Taking the first steps and plans for the future

On a secluded corner of the house, inside a dark and very dusty room that clearly hasn't seen any use for a very long time, there can be seen a toddler quietly tinkering with a small gadget and a electronic device known as a Scroll which serves as the main form of communication on this world.

This toddler is non other than Jaune Arc, who just had his first birthday making him a year and a few months old and many things have changed on his life as the months passed letting him not only make many discoveries but also start working towards one the long term objectives that he has set for himself.

Starting with the changes that this few months brought him, as a toddler Jaune is now fully capable of walking and talking even though both are still not perfect. That has allowed him not only to roam the house freely but also beyond it, as he spent a few months trapped in a crib and a few more without being able to leave the house on his own he has found finally being able to walk around the village and explore to his hearts content to be an almost therapeutic experience.

Regarding his relationship with his family, it has become a real love that has become rooted deep into his heart and now he can be himself around his family without any reservations. Furthermore, now that he can actually express himself, he has been acting as a sort of mediator between his sisters in the sense that anytime there is a conflict he steps in says some barely understandable words and his sisters start cooing at him and forget any conflict that was happening.

Another thing he has done is to present himself as someone trustworthy that is willing to keep a secret from his parents for his sisters, in exchange for a favor of course and since an Arc doesn't go back on his word, they are guaranteed to pay back those favors. They may prove very useful later on.

Then there is the matter of his research of any information about this world that he could get his hands on, he completely skipped on math, natural science and other topics that he is already at a very advanced level and focused on history, geography, aura, grimm and dust of which the last three are the ones he found the least information be on books or by searching for it on a Scroll.

That might be because the first two topics are only available to those that enter huntsman academies in order to avoid panic by making information about the grimm scarce and make sure that no one other than the huntsman can make use of this information since knowledge of aura can be used against the huntsman. The last topic on the other hand must be guarded by the dust mining and refining companies in order to protect their interest, with the only information I could find being on how to safely handle dust instead of the method of manufacture.

But this research was far from a waste of time, as it gave him vital information that was missing from the show, that is needed so he can live in this world such as various aspects of the many cultures that exist on remnant and more substantial knowledge of the history and many conflicts that happened such as the great War.

His search for information has also given him many neat and interesting facts that he wouldn't have known about otherwise such as: the faunus going into heat being a complete myth, the animal heritage of a baby faunus being mostly determined by the mother so in an union between a human male and a faunus female the result is almost always a faunus child being conceived and there are many other religions across remnant that worship Gods other than Monty Oum or the Brother gods.

And he has been able to continue his research despite being caught by his mother once, at the time his mother didn't even consider the possibility of he having escaped on his own and just chucked it to her forgetting to have put him to sleep in the first place, after that his escapades at the middle of the night have occurred without a hitch.

But the most important thing that happened in this time is that he is finally able to start working towards one of his long term objectives. And that is exactly what Jaune is doing at this very moment.

And the reason he is doing it in a dusty and unvisited part of the house is due to the nature of what he is about to do requiring a lot of concentration and that is hard to do when you have many siblings running around.

One of his long term goals for the years ahead is to become proficient in tempering electronic devices such as Scrolls and be able to make alterations to them as he wishes. Basically, he is trying to hone his hacking skills to the point he can effortlessly extract or alter information that is on the CCTS(cross continental transmit system) network.

Jaune always knew that his time was limited and he could only learn and master a certain number of auxiliary skills in this time on top of his training so he should choose wich ones he will do so very carefully and after much consideration he has deemed hacking skills to be worth it.

He has deemed it so because it could facilitate his plans and solve many of the problems that could arise in the future such as:

-It would offer him a way to covertly feed Ozpin some Intel without giving away his identity.

-It would be immensely useful in preventing the fall of the CCT network since even if he fails to prevent the virus from Watts from being implanted inside it he could still locate and dispose of it.

-It could become a viable alternative to gain information after his knowledge of the future events grow obsolete, allowing him to remain one step ahead.

-Easy form of making money for the future.

-Would offer him an enormous amount of power and influence as he could gather blackmail from any influential people in remnant and have them at the palm of his hand.

So he started to work towards becoming an expert hacker as soon as he was able but this is a long term goal, he will need at least years in order to get his skills up to that level.

The first thing he would have to do in order to be able to do that is to disassemble a Scroll and become very familiar with it's inner workings. Which is what he is currently doing now.

He firstly extracts the dust crystal that is powering the device using the knowledge from the books he read in order to safely perform the procedure before he starts to disassemble it piece by piece and deduce what each part is responsible for.

He was able to do this thanks to receiving a Scroll as his birthday present from his parents after spending months making very clear to his family how much he wanted one. Which they complied although the Scroll he had received had restrictions and safety measures installed in order to make sure he doesn't stumble on any unwanted sites.

Though the security system was easily cracked by him in a single day and he has been using it to search more information and further his research ever since. This was possible due to him already having experience from this kind of thing from his past life when he tinkered with cellphones so he already had an headstart in this subject.

But he couldn't just rely on his past life knowledge since although similar, Scrolls are still different from modern cellphones and are made with different parts so he had to start learning them from scratch.

And the culmination of several months of work is the gadget that he is working on in this very moment.

Ever since he comprehended the inner works of the Scroll he has been fetching parts around the village from broken devices or from the trash in order to build a gadget that is capable of breaking the security of communication devices and give him access to it. The only price is that due to having been seen fumbling around other people's trash, he now gets funny stares from the villagers whenever he's seen walking around the village.

Though the device is still a prototype, it unlocks Scrolls by brute forcing it and going through every possible password sequence at a speed much beyond what is humanly possible, it needs to be directly connected to the target device, it is slow taking upwards to an hour to grant access to a Scroll and it only works in the most simple and common encryption out there, he still has much to improve on it but it's enough for now.

The first usage he got out of the gadget was unlocking all of his parent's and sister's Scrolls and deleting any and all pictures of him in compromising positions or cross dressed as a girl. It would be foolish to let it become blackmail material down the line.

But he knows well that in a few years he will find himself at a bottleneck in regards to his hacking skills since he would need at least two more things other than knowledge about Scrolls in order to improve in this aspect any further and that would be:

A good computer with lots of processing power which would allow him to create programs and improve his device since his cheap Scroll is very lacking in this aspect and to somewhere down the line visit a CCTS station personally in order to get a better understanding of it.

The computer can be arranged by asking his parents on one of his birthdays, they although overly protective are also spoiling me rotten and since I don't make many requests they do their best to meet them when I do, on the other hand going to the CCTS will be trickier since I will need to wait for an opportunity to go there.

And since he plans to start his training only when he's at least 4 years old, this will be the only thing he will have to do until then along with his research, spending time with his family and getting to know the village inhabitants.

That is due to his grandfather, even if he supports Jaune's decision and chooses to give him some training to start off with, his grandfather would still not accept to do it so soon, Jaune would also choose to wait a little longer until his body is somewhat developed before starting his own training and he would still need to do a few things before his parents would agree to it.

Ending his work for the day, he quickly stores the device and reassemble his Scroll in order to start his research for the day.

Since he doesn't plan on wasting time going to school and when he starts his training he will have no time to spare to study, he is trying to get over as much academic material outside of those he has already learned in his past life in this four years, information in order to not fall behind later since theoretical knowledge is also something that is required from huntsman.

As an byproduct of being either constantly reading advanced books or 'playing' with electronic devices in his family's eyes, he also started to be considered a genius by his family and couple that with his slightly faster development and overall mature demeanor, it has made him into a sort of 'model child' in the village.

And it didn't help that his mother and father would brag about him to their neighbors and friends at every opportunity they got, when you combine that with his somewhat antisocial tendencies and the rumors that he has been seen messing with other's trash, it has painted an image of an quirky and very peculiar boy in the village.

Then Jaune suddenly puts the Scroll down and lets out a long sigh while massaging his throbbing forehead.

The real training hasn't even started but his schedule is already full.