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Chapter 17: A Different Perspective
In the Beacon Academy Library, Teams JNPR and RWBY were present with the former mostly studying while the latter played {Remnant: The Game}, in which Weiss Schnee played for the first time.
While Pyrrha Nikos and Lie Ren were genuinely studying, Nora Valkyrie was simply sleeping and Jaune enjoyed his comic. He had just gotten to a good part when Pyrrha took his comic and replaced it with a textbook... then went on to enjoy it herself.
"If you didn't look so adorable enjoying my comic, I'd be annoyed at you." Jaune groaned, unaware of Pyrrha's sudden blush or Ren's sigh.
"Sup losers. And Jaune." Sun Wukong entered the library with his partner, greeting his brother and friends.
"Hey, Sun!" Ruby greeted back.
"I never got a chance to formally introduce you to my partner." Sun indicated to Neptune.
"Uhh, aren't libraries for reading?" Neptune asked.
"Thank you!" Ren threw up his arms in agreement, his outburst causing Nora to wake up and yell "Pancakes!". She was clearly still half asleep.
"Shut up." Sun said to Neptune without any malice. "Don't be such a nerd."
"Geh, geh, geh, geh!" Neptune shook a finger at Sun. "Intellectual, okay? Thank you."
"I'm Neptune." He waved and introduced himself. "Neptune Vasilias."
"No matter what you say, teenagers of the world will forever see you as a nerd." Sun rebutted. "Just like they'd see my brother as a geek."
"Hey! that's- no wait, that actually correct." Jaune accepted the sad truth. He'd never deny his love for comics.
"So Neptune, where are you from?" Weiss asked politely.
"Haven." Neptune approached Weiss suavely. "And I don't believe that I've caught your name, Snow Angel."
"Um, I'm Weiss." She replied with a smile and a blush.
"Are you kidding me?!" Jaune whispered in shock. Even though he had given her the nickname, to think such a different result could be caused by another saying it...
"Pleasure to meet you." Neptune greeted.
Sun rolled his eyes then turned to Blake, who looked a bit tired. "I never took you as the board game playing type."
"Right. Well, I think I'm done playing, actually. I'll see you guys later." As Blake spoke, she stood up, shoved Sun aside and left the Library.
"Women."
Everyone turned to face a wide awake Nora who shrugged as she spoke. Sun instantly called her out on it.
"You're a woman too and she still made more sense than you do."
After a failed attempt to get a date with Weiss during Port's class, Jaune suddenly received a text as he drank some coffee at Daisy's café. It was Friday so it was totally okay for him to drink coffee late.
While he still had his signature hoodie on, Jaune also wore a black jacket with twinkling stars on it and black pants.
After leaving he suddenly ran into someone, accidentally knocking the ice cream cone in their hand to the ground.
"Ah! I'm so sorry!"
Jaune was apologetic as he tried to console the person only for him to recognize a familiar hairstyle.
"Neo?!"
The little mercenary turned sharply, eyes full of tears and vengeful hatred, turning to shock, then sadistic excitement.
"Oh, no."
Jaune only had enough time to say that before he was forcefully dragged away to the nearest Ice Cream store.
Jaune shed silent tears for his wallet as Neo downed a seventh sundae, which was easily matching her head in size as with the previous six.
'Where did they all go?' Jaune would never find the answer to this question.
As he pondered, Jaune reflexively thought back to the docks, remembering their 'fight'. Although Sun hadn't given him much details in the text he got earlier, he had at least given him enough hints for him to know that whatever business he had with Blake, involved the White Fang and then potentially, Torchwick.
"Neo." Jaune called out as soon as she was done (He'd learnt early enough to never interrupt her while with her ice cream), gathering her attention. "What are you and Roman doing with the White Fang?"
Neo raised an eyebrow but Jaune pressed on regardless. "Even though he's Faunus tolerant, Roman's made no secret of how much he hates the White Fang, especially if one considers how he acted towards them that night."
Neo blinked while sucking her spoon, eyes flickering between pink, brown and white as she pondered, before signing. "New Boss' orders."
Jaune frowned, then asked the question which had bugged him since, especially after he handed over the list of foreign students to Roman, fulfilling Favor #01. "Who's you and Roman's new boss?"
Neo stared at him, her usually changing eyes both on silver, before shaking her head and shaking her hand forward in a 'shoo, shoo' manner. Even if it wasn't sign language, the message was clear.
You're not okay enough to know this.
Jaune softly growled at her. Even if she tried to hide it, the whole Torchwick and the Fang' business had really bugged Blake immensely, to the point that the previously stoic and laid back Cat Faunus had slowly become workaholic for the wrong reasons, snappy and a bit insomniac from what Ruby confided in him.
"Here's your order, Miss?"
Jaune snapped out of his daze to look at the waitress who had brought a fresh sundae for Neo... who wasn't there anymore.
"Excuse me, sir. Where did your date go?"
"She left to answer a call." Jaune smoothly lied, a bit relieved that her weapon, {Hush}, was still present in her seat, giving him credibility. "Just leave it here."
"Alright, sir." The waitress said, dropping it on the table. After which she left to attend others, leaving Jaune to ponder the relationship he held with Neo and Roman. He had first met Neo when he'd first arrived in the city, despondent on his lost transcripts.
The girl had been surrounded by some gangsters, all wielding weapons to attack her with. While the crowd around them had simply ignored or apathetically watched the scenario, Jaune had stepped in, trying to resolve the situation.
Sure, he had nearly gotten an axe in his shoulder for his trouble but after defeating most of them singlehandedly, Neo, and Roman who had been watching nearby, had been impressed enough to help out when reinforcements arrived. It was after Jaune had accidentally revealed his Armament Haki that Roman and Neo took some real interest, which led to his false transcripts and the Deal of Ten Favors.
During his reminiscing, Jaune suddenly jolted when he noticed that the sundae in front of him was empty again and then suddenly felt a hand on his crotch.
Slowly, as to not alert the other customers to what was going on, he leaned back and looked under the table. Sure enough, there was Neo, the short stack mercenary kneeling between his legs and rubbing her hand on the rapidly growing bulge in his pants, the same excited look from the night at the docks, adorning her face.
He glanced around frantically, making sure that no one was staring at him before looking back.
"What are you doing?!" He whispered, keeping as quiet as he could to not draw attention to himself.
Instead of signing a response, Neo rather grabbed his zipper and began pulling it down slowly. This was a new experience for Jaune. While he was no longer a virgin thanks to Virgo, he had always been the dominant one in all of their sessions, due to Virgo's fetish. To be rendered submissive and then molested in a public setting was too much for Jaune to protest properly.
After Neo had finished with the zipper and undone the buttons on his pants, she wrapped her small hand around his fully erect cock, which was still covered by his boxers, and gave it a light squeeze, which was enough to force Jaune to bite back a groan of pleasure. The pint sized girl smirked sadistically at the blissful look on his face before slipping her hands under hid boxers and dragging them down.
No longer confined, Jaune's hard shaft stood proudly at it's 11 inches. Neo blinked in surprise the giggled silently and kissed the head of his cock. Jaune had to stifle his mouth with his fist stop himself from groaning out loud.
Neo licked her lips hungrily, lowered her lips to the base of his shaft and then so agonizingly slowly began to run her tongue up his shaft. Jaune leaned back in his seat and panted in pleasure as he watched Neo run her tongue to the tip of his cock and then go back down and start running her tongue up another part of his dick. Within a few minutes, his cock was soaking wet from her tongue and so hard that it throbbed with an almost separate heartbeat from his.
"Neo..." Jaune growled. Whether he was asking her to stop or continue was uncertain.
Neo giggled silently again and took his cock in her mouth, causing him to sigh in relief. A simple sigh which became quick, gasping breaths as her head bobbed up and down, taking him all the way down to the base of his cock and then coming back up to the head.
"Are you alright, sir?"
Jaune's already elevated heart rate accelerated when the waitress from before stared right at him as Neo, not completely hidden under the table, sucked him off. His terror faded a bit as he remembered that Neo's Semblance was definitely showing an illusion, as any normal person would have had a far different reaction to the sight before her.
"I'm fine." He grunted as he grit his teeth and forced himself not to make a sound. Neo just continued to bob her head back and forth in a steady pace, loud slurping noises coming off her as she fingered herself.
"She's rather enjoying that sundae well, isn't she?" The waitress said, staring at Neo's empty seat before leaving.
'I see,' Jaune thought as he fought to pretend as if there wasn't an attractive girl currently sucking him off. 'Neo must have put an illusion there to show her eating that sundae, while potentially explaining the sounds she's giving off.'
Maybe it was because of his usual role as a 'master' rather than a 'slave', but Jaune quickly took control and grabbed Neo's head suddenly, pushing his hips into her face mercilessly. After a brief struggle, Neo surprisingly took it in stride, until he suddenly shoved his cock down her throat and came. Loads of thick cum slid down her throat, reminding Neo of the increasingly important need for air.
Finally, Jaune reached his limit, the last of his cum being swallowed by the diminutive girl. She pulled her lips off his dick, gasping in air and licking the lingering droplets of cum off her lips as she clambered back into her seat.
"Here's the bill, Sir?" The waitress returned, ending her sentence with a questioning look at the Neo's blushing and sweaty face...
"Thank you." Jaune smoothly paid for the expenses and grabbed Neo's hand. She shot him a quick glare, reaching out for {Hush} with her free hand.
"Come."
Neo flinched under the pressure of Jaune's Conqueror's Haki, leaving her slightly dazed. Added to her libido still being unsated, it was easy for Jaune to drag her out of the establishment in a hurry.
The waitress, who had also been hit with his Haki as well, almost followed until she got her wits back.
"Damn. That chick's about to get some."
After Jaune quickly exited the building, he gave Neo an order, adding a slow but constant pressure of Conqueror's Haki to push down her violent tendencies.
"Take us to the docks."
An instant warping later, they had appeared in the area where they had fought, hidden by the surrounding crates.
He instantly pushed Neo against one, leaving her pinned beneath his larger frame.
Neo mewled silently as his hands shifted to around her ass, roughly squeezing it.
Jaune then took Neo by surprise by diving in and peppering her neck with kisses, eliciting a quiet moan from the girl, shuddering as he sucked on her jugular.
Even as he playfully sucked on her neck, Jaune's hands didn't stop fondling her ass, soon getting annoyed at how thick her pants were... prompting him to slip his hands under them to grope her bare ass, squeezing it hard enough to leave bruises.
Jaune groaned softly as Neo managed to undo his zipper again, his cock slipping into her waiting palm, grunting as she squeezed his shaft and jerked him off again, making his already raging libido burn even hotter.
He retaliated by abandoning her ass to go for her breasts instead, hastily unbuttoning her shirt until her breasts popped free in a lacy black bra.
Neo squeaked a bit, entirely submissive as Jaune yanked down her bra, allowing her large, round boobs to bounce free. She shuddered against Jaune as he pinched her nipples, giving them a light tug before releasing them.
Neo slowly slid to her butt, the combo of foreplay and Conqueror's Haki being too much to bear. Regardless, Jaune gave her no time to recover, lowering himself to his knees and fully pulling her pants off.
With the sight of Neo in just panties, high heeled boots, loosely worn jacket and bra, Jaune couldn't hold himself back anymore.
He picked Neo up, placed her against the crate with her heart shaped ass facing him and after pushing her panties aside, promptly speared his thick cock into her pussy, knocking the air out of Neo's lungs.
She futilely grasped the smooth surface of the crate as Jaune eagerly grabbed her hips and buried more of his cock into her, groaning lustfully as her tight pussy constricted his length.
"Fuck, you're so tight." Jaune groaned into her ear, bucking his hips and burying the rest of his cock inside her.
Neo hissed in reply, a rebellious mix of annoyance and pleasure twisting inside her as her pussy was spread apart. She clenched around his shaft but it only encouraged Jaune to fuck the busty girl harder, his hand reaching around to grope one of her breasts after pulling down the offending bra.
Jaune grunted into her ear, his pelvis slapping her ass roughly as he neared his end until he suddenly groaned. Neo's eyes widened as she felt thick ropes of warmth fill her womanhood, a soft gasp fleeing her lips as her muscles spasmed, her own orgasm rippling through her body and causing her to clench Jaune's cock even tighter, unintentionally milking even more cum from him.
Jaune pulled his cock out of her creampied pussy, panting softly as Neo twisted around on her weak knees to face the one who was supposed to be her 'toy', glaring daggers at him.
"Don't look at me like that." Jaune growled. "You were the one who started this. Don't complain if you can't handle it!"
Whatever Neo might have responded was cut short as Jaune suddenly stood up, pressing her up against the crate. Neo blushed from his sudden closeness and was utterly unprepared (but not unwilling) for him to crash his lips against hers in a forceful kiss, his hands grabbing her abused ass, picking her up and pushing his cock against her pelvis, the sensation of his wet and still very hard member causing Neo's eyes to widen.
With a quick buck of his hips, Jaune pushed his himself back into her sensitive pussy, causing Neo to cum again from the pleasure.
Neo half-tried to fight back but her muscles were weak from multiple climaxes, leaving her completely at Jaune's mercy as he bucked his hips and pounded her pussy, her inner walls constricting his girth as he thrusted in and out of her.
Fresh jolts of pleasure ran through Neo as Jaune pressed against her more, squishing her bare breasts against his shirt, the rough texture only enhancing the pleasure more.
"Fuck, here it comes..." Jaune groaned, his cock pulsating in her pussy as he reached his limit again, unloading his balls inside her.
Jaune bucked his hips a few more times, releasing so much cum that it soon dribbled out of her pussy. Only when his orgasm ended did Jaune yank his cock out of her pussy, his hands slipping off her ass and releasing Neo, only for her to slip down to the floor, her knees too weak to support her.
"Don't worry." Jaune assured Neo as he fixed his clothes and handed Neo's hers. "Virgo's taught me a spell to render myself infertile whenever I want, so no worry about kids coming up."
Neo only rolled her eyes in slight relief, hiding her smile. While she had planned the sex, she hadn't been expecting to be dominated in such a fulfilling manner. Clearly, Jaune had had some experience with this 'Virgo' person, which had helped out a lot.
Just as she finished fixing up herself, Neo suddenly received a text from Roman, calling her to his side for the White Fang meet.
Neo tapped some words into his Scroll and waved goodbye at Jaune, before shattering out of existence.
CINDER FALL
MERCURY BLACK
EMERALD SUSTRAI
WATCH OUT FOR THEM, ESPECIALLY THE LEADER
DON'T USE YOUR HAKI NEAR THEM
Roman patiently tapped his foot with Perry, a Warthog Faunus and the one White Fang member that Roman could tolerate or maybe like, fiddling away on his scroll nearby.
Suddenly a distortion in the air appeared, a human shape composed of tiny, broken mirrors which broke away to reveal Neo.
"Finally." Roman said. "Where've you been?"
"Jaune has Conqueror's Haki." Neo signed back. "Warned him of the fiery bitch and her cronies."
"Really," Roman rubbed in chin and pondered before replying. "I guess that makes up for your tardiness."
"Thank you all for coming. For those of you who are joining us for the first time tonight, allow me to introduce a very special comrade of ours! I can assure you, he is the key to obtaining what we have fought for, for so long!"
"Now get going," Roman waved his arm in a 'shoo, shoo' fashion as the White Fang Lieutenant introduced him. "I've got a show to run, a good to sell and idiots to swindle and trick."
Neo rolled her eyes and climbed up a nearby stairway with Perry while Roman went around the giant sheet emblazoned with the {Bloody Wolf and Claw Marks}.
"Thank you, thank you!" Roman waved mockingly. "Hold your applause!"
"What's a human doing here?!" A Deer Faunus pointed at Roman accusingly.
"I'm glad you asked, 'Deerie'!" Roman responded, chuckling at the horrible pun he just made. "Now, I'll be the first to admit, humans... are just the worst. Case in point: Me. So I understand why you would like us all locked away, or better yet, massacred!"
"I mean, that's why you are all gathered here here for right? The urge to just slaughter the ones you hate is just too irresistible, huh?" Roman added, causing a small wave of discomfort through the new recruits and a wave of cheers from some off the present veterans.
"But before the claws come out, I'd like to mention the fact that you and I all have a common enemy: the ones in control, the people pulling the strings, the dirty, rotten humans that run our kingdoms!"
At these words, the crowd changed their tune and started to agree with him.
"Government, military, even the schools: they're all to blame for your lot in life! And they're all pests that need to be dealt with! Fortunately, I'm quite literally the best exterminator around."
Roman raised a hand to the audience, which dispersed into smoke then reformed back. "No offense to any rodents in the room."
With a snap of Roman's fingers, Perry and the White Fang Lieutenant pull down the designed curtain, causing the whole mass of Faunus applaud at the sight of the {Atlesian Paladin-290} behind it, the emblem of the White Fang painted on its shoulder.
"As some of you may have heard, this right here..." Roman tapped the giant mech. "...is Atlas' newest defense against all the scary things in the world. And thanks to my 'employer'," He said this with a blatant sign of distaste. "we've managed to snag a few before they, uh, 'hit the shelves'."
"Now, many of your brothers have already moved down to our new operation in the Southeast." Roman continued. "If you'd rather stay within the city, that's fine... But if you're truly ready to fight for what you believe in, this is the arsenal I can provide you. Any questions?"
The applause and cheers he received was enough to sate him as he raised his arms in smug triumph.
"Will all new recruits, please come forward!" The Lieutenant said to the crowd.
Roman walked back to Neo, who just rolled her eyes at the crowd's reactions.
"Look at them, Neo." Roman jested as he lit a fresh cigar. "I'm pretty sure I mentioned and highlighted massacre and slaughter but they still herding like dumb animals."
Neo just shook her head. "What do we do about Jaune?"
"He's just a means to an end." Roman tilted his head as he sucked in sweet nicotine. "After looking through the list he sent me, remind me to check out my contacts at Vacuo..."
As he spoke, Roman zeroed in on a duo of recruits who weren't moving with the crowd. A blond Monkey Faunus with a familiar pair of red wrist bracers... A black haired Cat Faunus with her very unique Huntress Weapon out in the open...
"Kitty and Kong...!" Roman growled as he threw away his cigar and stomped forward. "I don't mind them tracking us, but at least Little Knight has the sense to disguise himself properly whenever he's meeting us! Is he the only teenager his age with some sense?!"
Suddenly, Kitty, apparently realizing that they'd been found out, quickly unsheathed her weapon, transformed it to a pistol and shot the junction box on the wall, plunging everyone into sudden darkness.
"Don't let them get away!" Torchwick yelled. He was about to transform and suffocate those little shits down when Perry called for him.
"Mr. Torchwick! I've finished unlocking the Paladin's authorization codes." Perry put an unseen Scroll into Roman's hand. "You can use it now!"
"Sun! The window!" Roman heard Kitty call out.
Change of plans, He was gonna take the Paladin on a joyride, use it so many toys to gorily kill Kitty and Kong and bleed off some stress while doing so. Sure, Little Knight would be pissed, but dear old Roman had three counterpoints to that.
Firstly, these kids were Hunters. As soon as they started their schools, they should have known that to enter a life of violence was to accept a violent death for themselves.
Secondly, kids disguising themselves that poorly in the criminal underworld needed to get shot. Several times over.
Thirdly, He just got a Mini Mecha! Screw Cinder and everything! He's always had a desire from when he was little boy to ride one of these!
"Stop them!" Roman ordered as he booted up the Paladin.
The two student Hunters crashed through a window and started running as fast as they could, as the Paladin crashed through the wall of the building in pursuit of the runaways, who leapt off of a car and manage to get on the roofs.
The Paladin followed beside them on the street as Kitty and Kong ran, jumped, and flipped from rooftop to rooftop.
"So you wouldn't happen to have..." Roman heard through the inner speakers as Kong twirled in the air. "oh, I don't know... some form of backup?!"
"On it!" Kitty grabbed her Scroll and put it to her ear as she continued to jump.
"Everyone!" Kitty yelled into her Scroll. "If you can hear me, we need back-"
"HEEEELLLLP!" Kong interrupted, making their situation very clear. "Big robot! And it's big! Really big!"
"That Torchwick guy is in it!" Kong explained, nearly tripping as he mistimed a jump. "But not, like, it didn't eat him; he's, like, controlling it or something!"
"Where are you guys?" A voice Roman didn't know asked through the Scroll.
Roman didn't hear Kitty's response as he took a chance to swipe at Kong, who dodged while screaming, "HURRYYYY!"
The trio somehow made it to the highways, the teenagers jumping down into the busy street and continuing their escape by hopping on cars while Roman chased them in the Paladin, pushing vehicles out of the way.
Kong paused to look at Roman's path of destruction and offered a quick "Whoa!" before leaping onto more cars.
To Roman's anger, he then noticed a new pair of teenagers on his sensors, following them on a bike. A blonde chick accompanied by a blue haired guy.
"We've gotta slow it down!" Blondie yelled over the traffic.
"Got it!" Blue Hair agreed. He reached for his gun, but Roman crashed into a multitude of cars with the Paladin's strong bulk, sending them flying towards his chasers.
"Hold on!" Blondie instructed as she maneuvered her way through the vehicles being sent flying at her, with Blue Hair flailing about behind her, nearly being hit a few times.
Once his balance was restored, Blue Hair released his weapon, aimed as sparks start flying, and fired several bolts of blue electricity at the Paladin, causing Roman to grimace from the force of the attacks.
Switching strategies, Blue Hair flipped the gun and it mechashifted into a shaft with an energy blade at the end, then jumped from Yang's bike as the spear's head split into a trident and drove it into the top of the Paladin. Noticing this, Kong and Kitty paused in their car-hopping to look back.
"Neptune, hang on!" Kong yelled.
Blue Hair was trying his best, but Roman kept bucking the Mecha and threatened to make him fall.
Closing his eyes, Kong smashed his palms together, and from the golden Aura around him, his Semblance created two glowing clones of him that copied their creator, leaping off and going back over the tops of vehicles to collide into the Paladin's front. They exploded into blinding light upon contact to let Kong leap forward to attack with his weapon, but Roman finally spun enough to send Blue Hair flying off and knocking into his friend, sending both of them off the highway.
"AAAAAAAAHHHHH!"
Sun quickly grabbed his key from the chain on his belt, pointing it towards the rapidly approaching ground.
"[Open, Gate of the Lion!]" Sun yelled as he and Neptune accelerated downwards in a fall that was high enough to render their Aura insignificant. "[Leo!]"
A Magic Circle appeared as a Lion Faunus in a suit manifested, quickly caught Sun and Neptune before creating platforms of light to slow down their fall into a series of jumps.
"Thanks, Leo..." Neptune hugged himself to the ground in relief.
"Leo, can you chase after them?!" Sun pointed to the highway above them.
"I can, but the farther I get away from you, the more Mana I drain." Leo responded. "I wouldn't recommend it as exhausted as you are now, Sun."
"Sun? Leo?"
The three turned to see Jaune nearby.
"Looks like whatever you were doing with Ruby's team wasn't a planned combat scenario, was it?"
"Er, you could say that." Sun said nervously as his tail scratched his head sheepishly.
Roman saw a girl in white twirl over a highway and land in the middle of the road, holding a rapier at the approaching Paladin. Roman smiled as his robot charged the girl, but the girl in white spun and plunged her blade into the ground, summoning a circle of ice across the pavement that caused the Paladin to slip and crash, actually flying over the young Huntress and falling off the ramp, landing further down before Red, already having her weapon out in scythe form.
The Paladin stood back up, and the rest of of the girls fell beside their leader to take up positions. Roman chuckled, moving the robot slowly towards the girls.
"Well, well, well." Roman declared through the speakers. "Looks like it's round 3 for Red, round 2 for Kitty and Round 1 for Blondie and Ice Queen."
"Hey!" Ice Queen said, offended while Blondie just shrugged.
"[Freezer Burn!]" Red gave her orders, solidifying her status as 'leader' over the other kids.
Red and Kitty jumped back out of the way as Ice Queen performed her same ice-circle trick, but backed out of Blondie's way when she jumped into the air and hit the epicenter with her burning fist, creating a wave of mist that surrounded the Paladin.
Immediately, the Paladin activated its laser sensors to make up for the lost sight, but it barely saw the afterimage of Kitty and narrowly missed the dashing Blondie. A gun managed to fire at the area between Kitty and Blondie, but out from the blast comes Red instead, who slashes the metal with her blade, causing it to falter.
'Dammit' Roman grunted. 'I can't use my Observation Haki well as I'm piloting this thing. But, still...'
The girls gasped as the grey Mecha suddenly turned glistening black, Roman's cackling being heard from the speakers. "Can you cut this, brats?"
"[Checkmate!]" Red issued their next move. "If he's using haki, use yours as well!"
'Wait, what?'
Kitty and Ice Queen attacked this time, each girl going for the feet until Ice Queen jumped up and stabbed a sensor before leaping off of a white glyph.
Roman lifted the Paladin's foot to crush Kitty, but Ice Queen summoned another glyph under her teammate to launch her backwards before the crushing blow can land.
Roman growled and fired off the missiles, but Ice Queen and Kitty flipped backwards as the explosions merely hit where they were.
However, Ice Queen soon jumped up too high, and Roman managed to fire a double energy blast at her. Her rapier absorbed the damage, but Ice Queen was still thrown back, so she casted a beam of light from her weapon to the ground under Kitty, forming a yellow clockwork glyph that's absorbed into the Faunus girl and let her slice through each launched missile with ease in a flurry of super-fast {Aura Slashes}.
"[Ladybug!]" Red ran back into the fight.
Red shot herself forward and cut at the robot's legs, then turned as Kitty aimed herself at the Paladin's feet as well. They both dashed forward and attacked at the same time, circling each other around the Paladin with each strike until they both launched themselves into the air and came down together on the shoulder, cutting off the left arm entirely, as the two's Armament Haki combined to surpass Roman's.
Yang didn't waste a second, jumping onto the Paladin's back and punching the top with fiery shotgun blasts.
Roman was knocked around in the cockpit, but seeing as he couldn't reach her with his remaining mechanical arm, he ran backwards through two columns and left her embedded in a third before backing away and turning towards her. Just as she was falling down, the remaining arm extended a closed fist, and then punched her through the third column completely.
"Yang!" Kitty called out of concern.
"Don't worry! With each hit she gets stronger, and she uses that energy to fight back! That's what makes her special." Red explained.
'Oh shit.!' Roman thought as he hurried forward to put Blondie down.
Blondie quickly got back on her feet, blood leaking down her face and hair burning a brilliant golden white as she clenched her fists.
Sensing danger, Roman threw a punch, but Blondie caught it in her own hand, despite the ground cracking beneath her and with her lilac eyes turning red with rage, smashed her spare fist into the second arm, obliterating it under her force.
Getting desperate with his armless robot, Roman immediately kicked Blondie to the side, but as she passed her teammates...
"[Bumblebee!]" Red yelled.
Kitty threw her weapon out for Blondie to catch while flying, and the Faunus used the momentum to swing the burning girl around for a final hit to the robot. Roman, however, stepped out of the way just in time to avoid complete destruction.
"We have to slow it down!" Red told Ice Queen.
"And how do you propose we do that?" She asked.
"[Ice Flower!]" Red answered.
Twirling their weapons so they both pointed at Roman, Ice Queen created a series of glyphs in front of the scythe's sniper barrel, and a single shot through the circles created a dazzling spiral of icy energy that created large icicles upon impact with the Paladin.
Red continued to shoot as Ice Queen transformed the bullets, and as the ice completely enveloped the robot's body, Kitty swung her partner around in a circle one more time, and with Roman unable to move, the Paladin was hit by the speed and power of Yang's haki-clad fist, flying into the air before crashing down in a hundred pieces and an ejected criminal.
Roman got up, slightly dazed but unharmed, as he inspected the damage while brushing dirt off his clothes. "Just got this thing cleaned..."
He looked up just in time to see Blondie, still burning with her absorbed power, fire a single shot at the thief, but it was useless as his upper body became smoke on impact, easily reforming afterwards.
"Alright, kiddies!" Roman stalked forward, smoke wafting off his form to give him an intimidating appearance. "Looks like you're all getting a 'continue'."
"[Enabler!]" Red ordered.
Red and Blondie dashed towards Roman before Red grabbed Blondie and transformed in a body sized missile composed of red rose petals and yellow flames, shooting towards him at high speed.
When close enough, Red released Blondie, causing her to shoot forward at high speed, colliding with Roman with enough power to push him back several meters.
"Not good enough, Blondie!" Roman said as his own Hardened fist countered her's. "You'll need more that that!"
As he raised a spare fist to attack with, Red suddenly yelled. "[Ice Dragon!]"
Ice Queen suddenly created glyphs around Blondie's fists, which in turn froze him to her. An advantage she took by lifting him up and slamming him back to the ground twice before the ice broke. That wasn't all as the brawler quickly closed the distance to attack him more.
It was a mistake as Roman coldly glared at the approaching glare and yelled. "[Smokescreen!]"
Jet black streams of smoke erupted from Roman's body, quickly covering the area around them in smoke and greatly obscuring the vision within the area. It also had the effect of blowing the approaching Blondie away with sheer physical force.
"[P -hack- Pollination!]" Red coughed through the smoke. The four girls escaped to the farthest reaches of the area and all readied their weapons. In an instant, the girls blanket fired the whole area, causing Roman to dodge and block almost everything.
By the end, the smoke had cleared and Roman stood exhausted but unwilling to surrender.
"It doesn't look like he is going to surrender." Ice Queen observed. Of course he wasn't! Like hell he would. Good thing he'd called for Neo while in the smoke screen.
"We take him unconscious." Red declared. "[Burning Shadow.]"
As Blondie rushed forward, Kitty followed, creating a {Shadow} with Gravity Dust behind her and Blondie which hit them both towards Roman. Roman managed to block their initial attacks but as soon as he's arms were pushed out of the way, Blondie and Kitty readied their kicks which was the suddenly blocked by a suddenly appearing Neo.
She easily knocked them back with her umbrella, hanging {Hush} over her shoulder as Roman addressed the victors. "Ladies, Ice Queen..."
"How does he know about that nickname!" Ice Queen demanded an explanation. "It's bad enough everyone else uses it. But to have a scumbag like him do it…"
Apparently his supposedly self created nickname was actually common for her.
"Always a pleasure!" Roman continued, then turned to his partner. "Neo, if you would..."
Neo curtsied her enemies with a bow while Roman tipped his bow hat, but Blondie had none of it, charging forth with fists raised to strike the outlaws... only to break their image as Neo teleported them into their escape Bullhead.
"Whew! what a evening!" Roman collapsed into a nearby seat while Neo stared at his disheveled state. "I'm gonna have to pay top notch for my cleaning again."
Jaune, Sun and Neptune sat in the stools of the {A Simple Wok Noodle House} eating their plates of noodles with the duo's weapons leaning on the other stools.
"They're probably fine, right?" Neptune asked.
"Probably." Sun responded.
"You can tell all about that after finishing the meal that I paid for." Jaune ordered. "I mean, it's not like you guys went on an unsanctioned mission, caused heavy injuries to civilians and inflicted heavy collateral damage right? I mean a combo of all that to just catch a thief would require at least a suspension for all involved, right?"
Sun and Neptune pushed their near empty bowls away from them.
"Way to to kill a dude's appetite." Neptune covered his face in guilt.
Sun squirmed a bit before Jaune offered an out.
"I do have my Pro Hunter License but I can't sanction what I don't know about, can I?"
That was the last straw as Sun and Neptune spilt everything.
KingVessel: Other than my 'movie' Fanfic, this might be my longest chapter yet- No, hold on, {A Pervert's Guide to Becoming a Dragon Emperor}'s got a longer one in there. Please review.