Here's the next chapter, I've been busy with work and trying to learn art. This one is a bit different in a way as to build up for something you will see next chapter so enjoy. I need sleep now cause I have work in a few hours now.
"Has anyone seen the dice?" Nora asked popping herself out from under her seat as she had been looking for them. After the clip ended they hadn't seen anything while the dice had yet to appear, she remembers how they would pop up eventually or another clip would start but they haven't appeared. "I'm not sure Nora, just be patient," Ren informed her as he sat drinking one of his health smoothies which the arms were able to bring him.
It was hard to get the ingredients for them so being able to have one with fresh ingredients was lovely. But he noticed as Nora was very close look at him as if she was inspecting him. "Yes?" He asked turning to his friend who just squinted her eyes as if inspecting something.
"Renny you've been acting a little strange," Nora stated as she looked at him closely now. Yeah, Ren was a very quiet guy when it came to showing his emotions, then with his semblance, it made it tricky sometimes. But when she thought back to when Jaune was a badass old man she was pretty emotional but that was her. It took a lot to get Ren emotional as she had seen him. Then his face didn't seem right, it looked kinda softer and even his hair was a bit different. It looked a lot silkier than how it usually was.
"Nora what are," Ren was going to ask as they both suddenly felt a chill and looked in the direction of where it was coming from to see that it was the strange little girl who belonged to the masked man. She was looking at them both with her head turned revealing only one of her eyes which was pitch black except for a white pupil that looked at them.
"Uh, I think I'll go talk to Pyrrha!" Nora stated as she took off leaving Ren to his drink. Ren himself only took as he felt the necklace around his neck.
When they separated the little girl looked away and sat silently holding the remote her father gave her just in case something went wrong. He had a surprise ready but didn't want it out too early so when something was going to happen and make people realize then she was supposed to hit the button. So, for now, she sat here waiting for when her father would return and she could go and play.
Meanwhile, as John stood at the hulking armor that was work by a version of his son his wife came over beside him. She placed a hand on his shoulder while holding out a tissue for him to clean his tears. "Thank you," John reached grabbing the tissue which he dried his tears with as he calmed down now.
"I'm just so proud. When we told him he could come back home if he failed," John took a breath calming down. "Makes me think how much we should have actually pushed him onward, should have properly trained him. But I was just so worried about him." He stated as June shook her head.
"I know dear, he was so sick when he was younger we were worried about him. Wanted to keep him safe. But look at what we saw from his letters, he was improving so much with how long he's been there." She informed her husband as he looked down.
"If I had actually trained him instead of thinking he'd give it up maybe he could have been great," John stated as he remembered when his son would run around playing a hunter with a little foam sword. They both began looking at each cabinet seeing each item that was held within them while some gave them an uneasy feeling such as blades attached to chains as flesh and blood were seared to the metal. But they both stopped as they stood in front of one cabinet that was among the earlier ones. The cabinet that they were looking at in question was the one containing a picture frame that held the possible future of the belladonna family.
"What?" John was the first to ask as they both looked at who they were sure was their son, much older but they could tell. Also being the only blonde let them have the bigger clue. Their main focus was the scar on his back which looked like the white fang logo. They didn't know what this was as they arrived much time after this reality was shown.
"Ugh," John reached his hand back on his shoulder getting a phantom feeling of getting something like that branded onto your flesh. A scar that would be with you for the rest of your life, the constant reminder of what caused it and your feelings attached to them. He also had a sense of anger as he would kill whoever did that to their son.
"Cruelty knows no bounds," June stated as they walked off still looking at the cabinets. As the arcs went to see what else there was Roman holding his head while a headache was starting to get him. Neo was really pushing the buttons now.
"No, I am not going to help you. This is the seventh time I have stated since we got here and you wanted that kid as your new toy. No," The man groaned as his bowler hat was over his eyes, a tray appeared holding a small paper cup that had two white pills inside along with a glass of brandy.
"I have no interest in this," Roman said as he reached out taking the small paper cup and popping the pills, he then grabbed the glass of brandy downing it as he could feel the headache suddenly dissipate. Whatever these pills were they worked amazingly fast. Then he felt another poke that made him pull his hat up a bit and look in the corner of his eye, Neo held up her scroll right in his face making him stop and look over the contents reading everything. That was on it instantly piquing his interest as he looked it over. "Now that makes me interested." He smirked as the gears began to turn in his head.
"Alright, I'm in." Neo smiled happily as she plucked her scroll back from his fingers and slipped it into her picket as another tray came down with a meal she had ordered which looked like some kind of soup.
Eventually, the dice appeared at the front again as the Arcs were heading back to their seats with questions, but John had not noticed the table suddenly coming up from the ground so he smashed his shin against it knocking it over and causing the dice to roll across the ground landing near the seats. The table and dice flashed as they disappeared again.
"AAAAAW!" Nora cried as she wanted to throw the dice that finally appeared again. The lights then began to dim as the next world was starting up.
A train was barreling down a tunnel, the cars all jam-packed with white fang members while team RWBY along with Oobleck had made it on board. Oobleck smashed a grunt on the back of their head using his thermos smiling as they fell out rolling along the side tracks.
"Oh, I remember this!" Ruby yelled as she remembered when they boarded the train to stop Torchwick and the White Fang. It was terrible they couldn't stop the train from blowing a hole in Vale but they were lucky to save all the civilians and push the Grimm back into their hole.
"Yeah, we kicked some serious butt that day! It was awesome," Yang said enthusiastically until she remembered something. More of a memory that as she had a weird feeling she was forgetting something. She glanced over at her mother who was sitting there crossing her arms saying nothing. All these years of searching and here she is, all her questions wanting to be asked growing up and even now. But she can't say a thing.
"That was a dangerous day, could have been Glen all over again," Oobleck stated as he remembered how the Grimm just poured out from the hole. He had flashbacks at that moment and even after he had nightmares for a bit after that leaving him in cold sweats for weeks. He had given up coffee for a short time until he had finally gotten over the nightmares and returned to normal. "So many lost on that train," He muttered remembering the rail cars blowing up and then the crash which gravely wounded many of the fang.
"Where is my son?" John looked around in hopes of seeing him, he remembered finding out his son was apart of that incident helping defend against the Grimm. The pride he had hearing that made him the happiest as his worries had been lifted from hearing about his improving fighting abilities.
A blur followed instantly taking the unconscious grunt and then on the train once again as it moved back as the teams were fighting their way through the train. It kept going back grabbing any of the fang that was left behind and taking them in the blink of an eye. The blur speeding past the train heading much farther deeper into the tunnel and off into a side entrance that they were being placed at suddenly with over a dozen of them already in the position. They all landed rolling along the ground and smashing into each other not knowing what happened as they all groaned in pain from smashing into each other.
Meanwhile down the tracks, the mechs were sent flying by Oobleck and crashing among the tracks before blowing up from the dust in them going off but the blur had run around them before they did and the cockpits were empty of any faunus. They were also back at the same place far down at the end of the tunnel before the blur went back towards the train. But soon the train was heading for the giant blast doors that sealed the tunnel uptight and RWBY was protected by ice that Weiss herself made using her glyphs and dust.
"Whoa, what's that!?" Nora pointed at the screen of the blur they kept seeing instantly moving around grabbing people.
"I don't remember any of that," Blake stated as she was inside the train with her team so it was possible they missed what was happening outside.
"Did you see any of that?" Yang asked her sister who was outside while they fought through the train. Ruby then began thinking.
"Uuuuh...no?" She wasn't sure herself as a lot was happening so she didn't notice anything herself really while riding on a train full of bombs and dust.
"I honestly never gave much thought to that," Roman then glared at Neo to his left. "And where were you while I was being captured?" He questioned her as he had not seen her the entire time he was locked up, given it was the plan but it would have been nice to know she didn't just sit around while he sat in a cell rotting waiting for her when they pull off fire brains big plan. Neo only shrugged with a spoon in her mouth.
"I think I may have a guess as to what the blur is," Ozpin had seen many speed semblances and the blur most left due to their speed was something he had come accustomed to such as Miss Rose's semblance. But this was much more beyond any that he had seen before, it was certainly impressive. "I would also agree to that," Glynda stated as she pushed her glasses up watching the scene play out before her. She remembered all the damages that day.
Luckily her semblance was able to keep the hole sealed until proper actions could be taken to seal the damage.
The scene suddenly stopped just as the train crashed and it began to rewind all the way back to the beginning until it stopped just as the train was barreling down the tunnel. Time seemed to slow down incredibly as a fly was almost frozen in place but the very slow motion of its wings flapping down incredibly slow, time had not stopped.
Stepping into view was a pair of sneakers, the view kept moving showing more of the outfit which was a pair of jeans and a grey jacket with a t-shirt if a certain cereal mascot. Then finally the blonde hair of Jaune Arc who was also wearing goggles and special earbuds that were over his ears. He held a small snack which was a twinkie while in his other hand was a paper that had the letter he was sent by an old friend of his who was caught up in the fang. He looked at the train surprised as he looked over the letter once more and then at the grunts who were running but seemed to be frozen in place.
Jaune let go of the paper and reached down pressing the button on his scroll and started playing music into his headphones. A beat was playing on its own before suddenly he sped up to the train almost instantly leaving the snack and paper floating in the air.
"If I could save time in a bottle. The first thing that I'd like to do,"
He then stopped right on top of the train as he looked at team rwby and Oobleck, but even they were frozen in place moving incredibly slow. He moved over a hatch to see the explosive he was told about in the letter.
"Is to save every day. 'Til eternity passes away. Just to spend them with you,"
"Whoa!" Nora yelled as she shook Ren by his shoulders. "Ren Jaune can stop time!" She announced completely amazed by this version of her leader.
"I...don't think that's...it," Ren stated as he was getting dizzy from the sudden shaking that actually caught him off guard.
"He is moving at an accelerated pace," A voice suddenly spoke making them look up and see the masked man standing behind them. Nora screamed from surprise seeing this guy again as he had been gone for a bit and only the little creepy girl had been sitting there not saying a thing. He just ignored her walking over to his daughter and motioning her to leave which she did hopping off her seat and walking over to the wall leaving phasing through the door. He took the seat and held the remote she had placing it in his hood.
"What do you mean an accelerated pace?" Ironwood asked as he only sat there saying nothing to the man. His presence made everyone unsettled as he only sat there wearing that mask which hid where he was looking and what his expression was.
Jaune looked back and ran appearing at the next car opening the top to see another bomb, he did the same with the next only to get the same thing in each and every one of them. He had no clue how to disarm them and was sure if he moved it then he would go boom.
He shut them all and ran through the train counting each and every single person on board stopping in one of the cars as he looked at Neo. He leaned down a bit and looked at her.
"If I could make days last forever if words could make wishes come true."
"Huh," He zipped off through the door and all the way up to the front of the train. He looked around counting and then ran outside the train and all the way to the end of the tunnel where he saw the two large blast doors sealed up tight and welded shut. He looked around and saw the door off to the side and he ran over kicking it open making the entire thing fly off the hinges and slowly spinning through the air from his kicking it open. It was another hallway and he began speeding around looking through everything until he found a door leading above ground. He stopped and placed his hands on the door as time sped back up and the door he kicked open clattered across the ground.
"Whoa, I can't even move that fast!" Ruby yelled as she could see just how fast Jaune was moving now. She did see some things move just a bit slower when she really tried but other than that she couldn't move even fast enough to what she's seeing.
"His speed is more than any vehicle or any semblance I have seen," Penny stated as she attempted to calculate his speed but she wasn't able to keep an exact measurement for his speed.
"How is this even possible?" Weiss stated as she had never seen the fool use his semblance before and she sure it wasn't speeding.
"Different worlds, the mirror of the souls and whatever shit," The masked man said as he grabbed a bottle and lifting it to his mask which he lifted up taking a drink from before putting it back down.
"You are a troubled man," Ozpin said as he suddenly felt a glare hit him and he saw the man turning his head slightly. He could feel the look coming from him before he just turned back to the screen watching.
Jaune placed his hands against the metal of the door and began to make his hands vibrate, he sped up the amount he was using while the music in his ears had stopped and was now just a speeding mess. He then suddenly made the welding around the door crack and fall apart as he took his hands off. He tapped the door and watched it fall back and expose the exit as he sped back down the tunnel to see that there were fewer cars now, he sped back down and grabbed the knocked out grunt and pulled him back to the exit leaving him in the air as he ran back grabbing more of them taking them off the train and back down the tunnel almost instant as he was running.
"I'd save every day like a treasure and then, again, I would spend them with you."
He looked through each car until he saw the mechs falling off from Oobleck, he ran down the car and jumped onto the mech searching and looking for the release lever which opened up the cockpit. Once it was open he grabbed the pilot and ran them back along with all the others until he had made sure to grab each and every single white fang on board.
"He's saving them?" Blake was stunned as she witnessed him running through all of the cars and mechs making sure to check everywhere for anyone and taking them off the train and back down the tunnel.
"Our son always saw the value of a person's life, we taught him not to judge a book by its cover," June informed Blake as she herself did not want Jaune to act as some children who were like their parents hating faunus.
"But some books should be tossed away once you learn the contents," John glared back at Ozpin lacing each word with venom.
"Kids fast in this one, I'll give him that," Qrow added in his opinion.
"With speed like that he can evacuate an area in a matter of seconds," Port thought of how useful it could have been when they were faced with the incident all those years ago. Maybe then all those sounds of hands smashing against the doors and the cries for help could have been prevented.
"I bet with that speed he could go faster than rabbits," Coco smirked looking at Velvet who blushed elbowing her leader to shut up.
Jaune stopped as he saw that every single one of the White Fang members were outside of the train he ran grabbing the unconscious Roman and running back out leaving him above the group having to adjust him to due to the momentum that would be carried through him once he let go.
"But there never seems to be enough time to do the things you want to do once you find them,"
He was about to run back but he turned back and grabbed Roman's hat and placing it on his own head after taking his hand and sticking a finger above his own nose. So now he looked at Roman with a finger up his own nose looking like he was picking his nose.
"Oh you little shit," Roman growled as he clenched his fist, no one made fun of Roman Torchwick. He would make sure to make him pay even if this was another world.
Most of the younger hunters laughed or chuckled seeing what was done to the so-called criminal mastermind.
"I see this version has a bit of a more joking side," Glynda could only imagine the headache that she would have to deal with of their Arc was anything like this version able to speed off and cause any kind of action without a single person knowing he had even moved from his spot.
"I am astounded to see that even with all the few we have seen he shows compassion for others than himself," Oobleck started watching as Arc moved to inspect every inch he could get to ensuring he saved everyone.
Jaune moved back through the hall and back up to the surface after kicking open a manhole after running up the wall. His momentum having sent the thing flying as he looked around and saw just where the train was coming up through the ground crashing and all the civilians in the way. He rushed over and began to move each and every one of them out of the way picking them up and running them far from the damage as the concrete was breaking apart.
"I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with,"
He then jumped up over the broken cement as the train was coming through and he grabbed each of the civilians that were being pushed into the air from the sudden force. He stepped on each chunk pulling them along as he ran back taking them away as he remembered seeing Grimm coming from the tunnel when he was down there. When he had finished getting every single person out of the way at a safe distance he stood there and watched as the train busted through the ground destroying everything as it exited the underground.
"His speed is incredible, he saved every single civilian who was within the damage," Port stated impressed seeing even though in the air from the force being saved from any damage.
"Imagine doing recon and even gathering enemy information." Ironwood thought to hold his chin. His speed was fast enough that no one could even realize what was happening. He could slip right into enemy territory and gather everything he needed and leave without a trace in seconds.
"It certainly would be good, lessen casualties of spies captured and recon teams killed," Winter herself added as she remembered all the scouts lost to Grimm when spending too long in forests spying on the enemy.
Jaune looked around at the mess before the alarms started going off. He looked at all the Grimm and he saw how they were just flooding from the hole now. "Huh, more than I thought," He pulled his goggles back down and zipped over looking at the open maw of a king taiju that was striking at the team who were still disoriented.
"Oh does he have a different weapon!?" Ruby wanted to see some kind of weapon that Jaune could use in this world, she did love seeing all the different weapons in these worlds.
He pulled back his arm back and swung it right at the bottom of its jaw sending its head up, Jaune then ran up one of the cars jumping as he appeared back at the head and kicked sending its head back down while he falls for the ground and ran again catching up to the head just as it was about to hit the ground. He lifted his leg kicking it to the left and then ran over punching it again sending it the opposite direction. He moved past it one more time and held up a pipe that he held swinging it right into the top if its bone armor and piercing its head. He stepped back and slowed down as everything sped back up and the Grimm hissed and cried curling up on the ground dying. Luckily this one only had one head instead of two.
"Woa!" He looked at it die before he suddenly got slapped away by its tail catching him off guard, he rolled and tumbled before smashing right into a car denting it in. "Ugh," He groaned lifting his goggles up shaking the glass from his hair.
"Oooh that's gonna smart," Nora cringed seeing Jaune flop along the ground like a rag doll.
"Note, pay attention to tails swinging." He stated as he pulled off his earphones that broke along with his scroll. "Man, I liked that one." He slowly got up seeing the fight going on between the huntsmen, soldiers, and Grimm. He only pulled back down his goggles and ran off again this time being seen from a normal pace as his blur could be seen moving around the place pulling people out of danger and leaving thing sin Grimms way to smash into or impale themselves into.
In a matter of less than a second Grimm ran into cars and piles that were moved into their path. The ones being impaled in pain or dead while suddenly there confused was Goodwitch looking around confused.
"Come on close the hole," Jaune suddenly said fast before speeding off again as he moved a civilian that was about to be caught by a Beowulf. Instead, he left a grenade he took off a soldier and tossed it down its throat before blowing up. He stopped for a second and ended taking a quick breather as he checked his watch at the time seeing that they could handle themselves now.
Jaune looked down and saw a dog sniffing his shoe before looking up at him and barking. He reached down and pet the little guy until his watch beeped again with an alarm going off.
"Later little guy gotta get somewhere while all this is going on." He ran off leaving the small corgi who looked down seeing a bone. Zwei barked before picking up the bone in his teeth and chewing on it.
The screen shut off and the lights returned ending this world, the first one to say anything was their masked captor.
"Hmm, these are getting too short." He got up from the seat and walked down to the dice picking them up and placing them into his hood, after a few moments he pulled his arm back out and the dice had changed shape along with the number of them now being four in total and becoming twenty-sided. He held them back up to the seats for one to grab.
"Who's first,"