Haven training ground, a place that while isn't as technological as Beacon's training grounds, still served its purpose and breeds some of the greatest Huntsman and Huntresses. Though right now, the training ground had become more of a battlefield rather than its namesake. The cause of this was all because of a certain blonde punching the air as if he were fighting a great foe. Though for Jaune's eyes things were a little different.

His eyes were bloodshot but through his sight buildings of a city he doesn't recognize surrounded him. Flames licked the walls, walking corpses walked along the streets along with soldiers either garbed in desert or black camouflage. Large treaded machines carved the road – crushing cars with its 60-ton weight. In short what he was seeing was something that came out of an apocalypse sadly he was used to it already. His fingers clenched the ground and with a mighty heave he took a piece of the concrete and aimed it at the brawler that was just about to tackle him.

"Faster!"

With a grunt he threw the piece of concrete at the brawler, with the enhanced strength that he had the speed of the concrete slammed into the brawler leaving it stunned. He crouched his form and with a burst of speed he closed the distance between him and the brawler. Punches and kicks rained on the brawler. Alex watched Jaune's battle with an observant gaze, since he was a virus it wasn't really hard to make Jaune see things but he told himself that he would only do it for the sake of conditioning Jaune's body.

While it's true that Alex's body doesn't tire the same could not be said for Jaune's; since he had never completely consumed the blonde, for some unexplained reason that he was still trying to find out, it was to be expected that while Jaune may have access to most of Alex's powers what he lacked was conditioning and the only time Jaune would be able to perform without holding back would be to allow Alex full control of his body, thus why Alex swapped with Jaune during his fight with Cinder.

"Behind you," Alex mentioned with a bored tone.

True to his word a brawler clawed at Jaune's back. Due to this mistake, Alex flared all of Jaune's back pain receptors making him yelp in pain. He fell down to one knee but was forced to dive away from the brawler he had been fighting. Now with two brawlers in his sights Jaune accessed Alex's powers and shifted his arms into claws. With a war cry he charged both of the brawlers sliding just in time to avoid their attacks. With their backs in front of him he began to inflict wound after wound on both brawlers.

One of the brawlers attempted to backhand him only for Jaune to duck, with the brawler's vulnerable position Jaune moved with the vice of a hungry predator; he raised his right arm while it shifted into a blade. He brought it down severing the brawler's limb from its body. It roared in pain but Jaune wasn't done, he went for a low slice removing the leg as well. With the sudden change in its equilibrium the brawler fell back and didn't get back up because of Jaune's blade stabbing it through the mouth. Once the threat had been dealt with he fell down to his knees, clutching his sides as he tried to catch his breath. Unfortunately, Alex isn't forgiving.

"Heads up,"

He did just that only widen his eyes when his neck got caught in the brawler's claws, the claws passed through him but even he knew that its intention was to decapitate him. The world around him stopped with the brawler just behind him. Jaune gave an annoyed groan.

"Not bad, you managed to at least kill a brawler"

He looked forward to see Alex walking towards him. "Why… did you make… this hallucination… hard?! It's not… like they're this relentless,"

"They are… you should be glad that I could direct them because If they aren't and they aimed for you, you'd be dead,"

"Why am I even fighting brawlers? Shouldn't I be fighting Grimm?" he asked with an irritated look already regaining his breath.

"Did you see how much trouble brawlers caused for Cinder and her group?"

"Yeah, but they came in swarms!" Jaune said while raising his arms in exasperation.

"Jaune, who are you talking to?" a voice asked.

His bloodshot eyes reverted back to its original colour, the vision of the destroyed city faded away and what replaced them was the trashed training ground. He turned around to lock eyes with silver eyes.

"R-Ruby?" Jaune asked.

But that wasn't all; behind her stood her team along with his and Oscar. He froze, he just realized that they might have seen what he was doing.

"H-How long have you guys been here?"

"Long enough to see you throw yourself everywhere in the arena… that and how your arms..." Weiss said, her voice dying when her sentence had finished.

Jaune gave groan, when Ruby asked, he explained that he was training under Alex and explained the intricacies of his situation of requiring more conditioning. He also told them of his hallucination/simulation training regiment and how Alex adjusts his brain to see things that weren't there. At first, they were worried at the fact that a virus was controlling his mind but Jaune reassured them that he was only doing it when he's training.

"Um… Ozpin asked me to ask you if you could show us how much you trained," Oscar asked.

Jaune scratched the back of his head, "I-I guess, so am I sparring with someone or do I just show you,"

"Yeah… you'll be fighting against me," a voice called out.

His senses screamed at him to block an unseen attack, his arm quickly shifted into a blade and used the flat side to block the sword that belonged to Ruby and Yang's uncle. He countered by shoving the blade away and sliced for a counter only to slice the air. Qrow landed a few meters away from Jaune, while hefting his sword over his shoulder. He looked back to see his friends meters away, which was good since he didn't want them to get caught in the crossfire that's about to happen. Looking back to his opponent his eyes widened all of a sudden when Qrow was suddenly inside his guard; his free hand curled into a fist and struck right in his face.

The strength of the punch cause Jaune to step back, he recovered from his stun easily enough and just in time to clash blades with Qrow. Jaune gritted his teeth and with a single thought biomass started to gather around his muscles, quickly gaining the strength he needed to keep up with the old drunkard. This seemed to surprise him, though it didn't last long as the surprise left his face when his back curved upwards courtesy of Jaune's freehand punching him in the gut. Robbing Qrow of his oxygen Jaune used it to his advantage.

While Qrow clutched his stomach, Jaune swept him off of his feet with a low sweep to his legs, enhanced muscles made him rise up from his crouched form faster than anticipated; with an open palm he thrusted it to his chest all the while gathering air performing an air push attack which sent the man-bird to towards the wall. He grunted loudly and slowly slid off the wall, when his feet touched the ground, he stumbled forward trying to regain his balance. When he finally did, he looked at Jaune with a serious expression. Mechanical whirrs echoed across the arena as Qrow's sword started to shift; the hilt lengthened and the blade started to curve, slowly transforming into a scythe.

"Lucky shot kid," Qrow said.

Jaune gulped but shifted his arms into a sword and shield combination.

A/N: Well… Jaune's already being tested, for those who are complaining at how Jaune managed to hold himself against Qrow who was leagues away from him remember, Alex and Jaune had been together for weeks now. During that time Alex should've trained Jaune to some degree. I know this chapter is just a filler but nevertheless you all got an insight of the relationship between Alex and Jaune.

And yes, a hallucination/simulation is a thing in this fanfiction. I got the idea because Alex is a literal walking virus! It's not hard for him to develop some sort of sickness that didn't hamper your immune system but makes you hallucinate to a major degree, similar to Jaune's.

Anyways enough with that explanation let me answer some comments!

HAIL KING DELIRIOUS: First off, love the username. Thanks for the support! About the questions of morality; Jaune and Mercer aren't one remember that, this means that Jaune still has sentient thought and a conscience to tell what's wrong or right, of course, it's obvious that he leans more on the right side.

Alex on the other hand… well his morality is very blurred, I mean he consumes people for the sake of gathering biomass, use it as a disguise or even just to look into the man's memories to know more about himself. He even caused and apocalypse to happen twice (Prototype and Prototype 2).

What I'm trying to say is that would Jaune agree to Mercer's intention to infect an entire outlier town for the sake of creating infected? Why not just infect the Grimm? After all, while they don't have souls, they have something that Alex could easily exploit: genetics!

Oooh… Volume 6 is kind of touchy for me since I haven't watched it yet. I'll watch it first but for now Ruby and the gang are staying at Haven for now.

forthose8675309: Your welcome but your thanks is not needed, well it kind of is but that's not the point, just keep supporting me and I'll continue creating more chapters.

Guest: Oh don't you worry… I'll make sure I'll mess Cinder up really good.

One question before I go, what season do you guys like? Spring, Fall, Summer, Winter?

Anyways I hope you all enjoyed this chapter and with that I bid you all adieu!

Peace~