Sokarian Plains, Adenien; May 19, 2019; 1:55 AM*

The sun had long since set over the Plains in the Sokaria Province of Adenien, where a full, silver moon had risen over the grassy fields all around, painting the grass a dim white.

Alex and Yang had brought a temporary cabin to be closer to the mentor Canis had recommended. In one of the bedrooms laid Cade, Auburn, and Oreonna, since the cabin was so small.

A couple weeks before, though, Yang had given birth to Auburn, had been promptly rushed to a hospital in Ochiros, a city situated a hundred miles east of their current settlement.

The mere facts that Auburn had been born a month or so premature, and that, even as a baby, Auburn scarcely even showed signs of life, scared the ever-living hell out of the young parents. But thankfully, most of their worries had been settled 9 days ago, when Baby Auburn was finally able to come back to their settlement with them.

The future crew had just finished putting the young Auburn to sleep, leaving the rest to do the same.

"Hey, Cade, you asleep..?" Oreonna asked suddenly.

"I was" Cade answered tiredly.

"So.. What do you think about this timeline..?"

Cade sighed.

"It definitely has it's problems.. More now that Cinder's trying to f**k everything up for us again." Cade replied glumly.

"I know.. I can't help but feel like we brought our Cinder here.. Like it was our fault.." Oreonna sighed.

"We can't think like that. Not now. The best we can do is train and wait." Auburn suddenly said.

"Oh, Auburn.. I thought you were asleep?" Cade noted.

"I was awake the whole time." Auburn replied.

"So, Auburn, what do you think about the new timeline?" Oreonna asked her.

"One thing is sure. We don't have to split up anymore." Auburn answered her.

Cade sadly sighed. Him, Flurry, Auburn, and Oreonna had been the only fighting survivors of Unity. They couldn't risk being found together, so they split up a long time ago. Auburn went with Oreonna to the Badlands of Adenien, whereas Cade and Flurry stayed in Equestria, sticking around the barren cities and to the ruins of Ponyville.

Flurry. She was his responsibility. Sure, she was older than him, but Flurry wasn't a fighter in the slightest. Even her name brought waves of guilt.

"So, Cade.." Oreonna asked again.

"Hm?"

"I was thinking about this since before we had to split... Do you know about Alpha?"

Cade felt a twinge of guilt at the mention of the Alpha Inquisitor.

"Mom and Dad always told me stories about the Inquisitors, but they didn't tell me that I was that bastard until I turned 9.. So from then on I always swore I would do right by them, help whenever I could, and try to avoid becoming the Alpha..? But, even now.. I still feel like I could screw up at any moment.." Cade explained.

"Oh, Cade.." Oreonna audibly winced. She always had been the older sister of the group, and cared for each and every one, that was why it was so hard to see Cade and Flurry go..

"It's fine.. You let me handle myself for now, Oreonna. We'll deal with Cinder and everyone else, and we'll go back... Try to fix everything.." Cade decided.

"We can't. Everything's already been destroyed. Besides, when we do kill our Cinder, we'll be stuck in our own timeline again because we used up all our fuel for the time machines. There won't be anything for us to go back to."

Cade sighed.

"Y'know how our parents used to call us 'privileged', I'm calling bullshit." Cade smirked.

"At least we're more prepared to deal with anything they can throw at us." Oreonna optimistically noted.

"I guess that's true.." Cade laid back down, trying to go back to sleep.

The door suddenly opened, with Alex walking back inside with Yang, both bruised and battered from 13 hours worth of training.

"Hey, kids..." Alex greeted tiredly.

"You alright..?" Cade asked.

"W-We're fine... Just... Y'know..." Yang answered, obviously exhausted.

Alex carefully helped Yang to their room, carrying all of her bags for her and setting them down.

"Um, Mr. Walker..?" Oreonna suddenly asked.

"What?" Alex wondered.

"Isn't Yang still, y'know, 'recovering'?" Oreonna asked.

Alex smirked slightly.

"You never stop bringing that up, do you? Yang's fine. Master Karos is making sure she stays away from anything that might hurt her. Still, though. it's 13 consecutive hours of hard training.." Alex replied evenly, referring to their new mentor.

Karos wasn't as grumpy as Canis was, but the two had a similar method of teaching. Since they've arrived, they had to deal with intense battles, simulated and real as they took on jobs across Adenien. They had scheduled it so Alex and Yang could work with improving their Aura control while Oreonna, Auburn, and Cade could improve their speed and strength, since stamina was already high for their age.

"So, when do you think we'll be going back to Equestria?" Auburn asked.

Alex thought for a moment before looking back at his Scroll.

"We scheduled it for.. Next week." Alex replied, turning off his scroll.

"Huh.. I didn't think we were almost done yet.." Cade gaped. Had 8 months really passed that quickly?

"Yeah.. I'm still going to need more time with Karos anyway to perfect this new technique." Alex shrugged.

"New technique?" Oreonna wondered curiously.

"Yeah. Unfortunately I can't keep it up that long. Ascencion cuts that time down even more. " Alex admitted.

"Something tells me Oreonna wants to see it." Cade smiled.

"Alright.. You might get it for a split second, but you guys can see. Come outside." Alex led the three of them about a mile away from the cabin, the warm air a relief from the cold winter months.

Alex puffed out his chest, and charged up his energy, the only indication Alex let out was a low, yet rising shout.

Eventually, a yellow-ish electric field formed around him as Alex let out a scream. The field Alex was generating almost looked like an artificial electric sun.

"OVERCHARGE!!!" Alex roared as the pulsating yellow current surrounding his body exploded into a fiery blaze, as though his Aura was burning out.

Cade and Oreonna were shocked to see the sudden increase the Overcharge produced, while Auburn watched in curiosity.

Alex smiled, checking the aura.

"So, what do you guys think?" Alex asked them.

"Woah..! That was flashy! And scary! And awesome! And..!" Oreonna excitedly replied.

"With this and the Evolved combined, Cinder might not stand a chance!" Cade gaped.

Yang eventually walked behind the kids before shouting at them.

"THE BABY AND I ARE TRYING TO SLEEP!!!!!" Yang screamed angrily.

Alex nervously laughed.

"Sorry, Yang..! I was just showing the kids the Overcharge.." Alex explained shakily as Yang dragged him back by the ear.

Cade and Auburn stared on in shock.

"Are you still as scared of mom as I am..?" Cade whispered.

Auburn didn't respond.

"I figured you'd say that.."

"Welp. Goin' to bed now!" Oreonna zipped back towards the Cabin as quickly as she could.

*Cairo, Egypt; May 19, 2019; 2:50 AM*

A middle aged man laid in his tent, reading through yesterday's reports with a stern, somewhat satisfied look on his face as he calmly flipped through the pages.

He reached for a small journal, bearing the Inquisitor Crest; A black eagle with a red background, as he flipped the book to the next blank page and began writing.

Entry 876.

Date: May 18, 2019

Operation Hawkeye is still bearing no results. The artifacts we have been searching for have not yet been recovered, though in have full confidence we will find what we are searching for in due time.

Another attack by the SCP occurred today. Dig Cite C fell to the Foundation, leaving only two in our possession. Reports suggest they have received enhanced weaponry not before seen on this planet. It is safe to assume that the Foundation itself is mass-producing such weaponry.

I have ordered my friends in the Imperius PMC to attack Dig Site F tomorrow and bring these weapons back for testing.

My comrade Sigma contacted me yesterday saying we may soon receive help from her organization if we send precisely 1/4 of what we find to her. My only concern is that the reports clearly state that Sigma had perished in Atlas. It is unsettling, but her offer is tempting.

I fear for the future, but I do believe I can rebuild the order.

"Sir! Delta wishes to speak with you!" A soldier yelled.

"Let her in." Xavier ordered as he heard hoofsteps on the sand.

"Hello, Upsilon." Morning Star greeted.

"Delta. Has your group made any progress?" Xavier wondered.

"The remaining Fall Knights have ran into a few problems. Our reports suggest the SCP is going to attack Dig Site B tomorrow." Morning Star worried.

"Fret not. Where the Fall Knights have failed, the Nexus Divisa will conquer." Xavier confidently answered.

"But, you know we're losing too much ground!" Morning Star yelled.

"Then the time has come. Let them know the fury of HADES." Xavier ordered, saying the code word that would be certain to turn the tide of the war.

"HADES?!" Morning Star gasped.

"Have HADES unleashed upon Dig Site F at 5:00 AM. Afterwards, send your Fall Knights over and retrieve the weapons they have been using. Do not fail me." Xavier commanded.

Author's Notes:

I'm sorry I wasn't able to get this chapter in sooner, I've just been kinda busy and all.

I've decided to delve a little bit into Cade, Oreonna, and Auburn's stories and exactly how they know each other, as well as unveil the Villains for this Arc.

Take care!

-The Destoyer

[EDITS:]

Dear Christ, I have my work cut out for me.

As some of you know, I occasionally go back and edit my stories to add a better flow to the official (well, as official as a Fanfic can get) canon.

This one's quite the doozy.

If you check the description of this story, a couple characters of this story (being Oreonna and Auburn) actually don't belong to me, but to a couple other users (SuperKamek and Longsean22)

Because they don't belong to me, I've had to account for their origin stories and pinpoint where and how they would fit into Blood Red Shadows Canon.

Recently, Kamek released a long-ass blog post of a Fire Emblems project, with Oreonna and Auburn as characters. Said Blog Post can be seen right here, if you click this shiny green text.

This is where things get kinda out of hand..

On his blog post, it says that Auburn was born May 1st.

However, on my story, Auburn (that is, Present Auburn. Future Auburn is the badass that we see in the story fighting alongside Alex and the others) isn't shown until Chapter 35. Which takes place October 18th.

So, by this point of the story, Auburn should've been born already, an entire arc earlier.. (Well, technically just 10 chapters, but Arcs are kinda long and tedious to plan out.)

Thankfully, this should only affect 10 chapters of the story. But even so, I'll have quite a bit of work to do patching up the placement of a few important details for this to actually work out.

Take care, everyone!

-The Destoyer