Cuts of RWBY
A RWBY Fic Collection by AndrewJTalon
DISCLAIMER: This is a fan based work of prose. RWBY is the property of Rooster Teeth and WB Animation. Please support the official release.
Just a collection of plot bunnies and ideas for RWBY fics. Free for you to take and make use of.
For instance... If Jaune thought strategically during the Vytal Festival...
"Jaune... Jaune, I love you."
"I know... I also know, that if I have to choose between me or you? I'll choose you. Every time."
Using a technique she'd taught him, Jaune grabbed Pyrrha's arm and tripped her feet, pitching her into the locker. Her eyes widened in shock as he slammed the door shut behind her. The locker launched, and Pyrrha was sent tumbling through the air.
"JAUNE NOOOO!"
She extended Polarity, tried to right the course, to send the rocket locker back to the tower... But without any way to see outside, she tumbled and spun!
Until finally, it landed... And with a push, Pyrrha BLASTED the locker apart. She looked around as daylight hit her eyes: She was somewhere down on the campus. She saw Yang running towards the library.
"Damnit!" She hissed. She ran after Yang, dodging through the panicking people. "Sorry! Excuse me! Out of the way!"
She caught up with Yang, running alongside her. She gaped at Pyrrha in shock.
"P-Money?! How did you-?!"
"No time!" Pyrrha barked. They rounded a corner and saw Blake. A tall redheaded man in black stood over her, red katana held up over head.
"BLAKE!" Yang shouted. Pyrrha threw Milo right at the redhead. He turned and deflected her spear, but Pyrrha called it right back as she charged him. He swung his blade and unleashed a red aura slice. She leaped over it, the tips of her boots getting sliced off. She shifted Milo into gun mode and fired at point blank range. The redhead deflected the shots furiously, as Yang poured her fire on from the flank. He ran off, jumping through the nearest window and running.
Pyrrha hefted Blake up to her feet.
"You all right?" She asked.
"I'm fine, what-?!"
"We need to get to Ozpin's office, NOW!" Pyrrha ordered. "Jaune's fighting Cinder alone!"
Yang gaped. Blake gasped.
"All by himself?! Is he crazy?!" Yang shouted.
"Doesn't matter, we need to get back and back him up! NOW!" Pyrrha roared. "Get your sister, get anyone else-MOVE!"
They followed her as she ran. Pyrrha pushed herself as far as she could go, every bit. Yang and Blake struggled to keep up. If they could find anyone else along the way, they'd go, but she was not leaving Jaune to die.
Not if she could help it!
In hindsight, being seen as a joke and not a threat was a good thing. It was probably the only reason Jaune was still alive, as he ran around, dodging Cinder's blasts and arrows. She was laughing mockingly at him every time he managed to leap over a blast, reveling in her new power.
Good. Good, just keep playing with me... Keep playing with me-
"GAH!" Jaune took a hit and was blasted into a wall. He'd barely gotten his shield up in time, but even then, the heat was nearly unbearable.
"So, what?" Cinder sneered. "You thought you could be the big hero, boy? Fight me all on your own?"
"Nah," Jaune shot back, "Just thought I'd save Pyrrha the trouble." He grinned mockingly at her. "Why should she waste time with someone held back into their twenties from Hunter school?"
Cinder growled.
"Sorry. I meant thirties? Forties? Am I getting warm?"
Cinder threw another series of fireballs, but Jaune was able to run and dodge. He kept his pattern random, ducking behind furniture at the last second, tossing up debris. He checked his Aura: Yeah, not looking good.
Come on Pyrrha, come on...!
Jaune dropped through a hole in the floor, screaming as he did. Cinder laughed, and strode up on over it to look down.
"My, done already, little boy?" She cackled.
Jaune threw himself upwards and swung his sword for Cinder's head! Shocked, she pulled back just in time-Though a lock of her hair was separated. Jaune didn't waste any time, swinging and thrusting hard and fast, trying to keep Cinder on the defensive!
She shielded herself by summoning more floating glass arrows, and jumped back. She unleashed a fire blast, much bigger than before. Jaune threw himself to the side, and ran for dear life as Cinder fired more arrows and fire blasts.
"PATHETIC!" Cinder snarled. "Did you really think that would defeat me?!"
"WAS A THOUGHT!" Jaune shouted. "GUESS YOU DO KNOW HOW TO HANDLE A SHAFT COMING FOR YOUR FACE!"
"Wha-YOU BASTARD!" Cinder screamed. She unleashed a roiling fire blast along the floor, tearing holes and cracks in the surface. Jaune tumbled out of the way, but a stay shot of shrapnel hit him in the shoulder. He bit back a yell, and backtracked frantically to avoid five arrows embedding themselves in the floor.
He scrambled back to his feet and ran back towards the edge of the wrecked office's balcony. Another fire blast ripped open a hole in the roof overhead, and Jaune held up his shield to protect himself from the falling debris.
"AUGH! GAH!" He cried out. Cinder smirked at him as their eyes met.
"Luck's run out, boy!"
She launched another fire blast, engulfing Jaune just as he got his shield up. The blast rocked the office, shaking more debris loose from the ceiling. Cinder laughed mockingly as she beheld a fiery crater, covered in smoke, where the blond had once stood.
"HAHAHAHAHA! Not so smart now that you're dead, are you, boy?" She cackled. "I can't wait to show your little girlfriend your roasted corpse!"
"Nngh... Gah..."
Her eyes widened. A figure staggered up, up, out of the crater. He stepped out of the smoke, holding his partially melted shield. He was covered in first and second degree burns. Blood poured from his head over his face. His swordarm was limp, broken.
Yet he still growled at her, eyes burning with fury.
"You think... That I'd roll over... And die... To some... Shitty attack like that?!" He snarled. He stalked towards her, the fury in his eyes making Cinder take a step back out of instinctive fear.
Those eyes... Those eyes...!
"You're just... Some whore who sold herself for power..." Jaune spat, "I... Am a Huntsman... JAUNE ARC!"
Cinder snarled. She held up her hand, prepared a huge fire blast to finish this-this whelp off once and for all-!
Sniper fire rang out, and Cinder barely jumped out of the way before anti-material Dust rounds would have buried themselves in her head. She glared hatefully as Ruby Rose, Pyrrha Nikos, Yang Xiao-Long, and Blake Belladonna confronted her.
Jaune, for his part, laughed tiredly.
"Took you... Long enough..."
"I'm sorry Jaune," Pyrrha apologized, her eyes burning in fury as she glared at Cinder, "Thank you. We'll take it from here."
"Don't... Mention it," he mumbled.
"Blake! Get Jaune out of here!" Ruby shouted. "Then get back! We're taking this bitch down!"
"What she said!" Yang snarled, slamming her gauntlets together.
"I get her head," Pyrrha snarled.
Blake flitted to Jaune, and helped support him. He leaned against her as she quickly lifted him up and jumped out the window.
"Are you all right?" Blake asked desperately.
"I'll live," Jaune managed, "But Cinder won't... That's what matters..."