked south.

"Something's wrong." Lie whispers.

"I've noticed that too." Li whispers back.

"Is it a predator?" Nora asks just itching for a fight.

The herd immediately ran off a few seconds before strange lighting strike the ground a few feet away from where the herd scattered.

Nora stands up from the bushes and gets excited, "NEW PEOPLE!" Then Nora dashes over to where the lightning strike at to see the new comers.

Li and Lie stand up from the bushes.

Lie asks his father, "Should we go?"

"We should. Because I'm afraid that Nora might do something extreme."

Nora went over and sees the new people that have arrived close at the forest. When she went over, she sees six naked women lying unconscious on the ground. One has shoulder-length black ash air and tan complexion. Another woman has a brown skin complexion with short, chocolate hair parted on the left. There is one woman that has long white hair, another with long hair that has a darkish pink at the top that becomes hot pink towards the end along with having freckles on her face and shoulders. The third maiden has a forest green hair at the top that becomes lime green at the end that is a little shorter than the two maidens mentioned before along with some plants growing under her. The last one has a more shoulder length hair that comes in waves of dark amber to rust to orange to gold then vice versa towards the end.

Somewhere else close to the redwood forest. A woman with wavy, dirty blonde hair and blue eyes is awakened startled in a place she is unfamiliar with. She looks around and notices a woman with short dark brown hair laying just two feet away from her.

She shakes her to wake her up. "Terra!" she shouted.

Terra woke-up gasping and startled, "Where am I!?"

Close to them, they hear a baby crying. Terra got up and lifts up the baby.

Terra looked at the blonde woman terrified as she tries to comfort the baby. "Saphron. What happened?"

Saphron looks around to notice the giant trees around her, "I have no clue." Saphron is just as scared and shocked as Terra is while Adrian calms down.

Coming from a rocky outcrop, a titanoboa slithers its way up to them. The two women stood there petrified as the gigantic snake looks like its about to attack. Both of them are too terrified to run as Adrian hides his face in Terra's right breast. But as the giant snake is about to lunge at them, a warrior dressed in black armor drops down from above and plunged his greatsword into the beast's head. Yet the sword itself looks like it is in a sheath that makes it look like a large greatsword. Terra gets behind Saphron with Adrian as Saphron shields them both.

The warrior removes his sword and looks at the two frighten women and the baby. "Saph?" the warrior says in a familiar voice.

Saphron recognizes the voice the ebony warrior speaks through his helmet.

The ebony warrior removes his helmet to show his face. And it turns out, it is Jaune.

"Jaune?!" Saphron says in disbelief as she recognizes her little brother. "JAUNE!" Saphron runs and tackle hugs Jaune. "I am so glad to see you!"

Jaune is being a little nervous, "Okay! You're snuggling me with your naked body! Gross! Stop it!"

Saphron looks at him, "Oh come on! You've seen me naked plenty of times!" She winces then looks back at Terra, "It really is Jaune!"

Adrian claps his hands and giggles while Terra is left astonished.

Saphron teases her brother a little by squeezing his cheeks, "Oh, I missed you my baby brother."

Jaune flails to get Saphron off and groans at her, "I'm not a baby!" He points at Adrian, "THAT'S a baby!"

Adrian huffs and pouts and cross his arms at Jaune.

"HELLO!?" a voice from the woods says from the east. "Jaune?! Did you find anybody!?"

Jaune shouts, "I found someone, Pyrrha! And you wouldn't believe who showed up!"

Saphron looks at Jaune, "Wait, Pyrrha?" She is baffled by what she heard. "As in, Pyrrha Nikos?! The four-time winner of the Mistral Regional Tournament Champion?! The one who has her face plastered on Pumpkin Pete's cereal Pyrrha Nikos?!"

Pyrrha comes out of the brush as she moves a few ferns away from her until she sees Terra, Adrian, Saphron, and Jaune. She gasps at the sight when she sees Jaune's sister, sister-in-law, and baby nephew. Saphron points at Pyrrha while looking back at Jaune and Pyrrha a few times. Adrian waves both of his little hands at Pyrrha while laughing.

Saphron gets off of Jaune, stands up, and goes, "Oh my god. Oh. My. God." while looking at Pyrrha. She gets excited, "Oh my god!"

Jaune gets up and goes, "Ahem!" which caught his sister's attention. "Can we get somewhere safe so we can talk? Because this place isn't safe."

They hear a twig snap coming from the north as they turn around to see a horde of fifty zombies stumbling and shifting towards them with some having gargled groans, depressive moans, nasty screams, and ghastly howls. Adrian cries at the sight of these monsters in terror.

Jaune looks at Terra and Saphron as he yells, "RUN!" And the three of them ran away with Terra holding tight to Adrian.

Pyrrha whipped out her Milo and started firing at the zombies' heads. She managed to shot down eight of those undead carcasses dead. To her, it is simple. Slow moving targets make it easier for her to take out.

But Jaune shouts at Pyrrha, "Pyrrha! Come on!"

Pyrrha lowers her weapon, puts it away, and run to meet up with the others. That is when a zombified fire wyvern showed up and burn them, ate some of them, and flew off.

Back at the docks of the Remnant Encampment; Blake, Kali, and Ghira decided to spend some family time together by fishing. They sit at the edge of the dock with some fishing rods Takashi and his group brought back. Blake is excited as she smacks her lips and her ears twitch in anticipation.

Kali says to Blake, "Patience, my dear. Patience."

Blake looks at her mother, "Oh. Sorry." She looks back at the ocean while looking at her line to see what kind of fish is she gonna catch.

A line from Ghira starts to tug. "I got one! I got one!" Ghira says in suspense.

"Pull it in!" Blake starts to get excited again.

Ghira does his best to pull the line, "Oh, he's a big one!" He struggles to reel the fish in as it keeps on struggling to break free. "I got it! Almost!" He yanks the line and catches a fish, "Got it!" He looks at his catch and it wasn't what he was expecting. "What the...?"

Everyone looks at Ghira's catch and it looks weird. It looks like a wrinkled fish that is grey and white yet that's not the only weird thing. It has characteristics of a stag beetle on its head and back.

"What is that?" Blake asks.

Kali says, "It looks like a mix between a stag beetle with a fish."

"A beetle fish?" Ghira says. But he put it in his inventory and looks at it, "It is a beetle fish. Huh?"

Blake's line looks like it is being tugged which she immediately reeled in and pulls in...a holefish from Subnautica. "Score!" Blake adds the holefish in her inventory.

Kali then notices something drifting not too far from the shore. She sees a tiny raft with three naked people on the two by two raft made of planks and plastics. One is a female that has brown, pink, and white hair lying on the raft unconscious. Another person is a man with bright orange hair with bangs covering his right eye who is also unconscious. The third person is also a woman with tan complexion (with the other two being white), long dark brown hair, and hazel colored eyes who is signaling the Belladonna's by jumping up and down and waving her arms frantically.

"Someone is in trouble!" Kali pointed out.

Both Ghira and Blake look and noticed the raft drifting among the waves.

Ghira stood up, "I'll go!" Ghira strips off his dark violet coat with white fur trim, his silver metal buckle, and his boots before diving in and swim over to the raft.

Blake gets up, "I'm going too!" Blake strips off her black buttoned vest, her black scarf, and black low-heel boots then swims after her father to help

"Be careful!" shouts Kali while being worried about her family.

Both of them swam to the raft as the woman kneels down, "Oh thank gods!" She is very glad and appreciative. "My name is Gretchen Rainart! I don't know what I'm doing here or how I got here!"

"I'm Ghira Belladonna." Ghira introduces himself as he pulls the raft. "And this is my daughter, Blake."

Blake looks at the other two and recognizes them. "That's Roman Torchwick!" Blake says.

"Who?" Gretchen asks.

"The human criminal?!" Ghira went as he keeps on towing the raft.

Roman Torchwick woke up and gains consciousness. "Ow." he says in a groggy tone. He lifts his head and rubs the back of it with his right hand. "What happened? Where am I? Wait, who am I?" It appears that Roman Torchwick has amnesia as well.

Neopolitan starts to wake-up and does a silent yawn as she stretches. She tries to speak, but nothing comes out of her mouth. She tries shouting, yelling, screaming, but nothing comes out. She looked beside her and sees some people then gets frightened. Like Roman, she has no memory of who they are as she nervously covers herself. She seems to have amnesia as well.

At the main gate, Team JNPR and Li Ren gave the new comers cloth clothing to help cover themselves up as they safely get into Remnant Encampment. Although Adrian is wearing some cloth clothes tied together to form a diaper.

Jaune shouts, "OPEN THE GATE! WE GOT SOME PEOPLE OUT HERE!"

Caboose is at the top of the wall connected to the behemoth gate. "WHAT'S THE PASSWORD?!" Caboose shouts back.

"WE DON'T DO PASSWORDS!"

Caboose looks at Jaune silently for a minute before saying, "ARE YOU SURE?!"

"YES!" Jaune is starting to get frustrated. "WE NEVER DID PASSWORDS!"

"I THOUGHT TUCKER SAID WE ARE!"

"Oh for the love of- THAT GUY IS AN IDIOT PERVERT! SO OPEN THE BLOODY GATE ALREADY!"

"OKAY!" Caboose opens the gate which General Ironwood, Salem, Maria and Ozma are there to greet them.

"Hey!" Jaune says with a wave of his left hand.

"Hello again!" Pyrrha says. Following Jaune's example.

Nora then says, "We got company!"

Ozma immediately recognize four of the girls that he met in one of his incarnations. He recognize the white haired woman with the blue eyes, the green hair women with the bright green eyes, the pinkish hair woman with magenta eyes, and the orange hair woman with amber eyes. The four of them recognize Ozma immediately.

"Hey?" says the pinkish haired woman with a gentle smile, "Aren't you the old wizard that gave us our powers?"

Everyone looked at Ozma with the look of shock.

Ozma then steps up, "I was. And it is great to see you again, Summer." Then he looks at the other maidens respectfully calling their names, "Winter. Fall. And Spring. The four seasonal maidens."

Pyrrha went, "Wait, what? As in the Four Maidens from the fairy tales?"

Lie looks at Ozma, also shocked, "And you were the old wizard?"

Saphron goes, "Oh my god."

But Terra looks at Saphron, "How many times are you gonna say that?"

The woman with brown hair and silver colored eyes approach, "Can someone explain what is going on?"

Maria drops her staff as she recognized the woman standing in front of her. "I don't believe it."

Salem looks at Maria, "Maria? Do you know that woman?"

"I do." Maria picks up her staff while looking at a ghost from her past. "All too well. That young woman is me. My past self!"

The younger version of Maria winced at what her older self said. "Excuse me?!" she doesn't believe it. She chuckles, "I find it hard to believe that someone like you is me. You could be my grandmother that I never met, but seriously? You are me?"

Older Maria smiles, "Oh really. Then let me tell you a few things that you and I only know. Such as your semblance: preflexes. The fact that father taught us on killing Grimm and he was a soldier who also did research on the Silver-Eyed Warriors that can disintegrate, petrify, or simply kill Grimm. Still no? Then how about the fact that we got the highest score on the Hunstmen liscence exam even though we never attended any of those fancy academies? Father scorned us for showing off. Then how about our nickname? The Grimm Reaper!"

Younger Maria's eyes widen as every fact that she said is true. "Holy... You ARE me!" Then screams with a terrified look on her face, "I'M SOOO OOOOLLLLDDD! I LOOK LIKE AN OLD MUMMY!"

Older Maria scolds her younger self by whacking her forehead with the staff. "Shush it!"

"Ow!" she rubs the bruise on her head. Adrian laughs.

"Just watch your tongue!" She points her staff at her younger self. "That is no way to treat your elders!"

"But you're ME."

"What's going on?!" Ciel approaches with her clipboard. "I heard some screaming..." she notices the newcomers, "and...though that our defenses..."

Ironwood clears his throat. "Sorry Ciel, but it looks like we have some newcomers to join us."

Ciel smiles yet she is not happy as her left eye starts to twitch a little. "Oh. Okay." Ciel closes her eyes as she snaps the clipboard into two with her right knee while still smiling. She continues to stomp on it twenty times before marching off.

"Dude!" Tucker showed up. "What is going on?" Tucker then notices a lot of new women at the gate. "More bitches! Awesome!" Then a few ice spikes, earth spikes, and glass spikes were fired at him that cause him to be pinned to the side of a barn. Tucker starts to panic, "Did I say bitches? I mean witches!" Then a few more spikes were launched at him. "Okay! I get it! I'll keep it in my pants! Bow-chika-bow-wow."

Blake then runs up to Ironwood, Ozma, and Salem. "Everyone! We have three new people joining us and you wouldn't believe who it is!"

"Who is it?" Salem asks.

We cut to the Malachite Inn where Roman enjoys eating a piece of bread. He says with a mouthful, "Fish is gob brea." He is saying, 'This is good bread.' Neopolitan is there drinking a jar of red tea next to him.

Everyone in the room is a little surprised to see Roman and Neopolitan, the most notorious criminals of Vale, here with them yet has amnesia. Having them with them is a bit unsettling despite their amnesia. Although Grif, Doc, and Donut are a little confused.

Doc asks Qrow, "Do you know that guy?"

"That's Roman Torchwick. A criminal from our world. And the person next to him is his second-in-command, Neopolitan. Or Neo for short."

"I don't know." Donut says. "He seems like an okay guy. But the woman next to him though..."

"Have a bad vibe from her?"

"Yeah. That hairstyle is soooo last year. I mean pink, brown, and a hint of white? What is this, an ice cream social?"

Grif sighs as he turns his head and looks down. "Surely wish that there is some ice cream right now."

"Me too, Grif." Doc agrees. "Me too."

Qrow looks at them and goes, "When we find any cows or goats, we can learn how to make our own."

Grif looks at Qrow, "Fuck that. The whole point of ice cream is the fact that it's already made."

But Doc says, "Actually, I would like to do some experiments in making ice cream. I could try mixing jazbay grapes, Nirn snowberries, and juniper berries to make a nice little blend."

Qrow raises a shot glass and smiles, "Good luck with that."

"And I get to taste test." Grif volunteers.

But Donut says, "Actually, I think that Neopolitan girl should be taste testing."

Grif looks at Donut, "Fuck you. I want something that will get me brain freeze."

Doc whispers to Qrow, "Not much of a brain in that noggin'."

Qrow whispers back, "He probably ate it along with everything else."

Doc and Qrow chuckle a little at what they just said.

Qrow takes a sip from his drink. "Well I hope all this spooky shit clears up a little."

Donut asks, "Why's that?"

"Because Ruby's birthday is this month."

"Oo, what day?"

"Same day as Halloween."

Grif looks at Qrow, "Seriously?! That means she gets to have all the candy! Lucky-"

Qrow glares at Grif, "Don't you dare call her that."

Grif take a gulp. "Right...I mean, lucky girl. That's what I meant to say."

"Good call." Then Qrow drinks some more. He gets off his chair and approaches Roman. "Hey." he says. Roman turns to face Qrow. Qrow raises a shot glass, "Care for a few rounds?"

Not long after that, they both are laughing on their chairs while drinking some alcohol. Both of them are stupidly drunk after a while.

"I can't believe that Tai did that to you!" Roman says as he drinks some matze.

"He said it was a kilt!" Qrow says, "And I actually believed him!"

"Ah man! That is hilarious!" Roman looks at his drink. "Hey, hey. What is this?" He looks at terracotta jar he is holding and has no idea what it is. Roman looks at his implant to see what it is. "Matze? What the hell is a matze?"

Qrow looks at it, "Don't know. But it's like a mix of sake and beer. A little salty in my opinion."

"Where did, where, *hic* where did you get this stuff?"

"Actually, that Ren guy found it at a ruined city where we got thosh magic...Whoo. I think I had enough."

Neopilitan passed out onto the floor after having too much. Roman points and laughs at Neo right before he pass out himself.

Qrow laughs a little, "Light weights." Then he passes out himself.

Melanie shakes her head at the poor sight of the three drunken fools. She looks at her twin sister, "Miltia, can you help me out?"

Miltia sighs. "Alright, just give me a minute."