Writers Block sucks, but hey, I conquered it.

"Hands where I can see them," Roman demanded as he held the store clerk at gunpoint.

"Oh god, please don't!" the woman cowered in fear.

"I trust you you've seen enough shows and movies to know where this is going, yes?" The woman nodded quickly. "Good. Neo, the briefcase please." A few seconds passed and nothing happened. "Neo?" Still nothing. "Neo?" he turned around.

Neo was walking around the story swinging her new puppy around like it was an airplane, blowing raspberries for sound effects.

The store clerk lost all fear and giggled, hands still up. "Your daughter is adorable."

"She's not my..." Roman didn't bother finishing that sentence. None of the other store clerks believed him, why would she? "Ok look in a few seconds I'm going to start taking everything out of the register, and I'm going to need you to start screaming and hop on the counter while cowering in fear."

The clerk tilted her head. "Why?"

Roman pointed behind her. "She's been having him try attacking the store clerks that we've been robbing 'to build his confidence'." Her words, not his.

"Dawww, that's adorable."

"Yeah yeah, whatever."

"Hey, teaching a puppy confidence is important."

"Whatever you say." Roman turned around, Neo scratched Deadly Vanilla's ears and put him down.

That was another thing. Deadly Vanilla? That was a stupid name. His fur wasn't even white. Lethal Lemon would have been a better name. Still a stupid name but it made sense.

Neo then patted his head and pointed to the clerk with an evil smile.

"And that's your cue," Roman warned.

"Gotcha," the clerk winked.

Deadly Vanilla then ran behind the counter barking. The clerk jumped back on a countertop and started acting in fear from it, screaming overdramatically like a woman in those old black and white movies, complete with pauses of looking at it and throwing her head back with a hand over her forehead.

Deadly Vanilla stopped to look at Roman with a 'is she serious' face. Roman just shrugged and robbed the place as the dog got back to barking and snapping its jaw at the clerk. Neo recorded the event from the sidelines. She was so proud of her little boy.

Roman hurried with his task, just because he got tired of her screaming 2 lifetimes ago. "Alright that's everything, let's go," he called from the store entrance. Neo hoped over and whistled, calling Deadly Vanilla back to hop in her arms.

Roman took a moment to look back at the clerk sobbing into her hands. She paused to give him a wink, smile, and thumbs up before going back to fake sobbing. Roman just rolled his eyes and left. At least she was cooperative and Neo didn't have to threaten to stab her for cooperation like the others.

They made it back home with no complications. There was an instance where some spiked hair kid looked at the dog and then ran away when he saw him, but otherwise it was quite uneventful.

Roman sat on the couch, counting their earnings while occasionally looking up at Neo playing with her new dog. Roman was not looking forward to having the mutt around, causing messes, barking late at night, and interfering with his work. However, he honestly hasn't seen Neo this energetic or happy for a long time, so he guessed it was worth it.

Jaune wiggled his way out of Neo's hug. 'Why do sleeping girls hug so tight? Seriously.' It wasn't that late in the evening, but they did get tired and decided to lay down for a bit. He turned to watch the clock. He turned early in the morning, so he should be back to normal right about…

POOF

'There we go.' Jaune did a quick check, all of his clothes were still on his body and so was his backpack. Excellent, that will make the trip home not a nerve-wrecking nightmare. As he went to the window, he spared one last long look at Neo. She was like his younger sisters and would be devastated if he left, but she was a criminal and he did have obligations to attend to.

He opened the window and had one foot out as he looked down. It was high, but initiation had him fall ten times that height easy. He dropped his backpack and was about to jump out when shuffling caught his attention. He turned to see mismatched eyes looking at him.

The rest of what happened was a blur in his memory, but he could recall a lot of fighting, screaming, and head punches.

Jaune then woke up after getting slapped across the face. He was tied in a chair, and the bright lamp was moved to the side so he could see a very angry Neo and a less than pleased Roman.

"Ok look, I really have better ways I would like to spend my night, so just cooperate with me, will ya?" He asked. Jaune nodded quickly and then Neo slapped him. "Neo, wait until I ask a question first please."

Neo, still looking furious, nodded.

"Ok, so, what's your name?" Neo slapped him. "... wanna wait until he at least answers, and if he lies?" Neo rolled his eyes.

"Jaune," he squeaked out. "My name is Jaune."

"Ok, good start. Now, how did you get in here and where's the dog?"

SLAP

"Neo!"

"Guys I swear, it was him!" Russel pleaded with his team.

They and Zwei been looking for Jaune all across Vale all afternoon and evening with no success.

"Are you 100% positive?" Cardin asked.

"It was him! I'm telling you it was him!"

"Alright, I guess if it is him Zwei could get his scent. You can do that, right?"

"Arf!"

"Good enough for me, let's go check it out."

SLAP SLAP SLAP

"Can you get her to stop hitting me please?!" Jaune begged.

"Then maybe give us a truthful answer," Roman said, playing on his scroll.

"I am! I swear!"

"Kid, animorphs isn't real. There's never been a semblance like that, ever."

"Yeah well, it's mine."

"Ok then, prove. Change back into a dog right now."

"Uh…"

"I thought so," Roman said as he looked at Neo. He knew what she was asking just with the look in her eyes. He nodded in approval, only because that might end this whole thing faster.

"What… what is she doing?" Jaune asked as Neo started backing up into her room, her eyes never leaving him.

"Well kid," he said as Neo reached her draw, "since you won't cooperate," Neo opened a drawer, "we have to resort to," her hand reached into it, "drastic measures," her smile grew evil as she pulled out her scary toy, Mr. Stabby Stab, and instantly teleported to him and held it against his neck.

"Bark!" Zwei ran into an alley and sniffed a backpack.

"Wait, that's Jaune's backpack," Sky said.

"How'd you know?"Dove asked.

"Well, Zwei was following his scent, and there's a 'Property of Jaune Arc' tag on it."

"Ah."

"What's it doing in here?" Cardin asked.

"Hey, the 8th floor window is open," Cardin pointed out and they all looked up.

"Is he in there?" Russel asked.

A terrified girly scream came from the window.

"Yeah that's him. Move!"

Thanks to user Fox Boss for letting me steal his 'Lethal Lemon' comment for a joke.

Now let's hope Jaune doesn't get to banged up.