The next day, it was time for the next round of doubles matches. Teams RWBY and RHPD were now moving together on their way to the arena, refreshed from their rest last night.
"Novus Sureya!" a voice said behind them. Novus and Penny turned to see a young woman with dark skin and wearing a white and blue military outfit approach them.
"Novus Sureya," she said, "Age possibly 18, member of Team RHPD, origin unknown, status: lethal?"
"Uhhhh," Novus first responded, "I'm not quite sure about that whole last part, but yes, that's me."
"My name is Ciel Soleli." Ciel said, saluting, "General Ironwood and Dr. Hayden have requested your presence. I have been instructed to look after Penny in your absence."
Slayer nodded: "Alright, fine. I'm going." Then, turning to Penny: "I'll be back, soon."
"See you later!" Penny said, smiling and waving as Novus nodded and then turned back to Ciel: "Where are they?"
"Just outside the arena. Waiting in the hangar." Ciel replied. Novus nodded an took off in that direction. Meanwhile, back in the arena, it was time for Team RWBY, or in this case, just Weiss and Yang, to make their next debut.
"This oughta be interesting." Julius said as he sat down.
"I don't know if I should be relaxed, or worried about this fight," Hector said.
"Pfft, forget the fight, think about the collateral damage that's most likely gonna happen what with Yang being in there."
Hector nodded: "Good point."
Down in the ring, Weiss and Yang waited for their opponents to show up.
"Welp, looks like we get to knock some more heads again," Yang said, completely relaxed.
"I wouldn't be too sure," Weiss said.
"Oh come on, you're Atlas. What should we expect?"
"Well, Atlas is a combination of both Huntsman training and military, so we should expect hi tech weaponry and well-ordered strategy."
Suddenly, a flash of rainbow appears behind them as Neon skates to the other side of the arena, stopping next to Flynt.
"Or…whatever they are." Weiss said, confused.
"Oh great," Hector said from the stands, "These guys…"
"Hey," Flynt said, "You're Weiss Schnee, right?"
"Yes, that is me." Weiss said with a small curtsy.
"I take it your pretty good with dust then?"
"I'm still working out a few things, but yes."
"Y'know my father owned a pretty good dust shop. Was doing really good too. Until your dad's company ran him out of business."
"Oh," Weiss said, deflating, "I'm sorry to hear that."
"Yeah, sure you are."
"Why you little…" Yang begins to say.
"Why you little…!" Neon tauntingly mimicked, "That's what you sound like. You ever try roller skating? It's pretty fun, but I think it'd be a bit harder for you since you're more…top heavy."
"Excuse me!?" Yang said, beginning to get angry now.
"I'm starting to see why you don't like her." Julius said to Hector.
"3…2…1…BEGIN!" Port announced.
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 ruined city 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, now with: "Looks like you're bottom heavy now too!", 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 fire 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 with: "Too bad all that money can't buy you skill.", 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.
"Woah," Port said, "What's this?"
"It seems that Flynt has activated his semblance," Oobleck said, "And an impressive one at that. Ladies and Gentlemen, let's hear it for Flynt's killer cortet!"
In the center of the arena, Neon uses a broken bridge from the ruined city 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.
"It looks like we have a double whammy, folks!" Port said.
"Schnee sacrificed herself to take out Flynt!" Oobleck said. However, when the smoke cleared, Flynt was seen still up, and with his aura at only 17%.
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.
"Out on a sour note for Flynt!" Oobleck said.
With Flynt taken down, Yang turns her attention back to Neon, who, now nervously, 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, along with Julius and Hector coming to the injured heiress's side.
"Good job, you two!" Blake said
"Yeah!" Ruby added.
"Impressive move, Weiss." Julius said, "I didn't know you had it in you."
"I also think it's safe to say that we've all learned not to make Yang too angry." Hector said.
Julius chuckled: "Yeah, I think that would be best."
With that, the others shared a good laugh before Weiss broke out in another fit of coughs. Julius and Yang decided to help her up.
"Alright, come on, Ice Princess." Julius said, "Let's get you cooled off and get you something to drink."
…
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.
Cinder eyes widening in surprise, followed by a smile "Oh".
Emerald looks over at her "What?".
Cinder accesses a document regarding the blueprints of P.E.N.N.Y. "Oh nothing. We're just going to be making a slight... alternation in the plan".
Mercury takes a break in doing push-ups to ask: "And what's that supposed to mean?"
Cinder continues to look at the familiar image of a robotic redhead "It means that this will be even easier than we thought".
…
Back in Ozpin's tower, Ozpin is seen looking out the window and Qrow enter the room.
"So, have you found your guardian yet?" Qrow asked.
"The maidens choose themselves," Ozpin said, "I just believe I have found the right candidate. She's strong, courageous, kind, but most important of all…she's ready."
The scene shows Pyrrha as she enters the elevator to get to Ozpin's room, a small smile on her face as she does.