A/N: thanks for all the favs and follows guys n' gals, I'd like something a bit more than just that though TBH, I would enjoy seeing some actual reviews or even a DM or two so I know if this is trash or not, I did get a bit of help from my friend(?) Vendetta543 and decided to remove the *MANDATORY EYE REST/BREAK* I was doing with the line break, he said it was unnecessary and now that I think about it I agree(mostly because I started to feel like the only one who reads until my eyes go blurry AF)
Anyways, I admit to being a rank amateur at writing and would appreciate any feedback as I have no beta and have issues keeping track of things due to life and my possible OCD,ADHD or high functioning autistic tendencies (no official diagnosis yet so possibly just hypochondria).
BTW I'm gonna be, like, 30 in a few months (gasp!) first day of September (I know not that close and unnecessary info.)
Anyway I hope you enjoy my attempts at making a worthwhilestory =-3.
Now on with the story! Alons-y!
Chapter two : How, What, Who, Why?
Jaune found himself once again waking up in an odd situation in his, only recently non-single, life. 'What happened last night?' He thought, he was safe he knew that, he was also in an actual bed this time and he was warm, well rested, if a little sore in his muscles. The issue was that he couldn't really remember how he had gotten to the bed or why he wasn't alone in it, right there laying half across his body and snuggling into his chest was a very soft, cuddly and naked Nora, his girlfriend of what was only slightly less that twenty four hours 'Wait, Nora and I went on our date to the diner, after I'd finished my paperwork, we had a good time just talking and eating, Nora was her usual gorgeous energy bomb, then...' he thought trying to remember what had led up to them ending up in the same bed, naked as the day they were born, and with one, (as he just now noticed) barely containing herself,Yang Xiao-Long standing in the doorway of his room pointing her scroll at them with that annoying little camera shutter sound going off as she took, what he could only assume was the hundredth picture of them for some kinda blackmail purposes.
"Oi! You'd better delete those ya perv!" He croaked out with a dry mouth, trying and failing to not flush bright neon red as he tried to pull the blankets further up to hide his an Nora's bare chests and retain some modicum of privacy, it didn't help him that Nora was still fast asleep and he couldn't wiggle his way out of her grasp to do more than grab the blanket and haul it higher.
His pitiful glare did nothing to cow Yang into deleting the pictures she'd take as she grinned devilishly at him " Nope, not happenin' Lover-boy!" She cackled at him quietly adding an extra pop to the 'P' ,as she suggestively raked her eyes up and down his and Nora's barely hidden bodies. "Damn, if I wasn't sure I batted for the other team and that Nora would, literally, try to take my head off I'd ask if I could take you for a spin myself VB." She joked at him, waggling her eyebrows at him and watching his face contort with pure mortification at what she just said. It meant that she had, quite possibly, seen more than just their torsos bared.
"H-how much did you see? A-and, um, what happened last night-night?" Jaune whimpered as he finally managed to sit himself up still clutching both Nora and the blanket to his chest, trying to gently wake the latter so they could both try to catch Yang and erase any evidence of their, rather exposed, state that may be on Yangs scroll.
"Oho! I saw about thiiiis much, definitely well equipped sir knight!" She cackled back in response, holding her hands an about 7inches apart and grinning madly, before she finally sobered up and looked at them seriously. "So, yeah I was sent her to call you two out to a briefing the Cap is holding today. They chose me coz no one else had the balls to come in here after the uh, noise? You two made last night after we all got back from the club, I can see why now!"
"Seriously, VB! Y'all just got together, like not even yesterday and you two already got further than me and Blake did! Took us at least a month before we finally stopped dancing around the subject and banged!" Yang exclaimed loudly enough for the orange haired bomber so start shifting and wake up. "Oh yeah! The briefing in, like, ten minutes? So I suggest we all talk about what happened last night later, so get that surprisingly tight butt into some jeans and bring your "Curvy warrior goddess" down to meeting room gamma, like pronto! Later!" She called as she threw both a clean set of bot his and Nora's clothes at them and ran out the door, leaving Jaune to sit there in shock as he felt Nora squirm in his lap as she woke, the feeling of her body did things to him that made his mind halt in its racing around the fact that Yang had somehow heard him call Nora his curvy warrior goddess and brought him back to said goddess in his arms yawning cutely in a way only Nora could make cute.
"Morning Jauney, wow who knew you could use your semblance like that!" She mumbled out sleepily, stretching her back and practically throwing her generous chest into his face. "What're we doing today babe?" She asked rubbing sleep from her eyes. Jaune, who had a face full of boob, pulled himself away reluctantly as he shifted off the bed and started to dress and replied.
"Meeting in ten at room Gamma, some kinda briefing Nic has for us, so no breakfast yet..." he trailed off for a moment. "D-did we go to a bar after our date last night, get wasted, come back here and, uhm, d-do it?" His mind not letting him say the word.
"Y'mean did we fuck?" Nora blurted brightly, not seeming to notice how red Jaune had gotten at her use of the word. "Yup we did, do the do, and gotta say Fearless Leader, IT. WAS. AWESOME."
She kissed him on the cheek as she picked up a pair of panties that she looked at strangely. "These aren't mine." Was all she said frowning " these are more like what Yang'd wear..and I wasn't wearing any last night." She stated bluntly. Jaune blushed as he was reminded of that tiny detail. Nora shrugged and pulled the tiny boy short styled panties up over her thicc thighs and settled them over her plump rear. "They'll do for now, wish I could grab a shower though, Gamma is waaaaayy too far!" She groaned as she grabbed more clothes and tossed them on, deciding to forgo a bra and her usual shirt for simply grabbing his shirt he'd worn the previous night on their date.
Jaune gawked at how comfortable Nora seemed to be with those actions, freezing in his own attempts to dress, he snapped back to reality as his scroll pinged beside him and he reached over to pick it up with one arm still not fully in his sleeve. There was a notification on it saying that he'd received a reel of photos from Yang with a caption that read. Thought you'd like to add these to the spank bank ;-p !' He blushed again and stuffed the scroll into the pocket of his jeans without opening the message.
'By Ohm, now Yang's gonna be the death of me!' He thought to himself as he finished dressing, snagged Nora by the hand and trudged off to meeting room Gamma.
5 minutes later at the meeting room.
They were both out of breath as the arrived at the door to the briefing room, having had to run practically all the way there when they realised it had taken them more that four minutes to get decent and leave the quarters they'd shared the night in. They had only just made it to the room with thirty second to spare as the crumpled into a pair of seats next to Ren and Oscar, who glanced at them with a mix of amusement and youthful grossed-out-ness respectively. Apparently everyone and their dog knew of the events of the previous night causing Jaune to flush red for the upteenth time that day, and he noticed a very slight red tinge creep up to Nora's ears as she seemed to just now realise that they may not have been as discreet as she thought they'd been last night.
"Ahem! Welcome everyone, now that we are all here and in considerably more professional states of dress, bar the interesting choice of attire of miss Valkyrie, we can start the briefing.Nya." The speaker at the front of the room wasn't Captain KingsWolfe like they had a expected, instead it was a tall, lithe lynx tailed Faunus woman with thin squinted eyes and a decidedly cat like demeanour, wearing a blue blouse and black pencil skirt that fit her delicate curves well, and small round spectacles perched on her small button nose. Despite her somewhat cutesy speaking pattern everyone knew that the lynx woman was not to be messed with in the department due to her no nonsense attitude towards anything she deemed inappropriate for an elite unit like the FCT. "Ny-ow let's get this briefing done and keep it brief. As you should know by ny-ow, I am Inspector Lin-Xi of the investigations unit of the FCT, and to sum up this briefing in a few words." She paused to take a breath while all but glared out at the people in the room. "Late last ny-ight, as he was attending to some of his outside businesses our taskforce captain Ny-icklaus KingsWolfe was involved in a, mirrr, an incident involving some low level thugs breaking their way into a privately owned club, owned by the Captain himself." She turned on a projector in the middle of the room and several pictures appeared on the screen depicting the damage after the attack.
"As you can see, the incident in question only caused minor cosmetic damages to the club and no civilian casualties, however as this was a direct result of anti-Faunus sentiment directed at a Faunus inclusive establishment the government has declared that, despite the direct connection of the owner of the club being our taskforce captain, that we are to investigate the reasons behind the attack and catch the mastermind behind the incitement of the criminal elements that were involved. Nyyaah."
Despite everything being said with a serious tone and Lin-Xi having a deadpan face, Jaune couldn't help but think to himself 'there is no way in hell she says things like "nya" and "mirrr" naturally, I has to be a bit!' As if she had caught on to what he was thinking the Inspectors head snapped around in his direction and, seemingly out of nowhere, a piece of chalk shot out and clocked Jaune between the eyes at high velocity, knocking him out of his chair.
"owww.." he moaned as he laid on the ground rubbing his forehead miserably. "What was that for?"
"Fur not paying proper attention to important details of a case that we can-ny-ot afford to bungle because if we do we will lose practically any credibility for this taskforce with the council, they already have it out for us as it is being an almost entirely Faunus run department! Nyaahhh!" Lin-Xi's voice was erring on the side of becoming shrill as she obviously felt that because the attack was on the Captain's property, they were stuck with a conflict of interest and being set up to fail.
"I was paying attention! We have to investigate some supposed mastermind behind a gang who attacked a Faunus run establishment that just happens to be owned by the Captain who is in charge of our department of Atlas law enforcement, which we all know is underfunded by the council because they think this department is just a political stunt by Ironwood to get his poll numbers up because the majority of the high society elite have outdated views on Faunus rights." He rambled back irritably. "Just coz I don't have a tail or an extra set of ears doesn't mean I don't pay attention." He sat back in his seat grumpily still rubbing the mark on his forehead, Lin-Xi must have infused some aura into the chalk as it had actually impacted even his massive Aura.
Nora moved his hand away from his head and boldly kissed the spot the chalk had hit. Once again Jaune turned red.
"Hmmph, fine then, moving on." The lynx woman huffed returning to her professional demeanour without giving an apology. "The reason that the Captain called this meeting, yet is ny-ot the one running it, is that he is so closely connected to the case that he has decided to delegate this to other people in the department in a strategic move to show that we are being impartial and not bringing personal or political bias into the investigation. Nya."
"you will all ny-ow be handed a dossier packet with your assignments for this investigation. Inside you will also find your assigned partner and squad members you will be working with, for the sake of the highest possible success rate of the mission you have all been assigned to a team that will take advantage of the best possible combination of factors we could determine. Nya." Lin-Xi continued briskly. "You may not like your assigned team or partner for the operation but I implore you to consider that these were teams chosen by the Captain for good reason. That is all I have to say, study your dossier closely and do ny-ot leave them lying around or miss any details enclosed within them! Nya!" And with that last Nya she walked out the doors to the briefing room her lynx tail bristled with her obvious bad mood.
"What's her problem?" Yang called out confused at the sudden bad mood of the Inspector, the woman was only two years older than them so she should have been easier for them to get along with and understand. "It's kinda like she had a grudge against Mr Longsword over there... oh my Ohm! She must've had a thing for Nora! And Jaune blocked her!"
Putting aside the new innuendo laced nickname Yang had given him, Jaune felt that she was jumping to conclusions, before Nora and he got together, like just yesterday, Nora was still assumed to be with Ren. Also Nora was firmly on team hetero as far as she'd told anyone. In the end he shrugged it off and opened up his dossier.
Mission assignment for Jaune Arc: Huntsman assigned to FCT department of the Atlas law enforcement division.
Enclosed within this document please find the details of the mission assignment for one agent Jaune Arc of vale, on assignment to the FCT under order of General James Ironwood of the Atlas military division.
Mission assignment: investigate ruined village in the Solitas tundra reported to be a forward base of a rising radical anti-Faunus group labelling themselves as the Red Fang deriving there name ironically from the recently reformed Faunus rights activist/terrorist group the White Fang.
Estimated enemy numbers in the ruined settlement is unknown however it has been reported to be an active site of Faunus slave imprisonment and sale.
Squad assignment: White wolf squad.
Squad leader: Covert operations squad commander- Crimson Sabrehound.
Partner assignment: Agent Blake Belladonna of vale, on assignment to the FCT under order of General James Ironwood of the Atlas military division.
Note: Under the directive given by Captain Nicklaus KingsWolfe of the FCT, Jaune Arc has been assigned the role of second in command of the White Wolfe squad until the end of the operation.
As he looked over the details of the mission on the first page he noted that there was a separate, smaller, packet inside the first that contained satellite images of the mission site, how they had gotten said images he had no idea as it was nearly impossible to get a satellite off of Remnant let alone have enough power to receive images from one. There was a reason that they all had relied on the CCT towers before the fall of Beacon.
Find enclosedwithinclassifiedimages of mission target location:
there were a total of five images in the packet, all of them showing different entry points and enemy positions, of the ruined village.
He had to look away from his assignment as he felt a rapid, forceful prodding on his shoulder. It was Nora trying to get his attention. "Ow! Hey Nora what gives?!" He yelped rubbing the forming bruise on his shoulder.
"What kinda assignment did you get babe?! What squad?! Who's your partner?! I got Yang! And Blue wolf squad!" Nora said excitedly, grabbing her boyfriend's shoulder and shaking him. Suddenly she stopped shaking him when she caught a glimpse of the squad he was assigned to. "Aww, we're on different teams! I'm gonna go bonk Nicky on the head till he put us on the same team!" She shot up and began trying to storm out to find Captain Nicklaus to do just that.
"Wait! Nora! Stop!" He yelped in panic, as he leaped from his seat and quickly grabbed her about the shoulders. "S-sweetie please to go hitting the Captain, we got put on different teams for a good reason I'm sure!" He hastily whispered in her ear.
"Daww, the love birds are at it again guys!" Yang called out somewhat mockingly "careful where you put your hands there loverboy~. There's a lot of people 'round here~." She added in a sing song voice and leered at them jokingly as she gestured at where Jaune's hands had, inadvertently in his rush, landed on Nora's boobs.
He blushed again as he realised where his hands were. He felt the soft, yet firm and bouncy, flesh of this girlfriend breasts beneath his palms, and he unconsciously gave them a light, but firm squeeze. "Ah! Jauney!?" She gasped out breathily, her eyes becoming lidded with lust. "Didn't think you'd be that insatiable babe! I won't go knock sense into Nicky if you come with me right now before we go off on our missions!" She groaned. She then whirled around and picked him up off the ground bodily to his utter, stunned shock.
"Later guys! Me and Fearless Leader here have some serious business to take care go take care of! Don't. Disturb. Us!" She called to the group as she hauled Jaune out of the room holding him over her head and running like they had an alpha beowolf on their tail.
Everyone left in the room sweat dropped and the duos exit. "D-did we just let loose a horny monster?" Yang mumbled in disbelief, her eyes wide in shock, to her group, the remaining members of teams RWBY and ORNJ. "Maybe we should have put up a token resistance to her claim for his sake..."
Oscar had one word to give the situation. "Eww" he shuddered and left it at that.
It seemed perhaps that the duo would be the death of them from second hand embarrassment. 'At least he has the right equipment to handle her! ' Yang thought to herself as she sent a silent prayer to any gods that were listening for their resident knight to survive the coming battle with the Valkyrie.
"It would seem that it is required that we improve the sound proofing on the Agents quarters, Captain, we can't let other operatives and personnel be subjected to the...noises, that Agents Arc and Valkyrie have begun... emitting." The tired voice of lieutenant Lyca, her eyes rimmed in dark shadows with puffy eye bags, clearly a victim of said sounds coming from Arcs room last night. Her Husky dog ears drooped down tiredly from lack of sleep.
"Hmm, yes, yes, I'll deal with that later, as soon as I get back." Was the distracted reply Nicklaus gave her, as his had raced across the papers and documents before him, signing for supply requests and authorisations for operations and leave, also placing a request for repairs to his club. His eyes hadn't changed through the usual cycle of bright colours that would indicate he was in a good mood, nor did they change into a colour that indicated a use of his powers. His eyes remained a near blood red, typically the colour of his darker side, the side where he hated. It was a side he didn't like about himself the side of him that called for death and blood, the Bad Wolf.
Ever since he had interrogated the crime boss that had ruled over the zone of Atlas, Lobo, he hadn't been able to switch back to his regular self. He had been distracted and distant from everyone around him, granted it wasn't long since he'd only just finished interrogations that morning, but even that short time was enough for people that knew him to notice.
'What are you up to now old man.' He growled to himself, his pupils turned to slits and his hands unconsciously, released their claws into the wood of his desk as his rage began to come to the surface once again.
"S-sir?" Lt Lyca flinched as his claws cracked into the wood. He jolted out of his thoughts at that, and he quickly retracted his claws from the desk and sent an apologetic glance to his lieutenant.
"It's nothing Lyca, just had a rough night." He said to her quietly. "I need to leave now, please get all this paperwork filed and sent to the proper administrators." He stood up from his desk and moved over to the far wall where he kept his armoury. He set about removing the pieces of his powered armour Obsidian Knight, the plates fit into place with a whir and hiss as they locked to his body (similar to the Ironman armour just slightly more angular and boxy) he reached out and lifted his helm of of the manikin head that held it, the black of the single eye visor gleaming (looks similar to the head of Optimus Prime only black) he placed it on his head and it clicked into place.
"Welcome back sir." A mechanical voice sounded in his ear as the visual display lit up in front of his face. As the unit powered up he reached into the armoury one last time and drew forth his blade "Variable Claw" and locked it magnetically in place on his back.
"Glad to hear you're still online Veritas." Nicklaus said to the AI system integrated into his armour. "Warm up the boosters Veritas, we need to take a trip to the old homestead!" His tone was grim.
"Yes sir, might I remind you that operational time for this unit is limited due to lack of sufficient advancement in economic fuel resources, the estimated flight time at full capacity will take twenty four weeks and will require a recharge time of approximately three days afterwards." Veritas told him "I do not suggest attempting to utilise your own personal Aura to supplement the usage time of this unit. This unit is expendable, you are not."
Now fully suited up in his third rendition of his Obsidian Knight armour the FCT captain walked over to the launch chute he had installed in his office. "Hold down the fort for me Lyca, keep the kids alive, they still got work to do." His voice came out tinny, like he was speaking into a metal tube.
"Of course Sir, but why are you taking out that experimental power suit? Is it something serious?" She questioned him worriedly, thinking of the last time he'd used one of those metal death traps to go to Vale in an attempt to kill the Grimm wyvern that had taken over the Beacon tower, an attempt that had failed spectacularly when his suit ran out of power just as he'd cut a third of the way into the beasts neck, he'd nearly fallen to his death if it wasn't for Glynda Goodwitch catching him at the last minute. Lyca shook her head at that, her wife absolutely adored "The Witch of Beacon" and it seemed that when the witch had saved the fabled black knight it only made her wife all the more giddy as she began to 'ship' the two.
"Don't worry, I'm only using this tin can for transport, I'm going somewhere a bullhead can't get to." Was the only reply she got before he blasted up and out jetting off into the air and off to an unknown destination at Mach 5.
As he travelled he let his instincts take hold guiding him to where his personal story had begun and thinking of what he had lost. The clues he was looking for must be there, if they weren't then at least he'd make sure no one else could find it again. The old man had been one person too many, no one else would find that cursed fountain again, not even if it was the last chance they had against the Grimm hoards.
A/N: I hope that at least some of this makes any sense to any of you, this is definitely being made up as I go with no real planning, this is also STILL in the plot set up phase and hopefully my odd duck brain will allow me to make this actually work.
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Your friendly neighbourhood dark archer signing off! Ciao!