Jaune watched as the rest of the remaining men stormed out of the dust shop and surrounded the girl. Then out came their leader. He was a tall man with orange hair, wearing a white overcoat and black hat.

He seemed to be carrying a cane of some variety. Jaune and the ginger man had yet to make eye contact but one of the men in suits did. " SHIT, it's the guy from the other night. RUN" with that the remainder of the hired muscle ran off, leaving the ginger man, the girl with the red hood and oversized weapon, and Jaune.

The man turned to face Jaune. He looked like he was about to say something and Jaune didn't feel like talking so he just started shooting. The man looked offended that someone would try to cut him off when he about to speak, but he also looked like he was tired of this and was about to do something anyway so he understood the third party's logic. He wheeled around to fire at Jaune only to have it deflected by the girl in the red hood. Deftly he spun and took her off her feet using the head of the cane to hook her foot. Jaune knew what came next and he couldn't allow it to happen.

He watched as the man inverted his grip and held the cane by the head and leveled the other end at the girl's chest. Jaune quickly fired at the man's upper torso with what he thought were stun rounds.

He thought wrong. When the man's chest seemed to be enveloped by an explosion Jaune swiftly flipped his rifle over and looked at the bottom of the inserted magazine. It was black. As Jaune began to worry he had just killed someone he was trying to stun he saw that the man was halfway up the emergency escape ladder and was climbing up to the roof of a nearby building.

Jaune quickly followed as the girl in the hood began to run up the side of the building going from window to window. They both reached the top a few seconds apart where they saw that the man was boarding a bullhead in an attempt to escape. Jaune quickly began to empty the magazine of his rifle into the nearest engine and grinned when he saw that it had begun to burn. What he had not expected was the man in the bullhead to return with what appeared to be some sort of shoulder-fired rifle. Jaune knew that he wouldn't be the target as he was out of ammo and no longer a threat. Instead, the ginger turned his massive rifle and aimed it at the girl with the hood that Jaune had dubbed little red riding hood.

Jaune knew that he needed to act fast. Little red riding hood might not have her arua unlocked and be vulnerable. Quickly Jaune did the first thing that came to mind. He threw himself into the path of the bullet and wrapped his arms around her before forcing her to the ground. He waited for the inevitable pain.

He had hoped that his aura would save him again as it had the night before. He felt the first round slam into his shoulder. He tried not to move, but the force was too much.

He knew that his head was now exposed and hoped that the ginger didn't notice in time. His luck, however, had already run out. Oddly enough, he didn't really feel the next round impact the back of his skull. All he felt was himself falling to the ground. The last thing he saw was Jorge is advancing on the bullhead while firing both of his handguns. "At least little red riding hood is safe" was the last thought he had before blacking out.

..

Jaune had just begun to regain consciousness when he heard Jorge speak. " we really need to stop meeting like this Jaune." "Yeah, " Jaune said " Deja vu sucks" he began to rub the back of his head and began to sit up. He soon learned that this was not a good Idea as he couldn't use his left hand. He looked down and saw a mess of blonde hair. He didn't know who it was attached to and he didn't care.

No matter who it is he was now in more danger than he was last night. " Jorge, who is this."

Jorge's face light up as he recognized the thought that Jaune was having. "Oh this," he said, gesturing to the woman asleep on his hand. "That would be your girlfriend" Jaune fought the urge to groan " she is not my girlfriend Jorge we have had this discussion." he wanted to gesture his hands aggressively, but he couldn't as that much movement might set off the time bomb on his arm.

Instead, he fixed Jorge with a lethal glare and waited for an explanation as to why she was here. All he got another amused look from Jorge. " Hey Jaune, how do you think your sisters would feel if they heard that you already found a girlfriend.?"

Jaune was getting annoyed now "Jorge this woman is not my girlfriend. I don't even know her name." at that Jorge gave a larger smile " really" he said, " you know I have had women try to sleep with me before they learned my last name." "Oh, and how many of them helped your wallet lose weight?"

The response was faster and a little fiercer than Jaune expected " none, and if you imply that I have paid for love again, I will put you back in a hospital after you get you of this one"

the point having been made Jaune turned his focus back to the blonde woman whose name he still had yet to learn. " also " Jorge said as the smile on his face growing even more cruel "that is Yang Xiao Long."

Jaune felt the color run from his face he had heard of that name and he hoped he was wrong. "Is she.?"

he began to ask before Jorge cut him off " yep, that is Taiyang Xiao Long's little girl right there. As a courtesy I haven't told him yet I wonder how he would react to this" Jaune didn't want to know. He didn't want to be here. He didn't want to live anymore. He heard about Taiyang Xiao Long from his father many years ago.

He could still remember the terrifying details that he went into about way that he would rip a Grimm to pieces. He had allegedly mellowed with age, but if anything was going to raise the SUPREME SUN DRAGON from its slumber then it would be this.

It appeared that Yang had superhuman hearing as she seemed to hear his pulse quicken and that seemed to wake her up. Jaune closed his eyes and waited to die for the third time in three days. When he didn't he opened his eyes and was shocked by what he saw and heard.

Here was Yang Xiao Long her face red as though she had been crying and her voice weak as though she had been for some time " Thank you." she said as she wrapped her arms around him. To say that he was confused would not fully convey his confusion. She should be furious, he did the exact opposite if what she asked of him. So why was she being so kind? And why did she look so torn up inside?

He never got the chance to ask these questions as she began to cry again. Brotherly instincts took over as he shifted his weight and pulled her up into the bed with him. He began to run his hand through her hair. (little did he know that this would cost most men their fingers) and whispering calming words into her ear until she stopped sobbing.

When she had calmed down enough to talk Jaune spoke to her still using as gentle a voice a he could. "not that I don't appreciate being thanked but why?" he saw her look like she was about to break down again and he acted in advance by running his hand back through her hair a few times.

She took a moment and then answered " you did my job. That girl you saved was my baby sister. And I couldn't have helped her. I want to be mad at you for fighting after I told you to go home but whenever I try I just see her… " she looked like she was ready to melt down again and Jaune had enough to understand the situation

" that's enough Yang I understand. I don't know what I would do I any harm befell any of my sisters either." He said and after a brief pause he looked at Jorge who seemed to be trying not to stare at the two of them curled together on Jaune's hospital bed " Jorge, Xiao long was I out for?"

When Jaune felt Yang shake with a chuckle he knew that his pun had helped to raise her spirits and also lodged a legitimate question with Jorge " five days" Jorge said " you missed initiation so you couldn't be paired with a partner so you got placed in a special situation.

As he spoke he handed Jaune a tablet. It had his name on it and under it was a title that he had never heard of before in a hunter academy. It read.

JAUNE ARC

COMMANDER OF TEAM ROCKSLIDE

TEAM ROCKSLIDE

MEMBERS TEAMS: RWBY (RUBY) & PLNR (PLUTONRIC)

RWBY

Ruby Rose

Weiss Schnee

Blake Belladonna

Yang Xiao Long

PLNR

Pyrrha Nikos

Luke the Warrior

Nora Valkyrie

Lie Ren

"There has to be some kind of mistake." Jaune said, "There is no way that I am in charge of two teams. There is just no way. Unless. Jorge. What did you do?"

Jorge gave an amused smile and thought for a moment before answering with " Jaune when your sisters, Jacqueline and Jean both had a crush on the same guy. They were at each other's throats for weeks. Until you managed to convince them that he didn't mean more to them than each other"

"that was an accident" Jaune countered."I was trying to set him up with Catherine."

" Okay," Jorge deflected "then how about the time that Petra was in danger of being attacked by that Grimm and I wasn't around to save her. You went absolute apeshit and tore it apart, without your aura. I am not even certain how you did that and I trained you. Or that time that Katelyn got a splinter in her foot and you pulled it out using hot water and a small mason jar. And I reiterate I trained you. I know more about you than you do. And before you try to argue with me by trying to say that you almost died when that grim fell on you or that you didn't know that the mason jar trick would work. I am telling you that you can do it. Just have faith in yourself. Now if you and your girlfriend are done cuddling you have a team waiting for you."

at the completion of the speech, it seemed to occur to him that Yang had fallen back to sleep while she was wrapped around him. Realizing how this would look and now aware of just who her father was he needed to be somewhere else right now. Using years of brotherly experience, he snaked his way out of her arms and replaced himself with a series of pillows between her arms and knees so she would have something to wrap herself around. He checked with the tablet and got the addresses of his teams.

Thankfully they were next to one another. He choose to check on team RWBY first. making his way to the door before he knocked twice and waited. After a few moments, the door was cracked slightly and he saw an eye reveal itself and knew almost immediately who it belonged to.

The silver eyes were definitely the property of the girl he now knew was Yang's little sister. " who is it?" she said

" your team commander " Jaune answered trying to sound as in command as he could while not being aggressive. The door was thrown open and he was face to face with the remainder of team RWBY.

Jaune made his way inside and sat in a chair that he appropriated for the task. He looked to the rest of the room and gestured for them to do the same. Soon enough, they were assembled in a circle of chairs. " alright I will start. My name is Jaune Arc I am your team commander. I am going to be the best commander that I can be. you next" he said, pointing to Ruby

" My name is Ruby Rose." a small awkward smile on her face. "I am the team leader for team RWBY." She glanced over at Weiss and nodded.

" My name is Weiss Schnee." the heiress sat straight upright in line with her upbringing "I am Ruby's partner and my semblance is my summoning."

that left only Blake who didn't look ready to speak. Knowing that he wouldn't get anything out of her he stood up and left. Crossing the hall and knocking on the door of team PLNR.

Instantly the door was yanked open and he was brought face to face with a ginger girl who looked ready to tear a ursa's legs off " who are you? " she asked in a way that screamed a challenge.

Knowing better than to let this go he stood to his full height and allowed his voice to rise till it seemed to shake the wall " who the in hell do you think you are Valkyrie. I am Jaune Micheal Arc and I am your commander NOW SIT THE HELL DOWN BEFORE I PUT YOU DOWN"

Seemingly understanding the now very clear chain of command she sat in the nearest chair and when he gave them the same gesture that he gave RWBY they gathered around " My name's Jaune arc and I am your team commander in case you didn't hear just now. And I will try to be the best leader that I can. "Your turn" he said, pointing to Pyrrha.

" My name is Pyrrha Nikos" the regal looking redhead said. " I am a very experienced prize fighter."

A man with an impressive mustache said " I am Luke The Warrior and my semblance is that I can directly channel my aura into any bodily thrown strike. I call it dump trucking." Jaune wanted to ask what a semblance was but knew better than to stop the flow.

It was then that the boy who looked like some kind of monk " my name is Lie Ren I suppress emotions, also you yell at Nora like that again and you will have to kill me to stop me."

last was Nora " you know who I am. How I don't know, but you do." And with the introductions made he made his way back to the hospital room, he was commandeering for the night.

Upon entering the room he saw that Yang still had yet to wake up. He was tempted to tell her to leave and go sleep elsewhere, but he knew that he needed to bring her back to her dorm room, he went over and tried to wake her up but to no avail. She was dead to the world.

His next plan was to lift and carry her to her dorm room. He tried to do a standard bridal carry and soon learned that he shouldn't do that as she instantly wrapped her arms around him and refused to let go. He had seen it before, his sisters would do this on occasion and there was no getting rid of them without a crowbar.

He had a few options. He could go to her room and end up in her bed and explain that to her team in the morning or they could stay here and he could try to free himself tomorrow morning.

The one had four potentially very angry teenage girls and the other had one potentially very angry girl and Jorge teasing him. That was the lesser of the two evils and he was sticking with it. He laid down on his bed and waited for her to get comfortable. He was in for a long day tomorrow. But he knew one thing. He was home.