A/N: Not much to be said... enjoy :)

Cain: Never ever ever ever ever ever ever…. Ever.

Beta: Prince of Austria

Why did I ever think this was a good idea? Jaune thought helplessly.

Yang raced through the city at top speed, weaving in and out of traffic in an effort to reach the rampaging giant Paladin that was chasing after Blake and Sun. Jaune tried to hold on as best he could, hoping to anything that he wouldn't just simply fall off and shred his face against the concrete.

Yang took another sharp turn, veering into the highway as the Paladin jumped there as well, along with the two Faunus students. Fighting valiantly on the roof of several cars, Blake and Sun fired a few rounds into the Paladin before realizing that their bullets weren't going to make much more than a dent in the armor.

Thus so they resorted to melee, using their eerily similar semblances to keep Roman off balance and making it difficult for him to hit them on top of the moving vehicles.

"Come on you brats, stand still and make this easy for me." Roman was trying to trace the agile forms before giving up and grabbing a nearby vehicle, tossing it overhand to block any other car from getting ahead of the road, effectively also stopping the cars that Blake and Sun were on.

In that instant, the two of them dived behind the many cars before Roman started to unload bullets into the cars, trying to get a lucky shot in.

Finally, Yang was able to catch up, parking as quickly as possible before flinging herself towards the giant robot, screaming the whole way. Roman turned the contraption to see the Huntress, before slinging an arm out and backhanding her aside.

"Hnnnngh."Jaune wheezed, trying to catch his breath, not faint, and not throw up all at the same time after getting off of Bumblebee. "Note to self: do not fling yourself towards the giant death robot."

However useless that attack was, it gave Blake and Sun the opportunity to advance forward, banging on the metal with their weapons…which did almost nothing to the robot. With another turn, Roman faced the two figures, weapons akimbo. It didn't take long for them to figure out that while their weapons were essentially useless against the Paladin, the Paladin's weapons were very effective towards them.

Roman made short work of the pair, smacking Sun aside and causing Blake to run back into cover.

"Alright...so sticks and stones don't seem to work," Jaune said to himself, before kneeling and clapping his hands together. "Let's see if this will."

Placing his hands onto the ground, Jaune concentrated intensely, thinking of the composition of the object he needed to make.

After a few seconds, Jaune held up a bullet that was almost the length of his hand, filled with a fun combination of various chemicals that he had concocted himself. With another quick transmutation, Jaune held up his sheath, which he had transformed into a makeshift gun.

Inserting the bullet into the chamber, Jaune held up the gun and lined up his sights, making sure to place the stock of the weapon onto his left shoulder, so that his automail could support the recoil.

Jaune squeezed the trigger and braced himself, the recoil punching him in the shoulder, causing him to wince a little. The bullet flew true though, and struck the Paladin, piercing through and blasting off one of its arms.

Roman turned to see Jaune.

"Huh. I was aiming at the pilot, but I guess I'll take what I can get." Jaune muttered, before diving out of the way when Roman unloaded his other arm at Jaune.

"That was pretty nice, kid." Roman said. "But you'll have to forgive me, 'cause two arms aren't the only thing this robot has!"

With a few flicks and presses of switches and buttons, Roman revealed an array of missiles, several of which promptly flew towards Jaune.

"Oh. Well, shit." Jaune said before hastily trying to pull something out of his sleeve. The best he could do with such a short time was to pull up a flimsy barricade, which stopped a few of the missiles, but crumbled away after that and allowed the rest of the missiles to come through.

And here lies Jaune, someone who never wanted to be in Beacon in the first place! His mind screamed, closing his eyes.

Loud explosions went off very close to him, but for some reason, he didn't find himself dramatically thrown back like they show in all of those movies that he watched on his scroll. Opening his eyes, he found a glyph that slowly decayed into nothing in front of him, having blocked the missiles that were going towards him. Jaune turned to face Weiss and Ruby, both breathing heavily.

"Oh come on." Roman whined, seeing the two girls as well. "Two was fun, four got a little annoying, but six of you guys? I'm starting to think I've got a fan club after me."

Everyone ignored the complaining that was coming from Roman, as Jaune greeted the girls.

"Hey. What took you guys so long?" Jaune asked. Ruby and Weiss kept trying to regain their wind, Ruby bending over, propping herself up with her hands on her knees.

"Apparently… Last… Bullhead was… leaving… had to run… really fast." Ruby gasped out, before pulling herself up and sucking in a huge lungful. "And I mean really fast. Like, as in, fast for me. And I had to carry Weiss!" Ruby placed a hand to the side of her mouth, stage whispering. "Trust me; she is heavier than she looks." Weiss shouted a small 'Hey!' that everyone seemed to ignore. As crazy of a scenario as this might have been, Jaune couldn't help but laugh at Ruby's antics.

"That was not funny." Weiss said, reprimanding Jaune before turning to Ruby. "And I am not that heavy! I only weigh—"

"Ahem." Roman said, clearing his throat to try and attract their attention. "As much as I would love to stand here all day and listen to all of your sickeningly cute banter, I kind of have a schedule that I need to get back on, so… yeah." Roman said, before raising the Paladin's only arm and letting it fire at the three standing there.

Before any bullets could really fire though, a blonde figure jumped and latched onto the arm, wrenching it aside.

"No one shoots at my baby sister unless I give them explicit permission to!" Yang howled, before punching at the arm with her gauntlets, bending the metal. Roman yelped and shook the Paladin's arm like it was trying to get rid of a fly. Blake took this opportunity to jump onto the helm of the robot and take a few slashes at the glass, trying to break it but only managing to scratch it a little.

Roman creased his forehead in annoyance as Ruby also started to shoot at him.

"Alright now kiddies, playtime's over, so if you could all just kindly get OFF!" Roman shifted and made the Paladin shake, moving unpredictably enough to throw both Yang and Blake off before unloading bullets and missiles towards Ruby, Weiss, and Jaune.

Without being sure that she had enough energy to block everything, Weiss told them all to take cover, each of them diving behind something to avoid getting turned into grilled cheese.

"You know, you've got your whole team here. Don't you guys have some kind of plan that can help us out?" Jaune asked. Ruby looked helplessly at Jaune.

"Not really?" Ruby said, more of a question than an answer.

"Really?" Jaune asked with raised eyebrows as Weiss whipped her head around, glaring at him.

"As a matter of fact, I just remembered, of course we have a plan to attack a giant robot. We reviewed it a few weeks ago, remember?" Weiss asked sarcastically to Ruby, who hesitated at the question.

"I don't really remember talking about—" Ruby replied back.

"It was a rhetorical question you dunce." Weiss shot back, before wincing at a particularly close explosion to the right of her.

Jaune was a big believer of sarcasm, but even he didn't think that now was an appropriate time to use it.

"Alright then, don't you guys have something that you all can use?" Jaune asked again.

"We would if we had all four team members together at some point in time!" Ruby said, before actually looking a little miffed at Jaune. "But there's always someone doing something, like trying to do research on the White Fang with someone that's not part of her team, and that makes everyone else have to wait until she comes back, and then it's like 'ooh no, I can't I'm too tired from being with Jaune all day!'" Ruby said, half-screaming by the end of that.

Jaune blinked slowly, admitting that, while a tad bit overdramatic, Ruby was kind of right.

"Wow." Jaune said, not sure if there was anything else to say.

Ruby calmed down a little, her chest slowly rising and falling. "Sorry, I'm just a little stressed that we're facing a giant robot and we have no idea how to beat it."

"Yeah, that would make anybody a little stressed."

"Wha- Blake? How'd you get here?" Jaune asked, surprised that she was hiding behind the same burning car that they were.

"I got Sun to be a distraction." Blake said, pointing at Roman's Paladin, which was being attacked from different sides from Sun's clones.

"Hey! And that hat looks like it belongs on the head of clown!" Sun called out, dodging another annoyed punch. "But then again, maybe it's right where it belongs!"

"HAH! That was a good one!" Yang said, also in on the distraction. "You're such a clown." Sun laughed at that, before getting hit by a swinging metal arm.

"Huh." Jaune said, looking at the 'fight'. "I guess he's good for something after all."

"We need a plan." Blake said quietly, looking at the other three hidden behind the wreckage. Jaune nodded, trying to think of a suitable plan that they could feasibly pull off.

"How hard do you think it is," Jaune said slowly, capturing everyone's attention. "for something with one arm to stand back up after its fallen?" The other three turned to look at each other, before giving Jaune a grin and springing into action.

"Yang!" Blake cried out, flinging out Gambol Shroud's ribbon. Yang turned around and caught it deftly in her hands, but stared, confused at what Blake wanted her to do.

With another second, Weiss sprung into action, switching Myrtenaster to her ice cartridge and covering the floor underneath the Paladin with a thick sheet of ice.

"Oh. Okay." Yang said, understanding what was happening right now. Jumping into action, Yang surged forward under the legs of the robot and skated around the right one, spinning the ribbon a few times around, then jumping off the ice and running towards Blake. Blake also ran in the same direction, trying to pull the leg out from under Roman. It was slow work, and Roman resisted the whole way, even as Ruby fired off a few shots in hopes that it would be enough to tilt the thing backwards.

"Oh come on now, do you really think that this would work—" Roman said contemptuously, before a huge pillar of the road rose up and smashed against the Paladin, finally causing it to fall onto the floor.

Jaune rose up from his kneeling position, grinning at the fallen robot.

Roman twisted and turned the Paladin helplessly before ejecting the front out and climbing out of the robot, wincing.

"I swear it's like you guys are stalking me." Roman said, straightening out his clothes. "Hmpf. Just had this dry-cleaned." Turning to look at the damage done to the Paladin, he turned back to look at Jaune.

"So you're the magical Alchemist, huh?" Torchwich said, glancing up and down at the slim figure. "I almost feel sorry for you kiddo."

With that, Roman turned away and tried to leave, only to be surrounded by the rest of the group. Slowly, the six of them closed in around him, cutting off all avenue's of escape. Roman looked around before raising an eyebrow.

"Y'know, this would work out pretty nicely if it wasn't for something like… oh, what was it I had up my sleeve again? Oh that's right!" With a snap of his fingers, Neo appeared behind him, waving at them all before grabbing Roman and shattering into pieces with a parting wink towards Yang.

The six of them stood there, surrounded by fire and broken vehicles, angry, frustrated, and a little annoyed that Roman had once again slipped out of their grasp.

"We really need to stop forgetting about that chick." Jaune said, pinching the bridge of his nose.

And the day had started off so well.