Dominic POV

And like that, another month goes by with no news of Roman Torchwick's arrest. But thanks to my relationship with Winter I now have access to more information, and have slowly weaned off my very visible habit of watching the news during breakfast. Thanks to her I've found out I have roughly four more months until Beacon's next school year starts, coinciding that with Weiss's age of 14 about to turn 15 the timeline is matching up. But now I have a new issue.

"Dom….. I get you guys are dating, but does "she" have to be eat with us every morning," Harriet's anger evident with that emphasis.

"We're both solders, so its made meeting up for quality time as a couple quite difficult. Though I don't imagine a single woman in her 30's could relate to the affairs of teenagers," Winter responds with a small smile touching the corners of her mouth.

"You're 22!" Harriet growls in return.

"Ooooookay," Marrow breaks in, he has a good danger sense being a canine based faunus. Sadly this is a fake relationship, yeah Winter is gorgeous, more so than the 3D model could ever do justice. But she's not my type at all, too uptight and authoritarian, though she does have a more relaxed and flustered side. But I'm only with her to get in her and Ironwood's good graces so they hopefully buy my bullshit about feeling like I need to go to Beacon with Weiss.

"Excited for our Mantle patrol today?" the dog man asks me stuffing more food into his face.

"Yeah I'll get to check on Kian, I wanna try that new food stall too. Heard they have great crepes. Want me to bring you one back babe?" I ask turning to Winter whose face is red now.

"If it's not an inconvenience," she gives me an honest smile which I can't return so I flash my roguish grin which makes her look away. "And make sure to address me properly during work hours Dominic," she scolds. I just snort in return and try to let myself get excited for the day.

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I walk through Mantle with my hands in the pockets of my now signature leather jacket, when Clover and Ironwood had handed me a starched white Ace Ops Uniform; I pulled out my lighter and torched it on the spot. I watch as the rest of my team joke and smile, I've been feeling separated from them for a week or two now, after all I am lying to them about allot of things. I guess the guilt is finally getting to me.

I thought my forced TV appearance would have brought their attention as well. But I've heard no news of or from my brothers, for all I know they could be….. I shake my head not wanting the worst to enter my thoughts. I don't know if it's because we're twins but I know he's alive at least, it is strange I haven't felt the "echo's" I get when he has a seizure since we landed in Remnant. In all honesty I may be the only one who fell here, who knows where the others landed.

Damien would've loved to be here, especially in Atlas with all the tech he could dream of. But a mech suit anime like Infinite Stratos or any of the Gundam's would be right up his alley. Deadric loves food, so as long as he landed in a populated universe (preferably in Asia knowing his tastes both for food and women) he'll be fine and happy. Dimitri….. I stop walking as I hear screaming. I look around and see everyone else has stopped, good not PTSD.

More screams sound and a huge rush of people flood the street about a block and a half away before a loud explosion rocks the street and smoke starts bellowing from the building they ran from, a train station, the station we were walking to. The station Kian's cart is in front of! I start moving before any of the others, shoving past Clover and Harriet whose at point, "No, no, no, no, no. That's not today, it can't be today!" I wheeze out. Though I can't blame myself, the time frame was never explicitly given in the show.

I skid to a halt, seeing the front of the station destroyed, glass and stone from the 100+ year old station litter the street. Injured civilians run out from the chaos panicked, some covered in soot and blood. Looking around I see the short but strangely handsome cake pop cart owner lying on the ground. His cart blown about 30 feet away, his arms shielding an unconscious or worse Kian. I grab Twi and La's handles, "Crush," I pull the kantana out of the right barrel but opt for a tanto of the earth dust for my left.

The rest of the Ace Ops show up seconds later; (the rest?); "Get a sit rep, call in medic and e-vac for the civvies. Have Ironwood deploy an auto unit to the outskirts closest to this area in case this attracts Grimm, I'm going in." I yell out and dash into the crumbling entrance before Clover has a chance to react.

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Inside I stop running before the main terminal, slowly I creep up behind a pillar, the once beautiful early 20's styled architecture is marred by the deep gouges and cracks from the blast. There are a few bodies littered about, and people in white masks are gathering up any survivors. White Fang, the faunus shadow organization, and right now must be before the Black trailer where Blake leaves Adam's side on the train. But didn't the attack start on the train? Are events that occur here different because of the law of String theory? Or are things already changing because of our presence?

I soon get my answer, "Adam… Are you sure we had to change the plan? So many people are…. Dead. I don't feel right about this, this isn't what we're supposed to stand for."

I dont move, I stop breathing, their just on the other side of the pillar. They must have moved here to talk. "Unfortunately it was, I regret the change and having to take so many lives as well, including some of our own kind. But the station was the least guarded place to ambush the train, with that new Ace Op getting displayed. It shows their consideration to security, and now we are in an amazing position with a fortified area and hostages. Free to load up as much dust as we can and take the whole train instead of just a few cars."

At hearing his words, my blood freezes. All because I was debuted they changed plans biased on a hunch that Atlas and the Schnee Corporation are going to increase security. They may have more information than just that, that I am unaware of, but I do know he is an extremist. Atlas showed a new shiny toy with a powerful semblance, declaring strength, this man said hold my beer and took it as a challenge.

Should I radio out a message to the other Ace's, (There's that other again, are you one of them or not Dominic?) Or should I engage? Blake's here, if she gets arrested what could happen to the story? The worst case scenario is a butterfly effect that could render all my knowledge; and my brothers; to almost uselessness. "Fuck, fuck, fuck." I whisper under my breath hearing them walk away from my hiding spot. I peak around the corner and see the signature rose on the back of Adam Taurus's black jacket, Blake close to him but obviously keeping some distance.

While still debating with myself and my course of action, I notice a small cloud of dust kick up to his right, but I'm not the only one as Blake's cat ears twitch in the same direction, "There's someone here." She readies into a fighting stance, drawing Gambol Shroud and facing the spot where the dust came from.

Adam looks to the same spot, I can see his face twisting into a sadistic smile, all faunus have enhanced senses and instincts, some more than others. But even a bovine/bull type faunus will find that invisible person quickly. Which to no surprise, he rushes foreword and the persons invisibility wavers as they ready to block, showing them and their weapons outline. Adam swats the spear away like its a toy and his free hand closes on the throat of the person causing their semblance to finally revile them.

All I see is red as my body moves on it's own, refusing to let someone else get hurt. With my semblance decreasing my weight allowing me to move faster I raise my sword to lop off his arm before he has a chance to do it to someone else. His instincts are on point as my sword hits empty air, but I follow up with a slash from the tanto which clangs off his own katana styled red blade.

"I wasn't expecting the Ace Ops this quickly but this will do just fine," he says to me with a laugh in his tone.

I'm silent as I turn towards him, "You?" the person behind me rasps out, I quickly glance behind me and see blue hair, golden eyes and a hand rubbing their throat.

"You're one of Robyn's girl's right?" My eyes track back to Adam whose showing me a side profile expecting me to rush in first, oh he's about to find out. "Wheres the rest? I could use some back up here," I whisper not moving as the rest of the White Fang starts to close in around us guns raised. With my current aura level I have two options. "Down" them all, grab her and run, or do what I do best. "It's not nice to lay your hands on a woman you know."

He snorts, "Dominic Fain, it's a pleasure to meet Atlas's new dog," he responds.

"Dog? No that's Marrow, more like Atlas's new resident bad ass. So you're Adam Taurus? Yeah I've read your file a little, not big on the paperwork stuff yet." I say to his surprised look, "I happened to hear you changed your plans and threw this party for lil' ol' me. How kind, but I prefer white over red," I vaguely motion to a pool of crimson coming from the corpse of a woman holding her child. "At least it's not a sausage fest of a party, whose that beauty there? Looks like she prefers black, guess it hides the blood," I give my best roguish smile and twirl the tanto a few times. She looks slightly disgusted with herself. Good. But Adam's face darkens.

"Why are you provoking him?" the woman behind me hisses.

"Just watch," I whisper, "So why are you in our neck of the woods? Stealing a train and planning on filling it to the brin with dust no less, isn't that a little off for the Fang's MO? Look I got a deal for you, surrender now and MAYBE I'll let you keep your jack off arm, you'll need it in jail. Hey cat girl, wanna go out after I lock up your boyfriend and his gang? I know this place with awesome ice cream." Though she's wearing a Grimm mask that covers most of her face, I see Blake's cheeks flush as his smile turns feral.

"He's mine," the bull rushes foreword, sometimes I wonder if this habit to run this fucking mouth of mine is a blessing or a curse. Though I know what buttons to push here in Remnant, I've always been a taunter and always seem to know what to say to piss people off.

The old feeling bubbles up in my stomach, my pulse quickens as our blades clash and sparks fly off as metal meets condensed dust. This world even without my brothers will suit me just fine; and they know this and would understand. I was born to fight and for the first time in a long time, I'm getting excited at facing someone and I feel like I don't have to hold back…. Much.

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Clover POV

I swear this kid is gonna give me a heart attack, the medics finally show up and I gather the Ace Ops up for a quick brief. "Okay there's no telling what's in there, I'll take point, Vine left flank, Marrow rear, Harriet and Elm on the right." Everyone nods and I sigh before flicking my badge more for comfort than luck.

We fall into position and run into the station, rubble litters the area as well as more injured civilians. My anger spikes but I keep it under control, though I don't think anything could've prepared me for the fight happening in the main terminal. "Is that Dominic?" Harriet mutters looking at the same scene in just as much shock as the rest of us as we all pause.

"I don't think Winter was the only one holding back….." Marrow mumbles his eyes wide. No shit…

The flurry of sword strikes from Dom's duel wield reverse style is almost to fast to keep track of for me. His opponent however is keeping up just fine, parrying each while only using one sword. Until now I've only seen him fight defensively and reactivity. Not a bad way to fight but with the way he's moving now, it definitely wasn't his style. The red haired man jumps back deciding he needs a breather from the onslaught, but Dominic refuses that idea, jamming a brown dagger into the ground he releases the blade from the hilt. He stomps the dagger into what's left of the stone floor activating the dust.

An earthen wall juts out of the ground behind the man stopping his back step as he lands on it and launches himself back into the fight, it makes sense now why he chose to use dust blades. His semblance drains too much aura and he can achieve similar effects with dust and dust combos without expending as much. Dominic's created a new short sword in the time it took who I recognize from the files as Adam Taurus to bounce back, this one glowing a bright red.

"FIGHT NORMALLY!" He yells at Dominic as the latter twists and turns constantly evading and countering before launching a new barrage of praying mantis like strikes. Constantly using his opponents force and momentum to spin into his next counter or attack.

"You couldn't handle me fighting normally bully boy! I prefer this anyway, it feels more natural. You're a faunus, you should sympathize with that," he jumps back out of the way of an angry slash accompanied with a growl. I believe him as he spins in place countering another swing and follows with two counters, forcing Adam back to a ten pace; before he stops facing his opponent with both arms out stretched and crossed left resting on right.

His opponent flustered and running out of options sheaths his sword, all the small counters and parry's charging up his semblance. "Dom!" I try to warn him remembering the file and realizing what caused the explosion.

He seems ready for it as he crouches and lunges foreword aiming for his opponents stomach, he rolls out of the way of the first crimson energy wave. "Away," I hear him shout as a full force upper cut lands on Adam's jaw sending him 20 feet up and at an angle. Using Rulers Domain in full force and instinctively, he dances back and fourth as more red slashes rain down during Adams decent, each one leaving a new gash in the granite flooring. Not giving him a chance to breath Dom fires his now chipped gravity blade, charged with aura and pulling chunks of debris and a cloud of dust.

Adam sheaths his sword, crossing his arms the blade shatters on his aura shield pushing him back. He takes the full attack, each brick causing another aura flash. Dom smiles before sending the fire dagger flying as well, igniting the cloud of dust into a small fireball making Adam stagger back even more, his aura flashing even brighter. A clear indicator that it's close to breaking. "Had enough yet? I'm still willing to let you keep your jerk off hand if she tells me her name?" He winks and salutes a woman with long black hair standing on what's been decided as Adam's side of the station, the rest of the Fang cheering their leader on. Its then I decide to look over at Dominic's side.

Most civvies had seen or spread the word of Dom's debut, that's why we broadcast new high ranking solders first spar's. They knew behind Dominic was safety. I also notice a woman with blue hair sitting on the ground, What the fuck is she doing here!

"At least she's a woman!" Adam snarls with a dark grin, his hand going back to his sword the whole sheath glowing a dark red. May looks away, and Dominic's face becomes dead pan straight as he readies for the attack. Then turns to pure shock and terror as Adam changes target, unleashing three consecutive blasts directly at May.

None of us are close enough, not even Harriet with her semblance, except Dominic. Who rushes foreword and raises his swords into a rushed and weak guard. The explosion rocks the station, causing more rubble to fall and a smoking man to be flung into the far wall on his side of the pseudo arena. Leaving a new crater, we see his aura flash a bright purple. I sigh in relief at the fact it didn't break.

"DOM!," Harriet almost screech's, me and Vine both grab a shoulder.

"Fang first," I command and she looks torn but nods at my order.

We turn, the Fang finally realizing we've arrived, they ready their weapons and I begin to advance my normal line of reading their rights on my lips as a laugh from the wall makes my spine shiver and my blood go cold. "Nice hit bully boy. My turn?" I look back to the crater, with the dust settling i see Dominic's white hair out of its normal pony tail, a soft purple glow coming from his partially hidden eyes. What catches my eyes the most is his smile. Wide and showing all of his teeth, an almost insane grin.

He pulls his right arm free of the rubble causing some to fall, and slams it back into the wall. His semblance causing more cracks to form as he falls from the crater, landing fully hunched over on one knee. More rubble falls but is caught by an unseen force and begins to orbit slowly around him as he stands. He looks down at the dangling core wires for his swords, with a shrug he retracts them and places them on the barrels. "Condense," with the new command I see the barrels warp.

The blades he pulls out terrify me, the gravity dust blade is pure black except for a light trace of purple around the edges, while the fire blade he chose is glowing a vibrant orange. What scares me more is the drop of blood I see trace down his cheek from his right eye. "Kid we got this, stand down," I try to order but know the points moot when Adam retorts.

"I'd listen to your boss, you look tired. Let your back up handle the rest," the man snorts out but is slowly backing up. Probably to retreat while his grunts eat our time and attention.

"Where do you think you're going?" Dominic's voice is colder than I can remember it being even when he first arrived.

The ground under him erupts into more rubble and dust as he shoots foreword stopping on a dime behind his opponent, his body in a full twist ready to bring his full weight plus the enhanced weight of that sword right on Adam's spine. It must've been his animal instincts that saved him as he jumps and twists falling onto his back his blade coming up to block a second attack.

Dom's smiles is more normal though still wide, and his tone is still bone chilling, though smooth and calm. "Didn't expect you to dodge that, no lie. But I'm done playing, time to take that arm of yours and send your happy ass to jail." He raises the red dagger twirling it into a normal grip and readies to lunge foreword when the black haired woman moves. No one had noticed her inching closer until she could jump and deliver a harsh diagonal slash to Dominic's back.

It shatters through his remaining aura and digs in, causing crimson to splash across the already stained stone. She rolls out of his counter slash but with his aura broken and who knows what other damage caused by the attack and his own semblance, he stumbles and falls to one knee. The glow fading from his eyes, as his breathing becoming more labored the swords fall from loose hands. Marrow points his whole hand at the Fang grunts that are attempting to run away, but all I hear is the blood in my ears as I slide next to Dom not knowing when I had started moving. The girl had disappeared with Taurus, what I guess is her semblance had left behind a shadow figure of them that had slowly faded. May reaches us not long after, she takes off her coat and begins ripping it.

"Kid talk to me," I grab him and lay him down making sure he wasn't going to drown in his own blood. May and I begin applying pressure with the coat rags as I hear Harriet radio for a Med Unit inside.

"Dame was right, I shouldn't play with my food," his voice is distant as the adrenaline puts him into shock and his breathing starts to calm. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing but my question is, whose Dame?

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Sun POV

"MAN, Vacuo just keeps getting better," the woman busts into the common room for our dorm. Her pink side tails bouncing in tune with a beat only she can hear as she skates over dropping a plastic bag on Neptune and mines game of cards. I notice she has a sun dried fish on a stick in her hands, she spins in place taking a bite with her matching pink tail waving around. Her partner and fellow exchange student Flint Coal walks in behind her shaking his head slightly.

"Vibe still out?" He asks taking off his hat and in a smooth motion tosses it and flops onto the couch. It sails through the air and lands neatly on a hook by the door.

"Like a light," I reply as me and Nep dig into the bag of snacks.

"Boooooooo," Neon whines still spinning, "he promised to work on a new song today."

"We did have a big mission yesterday and the guys semblance really takes it out of him when he uses it like that," I shake my head still in disbelief.

"15 Grimm pacified to the point of standing still, guess music is the best way to calm a beast," Flint speaks my thoughts out loud pulling out his trumpet. He gives it a light blow and what sounds like a yell comes out. He pulls it away and looks at it before turning it and looking down the throat. He almost hits the ceiling when another yell and THOOM reverb through the room.

It even knocks Neon off balance and she has to stop spinning and catch herself, her fish in her mouth. I jump up and run to Vibe's room, as I get the door open I'm almost knocked off my feet by another THOOM of air pressure. I see our teammate kneeling on his bed, his hands covering his ears, pain causing small groans.

"Sun back up that was only two," Neon warns as the third and strongest BOOM pushes me back and I rely on Neptune to catch me.

"Yeah and he's never done this in his sleep before, so hes not going to be able to regulate the force and might need…." BOOM. A fourth pulse, even stronger than before pushes me and Nep back another step. "More thumps," I finish, then take my moment to dash into his room and tackle him to the bed. "Vibe wake up buddy, come on," I wrap my arms, legs and tail around him like a human compression blanket.

"Hurts, back hurts. Blood, pain," he groans and I realize its not an episode. It's a nightmare.

"Hey, hey, there's no blood. We're all here," the other three walk into the room as I release him hoping he's awake.

One white and one black cat ear twitch out of unison in two different directions as two different color eyes open regarding me with a drowsy expression. He blinks a few times before he's fully awake, he jumps and lands sitting cross legged. "Why're ya'll in muh room fo'," he tilts his white blond and black fringed head causing a lock of hair to cover his slit pupil red eye before glancing back and fourth between us.

"Shoot tha' song, sorry I slept so late Neon," Flint smiles and shakes his head walking away.

"Damn right you should be sorry you lazy ass alley cat," she slowly skates foreword chewing him out more. "First you sleep allllllll day, then you have the nerve to scare us making us think you're having one of your episodes in your sleep." Neptune and I quickly make our escape closing the door on a horrified and begging expression from the young man. His white tipped black striped tail stands ramrod straight behind him starting to fluff out. "SKIN.. ALIVE.. SCARING ME. DON'T HIDE!" Her screams become more distant as me and Nep sit back down and root through the bag of snacks.

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A/N Please leave a review if you've read this far. Sorry for the long break, I moved over 100 miles and it was quite the ordeal. But I already have ideals for the next chapter and will begin working on that asap. I'll be posing Vibe's description and semblance after the next chapter or two. Though it and his weapon are already planned. Also I felt like chapter 4 was quite out of character for Winter without allot of build up or explination. Please let me know if you would like to see it redone and maybe even another chapter added to rework a few things. I hope everyone enjoys and has been doing well.