Jaune was back home in Jersey with his new championship belt hanging in his garage. When He, Winter, and Bleiss arrived back home it was to a huge reception hosted by General Ironwood himself for representing Remnant as a whole and bringing home the belt. Even the Ace-Ops congratulated Jaune for his skills with Elm challenging Jaune to an eating contest and thanks to Jaune using his aura to fuel MRGAS for the ride back he was more than hungry enough to make her regret that challenge. Winter had shared her findings with Atlas' new xeno-research teams. Bleiss had most of her winnings confiscated by the military for study but she was lucky enough keep a sack of gold in MRGAS trunk as long as she followed through on her promise of washing and waxing MRGAS.
Now Jaune scavenged through piles of old cars, trucks, and even cargo ships for more parts to start his next robot in the middle of the Jersey City Junkyard.
I'll make it simple this time around. It is just going to end up being the bulk of the army. Jaune thought before a loud metallic grinding got his attention. Running around the pile he found Winter in the pilots seat attempting to shift the gears of MRGAS and crashing into random junk piles.
"SHUT IT OFF. YOU'RE STRIPPING THE GEARS!" Jaune yelled while climbing a mountain of cars to get Winter's attention.
Winter looked reluctant to do so but relented and shut MRGAS down. Bleiss quickly vacated the passenger seat after seeing Jaune.
"I told her not to do it." She lied being sure to throw Winter under the bus but Jaune paid her little mind as he popped the hood and began to inspect everything from the engine block to the tailpipes in the back.
"Winter I swear if you wrecked my car before the Jersey City Car show, you will be piloting a pink mecha-bunny to a tag team match."
"Jersey has a car show?" Winter asked ignoring the threat.
"Every year and the show is tomorrow," Jaune stated closing the hood and bringing up the HUD. "You two staying for it?"
"Of course We're staying. I can't leave my fiancé by himself anymore, now that all of Remnant had seen your handsome ass." Bleiss piped up.
Space
Unknown to the trio, a ship was hidden behind what was left of Remnants moon. A ship belonging to the dreaded race of the Glorft and their leader Gorath watched as Jaune powered up his robot before leaving the junkyard.
"Enjoy your time with the mech dirt-walker for soon it shall be in the hands of a true warrior." He muttered before turning off the display and turning to his second in command. "Are the troops ready?"
"Yes war master."
"Good."
Remnant
The next day Jaune is signing MRGAS in it's entirety up for the car show. The two staff members are too stunned staring up at the machine that sparkled from the fresh waxing.
"Do we even got a giant robot category?" One asked.
"Nope."
"How about ultra-modified?" Jaune asked hopefully.
"Ultra-modified it is." One said handing Jaune a slip of paper.
"Rock-on!" Jaune exclaimed snatching the paper. "Man, I hope I win the trophy this year."
"They actually give out trophies for a car?" Winter asked as she and Bleiss approached.
"Well yeah. What do they give out in Atlas?"
"We don't have auto shows. We're too busy fighting the Grimm."
""We're too busy fighting Grimm"" Bleiss mocked. "We get it Winter. The Grimm are bad and need to be destroyed but can't you have fun for just one day?" Bleiss would continued if not for the motorcycle skidding to a stop in front of them with a blonde driving the crotch-rocket as a girl in red and black clung to her like a koala.
"Hey, I'm Yang Xiao-Long, big fan. I saw your debut match but I hope you're not thinking of winning this." Yang reached out to shake his hand.
"Nice. Hear that Winter? I got fans!" Jaune took the offered hand before looking at Ruby who is currently gawking at the size of MRGAS up close. " I guess MRGAS has his own fans."
Inside
Inside the building (that is large enough to allow MRGAS to stand at full height and still have room to move) Jaune stood proudly in fronted his robot-car's left foot as a few spectators took pictures.
"What kind of engine you got in there?" Someone asked.
"Well, Which one? I got one for sub-orbital, one for trans-warp, one for cruising the streets and you don't want to know what the other six do." Jaune counted off on his fingers before realizing HE actually doesn't know what the other six do.
"Is it hard to steer?" Another asked. Jaune was forced to remember yesterday.
"Nah, Not if you mastered a z-pad and a joystick." Jaune was glad Bleiss didn't here that last comment.
In front of MRGAS' right foot stood a line of people asking to take pictures of Bleiss and Winter. Bleiss started charging 10 bucks a pic. after seeing the line grow. Winter just wanted to throttle every shutter bug that still took a picture after she says no. Thankfully Jaune seemed done on his end so he made his way over to them as he caught sight of the other entries.
"Oof, competition looks tough this year." Bleiss placed a hand on his shoulder.
"Jaune you got a giant robot that you built with your own hands and has a car for a head." She tried to ease his worries before her hand tried make a grab. Jaune slapped her hand away before explaining his worries.
"Yeah but check out that custom '42 pick-up with duel mounted turrets or that custom sports bike with the sunset paint job and I don't even want to think about that '65 low rider with the green shag trim and chain-link steering wheel." Jaune finished seeing the last car pull up to a spot next him and with a front plate that read 'Big O'.
"Hola Jaune." The person getting out was a familiar sight to Jaune.
"Oscar, I should have known. Bleiss, Winter meet my friend Oscar Pines." Jaune greeted Oscar with a fist bump. Oscar waved to the girls before looking up to the intimidating form of MRGAS with an easy smile. The much smaller boy then looked back to jaune
"It's going to take more than a fancy paint job to win around here." That made Jaune chuckle slightly.
"That sounds like a challenge."
"Let's do it." Oscar quickly agreed before the two found an official that will officiate the duel.
Now the two sat across from each other in their respective rides staring each other down until Jaune became distracted by a swimsuit clad Bleiss holding up a round card declaring the first round to be 'Exhaust Flames'. Oscar went first hitting a button that read 'BURN' before flames shot out reaching thirteen inches exploded forth with each rev of the engine. The flames from which blinding nearby spectators. Jaune smirked before hitting his own button activating the jets on MRGAS back. When Jaune let off the pedal the wall behind MRGAS had melted, garnering cheers for the display.
The next round was 'Speaker Power' Jaune thought he had this round in the bag thanks to the speaker systems in MRGAS chest but Oscar had him beat when he activated his bass that started breaking the windows of cars and the display case for the trophy.
Oscar went first for the 'Vertical Bounce' round reaching an impressive 15 feet, as evidence by the ruler next to his car. Jaune picked up his controller before tapping the jump button causing MRGAS to almost go through the ceiling only for the robot to crush the ruler.
The Truck Pull
Jaune let Oscar go first this round knowing how easy this will be. Oscars tires made deafening squeals as he pulled an 18-wheeler across the finish line in under nine seconds. MRGAS rubbed it's hands together before picking up the rope as he was about to pull a voice called out to him.
"Hey Jaune!" Glancing over Jaune spied Bleiss in an even more revealing bikini with Winter trying her best trying to cover the same bikini she herself wore. The distraction caused Jaune to put too much power into his pull, ripping the front of the truck right off. Everyone stared at the truck for a few seconds before it exploded for no reason.
The next round will be 'Weapons and Transformation'
Crowd
Ruby couldn't be happier that Dad and Uncle Qrow dragged her to this car show as she watched the green car's trunk shift to an angle to expose two missile heads as the doors spun 180 degrees releasing double-barreled turrets and a flamethrower emerged from the hood. Ruby never thought to turn a car into a weapon until now.
Now everyone is outside watching Oscar drive through an obstacle course and destroying cut outs of Grimm before Jaune simply blew the whole corse to smithereens with all the weapons that are hidden in the arms and legs of MRGAS before stooping down and pummeling anything that survived.
Glorft Mother Ship
"Sir, the unit is powered down and unguarded." Commander reported. Gorath smirked before picking up a microphone.
"All hands to battle stations. I want that mech at all costs."
Remnant
The official called for a break in the contest so now Jaune and Winter stood sat in MRGAS as Jaune is explaining a new modification to Winter.
"In light of yesterday's display I have installed a manual-mode." Jaune began hitting a few buttons. The driver's seat rolled backwards before folding and hiding under the backseat. Two mechanical arms reached out and rolled the floor covering revealing a modified dance game platform. Jaune handed her two gloves as he continued. "The system is designed to read and duplicate your exact moves as they happen thanks to the artificial resistance that help to keep you balanced. Unfortunately I haven't setup the weapons array but it shouldn't take long to program."
"With my training I doubt I'll need them."
Just then the duo heard sonic booms sounding off from over head. The news even attracted to attention of the crowd of people. The huntsmen in the crowd began to worry at what they are seeing.
Snot colored humanoid squid robots began to land all around MRGAS weapons drawn and aimed at the car. The Hunters began herding everyone back inside before anything happened. Unfortunately Bleiss was one the people now stuck inside.
Gorath opened a comm-link to MRGAS.
"Terrans, surrender the prototype and I will give you a quick and painless end."
Winter didn't waist time with banter after Jaune buckled in, delivering a heavy punch to the nearest robot. Another tried avenge his comrade by attacking from behind, MRGAS snapped a back-kick into the face crumpling everything underneath. Meanwhile Jaune is busy typing out coding to get the weapons online. Winter began to feel the strain of the artificial resistance the dance pad produced after a flurry of punches.
"I need an ETA Arc." Winter requested blocking gun fire with the arms.
"I need more time!" Jaune cried out after MRGAS was knocked to the ground. MRGAS got to it's feet punching and kicking a few more robots before slumping forward.
Inside
The Hunters and Hunter-in-training watched as MRGAS fought on even through the obvious bouts of fatigue. Bleiss couldn't sit still and watch her sister and darling fight without her but what could she do? Oscar pulled his car up beside her.
"Let's go save Jaune." He said as Hunters jumped into cars modified with weaponry.
Yang and Ruby watched as Tai-Yang and Qrow loaded armor piercing in the turrets on the '42 pickup he entered in the car show before sneaking over and jumping in Oscars car who is leading the pack. The doors opened as everyone raced out opening fire on the Glorft Robots with armor piercing rounds. Picking up his radio attached to his speakers, Oscar rallied the troops.
"Show these alien slime balls how we do things in Jersey!" Oscar activated the weapons allowing Bleiss to take control of one of the door turrets and a targeting system to pop up in front of Yang as Ruby took the other door. Releasing hell onto the smaller robots.
Oscar weaved through the legs and falling bodies of other mechs as he raced to the MRGAS at Bleiss insistence. MRGAS is being pushed backed into the nearby highway, thinking quickly Oscar sped onto the on-ramp before barking orders to Yang.
"Shoot the missiles." Yang fired after lining up the shot sending the warheads crashing into the Glorft mech looming over MRGAS. Another mech noticed the green car and went to take care of the nuisance. Winter quickly intercepted the punch before MRGAS fell in a way that let Oscar drop off Bleiss.
"Wait up you guy's need me." She called out buckling up in the back seat.
MRGAS
"You don't know how right you are. Alright Winter, Bleiss flood MRGAS with your semblance and the weapons array will be ready." Jaune activated his own semblance boosting both Winter and Bleiss.
Glyphs surrounded by black and blue ice replaced the 8-ball and eyeball on MRGAS' arms as a frozen mountain pattern formed from the flames on its legs. When MRGAS stood to full height once more the blue of its body faded to a soulless black. Jaune reactivated the comm-link .
"Alright you intergalactic snots. You busted up my car show!"
"Yeah!" Bleiss exclaimed hyping Jaune up more.
"You wrecked my friends rides!"
"Yeah!"
"AND I had to sit in the passenger seat!"
"Yeah! Passenger seat?"
"Now it's payback time!" Jaune exclaimed as both Winter and Bleiss concentrate on making speed glyphs as Jaune's semblance amplified them to fit MRGAS sized.
MRGAS dashed forward at breakneck speeds leaving behind a fading trail of white and black snow flakes. As MRGAS ran between the Glorft, Winter would strike out hitting weak points in the arms and bodies of the mechs.
Gorath was baffled the footage of this robots fighting style was completely different from the videos. This warrior before him is a precise tool instead of the a rampaging berserker like he had first expected. Now his forces are loosing more able bodies by the second because of this blunder.
"All hands retreat. I repeat, fall back!" Gorath commanded as his own robots arms fell off.
Inside
Hunters began to cheer when the Glorft made their retreat and everyone proceeded to the award ceremony.
"And the grandmaster of this years auto show is…Ruby Rose" everyone in Jaune's group was confused until Oscar explained.
"Yeah. We all agreed with how you fixed and reloaded any downed guns was a show of pure mechanical genius." Ruby blushed lightly at the boys words of praise.
"Yeah, well you know." Oscar took the trophy from the official.
"So it gives me great pleasure to present you with the 'Golden Steering Wheel Trophy."
After Ruby humbly received the award Oscar walked over to Jaune.
"So, Jaune how about we have rematch in our competition? But this time use just the car."
"Sure. We can have it at my place. I'm throwing a bbq after party." After saying that three hungry growls filled the air. Winter and Bleiss held their stomachs at the sensation of hunger pains.
"Sounds like others are hungry as well."
Omake
Jaune had spent a good amount of Bleiss money on his newest upgrade for MRGAS and she was all to happy to pay after he agreed to a movie date and light kissing. In Jaune's opinion it was worth it as he hit a button exposing his new speaker system where the weapons used to be. Turning the radio on he and Oscar bobbed their heads as Jaune turned the knob to 11,000.
The two continued to head-bang as windows in a one-mile radius began to break. Anywhere from office buildings to glasses worn by nerds broke.
Pyrrha had just arrived to the scene while she was touring Jersey and witnessed the destruction without flinching as she casually drank her mega-slush.
"Cool."