So that April Fool's Chapter?
Yeah, that was a canon chapter. It happened. I'm still actually debating on whether or not to do what I want to do and start erasing chapters from the fic to show that the multiverse is going to shit. We'll see I guess.
Thank you again for all your support!
Disclaimer: I do not own RWBY.
"I hate this world all over again," Pyrrha mumbled, after seeing that teaser. She remembered what happened here and was not proud of herself or the rest of her friends.
"There, there," Ruby said, trying to console her friend. This world was hard on all of them. Especially since this was the world that Blake and Weiss argued in the theater in.
Before the show would continue, the theater shook slightly. The Curator started to cough as it did. "Hey, you okay?" Yang asked worriedly.
"I'm fine…" he replied before shaking his head. "Something just happened in the multiverse that made me cough a little. Do not worry."
Some didn't seem so sure but shrugged. If this multidimensional person was saying he was okay, he probably was. It was because they did that, they missed the grim frown that appeared on his face.
Jaune swung through the skies, attaching to the various objects he could. Below him, Vale was in chaos. Both Grimm and White Fang were causing havoc as they terrorized the city.
"What is happening?" Blake asked. The destruction happening in Vale was rather insane. And why was the White Fang helping!?
"Cinder's plan went off without a hitch here," the Curator replied.
"This is her plan?" Weiss whispered seeing death and destruction occurring.
Every so often, the blond would shoot down some hardened and sharpened strings down to help people out. The civilians didn't need to get caught up in the mess of the Hunters and whatever faction Cinder was from.
"At least Fearless Leader is helping," Nora sighed in relief.
"I'm still jealous!" Ruby groaned. "I mean I love my super-speed Semblance but the versatility of Strings is so cool!"
Whatever she wanted was terrible enough to cause this sort of mess. He urged Roman to cut off ties with her already and go to a new city, but he said that it wouldn't matter. That the bitch would find them.
"She is a bitch," Blake nodded. From what the Faunus saw, Cinder Fall was one utter bitch of a woman.
Jaune disagreed but given the relentless nature of said bitch, now Jaune wasn't so sure.
"Yeesh," Yang frowned. "That was relentless for one person. She needs to take a hint."
A couple of dozen strings rained down onto the streets of Vale, destroying the Grimm or incapacitating the White Fang members. The people would be able to handle those White Fang now, hopefully, not doing anything too crazy to them or make more hate for the Faunus.
Blake perked up at least that he was considering the Faunus. So he wasn't too much of an asshole as she originally thought. "Why are you getting happy?" Ren chuckled. "He showed in this world that he cared for Faunus."
"It's still nice to know," Blake replied with a blush.
Ilia was an okay girl in his mind after all.
"He became friends with Ilia?" Pyrrha asked in surprise. "How did they meet up?"
"Ilia had something to tell Adam and Jaune was the one who found her on her own as she was stalking someone," the Curator replied.
"Stalking-"
"Blake."
"Ah that makes sense," Yang giggled as did a few others. Blake rolled her eyes but grinned slightly. She knew of the small crush after a small talk they had in the theater. While Blake let Ilia know that she wasn't into her, it was amicable.
However, one caught sight of his attention. Namely, because there were a couple of assholes that were fighting down on the ground.
One Blake Belladonna, Yang Xiao Long and…
"Hey! I am not an asshole!" Yang shouted.
"You kind of were in this world," Ruby reminded her. "We all were." The statement brought down the mood of the people there.
His smirk grew. Attaching two strings to buildings on opposite sides of the street, Jaune propelled himself, rolled midair and extended his feet.
Everyone who was fighting froze as two perfectly good suede shoes slammed into the masked face of one Adam Taurus, sending him flying back.
There was a loud shout of "TAKE THAT" coming from somewhere in the theater. As well as "THAT'S FOR CORRUPTING MY DAUGHTER!"
Blake facepalmed, knowing the second voice was her father. "Who was the first voice?" Ren asked confused.
"Roman. It seemed like he didn't like the extremist too much," the Curator chuckled.
The guy recovered quickly and turned to face him. "Asshole! I've missed you. Ready for your stretching again?"
Yang who was sipping soda choked and started to howl in laughter alongside Nora. Pyrrha blushed at the words. Weiss was stuttering her indignation. Ren shook his head and Blake did as well. Ruby looked confused.
"Why is everyone laughing? Wouldn't stretching your butt hurt?" Ruby asked curiously.
"That...is the point, yes," Pyrrha replied, uncomfortable with what was being said.
"If my arm wasn't in pain I would be laughing so hard right now," Yang said clutching her…
"Why do you have a stump?" Jaune asked.
"My arm is a what!?" Yang shouted in shock, clutching her right arm. Ruby hugged her sister while Blake dropped her jaw.
Then he noticed the arm that was about to be completely eviscerated by Adam's stupid Moonslice Semblance. "Oh, that's not good at all Yang."
"What did that guy do!?" Weiss asked in worry.
"Moonslice, the Semblance of Adam Taurus. He takes energy and redirects it as high powered slices," the Curator told them.
"YOU!" Adam seethed as he tried to attack Jaune, but was blocked as several strings shot out from the ground connected to Jaune's feet. It made a dome of strings bocking Adam from Yang, Blake and himself. "I knew you were scum the moment I laid eyes on you with Roman!" He sliced at the semblance of strings with Wilt but couldn't seem to cut it.
"Is it okay to say that I am happy that asshole Jaune is doing this?" Nora asked.
"Why?" Ren wondered.
"It shows that he at least cares for us a little?" Nora hoped that she was right.
"Just chill out there for a second would you." Jaune turned to face Blake and a barely conscious Yang. The cat Faunus grabbed Gambol Shroud and held it up to defend herself and her partner.
"No! Don't throw your life away!" Weiss shouted. They looked at her. "Jaune utterly defeated us on his own. All eight of us."
The cat Faunus paled upon thinking about it.
"Stay back…" Blake said shakily. Not only was that asshole Adam here, but Jaune was as well. And Jaune had kicked all their collective asses on his own. With just her and an injured Yang? Blake was pretty sure they were going to die. Jaune ignored her and kept walking forward.
"Oh Brothers, he's going to kill them!" Pyrrha shouted.
Reaching out with his left hand, blackened strings fired out from the tips of his fingers and grabbed onto Yang's dismembered arm.
"Why would he do that?" Ruby stutters. "What is he going to do!?"
"I said stay back!" Blake shouted, firing a shot that only ricochet off of some defensive nigh-invisible strings. Bullet after bullet, the Faunus shot at Jaune, none of them penetrating his defenses.
"I forgot this was him as a bad guy," Ren gulps. Nora holds his hands, getting more than a little worried.
"We...can...take...him…" Yang struggled to say as she barely held consciousness. Adrenaline was a marvelous thing like that. But the blonde was also very nervous about her chances.
"Oh god, I'm not going to throw away my life, right?" Yang whimpered. She didn't want to see herself die!
"Take a seat," Jaune ordered as he got close enough. A small amount of string fired off from his right hand and slammed into Blake and it shot her backward into the wall of his Semblance, locking her in place.
"That's not the kind of bondage I'm into!" Blake admitted in fear.
"I would be laughing if this wasn't so tense," Nora replied.
"Blake!" Yang shouted. In her distraction, Jaune closed the gap and grasped her arm.
"Hold still, this will hurt a lot," Jaune told his fellow blonde.
"Oh god, I'm going to die!" Yang shouted.
"Wha-AHHH!" Yang shouted in pain. Blake, from her position, stuck in a bundle of stupidly strong strings, watched in horror as their former classmate placed the dismembered arm onto Yang's stump.
Everyone stopped being tense and suddenly were far more scared. "What is he doing!?" Weiss asked.
Yang was about to thrash but Jaune used strings to keep her in place. "I said don't move, damn it," Jaune said angrily. "It's hard to keep focus if you do!"
"FUCK YOU!" Yang shouted as she felt the pain searing in her...arm?
"What?" Pyrrha dropped her jaw.
"I can feel my arm?" Yang asked aloud.
Blinking away some tears from her red eyes, Yang looked down and saw one of the most disturbing and fascinating things of her life.
White-colored string was slipping out of Jaune's fingertips and going into her stump and the severed limb. Millions upon millions of strings began to weave back and forth into both things, and the more it happened the more she felt things below her right elbow.
"I am both intrigued and freaked out just like the Yang on screen," Ren said, watching the arm being reattached. Everyone else was stunned at what was happening.
"Too versatile," Pyrrha said. "With an empowering Semblance and those strings, Jaune is rather strong."
"As Neptune would say, OP," Yang said, still shocked.
It was like Jaune was attaching her arm back on.
When he finished, Jaune created a sturdy cast over his work. He could still hear Adam shouting in rage behind him. A quick look at his watch showed he had spent five minutes here. He had to keep going.
"Man, I'm not sure if he hates us or not," Ruby pouted. Why was this version so confusing?
"You two should get out of here while you have a chance. As of right now, I'm pretty sure you guys can't handle Taurus," he warned them.
Yang flexed her fingers on her reattached arm and Blake was released from her cocoon. "W-Why did you help us?" the B from team RWBY asked.
"Question of the day isn't it?" Ren mused with a frown.
"Yeah? I thought you hated us," Yang said. She looked at Jaune again and while he was dressed similarly to Roman Torchwick, she couldn't help but find Jaune hot at the moment.
"What!?" Pyrrha and Ruby looked at the blonde. She was looking at the version on the screen. He was dressed in a black vest under a white dress jacket and black slacks. He looked damned good.
"Yeah. He is really easy on the eyes," Yang licked her lips.
"Hate is a strong word. No, I dislike you all. Time heals all wounds but gods you guys were bitches," Jaune replied. "My anger at JNPR is larger than my anger at you guys." He shrugged. "Besides, with this, you both owe me."
"So he hates them more than us...I can live with that," Ruby said, catching everyone off guard.
"Ruby?" Weiss asked.
"Look, if my other can have a chance with him, even if he already has a girlfriend, I'll take whatever chance I can get!" the reaper explained. She then grinned. "And I'm sure as a fellow sugar lover, Neo would share."
"I never knew she was this devious," Pyrrha said after picking up her jaw.
"When it comes to things she wants, Ruby can be," Yang said, not as surprised.
"What!?" Yang and Blake gasped.
"I don't do things for free," he grinned. He patted them both on their shoulders and smiled. "So remember what I did here for you today and that you owe me. Sooo...goodbye."
"Wha-" Before they could say anything, the two were propelled backward. Yang and Blake looked behind them and saw that Jaune had created parachutes for them the moment he touched them and...was that some wind Dust was attached to some white strings and blowing them away from the battle. Luckily, faster than anyone could have anticipated.
"Did...did he just send them away with homemade Dust powered parachutes?" Ren asked very confused.
"I want that!" Nora shouted. "We need to make that!"
"So the black and white strings are empowered by his Aura. And from what I remember black strings meant stronger physical ability and this time we saw white which healed Yang's arm," Weiss said.
"It must mean that the black strings have more energy since it's still pumping the Dust crystal he attached to the parachute while he wasn't holding it," Pyrrha pointed out.
As they were speedily taken through the back, Jaune turned to face Adam and frowned. "Asshole, your prey is gone." He told him. "And I don't have time to play with you due to that little mishap."
"I WILL FUCKING KILL YOU!" was the response that Jaune got in response. The blond shrugged and Jaune took to the air once more, hurrying along to Beacon. He was going to kick Cinder and that wyvern's ass, that's for sure.
"He has priorities straight at least," the heiress said.
This left Adam Taurus screaming bloody murder after Jaune Arc and Blake Belladonna, swearing revenge on them. The order of which didn't matter.
"Man your ex is crazy," Nora frowned.
"Tell me about it," the Faunus sighed.
Since he didn't have time to spare, he just shot through the skies faster than before. Of course, he would still shoot down strings if he sees someone in peril. Despite being a thief and a self-proclaimed asshole, he was still a good person at heart.
"At least that didn't change," Pyrrha sighed in relief. A lot of them felt that it was a good thing for their friend to have at least kept his heart.
So when Jaune arrived within the air space of the Beacon, his left arm stretched behind him and over a hundred strings shot out of it. From a special compartment on his watch, a trail of Burn Dust shot out getting mixed into the rope that formed when the strings came together.
"HE CAN DO THAT!?" Nora exclaimed, her eyes were twinkling in delight.
"How? How did he do that?" Weiss looked rather confused. "There's not much Dust in that watch, I'm assuming."
"There isn't. But it got mixed with his Strings and empowered with his aura. So that minuscule amount was enough to set the entire 20 feet of rope ablaze," the Curator replied.
"Please nerf him," Ruby pouted. "It's like he doesn't need a team!"
"RAH!" Jaune shouted as he swung the, now on fire, rope.
The Wyvern didn't know what hit it as it was sent hurtling onto the grounds of Beacon with a resounding crash that shook the school.
"We must have him forgive us!" Nora shouted. "He'd be so fun to have as a leader again!"
Then smashed the rope at the top of the ruined tower, burning the stone and separating the two individuals at the top. Jaune landed next to…
"Fucking shit really?" he groaned as he saw a very tired Pyrrha, with an impaled foot via arrow of fire. He looked across the wall of flame he made and saw Cinder standing there...with Jack?
"Wait, wasn't he the one who replaced Jaune and dated Pyrrha?" Nora asked.
"He was, why is he standing with Cinder?" Pyrrha frowned.
"Jack was evil," Weiss stated.
"Jaune," the trio said in different tones. Cinder's was a cool anger not matching her flames at all.
Jack was very shocked, almost speechless. A look of confusion on his face.
Pyrrha was also shocked, namely because she did not fully understand why Jaune is here.
"I see no one expected that Jaune would be there," Ren said. "Especially his quote-unquote allies."
"I have no idea which side I dislike more. The crazy bitch before me or the bitch who betrayed me behind me," Jaune massaged his temples.
"Wow, he thinks you're as bad as the bad guy!" Ruby pointed at the screen, making Pyrrha fold in on herself a little.
"I know it's not me but I can feel the hate from just hearing that," the redhead groaned.
"Mr. Arc, what are you doing?" Cinder demanded as flames began to surge around them. Jack had his knives flaming with his Semblance ready to attack.
"Well, honestly, I wasn't happy with what you were doing," he replied. The blond casually blocked the two knives thrown at him. "As much as I would have loved to keep my job, I'm a thief, not a murderer."
"So he's a good guy!" Nora grinned.
Blue eyes narrowed. "But I'm not going to lie, I don't think I'll mind killing you guys."
"But he's not a hero," Ren frowned. "He's an anti-hero that's for sure."
"Jaune, what are you talking ab-AH!" Pyrrha shouted in pain as her former leader, partner, and friend shot her foot with white-colored string. Much like Yang's stump, the strings wove themselves with the muscles and her Aura healing her foot slightly.
"At least he had the decency to do that," Weiss tried to cheer up the champion who was pouting.
Before she could respond though, Jaune shot her with Air Dust-infused string and off the tower, hurtling towards Vale. Much like he did with Blake and Yang he got one problem out of his way. And at the speed he pumped Aura into his strings to activate the Dust, she should get there faster than either of these two could react.
"And you're out of the fight," Ruby said. "I guess he didn't want you getting hurt."
"More likely not to get in the way," the other redhead sighed with a depressed tone.
"Now that takes care of the rabble," Jaune said. "I won't have to worry about having to defend someone."
"And you think you can take both of us on?" Jack taunted. He was about to continue when he stopped speaking when Cinder glared at him.
"Quiet you. You're useful as a tool, but you're not much use in a fight," Cinder stated. "I'm only keeping you around as you make a good bed warmer." This made Jaune snort and Jack to glare at him.
"He was cheating on me!?" Pyrrha shouted. Her pain turned into fury. This guy manipulated them and kicked Jaune out!
"More like he was using you," the Curator. "Salem's faction had guessed that Ozpin would try to give the Maiden powers to a strong individual. And they used Jack to get close to you. They also took this opportunity to have Jaune expelled to give him a spot on your team."
"I want to kill them," Pyrrha said. They toyed with her in this one and it made her sick and angry.
"Although I have to admit Mr. Arc, I am surprised you would stand against us," Cinder continued. "You know it's unwise to do so. Ozpin thought the same."
"What happened to the headmaster?" Weiss asked.
"Killed by Cinder," the Curator told them. That made every one pause. The power of a Maiden was no joke it seemed.
Jaune saw the fire slowly dying down and put his hands in his pockets. "Yeah, but looking at my track record, I'm good at making unwise decisions." They stood there for a second before Jaune's hand shot out of his pocket and shot a wad of strings towards Cinder.
Jack jumped out of the way and ran off, not wanting to do anything with this right now.
As for the woman herself, she used her flames to burn some of the strings and dashed forward. Using her Dust, she made her two curved blades and tried to stab at Jaune, who brought out five strings from his fingers to parry the strike.
"You said six months right? He got this strong in six months?" Blake said in awe.
"The harsh training Neo, Roman, and Jaune put himself through forced him to get stronger or die," the Curator replied. "As you can see he got stronger."
As they jumped back, the blonde did an upward motion with his hand, slashing apart the ground as his strings followed suit.
Cinder dodged out of the way and sent a torrent of flames hurtling towards him in retaliation.
From his watch, Jaune released some amount of Ice Dust and mixed it with his strings as he slammed his hands down. Using his Semblance, a wall of strings erupted from the tattered roof of Beacon, using both rubble and frozen strings to block the attack.
In another corner of the theater, the teachers were watching with a frown. "This version of Mr. Arc is rather remarkable," Glynda stated.
"It's a shame he had to join the villains," James sighed. "Imagine all the good he could have done with his skill set."
"I think we have a chance of keeping him on our side, seeing as he is going up against Ms. Fall," Ozpin said sipping his coffee.
He heard something happening from the other side of the wall and looked up only to see Cinder, having climbed over it. As she got to the top and flipped over, a rain of fireballs were coming down toward him.
As they were about to make contact, Jaune's body crumpled into strings and slid away through the cracks of the wall he made up. As she landed, Jaune threw a punch through the cracks within the rubble. His fist disassembled and reassembled punching Cinder across the face.
"Take that, bitch!" Pyrrha shouted causing the room to look at her.
"I think she's taking this world too seriously," Yang whispered to the others, who nodded.
She slashed at it getting a grunt of pain from Jaune who reformed his hand.
"It's a shame," Cinder said as she blew up the wall when Jaune backed away. "Your skills are rather formidable. Even with just the short amount of time you were given, you advanced so far. Would you kindly reconsider working for me? I can make it worth your while." As she said that, Cinder showed a bit more leg.
"Slut," Pyrrha growled. Nora and Ren scooted away from her as they felt her anger growing.
"I'm taken in more ways than one," Jaune replied frowning. "I'm just more than a little irked that one of my skills don't work on you."
As he spoke, Jaune was twitching his hand finger and his frown deepened. "I'm more than a little surprised that I can't control your body."
"I was wondering why he wasn't doing that!" Weiss said. "I didn't forget he was able to do that but why wasn't he doing that on her."
"I guess something that has to do with being a Maiden," Blake speculated.
"It's like I'm trying to move a rock."
"I have no idea what you're talking about," Cinder replied, but with how some of his strings were on her, he could tell she wasn't lying. Her vibrations were normal.
"Lie detection too, he's too strong!" Ruby complained.
"We must turn him to the side of cookies and boops, Ruby!" Nora told her friend.
"Agreed," Pyrrha thirded.
Seeing that there was no way to control her, he left all but one string on her. The two of them rushed forward and resumed their fight once more. Jaune made two sweeping motions with his hands and the strings cracked forward like a whip.
Cinder used flames to destroy some of them, causing Jaune to flinch since he was still attached to them. However, once he was close, he punched her in the face again, only for Cinder to blast a gout of fire at his.
Thankfully, ever since he had acquired Aura Amp, he was able to use that in conjunction with Strings to make better shields. That did not mean he didn't take damage. The two staggered back, his hair getting singed.
"I would hate for that to happen to me," Yang said holding her hair reverently.
"Why are you even doing this?" Jaune asked loudly. "What is the point of all this bullshit? Attacking Beacon? Why does this all matter?"
"Why is he asking this now?" Blake asked.
Jaune dodged a flaming spear that almost grazed his head and shot back hundreds of tiny strings. Most got destroyed, but a few landed and chipped away at Cinder's Aura.
"Like a shotgun blast but made of string," Ren pointed out.
"Why? For power. To get the power of the Maiden." Cinder said as if she were insulted. Dozens of tiny flaming arrowheads appeared around her and flew toward Jaune. The blonde countered with his strings destroying them.
"Maiden powers?" Jaune asked, rolling out of the way of more fire and grabbed some rubble and threw it at Cinder who stepped out of the way. "Maiden's don't exist. It's all just fairy tales."
"Oh, I assure you, they are real. You are looking at one." She clapped her hands and a cloud of flames was about to hit Jaune, but he attached himself to some rocks and swung away.
"I'm a little more surprised that she's saying all of this out loud," Weiss blinked.
"You all must know one thing," the Curator replied. "The biggest moment your guard is down is when you have won."
Jaune landed a few feet away and glared. "You're being chatty with me."
"I decided to humor a dead man, is that so wrong?" Cinder purred. Even with some cuts on her face, she did look damn beautiful. "Although I'm surprised you put up more of a fight than Ozpin. And here my mistress thought it would have been him that I had to watch out for."
"I see what the Curator means," Blake said. "Cinder thinks she's won and has Jaune dead to rights. Which makes her a bit more loose-lipped."
"Mistress?" Jaune asked. "You have someone above you? If what you're saying is true, why would a Maiden have someone above them?"
"My mistress is all-powerful. Someone even beyond your scope." Cinder replied as she shot more flames. Jaune grabbed more stone and blocked them. From the crevices of the patchwork wall, Jaune took potshots with his Semblance.
His opponent made an arch with her arm, destroying the strings with her flames.
"I see, so you're not the boss," Jaune frowned. "I take it this is someone my associates and I don't know." The blond heard a rush of something and turned to his right as Cinder ran around the wall and shot forward across her blazing swords. Her attacks striking at him. It was only thanks to his strings that he was able to not completely get hurt. He had managed to step back in time, leaving a string clone to take the most of the damage.
"Magic is giving him trouble," Pyrrha frowned.
"I'm sure it would give anyone trouble," Ren told his teammate.
The body then exploded in a lot of strings as if he were able to enclose her in a cocoon of string. Sadly, Cinder burned them away. "And that is as far as you need to know Mr. Arc, now...die."
However, before she could continue her Scroll beeped. "C-Cinder!" the voice of Emerald came through. "You need to hurry!"
That had Ruby, Yang, and Nora chuckling. At the climax of a fight and suddenly the bad guy gets a Scroll call?
"I'm sort of busy right now Emerald," she replied to her minion. She kept on shooting fire at Jaune who kept dodging from cover to cover.
"But you're being broadcast to all of Vale!" Cinder paused her assault.
"How?" Weiss gasped.
"What?"
"It's rather bad quality but...you're being live streamed from a Scroll! Everyone just heard what you said." This caused Cinder to look around and see the white light of a Scroll camera attached to numerous strings against some stone.
It was where she was standing when Jaune shot his first attack. After...he...put his hands... in his pockets.
"Genius!" Qrow shouted from the bar, surprising the bartender!Jaune there as well as Winter. "That is some outside the box thinking!"
A look of fury came upon her beautiful face as she threw flame after flame at Jaune's cover. "Seems like you finally notice," he taunted. "Now all of Vale, and those visiting know who you are."
"There is nowhere she can hide now," Pyrrha said in a bloodthirsty fashion.
He closed his eyes and was trying to think of a way to somehow stop her. Maybe capture her. But if what she said was true, how the fuck does he stop a magical girl?
"Not that kind of magical girl sadly," Blake shook her head.
"I WILL KILL YOU JAUNE ARC!" Cinder shouted as she rained more fire in his area.
Now he could have moved, he could have done anything really, but he had a hard time thinking sometimes when under too much pressure such as now.
"Performance issues?" Yang joked during a tense moment.
"Think Jaune, think," the thief spoke to himself. "How do you stop someone like her? What can a simple thief like me do?"
Jaune was good at making plans on the fly and he had to find an option to win his way alive. "Think, what would your ancestors do?" His mind went through the stories of his heroic ancestors and tried to see if anything from the Arc legacy could help him.
"How can anyone in his family help him in a situation like this?" Ruby asked.
And...one did.
"I call bullshit," Yang said. This version was too strong.
"Shh," Nora told her. "I want to see what Fearless Leader can do in this. How will he beat a Maiden?"
"But can it work?" Jaune panted as he thought of what he can do with a technique that his ancestor Johnathan, apparently the black sheep of the family, mastered. "Let's hope it works."
In his right hand, he made a string rectangle infused with his Aura Amp, four inches by three inches, and began to spin it. He then added a smaller rectangle and then another and another before, spinning it faster and faster before…
In his palm was now a sphere made up of strings, spinning infinitely fast. "Holy shit…" he gasped.
"Did he just make a bubble out of string?" Weiss asked flabbergasted.
It popped and he stood up to face Cinder once more. This time though, he did something no one, even those watching TV would have expected.
He took a fireball completely. It engulfed him.
"JAUNE!" everyone shouted.
And seeing that Cinder smirked, happy to be rid of one opponent. "Good riddance."
As she turned, something caught her attention. It was a tiny floating white sphere right next to her eye, with the Arc family emblem on it. Just as her eyes widened, the sphere "popped" and her face caught on fire.
"What just...happened?" Pyrrha asked. Her mind was going blank as she thought of what has happened. A bubble popped off his body?
Using her newly acquired magic, Cinder repelled the flames and faced her opponent. An awestruck Jaune who had "bubbles" floating off his body, the flames that were on him being absorbed into them. His blue eyes were large as he looked at the floating bubbles.
"Holy shit," he repeated. As one the string bubbles popped and the flames that were inside them dropped to the ground.
"What is happening?" Ren asked very confused by what was happening in front of him.
"What did you do?" Cinder glared, her rage growing even more. As she spoke the tower shook and something huge took to the sky. The Wyvern was up once more.
"That's not going to bode well for Jaune," Blake frowned as she saw the thing flying about.
"It seems like I can do my ancestor's ability." Jaune cackled. "I don't think it would have been possible without Strings and Aura Amp though."
Flames shot at him, but a wall of bubbles and strings intercepted it. The strings holding the bubbles in place as they absorbed the attack. "This...changes things so much," Jaune grinned.
"How!? Why!" Weiss said trying to figure out what was there. "How can some bubbles made of string do that?"
"It's complicated," the Curator replied. "I don't truly understand it myself."
As he said that, the strings pulled back and shot the bubbles upward toward the sky. They hit the wyvern, causing a massive explosion. The new Maiden stared in confusion as this was unheard of before.
"No wonder his name was Johnathan the Plunderer." Jaune chuckled. The young man grinned and cracked his neck. "String and Bubbles. Who would have thought my Semblance would be so childish, hehe? I'm going to be ending this now."
"They are rather childish sounding," Pyrrha agreed.
"And they look so simple too," Ren nodded his head.
"But Jaune is too OP!" Nora complained.
"What are you talk-" Cinder finally took notice that Jaune had gotten too close and shot flames towards him.
A wall of bubbles protected Jaune and his hand got too close to Cinder's face as numerous strings shot out. She was forced to retreat as Jaune clenched his fist and the strings he shot out came crashing down like guillotine blades.
"He must have some sort of weakness right?" Ruby asked. While he was cool, the way this Jaune acted meant that he was going to face off with them again. And they'd have to fight it out. If there wasn't some sort of weakness there, they'd have no chance at winning.
The woman in red fired off more flames but Jaune countered by shooting back the bubbles that had already absorbed some. The two forces collided into a wall of flames.
"His capabilities are just too much this way," Blake said.
The blonde kept advancing, this time far more into his offense than his defense. A roar caught his attention but he didn't pay it any mind. No, instead he had one idea that he wanted to try.
Something dead ol' great-grandpa did.
And he found his opening. After one clash of his strings and her Dust weapons, Jaune saw his opening. Cinder was wide open.
"What is he going to do?" Yang said, her foot tapping. This was all action-packed for a world but what he was doing was far more intriguing than the fight.
Throwing caution to the wind, the blond ran forward and placed his hand on her stomach.
"Excuse you!?" Weiss gasped. "Why would Jaune need to do that?"
"I win." Using his Aura Amp to navigate Cinder's Aura, her soul, the Arc boy found what he was looking for. With a small push, something came out of Cinder.
A bubble...colored orange.
Cinder screamed and tried to attack Jaune, but nothing came out. Her eyes widened, this time in fear as she tried again and again to attack but nothing was coming out.
The entire theater went silent. "Did he just…" Tai couldn't even finish his sentence.
"He did what my dad can do," Mercury whispered.
"Jaune Arc stole a Semblance," Raven whispered. "He plundered Maiden powers."
Jaune meanwhile ran behind her and took the "bubble" and jumped off the building and began to swing through the clouds.
"A man after my own heart," Neo grinned from the training room as she stabbed a training dummy over and over again.
"Get what you want and get out, smart moves kid," Roman grinned from the sidelines.
"All of this misfortune for just this?" he asked with a frown. Even as he left Ozpin's Tower, Jaune could hear Cinder letting out a scream of anger and terror.
As he got closer to the mainland though Jaune saw a shadow cast over him. "Fuck!" It was only due to training with Neo and her surprise attacks that he was able to dodge the sudden dive bomb from the Wyvern.
"Oh boy," Nora gulped. "Do you think Fearless Leader could handle that on his own?"
It was flapping after him furiously trying to eat him. It's maw trying to take a bite out of the blond. He used his strings to dodge with what little things he could attach to. "Shitshishitshitshitshit…."
"I think that is a no," Ren replied to his girlfriend.
Jaune's eyes scanned the entirety of what was before him, hoping to find anything that would help him not die. Even as he thought that Jaune used two strings and attached them to the Wyvern's mouth to propel himself upward as it tried to bite him.
"Very fine-tuned air maneuverability," Winter said next to Qrow. "I think he could give any solider a run for their money with his skills."
That was when the blond thief saw something at the docks. A place that they used as a hideout once! "I need to get there!" Jaune said as he got closer and closer to the building, with a much higher speed than he was used to going at. When his destination was close enough, Jaune landed and turned in time to see the Wyvern getting closer but that was fine.
"What do you have up your sleeve?" Pyrrha wondered. The champion knew that her leader was smarter than he looked, if only he had the confidence to do something about it.
He had planned for this honestly, the moment Cinder had Roman stealing more Dust. While he didn't know it was going to be a giant a breach into Vale, but he didn't expect a giant damn Grimm coming too.
"No expects a giant Grimm, ever," Nora nodded her head.
That was why he stored some Dust in various places. The warehouse he ran to was one of them. So Jaune jumped into the building via a window. The Wyvern, having lost sight of its prey, circled the building. It took a few minutes before it got angrier. It crashed through the building and roared at what was inside.
"And the final face-off," Weiss said.
"Thanks for waiting dumbass," Jaune grinned as he saw the beast enter. The entire time he had been fusing Dust with his strings and was making a weapon. "You gave me enough time to complete it." All around Jaune, electricity danced as he created a giant spear of sharp string and Lightning Dust.
"MINE!" Nora shouted, surprising Ruby, who also wanted to shout that. "It's so pretty and lightning-y!"
"It is!" Ruby nodded. "And that will be mine!"
Due to its age, the Wyvern could think at a decent level. It knew that before it was a threat. So it did the reasonable thing and tried to take off. However, once it flapped its wings, it touched some floating bubbles in the air, causing it to crash down. It looked at its appendages and saw that there were holes in them.
"That is smart of him, to ensure the Wyvern can't leave," Ren nodded.
It turned back to face Jaune only to see a streak of white light heading its way and a shout of…
"GUNGNIR!"
...before fading away.
"That was so anime, I love it!" Ruby cheered.
Jaune meanwhile was panting. He used up way too much Aura fighting Cinder and setting up that move against the Wyvern. The blonde chuckled though as he saw the final wisps of the Grimm vanish.
"Man, shouting attack names is fun," he grinned to himself.
"Should we do that?" Pyrrha asked her teammates.
"We already do!" Ruby grinned. Yang nodded, as did Blake, but Weiss looked away from it embarrassed at some of the weirder names her leader had come up with.
"KID!" a voice shouted from above him. Looking up, Jaune saw Neo and Roman on a Bullhead with…
"Ilia!?" Jaune said as he strung himself up and entered the open door. "You're here?"
"Seems like Ilia will be joining Jaune for this world," Blake said with surprise.
"You're not glad to see me?" the chameleon Faunus teased.
"No, I am, ecstatic even. I'm honestly surprised you're not down there causing trouble." Jaune sat down as the group began flying away from Vale, for now, with Roman taking back the pilot's seat.
"Honestly, with how gung ho she was previously, I believe she would have joined in with the other White Fang," Yang mumbled. The girls talked after Ilia was more comfortable with them and admitted that just like Blake she was a fanatic White Fang member. But she also had her problems with the whole thing.
"As much as I want the White Fang to show what Faunus are all about...I can't condone what they did down there." Ilia frowned. "They're killing parents and separating them from their children. It was bad when it happened to me, I don't want it to happen to anyone else."
That had a few of them smiling at her thought process.
"Good to know you're not a fanatic like all those others then," Roman said from his seat. "Now all of you sit back. I'm thinking of going to Vacuo to rest for a bit."
"Good idea," Jaune nodded. "Too much heat here." Neo dragged her boyfriend onto a chair with Ilia sitting across from him. "That and I have no idea what to do about something."
"About what?" Ilia asked as Neo nuzzled Jaune's neck.
From within his white suit jacket, he produced a Dust container with an orange bubble in it. Ilia, Neo, and Roman looked curiously at it. "Do you guys believe in magic?" The screen turned black.
"That was a fun world when Jaune wasn't trying to kill us," Ruby sighed.
"Maybe we should take a break?" Pyrrha replied. A few nod and leave the room. Blake stays as Ilia, her parents, Summer, Winter, Ironwood and Penny.
The screen opens up to...static.
The screen turns black and opens to static once more.
Again and again, for a couple of times, the screen just showed static before finding one.
The screen opens up to one very familiar corgi popping its head out of a container. Tilting his head, Zwei came face to face with one Jaune Arc. "Huh, that's weird. You survived falling out of a Bullhead."
"Woof!"
"What's your name, little guy?" Jaune asked as he took the box off and saw the label. Zwei patted his collar and Jaune read it.
"Zwei? Okay Zwei, it seems like you're headed off to Beacon. You're sadly a long way from there. You're in Vacuo" the blonde laughed. "But...I got nothing to do so I guess I can take you back."
"Woof!" the dog wagged his stub tail happily. He turned towards the direction he knew his owners were and began running.
The blonde just chuckles and chases after him. His open jacket lifts to show twelve different tattoos on his back each a different animal. They consisted of a rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, ram, monkey, rooster, dog, and boar. And under each animal was a different weapon.
As this was happening, the Curator looked out the window and frowned. A spot within the vast multiverse, colorful as it was, was suddenly blackened. "That is not good at all."
Whelp there we go! The next chapter is going to be based on Jaune and an array of weapons! Let's see what crazy things he gets up to with Zwei!
Also anyone who knows where I got the bubble idea, you get a cookie.
Also, I'm thinking of doing commissions. Does anyone have any ideas about how to do so?