Hi, nice to see you again. Before we start please know that there will be an important authors not at the end of the chapter so please be aware. Anyways, enjoy.
CH.3 Kick Names and Take Ass
Jaune looked at the body of the boy he had killed, he wondered how he was able to stand back up after launching him into that building. Didn't matter now that he was dead, looking at the two other people in front of him he saw a big burly man with a sleeveless shirt, and a girl with green hair wearing all white. He also forgot he had I'm Still Standing by Elton John on speaker so yeah fun.
"Look I'm just gonna say this once" Jaune pointed his De-10 at the two "leave, and this won't get messy"
"Unfortunately that won't be possible" responded the burly man "You have killed one of our own and my queen won't accept that. So to compensate we will have to kill you" At that the green haired girl charged at Jaune.
"Well then, lets dance"
(Optional, play I'm Still Standing by Elton John)
Jaune shot at Emerald a couple times but had to perform a combat roll to avoid her, while she went for a diagonal slash. Jaune got up but was launched up because Hazel had gone for a follow up. However Jaune didn't come back down as he activated his ankle thrusters. He pulled from his jacket two small balls, Hazel was able to avoid it but Emerald wasn't so lucky as the two balls stuck to her figure.
"What the-"
Jaune pressed a button on his wrist and the two balls shocked Emerald with a wave of electricity. The girl screamed, after a while the electricity stopped and she collapsed on the ground. Jaune landed and went to finish the job but Hazel charged at him. Launching Jaune, he was able to stabilize himself with his thrusters. Jaune flew towards Hazel and went for a right hook to the face, only for it to do nothing and Jaune clutching his hand.
"Are you made of bricks or something?"
"Boy, don't tell me you've never heard of aura before"
"You mean that religious mumbo jumbo?"
Jaune punched Hazel in the chest again but it did nothing, so instead he launched a cable from his gauntlet and wrapped it around Hazel's neck, which did do something. Jaune jumped on Hazel's back and began to tighten the string while Hazel tried to remove him, in a last ditch effort Hazel rammed his back against a run down house knocking Jaune off of him.
Taking in much needed breaths he analyzed the situation he was in. Emerald was down for the count and without her illusions Hazel wouldn't be able to get close to Jaune to land any hits. After much thinking he scowled and looked at the boy.
"You may have won this time, but do know this we will come back for you"
"238"
"And when we do, we will make sure you perish.."
"165"
"A painful and slow death"
"365"
"Allright what the hell are you doing?"
"Huh, oh sorry. That's just something I do to pass the time. Do you have any idea how many times certain phrases are repeated in these evil revenge monologues. Seriously its like you don't hear yourselves sometimes"
Hazel only glared at Jaune, picked up Emerald, and threw a smoke bomb. When Jaune went to find them they had vanished. Jaune sighed and ran to where Oscar had landed, he went over and noticed that Oscar's friends had started to get up and clean themselves a bit. Going Over to Oscar he hoisted him up inadvertently lifting him off the ground.
"Great distraction kid, only this is next time maybe stick the landing?"
"Stick the landing? What the hell dude, you launched me off of a ship while it was still in the sky!"
"It sounds like you've never had fun in your life"
Before Oscar could throw a tantrum a tall blonde and beautiful girl covered his mouth making him give an indignant squawk.
"Hey thanks for saving us back there. The names Yang, Yang Xiao-Long, Those are Pyrrha Nikos and Lie Ren"
"Nice to meet you, the name's Lone Star, but you can call me Jaune Arc" Jaune double tapped the side of his mask and it retreated back to his ears. He could tell Yang was admiring him but he didn't say anything. Tapping his gauntlet for a bit he called for his ship to land somewhere near.
"Say, what were you doing in this town to begin with, looks abandoned and doesn't seem to be the safest place"
Yang looks around her, but instead it was Ren who walked up to Jaune and answered "We were setting up camp until Yang told us you found Oscar. So we began to pack up until those three showed up. If it wasn't for you I don't think we would be alive"
Jaune scratched his chin and looked at them "Well, aren't I lucky. Anyways I got you back to your friends Oscar but if you'll excuse me I gotta go and reunite with my family"
The sound of thrusters could be heard and when the group looked up they saw Jaunes ship landing near the town square. Before Jaune could board he heard the rushing of feet behind, turning around he saw Yag grab him by the arm.
"You wouldn't mind if you dropped us off somewhere, right?" He looked at the group behind them and noticed that they were a bit dishevelled and tired. Jaune hummed to himself a bit and relented, the group of 4 clamored aboard the ship, Jaune being the last one up he pressed a button and closed the door. The ship soon took off but not unnoticed. Perched atop a tree branch was a raven with red beady eyes.
The Illusion had been flying for about 20 minutes but in that short amount of time Jaune had seen how people who have never been on a spaceship before reacted, but this takes the cake. Jaune had already seen Oscar's reaction but Yang was a whole different story, she was from the moment she got on asking what something was and what somethings meant or who were the people on the posters he had.
"So, you're from Space?" Said girl was currently sitting next to him, she had been pestering him every now and then. It was the little thighs like what did his gun shoot, how did the ship get into space, why did he choose the clothing he had. At first it was cute, now it was annoying.
"Yes Yang, i'm from space"
"How long have you been in space?"
"9 years Yang, I was abducted when I was 10 and have been travelling from planet to planet with some friends, kicking butt and making a name of myself"
"Neat. so you're a native of remnant right? Then why don't you have any aura?"
Jaune felt his eye twitch. "I don't know what aura is, Yang"
"Woah, cool down fly boy. Here let me explain it for you, Aura is the manifestation of One's soul. It surrounds us and protects us. At some point Aura evolves and it gives certain people semblances. Those semblances make us stronger"
Jaune looked at Yang and for a moment had a sense of deja-vu, then he remembered what the deja-vu was. Yang unintentionally made a JoJo reference, then again she probably doesn't know what JoJo is. "So, Aura is a force field?"
"If you want to make it sound boring then yes, Aura is a force field"
"Neat"
"So how does this fly, Atlas hasn't been able to find any Dust that can go to space yet"
Jaune snorted a bit "dust? Don't tell lint powers your cars? You keep dust bunnies for pets too?" Jaune started to laugh a bit but was soon accompanied by Yang.
"That's actually a good joke. But in all seriousness we don't use dust we use this…" She then showed Jaune a picture of a yellow crystal "this is Dust"
"Oh, ok. Why'd you name it dust tho? Wouldn't it be cooler to name it a thunderstone or something like that?"
"Meh, don't ask me"
As the two sat in silence Jaune turned on his playlist. The first song that was played was Blinded by the Light by Mannfred Man's Earth Band. Jaune began to sing to it but the song was changed by Yang. Jaune froze, stopping the ship altogether, Yang looked at Jaune.
"What the hell dude!"
"Did you just change the music?"
"Well, yeah I wanna listen to something I like"
Jaune's eye twitched twice, really does she not know the universal rule of the driver's seat?
"Listen Yang, do you know the drivers seat rules?"
"Yes I do"
"Then you should know who chooses the music"
"Ugh, fine have it your way"
Pressing play the song continued and Jaune flew the ship forward. The two were in a comfortable silence but it was broken by Pyrrha entering. She had a cup of tea in her hands and a rather large smile.
"This place is incredible Jaune, how did you get something so….impressive?"
"Oh I stole it"
The silence was deafening
"What?"
"Yup, stole the only prototype of this ship to exist from some rich tycoon. Then I blew his place up, ahh good times. What?"
Pyrrha had a fragile smile on her face while Yang's eyes were wide, the guy who just saved them is a thief?
"Don't worry, the guy I stole this off of was a megalomaniacle CEO that wanted to militarize his company, so I technically saved the planet from him"
"That doesn't put much relief in me" responded Pyhrra
Jaune just shrugged after a bit Jaune began to slow the ship down and descend. Pyrrha sat down and they could see the Mantle, after finding a suitable landing spot the four hunters and Jaune got off of the ship. Looking around it was obvious the city was empty.
"I think they were able to evacuate majority of Mantle" said Yang
"Yup" responded Ren
"Welp, it's been fun but I'm off. Got to go visit my family. See you around" Jaune boarded the Illusion and the ship made its way out of Mantle. Jaune felt nervous to say the least, he hadn't seen his family in a really long time. How would they react to him suddenly popping out of nowhere. Before Jaune could continue to ponder on this he received a message via radio frequency. Opening it he saw a girl, she had black hair with red highlights.
"Hmm?"
Jaune didn't pay much attention to it and closed the video message immediately. Whatever she was going to say probably wasn't important and besides he wasn't going to stay for long so he didn't need the information. Jaune pressed some buttons and soon a waypoint was added to his navigational hud.
"Next stop Casa de Arc"
Jaune hit play on his playlist and was treated to the song More than A feeling by Boston. JAune hummed the song and pushed the throttle of the ship forward, sending him home. While flying something got snagged on one of the fins on Jaunes ship, or more specifically someone. She had long orange hair, a white blouse and black bottoms, but had soot and dust on her clothing.
Grace Arc looked at the yard by her house, 10 years ago it would be full with children running around, her husband laughing, and she would be there smiling all the way. Instead now all she could see were her two youngest daughters sparring while her husband observed them. She sighed, it had been so long since her third youngest had returned from Haven.
Then there was Saphron, her eldest daughter, she had moved to Argus and is married to a wonderful wife and an adorable grandson. Then there's her second eldest. She had joined Atlas military and communicated with her directly, but she recently returned home. She's scared of what Ironwood has started to demand and order, so she took leave.
Then the third oldest, she became a teacher at Signal, she says she lives a wonderful life and is currently dating a good guy. He's a civilian but from what Grace has seen he is probably as brave as her own daughters.
Then there's….Grace's hands trembled, her only set of twins. She looked down and saw drops landing on the counter. She tried to hold it in but couldn't, her only twins both taken from this world. She remembered when her little Jaune went missing, the agony she felt. Then there's her little June, she grew up to be a huntress, but now she's locked in her room paralysed from the waist down.
She remembered the footage of that monster who fought both her daughter and friend. How she laughed as she crippled her daughter, how she mocked her, how she tried to KILL HER. Grace never boticed her breathing getting ragged, how it sped up. She calmed herself for a bit, she is safe that's all that matters.
*Knock, Knock, Knock*
Grace fixed herself a bit and walked to the door. Opening it just a bit she could see a tall man, he wore the most outrages of clothing, (and that was saying something) he had blonde hair spiked up, deep blue eyes, and two tabs behind his ears.
"Hello, how may I help you" she said
"Umm, I'm here to see the Arc's"
"That's us. May I ask why you are here?"
"Um, Hi mom. It's me, Jaune, I'm back" The tall man said.
The sound of shattered plates filled the house
And Cliffhanger, welp that concludes chapter three. Jaune ignores Ruby's message and he has a stow away on his ship, I wonder who? Jaune meets his family and there are some things to be answered and Jaune's sister doesn't die but she is paralyzed.
Before I end the story I will talk about one thing and that is "is Jaune OP?" and the answer to that question is no. In fact I think Jaune is the most underpowered character in this story and the reason for that is simple, Aura. Jaune doesn't have any Aura, all of his allies and opponents do so it will make things difficult for him.
Some of you however will say "BuT jAuNe KiLlEd MeRcUrY" and the reason for that is because in Volume 4 RT retconned the fact that aura is a passive thing and that you have to activate it so it can protect you. Merc most likely thought Jaune was dead and so he didn't expect him to stand back up, because of that the punch discombobulates him and he gets shot and dies.
The reason emerald gets taken out easily is because aura protects physical damage, electricity is conductive and so you won't feel the hit from the lightning, but you will feel the sting it leaves behind.
Other than that I hope you enjoy the story and I'll see you next update.
EDIT: to the person who said that my reasoning for making Jaune underpowered because he doesn't have aura is a 'bit ridiculous because hes from remnant' your wrong.
The reason I say this is because in the show Jaune unlocks his aura at the age of 17, and even then he had no idea what aura is. Jaune is abducted at the age of 10, so do I really need to explain why he doesn't have aura. also Jaune definitely doesn't know he has aura and probably doesn't know it can be unlocked by someone else.
I don't mean to sound like an ass, but when you mindlessly post something without doing background research about the subject material, and claim what I'm writing 'is wrong or ridiculous' then that irritates me.
