A/N: Hello everyone, hope everyone is staying safe during this crazy time. Here is another reaction for the RWBY cast.

Before we begin, I want to address the issue of Jaune's parents. He didn't forgive them for what they did. He's disappointed in them which is a much harsher punishment for them instead of just being yelled at by their son.

I wanted to clear that up since I've gotten some comments about Jaune forgiving them, which he didn't.

Another long chapter ahead. Any mistakes are mine and mine alone.

With that out of the way. It's showtime.

Inspiration: 007

Jaune woke up in an unfamiliar room different than the Beacon dorm rooms, panicking a bit before remembering the previous events of the day before. Calming down Jaune rolled onto his back so he looked at the ceiling, he still found the concept of the multiverse hard to believe let alone a whole section dedicated to him alone. According the Spart, the being who brought them here said that there are sections of the multiverse dedicated to every one of his teammates.

Shaking his head of the thoughts Jaune decided it was time to get up and rolled out of bed, stretching and doing some push-up which wasn't something he always did until Ren suggested it to help him and now, he did it every morning. After that he went to the closet and opening it, he saw clothes in his style and size. From suits to casual clothes, deciding to go with something simple Jaune picked out an olive-green shirt and jeans, after that he got his underwear and socks and went to the bathroom to shower.

Feeling the hot water wash over him Jaune sighed placing his hands on the shower wall and let the water ease his muscles. It wasn't just the multiverse he found hard to believe but also that four girls liked him, Pyrrha, Nora, Velvet and Ruby.

Jaune wasn't sure what to think about that, he knew some guys would be envious of him. After all he got the attention of not one girl but four, and incredibly attractive girls at that. He just didn't know what to think or how to act around them now that he knew about their feelings, maybe he should ask Ren or Sun. They might have advice on how to proceed, if not he'll have to do what he does best, wing it and hope to survive.

After the shower Jaune got dressed and left his room meeting some of his teammates and classmates along with some of the adults, looking around he noticed that some of his classmates are not in the group and figured that they are still sleeping. He also noticed that his parents are in the group, Jaune looked away from his parents remembering the previous night thankfully Spart appeared.

"Follow my helpers to the dining hall for breakfast while I set up the next viewing." Spart told them before disappearing again.

Following the helper droid back to the dining hall Jaune sat next to Ren which didn't go unnoticed by the rest of the Arc family.

Saphron looked between her younger brother and her parents wondering if something happened between them.

Finally, everyone who wasn't the group entered the dining room, Jaune noticed that Yang and Ruby looked shaken while their parents blushed red as they took their seats. Like the dinner all they had to do was think about what they wanted to have for breakfast, and it was brought out to them freshly made.

Everyone ate their breakfast in silence giving Jaune time to take notice that everyone is wearing different outfits except for the teachers who still wore their teaching clothes.

Yang wore a yellow shirt with brown cargo pants, she also had her hair in a high ponytail.

Blake wore a deep purple t shirt with black jeans, she also was not wearing her bow. She had her cat ears on full display for everyone to see. Kali smiled when she saw her daughter showing her true self.

Ruby wore the basics of her combat outfit same with Weiss.

Ren wore a green shirt with black pants and Nora wore a t-shirt with her emblem and a pink skirt.

Pyrrha wore a emerald tank top with blue jeans, she still had on her tiara but other than that she looked different wearing normal clothes. Jaune looked her and smiled at her, the green complimented her red hair making her stand out.

Velvet wore a white button up shirt with black jeans and Coco wore her standard outfit minus the scarf.

Seeing Velvet and the others reminded Jaune of their crush on him and the minefield that it is. I guess it's true what they say, ignorance is bliss. What he didn't know was that Pyrrha met with the others and they all decided to a truce for the time being to better figure out how to navigate their feelings for the blonde knight and to have a meeting after the next viewing.

Sung and Neptune kept their usual clothes on.

"What do you think we're going to see next?" Sun asked in between bites of his breakfast burrito.

"Who knows but I hope it's not the Dark 'Verse." Yang said recalling the Smiling Jaune with a shiver.

"Attention everyone, please proceed to the theater for the next showing." Spart's voice announced and everyone finished eating their breakfasts before heading to the theater.

Arriving at the theater the group entered and took their previous seats and ordered some drinks for the viewing.

"Ok, so like the universes before aura does not exist, as well as Grimm or hunters." Spart told them floating in front of the screen. "In this universe Jaune is a secret agent on behalf of Arcadia."

"Arcadia?" Ren asked never hearing about Arcadia before.

"It's a small kingdom located on an island off the coast of Vale." Oobleck told them of the small kingdom. "The Kingdom is ruled by eight royal families. As I recall the Arcs are one of them."

Everyone who didn't know looked to the Arcs who shrugged at the news. "Your royalty?" Pyrrha asked looking to her partner who nodded.

"The Arcs are small compared to the other royal families." Jaune said remembering some of the other families.

"The smallest, yes, but also the one with the most power." Ozpin said recalling what he knew of the royal families of Arcadia.

"So, you have a castle?" Nora asked excited at the prospect of being in an actual castle.

"No, we have a mansion." Jaune answered making Nora deflate with disappointment before perking up.

"Can we visit?"

"Sure." Jaune said excited about showing his friends his home kingdom.

Yang and the others couldn't believe that Jaune is royalty but doesn't act like it. Weiss on the other hand recalled some business trips her mother took to Arcadia and wondered if she met the Arcs.

"So, Jaune is a secret agent?" Coco asked as a fan of spy thrillers.

"Yup, let's get the show on the road." Spart said as he flew back to usual spot above the audience and the screen came to life as the lights died down. "Also, this is a merger universe. Your universe merged with a another and came out the dominate one. Things are different such as Bullheads are replaced by helicopters just to name a few."

A plane flew over a dam while a person ran along the top of it carrying a bungee rope over his shoulder. The person stopped in the middle of the dam and removed the rope tossing it to the ground before looking over the edge of the dam and grabbing one end of the rope and secured it to a railing via a climbing clasp. Grabbing the other end of the rope the person secured it to a hook on his boot before standing on the edge of the dam.

"Is he going to—" Velvet asked slightly getting vertigo upon seeing the height of the dam.

"It would appear so." James said making sure to pay attention since the armies of Arcadia are known for their strength and tactics. He also recognized the dam from a report that crossed his desk but didn't get the chance to read as a Councilman's aide took the report away.

Coco paid attention to the screen already entranced at what is going to happen.

The person looked down and saw his destination before looking to the scenery and taking a deep breath, his blonde hair slightly blowing in the wind. Taking another deep breath, the person leaped off the dam.

Everyone held their breath as Jaune fell through the air.

Halfway down the bungee rope gained some tension slowing the person down as he reached into his vest pocket and grabbed his gun. When he reached the bottom, the person fired the gun and a grappling hook embedded itself in the concrete, pulling the trigger activated the winch on the back of the grappling gun pulling him down toward the hatch.

Salem Chemical Weapons Facility – Northern Atlas

"James?" Ozpin asked upon seeing what the facility is.

"I have no knowledge of this." James answered honestly having no knowledge of such a facility exiting in Atlas before remembering the report that the aide came for. 'Is that what report was?' James hoped he was wrong.

"So, it could exist." Glynda said terrified of the prospect of chemical weapons which are banned.

Upon reaching the hatch the person unhooked the clasp on his boots letting the bungee rope go. Now free of the rope the person went about cutting a hole on the hatch with the help of a cutting laser built into the grappling gun.

"That is so cool and practical." Coco said removing her sunglasses to better see the screen.

"So many applications." Nora said eyeing the tool with stars in her eyes. Ran and Jaune were happy that she didn't have such a tool at her disposal, or they would be in detention for their entire time at Beacon.

Blake and Ilia remembered some missions on behalf of the White Fang where such a device would have been useful.

James remembered approving something similar for R&D, hopefully something can come out of it.

Inside the facility's bathroom two guards went about their business, one stood in front of a urinal and the other carrying a newspaper went into the stalls. Closing the stall door, the guard didn't notice the ventilation cover above him removed. Taking the newspaper out from under his arm the guard opened it and began reading as he sat on the toilet. Meanwhile the other guard finished washing his hands and left the bathroom.

The guard sitting on the toilet felt something was off and peeked around the newspaper to see someone else in the stall with him hanging upside down. The person smiled at the guard.

"Beg your pardon. Forgot to knock." The person said before knocking the guard out and letting go of the ventilation shaft he was using to hang onto with his legs.

"That's one way to make an entrance." Tai said with a smile while Summer rolled her eyes.

"Who puts a ventilation shaft above a toilet?" Weiss asked confused.

"Have you ever been in a men's bathroom?" Qrow asked knowing that she hasn't. "Let's just say ventilation is a requirement."

Jaune opened the bathroom door slowly and checked to see if anyone is coming, when he didn't see anything, he left the bathroom and the unconscious guard still on the toilet. Jaune is wearing all black and a light vest to not hinder his mobility and his hair is styled back.

All the girls who have a crush on Jaune blushed upon seeing how handsome an older Jaune is. Even Weiss could admit that an older Jaune is attractive, Yang and Blake lightly blushed as well.

Sun considered styling his hair but decided against it, he could never do that to his locks.

Opening a door Jaune quickly entered with his weapon drawn and checked to see if any guards are nearby. Seeing no one Jaune took the stairs down and peeked around the corner to see an Atlas soldier wearing an apron grabbing meat from the freezer and setting it on a cart. Waiting until the solder went back into the freezer before moving, Jaune went into the door further down the hall just in time as the solder came back out.

Jaune appeared to be in a storage area poorly lit, moving through the room he went to the window and peeked. On the other side is the mess hall where Atlas soldiers are enjoying their meal and talking with each other, hearing voice Jaune turned towards the door to see two guards pass through the dirty door window. Making sure they are gone Jaune approached the door and was ambushed when a person jumped out of the shadows holding a gun to his head. Jaune couldn't see the person's face since the shadows obscured it.

"Who are you? How did you get here? Are there any more of you?" The person asked in the Atlas language.

"Is that really the native language of Atlas?" Yang asked having never heard the language.

"It's mostly spoken in the smaller towns, occasionally you hear it in Atlas." James said drinking his coffee.

"Jaune…" Pyrrha said concerned for her friend, she worried that the person in the shadows might pull the trigger.

"I'm alone." Replied Jaune keeping his cool despite having a gun in his face. The person lowered the gun and steeped out of the shadows.

"Dad?" Ruby and Yang said at the same time when they saw their dad step out of the shadows. His normal shaggy hair is tamed and styled back, and he didn't have his stubble instead he is clean shaven. Summer bit her lower lip finding him to be even more attractive.

"Looks like I'm in this universe as well." Tai said surprised to see himself again.

"Aren't we all?" The person said revealing themselves to be a man in their middle ages with slicked back blonde hair and a smirk. "You're late, 007."

"I had to stop in the bathroom." Jaune replied.

"Ready to save the world again?"

"After you, 006." Jaune replied with a smile.

"So, you're a spy as well." Glynda said pushing up her glasses and drinking her tea. "I didn't realize you're an Arcadian, Mr. Xio Long."

"My Parents were. I was born in Vale." Tai said with a shrug of his shoulders.

"007 and 006?" Coco asked curious.

"Codenames given to them." Spart said. "Many before Jaune have held the codename 007, and many more will do so when he's gone."

The scene changed to show 006 opening a ventilation cover and looking to Jaune. "Jaune… for Arcadia."

"For Arcadia, Tai." Jaune said before entering the ventilation shaft and Tai followed behind making sure to close the cover before moving on. After moving through the ventilation shaft Jaune stopped and waited for a guard to pass before opening the cover slowly and stepping out making sure to draw his pistol while Tai got out and moved the cover back in place.

The two agents moved through the hall making sure to check for any guards before moving on. Finally, they made it a room with a large window panel showing only one scientist inside taking notes on the chemicals inside the vials. Tai entered the room with Jaune behind him and shot the man in the head before moving to the back of the room with a keypad.

Ruby and Yang flinched when they saw their dad kill a man, even if the man on screen is different from their father they still have the same face, voice, eye color and posture. It made hard for them to see the man as anything other than their father.

James took note of the lack of guards and wondered why a facility such as the one on screen didn't have more guards or security precautions to prevent anyone from infiltrating the facility. Something felt off and all the adults in the room felt it.

Jaune grabbed a device from one of the pouches on his vest and placed it on the keypad and entered a code while Tai hid the body. The device beeped red before flashing green and the locked door opened, Jaune entered first with Tai following making sure to grab the device before closing the door.

"That would be handy." Ilia said remembering some of her missions when such a device would have been handy. Sienna hummed as she thought having such a device made, the only real problem would be who could make it.

Inside the room is a storage area full of chemical weapons that Atlas manufactured. Jaune took a knee on the catwalk overlooking the area, everything appeared quiet with not a guard in sight.

"It's too easy." Jaune said not liking the situation, there should be guards but there isn't and that unnerved him.

"Half of everything is luck, Jaune." Tai said before placing the device back on the keypad.

"That's true." Leon said adjusting in his chair. "Half is everything is luck. You have 50/50 shot of an assignment going bad or going great. Sometimes bad luck can be just as dangerous as a Grimm."

Tai, Summer and Raven looked to Qrow who sipped his flask. "What?"

"And the other half?" Jaune asked just then the alarms went off.

"Fate." Tai said as both walked down the stairs. "Set timers: six minutes."

"Six minutes, check." Jaune replied when they reached the ground floor. Jaune holstered his weapon and went about setting explosives on the chemical tanks. Tai ran to the other door on the other side of the room just in time to intercept two guards who rushed into the room, firing his weapon Tai killed the guards and grabbed their weapons.

Tai locked the door and damaged the keypad so the guards can only come in through the door they came in, but Tai also locked that door. Jaune finished setting the first half of the explosives and went to set the remaining charges, catching the gun that Tai tossed before moving on.

Tai found a spot to take cover and waited just as the guards tried to open the door but couldn't. switching tactics the guards moved to the window panel overlooking the storage area, an Atlas officer looked through the window before moving back behind his men.

Weiss, Winter and Willow froze when they saw Jacque Schnee wearing an Atlas uniform. Even James was surprised to see the CEO of the SDC wearing an Atlas uniform.

'If Jacque is in the military, then does that mean I'm not married to him.' Willow thought.

Everyone was caught up in the action on screen and wondered how Jaune and Tai are going to escape.

"Fire!" He shouted and the guards fired at the window trying to break the bullet resistant glass.

"Closing time, Jaune." Tai yelled seeing the glass won't hold long. "Last call!"

"Buy me a pint." Jaune said setting the timer for the charges, just then the firing stopped and the guards began bashing the window and breaking the glass. The guards climbed through the window and Tai opened fire on the guards killing some of them. One of the guards made to the ground level and tried to rush Tai only to get shot for his efforts.

Jaune finished setting the explosive and moved onto the next one.

"This is Colonel Schnee. Come out with your hands above your heads!"

"How original." Jaune said to himself as he set the next charge, just then the door exploded drawing his attention as more guards entered the room. "Shut the door, Tai! There's a draft!" He yelled stilling setting the bomb. "Tai?" Jaune called out when he didn't hear anything back. Grabbing the assault rifle stayed behind the chemical canisters and peeked out.

"Oh no." Ruby said worriedly playing with the ends of her hood cape worried about her father and crush.

"Relax, Ruby. Dad and Jaune are secret spies, I'm sure they'll make it." Yang told her younger sister with a smile making her feel better.

Blake didn't want to say anything to upset Ruby but even she could tell that something was wrong when your backup doesn't respond.

Jaune saw Tai on his knees in front of Colonel Schnee and surrounded by guards. Colonel Schnee held a gun to Tai's head. "Move out. Throw down your weapon and walk towards me, slowly."

"Finnish the job, Jaune. Blow them all to hell!" Tai yelled not showing fear.

"Tai…" Summer said worried about her husband even though she is sitting next to him and holding his hand. Yang and Ruby shared their mother's concern.

Qrow clenched his hands at the sight of his friend being held with a gun to his head. He hoped that on screen Jaune would be able to save his friend.

"You have 10 seconds." Colonel Schnee said looking at Jaune hiding behind the chemical canisters.

Jaune went back to the explosives and reset the timer from 6 minutes to 3 minutes just as the Colonel started counting down. Dropping the rifle Jaune stepped out from behind the canisters just as the Colonel reached five.

"Four, three, two-"

"For Arcadia, Jaune!" Tai yelled before the Colonel pulled the trigger killing Tai. Jaune quickly ran back behind the canisters just before the guards opened fire.

"Dad!" Yang and Ruby cried out when they saw their father killed.

Tai closed his eyes at the sight of his friend being killed. 'Just like before. I wasn't there to help.'

"They could set off an explosion." James said watching as the soldiers shot at the tanks that Jaune is hiding behind. Everyone in the room looked at James like he grew a second head, the stared at him for a moment not saying anything before focusing back on the screen.

"Hold your fire!" Colonel Schnee ordered looking to his men. "You'll blow the gas tanks."

Jaune picked up the rifle and is determined to avenge his friend.

"This is your last chance." Colonel Schnee said taking a few steps towards the gas canisters. "Come out with your hands above-"

Jaune moved behind a cart full of gas canisters and pushed it, making sure to stay behind it.

"Smart." Ozpin said impressed at his student.

"They can't risk shooting or else they'll release the chemicals." Winter said also impressed at the thinking.

"That's our fearless leader!" Nora said happily. "Always thinking outside the box."

Jaune simply smiled at the praise wondering if he's really as good as his on screen counterparts are at making plans.

"Wait!" Colonel Schnee told his men when they prepared to fire.

Jaune moved across the room using the cart of gas canisters as cover, peeking around the cart he saw the guards keeping their weapons trained on him. Colonel Schnee smiled at the ingenuity of using the gas canisters as cover to prevent them from shooting them.

Peeking around the cart again Jaune had to retreat behind the cart when one of the guards fired a couple of shots, luckily none of the bullets hit any of the canisters. Colonel Schnee turned around shot the guard that opened fire killing him before focusing back on Jaune who continued moving till he reached the wall which also happened to be where the conveyer belt is located though it was turned off.

"Wow, your dad can be a dick." Yang told Weiss making her nod in agreement.

Weiss never had the best thoughts or feelings toward her father and seeing him kill a soldier reminded of her of her father's teachings. 'Weiss, it's always important to make sure that everyone follows your order. And those that don't must be dealt with.' Shaking her head to chase away the memory Weiss looked at the screen and saw how the two Jacques are similar yet different.

Colonel Schnee smiled when Jaune had nowhere left to go. "You can't win."

Jaune quickly hit the switch for the conveyer belt activating it and jumping on it before shooting the lock for the cage above the guards releasing the empty gas canisters. The empty gas canisters landed on the guards disorganizing them and giving Jaune time to make his escape.

"Ha! That's what you get for underestimating, fearless leader." Nora said proudly at Jaune escaping the clutches of Atlas.

"Mr. Arc has once again proven his ability to think outside the box." Glynda said impressed at the boy's ability to outthink his opponents. Such as his fight with Yang.

"Are you ok?" Pyrrha asked Jaune when she saw him lower his head.

"It's weird that everyone is comparing everything that he does to me." Jaune said shrinking into himself.

"That's because he is you." Spart said floating in front of Jaune having paused the screen. "All the different Jaune's in the multiverse comes from you. Though their actions and personalities differ, they all have the same trait. Bravery, resourcefulness, and the ability to think outside the box when it comes to plans."

"So, all the Jaune's share the same traits as our Jaune?" Ren asked now curious.

"Yes, it is a common trait among all of them." Spart said before focusing on Jaune. "They are you just different in their own ways." Spart said before flying back to his normal spot. Jaune looked at the paused screen and wondered if he really did have a talent for making plans, sure he loved strategy games but that didn't make him good at making plans.

Outside the facility a plane is preparing to leave as it heads towards the runway. Jaune exits the facility via the conveyer and sees the plane leaving. Running towards the plane just as the outer doors of the facility open and guards come running out.

"Get out there! Move it! Move it!" Colonel Schnee orders his men as they start running after Jaune.

Jaune takes cover behind some pipes as the guards start shooting. Leaning out of cover Jaune returns fire and kills some of the guards before getting back into cover. Jaune looks back at the plane and sees that it starting to pick up speed, taking a chance Jaune runs after the plane.

"You can do it." Velvet whispered.

"Worried about your future husband, bun-bun?" Coco whispered making the rabbit faunus blush as she tried to deny it by shaking her hands.

"Hold your fire!" Colonel Schnee orders his men as guards using bikes chase after Jaune.

Jaune runs after the plane and the pilot sees him and draws his pistol just as Jaune enters the plane through the doors. Quickly moving to the cockpit Jaune grabs the back of the pilot's head and slams it into the console trying to knock him and pulling him out of the pilot's chair. Meanwhile outside the plane one of the bikes catches up with the plane and the guard grabs his weapon just when Jaune kicks open the plane side doors and using the pilot's gun shoots the guard.

The pilot leans forward dragging himself and Jaune out of the plane onto the runway. The pilot looks up and sees one of the bikes heading towards him and he screams just as the bike hits him knocking him back and the guard off the bike. Jaune meanwhile runs towards the fallen bike and quickly gets on and starts chasing after the plane.

"Wait!" Colonel Schnee tells his men when he sees what Jaune is doing.

"Is he going to make it?" Blake asks concerned at what he's doing.

"I don't think so." Ghira said drawing the attention of everyone. "Even if he pushes the bike to it's limit, he won't make it in time before it flies off the runway.

Jaune continues to chase the plane even after it flies off the runway. Without a pilot the plane nosedives, Jaune lets go of the bike and chases the plane in the air making sure to keep his arms and legs straight to gain speed. Slowly he approaches the plane as the ground grows closer, finally making it to the side door Jaune pulls himself inside and goes to the pilot's seat and tries to pull back on the stick to get the plane out of the nosedive.

The ground starts to get closer as Jaune continues to pull back on the stick and soon the plane disappears behind hill.

"Jaune!" Ruby, Pyrrha, Velvet and Noa yelled at the same time worried about their crush being dead.

"That was short." Sun said drawing the ire of the girls making him shrink into his seat.

The plane flies a few feet above the mountain floor and over the facility as the bombs explode destroying the chemical weapons facility.

"Yeah! He made it!" Pyrrha said jumping out of her seat before pointing a finger at Sun. "Never underestimate Jaune!" Pyrrha yelled before adopting a look of shock and furiously apologized to Sun who told her that it's ok, taking her seat Pyrrha hid her face behind her hands to try and hide from the embarrassment.

Jaune put and arm around her shoulders bringing her out from behind her hands. "Thanks, Pyrrha." He told her making her blush, all the girls who have a crush on Jaune pouted at the sight and wondered when they are going to be held. Sure, they all made a truce but a girl could only wait so long before drastic action is taken.

Nine years Later

Jaune is driving down a winding mountain road with a woman in the passenger seat of his silver car. The woman looks nervous as Jaune speeds up.

"Jaune, is it really necessary to drive quite so fast?" Penny, the psychiatrist asks and wonders why she agreed to ride along with Jaune instead of just meeting in her office.

Everyone looked at Penny who smiled at them and waved a little before drinking her tea. Penny is interested in seeing how her on screen self is.

"That's a nice car." Tai said impressed at the make and model of the silver car. "Classic too, fully restored."

"More often than you'd think." Jaune replies while expertly navigating the road even while at high speeds. Looking in the rearview mirror he sees a red sports car going just as fast.

Penny looks at Jaune then to the road. "I enjoy a spirited ride as much as the next girl, but-" Looking to Jaune she sees him smile and nod in her direction. Looking out the passenger window Penny sees and attractive woman with black hair wearing sunglasses and a red scarf driving a red sports car who returns the smile before removing the sunglasses. "Who's that?" Penny asks Jaune who smiles before focusing back on the road.

"The next girl." Jaune replies shifting gears as the red car goes in front of them and the two begin a race down the mountain. Penny can't believe that Jaune would do such a thing.

"Isn't that Cinder?" Yang said surprised to see the woman who is responsible for the death of one of her friends and the fall of Beacon.

"Looks like it." Blake said recalling the few times she met the dark-haired woman, just meeting her Blake felt like something was off about her but she couldn't tell what. Now she knew why.

Ozpin still couldn't believe that he let an agent of Salem slip in under his nose, too be fair she never recruited someone so young before. Salem always recruited people with experience who are easily swayed by her honeyed words and the promise of power. He should have seen it coming but didn't until it was too late and that cost him not only his own life but the life of one of his students.

The two trade who is in first until they come to a curve, the red car turns early and onto a dirt section of the road while Jaune sticks to the road and quickly gains the lead. Penny covers her eyes and looks even more nervous while Jaune look at her before focusing back on the road as the two continue their race.

Jaune tries to pass but the red car is blocking him at every turn, smiling as he sees an opening Jaune shifts gears and comes up to the red car until they are side by side. The woman in the red car smiles to which Jaune returns as he takes the lead. Now the roles are reversed in that Jaune is blocking the red car from passing, meanwhile both drivers are unaware of a tractor coming up the road.

"Oh, no." Penny said cheerfully drawing the attention of those near her. It seemed that she had yet to fully know when a situation is bad.

Passing the curve in the road Penny sees the tractor and screams before covering her eyes. The driver of the red car swerves to avoid the tractor and ends up spinning out of control. Frustration is evident on her face as she tries to get the car under control which she does after a few spins and gets back on the road.

"Smooth handling." Tai complimented Cinder's driving.

"Dad, she's evil!" Ruby told her dad.

"Back home yes, but here she could be good." Tai said looking at his daughters. "Remember what Spart said. Every universe is different and here Cinder may be a good person.

"Who enjoys racing on dangerous roads?" Qrow asked looking to Tai who shrugged.

"Let's continue watching. We may find our answer." An said drinking her herbal tea.

"Jaune, stop this. Stop it!" Penny says with a raised voice before looking to Jaune. "I know what you're doing."

"Really? What's that, dear?" Jaune asks while checking the rearview mirror.

"You are just trying to show off the size of your… your…" Penny struggles to find the right words.

"Engine?" Jaune offers.

"Ego."

"What's the difference?" Yang asked leaning back in her seat. "All guys care about is the size of their engine and ego."

"Not all men are like that, Yang." Summer told her daughter.

"No, she's right." Raven said taking a sip of her wine and agreeing with her daughter. "Two things men care about, their engine and ego." All the men in the room decided to remain silent and live another day.

"Some yes and others no." Kali pitched in from her spot next to Ghira holding a bowel of popcorn. "The key is how to tell them apart."

"Moving on." Emilia said pointing to the screen.

The sound of honking gets their attention and they see that the red car is back, and the driver has a smirk. "We're having a pleasant drive and you bring psychology into it." Jaune says focusing on the road.

"Well, I was sent here to evaluate you." Penny says while keeping one hand on the dashboard.

"Let's try and put that behind us. Shall we." Jaune tells Penny as the race continues between the two. Further down the road a group of bikers are biking up the winding road of the mountain. The two cars are side by side as they drive around the curves of the road and fast approaching the bike group.

Jaune once again takes the lead as the driver of the red car shifts gear and gets alongside him. The bikers see the approaching cars and stop as they approach.

"Ladies first." Jaune says and with a gesture of his hand tells the driver of the red car to go ahead and pass which she does with a smile on her face. The red car passes in front of silver one and takes lead, once the cars pass the bike group one of the bikers falls over taking a good portion of the group with him.

"Such reckless behavior." Glynda said with shame in her voice at the sight of Jaune endangering lives for the sake of a race with a woman he barely knows.

"Like you're one to talk." Emilia said to the deputy headmistress drawing her attention. "I seem to recall you being reckless when we first met.

"That was a long time ago." Glynda said with a cough remembering when she first met the Arc matriarch. "I was younger then."

"Not quite as busty too."

"Do tell." Qrow said suddenly interested in the story. It was no secret that Glynda Goodwitch is a desirable woman among the male and female populace, she even found some adult art about her from a student.

"Private, I'm afraid." Emilia told Qrow making him slouch in his seat.

"Jaune, I want you to stop this car!" Penny orders Jaune once they pass the bike group.

"Really?"

"Stop this car at once!" Penny once again orders and Jaune pulls the emergency brake making the car skid to a stop at a resting place for drivers. Jaune unbuckles himself and leans over to Penny, putting his arm on the headrest behind Penny.

"As you can see…" Jaune tells Penny getting her to look at him. "I have no problem with female authority." Penny blushes and notices Jaune's arm move and looks down to see Jaune open the center console to reveal a portable cooler with a bottle of wine and a glass.

"Kid's good." Qrow said putting away his flask.

"Indeed." Ozpin agreed with Qrow. "He's impressed her with his driving skills and no doubt the drive has also helped."

"Is that true, Jaune?" Yang asked turning in her seat to face the blonde behind her. "You have no problem with female authority?"

"No commit." Jaune said with a blush and giving the girls who like him ideas on how to make him theirs. Meanwhile the girls who like Jaune are glaring at Penny on screen who is being charmed by Jaune and they had to admit on screen Jaune knew how to flirt.

Penny takes a breath before looking at Jaune. "Jaune, you're incorrigible." She said before taking another breath and looking at his lips. "What am I going to do with you?" Penny leans forward to kiss him.

"Well, let's toast to your evaluation, shall we?" Jaune says before kissing her, Penny moans and kisses Jaune more passionately. "A very thorough evaluation."

"Think I saw a porno like that once." Sun whispered to his teammate, unfortunately Willow and Winter heard him. Neptune chose to remain silent as he too watched porn occasionally, he is a teenager after all and is surrounded by young attractive women.

Some of the woman in the audience found themselves turned on by the sight of Jaune kissing Penny and they wondered if he really is a good kisser. All the girls who like Jaune imagined themselves in Penny's position and got even more turned on.

Penny's face heated up at the sight of friend Jaune kissing her on screen counterpart and she wondered how a kiss would feel.

"So, they are just going to have sex in a car?" Blake asked turned on by the thought of it.

"Looks that way." Ilia said not turned on in the slightest before her mind supplemented Jaune with Blake and Penny as her.

That evening Jaune drove through the city of Mistral and parked in front of a casino, exiting the car Jaune is met by the valet who asks him how he's doing this in the native language of Mistral. Jaune replies he's well and to take care of his car.

"You clean up well, Vomit Boy." Yang told Jaune even though she knew that their Jaune and the on screen are two different people. It's easy to see how the two are similar, the only real difference between them is age and him being more experienced with women from what she saw with Penny. Still she couldn't help but imagine their Jaune wearing an outfit like what on screen Jaune is wearing and she liked what she imagined.

"I'll say." Coco said appreciatively lowering her glasses. "That's a custom-tailored suit. Costs more than your entire wardrobe and your bike."

Weiss blushed when she saw on screen Jaune wearing a tux with a bowtie, she could appreciate his clean look compared to his usual appearance and wondered if he could pull off a tux as well.

Even Blake could admit that Jaune looked handsome in a suit.

"I hate suits." Sun said slouching in his seat. "They never make them faunus friendly for those that have tails." He said remembering the one time he had to wear a suit for an assignment and had to cut a hole in the pants for his tail to move around freely.

Walking toward the entrance of the casino Jaune spots a familiar red sports car among the others. Entering the casino Jaune blends in the others as he is wearing a tailored suit with a bowtie, walking Jaune looks for the driver of the red sports car and sees her at the card tables wearing a black dress with her hair in a bun.

As he approached the table it appeared the woman won in cards based the glum expression one of the men had when he left the table.

"Bets, ladies and gentlemen?" The dealer asked the audience while the woman lit a cigar. "No players?" The dealer asked.

"Banco." Jaune said taking a seat directly across from the woman who didn't say anything but smoked her cigar as she dealt the cards, handing two to Jaune who looked at them before setting them face down.

"It appears we share the same passions." Jaune said looking at his hand before looking to the woman. "Three, anyway."

"I count two: Motoring and baccarat." The woman replied before looking at her hand and placing the cards face up on the table. Jaune looked at the cards before showing his own.

"Her accent is Atlasian." James noted, though it was faint he could tell. "Probably from Southern Atlas."

"Impressive." Ozpin said to his friend. "You have an ear for dialect?"

"Some, I was a soldier once." James said drinking his coffee. "Spent some years stationed at the bases around Atlas. Heard all the languages spoken around the kingdom.

"She may be an evil bitch, but she can pull off a dress." Qrow said eyeing the figure of Cinder.

"You know she works for Salem, right." Summer asked concerned for her friend.

"Still can appreciate how hot she looks."

"You need a wife."

"Seven. Madam wins." The dealer announced making the woman smile at her victory.

"I hope the third is your real talent lies." The woman said looking at Jaune.

"One rises to meet the challenge." Jaune replied as the dealer gave the woman a fresh deck.

"Again?" She asked.

"Of course." Jaune said looking an older man who gave a nod to the dealer and placed chips in the table. The woman handed Jaune two cards while drawing the same number for herself. Looking at her hand Jaune could tell that it wasn't a good hand. "Card."

The woman set her cards face up and drew another card and slid it across the table before flipping it over. Jaune didn't give anything away but the woman took a puff of her cigar and glanced away for a moment knowing that her hand is bad.

"Madam stands with five." The dealer announced.

Jaune laid his cards down.

"Six, Madame loses." The dealer announced making her hit the table in frustration before swearing.

"Reminds me of Yang as a child when she lost." Tai said reminiscing about the time she challenged Qrow to a fighting game and lost. When he came back home after picking up Ruby from the daycare, he found Yang sitting in the corner and Qrow with an icepack over his right eye in the kitchen. Turns out Yang punched Qrow for quote on quote "cheating".

"You weren't the one that got punched." Qrow mumbled under his breath also remembering the time Yang lost. After that Tai spoke to Yang about controlling her anger before sending her up to her room. Turns out Qrow didn't have his aura up at the time of the punch.

"Did you ever cheat again, uncle Qrow?" Summer asked innocently while trying not to laugh or smile.

"Shut up."

"Something tells me Cinder is like that back in our world." Blake whispered to Yang getting a nod from her.

"Enjoy it while it lasts." She said to Jaune.

"The very words I live by." Jaune replied before the woman left the table. "And what words do you live by?" Jaune asked following the woman making her smirk.

"The trick is to quit while you're still ahead." She replied.

"That's a trick I've never learned." Jaune said waving over the waiter. "Perhaps you'll show me how it's done." The woman smiled slightly at the last part just as the waiter appeared. "Vodka martini. Shaken, not stirred." He told the waiter.

"Are they flirting?" Sun asked confused.

"Looks that way." Neptune said while taking notes.

"Are you taking notes?" Sun whispered seeing his partner writing in a small notebook.

"He's good." Neptune whispered back while writing buy a car in his notebook.

"And for you?" He asked the woman who took another puff of her cigar.

"The same." She said looking at Jaune as she said it.

"How do you take it?" Jaune asked.

"Straight up…" She replied moving her cigar so it stood straight. "With a twist." She said while twisting the cigar slowly. "Thank you, Mr…?"

"The name's Arc. Jaune Arc."

"Cinder Fall Onatopp." Cinder replied.

"Onatopp?" Sun and Neptune asked at the same time, while Yang tried to hold back her laugh.

"She must be Onatopp of things." Yang said laughing at the name as everyone silently groaned at Yang. Glynda wondered who would name their child Onatopp.

Jaune wasn't sure he heard her last name fight. "Onatopp?"

"Onatopp." Cinder confirmed her last name.

"Your accent Southern Atlas?" Jaune asked with a nod of his head.

"Very good, Mr. Arc. You've been to Atlas?" Cinder asked crossing her arms under her chest.

"Not recently. I used to drop in occasionally." Jaune replied. "Shoot in and out."

"It's very different now. A land of opportunity." Cinder said uncrossing her arms.

"With a new Ferrari in every garage?" Jaune asked while waiting for their drinks.

Cinder chuckled and looked away then back at Jaune. "No, not quite. That belongs to a friend."

"A tip for your friend: Mistral registration plates for this year's model start with the letter "L"." Jaune told her while noticing that she is looking at something behind him to his left. "Even the counterfeit ones."

Cinder appeared to be surprised at this information. "Oh? And what rank do you hold with the Motor Vehicles Department… Mr. Arc?"

"Commander." Jaune replied just as an older man wearing a Mistral Officers Uniform.

"Shall we go?" The Officer asked Cinder who smiled before taking a step back towards the Officer.

"This one is an Admiral." Cinder said getting closer to the Admiral.

Jaune sighed. "I like a woman who enjoys pulling rank."

"Good to know." Velvet whispered making a note to try that with Jaune. Coco hid her smirk by drinking tea, she knew Velvet to be shy when it came to social gatherings but in the comforts of her own room, she can be a force of nature with how much she plans and works.

Ghira looked to Kali when Jaune said he loves a woman pulling rank, so does he. Ghira may be the face of Menagerie but in the bedroom Kali is the ruler.

Cinder smiled again. "Nice to meet you, Mr. Arc." She said before leaving with the Admiral.

"The pleasure, I'm sure, was all mine." Jaune said keeping an eye on the retreating couple.

Jaune followed Cinder and Admiral from a distance to the back of the casino where a play is in progress for the guests and tourists. Jaune walked up the stairs of the bleachers until he was at the top, here he had a good view of the marina where he saw the red sports car pass through the gate. He could Cinder and the Admiral exit the car, reaching into his coat pocket Jaune pulled out a monocular and zoomed in until he could see Cinder more clearly.

Pressing a button on the side of the monocular he took her photo before taking a photo of the boat they're getting into. Putting the monocular away Jaune watched the boat drive off to a yacht docked in the marina and took note of the name to check out in the morning.

"Interesting, such a tool would be beneficial." James said taking note of the design. The design would help recon squads in identifying their targets instead of relying on their scrolls.

Sienna also made a note of the design, such a thing would make scouting future SDC bases easier.

Returning to his car Jaune unlocked the door and looked at the nearby Mistral battleship, on the rear deck is a helicopter. Entering his car Jaune pressed a button on the dashboard's CD player and a paper printed out with the photos he took along with some information.

"That car has everything." Yang said. "Portable cooler and now a printer. What else does it have?"

"Maybe it can turn into a boat!" Ruby said already thinking of different possibilities Jaune's car can do.

"Or it can turn invisible!" Nora added.

"Or we can continue watching and see." Coco said looking at the trio with a glare silencing them before focusing back on the screen.

"Transmission begins from Goodwitch." The AI in his car said as he grabbed the paper and began reviewing it as Goodwitch's voice came on.

Everyone looked at the blonde teacher surprised to see and hear that she is in this universe. They wondered what her role is and if she is the same as their teacher.

"Identification conformed. Onatopp, Cinder. EX-Atlas fighter pilot. Current suspected links to the Janus crime syndicate, Atlas."

Jaune set the paper down as he continued to listen.

"Yacht Manticore is leased to a known Janus corporate front. M authorizes you to observe Miss Onatopp but stipulates no… contact without prior approval."

Jaune smiled at the last part as he looked at the marina in the distance.

"End of transmission. Goodwitch. Good night, Jaune. I trust you'll stay "Onatopp" of things."

"Miss G made a pun." Yang said happy that someone else is making puns. First Weiss and Glynda, who's next she wondered.

"I can assure you, Miss Xio Long. That I won't be making puns anytime soon." Glynda told the blonde brawler. Ozpin cleared his throat remembering the blonde teacher in her youth.

On the Manticore Cinder and the Admiral are having what can only be described as passionate animalistic sex. Cinder jumps onto the Admiral wearing a corset and black stockings before kissing him and biting his shoulder, sitting up she drags the Admiral up and licks his nose before shoving him back down and scratching his chest. The Admiral responds by grunting and flips her over so she's on her back and Cinder wraps her legs around his midsection and begins squeezing.

"Animalistic is right." Willow said recalling some memories from her youth making her blush.

Yang once again covered her sister's eyes making her pout and attempted to get free but gave up and crossed her arms in frustration.

"Reminds me of our wedding night." Kali whispered to her husband making him blush a deep shade of red. Ghira still had scars from that night that he told Blake were from a Beowolf that had pounced on him.

Qrow took in the form of Cinder in her lingerie and had to cross his legs to hide his growing erection. Even though she works for Salem, he couldn't deny that Cinder is hot not only in a dress but also in lingerie.

"You have no standards." Summer told her friend with a disapproving frown.

Sun and Neptune also admired Cinder and couldn't help but imagine their selves in place of the Admiral.

The Admiral grunts not in pleasure but pain as Cinder squeezes harder. "Cinder, I can't breathe!"

Cinder isn't listening as she continues to squeeze with her legs slowly killing the Admiral and she gets pleasure out of it based on her squeals of delight and loud moaning. While that is going on a figure is going through the Admiral's jacket and removes his ID.

"Still think she's hot?" Summer asked noticing the way Qrow flinched. Sun and Neptune also flinched when Cinder killed the Admiral using just her thighs.

"I've heard of killer thighs, but I never thought I would get to see it." Tai said with a smirk earning a light punch from his wife easing some of the unease of seeing death on screen.

The next morning Cinder and the fake Admiral leave the Manticore for the docked Mistralian warship giving an opportunity for Jaune to sneak aboard the yacht and investigate Cinder. Jaune enters the cabin and goes to the window where he sees the boat Cinder is on heading for the docked warship.

Glancing down Jaune sees in the reflection of a brass object someone coming behind him. Quickly grabbing a towel from a nearby seat Jaune snaps the towel at the man's face knocking him off balance but the man quickly recovers and swings his makeshift weapon at Jaune who blocks it with the towel. Wrapping the towel around the weapon Jaune hits the man in the face with his own weapon staggering him, Jaune wraps the towel around the man's head and flips him over throwing him down the stairs leading the lower cabins.

Seeing that the man isn't getting back up Jaune wipes the sweat off his face with the towel he used to defend himself before moving to search the rest of the yacht.

"Impressive." Tai said impressed at on screen Jaune's fighting skills and for using a towel as a defensive weapon.

"Never knew a towel could be dangerous." Ren said after watching the fight and wondering if he can use some of the moves, he saw his friend use. Seeing Jaune wipe his face of sweat with the towel he used to defend himself also brought a smile to him.

"Anything can be used as a weapon." Raven said crossing her legs having once used a soda can to kill. "In trained hands, everything becomes a weapon."

Meanwhile at the warship a celebration is happening with Admirals from the different kingdoms appearing. The Admiral's ID was shown, and Cinder and the fake Admiral were allowed in. Making their way to the docked ship they are stopped by an Admiral from Vale who salutes the fake Admiral.

"My respects, Admiral." The Vale Admiral lowers his salute when the fake Admiral returns the salute and looks to Cinder taking one of her hands and placing a kiss on it. "Delighted to have aboard, mademoiselle."

Cinder smiles at the Vale Admiral when a Mistralian officer makes his way through the crowd. "Ladies and gentlemen. Please take your seats on the upper deck for the demonstration of the aircraft."

"What is their objective?" Winter asked pondering what they could be after.

"The helicopter would be my guess." Port said ordering some coffee. "Even Jaune seemed to be interested in it."

"That could also be why they needed the Admiral's ID." James said slowing putting the pieces together. "His ID will grant them access to area's sealed to the public."

Back on the Yacht, Jaune kicks open the bedroom with his weapon drawn and checks the room noticing that everything is clean and tidy. Checking the closet, the body of the Admiral falls out onto the floor, the Admiral appeared to have died with a smile on his face. Putting the pieces together Jaune leaves the yacht and jumps onto the docked speedboat next to the boat, starting the boat Jaune heads for the warship

"I can think of worse ways to go." Sun said getting nods from Neptune and Qrow.

"Of course, you would." Blake whispered before ordering a refill on her tea. Yang was going to make a comment but decided against it feeling it would be in poor taste.

"Let's hope that Mr. Arc can stop them." Glynda said having faith in her student.

"I know he will." Pyrrha said to herself but Jaune heard and smiled at her faith in him. He still needed to talk to the others but not right now.

"What you're about to see in operation is Mistral's answer to the electronic battlefield." A Mistral Admiral addresses the crowd on the upper deck of the warship. "The first working prototype of the "Tiger" helicopter. Uniquely maneuverable, the Tiger not only uses stealth technology. It's the only helicopter hardened against all forms of electronic interference, radio jamming and electromagnetic radiation."

"Such a vehicle could help us." Sienna said thinking of the many operations in the past that would have been a success if they had this Tiger helicopter. It would also help in getting operatives across borders.

Raven would have agreed but stealth was never her strong suit, she preferred the jump into action route, she left the planning to Summer and Tai.

James could see the benefit of having such a vehicle in their possession but at the same time he also saw the flaws. Since their primary enemy is the Grimm, stealth would be useless against them and the Tiger would only be useful against human opponents 'Maybe against the White Fang?'

Ozpin is glad that such a vehicle doesn't exist, or else Salem would have acquired it and used it to smuggle her agents into the kingdoms. As the technology advanced, she had taken to adapting them for her own purposes.

While the Admiral is addressing the crowd the two pilots are heading toward the flight deck to pilot the Tiger when a whistle gets their attention. Turning around they see Cinder wearing a low-cut top.

"Shh, I have a small surprise from your friends back at the barracks." Cinder tells them while her hand goes between her breasts drawing their attention.

One of the pilots looks to his copilot. "I think I've gone to heaven." He says while smiling before looking back at Cinder. Both men are eyeing Cinder who smiles seductively.

"Not yet." She tells them before drawing a silenced pistol and shooting both pilots. Taking their flight uniforms and helmets Cinder and the fake Admiral walk to the flight deck. Cinder puts on the flight helmet while the fake admiral walks by her and pats her shoulder which brings a smile to her face before she lowers the visor obscuring her face.

"Never trust a beautiful woman." Oobleck said remembering how one time when he was younger, he was robbed by a beautiful woman who slipped him a spiked drink. The next morning, he awoke to find his wallet and weapon gone, the only thing left behind was a card with a lipstick kiss on it.

"Amen." Qrow said recalling the times he was also robbed by a beautiful woman.

"Please welcome the pilots." The Admiral tells the crowd as the fake pilot's step onto the flight deck and wave back at the crowd as they approach the Tiger helicopter.

"Lieutenant Commander Bernard Jaubert and Lieutenant Francois Brouse." The Admiral introduces the pilots as the audience claps and the pilots enter the helicopter and begin starting it up. Jaune makes it to the docks and runs towards the warship hoping to stop the high jacking.

"Is he going to make it?" Ruby asked hoping that Jaune would stop them.

"Keep watching." Weiss told her partner.

The helicopter fully powers and lifts off just as Jaune reaches the platform leading to the upper deck of the ship and shoves a guard out of the way to run onto the ship. He makes it onto the deck of the ship only to get grabbed and forced against the hull of the ship by guards, the guard that Jaune shoved aims a pistol at him. Jaune can't do anything but watch as the Tiger helicopter flies away, and the audience continue to clap thinking it's part of the demonstration.

"He was too late." Weiss said ordering some tea. "At least he tried."

"Stupid soldiers stopped him." Ruby pouted and slouched in her seat.

"They're simply doing their job, Miss Rose." James said drinking his coffee. "In fact, I would be worried if the guards simply let him pass." Ruby didn't say anything but grumbled something that no one heard

In the snow fields a man is riding a sled being pulled by snow dogs.

Space Weapons Control Center – Severnaya, Atlas

"I haven't heard of such a place." James said knowing all of the bases in Atlas.

"Spart did say that things are different since it's a merger universe." Winter said interested in seeing what the Space Weapons Center is and what they do. Everyone is also interested since they don't have a space center back in their world.

"Such magnificent creatures." Glynda said eyeing the snow dogs, she has a secret love of dogs and wishes that she had one with her back at Beacon but pets aren't allowed.

Severnaya is an outpost with a large radar dish surround by a few houses, the man riding the sled approaches one of the houses. Underneath the radar dish is a secret facility manned by civilian personal and a few guards. Each of the civilians are working at their stations and facing a large screen on the wall showing a map of Remnant.

"Select Meer. Autoghraphic projection." One of the civilian works is a woman with short red hair wearing a skirt and blouse covered by a grey sweater. "Compute possible intercept with second stage geo-sat two." The woman tells the computer when the screen changes to show her drawn in a cartoon wearing nothing but a leopard print bikini and posing suggestively. Next to the image a screen with the words Enter Password.

"Looks like it's my turn on the big screen." Nora said upon seeing herself wondering what her role is in this 'verse.

"So it seems." Ren said smiling at his friend and adopted sister.

"I've seen similar pieces of art." Glynda said with disdain upon seeing the art of Nora.

The woman sighs and looks to her neighbor who is a guy with short brown hair, wearing round glasses and wearing a leather jacket. He is tapping a pen against his lips and staring at his computer monitor.

"Anna?" The woman leans back in her chair and gets the attention of her other neighbor behind her who looks at the computer screen to show the cartoon woman.

The woman sighs disgusted while looking at the man wearing the leather jacket. "He wouldn't know a woman if one came up and sat on his head."

The woman laughs at the joke. "Boris?" She calls her neighbor who doesn't hear her and types something. "Boris!"

"What?" Boris says looking away from his computer to her, the woman gestures with her head to the screen making the man chuckle. "I thought I'd post in on the net, no?" He says while moving his eyebrows up and down.

"I've met people like him before." Kali said with disdain for the man named Boris. Almost all of the women in the room agreed with her since they all met at least one person like Boris.

"What's the password?" The woman asks knowing that Boris has a thing for word puzzles.

"I made it easy this time. Even you should be able to break it." Boris tells her leaning back in his chair. "Borscht for brains." The woman fixes her sleeves and Boris rolls his chair over to her. "All right, I'll give you a hint." He tells her coming up behind her.

"They are right in front of you and can open very large doors."

The woman takes a second to think before typing "Knockers" in the password screen. "You're such a geek!" She tells Boris who laughs before a beeping from his computer gets his attention.

"Yes! I'm in!" Boris says with excitement and rolls back to his station. The woman removes her headset and goes to see what Boris is up to now.

"You've hacked into Vale's Department of Justice." She says upon seeing the screen. "Do you know what'll happen if they trace it here?" She asks Boris who brushes it off.

"Why is he hacking into the Department of Justice?" Blake asked with a tilt of her head.

"Probably to prove he can." Ilia said knowing some White Fang members who like to do that as well. Not hacking but taking on high risk missions just to prove that they can hang with the best of the White Fang.

"The chief of computers will call me a genius. Move me to Atlas and give me a million lien hard currency. I think not." Boris says shaking his head. "Besides, the Vales are slug-heads. They'll never detect me." The moment he said that the screen changed to show an orange box with the words "Unauthorized Access Detected" on it.

"You were saying, slug-head?" The woman tells Boris who begins typing away furiously.

"Nobody screws with Boris Grishenko." Boris said as he begins typing and brings up a screen with the words "Send Spike". "Spiked them!" he declares proudly as the words "Initiate Search Program" appear.

"Come on, Boris. Just hang up." The woman says still looking over his shoulder.

"No way! I spiked them." He said before a screen asking for the password appears which brings a smile to his face.

"What's spiking?" Velvet asked.

"Never heard the term." Coco said ordering a brownie to nibble on.

"Could be a hacker thing?" Ilia said from her spot next to Sienna.

"All right, what's the password?" The woman asks Boris who continues to smile.

"I'm not going to tell you."

"Let me guess." The woman says looking at the screen then to Boris. "It's not in front of me?"

Boris shakes his head then leans in. "You sit on it, but you can't take it with you." Boris then enters the password and begins the Search Program. "My program seizes the phone line of whoever is tracing me and jams their modem so they can't hang up. Now the hunted becomes the hunter." The search program completes and brings up a screen showing the computer fraud division of the Vale Justice Department.

"Sit on it, but can't take it with you?" Yang said tapping her finger against her lips trying to think of the answer.

"Chair." Ren simply said drinking some of his herbal tea. Everyone looked at Ren surprised.

"Renny also loves word games." Nora told them with a smile.

"Huh, the more you know." Yang said focusing back on the screen.

"Oooh, better luck next time. Slug-heads!" Boris says and types the message out onto the screen so it will appear on the Vale Justice Department before logging out. "Bang! Gone! I am invincible!" He shouts standing up and drawing the attention of everyone in the room for a few seconds before they go back to work. "Was it good for you too?" He asks the woman who sighs at his antics.

"I'm getting some coffee." She said before heading to the break room.

"I'm going for a cigarette." Boris replies before grabbing his thick jacket and heading to the surface. Once outside Boris grabs a cigarette and his lighter and goes to smoke. Before he can though a strong gust of wind blows out the flame, removing the cigarette from his mouth Boris looks up when he hears a sound to see a black helicopter descending.

"That looks like the stolen helicopter." Li said recognizing the design to be similar to the stolen Tiger.

"What are they planning." Ozpin said to himself and asking the question on everyone's mind.

When the helicopter lands Boris sees two people exiting the helicopter, a man and a woman who removes her flight helmet.

Cinder removes the helmet and tosses it onto the pilot's chair of the helicopter and grabs an officer's hat with the Atlas Specialists emblem on it. Putting on the hat to complete the Specialists uniform she is wearing while the man turns around to reveal Colonel Schnee who hands her an automatic rifle before straightening his coat.

"What are they doing?" Winter asked appalled to see a woman like Cinder donning the Specialists uniform.

"Do you think Jacque is with Cinder?" James asked his friend.

"I can't say, she could be using him." Ozpin replied.

"I wouldn't be surprised if he is." Willow said drinking water. "Jacque is always looking out for himself. So, if Cinder offered him something that could benefit him, then he would side with her."

Back in the facility the woman finishes making her coffee while Cinder and Colonel Schnee enter the facility. "General Jacque Schnee. Head of Space Division." He tells the scanner when they approach the locked gate, it takes the scanner a few seconds to authorize General Schnee and when it does the gate opens.

"They made him a General?" James said surprised that he went from a Colonel to a General. He never thought the man had it in him.

"He's also the head of Space Division. Whatever that is." Winter said not all surprised to see that her father had been promoted to General. The man always had eyes for the highest position of power.

Inside the facility an Atlas Officer exits his office with the guards and quickly puts on his hat and goes to greet the General and his escort and salutes the General. "General, if I'd known-"

"You'd have been ready." General Schnee tells the officer while removing his gloves. "This is an unscheduled test of the Servernaya facility, Major. War simulation. We're going to test fire GoldenEye. Report your status."

"Two operational satellites, sir. Winter and Weiss, both in 90-minute Remnant orbit at 100 kilometers." The Major told the General.

"What's GoldenEye?" Pyrrha asked with a tilt of her head.

"Whatever it is. It can't be good." Blake said before looking to her teammate. "It would seem that you don't exist in this universe, save for your name."

"It would appear so." Weiss agreed. 'Since father is in the military, that would mean mother never married him and had us.'

"Atlasians and their names." Qrow said earning him a light punch from Summer and a glare from both Winter and James.

"Good." General Schnee replied reaching into his coat and pulling out card handing it to the Major. "Here is the authorization code. Now the GoldenEye and today's access numbers for the satellite Winter, please." General Schnee pushed back his sleeve to show his watch. "I am timing you."

The Major saluted again and left for the scanner to the safe. Swiping the access card and placing his hand on the scanner which produced another card with codes, swiping the card again opening the safe to revel the access codes stored within a tablet sized device with a gold gem in the center and the two arming keys. Taking the tablet and the arming keys out of the safe which the woman saw from the break room.

Returning to the General with the tablet and keys, the Major handed them over. The General took the items and checked his watch. "Good. Thank you, Major." Just then Cinder took the safety off her weapon and opened fire killing the Major and his guard before quickly turning and killing the guard behind her. Cinder turned her weapon on the civilian workers killing them while growing aroused at the death.

Releasing the trigger Cinder moaned and bit her lower lip as she looked at the dead. General
Schnee looked at Cinder in disbelief that she grew aroused from killing before schooling his features and heading to the command console for the Goldeneye satellites, Cinder holstered the weapon and followed.

Everyone in the audience couldn't believe what they just seen. Cinder had just killed all the people in the room and grew aroused by it.

Ruby hid in her hood scared of the woman and hoped to never met her, at the same time she felt sad for all the people who died on screen.

Yang's eyes shifted red at the sight and swore that if she ever met the Cinder on screen, she would pummel her into the ground. Seeing Ruby shake in her hood, Yang embraced her sister comforting her.

"No one should take joy in death." Ghira said and Ozpin thought of the scorpion faunus known as Tyrian.

Entering the tablet into the command console activated the weapons system, handing one of the arming keys to Cinder. Together they inserted the arming keys on opposite sides of the tablet. "On my count. Three…two…one." Both turned the keys at the same time activating the second stage of the arming process. On the large screen it changed to show a map of Remnant and two curved lined that showed the paths the Goldeneye satellites take.

"Set target. Severnaya." General Schnee tells Cinder handing her the arming codes. Entering the coordinates for the facility, the screen shows the facility and one of the lines moves so it's over it. "Arm the weapon." Cinder enters the firing code and General Schnee unlocks the arming switch for the weapon and arms it.

Above Remnant the Winter satellite activates and solar panels fold out from the sides of the satellite giving it wings as it moves into position.

Back at the facility Cinder enters the final code and a screen appears showing that the weapon is armed, and a blinking dot appears on the screen representing the satellite slowly moves toward the facility. The sound of crunching glass coming from the break room gets their attention.

"I forgot Nora was in the break room." Pyrrha said worried for her friend.

"I did too." Blake said surprising everyone who knows the cat faunus, since she is the most observant one in team RWBY.

"Considering what we just witnessed. It's understandable." An said with a gentle voice easing everyone's nerve after seeing the death of everyone on screen. Li nodded at his wife knowing that she used her semblance.

"Check it." The General tells Cinder who reloads her weapon.

The woman quickly gets away from the window and tries to find a place to hide.

Cinder doesn't see that one of the civilians is still alive and hits the alarm. Hearing the alarm going off Cinder kills the man giving the woman time to grab a chair and try to open the ventilation cover in the break room.

"Their best response time is 19 minutes. They'll be late." General Schnee tells Cinder who goes to the break room.

Meanwhile three pilots at a nearby airbase run to their air crafts as an alarm goes off.

Entering the break room Cinder checks the room and sees a broken coffee cup on the floor along the contents. Kneeling down she touches the liquid and feels it's still warm, looking up she sees the loose ventilation cover and fires at the cover and the ceiling while smiling and panting aroused.

"She's crazy." Qrow said before taking a sip from his flask. Ozpin agreed with the statement as did everyone in the room.

General Schnee places the tablet and the arming keys in a briefcase which he takes as he heads for the exit. Cinder joins him and checks her weapon. "It's clean. I had to ventilate someone."

Above the planet the Winter satellite slowly moves into position.

Outside the facility Cinder and General Schnee leave via the helicopter they arrived in just as the Sparrow aircrafts take off from the base.

MI6 headquarters – Arcadia

"MI6?" Coco asked looking to Spart for information.

"The agency that Jaune works for." Spart told the fashionista before focusing back on the screen.

"Are we going to see your home kingdom?" Pyrrha asked looking to Jaune.

"Maybe…" Jaune said looking to the screen wondering if Arcadia on screen will be different from his.

Jaune enters the office of Goodwitch and sees the blonde woman wearing a black dress grabbing files. "Good evening, Goodwitch."

"Good evening, Jaune." Goodwitch replies stepping out from behind her desk carrying some files. "M will meet you in the situation room. I'll take you straight in."

"I've never seen you after hours, Goodwitch. Lovely." Jaune tells the older blonde woman as she exits her office carrying a stack of papers.

"Thank you, Jaune."

"Out on some kind of professional assignment. Dressing to kill?" Jaune asks as they turn a corner and continue walking.

"If dressing to kill was real. Then Miss Goodwitch would be killing men left and right." Yang said throwing a thumbs up to their teacher who blushed at the sight of her wearing a dress. When was the last time she went wearing a dress, a long time it would seem. She also found it weird to see her student flirting with her, though she could admit that an older Jaune is handsome.

James smiled at the image of Glynda in a dress, remembering when he asked her out to dinner years ago. She wore a black dress that clung to her frame and she even had her hair done making her more beautiful. He missed those times before finding out the truth about the Grimm and Salem, that revelation put a stain on their relationship.

"I know you'll find this crushing, 007. But I don't sit at home every night praying for some international incident. So I can run down here all dressed up to impress Jaune Arc." Goodwitch tells Jaune looking over her shoulder as Jaune walks beside her. "I was on a date with a gentleman. We went to the theatre together." She says when the reach the situation room and enters the code for the door as Jaune leans on the wall next to Goodwitch.

"Goodwitch, I'm devastated. What would I ever do without you?" Jaune asked as the door beeps and opens for the duo.

"As far as I can remember, Jaune… you've never had me." She replies as they enter the situation room and Jaune steps in front of her as they wait for the inner doors to open.

"I like this version of Goodwitch." Peter said drinking his coffee.

"Indeed, she seems more open than ours." Oobleck said agreeing with his fellow teacher. Both were unaware of Glynda behind them until it was too late. Glynda slapped the back of their heads.

"I'm right here!" The blonde teacher said before walking back to her seat.

"I thought there was no fighting in the theater." Peter said rubbing the back of her head.

"I figured Glynda could use a freebie." Spart told them with a humorous tone to his voice.

"Hope springs eternal."

"You know, this sort of behavior could qualify as sexual harassment."

"Really?" Jaune askes. "What's the penalty for that?"

"Someday you have to make good on your innuendos." Goodwitch answers as the inner doors open for them.

"Definitely prefer her over ours." Peter whispered to his friend who nodded in agreement. Suddenly they both felt a chill go up their spines, looking over to Glynda they saw her glaring at them.

"She reminds me of Yang." Weiss said getting nods from her classmates except for her Yang who just shrugged.

"After you, Goodwitch."

"No, I insist… you first." Goodwitch tells Jaune who smiles and goes first into the situation room. Inside the room is a large screen along the wall composed of sixteen screens linked together. Various intelligent analysts work at their stations going over intel and providing back up to agents in the field.

"Good evening, 007." One of the men in the room says.

"Oobleck. What's up?" Jaune asks approaching Oobleck who gestures to a nearby computer.

"I make an appearance as well." Oobleck said taking a sip of his coffee. "Surprising, I wonder what role I play."

"Sixteen minutes ago, we intercepted a distress call from a supposedly abandoned radar station at Severnaya." Oobleck tells Jaune before zooming in on the screen to show the radar station from a satellite. "Looks what the satellite picked up." Zooming in the screen an outline of a helicopter. "We found a match. Your missing Tiger."

"In the middle of Northern Atlas?" Jaune asked looking at the screen more closely.

"Seems your hunch was right, 007. it's too bad the evil queen of numbers won't let you play it." Oobleck says with a smile while Jaune doesn't say anything. Grimacing Oobleck turns around and sees their boss standing behind them.

"I hate when that happens." Tai said remembering when he insulted the headmaster of Signal ad got put in charge of being the mascot during fairs and other events.

"Same." Yang said agreeing with her dad on the matter.

"It's never fun." Qrow said taking another sip from his flask.

"You were saying?" M asks holding her hands together in front of her. M is an older woman with short salt and pepper hair. She is also on the short side but more than makes up for it with an imposing presence.

Oobleck tries to play it cool. "No, no. I was just-"

"Good." M cuts off Oobleck mid sentence. "Because if I want sarcasm, Mr. Oobleck. I'll talk to my children, thank you very much." That shuts up Oobleck as he nods and looks away. "Good evening, 007."

"Good evening, M."

"The Prime Minister's waiting for an update." M informs the two. "Proceed with your briefing, Mr. Oobleck"

"Thank you." Oobleck says stepping around Jaune to put space between him and M. "After the distress signal, your helicopter took off." Oobleck walks over to the screens and touches the screen zooming in. "Then Atlas scrambled these three Sparrows to intercept it." Oobleck points at three triangles approaching the facility.

"What is Atlas using the base for?" Jaune asked looking at the screen showing the region that the base is located.

"Well, at one point, we suspected Severnaya might be the ground station for a secret space based weapons program called GoldenEye. But we-"

"Our analysis is that they had neither the finance nor technology to implement it." M said once again cutting off Oobleck.

"Numbers were never my strong suit." Jaune tells M who tilts her head slightly before turning to the screen. "Are these pictures live?"

Oobleck opened his mouth to talk but once again M cut him off. "Unlike the Vale government, we prefer to not get the bad news from Lisa Lavender."

"That is just unnecessary." Ozpin said defending Vale.

"But you have to admit, whenever something happens Lisa is always on the scene reporting." Leon said looking at the headmaster. "Even our intelligence agents joke about turning on the news and getting all the information from Lisa."

"Is that true?" Glynda asked interested in the conversation.

"The same thing in Atlas." James added.

"And in Mistral." Pyrrha said.

"Vacou too." Sun said in between bites of banana bread.

"Menagerie as well." Ghira said as well.

Ozpin didn't say anything and drank his coffee in silence agitated with everyone.

Fast approaching the facility are the three Sparrows.

Inside the break room the woman climbs out of the cabinet under the sink and quickly looks around making sure she's alone. Outside the facility the three Sparrows fly over the facility.

"Clever girl." Qrow said surprised at the creative hiding place. "By loosening the vent cover, Cinder would have thought she was hiding in the vent."

"When she is actually hiding in the cabinets." Tai finished what Qrow was saying.

"That's the kind of thinking all of our students should demonstrate." Ozpin said to no one in particular while drinking his coffee.

"Negative so far. Everything seems normal." One of the pilot's says over the radio as he flies over the facility.

Back inside the facility the woman stands in the center of the room looking at the bodies of her coworkers unsure of what to do. An alarm goes off getting her attention as she looks at the screen and sees that the Winter satellite is now in position over the facility and preparing to fire. Quickly running to under the concrete stairs just in time as the satellite fires a powerful EMP at the facility.

"What's EMP?" Ruby asked having heard of such a weapon.

"I'm not sure, but we might be seeing the effects soon." James said focusing on the screen to see what can EMP can do.

Outside the facility an invisible shockwave appears and goes outward from the facility. Seconds later the blue sparks appear on the radar dish and explosions start to go off from anything electrical such as computers. Taking cover under the stairs the woman is shielded from the explosions and debris.

Back at MI6 the large screen showing the facility glows bright white before static takes over.

"What the hell was that?" Oobleck asks confused as is everyone in the situation room.

"Interesting." Oobleck said producing a small notebook and writing down what he is seeing. "it would appear that anything electronic is affected by the EMP."

"So, it would seem." James said suddenly interested in the EMP weapon. Sienna is also interested in the weapon, such a weapon in the hands of the White Fang would be beneficial to their cause.

The Sparrows are also affected by the EMP blast, blue sparks appear on the planes and inside the cockpit the controls exploded. The pilots scream in pain as their helmets begin to heat up. One of the Sparrows spin out of the control before exploding and soon the second explodes as well.

Meanwhile Cinder and General Schnee are safe in the Tiger since it's shielded from an EMP attack, the same can't be said for the third Sparrow which is in a nosedive and heading for the radar dish. The pilot screams as he tries to open the cockpit and his helmet growing hotter. The Sparrow crashes into the radar dish causing a large explosion.

"That's why they stole the Tiger." James said finally putting the pieces together. "It's shielded from the EMP allowing them to escape and it also wipes out any traces of their crime."

"What could they want with the other satellite?" Summer wondered.

Inside the facility the woman screams when pipe near hear ruptures and hot steam spews forth. Running out from under the stairs she trips on the leg of one of her coworkers and rolls onto her back to see the hanging monitors on the ceiling come crashing toward her. Screaming she covers her head and prepares to be crushed when the monitors are stopped less than two feet from her by the attached cables. Looking at the monitors she quickly climbs out from under the monitors before they snap.

"That was scary." Ruby said relieved that her friend is safe from harm. She also felt for everyone that died.

"At least Nora made it out alive." Yang said relieved to see her friend make it out alive.

"But she's still trapped inside the facility with no power and limited oxygen." Blake pointed out ordering some tea.

Grabbing a jacket, the woman covers the body of her friend and sniffs trying to hold back her tears before heading for the exit. "Nora Valkyrie." Nora says her name to get the gate to open but it doesn't since it was destroyed by the EMP. Grabbing the bars of the gate she begins shaking them as she repeats her name and stops when a groaning sound can be heard.

Looking to the ceiling she hears the groaning sound again this time part of the ceiling collapses as part of the radar comes crashing through the ceiling. Nora looks at the debris and sees a support column still intact and she finds her way out.

Climbing out of the ruined bunker Nora takes in her surroundings and hugs herself to keep warm as she calls out for Boris who left the facility just before the attack.

"See, she made it out." Pyrrha said to Blake who rolled her eyes and drank her tea.

"How is she going to deal with the cold?" Weiss asked.

Oobleck is on his scroll calling in some favors. "Thanks." Hanging up the scroll Oobleck looks at Jaune and M. "Our satellite is knocked out. So are two of Vale's, we have another coming into range… now." He says just as the large screen flickers back to life showing the aftermath of the EMP blast. "Gods. Two of the Sparrows are down."

"And it looks like the third went into the dish." M says pointing to the destroyed radar dish. "What do you think?" She asks Jaune.

Jaune looks back at the screen and zooms out. "No lights. Not one single electric light on in a 30-mile radius. EMP?" He asks Oobleck.

"It would account for the Sparrows and satellites." Oobleck says.

"And the blackout."

"Electromagnetic Pulse. A first strike satellite weapon developed by—"

"Vale and Atlas during the Faunus Uprising. I've read the brief." M says once again cutting off Oobleck. "Discovered after Menagerie. Set off a nuclear device in the upper atmosphere. Creates a pulse. A radiation surge that destroys everything with an electronic circuit."

"Looks like your hunch was right, Dr. Oobleck." James told the green haired coffee drinker. "What's a nuclear device? I'm not familiar with such a device."

"A weapon of untold destruction." Spart simply said. "Be thankful that such a weapon doesn't exist in your world line." Everyone shivered at his tone and wondered just made a nuclear device so scary that even Spart is wary of them.

Ozpin is glad that the GoldenEye doesn't exist back in their world. He shuddered to think of the destruction Salem could cause if she unleashed an EMP blast on any of the kingdoms. Since everything they need to function operates on an electronic circuit, even huntsmen's weapons operate with a chip in them to switch forms. An EMP blast would render them stuck in one form and their weapons would be disabled allowing the Grimm to overrun them.

"Yes, the idea was to knock out the enemy's communications before he, she or they could retaliate." Oobleck said adding on to what M just said.

"So GoldenEye exists." M said looking at both men.

"Yes." Jaune agreed.

"Could this be an accident?" M asked secretly hoping that it was and not deliberately set off.

"No." Jaune said getting her attention. "The helicopter. If you wanted to steal the GoldenEye, it's the perfect getaway vehicle. Setting off the blast is an ideal way to wipe out any traces of the crime."

"The Janus group?" M asked.

"It may have been involved with the helicopter." Jaune said looking back at the screen. "I know the Atlas fail safe system. You just don't walk in and ask for the keys to the bomb. You need the access codes." Jaune sees something on the screen and zooms in to see a heat signature leaving the burning building. "There had to be an insider. At least one person probably knows who it is."

"Had to be that Boris guy." Ilia said thinking back to when he left the facility just as they arrived. "He left minutes before Cinder and Jacque arrived and now is nowhere to be found."

"They could have killed him when they arrived." Ren said drinking his tea.

"Then the cameras outside the facility would have spotted them doing so, rendering their plan useless as the guards engage the lockdown." Ilia pointed out.

"Boris could have hidden when he spotted them." Ren countered.

"If we continue watching, we'll find out." Li suggested.

Outside the facility Nora trips and falls in the snow, the cold biting and already her hands are going numb which isn't a good sign. Slowly getting back up she hears howling and whining, following the sounds she comes across a dog sled with the owner dead.

Nora approaches the dead body and sees that he did not die from a gunshot but something else. "Sorry." She said before removing his jacket and taking his gloves and putting them on, with the cold situation sorted out Nora took the dog sled and went to the nearest town.

"At least she made it." Jaune said making his teammate smile for his concern.

"That reminds me. Have you two made it official?" Yang asked turning in her seat to face Jaune and Pyrrha. She also wanted to know what the spartan wanted with her sister along with the group of girls when they went into a private room to talk about something.

"We have." Pyrrha answered when Jaune was about too. "We also agreed to speak after this showing." The redhead told Jaune making him confused, didn't they speak last night, unaware that she is referring to the other girls that have crush on him.

"We know." Nora said with a sigh making Jaune even more confused. Everyone took in the news that Jaune and Pyrrha are now a thing. Weiss felt happy that he wouldn't be bothering her again. Yang felt somewhat happy but worried for her sister and planned to go their talk after this viewing.

Ren is happy for his teammate but also worried about Nora, he planned to have a talk with Jaune soon. Blake didn't really care since she didn't really know them all that well. Sun and Neptune wondered how Jaune managed to get with Pyrrha Nikos.

Everyone else smiled at the young couple and wondered what else might happen in the future before focusing back on the screen.

Back at MI6, Jaune is with M in her office and she's on her scroll. "Very well, sir. Thank you. Good night." M hangs up the scroll and looks to Jaune sitting in comfortably in a chair facing her desk. "The Prime Minister's talked to Atlas. They say it was an accident during a routine training exercise."

"The governments change. The lies stay the same." Jaune said crossing his legs and folding his hands in his lap.

"So very true." Ozpin said to himself having told a few of them himself over the course of his many lives.

"Such is the way of politics." Oobleck said, being the history teacher he does know about the changing times and their lies.

"What else do we know about the Janus Syndicate?" M asked while walking to the window overlooking the city of Arcadia.

"Topflight arms dealers headquartered in Atlas. The first outfit to equip the White Fang during the coup of Vacou." Jaune told M what he knew about the organization. "The head man's unreliably described, no photographs. The woman… Onatopp… is our only confirmed contact."

"Would you care for a drink?" M asks stepping away from the window and back to her desk.

"Thank you. Your predecessor kept cognac in the top—"

"I prefer bourbon." M said opening a cabinet and retrieving two glasses and a bottle of bourbon. "Ice?"

"My kind of lady." Qrow said bringing out his flask and toasting the screen before taking a sip. Summer quickly took the flask out of Qrow's hand before he could react.

"No more drinking until after the viewing." Summer told her teammate sternly and when Qrow grumbled something. "What was that?" She asked smiling that promised pain.

"Nothing." Qrow quickly said remembering all the times he was fooled by that damn smile only to get pummeled.

"Yes." Jaune replied and waited for M to finish pouring the drink. After adding ice to the drink she handed Jaune a glass and sat down behind her desk with her own drink. "We've pulled the files on anyone who had access or authority at Severnaya." M took a sip before typing something on the keyboard and a screen appeared behind her. "At the top of the list is an old friend of yours, I understand." The picture of General Jacque Schnee appeared.

"Schnee. They made him a General." Jaune said recalling the last time he saw the man while taking a sip of bourbon.

"He sees himself as the next Iron Man of Atlas." M said looking away from the screen to Jaune. "Which is why our political analysts rule him out. He doesn't fit the profile of a traitor."

"Are these the same analysts who said that GoldenEye couldn't exist?" Jaune shot back while M listened. "Who said the helicopter posed no threat and wasn't worth following?"

"Someone is pissed." Yang said.

"M, strikes me as the type to follow data rather than instincts." James said knowing such people. "It's hard choosing who to side with, data or instincts. Both have their ups and down." Team RWBY looked to Blake who had a habit of using her instincts when it came to fighting and tracking the White Fang.

"What?" Blake asked seeing their looks.

"You don't like me, Arc. You don't like my methods." M stated taking another drink and leaning back in her chair. "You think I'm an accountant. A bean counter, more interested in numbers than your instincts."

"The thought had occurred to me." Jaune answered honestly.

"Good. Because I think you are a sexist, misogynist dinosaur." M replied back. "A relic of the Uprising. Whose boyish charms though wasted on me, appeal to that young woman I sent to evaluate you."

"Point taken." Jaune replies taking another sip of his drink.

"Not quite, 007." M said getting his attention. "If you think I don't have the balls to send a man out to die, your instincts are dead wrong. I have no compunction about sending you to your death. But I won't do it on a whim." She told him honestly taking another sip of her drink. "Even with your cavalier attitude towards life."

"At least she's honest." Willow said respecting M. "She's not afraid to make the hard choice."

"A choice everyone in command has to make." Winter said lowering her head remembering all the hard choices she had to make during her career in the military. Feeling a hand on her shoulder Winter saw James offering her a kind knowing smile.

"I want you to find GoldenEye." M told Jaune leaning forward in her chair. "Find who took it, what they plan to do with it, and stop it." Jaune nodded at his orders and prepared to leave. "And if you come across Schnee, guilty or not. I don't want you running off on some kind of vendetta. Avenging Taiyang Xio Long will not bring him back.

"You didn't get him killed." Jaune replied.

"Neither did you." M told him. "Don't make it personal."

"Never." Jaune said finishing the rest of his drink and setting the glass on the desk before rising out of the chair and leaving.

"Arc?" M said right as Jaune was near the door, turning around Jaune faced M. "Come back alive." Jaune didn't answer as he left the office.

"A rare quality to see a commander care about their troops. Even though they are possibly sending them to their death." James said liking M even more. He wondered if M existed back in their world, if she is half the woman he is seeing then she would do great in the military.

Leon frowned at what James said, thinking back to his own team LION (Leon, Irene, Olivia and Nick). Ironically their name also spelled lion, so their team name became lion. He thought back to when he lost his team, the pain he felt that day stuck with him and he tried to forget by being a father. When some of his girls expressed interest in the path of a hunter he made sure to tell them the truth but then Jaune came.

Leon remembered his father telling him stories of huntsmen and their glory and he told them to his son. Unaware of the path he's opening to his son and now his son is disappointed in him which is worse than being angry at. 'I could use your help, dad.'

Atlas

In the capital city of Atlas a military parade is happening for the citizens and the tourists. In a building overlooking the parade a man is watching from the window before checking his watch and taking his set at the head of table with other people. Taking his seat a knock is heard at the doors and General Schnee enters carrying a leather case.

Removing his hat and tucking it under his arm General Schnee straightens his hair as he approaches the table.

"Good morning, General Schnee." The man at the head of the table greets General Schnee.

"Defense Minister Ironwood. Gentlemen." General Schnee says while placing his hat on the table along with the case.

"Instead of a General, it would appear that you're the Defense Minister, James." Ozpin said to his friend not all surprised to see him in a high position of power.

"Impressive, General." Winter told her superior.

"Please deliver your report."

"As this council is aware, 72 hours ago, a secret weapons system code named GoldenEye, was detonated over Severnaya." General Schnee begins his report. "As head of Space Division, I personally undertook the investigation. I have concluded this crime was committed by Atlas separatists seeking to create political unrest."

Everyone on the council look to each then to Ironwood who doesn't say anything as he listens.

"Regrettably, the peaceful work and much needed hard currency earnings of Severnaya have been set back by several years." General Schnee finished his report and pushed the leather case forward. "Therefore, I tender my resignation."

Everyone on the council shook their heads. "It seems the council does not want your head." Ironwood said placing his hand on the table. "Merely your assurance that there are no other GoldenEye satellites."

"I can give you that assurance, Defense Minister."

"What a load of bullshit." Qrow said slouching in his seat still upset over the loss of his flask.

"Shouldn't James have an overview of the GoldenEye program?" Willow asked finding something odd about the program. "If Atlas approved of the program then there should be a record of the number of satellites made."

"Unless Jacque altered the records before Ironwood got it." Sienna spoke up crossing her arms. "Jacque just said that he's the head of Space Division, giving him access to all their files about the program. It wouldn't be hard to alter the records to make it appear as only one satellite was made."

"Then what of the two missing Severnaya technicians?"

General Schnee took a quick breath in and tried to school his features. "I was aware only of the one: Boris Grishenko."

Ironwood looked at the folder in front of him to read the name of other missing technician. "There was a girl also, whose body was not among the dead. Nora Valkyrie. A level two programmer."

General Schnee recalled what Cinder said about the break room being clear. "I will investigate immediately, Defense Minister."

"It would seem presumptuous General to blame this incident on Atlas separatists… before the whereabouts of your own people are determined." Ironwood told the General not fully believing the report as did the council based on their expressions. "Do you agree?"

"Yes, Defense Minister." Gerneal Schnee answered. "Thank you for bringing it to my attention."

"That will be all." Ironwood said dismissing the General who grabbed his things and left the council room.

"He clearly doesn't buy the excuse from Schnee." Glynda said adjusting her glasses.

"He knows something is up." Willow said getting another refill on her water. "Jacque was never good at schooling his features."

"I hope he gets caught." Ruby said crossing her arms in frustration at the mere notion of someone getting away with a crime.

"Jaune is looking for GoldenEye. So, he's bound to cross paths with him." Emilia said holding her husband's hand.

Jaune entered the R&D division of MI6 where all the gadgets and tools the agents use in their missions are developed and tested. Passing a group of scientists mounting a mini gun to the front of an ATV, Jaune finds the heads researcher in a mechanical wheelchair with his left leg in a cast.

"Morning, Q. Sorry about the leg. Skiing?" Jaune asks curious about the cast when a miniature missile shot of the cast and impacted against a wall further down the room, luckily no one was in the area so the debris didn't hit anyone.

"Hunting." Q says before lifting the top half of the cast off and getting out of the chair. Q is a researcher in his old age and working for MI6 for a long time and has designed most of the gadgets that Jaune has used in his various missions. "Right, now pay attention, 007."

"That is so cool!" Ruby and Coco said at the same time.

"I wish I had that when I broke my leg." Nora said making Ren thankful that she didn't.

"The engineering is impressive." Penny said impressed at how small a rocket could be hidden in a cast. "I would have never thought of such a thing."

"That's a spy for you." Coco said leaning back in her seat.

"First your new car." Q approached a blue car that researchers are working on. "BMW. Agile. Five forward gears, all points radar." Jaune looks at the car appreciatively. "Self-destruct system and naturally all the usual refinements."

Jaune opens the passenger door and takes an object from the seat only for one of the researchers to take it back. "Now, this I'm particularly proud of." Q says looking at the headlights and getting Jaune's attention. "Behind the headlights, stinger missiles." He says with glee at his latest achievement.

"A car that can shoot missiles? Where can I find this guy?" Yang asked already imagining her bike shooting missiles or maybe flames or shotguns. The possibilities are endless.

"How would it work?" Velvet asked mentally taking apart the car and trying to figure out how missiles could be placed in the car and still function. "The engineering just doesn't make sense."

"Ruby wields a sniper rifle that can turn into a scythe. Yang uses shotgun gauntlets; Blake has a machete that can function as a handgun and a grappling hook." Spart said getting their attention. "Pyrrha uses a sword that can turn into rifle and Nora wields a hammer that turns into a grenade launcher. How is a car shooting missiles any different?"

Velvet thought about it and could see what Spart meant. After all they are watching a different version of Jaune in the multiverse, so a car shooting missiles isn't the most crazy thing they've seen so far. Plus she has a camera that can make copies of other people's weapons.

Jaune looks at the headlights wondering how he achieved that but knew not to ask. "Excellent. Just the thing for unwinding after a rough day at the office."

"Need I remind you, 007, that you have a license to kill." Q said approaching Jaune stood next to him. "Not to break the traffic laws." He warned Jaune.

"I wouldn't think of it." Jaune said a little too quickly.

"Something tells me Jaune isn't one to believe in traffic laws." Ren said noticing the way Jaune answered way too quickly.

"Reminds me of someone else I know." Tai said looking to Yang who looked away. How many parking and speeding tickets did he pay when she first got her bike? He lost track, thankfully she now obeys the traffic laws.

"Good." Q said not believing Jaune. "Now, let's get on to more practical matters." Q lead the way to a table containing more everyday items. "A typical leather belt." Taking the belt off the table Q began his explanation on the device. "Male, size 34. buckle, notch."

Meanwhile Jaune is typing away at a computer while Q explains the how the belt works. "Have you finished?" Jaune quickly closes the computer.

"Yes."

"Good. A typical leather belt—"

"I'm familiar with that device." Jaune pointed out.

"Not one with a 75 foot rappelling cord built into the buckle." Q said holding the buckle and showing it to Jaune so he could see the trigger. "Fire, and out shoots a piton. Followed by a high tensile wire designed to support your weight."

"So many gadgets." Coco said in delight seeing all the spy tools and their functions. A rappelling cord built into a belt buckle, who thinks of that?

"That's so cool." Velvet said finding the engineering of everything impressive. She wouldn't mind working for Q if she lived in that universe. Velvet dabbles in engineering when she isn't taking pictures, she loves the process of creating something from scratch.

"I see. And what if I need additional support? Jaune asks curious.

"It's tested for one, 007." Q said while a researcher went into a public booth meant for making call was trapped when console released an inflatable balloon pressing the researcher against the glass. Jaune looked at the researcher trapped in the booth for a minute before resuming their talk. Q grabbed an envelope off a silver tray. "Flight 878 to Atlas."

Jaune took the envelop surprised that Q knew what it held. "X-ray documents scanner." Q clarified pointing to the screen then to a nearby screen where it showed the contents of the envelop. Moving on Q grabbed a pen from his jacket pocket and showed it to Jaune. "A pen. This is a class four grenade. Three clicks arms the four second fuse."

Q clicked the pen three times and again. "Another three disarms it."

Jaune took the pen and clicked it three times. "How long did you say the fuse was?"

Q took the pen back and clicked it three times disarming it. "Oh, grow up, 007."

"They always say that the pen is mightier than the sword."

"Thanks to me, they were right." Q said before walking to one of the dummies. "Let's ask Freddie here to demonstrate for us." Q removed the pen and put in the jacket pocket of the dummy. "Here we are. Sorry about this, Fred." Q clicked the pen three times and ran away behind the safety glass covering his ears while Jaune watched.

After four seconds the pen exploded removing the upper half of Freddie. Q uncovered his ears and looked at Jaune. "Don't say it!" He said pointing a finger at Jaune.

Weiss quickly rushed out of her seat and covered Yang's mouth. "Don't you dare."

Yang mumbled something against Weiss' hand.

"The writings on the wall." Tai said with a smirk and earning a light punch curtesy of Summer.

Jaune licked his lips. "The writing's on the wall?"

"Along with the rest of him." Q added with a chuckle before placing a hand on the table and getting serious. "Now, 007, do please try and return some—" Q was interrupted when a researcher sitting a chair presses a button he wasn't supposed to and was blown out of his chair by compressed CO2. Q and Jaune looked at the researcher before continuing.

Jaune saw a sandwich and picked it up making sure to examine it.

"What do you think it does?" Ruby asked the others.

"Maybe a hidden barrel comes out and shoots a bullet! Or a tranquilizer dart!" Nora said.

"Nah, I bet it's an explosive charge disguised as a sandwich." Coco added sure of her comment.

"It could also be a sandwich." Weiss said.

"Do please try and return some of this equipment in pristine order." Q told Jaune who continued to observe the sandwich which Q noticed. "Don't touch that!" He said grabbing the sandwich out of Jaune's hand.

"It's my lunch."

"Looks like you were right, Weiss." Ruby said disappointed that it wasn't something cooler.

"That sandwich does look good." Nora said eyeing the sandwich and drooling slightly. A droid appeared with the sandwich in question, Nora gleefully took the sandwich and thanked the droid before it left.

Landing in Atlas Jaune exits the airport carrying his bags and looking for his contact. Spotting an older man wearing a fluffy hat, brown coat and reading a newspaper like his contact would be to signal him. Jaune approached the man and stood next to him.

"I make another appearance." Peter said upon seeing himself.

"I wonder who else will." Saphron said balancing her son on her leg while her wife stretches in her seat.

"In Arcadia, April's a spring month." Jaune says the code phrase while setting down his large briefcase.

"Oh yeah? And what are you, the weatherman?" The man asks lowering his newspaper and looks to Jaune. "For crying out, another stiff assed Arcadian with your secret codes and your password. One of these days you guys are gonna learn to just drop it." He tells Jaune and points with his newspaper to the parking lot. "Come on, my car's over there."

Jaune smirks before grabbing his luggage and follows his contact to his car which turned out to be a small two person car colored light blue. The contact takes the larger case from Jaune puts on the roof of the case and secures it with some rope while Jaune tosses the smaller car in the back seat of the car and holds the door open for his contact.

"After you." He tells his contact.

"Thank you." The contact says getting ready to enter the car but is stopped when Jaune closes the door on him trapping in the door, Jaune pulls his gun and presses the barrel against his chest. To everyone else it looked like two friends having a conversation.

"Nice move. I might borrow that." Yang said impressed at the thought of using a car door to pin Port against his own car.

"First you need to own a car." Weiss pointed out.

"Like you said, drop it." Jaune tells his contact who sighs.

"Alright, in Arcadia, April's a spring month whereas in Atlas we're freezing our butts off. Is that close enough for government work?" The contact asks and tries to get free but Jaune pushes him back.

"No. Show me the rose."

"Please, no." The contact said slightly nervous at the mention of the rose. Jaune presses the gun further into his chest. "All right, all right, all right." The contact looks around before unbuckling his belt and pants. Jaune doesn't say anything but is surprised as the contact turns around and pulls down his briefs to show a tattoo of a rose with the words "MUFFY" above on his left ass cheek. Jaune looks at the tattoo then back to his contact.

"Muffy?" Jaune asks while his contact re buckles his pants.

"Third wife. Peter Port, VSS." Peter introduces himself offering his hand.

"Oh, Muffy how I miss you." Peter said longing for the one that got away. The rest of the students tried to forget that they just saw their teacher's ass.

"VSS?" Emilia asked interested in what Vale has to offer.

"Vale Secret Service." Spart told them. "Similar to MI6 but different."

"Jaune Arc, stiff assed Arcadian." The two shake hands.

"That was a nice move."

"Nice car."

"This baby hasn't let me down yet, she's old and ugly, but she'll get you there." Peter sad tucking his shirt back into his pants. "Hey, Arc? You do any gardening?"

"What does that have to with anything?" Coco asked.

"In this universe people view Arcadians as artsy and soft." Spart informed them.

"I wonder why." Raven said taking a sip of her wine having visited their kingdom before and wasn't impressed by what she saw.

At the train station Nora exited the train at Atlas station, looking around the station she saw soldiers talking with each other. Nora quickly turned away not trusting them since she saw General Schnee and his escort kill her friends and coworkers. Leaving the station Nora headed for the closest computer store.

"Smart, she knows that Jacque is part of the Atlas military and knows to avoid any soldiers." Jaune said taking a sip of his soda before continuing. "Plus, now that he knows she survived he probably ordered any soldiers in the city to be on the lookout for her."

"She's laying low." Blake said having done the same thing in the past when she left the White Fang and Adam. She spent several weeks hiding in the slums and avoiding White Fang hot spots as she made her way to Vale.

Jaune and Peter are parked on the side of the road, the car engine smoking. "Hand me that wrench, Jimmy?" Peter says looking at the engine and holding his hand out.

"So, what do you know about Janus?" Jaune asked handing the wrench to Peter who started working on the engine.

"Zilch. Zipsky. No one's ever seen him. But he's connected up the gazoo." Peter said while tightening a bolt that came loose during the drive. "Atlas Intelligence. Military. Screwdriver."

Jaune grabbed the screwdriver and handed it Peter. "Rumor has it, he lives on one of those Atlas missile trains. That armored stuff they used to run around the Kingdom so we couldn't target them." Peter told Jaune tightening a screw and stepped away from the engine to admire his work while wiping away the grease off his hands.

"That would make an effective means of traveling." Winter said knowing the type of trains Peter is talking about. Since most people living outside the walls can't afford a bullhead ticket, travel by armored trains are the ideal way for traveling to and from the cities. "The armored plating would protect Janus from explosives and small arms fire, and he would always be on the move."

"If Jaune can figure out the route then he could set a trap for Janus." Ilia pointed out. "There are only so many tracks a train can take."

"The problem with that is knowing what track and time the train will be taking." Blake said recalling her last raid with the White Fang.

"Sounds like you have some experience Miss Belladonna." Glynda said eyeing the cat faunus making her shrink in her seat

"Want to hand me that hammer, Jimbo?" Jaune grabbed the hammer in question. "No, the bigger one. The sledge." Setting the hammer back in the tool box and grabbing the sledge, Jaune handed it to Peter. "Anyways, to tell the truth, you don't find this guy, he finds you." Peter gently tapped the engine. "Hell, it's all Atlas Mafia. The best thing I can do is point you in the direction of his competition." Peter said before holding the sledge with two hands and hitting the engine with force, the engine came to life making Jaune smirk at how people from Vale love to hit things.

"That's not true!" Yang yelled at the screen. "We do not always hit things."

"So, you're saying that you do occasionally hit things." Weiss said looking at the blonde expecting and answer.

"Yeah, the Grimm and heiresses." Yang replied with a smile before sitting back down.

"And who is the competition?"

"Oh, an ex-Specialist guy. Tough mother. Got a limp on his right leg. Name's Zukovsky."

"Valentin Dimitreveych Zukovsky?" Jaune asked recognizing the last name.

"Yeah. You know him?" Peter asked curious that he knows the full name.

"I gave him the limp." Jaune replied getting back into the car.

"Valentin left the Specialists?" James asked surprised to hear the instructor leaving to pursue a life of crime from the sounds of it.

"It would appear so." Winter said also surprised to see the man who trained her leave the Specialists behind and go into organized crime. Such a waste of talent.

"Is this going to be like Raven in the space western universe?" Ren asked concerned for his friend's safety.

"Except he shot first and didn't get shot in return." Yang said ignoring the look Raven gave her and continued to watch the screen.

Nora entered a computer store and found the owner in the storage room, knocking on the door Nora gestured to the various computers on display when the owner came to help her. "Are these all you have?"

"How many do you want?" The owner asked.

Removing a paper from her jacket, Nora began listing off the various schools and their specifications to the owner who grew happy at the large order.

"You pay lien?" The owner asked before agreeing to anything.

"Of course."

"If madam requires a demonstration, I can—"

"Madam requires one demonstration model and a quiet place to test it." Nora told the owner who pointed to the back room.

"It's strange seeing Nora not hyper." Pyrrha said eating some popcorn that she ordered earlier.

"I take offense to that. I can be serious when I want to be." Nora told her friend before adopting a thinking pose. Pyrrha giggled behind her hand at the sight of Nora in her thinking pose.

In a room Boris is alive when a beeping sound gets his attention, looking to the sound of the beeping Boris sees that he has an email saying that he needs to call Nora.

Back at the computer Nora is using the computer terminal to contact Boris through his private email.

"Thought you were dead."

Nora smiled happy that at least one of her friends is alive.

"Schnee killed everyone, fired 'Winter' – took GoldenEye." She typed back when the door to the back room opened startling her.

"Is everything satisfactory?" The owner asked.

"Everything except the interruption." She told the owner who smiled shamefully and closed the door giving her privacy.

"You aren't safe. Trust no one. Meet me at the Brothers Church in one hour."

"That seems fishy to me." Blake said not trusting Boris.

"How did he get away?" One of the Arc sisters asked.

"I suspect we'll find out soon." Saphron said taking Adrian from Terra.

Jaune and Peter are driving to the outskirts of Atlas, to the seeder part of Atlas.

"Now let me get this straight, Jimmy." Peter said keeping an eye on the road. "You shot him in the leg, you stole his car and took his girl." He said looking to Jaune who nodded in confirmation. "Now you want Valentine Zukovsky to set you up with Janus?"

"Yes."

"What are you gonna do? Appeal to his heart?" Peter asked driving the car into the warehouse district.

"No. His wallet." Jaune answered.

"Well, that might work. Okay, showtime." Peter said stopping the car. "Valentin operates out of building number 23, there." Peter told Jaune pointing to a building with guards out front. "Are you sure you want to do this? Last guy who dropped in uninvited went home airfreight… in very small boxes."

Jaune tilted his head. "Make sure they send me home first class." He told Peter before exiting the car.

"M was right. This Jaune has a very cavalier attitude." Glynda said knowing some hunters like that. She didn't understand it but to each their own.

"Some Specialists are like that." Winter said thinking of her fellow Specialists." Some like to keep loose, helps them keep their head clear and others not so much."

"Same could be said of hunters as well." Ghira said crossing his arms.

Meanwhile Nora made it to the Church, entering the Church she found it to be empty except for a person wearing a cloak. Thinking it might be Boris, Nora approaches the cloaked person when the window shutters suddenly closed on their own scaring her. Deciding that she isn't going to stick around any longer she leaves the Church in a hurry only to be grabbed. Screaming she struggles to get free.

"Nora! It's me, it's Boris!" Boris manages to calm Nora who stopped struggling when she heard his name. What she didn't see was Cinder coming behind her until she felt a presence behind her.

"Knew it!" Ilia and Blake said at the same time. "Guess he sold out his friends."

"Why though?" Yang asked wondering what could make a man betray his friends and coworkers.

"Money, power or being threatened." Sienna said having used all three to get some to see things her way. Raven hummed in agreement having also used all three.

Inside of the club Valentin runs he stresses at how his business is doing. "Another morning shot to hell." He said passing by a girl on her way to the stage while he heads back to his office. "Free market economy, I swear it will be the end of me." Entering a hallway, he hears the sound of gun's hammer being pulled from behind him.

"Walter K8… 7.65 millimeter. Only three men I know use such a gun." Valentin said recognizing the sound the weapon. "I believe I've killed two of them."

"Lucky me." Jaune said when one of guards aims a pistol at his head.

"I think not." Valentin said with a smile when his man made his move.

"Once again, he has the table turned on him." Raven said getting a refill on her wine. "For a spy he keeps letting people get the drop on him."

"That could be how he does things." Qrow said looking at his sister. "People let down their guards when they think they have the winning hand. Makes it easier to fool them and come out on top."

"Don't you mean Onatopp?" Tai said with a smirk while his former team groaned at the pun.

Back in the main area of the club the performers are rehearsing for their act later in the day. The lead singer sings in a deep voice and causes feedback in the mic which the person behind the soundboard had to deal with. Valentine and his two guards escort Jaune to a couch where he is roughly pushed down so he sits.

Valentine grabs a chair and sits in front of Jaune with his two men behind him. "Jaune Arc. Charming, sophisticated secret agent." He says with a chuckle. "Shaken, but not stirred." Valentine begins laughing along with his two men.

"I see you haven't lost your delicate sense of humor, Valentin… or your need for an audience." Jaune said gesturing to the two guards then to the stage. "Who's strangling the cat?"

"Strangling a cat?" Valentin said confused then looks to the stage where the lead singer is singing off key and causing more feedback. Drawing his gun Valentin shoot at cushion in front of Jaune making him flinch. "That is Raven, my mistress."

"Raven never could carry a tune." Summer said with a chuckle feeling bad for the person behind the soundboard. "Remember karaoke night?"

"That was a fun night." Qrow said with a smile and Tai nodded.

"You chose a difficult song." Raven said to Summer. "If you had chosen a slower song then I would have been able to sing better."

"Ray, the people in next room complained about a Grimm mating call." Summer said recalling the memory. "The manager kicked us out for ruining their sound system."

"Then they should have invested in better sound gear." Raven grumbled when she remembered that she had to pay for the replacement gear thanks to Summer bugging her.

"Remember when Tai asked Raven out?" Qrow said with a smile before realizing what he said. "Aw, shit."

"It's ok." Tai said forgiving his friend for the comment. "It's in the past." Tai put his arm around Summer's shoulder and brought her in for a kiss.

"Didn't the both of you already get enough?" Yang asked her parents referring to this morning when she and Ruby wanted to surprise their parents. Instead they walked in on them having sex, the sisters quickly closed the door but could never unsee the sight.

"Sorry." Tai said with a sheepish smile. "We thought we locked the door."

Jaune remembers the last girl that Valentin had and sees that his standards have dropped. "Very talented girl."

"Raven! Take a hike!" Valentin his mistress who stops singing and flips him off before leaving the stage. "So, Mr. Arc… what is it that brings you to my neighborhood?" he asks holstering his gun. "Still working for MI6 or have you decided to join the rest of us in the current century? I hear the new M is a lady."

"I want you to do me a favor." Jaune tells Valentin making him and his men laugh.

"He wants me to do him a favor!" Valentin said in between laughs before getting serious. "My knee aches every single day. Twice as bad when it is cold. Do you have any idea how long the winter lasts in this kingdom? Tell him, Dimitri!"

"Well, it depends—"

"Silence!" Valentin shouts shutting up the guard.

"Isn't it always winter in Atlas?" Yang asked thinking of the snow-covered kingdom.

"Actually, there are moments in the seasons where the snow actually melts." Penny said before drinking some soda. "It only happens five times a year, the people use the warm weather to plant crops and have a festival."

"Festival?" Blake asked curious since it's the first she ever heard of it.

"The Festival of Warmth is a weeklong event that is held when the snow melts." Weiss informed them. "The SDC is one of the sponsors. I've only been to one when I was little."

"We need to go when we got to the new world." Yang said excited to snow just what the festival is about.

"Yeah, it sounds fun." Ruby said agreeing with her sister.

"Fine, the next time it happens. I'll invite all you." Weiss told the two making them happy.

"For an ex Specialist, you surprise me, Valentin. I'm sure someone of your caliber must realize the skill was not to hit your knee but to miss the rest of you." Jaune said making Valentin smirk.

"So, why didn't you kill me?"

"Call it professional courtesy."

"Then I should extend you the same courtesy." Valentin said before drawing his pistol and shooting at Jaune's left and right leg which he moved out of way before aiming at his crotch.

"No!" All the girls who like Jaune shouted at once and then blushed afterwards. Yang wanted to tease Ruby but decided against it, of course she would remember it for later.

"Ozpin's funeral parlor. Four o'clock this afternoon." Jaune quickly said to avoid being shot catching Valentin's attention.

"You own a funeral parlor?" James asked his friend who shrugged and went with it. Different universe and so different him.

"Two hundred pounds of explosives hidden in a casket." Jaune began explaining now inside Valentin's office. "Your man drives the hearse in. The money's exchanged. Their man drives the hearse out." Valentin grabs a bottle of scotch from the alcohol cabinet before heading to his desk. "Their man will be arrested with the explosives. While your man will make a miraculous escape with the money. Your money." Jaune adds as the crime boss sits behind his desk.

"And what do I owe for this accommodation?" Valentin asks pouring himself a drink.

"I want you to set me up with Janus?" Jaune says leaning back in his chair.

"What has he done to deserve you?"

"Stole a helicopter."

"I have a six."

"Three. None that fly." Jaune said while Valentin took a sip of his drink.

"Who's counting?"

"These aren't just criminals, Valentin. They're traitors." Jaune said knowing that even though he doesn't serve Atlas anymore, Valentin loves his Kingdom. "They used the chopper to steal a nuclear weapon. Killed a lot of innocent Atlasian's doing it."

"What do you expect from a Grimm?" Valentin said taking another drink.

"I thought you said the Grimm don't exist in this universe?" Ozpin asked Spart.

"The creatures don't, the name does." Spart told him before conjuring a hot cup of raspberry tea. "It's meaning is about to be explained."

"Who?" Jaune asked curious.

"This Janus, I never met the man, but I know he's a Grimm."

"Group of Atlasians who worked with Mistral against Atlas during the war." Jaune said knowing little of the war and of the group besides the basics.

"You know your history, Mr. Arc. At the end of the war the Grimm surrendered to the Arcadians in Vacou. Believing they would join Arcadia and wage war against inequality." Valentin said taking another sip. "But the Arcadians betrayed them. Sent them back to Atlas who promptly had them all shot. Women, children, families."

Jaune looked away for a moment then back to Valentin. "Not exactly our finest hour."

"Still, ruthless people. They got what they deserved."

"By the Gods." Leon said surprised that his kingdom and Atlas would do such a thing. James felt sick when he heard about what Atlas did to all those people, did they really deserve to be shot?

"What was this war?" Oobleck asked curious about the history of this universe.

"Mistral declared war against the kingdoms of Remnant. It was a long and bloody conflict that left many dead." Spart told them of the war. "There was also another side of the war, Mistral was mostly comprised of pro-humans.

"So, the faunus were persecuted?" Oobleck said taking notes.

"Yes, eventually the pro-humans managed to get someone into a seat of power and from there everything went crazy." Spart took a sip of tea before continuing. "Soon Mistral declared war and some people in Atlas joined them due to their hate of the faunus."

Ghira frowned at the history wondering if the faunus will ever be accepted and not persecuted for how they look.

"That's the long and short of it basically." Spart told them. Everyone took in the news differently.

"Let's continue watching." Jaune said wanting to move on from the subject. Everyone agreed and focused back on the screen.

"I want you to set me up with Janus. Tell him I'm asking about the chopper." Jaune said bringing the conversation back to it's original purpose. "Tell him to meet me at the Grand Hotel."

"And then you and I are even… and he owes me one?" Valentin asked to clarify.

"Precisely." Jaune said before leaving.

"Trust a criminal to turn everything to his advantage." Emilia said with a shake of her head.

"Two things bandits and corporations have in common." Willow said holding up two fingers. "Both don't care who they step on." She lowered one finger. "And both turn everything to their advantage."

Inside the private pool of the Grand Hotel Jaune swims a lap before taking a break and decides to float in the center of the pool to relax. Closing his eyes Jaune takes a deep breath and hears the muffled sound of someone entering the private pool even though he told the staff to let no one in except for Janus.

"Nice bod." Yang said appreciatively eyeing the semi naked form of Jaune. Even Weiss wasn't immune to the sight, she swallowed and blushed at the sight. Blake licked her lips at the sight of Jaune and watched as the water glistened off his muscles, the way the water flowed over his form.

All the girls who like the knight made sure to memorize everything they are seeing right now. Even Coco had to admit that an older Jaune looked good. He wasn't overly muscular instead having a swimmer's body.

Glynda would deny it if anyone asked her but she too found an older Jaune attractive. She knew she shouldn't have such thoughts about her student, but she is watching an older Jaune who isn't her student. So that makes it ok, right?

Willow admitted that the boy looked good but he wasn't her type. She preferred someone else who sadly loved another.

"I'll say." Kali said with a slight purr in her voice. Ghira and Blake looked her with shocked faces. "Oh, don't give me that look. He's attractive and were I not happily married; I would gladly take him for myself."

Blake's mind shut down when she heard her mother and Ghira looked like he wanted jump through the screen and kill 007 Jaune.

Opening his eyes Jaune looked to the sauna area and saw no one, exiting the pool and grabbing a towel Jaune heads towards the sauna and grabs the person hiding behind the column and pushes them into the sauna.

Cinder falls onto the floor while Jaune draws his gun that he had hidden in the towel and aims at her. Cinder isn't wearing anything except for a towel that is barely held together at the waist with a robe belt. The robe falls off her shoulder giving Jaune a teasing view of her breasts.

"You don't need the gun, Commander." Cinder says seductively from her spot on the floor.

"That depends on your definition of safe sex." Jaune fires back.

"Something she doesn't practice." Yang said remembering when she killed the Admiral.

"That reminds me. Ruby I need to talk to you after the showing." Summer told her daughter making her nervous.

"You know I already gave her the talk?" Tai whispered to his wife.

"Let me have this." Summer said wanting to be mother again to her daughters.

Cinder looks appalled before quickly getting up and puts her arms around Jaune.

"That's close enough." Jaune tells her but she doesn't listen and presses herself against him.

"Not for what I have in mind." Cinder tells him before kissing him and makes him drop his weapon before biting his lower lip. Jaune pushes Cinder away from him and she hits the wall and moans in pleasure.

Jaune touches his lower lip and pulls his back to see blood. Reaching his gun Cinder quickly drops kicks him knocking him on his back where Cinder jumps on him, rolling over so he's on top Cinder just chuckles.

"You think you can hurt me?" She asks and touching his lips but Jaune gets off her and back on his feet and so does Cinder who jumps on his back knocking onto the resting table. Cinder once again jumps on him and wraps her legs around his midsection and starts squeezing.

"That appears to be her favored method of killing." Raven said impressed at the woman's strength.

"She seems to enjoy pain as much as killing." Sienna said after seeing the way Cinder moaned in pleasure when she was shoved into the wall.

Jaune groans in pain and tries to loosen her legs which doesn't work and Cinders moans as she continues squeezing. Jaune quickly gets to his feet and pushes Cinder against the wall which causes her to moan before she grabs his hair and forces him to look at her.

"You think you can break me?" Cinder asks before kissing him again, Jaune groans in more pain as she squeezes harder. Jaune slams her against another wall making Cinder scream out in pleasure and again as he slams against a different wall this time close to the lava rocks the Hotel uses to heat up the sauna.

Getting an idea just as Jaune hears someone else entering under Cinder's screams of pleasure. Setting Cinder on the grill covering the lava rocks causes to Cinder to scream not in pleasure but rather in pain getting her to loosen her legs. Jaune quickly grabs the water bucket and throws it at the person behind him hitting the person in the face and knocking them out. Jaune grabs Cinder and throws her over his shoulder onto the floor hard.

Yang laughed. "Talk about being in the hot seat." Ruby chuckled at the pun and even Weiss cracked a smile. Some people could admit that some of her puns are ok when said at the right moment.

"Serves her right." Ren said happy to see some of the pain that Cinder inflicted dished out on her.

Jaune grabs his gun off the floor and aims at Cinder who recovers. "No, no, no!" Cinder grinds her teeth in frustration upon seeing the gun. "No more foreplay. Take me to Janus." Jaune pulls back the hammer of the gun and Cinder shouts in the Atlas's native tongue.

"Those who spoke the language cringed.

"What did she say?" Ruby asked her uncle when she saw him cringe.

"I'll tell you when you're older." Qrow said when he saw Tai's hard look directed at him.

"If that's foreplay. I hate to see the main event." Coco said ordering a small bowl of popcorn.

Cinder and Jaune arrive at the meeting which happens to be a dumping ground for old statues. Cinder turns off the car and removes the key.

"This is it?" Jaune asks from the back seat keeping his gun on her.

"Yes."

"Well, I must say… I've had a lovely evening. You?" Jaune asks leaning forward and holstering his gun.

"Once again, the pleasure was all yours." Cinder tells Jaune with a condescending tone.

"You'll understand if I don't call."

"I won't lose sleep over it." Cinder says as Jaune smirks before knocking her out.

"Sweet dreams." Jaune said before exiting the car. Examining his surroundings Jaune spots the Tiger helicopter in the distance and draws his pistol before advancing into the dumping ground. The discarded statues making it hard to spot anyone and giving plenty of hiding places. Hearing a sound Jaune turns around and doesn't see anyone, walking toward the sound Jaune keeps his weapon raised.

"Hello, Jaune."

"That voice…" Summer's eyes widen when she recognized it. "No, it can't—"

"Mom?" Ruby asked wondering what's wrong.

"Ruby…" Yang said getting her sisters attention and pointing at the screen.

Jaune aims in the direction of the voice where he sees a figure coming out of a tunnel and wearing a long overcoat. Unfortunately, Jaune couldn't see the face as a light is behind the person obscuring their face but he could tell it was a man based on the voice. The man continues walking toward Jaune until he steps into the light and Jaune can see his face.

"No, it isn't." Qrow said with a shudder.

Raven didn't say anything and watched in silence holding her wine glass tightly.

"Tai?" Jaune said surprised to his friend alive though with a burn scar on the right side of his face, lowering his weapon Jaune could not believe it.

"Dad?" Yang and Ruby said at the same time seeing their father alive after being killed earlier. "Does that mean?"

"He's Janus." Ozpin said with a flat voice.

"No, you're wrong!" Ruby cried out turning to Ozpin. "Dad would never be a criminal!"

"I'm sorry to say, Miss Rose. But it appears that Tai has indeed become a criminal."

"It's ok, Ruby." Tai said reaching across the seat and holding her hand. "That's not me. I'm right here. That man on screen isn't me."

Ruby nodded before letting go of his hand and sitting back down. Yang hugged her sister also feeling conflicted.

"Back from the dead." Tai said with a small smirk. "No longer an anonymous star on the memorial wall at MI6. What's the matter, Jaune? No glib remark? No pithy comeback?"

"Why?" Jaune simply said making Tai laugh.

"Hilarious question, particularly from you. Did you ever ask why? Why we toppled all those dictators, undermined all those regimes?" Tai asked recalling past missions. "Only to come home, "Well done, good job, but sorry, everything you risked your life for has changed"."

"It was the job we were chosen for." Jaune replied.

"Of course, you'd say that." Tai mocked. "Jaune Arc, Arcadia's loyal dog. Defender of the so called "faith"." Jaune raised his weapon. "Oh, please. Jaune, put it away. It's insulting to think I haven't anticipated your every move."

"Since he's a former spy and worked with Jaune in the past. Tai knows him and what moves he might make." Winter said while wondering if she could go up against her fellow Specialists if they were ever to go rogue. She served with them, laughed with them, and got to know them. She didn't know if she could.

"It's tough going up against a former friend." Oobleck said thinking of his old teammate Roman.

Jaune lowered the weapon. "Yes… I trusted you, Tai."

Tai scoffed. "Trust? What a quaint idea."

"How did the MI6 screening miss that your parents were Grimm?"

"Once again, your faith is misplaced." Tai said. "They knew. We're both orphans, Jaune. But where your parents had the luxury of dying in a climbing accident. Mine survived the Arcadian betrayal and Atlas's execution squads." Tai said recalling his childhood when he saw the deaths of his friends. "My father couldn't let himself or my mother live with the shame of it. MI6 figured I was too young to remember."

"And in one of life's little ironies…the son went to work for the Kingdom whose betrayal…caused the father to kill himself and his wife."

"So, he's been holding onto that grudge for how many years?" Summer asked feeling sad for the Tai on screen.

"A long time." Raven said knowingly.

"Hence, Janus. Two faced Mistral god come to life." Jaune said figuring that must be the reason for the name.

"It wasn't god who gave me this face, it was you." Tai said referring to the mission nine years ago. "Setting the timers for three minutes, not six.

"Am I supposed to feel sorry for you?"

"No, you're supposed to die for me." Tai explained. "By the way, I did think of asking you to join my little scheme, but somehow, I knew…007's loyalty was always to the mission, never to his friend." Jaune remained silent. "Closing time, Jaune. Last call."

Jaune raised his weapon but is shot in the neck by a someone with a tranq dart knocking him out. Tai walked until he stood over Jaune and looked at him.

"For Arcadia, Jaune."

No one in the audience said anything as they processed what just happened. Tai faked his death and became the head of a criminal organization that stole the Tiger helicopter and the remaining GoldenEye satellite. They also learned of his tragic past and the grudge he held for the Arcadian kingdom.

Ruby hugged herself wondering if she could fight her father or her teammates. She didn't have an answer.

"Wake up! Mister Wake up!" Nora screamed at Jaune to wake up which he did slowly after she continued screaming and yelling for him to wake up.

"I'm here. I'm here!" Jaune yelled slightly disoriented from the tranq dart.

"Hurry!" Nora screamed again kicking the seat. "Hurry up! Come on!"

Jaune saw that both of them are in the Tiger helicopter, he also saw that his hands are tied. Hearing a beeping sound Jaune looked to the console and saw that autopilot had been engaged and the weapons are armed. The beeping was the countdown for the missiles to fire.

"Do something! Get us out of here!" Nora shouted.

"I'm a little tied up." Jaune said struggling to get free when the helicopter rotors begin spinning, deciding to try and break the flight harness he pushed himself forward but couldn't break the harness. Jaune looked at counter reach zero and the missiles fired, looking at the console to see where they are headed and saw the coordinates is the helicopter meaning the missiles are heading for them.

"Smart. Kill Jaune and Nora as well as destroying the Tiger." Raven impressed at the thinking of Rogue Tai. "Atlas recovers the wreckage and discovers the body of an Arcadian spy. Arcadia will have two options. Disavow Jaune or admit that he was one of theirs. Either way the other kingdoms will be distrustful of Arcadia."

"Allowing Tai to carry out his plan unimpeded." Ozpin said seeing part of Tai's plan. "There is also a high probability that Tai called the authorities to investigate the area."

"So even if they do escape. They'll still be caught with the wreckage of the Tiger." Glynda added.

Looking at the missiles turn around and start heading for them. Looking around the cockpit for any way out he saw am eject button next to his head. Leaning in his seat tried to use his head to hit the button but the harness restricted his movements, looking at the missiles he saw them getting closer.

Jaune tried again and was successful when his head made contact with the eject button. The main helicopter rotors on top of the aircraft ejected themselves and the cockpit disengaged from the rest of the helicopter via thrusters. The missiles destroyed the rest of the helicopter while Jaune and Nora escaped the blast and safely floated back to the ground thanks to the parachutes being deployed.

"Now that's using your head." Tai said with a straight face making his team groan and Yang to smile. Ruby punched her sister in the arm, a habit she developed when Yang started making puns.

The rest of RWBY and JNPR now see where Yang got her love of making puns from.

Ozpin silently groaned remembering all the terrible puns Tai had made during his time at Beacon. He was quite happy when he graduated and surprised when he married Raven, he always thought he would end up with Summer since she always had a crush on him during their final year at Beacon.

The cockpit landed safely and Jaune managed to free himself. "The things we do for frequent flier mileage." He said as he opened the cockpit and helped free Nora. Once outside Nora kicked Jaune in the shin and tried to run but Jaune caught up to her and grabbed her.

"Let me go!" She shouted struggling to get free but stopped when military jeeps drove up and soldiers took them into custody.

The soldiers loaded the two into the back of the jeeps and drove them to main base in Atlas and put the two of them in an interrogation room located under the base. Nora rubbed her wrists after the guard uncuffed them and left, walking to one end of the room to put distance between her and Jaune.

"Who are you?" Jaune asked looking at her stand in a corner of the room. "Listen, I'm on your side and here to help." He told her when she didn't answer.

"I don't know anything." Nora said as Jaune walked towards her.

"I don't believe you."

"I don't care what you think."

Jaune grabbed her arm getting Nora to look at him. "They might be back any minute. You either take your chances with me or the killers from Servernaya.'

"Not a lot of choice there." Ren said ordering a refill on his herbal tea.

"No kidding." Pyrrha said agreeing with her teammate.

"I've never been to Severnaya." Nora said trying to get away from Jaune who grabbed her wrist and looked at her watch.

"Your watch has." Jaune said after examining the watch. "Frozen by the GoldenEye blast. And I'm willing to bet you're the one who climbed up the dish to get out."

"Who are you." Nora asks warily.

"I work for the Arcadian government." Jaune told her easing some of her fear. "The more you tell, the more I can help you."

"But I don't know anything!" Nora shouted frustrated.

"Then let's start with what you do know." Jaune suggested back away allowing Nora to step away from him and sit on the table in the room.

"My name is Nora Valkyrie. I was a systems programmer at the Severnaya facility…"

"Go on."

"Until they killed everyone." Nora said after a moment.

"Who? Taiyang Xio Long?" Jaune asked.

"He probably planned it." Sienna said. "It's also safe to assume he pretended to be the Mistral Admiral when they stole the Tiger."

"He would have the resources to do it." Weiss said making everyone surprised that she agreed with the leader of the White Fang.

"Plus, it's not hard to apply a fake beard and get a fat suit." Coco said getting their attention. "First year prank." Velvet remembered the prank well as did Glynda.

"No, I don't know who that it."

"Who was the insider? The traitor?" Jaune asked trying to get more information about what happened.

"Boris. Boris Grishenko."

"Specialist or military?"

"Computer programmer."

"There was no one else?" Jaune asked wondering who else might be in on the theft.

"No." Nora said before looking to the door. "Are they going to kill me?" She asked Jaune who didn't answer right away.

"Trust me." He told her making her smile slightly.

"Trust you?" Nora asked looking at Jaune and his tailored suit. "I don't even know your name." when Jaune was about to answer the door opened and Defense Minister Ironwood entered along with a guard.

"Good morning, Mr. Arc." Ironwood said as the guard closed the door. "Sit." Jaune and Nora took their seats at the table along with Ironwood who sat opposite of them.

Ironwood set Jaune's weapon on the table while the guard kept a gun trained on him. "I'm Defense Minister James Ironwood. So, by what methods shall we execute you, Commander Arc?"

"What, no foreplay?" Qrow asked ordering a sandwich.

"Atlas in this universe is a lot stricter than ours." James said wishing he could explore the Atlas on screen and see the difference from his.

"He's not really going to kill him, right?" Ruby asked with concern. Yang was about to reassure her but refrained not wanting to get her hopes up.

"What? No small talk?" Jaune asked unbuttoning his jacket. "No chit-chat? That's the trouble with the world today. No one takes the time to do a sinister interrogation anymore." He tells Nora unconcerned for his wellbeing. "It's a lost art."

"So true." Ozpin said surprising everyone save for those that know his secret.

"Anything we should know?" Leon asked the Headmaster.

"Just spouting nonsense." Ozpin said drinking his coffee.

"Your sense of humor doesn't slay me, Commander. I'm sorry, where is the GoldenEye?" Ironwood asked Jaune.

"I assumed you have it." Jaune replies.

"I have an Arcadian spy, a Severnaya programmer and a helicopter that's-"

"Or that's what some traitor in your government wanted—"

"Who is behind your attack—"

"Who had the authorization codes?"

Ironwood swore as the two kept cutting each other off. "The penalty for terrorism is still death."

"And what is the penalty or treason?" Jaune asked with a raised voice.

"Oh, stop it, both of you! Stop it!" Nora shouted at the two. "You're like boys with toys." She said looking at the two of them. "It was Schnee. General Schnee set off the weapon. I saw him do it" Both Ironwood and Jaune looked at her.

"Boys with toys…" Glynda said before looking to Ozpin and James recalling all the times the two have butted heads. She could see it now, the two fighting over a toy. In this case the toy is the survival of Remnant.

"I know that look." Sienna said looking at Glynda. "Same thing in the White Fang." Sienna meant it, she had to control and reign in some of the more troublesome units in the White Fang. Adam and his men are among them.

"The Specialists as well." James and Winter said at the same time.

Pyrrha and Nora shared a look remembering the time Jaune and Ren got into a shouting match over the shower schedule. It was the first they ever heard Ren swore.

"Are you certain it was Schnee?" Ironwood asked.

"Yes, he killed everyone and stole the GoldenEye."

"Now why would he do that?" Ironwood asked curious.

"There's another satellite." Nora said and Ironwood swallowed nervously at the mention of another GoldenEye.

"Another GoldeEye." Ironwood said wondering just how many have been developed. "Thank you, Miss Valkyrie." Ironwood turned to Jaune. "You were saying something about the lost art of interrogation, Mr. Arc?"

Just then the door to the room opened and General Schnee entered with a disheveled uniform. "Defense Minister, I must protest." General Schnee passed the guard who saluted and holstered his weapon. "This is my investigation. You are out of order." General Schnee said coming to stop near Ironwood.

"From what I'm hearing. It is you who is out of order!"

General Schnee grabbed Jaune's gun before Ironwood could and held it in front of him. "I've seen this gun before."

"Oh no." Willow said nervous as is everyone the moment Jacque picked up the gun.

"Put it down."

"With our enemy."

"Put it down, General!" Ironwood ordered.

"Do you even know who the enemy is, James?" Schnee asked. "Do you!"

"Guard!" Ironwood stood out of his chair just to see Schnee shoot the guard before he could react and turn the weapon on him. Schnee shot Ironwood while Jaune tackled Nora to the floor.

Winter clenched her teeth in frustration upon seeing her commander get killed. Qrow may not have liked the General but that didn't mean he wanted him dead.

Willow covered her mouth with her hands shocked to see James killed.

Ozpin tightened his grip on his mug trying to contain his rage at seeing his friend killed. Glynda got a hard look in her eyes and wished for 007 Jaune to kill Jacque.

Schnee removed the magazine of the weapon and pulled back the slide ejecting the round still in the chamber. "Defense Minister James Ironwood murdered by Arcadian agent, Jaune Arc." He said while removing the bullets from the magazine. When all the bullets are removed Schnee inserted the empty magazine back into the weapon and tossed it to Jaune who grabbed it and holstered it. "Himself shot while trying to escape. Guards!"

Schnee reached for his weapon, Jaune kicked the chair into Schnee's legs knocking him over. Jaune punched the General in the stomach and kneed him in the face when he doubled over, grabbing his shoulders Jaune punched him again before pushing against the wall behind the door just as two guards came in.

Jaune then kicked the door shut, the metal door slammed against one of the guards knocking him out. The other guard turned around and Jaune grabbed his weapon forcing it down and punched the guard three times knocking him out. Grabbing the weapon Jaune went over to Nora and grabbed her hand.

"Come on!"

The two left the room and ran down the corridor to the stairs, Jaune making sure to keep his eyes open as they ran up the stairs. Two guards ran towards the stairs unaware of Jaune who shoots them. Running forward Jaune slides onto the floor just as two more guards enter and start shooting, killing the two guards. Hearing the door open behind him Jaune quickly turns around and shoots killing the guard. Getting back to his feet Jaune stands in front of Nora and kills another guard.

Everyone is so caught in watching the action on screen that they don't notice Jaune holding Pyrrha's hand making her blush except for Nora who pouted.

Seeing more guards below the stairs Nora taps his shoulder getting him to turn around and see the threat. Opening fire Jaune kills a guard running up the stairs and forces the others to take cover to avoid the bullets. Hearing the weapon click Jaune dropped the gun and grabbed Nora's hand and ran down one of the hallways making sure to grab a weapon off one of the dead guards on the way.

Seeing a door at the end of the hallway Jaune kicks it open to reveal the records room. Hearing more guards on the way Jaune and Nora run further into the room and push over book case, the book case hits the one behind it and dominos until the door is sealed by the fallen cases. On the other side General Schnee and the guards head to the lower levels to reach the other door.

Jaune opens the blinds on one of the windows and sees the courtyard with tanks and other vehicles along with more guards. Backing away from the window Jaune and Nora find a place to hide just as the guards and Schnee enter the room, keeping their weapons trained on the floor above and started to fan out. Above them Jaune counts the number of guards and Nora peeks out to look only to knock over a pile of binders.

"I hate when that happens." Neptune said.

"You did learn a valuable lesson." Sun told his friend before taking a bite of his banana muffin.

"So, did you."

Weiss wondered what lesson the two learned and what did Neptune mean.

"Amateurs." Blake and Ilia said at the same time.

Jaune quickly pushed Nora forward as they ran, and the shooting started. The guards below them shot through the grating as the two ran, seeing two guards trying to cut them off Jaune shot back through the grating killing the two. Finding a relatively safe spot to hide, Jaune set the weapon down and undid his belt and removed it, Nora looked at him concerned.

"Trust me." Jaune said before picking up the weapon and leaving their hiding spot with Nora following. The guards quickly found them and started shooting, the floor grating weakened under fire and broke when Nora stepped on it. Jaune turned around and saw what happened.

Nora fell through the floor and hit the ground hard, the guards picked her up and Schnee took her leaving the rest of his men to take care of Jaune.

"Oh, come on!" Weiss yelled throwing her hands at the screen. "That's the most cliche thing to happen. A grating just magically breaks, and someone falls through it."

"The guards did shoot it and it's possible a bullet hit the nut and loosened it." Ruby said to her partner silencing her.

"Still a cliché."

Jaune located the trigger for the belt and pressed it, the piton shot out of the belt and embedded itself on the ceiling. Using the belt Jaune swung across the room toward the window and kicked a guard on the way before letting go of the belt and crashing through the window. Luckily there was a shipment of soft goods that Jaune landed on instead of the concrete.

Jumping off the shipment Jaune took cover behind one of the armored vehicles and saw Schnee pushing Nora into a car and telling the driver to go. Jaune tried to go after them but two vehicles block the entrance and troops exit, looking around for something to use Jaune laid eyes on something that would do the trick.

"What is it?" Pyrrha asked wondering what he found.

Outside the base the car Schnee is using turned to avoid hitting another car and continued down the road when the wall behind them exploded when a tank drove through it and started pursing them. Jaune appeared out of the driving hatch. The car drove faster and turned onto another street and the tank kept up though it did spin out of control when it did a hard turn before Jaune managed to get under control and resumed chasing Schnee.

"Yeah! Go fearless leader, rescue me!" Nora cheered for Jaune and excited to see him driving a tank in the city. It is like her dream come to life.

"That's not exactly the most discreet vehicle." Ren said surprised that Jaune would do such a thing. After all he expected this sort of thing from Nora and not Jaune, also wasn't he a spy.

"Isn't he a spy?" Velvet asked wondering why a spy would choose such a loud vehicle.

"Exactly." Ren said agreeing with Velvet.

"Not everything can be done discreetly." Blake said thinking back to when she wanted to find the White Fang and found Roman. Which then turned into a chase, then a battle with a stolen Atlas mech under the pass that ended in cars being destroyed and a section of the pass being destroyed.

"What are you looking at me for?" Yang asked seeing the look her partner is giving her.

"You know what you did."

"Sounds like Raven and Tai first date." Qrow said making Tai chuckle and Summer to laugh, Raven didn't say anything.

The car slowed down when it came to an accident in the road blocking their path before reversing and going down an alley. The alley was narrow so the sides of the car scrapped the walls as it drove through it. Behind them Jaune sat down and closed the hatch before following, the tank bulldozed its way through the buildings. Behind the tank military vehicle pursued but couldn't see thanks to the cloud dust being produced by the tank's destructive path. Exiting the alley the car turned to avoid crashing into the canal and the tank followed, unfortunately the two vehicles behind the tank couldn't see and drove into the canal

Opening the hatch Jaune stood up to better see and saw the car drive on the sidewalks knocking people over and driving on the other side of the canal. Hitting the brakes and turning, the tank spun before driving back down the path it came from. Driving the tank Jaune saw new military approaching but quickly stopped before reversing, the passengers started shooting at the Jaune forcing him back into the hatch.

Driving back on the main road the vehicle crashed into each other as the tank approached and the drivers abandoned their vehicles as the tank got closer and drove through and over the vehicles. The car took the back roads and alleys to avoid Jaune who kept following them and drove through a statue destroying it. Hearing sirens behind him Jaune slammed on the breaks stopping the tank, the police cars slammed their brakes too late and crashed into the back of the tank.

Jaune looked back and fixed his tie before continuing his pursuit of Schnee.

"Does he care about the amount of destruction he just caused!" James yelled in frustration at seeing the carefree attitude and the trail of destruction left behind by Jaune in his pursuit.

"I kinda want to see how Atlas tries to handle it." Qrow said with a shit eating grin. "I mean they can't admit that a spy jacked a tank and took it for a joyride. That would just make them look bad."

"Qrow." Ozpin said warning his friend.

"What? They have a hard time securing their tech."

"He's right." Sienna said getting James and Winter's attention. "It was easy finding the route for the Paladin. Stealing it was too easy."

"I hate to admit it. They are right, James." Glynda said siding with Qrow and Sienna. "Your lack of security on your weapons ended up with a rogue Paladin in the hands of Roman Torchwick."

"Every precaution is taken for any major weapons shipments." Winter said defending James.

"Then how did a rogue Paladin end up in the hands of the White Fang?" Leon asked. "Or the explosives used in the bombings of several SDC facilities?"

"Let's keep calm everyone." Ghira said rising out of his seat. "Atlas is not at fault for the stolen weapons nor are they responsible for the destruction they cause. It is the user who determines how the weapon shall be used."

Everyone in the room thought about what Ghira just said as he sat back down.

At a hidden railway station, the car pulled up to an armored train getting ready to leave. Schnee exited the car pulling Nora out of the car roughly before shooting the driver. Cinder exited the train throwing away her cigar and meeting Schnee before escorting them onto the train. What the trio didn't see was Jaune still in the tank parked on a bridge overlooking the train, seeing the train Jaune formed a plan and drove off before the train could depart.

Inside the dining car of the train Schnee held Nora at gunpoint as they entered to see Tai wearing a black suit and tie finishing his meal. Cinder followed and passed the two placing a hand on Tai's shoulder before taking her seat behind him.

Summer blushed when she saw Tai wearing a suit since he always preferred to dress causal. Her eyes narrowed when Cinder placed a hand on his shoulder. Raven could admit that Tai looked good wearing black.

"Either you've brought me the perfect gift, General Schnee." Tai said wiping his lips with a napkin. "Or you've made me very unhappy."

"James got to them before I could." Schnee said taking out his flask and taking a sip from it.

"Arc is alive?"

"He escaped." Schnee said taking another sip.

"Good for Arc, bad for you." Tai told Schnee before focusing on Nora. "Take a seat, my dear." Nora scoffed but complied and took a seat. Tai wiped his hands and approached her.

"You know, Jaune and I shared everything." Tai said in a low voice as he stood behind her and leaned on the chair. "Absolutely everything." Tai began touching her hair and brushed a stray lock behind her ear. "To the victor go the spoils."

Ruby and Yang felt uncomfortable seeing their dad act like that. They always knew him to be kind and funny but now they don't know if they can look at him the same without remembering what they are seeing. They know that it's not their actual dad but the on-screen Tai has his face and voice, even little things like the way he walks is similar to their father.

It's just so confusing for not only them but also for their mother and uncle who both wanted to jump through the screen and beat the living shit out of Tai. Even Tai himself wanted to help.

Exiting a train tunnel, the tank emerged stopping outside the exit.

"You'll like where we're going." Tai said before kissing her neck making Nora flinch and tried to lean away from him.

The conductor of the train saw something in the distance and reached for his binoculars to better see.

"You may even learn to like me." Tai whispered before kissing her neck and Nora struggled, standing up Tai picked her up and forcibly kissed her. Nora pushed him away and slapped him.

"I've never wanted to punch dad before now." Yang said with her eyes shifting to red and gripping the arm rest tightly. Ruby nodded in agreement as did the rest of their team. Pretty much everyone in the room wanted to punch on screen Tai.

"Disgusting." Glynda said appalled.

Tai rubbed his cheek and smiled that disappeared when an alarm started ringing. "Stay with her." He told Schnee before heading to another car with Cinder. Entering the command car Tai brought up a screen and saw a tank on the track in front of the tunnel. "Arc. Only Arc."

"He's going to derail us." Cinder said impressed as Tai grabbed the radio.

"Full speed!" Tai ordered the conductor. "Full speed! Ram him!" Feeling the train pick up speed Tai and Cinder braced themselves.

Inside the tank Jaune loaded a tank shell and aimed at the nose of the train before firing. The shell impacted against the nose of the train, the conductor hit the brakes making train slow before impact. Exiting the tank with the rifle from the base Jaune watched from a safe distance as the train rammed the tank and stopped just before the tunnel.

"Risky move." Coco said admiring the boldness of the plan. 007 Jaune would fit in quite well with her team.

"He did stop the train." Velvet pointed out.

"Maybe we should have derailed the train at Mt. Glenn." Yang said thinking back to the mission with Dr. Oobleck.

"If we had, then we would have been stuck in a tunnel with the Grimm and the White Fang." Weiss pointed out. "Our escape route would have been cut off. We were lucky that the breach was contained."

"Yeah, it could have been worse." Jaune said thinking back to the breach and how his team helped.

Inside the dining car Nora gets up off the floor and sees everything is strewn across the room, she runs towards the door hoping to make her escape only to be grabbed by Schnee stopping her.

Inside the command car Cinder groans as she picks herself off the floor. Tai twitches before quickly rolling onto his stomach and crawling towards a rifle on the ground a few feet in front of him. Before he can reach it a foot steps on the rifle.

"Why can't you just be a good boy and die?" Tai asks already knowing that Jaune has a weapon on him.

"You first." Jaune said sparing a glance at Cinder. "You, second." Cinder scowled before licking her lips. "Up!"

Tai and Cinder got to their feet, dusting themselves off. "Situation analysis…hopeless. You have no back up, no escape route. And I have the only bargaining chip." Tai said confidently fixing his suit.

"Where is she?" Jaune asked keeping his weapon on them.

Tai chuckled, "ah yes. Your fatal weakness." He said grabbing the radio off the floor. "Schnee, bring her in." Pocketing the radio Tai smiled. "Lovely girl. Tastes like…cinnamon."

"Ok, now I really want to punch him." Yang said through clenched teeth. She hated men who forced themselves onto women just because they are good looking and think that everyone woman wants them. Since she has a well-developed figure she had to deal with pushy men and the occasional woman.

"You hold him down and I'll hit him with my hammer." Nora suggested feeling gross after seeing her friend's dad kiss her.

"Deal." Yang replied with a nod.

Tai felt bad for his on-screen self for about ten seconds. All the men in the room felt the same as Tai.

"I wouldn't know."

"I would." Tai said while Cinder licked her finger. Hearing footsteps behind him Jaune quickly glanced before focusing back on Tai.

Schnee entered the car holding Nora at gunpoint.

"So, back where we started, Jaune." Tai said. "Your friend or the mission? Drop the gun and let her live."

Jaune took a moment to think before answering. "Schnee, what has this Grimm promised you?" He asked. "You knew, didn't you? He's a Grimm."

"It's in the past." Tai said recognizing what Jaune is trying to do.

"He'll betray you!" Jaune yelled. "Just like everyone else."

"Is this true?" Schnee asked while keeping his weapon on Nora.

"What's true is that in 48 hours, you and I will have more money than the Brothers." Tai said looking to Schnee first then to Jaune. "And Mr. Arc here will have a small memorial service. With only Goodwitch and a few tearful restaurateurs in attendance." Tai said with smirk. "So…what's the choice, Jaune?" Walking back to Cinder who happened to be near the door. "Two targets. Time enough for one shot. The girl or the mission?"

"Kill her. She means nothing to me." Jaune said keeping his finger on the trigger.

"Guess he chose the mission." Ren said angry at 007 Jaune for letting Nora die.

"Some hunters are like that." Port said with a heavy sigh. "They get tunnel vision on the mission and forget everything else."

Ruby shook her head at what Port said, a huntsmen's job is to protect people. She couldn't believe what she is hearing since she always looked up to hunters as the defenders of Remnant and the people. Yet, a small whisper in the back of her mind told her that Port was right. She had seen it firsthand with Roman Torchwick, after the breach Ruby did some research on him and discovered that he used to be a huntsman and he was on a team with Prof—Dr. Oobleck.

According to what she found, Roman was at Mt. Glenn when it fell and was ordered to pull back. After that he gave up being a huntsman and decided to be criminal. That got her thinking, if Roman gave up being a hunter then how many have done the same and turned to a life of crime. She didn't want to think about it so she focused back on the screen.

"See you in hell, Jaune." Tai said before nodding to Schnee and heading for the door with Cinder. Quickly turning around, Jaune shot Schnee before he could shoot and turned back to try and shoot Tai but was too late as they already left and sealed the door. Trying to open the door Jaune couldn't and ran to the other end to try force it open but couldn't as the shutter closed sealing them in.

"One inch armor plating." Jaune told Nora trying to find another way out before Tai gets away.

"He called his bluff. Not bad." Raven said impressed.

"Keep in mind students, that doesn't always work." Glynda told her students just in case they decided to try it for themselves.

"She's right." Saphron said holding a sleeping Adrian in her arms. "It's always a risk calling someone's bluff. There's always a chance they are actually bluffing and there's also a chance they're not."

"50/50 shot, huh." Yang said with a smile. "I'll take those odds."

Summer smiled being reminded of Raven when they first met.

"I'm fine. Thank you very much." Nora said heading toward the still active computer. "Boris, yes!" She said excitedly.

"What are you doing?" Jaune asked.

"Boris is on line backing up his files." She said grabbing the knocked over chair and righting it before sitting. "If I can spike him. I might be able to find out where they're going." Jaune is impressed that he stopped what he's doing. "Well, don't stand there! Get us out of here!" She yelled when she saw him not doing anything.

"Yes, sir." Jaune said looking to the floor.

Meanwhile in the rear car the top section separated, and a small two-person helicopter emerged from the car slowly starting up.

Back inside the command car Jaune is pulling up the carpet to reveal to the steel plate while Nora typed away at the computer getting ready to initiate the tracing program.

"Good luck with the floor, Jaune."

Tai's voice came on over the intercom.

"I set the timers for six minutes. The same six minutes you gave me. It was the least I could do for a friend."

"What does he mean?" Nora asked noticing the way he tensed.

"We've got three minutes." Jaune told her removing his watch as the helicopter took off.

"How are they going to escape?" One of the Arc sisters asked chewing on her thumb worried for her brother.

"They'll be fine. Our brother is a spy, he probably has something to help in getting out." Another of the Arc sisters said reassuring her sibling.

"What about that grenade pen?" Velvet asked remembering the gadget Q gave him. "He places it against the door or panel and set it off."

"It's an enclosed space, not a place to take cover." Coco said to her partner. "It would be dangerous to do it. The risk of injury from the resulting explosion is too great."

"Excellent point, Miss Adel." Ozpin said proud of his student. "There is also no guarantee that the explosion from the pen wouldn't set off the other charges."

"I'm sure Mr. Arc will surprise us." Oobleck said taking a sip from his coffee cup.

Inside another facility Boris is spinning a pen between his fingers while backing up his files without a care in the world when his screen changed to show the words "Spike Sent" making him pause.

In the command car Jaune is cutting a section of the floor with a laser built into his watch. Meanwhile Nora is trying to guess the password to start the tracing program.

"A laser built into a watch. Amazing." Coco said with a smile.

"A pen that explodes, a car that shoots missiles, and a watch that has a built-in laser. I can see why you like spies." Velvet told her partner.

"That's so cool! I need that Renny!" Nora yelled bringing a smile to him thankful that she didn't have such a tool at her disposal.

"What else do you call your butt?" Nora asked looking to Jaune.

"What?"

"It's Boris' password, he plays word games. "What I sit on, but I don't take it with me"."

"Chair." Jaune said looking at her before focusing back on his work.

"Like I said." Nora entered the password and started the tracing program, a map of Remnant appeared on the screen with a red line that started in Atlas before moving.

"Thirty seconds."

"He's not in Atlas, Mistral, Vale."

"Twenty five seconds."

"Vacou."

"Twenty seconds." Jaune said deactivating the laser and started slamming his foot against the area he cut trying to kick it away. "Come on!" he said grabbing her arm when he kicked it free.

"Wait! He's in Vtyal. No." She said when the search program was terminated.

"Now!" Together they left the car via the hole and ran away from the car before the timers hit zero. Jumping to the ground before the explosion to avoid any flying debris that might hit them.

Sitting up they looked at the destroyed car. "Do you destroy every vehicle you get into?" Nora asked looking at Jaune who shrugged.

"Standard operating procedure." Jaune said taking a deep breath. "Boys with toys."

"Why would that be the procedure?" Ruby asked confused.

"Gets rid of any evidence." Coco said having read and seen such things in spy thrillers.

"Oh."

"Boys and their toys." Summer said thinking of Tai and Qrow and all he fights they got into with each other. Of course, most of the fights were about their fighting styles and how they were better than the other.

"Maybe I should take care of the transportation for our trip to Vytal." She said as Jaune put back on his watch before looking at her.

"Our trip?"

"Do you know how to disarm the weapon?" Nora asked to which Jaune didn't immediately respond and shrugged again.

"I suppose that depends on what kind of weapon you're talking about disarming." Jaune said looking at Nora making her bit her lower lip before slowly leaning toward him.

"So…tell me…are there any other "standard operating procedures"…I should be aware of, Commander?"

Jaune leaned closer. "Thousands." He said before kissing her, "but I only pay them." Nora wrapped her arms around his neck. "Lip service." The two continued kissing.

Nora blushed when she saw the two of kiss, looking to Jaune she saw him glance at her and blush before looking back the screen. She remembered what Pyrrha said about wanting to meet after the showing and figured that it had something to do with Jaune and their feeling towards him.

Pyrrha looked at the screen of the two kissing and looked away out of respect for the two.

Neptune opened his notebook and took notes.

Jaune and Nora are driving near the Anima coast. "My whole life I dreamed about coming to Mistral. It's so beautiful. Not another person in sight." She said making Jaune smile as he pressed a button on his dashboard and a small screen appeared showing a radar with a blinking dot closing in on them. Looking up she saw a small plane fly over them before landing on the same stretch of road they are driving on.

"What is it with you and moving vehicles?" Nora asked Jaune who didn't say anything.

The plane slowed to a stop as the Jaune and Nora pulled up to see Peter Port exiting wearing a brightly colored shirt and a stray hat. "Yo, Jimbo!" Peter said carrying a brown bag. "Brought a little gift from old—what's his name? T, Z—"

"Q." Jaune said taking the bag and looking at the contents.

"Yeah."

"What are you doing here, Port?"

"Banyan trees." Peter said looking at the trees in the distance. "Uh, I am not here. The VSS has no knowledge, no involvement. Absolutely nothing to with your insertion into Vytal if you catch my drift."

"Yes, I do. Perfectly." Jaune said removing his sunglasses and pocketing them in his jacket.

"What does he mean?" Sun asked ordering a soda.

"Vale can't officially help but they can lend support." Emilia said having taken part in similar operations during her time in the Vale military. "My guess would be a small platoon of soldiers as backup and one or two small air crafts for support."

"Did you serve, Emilia?" James asked curious.

Emilia unbutton her outer shirt and removed her right sleeve to show a tattoo sleeve going down her arm. On the upper arm a symbol of a knight helmet above two sniper rifles, a crosshair surrounded the symbol. Jayne and the rest of the Arc family had already seen her tattoos.

"You were a knight?" Winter asked having heard of the Knights of Vale. They are rumored to be on par with the Specialists.

"I was a sniper with them." Emilia said covering up the tattoo and buttoned up her outer shirt.

"What was your weapon and it's melee form?" Ruby asked excited to meet another user of sniper rifles.

"I didn't have a melee form for my weapon." Emilia told Ruby making her deflate. "I used a kukri instead." Ruby perked up when she heard that, she wondered just how good of a sniper Jaune's mother is and if she would give her some tips for Crimson Rose.

"Borrowed a plane from a friend of mine at Beacon." Peter said heading back to the plane to retrieve a map. "Military and air traffic are in the loop. You're cleared on our radar for 0600 hours. Here's the latest sat int from Vale. Stay below 600 feet." Peter told them handing the map and images over.

"500 feet." Nora said taking the maps and looking them over.

"Who is that?" Peter said removing his sunglasses and gesturing to Nora.

"Nora Valerie." Jaune said introducing the two.

"Nora Valkyrie." Nora said correcting him.

"Atlas Minister of Transportation." Jaune said making her smile, Peter removed his hat and gestured for him to talk privately.

"Did you check her out?" Peter whispered.

"Head to toe." Jaune said.

"I imagine it was a very thorough evaluation." Yang said with a smirk. Ruby blushed at the meaning behind the words.

"Jealous?" Blake asked.

"I prefer men my own age."

"Anything I need to know?" Tai asked making Yang groan as she remembered her first boyfriend and how her father acted. She'd never knew that a guy could run that fast.

Pyrrha frowned wondering when Jaune will give her a thorough evaluation. Maybe she could wear something when the time comes.

"Right." Peter said with a knowing smile. "So, you're looking for a dish the size of Amity Coliseum? Doesn't exist. We checked the whole island, nothing."

"I know it's there. It's duplicate of Severnaya. Like your secret transmitters in Vacuo."

"I've never been to Vacuo." Peter said nervously. "How does she know about that?"

"What if I need backup?" Jaune asked.

"Get on the radio. I'll send in the Knights." Peter said leaving the two with the plane while he heads for the car. "Turn left at the end of the runway. Vytal's 80 miles on your right."

"Yo, Port!" Jaune yelled before tossing the keys which Peter caught with his hat and entered the car. "Just one thing. Don't push any of the buttons in that car."

"Just gonna go bombing around in it." Peter said turning the car on.

"Exactly." Jaune said slightly worried about what Q might say if he found out that someone other than him is driving his car.

"Yo, Jaune, I got faith, but be careful. He knows your coming." Peter said before driving off leaving the two alone.

"The element of surprise if pretty much gone." Leon said wondering who is going to be the victor. Tai or Jaune.

Ruby felt conflicted on who to cheer for, her father or her friend/crush. Yang is also in the same boat as her sister.

Jaune sat on the beach near the safe house thinking before they had to leave the next day. Nora walked towards him wearing a white bikini, she stopped in front of him getting his attention before he looked at the waves crashing upon the rocks.

"He was your friend, Xio Long." Nora said kneeling next to Jaune who continued to watch the waves. "Now he is your enemy, and you will kill him. It is that simple."

"On paper…yes." Jaune replied now looking at her.

"In reality it's more difficult." Oobleck said drinking his coffee. "You're fighting a person who trained with you, fought beside you, and knows how you fight."

Ozpin knew that he was referring to his old partner. How many gave up being a huntsman and turned to a life of crime. 'Too many' thought Ozpin taking a sip of coffee.

Yang wasn't naïve as her sister, she knew that huntsmen went rogue from time to time and later when they graduated from Beacon they would eventually be assigned to track one down.

"Unless he kills you first."

"Nora—"

"You think I'm impressed?" Nora asked slightly angry. "All of this, with your guns, your killing, your death, for what?" She asked with a raised voice. "So, you can be a hero?" Jaune didn't say anything. "All the heroes I know are dead."

Leon looked at his feet thinking about his son, looking at him he saw himself in him. Young, hopeful, and a head full of dreams before the reality of the world slapped him in the face. 'I hope you can forgive me, Jaune.'

Emilia held Leon's hand and gave him a warm smile.

Ozpin once again thought about the past heroes he had the privilege of teaching and leading. Looking to Jaune, he had to admit that he looked just like his great grandfather Marcus when he knew him. The man gave everything to stop the Grimm and in honor of him, Ozpin commissioned the statue of him and others outside Beacon.

"Nora, listen to me."

"How can you act like this?" Nora asked not understanding him. "How can you be so cold?"

Jaune took a moment to answer. "It's what keeps me alive."

"No. it's what keeps you alone." Nora said getting up to leave but is stopped when Jaune grabbed her arm and kissed her, Nora broke the kiss and regarded him for a moment before kissing him.

Glynda glanced at James knowing that the man is still single even though he is an attractive man. He wasn't always the man he is now, she knew him back when he smiled more and even made her laugh, back when he had that light in his eyes. Now the light dulled, and he rarely smiled, always focused on the task in front of him. She missed those days.

Willow looked at the man she loved wondering if she should tell him about her daughter and the possibility that he may be the father. She hoped that he would take the news well and not lash out even though she knew that he wouldn't but you never knew with people.

Inside the safe house Jaune is asleep on the bed naked.

"Jaune?" Nora asked from her spot beside him

"Yes?" Jaune asked opening his eyes. Nora rolled on top of him.

"On the train…when you told him to kill me and that I meant nothing to you…did you mean it?"

Jaune smiled. "Yes." He said honestly making Nora frown. "Basic rule. Always call their bluff." He said cracking a smile making Nora angry making her hit him with a pillow. Jaune chuckled throwing the pillow off the bed before brushing her hair out of her face. "No…" He said before the two kissed and continued into the night.

Yang was about to cover Ruby's eyes but stopped when she saw their mother shake her head at her. Shrinking into her seat Yang let a sigh of relief when the screen faded to black thankful that her sister didn't have to see that. Yang was unaware that Ruby was already exposed thanks to Blake not keeping track of her graphic novels and her scroll.

Nora bit her lower lip already imaging the scene between the two and looked to Jaune noticing the blush on his cheeks and the quick glance in her direction before looking back at the screen.

Velvet couldn't help but imagine herself in Nora's position on screen and blushed as her imagination took off.

The next day the plane flew over the island of Vytal, Jaune and Nora looked out the window at the passing scenery.

"Turn 10 degrees south…bearing 164." Nora told Jaune looking at the map.

"Yes, sir." Jaune said making Nora laugh as he turned the plane onto the correct bearing. Nora looked out the window not seeing anything other than trees, passing over a lake Jaune looked out the window and saw nothing.

"Nothing. There is nothing here." Nora said after seeing nothing.

"Let's make another pass." Jaune suggested turning the plane around and flying back over the lake. "Maybe Port was right. There is no dish." Jaune said just as a missile flew out of the water and destroyed one of the wings of the plane.

The plane began losing altitude and caught on fire, Nora clung to Jaune as he attempted to find a place to crash land without killing them. Nearing the water Jaune let go the controls and held Nora as the plane scraped the water surface slowing them down, the splashing water doused the flames as the plane made it to shore. The plane lost the other wing when it crashed into the trees and stopped when it hit a tree.

"Is the base under water?" James said to himself.

"Good way to keep a base hidden." Raven said just how deep Tai's pockets are if he is able to construct a base under a lake.

"Then where is the dish?" Neptune asked ordering a glass of water.

"Keep watching." Sun told his friend.

Kicking open the door Jaune stumbled out disoriented and grabbed Nora's unconscious form and carrying her away from the wreckage. When a good distance away from the wreckage Jaune collapsed still disoriented and fainted.

Feeling a breeze on his face, Jaune opened his eyes and saw a helicopter above him before the noise hit his ears. Seeing a rope being tossed out and landing in front of him, Jaune got to his feet still slightly out of it and saw a person rope descending from the helicopter. Blocking out the sun to better see Jaune saw the person is a woman before she kicked in her way down knocking him over.

Cinder unhooked the clasp from her harness and kicked Jaune when he tried to get up before kicking him again knocking him on his back. Cinder stood on top of Jaune, grabbing his vest she lifted him up. "This time, Mr. Arc...the pleasure will be all mine." She said before licking his face and began squeezing her legs together.

"She's really starting to get on my nerves." Weiss said crossing her arms.

"I hear ya." Neptune agreed winking at Weiss making her blush. Her sister eyed the young man that had caught her sisters' attention.

Jaune screamed in pain as he felt the air leave him and his sides being crushed. Cinder screamed out in pleasure as she slowly killed him, gritting his teeth only made Cinder apply more pressure to his sides making it more painful.

Nora attempted to hit Cinder from the side with a fallen branch but Cinder blocked it and grabbed her bringing her close, so they are face to face. "Wait for your turn." She told the redhead before head butting her knocking her back.

Jaune took advantage of the distraction and hooked the clasp on the back of Cinder's harness and grabbing the rifle on her back and shot at the helicopter. One of the bullets ricocheted off the metal and hit the pilot killing him. With the pilot dead the helicopter slowly dropped out of the sky pulling the rope attached to Cinder.

Cinder realized this as she tried to undo the harness and screamed as the rope yanked her back slamming her into a tree, she struggled to breath as the helicopter pulled in the opposite direction and Cinder was pinned against the tree. She couldn't do anything but feel her spine slowly break along with her ribs killing her.

"She may be a sadistic bitch but that's too much." Yang said cringing when she heard the snap of the girl's spine.

"Indeed, it would be a slow and painful experience." Penny added from her spot next to Ruby.

"Once again Mr. Arc has demonstrated his ability to think outside the box." Glynda said pushing up her glasses.

"That's one problem taken car off." Ozpin said drinking his coffee. "I suspect that Tai will prove the greater challenge."

The helicopter crashed into the trees, the branches breaking the rotors sending them flying, Jaune and Nora fell to the ground to avoid being hit by one of the stray rotors that flew in the direction. After waiting for a few seconds Jaune and Nora looked the body of Cinder still pinned to the tree.

"She always did enjoy a good squeeze." Jaune told Nora.

"Not bad." Yang said not wanting to admit that Jaune stole her line.

"Jealous that someone other than you is making better puns?" Blake asked her partner who shrugged her shoulders.

"I can admit that he makes some decent jokes."

"She's jealous." Tai said with a smile.

"Oh, yeah." Summer said agreeing with him.

Inside a facility Tai walked down the stairs to the main computer console where Boris is at. Entering the room Tai walked over to Boris. "Is the satellite in range?"

Boris checked his watch. "Six minutes."

"Prepare the dish."

"No. it's too early." Boris said looking to Tai. "I am not ready."

"You may be good with a computer, but I'm good with a gun." Tai told Boris. "Do it."

Tai saw a guard approaching the room and went to meet him while Boris made a face at Tai behind his back.

"Sir, we lost contact with Cinder and her helicopter." The guard reported.

"The man just won't take a hint." Tai said already guessing what happened to Cinder and the pilot. "Do we have a squad in area?"

"Squad three is five minutes out." The guard said.

"That's quite the set up." Sienna said seeing all the technology inside the base. If the White Fang had a base at their disposal it would make things easier. James had the same train of thought though for different reasons.

Raven looked at the Tai on screen and licked her lips seeing the man she fell for. The aura of authority to him that surrounded him and the bite to back up his bark. She loved it when he showed that authority to her. Although now it appeared Summer was privy to that making the raven haired woman slightly jealous.

"Nine years of being the head of the major crime syndicate pays off it seems." An said passing a note to a helper droid who saluted before heading off to wherever. Seconds later the same droid came back holding a cup that contained a green liquid. Li smiled at his wife and her habit of making "healthy" drinks. He loved her but he could never stomach those drinks.

"What is that?" Ren asked seeing the drink in his mother's hands.

"It's a drink that I made from herbs native to our town" An said taking a sip and sighing in happiness at the familiar taste. "Would you like some?"

Ren nodded and soon he had a cup as well. "It's good. I need to show you some recipes of my own." Ren said after taking a sip.

Li chuckled at his son. "You truly take after your mother."

Jaune and Nora scavenged what gear survived the crash when they heard alarms. Grabbing what gear they could they ran to an overlook of the lake and three towers slowly emerge out of the ground surrounding the lake. Large cables attached to the towers pulled a large triangular platform out of the lake as the waters receded.

"No wonder we couldn't see it." Jaune said as more of the waters receded to reveal the dish portion of the radar, the triangular platform acting as the antenna. "Come on."

"The engineering is amazing." Velvet said marveled at the engineering behind the dish and wondered how the gears are kept clean while underwater. She also wondered if the dish was assembled underwater or if it was built on land before being moved to under the lake.

"Indeed, such a structure would have taken years to build." Penny said wondering if her creator could build something similar.

"It's worrying how a criminal organization could build something like that." Winter said glad that no such facility exists in Remnant under the hands of criminals. She shuddered to think of such a thing.

"Indeed." Ozpin said glad that Salem didn't have facilities like what's on screen throughout Remnant.

Tai opened a silver case to reveal the GoldenEye tablet along with the two arming keys, removing the tablet Tai walked over to Boris. "The world's greatest cash card." He said handing the tablet to Boris but held on when he grabbed it. "It had better not be rejected."

Boris took the tablet and inserted it into the console, the console accepted the tablet.

"So, he's after money." Qrow said with a scoff. "Just another criminal."

"No, there's another motivation." Summer said pondering what else could motivate him. "Money is too trivial for him."

"Revenge." Raven said getting people to look at her. "Remember what he said happened to his parents?"

"Arcadia betrayed them." Yang said not sure what that has to do with her fath—Tai.

"He wants to show them what the price of betrayal is." Jaune whispered thinking of his parents.

"Correct. They betrayed his parents that resulted in their deaths." Raven said crossing her legs. "He wants to show them the same treatment with the GoldenEye."

"Doing so would render Arcadia obsolete." Weiss said. "Their financial infrastructure would collapse since everything is run electronically. People would die and riots would break out."

"Arcadia would be plunged into chaos." Blake said finishing what Weiss is saying.

"Jaune will stop him." Velvet said confidently drawing attention to her and making her shrink before straightening. "His home is being threatened and that means he'll fight twice as hard."

"Not bad, Vel." Coco told her partner with a smile happy to see her come out of her shell briefly.

Jaune and Nora made it to the outskirts of the radar dish just in time for the waters to fully recede thanks to the drain in the center. Jaune took a closer look and figured that Tai must have his base of operations under the dish.

Inside the hidden base the computer screens show the Weiss satellite coming online.

"Weiss is online." Boris said looking at the readings of the satellite. "Target coordinates?"

"Target is Arcadia." Tai said looking at the map of Remnant.

"Looks like you were right." Leon told Raven who didn't say anything. 'You can do it, son. Save Arcadia.'

Jaune and Nora made it to the dish when they heard gears moving and saw the antenna moving. "He's getting ready to signal the satellite." Nora said looking at the antenna moving.

"How do you stop it?" Jaune asked.

"The transmitter above the—"

Whatever Nora was about to say is interrupted by gunfire from across the dish as a group of soldiers advanced on them. Jaune grabbed Nora and the two of them jumped into the dish, sliding on the wet concrete they fast approached the center where the drainage is at. Jaune stopped himself on the edge of the drainage thanks to the small metal barrier surrounding the drainage and grabbed Nora before she fell into the drainage.

Jaune looked into the drainage and found a hatch.

"Coinvent." Coco said slightly disappointed.

"What were you expecting a mechanical door with a six-digit code?" Blake asked turning in her seat to face Coco.

"A girl can dream." Coco said with a smirk.

"Antenna in position." Boris told Tai who gave him one of the arming keys.

"On my count." Tai said after the keys are inserted. "Three, two, one." Both men turned the keys at the same time and activated Weiss. Tai walked over to the arming switch and removed the cover before flipping the switch arming Weiss. "Long live Arcadia."

"All this for revenge." Willow said.

"Revenge can push people to the extreme." Ozpin said thinking about his wife.

Qrow remembered when he was told about Summer missing her check in, Tai and him went to find her in Mistral after leaving the kids with Glynda. They found her body in an abandoned village, he never heard Tai cry and scream like that. He still remembered Tai holding her lifeless body and crying, screaming his pain and sorrow to the world. That day he vowed to hunt the bastards that took Summer away from her husband and children.

Jaune and Nora entered the hidden base and hid behind a pillar on the top floor giving them a good look at the base. Guards ran throughout the base posting guards at key locations throughout the base as Jaune led the way to another hiding spot behind some pipes.

"The mainframe computer." Nora pointed out the room with a guard posted outside.

"Don't move." Jaune told her before heading out keeping his weapon out, running into an open area Jaune ran into some guards who gave away his position before he shot them. Seeing more guards Jaune took cover behind a column as they started shooting, leaning out only to get back into cover as the guards fired. Jaune saw Nora heading to the lower levels and figured that she must be up to something, meaning he had to buy her time.

Jaune quickly leaned out of cover and fired six shots before getting back into cover. Taking out two explosive charges Jaune synced them before exiting cover.

Jaune threw out his weapon and exited cover with his hands raised in surrender. One of the guards approached slowly and grabbed Jaune pushing against the wall and searched him, finding no other weapons the guard grabbed him and escorted him Tai. The rest of the guards followed unaware of the explosives Jaune planted on the fuel tanks nor did they spot six bullet holes in the tank letting the fuel out.

"Hope his plan works." Ren said drinking more of his herbal tea.

"It will, Renny." Nora told her childhood friend. "Fearless leader hasn't let us down with one of his plans yet."

"There's a first for everything." Jaune told them.

Nora checked the area in front of the mainframe and found that the guard is no longer there. Thanking her good luck, the redhead entered the mainframe and began accessing one of the computers.

The guards escorted Jaune into the room with Tai, one of the guards set his personal things on the table before backing away. The extra guards kept their weapons trained on Jaune.

"Jaune. What an unpleasant surprise." Tai said greeting his old friend.

"We aim to please."

"Where's the girl?" Tai asked and Jaune remained silent. "Find her!" He told one of the guards who left the room and rounded up more guards for the search.

Tai went to the table containing Jaune's things and went through them, picking up the pen Tai examined it. "So how is old Q? Up to his usual tricks? He asked setting the pen down and pointing to Jaune's watch. "The watch."

Jaune removed his watch handing it over to Tai who looked at it. Pushing back his sleeve Tai held the watch next to his. "Ah, new model. Still press here, do I?" Tai asked pressing one of the buttons on the watch disarming the explosives.

"It's always good to have a backup plan in case things go wrong." Tai told the students of Beacon.

"He's right, if you hinge everything on a single plan and it goes wrong. You're dead in the water." Qrow added thinking back to past missions that turned bad because he didn't have a backup plan.

"Don't you normally just rush in and hope for the best?" Tai asked his friend.

"Shut up." Qrow said after a pause making Yang and Ruby laugh.

"At least we know where they get it from." Blake said to Weiss who nodded in agreement.

The guards continued their search for Nora when one of them noticed red liquid run coming from the floor above. "Hey!" The guard shouted getting the attention of another that ran past him, reaching out he touched the red liquid and brought it to his nose.

"Fuel."

The two guards went to the floor above and saw a pool of fuel leaking out of one of the storage tanks.

"Alert Xio Long."

Inside the mainframe Nora is still typing away at the computer.

"I wonder what she's doing?" Jaune asked taking a sip of soda.

"Probably messing around with the programming." Ozpin said getting another refill on his coffee.

"Whatever she's doing. She better get it done fast." Qrow said while trying to steal some popcorn from Summer only to get his hand slapped away.

"Sir." The guard who found the fuel says entering the room and whispers to Tai who gestures for him to leave before looking at Jaune.

"Really, Jaune? Was that your plan?" Tai asks walking towards Jaune. "Cover the area with fuel and then set off the explosives." Jaune just shrugged. "I guess it's true. You can't teach an old dog new tricks."

"There is always something new to learn." Jaune said making Tai scoff before going to a computer and checking it.

"Interesting setup, Tai." Jaune said looking at the computers around him and saw an account filling up with money on one of the screens. "You break into the Bank of Arcadia via computer. Then transfer the money electronically. Just seconds before you set off the GoldenEye…which erases any record of the transactions. Ingenious."

"Thank you, Jaune." Tai says checking the account.

"But it still boils down to petty theft." Jaune says. "In the end, you're just a bank robber. Nothing more than a common thief."

Boris looks at Tai expecting him to have an outrage at being called a thief.

Tai looks at Jaune.

"Struck a nerve." Yang said recognizing same look her dad has when someone tick him off.

"He probably thinks his goal is noble." Ghira said while thinking back to the first incarnation of the White Fang he created with the help of other like-minded individuals before handing the reins to Sienna to take care of his family and lead Menagerie.

Kali held his hand knowing what he is thinking about.

The guards found Nora inside the mainframe and grab her forcing her away from the computers. Knocking one of the guards off she quickly hits enter before being dragged off.

"I wonder what she did." Coco said interested in what she did.

"We'll find out soon enough." Weiss said drinking some tea.

"You always did have a small mind, Jaune." Tai said looking at the guards dragging Nora out of the mainframe. "It's not just erasing bank records. It's everything on every computer and scroll in greater Arcadia." He said before turning around and facing Jaune. "Tax records, stock market, credit ratings, land registries, criminal records. In sixteen minutes and 43—No, 42 seconds, the Arcadian Kingdom will re-enter the Stone Age.

"A worldwide financial meltdown." Jaune said finally figuring out Tai's real plan. "And all so mad little Tai can settle a score with the world 50 years on."

"Oh, please, Jaune, spare me the Freud." Tai said walking away from Jaune and facing him again. "I might as well ask if all the vodka martinis ever silence the screams of all the men you killed?" The guards escorted Nora into the room. "Or if you find forgiveness in the arms of all those women?" He said watching Nora before looking at Jaune. "For all the dead ones you failed to protect."

What Tai said affected the veteran hunters in the room. Each of them dealing with the grief of lost friends and loved one in their own ways. Qrow took up drinking and being more ruthless in fighting.

Leon became a family man occasionally taking jobs that took him away from his family.

Ozpin became a teacher training his students to help silence the voices of the dead accusing him of failing them.

Glynda became stricter in her lessons so her students wouldn't make the same mistakes she did when she started off as a huntress.

Jaune didn't retort and looked at Nora.

"Arcadia is about to learn the cost of betrayal." Tai said before looking to Nora. "Welcome to the party, my dear."

"Nora!" Boris said happy to see her. Unfortunately, the same couldn't be said for Nora who marched over and back handed him knocking him over and onto the table holding Jaune's things. Nora didn't stop with the backhand, no she followed down and started punching him while everyone looked at scene in humor.

Tai gestured to one of the guards who pulled Nora off Boris and held her back. Jaune moved slightly and the guards removed their safety keeping him place.

Boris recovered and put on his glasses which Nora knocked off with her back hand. Grabbing a pen off the ground which turned out to be Jaune's pen, he clicked it two times in frustration before getting to his feet and marching over to Nora.

Everyone hoped that Boris didn't click the pen three times remembering what Q told Jaune about the pen and how to arm it. Then again it could also be their only way out.

"Don't ever do that again!" He warned her.

"This is not one of your games, Boris. Real people will die!" Nora yelled at him. "You pathetic little worm."

Boris raised his hand to hit her but Tai stopped him by grabbing his arm. "She was in the mainframe. Check the computer!"

Boris yanked his arm free. "She is a moron. A second level programmer. She works on the guidance system." He said mockingly. "She doesn't even have access to the firing codes." Just then an alarm sounded. Boris ran to his computer while Nora smiled.

"Never underestimate Nora." Ren said making his friend happy and his teammates smile thinking back to training when Cardin joked about beating Nora in one hit. Turned out it was Cardin the getting knocked out in one hit after Nora absorbed some lighting dust and knocked him out of the ring.

"I hear that." Jaune said having seen firsthand the consequences.

"Retro rockets firing." Boris said upon seeing the screen before trying to fix the problem. He flipped the pen in between his fingers and clicked it twice.

"What the hell is happening?" Tai demanded

"We'll have re-entry in 12 minutes." Boris said looking to the screen to see a countdown.

"It'll burn up somewhere over the Atlasian Ocean." Nora said smirking to Jaune who was impressed.

"Deal with it." Tai ordered.

Boris slammed the pen on the table before turning in his chair and pointing to Nora. "She changed the access codes!"

"Then she can fix it." Tai said drawing his weapon and grabbed Jaune by his shirt and marched him closer to Nora and put in the gun against his head.

"Go ahead. Shoot him. He means nothing to me." Nora said with a smile while Jaune suppressed a sigh.

"Really?" Yang and Coco said at the same time.

"I guess." Tai said also suppressing a sigh of his own. "Does she really think it will work twice on him?"

"Hope for the best." Winter said crossing her leg over the other.

"Plan for the worst." Emilia finished the saying.

"I can do it!" Boris declared from his spot. "I can break her codes!"

"Then get on with it!" Tai shouted spurring Boris into action.

Jaune looked at Boris without moving his head too much to better see how he is progressing. He also saw him clicking the pen and spinning it in his hand.

Tai followed his sight and saw nothing out of the ordinary as Boris kept clicking away on the pen.

'One, two, one, two.' Jaune thought to himself counting the number of clicks. Boris kept spinning and clicking the key when Tai had enough and released Jaune moving onto Nora.

"Tell him! Now!" He ordered pointing the gun at her head. Boris rose out of his chair in frustration and walked over to Nora.

'One, two, three!' Jaune counted in his head as Boris pointed the pen in her face.

"Give me the codes, Nora!" Boris shouted shaking the pen.

'One, two.' Jaune made his move and knocked the pen out of Boris' hand and forced Nora down as the pen landed in a small puddle of fuel before exploding, though the explosion was small thanks to the guards sealing the ruptured fuel tank. It still provided a decent fireball that gave Jaune and Nora time to escape to the elevator as everyone took cover from the explosion.

Tai hid behind a concrete wall while Boris pushed some people down to escape the blast and flames.

"What a dick." Yang said not at surprised to see Boris looking out for himself.

"There are always people looking out for themselves." Raven said knowing a few.

"Like you?" Summer asked making Raven silent.

"Can Boris break your codes?" Jaune asked they were in the elevator.

"Possibly." Nora said breathing heavily.

"Possibly?" Jaune asked for clarification that went unanswered. "We have to destroy the transmitter." He said pressing the button for the top floor.

"By the way, I'm fine, thank you very much." Nora said recounting their time on the train.

Inside the base the explosion didn't do as much damage as Jaune intended as most of the computers were still intact and the fire is containable. Guards put them out with fire extinguishers before moving on to others.

"A least they managed to stall for time." Yang said feeling anxious for the inevitable showdown between Jaune and Tai.

The elevator reached the top floor and opened getting the guard's attention as he looked at the open doors and saw Nora lying face down. Approaching the elevator slowly the guard kept his weapon up as he entered and was ambushed by Jaune who dropped in from the ceiling and slammed him into the elevator walls knocking him out.

Nora got up and Jaune grabbed the guard's weapons. "Do you know how to use this?" Jaune asked handing the pistol to Nora.

Taking the pistol Nora ejected the magazine and put it back in and pulled back the slide. "Yes."

"Good. Stay out of sight." Jaune told her impressed before running across the suspension bridge to the transmitter.

"The showdown is approaching." Peter said with an excited tone. "Two men who served together are now enemies. Only one will emerge victorious, who will it be?" Peter channeled his inner wrestling announcer making the students smile at his humor.

The only one who wasn't smiling was Oobleck. The scenario reminded too much of his friend.

Tai walked over to Boris while looking at the destruction. He really should have known Q would make pen into a grenade. "How long?" He asked Boris, still trying to break Nora's code.

"Two minutes." Boris said before seeing the look in Tai's eyes. "One minute."

"Guard!" Tai shouted summoning a guard.

"I'm fixing it." Boris said trying to please Tai.

When the guard arrived Tai took his main weapon. "If he doesn't finish, kill him!" He told the guard before heading for the service lift. The guard drew his sidearm and Boris typed faster.

"That one way to keep him motivated." Raven said having used the same motivation on some members of her tribe.

"Worked with you growing up." Qrow told his sister remembering their father. Not exactly father of the year material.

Nora managed to make it out of the facility without being seen and made her into the forest where she found a helicopter along with the pilot waiting.

"Minister of Transportation strikes again." Nora said already figuring out what her on screen is going to do.

Kicking open the door Tai ran into the service lift and pulled the cord activating it, closing the door to the cage Tai looked at the bridge trying to spot Jaune.

The guard paced back and forth behind Boris making him nervous as the Weiss satellite began heating up on re-entry.

Spotting Jaune running Tai aimed and fired at Jaune. Jaune jumped to the ground and shot back forcing Tai to take cover in the cage. Checking the magazine Tai tossed the weapon aside when he found it empty and drew his pistol.

Jaune's weapon stopped firing, checking it he found it jammed and left the weapon as he continued running towards the transmitter.

Boris stopped typing and glanced behind him to see the guard pointing the gun to his head making him go back to working.

Jaune made it to the transmitter and so did Tai who tried to shoot him but Jaune stayed low to avoid being hit. Once the lift docked with the transmitter Tai opened the gate and pursued Jaune who is running down the stairs to the gears. Tai stopped and fired forcing Jaune to roll down the remaining steps and hit a pipe making him groan in pain before resuming running towards the engineering section.

Tai ejected the empty magazine and put in a fresh one before pulling back the slide and continuing after Jaune.

Entering the engineering section Jaune stopped when he heard a banging.

"Tai isn't exactly being subtle is he?" Glynda asked wincing internally at the loud banging that Tai is causing.

"I guess subtility goes out the window when your base is destroyed and your plan almost ruined." Sienna said.

Boris finally broke Nora's code. "Yes! I am invincible!" He declared happily before sending the command to realign the antenna.

The antenna began moving as Tai jumped over a rail to get to the back door. Kicking open the door Tai is ambushed by Jaune who is right behind the door and grabs the gun before punching Tai in the stomach forcing the air out him and slamming him against the door before pushing him over the rails to the first level and shooting him as he went over the rails.

Jaune runs around the rails to get to the stairs but stops when he sees the gears tearing, grabbing a pipe off the wall he inserts that into the gears before going after Tai.

"Now he can focus on Tai without worrying about the transmitter." Ozpin said taking another sip of his coffee. He really needed to see if he could the beans for himself.

"This is going to be weird." Yang said talking about the fight between her father and Jaune. It kind of reminded her of her first boyfriend.

Eventually the pipe gets jammed in the gears forcing the antenna to stop.

Boris sees the message that the antenna has malfunctioned and tries to fix it.

Jaune follows a blood trail along the walkway below the engineering section and sees a hatch leading to another section. Jumping over the railing Jaune opens the hatch and checks the area with his weapon before climbing down the ladder. Jaune hears a noise and turns around to kicked in the face by Tai hangs from the edge of the hatch before dropping in.

Everyone winced when Jaune got kicked in the face. Those that have been knew the pain even with aura it still hurt.

"You can do it, Jaune!" Ruby cheered.

"Nothing for dad?" Yang teased seeing their father turn towards them.

"Nope." Ruby said popping the "p" and making Tai shrink in his seat. "Dad is a jerk in this universe and needs a beatdown."

"Well said." Qrow said proudly until Summer pinched his ear.

"Are you corrupting my daughter?" Summer asked innocently and with a glare that would make Miss Goodwitch envious.

"Tai?" Qrow said trying to get friend to help but the traitor ate popcorn in silence dooming him to face the wrath of Summer alone.

Jaune tries to raise his gun but Tai kicks it out of his hand before punching Jaune in the face then in the stomach making him bend over which capitalized on by kneeing him in the face. Jaune backed up and Tai tackled him into pipes knocking them over, Tai sees the gun against the wall and goes for it.

Jaune knocks it out of his hands and Tai punched Jaune in the stomach twice before crossing his arms against his neck and slamming against a ladder then a wall.

Jaune pushed Tai's arms down and then uppercut Tai before pushing against a ladder and kneed him in the stomach and punching him. Tai grabbed Jaune by his shirt then head butted him knocking him back. Jaune got his hands up and blocked two punches from Tai before arm locking him and pushing him into a wall.

"Not exactly elegant in their fighting, are they?" Port said analyzing the fight between the two.

"Seems more like a bar brawl." Leon pointed out seeing how they two resorted to their training briefly.

"They're trying to throw the other off." Oobleck said taking a sip of his coffee. "It's a good strategy for a while. But it wont last."

Jaune hit the sides of Tai's head confusing him before kneeing him in the face and going for the gun. Jaune picked up the gun but Tai kicked the inside of Jaune's elbow forcing him to turn around and he kicked his hand making him pull the trigger. Tai punched Jaune in his ribs then grabbing him by the throat and pushing him against a work table.

Jaune grabs a chain and throws it at Tai who ducks to avoid the chain and grabs Jaune's leg when he tries to kick him, punching Jaune in the throat Tai pushes him off the table and goes for the gun.

Jaune gets to his feet and sees Tai with the gun, both men are panting and Jaune is using the ladder for support.

"Cheater!" Nora and Ruby yelled at the same time pointing to the screen.

"Sadly, whoever holds the gun is the winner." Glynda said pushing up her glasses.

"Something tells me Mr. Arc isn't finished just yet." Willow said holding a glass of wine in her hand. Wiess and Winter looked to their mother before looking away in disappointment knowing how she gets when she drinks.

Tai chuckled in between breathes. "You know, Jaune…I was always better."

Jaune kicks the release lever for the hatch he is standing on and holds tightly onto the ladder as it unfolds itself thanks to gravity. Tai pulls the trigger but misses as Jaune rides the ladder down the hatch. Jaune yells in pain when the ladder suddenly stops and Jaune feels something break.

"Probably his ribs." Li said remembering when Tai hit him in the ribs.

"Jaune is lucky that he noticed the lever during the fight." Ren said impressed at his observation skills.

Tai checks the magazine and sees it's empty before tossing the weapon away and grabbing his radio from his belt. "Alpha One to Gunship. Alpha One to Gunship!"

At the helicopter that Nora found the pilot quickly gets into the pilot's seat and puts on the flight helmet before starting the helicopter.

Jaune starts climbing the ladder as Tai starts climbing down.

Inside the engineering section the jammed gears start to cause the hydraulics to begin sparking.

Tai looks at Jaune before putting his hands and feet on the sides of the ladder and starts sliding down hitting Jaune and knocking him free. Jaune screams as he lets go of the ladder and fall backward hitting his head on the way down, reaching out Jaune grabs the last step of the ladder and holds on as best he can with one hand.

Tai smiles as he sees this.

Raven bit her lip upon seeing Tai being ruthless. She could see this version of Tai standing by her side and strengthening the tribe with his knowledge.

"It's not looking good." Sun said worried for his fellow blonde.

The helicopter takes off heading for the transmitter.

Jaune looks down and sees a small circular platform a few feet below him, after that is the long fall to the ground. Groaning Jaune tries to use his other hand to grab on but can't as Tai just reached the last step of the ladder.

Tai places his foot on Jaune's hand lightly forcing him to stop swinging. Smirking Tai steps on his hand forcing him to let go and land on the small platform, Jaune almost fell off but quickly grabbed a wire saving him from a long fall.

Ruby gripped the chair arm when she saw Jaune fall and sighed when he grabbed the wire saving him.

"Man, talk about lucky." Yang said also breathing out a sigh of relief.

"I don't know if I can watch the rest." The youngest of the Arc sister said feeling uneasy of watching her older brother in dangerous situations.

"It'll be alright. Jaune is nothing is not resilient." Saphron told her sister before getting up and sitting next to her to comfort her.

Boris is now shaking the computer. "Speak to me!"

Jaune manages to get back on the platform just as Tai drops down and kicks Jaune in the forcing onto his back. Tai grabs Jaune by the throat and forces him closer to the edge, Jaune tries to fight back but Tai punches him in the ribs before picking him and slamming him back down.

Hearing the helicopter approaching Tai looks up and sees the pilot and Nora pointing a gun to his head.

Looking away cost Tai as Jaune head butted him and kicked him off the platform, before he could fall however Jaune quickly grabs his leg keeping him from falling.

Tai looks at the ground before looking to Jaune. "For Arcadia, Jaune?" He asks with a small smirk.

"No…for me." Jaune said before letting go.

Ruby and Yang looked away when Jaune let go, not wanting to see their father die. Tai got up and sat in between them and held them close.

"It's okay, that isn't me." He told his daughters reassuring them. Summer smiled upon seeing Tai with their daughters.

Raven looked at the scene for a moment and felt a twinge in her heart. She remembered when he held her like that when she was pregnant with Yang and she never felt so at peace before. Looking away and shaking her head to clear her head before focusing on the screen.

Tai screamed as he fell hundreds of feet before landing on the ground hard, his right leg bent at an awkward angle.

Everyone flinched when they saw Tai hit the ground and figured him to be dead. Yang and Ruby held their father tighter.

Boris screamed at the computer as he watched the signal for the Weiss satellite vanish and the words "Signal Lost" appeared on the screen.

Tai gasped for air, blood flowing from his mouth as he looked up towards Jaune who looked back. Looking up Jaune towards the helicopter to see Nora smile at him before pressing the gun into the pilots back forcing him closer to the platform where Jaune jumped and grabbed onto the helicopter landing gear.

Inside the engineering section the jammed gears exploded just as the helicopter flew away. Soon a large explosion engulfed the transmitter destroying the cables keeping it suspended in the air, the flaming wreckage fell down crushing Tai and destroying the base underneath the dish.

"It's done." Ghira simply said.

"Another mission done, huh?" Qrow said wishing he had his flask so he could drink and forget the sound of Tai screaming.

"Here." Summer held out his flask. "I took a sip, hope you don't mind?"

"Not at all." Qrow said taking the flask and taking a long sip before handing it back to Summer.

Boris appeared from the wreckage and looked around before jumping to his feet. "Yes! I am invincible!" He declared holding his arms up in victory, just then the liquid nitrogen tanks ruptured sending super cool liquid over him and covering the area in white fog. When the fog cleared Boris is frozen solid in his victory pose.

"Serves him right for betraying his friends." Ren coldly said getting the attention of his team.

"Ren is very protective of his friends." Nora explained with a smile.

"Good to know." Jaune said looking back to the screen.

Away from the facility the helicopter carrying Jaune and Nora flew low enough that Jaune let go without injuring himself and Nora followed by jumping out. The helicopter flew away as Nora climbed over Jaune's prone form.

Jaune groaned in pain as Nora laid on top of him holding his face in concern. "Jaune, Jaune! Are you all right?"

"Yes, I'm fine, thank you." Jaune said getting Nora to kiss him, wrapping his arms around her Jaune rolled over so he's on top.

"Suppose someone is watching?" Nora asked when Jaune started kissing her neck.

"There's no one within 25 miles, believe me." Jaune told her resuming the kiss.

"Yo, Jimbo!"

Jaune quickly got off of Nora and saw Peter walking toward them. Getting to their feet Nora felt angry at the man for interrupting.

"Cockblocker." Nora said crossing her arms in frustration.

"Miss Valkyrie, please refrain from using such vulgar language." Glynda told her student with a stern glare.

"You're one to talk." Emilia said drawing the attention of the blonde teacher. "I seem to recall you cursing up a storm when you couldn't get tickets to Vale in Dust."

"Isn't that a heavy metal band?" Yang asked knowing the band.

"It is, Glynda here was quite the fan."

"Is that true?" Blake asked facing Glynda as did everyone.

"I was young once and had good tastes in music." Glynda said not at all ashamed to admit that she is a metal head.

"It went beyond that." Emilia said grabbing her scroll and pulling up a picture that the blonde teacher thought was deleted. "Take a look." She said passing the scroll to Ren.

"Wow, you look hot, Miss G." Yang said looking at the photo of a young Glynda Goodwitch. She wasn't as busty as she is now, she wore black eyeliner and even had pink streaks in her hair. Wearing a black tank top with the logo of VID with a black miniskirt and torn leggings. On her neck is a choker completing her rocker look.

Suddenly the scroll became surrounded by a purple glow and flew to Glynda who caught it. "I told you to delete this photo!"

"Gotta have some proof." Emilia said with a smile.

"Can we finish watching this universe?" Leon suggested and everyone went back to their seats. James was disappointed he didn't get to see a picture of Glynda when she was younger.

"Is this supposed to be your idea of coming through in a clinch?" Jaune asked when Peter got close enough.

"It's tobacco plants." Peter said looking at the trees first then to Jaune. "I said I'd be here, huh. Yo! Knights!" Peter shouted raising his hand in the air.

In the clearing they are in the ground moved as soldiers wearing ghillie suits got to their knees revealing themselves. Vale Army helicopters flew over the trees and hovered above the clearing.

Jaune and Nora looked at the hidden soldiers in the clearing with disbelief that they were there and were about to have sex in front of them without knowing.

"Never knew you to put on a show." Yang told Nora with a smile.

"Only Jaune is allowed to see the main event." Nora proclaimed making the knight blush at her words. Ren smiled at his friend knowing that blunt doesn't fully describe her.

"Could be a kink for her." Coco said making Velvet blush at her words.

"Maybe you two would like to finish debriefing each other back at base." Peter said before leaving for a helicopter.

"Ready?" Jaune asked.

"I'm not going on a helicopter with you." Nora declared with a smile making Jaune look at her with mock hurt. "No plane, no train. Nothing that moves."

Jaune picked her up bridal style. "Darling, what could possibly go wrong, eh?" He asked carrying her to the waiting helicopter.

Once everyone is onboard the helicopters departed Vytal Island.

The screen faded to black and the lights come back on allowing everyone to stretch after sitting through the viewing.

"I liked that universe." Coco said feeling her back pop when she stretched. "Wouldn't mind seeing more."

"It was enjoyable." Weiss said. "Not something I would watch again but enjoyable nevertheless."

"You need to broaden your horizons, Weiss." Yang said stretching her arms. "Not everything can be a drama."

"Feel free to walk around while I set up the next viewing." Spart told everyone before disappearing in a flash of light.

Pyrrha gestured to the other girls to follow before leaving the theater with the other girls. Jaune watched them leave wondering what they are up and hoped that it wasn't a death match to see who he ends up with.

"Jaune, did something happen with mom and dad?" Saphron asked her little brother.

"Yeah." Jaune said looking over to his parents who chatted with Ghira and Kali. "Can we talk in private?"

Saphron nodded and told Terra to look after Adrian and her sisters before following Jaune out of the theater.

A/N: I had trouble choosing which Bond era film I wanted to go with. In the end I decided to go with the campiness of the Pierce Brosnan era of Bond films. I enjoy the seriousness of the Danial Craig Bond films, but I gotta admit that the campiness of the Brosnan Bond films was a treat to enjoy, (my opinion).

I also changed a scene from the movie and that is the leaking fuel scene. It always bugged me how no one noticed liquid dripping from the floor above or notice the smell. So I altered it.

Also the notion of Roman and Oobleck being partners was first mentioned in Coeur Al'Aran fic "Professor Arc". Read it if you haven't, it's a good fic.

The next chapter will be up when I finish it and here is a sneak peak of the next chapter.

"That's not our system."

"I know that."

Stay safe everyone and see you in the next chapter.

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