AN: OK! Here it is! The end of the story! The conclusion to the so far most popular fic I have ever done Branwen! We see the end of Jaune's and Qrow's journey a final fight on the tower and the fall out from it...

Penny was making excellent time to her friend!

"The Grimm attack has barley stopped me!" Penny said as she zoomed in on Jaune and Ciel's beacons. Friend Jaune was approaching the Beacon tower and friend Ciel was at the base of the tower. Ciel was sitting or staying at the base of the tower. Penny watcher her small blue dot sitting in one area on her radar.

Friend Ciel must have beaten the enemy that she was facing! Otherwise, there is no reason she would be sitting on the tower. Penny thought as-

"Run heat scan," Penny said as she scanned Ciel's body she let out a small gasp Ciel was not cold, her body was radiating enough heat to prove that she was ok.

"Good. I was worried for a second. She is not answering her calls from me. I wonder if her communications systems are offline?" Penny asked as she ran forward. She ran forward as she saw the smoke of the tower the broken disintegrating bodies of Grimm surrounded her but as she got closer the sounds got quieter and quieter.

As Penny ran she saw that the battle had almost been won. The Grimm was all but eradicated, as she ran-

"Friend Ciel? Why are you not answering your communicator? You have your scroll on you, is there some kind of damage?" Penny asked as her optical sensors finally locked onto as she laid her sights on her friend.

"Ciel!" Penny shouted as she saw her! The new future mother of her best male human friends children was sitting at the base of the Beacon tower. Her body pushed against it in a resting stance. Ciel was cleary relaxing down as-

"Friend Ciel! What happened to you? You fell off the radar!" Penny said as she skipped forward her breath leaving her non-existent lungs, her facial expressions carefully planned and created to perfectly imitate human emotions and-

"Friend Ciel? Why do you not answer me? Are you injured?" Penny asked as she saw it. The first long lines of crimson filled the stone. She blinked twice as she stopped. Penny stopped ten feet before Ciel's resting form as she called out.

"Friend Ciel? Are you ok?" Penny asked as she saw that despite being in a clear resting stance Ciel was still? She did not move and-

"I..." Penny saw it. She saw it the second her optical sensors locked onto it. Ciel had a watermelon-sized hole in her chest. It began at the front of her armor. The special Atlas battle plate that she had deployed capable of resisting almost all calibers of weapons was shattered allowing for a lone massive hole to appear in her center.

Ciel was dead. Penny blinked once, her eyes went wide as a loud pained motor filled the air. Penny looked down at the dead teenager her dark eyes looked up blankly all light had long since fallen from them as for once something deep in Penny just snapped.

"Goddammit!" Jaune said as he put his hands to Qrow's neck. His dad winced as Jaune pressed his hands to his father's side. Jaune pushed his aura into Qrow forcing him to take it as the two stood before the Beacon tower. Jaune had barley spared Qrow's life on the lake. Jaune had intervened at the last second before Cinder had escaped.

"AH! Watch it, kid! What the hell!?" Qrow said as Jaune put his hands on his neck. Qrow winced as more blood leaked out of his spigot like flesh. Cinder had landed a devastating blow on him. And was currently off somewhere doing god knows what, as Jaune barley did his best to keep Qrow alive.

"You watch it! Don't move like that or you are going to die!" Jaune said as he finally! Stopped the bleeding. Jaune had managed to stop the bleeding but Qrow was still in bad shape. With the bare minimal sense of control that Jaune had over his semblance both him and Qrow were forced to half aura each.

Jaune and his dad looked up there was a long way up to get to the top of the tower. There was some kind of orange lighting storm going on as Qrow sighed.

"Look. Kid. I know what you are going to say. You are going to stay that we have a job to do."

"We need to get up there," Jaune said as Qrow facepalmed.

"Why did you have to get that part of the Branwen genes? Why could n't you just get the part that allowed you to run away when things got tough and leave well enough alone?"

"I have been running my entire life dad. I won't run today. Not anymore. I don't really know what's going on but I won't let it happen." Jaune said as Qrow groaned. His blood flow was just recently stopped and there was little to no chance that the blood was going to be staunched if he did anything to agitate it.

And fighting the damn maiden was going to be just the worst thing for his own safety that he could do.

That or I could have tried to hit on that faunus woman in front of Azure. But that would have meant I would be under a half-ton of rock right now. Qrow thought as Jaune gave him the look. The one that said I am going to go up there with or without you.

And I expect you to make the right choice. Qrow knew that he could not say no. Not anymore, he had just met his kid again and it looked like there was not going to be a chance of reconnecting.

"Goddammit. You are just like your mother you know?"

"I'm her son."

"And you are also mine! You are supposed to be selfish and greedy not self-sacrificing!"

"Well, I guess I have some good Arc genes in me right?"

"You got the damn mindset I'll tell you that much..."

"You know kid!? Sometimes I really fucking hate you!" Qrow said as Jaune offered his father an arm.

"Come on! Just take me and get up." Jaune said he pulled Qrow up. Jaune winced as he pulled Qrow up onto the tower. The two of them had to take the hard way up the tower. Neither of them had been able to get up without some issues.

Free climbing the tower of Beacon while it was crumbling had proven tricky. Qrow thought about flying but Jaune would be left behind and he had no idea if he could keep his wound closed during that time.

So after ten or fifteen minutes of terrible climbing, they had reached the top of the tower.

"So! Do you want to die before or after we do this?" Qrow asked as he looked out, he saw Cinder standing down in the center of the tower. She was not moving and did not seem to notice the two men that had just shambled up her to her domain.

"I don't want to die at all. Now let's just get this fight finished. I want to end this." Jaune said as Qrow nodded. The two men approached the woman as both of them smelled the faint smell of ozone in the air.

Cinder had powers and the brief explanation that Qrow had given Jaune meant that this fight was not going to be an easy one.

"I'll take her aura."

"I'll go for the kill."

"Good. Now, let's finish her."

Cinder Fall was enjoying her life. She had just become a full maiden, after defeating that troublesome bronze-skinned girl that had a truly troublesome semblance.

Cinder had killed the woman and now as enjoying the sight of a burning city and waiting to tie up two loose ends.

"If you are going to come out. Now would be the time." Cinder said as she turned, Jaune and Qrow had finally made it to the top of the tower.

She knew they were coming of course. The Grimm reported to her the enemies' progress and while she could have killed them on the climb she held back her wrath.

She had been slighted twice by the Branwen men and that was two times too many. They had both affronted her twice and now she was going to put them down personally. They were little more than twin rabid dogs, biting the hand that once fed them and licking the hands that had forsaken them.

Men. They never learn, do they? Cinder thought as she waved her hand to Jaune and Qrow.

"Hello, gentlemen. Are you enjoying the sights? I think the city is going through a bit of aggressive landscaping do you?" Cinder asked as Jaune glared at her.

"We are here to stop you Cinder."

"Yeah, and I'm still a bit pissed that you took a swipe at me. I can't let you get away with that you know?" Qrow asked as Cinder sighed. She shook her head as she summoned twin obsidian daggers as she pointed them at the men.

"I don't want to be a bit of a downer but I have to ask. Which one of you wants to die first?' CInder asked cocking her head at the men as Jaune and Qrow split up. Both of them picking a side, flanking Cinder on two ends as she let out a deep irritated sigh.

"Very well, if you don't want to give a woman an answer... I will answer." Cinder said as she flicked her hands. At one three more daggers materialized they flew at Jaune so fast he barely had time to block.

There was a clang of metal on metal the daggers impacted his body making him scream!

"AH!" Jaune hissed as his aura took the blow forcing him back as Qrow charged.

"Kid! Keep your aura up dammit!" Qrow said landing a slash on Cinder or attempting to. She blocked it with one hand. She stopped his attack with contemptuous ease.

"What!? How the hell?" Qrow asked as Cinder smirked. She held his attack as she rolled her eyes.

"Don't tell me you though to me as nothing more than a helpless flower Qrow." She said before flicking her hand. Waves of orange lightning shot out of her palm forcing him back and almost making his thing bandage come undone in the process.

"Fuck!"

"Dad?!" Jaune lunged back in going for her ankles. Cinder paused briefly to shake her head.

"Really. Sweeping the feet with a sword is almost never a good idea." She said as she forced her hand down, she met the blade with four of hers causing a wave of sharp yellow sparks to fly out. She blocked Jaune's attack only allowing him the briefest respite to balk before she kicked him in his chin.

Jaune flew back as a crack of flesh on flesh filled the air. Cinder smirked as Jaune let out a scream of pain!
"Oh did that hurt?" Cinder cooed as Jaune whimpered his aura flashing as she grinned.

"Kid?!"

"I'm ok! I'm ok! She's just stronger than she looks!" Jaune said standing back up as Cinder sighed.

"You both do know that I did not just study how to shoot bolts of fire yes? I trained equally in both my maiden abilities and my physical ones."

"Was it too much to ask of you to pick one or the other?" Qrow said as she smirked waving her hand as more orang lighting pulsed through her body. Cackling and cracking like fiendish laughter as she grinned.

"A jack of all trades but master of none will inevitably beat a master of one. But if you master all trades? Then you are truly unstoppable." Cinder said before launching a straight blast of orange death at him.

The man tucked barely avoiding being incinerated before shooting back. Cinder blocked the attack a mixture of her aura and power pushed the enemy back as she sighed.

She knew that she was going to win this fight but she honestly expected a better effort from the two of them.

"I really expected more of you." Cinder said as Jaune dashed back in. He avoided the first daggers to fly at him sliding on the ground. Cinder struck down with a blade materialized out of seemingly nothingness. The blade struck down on the floor. Jaune twisted in a way that should not have been possible. Barley avoiding having his inside skewered by the pole.

Jaune swung up Cinder deflected his blade with one hand before

"AHHH!" Cinder screamed as Jaune threw dirt in her eyes. Cinder shouted falling back her eyes watering as Jaune tossed a handful of dirt dust and rocks right into them!

"Dirt!? Really!? You are reduced to throwing dirt!?" Cinder hissed as Jaune's blade came back. Swinging up and striking her in her chest. Cinder's aura flared as the blow landed. It was softer than Jaune would have liked but it served its purpose.

"Are you a child?!"

"No. But you are dead." Jaune said as a crack filled the air. Qrow landed three shots. His cannon fired hitting her once in the face and twice in her chest. Qrow double tapped her chest sending the woman falling back. Cinder screamed in pain her aura taking the blows her maiden power surging as Jaune lunged.

He corrected his stance using a move his aunt had taught him as the cleave.

"Dad!"

"On it!" Qrow said as he lunged forward Cinder still hissed her palm glowing orange as Jaune's blade connected to her back! Jaune lifted her off the floor his blade pushing her up just in time for Qrow to slam down into her neck! His scythe hit her recently exposed like and executioner's blade attempting to cut her head clean off!

Cinder took the blow and her neck snapped! There was an awful cracking sound before-

"ENOUGH!" Cinder shouted as a pulse of energy burst out from her core! Ciner pushed both men back massive arcs of organ lighting arching wilding and cruelly in the air. Both men screamed as their auras were depleted and driven down to nothing.

"Fuck me"! Jaune hissed as he landed hard bouncing on the tower top like a stone on a lake. Jaune bounced three times hitting his head on something that made it crunch!

Jaune saw white as all the colors of the rainbow flashed before him as he groaned. Jaune stood up quick but-

Fit! Fit!

"AHH!" Jaune screamed as three daggers hit his legs. Cinder launched three daggers at him his briefly aura less body taking the blows allowing them blades to land and sink into him. Jaune screamed as metal cut flesh and bond and rooted him into the ground as Cinder staked him into his place.

"Kid!?" Qrow asked before a similar fate befell him. One dagger landing on his hand placing it down making him unable to move it!

"Fuck off!" Qrow hissed blood falling as his other side took a hit embedding a dagger in his foot. As soon as both where immobilized Cinder backed off.

She sensed Jaune's semblance landing out probing tendrils questions for fresh aura to resupply their own. Cinder stepped back off of his reach not letting him deplete her already trained reserves as she took a deep breath and smoothed out her dress. She cleaned up her face and outfit as-

"Now. That was rude." The true maiden said as she looked at the soon to be immolated men with competent. She conjured up twin balls of fire as she looked down at the men.

"Now that I have your attention! Please do tell me as I ask again!" Cinder hissed as more fire burst from her eyes. Her body taking up a demonic orange glow as she licked her lips.

"Now tell me. Which one of you wants to die first?' She asked as she began to grin at the helpless opponents who dared defy her will.

"So! I just gotta say... for a trainee of Beacon you... you kind of suck." Mercury said as he whipped his hands, his blood-stained boot was going ot need some cleaning and-

"Go! Fuck yourself"! Yang spat as Emerald sighed. Finding the blonde alone was easy enough but finding her so close to the tower? Well you can't say that miracles never happen now can you? Mercury shrugged as the dying bleeding out huntress to be or not to be kicked up a bit before he punched her in the head. Making her scream as even more blood flew from her lips.

"That is some big talk from someone that is about to die you know? I wonder what you would have said if you were going to live to see another day?" Emerald asked as she drew her sickle. The fight with Yang had been about as one-sided as possible.

It was like a raging bull attempting to beat down twin matadors while it was blinded and never pointed in the right direction. Sure Yang could do some damage if she managed to hit either of the two but that was just it. She had to actually hit them first.

And so far? Yang had managed to hit nothing but air. Her hair was no longer the same blonde but cut and frayed burned and with a nice healthy coating of her own blood to cover it. Giving it that nice crimson coloring.

'Fuck you!" Yang said as Emerald sighed.

"You know you really need to work on that temper. I hope that-"

Yang spat on her face. One eye bruised and swollen so bad it simply refused to open. The other eye a dark black color and-

"Ah!? You fucking bitch! That was my hair!" Emerald hissed as a long line of bloody phlegm hit her hair as Mercy chuckled.

"Ouch babe. You got to do better than that, and you? You might have bitten off way more than you can chew." Mercury said as Emerald hissed drawing back her blade and slicing down on Yang's face. There was a scream as fresh blood splattered the woman as Yang fell to the floor.

"AHH! My face?!"

"That is what you get! You are already going to lose the hand of yours, now you get to lose an eye with it." Emerald hissed spitting on the young teen before kicking her in her face. Sending her flying back as Mercury shook his head.

"So you want to kill her or me?" Mercury asked as he kicked out twice readying to end the buxom blonde before soon.

A damn shame too. She is cute. Nice tits, good curved and that face? Not bad, she even has decent legs. Not Emerald good but something. But that ass needs more work. Merc thought as he raised a boot to the downed woman and-

It was only years of training that saved his life. A red portal opened in front of him. Above of Yang as a black figure blurred out.

"Yang?! Get away from her!" Raven shouted as she appeared her blade flashing out as she-

"Mom?" Yang asked as she hacked up blood her body shook and-

"Yang!? Leave! Now! Both of you leave now and I will not pursue!" Raven shouted as her eyes flashed with fire-

"Is that?!"

"Looks like it, fuck me fine! Take your kid and get the hell out." Raven left without a word jumping through the portal without another word as Mercury sighed.

"Finally now lets fucking get out of here and-

"No. I don't think you are going to be leaving this alley in one piece." A voice asked a woman appeared, with silver eyes smiling oddly as she cocked her head.

"Who the fuck are you?" Mercury asked before he paused, a blur of white roses flashed as-

"GAH! What the fuck did you do!?" He hissed his aura flashed his legs blurred and fell cut in two before there was a sound of metal cutting flesh.

Fit! A blade punctured the back of his chest as the woman stabbed him clean through.

"Mercury?! You bitch!"

"Don't worry you will join him soon! And just so you know... what you have done to my daughter is the same as bullying. And I hate bullies."

The woman said as she blinked out of existence before appeared behind Emerald as metal cut flesh.

"Well if you don't want to pick? Then I'll do it. Really now! I thought it was the men that complain that women never know what to pick when going out and here you two are not able to decide who dies first? You two are really terrible with women." Cinder said as she looked down at Qrow.

"I think the father will be first. You are the oldest and age before beauty as they say."

"Fuck off!"

"Get away from my dad!"

"Your turn will come soon enough Jaune. But first? Tell me Qrow do you reject rejecting my offer? If you had just listened to me? And joining me both you and your son could be perfectly fine. But you chose to be stubborn and well? Look at where it has gotten you." Cinder said as Qrow groaned.

'Even if I would have joined you I would have just been a damn pawn to your boss."

"Ah yes, but do tell me what is better? To be a living pawn or?" Cinder asked as she flexed her fingers. Three of the blades in Qrow exploded into fiery chunks.

"Dad?!"

"Fuck!" Qrow hissed one of his legs torn to meaty ribbons above the knee as-

"I'll kill you! I'll fucking kill you, you ass!"

"Ah Jaune that is no way to talk to a lady!" Cinder smirked as QRow screamed in pain as he looked at his bloodied leg.

"You bitch!"

"Qrow! Don't tell me I need to take out that tongue of yours? It was your son's only redeeming feature I wonder if yours is as good?'

'Fuck you-" Qrow never finished that sentence in second flickering flaming scimitar descended nad easily took his head free off of his shoulders.'

"NO!" Jaune screamed as his dad's head was cut clean off his body. Cinder decapitated him as she sighed. There was a massive fountain of blood behind her. The thick red spray fell over Cinder covering her in the lifeblood of Qrow as the body slumped to the floor and his head landed with a hard thud! As it rolled behind her, coming to a stop facing Jaune as Cinder sighed.

"There we go! No more talking! So much better now don't you think?" Cinder asked as Jaune felt the first hot angry tears leave his face.

"Dad!? Dad!? NO!" Jaune shouted as Qrow's head hit the floor it looked up at him almost shocked his eyes still blinking as he began to mouth something. Jaune could not make it out as in that second Cinder chose to make the knives in his leg explode. Effectively shredding Jaune's left leg at the knee level. Turning it into something that looked like red swiss cheese.

"FUCK!" Jaune screamed as fiery agony shot up his body as Cinder smirked. she stalked to be wounded maybe even mortally injured boy. Jaune screamed in pain as she sauntered over to him.

"Fuck you! That was my dad! I'll kill you!"

"You know Jaune, somehow I doubt that very much. You are a failure and a coward. Your father was a failure and a coward the only redeeming features you have is your suicidal need for redemption." Cinder said lifting Jaune up by his head as one palm blazed in heat.

"I am going to burn you into a crisp and scatter your ashes over Vale. No one will ever know what happened to you and-'

There was a flash of green below them. A single lone green laser shot up from the floor as Cinder paused.

"What the hell?" She asked as several more lasers shot up. Six green beams of iridescent energy shot up out of the floor and hit her hard.

Cinder screamed in pain Jaune's semblance activated with a vengeance taking as much of her aura as possible to keep Jaune from bleeding to death, Cinder took six beams to her flesh. Her body burning and smoking as she fell back.

"Who dares!?"

"I do not like you." A calm voice said as Penny appeared below them. Her swords glittering a hard look in her eyes. Jaune had never seen Penny with that look before.

"Penny!?"

"Friend Jaune... I am sorry I am late... I... I had to process something that I did not know how to."

"You will never process anything again! You piece of tin!" Cinder hissed as-

"I do not like you. You are not my friend." Penny said as all her swords burst at once. Cinder screamed as she was struck by six more beams of light. She screamed in pain sending a lancing bolt of energy at Penny.

Penny took the hit her servos shook and bent as she bent her legs. Penny glared at Cinder as-

"Component check. Power level over three hundred percent."

"What? What did you say you piece of scrap?"

"Redirecting power. Please never breathe again." Penny said as several massive beams shot into Cinder. Each one took a melon-sized hole out of the maiden. She gasped in pain her body shaking spasming as it was riddled like a block of cheese, then

"Die." Jaune hissed as he came from behind. One leg torn to shreds the other bleeding as he drove his blade through her heart. Cinder gasped as Jaune sliced deep into her carving her heart from her chest. Cinder screamed in pain as Jaune's blade cut her heart in two!

"Impossible! You... you should not be able to do this..."

"That was for my father." Jaune hissed as Cinder's eyes flashed orange once more bego she took her least.

"You are nothing."

"Tell me Cinder would you rather be a living nothing or dead something?" Jaune asked as she fell-

Fit! Penny shot her in her head as the woman's forehead burst into a small shower of blood flesh and grey matter.

"That was for Ciel.."

It was not a warm day.

"Penny! What are you doing!? What are you doing here!? I told you to not be here!"

"I'm sorry friend Ciel! I forgot I was in your quarters again!"

"You forgot!? What is Jaune going to say when we are late for training again!?"

"Probably that he is apologizing for being late himself and not to tell Winter about it?"

"I! That is not the correct answer Penny! Being late is not allowed so long as I am alive!"

"Penny." Jaune finally said as the android snapped back to face him.

"Friend Jaune? You are here early." Penny said as she kneeled down at a small tombstone.

The small well-kept tombstone had the words Soleil in it written in bright emboldened lettering as she kneeled over.

Ciel's grave was in immaculate condition, the results of having a twenty-four-seven caretaker that refused to let it fall to misuse.

Ciel's' death had affected the android and ever since the successful defense on Beacon Penny had been reassigned and put on permanent leave to watch over the grave of her best friend.

"Yeah... I got out of class early and I just wanted to come and say hi." Jaune said weakly. Jaune had just left his father's grave, he had never expected the Arc's of all people to afford the funeral cost. But apparently Qrow was family and he had allowed a new generation of Arc's to be born even if Jaune would stubbornly keep the Branwen last name he had at least found a new family.

"She did not have a family. Not really, she might as well have been an orphan for all the good they did for her." Penny said her recording paused there was a low boom of thunder in the back as the dreary grey sky threatened to rain. The heavens threatened to let loose on the ground as Jaune sighed.

'I thought she would like these, she never liked the soft things she said they made her look too girly or something.' Jaune said putting down a small bouquet of blue flowers as penny nodded.

'I think she would have accepted them coming from you. She would have accepted anything had it come from you. She loved you with all her heart. Even if she would not show it. She truly did love you." Penny said as Jaune knelt down, his red eyes glowed a bit less.

After the battle, Jaune had to have most of his right let replaced. He lost his leg from the kneecap up. And he had to get a large about of cybernetic implants into his leg to make sure that he could walk let alone continue to hunt.

He was lucky. Yang lost an eye and an arm. She was almost let go from sheer injuries only her desire to hunt and Summer's testimony allowed her to stay.

"Penny... why are you still here?" Jaune said his Beacon uniform dripping as the first bit of raindrops falling on his shirt.

"What do you mean? I am needed here." Penny said as-

"Penny... Ciel would not want you to be here. She would want you to be out there and helping people. Saving the world."

"I do not want to do that. I want to sit by friend Ciel until she tells me to leave."

"Penny she is not-"

"She is not going to tell me to leave... I know that friend Jaune. I know she is dead and will never come back. My time with her is at an end and I..." That sound came back to the sound of a machine's motor whirring filled the air. Penny clenched her fingers as she hiccuped.

I thought she would get that fixed? Jaune thought as the loy pit, pat of rain began to fall. Covering the terrain in a small drizzle as Penny hiccuped roughly. Her body shaking as she clenched and unclenched her fists.

"I... friend Jaune may I ask you something?"

"Anything. Just ask."

"I killed Cinder... I helped her death, I avenged Ciel but... but it does not feel good... I have been doing the simulations and after several hundred thousand I have come to the decisive conclusion I would have spared Cinder's life and even given my own along with others in one hundred percent of scenarios if it would just mean that friend Ciel would be alive today."

Penny said the whirring sound coming from her dead doubled in power as Jaune heard her sniffle.

"Penny-"

"It hurts Jaune... I know I can not feel pain but it hurts here... in my central reactor, it hurts when I think that she can not be here with me today. That she can not be with you the person she would want to be with more than anyone else even me!"

The person allowed her to carry a child. I... I have still chosen not to tell you that she was pregnant. In all my scenarios that has just lead to more grief on your end. As such I will keep that till your death. I wonder what your kids would be called... Penny thought ideally as she paused. She had not thought of the never born for some time she did not like to waste computation power on it.

Too many scenarios that did not make sense and many more that did and would never come true. Not now as Ciel lay decomposing in the earth. Or well she was not decomposing naturally. Penny would be damned if her best friend was reduced to something as basic as worm food. She had sterilized her body making it unappealing to all but the most basic microorganisms and even now Ciel would look as beautiful as the day she was buried.

Almost like she is sleeping… I hope this may prove to be the case and she just needs to wake up.

Pit, pat. The rain intensified as more thunder boomed as Jaune put an arm around her shoulders.

"Penny it's going to be ok."

"When!? When is it going to be ok!? When is it going to stop hurting!?"

"It's not... it hurts to lose someone you love and that's just part of being a human. You have to hurt."

"If this is being human then I would rather not be one." Penny hissed as she sighed.

"So have you decided? Ruby or Blake? Who are you going to take on a date?" Jaune blushed as he coughed once.

"I... I don't know I'll decide tomorrow." Jaune said as despite herself Penny forced a smile on her lips as more water fell from the sky.

"You should know to not keep a girl waiting Jaune... Ciel would have chewed you out for that."

"Yeah, she would have. She would have let me have it... Penny take care of yourself. For me. Ok?" Jaune asked as she nodded as he left. Jaune left Penny alone as she cuddled up bringing her knees to her chest as she felt the familiar pain in her reactor start up again this time worse droning thudding as she gulped.

"I will friend Jaune I will."

"Penny! What did I say about touching my stuff!?"

AN: And there it is! The finale to Branwen! I know that it is a bit dark and moody but that was the end that I had all the way since the fourth chapter! I had this end going for a while and yeah! Jaune is left to pick between Blake and Ruby as a romance option Ciel is dead in the ground along with Qrow and Cinder. Both adults with issues are gone Qrow did come back for Jaune and Cinder did become a maiden so in the end, I guess everyone wins? Well except for Penny and I know! This can be a lot of a downer but don't you worry! For in a few hours there will be a much lighter fic coming out as Dead like Roses makes its appearance! And a new dark harem comedy for Jaune starts! Not untill then? The finale for R poll... Enjoy...

R pool finale. A new start.

"So I just have to say I never thought I was going to die today!" Roman said as he popped outputting some fire down a hallway. An explosion rocked the hall as-

Whack!

You are not going to die today you big dummy. You are going to be fine ok? Neo asked as she sat next to him. Her assault rifle loaded as Roman sighed. Next to Neo was their target, Whitley Schnee the one they were being paid more money than god to rescue alive and safe.

Whitley was shaking his body trembled as-

"We are going to die!" He shouted as Roman sighed. They were next to a window that was blown out a long time ago by weapons fire. Fighting out of the abandoned skyscraper was not easy but they had managed to do so. As they looked out the broken window there was a massive boom! From below as the floor began to sink.

"What was that?!"

"That was Jaune," Roman said as he smirked.

"Jaune!? What are you doing!?" Pyrrha asked as Jaune looked back. The bullet hit Blake in her side Ren was hit in his shoulder twin shots both landed as a bullhead dropped behind him. The frigid Atlas wind blew past him as-

"Jaune! We have to go!" Emerald shouted as a rope was tossed down, the bullhead flew down as Jaune jumped on.

"JAUNE! This is not you! You don't want to do this!" Pyrrha shouted her husband stood on the bullhead that vile brown-skinned temptress that had stolen him looked down her eyes red as blood and-

I'll kill you! Jaune is mine! He belongs to me! How dare you touch him!?

"Pyrrha... you don't know the first thing about me... not anymore."

"What!? I am your wife! I love you! Your kids love you I know everything about you! You love me!"

"You are right... I do love you but I love this more." Jaune said as he raised his rifle aiming it right to Pyrrha's head and pulled the trigger...

"Dad! Can I have another juice box?" A small boy with blue eyes almost tan hair and brown skin asked. Jaune looked over to him the sound of smooth ocean waves and a tropical breeze washed over him as Jaune looked down. He lowered his sunglasses that Roman had bought him as a I'm glad your ass did not get me killed now stay the fuck away from me and my island thing as Jaune sighed.

"Sure Peridot. Just make sure to tell your mom I told you that it was ok." Jaune said as his three-year-old son nodded. The oldest of his new children walked off as-

"You know that he gets hyper when you give him more than two right?" Emerald asked leaning over to kiss Jaune on his forehead. She kissed her love on his head making him blush. The damn near supermodel learned over Jaune. Her body filled out her bright crimson bikini well. Jaune smiled as his new wife who knew Roman was a minister? Leaned over him snuggling with him on the chair on the island off the coast of Vacuo. After the raid, some diplomatic red tape all of them had a clean slate a pardon and now? A new tropical life. The two had three children and honestly? Jaune did feel some guilt about leaving his other kids behind but this? A life of freedom of choice where he could be more than just a househusband? That was something that anything was worth paying for.

"So you happy mister daddy of three?" Em asked teasing.

"I have never been happier."