AN: So here we are, the chapter were our dear group of witnesses observe jaune mess up while making things, and by the way, last chapter was actually a small reference to a ship I call "last breath" which is between john (being replaced by jaune in this fanfic) and the lovely aradia megido, the one troll I believe nobody can refute is best girl. Another point of importance is the fact that after the events of the end of the beta version, the updates will be moved far between themselves, and I may start working on other pet projects which I am polishing right now, so sorry for that. And without further ado, let´s make this happen.
The audience had varying reactions around the group, but some of the most notorious clearly were those of mercury, yang, or even pyrha.
Mercury was still reeling from the little show he got from that jaune "he got shot on the head… several times… he still moved… was he immortal or some shit like that?" was his question as he turned to see bernz, who nodded sagely, making mercury whimper a little, not wanting to face him head on.
Yang meanwhile was quite vocal about her incredulity of his bike being fixed so suddenly "HOW… HOW CAN THAT HAPPEN?" her screams were quite annoying for the only Faunus with sensitive earing in the room, but she preferred to stay quiet.
"well… his curse does let him turn anything he carries into a corrupted version of itself, and once he reversed the transformation, it just sorts of fixes itself, at the start he broke his whip several times, but it always was on its best condition after his transformation" he said shrugging a little.
"he… he likes a girl… and that girl isn´t me" murmured a catatonic pyrha who stared into the void with anger in her soul, but she wasn´t able to scream since she had yet to come to terms with it.
"anyway, I got the signal of your jaune, so we may have jumped a little ahead on time from the last time we saw him… be ready for some bullshit on his end of the window" said Bernz as he finally started the window.
When the window started, the image had the house now being four times taller, and jaune cursing on one of the lower floors staring at the destroyed form of his piano while the punch card was there "GOD DAMNIT ROSE, I TOLD YOU TO NOT BREAK ANYTHING" he knew it would be useless to message her right now considering the fact that she would be working on her own things now that she had arrived at the game "whatever, let´s just punch some holes on my things and get over with this" he murmured while taking a lot of thrash he had collected along his house mostly for shit and giggles.
Once he had reached the totem lathe, with a lot of the blue cylinders on some cards, he decided to star messing around "come on, I want to see what can happen" he murmured while making a lot of different shaped cylinders, and once he had turned every possible combination he currently had on him, he decided to start alchemizing them, starting by swapping the cylinders only to have some fun "let´s see what I can make with all of this" he said before starting turning everything, and his first item ended being a bigger hammer, which had the pommel of a baseball bat, with the iron as the blunt parts of the hammer "… the wrinklefucker" he murmured at reading the name on the card after captchaloging it, and getting it out to admire it
"… He just… fused a hammer… an iron… and a baseball bat… into the most ridiculous hammer I have ever seen" said yang while holding onto her laughter, but not managing to well.
After that, jaune kept alchemizing things, and for the amusement of many, he had made a ridiculous shirt with the arc symbol put together with the pumpkin Pete's logo, and a small hood, it certainly wasn´t menacing, but after taking another trip for more cylinders and punch the new objects he started making more and more weapons, clothes and other things, but there were certain objects which certainly standed out. (AN: I will list them because without making this with some draws I feel like it would be unbearably boring)
Weapons:
-ARC´S JUSTICE: it was a hammer he got by fusing the tome of the arc´s legacy together with a sledge hammer that was hidden away on the room where they stored all the cleaning products, it´s appearance was that of a hammer with the arc symbol, and even thought it was a little bit on the pricey side, it ended up being really heavy so he did not think he would use it for now.
- Go to sleep little sucker: it was a hammer which had its blunt side being just some pillows, even the handle was soft on the touch… and he considered he could use this with people that he didn´t want to even scratch, just annoy.
-TECHNO PUNCH- it was a sledge hammer which was combined with his scroll, it could be made into a small compact form of two handles, and once one "broke" them apart, it just took a more digitalized form, which after testing on his window thinking it wouldn´t work, ended breaking the wall… he would need to be more careful.
CLOTHES:
-ARC´S PRIDE: this was a simple suit which was fused with his beacon´s armor, and even if a little awkward to wear, he thought it could be useful against the little devils.
-GO FOR THE CHICKS: it was mostly a jacket which had the arc symbol on the back, nothing too cool, and he decided to put it in the back of the closet, the name was just far too… direct, for his liking.
- GO TO SLEEP BITCH: and once again, he had done something to do with sleep, this time he had only combined his old sweat shirt with some sheets for his bed, and he had gotten the most comfortable sweat shirt on the world… this was going to be his new pj.
And after making those thing, which were the ones of most notable importance, or… awkwardness, he decided to take a look outside his house "world… here I go" he said before deciding to take the small road that seemed to take him into the dark eternity of this new place.
"… okay, when we get the chance, I am so going to see what he can do to crescent rose since I can´t use these things" said ruby really excited about being able to make new weapons, or modify her baby into being far stronger… maybe even have a more resistant material.
"I don´t know you, but I find funny how most of the things he made aren´t even useful, I mean… the wrinklefucker looks nice and all, but… I feel like it would be very useless against grim" said yang, only to be shushed into silence by Nora who decided to interrupt her like that any time she spoke so they could see the new adventure of the blonde knight.
(There will be a song; it is house of memories if you want to hear along)
Jaune kept walking after he reached out of his house, this while hearing some music on his headphones, murmuring a song just low enough to not be picked by the window, and while he kept walking, he suddenly felt like singing along "Woah, woah, Woah, woah" he started not noticing the small imps be attracted by the sound.
"He is… serious about this?" asked James ironwood while staring at the young man just start singing along to some song only he could hear.
He just seemed so happy, but the moment he saw one of the little imps jump at him, he just rolled his eyes and got out the wrinklefucker to deck him across the face, sending it flying back where it came from "If you're a lover, you should know the lonely moments just get lonelierthe longer you're in love" he seemed to be truly enjoying the moment, only to then be punched into a wall by an ogre of black skin, which seemed to be reeling from watching one of its underlings be sent out flying like that, but jaune even if a little hurt, kept singing, preparing to fight seriously "Than if you were alone memories turn into daydreams become a taboo" he jumped high to smash his hammer into his head, but the ogre grabbed him and used him like hulk used Loki on the first avengers movie, only to then launch him to gods know were.
"… at least some things never change" said yang while seeing how jaune got his ass handed to him because of his overconfidence, glynda goodwitch could only pinch the bridge of her nose and shook her head in disappointment.
When the window capted jaune´s signal again, he was in a small crater on the middle of a small plaza, with a lot of small lizard in two legs that were staring nervously at him and chattering between each other, and one seemed to be… preaching? While signaling to him and then to a mountain really far away, but by the time jaune started reacting, he was just complaining "m…. my back, it hurts so damn much" he murmured, and forgetting about the song that kept attacking his eardrums he started trying to accommodate himself into a sitting position "oh god, does… does somebody have some water? Ack… last time I hear music while fighting" he said while trying to make the pain go away from his back, to no avail "I…. repent… for… MY DECICIONS, AGH" was his scream, not noticing the little lizard get close to him with a glass, and awe on its eyes.
"so… vomit boy set sail into a village of lizard people who apparently now venerate him as a god?" asked yang snickering at how ridiculous it was, and finding funny how jaune kept complaining, forgetting that he did not have aura, and that the fall should have crippled him, but nothing of that seemed to be happening
And while jaune accepted the glass, he gave the little lizard a smile and a small and gentle pat on its head, making it get a little excited and start exhaling a bubble from its mouth, only to then be followed by the rest of the lizards, seeming some kind of ritual "… okay, I will fake not seeing that and just drink this" he said only to then take a small sip and then have his eyes widening "is this alcohol?" he asked confused about why they gave him that, but considering how everything seemed to be covered in oil, he decided to give a shrug and down the rest of the drink.
"A boy after my own heart" said Qrow with amusement seeing how ruby was screaming at him to stop, the schnee princess jr. just glaring daggers into jaune, and lastly yang seeming to be jealous.
"Not fair, the only time I could get alcohol and they refused to give me anything but a nonalcoholic strawberry sunrise" she murmured, making Qrow chuckle again.
Jaune smiled at the congregated lizard guys before rising up, still feeling a blunt pain on his back "well… at least the drink subdues the worst of the pain… you wouldn´t mind giving me some more for the road, right?" he asked the lizard with a kind smile, not noticing the rest of the small town start to mobilize in order to get some more, but the little lizard nodded and went along on his way, leaving jaune completely alone on the plaza, popping some bones back on their rightful place, and while feeling a little bored, he got his scroll out to notice it had survived the impact thankfully "next time I see big n´ ugly I am so going to smash his brains in" he murmured with some annoyance, but after getting his attention grabbed by the lizards, he noticed how they had at least twelve glasses of the same beverage of before "oh… thank you" he said, now having a lot more than what he bargained for, and decided to captchaloge most of the drinks, keeping one to drink then and get his body numb from the pain.
"Oh god, he is turning into uncle Qrow…" murmured ruby loud enough to be heard, and this actually caused some to turn towards Qrow who had chosen that moment to take a shot from his flask.
"Well, he should be damn proud of turning into a mini me" he said after finishing his drink, deciding to ignore the scoff from winter and the hateful flare from Weiss and pyrha.
Jaune let out a tired sigh, and with a smile he crouched at the lizards high "thanks a lot, I got to keep moving… if you wish, you can go to my house, it is the big white building over there" he said signaling to the still growing house… which now seemed to be an abstract sculpture "god damn it rose, I told you to play Sims 4 more" he murmured to then rise and decide to keep exploring and not get angry " SEE YOU LATER" he screamed at the village while going on his way to the adventure… and possible dead.
"Doesn´t he realize how much danger he is getting himself into?" asked rhetorically Weiss, staring at the window and how jaune kept walking, forgetting about the ogre from before.
"well, being honest, the ogre and other enemies will just spawn and stay in an area until they detect a player, then they will attack, and chase if they try to escape, but this ogre may think he killed him so he is not going to chase " said bernz thinking that was what had Weiss complaining
Jaune was still walking, and after he got bored from finally killing some small imps, he started considering walking back "fuck, should have brought a map with me… should have made a map" he corrected himself after remembering how he was on virgin soil practically "and my scroll is almost uncharged… should had charged it before coming here" he murmured again while turning around to come face to face with a blue ball similar to the thing that brought the harlequin and his grandpa to life "… okay, if this means I get and undead army, I will have to try and see if there are corpses for starter" he murmured really confused about why it was there, and after deciding to get closer, he noticed how much bigger than his kernel it was, and being the curious young man he was, he decided to let his scroll through first, considering that later he could ask rose or Dave to make a copy for him or pass a code, but seeing it pass through and no transformation, he did what any individual like him would do.
"Please tell me he won´t do it" said mercury staring at jaune like he was an idiot.
"I think he will" said emerald with a smirk "look at him go" she said.
With a jump into the ball, he suddenly appeared on his house, barely managing to not step on his scroll "whoa, nice trick" he said after noticing it go away, and deciding it wouldn´t be useful to ponder, he picked his scroll and went to his room, but when he arrived there, he found himself face to face with an unknown individual "… hello… are you with the imps? If so, please get out or I will answer with violence" he said trying to be a little bit polite, but the moment the newcomer turned, jaune could not stop himself but admire her face, it was on the grey tones, and she had a cute face, even if it seemed sharp, and even with her prosthetics on her left arm and a robotic left eye didn´t take anything out of her beauty "… okay, I am sorry for being rude" he said after that, ignoring how she was now glaring at him.
Pyrha was really angry and nervous watching this, jaune was staring at somebody even more love stricken than when he watched Weiss… and it just made a small turn to a feel of spite at seeing her damaged body, she was better looking than her, and jaune was falling for somebody like that?
Ruby on the other hand, compared her physic with the girl on the screen and reached the conclusion that jaune didn´t really like what she had called at her sister´s back as ""cow tits"" and it kind of made her hopeful.
"Who are you?!" her question seemed a natural one, but considering she was on his room, seeming to be stealing some of the stuff he decided to leave, he didn´t feel as mesmerized as before.
"I could ask you the same thing lady… look, this is my room, so if you could just leave anything you may have grabbed and we started over, it could be fantastic" he said, really hoping to not murder his chances like he did with Weiss, one bad crush going like that was more than enough.
"… Fine, 8ut if you think you can just attack me from my 8ack, you got another thing to worry about than your things" she said with an eye roll, which made jaune smile a little.
"Well then, pleasure to meet you, my name is jaune arc… and wait, are those horns real? Are you a Faunus?" he said and asked while extending a hand in a calm manner, which the girl in front of him seemed to stare before putting her attention on his face.
"I am the gr8 marquise spinneret Mindfang… and what is a ""Faunus""?" she asked while staring at him yet more confused, and uncaring about the extended appendage that he was offering.
" Oh, sorry it´s just that with the horns and unusual skin tone, I thought you would be a rare type of Faunus, and it´s a pleasure to meet you marquise" he said with a kind smile, not noticing the amused smirk on the girl.
"you do know that marquise is just a title… r8?" she asked, clearly enjoying making jaune feel awkward, and when she saw him stutter a little bit, she gave him a small punch "relax, I am not going to tear you apart… at least not yet" she said while winking at him with her only normal eye, and now that he noticed her robotic eye, he noticed that there were seven red flashes making the work of pupils "by the way, I do not know what a Faunus is, I am a troll" she smirked while jaune just stared at her like a confused puppy.
"oh god, Jason was right all along" were the words of a clearly traumatized ozpin who was trying to understand the fact that everything he thought was true may have been nothing but lies.
"I think… we may understand what Jason meant by jaune following his dream" said a professor port trying to understand how this meeting could as well be the first interspecies interaction… and it was on jaune arc´s hands…
Jaune stared at her blankly until suddenly a thought crossed his mind "wait… you mean like… alien? I thought trolls lived on caves and all that… then again, the media back on remnant was mostly on grim sightings and the movements of the hordes, even criminal activity was only transmitted to the huntsmen corps and police departments" he murmured after starting to think about his old home and how he learned more about the strife the civilians went by every day than he did on a full life as a civilian himself.
"Yes, I guess 8y your point of view I am an alien, 8ut consider this, from my point you are the alien" she said with her now considered casual smirk, since the moment jaune meet her, she kept that smirk on her face.
"Oh, well then… I hope I am not making this too awkward, but… where do you come from? I mean, when I was exploring this place I didn´t see anybody like you, only little lizard who seem to like to give out free alcohol" he said rambling a little bit, making ""spinneret"" laugh a bit at how dumb he seemed, and deciding to stop him, she decked him a little hard on his head.
"calm down, and yeah, I met them on the way here, they seem to 8e in a sort of peregrination" she said while signaling to the window behind her, and when jaune took a peak, he saw how a small group of lizards seemed to be walking to his house, maybe the village he had seen "and to answer your question a8out from where I am… my origin planet is called alternia, a really gr8 place if I do say so myself" she informed the blonde dunce with a smirk.
Weiss was really starting to lament ever going to beacon, only because she had to sit here and watch the most annoying boy she ever meet "I really want this all to be over" she murmured, uncaring about the look ruby and pyrha were giving the now confirmed alien.
"Nice, at least they seem nice, not like that big imp thing" he murmured while deciding to get one of his drinks from his sylladex, only to have it stolen from him by the troll.
"thank you" she downed the alcohol in just one swing, and when she separated her grey lips from the glass she let out a satisfied breath "this is gr8, better than any faygo I got" she smiled, and when she turned to jaune, he let his shoulders hang while getting another for her "thank you, you will make a gr8 sidekick… I guess" she said while eyeing him up and down, and nodding… not that jaune noticed, being too concentrated with making more of the drink, while staring at the code.
"… hey spinneret, what would you think of making something with the alchemitter? I mean, I just got back and since i don´t want to be a human ragdoll, maybe you could teach me how to use correctly this thing" he said, hoping for her to be better with these things than he was, and damn right he was.
"Sure… I got nothing else to do r8 now" she said while staring at jaune´s equipment for a moment "… this better be a joke, because if it isn´t I am so going to beat some sense into you" she said while brandishing her dice´s, making jaune take a step back, feeling in danger "go and get some things, I can´t believe I have to help even my sidekick" she said clearly exasperated.
"Okay, she seems to be smart enough" said Weiss nodding to what she thought was the troll arming correctly the blonde dunce.
When jaune came back, he had a lot of scrap metal on his sylladex, a lot of cylinders, and even some clothes, just to be on the safe part "put them on the totem lathe, and better be fast" jaune nodded, not wanting to make her angry, and after a while with spinneret moving the molded totems around, making some thrash to be alchemized again with other things, they reached the moment in which she made him give her a totem with his sledge hammer without modifications "so… what exactly are you doing?" he asked when he saw her get what seemed like a giant hammer, easily a little bigger than manhild, it was a crude weapon, having some gears on its sides, and being completely black, and it almost seemed like the weapon from that character from resident evil village (AN: Just saw the weapon and knew I had to add it, I loved the design) "woah".
"Oh my god… I LOVE IT hammer bros" screamed Nora while staring at the hammer on the window.
Meanwhile, ruby was grimacing at how bad aesthetically the weapon looked "give me some time and I can make it beautiful" she murmured, not caring for the strange look she got from her sister
Jaune smiled at her, but when he saw her staring straight at how he was handling the weapon, she was curious "I thought you would have a harder time carrying around, even thought of having a… friend of mine make it smaller for you" this actually made jaune smile more heartedly to her, making him miss the slight blush on her face at staring that smile.
"Don´t worry, I was at beacon for a while, and while I was nothing on sword play, I can carry heavy things, I mean, I parried a deathstalker claw on my initiation" he said, wanting to make himself more interesting, only getting the troll to stare at him a little curiously.
"What are those?" she asked while trying to see him falter, or get nervous, but jaune just seemed confused before he smiled good naturally.
"they are grim… but with that answer I guess that would mean nothing to you… how to explain" he murmured before he decided to check his scroll were he still had some notes in case he ever found another again "a deathstalker would be a giant scorpion… it may had sent me flying before me and my… former team… managed to kill it" he said, getting a little sad about remembering those time, only making spinneret roll her eye
"Forget a8out them, if they casted you out, then they clearly did not deserve you, stick with me 8londie, and we are going to make anybody on our way feel the pain of hell" she said while grabbing him from a shoulder, making jaune smile a little and nod.
"right away then spinneret" he said while putting his new hammer, which he had decided to name "marquise´s reckoning" mostly in honor of his new friend… even if that was not the name the card was giving him, he refused to call it in any other form.
Pyrha was seething at this point "WE DID NOT CAST HIM OUT" she screamed while trying to send a chair at the window, only to be unable to move anymore.
"Oh yeah, that is why the first jaune we saw was all chummy with everybody and not an angry killing machine" said mercury while smirking pyrha´s way, but this only made pyrha feel sad and sit down again, only lifting her sight to watch jaune keep going in tandem with this spinneret troll.
"So… how exactly do you use the dice to fight?" asked jaune while looking at her with a small smile, trying to make some small talk, not noticing the smile on the troll face at finally having somebody not judging or complaining all the time.
"you see, that is a small trademark secret, maybe later I will show you, but for now, how I fight is of no worry for a novice like you" she said almost uncaring, and when they reached the same intersection were jaune first ""fought"" the ogre, he noticed being deserted.
"Well… I guess that is right, I mean you managed to carry the hammer like it was nothing and still look… I better shut up now" he said trying not to make an idiot out of himself, only managing to make the troll laugh, and since she knew what he felt, she knew it was nothing that would annoy her… at least too much.
"Interesting, so does that mean that her species are stronger naturally than human and Faunus or is it just her… how is their society? ASK THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS MR. ARC" was the scream of a curious doctor oobleck
"anyway, I am helping you here in scavenging this place… more specifically YOUR world, for any object that could be useful, but let me make this clear, any boon dollars we find? I want the sixty percent" she said while jabbing a finger at jaune´s chest, who only looked confused at her face.
"Sure, I mean… I wouldn´t really know what to use it for, and with you wasting your time to help me, I guess that is fair" he said shrugging, this just managed to confuse the girl, she was used to a certain pushover, but this guy just seemed to sort of roll with anything and make an explanation for himself.
"Oh god, she is using him" said a grimacing ren, just now starting to ponder in what exactly are the reasons for this alien to help his former team leader
"Suit yourself… by the way, what is up with your hive? I didn´t see any recuperacoon" she said while still walking, this made jaune stop for a second, looking at her as if she would turn into an insect-like alien and eat him, but after that didn´t happen he decided to keep up.
"I… don´t know what a recuperacoon is, I guess it is something in which our species are different" he said while trying to be cheerful, not noticing the grimace of his companion.
"How do you stand the constant nightmares then?" she asked while looking at him straight on, making jaune pause and think.
"… Well… I don´t really have nightmares unless something really bad happened before hand… like that one time after beacon when I almost got mauled by an ursa mayor… or the time that creeper appeared on my small summer camp… yeah" he said while grimacing at the small memory trip he just got… not happy memories.
"Ursa like the lusus? Strange, they usually wouldn´t attack if you didn´t threaten their pack" said the troll while thinking what a creeper would be, but jaune just turned to see her again.
"… no… like, a grim, you know… black and scary, attracted to negativity?" asked jaune while trying in vain to explain himself, only make spinneret stop.
"no, the lusus are stark white, a black one would be… a mutant, but those are culled almost instantly by the drones" she said while looking at him as if he had grown a second head, before she made a face palm "right, different planets, maybe even different species of fauna in both, that makes more sense" she said while starting to continue walking, only to see an ogre standing in the middle of the road they were following "well, it seems you can finally use your new hammer jaune" she smirked while he seemed a little bit nervous but nodded.
"Yes… wish me luck" he said while advancing, not noticing the smile of spinneret widen more and have a strange shine in her eye at the mention of luck; she seemed excited at the prospect of it.
"well ugly, here we are again… just you and me" said jaune while getting his nerves in check, and when he turned to see the ogre advance towards him, jaune waited a little before getting tired and just run him, making the ogre think it would be as easy as before, but the problem with that was that rather than jumping, jaune used his new hammer to hit him on his kneecaps, effectively breaking them and making it fall on its ass screaming his soul out.
"GO FOR THE HEAD PUPA, YOU GOT THIS" was the scream of spinneret who seemed extremely amused by what jaune was doing, and with a nod, jaune got his hammer high enough to just hit it right on its face, the ogre too occupied with its scream to notice it was no longer alive and just a pile of grist and oil "good work my sidekick… I guess we still can make a badass out of you" this made jaune smile at her and the troll just smirked at him.
That was the last thing the individuals on the window saw before it went black, making pyrha just have a sort of lost look "he likes her… first Weiss and now this spinneret" murmured the champion who was lost in thought.
"That was awesome, just two hits and the ogre went puff" said Nora as hyper as always, she seemed happy.
"at least mister arc took seriously his second fight against that thing, and maybe she would be a good interference to his fighting habits" murmured glynda while considering what they knew of the troll… but this newcomer just made them ponder if there were more in the place where jaune was.
"Excuse me Bernz, but… how many trolls are in there" asked a curious ozpin who wanted to know in what was one of his favorite student getting at.
"well, there are… eleven trolls and one ghost troll, later robot troll" he said with a smile, but this only made ruby and pyrha turning to him, remembering how the last jaune had a crush on a ghost, then this meant that the last jaune was on his way to cause the apocalypse too
AN: Okay, that was this chapter, and I may go directly to another small timeskip, because in the next I want to present the classpects, and for those who may not remember, this troll is not an OC, since if one remembers correctly, the first time vriska presented herself to john, she called herself exactly as how I called all this chapter, on the next one I will clear this, and if you think this ship is sailing too fast… remember that on canon, kanaya and vriska fell for their respective humans in what would be the span of a pair of hours, so it isn´t really that fast, and consider that one of the reasons why john was hesitant to talk with them was thanks to karkat, we take those interactions and we have a john (jaune) being really friendly to the cute girl he just meet, and with that, this chapter ends, don´t forget to make recommendations for the "three years meteor travel" that will happen soon, where there will be only small snippets of the life of the humans and trolls trapped on the meteor all together.