And now chapter two, no notes hope that you guys enjoy.
Vale: safe zone
The people of Vale watched from the safe zone as the sky above their city was soon full of strings descending from the point above the school where they had been launched. This was perhaps the first they've seen of their king in a few years and likely the first they will have ever see their ruler fight. All the students watched with held breath at the confrontation going on between the King and the false maiden from the screens still broadcasting all of the carnage.
Thankfully through the destruction they've yet to receive any real casualties thanks to the efforts of the students and the recent arrival of the executives. Unfortunately that didn't mean everybody got out of the city completely unscathed, their were several serious injuries sustained by many people.
But right now there was really only one person in danger of losing his life that wasn't attacking the school. Jaune was rushed over to the safe zone by his longtime caretaker along with three of his friends. Trebol released his hold on the four of them, plopping the girls onto the floor in a heap while he lowered Jaune as gently as he could.
"Ow! Could you have not dropped us!?" Weiss asked from underneath her's and Jaune's partner. Trebol simply gave the three of them a look as though he just now remembered their presence.
"Ah, sorry about that. But you three are fit as a fiddle while The young master on the other hand isn't, so don't complain girly." The heiress stiffed up at that. She felt a bit guilty at her remark but Ruby placed a reassuring hand on her shoulder. It wasn't her fault really, things right now were very hectic.
The five of them were almost immediately surrounded by the rest of the students and his friends. Teams SSSN, CFVY, the rest of (J)NPR and the other teams from the tournament.
They would've been bombarded with endless questions if it weren't for the bloody sight of the blonde. Just seeing his damaged an unconscious body halted any questions that would've come out of their mouths. Well all except a certain monkey faunus who broke the silence.
"Guys, is Jaune alright?" Sun asked looking at his fellow blonde's body all cut up, burned, and covered in his own blood. It wasn't just that though, through all the red he and the others saw a myriad of scars all over Jaune's upper body. From the look of them they were quiet old, five to ten years old give or take.
"Of course not, the young master is losing his life right now! My mucus stopped his bleeding only for a bit, but until Baby 5 gets her ass here then there might not be away to save him!" The sticky man shouted in frustration, Sun just recoiled at his volume but it wasn't really the blonde monkey's fault.
After all the executive felt a sense of failure. The fact the one he and the others were in charge of watching over had to put himself through all that pain just to summon them at a faster pace. Trebol's grip tightened around his staff as he looked at what was basically his nephew in a puddle of blood and blue mucus.
As he stared down at Jaune the sound of rapid footsteps closed in on the group of young hunters. They all turned and saw only a cloud of dust for a brief moment before they were all run over by a weapon themed maid.
"YOUNG MASTER!" Was the frantic scream they heard from their sprawled positions.
The students picked themselves off the ground and turned towards the the maid now holding the blonde in her arms. They assumed by the way she was cradling him, the medical equipment at her side and weapons on he back she was another one of his caretakers.
She set him down and quickly began working on sewing up his wounds and bandaging him up. They just watched as withing a couple of minutes Jaune was no longer bleeding out and bandaged to the point he was almost a mummy.
Really the only skin exposed was his face and a few of his fingers, the ones that weren't broken anyway.
"There." Baby 5 sighed in relief, Jaune no longer held a pained expression on his face as all of his burns and wounds were patched up. Regardless she looked at his unconscious form and couldn't help but feel anger. It was the same with Trebol, the executive and the maid grit their teeth at the sight of their injured ward knowing one thing that might've changed this.
"We should have gotten here sooner!" The maid morphed her hand into a gauntlet punched the ground beneath her and shattered the concrete into rubble. All of the students present took a step back at the display of strength and rage. After seeing that the teams kept a good few feet from away from the three as to not anger them further.
The only one brave enough to approach them however was Jaune's own partner. Seeing him on the floor like that brought an incredible amount of guilt to the spartan. Pyrrha walked over to the two with her head down not meeting their gaze, she couldn't bare to look at his family in the eye after Jaune got hurt in her place.
"U-um, Excuse me?" The two turned their heads to the red headed champion. The executive and the maid just looked to Jaune's partner, their anger momentarily lessened at her approach.
"What is it girl?" Baby 5 asked with an irritated sigh. Pyrrha swallowed the lump in her throat and began to speak."I-I, I'm so sorry!" She bowed her head and almost shouted her apology. Baby 5 just stared."What are you talking about girl, you're sorry for what?"
"It's my fault Jaune is this way right now!" She bowed her head and began to spill the truth.
"He went up the tower after he stopped me from trying to do the same thing! He knew I'd try to fight Cinder even though I had no chance of beating her!"by this point the spartan broke down, she fell to her knees and tears flowed from her emerald eyes. Everyone simply looked at Pyrrha, they all felt sympathy for the girl racked with guilt.
"It's my fault that he's hur-!" *BONK!* Pyrrha was abruptly stopped when Baby 5's fist came down on top of her head surprising her and all those present, well except for Trebol.
Pyrrha looked up at the maid whose eyes were shadowed by her hair."Shut up! The young master did what he wanted by stopping you, it was his choice girl so stop crying!" She yelled through gritted teeth.
Pyrrha stared at the maid as she rubbed the bump on her head. Baby 5 let out a long sigh before she continued."Besides, unlike you he knew what to do by going up there. We just wish that he didn't have to." She watched as the maid pulled out a small slip of paper that appeared to burned but was steadily restoring itself.
"This right there is Jaune's Vivre card. It lets us know where he is and if he is in danger, if his life is ever at stake it starts to burn slowly. The more danger he is in the faster it burns." She looked at her leader and back to the small slip of paper, it only took a second for the Spartan's eyes to widen at the information.
"S-so Jaune knew that if he were to go up to the top of the tower then-!" Baby 5 and Trebol just nodded as confirmation.
"Then we would would arrive to his location even faster, or at least our king would anyway." Baby 5 said bringing some relief to the spartan.
She looked towards the tower where Vale's king and the false maiden were standing off against each other. She only hoped that he wouldn't be too angry at Jaune after he was done with her.
God knows that it is never good when anybody upsets the Donquixote patriarch.
Baby 5 cast her eyes down to the unconscious blonde in her arms, the maid felt tears sting her eyes as began recalling certain events that made her never want to see him in a such a bloody state ever again. Baby 5 held Jaune closer as the memories came back in vivid detail as her tears began falling onto his face.
The tower.
Cinder for the life of her couldn't stop shaking. This was quite possibly the most flamboyantly dressed man she had ever seen in her entire life. And yet that served to make him somehow even more intimidating. The power he was releasing didn't help to steady her resolve either, she felt like he was actually forcing his own will over her's.
"So-" His deep voice coupled with his enraged frown sent a tremor of terror down the pseudo maiden's spine.
"I'll ask again, why are you attacking my precious son's school?" Doflamingo demanded, his glasses reflecting Cinder's fear filled eyes.
Despite the intimidation Cinder mustered her original defiance and glared back at the monarch in front of her.
"It was for a simple reason really, To show the weakness of Beacon and the Kingdom of Vale as a whole." She smirked at him while the veins in his forehead pulsed to show his rising anger.
"Although, now that you are here this is even better. It's the perfect way for me to prove that to the rest of the world and bring about the age of my master." Doflamingo just raised his eyebrow at her.
"Felling the king in front of his masses would be all the better for us, and with the fall maiden's power it shouldn't be a problem." Her arrogant attitude returned along with the maiden's glowing eyes, She looked at him expecting eyes wide in shock at her power or even possible gasp of surprise.
However what he actually did was something she didn't even consider a possibility, and it was for him to start chuckling like she told him a funny joke and for that to turn full blown laughter!
"Ffuffuffufufufufufu,hehehehehehehe-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" All those watching on the other hand had done both and for third they had their jaws hanging.
"Oi, Oi, are you serious? You think a little piece of some withering old geezer's power is worth anything now?!" He said, his second fit of laughter throwing Cinder for a loop more than what he said about the maiden's power. He calmed his laughter but the amusement was still present on his face.
"Let me tell you something Oujo-chan, that cute little fire of yours has no place in the world now." He spread out his arms gesturing to all of vale which now laid inside his bird cage. "And for what you did to my precious son and his school I intend to snuff it out for good!"Cinder and people around the kingdom watching the broadcast couldn't help but listen to his every word.
"There's no more room for those tired old fairy tales! Not when my son and I plan usher the world into a new era of daring ones! And we will bring it with an unstoppable swell." He stopped for a moment, his amusement replaced with his previous anger made clear by the pulsing veins in his forehead.
"Now let me show how helpless you and your little pawns are against the Donquixote family!" That was it for talking, Cinder couldn't let the insult of her new strength go. She let the power burst out and released the same blast o fire she used on the headmaster. Doflamingo looked at the blast making no movement to dodge it, he simply raised his right hand with his palm facing the fires.
"Overheat!" At his word a rope of glowing red hot strings shot out of his palm and cut straight through her attack and parted the flames in a mere second, fortunately for the false maiden she had the sense to try and dodge. She wasn't that lucky however since she didn't have the speed to avoid it entirely as it cut through the maiden's aura protecting her.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!" She screamed out in pain of the burning strings. The attack nearly cutting off her left arm, and from her peripheral vision she saw that it sliced through a few unfortunate spires of the academy behind her. Cinder tumbled across the floors of the tower, the dragon behind her having enough of waiting let out a loud roar before flapping it's wings and taking off above the two. Cinder stared in fear at the new image of the man in front of her.
The king stood with his back turned to the burning flames left behind from her attack, the orange light casting menacing shadows across his form while illuminating the feathers on his coat. His glasses were glowing with flames as she was once again looking at herself filled with fear at the man before her.
But somehow she found the strength and defiance to stand up and glare back at the scowling ten foot blonde. Cinder held her freshly cauterized arm for a second before she shrouded herself in her stolen powers and charged at the king, who in turn bolted forward with his hand out ready to slash her with his stings. Whatever the outcome they were both right about one thing.
This fight will change the world of Remnant and bring it into a new era.
With Blake and Yang at the fair grounds
The two partners weren't sure what was going on in front of them. The fight, if one could even call it such, between Blake's old partner and Vergo can only be described as one-sided. Adam was given no break from the executive's wrath. His body was bloody and broken and his clothes were torn up from all the attacks. All of which could hardly be seen by the two partners or the one on the receiving end of them. The executive moved at incredible speed, hit with incredible force, blocked all his attacks and hadn't even broken a sweat.
He didn't even look tired! All of his power as a leader of the white fang, all of his rage towards the humans of Remnant, all of his drive to kill Blake's friends. All of it meant nothing to the bastard before him.
Perhaps the worst blow to the white fang leader's pride was the fact Vergo had broken both of his horns with one hit of his bamboo.
And that leaves them their now. Adam being held up by his throat clutching his blade, Blake's eyes glued to the sight and Yang swiveling her head trying watch both this and the fight going on between Cinder and Doflamingo.
Blake couldn't stand and just watch anymore. Adam may be a monster but she didn't want to see anyone beaten to death so brutally even if they did deserve it.
She screamed at the man to show even the tinniest bit of mercy to her old partner, but her pleas were met with only silence or a short "Be quiet" from the high executive. Vergo raised his left hand to hold the broken faunus higher and leaned his bamboo on a prize counter. He had no reason to keep this going, he aimed his right hand at Adam's chest and extended his index finger.
"SHIGAN!" Blake and Yang watched as just Vergo's finger repeatedly pierced through Adam's chest. A total of ten seconds later the bull faunus was unconscious and bleeding from several bullet sized holes in his body. The bumble bee duo ran up to the man as he tossed the broken, bloody and likely dead Adam off to the side and picked up his bamboo, his gloved finger still dripping from his blood. as he was walking he was followed and bombarded by their questions.
He hardly payed attention to any of them so he really only gave short answers while he continued to dispatch the white fang and grimm they came across, until the last two they asked.
"Did you really have to be so brutal against Adam?/ Yeah I mean did you have some kind a grudge against him or what?" Blake and Yang's questions stopped him in his tracks, his expression hadn't changed but his grip on the bamboo in his right hand did. Memories of a certain event came back to his mind.
The day he failed to protect his young master and surrogate nephew.
"Yes."
Falshback: 10 Years ago
Vale: Evening/ No one's P.O.V.
A seven year old Jaune was happily walking with Vergo and a sixteen year old Baby 5 through the streets of vale. It was officially the young master's seventh birthday and the two of them were in charge of keeping him occupied while they finish preparing the surprise party back in Sanus's highest mountain of Mariejois. They never thought that this child would change the family so much after only two short years.
It didn't start off perfectly, he was mostly ignored in his attempts to try and connect with his new family. But thanks to Jaune's tenacity over time the royal family had come to really enjoy having him around and grew happier together as a result. He was always trying to make the others happy whether it was helping out Baby 5 and Trebol with their chores to hiding/fixing things that Dellinger broke so he didn't get in trouble.
After the second year had passed he and Doflamingo began working on their campaign for equality in their kingdom. His desire to help those in need influenced his adoptive father to do the same but Doflamingo was still very unforgiving at times when it came to the radicals causing trouble, human or faunus.
Not many really knew that he was even part of the royal family outside of the palace walls. So to a passerby on the street he was just any other kid out with his family. Or so they thought, while the trio was walking down the crowded streets of Vale's shopping district they were watched at a distance by a couple of white fang members.
They moved towards the trio amidst the people. While Jaune was trying to swim through the civilians to catch up to his caretakers he had his mouth smothered by a cloth just short of reaching his family members. Seconds later the boy's consciousness had slipped before he fell limp in the faunus' arms.
The two faunus spies vanished just before Vergo felt his Haki spike at Jaune's missing presence thanks to a teleportation semblance. It took only a minute of yelling for the absent seven year old that something was wrong, very wrong! Vergo pulled Jaune's vivre card and took off with Baby 5 as soon as the paper moved in his direction.
There was a very big problem unknown to the two of them, the members had taken Jaune far off in the industrial district clear on the other side of the city. At their full speed it would take close to thirty minutes to reach that part of vale, and who knows how much more to find him!
Jaune's location: warehouse, 10 minutes later
While his family was rushing towards his location Jaune was already the center of the radical faunus inside one of many abandoned warehouse the industrial part of vale home to. Inside were many members of the white fang that were out of the current high leader's control. While Ghira Belladona worked towards equality with peaceful methods he could only look over so many of the Fang's activities outside of Mistral and Menagerie.
So he had left Vale to his associate Sienna Kahn. Had he known what a large mistake that was he'd strip Kahn of his rank, and his head.
That being said Jaune's wailing body was hanging by his arms with his back against the brick wall while his eyes were covered by a tight blindfold while torches lit the building. Tears and blood were running down his face while he was being pelted with rocks, chunks of rusty scrap metal and even shot with a few arrows.
All while several scrolls were being held up to record the prince's torture.
Standing bellow him was a young Adam Taurus wearing a crude grimm mask and holding a bloody and rusted old katana. The crimson haired bull was ranting on about the unfair royalty and saying for all they have made them suffer that was how much the new prince will suffer. Jaune's cries for them to stop were ignored largely by the mob or were met with more thrown projectiles to his small body.
The lynch went on for close to twenty more minutes and it was absolute hell for the seven year old. More and more the stones and chunks of metal were leaving large bruises and deep gashes in his skin. Those that fired arrows only landed three shots, one in each arm and the other in his right leg.
All he wanted was just to help them and this was the thanks that he recieved. This was his second worst birthday ever, the first being the outbreak in his old home. As they were just about to end it Jaune felt something in himself well up and burst.
"I don't care how much you hurt me! THIS KIND OF PAIN MEANS NOTHING! I'M GOING TO LIVE THROUGH THIS NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO!" Jaune's voice cut through their shouts and his will erupted out. At the last word a wave of haki enveloped all the faunus present and extinguished the torches lighting the room.
They all collapsed to the concrete floor save for Adam who simply fell to his knees gasping for breath while cold sweat dripped down his face. The young radical was stubborn enough to just barely ward off the conqueror's influence.
Standing up on his shaky legs Adam heard the large metal being pounded on, he looked back up and saw that his would be murder victim who slipped into unconsciousness. Adam picked up his mask and rusty blade and made his way toward the back exit of the warehouse just as the door was knocked all the towards the wall underneath Jaune with a loud crash.
Adam cursed his luck as he saw the executive rushing towards the boy with a young maid. The twelve year old member of the white fang just barely avoided detection and managed to escape with his tail between his legs.
Meanwhile Jaune was cut down and immediately rushed to the closest hospital the executive could find, but not before alerting the police and grabbing a couple of the scrolls for evidence. It was minutes before Vale's police force along with a couple of local hunters arrived to round up the knocked out faunus when they were told who placed the call.
They would never see the light of day again.
Present
The bumble bee duo just stared in shock, the cracked scroll in their hands stopped playing the video after the seven year old Jaune released his haki and the scroll dropped to the floor. They stopped off by the part of the cage closest to the safe zone. They wouldn't stop pestering about his problem with Adam so he gave up and pulled out the very same scroll used to record the incident. He explained his hatred toward the bull while the video played, Jaune's friends at least deserve to know this much now that the secret is out about what family he belongs to.
And that he potentially killed Blake's old partner.
Blake just stood their shaking with a combination of both fear and rage, Yang would have likely being doing the same if she wasn't covering her mouth in shock and disgust at what happened to her friend. And for it to happen at such a young age, she and Ruby may have lost their mom Summer around the same time but their goofy knight probably won the the most tragic backstory among their friends by a landslide.
They were about to hand the scroll back to him but he told them to keep it to show his team. Yang collected herself first and put a hand on her partner's shoulder. The cat stopped her shaking and took in a few deep breaths to calm herself down.
"I know we probably shouldn't ask but what happened after?" Yang asked. Blake elbowed her in the shoulder, she had enough of her friend's suffering for one day.
"Ask Baby 5, I know her name may sound strange but just bear with it. She should be tending to the Young master's wounds right about." Vergo said. He turned back towards the school and shot towards the mayhem with his Soruand Geppo. The two exited the cage and like Vergo said they found the maid holding on to their unconscious friend.
They handed the scroll to RW and NPR and said for them to watch, but not before warning the five what the video contained.
After they watched Pyrrha and Nora broke down crying for what their friend and leader had gone through. Ruby and Weiss weren't any better off, the Reaper was weeping with Jaune's teammates and the heiress while she didn't openly sob did have tears streaming down her face. Watching this made her wish she had been kinder to their dorky knight. Ren just couldn't think, after the video was over he made sure he wasn't dreaming or having a nightmare. He even asked Yang to hit him when slapping himself didn't work.
One bruised arm later and they asked the weapon themed maid to tell the rest of the story. She was reluctant but it might ease them to know the rest of the story, hell it make her feel better too. So she told them what happened after the events at the warehouse.
Flash back: Mariejois
Jaune's eyes slowly opened, his vision was blurry for moment before he saw the familiar walls of his bedroom. He slowly rose up from his bed until he felt two hands gently push him back into his pillow. He turned to his right and saw Baby 5 sitting next to his bed, her eyes were a little dull compared to how he usually saw them. He was a bit confused about what was going on until his mind recalled the events prior.
"Young master, you shouldn't be moving." Baby 5 said softly drawing his attention towards her.
"N-nee-chan?" Jaune quietly rasped out.
"Yes it's me. You're okay now young master, you're home now." She said looking down, she couldn't bring herself to look him in the eyes. She failed to protect him, she was so useless and she hated it.
"Young master, I...I'm so sorr-" The maid was interrupted by Jaune's small body impacting into her's, his little arms wrapped around her as she felt the front of her shirt begin to dampen from his tears.
"Y-Young master?!" She said out of surprise.
"NEE-CHAAAAN!" Jaune wailed out tightening his grip around her."I-I WAS SO SCARED! (*Sob!*) I THOUGHT I-I'D NEVER SEE Y-YOU (Sob!) A-ANY OF YOU AGAIN!" Baby 5 let her tears fall and wrapped Jaune up in her own hug.
"I-It's okay! (*Sob!*) Everything is alright now! You're here now with everyone!" Jaune and Baby 5 continued to hold each other while crying to their hearts' content
From the door watching was the rest of the family. All either with their tears flowing free or desperately trying to hold them back, mainly the executives and the king himself. After they figuratively flood Jaune's room with their tears they escorted the boy to castle's main party room for his late birthday party. After all the whole ordeal caused the boy to be unconscious for a good two and a half days.
Jaune received quite a few more gifts than originally intended but they wanted to forget what happened and just be happy. They even recovered his family sword Crocea mors that was left behind in Flevance during the time he was asleep. It was the first gift that he received from Doflamingo and the family. Later on they talked about if Jaune still wanted help out with the faunus plight, to their surprise he said yes. He said that he doesn't want anyone else to be hurt by the same kind of people human or faunus.
It was then they shifted their efforts towards helping protestors and dispatching radicals at the same time. Days later despite Jaune still healing they nearly forgot the entire incident. They had discovered the spy that gave the Valean white fang Jaune's information in their staff, he is now being held in the deepest level of the largest prison shared by the four kingdoms.
Impel Down.
As for the young knight he healed perfectly with any complications except for the scars. Mentally he was fine too aside from occasional nightmare that eventually stopped. They still took him down to the city every now and then but they made him wear alternating disguises for each trip. Jaune had no problem with that but some of the things they made him put on he did, or at least he did when he grew up and found out boys shouldn't be in floral sundresses.
No matter how much it suits them or how cute they look in one like Sugar, Monet and Baby 5 keep saying he is when wearing one.
Back to the present
Baby 5 finished telling RWBY and NPR the events after the warehouse. They felt huge relief knowing their friend had come out of something so terrible and managed to keep his mind intact and continue to be happy. They all looked at Jaune and thought the same thing, that he was much stronger than they gave him credit for.
They turn their attention back towards the fight, while at the same time they loaded up their friend in one of the three bullheads that had just arrived each bearing the Royal family's crossed out smile. RWBY and JNPR occupied the first while the rest of their friends filled up the other two.
"Hey, uh Baby 5 right? You mind letting us know where we are bringing our fearless leader?" Nora popped up next to the maid while she was making sure the young master secure.
"I guess I should tell you, you should all know that where we are going hasn't been seen by anyone other than our family and the council." Baby 5 said sitting down next to Jaune's gurney.
Weiss gasped."Wait are you taking us to where I think you're taking us." The others had the same realization as their resident heiress.
"Is she talking about-?" Ren was interrupted.
*Sigh*"Yes, don't be so surprised, the family's personal bullhead should've tipped you off."
"I can't believe this, I've only seen pictures and now we get to see the real thing!" Nora was practically vibrating in her seat, she has dreamed of seeing their destination with her own eyes.
"That's right, were going back to our home and the holy land: Mariejois."
And that is it for now, sorry for not updating in a while but I hope the log chapter makes up for it. Any holy shit Jaune get's the most fucked backstory in this, at least in my opinion. Losing his first family and then getting Doflamingo's treatment from the white fang as kid only two years apart.
I mean...Jesus.
So if you liked this please leave a review as they give me the power to write these for you all. I plan on updating One Punch Arc next and also Keep a look out for new crossover I may release soon. Not gonna give anything away but Jaune will soon eclipse all quarry with his might.
that is all for now, peace.
