1 Chapter 1: Two Minutes to Midnight

'How hard was it to dial a number?' Jaune thought to himself, staring at the send icon. His heart was thumping a loud tempo as the mind was awash in so many mixed feelings. Time was running out, if he delayed another day it may be too late. The Arcadian timeline wasn't the clearest nor his recollection of it. 

'You're trying to change fate and your pussin' out about it?' The dark reflection in his mind asked.

'If what you said is right, and it has been so far we can't delay anymore.' a third voice said, it was the closest in tone to when Jaune spoke out loud but different. His own mannerisms had leaked in despite working to expunge the accent and shorthand. Being the original soul residing in this body Jaune had named him Truth to be easier to talk to. Third person thinking was weird enough before you were literally three people or personalities. 

"I know but if i'm wrong about how they will react we very well might end up in a lab at best. Or a grave at worst." Jaune replied though this part of himself still preferred being called by his birth name of Geoff.

'Oh yes and the lab may still get us with a few sluts to breed with.' Umbra retorted. The being was the darkest part of Jaune's now Truth's psyche. Representing the pure instincts within, he held a great sway that had grown stronger over time.

'Is sex all you think about?' Truth asked, having long since been tired of the shadow aspect of himself.

'It's what you were thinking about too until the third here dropped in and knocked over the applecart.'

"Enough, I'm dialing." Jaune said, hitting send only to get the machine.

With a groan of frustration he waited for the machine to recite the saved intro and to beep. "Tai, Summer it's Jaune… I need your help. I need it as soon as possible. Whatever you do or have planned DO NOT go to my father. Avoid him at all costs, Summer that goes double for you. I can explain everything if you come to the gym tomorrow. I know this doesn't make sense but you have to." Jaune spoke, trying to explain the urgency.

"Don't call back, I'm not sure who might be listening on the other lines. In your home or otherwise. Victor Sierra Sierra dash Sierra four." He intoned hoping the military phonetic alphabet he knew from his original world would carry over some. "Yes, I said what I did. Stark White and Yellow Dragon I need your help. If that doesn't perk your ears up then nothing I'm doing now will ever matter." 

Jaune's face fell, he had to try and change things before the worst happened. Being given an opportunity to fix this world had to mean something more than personal pleasure. His moral code wouldn't let it happen. The blonde adonis of a man might look like a himbo or stud but the two now entwined souls inside were both too lawful good to let it go unchallenged.

"And whatever you do, don't tell Oscar Zulu Papa Infantry November. I don't know his involvement beyond a cursory level but things likely include him. And if he intervenes in a few days either before you contact me or afterwards and he pushes hard, ask him about Salem ." He said ending the call and collapsing on the bed. Swapping the 'I' out for something else was all he could do, India didn't exist in Remnant.

Face resting on his hands the man's mind went blank as the two others chimed in. 'Does changing this even matter? From what you know it might delay the inevitable with Summer but she would give in if pressed. Your memories show the effects of this Aura on her. Getting stronger as time goes on.' Umbra said 'And even if it does help you should be the one to break her instead. And her daughters.'

'No he's doing the right thing. But we have to be careful if this many groups are out to get anyone with a blessing getting allies means we live.' Truth stated wanting things to be more thought out. 'We know Raven is well aware of us and Ozpin will have his feelers out as well.'

"Not just live but likely live free in a world where yes, we're harem masters. But not one of prides, where only the strong live. And mass rape is condoned by familes like the Branwens. But one in which people like Ren and Tai can still be happy. The world our bloodline is a part of is only creating more chaos and death. It has to change before it reaches a crescendo of blood and death. Which means less pussy for anyone who survives, Umbra."

'Still should've been balls deep in that rabbit girl and milf.' It replied.

'He gave Velvet a choice one which you didn't originally.' Truth said with an angry tone. 'We all but raped her in the Mirror world. She never consented or was allowed to say no. Mrs Ren we at least handled like an adult and ignored when her hand wandered. As far as the Mirror showed that we never had another chance with her.'

'Yes but your savior still almost killed Sky.' Umbra replied knowing the original Jaune would respond with anger at that as well.

"I did, If I change too much of the timeline I risk sending things and people down paths I could never see coming. Running parallel till we get a powerbase setup is our best strategy. Which is why I'm going to Summer and Tai. They both have the means to dig up files and look in places we can't. Plus I need a lieutenant I can trust, doing this all alone will only backfire. We could maybe take a few bullets before our Aura would break. Maybe a lot more but all the sides would be coming at us with legions of men and weapons. It's why I want to tell Ruby and Yang everything as quickly as I can. The sooner we get them some protection, even if it's their fathers, the better we'll sleep."

'Or nutting in someone will.' Umbra said.

"We'll have sex soon, with someone we need to break enough to be loyal. She wants the world to bend to her beck and call, breaking that fantasy of hers is a priority. And she does have a network we can use that's outside the law. Summer and Tai can work inside it but options are needed. After that we need infiltrators and saboteurs. Ren's semblance is perfect for it, if we can get it to activate the same and work the same as in Source. Plus if more women to bed is important Emerald could be a prime candidate to try the awakening speech. I don't doubt tying her aura to ours would make her rather compliant, same with Cinders."

'And that is how big of a chance for any of this to work?' the shadow asked, clearly perturbed mating wasn't higher on the list especially after letting two possible bed mates go like Jaune had. 

'He doesn't know and even if he did it may take years to train Ren or anyone else up for it. The ice cream girl you mentioned might be the better choice.' Truth said, relying on Geoff's memories of the Source and Mirror. 

"She would be and is liable to be tamed easily, or at least enough for loyalty to us and the cause than Roman… who I don't even remember if he exists in Mirror." Jaune thought hard, racking his memories hoping to recall a passage about the redheaded crime boss. "In any case I don't recall when she shows up or who sends her after us."

'So it's a waiting game, one which you promised will get us laid and likely put some babies in a few girls.' Umbra replied.

'And how your planning it should give as many as possible the option to say no or to be submissive to us without the taint of our aura influencing them. It's why you let events play out like the other world. So Velvet would crash after the talk to come and have to pick up the pieces and see if she wants this on her own.' The scion's soul said

'And bring Coco into the fold in either case.'

"Yes If things go well, force of any kind would only be needed for two or three of them. This world seems to push women to be submissive against a man with an Aura. Besides, even you know the hunt is better than utter submission."

'I don't even know if that's even how it works in this reality or the Mirror's.' Umbra snarled. 'We're going off half forgotten details from a virgin .'

"True but if things go like I think they will at the end, we'll have a pack that would do anything for us and all of them would choose it again in a heartbeat." Jaune said with a smile.

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Meanwhile in the Xiao Long/Rose household Taiyang and Summer were staring at the message machine like it had just danced the cha cha. The somber rosette moved her hand away from the play button and looked at her husband who was gripping his glass with such strength it was beginning to shatter.

"How?" she asked, panicking looking around trying to see where hidden cameras could be.

Snapping out of his shock he rushed to her side. "I don't know, but he was smart. Nothing he said at face value is damning to an outsider"

"He knew our names , names that were censored by the highest clearance this nation has." She replied.

"Yes, he knows but he wants to talk to us. Must be about these medical tests Ozpin put him through." Tai said gently, rubbing her back. "This is too much of a coincidence for it not to be."

"Something must be going on that is terrifying him if he's changed so much in the last few days." she said recalling how Yang and Ruby both said it was like something had flipped in the boy. Not back to the previous way they knew him but a different one. It was like a stranger was wearing his skin as Ruby had put it. 

At first the mother had rejected the idea but that phone call, the switch in language skills alone put it on her radar. But the knowledge was drawing her into a mystery. One she would solve her way, and hopefully with Tai's help. He had broken one of her daughters' hearts in the past and despite how much she loved him. No one crossed her or her family twice.