Edit: decided to change the way the conflict begins. re-reading it I realized it felt too forced and amateuristic and just didn't fit right. Hopefully this New update is better and if not I'm open to ideas.


Ch 7. Ballroom Blitz

Penny sat in one of the many sofas in the Schnee Manor. Her arrival was a surprise to everybody, most likely due to the fact that she went missing after her battle at Amity Arena. Ruby had asked her about what happened to her, she responded with simple but open answers. She wanted to keep Jaunes identity a secret, so she told them a friend had helped her out.

"Penny, can you please tell me who your friend is"

"Sorry Ruby, not until I get permission from him can I answer that question"

"Phooey"

"But in all honesty, how did you get back so fast? Majority of atlas airspace has been closed off and Atlas has made sure to check all incoming vessels that are allowed" Weiss said

"Umm...uh" Penny tried to think of an answer to that question, she didn't even think Weiss would know something like that.

Bzzt….Bzzt…..Bzzt….Bzzt

Penny looked at her scroll and the caller ID. It read Jaune, before she could pick it up Ruby sped past her and grabbed it, Penny trie to chase after her but tripped on herself.

"Who's Jaune?"

"He's my friend. Could you please give my scroll back?"

"Hmm…"

"Ruby stop being so childish" reprimanded Weiss

"Ugh, fine" she handed Penny her scroll back. Immediately Penny answered

"Hello?"

"Hey Penny"

"Jaune, how did it go?"

"I got the Lamp and took down the Whale. But.."

"But what?"

"Yeah, the big bastard is spewing out grimm"

"Language!"

"Penny, who said that?"

"Huh, oh that was a friend of mine. Her names Ruby"

"Neat. Listen I'm coming to where you are and then we can think of a better plan to deal with the whale"

"That sounds fine"

"Allright, coming in hot"

Before Penny could ponder what that meant the ground shook. Ruby sat up immediately, Blake was startled out of her book and Weiss tried to compose herself. After the shaking ended the four girls looked at each other.

"What was that?" said Ruby

"That was my friend" Penny said

"How big is your friend!" Ruby blurted out

"I'm going to go check up on Nora and Whitley, you three greet our guest" Weiss said, rushing past them.

The three girls stood up, Penny Jogged to the main hall while Ruby and Blake trailed behind her. Upon arrival there was a loud knock on the door, Penny rushed over to open it and found Jaune standing there.

"Penny good to see you"

"It's good to see you too Jaune" Blake and Ruby stopped behind Penny. "These are my friends, Ruby Rose and Blake Belladonna"

"Hi"

"Hello"

"Nice to meet you. Names Jaune" He took out his hand to shake, in doing so it revealed the Relic clipped to his belt.

Penny eyed the Relic and went to grab it but was swatted away by Jaune. She looked at him for a bit but he just made a sign as to introduce himself.

"Allright, introductions. So my name is Jaune, last name not important. I met Penny a while back and helped her in a job. pleased to meet you"

"It's nice to meet you, as Penny said i'm Blake"

"And I'm Ruby" she said energetically

"allright, now that we got that out of the way I need to talk about a couple of things. For starters the enemy has released some black goo thing which is summoning grimm"

"How do you know that?" Blake asked, raising an eyebrow

"Huh, Penny told me. Blew up the whale but it didn't stop them

"Ooh, are you a Hunter?" Ruby asked

"I mean kinda? My professional title would be Guardian, but I'm mostly a merc for hire"

the room frew deadly silent, Jaune didn't know what happened until a black ribbon shot itself towards him. he rolled out of the way and stood up. Raising his hands defensively.

"Woah, woah, woah. What the hell just happened?"

"Penny! your friends a mercenary?!" Blake exclaimed

"I didn't know that, all I knew was that he saved me"

"Why, is being a mercenary bad?" Jaune asked

"It makes you a criminal" Penny said

She looked at Jaune, before she could move forward a red blur zoomed past her and towards Jaune, the red blur then reconvened with them and in Ruby's hands was the relic.

"Thank you Ruby"

"I think not" Jaune said

"AARGHH!" Ruby collapsed to the floor, the relic returned to Jaune. not telepathically, Penny scanned the area and found an invisible line attached to the relic. Jaune grabbed the relic and clipped it back to his belt.

"Electro-lock and invis-cable. Deadly combo for when you need to secure something"

Penny turned her head to look at Blake, she checked up on how Ruby was. Penny looked at Jaune. her user interface showed a headshot of Jaune it was surrounded by a red border that said boldly Wanted: Treason, Criminal work

Penny let her blades emerge from her backpack, they formed a ring around her and she looked at Jaune.

"Jaune Arc, you are under arrest for treason against the kingdom of Atlas and Mercenary work outside of the kingdoms borders. Come quietly or I will use force"

"Penny, what the hell happened to you? you started the fight I'm only defending myself"

Penny's eyes glowed green and she launched a ball of ice, A red light engulfed it and it diminished into a puddle. Jaune had extended his right wrist and from it a liquid coming from it.

"Very well, it has to be this way"

"It doesn't have to be-"

Penny cut Jaune off by launching her blades at him, she was willing to get the relic back by whatever means necessary.


Jaune rolled out of the way from where Penny launched her floating blades. He had to roll backwards and push himself with his hands and landed on his feet, he learned that one from a video game. Jaune grabbed a pill like grenade, pressing down on the top it began to glow blue and Jaune threw it at Penny, she covered her face with her arms in an X. But instead of an explosion she began to convulse on the ground. Lightning covered her body.

"Argh!"

Jaune got up, he looked at the girl in white checking the red one, Jaune outstretched his arm and a clear liquid sprayed and covered the girls. The Black one, Blake, Looked at Jaune and went to attack him. After a bit her eyes widened and she looked at Jaune, however she couldn't talk either. Jaune dragged Penny to the other two and laid her down next to them.

"For her-" Jaune pointed at Penny "Simple EMP, should keep her out for a couple minutes, hour at most. For you two-" he pointed to his wrist "Xandarian Basilisk Spit. Paralyzes people for a good 15 minutes. Sorry about this-" Jaune made a motion with his hands "But It was more self defense than anything. I think you understand right?" Blake narrowed her eyes into slits.

Before Jaune left he crouched down and looked at Blakes ears, his gloved hand petted the two things and Jaune could hear Blake growl at him. He got up and made his way to leave. If it wasn't for a fireball intercepting him.

"Just, where do you think you're going?" Jaune turned around and looked at a girl, her snowy white hair and pale skin made her look like a porcelain doll.

"Oh just you know, leaving."

Jaune walked backwards but had to roll out of the way so as to not get impaled by a rapier. Jaune went to draw his pistol but was disarmed by the girl before her. Jaune double tapped his left ear and his mask covered his head. He hit shuffle on his playlist and saw what it read.

(optional, play Any way You Want It by Journey)

"Oh" she said in surprise. Jaune went to go hit her but a word blue snowflake appeared underneath her, and launched her towards him. Jaune rolled out of the way but not unscathed, checking his left arm he saw a cut spanning half his arm. Jaune moved his right wrist gauntlet and released small spray, the blood stopped to flow and coagulate but that's just about it.

Jaune looked up and was face to face with a rapier's tip, Jaune rolled away from her, and continued to do so.

"Ragh, stop moving"

"Never"

Jaune backed up a bit and stood up, with his left wrist gauntlet, he launched a small cable and dragged his DE-10 back into his possession. He took some potshots at Weiss but she was able to dodge a few, some were able to hit her but dissipate when they hit her. All that indicated her being hit was a light blue glow around her body. Jaune went to shoot again but a streak of light blue launched at the tip of her sword. Ithit his feet and ice began to encase him.

"Dammit" Jaune shot at the ice and continued to backpedal, Jaune checked his inventory on his mask, after a quick scan Jaune had a total of three frag grenades, two emp's, four incendiaries, and one concusion. Jaune went for his left pocket on his belt and pulled the concussion grenade, pulling the pin he threw it at the girl.

She went to intercept it but it immediately exploded in her face, the bright light and loud ring disorientated her for a bit. Jaune used this moment and rushed her, immediately driving a punch to her gut. When she stepped back from the impact Jaune went for a right hook across her face, He grabbed her wrist and kneed her in the gut and headbutted her. When she began to recompose herself Jaune performed a dropkick to her chest sending her back, giving him the much needed space.

'As long as I'm out of range of her sword I can control the fight'

Weiss glared at Jaune and stabbed the floor with her sword, multiple different circles appeared and from it glowing blue hornets. Jaune drew his pistol and in quick succession took them all out. When he looked at the girl she was in close range to him, she however was moving faster than last time. With the pommel of her sword she hit Jaune in the face and followed up with diagonal slashes to his chest. Jaunes armored shirt protected him from the attack.

Jaune went for a punch to her face but she skillfully dodged him, she then used his outstretched arm and flipped him on his back. She pointed her sword at his throat and glared at him.

"Yield" she said coldly

"Never" Jaune activated his ankle boosters and propelled himself into the opposite direction. When he was in the air he checked the relic and saw it unscathed. As he tried to fly away he felt an immense pressure on his back. He noticed he began to descend as well and saw a black circle underneath him. When he turned around the girl had an orange ring by the tip of her sword and multiple fireballs launched at him. Jaune tried to shoot them all but a few hit him.

Jaune crashed into the floor and saw the girl approach him, Jaune got up and activated his ankle boosters this time she sped towards him again but Jaune expected it. He stuck his foot out and tripped the girl. She crashed onto her face and Jaune cackled at it. Jaune began to fly towards the exit but his mask notified him of something behind him, turning around Jaune saw a massive armored giant.

It swung its massive blade at Jaune, luckily Jaune was smaller so it missed. Jaune tried to escape but the giant covered the door. It swung once more to Jaune but missed. The sword got stuck on the floor and it tried to unwedge it. Jaune landed on his arm and began to run up it. He climbed onto his shoulder and shot at the giant's neck. Looking at the visor of it's helmet Jaune Jaune pulled a frag grenade and jammed it into the open eye holes.

Jaune jumped off and soon the titans head exploded into smithereens, before it could touch the floor it disintegrated. Jaune picked himself up and activated his thrusters, as he began to fly he heard the humming of something and turning around he saw Penny's swords in a circle. They immediately shot a green beam of energy at Jaune. Putting both wrists in front of him a blue hardlight shield protected him, but due to the amount of energy dispersed it fizzled and died.

Jaune picked himself up and looked at the main hall, Penny was up and so was Blake, they flanked the girl in white. Jaune grabbed an incendiary grenade and threw it at the floor, a wall of fire separated him from the others, he limped out of the mansion and boarded his ship.

"Start the ship! Ms. J start the ship!"

Soon enough the roar of an engine was all that could be heard outside the Schnee Manor. Jaune looked out the window and saw the three girls outside. After a bit of time, the ship was hovering in the atmosphere. Jaune sighed and grabbed his chest, near his ribs.

"Jaune, what happened?"

"Penny's friends weren't the best of people"

"Who started it?"

"They did"

"Did you at least finish it?"

Jaune faltered in his response. He looked at himself and sighed "No"

"Best not to mope about it and get to the Med Cot. Need to check you up"

With that Jaune moved over and layed down, his eyelids became heavy and soon he was out like a light.


That concludes Ch 7 and Jaune loses his first fight on remnant. I think you know why the main reason for that is, but for those who don't or want an explanation let me explain. For starters Weiss is a lot stronger and a lot more skilled than Jaune in many ways. Not only that but her semblance gives her a lot more options and is more versatile. Another thing Jaune only had a limited number of supplies with him after the events of the previous chapter. And I already know what you're going to say 'but why didn't Jaune resupply in his ship' and the reason for that is because he wasn't expecting the outcome of his meeting with Penny.

I also know some of you are going to say 'But Jaune killed Mercury and Beat Hazel and Emerald' and that is true but the main reason for that is because he had the element of surprise. I already explained that in Ch 2 and Ch 3 so go back and re-read the authors note.

Now another thing, Ruby had that massive video revealing the secret war and yada yada, well Jaune didn't see that video. If you remember Jaune ignored it.

Other than that I hope you enjoy this story and I'll see you next time.