So this came from my brain being focused on RWBY thanks to the new season. It's actually hard to write for any other fandom now because of that. Hope you guys enjoy it.

"This is why I quit Signal! I'm an actor not a damned hunter!" yelled a male voice as he heard the sounds of grunting and snarling from the Grimm behind him getting louder.

The black haired boy briefly pondered on how this situation had come about and what he had done to deserve this kind of treatment. He had just been walking towards the theater dressed in his usual jeans and black hoodie, ready to start his first show of the day, when suddenly the emergency breach alarm had sounded. Next thing he and anyone else knew was a massive train crashing through the city wall before a horde of Grimm spilled into the city.

It was pandemonium…

People rushed in every direction, desperate to escape, their fear attracting even more Grimm as the local authorities struggled to contain the damage. Even the nearby Huntsman Academy, Beacon, was sending out their students to help combat the threat. However, it seemed that even with the addition of Huntsman forces, the breach wouldn't be contained any time soon as more and more Grimm spewed into the city.

Thankfully, Atlas had seemed to realize this as well as they deployed their robot armies to support the Huntsmans, finally pushing the Grimm back into the tunnels and leaving only small pockets of Grimm activity remaining.

Of which he had the dubious honor of being stuck in…

'Still,' thought the boy in pain as a Beowolf raked his back with its claws, thankfully not breaking through his Aura. 'At least I'm better off than those poor bastards without any Aura; I guess my year at Signal was good for something at least.'

Suddenly he felt something crash into him and knock the boy into the wall, causing him to groan as he looked up to see an Ursa staring down at him. 'I'm going to die,' he realized, watching as the Ursa raised its clawed paw to crush him. Instantly desperation filled his mind as he brought his hand up to try hold the Grimm's paw up, closing his eyes as he realized the futility in the attempt.

"I don't want to die!" he shouted, feeling his hand closing around something that definitely was not an Ursa's paw.

AURA ANALYSED. BEGINNING CONVERSION.

'What was that? Wait why am I still alive?' thought the boy, opening his eyes to see the Ursa dissolving into nothing as a red cloaked girl stood between them.

The girl's body just glowed with a red Aura and both of them frowned as they saw a portion of the red smoky light flow from the girl's body and into his own. The boy groaned as an unnatural feeling of something foreign invading his body spread, causing a slight tingling sensation to spread from his head to his toes.

"Hey, are you alright?" asked the girl, a concerned expression growing on her face as he put his hand off her shoulder and started gripping his head.

"Yeah I'm fine. Thanks for the save," he replied with a grateful smile.

The girl smiled at him, "that's okay but you should be careful. Those without Aura shouldn't be fighting Grimm."

"Oh no, I have my Aura unlocked. It's just colourless, and before you ask…no I don't know why," he informed the reaper, only now noticing her massive scythe.

"Oh that's cool, you should still be careful though. I'm Ruby," she introduced, holding out a hand as the last of the Grimm in the area were eliminated.

"Umbra, cool weapon by the way. Reminds me of one of my teachers from my old school before I quit," smiled Umbra.

However, their cheerful introduction was cut short as the unnatural feeling in Umbra's body intensified and he screamed out as horrific pain erupted around his body. Ruby rushed over to him as Umbra collapsed to the ground, eyes widening in horror as the sickening sounds of bones breaking and reshaping echoed around the area.

It was then Ruby noticed the boy was getting shorter, in fact, he was turning to her height, his hair and eyes were changing colour…to the exact same as her own. The reaper took a step back as she saw a very familiar red cloak and weapon materialize from nothing, and was silent as she saw an exact copy of herself lying on the ground before her.

"Ow…that hurt like a bitch," growled out her clone with her own voice before pausing as if in shock and clutching her throat. "Testing testing…1 2 3…why do I sound like a girl?"

In response, Ruby just silently handed her doppelganger a piece of metal, causing her copy to frown as she examined her reflection before dropping the metal in shock. "Well I guess we found your Semblance right Umbra?" joked the reaper, trying to hide her discomfort at the situation, feeling her own Aura nearby but not under her control.

"Ruby! There you are!" shouted a female voice, causing them both to turn and see three other girls walking over to the, only to freeze as they saw the second Ruby.

"Hey Yang, meet Umbra," greeted Ruby, pointing to her copy.

"Ruby you never told us you had a twin," questioned the white one.

"He's not my twin Weiss, it's his Semblance. It lets him turn into a copy of people…I think," muttered the reaper.

"You think?" frowned the black one.

"He?" commented Yang, shooting Umbra a confused look.

"Ruby…he doesn't just look like you…his Aura is exactly the same as your's," argued Weiss, walking up to Umbra whom backed away.

"Like what you see Snow Angel," smirked Umbra, momentarily forgetting whom he looked like and causing an embarrassed flush to appear on Ruby's face while Weiss gained a rage-filled expression.

"Haha, that's priceless! Seeing my little sister hitting on our little Ice Queen, I guess that's why you two love Ice Flower so much," laughed Yang, getting an angered glare for both Ruby and Weiss.

"Yang this is not normal. A person's Aura cannot change regardless of the Semblance of the user. Nor is it normal for an ordinary civilian to have both their Aura and Semblance unlocked. We should take him to Ozpin, just in case," lectured the black haired one.

"Woah, no way am I going anywhere with you. I have a job I need to get back to," replied Umbra, struggling to get used to the female voice he now had.

"And what job is that? Stealing? Mercenary work? Bouncer?" questioned the black haired girl again with a suspicious expression on her face.

"I'm an actor at the local theatre," growled out Umbra, causing everyone to blink in surprise.

"Blake that wasn't very nice," frowned Ruby, before the reaper turned back to Umbra with an apologetic expression on her face. "But she's right; we'll need to take you to see our Headmaster."

"And I said I don't have time for this! If I don't make it to work on time again the boss will have my head!" shouted the 'boy' as he began walking away from the team, only to have a wall of ice appear in front of him.

"You're not going anywhere, besides do you think your boss will allow you to work looking like that?" questioned Weiss, pulling out her rapier from where she had stabbed it into the ground.

"I'm sure it will wear off by the time I get there, so good bye," replied Umbra before breaking into a sprint down the nearest street.

Unfortunately, he was not prepared for everything to blur around him as he disappeared into red rose petals, not used to the sudden increase in speed he wasn't able to control himself and watched as a light post rushed up to meet him before immense pain erupted in his head and he blacked out.

Umbra groaned as he woke up and looked down at himself, breathing a sigh of relief as he saw his normal male body. "That was the weirdest dream I've ever had," he muttered, before getting up and seeing the four girls staring down at him.

"Rise and shine sleeping beauty," laughed Yang, even as Umbra sighed and saw that he seemed to be in some sort of dorm room.

'Those have to be the unsafest bunk beds in the world, how are they not dead yet?' thought the boy as he stared at the dangerous looking beds. Eventually getting up from the ground, he noticed that his hands hand been tied with rope and glared at them.

"Bondage isn't my thing, gotta be honest," he frowned, holding up his hands and getting an eye roll from Blake whom looked to Ruby for permission.

The reaper nodded and Blake swiftly cut the ropes binding him, being careful not to let him touch her, causing the boy to flinch as blood rushed back into his hands. "So where am I and how long was I out?" he asked, rubbing his wrists.

"You're at Beacon; we wanted to wait until you woke up before taking you to the Headmaster. As for how long you have been out…well about two hours. You turned back to normal about an hour ago, it wasn't pleasant to watch," answered Weiss.

"Gee, thanks for that," muttered Umbra, before reaching his hand out to shake their hands, only to see none of the girls step forward. "Well what a nice reception."

"Until we know how your Semblance works, none of us want to touch you. We don't want you be able to turn into us like you did to Ruby," pointed out Blake, getting a blink from Umbra whom then nodded his head in agreement.

"Ok so now what?" asked the boy.

"You're going to stay here under watch until we can talk to Ozpin about you. Better make yourself comfortable, it might be awhile," replied Yang, making Umbra sigh before heading over to the top bunk suspended by ropes.

"Mind if I rest then? I'm still feeling a bit tired," yawned the boy as he climbed onto the bed, only to feel something hard sticking up underneath the pillow, and lifting it up he saw a chest hidden there.

"What's this?" muttered Umbra as he reached out to open a small chest hidden under Ruby's pillow but was promptly hurled against the wall by the reaper.

"Don't touch that! Don't ever touch that!" snarled Ruby, surprising him as she used her incredible strength to rip it out of his hand, actually breaking a few of his fingers in her rage.

Umbra hissed in pain as Ruby then threw him off her bed and sent him tumbling to the ground with a loud thud. Weiss and Blake just looked at their team leader in surprise at her uncharacteristic reaction while Yang's now red eyes stayed focused entirely on him. The brawler's hair softly glowing with a fiery light as she glared at him, her gauntlets already deployed over her arms.

Instantly Umbra swallowed as he held his hands up protectively to cover his face, "Oum CHILL! Look whatever I did, I am sorry! So let's just calm down okay?"

"Yang, Ruby, you two need to calm down. He didn't even know what he was doing, and he clearly didn't know just how important that box was to you," reasoned Blake, getting a nod of support from Weiss as the heiress gave the box a curious look.

"What's in it anyway?" asked the white haired girl, causing the siblings to exchange a glance before Ruby nodded to Yang.

"It was something of our mother's; she used to carry it everywhere…until the day she went missing. Ruby asked if she could have it for the day…it hasn't been opened since…" explained Yang.

Umbra just flinched as he got glares from the other two members of team RWBY, "hey I said I was sorry!"

Ruby seemed to return to her cheerful self as the box was placed back under her pillow and turned to face him; however before she could even say anything, her scroll started buzzing. The team leader's eyes widened as she answered the scroll before answering whoever was on the other end with a respectful tone.

Eventually the reaper hung up and spun to face her team, "that was Doctor Oobleck…apparently the Headmaster wants to debrief us on the mission in Mount Glen leading up to the Breach."

"Mount Glen? Why the hell were you there of all places?" asked Umbra, only to be ignored by the four huntresses.

"What about him?" asked Yang, pointing at Umbra.

"He could be let go…he does have a home and job he has to get back to," commented the black haired boy in a dry tone.

"He should stay here, with a Semblance as unique as that, Headmaster Ozpin will definitely want to see him. Plus we still don't know if he really is a civilian or not," replied Weiss, getting a shocked expression from Umbra.

The boy then stood up from the ground as he rounded on the heiress, "hold on you can't just keep me here locked up like some kind of prisoner!"

"What was that?" threatened Yang as she started cracking her knuckles with an eager expression on her face.

Not wanting to get even more on the brawler's bad side than he already had Umbra tried a new tactic, "why would your Headmaster even want to talk to me? I am not a Hunter, hell; I am not even a cop. I'm just a civilian who was in the wrong place at the wrong time."

"A civilian with their Aura and Semblance unlocked?" scoffed Blake, getting a sigh from the boy.

"That was the first time my Semblance ever activated, and I used to go to Signal before quitting, they unlocked my Aura," he explained with a tired expression.

"That's right I remember you! The boy with the colourless Aura, you were one of the best in my year before simply quitting without warning after two years of study," exclaimed Yang, as she punched her fist into her open palm.

"You went to Signal? Our father teaches there!" exclaimed Ruby in an excited tone before a frown crossed her face. "Why did you quit? Signal is an awesome school!"

Umbra just looked away from the reaper as he stared out at the sky through the window and a pained expression grew on his face, "Let's just say I had an unwanted and painful wakeup call. Then I grew a brain. Why should I risk my life for people who would not do the same for me? Did you know that a Hunter's average life expectancy is around 25? Becoming a Huntsman is a death sentence. And so I left."

"So you're a coward," growled Yang, causing a flash of anger to appear in the Umbra's eyes that went unnoticed by team RWBY as they got a shrug from the boy in question.

"Maybe…but this coward will outlive all of you. So call me names if you want but in the end when you are all dying in a ditch somewhere in the wilds…I'll be living my life safely in Vale. I'll take the civilian's life over a hero's death any day," he concluded softly, the only one hearing this mumble was Blake as the rest of team RWBY glanced at him with varying states of disgust or pity as they headed towards the door.

"We're going to see the Headmaster; I'm locking the door behind us so you can't leave. If he doesn't want to talk to you then we'll let you go, no funny business while we're gone," growled Weiss.

"Whatever you say Ice Queen," growled out Umbra, flinching slightly as he heard the sound of the door slamming shut.

Team RWBY as silent as they stared at Ozpin's office, watching with an intrigued expression on their faces as they saw his window slowly become transparent, revealing the city beneath them. Eventually they were snapped out of their trace as Ruby was questioned on the events leading up to the Breach and Mountain Glen.

"I see, thank you for your cooperation Miss Rose, with your help we now have a better idea on the events leading up to the Breach and how to prevent a similar incident," dismissed the Headmaster, upon hearing team RWBY finish their debriefing.

"Actually, sir…there is one more thing we wanted to talk to you about," replied Ruby, getting raised eyebrows from Oobleck, Glynda and Ozpin.

"And what is that Miss Rose?" asked the Headmaster.

"During the cleanup operation in Vale, we encountered a unique individual that raised our suspicions, he was supposedly a civilian but had an Aura unlocked. And he was spotted near where Torchwick was captured," informed Blake, taking charge of the questions.

"And you believe he had something to do with the Breach incident?" questioned the Headmaster with a frown.

The disguised Faunus frowned before shaking her head, "I did at first…but now I don't think so. Still we decided to air on the side of caution and detain him in our dorm."

The teachers just shook their head as Ozpin spoke up, "can you describe him? Was there anything that stood out about him?"

"Well he said his name was Umbra and that he was a dropout from Signal...oh and he had a colourless aura, does that work?" questioned Ruby, causing all three teachers to blink in surprise.

"A colourless Aura? That is…most unusual," frowned Ozpin, getting a nod of agreement from all the teachers present. "Glynda, could you please bring up Signal school records for anyone with the name Umbra?"

"Of course Headmaster, I shall send them to your scroll immediately," replied the combat instructor as she took out her scroll and began access the school records.

"Umm…Headmaster, I know this might sound odd…but why is a colourless Aura so unusual? I mean we all start off with a colourless one when we are young," asked Ruby, causing the Headmaster to look down at the cup in his hand and sigh.

"Miss Rose, a person's Aura reflects who they are; even the colour of the Aura itself is no exception. Every colour has a certain meaning to it, for example, an Aura with a majority red colour indicates a passionate personality, which can be seen by your devotion to your friends, while white, indicates a disciplined one. This is why they are colourless when we are younger, our Aura hasn't fully matured with our personality," explained the Headmaster, causing Weiss and Ruby to shift slightly as he turned to face them.

"That is why an individual with a colourless Aura is so unusual, either he has a unique personality or his Aura never fully matured with him. Which should be impossible if he spent time at Signal academy," replied Ozpin.

"Maybe his Semblance has something to do with it?" questioned Weiss, drawing the attention of all the teachers as they turned to stare at her.

"He has unlocked his Semblance? A Signal dropout?" frowned Goodwitch, getting a nod from team RWBY as Weiss continued.

"Yes ma'am, we've never even heard of one like it before. In fact, it was the reason we brought him back, we thought you'd want to see him," answered the heiress with an equally confused frown on her face.

"And what is his Semblance, Miss Schnee?" questioned Oobleck with a curious expression on his face.

Team RWBY all exchanged glances with each other as they silently decided who should go first before three of them all turned to Ruby, whom sighed as she stepped forward. "He turned into me," she informed them.

"Odd but not that uncommon, there have been individuals that have had the Doppelgänger Semblance before," commented Oobleck, causing all of team RWBY to shake their heads."

"No you don't understand, he didn't become a copy of me…he became me. He even gained my Semblance!" replied Ruby in a confused tone, causing all the teachers to freeze.

"That's not possible…a Semblance is completely unique to that individual, it cannot be replaced as one might replace their clothes," lectured Glynda, her frown deepening as she stared at the students.

"With all due respect professor…I felt it. It was like there were two of me at once!" shouted Ruby, surprising everyone as she gripped the edges of her cloak in discomfort.

"Glynda, perhaps we should hear her out before passing judgement," stated Ozpin, getting a nod the other two teachers in the room as they recovered from Ruby's outburst.

Clearly, something about the experience was bothering the girl, as this was definitely not Ruby's usual behaviour. This realization silenced any argument that the combat instructor had planned as she stared at the uncomfortable expression on the reaper's face.

"Please Miss Rose, tell us what happened," encouraged the Headmaster in a soft voice.

"I had just saved him from some Grimm when it started…he grabbed me by my shoulder before falling to the ground and screaming in pain," began the team leader with a flinch, remembering the painful sound of the boy's scream.

Seeing everyone silently watching her the reaper continued, "That's when I noticed some of my red Aura flow into him and then his body started changing. He turned into an exact copy of me, complete with clothes and Crescent Rose strapped onto his back."

Ruby grew silent from the memory as Weiss took over, "that's when we showed up, only to see two Rubys staring at each other in shock. Once we worked out what was going on we tried to detain him, only for him to use Ruby's Semblance to try and escape."

Suddenly Yang burst into laughter, drawing everyone's attention, "yeah thankfully he clearly wasn't ready for that kind of speed. The idiot hit a light post and knocked himself out."

"Once he was unconscious he turned back to his normal form and we tied him up and took him back to Beacon," concluded Blake.

As the story finished Ozpin sighed, "While I appreciate your diligence with safeguarding Vale…I must remind you that all four of you just wrongfully threatened, attacked and detained a civilian. Something that he could easily sue you for if he wanted to."

"But sir, at the time we didn't know he was a civilian. He had both his Aura and Semblance unlocked," argued Blake, getting a nod from all the teachers present.

"I am aware Miss Belladonna, which is why I'm going with you to meet him; hopefully I can convince him to stop any lawsuits he has planned as well as examine his Aura. You haven't antagonized or harmed him during his stay here have you?" asked the Headmaster.

The four girls just glanced at each other before Yang and Ruby started whistling innocently, causing a frown to grow on the headmaster's face. "I see…I have a feeling this is going to be a tough challenge," sighed Ozpin as he got up from the chair and turned to his fellow teachers.

"I will be back shortly with the boy, have the equipment ready in the training room," he ordered, getting nods from Glynda and Oobleck.

Together with team RWBY, they made their way towards the dorms, only to hear a loud crash coming from their dorm room. "What was that?!" exclaimed Yang, only for Ruby's eyes to widen in recognition as she felt something familiar and rushed to the door before unlocking it with her scroll.

Swinging the door open the reaper suddenly froze, her scroll dropping from numb hands as she stared at the sight that greeted her. The others quickly caught up to the stunned reaper before they turned to see what had shocked their teammate so much, only to hear a quiet gasp from Yang and Ozpin.

"Summer?" muttered the Headmaster in shock as the white cloaked woman turned to face them, blinking as she caught sight of them.

Umbra growled as he unsuccessfully tried to open the locked door before walking over to the window, planning to jump to his freedom, only to sigh as he saw the height of the drop. 'Okay, there's no way I'm surviving that jump, not with my low Aura reserves,' he thought with a sigh before walking over to the nearest bunk bed.

After a couple of minutes of boring silence, Umbra began pacing around the room like a caged cat when his gaze turned back to Ruby's bunk bed. 'I wonder what's in that box?' he pondered, and a cunning smirk appeared on his face.

"Payback's a bitch. Besides, it's not like they'll know I looked inside anyway," decided Umbra as his curiosity got the better of him and the boy reached for the box hidden under the pillow again.

Jumping down off the bed, Umbra approached the nearby desk, ignoring the corgi growling at him in the corner as he opened the box. Peering inside the boy pulled out a pure silver locket with a rose emblem engraved onto the back, opening the locket he saw a picture of a white cloaked woman and a blonde haired man holding onto younger versions of whom Umbra assumed to be Ruby and Yang.

Suddenly Umbra's eyes widened as the locket in his hand started glowing with a soft smoky white light that was slowly being absorbed into his body, the now familiar sensation of a foreign presence invading his body spreading throughout his mind.

AURA ANALYSED. BEGINNING CONVERSION.

'Wait, what?' thought Umbra before he screamed out in unimaginable pain as the sounds of bones shifting and breaking echoed throughout his body. Suddenly it was over and as he looked down at himself, he noticed the giant white cloak now clinging to his body…

Eyes widening as he remembered the picture from the locket he raced over to the nearest mirror and sure enough, there was the white clad woman from the photo looking back at him. 'She's a looker,' he thought as he stared at the mature and yet youthful face in the mirror, laughing as he pulled numerous faces in the mirror.

"Wait…didn't Ruby say this was her mother…her dead mother…oh they are going to be so pissed if they catch me like this. Damn it how do I change back!" he growled out, trying to ignore both his new 'assets' and female voice as he tried to think up a plan.

He only knew one sure fire way he could change back but that required him to be unconscious…and who knew how long this would last otherwise. 'So my choice is either face Ruby and Yang's wrath for opening their box…and turning into their deceased mother or knocking myself out…easy choice,' he thought before gripping the twin chained scythes at his belt.

'This looks cool…and Oum damned deadly…this chick must have been badass,' he thought before picking up the weapons and examining them. 'Now how do I use these?'

Staring down at the chain connected to the scythes he grinned as a line from a game he used to play came to mind. Throwing the scythe forward he watched it sink into the wood of the bottom bunk bed before his grin grew even wider.

"Get over here!" he shouted in amusement, tugging on the chain.

Unfortunately, he failed to take into account just how strong the chick must have been as the minute he pulled on the chain, the scythe sent the bed flying towards him. Eyes widening in fear Umbra raised his hands protectively to cover his face, only to watch as the minute the bed touched his hand it dissolved into white rose petals.

Blinking he looked down at the petals now scattered across the room and shrugged, "well that could have gone worse."

As he said this there was a loud crash as the top bunk, that had be resting on the now disintegrated bottom bed, plummeted to the ground before all four legs broke and the bed snapped in half. Umbra just stared at the scene before and paled…if he wasn't already in deep shit before he was now.

However before he could get over his shock, and risk the window jump, Umbra heard the sound of a door opening and spun around to see team RWBY as well as a grey haired man standing in the doorway, Ruby and Yang's eyes the size of dinner plates.

"Well…shit," muttered Umbra in his new female voice.

Well there we go. For people who are wondering I didn't think up Summer's Semblance or weapons. Her Semblance came from Ruugi's The Games We Play and the weapons came from dishwasher's Deviantart account.

I might continue this or I might not, it depends on my brain as well as the time I have available.