Team JSON
Volume 2
Chapter 1
Best Day Ever
It was a sunny day in Vale, the Shopkeeper was putting up a banner on his From Dust Till Dawn shop. As he finishes and climbs down the latter he bumps into someone and falls off.
"Excuse me! Sorry!" the person says, she was a young girl with green hair and red eyes. She reaches down to help him up, "I'm not really from around here." She says. She pulls a card out of her pocket, on the piece of paper is a shop number.
"Can you point me in the direction of this shop?" the girl asks. The Shopkeeper looks at the numbers then smiles. He nods then points her to the shop.
She gives him a wave as she leaves. A gray haired boy in the alley next to the building speaks up as she walks by, "I knew you were lost." He said.
"Mercury! I will seriously pay you to shut up." Emerald says with obvious annoyance. She holds up someone's wallet. It was filled with Lien.
"That's not your money." Mercury says. "But it could be yours for five minutes of silence." The girl replies. Mercury pretends to think about it. "Mmmm… No deal." He says. The girl glares at Mercury, "Hmph, fine." She takes the Lien out of the wallet and throws the wallet onto the ground.
She storms off, "Whatever. You want me." Mercury said as he followed her.
"So how much farther?" Mercury asks. "Just a few more blocks." The girl replies.
"Uhg, this place is so dull." Mercury complained. "Eh, I kinda like it, tall buildings, divers culture," the girl responds.
"And nice dopey people who are easy to pickpocket." Mercury says. "That's every city." The girl says. "Oh Emerald! Master Thief! Please don't take my money! I barely have enough to get by!" Mercury says pretending to be a victim of Emerald.
Emerald growls at Mercury and glares as she walks away. Mercury sighs, "You're no fun today."
They enter a bookshop, the lights were dim and books filled every shelf. No one was at the counter. As the door closes a bell rings. Emerald walks to the front desk and dings the bell on the desk, "Be right there!" a voice from the back calls out.
A burly man walks out of the back doors carrying two huge stacks of books. "Welcome to Tukson's Book Trade! Home to every book under the sun!" he says. He places the two stakcs off to the side.
"How may—uh" he pauses as he looks at Emerald. Emerald smiles, "How may I help you?" Tukson says as he smile, too. "Just browsin'" Mercury says from the back as he closes a book with a snap.
"Actually, I was wondering. Do you have any copies of The Thief and the Butcher?" Emerald asks as she leans onto the counter. "Yes we do." Tukson says.
"That's great" Emerald says. "Would you like a copy?" Tukson asks. "No just wondering." Emerald replies. A loud snap from the entrance causes the two to look at Mercury. Merury put the books away as tukson narrows his eyes slightly.
"Oh!Oh! What about Violet's Garden in paperback?" Emerald asks. "He's got it, hardbacks too." Mercury says from the back as he rummages through the shelves of books. "Ooh, options are nice." Emerald says as she thinks.
"Eh, no pictures" Mercury says as she snaps another book shut, "Hey do you have any comics?" he asks. "Near the front." Tukson says.
"Oh, no wait what about Third Crusade?" Emerald asks. "Umm…" Tukson says as he thinks about it, Mercury looks at Tukson with eyebrows raised as Emerald gives a slight smirk, "I …don't think we carry that one." Tukson finally replied.
Mercury snaps another book shut, "Oh." He says. "What was this place called again?" Emerald asks. "Tukson's Book Trade." He replied. "And… you're Tukson?" Emerald asks though she already knew the answer.
"That's right." Tukson replies. "So then I take it that you're the one who came up with the catchphrase." Emerald inquired. "Yes" Tukson answered.
"And what was it again?" Mercury asked pretending to have forgotten. Tukson sighs, "Tukson's Book Trade home to every book under the sun." he recites again. "Except the Third Crusade" Mercury says.
"It's just a catchphrase."
"It's false advertising!" Mercury says
"You shouldn't make a promis you can't keep tukson." Emerald says darkly. As Emerald begins to speak Mercury lowers all the lights in the background and darkens the windows so no one from the outside can see the inside. "I hear your planning on leaving. Moving all the way to Vacuo. Your brothers in the White Fang wouldn't be happy to hear that," Emerald says in a ominous voice, "and neither are we."
"You know who we are, don't you?" Emerald asks knowing the answer yet again. "Yes" Tukson says as he narrows his eyes at the two teens. "And you know why we're here?" Emerald asks.
"Yes" Tukson answers as his voice gets deeper. Mercury walks tostand behind Emerald, "So… are you going to fight back?" Emerald asks. "Yes!" Tukson shouts, he unsheathes his claws and jumps onto the table. He jumps at Emerald and slashes, he misses her, as he looks up he only has time to say, "Huh" before he is blasted in the face by a shotgun blast.
Mercury and Emerald exit the building with Mercury holding a comic book, Emerald stretches, "What's with that?" Emerald asks as she looks at Mercury's book. "Eh, I like the pictures." Mercury says then snaps the book shut.
As they walks away they don't notice a man on top of a roof looking down at the two of them leave. He pulls out his scroll and types, "The pawns are here" then he puts on his Navy blue hood and jumps away.
Beacon: Cafeteria
Blake is studying he notes in the Beacon cafeteria. Team RWBY and JSON were sitting at the same table. Both teams were missing their leaders, Olivia was reading a book as Sonya was checking her nails, and Nathan was shoving food into his mouth.
Yang looks over Blake's shoulder, "~Whatcha doin~?" Yang asks surprising Blake. "Nothing, just looking over notes from last semester." Blake answers closing her book. Yang catches a grape in her mouth, "Lame!" she says as she catches another one then gives a thumbs up to Nora.
Jason slams a giant binder over flowing with paper onto the table then sits down panting, "Ruby... huff…huff… next time… wait for me when I have a giant binder in my hands." He says as she collapses onto the table exhausted.
The binder used to read Vytal Festival Activies Property of Weiss Schnee but it was sloppily scribbled over by read marker under it now read Best Day Every Activities! With multiple red underlines.
Ruby clears her throat, "Sisters! Friends! Weiss…"
"Hey" Weiss complains.
"Four score and seven minutes ago, I had a dream" Ruby continues. "This oughta be good." Yang says. As she catches another piece of food in her mouth.
"A dream that one day, the eight of us would come together, as teams, and have the most fun anyone has ever had, ever!"
"Did you steal my binder?" Weiss asks. "I am not a crook." Ruby said making piece symbols with her hands. "Did you write all that all by yourself!?" Sonya asked amazed.
"No" an exhausted Jason said, "she made me write the entire thing then used her semblance to run over here. I had to run all the way here carrying that giant binder." He then collapsed onto the table again.
"What are you talking about?" Blake asks Ruby. "I'm talking about kicking off this semester with a bang!" Ruby explains.
"I always kick off my semesters… with a Yang" Everyone facepalms and shakes their head at the horrible joke. "Ehh? Guys? Am I right?" she says as everyone shakes their head. "Yang, shut up." Sonya said as an apple smacked Yang in the face. Nora yelled, "Booooooo!" Yang glared at her.
"Look guys, its been a good two weeks, and between more exchange students arriving and the tournament our second semester is going to be great! But classes start back up tomorrow. Which is why I have taken the time to schedule a series of wonderful events for us today!" Ruby says.
"I don't know whether to be proud or scared of what you have in store." Weiss says as Yang throws an apple at the person who threw an apple at her. "You should be scared." Jason says as he sits up fully recovered.
"I don't know I think I might sit this one out." Blake says. "Sit out or not, I think however we spend this last day we should do it as a team." Weiss says. In the background Nora yells, "I got it"
Weiss stands up,"Uh Weiss I think you should sit down." Jason says as he sees Nora prepare to throw a pie. Weiss ignores him, "I for one think that—" she is interrupted as she gets a face full of pie.
Everyone at the table turns to look at Team JNPR's table. Jaune and Pyrrha looked on with horror as Ren face palmed, Nora pointed at Ren trying to avert the blame. "Uh oh." Nathan says as his mouth was still full of food.
Beacon directly outside of the cafeteria
Sun and his friend Neptune were outside chatting, "Ha man that's harsh" Neptune says. "So then we were fighting side by side and she was super-fast then the other guy threw a cargo box at a group of goon and it was awesome."
"Nice!" Neptune said. "Right? And the best part is, she's a Faunus!" Sun said then quickly covers his mouth, "But that's a secret okay!"
"Got it." Neptune says. "And not a I'm going to tell scarlet once Sun turns his back secret. I'm talking secret secret!"
"Woah, chill out man ok? I got it. I got it." Neptune says. "You better." Sun said. Neptune lets out a 'pfft'. "I just don't wanna screw this up, ya know? The people her are just the coolest no offense to you guys." Sun says meanwhile Jaune faceplants onto the window behind them with a loud thud then slides of but neither of them notice.
"None taken" Neptune said. "Okay, their just in here, I'm really excited for you to meet them, So be cool okay?" Sun says as Neptune turns to face him. "You gonna be cool right?"
"Dude" Neptune says as he strikes a pose and his teeth sparkles. "Good point."
They burst through the cafeteria door to find absolute chaos. A bunch of students run by then as one yells, "Food Fight!"
Nora stands atop of a bunch of messily stacked tables and laughing menacingly, "I'm queen of the castle. I'm queen of the castle." She chants.
Ruby stomps on a table, "Justice will be swift justice will be painful it will be delicious!" she yells as he team raises their fists behind her as she squeezes a milk carton causing all its comtents to spill out.
"Off with their heads!" Nora yelled as she jumped down. Ren jumped over to a tray with watermelons on then he stomps of the tray then kicks the watermelons toward team RWBY and JSON. Jaune does a backflip and tosses one at them. Pyrrha throws the two in each hand as Nora flips a table full of them.
"Nathan, Watch out!" Jason yells. Nathan turns toward the incoming melons. One hits him direcly in the stomach causing him to spit out a mouthful of food it forms a ball and smashes into another melon destroying it.
"Yang, turkey!"
"Nathan follow suit!"
"Got it!" both of them say. They both tick their fists into turkeys using them as boxing glvoes they then start to punch the melons out of the air.
Jason pick up a three feet long baguette and hands two more to Sonya. Then he charges, Blake flips over Yang and also picks up two Baguettes. Sonya and Blake meet and strike each other with the baguettes, they parry and strike at each other.
Jason runs over to Pyrrha who know has her own breadstick. He raises his high then brings it donw hard. The two loaves meet and the two swordsman are in a lock.
Yang launches he two turkeys one that hits Jaune in the face knocking him onto his butt and another that Nathan knocks away.
Pyrrha spins around breaking out of the lock. Jason flips over Pyrrha, dodging her strike. Jason swings at her back. Pyrrha rolles away and dodges it. she then dashes back and strikes at Jason. He counterstrikes that as Pyrrha counters his counterstrike. Jason spins then kicks her back. Pyrrha slides across the cafeteria. Jason reels his arm back then launches his breadstick at her.
She dodges then using her own as a javelin she throws it at Jason. Jason blocks one with a tray then rolls out of the way as more come flying.
Blake and Sonya parry and strike so fast that they wear down their break. Sonya jumps back as Olivia jumps in with two rolls of sausages. She swings them at Blake using it like a whip.
The baguettes fly through the air. One smacks Nathan in the chest knocking him over. Yang punches out two as the third one hits her.
Ruby surfs in on the row of tables. She dodges two baguettes then jumps up and using the tray she is standing on, knocks a third back at Pyrrha. Pyrrha dodges out of the way, Ruby paces the tray back under her as she lands and surfs toward Pyrrha. She jumps up then uses the shield to ram Pyrrha. Pyrrha blocks it, Ruby jumps back behind Weiss.
Ren and Nora charge at them. Weiss grabs a ketchup bottle and squeezes the contents onto the ground. Ren slips and falls crashing into a stack of tables causing them to fly everywhere. Nora jumps on the tables she grabs a pole of the wall then as she lands she jams it into a melon.
She then runs at Weiss.
As Nora runs at Weiss, Ruby jumps in to protect Weiss. Nora slams her makeshift melon hammer into the ground, causing a shock wave that knocks Ruby into a pile of food.
Weiss rolls away and grabs a swordfish. Using it as a rapier she dashes towards Nora. Nora spins her hammer around and knocks away the strikes then using full force smashed the ground in front of Weiss. A loud ringing fills the air as Weiss slams into a pillar causing it to crack then tumbles to the ground unconscious.
Ruby dashes over and catches Weiss before she hits the ground, "Weiss don't leave me, Weiss, Weiss. Noooooooo!" she screams.
The two brawler where throwing punches and kicks at each other. Both were using their turkey gloves. Nathan blocks a strike from Yang then fets a jab to the stomach causing him to double over. Yang quickly follows with an uppercut that knocks Nathan off his feet and into the wall.
As Yang turns she sees Nora charging at her barely having enough time to block Nora's melon hammer slams into her and knocks her thorough the roof and out of the cafeteria.
Sonya sprints toward Ren as she picks up two leeks. Ren jumps over a fallen soda machine and picks up the same weapons. The sprint towards each other. They meet and they lock... leeks I guess.
Sonya spins around and kicks at Ren. Ren blocks then knees Sonya. Sonya blocks the strike then spins around and slashes at Ren she lands a few hits. She then flips on kicks Ren into the air. Ren flips in the air and tosses his leeks at Sonya. She jumps back and dodges the attack. Jason comes out of nowhere and using a tray as a shield smashes Ren into the ground as another ear splitting ring is heard.
Olivia twirls her sausage rolls around smacking Blakes breadsticks out of her hand. Blake dodges and pick up on of her own. He swings it at Olivia as Olivia swings hers they smack into each other as Olivia swings her second one. Blake ducks. It smacks into Nora sending her fying into a soda machine.
As carbonated drinks roll out of the machine she licks it up and throws it lick grenades. Two hit Olivia in the face knocking her back.
Pyrrha looks at the ground that is full of soda cans. She touches the ground and all the pop cans float into the air. She then waves her hand forward as all the cans charge forward and slam themselves into Blake pinning her onto a wall as every can lands a hit.
Ruby looks up with mad eyes. "Oh no. Nathan get Sonya!" Jason says as he sees Ruby's expression. Nathan gets off the ground and nods he dashes to Sonya. He grabs her and pulls her to he ground. Using one hand to hold her to the ground the uses the other to slam it into the ground to get leverage using his semblance. Jason follows suit.
Ruby dashes across the cafeteria at top speeds. She sucks up everything behind her in a giant vortex. She jumps into the air and spins like a mini tornado sucking up everything in her wake. As she charged towards Team JNPR Jaune only has time to think, "Uh oh" before he and his team is sucked up too.
Jason and Nathan hold their ground hanging on to their respective partners.
Before she hits the opposite wall she stops herself. The speed that she was going at causes a large crack to form and everything she was carrying in her vortex slammed into the wall. Including Team JNPR. All the food she was carrying all slam into the four members as well spattering them with food. Once it was done the wall looked like it had graffiti on it and as Team JNPR slide of the wall they left human shaped prints there too.
Jason and Nathan get up while helping Sonya and Olivia up too. "Nice call." Olivia says. "yeah, wouldn't want to end up like Team JNPR." Sonya said, "Although I do have food in my hair."
At the entrance Sun says, "I love these guys." To an angry food covered Neptune. The door behind them bangs open and a furious Glynda walks in she stops some stray food from fying into her face then with a wave of her riding crop all the tables went back in place and all the food dissapeard.
"Children, don't play with you food." She says as she pushes her glasses up.
The three teams have gathered in the center of the cafeteria. Nora let out a loud burp that earned a few snickers then Nathan let out a extremely loud and long burp. Everyone laughed. Then the roof above them broke and Yang fell in crashing to the ground. This time everyone laughed harder.
Glynda growled. "Let it go." Ozpin says placing a hand on her shoulder. Glynda sighs "Their supposed to be the defenders of the world." She says.
"And they will be." Ozpin replied as he looked at Team JSOn and RWBY laughing. Nathan gave him a wave as Yang gave him a thumbs up.
"But right know they are still children. So why not let them play their part." Ozpin says as he walks away. "After all, it isn't a role they'll have forever"
Unknown Location
A bunch of White Fang members were offloading boxes from a Bullhead. Emerald and Mercury walk past the group of members and approaches Roman. He turns to face them.
"Oh look she sent the kids again." He says in mock enthusiasm, he walks over to them and wraps his arm around their heads, "This is turning out just like the divorce." He said.
"Ugh" Emerald groans, "Spare us the thought of you procreating." Emerald complained.
"That was a joke. And this" Torchwick turns around holding a piece of paper, "just might tell me where you two have been all day."
"Wha—?" Emerald feels her pocket for the paper. "I'm a professional sweetheart. Pay attention, maybe you'll learn something." He said, he looks at the paper then narrows his eyes at the two, "Why do you have this address?"
"Wouldn't you like to know?" Emerald says. "Yea I would." He said as he walked toward Emerald. He holds up the paper, "Now where have you been all day?"
"Cleaning up your problems. One of them at least." Mercury said walking up to Torchwick. "I had that under control." Roman said glaring at Mercury.
"Two packed bags and a ticket out of Vale said otherwise." Mercury said. "Listen you little punk." Roman said, angrily pointing at Mercury, "If it were up to me, I would take you and your little street- rat friend here, and I would—"
"Do what Roman?" a silky, soft, but menacing voice said. The group looks up onto a platform as a woman in a red dress walks into sight. She has amber eyes and black hair that falls over her left shoulder and wears glass heels.
The platform lowers, Roman lets out an nervous laugh, "I'd… Uh not kill them?"
"Cinder!" Emerald says happily. Cinder approaches the three, "I thought I made it clear that you were to eliminate the would- be run away." She said as she walked up to Roman and Emerald went to stand behind her.
"I was going to!" Roman started. "He was going to escape to Vacuo. Mercury and I decided to take it upon ourselves to kill the rat." She said as Mercury came over to stand beside her. "I think he was some sort of cat actually." Mercury commented.
'What like a puma?" Emerald said with a small laugh. "Yea there you go." Mercury responded. "Quiet." Cinder said firmly, "Did I not specifically instruct you two to keep your hands clean while in Vale?" she scolded as Roman pointed at them with a smug look on his face.
"I just thought—" Emerald began. "Don't think." Cinder said as Roman made a throat slitting motion to the kids, "Obey"
Emerald looked down in shame, "Yes ma'am, it won't happen again." She said. Cinder turns to Roman who tries to give a casual laugh, "Why wasn't this job done sooner?" Cinder asked.
"Uh…Eh?" Roman gestures to his right where there were a stack of dust crates, he then gestures to his right also with many dust crates, "Ehhhh?" he says he then preads his arms and gestures to the entirety of the building full of Dust containers, "EHHHHH!?"
"Sorry if I've been a little busy stealing every spec of Dust in the kingdom!" Roman said. "You're an inspiration. To every punk with a gun and a ski mask." Mercury said sarcastically as Emerald tried to hold in a laugh.
"Look around kid. I've got this town running scared. Police camping out at every corner, Dust prices through the roof. And we're sitting pretty in an old warehouse with more Dust crystals, vials, and rounds than we know what to do with." He said turning around to gesture to all the Dust.
He turns back around, "Speaking of which. If you guys wouldn't mind filling me in on your grand-master plan, it might actually help me make my next string of robberies go a little smoother." He said angrily.
"Oh Roman. Have a little faith." Cinder said walking up to him and touching his face, "You'll know what you need when you need to know it." Cinder gave him an evil smile. "Ah" Roman says as he looks away. Cinder removes her hand, "Besides were done with Dust" she said as she walked away.
"Ooookay. Then what know?" Roman asked. "We're moving." Cinder said, "Have the White Fang clear out this building. I'll send you details and coordinates tonight." Cinder said as she walked away. "Coordinates?" Roman said looking confused.
She turns to face him, "We're proceeding to phase two." She then turns and walks away with Emerald and Mercury following her. Roman sighed and put his cigar in his mouth then looks around for his lighter. He hears a click and looks up to see Emerald holding it.
She sticks her tongues at him then shuts the lighter off with a click.