I do not own RWBY. If I did, Jaune will have wolf tail, not that banana hair.
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'You have gotta be kidding me.'
That is what went through ARC's head at the moment. Seeing Pyrrha, standing next to his younger self.
When he make a contract with Alaya, the will of humanity, for knowledge to defeat Salem, in exchange for his enternal service, he had never been deployed before Beacon's fall, only after. Alaya didn't consider anything before that a threat to humanity. So he never got the chance to meet her again.
Not that he think that he deserve to see her again.
He lost count how many time he have been deployed to kill as a Counter Guardian a long time ago. Endless killing, endless death. If his father seeing him right now, he would have disowned him.
Not that it matter anymore.
That's what he thought. Until now.
Seeing her here, in the flesh, not stones, not pictures, not flash of memories, it makes him feel like he is suffocating inside his white coat. Memories of time when he still wear armor, when he was tired after another training, trying to put it of as fast as he can. Memories of better times, long forgotten, comes back in full forces.
He know all the stuff about multiverse and endless possibilities. He is a proof himself. But he never really consider it, until now.
He know what this mean, that in this universe, Jaune Arc have saved Pyrrha Nikos from her death.
To think that he have success where he failed, he didn't know what to think. Eons of self control is the only reason he can still keep a straight face now, seeing his first failure, the first of many.
Alas, he still have stuff to deal with.
"Who.. who are you?" His younger self said, the one who have yet to see the truth, that he didn't have it in him to be a hero.
"None of your business." He said, kicking Bitch Fall's corpse away.
Oh, he almost forgot, he was in Haven's grand hall, surrounded by Hazel, glowing with lighting dust, who look ready to fight, Mecury, who have fall into combat stance, the cocky grin that always on his face nowhere to be found, only the ruthless killer that his father forged him into, Raven, who may look like combat ready, but actually looking for a way out at a moment's notice like the coward she is, Emerald, who he kick into the wall and still in a concussion. She's not a threat to him but her semblance is still very annoying. Oh, and Vernal and Lionheart, they have stay back, too shock to fight. Qrow, who have pull out Habringer and standing in front of other, ready to fight. Ozpin, in Oscar's body, Long Memory in hand, trying, and failing, to put the shock off his face. Ruby, Yang, Weiss and Nora are still shock, the only one who still calm is Ren, thank to his semblance at full power. His younger self and Pyrrha standing side by side, closer than acceptable for friends, weapons out and ready to fight.
Just another deployment my ass Alaya.
English is not my first language, so criticism is really appreciated.