Alright, I want to give you a warning before you read this one, its based off of the DLC for Resident Evil 7 End of Zeo. I am just giving you a warning as this is the entire DLC with some parts cut out that were just boring exploration parts and then the game mechanic making it much more real. I also change some things in the fight which is much more noticeable at the end. So read at your own risk if having spoilers and misinformation if you plan on playing it. If you do read enjoy and I hope to see you in the next chapter of this story.
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As they all settled down and Pyrrha was awake again, sitting in a chair delusional as she mumbled things about how she lost and she could never have him. She was like that for a bit as they all messed around with things a bit such as the machines that seemed to bring them whatever it was that they wanted. They just thought about what they wanted and then a tray carried by some kind of robotic arm would be carried in from the ceiling or floor and held until they took it away, then when they had trash the arms would just automatically pick it up and take it away disposing of it.
"I gotta say that this place is pretty cool," Yang said as she ate a bowl of noodles as Blake sat next to her eating tune that was made into sushi. Ruby was eating a cookie that was made with strawberries and chocolate chips, Nora was also eating something similar but Ren made sure that she didn't have too much of it such as the stack of pancakes she just swallowed whole.
That made many of the people who had never seen her eat before look at her with wide eyes and confusion to how the students didn't even bat an eye to how she ate them. They all ate until finishing up as they suddenly heard something that sounded like yelling and banging far off and muffled. They looked around until suddenly the ceiling opened up again and more people fell through landing on the ground near the screen. They all groaned and moaned in pain making many of the ones who showed up before realizing that this is how it must have looked when they fell in and were in pain.
"Ugh, Coco gets off of me…" Velvet groaned, she pushed the fashionista off letting her role as she began pushing herself up and fixing the sunglasses. Velvet was just laying on the ground holding her belly after Coco landed on it knocking the wind out of her. Coco herself was dizzy as she tried standing only for her to lose balance and fall over after taking a few steps. She rolled over groaning as she just took her glasses off as it was too dark and they just made it harder for her to walk.
Nearby they then saw the general of the Atlas army slowly getting up as he held his head while the other one was limp unmoving. He stood up trying to keep his balance as he looked around as he saw Penny laying on the ground 'sleeping' as she was not moving, he tried walking over to her until suddenly the man appeared again falling down the hole and next to Penny.
"Ish him!" Nora yelled as she had her last pancake in her mouth before slurping it like a noodle. He just ignored her as he reached down turning the girl over and taking the small thing attached to her back like it was just a bag so that her secret wasn't exposed. He then pulled it into his hood were it disappeared just like all the others that teams RWBY and NPR saw. Once he did that he just jumped back up through the hole in the ceiling as it closed up.
"I take it that he was the gentlemen that you all told us about," Ozpin stated as they all just looked at the ceiling where he had disappeared. They eventually heard the girl get up and land on her feet after jumping off the floor.
"Salutations!" Penny announced as she saw Ruby and smiled making the red reaper drop the cookie before suddenly being tackled by the 'girl' and put into a crushing hug. As that happened some of them began to prepare how they were going to explain this to them.
(Later)
"That doesn't make any sense!" Ironwood exclaimed as he listened to what they were telling him. They were brought here by a man that had no identity and stripped them of all their weapons, it was ludicrous! "How can you be so calm in this situation Ozpin!?" He asked the grey-haired man who only sipped from his mug as a response making the general clench his fist as the other one could move again.
"James. Please just sit down. You will only pop a blood vessel with how much you are acting." Glynda said as she sipped from her cup of camomile tea relaxing a bit happy that she could finally have some. After she had spoken to him Ironwood just sighed as he rubbed his eyes and a tray appeared next to him with a double that was whiskey. He just grabbed the glass and took a seat next to Penny who was done crushing Ruby in a death grip hug smiling excitedly she had never done anything like this before.
"How about we just throw the dice now?" Port said as he was drinking a diet soda that was in a silver can, he enjoyed it as he had never drunk one like this.
"I got it!" Nora jumped up from her seat and grabbed the dice picking them up and rolling them around in her hands. She then tossed them down on the floor and let them roll until finally stopping and flashing.
The lights shut off as the screen turned on showing a dark swamp forest that was filled with fog as they saw a girl wearing black pants and a grey tank top slowly walking through the swamp all alone holding herself scared as she coughed. She suddenly stopped as she looked up at the shattered moon begging as her body began to change into a hard crystal substance.
"No! Eve, I'm sorry please I'll be good!" She just began to slowly turn until dropping on the ground and laying there as it continued to spread more all over her.
(Weeks later)
Two heavily armed soldiers wearing black gear and gas masks stood over the girl as she was still laying on the ground has never moved. They held large assault rifle as they looked at her shining the lights attached to their guns looking at her body which had been covered by the crystal substance which had left her naked as the strange substance covered her body. Her hair was no longer black as it had become white like the stuff all over her body.
"Is this her?" One of them asked as they looked at her.
"Yep, this is Sophia Lie." One of them said as there was someone in the back looking at them hiding from behind a tree slowly coming out having heard them talk.
"She's still breathing. Call it into HQ."
"Ren she has your last name!" Nora had sparkles in her eyes while Ren was just confused, he had no siblings and was an only child and didn't know any relatives.
"That poor girl," Glynda said, she watched the girl begging for her life until she dropped and became what she saw now on screen left all alone laying in a swamp surrounded by who knows what creatures could be wandering around out there.
"Man she looked like crap," Yang said looking at the girl.
"What's wrong with her?" Velvet questioned as she looked at the woman's body as she laid there covered in some kind of crystal substance.
Ironwood was looking at the soldiers inspecting their uniforms trying to see who they were from, they certainly weren't from Atlas. Something strange that they noticed was that the moon was perfectly intact and not shattered.
"Hey, who's that?" Yang questioned seeing someone walking over from the trees.
As they were speaking an old man who looked to be in his sixties was walking towards them while wearing an old white long sleeve shirt as a pair of old black rubber fishing pants were on his legs going all the way up to his abdomen while one of the straps had been ripped. He then had a small pack on his back as a light was attached to it, his arms had some old tattoos that were faded from time.
"You say, Sophia?" He asked looking down at the girl as one of the soldiers stood up looking at him.
"Sir, do you live here?" He asked as the man just kept looking at the girl, he then pointed his finger at the soldier as anger began appearing on his face.
"What the hell is wrong with her!?" He questioned as the soldier was confused while he looked back down at the girl named Sophia.
"Sophia! What is god's name have they done?" He questioned before turning towards the soldier who was looking around and slammed his fist against the left side of his helmet before quickly following with a right knocking him out as he spun through the air a bit and landing on the floor unconscious.
"Stop! Stop!" The other soldier yelled grabbing his shoulder making him turn and swipe it away and then quickly slamming his fist right into the helmet knocking him out as he fell back unconscious. Once they were both out he kneeled next to Sophia and held his hands out trying to understand what was happening.
"Oh goodness, Sophia...what did they do to you?"
"Damn that old guy is stacked!" Yang said astonished by his build and strength knocking the soldiers out after hitting their helmets and not even flinching from the pain in his hands.
"I don't like his clothes," Coco stated looking at that horrible outfit.
"You hate anything that isn't fashion." Velvet started looking at the fashionista.
"He must have experience with such things to do it. The tattoos looked like they had names on them." Weiss stated as they could see some parts of his arms but not all of them as the sleeves covered his forearms.
"Haha, that is the perfect example of why you should never think little about someone because of their age!" Port said smiling as he watched the sixty-year-old man dispatch of two trained soldiers armed.
"I could take him." Mercy commented as Emerald rolled her eyes listening to the idiot next to her.
Sophia and one of the soldiers were taken back to the old man's shack by the river. Sophia was slaying on the bed while the soldier was tied to a chair as the old man was doing something behind him.
He looked up speaking to the man
"Listen to me. We're here to help." He said trying to reason as the old man.
"No, I don't believe you boy." He stepped past him and walked towards a table reaching out and grabbing some black moldy object lifting it up holding it in his hands.
"Tell me. What kind of help comes in a gunship?" He said sitting down in the chair holding what could be seen as the head of a creature with sharp teeth that had been ripped from the body.
"Oh, gods! What is that thing!?" Glynda was shocked by the creature that the man was holding in his hands. It seemed to be dead as he was just holding it and it seemed to have been ripped from the body.
"Ren I wanna poke it with a stick!" Nora yelled like a little kid seeing something for the first time.
"No." Ren simply stated.
"It doesn't seem to be a Grimm, it must be something else completely different!" Oobleck said as he was fascinated with the black moldy creature that the man was holding. He wished that he could study that beast and see what it was.
Ironwood was also curious as there was something strange about the creature, such as how it appeared to be somewhat human shaped. Another thing that was interesting was how he heard something about a gunship, so maybe the creature was created by them.
Cinder was also looking at the thing curious about what kind of beast it was and if it could be of some kind of use to her master's plan.
"That thing is making me kinda sick," Emerald stated as she looked at the head.
"You don't know what you're talking about. You don't get it!" The soldier yelled as the old man slammed the head on the table glaring at him.
"You think I don't know who you people are? With all these monsters runnin' around here?" He slowly stood up from the chair looking down at the soldier who was still struggling.
"Tell me, where'd they come from?" He questioned making the soldier shake his head.
"It's not what you think. You don't understand!" He yelled as the man grabbed a machete and ripped it out of the table, he then held it against the soldier's neck.
"Oh? I don't understand!?" He pushed the blade against his jaw making him turn his head to the side.
"You see that girl back there? Look!" He yelled making the soldier turn more looking back at the raven-haired girl. She was still sleeping peacefully while the old man kept glaring.
"That there's my brother's little girl. My nice. You understand?" He pulled the blade away and slammed the handle against his helmet knocking him over onto the floor and cracking the visor of his helmet.
"And around here! The family is a righteous cause!" He yelled kicking him in the gut over and over as he spoke. "And you ain't gonna kill my family!" He stopped kicking the soldier as he groaned out in pain. The old man took a few breaths as he kneeled by the soldier and held to blade up threateningly.
"Now see, that ain't somethin' that I can abide." He threatens as the soldier was still breathing hard from the kicks.
"For fuck's sake. She's infected - she's dying - and we're both gonna fuckin' die if we don't get the fuck outta here now!" He was grabbed and pulled back up into the chair by the man as he held the blade closer to his neck.
"She ain't dead yet, boy! So I figure you better do something about it. Before I go and feed you with your little friends outside!"
"OK! OK!" The soldier yelled trying to calm the man down before he was made monster food.
"There's a cure." He told the man as he stood there for a few seconds until he glared again and raised the blade.
"You're lying to me!" He slammed the handle onto his helmet again knocking him over as he didn't believe the soldier.
"I'm not lying...I'm not lying. We were on our way to get her treatment, and you fucked that up when you Jumped us!" He yelled looking up at the old man. "They're probably still there waiting for us and the girl, right now!"
Once he was finished the man stood there and thought about what he had heard them talking about before finding Sophia.
"Where?"
"They took it to an old shack, not too far from here. You can easily find it, it's there I swear!" The soldier yelled while the man stabbed the machete near his head and slowly stood up walking towards Sophia as he took off the necklace he was wearing and placing it in her hand closing it.
"We're gonna fix this, Sophia. You're my family." Once he was done he walked away leaving the shack and going to get the cure. They could see that inside the necklace was a picture of a raven-haired man with a pink streak as a blond stood next to him holding Sophia when she was a baby. In the corner, there was some writing on it in the corner.
'Jaune meeting his new niece Sophia.'
"Jaune is so cool as an old man! And Ren you had a baby girl!" Nora shouted as she death hugged her friend who was slowly beginning to change from a red to a blue as she had never hugged him this hard.
"Well, I think it is nice that Ren and Jaune are families in that world. Even if not by blood they are close enough to be called that." Pyrrha said as she saw the happiness in the picture coming off of Ren and Jaune as they could see a hint of red in Ren's eye showing that he must have been crying when that picture was taken. Not of sadness but joy.
"That would be the best way to put it," Weiss agreed with Pyrrha as she smiled seeing the happiness in the photo before becoming sad, she saw the girl laying there in the bed slowly dying.
"I must commend Mr. Arc. Even if it is another world he seems to put family above all else, even his own safety." Ozpin said as Port held his chin nodding in agreement he found the grown man to be admirable. There was a sparkle next to Ports eye as he was nodding and Oobleck sipped his mug.
"Hey, bet you forty he gets killed and eaten." Mercy said making Emerald just slap him making him fall out of the seat.
Jaune traveled down a path from his home to the cabin that was nearby, used to owned by some people a long time ago and was boarded up so it would have to be where the soldier had told him about. As he walked through the path he suddenly began hearing a disgusting gurgling sound making him look ahead to see as a monster slowly began to come out of some hole in the ground slowly building itself up into a tall monster with claws and teeth just like the one on the head he had in his shack.
Jaune held up his fists as he watched the monster slowly stumble towards him. He didn't step back or show any fear as he looked at the beast.
"Come on you moldy motherfucker. I can take you with my bare hands." Jaune waited until it was close and he began to punch the molded beast in the head making teeth fly broken as it stumbled back. He was faster than the thing as it was slow in reflexes trying to cover its head until he gave a hard punch into its gut and making it fall over onto its knees. Once it was down he grabbed its head and held it as he pulled back and then punched with all his might making its head cave in before shattering into pieces as liquid splattered everywhere as it fell back.
Jaune shook his hand making the liquid fly off as he continued walking past the monster's corpse. As he made his way to the cabin he kept fighting more of the same creatures killing them with his hands or knocking them down and crushing their heads beneath his feet.
"So awesome!" Ruby shouted as she watched him beating all the monsters with his bare hands like he was a hero. Granted it would have been cooler if he had some kind of weapon to use but it was still awesome!
"I wonder how it would go to have a sparring session with this Jaune." Yang wondered as she would have to make it fair and not use her weapons.
"It still wouldn't be a fair fight Miss Xiao Long," Glynda quickly told her making her look confused.
"Your aura would give you an advantage over him in strength speed and stamina. This Jaune does not have any, from what we have seen. The wounds that he has gotten have not healed and he has begun feeling tired
"Wait you're telling us that the old man we are watching tear apart monsters with his bare hands and can punch open doors has no aura?" Blake questioned as the teachers all shook their heads in agreement.
"Awesome!" Nora yelled breaking the silence as they watched Jaune walk to the place where the cure was.
Jaune walked through the door stepping carefully as he reached up and turned the light attached to his bag on. He looked at the boarded up doors and windows slowly walking down the hall until he turned and saw the soldier laying against the wall dead as he held a cylinder in his hand. It was about a quarter full of green liquid as he looked like he had been drained alive.
"What the hell?" He questioned slowly reaching and grabbing the thing from his hand. Once he did a black substance began pouring out of his mouth and eyes covering his body making Jaune leave quick, as he left outside he was ambushed by two more of the molded beasts that he killed running back to get Sophia the cure. As he was running he saw smoke coming from his home making his eyes widen.
"No! No! No!" He yelled as he saw his home burning as there were gators dead on land. They were strange as there were strange growths on their bodies which seemed to move but he ignored them while he ran towards his burning home. He ran towards the door and lifted his leg kicking it open breaking the lock as he saw that the soldier was still on the ground ties up while Sophia was coughing hard on the bed. He rushed over and gently grabbed her arm.
"Its okay Sophia I'm here with your medicine. Please, just….just let this work." He mumbled as he placed it on her arm and pressed the button making the liquid injected into her body. After a few seconds, she stopped coughing and he placed her hand gently on her belly as he watched her. After a few seconds, she began coughing much worse now as he panicked.
"Goddammit, why isn't it working!?" He yelled as the soldier looked up at the cylinder.
"It wasn't full, was it?" He asked making Jaune look back at him.
"What?" The soldier quickly spoke up as the fire was spreading.
"It won't be enough. She needs a full dose to heal completely and be cured!" Jaune was holding Sophia down as she was coughing and the crystal substance was slowly spreading more covering her body.
"There's more at our base! Just untie me and I'll take you there! Please!" He begged as Jaune nodded and walked over grabbing his machete out of the floor. "What base you talking about," He asked as he was about to cut him free until the wall suddenly busted open and something grabbed his legs. It began pulling as he yelled out for help and Jaune dropped the blade rushing over and grabbing him. He pulled hard as the soldier was panicking begging for his help.
"Aaaah! Help me!"
"I'm trying!" Jaune held him with an arm making it more difficult as he tried reaching for the machete so that he could cut what was grabbing him. He could almost grab the handle as he touched it getting it a bit closer until finally grabbing it. But as he grabbed it whatever was pulling yanked him outside and his screams went silent as Jaune fell back against the table breaking it.
Jaune held his head sitting up before suddenly something came through the window and slamming into the wall and desk. He looked up to see that it was the soldier having been ripped in half as his legs were on the floor and his body up on the desk as his blood was pooling and dripping.
"Oh fuck," Jaune quickly got up and grabbed his machete placing it on his pack before walking towards Sophia and picking her up carefully. "Come on, let's get you out of here." He held her bridal style as her head rested on her shoulder while the stuff was still spreading, the wall then busted open as some swamp creature grabbed her trying to pull her through.
"NO!" Jaune yelled as he bashed his head against the things head and making it let go. He then followed up by lifting his leg and kicking it back out into the water as he went to the back door. He kicked it open as the fire was starting to consume his home and he started walking down the bride towards his boat.
"This is like some horror movie bullshit." He placed her down in the boat gently as he then climbed in and started the engine and slowly leaving his home as he saw the swamp man walking out if the fire looking at him as it then yelled up into the night sky as he left it behind.
"That poor soldier, nobody deserved to die like that," Weiss said covering her mouth as she saw the body that the swamp man had thrown through the window.
"What was that thing, it didn't look like the monsters that Jaune was fighting before," Ruby asked as she saw that thing looking at them as they drove off leaving it behind.
"It certainly isn't something that can be taken lightly. It must have been what left those dead alligators on his land and destroyed everything." Oobleck was fascinated with the best as it has the most resemblance to a man with abnormal strength.
"I would love to have a chance with that beast and battle it!" Port announced as the creature seemed like it would give him a good fight, not the best but it would still make him work for it.
Please sit back down, Port." Glynda said as she rubbed her head feeling the headache coming.
As Ren was watching the screen he suddenly felt something pull at his shirt and he looked to see Nora looking at him.
"What is it?"
"...You think Jaune can help her?" She asked him with some worry as they knew this wasn't fake. They were watching a whole other world where this was taking place. If Jaune failed or died then that girl would also die. It would be just like with what they saw before when Jaune was forced to watch him families death and then killed last after watching. He knew that Nora almost cried watching that and being able to do absolutely nothing, it also made him sad as he watched it happen. He knew how it was to lose family, even Nora but they had each other. If he failed then he would have no one there to help him.
Ren placed his hand on Nora's head and rubbed smiling a bit.
"Jaune is going to be alright. You know that better than anyone else." Her smile came back as she flashed her big smile looking back at the screen.
"Soldier boy said the meds were at some kind of base." Jaune looked around for anything suspicious until he came across a giant metal wall that was closed off which lead to an old part of the swamp nobody ever went to.
"Now where the hell did this wall come from?" he looked to see flood light shining brightly near the wall as he began driving towards land. "Looks like someone left the lights on, good enough for me." He parked the boat and picked up Sophia again as he stepped out and began walking through the path being careful as he couldn't fight while holding her.
"Don't worry Sophia, just a little further." He walked past dead trees and mud, it was like all the life was drained from the swamp and the only thing left was death. Jaune stepped into a small lake walking towards an old shack until stopping as a gator appeared snapping at him before swimming away. "Aw come on. Not now gator." He watched it slow stepping through the water as it swam away and keeping Sophia out of the water until he as back on land and stepped into a boathouse where he placed her on a couch while covering her with a towel he found as she was shaking.
"Now just wait here. I'll be back with something to make you feel better." Jane walked out and closed the door so that nothing got inside, he then began heading towards the camp. As he entered the place it was filled with more of the molded monsters that were unaware of him. As he snuck up on one he pulled it down by the shoulder to its knees and then grabbed its head pulling until finally, he shattered its head after crushing it and letting the body fall. He then hid as a strange one came in very fast while on all fours. It seemed to look around until he came up and began to stomp on it spine making loud cracking sounds as he broke it and then finished it off by stomping on its soft head.
He kept going to the large tent he which should hold the cure. He began climbing up the back and then into a hole that was made before, he dropped in looking around seeing nothing until he found a paper that was written before. He read the paper hoping it could tell him where it was.
"The paddle boat? Dammit, you boys ain't making it easy," He looked up at the old rusted up tanker. He began walking down a path where suddenly he heard the sound of something coming and he saw the swamp man walking towards him. As it was he reached back and pulled out the machete.
"You!? You best stay back now…" He held the blade up as it kept coming and he swung hitting right in its neck, but as he tried pulling it out the weird substance that it was made from began growing all over the blade keeping it stuck and Jaune struggling to pull it until the swamp man slapped him away.
"That thing is tough," Emerald looked at the hulking monster made of who knows what, but it was disgusting.
"I agree with Emerald, it seems that blades cannot work on such a creature. I wonder if she can make Grimm with such abilities." Cinder watched as the beast shrugged off the pain as if nothing, not even a tickle. Quite interesting.
"That creature can cause serious damage if it can take on animals and even fires as if it was nothing," Ironweed said referring to the dead alligators on Jaune's property and even the fires when his home burned and exploded. It just stood there as if it was nothing.
"Come on Jaune! Get back up and break every bone in its body!" Nora shouted as she stood up from her seat. Ren just sat there as everyone else agreed.
The swamp creature pulled the blade out and tossed it off into the swamp as Jaune pushed himself up again holding up his fists, "Alright you wanna go you ugly mother fucker!? Bring it on!" He rushes forward and began punching the swamp man as he groaned being stompy and slow just swinging his arm around which Jaune ducked under easily dodging them as his fists beat against his body splattering the slimy substance on the floor and his fists.
He suddenly saw it pull an arm back and swing hard so he held up both arms and blocked feeling the shock as it hit. Jaune just clenched his fists tighter ignoring the pain that shot up and down his arms until it stopped. Once it had stopped he shook his hands and started to jab it in the chest until he clenched his right fist and then punches as hard as he could unto its face knocking it back against the ground and on a rock.
Once it was down Jaune wasted no time as he rushed over and began stomping on the head over and over until it caved in with the help of the rock under it. He ground his boot against the beasts head before leaving it be.
"You ain't gonna be bothering us no more!" Jaune walked away leaving the body as he saw the door had been boarded up with bitch and pieces of wood like all the others, so he started kicking and punching the door until finally as he punched it hard and shattered the door he was turned around by something grabbing his shoulder and saw that it was the swamp man. It grabbed him by the nack and then pushed throwing him back into the water.
As Jaune was getting up the swamp man stood there before just turning and walking away.
"What!?" He yelled as he stood up watching it walk away leaving him. "Come on. Just stay down!" He yelled as it left and he got up walking towards the paddle boat finding a way up.
"That beast was able to survive it head being caved in and fully regenerate its entire skill and brain...fascinating!" Oobleck announced as Ironwood was looking at the creature. What he had seen in the notes, when Jaune was reading them, was that everything that they were seeing was caused by some type of infection that mutates and changes with its environment.
"What could that thing have come from?" Velvet wondered as she had read the papers too seeing that it affected things differently than just mutating. She had to guess that the alligators she saw were also infected with the growths on their body increasing their body mass and highly aggressive.
"Whatever this infection is it is quite dangerous with how unpredictable it is," Glynda stated watching.
"Yo think we could fight it?" Ruby asked as Yang just put a hand on her head and turned it back towards the screen.
Jaune had crossed a river filled with infected crocodiles thanks to some spears he made from branches and scrap metal he found after using the rope in his pack to tie it together. Once he was inside he searched around for the machine until seeing it sitting in the room a floor below him. He had to sneak past many of the molded creatures until finally finding the machine and turning it on thanks to it being a simple button press.
As the stuff was being synthesized it stopped about a quarter from the way to complete.
"What!? Aaw, come on!" He yelled grabbing the machine and began beating his hands against it trying to make it work. She slapped the side like an old TV trying to make it work before his hands began smashing against the glass screen.
"That is not going to work!" Weiss yelled as she watched Jaune smash his hands against the machine.
"I don't think he knows that Weiss, he is an old man and lives in a swamp," Yang stated lake also pitched in.
"I don't believe he has had much interaction with machines."
Jaune raised both hands over his head and smashed them against the screen making it finish up and the cylinder popped out of the side while steam rose out. He looked down at the cylinder completely filled with green serum standing there for him to grab.
"This is it, finally." He grabbed the cure and held it in his hand before reaching back and putting it in his bag. Once it was safe he turned around and was suddenly grabbed by the neck getting choked by the swamp man who was standing behind him. It lifted him up as he grabbed the arm trying to make him let go, the clouded orange bloodshot eye looked at him before it lifted him up higher and held him over its head. It then tossed him down to the ground where it broke due to being so rusted so Jaune fell down to the next floor and landing hard before rolling. Once he stopped he began getting up off the ground as the swamp man jumped down and landed on the floor in front of him. He spits out some blood before wiping his mouth and glaring.
"Ok, you want some? Come get some you giant pile of puke!"
"That should not have worked!" Weiss yelled seeing him smash a high tech machine making it work.
"Come on Weiss it's not the weirdest thing. We did have a food fight like we were using actual weapons." Ruby said.
"I made a watermelon a weapon! Jaune breaks his legs!" Nora yelled as she looked at the fight match looking scene up on screen.
The swamp man jumped and slammed his fist into Jaune's face catching him off guard and stumbling back before he stopped and fixed his balance. He looked up with a bleeding nose and place his thumb against the nose bleeding one and blew the blood out before cleaning the rest with his blood.
"Not bad little guy, but it's gonna take a lot more than that." He ran and jumped up kicking the beast in the chest and making it stumble back as he rolled and got up. "Haha, haven't done that for a little bit. Come on, come get some." He taunted as it seemed to anger the monster into swinging at him as he had to block more hits now rather than before as it was fighting more than before, Jaune kept his ground dodging and blocking hits before getting quick jabs in and powerful punches that would make a cracking sound each time he hit its chest.
As the fight continued and blows were traded the swamp man suddenly grabbed him by the head and then headbutted him to the ground before roaring up at the ceiling as if cheering, that just made Jaune angry as he quickly stood up and gave it a strong left hook smashing into the left side of its head. It spun around and fell to one knee which Jaune took advantage of.
"Fuck you!" He grabbed him and pulled him standing before turning him around and then putting a hand on his shoulder, the other going down behind the leg and lifted him from the ground. Jaune held the swamp man above his head as it looked down at him before being tossed over and landing hard on the metal floor making a loud crack come from its back.
"Haha, that all you got? Huh?" Jaune asked the beast got back up and continued their fight jumping back or to the side avoiding his attacks. The fight continued until the swamp man was down and he grabbed his head turning him around.
"Come here!" He grabbed the head and began to pull on it making the swamp man gurgle and groan as Jaune grunted, he kept pulling until he yelled and ripped the head off holding it in his hand. "HA! That's how you get it done!" He pushed the body by the shoulder and made it fall forward as he held the head up and the eye was still moving looking at him. Jaune then tossed the head into the water as he took a small break exhausted.
"That was so awesome!" Nora shouted after watching Jaune fist fight the monster and tearing his head off.
"I'm surprised he could lift that beast over his head," Weiss commented as Yang leaned over to Ruby whispering.
"Yea, cause you can't lift a lot of things." Ruby snickered at her sister's comment which made the heiress angry after hearing that.
"I'll give it to him, for an old geezer he got some fight in him," Roman said making Neo roll her eyes as she knew how old he was, and the number of times she has had to save him from battles as a getaway.
"Ha, I must agree with him. That is the best way to finish off your opponent!" Port announced as he had used his ax to decapitate many different kinds of Grimm ensuring their death, or even just blowing them up.
"I wonder if the beast really is dead if it could come back from having its head crushed under his foot and a stone - then what's stopping it from coming back from that?" Cinder wondered as Emerald Shrugged her shoulders not sure.
Jaune finally caught his breath and reached back grabbing the cylinder where he put it in his bag, he checked making sure that it was still okay. "I'm coming for you, Sophia." He put it back before he pushed himself up from the ground after taking a seat. He walked over to a rusted up door and took a few breaths before lifting his foot and kicking the thing making it move but not open. "Come on you rusted piece of shit." He stepped back and kicked again making open a bit more but still shut tight, Jaune grunted before taking a few steps back and rushing towards the door kicking it one last time and making it fall back opening.
Once that was open he walked out taking a path made from the part of the boat which had fallen apart over time. As he walked he found a quick path heading right to the boathouse where he left Sophia. He ran down the path and opened the door to see Sophia still lying there where he left her but the door had been opened to the river, Jaune ignored it as he walked towards Sophia. He kneeled next to her and pulled out the syringe.
"Sophia! I bought your medicine, you're gonna be right now." He reached back to grab the syringe but as he did the swamp man appeared standing up out if the water. He reached down and grabbed Sophia tossing her over his shoulder.
"No! Sophia, let her go you bastard!" Juane tried to grab her but he was too late as the swamp man began walking away taking her under away water. Jaune ran out opening the door and went to his boat. He hopped in and started it before driving out looking for him, he saw the swamp man walking through the gate of the large wall which was now open, he was still carrying her as he walked through fog disappearing.
"Hey! You leave my family alone!" Jaune turned the boat and began heading for the fog, as he passed through the fog he couldn't see a thing. As he passed the fog he couldn't see the swamp man or Sophia anywhere as he passed trees and empty water.
"Where the hell did you go you son of a bitch." He continued searching for them until he came across an old fishing pier that was falling apart and filled with those infected monsters, but he could see the swamp man walking towards the old church with Sophia, he parked the boat and began making his way through the molded beasts killing them slowly making his way towards Sophia.
"Man that thing won't stay dead." Yang was in shock that it could come back from.
"Why does that thing want the girl?" Oobleck wondered as it seemed to be chasing after the girl.
"Go get it Jaune!" Nora yelled as she still had the nurse hat on her head having never taken it off.
He crossed the rickety old bridges which had been sloppily put together or were so rotted that they broke apart if he wasn't careful where he stepped. As he made it closer and closer more of the beasts kept appearing starting to become much more dangerous. When Jaune finally did make it to the cemetery that was near the church he was blocked by a giant fat one that stumbled towards him.
It started puking up some nasty colored substance which burned the ground before he took some cover hiding behind a grave. "Get outta my way you fat fuck!" Jaune moved as it got closer and kept trying to kill him. He couldn't get close as it would rip into its own skin and spatter the acid all over trying to get him.
"If I could touch you ya fat fuck then you would be splattered all over these graves!" Jaune yelled hiding behind another grave before he saw a branch that was broken. Once the fat molded stopped puking he grabbed the branch and snapped it after stomping on it and making the end slightly shard, enough to stab it.
Jaune stood up and pulled his arm back aiming the branch before tossing it. The makeshift spear flew through the air and hit the fat creature in the head and taking it down, the body fell against the door on the gate as its body began to rumble for a few seconds until exploding and putting acid all over the door. Jaune ran and kicked the door open running towards the church hanging off the mound of land it had been built on. He stopped at the doors and slowly pushed it open so he didn't alert the swamp man of his presence.
As he walked in he saw Sophia sitting in a chair still unconscious while a strange statue made of who knows what was behind her.
"It's a goddamn sacrilege," he saw that the swamp man was nowhere to be seen.
"This is just creepy," Weiss was weirded out by the strange statue hung on the wall as Sophia just sat there.
"Where did that creepy thing go?" Ruby asked as it was strange to just disappear, especially with its size it couldn't be able to hide.
"Why would it just leave here there?" Blake questioned wondering if it was a trap.
Jaune walked towards Sophia so he could give her the cure but suddenly he was turned around to see the swamp man throwing a punch, Jaune caught it holding the fist while he threw his own punch which the beast did too. They held pushing back trying to make one of them break, Jaune pulled his hand away getting it free and then grabbing the thing's neck pulling it close. He put it in a headlock as he grabbed its face and began pulling, the weird substance was starting to rip apart before finally it came off and exposed a face that was up to the nose and forehead of a man. Centipedes crawled around going inside as Jaune let it go taking a few steps back. He looked at the pink eye looking at him as he dropped what was actually a mask.
"Ren? What the fuck," Jaune was stunned seeing Ren that he was clocked in the face and knocking him out as his fatigue finally caught up with him. Ren laughed as he grabbed Jaune by the leg dragging him over to a coffin which was empty.
"What the fuck!?" Yang yelled as she covered her mouth feeling sick seeing what Ren looked like.
Nora was shocked as she had her hands over her mouth wide eyes looking at her best friend, he had become a monster that wanted to kill Jaune.
She looked at Ren who was just sitting there looking at the screen, he looked fine but his hands were slowly clenching the arms rest. Ren was in shock to what he was seeing as that version if himself was placing Jaune inside the coffin.
Jaune slowly woke up just as Ren was closing the top sliding it. He closed the top as Jaune was looking through the hole in the lid looking at Ren.
"Goddammit, Ren! Don't you remember your own brother!?" He questioned as he smashed his hands against the lid trying to open it. Ren walked away out if his view as Jaune kept yelling.
"Don't do it! Don't you touch her! Ren!" Jaune yelled as Ren was pulling the coffin towards a hole in the church that would drop into the river. Ren just kept pulling him as Jaune was trying to get through to him.
"Let me the fuck outta here! I'm your family! How the fuck can you do this to me!?" He smashed his fists on the wood trying to break out as Ren was tipping him over the edge.
"Get me the fuck outta here, Ren!" Jaune's pleas went unheard as Ren placed his foot on the coffin and kicked it off and into the water where it began to slowly sink as Ren just watched him drown.
There was complete silence as they watched Jaune drowning in his one coffin.
"I can't tell you how many times I've seen something like this," Roman said to himself watching as the old man was drowning inside of a wooden box. Neo wasn't affected much since she had done this before, but with her future lover, it was slightly sad to see. Even old he still had lots of strength.
Ren was silent as his eyes were glazed over and slightly shaking. The voice of Jaune yelling at him and begging was playing over and over before he killed him. He killed his friend, someone he could consider a brother and he killed him. He couldn't believe it and then him becoming a monster. It was all just flooding his mind until he felt two hands on his shoulders. He looked up to see Nora and Pyrrha smiling at him as they looked up to see as Jaune was pulling himself out of the river and on the bank.
Ren let out a shaky breath before smiling and putting his head in his hands, he cleaned the tears that were coming as he was happy knowing that he didn't kill that version of Jaune. It may not have been him but the thought that in another world his killed his friend was too much.
"For an old man he is tough as nails," Mercy said as he held a bottle filled with something.
"God damn. What happened to you Ren?" He stood up as he looked around seeing small boats while a radio has static over the voices. He heard voices and walked over tuning it making it clear.
"Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! We've been engaged by an unknown bioweapon. Lie house camp under attack! Gotta be the same thing that attacked the base. What the..." The soldier was silent as bullets were fired off and a helicopter flew over Jaune making him look at it.
"It's not going down! Pull back! Pull back!" he yelled before it went silent. Jaune looked up to see his brothers home, he hadn't been here for over six years after the fight they had about the influence that he had over the kids. He stood up walking towards the home cracking his neck.
"There you are you son of a bitch." He growled as he walked towards the large home, but as he was walking he looked back to see more of those molded but now they had changed with arms that were much harder and bladed to rip him apart. He just turned and ran to the home but turned as he saw the door bolted shut. He ran through the flower garden until he stopped and came across boxes that were glowing blue.
"Now what the hell do we have here? One of their fancy toys?" He walked over and opened the box to see that it was a metal hand with a blue light in the top of the hand. He picked it up and then placed it on his left hand feeling as it clamped on and started up speaking to him.
"Ready for use."
He flexed his hand feeling the metal move with him before he looked over to see that the other box which was holding the other one which looked to go on his right. He picked it up and put it on watching as it too powered up and spoke. Suddenly he heard more of the molded beasts and he turned putting up both hands as they came for him. He threw the punch and it smashed right through the head making it explode as it launched back slamming into a tree dead. Juane looked down at his hand before he chuckled and ran at them punching sending them flying as the limbs were torn off with each hit or their bodies were sent flying.
"Haha, you like that? Come on I'll take you all on!" Jaune yelled as they stopped coming as he pushed the last one down which grabbed him and smashed its head with the fist. Once it was dead he walked towards the metal door and pulled back his arm feeling as the thing was starting to shake and glow brighter. He then punched the door and watched as it broke off the hinges and flew landing in the water split in half. He looked back down at them as he didn't even feel them making his swings slow, they made them faster and stronger. He started walking towards the building as the lights glowed brightly.
"These just might be what I need to put ol'Ren down for good." He climbed up the side easily getting up before walking in through some double doors to see an old projector and a small clay tablet sitting on a table. He picked it up and looked at it to see a family made from clay like a portrait. He turned it around to see the writing on the back.
'Sophia Lie 4th Grade'
He put it back down as he began making his way through the house.
"Don't you worry, I'm coming for ya Sophia."
"Those gloves are so awesome!" Ruby yelled as she saw the complex exoskeletal gloves on Jaune's fists. "There is no kickback meaning there must be some kind of shock absorber, and from the force and power it must put out about," Ruby suddenly stopped mid-sentence as Yang put a hand over her mouth.
"Calm down, we get it you love the shiny glowing gloves," Yang said as Ruby tried removing the hand from her mouth.
Ironwood looked down at his arm then at the ones on Jaune's arms. It somewhat resembled the old prototypes that they had when first creating prosthetic arms. Much stronger and faster than normal, but they were never able to make them into gloves and they had to be discarded due to never figuring out how to handle the kickback from the power.
"Penny, make sure you record any and all things you see from the actions of those gloves."
"Understood." She smiled looking at the screen.
Ren was watching the screen silently hoping that Jaune would be able to stop...whatever it was that he had become and save the girl. He didn't want any of them hurt so if he had to be put down then it had to happen.
"That kinda reminds me of my legs," Mercy commented as he moves his leg a bit.
The front doors of the house were busted open as Jaune walked out clenching his fists after punching another fat one out of the door. "Outta my way you fat fuck!" He ran across the bridge and towards the main house as he broke through the gate and stopped as he saw another dead soldier lying in a puddle of his own blood. He kept going and finally stopped as he saw the place covered in tarps and giant plastic walkways made to the front door leading inside, but nearby was a slaughter as soldiers lay dead and looking like chew toys as one was hanging from a tree missing both his arms.
"Lord, what the hell happened here?" He looked around searching for any clues of where Ren could have gone, he then found a file talking about what was happening to him. Jaune didn't understand most of what it was saying, but he knew that it meant Ren was long gone. He looked back at the house as he heard the yell that Ren would make, he began heading inside passing through the plastic tubes.
"Just you wait Ren, Sophia's coming with me." He walked up to the door and saw that the thing had been broken open as slime covered the door. Jaune slowly pushed it open as he looked around seeing the place filled with tables and plastic all over the walls and floor. In the center was Sophia looking worse as she was alone.
"Sophia!" He walked in heading for her and looking at her trying to wake her up. "Sophia, Sophia wake up!" Ren suddenly appeared and looked at him as he was leaning across the table. Juane stepped back as Ren grabbed the table and flipped it to the side tossing Sophia towards the wall and making Jaune glare as he clenched his fists.
"You're just a rabid dog now. And I'm gonna put you out of your misery." Jaune watched as Ren just growled before roaring up into the ceiling giving him the chance to rush him. He pulled back his left and swung slamming his fist right into Ren's gut making him cough up more slime and bugs as he slid back before stopping. He held his gut for a second before looking up and glaring at Jaune who just held his arms up waiting for him.
"Well? What you waiting for!?" He yelled making Ren angry and stand up straight as he rolled his shoulders and started walking towards him. He suddenly jumped and aimed his fist at Jaune's head, but Jaune moved to the side remembering that and then quickly jabbed him in the face splattering more of his body on the ground.
"Gonna have to do better than that now!" He grabbed his head and then kneed it as hard as he could making Ren stand up and fall to his knee dizzy from the hit. Jaune pulled back his right arm and charged it until releasing it and slamming right into his head again launching him back through tables and right into the wall before falling onto his face.
"Who this is so awesome but sad at the same time," Ruby said as it was starting to get cool, but sad that she was having to family kill each other. She looked back at Ren who was silent and Nora who just had her hand over her mouth trying to stay quiet as she had nothing to say from what she was seeing. Her best friend and fearless leader fighting to the death until only one of them are left standing.
"Life is not always so fair, especially with family and friends," Ozpin muttered as their fight was soon to begin.
"Yeah! You remember me, right?" Jaune spoke out as he ran over and pulled Ren over to his back and he began to punch him over and over in the face and chest. As he did he kept talking to Ren.
"You remember the time I broke your nose when we were kids?" He slammed his fist right into his nose breaking it as there was a sickening crack.
"You remember when I closed lined you into the swamp!?" He yelled slamming the metal fist right into his chest knocking the wind out of Ren and suddenly being tossed off as something Grabbed Jaune and tossed him. When he stopped rolling he looked up to see Ren's arm had turned into some kind of weird tendrils. He pulled his arm back and swung making it lash out like a whip and making Jaune jump down to the ground, as he hit the ground he looked up and saw Ren swinging the long arm down to crush him.
"Oh shit!" He rolled to the side and let it smash down on the floor as he stood up and shook his head. "You ain't cheating now are ya?" He asked as Ren had seemed to become even more angry and much more aggressive in his attacks. He ran towards Ren and tackled him up carrying him off the ground running towards the wall.
As he was carrying him Ren grabbed both hands and began to smash them into Jaune's back making him bite his tongue and take the pain before slamming him into the wall and tearing the tarp open as they fell into a small room.
When Jaune stood up he saw a metal statue and grabbed it ripping it from the stand and breaking something as there were hears inside, but he then slammed the statue against Ren's head doing little but piss him off. He suddenly kicked Jaune sending him across the room while getting up and walking out himself. As he did Jaune was getting back up cleaning the blood off his mouth shaking his head standing back up.
"Damn they are going at it," Yang said watching the fight go on getting much more escalated. Everyone sat watching as the fight had gone one, between the two, watching as they seemed to be equal at first, but now had things that tipped the scales.
The robotic fists and Ren with his body changing. They didn't have a clue about who was going to win this fight.
"Come on, Jaune," Ren muttered as he watched.
Jaune stood up and waited as Ren jumped up and held his hands to smash his skull, as he was coming he sidestepped and grit his teeth as he pulled his arm back and charged the fist again feeling the pain from when Ren was smashing his hands against his back. He didn't stop cause when they were charged he swung down with his right and sent Ren flying to the wall again smashing into it before laying there on the ground.
Jaune kept his ground as he shook his head and held his side. He looked down at the thing that once used to be his brother and stepped forward slowly having some trouble.
"You were a wimp, Ren! You never could beat me!" He stopped as Ren was slowly trying to push himself up, arms shaking as they gave out letting him fall back to the ground before he started trying again and this time succeeding, but he was weak as his leg shook and he stumbled slowly just like Jaune. He held up a fist and swung, but Jaune raised his fist and caught it gripping tight crushing it and breaking the bone.
"Just cause you a monster now...don't mean I still can't kick your ass!" He let go of his side and grabbed Ren by the underarm and then turned pulling him off the ground and flipping him over smashing into the ground. Ren just laid there not moving and just groaned in pain weak.
"Remembered that from back when we were younger," Jaune said as he reached down and grabbed Ren by the head pulling him up to stand. Once he was standing he held his head close as he looked into the one pink eye charging the glove to max power, Ren looked at him weakly and tired. He was finished and knew that as Jaune looked at him sorry.
"This is farewell from the family, Brother!" He shouted as he pulled his arm back as far as he could and then swung with all high night smashing it right into Ren's face making the forced pop his eye out while his head was crushed instantly. After the hit, Ren's body went flying back as the top half had exploded and the only thing left was his legs.
Jaune fell to his knees as the legs began to crystallize just like Sophia was, but it was almost instant. The morning sun was rising as he looked over to Sophia and pushed himself up walking over to her.
"Sophia…!"
"Ren?" Nora asked as she looked at her friend who was keeping his head down looking at the floor. When she touched him he looked up at her smiling as his eyes were slightly red, she looked shocked but was confused.
"He did it." Ren smiled as he was happy that Jaune was able to save the girl, even if it cost him his life. He was happy knowing that they would live rather than die by his hand like all the others who did before.
"I must say that man has the most impressive fight that I have ever seen. The struggle of having to kill family is tough, but to save the life of his niece and put that man out of his mise was the best thing he could have done." Port spoke out as Oobleck nodded in agreement sitting next to him.
"Whatever that infection was it had turned mister Lie into a bloodthirsty killer that could not be satisfied. There was no other option, and from what we saw his body was slowly breaking itself down due to his cells being forced to split apart at alarming rates. That is why his body had become that sludge substance and housed so many different things. He required other forms of matter to keep himself together." Oobleck stated while he sat there in his seat sipping his coffee.
"That infection was nothing but a weapon," Glynda stated as it was man-made and was unpredictable meaning it could do anything.
"I just hope that Jaune can save that girl before it's too late." Velvet looked at her as she laid on the ground not moving at all.
"Sophia, hang in there. Everything's gonna be okay now." Jaune pulled out the syringe and put it in her arm pressing the button and making it slowly inject before finishing up and let her lay for a minute. When she started to stir he gently helped her up.
"Sophia? Sophia!" he shook her a bit waking her up as she shit up and looked around. She stopped when she saw Jaune and got worried.
"Jaune! What happened...are...are you okay?" She asked worried as he held his hand up calming her down.
"I'm fine, don't you worry about me. It's all over now." He calmed her while on his knees and she sat there, suddenly the door was kicked open and more soldiers came in with guns trained on them both.
"GO! GO! GO! GO!" They flooded the room and surrounded Jaune as he got up to fight but stopped when he saw the guns on him.
"Don't move! Get your hands up!" They ordered and he did putting them up and getting down on his knees. They kept him there as another soldier walked in ordering them to all stand down.
"Weapons down!" They put them down as the soldier walked over to him and looked at Sophia.
"You must be Sophia Lie." They asked as Jaune looked up at them.
"Who the hell's asking?" They reached up and removed the helmet to show that it was a woman with dark hair and skin.
"Ciel Soleil." She looked fairly young, much younger than Jaune as she held her helmet to the side.
"We've been looking all over for you." She said as it went dark and then came back to Sophia laying in a medical tent now clean of the strange white substance which was affecting her. The medic patted her arm walking away telling her she was going to be just fine. She at up wearing black jeans and a white tank top as Jaune walked in to see her. She looked up at him speaking suddenly.
"I was trapped with those monsters for three years - all of them trying to kill me. I can't believe its finally over," she said as Jaune placed a hand on her shoulder and looked into her eyes.
"Ya gotta know, deep down somewhere, they were still your family and they loved you. Especially your daddy...even in his final days. He took you all the way back home trying to keep you safe, even with how far gone he was." Jaune finished as she sat there looking off while Ciel came in with a phone giving it to Sophia as Jaune walked away giving her some space. He reached into his pocket and pulled out the necklace he gave Sophia and opened the peace sign to see a photo of him and Ren smiling as a woman with bright orange hair hung off Ren's shoulder. Her smile the brightest thing he had ever seen.
"I'm sorry, I should have been there to help you all." He held the picture as he looked up at the sky.
"I hope that all of you can rest in peace, especially you little brother," Jaune said as he closed the necklace and put it back on over his head as the screen shut off.
Ren smiled as Nora was crying with a happy smile on her face knowing that Jaune cared for them even in another world. She was sad they died, but knowing Jaune will watch over Sophia and protect her was enough to make her happy. Even if she was her daughter from another world.
"Hey, come on, you two. At Least we know that if you guys grew up together then Jaune and Ren would have been like family. Still funny to imagine Jaune busting Ren's nose and close lining him." Yang laughed as Nora smiled giggling.
"Yea, Jaune being the one picking on Ren. It's funny." Nora said as the tears were drying, along with Ren.
"Mr, Arc had become an excellent man in that world." Port nodded as he respected the man for putting family above all else.
"I wonder how he and Jaune were as kids, Velvet said being optimistic while Coco huffed.
"I bet their clothes would have been dirty and disgusting from messing around in the dirt and mud." She stated as Velvet just rolled her eyes ignoring her comment.
"I bet that would have been cute, watching Jaune and Ren fight as kids," Ruby said while the dice appeared again on the table ready to be rolled again.