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Jaune Arc walks to Ozpin's office very, very nervously. That "binoculars" answer really must have been bad to have Ozpin of all people yelling at him…
"Nice of you to arrive here Jau-"
"I promise I'll pay more attention to Doctor Oobleck! Please don't punish me!"
Ozpin smiles. "You and I both know you can't do that. Even Pyrrha falls asleep there from time to time. But that's not why I called you here."
Jaune seems to have crashed at this comment and does not move. Eventually he recovers. "What is it?"
"I know about your transcripts."
Ok I lied, Jaune has REALLY crashed now. His mouth is stuck open like a door being hit by wind.
Even the third person POV narrator wants to be in the story! How cute.
His life is flashing before his eyes.
All of his sisters are looking at him with the most poutiest faces, his dad giving a disappointed look, holding his hand out for Crocea Mors…
Pyrrha, Nora, Ren, and all of RWBY with gloomy expressions as they watch him walk onto the bullhead for the last time…
It hurts him too much.
Most poutiest is pretty clever. About the only thing of cleverness so far, to be honest.
"Please Ozpin, don't expel me… I can't go back to my family… I want to be a hero…"
"Not to worry Jaune, I won't expel you."
It seems as if time had instantly reversed, as his emotions are back to normal. "You won't?!"
"Of course not. If I wanted to kick you out for your transcripts you would have never made it to initiation."
That's… disturbing. But now a question burrows to the front of his mind, one he just HAS to ask.
"Why didn't you kick me out then?"
"Because I took a gamble. Some of my best hunters have been ones that looked undeserving at first glance."
You might as well have had a neon sign saying that pointing to Jaune's head. After a few seconds, Ozpin continues;
"And I took a chance on you too Jaune. And the initiation proved that I made the right call."
Even Jaune can not deny that he was a good leader back there.
He recognizes how rare a praising comment like that from the headmaster is.
Jaune is now beaming, even happier than when he tried his first motion sickness pill!
"Thanks Ozpin! That means a lot to me. Is that why I'm here?"
"Unfortunately no…"
That beam is gone. But he is still obviously happy.
"Why then?"
Ozpin clears his throat.
And then he clears his throat again.
Why two throat clears? Could've done something better than that...
"Because I am kicking you off team JNPR."
"What?! Why?"
"You need to train quickly to get up to par with the other first-years. All the motivation in the world can not make up for physical deficiencies, as I'm sure you know."
"But why lose the team? They want to help me!"
"They already have enough on their plates. You need to progress faster."
"And how will I do that with no team!"
Ozpin's starting to run out of lies now.
"The Beacon staff will help you. You will get all the money you need for any training supplies. And a new weapon. I strongly suggest you get a new weapon soon."
Jaune finally begins to understand that Ozpin is not trying to screw him over. He returns to his beaming mood again.
Hang out with friends, and get special training to catch up and prove his worth to them! HELL YES!
Team? What team? More like Jaune don't give a fuck, even though he complained about no longer having them literally one sentence prior. I would say this is Wattpad levels of bad, but Wattpad is worse than this. But also more fun and diverse than FFN/AO3 ever gets.
"When do I start?"
"Tomorrow. Most of your classes except for History and Sparring will be canceled for now. You will start at the training arena at 8 AM."
"Thank you so much Ozpin!"
"No, thank you for being at this academy. You will make a fine huntsman one day. Now go get some rest, you'll need it."
He runs off out of the office happy as can be.
"God it hurt so much to lie to him…"
But what else could he do?
There's no way to say "I'm transferring you out so RWBY and NPR don't mentally and physically destroy you" to Jaune…
And now he's gotta set up this whole training regimen in less than a day…
A light bulb activates in his head.
Have CFVY train him! At least he knows some people on that team. And Velvet's copying semblance will really come in handy…
This will be a great success!
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YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
That's pretty much my entire thoughts right now.
Gonna train tomorrow, not gotta get disowned by my family, gonna prove to everyone I'm actually worth being here… Life is great!
(A/N: Life will soon not be great)
Nice author's note in the middle of the fic. Also, what is foreshadowing?
I even got the Grimm Wars 2 board game today! Everything is coming up Jaune!
I head on up to the dorm and unlock the door. I come in and Ren is there.
Just Ren. No Nora.
"Where'd Nora go?"
"Pancakes."
"Typical. What about Pyrrha?"
"She went out somewhere. Wouldn't tell me where she went."
"That sucks… never mind her for right now. Ozpin's training me!"
"He's what?" A small twitch appears in Ren's eye.
"He's training me! Said that I will be kicked off the team but I'll get special help from Ozpin! And all the money I need! It's gonna be great!"
Jaune opens the game and begins to set it up. It's real complicated too, so it's gonna take a while.
Why does that second sentence exist?
"I'm sure it will be Jaune…" Ren is struggling to keep his cool right now.
Especially because of what he had to sit through…
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2 hours earlier…
"I just expelled Jaune from Beacon."
"YOU WHAT!?"
"He told me about his transcripts, and I told Ozpin. It's for the best Ren!"
"What do you mean it's for the best?!"
"You know him! He'll die out there! Our team will die out there!"
"Why aren't you helping him then?"
"I can't! He had no training! It will take so long to help him, it's just not worth it!"
"Is this really the path you had to take?"
"It was either this or Ozpin kicks him out for poor performance. Trust me, I didn't want to do this!"
"You sure looked like you did when you were walking to his office!"
"SHUT UP REN! I DON'T WANT TO HEAR YOU RIGHT NOW!"
Realizing this game was not winnable, Ren chose not to play. He went into the library to meditate. Blake joined him shortly afterward with her books, but for an entirely different reason…
"What are you here for?"
"Had a fight with my team. How about you?"
"I guess you could say that."
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Meanwhile, at Junior's Club…
The club is better than ever! Thanks to Hei Xiong's "connections", it was fixed less than a month after that yellow devil went through! And better yet, it has an all-new dance floor! Equipped with the latest in flashing light technology, this bar reaches new levels of electronic dazzlement!
And let's not forget the bar! With 12 new top-of-the-line aura-infused bar stools from the Schnee Dust Company, bar fights are no more! With one press of a button, an automatic glue sticks them to their seat! Drink spiking and bar fights are no more! The profit potential is endless!
What is proper foreshadowing?
And in the center five seats of this bar are 5 beautiful huntresses.
They're celebrating after Jaune's assumed expulsion, with shots in everyone's hand! Even Ruby gets to have one, as Yang decided to make an exception to her usual hovering for this special moment.
"To the death of JNPR!" Blake yells!
"To the death of JNPR!"
"To the end of the serenades!" Weiss yells!
"To the end of the serenades!"
"To the end of the awkwardness!" Yang yells!
"To the end of the awkwardness!"
"To the end of a shitty weapon!" Ruby yells!
"T-to the end of a shitty weapon…"
The build-up is massive as Pyrrha says the killing line:
"To the dawn of a new destiny!"
"To the dawn of a new destiny!"
All the shot glasses clink together, and are swallowed down.
Welcome to the cliché store. My name is herbiecide. Can I take your order?
I'll have a… Weiss is a bitch because of Jaune pestering her.
How original…
With Blake being a fetishist!
DARING TODAY, AREN'T WE!
And Yang is a whore! Wait, please don't leave! I'm not done ordering!
Weiss and Yang go off to find some hot guys to have fun with, while Ruby, Pyrrha and Blake stay at the bar. Blake immediately goes into another "erotic literature", although she is eyeing the crowd for some juicy targets who happen to bear some resemblance…
Ruby and Pyrrha are talking about various things, including Beacon, weapons, and, of course, the end of Jaune.
"I can't believe that your scythe can do that!"
"Isn't it just the coolest! It's just amazing at shredding Grimm!
My favorite part is where the blade can rotate and out pops a..."
*ping*
Pyrrha's scroll goes off. Ruby's so engrossed in her weapons conversation that she has no chance of noticing her checking her scroll.
One (1) message from Ren
She opens it…
"Jaune came back. He's not going to be on the team anymore, but he's not being expelled! He's being trained by Ozpin too."
...
...
*rumble rumble rumble rumble rumble rumble rumble*
The bar stool begins to shake violently. TV's begin to creak.
Hei can see what is happening but is too late to activate the stool as the button snaps over to the enraged huntress.
Now the TV's have shattered. The disco ball is beginning to sway.
Yang's Ember Celica pulls her away from a boy she was chatting up.
The same things happen to Weiss and Blake thanks to their weapons.
Ruby saw this early and magnetized to her almost instantly.
Pyrrha stands and turns to leave, taking all of the bar stools, several lights, RWBY, and almost even the disco ball with her.
Melanie, Miltiades, and Junior are all cowering in a corner as they watch this display of pure anger.
"Well there goes the fucking bar again..."
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(A/N: I can't write relationships worth a damn, because this chapter is a PERFECT Ruby/Pyrrha setup. Hell maybe even Ren/Blake if people do that. If this ever gets "remastered" (or whatever the proper term is) by someone else, this better be one of the changes. But not on my end.
About the update schedule, I will try to commit to at least two chapters a week, but motivation is fleeting and I have a procrastination problem so no guarantees.)
NO NO NO NO NO! It's not good! It's the exact opposite of good! This is absolutely horrible! Luckily I put a limiter down here, otherwise this would have entered a new dimension of WTFism.
