The Ballad of Pyrrha Nikos and Handsome Jaune

A What-If tale of a red-haired spartan and a suave and handsome jerkass. A tale of Pyrrha Nikos and Jaune Arc, if the latter was actually Handsome Jack's bastard child. An Arkos fanfic written because somebody made me. Begins in Vol. 1 and Ends whenever I feel like it has to, but since I'm being forced to write this, it might never end. Italics in quotes are "Thoughts" by characters. Enjoy, because I'm not.

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Chapter 1: Air-shipping

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Pyrrha Nikos, a red-haired spartan-esque girl 17 years old stood stoic on the deck of the airship headed towards her new home for the next four years: Beacon Academy. Pyrrha was slender and her long red hair hung behind her in a long ponytail, she wore her usual brown and gold bodice, a set of long gloves, her red sash, and her small red skirt hid her under-shorts. Her long golden boots extended up to her knees. Her weapons, Milo and Akouo hung from her back and belt respectively. Her vibrant green eyes were accented by a golden gorget around her neck and another golden circlet on her head. Small green gemstones hung from her circlet behind her ears.

Pyrrha looked out of the window in front of her, the gorgeous green landscape of Vale passed by, small towns, a few villages, other normal people working and living far below the grand airship toiled tirelessly. She wondered what that life would've been like. Pyrrha was the greatest and most well-known future Huntress in her home of Argus. She hated it. She was held aloft above everyone else due to her skill in combat, heralded as the next great thing. Prophecies told of her destiny, songs were sung in her honor.She had a line of clothing, collectibles and even cereal. Most would bask in the limelight of fame, but Pyrrha just shuddered every time someone recognized her; they never truly saw who she was, just what everyone said she was supposed to be. She quietly hoped that Beacon Academy would have other similarly skilled students and she could just fade into the crowds. She had heard that the Schnee Heiress was attending and perhaps that would draw some attention from the Mistrali Regional Tournament winner.

She turned and watched the other students on their way to the great academy. An explosive blond-haired girl grabbed and playfully tossed a smaller black-haired girl around like a rag-doll. They were probably, hopefully either best friends of sisters. The blond girl seemed a little too friendly. A rather handsome blond-haired boy vomited into a nearby trashcan. Despite his apparent airsickness, he was actually attractive and had dirty blond hair, a chiseled jawline, pointed eyebrows currently twisted into a grimace, high cheekbones and an angular nose. His eyes were shut tight in between the various retches, but she imagined them being brilliant and exotic. His armor was fairly normal run-of-the-mill plate and he wore a bog-standard heater shield on his back. He was surrounded by suitcases with a prominent 'H' on them. After a few heavy retches, he attempted to stagger back onto his feet, but promptly tripped over his own luggage and landed in a heap, eyes wide in embarrassment. His eyes were blue and green in heterochromia, and exotic. Pyrrha stifled a laugh and went back to her view of Vale. The ship was getting close to docking and a hologram of Professor Glynda Goodwitch began to welcome them to the academy. Tomorrow was another day.

Pyrrha Nikos avoided everyone as she ran off to the great hall. Despite her hopes that nobody would recognize her, they did and they all wanted her autograph or something. She hurriedly ran past the other students and headed off to await Headmaster Ozpin's opening speech.

A few meters back, Jaune Arc of Hyperion Weapons and Technology of Atlas struggled to move his dozen or so suitcases off the airship. He cursed incoherently, the Schnee Dust girl had brought with her several aides and helpers to carry her stuff, but his father had claimed that he was never going to amount to anything unless he did it himself. He did supply several 'Clappers', a few small square robots with no coordination to assist him. They failed. After having to physically lift the small redundant robots up the stairs, they rolled off haphazardly with his luggage. He hoped nothing got broken, Hyperion tech was incredibly expensive and was superior to pretty much everything on the market outside of Atlas. He sighed and walked over to the Academy Square. A small girl was being thrashed by Weiss Schnee of the aforementioned Dust company before being left in the dirt outside. He went and introduced himself.

"Hello. I'm Jaune Arc, Heir to Hyperion of Atlas. I am the next big thing.", he said confidently.

"Oh. Uhhm. I'm Ruby. Ruby Rose. Nice to meet you?", the girl stuttered.

Ruby Rose was a lot younger than all of the other students as Jaune noticed. He wondered how such a young girl managed to get to Beacon Academy. It didn't really matter, his own transcripts were forged by his Father. Jaune was destined to become a Huntsman even if he utterly failed at it; he was to become to new face of Hyperion.

Ruby and Jaune walked the courtyards. He knew he had to be making his way to the great hall, but this little distraction was welcomed.

"So... I've got this thing!", Ruby said as she unleashed her weapon. Jaune had to step back slightly.

"That's a scythe.", he said.

"It's also a high-impact custom sniper rifle! So what have you got?", She exclaimed.

"Oh well... I have this shield. It's called the 'Bee'. It amplifies damage of any gun I use. I also have this!", Jaune said as he pulled a large black and red shotgun from his back. "It's called the Restructuring Conference Call. It'll fire 5 shots all at once, and then those 5 shots turn into twice the amount turning my enemies into paste!"

"That's amazing! What else does it do?", Ruby beamed.

"The blade on the end extends and turns the shotgun into a 'bastard' sword. Yeah, it's pretty bad-ass. But not as bad-ass as my diamond encrusted pony back home.", Jaune bragged.

"You have a pony? I want a pony! What's its name?", Ruby said in glee.

"Uhhhh... Well... I call it Butt-Stallion? Because it has a shiny butt?", Jaune said.

"Oh. That's awesome! Hey, do you know where we're going?", Ruby asked as they walked farther into the gardens.

"Oh yeah. We're supposed to be at the great hall. Um.. like right now.", Jaune said.

The smaller girl pulled away and ran off back to the academy square. They were going to be late for Headmaster Ozpin's speech! Oh no! Jaune followed with haste. At least he'd made one new friend on his first day. Maybe he'd make more.

"Yeah. We could paint our nails and try on clothes and talk about boys, like tall dark and stupid over there!", Weiss Schnee said as she pointed to Jaune. He looked at her in surprise, he wasn't stupid, maybe just a little lost outside of his home, but definitely not stupid. He briefly wondered if he was ever going to meet a nice quirky girl like that one he met earlier. It still didn't matter, as long as he did well in school and became a Huntsman, then he'd succeeded and had full access as Heir to Hyperion. He did want to make some new friends, though. Friends were good.

"...It is up to you, to take the first step...", Jaune had missed a lot of Ozpin's speech. He was too busy considering his life choices. What exactly he'd done to end up in this position. He was an only child to a wealthy Atlas businessman and thus the heir to the empire. He had a few dozen cousins and extended family, but they weren't nearly as famous as his father's company. Tassiter Arc had built Hyperion from the ground up as the best and most reliable arms company on the planet. Jaune had to live up that that even if he didn't grasp the finer details of running a company. His father acted like a dictator over the employees and ruled the company with a titanium fist. Jaune would succeed. He would own Hyperion one day.

Welp, that's the end of the first chapter. Hope you enjoyed it more than I did. Jaune is going to become more of an asshole the longer this goes on, so don't expect him to be the plucky and clumsy comic relief, he's going to become Handsome Jaune over time before he eventually becomes Handsome Jacques completely. I've already got Vol. 3 outlined, so expect some mayhem.