Jaune sighed, irritated, but resigned to his situation. After all, if anyone was responsible enough, and social enough to pay for the damages done by Nora, it was him. Unfortunately.
Nora chuckled embarrassed. Ren simply sighed, unsurprised.
'And of course I had to land the crapiest job available. At least it's honest' Dressed to the nines as a clown, he worked at a gas station just on the outskirts of Vale.
Jaune's friends burst into laughter.
"A clown!" Weiss struggled to catch her breath. "It's too much!"
He honestly didn't mind the clown suit. Kids laughed at his jokes and the regulars were nice enough to treat him like he had dignity.
'And at least Ravelli is good company... for the most part.' A heavy set man with a giant clown helmet stood outside, dancing and twirling a sign. Jaune liked him enough really, he was a little slow, but quick on his feet when need be.
Port smiled. He knew Jaune was a good man. "A genuinely good soul. Most would ridicule or put up with people like that."
Oobleck nodded in agreement. "Although it does seem that they have their little squabbles at times."
"All part of friendship my good man!"
That was one silver lining to this. He was getting paid peanuts, and it would take all four years, maybe even more, to gather enough money.
"Just how much damage did Nora do!?" Ruby was outraged. Weiss glanced at her leader and shook her head.
"I wouldn't be surprised if Yang had a hand in it." She ignored the blonde's about, and didn't flinch when a bucked of popcorn was thrown her way. "Oh look, free snacks." Neptune raised an eyebrow.
"Technically we all get fee snacks?" Weiss grinned in return.
"True. But I having Yang throwing her thing my way is better." The blonde in question made a guttural sound as her eyes and face turned red. Blake patted her partner's shoulder as she huffed and turned back to the screen.
He frowned, and sulked. Sometimes he wondered what he'd done to deserve this. It really didn't help that Stucky decided to visit that day either; that little bastard couldn't get it through his head to not stuff paper towels down the damn toilet.
'That'll make it the ninth time I have to unclog the damn thing!'
Port looked directly at Oobleck, who shifted nervously in his seat.
Penny leaned close to Ruby and whispered, "I have the feeling this resonated with the Proffesor a little too well."
Ruby shuddered and nodded. "I don't think I want to know about it."
"Me neither."
At least he was technically on break, and he was more than glad the place had a restaurant just next door. Mr. Johns always made the best fried chicken. Second silver lining.
Suddenly, the entrance burst open, and two thugs rushed in, guns raised. Jaune responded appropriately.
"Holy fuck you bozos- Y'ALL GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE!!"
Everyone blinked. NPR and RWBY stared incredulously. The staff had wide eyes from the outburst. Ironwood was baffled. Qrow held back laughter. And Raven was honestly surprised.
"Wow."
The smaller of the two spoke up; "Alright clowny, keep your paws where I can see them!"
Jaune raised his hands, middle fingers up.
"Y-yeah, don't move!" The taller studered out nervously. He wore a way too small monkey mask, with a string that barely held itself together. "Or I'll blast a hole of a cansas city watermelon through your ugly ass bozo face!"
"What in the fuck is that supposed to mean?" Jaune looked at him incredulously.
"Go grab the other asshole and drag his ass out here!" The one obviously in charge ordered.
"Oh no." Pyrrha worried. Whether Jaune liked him or not, she knew he'd never let anything happen to relatively innocent people.
"Right!" The taller one stumbled forward to the bathroom, making his partner roll his eyes. Jaune glared hard.
"You miserable motherfucker- I oughtta jump over this counter and bash your fucking balls in!!" The gun was suddenly pointed directly in his face, which hasn't changed its angry expression.
"Alright, kippy, hand over the cash and I MIGHT leave your brains inside your skull!" Jaune quickly rebutted without a second thought.
"I'll tell you what ski king!" He grabbed a chicken leg and pointed it at the mans face. "Why don't you take your momma home some chicken, and then I won't have to stuff my boot all up in your ass?!"
Nora cackled, admiring the ammount of balls on this version of her fearless leader.
"Man! He is witty!" Tayang chuckled. "I'd like to see him smartmouth Ozpin."
The headmaster grinned, genuenly amused and curious as to whether their Jaune could pull off this level of comebacks.
The thug growled and ripped the leg out of his hand before throwing it to the floor. "I don't like chicken! And I HATE clowns!"
Jaune's eyes widened, before narrowing angrily. He growled, genuenly infuriated.
Neptune shuddered. "Hit a nerve there."
The bumbling thug stepped out of the bathroom with Stucky, holding a large folder.
"Put that shit down, now!!" His partner ordered, and of course he struggled to even do that. Fed up, the thug swooped almost everything off the counter before shooting the ceiling. A hand full of dust covered his head, and a tiny plank of wood hit his forehead.
"That is it!! I'm going to count to ten, and you're gonna hand over all the cash before I splatter your grease paint mug across the county line! ONE!!"
"Fuck your momma!"
Qrow spat out his drink.
The thug blinked incredulously. "TWO!!"
"Fuck your sister!"
Yang and Winter took offence to that. Qrow casually flipped Raven off.
"What are we gonna do?" The tall one asked, hands shaking as he held Stucky at gun point.
"Hey, I know you. Richard Wick, you work at the hardware store, right?" He asked casually.
"Sh-shut your trap!"
"Shut up both of you!! THREE!!"
"FUCK YO GRANDMA!!"
"He's about to pop, I feel it." Sun chuckled.
Stucky ignored the matter at hand, like it was an every day thing, "Hey, I remember now all the guys make fun of you. Call you "little dick Wick""
"Sh-shut up!" Stucky, either being really brave, or really stupid, ignored him and sang.
"Little dick Wick, playing with his prick, don't the smell just make you sick?"
Richard pushed his mask up, nearly in tears as he shouted back, "Stop singing I HATE that song!!"
Raven blanched, seriously thrown off as to how someone so big could be such a damn wimp! "What the hell is even going on anymore!?"
The thug growled at the growing stupidity of his partner. "PUT YOUR FUCKING MASK BACK ON!!"
And of course, he fumbled that too and knocked it to the floor, and Jaune burst out laughing.
The thug, finally having enough, ripped his mask off and pointed the gun back in Jaune's face. "FUCK IT-"
Out of nowhere, the door burst open once again. This time however, it was Ravelli coming to save the day with a large mallet to the thugs face!
"Woo!" Nora cheered.
Richard fired his gun in a panic, luckily missing Jaune by a mile. He wasn't so lucky when the clown suddenly pulled out his own pistol, and fired at the man's head, killing him.
"Woah what the fuck!?" Coco reeled back by the sudden, and very violent, death.
"Ms. Adel!" Goodwitch shouted, although caught off guard and as shocked as her student. Ozpin simply went wide eyed, and James had an incredulous look on his face.
"Wh- Just because he was irritated!?" He shouted. He'd heard, and seen, others kill out of sadistic wants and preasure before. But this young man had killed someone just because he was irritated. What kind of madness was this?
Ruby was surprisingly calm. This wasn't as shocking as seeing a jaw being blown off, or seeing body parts flying after a claymore went off.
"Wow, bad luck all around for that guy." Penny, who still wasn't as used to many levels of violence, looked at her friend in shock. She kept quiet however.
Ravelli laughed maniacally, taking off his helmet to get a better view of things.The thug laid on the floor, face bleeding and barely conscious. A large clown shoe stepped onto his chest, making him look up with wide eyes. Jaune stood over him, sneering angrily with Ravelli smiling behind him, and his gun pointed directly at the camera.
"Most of all, FUCK YOU!!" He fired and the screen went black.
"Goddamned motherfucker got blood all over my best clown suit!"
Silence rang in the audience. None if them even sure what the hell to feel after seeing that. Of course, his friends were shocked at seeing the blonde just casually murder two people, in front of others as well, although not sickened as much as the Punisher universe. Ozpin, Glynda, Port and Oobleck where very much disturbed by the sudden turn of events. Over all they kind of found it funny, in the gallows humor kind of way.
Ruby then broke the silence. "I wonder if he ever gets the blood out."
Weiss wanted to scold her, but then paused and thought about it. "Me too."
R.I.P. Sid Haig