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Super Neo-io Brothers

Chapter 1

NEO FROWNED, AND PUT THE THIN comic back in its place on the bookshelf. Ruby spent an unhealthy amount of time in this little shop when they weren't at school. Neo only went with her because there didn't seem to be anything better to do.

Unfortunately, the only stuff she could find were comics of giant mechs fighting. Either that or raunchy romance comics Ruby really shouldn't be looking at.

In her peripherals, she saw the front door creak open. A man sauntered in, wearing a long, white trench coat, and a bowler hat. In his gloved hand was a long, black cane. Behind him, five men in black suits, equally black hats and red sunglasses followed, each carrying long, almost glowing red swords. Immediately, she ducked behind a bookcase.

"Grab the dust." she heard the man say.

Neo ducked below the shelf, cursing in her head. Who robs a dust shop at seven o'clock? She could hear the shopkeeper whimper slightly as he pulled open the cabinet holding the dust crystals.

"Hey you, put your hands where I can see 'em!" a man said.

Ruby.

There was no response.

"Hey!" he said again. "I said put your hands where I can see 'em!"

Neo slowly crept along behind the bookshelves, closer to Ruby. By the time the huntress was in sight, the man already had a hand on her shoulder. She looked up as he shook her, pulling the headphones away from her ears.

"Yes?

"I said, put your hands in the air!" He pointed his sword at Ruby's exposed face.

"Are you… robbing me?" Ruby asked, raising a brow.

"Yes!" The man said.

Ruby paused. "Oh…"

Now!

Neo leapt from behind her shelves, pushing off the wooden surface, into the air, and slammed her foot into the man's face, sending him to the ground. At that same moment, Ruby grabbed her scythe, still in it's sniper rifle form, and slammed it down onto the man's already injured face. His glasses snapped, and fell off of his bruised face. His eyes were shut. He was out.

Two of the other men peeked over from behind the counter. One of them shouted, and ran over, sword pointed in their direction.

Neo ran up to meet him, and slammed her palm into the man's sword arm, knocking the sword to the ground. With her other hand, she threw her fist into the man's gut, burrowing it deep inside his rib cage. He grunted, and fell to the floor.

Ruby, now with a fully extended Scythe, slammed the flat of the blade against the man's head. He crumpled to the ground, unconscious as well.

The second man hesitated, stepping back. Who wouldn't, after watching your teammate get beaten by children in a matter of seconds?

Sighing, he shook his head, and took a battle pose. His body was turned, his right arm pointing his sword in their direction. It looked as though he almost knew how to use his weapon.

The man lunged, his sword swinging in a sideways arch towards Ruby's left. She blocked as Neo threw her leg at the man's side. His left arm swiftly met her boot, and knocked it to the side. Ruby stumbled backwards from the force of the blow, and wasn't ready to block the man's sparta kick to her stomach. She coughed as she was thrown to the ground with a thud.

Neo used her other foot to kick the man's leg, which shook, but ultimately didn't falter. He swung his blade at Neo's neck, but she fell backwards into a handspring. Or at least, she tried to. With his unarmed hand, he grabbed the leg she kicked him with as it flew into the air, and pulled her back towards him, slamming her into the ground. She gasped for air as the breath was knocked from her lungs.

She looked up to see his gleaming red sword glide through the air, streaking towards her unprotected face.

Was this it? Was this really how she was going to die? At the hands of some random mugger trying to rob a simple little dust shop?

Suddenly, her vision blurred, and her stomach lurched. She went flying across the room, and out into the cold, night air. Her back was lying flat on the stone bricks of the empty street outside the small shop. It was partially lit by street lamps and their white lights. Neo blinked, sitting up. Her breath was still uneven, and her back was aching terribly. She winced at the motion.

"You alright, Neo?" Ruby asked. The girl stood tall over Neo's seated figure. She winced as well, placing a hand over her sternum.

Neo simply nodded, and stood up, bearing the pain.

"Being in a confined space like that wasn't good for Crescent Rose, so I moved us out here." she said, slamming her scythe into the ground. "I hope you're alright with that."

Neo nodded again, and cracked her knuckles as the three men followed out the door. The man they had previously fought was in front. Obviously, out of the three, he was in charge.

Ruby stepped closer to her. "Did you wanna fight the tough one, or did you want me to do that."

Neo glared at the approaching bastard, and pointed to him, then herself.

Ruby nodded. "Right. I'll take out the other two guys."

Finally. Neo thought, stepping forward. One on one.

Two on one was nice, but Neo couldn't do much other than land a hit, then back off to let the other person hit. Or, in tonight's case, she'd back off and let the other person miss, then she'd miss her followup attack.

That would not happen again. She'd make sure of it.

Luckily, the men had a similar plan, and the two broke off to go occupy Ruby. Neo smiled as the man approached. Normally, she'd be terrified. Her umbrella was left at Signal, and she'd be without it until tomorrow; the school was locked.

However, she found herself surprisingly calm, even weaponless.

Neo closed her eyes, and breathed in, the cool air chilling previously empty lungs. Feeling surprisingly refreshed, she opened her eyes once again.

The man was now roughly ten feet away. But Neo was prepared this time. And alone.

Without warning, Neo rushed the man, throwing her fist into his face, shattering his bright red glasses. He grunted as his face was thrown to the side. Swiftly, she grabbed the man by the neck, and swung her legs around, using her left calf to press against his throat. With her right foot, she kicked the man's sword out of his hand, sending the bright red blade to the stones.

The man, realizing he was weaponless, immediately began grabbing at Neo's legs in an attempt to get her off of him. She tightened her grip on his neck, and wrapped her arms around his head, helping to keep herself upon him. She could feel his punches to her legs grow weaker as she slowly choked the life out of him with her thighs. She ignored Ruby's fighting, focusing solely on forcing the douche into submission.

Eventually, the man fell to the ground. Neo's back hit the ground, and, honestly, hurt more than the dude's attacks did. He still threw his arms at her legs, but there was no point. Clearly, he was out of breath. Eventually, his attacks stopped, his body going limp. Just to be sure, however, Neo held her tight thigh-trap for another few seconds.

He probably wasn't dead, just unconscious. Probably

Neo loosened her legs, and glanced over at Ruby. She had sprawled both men onto the floor, one of them with an arm missing. Both had blood leaking out of their chests, and from Neo's angle on the ground, she couldn't see how bad the wounds were. However, she could only assume that they were dead, since they weren't moving. And were stabbed in the chest. Neo winced at the blood staining Ruby's scythe.

"You choked him with your thighs?" Ruby said, smirking. She stepped over to Neo, and held out her free hand to help her from the ground. "A lot less messy than usual, I suppose."

"Well, well, well, you little brats." a voice called from the robbed shop. "This has been… fun to say the least. A real nice show."

Neo turned, and found the man with the orange hair standing in the doorway to the small dust shop. Ruby readied her battle pose, her bloodied scythe reflecting dramatically in the light of the nearby lamps.

"But I'm afraid that this is where we part ways." he held up his cane, and fired a single, glimmering shot. It hit the ground in front of them, and exploded in a brilliant light. Both Ruby and Neo covered their eyes, avoiding the blinding flash.

When the light cleared, the man was gone.

"Found him." Ruby said, pointing to a nearby building. The man was climbing a latter that led all the way to the top of the structure. In half a second, Ruby was already at the latter, following him up the apartment. Neo sighed, but followed.

By the time Neo finally reached the top, the man had already escaped in an aircraft, and Ruby was being scolded by a woman. Not the police it seemed, so that was a good sign. Hopefully, she didn't see the… slaughter down below.

"And those men that you killed down there! I get that it was self defence, but for the love of all that is holy, did you have to cut his arm off, too?"

Nevermind. She knows.

"And that other young lady you were with. Where is she?"

Ruby shrugged, looking at the ground.

The woman had long, blonde hair, and a white top, with the front cut open to reveal her cleavage. Flowing down her back was a long, black cape.

A huntress.

"Whatever. Regardless of how I saw your behavior, there's someone who wishes to speak with you and your friend. So if we could just find her, then we can get this over with."

Ruby nodded, and turned back towards where Neo was peeking her head over the edge of the floor, where the latter ended. Neo sighed inwardly, and pulled herself up, giving the huntress full view of her.

"Ah. You were eavesdropping." She said. "Then I presume I don't need to repeat myself."

NEO BLINKED AGAINST THE BRIGHT LIGHT, attempting to at least see the person she was supposed to talk to. After long enough, her eyes adjusted, revealing an aging man, with shaggy gray hair, a black suit and a dark green scarf.

"Who are you?" Ruby asked, eyeing him skeptically.

"Ozpin."

Silence.

"Do you realize that scythes are one of the most dangerous weapons you could possibly have, Ms. Rose?" Ozpin said. "Who on earth taught you to use one?"

"Uh… my uncle. Qrow." she said. "He's a teacher at Signal Academy."

The woman from before, Glynda, apparently, snorted. "Does no one question teaching children to use scythes to go around and chop the limbs off of random citizens?"

Ruby held up a finger. "He was robbing me!"

Glynda sighed. "The point is—"

"How would you two like to attend Beacon Academy?"

N/A I know that I don't upload regularly at all anymore, but I promise I'm still writing. Not stuff I'm gonna put on here, but I'm still writing. Some of what I've been writing is this. Just kind of an idea I've had in the back of my mind. This chapter doesn't include any of the princesses, but the next ones will.

To help with the confusion, I did change the way aura works just a bit. It's more of a recovery option than a defensive one. It's kinda hard to write how someone was stabbed with a sword, but aura protected them, so I just changed it to make it a little easier.

Anyways, hope you enjoy this new story. I'll come out with the second chapter of my second try at BURN soon-ish.

Also, I'm sorry if you were enjoying BURN up to the point where I cut it off, but it was bothering me, and I found a ton of plot holes that I completely missed, and I also actually learned to write. At least, write better than I did at the beginning. Plus I'm including stormlight in there, so... yeah.

Bye. Don't Die. Please.