A/N: Hey guys, in this chapter, we get to meet JNPR, and see the world through Jaune's eyes. I hope you guys enjoy the chapter, and I'll have a bit more to say at the end of the chapter. See ya there!

Jaune was having a bad day. His LAAT dropship had been shot down by anti-air fire on the way to his objective, so he and his team had to run through two kilometers of enemy territory to get to where they were supposed to have been dropped in the first place. He was supposed to have support from a nearby platoon of troopers, but none of them had made it to the objective. Apparently they had been ambushed by a swarm of Geonosians. He had to cut the comlink feed off so their screams wouldn't distract his team. Speaking of his team, they were currently stuck at what seemed to be a dead end, low on ammo, and with a seemingly endless stream of droids coming down a corridor towards Team JNPR, hell-bent on removing the clone squadron from their current position. JNPR's objective had been simple enough, they were tasked with downloading some codes from a droid factory that would help Republic Command analyze any weaknesses in the droid battle plans. The problem with assaulting a droid factory is that it housed a seemingly endless amount of the mechanical warriors. The squad had been ambushed, and was now holding out in a room with only one way in, while Ren tried to open a door.

"How's that door coming Ren?!" Jaune yelled, beginning to feel panic and desperation set in his mind. The door was too reinforced to be open with a simple breaching charge, and the room was too small for the door to be opened with a demolitions charge, the resulting blast would kill the commandos.

"I'm working as fast I can here Sarge!" Ren replied, his hands a flurry across the terminal's interface. He didn't give me a time. He always gives me a time. We're fucked.

Jaune, Pyrrha, and Nora were at the doorframe that led to the corridor, returning fire as best as they could. They were only buying time, and they were running out of ammo fast. Jaune didn't know the exact amounts of bullets his team had, but he knew Ren only had one clip, having given the rest to his team as they currently needed it more than him.

"Last grenade going out!" Nora yelled, hurling the last thermal detonator the team possessed at the encroaching wave of enemies. The grenade took out at least ten, but the next wave merely marched over the remains of their fallen comrades, no remorse, and no hesitation. Nora crouched back down, avoiding a volley of laser fire. She looked at her leader, her shoulders crestfallen, a posture the typically bubbly demolitions expert didn't usually possess. "Sorry Jaune, only got one mag left."

Jaune simply nodded, he knew this was going to happen. I just hope that Ren doesn't blame himself, this is my fault. Should never have led us down here, shouldn't have gotten us cornered. I've failed.

Jaune looked at his own ammo, noting that he was loading his last clip into his Deece. He looked to the commando standing by him, by his side the way she always had been. Pyrrha just nodded at him, confirming his fears. She was almost out. The sniper had already exhausted all her ammo and every clip that the squad gave her. She never missed though, and she'll be by my side, just like she always has been. Jaune had accepted his death by now, and was prepared to say goodbye to his three best friends, thanking them for all the times they had his back, when a new voice entered his comlink channel.

"This is Team RWBY leader 1183, on the way to assist you JNPR. Just hang on!"

A smile crept to Jaune's face, as he realized there was a light at the end of the tunnel. RWBY was coming. We might actually live through this hell. RWBY had been JNPR's friends back on Kamino, and Jaune wouldn't trust any other team to save his life more than RWBY. A new burst of strength coursed through his veins, inspiring him to keep going. He could see it in his team too, with Ren leaving the terminal and joining Nora, helping keep the droids at bay. I guess the door wasn't going to open.

Jaune could hear the sound of friendly rifles going off in the distance, and knew that it was their salvation. He was surprised when Yang sprinted around the corner, shoulder charging a droid into a wall, the droid coming to pieces. The rest of her team turned the corner, barely firing any shots, using mostly melee tactics on the remaining droids. He watched Weiss sweep the legs out from beneath a droid, as Yang stomped its head down out of the air. Blake and Ruby were going from droid to droid with their vibroblades out, cutting them down. Jaune didn't know how they managed to look graceful while suited in heavy armor, but they pulled it off. When the final droid fell, all of Team JNPR had stood to greet their saviors.

"Team RWBY reporting for duty, Jaune." Ruby said, touching her fingers to her helmet in an impromptu salute.

"Thanks for the assist there. But besides trying to show off, is there a reason you didn't just shoot the droids?" Jaune responded, grateful to even be breathing.

"We're tapped out on ammo here. Got any to share between friends?" Yang asked, kicking over one of the droids.

Jaune's heart sunk when he heard that. They had been able to make it so far, but attempting an assault on a droid factory with no ammo was suicidal. They'd be better off shooting themselves where they stood. "No, we're all on our last mags here. I guess we'll be back where we were when the droids show up again." He said, gesturing to behind where RWBY had just came from.

"We sealed the doors, they won't be bothering us for a while." Blake said, surprising Jaune. He didn't think he'd ever heard the sniper say anything besides "yes sir, no sir." He noticed that her normally clean armor had been adorned with two scorch marks on her chest. I guess we aren't the only ones to have run into trouble. We're fucked if we can't get ammo though.

"Advisor this is JNPR-Actual, we have rendezvoused with Team RWBY, but are low on ammo. How copy?" "This is your advisor, I can call in a supply drop, but you'll have to make your way outside."

"Why don't they just blast a hole in the wall for us?" Nora asked, head tilted as she concentrated on creating a solution. That's actually not a bad idea…

"Advisor, would you be able to open up a wall for us so we can get outside? Our only other ways are filled with hostile, over."

There was a moment of pause, and Jaune began to fear that he would be told that he was out of luck.

"Roger that, gunship Harken is inbound with a fire mission and resupply. Advisor out."

With the gunship on the way, the two squads began to mill around, chatting anxiously to pass the time. Jaune overheard Yang telling Nora about "this fantastic explosion we caused, I mean 10/10, Nora, you should have fucking seen it." He chuckled moving past them. Pyrrha and Weiss were talking about RWBY's mission, and Blake and Ren were being their typical anti-social selves. Jaune walked up to Ruby.

"Thanks again for the help Ruby. I appreciate it." She tilted her head, and shrugged her shoulders. "That's what friends are for Jaune. Besides, we had already finished up our own objective." Jaune hadn't been aware of RWBY's battle, and was curious.

"Anything interesting happen?" He asked, not really caring what the objective was. He wanted to know if they had any trouble.

"Not really, just shot some droids, blew some shit up. Yang was really happy about that." She replied, gesturing to Yang as if to emphasize her point, Yang laughing with Nora about something. "We had to fight a Spider Droid though, that really sucked. Blake got hit hard by a SBD. Scared the shit out of me."

So that's what happened to her. Lucky to be alive. Jaune turned his attention towards his team. Nora was still laughing with Yang, her white armor with random pink accents clashing with the bumblebee color scheme of Yang. Like Yang, Nora was a demolitions expert, and loved making the squad laugh. Her official designate was RC-1163, and her typically boisterous attitude always disappeared as soon as she set foot on the battlefield, replaced by the thrill of the hunt. Now standing by her was Ren, clad in his black armor, with green accents, and one seemingly random pink accent on his helmet. Ren was quiet, and he only spoke when he had something worth saying. He was the squad's slicer, and he and Nora were inseparable. His name was officially RC- 2223, but he had chosen the nickname of Ren at an early age, liking the simple name. Standing near Jaune was the squad's crack shot, RC-8051, called Pyrrha. Pyrrha was widely regarded as the best shot of any commando, which she would always dismiss with a laugh and a wave of her hand. She was kind, but ferocious in battle, making sure that no harm would befall her team, her family. Her armor was crimson, with gold accents on her sides and helmet. All that was left was RC-1390, or Jaune. He looked his armor over, noticing scorch marks covering his white and yellow color scheme, twin arcs on his right thigh. All the commandos put their personal emblems on their armor, with the right thigh typically being where it went. Like their armor, the emblems were different and highly personal between the commandos. Their training sergeant had been emphatic on individuality, which Jaune thought was a weird thing to teach clones. But all the soldiers trained by sergeants from Vale had that imprint of individuality, as opposed to the Atlesian commandos. And when his sergeant named Jaune leader of JNPR, he had shouldered the responsibility with a confident exterior, but fear in his heart. It had taken a speech from Ruby to show the commando that he could do this, if only because he couldn't afford to fail his team.

Almost failed today though, didn't I? Jaune thought glumly.

"This is Harken, I'm about to begin my run, you're gonna want to stand back." The voice that cut into his helmet snapped Jaune out of his thoughts, and both teams began to move as far away from the wall as possible. After retreating through the corridor, Jaune signaled the gunship to begin its assault.

An explosion of dust and rubble cut through the door, hazy sunlight permeating the smoke.

"This is JNPR-Actual, good hit on target Harken. JNPR out." The teams climbed through the hole, their eyes greeted by the sight of a red canyon, the sound of explosions and blaster fire in the distance. And about 10 meters from the wall was the precious ammunition. Jaune quickly began stripping down the case of ammo, satisfied with what he saw. Weiss was at his side, rifling through the ammo. After getting what he needed, Jaune stepped back, giving more room for his friends.

After the last of them got what they needed, Jaune began to walk back towards the factory wall, thinking of his next move. First, they would have to get through the door that had given them so much trouble. That solution, now that they had room to breathe, would be simple.

"Nora, set up a charge on that entryway." He ordered, sweeping his hand towards the door.

"Would you like a small crater, or large crater sir?" She exclaimed happily already getting to work.

"Sorry Nora, but we'll be keeping it small for this one." He chuckled, noting the comically disappointed sigh that escaped from her lips as she finished setting the charge. She began to walk away from the door, giving her leader a nod. Let's get moving. Jaune thought as he pressed the trigger down.

The doors exploded in with a satisfying blast, and Team JNPR was the first one in, with RWBY hot on their heels. The central controls were in sight, in the middle of a large room with two entryways. From one door came the commandos. The other was filled with droids and Geonosians. Turrets came to life, blasting the teams, and forcing them into cover.

"Pyr, turrets!" Jaune ordered, returning fire at the turrets, as his crimson sniper began to do the same. The other six commandos began to focus the enemies in the room, especially the annoyingly mobile Geonosians that were advancing on the squads. The turrets fell to the ground with a crash of smoking metal, and Jaune turned his attention to the enemy.

"Ren, get to the controls. Everyone else spread out, keep him covered!" He commanded, moving to a different piece of cover, hoping for a different line of fire. Team RWBY followed his orders, moving around to keep the enemy distracted as Ren sprinted for the console. "Gonna need about a minute here boss!" He relayed to Jaune.

One minute. We can do one minute. Jaune thought, as he began to open fire. Droids were falling left and right, with Geonosians splattering as they took sustained damage.

The enemy had begun to dwindle when a heavily armored Geonosian with what appeared to be a cannon attached to its arm flew through the doorway and assessed the clone's forces. The cannon began to glow bright red, as it took aim at the squad. Seven on one you fuck, Jaune thought, beginning to open fire on the Geonosian, and as it dodged, it let loose from its arsenal, shooting a wide laser beam at Pyrrha. Pyrrha barely dodged it, with some of its beam grazing the back of her left ankle, causing her to yelp in pain. The beam swept left, going right over Nora's head, and tearing apart Weiss's cover. Jaune began to swear as he saw the beam rapidly burn through the cover, leaving Weiss and Nora just seconds before their cover melted down completely, leaving them exposed. The beam was cut short with a resounding bang, and the Geonosian exploded in midair. Confused, Jaune looked at Yang, who was standing up with a smoking anti-air attachment on her rifle, aimed where the Geonosian had been.

"Bug eliminated." She declared, not a trace of humor in her voice. She was forced to drop to the ground as a laser grazed her head, leaving another scorch mark on her already addled armor. "Shit!" She exclaimed.

With the Geonosian out of the picture, Jaune quickly dashed over to Pyrrha, ducking behind cover as lasers continue to fill the air.

"Pyr, you okay?" He said, checking her over, making sure his teammate was unscathed.

"I'm fine, just singed my ankle." She said, trying to get up, but losing balance, and gasping in pain as she fell again.

Despite her fussing, Jaune managed to get her to hold still, and examine her ankle. The laser had cut through the armor, and bare skin was visible, blackened and bloody. Fuck, it didn't even make direct contact. Gotta be careful of those things in the future.

"Well Pyr, I think you'll make it. Just stay down for now." He told her, picking his rifle back up to continue eradicating their foe.

"Jaune, I've got it, we need to move." Ren said, firing at his enemy, the code safely extracted.

"Advisor, this is JNPR-Actual, we have obtained the codes and are requesting extraction, over."

"Roger that Actual, Harken is coming back around to pick you up. The extraction point will be where he dropped ammo. We are sending a scrambler to RC-2223 that will disable the factory, make sure he uploads it to the mainframe. Advisor, out."

More shit with computers? Jaune thought, nodding to Ren, as he got back to work. We'll just have to hold out a little longer.

"Done here chief!" Ren yelled out, making his way to cover closer to his friends. Or we won't have to hold out for much longer at all.

"Alright everyone, this party's over. Time to go!" Jaune barked out, taking Pyrrha's arm and draping it over his shoulder, and helping her to a standing position. The two began to make their way through the door, followed by Nora and Ren, and RWBY was right behind them, firing at the droids still in the control room.

Harken was already waiting for them, side doors open, ready for extraction.

"Might want to hurry up, meter's running." He said nonchalantly, as if it was the most normal thing in the galaxy to extract two commando squads from a droid factory. Thankfully he had full landed on the ground, despite the engines still running, so Jaune could get Pyrrha in the gunship and seated quickly. He immediately turned around, rifle out, making sure to cover his friends retreat. When all eight were aboard, Harken took off, and Jaune sat down next to Pyrrha. The bay doors closed, and Jaune took his helmet off, which he knew was against regulation, but he figured no one would call him on it, even Weiss.

"Not too bad a first day, huh guys?" He said with a grin on his face, coming down from his adrenaline high.

Nora had taken her helmet off as well, running her hand through her short-cut ginger hair. "I'd say that went well Sarge." She beamed, making Jaune smile even more. Her happiness was often infectious. Soon everyone had taken their helmets off, save for Blake. Her black helmet just stared at the bay door. Jaune knew why her helmet was on, and wouldn't pressure her on it. Jaune looked at Pyrrha, who was just looking at him, a smile on her face, and a strange look in her eyes. Weird. He didn't think any more of it, surveying the rest of the commandos. Now that his helmet was off, he could smell the ozone that clung to them, a result of the blaster fire. Yang was chatting with Ruby, talking about something to do with the Geonosian she had killed, which she had dubbed as an Elite. Nora and Ren were talking quietly between themselves, and Pyrrha and Weiss had struck up a conversation about the mission. A smile was on Weiss's scarred face, something not seen often. They were all happy, they had succeeded. Their mission was a success, and they had done their job. Jaune continue to smile, joining in the conversation, despite not really caring much for the topic. It didn't matter, they were alive.

Brothers and sisters all.

So that was fun! We got to meet the main eight, and learn a bit more about them! While I will stay as true to the personalities set up in the show, I will be modifying them to meet my needs, as this is an AU and things are going to be different than they would be back on Remnant. On the topic of kingdoms and planets, I'm going to be keeping the planets like they would be in Star Wars, and I will explain how kingdoms will work extensively in a later chapter. This chapter was filled with some easter eggs, so good on you if you noticed them! I've also begun work on some art work, both cover art, and something to help you visualize what the clones armor looks like. And I know I said that this would probably be a once a week upload fic, and that I've uploaded three chapters in less than a week. I plan on releasing next chapter on Monday, and I'll try and give you guys an estimate for next chapter release at the end of every chapter. That's all I've got to say today, so I'll see you around! As always, thanks for reading!

Team RWBY

RC-1183 Ruby

RC-1104 Weiss

RC-1170 Blake

RC-1126 Yang

Team JNPR

RC-1390 Jaune

RC-1163 Nora

RC-8051 Pyrrha

RC-2223 Ren

Vode An

Heil96, out.