Okay, time for the second JNPR-centered chapter. I hope you're all excited to see the Jaune and Pyrrha Fusion.
Team RWBY was getting out of class, finally escaping another one of Port's stories.
"Ugh, I thought my ears were going to fall off." Yang groaned, holding her ears.
Ruby turned her Scroll on and saw that she got a voicemail from Jaune. Ruby pressed the play button.
"Guys, we found a White Fang outpost here in Forever Fall Forest, they have the Fusion Dust, please hurry." Jaune's voice said on the Scroll.
"The White Fang?" Blake asked.
"It appears so." Ruby said, "Get ready, team, we're heading to the Forest."
The mysterious White Fang commander was hit back by an unidentified warrior. The warrior was a decently-build man who was wearing a mix of silver knight armor and golden Spartan armor. He had Pyrrha's and Jaune's swords, and their respective shields, but the color schemes were switched. The man's left eye was blue and the other was green. He had blond hair with streaks of red in it.
"I actually thought that this Fusion would be female." Jaune said.
"Is that why you didn't want to do it?" Pyrrha asked.
"Yeah, wearing a dress because I lost my own bet was one thing, the other would be something else entirely different." Jaune said.
"Come on, Jaune, we need to get our minds focused on the fight." Pyrrha said.
"Oh, right, sorry." Jaune said.
The man got up, lifting his huge sword with him.
"Your friend was no match for me." the man said, "What makes you think that you'll be any better?"
"Because half of this is a world-class fighter." the Fusion said, "And the name is 'Arkos' ."
"Very well then, now I'll know what words to put on your gravestone." the man said.
The man ran at Arkos, ready to swing his sword. The huge blades flew through the air, only to be maneuvered away by an invisible force.
"Hmph." the man said, "Not bad."
The man went back to swinging his blade, but Arkos either dodged or blocked every attack.
"Face it, you're outmatched." Arkos said.
"Then I suppose we should start trying." the man said.
"We?" Arkos asked.
As soon as Arkos stopped speaking, he was shot in the back by a White Fang soldier, depleting some of his Aura.
"You know what your problem is?" the man asked, "You don't go for the kill."
"That's not how we work." Arkos said.
Arkos then went in for a hit with his shields, knocking the man back. Arkos then jumped backwards and hit the soldier, knocking him out.
"That does it." the man said, "No holding back."
The man pulled out a vial of Blast Dust and crushed the container, allowing the contents to fall on the ground.
"What's he doing?" Jaune asked.
"We shouldn't just sit around to find out." Pyrrha said.
Arkos ran at the man, only to have to Blast Dust fly up and into his face, sending him flying back.
"What...how?" Arkos asked.
"Dust manipulation." the man said, "It's much more useful than you'd think."
Arkos got back up and turned the swords into rifles, which the Fusion began to shoot at the man with. The man motioned his hand up and a bunch of Earth Dust formed a wall right in front of him, blocking all of the bullets. The man then did a flicking motion and spikes formed on the side of wall facing Arkos right before flying towards the Fusion. Arkos rolled to the side, only to be hit be a long ice spike that hit him square in the torso, sending him back.
"Not so tough when you can't use your powers, huh?" the man asked.
"It doesn't matter what you send at us, we can take it." Arkos said.
The man smirked as he spun his right hand in a swirling motion, using Ice Dust and his powers to form a long ice spike.
"That trick won't work twice." Arkos said.
"Oh. I know." the man said.
Arkos looked at the man in a confused manner. The man then used his powers to aim the ice spike at Flowerpower.
"It's for them." the man said.
The man was ready to send the spike at Flowerpower.
"NO!" Arkos cried, throwing his round shield at the man.
The man saw the shield coming and used his ice spike to knock the shield away.
"Wow. You really needed to think about your own safety first." the man said, forming a ball of Blast Dust with the contents of some of the vials.
Arkos readied his only remaining shield and prepared for a large impact.
Flowerpower's eyes shot open and a bright flash of light caught the man off guard, right before Ren and Nora attacked him and ran to Arkos' side.
"Glad to see you guys are okay." Arkos said.
"Glad to see you guys too." Ren said.
"Here you go." Nora said, handing Arkos his shield.
Arkos gladly took the shield back and stood ready.
"It appears that I should take my leave." the man said.
The man caused the Blast Dust ball to explode, generating a lot of light and covering his escape. When the light faded, the man was gone.
"Drat. He got away." Nora said.
A bright flash came from Arkos, splitting the Fusion in two.
"Whoo..." Jaune said, "That was intense."
"I'm just glad that we stopped their operation here." Pyrrha said.
"Speaking of which..." Ren said, walking off.
"Ren, where are you going?" Jaune asked.
Ren walked over other container holding the vials of Fusion Dust.
"We have a something to take back with us." Ren said, "Nora, would you mind?"
"Not at all." Nora said.
Nora began to carry the container over her shoulder.
A bit later, Team JNPR was walking back across the air docks of Beacon, where Team RWBY came to find them.
"You guys are alright!" Ruby said.
"What happened?" Blake asked, "And what's that you're carrying?"
"We found out why the White Fang had the Fusion Dust." Jaune said, "They've been mining it."
"How did they find it?" Weiss asked.
"Their commander, he was able to manipulate Dust." Ren said, "We believe that he used his abilities to locate the Fusion Dust."
"But check it out, guys." Nora said, putting the case down, "We hit the mother load."
Nora opened the case and showed Team RWBY the Fusion Dust vials that they found.
"Hide that!" Ruby whispered, closing the case, "We can't let anyone else know about this."
"Well, what are we going to do with all of this?" Jaune asked.
"I suppose we should take a vial each and then give this to Ozpin to take care of." Pyrrha suggested.
"Good idea." Jaune said, "That way, we'll be ready if that guy comes to attack us again."
Team JNPR's members took one vial each and then began to carry the case to Ozpin's office.
In Professor Ozpin's office, the headmaster was sitting in his chair, thinking about what to do with the Fusion Dust that JNPR had found.
"So, Ozpin, what should we do with this?" Ruby asked.
"Well, first of all, we need to keep it hidden." Ozpin said, "Secondly, you can't tell others about this, not unless they can be trusted."
Teams RWBY and JNPR nodded.
"Now, I have a place where we can hide this." Ozpin said, "But I would like you all to go back to your rooms and forget this conversation happened."
"Uh...alright, Ozpin." Ruby replied, "Come on, team, let's go."
Teams RWBY and JNPR entered the elevator, which began to take them down to the ground floor after the doors closed.
"I pray that this isn't some kind of dark omen to anything." Ozpin said.
Later, in JNPR's dorm, the team was getting ready for bed. Pyrrha was sitting on her bed, thinking deeply about the day's events.
"Pyrrha?" Jaune asked, trying to speak to his concerned teammate, "What's up?"
"It's just...I'm sorry for getting too close to you like that." Pyrrha said.
"It wasn't your fault." Jaune said, "We had to use Fusion in order to-."
"No, it's not that." Pyrrha said.
Jaune was confused, as usual.
"I'm talking about getting too close in a physical sense." Pyrrha said.
"Hey..." Jaune said, sitting next to his teammate, "if you hadn't done that, we would have been found for sure."
"Gee..." Pyrrha said, "Thanks, Jaune."
"No problem." Jaune said, getting up, "Besides, it wasn't all that bad."
Jaune went back to his bed as Pyrrha could finally start resting easy.
Meanwhile, Ozpin was in the secret vault under Beacon, hiding the case of Fusion Dust away.
"Are you sure this is a safe place to keep it?" Ironwood asked.
"It's the only place." Ozpin said.
"I'm not questioning your judgement, but I'm thinking that this would be better off being used as a weapon." Ironwood said.
"I don't trust every student at Beacon to handle it carefully, except for a select few." Ozpin said.
"If you're referring to Teams RWBY and JNPR..." Ironwood said.
"They're the ones I trust most." Ozpin said, "Which is why I allowed them to keep it."
"But how much do you trust them?" Ironwood asked.
"Enough." Ozpin said.
"And how much is enough?" Ironwood asked, approaching the elevator.
"Enough to trust them, but not enough to tell them the dark history behind the Dust." Ozpin said as he and Ironwood entered the elevator and the doors closing behind them.
The doors shut and the elevator went up, leaving everything quiet, except for a small device stuck to the case.
At a White Fang outpost, the mysterious man was checking a signal and sighed in disappointment.
"Really, you think that they'd know I'd take proper precautions with this." the man said, observing the homing signal.
That was chapter 8, I hope you enjoyed this.
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Powerhouse out.