AN: And the story is BACK! Bastion is back for round two people! We got all our favorites from Arkm! The reluctant blonde leader who has too much to worry about with! Jaune's got this. The adorable semi-human Mika! The stoic still tired Kage! And the possible cyborg Ruby all going at it as Bastion resumes with part two! The Soliloquy.

"Then! If you would look here you will see that you have killed your targets." The soft sensual voice of Miss Velvet carried through the room as Jaune sighed. He was sitting in his Bastion desk Kage was falling asleep and Ruby looked like she might fall out of her chair.

"And if you have to fire at an enemy that is charging you be prepared to kill them at your soonest opportunity, you must be able to keep pace when retreating from a Grimm. Most Grimm types are melee variants and you will find yourself pressed for time to reload especially in the thick of combat." Miss Vel said her soft brown eyes rolling up and down the class, her thick lips covered in brown lipstick smacked! As Jaune sighed rolling his eyes.

After their latest fiasco, team Arkham was allowed a choice for their final month and a half at Bastion. They could spend their time doing what they did before going on missions or...

They could go for the more academic approach, they could elect to spend the majority of their free time back in Bastion in general academic class far less danger and making sure that they could probably live long enough to go home.

Jaune picked the later, it was fun and all to go on missions but he preferred to keep his team alive and to keep what little remained of Ruby's original body still intact. Speaking of Ruby her mechanical eyes zoomed out focusing on the teacher who was stalking up and down the class.

Miss Velvet cut a quick pace up and down the wooden floors of the Bastion classroom. The dull floor colored the shade of storm clouds clicked as her high heels slapped against them.

Miss Velvet was a tall woman easily pushing seven feet, with long silky brown hair and eyes along with that same pale skin that seemed to infest the students of Bastion stood out prominently as Jaune nodded.

"Now tell me when you are surrounded on more than three sides by Grimm what is the appropriate reaction?"

"Oh! You back down the remaining escape avenue!"

"Good Ruby! Now that you have that what if the Grimm are in the air?"

"Then you need to seek shelter, the aerial Grimm types are not known for being able to pursue you inside of buildings or especially underground. Hiding in buildings or sewers is know to be especially effective." Ruby said as Miss Velvet nodded.

"Good! Now onto the next part!" She said as Jaune looked ahead in front of them Zach and Hino said the former had his head tossed back his eyes rolled into the back of his head as he slept.

Hino fixed her pale skinned partner a death glare as she rolled her eyes muttering once as she took notes.

Jaune had to admit to not paying particular attention to this class, he used almost only melee weapons and even if he had a plasma pistol he was still mainly a hand to hand fighter.

To his right Mika smiled happily taking notes in a small journal he didn't even know she had a journal most of their time in Bastion was in direct combat so it was not hard to forget that despite all the terrible things Bastion was a school first and foremost and while you were in school you went to class.

"Now that's all for today class! You all need to do your homework and the proper way to field strip your weapons so until next time tah-tah!" She chirped as the class finished.

"Finally! Let's get the hell on to lunch!" Zach groaned stretching his arms as Hino sighed looking at her partner with a look of thinly veiled irritation. "You know you could try to pay attention is that so hard?"

"It is when you want to knock out."

"Why did I get you as a partner?"

"Because you got unlucky, now stop complaining we got to eat," Zach said as Jaune stood up his friend filed out as his team fell in on him.

"Jaune? You ready to go?"

Ruby asked the adorable if not slightly terrifying girl with the robotic eye and well mostly robotic body, not that you could tell. Ruby's body was nearly fully altered, her body looked human but it was not. Ruby smiled warmly as Jaune nodded.

"Yeah let's get going, I could use a bite," Jaune said as Ruby nodded.

"Yay! We get to feast! I want the meat!" Mika said grinning widely as Kage shook his head.

"I just want to eat a quiet lunch, boss we got anything planned later?"

"Classes, classes and more classes just as it should be," Jaune said as team Arkham filed out Miss Velvet gave them all a hungry look licking her lips as she blew Jaune a kiss.

Jaune shuddered he knew of Miss Velvet's proclivities. He turned away before suppressing a shudder. He did not like Miss Velvet, he did not like most teachers in Bastion but she was an especially heinous one.

"Boss we got to move," Kage said walking out of the room his dual pistols mag-locked to his side, the boy was once again back in red his old armor repaired and brought back together now thinner and made much less noise.

All of Arkham had their armor fixed patched up and when applicable upgraded.

Jaune had his armor rebuffed and shined to a masters touch. His armor was no longer ended and worn but smooth like the flat part of his blade and black like the midnight sky. His weapons were still mostly the same, Jaune did not feel right changing them. They were not originally his the marks, dents, and scrapes on them were left. He kept the marks they were a badge of honor some type of proof of worth if that made sense. They seemed to say I struggled, I suffered and yet I still triumphed.

"This food is so good!" Ruby smiled wildly as she devoured her plate of sweets, although the small reaper still had a sweet tooth to rival the gods she now had a small side of poultry on her plate. Jaune had made Ruby take up healthier eating over the last few days. She needed more than cookies to keep going.

"You need to pace yourself, don't eat too fast you'll choke."

"Bet she wants to choke on your cookie," Zach growled making Ruby actually choke, her silver eye went wide in embarrassment her cheeks the color of her cape as he chuckled.

Whack!

"Idiot! Don't tell her that!" Hino hissed as Zach rolled his eyes.

"Say what you want you know what she wants."

"Zach don't tease my partner," Jaune said putting a piece of mash potatoes in his mouth. The creamy potatoes slid down his mouth as Jaune sighed. He learned to ignore most if not all of Zach's word. The boy said almost nothing important and when he did it was usually when people were getting shot to hell.

"Boss we got plans today? Or are we just taking it easy? I for one would like to just take it easy." Kage said eating his fried tuber plate and slicing into his thick steak that seemed to be freshly slaughtered if the flood of blood on the plate was any indication.

"You eat a lot of meat Kage, do you think that is healthy?" Jaune asked his concerns for his team's diet was a new front for him but an important one.

"Healthy? It's proven how is protein not healthy?"

"Red meat is really good for you Kage, in fact, if you eat too much of it it might just lead to a full-on intestinal prolapse you know?"

"Hello, Merrick I did not see you come in," Jaune said not actually seeing Merrick come in. The albino leader of their fellow team and personal friend of Ruby sat in swiftly coming from out of thin air as his team sat up.

"Sir!"

"Sir!"

"At ease both of you I'm not some tyrant but your respect is noted and appreciated, Jaune how are you today?" Merrick asked his plate filled with rich and steak a small smile on his face as his blood red eyes that still hurt for Jaune to look at locked onto his blue ones.

"I'm fine nothing too wrong that I can tell, you?"

"Oh not much did a bit of digging with the Lancers they are impressed with your performance on your last few missions if not a bit disappointed that you are not going to do much more for them. Mac would like to extend his personal thanks for all the work that you have done for them so far."

"Tell him that that is appreciated we are thankful for all they did for us."

"Which was?" Kage asked as Ruby giggled a bit.

"Ah, Ruby! I have some philosophical questions today, you will make time for me no?" Merrick asked as Ruby's eye lost all trace of humor as her red one zoomed in.

"Sure. I'll do what I can Merrick." Ruby said her voice high and sharp as Jaune smiled.

"I'm glad you two get along so well that's good to see."

"You are so dense it is not even funny."

"Kage?"

"Nothing! Nothing! I didn't say anything." Kage said digging back into his steak as Jaune shrugged.

"We are taking it easy."

"No more suicidal missions then?"

"Dear Oum I hope not I don't think we have any luck left to use." Kage drawled the boy rolling his brown eyes at his leader who shook his head.

"We have been surviving through skill and tenacity, we owe our survival to no one but ourselves."

"That and the bull shit luck that keeps us alive when you toss us into another meat grinder."

"Hey! I never tossed us into a meat grinder!"

"Yeah! Kage don't insult Jaune!"

"I tossed your mom into a meat grinder!"

"That's what you keep saying! Quit being so silly! You know I might just start to believe you!" Ruby said punching Kage in his arm, giggling as she shook her head.

Really! He thinks that he tossed my mom in a meat grinder can you believe him Eyey?

"No I can not, Venke is quite the character but he is our friend." Her eye said the words flashing over her face as Ruby smiled.

"You know I really did toss your mom in a meat grinder."

"Sure, a meat grinder," Ruby said using air quotes as Venke sighed.

"Listen-"

"Mom. Meat grinder! I get it!" Ruby said laughing a bit as Kage sighed.

"Well, I did my best."

"Yes you did, now can we not talk about conversations that might get one or more of us killed?" Jaune asked taking a swig of water as Hino sighed.

"Jaune what will you do the rest of the day? I heard you took on a teaching role with Adam? Something about training the new recruits?"

"Yeah, I'm going to be training some Initiate first years, later on, I think I'll have some luck with them, Adam said they all had potential," Jaune said a small smile on his face. He and Adam had become closer over the last few weeks. Adam teaching him swordplay and Jaune acting as kind of a counselor to him.

Adam taught him how to use the blade and Jaune taught him how to not kill every human he saw. The two had a productive relationship and now they were actually friends.

"Oh? You are teaching do tell. I bet Mac would love if you could teach for the Lancers, we would reward you handsomely." Merrick said his words so laced with a hidden motive even Jaune felt the hairs raise on the back of his neck.

"That's not a bad idea, but I'm going to stick with this for now."

"Ah, a shame then! But I must be going. Zach, Hino?"

"Sir!"

"Sir!"

"Good now let's go, Jaune a pleasure, Ruby? I'll see you later on." Merrick said as Ruby snarled her eye zoomed out as Merrick smirked.

"What was that?"

"I'll be there."

"Ah you don't sound too enthusiastic, maybe your friends need to clear their heads?"

"I said I'll do it! No one needs to have their heads cleared ok?" Ruby asked as Merrick grinned, a thin cruel smile that reminded Ruby of the jagged edge of a knife.

"As you say, Jaune good day," Merrick said as his team slid off from the table as Mika gagged.

"I don't like that guy, Jaune you can't trust him! He's a damn smake." Mika hissed her emerald eyes locking on and glaring onto Merrick's head as Jaune sighed.

"Mika, Merrick is not a snake, he's Ruby's friend you know? Isn't that right Ruby? You and Merrick are friends?" Jaune asked not noticing the shudder of disgust in her veins.

"Y-Yes... we are acquaintances, you could say that," Ruby said shaking her head as Jaune sighed.

"Good, now let's get going we still have classes to go to and I don't want to be late."

"So boss... quick question," Kage asked as he and Jaune walked side by side in the Beacon hall. The girls had left for the dorm and other classes leaving the two with a free period. The two walked down the mainly empty Bastion halls the massive stone floors and walls allowed them access as the rare student that roamed saw them gasped and either turned right around or gave them a wide berth

.

"Yes? And what question would that be?" Jaune asked his friend and teammate who sighed. His metal-gloved hand rubbed his face as he took a deep breath.

"So just to be sure you want us on this moral high ground shit right?"

"Moral high ground shit? What does that mean?"

"It means that you want us to do the whole above and beyond shit right? Like you want us to step up when we see something wrong?" Kage asked taking out a cigarette and lighting it.

"Smoke?"
"Yeah, hit me," Jaune said taking another long white stick allowing Kage to light it, Jaune groaned the cool relaxing feel of the Vacuo slim breathed and entered into his lungs as he shuddering killing the cigarette in one go as he turned to Kage.

"Yes, I want us to be the good guys we are training to be, why are you asking me?"

"What do you think of Miss Velvet?"

"Our teacher? She's a good combat teacher why?"

"I just wanted to know what our official stance is regarding her proclivities is all," Venke said his brown eyes narrowing like a hawk as Jaune passed. His cobalt eyes looked over to his friend as he frowned.

"What do you mean proclivities? What the hell does that mean?" Jaune asked a hint of defensiveness in his tone as Kage held his glare.

His brown eyes hard like slits locked onto Jaune's who match his gaze stare for glare.

"What I mean is when she does her private tutoring what is our stance on that?"

"Her private tutoring? What the hell does that mean?" Jaune had no idea what Kage was on about now and he honestly did not want to know.

"What I mean is what do we do about her taking students to the back of her private office, fucking them and blowing their brains out if the cum before her. That is what I am talking about." Kage almost spat his brown eyes locked onto his leader as to his great surprise Jaune looked just as surprised as him.

Like he was not expecting the question but was not pissed off at it either. It was like Jaune knew what Kage was going to say and just didn't care about it.

"Oh? So what if she does that? How does that concern us?" Jaune asked with a low shrug, Kage paused he knew Jaune had changed over the past weeks but this? Being ok with the murder of his own classmates this was a change of pace, not an unwelcome change either. Kage had been meaning to tell Jaune that he was a bit soft.

But recent developments had shown Kage that Jaune was no fool and he was adapting to Bastion like a fish to water still he needed to answer this question, one way or another Kage would get his answer.

"What I'm asking is when she drags a kid back into the room what do you want me to do?"

"Why do you care what I want you to do? Why do you care what I do?"

"Because you are my teammate, and you are the one who represents us. And when you fuck up the consequences come back to bite us all in the ass. This is a Beacon teacher Jaune!"

"So what? She's just a teacher if a few students die what's the problem?" Jaune asked scratching his armor the shiny Black carapace plate shown as the Bastion torches illuminated the hallway, giving it a bloody look as red shadows crept up and down.

"Jaune, what will you say when I say that some of the kids she takes men and women boys and girls are not very old," Kage asked framing his words so that Jaune could not wiggle out of this.

"Not very old what the hell does that mean not very old?"

"What I mean is what is our policy to harassment of children, does that make sense?"

"Zero tolerance, if we see child abuse we stop it then and there no questions asked.

"Well, what about when she picks someone who is under eighteen."

"What?"

"What I mean is when she starts taking underage kids and she will do that mind you. When she takes them to the back of the class has sex with a very underaged student and then more likely than not kills said student and comes back the next day, what will you expect us to do then?"

"Get ready for class? Kage, what are you trying to get?"

"Jaune! She is a predator! She targets children-"

"So what? I don't care, she teaches well Kage she will save our lives on a mission eventually. I don't care about others outside the team Kage, I'll protect this team no matter what." Jaune said his legs pulsing with power as they both began to kick ads Jaune felt his blood come back into this legs.

"I know what she does Kage, why are you asking me if I am ok with it?"

"Are you?"

"NO! Dear Oum no! Those are children!"

"I know that's why I'm asking."

"Do you need to ask to know my opinion on child abuse?"

"No, but it would help to know that you or more importantly Ruby doesn't get any heroic ideas one the bodies began to pile up now that we are going to take her class regularly. Do you think Ruby is just going to be ok once she gets it in her head what's going on?"

"Let me worry about Ruby."

"What the hell does that mean?" Kage asked a worried look on his face as Jaune smirked.

"Don't worry about it is what I mean, now calm down. I know what she does and I'm going to keep me and Ruby's nose out of it."

"Good I don't want any more incidents."

"There won't be any more incidents Kage, just leave the leading to me and follow orders ok?"

"If you say so boss, I'll so what I can," Kage said as the two walked down the hall.

"Back! Keep your feet moving!" Miss Velvet said as she sprinted, Jaune huffed his legs rapidly back peddling as she ran backward.

"Keep your gun up! Don't lose track of them!" The teacher hissed as she locked eyes with Jaune.

"Keep your stance loose! Don't lock up!" She hissed as Jaune grunted turning his plasma pistol to the rapidly closing in dummy.

Fisht! He pulled the trigger the superheated ball of energy blowing apart the target dummy the dummy truing into a pool of molten slag as Jaune backed up.

"Don't stop! You need to keep your legs moving! If you stop moving you are dead!"

"But I have a melee weapon!"

"So? You can be the best fucking melee combatant in Remnant if you can kill something from far away you do it! You never know when you are going to be overwhelmed! Now keep moving!" The woman yelled as Jaune nodded, Miss Velvet was tutoring him in the art of ranged combat teaching him the basics of kiting. The art of keeping an enemy away as long as possible.

"Move your legs! Don't stay still!" She yelled as Jaune moved back three more dummies came at him, all rolling on inbuilt tracks to the training room, Jaune gripped his pistol pulling it as he fired three times.

Three rolling balls of plasma slammed out hitting all three of them turning them into slag.

"Good! But don't stop! If you let your enemy close in you are dead! You need to keep at least a ten-foot distance with the enemy! That's how you get to reload!" The teacher said as Jaune gave a nod pulling back his weapon as he scanned the area.

The training hall was a blank slate almost white walls and floors surrounded him as he fell back. The few dummies still left were dispatched quickly enough as he fell back. His feet back peddled-

"Keep your eyes up! Move and shoot! Move and shoot!" The teacher's words filled his ears as he fell back. More dummies appeared from the floor itself rising up at him and shooting forward. Jaune narrowed his eyes as he adjusted his weapon.

"Don't let them close!"

"I won't!" Jaune said as he shifted the plasma pistol to spread, the weapon shot out a small wave a minor ball of blue tidal wave spilled out immolating two our of three before he quickly switched it to normal.

Two dummies fell into melting pools of slag as two fell. He drew on the other dummy firing once taking the top half off in one smooth motion. The final dummy fell as the teacher smiled, a thin grin came over her rich full lips covered in brown lip gloss as she nodded.

"Good job Arc. I didn't think you had it in you." Miss Velvet said nodding her head, her long flowing brown hair that seemed to pulse with life flickered as her uniform a strange mixture of brown and black.

Brown tight pants that hugged her impossibly well-muscled legs as if they were a second skin showed off her very attractive legs, and the pure black top that pressed her already ample chest out even more, along with a brown vest that was very stylish with gold emblems pressed onto it topped off with a strange gold necklace that had a circle with an arrow through it on her neck.

"That was a good session Arc, keep that up and you'll be a crack shot even under the worst circumstances."

"Thank you, ma'am, I appreciate the one on one lessons," Jaune said bowing to his teacher, a monster who preyed on children or not, Jaune was not above asking for help.

Besides these are Bastion kids, not like they are angels, if you are in here you deserve a few bad things happen to you. Jaune thought shoving down a moral quandary before he did as Kage would say make a dumb ass decision that was going to bite him and all his friends in the ass before he could think.

"Of course I always take the time to help my students, and if you want... I can offer you some private tutoring after class." The woman said taking her hand running her long manicured nails down his armor. Her long rich brown nails screamed his armor Jaune's eyes locked onto her chest before he shook his head.

It's a trap.

"That's fine ma'am, I don't need that for now," Jaune said as the teacher frowned.

"Aw that's too bad I'm sure a big strong stud like you can have a lot to teach a girl like me." She asked in a husky tone batting her eyes as Jaune shuddered, he felt it. Before he may have been tempted by the pleasure of flesh but now? Something screamed in his chest, some sixth sense he developed since arriving in Bastions creamed at the top of its lungs yelling and screaming at Jaune to run. To get the hell out of here and get the fuck to his friends.

Miss Velvet was beautiful in every sense of the word but she was a monster, and she saw Jaune as nothing more than prey.

"I am sorry ma'am but I have things to do."

"Ah, a shame! But I'll leave it here for now, if you ever want a real woman to rock your world just call me!"

"I will ma'am."

"And just so you know I have a variety of experiences to impart on you Jaune and if you come to my private session I'll be sure to blow your mind."

Fisht! Ruby looked at her blade with a curious gaze the long metallic piece that extended from her arm breaking free from her skin as if it was not there.

"Our skin is there it is just not connected to pain receptors when we use our weapons." Her eye said as Ruby nodded it was strange realizing that she was not fully human.

Ruby had come to terms with having a mechanical body or mostly mechanical some time ago, it did not bother her as much but she still wondered what would become of her.

"Can I even get on a plane? Won't I set off the metal detectors?" Ruby asked as her eye paused.

"Scanning, I have found several instances of humans and faunus boarding aircraft with metallic prosthetic limbs, we should be able to board a craft just fine upon our return to Beacon, in a bit over a month. I for one am looking forward to our return."

"Me too, I think that it will be good to be back in my old bed with my friends again," Ruby said falling back on the ARKM bed that was still impossibly soft seriously Ruby thought she might as well have been sleeping on a damned cloud for all the good this bed was.

"Ruby? I am confused."

"By what? What's on your mind?"

"You say our friends are in Beacon but our friends are here. They are on our team and in the cafeteria. Well not in there right now but our friends are not somewhere else right?" Her eye asked whirring out of her head as Ruby paused.

"Well that's not all the way true, I have friends that you have not met Eyey, they are in Beacon and... well they think that I and Jaune are dead.."

"They believe you have expired along with our crush? How strange, why would they think that? Surely they believe in our ability to know that we can survive a measly execution at the hands of Vacuo right?"

"It's not that simple, they think we are dead..."

"That is a strange thought think of it like this Ruby. If we were to be tossed out of a bullhead, that was destroyed mid-air crash into the ground and go missing for days on end do you think Jaune, Mika or Kage would honestly believe we were dead? Do you think that they would not be out every second of the day searching for us until they found our bodies?"

"I... that's not the same. They don't know me like they do."

"Ruby if time is the deciding factor in behavior that is even worse, these so-called friends of yours have known you for months over a year. And yet they are so quick to decide that you are dead and gone? I must say I do not think highly of this."

"You don't get it Eyey, they are not like us... they have not seen the things that we see, they would not be able to handle this life."

"Then why are they our friends?"

"What?"

"Ruby friends must be able to stand with each other at all times, think of it is there any aspect in our lives that you can see Jaune, Kage or Mika not being able to stand with us and defend and support us?"

"I..."

"Or even Zach and Hino? People we have known for less than a few months are already more reliable than our own family."

"That's not true!"

"Is it? Your aunt Raven can portal place correct?"

"Yes... why?"

"If she can go anywhere why not here? Why are people so willing to mark us for dead? People, that you say we can trust?"

"It's not like that! This is a complicated thing Eyey!"

"Is it? It does not seem so complicated now that I think about it. Our friends are the people who stand with us, who believe in us who will have our backs. People we can depend on in all aspects of our lives these so-called friends of yours do not seem like they are good friends."

"Well, they are! And you can't just-"

Ding! Ruby's scroll rang as she groaned.

"Now who is it?" Ruby asked looking at her scroll as-

Merrick. Read on the top of it as the screen turned black.

"Oh fuck me."

"He is not our friend." Her eye said dryly as Ruby picked up the scroll.

No shit, he's not our friend.

"Yes?"

"Ah! Ruby just the girl I was hoping to reach!"

"What do you want Merrick?" Ruby asked her tone hard and clipped an exasperated sigh came from the other end as Merrick sighed.

"Why so rude? I just called due to a philosophical question that I needed your help on."

"Spit it out, I am alone so tell me what you need so I can get it over with."

"Fine fine, be like that then. There is a string of several missing students I need you to look into?"

"What? The hell happened to them?"
"If I knew that I would not be calling you now would I?" Merrick asked as Ruby winced her hands flinched as her eye narrowed.

"He is not our ally."

"Missing? Like, ran away?"

"No... more like dead..." Merrick paused his voice not caring quite as strong as Ruby froze.

"Dead who the hell is stabbing them?"

"Oh not stabbing them, Ruby something is eating them..."

AN: And we are BACK! Arkm is in full swing! Kage is sullen, Mika is about her meat! Jaune's morals are in serious question and Ruby has an investigation! Something is eating the students of Bastion! What's gnawing at them? Well, find out next time... until then The Apprentice is next! So thanks for reading and now Omake...

Hero of Remnant part 25 Back in the saddle.

Jaune was always one to look on the glass half empty side of life. In his life pessimism made sense and it more often than not saved his life.

Ting! Tang! FWAP! The harsh sounds of lasers bounced off the side of the auto car as Jaune sighed.

"Sir, we are under attack," Ren said his usual phlegmatic tone on full monotone and fully uncaring of the hail of brilliant crimson death that fell ont hem as Jaune sighed.

"Yes Ren, yes we are under attack," Jaune replied already wishing that he could just tuck himself back into his covers and go to bed. All he wanted to do was go out see the city and not be shot at. Was that really too much to ask for?
"Fuck! We are getting hammered!" Yang yelled the sister of battle jumping over cover her combi-bolter barking sending rocket rounds at the enemy as she fell back. Her armor glowed yellow as she growled at the enemy.

"Come and get me you fucks!" Yang hissed letting loose another string of bolter rounds followed by a wave of chemical fire, Jaune winced the smell of promethium filled his nose as he gagged.

The enemy was attacking them, not that Jaune knew who the hell they were, so far he was being shot at by what he hoped was just confused Monty botherers that would be dead in the dirt soon enough but-

A wave of yellow flashed into Jaune's eyes as Ren fired both of his melta pistols at one the hell pistols flashed as the screams of men and women being cut in two filled his ears. Jaune sighed already regertting not shooting someone earlier.

Maybe if I shot more of the men then this would not happen? If all my men did that I surely can stay in bed right?

"Sir! WE are taking fire!" Ruby said the commander hopping over the barricade of the burning auto car, Ruby was still dressed much to her dismay and to Jaune's in bright white clothes. She wore the winter uniform that made her stand out like a sore thumb in the bland greys of the city. Normally Jaune was all for the men standing out it made it less likely that he would be shot.

That was until they started to stand to close to him where the age-old adage of Enemy fire has the right of way filled his mind as-

"Sir, they are charging us," Ren reported dryly as Yang grinned.

"Hell yeah! Let's show these traitors how Oum's finest kick ass!"
"Fine... I supposed I can help." Jaune said as he nodded looking at his friends he used that word loosely before counting down.

"One, two, three!" Jaune said as all four surged up a wave of chemical fire spread out like the waves on a beach.

"Burn Heretics!" Yang yelled as human screaming filled Jaune's ears, bodies twisted and turned jumbled in the street, the dull day sun shone down in the slums as Jaune much to his dismay fire four times, killing four enemies as another reached his front making him sigh before gutting a fifth. Crocea Mors tore his guts out as a large claw was torn from his side landing on Jaune's feet as-

"Gene stealers!?" Ruby gasped as Jaune maoned.

"Why me? What did I do?" Jaune asked as he just felt his life get complicated...