Hello again, I am here again after a week with a new chapter. Anyways I was thinking about moving this fic over to the main RWBY section as I feel it might fit there as I have almost no established elements from Kamen Rider here. What do you guy's think? Oh and sorry for the gap, I can't understand how Cour keeps up with that schedule of his and still have a life... Anyways lets get onto the chapter.
Jaune walked out of the office with a giant grin on his face as he dashed home, eager to tell the news to Cashmere. He knew that he could just call Ciel and Lila directly, but he also wanted to avoid calling his home for a few days. The young blond did not want to risk anything with his parents right now when everything was going well.
As he jogged home, Jaune heard a few more cries for help as he got back into the more run down areas, and ever the hero he came in each time to save the Faunus or Human that was about to be mugged. Around the third time this happened, Jaune stopped going towards the apartment all together and just started to search for more people to help. His abilities let him beat up any common mugger with relative ease as most of them had little to no combat training along with their auras still being locked.
The process was quite tiring for the young man, Jaune could feel his body getting more exhausted with each fight that went by. The young man soon realized that this in itself could be his replacement for the daily training that he was doing before now, it even would let him help people like he wanted to!
It was getting late however, the shattered moon was high above in the sky and Jaune's muscles were currently screaming at him to stop or they would make him stop. With a few pants, he nodded to himself and finally got back to the small Esmerelda household. Flopping onto the couch like a sack of potatoes, Jaune soon found himself falling asleep. His dreams were finally starting to take off, so it seemed.
Jaune woke up to two angry rabbit women leering over his pillow, the blond was expecting Cashmere at least, however Velvet was a surprise to say the least. The latter woman pulled him off the couch and onto the hard floor as he groaned.
Cashmere herself got into his face with a bit of a growl. "Where the hell were you last night! You stayed out way past the time that the transfer exams ended! Did you even get in? Your sister has been texting me all night asking about you ya know!"
Jaune rubbed his aching head as he comprehended the words being yelled at him, and he nodded. "I..I was out helping people after being accepted into Beacon. You know stopping muggings and the like. Figured that it would be a good substitute for training during these last two weeks of vacation."
Cashmere just groaned at that statement as Velvet decided to speak up, the normally shy girl gulping some before speaking. "You, you still should have contacted us Jaune, and you can't do that! Without a hunter's licence or approval from the police what you want to do is considered vigilantism and I don't want to see you in jail after coming so far ok?"
Jaune nodded along with Velvet's lecture, she was right, he guessed. He could not go out there exposing himself like that. Then again, no one would recognize him if he was using Hero right? "Well...If I hid my face then it would be fine right? I can't just sit here and immagine that nothing is happening while people are out there getting hurt right?"
The young man looked away from the women who were staring at him with a critical eye before Cashmere let out another groan. "Ciel always said that once you had your mind on something you did not give it up that easily. Even if I refuse you will probably just run out again to do what you want. Might as well have some people in on the secret. You can do it sure just don't get caught for the love of Oum."
The girl then wandered off to the kitchen to get some breakfast leaving Jaune and Velvet alone in the room. "I-I can not say that I disapprove of what you are doing, but please be safe alright? I want to introduce my new friend to my team and I do not wish for him to be a convict when I do."
With that she left, leaving our young protagonist on the floor, silenced. Thinking about how to go about this as he got up and sat down on his couch again. His stomach growled, the act of not eating dinner last night starting to have an effect on him. Jaune however waited some, not wanting to cause any awkwardness by going into the kitchen after their small little scolding there.
Before long however, Jaune's need for food overcame his fear of being awkward and he walked into the kitchen. Avoiding eye contact with the two faunus women as he got himself a bowl of Pumpkin Pete's, and began to eat it in silence. He felt their stares upon his back as he chewed, slowly swallowing his food. He looked at the two girls again once he finished his bowl. "I'm sorry if what I want to do is not what you wish, but I am still going to do it in the end. So if you want me to leave, I have enough money for a hotel around here if that is fine."
As Jaune tried to get up and wash out his bowl Cashmere smacked the back of his head once more. "Dumbass!"
Rubbing his head in pain, he looked back at the woman who just hit him with a small smile on her face. "Like we would kick you out of here for simply doing that Velv' and I are just worried about you ok? Ciel would be as well if you asked her about this. We are still going to be here to support you however we can though. What are friends for after all?"
Nodding a bit at that, Jaune finished cleaning up his mess before walking towards a window. The young hero looked out into the world that he was going to be protecting soon. "I guess so, though I really do not know too much about y'all. I was planning on only doing my vigilante thing later tonight anyways, so could you teach me a bit about what life in Beacon is like?"
"Chaos, wonderful chaos Jaune. Every day seems kinda new and strange with my teammates and what we do together. Even if the classes can get a bit boring at times, the days with our teams and friends are never boring." Cashmere gained a softer look as she spoke of how her chosen school was. The girl then decided to leave to listen to the radio some as Jaune stook around to talk to Velvet. The brunette rabbit girl chuckling a bit as she began to speak.
"Well, personally I find my team to be one of the best things to ever happen to me. Everyone is just so supportive and willing to help me build up the confidence I need in their own ways. Coco always helping me with fashion. Yatsuhashi usually guarding me from any bullies and Fox just being a shoulder for me to lean on. They can be a little embarrassing though." The young blond kept listening into Velvet's stories about her team until he saw the sun starting to set. He got up and started doing a few stretches.
"I guess it is time for me to go now, see you when I get back." With that, Jaune waved at the girl with a cheeky grin as he ran out of the door. He jogged around the general area, listening for some sort of cries for help only for tonight to be surprisingly silent. Then he heard a ear rattling explosion that Jaune guessed was three blocks over and gulped a bit. He ran after the sound however, swiping his hand over the belt buckle to start the formation of Hero.
As the young huntsman ran, a golden light started erupting from his body. The light then focused into four points, at the very tips of both his fists and feet. The light then started to move inward towards Jaune's chest. As the light passed over the various limbs they seemed to be coated in an ivory white suit, accented with gold al spiraling down towards the ends of the appendages. The only breaks where where the young man's elbows and knees were. Those parts having pure white caps to allow for maximum mobility of his limbs. As the lights continued forward, they all met on Jaune's chest abidly covering his abdomen with the same material as before, the golden accents not all spiraling towards the center of Jaune's chest where the Arc family symbol stood out proudly. Lastly, the golden light traveled upwards, encasing the young man's neck in a helmet of sorts, with what looked like horizontal and vertical gold bindings around the white helmet. All converging onto his eyes, which were large and seemed to resemble a grasshoppers.
Jaune could not help but smile behind his mask as he felt the gentle warmth of his aura made armour surrounded his body like a hug from his loved ones. He then pressed on with his enhanced speed getting to where the explosion was in minutes. He saw a bunch of thugs taking from a dust store with a ginger man in a bowler apparently ordering them around, Jaune went into a flying roundhouse, launching himself off of the balls of his feet. Jaune felt his legs coil and spring forward with amazing force as he flew at one of the thugs, twisting his hips mid air in order to deal out a harsh left kick to the villain's head, shattering his aura and sending him a few feet away.
Seeing hearing the interruption and crash, Roman Torchwick looked back to his men, annoyed that they could not do something simple as lift freaking crates. "What the he-!"
Seeing a man dressed up in a superhero getup, Roman Paused his complaint to watch Jaune pull out a blade and shield and start to rip through his forces. The poor thugs only had simple guns and their weak auras to protect them. Their bullets were mostly deflected by the young man's shield as he charged at them with a surprising amount of speed. He slammed the metal plate into one man and then smoothly transitioned into a quick slice of his blade. At the sight Roman just let out a boisterous laugh.
"What do we have here? Another hero wannabe like red? Tell me son do you even have a name? Ooh man the boss is not going to believe that this happened to me, I was stopped by the local superhero!"
Jaune simply finished off the man he was fighting with a blow to the head and turned to who seemed to be in charge of these men, and gulped some. He needed to come up with a name on the spot. Quickly taking a proud stance he shouted at the man, hoping to portray his confidence in helping people here. "I am the Masked Hero!"
There was a brief pause as Jaune tried to think of a word for what he was trying to be here. Old mistrelian stories that he had heard from his oldest sister's travels came to mind as he nodded. "Eos! I am the hope of dawn that breaks through the dark night of despair!"
He then twirled the blade around his wrist, letting the momentum carry it to around his armpit and twisted left a bit, letting the blade fall naturally and swing back up before Jaune stopped the spinning with one half slash ending with the tip of Corca Mors pointed at Roman.
"You will fall to my blade this day." Jaune's voice was confident and full of bravado at having beaten the thugs so easily. He even smiled some behind his mask before dashing forward with his shield up to defend his chest, blade hung at his side, ready to swing up.
"You even have a show of bravado and battle cry? Well Eos, I reckon you have never faced a real villain yet. Allow me to introduce myself as Torchwick, master thief extraordinaire and a general pain in the ol arse. I would gladly be the Crimson Cobold to your Arachnid if you would allow me." Roman had the biggest shit eating grin on his face as he introduced himself to the would be hero. This really was the best thing he had seen all day, a superhero with a name and brave speech and everything! He hoped this guy held up to be at least decent entertainment for now as he readied his Melodic Cudgel hook end first.
As Jaune came in with a upwards slash, Roman caught the blade in his cane and twisted the staff to try and disarm his foe painfully with a flick upward of his cane.. He was not expecting the boy to respond with letting go of the blade, letting it fly up slightly only for Jaune to hop, grab his weapon and slash down upon Roman's abdomen.
The master thief managed to step backwards in order to avoid the brunt of the blow, but the latter three inches did manage to slice across his chest. Making a decent dent in Roman's aura, making the ginger grin again. This boy would do quite well indeed. Deciding to go on the offencive, Roman started with a small assault with his staff.
Jaune's eyes could barely keep up with the man's speed as each blow from the metal came slammed into his armour, he managed to block a few of the blows with his shield. Closing a bit more distance while taking another hard blow he went into a low kick to Roman's knee. Slamming into it and disrupting the attacks for just long enough for the blond to follow up with a Sheild Bash. Knocking the Cudgel to the side for Jaune to do a quick thrust into Roman's stomach. As he did so, Jaune braced his feet against the ground beneath him, his legs and acting in one smooth motion to deal a thrust stronger than usual.
As Roman took the hit freely, deciding the kid earned it he let out another laugh. So this kid did have potential to be a great fighter and more entertainment later! He heard the brief sounds of police sirens approaching from a few blocks away and sighed before he grinned again, he needed to give his new 'nemesis' a proper goodbye to start their relationship.
"Nice blow there Eos! Now as much as I am loving this fight I must take my leave! You may have thwarted me this time but I assure you it was only the element of suprise that was on your side!" He let out his best evil laugh and brought his cane back around with even higher speed than before. It was here that Jaune realized that this Torchwick fellow was playing with him the whole time, his shield was then knocked to the side by the cudgel and Eos could not help but let out a small yelp of terror as Roman pressed the tigger on the tip of his hook. Sending a powerful dust enhanced bullet shell straight into his chest at point blank range. The sheer force of the blow sending Jaune back a few feet. Roman waived his new foe adieu and hopped into the back of his smuggling truck to speed off.
While Hero did take most of the damage off of Jaune, the boy still felt the impact and caughed up a little blood as he heard the sirens approaching and cursed under his breath. He got up haggardly, clutching his chest in pain. Jaune then got himself to a small alleyway and hopped up the buildings with his enhanced agility and strength to get on a rooftop and lay down in pain.
"For the love of Oum, my first night as a superhero and I encounter a guy like that! Is my luck turning the other way finally." As Jaune mused to himself and skulked, he decided to check his aura levels, he had no doubt he was near empty after all those blows. When he checked on his scroll however, his Aura was still decreasing at the rate it usually did when he used Hero despite the blows it had guarded against. Still falling at a constant rate however and he needed every ounce of it after taking that blow from Roman's weapon.
He layed back down and undid hero, the suit disappeared in a small flash of light Jaune and he took off the his shirt to examine the damage. He had little bruises along his arms from the blows that cane had struck. They seemed to have been healed incredibly fast even for having his Aura unlocked. Then Jaune looked down to his chest and cringed some at seeing the large purple mess, the bruise went from his pecks to the bottom of his ribs. Though as painful as it was to move nothing seemed to be broken at all.
Jaune then went back into Hero to quickly make it to Cashmere's neighborhood and dropped a few thugs for fifteen more minutes, as his armour dissipated from a lack of aura he painfully limped back to his current home, his chest still feeling like he had taken a punch from a gorilla on steroids. Went to his couch and collapsed with a pained grunt, hopefully sleep would make it all better.