Chapter 2 : the death of superman
Starting things off strong aren't I? yes, we are going to be doing the death of superman. but let give my reasons as to why first, because one it was the first comic book I ever read. second, it is my favorite dc animated movie of all time. And finally it is one of the most heartbreaking moments in all of comic book history. So I hope you guys don't rip me apart on this but let's begin this fic with the death of superman
"let's see how shall we begin this … ah this will do" slayer said while looking at the screen for something to show the people of remnant. "what are we watching" asked tai-yang curious as to what could have been selected. "a world in which there is no Grimm, Faunus, aura , or semblances but heroes, villains, and monsters of almost god like levels" the entity responds with a sad smile.
Nora being the hyperactive person that she is exclaims " ooh can we start watching now please, oh and what Jaune in these world, are we still friends." Ren begins to try and quiet Nora down so slayer may answer. Though he wanted to know as well if he and Jaune still got along in other world even without being huntsman.
"hahaha yes, you are friends still; Jaune in this one is the world's strongest hero known as Superman" slayer responds amused by her questions.
Blake asks " just what are going to see? Jaune fighting some thugs, a mad scientist, or some terrorist" worried she might watch herself fighting Jaune. they aren't as close as him and ruby but she still thinks of him as a friend . Also she doesn't want to be Pyrrha's bad side.
Slayer begins to frown again and responds "you be seeing the worst and best moments Jaune ever had in his life on remnant".
"What do you mean by life on remnant" Weiss asks hoping to gain an answer from this so called creator. "he was an alien sent to live on earth to escape the death of his home world krypton" responded slayer smirking at the look of awe and scrutiny on there faces.
Ozpin then says "you really expect us to believe that he is an alien."
slayer looks at them with a blank faced look and says to the disbelieving crowd "you carry mecha shift weapons, small crystals that can manipulate the elements, utilize your life force as a type of barrier, and can use super powers specific to each user that has more variety then tentacle on a porn site. And you find aliens hard to believe?"
at this point Ozpin responds with a "fair point" and the other concede their arguments for the sake of their sanity. "now let get started" slayer says as the screen begins to turn on showing the world they are about to view. [an1]
the first thing that comes into view is very expensive looking penthouse. Before zooming in and find a woman with dark black hair and pale skin, wearing a black gi meditating on a pad.
"Oh hey its cinder" ruby exclaim recognizing her from their meeting once before The other take a bit of time but they start to remember her as the leader of team CEMN. [an2] "huh I wonder what she got to do with vomit boy" yang asks.
A piece of bronze colored metal whizzes past and lands near cinders pad "lose something Cinder" a voice calls out. Cinder stands and turns to confront the voice who was none other than Jaune arc in a dark blue form fitting super suit and a red cape. the arc family crest on his chest flying above with a glare on his face.
"woah look at vomit boy now" yang says with a grin inspecting the older arc boy and his odd choice of outfit. Where Ruby and Nora saw the basic superhero outfit and were smiling about it. The less than pure minded saw a strapping man in tight clothing that showed off his muscle in all the right places. Garnering reactions from a fair amount of the women minus those to cold hearted *cough* bitchy *cough* to care weren't affected. Qrow asks "why does he look so pissed at her?" which cause the rest to wonder why he was as well.
"I'm sorry what are we blaming me for now? Superman." cinder asks in a bored tone. Looking at the caped man with the same amount of hate in her eyes. Jaune goes to land saying " those weapons this morning they were based on alien technology but clearly modified for intergang here on remnant." he looks at her crossing his arms. Cinder clearly not caring "ooh that sounds scary but as you can see I spend my day under house arrest wearing this crude leash" lift her pant leg up just enough to show off her ankle monitor with odd green gems on it. "I've added a little dash of kryptonite green, don't worry it's not real~" she said with a small smirk
"okay so they hate each other. But why though and what's up with those gems on her anklet" asks Blake. Doctor. Oobleck then responds with "he may be the reason she is under house arrest. Its obvious she has a lot of money from where she lives so she may have been able to escape prison thanks to her wealth. As for the stones I don't know what they are without getting closer but from here they look like plastic." this only made the teams angry how cinder was able to get out of prison just because she had money. Slayer then explains " those stones are made to look like Jaune biggest weakness kryptonite" Weiss interjects "and what is this kryptonite?" he looks at her blankly " irradiated pieces of his home world. The radiation it produces will cause him to temporarily lose his powers and if exposed to long, it can kill him and cause cancer in any humans near it as well." everyone became silent after that.
"let's keep watching shall we" Ozpin suggests.
Jaune continues to glare at her. "oh come on intergang has connections all over the planet it could anyone." Cinder supplies while walking toward a practice dummy nearby. Jaune not taking his eyes off her says "we'll get to the bottom of it, cinder. And when we do I'll be back." Cinder turn back to him with the same smirk as before" you know something I don't know." Jaune calmly responds to her "only that this city isn't going to love you just for hating me." Cinders face sours as Jaune flies off. She then punches the dummies head clean off in anger.
"so can I ask what are Jaune's powers in this world" Pyrrha asks quite curious on what makes him the strongest hero. Slayer instead of telling them pull out a chart showing a picture Jaune, his known abilities, weaknesses, and his most notable villains and allies under their aliases of course. Qrow lets out a long whistle at his long list of powers. "he can fly, has super speed, strength, heat vision, x-ray vision, ice breath, and is almost indestructible. Damn is he overpowered." exclaims yang. "his most notable weaknesses are magic and kryptonite; and his most often allies are Batman, who is his best friend, and Wonder Woman ,who he used to date. Good to see he at least has somebody there to help him when he needs it." says Ren. With the adults however they took more notice of a certain two villains names "this guy fought Salem and James. I wonder how they differ from our world?" asks Ozpin. [an3]
The scene changes to an office area where we see a young beautiful woman with long black hair and amber eyes in a blue button up shirt and dark blue dress pants sitting at a desk talking on her phone "senator the rents on those slums were raised by two hundred percent. As the newly disclosed owner you must have some kind of a comment." we hear the line end from the other side before the woman looks at her phone and responds, "I guess not" and hangs it up.
"hey look its Blake" ruby shouts as she and her team look surprised to see her on screen and looking just as old as Jaune. "but why are we watching her right now and where is she anyway?" asks Weiss a little jealous about Blakes looks. "oh that is the daily planet a news outlet the both her and Jaune ,in his civilian 'disguise', work at as reporters." Slayer informs them "okay but why are we focusing on me right now?" Asks said cat girl. Slayer only put his finger to his lips and then pointed at the screen.
"Incoming" a feminine voice called out as two candy bars are thrown at Blake. The camera turns to reveal a tan skinned woman with long brown hair put up in a pony tail in a white shirt unbuttoned enough to show some cleavage and black skirt with heels. Leaning over the cubicle wall was..
"Illia" Blake half asks half exclaims. "who is she? Someone you know Blake?" her partner asks. "yeah she was from my old group of 'friends' but she never dressed liked that" Blake explained being subtle as she could about her past with the female fang member. The rest of her team understood what she meant and quickly quieted down leaving the rest; save Ozpin, confused.
"I heard something juicy and I had to share" ilia says with a devious smile on her face. Blake a little annoyed askes "doesn't daily planet live go on the air in 2 minutes." Ilia just smiles walk around the wall and says " uh-ah I'm not on till the second segment." as she leaned against the wall opposite of Blake. Getting up to work on something Blake replies with "I'm sure it can wait" then she moves to file something away for later. Ilia watches her and then says "so your meeting the parents?" causing the person in question to whine out " oh god make it stop!"
"wait, what's going on now" asks ruby either not understanding the wording or not wanting to understand it. The rest of the group do understand, let just say a ninja is hoping their wrong and a certain spartan is glaring daggers at the ninja.
"Blake you're great, I respect you, I wanted to be you before I figured out on camera pays more than digging through government garbage" ilia state with genuine care and respect in her voice. Blake however still asks "who told you anyway?" Ilia smirks and fires back with "you did just now."
This cause said cat girl to face palm and everyone else to chuckle at her expense.
"I had a suspicion when you stop calling him small Ville." ilia finishes off. Blake closing the file cabinet turns around and ask "I did?" still trying to deny she got caught that easily. Ilia starts walking towards her and replies "sweetie the women around notice everything about tall, handsome men and the only competition is Cardin Winchester. And he makes me feel like I need a shower." as if on que Cardin stands up in a brown and yellow suit saying "hello ladies. Someone mention the cardinator" trying and failing to be smooth. Ilia grabbing her forehead in annoyance replies with "yes , I think it was human resources… you see my point."
This got a chuckle from everyone in the room. Yes, even raven which intern made Qrow spit out his drink.
both women walk away from him to a different part of the office when Blake turns and says "listen ilia; Jaune and I are just good friends right now. You wanna spread it around the office then have at it. Just let me get back to work!" Ilia relents "okay, okay. Just be careful you always did say Jaune seemed different like he's got a wall around. its like he doesn't want anyone to get to close. Ya' know what I mean." Blake quietly says "yeah I guess I do." the screen becomes fuzzy and it becomes hard to make anything out of what is going on screen [an4]
"hey, what's going on?" Yang exclaims as everyone turns to slayer for an explanation. Slayer look at the screen and then responds " the screen is losing connection to the reality. This will happen from time to time let me just readjust it." he reaches into the screen and starts fiddling with something until the screen starts to clear up showing a new scene playing for them. "Okay so I may have to do that again if another one of these runs on too long." Slayer informs his audience.
the scene shows a large building with a star shaped fountain near the front entrance. Then we head inside to some kind of meeting room with Jaune and several other people sitting or standing at the table. Among them is an orange haired female cyborg with green eyes and a bright smile despite her body being mostly metal. blue haired man wearing an orange top and green pants with gold cuffs; that seem to have a similar look to superman's outfit. A red haired woman wearing a tiara, a red and blue leotard, blue stockings and arm warmers(?). A long haired blond woman in a green suit with an eye mask and a glowing green ring. A younger girl with silver eyes in a red suit with gold lightning on the forearms and shins; she also wore a cowl with gold lightning bolts coming off the ears. Another woman with large wings on her back and short orange hair; she is wearing a metal cuirass and black pants wielding some kind of mace. A man with green skin wearing a black suit with a red 'x' over his chest and a blue cape. And the final person is a man with a black bat shaped cowl and cape combo; over a tactical grey and black suit and large yellow utility belt.
"well aren't we an odd bunch of friends." Nora says while admiring her wings. Pyrrha says nothing trying to figure out who is this 'wonder woman' out their group. "why am I wearing green though and what's up with the ring?" Yang complains not liking her alternates choice in clothes. While ruby gushes about her choice in costume. "hey where are me and ren though?" Weiss ask curious as to why she isn't with them. She wouldn't get an answer though the cyborg began to speak
"Okay next up the operating budget for the next fiscal year the utilities are over what UN cleared for funding guys." penny stated looking towards the group. "I'll handle it" the batman says revealing himself to be lie ren. "move on cyborg." pyrrha then says "wonder woman merch did really well this year i can step up when the lie foundation falls short." ren looks at her and replies "your kidding right?". Ruby cuts in saying "okay, okay. Let's just agree we have this covered. What else?". Penny looks down saying "just the excalibur incident. There were only three bodies recovered." reminding everyone of the satellite destroyed by space debris. Aquaman or neptune replies "I have my guards investigating the crash site. Star labs wanted some rock samples." penny nods "well that covers it. We'll meet next Thursday same bat time, same bat channel." she says jokingly.
"At Least we're good friends." Yang gives out finding it to be a little cool that they still get along. Only half the group was listening as nora is freaking out over ren's super hero form. Ren is grinning over the fact he is still jaunes best friend. Meanwhile pyrrha is in the brooding corner over her missed relationship with jaune.
Ren responds "I won't be here." pyrrha asks why and ruby says "yeah if i can be here, then you can be here". Which yang respond " it takes you like 3 seconds to get here and back". Ruby responds "two at most but point taken". "I have a meeting with damian's headmaster" ren admits. Penny responds "then we can have the meeting that evening". Ruby sheepishly respond "no can do i have rehearsal dinner that night." Pyrrha and green man look at before the man asks "is he in a play?" not knowing what it means "she's getting married" ren grunts out "somehow".
"""WHAT""" shouted ruby's family wondering who is the worm that dared try to take their little cinnamon roll away. Meanwhile ruby is hiding her face in her cloak in embarrassment over the whole thing.
"Yep married the next day limos, banquet halls, dj. the whole she-bang… only immediate friends and family. You understand. '' Ruby says slightly nervous she upset them. However jaune looked concerned and asked "does reese know."
Silence throughout the entire room followed by a small "what" from the young ruby rose.
"She better, she picked the date". Ruby replied with a smile.
This was followed by a much louder yell of "WHAT" from said rose who was as red as her namesake. In the back qrow and taiyang are frozen in shock. while raven laughing her ass off at the idea of summer's face over that little fact.
"No, i mean does she know about you?" Jaune asks nervously. Ruby just blink and replies "you kidding, i told her ages ago." Neptune looks at Jaune and adds "jeez supes you can't drop a bomb like that on honeymoon." jaune looks worryingly at the two "aren't you worried?", "about what?" Ruby asks jaune curiously. "About bringing her into your world, the dangers, the sacrifice." he says seriously. To which she smiles and says. "Jaune, that's what marriage is all about." jaune just stares on as everyone else starts congratulating ruby and calling for a celebration.
Team RWBY and Team NPR were smiling at the scene. Well all except a certain blond who still thinks ruby is still a baby that needs to be protected. "Good to see miss rose will still grow into a fine woman in the future." ozpin comments not caring about the two men, who still seem to be in shock over said rose's choice in 'partner'.
The scene shift to an apartment dining room; where jaune, who was wearing glasses for some reason; and blake are sitting across from ozpin, who is telling a story to the two; much to the blonds chagrin. meanwhile glynda is cooking something in the adjacent kitchen. "So, next thing I know; he's climbed on top of that bull. He couldn't throw off my little jaune though. the kid was a daredevil!" ozpin explains with a hint of pride in his voice.
"What are glynda and I to mister arc in this world?" said man asks with glynda wanting to know the same. "Your his adopted parents, who found him when his ship crashed." Slayer explains boredly. This little piece of info overloads a certain witch's brain and has the silver haired headmaster taken aback. Qrow having finally recovered, chimes in snickering with "mazel tov, it's a boy"
In disbelief blake responds with "this jaune the guy who irons his socks?" jaune looking embarrassed "come on dad TMI". ozpin just looks confused "what's that mean?" glynda clarifies "too much information, ozpin. I'm sure blake has heard half these stories before." Blake looks at jaune hurtfully " not really, none at all." jaune just smiles "that because if my folk have taught me one thing: it's not to talk about myself." ozpin smirks knowingly "that a parents job."
Blake begins frowning thinking jaune didn't trust he at all. Tai yang smirks about ozpin's last line and says " yeah, that's true" which cause qrow to smirk and his kids to groan in embarrassment.
"Well mission accomplished" blake looks on smiling "seems there's a lot I don't know, warn me now if I should keep my distance" glynda just smiles softly at blake "well you wouldn't be the first young lady to break his heart." jaune looks at his mother "T M I, ma" hoping to stop something before it starts. However blake looks even more interested, "oh now we're getting to the good stuff". glynda just snickers " well, first there was arslan, lovely girl who lived next door; she'd come over every once in a while. Not like that flynt coal, he was there every day." ozpin cuts in "always wondered about that boy" jaune watch on in pure embarrassment that they wouldn't stop. "Ooh Then, there was that girl on the swim team; nea.. nico , umm?" "neo; neo politan i remember her." ozpin corrected "she was quite a catch hehe" he snickered at an unknown joke. "Paa" jaune whimpered out hold his face "jaune's right, maybe we shouldn't talk about her i am serving halibut" glynda admits "ugh" jaune whines out.
"What was so funny about what he said and who is this neo?" glynda asks feeling somewhat protective of her alternate dimensional son. " oh in your world she is the ice cream themed midget psycho that works for roman torchwick."slayer supplies in which enrages both glynda and another blond into saying "WHAT". "Yes yes i know, however in that world she was a mermaid / atlantean i believe" slayer finishes. Ozpin and glynda who finally figure out their joke snicker as well as yang and her father. Everyone who finally got it groaned at the puns.
Blake looks happy for a second then her expression starts to sour. The scene shift blake and jaune in the street with jaune trying flag a cab. Blake expression hasn't changed even as the cab passed by them. "Couldn't wait to get me out of there, could ya?" jaune nervously responds; "that's not true, I just didn't want you to be bored by all those stories" blake turns to look at him "bored?, jaune this is the first time i think i ever learned anything about you. To be honest; it drove home how much distance you keep between us" she says as she puts her hands on her hips. Jaune walks up and grabs her shoulders "blake, you know me better than anyone." he says with care and honesty in his voice. Blake just look at him sadly "then that's a real shame". "Nothing is more important to me than you. I just have trouble showing it." he offers hopefully, however blake just stare at him with even more concern and sadness "there's something going on and sometimes I feel like it scares you that i might get to the truth" jaune taken aback, then sees an out "taxi" and the cab stops in front of them. He opens the door for her and she just stares at him and turn to make her way back to her home "on second thought, I think I'm going to walk".
"Damnit vomit boy, just tell her already" yang groans out not liking that her partner is getting hurt over him keeping secrets. Said cat girl is moping about jaune not trusting her. While said vomit boy's team looked at each other in concern over his real secret in their world.
The screen now shows neptune and group of atlanteans investigating the spot where several of his tribe were murdered by something. Neptune commands a shark to track the creature and begin to follow it until he reaches a beach with several large footprints leading off towards a forest. "I think I'm at the spot where the killer emerge. I don't see any sign of him. I need to get to the others." neptune reports to penny who is at their base for their group. "I got the coordinates. I'll let everyone else know." penny responds then offers her condolences.
"So we got a mystery killer?" Ruby asks. "Or a monster" weiss supplies. the rest are wondering what is going to happen next.
The screen cuts back to jaune standing on his balcony. While ozpin is asleep on a recliner. With glynda walking towards him.
Everyone snickers or straight up laughs at the scene before. Professor port wheezes out between laughing "real classy ozpin"{betcha ya thought i forgot about him… you right}
"I'm sorry jaune i guess we talk to much tonight, didn't we" glynda says but jaune just smiles sadly back "you were fine ma." glynda looks out towards the spekingback to her son "we're getting old, the secrets.. They don't seem as important as they used to." looking at her son again "they served a purpose. Still do", "She's a nice girl jaune. You deserve someone special." jaune nods at his mother word but frowns and replies "the more special they are. The more you want to protect them." his mother looks at him calmly "i know, but you should have choices like anyone else." she looked firmly at her son "we raised you, so you could be yourself. We didn't raise you to be alone honey". jaune turns to her with a sad smile, "I've never been alone. Not since the day you and pa took mein" and he hugs his mother.
"Aww some quality family bonding right there" nora gushes, while glynda's face turn red from embarrassment. "Hey, I think that means you have her approval to go for it. Eh kitty cat." Yang teases her partner, who is now avoiding an overprotective death glare, oddly enough from the headmaster himself.[an5]
The screen then shifts to a seemingly empty campsite in the woods being attacked by a bear. The only people nearby are the couple who set up there. The man is currently hiding behind a tree with a hatchet in hand and his girlfriend,who is inside their tent.
"Well that's an odd shift in tone" weiss drones out. "But not unordinary for these things to happen" port replies.
The bear began to stick its head into the tent before it is dragged out by something. We hear a roar then a crack, the girl begins to head for the exit before she is splashed by blood, forcing her to fall back in surprise and let out a yelp.
Ruby and nora begin to get frightened by what is usually the setup to a scary horror movie. Yang gulp and then says "I think we found the killer they were talking about" the rest were silent almost afraid of who or what could do something like that.
The girl finally crawls out and calls for her boyfriend "brian". The corpse of the bear is dropped in front of her. As she looks up she spots her boyfriend being held and bleeding by a giant 'man' in some sort of metal hazmat suit. The screen goes black before we hear her scream "AAAAAHHHHH"
"Yes, i believe we have." Doctor. Oobleck responds quickly. Everyone else terrified of the creature but knowing why yet.
Daily planet comes back into view before we head inside again. Blake is just walking in when ilia cut her off and begin asking how it went, even going as far as to bring coffee to bribe her. Blake just clearly want to not talk about anything that happened last night. Ilia then inform her that jaune to early and keep finding reasons to go by blakes desk.
"Okay is there a reason to us seeing the monster in the woods or not." qrow asks clearly wanting to get straight to the point already. Slayer just looks at him and says "all will be revealed in time. Oh great drunk one." leaving none of them satisfied.
They kept talking until blake almost runs into the man of the hour himself "blake i brought you some ...coffee" now noticing she already had some. Ilia feeling like a third wheel "should I leave?", jaune looks at her "no ilia your fine. I just needed a background on a councilman blake did a report on. Maybe we should meet for lunch, we need to talk." looking more concerned at the end. Blake looking stunned, glances at her watch "okay i can eat around two p.m." *pzztt pzzt pzzt* both women look at jaune as he puts down the coffees he goes to check his phone and sees the emergency line of his heroes group on the screen. "That's great, whatever works for you works for me. There's a place in the bay. You can get the address from Oscar and i'll meet ya there." he said in nervous and jittery tone before going out the door to the stairwell. Where answers the phone; while blake and ilia assume the worse is to come from the meeting. "I got the alert, what's up", " just wanted you to know there's activity in you sector." pyrrha responds from the control room. "Where?" jaune ask in a serious tone. "I think we're okay for now. Flash and a few others are already heading out. Initial reports say some kind of creature. Neptune said he spotted something off shore but no confirmation yet." jaune worried, offers "i got a lunch with blake, but i can cancel." "were good with what we have. This lunch wouldn't happen to be related to what we were discussing the other day, does it" pyrrha responds in a knowing tone. Jaune just smirks "call if the league needs me". Pyrrha smirks back "is that your way of saying mind your own business." "Yep".
"Well glad to see jaune and pyrrha aren't bitter to each other." Yang gives out, with pyrrha nodding still glad to be friends even if their relationship didn't work out like she wanted.
The scene shifts once more to a small town just outside of vale where the creature is attacking everything it sees. Police show up to open fire on it only causing as propane tank to blew up next to it and have no effect as it begins to slaughter the cops. We pull back to find out a young woman is recording this and trying to get someone to send help. The creature finally turn around to notices her and begins to advance towards her. Until nora flies in and smack the thing in the face with electrically charged weapon knocking him into the air.
"NORA SMASH" the pink bomber cries out laughing at the scene as was everyone else.
Nora catches up to it and smacks it once into the ground below. Yang, ren and ruby appear on scene as well, then ren orders ruby to clear out civilians. Nora come in to check if the creature was knocked out. But Instead the damn thing got up with the only damage done it seeming to be a tear in the suit revealing its blood red eye and then grabbed nora by her chest plate and slammed repeatedly against the ground; before being punched away like it was nothing. Yang flies up catches her with a base glove made from some form of green light.
"What is that? Some kind of weapon?" Ruby asks marveling at the construct. Slayer decides to answer "it is a hard light construct made from the ring that yang wears. it creates these hard light construct by focusing yang will power into them and is only limited by her imagination." leaving the group in awe over the small weapon.
Yang lower nora to the ground and contacts ren informing him that nora's okay and she's going in to fight the creature, even if he told her not to. {different realities, same yang} she begins attacking it by creating a jack hammer to knock it down and then tries to restrain it . the beast struggles, causing yang to focus harder than before to restrain but she couldn't hold the restraints shatter as the beast breaks free and attack her sending yang flying. When she lands, she doesn't even get a second to breath before the monster is on her again and has to raise a barrier to protect herself. But with each hit the barrier cracks more and more until it explodes in a flash of green light leaving yang unconscious. Before the monster can finish her ruby rushes through and take yang to where nora is to keep her safe. Ruby picks up nora's mace and runs off again to fight the creature; unsure if she can beat it either but still willing to try.
Everyone is sitting there scared and angry over this monster in front of them. Raven while holding a calm facade was worried over that version of her daughter and was scared of just how powerful that monster could be.
Ruby begins running towards the monster; taking the long way to build up speed before catching the monster in the face with the weapon, causing it to stagger back. She continues to blitz it 4 more times before stopping hitting it in a flurry of strikes from every angle, the monster covers up to guard itself from the blows never taking it eyes off the scarlet speedster.
"Yeah! Kick his ass rubes!" Yang exclaimed with the rest joining in as well, even the teachers and uncle qrow joined in hoping for the beast to fall soon.
"Oh, no" tai yang grumbles out. While everyone is cheering on ruby. He, ozpin, and raven started recognize her pattern of attack and also realized the monster wasn't a mindless beast. They knew what was coming next and didn't like it
Ruby rushes in once again only for the monster to finally strike her in the face. Causing her fly back into a building 20 feet away, hitting the ground twice as she did.
"Oh c'mon what's it going to take to beat this guy" Qrow shouts out. Ruby winces at her loss "that's going to hurt for a while isn't". The rest are just as frustrated with how unbeatable this monster appears to be. "You'd think they call in jaune and pyrrha by now, to deal with it" glynda grumbled wanting to see well they could handle something like this creature.
The monster begins to advance towards ruby. It raises it arms up to give the final blow, before several small beeping balls attached to the back of its head and explode. this amounted to more of its suit being destroyed revealing pieces of bone like spikes sticking out its head and a stark white mohawk on top of its grey skinned head. The creature turn to find ren standing on top of building have thrown the explosives. "Report three leaguers down, and only just got here. Need back up." ren shouts into the comms before running to avoid the monster landing on him. The creature swings it's massive fist towards him. which he dodges with ease throws a bat shaped blade at monster before grappling away to avoid a truck and the monster flying at him.
"Ren, some might say you have an obsession." Nora giggles out notice the full bat style weapons this ren carries. "Why isn't he using any super powers though?" Weiss asks genuinely curious.
"Ah. that's because he doesn't have any powers, he's just really good at what he does." slayers respond causing everyone to look shocked over that little fact and ren to smirk at his inter dimensional double.
Ren continues to avoid another attack as the creature tries to tackle him through the building he landed on. It lands on the other side and throws a train car at the caped crusader causing him to try and grapple away again only for his to take a hit from the projectile. As ren winces in pain and lands the monster tries to attack him again, before it could get him ren flips away and throws even more explosives at the monster growling out "fall, you bastard". An explosion cover the creature but still does nothing to it but damage the remainder of its suit revealing even more grey skin and bone like spikes oven it torso and on its arms.
Before they could even react the scene changes to blake and jaune at a diner run by a familiar orange haired man.
"Ugghhh. Can't we just get back to the fighting; this romance stuff is killing me." nora whines with qrow, yang, and ruby agreeing. "So this roman isn't a criminal. Can we trade please." Blake jokes
Roman just finished a story on how he 'helped' Superman save the city. "That's. an interesting story." jaune awkwardly says, not remembering any of it. Roman smiles at the couple "i got a hundred of them". Blake boredly stares at the man "i bet you do. how about menus got any of those?" roman apologizes and hands them their menus before walking off to attend another customer. "I'm sorry, Oscar loves this place." jaune says throwing his young friend under the bus. "Oscar pine eats chilly dogs for breakfast." Blake shoots back clearly not amused.
This got a chuckle or two from some. But blake is just focused on her and jaunes' conversation.
Blake looks at him over the menu loosely "so, what did you want to talk about?" jaune starts looking uncomfortable "okay; the other day you said it felt like I was holding back. Like something was wrong." he then looks at blake worriedly "you were right."
"Normally we girls are, but go on" blake said wondering where this will go, garnering chuckles from the other women in the audience. And an eye roll from the guys.
Blake then looks down and sadly replies "okay, well glad to know I'm not crazy. This doesn't have to be a bad break up. I'm still going to come to work each day. If that's a problem thats on you-", "wait" jaune responds in complete seriousness "let me finish." looking at her before continuing "there's a reason I'm so secretive. And i think you deserve to know why." "and?" she fire at him once more jaune just stares ahead not losing his tone "i'm superman". Blake just stares before she starts laughing a good minute "good joke, jaune."
Everyone else was not amused. "All he wears is pair of glasses. There's not much difference between the two, how could she not notice?" Ruby asks slayer,frustrated how obvious it was to everyone here. They all turn towards him wondering the same thing. Slayer looks at them for a minute or two before he shrugs "i don't know. I just thought this world was full of oblivious idiots"
Jaune looks around before he turns back to her and takes off his glasses "look at me" blake stares at him for another few seconds before she connects the dots "oh my god. This.. this is insane. But it makes so much sense. You always showed up around the same time it was like you were just there. And you were good. Too good." bake eye widening with each second. "Oh my god this is so unethical. You wrote stories about yourself." she points out. Jaune looking nervous "well yeah, but only a couple times i really wanted a job."
Another set of chuckles rang out from the crowd. "Is it bad that he did that. Is it good so he could have a cover for himself." Ruby ask honestly. "yes/no" weiss and pyrrah replied before looking at each other.
Bake just keeps getting more stressed out "you never take vacations, you never get sick, never sweat, never tan… are those people even your real parents?" she ask accusingly. Jaune weakly replies " they are but you know it's complicated", blake was still in shock over what she just found out "oh my god your from another planet. My boyfriend is from another planet" she spoke out loud without thinking about who was near . jaune puts his hand on hers and said "listen blake, i'm just some guy from a small town who is just trying to do the right thing. But doing what I do could put my family in danger. I did this so they didn't have to pay for my choices." he finishes with concern lacing his voice. Blake looks sadly back "and now you want me to live with it, too." jaune looks at her "i hope you can. Because there something else I've been keeping secret." just before he tells her blake's phone starts going off. When she picks it up, she is told about the monster that has been taking out the heroes while attacking the city. "Well guess you must have heard" blake say before turning back to jaune. Only for him to be gone with money and a note on the table. Note read 'my last secret' on it before blake opened it to find 'I love you' written on the inside of it. Before she takes off in a helicopter to cover the monster.
Even through her blush, blake starts smiling. Until yang begins teasing her about it no more than three seconds later. "Awww" ruby and nora gush about how cute they are. While pyrrha is in her emo corner to brood and hope the next one is of her and jaune together.
As we cut back to the fight with the monster we see penny getting arm ripped off. Neptune jumps on its back and stabs it with his trident; while the green man from before charges in and begins punching it as hard as he can. The creature recovers, kicking the green man away and throwing neptune through a building. The monster charges the green man again, who responds being going intangible and trying to read its mind.
"Yes, back to the action" qrow cheers with some of the group joining in
Ren climbs atop a sign and asks through the coms "can you tell what he's thinking". The green man responds "no real thoughts, it's all aggression, all about the fight, a killing machine." the monster stops trying to attack him and just roars athim before noticing ren on the sign. The monster readies to attack, the man tries to stop him "no". The creature grabbed his arm and threw into a gas station, causing an explosion and a fire. The green man lets out a scream before collapsing. Thee creature goes to kill him before it is hit with a bat shaped explosive. The monster turned to where ren was and threw a flaming truck at him. Penny shot a grappling lin for ren to escape on. However the truck exploded knocking ren into the road. The creature seeing no more enemies to turns towards vale and begins running. Back in a crater ren fixes his dislocated shoulder with a sickly crack.
The crowd turns green at that sound. "At Least he knows how to fix himself, I guess" qrow offers meekly not feeling well after hearing that sound.
Ren check on peeny who is shooting sparks before some rubble move revealing pyrrha looking less banged up than everyone else. " where is that monstrosity?" she asks with anger in her tone. Ren busy making sure penny is okay "south heading towards vale". Pyrrha leaps off in its' direction, rens look up concerned "we need you jaune".
The scene shows the monster with pyrrha landing in front of him, in the city of vale. "I call you out monster" pyrrha yells challenging it. The monster charges forward meeting pyrrha in the middle, clashing blow after blow. pyrrha trips the beast and tries to leap on top of it the to beat it down more, it kicks her away and get back up. Pyrrha removes her shield and charges it through a sign. When they land she continuously shield bashes it as they slide across the ground. The beast reacts by punch her in the face and then back handing her into a building. Her hair breaks free of its ponytail as she gets up. The monster charges her, she draws her lasso while ducking under its attack, tying it up in the to swing it into a truck. She draws her sword and charges it once more. She brings in her blade for a stab at its heart. The monster shatters the blade half way down the length, and connect with a massive punch knocking her even further down the street. The creature lands on her and continues to punch her further into the ground before it spots what's left of her sword. It picks it up and goes to stab her with it.
Terror fills Team NPR and team RWBY as they may just have to watch as one of their teammates / friend getting killed. Tai, qrow, and even raven are getting reminded of their own dead teammate . the teachers however are shaking with rage at how useless they feel, watching their own student getting hurt and not being able to do anything about it.
The creature begins to bring the blade down before being blasted away by a pair of bright red beams as jaune appears saving pyrrha in the process. He picks her up "pyrrha i should have gotten here sooner." Pyrrha trying to fight through the pain "not your fault" jaune set her back down, telling her to wait there till someone can help. He stands up and turns to fight the beast, but as he starts to move she grabs his hand " wait.. Take him down jaune. Don't hold back or he'll kill everyone." before she collapses from the pain. The monster stands up only wearing the equivalent of short left of his suit. and roars at jaune. "I don't know where you came from or what hole you crawled out of but i am sending you back." rage seeping into his voice as jaune charges the monster clashing have way creating of shock wave that shatter the ground and glass around them.
"The amount of force required to do such a thing is in human" doctor oobleck said in awe. "What did pyrrha mean by don't hold back?" Weiss asks.
"She meant he can't treat this monster like it's human. This Jaune once said he felt like he lived in a world made of cardboard. Always being careful to not something or someone." Slayer answered the question but this left everyone else wondering how strong jaune really is.
While in a stalemate the monsters' face and eyes started to clench up until a glow escape from the eyes followed by a blast of heat beam eyes into jaune, knocking him into a building. Jaune looks up and whips blood off his forehead before he charges the creature once knocking it across the city. The hit shook a news helicopter which had blake in it "this creature has not been identified by the government and has rumored to have left the majority of the justice league heavily injured or near dead in carlin heights." another shock wave hits shaking the chopper. "The question is will superman once again and keep this … doomsday out of vale.". We cut cinder watching the fight, then goes to her armory to suit up and take down this monster when superman can't. And to extract its dna from its corpse to build a new army of clones to match her attempts at jaune clones, which has only one success so far.
"Okay that a little creepy." Yang squeaks out in the middle of being scared for jaune and wanting to cheer him on. The rest of the group nods as well. Except slayer who watches on sadly.
We cut back to a bridge where jaune and doomsday land and continue their fight. All the while jaune tries to protect all the civies nearby. The fight goes across the bridge with jaune using his laser eyes to doomsday flying and then landing several heavy hits into the monster before being slammed into a car and thrown into a trailer. Doomsday picks up the trailer and slams it into the ground several times. Jaune blast him again before hitting him with a piece of metal. The monster charge forward and clotheslined jaune into the bridge support. Then it starts punching and stomping jaune further and further in til several of the support wires snap, doomsday kicks him away and jumps after him. Jaune gets up grabbing one of the wires and wraps doomsday to the bridge with it at super speed. Taking a moment to catch his breath jaune doesn't notice when doomsday starts pulling at his restraints causing the bridge to shake. The bridge starts breaking in random areas and jaune rushes over to save a young boy who ran back for his game device. Jaune hands the boy his console and sends him on his way but the child turns around and hugs jaune before running off to be with his mom again. Meanwhile doomsday starts changing, his spike grow larger and his muscles grow; he rips the metal cord and breaks free.
everyone in the audience smile at scene with jaune and the boy.
'You really are a hero aren't ya jaune' ruby thought knowing her friend would do the same thing as super jaune did.
Jaune bolts back across the bridge, where doomsday is waiting with and throws a boat at the caped hero. Jaune catches and tosses it back at the monster, before dragging doomsday through the bridge by the monsters' white hair. They clash several more times over the water before jaune is sent flying into the city and then dragged back down to earth by doomsday making a crater. The monster punches the hero once more then looks up to see blake news chopper watching from above. Doomsday roar and uses jaune as weapon by grabbing his foot, swinging him around and throwing into the choppers' blades. Jaune regains consciousness and flies after the crashing chopper to help it land. Blake bracing for a crash is surprised by the soft landing they got. She gets out and sees jaune barely able to stand but trying to anyways. She rushes over to help him "I've got you" jaune smiles and shotts back "you've got me but who's got you?" Blake just stare at him worriedly "you need to call in the cavalry" jaune planely says back "i am the cavalry". The hear explosions and see doomsday causing more havoc on the streets below. Blake turns and yells at him "you can't back after that thing . it's suicide!" jaune just smile at her "so is following in a chopper". Doomsday starts running towards them getting ready to jump, jaune just stare at him "I have to get back to work."
The room is in absolute silence worried about what's going to happen next. The most worried are blake, glynda, and ozpin feeling as if this was there jaune going off to fight and die for them.
Doomsday leaps at them as jaune rushes back and cuts the tail rotor to the chopper off , which he then uses the knock doomsday away from them; shattering it in the process. Jaune then chases after doomsday blasting and punch him into low earth orbit. Going in for another hit jaune get countered by a punch to the face. Then he is grabbed by the cape swung around til doomsday brings him in close and begins to headbutt him back down through re-entry. Landing several more punches before grabbing jaunes face as he tried to shoots his laser eyes again. They both crash back down into the city as a flash of red light sets off several fire and melt the corner of a building. Blake and oscaar run up to check who won from the flight, then doomsday jumps out to attack before blast away by some green laser.
Everyone remains silent either threw fear of jaune being dead or anger it took this long for someone else to help him fight this monster. However once they saw who it was they groan in annoyance.
The blast was traced back to a robotic warsut with cinders smirking face on it. "belladonna, pine; keep the camera rolling" she said before she blasted doomsday once again. Further down the street as she continues to fire, she snidely says "you think defeating the justice league is supposed to scare us. That happen once a week." the laser keep pushing until he landed in front of the justice league headquarters. "I don't know where you come from, you alien scum but you messed with the wrong city and the wrong human " cinder exclaimed as she landed near him. She then begins to beat on doomsday "but vale has and always will be under the protection of cinder fall. You son of a bitch." when doomsday appears to be knocked out; she extends a knife from the wrist of the war suit cut and extract a piece of the monster. "Now to get a piece of you" but then doomsdays eye light up and blast cinder away. Doomsday recovers and jumps on top of the warsuit rip and tear into it. Cinder can only scream out as she is torn from the robot "step back you freak of nature.. No get back i'm cinder fall, i'm supposed to win".
"Oh my god stop letting her a tantrum and kill her already!" Raven shouts being the only one who doesn't care about death and is highly annoyed by the woman whining. This got a chuckle from a couple people but the most just kept staring straight at the screen not wanting to miss a thing.
Doomsday just tosses cinder at a wall at mach 2 ["Thank you!"] jaune,with his clothes torn all over; finally gets up, to race over and save his long time nemesis from certain death ["GOD DAMNIT"]. Cinder look herself over before staring at jaune. He looks at before taking off to fight once more "NO!" cinder cries out wanting to be the one to beat jaune, not some monster from god knows where. Jaune tackle doomsday into the headquarters and through several walls before stopping to try and catch his breath. Dooms day just gets back up with jaune, both stare at one another and then charge forward. They clash in an exchange of fists causing a shock wave that the building collapses around them. Jaune bleeding and gasping lands two more hits on him, before being knocked with three punches from doomsday. More of the building collapses on top of them. Blake and Oscar can only watch as doomsday knocks the rubble away and makes his way over to jaune who is trying to stand. He tries and fails to throw a punch, only for him to be grabbed by doomsday thrown down. The monster then grabs and wrap jaunes' cape around his throat trying to choke him with it. It then just curb stomp jaune head into the ground twice; ripping his cape in the process. Then a rock hits doomsday, who just looks at where it came from and sees it was-
"Blake what do you think your doing? You have to get out of there!" Yang screams everyone else joins in telling to leave ro hide; all except blake who couldn't turn away glaring at this monster. 'No one hurts the people I care for not even some monster!' she thought to herself.
Blake gets ready to throw another one but just let it drop instead. Doomsday not caring if it didn't hurt growl at her and started walking towards her changing once more. His spike grow longer even coming over his hands to form wrist blades. "Jaune"she whispers out knowing he can hear he looks up at her "I got your note and i love you, too". Jaune then drags himself up and musters all the strength he can; to charge at the monster with a yell "aaaaaahhhhhhh" doomsday turns just in time for jaune to hit him so hard his head snaps backwards causing one last sonic boom so powerful it shatter every window and cause the water to explode outwards. When we look back to the impact sight we see doomsday not moving.
"YES! he did it" ruby cheers out hugging her partner and sister
"I knew he could … do-" pyrrha stops short now staring at the screen as everyone but blake had looked away. "Pyrrha whats-" nora stops as she and everyone else begin to notice what is going on the screen now.
While doomsday was down, jaune however was stabbed by one of his wrist blades. Jaune cringing in pain as it was pulled from him by doomsday falling corpse. He tried to stand only to fall to the ground with blake running over crying over "stay with please, stay with me." jaune in almost a whisper asks "that thing is he?" "yes you did it, you saved everyone" blake says while in tears. "Good that's all i ever wanted." he says in the same tone "except for you. What a lucky… man.. I.. was." he gasps out wiping her tears away, he shed some of his own before closing his eyes for the last time. "No no ...no."blake cries as she hugged him closer. The rest of the league show up after finally recovering. Pyrrha looks away with tears in her eyes. Ren with yang carrying him. Looks at the scene with widening eyes, his clenched fist letting go in other defeat. The rest of the league looking at jaunes body with hurt and sadness in their eyes. The scene cuts out on the torn remains of jaune cape caught on a piece of rebar fluttering in the wind like some kind of flag and the sound of people crying.
It wasn't any better in the room either very few weren't in tears over the loss of superman. Jaunes' team, ruby, and blake were full out crying. Glynda, tai, port, weiss, and oobleck were trying to remain composed even with tears and whimpers coming out. Yang and qrow were gritting their teeth at how useless and weak they felt because couldn't help in any way and had to watch a good person die to stop some monster. Raven looked on at the young man. who now lies dead in front of her and bowed her head at him as a way to acknowledge how strong he was, now she wonders if their worlds jaune could come close to being this strong; if so she may need to invite him into the clan or atleast push her daughter into a relationship with him. However, ozpin is the most surprising. yes, he still cried but the look of rage that crossed his face, scared everyone near him as his grip tightened so much that his cane began to strain and splinter.
Slayer looked upon them and said "I shall give a while to calm yourselves then you may ask your questions" he vanished from sight
_one hour later_
Slayer return as he said he would. He saw they had finally calm down enough to not outright start yelling or do something stupid like attack him. "Now you all must want to know why I showed you this world first?"
the nod and glares he received were expected so he continued "the reason i showed you this one first. Is to first prepare you for the road ahead. not every world will be this bad, some will be much worse; but the majority will be good. I can't guarantee I will have all the answers; but i will say i'll try my best if you wish to continue. If not then i'll send you back no problem. now how does that sound?"
They look at each other and begin to speak within themselves. "Okay we'll stay but can the next be a happier one" ruby says "no promises but I'll see what I can-" * flow colors ringtone* "oh sorry on moment" he walks off and pulls out his phone and speaks to the caller. In a minute or two he walks back "well that was a request from my brother asking for the next to be his choice. Luckily, it's a happy one. Now does anyone have anymore questions before we begin the next world?"
"Yes. um what happen to this world now that jaune has … well died?" Weiss asked finding it hard to voice her question.
The entity looks at her and smiles solemnly "well, jaune inspired a great deal of people to rise to action as the next superman. Including the clone cinder made and finalized with her DNA. She named him the next superman. the public calls him superboy." this little tidbit of info sent a wave of jealousy through both blake and pyrrha. "Anything else?" he asks.
"Who else will be joining us here?" Ozpin queried interested in seeing how people will go missing before anyone notices. "Depends on if anyone asks for people to be brought time is moving differently in here, where it's been several hours; out there only 7 milliseconds" shocking everyone in the room. "Well now let begin the next world"
Wooh this was a long one hope you'd enjoyed it. next one will be a chapter my brother asked me to do. Then I have two requests already that'll probably be apart of the same chapter. oh please tell me if you want me to add anyone
An1:let it be known, I may have skipped forward just a bit because if i wrote the entire it would have taken longer.
An2: this is before the but during the vytal festival
An3: salem is the best choice to be darkseid. As for james ironwood; a virtual cookie to who ever can guess the character that said this "I WILL FIND HIM!"
An4: as with the begining i had to cut things out to cut down the length. And I really don't care about cyborg superman.
An5: as for this. Yeah i'll say that my version of ozpin would be the overprotective parent of the two. He already lost his first kids do you really think he'd let his pseudo son go that easily.
NEXT TIME: "I'm ruby d. rose and I want you to join my crew pirate hunter jaune!"
