Hello friend! It has been a while, that is because I've been playing Zone of the Enders 2nd Runner Mars, I remember playing the first game when I was a kid and couldn't have enough of that masterpiece. The second game is even better! Hopefully the PS4 remaster does well, so we can hope for a third game.
Everyone! Go and buy Zone of the Enders 2nd Runner Mars edition on the PS4! Now! It is fan-fucking-tastic and definitely worth your time. Just beware, the game is kind of short. But the game is fun, the mechs all look amazing (especially Jehuty and Anubis, oh my fucking god!) and the combat is marvelous!
Also, this is really what it feels like to play as Naked Jehuty, though I am using basic Jehuty for this, just making him as strong as Naked Jehuty.
I do hope you enjoy this one-shot! I may do a proper thing with this idea, one where Jaune is Anubis, have a good Jaune X Penny story because there aren't enough of those. I beseech all of you, make a Jaune X Penny story, and message me so I can read it pleeeeeaaaase!?
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"What are we going to do?" Glynda asked herself as she stared out of her home in Vale at the armada of Atlas ships that was descending upon the city.
After the Fall of Beacon, the Atlas council had strong armed James Ironwood into sending his troops in to occupy the kingdom. Even in the face of disaster, those bastards wanted nothing more than more territory.
Glynda didn't want to do this… to ask Jaune Arc to become a tool of war once again.
Jaune Arc, the fake name given to the Orbital Frame known as Jehuty. After being used as the ultimate weapon in the Great War, who single handedly ended the war. The greatest weapon to ever grace Remnant, other than its twin, Anubis, who was MIA.
But the A.I that controlled Jehuty was the also the greatest, capable of assessing any situation a thousand times better than any living organism, and was completely unhackable because of its 'near' sapience.
What the creators of Jehuty and Anubis didn't realise was that they were sapient. They cold think for themselves and even feel emotions. Jehuty even suffered PTSD for many a year after the war.
But eventually he was able to forgive himself and try to be normal. Through magic, Ozpin and her found a way to give Jehuty a human body, but if he ever discarded it he would never be able to get it back without Ozpin. If Jehuty came back now that Ozpin was dead, Jaune Arc would die forever and only Jehuty would remain.
But this was a time of great crisis, Jaune Arc always wanted to help, so if she begged him he would do it without hesitation, even discarding his own happiness for others.
A robot was more human than some.
Glynda gulped and pulled out her scroll, flicking through it until she reached Jaune's number. It wasn't to his scroll, it was to Jehuty himself. Jaune would know why she was calling him. Glnd ajust hoped he would forgive her…who was she kidding, of course he would… she just hoped she could forgive herself.
She waited with bated breath as the scroll ringed. Until she saw a blue light appear in Vale. "What have I done…?" Glynda sked herself, holding a hand over her eyes and wiping away the tears as a beam of light burst into the sky.
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Penny stood and watched, shocked as Jaune's skin rippled and burst open, mechanical wings bursting from his back and a blue energy flowing from them like an engine from a warship. The skin on his body tearing apart to reveal the body of the one thing she never thought she would ever meet, but so desperately wanted to.
As the head of the robot was revealed, Penny could only mutter his name. "Jehuty…" Which prompted a glance from the Orbital Frame.
After she was rebuilt by Jaune, she always thought she would never be more indebted to him. But now that his true identity was revealed, she owed more to him than she could ever imagine. His design eventually led Doctor Polendina to create hers using the same technology, but she could never be as advanced as him.
Jehuty reached a clawed hand out and stroked Penny's face, before retracting his hand and tensing his body. His wings extended and the beams of energy doubled in size as his engines went into overdrive. His jokingly made 'cockpit' extending upwards and he took off, smashing the ground around him and sent cars flying with the force of his takeoff.
But Penny remained standing exactly where she was, even as the wind generated from his take off tore at her body and even scratched her face. She slowly reached up and felt the cut, pulling her hand away and staring at the red liquid between her fingers. She owed him more than he could ever know.
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Ruby stared at the screen watching a live feed of Vale from within her house on Patch.
Ruby, who knew of Jaune's true identity, saw him discard his skin and take off into the sky. She quickly whipped out her scroll and called Jaune. "Come on! Come on! Pick up! Pick up, damn you!" She screamed to herself as she saw the light generated by Jehuty extend upwards towards the armada.
"There's no way he can take that many ships on! Even for him, that's impossible!" Ruby screamed as Yang came to check on her, and she was also stunned into watching the feed.
There were almost 130 ships on their way towards Vale, just cresting the horizon; they would be there in less than ten minutes.
Ruby screamed in frustration and threw down her scroll, cracking it when Jaune refused to answer her.
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"Sir, there's an Orbital Frame heading our way!" A soldier shouted, turning towards his captain.
The large man stroked his beard and looked to the screen. "Orbital Frames are illegal in Vale, why is there just a lone one? It must be some kind of bomb, or maybe it has a virus on it… put it up on screen. I want to see this Orbital Frame." The captain ordered. He was already messaging the Admiral on orders about this rogue element, though he was sure the Admiral already knew. The bastard had eyes of his own!
The captain pulled a thermos, downing a bit of coffee. But when the screen came on, the captain immediately spat it out. "T-T-THAT'S JEHUTY!?" He couldn't believe his eyes. "Ensign!" He shouted down at the newer member.
"Y-Yes sir?" The young woman jumped a bit but still turned to her captain, saluting.
"Get the Admiral on the screen! Now!"
"O-On it, sir!" She pressed a few buttons before the feed of Jehuty was cut to show the Admiral, a tough looking man that was younger than the captain.
He had a head full of dreadlocks and wore strange black goggles over his head. This was Volkovo. A strange name for an even stranger man, he was remaining hidden inside his own Orbital Frame, Zakat.
"Admiral Volkovo, sir! Jehuty has been sighted advancing on the armada! Orders?" The captain asked, sweating as he knew that the Admiral always gave strange orders, even ones that didn't make sense, yet he had never led them astray.
"Jehuty, you say? Kill it." Volkovo said calmly, causing the captain to stutter.
"B-B-But it's Jehuty! It belongs to Atlas, shouldn't we-" The captain started but was interrupted by the Admiral.
"The real Jehuty died a long time ago, this is nothing but a fake Jehuty. The armada could easily destroy it, let alone my Zakat. Now do as I say, blast the thing to pieces." Volkovo ordered again.
"Y-Yes, sir…"
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As Jehuty neared the first battleship, six towers rose out of the top of the ship, and orange beams of energy burst from the sides of the towers. These were anti-aircraft lasers, and were a bane to Orbital Frames.
But Jehuty was no normal Orbital Frame. Jehuty skilfully and almost lazily swayed around the lasers, not a single one even coming close to touching him.
More guns opened up on the top and sides of the battleship, blasting him with more lasers, dust bullets and even ballistics, which were more effective against Orbital Frames.
Jehuty's A.I, Jaune, smirked in the abstract way that only A.I can do, before he activated his most powerful system… Zero Shift.
Space distorted around Jehuty, and suddenly he was in front of the main cannon of the ship. He calculated how much time he had to destroy the ships before they reached Vale. "Six minutes? I can do this in one." He said to himself before small pieces of his back fell away and turned into missiles, which flew to each of the ships defences and destroyed them.
Jehuty lifted both arms to the sky as he activated Vector Cannon Mode, light surrounding his body and condensing into a large metal frame around his body, on each of his arms was a large metal casing that connected to his spine and then to his waist where four orange energy hooks kept him locked to the battleship. "All energy lines connected…"
"Landing gear and climbing irons locked…" Eight hexagonal plates of metal formed in front of Jehuty and span around the front of the Vector Cannon. "Inner chamber pressure rising normally…" Jehuty calculated everything faster than a human or faunus could ever hope to even come close to. "Life-Ring has started revolving…"
Finally the thing was charged. "Firing Vector Cannon!" A great beam of blue, almost white, energy burst forth from the Vector Cannon as space was compressed within the cannon and the friction inside led the air to be heated to temperatures hotter than the centre of the sun, and energy levels rose to almost infinite as the friction kept being multiplied. It was theoretical infinite energy, but it was always to unstable to be used for energy development, so it was used in the legendary Vector Cannon.
As it fired, Jaune just remembered that one time he tried to explain the Vector Cannon to Ruby, she would not listen, it was almost as if she gained sexual pleasure from the weapon itself just existing near her. That girl was weird.
The beam from the Vector Cannon tore through the battleship that Jehuty stood upon, smashing through the bridge and killing everyone inside, the heat and energy levels starting a chain reaction within the dust used to fuel the ships, causing it all to combust and slowly destroy the battleship.
Jehuty made sure to calculate every single chain reaction to ensure that all lifepods were unusable, these bastards dared attack his home, he would send every last one to the grave.
Jehuty turned the Vector Cannon as it fired, passing the beam through as many ships as he could, burning them all in the energy of their own creation.
Over one hundred ships were destroyed in that single attack, less than ten seconds. Jehuty still had fifty if he wanted to win his own bet.
"Cancelling Vector Cannon Mode." Jehuty spoke as the weapon disappeared off his body.
Jehuty lifted off the falling battleship, before speeding off towards the twenty or so ships still mostly undamaged. A couple of ships were already turning around, retreating… Jehuty would kill them first.
Jehuty activated Zero Shift again and sped faster than light towards his target, appearing in front of them before he lifted his right hand and lighting burst from it, and soon the energy inside him formed a large ball above his head that he lobbed towards the battleships, the explosion of energy destroying seven of them.
Another activation of Zero Shift and Jehuty was standing in front of the bridge of another ship. The blade on his right hand flipped to face forwards as more energy formed around it, extending his range. With a single slice, Jehuty had sliced the ship in half, the energy once again destabilising the Dust in the ship and causing its ultimate destruction.
The sides of the last ships opened up and Orbital Frames burst out. Back in the day A.I were used, but these days they use pilots with used to support the pilot, since most of the information use to make Jehuty and Anubis was destroyed.
The humanoid Orbital Frames sped as fast as they could towards Jehuty, who disappeared in the distortion of compressed space, and in an instant many frames were cut down, the screams of their pilots echoing out before they exploded.
Jehuty pointing his left hand at a Cyclops class Orbital Frame, frames that used their fists to fight. Three pieces of Jehuty dislodged and flew towards the Cyclops, wrapping around it and covering it in an energy blanket that pulled the much larger frame towards Jehuty.
Jehuty reached out and grasped the cockpit of the Orbital Frame and poured energy into the frame, causing it to glow blue and for the pilot to scream in extreme pain, as the energy flooded the cockpit and slowly roasted him from the inside out.
Jaune always heard that the smell of roasted human smelt terrible, but Jaune never really had any sense of smell, so he wouldn't have been able to tell how he felt about it. With a flick, the Cyclops was launched back towards its brethren, the energy reaching a crescendo within the Orbital Frame and causing it to combust.
The entire squadron of Orbital Frames was destroyed in a great explosion of blue fire.
Another Zero Shift, and Jehuty was facing the last few battleships.
All of them pointed their main cannons at Jehuty, charging them up with literal tonnes of fire and lightning Dust, and fired them all at Jehuty.
Jehuty raised its left arm and from its elbow, a plate formed that projected a thin field of energy that surrounded him.
The beams all fired at him and washed over him. Those in the battleships cried in victory, while those in Vale cried in loss.
But both were silenced when the beams stopped, and Jehuty remained completely unharmed.
Jehuty dashed forward slightly and the energy used to shield him was transformed into a bunch of small, tiny lasers that were sent flying towards each battleship. The laser pierced through them and curved and turned at almost impossible angles to reach every single important or explosive component within the last of the armada.
Every single Atlas officer, soldier, engineer or anything within those battleships was snuffed out in an instant.
Jehuty counted how long it took him, 45 seconds…
From the forest below, a great sphere rose and a voice rang out through all channels, played all throughout Vale. "So, you are the real Jehuty?" The great sphere opened up. "But it's no matter! For now you face Zakat! Face the power of the Orbital Frame that scorched the insurgents of Vacuo!" Volkovo shouted and engaged Zakat's weapons systems.
The pieces of the sphere surrounding Zakat turned around and revealed a robotic spinal cord inside the sphere, which was the true Zakat. The spinal cord was connected to a much smaller but still huge sphere that glowed with green lines that pulsed like a heartbeat.
All in all, Zakat was as big as Beacon, and Jehuty was only the size of a normal human, if a bit bigger.
Zakat turned around and faced the spinal cord's tip towards Jehuty as orange energy gathered at the tip, all the fire dust that was available was fired through it and the turned pieces of Zakat. Jehuty easily dodged with a single dash upwards, and flew towards Zakat, not even bothering to use Zero Shift, not like he would need it against Zakat.
As Jehuty neared him, Zakat activated a large shield that covered the entire Orbital Frame. But Jaune did not care for Zakat's pathetic attempt to escape death, Jehuty was one half of the ultimate weapon, a weak frame like this wouldn't stop him.
Jehuty slashed his sword straight through the shields, breaking them and leaving Zakat completely exposed to damage.
"Die…" Jehuty spoke as energy swarmed around his blade and he slashed it through the spinal cord of Zakat.
The sphere at the top of Zakat broke off, leaving the spinal cord to fall to the ground as it exploded. The outer shell around Zakat followed the sphere and opened up to expose the sphere, which bloomed like a flower and revealed a skull like head within it. "Damn you! Zakat, Second Formation!" Volkovo screamed in anger.
The outer shell of Zakat formed giant claws that it could use to fight, while the remaining bits orbited Zakat and fired lasers in every direction to keep Jehuty away.
It was all useless.
Jehuty raised his right arm and a weapon formed around it, before a small blue beam of light burst from it. This was the 'Halberd' laser, it was nowhere as strong as the Vector Cannon, and didn't form its beam the same way, but it was still a valuable weapon for quicker battles.
The halberd beam swept through a few pieces of the rotating shell, opening up a hole in which to attack Zakat. Jehuty didn't waste this moment and flew through the opening, bringing his sword up and slashing through the head of Zakat.
Zakat exploded in a great ball of flame, as Volkovo died almost instantly from the damage, and Jehuty was left alone in the skies above Vale.
The entirety of Vale cheered and cried in joy as the burnt remains of Admiral Volkovo's Zakat plummeted to the forests in the distance.
Jehuty floated there, staring down at Zakat. "Time… 1 minute 11 seconds… I've lost my touch."