A/N: Special thanks to Lucian Naruto and Eclipse Metastar for some ideas and reactions in this story.
"Well, now team JNPR's up next." Cap said.
"Let's see how your daughter does, point break." Tony taunted Thor.
"Stark! You press your luck!" Thor snapped.
"They're opponents are gonna get smashed." Hulk smirked.
"I'm wondering what Cinder had to do with this fight. She mentioned how they knew the outcome already. There must be some reason why." Peter said.
"She's seen what JNPR can do. And they have Pyrrha. It's a safe bet that they'll win." Hawkeye guessed.
"Only one way to find out." Widow said, starting the episode.
We return to the familiar shot of Team JNPR readying themselves against their opponents in the Amity Colosseum, the mountains to their back and forest on the other side. A large holographic screen counted down with Port over the crowd's cheering. "3... 2... 1..." The mustached professor counted down.
"Come on guys!" Jaune rallied his team, raising his sword.
"BEGIN!" Port declared.
"You've got this JNPR!" Spider-Man cheered.
"Show them who's boss!" Hulk shouted.
All four members of JNPR charged forward, but only three fighters from BRNZ did the same; the beanie-wearing May Zedong turned around and headed into the trees, cocking her weapon. In the center of the field, leader Brawnz Ni delivered a knee kick to Pyrrha's shield that sent her skidding back, right before she blocked the claws on his fists with her xiphos. She jerked her sword away and made him leap back, just as the sniper jumped up into the branches of the forest with the bladed butt of her sniper rifle. Ren readied his StormFlower to attack Nolan Porfirio, who almost got blindsided by Nora's swing with Magnhild before he ducked under the attack and attempted to hit her with his cattle prod. The sniper girl finally took aim from her spot and managed to fire off two rounds near Ren, destroying the rocks behind him. Jaune managed to block the buzz saw gloves of Roy Stallion with his own shield before he noticed the bullets flying and saw the glint of the gun in the leaves.
"Snipers. Those were always a pain back in the war." Steve said.
"They still are." Natasha agreed.
Jaune was wide-eyed in horror at the realization of the sniper. "R-R-Retreat!" He cried out fearfully, stumbling over his order.
Ren glanced back at his leader as a shot hit the ground by his feet. He and Nora started running back into the mountains as Jaune and Pyrrha covered their escape by blocking the bullets with their shields. The four leapt over a rocky outcropping for cover.
"What do we do?" Pyrrha asked Jaune as projectiles kept coming overhead.
Jaune looked over the edge to see the melee fighters closing in. "Spread out! Try to keep moving!" He instructed. His team followed this just as Brawnz landed a punch on Jaune's shield.
"He's gotten way better with that shield." Hawkeye said.
"Yeah. He's almost reminding me of our dear old cap here." Tony said.
"I believe Pyrrha's fighting style is closer to Captain America's than Jaune's." Thor interjected.
May got even higher in the tree and smiled from behind her scope as she looked at the fight below. Brawnz and Pyrrha continued to duke it out while Nolan slowly advanced on Ren when he slid into his path. The prod-wielding warrior looked back at the trees and nodded to his hidden ally, who shot at Ren's feet again and made him jump around trying to dodge them. Just as he landed, Nolan hit him upside the head with his weapon and was 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 shot through Ren's body before he collapsed. to the ground beside his childhood friend.
"Ren!" Nora cried out. Scowling, the hammer wielder took a swing at Nolan, who promptly dodged it and again unleashed his weapon's power into her corset, though this caused a quite different reaction from the grinning redhead.
"What the?! It's not working on her?!" Peter said in shock.
"It must be her semblance." Widow realized.
"We never did hear what it is. Looks like they're about to explain." Cap said.
"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 overhead with Doctor Oobleck beside him.
"What?" Nolan asked fearfully, looking up at the screen with a panicked look.
"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!"
"What?!" Nolan asked in shock, turning back to his opponent. Nolan finally took his cattle prod away, but the damage was done: Nora flexed her arms as pink lightning was seen coursing through her body. Nolan attempted to lift his hands up in surrender, but thunder started sparking from Nora's Aura as she rushed at him. There was a split-second where Nolan's horrified face and Nora's victorious smile were seen close-up on the sides of the screens before the hammer hits head-on and Nolan bounced back across the field, crashing through a rock and staying there when he stopped moving.
"Ooh!" Everyone flinched, before turning the the Asgardian. "Well Thor, do we need more proof that she is your daughter?" Tony smirked
"You're testing your luck Stark!" Thor said angrily.
"Let's see, she wields a hammer, eats a lot, is crazy strong, and absorbs electricity." Hulk listed off before Thor dropped Mjiolnir on the giant's hand making him hit the floor.
Jaune looked back at the mountaintop on his team's side as a dark storm cloud appeared over it, crackling with lightning. He looked over at his energized teammate. "Nora! Get to the mountain!" He ordered.
"You got it!" Nora said with a salute, before she sprinted off to start her climb.
"Ren! Try and distract the sniper!" Jaune instructed.
"Sure... Why not." Ren sarcastically replied, slouching a bit as another shot nearly missed his head.
"Oh, man. Decoy duty is NEVER fun." Spider-Man groaned.
"But it's an important job. It helps us find the opening we need to win the day. Just because you're the decoy doesn't mean you're expendable. In that moment, you're the most important person out there." Cap said supportively.
The remaining three members of JNPR ran forward as Nora hopped up and rapidly ascended the mountain. Roy threw the saws from his gloves into Jaune's shield, which still managed to bend the metal and slam the leader's own defense in his face before the weapons returned back to their master. Pyrrha got up close to him and he delivered a series of spinning swings with his arms into Akoúo̱ as Jaune shook off his disorientation and charged into battle yet again.
"Yeah! Go get 'em, Jaune!" Ruby cheered from her seat in the stands with the rest of Team RWBY.
"Well, he's certainly improved." Weiss noted.
"Yeah, but he ain't got nothing on Pyrrha!" Yang declared.
"Got that right. She could probably give Nat a run for her money." Hawkeye said.
"We said it before, any member of either team could probably go be a match for any one of us, probably more than a match. Well, except for Hulk and Thor" Natasha said.
Back in the fight, Yang's statement was proven true with Pyrrha taking on both Brawnz and Roy, delivering a kick to one as she deftly dodged and blocked the discs of the other, throwing her javelin to distract the latter while she somersaulted back to use both feet in landing a blow on Brawnz. May attempted to shoot Ren while he dashed his way toward her position, leaping out of the way of her shots, the flying saws and even sliding under Pyrrha before he ran at Nolan, weapons blasting until he was close enough to start swinging his blades away. He ducked and deflected each of the cattle prod's attempted hits until he managed to hold it in the pistol's blades and double kicked his opponent, giving him the opportunity to catch Nolan's weapon in his own as the prod was forced behind Nolan's head and left him trapped. Ren hid behind the teammate of the sniper, who stopped aiming at him and lifted her barrel up to another target.
"Nora!" Ren called back as he kept the struggling Nolan in place.
Jaune saw the situation as he caught Brawnz's claws with his blade while Nora lifted herself higher and higher to the top. "Pyrrha! Up!" He directed.
His partner rushed towards him, dodge rolling to avoid a launched saw until she bounded over Brawnz and landed on Jaune's shield. He managed to throw her into the air with her own shield raised to block the kill-shot aimed at Nora. This gave the redhead just enough time reach the peak and she lifted her hammer up as a bolt of lightning hit the weapon directly.
Everyone looked to Thor once more after this. "She is not my daughter!" He roared.
"You need to stop being a deadbeat dad." Peter told him, only to flinch as he raised Mjolnir.
She changed it back into grenade-launching form and popped the front off to reveal six explosives that shot out over the field in a heart-shaped formation onto the sniper. The poor girl barely had time to gawk before she leapt over to a nearby tree just as the one she was in went up in pink flames, leaving only a giant scorch mark billowing smoke to block out the coughing sniper's view. She jumped down from the branches just as her three teammates looked 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 declared. "Ren! Nora! Flower Power!" He ordered, raising his sword as he called out.
"Wait, what?" Nora asked, confused.
Jaune lowered his blade as he looked back at his befuddled team. "F-Flower Power." He repeated. But his lost friends shrugged. "That's your team attack name." He explained.
"Now is REALLY not the time to be discussing this." Tony said.
"Right. They should know all this before the fight started. Learn it in and out to use at any given moment." Cap agreed.
"Since when?" Ren asked.
"Guys, we've been over this!" Jaune complained, gesturing at his teammates, not noticing the other team getting up, ready to fight again. "Flower Power is Ren and Nora! Ren brings the flower, Nora brings the power!" He explained with a bit of a growl.
"How do I bring a flower?" Ren asked, rubbing the back of his head with one of his guns.
"No, silly, not a flower! Flour, like in baking!" Nora told him.
"Why would I bring that?" Ren questioned.
Everyone was just laughing at this point.
"I- Uh- No, it's your symbol!" Jaune clarified.
"Sooo, what are we?" Pyrrha asked.
"Pyrrha!" Jaune asked, shocked and betrayed.
"Sorry! I just want to make sure it's clearly defined." Pyrrha explained.
"Dang, even Pyrrha's not all caught up. Jaune must've dropped the ball on this." Clint said.
"My best guess is he only ever mentioned it in passing and they never had a big meeting or training session to lock all this in." Widow said.
"Pyrrha, you and I are Arkos. It's that thing when we take our shields? Remember?" Jaune clarified, trying to be patient while Team BRNZ looked more confused than their opponents.
"'Arkos'?" Pyrrha questioned uncertainly.
"Yeah! It's our names put together!" Jaune explained.
"Right, no, I get it..." Pyrrha said, still sounding uncertain.
"Sounds like a pairing name." Spider-Man said.
"A what?" Hulk asked.
"Like what you'd call them if they were a couple. Like Captain America and Black Widow would be Romanogers." The teen explained, causing the two mentioned Avengers' eyes to shoot open and for them to scoot apart from each other.
"What, do you not like it?" Jaune asked.
"No, no! It's... good?" Pyrrha said, trying not to hurt Jaune's feelings.
"Mmm, I sense hesitation." Nora said.
"Hey!" Brawnz finally called out to them, Team JNPR looking back with a collective "Huh?". "What do you think you're doing!?" He demanded.
"Those guys were being INCREDIBLY generous waiting that long." Clint said.
"It is a warrior's code to permit a team to converse and settle their dispute before continuing a fight." Thor said.
"If only everyone worked on Asgard's logic." Tony said.
"Trying to have a team meeting, thank you very little!" Jaune ranted as if it was extremely obvious.
"Yeah! Team ears only!" Nora snapped, pointing to her own ears to demonstrate.
Brawnz looked at his shrugging teammates before he looked back at his opponents. "WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF A FIGHT!" He yelled back at them.
Jaune turned back to his opponents as well. "AND WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF A CONVERSATION! WHAT DON'T YOU GET ABOUT THAT!?" He screamed back even louder.
Everyone burst out laughing again.
"Um, Jaune?" Pyrrha asked.
"Yes, Pyrrha?" Jaune asked, annoyed.
"I think that he means that we're all in the middle of a fight." Pyrrha reminded him as the sound of the crowds around them came back in full volume as Jaune remembered the real situation.
"Ugh..." Jaune sighed, putting his sword up to his forehead in exasperation. "Nora, just... hit them with the hammer." He instructed.
"YES!" Thor and Hulk cheered together.
Nora gave one more evil smirk. "Got it." She complied.
"Wait, what?!" Brawnz asked in panic and fear. Before anyone could react, Nora jumped over in front of Team BRNZ, then brought her hammer around to collide with all four screaming fighters as they soared straight into the force field 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 announced, then quietly added the request that the losing team be tended to.
"She may not be my daughter, but if we find Remnant, would it be possible for me to adopt her?" Thor asked.
"She's already 17 and at this point, she's probably only a couple months from 18, so I don't think there's a point now." Cap said.
At the appropriately-named Crow Bar, a gray-haired figure in a tattered red cloak was sitting at the counter with a collection of empty glasses to his side. He took a swig from another drink as he looked up at the screen above, displaying an image of the victors with the caption "Team JNPR Defeats Team BRNZ!"
Everyone looked at the patron, shocked. "Is that... Ruby and Yang's uncle Qrow?" Hawkeye asked.
"He resembles the figure from Yang's vision. It must be! The legendary uncle that saved the girls and trained Ruby." Thor declared.
"He looks so much like..." Natasha said, everyone looking to the genius in the room.
"Tony? What were you doing at this show? I did not know Ruby and Yang were your nieces." Cap asked.
"Th-that's not me! Guys, I'm not Qrow! Look! He doesn't have an awesome goatee like me!" Tony said.
"Huh, those kids weren't half bad!" The bartender said as he wiped the surface of a glass in his hands.
The familiar stranger merely let out a "Meh" as he raised the beverage back to his lips.
"They put up a decent fight, but it certainly fell apart when they argued about team attacks." Widow said.
"That's why me and my team train until we know everything by heart." Spider-Man declared proudly.
The scene flashed to a blue background with white particles gathering into the united tournament symbol of the four kingdoms as it revolved to the left of Oobleck, back in the announcer's box. "Ah, well, Vacuo fans are sure to be hurting after that one, but this next one will have them on the edge of their seats!" The doctor declared with an image of Team BRNZ at the moment they all felt the force of Nora's hammer.
"Team NDGO of Shade is certainly a crowd favorite, but these lovely ladies are going against some of the toughest, testosterone-filled teammates we've seen so far! I'm of course talking about... Team SSSN!" Port announced, displaying a picture of the four new challengers to his right. A view of a few spectators was shown in the stands holding up signs with each male's face decorated with hearts, the exception being a simple image of a certain set of abs.
"Teenagers." Tony said.
"Really, Mr. Playboy?" Hawkeye questioned.
"At least I'm subtle about it." Tony said.
"Sun Wukong and his team are certainly a force to be reckoned with, and although he'll be representing the Mistral Academy of Haven, I'm sure his friends and family back in Vacuo will be cheering him along!" Port added as Team SSSN walked into the center of the field, waving to the cheering crowds as they did so.
"Good luck, Neptune!" Weiss sweetly called out, cupping her hands.
Neptune continued waving until he spotted his four beautiful opponents, which caused him to develop a confident attitude as he addressed them. "Ladies." He greeted in a "suave" manner.
Weiss was shocked at this simple word. But this shock quickly turned to her shaking with rage until she angrily got up and pointed into the arena. "Break his stupid face, NDGO!" Weiss ordered the other all-female team.
"She should've known what she was getting into when she fell for a flirt like him." Widow said.
"Or, he should learn not to be a flirt when he's clearly got someone interested in him." Cap said, glaring at Neptune in distaste.
"Alright, girls, try and remember: hands above the waist." Neptune said in a flirty manner as the crowds got ready and the teams stood on opposite sides from one another.
Sun grasped Neptune's arm. "Ignore him, for he... Yeah, he's dumb." He apologized, trying to repeat Neptune's remark from the last season, but failed.
Neptune simply gave a sparkling wink to the disgusted females as the holographic roulette showed up again, landing on a yellow image of sunny dunes and stone formations until the real thing emerged from below. A small circular light even appeared overhead, causing most of the crowd to don sunglasses.
"Nice to see they came prepared." Tony said.
"Get to watch a fight and get a tan. Good deal." Hulk noted.
"Alright! Home field advantage!" Nebula laughed as she looked back at their selection.
"Don't get too cocky! That's my turf, too!" Sun reminded her.
"I hope I don't get sand in my shoes." Scarlet said, looking down at his attire as the roulette began again on the other side.
"Be cool, man." Neptune leaned over and whispered.
"Hey! The ocean!" Dew noted when the spinning images stopped on a blue symbol of tidal waves.
"Huh?" Neptune asked, turning and seeing the random pick for himself, eyes dilated at his goggles reflected the terrifying image, a slight whimper escaping him.
"Young Neptune seems disturbed." Thor said.
"No... It can't be!" Peter said, half in shock, half trying to hold back his laughter.
"Uhh, what's wrong with Neptune?" Ruby asked her teammates.
"Oh, no." Blake groaned as her face was in her hand, unable to look as the sandy beach and pirate shipwreck rose into the arena while Neptune stiffened up with fear. "Neptune's ... afraid of the water." She confided to a surprised Yang.
"What?! But he's named after Neptune, king of the ocean!" Hawkeye said, shocked at first, but then breaking into laughter.
"Water of all things? That could really limit his uses in the future." Cap said.
"3, 2, 1, BEGIN!" Oobleck declared.
As soon as the word was said, Neptune zoomed through the enemy team and skidded up the mountain behind them.
"Neptune, what are you doing?!" Sage called out to the fleeing teammate.
"Uh, you know, just gaining the higher ground!" Neptune yelled his excuse down to his friends, now standing on a ledge near the top of the formation.
"On the enemy's side?!" Sun demanded, exasperatedly.
"They would never expect it!" Neptune called back.
The Avengers all collectively facepalmed. "If the boy cannot overcome his fears, he has no right being a warrior!" Thor snapped.
"Better hope no one asks him to be a lifeguard." Hulk said jokingly.
"He's not wrong." Dew admitted, turning to her allies.
"Open fire!" Nebula called out her first order. Team NDGO went forward into their turf as Team SSSN followed them, Sage with his sword raised and Scarlet having ditched his coat. He came upon Octavia Ember, emerging out from a nearby arch and tried to slice her with his cutlass. She ducked under the swing and continued sliding away, past the middle of Dew and Sage getting ready to rumble.
Sage hefted Pilgrim overhead and brought it down, only to get knocked back by Dew's spear. He glanced up in time to see the blonde wave her weapon over the sand to create three small twisters that kicked up dust in Sage's face. He looked around as they surround him, but didn't realize the danger until they coalesced into one big tornado that picked him up off the ground. With his weapon torn out of his grip and screaming in panic, he was totally helpless as the winds threw him and his blade out of the arena.
"And NDGO gains the advantage!" Oobleck announced as Sage slammed the ground with fists upon seeing his image now crossed out on the holographic board.
"He underestimated his opponent. And he didn't even try to stop her from making those tornadoes." Cap admonished.
"And, unlike his teammates, he doesn't seem to have a ranged option. That left him at a big disadvantage from the start." Widow added.
Octavia slid in front of Sun and Scarlet, who readied themselves to fight her just as she spun her sword around and produced a wave of flame that kicked up dust in their faces. Sun managed to jump out of the cloud just in time to call for his replacement in fighting the redhead.
"Neptune!" Sun cried out.
Seeing his leader run from the duel, Neptune leapt down from his position and cocked his gun. Octavia attempted to use another fire attack to blind Neptune, but he simply put on his goggles and fired a bolt as his opponent, who blocked it with her blade right before seeing Sun leap out of nowhere to deliver a neck-snapping kick to her face.
"Well, that was a good use of his goggles." Hulk said.
"Their only real use, yes." Thor agreed.
Now furious, a scowling Octavia tried to retaliate, bringing her blade down onto the Faunus. But the blow was countered by Sun's Ruyi Bang and Jingu Bang in its staff form as he drew the weapon, then spun it all around his body while hitting several parts of hers. He ended it with a jab that knocked Octavia on her back in the sand.
"Oh! And we're down to 3-on-3!" Port declared.
"Not bad, Sun. Evening things back up." Tony praised.
"And it looks like Sun's team actually has the advantage at the moment." Peter said.
Sun looked at Neptune fighting with Gwen Darcy as she circled him with her flying knives and Scarlet attempting to go weapon-to-weapon with Dew. She easily dodged a kick then called upon another sandy cyclone to lift Scarlet up and he revolved around the spiral until it launched him over the shipwreck. It seemed like he was about to be eliminated at well, but he extended his arms and managed to dive onto a part of the mast. Noticing this, Nebula and Gwen rushed to pursue him. Scarlet caught the beam and flipped himself up, almost losing his balance once the pole was under his feet.
He eventually found his balance right when Nebula closed in and launched an arrow with her crossbow at the mast, using it to jump right up to where Scarlet was. She folded up the sides of her weapon into a blade to cross swords with her opponent, the both of them trading blows while ducking and missing, then Scarlet was struck by Nebula's hilt and countered with a kick to the head. Nebula circled the mast and deflected another blow then slammed her blade over Scarlet's and forced him to lean back on the post. Luckily, he managed to get his sword back out from the trap and feigned a swing at Nebula's feet before knocking into her with his elbow, causing the NDGO leader to fall into the sand below.
"Hey, this Scarlet kid isn't too bad." Hawkeye said.
"He's got good skill and used feints pretty well to get around her guard and find an opening." Widow agreed.
From his position, Scarlet saw Gwen continue to throw her knives at Sun and he smirked before whipping out his pistol and shooting the hilt guard as a grappling hook to get her by the ankle.
"Gotcha!" Scarlet declared as he used the cord to lift Gwen into the air while he slowly came down to the ground, only to land directly beneath her as she attempted to protect her modesty, while knives started raining down from her dress. Scarlet quickly adopted a pose that somehow allowed him to miss every single blade that came crashing down into the sand at his feet, which he gave a sigh of relief to.
Everyone gasped when the knives rained down, but sighed in relief along with Scarlet when they all missed him. "That was WAY too close." Cap said.
"Right. Maybe make sure those knives are secure before you hang someone upside down so they don't rain razor sharp blades on you." Peter agreed.
His luck didn't hold when Dew leapt near Sun, causing the monkey Faunus to find his new improvised weapons in the form of two coconuts he knocked out the palm tree beside him, which he threw at his opponent only to get them knocked right back at him, now spontaneously catching fire as they traveled. Sun narrowly missed them both, but Scarlet got one straight to the face and the other lands in a place that made him squeal in unimaginable pain while dropping his Aura levels into elimination.
All the male Avengers winced and covered their manhood. Even Widow gave a sympathetic look. "I don't think all the aura in the world could've helped him with that." She said, the boys nodding in agreement.
Sun sighed. "Nuts!" He snapped and looked from Scarlet to Dew as she summoned a few water blue tornadoes that he tried to dodge around. "Uh, Neptune? Could use some help, buddy!" He called to his best friend.
"Uh, you know, uh, it would probably be better if you came over here! Yeah, I can guard this... sector! We're in lockdown mode!" Neptune called back to his leader with his excuses.
Sun looked around, infuriated as Nebula managed to shoot the cord holding Gwen up in the background. "What are you talking about? There's nothing to lock down!" He snapped.
"Lockdown! Right! You got it!" Neptune confirmed, ignoring his leader's argument.
"He is a horrible teammate." Thor said.
"Yeah. If we ever do find a way to Remnant, I wouldn't be too broken up if we never met that kid." Hawkeye agreed.
Sun jumped out from Dew's attempt to pierce him with her spear. "Dude, I know you're afraid of water, but you gotta-" He called back to his comrade, but stopped yelling when a blue shot knocked an attacking Dew out of midair and into the water.
"There! I helped! Are you happy now!?" Neptune snapped, before giving a small pause. "Also, I am not afraid of water, and I have no idea what you are talking about!" He added.
Dew managed to get back up as Nebula and Gwen joined their comrade, lifting their weapons and ready to fight once more. "NEPTUNE!" Sun shouted in frustration as he gestured at the three with both hands.
"Okay, fine! Just get out of the water!" Neptune shouted back. Neptune jumped over to a spot near the coastal line next to Sun and he unfolded Tri-Hard into its trident form before tip-toeing forwards and, eyes closed, plunged the sparking prongs into the water. The energy surged through the deep until the remaining members of NDGO were electrocuted and sank to their knees in the water, smoking and defeated with the sound of the buzzer.
"Well, a smart use of electricity, if nothing else." Tony said.
"Agreed. All of them jumping into the water at once wasn't a smart move." Cap said.
"And with that, Team SSSN moves on to the doubles round!" Port announced while Sun and Neptune chest bumped each other in celebration. "You know what I call that victory?" He asked Oobleck.
"Shocking?" Oobleck guessed.
"No, well earned. What you said is stupid." Port corrected him harshly, to which Oobleck turned away, frowning.
"Aww, poor Barty. I thought it was a good joke." Peter said.
"Port's just a critic." Hulk grumbled.
Back in his establishment with its one customer, the bartender whistled at the screen. "Now that was a match!" He said.
"Heh, that was a mess!" Qrow scoffed with a light slur in his words.
"Well, he's not wrong." Peter admitted.
"Ultimately, they got lucky. Everything fell apart too fast and none of them were in the right place. A team needs to be a solid, coordinated unit." Cap said.
"Come on man, you didn't like them, the Vale kids, or any of the rounds before that? What fight are you here for?" The bartender questioned.
Qrow then saw an aircraft with elegant ribbons flying from its wings behind him. "That one." He answered and finished his drink as the world swayed with the happily inebriated Huntsman until he slammed the glass down on the counter and tossed a few Lien alongside it. "Happy Vytal Festival!" He said before departing.
"Ooh, sounds like you're looking for a fight, Tony." Hawkeye said with a smirk.
"That's not me!" Tony snapped.
"Not so fun on this side, is it?" Natasha taunted.
The bartender watched as his sole patron staggered away and put down the glass he just finished cleaning, only to knock it down and shatter it when he reached for another one. "Aw, gee darn it!" He complained.
Ruby leaned back in her seat and sighed. "Aw, that was so close!" She said.
"Looks like the dorks made it to the next round!" Yang noted.
Blake looked down in the arena where Sun and Neptune were dancing like fools before the fellow Faunus gave her a special double-gun gesture with a wink, eliciting a blush and a small smile from his target. "Emphasis on 'dork'." She said.
"That blush tells a different story." Hulk chuckled.
"The kitty likes the monkey boy." Peter agreed.
"A romance between warriors. A rare and beautiful thing." Thor said.
"That concludes the matches for today. Please leave the Coliseum IN A CALM AND ORDERLY FASHION!" Oobleck instructed over the sound system, starting quiet and then screaming towards the end.
"Come on, let's go congratulate 'em." Yang suggested after Team RWBY stopped flinching from the unexpected volume change.
The four girls got up from their seats and started to head out just as the same ribbon-adorned craft passed over the Colosseum, causing Weiss to stop in her tracks and Ruby to bounce into her. "Uh, what are you viewing?" Ruby asked awkwardly.
Weiss looked up at the craft with a strange expression and strain in her voice. "She's here!" The Schnee heiress' said as her face displayed a mix of joy and anxiety as the screen cut to black.
"Whoa. Ice Queen is getting nervous. Whoever's on that plane must mean some serious business." Spider-Man said.
"We know it's a woman, so I'm guessing it's either her mother or the sister we've been told about before." Widow explained.
"That should be interesting. But still not as interesting as the fact we now know Nora is TOTALLY your daughter!" Hawkeye told Thor, causing Tony, Hulk and Spider-Man to laugh.
"You try my patience, Barton!" Thor snapped.
"Keep telling yourself that, you deadbeat dad." Hulk said.
Steve looked to Tony and smirked, hoping to tease Tony and take some of the jokes off Thor. "So, Tony. When are you going to bring Ruby and Yang so we can meet them? I think they're great girls, they have the potential to be future Avengers." He told the billionaire.
"They're NOT my nieces! And I'm NOT Qrow!" Tony snapped.
"Not as enjoyable on this end, is it, Man of Iron?" Thor asked.
"Well, either way, let's keep watching and see what happens next." Natasha said, starting the next video.