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Welcome back to the long awaited "Operation: Jaune's Dastardly Revenge".
So, real talk, I know that I made a whole bunch of promises about my upload schedule but unfortunately real life decided it didn't like that so I ended up getting a new job with a sporadic working schedule that ended throwing my upload schedule out of wack which in turn caused me to slowly lose interest in writing altogether.
Luckily, I decided to just work and upload a single chapter for each story I'm currently working on that way I can work on all of my stories, properly plan them out, and, hopefully, upload multiple chapters every OTHER Sunday.
I'm not sure if it'll work out or I just may end up uploading a chapter whenever I'm able to but hopefully it works out in the end until I can sucessfuly return to my normal upload schedule.
And just in case any one want to know in what order I'll be uploading for the stories I'm currently working on this will be the order of uploading.
1. The Knight The Wizard.
2. Operation: Jaune's Dastardly Revenge.
3. The Master Huntsman.
4. Don't Mess With An Arc.
5. The Arcful Dodger.
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Chapter Six
It is said that closure is something everyone desires to some degree but for some people like Weiss Schnee it was all they desired. One might even call her desire to see things to completion compulsive. But to others like Jaune, they reveled in those moments when the sweet and tantalizing reward that was closure is ripped away at the very last second, leaving their victims in a constant state of frantic annoyance. It is only when they are able achieve the closure they desperately craved could they finally have that release they'd longed for.
Such is the way Weiss had become as she rolled on the carpeted floor of her team's dorm room where her teammates, Ruby, Blake, and Yang, found her smiling with a crazed look in her eyes.
But before one could ask what had happened to the young heiress we must go back a way to the moment when Weiss Schnee, heiress of the Schnee Dust Company, met the true monster that was Jaune Arc.
...Several Hours Later...
It was morning when Weiss Schnee arose from her slumber where upon rising from beneath the warmth her blanket provided her did she notice her teammates' absence from the room. Noticing a note hanging from her bedside she was able to read out a message they'd chosen to leave her. It seems that another author Blake enjoyed was visiting Vale for a book signing and Ruby and Yang had decided to tag along.
No matter that meant that Weiss could enjoy some peace and quiet for the day. After all, it wasn't every day that she could just sit back and relax with nice cup of tea and final enjoy the quiet.
So after dressing herself in her usual wears and locking the door to her team's dorm upon her leaving the room, Weiss made her way towards the first-year dorm's common room where many of the first-year students often chose to spend their free time. The common room sat adjacent to the dorm's kitchen where Weiss was currently heading towards. But as she entered the common room, she noticed a familiar mop of blonde hair was sitting on one of the common room's couches watching some game show on the holographic projection screen.
The person watching the game show must've somehow noticed her presence from her reflection in the nearby hanging mirror because the mop of blonde hair had slowly risen above the couch's backrest where she was thus able to see that it in fact Jaune Arc.
The smile he expressed on his face nearly threw her for a loop as she remembered the final words he'd spoken to her the previous night. Had he somehow forgotten what he'd said that night or was he somehow trying to cause her to lower her guard around him. No, Arc was many things but a skillful practitioner of psychological warfare was not one of them.
"Morning Weiss." said Jaune, smiling nonchalantly at the snow-haired heiress before he noticed that none of her teammates were with her. "Ruby and the gang aren't with you today?" he asked.
"Thankfully, no." she responded with a sigh of relief. "Blake decided to visit Vale today to attend a book signing and Ruby and Yang had chosen to tag alongside her."
"Yang and books?" he asked in disbelief. "Those are two words I'd never thought I'd hear in the same sentence."
And despite her desire not to, Weiss couldn't stop the soft giggle that escaped between her lips at Jaune's accurate description of Yang's feelings towards literature. It'd taken some time after Jaune had stopped flirting with her for a true friendship to grow and after learning of his history due to Bella Bleu did she begin to realize that Jaune was perhaps the only male friend she'd ever have. And while a part of her did feel that he could be more than a little annoying another part her had begun to see him as a true friend.
Though this did little to halt her feelings of suspicion towards his nonchalant behavior towards her despite clearly stating that today would be the day he'd "punish" her.
"It's true that Xiao Long's feelings towards literature is less than ideal but one cannot say that she is adverse to the idea of learning if she chose to attend Beacon Academy." she said as she entered the kitchen to begin making her tea while Jaune continued to watch his game show.
After finally deciding on some chamomile tea, Weiss re-entered the common room where Jaune was still in the process of watching his game show and took her seat at the nearby love-seat where she, too, sat alongside Jaune in watching the mindless entertainment.
At least it should've been mindless entertainment.
But there was something strange about this game show that seemed to appeal to Weiss. The game show wasn't something to be amazed by as all it was several people trying to win some judges favor using specialized talents they'd acquired throughout their lifetime. But what amazed her were the acts themselves as they were all drastically different from her own talent in singing. She watched with undivided attention as many people with terrible talents were kicked off stage while those with excellence were granted the opportunity to move to the next round.
And many of the talents she witnessed were nothing like her own. Whereas she held a certain level of excellence over her vocal range others held talents in areas of painting, acrobatics, and ventriloquism. Some even went as far as the mix multiple talents into one. And the judges themselves were practically the faces of every major entertainment industry she'd even had the pleasure to meeting. Say what you will but one cannot deny the advantages one had when they were the heiress of the only power source known to man and Faunuskind.
It was positively... enthralling to view and Weiss for one could not wait to see who of the final four participants the judges would pick to be the winner.
Weiss, herself, was partial to the little girl who mixed ventriloquy and singing to provide a certain air of classical music while at the same time using puppetry to provide a family-friends source of entertainment.
But just as the final judge was about to give their decision on who would become the winner the holographic projection screen that was broadcasting the game show suddenly shut itself off, causing Weiss's eyes to widen in response before turning her head to see Jaune looking back her with remote in hand and a smirk that almost seemed to taunt her.
"Why would you do something so childish? They were just about to announce the winner!" she shouted at him while he just remain seated with a smirk on his face before placing the remote back onto the table.
"Oh, come off it Snow Angel, don't tell me you forgot that today was your day of reckoning?" he asked their heiress with mocking tone of voice, thus earning himself more ire from said heiress.
"A Schnee never forgets Arc." she said with a sense of pride only for Jaune to get up from the couch and turn back towards her with a dark smile.
"Then in that case let's get a move..." he said before stopping and walking out of the common room with a smile on his face as Weiss's left eye began to twitch before she, too, reluctantly began to follow him towards whatever senseless destination he had in mind. All the while the desire to see the ending for the game show boiled in the back of her mind.
It wouldn't be until they arrived at Team JNPR's doorm that Weiss had decided it was best to question Jaune before whatever he had planned came to fruition.
"Alright Arc, I know that I already agreed to receiving punishment for my actions involving Ms. Bleu and a Schnee never backs away from responsibility but I must insist that you inform me of whatever poorly contrived dastardly revenge plot before we continue any further." she demanded as Jaune stopped with his hand still on the door knob to his dorm room.
"Alright, Snow Angel, since you ask so politely I'll go ahead and tell you what "revenge plot" I have planned for you." said Jaune, releasing the door knob and turning back to face the heiress with a smile. "You see I've noticed that you have a compulsive need for closure and I, as a good friend, wish to help cure you of this and in turn make you into a better, more rounded, person."
"How dare you claim that I have any sort of compulsiveness. Just because I simply wish for things to be a certain way and end a certain way does not mean that I have a compulsive need for closure." she denied only to sneer at the smirk on Jaune's face. "What?"
"Look all I'm saying is that we live in a world where sometimes closure isn't always an op-" he said only to cut himself off as he glanced down to check his fingernails, causing Weiss's left eye to twitch once more as she waited for him to finish his sentence.
"-tion! Option!" she shouted as Jaune smirked at her reaction. "Okay, let's say that this theory you presented has SOME merit. How do you propose we fix it?" she asked as Jaune opened his dorm's door to reveal a series of events all set up in the room.
"This is how." he stated as he entered the room with Weiss following in tow. "We will engage in a series of events until we successfully cure your compulsive need for closure. This will in turn act as your punishment AND hopefully turn you into a better person. So what do you say Schnee? You up for the challenge or are you too scared?" he asked, thus igniting the competitive fire within the snow-haired heiress.
"Hmph, very well, Arc. I'll play your little game but just know one thing. A Schnee never backs down from a challenge no matter how daunting or mundane it may be." she said with pride only to feel a dark sense of foreboding as Jaune pulled over a dry erase whiteboard and handed her a blue marker.
"Glad to hear it!" he exclaimed happily as he drew a cross cross pattern before creating a red "X" in the middle of the whiteboard. "The we'll start this one first."
"A game of Tic-Tac-Toe? You really believe that something like a children's game will be able to solve whatever problem you mistakenly believe I have?" she asked before drawing a blue "O" to the left of Jaune's red "X". "Tic-Tac-Toe can only ever end in there being a winner, a loser, or a draw between players. None of which will deny me closure." she said before smiling as she noticed that Jaune had neglected to place an "X" on the bottom right corner thus granting her the ability to win the first round. "Especially since I'm about to win."
But just as she went to take the winner's spot, Jaune instead grabbed the dry eraser and proceeded to erase the game they'd just been playing, causing Weiss to look at him with a mixture of confusion and furious anger as her left eye began to twitch once more.
"Why would you do that?" she asked as Jaune took the marker out of her hand before pulling the whiteboard off to the side with a smile on his face.
"I told you, Snow Angel, I'm going to cure your closure issue one way or another even if it takes me all day as well." said Jaune, smiling darkly as he pulled out a piano and looked at her with a smile. "Also you wouldn't mind if I played some music for background noise, would you?" he asked the heiress as she raised an eyebrow at the mentioning of one of her hit songs.
"Not at all. Though I have to ask why do you ask?" she asked with a quizzical expression on her face as Jaune returned her question with a devilish smirk.
And so the rest of Weiss's day went about as well as one would expect it to go. With her consistently being denied any satisfaction that would come with seeing at least one of the senseless games that Jaune was putting her through to completion as her own song, "Mirror Mirror" was being played on Jaune's own scroll on repeat. Only for that reward to be ripped away from her at just the last second. It was like being built up for hours on end only for everything to come crashing down upon you as all the hope and joy you once felt in your life is torn from your very being. It actually gotten so bad that Weiss was very close to having a mental breakdown and downright killing Jaune where he stood just so she could finally be free of the torture gauntlet he was forcing her to run through.
Damn her sense of pride for getting her into this mess!
Damn her past self for following her dolt of a leader's actions!
And damn Jaune for being an expert at psychological warfare!
Finally the ending had been reached as the bell chimed the end of Weiss's day of punishment. And just in the nick of time as one would say only for to instead glare a hole directly through Jaune's beeping scroll. This was mainly because instead of saving her from having to suffer any further it had instead caused the two of them to stop playing their game of chess at the very moment Weiss was about to win, causing her left eye to begin twitching at an accelerated rate as Jaune smiled innocently as he put away their game of chess. All the while Weiss sat there on the carpeted floor of Team JNPR's dorm room with a dazed look in her eyes as her left eyelid continued to twitch about. This couldn't be the end, could it?
Didn't she deserve something for going through this type of torture? No, you what, screw that noise! She DID deserve something special after the psychological hell she'd been forced into! But yet all she could do was walk outside of Team JNPR's dorm room with Jaune watching her retreating form in silence with a smile as she re-entered her own team's dorm. Upon hearing the door shutting on it's own, Weiss fell face first onto the floor as she brought her hands up to meet her face as she tried to muffle the screams of anger that erupted from her mouth. "GAH!" she screamed into her hands as she began rolling around on the dorm room's floor before jumping back up and doing everything in her power to recreate every moment of closure that Jaune had vehemently denied her. And after several hours of finally getting the sweet release that she so craved for from finally finishing the game of "Tic-Tac'Toe" to completing the dominoes that she worked tirelessly to complete only for Jaune to knock them down at the last second and so on and so forth.
Finally, she was able to find a rerun of the game show that Jaune had been watching just hours prior. It'd only taken a few more minutes of her time to finally get to the end with the judges about to announce the winner. Though in all honesty she spent less time paying attention to the act themselves and more the sweet moment of release she'd finally receive after all the hell she'd been put through. Finally she could free of the constant itch that'd been bugging her throughout the day.
Finally... She could have closure...
Only for that moment she'd been desperately waiting for to be ripped away from her as the wireless connection on her scroll random shut itself off as a blue screen flashed in it's place. The words she read on the screen instantly told her exactly what the world of Remnant thought about her as she read them. "Due to some software issues the internet will be temporarily shut down for the next 24 hours. We're deeply sorry for any inconvenience this causes." signed the faculty of Beacon Academy."
And just like all sense of hope that was building itself within the snow-haired heiress died as the notification flashed off of her scrolls screen, returning her to the very moment the judge was about to announce a winner. Only this time the screen was blackened with a familiar spinning circle directly in the middle of the frame. A nearly constant reminder that she'd forever be a wild animal incessantly chasing after it's own tail only to never be able to catch it. It wouldn't be until several hours later when the remainder of Team RWBY returned to find the snow-haired heiress rolling on the floor of their own dorm with psychotic smile and bloodshot eyes.
"Um... Weiss? A-Are you-" Ruby began to ask only for Weiss to leap back onto her feet and grab the young prodigy's shoulders as she smiled at her partner and leader psychotically.
"Okay?! You were going to say okay, right? RIGHT?!" she asked, throwing Ruby for a loop as she began stuttering in response, which in turn only fueled the rage that was well on it's way to boiling over in the young heiress. But luckily Yang was there to pull their crazed teammate off of her little sister and team leader. To which Weiss relinquished herself to cradling herself in her arms as she kept muttering Jaune's name with a murderous glint in her eyes.
And all the while Jaune was sitting in the common room with a relaxed smile on his face as he imagine what kind of punishment the buxom blonde brawler with a short temper he was going to put her through. Though, in all honesty, even he had to admit that dealing with Yang might just prove to be the challenged he'd been looking for.