RWBY: MRRN
Volume 3, Chapter 11: Doubles' Rounds
Disclaimer: I do not own RWBY. All rights go to Rooster Teeth.
"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Doubles' Rounds!" Port announced. "How are you feeling today, Professor Oobleck?"
"DOCTOR," Oobleck corrected. "I'm feeling very excited for the Doubles' Rounds today. I'd say the difficulty has gone up since only two members of each winning team were allowed to continue."
"I definitely agree," Port spoke. "Now, it is time to choose the first Doubles' Round." The randomization started immediately, the images of all the participants rotating at a very fast pace.
"You hope you get to fight today?" Math asked Pyrrha, gently holding her hand.
"I'm fine with it either way," Pyrrha answered. "What about you?"
"Maybe," the swordsman answered. Just then, the randomization stopped, landing on Coco Adel and Yatsuhashi Daichi of Beacon and Emerald Sustrai and Mercury Black of Haven.
"Coco's going?" Robin asked.
"Coco and Yatsuhashi of Beacon vs. Emerald and Mercury of Haven!" Port announced. "Will you please retrieve your weapons and report to the Arena?" Robin got up from his seat and started to walk away from his teammates.
"Rob, it's not our turn," Math stated as he was unsure of what his cousin was doing.
"I need to talk to Coco," he replied before leaving the bleachers.
In the locker room, Coco and Yatsu were getting their weapons ready in the locker room. Yatsu was at the top of his game, but he could sense that his leader was somewhat distracted.
"Coco," he addressed, getting her attention. "Are you still worried about Robin?"
"I just hope he's willing to give his brother a chance," she replied. She felt the huge guy of her team put a hand on her shoulder.
"I understand you're concerned about him, but you must be focused now," he stated.
"Coco?" Robin called as he walked into the locker room. The fashionista took off her glasses and looked him in the eye, seeing him in a much more calm state.
"Well?" she asked as she got up and walked over to him.
"I spoke to him," Robin informed. "It'll…be a while before I can forgive him, but…I'm willing to give him a chance." Coco smiled as she wrapped her arms around him and he did the same to her.
"I'm sorry, Coco," he apologized. "I was letting my anger get the better of me and I just plain screwed up."
"I'm glad to see you've realized that," Coco replied, looking lovingly into his eyes. "I said those things because I didn't want you making the same mistakes Dearg made. That's not the man I fell in love with."
Robin blushed a little, opposite to his usual cocky and somewhat vain self. Coco giggled at this and brought his lips to hers…all the while Yatsu turned his head away. He was contemplating between letting Coco and Robin have their moment and reminding his leader that they had a match to go to.
"I love you, Coco," Robin professed.
"I love you too, Robin," she reciprocated before pecking his cheek.
"I'll make it up to you," he promised. "After you win that match, I'll take you wherever you like." Coco smirked as she could think of several places she'd want to go after her match.
"Coco, we have to go," Yatsu finally reminded her. She nodded her head in agreement, broke away from Robin and grabbed her weapon. Robin smiled at her and she did the same before walking back to his seat. On arriving, he immediately caught the attention of his friends.
"Hey, Robin," Yang greeted. "Where'd you head off to?"
"To patch things up with Coco," he answered before sitting down and turning his attention to the Arena. He could see perfectly his girlfriend and Yatsu facing Emerald and Mercury.
"Well, I think Coco and Yatsu have this all wrapped up," Robin spoke with a cocky smirk.
"I…really don't think so," Ruo admitted, much to the surprise of his teammates.
"What?" Robin gasped. "You can't be serious. You've seen Coco and Yatsu fight."
"I have," Ruo acknowledged. "They're at a disadvantage against Emerald and Mercury. They're both heavy hitters with nothing to balance them out."
After Ruo pointed that out, it made sense. They were both very strong, but what they had in power, they lacked in mobility. When Coco used her weapon, it was near impossible for her to move around freely. Yatsu had a lot of power as well, but he was not as nimble as Velvet or Fox, so Ruo was right; they were at a disadvantage.
The stages chosen were the forest, the geyser fields, the urban ruins, and the savanna. The four students appeared to trade some words before Port started the countdown.
"3…2…1…BEGIN!"
Mercury and Emerald slowly backed away from Coco and Yatsu, taking cover in the high grass of the savanna, confusing everyone. The leader of Team CFVY activated her weapon and unleashed a barrage of bullets, cutting down the grass in moments. To their shock, Mercury and Emerald were nowhere to be found.
"Huh?" Math gasped. "Where did they go? We never saw them leave the savanna." Just then, Mercury appeared from above and unleashed a flurry of attacks on Coco and Yatsu, taking them completely by surprise.
As Ruo had suspected, their heavy hitter statuses were being exploited by Mercury; he was far too nimble and quick for either of them to land a hit on him. He unleashed a whirlwind of shots from his greaves on the two of them, leaving them dazed and unprepared for Mercury's flawless kick-based fighting.
"See what I mean?" Ruo pointed out to Robin.
Just then, Emerald threw a chain from the forest stage, wrapping it around Coco and separating the two members of CFVY. Yatsu managed to grab Mercury and throw him into the geyser field, where he then leapt and attacked the martial artist again. Despite putting up a good fight, Mercury was simply far too nimble for Yatsu and defeated him.
"Whoa," Robin gasped. In a few more moments, Coco was kicked out of the forest stage and landed beside Yatsu.
"With an amazing display of strength and skill, Mercury and Emerald are victorious!" Oobleck announced. The medics arrived onto the Arena to take Coco and Yatsu to the infirmary.
This time, Grant Denim was nowhere to be seen, much to Ruo's confusion. He hadn't been informed of an arrest, so there was no reason for Denim to not have arrived.
"I'm going to go check on Coco," Robin informed his teammates as he left the bleachers.
"Next match will start in fifteen minutes," Port informed. "Do what you need to do and make sure not to miss the next match."
Team MRRN went with Velvet and Fox to the infirmary to check on the two beaten teammates. Upon arriving, Coco was awake, but Yatsu was still out cold.
"Hey," Robin greeted his girlfriend. "What happened in the forest?"
"I saw Yatsu," Coco claimed. "He was coming right up to me."
"That's not possible," Velvet replied. "Yatsu never left the geyser field. Are you sure you saw him?"
"I swear I saw him," the fashionista claimed once more. While Robin and Velvet checked on Coco and Yatsu, Ruo looked around to find Grant Denim, but he was nowhere to be seen.
"Excuse me," he asked one of the medics.
"Yes?" she replied.
"Where's Grant Denim?" Ruo asked. "I was hoping to speak with him."
"It'll be a while," she responded. "He's come down with pneumonia." Ruo's eyes widened.
"What?" he gasped.
"He doesn't know how he got it, but one of our other medics confirmed he is indeed ill," the medic informed further. "He may be out for the rest of the Tournament."
Ruo didn't know how to process this turn of events. The man who had killed his father and let his mother take the fall for the crime had suddenly become ill. Perhaps it was an act of the Gods or just something that had happened. Whatever it was, Ruo didn't care; all he knew was that he needed to see him punished.
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"Our next match is about to begin!" Oobleck announced. "Now let us see who is up next!" The images started to rotate at a very rapid speed like before. Everyone watched in anticipation as the images started to slow down until landing on one team from Beacon and another from Haven.
"Pyrrha and Nora of Beacon vs. Sun and Neptune of Haven!" Port announced. "Please retrieve your weapons and head for the Arena."
Teams MRRN and RWBY walked with JNPR to the locker room to wish the two female fighters luck against Sun and Neptune. Math walked up to Pyrrha and held her as he brought her lips to his in a passionate kiss, to which she sunk into.
"Kick their asses for me!" Nasser pleaded, wanting so badly to see Sun and Neptune lose.
"We're not doing it for you," Pyrrha dismissed Nasser as she picked up her weapons and followed Nora to the Arena. She knew perfectly well of how much he disliked Sun, but she was not going to fight just for his entertainment.
"Good luck, beautiful," Math called. Pyrrha looked back at him and smiled before going into the Arena, where Sun and Neptune came out the other side.
"Ladies," Neptune flirted, much to Pyrrha's obvious annoyance.
"You do know I'm dating Mathdon, correct?" she asked him, immediately earning a nervous reaction from the intellectual of Team SSSN.
"Sorry, my bad," he apologized. "I never really noticed." Pyrrha's expression had 'not buying that crap' all over her face.
There was no way Neptune could not have noticed how close she and Math were. They spent so much time together, almost everyone who knew them picked up that they were dating. How Neptune couldn't have noticed was beyond her.
"Ignore him," Sun told Pyrrha. "He's dumb."
"Hey," Neptune groaned at his team leader. The biomes chosen for the match were the ice field, the swamp, the desert, and the cyber.
"Hey, don't chicken out on us like you did before," Nora told Neptune.
"What?" he replied in an offended tone. "First off, I didn't chicken out; I merely took advantage of the enemy's territory. Second…I am not afraid of water."
"Really?" Nora smirked, making Sun and Neptune feel very uneasy.
"3…" Port started the countdown.
"Go, Pyrrha!" Math cheered from his seat, along with their friends.
"Kick their asses!" Nasser called out.
"2…1…BEGIN!"
Neptune quickly pulled out his firearm and fire several shots at Pyrrha while Sun leapt forward, pulling out his staff and swinging at the two young women. Both of them dodged Sun's attack, leaving him vulnerable to getting hit by Magnhild and sent flying into the desert biome.
"I'll take care of Sun," Pyrrha told Nora. "You take care of Neptune." The hammer girl nodded her head in agreement and rushed at Neptune, slamming her hammer onto the ground. It sent a shockwave aimed at Neptune, but he dodged it and quickly fired several shots from his weapon at her.
Each of them hit her, but when she got up, her body crackled with electricity and a demonic smirk stretched across her face. Neptune remembered from watching Team JNPR's match against BRNZ; Nora's Semblance dealt with electricity…and his weapon was an electric based one.
She leapt into the air, screaming cheerfully as she slammed her hammer into the ground, sending another shockwave at Neptune, who was sent flying into the ice biome.
Pyrrha traded blows with Sun Wukong, who was twirling his staff around trying to hit her; sadly, all of her attacks were either deflected or dodged by the Amazon warrior. As he tried to throw his staff at her, aiming for her face, she knocked the weapon aside and threw her hoplon at Sun, which bounced off him and back to Pyrrha. She threw her hoplon almost immediately after retrieving it, not giving Sun a chance to retrieve his weapon.
"Neptune!" Sun called. "We may need to switch fights here!"
"Fine by me!" Neptune agreed as he dodged another attack from Nora. He transformed his weapon into a guandao and started to trade blows with Nora, trying to land a hit on her. He couldn't rely on channeling electricity as he knew it would power Nora up and would definitely cost them the match.
Sun managed to retrieve his weapon and transformed them into their nunchaku form. He unleashed a barrage of shotgun shells on Pyrrha, who blocked or deflected the attacks with her weapons until she twirled her legs and tripped Sun, knocking him back onto the ground.
"Take that, Wukong!" Nasser taunted and cheered. "It's about time someone wiped that arrogant smirk off your face!"
"Cool it, Nas," Robin insisted.
"What happened to switching opponents?" Neptune asked his best friend. "I'm literally giving this girl ammo for her Semblance." He narrowly dodged an hammer swing from Nora, but left him open to an upward swing that again sent him flying near the swamp biome.
"Sun and Neptune don't appear to be doing so well against Pyrrha and Nora," Oobleck announced.
"Indeed," Port agreed.
"Thanks for the vote of confidence," Sun spoke before turning his weapon back into a staff and twirling it at Pyrrha, trying to keep her at a distance. She put away her hoplon and transformed Miló into a javelin to counter Sun's staff. She knocked his weapon upward and attacked with two wide swings that dealt a lot of damage to Sun's Aura.
Sun started to jump away from her, knowing that if he stayed and fought her in an open fight, he would be toast. Pyrrha activated her weapon's rifle form and took several shots at Sun, who deflected the bullets with a spin of his staff before disappearing into the swamp biome.
Nora again leapt up and brought her hammer down on Neptune, which he dodged once more before landing two hits on her with his guandao. Unfortunately, the electricity did nothing but empower Nora, allowing her to knock him near the water, to which he desperately tried to get away from, speeding all the way to the cyber biome.
"Hey!" Nora called out. "Get back here, you chicken! You ARE afraid of water!"
"I am not afraid!" Neptune shouted. "I am simply taking advantage…of my teammate's home turf."
Pyrrha made her way to the swamp biome, where the only stable ground was large intertwining roots from the trees that seemed to blot out the light. Beneath the roots was nothing but murky water, which would be perfect for Sun to hide in.
Suddenly, she saw a faint reflection in the water; Sun was attacking from above. He slammed his staff into the root, missing Pyrrha as she dodged the attack by flipping back. She immediately swung her weapon upwards in its javelin form, leaving Sun open to a shield throw that knocked him into the water.
"Uh oh," Port announced. "It looks like Sun and Neptune are at a major disadvantage against Pyrrha and Nora."
"I definitely agree on one thing," Oobleck announced. "Neptune's weapon is nothing but a power amplifier for Ms. Valkyrie. Those two will need to figure out a new tactic or this round is as good as won."
"Can we switch opponents now?" Neptune asked Sun yet again as Nora fought him on the cyber stage. "Seriously!"
"Busy!" Sun shouted back as he recovered and leapt onto the roots, unleashing an assault of twirls and spins on Pyrrha, which she dodged and then leapt over him. Before he could catch on, she launched him into the air before leaping and unleashing a frenzy of slashes on him. With one final attack, she grabbed Sun and sent him plummeting into the ground, depleting the last of his Aura.
"Oho, with that, Sun Wukong has been eliminated!" Port announced, immediately catching Neptune's attention. His eyes widened in terror as he was now up against a world renowned fighter and a woman whom his weapon against would only empower him all by himself.
"Come on, Neptune, think, think!" he thought to himself. He looked around, trying to find somewhere he had an advantage, but unfortunately, he wasn't coming up with any solutions. Unfortunately, he was so caught up in trying to find a solution that he didn't notice Nora leap up. She looked at him with a devilish smirk before bringing the hammer down, knocking Neptune off the biome and into the desert, depleting the last of his Aura.
"Superb!" Port announced. "Pyrrha and Nora are victorious!"
Jaune, Ren, RWBY and MRRN cheered for their two friends, especially Nasser as he finally got to see Sun 'get that smirk wiped off his face'; he may've not been the one to do it, but at least a friend of his did it instead. Medics came onto the Arena to take Sun and Neptune to the infirmary, despite their minor injuries.
The ten of them rushed over to the locker room where they congratulated Pyrrha and Nora. Math picked up his girlfriend and spun her around, cheering and laughing as they did.
"You two were awesome out there!" Jaune told them.
"Thank you, Jaune," Pyrrha replied as Math put her down.
"About time someone wiped those smirks off their faces," Nasser cackled. "I'm just sorry it wasn't me."
"Will you stop already?" Pyrrha told the knife user. "I get you're annoyed with Sun and Neptune. Honestly, so am I, but wishing harm on them is not okay."
"I'm just tired of Sun-"
"Stealing your belongings," Pyrrha interrupted. "We didn't fight them just so you could enjoy yourself. I hope you know that."
"Whatever," Nasser dismissed, much to Pyrrha's ire.
"All this time and you still act like some rude jerk," she insulted. "Are you really incapable of learning anything?"
"Hey, hey," Math spoke, coming between the two of them. "There's no need for this." Pyrrha and Nasser glared at each other before the knife user walked away, heading back to the bleachers.
"I really wish Nasser would stop acting like this," Pyrrha told her boyfriend. "Being annoyed with someone is one thing, but wanting to see them harmed is something else. He's always being derogatory to Sun, even when he's just trying to be friendly."
"Yeah, I think it's gotten out of hand," Math agreed. "I'll talk to him later."
"Okay," Pyrrha replied as she gently kissed her boyfriend's cheek…making a certain hammer user angry that her teammate hadn't noticed her feelings for him.
The rest of the Doubles' Rounds for the day went smoothly, two teams being from Atlas, one from Haven, and another from Shade. Math, Robin, Yang and Weiss hoped to go today, but it seemed that they would have to wait until another day.
"That concludes the Doubles' Rounds for today," Oobleck announced. "Will everyone please exit the Colosseum in a CALM AND ORDERLY FASHION!?"
"I really wish he'd stop doing that," Ruo commented as everyone started to leave the Colosseum. To everyone's surprise, Weiss rushed out of the place, heading for the ships that would take everyone back to Beacon.
"What's up with her?" Robin asked.
"Her sister's meeting her for lunch," Ruby informed. "She's been excited all day."
"She has a sister?" Jaune asked. "I didn't know that."
"Do you have any siblings, Jaune?" Math asked.
"Seven sisters," he admitted, making all of MRRN stop.
"Seven sisters?" Ruo repeated. "You grew up with seven sisters?"
"Yep," Jaune confirmed.
"Wow…I feel for you," Math spoke as he opened his arms. "Need a bro hug?"
"I'm fine," the leader of Team JNPR declined as they went on to leave the Colosseum.
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Junior Xiong was pouring himself a drink before the busiest hours were going to begin. It was the evening and the club was about to open, so he was going to take this time to get himself ready. Suddenly, the door opened to show three armed fighters enter the club.
"Club's closed," he called out. "We'll be open in a few hours."
"We need to talk to Junior Xiong," the swordsman replied.
"Well…here I am," he answered. "So what is it?" The three of them walked up to him and sat across from him.
"My name is Forest," Forest introduced himself. "These are my teammates, Sterling and Ruadh. We need to ask you some questions."
"What do you want?" he replied as he took a sip of his drink.
"Were you recently visited by anyone who paid you for information?" Forest questioned.
"I get paid to tell a lot of things," Junior replied. "You're going to have to be more specific."
"Alright," Forest responded. "Has anyone paid you more than once? As in, you keep telling them information and they pay you?"
"Why should I talk?" Junior asked. Forest narrowed his eyes and rose up, putting his hands on the table.
"Because some of those people may've been Iron Knights," he informed, making Junior's eyes widened. "If it's true, then you could be an asset to terrorism. We all know what happens to terrorists in prison, especially those associated with the Iron Knights."
"Wait…what?" Junior asked. Forest took out the journal from earlier and put it on the table.
"It says here that you barely helped them," he explained. "This belongs to an Iron Knight. If the law found out you were associated with them, you could be arrested for aiding in terrorism. You got away with helping Roman because he had influence in this city to protect you. Now, he's locked up and charged with terrorism as well. You could be facing the same."
"Okay, okay," Junior replied, not wanting to be charged with helping the Iron Knights. "There were two guys who came here a while back wanting to make a deal; I keep tabs on enforcement and they keep on bringing Lien. Suddenly, they stopped paying me. I called them and asked what was happening; they claimed the information I was giving them was inadequate, so they decided to call off the deal." He saw Sterling looked at him, his two fingers on his head.
"What's up with him?" Junior asked.
"He's telling the truth," Sterling confirmed. "Both of them were males. One was blonde, green-eyed and stubble. The other was dark-haired, blue eyes and clean-shaven. I can recognize them if we see them."
"What just happened?" Junior asked, freaked out by this.
"That's not important," Forest answered. "What is important is that we have we need. So unless you want to be charged for associating with terrorists, I'd suggest you cut all ties with them. Let's go." Forest, Sterling and Ruadh exited the club, now possessing the information they needed.
"These two men who were dealing with Junior may be our key to finding Nachtfel," Sterling insisted.
"Then let's find them," Ruadh replied. "Do you think we can trust Junior to keep his mouth shut and not warn them?"
"People like Junior are only in it for the Lien," Sterling responded. "You lose your Lien, you lose their loyalty."
"I'll take to the skies," Forest replied. "Sterling and Ruadh, you two look around together. Keep a telepathic link on me in case any of us find something."
"Understood," Sterling acknowledged. Forest shapeshifted into his eagle form and flew off, leaving Sterling and Ruadh to walk around.
"I hope we find them," Forest hoped. "If Nachtfel wins, there's no telling what the death toll will be. No…he mustn't win. We cannot let him…or Salem."
Author's Notes: The Pyrrha x Nora vs. Sun x Neptune was going to be in the original RWBY show, but was cut due to time strain. After finding out about it, I decided to put it in my Fanfic.
As usual, if you have constructive criticism to share, then write a review or PM me. Enjoy, fellow writers!