Jet immediately shot backwards, darkness covering him in a shroud. Weiss immediately flew into it, thrusting with her rapier, but met a solid wall, followed by a brutal kick to her shoulder, which was blocked by Weiss' aura, but the impact sent her slamming into a nearby shop window, which cracked.
Furious, she looked up as the darkness dissipated, unveiling Jet, smiling slightly as he unfurled Midnight Rose, the laser blade shimmering in the darkness. Weiss' eyes widened, she had never seen this weapon before, and immediately noted its similarity to Crescent Rose. She got up, and regarded this new development.
"Like it, Miss Schnee?" Jet asked quietly. He twirled the scythe, before embedding it into the ground, the purple light and low lighting elsewhere genuinely intimidating Weiss. Perhaps she would have realised her folly at attacking an opponent she knew nothing about. But now, Weiss was incensed.
Jet was the reason Ruby had an even harder time concentrating. Her grades were dropping, which meant Weiss often had to help her. She'd also been distracted during combat, which had led Ruby to be hurt during practises, due to careless mistakes. And now she finally had the root of the problem, and was going to take care of it.
Where Ruby's scythe was part sniper rifle, Jet instead had it as part rail gun. He demonstrated this by firing directly at her, Weiss using a glyph to escape the blast. She used another glyph to close the distance, but Jet seemed one step ahead of her, zipping away from her. She whirled around, and parried another swing, before stabbing at Jet's ribcage, but the move that normally worked on Ruby was blocked by him, before he swung with a right hook that connected with the side of her head and dazed her. Before she could react, Jet grabbed her hand!
Almost immediately, purple light flared at his touch, and Weiss immediately felt her energy being drained. Weiss used a force glyph to get out of his grip and blast the two in opposite directions. As Weiss rose to meet him again, she looked at Jet, who was holding his hand out in front of his face, which was still glowing purple.
"Interesting." he muttered, before turning to face Weiss and projecting a purple glyph and using it to fly towards Weiss! She leaped back, shocked as Jet pressed his attack. He had copied her glyphs!
Jet flew at her using the copied glyphs again, but Weiss turned and used his momentum against him, similarly to how she had once done to Ruby, using her own glyphs to redirect him through a shop's window.
Dizzy, he tried to stand, but Weiss pinned him to the ground. He growled as his eyes flashed black, similarly to how Yang's did, but his expression changed, becoming almost primal for a split second before they resumed his normal shining emerald colour. Weiss looked upon him with scorn in her victory, still mercilessly keeping him down.
"You are one of the worst scum I've had the displeasure to meet. You leech off our leader's potential, making her act like an even bigger dolt. What do you have to say for yourself?" Weiss scorned, her anger overflowing even by her standards. Jet's eyes flashed black again, and he glanced to the side before a punch to his chest from Weiss brought his gaze back upon her.
"If you value any resemblance of yourself, you will let me go." he hissed. Weiss gave him a sarcastic laugh. Who was he to make demands?
"You can't do anything. You're stuck, and I'm going to personally ensure you never bother our leader again. How can you possibly stop me?" she asked.
"I… can't." Jet coughed out, the blow to his chest starting to get the better of him. "But we are… Legion."
Something slammed into her side, and Weiss was barrelled over by the new arrival, who had shrouded herself with electricity before tackling Weiss, knocking the wind out of her even as she was burned by the electric power behind it. She rolled straight into a brick wall, before standing up.
Lilac now stood between her and Jet, who was now rising, his wounds being healed by Izzet, who was performing her time-reversal on him. Nouvelle leaped from a building and joined her, before the entirety of Team LIJN stood before her, and her rage was temporarily quelled at the knowledge that it was a four on one fight.
All three of the girls looked furious, and Nouvelle raised her hand, fire dancing in her palm as Weiss readied herself to defend. If she was going down, she was going down with a fight. Jet, however, raised his scythe and held it to block her. Nouvelle, with a look of understanding, lowered her hand, extinguishing the fireball she'd been about to conjure.
"Weiss." Jet said, taking a step forward. "Whatever the cause of your anger, you cannot beat all four of us. I give you two options, either leave us, in which case we will not pursue you, or attack us. I warn you, we will not show any mercy if you do. I leave the choice to you."
Weiss fumed as Jet turned to his team, who were regarding him with surprise.
"Come." he simply said, and the three followed him as he walked through an alley, and out of sight.
Weiss seriously wanted to chase Jet down, but knew that she didn't stand a chance. Deciding to let them be, she turned, sheathed Myrtenaster, and made the long walk back to Beacon.
As she approached the dorm room, she had hoped to avoid speaking to her team, as she was still furious. She had been close to beating Jet down and giving him a taste of her mind! But then his teammates had shown up, and they'd ruined her chances at victory over Jet. His words still echoed in the back of her mind.
"We are… Legion."
LIJN. Legion. Weiss understood now. Like RWBY, LIJN was a formidable team because of the bonds between their team members. Most of them also had semblances that could be used to support each other. Izzet with her time warping abilities, and Jet's darkness.
As Weiss continued to stand outside the door, her thoughts were interrupted by a sudden shower of rose petals. Turning, she found Ruby behind her. She looked worried.
"W-weiss? Are you ok?" Ruby asked. Weiss still looked angry, and made a short huffing noise. It was late in the night, and she just wanted to get to her bunk. Ruby had other plans, however, as she blocked the door. Weiss flashed her eyes warningly, but Ruby simply sat down on the floor. She'd grown a little more knowledgeable of socialising and reading people since she first started her relationship with Jet.
"Did you find Jet?" Ruby kept a steady voice. Weiss, resolving herself to this conversation, sat down as well.
"I did." she replied.
"What happened?" Ruby asked, still in her even tone. Weiss sighed, then relayed the events of her encounter with Jet. Ruby's eyes widened as she heard how Jet had drawn Midnight Rose, and how he now had the ability to use Weiss' glyphs.
Weiss ended off with how LIJN had arrived shortly afterwards, and how she was forced to leave or face an entire team's wrath. Ruby had to agree with her, it was a scaredy-cat move on Jet's part, but a smart one. 'Jet must not have wanted to fight Weiss in the first place, and hoped to scare her.' she reasoned.
"Jet didn't want to fight you." she said to Weiss. At this, Weiss actually laughed quietly. "He didn't!" Ruby piped up. "He just wanted to stop you and him from getting hurt over your anger!" Weiss looked at Ruby with a combination of anger and exasperation.
"Ruby, if you're implying that I brought this on myself-" Weiss sternly spoke, but Ruby swiftly interrupted her. "You did!" Ruby shouted, and Weiss felt anger behind her silver eyes. "You AND Jet! You constantly scorn him, like me! Tonight you attacked him! You fought, and ended up hurting each other, even when Jet only wanted to be friends with you!"
"Ruby, that man is not helping you!" Weiss shouted. "He's causing distractions, which are causing your grades to drop! And how do you know he wants to be friends with me?"
"He told me himself." Ruby hissed. "He didn't know what your problem was, but he still wanted to be friends with you, because I told him you were a GOOD person at heart. Think about that, Weiss." Without another word, Ruby got up, and stormed away. Weiss couldn't say or do anything, just watch her go.