Okay, first off I wanna thank camdawg for sending in his ideas for the harem. And while I'm not sure how I'll make it work, I will find a way. But don't go thinking that this has been finalized. I am still accepting ideas for the harem in the reviews. Once I have enough, I'll post a poll to decide who's in.
*I STILL OWN NONE OF THE FRANCHISES USED IN THIS STORY!*
The Rise of Two New Gods!
All was no longer quiet in Amity Colosseum. The entire crowd was outraged at the actions of General James Ironwood and his motives for them. Even Weiss was disgusted to share the same ethnicity as the corrupt military officer.
Several Huntsmen and Huntresses were on the scene, namely RWB(Y), (J)NPR, SSSN, CRDL, CVFY, Glynda, Ozpin, Qrow, Port and Oobleck, ready to lay down the serious smackdown upon their former ally. But James didn't seem to be worried. Even when his own soldiers turned their weapons on him, he didn't so much as bat an eye.
And that kind of worried everyone. But they stood strong, ready to avenge their fallen comrades. Feeling her anger getting the better of her, Ruby gritted her teeth and dropped Crescent Rose to the ground. If she was gonna avenge her sister, she was going to do so using her fists.
"You condescending… sadistic… murdering… corrupted... callous… MOTHER F***ER!" yelled an enraged Ruby.
"I'm sorry, what?" Ironwood tried to ask.
But he was cut off by Ruby's fist meeting his face and sending him careening back to the wall of the arena. He felt even more pain when she started rapidly slamming her fists into his abdomen using her Semblance on just her arms. She then kicked him away with a roundhouse kick that was infused with Aura before charging him with the intent to kill.
"RUBY SMASH THE METAL ATLESIAN! RUBY STRONGEST THERE IS!" yelled Ruby in a similar fashion to a certain green muscular hero from the Marvel franchise.
She continued to strike Ironwood with a flurry of fast kicks that were meant to break bones and shatter joints. And while this was going on, Sun and Neptune decided to do something… appropriate to add a bit more hilarity to the fight.
"BOOM CHICKA AH! BOOM CHICKA AH! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! GREEN DI-"
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" shouted an enraged Ruby.
"We're trying to amp you up?" Sun offered nervously.
"Well it's distracting!" Ruby said, slamming her heel into Ironwood's face.
But it turns out her attacks weren't really doing any damage. As proven when Ironwood raised his hand right at Ruby's face and transformed it into a cannon barrel. Her eyes widened as a blast of Fire Dust was shot right in her face and sent her flying right at Sun and Neptune.
Needless to say, the three of them could only come up with one thing to say.
"OH SHIT, MOTHA F***AAAAA!"
Ruby crashed right into Sun and Neptune, making them land in a heap with anime swirly eyes. Thankfully though, Ruby's Aura was enough to tank the full brunt of the blast, thus lessening the damage received.
Ironwood chuckled darkly as he reached up to grip his overcoat. The smirk on his face making him look akin to Omega Shenron when he was about to win against Goku and Vegeta in Dragon Ball GT.
"Did you really believe that you could harm me with such pitiful attacks? Foolish whelp!" Ironwood asked before ripping his overcoat off.
The assembled warriors recoiled back in shock and disgust.
This man was no longer human, but at the same time he's not a Faunus.
He was almost entirely machine!
His entire upper body was a bunch of wires, circuitry and hidden weapons protected by several layers of high tensile steel that was infused with Aura upon creation. It's a perfect defense against Dust Rounds and most Semblances. Scraps of artificial skin were hanging from the areas where Ruby's punches and kicks connected, revealing very little human flesh beneath all of that machinery.
If one were to compare it to anything, they'd think about how Cooler looked after combining with the main core of the Big Gete Star PLUS the Terminator from the first movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. And from the crazed grin on his face and the single glowing red eye on the side of his face, Ironwood did the unthinkable.
He completely roboticized himself!
"James… What have you done to yourself?!" Ozpin demanded.
The deranged fool of a man laughed darkly and flexed his artificial muscles, gaining looks of disgust from everyone. He began to speak again, but now his voice was deeper with a metallic overcoating.
"It's quite simple, maggots! Through the power and schematics of Atlas's Project P.E.N.N.Y., I have taken the most powerful and efficient parts from several of our best machines and weapons. Grafting them into my own body while using my cybernetic prosthetics as a medium! Of course, my brain and heart are still the same ones I had before, but now with my new metal body, I shall entrap this world! And then… I am going to f*** it! Both figuratively… and VERY literally!"
Everyone who heard that looked absolutely repulsed by such a statement. And Penny had only one thing to say to him.
"You know, just because it cannot reject you does not necessarily imply consent."
"Now, what say you?" Ironwood asked.
"Freeza did it." Glynda said.
"Excuse you?"
"The robot thing. Freeza did it. When he went to Earth in Dragon Ball Z." Neptune informed.
"But that's not the same as-"
"AFTER he took over Namek, like you're trying to do now." Glynda added, cutting Ironwood off.
"Wait! He destroyed Namek!" Ironwood clarified.
"Well, this is Remnant." Blake said blandly.
"So it's completely different!" Ironwood said in protest.
"Yeah, about as different as you are from Freeza." scoffed Ozpin.
"SHOTS FIRED!" taunted Neptune.
Unfortunately, Ironwood was in no mood to put up with any taunts.
"Kill the blue one!" he ordered.
Suddenly, like a swarm of hornets out of a hive, several strange looking robots just appeared out of nowhere! And they were heading straight for anyone who opposed their master!
The robots themselves looked like a hodgepodge of several different machine parts. Some had claws instead of hands, others had snake tails instead of legs. The only thing they all had in common was that their armor was a metallic gray color and the design of their heads. Their heads were long and cylindrical, almost forming a crest of sorts, and they all had a single red lense acting as their eye.
As one with jet wings rushed Neptune, the blue haired boy said something stupid rather than dodging.
"Freeza did it!"
He cried out in pain as he was slammed into the concrete wall of the stadium. But there was no time for anyone to try and help him. Everyone else was busy trying to get some breathing room as multiple robots ganged up on them. It was like Halo 3 when you fight against whole hordes of the Flood or armies of Covenant soldiers and can't get any breathing room.
Ruby tried to slice through the robots using her beloved scythe, but these things proved to be far more durable than they let on! The blades just couldn't cut through the alloys that made up the armor of her robotic enemies. And it seems like her friends were having about as much luck as she was.
Weiss tried using her glyphs and Dust attacks against the robotic minions, but they just had no effect on them!
Blake was using her cloning Semblance and natural speed and mobility to out maneuver the robots, but she was only avoiding them by the skin of her teeth because these things were faster than they looked. Even Pyrrha's own polarity Semblance wasn't working because these things are resistant to magnetic fields!
Ozpin was holding his own well enough against the robots, showing that his cane doesn't at all hinder his ability to fight. But even then, he's still not putting so much as a dent in any of his opponents.
Glynda used her Semblance and riding crop to send her opponents flying, but they just got right back up and charged in again. The blonde teacher mentally cursed herself for coming to rely on her Semblance so much and not taking the time to give herself a more diverse arsenal of fighting abilities.
Finally, Ruby jumped back and removed her hooded cloak while stabbing Crescent Rose into the ground. She mentally cursed her own weakness. Maybe she should've taken her sister up on hand to hand combat lessons when she was first offered them.
"Ah, shit! We need to find a way to break these things!" Ruby mumbled as she was back to back against Sun.
"Have you tried hitting them harder?" Sun asked.
"That sounds like something Yang would say." Ruby replied.
"Yeah." Sun admitted. "And remember the time she got shot in the chest and killed by this metal menace?"
Ruby's anger quickly quadrupled as she rushed forward and slammed a punch into an enemy robot. Only this time, her fist broke through the armor and cause the robot to sputter and smoke before 'dying'.
'Huh! It works.' Ruby thought to herself.
Out loud she said "Guys, me and Sun have figured it out! We just need to hit them really, really hard!"
Glynda looked away from the Snake-Bot she was fighting, briefly wondering if the girl's grief was beginning to cloud her judgement as a leader.
"That sounds more like something Yang would say." Glynda said.
"RIGHT, NOW ATTACK!" Ruby commanded.
Charging in again, the redhead punched the robots with everything she had, destroying each bot in the process. And even if wanton destruction wasn't Ren's strong point, he still chipped in by using all of his strength to slice a few battle drones in half using his bladed pistols. And as for Nora, well…
"NORA SMASH!"
The hammer wielding girl was easily able to destroy every bot that came at her using her strength in combination with her hammer's weight and gravity. Neptune looked nervous for a moment before steeling his resolve and taking out his trident.
"I've prepared my whole life for this…! IT'S NEPPER TI-"
Unfortunately, Neptune was hit in the side of the face by the robot he was trying to fight. Needless to say, that was embarrassing.
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"It's never gonna be a thing." Neptune said pathetically.
As gravity took hold of the blue haired boy again, he fell to the ground prompting Weiss to reach the end of her patience.
"JUST USE YOUR FRICKIN' LIGHTING DUST TO ZAP THESE RUST BUCKETS! CHRIST!" Weiss yelled in anger and embarrassment.
Anger at Neptune's incompetence, and embarrassment at his need to try and act all cool and use needlessly flashy techniques. Honestly, what did she ever see in him when the dance came along?
While they managed to put a decent dent in the number of robots that Ironwood had brought along, there were just too many. Soon, they were surrounded and too tired to fight anymore. It doesn't help matters that Blake was still tired from her earlier fight against Emerald and Mercury. All those present were gritting their teeth with anger at what the crazed general was doing. It was like he'd completely lost his humanity to the machines he'd grafted to himself.
"It appears as though we will soon be joining our ancestors!" Ren said.
"Renny, if we don't make it out of this alive… I want you to know that I l-l-l-love you. And I mean more than just a friend! I wanted us to be together-together for a really long time now!" Nora admitted.
"I know, Nora. You were never exactly the most subtle person around. To tell you the truth, I feel the same way about you." Ren also admitted.
"As touching as this utterly useless sentiment is, I'm afraid that it is time for you all to die!" Ironwood said with a malevolent smirk.
His vision zeroed in on Penny, who had joined the fight to protect her friends rather than follow her base programming of being a combat ready death machine to be used by the likes of Atlas.
"And once I'm done killing all of you for your transgressions against Atlas, I shall turn the old P.E.N.N.Y. Drone into nothing but a pile of scrap metal! But her swords might just prove to be a valuable weapon to enhance myself with…"
Ironwood rose his hand, ready to snap his fingers. Our heroes and heroines tensed as they readied themselves to continue fighting. If they were going down, they were going to take as many of these metal freaks down with them! And the robots were prepared to follow their only programming of destroying all who opposed their master.
But then…
"You leave our friends alone!"
Twin pillars of energy erupted from the bodies of Jaune Arc and Yang Xiao Long, prompting everyone to look at them. One pillar was made of red fire, the other was made of the blackest shadows. And within them, they could see two figures rising up from the dead. The fires and the shadows dissipated to reveal two familiar people that brought smiles and tears of joy to many people. But they also brought disbelief and anger to Ironwood's face.
"No…! I killed you! YOU SHOULD BE DEAD!" he shouted in denial.
It's Jaune and Yang! But they looked different from before!
No longer was Jaune the scraggly teenager he once was. Now he was far more buff, having bulked up quite a bit all things considered. His muscles were lean and compact like a martial artist who has trained all their lives, but they were now so big that they tore his hoodie to shreds. And that in turn caused many of the ladies in the vicinity to blush wildly while the men looked at him with envy. Even Sun was thinking that his guns paled in comparison to Jaune's newly acquired muscles.
'Oh my god, you could grind meat on those…!' Sun thought enviously.
As for the other physical changes to Jaune, now he also had black hair instead of blonde but it was still in the same style as it was upon his supposed death. On his left arm, the Ultimatrix he received from Azmuth rested proudly. He also has a brown monkey tail growing from the base of his spine now, leading many to believe that he's been reborn as a monkey Faunus.
And as for Yang? Her transformation was a bit less subtle than Jaune's. She still has her long, beautiful flowing blonde hair, but now she also has these pink tear marks running down from her eyes. Each one had several lines running from just under each eye to the base of her jawline. Her forearms have these odd looking white armor pieces with tannish brown grid lines and she also has a tail growing from the base of her spine. However, unlike Jaune's monkey tail, this tail was much longer and more reptilian in origin. It was pink like her tear marks with cylindrical circles running along it, and a lavender purple armor was at the tip.
Over Yang's left eye, her new and improved Nemetrix was gleaming in the embers of the fire and darkness that had revived them.
One thing that each of them have in common is the Bio-Jewel that rests on their bodies. A black pearl on Yang's right shoulder, and a dark red fire ruby cut in the shape of a diamond in the center of Jaune's chest.
Both teens loudly popped their necks, looking rather indifferent at the appearance of Ironwood and his little toys. Once she'd gotten rid of the crick in her own neck, Yang spat out the blood that had collected in her mouth while she was dying. A grin made its way to her face.
"It appears as though Kami-Sama and Yami-Sama knew what they were doing. We've been promoted to something BEYOND the simple life of the living world!" Yang said.
"Indeed, Yang. Ironwood came quite close to killing us today. Were it not for a little divine intervention, we would undoubtedly be dead and buried." Jaune added.
The Nemetrix lense flashed red and started beeping once Yang pushed a button on the device. Upon doing so, the shadows of several predatory creatures began to cycle through her vision. Yang stopped cycling as the core of the Nemetrix popped up from it's casing.
"Fascinating creatures, the Panuncian. Native to the planet Hathor." Yang began explaining. "Where it's the natural predator of a Splixson."
"Hey, those are aliens that can copy themselves like Copyman from the Xray and Vav comic books!" Port said.
"How did you know that?" Glynda asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Eh, I've confiscated a lot of comic books in the past semester." Port answered with a shrug of indifference.
But Yang just smirked in a way that made her look like a lion that was about to dine on a tasty antelope.
"Is that true?" Yang asked in mock fascination. "Huh, fancy that."
She reached up and pressed down on the core before being engulfed in a flash of red light. Following that light was a strange sound as everyone's eyes widened in morbid amazement.
Yang had just transformed into a strange creature that looked like a saber tooth cat of some sort and a hyena, with large saber-teeth and a horn on it's dog-like nose. Her stomach hair is a crimson red, while her back hair is black and looks more like the mane of a Dire Wolf. But instead of there being just one of them, there was about fourteen of them! Enough to take out a small pack of Beowulves hands down!
Each one wears the Nemetrix on a red and silver spiked collar around their necks. They growled menacingly at the robots that circled their friends and began to close in.
"Jaune, I'll leave general metal face to you!" Yang said in a beastial voice.
"You got it, Yang! And I've been meaning to test out the power of the Ultimatrix since I first got it." Jaune replied.
He pressed the buttons on the sides of the dial and activated the Ultimatrix as shown when a red hologram of a saurian alien appeared. Smirking as if he knew it would work, Jaune pressed down on the dial and was engulfed in a flash of red light.
When the light died down, he had become something completely different.
"Humungousaur!" Jaune yelled.
Humungousaur is a twelve foot tall giant of an alien with a semi-humanoid appearance, but he mostly looks kind of like a mixture of several different dinosaurs mixed into one. He has dark brown skin with a dark beige underbelly with black fingernails. His nose is also on his forehead like some species of sauropod dinosaurs. He's very masculine, giving even the most determined of bodybuilders a run for their money. Humungousaur wears a pair of black briefs with a red waistband, and his Ultimatrix symbol is on a red sash that goes diagonally from his left shoulder to his right hip. He also has red eyes that are the same shade as his sash.
Needless to say, Ruby is having a bit of a fangasm moment here.
"OMYGAWD, THIS IS SO AWESOME! He turned into a dino human!" Ruby screamed in excitement with stars in her eyes.
Humungousaur smirked and raised up a hand.
"If you think this is cool, then you ain't seen nothin' yet!" Humungousaur said.
He brought his hand down and slapped the Ultimatrix dial, prompting a transformation that was easily seen.
"Meet… ULTIMATE HUMUNGOUSAUR!"
Ultimate Humungousaur has greyish-tan skin and spikes are brownish yellow. His skin is more detailed, having wrinkled textures like that of modern lizards, but his overall appearance is more techno-organic than in nature. On his limbs, there are exposed metallic plates and tubes that are barely covered and outlined in black strips of flesh. Also, his evolved Ultimatrix symbol now possesses these metallic looking vein-like spikes, and similar veins appear under the shoulder pads and the top area between the shell and the chest plate. The hourglass symbol is now crooked, being tilted around 30 to 45 degrees clockwise.
His helmet is silver with three spikes on the top, and two on the bottom and resembles a Styracosaurus. The front of his helmet has a dark blue mask, which has a rhino-like horn on top of the nostrils. There are two smaller horns that run down the silver part of his helmet. He has grown in these tusk-like structures on his mask that point down, while also having a pair of tiny horns above his eye sockets. His eyes are outlined in black and are indented further into his head, being surrounded by pale red skin. His mouth consists of the beak on his mask and a more pronounced lower jaw, which has a large yellow fang on each end and four small skin-colored teeth in between. There are also three gill-like structures on each side of the silver part of his helmet.
His chest and torso have less plating, having a large chest piece on top, followed by a shorter chest piece and finally a smooth abdomen with a vertical line indent. The sides of both his mid-chest piece and his abdomen have a shark tooth-shaped extension that points upwards. On his chest there are these strange holes that have developed, having four holes on the top chest plate and two on the one in the middle.
The shell on his back is larger and has a single row of spikes running down its center. The silver outline of the shell fuses with the outline of two shoulder pads, which fracture at the shoulders' end. On the shoulder pads, there are three spikes that point towards the torso. There are also three lines with triangular points at the center of each that also point towards the torso. There also appears to be two small spikes on the elbow of each arm. Both the shell and shoulder pads have a metallic texture.
The mace on his tail has stubby spikes, which have randomly place vertical lines. The area where the tail meets the mace is also quite thin despite his saurian characteristics. There are also visible jugular veins on his neck which are detailed with horizontal lines.
Seeing the oddly charismatic beauty of Ultimate Humungousaur caused Ruby to have a bit of a fangirl moment. She was practically vibrating with amazement and REALLY wanted to see just what this transformation was capable of. Everyone else just looked on with big white eyes like you see in Naruto when a character is either surprised or very angry. If you've watched Naruto or read the manga, you know what I'm talking about. And their jaws also hung open while they were slouched forward, their arms hanging limp at their sides.
Ultimate Humungousaur began to laugh as he zeroed in on his chosen target. AKA, former General James Ironwood.
"As you all can see, I've become an Evolved Vaxasaurian. The Ultimatrix lets me transform into 'Ultimate' Aliens, while Yang's Nemetrix turns her into predatory creatures. And you all are about to witness first hand just what they can do!" Ultimate Humungousaur said.
He then raised one of his clawed hands at General Ironwood and transformed it into a set of gun barrels with the center barrel being surrounded by pale red flesh.
The barrels began rotating as Ultimate Humungousaur fired an intense barrage of yellow colored bone missiles that all zoomed towards general Ironwood and exploded on contact. Ironwood screamed as he felt pain ravage his metal body. The only downside to having a human brain amongst robot parts.
"Ow! Ow! Ow, ow, ow! DICKS! DIIICKS!" Ironwood yelled in pain.
"Yang, I'll leave those drones of his to you!" Ultimate Humungousaur said.
"You got it, Jaune! Just be sure to leave him alive enough for us both to kill him." Yang requested.
"I make no promises." Ultimate Humungousaur said in response.
Yang as the Panuncian roared as she and her clones charged at the robots. In response, the metal soldiers transformed their arms into guns and opened fire. But the Panuncians had quick movement and exceptional eyesight on their side and dodged every last bullet until they were close enough to do some real damage! They pounced and began to use their teeth, claws and tails to dismantle the glorified recycling bins.
This display of predatory behavior was both fascinating to some, namely Oobleck and Port, and incredibly terrifying to others. Mostly Ruby and the other students. It got especially gruesome when the original Yang tore one of the robots limb from limb, causing Penny to flinch and feel as though had things gone differently THAT could've been HER!
Each robot beeped and exploded as it took more damage than any other robot that Ruby and the others had decimated. And once that was over and done with, Yang fused with her clones and trotted over to Ruby.
"Are you guys okey?" she asked.
But she was pleasantly surprised to feel herself being embraced by her whole team, each member shedding tears like no tomorrow.
"YANG, YOU'RE ALIVE! We were so scared!" wailed Ruby.
"YOU were scared?! I thought I would never see any of you again!" Yang admitted as she changed back to normal. "But at least I got you all out of that scrap-tacular situation."
For once, no one groaned at the terrible pun. They just smiled and tried not to ruin the moment. It felt good to know that Beacon's resident punster was going to live to fight another day. Speaking of fights…
We change cameras and see that Ultimate Humungousaur is giving the roboticized Ironwood the beating of a lifetime, punching him in the face so hard his DENTS had dents! In retaliation, Ironwood transformed his left hand into a scythe blade and began slashing at Ultimate Humungousaur to try and kill him. All the while, his red lense eyes were shining with fury.
"HOW?! HOW ARE YOU ALIVE?!" Ironwood yelled as he demanded to know. "Those were Aura Piercing AND Aura Depletion rounds used only to kill the most dangerous of criminals! You couldn't have survived!"
In response to this, Ultimate Humungousaur leapt back to gain some distance before smirking at Ironwood. His demeanor was completely unlike how it was before Kami and Yami revived him and Yang.
"Can't you tell, metal man? It's just like we said." Jaune taunted.
"No you f***ing don't…!" growled Ironwood.
"We are the hope of the multiverse… we are the light that pierces the darkness… we are the comforting embrace for all living souls who cry out in fear! We are fire and we are shadows! WE ARE THE TERROR TO ALL WHO ARE EVIL!"
A white aura of strange energy flared up around Jaune like a roaring fire, making everyone marvel at how powerful he has become.
"WE ARE JAUNE ARC AND YANG XIAO LONG! AND WE WERE CHOSEN BY…"
Ironwood shot Jaune in the chin, sending his head reeling back from the force of impact just before he could finish his speech. Ironwood growled at such a stupid heroic speech, but Jaune just calmly righted himself and smirked as if nothing had ever happened.
"...The gods!" he said, finishing his speech.
Ironwood growled even louder when the boy finished his speech and charged at him with the intent to kill. But Jaune just calmly raised a hand at him and charged up a blue energy blast, smirking as he did so.
"Sorry, Vegeta. Hope you don't mind me borrowing one of your moves." Jaune said before yelling "It's over, Ironwood! No one will suffer from your terror any longer! BIG BANG ATTACK!"
The blast launched at such high speeds that Ironwood couldn't even register the attack coming until it was too late. His eyes widened as he knew there'd be no time to dodge, and ended up tanking the full brunt of the attack. A brilliant flash of blue light filled the arena as Ironwood screamed his last words of anger and contempt at the one who earned his ire the most just as he vaporized into nothing.
"DAMN YOU… JAUNE AAAAAARRRRRCCCCC!"
A deep crater began to form as the remains of the robots that Ironwood created were sucked into the blast and destroyed with him. And when it died down, all was quiet as Jaune began walking towards his friends.
"Judgment has been passed upon thee by the God of Fire, Life and Destruction, and the Goddess of Darkness, Death and Technology." Jaune said.
As he reached his friends and the teachers of Beacon, Jaune noticed the happy tears falling from Glynda's eyes. And being the kind young man he was raised to be, Jaune wrapped his arms around his old babysitter and hugged her, causing her to blush madly as she felt his fully developed muscles.
"Everything's okay now, professor. It's over now." Jaune said.
That did it as Glynda broke down crying tears of joy into Jaune's shoulder. The boy just hugged his old babysitter and let her cry her troubles out, even though he wanted to confront the rest of his friends. But it appears as though any further reunions would have to wait. Because fate has other plans.
"Long live Jaune Arc and Yang Xiao Long: The God of Fire, Life and Destruction and the Goddess of Darkness, Death and Technology! Two young hunters who were killed in cold blood by a corrupt military official, but were reborn in the Flames of Life and the Shadows of Death! Two new gods who saved us from certain doom at the hands of a robot menace!" shouted a random citizen.
And that was all it took for the entire crowd to break out into a roar of thunderous cheers and applause, showing their immense gratitude towards the two teenagers who had nearly died for them several times over. Things are certainly looking up for our protagonists now.
Now, if only Jaune could do something about the slightly lustful looks he was receiving from the ladies.
*To Be Continued…*
I hope this chapter's a good one. Just remember, I need suggestions for who else should be in Jaune's harem so I can put it to a vote, so please leave your ideas in the reviews. Every idea counts, and I'd even accept girls who are currently villains in the show. Maybe Jaune could reform them somehow.