AN: hello fellow readers and authors! this is my crack at writing a RWBY Fic with Jaune as the main protagonist. This story has inspiration from Metal Gear Rising: Reverence and terminator along with other elements from other movies and stories. This is my own personal experiment on how well I can stay motivated to a Fic before I begin to loose the motivation to continue writing it.

I'm just testing the waters with this story at the moment, so don't expect anything amazing. I am also well aware of the things in this Fic have been used in other stories but this my own take on it. Anyway, I hope that you all don't find this a complete waste of your time. Review your opinions (both polite and harsh) if you wish. I'll welcome any advice and constructive criticism.

I don't own anything. Everything here belongs to it's respectful owners.

Introduction:

Night. The time when the sun sleeps and the shattered moon glows. It's broken majestic beauty shone dimly over the world of Remnant. A world where Monsters and heroes are born. Such as the fairy tale goes, as the historians would say.

This world, as beautiful as it was, shared a dark history of war and blood. For hundreds of years the Humans and Faunus kind alike have raged war on each other, or against the creatures known as Grimm. Dark soulless beings that prowl on the living in endless hordes. feasting on fear and negative emotions.

As the generations passed by, there was the largest war recorded in this planets history. The largest war between the Humans and Faunus. Many died on both sides before the war came to an end. Through this event, there was peace. A truce implanted into the blood soaked soil between the two races that fought each other for so long.

It seemed that the world of Remnant had finally started to unite together its other fragments. However, the time of peace did not last. Over 80 years later, Discrimination between races had flared up into sparks. Once again, Humans and Faunus kind were fighting among each other, whist ignoring the true danger to the world.

The creatures of Grimm had all been drawn to the anger and hate. Over the years the Numbers in Grimm had risen dangerously. The Huntsmen, people dedicated to protecting the kingdoms and hunting Grimm were the world only hope at stopping another war from birthing.

This was not to be, however. An entity identified as Salem, Had been creating Grimm for thousands of years to eradicate all life on Remnant. Though her main purpose is unknown, She had used her main weapon, A woman named Cinder Fall to cause a collapse in the worlds defenses.

The Newly formed terrorist faction of faunus revolutionists called the White Fang, allied themselves with the woman. Together they dropped The defenses of the city called Vale. The Grimm broke through the protective walls and invaded, killing thousands of men, woman and children. This was the first city to fall. The Sparks had then became a full fledged inferno of war between the Grimm, The White Fang, and Humanity.

For years now, The number of Huntsmen had been severely depleted as time went on. With whole countries in ruin and cities overrun by Grimm, the war had torn the world apart and divided the races once again.

It would come to show that Humanity and the Faunus that didn't turn over to the White Fang, had prevailed through out all of this. But at a cost. After the defeat of Salem, Humanity had been reduced to few thousand survivors and even fewer Huntsmen. The White Fang had only minor hundreds left. They have since long forgotten their main purpose to fight, only fighting because that's all they knew.

Ruby Rose Had been leading what was left of the Human resistance for two years now. Fighting against The White Fang that was still being lead by Adam Taurus. The one who had started the Faunus rebellion from nothing. It seemed that the war was soon going to end. one way or the other. on this night on a shattered moon, this war would end.

The wind whistled wildly across the barren landscape. Rain dropping from the sky as if the Shattered moon was crying. Black clouds darkened the sky as smog made the night unnaturally darker. Thunder could be heard in the distance as lightening flashed briefly through the clouds. Another flash of light lit up the area, revealing a dark figure crouched over on a hill hunched over beside a pile of large rocks. This figure wore a black leather trench coat that reached to the bottom of the figures knees. The physique of this individual showed that he was a male. The trench coat had elbow length sleeves, revealing his black armored synthetic arms. Clawed servos (hands) gripped a set of night-vision binoculars, examining the terrain below him as he adjusted the sights.

The brightest feature that could be seen on this dark shaded person was the long strands of blond hair sprouting from his head, Being blown in the wind. Two Colbert blue eyes overlooked the area with next to no emotion as he searched for his target. His bottom metallic jaw was set in a firm line as he did this. The individual continued to do this when his COMM link went off.

"Jaune, Do you read?" A feminine voice asked over the Comm link. The signal was slightly patchy due to the storm overhead. Jaune wasted no time to reply. "This is Dark Knight, I read you Rose." Spoke Jaune with cold response. His focus on the location of his target unwavering. The voice on the other end of the comm Huffed in response. "Jaune, you've known me for years. You can at least call me by my first name."

The cyborg fell silent for a brief moment. He opened his mouth to retort but held it back. "...Apologies, Ruby." He said flatly. Even though Jaune couldn't see her, he could almost picture Ruby rolling her eyes.

Both of them quickly got down to business in the blink of an eye. "What are we up against Jaune?" The Former leader of team RWBY Requested as she awaited Jaunes response.

Jaune enhanced the zoom function on the binoculars onto a large heavily defended complex based in the distance in what was a desert of Valco. He switched the night vision to regular as he examined the area from afar.

He easily spotted the emblem of a white wolf head with three claw marks swiped across it, painted on a front wall of the main building. 'found it.' Thought the Dark Knight before confirming Ruby's suspicions.

"Affirmative Ruby. This is where the Fang is stationed. The Base is heavily protected. I can't seem to find any flaws in their defenses. They appear to have no air-force. They do however, have numerous artillery shelters stationed behind the walls. I'd assume that they're meant to deal with ground force unites and vehicles." Jaune reported while rubbing some of the water out of his eye from the rain.

Ruby took in the information and contemplated on what was need to be done. A short moment passed until she came up with a plan. "Alright. I'll gather the men. We attack in two hours. We'll use the bullheads to drop in our best units to take care of the artillery. Once that's taken care of we'll send in the troops along with the armored vehicles to start the initial assault."

Jaune nodded. Agreeing with her plan of attack. "Understood." Ruby then spoke up. "Jaune. I'm sending a Bullhead to pick you up. I'll send you the location where it'll pick you up from." Ruby informed the Cyborg.

"Copy that." He cut the comm link and moved to stand up from his position and placed the binoculars into one the coats pockets. He Swiftly made his way to the co-ordinance that was sent him. He activated his face plate to close over his eyes and mouth, activating the visor and his HUD (heads up display). A navigation point (nav point) lite up in the distance on his visor and giving him the location of his destination.

The Dark Night walked over the wet sand of the old desert. His soaked trench coat blew in the wind as he made his way to the Bullhead.

The Bullhead flew through the air at a low altitude because of the the storm overhead. The airship rocked every now and then due to the turbulence, thus causing a bumpy ride for the pilot and the single passenger. Jaune sat alone With his servos placed on his prosthetic knees while he looked at the floor, deep in thought. He was no longer bothered from being in airships anymore. With the loss of his stomach functions he had no need to eat or drink. The cyborg sighed. He glanced at his arms. He longed to feel the skin that was no longer there.

Both of them completely mechanical. When he had lost Crocea Mors during the battle with Cinder Fall, he had implanted weapons of his own in both of his arms.

His left arm was able to produce a holographic projected shield. Or Hard-Light Shield for short. For his right arm, He had build in conduit that had the ability to form sword made up of pure plasma energy (A/N: yes, the energy sword from halo.). He was able to activate and deactivate both of them at will. Should the situation call for it, He had the ability to Mecha-shift both of his arms into dust projected mini-guns. He couldn't always rely on them due to him having a limit of ammunition, But he was thankful for the upgrade Coco had gave him after he had lost his arms.

He had also acquired two HF (high frequency) daggers that Ruby had made for him for his 20th birthday. He had both strapped onto his thighs. Ready to be drawn at a moments notice.

Jaune then looked at the rest of his mechanical armored body. over 75 percent of it was machine. No longer flesh and blood. He raised a servo and touched his metallic jaw. Feeling the metal that connected up to his skull. unknowingly, a single tear slid from his eye down his cheek and dropped onto the floor. Jaune cursed himself for expressing weakness. He ran a servo through his blond locks and closed his eyes tightly. Trying to avoid remembering the day he came so close to death's door. Only wake up and express life as a thing then a person. Others treated him as a weapon more then anything else after that. Only using him for their dirty work. Ruby being the only other huntsmen left, was the only person that still treated him as a human being instead of a piece of equipment.

'And for that, I am grateful.' Thought Jaune as he gripped his servo into a fist. He sighed and looked out of the window and saw that they were coming up on their destination. The pilot poked his head over the seat and shouted over the noise of the engines to the lone Cyborg.

"We're landing in Eta 30 seconds. Brace yourself!" He warned as the ship began to descend to the ground. The Arc waved a servo in acknowledgment. He stood up from his seat and opened the side hatch, getting ready to get off the airship once it landed.

With only 12 feet left in height, the cyborg jumped off. He landed with a heavy thud and landed in crouching position. Jaune slowly stood up and moved out of the way so that the airship could land. Current men and woman moved around gathering weapons and supplies for the assault on the White Fang stronghold.

The Dark Night gazed over too the groups of armored vehicles and bullheads being attended by mechanics, engineers and pilots that were doing last minute check ups on the machinery before using them in the attack. The Cyborg made his way past the make shift camps for the troops. He noticed that they avoided looking at him as he pasted by. Obviously feeling uneasy with his presence. they moved out of his way as he closed in on the Command Center where Ruby was most likely already setting up the bases of attack. He walked up o the largest tent that was pitched in the middle of the camp. As He moved up to the entrance of the command center, Two soldiers posted outside the entrance noticed the approaching cyborg and nodded in greeting. Both stepped to the side and opened the tent flaps to allow him entry.

The half mechanical being tilted his head forward in acknowledgment as he entered into the tent. He could already see multiple figures standing around a holographic war table with a map of the whole terrain. at the end of the table, stood Ruby Rose. Fully decked out in dark black and red leather armor hugging her figure comfortably. She still had her trade mark Red hood. Over the years she had it though, it had worn out and ripped over the coarse of time. She now wore it as a mini cape that hung over her left shoulder. Jaune had already noticed that she had already equipped herself for the oncoming fight. Crescent Rose Mark V Was folded in it's compact form attached to the Woman's back. If anyone would say the amount of modifications that were put into that thing were overkill, Jaune would have had to agree wholeheartedly with them. Ruby had gone crazy with upgrading her sniper scythe since when she first made her weapon shortly before going to attend Beacon academy. So far, he had counted over six different forms that the damn thing was able to Mecha-shift into. The two obvious ones were it's regular Scythe and sniper form. It was now able to change into a double edged great-sword, similar to her deceased uncle Qrow. It also had the ability to change into an explosive, high impact, incendiary round shot gun that could fire out 12 shells in 3.2 seconds. Less, if Ruby used her semblance. It was also able to shift into a bow-staff with bladed ends. The last form had the ability to Split into two mini scythe blades that allow her to moved quicker in combat.

Jaune saw the silver eyed warrior converse with the other officers in the room about the attack. Jaune stood to the side with his servos placed behind his back while he observed them in silence.

"we should split off half of our men to the southern left flank. If we send troops ahead of us on foot we can catch them by surprise before they can even register whats going on." A middle aged captain suggested as he pointed out his explanation on the holographic image of the landscape.

A younger L.T shook his head at the aged man. He stepped forward and changed the image of the landscape to the far side of the White Fang stronghold. "No. It wouldn't work. From the intel Huntsmen Arc has gathered from his recon operation, that would be suicide for those we would send out." He then enhanced the image.

"The Fang have laid out land mines that have the tonnage to punch a hole through a tank. Even if some of us got past all that, we'd be slaughtered by the time we would've gotten close to one of the walls." Warned the L.T as he reset the image back to viewing the whole landscape once more. An experienced L.T Commander Agreed with this.

"That's correct. Well, would it be wise to use air units for this assault? We only have a handful remaining." He asked while looking at the silver eyed leader.

Ruby leaned forward and placed both her hand on the table and hung her head. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath, as if to reassure herself. There was a long silence in the room everyone looking at her for an answer. It was then Ruby responded.

"Yes. the Fang don't have any artillery to go against air units. Only Ground-troops and armored vehicles." She then moved a set of holo Bullheads over the image of the Base. "We'll drop in The Deadkiller squads to deal with the artillery shelters." Ruby then displayed a group of tanks stationed further back from the other vehicles and troops. " Once the tanks can get in rage, we'll use them to blow down the main gate to allow the transports to deliver the men to begin the attack."

She pointed back to the groups of bull heads above the image of the base. "We'll use the airships for air support and evacuation for the wounded." She then closed the screen of the war table and sighed while facing the others in front of her. In the corner of her eye, she could see Jaune Standing in the background.

"That's out plan. Once we have all our forces within the defenses of the base we change things up from there. Understood?" She spoke with determination and conviction. Everyone nodded their approval and saluted. Ruby dipped her head. "Good. Get everyone ready. We attack in half an hour. This war, ends tonight. This is The White Fangs last line of defense. Adam Taurus will soon face justice." Declared the young Rose. Though to some her voice may have sounded cute and innocent, to those that have fought and bleed in a time of war, her words were justified in honor and the will to prevail against the odds.

One by one, each member exited the command center. Ruby sighed softly. She glanced at Jaune who stood at the doorway. Unmoving. Only looking at her with a stonewall expression. 'he's never been the same after that day. Or was it the loss of Pyrrha that really started his fall from grace?' Thought the young sadly woman.

"Can we do it Jaune? Can we really win this? We don't have the numbers like we used too. And...i...i.." Ruby stammered as She began to deflate and doubt herself.

After losing so much, so many people that she cared about, Could she really do this? Finish what had started all of this? Her thoughts were interrupted when Jaune spoke.

"You've gotten everyone here this far. To falter now would lead them to destruction. They depend on you to push on through the darkness. So long as they Have you to lead them, they wont ever fail. You'll win this. I know it." Said Jaune with honesty. He then turned on his heel to walk out of the tent when he felt ruby grab his shoulder-plate. 'she must of used her semblance to get to the other side of the room so fast.' thought the cyborg.

He turned slowly to see a concerned Ruby as she released her hold of his shoulder-plate. "Jaune. Are you going to be okay with this? With, Adam?"

She asked as she faced him eye to eye. The Dark Knight felt a serge of rage shoot up his spine at the mention of him. He quickly concealed the emotion before it surfaced and retained his pokerface. "If you are referring to the day i lost the majority of my limbs and organs, then yes, i am at optimal efficiency for the battle."

Ruby sighed sadly. "Jaune, I'm sorry for what happened to your body. I tried. Got i tried so Hard to help. I'm so sorry for what happened to Pyrr-"

"Don,t. Say. THAT. Name." Hissed Jaune, anger bubbling beneath the surface. Blue eyes locking with silver. Ruby's eyes widened as she tried to make an apology. Jaune raised a servo to wave her off. "Enough." Was all he said.

Ruby felt tears leaking out of her eyes as she moved forward and pressed her forehead against his metal chest. instead of feeling a warm heartbeat, all she felt was cold steel plating. "What happened to you Jaune? I Miss you." She whispered. Jaune Faced her with a blank expression with traces of resentment. "Adam took my body. YOU Took my humanity." And with that, Jaune stormed out of the tent, leaving a shocked Rose with a pained look on hr face. Her Only friend she had left, blamed her for what he had become. A Machine. All she wanted to do was keep him alive. After all, He was all she had left.

FUCK! that was a struggle. My god i was up late writing this! 4:30 in the damn morning. I'm sorry if there is any spelling or grammar issues but i honestly don't care right now. i'm too tired. This is going to be split into two parts for chapter one. Chapter two is where Jaune goes back into the past so watch over a younger Ruby. anyway, like i said before, i hope that this was not a waste of your time. Goodbye. For now at least.