Hey guys it's me Cerberus, it's October 31st and I just wanted to give a shoutout to my younger brother since his birthday is actually on Halloween, as well as everyone's favorite scythe wielding, silver eyed warrior. So I just wanted to wish both my brother and Ruby Rose happy birthday, and to all of you Happy Halloween.
Battle between Brothers part 3
( Blake's pov )
( Several minutes before exhibition fight begins )
I just stood there as Atlas soldiers were waiting for both of them to follow them out of the room and on to the tournament grounds. Just as Carlos was about to leave he came up to me and whispered something very important to me.
Carlos: If anything should happen to us, find Ozpin.
Afterwards they left the room with the soldiers keeping a close eye on them. Once I got over my intitial shock of the situation I quickly made my way to my dorm as the rest of my team just got out and they all looked really surprised.
Ruby: Blake what just happened?! We saw soldiers taking Carlos and Jonathan away just a moment ago from the window.
Blake: I'm not entirely sure. As far as I know they just showed up to escort them to the arena.
Yang: Doesn't anyone else think that this all a bit too much? It's not like they're going to try and run away or something right?
Weiss: I don't think it really matters. What matters now is that Ironwood has them exactly where he wants them. All we can do now is hope for the best.
Blake: Actually Carlos told me something just before he left. He said that if anything were to happen then I should find Ozpin.
Yang: Do you think he could probably stop Ironwood from arresting Carlos?
Blake: Honestly I really hope so, still if Ozpin has any answers for whatever is going on than I'm willing to trust my boyfriend and his judgement.
I took a look at the necklace Carlos gave me and I silently prayed that everything would work out. We then made our way to the bullhead and it wasn't long until we met with teams JNPR and CFVY while we went to our seats. As we waited for the match to begin we caught wind of the conversations going on around us about the current situation. A lot of people were really concerned about whether or not Carlos was going to be arrested after today's match. Some thought this was a clever ploy set by the military just to show off their strength. Whatever they thought didn't mater, what really mattered was if they had any plans for their match. Soon enough we saw both of them marking their way to the center of the arena as the crowd began to cheer them on.
Weiss:I really wished that if the two of them were going to compete than it would have been under better circumstances.
Ruby: I just hope they know what they're doing. I'm kind of scared for them right now.
Yang: Carlos. Jonathan. Please be safe you guys.
I looked over to them and saw they each gripped their necklaces tight as they had their focus solely on the arena. The arena began to split into an ice field and a ruined city field. Soon they both backed away a far distance from each other as they prepared their weapons, Carlos got his swords ready and imbued his blades with two types of dust while Jonathan formed a great sword that began surging with electricity and his jet boots. Once the buzzer rang they began charging for each other at full speed.
Jonathan: Carlos!!!!!
Carlos: Jonathan!!!!!
Soon they clashed blades after amplifying their attacks and the result ended with an explosion of force that sent up a cloud of dirt and ice so intense that we had to shield our eyes.
Yang: Woah that was intense! Are they seriously going all out?!
Weiss: If they aren't than they are doing a good job at making us think otherwise!
Ruby: I've got a bad feeling about this.
Blake: ( Good luck you two. Carlos, please come back safe. )
( Normal pov )
As the dust settled everyone in the stadium began watching the two of us clash against one another. All those months of training were being put to the test as the both of us kept countering sword strikes against each other in a flurry of sparks. After jumping back to avoid another electrified swing from Jonathan he quickly reformed his sword into his repulser gauntlets and began shooting at me while keeping his distance. I tried taking a couple of shots at him with my guns but his jet boots made him too fast for any of my shots to hit him so I settled for infusing hard light dust into my blades and focused on deflecting as many of his shots as I could.
Carlos: You're really trying to make this difficult for me huh?
Jonathan: Of course I am, do you honestly think I would make this easy for you?
He then formed armor on his shoulders and began launching mini-homing missiles at me, I quickly switched to my guns and began shooting down as many as I could before any could make contact. As I kept shooting down his missiles the crowd began cheering even louder as everyone watching began to enjoy the fight more and more.
Male Student: Wow, I had no idea Beacon had some awesome students.
Female Student: Yeah, those weapons from that Stark kid are so amazing.
As I finished shooting down the last missile Jonathan had finished forming his chest armor and fired his Unibeam that I was just barely able to dodge in time thanks to my reflexes and spider sense. He then rushed at me to punch me only for me to block with my blades, after the attack failed to land he used his jets to get over and behind me to go for my blind spot as he formed a pair of dual blades, one was imbued with fire dust while the other was imbued with wind dust.
Carlos: ( Spider sense! It's coming from behind! )
As I blocked the attack I quickly jumped back and regained my composure as my brother took an all too familiar stance.
Carlos: Let me guess, you've been studying my fighting style huh.
Jonathan: Of course I have, I have to be ready for anything and everything that comes my way. That especially includes you, now are we just gonna stand here or are we gonna do this?
Taking a deep breath I took my stance and imbued my swords with ice and earth dust and we rushed at each other once again clashing with our elemental blades.
Ruby: Wow this is getting so exciting! Just look at them go out there!
Weiss: Fire and wind against ice and stone, I have to admit it's a pretty interesting combination.
Yang: So Blake, you've had more time than any of us practicing with Carlos. How do you think he's handling himself out there?
Blake: Well from what I can tell it seems that he's rather quick to adapt and change his strategy as needed. A few times he'll try and wait for an opening and then go in for a decisive strike.
Weiss: I have actually trained with Jonathan myself a bit and he's more like they type of fighter that relies on getting his opponent where he wants them to be.
Ruby: So he's more technical in his fighting style?
Weiss: Yes, but against someone who has an advantage against surprise attacks it's not going to be easy.
Yang: Don't forget that they know each other really well, I doubt they can come up with something that'll surprise the other that easily.
As our dance of blades ended Jonathan reformed his gauntlets and quickly rushed at me, as he got close to me he shot a repulser blast that I was able to easily dodge, however he anticipated that and grabbed me before I could land and tossed me over to the ice area with enough force that I would have slid out of bounds if I hadn't used one of my swords to stop myself by sticking the blade in to the ice.
Carlos: Whew. That was close, I definitely don't want to go out like that.
Unfortunately I couldn't let my guard down just yet, while I tried to get my balance under control my spider sense warned me of an onslaught of repulser blasts being fired at me. As I did my best to try and avoid taking too many hits I finally managed to get my footing by using some of my strength to firmly plant my feet in the ice just enough to create small footholds for myself. I began running as I managed to deflect more shots and once I got in close I jumped as high as I could and prepared to web strike my brother so I could close the distance.
Jonathan: Sorry bro, but I've seen you pull that stunt one too many times.
He fired a missile from his right wrist, however he wasn't prepared for the chunk of ice that was still attached to my foot from earlier and I used it by kicking it at the missile before it could make contact. The explosion it caused created a perfect smokescreen for me, I managed to shoot a web line to one of his jet boots and pulled myself toward him and used him as a platform to get some distance and retreat to the ruined city part of the arena.
Blake: That was a smart move, now that he's made it towards the buildings he has multiple places to hide.
Yang: Yeah, but how long will that work against someone who can blow up buildings easily?
Blake: Hopefully long enough.
As Jonathan flew into the area he finally formed the rest of his armor as he had JARVIS scan the area in order to find me. I knew it was only a matter of time before he found me so I kept moving around as silently as I could. However, my brother had a trick up his sleeve, one that I definitely wasn't prepared for.
Jonathan: Let's give the crowd a good show.
Due to upgrading his nanotech recently Jonathan was able to incorporate dust into his weapons. He began forming his right arm into a miniature rail gun and began infusing hard light dust and formed a star glyph in front of him, next he charged fire, gravity, electric and more hard light dust into his weapon.
JARVIS: Sir, according to my calculations Mr. Ortiz should appear right behind you in 3...2...1...
Jonathan: Now!!!!
As I passed between buildings my spider sense hit me full blast.
Jonathan: CORONA DESTROYER!!!!
The intense blast came at me at high speed, I narrowly dodged it by falling flat on my back as the beam passed over me while it destroyed several buildings in the area. The entire audience was in complete awe of his attack, no one was expecting an attack of that kind of magnitude in terms of power.
Weiss: U-Unbelievable, just w-what was that?
Ruby: I don't know, but it was super awesome!!!
The rest of her team looked at her as she had stars in her eyes. After getting back up I couldn't believe that my brother had an attack that powerful at his disposal, then again if he was going to be this worlds Iron Man I shouldn't be surprised.
Carlos: You're just full of surprises aren't you little bro.
Jonathan: You know I am, how about you though?
Carlos: Let's find out.
I rushed in and began a barrage of punches and kicks, luckily I had a slight edge in physical combat since I spent a great deal of time perfecting my version of the way of the spider. I kept my brother on the defensive but I knew it was only a matter of time until he would counter it so I decided to try something new.
Carlos: ( Here goes nothing. )
I grabbed my swords and threw each one at him, as he dodged them I attached web lines to each one and began swinging my blades around me similar to how Blake does with her weapon.
Jonathan: That's new, that girlfriend of yours is really something huh.
Carlos: ( smirk ) She's the best.
As I continued attacking we were both unaware of what was happening in the skies above us, an Atlas military airship had its guns focused on us while awaiting orders from Ironwood who was in the stadium watching our fight.
Soldier: Sir, permission to proceed?
Ironwood: Not yet, remain focused on the target until instructed.
Soldier: Understood.
While we continued I managed to maneuver myself to one of the buildings that wasn't destroyed and I continued fighting on the wall while Jonathan began attacking from a distance, as I leapt from the building to go for a sword strike...
Ironwood: Fire.
Suddenly an explosion shook the arena as a blast was shot between Jonathan and myself, it was strong enough to blast both of us to opposite sides of the arena. Looking up I saw multiple Atlas soldiers flying down on jet packs with their guns aimed at me. The audience went into shock as the soldiers began firing at me as I did my best to dodge and deflect as many shots as I could.
Blake: Carlos!!!
Ruby: What's going on?!
Weiss: This is insane, what's General Ironwood thinking?!
Yang: Let's get down there!
As team RWBY was about to leave more soldiers appeared around the stands to prevent anyone from leaving, all they could do was watch as I tried defending myself while Jonathan aided me from the sidelines.
Jonathan: Get out of my way!!!
As he began beating more soldiers the airship above us began shooting him to keep him distracted and unfortunately it was working. As for me I began to get overwhelmed by the number of shots taken at me, a few of them managed to get me and that allowed the soldiers to fire electrical restraints to keep me down.
Ironwood: Good work men. Stand down.
While struggling to get out I saw Ironwood approach me and the look on his face was a combination of pure disdain and something else... something I couldn't recognize.
Ironwood: Spider-Man, in the name of the Atlas military, you are under arrest.
