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...CHAOS...!
All around the Kingdom of Vale it was absolute chaos as either the Grimm or the White Fang were killing civilians left and right not caring who they are just that they needed to be killed! Fires were burning down buildings and rubble was everywhere and that did not help in the evacuation effort! If that wasn't bad enough the robot army Atlas had brought with them had turned against their creators and started shooting civilians like crazy!
That was the only way to describe the situation in the Kingdom of Vale as Jaune and Pyrrah were running towards Beacon Tower to help Headmaster Ozpin fight Cinder Fall, a "student" as Haven Academy who had earlier attacked him in the secret vault under the tower that held according to her words the soon-to-be former Fall Maiden!
As Jaune was running with his partner towards the tower he began to realize that everything that had gone down over the last several weeks was connected!
Roman Torchwick was working with the white thing under her orders and that the whole Dust train incident was their first attempt to overrun the Kingdom with Grimm!
Then Roman himself purposely got arrested as Jaune remember that Roman supposedly was captured my Mercury Black and Emerald Sustai, Cinders teammates and without a doubt her fellow collaborators.
'I should have suspected something but all of us we're so focused on the tournament with Roman being in jail that we failed to realize that there was someone else in play!' thought Jaune with anger as he clenched his fist tightly and a vein appeared on his forehead to indicate his anger.
When Yang supposably attacked Mercury during the tournament that got her disqualified he should have known it was a setup! Yang may be a hot head but she would never attack anyone unless she was provoked first!
One of them, most likely Emerald by best guess probably has an illusion semblance that makes people she chooses to specifically see something that isn't really there! Emerald made Yang see Mercury when he in fact didn't to set her up as they probably saw her as an obstacle to their plan
Mercury wasn't even injured in the first place as Ruby told him during the rally at the Colosseum that he was walking around just fine like his legs were not even injured at all.
'The only explanation is that he has prosthetic legs as there is no way he could have taken the full force of Yang's punch with no Aura otherwise. But how did the paramedics not see this when they were taking him away?!" thought Jaune before he came to a conclusion.
Roman's ice cream haired partner, according to team RWBY appeared to have the ability to change her appearance and that's when it hit him! She and most likely Cinder were the paramedics that took Mercury away and that's why they didn't call out his prosthetic legs!
'If this wasn't bad enough they used Pyrrah to kill Penny as since she was a robot she was most likely immune to Emerald's semblance and thus the biggest threat since she was Ironwood's ace in the hole!' thought Jaune as he began to realize that Emerald was the reason Penny was dead as she made Pyrrah see something that wasn't there which made her use her polarity semblance to break Penny apart!
'But how did they get the robots to turn on everyone?!" thought Jaune before he realized that while everyone was so busy with the festival that they left one person in play and they didn't even know it as they thought he was defeated.
Roman was being kept prisoner on Ironwood's personal flagship! The same flagship that had the computer data that controlled and operated the robots. His partner must have disguised herself as a Atlas soldier and let him out so he could implant a virus or something to make the robots start acting crazy.
But how?! Only someone who knew the Atlas security system like the back of their hand to create such a virus!
"What are we going to do as we can't even call for help as communications are down?!"said Jaune as thanks to Cinder and that giant Wyvern Grimm that's flying around the city the Cross Continental Transit System was completely down and communication with the outside world was completely lost!
As Jaune was running to the tower to his partner he began realizing something important so as his partner was busy running Jaune pulled out his scroll and called something that he was necessary for his plan to work before he noticed the bottle of some liquid on the ground and picked it up and placed it in his back pocket.
"Pyrrah!"said Jaune getting his partner's attention.
"Jaune what-!"said Pyrrah as Jaune begin hugging her causing the invincible girl to begin blushing.
"I know you learned something terrible and that's why you were so confused that you ended up attacking me and for that I forgive you. I also don't know what's going on but you do and that is why you tried to gain the power of that girl or whatever with that strange machine for the greater good. I can see why Ozpin chose you to be the next Fall Maiden as you're more than qualified as you are no doubt the strongest first year of Beacon Academy."said Jaune sincerely as Pyrrah hug him back
"Jaune that is an important right now-!"said Pyrrah as a school locker landed behind them but she didn't notice as he kissed her on the lips.
"That is why it is important you live so you can lead the battle another day. You and Ruby have to lead the charge while I buy you guys time for you to escape so you can fight another day!"said Jaune after breaking the kiss and pushing Pyrrah into his locker before he closed the door.
"Jaune wait!"said Pyrrah as Jaune pulled out his scroll with a sad look on his face as she looked at him through the holes in the locker.
"I love you and I'm sorry..."said Jaune as he pushed a button on his scroll causing the locker to launch into the air towards the evacuation area.
"JAUNE!"screamed Pyrrah as Jaune looked at the locker one last time before he turned around and his face grew stone cold.
He knew he had no chance against Cinder, especially after her power boost but he wasn't intending to live. He was intending to buy his friends enough time to escape so they could fight another day as it was clear to him this battle was lost. As Jaune made his way over to the tower he called Ruby on his scroll and luckily she answered quickly.
"Jaune what is going on?! Where are you?!"asked Ruby frantically as she wondered where her best friend was.
"I'm close to Beacon Tower. Pyrrah is on her way to the evacuation area and I want you to meet up with her there Ruby. You two need to make sure you can save as many people as you can before you guys leave the city as well. The Battle is lost Ruby and you guys need to regroup and fight another day."said Jaune as Ruby was perplexed by the "you guys" instead of "us"
"Jaune just promise me you will be okay!"said Ruby but she got no answer from her best friend.
"...Sorry Ruby an Arc never breaks his promise but this time I can't promise you anything. You, Pyrrah, and the others are the only hope Vale and probably the rest of Remnant has. I will buy you some time to escape."said Jaune as he tossed his scroll to the ground as it was no longer necessary.
"Jaune? JAUNE?! Don't do anything rash! I can't lose any more friends today! Jaune answer me! JAUNE!"said Ruby frantically into her scroll but there was complete silence as Jaune stepped into the elevator and quickly push the button that would take him to the top of the tower where Cinder was.
As Jaune was waiting patiently for the elevator to take him to the top he began to get to work as he pulled out the switchboard in the elevator and began removing several wires and other metal components from inside the switchboard.
"I just attach this wire here and place this tube hear... and I tighten it with this duct tape I had on hand...and now for the finishing touches."said Jaune as he pulled out a bag of dust crystals and poured it into the strange device before he poured a brownish liquid onto the dust crystals until the tube was completely full, and when he was satisfied he placed several more metal components before sealing the tube up completely with duct tape.
Jaune quickly tossed to the liquid bottle to the ground revealing that it said benzene on the bottle.
Jaune took a deep breath has he knew that today he was going die but he was not going down without a fight!
Soon the elevator reached the top floor and Jaune stepped out of the elevator to see the former Headmaster's office now in ruins as the whole roof was blown off and rubble was everywhere!
"I'm honestly surprised. I was half expecting the invincible girl to be here instead of you."said Cinder as she stepped from behind a piece of rubble to show her presence.
"But the expendable loser is here in her place! She needs to fight another day but me, I'm just here to buy time."said Jaune as he pulled Crocea Mors from it's sheath before turning said sheath into its shield form.
"Cute. Do you of all people honestly think you have a chance against me, the new Fall Maiden!"said Cinder as she made a bit of fire appear in her hand.
"More like the False Maiden as you didn't earn that power yourself you just took it from the people that were more than deserving."insulted Jaune as he barely blocked the blast of fire from an enraged Cinder!
"Blasted fool! I am worthy of this power as this power is the least this corrupt world should give me after everything that it put me through!"
"Blah blah blah I had a terrible life so that gives me the right to make other people miserable. You just take and take and you don't care who gets hurt in the end!"said Jaune as he steaded his nerves for combat.
"Die!"said Cinder as she blasted fireballs at Jaune.
Jaune charged towards Cinder and proceeded to roll onto the ground to avoid getting hit before he got up and swung his blade at Cinder. Cinder just swung a blade made of glass to intercept Crocea Mors before she summon another one and attempted to stab Jaune in the stomach.
Jaune blocked it with a shield before he moved the blade to the side and hit Cinder in the face with his shield. Cinder stumbled back a bit before she released a massive amount of fire towards Jaune, that he only barely avoided by rolling out of the way.
Jaune picked up a piece of rubble and threw it at Cinder which she blasted in mid-air but that was just meant as a distraction as Jaune swung his blade which she barely avoided as some of her hair was caught in the crossfire and ended up getting cut clean off.
Cinder looked at her fallen hair and her anger increased that she couldn't believe such a weak poor excuse of a huntsman in training had actually managed to cut her hair!
"Enough games!"exclaimed Cinder as she began summoning blades of glass like crazy as Jaune was barely managing to avoid getting struck but little by little his clothes were getting ripped as it was only because of his massive amount of Aura that he was still alive.
Cinder began to ignite her glass swords with fire causing Jaune to grunt with pain as he could feel the heat being transferred into his metal weapons which he barely managed to hold even though it was extremely painful as he felt like his hands were on fire the more she struck his weapons with her swords.
Jaune knew it was a losing battle so he tossed his shield to the side and punched Cinder in the face, some blood fell out of her nose before she looked at him with anger and stabbed him in the right side of the chest with her glashb sword! His aura couldn't protect everything and the tip of her blade ended up piercing his chest as blood began to seep out of the wound!
Jaune gritted his teeth as the pain was truly unbearable!
"I can't believe you made a fool of me! You, who is nothing more than a pathetic weakling!"said Cinder with anger as Jaune dropped Crocea Mors on to the ground.
"Yeah... but this weakling is going to make sure your maimed in a way that every time you see your scars you will remember me."said Jaune as he pulled out the makeshift weapon he made earlier in the elevator and placed it next to her flame hand spear.
"What is that supposed to be your secret weapon?"asked Cinder who honestly felt like this fool was making a mockery of her!
"No it's something I whipped up by combining dust crystals with benzene fuel and a bunch of metal into a makeshift bomb!"said Jaune as blood fell out of his lips as a determined look appeared on his face.
Cinder's eyes grew wide as she quickly realized what this meant and tried to get away but Jaune used his left arm to grab her right arm
Cinder tried to break free by stabbing him with her free left arm but Jaune moved his head out of the way before biting Cinder in the arm with his teeth. Cinder tried to move but Jaune was not letting go as the bomb in his hand was burning like crazy but he wouldn't let go no matter what.
Soon the dust crystals and benzene inside were starting to ignite with the heat as Jaune knew he didn't take much for benzene to ignite and combined with the dust crystals they would certainly both go boom!
Cinder meanwhile looked at the Giant Wyvern Grimm and almost on command it proceeded to fly towards the tower to try to help her.
Jaune saw this and smiled through his biting teeth as he knew that he was killing two birds with one stone with this sacrifice!
Meanwhile Pyrrah landed at the evacuation area and using her semblance quickly remove the door from the locker as she stepped out and fell to the floor as Ruby and Weiss ran over to see what was wrong.
"Pyrrah what happened?"asked Weiss as tears fell down Pyrrah's face.
"Jaune push me into his locker to face Cinder alone."she said through her tears as both members of team RWBY look towards the tower.
Meanwhile the giant Wyvern Grimm landed on top of the tower and it proceeded to lower its head towards Jaune and Cinder.
Cinder saw this and look relieved for a moment before hearing a gurgling sound in Jaune's makeshift bomb and realize it was going to go off. Acting on pure survival instinct Cinder freed her right arm and forge the glass sword and without much thought cut her own left arm clean off to get away.
Jaune knew it didn't matter if she got away as she was still within range of the blast as he spat out her severed arm and fell to the floor as he began to pass out as the makeshift bomb ignited.
BOOOOOOOM!
That was the only sound everyone throughout the city could hear as they saw Beacon Tower go up in flames from a massive explosion! Cinder who managed to get to the elevator was still caught by the blast as part of the heat hit part of her face and several other parts of her body before the elevator was launched into the sky.
The Wyvern Grimm's head meanwhile was completely blown off to smithereens and soon it's dead body fell to the bottom of the tower creating a massive shockwave in the process.
Ruby, Weiss, and Pyrrah couldn't believe what they just saw as they knew Jaune was up there when that explosion occurred and within moments Ruby and Pyrrha just passed out from the shock as they couldn't believe one of the most important people in their life was now gone!
Weiss meanwhile just turned her head away from the flames of Beacon Tower as tears fell down her face as although he was annoying when he was persistently asking her out. She had recently started seeing him in a better light and even though the two of them could be close friends.
"Idiot..."said Weiss as Jaune had just sacrificed himself and for the life of her she couldn't figure out why!
Blake saw the explosion as well as she was running away from the evacuation area to who knows where before a tear fell down her face as she quickly realized that someone sacrificed themselves to try and stop the Battle of Vale.
Yang on the other hand was being treated for her missing limb in one of the medical Bullheads but she was still close enough to overhear her teammates as soon tears fell down her face as she knew Jaune had perished with the tower.
"NOOOooooo!"yelled out Nora as she overheard Pyrrah as well as Ren was trying his best to comfort her while trying to hold back his tears to peer strong as he had to be strong for her.
Crocea Mors meanwhile fell to the bottom of the Tower before it stabbed into a rock and stayed in place as what was once it's sheath landed not too far from it completely damaged with the Arc crest barely recognizable.
Meanwhile on top of the tower a small tear of energy appeared to be Jaune once stood before it seemed to repair itself before it completely dissipated from sight like it was never there.
No one knew that Jaune Arc did indeed survive the Battle of Beacon and that his journey was far from over...