Steel clashed on steel as Brigitte and Pyrrha battled in the arena, neither side showing any sign of giving in. the very earth shook as the weapons struck the shields with enough power to take down Grimm Dragons in a single blow! Why were they so dead focused on winning? Were they being blackmailed? Did someone poison them and put the antidote in the other's body? WERE THEY POSSESSED BY THE SPIRITS OF LONG DECEASED WARRIORS HELL BENT ON SETTLING SOME HONOR-BOUND DISPUTE IN WHICH THE SHAME COULD ONLY BE LIFTED BY SPILLING THE BLOOD OF THEIR MORTAL ENEMY IN DIVINE COMBAT!?

No, they just bet lunch.

the funniest thing about this though, was that it ended in a draw, and they had to pay for the other's meal. They ended up spending over 200 Lien each, and skipped dinner that evening and breakfast the next morning.

Velvet was walking over to her team when she was picked on by Cardin. But little did he know, that this was the turning point to alter the course of history, forever.

"Haha! I told you they were real!"

"What a freak."

"HEY!"

Team CRDL stopped and turned to see who shouted. It was Mei, and she did not look happy.

"How dare you talk to her like that. She may be a faunus, but that does not give you the right to humiliate her!"

Cardin smirked "And what are you gonna do about it, call your eco-point friends? Oh wait, they're dead."

Mei gasped as her face suddenly grew in sorrow. She was heartbroken, on her knees, and on the verge of crying as CRDL just laughed at her, when suddenly,

"G'day, mate."

Junkrat took out a concussion mine with various dust crystals taped onto it and slammed it onto Cardin's back. "You 'ad better tell me what you said to that snowflake over there, 'r else we're gonna find out what happens when ya tape unstable dust crystals to military-grade explosives!"

Cardin was scared, but tried to act tough. "Y-you're bluffing! Besides, you insult her all the time!" Cardin turned to face the junkie with a cocky expression. "Why are you defending her now, huh?"

Junkrat grabbed Cardin by the throat with his prosthetic arm and lifted him up in the air, no longer slouching. "Listen up Winchester. Since I can't get away with killin' ya here and now, Imma cut you some slack. But if I evah see you or any of your friends pickin' on Mei again, You won't be alive ta regret it!" Jamison pulled out the detonator to the mine and put his thumb on the trigger. "Am I clear, mate?"

"We're clear! We're so very clear! Right guys?" Cardin turned to his head to see his team nodding franticly. "See?"

Junkrat stared at him with an angry face before dropping him. "That goes fer the sheila with the bunny ears too."

Velvet tapped Junkrat's shoulder. "Uh, my name is Velvet, not Sheila."

"Whatever, NOW GET- oh." Junkrat turned just in time to see team CRDL run out of the cafeteria. He shrugged and walked over to Mei, helping her up. "What did they say ta you?"

Mei sniffed as she cleaned her glasses. "You... called me a snowflake?"

Junkrat blushed and stammered a bit. "B-b-because... Because you're tiny and insignificant! Just like a snowflake! I only did that because pickin' on you is my job!"

Mei blushed and scoffed at Junkrat. "Well of course that's why you did it. I don't know why I ever expected anything different of you Jamison Fawkes!" she picked up her tray from the table and walked over to another table in a huff.

Mei sat down with Zarya, Symetra, and D,va.

"Oh, I can't stand that Jamison! Takes on the big bully just so he can be the bigger bully."

Zarya put her arm around Mei's shoulder. "Is that so?" asked the weightlifter. "I don't think you hate Junkrat that much."

D,va giggled "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"

Symetra smirked "I think Mei has a crush on the little junker."

"W-w-what!?" Mei's face turned crimson. "What are you talking about!? No I don't!"

"Uh-uh, sure you don't" replied Zarya.

"Ugh. Cardin's sure got a lotta nerve pickin' on Mei. That's my job!" Junkrat was sitting next to Roadhog, looking at Mei on the other side of the room.

"Are you sure that's why you defended her?" asked Roadhog.

"'Course it is! Only I can make fun of her short size, chubby body, shiny hair, adorable smile, beautiful brown eyes, cute Chinese accent... Bubbly personality... *sigh*... Did I just say that out loud?"

"Yep."

"Am I makin' goo-goo eyes again?"

"Yyyyep."

"... Is this what love feels like?"

"... Yep."

"..."

"..."

"I like it"