Operation: Jaune's Dastardly Revenge Chapter 4: Matchmaker, Part One, a rwby fanfic

Greetings everyone!

Welcome back to the 4th chapter of "Operation: Jaune's Dastardly Revenge".

Today, our target is none other than the cool and collected ninja-boy, Lie Ren.

Now, judging by the number of punishment ideas submitted to me, I've noticed a common theme behind a few of them. And so, today's punishment idea is brought to you by; ZERO, Anonymous Guest, Xenoguyver, and HerefromtheHeartbreak. Though, truth be told, I was kind of hoping for a bit more when it came to Ren's punishment but c'est la vie.

In other news, I've decided to sadly drop one of my stories due various variables. The main case being that by the time I'm able to work on it, I'll have lost any drive to continue it's story. Which is why, as of this moment, I will be dropping "Shadows of Hope" from the roster and will instead offer it for adoption for anyone that finds the idea of putting RWBY in a Feudal Japan Era version of Remnant. I apologize to those that were hoping for more but I don't believe I'll be able to have the drive to continue it. Thank you for, hopefully, understanding.

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Sept. 30th: "Operation: Jaune's Dastardly Revenge - Ch. 05"/"Don't Mess With An Arc - Ch. 07"

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Chapter Four

Truth be told, it was extremely difficult coming up with a ideal punishment for a man such as Lie Ren, his brother-in-arms. To Jaune, he represented the brotherly bond he never got to have when he was younger, on account that he primarily had older sisters to deal with instead. And he was sure that Ren saw him this way as well.

But it wasn't the brotherly bond that kept Jaune stumped when it came to creating a punishment for Ren. It was his sheer lack of anything exploitable. For as long as he had known him, Jaune had never seen Ren lose his coolness, even when the stakes were stacked against him, he never lost his composure and instead remained calm under fire. Though, this was mainly due the constant daily actions of his hyperactive, lightning-rod of a childhood friend, Nora Valkyrie.

It was mainly because of this that Jaune was nearly tempted to just give Ren a pass and move on to the next target. But then a strange occurrence happened up his doorstep as the white painted door swung open, allowing the orange haired lightning rod, herself, to enter the fray, thrusting her right arm into the sky, her fist clenched together as the sound of lightning strike sounded off. And for a moment, Jaune was stuck in wonder at his hyperactive teammate's entrance before it was swiftly kicked away once he noticed the scroll in her left hand.

For all of her sheer out-of-this-world craziness, Jaune couldn't help but smile at his teammate's antics as she continued to do various poses, upon which the sound of crackling lightning would accentuated them. The entire ordeal had only ended when the tell-tale sound of Nora's scroll's dying battery ceased her moment, causing her to pout as she looked at her scroll. But this moment of grief was soon replaced by a happy smile as she plugged her scroll into it's charging port and turned to face her fearless leader, who had continued to watch her with a brotherly smile on his face.

"Hello, Jaune-Jaune!" Nora happily exclaimed as she leaped onto her bed that rest beside the far right wall of Team JNPR's shared dorm room.

"Hey, Nora." Jaune replied with a smile on his face, watching his teammate jump on her bed with a joyous expression. "I figured you'd be with Ren, right about now. Is there something he needs?" he asked, watching as Nora leaped off of her bouncy bed before making her way to his side.

"Actually, fearless leader, I'm here to help you." said Nora, placing her hands on her hips as her usual maverick smile donned her face while Jaune continued to look at her in confusion.

"Help me? With what?" he asked, voicing his confusion as his teammate sighed in annoyance before placing her hands on his shoulders as she proceeded to shaking him like a madwoman.

"With Renny's punishment, duh!" she exclaimed, still shaking her leader in his chair.

"But why would you want to help me with Ren's punishment? If anything I thought you'd be the first to try to sabotage my plan." said Jaune, once Nora had released her hold on him.

"Listen up, fearless leader. No one knows Renny better than I and I know that not even the best could ever hope to break him. And while a part of me would like nothing more than to break your legs for even thinking of harming a single hair on my Ren. I also know that this is the only way for all of us to make up for what we had done. It's also why I decided to help you." said Nora, taking his hand in her's as a fiery passion was ignited in her eyes. "Together, we will do more than just punish Ren...We will break him." said Nora, smiling like the psychopathic madwoman she always was while Jaune tared back in utter fear as flashes of Bella's own psychopathic smile filled his mind. It was in that moment that Jaune had fearfully realized a singular truth. That if Bella was his psychopathic stalker then Nora was Ren's.

But before he could even muster single word, the soft yet warm hand of the madwoman, herself, latched onto his wrist before dragging him through the opened doorway and into the first-year's dorm hallway in search of the calm and collected, Lie Ren. Jaune could only hope that, for once, his target would escape his punishment out of fear of what the living lightning rod of a madwoman would bring down upon them.

...A Few Moments Later...

It was but a few moments later that the duo happened up their quarry, who was in the process of baking some delicious pancakes and sunny-side-up eggs. At the slightest turn of his head, the duo ducked behind the wall the separated the kitchen from the common room when they were currently kneeling in wait. Jaune watched his temporary partner-in-crime reach down into her pocket before pulling out a small container filled with brown sediment.

"Is that what I think it is?" Jaune asked, feeling slightly terrified as Nora answered him with a smile. "Nora, no. You can't do that. I told you that recipe is only for those with the sweetest sweet tooth." he pleaded only for Nora to blatantly ignore his pleas in favor of moving towards Ren. Choosing to remain silent, despite all sirens warning him to stop her, Jaune watched as Nora rolled towards the kitchen counter, where Ren was currently preparing his breakfast, adding cinnamon and brown sugar to his freshly backed pancakes.

When his back had turned away to return to his eggs, Nora was swift to pop open the container, quickly adding the mysterious mixture to the top of his pancakes before ducking back behind he counter just in time to avoid her partner's gaze. Now, one might be fearful that adding a third seasoning to an already seasoned delicacy would be cause for alarm but Nora was anything be fearful as she knew that their similarity would no doubt be mistaken for the other seasonings. That and her partner was never as attentive in the morning as he was during the day. Which was a weakness Nora would constantly exploit during her more adventurous moments.

When she noticed the slightest movement of her partner, Nora was quick to rolled out from behind the counter before leaping away with the swiftness of a feline towards her leader's current hiding spot just in time to avoid Ren's eyesight as he grabbed his plate of breakfast and glass of his specially made juice. Slowly, he made his way towards the adjacent table, unaware that two of his teammates were currently watching his every move, especially his partner, who was smiling wider and wider - if that was even physically possible - as her eyes remained glued to her partner's seasoned pancakes. As if in slow motion, the duo watched with mixed anticipation as Ren slowly sliced through his doughy pancakes with his knife before plunging the prongs of his fork into the triple-decked pancakes. Slowly, the clump of delicious mysteriously seasoned pancakes made their journey to the dark, moisty cavern that was Ren's mouth.

And as his lips closed around the seasoned pancakes, Jaune watched helplessly as his brother-in-arms's eyelids snapped open, his left eyes twitching a supersonic speed before his pupils shrunk to mini balls of blackness as his entire body slowly began to fidget. The duo watched with mixed emotions as Ren's fidgeting grew faster and faster until his sheer form was naught but a constant blur of motion. When suddenly, his vanished and all that was left was a shadow of his former self. No, seriously, he literally left his shadow behind due to his sheer boost in speed.

Jaune's mouth hung agape at the scene before him as the usual calm and collected brother-he-always-wanted was quite literally bouncing off of the walls at a speed rivaling that of Ruby. And all the while Nora was smiling happy as a clam watching her partner move faster and faster with every fidget. But then he stopped dead center in the middle of the room, his pupil still dilated but his fidgeting had ceased. Suddenly, the duo watched as Ren's fell to the group, utterly exhausted from his momentary sugar rush.

Jaune remained silent, mouth still agape and unable to move even an inch, as Nora happily skipped over to her partner's side, smiling all the way. Without a care in the world or the strange sensation of lifting her sugar coma'd partner onto her left shoulder or even the definite look of confusion and fear that was radiating from her fearless leader, Nora happily whistled a fine tune as she carted Ren away from the kitchen while Jaune quickly followed behind, though mainly out of fear of what Nora had planned.

"Uh, Nora?" asked Jaune, flinching ever-so slightly at Nora's psychopathic smile. "W-Where are you, um, taking Ren?" he asked just as Nora made a dead-stop in front of me, nearly causing him to bump into her as she slowly turned to face him.

"I already told you, Jaune-Jaune." she said, leaning closer to him as her expression took on a darker form. "We're going to break him." she said, still smiling as innocently as ever before as she turned back and proceeding to carry Ren off to meet his "breaking point". Jaune could only hope that Ren had more willpower than Nora had ideas. Either way, he knew one thing for certain... That by the end of the day, Ren would either escape to freedom or Nora would effectively "break" her partner.

...A Few Moments Later...

Twas around mid-afternoon when Ren's eyes lifted from their slumber, only to be greeting by the shrouded darkness that was his dorm room. How had he arrived here? Where were his teammates? But most importantly, was there any of those pancakes left? Though, with how addictive they are and his partner's rambunctious personality, the odds that there was any shred of pancakes left for him was nigh impossible. Saddening but for as long as Ren had known his partner, he knew that whenever there were pancakes involved, Nora would do most anything to achieve them.

After regaining his cool and collected composure and allowing his eyes to adjust to the darkness, Ren felt a very familiar and yet very strange sensation on the back of his neck. Twisting his head around, Ren's eyebrows raised ever-so slightly at the sight of nothing and yet the sensation had refused to leave him. And while it is depressing to say, he knew that not even his brother-in-arms was capable to arousing this sensation within himself. No, there could only be one that would be able to catch him off guard and restrain him to where he'd be unable to escape.

A light chuckled escaped between his lips as he gaze forward into the shroud. "Hello, Nora." he said with a ghost smile as Nora, sitting upon a leather chair as she slowly ran her hand down the furry little back of Team RWBY's corgi, Zwei. Coming out from behind the chair was none other than his own leader, who stood to Nora's right with his arms at his side. "Hello, Jaune. I take it this was all Nora's doing?" he asked with a slight smile as his brother-in-arms scratched the back of his head in embarrassment.

"Yeah... Honestly, I didn't think she'd go this far. I figured she'd try to sabotage me." he explained as Ren nodded his head in slow succession before the both of them were silenced at the sight of Nora's raised hand.

But even as she slowly lowered her hand, neither male opted to voice their feelings, instead they remained silent even as Nora continued to stare into her partner's magenta eyes. Suddenly, a snap echoed through the room, causing Jaune to snap his attention to Nora just as she cleared her throat before finally coming to the realization. "Oh! Right." he said before being enveloped in the darkness once more and leaving Ren to Nora's whim.

Thought, truthfully, if Ren was to be honest with himself, antics like this from his childhood friend and partner was just another day to him. Actually, now that he thought about it, he was sure that anyone else would've snapped at this point but thanks in part to being around her for extended periods of time and his calming Semblance, he was essentially numb to his partner's "pranks". Though, he wouldn't lie and say that the fact that she had teamed up with Jaune didn't have him the least bit concerned. After everything they'd been through, he knew better than anyone that where Jaune lacked in combative prowess, he made up for with tactical planning. It was also one of the reasons he agreed with Ozpin when it came to making Jaune the leader. He'd never be able to handle the responsibility of multiple people, hell, he could barely handle Nora. And he knew that the last thing Pyrrha wanted was more time in the spotlight. And then there was Nora... Need I say more?

By the time Jaune had returned thirty minutes had passed with neither Nora nor Ren voicing their emotions. Needless to say, it made for what happened next all the more awkward for their fearless leader. The two childhood friends remained dead silent as Jaune fumbled around with several objects before finally being able to set everything up. After he had done so, Jaune stood back in order to watch the strange scene before him. Resting upon the table was a candlestick holder with three wax candles all illuminating the shrouded room and resting before the two of them was a plate of the most delicious food ever created by the gods... Pancakes. But not just any kind of pancakes. These fluffy disks of goodness had the exact same seasoning as Ren's earlier creations. The very same one that had a mysterious seasoning added on.

Nora smiled as Ren eyed his pancakes with suspicion before locking eyes with her own. Neither spoke but each of them knew exactly what the other was thinking. The only ones left out of the loop was Jaune and the little corgi sitting beside him. And just as Jaune was about to speak his mind, without even a shred of warning, the ropes binding Ren's form to the chair snapped free, allowing Ren the opportunity to escape his bindings and evade just in time to avoid meeting Nora's hammer. This positively shocked Jaune into reacting as he stepped between the two of them to prevent any endangerment.

"Nora!" he shouted at her though it seemed his shout had fallen upon deaf ears as the only one who held her undivided attention was the man just behind. "You can't just pull out magnhild whenever you want! What if you broke something?!" he shouted.

"I told you Jaune that we were going to break Renny!" she shouted back, hefting her massive warhammer in her arms.

"I thought you meant break his composure! Not break his bones!" Jaune argued back, clenching his fists when Nora suddenly began to laugh like a kid in candy store.

"Oh, Jauney, everybody knows that best way to break someone's composure is to break their bones. And besides after I break his bones I can spend the next few weeks nursing him back to health." she said, smiling innocently even though Jaune was absolutely terrified of her. "Now please, fearless leader, step aside." she said, taking a single step forward, to which both Ren and Jaune took a step backwards.

Suddenly, Jaune felt Ren's hand latch onto his wrist, pulling him away just in time to avoid Nora's hammer before he was subsequently pulled out of Team JNPR's dorm window and out into the safe haven of daylight. The two of them fell to the ground below with Ren landing on his feet before managing to catch Jaune in his arms. But, once again, before Jaune even had a chance to voice his mind, he found himself being carted away in Ren's arms off into the distance and away from their hyperactive lightning rod of a teammate, who was laughing like a megalomaniac super-villain as the two made their getaway.

After several minutes of running for their very lives, the brothers-in-all-but-blood rested beside the comforting shadow of Beacon's exterior wall in hopes of evading Nora's grasp. Struggling to catch his breath for the sudden burst of sprinting he had to do, Jaune was finally able to address his new temporary partner in crime.

"OK, do you want to explain just what in the hell that was!?" he whisper-shouted at Ren, who was busy trying to catch his own breath and fight off the strange sensation that was coursing through his body.

"I told you, Jaune. No matter what form of punishment you come up with, Nora is infinitely worse." he said, peeking out from behind the sanctity of the wall. Seeing no sign of their pursuer, the duo was finally able to relax against the wall, if only for a moment.

"But why would she be willing to break your legs?" Jaune asked, causing Ren to release a quiet chuckle as he looked up into the azure sky.

"I've always wondered that myself." he said softly with a smile. "At first, I thought it was because she wanted to help me just as I had helped her." he said, lowering his head.

"But now?" asked Jaune, raising his left eyebrow just as Ren was raising his head.

"But now, I think it's because of something else." said Ren as he turned to lock eyes with his brother-in-arms. "Nora has always been a little... Well, Nora. But the one thing that's never changed was her compassionate nature." he finished, smiling at a distant memory before he clenched his fists and turned to Jaune with steely determination. "Jaune, perhaps there is a way to punish the both of us but I need your help." he pleaded to Jaune, who looked into his teammate's steely magenta eyes before releasing a sigh.

"I'm not going to like where this is going, am I?" he asked, still holding out for hope before Ren decided to dash it away.

"The odds of us walking out of this uninjured are quite low. But this may be our only chance." said Ren, watching as his teammate, fearless leader, and brother-in-arms breathed in a tremendous gulp of air before releasing it as a sigh. The blonde knight turned to face his teammate, staring at the him with steely determination.

"Alright. What's the plan?" he asked, holding onto the last shred of hope he could muster. Though something told him, as his target-turned-partner smirk at him, that whatever plan they came up with would not be able to survive when it came to the hyperactive, lightning rod, megalomaniac, hammer-wielder that was their teammate, Nora Valkyrie.

Now, before you all start screaming and saying that Ren wasn't punished. Let me first say that I did state that any punish we came up with would be less than that of Nora. Which is why this became a two-part segment instead.

Otherwise, I do at least hope you continue to read to see just what kind of punishment our unlucky duo has in store for our favorite electrically-charged psychopath. Remember to leave your ideas for Nora's punishment in a review or PM me, if that's your fancy, and I'll give it some thought on top of the punishment I already have planned.

Till next time!