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Chapter 3: Amity Part 1
Remnant, Kingdom of Vale, Fairgrounds
POV: Team RWBY
Premise: "Karma comes after everyone eventually."
"-is anyone else starving?" Ruby asked her team while hunched over
"I may have worked up an appetite." Blake replied until her own stomach growled like a beast which made her embarrassed
Weiss then sarcastically shrugged her arms, "Gee, if only there was somewhere on campus to get food around here."
Turns out, Team RWBY were in the middle of the Vytal Festival fairgrounds. Students and tourist were walking around the area enjoying themselves.
"Oh wait."
Ruby then took Weiss' shoulder, "It's ok Weiss, I forgot about the fairgrounds too."
Weiss removed Ruby's hand, "I was being facetious!"
"Gah! Well why didn't you say so!?" Ruby retorted
"Come guys." Yang spoke up, "I know the perfect place."
Yang led the girls into the fairgrounds until a voice stopped them.
"You won't be able to have food without this." Grif announced while holding Ruby's wallet, flanked by Simmons, Doc, and Caboose.
"No no no no!" Ruby stuttered while looking around
"Hard to hold on this I assume?" he asked her
"Yep, girl pockets are the worst!" Ruby replied
"Oh I know!" said Caboose, "They're so small!"
"Hehe." Ruby giggled before hugging Caboose
"Did you see our fight?" Yang asked them
"Yep, we caught just in time." Simmons replied
"And the White Fang?" Blake asked with curiosity
"Base is gone." Doc replied, "It was the biggest one we came across. Ever since the breach a few months back the Fang have been disorganized. Now it looks like they're getting the band back together."
"Haha let them!" said O'Malley, "We will make them taste oblivion!"
"O'Malley, that's not nice." Doc said to his alter ego
"Shut up, it's the appropriate amount of nice."
"So since you guys won, who are you gonna put in for the next match?" Grif asked
"Well, as leader of Team RWBY, I thought long about this decision."
Weiss then popped in, "We put it to a vote."
"Hehe, right." Ruby muttered, "We voted for Weiss and Yang."
"I will happily represent Team RWBY." Weiss said while curtsying
"We're gonna kick some butt." Yang added as she pounded her fists together.
"Well as long as it ain't my butt, I'm good with it." Grif jokes, "Come on, let's get food. Simmons will gladly pay."
"Hey!"
The eight went over to a noodle stand that Yang recommended, and all sat down.
"I'll have a bowl of the regular, please." Yang said to the shopkeep, who quickly go her a bowl full of noodles
"Oohh…" Ruby muttered, "I'll take the same."
"Same or the four of us." Grif added, and the shopkeep gave them all bowls of noodles.
"Yay!" Caboose shouted
"Do you have anything with a low-salt…" Weiss was able to mutter until the shopkeep gave her a bowl of noodles similar to the ones the others already had, "Um, ok…"
Blake, instead of asking, just nodded at the shopkeep, who nodded in return. He then returned with a bowl of noodles, topped with fish. The faunus could only stare at awe, and began drooling. An action that raised many eyebrows from the Reds and Blues and Weiss.
"Mind if we join?"
The eight turned to see Team JNPR approach the both. The voice who asked was none other than Pyrrha Nikos.
"Pyrrha!" Ruby shouted
"The more the merrier." Doc added, "Hahahaha!"
Later…
After a few minutes, everyone was finished eating. Either satisfied or holding their stomach's, the latter one being done by Grif, Jaune, and Nora.
"Hey I got a question." Grif asked Ruby and Caboose, "Are you two...you know...still together?"
"Yes." Ruby replied as if Grif had lost his mind, "What makes you think that?"
"Sorry." Grif replied, hands up in defense, "It's just that Caboose has been on a lot of missions lately. Haven't really seen you two together since Princess Elsa's asshole of a dad was dragged to the pound."
Both Ruby and Caboose looked at one another, while Yang decided to speak.
"He's right you know." she said
"Are you guys seriously talking about our relationship?" Ruby questioned, though she didn't seem offended at all.
"Yeah! This is an exclusive club!" Caboose added, which got a chuckle out of the others
"We've been through a lot these last couple months." said Grif, "Maybe you two should take some time off. Focus on each other."
"Alright, enough talk about...whatever is happening." Simmons spoke up, "Don't you four have a fight to get to?"
Simmons was pointing at Team JNPR.
"Oh right." Ren replied, "You think it was wise to eat before the match?"
"Of course! It will give us energy!" said Pyrrha
Nora simply gave off a loud burp that could rival Grif's. While Jaune on the other hand held his stomach.
"If I barf, I'm blaming you." he muttered
"Oh! Aim at the enemy!" Nora suggested
"Nora, that's disgusting." Doc said to her, until O'Malley took over, "But if you feel the urge too…"
Jaune quickly gave him a thumbs up, "Got it."
Pyrrha then stood up, "Well, we should be off."
"You guys think you're ready?" Blake asked them
"Of course!" Nora shouted, "We've got a world-renowned fighter on our team, one's basically ninja, I can bench five of me, Jaune, we trained all year, our weapons are awesome, Glynda barely yells at us anymore, and uh... Jaune!"
Simmons looked at the latter, "Are you gonna take that?"
"She's not wrong." Jaune muttered
"I'm kidding, he knows I'm kidding." Nora said, as she began to speak rather quickly while it appeared that her color was fading away, "Don't be so nervous! The worst that can happen is we lose, that is just a few more years of walking around school with everyone knowing we're failures, our friends will slowly abandon us to preserve their social status, we won't be able to show our faces in class, no one will sit with us in the cafeteria, Ren and I have no parents, we have no home left to go to, we'll be officially renamed Team Lose-iper!"
Nora' then laughed maniacally until it turned to sobs. She then slammed her head on the table.
"Wow, well that went south fairly quickly." Simmons muttered
"Don't fret." Pyrrha spoke up, "If anything, we should be looking forward to a fight with actual guidelines, and not, well...murderers."
"Yeah, don't sweat it, we've all faced way worse before." Yang added
Blake then began to count off what they faced, "Let's see. Grimm invasions, violent extremists, a destructive sociopath…"
"...The Meta, Wash when he turned evil, but we have to deal with the Blues and Reds, Temple, and two assholes who should be dead." Grif added
"And that's all while we're still in training!" Ruby continued, "Oh, imagine what it would be like to graduate!"
Suddenly, Port's voice came over the loudspeaker in the fairgrounds, "Would Team JNPR please report to the battlegrounds immediately!"
"Yes, Boomstick is begging to see if Ms. Valkyrie will beat Team BRNZ to a pulp." Wiz added
POV Change: Beacon Academy
CLASH!
Kai flew through the air, as she dodged various Atlesian drones. She then went on to summon a massive ball of energy and throw it at a Paladin, which went up in a blaze of glory.
BUZZ!
"Ok Ms. Grif, I think that's good for today." Ozpin said through loudspeaker, "Please come join us."
Kai left the training room and went towards the Coalition's command center. Where she was greeted by Tucker, Sarge, Wash, Ozpin, General Ironwood, and Glynda Goodwitch.
"Hot damn chili!" Sarge cried, "That was better than Tex beating up Grif, and that's coming from me!"
"Aside from the odd choice of words, you have an improvement overall Kaikaina." Glynda added
"Amber would be pleased." Ozpin said to her
"How is she doing anyway?" Kai asked him
"She is still in stasis." Ironwood answered her, "Whatever Cinder did to her took a toll on her body."
"She will be fine, I'm sure of it." Wash assured them all, "Besides, I believe some of us have somewhere to be."
Tucker nodded, "Yes, we do."
The sim-troopers then began to leave the room until Glynda stopped them.
"Where are you all going?" she asked them
"Uh, super awesome fight happening at Amity, duh." Tucker replied, "We almost missed Team RWBY's fight. No way we're gonna miss JNPR's."
"Well then." Ozpin chuckled, "Enjoy yourselves."
"Room for more if you're in." Tucker offered them
"We'll pass." Ironwood replied, "We'll watch from here."
Sarge shrugged before he and the other went off, "Fine by us."
POV Change: Amity Colosseum
The Reds and Blues watched the tournament from their own private viewing port. They could see the entire area from where they were. Now all they had to do...was put their money on the table.
"Who's your money on?" Grif asked
"JNPR, definitely." Simmons replied
"What? Come on dude, Team BRNZ has it." Grif retorted, not believing his friend's suggestion.
"But they Pyrrha!" Simmons defended his claim, "She's like the Carolina of Remnant."
"I heard that!" Carolina shouted from the bar
Grif then continued, "You're just saying that cuz Pyrrha's a girl."
"What's that got to do with anything!"
Locus, Donut, and Doc all sat in the leader recliner that were right up front overlooking the arena. The former of them was looking through a pamphlet that displayed all the events. That is, until he kept hearing Grif and Simmons bickering.
"How long do they do this?" he asked the two next to him
"At this rate, not that long." Donut replied
Meanwhile, Carolina and Wash were sitting by the bar drinking. That is, until Tucker showed up.
"Well well, rough day I assume?" he jokingly asked them
"Hey, during our Freelancer days I found myself knocking out a bottle or two." Carolina
"Of light beer!" Wash muttered as if her were cough
"Oof, excuse you." Tucker said to him as he got his own beer, "Cheers up."
The trio clinked before taking swigs of their drinks. That was when Sarge entered the room with a tray of pizza.
"Pizza time!" he shouted, "Where's Caboose?"
"Probably looking for the soda machine." Donut answered from his chair, "I asked him to get me that grape soda Ruby's been talking about. Gotta admit though, the name sucks."
"I've arrived!" Caboose shouted from the door before tossing Donut a soda
"Man, now it'll be all foamy at the top." the pink soldier sighed, but opening it nonetheless. However he did it in front of Grif just to make sure.
"Seriously?" Grif sighed
"It's what Sarge taught me." Donut replied
"Hey Tucker." Caboose approached the aqua soldier, "Can I ask you something."
"How about after the match." Tucker suggested, "It's about to start."
The Reds and and Blues all sat down and looked at the bottom of the arena. The stage was set in the form of mountains on one side, and a first on the other. Team JNPR were standing, waiting to begin, along with their opponents, Team BRNZ of Shade Academy.
"3...2...1...Begin!" Wiz shouted, signalling the match to begin
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 Nikos' 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. Lie Ren readied his StormFlower to attack Nolan Porfirio, who almost got blindsided by Nora Valkyrie's swing with Magnhild before he duct 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 buzzsaw gloves of Roy Stallion with his own shield before he noticed the bullets flying and saw the glint of the gun in the leaves.
Jaune looked wide-eyed before stumbling on his order, "Retreat!"
"What!?" Sarge said from his seat, "No one retreats! If you wanna defeat your enemy, you gotta look them in the eye! And give off some good one-liners!"
"Still think, they're gonna win?" Grif asked Simmons
"Shut up, watch the fight." the maroon soldier retorted
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 bullets kept flying overhead
Jaune looked behind cover and noticed the melee fighters closing in, "Spread out! Keep moving!"
May then 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 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 landed, Nolan hit him upside the head with his weapon and was able to easily dodge the retaliatory kick while landing another blow to Ren's 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.
"Ren!" Nora cried
"Remind me to break all their bones after the match...if they win of course." O'Malley muttered
"You might wanna get in line, Nora's gonna go for the legs first." Doc added
Scowling, Nora 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.
Oh-ho! Looks like one of my favorite students, Nora Valkyrie, is charging up to use her Semblance!" Port chuckled from a hologram that displayed himself, Oobleck, Wiz, and Boomstick.
"Man, I always saw her as the Thor of the group." Boomstick added, "If only I could play Immigrant Song."
Nolan then looked up at the screen with a panicked look, "What?"
"Yes, Ms. Valkyrie's Semblance lets her produce, as well as channel, electrical energy straight to her muscles!" Wiz explained, "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!"
Nolan then turned back to face his opponent, "WHAT!?"
Nolan finally took his cattle prod away, but the damage was done: Nora flexed her arms as pink lightning was coursed through her body. Nolan attempted to lift his hands up in surrender, but thunder starts sparking from Nora's aura as she rushes at him. There was a split-second where Nolan's horrified face and Nora's victorious smile are seen close-up on the sides of the screens before the hammer hits head-on and Nolan bounces back across the field, crashing through a rock and staying there when he stopped moving.
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!"
"You got it!" Nora replied
"Ren! Try to distract the sniper!" Jaune ordered
Ren then slouched slightly before sarcastically saying, "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 shouted from her seat
"Well, he's certainly improved." Weiss muttered, seeing how much he has changed since initiation
"Yeah, but he ain't got nothing from Pyrrha!" Yang countered
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's 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 kicks his opponent, giving him the opportunity to catch Nolan's weapon on his own as the prod is forced behind Nolan's head and leaves him trapped. Ren hid behind the teammate of the sniper, who stops aiming at him and lifts her barrel up to another target.
"Nora!" Ren shouted
Jaune then caught Brawnz's claws with his sword, while Nora made her way to the top, "Pyrrha! Up!"
Pyrrha did just that, dodge rolling to avoid a launched saw until she bound 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 to reach the peak, and she lifted her hammer up as a bolt of lightning hit the weapon directly. She changed it back into grenade-launching form and popped 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 had time to gawk before she leapt 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 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.
Then they did something unexpected…
"Are they...arguing?" Simmons muttered
"Looks like it." Grif replied, "Still think they're gonna win?"
"Stick with my gut." the marron soldier insisted
"But the fuck did Jaune just say?" Tucker questioned
"Sounded like he said...flowerpower?" Sarge muttered, "What in Sam Hill is that?"
All eyes then fell on Donut.
"Hey! Why's everyone looking at me?" the pink soldier asked
"Cuz it sounds like something that would come out of your mouth." Doc answered
They all then heard Jaune shouted yet another word.
"Arkos?" O'Malley muttered, "What is that?"
"Hey! They stole my ship idea!" Donut cried
"Your what?" Kai muttered
Donut sighed in frustration, "Nothing...do worry."
"Hey!" Brawnz shouted from the arena, "We're in the middle of the fight!"
"AND WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF A CONVERSATION!" Jaune shouted back "WHAT DON'T YOU GET ABOUT THAT!?"
"Um...Jaune?" Pyrrha said to him
"Yes, Pyrrha?" he sighed
"I think he means we're all in the middle of a fight."
Jaune sighed agins before turning to Nora, "Nora...just hit them with your hammer."
Nora smirked evilly before doing just that.
"Wait what!?" Brawnz shouted before and the rest of Team BRNZ were sent flying off the arena. Bouncing off the force field surrounds the stadium.
"And with that, it appears Team JNPR wins by knockout, literally!" Port announced to a roaring crowd
"...Can someone make sure that Team BRNZ is alright?" Boomstick added
Simmons then looked over at Grif, "Fork it over!"
"Fine, don't be a bitch."
POV Change: City of Vale
Within the city, many people had gathered in all of Vale's local bars to watch the tournament since most of the seats at Amity were unfortunately taken. One such bar, a man sat watching the tournament with several empty glasses next to him. The screen on the TV displaying the tournament then read: Team JNPR defeats Team BRNZ!
"Huh, those kids weren't half-bad!" the bartender muttered as he cleaned a glass
The man at the bar on the other hand, ahd a different response, "Meh."
POV Change: Amity Colosseum
After Team JNPR's victory, the next match was set up. This time it was Team SSSN of Haven, against Team NDGO of Shade.
"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!" Oobleck announced
"You betcha Bart!" Boomstick added, "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! 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!"
As Team SSSN walked onto the arena, they were greeted by fangirls in the crowd holding love posters of the team, and Sunn abs.
"Good luck Neptune!" Weiss shouted
Neptune then looked over at Team NDGO, and suddenly became confident.
"Ladies." he said to them
Weiss' attitude then changed, "BREAK HIS STUPID FACE NDGO!"
"Oh, get rejected!" Tucker shouted, earning several chuckles from Wash and Carolina
"Alright girls, try to remember: hands above the waist." Neptune said to NDGO, who appeared to be rather unimpressed.
Sun then stepped in front of his friend, "Ignore him, for he...Yeah, he's dumb."
Suddenly, the arena began to change. For NDGO, their side turned into a desert.
"Alright!" Nebula chuckled, "Home field advantage!"
"Hey! That's my turf too!" Sun added
Scarlet proceeds to look at his feet, "I hope I don't get sand in my shoes."
"Hey, act cool." Neptune hissed at him
Dew, a member of Team NDGO, then noticed what side SSSN had, "Hey look an ocean!"
"Huh?" Neptune muttered as he turned around, his eyes widened with fear.
"What's going on with Neptune?" Caboose asked
"I don't know, but he doesn't look happy." Tucker replied
Oh no…" Blake said from her seat
"What?" said Ruby
"Neptune's...afraid of water."
"3...2...1...BEGIN!" Wiz shouted
As soon as the word is said, Neptune zooms through the enemy team and skids up the mountain behind them...