AN: Hey guys, this is the second chapter of Arc of Warfare! Anyways, as I previously mentioned, this chapter will tell the life of Jaune Arc in Earth. This chapter will include Jaune realizing that he is on a completely different planet. Also, I was asked if Jaune will have a certain personality and experience, sadly, I do not know who that person is.
So, I have decided that Jaune will still have his friendly personality, but will grow more serious when it comes to combat. Not only that, but he's also somewhat hostile when it comes to people who seem suspicious, however, he is also afraid of those who are mysterious. He'll tend to get angry at times, to the point he might kill a guy if someone triggers him. Jaune will give respect to those who've earned it, but also tends to be sarcastic to those who tend to those who haven't.
Now, let's continue with the actual chapter.
Here we go!
Jaune Arc: Age Seven -
"Jäger..."
General Hawk looked at Jaune, a confused look on his face, until he realized what Jaune was talking about. He took his finger and touched the Jaeger emblem, and that emblem expanded, and multiple documents and pictures had now showed up. He handed the tablet to Jaune, who began to read the documents about 'Jäger'.
The Jaegers are soldiers, which are a part of an organization, known as 'Providence'. Providence specialized in advanced warfare, using experimental technology, procedures, and weapons. The Jägers were -
"Child soldiers!?"
Jaune had immediately dropped the tablet, looking at the man in front of him with absolute disgust and anger. Child soldiers was an inhumane to him, his family, and practically everyone else on Remnant. Hawk looked at him, understanding what he meant, and sighed.
"Kid. Child soldiers is something I don't approve of, trust me. But, it was either this or you getting experimented on."
The young blonde looked at him, a confused expression was on his own face. Hawk simply picked up the tablet, and pressed another hologram, this time, it said 'Outsider'. As the word expanded, new documents appeared, but these documents were about Jaune. He grabbed the tablet from the older man, and began to read what it was based on. As he read, Jaune's eyes widened in shock, and fear, as he realized what the documents were about.
The articles were about him. It was about how he ended up in some sort of different planet. Jaune nearly puked, but didn't because he was right in front of the general. In his mind, he was mentally screaming, on how he was stranded in an absolute foreign land and why he came here as a child.
"You somehow ended up 2 klicks south of our headquarters. Nearly caused our generators to blow up from an overload in power. You're lucky that I found you before anybody else did. But when I did, I found something odd."
Jaune leaned in, hoping if it was the answer he was looking for.
"When I first saw you, you were a young adult, but then this weird energy surrounded your body, somehow making you regress into your current state."
"So...what you're saying is, either I become a soldier, or a lab rat."
"Kid, I never meant for any of this to happen, and I don't have the power to stop any of this. But, if you join, you can actually have the power to change this world."
Then, he offered Jaune his hand.
"Do we got a deal?"
Jaune looked at his hand, and began to think. He knew that there will be challenges along the way. But, if this world was willing to put children out on the front lines, then that meant that this world is even more dangerous than he thought. And, it was like Hawk told him, he can actually change the world. The blonde shook his hand, and answered,
"I'll accept. And, it's Jaune. Jaune Arc."
"Well...Jaune, welcome to Providence."
Jaune Arc: Age Nine -
It has been nearly two years since Jaune became a Jäger. And for nearly two years, he trained hard, only this time, he was part of a group that wasn't gifted in fighting as well.
However, there were some people that actually knew what they were doing.
"And...that's the match! Winner: Abraham Grail!"
Jaune struggled to get up from the training mat. This was the probably the hundredth loss he had in two years. All by Abraham Grail; ranked first in Providence. A training drone, one of the many things that surprised Jaune the most had to be the machines that could act as humans, offered to help Jaune get up, but was denied. The bruised blonde looked at the Abraham, and slowly mumbled swear words at him.
Abraham Grail was a kid with brown, that was turning grey at the sides, and has brown eyes. He was the most antisocial person throughout the group, but had proved his worth in combat.
Jaune began to walk towards the wall that was behind Abraham, and leaned against it. During his time on Earth, his Aura was pretty much gone, probably because of him regressing to his child form. As he looked at the boy in front of him, he didn't noticed three boys walking towards him, but one of the boys tapped him on the shoulder and said,
"So, Abraham beat you again, huh?"
Jaune turned to his left, and noticed the three boys, who he didn't knew. To be honest, ever since he became a Jäger, Jaune never met all of the other Jägers, but these three came up to him.
The one who tapped him had light-brown hair, with blue eyes. He gave Jaune an open-smile, and he noticed that one of the boy's teeth was missing. He introduced himself as,
"The name's Allen Walker, and I know I'm missing a tooth. Abraham punched me a bit hard during our last spar. These guys are Marcus and Arthur, introduce yourselves."
Next to Allen, was the tallest of the trio, with dark, greasy-brown hair, and green eyes. He had a black eye, and said,
"I'm Arthur Roy, the black eye was also from Abraham."
The final boy, who also the shortest, had black hair, and brown eyes. He muttered,
"Marcus Grayson."
"Well guys, my name is Jaune Arc."
"Anyways, we've noticed you've been sulking around the place, every time you face off with Abraham. Don't worry about! It's just training, besides one day, maybe you could beat him."
When Jaune came to Earth, he didn't make any friends, but these three, they might change that fact...
Jaune Arc: Age Eleven -
As the blonde slowly woke up, his head and back was in absolute pain. Jaune woke up, and saw that he was laying on his stomach, remembering what had happened to him.
Or rather, every Jäger in Providence.
General Hawk, had told every Jäger that they were going to get transplants, which were just machines embedded into their spines. These transplants made the host capable to become stronger, faster, and react faster than the normal man.
Jaune slowly stood up, and got out of the hospital bed, and noticed that there was a full body-mirror in the room he was in. He walked towards the mirror, and turned around, seeing the transplant. He grimaced at what he saw.
Near the base of his neck, was a vertebrae, painted metallic gray, and more vertebrae, each one growing smaller until they stopped on his lower back. They were all connected through black cables, which grew thinner until they reached the final vertebrae. He also noticed that the vertebrae were embedded into his back halfway, and for some odd reason, was glowing neon-orange.
He moved his hand, and began to touch one of the vertebrae, feeling nothing but cold metal.
He heard the door open, and he saw that General Hawk had entered the room. Then, out-of-the-blue, he pulled out a gun, and fired a bullet at Jaune. The blonde's eyes widened in shock, but they narrowed in confusion at what he was seeing.
Time around him slowed down, and the bullet was being analyzed, as it began to show what caliber it was, what gun it was fired from, and whose firearm it was. Jaune had then leaned to the right, and time had went back to normal, with the bullet whizzing past his cheek. As the bullet was embedded into the wall behind him, Jaune looked at Hawk, with bewilderment at what happened to him.
The General explained to him,
"What you just experienced was one of the many abilities of the transplants. Your brain went into 'Overdrive', and slowed down time, but in reality, you immediately dodge a bullet at point-blank range."
General Hawk had left the room, and a few moments later, he came back, with a suitcase with him. He placed the suitcase onto the hospital bed, and opened it, but didn't allowed to let Jaune see what was inside it. The blonde looked at the old man, and said,
"What's inside the suitcase?"
"Something I never thought I would be doing."
He moved to the side, and Jaune had a clear look at what was inside the briefcase. Inside the briefcase where three different firearms. Jaune looked at General Hawk, and was told,
"Go on then, pick your gun."
"...Seriously?"
"Look, you said it yourself, we're making child soldiers! And a part of that means that a kid should be able to have a gun on them."
Reluctantly, Jaune began to look at the three handguns in front of him. A Colt Anaconda, a Glock-18 and a Beretta M9. The only gun he liked the most was the Colt Anaconda, and he decided that it will be his first firearm.
"Interesting choice. Now, let me show on how to use it."
Jaune Arc: Age Thirteen -
"Damn, Jaune! You managed to get third place in the shooting range!"
"Thanks, Allen, but let's not forget that you're in first place, while Abraham was in second place."
Jaune was reloading bullets into the cylinder of his revolver, while having a conversation with Allen. Even though he preferred using a sword, it turns out that Jaune was more effective with a firearm. He, alongside the other boys, had became good friends with Jaune over a few years, somewhat having a brotherly relationship with one another.
Not only that, but Jaune began learning new things about each of his 'brothers'. Allen became a born natural with a gun, making him the number one sharpshooter among the Jägers. Arthur is one of the strongest Jaune knew, and that was before the augmentations, now he has the strength of ten bears. Marcus, he surprised Jaune the most, because he was engaged to the daughter of a ninja clan. The same ninja clan that trained him to be a ninja, he left Japan when he was six years old, making him the youngest ninja Jaune knows.
"Well at least one of us managed to be better at Abraham at something."
As the four continued laughing, the ceiling above them slowly opened, and a VTOL came in, landing down. Jaune, and alongside most of the rest of the Jägers, gathered around the VTOL, and the hatch opened.
Two people came out of the VTOL, one of them being Hawk, and the other was a young girl. The girl, who appeared to be eleven years old, with blonde hair, and brown eyes, was handcuffed, and struggling. Everyone was confused at what they saw, then Hawk spoke.
"Kids, this is the newest member of Providence, Olivia Snow."
"Let me go! I'm telling you, I did nothing!"
Abraham walked up to Hawk, and looked at Olivia, he looked at her with a cold, emotionless expression, and looked to Hawk. He said in a cold voice,
"Can she fight?"
"No."
"Then what's the point of keeping her?"
"She was capable of hacking our system. And she is eleven-years-old, making her a prodigy and valuable."
Abraham looked back at Olivia, who cowered at his gaze, before scoffing at her. He walked away, shoving Jaune as he did. He looked at his 'brothers', and saw that they were all nodding at him. He walked towards her, and looked at her in the eye. She glared at him, and growled,
"What, want to pick on me as well?"
"No, figured that you needed a friend."
"A friend? We're total strangers! Besides, my friends and family handed me to the authorities when I hacked your systems. What use do I have of friends that will just stab me in the back later on?"
Jaune looked at her, in a sad expression, before saying the same he said to Ruby the first time they met,
"Strangers are just friends you haven't met yet. Or in this case - "
Allen, Arthur, Marcus, and alongside other Jägers swarmed the blonde girl, some praising her, some teasing her in a friendly way. Olivia, was surprised at what she was experiencing. She looked at Jaune, and saw that he was smiling brightly at her, as he then pulled her into a small hug.
"They could be your family."
Olivia, was shocked at what he said, but she smiled slightly, and muttered,
"A family...a new family..."
Jaune Arc: Age Fifteen -
Jaune, and several other Jägers, some of which were his 'brothers', were all sitting in a cargo plane. It was their first mission, and they were going to skydive onto the battlefield. He was dressed in black, and on his wrist was a watch, but had a small holographic figure of Hawk, which was telling him what the mission was.
"You'll be heading to Beijing, from there, you'll head towards their weapon-manufacturing facility, and destroy it. Sources tell us that they began experimenting on the Ajin. As you all know, it goes against the rights of the Ajin. Be careful though, Blackstone runs that facility, so it will be heavily guarded. Good luck."
"I don't see why helping these 'things' is important. They aren't human beings."
"Watch it, Abraham. They might be machines, but they are still living things."
Ajin. A term used for an immortal being, especially for the androids that are basically humans of steel and wires. In Providence, the Ajin would sometimes be found wandering the base, so Jaune was familiar with them. Some of the Jägers liked the Ajin, some didn't, it was like Humans & Faunus all over again.
"Besides, what's the difference between what us and them?"
"Humans can die, and they won't come back. Ajin, they die, and they can come back. A luxury we can't receive."
As they were reaching the weapons facility, they began to check their weapons and other equipment. In his hands, Jaune was looking through a SCAR-H assault rifle, with a holographic sight, and suppressor. Everyone else had either a SCAR or an AR in their hands, all with suppressors attached to them. Allen, was messing around with a scanner that was on his right eye, Jaune looked at the odd device.
"Hey Allen, what is that anyways?"
"The general gave it to me, said it was a scanner that has night-vision, infrared, stuff like that. "
"Alright, we're over the facility, so let's get going!"
Then, the Jaegers all began jumping out of the plan, and slowly descended towards the facility. As soon as they landed on top of the roof, Allen went towards one of the skylights, and used his scanner. He was tagging all of the hostiles he could see, and looked towards the group, saying,
"We got four below us, and two in other rooms, so in total, we have about twelve Blackstone soldiers unaware of us."
Jaune looked inside the main-room, grimacing at the sight. He saw that one of the Ajin they were supposed to, rescue was strapped onto a table, and had mechanics messing with it. It was screaming wildly, as it was becoming an actual living weapon, it's visor glowing red.
An Ajin, was oddly shaped like a human without skin. Except, an Ajin has their skeletons showing off, and instead of a skull or face, a blank visor was their head, and the only way they could show emotion was by the color of the visor.
"Allen, take the shot."
"On it."
Allen was aiming at one of the guards, and pulled the trigger. The bullet broke the window, and went towards the guard, exiting out of the skull. As soon as the body dropped, the Jaegers were coming through the skylight, and entered the main room, with Jaune entering last. As soon as his feet touched the floor, he immediately began to a room. The others, had begun killing the scientists, and the Blackstone guards, and was freeing the imprisoned Ajin.
Jaune had entered the last room, and was immediately being choked by a massive, Blackstone guard. He was lifted off his feet, struggling for air, and was thrown against the wall. His SCAR-H was no longer in his hands, and struggled to get up. The massive brute was on top of him, and began to strangle him, a sadistic grin plastered on his face. The blonde was trying to get him off of his smaller body, then in a desperate attempt, he plunged his thumb into the eye of the guard, with a disturbing squelching sound from doing so.
The man screamed in pain, as he struggled to get his thumb out of his eye, leaving Jaune with a small window of time. He pulled out his revolver, and fired all six shots into the chest. The brute was coughing up blood, as he landed on top of Jaune, dead, his blood covering the floor and the blonde. Jaune tried to move the corpse off of him, but he had not recovered all of his strength.
Then, Allen, Marcus and Arthur were suddenly above him, and removed the corpse with their combined effort. Jaune struggled to get up, having help getting up from Arthur. He looked at Marcus, who was examining the corpse, and the ninja looked at him, and told him,
"Talk about brutal. Didn't knew you had it in you."
"Neither did I."
"So, how's our mission coming along?"
"The guards and scientists are all dead, and we got most of the Ajin out of the facility. All we have to do now is set the explosives, and leave the facility."
Despite the fact that Jaune had brutally murdered a man, he couldn't help but laugh.
This is his new life now.
Jaune Arc: Age Seventeen -
"ABRAHAM, YOU SON OF A BITCH! I'M GONNA FUCKING KILL YOU!"
That was the only moment in his entire life, that Jaune had entirely wanted to kill someone in cold blood. He and General Hawk, were on their knees, looking in front of Abraham Grail. Abraham was standing next to two soldiers, all in black, and were behind an active helicopter.
They were the Blackstone Organization.
Blackstone was the opposite of Providence, basically a terrorist group, and a dangerous one at that. And it turns out that -
"I found it hard to believe that you were the son of Joseph Grail, the former commander of Blackstone, until I killed him of course."
"Shut up, Hawk, you have no idea how long I've waited for this very moment."
"Well, what are you waiting for? Do it."
"Very well then."
He walked towards the general, and pulled out a Colt 1911 pistol, the one that originally belonged to General Hawk. As he aimed the pistol at it's original user, Hawk couldn't help but smirk. Abraham noticed it, and asked him,
"What's on your mind?"
"Since you're going to lead Blackstone from now on, doesn't Providence need a new commander as well?"
"Your point is...?"
"My point is, Jaune Arc, a boy that has interested me from the very beginning, will kick your ass once this over."
He looked at Jaune in surprise, before laughing like a madman. Abraham looked at him and sneered,
"Jaune, are you serious? True, he has proven to be the second strongest among the Jaegers, but that's all he will ever be."
General Hawk looked at Jaune, and smiled at the blonde, who was struggling not to help the soon-to-be dead man. He said,
"Jaune, good luck."
Before the blonde could even speak, a gunshot rang out, and General Ezekiel Hawk fell backwards, and died. Jaune felt his eyes widened in shock and despair, before screaming at Abraham, cursing him out as he got up. The soldiers rose their weapons, but Abraham raised his hand, signaling them not to fire, and walked towards Jaune.
"Well Jaune, you heard the general, you're in charge now. So tell me; what can you do to stop me?"
"Not much, but only..."
"What was that? Seems like you've became a total pussy at the end of that sentence."
"I said, I can only do THIS!"
He grabbed Abraham by the shoulder, and plunged a knife into his left eye, pulling out the knife, and pushing the screaming man onto the floor. He walked away, not caring if the soldiers rose their weapons at his retreating back. Before they could pull the triggers, Abraham screamed in rage,
"DON'T YOU FUCKING DARE! IF THAT'S ALL YOU CAN DO, ARC, THEN I'LL MAKE SURE THAT I WILL MAKE YOUR LIFE A LIVING HELL!"
Jaune simply flipped the bird at him, not even acknowledging him. As he heard the helicopter taking off, he went for his radio, and called Allen.
"Jaune! What the hell happened?!"
"Abraham killed Hawk, and joined Blackstone."
"What?!"
"Don't worry about it, because I crippled him before leaving the bastard."
"Jaune, we're on our own without Hawk, you sure we can do this without him?"
"Course we can, after all, we're the soldiers that he made."
Jaune Arc: Age Eighteen - Present Day -
An alarm began to blare out, and a lump coming from a bed struggled to get up. A few moments later, a tired Jaune Arc came out, and looked at the watch on his wrist. It had a hologram projecting, with the time and the words 'SNOOZE' and 'STOP' below it. He pressed the word 'STOP', and began to get out of bed, heading towards the bathroom.
As he entered the bathroom, he began to examine himself in the mirror. Inside his mind, one half of him was admiring at what he became, the other was disgusted.
His hair had became shorter, darker, and was combed to the side. Underneath his eyes, were heavy bags, representing that he lacked sleep for quite some time. His entire body was much more muscular back then, and was also covered in tattoos, each one a different image.
On his right shoulder, was the crescent moons of his family. On his left shoulder, was the Grim Reaper, and below the Reaper, was the list of people that he had killed over time. His right forearm had the words, "Alea iacta est", meaning "The die has been thrown" in Latin.
Literally where his heart should be, was the very name "Pyrrha Nikos". And on the sides of his abdomen, were the names of his friends, and the Jaeger symbol was tattooed to the side of his neck.
He simply stared at what he became, before punching the window, causing it to shatter. He looked at his bleeding fist, and muttered,
"Jaune...what the hell have you done?"
AN: That is the second chapter of the story! Sorry for not updating it, for I was having trouble for what to put on the screen.
Anyways, I received review, asking if the advanced technology was like EXO's or Tactical Visors, the answer is everything I find interesting. For example the Ajin; who are literally like the Omnics in Overwatch.
So what did you guys think?
See ya later!
