"Settle down, now."
In the middle of a desert planet, on an abandoned bar, there lays a blonde man, with a heavy build, sitting on the bar drinking. His face in view revealing his blue eyes and visible facial hair.
Pyrrha and Velvet felt their legs shaking at the sight of this Jaune, much more rugged and rough-edged, more so than the last one.
Cinder smirked, Neo smiled, and Raven and Vernal looked with interest.
Jaune began to open up a bottle of tequila and began to pour the contents down to the drinking glass then gulps it down silently while he hears the news.
"Why am I not surprised that this boy has Qrow's habits?" Winter deadpanned.
"Hey least the booze there is better than the swill you call wine, Ice Queen!" the aforementioned drunkard retorted.
"How dare you!" Winter said, offended.
"I'll take that as a personal offensive, Branwen."
"Tell that to the wimps you call soldiers, Jimmy."
"...and other news today, Emperor James Ironwood held a press conference commemorating the end of the so-called Brood War. Lisa Lavender was on the scene."
"Emperor, the threat of the Grimm invasion is very real, yet instead of expanding our fleets, you squandered trillions to find the rebel Jaune Arc."
"What?!" Salem's council shouted.
"Eternity, do you have something to tell us about this universe?" Salem asked.
"In here, James Ironwood is the Emperor of the Terran Dominion, which is if Atlas has expanded to the stars."
"So what did this have to do with my grandson?"
"After Ironwood betrayed Pyrrha Nikos, Jaune left the Dominion and rebelled against him, but to no avail as he couldn't match the Dominion's propaganda machine."
Tyrian and Watts rolled their eyes, as they knew how Atlas' propaganda worked.
"Wait, why me?" Pyrrha asked.
"In this universe, you killed most of Ironwood's family as part of the assassin program created by the predecessor of the Dominion, the Terran Confederacy, to eliminate it's political opponents."
Mercury raised a brow, but did not ask.
Pyrrha shuddered, to believe that Ironwood had left her to die in retaliation for killing his family. How she felt the irony of revenge.
Ironwood felt the same, to have left the woman who killed his family to die by the Grimm was something he couldn't do. He would have just forgiven her instead, despite the fact that this Pyrrha had taken away his family.
"Jaune Arc represents a clear and present threat to the Dominion. He is an unscrupulous, lawless revolutionary bent in spreading fear and dissention across the sector. Him and his ragtag band of miscreats have instigated open rebellion across six different worlds and stolen vast amounts of Dominion weapons and hardware."
All the while Jaune held a picture of Pyrrha. How he'd remember her to be. Beautiful, flawless and clear. The memories he shared before New Gettysburg, the love he traded with her, and how Ironwood's treachery had pushed him over the edge, so much so that it caused him to turn against Ironwood, all because he knew it was long ago, but still the memory of it haunted him to this day. So he picked him his trusty customized revolver and aimed at the TV.
"It ain't over till it's over, you son of a bitch." Jaune replied in a venomous, hostile tone towards Ironwood in the broadcast and fires at the TV, destroying it.
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Arc's Multiverse
FanfictionYou may ask yourselves: Who is Jaune Arc? Is he the boy behind a shield and sword? Is he the weakling that will become a true warrior? Is he the teen that will rise to become stronger? Or is he a kid that will become a man? You decide who he is, cau...