Summary/Disclaimer: Time for another chapter of The Dragon and her rook. Enjoy the 1000- word chapter. I don't own RWBY, Monty Oum, and Rooster Teeth do.
(Vale, Beacon, Fall.)
Yang cracked her knuckles and flexed her cybernetic arm, she looked at Mercury as the seconds ticked down before their fight.
"I think you better quit while your ahead, blonde," Mercury said, Yang smirked as the timer buzzed and the fight began.
Mercury lashed out with a crane kick which Yang blocked with her arms, she slid back before rushing forward and responding with a punch from her right arm.
Merc blocked this with his other leg before Yang heard a metallic clang, similar to her arm.
Cybernetic legs? Wow, she didn't expect that, she was so surprised she didn't notice Mercury who flipped, landing on his hands and spinning while firing a barrage of bullets at him.
"Seriously?" Yang asked as she launched herself back, firing her Ember Celia gauntlet as she did to launch herself into the air as she backflipped back, sliding back.
"Nice… But not good enough." Yang said before she rushed back in, Mercury spun on his hand and met Yang's Ember Celia punch with a roundhouse, the clang could be heard all over the stadium.
"You're not going to win, Blonde." Merc snarked before he turned, and roundhouse kicked at Yang who knocked his foot to the side with her cybernetic arm before she jumped and punched Merc with her other arm.
Merc slid back before he flipped into the air and brought his foot down in a downward hook kick, Yang dodged it and punched at Merc's foot when he landed. He responded by a hook with his right hand at her head.
Yang slid back from the punch, she rubbed her cheek before she cracked her knuckles and charged in, firing round after round from her cybernetic arm at Merc who blocked it with his feet while spinning on his back.
"Seriously…. Your pretty tough…." Yang muttered before she turned and elbowed Merc before he spun and launched an ax kick at Yang who brought up her arms. She was knocked onto her back.
(With Skyler)
Skyler watched Merc spun on his heel and then fire a round at Yang who brought up her left hand, the bullet bounced off the gauntlet.
"She's holding her own, I heard in her info that all of the competitors that Yang doesn't do well with people who use kicking-based fighting styles," Winter said, Skyler, looked up from his scroll before he saw Yang catch his foot as he tried to bring it down. She tossed him back before firing a round from Ember Celia, the round knocked Merc to the ground.
Yang was at half her aura, but Merc was nearly down for the count. Skyler watched Yang flip herself to her feet and sighed as Merc flipped onto his hand and fired another barrage of shots at Yang.
Yang blocked 2 shots before the others slammed into her, hitting her like a brick wall, bullet after bullet.
Winter winced before Skyler smirked and began counting down as Winter looked at him.
"What are you counting down for?" Winter asked as Skyler held up two fingers and then closed his fist.
yang cracked her knuckles as her hair erupted from blonde to burning gold, her eyes turned from lilac to red and she lunged at Merc out of the smoke.
Before Mercury could even respond, Yang punched him as hard as she could with her cybernetic arm, he brought up his arms to block it, the punch still lifted him off his feet and sent him flipping backward, he continued flipping back, his aura shattered, and he landed on his stomach.
"Wow… You have a pretty dangerous girlfriend, Captain Azur." Skyler heard from Winter. Skyler was about to say something when he noticed shouting, He noticed people shouting at Yang and some screeching. Skyler blinked and rushed outside where the match was.
"She killed him! he's dead!" Skyler heard, he looked at the arena where Yang was looking around at the screeching and pointing with booing.
He looked at the monitor, Merc's neck looked twisted, and he saw red under him, he looked at the arena and saw Merc was unmoving, but he could tell something was off.
That was before 6 Atlesian Soldiers and 6 AK-200s surrounded her, he rushed down the stairs as he could hear one of the soldiers.
"Stand down! Hands-on your head, now!" Skyler heard, Yang looked over as Skyler flipped off the railing and landed in a crouch on the arena.
"Sir, get back!" One of the soldiers said, Yang, looked at Skyler.
"Stand down!" Skyler yelled, one of the soldiers looked at him in shock.
"But sir, she ki-…" The soldier started to look at him before Skyler curled his hands into fists.
"STAND DOWN NOW, THAT IS An ORDER!" Skyler yelled, the soldiers backed down, but the androids held their rifles at Yang for a minute before they lowered their rifles, there was still booing and screaming, Skyler heard dozens of people calling for Yang to be arrested.
"Captain!" Winter said Ironwood was behind him, a pair of Dropships with their guns trained on Yang, and Mercury's teammates were standing over Mercury, glaring at Yang and looking at Skyler with shock as to why he had told the soldiers to stand down.
"Skyler," Ironwood said, Skyler, looked at Yang despite all of this.
He had never seen her so scared and confused as she looked at him with pleading eyes.
He didn't know what to do.
Author notes
Phew, another chapter is done! Yes, the fight was a bit short, I'll show bigger fights down the road. I also want to point out the fallout will be different than the show. The next chapter will be Friday or this Sunday and will take place during Destiny and will show Skyler, Winter, and Ironwood talking to Yang. Until then, Lighting Wolf out!