Accidental Villain 2

I won't lie to you all this day was a really strange one, half the time I had no idea what was going on and I really didn't plan out anything for the next day, I only focused really on destroying what I had made and the notes about it, I never really thought that far into the future, so waking up this day was a massive shock to me.

The very next morning Jaune rolled out of bed…

SMACK

And fell right onto the floor in a heap of pain. "Owww." He really needed to buy a bigger bed.

Pushing himself off the floor Jaune made his way over to his homemade laptop and switched it on and put in his multiple passwords and switched on the news. His body mostly working on auto-pilot at this point before he had his morning hot chocolate, most scientist would start their day off with a coffee but Jaune usually did it with a hot chocolate, he found it worked out better for him.

As the hot water boiled and he spooned in the hot chocolate powder and then put in the marshmallows. Finally the kettle dinged and he poured it into his favourite mug; the Glynda Goodwitch mug.

Taking a deep sip of the drink and sighing in bliss, Jaune turned back to his laptop just as the news was rolling onto his screen.

"-And in more local new; an explosion rocked the neighbourhood last night as this man: Jaune Arc. Blew up a science lab in MERLOT Tech Conglomerates main building, where they were rumoured to be in the final stages of development of a new sleeping pill that would allow people to sleep peacefully for the whole night as well as medicine to combat feelings of anxiety and stress. Now because of the dangerous efforts of Jaune Arc, all the research has been lost. I have been Lisa Lavender, back to the studio now-"

Jaune quickly switches channels as this must be a bad dream.

"-Jaune Arc committed an act of terrorism last night by blowing up a specialised laboratory of the esteemed Dr Merlot." "You know I heard that he was simpley posing as a scientist to try to assassinate the good Doctor." "Terrible behaviour, more on the story later."

Jaune switches channels again; WOLF news wasn't known for there sensible rants that was for sure.

"-The pictures clearly show Dr Arc using some kind of device to escape the laboratory and the look on his face when the explosion happened, in that light you can see the smile-"

Jaune switches again.

"Well that's the sports and now on to an even bigger bomb than the Knights loss, Jaune Arc, a scientist in Vale attempted to destroy one of Dr Merlots buildings, fortunately nobody was hurt, but the act of terrorism still remains, if you see this man please call the police or a hero, he is to be considered armed and extremely dangerous."

Jaune stands there in his superhero t-shirt and Pumpkin Pete boxers and sipping his hot chocolate with marshmallows. This was not how he saw it going, he really should of anticipated the news stations blowing it all out of proportion, but he had faith in their ability to maybe do a little bit of research into the incident... even though he destroyed all of the evidence... not his smartest moment.

Ideally he thought that Merlot would be the type of person to keep it all close to the chest, but instead he had decided to put the explosion that Jaune was very certain that he didn't cause; on him. Sure he expected consequences for destroying the 'medicine' but not for taking the fall for blowing up part of a building and also being branded a terrorist did not sit well with him at all, a rogue scientist he could handle but a terrorist? That was a bit to violent and Jaune hated violence, well he liked action movies but because he enjoyed the expert stunts from the martial artists; Mistral style films were his favourite Chackie Jhan was the best.

Jaune thought the best chance that he had right now was to turn himself in and explain the whole situation to the police, maybe he could go to the Happy Huntress agency and he could confess to the Warrior for Truth hero; Robyn also known as Councilwoman Hill. She had a semblance that allowed her to tell if people were lying to her through contact, he also knew that she couldn't really control it and it happened whenever she touched anyone, it also had the side effect of showing when every she lied, perfect for a member of government many people had joked, but those had quickly stopped when she quickly routed out a lot of corruption.

Jaune might not have paid that much attention to heroes but it was hard when they were shaping the very city and life he was living, he couldn't name you any up and coming heroes though or any other agency; the Happy Huntress's' were the main exception because they were so awesome.

If anyone could help him it would be the heroes and the police, they could get to the bottom of this and discover that Merlot was framing him and had a nefarious plan right from the start.

Throwing on his jeans and bunny hoodie and then his trusty lab coat, Jaune grabbed some of his more experimental tech and stuffed it into his messenger bag. While he was looking out of the window he noticed two black SUV's pull up out the front of his apartment building. Now Jaune had seen a lot of movies, like loads, he knew that most people liked to reference pop culture in conversation so in a way to make friends he tried it, for some reason he couldn't find the right level to talk about it with others as he never got far into the conversation before they left, maybe he hadn't watched the right movie to talk about yet? So he spent as much spare time as he could watching them and he had seen about 500 films in the last 5 years in a hope to catch up with everyone, but he was getting side tracked; if there was one thing he learned from any movie.

Black SUV means bad guys are coming.

He watched as three men got out of each car, all wearing dark suits with red ties and all wearing red tinted sunglasses. Textbook villains, or more accurately henchmen, low quality muscle, goons, grunts … Jaune had run out of things to say about them but they were bad news. He hoped that they were not here for him, he really did but he knew better. The timing was too coincidental with the various news reporting's.

Quickly leaving his apartment and locking up the door, Jaune wondered if he could make it out of the back door of the building before they managed to get up to his floor, but much like most other things those hopes and dreams were shattered very quickly as four of them appeared down his hallway blocking off the stairs. They shared a tense moment where they all looked into each other's…sunglasses.

They were wearing them indoors.

The sad thing was two of them kind of looked familiar to him but he couldn't remember right now where he had seen them from.

"I don't suppose you are here to take me to the police?" he asked nervously eyes darting between them and the floor not really sure where he should be looking. None of the men made a sound as they began to approach him, grinning maliciously as they pounded their fists against their palms.

"Guess not." Muttered Jaune, who reached into his messenger bag and pulled out a shield grenade, one of his favourite designs. He quickly tossed it between the four and it activated splitting them down the middle, forcing them up against the walls and leaving the hard light shield grenade between them. Jaune then dropped a freeze mine that exploded into little pebbles of ice which wrapped around their feet holding them in place.

The dark suited people all made shocked gasps as they tried to comprehend what had happened between them, now they were frozen to the floor and could not stop Jaune as he raced by, tapping on the side of the grenade and deactivating the shield as he went. "Sorry about this guys, don't worry the ice will melt soon, probably. The heating in this building has never been great."

Not bothering to hear their replies Jaune sprints down the stairs and spots two of the other members of the dark boy band who both glance up at him. One of them pulls out two hatchets from thin air and the other sucks in a deep breath. Jaune doesn't wait to find out what either of these things can do so he activate his hard light shield on his watch and jumps off the stairs towards them. Turns out the guy taking the deep breath could breathe fire, not that it affected the shield as Jaune blasted right through the flames and crushed him bellow the weight of himself, along with the hatchet man who had moved behind his fire breathing friend.

As the three of them laid there in a groaning mess, Jaune pushed himself up, just because it was a shield, didn't mean it didn't hurt when he landed on the other side of it. It was all hard light after all. Making sure that he still had everything in his bag and he was all okay, he really didn't want to break his arms or legs again, he made a mad rush for the front door where he expected he would find the last guy, and he did he was just trying to flirt with the landlord and let me tell you he doesn't care about anything but rent, something he screamed at Jaune for the first few weeks that he moved into this building.

Slipping past the two of them and into the street Jaune ran as fast as he could, which was actually fairly quick for a science nerd, a life time of running away from experiments gone wrong and people who for some reason wanted to hit you had made him into something of a long distance runner and a quick sprinter. Once he is a good distance away from his apartment building he stops in the park and sits down on one of the many benches, honestly one of his things on the bucket list was to actually get his name on a bench for a scientific achievement of his, it was going to be so cool then he could come and sit on his own seat, or he might even meet a pretty girl on his bench! Now that would be a great start up for conversation and how could she not be impressed with him for being on a bench and he could talk to her about science! Yeah that was the dream.

Right now though it seemed like a far off dream and he needed to do something about it and fast; he couldn't go to the police now. If movies had taught him anything and honestly he had been mostly raised on them, then the police force was probably bought and paid for by whoever hired those black suited thugs.

This meant that he now had a mission that he had to undertake and to do that he first needed to clear his name before he could go any deeper. He had destroyed all of the notes about how to make the pill, but he had not destroyed the results of the tests at the time. He knew that they could not gain any information on how to create the pill from seeing how the participants would react after they had taken it. There were no notes on the reports about the chemicals or ingredients, just the participants actions and health which would be useless to them, but not to Jaune now.

They would tell him everything about how the person acts and how they were more susceptible to being ordered around and mind controlled by Merlot and his company, and a group of people the size of Vale all angry and following the orders of one man was a recipe for complete disaster. Now if the lab with all of the reports had been blown up, then that meant that the records building uptown would have the back-ups of the reports. They wouldn't have any copies of his notes as they were all on paper and he kept them close to his chest, no way was anyone taking credit for his work… and now he really hoped that nobody was going to try and make it again.

So Jaune had a destination and begun his long walk to the record building on the corner of town, his plan was to gather as many of the participant observations as possible as well as how they said they felt after taking the pills and also some of Merlot's personal recordings about each of the different types of medication.

Jaune really hoped that he would be able to find evidence about why it was a good thing he destroyed the medicine. Maybe he could have tried to alter it, but he had failed and it resulted in that mess so he had to start again.

Like most of the things in his life it was because he wasn't good enough the first time around, even when he worked so hard on it. Even when he thought that he was making great progress and taking really large strides in the right direction; he still failed. He just didn't want his failure to affect the rest of Remnant.

He idly thought about what his parents would think of his current status as a fugitive; as far as he knew the majority of his family was still in Ansel, with some being in Argus. At least he didn't have to worry about his family of heroes taking him in; he probably wasn't even on the radar of most heroes or sidekicks because he was so much of a low threat. All he had to do was avoid the police on his way; hiding his face was sort of pointless. The news might have shown off a photo from his work badge but he knew he was un-remarkable in the looks and everything else department so nobody would probably take any notice about him at all.

The walk was long, taking most of the morning and it was just after lunchtime when Jaune finally managed to arrive outside of the four story record building, the only sign of security was an old rusted camera and an even older man sitting behind a desk asleep. So Jaune carefully opened the door and made his way inside and around the desk to look at the guards computer, turns out he was all logged on and there was a movie playing that he was asleep to, Jaune left it playing in the corner of the screen and searched for his name in the system and any reports concerning his experiments.

The hard copies were located in section 5 on the top floor so Jaune said a silent thank you to the snoozing man and walked towards the stairs, he didn't trust elevators after he was once stuck in one for three hours because of a prank the other students in the university once played on him. Just as a beautiful young woman walked out of the elevator as he passed it and froze when she saw him, Jaune then tensed up as he knew who this was as well since he had tried to strike up a conversation and casually ask her to a science convention.

It didn't go so well.

"Dr Arc?"

"H-hi Venus, lovely uhhh… weather?" Jaune tried weakly as she stood in shock, she must have seen the news this morning and was probably afraid of him right now. "Uh any chance you could forget you saw me?" Jaune tried, he really did, but Venus walked straight passed him and already had her phone out, probably calling her brother who was a sidekick for, Jaune really couldn't remember the name of the hero, he thought they were lucky or un-lucky or were they fast? However he could have been wrong, but either way Jaune needed to be quick.

As he raced up the stairs he reached the top floor quickly without bumping into anybody else, there was an old woman pushing a trolley but she paid him absolutely no attention what so ever so he just jogged past her and into the record room. Naturally section 5 had to be at the back and since his name was Arc it meant that his reports were right at the very top in the first shelf, seriously who designed this system?

After a bit of climbing and falling and then searching for stuff to stand on, Jaune finally managed to get his records and reports down. Further searching went into the paper work and he found that Merlot had written beside most of his findings that he was more interested in making people angrier and more subservient towards his desires and goals. This was the stuff that Jaune needed to bring to the eyes of the heroes and the police.

That doesn't mean it will be an easy battle though; Merlot has been a staple in the hero community for a long, long time. Good friends with the number 10 Metal hero Ironwood and had been funding most hero agencies for his companies life. The only heroes that he didn't have much to do with were the Happy Huntresses and the number 1 hero Ozpin, everyone else he supplied with equipment. Jaune was a little worried that he might have most of the heroes in his back pocket because of this and send some of the more ruthless ones after him like rank number 5 Qrow or rank number three Maria, both solo heroes who were known for their heavy combat with villains.

As he was stuck in his musings the elevator dinged as it reached the top floor and Jaune tensed up in fear, surely Venus' brother Neptune wasn't that fast was he?

"Look he might be here so Roy, Nolan and I will spread out, May stay near the elevator, Nep says he doesn't have a semblance so he should be easy pickings."

"Yeah but what if he has a secret one Brawnz? What then?"

"Then we fight him and win, we got this guys. When have I ever let you down?"

"Oh don't open that can."

"Shut up and start looking."

'Okay four on one, we've faced those odds before Jaune, I didn't like them and if I remember rightly someone ended up throwing you off the roof.' Jaune thought to himself as he dug around in his bag of tricks for a suitable gadget. He had no idea who these people were and he had no idea what semblances they had so he would just have to hope that they could be restrained easily by surprise, he really hoped that he could just sneak past them, maybe explain to this May that he wasn't actually the bad guy and that he was trying to prove his innocence.

From observation they all looked to be around Jaune's age, so they most likely were sidekicks of an agency and not fully fledged heroes yet. There was still a license exam they had to take if his memory served him correctly. Back before he found his love of science he had briefly thought about becoming a hero like his dad, now he realised he wasn't good enough to stand with his father like the rest of his siblings.

Pressing his back to the shelf he waited for one of the young men to pass him and then he rolled out a device he had worked to improve lots since he first used it.

"AHHHHH." The young man with dreadlocks screamed as the anti-gravity grenade shot him up and smacked him into the ceiling trapping him there, it would not have been his first choice but it would keep him out of the fight and it was only a little bump on the ceiling.

"What the hell?" Yelled out one of the other teammates as Jaune ducked around the back off the shelves and then ended up face to face with the woman in-front of the elevator who locked her eye on him, her hat was slipped over her other eye. She then after a split second of hesitation threw a bola with excellent accuracy that wrapped around his legs and knocked him to the ground.

"Oof." He let out as he fell. Luckily his arms were still free and able to reach into his bag, even though he promised the government he wouldn't make any more laser weapons it had not stopped him from making a laser weapon that was a lot smaller and didn't need a special crystal as he had lost contact with all of his primary school friends. Although he was pretty sure he got a re-union e-mail last week but they never responded to his questions shame would have been nice to know how they all turned out and what passions they had found... he was getting side tracked again.

Using the laser knife he cut through the bola and scrambled away quickly from where he had been knocked over and back behind the shelves.

"GUYS HE'S GOING RIGHT!" Screamed the woman, as Jaune looked back behind him and noticed that the guy he had hit with the anti-grav was still knocked out in the air after bumping into the ceiling... okay it was more of a smack, but it wasn't just his head that hit it, his whole body hit the ceiling so the impact was spread out across his body.

Then hot on his heels and catching up to him quickly was a guy in a tank top and shaved hair on his sides. He launched through the air and landed in-front of Jaune, who quickly tried to turn to go a different way, but the guy jumped and flipped again landing in Jaune's way. He clearly had some kind of agility or leaping semblance, well you couldn't jump if you were stuck to the ground, and he had perfected the foam grenade since the last year, now to see how it held up in a field test.

WACK

The guy punched Jaune around the face, now this was not the first time he had been punched and he was pretty used to it so while it might have floored anyone else, Jaune just stumbled. The tank-top guy was upon him again and tried to punch him but Jaune ducked into a tackle, wrapped both arms around his waist and fumbled with his bag for a second. Enough time for tank-top to knee him in the stomach and throw him down the aisle. As Jaune lay there he rolled over onto his back and held smiled slightly.

"What are you grinning at criminal?"

"Tick-tick-boom." Jaune rasped after having the wind knocked out of him from the knee kick.

Tank-top looked confused for a second, but then he heard the first and second tick and his expression changed to panicked quickly, just as he was caught in a explosive blob of foam that sealed him up. Jaune smiled at his furious face and picked himself up from the ground.

"Don't worry; it will dissolve in 2 hours." He reassured the tank-top guy as he then rubbed his chest where the knee had hit him, that hurt a lot and he could taste blood on his lip.

Running out of the section of books, or trying to run as he stumbled a little since the hits might not have floored him they still had some impact behind them; Jaune then came face to face with a guy wearing double denim… good look for him actually. He also had a metal rod in his hand and he then waved it around like a magic rod and an arc of electricity blasted out past him as Jaune dived into a group of boxes, narrowly avoiding becoming a very well cooked piece of meat.

Activating his hard light shield when he rolled out of the boxes Jaune managed to absorb the next blast of electricity.

"Is that Bio-electricity? Or have you managed to get a wand that can alter the particles in the air to become charged enough to strike out?"

"What?"

"What metal is that made out of? Silver would be my bet since it is the most conductive and it is not the colour of Copper, but silver is quite hard to get a hold of, so it could be Aluminium."

"Have you ever been in a fight before? There isn't this much talking normally."

"Hey I thought we were having a conversation."

A sharp bolt of electricity blasts out of the rod and shoots towards Jaune who ducks back behind his shield and retreats from the shot around the corner of the maze of shelves and boxes.

Nolan is then joined up by May after Jaune hides around the corner, just as Nolan makes to follow him May grabs his arm.

"We need a plan of attack; he's already taken out two of us."

"I have a plan it's called winning." And then he charged off around the corner after where Jaune had gone.

"Yeah, cause that's always worked out for us." She muttered as the images of a crazy ginger filled her mind and the sound of her crackling laughter haunted her dreams. Right now she could hear the sounds of Nolan firing off his electricity all over the place trying to strike this Jaune Arc, from the numerous sounds she assumed he must be missing so she made her way the long way around and saw that Nolan had him trapped against a wall, with his shield glowing very brightly. Before when she saw it, it was white, now it was a blue colour, perhaps the electricity had changed it.

Whatever the case Nolan had the criminal cornered and now May could wrap him up in her bola's not like she would miss, she never missed. As she wound back her arm to throw the constricting equipment, Jaune planted himself strong behind his shield and a brilliant white arc of energy blasted out towards Nolan and her. She managed to dive mostly out of the way but Nolan was hit with the full brunt of the attack, sending him flying back through several shelves full of wood and metal. Meanwhile May was flipped over the whole section and landed in a heap near the elevator, she wasn't out but boy was she down.

She then watched as Jaune checked that he had the paper he needed and ran over to Nolan and checked his pulse and then the rest of his body? Why did he care about that?

She watched as he jogged over to where Roy was still being held up in the air and then Roy dropped from the air as the energy that was keeping him up there was taken away with a loud THUD.

Jaune felt very guilty about that one as he was sure that was going to leave a lot of bruises in the morning, he tried to catch him but he was very weak and he just fell out his arms. He made his way quickly over to the stairs where he saw the woman trying to get up and he looked at her with a concerned gaze. "Would you like some help?" he asked nervously, she might hit him, you can never be too careful.

Instead she just glared at him with an evil look and then threw a bola at him which missed…

For the first time in her life May managed to miss a shot. All because of some dumb blond scientist that her teammates and herself had underestimated because he had no powers, she slumped down into unconsciousness as smacking into the floor hard after that shockwave attack had really hurt her, she could only imaging how much that had hurt Nolan.

Jaune winced as her head hit the floor and she was out cold and then he heard the sirens and bolted for the stairs and ran as fast as he could out of the backdoor of the building all the way back to the park, his lungs were burning, he hadn't done that much exercise since he joined that gym. He had heard that gyms were good places to go for social interaction as everyone was joined together in the desire to make their bodies stronger. So Jaune worked hard and started with the treadmills and soon found out that most people listened to music while using those, this had prompted Jaune to conduct the first of many experiments to find the ultimate source of human interaction. Jaune had concluded it wasn't the treadmill, bench press, rowing machines, squat rack, chin up, bycicles or the dance lessons, although they had been really fun those dance lessons and he had learned so many new styles from them. He even got to dance with a partner, a beautiful older woman named Kali who told him about her daughter and he talked to her about science and why he was there.

That was actually the longest time he had spoken to someone about his love for science, although not at once as she kept asking him to stop at a lot of parts so they could listen out for instructions, and then she would start the talk about her daughter, she sounded like a lovely young woman with a strong passion for faunus rights and justice. Jaune said it would be nice to meet new people as strangers were friend you just haven't met yet, Kali shared the sentiment and the next day she told Jaune that her daughter was really focused on her hero stuff, so he just had his lesson of dance with Kali and then she said goodbye.

He did ask if she wanted to go and watch a film or get lunch together, but she said that would be strange for a married woman to do with a younger man. Jaune wasn't really sure why that would be strange they were friends after all. Unfortunately the members of the gym saw it a different way and though he was harassing her, so they called her husband. That had been an awkward experience as Jaune had tried to explain it to the serious looking man, although his beard was really cool.

Back in the park Jaune had sat back down on his bench and contemplated where he was going to stay the night, he could go back to his apartment, but he imagined that the police would be all over it. He doubted a hotel would take him in for a night, someone might recognise him on the off chance that they paid more attention to him than he needed. Maybe he should look for a place in the sewers to stay like those guys in the cartoons, but that would really smell so he wasn't going to go down that low.

Looks like he was sleeping in a bush tonight, after all you were warmer in a bush than you are on a bench, unless he could find an abandoned warehouse to crash in and really complete the criminal checklist.

Actually a warehouse wouldn't be the worst idea, so with that Jaune stood up and began his walk. It was getting dark now and after the battle with those four sidekicks his adrenaline had worn off and he was really feeling tired right now so a sleep would be good for him, and also to get a bite to eat wouldn't be too bad either. So he stopped at a bakery on the way and managed to buy a large ham and cheese sandwich without anybody taking notice of him, which was perfect.

Making his way to the industrial side of Vale Jaune stumbled upon several different buildings that looked run down and old enough that nobody was probably going to be using them anytime soon, so he picked the smallest and most unassuming one that looked the most uncomfortable; like he would deserve anything good in the first place.

Pushing past the broken door and moving in further Jaune locates a nice looking table for him to snooze on in the back office, and it had some plug sockets that he could use to charge up his laptop that he grabbed on his way out. He could stand to lose everything else in his apartment, but he couldn't lose the laptop or the hard drive within, that had too many great designs and notes on it that he would never be willing to part with.

Taking off his bag and his lab coat and folding it up into a make shift pillow, Jaune lies down on the table and closes his eyes.

He didn't want to fight those people earlier, he just hoped they were not hurt too bad.

When Jaune woke up he looked around through tired eyes, it had not been the best sleep. It had rained hard and since the roof had hole in it in almost every place, a lot of rain had made it through and pitter-pattered against the ground, some drops had even got in his face, even when he moved around on the table, so needless to say he was restless.

And he had to go through the morning without a hot chocolate.

Turning on his laptop and plugging in the charger Jaune was surprised when he saw that the laptop was actually charging, good to know the building had electricity in it still.

Turning on to the news chanel Jaune wondered what he was going to see today, he really hoped that it wasn't anything to do with him toda-

JAUNE ARC ATTACKS SIDEKICK TEAM BRNZ

Well never mind then.

"This is Lisa Lavender reporting in; yesterday Jaune Arc, who is suspected in the bombing of MERLOT tech Conglomerate lab, was spotted in this research building also linked to the science company. One brave member of the work force quickly contacted a local hero agency and a team of sidekicks was quickly dispatched; however team BRNZ were quickly out smarted as it turns out Dr Arc used a variety of scientific devices to cause damage to the site and to the young heroes in training. Once more we are looking for this man Jaune Arc, if you have any information please contact the police or a hero. Back to the studio."

That was problematic for later on then. Well at least he now knew he was wanted, that's always a good thing right?

Jaune sighed to himself and pulled the paper records of his bag, along with the patient examinations and subject behaviour it also had how the human subjects had been paid, and the thing is Jaune did not recognise any of those accounts. They were not MERLOT company accounts, nor were they government accounts, these were something else and they were all going through multiple different transactions before they made it to the person. Furthermore, now that he had a chance to sleep on it Jaune was pretty sure that one or two of those guys that came to his apartment had been in the test trials, which only raised more questions.

He loved questions because there was always an answer, sometimes you just needed to be patient and determined to work it out.

Step number one for today was to head to a bank, he need to track where the accounts physical address was, it might have been bounced around a lot but Jaune knew that these different places were all in Vale, which meant that the origin was also in Vale and there he could at least find some more answers and get closer to clearing his name. he couldn't turn himself in now, not after having fought with some young heroes.

And he was very lucky to manage to get out of there without them taking him down, he wasn't sure that most of that gadget stuff would hold up under the acts of combat, it had all been made for rescue stuff.

Slipping on his trusty lab coat and his messenger bag, opting to leave his laptop hidden here as he couldn't risk that getting taken from him if he was taken in by the wrong people. Jaune began to walk in the direction of the closest bank and it didn't take him very long to actually get there which was handy for him. He managed to get through the door really easily and was hoping that nob-

"Hello there and welcome, how can I help you today?" came a young girl's cheerful voice.

Son of a biscuit.

"Oh, um. No, no, I think I'm uh good?" Jaune tried to say, however the cheerful girl didn't step away and instead gave him a curious look, she looked like she was just out of secondary school and this was her first job, well good for her.

"You look familiar sir, are you perhaps famous? Or on TV?"

"Porn." Came Jaunes very quick and nervous reply as it was the first thing he could think of that was the farthest away for the news.

Judging by the girls shocked face and how his own must look, he had certainly thrown her off the mark, which was the whole goal.

"-and continuing on from our earlier news story; if you have any information about this man: Jaune Arc, please come forward, now on to the weath-"

Jaune didn't know if he should feel relieved now the girl didn't think he was an adult film star or if he should feel more ashamed that he was now outed as a criminal.

'Well one of them made some lien at least' he reasoned in his head.

"Um so yeah…"

"Oh Orm, your Jaune Arc…"

"Sorry." By this point the other people in the bank had noticed who he was as the photo on the TV behind his head had really given it away. Granted there were three other workers in the building and an old man and woman were dealing with one of the bankers. Now everyone was staring at him with fear and slowly shuffling towards the walls.

While it probably wasn't his best plan Jaune then chose to say something that he always wanted to if he ever did decide to become a villain.

"Nobody move?" he said nervously.

Everyone froze and they all put their hands in the air, the girl had backed away from him with fear clear in her eyes and that made Jaune feel really bad.

"Um actually now that I think about it there is something I would like some help with-"

"Please don't blow us up! Please please! We will do whatever you want but please don't blow us up! This is my first job and my parents were so proud of me and my girlfriend as well and I just want to really do well here and I realise now that I love her so much that I-"

"I'm not going to blow anyone up; I just want your help that's all. And I'm glad your parents are proud of you, someone's parents need to be." He muttered the last part sadly and quietly

"I-I-I-I can help you with want you n-n-need." Sad a scared looking man behind a counter and Jaune smile in what he hoped was a reassuring way.

"Awesome, so I just need to track these accounts back to the original one where they came from and its address if you can please tell me that." And Jaune handed over the pieces of paper and the man took them with shaky hands and a sweaty face and then began to type over the computer.

"This should only take me a few moments, please don't hurt me sir."

"I won't, never. Thank you for doing this by the way." Jaune said instantly.

The clerk continued to work hard on the computer and Jaune stood there awkwardly waiting for it all to be done.

"H-here is the uh, address sir." And then Jaune looked at the computer and picked up a pen from the desk and scribbled it down on his arm, he was bad with remembering places, he could give you pi 40 decimal places but not the address of his apartment without having to look it up.

Just as he had finished writing up the address on his arm the 'thank you' was on the tip of his tongue and then suddenly-

"STOP RIGHT THERE YOU CRIMINAL!"

Not as many easter eggs in this one, and if you haven't already worked it out this world plays like BNHA.

Love that Anime.