Time

"Do you know how hard is it finding the right candidate?"

Moira said as she walked around the man on the operational table.

"Yes, I know, I did find him for you."

"And for that, you have my gratefulness, but the question still stands."

"Haaah, currently all candidates that full your needs are in this very facility, and you do not want from me to abduct innocents, or do you?"

Album said as she massaged her holo brows in a clear sign of tiredness that A.I could feel after dealing with some people.

"No, of course not, I would rather try it on myself than breaking my code of protecting innocents."

"Glad to hear it... Still, how sure are you that this one will bear results? As my analysis is going, I have just 50/50 percent of chance for you succeeding."

"Good, then you are more sure than me, but no what this experiment is supposed to do is to show how much the body would react to my implants."

"I see..."

Album said through her microphones in the room as she fascinatingly looked at Moira Vahlen's work, to say it was almost artistic would be an understatement of century as the woman in her late twenty's opened the patient and without an ounce of blood to stain her work.

"And the patient is to be awake and without any drugs?"

"Why yes, science demands some sacrifices, and you know this man doesn't deserve any pity he wishes to garner from you."

Album sighed but nodded, even as A.I she knew her core started to change after Aegis with Polendina's help create her a core that worked as Penny's, thus making her aura capable and thus making her understand how feelings works, and to say that going from animating feelings through code to fully humanly feeling them was one of hardest experiences the super A.I ever had.

"Yes, I read his info."

"Good, well if you wish to stay and observe then by me guest, I would gladly take input from the woman with an entire library of knowledge of the world."

Moira said as she reached the heart of the patient.

"Hmm, it seems it is as I thought."

Moira said as she started to implant her work into the patient's heart.

"Tardigrades, you wish to make him super, no and in-humanly adaptable."

Album said and looked at what she knew about the species.

Tardigrades are among the most resilient animals known, with individual species able to survive extreme conditions—such as exposure to extreme temperatures, extreme pressures (both high and low), air deprivation, radiation, dehydration, and starvation—that would quickly kill most other known forms of life.

"You know, when I still worked for Vale, I thought that cybertronics enhancements for humans were right answers, just to be stonewalled by every Bob and Joe on the road of greatness."

Moira said as she started implanting her formula.

"And when I was giving up on hope and started to think about implanting myself, Aegis came, and gave me both knowledge and chance that forever change my life."

Album nods all of this was in her databanks.

"And then I saw the way, why change the organic human body into that of metal, if you could reach same results with biology? Yes I remember the hubris that my precedes made with creating and unleashing these Flesh Monsters, but I think our methods differ."

Moira said and looked into the distance.

"Then, then I thought, why not make human's see as Owl faunus? Why not let them have same senses as Cat Faunus? With thermal vision as Snake faunus? With two hearts as Octopus faunus? With skin and longviety as Whale shark faunus? Or make humans standart longevity of 200 years that Bowhead whale faunus are famous for?

Moira said and Album could finally see where this was going.

"Just see that throve of abilities that just wait for us to use! We could make our scientists smarter! Our souldiers tougher, stronger, quicker! We could make our civilians more resilient and with better-digesting systems that could make the food industry cry for the loss of profits! We could use Ostriches faunus immune system! This everything is just waiting for us to make!"

Moira stopped as she looked at the bounded patient that now looked at her with horror.

"Don't by scared, you will not by experimented upon more, after all your chance of survival this one is zero, but even as someone as depraved as you who preyed upon children to satisfy his fantasies, you have my thanks, your participation in this would help mankind in the longer run."

Moira said sincerely and ignored the cry for help the man made in desperation.

"Album, can you please send another patient, this one is already lost."

"Yes, yes..."

Album said roboticaly as she tried to shield her systems mess that her new emotions made, alas she knew she shouldn't feel anything for an animal that now screamed for help, but she still didn't know how other humans could be much colder than someone who was made of pure code...

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"uuuughhhhhh!"

"Stood up from me you dunce..."

"W-Weiss??"

"Yes Ruby... Can you now please stand up? Or at least roll on another side, you are heave..."

"You call me fat?!"

"That is your reaction to this? But again, what did I expect from you?"

Weiss sighed with fondness as Ruby roled on the other side and let Weiss finally freely breathe.

"H-hey Weiss?"

"Yes Ruby?"

"W-W-Why can I s-see Dust Till Down?"

"What?"

Weiss said and looked at where Ruby was looking just to froze.

For what she saw was an impossibility, the last time when she saw the little shop that Ruby liked to visit was in flames as Vale has fallen...

"W-Weiss... Did did we came back in time? Did we fall into that void when we fought against Cinder and came back in time?"

"I--I..."

Weiss couldn't speak as her own emotions became a mess, for what else it could be when they saw the sight before them, a Vale, a peaceful Vale, and a chance...

"Weiss! We must see Ozpin!"

"And tell him what that we magically traveled through time?"

"YES! YES THAT! Don't you see? We have a chance to save them! There is still time before Cinder's plan to destroy Vale! We can save them all!"

Ruby said and Weiss, no matter how much she wanted to say that it is just a dream, that a Ruby is naive, that they should be careful, couldn't just destroy the red reapers dreams, no matter how naive they seemed.

"Yes... But first, we must see when we came back..."

Weiss said and suddenly felt the weight fall on her, she still had a chance to help Winter, she could see her sister again! Without Ironwood emotionally destroying her older sister!

"Pyrrha! Weiss, we must save Pyrrha!"

Ruby said and Weiss suddenly felt ashamed that she didn't remember her red-haired friend earlier, she was first to fall...

"And, and even Penny, we could save them all!"

"Yes Ruby... We can, no we must save them, let's go, we must tell Ozpin and Ironwood about Salem and Cinder's plans."

"Plus, Ozpin could help us to find Blake, Yang and Jaune... If they too ended up there."

"Yes that he could, or they too would seek him in hopes of finding us."

Weiss said and Ruby nodded with her head, and so the two driven women embarked on their path, unknown that pedestrians looked at the white-haired girl with a surprised look, for what they saw was a white-haired woman with blue eyes and clothing with symbols that became a Royal symbol of a new kingdom...

And already rumors started to spread through the net about a new Schnee in Vale, rumors that gained one white-haired A.I attention.