Okay, a quick warning. This chapter is completely original. So, I should state already it may not be as good as the previous chapters. So please bear with me.

DarkParzival: I have an idea for Gobusters. Ca'va?

Onepunchplayer: Looks at the title and then the contents of the chapter. It is fitting after you read the chapter but I understand.

Aruto Hiden: I have various ideas for the Riders and Jaune don't worry! As for Dekaranger, I haven't completely seen it.

void36: maybe?

X3runner: Uh...Glynda is pepper lol. I even mentioned it.

ThatGuyYouMet: For MHA, I already have one idea for Jaune. and it's not a villain. AND if it was, it would be Dabi, because Japanese Jaune is voiced by Dabi.

JaCk-o'-LaNtErn 91: I was actually not going to do Dark Knight Joker for I have a darker villain from DC later on in mind.

Guest: Never watched Walking Dead, sadly.

Kai Arc: I sadly have not played P4 or any of the personas...namely cuz I'm too poor to afford the Ps4 and other consoles haha.

Sejihix: I never heard of Baikoku Kikan.

Hakuryukou79 and all other Captain America suggestions: SO Here are my thoughts on Jaune as Captain America. He fits physically and with his weapons. Emotionally and ideologically though? Ruby fits him more. They are more idealistic and hoping for the best in the world. Jaune bares the same guilt and burden Iron Man has after Pyrrha's death. They both are more than willing to die for someone as long as it meant others lived. And Jaune is stubborn with his pride as is Tony. So I found their connection making more sense.

Okay, I think it's enough responses now.

As to what this world is based on I should explain since this is again, mostly originally.

I'm treating this as if Jaune had Doflamingo's power set: Ito Ito no Mi and Haki. I gave him Strings as a Semblance on top of his Aura Enhancement, which will be the stand-in for Haki.

Disclaimer: I do not own RWBY or One Piece.

As the Curator went back to the projector room, Glynda immediately turned towards Ozpin. "Why would you ask him that?" Glynda berated him.

"I just wanted to see if that was true," Ozpin said sipping his coffee.

"But the kids may not be ready for it."

"Then they will be after this," Ozpin replied.

"I'm a drunk and even I know this is a bad thing," Qrow groaned drinking his smoothie. "And can I get something alcoholic?"

"I wonder what sort of thing is going to happen now?" Pyrrha asked aloud, with the rest nodding.

"I'm actually worried about it," Ren said. "If this is a darker world we won't know what's happening and will probably hurt us." He was always worried since he can't use his Semblance to help everyone here.

Team RWBY was rushing towards an alarm. It was their second term at Beacon and they were both taken on for a simple mission. They were to guard the Cultural Museum in Vale. A place where countless artifacts from all over the kingdom of Vale across all of time. It was only supposed to be a night job with free admission to its opening gala at the end of the week. It was meant for showcasing the recently found weapons and crown of the Valeish King.

"Does our world have that?" Ruby wondered aloud.

"We do have a museum squirt," Qrow replied. "I remember the field trip we took to the place during Beacon. Was as boring as it sounds."

"Ugh...this is going to suck when we go there ourselves." Yang groaned. Weiss rolled her eyes and mumbles the word uncultured.

"Where's the alarm going off?" Ruby asked Weiss as the four girls ran towards the source of the disruption.

"My Scroll says that it's in the nature wing," Weiss replied putting her device away and got her weapon ready.

"Why would anyone go there?" Blake asked. "If they wanted something priceless they would have gone to the main room with the artifacts."

"That's very true. Why would a criminal go there?" Glynda asked.

"If this is anything like a movie, its a distraction," Qrow answered.

"Who cares? We finally get to see some action," Yang said slamming her fists together as Ember Celica activated.

"Ms. Xiao Long not everything needs to be solved by violence," Ozpin slightly chastised the girl.

"It would also have been better if there was no action on a guard mission like this," Blake said.

"We're approaching now. Everyone put on your mean faces!" Ruby stated as she got Crescent Rose prepared as well. "We all know the plan right?"

"Right. We will use Blake to enter and get recon," Weiss started to explain the thing to the team. "Ruby will take point at the door and get ready to snipe. Once it's assessed Yang and I will enter for battle."

"That's a sound plan your counterpart came up with," Ren nodded.

"Thank you!" Ruby smiled.

"Right! And JNPR is on their way too. They're at the other end of the museum so we have a few minutes," Ruby confirmed.

"Huh?" Nora said confused. "I thought Jaune was going to be evil here. Why is JNPR still a thing?"

"That does raise a few questions," Glynda commented.

"Let's do this." Once outside the doors of the nature wings they slowly stopped and opened the door.

However, all the girls were not prepared for what was inside.

Within the room were some of the guards, which now made sense to them as to why they hadn't responded to the alarm. But amidst the blaring noise of the alarm going off, the girls could only hear a deafening silence.

Strewn all over the wing was the dismembered bodies of guards. Limbs were cut off, some were beheaded, others having died out of blood loss from all the cuts they received, and not to mention the ones who were torn to bits.

"Oh my god..." Ozpin said actually dropping his mug. Glynda felt faint.

"All those people..."

"What the fuck?" Qrow grumbled nearly dropping his flask.

Ruby couldn't hold it and began to vomit from the sight. Weiss and Yang weren't far behind. Only Blake was accustomed to death, but even this made her feel nauseous.

Their real selves and JNPR weren't far behind. A bucket appeared before each of them and they upchucked what they just ate. The scene was horrible. A room littered with destroyed and desecrated bodies.

"What sort of monster would do that?" Weiss asked, shaken.

"I think we're about to see," Ruby said.

"I think I don't want to."

The group heard some gunfire and had to steel themselves as they moved into the room. Going past the gardening and farmland section, and more bodies along the way, they came up onto the garden section underneath a large dome of glass, letting the moonlight in. Just in time to see two guards get suddenly sliced up by an invisible force. Multiple lashes appeared on their bodies as well as their arms being torn off.

They managed to stop their vomit this time. The adults were actually quick to focus on the fight. Whatever this person was using was dangerous.

And standing there in the middle was a man with a bag over his shoulder. He was dressed rather casually. Jeans, sneakers and...a Pumpkin Pete's Hoodie? Blonde hair was matted down from the blood of his fallen as blue eyes caught sight of them, familiar blue eyes.

"No..." Ruby said shaking her head.

"But there's a team JNPR!" Nora shouted. "How is Jaune the bad guy?"

"Holy shit..." Blake said in surprise, cursing for the first time since she moved to Beacon.

"No...it couldn't be," Weiss stated refusing to believe it.

"Jaune?" Ruby said in shock. Her eyes taking in the form of a person she met in school.

"Why?" Pyrrha asked the Curator. When she was met with silence the group knew that it would be said in the video.

"Huh, if it isn't Ruby and the gang," Jaune replied in surprise. His body seemed to shift for a moment and all of the blood fell off his body onto the stone floor of the garden. "I honestly did not expect you guys to be the guards for this place." Then he frowned. "Which means JNPR is close by too."

"What did he do?" Ren asked.

"His body blurred for a moment and then the blood fell off his body," Glynda answered. "But I couldn't tell what happened."

"Maybe it's his Semblance. I mean we don't know what it is after all," Pyrrha suggested still feeling uneasy from what she saw.

Jaune blinked only to raise his gloved right hand up and point to the side. "Now Yang that's just not nice," the blonde laughed. Floating in midair was Yang, fist cocked back and ready to punch. Her hair was ablaze with her Semblance running on high. Her red eyes glaring at Jaune as she struggled.

"Okay, that's just weird!" Nora shouted.

"What..what did he just do?" Yang was surprised. She never saw anything stop her in her Semblance so easily.

"You bastard! You dare show your face again?" Yang shouted at him as she struggled against something.

"Did...Did Jaune do something bad?" Ruby asked. "I mean before he did...this..."

That prompted the other girls, sans Ruby, into action. Blake immediately pointed Gambol Shroud at the blonde standing plain and center, the dust bullets ricochet of off something in the air. Weiss rushed forward and tried to stab at him. Jaune also pointed at her and suddenly just suspended in mid-air.

"Okay, what is really happening?" Weiss growled. "I don't understand what is happening."

"Me neither," Pyrrha replied. Her eyes were trained on the screen but she couldn't figure out what was happening. "Professors do you know what's going on?"

"I have no clue," Glynda said shaking her head, as did Qrow and Ozpin.

"Hello to you too Weiss, Blake," Jaune laughed. He twirled his index fingers, making both his captives spin around in midair before tossing them to the side.

"Okay, maybe he has telekinesis like you Ms. Goodwitch," Ruby suggested, trying to figure out the problem. It was also her way to cope with what was truly happening on screen. Her friend was a murderer.

"Given that response time, I guess I have less than two minutes before JNPR arrives at this wing." He was saying this loudly to them, a mocking smile on his face.

"That's...an odd thing to say," Blake noticed.

The two recovered and rushed at him once more and this time Blake did too. Her gun going into kusarigama mode. The criminal just smirked and twitched his hand and the floor beneath them exploded into debris, scattering them back once more. His attention was focused on the still shocked Ruby, a sad smile coming onto his face. "I really didn't want it to be you, Ruby."

"Jaune...why...why are you doing this?" Ruby asked, Crescent Rose trembling in her hands.

"Yeah!" Nora and Ruby agreed. Pyrrha also nodded her head.

"Well it's my job," Jaune replied shrugging his shoulders.

"Job?" Ren asked.

"Your job?" Blake hissed angrily. The casual way he spoke about the murders he committed reminded her of someone. "You killed these people for your job?" Yang used the shotgun function of her gauntlets to try and shoot at Jaune, but those were cut midair. To her Faunus eyes, Blake saw something shimmer in the air.

"What do your cat eyes see Blake?" Yang asked her partner. She was angry about the situation but since she wasn't there personally she was calm enough to try and figure out what was happening.

"I can't see anything here since we're in a theater," Blake said rubbing her forehead. "If I could I would explain it to you."

"Well no. I killed them in self-defense," Jaune answered. "If they didn't try killing me I wouldn't have killed them. I honestly told them to step away and let me be, but hey they didn't listen." His eyes widen as he saw a light starting to form beneath him. The blonde teen shot out his left hand up and he was pulled out of the way as a Glyph appeared beneath his feet. Now he was even further into the room, as Weiss glared at him.

"Okay so far he needs his hands for whatever he is doing," Qrow said. "Maybe if they get him to stop moving his hands they can catch him.

Yang rushed at him once more, and Jaune again pointed at her and she stopped mid charge. "What are you doing to me?" she demanded.

"He's using some sort of string!" Blake shouted. "It's very thin and hard to see but there are some strings floating all around him attached to his fingers."

"String? Really?" Weiss asked bewildered. "String can do this?"

"It must be some special kind of string," Glynda said. "Some special weapon may be mixed with his Semblance."

"Oh, you noticed that?" Jaune said blinking. "Hmm...need to find a way to make them less visible for next time." Seeing as the gig was up, the criminal made the strings visible to the team. A single thread was released from his index finger that wrapped around Yang and then connected to the exhibits around her. Then, of course, there were dozens connected to his other fingers, circling his body.

"That-how is he doing that?" Weiss asked the obvious. A loud bang was heard and a Jaune reacted by swinging his right hand. The strings swirled before swinging upward slicing through the burn dust. He turned to face Ruby, who had fired a shot from Crescent Rose.

"HOLY SHIT!" Yang shouted.

"He was able to cut through Dust with those things..." Ren gaped.

"That...that was how he cut up the guards..." Blake said a bit dizzy.

"His reaction is insane," Qrow groaned. "It would have taken less than a second for that round to hit him. He blocked that fast." That made the students all pause. That level of skill was scary. Their Jaune was nowhere near that level of skill.

"It doesn't matter," Ruby answered with a sad but determined face. "We need to stop Jaune." Said person made a pained face but he knew that Ruby was just doing the right thing.

"Uh..." Ruby seemed a little confused. "Why does it seem like he doesn't want to fight me?"

"Maybe you're an ex?" Weiss suggested. That made Ruby both happy and sad.

"Wouldn't that make him hate her more though?" Nora asked.

A loud crash came from above, forcing Jaune to snap off the string that was attached to Yang letting her fall to the floor. He jumped back as Nora landed with Magnhild and crashed right on top of where he was standing, cracking the floor.

"TEAM JNPR IN THE HOUSE!" Nora yelled.

"Maybe we can get through to him," Pyrrha said hopefully.

Sounds of gunfire came from his left and knives came from his right, forcing Jaune to swing both arms and the strings became a storm of motion. It sliced up the knives and deflected the much smaller burn dust rounds. A spear came from behind, to which the blonde threw his left hand up to pull him out of reach and away from his assailant.

"Even an ambush didn't get him," Ozpin noted. "If he wasn't a villain he would have been a great hunter."

"Please don't praise the kid now," Qrow told his boss.

"I'm just saying he's skilled."

"Jauney?" Nora asked confused as she and the other members of her team stood there, obviously confused.

"Nora." Jaune greeted with a smile. "Give me a second." He swung his right hand behind a pillar and pulled, taking a hidden Ren with it and into the light. Before he could slam into the ground, Pyrrha dove in and grabbed her friend. "There's Ren and Pyrrha. And lastly..."

"There's us," Ren stated.

A boy with white hair and dressed in all black entered the room, armed to the teeth in various knives. His green eyes glared at Jaune as he readied his weapons. "My replacement. Hello Jack."

"And if it isn't the fraud," Jack Lantern, the leader of team JNPR said glaring at him. His knives were engulfed by blue flames. "From forgery to murder? Are there no depths to your depravity?" Jaune grinned in response.

"Who the fuck is that!?" Nora asked shocked.

"Jaune's...replacement?" Ruby repeated the screen.

"Why is he talking about forgery?" Weiss had noticed that stood out. Pyrrha meanwhile seemed nervous, as was Ren and Nora.

"Mr. Arc had faked his way into Beacon," Glynda provided an answer.

"He did?" Team RWBY said as one. The world on screen paused for a moment.

"Yes, he did. We did some digging after seeing discrepancies with his abilities and his paperwork. He did in fact fake his way into Beacon."

"And you let him stay?" Weiss asked offended. "That blonde is a criminal! He took the spot of someone else who could have been allowed into the school!" Yang and Blake were undecided obviously shocked.

"But..." Ruby wanted to speak but it made her head dizzy. She turned to JNPR who looked uncomfortable. "Did you guys know?"

"After a month Jaune told me with some pressuring, and then after our field trip to Forever Falls, he told Ren and Nora," Pyrrha confessed.

"He wanted to tell you guys but was stopped for some reason," Ren said, making Nora nod her head.

"Oh, and for what reason would that be hm?" Weiss asked in a fury. "Because he's a coward? A fake?"

"Weiss!" Yang shouted in anger. She didn't know Jaune all too well, she was just happy that Ruby found a friend. With this coming to light though...

"But it's true, isn't it! He's just a liar who probably got too scared to tell us what he was!" Weiss's anger grew. "He probably wouldn't have told Pyrrha either if he wasn't backed into a corner! So why should I care?"

"So you didn't really grow up huh?"

The sentence made Weiss stop in her tracks. A chill went down her spine as she turned to Blake who had a glare on her face. "B-Blake? Wh-What do you mean by that?" the heiress stutters.

"This situation is oddly familiar isn't it?" Blake said her fingers digging into her palms.

"What do you-" Weiss stopped as Blake took off her bow. The snow-themed girl gasped.

"The situation right here, it was like what happened when you found out I was a Faunus." The room was suddenly quiet. "You told me you'd try for my sake, for our sake, to try to change. However, right now I don't see how you have."

Weiss opened her mouth and closed it trying to speak. Yang was just surprised at the pure disappointment she heard in her friend's voice. Ruby look torn between agreeing with Blake and consoling Weiss.

"That is different..." Weiss tried to defend herself.

"How is it any different?" Blake replied. "I too had to fake my way in to get into Beacon. I was a terrorist, Weiss."

"You were a terrorist?" Ren asked. Blake nodded.

"I was part of the White Fang previously until I saw that they were going down a path I didn't like. This would mean, I had no formal training whatsoever and make me worse than Jaune. Yet I was still accepted. If you knew that, would you say the same?"

"N-No but..." Weiss replied.

"But nothing Weiss," Blake said resolutely. "If you want Jaune expelled I should be expelled too." Weiss kept trying to speak but she seemed like she couldn't form words.

"It was me," Ozpin said breaking the tension. Everyone looked at him. "I was the one who asked him not to tell your team."

"But why?" Ruby asked.

"Because I felt he didn't need to. A lot of people got into Beacon without any combat school and passed merely on merit. Qrow here is a shining example."

"But the fake transcripts..." Weiss states.

"I knew from the beginning but he did something most people who tried to fake their way into Beacon didn't do," Ozpin stated. "He proved himself. Not only did he survive the initiation with your assistance, he was able to lead a group of teens he just met into defeating an Elder Death Stalker." That silenced Weiss even more. "He showed that when driven, Mr. Arc is a capable student. Mind you not the fastest learner as Glynda here could attest."

"Very much so." Glynda states.

"He has shown that he made improvements leaps and bounds far higher than most could their age. While still behind you lot, he is able to keep up. Given a little more time I'm sure Mr. Arc would be able to stand beside both teams proudly on his own two feet." This caused team JNPR to smile and nod their heads. "The situation is much like we agreed with Ms. Belladonna here. After all, it doesn't take much time to find out a high priority name had not only left the White Fang but joined Beacon."

That caused Blake to blush. That was true. Her father was the creator of the movement during its peaceful time after all. So her name should have been bigger now that she thought of it.

Weiss took this moment to take a deep breath. She composed herself and reflected, truly reflected, on what just occurred. Had she not grown up? Had she failed on her promise to understand Blake? No, she had, but Weiss had only been focused on that. Just on the one in front of her. So when she found out someone else in proximity had lied as well.

"I'm sorry. I guess...I guess I haven't changed as much as I needed to," Weiss replied. "Living with my family was a harsh upbringing. One that hadn't taught me to trust well enough. I guess...I need to look more and actually hear out the dolt's side of the story."

"Thank you, I know I want to tell you as well but Jaune should be the one to explain," Pyrrha said.

"And Blake...I want you to slap me if I do that again," Weiss told her friend. "If you don't I probably would not improve as much as I need to."

"Of course. And...I'm sorry for snapping. While not the same, I can understand where Jaune may have felt the need to do what he did," Blake said. She knew Weiss meant it.

"Great can we get back to the world now?" Qrow asked ruining the moment. Yang and Ruby threw their popcorn at him while Glynda gave him a light smack to the head. "What I say?"

"You ruined the moment uncle Qrow!" Ruby shouted.

"Honestly, after being rejected all my life, I don't think so," Jaune replied. "My family rejected me for my dreams, others rejected me for my dorky personality, you guys and Beacon rejecting me for my faked transcripts? With all of that no longer being viable, being a criminal was a sure-fire way to succeed. And I wasn't wrong."

"So we reacted as Weiss did right now," Yang groaned. Weiss glared at the woman but looked sheepish.

"But why turn to villainy?" Nora asked.

"Because as he said, what option did he have if his family and peers didn't want him?" Ozpin replied. "Sometimes that's what some people feel is the only option they have."

He turned his head slightly to the right as another shot by Ruby missed by inches. Jaune turned his head just enough to see her and team RWBY going encircling him from behind, with JNPR in front of him.

"Okay now, how did he do that again!" Ruby asked. After the small interruption the tension seemed to have left them so they can focus on the world as if it were a movie now.

"Again I'm saying is his Semblance," Pyrrha said.

"So wires as weapons and Semblance for some other thing?" Blake suggested.

"Jaune please turn yourself in," Pyrrha begged her former partner. Despite her words, she readied Milo and Akouo.

"I'm sure the sentence will be much more lenient if you do," Ren continued with Stormflower being pointed at Jaune. Nora still seemed unsure but was also prepared to attack.

"Good. GOOD! The gang is all here!" Jaune laughed. "Makes my job easier instead of hunting you guys down. Let's get this party started shall we?" He raised his hand up only for everyone to get their weapons ready.

"Now I'm sure he's a distraction," Qrow said.

"Don't be a spoilsport Qrow," Ozpin chuckled.

"Don't move!" Jack shouted. Jaune cackled a little and twitched his finger.

Ruby yelped as she felt a tug on her arms as she turned Crescent Rose away from Jaune and fired at Ren. The green garbed boy didn't have time to react as he was shot by the round, sending him flying. "Ren!" Nora shouted.

"He can do that!?" Ruby gasped surprised. One the one hand, that was really cool. On the other it was mean.

"He used you like a puppet!" Yang stated.

Jaune then flew into action, finally going on the offensive. Using his strings, he swung forward and kicked Blake in the stomach. She was quick to react to activate her Semblance, a shadow clone taking her place and she took a few shots at him. "And here I thought cats liked to play with string," Jaune teased as he formed a barrier of string before him. His comment made Blake pause.

"Wh-what did you say?" she asked in surprise. She hadn't told anyone she was a Faunus! It was the wrong move, for she paused long enough for a thick rope to shoot out. It grabbed her by the ankles which he used to whip her around through several trees. Depleting her Aura and knocking Blake out.

"That's gotta hurt," Yang flinched as she saw that.

"I guess after the ostracizing of Jaune, I was too scared to say I was a Faunus after that treatment," Blake surmised as to why she would have kept it hidden.

"Okay, I now know for sure that the Strings is his Semblance," Nora pointed at the screen. "Cuz that's coming out of the palm of his hand! So how is he dodging?"

Weiss and Jack were upon him. The new leader of JNPR was skilled in duel wielding knives and began to weave, almost in a dancing pattern, with each attempted slash. Weiss matching his movements ducked into and out of each strike as if the two were doing a deadly dance.

"You and his replacement seem to work out well," Ren noted.

"He does seem skilled," Weiss admitted. "I wonder who he is though?"

Jaune meanwhile laughed and actually matched their pace. Each move he did had the strings dancing about, blocking the bladed weapons for him with each spin and dodge he did. "Seems like I finally get a dance with you Weiss. Too bad we had to make it a threesome."

"THAT DOES IT! REN! PYRRHA! DANCE TEAM NOW!" Nora announced.

"Quiet you dolt," Weiss seethed in anger. Her anger was growing as Jaune kept pace with her and Jack. Both of them were trained fighters. Not six months ago Jaune was just a buffoon! Now he was able to not only match their footwork, those damned wire weapons he was using was deflecting each blow easily.

"A semester...it took him a semester to not only match us but seem to surpass our abilities," Ren said as he slummed into the chair.

"As I said he's close to your own training at the moment, all he needs is more practice and figure out what his Semblance is," Ozpin repeated. "I suppose working in the criminal world would force him to learn faster and adapt quicker than our Mr. Arc did."

"How are you so much better? You were a punk who just faked his transcripts!" Jack shouted in anger. He threw his enflamed knives, to which Jaune dodged quite easily. Using his Semblance, Will O' Wisp, Jack forced the knives to return to try and hit Jaune in his blind spot.

"Seems like his Semblance is like P-Money's," Yang said. "No wonder why he was chosen as a replacement. He'd fit in well with her."

"Yang..." Pyrrha groaned.

Unfortunately for the white-haired teens, Jaune knew this would happen. He twirled two of his fingers and two tiny strings attached to the handles of the knives.

With a quick flick of his wrist. The knives were thrown at a faster velocity, actually bypassing both Weiss and Jack's Aura shield, and stabbing their thighs, before more of his strings actually cut through their legs and punctured them like a bullet. This forced them down and the pain knocked Weiss out.

Weiss flinched.

"He's not pulling any punches is he?" Qrow snorted. "And I now agree Oz. This version of the kid is good."

"Qrow! He's kicking our asses! Don't say that!" Nora complained to the uncle of her friends.

Jaune was then met by two roars of anger. He threw up both hands, a large amount of string appearing as a shield as a fist and hammer tried to take him from two different sides. "You're going to pay for what you did to Ren!" Nora yelled, using a small lightning dust bracelet to empower herself.

"What's that and how can I get it?" Nora asked giddily.

"Not only did you lie to us and broke our trust, you came back and became more of an asshole. I can't forgive you for that!" Yang shouted. Jaune made a disgruntled noise before digging in his heels. Some string found their way around both Nora and Yang's wrists and got a firm hold.

With strength neither of them expected, Jaune spun in place and whipped them around, ensuring they crashed into various historic items and plants before raising his arms and slamming them into the ground.

"Shit," Yang cursed. That was brutal. Thankfully, her Semblance can help with that.

"Ouch." Nora could practically feel that.

The tiles made spiderweb-like cracks as he released the two. "Yes, I lied. Yes, I misused your trust for such a small thing," Jaune said with growing anger. "But the fact that not only did you shun me for that, you did nothing to help me when Cardin and his gang humiliated and beat me afterward."

"Oh..." Ruby gasped. Now that hurt.

"So we did worse than what I did and actually abandoned him," Weiss grimaced.

"It's not an excuse to be a meanie but that sucks really sucks," Nora pouted.

Yang got up, her Semblance making her keep going. Nora was the same with the lightning dust. Jaune retracted his wires as they both swung, surprising those who were still conscious enough to notice. "They beat me up in front of the school and none of you even came to help. I may have lied but that's not a reason to let bullying go to that extent."

"Shut up!" Yang shouted in anger. Jaune raised both hands and actually caught both the punch and the hammer easily.

"Damn," Qrow chuckled. "If he could stop the firecracker and lightning girl at the same time something is off."

"Oh come on! What is this? Hax! I call hax!" Yang shouted. Nora was furiously nodding her head. "This is some OC bullshit isn't it!"

The force did break the sleeves off his sweater and gloves. They saw how his arms were glowing black.

"What's that?" Ruby asked.

"Something not good for our friends," Ren answered.

"Renny...don't say that," Nora pouted.

Jaune closed his fingers around Yang's wrist and proceeded to break it, making her shout in pain. The sheer shock from what happened forced her out of her Semblance and onto the floor clutching her hand, Jaune doubled his efforts and kicked her head knocking her out.

"He didn't need to be so brutal," Yang mumbled.

He did the same to Magnhild.

"Not my weapon!" Nora shouted.

"And you Nora still have the gall to use the device I helped make for you," Jaune said as he broke the bracelet after grabbing the bomber's wrist and slugging her across the face, knocking her out. The dark parts of his arms vanished revealing smooth skin once more.

"Semblance?" Pyrrha suggested once more.

"But strings!" Weiss stated again.

"That's six," Jaune said regaining his composure as he turned to Ruby and-

STAB!

Jaune was pierced through the chest. Looking down, he saw Milo piercing him. Some blood flowed out of his lips and chest as he turned behind him. Even Ruby seemed surprised.

"Pyrrha why!" Ruby shouted, matching her other's surprise. The redhead was silent for that not having expected her other to actually stab her crush.

Pyrrha was behind him, having shoved her spear through him. Her eyes were tearful and her hands trembled. "I'm sorry but you wouldn't stop," Pyrrha stated.

"You..." Jaune coughed. "You..."

"Jaune..." Ruby called out as he fell to his knees.

"You hurt me the most, Pyr. The first to betray me by turning me in."

Pyrrha felt herself cringe at that.

"It was for your sake..." The redhead defended herself.

"I...would definitely do that if I believed Jaune wouldn't survive our world..." Pyrrha admitted. And the others understood that. If it was truly for his sake, they would have turned him in a heartbeat.

"And then you started dating Jack. How...fickle of you..." Pyrrha looked horrified.

"What!?" Pyrrha shouted. "I would never do that!"

"We know but that's not you Pyrrha," Nora assured her.

"I saw how it was. Exchange one guy for the next since they didn't care about your status."

"N-No it wasn't like that!"

That made the champion hurt even more. That was something she wanted to avoid. Pyrrha didn't want to be that kind of person.

"Really? You said we were friends and I did see the signs but I too was scared...scared of being rejected by another person..." Jaune laughed while he was on his knees. "And I guess I wasn't wrong."

"Oh god...that Jaune knew..." Ruby said. That seemed to horrify Pyrrha even more.

"Jaune..."

"Pyrrha...you are..." Jaune coughed but no blood came out. "You are..."

"So easy to manipulate." Jaune's voice came from right behind her. Pyrrha's eyes widened as she felt a rope wrap around her neck and constrict.

"What?" Blake asked surprised.

From her spot Ruby saw a different Jaune appear behind Pyrrha, forming itself out of string and began to choke her. The one in front of the champion dissolved into more of the material before going into Jaune's body. Ruby could only watch as Pyrrha, in her panic, forgot about her Semblance and weapons as she tried to take the rope off before going limp.

"Those are some scary strings," Weiss gulped. "The sheer utility Jaune has is insane."

"Using it to cut, as a grappling hook, clones, a shield," Blake listed off her head hurting.

"What sort of broken asshole is he here?" Yang tried to wrap her head around just how utterly stupid that ability was.

"Pyrrha!" Jack shouted from his spot on the floor.

"Don't worry you asshat," Jaune said carefully placing her body down onto the ground. "I only made her go unconscious. And it's about time to wrap up this little show."

"DISTRACTION!" Qrow shouted once more.

The bodies all over the wing started to all unravel turning into string. Even the blood seemed to shift color into white before they all flooded back into Jaune's body. Ruby and Jack could only watch as each and every fiber of the material entered Jaune. The strings even reformed the sleeves and gloves Jaune had.

The entire group gaped at that.

In the end, there was actually no guards here.

"Fuck..."Surprisingly, it was Glynda who said that.

He took a few steps towards Ruby who shakily aimed Crescent Rose at Jaune. He had a sad smile on his face as he did. "Jaune please don't make me shoot you," Ruby said.

"You already took a few shots, Ruby. What's a couple more?" Jaune teased.

Yang gave a small snort at that. "I'm sorry but that was a good line."

"I did it because I thought you killed people!" Ruby shouted as he was now ten feet away from her.

"And you're sure I didn't?" Jaune countered. Five feet.

"Jaune..." Ruby said in tears. Two feet.

"You were my first friend Ruby, still are." One foot.

Bang!

Ruby looked shocked as she took the shot. Jaune however made a net with his strings to catch the bullet. "I'm sorry..." Ruby mumbled.

"I know you are. You were the only one to say so," Jaune said before knocking her out. The blonde took a deep breath, remembering the day they all turned their backs on him for something so simple. How they felt betrayed by how he lied to them. How Ruby was the only one to help him after CDNL beat him to a pulp. How one person picked him up all those months ago. All the actions these past months he has taken to get him to this moment in time.

"That explains why he seemed a little reluctant with Ruby," Blake stated.

Releasing his breath, Jaune put on an easy-going smile. "God that felt cathartic in more ways than one," Jaune chuckled.

"You won't get away with this," Jack said from the ground.

"Get away with what exactly?" The blonde asked as he stood under the broke dome Nora used to make her entrance. Jack opened his mouth to reply but paused. What was Jaune doing here? He turned his green eyes to the blonde who smirked. Before Jack can ask what's happening the sound of a Bullhead drowned the air with its propellers.

"SEE! SEE I TOLD YOU DIS-" Qrow was silenced by as full cup of soda beaned him in the head.

"Good shot, Nora," Yang said high fiving the bomber.

"Thanks. It was getting annoying," Nora said dusting her hands off.

Jaune gave Jack a small salute as he raised his hand and shot out strings through the opening and pulled himself up and out of view.

Within the Bullhead as it was flying away, Jaune smirked at his partner. "You get what you need?" Jaune asked as he sat down.

"Oh very much so," Roman Torchwhick replied across from him. Deeper in the vehicle were barrels full of Dust. "Stole all the unrefined Dust within the museum with your distraction."

"Why unrefined dust?" Weiss asked.

"Good. With the fuck up last week at the docks, we lost a lot of what we needed and you know that your boss wasn't happy," Jaune said resting his head against the cool metal.

"So right before the Vytal festival and the whole White Fang debacle," Yang stated.

"You can blame the damned animals for that. If they weren't as bad as they were we wouldn't have had to pull this job off." Jaune just scoffed.

"Faunus aren't that bad man."

Blake nodded her head.

"They aren't but the White Fang is. Disorganized the lot of them. At least this Vale Branch is." Roman took a drag of his cigar. "And how about you, kid? Get what you needed today?"

"Got my revenge for the most part," Jaune said calmly. "It really did feel good to just wipe the floor with them. Now I just need to find my bullies and return the favor in full."

"Should have just killed them honestly," Roman replied.

"He...really could have killed us..." Ruby gulped. "We weren't prepared and he wrecked us."

"That is a scary thought," Pyrrha agreed. The kids nodded.

"Nah. They might have hurt me but killing them is a bit much. Hell, I just knocked out the guards and tied them all up. No casualties, no fuss." Of course, Jaune was also still a bit sentimental.

"It's good to know that there's still some of the Jaune we know is still in there somewhere." Ren sighed.

"But they knew it was you. You're going to be plastered all over Vale." Roman took another puff and released a circle with the smoke.

"That makes no difference really. I mean I'm working with you after all. If your ugly mug can be on some wanted posters, mine can be too," Jaune smirked. This caused Roman to laugh.

"Too true. Besides, I'm just happy for you to be here. With Neo doing her side gig I need more help. Your double Semblance is a great boon."

"Two semblances?" Weiss said. "So like a family Semblance and his own, like my own?"

"Something like that," the Curator replied, speaking for the first time since the start of the world. "His semblance mutated in this world. Originally it was supposed to be just Aura Manipulation but during his time in the gang he's in he was gravely injured and it somehow mutated. It was...odd."

"Speaking of which I need to nap. I exhausted my aura using so much String and Aura Manipulation. Wake me when we get to boss lady." Jaune closed his eyes and put up the hood of his sweater.

"Don't worry brat I will."

The scene fades as the Bullhead pulls away into the night.

"That was...hard to view honestly," Yang said running her hand through her hair.

"You said it," Pyrrha replied. "I don't think my heart could handle something like that so soon."

"Don't worry you won't," the Curator said. "Why don't you guys go stretch your legs. I had a call during the world that the Cameraman is going to drop off some people in a couple of minutes."

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