A/N: This chapter take place during 'Never Miss a Beat'.
RWBY's Dorm: In the Morning
As the sun peeked through the windows of team RWBY's dorm, Ruby hopped out of bed while Blake and Yang crawled out of bed. Ruby was already excited to see what's going to happen in the tournaments today. Ruby could barely contain her excitement as she walked to the door along with Blake and Yang. But Ruby stopped as she looked back at Weiss' bed to see that there was still a lump under the sheets, with a smile she dashed over to the sheets as she grabbed the sheets and ripped them off as she said.
"Rise and shine Wei-" But Ruby stopped as she looked at what was in the bed "Eh?..."
Eddy was sleeping in the middle of the bed snoring in his pajamas just waking up was Weiss very irritated, as she glared over at Ruby with one open eye, as she was in her night gown holding onto Eddy's sleeping form with her arms and legs wrapped around him.
"AAAHHH! I'M SO SORRY I DIDN'T MEAN TO-" Yelled Ruby as she covered her eyes.
"Uhh? Who turned on the sun?" Asked Eddy half asleep.
"Can you put the blanket back? We're getting cold." Said Weiss as Ruby threw the covers back on them.
"OK! OK!" Yelled Ruby putting the blanket over them and dashing over to the door and slammed it as Blake and Yang stood in front of Ruby with odd looks carrying coffee mugs in their hands.
"Hey Ruby, is something wrong?" Asked Blake.
"NOPE! NOTHING AT ALL! Just... Don't go into the bedroom for the next few hours." Said Ruby as she dashed off to the bathroom to get dressed as Yang and Blake gave Ruby a funny look before looking at each other in confusion.
Training Room: The Next Day
It was in the morning as the Ed's and RWBY got up to do a little training before the doubles round with Pyrrha and Ren tagging along. But as they walked into the gym, the Ed's and RWBY jumped when they heard a punching sound and turned around to see Coco wrecking a punching bag with her fists.
"What's wrong with Coco?" Ruby asked.
"Did someone steal her clothes again? Or was Cardin picking on Velvet again?" Weiss glanced at Eddy.
Eddy held up both hands. "Don't look at me, Weiss. I didn't do anything."
Weiss narrowed her eyes. "Really?"
"...Okay, so I placed a cheese bomb in SSSN's dorm because of that stupid tattoo Sun put on my butt, I tried to convince Double D to mess with the plumbing so we could get some water for the new swimming pool we're building under the school and the tattoo parlor we set up doesn't give actual tattoos, it's just markers." Eddy said, withering under Weiss's glare.
"You mean you lied to me about making a tattoo without needles and Ed only used a marker to draw a flaming flower on my butt?!" Yang exclaimed.
"YANG!" Ruby exclaimed, covering her ears. "I didn't need to know that!"
"That doesn't really explain why Coco is angry though..." Said Blake.
"Well uhh... I MAY have snuck into CVFY's room and released a dozen moths into Coco's closet." Said Eddy nervously as everyone stared at him in shock.
"... Why?!" Asked Yang terrified.
"You know you just dug your own grave, haven't you?" Said Ren.
"It was just A LITTLE payback for how she chased us around like a mad woman with a Gatling gun!" Yelled Eddy.
"Yes. Only because of you doing something stupid to provoke her." Said Blake.
"Anything else?" Weiss asked, still glaring at Eddy.
"...I put some mud in Team JNPR's fridge." Eddy confessed.
"Wait? You put mud in our dorm's fridge? Why?" Pyrrha asked.
Jaune then walked in, carrying two bowels of what looked like chocolate. "Hey guys, who wants chocolate ice cream?"
"Me! Me! Me!" Nora and Ed said excitedly at the same time.
"I believe that answers your question." Ren said as Double D put his hand over his face as the announcement came over the intercom.
"Attention. Penny Polendina's Team of Atlas will be facing off against Cardin Winchester's Team of Beacon in twenty minutes at the Amity Colosseum." Announced Oobleck as Ruby squealed in delight.
"Oooohhh! Penny! Come'on guys! Let's go!" Said Ruby excited as she started running down the hallway as everyone followed along. Eddy annoyed walked down the hallway until... He heard the terrifying sounds of mechanisms and mechanics moving... Eddy looked behind him as he saw Coco standing there and slowly walking up to him with her Gatling gun out.
"Umm... Coco?"
"I heard what you said Eddy... So how would you like your face? Fried or scrambled?"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Eddy screamed as he ran away as fast as he could with the sound of a Gatling gun firing could be heard.
Amity Colosseum: Later...
Russel, daggers in hand, is running from the mayhem before spinning around, ready to face his opponents, who turns out to be the familiar face of Penny and her beret-wearing teammate. With an ever-present smile and simple arm movements, she summons six floating swords from behind her and rears them back before launching them in a ring at Russel, who barely manages to duck behind a rock to protect himself.
Wasting no time, Penny does the same thing with another group of blades, homing in on the other CRDL teammate Sky until he uses his own halberd to vault over another stone for defense. The two exchange a worried look at the sight of their rocks still pierced with multiple blades, and Penny grins in combat-ready fierceness as she looks to her partner, who simply taps her watch as if hurrying Penny up. Wasting no time, Penny raises her hands like a puppetmaster and uses the near-invisible strings attached to each hilt to lift the giant rocks up in the air, with the screaming Russel and Sky still hanging on. Bringing her arms down to her sides, the stones come crashing to the ground as well, leaving Penny's opponents in the grass. Her swords come back to her pack as the buzzer rings.
"And victory goes to Penny and Ciel of Atlas!" Announced Oobleck over the broadcaster's system.
"Thank you for a wonderful time." Said Penny placing a fist in her palm and bowing in respect to her fallen foes, still smiling. The two victors turn to leave the stadium as Russel feebly reaches out, only to get hit in the head by an errant stone. Watching from the stands, Ruby sees them start to walk away and excitedly gets up form her seat with the rest of her team and the Ed's to meet them at one of the exits. Double D decided it would be nice to see penny as well, so he got up and followed Ruby.
"Penny!" Yelled Ruby as she caught up to Penny as she looked over and saw Double D and Ruby standing there.
"Ruby!" Cheered Penny lifting up her own arms, she tackles her friend into a hug that leaves them both of them on the ground as Double D looks down and cringes.
"Why..." Ruby grunts weakly. Penny gets up energetically as she looks over and smiles at Double D.
"Greetings Double D! I am happy to see you again!" Said Penny smiling looking over at Double D, walks over, and gives him a crushing hug.
"Guh! It's nice to see you too Penny- GAG!- Can your please let go of me now? I think one of my lungs just collapsed!" Choked out Double D as Penny cooperated and let go.
"My apologies, Double D." Said Penny as Double D got up with a forgiving smile.
"Oh, I forgot to introduce you!" Said Penny as she looked over and gestures to the other girl.
"This is my teammate." Said Penny as the girl walks over and bows.
"Ciel Soleil." Said the girl.
"Hi! I'm Ru-" Ruby was interrupted.
"Ruby Rose. 15. Hails from Patch. Leader of Team RWBY. Status: Questionable." Said Ciel as Ruby remained silent, as Double D stepped forward and said.
"Greetings, my name is Dou-"
"Edd AKA Double D. 17. Hails from another demention. Member of Team EEE. Status: Questionable. But, hopefully single." Said the girl smiling at Double D as he blushes.
"Where the heck did THAT come from?" Asked Double D.
"Sooo... Penny!" Said Ruby as she turned back to her robotic friend. "You two were incredible out there. How do you keep control of all those swords? It's so cool!"
"Indeed Penny! It was like you had total control over the fight like a Puppetmaster." Added Double D.
"Penny?" Double D, Penny, and Ruby look over at Ciel who looks at her watch and gestures at it. "I believe it is best if we move on to our next location." Penny exchanges a look with Ruby and Double D before asking Ciel.
"Could we have just a minute to talk?" Asked Penny as in response, Ciel checks the time, then takes a step back and nods, starting the countdown.
"So is she... your friend or..." Asked Ruby.
"Well, in a way. She's like Blake, but if Blake was ordered to spend time with you." Said Penny as Double D looked over to see Ciel seductively looking at Double D and even blowing a kiss while Ruby and Penny had their heads turned away. Double D blushed immensely as he turned back to the girls and said.
"Yes, I can see why you would compare her with Blake."
"So then, Weiss." Said Ruby.
"Does she know about... y'know... beep boop bop, does not compute?" Said Ruby as she moves her body abruptly as if imitating a robot, leaving her arm to hang with a noticeable squeaking sound.
"Flawless Ruby..." Said Double D sarcastically.
"Oh no. General Ironwood doesn't really want anyone to know. There was an incident with a magnet, but I was able to play it off."
Flashback to the Vytal Festival grounds with Ciel and Penny, who's wearing a large sun hat. The wind picks up and lifts the hat from her hair, revealing the aforementioned magnet on her skull, and Penny quickly shoves the headgear back on before Ciel turns back around. The story causes Ruby and Penny to laugh about it in the present for several seconds.
"Ruby, there's something I've been wanting to talk to you about." Said Penny as she glances over at Ciel and then Double D. Double D just looks down at the two for another second before he says.
"Oh umm... I guess I'll just go over there." Said Double D as he turned around and took a few steps away out of hearing range. Penny looked around once more to see the coast was clear before leaning in and whispering to Ruby. "I want to stay at Beacon."
"Penny, they'll never let you do that." Said Ruby.
"I know, but I have a plan." Said Penny as she frowns, but then grins with mischief.
"I'll talk to you more soon, Ruby." Said Penny as the two Atlesians leave, but Penny turns to give a wave of farewell to Ruby and Double D who turned back around and both who wave goodbye as well.
"Well, that was an... Odd reunion." Commented Double D.
"Our next match will begin in 15 minutes!" Announced Port over the stadium speakers.
"Wait a minute..." Said Double D as Ruby suddenly looking really excited as she clasps her hands together.
"Oh my gosh, that's right! It's time for-"
Yang is standing in the center of the field with Weiss at her side, stretching out her arms. "Well, now it's our turn!" Said Yang.
"Just remember to keep proper form." Said Weiss.
"Alright." Said Yang as her tone shifts to talk strategy. "You're from Atlas. What could we expect?"
Back at where Team FNKI is getting ready to leave, a bald headed kid ran in catching FNKI's attention. They stop as they look behind them to see Jonny 2x4 running over to them with his hand in the air.
"Wait *Pant* *Pant* Stop! *Pant* *Pant* Hold on!" Said Jonny out of breath as he walked forward.
"What are you doing here, man?" Asked Flynt.
"I just wanna wish you guys luck out there." Said Jonny with a smile.
"Well thanks a lot man, we'll need it. Com'on Neon, let's go." Said Flynt as he turned around and started to leave.
"You go ahead Flynt, I'll be right behind you." Said Neon as Flynt merely shrugged his shoulders and said. "Alright."
Neon turned back to Jonny as Jonny started to speak again. "I just, wanted to wish you guys the best of luck. Me and Plank." Said Jonny as Neon smiled at him and said.
"Aww, that's so sweet! Thank you!" Said Neon as at the speed of sound quickly pecked Jonny on the cheek as she quickly turned around and skated off.
"Thanks again Jonny!" She said as she finally left and Jonny just stood there paralyzed. He looked over at Plank as he said.
"I can't move my legs Plank..." Back in the arena, Weiss answers Yang by listing off the facts as Yang loosens up her legs as well.
"Well, seeing as their Kingdom, academy and armed forces are all merged as one, I think we can expect strict, militant fighters with advanced technology and carefully rehearsed strategies." But at that very moment, a rainbow zooms past the two surprised Huntresses-in-training, coming to a stop opposite them, revealing a pigtailed Faunus girl with roller blades and a cat tail swishing around her weapon next to a young man wearing a fedora and sunglasses, holding a trumpet in one hand.
" ... Or whatever they are." Said Weiss.
"Who are these guys? They look like they belong on the back of a serial box. Well, at least the rainbow one does." Said Eddy from the stands.
"Warriors can come in all shapes and sizes." Said Ruby smiling as Eddy just stared at her for a few seconds at the super overly cute face she was making.
"... Your right."
"Hey!" Weiss looks over to Flynt as he gestures at her, smiling. "Your Weiss Schnee, right? The heiress."
"Flynt is gonna win this in no prob." Eddy, Double D, and Ed look over at Kevin, Jonny, and Rolf who were sitting there next to them.
"What?" Asked Eddy.
"I mean don't get me wrong, I've seen your girlfriend fight before, and she's tough. But nothing compared to Flynt." Said Kevin.
"And Neon!" Added Jonny. "Neon is so random and fast that no one can keep up with her!" Said Jonny as Ed and Eddy start to lean in with competitive looks on their faces.
"Oh yeah? Weiss is already super skilled with her... Umm, symbol thingies!"
"Glyphs Eddy..." Said Double D.
"Whatever! The point is Weiss is already too skilled for some trumpet playing has been to beat her." Said Eddy.
"Yeah! And Yang is so strong that nothing can beat her! She'll beat the kitty cat girl with no problem!" Said Ed.
"I guess we'll just wait and see." Said Kevin smirking.
"Guess so, Shovel Chin." Said Eddy as back in the arena...
"I am." Said Weiss, answering Flynt's question.
"I take it you're pretty good with Dust, then?" Asked Flynt.
"I do my best. " Said Weiss shrugging humbling.
"Yeah, my dad was good too. Owned a little Dust shop of his own." Said Flynt as he nods his head, eyes hidden behind his shades, until his smile turns into a scowl, tone turning hostile. "Till your father's company ran him out of business."
"Oh. I'm sorry to hear that." Said Weiss ashamed.
"Sure you are." Flynt said sarcastically.
"What does trumpet boy think he's doing?" Asked Eddy angrily.
"Hey! Why don't you-" Yang was interrupted.
"Hey! Why don't you?" Said Neon as she drops her unflattering imitation as she points at Yang, smiling. "That's what you sound like!"
"Uh..." Trailed off Yang unknowing of how to respond.
"Hey! Where'd you get your hair extensions?" Asked Neon.
"This is just my normal hair."
"Ooh, really?"
"Yeah! Is that a prob-" Said Yang starting to get annoyed but being interrupted once more.
"You should try rollerblading sometime! It's super fun!" Said Neon as she starts spinning in place as she continues rapidly. "It'd probably take you a while, though, since you're so... you know, top-heavy."
"... Did kitty girl just call Yang FAT?!" Asked Ed angrily.
"Umm, wouldn't that technically be a complement since she said 'Top-heavy'?" Asked Double D.
"Excuse me!?" Asked Yang as she looks down at herself as the holographic roulette begins.
"Oh, here we go." Said Ruby rolling her eyes from the stands. The field opens around the four combatants, and up rises the volcanic area, sandy desert, steaming geysers, and ruined buildings.
"Three! Two! One! Begin!" Announced Port.
Right as it starts, Flynt raises the instrument to his lips and blows, issuing forth a sound wave that blows both Weiss and Yang back from the force. Weiss is able to create a glyph under her to stop sliding back, but doesn't see Neon spinning into the attack and using it to push herself forward so she can charge at Yang in a rainbow burst of speed and push her into the city portion.
Flynt stops blowing as Weiss readies her Myrtenaster, a second passing until the musician starts playing again. This time, Weiss uses darker glyphs to move her forward through the cone of waves, making another one to get closer and closer so she can land a blow. Suddenly, however, Flynt stops playing, and Weiss is forced to move forward, earning a kick to the back as she slides past. She crashes through a red Dust crystal, and Flynt grins when he sees her lying in the area now spouting pillars of fire. Eddy looks worried in the stands as Kevin was smirking.
Back in the ruined city, Neon manages to roll ahead of every blast from Ember Celica, skating on the railings and making faces at an irritated Yang. She continues to flip and slide over any terrain in her way, all the while repeating a mantra to herself.
"Never miss a beat! Never miss a beat! Never miss a beat! Never miss a beat!" Neon chanted to herself over and over.
"Yeah! Go Neon!" Cheered Jonny.
She eventually comes down to the ground and charges at Yang, becoming a rainbow blue while hitting the blonde multiple times. Yang grits her teeth, unloading the spent shells in her gauntlets, as Neon smirks and cracks her glow sticks, turning them blue. She comes forward again, dashing past Yang before she even realizes that her right leg is now encased in ice.
"Hm-hmm! Look!" Said Neon as she smacks her butt for emphasis. "Now you're bottom-heavy, too!"
"Oh boy... That can't be good for that rainbow girl." Said Double D.
Getting quite irate now, Yang slams her foot down and frees her entire leg, but is unable to stop Neon from freezing her left arm now. She sees Neon rollerblading on rails and through archways, gaining distance until she speeds forth and kicks Yang back into a wall, cracking it behind her.
"You should cool off! Get it? Because you're angry." Mocked Neon.
"I get it!" Said Jonny from the crowd.
Not appreciating the pun one bit, Yang smashes her arm against the wall, once again shattering the ice and the structure itself.
Meanwhile, Weiss and Flynt are facing each other in the burning section, Weiss gesturing all around her with the blade and spinning wildly to summon four glyphs that shoot out an equal number of large ice chunks headed straight for her enemy. Flynt looks down and smiles, leaping forward onto his knees and blowing his horn just as a column of flame erupts right in front of him, diverting the fire to melt each of Weiss' frozen projectiles.
"Too bad all that money can't buy you skill." Said Flynt.
Weiss grimaces at him before revolving her hilt to use a white type of Dust. She aims a stream of wind at Flynt, who matches her power with his own blowing, creating a standstill until Weiss uses a mere gesture to form several more glyphs around the field. She quickly bounces off each one, striking Flynt with each attack, until she puts his foot down and starts playing once more. Weiss is still propelling herself around, but nothing prepares her for a second Flynt appearing next to the first, and then another, and another after that, each color-coordinated musician joining their waves of noise together to send Weiss flying back.
"Good work Flynt!" Cheered Kevin.
"Come on Weiss! You can do it!" Cheered Eddy.
"Woah!" Said Jaune amazed by the fight.
"What's this?" Asked Port as he turned to Oobleck in the announcers box.
"It appears young Flynt has just activated his Semblance! And quite a remarkable one at that. Ladies and gentlemen, feast your eyes on Flynt Coal's Killer Quartet!" Announced Oobleck as the Flynts flip their hats around to the audience, then look up at the scoreboard to see Weiss and Yang down to half their Aura levels, but still in the game. He steps forward, absorbing each of his duplicates as he prepares to finish this.
His teammate is still giving trouble to Yang, using a ramp to outrun her now red-eyed opponent.
"Ooh! Flashy eyes! Y'know, you're actually kinda pretty when you're angry." Said Neon.
"Shut up, shut up, SHUT UP!" Yelled Yang as she shakes her head, eyes going back down to purple. As she propels herself forward using her shotgun blasts.
"To be honest, she's not wrong there." Said Ed.
Weiss is getting back up and sees her sword, reaching out to it only for Flynt to step on the blade. She looks up at him before their attention is drawn to their partners.
"Get back here!" Yelled Yang as Neon was rolling around Yang in a lazy circle.
"I wasn't trying to say that you should go on a diet, I was saying you really need to go on a diet!" Mocked the Faunus.
"THAT'S IT!"
"You're fat."
"WHAT!?" Yelled Ed angrily yet again.
Flynt looks back at Weiss before deciding to focus his attention on Yang, once more becoming four fighters and ready to blow her away. Weiss looks through the clones and sees Yang completely distracted, as well as a pool of lava bubbling away right in front of him/them. Without pause, Weiss jumps up and knocks the original into the magma just as it erupts several feet in the air.
"WEISS!" Yelled Eddy.
"What?" Asked Yang as she just noticed what happened.
"Weiss!" Yelled Blake and Ruby in unison.
"It appears we have a double knockout on our hands!" Announced Port.
"In fact, it looks as though Miss Schnee's Aura has been completely depleted! She sacrificed herself to take out Flynt! Wait a minute. What's this!?" Asked Oobleck as "This" turns out to be Flynt, wobbly and almost at his limit, but standing back up from the smoke.
"Hehe... Told ya Flathead, Flynt is THE man. Sorry about your girlfriend though." Said Kevin.
"Ladies and gentlemen, Flynt Coal remains standing!" Announced Port as Flynt begins walking toward Yang, a look of pure anger on his face.
"You did it, Flynt! Don't worry about her, she's easy! But kind of annoying." Said Neon skating back over to her leader.
"Ooh, looks like Yang's angry! And you wouldn't like her when she's... upset." Said Port as Yang finally reaches her breaking point, fists clenching and ground trembling
"Get'em Yang!" Said Ed as Yang's scream of rage combining with the group of lava bursts from the rocks, she punches out several shots at the two opponents, who manage to dodge the blasts.
"Yo, Neon, go!" Said Flynt as he blows again and helps Neon rush forward, and Yang meets her in the waves of sound, using her shots to keep her from being pushed away as she attempts to get a hit on the girl.
Failing that, she leaps out of the noise and blasts the ground where Neon is, then launching herself back to create some space. Her blasts almost gets Flynt, who's forced to change the direction of his tune and direct Neon elsewhere, still avoiding the blasts and even rolling on the debris being formed, though with a noticeably more shaky stance than usual. She rolls up on a ramp made from the debris into the geyser biome. Yang lands on the ground away from her and runs right at Flynt, rocketing forward even as he uses his Semblance once more to deliver a fourfold attack. Shooting behind her, however, provides the necessary boost to finally get close and clap her hands over the mouth of the trumpet. Less than a second of silence is broken by the musical backfire right in Flynt's face, becoming one person for the final time as he's knocked on his back and the buzzer rings.
"Oh, sour note for Flynt!" Announced Port as Kevin threw his arms in anger.
"Aww man!"
"HA! Sure sucks to have trumpet boy lose, huh?" Asked Eddy as he nudged the upset Kevin. Yang slides back from the blast, searching for her remaining opponent as Neon tries avoiding the geyser spouts.
"Never miss a beat! Never miss a beat! Never miss a..." At that moment, her front wheels catch on a crack in the ground, losing her balance and causing her to shed a few quick tears. "...beat?"
Time catches up as she pitches forward, trying to roll up in a ball only to get caught in the blast of a geyser. She's helpless to do anything as Yang smirks, fires off a single shot, and hits her screaming target in an explosion of sparks and smoke, as well as a third buzzing sound.
"Neon! Oh man!" Yelled Jonny as Yang continues to look enraged until she blinks her eyes back to purple and realizes something.
"Weiss!" Yang runs back into the fire section and kneels next to her ash-covered teammate. "Weiss! Are you okay?"
"*Cough* *Cough* I may not be singing for a while." Joked Weiss.
"...Oh, thank-...Hehehe... So she does have a funny bone in her body after all." Said Eddy smiling in relief.
"You know, I'm not sure that was proper form." Said Yang.
"Oh, ha ha." Said Weiss as she suffers from another series of coughs.
"WHAT!? We lost? We lost?" Yelled Neon as Yang and Weiss' attention are drawn to her, now devoid of color, as she freaks out.
"Team FNKI lost? That was... that was..." Said Neon as her color returns to the suddenly-overjoyed redhead as her eyes turn into rainbow sparkles for a moment. "... amazing! Oh my gosh, you guys were super crazy awesome! We should definitely party together sometime, right Flynt?" Asked Neon as her teammate gets back up on his feet.
"That was a gutsy move, Schnee. I dig it." Said Flynt smiling. Yang and Weiss smile at the good losers and see the rest of their team and Ed, Edd, n Eddy coming to the injured heiress's side.
"Good job, you two!" Said Blake.
"Yeah!" Said Ruby.
"Good job guys!" Cheered Ed.
"Just, please do anything that stupid again." Said Eddy as he looked down at the heiress.
"*Cough* *Cough*... You first." Said Weiss as KRJ came down from the stand to congragulate FNKI on being good losers.
"Good work man." Said Kevin as he fist bumped Flynt. "Ha, what's the point of being a sore loser, ya know what I'm saying?" Asked Flynt.
"Great job Neon! That was so cool!" Said Jonny.
"I'm just happy you were in the stands cheering me on!" Said Neon as she hugged Jonny.
"Rolf cannot contain his Joy! It feels like the marry days of summer all over again!" Said Rolf overjoyed as all the inhabitants of Remnant had no idea while he was talking about while the inhabitants of Earth knew what he was talking about.
"It's not Christmas Rolf." Said Kevin.
"It's fall!" Said Eddy.
"What is he talking about?" Asked Blake.
"Even though! Rolf cannot contain his pure joy!" Said Rolf as he reached into his pocket and pulled out a Yo-yo and gave it to Jonny as RWBY and FNKI stared in absolute confusion.
"For me?" Asked Jonny as he took the Yo-yo.
"Umm... You felling okay Rolf?" Rolf merely responded to Kevin by handing him a unicycle.
"Marry Christmas Kevin!"
"Umm, what are you doing?" Asked Flynt as Rolf handed Flynt a horn.
"Marry Christmas!" Said Rolf.
"Your really just giving out presents like that?" Asked Neon as Rolf handed her a wooden spoon.
"I don't know what this "Christmas" is, but I like it!" Said Neon as she happily took the old world spoon. Rolf continued to give gifts to everyone like giving Double D a potato peeler, handing Eddy an octopus, giving Yang his right shoe, giving Ruby his shirt, giving Blake his left shoe, and giving Weiss his pants.
"Oh umm... Thank you Rolf." Said Ruby holding up his shirt as Rolf stood there in nothing but his underwear as Ed was smiling at him happily.
"Marry Christmas Rolf!" Said Ed as all of them in the field failed to realize that the crowd of the stadium was still looking at them.
"When I woke up this morning... I did not expect to see this..." Said Jaune.
Amity Colosseum: Later...
Ed and Eddy walked into the stadium arena once more as the crowd started to go wild. All the while RWBY, KRJ, and JNPR were sitting in the stands as they were looking over their friends entering the battle field.
"So remember Lumpy, when ya fight these clowns don't hold back alright?" Said Eddy as he walked closer to the center with Ed.
"Like a bread box?" Asked Ed.
"You got this Ed!" Cheered Ruby.
"Show them what your made of big guy!" Cheered Yang.
"Those dorks have this in the bag." Assured Kevin.
"Good luck Eddy!" Yelled Weiss as she cupped her hands around her mouth. Eddy looked over and gave her a charming smile before the two made it to the center. As Ed and Eddy looked in front of them they saw their opponents.
"Team EEE of Beacon with it's Doubles Round representatives Eddy and Ed." Announced Port.
"And from Shade academy in Vacuo, Team FADE with it's Double's Round representatives Fonce "Moon" Crawford and Azule "Bailey" Chalmers." Announced Oobleck.
A girl and boy stood in front of Ed and Eddy. The boy was wearing a brown sweater, a black coat, white pants, black socks, and black shoes standing around 5'11 tall. He had black hair, blue eyes, his weapon was a black and white sword, and his symbol was a replica of Remnants moon. The girl however was wearing a light grey T-Shirt, a deep-blue zipperless jacket with a fur collar, black shorts, white socks, blue slippers, white hair, light-blue eye's, she had twin weapons that were a hybrid of Nunchucks and pistols, and had a symbol of a "glowing" blue heart.
"At least they aren't going to be overly cheery or have any stupid gimmicks." Said Eddy.
"Gimmicks? What do you mean?" Asked Fornce the boy.
"I mean being overly colorful or super edgy or-"
"Hey! I'm not edgy!" Yelled Fonce.
"Of course not." Said Eddy.
"I'm about to give you guys a Ed-ucation in battle." Said Azule as she smiled.
"Oh, for the love of..." Said Eddy as he put his hand over his face and the girl started giggling.
"Good luck to you guys too!" Said Ed as the Colosseum chooses four fields to rise up from below in quarter sections: Behind Ed and Eddy a magma field and an abandoned city arose. And behind Froce and Azule an anti-gravity environment with floating metal panels that Penny's team fought in before and a mountain environment next to that. Ed pulled out his Mighty Flipper as Eddy pulled out his Swordfish while Froce pulled out his Moon's Blade and Azule readied her Blazing Twins.
"Three, two, one, BEGIN!" Announced Port as the two charged as one another. Ed charged into Azule as he flung his Mighty Flipper around but Azule managed to be fast enough to dodge each and every blow before she managed to hit Ed a few times with her nunchucks causing Ed to stumble back. Azule one again tried to charge at Ed but Ed just smiled as he grabbed the charging huntress in training and tossed her into the anti-gravity patch where she landed on one of the platforms as Ed leaped from his original spot to the same platform where Azule landed on as the girl picked herself back up and once again collided with Ed.
All the while Eddy was colliding his Swordfish with Fonce's Moon's Blade as sparks flew from the collision of the sharp pieces of steel. Fonce managed to be even more agile then his teammate as he was quickly and effortlessly dodging all of Eddy's blows as he was hopping around Eddy and getting a few hits on him. But Eddy started to fight back as he got two hits on Fonce with his blade and knocked him down to the ground. But before Eddy could make his final blow, Fonce smirked as he activated the green dust in his weapon as he blew Eddy away into the abandoned city patch. Eddy landed and tumbled as he tried to then pick himself up as he made a full landing in the city.
"Ouch, that's gotta hurt." Commented Yang.
As Eddy stood up and looked around at his surroundings he saw Fonce fly from the sky and land in front of him like the wind carried him there. As Fonce stood there smiling and Eddy stood there with a face of determination, both activated their individual Dusts in their possessions. Fonce loading his weapon up once again with his favorate type of Dust, green. And Eddy loaded his up with Earth Dust flipping his fish head back and into it's gun mode. Instantly both started to run and take cover as they started to have a fire fight. Eddy kept running around fallen city structures as he kept moving and took cover multiple times while shooting sharp shards of rock at Fonce. Although Fonce fought much differently, smiling confidently and acting calm though the whole fight while dodging each attack. Allowing the wind from the Dust in his weapon to do all the work for him as he was running and jumping off structures as Eddy kept blindingly attacking. But Fonce wasn't just dodging, he was blasting powerful gusts of air at Eddy while either slicing through the other projectiles with his sword or blowing the projectiles back at him.
All the while Eddy was still dodging until he ran behind a structure to take cover. He took several pants of air before he thought up a new idea, he quickly pulled out white Dust as he flipped his Swordfish back into it's melee mode as he loaded up the ice dust and the nose of the Swordfish began to glow white and get covered in frost. Eddy smirked as he quickly jumped out from behind the structure and created a wall of ice to protect himself against his opponents attacks. Eddy then as fast as he could jumped back into the open as he plunged his blade into the Earth as a trail of ice on the ground dashed over to Fonce as it froze his feet to the ground. Eddy smirked as he said.
"I got you now!" Weiss giggled in the stands as Eddy charge forward with his Swordfish in front of him ready to plunge it into his opponent. As he made it he closed his eyes as he stopped, thinking he got his opponent. But as he looked up with a smile on his face he saw that the blade passed through his opponent.
"Ahh! And is seems like Mister Crawford has activated his Semblance! His Smoke Form!" Announced Oobleck.
As Eddy looked up he saw that his opponent was transformed into a human shaped cloud of black smoke. Fonce smiled as he said.
"You got me? If you really got me then answer me this, how are you going to catch smoke?" Asked Fonce as he slipped through the ice that was on his feet and using his sword slashed Eddy sending him through a few fallen city structures.
Back with Ed and Azule, the both of them were jumping from platform to platform as Ed unintentionally managed to knock some of the platforms aside with the swinging of his weapon. All the while Azule was jumping from platform to platform as she turned her Blazing Twins into their pistol forms as she started to shoot at Ed who was on a higher platform. Ed had many talents but being agile was not one of them as each bullet managed to hit Ed as he tumbled to lower platforms. Ed finally tumbled down to the ground as Azule followed with her pistols out. But before Ed picked himself back up, Azule quickly loaded up blue Dust as she started to fire at Ed, which each projectile being a high pressured flying blast of water which was strong enough to shatter rock. Ed quickly got back up as he tried to block against the projectiles as best as he could with his Mighty Flipper. But, a few shots managed to slip by as they hit Ed in the chest and face a few times, making him stumble back a little.
Azule smiled as she dashed up to Ed with her weapons back in their nunchuck form as she started bashing Ed with them. She got in a few good hits before Ed got his act together and hit Azule three times with his Flipper with the last time sending her back a few feet. Ed stood there as he started to very slowly walk over to her. As Azule was picking herself up she looked over and saw Ed walking over to her.
"Prepare to taste defeat!" Yelled Ed as he walked closer.
Azule thought quick as she pulled out her Blazing Twins with blue Dust still in them as she smashed them into the ground. As Ed made his way over to her, he looked up as him and smiled as she quipped.
"Surfs up." As Ed suddenly felt a rumbling under his feet as a powerful Jetstream of water came out of the ground and forced Ed into the air as on his way up smashed through several platforms before he was being sent so high that he hit the top of the forcefeild as the crowd cringed.
"Ouch!" Said Ruby as Ed was taken by gravity as he started to fall straight down into the magma field, crashing into it with several mini volcanos going off and the ground shattering with a huge shockwave created by the collision.
"I don't believe it! It seems that Ed is out of the game!" Announced Oobleck as the crowd cheered and Ed's friends started to look over at the magma field with worry. Especially Yang. Azule looked over as she was a bit in shock by her own victory against the Lump. She honestly thought that he'd put up a much better of a fight.
As Eddy was fighting with Fonce in his smoke form he looked over at where Ed landed. "What the- Ed!?" But Eddy wasn't paying attention as Fonce came back in and managed to get several more hits on Eddy before he grabbed ahold of Eddy and flew Eddy up to the top of the arena at frightingly fast speeds. Eddy knew he was out of his element in the air. Eddy tried to think of the best way to defeat Fonce.
'Come on Eddy THINK! Sockhead keeps babbling all of that science mumbo jumbo... Think Eddy! Think!' Yelled Eddy in his head as a few 'thoughts' of what Double D said came into his mind.
'Remember, licking doorknobs is illegal on other planets.'
'No not THAT one!'
'It was his hat Eddy! He was number ONE!'
'No! No! No! Com'on Eddy THINK!'
'Whenever sand is superheated and cools down at a fast pace it can form glass!'
"BINGO!" Said Eddy out loud as he quickly loaded up his Swordfish up with a mix of Earth Dust and Wind as he aimed it at Fonce. Before Eddy's opponent could even react he shot him and with the combination of Dusts managed to create an artificial miniature sand storm swirling around Fonce as he dropped Eddy and both of them started to fall back down to the ground. As they were falling Eddy quickly changed his Dust to fire as he took aim and fired a firey blast at the sand storm his opponent, after a few quick seconds, his opponent was transformed into glass. Eddy watched smiling as Fonce who was encased in glass started falling back into the earth. But Eddy now had a problem as well, he had no way to save himself as he was going to fall on top of the mountain patch.
"Come on Eddy! Think!" Said Weiss as by the miracle of luck, Eddy thought up an idea as he took in a deep breath of air, and let out a sonic scream that was aimed at the ground, causing the members of the audience to cover their ears in pain while Eddy's fall started to loose momentum. As he crashed into the mountain, he still crashed into the mountain, but the blow of it was much less worse then it could've been. As Eddy picked himself up, he dizzily said.
"Opps hehe... Wrong floor..."
Meanwhile, as Aluze was slowly walking over to the magma field to see if Ed was really beaten, she felt a tremor in the ground. Then another tremor surge. An then another until the ground started shaking uncontrollably until a section of the magma field exploded with lava and soot flying into the air and back on to the ground. Aluze walked a little closer as she waved her hand to get rid of the soot in the air to breath properly and get a better view. But, Aluze's eyes opened up wide as a large figure stumbled towards her. As it walked through the smoke it was revealed to be Ed-Zilla who stood around 15 feet tall. Yang smirked in the seats as she said.
"Oh... She's in for it now." As Ed-Zilla let out a mighty roar as Aluze looked up at Ed-Zilla with her eyes the size of dinner plates. Until she, shook her head and pulled out her weapons yet again.
"Oh! It seems that Ed is still in the game ladies and gentlemen! And it seems that one of Beacon's strongest students has finally activated his Semblance!" Announced Port as the crowd once again went wild.
"THAT'S his SEMBLENCE!?" Asked Aluze in shock as she quickly shook her head, turned her nunchucks back into pistols and started firing them at Ed. But they had as much effect on him as trying to break through a brick wall with a nerf gun. All she could do was jump out of the way while Ed-Zilla stomped his way through the battle field. Aluze kept running as she looked back behind her and fired her weapons once again in the hopes that they would do SOMETHING. All the while KRJ stared on in surprise.
"Half-Wit Ed boy has transformed into the BEAST AGAIN!?" Asked Rolf terrified.
"Right on! What a cool Semblance! Huh, buddy?" Asked Jonny.
"The dorks are twisted I swear..." Said Kevin.
Aluze was still running from Ed-Zilla as she made her way into the abandoned city patch as she hid behind fallen pieces of buildings and popped back out to fire at Ed-Zilla. Ed-Zilla simply roared and slammed his tentacles down smashing to pieces anything that gets in his way. But Aluze would eventually get tired as she stopped to catch her breath, as she looked back at Ed-Zilla he brought down one of his tendrils and almost hit her. But she jumped out of the way and at the speed of sound ran up the limb and started getting close to Ed-Zilla with her weapons in their pistol form as she started firing it around Ed-Zilla. But Ed-Zilla simply roared as he managed to grab the girl with one of his tentacles and toss her into the anti-gravity patch. Where she flew through several platforms until she hit one and fell on her face.
Back with Eddy, he managed to make it back down the hill as he tried to find where Fonce crash landed. As he looked around he ran over to the center as he found shattered glass remains. That meant...
"SUPRISE!" Eddy turned around to see Fonce still in his smoke form charge at Eddy and bring him into the magma field. As Eddy picked himself back up, he looked over at his opponent as he said.
"You can't stay in that form forever!" Yelled Eddy.
"Actually... I can stay in this form as long as I want. There's no time limit." Said Fonce as he started to walk forward. Eddy got an annoyed look as he looked down and saw the agitated gizer underneath Fonce's feet as he was walking, Eddy smiled as he quickly dashed over to Fonce. With Fonce still being in his smoke form, Eddy managed to pass right through him as he slashed at the gizer and jump on the other side. Fonce just turned to him with a confused look as he asked.
"What was that about?" Asked Fonce as Eddy just smiled and pointed below Fonce. Fonce's eyes shot open as he looked at the lava gizer below him that was about to burst.
"Ahh heck..."
(BOOM!)
There was a loud deafening ring in Fonce's ears as he stumbled back and tried to get his sight back from the hot blinding light he just witnessed. Losing his smoke form from the massive blast. As he looked around with his vision returning, the first thing he saw was Eddy who ran up to him and strike him with his Swordfish so hard that it caused Fonce to fly out and land in the center of the ring unconscious.
"And, like that Fonce Crawford of Team FADE has been beaten!" Announced Oobleck as Aluze turned her head from fighting Ed-Zilla as she looked at the holographic screen as she yelled.
"What?!" But as she turned back to the fight at hand she was met with Ed-Zilla's limb as it rocketed in and sent Aluze flying into the center of the ring as well next to her partner.
"Followed by Azule Chalmers with a major knockout from Ed!" Announced Oobleck as Ed and Eddy walked back to the center with Ed-Zilla turning back into his usual form.
"The winner of this battle is EEE!" Announced Port as the crowd went wild along with Ed and Eddy's friends as Ed and Eddy start to celebrate.
"See Ed? When we use our skills, powers, weapons, and stuff... We can win and do whatever we want!" Said Eddy play punching Ed.
"Like fly?" Asked Ed as he jumped in the air flapping his arms, but fell on top of Eddy.
"Hey guys." Ed and Eddy look up to see their opponents of Team FADE standing there as Ed and Eddy picked themselves back up.
"Look we just wanna say... Good fighting out there. We saw that news story about how you and your friends tried to stop that psycho in the metal suit and helped fend off that Grimm attack." Said Fonce smiling.
"Well uhh... Gee thanks." Said Eddy.
"You guys really proved yourselves. If you ever need Team FADE's help with saving people again, just give us a call." Said Aluze smiling as Ed and Eddy nodded at them smiling, happy to see like Yang and Weiss, they ended up with good losers.
"Good to see the dorks are moving up in the tournament." Said Kevin as Blake looked over at him annoyed and said.
"Do you even know what that word means?" Kevin just paused to think about it as Blake leaned over to him and whispered the more... Inappropriate meaning into Kevin's ear as he flushed red. Blake smiled as Double D tapped her shoulder and said.
"Umm... Blake, you do know he didn't mean it in THAT WAY right?"
"Oh, I know. I just kinda like to mess with people a little in that way." Said Blake smiling as Double D smiled as well.
"I wonder which one of them is gonna be in the finals round." Said Ruby.
"Probably Ed, I mean he could probably win against all the other competitors with his hands tied behind his back." Said Yang.
"Honestly, your probably right Yang. Eddy's a good fighter but, even I have to admit that Eddy makes Ed do all the heavy lifting." Said Weiss.
"Yeah, they may even win the tournament if their super lucky." Said Ruby.
"Maybe. But after that's done and I meet up with Ed again, he'll win ANOTHER type of tournament..." Said Yang with a suggestive smile.
"YANG! STOP THAT!" Yelled Ruby blushing.
"Maybe I'll do the same with Eddy..." Said Weiss very quietly as she blushed.
"WHAT!?" Asked Ruby turning to her.
"I umm- I mean I'll beat Eddy up if he does something stupid again!" Yelled Weiss as all the while a large raven with purple eyes were staring down at the ending fight. With a malevolent figure watching though the raven's eyes.
"The Ed's have won the Doubles Round?... Good. Everything is going according to plan... Hahahahaha... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Cinder's Dorm: Later that Night...
Later on that evening in a certain Beacon dorm room, Cinder is sitting on her bed looking through files on her Scroll. Emerald is lying on the floor also playing with her own device, and Mercury is doing push-ups beside her.
"Oh." Said Cinder to her pleasant surprise as she was looking through the Scroll.
"What?" Asked Emerald as she and Mercury looked over at their leader.
"Oh nothing. We're just going to be making a slight, hmm... alternation in the plan." Said Cinder as she access a document regarding the blueprints of "P.E.N.N.Y."
"What's that mean?" Asked Mercury as she exchanged concerned looks with Emerald.
"It means that this will be even easier than we thought." Said Cinder while continuing to look at the familiar image of a robotic redhead.
Ozpin's Office: Sun Rise the next day...
Within the headmaster's office at twilight, Professor Ozpin is facing the window, his back to the elevators when the doors open and Qrow steps inside, approaching his desk with coffee mug in hand.
"You know, he's making you look like a fool." Said Qrow.
"His heart is in the right place. He's just... misguided." Said Ozpin.
"Sometimes, I'm not even sure he has a heart." Said Qrow takes a drink from his cup and shifts his weight before asking. "So, have you chosen your guardian yet?"
Ozpin swirled his chair around to face Qrow. "Maidens choose themselves. I simply believe I've found the right candidate. Ever since the day I met her, I had the feeling she would be the one. She's strong, intelligent, caring... but most importantly, she's ready."
As he lists these qualities off, Pyrrha is seen entering the elevator of the Cross Continental Transmit System tower. She turns just when the doors close on her ominous smile.
A/N: The OC Team FADE belongs to CollinGames.