AN: OK! Another commissioned story! If you like Lord of War and a morally ambiguous Jaune!? Then this story might just be the one you need.

"Back it up! Move!" Voices shouted the sound of heavy machinery as heat flared up.

"Look out!"

"Keep it moving!" Motors ran as a long steady mechanical thumping filled the air. Thump! Thump! Thump! That is how it' was born. It' name is NQ662-4. But you can call it Nq for now. It's not common for bullets to have names anyway. The bullet or Nq fell down with hundreds upon hundreds of its brothers and sisters down a large conveyor belt the heavy thumping of heavy machinery filled the air, NQ fell the bullet surrounded by its siblings falling down a cascading conveyor belt, Nq fell with its brothers and sisters.

The bullet falling down a long metallic cylinder with a sharp ting! Nq landed in a heap of its siblings looking up there were humans all around them. THe humans picked up Nq's brothers and sisters picking them up inspecting them checking for weakness or flawed design of which there was none.

One of the humans dressed in loose white garbs, a surgical like mask on his face with twin crested golden moons on it. Species Human. Stats Employee of Arc General. Nq reasoned as the human stared at it before approving it and putting it down. Nq went back to the rattling conveyor belt. The bullet fell again another plunging drop was its world as it fell down.

Nq landed once more in a massive pile on top of the mass of bullets more humans stood at the sides, this heap was centered in a large wooden box. Nq watched as humans ahead placed long thick wooden tops on it as they hammered the tops down on them. Nq watched as the conveyor belt moved them before a top was placed on it and hammered down sealing its world into darkness.

The next time Nq saw light was when the crate was opened. A being with a presses silver dress uniform and white tiger ears on his head looked down. Faunus detected. Inferior creature. Nq thought as the faunus smiled signal to another lesser creature to its creators as the top was hammered back down. Nq saw a massive ship in the distance a fog horn sighed and it was once more encased in black.

The next time Nq saw the light it was falling its crate burst open bright burning sunlight crashed down on it as it was spilled out. The world was changed no longer cold walls or icy peaks but scorching sand on a beach.

Nq was picked up twin fingers gripping it before it reached the surf placing it in the magazine of a weapon sliding it down as Nq found its new home. For a time all was quiet for Nq nested with its siblings. Nq was allowed a rest safe with its siblings as once again the world was black.

BAM! The weapon fired brief flashes of blue light that cracked the air! The low hum of magnetic coils activating as gauss weapon fired. NQ was forced down then up seeing the world, fire dead faunus and-

BANG! Nq flew it saw the world in was all around it fire blood the sounds of war and dying faunus. Inferior lifeforms. Faunus all around. It thought as it flew the path it was on clear, it saw it's target it did not even have to adjust its flight path. Is sailed right past the death and violence flying into the skull of a cat faunus trying to pull away from the fight with a smaller faunus with black cat ears crying by her side. Nq struck the elder faunus dead on, penetrating her eye and detonating in her skull exploding once it reached optimal penetrating distance and filling the air with a hard and wet crack!

"So! In conclusion, as you can see, by us selling you our weapons your expected hostile casualty rate will go up by over two hundred percent." Jaune said as he finished a closing deal the gathered faunus looked at him with eyes wide with wonder.

There were six of them an odd mix of mercenaries, petty warlords and leaders of other nation's militaries had gathered to hear his sales pitch. Or they have begged to offer large amounts of lien to be offered the opportunity to purchase his wares.

"When can we expect them to be delivered?" A lion faunus from the Vacuo first sword. A general of the kingdom asked as Jaune smirked giving his best let me show you something you would never expect look.

"You can if you order today expect them in a week or less. You will get your orders in full and you can use them however you wish."

"And what of ammunition? You said that they would come with their own supplies?" An older faunus with pale skin and bat ears asked, one of his brown eyes gone a nasty jagged scar on his face as Jaune smiled.

"You will be supplied with ammunition as per our arrangement. Giving some ammunition is part of this deal but if you want further supplies and you will. Trust me, you must make arrangements with us for more ammunition. Our weapons are good but having bullets to shoot definitely does help." Jaune said an easy grin on his face.

"So what you are saying is that we buy your weapons then need to keep coming back to you and your families manufactories to keep us supplied?" A type of fox asked with a mercenary look one long jagged lightning scar down his otherwise perfect oval face a pair of organ fox ears jutting out between a green military hat that matched his camouflage uniform.

"Yes, that is exactly what I am saying."

"So we will become dependant on your generosity?"

"No. You will just need our bullets to keep your guns working."

"But I was led to believe that Arc weapons can fire all types of munitions that a normal gun could fire?" The tiger asked as jaune sighed.

"They can fire them but the effect is lessened. And the guns might refuse to take the bullets after a while and ask yourselves this before you get any uptight thoughts of being slaves. Whether you take the deal or not is none of my concern. Frankly? I could not care less about you are your petty conflicts. I have more than enough lien in my right pocket than most of your kingdoms combined."

"The nation of Vacuo will not be insulted!" The lion yelled as Jaune sighed.

"Look. If you don't buy our weapons feel free not to, but you know that we are infinitely better armed than all of your peoples combined. Our weapons are second to none and if you don't buy our weapons, who is to say that your enemies will be so... prideful? Ask yourselves this gentleman. Would you rather face your enemy with a trusty Arc gauss rifle in hand or? Would you rather face an enemy with your backward dust powered weaponry and they have the gauss rifle with Arc ammunition in its barrel?" Jaune asked a wave of silence swept over them as even the fox looked down.

"Good now let's talk about orders."

"I don't like them." A smooth emotionless voice said as Jaune sighed he stepped into the elevator the metallic hum of the magnetic coils pushing pushed it up as Jaune turned to his companion. A head of fiery red hair and piercing green eyes on a very feminine form greeted him as he sighed.

"Penny I know that you do not like the faunus ok?" Jaune asked as the android bodyguard of his sighed. She rolled her eyes once more impressing Jaune just how realistic she looked.

Her skin was a pale almost porcelain-like color but topped and dotted with freckles, that gave her a uniquely human-like appearance. Her body was made to be perfect her hips curved like a normal woman and her body was perfectly proportional no part her was either too big or too small.

Or it was until you saw the minor things, her left arm was longer than her right, her chest was a size too big to be comfortable and hey eyes almost never blinked.

Those were the little thing the minor imperfections that lead to someone looking organic that allowed Penny to blend in so well. For something that does not need to breathe she sighs perfectly. Jaune thought as the robot shook once.

"They are petty things. Little better than wild animals."

"Oh come on Penny they are not that bad," Jaune said as he looked out to the frozen wastelands of Atlas. Or technically the frozen wastelands of Arcadia his home.

The elevator pulled them up silently the blistering arctic winds that could have stripped his flesh from his bones in a second seemed oddly peaceful and serene as the winds washed over the frozen landscape that went on for seemingly forever.

"All I am saying is look at them. What do they do? They kill each other. They fight they squabble and kill their own kind! And for what? Petty resources?"

"I do not think you would be calling resources petty if you needed them. What if you needed another fusion cell? Would it be petty for you to want to fight for one?"

"My fusion cells will last for well over the next few hundred solar cycles."

"Years Penny. They are called years. Try to talk like everyone else ok?" Jaune asked Penny rolled her eyes the android was never a people person. She hated just about every living thing that was not a genetic match for Jaune's family and without the last name Arc. So taking her in public was a bit of a social taboo.

But she was also a combat android equipped with some of the latest weaponry that Arcadia had ever developed and specifically programmed to do whatever Jaune said and to protect his life at any cost no matter what they may be.

"It's just business Penny nothing more."

"You say that what if the muts decided to get smart and try to turn the weapons on us?"

"And then have to fight past the Atlas army and navy all armed with top quality Arc weapons that we have been supplying them for centuries with what? What are the most powerful weapons the kingdoms have dust bombs? A Maiden? They would never reach our front door let alone try to storm the castle."

"And if Atlas joins them?"

"Then we will have to teach them a lesson on loyalty."

"I see I look forward to being able to do that," Penny said a far too human smile that sent Jaune's mind running with worry.

Did you have to program her to hate the faunus? Jaune thought as the elevator silently but quickly took them to the top of the glacier that held Jaune's own part of castle Arc.

"Are you sure that you want to sell weapons? Your family does it but why should you?" Penny asked an unexpected personal question. Jaune paused looking the android up and down. She usually reframed from asking him personal questions like that but she would on occasion apparently without any rhyme or reason to them.

Maybe she's going through an update? Or the fact that you actually made a robot sentient might be at play here. And they say I don't watch movies.

"Well, that's the reason Penny my family sells weapons. I am part of my family so I am probably going to be selling weapons as well."

"Just because some of your family are arms merchants does not mean you have to be one."

"Penny by some you mean all. Every Arc for over millennia has been an arms deal. My sisters, my parents, my grandparents, my great grandparents, their great grandparents. It's a legacy of weapons dealers going back hundreds if not thousands of years!"

"But that does not mean that it is right for you. You are not your parent's grandparents, great grandparents or thankfully not you sisters." Penny shuddered her facial features contort to show disgust.

"You really don't like them?"

"I am grateful for being born but after seeing what they do when others are not around to stop them... I have my views."

"Well that is fine I guess? Just don't piss Azure off."

"She made me. Why would I?" Penny asked a low ding filled the air as Penny's eyes narrowed.

"She is still here."

"Penny, why do you not like Ciel?"

"I do not like the bronze skin Jaune. She should not be here."

"Penny! Come on! I know you don't like Ciel but she is not a faunus!"

"She is a bronze skin and as such should not be in our home," Penny stated irritation in her tone as Jaune sighed.

"Penny you got to think of the big picture!" Jaune said as the elevator doors opened realign a wide and tall chamber.

"She is human," Jaune said stepping out as he saw a pair of dark navy blue eyes shoot up. A brown almost milk chocolate face regarded him as a wide smile broke her lips.

"Master Jaune! You have come back!" Ciel Solei the sole human employee of Jaune said as she smiled ear to ear. Ciel was as usual behind a small wooden desk in a massive room that was clearly built to house dozens of similar desks.

A massive stack of paper was behind her as she was busily typing and filing as Jaune smile.

"Ciel! So good to be home! And you don't have to call me master by the way. Makes me sound like a leech." Jaune said as he walked inside his booth thumped on the metallic floors as Ciel rapidly nodded.

"As you say sir Jaune! How was your meeting with the faunus? Did it go well?"

"As about is it could have been expected."

"Sir Jaune?"

"It went as well as it could for a business deal with animals." Jaune sighed yawning Penny came behind him as she glared at Ciel.

"Hell Miss Penny. I did not see you-

"I did not instruct you to speak to me bronze skin. Nor did I give you permission to use my name when addressing me." Panny snapped Ciel shrunk her small two sizes too small Jaune made sure of that, the white uniform that hugged her above-average chest just a bit too tight!

Letting Jaune see just how endowed his only employee was shaking Ciel rapidly dropped her head and refused to meet Penny's eyes.

"I'm sorry! I didn't mean to! Please forgive me!"

"Penny. Play nice." Jaune warned a teasing tone in his face. He had to admit to feeling some pity for Ciel she was out of her place out of her element!

A bronze skin in Arcadia, taken from the Vacuo dunes on a whim when Jaune learned of a surprisingly capable bronze skin that could do wonders with numbers and was an accounting wizard!

Jaune had offered the at the time, impoverished homeless girl, a job at his own branch of Arc munitions. In return for her working for him and doing all of his, accounting Jaune would not only house her and her many and extended family in Arcadia rent free he would give her a generous salary to compensate.

In fact, Ciel made more money in two weeks than approximately eight percent of the faunus population and ninety-nine point nine percent of the human population made in their lifetimes!

Jaune might be considered a bit of an ass but he always treated those beneath him well. If you worked for an Arc you were family and he paid you as such.

"I am playing nice." Penny hissed as Jaune sighed he wanted to tell Penny that Ciel was their friend and not punching back. She did not need to be kicked when she was down but Penny was Penny.

"Oh my... Ciel, I am sorry for Penny she is not so good around people that are not me." Jaune said apologizing for Penny as Ciel rapidly shook her head as she blushed.

"N-no! Not at all! Sie Jaune! Ma'am! I am the one who should be apologizing!"

"There. The most sensible thing you have said in your entire life."

"Penny..."

"No! She is right! You gave me a home! Sir Jaune when you came to me I was starving! My family was starving! My younger siblings had no food to eat. My parents were barely staying alive themselves! You took us in! You took us all in! Gave us a home! Gave me a job! I can not begin to thank you enough for all that you have done for me!" Ciel said bowing deeply Jaune blushed a bit not used to her raw praise as Penny sighed

"At least it can show gratitude to her betters."

"Penny... that was rude," Jaune said a stern look on his face. It was one thing to call Ciel Bronze skin but it? Come on, she was a human.

"Jaune-

"Penny. Apologize to Ciel and call her by her name, not bronze skin." Jaune ordered Penny let out a small growl as she sighed.

"Ciel. I apologize for calling you an it. You are clearly a human female of the aboriginal line of Vacuo."

"You didn't have to say all of that. Or you didn't have to say any of that." Jaune sighed as Penny even when ordered to give a compliment still seemed to word it as an insult.

"It's ok! It is fine really! I am just grateful to be here!" Ciel bowed her head again as Jaune decided it was time for them to leave before Penny gave Ciel a panic attack.

"Ok then we are leaving, Ciel thank you for the hard work as usual. Penny?"

"Coming Jaune."

"Thank you, sir Jaune! Ma'am!"

"Ciel!"

"Yes, sir!"

"Call Penny, Penny from now on."

"I... I do not think that P- Ma'am likes that sir Jaune." Ciel said as the narrowing and extending of Penny's eyes like some kind of telescope that was flashing red gave away her raw displeasure at being addressed by her first name by a lowly bronze skin.

"Jaune-

"That was an order from your employer Ciel. Call Penny by her first name now."

"Yes, sir! Goodbye, sir Jaune! Goodbye Penny! I hope you all have a good day!" Ciel said undoubtedly wishing her employer and bodyguard would just leave so she can work!

"Thank you, Penny, we will Penny?"

"I'm here master."

"Don't you get feisty," Jaune said as the two stepped into an elevator and left the beleaguered human alone...

"Jaune I know that she is a skilled bronze skin but do we really need to employ her?" Penny asked as the elevator to Jaune's private quarters rose. Jaune sighed nodding his head as the elevator hummed a blow glow filling the chamber as he sighed.

"Penny she is the most skilled accountant that I have ever encountered. And you know my hiring policy right?" Jaune asked as Penny let out another deep sigh an impressive feat for one with no lungs.

"You will hire anyone with the required skills to do a job. No matter their skin, race, heritage or orientation. You hire purely based on skill and nothing else." Penny said rolling her eyes in a perfect three hundred and sixty manner.

Jaune sighed as he laughed bitterly.

"Penny she is the best we have, who else would I hire?"

"You could use computers like all of your sisters do when they get accountants."

"Yes, but a computer is not a human and you know that I do like things with the more.. organic touch," Jaune said as Penny gave him a deadpan look as the elevator came to a quick stop and dinged!

"Says the man who is specializing in creating sentient A I." Penny droned as they walked into Jaune's own room. The workshop of Jaune that doubled as Jaune's own bedroom was a mess.

Metal covered the floors, spare parts barrels of guns still in the process of being made were dropped about. The floor was so heavily coated in gun parts and the flickering screens on tables on top of piles of metal and ammunition flickered as it greeted them when they entered.

"Greetings! Master Jaune! Mistress Penny! Welcome home!" The Ai screen said as Jaune smiled.

"Hello V6 how where things when I was gone?"

"Things where fully uneventful! Nothing happened out of the ordinary when you were gone! I observed every angle of the room and nothing was out of the ordinary!" V6 said as Jaune nodded.

"Good, now let's see what we can get to making. Penny do you know if we have gotten the adamantium shipments that we ordered from Atlas?"

"Yes. We received them earlier today. I would have told you that in the meeting but I thought that you were preoccupied at the time."

"Ah, probably a good decision then. Tell me did we get the shipment secured for Vacuo?"

"Yes, Jaune-

"Um! Excuse me! Master Jaune! You did receive an urgent message!" V6 shouted as Jaune paused.

"And you are telling me this now because?"

"Um! It is from Weiss Schnee! She is offering her hand in marriage again! But I thought that since... well! I remembered that you told me in no uncertain terms to ignore her! But she seemed particularly urgent!"

"Some people never learn."

"You need a wife Jaune. You need to set up your foundry somewhere." Penny said as Jaune sighed.

"True..."

"Atlas is closer."

"It is but hell who told me that I need to set up my shop in Atlas?" Jaune asked as he looked down to a pile of metal as a smile split his lips...

"Ahh... Jaune Arc, I can not begin to tell you how happy I am to see you right now." An elder faunus with silver hair and grey eyes said as he sipped a cup of coffee.

Jaune sat in a comfy chair in the elder fox faunus's office as he smiled.

"I am here to talk with you on a more personal matter Ozpin."

"I know that Jaune and I can just say that Beacon will welcome you to join our ranks."

"Really? I did not know that you admitted humans often."

"Such rumors are fully unfounded. We admit fewer humans but that is sole because they represent less than a half of a point of the total population of Vale. And not because of any policy on our part I assure you." The man said sipping his cup of coffee again as Jaune let out a grin.

"Ok. So if I do come to Beacon what can Vale offer me that Atlas can not?"

"Ah, Jaune I do believe that you know why you came to Beacon. Atlas and Arcadi while great places can be a bit stifling to one's own growth. And Vale is a bit more liberal in how we keep track of our own people."

Ozpin said sipping once more his grey eyes locked onto Jaune as he did.

"If you stay here I am sure that you will most thoroughly enjoy your time and more importantly your newfound freedom with the school."

"Your school is liberal then?"

"It is one of the most liberal. You can also go to Vale as you please. If you wish there can be much more accommodations made to make your life easier." Ozpin offered as Jaune grinned.

"Well, then I can give this a shot. And I assume I can actually keep my hunting license after I graduate?"

"Oh, you can do that and even live in Vale if you would like." Ozpin offered as Jaune sighed. He knew that Ozpin knew that all Arc's would set up a foundry when they chose to settle down.

Jaune like each one of his siblings and parents specialized in some kind of weapons manufacturing. Jaune specialized in artificial intelligence in weapons. He made smart guns that did not need an operator to fire or reload. And when he picked a kingdom he would open up a foundry to make guns and sell them to the world at large and the kingdom at a premium rate.

Up until now all of the foundries were located in Atlas. There had never been one set up in another kingdom in all time and Jaune was debating being the only one.

"And I will debate opening a foundry here Ozpin."

"Jaune whatever do you mean?" He asked as a coy smile left his lips.

Jaune knew he knew and sighed.

"I am assuming that you are not going to try to sell me off into marriage? Or some poor faunus girl will not be waiting for me in my dorms when I go to put my bags in them?"

"Of course not! That is not allowed." The voice of the dean one Glynda Goodwitch said the beautiful for a faunus dressed in that tight white blouse, pale leggings, and a cape? Asked her tiger or cougar ears flickering as Ozpin coughed.

"I apologize for that Jaune. Glynda can be emotional at times."

"It's fine people can get like that."

"I... We do not do that here Mister Arc."

"Please Jaune." He said waving her off Glynda flustered her eyes narrowed as she growled. Not sued to the disrespect as she gripped her wand.

"Glynda," Ozpin warned his eyes hardening as Glynda huffed.

"Well, I hope that I find someone that likes me for something, not my last name here."

"Oh, I am sure you will. The females of Beacon are not lacking for looks and if you do find one that strikes your palate I can be sure to help you two along. Within reason." Ozpin said cutting off Glynda before she launched another tirade of comments.

"Well, I'll take your word. Until then Ozpin Glynda good night." Jaune said leaving the office the human dresses in a tight blue outfit that looked almost like a military uniform walked out as Glynda thank Oum waited for him to leave before she growled.

"Something you want to say, Glynda?" Ozpin asked as she growled benign her wand in her hand.

"Ozpin! You are really going to let him get into this school!?"

"What is so wrong with that?"

"What is wrong with that!? Ozpin he is a war criminal!"

"Him? What has Jaune done wrong in his life? As far as I know, he is an upstanding citizen of Arcadia." Ozpin said his best I'm playing dumb and you know it look on his face.

"Ozpin his family is responsible for almost every major genocide in our history!"

"Really? You don't say?"

"I do! Arc hands are dipped in the blood of millions of faunus lives!"

"And yet I do not remember there ever being a story of an Arc harming a faunus that was not in self-defense."

"That is because they do not need to! They sell their weapons to anyone and the councils are too scared of them to try to pass legislation!"

"And they sell to all equally."

"They sell to a terrorist! They were the ones that enabled the Menagerie coup that ousted the Belladonna's from their seats of power!"

"And they have all set up shop in Atlas," Ozpin said as Glynda nodded.

"I know that! They set up shop in Atlas-

"Making it the premier superpower in all of Remnant. Glynda without the threat of Grimm Atlas if they wanted to could and in my opinion will wash over ther est of the world-conquering it without much resistance."

"And who's fault is that!? It is his families fault for making them so powerful!"

"I know that and if we could get one of the Arc's to settle down in Vale? Give this kingdom a manufactory that will sell firstly to us and at a discount rate? We are already clamoring for Arc grade munitions Glynda and this will surely help our stance both politically and militarily."

"And at the cost of some innocent girl who has to be bed by that monster!?"

"Glynda from what I know Jaune and all Arc's are complete gentlemen. There is no evidence to suggest that he would do anything untoward to a woman and he is quite handsome."

"Then I pity the girl who falls for his snake oil act, for she is the most unfortunate woman in existence."

"You need some help?" Jaune asked the wolf faunus in a crater of fire. He looked down offering a hand pulling up the small in his opinion adorable faunus with red black hair a pair of dark black wolf ears with red tips and sharp silver eyes out of the crater.

"Ow! That hurt so much!" She said as Jaune nodded.

"Fire dust will do that to you. That's why as an Arc I recommend not exposing it to volatile areas and or sneezing around it." Jaune smirked the faunas blushed as she looked at him sniffing once.

"AH! You are a human!"

"The last time I checked. Is that a problem?"

"What!? NO! Not at all! My dad is a human!"

"Then good?" Jaune asked as the faunus coughed awkwardly before sticking her hand out almost punching Jaune in his chest.

"Ruby! Ruby Rose! Nice to meet you!"

"Jaune. Jaune Arc. Nice to meet you." He said shaking her hand smiling as she paused.

"Wait, Arc? Like the gun makers?" Ruby asked Jaune frowned he knew most faunus did not like them based on their reputation as he sighed.

"Yes-

"OhmygodIloveyousomuchpleasetellmehowyoumakesomeofyourweapons!" Ruby shouted as Jaune paused his eyes wide as he coughed.

"What?"

"AH! Oh my god! I love you so much! Please tell me how you make some of your weapons!" Ruby said squealing as Jaune let a small smile split his lips.

"You like me? And my weapons?"

"Of course I do! Who could not like them!? You are so cool!" Ruby said punching the air as Jaune grinned.

"Do you like guns then?"

"I. Love. Guns." Ruby said in a voice quivering with emotion.

"Here! Look at my baby!" She said pulling out a massive scythe from nowhere-

"It's-

"A high impact sniper smoothbore barrel fires dust rounds but is capable of accepting Arc munitions. Custom made. I'm assuming by you?"

"Yes! I made her myself! She's my baby!"

"She is well made." Jaune smiled it was good to find someone who likes his families wok.

Everyone's a critic.

"Of! And your gun!? Where's yours!?" Ruby asked her eyes somehow giving off a sharp silver sheen of color. Jaune paused as he sighed as he took out his weapon.

A medium-sized semi blocking pistol was pulled out of his side. THe weapon was a bit larger than Jaune's hand and had a long slim barrel on it-

"This is my weapon Celeri Mortem," Jaune said holding out the off grey-green weapon as Ruby cooed.

"Oh! So cool! Wait! What's it do!?"

"It's a basic Arc pistol, it shoots a small projectile that is greatly accelerated to a fraction of the speed of light," Jaune said as Ruby nodded her head rapidly.

"Oh! So a projectile-based energy weapon!?"

"More or less. Hey, that was a pretty good analogy do you know anything about Arc weapons?" Jaune asked as Ruby nodded.

"Sure do! I read the magazine!"

"Magazine?"

"Arc monthly!" Ruby said her wolf ears popping up her rifle collapsing back into a portable form as Jaune sighed.

"Oh. That, Saffron really wanted to make us open to the world." Jaune said memories of her disastrous advertising campaign rang in his ears.

"Yeah! I always read the latest issue! Your guns are so cool! Gause weapons! Energy weapons! Pulse swords! Pulse weapon! Vibro blades!?" Ruby said almost drooling her silver eyes filled with stars as Jaune gave her a semi-forced smile.

"Well, it is always nice to meet a fan," Jaune said-

"Oh! Can I hold it?!" As if to reply Jaunes gun changed color a light appeared at the end of the barrel that glowed a bright red as Jauen laughed tiredly.

"I don't think that would be a good idea, Ruby. She would not be very happy if I let just anybody hold her. She's pretty picky about who I let hold her." Jaune half said half muttered as Ruby paused.

"What? She would not like that?"

"Ah! Yeah! I'm assuming you know how every Arc child has a weapon specialization?"

"No duh! Who doesn't know that?" Ruby asked making a face as she had just said the obvious and not a little known fact to most people. Not a secret but most people just did not know.

"Ah well, I specialize in AI. Artificial Intelligence, so all of the guns that I make have an AI on them."

"AI?"

"Every gun that I make is alive. The guns I make are alive they have sentience and can speak and in some cases act on their own." Jaune said Ruby looked ready to faint.

"Wait! You mean to tell me that your guns are alive!?"

"Yes. More or less they can thick hear and well they can't feel but they don't like it if you leave them alone or without maintenance." Jaune said as Ruby cooed.

"Oh! Hello Celeri! How are you?" Ruby said as the weapon staid still nothing happened as Jaune sighed.

"Can you just say hello?" Jaune asked the weapon as-

"Hi." A cold sharp feminine voice said as Ruby cooed.

"AH! She likes me!"

The weapon glowed a dark red as if to say no.

"I don't want to say that! But let's keep going ah! I know what if I show you my other weapons?" Ruby looked ready to pass out.

"You have more weapons!?" Ruby asked now fully drooling as Jaune nodded.

"Sure do check it out!" He said waving his hands there was a flash of blue!? Several large blue cubes fell to the floor coalescing and reforming into guns?! A shotgun, Smg, pistol and some kind of rifle appeared, all of them shook once before sprouting small legs and standing upright.

"Master Jaune!"

"We are free!"

"Where are we master?"

"Who can I kill!?" The weapons spoke one after another bouncing on their small tiny legs as Ruby screamed!

"OHHH! They are so cute! Can I hold them!? Can I!? Can I!? Can I please!?" Ruby shouted as once the weapons all turned to face her.

"Whoa!"

"Faunus seen!"

"Jaune! Do you want us to shoot her?"

"There won't be enough of her to find the body!"

"Whoa! Hold on, guys! That's Ruby! She is our friend ok? So don't kill her? Please?" Jaune asked as the weapons nodded once.

"You got it Jaune!" The pistol said it's voice bright and cheery almost childlike as it nodded.

"As you say, boss man!" The SMG said it's voice perky and feminine as it also nodded as the shotgun and rifle also nodded.

"If you say so."

"Dang. And I wanted to kill something." The other two deep voices the shotgun masculine the rifle feminine said as Jaune sighed.

"Well! You saw them, Ruby! What do you think?"

"They are so cute!"

"Cute?

"Did she just call us cute?

"Kiddo we look cute to you?"

"I have killed more people than the times your mother has said she loved you. I am not cute."

"Take a chill pill. Ignore her Ruby that is Svetlana she gets angsty." Jaune said as Ruby nodded.

"Wait! Where did they come from? Where were you carrying them?" Ruby asked as Jaune smirked.

"AH! About that! They are all digi struct weapons."

"What?"

"It means that they can be broken down and summoned with light dust. I can make them into dust that I can carry on my person and then deploy them into their real forms when I need to use them." Jaune said as Ruby awed.

"That is so cool!" Ruby said her wolf ears shaking rapidly. Ruby nodded twice as she smiled so wide Jaune knew she was going to burst!

"Well as fun as this is do you know where we are going?"

"Eh? I was following you."

"I was following you," Jaune said as both of the teenagers looked at each other before they gasped.

"Oh crap!" Jaune and Ruby yelled as they began to run.

As the human and faunus ran a pair of amber eyes locked onto the head of blonde as a faunus growled.

"I can't let you live." The faunus said drawing her weapon knowing that after all these years the time to get her revenge was finally here.

"Yang! This is Jaune!" Ruby said as Jaune after listening to a painfully bad initiation speech as Jaune now looked to Ruby's sister.

Oh? A dragon? That's strange I didn't think a dragon would share. Jaune thought as a seven-foot blonde faunus with literal small wings behind her back semi scaly skin and claws at the end of her finger that rested below a pair of bright yellow grieves. She had a light leather top with a brown duster and smiled at Jaune as he walked up to her.

"Oh? A human? Holy shit! You are an Arc right!? Those people Ruby always fucking reads about right?" Yang asked Jaune nodded as he held out his hand.

"Sure am nice to meet you," Jaune said the two shook hands as Yang smirked.

"Well, you are good looking. Tell me do you get a lot of faunus girls when you leave your damn castle?" Yang asked blowing a plume of smoke his way. Jaune smiled through it.

Roman smokes more than her.

"Not really, I'm not here for love I'm here to kill Grimm and see what life can be like outside of the world. Think of this as a freedom trip. With the added bonus of saving lives."

"Hah! I like you Jaune! Let's talk more before Ruby tries to break my arm off for hogging her new boyfriend." Yang said noticing how Ruby was glaring daggers at Yang as she touched the closest thing to perfection that Ruby had seen as she gasped.

"Yang! Don't say that!"

"Hah so cute..." Yang said as the three walked.

Well, this is not going as planned. Jaune thought as the once calm faunus put a blade to his neck.

"You killed my parents!" The amber eyes faunus said as Jaune blinked. He looked up and down trying to make sense before he sighed, he was pinned to a wall a blade on his neck a faunus that was admitted beautiful with long curvy legs wide hips and a decent chest made more so by her see-through kimono was pinning a blade to his neck.

"I highly doubt that. So far I have never killed a single person." Jaune said perfectly calm with a blade pushing into his neck. The faunus with cat ears growled as she pushed the blade further. Jaune sighed really what was it with people and trying to kill him? They acted like it was his fault the weapons he sold kill people!

Gun's don't kill people, people do. Jaune thought as the faunus glared death.

"Your weapons killed them!"

"That is not my fault," Jaune said without blinking staring at the faunus with a bored look in his blue eyes. No one in the sleeping area seemed to notice their scuffle as she was oddly stealthy about her threatening.

She's good at this. Not making a scene not causing a fuss. She must be trained, military? White Fang more likely with this level of public interrogation.

"Your weapons killed my mother!"

"Not my problem."

"You! You killed my family! Took our home!"

" I do not see how the Menagerie coup was my fault. Faunus wanted to take charge of their island over the old rule that is not my problem."

"They used Arc weapons to do it! You sold to them!"

"Because they wanted to buy them. How was that my fault?" Jaune asked frowning as she hissed.

"You ass! I- Blake paused as she saw the weapon pushed into her neck Jaune had pulled out a pistol from nowhere and put the smooth barrel under her neck. The faunus froze the barrel of the pistol pressed into the base of her neck as Jaune sighed.

"Ok, now I know that this is going to sound strange but I did not kill your family. I did not sell the weapons to kill them ok?"

"Your family-

"I am not my family. Now put that blade away. This is an Ai controlled weapon and unless you think you are faster than a computer that has already planned out how to blow your brains over the floor. Back off." Jaune said as the faunus paused her eyes filled with rage and anger. She relented taking the blade from Jaune's neck as he nodded.

"Good girl. Now go to sleep if I have to get up because of you she will shoot. She already does not like you so don't give her a reason ok?" Jaune asked turning over onto a thin mat leaving the flustered faunus and closing his eyes and going out like a light.

The next day after an energetic talk with a dog faunus that was in love with pancakes and all this syrupy her silent swan companion of dubious potential gender Jaune was in the locker room of Beacon truly wishing he had died.

"Jaune! I did not think you would come all the way to Beacon just for me!" A sharp familiar voice said twin pure white leopard ears flicking as Jaune frowned.

"Hello... Weis... so good to see you." Jaune said as it looked like life had once more thrown a wrench into his plans.

"As it is you! Pyrrha! This is Jaune!" Weiss said as Pyrrha Nikos champion? Jaune thought as he held out a hand.

"My name is Jaune Arc a pleasure to meet you."

"You as well!" The faunus amazon who Jaune would admit was beautiful with fiery red hair bright green eyes and a pair of striped tiger ears coming from her head said.

"Well, it's nice to meet the two of you-

"Jaune! Don't you want to acknowledge Pyrrha? She is one of the few people in Beacon up to our level!"

"Weiss I don't really know her-

"You don't!? She's Pyrrha Nikos!"

"And who is that?" Jaune lied he guessed the tiger faunus did not like the limelight and the way her expression softened proved it-

All students report to the initiation area. Glynda said saving Jaune as he grinned.

"Ok! Let's go!" He said as he smirked.

Ozpin. Was an ass hole.

"AHHHH!" Jaune screamed as he hit the ground hard aura flashed as he rolled into a ball. Jaune barley avoided being splattered on a tree tucked into a combat role as he crashed through the braches aura flaring defending him as he rolled to an angry stop and groaned in pain as he stood up groggily dusting pine needles off of him.

"Launch me off a cliff will you!?" Jaune shouted angrily as-

Snap! The sound of a branch snapping filled the air as Jaune spun a Beowoufl jumped at him it got three feet before he shot it down.

His pistol flashed as a small hole appeared in its had it landed in a thud as it hit the forest floor sliding three feet as Jaune sighed.

Screams more of them came Jaune was surrounded by a pack of the monsters he didn't even budge taking a long yawn as he cracked his arms.

"Well, time to clean up," Jaune said as he flicked his hands two metallic squares fell out the squares right growing became twin blocky platform with twin long guns and pods on the back.

"Kill them," Jaune said as his turrets fired. The Grimm were obliterated in a volley of rail fire the monsters torn to shreds as Jaune smirked. The Grimm were killed in a matter of seconds high-velocity slugs tearing them open like wet paper, the monsters disintegrate before him as his twin turrets Gemini and Shrike scanned the area their guns still smoking and pods full of unguided rockets still waiting.

"Come out of hiding." He said the faunus from last night dropped to the floor the turrets swiveled to her but did not fire yet.

"You killed the Grimm..."

"I did."

"I... my name is Blake BElladonna." The faunus from last not said formally introducing herself as Jaune smiled.

"ANd I am Jaune Arc but you know that partner? I guess? Me and you Blake? The human and the faunus that wants him dead oh this is going to be a fun year!" Jaune said walking up to a shocked Black petting her cat ears grinning as she gained a flustered offended expression as he smirked.

"Let's have fun!" He said as he walked his gun whispered to Blake as she spoke for the first time since yesterday.

"If you try anything I will kill you."

AN: Ok! Another day another commissioned story! This one a bit darker than most and will only get worse before it gets better as Jaune learns to talk nice, but done! I hope you liked it and my non-com fics are back soon!