Helluva Boss
(A/N; Before we get into this chapter, have any of you seen the new official Alastor comic by Vivziepop? It is awesome!!
Also, you guys episode 1 of season 2 of the Mandalorian? It. Is. AWESOME!!Anyways, on with the chapter)
🎃👻💀HAPPY HALLOWEEN 💀👻🎃
The viewing opened up to reveal the image of a city with red sky's and dark clouds. Cars were beeping and honking everywhere as the city was filled with tall black and white buildings.
A grey and white sign was that read: "Welcome to Imp City"
Behind that sign was a tall office building with large, angular black and white horns. A light was on throughout one of the upper floors.
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With the city being the first thing that the audience were introduced to, many already had questioning looks.
"Why's the sky all red?" Ruby asked with a raised brow.
"And what kind of place is called "Imp City?" Yang asked in equal confusion.
"I'm more so questioning why that building has horns on it." Weiss said with a raised brow, crossing her arms.
"Hmm. Yes, I do know of this universe quite well." Vortech stated with furrowed eyes. "As well as the individual responsible for showing this universe so soon."
"Well, I hardly see the need for you to be cryptic." Sienna said as she looked towards Vortech. "What universe is this, and who's forcing us to view it?"
"I'm afraid I can't divulge into who set this particular universe up for an early viewing." Vortech started as the audience all looked towards him. "But what I can tell you is that what you all see before you is a city most commonly found... in Hell."
It was at Vortech's last words, that everyone's eyes widened, each person with their own faces of shock.
"Hell? This universe takes place in Hell?" Glynda asked as if she someone was yanking her chain. "This has to be a joke."
"Huh. So this is Hell?" Qrow asked with a raised brow. "I thought there'd be more flames and screaming."
"This is one place I never hoped I would ever see." Pietro said with a nervous gulp.
"Oh, don't let looks deceive you. Hell is quite dangerous." Vortech stated to the audience. "Though particular version of Hell is more so if everyone in the world did every crime and sin imaginable. Each person either praying on someone, or trying to survive in the afterlife."
"Everyone committing crimes, eh?" Roman mused as he tapped the arm of his chair in thought. "I honestly can't tell if that's fun or a nightmare."
"I would imagine it would be more so a nightmare, than anything else." Winter said to Torchwick with furrowed eyes. "Corrupt people running about doing whatever they want. I know this is the place where the corrupt and wicked go to when they die, but I'd rather not lay witness as to what they do in the afterlife."
"Funny you should mention that, specialist." Vortech started as he looked over to Winter. "A majority of the current audience reside in Hell."
"Wait, wait, wait wait wait wait. Hold the phone." Jaune said as he looked at Vortech. "You're saying most of us actually live in... Hell, of all places?"
"I have a list of present members within the audience that reside in Hell, within this universe." Vortech said to Jaune. "I can read it aloud if you so please."
"I'm almost scared to accept your offer, but I suppose some insight would be appreciated." Ironwood with an uncertain look to his face.
"It would probably be beneficial to see which of us were sent to Hell, in this universe." Ren said with a calm yet uncertain look. "Perhaps we could also use the information as a reminder of things not to do, so that we may avoid the fate of... living in Hell."
Everyone, while majorly appearing nervous, with a few trying to remain calm, all nodded in agreement.
"As you wish." Vortech said. "The list is as follows: Roman Torchwick."
"Eh, I'd be more surprised if I went to Heaven." Roman said with a shrug.
"Jaune Arc."
"Wait, what?!" Jaune asked with a wide eyed, shocked expression.
"How did Jaune end up in Hell?!" Pyrrha asked with a worried look on her face, something mirrored by Nora and Ren.
"Nora Valkyrie."
"What did I do?!" Nora asked in shock and horror, as Ren had nothing but a shocked stiff look.
"Qrow Brawen."
"Understandable." Winter said quickly as she crossed her arms.
"Screw you too!" Qrow flipped Winter off.
"Neo Politan."
Neo shrugged much like her boss had done.
"Blake Belladonna."
"E-excuse me?" Blake asked with a horrified expression.
"Ilia Amitola."
Ilia didn't say anything, but her dilated pupils and agape jaw said everything for her.
"Yang Xiao Long."
"What?! No way!" Yang said with a scowl as she shook her head.
"I know you did not just say my eldest daughter is in Hell." Taiyang said with crossed arms.
"Taiyang Xiao Long."
"Huh?!" Tai exclaimed in shock.
"Seriously? He's one of the softest people here." Qrow said in defense for his old teammate.
"There's no way in Hell our dad could have gone to... well, Hell." Yang may have struggled with her wording a bit, but she got her point across.
"Yeah!" Ruby shouted in agreement with her sister.
"Ruby Rose."
"WHAT?!" Ruby let out perhaps the loudest scream in her life, hurting the ears of Blake and Sienna a bit in the process.
"Keep it down!" Sienna said as she and Blake covered their feline ears.
"Bullshit, Ruby's in Hell." Qrow swore up and down.
"No way!" Taiyang yelled in agreement.
"You can say that me, dad, and uncle Qrow went to Hell, but there is no way Ruby could be there as well." Yang said as her eyes seemed to flash red for a moment.
"She's the most innocent person here." Weiss said in defense of her partner. "It's inconceivable that she wound up in Hell, in another universe."
"Huh, I guess there's a version of little red that ain't a saint." Roman mused. "I wonder if that's worse or not."
"Penny Polendina."
"Impossible!" Pietro exclaimed with wide eyes.
"Inconceivable!" Ironwood slammed his hand upon the arm of his chair.
"Penny is as less likely to be in Hell as Ruby." Winter complained with a scowl.
Meanwhile, Penny tapped her chin in thought, not really taken fully aback by a version of herself being in Hell.
"And finally..." Vortech said he looked at a certain silver haired individual. "...Professor Ozpin."
The staff of Beacon, the denizens of Atlas, the students of Beacon, the members of the Xiao Long/Branwen/Rose family, and even the criminals all had shocked expressions on their faces.
Ozpin himself was very shocked upon hearing that there was a version of him that was sent to Hell. He looked as if he wanted to say something, yet the words died in his throat.
"How... how could Ozpin of all people wind up in Hell?" Glynda asked with a purely shocked look. "It's-it's-its just not feasible."
"You'll find many a surprise waiting in this universe, I can guarantee you all that." Vortech said as he looked at each audience member before looking back at the screen. "Now then. Shall we continue?"
"Yeah... I-I guess." Ruby said in a meek voice.
"I really can't believe most of us are in Hell." Jaune said with a frown and a horrified look.
"The multiverse is a very strange place." Ozpin added in calm, yet unnerved look as the viewing continued, shaking his head a bit as he started to hear the silent words of "You're never fully dressed, without a smile.~" going through his head. Though strangely enough, he was the only person to hear it.
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The scene quickly cut to inside the building to show black and white stripped wall paper that was slowly coming apart. A door read: "IMP Headquarters", with a noted taped onto the door that read: "Meeting in Progress."
It then immediately cut to inside the room to show a white board with a crudely drawn bath graph, showing an arrow spiking downward.
Upon the whiteboard were also the words: "FIX THIS SHIT!!" And "Roman is the best, by Roman."
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Despite the bombshell that was dropped upon the entire audience; the words in the whiteboard got a good giggle out of some people.
"Heh. "Fix this shit." The most blunt words I never would have thought to be funny." Qrow said with a small chuckle.
"So it looks like I'm the star of this universe." Roman said with a small smirk.
"Eh. You're the star of this section of this universe." Vortech corrected Roman. "There's an even bigger star for the entirety of this universe than you."
Roman slightly frowned at this, but relented, being fine with at least being a star in some form of way.
"So... we're essentially seeing a side story to the more official part of this universe." Blake analyzed with a bit of her literary knowledge.
"Precisely." Vortech nodded towards the cat faunus.
"Then... what is this part of the universe called?" Ren asked. "We've yet to see the title upon the screen."
"This section, of this universe, is referred to as Helluva Boss." Vortech answered the ninja bot.
"I like the sound of this." Roman said as he lit his bubble blowing cigar, reclining in his chair as the viewing continued.
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Soon enough, Roman Torchwick came into view, though he was not like his usual appearance.
He wore his usual clothing, minus the bowler hat, though there were three spikes coming out of his back as well as the fact that his his hands were clawed and wide, with his black gloves having eyes on them. His skin was orange with a large patch of white on the right side of his face, his head ovular and bald as he had two large, curved horns that were stripped black and white as well a black, pumpkin shaped skull on his forehead. He also had an arrow tipped tail, tipped in white.
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It was then that Roman proceeded to let his jaw hang open, his cigar falling out of his mouth as he looked at his hellish self.
"Th-that's me?" Roman asked out in a stuttering voice.
"Within this universe, this is how you appear." Vortech confirmed to the criminal.
"I didn't think he would look so... less human, when you told us he was in Hell." Weiss said as she was slightly unnerved with the demonic looking Roman Torchwick.
"That's because Roman is a demon." Vortech told to the SDC heiress. "Most people that go to Hell, in this universe, are."
"God, if that's the case, I don't think I want to see what everyone else looks like as demons." Yang said with a slight shiver of fear.
"This version of Torchwick almost looks like the upper half of the Nuckelavee Grimm." Port said with furrowed eyes, the mention of the Grimm unnerving Ren.
"So... what did I do, to get sent to Hell, anyways?" Roman asked.
"You were born there." Vortech answered him bluntly, yet politely.
"Wait... really?" Roman asked with a raised brow.
"To be specific, you are of the species of demons known as Imps." Vortech informed him. "People can die and go to Hell, but there are those who are born into the place as well. Those that are born in Hell are known Hell-borns, and those who die and are sent to Hell, are referred to as Sinners."
"So it seems that even Hell has its own social structure." Oobleck said as he wrote it in his notes. "Fascinating."
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He walked forward a bit with his eyes closed and his hand on his head before her put both hands together.
"All right. Now I know that business has been a bit slow... lately." Roman started before he looked in front of him, eyes opened to reveal that his sclera was yellow with green irises.
He raised both his hands up and open as he continued. "Yes, and it's no one's fault. Okay?" Roman said as he put his right hand down on the table. "I'm not naming any names here." He's said as he quickly looked up before closing his eyes. "Jaune."
Speaking of Jaune, he too had a different look. He wore a black, coat-tailed suit with a large, red bow-tie, and black dress pants. His skin was red, his teeth sharp, his sclera yellow with blue irises. His hair was now platinum blonde with two curved horns that her stripped blonde and black.
Jaune seemed to take quite offense to what Roman said as he was sitting at the table, arms at his side as he made a disgruntled look that screamed: 'Are you being serious right now?!', as he looked at Roman.
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"Looks like Torchwick isn't the only one with horns." Yang said as Jaune looked at himself with wide eyes.
"I really am in Hell..." Jaune muttered in a horrified voice before furrowing his eyes. "Wait a minute, what's he blaming me about?"
Neo just giggled at Jaune as Pyrrha looked towards Vortech.
"So, is Jaune a sinner, or a hell-born?" Pyrrha cautiously asked Vortech.
"He's a hell-born. An imp, like Roman." Vortech answered her.
"Well... at the very least Jaune wasn't sent to Hell." Pyrrha let out a sigh of relief.
"It even looks like Jaune is well dressed in this universe. That's new." Weiss commented.
"Wait a minute... why's Jaune with Torchwick, anyway?" Ruby questioned.
It was at Ruby's question that everyone who knew Jaune, including Jaune himself, widened their eyes.
"Yeah, why is fearless leader with the criminal?" Nora asked with her hands on her hips.
"Are they related, like with Ruby and Torchwick in the last universe?" Ozpin asked.
"No." Vortech simply said.
"So why is Jaune with Torchwick then?" Blake asked. "It would have been one thing if they were related, but it's something different that he isn't. Jaune's way too nice to be around a criminal like Torchwick."
"Mr. Arc is there because he works for Roman." Vortech replied.
"....What?" Pyrrha asked with a frozen look.
"Jaune Arc working for Roman Torchwick?" Weiss asked with a raised brow. "You can show us aliens, ghosts, dragons, and wizards, but this is we're I have to draw the line on believing that."
"I refuse to believe Mr.Arc of all people would work for a criminal, in any universe." Glynda said with crossed arms.
"Well, Roman isn't a criminal in this universe." Vortech said. "He runs a company, and Jaune just so happens to work for him."
"So I run a business, eh?" Roman inquired with a raised brow. "What business we talking about, here?"
"You'll see." Was all Vortech said as the viewing continued.
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However, Roman just ignored it as he continued to speak. "Now, does anyone have any bright ideas on how we can get business drumming up again?"
The view changed to show everyone who he was talking to.
Adjacent to Jaune was what seemed to be a feminine, humanoid wolf who was texting on her scroll. Her clothing consisted of a black, tattered crop top with white, inverted pentagram shaped strings to hold it up. Her pants were black shorts with a familiar emblem of a flaming flower in white on it, along with black, toeless stockings. She also wore a spiked choker around her neck as well as having white, fingerless gloves, along with a piercing on her right eyebrow and two on her left ear. Her fur was mainly white in color with outlines of black, her ears black as well, along with her long, voluminous black hair swept to the side to to show off her right ear, her big bushy tail the same color. To top it all off, her sclera was red with yellow irises. This was none other than Blake Belladonna.
Sitting beside Jaune was a female imp. Her skin red with her eyes completely sea green in color, save for her black pupils, her tail having white markings. Her hair was red-orange in color with light blue streaks in her bangs, along with long, black eyelashes. A beauty mark was on her left cheek, with her lips colored in black lipstick. Her horns were pink with three thin lines of white on each one. Her clothing consisted of a simple black chocker, a cold-shoulder light blue crop top with gold buttons where the straps at the top meet the torso piece. She also wore torn, dark purple pants, along with white, fingerless gloves. She also wore dark purple footwear that didn't cover her hoof-like toes. This was Neon Katt.
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"Wha—?! I-is that me?" Blake asked with wide eyes, while also sinking back in her seat.
"Like Roman and Jaune, you were born in Hell, but you are not an imp like they." Vortech said to the shocked cat faunus. "You are of a Hellhound."
"Blake? A Hellhound?" Yang said with a short and small chuckle.
"Oh, the irony." Ilia said with a shake of her head. "She's afraid of dogs, and in another universe, she's a dog from Hell."
Ruby saw that Blake still had a shocked look upon her face. "Hey, Blake. You okay?"
"In an alternate universe, I am Hellhound." Blake started as she looked at the screen. "A Hellhound that apparently works with Torchwick. So, no Ruby. I don't think I'm okay."
However as team RWBY and Ilia were talking about Blake, Penny focused more so on the female imp. "Isn't that Neon Katt of team FNKI?"
"Uh, who?" Jaune asked Penny.
"Neon Katt is an huntress-in-training at Atlas academy." Ironwood informed Jaune. "She's a cat faunus with a... very bubbly and hyperactive personality."
"A faunus at Atlas academy?" Sienna asked as she looked at Ironwood with a sneer. "I thought Atlas was too high and mighty to care for the faunus."
Winter scowled at Sienna while Ironwood held a look of indifference.
"Just because Jacques Schnee uses faunus laborers doesn't mean the whole of Atlas looks down upon the faunus." Ironwood said to the White Fang High Leader.
"My experience says otherwise." Sienna replied with narrowed eyes.
"Can we please not get political right now?" Vortech asked Ironwood and Sienna Khan. "As enjoyable as it would be to watch both of you tear each other apart, I would like for us to get along with this viewing so that we can leave the theater and stretch ours legs, Hmm?"
Ironwood still held his look of indifference, but nodded towards Vortech, Sienna grumbling something under her breath, yet she relented nonetheless.
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"What about a car wash?!" Neon excitedly asked with shimmering eyes as Jaune deadpanningly raised his eyebrow at her.
"This is hell, Neon. No one cares about cars being clear here! Okay?" Roman pointed out, a bit annoyed before he began thinking to himself.
"Ooh!" Roman said as he thought of something. "What about a billboard?" He suggested with stars in his eyes and a sharp toothed smile as he spread his arms out and open.
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"A billboard doesn't sound too bad of an advertisement strategy." Roman mused with a smile. "I still want to know what it is we do."
"Oh, please. You'd only want a billboard to show your face off to the public." Winter said with an eye roll.
"The cops spread my face around enough, what's a little more advertisement gonna do?" Roman asked with a smug look.
Meanwhile, Taiyang had something else on his mind. "Do people really not wash their cars in Hell?"
"That's the question you're asking?" Glynda raised her brow at Taiyang.
"Well, I mean, everyone needs to wash their car at times." Tai said. "I wash Speedy once every two weeks."
Qrow just put a hand on his friend's shoulder. "Just let it go Tai."
Tai huffed a bit while crossing his arms, but took heed of Qrow's advice.
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"We can't afford a billboard, sir." Jaune said in a more annoyed tone as he still had his arms crossed.
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"Thank you for your input, Buzz killington." Roman said as he crossed his arms.
"Hey!" Jaune yelled at Roman.
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Just then, Roman quickly got up in Jaune's face, wrapping his arm around his shoulder. "Helpful, Jaune. Really glad you're in the room, right now." He said plainly said in a sarcastic tone before he pushed Jaune off to the side.
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Roman laughed at this while Neo giggled, even Yang, Ruby, and Blake laughing a bit as well.
"Wha-why are you three laughing?" Jaune asked with a hurt expression.
"Oh, come on Jaune, you gotta admit, it's a little funny." Yang said while chuckling.
"It's not like Torchwick shot you or anything." Ruby waved Jaune off as she giggled.
"No, my... demon self, told him a fact, and he just pushed me for it." Jaune said as he crossed his arms.
"Well... yeah, but it was still a bit a funny." Blake said with a small smile.
Jaune just rolled his eyes as he went to look back at the viewing, only to notice that Nora was silently giggling as well.
"You too, Nora?!" Jaune asked with a shocked look.
"Sorry." Nora said as her giggling became more prominent. "It was pretty funny."
Jaune just sighed as he leaned back in his chair as Pyrrha tried to comfort him by rubbing his shoulder.
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Roman pulled out a remote as he sternly looks at the rest of his team. "Have you guys forgotten what service we provide?"
After Roman asked his question, his turned on a nearby tv, showing a commercial.
The commercial started off with laughing as he sledge hammered someone across the head, causing a large gash in the side of the person's head.
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"Ooh, that was quick." Qrow cringed at the sudden killing.
"Torchwick just killed a demon with a sledgehammer." Weiss said with a bamboozled look.
"Yeah, I'm just that good." Roman said with a proud smirk.
"Your track record with Team RWBY says otherwise." Ironwood reminded Roman, causing Roman's smirk to falter.
"I don't like the turn this universe is taking." Ruby said, wincing a bit at the side of the blood.
'That makes one of us.' Neo signed with a smirk.
"It is Hell." Blake reminded her team leader.
"It doesn't mean I have to like it." Ruby said with a grimace.
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The commercial transitioned to show Jaune smirking devilishly as he had a shotgun inside the mouth of a tied up demon. Jaune activates the shotgun, blowing the eyes and brains out of the demon he shot, while also blasting himself back in the process with a grunt.
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"Woah!" Jaune exclaimed in complete shock.
"Jaune just killed a man!" Ruby yelled in equal shock.
"And it actually looked like he enjoyed it." Weiss said with a bit of a grimace.
"He is a demon." Ren tried to rationalize, though he too was disturbed at seeing Jaune of all people kill someone.
"I just killed someone..." Jaune muttered in horror. "And I actually smiled while doing it."
"Remember, this is just an alternative universe. This doesn't define the real you." Pyrrha tried to comfort Jaune even though she too was a bit unnerved at seeing Jaune kill someone.
"Thanks, I guess... it still doesn't help that it's an alternate version of me." Jaune said with wide eyes.
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It then cut to Blake tearing up someone's neck as they screamed, Blake growling as he shook them around like a rag doll.
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"Woah, Blake." Yang said with a grimace at seeing the Hellhound version of Blake thrash the person about.
Blake herself had her own horrified look, silent the entire time.
Roman let out a whistle of nervousness. "Kitty cat's going at that poor sucker like a beowolf."
"I never thought I'd see a version of Blake that was so... brutal." Sienna said with wide eyes.
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It then finally cut to the back of a demon before he was decapitated by a spear weirded by Neon, who laughed out a giggle as she shouldered the spear.
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"That is not a good image of Neon." Winter said with a grimace.
"Neon Katt has been known to show a bubbly nature even in fights, especially if she wins." Penny said as she looked at the demonic Neon. "Though I am not certain she would be bubbly after killing someone."
'I probably would.' Neo signed with a smile.
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Roman had a bowl of popcorn in hand, letting Blake eat some as he moved the bowl over to Neon, who was currently sitting upon the table with a smile, Jaune standing up as he had a hand on his head.
"Ah, those were the good times." Roman said with a happy sigh as Neon took a peace of popcorn and plopped into her mouth, gunshots ringing from the tv as screams were heard in the background.
"I don't need any reminding, sir." Jaune said as he shook his head with his hand on it. "Considering you blew most of our salaries on an obnoxious tv ad last week." He continued as Neon looked at Jaune with a bright smile.
"One that you then additionally paid to have run for a full three hours, on a channel nobody watches." Jaune exclaimed with a scowl.
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"So, Torchwick is a terrible employer. Who would have ever thought of it?" Weiss asked rhetorically.
"Hey! Just because one version of me isn't financially wise, doesn't mean I myself suffer the same tendencies." Roman retorted back to Weiss.
Weiss just rolled her eyes as she faced back towards the screen. "Though I will say that I am a bit surprised that Jaune looks to be the more sensible one of this group."
"Wait, are you saying I'm not usually sensible?" Jaune asked as he looked to Weiss. "I-I'm sensible."
"Do we have to remind of your trouble with Cardin?" Blake asked as the rest of Team RWBY looked towards Jaune. "How you claimed he was bullying you just out of fun."
"Okay... I'll give you that one, but I've learned from my mistakes." Jaune said in response.
Glynda had heard this, as well as the other professors, and she looked towards Ozpin. "I still don't know why you didn't give Mr. Winchester a suspension for his treatment towards the other students."
"I did consider it at first." Ozpin started as he remembered Cardin's old tendencies to bully others. "Though ever since the students trip to Forever Fall, it would seem Mr. Winchester has changed his ways, for the most part. I was willing to give him a second chance."
"Mr, Winchester's actions towards others have gotten better since that trip." Oobleck agreed with Ozpin. "Though I can't say the same for his grades."
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"Uh-hey. Excuse me." Roman said as he turned around from the tv to give a scowling look to Jaune.
"What's obnoxious about a super fun jingle, alright?" Roman asked with a smile as he stood up. "Its a fun distraction when an advertisement's spitting bull shit." He said as he walked in front of the table, Neon taking her seat with a smile while Jaune had his eyes closed in a scowling manner.
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"He's not wrong." Qrow said with a shrug. "The amount of commercials that had jingles... pretty difficult to find someone that wasn't caught up in singing it."
"Pumpkin Pete's tried to do a jingle once." Pyrrha said as her face contorted with a cringe. "But the jingles they made just sounded so bland and annoying that the idea was dropped."
"I wonder what jingle we have for our business." Roman mused. "Whatever out business. It looks like an assassination company."
"Eh, it's something like that." Vortech said with a so-so wave of his hand.
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"People love musicals, sir." Neon agreed with Roman.
"Exactly, Neon!" Roman said as he pointed at the female imp with a smile. "And we're basically, doing a musical." Roman said with jazz hands and a smile.
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"Oh! Yes, I almost forgot. This particular universe falls under the category of a musical dimension." Vortech remembered as he informed the audience.
"Wait, that's a thing?" Ilia asked.
"Like actual musicals, there are times of dialogue, and times of singing." Vortech said.
"So there's a chance we'll all be singing at some point?" Roman asked.
"So that means we may actually get to hear someone like professor Ozpin sing." Yang said. "Boy, would that be strange."
"I can't say I'm a musical artisan." Ozpin spoke in agreement to Yang.
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"Are you gonna crush my musical theater dreams like my dad did?" Roman asked Jaune as he pointed at him, a sad violin playing as he did.
"Sir." Jaune tried to speak to Roman as he still had an unamused look upon his face.
But Roman paid him no heed. "Because right now, all I see is just my dad's asshole talking to me, crushing my dreams of who I truly am inside." He said with a clenched fist and a sorrowful look upon his face.
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The more immature members of the audience laughed at imp Roman's mannerisms towards Jaune, while Jaune himself had a deadpan look.
"Heheheh. Why are ya trying to ruin my dreams, kid?" Roman asked with a laugh and a grin. "Can't let a guy sing his heart out?"
Neo giggled along with her boss as Jaune just looked at Roman with his still deadpanning face.
"Don't you start." Jaune deadpanned at Roman before facing the screen.
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Jaune just continued to scowl at Roman as Neon looked as Jaune with a cheeky smile.
"Are you trying to crush his dreams, Jaune?" Neon asked him with a smirk.
"I-." Jaune raised his hand in protest a bit before easing his brow and turning towards Neon. "What?"
"I thought I knew you." Neon playfully spoke to Jaune as she moved closer to him, slightly sticking her tongue out and wagging her tail a bit.
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For some reason, Pyrrha felt her eye twitch.
"So... what relationship does Jaune and this... Neon, have?" Pyrrha asked Vortech.
Vortech looked at Pyrrha, and smirked under his mask, even though he may not have an actual mouth.
"You'll find out.~" Vortech said in a sing song voice.
Pyrrha slowly looked back towards the screen, taking a glance at Jaune who didn't seem to question anything about what his relationship with Neon may be in the universe they were watching.
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Jaune just smirked at her with an eye roll before his face became serious again as he looked at Roman.
"I can't believe you, Jaune." Roman said as he was still doing his broken-hearted routine, a single tear in his left eye. "After I made you made you employee of the month."
Roman held up a picture frame that had eyes and teeth on it, along with a plaque that read "employee of the month". Within it was a picture of Jaune who looked in pain from what must have been a sudden and bright camera flash.
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"Hahahaha!" Yang let out a boisterous laugh.
Many in the audience either laughed, chuckled, or giggled at the picture of imp Jaune onscreen, Jaune himself not entirely amused.
"Really?" Jaune complained.
"Oh, relax Jaune. There are way worse photos than that." Ruby waved Jaune off with a laughed as she pointed her hand towards the viewing screen.
"Maybe, but I don't see you being the butt-end joke of this universe." Jaune retorted back. "I'm telling you, Hell has it out for me."
"Don't be so dramatic kid." Qrow rolled his eyes at Jaune. "I've been through stuff thrice as bad as this. Believe me, you'll know when things get bad."
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"Okay, sir!" Jaune stopped Roman as Neon smiled at Jaune, Roman scowling at him. "I'm sorry a commercial jingle is not comparable to musical theater. Nobody actually likes the jingles."
"I liked it." Neon said otherwise with a face that seemed slightly disappointing and confused.
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"She actually looks as if she expected more people would like this jingle, whatever that may be, for their company." Ironwood analyzed the look on Neon's face.
"Neon has been known to like catchy music of any sort." Penny chipped in, remembering the information given to her about some of the teams at Atlas academy.
"Though Jaune is right. A commercial jingle is not comparable to that of musicale theater." Weiss said with crossed arms.
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"Do not." Jaune said as he eyes widened and looked towards Neon. "Do not agree with him in front of me." He pleaded to her.
Just then the sound of a film reel going as the scene cut to a red old film countdown that went from 3 down to 1.
Just then, the imp version of Roman appeared on screen again with a theater like backdrop behind him.
"Hi, I'm Roman Torchwicke, the E is silent, and I'm the founder of I.M.P." Roman introduced himself as he positioned his hands in an introductory manner.
Just then, the initials "I.M.P" appeared above Roman's hand.
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"Wait, what E?" Roman asked in confusion. "I don't have an E in my name."
"You do in this universe." Vortech informed the criminal mastermind. "It's at the end of Torchwick."
"Huh. Weird." Roman said with a raised brow before shrugging it off.
"I.M.P?" Sienna asked with just a hint of intrigue.
"What does it stand for?" Jaune asked, wanting to know what kind of company his demonic self worked in.
"I.M.P..." Ruby started to think on the wording. "I.M.P, Imp."
"Well it would seem that the name of the company we work for, knows how word play the acronym with the species of its employees, for the most part." Blake analyzed as she spoke to Jaune.
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"Are you a piece of shit who got yourself sent to Hell?" Roman asked as an image of him smiling evilly with a mustache, a monocle and two bowler hats that were stabbed threw his horns atop his head as a burning building was shown behind him. The building being labeled as an "Orphanage for elderly blind newborn dogs"
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"Doggies, no!" Ruby cried out as she saw the burning orphanage for dogs before looking back at Roman with a scowl. "How could you?!"
"Uh, because I'm a demon in that universe." Roman pointed his hands out towards the screen, stating that it was obvious. "Though given the description of the orphanage, it might as well say that I killed a newborn puppy."
As this was going on, Blake looked at the burning orphanage for dogs, and as bad as it was, she couldn't bring herself to care that much.
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"Or are you an innocent soul who got FUCKED! Over by someone?" Roman asked with an impish smile as an image of Roman with a cheesy innocent look on his face shown him in white robes and a fake halo over his head as he threw away a coffee cup into the trash.
The scene cut to the streets of IMP city as the camera showed a buff, red demon with veins protruding from his neck and a black widow's peak haircut as he wore a white and red sports shirt that read "Ohio", as well as him wearing some spiked bracelets.
Roman held up a damaged cardboard sign that pointed to the red demon, reading "Some guy who hired us!!"
Behind the demon was a large, bright green billboard that showed an advertisement for what seemed to be a news network called "666 News", and to the right of it was a voluptuous yet equally slim women with purely white skin, completely amber eyes with small black pupils, a red lipped, large smile on her face, and short black hair as she wore a red women's elegant V neck business dress. To those that recognized the figure in the billboard, it seemed to be that of Cinder Fall.
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"Oh, hey. It's Cinder!" Ruby pointed to the billboard that had the demonic version of Cinder on it. "Looks like she's a news lady in Hell."
Meanwhile, Yang chuckled at the name of the news station. "666 News. Heheheh. Oh, that's a good one."
"A little on the nose, if you ask me." Ilia said with a bland look.
Meanwhile, Qrow squinted his eyes at the image of Cinder, feeling as if he's seen her somewhere before. If it wasn't for her pale white skin and her overall appearance, he would probably be able to remember her better.
"Hmph. Her in Hell. Who would have ever guessed?" Roman rhetorically asked Neo in a hushed and lowered tone.
Neo just giggled in agreement with her boss.
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The viewing continued as the buff demon spoke into the camera. "After lovingly killing my wife for FuCkInG tHe DeLiVeRy MaN!!" The demon shook his fist in anger as he let out a demonic growl.
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"Yikes!" Jaune found himself sinking into his seat at the sound of the huff demon's demonic voice.
"I'm sorry, what?" Tai asked with a raised brow and titled head. "I'm sorry your wife liked the mailman more than you pal, but I'm pretty sure there no real way to 'lovingly kill' someone."
"It also seems that his temper is much worse than Miss Xiao Long." Glynda said with crossed arms and a small scowl. "Instead of filing for divorce, he killed his wife instead."
"Please don't compare me to a demon, Miss Goodwitch." Yang said with a cringed face. "I think I liked it better when Ruby compared me to a Blurrg."
"But Vortech did say that you are a demon in this universe." Ren said to Yang.
"You're not helping, Ren." Yang replied to him with a shake of her head.
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"You can imagine my surprise when I wound up here. After the state of Ohio killed me." The buff demon said as he rubbed his chin in thought with a raised brow.
"I really wish I could stick it to that YaPpY jOgGeR!" The demon started as he roared in anger with his fists raised. "Who saw me hiding the body!"
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"I pity whoever the yappy jogger was." Qrow said with a relaxed tone.
"Snitch's get stitches." Nora added. "Though I guess in this case, snitches get killed."
"Hmm, it's definitely not a pleasant thought." Port said with furrowed eyes.
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The clip cut to Roman holding a demonic book with Neon and Jaune in the background, the both of them working on a pentagram, skull like candles littering the room.
"Well, luckily for you, thanks to our company's special access to the living world." Roman pointed his hand towards Jaune and Neon before smiling evilly as he opened up the demonic book, which in turn caused the pentagram to blow up into a portal of sorts as Jaune and Neon ran away from it.
"We can help you take care of your unfinished business, by taking out anyone who screwed you over when you were alive!" Roman proclaimed as he walked towards the demonic portal, facing towards the camera with a devilish grin as he spread his arms and allowed himself to fall backwards down into the portal.
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"So, we're a revenge assassination company?" Roman asked Vortech, though more so as a statement.
"Yes, that's the gist of it." Vortech nodded to the criminal.
"So, what? They use a few symbols and a book to help them get up to Remnant?" Ilia asked.
"It must be similar to that of how that terror dog appeared in Willow Schnee's refrigerator, within the Ghostbusters universe." Oobleck theorized. "They must need a powerful source in order to cross over to the living world."
"You are correct." Vortech said to the green haired teacher. "Roman and his company are regular imps, and thus don't have the right amount of natural power to cross over from Hell to Remnant. Only a few powerful, hell-born demons have those capabilities. Other than that, the only other ways for a demon to emerge in the living world, is to be summoned."
"Such as the myth about summoning demons and devils at a crossroads." Ozpin said in understanding.
"Exactly." Vortech said to him. "Though that's more so fact within universes, such as these."
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"🎶When you want somebody gone🎶"
An image of a scowling individual was shown with crossed arms as a thought bubble showed him wishing for someone dead.
"🎶And you don't want to wait too long🎶"
The person then jumped back as a red body fell down right beside him, causing him to look up at a red circle with Roman looking down at him.
"🎶Call the Immediate Murder Professionals🎶"
Jaime and Neon than showed up beside Roman, the former having a rifle in hand as the latter held her spear. Roman smiled at Jaune and Neon, with Jaune slightly smirking at him and Neon smiling at Roman, the three got into a pose as Roman smiled evilly. Their circle being surrounded by an "I" and a "P" as the positioning of Roman, Jaune, and Neon formed something similarity shape to an "M", the words "Immediate Murder Professionals" appearing below them.
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"Okay, the jingle doesn't sound too bad." Yang said as she found herself actually tapping her foot to the beat. "It's actually kinda catchy."
"I think it sounds great, even if it's being used for commercial about killing people." Nora said with a smile. "People in Hell must be stingy."
"Immediate Murder Professionals." Weiss repeated with a bland look. "It's self explanatory, if not a little lacking in creativity."
"Well, we can't all have companies named after our surnames, now can we?" Roman asked Weiss with furrowed eyes.
"I'm just saying, your company's name is very on the nose." Weiss retorted back to the criminal.
"Well, maybe it's good that it's ok the nose." Roman said with a shrug. "That way, people know what they're getting right away."
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"🎶Hand grenade or cyanide
We'll make it look like suicide🎶"
The viewing showed Roman, Neon, and Jaune in the I.M.P office building as the former tow had smiled as they covered their ears, Jaune throwing a grenade out the window, before it blew up.
It then quickly cut to Roman and Jaune in someone's room as Jaune held onto a wooden chair, Roman hanging a guy via a rope as the man helplessly struggled in his dying moments, Roman and Jaune sadistic young smiling as it all happened before Jaune looked over to see Neon who slid into the scene with a bright smile as she held a contract paper and a pencil.
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"Oh, dear God. We're making a murder look like a suicide." Jaune said with horror. "And I actually look happy about it."
"Remember, Jaune. It's just another universe. That you that we all know would never do that." Pyrrha comforted her partner, though was still disturbed by the smile the impish Jaune showed when making an assassination look like a suicide.
"I have a feeling this universe is just going to get darker and darker." Blake said as she grimaced at what she saw. "If not a little comedic, though."
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"🎶The Immediate🎶"
Roman was shown smiling as he electrocuted a demon who was tied up in a chair with tape over his mouth.
"🎶Murder🎶"
Neon was shown smiling sadistically as she slammed down a spiked mace onto a helpless demon.
"🎶Professionals🎶"
Jaune shown growling as he strangled and throttled a demon.
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"Come on, kid. You can do better than throttling a guy to death!" Roman exclaimed to Jaune.
"Do not critique me, like I actually want to start murdering people!" Jaune shouted back at Roman.
Meanwhile, Neo found herself dancing a little bit in her seat at the beat of the I.M.P jingle.
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The I.M.P logo twirled on the screen before it cut to Roman smiling at a portal to Remnant, smiling as he motioned for Jaune and Neon to follow him as all three of them ran through it, the former tripping on a candle as he fell through.
"🎶We do our job so well
Because we come straight up from Hell🎶"
Roman and Neon got through the portal smoothly on their feet while Jaune landed on the floor.
Jaune got up with a slight look of aggravation as Roman smiled confidently and Neon smirking before they all lost their various looks as sudden realization dawned on them as to where they were.
The three impish demons were inside a church of all places as a sermon was going on, the people of sermon all looking at Roman, Jaune, and Neon in confusion and shock.
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At this image, a majority of the audience chuckled or giggled a bit.
"Okay, a few demons unknowingly popping into a church during a sermon is pretty funny." Tai chuckled out.
"And the sudden looks of realization that those three had, just made it better." Yang giggled in agreement with her dad.
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"🎶We'll kill your husband or your wife🎶"
The viewing changed to the three of them in someone's bedroom, Neon repeatedly stabbing a couple who were naked in bed, currently in the 69 position as Jaune held his hand to his head as he looked away with an uncomfortable look, Roman looking at the woman's panties with a deviant smile and his tongue out.
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"Woah!" Yang exclaimed in shock as she quickly covered Ruby's eyes.
"Wait, what's happening?!" Ruby asked as she tried to pry her sister's hands off of her face.
"I was not expecting to see this." Blake said with small blush, albeit with a grimace as she, and everyone, saw that couple being killed while they were in the 69 position.
"And the bad things keep piling on and on." Jaune muttered as he and Ren, as well as every male in the audience averted their eyes from the scene.
"Really, me?!" Roman shouted to his demon self when he saw that his alternate version was looking at panties. "Show a little class!"
"Looks like we can add perverted to the ongoing list of issues that this version of Torchwick has." Sienna said as she shared a small scowl with Glynda and Winter, all them directing their attention towards what the impish Roman was doing.
The Roman in the audience had a sudden shiver down his spine after hearing what Sienna Khan had said. "I suddenly don't feel safe."
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"🎶We'll even let you keep the knife🎶"
Roman was shown repeatedly stabbing a dead person in the head with a goofy smile on his face.
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Roman merely lowered his eyes in annoyance at his demonic self's childish personality.
Neo just giggled at the face demonic Roman made, shushing she had her scroll to take a picture of it.
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The viewing then showed various missions of I.M.P, such as torturing someone in a medieval torture chamber, chasing some poor souls down atop a large Great White shark, Jaune burning someone alive with a flamethrowers she wore a gas mask—all the while Roman poured gasoline on the screaming person—Neon smirking as she tossed lit matches onto the body, from the three of them smothering someone to death with pillows, Neon singing as she sat beside Jaune atop a piano they dropped on a now dead guy-Roman playing said piano with a smile as the floor was bloody, and finally, the three of them watching as someone was dying from an electric chair.
The scene then cut to show the three of them hiding in some bushes in a public park, Jaune aiming his rifle at an unsuspecting blonde headed woman who was on her scroll.
Jaune was getting ready to shoot her, though little did he know that a little boy was walking into his crosshairs as he licked on an ice cream cone.
"🎶We're the Immediate Murder Profession—🎶"
*Bang!*
"Oooh!" Cried the child as he was shot
Jaune had shot his rifle, shooting the kid in the head by mistake, causing said child to fall to the ground as he bled out.
Jaune had a stiff and horrified look on his face as Roman and Neon looked up from the bushes with wide eyes before they both looked at Jaune.
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At this, many in the audience had either wide eyes, or wide eyes and an agape jaw.
"I...I just murdered a kid." Jaune said in absolute horror.
"Well... at least your demonic self seems just as shocked as you are." Pyrrha said to Jaune, trying to alleviate the situations bit, though finding it difficult since she just saw a version of Jaune Arc kill a child.
"Who taught you how to aim?!" Ruby frantically yelled at Jaune.
"Don't blame me! Do like I'm doing, and blame. Him!" Jaune shouted back at Ruby as he pointed his hands out towards his impish self.
"Jaune Arc... the goofball leader of team JNPR, just murdered a little kid." Yang slowly said with wide eyes. "I was... I was not expecting this at all."
"I don't think anyone was." Weiss told Yang in equal shock. She and everyone else just saw Jaune of all people kill a kid. Even if it was an accident, it was still jarring to see him of all people do it.
Blake had her hands over her mouth with wide eyes when she saw Jaune kill the kid. Though while it was shocking, she was mainly doing to stifle her laugh at how sudden and dark the turn was. What can she say? She likes dark humor.
"I think it's safe to say that Mr. Arc would be better off with his sword and shield." Glynda said with her shocked face at the action committed by her student.
"Agreed." Was declarative response of Ozpin, Oobleck, and Port.
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The scene immediately cut to a hospital as a blonde headed doctor opened up the doors that led to a medical room with a pink haired female nurse, and a blue haired male nurse, running behind him as they rushed a hospital bed with the boy Jaune shot laying up on it.
"Doctor, he's not responding!" The female nurse said to the doctor in a masculine voice.
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"Woah. That is one ugly sounding chick." Qrow said with raised brow and a small grimace.
"She's probably a transgender who just got stuck with a really masculine voice." Roman rationalized to Qrow.
"Seriously?" Winter looked at Qrow and Roman with a scowl. "A child was mortally wounded, and you two are talking about how a female nurse sounds like a man? The nerve of both of you."
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"Cool water, stat!" The blue haired nurse urged.
The pink haired nurse then slammed a bucket of cool water onto the dying child.
"It didn't do anything." The blue haired nurse said in worry as the bucket just caused a large bruise on the boy's cheek.
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"No, shit." Qrow spoke the obvious.
"You cannot expect to slap an unconscious person with a bucket of cold water, and expect to get a reaction out of it." Glynda sternly said with a scowl.
"It'd be more shocking if that actually did anything." Sienna said as she rested her head in her hand.
"What kind of degree do these nurses have?" Pietro asked with a questioning look.
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"Dammit! I'm not losing another one." The doctor swore as he got out a three pairs of defibrillators, handing them to the nurses as they all charged them up.
They all had their respective defibrillators on the boys body.
"Clear!" The doctor yelled as they all activated the defibrillators, sending many a voltage within the boys body.
The boy gasps as he wakes up, the doctor and nurses looking down on him in slight shock.
"Holy shit, it actually worked." The doctor said in tone that said that he didn't know it was going to work.
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"Wait a minute. Is that doctor really insinuating that he did that as a last ditch effort, and didn't even know it would work?" Weiss asked with a scowling look.
"Now I'm starting to question what medical license this doctor has." Pietro said with lowered eyes of annoyance.
"It does beg the question of how many patients that doctor has lost." Penny said with crossed arms and an analyzing look.
"Well, at the very least, the kid's alright." Jaune said with an exasperated sigh of relief.
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The scene cut to show the three imps sitting upon waiting chairs beside the hospital room the boy was in, Jaune having a look of stuff horror and regret upon his face as Neon rubbed his head with a sympathetic look, trying to comfort him. Meanwhile, Roman was sitting on the other side of Neon, reading a magazine with a smile on his face as they all awaited to hear news of the child's condition.
The doctor then walked out of the room with a clipboard in hand as the three imps looked towards him.
"He appears to be in stable condition, but he'll need surgery." The doctor said regards to the boy before looking at the three imps. "Now what insurance provider do you freaks have?"
Upon hearing this question, the imps had varying looks.
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"Oh, they have got to be kidding." Ironwood said with a deadpanned look.
"This will be a most cumbersome issue." Penny agreed with the General of Atlas.
"Seriously?!" Jaune shouted. "We're a hit man company! How do we not have insurance?!"
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Jaune had slightly lowered eyebrows, knowing where this was going.
Neon had wide eyes.
And Roman just looked at the doctor with a raised brow, magazine still in hand.
"The fuck is insurance?" Roman asked with an even more confused look.
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"Hahahaha!!" Roman and Qrow let out boisterous laughs of amusement.
"Nice!" Qrow shouted as he laughed.
"Heheheh. It's funnier that he actually sounds like he doesn't know what insurance is." Yang chuckled
Tai chuckled in agreement before letting out a sigh. "Talk about a cheapskate."
"Well, it's looks like that kid might end up dead, after all." Ilia said blandly as Jaune groaned into his palms.
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The viewing immediately cut to the outside of the hospital before the hospital that carried the kid on it crashed through it, Jaune, Neon, and Roman all hanging onto it as it fell, all of them yelling.
Just as the bed continued to fall, it immediately stopped, prompting the imps to stop screaming as well. That is, before the rope that was connected to the bed and Roman's foot cut loose as they all fell to the streets with Jaune's screams being the loudest.
I.M.P
"🎶Kids die for free🎶"
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Glynda just shook her head with an irritable sigh while Winter narrowed her eyes at Roman and Jaune.
"And now we just stole a dying kid from a hospital." Jaune deadpanned. "I hate this universe."
"Oh, quite being dramatic. You're working with me." Roman said while pointing his thumb towards himself. "Besides, this universe is funny."
Jaune just grumbled and glared at Roman.
"Believe me, Jaune. You're not the only one who has issues with this universe." Blake told the young Arc. "Even if I kind of like the dark humor in this universe, that by no means excuses my displeasure of working for Torchwick here."
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And with that, the jingle ended as everything returned to present reality.
Jaune had a slightly annoyed expression on his face as Neon had her head in head, a bored look to her as Jaune spoke.
"I'd like to go on record and say that incident was Blake's fault." Jaune said with a scowl towards Roman before scowling at the Hellhound version of Blake, who was currently on her scroll, playing a game that depicted her killing Jaune in various ways.
"Dispatch is supposed to give us the right info on the target. It's very simple." Jaune added.
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"Hey, don't blame me for your screw up." Blake said with crossed arms.
"It's not my fault the Hellhound version of you had the wrong information." Jaune retorted back to the cat faunus.
"Wait a minute." Ruby said aloud, preventing from Jaune and Blake from arguing any further. "Jaune said Blake had the wrong information on their target.... does that mean Jaune shooting the kid was not so much of an accident, but actually planned?"
"Wait..." Jaune said as the sudden realization of the incident hit him. "Oh God. Ruby's right."
"That must have meant that had a time of when their target would show up." Weiss concluded with a small grimace. "I was figuring that Jaune was waiting for the right moment to shoot that woman, but I guess he was just waiting for the target."
"Man, this universe is dark." Yang said with a shake of her head.
"But Jaune did say Blake had the wrong information." Pyrrha said, trying to comfort Jaune once more. "Meaning that Jaune shooting the child was still an accident."
"I don't know." Jaune said to his teammate with an unsure look. "I got a feeling that things are going to go differently than that."
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"Oh, sit on a dick, Jaune." Blake blandly retorted to Jaune with a small eye roll before going back to her game.
"You sit! Sit on a-engh..." Jaune raised his finger to try and retort back to Blake with a swear of his own, but found he was having trouble getting the right words out. "And the d—do your job!" He slammed his hand on the table.
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"Someone's feisty." Yang said as she smirked at Blake, the cat faunus just rolling her eyes.
"Rude." Jaune said with crossed arms while giving Blake the stink eye.
"I'm surprised you couldn't even send kitty cat's insult back her way." Roman said as he spoke to Jaune. "What, you got a chastity belt for not swearing, or something."
"I like to that I'm just that nice of a person." Jaune replied back to Roman.
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"Hey, now we don't blame our screw-ups on Blake! Okay?" Roman pointed his finger to Jaune with a scowl before his face softened with a smile as he walked over to said Hellhound.
"She didn't do anything wrong." Roman said as he hugged Blake and rubbed his head against hers, causing Blake to angrily growl at Roman.
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"Uh, five feet rule." Blake said to Roman with a disgusted look, Ilia sharing a similar look with Blake, albeit feeling a bit jealous at the impish Roman cuddling up towards Blake.
"Believe me, I don't like it either." Roman said with a grimace while Neo scowled. "Why am I even rubbing my face against her fur?"
"You're about to find out." Vortech answered to Roman.
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"Are you kidding me, sir?" Jaune asked with a baffled look. "She's awful."
The viewing cut to Blake at a front desk, reading a Hellhound monthly magazine as a dial-up phone started to ring repeatedly with a tipping dog ringtone, the phone itself in the shape of a bone.
After waiting a moment, Blake finally picked up the phone and placed it to her ear. "Hello. I.M.P." She said fully as she continued to look at her magazine.
"Blake, I got stabbed." Neon called Blake from the other side of the line. "Call Jaune!"
After hearing Neon's voice, Blake promptly placed the phone back into place as she got back to her book.
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"Blake!" Ruby exclaimed towards her teammate with shock.
"Blame Hellhound me, not me!" Blake retorted back to Ruby.
"Now you know how I feel." Jaune said to Blake. "By the way, why did Neon want Blake to call me?" He asked, his question going unanswered, though Pyrrha felt like she knew, and had the ever slightest twitch of jealousy.
"I don't intent to show disrespect towards the Blake within the theater." Winter started. "But why is her Hellhound counterpart the receptionist? She doesn't even care that her coworker was assaulted."
"Because this version of Roman Torchwick has favoritism towards the Hellhound Blake." Vortech answered the Atlas specialist.
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The scene then cut to Roman walking through the halls of I.M.P HQ with a small gift box on hand, passing tiki masks as he made his way over to Blake with a smile on his face.
"Happy adoption anniversary, Blaky." Roman said with a smile as he walked up to Blake, who was clearly in a foul mood, her arms crossed in front of her.
"I got you a little something." Roman said with a smile as he brought the present towards Blake's face, prompting her to look at it.
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"No." Blake said in horror. "I'm Torchwick's adopted daughter, in this universe?"
"Uh, yeah. No." Roman shared in Blake's displeasure, Neo scowling even further. "The only person I would accept a my adopted child, would be Neo."
At this, Neo beamed with gladness.
"By the way, you said Neo's in Hell." Roman said as he faced Vortech. "Where is she, anways?"
"Oh, uh... she doesn't live in Imp City. She lives in another city known as Pentagram City." Vortech answered Roman.
"Well, Hell has some unique names for places." Roman commented. "But why isn't Neo with me?"
"Uh.... because she's off.... doing her own thing." Vortech answered Roman, trying to evade the subject.
"Which is?" Roman raised his brow.
"Oh, you know.... stuff." Vortech said, really tried to avoid the topic.
"....You're not gonna tell me are you?" Roman quickly asked.
"I'd really rather not talk about it." Vortech answered the criminal. "We'll cross that bridge when we get there. Just believe me when I say, that you'll be in for a surprise."
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"Is it a cure for syphilis?" Blake asked with a serious tone and slightly scowling look.
"I—Oh." Roman said as he glanced off to the side with a small disappointed and saddened look to himself.
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A majority of the audience were stunned into silence, except for Ruby, who had no idea what syphilis was.
"Uh, what's syphilis?" Ruby asked Blake.
However, Blake would not be able to answer her as her mouth opened and closed like a fish, her face turning pale, and ever so slightly green at the disease her Hellhound self admitted to having.
"Syphilis, friend Ruby." Penny started to explain to to the young Rose. "Is a bacterial infection, calmly spread by much sexual contact, in which it usually starts as a painless sore. After a few weeks, the afflicted person will gain body rashes, and after a few more weeks, the person with start to receive affects in their internal organs."
It was safe to say that Ruby had a horrified face after hearing Penny's explanation.
"In simpler words, pipsqueak." Qrow spoke to his niece. "When you're older and you want to... explore things in life, make sure to use protection."
"Noted." Ruby muttered as her face was still pale.
"Well, it's definitely safe to say that the Hellhound Blake likes to get around." Yang said with an uneasy smile.
"Yang." Blake spoke to her partner, her face still a bit green. "Do not... do not start, right now."
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"Then I don't want it!" Blake yelled as she grabbed the present from his hand and slammed it onto the ground as Roman still had a saddened look to himself.
However, out from the destroyed present crawled hundreds of spiders as they all crawled all over Blake.
"Ugh!" Blake scowled and growled at the spiders crawling all over her as she looked towards Roman.
"I'm sorry, it was spiders!" Roman said with cringed look as he was now on the other side of one of the windows, making sure that he was away from Blake's wrath.
"Goddammit." Blake swore with a full and annoyed look as the spiders crawled all over her body, one spider bungee jumping with his on webbing upon Blake's nose.
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"Gross." Yang said with shiver down her spine. "So many freaking spiders."
"What made you think giving your daughter a bunch of spiders as an adoption anniversary present, was a good idea?" Tai asked Roman with a raised brow.
"First off, bucko, she ain't my kid. Only in this Hell based universe." Roman retorted to Tai, pointing at Blake before pointing at the viewing screen. "Secondly, blame the imp version of me. If I'm going to give someone a box of spiders, it'll be because I hate them, not so I can give it to them as a birthday present."
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The viewing then cut to Blake at the front desk, watching a video on the computer with her head in her hand, a bored expression on her face.
The video itself featured a young woman in a sky blue background, said woman having long, curly, bleached blonde hair with red highlights. Her skin was a pale white with black lips, red cheeks, black pupils, silver sclera with red eyeshadow. Her clothing consisting that of a frost red tuxedo jacket over a white shirt with a black bow tie. While she didn't entirely look like her audience member counterpart, this was Ruby Rose, who was currently holding cotton candy in her right hand, and cute hell puppy in her left, her usual cheery smile on her face.
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"Oh, hey! It's me!" Ruby said as she pointed to video Hellhound Blake was watching. "I look a little older, but I know my face anywhere... wait, why's my hair blonde?"
"Because Summer Rose isn't your mother in this universe." Vortech answered her.
"Wait, wha?" Ruby asked with a confused look.
"Am I still her father, though?" Tai asked Vortech.
"Yes. You are the father." Vortech replied back.
"Than, who's Ruby's mom, and are we related in this universe?" Yang asked.
"No, you are not related to Ruby, whatsoever in this universe." Vortech replied to Yang, causing her to deflate a bit. "As for the mother... a select few of you all know her, but you will all have to wait for further viewings of this universe in order to see her."
Taiyang and his daughters nodded at Vortech, but the Vortonian then looked over to Ozpin, speaking to him telepathically.
"You most of all know who Ruby's mother is, in this universe, Ozpin." Vortech spoke to the headmaster of Beacon. "After all, I doubt anyone could ever forget the first love of their life."
It was at these words, that Ozpin stiffened. He took another look at the demonic Ruby, and after careful consideration, he saw that this version of Ruby undoubtedly had a resemblance to the person he once called his true love... Salem.
"Huh. Even in Hell, Red looks so sickeningly cheery." Roman said with a raised brow.
"Some would consider it a good thing if someone can show a smile in Hell of all places." Sienna spoke to the criminal.
"I think she looks kind of cute." Ilia said, off to side, albeit in a lowered tone so that the only one that would be able to properly hear her would be Blake.
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Just then, Jaune walked over to Blake with an unsure look on his face as he held a pink sheet of paper in his hands.
"Um, e-e-excuse me." Jaune started as he read over the pink sheet of paper again. "Did you just fax me an ad for weight loss?"
Jaune showed Blake what the paper said as it red: "Chub B Gone."
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Qrow, Roman, and Neo red those words, and already started giggling and chuckling, knowing where this was going.
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"No." Blake lazily said as she didn't even bother to look up at Jaune or the ad.
"What-wh-why would anyone send me this?" Jaune asked as he looked at the ad paper again, confusion evident on his face.
"Come on." Blake started calmly as she looked up at Jaune. "You know why."
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"Why would anyone send be a weight-loss ad?" Jaune raised his brow. "If anything, the demon version of me looks like he could use a bit more weight."
"Uh, Jaune." Blake spoke carefully to the leader of team JNPR, understanding the meaning behind the ad. "I'm pretty sure that ad wasn't about weight-loss."
"What do you mean?" Jaune asked.
"Oh, heheheh. I see it now." Yang said with a small chuckle. "Oh, that is so mean."
"Seriously, what is it?" Jaune asked as he looked around for answers.
"I'll tell him." Nora said aloud as she leaned over to her team leader's ear, whispering in it.
"Uh-huh. Okay. Uh-wait. Wha?" Jaune asked as Nora explained the meaning of the ad to him, Nora nodding at his question. "Okay, that's just low blow!"
"Literally." Yang said with a chuckle as her uncle and dad chuckled with her.
"So immature." Weiss said with a shake of her head.
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It then cut to Blake digging through the fridge, her rear end and tail wagging in the air a bit.
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Ilia couldn't help but admire the sight of Hellhound Blake's rear end up in the air, the dots on her skin turning a little pink.
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"Whoever left the fucking avocado salad in the fridge—I'm taking it because I have the worst hangover, right now." Blake said as she pulled a container of avocado salad out of the fridge, an annoyed look on her face.
The view pulled out to show that Neon was watching Blake with an unsure expression, Blake opening the container of the avocado salad and chugging it down.
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"Avocado salad would help, on some occasions." Qrow nodded towards Hellhound Blake's idea to eat avocado salad to help with her hangover.
"Of course you'd know what having a hangover is like." Winter cast her snide comment to Qrow.
"Everything has its downsides in life, Ice Queen senior." Qrow replied to her. "The fun of drinking just so happens to involve the casualty of getting hangovers."
Meanwhile, Yang was impressed by how well Hellhound Blake was chugging down the salad. "Wow. Look at you go, Blake."
Blake just had a small grimace at the fact that she was watching an alternate version of herself chugging down avocado salad.
"It's official. This version of Blake is completely uncouth." Weiss shook her head in annoyance at having to watch the Hellhound version of her teammate chug down a salad.
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"Why would you drink, on a work night?" Neon asked Blake as the Hellhound continued to chug down the avocado salad.
Blake swallowed was she was chugging down before she looked at Neon with a scowl. "I'm hungover from this morning, dumbass."
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"Looks like we can add, alcoholic, to the list of what's wrong with the demonic version of me." Blake said with a shake of her head.
"Yeah, this version of you kind of reminds me of uncle Qrow." Ruby said to her cat faunus teammate. "You know, if Qrow was a girl."
"And if Qrow was more moody and angsty." Yang added in agreement with her sister.
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Jaune then opened the door and pointed towards the container of avocado salad in Blake's hand. "Isn't that my lunch?"
"You know what?!" Blake rhetorically asked angrily as she dropped the container on the ground as she rose both of her hands in the air. "I can't take this assault, right now. I need to blow off some fucking steam!"
Blake then proceeded to kick the container of avocado salad at Jaune, tossing him back as Blake stomped out of the room, Neon watching with wide eyes.
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"Yikes. That's a temper tantrum as bad as Yang's." Tai said while sucking air in through his teeth.
"She was set off quicker than Firecracker, too." Qrow said agreement.
"Yeah, I'm gonna reiterate what I said earlier, this universe hates me." Jaune said as he saw his imp self easily get kicked back by Blake.
"Like I said, Jaune. This universe isn't fun for me either." Blake said. "So about kicking you, by the way."
"Eh, it's okay. I'm expecting bad things to happen to me at this point." Jaune said with slumped shoulders.
"I'm sure things will get better." Pyrrha gave a small smile towards Jaune as she rubbed his shoulder.
"I don't know what you two see wrong with this universe." Roman spoke to Jaune and Blake. "This has been the most fun universe thus far."
"That's most likely because you're a criminal, Torchwick." Ironwood said with crossed arms. "This kind of universe is more suited to your fancy."
"And I haven't found a reason to complain whatsoever." Roman said with smug smirk.
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Cut to outside of the I.M.P building as an impish woman with white hair and black clothing strolled down the sidewalk with her baby in its stroller. Things were going peacefully until...
"RAAAAAHH!!" Blake yelled as she came charging out of the building, and proceeded to kick the baby in its stroller out of the area.
The baby screamed as it flew, the mother having a shock-stiff face as Blake stormed off.
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Cue the audience widening their eyes once more, Blake being shocked into silence while Jaune just, still shocked at what Blake did, gave her a glance of sympathy.
"...Blake just kicked a baby, in its stroller." Sienna started with wide eyes. "Right out of the vicinity of the area."
"Why does this universe have to be so mean?!" Ruby shouted while throwing her arms towards the screen.
"To put it aptly, Miss Rose, it's a universe set in Hell." Ozpin sagely said, though he too had wide eyes. "It's best we expect the worst, and most unexpected out of this universe."
Neo looked at the screen with wide eyes before she made her comment. 'That chick's got a nice leg.' She signed.
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It then cut back to inside the I.M.P building as Blake was on the phone at the front desk.
"Roman!" Blake called out to Roman who was currently drinking a cup of water at the water dispenser with Jaune. "That clingy, rich asshole is on the scroll, says it's urgent, and wants to talk to you!"
Blake glanced at the phone before looking back at Roman. "He sounds a little D.T.F-y."
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"Uh.... what?" Roman asked with blinking eyes.
"What does that even mean?" Ruby asked with furrowed eyes.
Luckily, Ilia was there to give her an answer. "It means, "Down to Fuck." The chameleon faunus answered Ruby.
"Oh." Ruby said with a small blush.
"I'm sorry, did I hear that right?" Roman asked as he was still confused about the situation, pinking at his ear a bit. "Some rich guy that sounds "D.T.F-y", wants to talk to me?"
"It appears we get to see another disturbing part of this universe." Port said with a cringe.
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"Oh, God! It was one time!" Roman complained as he slammed his cup of water onto the floor, Jaune watching as he did so.
Roman then proceeded to cross his arms and glance up at the ceiling. "And if I hadn't slept with that privileged asshole." Roman said with narrowed eyes. "None of us would have access to the living world."
"...You what?" Jaune asked Roman with a confused look.
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"I'm sorry, I what?" Roman asked with narrowed eyes. "Is the demon me saying that he, which also means me, slept with another guy?!"
Neo just help up a sign to her boss that had the image of a rainbow on it.
"It would seem that Torchwick had to do some... debaucherous things in order to help start up his company." Glynda said with a small grimace.
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The viewing cut to a palace like building with stained glass windows, the entire area appearing as if it were for royalty.
Cut to inside the palace as Roman was looking back at a naked demon with an owl like appearance, who was currently sleeping soundly under the cover of his large bed.
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Roman himself just had a look of disbelief on his face at what he was seeing.
"Who's the owl demon?" Sienna asked.
"No one from Remnant." Vortech answered her. "That is Stolas. Prince of Hell, a hell-born like Roman."
"Roman Torchwick slept with royalty?" Winter raised her brow.
"Can we not keep on discussing this?" Roman asked with a scowl.
"I don't see what the issue here is, Torchwick." Glynda said to him while pushing up her glasses a bit. "There's nothing wrong with two men having sexual relations with each other, demon or not."
"It doesn't mean I have to be comfortable with it." Roman still held his scowl.
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"Got the book, got the book.~" Roman whispered in a sing-song voice as he looked back at the sleeping owl demon with a devilish smile smile as he quick tip-toed away. Roman himself had his suit undone and wasn't wearing any pants, or underwear for that matter.
"Got this fucking, heavy book.~" Roman quietly sang again as he trudged his way over towards the balcony.
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"So Torchwick slept with the prince of Hell—." Ironwood started.
"A prince of Hell." Vortech clarified to the General.
"...A prince of Hell." Ironwood started once more. "Just so he could sneak off with that book of spells."
"It seems like something Torchwick would do." Winter added as the criminal himself flipped the specialist off.
"Wait a minute..." Ruby said as she paid close attention to the impish Roman sneaking about, before her eyes widened in horror. "Is Torchwick not wearing any pants?!"
"Ew, gross." Weiss said as she averted her eyes from the screen, as did most in the audience.
"Oh, Come on, man!" Roman shouted to his demon counterpart. "Put some damn pants on!"
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Walking onto the balcony, Roman looked back with a smirk before heaving the book of the stone railing, grunting as he did so.
Roman got the book over the railing as he lifted himself up upon it as well, only for him to accidentally put too much weight towards the book as it started to slide off.
"Oh, shit!" Roman cursed as he fell off the side of the balcony while holding onto the book.
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"Dumbass!" Roman called out to his alternate self.
"Either that books too heavy, or this version of Torchwick has no upper strength." Ren stated.
"Why not both?" Nora asked her partner.
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The scene quickly cut to three more demonic, owl humanoids who were currently having tea an chocolate cake, one was a male and two were females, one of the females wearing a crown.
Roman soon fell down onto the cake, splattering it everywhere, and onto the faces of the owl-like demons, book still in hand while shocking the owl demons.
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'Awkward.' Neo signed out.
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Roman looked up nervously at the female owl demon wearing the crown, the book covering his naked crotch. "Sorry, I fucked your husband."
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"Hahahahaha!" Qrow boisterously laughed again. "Oh, say what you want about this universe, but damn if it ain't funny."
Yang and Ruby chuckled in agreement with their uncle.
"I can't believe I'm saying, but Torchwick's a brave individual for admitting the affair he had with Stolas, to his wife." Winter said with a calm look of surprise.
"I'm just thankful that book is covering Torchwick's nethers." Sienna said with a grimace as everyone in the audience agreed.
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The viewing then cut back to I.M.P HQ in the present.
"Roman!!" Blake yelled at Roman.
"I heard you, already!" Roman yelled back at her.
The viewing cut to Roman's office as he spoke to Stolas over his scroll, a frame on the wall red: "The Incredible Roman Torchwicke. 1 night only." A bobble-head of the impish Jaune and Neon on his desk as he messed with the Jaune bobble-head.
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"Wait, was I in a circus, in this universe?" Roman asked. "And to add onto that, Hell has circuses?"
"Yes." Vortech answered both of his questions. "You worked in a circus's along with your sisters, well the sisters the imp you has; Tilla and Barbie Wire Tochwick."
"I have a sister named Barbie Wire, in this universe?" Roman raised his brow.
"I don't make these things up. I just relay them." Vortech shrugged back at Roman.
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"So, what can I do for you this time, Stolas?" Roman asked over the scroll with a nervous smile.
"There's a political candidate causing trouble up on Remnant for a few of my associates. He's trying to convince people Global Warming exists." Stolas spoke to Roman over his scroll as he was sitting on his couch, now in a very regal red and white outfit with a crown-like top hat that had two red eyes on its rims.
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"Global Warming?" Penny asked.
"It has to do with this version of Remnant's fuel source." Vortech answered her. "They burn gallons of oil to help power their machinery, but they've burned so much that the gases get trapped within the atmosphere, and in turn, the heat of those gases slowly melt away the polar ice capes, which in total, could equal the size of an entire kingdom or two. Should they completely melt, it would mean massive scale global flooding."
"Yikes." Yang said with a grimace. "That's one giant outdoor pool I wouldn't want to swim in."
"So this Stolas wants Roman to kill the political candidate that's trying to help prevent global warming." Glynda said with crossed arms and narrowed eyes. "I suppose it wouldn't be Hell if no one was evil and twisted."
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"Doesn't it?" Roman asked with a raised brow.
"Well, yes. But more people die if nothing is done about it. And it gets lonely here." Stolas sorrowfully said as he laid back along his couch.
"Okay, well, that makes sense." Roman spoke over the phone to Stolas, a bland look on his face.
"You know what happens when I'm lonely, Romeo." Stolas spoke to Roman over the scroll, calling Roman by the nickname he gave him.
"Oh, God fucking Dammit." Roman said quietly with an eye roll as he moved his head away from the scroll.
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Team RWBY and Neo couldn't help but chuckle a bit at Stolas calling Roman as Romeo.
"That asshole did not just call me Romeo." Roman said with crossed arms. "I suffered with that nickname in combat school, I will not suffer it again, here!"
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"When I'm lonely, I become hungry." Stolas said as the viewing cut back to him, Stolas smiling calmly.
"And when I become hungry, I want choke on that red *beep* of your's. *beep* your *beep* and lick all of your *beep* before taking out your *beep*, and *beep* with more teeth until you're screaming *beeeeep* like a fucking baby!" Stolas said as he face became more maniac with each passing word.
Roman just had wide eyes as he heard everything Stolas said to him, before he looked at his scroll. Before Stolas could say more, Roman pressed the hang-up button.
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This time when everyone widened their eyes, they had varying looks of blushes or looks of disturbance, Roman most of all.
"Most of that was bleeped out, yet I still feel violated." Ruby said with an uncomfortable look.
"He said more raunchy stuff than Blake's books do." Yang commented with wide eyes.
"I can attest to that." Blake numbly said with a disturbed look, combined with a blush on her face.
Roman, on the other hand, still had his disturbed look. "We never speak of this again. Not a single one of us. What happens in this theater, stays in this theater." He said slowly.
Everyone in the audience either nodded their heads, or voiced their agreements, not wanting to talk about what Stolas just said.
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Still with wide eyes, the impish Roman proceeded to break his scroll in two, before setting down on his desk as he proceeded to grab the dial-up phone and slamm it repeatedly on his broken scroll breaking it even further. Once done, Roman tossed the dial-up scroll behind him as it crashed and hit a cat. Roman then brought out a red blender from beneath his desk, eyes still wide as he placed the broken scroll debris into the blender, and blending it up into a red liquid.
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Roman, Tai, Qrow, Yang, Neo, and Ruby couldn't help but laugh at this scene as everyone else couldn't help but chuckle as well.
"Yeah, that scroll probably as dirty as the words that Stolas said." Roman laughed at the scene he saw. "Best to get rid of any reminders."
"I didn't know you can make smoothies out of scrolls." Nora said with a confused look.
"It's probably something that only happens in this universe, Nora." Ren said to his childhood friend.
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Blake was in Roman's office, watching the entire time as Roman turned towards his adopted Hellhound daughter.
"Eat this." Roman said with a scowl as he handed the blender over to Blake.
Blake complied and started to chug down the red liquid that was once Roman's scroll.
"And then you know that bridge, over the freeway?" Roman asked, scowl still present.
Blake finished chugging down the blended scroll before looking at Roman, answering him. "Yeah?" She asked/said with a raised brow.
"Shit off it." Roman answered her, deepening his scowl.
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It was the more immature members of the audience that laughed at this, and while it received a chuckle or two from those like Ozpin and Ironwood, the more strict and serious members of the group didn't find it all too funny.
"That's just disgusting." Weiss said with a disgusted look.
"How do think I feel?" Blake asked Weiss. "Roman was the one who told me do it."
"Knowing this version of you, she probably actually did it, too." Yang said with Blake while chuckling.
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The viewing then cut back to the current present, back in the meeting room of I.M.P as Roman stood beside Blake—who was one her phone—Roman having a scowling, deadpan look.
"Look, the point is Blake is a valued member of our family." Roman stated, raising his finger in the air, Blake glancing over as a small smile formed on her face. "And we don't get rid of family."
"We aren't a family, sir!" Jaune retorted back to Roman, who was walking over to him.
"You are the boss." Jaune pointed his hands to Roman. "We are the employees." Jaune forced a smile as he pointed his hands to himself, Roman smiling as he walked over to Jaune.
"You treat her, like she's some troubled teenager." Jaune pointed his hand towards Blake in annoyance, Roman looking to were Jaune was pointing, still smiling.
"She's more like a meth-addicted homeless person you let man the phones." Jaune pointed out to Roman as Blake gave Jaune the middle finger.
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"From the sound of things, I take it that's a drug?" Blake asked Vortech, though her attention was towards Jaune, looking at him with narrowed eyes as he nervously chuckled.
"A very bad one, yes." Vortech answered the car faunus.
Blake just narrowed her eyes further at Jaune.
"It was the other me that said it!" Jaune said in protest with his hands up. "I think you're a great person, who also happens to look like a loner and someone that haven't talked too, that much!"
Blake just continued to look at Jaune with narrowed eyes before facing the viewing screen once again.
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"That is offensive." Roman replied to Jaune with crossed arms. "Without homeless people, I wouldn't have half the joy and laughter I do in this life."
Roman raised the blinds to a nearby window and firmly planted his face against it, cracking it a bit as he looked down to see a homeless imp next to a female imp on her scroll.
The homeless imp had a sign that red: "Monee helps. Satan bless." The female imp looked over to the homeless imp and moved away in disgust.
Roman just smiled at the scene while waving his hand at them, before lowering the blinds.
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"Looks like Hell even has homeless people." Ilia said as she kind of felt bad for the homeless demon.
"Why does Torchwick like homeless people, in this universe?" Ruby asked.
"Eh, I probably just get a kick out of their suffering or whatnot." Roman guessed with a shrug.
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"While we are on the subject of 'family'" Jaune said, using air quotations as he spoke. "Can you stop finding me and Neon outside of work?"
"Come on, sweetie." Neon said spoke to Jaune, Jaune having a comical deadpan look to himself. "It's not that big a deal."
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"Wait, why did she call me "sweetie?" Jaune asked with a confused look.
"Oh no." Pyrrha thought to herself as her worst fears were confirmed.
"Because you're married to Neon Katt, in this universe." Vortech answered Jaune.
Now, Pyrrha thought that Neon and Jaune were at least in some form of relationship, yet she did not think that they would be married! Her mind shattered into a million pieces upon hearing Vortech's words.
"M-married?" Jaune asked with a small blush. Looking back at the viewing screen, he did have to admit that Neon was a little cute.
"Congratulations, Jaune." Ren said to his team leader.
"Uh, Pyrrha?" Nora asked slowly as she looked towards the only other girl on her team, knowing that she was probably broken on the inside right now. "You alright?"
"I-I'm fine." Pyrrha reassured Nora as she put on the best smile she could. "I'm just a little taken aback, is all. Though I am happy for Jaune."
"Oh, uh, thanks Pyrrha." Jaune said as he still didn't know what to make of the situation, also not noticing Pyrrha's eye twitch and how forced her smile was.
"Oh, if only he could see it." Ren muttered to himself about Jaune with a shake of his head.
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At this, Jaune widened his eyes in bewilderment. "Excuse me." He started before he looked towards Neon. "What?!?!"
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"Yeah, I'd also be confused as to why someone would be fine running into Torchwick, twenty-four/seven." Ruby said in agreement with imp Jaune.
"Uh, but don't we always run into each other, Red?" Roman asked. "As annoying as it is."
"I meant in personal life." Ruby reiterated. "Not when we're stopping you from doing evil."
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The viewing cut to Jaune and Neon at home as Jaune was working on cooking dinner, currently about to cut up a carrot while a pot of water was boiling on the stove.
"Honey, can you give me the butter?" Jaune asked with a smile as he looked back at Neon.
"Sure, sweetie." Neon complied with her own smile as she opened the fridge.
"Spoiler alert." Roman said as he hands came out of the fridge plopping down mushed up butter onto Neon's hands. "Butter's spoiled."
"Hehahah!" Neon giggled at Roman.
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"Did I just tell a dad joke?" Roman asked in confusion and horror.
"Aye! Nice one!" Tai chuckled as he called out to Roman.
"Do not associate me, with you and your dad jokes!" Roman yelled out towards Taiyang.
"I'm more concerned as to why Torchwick is in Neon and Jaune's refrigerator." Weiss said with a weary look.
"If I ever found Torchwick hiding in my fridge, I'd bolt lock it, hook it up to Zippy, and drive him to the police." Ruby stated.
"You can't even drive Zippy." Yang told her sister.
"I'm still learning." Ruby held firm with crossed arms.
"I'm more surprised over how Roman Torchwick was able to fit in Neon and Jaune's refrigerator." Penny said with a calculating look. "He would have to had removed any existing food, that was in his way, and given that refrigerators are at an average of 40 degrees Fahrenheit, it must have been very cold for him, pending on how long he was in their refrigerator."
"Rude, egotistical, perverted, and now a stalker." Winter listed off her fingers. "The list of issues for the demonic version of Torchwick grows and grows."
"Don't forget to add home-wrecker, to the list." Sienna added.
"Hey!" Roman yelled at the bengal tiger faunus.
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"What's funny, honey?" Jaune asked Neon with smile after he poured seasoning into the boiling pot of what seemed to be soup.
"Really impressive word-play." Roman said as he was found to have stuffed himself inside of Jaune and Neon's fridge, Neon standing there with a smile.
"What the?!" Jaune exclaimed at Neon looked him, Roman smiling innocently. "Why are you in our fridge?!"
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'Awe.' Neo signed as she smiled warmly at the innocent smile imp Roman gave. 'Who's a cute wittle dummy?'
Roman just groaned at Neo in return.
"Torchwick's even smiling like nothings wrong." Jaune said with a disturbed look. "If this version of Torchwick did something like this at my sister Saphron's house, he'd immediately be attacked with pepper spray."
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The viewing transitioned to night time as Neon and Jaune were sleeping in their bedroom, within their apartment, explosions going off in the distance.
As Jaune slept, the noise of something moving caused him to stir in his sleep, blinking his eyes a bit until they fully opened to reveal Roman looking at Jaune from right above him, smiling as he did so.
Jaune widened his eyes as Roman looked at him. "Watcha dreamin' about?" Roman asked him innocently.
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"What the Hell?!" Jaune swore at Roman.
"That is not a sight I would like to wake up to." Ruby said with a quick shake of her head.
"Talk about zero sense of boundaries." Yang said with a cringe.
"It could be worse." Ren shrugged, remembering the time his wounded his leg, and one time when he was sleeping, Nora snuck into their dark dorm room dressed in a nurses uniform.
"As creepy as it is." Tai started. "Like Jaune said, he's treating his employees like family, like he's the father of the group. I know I did similar things to you two when you were younger." He said to his daughter. "But, you know, a lot less extreme than this."
"Again, boundaries." Yang said with a full look as she and Ruby remembered some embarrassing times with their father.
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"I was dreaming my parents were being murdered." Jaune said with wide eyes before they turned into a small scowl. "But now, I'd like to go back to that." He said to Roman in an annoyed and tired voice.
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"Ooh." Jaune said with a grimace and a wince, Pyrrha sharing in his cringe.
"Wow." Qrow said with a chuckle. "Kid's annoyed by you so much, he'd rather be dreaming about his parents being murdered."
"Who would ever dream about their parents being murdered?" Ilia said with a scowled look.
"I'm sure Jaune just meant he was having a nightmare." Ruby tried to defend the impish Jaune.
"It didn't look that way when he was sleeping." Ilia crossed her arms as she remembered how calm imp Jaune looked when sleeping.
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The viewing then cut to a more romantic setting, Jaune and Neon sitting at a table that had a pentagram on it, Jaune having a demonic guitar in his hands as it started to play a song.
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"Oh no." Weiss said with a sigh. "I feared something like this would happen, when Vortech said this universe was a musical universe."
"I don't see the problem." Pyrrha said to Weiss with a raised brow. "It's just Jaune singing."
"You weren't there when Jaune tried to sing to me, in an attempt to get me to go with him to the Beacon dance." Weiss held a full look towards Jaune as the young Arc coughed into his fist, awkwardly.
Winter looked at Weiss, and then raised her brow at Jaune, crossing her arms.
"Vomit boy really crashed and burned with that song." Yang said, since she was there when Jaune sang to Weiss.
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"🎶Oh, What a thrill, when the crimson starts to spill🎶"
Jaune sang to Neon, in an actually good singing voice, smiling as he did so.
"🎶And my Neon, goes in for the kill🎶"
Jaune continued to sing as Neon looked at Jaune lovingly.
"🎶She takes away my breath she's the Angel of death for me🎶"
Neon bobbed her head a bit to the beat of Jaune's guitar, stars above their heads as they smiled at each other
"🎶Oh, Neon🎶"
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It was safe to say that Weiss was stunned into silence with an... actually impressed look.
"Huh. That's definitely better than the time you sang to Weiss." Yang said to Jaune.
"I was nervous last time." Jaune said while rubbing his shoulder. "That and I don't practice a lot."
"I think you should." Pyrrha smiled at Jaune. "I think your singing voice is quite lovely." She said to him, secretly hoping one day that he would make a song for her in a similar fashion.
"This song already sounds quite sensational." Penny said with a smile as she wavered to the beat of the music.
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It then cut to Jaune rowing a boat with him in Neon on it, Jaune smiling with a gondolier hat on his head, Neon laying back in the boat in a silky black dress, a glass of champagne in her hand.
"🎶She's my queen, it's like a dream when I hear her victims start to scream🎶"
It then showed Neon kissing a dagger before devilishly at a cowering demon before lunging at him.
The demon screamed before grunting as Neon killed him off screen, Jaune looking at Neon with hearts in his eyes as the blood of Neon's victim splattered all over Jaune.
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"Yikes!" Ruby said as she was shocked by the sudden murder as Jaune pales at the amount of blood that painted onto his counterpart's face.
"That's a lot of blood." Nora commented.
"Killing people, while singing a love song." Qrow said with an even look. "You see something new everyday."
"In a way, it is fitting for the setting of Hell." Oobleck added.
"I mean, it is kinda sweet." Tai said in defense for the song. "Gruesome, but he at least loves her."
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"🎶In and out of the sack she's the maniac for me🎶"
Neon dusted her hands off with a smile as Jaune walked over to her with his hands behind his back, a smile of his own on his face before he wrapped his arm around her shoulder, bringing Neon closer to him as the smiled and stared lovingly into each other's eyes
"🎶Oh, Neon🎶"
Neon and Jaune held hands with each other as the frolicked across the street, Neon leading Jaune as Jaune dragged around the bloody body bag of Neon's victim, the leaking blood having spelled out "Oh, Neon" in cursive upon the street due to Jaune and Neon's frolicking.
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"Dancing while dragging a body bag around." Blake said, a deadpan look to herself as she expected dark things at this point.
"You get an A for being able to spell out Neon's name in blood, in cursive no less." Glynda said with a dead tone, though still shocked inwardly at how this Hell-based universe worked.
"Yeah, I've got nothing against Neon—though I've never met her—and I've got nothing against me being in a relationship with someone in another universe, but I draw the line at murdering people when we express our love." Jaune said with crossed arms, and slight grimace.
'I think it's cute.' Neo signed with a smile, knowing she would probably do something similar.
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"🎶When the blood starts dripping down the walls🎶"
Jaune and Neon were shown under an umbrella as blood rained down, both imps smiling with their hands out in the blood rain.
"🎶Drip, drip, drip🎶"
Neon sang along with Jaune.
"🎶And the bodies start to fall🎶"
Jaune sang as he danced with Neon under the umbrella, leaning Neon downwards as she pulled out a glock and shot a demon dead.
"🎶Thud!🎶"
Neon cheered as the demon's body dropped dead
"🎶My heart skips a beat🎶"
Jaune took Neon by the hand as the rain stopped, Jaune's umbrella folded up as he walked Neon along past the dead body, Neon stomping a bit on the body with a smile before walking along with Jaune.
"🎶When my Neon's guns a-blazin' in the heat🎶"
Neon and Jaune were now show to be firing pistols in all directions, smiling at each other as the gunshots went along with the beat of the song.
"🎶Bang, bang, bang!🎶"
The two imps tossed their guns to the side as Jaune got on his knees before Neon and held his hands out to her, holding a grenade.
Neon looked surprised before smiling, taking the grenade from Jaune's open hands, pulled the pin with her teeth and threw it.
"🎶My assassin love she makes the murdering fun for me🎶"
Jaune got up to his feet as he held hands with Neon, the both of them holding hands with each other while staring lovingly into each other's eyes, the grenade going off behind them.
"🎶A-la da de🎶"
The viewing cut to Jaune with his guitar in hand as Neon sat beside him on their couch in the their apartment, lit candles on a nearby desk to help set the mood.
"🎶Of all the imps in Hell it's for her that I fell/it's for him that I fell🎶"
Jaune and Neon sang respectively to each other as they got closer
"🎶Oh, Neon🎶"
Jaune had finished singing as he and Neon closed their eyes, leaning in to kiss each other.
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As murder filled as the song was, it still got some coos from within the audience.
"As bloody as that little number was, it's still nice to see youngsters to sing like that, to their loved ones." Pietro said with a small smile.
"Eh. I'll admit, if someone sang a song like that to me—you know, without the murder—I'd probably marry the person on the spot." Yang said with a shrug and a smile, eliciting an eye twitch from her father.
"It was definitely a cute song." Ruby added to the overall consensus. "I just wish we didn't have to see them killing people."
"It's rare to see this type of passion in a relationship, these days." Ozpin said with a small smile, remembering his past lives, and the love he shared with those he deeply cared for. "Well done, Jaune."
"Uh, thanks." Jaune said with a nervous chuckled while scratching the back of his neck.
Pyrrha agreed with everyone else, though with that said, she did have a pang in her chest, a bit jealous of the demonic version of Neon, and how Jaune sang for her. But she held out hope that her Jaune would come around.
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However, Jaune blinked a bit before looking to his right, eyes soon turning red with anger.
"Are you fucking filming us, right now?!" Jaune yelled in anger as Neon's pupils dilated in shock, Jaune's anger being directed towards Roman who was at their window with an innocent smile, holding a camera in hand.
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It was at this point that nearly everyone laughed out loud, save for Glynda, Winter, and Weiss who just held full looks towards the impish Roman.
"Talk about timing." Tai said with a chuckle. "Was he recording that them entire time?"
"Wow, Jaune." Yang chuckled with a smirk. "You kiss your mother with that mouth?"
Jaune ignored her as he glared at the impish Roman, onscreen, getting as annoyed as his impish counterpart was.
"Awe, heheheh. And it was just getting good, too." Roman said with a laugh, speaking for his impish counterpart, while also adding fuel to the fire.
Jaune just gave out a tired sigh. "I really hate that guy."
"We know your pain, Jaune." Blake looked to Jaune, calming down from her chuckling earlier as the rest of team RWBY gave the young Arc sympathetic look.
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The viewing cut back to the I.M.P office.
"Just. Stop. Doing that." Jaune growled to Roman in controlled anger.
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"Ooh, looks like Jaune's about to burst." Nora said in an excited tone.
"Tochwick will do that to a person." Blake commented.
"Guilty as charged." Roman said with a smirk and shrug.
Pyrrha didn't exactly know why, but she really liked the look of an angry Jaune.
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"I don't see what the issue is." Roman said with a smile. "Is there something you don't want me seeing?"
Jaune's eye twitched. "No!"
"You a baby wiener haver?" Roman asked with a smug smile as Blake laughed quietly while looking away from Jaune.
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"Enough with that, already!" Jaune yelled at the screen, angry about the dick jokes.
"Baby wiener haver?" Qrow asked with a chuckle. "I gotta remember to use that one. Maybe on Jimmy."
"Don't even start, Qrow." Ironwood lowered his eyes in annoyance at Qrow.
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Jaune just narrowed his eyes at Roman while Neon looked at Jaune.
"Sir! What you say, and how you act is totally INAPPROPRIATE!" Jaune exclaimed in anger towards Roman.
"Calm down, Jaune! You're gonna have another panic attack!" Neon said as she tried to calm Jaune down.
"I AM CALM!" Jaune yelled as Neon backed away a bit.
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"He's got a lot of balls for screaming and critiquing his employer." Sienna said with a nod of respect.
"Jaune-Jaune's getting angry." Nora said with a small giggle. "You won't like him when he's angry."
"I've known angry." Yang said, remembering her anger issues. "Jaune's just getting started."
"There's only so much one man can take." Jaune said as he scowled at onscreen Roman.
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Neon then brought Jaune closer to her as she rubbed his hair and horns, Jaune whimpering in anger.
"Shh. Shh. Shh. There, there." Neon calmed Jaune down.
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"Awe." Ruby cooed at the scene. "Those two really are made for each other."
Pyrrha upon hearing what Ruby said, her eye, along with her fingers, started to twitch in unison.
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Roman just clicked his tongue. "Look I don't judge the boring couple stuff you do outside work hours." Roman said with a smirk and rising eyebrows as he used his left hand's finger to make hole shape while putting a finger from his right hand through that hole in a suggestive manner.
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"Disgusting." Winter scowled at Roman.
"He just doesn't know when to stop." Glynda said with a shake of her head, annoyed at the impish version of Roman.
"Keep personal life out of this!" Jaune yelled at the impish Roman, albeit with a small blush of embarrassment on his face at the sign the impish Roman was making with his fingers.
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"So don't judge me." Roman said with crossed arms.
"Oh! I do judge you, sir." Jaune said with narrowed eyes and crossed arms, Neon looking worried. "Quite a lot, actually."
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"Most everyone does." Winter added.
"And I couldn't care less about most everyone." Roman replied while taking a puff from a new cigar. "Except for Neo, of course."
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"Jaune, he's our boss!" Neon said sternly to Jaune as she reeled him in.
"No, no, no. It's fine, Neon." Roman waved Neon's worries off with a smirk and narrowed eyes.
"Your husband is just-how do I say this without being offensive?" Roman crossed his arms in thought before looking back towards Jaune and Neon with a smile. "Retarded."
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Most in the audience were taken aback by the word Roman uttered.
"That is a very offensive term." Glynda scowled at Roman.
"That was uncalled for!" Ruby shouted towards the screen
"Oh." Jaune said in a hushed voice as his anger started to rise, looking back at Roman. "So that's how we're going to play this?"
Roman just scoffed. "Oh, please, kid. What are you gonna do that's gonna put a dent in me?"
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Jaune just continued to scowl at Roman. "Does immaturely insulting me, make you feel better about your sad, single life?"
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"Uh—!" Roman words were caught in his mouth. Eyes wide in shock at what imp Jaune said to his counterpart.
Jaune still had his eyes narrowed at Roman, albeit now with a smirk as he pointed towards the screen. "Looks like that's what I'm going do."
Roman soon scowled back at Jaune, Neo following suit. "Oh, those are fighting words."
"Then I guess this is a war." Jaune said as he voice started to raise.
"Uh, Jaune." Pyrrha tried to calm down her team leader.
"Then I guess I'm gonna to be the first one to strike!" Roman called out to Jaune.
The both of them started to rise up out of their seats, ready to lounge at each other, before Vortech intervened.
"Sit down! The both of you!" Vortech's echoey and booming voice rang throughout the theater, sparks flying off his body.
Everyone looked at Vortech with wide eyes, Roman and Jaune looking at Vortech with white eyes of fear as they slowly got back in their seats.
They both grumbled their complaints while Jaune team tried to console him, Neo doing the same for Roman.
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"It actually does." Roman said to Jaune face with a smile.
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"At least I'm not afraid to admit it with a smile." Roman muttered out.
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"The only reason you have a wife, is because you're easy to manage." Blake said rudely to Jaune.
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"Haha!" Roman laughed as he pointed his finger towards the screen.
"Wha-Blake!" Jaune yelled to the cat faunus.
"Well, I don't want to take Roman's side but..." Blake glanced off to the side. "You kind of are."
"Oh, do not try and continue this, Blake." Pyrrha said with crossed arms and lowered eyes, though a little bit mad at the cat faunus. "You're better than this."
"Believe us, Pyrrha should know." Nora whisper-yelled over to the cat faunus.
"You say something, Nora?" Jaune asked the ginger bomber of his team.
Pyrrha just sighed with a lowered head.
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Neon slammed her hands on the table as she looked angrily at Blake. "No he's not, you bitch!" She said while flipping Blake off with both fingers, Blake growling back at Neon.
"Do not talk to my receptionist, that way! She's sensitive." Roman said in Blake's protest.
"Yes I am!" Blake confirmed with a snap of her jaws, showing off her sharp teeth.
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"Feisty." Commented Yang with a small wince to how sharp Hellhound Blake's teeth were.
"Those are some sharp canines." Port said as he observed Hellhound Blake's teeth. "As sharp as an Alpha Beowolf's."
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Just then a new, more high-pitched voice came into play.
"You guys are all fucking assholes." Said the high-pitched voice, causing all the demons to turn their attention to who spoke to them.
As it turns out, it was the kid Jaune had shot earlier, scowling at the group of demons as he was hooked up to a heart monitor.
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"Hey! He's alive!" Ruby called out, smiling at the fact that Jaune didn't kill a child. However, her face soon turned into a frown. "Wait, what did he say?"
"Kids like what, 10?" Qrow asked. "And he's already got a sailors mouth."
"That kid looks pissed." Ilia commented.
"I probably wouldn't blame him." Weiss said with a shrug. "Who know how long he's had to deal with Roman and his company. I'd probably end up angry as well."
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"Oh, shut up, kid!" Roman said as he pointed at the kid. "You're lucky to witness this!"
"Ugh." Jaune groaned. "This company is such a mess."
"Alright, let's get back to talking about my outfit." Roman said with a smile.
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"No one was talking about that." Glynda said while rubbing her eyes. "Besides that, however, I feel sorry for Mr. Arc. I know his pain all too well."
"Doing paperwork isn't all that bad." Ozpin said to Glynda.
Glynda just looked at Ozpin with narrowed eyes. "It's the fact that I have to deal with paperwork, clean up messes and property damage, deal with wild children, and that I have to deal grown men acting like children." She said, directing her last words towards Ozpin, Port, Oobleck, Tai, Qrow, and Ironwood.
The men she directed her words to all either glanced off to the side, whistled as if they did nothing wrong, or in the case of Ozpin and Oobleck, they just took a sip from their respective cups of coffee.
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"Nobody was talking about that." Blake said to Roman as Neon looked at her boss, Jaune having a tired look to himself.
"Which is why I'm trying to get that ball rolling." Roman explained while pointing his hand to his clothing. "So how does it look? It's good, right?"
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'You look fetching.' Neo signed to Roman.
"Could do without the eyes on my gloves, if I'm being honest." Roman said with a small shrug.
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"It's been a literal Hell, having to pretend to be paralyzed so you fuck-shits wouldn't kill me." The kid spoke up again as he tore the cords that connected to him to the heart monitor, off his body. The machine flatlining as the kid sat up.
"But now I want that. I want death." The kid exclaimed before scowling once again at the demons.
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"Being a little over dramatic there, kid." Roman said to the kid onscreen. "It's not like we tried to kill you."
"I feel bad for the kid." Jaune said with a sigh. "He's had to do nothing but lie down as we argued and complained to each other."
"I don't think that's be a means for wanting to be dead, though." Blake said with an unsure look. "We may have been arguing with each other the entire time, but it's not like we were arguing on whether we were going to kill him."
"Just that you guys were arguing on who to throw under the bus on whose fault it is for getting shot." Yang added.
"I don't know." Ilia said as she gave an analyzing look towards the kid onscreen. "I feel like there's something off about that kid."
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"You." The kid pointed at Roman as Roman had his arms crossed, easing his brow at the kid. "Are a selfish, greedy clown. And I'm a kid. We're supposed to like clowns, even the creepy ones."
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"Ouch." Roman said with a wince. "I'll admit to the first two, but a clown? Th-that's just hurtful."
"He even says he liked you less than a creepy clown." Sienna commented to Roman.
"The worst part about this, is that I'm getting talked down by a ten-year old." Roman muttered in return.
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"Hey, now." Jaune came to the defense of Roman. "That's not very—."
"If I wanted to hear from a spineless jackass, I'd rip out your spine and ask you some shit." The kid interrupted Jaune, causing Jaune to back off with a slightly saddened expression.
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Even the Jaune within the audience sank back in his seat a little at the kid's accusation.
"Hey! No one gets to talk to fearless leader like that." Nora growled at the kid onscreen.
"This child is very rude for his age." Pyrrha said with a grimace and small scowl towards what the kid said to Jaune.
"I doubt he had the best parents." Ren said with a dull look, though he wasn't too pleased with the kid at the moment.
"I'm starting to see why you thought the kid was off." Blake said to Ilia.
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"That's my husband, you're talking to!" Neon exclaimed to the kid with an angry face as she slammed her hands on the table again.
"Hehehahah! That's your husband?!" The kid laughed, causing Neon to growl at him. "I figured you, for a slut. But I didn't know you needed dick that bad!" The kid said with a shit-eating grin, squishing his fingers together to empathize that he's saying Jaune has a small penis.
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"My word." Pietro said in shock.
What the kid said caused many a female in the audience to look at him in shock, or scowl at him, with Sienna growling in this case.
"He did not just say that!" Winter said with a furious scowl.
"That was not very nice of him, to refer to Neon in such a way." Penny said with her own frown.
"Where's a paddle when you need one?" Glynda asked as she gave a scrutinizing gaze towards the kid onscreen.
"I'd lend you my cane, if I knew what Vortech did with it." Ozpin said to Glynda, agreeing that this child needed to be taught some manners.
"Well, this kid is officially an asshole." Qrow said lowered eyes of slight annoyance.
Meanwhile, Pyrrha was trying to comfort Jaune.
"Why does this universe like to make fun of me... like that?" Jaune said in sadness at how this universe kept saying he has a small package.
"Calm down, Jaune. That child is just being a brute." Pyrrha tried to console her team leader.
"He's worse than Cardin." Jaune said as the viewing continued.
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"And you!" The kid pointed to Blake.
"What? What about me?" Blake asked a bit angrily as she looked up from her phone.
"Nothing." The kid said, head turned with crossed arms. "I don't talk to dogs. I'm a cat person." He said with toothy smile.
Blake's eyes twitched a bit as she narrowed them at the kid, all the while Neon was trying to comfort Jaune.
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"Ow." Blake said in a bit of dejected tone. "I know I'm a cat faunus, but since my other self is a Hellhound, I can kind of feel her pain. Is this what it's like when I ignore Zwei?"
"Kind of." Weiss said with a so-so sign of her hands, though she scowled a little at the kid onscreen.
Even Roman scowled further at the kid. Sure, it was Blake he was insulting, but from everything he's seen, his demonic self treated the Hellhound Blake the same way he himself treated Neo. All Roman had to do was put Neo in Hellhound Blake's shoes, or paws in this case, and he was scowling further.
Neo had similar thoughts to her boss, though she could care less about Jaune, Blake, and Neon. She was scowling at the kid for what he said to Roman.
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"Wow." Roman said with wide eyes as he looked at the kid, Blake going back to looking at her phone. "You know, kid, you kind of are a piece of shit."
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"Here here." Roman agreed with his demonic self with crossed arms.
"I guess we know where he's going when he dies." Ruby said, a little darkly. The kid was still a child, but he rudely insulted two of her friends, as well as Neon, and though Ruby doesn't know Neon personally, she sounds like a fun person to hang out with. It was safe to say that Ruby didn't hold a lot of sympathy for the kid.
The entire audience had similar thoughts to Ruby, not liking his attitude towards others one bit.
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"Yeah, he is kind of a piece of shit." Jaune mumbled in agreement with Roman as everyone had similar thoughts.
Just then, Blake widened her eyes as she received a message on her phone. "Oh fuck!" She exclaimed with a smile. "Guys, I just got a text from our client. Guess he was the right target after all."
"Who?" Roman asked.
"Him." Blake said as she pointed at the kid.
"Me?" The kid asked.
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"Seriously?" Was practically the unanimous response of everyone in the audience, though in Neo's case, she just titled her head with a raised brow.
"So it really wasn't an accident that I shot him?" Jaune asked, his horrified look slightly returning. "I was actually meant to kill a kid."
"I mean, in your defense, the kid's proven to be jackass." Ilia said, finding odd how she was trying reassure a human.
"I know but... he's still a kid." Jaune said with with an uncertain expression.
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"Yep." Blake answered.
"They wanted us to kill an actual child?" Roman asked with a raised brow.
"That's what they're saying." Blake said as she went back to her phone.
Roman rolled his eyes a bit before speaking. "Well, Christ on a stick. I guess there is a God." Roman said with a smile as he raised his finger in the air.
Roman then proceeded to pull out a flintlock pistol and shot the kid with a smile.
"Owww!" The kid screamed before dying immediately after being shot, his blood splattered against the wall.
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"Hahahaha!" Roman wheezed and laughed at the sudden bit of his demonic self killing the kid so quickly, Neo giggling in agreement.
"Oh my God!" Ruby said in shock and horror at the sudden death of the kid. Sure he was jerk beyond measure, but that didn't mean she wanted to see him get killed.
In fact, most people in the audience were stunned by this.
"My word." Glynda muttered at the death of the child.
"Eh, I expected him to get axed the moment he was clarified as a target." Qrow shrugged. Sure it was a kids that was killed, an asshole of one at that, but the kid was surrounded by demons who were sent to kill. What did anyone expect?
Blake found herself once again, trying very hard to hold in her laugh. She found the first time the kid was shot to be funny, but she found the second time to be em em more so.
"Well I'll be damned." Sienna said with a slightly shocked look. "He actually killed a child."
"Oh, please. The kid got what was coming to him." Roman said with one last laugh. "No use crying over a rotten apple."
"Just because the child wasn't the best in morality and manners, doesn't mean he should be killed." Ironwood sternly said to the criminal.
"Oh, whatever." Roman waved him off. "Kid was a target. We were getting paid to kill him. Jobs been done. Nothings gonna stop me from enjoying the moment of that little shit getting shot point blank."
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The viewing transitioned with blood flowing down the screen as it cut to Roman and Jaune kicking the shit out of the kid's dead body, Roman smiling while Neon stabbed at the body, with Blake recording the entire thing with her phone.
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"And the moments starting to turn sour." Roman quickly said as he winced at the demonic versions of himself, Jaune, and Neon kicking and stabbing the body of the dead kid. "Yikes."
"That is highly uncalled for!" Port shouted at the screen with scowling eyes.
"We really are demons." Jaune said with a horrified look, something many in the audience had varying degrees of themselves.
"I'm even taking pictures of the thing." Blake muttered aloud.
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"You know folks." Roman started to narrate. "With this company, I really wanted to prove that we're capable of doing the same things anyone else can."
The scene cut to Roman and Jaune in green hazmat suits with gas masks on, Roman sawing the dead kid's left arm off before Jaune revved up a chainsaw and proceeded to cut into the kid's body, blood splattering onto the viewing screen.
"Like killing people." Roman said.
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Jaune put his hands to his mouth as he gagged. "I think I'm gonna hurl."
"Me too." Ruby said as she felt sick at the stomach as everyone watched the demons bisect the dead kid.
"This is one biology class, I never wanted to see." Pietro said with a paled and sickly look.
Ozpin grimaced at the scene as he placed his coffee mug into the cup holder on his chair, not feeling that he would be able to stomach it at the moment.
Glynda just covered her mouth with her hands the entire time. Having seen Grimm tear into people, but never once seeing something as gruesome as this.
Pyrrha, along with Ren and Nora, looked horrified beyond measure that their team leader was cutting open a child's corpse with a chainsaw, Pyrrha most of all.
Not even those like Ironwood, Winter, Qrow, Tai, or Sienna Khan had the stomachs to truly handle this scene. It affected everyone.
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Roman was walking with Jaune towards a back alley, Jaune holding the kid's severed head as they walked towards Blake and Neon who were holding a burlap sack open, the latter placing the kid's other severed limbs in while they sat by a dumpster.
Jaune walked up to place the kid's severed head into the burlap sack as he and Neon made eye contact. Neon smiling at him as Jaune smiled back while closing and tying the sack up.
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"This isn't a time to giving each other loving looks!" Jaune yelled at his demonic counterpart, and the demonic counterpart of Neon. "You're disposing a bisected kid's body, don't make it look innocent and sweet!"
"I'm afraid it's times like these, that we all must remember that the multiverse leads to many doors." Ren said with an uneasy look. "And those doors lead to many possibilities, whether they're good or bad."
"Well said, Ren." Ozpin commended his student, though with a grimaced face as people were still trying to reel back from what they saw.
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"So from us here at the Immediate Murder Professionals group, we promise to settle your unfinished business, or your money... is gone and you're never getting it back, and you can write us a bad review, but we'll play dumb to it because it's Hell and no one fucking cares." Roman finished his narration
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This got a small chuckle out of Qrow, Roman, and Neo.
"I seriously don't find it appropriate that the demonic version of Torchwick is making his company out as it if family friendly." Glynda said in slight disgust as she was still reeling over from the massacre that just happened to the kid.
"Eh, it's a little funny." Qrow said, trying to make light of the situation.
A stern look from Glynda was all Qrow needed in order for her to tell him to shut up.
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Roman then proceeded to bring Blake, Jaune, and Neon into a group hug as he held a big smile, on his face, Blake and Neon giving him questioning looks while Jaune looked annoyed.
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"Okay, that's just a weird sight." Blake spoke plainly.
"Agreed." Jaune said.
"Yeah, I'm not the type to give groups hugs." Roman agreed with them, finding the sight to be strange. "Nor am I the type to willing receive hugs."
Neo smirked a bit with mischievous delight before putting on an innocent smile, hugging Roman at his side.
Roman seemed a bit annoyed with it, but Neo just looked up at him with an ever innocent smile. The criminal couldn't help but roll his eyes. "Fine, but I'm only letting you hug me this once." He muttered to his henchwoman.
Neo just lightly giggled in return, knowing her boss could barely say no to her.
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"You know, even though this kid was a target, he's still a child." Roman said to his employees as he looked down at the closed burlap sack.
Roman then proceeded to wrap his tail around everyone. "It's important that we handle this, going forward, respectfully." Blake and Neon smiled while Jaune just looked up at Roman.
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"Well... at least they're going to try and show respect for the kid they just murdered." Ruby said as she tried to see a silver lining in demon Roman's words.
"I wonder how they're going to mess this up." Weiss immediately said with a dull look and crossed arms, knowing already that something dark and twisted was about to happen once more.
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Immediately, the viewing cut to Remnant as the blonde headed woman from earlier was balling her eyes out as she held a poor drawing of the now deceased kid, which red: "missing boy." She was currently on the News channel as a news reporter held a mic to her, a bored expression on his face.
The subheading of the news box red: "Mom sucks as drawing own kid."
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"Hey, that's not nice." Ruby said with a small scowl at how the News station said that the mom sucked at drawing her own kid.
"But it looks nothing like the child." Weiss said to Ruby.
"That's besides the point." Ruby replied.
"Hey, isn't that the blonde chick from earlier?" Yang pointed out. "You know, the one we thought Jaune was going to kill."
"So apparently she was the kid's mother." Blake said with a slight wince, feeling bad for the mother as she saw her balling her eyes out. Blake had to wonder if her mother cried for her, when she left her parents.
"I suppose now we have a little bit of information, as to why that rude child was the way he was." Sienna said with crossed arms. While she didn't like to see children being killed, human or not—especially considering what happened to the boy's body after he was killed—she wasn't too broken up about it. The boy seemed like the type of human Sienna loathed. "If her earlier actions of neglect were anything to go by, seeing as how she was distracted with her scroll, that boy must have gotten away with a lot of things."
Tai grimaced at that. "That's the sad truth about some parents. Neglectful as some may be, sometimes the neglectful parents still love their children, even if they don't put in an effort to show it."
Yang and Ruby glanced at their father, thinking that he was probably talking from personal experience. Ruby thought Tai spoke in regards to the depression he had when her mother died, how he just seemed empty inside, and uncaring. Yang, on the other hand, believed her father was talking about her own mother, Raven. As much as she admitted to letting go searching for her mother, Yang still had a piece of her that wanted to find Raven. She had to wonder, even if she did abandon their family, that Raven had some form of love for Yang.
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"Please!" The mother cried. "If anyone has seen my little Eddie, please contact us at—ohh!"
The burlap sack that held Eddie's remains was tossed into the mother's hands as she and the news reporter looked at it with shock.
They both looked up to see a portal in the sky that showed Roman, Neon, and Jaune looking down at them.
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Cue shocked faces amongst the audience once more.
"That's just evil!" Ruby cried out as she pointed at the screen.
"Absolutely vile." Winter said in agreement.
"Wow, are we assholes, or what?" Roman asked with a raised brow. A criminal he maybe, but he was a gentleman as well. Giving the severed remains of someone's own kid back to them was one of the few lines Roman Torchwick wouldn't cross.
'Return to sender.' Neo signed, though she herself had a small grimace. Sure the mom was probably stupid, but even she wouldn't do something like this.... unless she really hated the person.
Jaune and Blake both had wide eyes and shaped jaws as they slowly looked towards each other, before they slowly looked back towards the viewing screen.
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"You're welcome!" Roman waved at them with a smile as the three backed away the portal as it immediately closed soon after.
And with that, the screen went to black.
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"So..." Vortech started looking around at the audience's varying looks of shock and discomfort. "What do we all feel about this universe?"
"Well..." Ironwood started, his face uneasy as he tried to described the negative feeling everyone received from watching this universe. "It's definitely Hell. I suppose we should have prepared ourselves a bit more for what we might see."
"Don't remind me." Glynda said as she rubbed her forehead with closed eyes, trying to erase the memories of this universe, but to no avail.
"As twisted as it all was, I at least kind of liked everything up towards Jaune's love song." Ruby said with crossed arms, looking sickly as she recalled demon Jaune using the chainsaw on the dead boy. "Everything past that, made me sick."
"I'm just glad this universe is over." Jaune said with a sigh of relief.
"For now." Vortech muttered aloud, getting concerned looks from the audience.
Vortech proceed to try and open the doors once more, slamming the butt of his staff into the ground. Everyone looked at the doors, but just like last time they didn't open.
"Confound it all!" Vortech swore in anger.
Just then, the screen started to flicker again.
"Oh, great. What is it this time?" Roman asked in slight annoyance.
"Seriously, when are we gonna leave?! I'm starving!" Nora groaned out.
The screen continued to spark, however, instead of sparking to life, it remained black.
But then, green sparks started to form around the viewing screen, shocking the audience as they saw something truly eerie form onto the screen.
Within the screen's black frame, two bright and round green eyes shown, their pupils that of radio dials. With the eyes came a smile of sorts. Light green in color, the smile was large and wide, showing off sharp teeth.
Just then, adding more to the audience's shock, the smiling face spoke to them, the mouth not moving, rather flicking in brightness like an old radio.
"Stay tuned folks.~" A familiar, masculine voice spoke to the audience, though it was distorted a bit by how the voice sounded as if it spoke through a radio. "See you all in Hell.~ And remember: 🎶You're never fully dressed, without a smile.~🎶"
After the radio voice sang it's goodbye, the smiling face faded into the black screen, the doors having now opened.
However, the audience members made no movement to get out of their seats, as they looked at the screen with fright filled faces.
"What. The fuck. Was that?" Yang swore out her question as she was horrified expression on her face.
"That, was the entity keeping us through the extra viewing." Vortech said as he slightly narrowed his eyes at the black screen.
"W-wait a minute." Qrow said as he looked at the black screen, leaning forward a bit. "I recognized that voice, but I don't know if I heard it all too right, given how it's sounded like a radio."
"I believe I have the answer to that predicament, Qrow." Ozpin slowly said, his face becoming serious with a small frown.
The headmaster of Beacon glanced back at Vortech as he spoke. "That voice. That face.... that was this universe's version of me, wasn't it?"
They question Ozpin asked caused everyone who knew him to do a double-take, and for those who have only heard of him, or just met him recently due their circumstances, they looked at Ozpin with slight weariness towards him.
"No way." Ruby muttered as she shook her head. "Th-that face c-couldn't have been professor Ozpin."
"Vortech did say that headmaster Ozpin was in Hell as well." Weiss said as she had her own horrified look. "But I couldn't possibly fathoms that his alternate self was what we just saw."
"Ozpin is indeed correct." Vortech answered to Ozpin. "This is a version of you unique amongst many others. One such uniqueness being that Ozpin is his last name, in the universe we just watched."
"Then what is the name my demonic counterpart go by?" Ozpin asked Vortech with a serious look.
Vortech looked around at the audience, who all looked towards him as he spoke in a chilling tone. "His name... is Alastor Ozpin......
....The Radio Demon."
🎙: End Chapter!
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Casting:
Blitzo—Roman Torchwick
Moxxie—Jaune Arc
Millie—Neon Katt
Loona—Blake Belladonna
Stolas—Himself
Katie Killjoy(cameo)—Cinder Fall
Charlie Magne(cameo)—Ruby Rose
Alastor(reaction cameo)—Ozpin
Next time:
23-1-18-14-9-14-7
20-8-5 6-15-12-12-15-23-9-14-7 16-18-15-7-18-1-13 3-15-14-20-1-9-14-19 19-3-5-14-5-19 15-6 7-18-1-16-8-9-3 19-20-21-16-9-4-9-20-25 1-13-15-14-7 6-15-21-18 12-9-6-5-12-15-14-7 6-18-9-5-14-4-19 23-8-15 3-15-13-16-5-20-5 20-15 5-13-2-1-18-18-1-19-19 5-1-3-8 15-20-8-5-18
So with that all said and done, I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. I'm especially certain that you all will have enjoyed that little cameo at the end.
Next chapter will be an intermission chapter, where some of the audience members get to explore more of the area, as some seek answers in regards to a certain smiling individual. Not only that, but three more guests will arrive from Remnant.
I got not much else to say here, but I do hope you all are excited for the next chapter.
On to the voting...
VOTING 7
(1-2-21 update: VOTING CLOSED)
Lui Calibre:
(A/N: Now, due to allegations of Lui abusing his ex-girlfriends and sexually assaulting them, I really don't think I can have Ruby as Lui—even though she still has the most votes for his position—especially since we still haven't gotten a response from Lui in regards to said allegations. So here's a new vote.)
A.) Mercury Black
B.) Cinder Fall
Now with the Lui thing said and done, here's what I'm going to do for Ruby. I'm going switch things up a bit, and have you guys vote on what Youtubers you want Ruby to be as, regardless of if they're in the Team 6 group.
Ruby Rose:
A.) Pewdiepie
B.) Seananners
C.) Mr.Sark
Monster Musume
Miss Smith:
A.) Yang Xiao Long
B.) Glynda Goodwitch
Miia:
A.) Pyrrha Nikos
B.) Nora Valkyrie
This is honestly all I have in ways of voting for right now, mainly because I'm saving the surprises of certain votings for later chapters.
With that said, I'll see you next time.
Piece.
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