Team JSON

Chapter 12

Jaunedice pt. 2

Jaune is snoring in class while Dr. Bartholomew Oobleck gave a lecture about the Faunus war. "This is prior to the Faunes Right Revolution, more popularly known as the Faunus War." Dr. Oobleck said.

He speeds over to his desk in the blink of an eye while carrying a cup of coffee, "Human kind was quite, quite adamant about centralizing Faunus population in Managerie." The energetic doctor says as he takes a sip of his drink.

He then speeds to the front of his desk, "Now. While this must feel like ancient history to many of you, it is imperative to remember that these are relatively recent events!" he speed over to the left as everyone tries to keep up with where he goes with their eyes.

"Why the repercussion of the uprising can still be seen to this day!" he dashes to the other side of the room, "Now! Have any among you been subjugated or discriminated because of your Faunus heritage?" the doctor asks.

Every Faunus in the room raises their hand, Velvet the rabbit eared girl from the cafeteria sheepishly raised her hand as well.

"Dreadful, simply dreadful! Remember, students, it is precisely this kind of influence that breeds violence!"

He takes another sip of his drink, "I mean, I mean, I mean just look at what happened to the White Fang!"

Jason grits his teeth as he hears the mention of the White Fang as another wave of bad memories slashes through his mind,

The White Fang leader walks up to his father who is on the ground, his shield broken and his sword in half, the leader walk up to his father, "You will not hurt my family," his father wheezed. The Faunus laughed his masked glinting evily in the light, "You have already failed." He says then he raises his blood red katana and brought it down on his father, "NOOOO!"-

He opens his eyes and sees Ruby next to him with a hand on his shoulder. "Hey are you alright?" she said with a worried look in her eyes. Jason nods and takes a shaky breathe, "Y-Yeah I-I just… need some rest." He says.

He was drenched in cold sweat; he raises his hand, "Yes Mr. Gladius?"

"May I go to my dorm, I don't feel so well." He said, Dr. Oobleck looks at him for a moment then says, very well off you go. Jason quickly gets up and leaves earning worried looks from his friends.

He walks into his dorm and changes into his pajamas, after taking a shower. He got into his bed and went to sleep.

Beacon: Oobleck's classroom

Jaune and Cardin are sitting in front of Dr. Oobleck as he is giving them a lecture on their behavior, "You two have been struggling in my class from day one! Now, I don't know if it's your lack of interest or just your stubborn nature, but whatever it is…" he takes the last sip from his mug and places it on his table,

"It stops now! You've worked hard to gain entrance to this school, and we only accept the best of the best, so! I expect you to act like it." as Oobleck says this Jaune feels even more depressed. "History is important gentleman! If you can't learn from it… you're destined to repeat it, pages fifty one to ninety one, I want an essay on my desk b next class! Now, run along."

The good doctor speeds out of the room to fetch more coffee. Jaune walks out depressed, Cardin walks behind him and shoves him to the ground, as Jaune gets back up Pyrrha approaches him, "You know, I really will break his legs." She says. Jaune gives a sad sigh, Pyrrha lights up as she thinks of an idea,

"I have an idea!" she says as she drags Jaune with her, "Here come with me!"

*
Jason wakes up from his nap, he felt worse than ever, instead of clearing his mind of the memories he just made it more vivid, he gets up and puts on his combat outfit, maybe some evening practice will help him get his mind off things.

As he walks down the hallway to the training room, as he walks he looks out the window to see Jaune and Pyrrha standing there, 'Crap he's not thinking of jumping is he!?' Jason sprints down the hall and finds the balcony that the two are on, he stops just short of the door as he hears Jaune say something that makes his heart stop,

"You made it to Beacon, that speaks volume of what you're capable of!" Jaune turns to face away from Pyrrha, "You're wrong…I-I don't belong here."

"That's a terrible thing to say, of course you do!"

Jaune turns to face Pyrrha, "No I don't! " he lets out a sigh as Pyrrha gives him a look that was a mix of worry and confusion.

"I wasn't really accepted into Beacon." Jaune says as he turns around again. "Wh-What do you mean?" Pyrrha asked.

"I mean, I didn't go to Combat School! I didn't pass any test! I didn't earn my spot at this Academy! I lied! I got my hand on some fake transcripts and I lied."

"What? But, why?"

Cause this is what I've always wanted to be! My Father, my Grandfather, and his father before him were all warriors! They were all heroes! I wanted to be one too… I was just never good enough."

"Then let me help you." Pyrrha says as she puts her hand on his shoulder. "I don't want help! I don't want to be the damsel in distress! I want to be the hero!"

"Jaune I—"

"I am tired of being the lovable idiot, stuck in the tree while his friends fight for their lives! Don't you understand!? If I can't do this on my own… then what good am I?"

Pyrrha reaches a arm out to try to take his hand but Jaune backs away, "Just leave me alone. Okay?"

"If that's what you think was best." Pyrrha says sadly as she walks away, as she walks through the doorway leading to the roof, she runs into Jason,

"That didn't look like it went well."

She glares at him then walks away. Jason was a little taken aback, he looked at Pyrrha as she leaves; she never glared at anyone not even Cardin.

As Jason was about to leave for the training room he hears Cardin's voice, he opens his scroll and activates his recorder, he had a feeling he would need it.

"Oh Jaune…" Cardin says as he climbs from his dorm window which was right under the roof. "Cardin!?"

"I couldn't help but overhear you from my dorm room. So, you snuck into Beacon, huh? I've got to say Jaune, I've never expected you to be such a rebel."

"Please Cardin, please don't tell anyone!" Jaune says in a panicked voice.

"Jaune! Come on! I would never rat out a friend like that!" Cardin says as he steps closer to Jaune.

"Uh, a friend?" Jaune asks looking confused

"Of course! We're friends now, Jauney boy." Cardin says as he puts Jaune in a headlock, "And the way I see it, as long as you're there for me when I need you, we'll be friends for a long time."

"Well, well blackmailing are we Cardin?" Dr. Oobleck walks onto the roof with a coffee mug in his hand taking a sip every once in a while.

"Dr. Oobleck! I wasn't blackmailing him!" Cardin says frantically trying to look innocent, "Me and Jaune were just having a… friendly conversation."

"Not from what I heard from Mr. Gladius's recording."

Jason steps out from the room behind with a smug look on his face, "YOU!" Cardin says.

"Mr. Winchester, you will be suspended from the school for a month because of your actions." Dr. Oobleck speeds over to Cardin and grabs him then pulls him to Ozpins office kicking and screaming.

As the two leave, Jason walks over to Jaune, "Don't worry about him knowing you snuck into Beacon, I edited it that part so it sounded like something else."

"Thanks." Said Jaune as he gets up.

"You did a heroic thing my friend." Jason said.

"How?" Jaune asks.

"You told the truth, it's not an easy thing to do especially with what you did, and especially to a friend." Jason said.

Jaune looks down dejected. Jason looks at Jaune, "Jaune, it's not a crime to ask for help." Jason said. "But I don't want to be helped!" Jaune snaps at Jason.

Jason looks at Jaune sadly, "Let me tell you a story," Jason says as he sits down next to Jaune on the floor, "I was just like you when I was younger, always the odd one out. When my family was killed I was alone, weak and hungry, but still I didn't accept peoples help. Whenever someone would try to give me food or money, I turned them down. Then one day, a man came up to me and offered me to stay at his monastery, I reluctantly accepted, but only because I was starved out of my mind. When I arrived at his monastery he offered to train me. I accepted as well because I wanted to get even with the people who killed my family." Jason said,

"But even after accepting, I didn't listen to any of his advice and just did things my own way, until finally, when I tracked down the man who killed my family, I challenged him to a fight thinking that I was skilled enough to beat him. Once I was defeated, did I go crawling back to his temple and accepted his advice."

Jaune looked Jason with a awed look, "Wow… I'm sorry." Jaune said. Jason waves off the sympathy, "The point of the story is, never be afraid to ask for help, in the end, it may make you tougher then the best fighter in the world."

He stands up then helps Jaune up, "But what about my team, I don't want to fail them as a leader." Jaune said. Jason smiled, "Go get help from Ruby on that, she learned an important lesson on being a leader. In the meantime, I'm going to train, you can come if you want to. But before I help ,you apologize to Pyrrha and take her up on her offer. I'll train you and she can train you at night. Both me and here are equal fighters after all."

With this Jason walks off, leaving Jaune to think about many things.