Hey everybody. Glad you've been liking the story so far, I'm hoping right now I can get chapters out a bit faster, but we'll see. As for this one, this is a side chapter about basically what led to what happened to Jaune in the one before. Hope you like it.
Disclaimer: I do not own RWBY or any of the characters, they are owned by Rooster Teeth.
Jaune had been thankful that he hadn't been the only one having a rough time at Beacon.
Between having to basically do Nora's bidding and prepare her lesson plans, Jaune was on his last legs.
So for him, it was comfortable knowing Oscar was having issues of his own, after having been told the situation and seeing him try to avoid other people as best as he could, it was basically like having someone he could relate to and be able to vent to, aside from Ren who mostly just listened.
Towards the end of the day, Jaune had been walking around the campus, finally having the chance to reminisce.
Sighing, he pulled out his scroll and looked through his photos, ultimately stopping on a picture of a friend long gone.
"Pyrrha." He said, to himself.
Despite accepting the loss of what could have been the love of his life, he had still wished that she could have been there, to see what he and the others had accomplished together, how far they had come and especially how much he had improved thanks to her.
"At least now, the world is a better place." He thought.
That's when it happened.
Jaune's thoughts were interrupted as he heard someone's voice, coming from outside the women's facilities.
As Jaune turned the corner, that's when he saw him.
Cardin, with his scroll out, taking pictures of the unknowing women.
"Yet we still have to deal with stupidity like this." Jaune thought.
"Put the scroll down, Cardin." Jaune said, as he approached him.
"Hey, if it isn't my old buddy, how's life been treating you Arc?" Cardin taunted him.
"I saw what you were doing, delete the pictures and walk away and we won't have a problem." Jaune tried to reason with him.
"Nice try, this ain't like before, I was stronger than you back then and I'm even stronger now." Cardin said.
"Yet you still choose to be this pathetic." Jaune stated.
"What did you say?" Cardin asked, in angered disbelief.
"You heard me, I've dealt with people a lot stronger over the years, so I think I can take down a pathetic peeping tom." Jaune said, with a smirk.
Cardin growled before charging at him, Jaune easily avoiding him, grabbing the scroll from Cardin's grasp.
As Jaune attempted to delete the photos, Cardin tried to attack, knocking Jaune into the wall and effectively knocking the scroll out of his hands.
The scroll fell to the ground, shattering upon impact.
Cardin stared at the broken device for just a moment, before turning his sights to Jaune, glaring at him in anger.
Cardin screamed in frustration as he continued, aimlessly swiping at Jaune with his fists.
Jaune easily blocked each one, taking a step back each time, until finally they reached the front.
Growing more irritated, Cardin lunged at Jaune, tackling him, causing them both to crash through the door.
Both of them tumbled, Jaune rolling a distance away from him, farther into the room.
As they both stood up, they were met with the terrified gazes of the women around them.
"Oh no." Jaune thought.
As if on cue, they screamed in unison, grabbing whatever objects they had to throw at them.
"Wait, this all just a misunderstanding!" Jaune shouted.
"Yeah, right." One of the girls said, not believing a word that came out of his mouth.
"Get them!" Another one shouted, causing all of them to charge at them in a large group.
"Run!" Cardin shouted.
Jaune and Cardin booked it out the door, Jaune passing Cardin as quick as he could.
From there, he saw the dorm facility and headed straight up, to Ruby and Oscar's room.
With that, you know what happened from there, as for what happened to them afterwards as well as what's going on with Oscar, you'll find out next time. Until then, have an awesome day.