A/N: Hello everyone I just want to say thank you for taking time out of your day to read this fic as there are many out there in the RWBY section that are similar. After reading some I got inspired to write my own. Like many this will focus on Jaune getting his turn in the spotlight, lord knows he deserves it.

Now, the updates for this will be slow as I will be focusing on my other story. This can be considered a bookmark. You know how you get a good idea but you put on hold and when you come back it has already been done and you think I should have at least put the idea out there. This is me doing that.

This will include movies, games and TV shows. Feel free to PM me on what could be shown. Please don't write them in the comments that is all I ask.

This takes place at the start of the third volume.

Any and all mistakes are mine and mine alone. RWBY or any of the franchises that show up are not mine. I'm just sitting in their library and borrowing their books.

Inspiration: Predator (Had trouble writing the scenes from the movie where it would go from regular to infrared and then back. I hope I did it justice)

"And that is how I'm planning to conquer the world using pancakes!" Nora exclaimed happily while gesturing to the chalkboard that her team wondered where she got it. Nora's plan for world domination on the board showed a detailed drawing of Remnant with what appeared to be pancakes approaching from the various coastlines with arrows moving inward to the center of Remnant. Jaune, Ren and Pyrrha sat on their beds and looked at the board with indifferent expressions. The reason why is because over the past year the team have gotten used to Nora's antics and they all agreed to humor the hyper girl whenever she got in the "mood". The last time they ignored Nora she blew up several walls, three rooms and the workshop.

The reason for the destruction is because she wanted to test out a new formula for her grenades and she stole an energy drink from Jaune's secret stash. The end result was an extremely hyper Nora running around Beacon with highly explosives grenades claiming that she was fighting the soldiers of the Waffles Society. It took Professor's Glynda, Port and Oobleck to capture and restrain Nora and the scolding that team JNPR got from Ozpin and Glynda could be heard throughout Beacon. The next day Nora had a huge headache as a result of the energy drink and both Ren and Pyrrha agreed to remove the energy drinks much to Jaune's dismay. After that they all agreed to always listen to what Nora has to say to avoid the "screaming banshee" incident as the student body dubbed it.

"And all of you!" Nora shouted while gesturing to her teammates, "will be my generals and when I'm queen of the castle. You shall be rewarded!" She shouted happily while placing her hands on her hips and began laughing when suddenly a bright light filled the room causing all members of JNPR to shield their eyes. When the light died down all members were gone.

Team RWBY is currently in the heated debate of which movie to watch to spend their evening. Blake wanted to watch romance while Yang voted for a fighting movie and Ruby wanted to watch a weapons documentary. Weiss voted for a drama and back and forth the four argued for their respective movies when they heard Nora shout something about pancakes when the same bright light that filled JNPR room filled theirs and they also vanished when the light died down. The same light appeared in different sections of Beacon and in different parts of Remnant. When the lights died down several individuals along with teams JNPR and RWBY disappeared from Remnant.

In a black void a white light appeared and multiple people emerged from the light, more like fell in actuality and they fell on top of each other creating small mountain of limbs.

"Get off me!"

"Who's toughing my hair!"

"Someone's butt is in face."

"Get your hand off my ass."

"My back!"

"Someone's on my ears."

"My favorite mug!"

Slowly the people began to untangle themselves from the mess that they landed in and finally got a look at who fell on top of them.

"Ruby!" Yang yelled while embracing her little sister while Blake and Weiss observed their surroundings.

"Jaune!" Pyrrha made her way to her team leader and discreetly checked for any signs of injury when she didn't find any she relaxed slightly but didn't drop her guard. Soon Ren and Nora made their way to the both of them and like Pyrrha they didn't drop their guard. Safe to say everyone is on their guard at the moment.

"Weiss!"

"Blake!" Sun and Neptune ran to their crushes to make sure they are alright and to impress them given the chance when they defend them from whoever kidnapped them.

"Velvet/Coco." Both Velvet and Coco made sure that they are both okay before joining teams RWBY and JNPR

"Friend Ruby."

"Penny." Ruby said with a smile as she embraced her friend.

"Where are we?" The students turned around to see Professor's Glynda, Port, Oobleck and headmaster Ozpin.

"An excellent question." The group turned to the new voice and saw General Ironwood and Winter Schnee.

"Sister?" Weiss asked surprised to see her older sister.

"Weiss? Winter?" Both the Schnee sisters turned to see their mother Willow.

"Jaune?" Turning once again to the new voce they see a blonde man and woman flanked by several woman of different ages.

"Mom? Dad?" Jaune said surprised to see his parents and his sisters, along with Terra, wife to his oldest sister Saphron and their two-year-old son, Adrian. Pyrrah is also surprised to see Jaune's parents and she can definitely see where Jaune got his looks from based on his father's appearance who looked like an older Jaune. Jaune's parents and sisters ran to their son/brother that they haven't seen ever since he took off to join Beacon to become a hunter. NPR smiled at the scene of Jaune being crushed by his father and passed to the other members of his family like an object.

"Ow, you've put on some weight Qrow."

"Thanks for softening my landing."

"Dad! Uncle!" Ruby and Yang shouted as they ran to greet and hug their father and uncle who smiled and embraced them. Especially Tai as he hasn't seen his daughters since they left Signal to join Beacon and start their training to become hunters.

"My little flowers," Tai said as he hugged both daughters while Qrow simply smiled at the scene and went to take a sip from his trusty flask.

"Blake?!" Blake visibly stiffened from the sound of the voice and turned to see her parents Kali and Ghira Belladonna along with Ilia Amitola and Sienna Khan of the White Fang. Kali immediately ran to embrace her daughter with a speed that surprised Blake.

"What are they're doing here?" Winter asked pointing to Sienna and Ilia who immediately went for their weapons only to discover that they are missing. Sienna wouldn't let this chance pass her as she charged Winter who adopted a fighting stance only to be stopped by Ghira who appeared in the middle of the two. Ghira grabbed Sienna and threw her onto the ground.

"Calm yourself, Sienna!" Ghira yelled. Ilia went to help her leader only to be stopped by Kali who shook her head.

"What are doing, Ghira!?" Sienna shouted before pointing to Winter, Weiss and Willow who stood next to her daughters. "These three are responsible for many of our people's death!"

"Their father is responsible." Ghira calmly spoke having dealt with Sienna before. "The sins of the father should not be passed onto his children."

"They have killed many of us, Ghira." Sienna told him, "you created the White Fang to…"

"I created the White Fang to be a peaceful organization!" Ghira shouted getting Sienna, Blake and Ilia to flinch at his tone. "I have read reports of what you and Adam are doing to the White Fang. I'm disappointed in you Sienna." He said before pushing Sienna back before looking to the Schnee sisters.

"I apologize for her behavior." Ghira bowed to the Schnee women surprising everyone in the room. The founder of the White Fang bowing to the Schnee, it's a good thing that Adam wasn't there to see or he would have accused Ghira for being weak.

"Tai?"

Tai like Blake stiffened from the sound of the voice and turned around to see the mother of his oldest daughter Yang. Raven stood there looking a bit shocked to see her former lover and daughter that she left behind. Yang saw her mother and her eyes shifted to red as she attempted to break free from Tai's grip and punch her mother in the face and demand why she left them. Tai's hold on his daughter proved too great for Yang to break out of and she relented as her eyes shifted back to their normal color and she turned away from Raven.

Raven smirked at the sight of her daughter trying to break out of Tai's hold and she wondered how strong Yang is and pondered the possibility of bringing her into her clan. They could always use another strong fighter.

"Long time no see sis." Qrow said but was ignored by Raven.

"Welcome."

Everyone save for Sienna and Ilia instantly moved together and formed a circle with the teens and the young in the middle with the adults on the outside of the circle adopting a defensive stance. They reached for their weapons only to find them missing like Sienna.

"Have no fear. I have no intention of harming you."

"Then show yourself!" Tai shouted as he looked while looking for the source of the voice. Suddenly a flash of light appeared and a small sphere appeared roughly the size of a medicine ball and approached the group. The sphere appeared to be mechanical in nature with a bright blue light in the middle of the sphere (Basically 343 Guilty Spark from Halo).

"It is a pleasure to make your acquaintance, Tai Xio Long and all of you as well." The sphere said with a slightly mechanical voice that is no longer loud. "I'm spart1339, author and viewer of the multiverse. Student in the class of life. You may call me Spart for short."

"What?" Is everyone reaction to the now named spart1339 or Spart.

"Why are we here?" Ozpin asked stepping forward to address Spart.

"Simple I brought all of you here to change the future and to rewrite history." Spart told them getting everyone to widen their eyes in disbelief at the statement.

"That's impossible." Oobleck said, "no one has that kind of power." He said in disbelief.

"Agreed. I also find this hard to believe." Winter added her opinion.

"Not to sound egotistical but I not only have the power to alter the course of the future but also over so much more." Spart said and soon three more bright lights appeared and three people stood before them that shocked everyone who knew them. Standing in front of them is Summer Rose, mother to Ruby Rose and Yang adoptive mother who died while out on a mission for Ozpin. Next to Summer is Li and An Ren father and mother to Ren who also died.

Tai broke away from the group and walked to Summer who stayed still. Finally reaching Summer, Tai slowly reached out and touched her hand then he placed a hand on her cheek that Summer leaned into. Tears threatening to fall from both Tai and Summer as they both took in each other's features, Tai looked into her eyes and he saw the woman that helped him moved on from Raven after she left him, the woman who put back the pieces of his heart and taught him to love again, the woman who he married and later became the mother of his second daughter.

"Summer," Tai breathed out her name.

"Kept you waiting, huh?" Summer choked out and hearing her voice again broke Tai as the tears fell from his eyes and he embraced Summer and gave her the most passionate kiss that he could. Summer returned the kiss with just as much passion.

"I've missed you, Summer" Tai whispered after ending the kiss and leaned his forehead against hers.

"I've missed you too, Tai." Summer said and looked over her shoulder to see the shocked faces of Ruby and Yang before they broke away from the group and ran to their mother.

"Mom!" They both shouted as they embraced Summer who returned the embrace. Tai looked over to Spart and mouthed a 'thank you' to the machine for bringing Summer back and for reuniting his family. Raven looked at the scene of Yang hugging Summer and crying and calling her mother, deep down inside her she felt a tang of jealousy at Summer for being the mother figure to Yang while she wasn't, not that she had any right to call herself Yang's mother after she left.

Meanwhile Ren slowly approached his parents who died and thought that he would never see again until he passed onto the afterlife. Li and An also approached their son and they met in the middle, Ren slowly reached out to touch his father's face with hesitation almost afraid like his parents would disappear.

"You've grown into a fine young man, son." Li spoke taking in his son's appearance for the first time since their death. The dam in Ren broke the moment he heard his father's voice and hugged his father and cried into his shirt not that Li minded as he too broke down crying while returning the hug. An also joined in on the hug and soon the family of three embraced each other with tears of relief.

Everyone smiled at the scene of the two families who have been torn apart finally being reunited.

"What are you?" Ozpin asked Spart after seeing Summer, Li and An Ren come back from the dead. A task that he knew wasn't possible.

"My kind go by many names." Spart told them once the reunion of Summer Rose and Li and An Ren. "Authors, keepers, librarians, viewers and even god. Though the last one is very rare and only reserved for those with big egos, not that I'm judging them." Spart told them.

"You said that you brought all of us here to rewrite history and change the future, correct?" Ozpin asked

"Correct but first things first." Spart said before the center eye began to glow a red and a red beam shot out hitting Penny in the chest flinging her back until she landed on her back a distance away from the group.

"Penny!" Ruby shouted as she ran to her friend, red flower petals left in her wake creating a trail.

"What the hell?" Qrow and Ironwood shouted and went for their weapons only to remember that they didn't have them on hand. Ruby moved to Penny's prone form and saw red lightning sparking across her body, when she moved to touch Penny, Ruby retracted her hand in pain as the red lightning sparked and hit her hand. After a few seconds the lightning died down and Penny slowly moved.

"Penny?" Ruby asked scared for her friend's condition.

"Friend Ruby?" Penny asked holding out her hand for Ruby to help her up which she did. Penny stood on shaky legs as she moved her hand to her eyes. "My sensors…they're offline."

"As of this moment you are no longer an android." Spart said floating down to be eye level with Penny, the center eye now back to being blue. "You are now human." Spart told Penny who looked shocked before a smaller blue beam struck her hand and she retracted her hand back as Penny experienced a slight jolt and a small amount of pain for the first time. "You deserve a different fate than what was planned for you."

"Penny?" Ironwood said as he approached the girl and kneeled down in front of her and slowly reached out touch her hand. A look of surprise appeared on Ironwood's face as he felt a pulse. "How is this possible?" He asked.

"As I said I have power over so much more than just the future." Spart said, "Penny's fate was to die at the hands of Pyrrha during the Vytal Tournament."

"What?" Pyrrha asked shocked as she couldn't see herself murdering Penny.

"You were tricked into seeing something that wasn't there and you used your sembalance in defense. Only it ended tearing Penny apart as she was affected by your sembalance." Spart told Pyrrha who shrunk into herself at the news.

"Wait, Penny's an android?" Blake asked.

"Was an android." Spart corrected her, "now she is a fully fledged human. By doing this I have altered the course of history and changed the future." Spart told the group, "of course. By bringing all of you here I also have changed the events that are going to happen."

"What was going to happen?" Ozpin curious as to what the future holds for them.

"Let me show you, but be warned you may not like what you see." Spart told them before different screens appeared before them playing different scenes. (Volumes 1-6).

Yang and Blake watched a screen where Yang had her right arm removed by Adam leader of a faction within the White Fang. Yang grabbed her right arm as she felt a pain shoot through her arm as she watched her on screen counterpart lose an arm. Blake felt sick as she watched her worst fears come to life, the White Fang coming back for her and hurting her friends in the process. Tai felt his anger rise at the sight of his daughter being injured and directed that anger at the man who injured his daughter on screen. Even Summer and Raven felt their anger rise at the sight of their daughter being maimed. Ghira hung his head in shame at the sight of Adam maiming the young girl.

On another screen Ozpin and the rest of the teachers watched a screen showing Beacon destroyed and in ruins with a frozen Grimm dragon on the roof with the Grimm surrounding the academy. Ironwood and Winter watched a screen showing Atlas soldiers fighting against the Paladins that were designed for use in the military. They watched as the soldiers struggled to fight the Paladins, Grimm and White Fang troops as chaos happened all around them. Ironwood and Winter had trouble watching the soldiers struggle to push back the threats and felt their hearts heavy with sorrow as they watched some of the soldiers die.

Another screen showed Sienna being killed by Adam and turned into a martyr for the White Fang to rally behind. Sienna and Ilia couldn't believe that Adam would do such a thing. The screen showed Adam pushing the White Fang onto more radical ideals that didn't sit well with them. Ghira watched in sadness as the White Fang was pushed to more radical solutions, 'How far has the White Fang fallen?' Ghira thought to himself.

JNPR watched a screen showing Pyrrha fighting an unknown opponent. The other screens vanished so the only one left is the one showing Pyrrha's duel which enlarged to show everyone what is happening. Spart looked down knowing that "scene" is coming up, the screen showed Pyrrha being shot with a glass arrow, the arrow missed her heart by an inch but was more than enough to bring the Spartan to her knees as her weapons fell to the ground.

"Pyrrha!"

"What the fuck!"

"No!"

The screen showed the one responsible for fatally wounding Pyrrha, Cinder Fall.

"That's Cinder." Ruby said.

"That fucking bitch!" Nora shouted at the screen getting everyone who knew her to look at her in surprise.

"Why is she attacking Miss Nikos?" Glynda asked.

"Cinder is an agent of Salem. In fact, her whole team except for one is an agent for Salem." Spart told the group. Everyone who knew Salem clenched their hands at the information being given to them and everyone else wondered who Salem is but they would have to wait for an explanation as the screen showed Cinder walking toward Pyrrha with the Grimm dragon behind her waiting for orders. This caused shock to everyone.

"How is she controlling the dragon?" Ruby asked.

'Looks like Salem as found a protégé.' Ozpin thought to himself as he watched the screen. Cinder placed a hand on Pyrrha cheek and asked her if she believes in destiny before Pyrrha burst into flames and her body fell into ashes for everyone to see.

Pyrrha fell to her knees after watching her onscreen counterpart die at the hands of Salem. Jaune comforted Pyrrha while saying words of comfort and Ren and Nora also joined in comforting Pyrrha. Ozpin gripped his cane tighter as he felt his anger rise as did the teachers in the room at the sight of one of their students dying.

"Cinder tricked everyone and she planted a virus in the CCT before the Vytal Festival. When Atlas airships connected with the CCT, the virus infected the Paladins, scrambling their IFF system causing them to go berserk and attack anyone they see." Spart explained what led up to Pyrrha's death as more screens appeared showing them what would have happened had Spart not interfered. They watched the White Fang attack and the Grimm invading Vale, even the Paladins attacking everyone. They watched as Cinder killed Amber and stole the powers of the Fall Maiden confirming Ozpin's suspicions that she is the one that attacked Amber.

"This was your future. A future that I intend to change." Spart told them as the screens continued to play showing Blake leaving on her own to Jaune blaming himself for Pyrrha's death and almost losing himself to the guilt within himself. Ozpin dying and being rebirthed in the mind of Oscar which surprised those that didn't know about Ozpin's secret, Penny's death and Yang being blamed for going too far in her duel with Mercury.

"How do you intend to do this?" Pyrrha asked wanting to know if there is a way to avoid the future that she just saw.

"By creating a new future for all of you." Spart said getting everyone to look him with surprise and confusion at he just said.

"Who is Salem?" Weiss asked shaking off her confusion and she wanted to know who Salem is as did everyone who didn't already know.

"I'll let Ozpin explain." Spart said turning to Ozpin who hesitated before informing everyone about Salem. Although he gave them the basic of information enough to satiate them and left out important parts. Everyone couldn't believe that a single person is responsible for the creation of the Grimm and that they are controlling the Grimm.

"Why did you bring us here?" Leon Arc, father to Jaune Arc asked worried for his son's safety as is his wife, Emilia Arc.

"I brought all of you here as a refuge while I create a new world line for all of you. One that isn't so bleak." Spart told them.

"And what is a world line?" Ozpin asked.

"A world line is the current world that all you have inhabit." Spart began explaining the concept of world lines to the group and soon a bright red line appeared before them. "This is your world line and every time a life changing decision is made a new world line is created as a result of that action." To demonstrate a new line fractured off from the main line and soon different lines appeared each next to the main one. "Each line is a world line that is affected by the choices that each of you made and in each a different version of you appears. Each living their own lives, this is also known as parallel worlds."

"Interesting…" Oobleck said wishing that he had a notebook and a recorder on him as he soaked in the information being presented.

"Each world line is unique, for example. In one world line Jaune was born as a girl, in another Ruby was killed in the bar fight that Yang started while she was looking her mother. Everyone soaked in the news, Leon and Emilia were surprised to hear that in one world line Jaune was born as a girl. Tai, Summer, Yang and Ruby felt their hearts sadden at the news that Ruby dies in one world.

"What I'm doing is creating a new world line." Spart told the group as a new line appeared next to the main one, this one colored blue. "This world line will be similar to your own with several key differences that I won't tell you cause it's a surprise."

"So when do we move in?" Nora asked excited.

"Not for a while. It took a lot of power to bring all of you here from your world line." Spart told them, "and creating a new world line is very difficult. Such a thing takes time."

"So what do we do in the meantime?" Yang asked not exactly keen on the idea on sitting around doing nothing.

"I will show you the multiverse." Spart said with joy as everyone looked at him with confusion. "Who here knows about the multiverse theory?"

"It is proposed that there are an infinite number of universes that are unseen to us." Oobleck said pushing his glasses up.

"Correct, similar to world lines the multiverse is composed of different universes. Each one unique with different rules different from your own. In some there are no Grimm or Aura's or even Dust." Everyone was surprised to hear that and wondered what such a world would look like. "Some where there are no humans only Faunus." This got all the Faunus in the room to perk up and wonder how that would look like and others wondered what they would look like as a Faunus.

"In each universe there is one common factor in all of them." Spart told them before floating to Jaune and stopped in front of him. "You, Jaune Arc."

"What?" Jaune asked surprised at what Spart told him and judging by everyone else they too are surprised to find out that Jaune is a common factor in different universes. To prove his point Spart summoned many screens that showed different versions of Jaune Arc in different universes.

"But why? I'm nothing special." Jaune said after seeing a version of him teaching at Beacon.

"You need to work on your confidence, Jaune." Spart told the blonde, something that his parents and sisters agreed with as they knew Jaune lacked confidence. "In truth, Jaune is actually the main focus of many authors such as myself. He has so much hidden potential."

"I find that hard to believe." Weiss said much to the ire of those that have a crush on Jaune.

"It's true, that's why I accepted him into Beacon despite his transcripts" Ozpin said.

"You knew about my transcripts?" Jaune asked surprised.

"Of course, Mr. Arc. I can spot a forgery from a mile away." Ozpin told the blonde with a smirk.

"Mr. Arc when this is over. We need to have a talk regarding your actions." Glynda said with a voice that reminded Jaune of his mother whenever she's mad.

"So, you're going to show different universes centering around Jaune. Is that correct?" Pyrrha asked curious to see if one of the universes show them together. She blushed as she imagined them together.

"Correct, but the showings will be presented in movie format." Spart said just as the surroundings changed to what appeared to be a lobby of sorts with different furniture set up. "And yes, there are." Spart said getting the audience to wonder what he meant but to those that have a crush on Jaune they blushed as they all had the same thoughts as Pyrrha. I.e. Ruby, Velvet and Nora.

"Follow me." Spart said as he led the way to a set of doors that opened for him, the rest of the group followed him through the doors and entered a theater with a large screen set up in front of rows of comfortable chairs. "Take a seat everyone and we'll begin." Everyone found their seats, the students of Beacon sat together while the staff sat behind them. Once everyone is seated Spart floated to the front.

"Should you want snacks or drinks simply think it and my helpers will show up."

Ruby thought of a plate full of cookies and suddenly a small droid appeared wearing a chef's hat appeared in front of Ruby holding a plate a cookies and glass of milk. Ruby drooled at the sight and thanked the droid before taking the plate, the droid saluted before leaving. Seeing the sight everyone made sure to get something to eat or drink. Both Ozpin and Oobleck took a sip of the coffee that they ordered and swore that they died and went to coffee heaven as the flavor hit their taste buds. Glynda simply ordered a tea and thanked the droid for bringing it to her. Ruby offered a cookie to Penny who looked at the cookie before taking a bite and her eyes went wide, soon the whole cookie was gone.

"If you need refills, simply think it and it will happen." Spart said before floating off and stopping to look at the group once more. "Before I forget, some of the universes are darker than others and you should prepare yourselves."

"You're also going to be experiencing the different universes in IMAX." Spart said with glee before floating off as everyone looked at wondering what's so special about IMAX before the screen came to life.

The sounds of a birds can be heard; the sounds of the jungle came to life as the different animals communicated with each other.

"Oh, the jungle." Ruby said after taking a sip of milk.

"Imagine all the bugs and insects that live there." Yang said with a shudder as she thought of maintaining her hair in the heat of the jungle.

Suddenly a person ran through the jungle followed by five others.

"What are they running from?" Sun asked in between bites of the banana that he is eating.

"I'm sure we'll find out." Glynda said focusing on the screen.

The person in front of the group held out his hand signaling his men to stop. The man in charge revealed himself to be Cardin Winchester. Cardin and his mean are wearing combat gear and clothing suited for surviving in the jungle and for dealing with the heat. The group stopped as they aimed their weapons at the trees. "Where is it?"

"There uniforms are Atlas issued." Winter said after seeing their gear.

"Indeed." Ironwood added.

"Why is Cardin in the military?" Velvet asked curious.

"Who cares as long as that jerk isn't at Beacon." Yang said and everyone who knew Cardin agreed.

"It?" Ruby asked curious as to what Cardin and his team are looking for.

"I don't know." One of the men said while aiming his weapon at the trees and looking around erratically making the other members of his team nervous. Suddenly the man was flung back as something impacted against him flinging him against a tree killing him.

Everyone who was eating stopped as they watched the man on screen get killed.

Cardin and the rest of his team opened fire shooting in different directions. Another scream could be heard as another soldier was killed and another and another. Soon it was Cardin that was left as he moved his rifle around erratically and breathing heavily.

"He's cracking." Ironwood stated having seen soldiers crack just as Cardin was doing on screen.

Cardin took a step back and into a snare that closed around his foot and yanked him up into the trees. Cardin is screaming and firing his rifle as he disappeared into the branches of the trees. Suddenly his screams and gunfire stopped as an object fell from the trees onto the ground. The object turned out to be Cardin's weapon covered in blood.

Everyone in the audience who weren't used to sight of death felt their stomachs lurch at the thought of Cardin and his team being killed.

"What killed them?" Ironwood asked sad at the sight of Atlas soldiers being killed.

"I don't know but I imagine a new species of Grimm." Port said saddened at the sight of one of his students being killed.

"Why didn't their aura's protect them?" Ruby asked not wanting anymore cookies after seeing the death on screen.

"In this universe there is no Grimm, Aura, Dust or even Hunters." Spart said appearing next to Ruby.

"No Dust. That's impossible." Weiss said before she remembered what Spart said about other worlds not having Dust.

"So who protects the people?" Blake asked and even Ruby wanted to know.

"Police and soldiers." Spart told them before gesturing back to the screen.

The scene changed to show a helicopter flying over the ocean and approaching a beach. Landing on the landing pad next to three others. The beach looked to be a staging area for the military. A man wearing an Atlas military uniform looked at the helicopter before closing the blinds and looked to the back of the room to show another person sitting at a table drinking.

"General, that's you." Winter said recognizing Ironwood as the man watching the incoming helicopter.

"So it is," Ironwood said while looking at the designs of the helicopter.

The helicopter doors opened to show Sun, Ren, Neptune, Nora and Yang exiting the helicopter with their bags and stretching their legs.

"I cut my hair!" Yang shrieked after seeing her onscreen counterpart with short hair.

"Looks like you're also wearing glasses." Weiss pointed out.

"Short hair for the win!" Nora shouted after seeing Yang on screen.

"Where's Jaune?" Pyrrha asked wondering where her crush was.

The last person in the helicopter leaned back and put a cigar in his mouth before lighting it and puffing out smoke. The person revealed themselves to be Jaune wearing a cap with aviation shades on.

"There's Jaune." Ruby said happy at seeing her first friend/crush.

"That's how I look like older." Jaune asked after seeing himself for a brief moment.

"And you smoke as well." Sun pointed out.

Pyrrha and the others that have a crush on Jaune had a look of disgust on their faces as they didn't care much for smoking.

Jaune threw his bag out of the helicopter and exited, picking up his bag Jaune and the rest of his team got into jeeps waiting for them before departing the landing pads. Ironwood exited the building and stepped down just in time as the jeep transporting Jaune stopped in front of the building. Jaune got out of the jeep and removed his cap and also his shades.

Ironwood smiled at the sight of his old friend. "You're looking good, Jaune." Ironwood said extending his hand.

"It's been a long time, General." Jaune replied shaking his hand.

"Come on inside." Ironwood said gesturing the building behind him.

"I take it I know Jaune?" Ironwood asked.

"You were his commanding officer after he graduated from basic." Spart explained before everyone focused back on the screen.

"18 hours ago, we lost a chopper," Ironwood said unrolling a map of the nearby jungle. "Carrying a cabinet minister and his aide from this charming little country." Ironwood explained to Jaune who smiled and continued smoking his cigar. "We've got a transponder fixed on their position… about here." Ironwood pointed to a location on the map that Jaune leaned in to take a better look.

"This cabinet minister, does he always travel on the wrong side of the border?" Jaune asked after looking at the location on the map then to Ironwood.

"Apparently, they strayed off course." Ironwood said after sighing. "We're fairly certain they're in White Fang hands." Ironwood said.

"The White Fang," Ironwood grumbled knowing how troublesome the terrorists can be while looking to Sienna and Ilia.

"Got to say. You can lie better than that, Woody." Qrow said after taking a sip of his alcohol having seen through Ironwood's counterparts lie.

"So why don't you use the regular army?" Jaune asked after taking another puff of his cigar. "What do you need us for?"

"Cos some damn fool accused you of being the best." A different voice spoke up.

Jaune turned around to see his old time friend, Pyrrha. "Pyrrha!" He shouted while walking toward her.

"Hey it's you." Jaune said to Pyrrha who smiled at her onscreen counterpart.

"Love the simple outfit." Coco said after seeing Pyrrha's outfit onscreen which showed her wearing a white blouse tucked into a black pant suit.

"You look professional, P-money." Yang said getting Pyrrha to look at her onscreen counterpart and wonder if she can pull off such a look.

Pyrrha rose from her chair and walked over to Jaune, "You bitch."

"Jaune!" Emilia shouted at her son for his language and for calling a woman a bitch. Even Pyrrha flinched at the name Jaune called her.

"It's not me!" Jaune tried to defend himself. "Pyrrha, you know that I would never call you such a thing."

"I know Jaune." Pyrrha said with a smile.

Suddenly Ruby appeared in front of front holding a jar labeled swear jar. "Sorry Jaune, but you swore and you need to pay for it." She said

"How much?" Jaune asked remembering that his mother did the same thing with him growing up.

"Three bucks." Ruby said and so Jaune pulled out his wallet and donated three bucks to Ruby's swear jar before she went back to her seat.

Suddenly Jaune raised his arm as did Pyrrha and the two locked hands in an arm wrestling contest. Each showing off their muscles.

"Damn Pyrrha, how much muscle do you have?" Yang asked after seeing the Spartan's muscles bulge on screen.

"Some muscles you got there Jaune," Coco said with a slight purr at the scene of Jaune's counter part's muscles. Even Glynda had to admit that Jaune's muscles were impressive to look at.

"Big flex!" Sun shouted.

Jaune and Pyrrha began arm wrestling with Jaune slowly moving Pyrrha's arm to the left. "What's the matter? Mistral Intelligence got you pushing too many pencils? Huh?" Jaune asked after seeing Pyrrha's arm move. Pyrrha didn't say anything but slowly pushed back. "Had enough?" Jaune asked with a smile.

"Make it easy on yourself, Jaune." Pyrrha said while slightly panting as Jaune continued to push her arm further to the left.

"Ok! Ok! Ok!" Pyrrha said with a smile after she lost and placed her free hand on Jaune's shoulder.

"Huh, it looks like I lost." Pyrrha said with a smirk.

"Looks like you need a hand there, Pyrrha." Yang said with a smile that got Tai to laugh at his daughter's pun as the two high fived. Everyone else though groaned at the terrible pun.

"Never did know when to quit." Jaune said with a goofy grin.

"Damn good to see you, Jaune." Pyrrha said with a smile at seeing her old friend again.

"What is this fucking blouse business?" Jaune asked gesturing to her shirt.

Ruby appeared again in front of Jaune with the swear jar and once again Jaune put in three dollars. As Ruby returned to her seat Spart appeared in front of the screen.

"Don't worry Ruby. Every time someone swears on screen three dollars will appear in the swear jar from their counterparts." Spart said to Ruby and the audience hoped that their on screen counterparts didn't swear. A gentle light appeared around everyone and around Ruby's swear jar. "There now you don't have to get up. The money will be deposited into the jar." Spart said and floated back to his previous spot.

"Forget about my shirt, man." Pyrrha said knocking Jaune's hand away and put her arm around Jaune and led him back to the table with Ironwood. "I heard about that little job you pulled off in Atlas. Very nice, Jaune."

"Good old days." Jaune said

"Yeah, like the good old days. Then how come you passed on Vacuo?" Pyrrha asked when they made back to Ironwood.

"Oh that wasn't my style." Jaune said looking to the various maps on the table.

"You got no style, Jaune. You know that." Pyrrha retorted.

"Hate to say it but she is right." Coco said.

"Hey." Jaune said.

"One day with me and I can make you look good." Coco said to Jaune and leaned into Velvet. "Something I'm sure you can agree with?"

Velvet didn't respond.

"Come on. Why'd you pass?" Pyrrha asked as Jaune lit another cigar.

"We're a rescue team, not assassins." Jaune said after puffing out smoke. This got Pyrrha and Ironwood to look at each then back to Jaune who didn't notice.

"Now, what we gotta do?" Jaune asked Ironwood.

"That cabinet minister is very important to our scope of operations in this part of the Kingdom." Ironwood explained.

"Jaune, what the General is saying is that a couple of our friends are about to get squeezed and we can't let that happen." Pyrrha said cutting off Ironwood. "We need the best. That's why you're here."

Jaune looked to Ironwood then to Pyrrha. "Go on."

"Simple setup. One-day operation." Pyrrha began explaining. "We pick up their trail at the chopper, run them down and grab those hostages, bounce back across the border before anyone knows we were there."

"What do you mean, "We"?" Jaune asked Pyrrha.

"I'm goin' in with you, Jaune." Pyrrha said.

Jaune looked to Ironwood then back to Pyrrha. "General, my team always works alone. You know that."

"I'm afraid we all have our orders, Major." Ironwood said with a sigh.

"That is true." Ironwood said.

"Do you follow orders, General Ironwood?" Ruby asked.

"Yes, I do. Miss Rose." Ironwood said after taking a sip of water. "I report to the council and they tell me what to do."

"Such is the life in the military." Winter said.

"Once you reach your objective, Pyrrha will evaluate the situation and take charge." Ironwood said as Juane looked to Pyrrha who smiled before taking another puff of his cigar.

"Gonna tell Aunt Mary about Uncle John. He claims he has the misery but he has a lot of fun."

The scene changed to show two helicopters passing over the jungle under the cover of night.

"Oh, baby. Yeah, baby. Havin' me some fun tonight, yeah."

"This is catchy as hell," Yang said moving her foot to the tune. Even Weiss agreed as she tapped her fingers to the beat.

"Well, long tall Sally, she's built for speed." The scene changed to the inside of the helicopter with Jaune and his team getting ready for their mission. The interior is bathed in red light as the song continued to play in the background. Sun reached into his breast pocket and removed chewing Tabaco which he offered to Neptune who was shaving and shook his head at the offer. Sun just smiled and removed a wad and inserted it into his mouth.

"Why are you shaving?" Weiss asked Neptune who just shrugged.

"Why am I chewing Tabaco?" Sun wanted to know.

"Plenty of soldiers have vices that help them deal with the stress of the military." Ironwood said having once smoked in his youth but quit as he got older.

Weiss and Willow looked to Winter and wondered what her vice is,which is gaming.

"Well, I saw Uncle John with baldheaded Sally. He saw Aunt Mary comin' and he ducked back in the alley. Oh, baby. Whoo, baby."

Nora took a strip of tape and placed it on her weapon before looking to Yang who is reading a magazine on hair care.

"Guess some things remain the same no matter in which universe." Weiss said.

"Don't be jealous of these luscious locks." Yang said with a flick her hair.

"Havin' me some fun tonight, yeah – ow!"

Nora saw Yang distracted and rolled up the tape she didn't use and threw it at Yang who caught without looking. Yang looked up from her magazine and smiled at Nora who smiled back.

"Rendezvous points and radio freqs are indicated and fixed." Pyrrha said holding a light to a map in her lap. "AWACS contact on four-hour intervals." She said looking to Jaune who is wearing a headset similar to hers.

"Who's our backup?" Jaune asked.

"No such thing, this is a one-way ticket." Pyrrha said looking to Jaune. "Once we've crossed that border, we're on our own."

Jaune smiled and chuckled, "this is getting better by the minute." He said while leaning back.

Ren held a small mirror and applied black face paint to his cheek.

"Look Ren, it's you." Nora said while grabbing Ren's arm.

"I can see that, Nora." Ren said while looking to his onscreen counterpart and wondered what role he plays in the team.

"Hey, Ren." Yang said but Ren ignored her. "Ren!" She shouted finally getting the attention of Ren. "Do you want to borrow my eyeliner?" she said with a goofy grin while Ren just looked at her. "You're applying face paint under your eyes… I thought you might want some eyeliner." She said still with the goofy grin and still Ren remained impassive. Yang sighed before going back to her magazine.

Sun offered the chewing tabaco to Nora. "Get the stinkin' shit out of my face." She said pushing his arm away.

A soft light enveloped Nora and soon three bucks appeared in the swear jar.

Sun then offered the tabaco to Ren who just continued to work on his face paint.

"Bunch of slack-jawed idiots around here!" Sun yelled looking to everyone. "This stuff'll make you a goddam sexual tyrannosaurus, just like me." He said with a smile. Nora shifted seats and looked to Sun while gesturing to the grenade launcher in her hands.

"Yeah, strap this on your sore ass, Sun." Nore replied getting Ren to laugh while Neptune looked at Nora.

Everyone who got the joke burst out laughing in the audience while others were left clueless as to what the joke meant.

"Operation Grimm. Me and Jaune both got one." Pyrrha said while holding a lighter inscribed with the logo of Operation Grimm. Sun and Pyrrha sat opposite each other and Sun smiled at her. Pyrrha made the come here motion with her finger and Sun leaned forward.

"You're not my type." She said getting Sun to smile as he leaned back.

Neptune made the sound of a plane crashing.

Alarms blared throughout the helicopter and Jaune listened in on his headset. "Okay," Jaune removed the headset and made a hand gesture for the others to get ready. Sun shut off the music while the others grabbed their gear. The two helicopters stopped and hovered while the one carrying Jaune and his team opened their door and Yang threw out the climbing rope. The other helicopter stood watch of the other and ready to provide cover.

Pyrrha looked out the doors to the trees, "never knew how much I missed this, Jaune." She shouted

"You never were that smart." Jaune said with a smile while a green light appeared behind him. "Yang, you're up." Yang grabbed the robe and repelled down followed by the others. Once on the ground they began their search for the missing helo that went missing. Finally, the group found the missing helo trapped in the branches of a tree looking like it's seen better days. Jaune gestured for Nora to climb up and so she threw a hook attached to a rope at the wreckage. After making sure that the rope is secure she began to climb the rope.

Ironwood and Winter groaned remembering their time at basic when they had to climb a robe just like it.

"Maybe something similar is needed at Beacon for disciplinary purposes, of course." Port said eyeing the robe. Suddenly every student of Beacon felt a chill run up their spines.

Finally, Nora made into the wreckage and began searching it for any clues, Pyrrha soon joined her and they looked into the cockpit only to find both pilots dead. Nora climbed down and ran to Jaune. "Both pilots each got one round in the head. Whoever hit it stripped the shit outta of it." She told him.

Jaune looked to the wreckage. "Took 'em out with a heat seeker."

"Another thing, Major." Nora said looking to Pyrrha as she approached them. "This isn't a regular army taxi. It looks more like a surveillance bird to me." She whispered the last part.

"We picked their trial yet?" Pyrrha asked stopping in front of Jaune.

"Ren's on it." Jaune told her, "heat seeker, Pyrrha. That's pretty sophisticated for the White Fang."

"Guess they're getting better equipped every day." Pyrrha said.

"Major! There were twelve Fangs. They took the two men from the chopper then they headed east." Ren told them. "Another thing, six men wearing Atlas military issued boots. They came in from the north and they followed the Fangs."

"Good job, keep on it." Jaune told Ren who nodded and resumed following the tracks. "Mean anything to you?" Jaune asked Pyrrha who shook her head.

"Probably just another rebel patrol. They operate in here all the time." Pyrrha said.

"She knows something," Pyrrha said.

"How can you tell?" Weiss asked.

"I have a slight twitch in my eye whenever I tell a lie." Pyrrha said, "or so my mother says."

"I agree with Miss Nikos." Ironwood said ordering another glass of water. "The whole operation seems fishy to me."

Ren followed the trail left behind while the rest trailed behind him making sure to get in his way. Jaune approached Nora who leaned against a tree. "What's he got?"

"Same story, Fangs took the two men from the chopper. Followed by the team with Atlas equipment." She said as Jaune stepped ahead of her. "Remember that op in Mistral tundra?"

"Still trying to forget it." Jaune said as he continued to follow Ren.

"So I'm the tracker of the group." Ren said to himself.

"That's so cool," Nora said with glee. "You can track anyone in the forest."

"A skill which could prove useful to hunters in the field." Leon said.

"Agreed, I can't tell you the number of times I lost track of Grimm in the field." Emilia said while holding her grandson in her lap. Spart flew next to her and looked to her grandson who is sound asleep.

"I placed a ward around in the theater so that when any gruesome scenes are about to appear. Adrian and the young children will fall asleep and awake after the scene is over." Spart told Emilia who said her thanks at sparing her grandson from the violence on screen.

"I was wondering why he was asleep the whole time." Emilia said.

"So does that mean we're about to see a gruesome scene?" Ruby asked nervously.

"Yes, I figured that it was best to show a universe that is gruesome to prepare you for any future showings that may be dark in nature." Spart told them. "I will be sure to tell you if any of the universes that are showing are going to be dark so you can prepare yourself."

"Thanks for the early warning." Yang said as she turned her attention back to the screen.

Ren emerged from the forest still tracking the trail left behind by the White Fang troops. He stopped next to a vine and cut the it in half. Grabbing one end he sucked on the vine but stopped when he heard a sound. Letting go of the vine showed water to be dripping out of the end of it. Moving slowly Ren moved toward the sound and pushed to the side some leaves only to see the most gruesome sight a man can see. Hanging upside down are the bodies of three people with their skin and organs removed.

Almost everyone lost their lunch as multiple droids appeared with buckets that everyone grabbed and hurled into. Some of the staff were able to push their stomach contents back down only through sheer will.

"Oh my gods." Glynda said after emptying her stomach into the bucket provided.

"Who would so such a thing?" Sienna asked never having seen such brutality.

"Fuck…" Ilia said.

"I'm going to be sick," Ruby said after throwing up and pretty much all of Beacon's students felt the same.

"Is that what happened to Cardin at the beginning?" Velvet asked and no one wanted to answer. Droids appeared and took the buckets from the audience while some kept their buckets before the doids vanished.

Ren turned away and saw everyone looking at the sight before them with horrified looks on each of their faces.

"Holy mother of god." Nora said while crossing herself.

Neptune walked over to the bodies and kicked a bird that was feasting on the organs that lay on the ground. Taking out his knife he bent over and picked up a pair of bloodied dog tags that he threw to Jaune who caught them. looking them over Jaune wiped some of the blood away to reveal the name.

"Cardin Winchester…" Jaune said looking at the tags.

"Cardin may be an ass, but he doesn't deserve that." Yang said still holding her bucket. Velvet felt the same way, while she may hate the Winchester she wouldn't wish him dead much less skinned like his on screen counterpart.

"Neptune, cut 'em down." Jaune said looking away from the sight and gesturing for Pyrrha to follow him while Neptune cut the vines holding them up. "I knew these men. Special Forces out of Beacon." Jaune said holding the tags out Pyrrha to see. "Now, what the hell were they doing here?"

"I don't know, Jaune. This is inhuman." Pyrrha said wiping the remaining blood off the dog tags. "Nobody told me there was an operation in this area." She said looking to Jaune." They shouldn't have been here."

"Well, somebody sent them." Jaune said not sounding convinced.

Neptune finished collecting the remaining dog tags and left the gruesome sight.

"The White Fang skinned them?" Nora asked looking to Neptune as he passed by her. "Why would they skin them?"

Neptune stood next to Sun. "Ain't no way for no soldier to die."

"Agreed." Ironwood said and Winter agreed. Those soldiers were not killed but rather butchered.

"What the hell happened here, Ren?" Jaune asked Ren who was kneeling and picking up spent bullet casings.

"It's strange, Major. There was a firefight. They were shooting in all directions." Ren said.

"Can't belief Cardin walked into an ambush."

"I don't belief he did." Ren said while putting back the casings where he found them. "I can't find a single track. It just doesn't make sense"

"What about the rest of Cardin's team?" Jaune asked hoping that the rest of the Cardin's teams were taken hostage.

"There's no sign, sir." Ren said, "they never left here. Hell, it's like they just disappeared" He said looking to the trees.

"Stick with the Fang trail. Let's get the hostages." Jaune told Ren who nodded and rose to resume following the trail. Jaune turned to face his men. "We move. Five-meter spread. No sound."

"It's time to let old painless out the bag." Neptune said which got Sun's attention as he turned to face Neptune and smiled. Sun removed his bag and tore open the covering to reveal a Minigun.

"Payback time." Sun said while picking up the weapon.

"Hell yeah." Sun yelled trying to bring back the pleasant atmosphere from before which sort of worked as everyone wanted to Jaune and his team get revenge on the monsters that butchered Cardin and his men. Even Jaune himself wanted to see justice done.

"Glad to see you appreciate the big guns." Coco said to Sun referencing her own Minigun.

"Too big and too flashy." Sun said getting Coco to smirk as many didn't appreciate her choice in weaponry.

Jaune and his team moved out making sure to keep Ren in sight as they moved through the jungle unaware that they are being watched. A blue filter appeared showing red forms that resembled people and a gentle hum can be heard.

"What is watching them?" Ruby asked concerned for her friend.

"Possibly a drone based on the angle?" Ironwood suggested. "And possibly in infrared as well based on the heat signatures."

"That could be how Cardin and his team were ambushed." Winter added.

"Then the enemy knows that they are coming." Li said concerned for his son's friend.

The group continued to make their way through the jungle while whatever was following them just continued to observe them. Jaune stopped and looked to the trees after getting the feeling of being watched but after seeing nothing decided to move on. Pyrrha walked on a slippery incline and almost tripped when she stepped on a loose log that fell and rolled down the hill. Making sure that nobody heard that she turned only to come face to face with Neptune.

"You're ghosting us. I don't care who you are back in the world. Give away our position one more time, I'll bleed you real quiet. Leave you here, got that?" Neptune said before leaving as Pyrrha wanted to retort but let it go.

Ren emerged from a group of ferns while Jaune gestured for half of his men to circle around to his right then to his left. He held out his rifle which Nora took and gave him a pair of binoculars, Jaune went into the prone positon and crawled till he came to a log, getting to his knees he looked through the binoculars. From his position he could see everyone in the White Fang camp and he made sure to count their numbers and making note of the guard positons before the sound of someone groaning grabbed his attention. Looking to the sound he saw a Faunus beaten and bloody with his hands bound behind his back when another Faunus came into view and asked the man for any information. The prisoner didn't answer but told the man to "go fuck himself" before the man grabbed the prisoner by his hair and put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger killing the prisoner.

"That was Adam." Sienna said recognizing the man who killed the prisoner to be Adam.

"Why would he kill another Faunus?" Ilia asked confused by his actions. Blake knew why Adam killed the other Faunus, before she left the White Fang she overheard Adam talk about those who left the White Fang and called them traitor to their kind. She heard him promise to kill every traitor. That was when she decided to leave.

Jaune set the binoculars down as he turned and leaned against the log before giving the signal for his to regroup. Once his team with him Nora gives Jaun back his rife. "They killed one of the hostages, we move." Jaune said as he gave the binoculars to Pyrrha who took them.

"Neptune, Sun – the nest." Jaune told them who nodded. "Ren, Nora – the guard." They also nodded understanding their assignment.

"Yang, Pyrrha – backup. As soon as they're set, I hit the fuel dump." Jaune said as he got up to leave everyone went to take care of the assignments. Sun and Neptune moved on the guard nest but stopped when they came across trip wires. Ren and Nora took care of the guards overlooking the camp.

"One down," Pyrrha said shifting her gaze to the guard nest. Sun and Neptune removed the trip wires and took out their knives and went to either side of the nest and began to whistle getting the attention of the guards as they looked over the edge only to be stabbed by Sun and Neptune. Once that was taken care of Pyrrha gave Jaune the okay to proceed. Jaune snuck his way to the makeshift generator being powered by an old truck. Seeing an opportunity Jaune gave the signal to hold, which Pyrrha repeated to the others.

Jaune removed his knife and cut the ropes holding the truck in place, then removing the explosive charge he set the timer and set the bomb in the back of the truck.

"What the hell is he doing?" Pyrrha said confused by his actions.

"What are you doing Jaune?" Velvet asked.

"I can only guess thinning their numbers so my team as less to deal with." Jaune said already analyzing what he just seen and could possible think to what his other self has planned.

Once the bomb was in place he went to the back of the truck and lifted it so the blocks holding it off the ground fell over and Jaune pushed the truck forward so it rolled forward on its own and towards the makeshift mess hall.

"What the fuck…" Sun said confused at what he is seeing.

Seeing that the truck is in danger of crashing into the mess hall a White Fang soldier jumped into the driver's seat. Jaune upon seeing this grabbed a grenade from a pouch on his vest. The White Fang soldier in the driver's seat hit the brakes but by then it was too late, the bomb in the bed of the truck exploded just as the truck crashed into the mess hall killing the WF (White Fang) members eating.

"Is that what you meant by thinning their numbers?" Blake asked Jaune who simply nodded. He still couldn't believe that the man on screen is himself but in another universe.

"Brutal but effective," Raven said taking a sip of her drink having used such tactics herself.

"Show time, kid." Pyrrha said to Yang before jumping over the log.

Jaune pulled the pin on the grenade and threw it landing in the middle of a group of WF soldiers who were killed when the grenade went off.

"Where are they?" A WF soldier shouted as everyone in the camp started shooting in different directions. Seeing they're still confused Jaune used the grenade launcher attached to his rifle and fired destroying a building and hired his weapon.

"Target the center building." Pyrrha shouted as she shot her own weapon, a SMG and moved into the camp. Nora took cover behind a tree and fired her grenade launcher at the building Pyrrha suggested blowing it and took cover again.

"Explosions!" Nora yelled happily getting everyone to smile and chuckle. Though the scene of the butchered soldiers remained with them they momentarily forgot the sight and went back to their drinks.

Sun walked on the outskirts of the camp and quickly turned around to see three WF soldiers, quickly pulling the trigger Sun dispatched them as the Minigun spun to life. Neptune trailed behind Sun and came across another soldier and fired his own LMG before joining Sun as the two began working their way into the camo. A WF soldier ran to the helicopter and told the pilot to start it up while he climbed into the copilot's seat. Pyrrha appeared in front of the helicopter and shot the pilot while Jaune fired his grenade launcher blowing up the helicopter.

Neptune ran as bullets impacted against the ground behind him, the person shooting him sat in his position in the trees. Neptune took cover behind a log, "get that mother!" he shouted to Sun who fired upon the shooter and killed him.

Nora and Yang took cover behind some crates, Yang stood and fired her weapon getting the shooters to take cover while Nora fired her grenade launcher killing the WF soldiers.

"Excellent teamwork." Ironwood said.

"Indeed." Winter added

"Notice how they work together as team children." Gylnda told the students.

"It looks like there're just shooting blindly." Sun said before taking a sip of his soda.

"You're wrong." Winter said looking to Sun. "Pyyrha and Jaune are pushing to the center of the camp no doubt to eliminate the commander. Nora, Yang and Ren are slowly pushing inward from the outside of the camp. While Sun and Neptune are doing the same but from the opposite side to box in the enemy."

"Oh," Sun said slightly shrinking into his seat from the look that Winter gave him.

Sun kicked down a door and encountered a group of WF soldiers running from him. Not hesitating he pulled the trigger and gunned them down before moving on. Jaune moved into a building killing any soldiers in his path as he exited the building he took cover from gunfire. A WF soldier appeared behind Jaune.

"Jaune, look out!" Ruby shouted at the screen.

"Ruby, he can't hear you." Weiss pointed out.

"Like you didn't do the same during Nightmare on Vale street." Yang said getting Weiss to look away and admit defeat. It was during their movie night and Yang picked a horror one, throughout the whole movie Weiss provided commentary such as pointing out what she would have done.

Jaune drew his machete and threw it behind him, the blade went through the soldier and hit the wood post behind him. Impaling him to the post.

"Stick around." Jaune said before moving forward.

"Nice!" Yang and Tai both yelled while everyone else groaned at the terrible pun.

'Maybe I should show them Commando and Blood Dragon.' Spart thought to himself knowing that Yang and Tai will definitely enjoy all the puns in both those universes.

"Hostages are inside!" Pyrrha shouted to Jaune behind her while she went off to regroup with the others. Jaune kicked in the door to the command center and found Adam and another soldier destroying documents.

"Knock knock," Jaune said before shooting Adam in the head causing him to stagger backward and out of the open window. Killing the other guard in the room Jaune went to the window and saw two WF soldiers running to meet with their friends. Seeing this Jaune whistled getting the attention of Nora who saw the two.

"I got it," Nora said as she pursued the two.

"Yang, call in position and situation. Get con-op on the line." Jaune told Yang who set to it.

Jaune heard footsteps behind him and quickly turned around and used the butt of his rifle to knock the person unconscious. Turning the person revealed it to be a woman with short black hair and two cat ears on top of her head.

"Blake!" Both Ghira and Kali shouted and glared at Jaune onscreen for hitting their kitten.

"I'm still with the White Fang?" Blake said wondering why she is still with them.

"Many questions, little answers." Oobleck said pushing up his glasses and taking another sip of coffee.

"Shit," Jaune said after seeing cat Faunus. "Neptune! Any sign of the other hostage" he shouted while holstering his weapon and going to a wall that had been removed.

"Yo!" Neptune said while walking over to the Jaune with his weapon lowered. "Found the other guy – he's dead, too." He told Jaune when he reached him and removed his hat to wipe the sweat off his face. "And the gear from the chopper. But if they're Atlas, I'm a goddamn General." He said while putting back on his cap. "From the looks of it, our cabinet minister was Mistral Intelligence."

Jaune eyes looked down at the news.

"Another thing, Major. We were lucky." Neptune continued, "other guys we waxed were White Fang specialists." Jaune this time looked away at the revelation. "Something pretty big was going to happen here."

"Good work, Neptune. Clear the area. No traces." Jaune ordered looking back to Neptune. "Get the men ready to move."

"All right." Neptune said leaving Jaune alone with his thoughts who now looked pissed.

"I think I just figured out that I've been used." Jaune said after seeing his other's expression.

"A feeling I know too well." Ironwood thinking back to his own career and all the ops that turned out to be different from what they were told.

"Has that ever happened to you, Winter?" Weiss asked her sister who looked away.

"Once in a while, it will happen." Winter told her sister.

"To be told one thing and have another thing happen because they didn't you the truth." Illa spoke looking at the older Schnee with hate. "Can't imagine how that feels." She said remembering the mine where her parents were killed because the SDC told their workers that the mine was stable when it wasn't. Winter didn't respond.

Nora ran to Sun who is watching a WF soldier in a nest shooting at their teammates but they couldn't hit him from their position. "Son of a bitch is dug in, like a tick." Sun told Nora who looked at him then to his left arm taking note of the three bullet wounds.

"You're hit. You're bleeding man." Nora stated.

"I ain't got time to bleed." Sun said unfazed by the fact that he got shot in the arm.

"I'm a badass." Sun yelled with pride at the line he just said.

"I'm gonna steal that one." Yang said thinking of the different ways to incorporate the line.

"If you ever let your opponent cause enough damage to make you bleed." Weiss said as everyone knew that Yang has a tendency to pummel her opponents into submission rather than letting land a hit on her.

"Okay." Nora said with a smirk before aiming her grenade launcher in the air and fired three times before taking cover. "You got time to duck?" She asked just in time as the grenades she fired into air came back down to earth and hit the guy in the next. Sun immediately got to cover next to Nora as she smiled as dirt fell on top of them. Sun on the other hand covered his head from the falling dirt.

The scene changed to show Pyrrha entering the command building. "This is goddamn beautiful." She said as she began to sort through the papers left. "Goddamn jackpot," she said digging through the papers on the floor while Jaune watched from the window. "This is more than we ever thought we'd get. We got those bastards."

Jaune left the window and walked over to Pyrrha. "We got 'em" she said with a hint a satisfaction.

"I think this is what you're looking for." Jaune said offering a piece of paper to Pyrrha who took it only to be picked up and pushed against the wall by Jaune. "You set us up!" He yelled holding her by her plate vest. "It's all bullshit. All of it."

"The cabinet minister, the whole business. Got us in here to do your dirty work."

"We just stopped a major attack. In three days they'd have crossed the border and hit Vale." Pyrrha said not bothering to hide it anymore now that Jaune and his men completed their mission.

"While I hate the deception, it was necessary to halt an attack against Vale." Ironwood said having been a part of a view ops just like the one being showed.

"Why didn't they just explain that to Jaune at the beginning?" Ruby asked confused as to why they would lie about the mission.

"Jaune said that his team is a rescue team and that they are not assassins." Summer began explaining. "If they told him the true nature of mission then he wouldn't have accepted the mission and the White Fang would have carried out their attack."

"Sometimes you have to lie in order to get somebody to help." Qrow said while sending a look to Ozpin who looked away in shame. It was true how many had he lied to just to get their help only for them to end up died.

"Why us?" Jaune asked.

"Because nobody else could've pulled it off." Pyrrha said looking Jaune straight in the eye to show that she wasn't lying. "You're pissed about the cover story. I knew that I couldn't get you in here without it."

"So, what story did you hand to Cardin?" Jaune asked striking a nerve in Pyrrha as her tone lowered.

"We've been looking for this place for months." Pyrrha stated. "My men were in that chopper when it got hit!" she raised her voice at the end of the sentence. "Cardin's orders were to find my men and he disappeared."

"He didn't disappear. He was skinned alive!" Jaune shouted.

"Then my orders were to get somebody who could crack these bastards!" Pyrrha shouted back.

"So you cooked up a story and dropped the six of us in a meat grinder." Jaune scoffed as he let Pyrrha go. "What happened to you, Pyrrha? You used to be somebody I could trust." He asked.

"I woke up." Pyrrha simply said. "Why don't you? You're an asset, an expendable asset."

"No soldier is an asset, nor is he expendable!" Ironwood shouted at Pyrrha's words on screen and Winter agreed with him. Ozpin also agreed as he remembered all the hunters who ever died in the secret war between him and Salem. None of the hunters and huntresses under his command were expendable.

"I used you to get the job done, got it?" Pyrrha asked.

"My men are not expendable." Jaune says backing away from Pyrrha, "and I don't do this kind of work." He said before leaving Pyrrha alone with the unconscious Faunus.

"Major! Major, we stepped into some real shit here!" Yang yelled.

"What's wrong?" Jaune asked stopping next to Yang as she began putting away the radio.

"Air surveillance says we've got Fangs all over the place." She said while folding the portable antenna dish. "Can't be more than one, two miles away."

"How much time?" Jaune asked.

"Half an hour, maybe less."

"Tell Neptune we move in five." Jaune told Sun who now has his arm bandaged, Sun nodded and took off to find Neptune.

"Wait, she goes with us." Pyrrha says emerging from the building with the cat Faunus hands zipped tied in front of her.

"Looking a little tied up there, Blake." Yang said getting Blake to face palm and Tai to high five his daughter.

'It appears that Yang has inherited Tai's love of puns.' Raven thought sorrowfully while Summer thought it was cute.

Everyone else though groaned at the pun.

"She's too valuable." Pyrrha says making to keep an arm on the prisoner. "She's got intel on their whole network."

"She'll give away our position any chance she gets. No deal." Jaune says before removing his plate vest and also his outer shirt, so all he is left with is a plain olive drab shirt. Putting back on his vest he pulls another cigar from his pouch on his vest.

"You're still under orders, Major." Pyrrha pointed out. "Now, you wanna make that call or should I?"

Jaune placed the cigar in his mouth and lit the tip before closing the lighter and taking out his cigar. "She's your baggage." He says pointing to Pyrrha, "you fall behind and you're on your own." Jaune says before leaving while Pyrrha looks down before pushing her prisoner to move.

Infrared POV

"What's POV?" Ruby asked.

"It means Point of View. They are used to show different perspectives from different characters." Jaune explained. "What I read." He said after seeing the looks he's getting.

"Comic's don't count." Blake said.

The camera changed back to the infrared as the angle came from above the trees observing the Jaune and his team. Distorted voices can be heard.

"Looks like the drone is back." Blake said.

"It could've been sent to keep track of their progress." Winter theorized. "Though that doesn't explain the infrared. Surly the drone capable of switching vision modes."

"Well, it's hard to spot anything from the air in the jungle." Emilia says before handing Adrian back his parents. "It makes sense for the drone to be in Infrared as it can see heat signatures in the jungle."

"Making it easier for them to keep track of Jaune and his team." Leon said catching onto what his wife is saying.

"Jaune sure is ripped in this universe." Yang said with a smirk as she noticed his muscles hiding under his uniform. Of course the others noticed this too but didn't say anything.

"This place is too hot for a pickup." Jaune says passing by Nora. "They won't touch us till we get over the border." Walking over the wreckage of the helicopter Jaune sees Ren. "Hey, Ren. Give me a way out of this hole. Aerial says we are cut off." Jaune informs Ren while showing him a map of the area.

"The only way outta here is that valley that leads to the east." Ren tells Jaune pointing to said valley on the map, having already looked at the map before and made sure to take note of key landmarks. "I wouldn't risk that with a gun to my head." Ren says looking to Jaune who sighs.

"Not much choice." Jaune says before looking to Nora. "Nora, take lead. Double-time it." Nora nods and takes the lead while Jaune sees Pyrrha and her prisoner. Taking one last huff of his cigar Jaune throws the rest away.

Infrared POV

The drone continues to watch and zooms in on Pyrrha and her prisoner to see the cat Faunus turn and hit Pyrrha only to have no effect.

Normal POV

"Murderers!" The cat Faunus shouted at Pyyrha and the rest of Jaune's team. "All you do is murder my people. We are just trying to get equal rights for our people!"

"Through violence and fear." Pyrrha retorted as she trailed behind the cat Faunus. "Which isn't helping your cause."

"How is that any different from what the humans have done to us!" The cat Faunus shouted again, "We are freedom fighter for the Faunus!"

"You and the White Fang are nothing but terrorists!" Pyrrha shouted as she pushed the cat Faunus and pointed her finger past the Faunus telling her to move.

"Pyrrha! Pyrrha!" Neptune shouted getting the redhead's attention as she turned to face him. "Over here."

Infrared POV

The drone is watching Neptune say "over here" but the audio is distorted. Zooming in on Neptune the drone recorded Neptune saying "over here" multiple times.

"Why is it recording me?" Neptune asks after ordering another soda.

"I don't know bro." Sun said.

Blake was quiet as she listened to what her on screen counterpart said. She sounded just like Adam when she knew him. Shaking her head Blake focused back on the screen.

Normal POV

Pyrrha looked to her prisoner who stool still already knowing to not try anything. Pyrrha walked over to Neptune who told her to turn around. "Why?" She asked.

Neptune looked to the trees with his eyes getting Pyrrha to turn around to see what he is looking at. The moment she does Neptune pulls out a knife with the blade aimed at Pyrrha's back.

"He wouldn't!" Winter yelled.

"Not cool, bro!" Sun said looking to Neptune.

"That's not me!" Neptune shouted.

"Pyrrha…" Jaune said with concern that Pyrrha found comforting to know that he is concerned for her safety. It wasn't just Jaune that is concerned for the Spartan's safety, almost everyone in the room is concerned for her.

Neptune made a stabbing motion, the moment Pyrrha felt the blade she turned around quickly aiming her weapon at Neptune. Neptune showed the tip of the knife and on the end is a scorpion still alive.

"Thanks." Pyrrha tells Neptune before moving out to catch up with Jaune.

"Anytime." Neptune whispers putting the scorpion under his boot and crushing it.

Everyone breathed out a sigh of relief that Neptune didn't kill Pyrrha but rather to kill the scorpion that was on her back.

"I hate those things." Velvet says remembering the time a scorpion almost stung her.

"Hey Ren! Ren!" Yang yelled at Ren who turned around to look at her. "The other day I went to my boyfriend and I said, "jeez, you got a big cock. jeez, you got a big cock." He said "why did you say that twice?" I said "I didn't."" She says waiting for Ren but he remains impassive. "See, it cos of the echo." Yang says with a stupid smile as she left to join the others.

"Yang!" Tai, Summer and surprisingly Raven all shouted at the fiery blonde. While Qrow laughed at the joke and everyone else didn't respond or not sure how to react to the joke Yang counterpart just told.

"It's a different universe! Different me!" Yang held out her hands in surrender. "I would never stoop so slow to tell a joke." Which seemed to placate them as they relaxed.

"Yang has been listening to a lot Vane Hook." Ruby told her parents while Yang looked at her little sister with shock. "I caught her even telling some of his jokes to some of other classmates."

"Ruby!" Yang yelled shocked at the betrayal just committed by her little sister.

"Yang Xio Long, we are going to be discussing this. Very soon." Summer said with a sweet voice that sent chills down the spine of all the men in the audience having heard that same sweet voice once in their lives. Or in Qrow's case multiple times.

Ren thought about the joke for a minute before he started laughing.

Infrared POV

The drone watched Ren laughing. Just like with Neptune the drone started to record the laugh.

Normal POV

Ren began walking out of the camp still laughing when he suddenly stopped and turned around the face the camp making sure to look to the trees surrounding the camp. After a minute of looking Ren ran out of the camp to catch up with the others but he couldn't shake the feeling that they are being watched.

"I get that feeling sometimes." Pyrrha says thinking back on the different time when she has the feeling.

"You're not the only one, P-money." Yang said.

Infrared POV

The drone slowly descended and played back the recordings of Neptune's "over here" and of Ren's laughter. The audio is very distorted but it is still possible to make out what is being said, each time the audio is replayed it clears up so it sounds like Ren and Neptune are there. The camera moves into the camp and a guttural clicking sound can be heard just as the camera moves to the crate that Neptune was standing. A hand appears and takes the dead scorpion in its hand and opens its palm to see the outline of the dead scorpion.

"Anytime."

"I don't think that's a drone." Velvet spoke slightly unnerved at the sight of hand and the knowledge that someone has been watching Jaune and his team.

"What is watching them?" Ruby asked after seeing the claw like nails on the hand.

"It could be a White Fang assassin." Ilia said after seeing the hand and it looked like a feline Faunus based on the claws.

"We'll have out answers soon, I imagine." Port said

Normal POV

The group of soldiers made their way through the jungle to the valley that Ren spoke of. A lot of the members ditched their outer clothing so they can deal with the heat bearing down on them. The group took a break to rest and to check in with command.

"Goddamn!" Neptune said as he sat down and took a drink of water from his canteen. "Buddy, buddy, buddy, buddy!" Putting away his canteen he pulled out a flask from his vest pouch. "I've seen some bad-ass bush before, man, but nothing' like this."

Sun undid his jacket and set it aside. "I hear you. This shit's somethin'." He says looking to Neptune. "Makes Mistral look tame in comparison."

"Hey," Neptune said getting Sun's attention. "Little taste of home." He offered the flask to Sun who takes it and takes a drink.

"You lose it here, you're in a world of hurt." Sun said before checking over his gear.

The camera changed to show Pyrrha and the Faunus walking through the jungle. Suddenly the Faunus tripped and fell.

"Come on, stop sandbaggin' it. Now, get up." Pyrrha says looking down but the Faunus doesn't move. "Come on, get up." she bends over help the Faunus get back up. "Would you get up?" Pyrrha reached out to grasp the Faunus' shoulder only to be blinded when the Faunus rolled over and threw leaves and dirt at Pyrrha blinding her.

"Never underestimate a caged cat." Kali said smirking at her daughter's onscreen self.

'Did she just make a cat joke?' Everyone thought except for Ghira who just smiled.

"Fuck you!" The Faunus prisoner yelled before crawling away in an attempt to escape.

"Going somewhere?" Nora's voice could be heard as the prisoner stopped and looked up to see Nora aiming her weapon at her. "Maybe you should keep a better eye on her, agent." She told Pyrrha who ran to catch up.

Pyrrha didn't say anything as she looked at Nora then grabbed her prisoner and yanked her up. "Try it again… please." She told her prisoner who just looked at her but didn't say anything as she pushed the Faunus forward while Nora just looked at them.

The scene changed again to show Ren walking in front of the group with everyone trailing behind when something caught his attention. Ren moved forward slowly and entered a clearing in which he stopped to look at the trees.

Infrared POV

The camera moved to focus on Ren.

Normal POV

Ren continued to observe the trees not moving, Jaune held out his hand signaling everyone to stop and to spread out.

Ren held his necklace as he continued to observe the trees.

"That's my medallion," Li said pulling out the same medallion.

"It appears that it's Ren's good luck charm." An said.

"What's got Ren so spooked?" Jaune asked Neptune who just shrugged.

"Can't say Major. Been acting squirrelly ever since the camp." Neptune told Jaune. "That damn nose of his… it's weird."

Jaune walked over to Ren in the clearing while the rest waited. Pyrrha crouched next to her prisoner who noticed a branch right in front of her. Jaune entered the clearing and walked over to Ren. "What is it?" He asked but Ren didn't respond as he continued to look at the trees before them. "Ren...?" when Ren didn't respond Jaune grabbed Ren's vest getting Ren to look at Jaune.

"What the hell is wrong with you?" Jaune asked now having Ren's attention. Ren looked away from Jaune and back to the trees.

"There's something in those trees." He said getting Jaune to look at the trees.

Infrared POV

The camera showed something is watching both Ren and Jaune.

Normal POV

Pyrrha whistled at Nora getting her attention and gestured to her to watch over her prisoner who nodded. Nora took Pyrrha's spot as Pyrrha moved forward to see what is going on.

Nora looked at the prisoner who turned and looked back. The Faunus smiled showing her teeth and small canines.

"The kitty is preparing her claws." Yang said getting Blake to shake her head at her partner. Ghira and Kali smiled at jest between the two, it's clear the Yang cares for her friend.

"Why can't they see who's watching them?" Weiss asks, "surely whoever is watching them is visible."

"Not if their using camouflage." Winter says. "Whoever is watching them is probably using the trees to hide themselves and stay hidden."

"They could be like Ilia and are using an ability similar to hers." Sienna said looking to Ilia who is the White Fangs best spy. She has the ability to camouflage herself thanks to her Faunus heritage giving her the abilities of a chameleon.

Infrared POV

Whoever is in the trees watched Ren and Juane talk with each other but their voices came out distorted. (distorted)" Do you see anything? Up there." Ren asked.

(distorted) "Nothing." Juane said shaking his head before it camera zoomed in on their faces. You couldn't make out their features just the heat from their face. "What do you think?"

Normal POV

Ren sighed and let go of his necklace. "I guess it's nothing, Major." He said before continuing to move forward.

The Faunus seeing her chance grabbed the branch and hit Nora in the face and took off running. Everyone heard the sound and turned around to see the prisoner running off.

Infrared POV

The camera showed the person in the trees tracking the Faunus running through the jungle.

Normal POV

Jaune whistled for Yang to pursue her, Yang took off into the forest.

Infrared POV

The camera showed Yang heat signature running through the jungle.

Normal POV

The Faunus has a good lead but Yang is quickly catching up.

Infrared POV

The camera showed an overhead view of the two heat signature running through the jungle.

Normal POV

Yang finally caught up to the Faunus and tackled her. The Faunus began struggling to get free from Yang.

Infrared POV

The camera moved closing in on the two. Distorted shouts can be heard.

Normal POV

Yang finally got the Faunus under control. "Calm down, Hey!" Yang rainsed her voice to get the Faunus to calm down which she did. Something behind Yang caught the prisoners eye as she looked behind Yang. Yang turned around to see what looked like something walking toward her, she could see through it but the image appeared distorted almost like looking through a broken mirror.

Infrared POV

The camera closed in on Yang's face.

Normal POV

Switching views showed the Faunus and Yang screamed before blood splattered onto the Faunus. Blood coated her hair and the entire left side of her face and upper torso.

"Yang!" Ruby shouted as she held onto her sister out of fear that she would disappear. Tai, Summer and Raven were quiet but shocked to see their daughter killed on screen. The rest of RWBY comforted Yang as she remained silent at seeing herself killed.

"I'm alright, Ruby." Yang said while comforting Ruby. She looked to her parents and smiled at them then to her friends.

"Yang?" Jaune asked leaning forward in his seat.

"I'm fine, Jaune." Yang said while patting Ruby's head. "Shocked but I'm fine."

"Are you sure?" He asked concerned for his friend.

"Yeah, thanks for asking." She replied while Jaune leaned back into his seat. 'He's sweet.' Yang thought with a blush. Pyrrha saw the blush and scowled at Yang knowing that she'll have more competition for the blonde knight's heart.

"What was that?" Sun asked.

"Ilia?" Sienna asks looking to said girl seated next to her.

"I'm good lady Khan, but I can't turn myself completely invisible like we just saw." Ilia said slightly jealous at the person on scree for having the ability to turn invisible.

Nora and the others ran through the jungle following the trail the Yang left. Changing scenes showed an invisible hand grabbing Yang's foot and started to drag her body away. Finally, Nora caught up with the prisoner who is trying to crawl away, grabbing the Faunus and pushing her upright. Nora saw the Faunus covered in blood and looking scarred. Before she can ask what happened the sounds of leaves rustling drew her attention, looking for the source she saw drag marks leading into the bushes.

Following the tracks, Nora came across a blood trail. Following the trail, she finds the radio that Yang carried covered in blood and her weapon. The blood trail continued and she followed the tail which led her to some tree leaves that blocked her vision. Pushing the leaves aside she sees bloody organs and intestines on the ground.

Everyone felt sick as they were reminded of what happened to Cardin and his team in this universe.

"Yang…" Tai whispered as Summer held his hand in comfort.

Droids appeared holding new washed buckets out for the audience to take just in case they might need it again. Everyone took the buckets and thanked the droids who took the left over buckets and left.

"I would never have thought someone is capable of such brutality." Winter said placing the bucket next to her.

Nora almost lost her lunch but she held it back. the screen showed the Faunus right where Nora left her and Jaune and the others came running. "Sun, break left. Neptune, right." He ordered as she stopped and kneeled next to the Faunus who now looked like she's in a trance. "What the…" Jaune said after seeing the blood on the Faunus.

"This isn't her blood."

"What the hell'd you do to him?" Pyrrha asked kneeling on the other side of the prisoner.

Nora came back to the group looking sick. "Major… you'd better take a look at this." She said.

"Did you find Yang?" Jaune asked checking over the prisoner for any wounds.

"I… I can't tell." Nora said honestly getting Jaune to look at Pyrrha with confusion. Jaune rose and followed Nora who showed him what he found before.

"What in god's name…" Jaune asked shocked at what he is seeing.

"I think it's Yang." Nora told him.

"Where the hell is her body?" Jaune asked still looking at the scene before him hoping that it isn't real.

"There's no sign of it."

"Ask her what happened." Jaune told Nora who went to ask the prisoner what happened.

Nora walked to the prisoner with Pyrrha standing guard and took a knee. "What happened here? What happened to Yang? Hey!" Nora shouted breaking the Faunus out of her trance.

"I… I…" The Faunus said focusing on Nora.

"What happened to Yang?" Nora asked again.

"The jungle came alive and took her." The Faunus whispered that only Nora could hear.

"She says the jungle… it just came alive and took him." Nora called her shoulder to Jaune who looked at the bloody radio and weapon.

"Bullshit! That's not what she said!" Pyrrha said looking to Nora. "What she said doesn't make any sense."

"Those sappers have been following us ever since the camp." Nora said. "They've been in front of us! She gave away our positon." She yelled at Pyrrha.

"She's been in my sight!" Pyrrha yelled back.

"You lied to us! So why should I believe you!"

"Hold it! Jaune yelled trying to break up the argument between Nora and Pyrrha. "Hold it!" Finally getting their attention. "Why didn't they take her radio or her weapon?" He then gestured to the prisoner. "Why didn't she escape?"

Pyrrha and Nora thought about what Jaune said, then a thought occurred to her. "Cardin."

"What?" Jaune asked looking to Pyrrha who looked at Jaune.

"They did the same thing to Cardin Winchester."

Jaune looked at Pyrrha coming to the same thought as Pyrrha. "I want Yang's body found." He ordered his men. "Sweep pattern. Double back. 50 meters. Let's go." Jaune told them as everyone began searching for Yang's body. Pyrrha grabbed the Faunus and everyone began their search.

Jaune stopped and looked around for any clues but didn't see anything and so he moved on. What he didn't see was the vine that had blood dripping on it. The camera slowly moved up to follow where the blood was coming from and showed Yang hanging upside down with her chest sliced open.

Everyone gagged at the sight of Yang's body and Yang herself felt strange at seeing her body.

Sun walked through the jungle but stopped when he heard the sound of movement and aimed his weapon at the direction of the sound. "Come on, you fuckers. Old painless is waiting." Sun said as he flicked off the safety and waited. A small animal came out of the bushes and Sun scoffed at the animal and turned away. Sun heard something and turned to see what it was; he didn't see a blue ball coming toward his back.

The ball impacted against his back and blew apart his chest.

"Sun!" Blake yelled.

"Damn." Sun said seeing himself die and slightly happy that Blake is concerned for him.

Neptune heard the sound and turned to see Sun falling over. Running over he sees Sun's body and standing over him is the outline of a person that matches the same one that killed Yang, Neptune isn't sure what he is seeing and the invisible person's eyes flashed yellow before disappearing.

"Contact!" Neptune yelled as began shooting at the figure which took off running. Hearing the gunfire everyone ran towards Neptune's position. The figure ran away into the bushes causing the leaves to sway with something bright green on the leaf. Neptune kept firing his LMG until he ran out of ammo, removing his hat he picked up Sun's Minigun and began firing. Trees were cut down from the Minigun as Neptune moved the Minigun back and forth in an arc in an attempt to hit whatever he saw. Soon everyone arrived and they all joined Neptune by firing their weapons. Nora pulled out her grenade launcher and fired four grenades into the jungle.

After a two minutes of shooting the Minigun ran out ammo but Neptune kept the trigger pressed down so the barrels kept spinning making a grinding sound getting Jaune to look at Neptune who finally let the trigger go. The area in front of the group is destroyed, smoke and destroyed trees could be seen.

"Talk about overkill." Coco said eyeing the destruction in screen.

"Neptune did just see his friend killed and saw something that he couldn't explain." Ozpin said before taking a sip of his coffee. "He panicked and did the only thing he could and that was shoot."

"What about the others?" Ren asked wondering they didn't stop Neptune or ask him what is going on.

"They've just found out that they were lied too. They also found their fellow soldiers skinned and butchered." Winter spoke up. "They just lost two of their squad mates. It's safe to say they've been under a lot a stress and they wanted revenge for their friend's deaths."

Everyone nodded in understanding before looking back to the screen.

Jaune stepped forward looking at the destruction they just caused. "What happened?" he asked Neptune.

"I saw it." Neptune said

"You saw what?"

"I saw it." Neptune repeated still holding the Minigun. Jaune looked at Neptune with concern as Neptune looked shocked. Gesturing to Nora and Ren to take a look Jaune knelt down to get a better look at Sun's body as did Pyrrha who rolled him onto his back. Sun's chest is blown open.

"Sun…" Jaune said examining the body. "No powder burns, no shrapnel."

"The wound's all fused, cauterized." Pyrrha added her own observations. "What the hell could have done this to a man?" She asked Jaune who looked at Neptune.

"Neptune… Neptune, look at me!" Jaune said getting his attention. "Who did this?"

"I don't know goddamn it. I saw something."

Jaune looked back to Sun's body before Nora came running back. "Not a thing. Not a fuckin' trace." She told them. "No blood, no bodies. We hit nothing."

"That's impossible." Ruby said, "whatever killed Sun couldn't have survived that." She said pointing to the carnage that the team just caused.

"I think we're about to be shown what they're dealing with." Port said.

Jaune looked at the area in front of him. "Pyrrha, better get on the radio." He said, "Neptune… "

When Neptune didn't answer Jaune turned around. "Sergeant!"

"Yes, sir." Neptune said snapping out of his trance.

"I want a defensive position above that ridge," Jaune said pointing out the area to Neptune. "Mined with everything we've got." He said then looked down to Sun's body. "Put him in his poncho. Take him with us."

Nora stepped forward, "I got him." Neptune looked at Nora getting her to stop then to Jaune who gestured for her to follow him. Neptune kneeled next to Sun and sighed.

The scene changed to show the Faunus reaching out to touch the leaf with something bright green on it. The moment she touched it Pyrrha appeared. "Let's go." She said, as the prisoner went to join her she wiped her hands on her pants.

"What is that?" Glynda asked the question that is on everyone's mind.

"It's hard to tell from here, but it looks almost like blood." Port said.

"That thing's blood is bright green?" Blake said with curiosity as the sight.

"That confirms that whatever they are dealing with isn't human or Faunus." Sienna spoke up.

Neptune is currently setting up traps while Pyrhha and Nora set up the radio. Making sure to camouflage the tripwires and traps with moss so they blend in with the environment. "Major, I set up flares, frags and claymores." He said once he is done to Jaune who is perched on a log overlooking Neptune. "Nothing's coming near this place without tripping on something."

"Thank you, Sergeant." Jaune said looking down to Neptune who nodded and went to check on something. "Neptune…" He said stopping Neptune. "He was a good solider."

"He was, uh… my friend." Neptune said getting Jaune to look at him with sorrow.

"He was all of ours." Jaune said getting Neptune to nod before leaving.

Neptune went to Sun's body in his poncho, flipping back the cover he took out his flask and took a sip and closed it. He put the flask on Sun's body, "goodbye, bro." Neptune said before covering the body once again.

Ironwood ordered a bottle of scotch which a droid brought wearing a bow tie. Pouring a drink Ironwood held the glass for a moment before raising it in a toast to honor those that he lost over the years. All the friends and family before sipping the scotch. Ironwood wasn't the only as all the hunters in the room bowed their heads in honor of their fallen friends that they lost.

The Faunus ditched her outer shirt so she is wearing a tank top and she is looking at her pants which are glowing green like the leaf from before. Changing scenes to show a log with the same green substance as before on the leaf. More dropped onto the log as the sounds of heavy footsteps could be heard before an outline of a leg could be seen. Beeping could be heard as the outline soon filled in the details of the figure. The figure has reptilian skin, long claw like nails are on the hand and the person is wearing a gauntlet. They are bleeding from a leg would and they are bleeding bright green blood.

The hands pressed a case and a lid opened and a section slid out revealing various medical tools. Grabbing a vial, the figure opened it and poured the contents on the wound before grabbing an injector and injecting the liquid into the wound. Setting the injector aside the person grabbed what looked like a tuning fork and pressed against the wound and a snapping sound could be heard before the figure grabbed their leg in pain and roared that isn't human or Faunus. The camera changed to show a brief scene of the figure. The figure is revealed to be muscular and wearing light armor that covers their legs and thighs and gauntlets. The figure is also wearing a mask that covers their face and they are sitting on a tree branch.

Everyone in the audience is unnerved at the sight of the person hunting Jaune and his team, the roar also sent chills down their spines. Something about it just didn't seem right.

"What is that thing?" Ilia asked, at first she thought it to be a Faunus that is getting revenge for the camp but then it killed Sun, a Faunus himself. Seeing the person now she couldn't help but feel terrified of the person, her Faunus instincts screamed danger at the sight of the person. All of the Faunus in the room felt the same sense of danger at the sight of the person.

"That isn't of this world." Ozpin spoke having seen all manner of beasts over the course of his very long life. Yet, he never seen anything like what he is witnessing.

"I wonder about its biology, its eating and cultural habits." Oobleck said eyeing the person with glee.

The Faunus looked up to the trees with fear after hearing the roar, she looked to Ren who also heard it and is looking to the trees. She looked at Pyrrha and Nora but they didn't hear it.

"Blazer one, I repeat, exraction necessary." Pyrrha said over the radio. "Say again, Blazer one. Say again."

"Request for extraction denied. Area is still compromised. Proceed to sector 3,000 for prisoner extraction. Priority, out. Next contact 0930."

Pyrrha looked at her watch. "Roger, Blazer one. 1030 hours." She handed the radio back to Nora. "Damn bastards." She said just as Jaune entered the makeshift camp. "They say we're still in too far. They can't risk coming in."

"We're assets, Pyrrha." Jaune said taking a seat. "Expendable assets." He said throwing her words back at her.

"It comes with the job. I can accept it." She said.

"Bullshit. You're just like the rest of us." Jaune retorted to which Pyrrha stayed silent.

"Shitload of good a chopper's gonna do us in here anyhow." Nora said just as Neptune came walking in and took a seat across from Pyrrha.

"Sergeant? Sergeant! Sergeant!" Pyrrha yelled finally getting Neptune's attention. "Who hit us today?"

"I don't know. I only saw one of them camouflaged." Neptune said, "he was there. Those eyes disappeared."

"What was that?" Jaune asked catching the last part.

"Those eyes, they… they disappeared." Neptune said recalling what he saw. "I know one thing, Major. I drew and fired straight at it. Capped off 200 rounds in the Minigun… full pack. Nothing… nothing on this earth could have lived." Neptune said. "Not at that range."

"Neptune, you take first watch, then you get some rest." Jaune told Neptune who nodded and went to his post.

"Ask her. Ask her what she saw." Pyrrha told Nora while pointing to her prisoner. "Ask her what happened to Yang." Nora looked to Jaune who gave her the go ahead.

"Hey! Earlier today what happened?" Nora asked the Faunus.

"I already told you what happened. Your friend was killed by the jungle." The prisoner said.

"Same thing as before. The jungle, it came alive and took her." Nora relayed what the prisoner told her. Then she looked to Ren. "Ren… you know something. What is it?" She asked.

"I'm scared, Nora." Ren said while holding his medallion.

"Bullshit. You ain't afraid of no man." Nora told Ren.

"There's something out there waiting for us…" Ren said letting go of his necklace and stood up. "And it ain't no man. We're all gonna die." He said before leaving the group.

"He's losing his cool." Pyrrha said looking to Jaune. "There's nothing but a couple of guys running around out there." She said getting Jaune to shake his head at her.

"You still don't understand, Pyrrha, do you?" He said. "Whatever it is out there, it killed Cardin, and now it wants us."

"Ominous much." Yang said taking a sip of her soda.

"But he's not wrong." Ren said

"The way it observed them reminds me of a hunter stalking his prey." Emilia said.

"True." Port said.

Neptune stood watch while the others sleep looking at the moon. "Here we are again, bro, just you and me." He said with a smile, "same kind of moon and same kind of jungle. Real number 10 night, remember?" He asked the moon expecting an answer. "Whole platoon, 32 men chopped into meat, and we walk out, just you and me." Neptune recalls smiling at the memory. "Nobody else. Right on top, bro. Not a scratch. Not a fuckin' scratch."

"You know, whoever got you, he'll come back again." Neptune said as his voice lowered and became threatening. "And when he does, I'm gonna cut your name right into him. I'm gonna cut your name into him." Neptune promised.

Sun grabbed Neptune and brought him into a hug. "Thanks bro."

"Anytime," Neptune said while everyone else smiled at the scene.

Rustling got the attention of Neptune as he turned around to see what is causing the noise just as the flares went off waking everyone up.

"What the hell is it?"

"Neptune!"

Neptune saw something and fired his weapon only to get tackled knocking his weapon out of his hand.

"This way! Over here!"

"Neptune, where are you?!"

Neptune struggled with his opponent as everyone ran to Neptune. Pulling out his knife Neptune began stabbing his opponent. "Fuck you!" Neptune yelled as he continued to stab.

"Get him, Neptune." Ruby cheered for Neptune.

"Wait, Ruby." Weiss said to her partner getting her to calm down. "Look at the blood." She pointed out and Ruby saw that the blood is not glowing green but a dark red.

"Oh," Ruby said in realization.

"Don't fuck with me." Neptune said as he killed his opponent. Nora found Neptune and shined her light at the him and the scene.

"Neptune?" Nora said.

"Jesus." Jaune said looking at the scene before him.

"I got you, motherfucker." Neptune said catching his breath. "I killed you, you fuck."

Nora shined the light at Neptune's kill and found a boar still twitching. "Jesus! You killed a pig."

"What the…?" Jaune said.

"Do you think you could have found something bigger?" Nora asked getting Ren to laugh.

"Fuck you, Nora. Fuck you!" Neptune said while wiping the blood off his knife.

"Where's the girl?" Jaune asked seeing Pyrrha next to him.

"Ah, shit!" Pyrrha said realizing her mistake as she ran back to the camp as did everyone else.

"Why wasn't anybody watching her?" Nora asked as they ran back into the camp and found the prisoner in the same spot they left her.

"Why didn't she try to get away?"

"Look at her. she's scared out of her mind." Jaune pointed out and indeed the prisoner looked scared.

"Major, you better take a look at this." Ren said shining his flashlight on the ground. Jaune walked over and saw the poncho that they put Sun's body into. Only to find it empty. "Sun's body, it's gone."

"It came in through the tripwires." Nora said looking to the empty poncho then to Jaune. "Took it right out from under our noses."

"Why would it take his body?" Juane asked curious and no one really wanted to know or had an answer.

The next morning the group is trying to figure out what happened the night before. "That boar had to set off the trip flare, Major, cos there ain't no other tracks." Ren said while looking for more tracks.

"How could anyone get through this and carry out Sun without us knowing it?" Nora asked. "Why didn't he try and kill one of us?"

"He came in to get the body." Jaune said looking for any clues. "He's killing us one at a time."

"Like a hunter." Ren said.

"Looks like you're right, Lady Arc." Ghira said.

"Call me Emilia, Ghira." Emilia said looking to Ghira who smiled. "Not that has ever stopped you, Ghi."

"True, Em." Ghira said with a smirk.

"Dad, do you know her." Blake asked confused as to the familiarity the two have toward each other.

"We dated for a while." Emilia said getting all of the Arcs save for Leon, Emilia, Kali and Ghira to do a pretty good impression of a koi fish.

"Five years to be exact." Kali said while looking to Emilia with a smirk that Emilia returned. If one looked closely they would see lighting sparks between the two. Kali placed a hand on Ghira's arm and Emilia did the same with Leon. Meanwhile Ghira and Leon looked at each and smiled at their wife's antics.

"Wha… what…?" Blake asked feeling her brain shut down at the news.

"A tale for another time, Blake." Ghira told his daughter.

Jaune looked closely at the ground before a thought came to him as he looked up to the trees then to the rest of his men. "He's using the trees."

"One way to avoid detection." Ilia said, "Whatever is hunting them must have good agility."

"True," Sienna added.

Jaune went to the prisoner Faunus and picked her up off the ground with Pyrrha standing guard. "Yesterday, what did you see?" he asked.

"You're wasting your time." Pyrrha said looking away.

"No more games." Jaune said shaking the Faunus slightly.

"I don't know what it was." The prisoner said getting Pyrrha's attention. "It…"

"Go on."

"It changed colors like the chameleon." She said looking Jaune in the eyes so he knew that she wasn't lying. "It uses the jungle."

"Are you saying that Sun and Yang were killed by a fuckin' lizard?" Pyrrha asked with disbelief. "That's a bullshit psych job. There's two or three men out there at the most. Not a fucking lizard!"

Jaune looked at Pyrrha then back to the prisoner. "What's your name?" He asked her.

"Blake."

Jaune pulled out his knife which caused Blake's breath to hitch as she saw it. "Blake, this thing is hunting us. All of us." Jaune said. "You know that." Blake nodded and Jaune cut her binding's freeing her.

"What the hell are you doing?" Pyrrha asked looking to the cut bindings.

"We need everyone." Jaune said walking away from her.

"I'm taking her back. We're out of here." Pyrrha said pointing to Blake.

"We're not going yet." Jaune said turning around to face Pyrrha.

"The rendezvous is 10 miles away." Pyrrha said, "you think the chopper'll wait?"

"Pyrrha, we make a stand now, or there will be nobody left to go to the chopper." Jaune told her before going back to the rest of his team.

"There is something else." Blake said getting his attention. "When the Faunus was killed, you must have wounded it. Its blood was on the leaves." She told him.

"If it bleeds, we can kill it." Jaune said already forming a plan.

"Ah yeah," Yang said throwing her fist in the air. "Man, that's another one I can't wait to use."

Weiss was about to retort but stopped when Blake shook her head and Weiss bit back her comment.

"So, how are they going to kill it?" Ruby asked taking a small bite out of her cookie.

"Lay a trap, would be my guess." Qrow said taking a sip of his whiskey.

"Indeed," Winter said feeling a bad taste in her mouth for agreeing with Qrow.

"I am anxious to see what traps they will utilize." Port said looking forward to the traps.

"Maybe we should go camping as a group exercise." Jaune said and everyone in his team agreed though for different reasons. Ren wanted to spend the night under the stars and look for new herbs. Pyrrha and Nora wanted to cuddle next to Jaune to keep each other warm during the cold nights.

Neptune set a claymore in the tree branches and covered it with moss, once everything is in place he made sure the wire is secured and pulled the pin out arming the claymore. Changing scenes showed Ren and Jaune throw a rope around a tree and start pulling it down, both are struggling to pull it down.

Nora climbed up a tree and started cutting the vines that Blake collected. Rolling the vines up Blake took it and threw upon a pile of other vines. Neptune stood on a log and threw a bundle of rope to Ren who began to tie it. Pyrrha stood over Blake as she weaved vines together to create a makeshift net.

"You really think this boy-scout bullshit's gonna work?" Pyrrha asked Jaune who is tying off a rope.

"It can see our tripwires. Maybe it can't see this." Jaune said after making sure the rope is tied off and walked off. "Instead of complaining, maybe you should help." he suggested to Pyrrha as he walked by her. Pyrrha scoffed and did a mock salute.

"Boy scouts?" Port asked curious.

"The boy scouts are an organization that young boys can join." Spart told them appearing next to Port with a small can of soda floating next to him with a straw. This drew a lot of looks from the audience but they decided to let it go. "They teach young boys survival techniques such as tying knots, fishing and other outdoor activities. They also have a female counterpart named the girl scouts." Screens appeared showing them the various activities that the boy scouts do making Port's eye sparkle as he watched young boys learn different techniques for the outdoors.

Ren, Pyrrha, Neptune and Jaune worked together to pull a tree down to the ground to help in their trap. Pyrrha wore a brown tank top while the others didn't have shirts on showing off their muscles and the sweat making them shine in the sunlight.

"Damn," Sun said at the sight of the muscles that make his look small.

"Looking buff there, P-money." Yang said getting to blush at the complement. Pyrrha watched Jaune and his muscular form on screen wondering if she can get him to that level. All that girls that have a crush on Jaune saved the image of a sweaty muscular Jaune carrying them in a princess style.

"I'm buff!" Nora said flexing her arms to show off her muscles getting Ren to chuckle at his partner.

Jaune took a deep breath to calm himself and to control the heat he felt at seeing Pyrrha in a tank top covered in sweat. He looked at Pyrrha on screen and watched a bead of sweat make its way from her face to valley between her breasts. 'Bad Jaune, no sexual thoughts about your partner.' Jaune chided himself for thinking such thoughts and then he looked at Pyrrha on screen and saw the way the tank top clung to her showing off her curves and even the outline of her nipples. 'Seems she doesn't wear a bra.' Jaune thought to himself before mentally slapping himself and looked away from the screen.

'Should I give him a private room and show the steamy bits of his marriage to RWBY, NP, Winter, Velvet, Sienna and Ilia?' Spart thought after reading Jaune's mind. 'Would help him see how the others feel about him.'

"Interesting." Port said analyzing the traps that are being set.

Ren stepped onto the net and threw dead leaves onto the net to hide it before moving on to tie a rope around a spike and gave a thumbs up.

Finally finished setting up their traps Jaune and the rest hid in the leaves and waited. Neptune pulled out his blue razor and ran it over his chin, he pressed the razor into his skin hard enough to draw blood and broke the head of the razor. Pyrrha looked at him with concern.

"What makes you think he'll come in through here?" Pyrrha asked Jaune.

"There are tripwires on every tree for 50 yards." Jaune told Pyrrha before gesturing to the small clearing where they set their trap. "This is the only way in." He said before Pyrrha moved to a different spot.

"When I was little, we found a man." Blake said breaking the silence in the group. "He looked like… like he was butchered. The old women in my village prayed and said strange things that I didn't understand." She said as Nora looked at her. "Only in the hottest years this happens. And this year it grows hot. We began finding our hunters."

"We found them sometimes without their skin, and sometimes much, much worse." Blake shivered as she recalled the memories, Jaune looked at her recognizing that what happened to Cardin has been happening for a while. "My mother told me that a demon lives in the jungle. She called it "The demon that makes trophies of hunters.""

"That sounds like something my mother told me." Kali said thinking back to what her mother told her. "She said that a demon lives in the heart of Menagerie that kills anyone attempting to approach it. She called it "the demon that lives in the heart."" Kali told her daughter and Blake couldn't help but shiver at the short tale.

"Is there any truth to that tale?" Sun asked.

"We find dead hunters near the heart of the island." Ghira said, "that section of the island is forbidden to everyone but some don't listen."

"Every legend has a hint of truth to them." Ozpin said thinking to the tale of the Four Maidens.

The sounds of birds grabbed everyone's attention as they looked at the trees and saw nothing. "So, what are you gonna try next? Cookies?" Pyrrha asked with a hint of sarcasm in her voice. Jaune didn't say anything but got up and left the hiding spot. "Hey, Jaune. Jaune!"

Jaune didn't respond as he stepped out into the clearing making sure to watch where he steps so he doesn't set off the traps. Moving forward his right foot got caught on something, looking down he sees that his foot his caught on the trip wire. Making sure to remove his foot carefully and continued walking making sure to keep an eye on the trees, stopping he eyed the trees before relaxing and turned around before the net sprung up catching an unseen prey. Screeching could be heard as everyone ran out of hiding.

"They got it!" Ruby yelled jumping out of her seat.

"Just because it's trapped doesn't mean that it still isn't dangerous." Tai said to his daughter who puffed out her cheeks adorably getting Summer to gush before speeding over leaving white petals in her wake. Summer picked up her daughter and crushed her in a hug.

"So cute!" Summer squealed as Tai chuckled at the sight.

Summer set Ruby down and sat down next to her daughters as the others made room for her.

An explosion knocked everyone back, a blue ball came from the net and hit a large tree branch causing it to break free. Vines wrapped around the broken tree branch turning it into a makeshift pendulum, everyone jumped out of the way save for Nora who saw it too late and got hit by it flinging her back a few feet.

The creature jumped out of the net and onto the tree while Neptune rolled onto his side and started shooting at the faint outline. Pyrrha looked at the outline with shock as it leaned out from the tree, its cloak disabled revealing itself to Pyrrha. A pauldron covered its right shoulder and a cylinder object sat on top of the pauldron looking like a weapon. What appeared to be dreadlocks with silver and gold rings on them appeared to be the hair. A necklace made from the bones of different animals sat around its neck. The creature activated its cloak and disappeared before running off.

"Got you, motherfucker! I got you!" Neptune yelled as he started shooting. "I'm coming!" he yelled as he took off in pursuit of the creature that killed his friend.

"He's letting his emotions get the better of him." Winter said having seen the same thing before.

"He'll only end up harming his team." Ironwood added.

"Take this to heart students. Never abandon your teammates for anything." Glynda told them.

"Neptune! Neptune!" Jaune yelled at his teammate took off. "Get Nora on her feet and get to the chopper." He ordered Ren before going off to chase Neptune only to be stopped by Pyrrha.

"Hold it. I'm going after Neptune." She told Jaune.

"That's not your style, Pyrrha." Jaune said

"Guess I picked up some bad habits from you. Now get your people the hell outta here." She told Jaune.

"You can't win this, Pyrrha."

"Maybe I can get even." She said before going after Neptune.

"Pyrrha."

Pyrrha turned around and caught a SMG that Jaune tossed to her so she now carried two. "Just hold on to that damn chopper." She said before going after Neptune.

"Their numbers are dwindling." Kali stated.

"Hopefully, Jaune and the others can make it to the chopper." Ruby said hopefully.

Nora is groaning in pain as Ren bandages her chest as Jaune runs to them. "She's busted up pretty bad, Major." Ren told Jaune.

"I can make it." Nora said through gritted teeth. "I can make it."

"Get the radio. Forget the rest." Jaune told Ren before kneeling and helping Nora up. "Come on, Nora."

Jaune and Blake carried Nora while Ren tailed behind them.

The scene changed to show Neptune still chasing the creature and ran up a sloped incline but tripped. Throwing his hat off he began crawling up the incline. Neptune stopped and began pulling out ammo belt attached to a bag on his vest. "Long tall sally, she's built sweet. She got everything that uncle John needs." Unzipping his vest which he removed. "Oh, baby, baby. I'm gonna have me some fun tonight." Grabbing his weapon, he began moving up the incline. "I'm gonna have me some fun" (x3).

"Neptune really wants that thing dead." Ren said.

"Yeah, also. Thanks for patching me up, Nurse Ren." Nora said while hugging Ren. Li and An smiled at their son's friend.

"Anytime, Nora."

Pyrrha found Neptune's discarded vest and followed his tracks. Stopping to catch her breath Pyrrha leaned against a tree and put the second SMG on her back.

"Over here."

Pyrrha heard a whisper and aimed her weapon trying to find the source.

"Over here."

Pyrrha slowly moved forward and jumped down a small incline. "Neptune?" Pyrrha slowly moved while crouched just as a hand grabbed her and pulled her back into some bushes.

"Shh…" Neptune whispered. "Out there. Past them trees." Pointing to the trees in front of them. "You see it?"

Pyrrha looked at where Neptune is pointing and saw nothing at first but then she saw a faint outline perched on a tree branch.

"I see you." Neptune said.

"I see it." Pyrrha said. "Yeah… I see it. You know, we can get this thing, Neptune." She said not taking her eyes off the outline. "You work you your way down there toward him. I'll get in back of him, flush him toward you. When I flush that son of bitch, you nail him."

"A good tactic," Port said which both Ironwood and Winter agreed with.

"I don't think it will be that easy." Leon said getting everyone to look at him. "This creature has not only killed Cardin's team but also two of Jaune's team, who we have seen are very skilled in the art of combat. Not to mention the trap they set didn't work."

"You never know, Pyrrha and Neptune could pull it off." Ruby responded.

"I know my partner. If anyone can pull it off, it's her." Jaune told his father making Pyrrha blush at his complement.

"I don't doubt that, son." Leon said. "But this creature has proven to be very effective in outthinking its prey."

"We'll see what happens." Blake said silently hoping that the plan Pyrrha made works.

"I got a score to settle." Neptune said thinking back to Sun and the promise he made.

"We've both got scores to settle." Pyrrha told him before moving to flank the creature. Neptune went into the prone position and began crawling to the creature while Pyrrha made sure to stay in the bushes. Neptune crawled under some tree roots on his back but stopped when something caught his eye. On his left arm is three red dots, moving so he could see between the roots. Neptune's eyes open widely as the red dots are on his head, Neptune's blood flew out from the back of his head and landed on the camera turning the screen red.

"Shit," Sun said before looking to Neptune who looked shocked at seeing himself die. Weiss flinched at seeing her ex die and gagged as his blood bathed the screen.

Pyrrha stopped when she heard something but kept moving. Neptune's body collapsed onto the logs, the back of his head as a hole and blood flowed from the wound dying his blue hair red. The camera changed to show an upward angle to show the outline of the creature standing on the roots, a red laser disappeared from where the head would be. The invisible creature made a low clicking sound before moving on leaving the body as the leg twitched.

"That bastard knew where he was." Ironwood stated clenching his fists in anger at the sight of another soldier dying at the hands of that thing.

"How did it know?" Weiss asked taking a sip of her hot chocolate.

"It has infrared vision." Blake said remembering the scene of the camp where the creature revealed its hand. "It could see their body heat, not mention when the cloak is active it is hard to tell where the creature is looking." She stated getting the older hunters to nod as they figured it out earlier. Glynda is happy that her lessons on paying attention to your opponent is paying off.

Blake went ahead of the group. "Quickly!" she called her over shoulder as Jaune held Nora up. Nora tripped and dropped her grenade launcher which Blake went to pick up. "Don't! Leave it." Jaune said stopping Blake from picking up the weapon. "It didn't kill you because you weren't armed." He helped Nora move as Blake and Ren stayed close to them. "No sport in it."

The camera changed to show Pyrrha moving down a slope and moving to a small bush that hides her. She is in position and now just needs to coordinate with Neptune. "Neptune," she whispers. "Neptune," she whispers again pushing some leaves away to see Neptune's body with a hole in his head.

"Any time." Neptune's voice gets Pyrrha's attention as she turns around with her weapon aimed at the trees and scanning the trees. Pyrrha looks at the trees but doesn't see anything a flash of yellow eyes that Neptune described appears. Taking aim, she fires her weapon at her target as a red laser appears followed by a blue ball that impacted against her right arm.

Pyrrha screams as her right arm is severed above the elbow, her arm falls to the ground still holding the trigger down causing her weapon to continuously fire.

"Pyrrha!" Jaune exclaims at seeing Pyrrha lose her arm. Pyrrha holds her right arm as she watched her counterpart get wounded.

Everyone is worried for the female Spartan's health and the knowledge that what they are seeing is another universe and they can't help didn't sit well with them.

Pyrrha held in her screams as she saw the creature running towards her at high speeds that no normal human is capable of. Taking the second SMG off her back Pyrrha takes aim just as she sees two serrated blades appear. The cloaked creature stabbed Pyrrha in the stomach and lifted her off the ground, Pyrrha screamed.

Like before, Pyrrha is unnerved at seeing her own death. Jaune wraps an arm around her shoulders and brings her into a hug. Pyrrha is ecstatic at the close contact with Jaune much to the ire of the other girls that like the blonde knight.

'I want him to hold me like that.' Ruby, Nora and Velvet thought.

Emilia watched the interaction between Pyrrha and Jaune and smiled at the sight. Then she noticed the looks the three other girls gave Jaune. 'My baby boy has the affection of four young ladies, oh my! Think of the grandchildren!' In Emilia's mind she saw multiple grandchildren with different hair colors to spoil. 'I'll have to have a talk with all of them and soon.'

Leon couldn't help but feel like his wife is planning something and decided to file that feeling away for the moment.

Jaune and his group crossed a river using a fallen log as a bridge when they heard Pyrrha's screams echoes through the forest. Everyone stops when they hear the screams and Jaune has a look of disbelief on his face.

"Let's go." He says as Nora grunts in pain as they continue. Ren throws the radio and his weapon off the bridge and into the river. Hearing the splash Jaune turns around to see removing his vest along with his vest. "Ren!" He shouts but Ren ignores him.

"Why is Ren ignoring him?" Ruby asked.

"He is staying behind to buy some time for his friends." Li said recognizing the look Ren has in many hunters and huntresses that stay behind to buy their teammates time to escape.

"He is going to die a warrior's death." An says feeling sorrow at the knowledge her son is going to die. Li hugs his wife to comfort her.

Ren takes off his necklace wrapping the strings around his left hand and grabs his machete. Jaune knowing what he is doing nods before telling Blake to move, Jaune and other two leave Ren on the bridge. Ren makes a cut on his chest then points the blade at the trees.

Blake climbs up some roots and turns around to help Jaune lift Nora up. "Give me the gun!" she yells before Jaune gives her his weapon so he can lift Nora with the help of Blake.

Infrared POV

The camera changes to show Ren's heat signature on the bridge.

Normal POV

Switching back Ren doesn't show fear as he faces his opponent. Blake runs ahead of Jaune and Nora before Ren's screams of pain sounds throughout the jungle. Quickly turning around Jaune and Nora aim their weapons down the path they just took. Blake is nervous while Nora is shaking, seeing something in the trees Blake tries to warn them but is too late when another blue ball was fired and hits Nora in the side of the head killing her. Jaune falls to the ground and rolls to recover, Blake sees the gun that Nora dropped.

Everyone flinched at Nora's death, slowly the teens are getting use to the brutality that is being shown. Nora shuddered at the sight of her death but felt something encase her hand, looking down she sees Jaune has leaned over Ren and held her hand in comfort earning a smile from Nora.

"Blake, please don't." Kali said worried that her kitten is going to try for the gun.

"No!" Jaune shouted seeing Blake pick up the gun and quickly got to his feet as she picked up the SMG.

"Run!" Blake yelled aiming at the tree the shot came from. Before she could pull the trigger Jaune kicked the gun out of her hand and fired his weapon at the tree while Blake ran ahead. Jaune stopped firing and saw the outline lean out of the tree and fired at him, the projectile impacted against Jaune's vest right in the chest. Jaune is flung onto his back from the impact.

"Run! Go!" Jaune shouts at Blake who looks at him with concern. "Get to the chopper!" He orders her and Blake runs leaving Jaune behind. Jaune got to his back and reached for the clasps holding his vest in place and undid them, throwing his vest to the ground showed it to be smoking and burning where the projectile hit it.

Jaune is worried for himself and hopes that Blake makes it out. Kali sighs in relief when Jaune kicked the gun out of Blake's hand. She knows that the Jaune on screen isn't the same one sitting a few seats down from her but she can't but feel thankful to him for protecting her kitten.

"Thank you, Mr. Arc." Ghira tells the young man who nods.

"It seems you're still looking out for everyone, Jaune." Pyrrha says to her partner who smiles at her.

Jaune is running through the jungle hoping that it is chasing him and not Blake.

Infrared POV

The creature is watching Jaune as he runs through the jungle and zooms in on in.

Normal POV

The camera follows Jaune as he runs through the jungle.

Infrared POV

The creature is right behind Jaune and is catching up.

"Run, Jaune, run!" Ruby shouts fearing for her friend/crush's life.

"Sick bastard." Saphron said holding her wife's hand. "He's toying with Jaune."

"What do you mean?" Nora asks while eating some popcorn.

"The creature could have killed Jaune while he was down and vulnerable." Oobleck began explaining. "Instead it let Mr. Arc get away. Now it is chasing him down."

"Like a sick game of tag." Ren said earning a nod from Oobleck.

Jaune continued to run even he tripped and fell down a hill and began sliding down the muddy hill. "Oh, shit." Jaune said after seeing that he's approaching a cliff. Sliding off of the cliff Jaune saw a lake with a small waterfall and hoped that it deep enough. Approaching the surface of the water Jaune straightened his legs and arms before he hit the water.

"Please be ok." Weiss surprising everyone by her concern. "What? I can't show concern for my friend?" she asked after seeing their looks.

"Just surprising, that's all, Weiss cream." Yang said getting Weiss to scowl at the blonds while her sister and mother raised an eyebrow at her nickname.

Jaune managed to get his above the water but is carried by the current off a second waterfall. Rising above the water Jaune sees land and begins swimming toward land. Crawling out of the water Jaune rests in the mud and catches his breath when the sound of something hitting the water gets his attention. Rolling onto his side gets more mud to cover his body as he rolls onto his back and moves back until he hits tree roots. Reaching for his pistol only to see it missing, Jaune curses his luck and spreads his arms to grab the roots of the tree in an attempt to blend in with the roots.

The creature rises out of the water allowing Jaune to see what he dealing with. It's cloaking field is flickering in and out and blue sparks appear all over its body, reaching for the gauntlet on its left arm and pushing some buttons ends the blue sparking. The creature looks in Jaune's direction causing Jaune to hold his breath.

Infrared POV

The creature looks at the tree roots only to see nothing and continues to look until it sees a heat signature in a log. A red triangle appears and zooms in on the heat signature and locks on.

Normal POV

Jaune watches as a red beam emanates from the side of creature's mask and the cylindrical object on its left pauldron comes to life and aims at the log before firing. A bright blue ball comes from the barrel of gun and hits the log causing a small explosion with sparks flying everywhere.

Ruby goes wide eyed after seeing what the weapon can do. "OHMYGODDIDYOUSEETHATIWONDERWHATTYPEOFWEAPONISTHATIWANTTHATTARGETIGNSYSTEMFORCRESCENTROSE." Ruby said in a rapid pace that everyone who isn't used to Ruby wonder what she said.

"Calm down, Ruby." Yang said getting Ruby to calm down. Ruby is a weapon nut after all and so seeing new weapons is always exciting for the young reaper.

"It looks to be energy based." Ruby said already breaking down the creature's weapon and theorizing what the internal mechanisms can be. "How do you work?" she whispered to herself wondering how the creature is able to fire the weapon without pulling a trigger.

"You do realize that the weapon you are gushing about is responsible for killing most of Jaune's team." Weiss said getting Ruby to deflate and Yang to throw a glare at Weiss which she ignored.

"Can such a weapon exist?" Glynda asked as such a weapon can be useful against the Grimm.

"No," Penny spoke up after drinking her hot coco with milk leaving her with a milk mustache. "Attempts have been made to create such a weapon but it just isn't feasible with the technology available." She said but it was hard for everyone to listen as they were trying to hold in their laughter at the sight of the milk mustache.

Finally, Ruby spoke up and a mirror appeared showing Penny what is on her face. Penny excused herself and wiped the milk mustache away.

Jaune watched as the creature kick open the log only for a small animal to run out of the log. The creature growled in frustration before looking around the area near the water. Everywhere the creature looked its weapon followed. The creature decided to move on as it left the lake and headed back into the jungle.

Jaune breathed out in relief at seeing the creature leave. Jaune grabbed some mud off his body and look at it. "He couldn't see me." He said having found a way to hide from the creature.

"Talk about a muddy situation." Yang said with a smile as Tai laughed and Summer chuckled while everyone groaned.

"I wonder what I'm planning on doing now." Jaune asked himself as he looked at the screen and everyone wondered the same thing.

Jaune covered himself in mud and made his way away from the lake and back into the jungle. Stopping near a large tree he sees a small crevice with two roots going over it. Stepping under the roots and through the crevice, Jaune examines the area and notices that it is a good place for another trap.

"It would appear the Mr. Arc is attempting to kill the creature." Winter said after getting a refill on her tea.

"That thing killed Jaune's entire team with little difficultly. What are his chances at killing it?" Weiss said getting glares from the students of Beacon and some of the teachers. Weiss shrunk a little but remained steadfast.

"You need to have better faith in your teammates, Miss Schnee." Glynda says pushing her glasses up so the light reflects them and hides her eyes, giving her a more menacing look.

"Weiss, why are you mean?" Ruby asked her partner.

"I'm not being mean, Ruby. I'm being realistic." Weiss tells her partner. "We just saw that thing kill Cardin's team and Jaune's whole team without much difficulty. Their trap didn't work and he is just one man."

"I'm guessing that I won't be relying solely on traps this time around." Jaune spoke up getting everyone to look at him. Jaune shrunk into his seat but an encouraging smile from Pyrrha filled Jaune with confidence. "Now that I know what I'm dealing with I'll be readjusting my strategy to counter the creature and even the fight."

"It pays to know your enemy." Sienna says looking to the Schnee's.

"Keep watching and you'll see." Spart said floating down from his spot above the audience. Everyone agrees and focuses back on the screen.

Jaune is currently tying sticks that have been sharpened into spikes to the roots above the crevice. Setting his knife aside Jaune lays some vines down in between the roots so they lay on the ground and camouflages them with dry leaves. Next he is on his back in the middle of the crevice and is pulling a vine attached to a log that he found, pulling the log as high it can go so it can it act as the counter weight. Jaune ties it off before going to work on the release mechanism. Tying the end of the vine holding up the log to a stick he places the stick in a notch that he carved in the roots and gently let's go, surprisingly the stick doesn't break under the weight and holds.

The scene changes to show the body of Ren looking bloody as the creature digs its hand into Ren's back and pull out his spine along with his skull and roars before kicking the body off the tree branch. The body then stops suspended in midair as it hangs upside down. The creature puts the bloody skull that still has bits of flesh clinging to it before a white smoke covers it.

Everyone gagged at the sight and some even started dry heaving but nothing came out. Ruby for the first time in her life wanted revenge. She wanted to go into the screen and go to the universe they are watching and help Jaune kill that monster. She wanted to separate its head from its body and hang the body upside down from the trees just like it did to the others. For the first time in her young life she wanted to physically hurt someone and she isn't the only one with that thought.

"Trophies." Raven said.

"What?" Yang said as her eyes turned red.

"He's taking trophies." Raven explained having done the same herself although for her its mostly weapons and collectables from her raids.

"A hunter, indeed." Ghira said.

Jaune sat in the trees with a small fire working on something. He is tying sticks together with the small vine in his mouth as he makes sure the bindings are nice and tight. The scene transitions to show Jaune bending the sticks over his shoulder, another transitions shows Jaune stringing a bow. Another transition reveals Jaune holding his makeshift bow with a nocked arrow and let go. The arrow flies and imbeds itself in a small tree, the arrow actually goes through the trunk. Moving on Jaune checks the pouches on his belt and pulls out two grenade rounds for his grenade launcher and some waterproof matches, taking his knife he loosens and removes the cap on one of the grenade rounds. Taking a leaf, he empties the explosive powder onto the leaf before wrapping the leaf up.

"Quite impressive how he is able to make a bow from nothing." Port says proud at Jaune for making a weapon from nothing.

"In this universe, Jaune is part of the special forces group known as the green berets." Spart said appearing next Port with a cup of hot tea. "They bring in survival experts to teach their recruits everything they need to know about surviving in the harshest of environments. They are taught how to make a combat knife from scratch and how to make traps. Things that this Jaune is using." Spart said before going back to his position.

Ironwood is impressed at the "green berets" level of training and can't but feel like they need soldiers like that in the Atlas military. Maybe he could find a way to this universe and recruit one of these "green berets" for the Atlas military. Spart just shook his 'head' at Ironwood's thoughts.

The scene changed to show the creature opening a case to show a collection of skulls that are clean of blood and polished. One of the skulls has a hole in it showing it to be Neptune's. The creature takes a skull in its hand before running his finger across it with affection.

Nobody said anything at the display, it only showed just what type of monster this creature really is and they are rooting for Jaune to kill it.

Spart had another reason for showing this universe first. It is meant to harden the students of Beacon to the harsh reality of a hunter's life, they are going to see things that are going to shock them and make them sick. This is to prepare them for what they may see, things that Beacon and the other academies don't teach them. The one thing he isn't going to change in the new world line is the presence of the Grimm. Focusing back on the screen as they are approaching the ending.

Jaune goes back to the lake and begins to cover himself in mud, once he is fully covered Jaune grabs his bow, arrows and a makeshift torch. Walking on top of a fallen tree Jaune looks to the moon over the jungle, lighting two waterproof matches on a stub and then lighting the torch. Jaune waits for the torch to be fully engulfed in fire. "Aaaaagh!" Jaune yells at the top of his lungs as he raises the torch above his head. His yell can be heard throughout the jungle.

"What is that dolt doing?" Weiss asks wondering what his plan is.

"He's drawing the creature to him." Ironwood says.

"Into the area I'm familiar with." Jaune says after realizing what his other self is doing. "Fighting on my turf. So to speak."

"Clever." Ozpin says taking a sip of his coffee.

"Break its legs, fearless leader!" Nora shouts before shoving a fistful of popcorn into her mouth.

The scene changes to show the creature looking to the direction of the yell. Taking the laser from its mask, it runs the laser back and forth over the gauntlet blades. After a few passes they begin to glow red.

Switching back to Jaune, he waits for a few seconds before tossing the torch to a pile of logs that he made earlier, creating a bonfire. Jaune runs to a tree before climbing it and hugs the branch so he blends in and waits.

The scene changes to briefly show the creature jumping from tree to tree displaying its impressive agility before it activates its cloak. Going back to Jaune who is still waiting until he hears something behind him. The outline of the creature appears behind Jaune moving down the tree. Slowly turning his head to see the invisible creature pass him, Jaune uses a vine to swing from the tree he is using to another tree and wraps his arms around the trunk to blend in just in time as the creature looked into the trees.

Infrared POV

The creature made a passing glance at the glance at the trees and right at Jaune but didn't see him.

"Hah! He figured out your weakness!" Pyrrha shouted at the screen. Everyone who knew the reserved nature of the Spartan looked at her in surprise. "What?"

"Nothing…" Yang said.

Normal POV

Jaune watched as his target jumped from the tree onto the ground and begaa walking on a fallen tree with the bonfire burning in the back. Reaching behind him, Jaune pulled out three arrows and one of the grenade rounds which he turned into an explosive arrow. Looking at the bonfire Jaune can see the outline of the figure more clearly.

"That's why I did that." Jaune said as everyone looked at him again for an explanation. "From what we've seen, that thing's cloaking is very good that the only way to see it is if it moves." He said and everyone agreed with him. "By creating a bonfire, I use that outline when it moves to my advantage. The light from the fire bounces off its cloak further defining the outline."

Everyone looks at the screen and just like Jaune said the light from the fire is making the creature more visible that everyone can see where it is stepping.

"Very clever, Mr. Arc." Port said.

"That is why I accepted you into Beacon, Mr. Arc." Ozpin said with a smile. "Outside the box thinking and coming up with tactics that many would find crazy."

"It would seem Mr. Arc is quite resourceful." Ironwood making a note to keep an eye on the boy.

Nocking the explosive arrow, Jaune carefully aims and lets the arrow go. The arrow flies through the air and impacts on the ground in front of the creature creating a small explosion. The creature screeches in pain as the invisible cloak drops showing the creature, activating its main weapon to start shooting in random directions at the trees. Jaune shields his face from the sparks and debris that are generated from the explosions as the creature continues to shoot at their trees.

One of shots hits the tree that Jaune is hiding in and falls down, quickly getting up Jaune runs off while the creature shoots at him. Taking cover behind rock Jaune holds his side in pain, he feels something warm against his hand, examining his hand he sees blood.

The creature stops firing after losing Jaune, blue sparks appear all of its body. Examining its gauntlet reveals that it is damaged, pressing some buttons gets the sparking to stop.

"No more hiding for you, asshole." Nora said with glee.

"Get him, Jaune." Ren said hoping for his friend to pull through.

Jaune picked himself up and went to his second location and passed by a small tree branch to sway which the creature saw and went in the same direction of Jaune. Climbing down some rocks Jaune is crossing a tree bridge when the creature jumps in front of him, fortunately it isn't facing him. Looking for a place to hide Jaune looks down.

"Where are you going to hide, Jaune?" Leon asked worried for his son.

"He's proven resourceful. I'm sure he'll surprise us." Ozpin said getting another refill of coffee.

The creature looks around before walking across the bridge making sure to check the sides for anything. The camera moves under the bridge to show Jaune hanging on to the vines anchoring him to the underside of the tree.

"See," Ozpin said with a smile after looking at everyone's expression.

"Hanging around, Jaune." Ruby said getting everyone who knows the red reaper to look at her with surprise. "What?" she asks after seeing their looks.

"Did…" Weiss says with a horrified expression.

"You…" Blake says sounding worried.

"Just…" Ren says with a smirk.

"Make…" Nora says with a giggle in her voice.

"A…" Jaune says with hidden amusement.

"Pun…?" Yang said with joy as she picked up her little sister and hugged her. "I'm so proud of you." Tai also embraced his two daughters and lifted the both of them off of the ground.

"My little rose made her first pun!" Tai exclaimed with excitement and happiness while Summer laughed at the sight.

"Can we resume watching the show?" Raven asked waiting the not wanting to see the sight before her. it reminded her what could have been hers had she stayed with Tai and Yang. Tai set his daughters down with a chuckle before returning to his seat next to Qrow.

Jaune waited for the creature to pass before climbing back to the top of the tree and going to his weapon stash. Grabbing two spears, one that has his knife tied to the end and the other with the last grenade round and goes to hunt the creature. Jaune stops at a boulder and looks to the trees for any signs of the creature. Looking down he grabs a rock and throws it in a random direction.

Infrared POV

Seeing the rock fall the triangle appears and locks on to the rock before firing.

Normal POV

Jaune sees where the blast game from and prepares to throw the explosive spear.

Infrared POV

Tracking the rock back to where it was thrown another triangle appears, locks on and fires.

Normal POV

Jaune leaps out of cover just in time as the spot he was standing in explodes and throws the explosive spear hitting the spot next to the creature in the trees rewarding him with a screech. Grabbing his last spear Jaune moves to the area under the tree and sees bright green blood droplets. "Bleed, you bastard." Jaune says with following the blood trail.

"Find him and break his legs, fearless leader!" Nora shouts at the screen hoping that her words of encouragement reach her crush to give him strength.

"Sure makes it easy to track." Velvet says before taking a sip of her carrot juice.

"Kind of wish the Grimm bleed bright glowing green blood." Qrow said in between sips.

"Would make them easier to track." Glynder said.

Jaune follows the trail into a cave where he loses the trail as it stops. Suddenly he heard the sounds of dripping and the camera changes to show Jaune's face and bright green blood dripping behind him. Knowing that the creature is behind him Jaune grabs a makeshift grenade from his hip, the grenade has two matches which act as the fuse for the explosive powder wrapped inside the plant leaves. Lighting the matches Jaune tosses the grenade behind him and runs out of the tunnel leaving his spear behind just as the grenade goes off creating a flash of light that blinds the creature. Jaune jumps and grabs a tree branch but the branch is broken when it is shot and Jaune falls into the river below.

"Oh no…" Pyrrha says realizing that Jaune is in trouble now that he is in the water as does everyone else.

"Please make it out." Ruby says.

"I'm sure he has everything covered, Rubes." Yang tells her sister.

Jaune swims making sure to stay under the water until he reaches land. Exiting the water Jaune rests on a log before moving to get up, but before he can two blades appear on either side of his head preventing him from moving. The camera pans up to show the creature is pinning Jaune to the log, removing the blades allows to Jaune to see the creature just as its hand grabs him by the throat and lifts him off the ground. Jaune is held a tree by the throat as the creature turns his head to the left and then to the right. The creature leans in almost face to face to Jaune before letting him go, Jaune watches the creature as it walks away before turning to face him again and Jaune wonders how tall it is.

"No kidding, that thing is huge." Yang said seeing the height difference the two. The creature is tall, very tall that it towers over Jaune.

"That's what she said." Nora said as everyone groaned except for Qrow and a few of the Arc sisters who chuckled.

"I'd estimate that the creature is roughly 7 to 9 feet tall." Oobleck said while studying the creature making sure to take in everything about it. Everyone is shocked to hear just how tall that thing might be.

"Why did it let me go, instead of killing me?" Jaune asks before taking a sip of his juice.

"I have a theory but I don't want to see until I'm sure." Ghira says.

The creature reaches up to its mask and pulls out a two cables connecting to the weapon on his shoulder, each time a cable is removes a short burst of air hisses out of the cables. Jaune watches the creature wondering what it is doing. Removing another series of cables underneath the pauldron, the creature removes the weapon and drops it into the water.

"I knew it." Ghira says snapping his fingers as everyone looks to him. "That thing wants to fight him without weapons."

"What?" All the Beacon students say at once.

"In some cultures, people engage in hand to hand if a weapon isn't present." Oobleck starts his explanation. "It could be that since Mr. Arc doesn't have a weapon, the creature wants to kill him on equal terms. Which means that the creature shows a level of intelligence." Oobleck says the last part with excitement.

"I've seen the same thing in bandit clans." Raven says. "Usually happens when someone new thinks they lead the clan and challenges the leader in one on one combat."

"Let us continue watching, I'm anxious to see how Mr. Arc fairs." Port says as everyone focuses back on the screen.

The creature then removes two cables from the underside of its mask before placing its hands on the front of the mask and removes it before tossing it aside. The vision also changes from infrared to bright red with elements of infrared since the creature can still see Jaune's body heat. Jaune sees the creatures face for the first time.

"That is disgusting," Weiss says growing pale at the sight of the creatures face for the first time.

"I've seen some shit in my day. But, that takes the cake." Qrow says before taking a big drink from his glass.

"That is unsettling," Ironwood says in shook and Winter agrees although she would've used a different term to describe what she is seeing.

'I think even Salem would be unnerved at this sight.' Ozpin thinks having lost his taste for coffee.

"Now that's a face for radio." Yang says while Ruby covers her face with her hood while Summer comforts her daughter to come out of her hood. Both Sienna and Ilia are shocked beyond words at what they are seeing and for two Faunus to be shocked by what they are seeing is saying something. Turns out all of the Faunus in the room feel the same way.

"Fascinating. It still sees in infrared but on another spectrum." Oobleck says wishing he had his scroll so he can take a picture for study.

"Not the words I'd use, Dr." Glynda says.

The creature has four mandibles with short tusks on the end and flaps of skin connecting them, it has no upper or lower lips only sharp teeth on the upper and lower jaw. The eyes sockets are sunken in giving the creature a more menacing appearance as yellow eyes can be seen against the darkness of the sockets. It has no nose and a large dome like forehead with what appeared to be small spikes sticking out of the side of the head.

Jaune looks at the creature in disbelief before speaking. "You are one ugly motherfucker."

"Took the words right out of my mouth, kid." Tai says as everyone chuckles at what Jaune said.

"A good description." Blake says.

The creature roars opening its mandibles and crouching as it moves toward Jaune who back away. Finding a broken branch Jaune waits for the creature to get closer before swinging the branch at it aiming for the head. The creature blocked the attack and the branch breaks just from impacting with the arm.

"Bad idea." Jaune says looking to the broken branch before the creature backhands Jaune knocking him away a good threw feet and into the water.

"Holy shit!" Yang says after seeing Jaune fly after being it. She can do that but she really put her back into while the creature just looked like it didn't really try.

"I'm starting to see why it was a bad idea." Jaune said feeling the side of his cheek and feels a slight tingling sensation where he got hit by the creature.

"Jaune…" Pyrrha whispered hoping that her crush is going to be ok as did every girl with a crush and the Arc Family.

Jaune rises out of the water and scrambles out of the water with the creature right behind him. Climbing over some rocks just in time as the creature swung his arm, its nails creating sparks showing that its nails are just as deadly as its blades. Turning around Jaune hits the creature in the face stopping it which surprises Jaune. The creature looks at Jaune with one mandible is moving back and forth before it punches Jaune two times and uppercuts him throwing Jaune back. Jaune knows that he is outclassed so he decides to run only for the creature to catch up and elbow him in the ribs and punching him causing Jaune to spit blood from his mouth.

Everyone winces at the sight of Jaune getting beaten by the creature that is way stronger than him.

"Hang in there, Jaune." Nora yells at the screen before holding out a flag that has a picture of chibi Jaune and the words "Go! Jaune!" written in bold next to chibi Jaune. "I know you got a back-plan in the works."

"Where did you get that?" Yang asks after seeing the flag.

"I keep it with me to provide awesome moral support to our fearless leader." Nora explained before everyone focused back on the screen.

The creature roared again as it punched Jaune in the face drawing more blood and knocking him to the ground. Jaune started to crawl away while the creature walked behind him slowly allowing Jaune to get a good distance from the creature. Seeing the crevice Jaune crawled into the crevice and almost set off his own trap as he crawled through the small crevice and leaned against the tree so he is facing the small crevice.

The creature stops just before the crevice and kneels down to look at Jaune. Looking down Jaune sees the stick keeping his trap in place. "Come on. Come on! Do it! Do it!" He yells while gesturing to the creature to come at him.

"He's trying to goad it to falling into his trap." Blake says while her bow twitches slightly in pain as Blake winces. Kali sees this and sighs wondering why her daughter is hiding her Faunus heritage.

"Let's hope it works this time." Port says before drinking his brandy.

The creature moves but stops when is feels something press against its forehead. Looking up it sees the spikes that Jaune placed earlier and grabs one of them. "Come on. Come on! Kill me! I'm here! Kill me!" Jaune continues to shout trying to goad the creature.

"I'm here! Kill me! Come on! Kill me! I'm here!" The creature looks at Jaune. "Come on! Do it now! Kill me!" He shouts but the creature ignores Jaune and goes around the crevice much to Jaune's dismay.

"Looks like it didn't fall for it." Port says disheartened that Mr. Arc's counterpart is going to die.

"At least the kid fought. Rather than run and die." Qrow said.

"Don't say that uncle Qrow!" Ruby yells at her uncle causing her eyes to flare slightly. "Jaune will find a way out of this." She says but Qrow and Tai don't say anything as they both saw her eyes flare and they both know what that means. Tai makes a note to mention it to Summer.

"Yeah! Fearless leader will survive. You'll see." Nora says with convection that warms Emilia's heart knowing that her son has good friends.

"You have to understand. Jaune has nothing left, his trap didn't work and right now he's probably going to die at the hands out that thing." Qrow tells them.

"Let's just see how it ends." Glynda says shooting them her famous glare.

Jaune sighs as the creature jumped down from the top of crevice and lands next to Jaune. Looking to the creature Jaune then sees the counter weight that he set up for his trap right above the creature. Smirking to himself he quickly looks to the stick holding his trap and breaks it setting off the trap and letting the counter weight fall. The creature looks up and is crushed by the log.

"Yeah!" Pyrrha, Ruby, Velvet and Nora all shout at the same time. Jaune is smiling at himself for pulling off a victory.

"Well done, Mr. Arc." Glynda tells Jaune.

"He sure got the drop on him." Yang says with a smile that does get a few chuckles from members in the audience.

Jaune sighs as his posture relaxes and he closes his eyes to rests his nerves when he hears the log moving.

"No way in hell that thing is still alive." Leon says.

"Hush, just watch." Emilia tell her husband.

Jaune grabs a nearby rock and goes over to the log ready to crush the creature's head in. when he sees the creature he stops; the creature is coughing up green blood and it is clear that it's no longer a threat to him. Throwing the rock away Jaune looks at the creature as it does the same. "What the hell are you?" he asks.

"What the hell are you?" The creature responds with a guttural and distorted voice. The creature raises it left arm and presses a button with his right hand, a panel opens up and it presses a few buttons in a pattern before the gauntlet comes to life displaying symbols that Jaune doesn't recognize followed a beeping noise.

"Run, Jaune!" Weiss yells at the screen forgetting that Jaune is sitting behind her as she recognized what the beeping meant. Everyone soon realizing what the beeping and scream at the screen for Jaune to run.

"Run, Vomit boy!"

"Start running!"

"Move your ass, bro!"

"Move!"

Jaune smiles as everyone yells at him to start running forgetting that Jaune is sitting with them.

Jaune looks to the gauntlet as the beeping increases and one of the symbols disappear. Then the creature begins to chuckle as Jaune puts the pieces together and starts to run as the chuckle erupts into flown blown laughter. The laughter turns into Ren's laughter as the creature mimics it perfectly as continues to laugh.

Jaune pushes himself to run faster as the laughter echoes throughout the forest but then stops when explosions can be heard. Lightning sparks arc into the air, a glowing ball floats into the air and expands in size before imploding and unleashing a bright light.

Everyone shields their eyes from the bright light.

The camera changed to show a helicopter pilot who is struggling with the controls, sparks fly as something electronic exploded showing the cabin with sparks. "Did you get it?" The pilot asks a passenger who is shown to be General Ironwood. Ironwood grabs a fire extinguisher and puts out the sparks.

"I got it! I got it!" Ironwood says after getting the situation under control. Blake is covering her cat ears as she sits in the back of the cabin. The camera changes to show the copilot looking to something in the distance.

"What the…" He says and Ironwood looks out and sees a large cloud in the shape of a mushroom towering over the jungle. "My god!"

"Holy…" Tai says seeing the large cloud.

"Shit." Summer finishes her husband sentence shocked at the sight.

"Jaune, please be ok." Pyrrha says getting Jaune to look at her.

The camera changed to show the jungle floor covered in smoke, the trees are stripped of leaves leaving them bare and stripped of life. A large section of the jungle is now devoid of life and looks like something out of nightmare, a crater roughly 80 feet wide and 60 feet deep could be seen from the air. The helicopter starts to descend into the destroyed area of the jungle and clears some of the smoke to show Jaune walking through the destruction and towards the helicopter.

The helicopter hovers a few feet above the ground kicking up dirt and clears some of the smoke to show Jaune waiting for the helicopter. Inside the cabin General Ironwood is shocked to see the state Jaune is in and how he is the only one. Blake sees Jaune and happy that the man who saved her life is alive but she doesn't show it.

The scene changes to show Jaune sitting inside the cabin, he is covered in ash and has various wounds covering his body. The camera zooms in on Jaune's eyes, they look tired and move to see the passing jungle beneath the helicopter. The camera changes to show the helicopter flying over the jungle and going into the distance as the screen turns to black.

"I'm glad that you survived." Ren tells his team leader/mate/ and brother.

"That laugh at the end was creepy." Weiss says recalling the way the creature laughed just like Ren before blowing up.

"I don't get why it allowed Jaune to get away." Neptune says as everyone looks in his direction. "The creature could have killed him by setting the bomb timer sooner, instead it set it and allowed Jaune to see. Giving him time to run and find cover."

"Huh, you're right." Sun said thinking back to the scene.

Jaune is about to say something when the screen came back to life.

The scene showed the creature's mask buried in the mud with the top section sticking out. Suddenly it was lifted into air as it appeared to be floating in midair when a pair of hands appeared from nowhere as they held the mask to reveal another creature. This creature is similar to the one Jaune killed in terms of height and that is where the similarities end, the creature is wearing more armor and has two shoulder mounted weapons, one on each shoulder. A black cape with a deep rich red color on the inside hangs off the pauldron on the left shoulder.

The creature isn't wearing a mask showing its face, the face appears to be older based on the wrinkles on the face. Four more creatures appear as they drop their cloaking field behind the one holding the mask, one of them is holding a broken shoulder weapon. Making a guttural clicking sound the older creature turns around, his cloak and dreadlocks flaring out as it turned around. The creature passed by the four older ones who made room for it and walked forward with the others trailing behind.

Blue sparks appeared in the air and soon a large ship of unknown design appeared and a set of doors opened. The creatures entered the ship, once inside the doors closed and the ship lifted off the ground and flew into the air. The ship disappeared as it flew into the air. The scene changed to show Earth from space, the landmass of Remnant could be seen from space and soon the ship appeared flying away from the planet and fired something in front of the ship. A tear in space showed a different section of the galaxy and the ship passed through the tear, as soon as the ship passed the tear closed behind it.

The screen faded to black once again as guttural clicking could be heard followed by a roar.

Spart flew to the front of the screen as the room lights appeared brightening the room. "That was our first showing of the multiverse." Spart told them. "What did you think?"

"It was dark as you said." Weiss said crossing her legs. "I still find it hard to believe that such a monster could exist."

"Actually, the Yautja or Predators exist in many universes." Spart told them getting them to pale at the news. "They even exist in your world."

"What!" Ozpin shouted at the news.

"Is that there called?" Oobleck asks. "The Yautja?"

"Yes, but everyone calls them Predators for short." Spart tells the Dr. before facing Ozpin. "They exist in a different world line." Everyone relaxes at the knowledge that they won't be facing a Predator the next time they go out on a mission.

"As for why the Predator letting Jaune go. It did so because Jaune earned the right to live." Spart tells Nepune as everyone listens especially Oobleck. "The Yautja hunt the most deadliest of species the galaxy has to offer and humans are at the top of that list. When they encounter a prey they deem worthy, they disarm their opponents and strip themselves of weapons save for their wrist blade. They fight in one on one combat and should they win, they take the skull of their prey but if they lose and die. Then that is considered the highest honor the Yautja can attain."

"So, to a Yautja. Dying during the hunt is considered a great honor." Ghira said.

"Correct, as for the taking of skulls. They don't take the skulls of every person they kill. They take the skulls of those they consider to be worthy." Spart said summoning a glass of water with a straw next to him.

"I see, so when Mr. Arc didn't kill the Yautja. He denied it the honor of dying." Oobleck said.

"Again correct. The only to retain his honor was to commit suicide." Spart said taking a sip of water.

"Interesting, and since Mr. Arc defeated the Yautja. He earned the right to live."

"Yes, everything else will be explained in this." Spart said before a thick book appeared on Oobleck's lap. Examining the book cover showed it to have the Predator mask above the title. 'A Guide to the history and culture of the Yautja. From clan wars to the hunting of xenomorphs.'

"That is yours to keep, Dr. Oobleck."

"Thank you, for this gift." Oobleck says setting aside the book for later.

"The next showing will be lighter. Feel free to stretch your legs and converse with each other while I set up the next show." Spart told them as they rose. "After the next two showings, we'll take a break for dinner." Spart informed them before flying off while the others went into the lobby.

A/N: Holy moly! This is by far the longest chapter that I've written. So as I stated at the start the updates will be slow as I want to focus on my other story. This is a bookmark that I will come back too also the chapters won't be as long as this, some might in the future but it won't be always.

The idea for the world lines came from Steins;Gate. A pretty good show (in my opinion). It deals with time travel and all that jazz.

With that out of the way. Thank you to all that took the time to read this fic. I ask for your patience in waiting for the story to update.

Thank you.

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