SUGAR//CRASH

Chapter 3: Getting the hang of things!

A/N: I have good news and I have bad news

Good news! I've added Fem!Mercury to the harem! Why? Because I am now very much in love with the concept of female Mercury and the few fan art of her.

From no on, Fem!Mercury will be known as Marceline

now, the bad news... there will be slow updates on this story because I want to both diverge but also somewhat follow Imyoshi's original story and while it's a bit easy to do, it's proved to be a little hard, so yeah, slow updates...

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Jaune was currently battling the training bot yet again, this time, he managed to kick the bucket of bolts back and then swung his sword, causing the tip of his sword to be pointed at the bots neck. the bot's eyes lit up, dropping all pretense of attack.

"Oh, what's going on now?" Jaune asked with a groan

The bot rebooted up and looked at Jaune, [Initiating: Level-two] The Bot said

"Oh sh-"

Suddenly, Jaune was thrown off his feet, landing on the floor from a surprising sweep kick, and had the pole once again hovering over his neck before he had time to breathe. Emotionless eyes stared down at his dropped form, never judging him.

Despite the situation, Jaune laughed, he laughed harder than he ever had ever since entering this academy. Again, slow progress, but progress. He began reaching for his shield, and he slowly stood up and he now a tiny smirk, time to put this level-two to the test and improve.

"That wasn't so bad Jaune"

"AHHHH!" Jaune cried

He turned around and saw that Velvet was there with a soft smile on her face. Jaune regained himself and took a deep breath as his smile returned to his face. He decided to end the training with the bot there and looked over to Velvet

"You scared the crap out of me Vel," Jaune said with a smile

She giggled, "Sorry," She said "Anyway, you improved, I heard the bot say you were at level two, which is getting much better than before," Velvet told him

Jaune chuckled, "thanks, but I still got a long way to go before I'm even on the level I need to be," Jaune said

"Still, it's a vast improvement than what I and my team saw," Velvet said with a giggle

"Ha Ha Ha" Jaune sarcastically laughed

"I'm just pulling your arm Jaune," Velvet said with a smile "Hey, you wanna come with me and my team down to vale later today?"

Jaune looked at her puzzled, "what for?" Jaune asked

"We're just looking at the set up the city's having for the Vytal Festival and Coco wants to scope out the competition," Velvet said

Jaune chuckled, "Yeah, sounds like might as well, as long as I stay out of that empty room.

Velvet nodded, "Well, you might wanna get ready for the next class, it's Dr. Ooblecks"

Jaune groaned loudly at the information and he sheathed Crocea Mors and went to change back into his Beacon Uniform.

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Finally, after the... let's say speedy lecture of Prof- Docter Oobleck, Jaune was free and he headed to the Bullhead Docks. He walked down a few flights of stairs, but that's when he heard voices coming from the bottom of the stairs