I hope you guys enjoy this story! With Teen Titans now being back on the air, I was inspired to write this story for everyone's enjoyment! And I plan to focus on this story for about seven chapters or so. Depending on my mood. Then, once I've got those written down, I'll work on something else. Remember, any and all reviews, especially ones with constructive criticism, are welcome and essential to the life blood of this story! Anyway… HIT IT, GIRLS!
Instrumental Beginning (Teen Titans Theme Song by Puffy AmiYumi)
When there's trouble, you know who to call,
TEEN TITANS!
From their tower, they can see it all!
TEEN TITANS!
When there's evil on the attack, you can rest knowing they got your back!
'Cause when the world needs heroes on patrol,
Teen Titans… GO!
(Instrumental Break)
With their superpowers they unite,
TEEN TITANS!
Never met a villain that they liked.
TEEN TITANS!
They've got the bad guys on the run! They'll never stop 'till the job is done!
'Cause when the world is losing all control,
Teen Titans… GO!
(Instrumental Break)
1, 2, 3, 4, GO!
TEEN TITANS!
*I don't own RWBY, nor do I own Teen Titans!*
"Scarlet Scarab!" = Normal Speech
"Raven!" = Scarab Speech
'Starfire!' = Thoughts
"Cyborg!" = Flashbacks
"Robin!" = Yelling
Expulsion From Beacon! - The Journey Of Heroism Begins!
"You, um… you wanted to see me, sir?" Jaune asked nervously as he stepped into Ozpin's office.
It's been just a few hours since the incident with Cardin and that Ursa, and all Jaune wanted to do was rest and read his newest X-Ray and Vav comic book. But it seems as though there were other plans.
Not long after taking some time to get examined at the med-bay did Jaune get called down to the Headmaster's office for something important. At first, he thought it would just be another, quote unquote quest, to find something that Ozpin had misplaced again. However, the tone in the man's voice over the school's speaker system made things abundantly clear that this was a very serious matter. So he quickly got himself ready and headed on over to the tower where Ozpin's office is located.
Which leads us to our current situation.
Ozpin looked up from the file he was holding and looked at Jaune with a mix of disappointment and… regret? Regret about what?
"Mister Arc. Please, sit down." Ozpin said.
Jaune wasn't quite sure what was going on, but he could already tell he was not going to like it. He took a seat in the chair in front of Ozpin's desk and waited for the headmaster to tell him what this was about.
He wished he hadn't.
"Now, Mister Arc, it has recently been brought to my attention by Mister Winchester that you forged your transcripts in order to get into Beacon. Is this true?" Ozpin asked.
Not that he had to. Jaune looking down with his hair shadowing his eyes and looking away slightly was all that the Headmaster of Beacon needed to see in order for the truth to be told. The old Headmaster placed a hand on Jaune's shoulder, making the boy look up at him.
"Now, listen to me, Jaune. If it were up to me, I would allow you to stay and continue your studies here at Beacon, regardless of whether you forged these documents. But I'm afraid that this time, it's not up to me." Ozpin said, a regretful smile on his face. "The Vale Council has decided to expel you from Beacon, not just because of your forged transcripts, but because they see you as a threat."
Now that line certainly confused Jaune.
"What do you mean they see me as a threat?" Jaune asked.
"I'll be frank with you, Jaune. The Vale Council has witnessed your remarkable improvement as a Huntsman in such a short amount of time, and they fear that at your current rate of improvement, you'll become a threat to Vale. And so, they issued for your Aura to be sealed and your expulsion from Beacon. But we're not about to let a bunch of power obsessed old coots decide your future! Miss Goodwitch, please bring it in!" Ozpin said.
The door to the office opened up to reveal Professor Glynda Goodwitch holding a case looking to be of Japanese origin. It was a small box, but Jaune could already feel a great and ancient power pulsating inside it. It was almost like there was some sort of force of ultimate power sealed inside of it.
She carefully set the box on the desk, giving Jaune a closer look at the ancient texts that were carved into the box. He also saw that upon closer inspection, the box itself was made out of solid gold!
'If Weiss saw this box and managed to calculate how much gold this thing was made from and found out its retail value, she'd probably steal it and sell it in an instant.' Jaune thought to himself.
"Are you absolutely certain that he's the one, Ozpin?" Glynda asked.
She wasn't so sure that giving whatever is in that box to a young boy was the smartest idea, but if Ozpin knew for sure that this is the right choice, then who is she to say no?
"I'm positive, Glynda. Now please, open the box while I explain to Mister Arc the importance of this artifact." Ozpin instructed before turning to Jaune and saying "And before you say it, this is an actual artifact. It's not a chess piece, a scroll, a pair of spectacles or my house keys."
"I wasn't thinking that." Jaune denied.
"Yes you were." Ozpin fired back.
"THEN JUST WHAT IS IT?!" shouted Jaune.
With a loud 'THUD', Glynda set the lid of the box onto the desk allowing a scarlet red light to flash up from the inside of the container. The three of them watched in silent awe as a strange item floated up out of the box.
But what it was severely confused Jaune.
It looked to be a large beetle of some kind. It was about as big as the palm of Ozpin's hand and was a solid red color. In fact, this beetle looked kinda like an ordinary Scarab Beetle from Egyptian culture. However, at the same time, Jaune could tell that it was anything BUT ordinary.
"Whoa…! What is that thing?" Jaune asked.
"That, Jaune, is something that we really don't know much about." Ozpin admitted. "You see, eons ago, this very beetle crashed onto our planet and seemed to be searching for a worthy host of some kind. It was in a form of stasis for many years before Oobleck and I found it in an ancient tomb of some kind and brought it back to Beacon with us. We've been studying it for years now, but we've never been able to solve the mystery of what this beetle really is or why it chose to come to our planet in the first place! All we know is that it seems to be looking for someone to bestow its power to."
"And you think that someone… Is me? But I'm no one special! I'm just plain, weak, dorky me!" Jaune said in denial.
"And do you truly believe that?"
Jaune came close to shrieking like a little girl when he had suddenly heard that voice and recoiled back a bit as the beetle floated towards him and landed in his palm.
"If you keep thinking about yourself in such a negative way, you will never truly grow into the protector you wish to be! And I can help you become that protector!"
"You'd help me? But you don't even know me!" Jaune said to the beetle.
But while Jaune was hearing the Beetle speak to him, Ozpin and Glynda only heard a series of mechanical beeps and whistles. Kind of Like R2-D2 from the Star Wars franchise. They also saw that the antennae of the beetle were flashing green as it made these beeping sounds and whistles, leading them to believe that it was communicating with Jaune rather than the boy going crazy.
As for Jaune, he heard the beetle laugh a little before it flew into the back of his hoodie and attached itself to his back, just below the shoulder blades. Jaune winced as he felt the legs of the beetle dig into his flesh along with the funny feeling of something else boring its way into his flesh.
"Ah, so that's why you have so little confidence in yourself!" said the beetle. "Ever since you were little, you've wanted to be one of these Huntsmen: a warrior who fights against the foul creatures of Grimm in order to defend your world's inhabitants! But your family was less than thrilled with your career choice and did everything in their power short of locking you in your room to keep you from pursuing these dreams of yours. And so, you snuck out a couple of years ago and took your family's heirloom, the sword and shield Crocea Mors, and left to become a huntsman under the teachings of Beacon and its professors. However, a jealous and spiteful colleague could not stand the idea of being saved by one whom he deemed weaker than himself, and revealed your forged transcripts to your headmaster. Now, you've been expelled, and this 'Vale Council' wants to seal away your aura and banish you to keep you from becoming stronger due to their positions of power being threatened by your astounding signs of improvement! Am I missing anything?"
"Just the knowledge that ever since you crawled on my back, I've felt this tingly feeling coming from where you are." Jaune replied.
"Oh, so you really ARE feeling that. Do not be alarmed, it's nothing bad. That tingly feeling is just me assimilating myself to your body so that you can utilize my abilities as your own. But it will take some time to fully assimilate to you due to your rather large pools of Aura trying to repel me from you." the beetle explained.
"Will this be a problem?" Jaune asked his now symbiotic partner. "And why are you trying to assimilate yourself to me? Wouldn't it be the other way around?"
"It won't be too much of a problem. It just means you won't be able to use my powers right away. As for why I'm doing this, it's because my species is supposed to find a compatible host that meets our requirements so that we can combine with them. Without a host, our ships OR a specially made container for ourselves, we cannot sustain ourselves for longer than a week before we go into a form of hibernation to replenish our strength and gather more. We used to, USED TO, find a host body to control so we could eradicate what we deemed as a planet's inferior life forms. But we later saw that such actions would just lower the survival rate of the universe and the survival of our own colony. So, in exchange for giving us a host body to remain conscious with, we in turn give our host incredible power and technological enhancements such as a suit that is self regenerative and can mecha-shift into many different types of weapons. A form of symbiosis, if you will. And now, Jaune Arc, you are my host and I am a new source of power for you. But be warned! We Scarabs, that's my kind's species, are not invincible! There are some forms of technology that we cannot scan and replicate, and we are especially vulnerable to magic! But with your Aura slowly combining with my own abilities, my own weakness to Magic should lower significantly."
Jaune sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose as he absorbed everything the Scarab told him. It amazed him just how advanced the Scarabs really were, but at the same time it was also so scary how they used their power to wipe out all forms of life on different planets way back then. But he had to admit, this whole symbiosis thing with the Scarab sounded pretty cool to him, so he decided to give the Scarab a chance before reaching any sort of judgement calls.
He stood up from his seat and strapped Crocea Mors across his back before explaining everything to Ozpin and Glynda. He asked them to say goodbye to his friends and team for him as he wanted to leave as soon as possible so whoever the Council sent to seal his Aura wouldn't get the chance.
Ozpin said that he'd be sure to do just that, and Glynda actually surprised Jaune by hugging him and telling him to stay safe out there. And with that said and done, Jaune left through the open window, using a grappling hook as a kind of rope swing like Spider-Man does with his webs. This just further proved to the two professors that Jaune had been improving by leaps and bounds before Cardin and the Council happened. One couldn't let go of the past and his oversized ego, and the other was a bunch of power hungry fools who couldn't see past their own positions of power!
Once Jaune was a good distance away from Vale, he began walking in the direction of a place that he and his family have been to many times before.
"Hey, before I forget, what's your name anyway?" Jaune asked.
"Oh well, truth is I don't really have one. Our kind don't generally have names, as we are most often part of a giant Hive Mind. But since we're on the subject, I think I'll just let you call me Scarab. I must say, I think I'm going to enjoy working with you from now on, Jaune."
"Yeah, Scarab. I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship!" Jaune said in agreement.
"By the way, why do you even bother wearing this ridiculous rabbit hoodie?" Scarab asked. "I can understand not wanting that cold armor you always wear to touch your skin, but the fact that your hoodie has a rabbit character on it is a little embarrassing."
Jaune looked up at the sky with a faraway look, a smile forming as he remembered the day when he got his hoodie.
"Dia, one of my little sisters, loves bunnies and the color blue. She actually made me this hoodie so I wouldn't forget about everyone back home. She made it in black because at the time she had used up all of her blue fabric and didn't want to go buy more." Jaune explained.
"Really? Well, that's very sweet of her, but you don't HAVE to wear it just because she made it for you. Just saying." Scarab said.
Jaune just chuckled in response.
"I love my sisters, so I wear all of their gifts with pride!" Jaune said in response.
Through their link, he could actually feel Scarab smiling at that. And with his emotional state gradually restored, Jaune set his focus on getting to a place where he could start a whole new life!
Look out, Jump City, because Jaune Arc and Scarab are on their way! But a few seconds of walking later, and Scarab spoke up about a rather serious subject.
"Do you suddenly have the uncontrollable urge to sing?"
"Oh, big time!" Jaune replied.
"Then sing it, baby!"
Jaune chuckled and started singing a song that he and his mom used to sing every time their family went on a long distance trip.
"Tell everybody I'm on my way! New friends and new places to see~! With the sun beating down, yes I'm on my way! And I'm lovin' every step I take~!"
*To Be Continued…*
Well, there's the first chapter of the story. The next one will be longer, and I just want you guys to understand that I'm making this story more closely follow the Teen Titans timeline, so be on the lookout for more later on! Also, which do you prefer for Jaune's hero name? Scarlet Scarab, or Red Beetle? Let me know in the reviews, and I'll change the story title when I see which is more popular. And please include your reason as to why Jaune should use your name choice.