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Inspiration: John Wick.
Chapter 12: Everything has its Price
"So how's that", Flit asked the audience who had various opinions, while also trying to calm down Qrow and Taiyang from seeing their niece/daughter being defiled by the Arc.
"Ignoring the last part, I'd say it was heartwarming and fulfilling", Blake admitted.
"Seeing Fearless Leader kick Cardin and his goon's asses made my day!" Nora replied with a grin.
"Still, there is much more to learn about this Assassin Brotherhood at this universe, is it possible that we can have another view of this?", Ozpin asked the man who nodded.
"We'll be taking a break first, everyone can have their meals or some shuteye, your call", Aeralyn said to them as she and Flit went to a nearby room.
Team CVFY opted to take some shut-eye first then followed by Jaune and his family in order to relieve his earlier stress from fears of being mauled alive by two angry men.
What the two observers forgot is that they left the remote, and of course, thus gave Nora an idea with an evil grin.
"Nora, no!", Ren called out.
"Nora, yes!', she replied as she pushed a button of a remote as everyone present glued their eyes on the screen as a new universe flashed in front of them.
"People die when they are killed!", said a red-headed boy wearing a black and white shirt with jeans.
"No shit, captain obvious!", Roman snarked at him.
"Just what kind of logic is that?", Weiss questioned, dumbfounded on what he had said.
"The ability to speak does not make you intellegent", a bearded, long haired man said to an alien at the screen as they walked along the forests.Roman snickered at this, and Neo began to whack him with her scroll before he can say anything.
Ouch. Everyone thought of the man's words before Nora pushed a button once more.The screen then shows a yellow ninja taking his mask off to reveal a flaming skull as he burned the wounded blue-clad ninja alive off-screen. Everyone who remembered the first universe shivered at the sight of Ren murdering Saffron, or Johann Arc before he was resurrected as an evil dark ninja.
"Too brutal", Nora described before she pushed a button again.
The screen then shows a blue and white giant-humanoid with angel-like wings engaged in combat with a red-clad machine, before the white machine slashed the hand of the red machine before slicing it to shreds by severing the arms, head, backpack and legs with two beam sabers.
"The red one was awesome...", Ruby pouted at seeing this.
The screen then shows Phyrra Nikos playfully pushing Jaune Arc out of a building, causing the blond to nearly fall off the building as the redhead teased that she was only kidding before she took a cherry. And that is where she began to lick it in the weirdest way possible. "Rero, rero, rero..."
"What the hell are we watching?", Weiss asked, scandalized at the sight of the Mistral champion licking a cherry like that, as did the adults who became uncomfortable at the sight.
Phyrra could not decide wether she should be angry at herself for nearly pushing Jaune to his death, or at the sight of her licking that cherry.
The audience heard both Flit and Aeralyn coming back and Nora quickly pushed a button to turn off the screen as the two entered, with Nora looking some kind of behaved angel. "Is everyone present ready?", Aeralyn asked the audience who nodded at them. With a push of a button, the screen flashed white.
The screen shows in the middle of the night, standing in the back of what seemed to be a club was a giant of a man. He was middle-aged, black hair with a matching beard, dressed in a black suit, with an earpiece on his right ear, clearly a bouncer at this one.
But, unlike most bouncers, he was guarding the entrance for the big-shots. Speaking of which, that was when three individuals, all wearing black suits as well walked up to him, in which he allowed the group to enter the room. After that, he had resumed his post, making sure that no one of suspicion would get in the club.
"Whatever it is, I suggest whoever he is guarding is at its most importance to either politics or to criminal activity", Ozpin suggested.
"This reminds me of my old clients whenever they needed to steal anything, mostly coming from big-time gangsters or mafias. And the most common locations are bars controlled by the elite.", Roman recounted.
As the guard was standing, a silver pistol was pointed at his head from behind, the wielder of the weapon was hidden, but from the looks of it, it seems that person is a bit shorter than the guard. Without losing his calm exterior, the man slowly turned his head, and greeted the man.
"Mr. Arc."
Walking out of the shadows, Jaune Arc had the gun still aimed at the back of his head. The blonde was dressed in a dark suit complete with a blazer, white shirt, slacks and shoes. He also had leather gloves, and a black holster, which carried not only the gun in his hand, but the one that was underneath his blazer.
That was when Jaune greeted the guard in return.
"Junior."
The guard, now named Junior, had simply looked at the gun that was against his head. From what he could tell, Jaune was doing planning on doing something, something that probably wouldn't result in his death if he played things right.
"Have you lost weight?", Jaune asked in a threatening manner.
"About sixty pounds, sir", Junior calmly replied despite the gun behind his head.
"Yeah? Impressive"
"Are you on business tonight, sir?", Junior asked him, wanting the conversation to end as soon as possible.
"Sadly, yes, I am. Why don't you take the night off?"
After hearing those words come out of the blonde's mouth, Junior had simply removed his earpiece, and turned to face the young Arc. Then he told the blonde,
"Thank you, sir.", he said with a sign of relief.
And with that, Junior had left the entrance, allowing Jaune to head inside the club.
"It seems like that this version of Mr. Arc is really well-respected.", Ozpin assessed.
"Rather feared, I can see how the man was acting towards the boy", Salem suggested.
"Whatever occupation that Mr. Arc has, he is a forced to be reckoned with at this reality", Glynda said, pushing her glasses.
The three men that had entered the club before Jaune were now dressed in bath robes, as if they were getting ready to bathe or relax in a pool. One of the men was near the sink, humming a song to himself, unknown of who had just entered. He heard the door open, which made him look up to see who it was, only to see the door closing as soon as it was opened. Thinking that it was just someone else, he began to wash his face in the faucet.
But, he didn't notice that Jaune had grabbed one of his associates from behind, and stabbed him in the neck with a dagger.
"Woah, didn't see that coming", Mercury said with surprise.
"Am I some sort of psycho in this reality?", Jaune questioned Flit, clearly disturbed on how he acted here.
"I'll explain later, but for now you need to observe more further", Flit told him.
The man then looked up from the faucet, noticing the trail of blood that was sliding down from one of the lockers. He turned around, only to be punched in the face by Jaune, who had a cold-look in his eye. That was when he said to the man,
"Where's Lark?"
"Fuck you, motherfucker!"
The man took a wild swing at Jaune, who easily dodged it, kicking the man in the leg, a loud crack was heard as the man shouted in pain. Jaune then wrapped the man's towel around his neck, and proceeded to slowly strangle him. In a hostile voice, Jaune asked him,
"Where's. Lark?"
"B-Bathhouse...downstairs!"
The man had hoped that Jaune would let him go now, but then he heard the next thing that came out of Jaune's mouth.
It was something that made him realize what Lark did to the blonde.
"You stole my car...and you killed my dog!", Jaune shouted.
"WHAT!?", Ruby shouted from her seat. "How could you?!"
"Now I don't have to feel bad about that guy getting beat up.", Yang exclaimed as she cracked her knuckles.
"Lark...as in Team CRDL's Lark Sky?", Phyrra asked, familiar of the halberd-wielding teen.
"Yep, one of the members of a syndicate that Jaune used to work with before he retired to try and live a quiet life, but he messed up by those two mentioned crimes and killing of his wife", Aeralyn explained to them as the audience were in shock and they understood why Jaune looked vengeful at this reality.
Jaune then dunked his head into the sink, which was full to the brim at this point, drowning him with his forearm over the man's neck. In a last-ditch attempt, the man had tried to cuss out Jaune underwater. But, all that did was make Jaune snap his neck, letting go of the body and watched as it fell to the floor. Before he left, Jaune noticed that the man dropped his phone, in which he kept in gis pocket just in case.
Everyone in the theater had become speechless, even Nora, who was holding onto Ren. They had never seen such brutality come from one of their friends, speaking of which, Jaune actually did lose his lunch, puking into a trash can that appeared before him.
Mercury, as an Assassin, was very impressed on his tactics, and he began to take down notes on how the alternate Jaune Arc was doing his job.
The screen now shows another dead person, except this time this man was killed behind tinted glass, blood was slowly covering it as the man fell. That was when another person, a guard, had turned the corner of some underground bathhouse, only to be ambushed by Jaune. Before he could react, Jaune placed a hand over his mouth, and pulled out his dagger.
The blonde had slammed him into the wall, punching him in the throat, before stabbing his dagger into his lower-jaw. The man slowly dropped to the floor, but he kept looking at Jaune's cold, angry glare as his life faded away.
Jaune then turned towards his target, Lark Sky, chilling in some pool alongside other men and women.
Before he could think of a plan to kill Lark, a guard came from a door behind him, who immediately went for his gun. But, Jaune was faster, and brought his dagger to the man's face, only for the man to grab his arm before he could stab him. He tried to aim his gun at him, but Jaune had knocked it out of his hands, making the guard tackle the blonde into a towel rack, alerting everyone, including Lark, as to what was going on.
The guard threw a left jab at him, but Jaune grabbed that punch, and threw the guard onto the ground, with him on top of the guard. Seeing a second guard on his left, Jaune pulled out a handgun, shooting the man three times in the chest.
The gunshots had alerted everyone, which made most of them leave the bathhouse in a panicked state. Lark was about to reach for his own gun, only for Jaune to aim his gun at the boy, whose eyes only widened in shock and realization. But, Jaune wanted to make Lark afraid of him, so he aimed his pistol at the guard that was on the floor, and put a round into his head, making sure that he didn't eye-contact.
He slowly walked towards him, only for a man with uge build to appear in front of him, and grab the arm that was holding the firearm. That gave Lark enough time to run away, while Jaune watched as his target was getting away. Angry at the person in front of him, he stabbed him in the shoulder, causing him to scream in agony, but he then stomped on his foot really hard, which caused him to let go of him.
Jaune then shot the man thrice in the chest, and once in the head, the man falling backwards into the pool, with his blood coloring the pool red.
He aimed his gun back at Lark, who grabbed a woman as a hostage, running towards the stairs, leading to the dance-floor of the club. Jaune only looked in anger, for he didn't have a clear shot on Lark, and was forced to head upstairs as well, when more guards had appeared behind him, and they began to open fire at him.
"What a scumbag", Neptune called out to Lark's actions.
"A cowardly tactic. Using hostages to save their own skins is nothing short of a disgrace", Raven lamented on seeing the escapade.
"Renny, remind me to break Lark's legs when we get back", Nora asked Ren who shook his head.
"Nora, alternate universe, no leg breaking", he reminded her.
Lark is now onto the dance-floor, ignoring the strange looks he was receiving, trying to get out of the club as soon as possible. As heavy techno/dubstep music filled the room, Jaune was walking towards Lark, who now had multiple guards come after the blonde.
Jaune immediately pulled out a gun, a black handgun this time, and shot a round into the chest of a running guard. He shot the man a second time, letting him drop to the floor, and immediately knocked a gun away from his face, shooting another guard thrice in the chest. As he was about to proceed, he noticed that the man on the floor was still breathing, so he fired his gun at his head, killing him.
Jaune saw Lark running up another flight of stairs, making him go after him.
Jaune is seen running out of the dance-floor, grabbing a guard on his right by the shoulder, and fired his gun into his chest twice, before switching to another guard, killing the man with a headshot. He then switched to a third guard, killing him with only two bullets: one to the body, and one to the chest. As he walked forward, a guard tried to grab his gun, only for Jaune to shoot him in the leg, and throw him onto the ground, as a bullet had entered his head. The blonde then shot another guard, and then jabbed the barrel into his throat, making the man step back, backing into one of the columns.
Jaune raised his gun at the guard's head, only to hear a click as his gun was empty. Then, almost humorously, Jaune easily threw out the magazine, loaded in a new one, and shot the guard in the face, before proceeding into the next room.
He immediately saw a guard, with a gun pointed at the blonde's head. Luckily, Jaune had ducked underneath the shot, sweeping the guard off his feet, and shoot a guard that was from the previous room. Jaune felt the guard from the floor grab him, only to slam the guard's head onto the floor, and shoot another guard that was coming up the stairs. That's when he looked at the guard underneath him, and shot him in the eye.
"Brutal but awesome!", Yang called out to the screen.
"Way to finish the job, blondie!", Roman praised at the Arc's moves.
"His killing methods are impressive, it takes several years to perform that kind of footwork at any sort", Glynda exclaimed, pushing her glasses.
Jaune is now seen on the upper-floor of the dance-floor, reloading his handgun, and walked inside, immediately killing a guard. Then he saw another come up from behind only for Jaune to crack the man's arm, that was holding his pistol, and shoot him underneath his jaw. He turned around and immediately killed two more guards, one by a simple headshot, and the other was thrown to the ground, getting shot as well.
Jaune finally saw Lucas, and finally had a clear shot, only for a man with a beard and curly mustache to come out of a door, shooting at Jaune. He was forced to take cover, and waited for the man to come closer, where he shot the man in the foot, making him fall towards him. Jaune then grabbed an empty bottle, and smashed it against the man's face.
As the man was disorientated, Jaune actually grabbed the man's beard, slammed his head against a table, and shot two rounds into his head.
Two more guards had appeared in front of Jaune, one of which appeared to be the head-security guard. The man shot Jaune twice in the stomach, making grunt in pain, as well as fall onto the floor. But, that wasn't enough to keep Jaune down, as he got back up, and shoot the guard that was next to the head-security guard. As he got behind cover, Jaune was panting as he felt the bullets hit his bulletproof vest, but it still hurt like Hell.
He then noticed that not only was both his handguns out of ammo, he was also out of magazines to replace them with, leaving him no choice but to engage in hand to hand combat.
"So much for that idea", Weiss muttered.
"Let us see how far is his combat without weapons", Ozpin suggested as he took a sip of his coffee mug.
Jaune then lunged at the head-guard, throwing the man over his shoulder, and then disarmed him of his weapon. As the two got up, the guard had kicked Jaune in the stomach, making him stumble backwards. But he didn't let up, as he continued to kick Jaune with high-kicks and low-kicks to the body. Jaune tried to punch him, but the guard grabbed his arm, punching him in the stomach again.
That was when Jaune got punched in the face, twice, only to be flipped onto the floor by the guard.
Now everyone couldn't help but wince as they watched Jaune getting beat up by this guard. And from the looks of it, this guard was actually skilled enough to take Jaune head-on
As Jaune got up, the guard tried to kick him again, only for Jaune to tackle him into a nearby table. The blonde had tried to claw out his eyes or something, but that was when the guard grabbed a bottle that was next to him, and smashed it against Jaune's head.
"Ouch..", Sun muttered.
"Hm, might use bottles as weapons next time", Roman complimented.
The guard then proceeded to stab Jaune in the stomach, only for Jaune to get rid of the shattered bottle.
That was when Jaune was thrown over the guard's shoulder, and was then thrown off of the second-floor, hitting the first-floor face down.
Jaune groaned in pain as his body hit the floor, rolling onto his back. He noticed that the guard was looking at him, and that was when he grabbed a revolver from an ankle holster hidden underneath his pants, and fire a round at the guard. But, the guard had immediately retreated before the bullet could get near him. The blonde could only blame himself as he noticed that Lark got away from him.
He then noticed that the dance-floor was empty, due to how Jaune was killing people right and left.
Slowly, and painfully, Jaune managed to get back on his feet, and made his way for the front entrance of the club. As he walked down the stairs of the entrance, covered in blood, bruises, and glass shards, he felt something in his pants vibrate. He looked down only to realize that it was the Scroll he took from that guy he killed earlier. He answered the call, and immediately heard Lark' voice on the other end of the call.
"Dove, where the fuck are you?"
"Dove's dead."
He could tell that Lark was shocked to hear not only Jaune's voice from the call, but was also shocked to discover that a close associate died tonight. And to rub salt on the wound, Jaune had repeated the words Lark had told him on the night he stole his car, and shot his dog.
"Everything's got a price.", Jaune told him on the receiving end. And with that, he hung-up on the call, and threw the phone away, limping away from the scene as the screen fades to black.