Jaune and Jason, along with team FNKI were finally at the mountain where Both Watts and Tyrian were spotted by Atlas drones.

"So what's the plan?" Jaune asked Flynt

"The plan right now is that my team goes in, Idriess is gonna shut down Watt's system and trapping the two in there, making their only way of escape is the way we go in and right now we're heading to their now, then we'll try and capture them. However, if they escape, I want you to be right their Jaune" Flynt replied

"Got it, and I'll make sure Jason stays a good distance away from those guys," Jaune told him

"Jaune, there's also something I wanna know," Flynt told him

"what is it?" Jaune asked

Flynt looked to him and then looked to Jason, "Jason has his aura unlocked right?" Flynt asked

Jaune nodded. Flynt sighed in relief, he wanted to make sure Jason was safe just in case he gets attacked by Watts, or worse, Tyrian.

"Flynt, another thing we should worry about is Watts bypassing Idriess's programs, Watts was one of the smartest people in Atlas, don't forget what happened back then," Jaune told Flynt

Flynt nodded as he too remembered all the destruction Watts, Tyrian, and Salem did to Atlas. Ever since that day, Atlas had been safely on the ground. but there was still conflict between people there, and people didn't forgive Ironwood completely for how he handled the situation.

"Don't worry, That bastard won't be leaving here alive for what he's done" Flynt replied "He's desperate and the tech he's been using dates all the way back from when we were kids" Flynt replied

Jaune nodded and the group continued venturing up the Mountain and to the base where Watts was located. Jaune was ready, and If he was lucky, Tyrian would be there too. Jaune was close to avenging Cinder. Jaune was going to avenge her no matter what. He looked at Jason and smiled, He also needed to be careful and get his emotions in check because if he messed up, Jason could get hurt or much worse. Jaune wasn't going to let that happen. No one else that he cared for was going to die today. He was going to make sure of that.


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Meanwhile, Team RWBY, Ren, and Emerald arrived at Griffen. Their first stop was a local Inn so they could settle down for the night and rest.

"Think we'll find Jaune here?" Ruby asked

"If not, he'll be ahead of us again, but there's only a couple of place he could've gone to" Weiss stated

"Like where?" Emerald asked

"well if he kept going east, then there's Fort Kaplin an abandoned Atlas Military base in the mountains, and to the south is another town called Freya and to the North is a Mistral Military base" Weiss replied

"I think Fort Kaplin would be our best bet," Blake said "if it's an abandoned Atlas Military Base it might have some tech that Watts could use to his advantage" Blake finished

"Right, if we know him he'll need some sort of tech to fight" Weiss agreed

"But let's search here first, if we find nothing then we'll know where Jaune's next stop is" Ruby said "alright let's split up and look"

"I'll head to the local police station with Ren," Blake said

"I'll help look for Jaune with Blondie" Emerald said

"I and Ruby will check any local bars to see if they've seen Jaune as well," Weiss said

they split up and Emerald walked with Yang. As soon as they left and began heading to the first local bar, Yang glanced at Emerald, and Emerald glanced back at her. Emerald knew what the girl was thinking,

"what is it, Yang?" Emerald asked

"I just wanted to ask you how... how are you know handling Cinder's death?" Yang asked

Emerald sighed, "I'm doing fine Yang, I knew that it might happen eventually..." Emerald replied,

"but what about her daughter... how do you feel about Ember?" Yang asked

Emerald didn't answer that, she was thinking about that. It was hard to figure out how she felt about Ember, she was Cinder's kid, yeah, but she remembered how cinder use to be, and wondered if Ember would end up the same.

"Cinder was once obsessed with power... that all that mattered to her, I learned that the hard way when she left me and Merc for dead. I thought she would never change... but when I saw Ember I realized that she had changed, for the better" Emerald replied "If she could have a kid with Jaune and Love that child to no end... then I think that she had changed"

Yang nodded at her answer. She too had thought the same thing, but after seeing Ember, Yang had a change of heart, sure she could never forgive cinder for her past, but she managed to change the future in a huge way. She was the Fall Maiden, after all, one of the most powerful Maidens next to Penny and Arslan.

"I hope we find Jaune, Ember needs him" Yang replied

Emerald nodded, "Agreed"

Emerald had remembered how Ember looked so much like Cinder, but she could tell, that on the inside, Ember was gonna be like her father. She just had that gut feeling, and that made Emerald smile. Emerald would make sure to train Ember herself, she wanted Cinder to know that her old "friends" didn't completely hate her.


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Arthur Watts was one of the smartest men on Remnant, however, he never expected this.

Currently, the self-proclaimed genius was in the lab and was looking at his latest device that he had created, one that both bring back Salem and create a new Salem from nothing. This was gonna be the greatest creation in all of human history on the planet. It was round and had was a half circle built into the ground with four triangles going around it. it was close to Watts monitor

"Are you sure this is gonna work?" Tyrian asked, "will this bring my goddess back?"

"Yes, Tyrian, I'm sure of it," Watts said with a smile

"But how?" Tyrian asked

"This device will bring forth energy from a different Universe that is similar to Salem's and once we have the energy we will need a host" Watts replied "And I have one just in mind" Watts laughed evilly

Watts went back to the monitor and typed out a sequence and then pressed the button, he looked to the screen which read: UNI Converter at 10%

"yes! it's working!" Watts cried with joy

However, his joy was replaced by sudden fear as he heard a small beeping come from his monitor. he looked at the other screen which read what he had feared.

Intruder alert!

"NO!" Watts cried

"what is it!?" Tyrian asked

"We have some unexpected guests" Watts grumbled "Tyrian hold them off! It needs more time to boot up!" Watts exclaimed

Tyrian nodded and ran away from the lab and outside the base as he smiled his crazy smile, "More Lambs for the slaughter! hehehe!" Tyrian laughed

meanwhile, Jaune, Jason, and Team FNKI were running through the halls of the base and were making sure that all of Watt's traps weren't going to work.

"How far along are we?" Flynt asked Idriess

"Were close!" Idriess

as they were running down, a sudden hail of bullets were fired at them,

"Get back!" Jaune cried

He shielded himself and Jason with his shield and then took cover behind a wall while Team FNKI did as well

"Come out little lambs! Come out!" Chuckled a voice

Jaune recognized that voice all too well, he gritted his teeth as his anger rose. "Tyrian" Jaune grunted.

Tyrian stopped firing as he smelled the air, he smiled as he smelled a very familiar smell, one that had been in his head since he first meat the young man.

"Jaune Arc!" Tyrian cried "You're here! what a pleasant surprise!" Tyrian chuckled

Jaune looked to Jason, "stay here" Jaune told his son as he stepped out into the hallway

"Wait! Dad!" Jason cried

Jaune looked down the hallway and saw Tyrian staring back at him.

"Tyrian" Jaune said

"Jaune" Tyrian said with a smile, "must we always meet as this" Tyrian chuckled

"You're gonna pay," Jaune said with fury in his eyes

"Very well then," Tyrian said "no guns, just a good old fashioned sword to wrist blade fight"

Jaune unsheathed Croceas Mors and Tyrian rechecked the straps on his blades. The two stared at each other for a moment, neither raising their weapons nor even getting ready to attack.

They just stood there. no more words were spoken.

Until finally, Tyrian rushed at Jaune at a speed that almost made him look like he had a semblance related to Ruby. Jaune, however, didn't raise his sword as Tyrian got in closer and then as soon as Tyrian was in range, Jaune slashed upwards and Tyrian didn't have tome to jump away or dodge as Jaune cut his chest, as blood seeped out, however, Tyrian also took his closeness to his advantage and he infused his Aura into his foot as he kicked Jaune backward, sending Jaune flying back down the hall a couple of feet and Tyrian chased after him

"DAD!" Jason cried

"Shit! Neon! take the kid and go help Jaune! Me, Idriess, and Kate will go ahead and stop Watts" Flynt told her

"You got it, boss!" Neon said

She activated her rollerblades and grabbed Jason by his hands and then threw him up and caught him in her arms

"hey there sweetheart" Neon giggle

"L-lets just hurry!" Jason cried as he blushed


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Watt's looked at the screen as he now saw how close the new device was. The screen read: UNI Converter at 45%

"Come on! Hurry!" Watts cried

before he could do anything or say anything else, an explosion blasted his door open and he looked back to see Flynt, Idriess, and Kate standing there with their weapons drawn. Watts was never a fighter, sure he could take on one person, but three, he was brains, not brawn.

"Arthur Watts, by Order of the Kingdom of Atlas, you are under arrest," Flynt told Watts

Watts looked at them with anger, "You're going to have to bring me in dead then! cause I will not go back to the hell of a city" Watts told them

"They never can take the easy way" Kate mumbled

The three charged at Watts and Watts decided to fight back as best as he could, while also activating some old Atlas paladins.


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Jaune was currently outside of the lab with Tyrian fighting him and Neon, while Jason stayed far away from the fight.

Jaune rushed at Tyrian and slashed with such speed that all you could see was the faint outline of his blade. Tyrian dodged the strikes, but he backed up as Neon came from behind and kicked him in the back, sending him flying back at Jaune, Jaune was going in for a stab but Tyrian used his mech-tail and tried to stab Jaune from above, thus Jaune reacted and moved backward, allowing Tyrian to strike Jaune's aura and push him back as well. Neon quickly rode around Tyrian before she used her numb chucks and hit Tyrian, however, as soon as the numb chucks landed a hit, they glowed purple and caused the Scorpion Faunas to fly away and hit hard into a couple of trees and even breaking through some.

"Gravity sure does wonders!" She smiled as she quickly helped Jaune back up

"Thanks, but I'm sure he's not done yet," Jaune told her

Neon nodded and both waited until the heard laughter coming from above them, Tyrian landed in front of them as he wiped the blood from his mouth. without a second of hesitation, Jaune rushed at Tyrian and slashed at him, Tyrian dodged again, but Jaune then went for a kick and managed to hit his knee, causing the assassin to wince in slight pain, Jaune took this opportunity and slashed downwards, Tyrian quickly raised his hand to block it, but at the last Second, Jaune infused both his hand and sword with Aura, causing Jaune to cut through his blades and completely cut off both of Tyrian's hands

"AHHH!" Tyrian cried in pain

Jaune then took no time to finish off the scorpion faunas as he stabbed Tyrian in the chest. Tyrian looked at his chest and then to Jaune's eyes

"For Cinder you son of a bitch" Jaune told him with anger

Tyrian smiled and chuckled as blood also left his mouth, "I knew something interested me about you... Jaune Arc"

Jaune pulled his blade back and Tyrian fell dead to the ground. Jaune huffed and fell to his knees. He looked to Neon and Jason. Jaune saw the look on Jason's face and knew that Jason was still coming to terms with what he had just seen. Jaune got back on his feet and walked to his son and hugged him

"I-I'm sorry you had to see that Jason" Jaune told his son "I-I'm sorry, I should've-"

"Dad" Jason cut in "it's ok, I prepared myself for the worse when I came here," Jason said taking in deep breaths trying to calm himself

Jaune hugged his son tighter, "still, no kid your age should ever see that" Jaune told him

They broke the hug and Jaune looked back to Neon, "we'd better go see if the others need some help" Jaune told her

She nodded and the three went back into the base.

Back inside the base, and specifically, the room where Watts was using the universe converter, Flynt quickly dispatched two paladins as Kate and Idriess were holding back more that were coming from other rooms. Flynt looked to see Watts still by his monitor and he was typing in something, Flynt quickly raced toward the evil genius.

Watts looked at the statistics and saw that something was wrong, he was now, not as worried with the hunters that were here but with what he had now discovered. He looked and noticed that instead of the energy being contained it was slowly beginning to form inside the circle. he also noticed that the device itself was slwyly bendinging and creaking.

"the machine's not going to convert other Universes into energy... no, it's using said energy to create... by the brothers... the energy's creating a portal!" Watt's cried "This is bad if I don't shut it down and create a new way for the device to be stable once it reaches 100% it could cause huge feedback!"

Flynt was getting closer until he was shot, he fell to the ground and saw that he was bleeding from his shoulder, he looked up to see Watts holding his gun and then aimed it at Flynt.

"I will not let you ruin my greatest achievement!" Watts said as he cocked the Gun "just stay there and let me fix this!"

Flynt was about to activate his aura to shield himself from Watts bullets but before either of the two could take action a cry came from the doorway.

"WATTS!" Jaune Arcs voice came

"Danm it!" Watts said

Jaune ran to the scientist as he cut through the paladins like a hot knife through butter. Meanwhile, Watts was looking at the monitor as he saw what it read: UNI Converter at 95%.

Watts smiled as he turned back to see the blond knight running at him

UNI Converter at 96%

Jaune finally arrived at the spot of Watts and was about to strike at him until he felt a sudden hit to the face, Jaune stumbled to his side as Watt's pointed his gun against Jaune's head.

"Foolish boy! you came all the way here to seek revenge didn't you?" Watts asked

UNI Converter at 97%

"I swore I was gonna kill you from what you took from me!" Jaune said

Jaune then quickly knocked the gun from Watts's hands and then kneed Watts in his stomach. before kicking him to the ground.

UNI Converter at 98%

Jaune the pointed the Gun at Watts's head as the man was kneeling, slowly regaining his breath

"Any last word?" Jaune asked

"Stop, let me get back to the monitor! quickly! there's no time!"

UNI Converter at 99%

"Fuck you! I'm not falling for your tricks Watts!" Jaune cried

"You damn fool! Listen to me! if the device reaches 100% we're all-"

UNI Converter at 100%

The device activated and a huge light burst from the machine and covered both Jaune and Watts before it was sucked back into the device before the device exploded. Sending everyone back and destroying the room...