Author's notes: Well here is the next chapter. Not much to say in this author's note, except I like good criticism, and trolls will be shot. Enough said, enjoy the chapter!

(Edit 2019: As in the last chapter, expect many changes in this.)


Chapter 1


Ruby Rose and Weiss Schnee, were fighting Grimm as they made their way to the tower, where the one who helped their friends get away was currently fighting the one who caused all of this to happen. Including manipulating Pyrrha in the death of Ruby's best friend, the Atlas Android, Penny Polendina.

Ruby knew it wasn't Pyrrha's fault for what to the ginger-haired robot girl, far from it.

But right now, they need to get to whoever it was that helped the said champion and knight escape, and help them deal with the woman. However the Grimm were making that part difficult, as each time they kill one Grimm, two more took would take it's place.

"There's no end to them!" Ruby exclaimed as she decapitated one Beowolf before shooting another right between the eyes.

"It has to do with that big one on top of the tower!" said Weiss, "Every time it flies over, more Grimm appear!"

They then heard a roar as the dragon pushed itself off the tower and flew away, before a complete one eighty degree turn and flew right at the tower, smashing into Ozpin's office.

"Whoa!" Ruby said in shock, and great worry for the one fighting the culprit for this tragic day.

"We're running out of time!" Weiss said, and the two girls continued their dash toward the tower.


Dorée coughed slightly, as the dust from the Dragon Grimm's collision with the tower began to settle, she then looked around for Cinder, her shield and sword up in a defensive stance. She knew she couldn't let her guard down for a second around the woman, knowing how dangerous she really was.

The sound of an arrow being nocked and drawn reached her ears as she spun around just in time to slash a glass arrow out of the air, as it shattered to pieces.

"Not bad..." she heard the silk-toned voice said, but to her... it was as venomous as a Taijitu's bite, "...You must have very good ears to hear that,"

Dorée's eyes narrowed as she spotted Cinder, thanks to the amber eyes glowing in the dust.

"I had a good mentor," she said neutrally, "She taught me everything I needed to know about you, your associates, and of course Salem. Of course, she had help in my training,"

"I imagine so," was Cinder's reply, "But tell me, do you really have the strength to beat me?"

Dorée didn't answer that question right away, as she kept her eye on her opponent, a rule that was beaten into her since the day she could walk. As she looked at her opponent, she knew that without using the power she has hidden will no doubt tip the scales in this battle, making them even in the fight. However, anyone could be the victor, while the loser will be just a corpse.

"Whoever wins this fight, it doesn't matter to me," she said, making Cinder blink in surprise. "My sole reason in life... is to kill you here, and prevent Salem from having an edge in this war between her and that old fool Ozpin, that would most definitely result in the destruction the world. And if I die in the process... Then so be it,"

That statement threw the Fallen Maiden through a loop. This girl was clearly suicidal! And after looking in the girl's eyes, she could see that she wanted to die. She also took note of the girls apparent hostility toward the Green Wizard of Beacon, showing that she was not one of his blind followers.

"However...," she spoke up again, as she gripped the handle of her sword tightly, "...that doesn't mean I'm not going to make it easy for you."

Cinder watched the girl as she bent her knees slightly, in preparation for her next move.

"In fact...," she said, as her own vivid green eyes narrowed, "...I'm planning on sending you to Hell first,"

Cinder gritted her teeth angrily at that as she readied a large fireball. The power of the Fall Maiden made prominent in her eyes, as flames formed around them.

"Like Hell you will!" with that she fired the ball at her, while Dorée stood just still, before the said projectile hit, causing an explosion. Cinder smirked before it wiped off her face, the reason being for as the flames cleared, a wall of burning red metal was in place of the mysterious girl. The metal then crumbled away, showing the said knight unharmed. The girl then gave a small smirk of her own.

"...My turn,"

And much to Cinder's shock and disbelief, the impossible happened as the same flaming eyes of a Maiden appeared around the emerald hued ones of the girl. But colored in a radiant silver tone

"...What!? I-Impossible!" Cinder shrieked as she looked at the flaming eyes, "How do you... how CAN you have the same kind of power as I do!?"

Instead of answering her, Doré instead charged at her, slightly blurring and slammed her shield into Cinder's face sending her back into another wall. The Dragon reappeared and after seeing what happened to Cinder, roared in rage.

Dorée noticed this, as she glared at the dragon, then her shield hand was encompassed in a familiar black energy.

"Don't interfere...," she uttered as she raised her hand, and the result was four gears floating around her, before shooting them off one by one at the dragon's bone masked face at high speed, and due to being big and slow when not flying, it couldn't dodge them, as the gears slammed into the right side of it's face, one of them smashing into and destroying one of it's eyes and causing it to shriek in pain, before another slammed into it and forced it off the tower.

She then turned back to Cinder who recovered from the surprise hit, and who after seeing what Dorée did to the Dragon, growled angrily, as she decided to not play around with this girl.

"Alright, you wanna play rough? The child gloves are now off," the Fallen maiden growled as she formed two glass swords.

Dorée didn't say anything as she readied herself for the next part of this fight. She knew now, from this point on, it was getting serious.


With Jaune and Pyrrha


The two partners were currently in a desperate mad dash to make it back to Beacon, more specifically, Beacon Tower.

Both members of Team JNPR, had panicked looks on their faces, after viewing the message on the scroll Dorée gave them. And they were both equally shocked, concerned, and finally horrified. Especially considering who she really was.

'Why!? Why in the hell would she even THINK that!?' Pyrrha shouted mentally, as the words she and Jaune just heard from the recording kept repeating in her head.


"...I'm not just an ordinary clone made from one specific person, but rather two people. Those people...are Jaune Arc, and Pyrrha Nikos. The reason why I was cloned, was because it was a time of desperation. And what I meant by that, is because I was sent back in time to this period. Thirty years from now to be exact. I can't explain explain all the details, but my A.I., name's Sprite, can vouch for me, since he's from the same time period as me. Plus he can tell you more about me, than I can.

In my time, Remnant has become a wasteland, and almost all life has been extinguished. The reason for this, being the machinations of one called Salem, a Human-Grimm Hybrid, who is controlling the Grimm, and is plotting the downfall of the Hunter Academies and the Human Kingdoms, starting with Beacon. The woman you encountered, Cinder Fall, is one of her little puppets, and perhaps her favorite.

Now that she has all the Fall Maiden powers, and I'm sorry to say this, but with the current condition you are in now, none of you will be able to defeat her. That's why they sent me.

And I...I've accepted my role as the sacrificial lamb.

As I said before, I'm just a clone... a copy, a fake. And I hope that my death, will appease my pa... M-My donors.

I would not blame you if you hate me. Afterall, I'm just an abomination of human cells... Anyway, I wish you all good luck in the war to come.

And to Jaune and Pyrrha...please, survive.

This is Dorée Arc-Nikos, signing off."


...Just an abomination of human cells...

...Sacrificial lamb...

...Donors...

Those words alone were enough to make her grit her teeth in anger. Whoever pounded that garbage into Dorée's head deserves to be skewered alive. Though many would wonder why Pyrrha was being protective of someone she hardly knew, let's just say that considering that Dorée is basically her biological daughter from the future, regardless that she's a binary clone, has made her more than a little overprotective.

The same could be said with Jaune. Though he was not sure about the time travel stuff, Dorée is still family. And right now, she's up in the tower, willing to just throw her life away out of self loathing and grief. And that, quite frankly, in his opinion that is a big fat 'NO'.

They continued to run until an Atlas gunship landed. The two hunters-in-training stopped, as they readied their weapons incase it was more of the now hacked Atlesian Knights now serving Cinder. To their relief, it was just regular Atlas troops, and the two began to ran toward the gunship, as the commander of the troops stopped in front of them.

"What are you two kids doing out here!?" the commander demanded, "You need to get to the safe zone, now! It's not safe here!"

"Look sir, we have no time to explain!" Jaune said, "We need to get back to Beacon, now!"

The Commander's eyes widened behind his helmet.

"Are you two crazy!?" he said in disbelief, "Beacon is overrun with Grimm, even the White Fang are pulling out! It's suicide to go back there!"

"Sir, please! There's no time!" Jaune said desperately.

"Mr. Arc! Ms. Nikos!" a voice they were familiar with shouted and they turned around and saw Miss Glynda Goodwitch arrive along with Ruby's uncle, and General Ironwood, who looked a little worse for wear.

"Miss Goodwitch! Thank the Gods!" Jaune shouted in relief as the three adults ran up to them.

"What happened!?" the deputy headmistress said as Pyrrha stepped forward.

"Professor! We need to get back to Beacon, now!" Pyrrha said, making the teachers blink at the desperation in her voice, "That woman who spoke at the stadium, she's Amber's assailant, she's over there right now!"

This caused the eyes of the three to widen. If that woman was Amber's assailant and was at Beacon, then that meant...

"What about Oz?" Qrow questioned.

"He told us to get out and get help," Jaune spoke up, "But when we got outside, that woman was heading up the tower...we didn't see him come out,"

The Uncle of Ruby Rose cursed at that.

"Dammit! We need to get back there, NOW!"

"There's something else...," Jaune said, as he motioned to the scroll still in Pyrrha's grasp, "...we were helped out, though unwillingly, in getting away from Beacon."

Pyrrha, though getting impatient at the time they're wasting, handed Dorée's scroll to them, causing the three of them to blink, as Glynda took and activated it.

And the reaction was obvious, when the A.I. showed itself again.

"Please! You have to help her before it's too late!"


(OST: Gate of AVALON [WAVE] Excalibur/Zero)

The clashing of steel against glass echoed as the two female combatants continued their sword duel in Ozpin's office which was now destroyed. Thankfully, or miraculously if you look at it from a different point of view, the CCT network was still running. Though for how much longer was anyone's guess.

Dorée deflected a strike from Cinder with her shield, before countering with a strike of her own. The result was her scoring a hit on the Fallen Maiden's shoulder. Cinder growled in anger as the dance of blades continued, the wound healing due to her aura, before the said follower of Salem jumped away using her newly acquired powers to fly across the room.

"You're REALLY starting to get on my nerves you little pest!" Cinder snapped as she formed her bow and and fired three arrows at her, causing Dorée to quickly jump away as the three arrows impacted where she once stood and exploded.

"Really, well, I expected after I kicked you into the wall two times in a row," the red streaked blonde snipped back, causing Cinder's eyes to narrow, while gritting her teeth before she conjured another fireball and threw it at her. Using her own powers, Doré instead channeled it into her sword before she made a one-handed downward slash which cut the fireball in two, and sending the two halves away from each other and avoiding her altogether in the process.

"You're suppose to be the Fall Maiden, and yet you can only conjure a weak fireball like that?" The Maiden Knight mocked, which made Cinder lose her temper even more, while a slight smirk formed on Dorée's lips. Though it might sound arrogant on her part, goading a person's ego will make them do stupid mistakes. A very useful legitimate strategy, to use an ill-tempered enemy's one major weakness against them. And right now, she's doing exactly that by baiting the red dressed bitch in front of her.

"You want power!? I'll show you power, you little bitch!" Cinder yelled out, as her eyes glowed brightly, while the flames around them intensifying. With that, she charged at Doré, who raised her shield just in time to block a kick, but the force behind it sent her back, causing her to flip in mid air, before landing in a kneeling position.

Cinder went after her, as Dorée quickly got back up, and used her semblance of polarity to pull two giant clock gears to her and sent them at the amber eyed woman. Cinder saw them coming as she dodged them as they slammed into the floor. However, this allowed Dorée to attack herself.

With her sword drawn, she bolted straight at the Grimm worshipper, who turned after dodging the two gears, toward her, and her eyes widened as Dorée jumped into the air within five feet of Cinder and lunged the blade at her.

Acting quickly, Cinder formed a blade of glass and deflected the sword away from her, but was stunned when Dorée's shield slammed into her face, again, sending her back. Grunting from the blow, she shook her head to get rid of the dizziness, and opened her eyes only to see the red-blonde girl running at her, before jumping and delivering a foot to her face, yet again. She flew back, before landing and rolling on the ground. She picked herself up as she glared hatefully at the girl.

"Quit hitting me in the face you bitch!" she roared, as she used the Maiden powers to shoot forward like a rocket. Doré esaw this, and did what anyone would call crazy in this situation, and charged right at the bitch in the red dress.


"Whoawhoawhoawhoa, okay, hold on a minute!" Shouted Qrow, as he tried to calm the headache he was enduring. "Time travel? Future binary clone daughter of these two kids? Remnant a wasteland in the future? Sorry in advance when I call BULLSHIT, thank you!"

"Call it what you want, but it's the truth!" The A.I., now known as Sprite, countered, "And besides, you're already on the ship, so why the hell are you complaining!?"

Qrow grunted as he sat in his seat while the Atlesian Gunship continued on it's course to Beacon. Ironwood and Glynda stayed behind to help secure the city, and thus that left Qrow to go with the two leading partners of Team JNPR.

Speaking of one of them, Ozpin's said candidate was tapping her foot impatiently, wishing the damn thing would go faster. Jaune though keeping a strong front, was fighting to keep his motion sickness under control. And also to keep his own shared worry with Pyrrha for Dorée under wraps.

After a LOT of convincing on Sprite's part, they managed to get on one of the few surviving Atlesian gunships, that miraculously survived Roman Torchwick's little joyride of destruction.

"Can you tell us at leasy, who created her then, and why these specific two in particular?" The drunk, but still focused, Qrow said, which earned him a disapproving glare from Pyrrha, due to him using the word 'created', even though it was true.

"It's someone that both Teams RWBY and JNPR knew really well...Doctor Winston Merlot," Sprite answered as it's hologram shuddered in disgust. This caused the leading pair of Team JNPR to look at the A.I. in shock, while Qrow quirked an eyebrow at that.

"Wait, Merlot? As in head of the defunct Merlot Industries of Mountain Glenn?" he asked and the A.I. nodded.

"The very same, of course, the one who commissioned him in the first place was your niece, Ruby Rose after she found him in cryo at his hidden enclave..." He explained, causing Qrow blink in shock, while Jaune and Pyrrha did the same, "With Merlot's genetic expertise, and technology, and managing to recover any remaining DNA traces of Jaune Arc and Pyrrha Nikos, Dorée was born. Miss Rose took it upon herself to try and raise Dorée like how she would've been...but Merlot had other plans, especially after observing how fast her abilities were manifesting, and finding out she was the first person...to ever wield two semblances, instead of just one."

That threw the three for a loop. TWO semblances? Anyone with that kind of power would be one not to cross, if they valued their life.

"And thus...Dorée's happy childhood with Miss Rose came to an abrupt end," Sprite said sadly, "When Merlot began training her...harsh training regimens, skeletal and muscle reinforcement experiments, and the kicker...subliminal torture, in an attempt to brainwash that everyone will hate her. He basically planned to make her into a living killing machine."

"In other words, she's basically a living weapon," Qrow said, earning another glare from Pyrrha as she gritted her teeth. She didn't care how Dorée came into this world, she was still human damn it! If anyone is to be blamed, it's the person who created her, not the creation herself.

"Precisely, of course, Miss Rose once told me that the main reason why she picked Jaune and Pyrrha, was because she was at least fulfilling what they were denied...a child that should've resulted from their love," Sprite said, which made the Spartan and knight blink surprisingly, before blushing, at that, remembering the kiss, "But apparently the two never acted on their feelings until it was too late. Pyrrha Nikos would've died tonight, while Jaune Arc would die by Cinder's hands over a year later."

Pyrrha and Jaune both paled at that, and they looked at each other. The said knight's thoughts burning with the image of his partner dying, and strangely, unable to bear living without her.

And now, their daughter was paying the price for their survival, by sacrificing her life, for theirs.

Pyrrha meanwhile, imagined Jaune dying, just over a year after her own supposed death. It made her rethink of her decision to send Jaune away like she planned to do, the boy that she had strong feelings for, and didn't want to see harmed, would be killed anyway, due to grief over her loss. All the while their daughter would be created in some tube rather than being birthed in the normal like a life is supposed to be.

'I was such a complete FOOL!' she screamed at herself, as Sprite continued.

"Anyway, Lady Blaze did her best to preserve most of Doré's humanity during her training, even telling her stories of her...parents' exploits. But unfortunately, Merlot, as I said before, always made it known, in his own sadistic and vindictive way, that she was a clone first, and will never be accepted by the rest of humanity. And thus, she was always under the belief that her death is the only way to make her... Parents happy," Anders replied, just as the sound of metal bending got their attention, as Pyrrha's polarity was bending a support rail, a cold fury in her eyes that promised to give a lot of pain to the bastard who put that garbage into Dorée's head.

And rightfully so...

"I~ think that's enough for right now...," the A.I. said, not wanting the 'mother' of his partner to destroy the whole ship.

Qrow wisely didn't push the issue, wanting to stay alive for the rest of his natural life.

Jaune looked at his partner in worry, knowing what Sprite had told them has awakened certain instincts in her. Such as the need to protect.

To be honest, he also felt those instincts, but for Pyrrha, well... it was just something about a mother's unquestionable bond with their child that makes them INCREDIBLY dangerous. He saw it so many times from his own mother, so he knew from experience.

Deciding to at least give his partner some comfort, he managed to stand, shaking off the nausea as he stood next to her.

"We'll get her Pyrrha," he spoke, making the Spartan turn to him, "Clone daughter from the future or not, she's still family. Yours, and mine. We'll make sure she's not alone,"

Pyrrha didn't say anything, but nodded, then blinked in surprise as Jaune placed a hand on her shoulder. She turned and saw Jaune smiling comfortingly. Though the worry was still in his eyes, she knew he was trying to put up a brave front.

Pyrrha gave a small smile, though in her heart, she knew that if anything happened to Dorée, she would never forgive herself.

They had to get back to Beacon Tower, and fast. She then began mentally praying to any god or deity, hoping they would answer. For their sakes.

'Hold on. Please, just hold on'


And ending it there! Hope you enjoyed this chapter, again, leave a review, with constructive criticism. Until then, La~ter!