Cuts of RWBY
A RWBY Fic Collection by AndrewJTalon
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What if Jaune Arc was just insanely lucky?
There was no way around it, Jaune Arc thought to himself as he looked over his map, then at the mine he looked down upon from the top of the cliff he'd hiked to...
"I'm lost," he sighed, carefully folding the map up and tucking it away into his pack. He shook his head and adjusted the straps of his backpack. "Well, nothing for it..."
He carefully descended down the rocky road into the mine. Maybe he could find someone who could give him directions to the nearest main road to Vale?
He saw a light up in what looked like an administrative office. It was his best bet.
Adam Taurus seldom did things like this on his own. He was not some vainglorious fool out for his own ego. Yet this... This was too personal to leave to his troops. He paced in front of the terrified Faunus and humans, all on their knees before him on the hard wooden floor of the mine overseer's office.
"You not only betrayed me and your race by working with these humans," Adam sneered, "You also betrayed yourselves. When you lie, you first lie to yourself." He contemplated Wilt's gleaming red blade, then looked back at the traitor.
She was clinging to her muscled but non-Aura unlocked husband in terror. Their half-breed children clustered around them, whimpering in fear.
"Please," she begged, her wolf ears pressed down agianst her skull, "At-At least spare our children, Adam! They're innocent!"
Adam sneered.
"No one is innocent," he hissed. He hadn't even raised his Aura for this-There was no point. It would also make the kill more visceral. He raised Wilt up, aiming for one of the sobbing brats-
The door to the office swung open, and slammed into Adam's back. The fearsome terrorist and swordsman grunted in shock, then tripped over a bit of pipe lying on the floor. With a high pitched yelp, he lost his balance and flew right through the open window, plummeting into the mine works.
Jaune Arc blinked at the wolf Faunus, man, and their children all sitting on the floor in some confusion, but remembered his manners.
"Oh, hey. I'm sorry to interrupt," he said, "But could you tell me how to get to the main road to Vale?"
The family gaped at him in utter disbelief.
Adam groaned. He shook the stars out of his eyes as he scanned his surroundings through his pounding headache.
"What the...?"
He had ended up in a mine cart on the rails into the mine itself. He dazedly looked up the hill with a scowl. A large group of mine carts were held on the hill above, all locked in thanks to a lever frame with three brightly painted levers. The light in the overseer's office went out over head. Adam grit his teeth.
"Who dares to-?!"
He saw a blond teenaged human boy, a few years younger than him, in white armor with an antique sword and shield emerge further up the track. He was leading the family away. Adam snarled and went for Wilt. No one humiliated him like that and lived-!
The boy tripped as he approached the rails... And grabbed onto one of the levers. He yelped as he fell, shifting the lever down.
The mine carts, all previously held up by the track switch, were overtaken by gravity. One after the other, they rolled downhill in a loud cacophony of mechanical racket. Adam immediately tried to leap away, his superFaunus reflexes responding... Only for his long leather coat to catch and yank him back into the cart, legs up.
"What the-?!"
The mine carts slammed into Adam's and sent them (and Adam) screaming down the tracks into the mine shaft. Adam fell into darkness, unleashing his Aura just in time as he hit the bottom, hard... And as half a dozen very heavy mine carts landed on top of him.
CRASH!
Up above, Jaune Arc got to his feet and winced.
"Geez... I think I need to buy some boots," he said. "I just keep tripping over my own two feet!"
He looked at the again astonished family, and smiled brightly.
"Oh, don't worry! Important thing is... No one got hurt!"
"... Sure," the wolf Faunus woman said with a quick nod. Her husband coughed.
"Ah, but-"
"No one got hurt," she hissed, elbowing her husband.
"Y-yes dear!"
Adam managed to crawl his way out of the mineshaft, bloodied and bruised. He groaned, and looked up as several of his White Fang henchman came upon him.
"Sir?! Are you okay, sir?! What happened?!" The lead, fortunately a medic, asked desperately. Adam growled.
"Some... Wandering human swordsman," he gasped. The medic's eyes were wide behind her mask, as the other Faunus gasped in shock.
"One human did this to you?!" She gasped.
"Y-Yes... He didn't even... Use his sword," he rasped. It hurt his pride to admit it... But there was something more important than pride at stake here.
Revenge.
How else did our intrepid idiot blond thwart Adam's attempts at revenge... Without being aware of them at all?