"Drake, honestly, I don't know how we get anywhere." Blade confessed as he watched his daughter, Lexi Vanguard, skip towards the group of children who congregated in another section of the living room, leaving the parents alone to discuss more pressing matters.

"Hey, remember that time we all drew names out of a hat and traded partners for a night?" LeeAnn asked, a smirk crawling onto her face.

Yang grinned, her eyes drifting towards Drake. "Oh I remember alright."

"Nuh uh Sis!" Ruby clung to Drake's arm. "I don't know what you did, but Drake isn't doing that again. Especially with you!"

"I'm just letting him know that the offer stands. I like a man who can make sure I can't walk for a few days." Yang stated, ignoring Ruby entirely. "And besides, I'm sure you enjoyed your night with Juane." she laughed as Ruby blushed bright red.

"Moving on!"Juane called out.

"Agreed!" Phyrra said, a slight blush filling her cheeks.

Alex looked at Blake. "Hey Blake. Remember that time that I-"

"DONT YOU DARE MENTION THAT!" Blake yelled, covering her mouth.

"But it was so fun!" Alex cried.

"WE HAD HALF OF VALE'S POLICE FORCE AFTER US!" Blake yelled

Weiss leaned in. "Would this happen to be the catnip coffee incident?" she asked curiously.

Blake blushed. "Yes..."

Maria looked at her faunus friend. "I want to hear about this. I make sure that catnip doesn't come in this house so i've never actually experienced that high. What happened?"

Blake blushed, not answering.

Alex laughed. "So what happened is that I rubbed a lot of catnip in her favorite coffee mug, she made coffee in it, and then she got high. She started stripping, she stole a motorcycle, and all in all she was high as fuuuuuuck."

Blake glowered at her. "Never. Again."

There was laughter from the other adults but soon, an uncomfortable silence fell over them all.

"Hey..."

Everyone looked up, looking at the speaker, Drake and his shadowed face. All they saw was a dark grin on his face.

"You guys remember that day... don't you?"

Drake looked up at them, then let his eyes drift towards the children.

Blake looked out the window, sighing sadly. "How could we forget? The day that..."

Everyone looked at the kids, who were either playing with each other or standing off to the side slightly, watching amusedly.

"The day that everything we knew was threatened with complete annihilation."

The eighteen of them lay sprawled on the ground, surrounded by the burning wreckage of the Beacon academy air pads. Before them stood a being, human in form but its pitch black skin shuddered with white lines, flickering over its body as it spoke in a monotonous voice.

"You humans maintain a pitiful existence. Why do you forge ahead? You know that victory will never be achieved, you know that your lives mean nothing but to serve as a food source for the Grimm. You exist only to feed my people yet you fight back, you strive, you conquer our world."

"N-no!" the hunters and huntresses struggled, using every ounce of strength to stand. "That is not the tomorrow that will come. We will not idly sit by to let what we have come to know and love die out!?" They were all standing now, clutching at their wounds, yet still standing, each glaring at their foe with ultimate defiance.

"That is the tomorrow that you are bringing upon yourselves!" the Grimm Hive-mind lashed out, its fingers extending, turning into whips of emptiness as it swung them at the group.

"Look out!" Virgil yelled, throwing out his tendrils to shield the others as he ran in front of them.

Virgil's tendrils of darkness shuddered under the assault that the Hive-mind launched at them. They shivered and faded, eventually dissipating under the strain, the dark Dust actually being absorbed into the emptiness, which lashed against the heroes, sending them scattering.

"We wont just accept the tomorrow that you plan for us!" they stood once more, only to be beaten back down.

Their limp, bloody bodies were beaten, tossed like rag-dolls, and thrown to the side like scraps of trash. "YOU ARE NOTHING!" the Hive-mind bellowed.

"No!" Ruby screamed.

She stood, followed by Drake, then Blade, and then Silver, while the rest struggled to remain conscious.

"The sacrifices made by those who have passed. The will of those who's futures have yet to be."those standing readied their weapons.

"They fuse into a never-ending spiral. That is what makes us humans unbeatable. It is because we are nothing that makes us evolve from the person who we were just minutes before!"

"How far are you humans willing to go to achieve your goal!?" the Hive-mind extended both arms, dozens of tentacles coiling around the area around them, readying their final strike.

It looked around, noticing that Juane was laughing, and soon, so was everyone else.

"That's too easy." Zayna replied as she wobbled, leaning on her shield for balance.

"AS FAR AS IT TAKES!" they all yelled, launching their attack.

Silver fired but its skin continuously absorbed the bullets. Drake threw his shield, the blades cutting through tentacles as it flew, but it wrapped its coils around the bladed weapon just inches from its face. Ruby fired as well but got the same result as Silver.

"Your attacks are meaningless if they don't posses the ability to damage your opponent!" The Hive-mind laughed a menacing laugh.

Squelch

Everyone looked up and noticed that Blade's sword was plunged hilt deep into the Hive-minds body.

"WhaT!?" its voice warped, as it looked down at the sword embedded in it's body.

"Now Phyrra!" Ruby yelled.

"Activate Magnetic acceleration field!" Blade yelled, his weapon beeping in response. Drake's shield shuddered in the tendrils holding it captive.

Phyrra looked up and reached out with her arm. She slowly closed her hand, the shield crushing into a ball. The metal crunched as it crumpled under the magnetic force when it suddenly exploded, sending hundreds of metal fragments screaming towards the Hive-mind, ripping it's unprepared form to shreds.

"H-hoW is tHiS PosSiBLe!?" it screamed.

"Vibrating Obliteration!" Blade yelled, and his sword dropped, tearing the still screaming Hive-mind in half.

"Ruby!" Drake yelled. "NOW!"

With a yell, the red cloaked cookie fiend lunged forward. She fired a single bullet as she swung, Crescent Rose tearing through the Grimm's body.

She landed a few feet away, panting and the air was quiet, besides the crackle of the fire around them.

There was a soft thunk as the head of the Grimm Hive-mind rolled on the ground.

"D-dO nOT UnDErEStiMaTE uS. T-TwEnTy YEaRS. I-In TweNTY YeArs YOur WoRLd wIll bE dEstROyED. EvERyThiNG You LovE Will Pe-PeRIsh..."

With those final words, the Hive-mind disintegrated, its head and body vaporizing out of existence.

"Do you think that the Hive-mind was telling the truth?" Yang asked.

Silver shook his head. "We have top research teams looking around Remnant and space, there is nothing anywhere near us."

"It's impossible." Weiss concluded.

"I hate to break it to you but its true."

Everyone looked at Drake. "Ozpin contacted me."

"Wait what!?"

"Ozpin and I agreed that the only way to fight this menace is to destroy it before it becomes anywhere near a threat. Ozpin is developing a machine that will help us end the war before the Hive-mind can get involved." Drake looked at them.

"A time machine!?" Alex asked, only for Drake to shake his head.

"A spatial converter. Basically a time machine but it's moving mass through points in time." he explained.

"Sooo... a time machine."Penny claimed, causing him to sigh.

"Yeah sure. A time machine. My point is." he looked over at the kids, who were watching Opal fly around.

"Even if we draw power from Vale and the surrounding kingdoms, the specks show that its only going to be able to take like ten people."

Weiss stood up quickly. "T-theres eighteen of us here!"

Rory looked at Drake. "Tell me your not thinking what I think your thinking."

"We wont be the ones fighting by our own side. That cant happen, the space-time continuum wont allow it. Even if only one of us goes back in time, it'll cause enough of a rip in the fabric of space-time that it will destroyed entirely, killing everyone, past, present, future, along every separate universe."

…...

"Does this come with English subtitles? Or are we allowed to have the english version?" Juane asked.

Drake sighed. "We cant go into the past. It's just not possible, unless you want to die. Only the kids can go..."

A silence fell between them all.

"We need to make sure that they are ready. If we are to survive. If they are to have a future, they must help us rise up and take it together."