Chapter 17: Confrontation

Note: so I've been pondering this chapter for several days now and frankly, I can't figure out what to do with this one? I had one idea that would speed up a portion of the story but I decided against it so I'm unsure of what to do right now just when the new arc was set in motion.

So if you Doods have any ideas on how I should proceed from this moment forward, please give em to me cause I'm honestly running out of ideas for filler between the stones.

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Minutes passed as Crystal kept hugging close to the shirtless man trying to make sure that he would be safe, Jaune kept his arms around his new girlfriend hoping time would stop at that moment but knew that jaune added more to his workload so trying to mentally sort out his plans that would include crystal "Jaune...I know you have things to work out but don't forget that I'm here for you" The Snow Woman said which the prodigy nodded feeling that the Schnee Cousin would understand, partially anyway.

Jaune slowly nodded at this feeling glad to have made true friends before three loud but timed knocks were heard, Doyle was curious but slowly moved his free left hand into his right side of his jacket etching towards epilogue from underneath and ready to pump the unknown with dust.

Mizuki had gripped her wooden bo staff as due to her enhanced hearing meant that the green haired priestess is hearing heavy breathing meant an older man "I hear a man, late twenties to early thirties" The Green Haired woman warned her team on the visitor.

Crystal pulled out from the embrace with the blonde genius to turn towards the door when jaune called out "come in" then he puts his golden hand inside his pocket as a precaution, the door opened to reveal a man who was in his early thirties and wearing a nice press cleaned black suit with a faint blue glow from the mans undershirt.

Jaune narrowed his eyes at the mans face which was a trimmed goatee and a recent haircut, certainly it's a look of a well known business man but it's the mans eyes is what got jaune on edge.

They were the eyes of a warrior and an inventor much like the blonde mans however the suited man held experience which is something jaune doesn't have "hey there kiddos! Names Tony Stark, CEO and Founder of-" the man named Tony started to introduce himself only for jaune to interrupt.

"Tony Jet Stark, Founder and CEO of Stark Industries who had changed the game on multiple fields but the one thing that had changed completely was the name of Warfare especially with your top of the line weapons that is just below the mechanical might of atlas before you closed your weapons line and moved all the funds from that into your personal hobby as the Vacuo Ironman, a huntsmen who's done more good then most hunters all across remnant" Jaune fully explained Tony's formal background.

Tony chuckled slightly at the 'fan' without realizing that jaune who was also a highly intelligent business man and needed to learn the game too "Impressive kiddo" "not really ...you...are not discreet on your website.." Jaune retorted which caused the mechanical heart huntsmen to deflate "right...that's...cool"

The Blonde Man snorted slightly at Tony antics before raising his meaty hand to ease the concerns of his team "now, I suspect you aren't here for a social visit. I believe you'd want to meet the head of Arc Solutions" Jaune exclaimed the reason why tony was there which the bearded man nodded slowly returning to his full height as the man finally got serious.

"You'd be correct , I've heard about your exploits in the tunnels underneath the great bronco desert as well as your immense intelligence that's said to be capable of predicting the future" Tony said fully explaining the reason on why the iron huntsmen wanted to meet the prodigy

Jaune looked over towards his friends then back to Tony before shaking his head "I don't see the future , I make predictions based on the information that's presented and I make dozens of plans based on a number of possible outcomes.

"Like you for an example, a man whose company focused primarily on warfare sudden switched into a humanitarian company couldn't afford to miss the chance on meeting the man who learned to make the impossible into reality especially when on your mind is the highly beneficial trade agreement and alliance between Stark Industries and Arc Solutions" The Blondie had fully explained the predictions based on the small amount of information just with Tony Stark being there.

Crystal looked over with a slight slack jaw that jaune someone came up with all of that just knowing Tony's character profile, it was incredible to the snow neko.

Doyle was also amazed by such deduction and perfectly predicted just what the target was thinking, The Gunslinger felt greater respect to jaune who somehow thought about such a slight possibility was considered and planned accordingly. Mizuki also thought the same as the gunman.

The Business man wasn't like most who would've felt creeped out and quite afraid that such personal information was openly spoken by such a perceptive man who can plan to counter and bypass such information on the fly so Tony just innardly chuckled then nodded slowly tipping his head towards the right "you're correct my friend, about everything. Which is amazing since some of that was information that only I should know so kid, how about it? Care for that agreement between our companies?"

Jaune looked down curiously as his mental capacity doubled in speed as he began thinking up of plans and measures based on this tidbit of information before looking back up smiling gently "of course, however we need to discuss terms and conditions but we can discuss that in my lab" Jaune said before looking over at his friends again "sorry guys, I'll catch up later tonight but this is very important" the prodigy exclaimed while giving a sincere sadden smile.

Crystal smiled back and nodded "go ahead love, I'll see you back at our dorm room" "you'd better not get yourself lost again otherwise I'll shoot you in the ass" the cowboy exclaimed jokingly but grits his teeth as the blind priestess elbowed him in the ribs "Doyle!' She reprimanded her boyfriend before smiling gently back at jaune "don't worry about us jaune"

The Blonde Genius nodded then looking back at Tony while putting on his serious face "now, let us go to my lab" Jaune said just as he walked past Tony towards the door, the billionaire smirked slightly then started to follow the young CEO "sure thing, and call me Tony"

Outside the room where a violet haired and bearded man wearing a clean pressed white suit with a double edged sword clipped to his belt was standing there obviously glaring at the seven students in front of him, the members of Team 'Rwby' and 'NPR' "no" Bismark exclaimed determined as the question asked moments ago was if they could see jaune again but The Knight was following orders and orders from royalty is considered law in his book.

"Why? He used to be our friend!" Ruby shouted wanting to see jaune again especially after what happened in the caves, while ruby felt extremely guilty for what happened in the caves and knew she would never be redeemed by jaune but hoped he would at least allow the silver eyed woman to say sorry.

"Yes, used being the operative word but my orders from His Highness said that no one is allowed to enter therefore I will follow through with my orders unless I'm ordered otherwise" The Knight exclaimed fully seeing the disappointment in her eyes however the use of 'Highness' didn't get overlooked by the Ninja and Heiress but Weiss was the first to comment on it.

"Highness? What kind of egotistical ass would refer himself as oum given royalty" The Snow Heiress exclaimed offhandedly before flinching heavily as the glare from Bismark cuts through her soul and almost felt the Royal Knight would cut her in half "if you wish to keep your life ' ' then you'll keep your mouth shut. I'll not accept any dirt on His Highness's Name let alone from the daughter of the Schnee company" Weiss was open mouthed on that, almost overlooking the fact that he didn't care if she was a Schnee or not which wasn't hard knowing who was the head.

Pyrrha stepped in front of the ice haired woman who seemed to have a vein appeared on her right temple from how ANGRY Weiss got "now! Please mr?..." the red head dragged on unsure of the man's name which he caught on "...Violette...Bismark Violette" "well... ! Please let us see jaune! He used to be my partner" Pyrrha said, hoping that her status as a former partner would get her enough leeway to see her team leader.

"So your Pyrrha Nikos? The Ignorant Whore that left His Highness when he needed you the most?" Bismark said catching the red head off guard as well as a heavily shocked face "if you assume I'll let someone like you anywhere near his highness than you have another thing coming, you harlot"

Pyrrha gulped down there large lump of air unsure of how to even respond to that tongue lashing but did not like how this man was referring her as a whore and harlot "now hold the FUCK on!" Yang shouted, getting in front Pyrrha who flinched at the heavy glare from the knight.

Yang did not appreciate nor will will the brawler stand by while one of her closest friends is getting unwarranted lecture by a man who did not know what he was talking about "who gives you the fucking right to say that to Pyrrha huh?!" Bismark raised an eyebrow but didn't say anything at the moment as a memory image of a similar woman with black hair and red eyes stood beside the blonde brawler 'so this is your child raven? Oh how disappointed must you be when you hear your daughter did not uphold the honorable stance of the Branwen Tribe…'

"My right huh? You are quite the hypocrite to stand in the defense of the whore instead of His Highness hmm? Your mother would be quite disappointed when she hears that her daughter is that much of a hypocrite and a coward" the blonde woman's eyes reverted to a blood red and the clicking of her gauntlets is heard hearing the shouts of all but Bismark and Weiss to stand down as she would be committing a crime of attacking a full fledged huntsmen.

The door beside Bismark opened up and a buff blonde man wearing camo combat pants and his golden right hand in the pocket just came through but stopped momentarily to glance at the shocked and two faces of anger "oh oum dammit...Bismark, Pain Meds" Jaune ordered on which the purple haired man took his right hand from his behind his back to fish inside his white button jacket of the suit to pull out a cylinder of pain meds to toss it towards jaune.

The blonde man caught the meds to open and just tossed several pills from the bottom to swallow dry before returning the bottle to the knight "thanks" Jaune thanked his personal knight who nodded then returned the bottle inside his coat pocket.

Jaune snorted while he turned his toned back to them "if you'll failed abortions don't mind, I have an important meeting that doesn't concern you" he said/insulted his former friends.

Tony also left the room but caught the insult on which he cringed a bit as he heard the dicey start up at beacon and frankly sided with jaune, if they were really Jaunes friend then they would've stood by him from the start then started to follow jaune before someone called out "wait jaune!" Jaune stopped and his robotic hand clenched incredibly hard as he hated Pyrrha's voice especially since she said she would back him only to suffer from her deceit.

The Spartan woman tried to get closer to jaune only to step back slightly when the White Suited Knight got between her and his master "what did I say about getting near his highness? I won't allow a whore like you near him" Bismark said with rage clear in his voice what got his message clear through the room was that he moved his leg hand from behind his back to rest it on his swords handle only to see Yang activating her gauntlets and Weiss ready to unsheathe her rapier only to hear a powerful "Stop." Coming from the blonde prodigy.

Jaune grunted as he turned around fire of hatred clear in his deep blue eyes "Bismark, Take to my lab. I'll handle this" Jaune said glaring down at his former friends like they were ants on which Jaune believed they were below him "but your highness!" The knight said believing that he would be more suited to deal with such traitors.

"Trust me, my loyal knight" Blondie said smiling gently at the white suited man on which Bismark slightly nodded feeling that jaune would be more capable of dealing with this sort of situation "as you wish, you highness" The Purple haired man puts his hands behind his back once again to start leading the Ironman out of the hallway "come " Bismark said as Tony followed close behind but took glances from behind towards the growing storm "what's gonna happen?" Tony asked on which the knight answered ominously "...Retribution."

Now that the two left the hallway allowing jaune to deeply glare down at them but yang and Weiss were the only ones who glared back "...I predicted that you'd try to make amends but don't even try, you motherfuckers had your chance" Jaune said bluntly as he would rather get out of the hallway before testing out the power stone on the betrayers.

"Jaune…" Pyrrha said stepping closer towards him only to feel an immense pressure from the blonde which caused her to step back "don't you 'Jaune' me, just what the FUCK were you bitches on when you started to believe cardin? It's CARDIN! Beacons Resident Racist and Bully. Were you fucking high?" Jaune said as his rage slowly took over even seeing a hint of red in his vision but luckily that he was sound minded enough to keep his rage from activating the tri colored stones on his metal hand.

Weiss however snapped her lip as she stepped up sneering darkly "what was up with us?! What the FUCK were you on when you thought it was a good idea to fake your way in the top huntsmen school in all of vale!? Just to live out your pathetic dream of being a hero?!" "Do you honestly believe I was the only one who tried? Dozens of warriors who didn't have the money or prestige to get into a combat school wanted to become remnant's Guardians, so they all attempted to do so by going under the table" Jaune said slowly putting his meaty hand in his left pocket.

"And while we are on the subject of beacon, I find it odd that out of all you misfits managed to make your way into beacon by some shred of miracle when there's 'Obviously' more qualified would be hunters that would top any of you" Jaune said as he begins to tear apart there fragile teenage hormonal mindsets with ease and observation which his eyes landed on Yang who glared back

"The fuck you gonna say to me vomit boy!? You want me to kick your teeth in!?" The Blonde Brawler said obviously putting a front up as from what she saw in the caves was heavily scared what jaune could predict on what she would do in the future but jaune just shook his head in disappointment "Violence, that's all you know Yang. I wouldn't have been surprised as your mother left you as an infant...I guess I would've been the same as my bitch of a sister if my mom left us by ourselves but the difference between our mothers...my mother actually attempted to raise me" Jaune exclaimed seeing the crushed looking the blonde bruiser's eyes obviously shattered that the blonde prodigy had went straight for her obvious parental abandonment issues.

"What...how?" Yang stuttered a bit which she was caught COMPLETELY off guard that jaune somehow knew about her abandonment issues or even that Yang's mom left when she was born "it was completely obvious you dimwit, a blind man would see that you have abandonment issues. And speaking from mothers, I heard that you trashed juniors bar because Hei refused to give you info" Jaune said as he obviously was getting to the center of his issue with yang.

"So?" She said as her voice didn't raise but obviously frightened but stood her ground despite her knees shaking slightly "did you know that Hei or Junior as many seems to know him as...had taken a massive loan from me? To build his bar and you'll be able to guess my reaction that some blonde bimbo threw a tantrum" Jaune said as his eyes peeled into Yang's highly scared lilacs "let's say...I was NOT pleased to have gotten that email so in my head...I believe compensation is in order" Jaune concludes as he pulls out his meaty left hand and extended towards yang from his spot.

"I want reparations for your criminal actions" The Blonde Genius exclaimed showing that he was fully serious about his actions "oh fuck you! Yang doesn't owe you shit!" Weiss said stepping in front of Yang as she couldn't formulate a comeback to that almost looking distraught hoping to get the blonde bastard to back off but that had the less intended effect.

"Is that right? Tell me Weiss, what would happen if I were to...say, order junior to take the footage from the clubs security cameras and send it to VNN? Hmmm? Well my predictions would be that it would paint it in a VERY bad light as they would start questioning the student roster then question the punishment system that yang got off scot free without being punished for her actions" Jaune paused briefly as he pulled back his left hand and sneezed into it clearing out his sinus cavity.

"Sorry, anyway. Yang is training to be the guardian of remnant and yet she used her power to bully and greatly hurt a 'moderately' good businessman with little to no provocation. These are grounds for SERIOUS criminal action and it's far more serious than...faking my way into beacon, if I were to guess then Yang will no doubt be kicked out of beacon academy and blacklisted from all other academies before being arrested for injuring dozens of people" Jaune finished seeing tears run down yangs eyes obviously scared for what jaune learned.

Jaunes eyes then landed on Weiss but she stood her ground and will not allow herself to be intimidated by a man who placed all his marbles in mysterious objects that he called 'Infinity Stones' "alright coward, what you got to say to me?" The Schnee Heiress exclaimed almost challenging jaune in a supposed game of wits.

The Prodigy raised an eyebrow at her almost feeling amused by her but rage is more dominant in the blonde man "now what DO I have to say to you? You certainly have a lot of insecurities that I could break open, a few are; your father, the white fang, your taught hatred against the Faunus, your broken family and so much more." Jaune said but stopping momentarily as to look deep into Weiss's eyes and calculating what to say next.

"Well let's start at the beginning, your father is the head of the Schnee Dust Company and imfamied as a racist and shady businessman gaining a lot of hatred from Faunus all across remnant then that rage turned to his wife and children, you in particular. Winter Schnee left the family as she couldn't handle Jacques Schnee any longer even if that meant losing her hold on her family's inheritance before joining the Atlas Military and granted a spot as the second in command underneath General James Ironwood.

I seen Captain Schnee Fight, it's certainly a spectacular show and I wondered how you don't have a shred of talent that she has" Jaune said before momentarily stopping to see rage clear in weiss's eyes as since Weiss does love her sister very much, the Schnee Heiress HATED being compared to Winter, HATED being in Winter's Shadow "I can murder you arc!" Weiss shouted in complete rage only for jaune to snort in amusement "bitch, I SEEN you fight. You couldn't murder a turkey sandwich"

Jaune chuckled to himself as that was a bit of a joke before continuing his rant "like seriously Weiss, I've watched all your fights and what I thought is how did YOU of all people get into beacon anyway? Your skills have not earned you any victories, I've compared your use of the Schnee Glyphs with other experienced Schnees and I'm appalled that people claim you're the third strongest in beacon. What I'm saying is, you have no talent, qualities and your semblance use is less than mediocre so someone like YOU should've never gotten in beacon in the first place" Weiss stopped and felt personally attacked and almost broke down completely as jaune completely hit every nerve just by talking.

The Prodigy smiled as he took down Weiss completely before his eyes landed on Pyrrha who flinched at his gaze "now let's talk about my 'Coward' of a partner, hmm? Let's see what I can do to break YOU down. Shouldn't be that hard since you tend to spread your legs for beacons staff since your apparently that easy to believe cardin then her own partner" Jaune stopped seeing her flinch at apparently being called a whore again but in a clever way too

"I never figured out until you turned your back on me on why you seemed suddenly interested in me since initiation before figuring out is because you honestly believe that I didn't know who you are" Jaune stopped when Pyrrha interrupted "wait, you knew?.." "Pyrrha, you're the biggest trend in tournament combat right now. If no one knew who you were then they were People living under rocks so of course I knew who you were but wanna know why I chose not to acknowledge that?" Jaune stopped momentarily which pyrrha's silence was the needed answer so jaune leaned forward lightly and spoke in a soft but hate filled tone "I. Did. Not. Care."

Pyrrha's Mind shattered which was so loud that it could've made a physical noise that everyone could hear only her slack jawed was her response that jaune never cared about her even back then, she only watched him resume his full height "and thank oum too, I would've thought about pursuing a relationship with you because you were nice and caring but glad I chose not to...who knows how many diseases you are carrying. Patient Zero?" And the blonde man immediately attacked Pyrrha just as she was down.

Jaunes eyes switched over to Ren and Nora which the Sloth Loving girl hid behind the ninja obviously shaking and Ren looked visibly sweating obviously clear they were next but what came next was a shock to everyone especially since jaune had every reason to attack them "...I have no beef with either of you, true you haven't came to my side but that's more tame then actually working against me so just remain out of my sight then I'll have reason to stay away from you" Jaune said as he would rather not say that he looked into both of their backgrounds then had Ultron Murder the Grimm Horsemen at there home village, something they will learn soon.

Jaune then looked at Blake who chose not to shake under his gaze obviously knowing that she was particularly safe from his rage "...as I've said to Nora and Ren, your fine so long as you don't come into my radar blake then you'll have no reason to fear me" Jaune said then turned around to start walking away obviously forgetting about ruby but the red cloaked girl stepped up and said "what about me?! I betrayed you too!"

Jaune stopped then turned his head behind his left shoulder to stare at Ruby "you most certainly did, but answer me this..would Summer Rose be proud of your actions at beacon or ashamed that she conceived a daughter who would blatantly ignore her teachings of heroics? And did you ever think of the fact that ozpin only bent the rules just to have you under his thumb because you have a special gift? Other than that rubes, you're not special. You were always a NOBODY" Jaune said watching ruby rose break down in tears as the blonde man swiftly tore her down even bringing her mother into it before he turned his head back around and walked away.

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Woo hoo hoo! The old gang FINALLY got what was coming to them! Did this feel as good to you as it did to me?

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Reality- -Index Slot-

-Matter Manipulation

-Elemental Manipulation

-Blood Manipulation

-Illusion Manipulation

-Inner World Projection

-Illusion Negation

-Carbon Manipulation

-Weather Manipulation

-Pocket Dimension

-Space Stone- -Middle Slot-

-Portal Creation

-Gravity Manipulation

-Flight

-Teleportation

-Energy Shield Construct

-Black Hole Creation

-Spatial Imprisonment

-Intangibility

-Target Warping Teleportation

-Power Stone- -Ring Slot-

-Enhanced Strength

-Enhanced Durability

-Energy Manipulation

-Stone Enhancements

-Energy Constructs

-Energy Absorption

-Energy Empowerment

-Technology Manipulation

-Aura Generation