Hello everyone! Another day and another chapter featuring a grim idea that popped into my head. As far as the updates for this story it will be whenever I feel like it. Also, I am taking requests for ideas and I don't usually shy away from the darker stuff, but, just putting it out there, I'll usually do a story if I atleast know about the topic. So keep that in mind.
Enjoy.
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Piece of Me:
Jaune was thrown into the doghouse for a crime he didn't commit. A few days before the Vytal Festival and Jaune's wandering the streets trying to find a motel for the night, and his biggest concern will be his punishment when he gets back. But, a certain doctor has a much, much different plan in mind.
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Jaune walked along the streets of Vale, cold and shivering in the rain, and just thinking about how fucked today was. Everything was going pretty normal for the day: boring classes like Port's, training with Goodwitch, and lunch and dinner which went with their usual hijinks. But, later that evening, a shocking crime was discovered: Jaune was a major pervert and a creep!
See, what happened was that Team JNPR was residing in their rooms before one blonde brawler of Team RWBY busted down the door with a look of fury in her eyes. Jaune got up from where he was seated on his bed to ask before Yang grabbed him by the collar.
"So you thought we wouldn't notice huh Vomit-Boy?" she said furiously.
Jaune just looked confused and tried to choke out a response before Yang threw him down. "Don't lie, I know you've been sneaking around our room, probably molesting our clothing and touching our stuff."
That stung, an Arc would never dare disgrace a maiden's clothing, "Yang what the he-"
"Don't lie Arc!" shouted Weiss as she stamped through the door, Ruby and Blake blocking the doorway. Pyrrha, Ren, and Nora looked on the scene with expressions between outraged shock and stoic nonchalentness.
"We know you've been in our room for some perverted reason!" she shouted at him, Jaune couldn't help but feel very hurt and very confused.
"Weiss, I've been with my team the whole day-" he started, forgetting the snow-angel nickname he usually called her by.
"Don't even try! We found your scroll in our room, beneath our dirty laundry!"
"What? Why would I leave my scroll-"
"Because you were digging through our dirty clothes!" interjected Yang with ever increasing anger.
"Ok what's going on?" Pyrrha finally came to the aid of her leader and crush.
Yang and Weiss proceeded to tell a one-sided story of how they found Jaune's scroll underneath their dirty clothes, and how various items, including Blake's precious Ninjas of Love series, was strewn about the room.
By the end Pyrrha's conviction to her leader turned to indignant anger aimed right at the blonde knight. Pyrrha did not enjoy the idea of her crush snooping around the other girl's things, and she would need to discipline him on the proper way he should act. She would break him of this filthy habit even if she had to apply some pain to it.
"Jaune, words cannot express how disappointed I am" Pyrrha spoke in a maternal tone. It made Jaune cast his eyes down onto the floor in shame, even if he wasn't the true culprit.
"Ren, come on you know me!" Jaune asked in hopeless despair to his stoic, and reasonable, brother.
"Jaune, I understand your hormones are out of control, but that is no reason to do something like this. However, we're all willing to forgive you once we decide your punishment." Jaune looked crushed, the only man in his life that could have saved him, and he didn't even believe Jaune.
"Jaune, you're going out into Vale tonight and staying at a motel until tomorrow. We feel as though this will be a good start to your punishment, and we all expect you to return tomorrow for your punishment which will be agreed upon." Pyrrha said.
"Yeah, so don't be surprised if I kick your teeth in." Yang said with a snarl.
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So yeah, now Jaune was lost on the streets, on a rainy Friday night, with the usual hustle and bustle of the city giving way to the subdued calm of the occasional passing car. Jaune had been trying to find a hotel for hours, but all of them were booked for the Vytal Festival!
"Oh man, what am I gonna do? Sleep on the street? Then I'll have to go get my ass kicked by my team and RWBY tomorrow." he whined sullenly.
Jaune didn't notice the cat faunus that had been sneaking up behind him this whole time, and he barely put up any struggle as the needle slid into his neck. The tranquilizers acted fast and he was out like a light.
"Now to take you to Dr. Grossman."
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The next day...
Pyrrha paced back and forth in her room, it was nearly 7 at night and Jaune still hadn't come back! They spent the whole day looking for him, but nothing came up! They even got Team SSSN, Team BRNZ, and Team NDGO (through Nora's "persuasion") to help. Yang was still adamant about torturing the poor kid when he came back, and Weiss thought much of the same. Blake, although a little miffed about her books, thought a fair punishment would suffice and Ruby was freaking out about Jaune going missing.
Team NPR wasn't super better, with all this White Fang business and the Vytal Festival, could some ruffian have attacked Jaune? Were they going to find his corpse in the sewer tomorrow?! Why didn't they send him away with Crocea Mors! Pyrrha worry was reflected, albeit stealthily, by Jaune's brother-in-arms Ren. Truth be told, he wasn't at all mad at Jaune as Nora did these things fairly often, but even then he just needed a little punishment and he'd be back to normal. Nora was, well Nora; she was teasing Pyrrha about how Jaune could be getting dissected in some mad torturer's lab or he could have been mugged by a gang of street thugs. Needless to say, Pyrrha and Ruby were getting worse by the minute.
Ren suggested they go out for a bit of dinner and they could just relax and wait for Jaune to get back. He's probably just trying to scrape together and apology and mentally prepare himself for when he comes back. The teams sat outside the market square, eating their ordered dinners, and looking up at the jumbo-tron like screens planted to the large building around them, playing the news and Vytal Festival updates. The square was a popular place for tourists and transfer as it had late-night shopping and dining ranging from high-class to fast food. Suddenly, something odd happened to all the screens in the area as they were replaced by fuzzy static before returning to what seemed to be an operating room.
People looked up in confusion, was this for some kind of promotion or something? Then, as if on cue, a short woman, most likely mid 30s and with raggedy brown hair done up in a sloppy ponytail, slowly walked into the camera's view. She had thick-rimmed glasses and freckles all over her face, she wore an orange knitted skirt and a red turtleneck along with a doctor's coat that had seen better days.
She walked up to the camera and adjusted it slightly to get a better view, grunting and mumbling under her breath about faulty equipment. After a minute or so, she finally got it where she wanted it and stepped back to introduce herself.
"Hello!" she said in a chipper tone, "I am Doctor Lila Grossman! The -former- number one biorobotical and bioengineer specialist for Atlas. That was, until I was fired 7 years ago for 'unethical experiments' in the words of General Ironwood." she said the last part bitterly as if remembering an old memory.
"And today, I have been given a great chance by the White Fang and our mutual benefactors to showcase our power and, more importantly, my genius!" Team NPR and RWBY, along with civilians and students alike, seemed perplexed by the strange woman. But, as she mentioned the White Fang, an undercurrent of tension rippled throughout the city and along the two teams.
"You see, my specialty was robotic enhancements to organic creatures such as dogs, birds, fish, and -yes- humans! I was fired because my subjects were sometimes less than willing to cooperate and lied about my actions to get me booted out of my position." she continued, pacing lightly back and forth.
"But, with my new employer, I have found my passionate spark again! And today, you will all witness the first of my new children in 7 years! The subject we're working with is a beautiful specimen and has proven quite docile!" Ren felt a familiar sinking feeling in his stomach as Dr. Grossman moved out of the way to reveal a medical table with a light blue tarp over it.
She grabbed it and, with a flourish like a true showman, ripped the tarp off whatever was underneath. Ren almost choked as he saw the familiar mop of blonde hair, strapped to the table via leather restraints. The rest of the man's body was trapped in a similar fashion, with both his hands having their own shackles as well. It didn't take Team RWBY long before they connected to dots.
"Yes! I found this little one wandering the streets last night!" please by Oum no thought Ren, "A little huntsman-in-training going out for a night on the town, but he forget the most important rule: never travel alone!" she said with a smile, while tussling the blonde boy's hair as he began to wake.
"Oh! Looks like he's waking up!" the civilians watched in horror as the students steeled themselves for what's to come, far back at Beacon Team CFVY, CRDL, SSSN, and the faculty watched, unable to take their eyes of the video feed.
"W-What? T-The fuck? Where am I? Who are you!" Jaune began to struggle against his binds as his memory flowed back to him, people could only stare in horror as they watched the confused boy struggle for freedom.
"Calm down Jaune. You're ok. You're in safe hands." Dr. Grossman cooed softly, almost like a mother comforting her child that had a nightmare.
In his emerald tower Ozpin set his jaw in a thin line as he watched the feed, Dr. Grossman disappeared shortly after her being fired and she hasn't been seen since then. Ironwood, who was in the room, rubbed an imaginary beard as he clenched his teeth. Oobleck had foregone his usual excitement as he tried to find the source of the signal, his colleague, Peter, was currently trying to maintain order as was Goodwitch.
Outside the situation wasn't much better, various students sat stunned or began to race around in panic. Sun bit his lip in anticipation, he knew the White Fang were crazy but this was something else, "Neptune, guys, come on we need to find him!" Sun said to his team who replied with varying degrees of "yes".
Back with Grossman she had finished drawing out medical tools and turning on various machines that ended with pincers, saws, and syringes filled with unknown liquid. They whirred softly as Grossman brought out a small trolley, a tray of various surgical tools and a metal dish present on them.
"What are those for?" Jaune asked, sounding like a child who was afraid of the dentist.
"Oh yes! I forgot to tell you what I'm here for!" she said, snapping her fingers in enlightenment. "You see, my friends have offered me a great chance to make a whole new line of my children! Better, faster, stronger, and more skilled; Jaune here will be the first of the new model."
"You see, what I'm going to do is take our intact friend here, and I'm going to cut. him. apart." she said, putting emphasis on the last three words. Jaune whimpered unlike the badass huntsman he wanted to be, and he looked like he was on the verge of crying.
Meanwhile with Team RWBY and NPR, Yang felt like throwing up, she had sent Jaune out there alone and promised him that she was going to hurt him when he got back. And now he was going to be sliced to bits of live television because they left him alone.
Ruby's innocent mind tried to wrap around this, not even Torchwick would do something like this right? Stuff like this didn't happen, only in those scifi movies right? Jaune would get off that table and shout how this was all a big prank and Ruby would bop him on his head for being such a dummy, but he didn't need to make it seem so real. She was really starting to get scared!
Pyrrha looked like she was on the verge of fainting, her crush, her leader, the first person to see her as a normal girl was about to be dissected. Everything felt cold, and her knees began to wobble.
"Ren" Nora whispered hoarsely, clinging to the green ninja, "I-I didn't mean it. I don't want Jaune to be cut up." Ren could only stroke her hair comfortingly, what could they do?
Grossman was finishing the explanation of the process which involved scooping out the eyes (she made a sickening pop sound while gesturing to her two eyes) and replacing them with cyber-enhanced inorganic ones. She would then start the process of removing the heart, spine, and lungs and replacing them with more efficient artificial replacements. Then there would be vitamin extracts and solutions injected into the skin and bones that would toughen them up and provide for a better defense. Then of course she would add in some implants, rework his nervous system slightly, drill into his head and apply a few more implants. By the end Jaune had given up his shouts of protest and was reduced to whimpering puddle.
"Now! Onto the good stuff right? Don't worry folks, we'll be putting him under for the duration of the surgery, I'm not an animal after all!" she chuckled to silence. Ozpin had called in various teams to begin a search all over Vale for Dr. Grossman and Jaune.
Back at Beacon, teams became organized and started to create search parties. Team CRDL looked around like a flock of confused pigeons, "Cardin, what do we do?" Dove asked his leader, they may not have like Jaune but he saved Cardin back at Forever Fall. Cardin looked around as he saw Team CFVY run for the bullheads and begin their search. "Follow them team! Hold on Jauney-boy we're on our way!" he shouted, following Team CFVY.
"Now, let's put you under young man and when you wake up, you'll be a whole new person!" Grossman closed in with a needle as Jaune began to beg for mercy much to the heartache of the unwilling watchers. Still, the doctor stuck the needle into his neck and then the boy went silent.
"Before I begin I like to listen to some music!" Grossman said to the audience, reaching over to something off camera and fiddling with it. Static crackled into the room before the sound of music could be heard: "Wonderful Wonderful" by Johnny Mathis began to play as Grossman picked up a scalpel and pulled in some kind of overhead device closer to Jaune's face.
Grossman blocked most of her actions with her body but it was not hard to guess what was happening, she was tentatively dragging the scalpel along Jaune's face before picking up some tongs from the tray. One by one she placed a pair of bright blue eyes into medical dish that seemed to stare right into the camera, various sounds of vomiting could be heard around Vale as parents hid their children from the sight. Ozpin's grip on his coffee mug was almost tight enough to shatter it as Ironwood barked orders into his scroll and to his soldiers.
The doctor walked away leaving the eyeless, still form of Jaune Arc to drip a small line of blood down the side of his head. She soon returned with a pair of new, artificial eyes that she plugged into the poor boy's now empty sockets with a wet squelch. She brought the device above him closer and tapped a few buttons on it as ghostly blue lasers shot out of the device and into the eyes of Jaune. Cobalt sparks flew as Grossman continued to fiddle with the machine, changing the trajectory and width of the laser as Jaune involuntarily twitched every so often.
Pyrrha had blacked out and Ren gripped Nora to his side as she buried her face into his chest. Ruby clung to her sister with scared tears in her eyes as Yang tried to block out what was happening. Blake could only scrunch her eyes down and look away, but Weiss seem transfixed by the morbid spectacle as Grossman moved over to Jaune's body and brought out a small saw.
Thousands cringed as the hideous shriek of the saw started that was soon accompanied by the wet-sounding cut of metal to flesh. She brought it down his chest and opened the cavity with a pair of forceps as she went to work on his organs. Using more precise tools and machines she cut out his heart with efficient speed of a true surgeon, she walked away for a moment before returning with a much more mechanical looking heart before placing it inside him. Again, she fused it to him via those blue lasers and she followed suit with the lungs. After she was down with those organs she moved to the implants and added them in as well.
Vale Police and huntsman teams scoured the whole city-
"Team SSSN checked the docks, he's not there!"
"Can someone trace the signal?"
"One of the teachers is!"
"Anyone have a clairvoyance semblance?"
"Where's his team?"
Grossman continued onward, sealing her incision on his chest and moving to make some "improvements" around his abdomen and arms using her trusty implants. She undid the shackles around his wrist and began to make incisions on his wrist, throwing more artificial parts and making adjustments to his nerves. Everywhere she cut she left surgical scars that, while sealed with some kind of biomed gel, would forever be apart of him.
She added various implants and adjustments to his legs, thighs, calfs, and even some to his Achilles Tendon. The entire time, automated machines whizzed above him and added secondary adjustments and surgeries to the rapidly changing boy. Grossman suddenly changed directions and turned the boy over on his front gently, she then made an additional incision along his back and went to work on his spine. She removed bits and pieces and replaced the whole thing with an artificial one that would grant Jaune an increased ability to carry things and a much stronger back. For all her insane procedures her surgeries really would turn Jaune into an apex huntsman, and possibly launch him into the top 10 of his year.
Ruby had stopped crying and now just hiccuped against Yang who had gone still, Blake and Weiss were currently with an unconscious Pyrrha as others got water for her. Ren and Nora were still fused to eachother, both refusing to watch the feed and trying to ignore the sounds from the surgery. Then, after what seemed like an eternity of torture, Grossman stopped and breathed a sigh of satisfaction.
"That oughta do it!" she said happily. "Little Jaune here will wake up by tomorrow in his brand new body, and then we'll drop him back off to Beacon to be rejoin his comrades!"
Ozpin rubbed his hand against his temples, this whole thing was a nightmare. First Ironwood's fleet, then the White Fang, and now this? They'd be lucky if the combined fear didn't attract enough Grimm to collapse the walls! Ironwood had been halfheartedly listening to the radio chatter, there was no sign of Grossman or her whereabouts throughout the entire search and, now that she was done mutilating that boy, she would escape into the night.
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The next day...
"They found him near the docks!"
People gathered as a bullhead with a red cross on it landed at Beacon academy. Atlesian corpsmen wheeled out a stretcher with urgency, the comatose boy still strapped to it, and moved into Beacon's infirmary.
The doctors and scientists began to run their tests on the boy to discover what exactly Grossman did to him. True enough, they found various implants fused to his body, artificial organs such as the heart, spine, and lungs, cybernetic eyes, and a few cranial implants that seemed to process information faster. Almost all of the surgeries for unfixable due to the delicacy of their placement and purpose. Only Jaune's team, Ironwood, and Ozpin were allowed to visit him with the former spending most of their time at the infirmary.
Jaune began to stir, rousing his team from their various states of slumber. Pyrrha was the first to get up and run over to her leader as Ren and Nora followed suit, Jaune eyes opened and Pyrrha had to suppress a gasp.
"Pyrrha? Guys?" Jaune said weakly.
"It's ok Jaune! You're back at Beacon." Pyrrha choked out between hot tears.
"My body, it feels... What happened?" Jaune said, trying in vain to get up. Pyrrha gently pushed him down so he wouldn't strain himself this early on, the surgeries took a lot out of him, but those implants were bound to make his recovery go faster.
"Pyrrha get me a mirror." Jaune said, as his team exchanged glances.
"Jaune I don't think-" Ren began to say but was interrupted by Jaune.
"Give me a damn mirror Ren!" he shouted, with surprising loudness.
Ren quickly brought him a mirror and hesitantly gave it to him. Jaune carefully picked it up and got a full reflection of his face, his expression slowly turned to horror as he saw what looked back. Silvery scars ran all over his face including his forehead, and there were multiple straight lines from the scalpel along where his normal eyes used to be, the only thing that stared back at him now were those unnatural green eyes...
His screams of anguish and horror could be heard throughout the campus.