Finally Ozpin is out! It seems like all he's done is cause problems qnd abandon Jaune. I'm excited to continue reading!

so far read it here and it does live up to classic mafia movies, hust glad Jaune here got a taste of sweet and spice for his work.

Cinder's end was anticlimactic, but I get why you did it that way. Kinda hard to have anyone actually fight her and win, so you had to do SOMETHING about it.

I do think you could've had her narrowly survive this barrage and escape thanks to Roman assuming her dead after destroying the scroll he was tracking, then have a showdown with an injured Cinder against a full group. But the problem with that idea is that you already did exactly that with Adam, and as amazing it that was, I get why you wouldn't want to use the same trick twice, especially with it giving you more work to try setting up that final fight. Not to mention that Jaune wouldn't be able to be in it, since he's out of commission thanks to Mercury.

I just kinda wish you had something in between the scroll call and her being shot down, since it made her look a little too incompetent to taunt them so confidently and die immediately. I guess it's mostly just because of the distance making her death functionally offscreen due to the lack of visibility and dialogue.

Then again, I suppose I COULD probably head cannon her surviving and retreating to Salem for some unseen future conflict the fanfic will never show us. Unless something else happens on to disprove it, you did leave room for that interpretation.

On another topic though, I really want to highlight how much I appreciate and love the respect you gave for most of the antagonists here.
I haven't been commenting because I'm reading this in a bit of a rush, but since I'm leaving a review here I might as well say at least a couple of the things I should've said before.

Adam, Ironwood and Mercury all felt like actual powerhouses to take down, and I can't overstate how thankful I am for that. Many writers would have made them look bad as they fell, especially with Mercury being so underestimated by a lot of people and Adam so hated overall, but you made them look just as threatening as they deserved.
Adam with a broken arm after falling from an exploding bullhead still have them a rough fight and slashed through auras like butter. Mercury alone was able to fight Jaune and Neo together and give them a run for their money even while flanked. And Ironwood bulldozed his way through a 3v1 until they had to put him down with a tie because they couldn't beat him straight.
These 3 in particular are some of the characters I always feel aren't given enough credit by the fans for their strength, so it means a lot to me that you gave them this much weight.

The only character that felt weaker than he should be here was Roman, and even then you had a valid reasoning for it since he was hesitating throughout that whole fight and would have gotten the win anyways if he hadn't thrown it thanks to Talk no Jutsu.
And great job with the weapon use and stakes in the fights, by the way. That applies to the entire story to be honest, you did an awesome job with those two things overall. For this last stretch I especially loved the use of Crocea Mors, ending the fight with Roman with the very crest of the Arc family was a great poetic touch to the parallels between him and Roman's backgrounds, and the weapons being passed around like that against Mercury felt awesome as well.

Anyways, I could keep praising stuff forever here and say everything I wanted to for all those chapters I didn't post a review on, but I'm spending a bit too much time writing here, so I think I'll leave it for now.
Who knows, maybe I'll reread all this one day and take the time to leave more reviews as I go (probably on AO3, since you can post more than one comment per chapter there. Still my least favorite thing about this website...)
For now, I just want to make it clear that I've really been loving this story a LOT, start to finish. And with how many great fica get dropped halfway, it's always so satisfying to see this good a work actually be finished properly.

Hold up, Sienna's dead!? Something wrong ain't right here.

In Volume 5 the meeting where she was assassinated only happened a while after the fall of Beacon, which should be many months from now, if not a whole year.
We saw Salem sending Hazel to it while Cinder was recovering in V4, and it was the same meeting she had Tyrian go after Ruby as well. Considering the way everyone looked at her when she said she thought the journey through Anima would take a few weeks, that basically confirms RNJR had been traveling for several months before Sienna died, placing her death long after even the end of this fic in the timeline.

At first I thought it might be a lie and Adam was playing the Vale branch of the Fang HARD, but with the CCT still up that shouldn't be possible. Information still travels around the globe easily at this point, so the lie would fall apart the instant someone contacted any member from the outside. I guess it's not IMPOSSIBLE, but it certainly isn't realistic or believable that he somehow got every single member to believe something that could be fact checked like that. Many of them maybe, but not every single one. Someone would have to know a member from the Mistral branch, and a simple phone call would make him lie fall apart.

Meaning that I guess this would have to be a canon deviation, which is pretty damn huge.

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PS: Also, DAMN Blake. The interrogation was perfectly understandable and justified, but a night hit? Wow.
If I didn't know you were borderline killing yourself in paranoia and had some serious trauma with betrayal, I'd think you were heartless. I do know though, ao can't say I don't get it. This stuff with Jaune is probably trigging her a LOT after having been Adam's partner.

Emerald's and Mercury's hit on Tukson only worked in canon because they're on a completely different league from him as fighters, meaning they could afford to be sloppy. They didn't need to bother with a plan when they could stomp him so easily, so as the cocky teenagers they are, they strolled in and did just that.

Throw in a new factor into that, and it gets pretty easy to mess up the entire thing, so I'm a way you had your work cut out for you here. Still, the way you did it was smart and very fun to read, and I can't deny laughing at him here was rather enjoyable, despite me actually bring a pretty big Mercury fan.
Speaking of which, hopefully Volume 10 will give him the spotlight. People really forget just how capable this guy was. He comfortably played around with Pyrrha and completely humiliated Coco and Yatsu together. If he hadn't thrown the fight against Yang, she'd probably have gotten another one sided beatdown. Which, you know... Thinking about it now, between Neo, Mercury and Adam, poor Yang really couldn't catch a break.

And unrelated to what went on in this chapter, but us being in Volume 2 makes me pretty excited for Painting the Town coming up. The Breach and it's train fights are the first big moment to come to mind when anyone thinks of Volume 2 action, but if Jaune happens to get involved into the whole mech deal, that'd mean contact with Team RWBY, which would naturally be awesome to see.
Involving him there wouldn't be straightforward though, since I can't think of why Jaune'd be present for the Wife Fang speech, so I could see all the conflict being saved for Mountain Glenn instead. Either way, I'm excited to see it.

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Hmm for some reason I was picturing Katekyo Hitman Reborn when I read the first chapter and the summary. That would make a good crossover, with how Vongola was during the first generation.

I love this story, I will wait for the next one

pretty good start.

Sequel idea, Jaune is telling the whole second part of the story to a detective in a cell during an interrogation. The detective appears as one of the main antagonists of the story. Ending with a twist that finds Jaune and and Crew pulling a surprise victory

I know it’s been two years but I really hope you come back to this for a sequel. This is one of the only stories I return to to re-read, it’s one of the best ones on this website. Even if you don’t write another, thank you for the hours of entertainment.

I wanted to leave a review as I really felt that this deserves it.

I am a huge RWBY fan and getting to read this was such a treat and change if pace of the typical Juane stories and RWBY setting. Not only that but I'm a sucker for mob and organized crime stuff. Huge fan of the Soprano's, The Peaky Blinders, Boardwalk Empire, Public enemies, the list can go on and on but that's besides the point.

I loved everything from the beginnings as a cab driver to his climb to power, the romance and his friendships. The story itself has some small grammatical errors but nothing that would break the immersion you'll have while reading this. Id kill to have seen a few other things expanded upon, namely NPR and RWBY interactions, there was just so much unfinished stuff between Juane and Blake, the Cartel and Nickys pops.

I can see that this gem has been finished for some time now, maybe one day you'll comeback and make a sequel to follow up this amazing story. It can easily be a stand alone tale but I'd love to see a follow up. Props to the author man, this was literally lightning in a bottle and you captured so much here so well.

Incredible story! It was utterly fantastic thank you

This story is so accurate

*Very heartfelt drunken moment*
"And now yer number one needs ta take a piss"

you created a masterpiece