A Powerful music.
It was time for the next day of the two on two matches. Genji and Fareeha were up. They did not know who they would be fighting just yet, but they would find out soon. Before they entered the arena, Hana showed up.
"Genji wait!" Genji stopped and looked at her as she continued "I just... wanted to wish you luck on your match".
"Thank you..." Genji said, after a moment of silence her sighed "Hana. I am sorry about yesterday, I was being overprotective".
Hana smiled and nodded "I am sorry too. I was being a brat. You have done so much for me, it's only fair that I should put up with your protective nature".
Genji smiled back and rubbed her head "That's what family is for Hana. Now I need to get to the match".
"Don't you dare lose, or I will give you hell!" Hana said with a smirk.
"Trust me. I will not lose today" Genji said as he and Fareeha entered the arena.
When they got there they saw their opponents where going to be Lúcio and a very large woman with short pink hair.
"Well well well. If it aint two of my favorite spunks. This will be a fun match" Lúcio said before pointing at the woman next to him "Meet my brawny teammate Aleksandra Zaryanova".
Aleksandra smirked "I hope you will not take it personaly when we bust your heads".
"Do you doupt our skills? That would be unwise" Genji said as he took out his blade.
Fareeha readied her rocket launcher "Justice can't be stopped so easy".
Lúcio and Aleksandra looked at eachother and nodded. They all got ready as the arena changed in to a replica of a city and Port spoke "3. 2. 1. Begin!".
Lúcio held up his strange looking weapon and fired a green sound wave. Genji jumped to avoid it, while Fareeha blocked it. But Lúcio used his energy powerd roller skates to jump in to the air next to Genji.
"Hip hop and away you go!" Lúcio said as he used his weapon to blast Genji away to another part of the arena.
Aleksandra smirked as she took her weapon and ran towards the area where Genji landed. Fareeha was about to stop her until Lúcio showed up infront of her with a smile on his face as he did some dance moves.
"Not so fast my grumpy gal. Time for us to shake our stuff to the dance floor" He said.
Fareeha aimed at him "I warn you. This is not a music consert".
"Everything is a concert girl. Just need to know how to move to the rhythms. Let me show ya!" Lúcio said as he took off in insane speed and began to move in circles around Fareeha who struggled to keep up.
Meanwhile Genji had landed after his sudden flight and saw Aleksandra standing on one of the fake buldings roof "Ok comrade. Let's have some fun".
Aleksandra jumps down. Forcing Genji to roll out to the way. Aleksandra uses weapon and swings it at Genji, but Genji blocks the attacks although the pink haired woman kicks him away. She then attacks Genji's head, but he blocks it and swings his blade. Aleksandra counters and headbutts Genji, making him back away. She then tries to hit Genji but he dodges it. Both fighters charge at each other. Aleksandra tries to hit Genji with her weapon but he blocks it and strikes at her multiple times, only for his attacks to be blocked. Genji spins around knocking the weapon away with an air kick. Aleksandra looks at her fallen weapon, but instead of picking it up, she growls and punches her fists together and walks towards Genji as she tries to punch him many times but Genji dodges them as he strikes Aleksandra and kicks her down.
The pin haired girl growls and punches the ground to get up and walks towards her wepon to pick it up. As she picks up the weapon, Genji punches her and starts to run up the walls, Aleksandra tries to shoot at him with a powerful beam from her weapon. Genji runs as fast as he can to avoid a direct hit. But a blast makes him fall to the ground, dropping his sword as he did.
Genji got up only to see Aleksandra put her weapon on her back and cracked her knuckles. Genji got in to a fighting stance. They enter hand-to-hand combat Genji blocks Aleksandra's punch and starting to punch her multiple times in the chest and delivers a strong punch to her jaw. But she blocked Genji's last punch and punched him in the the face and then into the crotch. Genji reals back from the pain and does his best to block the incoming punch. But Aleksandra punches him and rolls over his back back and kicks him in to the ground. Aleksandra then stands and walks towards fallen Genji he tries to pick up his sword but the girl just grabs his leg and smashes him down but Genji kicks her in the face, gets up and walks towards her as he kicks and knees her but Aleksandra punches Genji as she does a power punch, knocking him away.
Genji grunts as he takes out his dragon blade. But just as he does that. Aleksandra takes her cannon out and shoots the devestating beam. Genji blocked it with his blade, but the force was enough to send him clean through a wall, making him groan in pain.
Back with Fareeha and Lúcio. Fareeha was still having a hard time hitting him as he was speeding all over the place, making him impossible to pin down. Fareeha growled and used her semblance, hoping to off balance him. But He quickly hit her with a soundwave, making her shout as her focus was broken.
"I've seen your tricks before girl. I bet they work of concentration. But unless you are pro musician like me, concentrating while having loud noises blare in your ears is not easy" Lúcio said as he kept hitting Fareeha with sound waves.
Fareeha shot in random directions, but not a single shot hit their target. Lúcio hit her with another sound wave. With Fareeha dazed, Lúcio speeds towards her, using an combat glow on his hand, he punched her hard in the face. The punch staggered Fareeha and Lúcio began to speed blitz her several times, until he slides and knocks her of her feet, making her fall on her back.
Fareeha hits the ground with her fist in frustration as she tries to get up. But a blast in the back send her back down. Lúcio keeps his blasting her, until Fareeha shot at him. He dodged the rocket, but Fareeha managed to grabb his shirt and tossed him away. Using his roller skates to grind over a ledge, Lúcio shot a lose part of the wall, before using his weapon to blast the rubble at Fareeha. She blocked it with her arms, but the hail of rubble was enough to force her back and Lúcio speeds at her and punches her hard enough to send her spinning around and fell down, using her hands to stop her face from hitting the ground.
"Do us both a favor and stay down Fareeha. I am to true master rapper here" Lúcio said.
Back with Genji, he was pinned against a wall by Aleksandra. This was not looking good, he could not compete with her raw strength. He looked at the audience and saw Blake looking at him with worried eyes. No! He can't lose infront of her, he would never live it down. Thinking fast he saw Fareeha could not keep up with Lúcio's speed...
That's it! If they were gonna win this. They needed to have Lúcio and Aleksandra fight the battle on their terms. With a plan in mind, Genji wrapped his legs around Aleksandra's arm and threw her into the ground, head first. He then ran back to Fareeha, throwing some shurikens at Lúcio, to force him away from her.
Genji landed next to Fareeha "Fareeha, you ok?".
"Not down yet. I trust you have a plan to deal with these guys?" Fareeha asked.
"I do. We need to switch. Make them fight the battle on our terms" Genji said.
Fareeha smirked "I like it. The pink head is mine!".
With that they switched and Genji went after Lúcio and Fareeha clashed with Aleksandra.
The two girls shot at each other. The explosions from Fareeha's rockets made Aleksandra stagger. Fareeha had ran out of rockets thanks to wasting so much trying to hit Lúcio so she dropped it and charged at Aleksandra, forcing her cannon out of her hands. Aleksandra pushed Fareeha back and they both entered a simple boxing stance. This would be settled in hand to hand.
Aleksandra's punch met with Fareeha's arms and she skidded back slightly, Fareeha was stunned by the sheer force of his opponent's punch but this was no time to hesitate, Fareeha moved her head to the side as Aleksandra tried to punch her. Fareeha then responded by punching her opponent in leg, face and chest before knocking Aleksandra into the air slightly with the Flying Knee attack with Aleksandra then falling back onto the ground.
Aleksandra gets up and tries to punch Fareeha, who dodges the first punch but is smacked in the shoulder by a another knocking her off-balance before being met with a punch to the side of her cheek, as she turned round to face Aleksandra she was hit in the face by another punch and knocked to the ground skidding over the it.
Fareeha rolls sideways when her opponent was trying to stomp on her with one foot but Fareeha was too fast for that and punched Aleksandra in the knee making her buckle and Fareeha begins to stand up and tries to punch her, but Aleksandra was too fast for her and punched Fareeha in the gut twice with Fareeha coughing up a bit of saliva that appears on her lip. Aleksandra smirkes at the sight of it but Fareeha casually wipes it off of her lip. Fareeha then tackles Aleksandra and the two struggle for a period of time with Aleksandra knocking Fareeha to the ground, Fareeha tries to raise her head but Aleksandra begins headbutting her, with Fareeha's head knocking against the ground while Aleksandra continues headbutting her while she slams her fist into Fareeha's gut to try and keep her from moving. Fareeha finally managed to force her of.
Fareeha gets back up, still daced from the beating. Aleksandra was not done and lands some blows before unleashing a very powerful punch that sends Fareeha to the floor.
"What a devastating hit! Looks like Fareeha is down and out!" Oobleck said.
Yang got out of her seat "Get up Fareeha! GET UP!".
Aleksandra was about to go help Lúcio until she stopped and looked in shock as Fareeha was slowly getting back up. No way! After a beating like that!?
Even Oobleck was shocked "I don't belive it! Fareeha is still going".
Fareeha took several breaths before she punched the ground hard. The her golden aura surrounded her as she used her semblance in full force. She stands back up and glared at Aleksandra.
"I am not done with you yet!" Fareeha shouted before charing back in.
Aleksandra tries throwing another punch but Fareeha easily avoiding it. Fareeha's intense speed starts overwhelming her opponent. When Aleksandra tries throwing a punch forward, Fareeha dodges it and punches Aleksandra in the chest so hard it sneds her back. The pink haired woman starts limping backwards in pain, but Fareeha doesn't let her walk it off as she delivers a brutal beatdown to the her opponent, her punches being so fast that they apeered as a blur. Fareeha ends the beatdown with a fully charged uppercut, which sends Aleksandra flying until she lands on her back, knocked out.
Back with Genji who was still fighting Lúcio. Genji tossed several shurikens which were flying all over the area, giving Lúcio next to no room to counter attack. He speeds left and right until he uses his soundwave to clear the area of the dangerous projectiles. But Genji had a trick up his sleeve.
"I can make loud noices too!" Genji said as he took a deep breath and let out a massive dragon roar, which made Lúcio lose his balance. Genji threw two more shurikens, which hit Lúcio's roller skates.
"Oh no!" Lúcio shouted as he crashed, rolling across the ground as Genji appeared in front of him and kicked him in the jaw, sending him in to the air.
Genji jumped after him, wrapped his arms around him then he began spinning so fast they looked like a small tornado and then Genji tossed Lúcio head first into the ground. Genji landed like the ninja he was, while Lúcio was out as a light.
"Amazing! After a spectacular comeback, Genji and Fareeha wins!" Port called out.
Hana, Lena and Team RWBY jumped out of their seats, cheering for their friends victory. Blake smiled, happy to see her boyfriend win the match. Yang promised to make out with Fareeha after she and Weiss are done with their match.
When Genji and Fareeha left the arena. Weiss and Yang entered, but not before Yang and Fareeha shared a good luck kiss. Genji and Fareeha reached the others, and Blake hurried to hug Genji.
"I knew you could do it Genji!" Sha said happily.
Genji smiled "Like I was gonna lose with you watching me. I could never live with that shame".
"Let's see if Weiss and Yang can do the same" Fareeha said as she sat down. The others sat down too and got ready to watch the match berwenYang and Weiss vs a girl named Neon and Lúcio's cousin, Flynt.
Flynt opens up the fight with a massive blast from his trumpet, aiming to push Weiss and Yang back with its soundwaves. Weiss anchors herself in place with a glyph, and Yang throws two punches, attempting to fire Ember Celica, before being hit into the urban biome by Neon. With the Team RWBY pair split up, Flynt ceases his trumpeting, and Weiss stands up to face him.
Flynt begins blowing into his trumpet again, and Weiss uses black glyphs to push against the soundwaves, slowly making her way toward her opponent. Seeing this, Flynt quickly stops trumpeting and watches as the sudden lack of resistance sends Weiss speeding toward him. As she nears him, he turns and kicks her in the back, sending her crashing through a large orange Dust crystal cluster and skidding across the ground in the lava biome.
Meanwhile, Yang's bullets collide with a short wall in the urban biome, followed by Neon skating around the corner of a ruined building. Yang chases after, continuing to fire at her elusive opponent, who grinds across a rail while making a rude face. Neon then hops off the rail, does a handspring off a roof onto another roof, and leaps over another barrage of bullets while chanting "Never miss a beat." After dodging a few bullets, she lands on the edge of a fallen support beam and grinds across it, before skating down another structure. Neon quickly zigzags her way to Yang and begins repeatedly speeding past her opponent, hitting her with her nunchuck each time.
When the assault comes to an end, Yang reloads Ember Celica and turns to face Neon, who bends her nunchuck, activating a light blue glow. Neon charges forward, skates along a vertical wall, and hops off it toward Yang, who gets ready to punch. However, Neon leans sideways, ducking under the punch and taking a swipe at Yang's right leg with her nunchuck. Yang looks down to see her right leg covered in a thick chunk of ice. Neon once again taunts her, and Yang stomps her foot down, shattering the ice. When she looks up again, Neon has disappeared. Surprised, Yang turns around to see Neon heading toward her and gearing up for another attack. Yang instinctively puts her left arm up to block the nunchuck, leading to her arm being covered in ice.
Neon skates past Yang, grinds across a rail, and performs some maneuvers through a pair of arches, stopping once she is far enough away to have a running start. She then charges toward Yang, the expression on her face growing wilder as she accelerates. Once she has gained substantial speed, she leaps, places her feet on Yang's stomach, and kicks off, sending Yang flying backward against a wall, hard enough for the cement to crack. She taunts her opponent yet again, and Yang punches the wall behind her, shattering it and the ice on her arm.
In the lava biome, Weiss summons four vertical glyphs around her and spins around, repeatedly passing Myrtenaster through the glyphs. She then points Myrtenaster at Flynt, and each glyph produces and launches a large, pointed chunk of ice toward him. After noticing some bubbling magma on the ground, Flynt drops to his knees in front of it and blasts his trumpet just as a pillar of lava spews up from the ground. The soundwaves from his trumpet direct the lava toward the ice projectiles, melting them before they can reach him. He then insults Weiss, causing her to take things up a notch.
Weiss spins Myrtenaster's revolver and directs a funnel of wind toward Flynt, who fights back with another blast of his trumpet. While the soundwaves and wind remain at a stalemate, Weiss creates a loose ring of nine vertical glyphs around herself and Flynt, then uses the one behind her to launch herself to another glyph. She begins hopping from glyph to glyph. Each glyph she visits forms an ice projectile and then launches it at Flynt, who is unable to keep up with the attacks coming from all sides. Flynt activates his Semblance, forming three clones of himself. The four of them combine the soundwaves from their trumpets to catch Weiss and throw her across the biome. After checking the scoreboard, Flynt absorbs his clones and begins walking toward Weiss.
In the center of the arena, Neon uses a broken bridge from the urban biome as a ramp while fleeing Yang, who has become red-eyed with anger. Nearby, Flynt steps on Myrtenaster to keep it from a collapsed Weiss, but he is soon distracted by a frustrated shout from Yang. He glances at Weiss, then turns his back to her, activates his Semblance, and gears up to attack Yang. Before he can pull off his sneak attack, Weiss tackles him onto bubbling magma, which soon erupts into a pillar of lava. The lava takes Weiss' Aura down to 0% and Flynt's to 16%.
Now even angrier than before, Yang fires upon Flynt and Neon, who dodge her bullets. Flynt and Neon team up, with Flynt blasting his trumpet toward Yang while Neon engages in close combat. Yang keeps herself from being blown away by shooting behind her and dodges a series of attacks from Neon. Neon dodges Yang's first three punches and causes Yang to abort a fourth punch at the last second. Yang and Neon circle around each other until Yang leaps into the air, escaping Flynt's soundwaves. She fires at her opponents, her shots destroying the floor and sending debris flying.
Flynt uses his soundwaves to boost Neon and help her dodge the flaming bullets, until one of Yang's shots hits the floor near him and causes him to stagger and accidentally send Neon off course. Neon barely manages to dodge two more blasts. The second blast causes a piece of the floor in front of her to slant upwards, forming a ramp that sends her flying into the geyser biome. Yang finally comes back to the ground, charges forward, and fires a series of shots behind her to send herself rocketing into the air toward Flynt, who once again activates his Semblance. Flynt attempts to push Yang away with a combined trumpet blast, but Yang fires behind her to propel herself toward him. Once she gets in close, she claps her hands onto the opening of Flynt's trumpet, bending it shut. With nowhere to go, the soundwaves blast Flynt and lower his Aura enough to take him out of the match.
With Flynt taken down, Yang turns her attention back to Neon, who chants "Never miss a beat" while narrowly avoiding geysers. Neon hits uneven ground and begins to panic as she loses her balance. Then, one of her skates hits a rock, tripping her up and sending her tumbling onto a geyser, which launches her into the air. Yang takes this opportunity to fire a bullet at Neon, who screams and is defeated in a flash of fireworks.
Yang continues to look enraged until she blinks her eyes back to purple and realizes something "Weiss!" She runs back into the fire section and kneels next to her ash-covered teammate "Weiss! Are you okay?".
Weiss gets up and coughs some smoke before weakly responding "I may not be singing for a while".
Yang looks both worried and relieved until she breaks out into a joking smile "You know, I'm not sure that was proper form".
"Oh, ha ha" Weiss said and suffers another coughing fit.
"WHAT!? We lost? We lost? Team FNKI lost?" Neon said "That was... that was..." The 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?".
"That was a gutsy move, Schnee" Flynt said, he pauses for a moment "I dig it".
Yang and Weiss smile at the good losers and see the rest of their team coming to the injured heiress's side.
"Good job, you two!" Blake said
"Yeah!" Ruby added.
Genji and his team smiled. Looks like all of them are going to the finals.
After the matches, Zenyatta was meditating on a rock outside the school until he noticed someone walking up to him "Penny? What can I do for you?".
Penny stopped to think for a moment until she knew what to say "Master Zenyatta. You have done alot for me, helping me lern how to use my swords and helping me with Bastion. You are like my uncle".
"I am happy to hear that Penny. Now what do you need?" Zenyatta asked in a nice tone.
"I want to stay at Beacon" Penny said.
Zenyatta was a little surprised "May I ask why?".
"I have made so many friends here. Don't get me wrong, I love you and Bastion. But Ruby and all her frinds has really helped me feel normal. I don't want to leave them" Penny explained.
Zenyatta thought about Penny's words for a bit, remembering how much Genji lerned from entering Beacon. He put a hand on Penny's shoulder, makig said girl look at him "When the Vital Festival is over. I will personally speak with Ironwood and make sure you can stay here. If it really makes you happy then that's all I care about".
Penny smiled widely and hugged him "Thank you! Thank you so much!".
Zenyatta gently hugged her back, he was more than willing to argue with Ironwood for a bit if it ment that Penny could be happy with her friends. Just like Genji is now.
Later on that evening in a certain Beacon dorm room, Cinder is sitting on her bed looking through files on her Scroll with Satya laying behind her. Emerald is lying on the floor also playing with her own device, and Mercury is doing push-ups beside her.
Cinder eyes widening in surprise, followed by a smile "Oh".
Emerald looks over at her "What?".
Cinder access a document regarding the blueprints of P.E.N.N.Y. "Oh nothing. We're just going to be making a slight, hmm... alternation in the plan".
Satay puts an arm around Cinder's shoulder and leans her head on her "And that means"
Cinder leans in to the touch while continuing to look at the familiar image of a robotic redhead "It means that this will be even easier than we thought".
Satya looked at the screen "So you know the next match?".
Cinder kissed her cheek "And you will get a front row seat".
Satay smiled at that. Being Cinder's girlfriend was not easy. But it was damn rewarding. Satay would do anything for her. No matter what needed to be destroyed...
And no matter who needed to get hurt.
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