New Challengers.
Team JNPR were readying themselves against their opponents, Team BRNZ, in the Amity Colosseum, the mountains to their back and forest on the other side. A large holographic screen counts down with Peter Port over the crowd's cheering.
"3... 2... 1... BEGIN!".
All four members of JNPR charge forward, but only three fighters from BRNZ do the same; the beanie-wearing May Zedong turns around and heads into the trees, cocking her weapon. In the center of the field, leader Brawnz Ni delivers a knee kick to Pyrrha Nikos' shield that sends her skidding back, right before she blocks the claws on his fists with her xiphos. She jerks her sword away and makes him leap back, just as the sniper jumps up into the branches of the forest with the bladed butt of her sniper rifle. Lie Ren readies his StormFlower to attack Nolan Porfirio, who almost gets blindsided by Nora Valkyries swing with Magnhild before he ducks under the attack and attempts to hit her with his cattle prod. The sniper girl finally takes aim from her spot and manages to fire off two rounds near Ren, destroying the rocks behind him. Jaune manages to block the buzzsaw gloves of Roy Stallion with his own shield before he notices the bullets flying and sees the glint of the gun in the leaves.
Jaune got wide-eyed and stumbling over his order "R-R-Retreat!".
Ren glances back at his leader as a shot hits the ground by his feet. He and Nora start running back into the mountains as Jaune and Pyrrha cover their escape by blocking the bullets with their shields. The four leap over a rocky outcropping for cover.
"What do we do?" Pyrrha asked Jaune as projectiles keep coming overhead.
Jaune looked over the edge to see the melee fighters closing in "Spread out! Try to keep moving!" He ordered as his team follows this just as Brawnz lands a punch on Jaune's shield.
May gets even higher in the tree and smiles from behind her scope as she looks at the fight below. Brawnz and Pyrrha continue to duke it out while Nolan slowly advances on Ren when he slides into his path. The prod-wielding warrior looks back at the trees and nods to his hidden ally, who shoots at Ren's feet again and makes him jump around trying to dodge them. Just as he lands, Nolan hits him upside the head with his weapon, and is able to miss the retaliatory kick with another blow to the knee and a final hit to the chest using the business end of his prod. Electricity shoots through Ren's body before he collapses to the ground beside his childhood friend.
Scowling, Nora takes a swing at Nolan, who promptly dodges it and again unleashes his weapon's power into her corset, though this causes a quite different reaction from the grinning redhead.
"Oh-ho! Looks like one of my favorite students, Nora Valkyrie, is charging up to use her Semblance!" Port spoke from his spot on the giant hologram screen.
Nolan looked up at the screen with a panicked face "What?".
"Yes, Ms. Valkyrie's Semblance lets her produce, as well as channel, electrical energy straight to her muscles! This allows her to jump explosively into the air, wield her mighty hammer, or in this case, absorb Nolan's attacks and send the young man flying!" Oobleck explained.
Nolan turned back to Nora "What?!".
Nolan finally takes his cattle prod away, but the damage is done: Nora flexes her arms as pink lightning is seen coursing through her body. Nolan attempts to lift his hands up in surrender, but thunder starts sparking from Nora's Aura as she rushes at him. There's a split-second where Nolan's horrified face and Nora's victorious smile are seen hammer hits head-on and Nolan bounces back across the field, crashing through a rock.
Jaune looks back at the mountaintop on his team's side as a dark storm cloud appears over it, cackling with lightning. He looks over at his energized teammate.
"Nora! Get to the mountain!" He ordered.
Nora salutes "You got it!" Then she sprints off to start her climb.
Jaune turns to Ren "Ren! Try and distract the sniper!".
As another shot nearly misses his head, Reb slouches, while sarcastically replying "Sure... Why not".
The remaining three members of JNPR run forward as Nora hops up and rapidly ascends the mountain. Roy throws the saws from his gloves into Jaune's shield, which still manages to bend the metal and slam the leader's own defense in his face before the weapons return back to their master. Pyrrha gets up close to him, and he delivers a series of spinning swings with his arms into Akoúo̱ as Jaune shakes off his disorientation and charges into battle yet again.
"Yeah! Go get 'em, Jaune!" Ruby cheered from her seat.
"Well, he's certainly improved" Weiss pointed out.
"Yeah, but he ain't got nothing on Pyrrha!" Yang stated.
Laura had to admit that Jaune really has improved a lot. Then again he did receive training from one of the best students in the school, so it makes sense.
Back in the fight, Yang's statement is proven true with Pyrrha taking on both Brawnz and Roy, delivering a kick to one as she deftly dodges and blocks the discs of the other, throwing her javelin to distract the latter while she somersaults back to use both feet in landing a blow on Brawnz. May attempts to shoot Ren while he dashes his way toward her position, leaping out of the way of her shots, the flying saws, and even sliding under Pyrrha before he runs at Nolan, weapons blasting until he's close enough to start swinging his blades away. He ducks and deflects each of the cattle prod's attempted hits until he manages to hold it in the pistol's blades and double kicks his opponent, giving him the opportunity to catch Nolan's weapon in his own as the prod is forced behind Nolan's head and leaves him trapped. Ren hides behind the teammate of the sniper, who stops aiming at him and lifts her barrel up to another target.
Ren keeps the struggling Nolan in place as he shouts "Nora!".
Jaune catches Brawnz's claws with his blade while Nora lifts herself higher and higher to the top "Pyrrha! Up!" He shouts.
His partner rushes towards him, dodge rolling to avoid a launched saw until she bounds over Brawnz and lands on Jaune's shield. He manages to throw her into the air with her own shield raised to block the kill-shot aimed at Nora. This gives the redhead just enough time reach the peak, and she lifts her hammer up as a bolt of lightning hits the weapon directly. She changes it back into grenade-launching form and pops the front off to reveal six explosives that shoot out over the field in a heart-shaped formation onto the sniper. The poor girl barely has time to gawk before she leaps over to a nearby tree just as the one she was in goes up in pink flames, leaving only a giant scorch mark billowing smoke to block out the coughing sniper's view. She jumps down from the branches just as her three teammates look up and behind them at Nora coming down on them like a meteor, slamming her hammer into the ground and sending the enemies back at the feet of their disoriented teammate.
"This is it, guys! Let's finish 'em with team attacks!" Jaune said, then he raises his sword as he calls out Ren! Nora! Flower Power!".
"Wait, what?" Nora asked confused.
Jaune lowered his blade as he looks back at his befuddled team "F-Flower Power. That's your team attack name!".
"Since when?" Ren asked.
They got in to a team meeting, seemingly having forgotten all about the match.
Brawnz grew impatient and finally called out to them "Hey!" Team JNPR looks back with a collective 'Huh?' "What do you think you're doing!?".
"Trying to have a team meeting, thank you very little!" Jaune said as if it's extremely obvious.
"Yeah! Team ears only!" Nora said as she points to her own ears to demonstrate.
Brawnz looks at his shrugging teammates before he yells "WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF A FIGHT!".
Jaune turns back and screams even louder "AND WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF A CONVERSATION! WHAT DON'T YOU GET ABOUT THAT!?".
Laura facepalms. Jaune's skills may have improved, but his brain, not so much.
'Idiot' She thought.
"Um, Jaune?" Pyrrha said.
"Yes, Pyrrha?" Jaune replied annoyed.
"I think that he means that we're all in the middle of a fight" She pointed out.
The sound of the crowds around them come back in full volume as Jaune remembers the real situation.
Jaune puts his sword up to his forehead in exasperation "Nora, just... hit them with the hammer".
Nora gives one more evil smirk "Got it".
Before anyone can react, Nora jumps over in front of Team BRNZ, then brings her hammer around to collide with all four screaming fighters as they soar straight into the forcefield surrounding the arena's rim, sliding down to the ground with arms and legs in bent positions they really shouldn't be.
"And with that, it appears Team JNPR wins by knockout, literally! ...Can someone go make sure they're okay?" Port said.
"Jaune may have improved. But he still got a lot to learn" Laura said.
"Agreed!" The rest of her team said.
The next match was about to begin and it was between Team SSSN and a girl team called Team NDGO.
"Good luck, Neptune!" Weiss called out sweetly.
Neptune is waving until he spots his four beautiful opponents, which causes him to develop a confident attitude as he addresses them "Ladies".
Weiss was shocked by this simple word and began shaking with rage until she angrily gets up and points into the arena "Break his stupid face, NDGO!".
Laura could not help but to smirk at that. She had a feeling Neptune was going pay for that latter.
The arena began forming. One half became a desert while the other half became an ocean.
"Uhh, what's wrong with Neptune?" Ruby asked noticing said boy's horrified face.
"Oh, no" Balke said with her face is in her hand, unable to look as the sandy beach and pirate ship wreck rises into the arena while Neptune stiffens
"What?" Laura asked.
"Neptune's ... afraid of the water" Blake answered.
Laura rasied an eyebrow, that was some irony since in her world Neptune is the name of a sea god.
"3, 2, 1, BEGIN!"
As soon as the word 'Begin' is said, Neptune zooms through the enemy team and skids up the mountain behind them.
"Neptune, what are you doing!?" Sage called after him.
Neptune was now standing on a ledge near the top of the formation, yelling down to his friends "Uh, you know, just gaining the higher ground!".
"On the enemy's side!?" Sun asked in a 'are you serious?' tone.
"They would never expect it!" Neptune claimed.
"He's not wrong" Dew said.
Nebula calls out her first order "Open fire!".
Team NDGO goes forward into their turf as Team SSSN follows them, Sage with his sword raised and Scarlet having ditched his coat. He comes up on Octavia Ember emerging out from a nearby arch and tries to slice her with his cutlass. She ducks under the swing and continues sliding away, past the middle of Dew and Sage getting ready to rumble. Sage hefts his giant blade overhead, only to get knocked back by Dew's spear. He glances up in time to see the blonde wave her weapon over the sand to create three small twisters that kick up dust in Sage's face. He looks around as they surround him, but doesn't realize the danger until they coalesce into one big tornado that picks him up off the ground. With his weapon torn out of his grip and screaming in panic, he's totally helpless as the winds throw him and his blade out of the arena.
Sage slams the ground with fists upon seeing his image now crossed out on the holographic board.
Laura felt bad for him. Being the first one out so quickly in to the fight must be embarrassing.
Octavia slides in front of Sun and Scarlet, who ready themselves to fight her just as she spins her sword around and produces a wave of flame that kicks up dust in their faces. Sun manages to jump out of the cloud just in time to call for his replacement in fighting the redhead.
"Neptune!" Sun called out.
Seeing his leader run from the duel, Neptune leaps down from his position and cocks his gun. Octavia attempts to use another fire attack to blind Neptune, but he simply puts on his goggles and fires a bolt as his opponent, who blocks it with her blade right before seeing Sun leap out of nowhere to deliver a neck-snapping kick to her face. Now furious, Octavia brings her blade onto Sun's Ruyi Bang and Jingu Bang in its staff form as he spins it all around his body while hitting several parts of hers. He ends it with a jab that knocks Octavia on her back in the sand.
"Oh! And we're down to 3-on-3!" Port said.
Sun looks at Neptune fighting with Gwen Darcy as she circles him with her flying knives and Scarlet attempting to go weapon-to-weapon with Dew. She merely calls upon another sandy cyclone to lift Scarlet up, and he revolves around the spiral until it launches him over the shipwreck. It seems like he's about to be eliminated at well, but he extends his arms and manages to dive onto a part of the mast, almost losing his balance once the pole's under his feet. He eventually finds his balance right when Nebula closes in and launches an arrow with her crossbow at the mast, using it to jump right up to where Scarlet is. She folds up the sides of her weapon into a blade to cross swords with her opponent, the both of them ducking and missing or getting hit by the hilts until Nebula slams her metal over Scarlet's and forces him to lean back on the post. Luckily, he manages to get his sword back out from the trap and feign a swing at Nebula's feet before knocking into her with his elbow, causing the NDGO leader to fall into the sand below.
From his position, Scarlet sees Gwen continue to throw her knives, and he smirks before whipping out his pistol and shooting the hilt guard as a grappling hook to get her by the ankle.
"Gotcha!" He said.
He uses the cord to lift Gwen into the air while he slowly comes down to the ground, only to land directly beneath her as she attempts to protect her modesty while knives start raining down from her dress. Scarlet quickly adopts a pose that somehow allows him to miss every single blade that comes crashing down into the sand at his feet, which he gives a sigh of relief to. His luck doesn't hold when Dew leaps near Sun, causing the monkey Faunus to find his new improvised weapons in the form of two coconuts he knocks out the palm tree beside him, which he throws at his opponent only to get them knocked right back at him, now spontaneously catching fire as they travels. Sun narrowly misses them both, but Scarlet gets one straight to the face, and the other lands in a place that makes him squeal in unimaginable pain while dropping his Aura levels into elimination.
"Ooh! Right in the jewels" Laura said "There are moments like these that makes me happy that I'm a girl".
Yang smiles at her "And a hot girl at that!"
Laura blushed and looked away.
"NEPTUNE!" Sun screamed in frustration.
"Okay, fine! Just get out of the water!" Neptune said as he jumps over to a spot near the coastal line next to Sun.
He unfolds his weapon into its trident form before tip-toeing forwards and, eyes closed, plunges the sparking prongs into the water. The energy surges through the deep until the remaining members of NDGO are electrocuted and kneel in the water, smoking and defeated with the sound of the buzzer.
"And with that, Team SSSN moves on to the doubles round! You know what I call that victory?" Port asked Oobleck.
"Shocking?" He guessed.
"No, well earned. What you said is stupid" Port said.
Oobleck turns away, frowning.
Ruby leans back in her seat and sighs "Aw, that was so close!"
"Looks like the dorks made it to the next round!" Yang said.
Blake looks down in the arena where Sun and Neptune are dancing like fools before the fellow Faunus gives her a special double-gun gesture, eliciting a blush from his target "Emphasis on 'dork'".
"Well I am dating the biggest dork" Laura said and smirked when Yang let out a 'Hey'.
"That concludes the matches for today. Please leave the Coliseum IN A CALM AND ORDERLY FASHION!" Oobleck called out making Team RWBLY flinch.
"Come on, let's go congratulate 'em" Yang said.
The five girls get up from their seats and start to head out just as the same ribbon-adorned craft passes over the Colosseum, causing Weiss to stop in her tracks and Ruby to bounce into her.
"Uh, what are you viewing?" She asked
Weiss was looking up at the craft with a strange expression and strain in her voice "She's here!".
The Schnee heiress' face displays a mix of joy and anxiety.
"Who?" Laura asked her teammate.
"My older sister. Winter!" Weiss answered.
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Yeah I couldn't really think of anything that Laura could do other than react to the matches.
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Tell me what you think.