(A/N)- "Wow" That's my reaction upon seeing how this fic just blew up even though I half assed the writing, I'm pleasantly surprised that it would get even 20 to 25+ followers Thank you to everyone who's following this fic.

The main problem is the fact that I'll have to board school once I can, that means absolutely no updates since the boarders don't get to take their phones or anything non essential really, but then again that's the whole point of boarding at a school, from my perspective at the least.

On to the Reviews!

Lefitreader123- That was totally unintentional I swear! Honestly though I just wrote with the flow and that sentence ended up sticking and I laughed at it after realising the joke I accidently made

SkyLime2212-Thanks for the support my man, most people hate male SI's because they're harem male power fantasies and that's right, most of them are and I need people like you to help keep me on track and not wander off to the 'dark side' as I like to call it

Dat-boi-waddup- yes my dude, he is indeed the ballsiest balless man you'll ever meet in real life, media or fiction the fact that he can produce this much testosterone is due to the fact that he's the manliest normal man ever.

ExtraterrestrialFlyingCat- I can understand your concern, I myself have never really fleshed out a character aside from their main ideals and goals that they want to achieve, this will admittedly the first time I'll be doing it so I'll be taking example for the characters by basing them to my friends from real life, If you have any tips I'd be happy to hear them from you.

Rgoh266- He'll interact with the cast much later as for Ironwood I hoped to make him more of a friend and a partner in this fic, as for how RWBY canon will go on my mysterious benefactor will explain it to me below.

Chapter-4

I stared at the screen of this strange scroll, 'There actually was someone out there responsible for my current predicament?' A beep turned my attention back to the screen.

?: So you gonna stay there and think about how you got here or do you want some answers?

This was indeed too good to be true, but than again Remnant shouldn't exist, Grimm and Aura shouldn't exist and here I am just five years away from when it all goes to hell. I pulled my other hand out of my jacket pocket and looked around, everyone was busy doing their own thing and Emerald was checking out a few clothes to wear on our trip to Atlas. Turning back to the screen, my hands went to work typing up a reply, their speed and precision at hitting the right keys were finely tuned by years of playing Age of Empires and Starcraft.

You: I assume you're a being of immeasurable power?

?: More or less

You: Than why am I here and not burning in hell or something?

?: Don't sell yourself short kid, you were supposed to go to heaven when you died, but something went wrong.

You: Yeah something did go wrong; I slipped and hit my head on a freaking gravestone!

?: No I meant you were supposed to die later, somebody in the my department screwed up and now the boss man wants me to fix this mess. As if the problem made by that glowing golden idiot wasn't enough...

You: Are you saying that I'm your solution?

I was genuinely curious, did the gods work like a firm or company of sorts or was he playing me. I mean sure I was a devout Christian back home, went to Church every Sunday and prayed before sleeping every night. Now I'm not so sure anymore.

?: For your Information I'm a she, and don't sweat yourself kid the boss does exist and he's the most powerful thing that ever was and ever will be. As for religion, from what I can recall the boss liked the Abrahamic religions, Buddhism and Hinduism the most and that was because he felt that they came the closest to keeping the values he wants, so you're in the safe side and keep praying. As for why you're here... Well you're here to prevent as much as you can while helping me stake my claim on this world.

You: You want me to conquer this world for you?

?: No, nothing of that sorts, I just need you to prevent as many as tragedies as you can, as my champion you will show that big golden horned idiot how to properly govern a world.

You: But how the heck will I do that since I'm in the body of one of the future villains and I just found another one, this just means Canon will be thrown out of the window, my meta knowledge is useless unless you can give me a way to permanently kill Salem my quest is doomed.

?: Relax you big baby! The world's original timeline will try to right itself which means the attack on Beacon will happen, the Maiden's powers will be stolen and even if Mercury Black and Emerald don't accompany Cinder Fall she will find some other henchmen to help her anyways.

This sudden revelation made my job a hell of a lot easier, but I'll still have to predict the replacements of a few things if I do change them.

You: I don't think I can stop the attack on Beacon, but I just might be able to salvage the situation and prevent Ironwood from being driven crazy by team RWBY's betrayal.

?: You're taking this pretty easily

You: After looking through Mercury's memories I'm more or less calm and cold now, I'll have to play the part of the professional.

?: For what it's worth kid, I'm sorry.

You: I know, I'll let the universal rules and regulations to you and your kin.

?: I'll talk to you again when you get to Atlas kid, I can't answer all your questions in one go.

I was about to type out a protest when she went offline, I looked for her scroll number in the contacts and when I checked the numbers that had been recently called, there it was written in weird glyps and runes, but there was one change though, above the number was a picture of a woman smiling and showing her pearly white teeth.

She had porcelain pale skin, and her jet black hair along with her grey eyes made her seem more like a corpse than anything else. If somebody asked me my opinion on how she looked I'd answer them honestly by saying that she looked cute or pretty. It was either her avatar or her physical form, but whatever do I care.

I quickly pocketed my scroll in my inner pocket and joined Emerald inside the little shop, it was a cottage more than anything but when you're only job was to display clothes and sell them you didn't need much space anyhow.

Emerald had already chosen a few winter clothes that went with her colour schemes, she took only a pair of extra clothes and I had to press her for about five minutes before she reluctantly agreed to get a few more pairs.

Looking at the displays I couldn't find anything that would match my colour scheme, I felt a tap on my shoulder and turned around to find Mercury pointing to a jacket that was hanging at the side, it was the same grey and black combo that he had worn in the show, I smirked upon recognizing it and went over, I checked it for labels but there were none, it seems like it was a custom job.

Picking up said jacket checked it out, it was more or less an exact carbon copy of the one in the show except it had sleeves instead of being like a T-shirt. Smiling I made my way over to the shop keeper, he was currently haggling the price with Emerald and trying to raise the price up.

"Oi, shopkeeper! How much for this jacket and do you have any spares?" the man turned away from Emerald and looked at the jacket in my hands, "About 7500 Lien, It's Huntsman quality and is suitable for all types of weather, as for spares it'll take me some time to make them".

"Can you deliver them?"

"Where exactly?"

"Atlas" the man tapped his chin while tapping his fingers on the counter, if I had to guess he was calculating, after a minute or two he finally turned his attention back to me "Yeah but it'll cost quite the amount for you"

I nodded and picked out a few more things along with two pairs of very durable looking black cargo pants,

"So what about measurements?"

"Oh don't worry" his eyes flashed white as they glowed bright, me and Emerald were obviously startled and nearly drew our weapons but the man brought his hand up, "Don't worry lad, it's my Semblance. Allows me to see the exact measurements for the object I concentrate on, as for the cost it'll take you about 25,000 Lien in total for everything you picked out"

I reached into the brand new leather bag at my side and took out a few cards of Lien and slammed them on the table, the shopkeeper for his part just quietly took the Lien and put them in his register and handed me the receipt for the things we shopkeeper and I hashed out some important details as Emerald stared at the people passing by in the streets.

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We made our way back to a hotel that wasn't that far from Little Miss' place, I booked a two bedroom room for the two of us. I also had to take twenty minutes to explain how everything worked in the bathroom to Emerald, she apparently thought she broke the pipes when she switched the shower on and was freaked out that I would punish her or something.

Taking my scroll out I checked it out, it had most of the apps and functions that you would find on a modern day Smartphone. Swiping around I found the messaging app which was apparently called 'Chatify', I internally groaned upon seeing it. Quickly tapping on it I quickly found my "Patron Deity's" or whatever counted as a goddess' number, strangely she was saved as Robin on my Scroll.

You: Hey, so I assume that I'm help the heroes save this world or something?

I waited for several minutes, the shower was currently on and from the sounds of the satisfied groans Emerald was clearly enjoying it too much, trying to force that mental image out of my brain I waited for a reply and nearly fell asleep before a small ring woke me up.

Robin: Yeah, more or less kid and by the way your flight's cancelled

You: What do you mean?

Robin: The bullhead that was supposed to go to Argus was cancelled due to Grimm and I swear this wasn't me kid.

You: So anything you want me to do while I'm here?

Robin: Why are you asking me?

You: Well you are my spiritual guardian I guess?

Robin: Kid you can complete your objective in a hundred different ways from what I know, and what way you do it I won't say anything as long as you keep civilian casualties to a minimum and if you do succeed than that golden idiot will be thrown out and punished for his faults and me and his dark brooding brother will have equal ownership of this world.

Huh, it seemed like the God of Light was apparently the villain of this story as of now.

Robin: Don't insult gods within smiting distance, even if said gods are assholes. Btw kid, tell Ozpin, to ask how to defeat Salem not kill that'll do the trick, Buh-Bye.

Sitting up in my bed I contemplated on how I would complete my objective while saving as many as people as possible. I was promptly interrupted by a message on my scroll.

Little Miss: Hey kid this your number?

How did she get my nu-, never mind Robin must have pulled off some dimensional space god stuff.

You: Yeah it's me

Little Miss: Where'd you get a military grade secure scroll?

Military grade secure scroll? I turned the object around in my hands as I looked at it, it was sleek and black and had my insignia of a boot with wings attached to it, it looked completely ordinary. But then again, Robin and beings like her worked in mysterious ways.

You: Let's just say I have friends in really high places

Little Miss: Yeah whatever here's the info you wanted wasn't easy to get either, by the way swing by my place the day after tomorrow if you can.

You: Why?

Little Miss: You already got the bounty from the four governments, the Menagerian representatives and the more less than honourable people want to pay up.

You: Dear God! Marcus really pissed the world off didn't he?

Little Miss: That was the problem with him kid, anyway I have to go.

I opened the file that was attached to the message, it was Remnant's equivalent of a PDF file. It took a few seconds at most to open the file. As I read I found out that Team RWBY was still where they were supposed to be in this point of time, the sisters being in Patch, Blake in the White Fang, and Weiss being in Atlas being homeschooled, she was apparently supposed to join a prep school next year.

Team JNPR though, was much more confusing, apparently the blonde noodle had already ran off with Corcea Mors and all of his money, he had been missing for over a month and his father Nicholas was worried sick and was running from place to place trying to find information on his son.

I internally panicked, was this because of my existence? Or was it the random hand of fate or did Robin do this? Quickly scrolling down the panic in my mind died down quickly enough, I let out a laugh of relief as Emerald exited the bathroom wrapped in a towel. I quickly walked out of the room and headed to one of the two bedrooms and gave her privacy to change.

Apparently Jaune had joined up with Ren and Nora and were travelling around Anima, and from the reports the three of them had helped a town drive off a Grimm invasion along with the bandits that followed it, my expression soured upon finding out about that, the bandit tribe in question didn't have a lot of Aura users.

If killing a person this early caused the three of them to abandon their dreams than Remnant was brutally skull-fucked, it's future was gone and kablooey! I scrolled passed their files and my eyes fell on Pyrrha's, daughter to Alexandros and Elektra Nikos. The two of them were skilled huntsmen and tournament winners to boot with very successful careers if their files were anything to go by, Pyrrha was supposed to join Sanctum after the end of their current semester.

Teams SSSN, CFVY and several other minor characters were all fine and living with family and friends. Now what I could do in these five years is for a lack of a better word upgrade said parties. Help them get better weapons, give them better training, back them up and all in all turn them into overpowered characters if they were to survive what was coming.

As for the bad guys, there was only a single picture of Watts and as for the others no one had seen a single picture of Cinder, Tyrian had killed a veteran huntsman in a bar in Vale a week ago, Hazel had been seen entering an SDC mine, apparently he knocked the guards out and destroyed the guards and killed all the Faunus miners he probably wanted to spread some racism and tension in the region.

But if Newton's law of "Every action has an equal and opposite reaction" was to be taken into account then that meant that, the villains would get more powerful. But what was better? do nothing and let everything play out or make changes and brace everyone for the storm. After sitting there and weighing every option I had, I finally came to the decision of doing the latter.

I turned to the clock on the wall, it was already nine 'o'clock, getting up I made my way over to Emerald's room. I knocked on the door, and a 'coming' came in response from the other side of the door. After waiting for a few seconds the door opened up and Emerald had changed into her new clothes, she wore a simplistic white shirt with sleeves and brown cargo shorts that went down to her knees.

On most other people the combo would look terrible, but I had to admit that she was able to somehow pull it off.

"Yes Mercury?" her tone indicated that she still had problems with calling me by my name but it didn't sound as bad as it did in the beginning, but progress was still progress no matter how painfully slow it may seem.

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Turns out that she was really uncomfortable with eating in a public place, everyone eyed the two of us as we entered but went back to their business and continued chatting away while eating. The hostess directed us to a small table by a window, though I didn't like the way she waggled her eyebrows when I pulled out a seat for her, my mother raised a gentleman and a gentleman I would be.

As for what we ate, well let's just say Emerald ate a lot of Ramen that day and when I say a lot I mean like over eleven bowls, but to be fair she looked like she hadn't eaten for a while and she didn't make a mess of everything like I expected her to.

After paying for our meals we went back to our room, but feast was the more appropriate term but thankfully Emerald kept asking for refills instead of sitting quite, which was good as it meant that I was making progress in getting her to be more confident and assertive than being like a leech stuck to Cinder and being her slave more or less like she was in the show.

I took my newly acquired super-scroll out of my pocket and went through it's apps, scrolling through I found a small pink musical note that said 'Music', tapping on it I was pleasantly surprised to find my entire playlist there, yeah my entire 35 GB of Music. It wasn't necessarily my fault that I collected songs from the 70's, 80's and 90's onto the bands of the 2000's, growing up in a household like mine you tended to listen to a lot of Aerosmith, Whitesnake and that weird dude whose first name was David or Davis.

I took my newly bought earphones and put them on, taking some paper and a pen from the nightstand besides my bed I sat down on a small table provided in the room, from there I started writing down my goals and went over them,

"Okay first set yourself up with big source of income, that shouldn't be too hard since I've got Four million Lien from killing Marcus"

"Yeah but you'll need some constant flow of cash, why don't you try investing in a company or something like your real dad did before he retired from the..." Mercury materialized beside me,

"Indian Air Force" I finished for Mercury, turning around on my 'spinny chair' as my sister used to call it in English, "And why do you look like me?"

Merc just gave me a shit eating grin and did the weird Irish River dance thing or whatever it was called while opening his arms wide,

"Well, the moment you put that new Jacket on then I just" he tugged at the ethereal jacket that had covered his torso, "Glowed and looked like this, you know you really should take more care of your guardian angel"

I flipped him the bird as he just floated away, oh yeah I forgot to mention he can float like a ghost but it takes him a while to get from place to place, as to how high he can float I have no idea, maybe it was something I should explore in the future, quickly writing it down on the 'side quest' paper.

"Next on the list, assemble a team of people you trust, okay that's already been started"

I thought about what else I could do while I'm here on Remnant, pulling out my scroll I called Room service and asked them to deliver all the newspapers of the past week, and from what I remember there was a specific 'bad newspaper' and 'good newspaper' for some reason.

Five minutes later a staff member arrived with a huge stack of newspapers, I took it from his hands and he was surprised when I lifted it with one hand,

"Huntsman training and Aura"

I quickly offered him that explanation and paid him the required amount and tipped him as well, quickly speed reading through the papers using the skill I learnt by working part time at a rather busy city newspaper for a month I found out that Remnant had quite the entertainment industry and music as well however problem was there were a very few famous masters of music, in almost every genre instead of there being at least ten popular bands or singers there were at most five.

I frowned upon seeing that, there was a distinct lack of media entertainment in their world which meant that people were left to feel sad and moody, I mean sure apparently the few giants that were there were really popular but problem was they couldn't make music for all the types of people out there.

Looking at the kingdoms Mistral was probably the kingdom with the highest amount of entertainment available to the public, Atlas was at the bottom but they were one of the most impenetrable Kingdoms due to the fact that they HAVE an actual WORKING MILITARY and worked alongside Huntsmen equipped with the latest in Grimm killing technology, and they were quite possibly the only kingdom that actively sought to expand even if Solitas was damn near inhospitable. Vale and Mistral were dead already if they let the current situation continue, as for Menagerie and Vacuo there was nowhere left to safely expand.

The fact that Atlas actively sought to add robots but at the same time didn't downsize the human and Faunus elements meant that they wanted minimum casualties. Qrow's hate for robots was understandable but I suspect that was just a man lashing out at the world to help numb his pain.

Remnant needed a social or cultural overhaul or was it reconstruction, it wasn't that farfetched to presume that Salem sent Tyrian, Hazel or one of her lackeys to assassinate anyone who tried to bring change, the only reason she hadn't targeted Atlas is probably because of high racism and poor condition of almost everyone in Mantle.

"Another thing to look out for I guess" I mumbled as I added that to the 'main quest' paper, I couldn't fight if the battleground wasn't suited to my liking could I? I was interrupted by a knock at my door, looking at the clock it was nearly half an hour past twelve,

"Did I really sit here for that long?! No wonder that guy who delivered the papers seemed a bit tired, but then again they said they had 24 hour room service"

Getting out of my chair I made my way over to the door, opening it I saw Emerald standing there in one of the nightgowns, it looked like real silk but it wasn't, How did I know? Well my cousin is a designer that works for a local brand, she taught me how to thrift shop or our country's equivalent of it at least, and she taught me how to pick out the real from the fakes.

"Yes Emerald?" She seemed nervous and was constantly fidgeting in place, I waited in place for a full minute before she decided to take a deep breath and speak up, "C-can I sleep with you tonight?"

My brain shut down right there and then as my eyes widened considerably, I tried to speak but the words couldn't come out of my mouth, did she mean sleeping as in sex or just sleeping with me? I could hear Mercury snickering somewhere in the back but currently that wasn't my problem.

Emerald turned to leave but I caught her hand, she winced at my grip but then I loosened it up a little,

"I'm sorry but could you repeat that again?" she seemed apprehensive and tried to shy away, "Listen Emerald, I won't hit you or anything don't worry"

"I-i had a nightmare and I don't feel safe by myself" I raised an eyebrow, growing up with two younger sisters I had dealt with this before "Oh, that's unfortunate"

Scratching the back of my neck and letting out a tired sigh I opened the door wider for her to enter, she scurried into the room and sat down on the bed and made herself at home, she quickly got under sheets like a child. Chuckling I walked into the bathroom and went through my nightly routine of rushing my teeth and walked back out with my nightgown.

Quickly muttering a prayer, I switched the light off and laid down. As if shifted to my side I could feel Emerald shifting a lot,

"Emerald?"

"Yes?"

"Need me to hug you?"

"Ho-"

"Let's just say I had experience in dealing with these things"

She nodded and I pulled her into an embrace, I just sighed and tried not to cry as my memories of my sisters came up again, this situation was more familiar than I wanted.

"Let's hope for the best and prepare for the worst" and with that I closed my eyes and entered peaceful bliss.

(A/N)- This is it so far, as for the relationship between Emerald and Mercury... I want to make it a platonic relationship (i.e. they love each other but not like 'partners for life' or 'boyfriend girlfriend' type of love). The other tagged member of the story will enter soon enough and is gonna be helping Mercury and Emerald be absolutely radical and fuck up Salem's other plans as much as possible! At the same time they're gonna do all the wet work that everyone else is unwilling to do.

Adios