AN: Hello, and welcome to the seventh chapter of AoW!
I would just like to say thank you for sticking to my story, despite the fact that I have not updated in nearly an entire month. I have not given up on this story, but I do need some time to make the new chapters, and other stories that will come up later on.
Anyways, here is what happened from the last chapter. So far, the 'Remnant-Party' has seen the enhancements, or 'Casings', as I like to call them, and we are beginning to see what Ozpin is like when he goes all out. And, before I forget, yes, Jaune and his 'brothers' will have a hard time when that will happen.
So, I would also like to state some facts about the 'Casings' for those who don't know what they are. They were originally created to strengthen the patient's physical, and mental capabilities. For example, Jaune would be on par with Yang, but Arthur is a different story, as he was originally the strongest without the enhancements, but with them, I like to think that he would be like the Meta from Red vs Blue.
The 'Casings' were something I got from this show: 'Mobile Suit: Gundam Iron-Blood Orphans', where it would help them maximize their abilities. Since they are connected to the brain, they would experience some sort of feedback from the 'Casings'. But, this feedback would only happen if they allow to overuse, or sustained heavy damage, to their 'Casings'.
I apologize if that explanation does not help you understand the 'Casings' , because this is the best explanation I got.
Now, let's get back to the story.
HERE WE GO!
"Looks like it's time to get serious then."
As the words came out of his mouth, everyone, including the Jägers stood still, trying to comprehend what the old Huntsman said. From what they all witnessed, the Jägers had nearly gave it their all, while the Headmaster, held back? It was something that made everyone go on edge, seeing what the Headmaster would be when he gives his fight his all. Ozpin placed his broken glasses into one of his inner pockets, and prepared to fight again. The only thing the four Jägers could say was,
"What?"
However, Ozpin had disappeared from his current spot, and reappeared in front of the four 'brothers', shocking everyone throughout Remnant. Jaune readied his SCAR-H, but it was kicked out of his hands, in which Ozpin proceeded to perform an axe-kick on him, creating a miniature crater when Jaune fell. The white-haired Huntsman began to chase after the other Jägers, who ran back when Ozpin appeared before them.
Allen began to unload his Glocks on him, but they were all blocked at incredible speeds, some of the bullets even hit Allen, where Ozpin appeared before him again, kneeing him in the stomach, then kicked him across the face, sending him tumbling a few feet away, stopping next to Jaune. As the two barely got up, Jaune threw two grenades at him, shouting,
"Blow this bastard to Hell!"
"Got it!"
Arthur switched to his grenade-launcher, shooting a 40mm grenade at the Headmaster, while Allen and Marcus began to fire rapidly at him as well. The result was a miniature explosion, thick smoke surrounding everything. Everyone outside the arena was coughing when it happened, while evryone watching outside of Beacon leaned in, wondering what the result will be.
As the smoke cleared away, everyone was shocked to see Ozpin, unscratched, projecting a green force field around him, around the field was stubbed out bullets from the attacks. Arthur tried to use his SAW, and Allen using his Storm-PSR, as a way to weaken the shield, but it didn't break, while Ozpin still stood there, smirking at their attempts. After a few minutes, Jaune shouted,
"Didn't think it had to come down to this, but we have to overtax the enhancements this time."
"Wait, what!?"
"Are you crazy? If we do that, than we're going to die..."
"It doesn't matter! We're Jägers, we do missions that might get us killed. If we can't defeat a single man in a sparring match, then what good were these things?!"
Knowing that their leader and 'brother' was right, they nodded towards him, signaling him to go to his watch, and a hologram appeared. It held all their names, all highlighted green, and next to them said: WARNING! SAFETY PROHIBITORS IS ABOUT TO BE DEACTIVATED! POTENTIAL DANGER IF YOU DO SO! ACCEPT OR DECLINE?
Jaune tapped the word 'ACCEPT', all their names turning a dangerous shade of red, and then all for dropped to their knees. They began to scream in pain, as electricity could be seen surging throughout their spines. Everyone was shocked, scared even, seeing that the four began to be in pain without being touched. Ozpin didn't release his force field, but was shocked at what he was seeing.
They all had something pouring out of their eyes, thinking that it might've been tears, but at a closer look, it wasn't.
Their eyes began to bleed, a trail all going down their faces.
The Arc Residence -
The entire Arc family felt their jaws drop, alongside everything that they had in their hands. Elizabeth and Ben had to cover Wendy's eyes and ears from witnessing what was happening to those four boys. The sisters nearly turned a shade of green, seeing what was happening, and nearly cried when they heard their brother's pain.
"Oh my Oum..."
"Jaune, you big idiot!"
"What was that?!"
"ENOUGH!"
Everyone looked at the head of the family, seeing that he too was disgusted at what he was seeing, but didn't show for his family. Elizabeth had tears in her eyes, and was nearly on fire, seeing her son go through what had happened on Earth. Though, there was only one thing that went through their minds:
What did he mean by 'enhancements'?
In the Atlesian Fleet -
Everyone inside those ships couldn't believe what they saw. Those four boys were getting slaughtered by Ozpin, who was going easy on them, then they started to bleed from the eyes. Another thing that caught their attention was the electricity coming off of them, with the scientists trying to figure out what was happening.
General Ironwood was disturbed at how far these four would go, even if it was understandable to do so. Unconsciously, his left hand began to rub his right arm, underneath the sleeve was the cybernetic prosthetic arm he had. The pain he went through when getting this arm, was the same amount of pain emitting from those boys.
Maybe even more.
"These boys...I don't trust them..."
Outside the Arena -
"THOSE IDIOTS!"
Murmurs, screams of fear and confusion went across the Arena, watching as the four Jägers were on their knees, their eyes bleeding. Teams RWBY, CFVY and PNR all looked at Olivia, who looked angry, rather than concerned. Ruby asked her,
"Wait, do you know what's happening to them?"
"Of course I know!"
"Then, just what is happening!?"
"Jaune had deactivated the prohibitors to the 'Casings'."
The seven teens, minus CFVY, all winced when they were reminded of those 'Casings'. The way on how they were embedded into the spine and flesh, it disturbed them on how those didn't bother them. CFVY was confused when they heard the word 'Casings', and were even more confused when the others treated it as some sort of curse. When Coco asked for an explanation, she immediately regretted it when she heard what they were, and the story behind it.
Surgery when they were kids?
Used to heighten the abilities of normal people?
But most of all -
"YOU ARE GOING TO DIE!"
"WHAT?"
The Headmaster, alongside everyone else who heard the blonde 'sister' of the Jägers, gasped at what the boys are doing. They couldn't believe that they would go this far, as to die for something as trivial as going to Beacon. Pyrrha looked at Olivia, and said,
"What do you mean that they'll die?"
"Those enhancements were created, so they could go beyond their capabilities, but even they have limits on what they can and can't do. They're bleeding because of all that information is too much for them too handle."
"So why did they do it then?"
"They did it, because they might actually win."
When she said that, a thought went through Pyrrha's mind. If the 'Casings' were implanted, then could they be removed as well? However, Olivia must've read her mind, because she told her,
"If you remove them, which I must strain DON'T, you will either cripple, or kill them from doing so."
After hearing that, the 'Remnant-Party' couldn't help but wince when they heard if that happened to Jaune and his 'brothers'.
"Why did you go this far?"
Back to the Fight -
"Why did you go this far?"
Ozpin couldn't help but ask the four boys, still gazing at them from behind his force field. Through the pain, Jaune looked at his former, or rather soon-to-be, Headmaster, his right eye bleeding profusely. Even though he was in pain, he still smiled, as he managed to get up on his feet, removing his signature revolver from its holster. His 'brothers' followed suit, with Arthur using his grenade launcher, Marcus using his nodachi, and Allen using is Storm-PSR, all aimed at the Headmaster. He grunted in pain,
"It's because we're Jägers. If we couldn't handle something like this...then what good are we?"
"But, what is a Jäger?"
They couldn't help but smile, hearing that word. Jaune broke into a run, raising his left fist, poised to punch the green dome around him. In a confident voice, he shouted,
"Jäger: the German word for HUNTER!"
As his fist met with the dome, the dome began to create small cracks, then it shattered completely. Ozpin's eyes widened in shock seeing that his impenetrable force field was shattered with a single punch.
As it shattered, Jaune raised his revolver, shooting Ozpin in the chest, causing him to stagger back. Then, he rolled to the side, as something drop-kicked the Headmaster.
Ozpin took a short time to recover, able to deflect the next attack, looking at a distorted figure in front of him. Then, a voice rang out,
"Deactivating stealth-mode."
The figure began to shimmer, Marcus Grayson, his left eye leaking blood. He had a blank face, but was in deep concentration in his showdown. Ozpin couldn't help but be impressed, seeing what he saw,
"Not only a heat blade, but a stealth-module as well? I am impressed, Mr. Grayson."
"This is nothing. There's more advanced tech back on our world!"
"I would like to see more of this tech later on."
Ozpin finally overpowered the ninja, then multiple afterimages were released, each strike about to hit Marcus. However, Marcus was able to counter each attack, with the same speed as the Headmaster. Ozpin then got on his hands, and kicked him upwards, causing him to rise into the air, falling down.
As he was about to touch the ground, Ozpin kicked his back, causing him to rise in the air again. This time however, Aura was transferred into his cane, then with a downward slash, struck the ninja in his abdomen, a crater forming around the unconscious ninja.
One down.
Arthur was rushing towards Ozpin, with Allen running behind him, shooting 'charged' shots at him. Ozpin deflected the shots, but was being pushed back slightly. After another 'charged' shot was deflected, Arthur fired another 40mm grenade at him. The grenade blew up, with Ozpin rolling away from the blast radius, then he charged after the two Jägers.
Arthur dropped the grenade launcher, swinging a right hook at the white-haired Huntsman, in which he grabbed with a single hand. As Ozpin struggled to stand his ground, Arthur suddenly titled his head to the left, in which a gun barrel went past it, touching the Headmaster's forehead, as Allen pulled the trigger. The bullet had managed to cut a few strands from Ozpin's head, which dodged the bullet at the last second.
Ozpin grabbed Arthur's incoming left fist, using his right leg to kick him across the face, disorientating him, then kicked him behind the knee, causing him to kneel. Ozpin then grabbed him by the shoulder, spinning him around, and throwing him towards Allen, who slid underneath the flying body of his 'brother'. As Allen closed the gap between the two, Ozpin disappeared, confusing the sniper, until the Headmaster reappeared behind him, grabbing him from behind, doing a back-drop on him.
As the two about to get up, Ozpin switched between the two Jägers, striking them from every direction. He grabbed Arthur, and forced him to aim the grenade launcher between himself and Allen. As he was forced to pull the trigger, he rolled out of the way, as the explosion managed to take the two Jägers out of commission.
Those are the last two. The only one was...
"Jaune."
As the blonde Jäger looked at his former Headmaster, he didn't speak, as he simply ran at him, firing his revolver at him. Ozpin easily deflected the bullets that were heading towards him. As he was about to attack him, he noticed something about Jaune, he was acting odd.
He was slower now then back at the beginning of the match.
Ozpin simply let his guard down, and walked towards the injured Jäger. Jaune rose his revolver again, aimed at his head, but it fired a blank, signifying that it was out of bullets. He was about to reload it, but it was kicked out of his hands by the white-haired Huntsman, who no longer saw this as a match. As Jaune pulled out his knife, he was about plunge into his chest, but actually stopped halfway, confusing everyone around him.
Ozpin's face was inches from Jaune's face, and saw that he wasn't even conscious at this point. He simply stopped using his cane as a rapier, and pushed Jaune down, seeing that he wasn't moving.
Seeing that the four Jägers were either knocked out, or out of Aura, he walked away from the arena, with the professors stating,
"And that's the match! The winner...Ozpin!"
In the Infirmary -
It was nearly a few days since the Jägers fought, and got destroyed by Ozpin. Speaking of which, after the fight, no one saw, or heard, the Headmaster since then, wondering what he was doing. The four Jägers were now in the infirmary, with teams RWBY, PNR, and the Arc family coming to visit them. When they got their, they expected the four boys to simply resting.
They have never been so wrong in their lives.
As they opened the door, Olivia was in the center of the now destroyed room, firing a shotgun at the four boys, who were all doing flips and such, shouting something at one another. Apparently, as the four boys woke up, Olivia was prepared to lecture them about their little stunt.
"I'M GOING TO KILL YOU FOUR FUCK-BOYS!"
"OH SWEET JESUS! RELAX - "
"Relax? RELAX!? I TOLD YOU GUYS, AGAIN AND AGAIN, NOT TO OVERTAX YOUR 'CASINGS'!"
She shot another around, aiming at both Marcus and Allen, who managed to dodge the pellets, who were using trays as shields, while trying to soothe the girl down. They said,
"LOOK, WE HAD NO CHOICE! IT WAS SOMETHING WE ALL AGREED TO DO! IF WE DIDN'T, THEN - "
"DOES IT LOOK LIKE I GIVE A FLYING FUCK!?"
"OH RELAX - OH SHIT! SHE'S PULLING OUT THE BIG BOY!"
"DIE!"
The two Jägers used Arthur, who was cursing at his two 'brothers', while taking shotgun rounds to the stomach. It was his turn to try and calm down his 'sister', saying,
"Look, Olivia, I know you have every right to get mad and - JAUNE'S HEADING FOR THE DOOR!"
"NOT SO FAST!"
"ARTHUR, YOU TRAITOR!"
As the fourteen people looked at Jaune, whose back was turned against them, he looked at Olivia, who aimed the shotgun at him. As she pulled the trigger, there was nothing but a click. She looked at gun, in which Jaune dashed after her, with the rest dog-piling on top of her. As they managed to calm her down, they finally noticed the small group was looking at them, or specifically, Jaune. He stood up, and greeted them,
"Hey - "
"JAUNE!"
He couldn't finish his sentence as his family tackled him, hugging their brother and son. The two, or three if the Jägers were included, looked at the scene in front of them. It was a touching moment until -
"Wish this something you want Yuki's family to do with you, huh Marcus?"
"Allen, shut the fuck up."
The Arcs stoped what they were doing, and looked at the Jägers, Ben asking them,
"Who are you?"
"If you weren't here a couple of days ago, then we're Jaune's adopted family."
"So...you managed to keep our boy company?"
"Of course! Over the years, he's a good friend, leader, and brother."
"Thank you, and if you need anything, all you have to do is ask the Arcs, and we'll come running."
As they managed to finish their conversation, Ozpin, Goodwitch, and oddly Jeanne all came in, gaining the attention of everyone around them. Ozpin had motioned for all the Jägers to line up in front of him. As they did, he also had PNR and Jeanne line up next to the Jägers, the eight teens waiting for what he was about to say. He first turned to the Jägers and told them,
"I have decided to allow you four to be enrolled into Beacon."
"Really, sir?!"
"Yes, I have seen things back in my day, but I have never seen four boys, all willing to accomplish something. That, and I was still going to let you into Beacon, win or lose."
"Seriously?"
"Yes. Now: Jaune Arc, Allen Walker, Marcus Grayson, and Arthur Roy. You four have showed determination, and will be known as Team JAGR( Jäger). Led by Jaune Arc."
The four boys couldn't help but laugh at the joke he did. Everyone around them applauded, happy that they managed to get in, not only that, but -
"REN! Did you hear that?! They got in! Team JNPR is back, baby!"
"Sadly, Ms. Valkyrie, since Jaune is leading JAGR now, he can't join PNR, or JNPR."
"WHAT!?"
The grenadier of PNR was shocked, hearing that they couldn't get their fearless leader back. However, Ozpin didn't stop, as he now looked at Team PNR and Jeanne Arc. He simply smirked, and said,
"Jeanne Arc, Nora Valkyrie, Pyrrha Nikos, and Lie Ren. You will be known as Team JNPR."
"Again, WHAT!?"
During the explanation, it turns out that Jeanne was a 'reserved' student, only meant for those who have a team with unfilled positions. Nora was about to protest against this, but Ren told her,
"Nora, it's okay."
"But - "
"We still have Jaune, and we made new friends in the process."
"Okay..."
As the everyone calmed down, Ozpin looked towards Jaune, and asked him something,
"Jaune, since you have the most history against this 'Blackstone', do you know who they are?"
"Yeah, the higher-ups, are four people, just like me and my 'family'. First, is the Tiere; Ryo, Jackie, and Vladimir. They all follow one man, Abraham..."
Somewhere -
In a small town, outside of Vale, was a diner. The diner had a classic look to it, and inside it was four teenagers. One of them, oddly had an eye-patch, while another had a hood covering his face. The other two, a girl in navy blue clothes, and a boy with a black and gray color scheme, were eating ice cream, with the boy eating neopolitan They all were looking at a screen, with the title saying about how Beacon received two new teams. They had a small conversation,
"Well, I'll be damned..."
"They managed to gain some allies."
"Oh who cares? Hey Vlad, want more ice cream?"
The man who ran the diner walked up to the four teens, and saw that they were looking at four boys dressed in black gear. He looked at the one with the eye-patch and said,
"Friends of yours?"
"Not friends. Family."
The man simply nodded, returning in what he was doing. As he did, he realized something about those kids. They just entered his diner, looked foreign to him, and just started eating. He asked them,
"What's your name?"
"Abraham."
"And how exactly are you gonna pay?"
"With lead."
Before he could even say anything, Abraham pulled out his black Colt 1911, and shot three rounds into the guy. Two in the chest, and one right between his eyes. As the body dropped to the floor, he looked at his Tiere and said,
"Let's get going before the authorities come."
"Where to?"
"We're going to meet someone."
"And who is that person?"
"Roman Torchwick."
AN: And that is the seventh chapter of the story.
Anyways, for the next chapter or two, they would mostly be based around the Tiere and Blackstone.
See ya later!