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"A Deathstalker?! Really?!" Jaune screamed what everyone else was thinking as the Mutated Deathstalker thundered across the arena towards his team and team RWBY.

"Fan out!" Ruby screamed to them all as the knight sprinted to the left of the beast with his team. He winced as the giant claw grazed the back of his head while he rolled out of the way and put his shield up into a defensive position.

His eyes widened as the stinger from the beast wasted no time in recoiling from its last attack and impacted his shield, straining the ancient heirloom as the metal creaked in protest against the monster. His teeth gritted against each other even when his shield gave way as he felt his whole body be thrown through the air. Despite his aura absorbing most of the impact, he gasped due to the sudden expel of oxygen that was driven out of his lungs which caused him to struggle in getting back to his feet. Once he was able to get a feeling of his surroundings, he couldn't help but hitch is breath as the Deathstalker skittered towards him at high speeds, foam falling out of its mouth, ready to gorge itself on a delicious human.

"JAUNE!" Ruby cried as she zipped toward him and fired a few rounds from Crescent rose. Casings hitting the ground until the trigger clicked. The Grimm paid her no mind and swatted her away as it brought itself down on Jaune.

He knew he needed to move, to roll, to dodge, to strike back, but all he could do in those moments were scuttle back as he gripped his heaving chest while his sword dangled in his loose grip. The beast's claw was right above him and as his legs remained planted where he stood, he couldn't help but clamp his eyes shut as he waited for the worst to come. He opened his eyes in confusion to see Pyrrha holding the Grimm's massive claw back, heels digging into the ground as sparks flew from the tough exoskeleton of the beast, grating against Milo and Akuo. Pyrrha's muscles flexed and strained as she shook from the sheer weight of the Grimm. The Deathstalker howled once more and used its legs to spring back in order to use its other claw to slam Pyrrha into a pile of Debris.

"PYRRHA!" Jaune screeched as he finally was able to get control over his body and forced himself to sprint over to where Ruby was due to the mutated grim being between him and his partner. The reaper was reloading another magazine into Crescent Rose, nodding to Jaune as she chambered a new round from the fresh ammunition. Jaune barely noticed the massive shadow loom over them and felt himself being grabbed by Ruby before it crushed them.

"MOVE!" Ruby screamed as he was tackled by Ruby, barely dodging the massive stinger from the mutated Deathstalker. His head rang from both the impact of the tail and the gunfire that erupted from behind and right next to him as the monstrous Grimm roared and it turned around, diverting its attention away from Ruby and Jaune.

"Are you ok?"

"I'm fine Ruby! I need to get to Pyrrha!"

She nodded as an explosion ripped across the floor and they could see Yang throw a boulder a little smaller than herself at the Deathstalker, only managing to piss it off even more.

"Its shell is more armored than a normal Deathstalker! The only way we can damage it is by exposing its underbelly!" Jaune yelled as the Grimm slammed its massive claws into the ground, hurtling debris everywhere.

"Any ideas?" Ruby asked as she and Jaune shielded themselves from the incoming debris.

"I got one," Jaune mentioned as he peeked over his shield, "Nora's explosives are the only thing that can flip that monster onto it's back! Your team will draw its attention while mine makes sure Nora can get underneath that thing and blow it sky high! But first I need to go make sure Pyrrha's alright! Can you hold that thing back long enough for us to regroup?"

The Rose nodded and flashed away in a flurry of petals as he sprinted toward Ren, Pyrrha, and Nora. He stumbled up to them as another wave of debris scratched across his aura and flinched at Pyrrha's wound. The scent of copper invaded his nostrils as Pyrrha tried to stop the flow of blood leaking out of her leg.

He stood there in shock, staring at Pyrrha's wound as blood continued to pour out of it.

'It's all my fault...' Jaune thought as he just stood there, staring at his worried partner. 'I froze. If I did something, anything, this wouldn't have happened!' Jaune slammed his fist into the cold ground as he felt his aura disrupt.

"JAUNE!" Ren hollered over the screeches of the Deathstalker. "Pull yourself together! I'm going to need your help to bandage Pyrrha's wound!" The stoic Ninja followed up, knocking Jaune out of his stupor and the knight ran over to Pyrrha's side, ignoring the blood dripping in between his fingers.

"How bad is it?"

"Not good, but I've had worse." Pyrrha gave a weak smile as she winced and whimpered, still grasping the wound. Jaune saw her aura flicker as she continued to put pressure on the wound. He couldn't help but curse himself as he deduced the impact she took for Jaune took up most of her aura.

"The rebar isn't too deep but we have to remove it quickly and bandage the wound or it'll get infected." Ren spoke as he tore off a piece of his clothes and handed them to Pyrrha.

"This is going to hurt, I'll try to pull it out as steady as I can. Ready?"

She nodded in agreement and bit down on the cloth, holding onto Jaune's hand in anticipation. Sweat began to drip down Ren's forehead as the rebar started to slowly come out. Pyrrha shook and gripped Jaune's hand tightly, so tightly it felt as though it would break. The pain shot through her leg like fire, her muffled screams growing louder as Ren finally pulled the metal from her leg. He quickly applied the disinfectant and bandaged her leg, sighing in relief and wiping his brow

"That should do it. Stay off your leg and the wound won't open back up."

"I can't sit here and watch you fight for your lives!" Pyrrha protested until she felt her leader's hand on her shoulder.

"No, as your leader I'm giving you a direct order to stay here and out of the fight. Ren, stay here with her and make sure she doesn't strain herself. Nora, you're with me! I got a plan to kill that thing!" The two ran off toward the battle, ignoring the protest of their injured teammate. Jaune and Nora grimaced a bit as they saw that RWBY was having little success and that one eye was bleeding profusely on the giant Grimm, but it seemed to be less of an inconvenience for the huge scorpion.

"What's the plan Jaune?" Nora asked as they all regrouped in front of the beast.

"RWBY and I will draw its attention and when you see an opening, you get underneath that thing and blow it onto it's back! Then we'll attack its underbelly!"

Nora nodded and held her position as Jaune brandished his sword and shield, steeling himself as he took one last look towards Pyrrha's direction before charging into the fray.

"My it has been quite entertaining watching the eight of you struggle against my creation. Alas, it's time for me to commence the final stages of my contingency plan." Dr. Merlot cackled as his machine started to whir to life above the Beacon students, the room being encapsulated in brightness.

"Uh...does anyone know what that thing is?!" Ruby yelped as she continued to pepper the Deathstalker with Crescent Rose.

"Of course not, you dolt!" Weiss screamed to her leader as the Deathstalker roared once more.

"Then how do we stop it?!" Yang screamed back as she punched the insect Grimm in the head, barely leaving a dent in on its shell.

"I don't know! Hit it, break it! Whatever just don't let that thing fire!" Weiss yelled as she sent an ice dust storm at the Grimm making it angrier rather than damaging it.

"ON IT!" Yang yelled back as she readied Ember Celica to launch herself up to the machine.

"Yang, Look out!" Jaune shouted to her as the Deathstalker whipped its tail into the blonde bomber, careening her into a wall.

"Yang!" Blake called out for her partner in worry as she ran to Yang.

Jaune stopped and looked up at the massive machine whirring above him. He swallowed as his breathing hitched and steeled himself, feeling the grip of his sword tighten, his legs trembled momentarily before his mind raced back to the image of his partner, taking the hit for him. One last breath slowly escaped his mouth before he planted his feet in a running position.

The knight brought Crocea Mors close and sprinted toward the Deathstalker, the shield covering his body as his mind raced a million miles a second.

'I got one shot at this. I need to use the Deathstalkers strength to propel me up to the machine and destroy it before it fires! I can do this!'

He gave out a battle cry as the Grimm turned around to face its new opponent. The beast gave out another shriek as it smashed the ground where Jaune was just at, and the Arc jumped up onto the monster's claw, holding on with all his strength waiting for the right moment. He felt the Grimm slam it's claw down and waited for it to swing upwards, he felt the sudden g-force against him which was his cue to let go of the Grimm and he couldn't help but let out an uncertain scream as he was launched at the machine.

"Too late children!" Merlot laughed as he activated the machine and the beam shot out, but his laughter quickly died when he saw that the two beams didn't collide with one another, but with the inexperienced blonde knight instead.

"NOOOO! You ignorant brat! You'll ruin EVERYTHING!" Merlot wailed as the collider started to spark and fall apart, no one seemed to notice the five beams that shot up from the machine, breaking through the facilities roof, and headed to different locations in the direction of machine sparked a bit more before a massive explosion erupted throughout the majority of the facility, ripping both the Deathstalker, and Merlot in his observation chamber to shreds.

Jaune fell just beneath the explosion and saw the ground rushing to meet him, wind whipping at his air and closing his eyes. He didn't feel any pain as he opened his eyes and looked up to see Nora posing heroically, holding Jaune closely in a bridal carry while the rest of his friends shielded themselves with a barrier courtesy of Weiss.

"Ha Ha Nora. Could you put me down please?" His voice was hoarse and throat was dry as he coughed violently, the hammer-wielder giggled as she put Jaune down., only for his legs to buckle and Jaune yelped as he fell on his all fours.

"You imbecile!" Jaune heard the muffled cry of Weiss as he looked up to her in a daze. "I said to try and destroy, not jump into the beam! Who knows what that could've done to you?!" Weiss seethed as she stormed over to Jaune and cracked him on the head, though getting no extreme reaction out of him.

"I didn't mean to." Jaune mumbled as he processed what Weiss was trying to get across to him. "I was trying to land over to the side of it and was going to stab it with my sword...but I didn't think the Deathstalker would throw me directly into the beam itself."

"I swear I don't know how you ever got chosen as leader! It was pure luck that you were able to destroy that thing!" the Heiress screeched and shook her head, walking away in frustration. Ruby chased after Weiss as Blake and Yang walked over to Nora and Jaune.

"Gotta say vomit boy, that took some balls. Feeling alright?"

"My entire body feels as if it was burnt from the inside and then electrocuted." Jaune groaned as he struggled to lift himself up. "I can't feel anything right now."

The blonde bomber snickered as she gave him a quick hug and her fellow blonde blushed lightly.

"I'm gonna go help Ruby calm down Weiss-cream. Take it easy vomit boy." Yang walked towards Ruby and Blake followed behind her, nodding in thanks.

Nora helped Jaune over to Ren and Pyrrha, who was staring at Jaune with worry and against Ren's wishes the champion jumped onto Jaune, holding him close.

"Why did you do something so reckless Jaune?!"

"I had to try and destroy that thing." Jaune mentioned timidly under his partner's concerned gaze. "Didn't plan on being a lightning rod though. I still can't feel anything." he couldn't help but give her a sheepish smile at his own joke.

"Pfft!"

"Nora stop laughing! Seriously though, should I be worried that I literally can't feel anything right now?" Unbeknownst to him, Nora wasn't laughing at Jaune but at how Pyrrha was copping a tight feel since his nerves were still out of whack.

"Soon...Soon" Pyrrha thought to herself as she gave Jaune's ass one last squeeze before releasing it.

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(Vale)

A beam of light collided into the roof of a building, disturbing the serenity of Vale's skyline, and out of the mist, stumbled a well built, familiar looking muscular blonde on one knee with both fists touching the ground. A badass tune from a movie long forgotten played in the background as he stood to his full height and gazed across the rooftops of Vale. His body shook as he rubbed his arm and felt a brisk wind flowing between his legs, looking down and seeing that he's stark naked.

"Where the fuck did my clothes go?!" He screamed to no one as he looked around for his weapons.

"Where's retribution?! Where's executioner and the rest of my gear?! It was all safe and secured to my clothes...Ah son of a bitch!" The blonde gave out a yell of frustration as he took in his surroundings. He scratched his chin for a few moments before he noticed the familiar cityscape in front of him.

"Ok, I'm in Vale so that's a start. I need to find me some clothes first though."

Glass shattered in the distance and the stranger looked over the side, seeing a bar with multiple motorcycles parked outside of it.

"Oh my Oum this is just like that Sarnold Scwarzeneggar movie! The Exterminator!" He leaped down from the building and did his best to put on an emotionless face, though it was a lot harder than Scwarzeneggar made it seem. The blonde entered the bar showing no signs of emotion as he walked up to a man that was similarly built like him.

"I need your boots, your clothes, and your motorcycle." He told the man who burst out laughing alongside his buddies. There was discomfort from some of the patrons, but the blonde resisted to squirm under some of the seductive gazes he received from both men and women in the bar.

"Boy, I think you should git and play prostitute somewhere else before you get yourself hurt!" The biker opened his leather jacket and showed the blonde his .45 caliber atlesian pistol. He pushed his cigar into the stranger's chest and his eyes grew in shock as the man showed no sign of pain.

The stranger grabbed the biker by the throat and choke-slammed him through a table. Another biker hit the blonde in the back of the head with a pool cue, breaking it in half and stepping back when he saw the stranger's aura flare.

"What the hell?! Are you some random streaking hunstman or something?!" His question was answered with a swift jawbreaking punch that sent him flying into a pool table.

The blonde looked down at the other man and took his .45.'

"I need your boots. Your clothes. and your motorcycle." He said in a deep, deadly voice and the biker started to throw off all his clothes and gear, handing the terrifying blonde his keys.

The stranger walked out of the bar fully clothed and sat on top of his new motorcycle. A shotgun went off and the blonde turned around to see the bar owner brandishing a ten-gauge autoloader aimed directly at him.

"I can't have some rando come in and steal another man's bike. Now you give him back his keys and clothes and never come back ya here?!"

The blonde stepped off the bike and walked up to the man, grabbing the shotgun from him in the blink of an eye. He stared down the bar owner and reached into his front pocket, grabbing the sunglasses that were resting in there. He put them on and holstered the shotgun into the bike. He drove away and revved the engine, heading straight to the bullhead docks.

"That was so fucking badass! It was just like the movie!" The man grinned to himself as he flew down the road at high speeds, racing to get to the docks as quickly as possible, ditching the jacket as he felt it to be too on the nose, yet kept the shades.

"Hopefully I can catch a ride to Beacon and ask Ozpin what the hell happened." the blonde mentioned as he grinned at the sight of a Beacon Academy that wasn't in ruin. "Will say though, that this did save me the trip to Vale." his train of thought was cut abruptly as he saw a small yellow dog wander onto the road in front of him. He braked suddenly on instinct and the screeching of the wheels caused the little dog to jump. The man cut the engine as he parked the bike on the side of the street, only to be caught by surprise as the small dog jumped at his legs.

"Hey there little fella, you lost?" He smiled down at the dog and was taken aback when the pup jumped away. It started to growl at him with fierce blue eyes.

"Woah!" The man said as he put his hands up to show he wasn't a threat. "Do you need any help little guy?" The dog's eyes narrowed as it approached the blonde with caution before sniffing him relentlessly.

"Yeah, I may smell a little weird, but believe me when I say it was strictly because of the journey to Vale." The blonde chuckled as he saw the dog jump back and shake its head feverishly before it sniffed the air and pointed in a direction the man noticed was towards his destination.

"What are you trying to say buddy?" The man asked as he proceeded to pick up the adorable dog he knew his sisters would love.

"OH FOR THE LOVE OF OUM I SAW TWO WEIRD LOOKING DUDES FIGHTING ONE ANOTHER ON A ROOFTOP DOWN THE STREET!" the puppy hollered out of nowhere, causing the blonde man to freeze in his place.

"Wait, you can talk?" The man's soft question caused the dog's ears to perk up while its eyes widened to the degree of the man.

"Wait, you can understand me?!" the dog asked with a hushed tone, causing the man to freak out.

"Why do you sound like me?!" the man questioned as he quickly paced out of the potential public eye and into a nearby alley.

"Why do you sound like ME?!" the dog retorted, "But also look and smell like me when I'm human?!" the man froze as he looked at the yellow fur of the dog and the deep blue eyes that reflected his own.

"What's your name?" both asked at the same time.

"Jaune Arc." both replied as a deadened silence plagued their conversation, only the breeze gave them the solace from their silence.

"AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!" both human and dog screamed at the top of their lungs, ignoring the faint sounds of shotguns being fired and clashing blades could be heard in the distance.

! Out of the blue new story! This is one i've been thinking about ever since I watched the into the spiderverse movie and thought, what If I made a fanfic with Jaune Arc using a similar premise? I've asked Masseffect-TxS, Blaiseingfire and SparkyDapperDab19 for their help and permission to use their versions of Jaune from their respective fanfic stories. I hope you all enjoy! Please Review and tell me what you think!