Summary/disclaimer: Time for another chapter of Fight or Flight. Enjoy the 900-word chapter. I don't own RWBY, Monty Oum and Rooster Teeth do.

(Beacon Vale.)

Maize blocked Omen with the Quillion blades of his weapon before backflipping and flicking the switch of the weapon that turned them back into handguns.

He fired Vindicta at Raven who flipped through the bullets before slashing him back with her signature Fire Dust blade.

He rolled backwards, shaking the embers off him as his Aura blinked.

Tai threw a haymaker at Sal who pivoted around it and kicked him in the back. Tai sighed and groaned before he slowly climbed to his feet.

"Can we switch?" Tai asked. Maize blocked Omen again with his weapons before he forced her back with Retribution.

He was punched backwards and groaned.

"Nah, I'm trying to deal with Raven… Damn, you slug hard for a sword swinger." Maize flipped his guns up and down before Tai managed another punch at Sal, knocking him backwards.

Raven decided to stab at him before Sal blocked her sword with Night Bane. Maize roundhouse kicked Sal to the ground before Tai knocked him to the ground with a punch.

He hummed and then fired again with Retribution, knocking him back and flaring his Aura again.

The quartet looked at each other, sized each other up and questioned how it would go in for a free for all.

Then uttered sheer enjoyable, adrenaline-filled war cries and charged at each other.

(In Mistral)

The woman was known as Cinder. She looked at the bodies around her and sighed at how pathetic they had been. It seemed to her Emerald was wrong about the group of mercenaries she had tried to recruit.

"Tock? It's me. We're heading to Vale. The Spring Maiden isn't here… Those White Fang soldiers are useless; they couldn't even capture a single maiden." She hissed and clenched her flaming hands before turning and walking through the half dozen men who had tried to kill or capture her.

She had better things to do than chase after power in Mistral when there wasn't any to be found.

Besides, she wouldn't be able to overthrow Salem without the power of the relics helping her along in that regard.

(Beacon)

Raven managed to block Tai's haymaker with her left hand before kicking his foot and slashing him to the ground as his Aura broke.

Tai was a very gifted hand to hand combatant as Raven saw… but he had no real desire to use the ranged portion of his weapon.

The jabs, feigns, sweeping kicks? He was skilled but very unwilling to consider direct attacks.

Maize ducked Sal's swing at him before a kick sent the gunslinger sliding backwards. He grunted in pain and slid back up. His Aura is below half.

Maize was a lot more skilled at supporting people over range. She could see if someone managed to close the distance, they'd be much more capable of overpowering him.

She would see if he could readjust that during training down the road. She smirked and then saw Sal come charging at her.

Sal blocked one of his slashes, was slightly stymied by one of his punches before she managed to flank behind him and slash his back just as Maize fired.

Raven dropped Maize as his Aura broke. She called the match as the quartet hummed and panted in exhaustion.

"Ok. I say we ALL attack Raven next time. She almost broke my arm with that haymaker to my shoulder," Maize stated. Raven went to walk away only to collapse to the ground.

She removed her mask while sheathing her sword on her hip and sighing.

"Well… At least we can say nobody is a clear-cut winner… damn, Tai, you throw a pretty damn wild right cross. I haven't been punched that hard since I took down the Deathstalker Duet back in Feldspar." Maize grunted and fanned his face with his hand.

"Well, Sal is pretty strong… If you got faster, I'd damn sure say he'd be unstoppable. Not even my Semblance could negate that type of damage." Tai stated.

Maize chuckled and looked at Raven with amusement.

"Well, I think our brilliant leader over there is the best fighter. She took us apart faster than I could respond. I can't believe she's the only one who was still standing for a few minutes." Maize fanned himself with his duster.

He chuckled again and then fell back onto his backside. He groaned and rubbed at his head.

"Well… at the very least, you're not going to be dead weight for me," Raven stated. she watched the rest of her team look at her before Maize snorted through his nose.

"I don't care at the moment. My Aura is still knitting itself back together." Maize watched Glynda look at the group with amusement before walking away.

"Children? I would like to remind you being a Hunter is serious business." Glynda stated over the intercom.

The newly formed RUST rolled their eyes as Raven's Aura flashed crimson.

Author notes

Phew, another chapter is done! I want to point out the romance with Raven and Maize will poke through soon… Also, yes, Tock is back. The next chapter will be on next Thursday or so and will show RUST going to their first mock class and the second night at Beacon. Until then, Lighting Wolf out!

Ps: Yang is still Saturday with Winter and both are 1200 words or so. Penny is 1200 words tomorrow. Glynda is 1200 on Thursday and Ruby is 1500 words on Sunday.