King: I know people asked for Doom (2016) specifically, but I saw Eternal's reveal recently and I just like the weapon versions more. Hope this is still worth it~ Enjoy!
Inspiration: Doom: Eternal
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King was still away, so the next round started to form on screen.
The screen opened to a black out as a voice over began, curtesy of James Ironwood, "Jaune Arc was never what one would call a 'stable' man."
This phrasing made Ruby groan, "Oh no… It's a Psycho-Jaune."
Everyone in the theater got ready to see something horrifying.
"However, right now…"
The blackness over the screen moved off, revealing a massive hoard of Grimm of so many forms: Beowolves, King Taijitus, Creeps, Ursi, even a goliath or two.
Everyone, aside from Cinder, was horrified to see that. So many Grimm in all one place was a sight that would terrify anyone.
A Creep seemed to see something toward the audience and started to run toward them. As it moved, a dirty, white armored boot came into view from the camera angle. As the Creep jumped, it was knocked back to the ground as a double-barreled shotgun was pointed toward its face. One pull of a trigger later, and the Creep's head exploded.
"So, that's going to be Arc, then?" Coco raised an eyebrow.
Ruby was a little disappointed. The shotgun was powerful, sure. But it was also very… normal. I guess Jaune always did like the classics…
The screen moved up along his body, showing off his futuristic armor. The under armor that was supposed to be on his arms was gone, showing off a gun show on top of his weaponry.
Yang drooled a little. She was able to hide it before Pyrrha or Velvet noticed anything. Not that they would. They were far too distracted.
Jaune cracked his neck and pulled his shotgun up to hold it in both hands. It was the pride of his arsenal, his baby. The Super Shotgun. A pair of claws opened up under the barrel as he started to walk forward.
Ironwood's voice over returned, "He's exactly what we need."
A Beowolf noticed him and started to charge, only to be met with a claw embedding in its body. It seemed to look toward the item before following a chain back toward Jaune, who was flying toward it. He landed a knee into the creature's chin and fired a double-barreled does of buckshot into the Grimm, ripping it apart.
Now it Ruby's turn to drool. "IT HAS A GRAPPLING HOOK?!"
Jaune launched another hook and flew off, using a Nevermore to take to the skies. He landed on top of a Creep and stomped its head hard enough to make it splatter. As the Grimm started to swarm, he used his armor's weapon storage system to exchange his Super Shotgun for his normal shotgun. It was weaker than his Super, but he didn't have to reload after every shot. In fact, thanks to his armor's internal systems, he didn't have to reload at all.
Ruby gasped, "No reloads?! No empty clips?!" She was excitedly bouncing in her seat. "How does it work?! How do you build it?! TELL ME THE SECRET!"
Ironwood was actually thinking the same thing, though less… excitedly. The idea of an ammo system that never required a reload would be very beneficial.
He saw a large Ursa starting to approach. He smirked. He twisted and snapped the front half of his gun off.
Ruby had a look like she'd seen Jaune snap someone's neck, "What the heck is that?!"
The half swapped with a similar replacement. He snapped this part on and the gun was ready to fight again.
Ruby went starry eyed, "It's modular?! Oh my gosh! This is the best version!"
Yang couldn't hold back her chuckles at Ruby's antics, "Ruby…! I love a shotgun as much as anyone here, but it's not all that…"
Jaune ducked under a slash as a section within the shotgun started to spin. He placed the gun in the Ursa's gut and unloaded. This wasn't a shotgun. This was…
"Shot-minigun!" Ruby was giddy.
Even Yang had to pause in amazement. "No way…"
The Ursa recoiled after 15 clean shots in about a second. It shook its head, only to find Jaune having jumped onto its back.
Nora grinned, "I approve~!" She remembered back to their initiation.
Jaune grabbed one of the white spikes in its back and ripped it out of the creature, causing it to cry out in pain. He spun the spike around and ran the spike through the Grimm's head, pinning it to the ground.
Nora giggled, "Aww… It's broken."
Jaune jumped off the dead creature and landed a powerful punch into a Beowolf. He grabbed another Beowolf and placed a hand on its jaw with the other on its upper mouth. After a moment of strain, he ripped the top half of the Grimm's head clean off.
Cinder gripped her seat in fear. True, unashamed fear. This wasn't a man. It was a devil!
Unfortunately, he was running low on ammo. He grinned. Good.
"How is it good to be out of ammo?!" Ruby was incredulous.
Jaune sent his shotgun back to his storage system as a large Ursa Major started to charge him. Jaune smirked and took out an industrial-grade, heavy powered chainsaw. As the Ursa reared back to attack him, Jaune ripped through the creature's leg, knocking it off balance, and then embedded the spinning pain bringer into the Grimm's head.
Ruby was in shock, "A chainsaw… that powerful… Oh wow."
Jaune charged through, cutting a few more Grimm in half with the chainsaw, but prioritizing his fists. He only had so much fuel after all~ Okay, real talk, he preferred the straightforward approach.
Yang grinned. "I have to admit, I agree with him on that. Nothing better than a fist to a Grimm's face~!"
A King Taijitu tried to lunge at him, only for him to twist to the side and grab it by a fang. He punched the side of the snake's head and ripped the fang out. He jumped on top of its head and jammed the fang into the Taijitu's forehead. When the second head tried to attack, he jumped off and let it bite into itself. He landed on the side of the second head and punched its eye in.
Yang grinned and winced a bit, "Brutal~!"
Jaune jumped down and off to the side. He stood in front of a doorway to a military base. As the doors opened, a Creep tried to attack him, only to be met by a fist in its jaw before a boot squashed it on the concrete. Jaune just calmly made his way inside. The door snapped shut as a Nevermore tried to scratch its way in. Jaune simply made his way through the building. After a while, he started to move through a control room. The people inside were scrambling as the Grimm were starting to rip the compound apart.
Roman chuckled, "That is the appropriate reaction."
Emerald clenched her fist in her chair, "Yeah… No kidding."
Jaune just walked through as they went. As he passed, the people that noticed him seemed to freeze in fear. One woman seemed to try to hide behind her clipboard. Jaune ignored them and just walked through toward the end of the room.
Nora blinked, "They're scared of him?"
Ren sighed, "The world did open saying he was unstable."
"Yeah… But he's fighting Grimm. Why would they need to be scared of him? Especially if there's a Grimm attack going on."
No one had an answer for that.
Jaune looked up toward a large blast door. It wasn't about to open without a key card… Then he noticed something red off to the side. He started to slowly make his way told a duo of the staff.
One man was typing in something, "Corporate says we need to let them through!"
The second man had a more panicked tone, "Why the hell would they say that?!"
"I don't know! I just…" The first man noticed Jaune approaching. He shook as Jaune loomed over him.
Jaune wasn't looking at the man, but rather the bright red keycard dangling from his neck. He reached down to grab the keycard without removing it from the man's neck and dragged him over to the scanner, lightly choking him in the process. He scanned the card and forced the door open.
Yang let out an impressed whistle, "Damn~! I have to admit, this version is something else."
As Jaune walked through the door, a pair of well-armed soldiers were by another entry point. One noticed someone approaching. "Hey! What are you doing… here…?" Then he noticed who it was. Jaune Arc, the Grimm Slayer, in the flesh.
"The Grimm Slayer?" Pyrrha couldn't help but feel there's a story to get a name like that. If they thought about it, they were all Grimm slayers, but they were never addressed with a name like that.
The soldier who shouted recoiled slightly seeing Jaune. Jaune moved toward the soldier and looked him dead in the eye. Despite the man being of similar height, Jaune made him feel puny and insignificant. Jaune looked down to the gun in the man's hands. A military issue Plasma Rifle… Jaune reached out and took the gun out of the soldier's hands.
Ruby gasped again, "Plasma Rifle?! Can it do that?!"
Jaune pushed his way through the two and readied his new weapon. He kicked down a panel and jumped into a room full of Grimm. He fired a stream of plasma bullets into the crowd of Grimm and caused them to explode into shards, cutting into others among them.
Ruby wasn't here anymore. She was in weapon nirvana~!
King, without appearing viably, thought to himself with a smirk, Just wait kid. It gets better~!
Jaune ran though, picking up a rocket launcher off a dead soldier. He fired three shots to rip the Creeps and Beowolves apart. He swapped back to his standard shotgun and swapped the halves. He fired three small sticky grenades from the barrel, all landing on various Grimm. He ran passed them as they exploded into black and white chunks.
He ran along and saw a large device lying against a wall, its dead wielder off to the side. Jaune picked it up as he ran and pointed the massive weapon toward a King Taijitu. A second of charging later, he unleashed a massive plasma shot toward the beast, ripping its head clean off as the neck beneath it exploded on impact. No hole, no way to anyone would fix it. Its neck literally burst apart into small pieces.
Ruby was frozen in sheer bliss. She didn't even notice when Yang waved her hand in front of her eyes.
More and more Grimm were starting to swarm. He had to move, fast!
"Run Jaune!" Nora wanted to see her leader find a way out of this. He had to have plan, right?
Jaune saw a broken paneling off in the distance, small enough to slide in but keep the Grimm out. He made tracks. As Grimm would try to charge in front of him, he would introduce them to the end of his shotgun. As he approached the wall, he slid underneath, and through a hole at ground level. The Grimm slammed into the wall, unable to follow, but they would try.
Ren smirked and nodded. "Not a bad maneuver." His smirk fell off, "But it only bought him so much time before the Grimm tear into the wall."
Nora grinned, "It's all he needs! Jaune'll come up with something!"
Jaune had nothing…
Nora groaned and deflated.
He was low on ammo and fuel to the chainsaw. He needed something else. Something to turn this around. He decided to look around. This was an SDC base, so there had to be weapons around here somewhere.
"SDC?" Weiss was surprised to hear that. "That's a Schnee Dust Company facility?"
Ironwood scowled. He didn't like the idea of a civilian company being armed with military weaponry. With the Grimm and White Fang stalking around, he didn't have a choice but to allow it. But he didn't have to like it.
Jaune groaned. Apparently, he found himself in a research lab or something. He wouldn't find anything powerful hidden in the usual places. He approached the screens, hoping to find something experimental that could help. He froze seeing one in particular.
Ruby was shaking excitedly. "Experimental weapons! What did he find?!"
Jaune grinned. He'd heard about this one…
A Creep started to bite into the wall. A Beowolf punched through the steel reinforcing. A small goliath (only about 20 feet tall) brought down the wall.
Blake soured on that last impact, "Whatever he found better be good."
The Grimm were about to charge when they heard something above them. Jaune was standing in a larger hole in the wall with a giant, futuristic weapon in hand. The weapon started to glow green.
Jaune's semi-psychotic grin spread from ear to ear. He actually had it. The King of Cannons! The Doomsday Bazooka that lays waste to everything! The green glow brightened, the charge complete. It's the BIG FUCKING GUN 9000! He fired a powerful blast of energy into the Grimm hoard. Upon bursting, the plasma ripped the Grimm, large and small, apart at a molecular level.
"Ruby?" Yang tried to shake her sister, but she was too far gone. Ruby was in heaven.
Everyone had to agree. The sight of the BFG-9000 just… It was perfect~
Jaune certainly agreed. The Grimm actually started to back away. The Grimm Slayer was back on Remnant, fully equipped and ready to kill. He looked out over the burning landscape around him. He had a job to do. And no Grimm, man, or whatever the fuck Salem is will ever get in his way. As another small hoard of Grimm started to approach, he picked up shotgun shells and smiled as he readied his Super Shotgun for a fight. The camera swung along with the hoard as it charged toward him. The last shot was Jaune with his shotgun pointed at the screen. With a smirk, he fired the shell, the flash signaling the end of the set.