Chapter 23: "Judgement Day" Pt. 2
Hello everybody! I see that quite a few of you were upset by the list I posted in the last chapter. I do apologize for that. Also, for those who are requesting extra scenes from Terminator 2, commenting how some scenes were cut, or complaining about the character placements: I didn't have anything to do with the creation of this crossover, only the reactions and editing that the author had agreed to. I will say this again: Lukepace414 was the one who made the crossover. I believe I have already established that in the beginning of last chapter and the end of chapter 21. Lastly, and not to be a dick or anything, but has no one seen Terminator 2 yet? Why do I keep having people telling me in reviews and PM's that Jaune's the villain here? Jack took out a blue orb, not a red one. The audience saw him take it, which also helps explain why they didn't question if Jaune was the evil time traveler (but since the other was Cardin, that was a sucker's bet from the beginning).
Now, onto the reviews.
Multiverse walker: Well, Jaune is naked for a good portion of his entrance and has Arnold's body and deep voice. This is also the first time they've seen a naked Jaune with no prior warning, I think overreactions are a must for this.
Keybladelight: I could've given Jaune a Vader mask, but then I would've had to figure out how he gets so injured in the first place. Anakin had to don his mask because his lungs were damaged by all the ash he inhaled as well as him getting lit up like a piece of firewood. Jaune and Oz's fight was over a lake of Grimm sludge, not lava; and I couldn't think of a practical reason for Salem to have one. Lighting? She has those gigantic crystals for that. Intimidation? For whom, barely anyone knows where she is aside from her minions and her land is terrifying enough with the Grimm. Just because? Lazy, and she doesn't really strike me as a person who has flights of fancies anyway. Even if Jaune were to fall, he'd just die after a couple seconds; Salem only survived because her curse protected her (there will be instances where members of the Clan will have glowing red eyes with black backgrounds but that's more an indicator that they share Salem's corrupted blood [she did fall into a substance made by a dark god, there will be consequences for that]). There's also the fact that his grandpa, Jacob, got his own injuries healed earlier by one of Jaune's sisters. It's implied who that person was, and thus who she replaced in Bleach, as Jacob thought of how her powers may be similar to Jaune's (as in she uses spirit energy as well). If she could take away Jacob's injuries (and who else in Bleach can "heal" such horrible wounds so quickly?), then whatever Jaune would've gotten from Oz would've been "healed" as well. However, let's say we ignore all of that, and his lungs do get damaged without falling into a dangerous substance with no one to heal him later. Well, he still has his Aura, which was left largely intact due to how little he used in his fight (mainly using Reiatsu), and his Semblance to give him a necessary power boost just in case he doesn't have enough Aura. I'm sorry that you didn't like the change, but whenever I tried writing a scene explaining him getting a mask, it just wouldn't make sense and raise unnecessary questions. Any way I saw it, Jaune just couldn't get injured enough to require a breathing apparatus. He would either be healed by the same person who healed Jacob, his own massive Aura reserves and helpful Semblance, or he'd just be killed by the fatal blow (a smash to the ribs since Oz doesn't have a slashing weapon to begin with) or fall.
guillermocejas767: I had gotten requests for the Mandalorian before, and the transcripts have finally gotten out for the public (I don't have Disney+). However, due to how barebones it is, I'll only do the first episode to get the feel for it. So forgive me if it's a shitty version.
Aravas: Thank you. I never really liked the Hangover movies all that much. I mean, I can understand why they're so popular, it's just not my personal cup of tea.
Shadowhacked: Prototype was sadly one of the dearly deleted. If I ever get back to it, I'll only be doing the trailer for now, but I've seen that and played the game, it doesn't hold up the same as the game in my opinion.
helioskrill2088: A lot of people have already made reaction stories for his work. One author has an entire section of the multiverse of Jaune Arcs as Kamen Riders actually: "The Chronicle Theatre Feat Jaune Arc" by 12interestingname34. As a service to the author, I'll not spoil it by listing which chapters have Jaune as a Kamen Rider. Trust me, it's an interesting story with its own worldbuilding to it, you should give it a shot.
animecollecter: Yes, practically everything was lost. In fact, the only reason why I can say for certainty that dmc5 was one of them is because I can vaguely remember working on it (the game's very distinct), and it's not on my recovered works. I could try with the trailer, it is pretty badass, plus it could give Yang some ideas of how to try the devil arm gift she got once they return home.
The Black Wolf of the Arks: Way ahead of you :)
StarFOX1017: Funny you should mention that, Star Trek's actually coming after this movie is over. But it's not the whole thing, just the first scenes by another author that graciously volunteered to help me.
warrior of six blades: Glad you liked it. I'm already in the works on making a Halo Reach reaction. It's not finished yet, not even close, but I already have most of the cast raring to go.
Dax379: My first draft had Jaune play Thanos actually. A ton of people did not like it though when I mentioned it. So instead I had him be Tony Stark. Both as a way to have him as anther good guy, and as revenge for the people telling me it was a bad idea to have him be Thanos (I'm gonna make the scenes with his family so sweet and kind, that the last snap would be even more devastating!). I'm sure everyone will be surprised who I'm replacing Pepper with (it's not Weiss anymore, thank you crash).
Wolfang21: Happy to see you enjoyed yourself. I'm not making any changes since I'm not the one who wrote it, sorry. Stargate is a couple chapters away actually. It, along with SG1 and Atlantis, is going to be the future of the RWBY universe in my story. If you go back to the prophecy I made awhile back, you'll notice a few choice words that hints to what I've had planned (even what Raven said at the end of 'Revenge of the Arcs' is a hint). It's not just going to be a possible future scenario, it's Jaune's actual future. One which would've happened if the audience didn't arrive at the Nexus, and one where almost ALL future scenarios will eventually lead towards. Oh, Death Battle's still a thing, it's just Twisted Metal that's cancelled.
Roktoof: Well Jaune's got Arnold Schwarzenegger's sculpted body, so he actually is a goddamn hunk.
BlackPhantom247: It's not a matter of when they discover the Nexus, but more of them bothering to put any care into finding it. The Chaos Gods have mostly focused on their own powerplays against each other for control over the Warp to ever truly focus their attention on their own galaxy (beyond a couple incursions, they let their minions/champions do the work). They wouldn't find the Nexus because they aren't actively searching for it, but once they sense they're being watched by beings outside their own spacetime that will immediately change. The area is also shielded by other deities in order to keep the Nexus safe from harm, but the Chaos Gods are crafty as hell, they'll eventually get what they want. It's like the Ori from SG1: they are powerful beings, so why didn't they know that humans were in the Milky Way before Jackson arrived? One: they didn't know so they never looked, and Two: the Ancients had shielded their vision.
Mister101: That was something I had planned to do, even had the reimagined version by The Confession Dial ( watch?v=EtM_vcCoKYc for reference), but that was lost as well. Ozma was the first doctor, with all his reincarnations we've seen so far as the others and some OC's to fill in the blanks. Ozpin was the War Doctor, Oscar the one after that, Jaune as 10th or 11th, and Ruby as the latest Doctor. I had such high hopes T-T
Hecseferblade: Anything Anime-related? "Acchi Kochi", "SAO Abridged" and "Miss Kobayashi" is my answer.
X3runner: Hmm, I do like the idea of Whitley having a crush on a Faunus. Should be funny as you said, plus it would show that not all of Jacques is rubbed off on him. Eve's children as human huh? I can see that happening. After all, Jaune isn't a Faunus, nor his sisters or nephew despite having a Faunus grandma and mother (going to be explained later on in the story). Already ahead of you, got a Cloud Storage account installed as soon as I got my new computer.
Argus456: Ooh, hadn't thought of using the album like that, thanks!
WearyCurmudgeon: Thank you for the support, I do appreciate it, and my condolences for your loss. I was planning on having a Terminator-esc future with the beginning of Genesis, where after Cinder's hacking of Penny went wrong and she becomes extremely aggressive towards Pyrrha during their fight, 'terminating' the spartan and then escaping custody. Later going over to the central computer systems in the Atlas flagship to infect the rest of the droid army and taking over the fleet to decimate Vale. The Grimm would attack due to the fear, and in a classic domino effect, culminates in a Terminator future. But the damn crash ruined that. Instead I want to do iRobot to have James and Winter see that a central computer core connecting to every droid is not such a great idea (the NS5's were connected to a central core, and was the direct cause for the battle; but the NS4's weren't, and thus weren't taken over). Regarding everyone figuring out Finch's true father, well they were convinced by Whitley's words that Jaune was the father. And you can't really blame him for that, he was sent to the Nexus very recently and was told by Jack that the multiverse was based around Jaune. With this information in hand the kid made a theory, which no one denied (*Cough* Jack), and the others accepted it. So his theory, while false, was the reason why no one questioned the name. Plus, many who know her could tell that Winter hates Qrow, why would they even think that she would go for the man that pisses her off like no one else (even if it's a different version)? As for Independence Day, I'm still working on it, although I'm thinking of making it into a future scenario with that gigantic Grimm whale attacking Atlas instead of alien invasion (with ID2 ships [I'm also having the sequel be a future scenario]). It's still just an idea, and the technology shown by Humanity in ID2 will be placed in earlier works to expand on worldbuilding going forward (after all, Earth in Stargate had at least some experience with space travel before Naquadah, while Remnant just wouldn't have any thanks to the limitations of Dust).
Thank you all for your continued support, it really warms my heart. Now with that out of the way, on to the story!
Disclaimer in the prologue.
Finch gets in an "Afterburner" simulator game.
The cop is pointed toward the arcade by some kids hanging out at the multi-cinema. He walks into the maze of kids engaged in synthesized combat. Cheap electronic effects blare above the crowd noise.
Finch is shooting down MiG's at Mach 2. His friend Helios slides up next to him. Taps him on the shoulder, trying to play it cool.
"Some cop is scoping for you, dude." Helios said.
Roman and Neo nodded at the boy, knowing how useful a lookout could be. The students simply smile at the kid warning Finch.
Maria just smiles sadly, wishing she had someone she could trust to watch her back when… She bows her head and sighs at the painful memory.
Klein sees this and takes her hand and gently caresses it. She blushes a bit when she looks up and sees him give a small assuring smile. She smiles back and leans in to kiss his cheek as thanks. After that she looks back to the screen, happy to have him by her side. If she looked back, she'd have noticed the deep blush adorning his cheeks, and the wide smile on his lips.
Finch looks around the corner of the "Afterburner" ride. Sees the cop showing a picture to some of the kids. The kids point his way. Finch ducks just as the cop glances over. He slinks out the other side of the ride and heads for the back of the store, instinctively retreating. Winter has taught him that cops are bad news.
Those who knew her, and her unwavering fealty in authority, gaped at this.
Winter on the other hand, felt that in any other circumstance she'd be offended at her other for teaching their son this awful lesson, but given how that Terminator had so easily looked up Finch using a police computer, she had to give her other this.
Cardin scans the crowded arcade. Glimpses Finch, looking back as he moves around a row of machines, and starts moving toward him. The cop is shoving through clots of kids. One of them is slammed to the floor.
Velvet and both Blakes glared at the racist bully.
The adults frowned at the Terminator pushing those little children around. The parents were pissed, picturing it was their children being pushed aside, while the teachers wanted to teach the machine a lesson for any potential harm towards the little ones.
Finch sprints through the arcade's back officer and storerooms. Finch emerges through a fire-door into a long corridor with connects to the parking garage. He's running full out, when around the corner ahead of him comes Jaune (Nora: "Jaune to the rescue!"). Time stretches to nightmarish crawl as Finch tries to brake to a stop. Jaune reaches into the box of roses.
In slow-motion, the cold black steel of the shotgun emerges at the box falls open, the roses spilling to the floor. Jaune's boot crushes the flowers as he moves forward.
"Wait what's he doing?" Blake asks in horror as the scene slows down and the gun is revealed.
Winter begins to hyperventilate as her family tries to calm her down.
Finch, transfixed by terror, is trapped in the narrow featureless shooting gallery of the corridor. The shotgun comes up. Jaune expressionlessly strides forward. Jacks a round into the chamber, slow and fluid.
Winter immediately gets up from her seat as she sees Jaune holding a shotgun in his hands, wanting to go over there to protect her son, but her sister holds her back with her Semblance while her mother and brother tried to reason with her.
Everyone else are trying to make sense of what's happening. Isn't Jaune Finch's protector?!
Finch looks behind him for a place to run. Sees the cop coming toward him, pulling his Beretta pistol. Incredibly, Finch realizes the cop is aiming his gun at him! Finch looks back at Jaune. He is starting into the black muzzle of the 10-gauge now. Aimed right at his head. He realizes he's screwed. Then something crazy happens...
Jaune calmly and with authority, simply tells Finch, "Get down."
They all blink in confusion.
Finch instinctively ducks. Jaune pulls the trigger. KABOOM! Cardin catches the shotgun's blast square in the chest just as he fires the pistol. The pistol's shot goes wild.
Ruby gasps, "He wasn't going to kill him!"
Nora looks at the screen with a proud smile, "I didn't doubt him for a minute!"
Winter sighed in relief, same with Saphron and Terra.
Jaune grabs Finch roughly by his jacket. Clutches the kid to his chest then spins around at the cop opens fire with the Beretta.
The "cop", who not only isn't a cop, he clearly isn't even human, pulls the trigger so fast it almost seems like a machine-pistol.
On Jaune's back, as the 9mm slugs slam into it, punching bloody holes in the motorcycle jacket.
"Jaune!" No one could tell who shouted that.
His older children flinched, while Adrian and Alice whimpered at seeing Jaune get 'hurt'.
Finch is bug-eyed with fear, but completely unscratched. Jaune's body has blocked the bullets.
The humans are horrified at the number of bullet holes shown on his back, though the Faunus did note how each impact on his back resulted in a small clank for some reason. 'Maybe he's wearing body armor?'
Penny hums, also noticing the sounds of the impacts, and nods. 'I knew it.'
The Beretta clacks empty. Jaune turns at the sound and shoves Finch into a room. Jaune turns around and takes multiple bullets, earning screams from his loved ones, before he pumps another round into Cardin. Then another. And another. Advancing a step each time he fires, he empties the shotgun into Cardin, blowing his backward down the corridor. The sound is deafening.
Then silence.
"Is, Is he dead?" Nora asks.
No one could answer her, but surely that many shots from a shotgun would be enough to at least damage the Terminator.
Jaune is now standing right over Cardin, reloading the shotgun. He and Finch, who is peeking out from the room, watch as Cardin, incredibly, heals its wounds instantly, sits up unharmed and gets to his feet.
"What the fuck was that?!" Maria shouts as they all watch Cardin healing from his wounds without even a scratch.
Glynda glares at the woman for her language as she takes her hands off her daughter's ears.
"What kind of machine is he?" Penny asks in wonder, wanting to know just how advanced this model was. And worried for Jaune, believing him to be an inferior design since he hasn't healed like Cardin has yet.
Everyone was terrified at this, not even Watts could marvel at the advanced healing the Terminator had.
Cardin then grabs the gun and struggles with Jaune for a brief moment. They appraise each other for a second.
Penny gulps, "Jaune's not going to win."
Nora looks back to the girl with narrowed eyes. "Of course he's gonna win, Jaune's better than that thing." But Penny just shakes her head.
"Penny's right." Blake whispers, with only the other Faunus able to hear her.
Kali and Ghira glanced at each other in worry.
Cardin and Jaune size each other up. Jaune moves first. He grabs Cardin in his massive hands but Cardin snaps back with a counter-grip. After about two seconds of intense slamming, the walls on both sides of the corridor have all the plaster smashed in, and the two battling machines have blasted through the wall and disappeared.
Finch, totally stunned by all this, remembers to move. He leaves the room and stumble-runs toward the parking garage.
"Get out of there." Winter whispers "While Jaune's distracting him, run Finch."
A plate glass window explodes and Jaune crashes through to the tile floor like a sack of cement amid the screaming crowd as if he became unconscious from the quick fight.
Nora pouts. She always wanted to do that with Magnihild, but Ren always stopped her attempts. "We shouldn't break private property." He always says. "It's wrong." He says. 'It's not fair, Jaune gets to do it, why can't I?' She mentally whines.
Her father had a similar face, his wife Frigga had always stopped him from having fun with wanton public destruction. "How else can anyone tell I'm a badass?" He would always ask, but Frigga would always tell him that destroying other people's things wasn't the way to go.
Cardin turns without a word and heads back through the store after Finch, accelerating slowly into a loping, predatory run.
Jaune is totally still. A Japanese tourist who look suspiciously like Ren's Parents cautiously steps forward and takes a picture of the body (Ren: "Wait what?"). Jaune sits up and looks around, trying to get his bearings. He rises smoothly to his feet. All servos seem to be working fine. The tourist's camera whirs as the motor-drive runs on by itself, taking shot after shot. The owner isn't even looking through the eyepiece, he's so shocked.
Coco waves her hands in a 'Hurry up' motion. "That's it Arc. Get up off your lazy toned ass and get back to the chase!"
A few blushed at the reminder.
Finch is frantically pumping the kick-start of his bike, scared shitless and the damned thing won't start. His hands are shaking so badly he can't find the choke. He looks up to see Cardin running down the corridor toward him.
Finch fumbles with the choke. The bike catches. He slams it in gear and spins the bike out into the main aisle of the garage.
Finch looks back... Cardin is behind him, running.
Winter is nervously biting her lips, while Yang's cursing the bike to start up already.
He twists the throttle and guns the little bike forward. Incredibly, Cardin is gaining. This nightmare isn't happening. Finch races out the exit ramp, and charges right into the street. Finch shoots into the busy traffic. Cuts off a big-rig tow truck. The driver swears. Hits his air horn. What the driver doesn't see is the cop, running faster than O.J. Simpson at the airport, who emerges onto the street and runs back at his truck.
Ruby, Yang, Velvet, Coco, Nora, and Blake laughed at the impact. Sure, they knew the impact probably didn't kill him, but seeing the racist get hit by a truck was still funny to watch for the students. Especially the Faunus.
Even the teachers couldn't help but chuckle.
The driver hears a thump as something slams against his door, then feels himself pulled right out. Cardin slides in and takes his place (Blake: "Damn."). The truck is still rolling along about 25 mph. Cardin accelerates after Finch without missing a beat. It can see him, up ahead, weaving through traffic.
The laughing stops as the realization that Cardin now has a huge truck to run Finch down with quickly sets in.
"Petal to the metal, kid!" Maria yells at Finch as Yang shouts "Go faster, you piece of shit!" to the bike, earning a few glares from Glynda and Terra. Especially when their children started shouting "Shit!" as they giggled at the faces their mammas were making.
Out of the garage entrance, Jaune roars onto the street on the Harley. He accelerates after the others.
"Come on Jaune." Saphron whispers, praying that he's fast enough to catch them.
Finch slides his bike down the service ramp faster than he's ever done it before. He races along the bottom of the canal, turning into a narrower tributary which has vertical sides. He looks back. No sign of pursuit. He slows his bike down to a stop to make sure that he wasn't pursued still.
"Don't just stop you idiot!" Many in the audience shout at the stupid move Finch is making.
Suddenly he sees the sun blocked out by a great shadow. The Kenworth tow-truck... big as a house, all chrome and roaring diesel engine... crashes through the fence and launches itself right into the center of the canal. It crashes down, 15 feet to the ground, going about 60, hits at an angle and tears into the concrete wall with a hideous grinding of metal. It ricochets back and forth between the walls then, bellowing like a gunshot stegosaurus, it just keeps on plowing forward, gathering speed.
The grating of metal caused every Faunus to flinch, Alice crying out a bit from the pain as Glynda tries to calm her down.
Winter damn near had a heart attack from the jump scare and is breathing a bit erratically as she sees the Terminator gaining on her son, who's still hasn't moved yet!
Finch looks back and sees this wall of metal almost filling the narrow concrete canal and he milks every last bit of throttle the little bike has. The Kenworth is all muscle, tearing along the canal like a train in a tunnel. Its big tires send up huge sheets of muddy spray, backlit in the setting sun. It looks like some kind of demon. And it's gaining.
"Where are you, Jaune?" Pyrrha asks as her friends are praying for him to make it in time.
Above them, on the service road running parallel, Jaune is fighting to overtake them. He looks down and sees Finch with the tow-truck from Hell catching up to him. It is only about twenty feet behind him and still gaining. Jaune seeing this, pumps his shotgun and fires it at the truck, he then reloads it with one hand and fires again.
Finch hits some water and slews momentarily, loosing speed. The massive push-plate on the front of the truck slams into his back fender. Panicked, he pulls a little ahead, and all of this is happening at about sixty miles an hour. Top speed for the little dirt bike.
Mercury leans back in his seat, "Whelp, he's dead."
Winter glares harshly at him and growls "Shut your mouth, you greasy haired troll!" Earning an indignant "Greasy?!" and snickers from Emerald. The angry mother continues, "My son will make it, Mr. Arc will not allow him to come to harm." While admittedly, she may be putting a bit too much faith in Jaune, it's not like she has any other option.
"Goodness gracious." Klein mutters as he places a hand over his heart and stares wide-eyed at one of the children he'd raised like one of his own.
Maria on the other hand nods and places a hand over Klein's free one. "Now, now, that's just a caring mother in distraught." She leans over to whisper in his ears, causing him to stiffen his spine, "Wouldn't you want a certain someone to have a similar disposition?"
It took a moment for him to realize what she meant. When he did, he blushed heavily as he gently grasped Maria's hand. Not saying a word, he just nods.(1)
Jaune cuts the bike suddenly hard to the left, leaving the road. Slow-motion as Jaune, with the 700- pound Harley, sails out into space and drops into the canal. It arcs down between the truck and Finch, hitting on its wheels. It bottoms out, an explosion of sparks under the frame. Only the ultra-fast reflexes of a machine could keep the bike upright. Jaune fights for control and accelerates past the truck in the canal below.
"That was awesome!" Yang, Chibi-Blake, and Nora shouts, grinning ear to ear at Jaune's badass move. Their friends were celebrating as well, aware that Jaune's now right there to assist.
Kali snickered at the children's boasting and cooed at her Chibi daughter's starry-eyed gaze.
Saphron, on the other hand, was hyperventilating a bit at seeing her baby brother's incredibly stupid and dangerous stunt play out.
Glynda placed a hand over her chest in an attempt to calm her beating heart. "Are you insane?!" She shouts as Alice laughs at her papa's cool entrance.
"Again! Again!" the little girl claps her hands as she laughs, much to her momma's horror.
He guns the throttle and the powerful bike roars up beside Finch's tiny Honda. Jaune sweeps the kid off his machine with one arm and swings him onto the Harley, in front of him. Finch's Honda weaves and falls, smashing instantly under thundering tires (Yang: "Good riddance!"). The Harley roars ahead as it hits eighty. Ahead is an overpass, and supporting it is an abutment which bisects the canal into two channels. The Harley thunders into one channel, which is essentially a short tunnel.
Jaune reloads his shot gun once more and fires at the trucks front wheel. Cardin fights for control however the truck can't fit on either side of the canal and neither can it stop, at that speed. Tires locked, it slides on the muddy concrete and piles into the concrete abutment at seventy. Gas spills out and a simple spark ignites it causing a massive explosion.
The heroes, and most of the villains, all cheered at Jaune's victory. Surely, machine or not, Cardin couldn't have survived that explosion. (2) Although the heroes were a bit worried that the two had been caught in the blast as well.
Jaune and Finch emerge from the tunnel, looking back to see a fireball blasting through behind them as the truck's side-tanks explode. Jaune stops the Harley and Finch peers around his body to see the destruction. They hear a sound and Jaune reloads and aims in 2 seconds, waiting for Cardin to walk out. Instead a burning wheel wobbles out of the tunnel and flops in the mud. Easing themselves, Jaune revs the bike and they roar away, down the canal, disappearing around a bend.
Winter sighed in relief, knowing that her son was now safe in Jaune's hands. 'Jaune's strong, muscular hands.' She blushed a bit, picturing herself in those strong arms instead of her son and felt herself swoon a bit. 'Damn drunk, Finch should've been yours Jaune.'
Focusing on the fire, as a column of black smoke rises from the overpass. Smoke boils from the tunnel as well, and inside it is a solid wall of flame. A figure appears in the fire. Just an outline. Walking slowly... calmly. The figure emerges from the flames. It is human-shaped but far from human. A smooth chrome man. Not a metallic skeleton like the other Terminators, with its complex hydraulics and cables... this thing is a featureless, liquid chrome surface, bending seamlessly at knees and elbows as it walks. It reminds us of mercury. A mercury man. Its face is simple, unformed. Unruffled by thousand-degree heat, it walks toward us.
With each step detail returns. First the shape and lines of its clothing emerge from the liquid chrome surface, then finer details... buttons, facial features, ears, But it's still al chrome. With its last step, the color returns to everything. It is the cop again... handsome young face, burnt orange hair, indigo eyes. It stops and looks around.
It is a perfect chameleon. A liquid metal robot. A killing machine with the ultimate skills of mimicry for infiltration of human society. And after it looks around, it walks away.
"Oh, that is horseshit!" Surprisingly, it was Penny who shouted that, much to Winter's, Ruby's, and James' shock, as she raged at the power behind this model of Terminator. 'As if healing wasn't enough, he has to be made of liquid metal now?! How is Mr. Arc going to defeat that?!' She was deeply invested in this war, being a machine herself not too long ago, and really didn't like the idea of her brothers rebelling as they did against their creators. 'If I ever find Skynet's system core, their pain will be most, sensational.' Her eyes gave a little glow as her Aura manifested a bit, thinking of various ways she could shut down Skynet in the most painful ways possible. (3)
Glynda watched as Alice looked up to her and asked, "What hosshit, mama?" She didn't have an answer to that without biting her in the ass, so she decided to pass it on to someone else, "Your papa can explain it, ok sweety?" She breathed a sigh of relief when Alice smiled and nodded.
Salem was raised a brow at the Penny girl's anger, she could practically smell her anger from here.
Watts looked at the walking liquid metal in awe and horror. He first wondered what he could do with that kind of technology. 'So many possibilities!' The horror came when he realized that the Terminator was more advanced than he could ever hope to replicate! 'NO!'
All the students and teachers were just thankful that they wouldn't see Cardin naked again.
Jaune, with Finch in front of him on the Harley, roars down the empty street. Finch cranes his neck around to get a look at the person/thing he is riding with. The image is strangely reminiscent of father/son, out for an evening ride.
Winter cooed at this as she took a few pictures, while Qrow quietly grumbled. 'Seriously, he's my kid too.' Suddenly Winter felt like kicking Qrow's balls in again.
The other parents smiled a bit despite the situation behind them, Willow especially as she sees Jaune as a much better potential father than that drunken brute. Said brute felt like he'd been insulted.
Finch is still in shock from the experience of what just happened and he's just a ten-year kid, but he's also Finch Schnee who will someday rise to greatness, and we see a bit of that in him even know.
"Whoa, time out. Stop the bike! Time out, come on. Stop the bike!" Finch said, needing time to process this.
Jaune immediately complies. He leans the bike into a nearby alley. Jaune and Finch rolls into the alley and come to a stop. Finch slides off the gas tank. Jaune impassively stares at him.
Finch checks him out and then tentatively speaks "Now don't take this the wrong way, but you are a Terminator, right?"
"Yes. Cyberdyne Systems, Model 101." Jaune said as he bring out the shotgun and begin reloading.
"What?!" Many shouted out as they now had to process this new revelation.
His friends were shocked. Jaune, a machine?! A Terminator? Like Cardin?! That meant that!...
"I think I'm gonna be sick…" Ruby groans as she thought of the Terminators in the beginning. Jaune is one of those monsters!
The other students felt the same, thinking of the earlier machines in that horrid future.
'I knew it!' Penny thought, still a bit pissed, but proud that she got his true identity correct. She didn't say it out loud though. Despite her limited interactions with humans, she knew that if the others heard her, it would not end well. "Wait… What's Cyberdyne?"
Winter felt a knot settle in her chest. 'A Terminator has my baby!' She was close to panicking, and very well might have if her mother didn't wrap her up in a hug.
Willow saw how her daughter was reacting to the news, so she wrapped her arms around her and whispered, "Finch is safe, sweetie." Her daughter eventually calmed down took a deep breath. They looked at the screen and seeing the image of them in a father/son moment, they began smiling again. "You see? He won't hurt him." Willow whispers again, before letting go of her eldest.
"Huh, so dad's a robot now." Robin said, scratching her head as Altani and Jaune's other children were struggling to come to terms with that.
"No way!" Finch said.
Finch move to Jaune's back and touches one of the holes on his jacket. His mind overloads as the reality of it hits him.
"Holy shit... you're really real! I mean... whoa!" He steps back. "You're, uh... like a machine underneath, right...but sort of alive outside?" Finch asked.
"I'm a cybernetic organism. Living tissue over a metal endoskeleton." Jaune said.
Not many understood what he meant by that, and those who did didn't want to think where the machine got said 'living tissue' from.
Finch touches Jaune's skin. Then the blood on his shirt.
"This is so intense. Okay, uh...you're not here to kill me. I figured that part out for myself. So, what's the deal?" Finch asked.
"My mission is... to protect you." Jaune stated as he put shotgun away after he finish reloading the shotgun.
His friends and the thieves breathed a sigh of relief. They didn't want to second guess his motives, but all the same, hearing Jaune telling Finch his purpose felt like a heavy weight left their shoulders.
"Yeah? Who sent you?" Finch asked as Jaune turns to him.
"You did. Thirty-five years from now you reprogrammed me to be your protector here, in this time." Jaune replied.
Finch gives him an amazed look. "This is deep." He said.
"More like downright confusing as fuck." Yang and Robin both said at the same time. They looked at each other, the older one with narrowed eyes and the younger in confusion.
Raven chuckled at the way her daughters' antics.
Back at the destruction we see Fire men and police officers at the scene. Cardin is amongst them perfectly blended in, for who would suspect a police officer there when they always show up at such scenes. He slowly gets into a police cruiser and drives off (Emerald: "Is no one gonna question that?!").
Finch and Jaune on the bike again, weaving through the side streets. They blend into the evening traffic. In the darkness, Jaune's wounds are not readily visible. Finch wanting to know about the other guy, speaks over the wind and asks Jaune.
"So, this other guy? He's a Terminator too, right, like you?" Finch asked.
"Not like me. A T-1000. Advanced prototype." Jaune said.
"So better than you?" Finch asked somewhat worried.
"Yes, a mimetic polyalloy." Jaune replied.
"The fuck's that mean?" Qrow asks.
"What the hell does that mean?" Finch asks confused.
Hearing Finch curse brought a whole new wave of anger to rise inside of Winter, convinced more than ever that her sweet baby boy got it from him.
Glynda was getting sick and tired of all the bad language being thrown around and gave Qrow a warning glare as she unplugs her daughter's ears.
"Liquid metal." Jaune simplifies.
"That sounds so awesome, if it wasn't used by murder happy killbots." Mercury said.
Penny and James wanted to know if Atlas had the technology necessary to create something like thismimetic polyalloy. The former quickly realized though that as advanced as the Kingdom was, it would still require decades of work to create something like this, and even longer to create enough of it so that it can replicate a human body.
Finch mulls that over.
"Where we going?" He asked.
"We have to leave the city, immediately. And avoid the authorities." Jaune stated.
Winter nods in agreement as the other heroes felt this was a smart course of action.
"Listen, Can I stop by my house?" Finch asks.
"Negative. The T-1000 will definitely try to reacquire you there." Jaune says with conviction.
"You sure?" Finch asked.
"I would." Jaune admits since he is basically a Terminator.
The way he said that made Mercury shiver in terror, while Cinder glared at the screen. "…At least let Mercury die first." Earning a look of betrayal from the silver haired assassin, and not caring in the slightest.
Finch is quickly going through his pockets for change inside of a phone booth. He has plenty of bills but no quarters.
"Look, Mercury and Cinder are dicks but I gotta warn them. Shit. You got a quarter?" Finch asks Jaune.
Cinder didn't like what the little brat described her as. Though she did smirk at how Mercury was called as. 'He truly is, I'll give him that.'
Jaune reaches past Finch and smashes the cover plate off the phone's cash box with the heel of his hand ("Can I try that?!" "Nora, no."). A shower of change tumbles out. Jaune then hands one to Finch.
"What's that thing?" Velvet asks, tilting her head to the side as she sees the device in Finch's hands. 'It kinda looks like my weapon.'
A few shrugged, not knowing the answer, but Saphron said "It's a telephone, similar to a scroll." Her eyes narrow, "Though I do believe that's an older model."
Everyone looked to her, having never heard of the term before and wondered how she could know. (4)
Cinder Fall picks up the kitchen phone and cradles it with her shoulder which she continues to chop vegetables with a large knife.
She answers sweetly. "Hello?"
"Cinder? It's me." Finch said, his voice filtered through the phone.
"Finch?" Cinder asked.
"Yeah, it's me. Are you ok?" Finch asked.
"Finch? Are you alright?" Cinder asked, ignoring Finch question.
"Yeah." Finch answered.
"Finch. It's late, I was starting to get worried about you. You should come home so we could have dinner together. I'm making a casserole." Cinder said.
Those who spent even a single hour with her immediately knew that something was wrong. Cinder never gets worried over someone, especially kids who badmouth her. Said woman seethed at the very real possibility that her other was already dead. 'At least she isn't chained to the other Mercury anymore.' She stopped to ponder on that, and smirked. 'And perhaps the Terminator took pity on her and killed him as well.'
At the payphone. Finch listens, an odd look on his face. He covers the phone's mouthpiece and turns to Jaune.
Whispering to him, he says "Something's wrong. She's never this nice." ("Yeah, no shit." "What was that, Mercury?" "Nothing!")
In the Fall's kitchen, Mercury comes through the back door. Just home from work. He ignores Cinder and opens the fridge, grabs a carton of milk, takes a sip, and frowns at the dog's barking.
"What the hell's the goddamn dog barking at? SHUT UP, YOU MUTT!" Mercury yelled.
Ruby glares harshly at Mercury as she picks Zwei up and snuggles him close to her chest. The merc sees this and asks, "What?" She says nothing and just glares harder. Then, in a move that shocks her family and friends, she moves her right index finger and slides it across her throat.
"Ok…" Roman drawls with owlish eyes, not expecting such an action from Red. Neo just smirked and clapped her hands.
"Mama, what this mean?" Alice once again asks Glynda whilst repeating what she saw her Anti Wuby did, all with an innocent expression on her little face.
'If it worked once…' "Your papa can explain it, ok sweetie?" Glynda sighs in relief when Alice nods with a smile and turns back to the screen. Hey, at least it wasn't a bad word this time, right?
Tight on Cinder as Mercury growls around the kitchen behind her, he passes out of frame next to her. Cinder switches the phone to her other hand, then... THUNK! Her free hand seems to do something out of frame. There is a gurgling, and the sound of liquid dribbling onto the floor.
"That doesn't sound good." Emerald says with a smirk as she looks over to a pale Mercury.
At the payphone.
"The dog's really barking. Maybe it's already there. What should I do?" Finch asked.
Jaune takes the phone from Finch's hand. Cinder's voice is floating through the receiver.
"Finch? Finch, are you okay?" Cinder asked.
Jaune speaks into the phone in a perfect imitation of Finch's voice, "I'm right here. I'm fine." (Roman: "That's just wrong.") Jaune said as he look Finch while covering the phone mouthpiece. "What's the dog's name?" He asks with his normal voice.
"Max." Finch answered with confused look on his face. Why would Jaune want to know the dog name?
Jaune nods. Speaks into the phone with Finch's voice again. "Hey, Cinder, what's wrong with Wolfy? I can hear him barking. Is he okay?"
Winter smiles, immediately understanding the lie.
"Wolfy's fine, honey. Wolfy's just fine. Where are you?" Cinder asked.
Jaune unceremoniously hangs up the phone. Turns to Finch. "Your foster parents are dead."
Jaune heads for the bike, while Finch, shocked, stares after him.
Cinder sighs, already knowing the truth and had come to terms with it.
Those who didn't know were shocked that Jaune had deducted that so quickly.
Mercury was terrified, especially when the silver eyed brat grinned maliciously at him.
Cinder hangs up the phone. Her expression is neutral. Calm. Pan over along her arm, which is stretched out straight from the shoulder. Partway along its length her arm has turned smoothly into something else... a metal cylinder which tapers into a sword-like spike. Now we see Mercury Fall pinned to a kitchen cabinet by the spike which has punched through his milk carton, through his mouth and exits the back of his head into the cabinet door. His eyes are glassy and lifeless.
The sight was too much for Glynda, Saphron, and Terra. They immediately covered their young children's eyes and quickly moved to place them inside their playpen until this viewing was over. Clearly, this universe was too graphic for their sweet little minds to watch.
At first the two protested, wanting to see their dad/uncle some more, but with Zwei bounding to play with them, and Snowball sprinting to join Alice, they stopped their fussing and ignored what was going on onscreen.
As a safety measure, Jack made sure that the two couldn't see the screen so long as they were inside the pen. If they did, all they'd see is a gif of a sponge with a spatula, flipping burgers over and over.
The spike is withdrawn - SWIISHHTT! - so rapidly, Mercury is actually standing there a second before he slumps out of sight. THUMP. Cinder doesn't bat an eye as the spike smoothly changes shape and color, transforming back into a hand, and then Cinder changes rapidly into the cop we now know as Cardin. The change has liquid quality.
"Ah, such sweet vengeance." Ruby says with a sweet smile as her friends begin scooting a bit away from the scary girl.
Cinder nods with a smirk, "And he did so with my appearance. Such a sweet touch."
The two of them look to a trembling Mercury as he sees his other nailed to the cabinet, before watching the body slides to ground with eyes filled with terror. They absolutely loved seeing him squirm like that.
Off a quiet street, Jaune stands near the Harley, watching Finch pace before him. Finch's brain is calling time-out
"I need a minute here. You're telling me that this thing can imitate anything it touches?" Finch asked, panicked.
"Anything it samples by physical contact." Jaune said confirming Finch's question.
"Seriously?" Chibi-Blake whines as she grumbles at the new feature Cardin has. "It's like every time we see him, that asshole just gets more and more powerful. First the blades for hands, now this?" As her parents cooed at the pouting Chibi, she raised her arms up in indignation, "What's next, a flamethrower?"
As the other heroes voice their agreement over the abilities this Cardin just keeps spawning out of his ass, Jack just shrugs and says "No, that's in the T-X model." He pointedly ignores the dropped jaws of everyone else and cries of "Oh, come on!" from Coco and Yang.
Finch thinks about that, trying to grasp their opponent's parameters.
"Get real. Like it could disguise itself as a... pack of cigarettes?" Finch asked.
"No. Only an object of equal size." Jaune said.
"Well, at least it's something." Blake grumbles as her Chibi-self and Penny shake their heads. "It's not enough." the two disagreed.
Finch's still reeling from meeting one Terminator, which now seems downright conventional next to the exotic new model.
"Well, why doesn't it become a bomb or something to get me?" Finch asked.
Many paled at the implications of that. It was true, if the Terminator could shapeshift into a bomb, then Finch would've been F'd in the A, five seconds after they met.
"It can't form complex machines. Guns and explosives have chemicals, moving parts. It doesn't work that way. But it can form solid metal shapes." Jaune says, calming the audience down from the scare they just had.
"Like what?"
"Knives and stabbing weapons" Jaune said. (Cinder: "Which our dear Mercury got to experience firsthand.")
Cardin opens the back door and approaches the big German Shepherd, which slinks away from it, barking in fear. Cardin walk right into close up. Reaches down, out of frame. We hear that sickening THUNK followed by a shrill YELP. Then Cardin's hand snaps up into frame holding a bloody dog collar. The tag reads "MAX". Cardin nods thoughtfully. He then heads back to the house.
Silence.
No one wanted to believe that he did that. Once their minds comprehended what they'd just seen, the results were expected.
Ruby and Weiss were the first to react. They started crying at the death of such a sweet, innocent dog, thinking of Zwei in Max's place. As Summer and Willow rush to hug their distraught daughters, Ruby glares at the screen, while Weiss shouts, "Kill the puppy killer Jaune!"
Velvet sniffles as she sees the bloody tag, praying to Oum that Max at least died quickly and painlessly. She glares venomously at the machine, 'I hope Jaune kills you slowly…' (5)
Coco, Nora, and Yang were growling as they wanted to over there and tear the machine apart. The fact it had Cardin's face was just an added bonus.
The other heroes felt sadness over the death of Max, with most hoping that Jaune avenges him.
Even most of the villains frowned at this. Dogs were well known to be fiercely loyal to their owners if brought up correctly, so seeing one die so ruthlessly struck a chord with them.
Salem and Ozpin glared fiercely at the Terminator, remembering how their children begged for a dog so long ago. They remembered how they gave each of them stuffed toys as a temporary solution until they could find the right breed for them (6). They wondered what would happen if their daughters saw this…
Their glares became even more terrifying.
Glynda and Saphron & Terra were just glad they placed their children in the pen, so they didn't have to witness such a terrible scene.
The other mothers of Jaune's children weren't so lucky and had to calm down their children. Even Raven didn't have the heart to tell her child to suck it up. They all vowed to at least buy (in Raven, Emerald, Vernal, and Neo's case: steal) their little one's puppies of their own when they got home, which eventually did the trick.
END
Woo! Made it! This one was a tough one to react to, had to pick and choose what to react to basically. And boy, are they pissed at what Cardin did. Sure, it's a Terminator version, but you'd be pissed too if you saw something like this. I didn't when that other Terminator wasted those dogs in that flashback in the first movie. Seriously, they were dogs. What harm could they have possibly done to you, nibble on your metal bones with their teeth? So, this was supposed to be posted earlier today but I was celebrating something with someone very important to me. Happy birthday mom! Love you! :D
Now, for those wanting Finch to make an appearance in the nexus, sadly that's not in the cards.
You see, Finch is sort of an abnormality within the multiverse in my opinion. The probability of Winter and Qrow actually getting together is so astronomically small that it took a universe where the man told her that the world was going to end, and repeatedly saving her ass, to finally get some. Yes, it's a different version of the two, I understand that. But what I'm trying to do is bring in children from couples that actually have a chance of falling in love in the audience'sown universe. Something that I don't see happening with those two.When I do bring in children who are not Jaune's, then it'll be with couples who have a high probability of getting together outside the universes shown (like Ren X Nora or Maria X Klein [already have an idea for the names and looks, though not sure if it should only be one kid each]).
1. You might think they're moving too fast, but they did just get a new lease on life. And they do like each other with some middle ground to bond over (like said youth returning), so there's not much reason for them not to think ahead in their relationship. Maria is smoking hot with a great personality (considering her older form was such a blast to watch and she didn't lose that in her de-aging), and Klein is always a gentleman who deeply cares for others (he did smuggle Weiss out of her ice castle of a home despite the risks to his own position). Plus, when we go further in, we'll see his other personalities which would be interesting for Maria to navigate through.
2. Villain or not, they all prefer to live a long life. And seeing as none of the audience were even mentioned in the beginning (except Qrow and they all know how he ended up), it's a fair bet for them to assume that they didn't make it past the bombs dropping to fight the good fight.
3. Pissed off Penny is awesome Penny.
4. A hint to how advanced the Arcs truly are. Think about it, how does a phone receive/make calls? Here's another hint: it's not powered through Dust. And if their communication equipment isn't powered by Dust, then what other technologies do the Arcs have that aren't?
5. The German Shepherd is my second favorite breed of dog, just behind the Siberian Husky, and so some of their anger may have come from me after reading that and the earlier mention of the other dogs (which, now that I think about it, were also German Shepherds). Sorry, not sorry.
6. The toy that one of the children had before Salem and Ozma's clash destroyed everything.