Okay guys, so I am trying to write another chapter for the punisher before I write another for Darth Arc, mostly because I figured I should try and update Punisher more frequently. But I've been busy, with farm work, my social life, and the fact I'll be going back to school soon. I've been busy. WARNING: If you like Raven, you might not like this chapter.
JAUNE
"You guys just don't learn do you?" Jaune asked as he had found another white fang grunt trying to steal food from orphans.
That pissed him off royally. Stealing from grown people who could defend themselves was one thing, but killing children just so you could eat? Let's just say for once Jaune was going to really enjoy killing these pieces of trash.
"Please! Let us go! We'll give them the food back!" The rat faunus wearing the white fang uniform said as Jaune stomped on his chest and held him in place.
"No second chances." He said as he shot him straight in the head. He was dead in an instant. Jaune spit out a bit of blood that had gathered in his mouth from when he got punched by one of them.
He sighed and cleaned his lip, to think that he had charged in here, and the only injury he had sustained was a busted lip. In a way he was disappointed, he was at least expecting a few rounds to be fired off, who knows? Maybe he was even expecting to die, but this was too easy. It pissed him off, where the white fang really just cowards playing soldier? Could they not stand a chance against experienced huntsman? Or were they just accepting anyone into their ranks who had issues? Jaune figured it would either have to be the latter, or he was just getting the trash from the bottom of the barrel.
"Either way, still doesn't get me closer to that horned bastard." Jaune said as he sat down and drank from a bottle of bourbon that had been left behind by some of the grunts attempting to escape.
Key word being attempting. He looked up at the numerous amounts of dropped bodies. Or rather was was left of them. Jaune didn't just come in with his assault rifle, no he had decided to take a different approach, and by that he meant that he used the turret on top of his LAV, they were moved down like grass. Bits and pieces of them now littered the entire hideout. He looked over and saw an eyeball floating in a puddle of blood, he looked away as he looked at the numerous supplies that had been taken from a nearby village. He knew he had to get those supplies back to the people they stole it from.
"Heh, how about that, maybe there is a good side to me after all." He said as he walked over to the supplies, crushing the eyeball underneath his foot as he got to work loading the supplies into his LAV.
"You killed them all didn't you?"He pulled his pistol out and pointed it at a figure.
He saw the figure of a woman standing there wearing a Grimm Mask. But she wasn't wearing the uniform of the white fang. So he eased up a bit, thinking it was probably a Huntress, but he never took his gun off of her.
"Get out of here." He said as he got back to work.
"Not one for manners are you?" She asked as Jaune narrowed his eyes.
"I said Get out of here." He said as she folded her arms.
"No need to be rude, we're on the same side." She said as Jaune looked at her.
"Bullshit." He said as he imagined she looked offended at that remark.
"Excuse me?" She asked as Jaune looked at her.
"You claim to be on my side, yet based on your stance, and your overall behavior, you were here before, maybe as a spy, but you didn't kill these bastards when you had the chance." He said as she removed her mask.
Jaune was shocked for a bit as she looked a lot like Yang. Then he narrowed his eyes, Ruby had told him about Yang's mother, no, she didn't deserve that title, she abandoned her own daughter. She was no mother, just some cold hearted bitch.
"Unlike you, I choose to gather information to feed to the armies of the world." She said as Jaune chuckled darkly.
"In that case, I guess we have you to blame for the attack on Vale don't we?" He said as she actually flinched at that.
"Oh what? Nothing to say in your defense? Congratulations, good to see your spying actually did do something, hundreds of people are dead, and one of the best Huntsman academies is in shambles, good to see that your information is so useful." He said as she was glaring at him.
"I don't like your attitude." She said as he looked back at her.
"And I don't admire your cowardice!" He said as he really wanted to shoot her.
"Says the man who just murdered unarmed men in cold blood." She stated as she chuckled.
"Says the woman who would have let them live to rape, pillage and steal from actual unarmed citizens, you have a twisted sense of justice don't you?" He said as she was starting to get irritated.
"No different than yours." She said as Jaune fired at her.
"That was a warning shot." He said as she pulled her sword out.
"You have no idea who you're messing with boy." She said as Jaune chuckled.
"Oh I know exactly who I am messing with...Raven." He said as she flinched again.
"How do you know that name?" She asked as Jaune crossed his arms.
"Oh please, do you really think that brother and daughter of yours don't talk?" He said as she flinched at that.
"Leave them out of this." She said as Jaune just continued to glare at them.
"Why not? Did I say something false? Or is my assumption that you abandoned your family wrong?" He asked as she was getting angry.
"You know nothing of what you speak." She said as Jaune loaded up the last crate of supplies.
"Maybe so, but one thing is for sure." He said as he glared at her as he got into his vehicle.
"I wouldn't leave the men who crippled my family alive, guess it shows you care more about their lives than you do your own family." He said as he drove away. Leaving a very pissed off Raven behind.
TEAM RNR
"Have you seen this man?" Ruby asked as she held up a picture of Jaune.
"Yes, he was here a few days ago, he didn't look so happy though. Heck, when he came through here, I doubt he even broke away from his sullen silence." A woman said as walked away.
"Great another dead end." Ruby said as they sat down.
Another week had gone by, and so far the only thing they had found out about Jaune was that everywhere he went, there were a ton of white fang bodies piling up, not only them, but pretty much every rapist, murderer, and criminal he could find. And while they still didn't believe it was Jaune. It was getting harder and harder to not believe in the story of Jaune going off the deep end when so many people were confirming it. But the Team was operating under the assumption that until they could see it with their own eyes, they were refusing to believe it.
"We're never going to find him at this rate." Nora said as they were sitting in a small diner that had seen better days.
"Not without changing our search methods at least." Ren said as Ruby looked at him.
"Any suggestions?" She asked as Ren nodded.
"Based on what we have heard, Jaune has access to a vehicle, meaning he can cover a lot more ground than us, when we are solely on foot, so obviously we need to either find our own vehicle, or steal one, but considering all the abandoned gear from the army laying about, it shouldn't be too difficult for us to get an armored vehicle up and running, our main focus should be on predicting his next move." He said as Ruby nodded.
"Go on, I'm listening." She said as she folded her hands.
"Jaune's travel pattern isn't random, its organized, it shows that he is tracking down whatever he is looking for, but not only that, the places he go to all have one thing in common, they are all either fairly decent sized cities with a history of white fang in the area, or they are places that were infested with crime even before the attack on Beacon. Showing that he seems to be going where the storms are the worst." Ren said as he pointed to areas on a map.
"Jaune isn't following some random pattern, he is taking out targets with precision." Ren said as Nora had to come in.
"It's not Jaune, He has to be working with someone." Nora said as she was vehemently protesting that Jaune wasn't killing anyone.
"I never said he was Nora, but we can't rule out the possibility he could be doing this." Ren said in a serious tone, letting Nora know that he meant business.
Nora knew that tone, he had used it many times when they were growing up. It was his way of saying that they couldn't afford to mess around anymore or go on hopes that could be dangerous. But they had to be careful and tread lightly. It had served them well in the past, and Ren had never been wrong about these kinds of things, but just this once, Nora was hoping, No..she was praying that their worst fears were not true.
She didn't know how to react if Jaune actually was killing all those people. First Pyrrha died, then Beacon fell, and to think of her friend as being so broken that he had turned himself into a dark avenger? It was a terrifying thought.
"So where do you think he would go next?" Ruby asked as Ren looked over the map.
"Honestly, the most logical place seems to be here in Sharkskin City." He said as everyone grunted at that.
Sharkskin city was a shit hole even before the war. They would hate to see what happened to it now. Last that they had heard, it had been overrun with criminals, Grimm, and White fang, the people were living in slums, the hospitals were always full of bodies, and people were dying everyday. And that was just on its good days, who knows what it was like now. But one thing was for sure.
"If we go, we are definitely going to need more firepower, Ren, how long do you think it would take us to get a working LAV?" She asked as Ren sighed.
"With my mechanical experience, and Nora's odd penchant with Machines, about three days, depending on the condition of the vehicle itself?" He said as Ruby sighed.
"Very well, three days we head out to Sharkskin, lets just hope we find Jaune there." She said as they stood up and left the diner.
Looking around, this city had obviously seen better days, but since Jaune came, apparently it had gotten better, the white fang had been eliminated, and the city had a bit of life returning to it. But that didn't mean that it could use a complete makeover. Buildings were still destroyed, and some people were living in ratty old apartments with no heat. And to think this was one of the better cities.
When was it going to end? The violence? The Poverty? This whole damn petty war? When would it end?