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I blitzed after my sisters onto the Atlas ship. I left Noir and Lila behind. I would owe them a favor after this, probably two. That could cost me. Then again they had been in combat with my students. That was a problem. But they hadn't killed any of them or hurt them.

I only had to charge through the ship and follow the carnage. They had slaughtered Atlas soldiers and machines as they made their way to the bridge. My sisters were a real menace. And to be perfectly honest I wasn't sure how much of a match I was for a couple of them.

I found them. We could feel each other so it wasn't like I could sneak up on them. They turned around on the bridge to look at me.

"Juniper, Kolumbine, and Saphron," I muttered. "It's so good to see you, little sisters."

They were the same as when I'd last seen them. The twins were in orange and yellow and wielded a repeater blade and sniper rifle pike. Saphron had her sidearm and a dagger.

"Jaune, you shouldn't be here," Saphron said.

"We can feel your terror," Kolumbine murmured.

"It hurts us all the way you wall yourself off from us," Juniper indicated.

"Stay the fuck out of my head, then," I decreed.

"We can't help it. You know that," Saphron pointed out.

"Tough shit. Can't you take it? I can. It feels good," I sighed.

"You can't possibly like being so afraid," Juniper disagreed.

"You've made it a nightmare. We are supposed to be united," Kolumbine went on.

"You are. That's not for me. I'm not like any of you. You're all a part of the good batch. My life is always a fucking nightmare. Deal with it."

Then Saphron shot me in the head. That's what started things I think because Juniper started firing her repeater and Kolumbine tried to knock my block off with her anti-material rifle.

I swept a blade-beam forward and chased it to close the gap. I back-flipped forward to land in front of Juniper. I stepped forward and brought my blade upwards in an enormous arc. She stopped it with her own sword. I twisted and brought my blade to the side and slammed it into her body. There was a pop and a crackle and I was blown off my feet and into, but not through, a glass window.

"Can't touch me," Juniper waggled a finger at me.

"No one is invincible. I'll find a way."

Saphron back-flipped at me and brought her knife downwards. Then she popped into the air, fired her gun and slid in on me and stabbed at my chest. I deflected her to the side or tried to, at least. I ended up struggling against her.

"That applies to you too brother," she whispered. "You can be killed and your era of fear will end."

"I will defeat Mother," I vowed.

"Impossible," Kolumbine added with a thrust of her pike. I jumped in a long lasting floating front-flip and changed direction in mid-air to dodge Juniper's repeater.

I landed and activated my semblance. Then I went for the kill on Juniper. I glided forward and went with the Omni slash. As soon as I touched her with my blade there was another pop. A field pulsed out of her body and slammed me into a wall.

"I warned you," she said. Then she shot me in the stomach, chest, and head.

Saffron landed next to me and jumped and slashed upwards and it sliced me across the chest. I stepped in and brought my blade down from shoulder to hip and knocked her into the ground. When she got to her feet there was a specter around her body. I stepped back warily. I was a long way from Limit Break now and I had no idea how to touch Juniper, and Saphron had her specter. Further still, I had no clue at all what Kolumbine could do.

I felt like I was in for an ass beating if I wasn't careful.

I leveled my weapon at Saphron and her eleven foot tall one winged monster. She smirked at me. She side-flipped at me and I flickered to the side and right into Kolumbine's pike. She sliced me deeply. I Cross slashed her body and delivered five punishing cuts. I wasn't immediately blown away so that was a good sign. I could touch her. Saphron kicked me in the back twice in a jumping double hit that rocked me into a metal wall. She snapped her fingers and that fizzly purple spell shot towards me. I dived out of the way and where it landed it splashed and burned in a giant flare.

I avoided the fuck out of that. I remembered being hit by it in Atlas.

Saphron front-flipped over a panel of terminals and an Atlas personnel corpse. She flicked her blade out at me in a bubble of death. From the opposite direction the monster's claws swiped and they met in the middle in a fast sharp clap that caught me in the stomach and rocked me to the ground. She did an arcing side-flip and swept her blade 'over' her head while she was upside down mid flip. The monster stomped one leg down through the middle of her attack and it punched me straight through the deck I was on. The metal floor crumpled around me as I was shoved downwards.

I caught myself on the floor below and jumped back up the hole I came in. I tore upwards through the metal and back up a storey. I stepped in and bashed Saphron with my enormous sword. The monster was unhurt but it careened with her into the ceiling which she ricocheted off of and to the floor.

Juniper stepped in on me and took two swings. I stepped back. I was unsure how to attack her. I brought my blade around and connected it with her body and again that field poured out of her and slammed me back.

"Figure it out yet?" She asked. Then she took four shots at me with her repeater. I blocked them all and blade-beamed her for want of something. It touched her and there was that field but it didn't reach me. I watched the field flex like a blown bubble and as it recoiled I stepped in and smashed her.

This time I hit her for real and I made her pay for it. Kolumbine got in my way next with her pike. I smacked it aside and Cross slashed her again. She flew back but she got an odd white glow to her.

I watched her carefully.

"Here we go!" She shouted. She crossed the distance between us in an enormous thrust that closed thirty feet in an instant. She pile drove me back into a bulkhead.

Saphron landed next to me and thrust three quick jabs with her blade but it was like artistry and the blade flickered with something purple between lightning and fire. The final stab had this pop to it that smashed me into yet another bulkhead.

Limit activated.

Kolumbine's next light speed thrust was slower this time comparatively and I clotheslined her head hard with my blade. The glow around her only intensified. At a guess I thought she could take a certain threshold of damage like I could. Then after that point she became much faster and maybe a touch stronger.

Juniper had some kind of counter attacking semblance that forced you to bait her into using it and then attacking for real.

And lastly was the elephant in the room: Saphron and her specter. She came at me with this dashing double kicked and the monster behind her lashed out with its long legs in perfect time with hers. I was forced backwards. I flipped over her in a floating leap. Then I changed directions in mid-air to avoid some shots from Juniper's repeater.

The real question was whether I held onto this Limit for the speed and strength buffs or if I went for the kill on one of them. Strictly speaking a prolonged fight would go in my favor. I could force them to retreat and prevent them from doing whatever they were up to. Probably bombing the satellite or destroying it somehow. That had to be stopped at all costs. That meant keeping the three sisters pinned down fighting me and they would eventually have to beat a retreat when Valean and Atlesian reinforcements showed up.

I just needed to keep them in a tight spot until then. The only one I could perhaps kill was Kolumbine. Juniper had her counter attacking semblance and Saphron had shown she was capable of something similar once before while her spirit was active.

I needed to hold on to this Limit for the speed buffs and maybe go for the kill if I saw an opportunity. They seemed wary of me with my semblance active. Kolumbine backed up and took a shot with her anti-material rifle.

I deflected the bullets off the edge of Crocea Mors and stepped in on her. I brought my weapon down on her and she blocked with her pike. I slowly lowered my weapon down on her.

Saphron jumped up at me and kicked at me with her feet in a twirling rising aerial. There were five distinct kicks that came out of it and one last massive upwards kick by the red legged specter with the blue wing. I stepped back to avoid that but only got closer to Kolumbine who took a swipe at me with her pike. I deflected that to the side with my enhanced speed and took three mighty swings at her from side to side to side. None of them connected because her pike outranged Crocea Mors.

Saphron took a swipe at me and the monster clawed from the other direction and it came around in a lightning fast clap. I dropped to avoid it and floated back to my feet and delivered an upward swing to her body that took her into the air. I pursued and before she could land I cut in a triple 'x' on her body by flying up to her. She flew back a little more and I meant to bring my blade down on her body in a massive overhead swing but Juniper stepped in and as soon as I touched her I was blown back.

That was getting obnoxious.

I threw a blade-beam at Juniper and side-flipped out of the way of a lunging slashing Kolumbine glowing white. I kicked Kolumbine in the chest and took a micro step forward and golf swinged my blade upwards into her chest and slammed her hard into the ceiling. The glow around her got even brighter.

Juniper sidestepped my blade beam so I sent a second and chased it. She reflected it with her field and blocked me when I tried to cut her for it. She strained against me but I was terrifyingly strong with Limit active and I brought my weapon down on her and forced her to her knees. I kicked her in the side of the knee and sidestepped when that bubble blew out at me. Then I cut her in a diagonal slice from shoulder to hip and I really turned my hips into it and rocked her into the bulkhead.

Saphron approached with a single gunshot to the side of my head. Then she sort of wave-dashed in on me and fired again point blank. She lashed out with a single kick that was strong enough to pop me into the air. Then she reversed and swept her blade behind her and up at me. At the same time the monster clawed downward and the two met for a lightning fast sharp slash.

I hit a bulkhead hard enough to be stunned. She jumped and shot twice then dashed in again. I raised my weapon in a block because I was afraid of what she was capable of. She grabbed me and picked me up and slammed me into the ground. She jumped and delivered four twirling kicks that dragged me back down and she grabbed me again and threw me straight up. I bounced off the ceiling and she jumped and stabbed two quick rapid times with the monster providing a crackle between lightning and purple fire.

I floated to my feet and entered a hovering roll. I stabbed forward into Saphron's aura. I swept forward and carried her up through the ceiling. The purple monster faded from behind her as I deposited her on the floor above. Then I reversed and slammed use both back through it and smashed her into the bridge floor.

Kolumbine swept in with a massive swing at me. She seemed to be almost vibrating and when I blocked the enormous swing it still rang me like a bell even with Limit. She spun in two quick circles bringing her blade around on me twice in that time. I blocked but was buffeted by the first and the second sweeping cut smashed me in the chest and knocked me to the floor. I scissor kicked to my feet and with the fire of Limit Breaker around me I slowly walked towards Kolumbine.

She thrust with her pike and fired the rifle point blank. I sidestepped both and swung my sword down over my head with both hands. It smashed her on the left shoulder and knocked her to the floor.

Juniper side-flipped next to me to cover her twin. Our blades met once, twice, three times, then I feinted left and brought my weapon horizontally around at head height. I smacked her on the right side of the head and that field pulsed out of her but it was in the direction of my blade. I held onto it and used the momentum reversal to swing it around me and spin. I slashed her in her left leg on the side of the knee. I swept her feet out from under her and I jumped forward. I kneed her before she could touch the ground to carry her along in a floating leap. Then I brought my weapon down with both hands in a massive overhead blow that meteored her into the floor. There was a pulse around her that destroyed a terminal and she didn't take damage from the fall but she did from the strike.

Saphron twisted in on me. I pushed her blades out of the way and shoved her back. She was much weaker without the specter behind her. Juniper grabbed Kolumbine and they hobbled quickly to the exit. I kicked Saphron in the chest and hovered between them and the door.

"Leaving? But we haven't seen each other in so long," I bit out.

"Saphron!" Juniper called.

"I'm thinking!" Saphron slid towards me legs first to trip me up and get a follow up but I hovered over it. Then to punish I brought my weapon around in that triple diagonal strike I liked to use as a hard punish.

Saphron froze and blue fire poured from her body with each hit but still even on the last she stayed still. The blue fire lashed out at me and knocked me back and the blue beast came back in full force. Saphron double dash kicked me and stepped in and grabbed me. She threw me up and jumped and did that twirling kick five times followed by a sixth upwards swung of the red and blue one winged beast.

I slammed hard into the ceiling. Saphron grabbed both her sisters and ran towards the windows of the bridge. She smashed it with a swipe and claw from the specter. Then she jumped and the blue monster beat it's one wing and the three took off. I flew after them but Saphron whipped around and hit me square with her spell and it burned me for a long lasting burning damage and blasted me back into the hanger.

I ran to the window but my sisters were gone. That had escaped me. But I did learn some things about them. That was a victory and they failed to bring down the satellite. I had won.

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-WG