Disclaimers: "E-excuse me, but RedGlitch does not own RWBY. If he did, you all would probably hate RWBY." Ruby said, nervously, as she poked her 2 fingers together.
Jaune was extremely annoyed.
It was the last day of class before his week of freedom comes.
So what was annoying him?
Professor Port seemed to have gotten the class some simulators for strategy training.
That wasn't a problem for Jaune normally.
He was fine with strategy testing.
If anything, he was the best in the class, to the surprise of his friends.
His problem as of now?
He did everything perfectly for the strategy game.
He gets 50 soldiers every new run and his job was to lead them against another army.
He was supposed to defeat them, secure cargo then bring it back.
Before a time limit.
So after he completely wiped out the enemy team and was carrying back the cargo, what happened when he was literally right in front of his own base with all 50 soldiers and the "precious cargo"?
"We lost contact!" The radio guy said from the game.
"Bull. Fucking. Shit!" Jaune seethed.
"We didn't bloody lose contact with them! They were right fucking there! They were so close; I could communicate with them by wiggling my eyebrows!" Jaune yelled at the screen.
"Jaune, you just didn't finish within the time limit. It's nothing too serious." Weiss said, trying to soothe her boyfriend.
"That's the problem! What exactly happens when I don't finish within the arbitrary time limit?! Do they lose honor and disembowel themselves?! Do their Battle Royale collars explode?! WHAT?!" Jaune yelled as he looked at Professor Port who had no answer.
"And do you know who they WERE? Absolutely bloody fucking no one! They were a bunch of faceless pricks that I've vat grown 50 of, every day since you gave us this game, but because I didn't finish it in the time limit, you're going to make me start the entire bloody thing over again!" Jaune yelled furiously as Weiss could only sweat drop.
"Ahem. The reason time limits are important, is because sometimes you may need to get something at the correct time, lest something terrible happens. What if those soldiers you "vat grown 50 of" had poison in their system and needed the cargo to be brought back to cure the system from their body?" Port asked as Jaune could only stare at him.
"Then why didn't they bring someone who can make the cure for them so they didn't have to make a trip there and back?" Jaune asked, as Port coughed.
"What I mean to say is that sometimes time is a valuable commodity and if you waste it, things may end up terribly regardless of what you accomplished. Sometimes it isn't about defeating the enemy or capturing the base, if you come back to see what you were going off to fight for is destroyed." Port said sagely.
Jaune could only stare at him.
"You just thought of that, didn't you?" Jaune said as Port could only laugh nervously.
Oh, how Jaune wished he was finished with classes.
He had fun with these simulation strategy games at first, but now he was on edge.
"Weiss, how are you doing with your strategy game?" Jaune asked, looking over to his girlfriend, who seemed to be a bit frustrated with her own.
"I don't understand how this simulation is supposed to expect me to win against an army of 500 with only 50 soldiers." She said, as Jaune stood behind her, resting his head on her shoulder as he pressed her close to him, causing her to blush.
"Hey, I didn't get one of these yet. This one's pretty easy. Instead of focusing on splitting the enemy up by using bait, why don't you try this…?" Jaune said as he reached over to make some adjustments.
"The enemy is at a disadvantage with their backs against the mountain here, so you have the terrain advantage, despite losing in numbers, so if you spread out your forces like this, the enemy will react and move to meet them. Eventually, your army should be able to surround them, having their soldiers huddled up against the wall with only the outer soldiers being able to fight 50 of yours. This being an efficient way to not only reduce the enemies you have to fight, but you're basically just having 50 soldiers fight 50 soldiers 1 on 1 in a death match. Difference is, the enemy has less moving space since their own comrades are behind them, so any enemy is only able to move forward while yours are able to move back if they so need to." Jaune said, circling the enemy army with Weiss's own soldiers.
Weiss watched in amazement as her soldiers slowly moved over each enemy soldier 1 by 1.
"That's amazing. Where did you learn to strategize like that?" Weiss asked as Jaune scoffed.
"Weiss, love, I'm the number 1 to cheap tactics and dirty tricks. When you're the only male Arc in a family that's 80% females, you need to find every way you can to survive." Jaune said, as he lovingly bit Weiss's shoulder again.
"Ow! Stop that! Not in public!" Weiss cried, reprimanding her boyfriend by hitting him on the head.
"But, Weiss~! I just want a taste~!" Jaune whined, as Weiss had to cover his mouth.
"Shhh!" She hissed as Ruby, who was on the other side of the desk had to cover her face, since it was the same color as her namesake.
"No lewding!" Ruby yelled, frustrated.
"Fine, I'll just go back to this blasted "simulation"." Jaune grumbled as he returned to the device that was causing him grief earlier.
Ruby puffed her cheeks.
She was sure he knew she had a crush on him, yet he decided to keep showing affection for Weiss like that.
Needless to say, Ruby finally learned how frustrating Jaune could be.
She wished she could talk about it, but out of respect for Weiss, she kept quiet.
She wasn't going to spend every second of the day thinking about him though.
The aforementioned Schnee heiress also did not make any attempts to talk about it, which she thanked and the blonde boy in question seemed to not have even remembered.
That or not care for her feelings.
The thought of that hurt the young girl's heart, but she was sure it wasn't like that.
As the bell rung, she watched as her closest friend walked with her first friend (and crush) to the combat class.
She was about to look down, disheartened that they've gone to the point of not even bothering to wait for her when Jaune looked back in.
"Yo, hurry up, Ruby, you know how Goodwitch is." Jaune said, coming in to call everyone and seeing that Ruby was the only one not getting up.
Ruby looked up at him.
Whether it was out of obligatory friendship or just plain common courtesy, Ruby didn't care, but just nodded and got her stuff ready to follow them.
All the while, Yang could only stare at the small exchange.
Now Yang wasn't an overly protective sister like one might think.
She was fine with Ruby having a crush or getting a boyfriend.
The problem was who.
Jaune, while being a great friend, was not someone she could stand Ruby being with.
When Jaune and Weiss started dating, Yang sighed in relief.
That should stop her sister from having hope, right?
Nope.
It seems that after the involuntary confession, Jaune and Weiss made sure to be nicer to Ruby.
This can only go 3 ways.
Either they will let Ruby down gently, causing her to see that they aren't going to break up soon.
The 2 will get into a fight, causing Jaune and Weiss to break up, as Ruby gains hope for getting what she wants, after comforting both sides of course.
Or the unlikely route, Weiss becomes willing to share Jaune with Ruby; letting Jaune's dreams of a harem become one step closer.
Knowing the blonde, he'd try and get that route.
There is the possibility that nothing happens and the 2 continue dating while Ruby remains a spectator, too.
Though, knowing the 3, Yang was pretty sure that that's impossible.
For now, she could only watch and make sure she wasn't hurt.
Even if it meant hurting her friend in the process of doing so.
He's a big boy, he can take it.
Combat Class
Everyone was watching Pyrrha singlehandedly defeat team CRDL.
Not surprising since she is the absolute best in their year, though it didn't stop everyone from watching in awe.
Jaune whistled lowly as he watched his partner decimate the poor guys.
"Well, looks like the Vytal tournament or whatever is won by us this year." Jaune said, as Pyrrha walked over towards their group, not even bothering to look at the 4 unfortunate boys as they groaned or wait to hear Goodwitch call her victory.
"Would Mr. Black please come down to the arena?" Goodwitch called as the aforementioned male smirked, walking down the field in a stride.
"You may choose who you wish to duel." Goodwitch said as Mercury turned and pointed towards Pyrrha.
"I'd like to face off against her." He said, as Goodwitch tried to refute that, claiming that she had just defeated an entire team, before Pyrrha stopped her.
"It's okay. I can go another round." Pyrrha said with a smile as she walked back down.
"I'm not sure if he thinks Pyrrha's tired from curbstomping Team CRDL or if he thinks he can plain win against a 3 time champion." Jaune said, narrowing his eyes at the foreign student.
"Alright, you all should know the rules by now. Begin!" Goodwitch called as the 2 combatants immediately squared off.
As Jaune watched the fight, he noticed a few strange things.
Pyrrha seemed to be using her semblance this time.
He knew his partner by now to know how she smiles and moves her hand to use her semblance.
The question is, why?
Not only does she refrain from using it under normal circumstances, preferring to use her actual skill and experience to defeat her enemies, but the guy had nothing on him to use it on.
Another thing to note is that this guy seemed to only use kicks in his fighting style.
Jaune could respect that, having recently picked up a few ways to fight with only kicks himself, since it was more reliable for him.
Though that did let Jaune bring up some hypothesis.
Mercury probably had some sort of weapon or metal coating on his legs for durability and offensive purposes.
Jaune mused at how similar Mercury was to him.
Snarky, laid-back, always joking and he has some sort of equipment to enhance how he fights on his limbs?
What are the chances?
That being said, it was a pretty terrible thing to have against Pyrrha, as the boy soon found out and deciding to give up.
This caused Jaune to analyze him even further.
He had no real reason to give up.
If anything, he could've adapted to Pyrrha's polarity, if he found out.
He didn't even seem that winded from fighting her, which could only mean…
He was gathering intelligence on her.
Remembering that the Vytal tournament is coming up, Jaune widened his eyes.
They were getting info on all the teams so they'd have preexisting knowledge before the tournament came!
"Clever foreigners…" Jaune said to himself as Pyrrha came back up.
"Welcome back, Pumpkin girl, nice matches you had there. Though did you really have to beat the poor guys down like that?" Yang greeted her as Pyrrha shrugged.
"It was a fight and it'd be rude to hold back on them too much." Pyrrha said as Yang whistled.
"Harsh. No one except your beloved leader gets special treatment, eh?" Yang asked, causing Pyrrha to stare at her for a bit.
"No, I think I'll hurt Jaune just as much as I'd hurt anyone else here, if not more." She said without any change in her tone of voice.
"Love you too, partner." Jaune said, before Goodwitch dismissed everyone.
"Finally!" Jaune said before going through a revolving door.
He walked out, with a new outfit, donning a pair of sunglasses, wearing a sunhat and holding a large duffel back with a towel over his shoulder.
"Thank you, Coco Adel." Jaune said as everyone frowned, most notably Ruby and Ren.
"How did you not get a silly outfit from that?" Ren asked, still a bit peeved from his last experience with it.
Jaune could only look at them with a blank stare.
"Don't you know? This thing will only change you into clothes that are in it. After all, this is what Coco uses to change her clothes. Can you imagine her in a pirate outfit or even a neko maid outfit?" Jaune asked, as they all tried to imagine that.
Strangely enough, the pirate outfit was more fitting than the neko maid outfit in most of their minds.
"Where are you going anyways?" Blake asked, as Jaune shrugged.
"I'm going to follow Pyrrha around a bit before coming back, lest Weiss misses me." Jaune said, causing his girlfriend to scoff, as she looked away, crossing her arms.
"I don't know Weiss, Jaune and Pyrrha on vacation together? Even if it's only for a few days at most, Pyrrha is his partner and they already do spend much more time together than you normally would. Imagine if Jaune decides to stay with his partner alone for the entirety of his vacation? Who knows what could happen, since Pyrrha has already mentioned before that she normally spends her vacations alone. A girl who's so used to being alone finally brings her male partner from her school with her one day to enjoy time. Alone at an age where hormones are running wild." Ruby said dryly with a dull look in her eyes.
Everyone went silent as they stared at the girl.
Everyone already knowing the young girl's crush on the JNPR leader.
"Is she trying to start trouble between Weiss and Pyrrha?" Some of the more perceptive ones thought, basically anyone except Jaune and Nora who just couldn't be too bothered to care or pay that much attention, before Weiss had to admit that the girl was right.
Weiss came out of nowhere to take Jaune, having shown no interest, while the entirety of the time before she came; Pyrrha was the closest to Jaune.
Of course, she didn't want to cause any strife in their group of friends by accusing the 2 of them of anything.
"Hey, Jaune, I believe I will be free this week too." Weiss said, causing Jaune to turn from Ruby to look at her.
"What? Really? How?" Jaune asked as Weiss shrugged, eyes closed as if to say "Who knows?"
"It seems Ozpin was willing to let me get a week off too for some odd reason." Weiss said, as Jaune could only look to the side at her team.
Yang and Blake shrugged.
Ruby was having a scary look in her eyes as she smiled.
"Alright, I guess, we can do some things. I have enough money for 2, so we can spend time together." Jaune said as Pyrrha could only give a blank smile as she watched the interaction.
"You don't mind, right Pyrrha? I think the one thing we planned on doing together was 1 dinner and a day at the beach." Jaune asked as he turned to see his partner.
"Of course, I don't mind. I'd have brought Ren and Nora if they weren't so busy." Pyrrha said with the same smile she'd use for interviews with some press.
"Alright, well get packed up, love, I'll be at your dorm to pick it up for you like a classy mentlegen." Jaune said as she nodded.
As Team JNPR left, Yang could only ask Weiss one question.
"Did Ruby just play on your girlfriend instinct?" Yang asked, not bothering to ask when she got a week of no school as Weiss blinked, turning to see the girl in question, before realizing she wasn't there.
Oh well, she needed to go talk to Ozpin anyways.
With Team JNPR
"So well meet up in about 4 days to hang out at that resort area, alright? Try not to get arrested before then, Nora." Pyrrha said as Nora and Ren nodded, waving their goodbyes as they got their bags to head out to wherever they needed to go.
"You know, I have a feeling that the next time we see them, it's going to be under very sad circumstances for me." Jaune said as Pyrrha shrugged, picking up her bag.
"Where's Weiss?" Pyrrha asked as Jaune shrugged.
"How would I know? You women folk and the time it takes for you to pack up." Jaune said.
"I didn't take that long to pack in comparison to you." Pyrrha noted.
"Well yeah, you only brought clothes, since you know I'd be the one that would be bringing any games." Jaune said dryly.
"There's nothing wrong with taking advantage of convenient situations." Pyrrha said with a smile.
"If you mean taking advantage of having more space to pack skimpy clothes, then be my guest." Jaune said deadpanned.
"What do you mean "skimpy"? My clothes are completely fine." Pyrrha said, offended.
"You're a Spartan and you're famous. Those 2 types of people aren't too worried about how much they reveal and from what I can see…" Jaune began as he scanned his partner up and down. "I can see a lot."
Pyrrha angrily puffed out her cheeks, before defending herself.
"What I wear is completely fine." She said with a cross of her arms.
"Oh really? Then turn around for me. I'll be the judge of how much is "completely fine"." He said before realizing the double entendre.
"Huh, my mind works on auto pilot to create those, eh?" Jaune thought to himself as Pyrrha remained still.
"Either way, I thought so." He said after Pyrrha had not done as he asked to prove him wrong.
"Your leggings cover you up more than whatever you're wearing does." Jaune continued as Pyrrha blushed, looking down, unconsciously crossing her legs.
"I think I proved my point." Jaune said as Weiss appeared with what a victorious smirk on her face.
Seems like something happened with Ozpin.
"Ah, hello, Jaune, Pyrrha." Weiss said, as she opened up her dorm door.
"Sorry I had to make sure of some things with Ozpin, I'll be real quick to pack." She said as she walked into her dorm, closing it.
Jaune was about to comment on how much time this is going to take before Weiss opened the door with her bag ready, about 20 seconds afterwards.
"Alright, let us be off." She said.
Pyrrha could only look at him with a playful smile as Jaune sighed.
"Some women are also extremely proficient at packing so it wouldn't be a surprise if one finishes packing before you can say something." Jaune explained as Pyrrha nodded mockingly.
Jaune could only pick up Weiss's bag as he carried their stuff to wherever they were going.
On the dust plane
"Jaune, before you knock yourself out, I have something here for you." Pyrrha said as she brought out a pill.
"You want me to drug myself? Pyrrha, you're a champion, you should say no to drugs." Jaune said dryly as Pyrrha shook her head.
"This is a pill that helps deal with motion sickness, it should help you calm down." Pyrrha said as Jaune stared at her with shock and awe.
"Forget moral ethics, I love you Pyrrha." Jaune said as he took the pill.
"Yeah, yeah." Pyrrha said, letting the blonde take the pill from her.
In all honesty, it was just a sugar pill, but the blonde didn't know that.
Either he would be calm until the plane started and he'd end up on the floor calling for black Jesus or the Placebo effect would take place and he'd be fine.
As the plane flew, it seemed that the latter took place.
That or he was so focused on reading- dust that was so weird to say- that he didn't seem to notice his own motion sickness.
This continued on for quite a bit with Pyrrha playing a Gameboy advance that Jaune brought, Weiss was reading some literature and Jaune read a book about…
Pyrrha couldn't see the cover completely, but she can just make out the words "Renewal Tae" in it.
It wasn't really her business, but as time passed by, right when they were nearing their destination, Jaune suddenly brought the book down to his knees abruptly.
"Sonnofa Grimm, I just realized!" He said with said realization dawning on his face.
"What? What is it? Did you forget something?" Weiss panicked, unconsciously exerting the amount of energy that her boyfriend was.
"You're a part of Team RWBY!" Jaune said as he pointed at her.
"Yes? So, what?" Weiss asked confused.
"Anytime I exit the school with one of your team members, something happens. Something ALWAYS happens." Jaune said as he recounted his experiences with her team members.
He got attacked by Neo when he went with Ruby to that dance.
He attacked Roman who retaliated with the appearance of Neo when he went to help out Blake.
The story with Yang is one that he'd rather not mention.
Anything with Yang is one that he'd rather not mention.
No matter what he got out of it for a week.
"Oh please, it's probably just a coincidence that whatever happened, happened." Weiss said with a roll of her eyes.
"Say what you will, but anytime something new happens and one of your team mates are around, it ends up with me fighting someone who can make me taste the color purple." Jaune said, as he looked around suspiciously.
"You're too paranoid. We're going to be pretty far away from where any of the criminals that you've been seeing lately can be." Pyrrha spoke up, but not really alleviating any of Jaune's discomfort.
"Easy for you 2 to say, I've been in 3 different situations already, I don't need a 4th." Jaune said.
"Come on, what are the chances that someone capable of committing a large crime will be at a place meant for vacationing?" Weiss asked.
With Roman
"Goddamn, it feels good to be a gangster." Roman said as he took a large puff on a large cigar.
Where was Roman currently?
He was sipping on a pina colada in broad daylight at a resort.
Even criminal masterminds need a vacation.
Especially since his criminal organization owns a casino nearby.
No one really noticed who he was.
Probably because he wasn't an idiot and wore different clothes and had his hair in a different way.
There wasn't even anyone actively looking for him.
Even his most relentless pursuers aren't thinking about looking him every second of their day.
That's when he got a call on his Scroll.
Oh, great, someone to ruin his moment of peace.
He looked at the caller id to see it was Cinder and sighed.
Immediately he moved to a discrete location and picked up.
"Sorry honey, I'll be home late tonight, I'll be sure to pick up some milk for the kids." Roman said dryly before he heard Cinder's irate voice.
"I do hope you're doing something worthwhile with your time, Roman. Need I remind you that you need a new source of dust since your last failed heist?" Cinder said as Roman clicked his tongue a bit.
"No need to remind me, I'm sure I'll get to it at some point." Roman said, before Cinder voiced her displeasure.
"No, you need to get it by the time you are back here, or else." Cinder said as she hung up the scroll, leaving that threat hanging.
Roman cursed under his breath.
He needed to get a bunch of dust from his current surroundings or find a real nice way to run away.
But Neo wasn't here.
His little partner was somewhere else doing who knows what for Cinder.
If he leaves then one of two things can happen.
1: Neo is killed or they use her as a way to bring him back.
Or 2: Neo takes his position and has to find and kill him.
Roman was sure the girl didn't care for him as much as he did for her, but that didn't matter.
She was in her teenage years after all, what does he want from her?
A card?
Hah, as if that girl would ever show her appreciation with a paper with flowers on it.
Despite having killed many hunters and leaving many others for dead, he just couldn't with Neo.
What to do…?
Roman sighed as he realized he was in big trouble.
Cinder will have him removed if he doesn't make up for the last failed heist…
With Jaune
Jaune was carrying Weiss and his bags to the room they'd be staying in for 3 days.
Said girl was busy looking at what is available to do around the area while Jaune had to give his opinion on what to do.
"There is a public pool area around here." Weiss said.
"Do you honestly care about swimming or people?" Jaune asked rhetorically.
"How about a spa?" Weiss asked.
"I don't think I'm comfortable going through the men's area where everyone is naked, just so I can sit around in a hot room." Jaune answered, having Weiss roll her eyes.
"Then why don't we just walk around the area and see what's interesting?" Weiss asked.
"Why would we do that when you have a map right now to tell us what's around that are interesting?" Jauned asked.
Weiss merely huffed.
"You're awfully picky about what to do on a vacation, you know? What were you going to do if I didn't come?" Weiss asked him.
"I was going to follow Pyrrha around since she's the one who decided to come here." Jaune admitted, having no real plan on what to do
"Well, we can't just stay in the room all day." Weiss said with a frown.
"What? Who says we can't? Wifi, games and room service. I think that's a vacation right there." Jaune said with a side glance at their door.
"Hmph, I'm not spending my vacation like that." Weiss said as Jaune sighed.
"You could just hang out with Pyrrha or do what you want to do; I'll meet you back here at 9 for dinner at a place that I'll book and pay for myself." Jaune offered as Weiss turned her head with a smile.
"Really? Are you sure?" She asked.
"Of course, anything for the princess." Jaune said dryly as Weiss gave him a kiss on the cheek before getting what she needed from their bags and leaving.
"… Welp, time to go do that thing I said I'd do." Jaune said as he entered their room to drop off the rest of their stuff.
"Let's see… I am unable to pronounce any of these restaraunts." Jaune concluded as he looked online.
"Nor am I able to fully afford any of these without having to not eat for the next 3 days." He confirmed, before lying back down to have some time to think about what's been happening.
He couldn't help but smile at how much he changed in under a year.
Before he came to this school, he'd have fought anybody his age or even above it a bit.
Heck, he'd laugh if he told himself that his first girlfriend would be an heiress.
Nowadays, he's a bit more skeptical of people.
Sure, he'd still love a good fight, but thanks to that quiet girl, he was a lot less willing to get his ass kicked.
Now he's forced to rely on more underhanded tactics and clever ways to fight.
Not to mention how he now is forced to use his semblance to try and match up with people.
Jaune sighed.
"Whatever happened to me kicking someone's ass straight up without needing to worry about anything?" Jaune thought to himself.
He's fought people before and he never had to use his semblance against them, even when they have an upper hand by using their own semblance, while he handicapped himself.
He continued to smile as he remembered all the times the bullies kept beating him…
No.
He wasn't a masochist.
Let him finish the thought.
…only for him to just get stronger and beat them back.
And when that wasn't enough, he had a pretty nice way to break them by talking after he realized everyone had some sort of hurt button.
He would've continued his "good ol' memories" but he really needed to find a way to arrange a dinner for Weiss.
Looking around on this area's website, he found some pretty interesting things.
Anything that needs heat is powered with fire dust crystals.
How'd that work? Jaune didn't know.
He was sure there was something wrong with that.
They also seemed to have some specially bred animals for food.
Animal rights activist will knock on their doors soon.
They also have a very in depth history about how they came into be-
"Oh my dust, I'm so bored." Jaune finally admitted as he checked the time.
"8 hours until I meet Weiss here." Jaune said as he instantly got up to go and find an ATM and withdraw something from his savings.
Sure, the whole point of the money he saved on there was for him to have his own little house custom made to meet all his life needs, but he needed money.
This dinner was only going to set back his house plans by a few months.
If worse comes to worse with this dinner, he only needed to remove a few secret tunnels from his house to be able to afford this.
He went to find an ATM in the area, only to be met with a sight he didn't want to see.
Roman Torchwick.
If he added a cap and made his hair right, he had no doubt that this guy in front of him was the crime lord his friends fought before.
Not to mention once Jaune got a good read on your presence, it wasn't that hard to distinguish you from others when you're right in front of him.
"Goddamnit, I knew things never go well when a member of Team RWBY is here." Jaune muttered under his breath as he very carefully walked by the man who seemed to be trying to open a door with some goons.
"Keep calm, as long as you don't provoke them, you won't have to deal with any problems on your vacation…" Jaune told himself as he overheard what they were saying.
"Yeah, this place has a massive amount of dust to power itself. If we can get all of it, we'd not only have enough for our plans, but to just plain blow whatever we want up." A goon explained.
"Yeah, problem is, if we take all of it, the people in charge here will notice when their money baths isn't as warm as it should be." Roman said as the goon shrugged.
"Who cares? We can get away with it. You do need to make sure the flame bitch doesn't burn you and the only way to do that is to impress her." He said.
"Cinder isn't a prom date that'll ignore the fact that you ditched her by giving her a bunch of things, but you are right that if we go above what is needed, she'll be happy enough to not kill us." Roman said as the door clicked.
"Ah, there we go. Who has the storage unit?" Roman asked as a goon raised his hand.
"Alright, looks like anyone with plans tonight at this place is going to be a sad person." Roman said.
"SONNOFA FUCKING BITCH!" Jaune yelled, before covering his mouth.
"Boss, we got an innocent bystander, what should we do?" The goon asked as Roman took out an invisible book, pretending to go through the pages before stopping at an invisible page.
"Kill him." He said with a bored look.
"Wait, what? You don't have to kill me. Why do you criminals always just kill things as you continue your plan?" Jaune asked.
"Kid, don't you know the saying "You can't bake a cake without breaking a few eggs"?" Roman asked as Jaune stared at him.
"My friend Velvet makes vegan cakes all the time. You don't have to break any eggs." Jaune said as Roman stopped for a moment.
"What? Are you serious? Hey, uh, Jason, did you know that you can make a cake without breaking any eggs?" Roman asked as the now named Jason answered his boss.
"Yes, boss." He said as Roman looked back at Jaune.
"Huh…" Before looking back at his minion. "Do you think we should stop killing people then?"
"No, boss, I think you just need a new metaphor." Jason said.
"Alright, kid, you can't test cosmetics without killing a few bunnies." Roman said.
"Yes you can!" Jaune said as Roman looked back at Jason.
"Jason?" Roman asked.
"Omelet, boss." Jason answered.
"Right, Jason says you can't make an omelet without killing a few bunnies." Roman said, eliciting a face palm from his henchmen.
"That's just stupid." Jaune said, not even his own insane troll logic could agree with that.
"Hey, I will not just stand here and let you call Jason stupid." Roman said as he lifted his cane to blast Jaune.
Jaune immediately got out of the way, letting the dust blast hit the wall, yet surprisingly not put a hole through it.
"Alright, boys, go and make an omelet." Roman said as he turned around to go through the door.
Jaune looked around to see 4 people slowly approaching him.
The Jason guy, 2 people who looked like ninjas and a bald guy with sunglasses.
"Why didn't I call for help or just turn around the moment I saw you guys?" Jaune asked, though no one answered.
The 4 people decided to attack all at once, forcing Jaune to go onto the defensive.
He immediately moved back to avoid getting hurt, before deciding to make sure of one thing.
"Hey, can you all say one thing or let me know if you have pink hair or not? Not you, obviously." Jaune asked before referring to the bald guy, who responded by taking out a gun to unload a bunch of rounds of basic ammo on him.
Jaune brought up his shield to block them as 2 other people moved in to attack from his sides while he blocked.
Jaune ducked low as the 2 went for an overhead attack, before grabbing both of their arms to throw them at the guy shooting at him.
As the bald guy moved out of the way, the Jason guy took out a knife and immediately went for a downward stab at the blondes head.
Jaune immediately responded by bashing his shield to his knees, getting him to cry out in pain and reactively moving to hold his knee.
Jaune then got out Crocea Mors and stared at the bald guy who was refilling his ammo and the 2 people who were covered up were bringing out their weapons.
"Phoo…" Jaune breathed lowly. "From what I can tell so far, I won't need my semblance for this." He said as he immediately smashed his foot into Jason who was getting up, before picking the male up, having him as a meatshield to use against the bald guy.
"Yeah, bet you can't do anything now, can you? What's wrong? The kid got your friend? Now just lowe-" Jaune began before the bald guy immediately shot at Jaune, aiming for his head.
He didn't care for his aim; Jaune noted when he felt Jason's blood on his skin.
"Oh, great. You don't care about eachother." Jaune said as he threw the corpse at the 3, who moved out of the way, giving Jaune the chance to descend upon the guy with a ranged weapon.
Jaune immediately cut off his hand, getting a loud scream from him.
"Maybe you should think about getting something called aura for the future." Jaune said, before bashing the man in the face with the hilt of his sword, breaking his sunglasses and knocking him out.
Hopefully the pieces didn't lodge in his eyes…
Or he didn't bleed out…
He would've killed him, but he was pretty sure this guy was going to make sure he never faced him again, lest he lose another limb.
Or try and take revenge.
Eh, Jaune will get entertainment with the latter.
The 2 ninja type people immediately attacked with a side slash from both sides.
Jaune deflected one with his shield and the other with his sword, before swiftly moving to cut off the arm of the one he deflected with his shield.
As the man stumbled back, giving his own scream, the other ninja threw some ninja stars at him.
Jaune turned his back on the screaming male, ramming his elbow into his face to knock him out, as he blocked with his shield.
He then held his shield to his side and threw it at the ninja, who immediately dodged the fast projectile, only for it to bounce off the walls and hit the back of his head.
Jaune looked around at the damage he caused, before sighing.
"Better start at least patching these guys up for the authorities to pick them up. I don't think I need more names on my body count." Jaune said as he ripped Jason's shirt to wrap around whatever limbs were loss.
As he went to pick up his shield, he noticed something strange about the one who got knocked out by his shield.
Most notably, it wasn't a guy all along, it was a girl.
How typical that the one person who didn't get killed or crippled of the 4 was the one who had female assets.
That being said, she was probably the guy he … disarmed's… sister.
Oh well, he was subconsciously chivalrous, go figure.
Jaune got his stuff together before heading down the stairs to where Roman was.
He didn't even bother to try and call authorities, he was sure that some person will be walking by, just like he did, and find 4 bodies.
Jaune walked down the stairs only to be shown the sight of Roman carrying a box of what was probably the dust they were stealing.
"Ah, hey, kid. You being here means that you probably beat my men." Roman said as if he was talking about the weather.
"One of them was a girl actually." Jaune informed him.
"What? Really? You think I'd notice, but eh, too many to care about." Roman admitted as Jaune immediately got into a battle stance.
"Oh, you still want to fight me? Gosh, kid, don't you know how many hunters and huntresses I've killed?" Roman asked.
"Let me count the fucks I give." Jaune said, before mockingly looking around.
"One… two… thr- Oh, they flew away." Jaune said as Roman laughed.
"You got some humor in you, boy, too bad it looks like I'm going to have to rip it out of you." Roman said, before he snapped his fingers.
And like a bunch of wolves coming to the aid of their alpha, a bunch of people came from the entrance he came through to surround Jaune.
"What? How'd you gather so many so fast? How'd they even hear you?" Jaune asked as Roman continued to laugh.
"I'm a criminal mastermind. I'm prepared for anything, even little kids who seem to want to play the hero. All it takes is one call for some assistance." Roman said, before ordering some men to get the dust.
"You all, start getting the dust, make sure no one else comes here, persuade any people who try to come to this area that we are doing some maintenance. I'm going back to my room to get myself some room service." Roman said as he moved past Jaune to walk up the stairs.
"Goddamnit, get out of my way!" Jaune yelled as he began to engage the group of people, having not cared about who lives and who dies as he cut a path to Roman.
"Oh and here's a little consolation prize for your attempt to stop me." Roman said as he threw the box of dust he had towards Jaune, who immediately moved away from it, only for Roman to blast it with his cane, causing it to explode and engulf Jaune and some of his minions.
"Toodleoo~" Roman said as he exited, while Jaune was blasted away by the explosion.
As Jaune was trying to regain his senses, some of the minions had immediately tried to kill him, attempting to stab him, slice him, shoot him or even blow him up again.
They didn't seem to care that Roman had just blew up some of their comrades.
As Jaune reinforced his aura to try and defend himself, he couldn't help but wonder.
"Gee, I wonder what everyone else is doing back at school." Jaune thought.
Meanwhile with Ruby
"He's the best guy in the entire school! If you don't make a move now, you may never get another chance, before Weiss completely takes him!" Ruby said, as Blake read her book.
"Um… actually, it sounds like you're really into him. Are you sure you don't want to make a move on him?" Blake said dully as she tried to focus on her book.
"No! You've actually been into him for years! I could never stand in the way of your happiness…" Ruby said.
"Actually, I only knew him for as long as you did, he set fire to walls and slept under rocks the first time I met him. He was only ever a "Maybe" for me. Are you sure you're not projecting a little?" Blake explained before asking.
"Okay, Blake, if it's for my most bestest friend, I guess I have no choice. I'll stand aside, and give you a chance at happiness with Jaune." Ruby sighed dramatically.
"Um, okay…" Blake said, as she resumed reading her book.
Back with Jaune
Jaune had made easy work of what was basically a mob of minions.
"Phew, sure wish someone was here to see all that, besides you, Morgan." Jaune said as he sat upon a pile of bodies, save for one guy who he decided to keep sane and alive.
"Yeah, I really bet that would've been awesome to see." The guy said as he slowly moved away.
"Oh, by the way, where's your boss?" Jaune asked.
"He probably left while you were beating all of us up. Especially since we got more than enough dust for what we wanted." The guy answered as Jaune blinked.
"Oh, shoot, I was here for a reason." Jaune said as he immediately dashed out, only to be face to face with some cops.
"Goddamnit!" He yelled.
They all turned to face him.
"I plead the fifth." Jaune said tonelessly as a cop came to ask him some questions.
With Roman
"Ah, it feels good to be a gangster." Roman said as he sat on a private plane heading back to Vale.
The little heist was a success.
The resort had enough dust to power an army full of robots.
They were using it to make people feel better?
What a laugh, even if it's for money.
That being said, he had gathered enough dust and then some to bring back to Cinder.
He could've gotten more, but he was losing men and someone had called the police.
He was lucky to have even gotten enough to please Cinder.
"Who was that boy anyways?" Roman thought.
"I felt like I've seen him somewhere…" Roman began to think about it for a few minutes before his scroll got a text message.
"I heard you went on vacation without me. I trashed your place.- Neo" It read.
Roman sighed.
He hated kids.
Line Break
"So yes, I am aware that this is the 3rd time I have been conveniently involved with a large scale crime like this and unable to stop it, but that doesn't mean that I'm an accomplice." Jaune said as the cop nodded.
"Well, your story checks out. The piles of bodies sure helped your case, so I guess you're free to go." The cop said as Jaune left the interrogation room.
"Goddamn, I didn't get my ass kicked this time, but why am I always into some type of trouble when I'm outside of school and near a member of RWBY?" Jaune said to himself as he checked the time.
"And it's only 7…" Jaune noticed. "2 hours, before I have to tell Weiss that I didn't get any reservations."
He was then stopped by an official looking man who was holding a briefcase.
"Ah, Mr. Arc?" The man asked as Jaune looked at him.
"Yes? I just answered all of your questions that you can have with the interrogator. Do I need to give in a written transcript or something?" Jaune asked annoyed as the man chuckled a bit, before shaking his head.
"No, I am a representative of the resort you were recently in." He said, as Jaune narrowed his eyes.
"Am I being sued?" He asked skeptically.
"No, if anything, we're giving you money." The man said.
"Oh, why is that?" Jaune asked, not really trusting the man.
"My boss has decided that despite you not being able to save all of the dust we had stocked up, you did manage to delay Roman and save enough to last a year. During which, we will be able to get all of our supplies back. Without your help, we would have had to shut the place down." The man said as he opened up the briefcase.
"As a token of our gratitude, we would like to give you a large sum of money and you will be able to come here any time for a discount, not to mention we will always reserve something that it is within our ownership for you." The man said as Jaune blinked.
How convenient.
"Alright, I accept your offers and I thank you. Do I get a refund on the room I purchased?" Jaune asked.
"No. That is not within our gratitude." The man said as Jaune shrugged.
"Worth a try… so tell me, what's your most expensive restaurant?" Jaune asked as he checked out the lien in front of him.
9:00 PM
"Yeah, I don't think he'll be able to afford for the 2 of us, so I am bringing money just in case." Weiss said to Pyrrha.
"Yeah, that's how he is alright. Who would've guessed Jaune would've been the chivalrous type?" Pyrrha said with a giggle.
Weiss and Pyrrha had just come back from enjoying the spa and were now heading back to their rooms.
Pyrrha was a few doors down from them, but it wasn't too far.
Weiss opened her door to be met with an immediate hug.
"There you are! Here I thought you were going to replace me with Pyrrha." Jaune said as he held her close.
"Ah, Jaune, you're ready already?" Weiss asked as she hugged back.
He smelled nice.
He must've just come out of the shower.
"Of course, I made a promise and I plan to keep it." He said as Weiss smiled.
"Thank you, Jaune. Tomorrow, I promise to spend some time with you." She said as Jaune slowly moved his hands down her body.
Weiss's mind immediately went through every reason as to why Jaune was doing that, causing her to blush.
"J-jaune! What are you doing?!" She asked loudly.
She wasn't ready for this much of advancement in their relationship.
"Getting this." Jaune said, as he managed to get her lien purse.
"A-ah?" Weiss asked, as she stared at it.
"I'm paying tonight; we're going to… uh…" Jaune said, trying to remember what that man said.
"A very nice place to eat." Jaune said as Weiss slowly calmed down.
"Ah, good. Let me get dressed first!" Weiss said as she moved to unpack and get dressed.
Jaune was going to watch her change, before Weiss kicked him out, telling him to wait outside until she was ready.
Jaune sulked.
When Weiss was finally finished, she came out wearing an elegant white dress, one that really screamed out "princess" for her.
Jaune could only smile.
"What came across your mind to pack that for a vacation?" Jaune asked as Weiss huffed.
"I do need to look respectable in case we did something that requires me to be so." Weiss said, as Jaune shrugged, merely linking his arms with hers.
"Then let us go m'lady." Jaune said a bit teasingly, as the 2 walked towards where Jaune had decided to take her.
At the restaurant
"Are you sure it was a good idea for me to leave my money back at our place, Jaune? A Hors d'Oeuvre is enough to buy you a new set of clothes alone here." Weiss asked nervously as Jaune nodded.
"Get anything you want on here. I know I am and I know that I'm not going to be cheap in spoiling my Ice princess." Jaune said with a grin, before looking back at his menu.
"Horse do what?" He thought as he scanned the menu for something that sounded like his type of food.
The waiter came up and Jaune had to order his food first to show Weiss that he was able to pay for everything.
"Ah, yes, I would like the… Shimizu Tea to drink… The Hundred Leaf Clover Crispy Fried Sesame Tofu with… Consomme Stew… Emerald Sardine… Easter Lettuce Caesar Salad… Whitening Tuna… Cinderella beef and the Rainbow Fruit Pudding, if you mind?" Jaune said, making sure to get something for an entire full course meal, even though he didn't know what he just ordered, besides the basic "This is beef and this is a fish."
Weiss blinked, as she stared at him.
"You do know you could've bought a new laptop with the money you just spent, right?" Weiss asked.
Jaune shrugged.
"You wouldn't buy what you wanted unless I showed you I can and will pay for you." Jaune said, as Weiss smiled.
"Thank you, Jaune." She said as the waiter… waited.
"I will say that your choices were strange to say the least. Did you just choose the most expensive dishes from each part of the full course? You also forgot the main course. It doesn't matter, waiter, I'd like …" She began ordering as Jaune sighed.
"Poor chef. I'm not even sure if they can make what she asked for that specifically." Jaune thought.
Phew.
That was actually a pretty rushed chapter.
I had to kick Jaune out of school, get him on a plane, get him to deal with Torchwick, etc. etc. etc.
And that's only the 1st day of the vacation.
I also like how some of you spotted the references in the last chapter.
Wonder if you can find some in here?
Also, just to clarify.
Cinder doesn't have some desire and lustful thoughts for Ozpin.
It was meant to seem that way, but in reality, she was just really hungering for the day to kill him.
Such a large target.
Such a person to topple.
A person to crush.
The thought of doing such a thing to Ozpin was… delicious.
Idk.
Tell me what you guys think about this chapter, because even I don't know how I feel.
I'm pretty sure the timeline is pretty screwed up.
What happened with Yang and Jaune Part 1
Jaune was offered to go out with Yang one day.
He was immediately skeptical, because not only would he be alone with Yang for wherever she was taking him, but she had only offered him in front of everyone.
"Come onnnnnn, Sunshine." Yang whined, clinging to his leg.
"No, I don't trust you." Jaune said as he dragged his one leg with Yang on him.
"But I neeeeeed you." Yang continued.
"That's exactly what makes me suspicious. Why me specifically?" Jaune asked.
"Because, anyone else would be borinnnnnng." Yang continued to whine as Jaune sighed.
"Where are we even going?" Jaune asked, causing Yang to grin.
"A love motel~!" Yang said as Jaune stared at her.
"You have to buy me dinner first." Jaune said dryly, before Yang shook her head.
"Not for THAT! I need you to go with me so it won't be suspicious." Yang said.
"Suspicious? 2 underaged teenagers going to a love motel is ALREADY "suspicious" to the cops." Jaune said as Yang shrugged.
"How can they tell we're not already 18?" Yang asked, before pumping out her chest to emphasize that no cop will believe she's younger than 18.
"…riiiight… Why do you even need to go to a love motel?" Jaune asked as Yang grinned.
"Because I know a bar that has 2 very annoying girls that I'd love to snipe with anything that will annoy them. It just so happens that a love motel has a perfect set up for me to do so, not to mention it's the only one that is tall enough and easy to get in without having to go through a long process of identification." Yang explained, causing Jaune to sigh.
"What do I get out of this?" Jaune asked, as Yang got up, grinning evilly, as she held Jaune's arms against her breasts.
"If you come with me to a love motel, I'll make it worth your tiiiime~" Yang teased as Jaune flicked her head.
"I'm pretty used to your tricks to know that all I'll be getting is disappointment and shame for believing you." The blonde said with experience.
"Boo, you're no fun. Fine, how about I'll do what you say for a week?" Yang offered as she rubber where he flicked.
"Anything?" Jaune asked.
"You can ask me to strip, murder and even destroy something. I won't care." Yang said.
"Probably because you know I wouldn't make you do anything drastic." Jaune said dryly.
"Boo, you're no fun. So are you in it or not?" Yang asked.
Jaune sighed.
He just wanted to sleep.
"Fine, let's go to a love motel." Jaune said as Yang cheered.
"Yay. Now I'm going to need you to carry a bag of things for me and practice telling me how much you love me and can't wait to have some fun with my body ton-" Yang began before Jaune cut her off.
"Don't make me change my mind…" Jaune said, not really having the mentality to do anything today.
"Fiiiine~!" Yang said with a bit of a pout.
Jaune was going to wonder why he ever thought this was a good idea.