AN: Okay, for starters, FanBoy01, as i said on the first chapter if i am not mistaken, i said that this would be my first fic, so yeah, i understand where you are coming saying that this needs work, but apart from that, I am Mexican, so bear with me if I get some words wrong.
Also, I will mess a lot of ships around, for each "window viewing" I do which is not in what I have catalogued as the "true canon" of this story, any ship can happen, as well as any outcome, so don´t expect the trolls to keep to the principal viewing which passed on chapter two.
REFERENCE FOR CHAPTER: loosely on ghost rider.
After ozpin told his students about Jason arc, the students decided that if the story was repeating itself, then jaune could and will become some kind of power house, magic powers or not, but that was not of importance right now, because they were back at the window´s room, and bernz was smashing his head against the wall, murmuring things about a white cue ball and meddling in other´s business.
Ruby decided to try and get closer and see what else he was murmuring about until he shot up and with tablet in hand started scrolling around "okay fellas, right now I got a signal to another timeline, and we may not get to access your jaune until the next viewing, because a certain doll of a douchey skull has decided to make things hard for me… anyway, here it starts" he said when the window showed the outskirts of the city of vale.
The window was showing the outskirts of vale, more importantly, a biker in a bike with a rusty red color which had on one of the sides of the gasoline tank the Aries mark, meanwhile on the other side was a ram´s skull surrounded of a slightly more shiny red than the rest of the bike, the driver in question had a white jacket with the arc symbol small on his chest area, at the same time the rider had a whip hanging from his left side while on the right stood a familiar sword for all who paid attention on the first viewing.
"Fifty liens that is blond kid" said roman while rising up "make your bets people, make them now" he said while pyrha stared strangely at the symbols of the bike, feeling strange at the Aries symbol, like it is important somehow.
"I say it´s his old man or something" said mercury while placing fifty bucks on the box which was put on the middle of the room, together with other boxes, they stared at bernz.
"Oh, it´s just that since there may be many bets at any time, the more boxes ready the better" he said with a slight smile.
When the rider reached the entrance for vehicles from vale, they stared at the biker as if he was crazy "sir, I must ask you to take of your helmet, and can we… know why exactly did you decide to come vale on the roads when there have been reports of grim migrations nearing the city?" asked one of the guards as the other just prepared himself to touch the panic button in case it was a white fang attack.
"don´t worry about that" said the biker as he took of the helmet, showing jaune´s face with a smile on his face as he stared at the guards "and I just came to observer the vytal festival, an old friend of mine sent me tickets and I decided to come ahead" he said showing his documentation "the papers for my weapons are on my pockets" he said trying to reach it only to be pointed a gun at the face.
"Oh shit, he is going to have a face full of dust" said roman with a snigger counting his money, but team RWBY, even Weiss were nervous, if jaune went all knight of rage on these guards who know how many people could die.
He smiled even with the gun in front of his nose "oh my, I fear you got something on my face, but look, here are my papers" he said still not caring about this, almost seeming eager to see if he would pull the trigger, only to see the guy start to lower the offending weapon as if he just now realized he was going to shoot a possible huntsman.
"I… I AM SO SORRY SIR" he screamed while scurrying back inside of the monitoring room, and his partner just getting his hand off the button, looking between the blonde rider and his partner
"… Fucking balls of brass… does this arc kid have aura on this timeline bear?" asked roman while looking at bearnz.
"no, in essence really few of the jaune´s you will see have aura, many more preferring to seal it back inside themselves or forced to do that, but fret not, for this jaune is more than what one may think…" those words just made everyone look at him, what kind of god tier did this jaune had?
Jaune just smiled and kept advancing, and with his helmet back on, he just seemed like a normal guy, a shame vale was not ready for him.
Hours later, the window showed how jaune was currently entering a club simply named ""the club"" as if it were nothing, and while being there, he started checking his scroll, only to see some messages on his scroll.
"Wait, he uses pesterchum in all of his timelines?" asked a bored yang, considering this as weak teasing material… seriously, what could she do with this kind of information?
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AA: I, 0nce again believe that 0ur c0nstant c0nversati0ns have c0sted y0u s0me 0f y0ur self preservati0n instincts
"Hey, didn´t jaune paint his bike like that text color?" asked a confused Nora, and when pyrha heard this, she felt jealousy at hearing this, but decided to not act out
EG: Foolishness, I would not have died from a meager bullet like that, and we both know it
AA: Even as that may be, y0u are supp0sed t0 have an alibi t0 n0t be suspected f0r what we b0th kn0w y0u will d0 later t0night
AA: 0_0
EG: Yeah yeah, no matter how many times you try and talk me out of THIS, it is my work, anyway, how has been your day ara?
"Ara? What kind of shitty name is that?" asked amused mercury while staring at the window, but a shove from emerald got his attention.
"I don´t know, maybe a nickname?" she asked rhetorically, agreeing with him, but refuting his complain
AA: d0 n0t change the subject jaune arc, and I have t0ld y0u time and time again t0 st0p using that riddicul0us nickname
EG: we both know you like it, come on, you even helped me finish my bike, and if I remember correctly, I promised you a ride when we saw each other.
AA: It was an ""if"" and by the l00ks 0f things, it w0n´t happen anytime s00n, with y0u 0ver there and me here.
At this interaction, both pyrha and ruby were feeling spiteful to the now rumored girl on the other side of the conversation "well, it seems like vomit boy got some confidence in this" said yang, feeling like she could black mail him with everything of here if she got the chance
EG: who knows? I think I have more than gained the right to get you to doubt what you see as a guaranteed outcome.
AA: 0_0
AA: I refuse t0 c0ment further 0n this subject… but y0ur 0bjective sh0uld be crossing that d00r s00n.
EG: well then… darling, wish me look, and send me a good luck kiss if you will.
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AA: I have t0ld y0u t0 st0p calling me that t00… stupid human.
Both pyrha and ruby were staring at the window, one with a jealousy and hurt heart known to almost none other, the other… was fuming and planning somebody's demise.
"Excuse me Mr. Bernz, but… who is the AA individual?" asked ren trying to divert his teammate attention.
"AA… better known as the MAID OF TIME is in theory one of the best possible partners for both original and this jaune arc, both for different reasons, but in this situation in particular, it is because this jaune arc is actually the LORD OF DOOM a roll which after a certain consideration of just WHO, and WHAT he is, can one come to understand" then he just kept quiet, smiling at the window.
"But I am his partner" refuted pyrha in a weak way of trying to see if that could change it, oh poor oblivious girl.
Jaune smiled as he decided to sit back and watch the events unfold, he watched as yang Xiao long entered and menaced junior into giving her some information, and when he saw enough, he decided to interfere.
"nice of vomit boy going to help, but I don´t need it" said yang boastful, only gaining a glare of not only both roman and neo, but also from the teachers, after all, hei xiong was legally a civilian with permission of carrying huntsman level weaponry considering how many time his club was destroyed by some drunken huntsmen in training
"I… don´t think he is going to help you yang" said ruby, and when yang was about to ask, she noticed something going on.
"I fear I have to ask you to leave the Mr. alone, huntress… after all, what you are doing is considered a penal fault, and if somebody had evidence recorded of you, abusing and molesting a civilian… let's just say that the law couldn´t care less for you" said jaune with the same unnerving smile as when he was being aimed at the head, but this time he seemed on edge about something.
"Uh? You think you can tell me what to do? Look buddy, I don´t know if you know it, but this guy here is…" she didn´t get to finish as jaune continued.
"he is an information booker who is in high standing with vale´s council as well as a member of a small activist group to help frontier towns, making him a well-liked individual in and out of vale, of course this goes over head when the one I am talking is a hunter, since you all only care about fighting, I guess it would be too much to ask you for a simple recollection of information about the people in vale" as jaune spoke, yang just seemed to become angrier at her fellow blonde, and thinking of shutting him up, she delivered a punch directly to his nose, making him go sailing through the air.
"Yang… isn´t that guy the one yo-mmmmmfffff!?" started saying ruby when yang covered her mouth, she was in deep shit, was this the reason she had detention at the start of the semester? Was this why her part of the money from their mission had been less than half? This was just showing how bad she had fucked up
But when jaune finally smashed against the floor, he just rose up almost immediately, his nose in perfect shape, but his smile was nowhere to be seen, and his eyes were calculating what to do next "I was just trying to play it nice… I guess one can´t really just do that kind of stuff… specially considering how you reek" he said, now showing a full grimace
"WHAT! HOW DARE HE SAY THAT?" screamed a rancorous Yang as ruby and qrow tried to keep her from jumping the window to punch that jaune, shamefully, the yang of the window had nobody trying to control her.
"COME HERE SO I CAN PUMMEL YOU TO THE GROUND BUDDY!" was the scream delivered by yang´s mouth, at the same time she impulse herself ahead, with the intention of beating him to a bloody paste.
"Specially your hands… I guess it means you fight with your bare fists… or some kind of open knuckles gauntlets" he said while crouching low and then jumping off her way "yes, those must be the thing you used to pummel lots of innocent people inside of this very place" he said while looking her in the eye with a cold stare "you punched and punched until everyone here stopped moving, and then left them to die bellow the roof, lucky thing the cops came as soon as they did, or there would had been casualties" as he spoke, he just seemed angrier at yang
"is any of this true for our timeline bernz?" asked a worried qrow, this was bad, and if it was… yang will have to go to make amends somehow when they settled… and that was if they even managed to do that.
Bernz stared around, looking a sick look from Blake, unable to fathom somebody hurting so many innocents as that jaune was stating, ruby was separating herself from yang, and Weiss looked almost like she had a breakdown "shamefully… it is, all of the ""goons"" that yang Xiao long had fought on the night before beacon were caused a great deal of internal damage, concussions, or some entered in the hospital with lifelong damage to their limbs… those were the lucky ones who got punched out of the building, hei xiong survived thanks to his two nieces who were planning of entering beacon, but thanks to the damage they sustained, they were unable to participate, and those unlucky to still being conscious after miss Xiao long… explosion, they sustained so much damage that some have entered a vegetable state, as of now only one of them is catalogued as dead, and it was because his family decided to disconnect him for not having enough money to pay the hospital… but thanks to ozpin´s intervention, she was not made responsible of it, even though hei xiong has been pushing to sue yang Xiao long and take her to court for her unjustified attack on him and his workers… and before you complain, they just refused to give you their services, as their rules imposed by the kingdom of vale clarifies, no minor unless with a note strictly from a councilman or from ozpin or miss goodwitch can have access to the information" this just caused her to shut up and sweat bullets.
As jaune spoke, yang just sent another punch to his face, but this time jaune didn´t even move an inch, having grabbed the punch and applying pressure on her fist "if you hadn´t started trying to make amends… even if forced, I would be having a completely different talk with you huntress… but as of right now, you will lead me to one of your teammates so I can ask some questions and be on my way, try to stop me and you will suffer as much as you have caused" he stated, his eyes glaring at yang's fist like if he wanted nothing more than to rip it out of her body
Ruby could only stare at this version of her friend and feel like she didn´t liked him much, he acted far too cold for her liking, and even seemed to relish in the thought of hurting her sister, but considering what yang had done, she didn´t know if she felt happy or angry at this jaune.
"Like hell I will take you to my team… NEPTUNE, HELP ME GODDAMNIT" was the scream she released while trying to move her arm to no avail, this guy had a really strong grip to keep her like this, but when jaune turned to see Neptune, he just seemed to relax.
"there is no need for you to interfere on this, you can go and enjoy of something… always that it isn´t alcohol, my treat if you so wish" said jaune with a kind tone and no malice at all, he seemed almost elated to see that he wasn´t ""reeking""
"Okay, why attack Blondie but not blue-berry over there?" asked a confused roman, but then bernz got in front.
"well, this is actually something I feel like I have to understand… the thing is that this jaune has a certain… ability let's call it, which lets him ""smell"" the blood somebody has shred, and depending of the intent does it reek or not, it also depends of the ""state"" of the individual whose blood was shredded, if he had never hurted another being, or was ""innocent"" then jaune could smell it like a shark, but if the individual had done bad things but out of need or despair, then he enters a grey area which does not attract jaune, but he prefers to consider them as innocents as well, making him hunt anybody with their bloods on their hands, no matter who they are" when he finished, most of the heroics in the room were feeling slightly nervous, while only a few of the villainous really thought they would be objectives, considering that both emerald just stole to be able to live another day, and hazel never killed anybody unless they were the bodies of ozpin, but they usually stopped being innocents by then.
"LIKE HELL, NEPTU… what?" yang was surprised when jaune simply released her, and while she was making heads of the situation, jaune just smiled and separated from her.
"as I said before, I do not wish to fight you, at least not right now, for I have a small… mission of sorts, and it has come to my attention that one of the members of team RWBY has information on my principal objective, so if you would be as kind to take me to her" but while he spoke, Neptune got closer, wanting to make sure this man was not a psychopath.
"Look buddy, I do not know why you think I would help you, but you are… wait a minute" just as she was speaking, did she receive a call from her team, and as she separated from the conversation, jaune turned to Neptune.
"Melodramatic much, right? I bet she got some anger management issues… maybe even a fetish to make other people feel pain" he said with the same unnerving smile like when he spoke to the guard at the door of vale, but his words only made Neptune flush and feel uncomfortable
Yang was red, but it was more for the rage she felt towards this jaune "t… that fucker Is going to pay" she said with rage on her eyes, even though Weiss seemed to ponder if it was in fact true, after all yang did seem happier when she had a poor guy bleeding because of a punch of hers.
"Neptune, we are going" yang said with worry clear on her eyes, and as she turned, jaune followed.
"Oh goody, are you taking me with your teammates? Then hurry" he spoke with a fake cherry tone, only having a small smirk, seeing how yang had no time to answer, and guessing a reason, he had to think it was something about her team, and possibly more vigilante like actions.
Yang was feeling quite spiteful towards this jaune arc, but rather than act out, she got on her bike, and after Neptune sited behind her, she accelerated towards the last location of her team
Jaune meanwhile was sitting on his bike before his scroll went off with notifications.
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AA: Jaune, 0nly f0r this time listen t0 me with0ut your ann0ying flirting.
EG: why? What´s wrong?
AA: y0u must be careful while f0ll0wing the brawler and the blue haired b0y.
AA: If y0u are n0t careful y0u w0n´t c0mplete y0ur 0bjective.
EG: What if he manages to escape today? I still got all the time of the world to hunt him down.
AA: Y0u d0 n0t understand.
AA: If y0u are as reckless as usual, y0u w0n´t be able t0 escape n0tice fr0m the w0rld.
AA: and we b0th kn0w what kind 0f 0utc0me it c0uld cause.
EG: …SHIT
EG: Just now you tell me Ara? I thought we had something.
AA: 0nce again I tell y0u it was simply 0n y0ur imaginati0n.
EG: I refuse to accept that after you helped me out for so long, anyway.
EG: What should I do?
AA: just d0 what y0u d0 best
AA: d0 n0t leave witnesses
EG: … I'll try Ara… see you in a bit.
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Some in the room felt worried and a little bit nervous about what this jaune arc would do, but since bernz would not answer any more questions, they decided to just watch, yang in particular was not feeling really eager to watch her die.
Jaune released a tired sigh as he started the motor of his bike and as he started to advance, he noticed an explosion going of towards were yang was going "… this is not a time to play… right?" while he asked himself, he closed his eyes and with a deep breath he pushed his bike to its top velocity, going to the origin of the explosion, and as he advanced, there were some ashes flying around.
Later the window showed how yang was going after roman on his mecha, while her team were trying to attack and freeze its limbs, what they did not seem to catch on was jaune arc closing on them on his bike, now leaving some smoke from its wheels
"They must be of really bad quality if they are like that" said mercury a little curious about what was happening, and yang was nodding along.
"Seriously, can´t he take better care of his bike?" she asked while watching intently the jaune on the window.
As the people on the room spoke, suddenly a van smashed against jaune, taking them out of the highway and crashing on the street below.
There was a deaf sound on the room for witnessing this; the villains were amused, while the heroes were for a lack of better words, shocked into silence.
While the window showed the street below, now vacated from all life except for a squads of the white fang, consisting of six, they were surrounding the now bended bike as the driver seemingly dead.
"make sure that he is dead, the higher ups ordered his immediate execution no matter what we have to do" spoke one of the presents as he kept aiming at the biker, until its body twitched and started raising up "OPEN FIRE!"
"No… please no" said ruby with a broken heart as she saw the bullets go through jaune´s body like a Swiss cheese.
" … YOU DONE?" was a guttural sound that came from the biker as he suddenly grabbed his whip and surrounded the neck of one of the terrorist, to then pull with all of his strength, effectively breaking their neck, only to then receive another bullet, this time to the helmet, managing to shatter the glass and letting out some flames.
"W…w… what the fuck is going on!?" said Neptune while staring at the flames and the dead body on the street, this had escalated far too quickly for his likings and he didn´t feel comfortable.
"Is… is this jaune even human?" asked a nervous ruby who could not move her sights from this jaune, who seemed far too relaxed.
" I GUESS IT IS MY TURN" but those words only served to make the rest of the white fang more nervous and resort to shoot at him with desperation, one even was going to throw a dust grenade but jaune´s whip found itself burdening his movement after the activation of the grenade, making the poor grunt scream with fear before the grenade engulfed him on fire, but as this happened, more bullets broke into his helmet, and once it had sustained far too much damage, it broke apart showing a fiery skeleton, which kept its sight fixed on the supposed leader
"I like this jaune even less than the first" were the words of Nora, who even if happy that her former beloved leader had survived, his new appearance was just freaking her out.
"I don´t know, he looks cool" said mercury giving thumbs up to the screen
"STAND BACK YOU FREAK" was the scared scream of a grunt that was almost touched by jaune, but he did not heed his command, and with a quick step, the fiery skeleton decided to grab his sword and plunge it into this Faunus chest, only seeming bored by what was happening.
"… I WILL ONLY GIVE YOU THIS ONE CHANCE… WERE IS ADAM TAURUS" His words seemed to make the leader tense, seeing everything around him, three of his squad laid dead on the floor, and the other two member tensed, none of them wanted to have a go, and this infuriated the leader of the squad.
"You won´t hear the information you are looking from us… DIE" he tried once again to shoot jaune in the face, only showing how dumb a scared man can be, jaune´s simple reaction was advance to him, and deciding to use the whip, he cracked it at the squad leader face, making him turn because of the pain on his cheek.
"THEN MAY THE GODS HAVE MERCY ON THEE SOUL… FOR THEE FLESH IS MINE TO TAKE" after those words the fiery skeleton lunged at him at the same time that his sword went flying, finding a new sheath on one of the grunts throat, and shortly after the other hunter was being chocked by the whip while jaune had the leader pinned on the street "LOOK ME IN THE EYES… FEEL THEIR PAIN" screeched as he forced him to look at him, and then the window spiraled in a fiery whirlwind.
"Okay, I will make a little jump because I don´t think the window could show this without it filtering here" said bernz while the window suddenly seemed shinier.
"W… WHAT THE FUCK IS JAUNE" screeched a sun who was hugging Neptune, completely scared by the terminator they just saw.
"I think before a continuation this; you owe us some answers about this… time line" said ozpin while seeming to look down on Bernz.
"Agh… fine, look…. This jaune made a deal a while back, let´s say two years, the deal consisted that he would be able to protect the weak and punish the wrong doers, yada yada… the problem is that the being he made the deal with decided to fuck him over, he turned our sweet innocent cinnamon bun into a ghostly killing machine which rather than protect the innocent lives in times of duress… he protects them by killing anybody who has already taken a life "he let it sink into them for a minute or two" and to make this story short, he goes hunting anybody who he catches a glimpse, since this jaune accidently found himself in the middle of a raid of Taurus and decided that he had more than enough innocent blood on his hands to guarantee a reason for him to hunt down a bull… another fact for a certain self-righteous car, this jaune has never killed anybody who hasn´t taken a innocent life, and he never will, his curse stops him from even having collateral damage, if he tried… let´s just say it would be more comfortable to have your soul ripped from your body"
The window showed a nice morning again in the outskirts of vale where jaune was sitting, his bike seeming unscratched, and his scroll out receiving lots of notifications.
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AA: N0w I guess y0u will g0 back t0 y0ur h0me?
EG: nah, I think I will stay here for the tournament, this ended up a dead end, even after the ""look"" he didn´t give anything out.
AA: I rec0mend str0ngly that y0u g0 back t0 y0ur hive, since s00n y0u may find the chance y0u have ann0yed me f0r s0 l0ng.
EG: … wait
EG: you will finally accept a video chat?
EG: or was it another of the things I have annoyed you for?
EG: because there are like… a lot
AA: … I will n0t dignate that with an answer, but c0nsider this… 0ur next c0nvertsation w0uld be the eighth 0n b0th parts
AA: 0_0
EG: oh, what is this? The mysterious ghost lady warming up on me?
EG: I like it
AA: keep that up and I w0n´t hesitate to bl0w up y0ur scr0ll
AA: 0u0
AA: … that seems stupid, forget it.
EG: I refuse, I think it endearing.
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Jaune released a small laugh while looking at the sky "I am seriously dying to meet you… Aradia megido" and with that the screen went out.
Ruby and pyrha were quiet for a while until "does he mean ghost as in dead, or as in emotionally dead?" asked a nervous mercury not wanting to know if one of his few friends was into corpses.
"ah, a little funny actually, she is dead dead, but with a strange manifestation she is able to communicate, don´t ask me how, I am not an expert in ghosts" he said raising his hands, meanwhile even Salem seemed worried at this, if ghost were real, then one could know how to stop her if they had gotten into her castle, this was bad.
"So… jauney is a ghost rider?" asked yang trying to lighten the mood, which just caused pyrha to faint.
AN: I know, my worst chapter yet, it´s just that I don´t really know much about the ghost rider, so I decided to mess a little bit around, and make a small joke for those homestuckers here, since aradia being a ghost, it was just too good to let this ship pass by, sorry not sorry, and next chapter maybe about the performed cards and official presentation of the troll-kind