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Getting to Work

Fox slashed his way through the Grimm, slaughtering them quickly. He was glad there wasn't anything too ridiculous. He, Blake, and Yang had chosen to help keep the mine clear, so they were working their way toward the mine together. In fact, the three of them had been working together almost constantly since they had killed the Ghast in the mine. Blake couldn't leave Fox, and Yang wasn't willing to work with anyone but Blake, so they all stayed together.

Fox split a Sabyr down the face, killing it, then folded forward at the waist, Blake's sword's cloth swinging over him with Yang on the end of it, sending her flying into a group of the cat Grimm, allowing her to slaughter them. Then, Fox stood, slashing another Grimm as Blake stepped up behind him, slashing two more with her sheath as she pulled her sword back to herself.

"It's kind of fun having Yang around to try and steal you," Fox smiled, switching to his bow and sending an arrow streaking across the ice and into a Manticore's face, killing it as Marrow, their babysitter for the mission, was distracted killing several Sabyrs. "It kind of reminds me of the old days when I had to compete with Sun for your attention."

Blake shook her head. "You're not competing. I only see her as a friend."

"I know," Fox smiled. "It's still fun, though."

He turned, slashing the last Sabyr outside the mine and they headed inside, finding several Grimm that looked like huge wolves. Fox began to fight one group as Blake and Yang dealt with another together, and Marrow covered the entrance.

"Hey have you guys ever thought about branching out?" Marrow asked. "You three always team up, but I don't know if your styles-"

He stopped talking as Yang snarled angrily, her eyes glowing red as she shot forward, driving multiple jabs into a Grimm, planting delayed explosives in its torso before catching Blake's sword, driving the folded up blade into the Grimm's chest before blasting it with her gauntlet sending it flying into the air, Blake swinging it over herself then down into another group of Grimm, the bombs exploding as soon as Blake took her sword back, the entire group of Grimm being destroyed. Marrow's arms fell to his sides just as Fox's sword spun through the air, killing a Grimm behind him and stabbing into the wall just as Fox's shirt began to shine green as Fox tapped into the Emerald woven into the shirt, a shining green aura enveloping him. He drilled his left fist down into a Grimm's head as it lunged at him and planted it into the ground, killing it and cratering the stone beneath him, then grabbed another by the throat with his right hand, lifting it entirely off of the ground, then crushing its throat and destroying it as well. Then, he held his hand out and his sword burst out of the wall, spinning back to his hand and removing the last Grimm's head on the way.

Marrow stared at him, then the girls, then him, then the girls, then finally swallowed hard. "Really...really good stuff. Keep it up. Yeah."

"You keep your opinions about our choice of teams to yourself, and we'll keep our opinions about your role as the Ace Ops comedy relief to ourselves," Fox said. "Now, let's go. We have a mine to finish clearing."

Marrow swallowed hard and nodded, all of them heading into the mine together.

Fox cracked his neck as he and Blake walked into the training room. It was an amazing room, in which large black cubes with glowing blue edges could be generated to form whatever obstacles the people in the control room wanted. Currently, the room was set up like an arena. Blake wasn't going to fight, not this time, at least. This time she was only there to be Fox's anchor. Fox had decided to train on his own by taking on the entirety of the Ace Ops himself.

"You've got guts," the heavy set female with the hammer, Elm, said.

"Not many brains, though," Clover said.

"We're going to obliterate you," Harriet grinned.

"You should at least have your friend help you," Vine, the bald one dressed like a sort of monk said.

"If I had her help me, it wouldn't be challenging enough for me to improve," Fox said.

The Ace Ops laughed as Fox drew his sword.

"I'll start then," Marrow grinned.

"For my sake, as much as your own, you should all fight at once," Fox warned. "Trust me."

"Nah," Marrow smirked. "I've got this."

He hurled his boomerang, sprinting after it instantly. However, when it reached Fox, he batted it aside with one of the arms of his bow before drawing it back and firing, the arrow slamming into Marrow's chest and launching him backward, slamming into one of the walls of cubes currently forming a square arena for them to fight in. Marrow dropped to the ground, groaning and with his aura just finishing fading.

"I warned you," Fox said. "I'm not a normal Huntsman."

"Noted," Clover said. "Alright. The usual maneuver, then."

He sent out his fishing line and Fox slashed the hook aside before ducking under the glowing orange, stretchy arms of focused Aura that Vine could form over his own arms as his primary weapons. Vine punched and whipped his arms at Fox for several moments before Harriet appeared beside Fox. However, just as she punched at him, his sword crashed into her arm, stopping her fist. Harriet's eyes widened before Elm placed a foot against Fox's back, green focused aura, similar to Vine's arms, formed around her shin and Fox's back before she flipped forward, hurling him under herself at Vine, who drilled an extended punch into Fox's jaw. Fox crashed to the ground before beginning to stand, only for Harriet's fist to crash into his side at super-speed, hurling him. He flipped and rolled through the air before driving his sword into the floor and skidding to a stop. As he did, Elm stepped up in front of him, hammer pulled back, only for Fox to catch the shaft. Her eyes widened before he twisted, yanking the hammer past him, then twisted back the other way, his left fist crashing into her gut, making her drop the hammer. Then, he jumped, spinning and slamming his right heel into her head, throwing her. She crashed to the ground as Harriet shot forward, but as she moved to punch him this time, her fist skipped upward off the flat of his sword before he slashed her. She crashed into Elm just as she was standing, their heads colliding, and their auras faded. Vine sent an arm out but Fox twisted and squatted, grabbing his arm from below before swinging, flipping Vine, who was surprisingly light, over himself and slamming him down on the ground on his back.

Fox grabbed his sword, which he had stabbed into the ground again, only for Clover's fishing line to wrap around him and attach to itself. Then, Clover swung him around, slamming him into a wall before Vine began to pummel him. After a moment, green energy exploded to life over Fox's body, Vine's punches no longer hurting, and he raised his arms, breaking free of Clover's fishing line. Vine shot forward yet again, but Fox jumped backward onto the wall, then off of it, the force shattering the wall before he streaked through the air to Vine, grabbing him by the face and slamming him into the opposite wall, also shattering that one, knocking Vine out. He turned to Clover, who watched him in surprise and a bit of fear.

"Do you surrender?" Fox asked.

Clover looked around at the others, then nodded. "I know when I'm beaten. But...what is that? Your Semblance?"

"Yeah," Fox said, letting the energy fade. "I can control energy. Basically any kind."

Clover nodded. "Explains why you're so strong."

Fox nodded as the others began to pick themselves up off the ground. "So, who wants to go again?"

Everyone who had been incapacitated groaned.

Fox smirked as he stabbed down through the head of a Sabyr he had been riding around on, killing it and setting his feet on the ground as it disintegrated. Ahead of him, Blake and Yang were dealing with the rest of the swarm of Grimm they'd been tasked with clearing. Blake and Yang really were a good team. Probably better than Fox and Blake were. Fox sighed. He wished he didn't have to keep Blake handcuffed to him so much. She couldn't even spend time with her best friends without him around anymore.

"You okay?" Blake asked.

"Yeah," Fox smiled. "I was just thinking about how to fix my problem."

Blake nodded. "We'll find something."

Fox nodded, smiling, and kissed her, seeing Yang cast them a jealous glance before looking away. He pulled back, smiling, and Blake sighed.

"You shouldn't worry so much," Blake said. "We'll fix you."

Fox smiled, nodding. "I know."

They turned, walking back over to Yang before heading back toward the city.

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