JNPR moved silently through the woods. Jaune was leaping from tree to tree with his armor lights off and helmet on. Ren, Pyrrha and Nora were lagging a bit behind Jaune. They were making their way towards the increased source of Grimm activity.

Jaune was the first to make it to a clearing that was roughly five miles away from the town. What he was met with was something that made him shake to his very core. There were cages full of Grimm and people were extracting blood from them. Standing in the middle of the clearing with a bunch of computers, was a man with a crazed appearance. He had a mad scientist look about him and was smiling maniacally.

"Hehehe. My work is almost finished! I just need a few more samples of blood and I'll be able to make hybrid creation!"

A giant man with a huge gauntlet on his right arm stood next to the crazed looking man. "I don't care Dr. Merlot. You hired me to protect you and make sure no one found out about our operation here. I assume you will pay me on our agreement?"

"Of course Akande! I will pay you double for your fine work." Merlot spoke.

"I told you. My name is Doomfist." Doomfist gave Merlot a glare.

Merlot waved him off and continued to examine his computers.

"Nora and Pyrrha, attack and destroy the computers when I make the distraction. Don't let that scientist escape, Ren that will be your job. I'll take the big guy by myself. When you two girls are done destroying the computers, come and back me up. Clear?" Everyone nodded and Jaune disappeared into the trees. He hopped from tree branch to tree branch without making a sound. The Grimm cages weren't being watched and he snuck to the latch to unlock it. The Ursa inside growled and stepped out. It roared in rage and the scientists started to scream in terror, "Grimm out of the cages! Grimm out of the cages!" Doomfist gestured some grunts with guns to take care of the lone Ursa, but more were able to escape when Jaune unlocked even more cages. They started to tear the grunts to pieces and Doomfist sighed in annoyance, "These cheap mercs are as useful as the goons Torchwick has!" He leaped into the air and screamed loudly, "METEOR STRIKE!" He smashed the ground and all the Grimm went down. He looked around and felt that there was another presence.

Jaune leaped from the trees with Dragonblade drawn and sliced Doomfist across the back with the deadly sword. Doomfist yelled in pain and turned around to smash his new opponent. Jaune vaulted over his strike and stabbed a shuriken into the side of his head. He yelled again and crushed the ground. Jaune felt himself airborne and Doomfist appeared above him. His hit smashed Jaune back into the ground and Jaune his aura went down to 50%. He quickly recovered and stared down Doomfist.

"You have cybernetics like myself. You realized that human flesh is weak and brittle, so you replaced them with your new limbs." Doomfist spoke with a smirk.

Jaune clenched his fists in anger and felt his aura start to flare. Dragonblade was enveloped in aura and made the edge glow with energy. "You think I replaced my limbs willingly?! I lost my limbs to a bomb and curse this forsaken new body that I now have to live with for the rest of my life!" Jaune screamed in rage and charged Doomfist. He shot a few shotgun blasts at Jaune, who then deflected them back at him. Doomfist tanked the shots and went to use his rocket punch, but hit air. Jaune ducked below his strike and screamed loudly with a huge aura dragon following his blade. "RYUJIN NO KEN WO KURAE!" The aura dragon sliced into Doomfist and he screamed in pain. He fell to his knees in agony from the dragon doing so much damage and was shocked that before that attack his aura was still over 50% full, now it was completely gone. Jaune stood over him with his blade faintly glowing with energy still and was panting tiredly.

"Surrender." Jaune spoke darkly. Doomfist gave him an evil smile and yelled, "MERLOT!" Jaune looked back to see Merlot escaping Ren by riding a huge nevermore and griffon hybrid. It swatted Ren away and Nora went to catch him. Pyrrha tried to shoot at it, but her bullets did nothing to the beast. It grabbed doomfist by the shoulders and flew away.

Jaune growled loudly and sheathed Dragonblade. He looked over at his team and saw that Pyrrha had something in her hands. "What is that Pyrrha?"

She walked over to Jaune and held it up for him, "It's a flash drive on what that scientist guy was doing here. We should take this to Mayor Reinhardt and see what's on it." Jaune nodded and took off his helmet. JNPR walked back to Ansel without any trouble and gave Reinhardt the flash drive.

"My vord. Zis has months of information as to why those people were in the forest! Good work children! I'll have some men scout around for any remaining hybrids and make sure they're destroyed."

They all smiled in pride and Jaune stepped forward, "Uncle Reinhardt, did you ever fight someone named Doomfist when you were in Overwatch?"

Reinhardt's face fell a bit and he sat down. "You all may vant to sit down for zis. It's going to be a long story!"

(Forever Fall)

RWBY landed a small distance away from team ASUR's last known location. They sprinted through the forest and finally came up on a clearing. They all gasped in shock and horror at the scene in front of them. Team ASUR was mutilated and dead. Yang covered Ruby's eyes and started to feel tears leak out. "What did they do to you Mike? What did they do to make you kill like this?" Yang thought with sorrow and held Ruby tight.

"Girls! Over here!" Blake yelled at them all and they came running. Laying on the ground with his head in his hands muttering about failing was Oobleck. He looked terrible, had his knees completely shattered and was ranting like an insane person.

"Red eyes...All my fault...Dead because of me...That chilling laugh!" Oobleck was a quivering mess and Weiss tried to talk to him.

"Doctor? Are you okay?"

Oobleck wouldn't respond and continued to mutter about failing and other things. They hauled Oobleck over to the bullhead and called Ozpin.

"Headmaster?" Ruby asked on her scroll.

"Go ahead Ms. Rose."

"Team ASUR is dead and Oobleck is a quivering mess. We'll...we'll need someone to come pick up the bodies."

Ozpin stayed silent for a minute and spoke again, "Thank you Ms. Rose. I'll be sure to send someone to bring ASUR back home. I'll see you when you come for debrief."

Ozpin cut the call and slumped back into his chair. "What did Salem do to you Mike?" He spoke with sorrow and shook his head.

"Glynda!" Ozpin called and she stepped forward.

"When JNPR comes back, assign them and team RWBY to apprehend Reaper. I'm putting you in charge of the mission to keep them safe and to help in his capture."

"Ozpin, do you think it is wise to send them? ASUR was a fourth year team and had Oobleck, but were still killed."

"There's one thing that give RWBY the edge against the Reaper."

"And what would that be Ozpin?"

"Miss Xiao Long. I believe that Mike's subconscious is still trapped inside and trying to break free. I think that Ms. Xiao Long can make him come back to us considering she is someone who is special to him."

Glynda thought this over and nodded to Ozpin. She only prayed that Mike was still alive inside the Reaper.

(Salem's lair)

"Excellent work Reaper. I'm proud of how well you did killing those students." Salem spoke as Reaper nodded.

"Thank you my queen. I'm going to go rest now. Is there any missions you want me to take on soon?" Reaper asked her.

"Yes. There is a new pawn of Ozpins who has recently been giving a modified body, named Jaune Arc. I want you to find and kill him."

"Yes my queen. Jaune Arc's days are numbered." Reaper spoke with amusement and stalked away.