Pyrrha wasn't sure how they got this bad off. It happened so fast she didn't know what happened. One minute she's talking with Jaune the next White Fang were everywhere. There were dozens and despite her best efforts they were starting to overwhelm her. She tried to stay close to her partner but Jaune was separated from her and she hoped Ren and Nora were handling themselves well on the other side of the building.
"Jaune!" Pyrrha called out for her partner after decking a Faunus with Milo. "Jaune! Are you okay?!"
"I'm fine! We need to regroup!"
Pyrrha spun Milo around into its rifle form and blasted the oncoming White Fang member. The body hit the ground and threw Akuou into another grunt's face. She had Milo shift back into its javelin form as she pulled the shield back with her Semblance in time to guard the oncoming sword. "I can't even see you! There's too many!"
"Pyrrha if we don't make it out of here, tell Ruby I lo-"
The gladiator cut him off, "Tell her yourself, Jaune! Don't loss faith! Follow my voice!"
"Don't give them the chance!" one of the White Fang shouted.
Milo swung around her neck taking out two oncoming attackers , letting the spear fall into her hand and spinning around to keep the White Fang back. Pyrrha dropped to her knee, ducking behind Akuou as the White Fang lined up and fired SMG rounds. She tried to get a shot out with Milo's rifle form but whenever one ran out of ammunition another jumped to fill the gap. I need to think of something fast or I'm done for!
"Pyrrha!" a familiar voice cried from behind her. A blur of black jumped over her head, slashing out and dropping the current shooters. A ribbon swung in a large circle, sword attached at the end, and making the White Fang retreat, if not taking them out.
Pyrrha smiled in relief, "Blake! I'm so glad to see you."
Gambol Shroud flew back into her hand, the ribbon wrapping around Blake's forearm. She quickly ran over to Pyrrha and helped her up, "Are you okay?"
The redhead nodded, "You got here just in time. We need to help Jaune!"
Blake shook her head, "Focus on taking these guys out. Ruby and Weiss went to help the rest of your team."
"Where's Yang?"
"She stayed behind. Come on, we'll take these guys out quick."
Pyrrha looked around her quickly. There weren't as many as before, or at least it didn't seem like it. It wasn't the sea of enemies she had seen before, possibly because she took them out already, but there were still roughly thirty White Fang surrounding Blake and her. Who knew how many where after her team.
Blake found herself catching Pyrrha's rifle as the gladiator dropped to her knee holding Akuou above her. Blake caught on quickly jumping onto the shield with a grin. She may not be Nora but she knew just how to handle this. Pyrrha angled her ever so slightly as she jumped up into the air. Blake jumped as Pyrrha hit her peak and flew
towards a group of enemies. She wielded Milo expertly as she fired shots towards her former teammates, effectively dropping a couple of them before hitting the ground and converting Milo to its javelin form.
Once Blake was in the air Pyrrha found herself catching Gambol Shroud's sheath in her hand. She used it as a sword as she charged in the opposite direction Blake went. She rolled under a rifle shot, swinging the sharp sheath as she rose. The gladiator bashed the rifleman in the face with Akuou as she spun on her heel, lashing out with the sheath. Using both the shield and sheath as defense, Pyrrha managed to take out two more opponents. She spun on her heel once again, catching an opponent with the blunt side of the sheath simultaneously throwing her shield behind her. Moments later she caught Gambol Shroud and lashed out.
Blake heard the familiar sound as Akuou flew through the air. She throw her sword back behind her before ducking. The shield smashed into the Faunus in front of her. Blake caught the shield before it hit the ground, swiftly attaching her ribbon to the handle before she threw it in a half circle. Taking down three opponents she yanked the shield back and jumped over a swinging Bo staff, spinning as she jumped. Blake gripped Akuou, letting the shield connect with the staff owners skull as she spun fully.
Meanwhile Pyrrha unloaded the pistol into the White Fang. Some of the more apt members managed to block or deflect the shots. Pyrrha walked backwards to reconvene when she realized the remaining members of the White Fang were retreating. She spun around and saw Blake staring at their backs with a confused look. She also saw Ruby and Jaune not to far off as White Fang ran from them.
"What happened?" Pyrrha asked.
Blake shrugged as she walked over to the redhead, "I'm not really sure."
As they exchanged their weapons back Pyrrha smiled, "I kind of expected you to come to my defense."
Blake returned the smile, "Of course I would."
Jaune and Ruby ran over to the two girls, interrupting their moment. An out of breath Jaune heaved, "You two okay?"
"We're fine, Jaune." Pyrrha nodded. "Have you heard from Ren and Nora?"
Ruby interjected, "Weiss went to give them backup. They should be okay."
"Here they come now," Blake nodded behind the leaders where Nora and Weiss were running towards them, Ren lagging behind slightly.
Weiss skidded to a stop next to Ruby, panting slightly, "Are you okay?"
"We're fine."
"They retreated," Ren heaved, his hands on his knees. "Something is wrong. They had the advantage. They shouldn't have retreated."
Ruby's eyes widened, "It was a distraction!" When her friends stared at her in confusion Ruby explained, "They knew if you were overwhelmed and leave the Schnee Dust Corporation defenseless! Don't you see? We fell for their plan!"
Blake shook her head, "If that was their plan they would've only retreated if their plan there succeeded."
"Oh no. We left Yang alone! What were we thinking?!" Weiss cried out as the familiar yellow glyph formed under her. Moments later she rocketed across the ground, flying towards the SDC.
Weiss ran to the area where Yang was at the last time she heard from her. When she arrived there she found multiple White Fang members unconscious on the ground. Yang herself was not among them but rather in an intense fight. Weiss wasn't that surprised when she realized her girlfriend was fighting Roman Torchwick. She was staying in close, but Roman was fast and able to dodge her attacks. Roman raised his cane and fired, getting a direct hit with Yang's chest and sending her into a nearby shipping truck.
"Yang!" Weiss ran over to her girlfriend, standing defensively in front of her while pointing Myrtenaster towards Roman. Perhaps she should have waited for the others.
Roman smirked, "I see the Ice Queen decides to make an appearance."
Weiss scoffed, "Why does everyone call me that?!"
"You really think you can take me right now?" Roman questioned. He gave a short laugh, "You can barely stand. Surrender now and I won't harm you."
"Like I would believe anything you say!" Weiss took her eyes off of him to glance at Yang. The blonde was trying to sit up. "Yang? You okay?"
"Huh?" Yang looked up at her, but her vision was focused around her and not directly at Weiss. Her tone was disoriented. "Weiss?"
"Stay down, Yang." Weiss sent an icy glare at the man in front of her. "You'll pay for that!"
Roman gave the heiress a confident smirk, "If only you knew what was in store for you."
Weiss flicked her rapier's revolver chamber, "You're in no position to make threats. Give yourself up."
"You really expect me to do that? Not going to happen."
"Then this is for Yang!" Weiss sent a shot of fire directly at Torchwick. In the blink of an eye a figure jumped in front of him, an umbrella opening and taking the hit from the fire. Neo looked at Weiss from behind her umbrella and gave her a grin.
Ruby and the others finally caught up to Weiss, any chance of a sneak attack thwarted when Roman spotted them. "Hello Red! I see you brought guests!"
"Roman! You don't have a chance! Give up now."
Roman scoffed and shook his head displeased, "I'm hurt, Red! I thought you'd realize by now I don't surrender. But I will make a tactical retreat. Neo!"
The girl bowed at Ruby as Weiss took another shot of fire at the duo. As the flames hit the umbrella this time the two shattered like glass with no trace left.
"Dang it they got away!" Ruby huffed in anger. Before she could go on a rant she finally spotted Yang and used her semblance to get to her older sister. "Yang! Yang, talk to me. Weiss, what happened?"
Weiss put her rapier away before she knelt on the other side of the blonde, "Torchwick knocked her into the truck. She sounded disoriented, she may have a concussion. We should get her back to the infirmary."
Ruby nodded, "Right. Pyrrha, I need you to carry her, if you don't mind. Last time I tried it didn't work out well."
Blake interjected as the gladiator headed to the trio, "To be fair, last time you tried Yang kept giving you wet willies to distract you."
"I'm not sure I can carry her all the way back to Beacon. Pyrrha can manage, I'm sure."
Pyrrha nodded, "I think I can manage." She picked up the blonde in her arms, not minding when Weiss stepped closer to her as she did. "But let's not take our time. If she has a concussion she should get attention as soon as possible."
"I'm sorry." Yang's voice broke their conversation. "I'm so sorry. I didn't want to…"
Ruby was immediately at her sister's side, "Hey, it's not your fault he got away. You stopped him."
Yang seemed to go out of it again as her head fell against Pyrrha's shoulder. Blake addressed Pyrrha, "I don't care if she's semi conscious. If she cops a feel on you she's going to regret it."
Pyrrha chuckled and started the walk back to Beacon, with the teams trailing after her. Weiss followed, albeit a little slower than she should have been. She wasn't so sure Yang was apologizing for letting Torchwick get away, the wording seemed wrong. But what else could she have been apologizing for? Maybe it was just because she's out of it.
"Weiss? Are you okay?" The heiress jumped at the sound of Ren's voice next to her.
"What? Oh, I'm fine, Ren. I'm just..well I don't believe Yang was apologizing about what happened here." Weiss confessed. Ren was well adept at keeping secrets, she knew. While he didn't talk often Ren was always willing to hear his friends problems and help when he could.
He nodded as they walked, glancing up towards the front of the pack. "That was odd. You'll just have to ask her when she's herself again."
"What if she doesn't remember?" Weiss asked.
"She's Yang. She won't forget she lost a fight." Ren pointed out. "And if she does forget then it wasn't the fight."
Weiss nodded, "Yeah. I suppose you're right."
"In any case, your girlfriend's injured. Stop worrying about her apology for now and worry about her."
"Right. Thanks, Ren." Weiss gave the boy an appreciative nod before scurrying to catch up to Pyrrha and her girlfriend.
A/N I'm lightly disappointed with this chapter, I feel like I could've added more of a fight but I didn't get any good ideas while writing or after, so I left it how it was. Future fight scenes will be better and not repetitive, like this one could have gone.
I'm unsure about using Neo much, as we know nothing about her and I'm not sure how her weapon or semblance work nor do I feel right making a guess at this point in time. She will be used later and if this weeks episode gives us a look at her fighting style, cause I swear there's some stuff going down at that dance and it wont be good (no one had their weapons!), perhaps I'll use her more then I'm currently planning.
Also, I already have plans for a sequel, as this plot is fixed in my head. The only part I'm stuck on is the exact ending regarding a certain character. Whether I do a sequel or not depends on how much you readers want it, and if I think it needs it.
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