"I really hope Jaune's alright." Saphron worryingly says.
"Don't worry, I know Jaune can handle himself. He'll be alright" The stoic father of Jaune Arc, Nicolas Arc assures his daughter. The two sit a row behind the group of students.
Team RWBY, Team NPR and the two members of Team SSSN sat by each other near the middle of the rows. Each talking amongst themselves.
"We're really going to see Jaune again?!" Ruby had eagerly asked her teammates and friends. Jaune was the first person she met when she came to Beacon.
"Hoping he's doing okay, all I've heard are bad things after he got expelled." Yang added, noticing Pyrrha slightly frown at that. "What's wrong? Sad your crush is a bad boy?"
"No," Pyrrha lied, trying best to cover her feelings. "It's terrible that our leader was expelled and had rumors made about him. He was the nicest person, he didn't deserve that." A small silence was held for their friend.
"What I'm concerned about is what is so important about him that all of us, as well as high ranking Atlas figures and the headmaster of Beacon, are taken to this place?" Weiss chimes in, breaking the silence.
"Well whatever it is, I'm sure we're going to find out." Blake says to the two teams.
"Could you fill me in on who this Jaune guy is?" Neptune asked, causing the two teams to look at him bluntly.
"Jaune was the one and only leader of team JNPR!" Nora shouted, causing Neptune to recoil back a bit.
"Well, I'm sure that we'll find out where our missing student went, won't we?" Qrow half-drunkenly asks
"Ex-student. He's been expelled." Glynda corrects the man.
"Well whatever the case may be, we're going to see what he's been up to since his departure." Port says.
"If it's enough to have all of us taken here, it must be important." Oobleck quickly says, almost making his colleagues not catch what he said.
"Or, it could be a trap." General Ironwood states, "Winter, I need you to stay alert."
"Yes sir." Winter says, glancing over to Weiss.
On the other side of the aisle sits the very lonely crime duo, Roman Torchwick and Neopolitan.
"Well as long as we're not bothered, I guess it's all good huh?" Roman said to his partner.
"YOU'RE GOING TO JAIL WHEN WE GET BACK!" A very angry child in a red hood shouts across the theater.
"Ugh, how can they be so childish." Emerald quietly says to the two people near her.
"Um, because she's a child?" Mercury says to earn another elbow from Emerald.
"Well, whatever happens, we should use this as a time to gain information on our enemies. In the meantime, don't draw attention from them, and from our host. Understood?" Cinder commands as the two agree with her.
As everyone was finally getting settled, the lights started to dim as the screen began to light up.
The view began by a beautiful seaside coastal city. People are seen going about their business before the camera follows behind a blond man in a magenta outfit.
"Is that Jaune?" Ruby asks her friends.
"He looks similar, but he looks a little more muscular than I remember." Pyrrha notes.
"It could be that he started working out." An observation Blake told to those around her.
"Oh~ Someone's interested~" Yang took the time to tease her teammate, but is quickly shut down by the heiress.
"Quiet you. An observation isn't being interested." Weiss said, backing up Blake.
The man is seen walking to the left as a pair of tourists are talking to a tour guide. The guide tries to make a deal with the pair before a man quickly steals the woman's purse using a utility knife to cut the strap. By the time the woman notices it's gone, the man has already left the view
"What was that! How could he just do that in broad daylight?!" Ruby exclaims, loud enough for almost all to hear.
"Students, no matter where you are or what you're doing, it always helps to keep a keen eye on your surroundings. Understood?" Professor Ozpin tells his students. While it's not always the case that something like this could happen, it's always better to be safe than sorry.
'Real smooth.' Is what Emerald and Roman thought of when they saw it. Though Roman admits that this sort of thing is petty thievery, while for him the only thing worth stealing are big game heists such as banks and dust stores.
"Here you go." A faunus in an apron, a shopkeeper hands money to a man in a short-sleeved button up shirt and blue pants, an officer.
"So, any changes lately?" The officer says as he pockets the money. The shop keep has a smile on his face.
"Not at all, thanks to you." The shopkeeper says to him.
"I see. Sorry to bother you." The officer says as he walks away from the shopkeeper. With a blurred out view of the man in magenta on the left. There seems to be a blue ladybug brooch on his jacket's chest. After a short while, the man continues to walk through the city.
Blake slightly frowned at this, mostly due to her way of interpreting it as a faunus having to bribe an officer to ensure his store is safe.
Sun's tail almost perked up.
"Oh, I think I know where this place is." Sun says to the others.
"I think so too, I'm pretty sure it's Naples." Neptune continued off Sun's statement.
"Naples? Where is that located?" Saphron asked the two students. If there was a chance that the man in magenta is Jaune, then she needs to get any information relating to his location.
"Naples is a pretty well fortified city, it's between the border of Vale and Vacuo. Well, a bit more on the Vale side. Because of how beautiful the city is and the humid climate there, it's a pretty good spot for tourists." Neptune told her.
"Well, except for all the crime like thievery and-" Before Sun could even finish his sentence.
The man in magenta is seen walking down a stairway in an alley. On the left is a man in a black suit talking to a young faunus.
"This is what you want, right?" The man asks while holding a small bag of white powder.
"Yeah! Oh, but this is all I have right now." The boy looks a bit nervous as the man looks closely at the amount of lien.
"Then this is all I can sell you." The man pockets the small bag and pulls out an even smaller bag of powder.
"Yeah, drugs are also a problem." Sun finished.
"That's horrible. Shouldn't he be saving his lien?" Nora innocently asks.
"Well, some people get addicted young." Neptune answers her solemnly.
The adults of Ozpin's group can't help but feel pity toward the kid. The kid looked no older than fourteen, and probably was a drug addict. Qrow had seen many things like this when he traveled from town to town while being a huntsman. He couldn't help but remember how desperate people were outside the city's protection.
The teachers of Beacon felt that if this kid was given a chance to improve his life, he would've taken it. That there could've been a chance to help this kid.
While with General Ironwood and Specialist Schnee, they know that this situation happens to Mantle. But with the General's spot in the council, he's tried his best to improve the situation down in Mantle. But it's difficult, knowing that the entire world could be destroyed by a 'mutual enemy'.
Emerald didn't say anything, but she sympathized with the kid. Before meeting Cinder, she had met other street kids like the one on screen.
"Jaune, please be safe." Is all Saphron had to say, while Nicolas silently agreed with her.
"Naples: A city in West Vale and bordering near Vacuo." A narrator's voice says. "A famous tourist spot so beautiful that people would die trying to travel to it if they couldn't afford safe travel by airship or train." The scene shows a beautiful view of the city by the coast on a clear sunny day.
"Wow, it's almost peaceful." Pyrrha says, taking in the scenery.
"Yep, excluding pickpocketing, bribery and drugs. It's practically a paradise." Roman retorts, earning glares from most of the students and Ozpin's group. "What? I'm just saying the obvious!" Neo nods as well.
"If it was obvious then you wouldn't need to say it, do you?" Sun retorts back, earning smirks and giggles from the students.
"Ah yeah, Sun! Put em' here!" Neptune and Sun proceed to do a special handshake before Glynda silently tells them to keep quiet.
"Pardon us." Two young women walk up behind the man in magenta as he turns to face them. "How do you get to Santa Chiara?" The man speaks to them in a mature sounding voice.
"Oh, to get to Santa Chiara, go straight, and then, at the first light-" "See? I told you!" The man, who has similar facial features to Jaune and long golden hair with three loops in the front, didn't get to finish from the two ladies talking to one another.
"I told you it was over there." The lady in red nudges the one in a blue shirt.
"My bad… Thanks so mu-" She didn't get to speak when a rough looking man in a beige blazer knocks into her.
The criminals of the audience, namely Roman, Emerald, and Mercury, could already tell that this was a pickpocketing attempt.
"That has to be Jaune, I recognize those eyes." Nicolas said boldly.
"Are you sure? I mean, I can kind of see the similarities." Qrow said haphazardly.
"Qrow, you haven't even met him before!" Ruby and Yang said to their very clearly drunk Uncle.
"I have to agree with my father. His eyes are similar, but his facial features are slightly different, like he's been through a lot." Saphron added.
Meanwhile, Cardin, sitting all by himself, gets the urge to snicker at 'Jaune's' new haircut. If he was a dork back then, then he's even more dumb looking than he is now. But he's able to keep it in due to not wanting an experienced Huntsman beat him up for bullying his son.
"Whoa, there." The man catches the woman who had been pushed into him, her ice cream smearing all over his jacket's left arm. "Are you all right"
"Th-Thank you..." The woman seemingly takes a moment to take in the look of this man.
"Um, I'm sorry about that." The woman looks toward the man who had bumped into her. Before the man scoffs.
"Be more careful." The man starts to walk away while attempting to pocket the wallet on his right side jacket, away from view of the three.
Some of the students now notice that he had pickpocket the tourist.
"He's a thief!" Ruby exclaimed.
"Well, Little Red, if it took you that long to notice, then you have a lot to learn." Roman had decided to gloat to his nemesis, a little girl who foiled his plans in robbing dust stores.
"Ignore him, Ruby." Weiss said to her team leader.
"Yeah, he'll probably get arrested anyway." Yang threw in. Neo responded by sticking her tongue at the blonde.
The camera zooms in on the man in magenta's face, his eyes furrowing as he notices the man pocketing the wallet. In one swift movement, he steps forward and reaches behind the man, grabbing the wallet before it could fall into his pocket, and pulls it out. Unbeknownst to the thief that he's been outplayed.
"Whoa ho ho HO! Man's got skills!" Sun says. "If you live anywhere populated near Vacuo, you're gonna have to learn tricks like that if you don't want your stuff stolen."
Saphron became a little more worried for her baby brother. Just what exactly did he have to go through to learn this kind of skill?
"If you have to learn skills like that, then why would anyone want to live there?" Ruby asked among her friends.
"Some people don't have a choice. They don't have enough to buy a way out of the city, and some people are just desperate." Blake whispered back to her leader. Ruby took the time to think about it before Yang also started whispering.
"You can't have everything, Rubes. A beautiful city by the coast outweighs petty crime. Not to mention, we could stop by there and clean it up, right?" Yang says, earning a light smile from Ruby.
"Hey," The man says. "You dropped this." Holding out the wallet as the woman checks her bag and looking at the wallet.
"Thank you so much!"
"No problem." The man gives her the wallet, and the two women walk away.
"Hey, wasn't that guy super cool?" The lady in red asks the other.
"I should've asked for a picture." The other replies.
"What a true Vacuon, getting the ladies." Sun and Neptune nod while all the female students groan.
Pyrrha felt a little jealous, but lets it slide.
At that moment, two butterflies exit the woman's purse, and proceed to fly back where they were going.
"Did those just come out of my bag?" The woman in blue asks.
"What? They probably just landed on it for a second." The one in red reasons, quickly dismissing the butterflies.
"Yeah, you're right."
The two blue butterflies continue flying, landing on the unknown man's shoulder. As the man grasps the two butterflies, their form twists and stretches, along with changing color to that of lien.
"You can't let your guard down in this city" The man said. After pocketing the money, he continues his way across the street towards a gelato store.
The crowd was very surprised at seeing what just had happened.
"WHAT!" Ruby had practically screamed out. The students in general were feeling surprised. This man had stopped a theft by performing a theft himself.
"I've never seen a semblance like that before." Ozpin mused. Earning agreements with the rest of the adults.
"Huh, useful semblance." Roman said. Already seeing the things he could've done if he had a semblance like that.
"Hmm, surprising, but not powerful." Cinder says to her two followers. "Regardless, he's no threat to our plans." Mercury and Emerald both nod in agreement.
"Pardon me." He spoke. "Could I get a cone with a scoop of chocolate and a scoop of pistachio?" The man said before noticing a child looking at the store. "Make that two."
The scene changes to a content boy eating his dessert as the man continues his way down the street.
"That's awfully nice of him. Especially after what he did before." Pyrrha thought aloud.
"Children! Not everyone is as good or bad as black and white." Professor Port had jovially said to the students. "While one person could look bad to most, could be a helping hand to another." The children had more things to think about.
The man stops in his tracks as he looks off into the distance. The wind picks up, ruffling his hair, as the camera moves up.
JOJO
JOJO's Bizarre Adventure Golden Wind
"Uh, is Jojo his name?" Cardin had asked. Wondering if this isn't Jaune that they've been watching. However, his comment had earned glares from Teams RWBY and NPR.
"I'm starting to consider the idea that maybe this is my previous student." Surprisingly, Ozpin had said.
"You really think so?" Nicholas has looked to the headmaster, to which he nodded his head in response.
"Well, then who's Jojo?" Nora had asked.
"Apologies." The Entertainer had said. "If I were to show you the full story, then that would make sense. However, for the sake of being concise and relating only to the person everyone here has a connection with, I will only show you this part of the story."
This however, brought more confusion to the cast. Regardless, they decided to continue watching, hoping that their questions will be answered.
A/N:
When I first worked on this, I thought it would've been easy, since it's all just describing the events of the episode, and the cast gives their commentary on it. But typing out a transcript of what happens in the episode is surprisingly tedious. Which is also why I lost interest in this project.
But enough of me complaining. Let me know who I should add to the cast. I intend to start off small and make my way to have a bigger cast since I'm not so great with writing out dialogue dealing with a lot of characters.
And of course, let me know what you think. Should I continue? Any spelling mistakes? All help is appreciated.
Drafted October 30, 2020
Edited March 17, 2021
Published on March 18, 2021