Disclaimers: I don't own RWBY.
That's it.
That's all I need to say.
What?
Did you want something clever, witty or just spiteful from this?
Please, I'm not petty.
It's been about a few weeks since the incident at the docks for Jaune and his friends and said incident affected everyone involved differently.
Blake seemed to be a workaholic ever since she found out that the White Fang was working with someone like Roman Torchwick, not to mention she and her team apparently had another run in.
One so big it appeared on the news.
Giant robots were now being a part of their everyday problems…
Yay.
Ruby had been completely unfazed, seeing as how she was the optimistic type to always try and do better from failures.
His new friend Sun was still pretty chipper despite getting his ass handed to him once or twice.
Both of those cheerful people seemed to have gotten in the same conflict, one moreso than the other, but still manage to keep an upbeat personality.
And Jaune himself?
Well, he wasn't in as good of a physical condition as his 3 friends, including Blake.
"Jaune, you do know that the point of those weights is to be able to move in them, right?" His closest friend to being a best friend, Ren, asked.
"… Yes, I am aware, I'm getting to the moving part." Jaune said.
"… Can you even lift your arms to be able to remove the weights?" Ren asked.
"Of course I can, I got them on after all, I can just as easily get them off." Jaune replied.
"… Then why don't you?" Ren questioned.
"Because I'm not done using them yet of course." Jaune said as if it was obvious.
Ren merely sighed.
Jaune had been like this ever since he went to go help Blake with whatever problem she had.
Now he had been putting on body weights as a way to improve his strength and agility.
Now that wasn't a problem, under normal circumstances, but …
"Just gotta crawl to class now. 45 minutes until class starts, right? I can make it from here to there at some point before that." Jaune said and true to his word, he started crawling at a pace that would allow him to reach Professor Oobleck's classroom before the bell rang.
Ren merely sighed as he began to follow his only male friend, making sure no one took the advantage to beat him up in his obvious moment of defenselessness.
"Why are you so upset about losing to that girl so much?" Ren asked, having never understood why his friend was so hungover about it.
"It's not just that girl, it's in general. I'm on a pretty bad losing streak right now, buddy, and if I don't fix that, my dad's Arc senses will kick in and he'll personally come all the way over here to kick my ass." Jaune explained, his face having an expression of fear.
"So your dad's way of teaching you to not get your ass kick, is to kick your ass?" Ren asked.
"Getting punched in the face a first time will make you learn how to avoid getting punched in the face a second time." The blonde said.
"Ah… I see…" Ren said with a sweatdrop.
What a violent family.
"Hah, finally, the easiest part of getting to class, the stairs." Jaune said, as he immediately let gravity pull him down, allowing him to fall and roll down the stairs to the lower foor.
Ren merely followed with a sigh.
Later on
"Alright, so what do you guys know about the sports event?" Yang asked the table of fellow hunters and huntresses in training.
"Isn't that a school thing where all the students compete in athletic contests?" Pyrrha asked, looking up from her scroll, having been playing a game.
"Why yes it is, Pumpkin girl. I ask that because it just so happens to be coming in about a week." The competitive blonde said with a grin as everyone had varying expressions.
"A sports competition? Woo hoo, me and Ren are going to blow EVERYONE out of the water with our team synergy!" Nora said with a cheer as Ren merely ate his food.
He could already feel the energy needed for said event weighing him down…
"A sports event for people to show off? Sounds like something only ruffians would enjoy." Weiss said, with a scoff.
"Aw, why would you say that, Weiss? I'd love to be a part of it! It sounds fun!" Ruby said to which her sister responded to.
"Of course it'll be fun, with Ruby's speed and my strength, no one can stop us!" The blonde bombshell said with a feral grin.
"Please! You can't possibly compete with the Renora synergy!" Nora said, standing up.
"Oh, yeah? What would you know? I've been with Ruby since she was a baby, we have more of a connection than a drunk to his last beer bottle." Yang responded, also standing up.
There was an electric aura of competition between the 2 of them as Ruby had to poke Jaune, while the 2 of them trade back and forths.
"Jaune? How do you feel about the competition?" Ruby asked.
The young Arc was currently resting and letting the weights keep his arms weighed to the table.
It was an effort to get his arms up for him to rest his head into them.
"I don't care. Sports were never my thing, considering they involve learning a bunch of rules and regulations." Jaune said with his head down.
"They do keep you fit, don't you want to have a challenge too?" She asked to which Jaune did his best to shrug.
"When it comes to sports for me, things always boil down to 1 thing: What is my opponent's semblance?" Jaune spoke up, before turning his head to actually see the little reaper. "Under normal circumstances, without aura, I'd probably be able to overpower, outspeed or even tank more than 60% of the people we meet. I only say 60% because I know my own family and I've met too many adults that actually maintain their bodies. Despite this fact, there are too many people with a semblance that can make that moot, like your semblance, Yang's semblance and even just people that can make clones. In the end, it won't matter, because life will give someone a certain hand to play with the moment they're born."
Ruby blinked, thinking about what he said before Weiss spoke up.
"I do believe that they strictly prohibit semblances for the sake of fairness in these events, otherwise someone like Ruby would clear any speed trial they bring up." The heiress informed, to which Jaune sighed.
"Well, that makes sense, I guess, maybe I'll check it out, maybe I won't." He decided, before noticing that a certain cat faunus wasn't here.
"Is Blake still doing her self-entitled research?" He asked to which Ruby frowned.
"Yeah, she's been like that ever since the docks." She said sadly, prompting Jaune to end the conversation on a quiet note while Nora and Yang continued to argue.
"Ever since then, huh…?" Jaune said quietly, before getting up.
Only to remember that he still had his weights on and the force of gravity pulled him to the floor.
"Oof!" He groaned as he hit the floor.
Ren merely sighed as Nora and Yang still argued, as he walked over to Jaune to try and help him up, Pyrrha being too busy, having returned to her game.
He never would've guessed that he'd have to babysit for a 2nd person when coming to this school.
Back at the dorm after class
Team JNPR had changed into their sleeping attire and was settling in for the night.
Nora was discussing team strategies with Ren for the upcoming sports event to counter Yang, while Pyrrha was playing on the team's large TV, trying to get used to the idea of console gaming.
Jaune was the only one missing, but this didn't seem to faze any of the team members.
Mostly because they all knew he still had his weights on.
With Jaune
"Almost there… Just a couple more yards…" Jaune said to himself as he kept on inching his way back towards his dorm.
"I have a newfound healthy respect for worms and anything else that slither across the ground." Jaune said to himself, as he kept crawling on his stomach.
With the rest of Team JNPR
"After that, we need to drink lots of Gatorade, I bet she only drinks regular water. That's where we'll have the advantage!" Nora continued to ramble as Ren merely played on his laptop.
"Nora, I don't think drinking Gatorade will actually help you be able to send sound waves to distract them." Ren said, clicking at a rapid pace to keep up with the game.
Osu was it?
It was a fast paced game for Ren to casually play while Nora did her usual thing.
"Of course it will! It has electrolytes! Do you know what that means? It means it has electricity in it, which should power me up enough to unlock a hidden power within myself!" Nora gleefully said.
While Ren had to explain to Nora why such a thing wouldn't work, the door to their door was knocked upon.
"Oh, that was actually rather fast, I expected him to get here a bit later than this, maybe he is getting stronger." Ren said as he went over to the door to open it, since Pyrrha was too focused.
Opening the door, he was met with a different sight than what he anticipated.
He was looking down when he opened the door, but instead of seeing a blonde haired knight bumping his head on the door, he was shown some very interesting choices of slipper wear.
Slowly moving his eyes up, he saw the owner to be Blake Belladonna herself, looking tired and exhausted.
"Good evening, Blake, what is it that I can help you with?" Ren asked, to which Nora immediately raced towards the door, pushing Ren out of the way and heatedly glaring at the cat faunus.
"YOU! You think you can just come here to try and spy on us?! Well you have another thing coming, I EXPECTED that! I knew from the moment you weren't there at lunch with us that you were secretly finding ways to defeat us for Yang. Research was it? Well you can't do research on us, because me and Ren will kick both you and your partner's tag team's as-" Nora said with triumph, before Ren pulled her aside.
"Nora, not the time. I'm sorry, how may I help you?" Ren said, as he kept Nora away from the poor girl.
"I was wondering if Jaune was here, so that I can ask him something." Blake said, a hint of urgency in her voice.
"Ah-ha! So that's why you're here! You're here for our weakest link! Well you can't seduce him with your ninja ways, because he isn't here! I have made sure that all possible ways of getting info on us has been termina-" Nora said from the side, before Ren pushed her very slowly back.
"He isn't here right now, but I'm sure he will be in about… 13ish minutes?" Ren answered, to which the cat faunus sighed.
"Can you tell me where he is currently, then? I'll go and meet up with him myself." Blake said, to which Nora was about to pop back in and say something, before Ren reflexively held her back.
"At this time, I believe he should be at the stairs, down that hallway to the left then another left." Ren informed to which Blake nodded.
"Thank you, I appreciate the help." She said as she walked quickly away towards the male she needed.
"Blake?" Ren called out to her, making her stop a bit out of courtesy to see what he needed.
"I believe it'd be best if you took it easy, lest you end up burning yourself out before you can do anything." Ren said, before closing the door, not waiting for a remark.
This left Blake standing in the hallway a bit, thinking about what he said, before she heard some grunting noises from a bit far away.
"Almost there. I am almost there. I can almost taste the wood my door was made out of." A voice can be heard.
One that Blake recognized immediately and walked towards.
She was left surprised, but kept an impassive face to see one Jaune crawling on the ground towards his dorm.
He didn't seem to notice her, since his head was down, most likely since the effort to keep it up as he crawled was a chore for him at this point.
"Um, Jaune?" Blake called the blonde's attention to which he immediately reacted.
"Do my ears deceive me? I might be mistaken, but is that Blake Belladonna talking to me? The one who made no effort to talk to me after I got my ass kicked along with some other people by a certain two eye colored girl at the docks a while ago?" Jaune said from the ground, making Blake's heart sink a bit.
After that incident, she did stop communicating with people outside her team.
"I'm sorry, but I was busy…" She said to which Jaune could merely scoff.
"Busy? Doing what? Researching things that I'm sure many other people have done already and got nothing out of? Sweet Jiminy Christmas, that sure sounds like a good reason as to why you couldn't talk to me, Sun or even your own team leader as to why you have barely been around, barely getting sleep and barely eating." Jaune said sarcastically to which Blake answered back heatedly.
"You don't understand! This is something only I can do!" She nearly hissed, wondering why she though it be a good idea to meet with this boy, to which Jaune laughed.
He laughed as if it was the funniest thing in the world.
Slowly, he got up, keeping himself supported with his hands on his knees, grinning at her as if she just told him that EA games were making good games again.
"Something only you can do? A huntress in training, who lost to a crime lord who's probably pretty low in the whole grand scheme of things, barely able to keep her healthy and is probably unable to fight properly due to all the stress she's been accumulating?" Jaune asked mockingly. "Man, I'm sure with you on the case, people like the government and professional hunters should be at ease, because this huntress in training will do their job for them with the power of the library and internet at a school."
Blake grit her teeth, before she walked away, not needing to hear any of this. She didn't need his help with what she wanted. She should've expected it.
She should've done everything herself from the beginning.
She would've.
If Jaune hadn't placed his hand on her shoulder to stop her.
"Blake, you need to rest. You aren't going to be able to do anything if you keep this up. Even if you were at 100%, you won't be able to do anything." Jaune said sternly, as he focused to keep the weights from causing him to crash to the ground.
"What do you know? They can attack any moment and you want me to sleep?" Blake asked to which Jaune shook his head.
"No, I want you to get better. The fight at the docks proved it. We're still students. If you don't believe me, then I want you to take off a single one of these weights on me and hold it for 5 seconds without dropping it." Jaune challenged to which Blake rolled her eyes.
"What would this prove?" She asked.
"That how strong you are right now, will be obliterated if you even try and fight any of the people in charge." He said, making her angrily click her tongue, shaking off his hand as she grabbed where the weights on his right arm were.
She immediately pulled it off, only to fall forward, as the weight crashed to the floor, taking her with it.
She was surprised by how much it weighed, but still tried to pick it up, unable to.
5 seconds?
Try being able to get it away from the floor.
"Can't do it, can you? Anyone on both our teams can at least hold it for a while, but here you are, struggling to even pick it up." The leader said, no form of his usual goofiness showing.
It was true.
Everyone had tried on his weights and all managed to keep it up for a decent amount of time if not outright wore them naturally.
Pyrrha, Ren and Ruby were able to at least wear them or keep them stable on their person.
Ren probably got stronger after all the times he was forced to roll Jaune over or take the weights off.
Nora and Yang were able to wear them and walk around with them, albeit with some difficulty.
Weiss, being the probable weakest physically between the teams at the time, was at least pick one of them up.
It was cute to see her try with a red face in Jaune's opinion.
"What you're doing is weakening you to the point where I'm pretty sure if I had you catch my shield, you'd not only fail to react in time, but you'd fall over from the slightest impact from it." The blonde analyzed, causing Blake to look down, having given up on trying picking up the weights.
They stayed quiet for a bit, letting the sounds of other students in their dorms chatter away, before Jaune sighed.
"Take a break, Blake. Get stronger. From what I can tell so far, they'll come to us and when they do, we'll be ready for them." He said, picking up the weights from the floor, throwing them over his shoulder as he walked past her, albeit a little strained.
"After all, what's the point of all the work for peace if you aren't able to stand up to do something with it?" He said, as he turned the corner, leaving the young cat faunus to her own thoughts.
Back with Team JNPR
Ren sighed as Nora kept on yelling at him for insubordination and that he was supposed to aid her against the enemy, not hinder her.
He was just about to explain to Nora as to why Blake wasn't a threat when their dorm door open, revealing their leader Jaune, miraculously standing up, despite having the weights on.
Sure, he seemed to have one over his shoulders, but he was still carrying it.
"Hey guys, don't worry about me, I'm just going to go over here and pass out for 6 hours, before I have to wake up and do a 1 hour crawl to class." He said, slowly wobbling over to his bed.
He could try to wobble like this to class tomorrow, but goddamn, he could feel his bones squeaking already.
Jaune went to lay on his bed, on his front, with his face on the foot side of the bed, not bothering to try and change out of his clothes, as he watched Pyrrha played on his console.
He then noticed Pyrrha's clothing.
Or lack of.
She was only wearing a large T-shirt and appeared to have nothing else on.
Jaune knew better than to think she was walking around without anything to cover lower body.
She was wearing panties, but the image did leave him with the fantasy of her having none on.
That being said…
"Pyrrha, what are you wearing?" Jaune asked, to which his partner replied.
"Just something easy and comfortable for me to wear while I play this game." She responded, not taking her eyes off the screen, to which Jaune immediately let the weights on his body slide off to the ground.
He moved over to wrap his arms around Pyrrha, holding her close to him as he sighed.
"I'm so proud that I'm raising you to be like this." He said, as he kept her in his embrace, enjoying the feel of what is becoming a gamer girl.
Pyrrha reacted with a move of her hand to cause the shield he kept on his wrist to slam him into a wall.
"Ah, the cruelty of my partner, it hurts me so, but I know I'll get her to love me some daaaayyyyyy~" Jaune said, as he laid on the floor, face first.
He eventually got up to go and get ready to sleep, so he'll be fine.
Pyrrha on the other hand had to keep her emotions in check.
It felt nice to be hugged like that, but not for that reason.
Pyrrha was having trouble these days with her leader, mostly because of the daily interactions with him that she began to enjoy.
His drive to get stronger and how he treated her as if she was a normal girl really made her feel warm and nice.
He was still a pervert though, so she still kept her authority in check, lest he goes too far.
That and he was distracting her from her game.
Omake
After Jaune found out about Blake being a cat faunus, he couldn't get his mind off of it.
First there was Velvet being a bunny girl, said attempts on bunny girl ended with her team leader stepping in between them and giving him cold threats, now there was Blake, who had recently holed herself up in the library, but thanks to a very stern talking to, had finally decided to take a break.
This was a good thing for Jaune, because now he has someone that can fill out the requirements for his fantasy girl.
He was going to try and get Blake into a maid outfit made for nekos.
Now this wouldn't have been a problem if it were some other people.
Nora would do it for fun and to tease Ren, Ruby would do it oh so innocently (bless her), Yang would've done it to tease him and for fun and the only people who wouldn't have done it was Weiss and Pyrrha.
Unless he made it a challenge.
That being said, Blake was too smart and too uncaring.
Meaning she wasn't going to get tricked and wasn't going to listen to what he said about maid outfits.
So that left one option.
Said option was still difficult, but still the only option…
Jaune heard a knock on his dorm door.
He smiled as he immediately made his way towards it, having grown used to his current weights.
He opened it to reveal a very annoyed Blake, holding a towel around her form to cover her modesty.
Jaune should've been happy, but this wasn't the result he wanted from his plan.
"Jaune, may you please return my clothes, lest I tell Goodwitch on you?" Blake said with a hint of underlying promises of pain if he didn't.
"What do you mean?" Jaune said, playing a bit dumb.
"I mean, not the maid outfits you replaced them with in my dorm." Blake answered, her patience running low.
Jaune mentally cursed, having thought that if she had nothing left to wear, she'd wear those clothes for at least a few minutes. It took forever to wait for them to leave so he can sneak in and do what he did.
"You seriously chose to have nothing but a towel on instead of a maid outfit in the hallway?" He asked a bit bitter.
"Anything to spite you, now stop complaining, at least you got something." Blake said, as Jaune went to get her clothes.
Truth be told, Ruby's and Weiss's clothes were too tight around her chest and Yangs clothes were too loose.
Otherwise she'd have worn their clothes to retrieve hers.
Sometimes, things just don't work out…
*snap*
Especially when she should've expected Jaune to take a picture.
Blake sighed.
She didn't need her clothes on to use Gambol Shroud.
There you go.
I wrote a new chapter.
I know I skipped the part with the Paladin, but I don't want Jaune involved in EVERY incident that Team RWBY is in.
Besides, it'd be hard to fit in a reason as to how he'd get in.
Team RWBY was being pretty sneaky and the only reason Sun and Neptune was there, was because they kind of snuck in.
Jaune was busy training.
Also, I kind of took away Yang's moment to lecture Blake, but I felt like I could fit Jaune in this to establish a better character relationship for the 2.
I also did this earlier, before the dance, while adding in a random sports event so I can have some fun with some things I'm planning.
But here you go.
Pyrrha getting a bit comfortable with Jaune, Blake too, while Jaune is working real hard to not get his ass kicked again.
I have absolutely no wifi and I'm only sending this whenever I so happen to have wifi.
I also have a Piltover Days coming up, it just so happens that I haven't finished it, because I like messing with Jaune a bit more. Sue me.
Boom.
Redshot.
I'm out.