CH 6. Breach and Clear
Jaune sat in the pilot's seat of his ship navigating through the sky, ever since Penny came back online he learned that she was very curious. Throughout the trip she questioned him about the specs of his ship and a bit more, knowing she was an android he fed her false information so she wouldn't dlvument it.
"If a machine like this exists then why hasn't it been mass-produced?" She asked
"It's because our planet is a bit behind. To be blunt it's because we're in the space boonies"
"Why is that? Atlas is the most technologically advanced kingdom in all of remnant. Having had a technological renaissance a few years after the faunus war which wasn't too long ago"
"What you call 'advanced' I call normal. Its sad but its the truth, the fact you haven't used other forms of power for vehicles, houses, or appliances is really holding you back"
"Would you mind expanding on that?"
"Travelling around I've noticed that the most common forms of power on a surface level is electricity, wind, fossil fuels, solar powered, and radioactivity. As for space travel that is a bit complicated so I could send you some schematics for basic ships?"
"Really?! Sensational!"
Jaune chuckled at the antics of the android. The android soon gave Jaune her contact information and he forwarded her some blueprints to a simple light shuttle. Penny scanned the blueprints and looked ecstatic at it, she looked like a giddy little girl on christmas day.
"So, why did we have to go to Atlas in such a hurry?" Jaune asked
"Huh? Oh it's because there is a massive grim whale currently floating above Mantle. I think it's main purpose is to land at Atlas and engulf the city with grimm"
Jaune looked at her, she had a face of worry. Jaune placed a hand on her shoulder and she looked up at him.
"So, what's the plan?" Penny asked
"I think our best bet would be for you to head back into Atlas. I could just blow up the whale from the outside with my ship"
"You can't" penny said
"Well why not?"
"Inside the whale is an object *hiccup* that is very important. You need to get it before you destroy the whale"
"Why is the object important? Care to explain?"
Penny looked conflicted at first but relented after a bit. "Don't tell anyone I told you this but that object is a special relic that can answer any 3 questions every one hundred years. We can't let it get destroyed or be used against us"
At some point Jaune stopped paying attention to what she was saying, the idea of having a magical question granting relic was too good of an opportunity to pass up on.
"Sure, I'll grab it. Just gotta set a timer of 15 minutes to grab the thing and get out. Once the timer goes off the ship will launche some missles at it"
Penny looked surprised at Jaune "really you would go?"
"It won't be my first heist. Besides already done a couple solo heists, whats one more gonna do to me?"
"Allright, but how will the ship know where to pick you up and when to launch the missles?"
'No need to worry, I take care of that'
Penng yelped, surprised at the new voice, Jaune just rubbed his forehead.
"Ya know you don't have to do that right?"
'Yes, but I do enjoy the surprise people get'
Penny looked around and noticed nobody else apart from them. "Jaune? Who is speaking?"
'That would be me, my name is Mrs. J. An ai that Jaune has installed into his ship'
Jaune blushed at the small praise but cleared his throat. "She was a gift from a friend, really helpful too"
'Yup'
"We should be arriving at Atlas any second now…"
And with that the Illusion made its way past some clouds to see the massive flying whale approaching Atlas. Jaune got up from his chair and Penny followed behind him. Making his way to the armory Jaune. Penng looked at all of the unique gadgets and weapons.
Going towards the back of the ship Jaune opened up the cargo bay and they could see the rushing clouds as the ship accelerated.
"So you know the plan right? I head towards the Moby Dick and you find your friends"
"Correct"
"Good, see you later"
And with that Jaune jumped off the ship and activating his thrusters, his mask formed around his face. Turning his head he saw Penny flyimg away from the ship and yowards Atlas.
Jaune flew towards the whale; the plan was simple grab the relic, blow the whale to smithereens, and use the question for himself. He never said or promised to give the relic back the way it came, besides whats 100 years from now.
The corridors of the grimm whale were earily silent, grimm would patrol every nnow and then but nobody was around. A lone figure dropped from the roof, landing he rolled to side and hugged the wall of the corridor.
"I'm never going to go through the gills ever again. Why does it even have gills in the first place? Questions for later"
Pulling out a small tablet Jaune had mapped oit the whale. On it where two glowing dots, one red and one blue. The red one was evil witch lady Oscar had told him about, the blue one was the relic. It was near the right side of the whale, close to the fin.
Jaune sneaked his way through the hallways of the whale, he would avoid any grimm he encountered, then again he sprayed himself with some car oil to maske his scent. Apparently grimm only smell human scents.
After a bit he checked his tablet and found himself in front of the relic door. Grabbing a small cube Jaune threw it against the door and the cube's corners expanded. Infront of Jaune was a large transparent purple rectangle.
Walking through it Jaune had to thank Peter for the gift. He looked in front of him and saw it, the relic. It was placed on a pedestal with a glass container on top of it. Jaune took a couple steps forward. However on instinct Jaune rolled out of the way.
"Leave or perish"
Jaune turned his head at the thing that lunged at him. It was on all fours with bones portrudimg out of it. It looked like a massive dog or wolf, worst of all it talked. Jaune got up and looked at the dog.
"Who's gonna make me?"
"Me"
"Hmm, nope. I'm here for that" Jaune said pointing at the relic
"Then you shall die" with that said the massive grimm dog lunged at Jaune again. Jaune drew his pistol but wqs too late to fire. Feeling the full brunt of the assault Jaune thanked himself for wearing armored clothing.
Picking himself back up Jaune threw a small, pill like canister at the dog. The dog looked at it as it rolled towards him. Crushing it under his paw he looked at Jaune once more but before he could move foam began to grow from where the pill was crushed.
Soon the grimm dog was covered head to toe in foam. As it tried to move it realized that the foam hardened.
"Yeah, good luck trying to get out of that buddy. Not even the strongest Avenger was able to do it"
Jaune walked over to the podium in which the relic was at and examined it.
"Aren't you going to take it?" The grimm asked
"This aint my first time dealing with these kinds of things. This is trapped isn't it?"
"You are perceptive. Yes, it is trapped, if any human object destroys the glass will cause all the grimm to flood the area"
"You said any human object right? That includes hands, guns, bullets, anything, right?"
"Correct"
Looking at the grimm Jaune walked over to the podium and stared at it for a bit.
"Only the glass is cursed or trapped?"
The grimm dog nodded. Jaune looked at the podium and lightly tapped it with his foot. The whole podium began to tilt over and soon crashed into the ground, shattering the glass dome. Due to it not being human that destroyed the glass the curse dispersed.
Jaune triumphantky picked up the relic and clipped it to his belt. "Stupid mutt" he muttured
Unfortunatley for Jaune his luck had all but run out.
"AAWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOO!!"
Jaune turned around and looked at the grimm dog, not wasting any time Jaune ran through the door and collected his gadget. Looking through the corridor grimm emerged from the walls and charged at Jaune.
He sighed and put play on his soundtrack. A simple piano riff was all Jaune heard and he knew what song would play.
(Optional, play Don't Stop Me Now by Queen)
Jaune drew DE-10 and discharged two shots at a charging beowulf. Turning left he brought his arm close to his body, and like a western movie, Jaune rapid fired the gun by pulling back the hammer manually. He jumped over a charging Ursa and shot it by the back of the neck.
Running down the hallway Jaune slide under a Beringels legs and planted a sticky mine on it's chest. To make matters worse for the beringel it was attacked by two ursas. Jaune peessed a button causing all three to explode.
Jaune continued to run as he was chased by a pack of boarbatusks, he thre trip mines on the ground. They rolled straight into them triggering an explosian.
Jaune turned a couple more corridors and was faced by a King Taijitu. Making a forward combat roll, Jaune pulled from his jacket a throwing knife, hurling it at the black head it dug deep into its scales. The massive snake hissed in pain but before it could retaliate Jaune pulled on an invisible string cutting open a much larger wound.
The black side collapsed due to blood loss and before the white side could charge at Jaune he threw a round sphere at it's head, biting into it the beast's head exploded from the inside out.
Jaune pulled out his tablet and checked where he was, from the looks of it he was on ghe ckrridor straight to the front of the whale where the red dot remained.
Jaune looked behimd him and saw a horde of grimm so he pulled out a rather large canister throwing it behind him the massive canister transformed into a massive metal wall. He could hear the many thuds of grimm crashing into it.
Naking it to the main door Jaune pulled out a small pad, rolling it out onto the door he pulled on a knob and drew a detotnation device. The rim of the pad ignited and drew an outline before exploding in a ball of fire.
Jaune ran through it and jumped, before him was the massive eye of the grimm whale and a group of rouges all looking at him. He remembered the massive burly man from before and the freen haired one but the others he didn't know.
The massive man charged at Jaune and once he was close to him Jaune used his face as a stepping stool launching himself froward.
Jaune extended his wrist and a small rocket launched from it at the same time he checked how much time he had, one minute and counting it said.
Jaune turned around mid-air and activated his ankle thrusters. Looking at the various faces he could only smirk at what he saw, phre rage in each persons face. Jaune did the most sensible thing and flipped them off. The white skinned woman (who he believed is the whitch) glared bloody murder at him.
The rocket impacted the soft membrane and opened a hole into the whales eye, Jaune flew right through it. Flipping himself Jaune looked at his wrist and saw the timer turn to zero
'Jaune? You still in there?'
"Nope your clear to fire"
Soon the whistling of mistles zoomed passed him and collided into the whale. Jaune chhered triumphantly it all worked out. But to his sheer horror he saw the Atlas barrier collapse. Looking near the power grids Jaune saw a red geyser heading into it.
The gyser spawned in grimm and soon the whale collapesd into Atlas. A red lake emerged from the dying whales mouth and multiple grimm started to spawn from it.
'Jaune are you seeing this?'
"Yeah, I am"
'Jaune. D-did we lose?'
"No, not quite. We got the relic, contact Penny lets try to rendezvous with her. Maybe come up with a plan of attack or contact someone of high power"
'Understood'
Jaune hovered for a bit in the air. He crossed his arms and opened up the comm link qigh Mrs. J again.
"Ma, come pick me up"
*snort* 'sorry about that Jaune'
"You know snorting is very unlady like"
'Since when have I ever been lady like?'
"Just, come pick me up" the sound of thrusters rumbled in the distance and Jaune flew towards his ship, content that at least something went right.
I lied, I made a new chapter for this story instead. Anyways a couple things, we get to see Jaune's morally grey side in this chapter. Just because he's a hero doesn't mean he has to allways do good. Then again hes more of a merc but meh.
Second, the introduction of a new character. Now I know what you might be thinking, author how could you add an OC to your story. Well surprise this character is in fact a Marcel character not an OC. Props to whoever figures out who she is.
Also, as for the grimm whale, i've had this idea for a while and I truely enjly it. Makes us see how Jaune handles a situation without aura.
lastly, some of you may notice how the Hound basically helped Jaune out. the reason for that is because the hound is meant to be intelligent. But there is a difference between street smarts and book smarts. may slund like a dumb reason but its a reason none the less.
Anyways thanks for reading and if you have any questions don't be afraid to review.
