AN: OK! Here it is! The next part of Reverse! The chapter is finally out and we get to see what Jaune and Vernal were up to in the next two years! Jaune's back in Beacon and he's met most of his old friends! With the groups getting back and some of his past loves still on the outliers let's see how things play out...
"Take some extra food, I think you'll need it."
"Thanks, boss, I won't forget it."
"Sure you will Jaune get the hell out of here before Vernal beats your ass and takes you home," Junior said as Jaune sighed picking up a small box of food, his and Vernal's food for the weekend if they were unlucky and left the throbbing club...
A blaring alarm woke Jaune up, his eyes flickered the dull sounds of the early Vale city filled his ears, car horns and screeching brakes entered his mind he felt his body shake the goggles he wore on his head still gripped him, Beacon was coming, soon he would be involved with hunters and huntresses he had less than a day before he would be back in the life of a hero...
Thud! Thud!
"Jaune! Let me in!"
"Coming Vernal!" Jaune yelled jumping off his bed the small box of food that had by some miracle not run out over the long weekend was still open small pieces of half-eaten chicken bones and old rice sprawled out of the small brown container and-
Thud! Thud!
"Jaune! Open up!" Vernal demanded as Jaune groaned jumping over old clothes, spilled knives and other miscellaneous weapons, furniture and the occasional scroll charger.
"Coming!" Jaune said opening the door as twin sickly yellow eyes glared at him. Vernal stood arms crossed carrying several small boxes that smelled wonderfully.
"Out of the way!" Vernal said in her usual blunt tone as she bulldozed past Jaune walking into their small shared apartment.
"What took you so long? I was freezing my ass off!" Vernal hissed putting down a box of food and other items as Jaune shut the door sighing as he did.
"Sorry Vernal I was sleeping again."
"Did you have another nightmare? If you did you know you can tell me right?" Vernal asked her tone doing a one-eighty. Her sickly yellow eyes lost nearly all of the venom that they were famed for as she paused. Vernal was dressed in a different outfit, her old stripped jeans and jacket had been long forgotten cast aside after the incident in the Schnee gala.
The incident that put the Branwen family on the number one most wanted list and had put the two on a very interesting point in the eyes of the world, neither hero nor villain. The two last children were being looked for by most of the world's police and it was a small miracle that they had stayed hidden in Vale so long.
"N-no... I didn't have a nightmare today. I just slept in." Jaune said averting his eyes, he had been having night terrors since the incident. The boy had woken up screaming time and time again and since the two were forced to share a single bed Vernal was often the one left to take care of him.
"Are you sure? If you don't want to talk that's fine but still, you should take some, you need to get the edge off your chest." Vernal said taking out a small rectangular box made with translucent pink material with several small white pills inside of it.
"I... I don't need any." Jaune said he did not like his medicine, even if Vernal had to work very hard to acquire it. The woman had to take double shifts at Juniors. Still clad in a small white blazer and tight jeans that she wore at her bouncer job.
"You sure? You are going to Beacon tomorrow if you don't take them with you, won't you panic?" Vernal asked taking out a small number of pills walking over to the sink still filled with filthy dishes now crusted with food debris from weeks before.
Neither of them felt like dealing with dishes and the sink was piled high with the old residue of meals past. Vernal sighed Jaune was not being cooperative, ever since Raven dumped them in Vale with over three thousand Lien and the simple instructions of survive it had been Jaune and her. Her tribe had shrunken from several dozen to just two. Jaune was all she had left and she was all he had left. She needed him and would be damned if he did not take care of his needs.
"Look just have two ok? I worked double and Roman paid for them." Vernal said as Jaune sighed.
"I can't sleep right when I take them you know? I get all tense."
"I know but it's better than you waking me up screaming in the middle of the night, now eat. You need to be on your best game for Beacon." Vernal said taking out the cleanest glass she could, a thin pink plastic thing that only had mingled food smudges on all sides of it.
Vernal poured Jaune a cup of water the pipes rusty groaned in protest and the water forced its way out of the pipe flowing into the glass as Vernal sighed.
If you told her a few years ago she would be living in a small one person apartment in Vale taking care of the least favorite person in her life and not only be taken from Raven, her tribe and overall way of life, or that the least favorite person in her life was now the sole reason for her continued existence, Vernal would have laughed you off the face of Remnant, then stabbed you for wasting her time.
"I... I don't need-"
"I don't care drink," Vernal said putting the pills in one hand, and cup in the other.
"Drink. Or I'll make you." Vernal's tone brokered no argument, it never did. When Vernal said jump Jaune would jump, he need not ask how high she would probably have punched him in the neck for wasting her time.
"Fine," Jaune said taking the pills grimacing anticipating a night of fever dreams and a few days of a tongue drier than the Vacuo dunes. He swallowed the water down greedily as Vernal nodded.
"Good now come to bed you need a good night's sleep for Beacon and I'm tired as hell," Vernal said as Jaune swallowed.
"You finished?"
"Yeah, I'm fine," Jaune said walking back to the bed.
"Food on the counter."
"I know I bought some more Junior had extra and he decided to lend me some. The twins said hi, by the way, Melanie asked how you were."
"She did?" Jaune asked a faint blush creeping on his face as Vernal groaned.
"Please masturbate in the shower and wipe the disgusting look of your face. You spent six minutes in a closet with her, it does not make you a couple."
Not that she deserves you. Vernal thought quickly as Jaune stammered. His face became beet red as he looked down.
"I don't do that!"
"Sure you don't and there is a ghost in our shitty house that likes to moan Melanie and Miltiades whenever you just so happen to be in the shower. Right." Vernal said rolling her eyes as Jaune blushed even brighter.
"Vernal! Don't tease me!"
"Then stop moaning! I mean why are you even fucking masturbating! It's not like I'm sleeping in the same bed as you or anything you know!?" Vernal's words left her mouth before she could stop them over a year of pent up desires rising in her as Jaune blinked owlishly.
"What? What does you sleeping in the same bed as I have to do with me not masturbating?" Jaune deadpanned honest curiosity in his voice as Vernal paused her mouth fell and if it could have hit the floor it would have made a hole in the floor two flights down. She stuttered her cheeks turning a rosy red as Jaune paused.
"Vernal? You are blushing? You have a fever?"
"N- no! I'm just allergic!"
"To what?"
"To dumbasses! Now go to bed before I knock you out and drag you onto that damn bullhead myself!" Vernal hissed picking up a throwing dagger and chucking it full bore right into Jaune's head.
Jaune yelped! His aura deflected the knife in a wall of blue.
"Shut up!" Vernal yelped she actually yelped she did not growl mumble or hiss she yelped like a frightened schoolgirl her face beet red as Jaune paused.
"Ouch! Don't throw knives-"
"AH!" Jaune yelped his aura deflected the first knife the second landed cleanly in his shoulder, blood flew out from his wound as he jumped.
"Ouch! That hurt!"
"I stabbed you, it is supposed to hurt! Now get to bed before I stab you again! Stupid, dense idiot!" Vernal hissed as Jaune sighed taking the knife out of his shoulder tossing it out and focusing his aura healing his wound. The blood vanished in a moment as Jaune sighed tossing the knife to the ground landing in a pile of old used band-aids as he flopped down onto the bed.
"Night Vernal."
"Night Jaune don't forget to get up if you are not up I'll kick you out," Vernal said making Jaune roll over he knew she meant it if he was not up in time Vernal would toss him out of their window in the most literal sense…
"I got this, I got this, sword? Check. Shield? Check. Goggles? Check. Sweater? Check." Jaune said as the bullhead shook. He was grateful Raven and Vernal had done some things for his air sickness over the years.
Vernal had since arriving with him acquired pills for him. The pills did not work well with the sleep aids he needed to pick one or the other in a twelve-hour period. So far he picked air sickness vomiting on someone's clothes would be a poor way to start out any relationship and Jaune was in desperate need of friends.
"Not that I have much of those," Jaune said sighing loudly he was once again alone. He had not been truly alone since he ran away from his home. He left one abusive home to a loving-
Was it abusive? Jaune thought blinking once, he did not really know... at first he thought they were he told Summer his real mom that but now? Now he didn't know… His memories of his family were a blurred hazy mess, he barely remembered them he knew he had siblings sisters? He knew he had a lot of siblings and he knew that they were all older than him...
"They... they liked me?" Jaune asked out loud the boy based on instinct more than anything else tucked his legs up sitting in the far back of the craft. He did not know where to sit and the front seemed to crowd he wanted to blend into the back of the craft until he touched down.
Tucking himself up like a rack of luggage as he looked down at his feet. His shoes were oddly one of the few things about his attire that was new. The shone in the sunlight so bright that it hurt to look it.
Jaune took his blade out frowning at it he used to look at his sword the way Ruby would look at Crescent Rose eyes full of adoration and joy, now? Now his eyes were mixed, the blade had saved his life more than once and it was his blade.
He stole it. That Jaune knew as fact. He stole this weapon from his family, his abusive family yes. They had to be abusive why else would he run away? They were abusing him one way or another and then he left what else makes sense? Jaune thought as the craft shook. His body felt a shudder go through it, something was wrong, something was very wrong. He gripped the hilt of his blade as he glared down at the floor.
They were abusive they had to be why did I go if they were not? What did they do to me? Did I have a beating every week? Was I underfed? Summer found me starving but I had not eaten in weeks. Mainly due to running out of food. Maybe they kicked me out? Yeah! That makes sense my family kicked me out and I had no food. That would explain why I left with so little of it…
Jaune thought, rationalizing his words to the back of his head as the ship finally made landfall.
"Welcome to Beacon Academy for Hunters you are all the future of our planet please watch your step." A dull monotone voice said as Jaune nodded smiling once as he waited for the throng of people to clear out.
Always go last. Vernal's warnings stuck clear into his head as he followed the last student out of the ship and into what he knew was the first day of his destiny.
Ruby Rose was not having a good day, she was not having a good last few years. The loss of the love of her life this early in the timeline had put a serious downer to her mood.
I was so close! Why didn't I rush him in the bullhead!? Ruby crushed the thought in an iron boot. Jaune was not dead... that news should have made her elated but he was beyond her reach. Raven, Yang's bitch of a mother who abandoned her as a child, had taken him and he was probably in some shitty bandit camp in the Mistral countryside right now.
That means I might have to fight him later on. I'll have to knock him out and overpower him. Well after I kill Raven. Ruby reasoned flowing out of the ship she had lost whatever part of her kept saying act innocent, she was done, her lover gone, her one tether to this timeline for the moment out of her reach Ruby focused her all into her training.
She had grown much stronger the year and a half of thinking Jaune was dead forced her to become stronger made her evolve. Bloody evolution, that's what you were always on about right Raven? Ruby thought bitterly when she saw her, Raven was getting a gut check by Crescent Rose. A high caliber long ranged-
"OOF!" A voice said as Ruby saw a pair of crystal eyes flash and for a moment she wanted to cry…
"You dolt!" Weiss was over the moon.
"Watch where you are going, princess!"
"She's not a princess she is a Schnee."
"Finally! Some recognition!"
"She is also known for a family with shady labor practices and questionable worker rights."
"Why I never!" Weiss said fighting tooth and nail to not hug her idiot of a leader and the moody cat faunus then and there. She loved both of them to death and it almost made her cry to see them again.
"Well, we showed her!" Ruby said already knowing Blake would be gone her friend vanished as she sighed it was already time for her to get up but no blonde-
"Ruby? You need some help?"
"Sure Jaune I-"
Ruby paused her jaw if it could have fallen would have bounced off her gut as Jaune stood above her a pair of loose brown goggles on his face as he smiled.
"Need some help?"
Ruby's world snapped, her body seemed to snap out of existence her body seemed to freeze in place and her eyes went wide as dinner plates, her breath became labored Jaune was there! Jaune was here! Alive in one piece and-
"JAUNE!" Ruby shot up like a lightning bolt hitting Jaune right in his chest. Jaune rolled Ruby hit him like a bullet from her gun, Crescent Rose now fully developed on his back she had obviously been busy in the three-plus years since they had been separated.
"Ruby!?" Jaune asked surprised that she was even happy to see him, hadn't he risked his own life to well... toss that life into the jaw of a monster Grimm? Ruby wasted no time pressing her lips to his Jaune's eyes widened the last time he felt any pair of lips on his was in a small tight closet in the back of a bumping night club.
His hands acted on instinct alone wrapping around Ruby's waist and pulling her to him her silver eyes full of hunger and need. She forced her lips to his not letting him get a second of air forcing a vacuum seal effect on the two before-
"Jaune!?" Ruby shouted not believing this Jaune was here! Just like in every other timeline! Jaune made it to Beacon! He was here helping her stand up!
"Hey, Ruby! I... I didn't think that I would see you-
"You idiot! What were you thinking!?" Ruby screamed tears falling from her own face her cheeks puffy and red, she glared daggers at Jaune her nails digging into his skin.
"I don't know!? What are you talking about?" Jaune tried to deflect but failed miserably.
"I'm talking about jumping off a damned bullhead into a fucking deathstalker! What were you even thinking?"
"That I was trying to protect my family?" Jaune offered the words died on his lips as Ruby gave him a look that could melt steel.
"Protect!? We were on an evacuation transport! What the hell were you thinking!?"
"That I was buying you all time to get out?"
"What!? Why are you so stupid! I'm going to kill you! Mom is going to kill you! Do you have any idea how much trouble you are in!?"
"Trouble?" Jaune asked a hint of true fear running down his back images of an angry Summer even put an angry Raven to shame as glaring silver eyes locked down onto him.
"YES TROUBLE! If they were not on a hunting trip right now they would be here to spank you till you can not walk! I'm texting her right now!" Ruby hissed taking out her scroll her fingers moving at a blistering pace making Jaune balk.
"Wait! Don't do that!"
"I already did! When they get back into scroll range you are in so much trouble!"
"I! I didn't mean to!"
"Save it! Uncle Qrow will be here soon enough he will have words for you as well and-
Ruby paused looked Jaune up and down an odd frown crossed her face.
"I... Jaune? What are you wearing?" Ruby asked as she was momentarily put off by the angry outfit Jaune had on. Jaune was in an odd outfit and it hurt Ruby to look at.
His shoes were a sharp painful white that looked like they had been shined less than an hour before, fancy dress shoes that looked far too impractical for a hunter in training.
"Where did you get that?" Ruby asked eyes trailing up his pants a pair of crisp white slacks with golden buttons on them. pulled up to a three-piece top with a pure white blazer, a two-part inner dress shirt, and tied together with a blood red tie? Jaune's outfit looked off.
It was smooth in most places but took odd sharp angels that made the tips of the shirt and pants look jagged almost like a knife's edge.
"What do you mean?" Jaune asked looking himself up and down now knowing what Ruby was talking about.
"I mean... what the hell is that?" Ruby asked gesturing to the nearly all-white outfit that in her opinion looked wholly alien on her lover brother.
Lover brother? Careful Ruby we don't believe in interfamilial relationships we are not Blake...
"My outfit? Why? It's what I wear." Jaune said not sure what was that wrong with his outfit. It was the same thing he wore almost every day he had to leave the apartment. His shoes, slacks, suit it was the best outfit he had, it was the only outfit he really had. The rest of his clothes where tattered old ripped jeans messily stitched together with Vernal's questionable, if not critical, sewing skills.
His tattered jeans, battered combat boots, and bunny hoodie were in his other bag delivered before. He needed to split his outfits carefully and he had gone with this his business outfit for his first days.
First impressions matter Jaune you only get one chance to make a good and, besides the suit is the one that is bulletproof. Jaune thought as Ruby looked like Jaune had grown a second head.
"Ruby?"
There is something off... something about Jaune is not right... I don't know why but he looks so... different but at the same time familiar? Why do I want to give him a cigar? Ruby thought as for some reason Jaune looked like someone she knew?
Who the hell do I know that is in all white? Ruby thought before shaking her head. That did not matter! Jaune was back her brother was here and she had just single-handedly saved this damned timeline!
"Dolt!" Weiss said fighting back her smile. Oh, Ruby, you are just the same as you always are! Weiss thought a smile breaking her face before she frowned, she wanted to stay behind to wait for Jaune but... Jaune was not there... Jaune would not be there in this world. He was somewhere with Raven of all people. That rogue women bandit raider murderer who had made her love kill her own father in front of her youngest siblings own eyes.
The loss of her father was... hard to wrap her head on for Weiss, she was never close to her father and she never wanted to be. He was a cruel calculating man that cared nothing for the rights of those who worked beneath him and he was the type of man that Weiss wanted to loathe. But... he was dead, not the first time he had died not even close.
Jacques had been killed in almost every timeline Weiss had the unpleasant misfortune to live in. Either killed by Fang terrorist, corporate in fighting or even when she was most vindicated one of RWBY or the surviving members of JNPR. Those timelines while chaotic and short-lived were very satisfying for Weiss to live in. As she walked into the Beacon courtyard she wished that she could say something…
Something to Ruby, Jaune or hell even to Whitley... The boy had been in weekly therapy since the incident he had been in a state of shock for two weeks refusing to drink, eat and unable to sleep. With her mother unable to even rationalize what was happening and greedy sharks closing in eager to tear her family to pieces her sister had stepped in. Winter had become the new head of the SDC.
She gave up her specialist training to be a CEO. While that was not what she wanted for her, or Weiss that is, it was a sacrifice she made willingly…
Winter is not in the military, that is going to impact us after the fall, Weiss thought, shaking her head. Winter knew what it was like to fight, to battle she was an expert tactician and fighter.
With her in the business side of the company, Weiss had no idea how that would affect her. Two years with no training from Ironwood. That is not going to end well. Winter needs all the training she can get.
The loss of her sister as a specialist would be considered even worse now that it meant Winter might not be at Beacon for the fall which meant that she would not be fighting with Qrow that meant that Ruby might-
"Stop," Weiss said forcing her mind out of a self-destructive loop. She needed a clear head for this, the timeline had sent her for a loop she needed to roll with it.
Jaune was probably not going to be in Beacon she had asked Winter to look for him but with her now running the SDC doing her best to reform it into something resembling the company that she thought it could be life was pulling her in every direction and she could only do so many things at once.
"She's just human, same for me," Weiss said pushing on carrying her luggage and rolling her eyes.
"Still when I find you Jaune you are going to take responsibility for deflowering me."
Well, at least Ruby and Weiss are here. I just have to find Yang, I swear if she makes a pun when I see her-
Stop. You are not here to be friends with them. With Jaune probably not going to Beacon you need to up your game. Find Ren, Nora or Pyrrha. You can't let RWBY form they will all die if it happens I know it hurts but I would take the lives of NPR any day of the week if it meant keeping one of them alive.
Blake thought, tucking her head darting forward as she prepared for a long day...
"So you lived in the city?! For two years!?" Ruby looked ready to punch Jaune in the face, and Jaune had a slight feeling that if she did it might hurt. Might.
"Yes?"
"And you didn't call!?" Ruby was two seconds from knocking Jaune's block off that or breaking her hand.
"I! I didn't think to call you!"
"You didn't think!? You had two years! What were you thinking!? You could have called, me Summer, Yang dad or even Uncle Qrow! Why didn't you!?"
"I was busy! I got a job!"
"A job!? A job!? You got a job and did not call home!?"
"When you say things like that I sound like the bad guy!"
"You are the bad guy! You are also stupid! And impossibly dense!" Ruby said pouting stomping her foot before shoving his own scroll back into his arms.
"There! I just gave Uncle Qrow, Mom and Dad your new number! Uncle Qrow will call you tonight! Be ready to take that call and when mom and dad are back in Scroll range!? I don't want to think what will happen to you then!"
Thank Oum that you are not hurt! I don't know what I would have done if you died! Who am I kidding? I know exactly what I would have done when you died, I've done in hundreds of times before and if I don't get this right I'll do it hundreds of times again.
Ruby gulped this was a miracle and a curse, on one hand, Jaune was alive! Safe and sound with a very snazzy suit and goggles armed with Crocea Mors.
He looked like he was healthy if not skinny. He has not been eating well not starving but not healthy either. I'll need to keep an eye on that, if I partner with him I'll make sure he eats double.
The word partner brought a lump to Ruby's throat she had convinced herself that she would go for the closest to the original timeline this run since Jaune was either dead or long gone she needed to focus on what she had…
Not that Ruby planned on succeeding, a world without Jaune was not one she wanted to live in. This was supposed to be a run where she went all out killing Cinder either on sight or close enough and consequences be damned! But now that Jaune was here?
This makes things complicated! I just wanted to kill Cinder, Emerald, and Mercury then be killed by whoever the hell comes after me when the Fang attack, die and restart my next run with Jaune! But he's here! Now I have to account for his safety! Do I become his partner? Do I let JNPR form? How do I gently let Pyrrha down when she falls for him!? This is complicated!
"Ruby? You look stressed." Jaune said looking at his struggling sibling who glared at him before reaching behind her back and pulling out her weapon.
"I have this!" Ruby said going for the classic approach shock and awe.
Showing off her baby Crescent Rose to Jaune. He balked taking three steps back but nodding.
"So it's finally done? Cool! I have mine!" Jaune said showing off his blade and shield-
"Of course you have your own weapons, I know your weapons I was there when you brought them into our own home! You have been using them for over eight years, I just finished mine the other day!" Ruby hissed as Jaune sighed he knew his sister was right and arguing with her was probably a lost cause.
"Ok, I'm sorry."
"Of course you are sorry! Now come on we need to find Yang I'm sure she will just love to give you a welcome back hug!" Ruby said with a sadistic smile as Jaune was sure that Yang's welcoming of him would be anything but friendly.
"Are you sure she wants to meet me?"
"I know she does! She will love to beat you!"
"Beat, you mean meet right!?"
"I said what I said," Ruby said dragging Jaune off as the boy whimpered.
Blake was curious it was well past the time when Ruby would have come over to ask her to talk. Blake had prepared her rejection speech well. She had done it hundreds of time before and this time would be no different.
Be quick, be firm, be decisive and be rough. Blake thought reading the story of a man with two souls, a good book even on her four hundred and twenty-sixth re-read. As she read her book Ruby was taking her sweet time-
"Jaune?!" Blake's ears shot up both pairs her head shot up so fast and at such a rough angle she thought it would snap! As she saw him Jaune her Jaune was alive and well in Beacon-
"Yang-"
"IDIOT!" Yang yelled as she decked Jaune in the face, her eyes glowed a bright red as she punched Jaune to the floor he hit the ground with a wet whap! Sliding back and if Blake's mouth could have, it would have hit the floor and made a crater. Yang hit Jaune, Yang's hitting Jaune, Yang's hitting Jaune!? Blakes mind raced a thousand times a second as her cat eyes went wide.
Yang hit Jaune!? But why!? What did he do to her!? He should not even know her what the hell-
"You idiot! What the hell were you thinking!?"
"I'm sorry sis!"
Sis? Did... did he just call Yang sis? As in sister? Blake's eyes went wide as dinner plates every hair stood on end on her body something was wrong here something was very, very wrong. Jaune was not related to Yang no way-
"Yang! Don't hit him too hard!" An adorable voice said as Blake breathed out.
Ruby to save the day-
"Leave some for me and mom!" Ruby said kicking!? She actually Jaune in the shin?!
Back off! Blake thought as-
"Sis! Come on! It was a mistake!"
Sis!? You are not their brother! You have seven sisters! Don't you know that!? Blake's head hurt her brain throbbed as she saw Jaune laid flat by Yang. Her best friend duffed Jaune like he was nothing, putting him on the floor in one solid punch!
"Yang?!"
"IDIOT! You absolute moron! What in the hell is wrong with you!?" Yang was not just angry she was downright enraged. Her eyes bleed fire and she looked ready to break something or in this case someone.
"I can't believe this!"
"I can explain!" Jaune said doing the one thing you did not want to do when Yang was furious. He waved his flag as Yang charged like a bull.
"You damn right you will explain! Now come on! I'm taking you to get a damn leash!" Yang said dragging Jaune away as Ruby followed on her heels Blakes jaw had long since left her face and was halfway to the floorboards as she winced in confusion.
"What's happening!?" Blake finally let her confusion burst out of her mouth as she saw the impossible happen.
Jaune spent the next night trapped between his two sisters neither Ruby or Yang would let him go now he was up and about to eat breakfast. Sneaking out of the constrictor-like grip of Yang and Ruby was not an easy task and his years of sneaking out of his shitty building to go see Melanie on many moonlit nights barely gave him the dexterity to pull it off. He powered himself up with memories of a green eyes pale beauty waiting for him by the dumpster under the AC unit of his home.
A string of memories that often ended in him staring into emerald pools of starlight and being pressed into a wall on the alley behind his home. Even if those memories were fleeting small moments of happiness in a sea of drudgery Jaune felt his heart rise in his chest, the smooth feeling of Melanie's skin the warm touch of her lips, like hisses of raindrops in the night sky.
As he walked Jaune sighed he needed to eat, he needed to explain to Ruby and Yang that he did not mean to harm them or himself. Qrow had sent him a very long text that night he did not bother to read it he knew he was in trouble and nothing was going to stop that.
"I guess I'm just screwed," Jaune said as he sat down, the person he sat next to was a loud ginger girl waving her arms with a massive stack of pancakes talking to a boy with black hair with one line of magenta in it.
"Hey, can I sit here?" Jaune asked as the loud woman turned to him pools of teal that shimmered like broken jade locked onto him.
"Sure can! I!" The woman eeped once her hands falling over her lips a massive smile split her face as she began to do a small dance? She did a small dance shaking with joy in her seat as she grinned wider than Jaune thought was humanly possible.
"Thanks, my name-"
"Jaune!" The woman said smiling ear to ear, Jaune paused she guessed his name before he even said it. That's strange.
"Yeah that's my name, how did you know?"
"Uh, cause I'm awesome! Duh!" The woman said grinning like a fool as Jaune felt an odd warmth flow from the woman she was like a small battery forced into a human form.
"I'm Nora! Nora Valkyrie!" The woman proclaimed as she poked to her chest that was not covered as a small heart shaped hole allowed the front of her breasts to push out of her shirt as Jaune gulped.
"Hey, there Nora, nice to meet you."
"Sure is! Hey, you know what Jaune you are a good looking guy!"
"What? I am?"
"Sure are! You know, do you like redheads?"
"Redheads? I think?"
"Good! Wait, I mean bad! You do not think you like redheads, you know you do! I bet you can find the love of your life here! I bet there is some tall green-eyed redhead woman ready to sweep you off your feet! You just have to be your lovable self and you will have all the blonde babies with green and blue eyes that your heart can handle!"
"That... that is oddly specific," Jaune said not fully sure what Nora was talking about only knowing that she seemed friendly… Very friendly…
"Precisely! I know what I am talking about! Now oH! OH! You have to say hi!"
"Say hi? To who?"
"HIM! Your new best friend! Say hi Renny!" Nora said as Ren gulped despite his supposed mastery of emotions he never did this part well.
He never interacted well with Jaune on the first time of their reincarnations.
"Nice to meet you Renny? My names Jaune! Jaune Rose!" Ren felt a stab of pain in his gut a dagger in his chest, it took everything he had to not see blood on Jaune's neck, his chest filled with Cinder's daggers, his gut opened my Emerald's blade, he had lost his brother in all but blood in so many ways.
So many time he had died for him so many failures for Ren to save someone who he was stronger than. He choked down a gulp of air that felt like he had swallowed a boulder.
"Nice to meet you Jaune, I am Lie Ren."
"Hey-"
"GOOD! Now that you two know each other you are now the best of friends!"
"Nora no offense but I just met Ren I don't know if he wants me to be his friend-"
"Nonsense! I said you two are friends so you are now the best friends of all time! I expect you two to have regular slumber parties, exchange diaries like a pen pal and have three manly bonding sessions a week to work out! And send me the sweaty photos!" Nora said as Jaune's jaw dropped she was an... eccentric woman…
Not bad just very, very, very energetic.
"I see well if you would have me as your friend then I would be more than happy to be your best one," Jaune said as Ren smiled an oddly pained expression came over his face.
"I would like that very much..." Ren said as he fought down a tear that ran down the side of his face-
"What the hell are you wearing?" Nora asked as she finally saw Jaune's unique fashion sense and-
"Did you say, Rose?"
"Hello... Weiss..." Pyrrha fought back her urge to strike the heiress Weiss was a good person, deep, deep, deep down.
"Deep down? How deep are we digging?" The voice in Pyrrha's head said as she winced.
Weiss is our friend we just had to look for her better personalities!
"How far are we going to look?"
We have to dig...
"If we dig anymore we are going to hit oil." The voice said as Pyrrha groaned.
"Hello, Weiss, well you know my name."
How did she know my name? She never called me by name before? Maybe I should be more friendly? Weiss thought unsure how to deal with Pyrrha in this timeline. She knew that Pyrrha despised being on a pedestal but maybe this time she would-
"Hey, there tall read and beautiful!" Both girls heads turned with such a speed that it was a miracle that they did not tear off their necks. A six one blonde with a pair of goggles and a jagged scar on his cheek approached smiling widely while silently screaming… Jaune had found the goldmine! Two beautiful women-
What about Melanie?
She was more of a friend with benefits.
But we said we loved her.
She also broke up with us.
Fair point. Jaune thought as his voice fought with one another.
"Hello!" The redhead said the tall near amazonian like woman gave him a look that could melt blocks of ice. She was tall with hair like blood eyes green like Melanie's.
Great here we go projecting.
"My name is Jaune Rose!" He said he had not forgotten to call himself Rose with Nora and Ren his new best friend if Nora was to be believed.
I wonder why she likes me?
" Hello Jaune- did you say, Rose?" Both the redhead and the beautiful! Girl in all white, and blue said. Both looked at Jaune like he had grown a second head. They stared at Jaune like he had just spit on their dead grandmother and kicked her tombstone for good measure.
"Um yes? That's my name! Jaune Arc Rose! Who are you two?" Jaune asked doing his BEST. To not say, Schnee. He killed her father that girl should hate him! The fact that no one seemed to notice him was a miracle inning of itself. His life in Vale was an easy one and he was used to being unknown-
"Rose? Did you say, Rose? Why did you say, Rose?" The redhead said glaring down at Jaune like he had affronted her.
"Because that's my name?" Jaune answered as honestly as he could his name was Jaune Arc Rose after all...
"No, it is not!" Weiss said as she and Pyrrha froze both shared an odd questioning look as Jaune gulped.
"Look... I don't know if I offended you but I'm sorry? I didn't mean to offend you." Jaune said blushing as both girls took a step back before stepping forward surging at Jaune like a school of piranha and him a helpless chicken.
Rose? Rose!? Like Ruby!? When was he related to her!? I am her partner she would tell me if he was a relative!
"Rose? When the hell did he tie the knot with Ruby?"
He did not!
"That's what you say, looks like it's back to the box with him don't forget to feed him three times a day."
"I will not put him in the box again!" Pyrrha shouted at the top of her lungs. Both teens paused Jaune and Weiss looked at Pyrrha with wide eyes as the blinked owlishly at her.
"You will not put who where?"
"What box?" Jaune asked his eyes wide as saucers. Jaune took two steps back, hands falling to his blade as Pyrrha began to panic.
"The box we sometimes will stuff you inside, until you die a painful horrific death." The voice said as Pyrrha fumed panicking as-
"I'm going to go..." Jaune said Pyrrha and Weiss panicked.
"Wait! Don't go!" Weiss said starting up, she had decided to up the ante in this timeline, Jaune was back! Alive and well and if he was stronger one look at him showed that she needed to implement team SJRN Sojourn. The strongest team she could make.
Her, Ruby, Jaune and Pyrrha. That was her strongest team she did not like doing that because it always had Yang and Blake die early, not as fast as Ren but still, she needed to prevent death. And if this timeline was going to be a bust which she still thought it was she needed a lot of firepower.
"I... I don't like being pushed-"
"JAUNE!" A far, far too familiar voice said as a storming blonde with red eyes rounded a corner.
"Sis!"
"Sister!?" Weiss and Pyrrha both shouted incredulously. Yang gripped Jaune by the arm pulling him close to her as Jaune smiled.
"Yang!"
"Where did you go!? I was looking everywhere for you! Ruby, I found him!"
"I'll kill him!"
"Wait! Um! I met these two girls... they are bothering me." Jaune whispered younger sibling instinct kicking in Yang's gaze shot up promising pain in levels that whoever was foolish enough to bother her family would not even be able to comprehend.
Yang gasped before pausing. Her eyes went wide crimson red becoming slightly orange before settling back to crimson.
Pyrrha, Weiss. They must have bothered Jaune somehow, don't let it get to you, they are friends. Yang thought, choking down feelings as she coughed.
"Look, I don't know who you two are but leave my brother be. Ok?" Yang asked before pulling Jaune away the sounds and squawks of Ruby filled the air as Pyrrha and Weiss looked ready to blow a gasket.
"SISTER!? Since when!" Both of them shouted at once as once again life seem ready to rip out their carefully compacted plans and shit all over them.
"That... that's new." They both said as the two times travelers unaware of the other began to walk away...
"All Beacon students please report to the launch zone." The PA said as Weiss and Pyrrha walked on shaky legs.
"You will all need to work out your landing strategy on the fly," Ozpin said as he looked to his new crop. A good yield this year, a silver eye, Summer's child, Raven's daughter, a Schnee a champion and a runaway boy who was very, very far from home.
"Sir what does that mean?" The boy Jaune Rose, or Jaune Arc as he was really called asked as Ozpin grinned the first twang! Of a student flying off into the air filled his ears as he grinned.
"It means what I said Jaune now I would suggest that you hold on tight," Oz said as Jaune screamed being flung into the air.
"Sir... is it wise to not tell Juniper and Nicholas about their son?" Glynda asked his second falling in place next to him.
"Don't you mean should I not tell Summer?"
"I already sent her and Tai a message, Qrow is on his way here as we speak to and I quote beat the little shit so hard he won't think of doing something that asinine again."
"Qrow was always one with words."
"I know," Glynda said pinching her nose.
"What will we do sir?"
"We wait and see who survives..."
AN: OK! And that is done! Another chapter of Reverse! In this one Jaune's back in Beacon, the girls ur seeing some discrepancies in the timeline, Jaune has a new last name, and he is dressing very stylish... He's had some new role models and now it's time for him to strut his stuff! The Emerald forest Arc is next and we get to see all the chicanery of the teams bonding and maybe... We get to see some of Jaune's family in the next one... Anyways! That's all for Reverse! New commission fic out next so look forward to that! After that is Love Struck so until then? Have a good day...
