"Ruby. You know. I've been meaning to ask this for a while now. But. Uh...you and I have been friends for a long time. Right? Like, good friends."
Jaune Arc sat on a bench at a park. Ruby Rose was sitting on a swing near him, they were alone, with a single light illuminating the night.
"Yeah…? Uh, of course! We've been together as best friends since college. You were my first and only guy friend for a while."
"Right. Yeah. Not to mention our history in training for the military together and all…"
"What are you getting at? Jaune, are you okay?"
"Yeah! Yeah...just." Jaune approached her and got on a knee and stared her in the eye.
"Jaune…?"
"Ruby Rose."
"Thats me."
"I've been. I've been wondering this for a while now. But uh. Would you…" Jaune paused before finishing. "Will you be my girlfriend?"
"Wait. Is that it?"
"What?"
Ruby started laughing loudly, holding her stomach from the pain of laughing. "Dude. We've known each other for like 4 years. And you know I go to you for basically everything. Why would you be afraid to ask that question? I've been waiting so long for you to ask."
"I don't know, you know. Maybe I'm afraid of rejection. Maybe I don't know-"
"Shh, shh, shh. Jaune. I'm gonna need you, I'm gonna need you to shh."
"Okay?"
"You're a badass who's already served two years in the military and you're already rising through the ranks. You graduated college while being the top of the ROTC class in intelligence work. You also got over...her." Ruby bit her lip. "You're a guy who's given up so much to continue to be loyal to the friends that you have, regardless of the situations and pressures of the people around you."
"And?"
Ruby continued laughing at the top of her lungs. Composing herself and then placing her hands in her hoodie's pockets, she leaned forward and kissed Jaune on the lips quickly.
"You can't ask out an innocent little girl like me, can you?"
"Well. I uh. You never answered my question…?"
"Yes. Jaune, I will be your girlfriend. I will go out with you."
"Wait seriously?" Jaune grinned. "Holy shit, oh my god. That's so awesome!"
Ruby grinned. "To the socially awkward."
"Yep." The two stared at each other.
"I'm so glad that I let you into my life." Ruby said quietly.
"HOLY SHIT, GET THE FUCK OUT, OH MY GOD, GET OUT. SHUT THE DOOR!" Rose screamed.
Ruby Rose (Younger) screamed, shut the door to the Lancaster squad room. Crouching outside her face was heated, red, and she had no idea what she just saw. It was late at night, with both sisters in their pajamas.
"What the fuck, the door wasn't closed all the way?!" Jon shouted a bit after.
Ruby sat with her hands covering her face, her sister coming outside of their dorm room to see what was up.
"Ruby! Are you okay?!"
"I..I've seen things. That I should not have seen…" Her face was the face of a girl who had seen things.
"What...happened?". Yang crouched down to sit with her sister.
"It was...oh...what. Do. Are all guys like that?" Rose said. Her nose started bleeding.
"Ruby, your nose is bleeding."
"Is it?" Ruby touched her face. "Oh my god, I am."
"What did you see?" Yang asked.
"I...I...I saw Jonathan. And Rose. And they were. Were…"
Jonathan peeked out of the room, coming out with a towel wrapped around his waist.
"Oh my god, Ruby, are you okay?! I'm so sorry you weren't supposed to see that! We thought the door was all the way closed and-"
Yang stood up. "THAT'S what you showed my sister?! ARE YOU COMING ONTO HER?! YOU SICK PERV! OH MY GOD DO YOU HAVE AN ERECTION?! YOU'RE GOING SO DOWN, PUNK!", smashing her fists into one another, her Lilac eyes turned red and her hair started steaming.
Jonathan screamed, and started running, naked with nothing but a towel covering him, Yang started chasing him down the hallway. Some other students stepped out of their dorm rooms only to see Jonathan and Yang sprinting down the hall, Yang chasing a naked man in a towel.
Nearing the end of the hall, Yang tackled Jon, being on top, Jon defended himself from blows to the face. Jon could feel his arms giving out. Did the Yang of this world always hit like a goddamn tank? If this is how she was unarmed, what would she be like with her weapon? Jon shuttered at the thought. After a few punches, he decided to fight back, countering the weight of the punch and redirecting the force somewhere else. Standing back up and with the towel wrapped around him, Jon got into a fighting stance. Yang grinned mischievously, bolting forward and getting ready to deliver punches to Jonathan.
"Stop! You got it all wrong!" Jon said. Dodging each punch left and right, and bobbing and weaving, matching the boxing style that Yang fought with.
"Oh? Wanna explain it to me?" Yang said, putting an accent on each word as she threw punch after punch.
Jon figured that at this point, the only way to not get hurt would be to just keep dodging.
"I thought the door was closed all the way! Holy shit! Ruby must've heard something and decided to just open the door to let herself in!" Jon cried, nearly dodging a punch to his face, and his crotch.
Yang threw one final punch as Jon deflected the punch, having his wrists take the brunt of the force and with him rolling forward. He got into a fighting stance again, thinking that the only way out of this situation would honestly be to trade blows. WIth all the movement the towel came loose, and Yang's eyes just went wide. She covered her face. Jon looked confused for a moment before looking down and realizing what just happened.
"Yang! Jon!" Rose called out, coming down the hallway in nothing but a tanktop and underwear, she came over to try and help defuse the situation.
She saw a blushing Yang, and a Jon struggling to cover himself with a towel.
"Wait. You seriously flashed her to stop her from attacking you?" Rose asked. She crossed her arms and stared at Jon.
"Hey, it was an accident!" Jon cried, wrapping the towel around his waist again.
"Anyway. Yang, are you okay?" Rose asked. Blood dripped from Yang's blushing face, refusing to make eye contact with the two soldiers.
"Y-yeah. Totally." Yang said, wiping the blood off of her face and pretending to be composed.
"Is she alright?" Jon asked.
"Well. Probably. I know that back while we grew up, Yang had a tendency to act perverted." Rose explained. Turning around she continued. "She never really meant it. She was always focused on studies, being too busy for guys. She flirted with literally every guy I knew, but when it came to the actual stuff my sister's actually just a huge prude."
"H-hey!"
"She's fine. It's a single dick." Rose said, turning her head to look at the two, and sticking her tongue out. "She'll get over it."
"I...don't get it. How does. How does it fit inside? It's...it was so large. Goodbye...childhood." Ruby said with a deadpan expression, staring into the emptiness of what was once her pure innocent soul. Putting some clothes on, Rose and Jon invited Yang and Ruby to their room, to explain the situation.
"So let me get this straight." Yang started. "In your world. You guys end up together."
"Yes." Jon said.
"My little cute baby sister. And Vomit Boy." Yang said.
"Yes." Rose said.
"And this is an actual romantic relationship between the two of you."
"Yes."
"And at you guys have been dating for how long?"
"5 years? I think?"
"And you guys also sleep together."
"Yes."
"And have seen each other naked."
"Yes."
"And this is because you guys are in a relationship that is not just sex."
"Yes."
"And this is a romantic pursuit."
"Yes."
"You and you." Yang pointed at both soldiers as she said that.
"Yes."
Yang remained quiet as the two soldiers answered her questions.
"Oh my god. My little sister is going to end up with Jaune." Yang said quietly.
"Yang, don't say it like that." Ruby said. Her expression still completely deadpan.
"Full disclosure." Jon started. "Rose is way more perverted than I am. I'm not kidding, once she discovered the internet." He used his two hands to pretend that someone's mind was being blown.
Rose simply grinned at that fact.
"So, uh. Why did you come into our room anyway?" Jon asked. "Usually people knock before they enter."
"I wanted to see if Rose wanted extra clothes." Ruby replied quietly, still staring off into the distance.
"Oh." Jon said. "Well fuck, That's just poor timing."
"Can we. Can we just call it a night and forget what we saw?" Yang asked.
Rose nodded. As the two teenage girls stood up to leave the room, Ruby left a few folded clothes on the desk and muttered to herself.
"There is nothing I can ever forget. The world is no longer safe."
The door closed and Rose turned to Jon.
"Well I think that went better than expected. Least you didn't tell them Weiss and I were a thing for a little bit."
"Wow. I just realized that Weiss had a thing with both of us. I...feel bad." Jon said. "I'm pretty sure I just scarred her for life. Considering that I was basically comic relief when I was their age. I'm guessing that's not the best thought to have."
Rose grinned. "Least they were impressed with what they saw, Captain. You command a biiiiiiiig ship."
Jon sighed, slapping his palm into his forehead.
"Besides. I'm also pretty sure I got into porn when I was her age. Or at least a year later." Rose said.
'"Can we just. Go to bed?" Jon asked.
"Aww…but we both didn't-"
"I'm going to bed. Do whatever to my unconscious body. I'm gonna shut off the light."
Shutting off the lights, Jon made his way onto his bed and then laid there. He closed his eyes.
Summer Rose stood on the edge of a cliff, her hood covering her face and standing by a tombstone. Her grave.
Turning around to show her face, she lowered her hood and started speaking.
"I hope you're adapting to my world just fine." Summer said, lowering her head she spoke softly and with regret. "I...I'm still incredibly sorry that I took you from yours."
Sitting down on the tombstone itself, she looked away while speaking. "I was...I wasn't the greatest mother. I can only imagine that you were angry at the Summer of your world as well."
Chuckling to yourself. "I always put being a huntress before being a mother. And I guess it cost me everything."
She sighed. "And here I am, even after death. Putting others at risk for the sake of my own selfish needs. Isn't that ironic?"
She stood up,and put her hood back up, turning away. "I need to tell you though. The queen is casting her first moves. Beware the fangs that her pawns bare. The glass will fill with dust, and your night will be heated."
She closed her eyes. "The wheels and gears are in motion. Please. For my world. Fight."
"Your mother is insanely cryptic. She's really not making this any easier." Jon said. The two were eating pancakes in the school's dining hall. It had been roughly a two weeks since the two had mysteriously found their way into the world of Remnant. Since arriving, the two had found themselves jobs as teachers to a class of rising Hunters and Huntresses, specialized fighters to the humanity's greatest enemy, the Creatures of Grimm. Also since arriving, the two discovered that the two were in a parallel world, meeting their younger selves and their respective teams.
"Yeah. Well." Rose said, stabbing her pancakes. "She's all we got on this weird supernatural stuff, or whatever we're supposed to prepare our younger selves for." Cutting a piece with her fork and sticking it into her mouth, "She wasn't like that back home."
"It might have to do with the fact that she's dead." Jon looked around the cafeteria. All the students seemed peaceful, eating their lunches and living their lives, just like high schoolers from their world. "We have no idea what we're supposed to look for anyway. Beware the fangs the pawns have? What the fuck does that even mean?"
"And that the Queen had made her first move? When does that mean that we're going to be fighting something, or needing to affect history?" Rose sighed at the cryptic message.
"And our night being heated. I'm pretty sure that isn't a euphemism."
"Yeah. If only." Rose said, looking sad.
"You traumatized a 15 year old girl by showing her a future self of her in bed." Jon said with a deadpan expression, crossing his arms.
"Hey! I told you, I thought the door was all the way closed and I didn't expect her to come in." Rose said, pouting. "It's just as much your fault too you know!"
The bond between the soldiers and their younger selves had been, complicated. It was hard to get a read on both what the two thought of each other. On one end the younger ones didn't trust the two soldiers on behalf of their origins. On the other, the soldiers were completely willing to open themselves up, as long as the information provided never changed the way the younger selves viewed the world.
Spotting a red hood, Jon eyed Ruby and her friends. Er. Friend. Ruby was walking with an hand on her stomach and her looking miserable and dead. Weiss was on her left and helping her, seemingly scolding her about something.
Rose looked to see what Jon was looking at, and smiled. She finished eating and stood up, followed by Jon.
"We got our first paycheck yesterday." Jon said. "You wanna try hitting the city of Vale? We could use some extra clothes that aren't strictly military or too small to wear. Specifically yours on that second point."
"Jonathan Arc, are you asking me out on a date in a world where we have no idea where we are?" Turning her head and sticking out her tongue playfully at Jon. "But yeah. Definitely. Ruby's clothes are nice and all, but they're a little...tight. We can probably head out after classes today end."
"So. Deal?"
"Deal."
Peeking out the doorway of the dorm, Jon spotted Team RWBY leaving the room with two other boys, one with a tail and the other with blue hair.
"That dude has a tail. And that dude has blue hair." Jon said. "And those guys seem really dressed up. You guys always knew how to dress well in our world."
"And you have a face." Rose replied. "They're faunus. The one with the tail. I have no idea what the hell is up with blue hair McGee. You've seen them, this isn't the first time you've said anything either."
"Wait. Really?"
"Remember Velvet? In our world she was a war photographer. Here she's got herself bunny ears. There were a few others as well. And you suspected that Blake was one as well."
"Huh. Wow. I...don't remember this."
"Yep. I think it's cute. I think you said it was cute too." Rose beamed. "Like bunny ears and cat ears? Tails and fur? That's super cute."
"I guess it just seems a bit off for me. Considering that I've just never expected to see something like that."
"Yeah...they're also discriminated against."
"Really?"
"Yeah. Not unlike the 1950s." Rose put on a hoodie and her combat pants, finishing strapping her holster to her leg and her knife to her belt. "You ready?"
"Yeah." Jon smiled. He holstered his handgun and knife and the two got ready to leave. The one thing this world seemed okay with is the open carry of weapons. Jon and Rose felt safer with a gun anyway.
Holding Rose's hand, the two began to leave the dorm room. Moving down the hall Jon and Rose spotted Team JNPR's door open. Crossing the doorway, Pyrrha spotted them, raising her hand towards them and waving.
"Hello!" She said with a smile. "Where are you two going?"
"Jonathan and I were planning on hitting up the city. We need new clothes that aren't our world military or uh…" Rose said, looking at herself. "Tight. Man. At least it makes me look good."
"I...see." Pyrrha spotted the two soldiers holding hands. Her smile dropped a bit.
"Would it be alright if my team and I came with you? We could use a night off and bond as a team."
The rest of Team JNPR stopped what they were doing to stare at the door.
"...yes?" Jon replied shakily, Rose facepalmed.
"Oh wonderful! Give us a few minutes, we'll get ready."
The door to JNPR closed and Rose leaned against the wall. Loud crashing noises could be heard from the other side of the door.
"Was something wrong with me saying yes?" Jon asked.
"I wanted to be our night out. Like I love these guys and all, they've shown nothing but kindness, even if it seems uneasy, but I kinda didn't expect them to tag along." Rose said, crossing her arms. She looked away from Jon. "Its...its her. Isn't it?"
"...Yeah." Jon said. He stared at the Team JNPR door.
"She still has a place in your heart."
"Yeah."
"And you feel terrible."
"...Yeah."
"I'm sorry."
"We never really spent time like this together outside of military focus." Jon quickly thought about it. "Well we did. College really. But it eventually our relationship became too focused on training that it never progressed from that. At least. It ended too quickly on behalf of. Well. You know."
Rose stayed silent. Jon started speaking again. He looked at the ground, with his hands in his pockets.
"I doubt it was really meant to be a relationship in the first place. I was pretty unassertive. But she thrived off the fact that I gave her attention that didn't focus on the fact that she was some amazing martial artist and student. And on reflection, it would have been symbiotic, almost parasitic as a relationship." Jon sighed again. "I just still feel guilty. She was the first one who meant so much to me that I saw die. To be frank, the day that she died was the day that I fell apart. I died that day as well."
"You want to help prevent-" The door for Team JNPR opened, "-THEM from baking cakes that involve giving people Salmonella!"
The four students stared at Rose, each of them dressed in casual clothing ready to hit the city.
Jaune was dressed in a normal black hoodie and jeans. Par for the course he seemed the most normal of the rest of the group. Pyrrha stood next to him dressed in a white button up and golden-bronze colored cardigan. She wore a pencil skirt that ended just above her knees, being black with her symbol on the side.. Her hair was tied back without her traditional tiara.
Nora was wearing jeans and a grey leather jacket on top of a striped white shirt. It was relatively low cut, slightly revealing her cleavage.
Ren wore a green button up with his sleeves rolled up and a black tie. He had black dress pants. He stood composed and wore his hair into a ponytail.
"You were talking about cakes?" Nora asked,
"...Yes" Rose said shakily. Jon facepalmed.
"I looooooooooooooooove cakes! Oh my gosh, Ren you should tell them about the last time you baked us a cake! It was sooooooooooo good" Nora started, grabbing Ren's arm and shaking him back and forth like a ragdoll.
"Oh boy." Jaune said, sighing. "You got her started on sweets."
"I CAN JUST EAT MACAROON AFTER MACAROON." Nora screamed.
Rose approached Ren and spoke quietly. "Isn't she also obsessed with Pancakes?"
Ren shushed her, "Don't get her started on those. But all things sweet basically freaks her out. Candy, pastries, pure snort-able sugar...Pancakes."
"Ah. The baker's remorse I see."
Ren smirked.
Jon and Jaune both held their stomachs in the same manner.
"Air sickness?" Jon started.
"...Yep." Jaune replied. The soldier chuckled, laughing at the fact that there are parallels between woirlds that were meant to be.
The group was on an airship, ready to land and dock at the city of Vale. As it landed and the doors open, both Jaune and Jon ran out, vomiting into the nearest trash bin they could find.
Pyrrha came over and pat Jaune on the back.
"Jaune, are you okay?"
Wiping his mouth, Jaune looked up at her. "I hate hate, HATE air travel."
Rose approached Jon. "You okay big cat?"
"Yeah."
"Cool. No kisses tonight." Rose stuck her tongue out. Jon laughed at the statement, wiping his mouth with his arm and then regrouping with everyone.
Pyrrha once again slightly frowned. No one noticed.
"Sooooooooooo," Rose started. "You guys have any idea of where to go for clothes?"
"Well," Pyrrha started, "we can start with the Vale mall, and then there's a small outlet a few bl-"
"OH OH OH! LET'S GO TO THAT ONE!" Nora shouted, pointing at a random clothing store.. "We got Renny's clothes from that one!"
Dragging Ren by the collar and moving towards the store the entirety of the rest of the group sighed and reluctantly started heading towards the store.
The store was called Binco, having a wide variety of colorful clothing.
"Why is...everything so...colored?" Jon asked Ren. The shirts in front of him were all brightly colored with only a single black shirt.
"Everyone is named after a color. There was a great war against Grimm in ancient times. And surviving that, humanity decided that the greatest way to celebrate would be express themselves. And so humanity started naming themselves after color." Ren explained.
"Oh."
Looking through the clothing of the store, Ren and Jaune were helping Jon pick out clothes. Grabbing several pairs of jeans and a few shirts, Jon went into the fitting room.
Rose, Nora, and Pyrrha found themselves in a pile of clothes.
"So…" Pyrrha started.
"So." Rose replied, checking to see if a hoodie would fit her or not, checking herself out with a mirror, not giving Pyrrha and Nora much attention."
"You and Jon are together?" Pyrrha asked.
"Yep!" Rose added another red and black shirt to a small pile she was collecting to fit.
"Oh my gosh, you guys are together?!" Nora said.
"Yes. Calm down." Rose said, checking out some jeans.
"But Jaune and Pyr-" Pyrrha covered Nora's mouth.
"We've been together for like 5 years. It's not unlike how you and Ren are."
"Well. We're not together together."
Rose chuckled. "You keep telling yourselves that. I'm going into the fitting room."
Disappearing into the fitting room, Nora stared at Pyrrha and grinned slightly. "Ohhhhhh, jealous, are we?"
"Is it that obvious?"
"Of course!"
Pyrrha blushed. "I just. I'm worried. Why does Jon pick Rose in their world…?"
"So. How do I look?"
Jaune came out with fake glasses, a button up shirt and cargo shorts.
"You look absolutely pretentious." Rose said. She was wearing a red and black baseball shirt, it was slightly baggy. She wore leggings. "Change."
Going back in laughing, the two went back into the fitting rooms to change once more. Coming back out, Rose wore a short sleeve hoodie that was a dark red. It wrapped tightly around her torso and it led to black skinny jeans. Jon came out wearing a black T-Shirt, like his old shirt, it tightly hugged his body, showing off his build and his arms. He wore jeans like his younger counterpart.
"Now we can say we dress normally here." Jon smiled. Pyrrha blushed looking at Jon, his handsome face giving her high expectations for the younger specimen.
Nora and Ren complimented both of them, and the group left the store, with each soldier having more casual clothing to help them fit into this world.
"So. Food?" Jon asked.
"We could do food." Jaune said, Ren nodding in agreement.
"Oh oh! How about the Paris Baguette over there!" Nora pointed.
"We're talking about foods that aren't sweets." Jaune said. "Though that begs the question. What's a Paris? And what does that have to do with Baguettes?"
Jon and Rose looked at each other.
"Wait what?"
As the group moved into the outlet previously mentioned by Pyrrha, they passed an alleyway.
"You Faunus piece of shit!" a voice cried.
"Yeah! What makes you think you're ab-" A woman screamed, cut off by the sounds of a punch.
Lancaster and JNPR peeked the corner, seeing three men with animal ears wearing masks. They wore normal clothing and were standing over well dressed middle aged man and woman. .
"Why are the faunus acting this way?" Jaune asked.
"Despicable."
Jon moved up. "Hey! Assholes!"
The three Faunus punks turned around, one of them having a purse in his hand.
"Step away from the couple." Jon said firmly. Rose and JNPR watched as Jon tried to defuse the situation.
"And who the hell are you?" One of them said, sneering.
"Captain America, bitch. Well. Not really. I don't have a shield on me."
No one laughed.
"No but seriously, step away from the couple." Jon said in a clear voice.
"And what are you going to do about it?"
"I'll call the cops?" Rummaging through his pockets, he kept moving. The faunus just looked at one another. "Shit. Wait. Rose, could i get your Pho- Scroll?"
Rose threw her scroll towards Jon, catching it, he turned around only to see three individuals charging him. Barreling forward, he used brute strength in order to break through the charge. Team JNPR and Lancaster got into a fighting stance, surrounding the White Fang members.
"Look. It's a Friday night, and most of us don't really wanna fight. We're out to have a good time. So what say you guys drop the purse, and let these innocent-"
"Innocent?!" One White Fang "This man is an investor in the Schnee Dust Company, why the FUCK would you be defending him?!"
"I...know some of those words, and not in that order." Jon said. Ren and Pyrrha facepalmed. "And to be frank, I don't care. Drop the purse. You're surrounded. Violence shouldn't be your answer to your problem."
Grunting, two faunus complied, dropping their stances and seeing that they were outnumbered. The one with the purse kept holding the purse and looked around. He bolted, passing Jon and him turning tail and giving chase.
"Ren! Nora! Make sure the couple is okay and watch over our bags! Make sure the other two punks don't move! Pyrrha, Jaune, Rose, get into the building and try to cut him off, and make sure that she has a scroll to stay on comms!" Jon shouted, running off.
Nora and Ren approached the other Faunus, Nora grinning and cracking her knuckles.
"Now, my friend here doesn't have a lot of patience," Ren started. "But if you guys try anything, she will not hesitate to actually break your legs."
"Come on. Try something." Nora said with a maniacal grin.
Pushing into the building that was next to the alleyway, it led into a kitchen with several different cooks, dodging each person left and right, Rose and Pyrrha made their way through several people. They made it to the other end, leading to a maintenance hallway with an additional backdoor, kicking it open, Rose rushed outside, only to see Jon's backside as he sprinted across to gain on the fugitive. Pyrrha and Rose started crossing the street in a diagonal fashion, jumping over the hoods of cars in order to make up speed. Jaune exited the restaurant, only sighing when he saw the two girls running more.
Jon pursued into an alleyway on the other end of the street. The runner was still too far for Jon to tackle, and considering that no lethal force was present there was no reason for Jon to draw his weapon. Turning the corner, Rose and Pyrrha stood waiting, ready to stop him. Looking back, the runner spotted Jon still charging, as well as another blonde boy struggling to keep up, judging his options, he ran into the backdoor of the building next to him.
"Oh for fucks sake." Jon grumbled, giving chase into the building and running up several stories of buildings. The runner saw an open door and barged into an apartment. A couple watching a movie screamed, seeing a Faunus with a stolen purse and Jon sprinting in.
"Sorry!" Jon shouted, as the Faunus made his way to the balcony of the apartment. Having nowhere to go, he turned around and saw Jon tackling, pushing the two of them off the building.
Rose and Pyrrha arrived shortly after with the couple screaming at them They spotted the purse and looked over the balcony to see Jon and the runner falling onto a rooftop of another building and into a skylight.
"JON!" Pyrrha screamed.
"Oh he's fine." Rose said calmly while picking up the purse and apologizing the to the residents of the apartment.
Glass breaking was heard.
"You're...not worried?" Pyrrha asked.
"It's like two stories. I'll be perfectly honest, Jon can survive that just fine. Plus the skylight is breaking his fall."
"But, it's still dangerous!"
"Contrary to what you might think, Jon is capable." Rose said coldly. "Stop treating him like he's yours."
Turning around, Pyrrha took one last glance at where Jon and the Runner landed. Pyrrha's scroll began to ring.
"Jon?! Are you alright?" Pyrrha asked.
"Fuck. Yeah, I think so. Nothing feels broken." Jon replied over the phone.
"Is...did you kill him?"
A groan was heard on the other end.
"Nope! Though I think I broke a few of his bones. I did just use him as a meatshield."
"That's...that probably is worrying."
"Anyway. Fuck the purse. I think I actually might be in a spot of trouble." Jon said.
"What do you mean?"
"Do the words White Fang mean anything to you? And by that I mean, do these guys have a thing against humans? And by that I mean, why are they arming themselves at the sight of me? Why the hell was there a warehouse like this behind a residential area?"
Jaune finally arrived in the doorway, with Pyrrha and Rose starting to exit and apologize to the residents.
"Hey ladies. What did I miss?"
Rose sighed.
A/N (That's how people do these. right? Also Chapter 3 was ass. I'm sorry you had to read that.)
I'll be perfectly fucking honest. I don't expect to really put much of myself down here as Author notes. But I might add in a few quick questions that might be answered. Also I want to make sure that I don't add in as many Author Notes as well because I'm fucking terrified that I people would react negatively to the fic that I'm writing. (Which probably means that I should explain myself? But I kinda want it to be me not constantly making excuses for shitty writing? Fuck, I don't know.)
I'm not very good at writing.
Anyway:
-This is a Lancaster fic if you couldn't tell. There are subtle nods to other ships. Namely Airships in Chapter 4.
-Jon and Rose are realistic and at the same time larger than life. They're characters that are supposed to be grounded in the reality of being human while still having stories and peak physical conditioning that carries them through most of their operations. Jon is a tough son of a bitch and has Action Hero traits to him. Meaning that he's always willing to say dumb shit, but at the same time would be able to fight like. 25 Metal Gears RAYs for example.
On the other hand, Rose's ability in Chapter 3 was the fact that she's also a calm, collected, and cold woman who's an excellent marksman. She's hardened by our world and being a killer that she often acts despondent and distant to the people around her, with only Jon being her emotional support. Being students, the students characters in RWBY might not really understand until someone like Ruby would have to kill someone herself.
The characters are still human, and I know that was a bit of a concern coming into writing this. Jon and Rose are human. They have no Aura or Semblance and for the most part Jon relies on stupid luck and brute force to get him through many situations. He will survive while still feeling the pain of fighting superpowered enemies. (Or not. Depending on the faction.) Bullets are lethal. I don't think I have to explain that. Largely because looking up a video of someone getting shot should just explain it to you. Also please don't do that, I don't want you getting on the FBI watch list or something.
-Rose's ability of ricochet is meant to have a 'gunslinger' feel to it. If you ever remember one of the traits that makes Revolver Ocelot from Metal Gear Solid so awesome, Rose would have inherited that. Her abilities as a marksman revolves around quick reaction time and bullet accuracy and precision. In addition to having a "human aimbot", her defining ability enables her to calculate the angle at which a bullet needs to hit a wall in order to ricochet a bullet correctly. The only reason why she was able to beat Ruby's time in the training room was because of the sheer amount of bullets being fired and remaining in the air, and because like Rose said. "It's pretty fucking hard to outrun a bullet."
-The two soldiers actually have a list of equipment that I wanted them to have. These are personally tailored to the roles the two might have in order to work off of each other.
Jonathan wields a HK416 Carbine with an extended horizontal foregrip with an Underbarrel M320 Grenade Launcher attached. It also has a laser module and a flashlight, with muzzle brake if any of that matters to help you picture it better. He wields a 1911 Handgun. He also has a S1000 Shorty 12G shotgun that he uses for close range encounters.
Rose wields her own HK416 Carbine, however instead of a Grenade launcher like Jon, she has a M26 MASS Shotgun. (Think Buck from Rainbow Six Siege). She wields a SR-25 DMR and an HK45 Tactical with threaded barrel and flashlight and laser.
Jonathan dresses like a normal soldier, having all the equipment needed. There are other things that he has with him that I won't say, largely because most of them might just be small or little pieces of utility that could be brought up later.
Rose has a Red Hood on her Battle Dress Uniform. Other than that, her kevlar and other equipment should be the same.
Both of them have several grenades, and being an Engineer, Rose has an ability to fix up various tools as explosives.
Oh and they both have their own personal knives.
-This Fic takes place somewhere in Volume 2, with the first major arc (Which this chapter is the start of) taking place during the Girls Night Out Arc. This is a side story of what Team JNPR did.
-Volume 3 Spoilers if you haven't picked up on it.. (Duh.)
-Jon's penis is massive.
-Ozpin hired Jon, banking on the knowledge that Jon is a successful Captain on the battlefield, and knowing that because Jaune is one of his students, and the two worlds being 'parallel', Ozpin sees that Jaune became or is fated to become a great leader.
-Yes. Dust cartridges can still be used as regular cartridges in the Lancaster Squad's rifles. It's a cop-out. I know. There is no difference in power, only Aura.
I'll try to make another Author Note FAQ thing some time soon if need be. I know that I got only concerns last time from one comment and that's fine. But for the most part this section was mostly just to help people if they didn't understand it as well as I explained it in the story. I know that my writing is a bit shitty but I'm trying my best with it. Hopefully my references aren't as obscure as I make them out to be, considering that Baneposting in Chapter 1 got me punched in the face by my friend. I am pretty busy so I am writing this in my spare time. And for the most part, I'll try to release two long chapters at a time. (Is 15k Words long? I have no idea.)
Anyway. Thanks for reading through my garbage so far. If you like it, go ahead and follow it, and tell me things that you like! If not and you want to criticize the story for how shitty it is, go for that too. I can't really stop you because I'm basically just bold lettering on your computer screen at this point. If you have questions, ask them, and for the most part I'll answer them in the Author Notes I do in the future.
Alright, I'm gonna go and finish the night off reading hentai and then going to bed.
Cyas,
-Acacia