What is going on up there?
Neo looking upwards, finally noticed that the red bunny robot was attacking another horned 'android'. Next, a root growing from the ground and about to hit something 'falling'.
Is that a person? Another robot, but smaller? An alien? Whatever it is, the root is about to destroy or ascend it.
Just when the root was about to crash into the falling humanoid figure, the latter pulled out a blade, and in less than one blink, the former had been cut into at least 10 pieces.
That thing is bloody fast. Its dexterity and reflexes are really, really good. Neo admitted with envy.
After dealing with the root, the figure opened a reddish pink, paper looking umbrella, shaped like a petal from a gorgeous tree. The figure slowed down its fall, landing gracefully at the point of the road that Neo and her mount were about to reach.
Neo being won over by the curiosity of finding out what the figure was and its intentions, ordered her Jabberwalker to stop.
That's a female silhouette. Despite her face being covered with that dumb rabbit mask, I can tell that she's beautiful.
"Oi, konnichiwa, Piero-chan." The Rabbit said gleefully.
…
Neo didn't bother replying in any form.
"Right, the translator. Must pick a language the Ever Afterans understand." The Rabbit touched the device on her ear, which turned on a blue light.
"Hey, good day, clown girl."
…
Neo didn't bother replying in any form.
"Oops, wrong language, I guess." The Rabbit again tried to adjust the device in her ear.
No, it's the right setting. It's just that I'm mute and you are annoying.
"Oye, buenos días, payasita." For some reason unknown to everyone till this date, The Rabbit thought that Neo would be able to understand the mother language that one of her mentors speaks.
There's no way she's the one that came up with all the super advanced airships and robots destroying the Ever After. She's dumber than anyone I met back in Remnant.
Neo with an annoyed look, proceeded to do with her hand a gesture trying to tell her to go back.
"So, it was the previous one. Why didn't you say so?" The Rabbit said embarrassed.
•
"If we bomb the acre, delete all the footage, and everyone here lies to The Dragon in their reports, we could get rid of The Rabbit." The Wolf said in a deadpan tone, while looking at the screen displaying the scene in the commanding room.
"I'm down for it." The Monkey answered with no hesitation.
"Usagi is not the sharpest tool in the shed, but she's still my best friend. Unfortunately." The Boar admitted with a tired voice.
•
"I do not want to scare you, but the Minotaurs, those big, automated robots, will shoot you down by mistake, if you keep riding stuff like a stolen Gripper or a threatening aura construct. My mission is the opposite though. I'm here to pick you up. Please, surrender and let's go together to Zenith, in peace." The Rabbit said, as she closed her 'paper' umbrella and place it over her shoulder.
Zenith? Is that the name of the world invading the Ever After? Does she seriously think I will agree to her terms? When they are a bunch of psychos more insane than me? The Jabberwalker that Neo was riding began to shake violently fast, until breaking the ground under it.
You are worse than Salem. Eviler than Cinder. Yet, you dare to act so innocently, as if you were morally right and superior!?
"Are you undoing your construct? Guess that's a y-"
The Rabbit couldn't even finish her sentence, before the Jabberwalker launched its body at her, with all its weight and strength put into it. "Aaagh!" The Rabbit groaned, as her body cracked the floor she landed on. Neo's construct, with full killing intent, crashed down with The Rabbit, trapping her with a body lock takedown. By now, any normal Hunstmen from Remnant would have had his or her aura's defenses depleted.
"End. End. End. End. End." The Jabberwalker repeated, as it tried to eat The Rabbit's head.
Neo jumped and rolled into the ground, as much as she personally wanted to deal the killing blow, she just didn't have time. She made a Manticore Grimm construct and flew away from the scene, toward the area in which The Door was located.
Blacksmith, are you ready to escape? Neo tried to get an answer back from them.
"Neo, I will make it there soon. Remember, I can move around the Ever After without trouble. Don't lose more time and try crossing The Door without any hesitation."
•
As Neo was about to reach The Door's clearing, The Rabbit jerked up her body and did her best to land a headbutt on the construct trying to eat her. The impact of the hit was so strong, it broke the mask, mouth, and face... of the Jabberwalker. As the construct raised its body and used its arms to cover its destroyed face, The Rabbit noticed that the ground below her was shaking. She then rolled to the sides, now that the lock keeping her down was no more. A second later, one big root came out from the ground, barely missing her rolling body and destroying only Neo's construct in the process.
"Guess he needed to go back to his roots." The Rabbit joked with relief.
"I'm this close to nuking you." The Wolf exasperatedly replied through her ear comm device.
•
I see The Door. Looks like evacuations are complete. Neo informed to The Blacksmith. "Cross it now, with no hesitation. Fly!"
The Manticore sped up, as if following The Blacksmith's order, instead of Neo's. She proceeded to close her eyes and tighten her grip on the Manticore's reins, as the construct was about to reach the portal.
I suppose, this is it. Here I go... Remna-
"DO NOT THI-"
Just as Neo was receiving a desperate message from The Blacksmith, she and her construct crashed violently against the opened portal. The Manticore broke down entirely, while Neo's body got ricocheted, approximately 20 meters away from The Door. The sound of the impact could be heard across the entire acre. It took her a couple of seconds to stop rolling. If it weren't for her aura protection, the crash could have killed her. Doing her best to not pass out from the hit, Neo crawled and grabbed Hush and Roman's hat, which fortunately hadn't fallen far away from her.
"Please, I hope you can forgive me, from the bottom of your heart. I am extremely sorry, Neo." The Blacksmith said alarmed, concerned, and sad. "I forgot to remind you that the Ever After's Door can only take one to locations and time periods he or she is needed. If one lacks a strong motivation or attachment to a specific place, The Door will not allow you to cross it."
As Neo heard this, tears again began to build up at the back of her eyes. The physical damage Neo received from the crash was far stronger than any hit team RWBY had ever landed on her, while the psychological one surpassed even Somewhat's sharp words from earlier. An out-of-control loud laugh could be heard in the distance. It belonged to The Rabbit, who was holding her stomach and rolling on the top of a nearby hill.
"That's what you get for attacking me while I had my guard down!" It wasn't just her laughing at Neo. From her comm device, the laughs of Monolith 1's entire crew could be heard. They had seen how the entire scene played out on the screens of the commanding room.
That means, I cannot return to Remnant? Is it because I haven't ascended? Or am I simply no longer needed there? Neo's deep frustration with herself continued to build up, as she was about to start sniffing and her throat was beginning to hurt.
Of course, who needs me the way I am!? She thought to herself, as she was angrily twisting Hush with both of her hands, her vision clouding with tears.
"It's nothing like that, Neo. All you nee-" The Blacksmith was interrupted, by a loud explosion. One of the Minotaurs flying above the area had used its rocket launcher to destroy The Door's frame, making its portal collapse. Neo's body out of reflex, rather than due to a conscious thought, opened Hush to shield herself from the shockwave and heat.
"Oi, stop already with the Minotaurs! You are going to kill her!" The Rabbit, having her laugh also interrupted by the explosion, voiced her complaint toward her comm device.
"Usagi, you still want to capture her alive, after what she did to you?" The Monkey's voice answered with surprise.
"Protocol or not, I want her alive. Just reprogram already the Minotaurs, so that they don't shoot the girl nor her constructs." The Rabbit commanded; with a serious tone she hadn't used before.
"Rabbit, your side-mission is not worth the tro-" As The Wolf was replying, The Boar interrupted him. "I'm on it, Usagi-chan. As long as the Minotaurs keep attacking the roots and other parts of the tree, there shouldn't be any problem. Right, Grand Admiral?"
"Just capture her already." The Wolf answered with spite.
"Thanks, Grand Admiral." The Rabbit said to her comm device.
The smoke and fire from the explosion in the area was beginning to clear. From it, the shape of Hush and Neo emerged. She headed in direction of the hill, looking down and with Roman's hat covering her face.
"Neo, what are you doing? You need to escape, do not think about picking a fight with that girl. She's possibly in a different league, compared to anyone you have ever faced before." The Blacksmith tried to warn Neo, but she wasn't listening.
"Ah, small doll. Have you accepted my offer?" The Rabbit noticing Neo, in front of the hill she was standing on, happily replied. Neo of course, didn't say anything. Instead, she gave a slight spin to Hush with an elegant movement of her wrist, closed it and pointed the tip, in The Rabbit's direction, while raising her face. She was angry, trying to pierce her 'opponent' with her gaze.
"You want to fight me? For real?" The Rabbit's tone carried not only disappointment, but also a bit of sadness. "I can let slide what you did to me back there. I mean it." Neo pushed a button on Hush, to eject the blade hidden at its tip.
"Okay, then sorry. I shouldn't have laughed at you." The Rabbit gracefully kneeled. Neo was surprised by this weird gesture. No one had ever apologized to her like this before.
An enemy completely lowering her defenses, while apologizing?
Neo remembered the lame way Cinder had apologized to her back in Atlas, to get the relic from her. Then how Ruby didn't even attempt to apologize to her, back when they fought during their 'tea part'.
"Rabbit, what the hell are you doing? Knock her down, now!" The Wolf's voice coming out of her comm device said.
Why? You army is destroying the Ever After, yet you are apologizing? Just for laughing at me some minutes ago? Even when I tried to murder you? Who are you? Neo confused, finally noticed that The Rabbit was still kneeling. Completely facing the ground. She decided to summon a small pebble with Overactive Imagination and threw it gently at The Rabbit's head.
"Uh, what's the matter?" The Rabbit said puzzled.
I'm not going to fall for your trick! You are probably going to do the same thing as Cinder! She started constructing an Ursa Major. No one would ever pull out such a stunt, without expecting something in return.
"Guess our fight is unavoidable, but thanks for letting me know. You are more honorable and gentler than I thought." The Rabbit saying this, grabbed with her right hand the 'paper' parasol from earlier, hanging on her back, while with her left hand she grabbed a small sword (wakizashi), tied to the back of her waist. "Sakura, we are seeing some action today. Please, be gentle and don't break this beautiful doll."
Neo couldn't help getting a bit embarrassed, yet angry, at how The Rabbit kept treating her. She finally ordered the Grimm to jump and land on her opponent. The creature releasing a loud growl ran towards the hill, but as Neo was watching from behind and afar the Grimm's back, a sudden vertical 'flash' shone for a moment.
Perhaps it was due to Blacksmith's earlier warning, or because she had seen The Rabbit cut down skillfully a root some minutes ago, but unlike with previous fights Neo partook in, she decided to go serious and not let her guard down, from the get-go. A decision that saved her life.
The vertical 'flash' turned out to be a pressurized slice from The Rabbit's wakizashi, boosted by her aura. Not only did it cut in two halves the Ursa Major, but even the ground. Neo barely managed to side-step in time to dodge the 'slice' that kept cutting the ground, making it outside of The Door' area and... The Great Tree's acre, reaching a neighboring one and continuing to cut anything on its path. Once it made it past the far horizon, Neo's eyes couldn't perceive anymore how long it took for 'slice' to dissipate.
With her eyes subconsciously colored white by her semblance, for the third time that day, Neo turned toward The Rabbit.
YOU CALL THAT GENTLE, BITCH!? THAT ATTACK COULD HAVE CUT EVEN MONSTRA IN HALF!
The Rabbit noticing Neo's panicked and desperate face, stopped herself from following her attack. "Oops. Sorry. Thought that your aura level was a bit higher. I guess you aren't one of those with an Apex Semblance. I will hold back more."
Apex what!? Hold back even more!? Blacksmith, do you happen to know anything useful about her? How can this dumb girl be more dangerous than a Maiden? Neo asked quickly with her mind for any information that could be useful to her, without taking her eyes off the enemy.
"From what I have gathered, all I can confirm is that she comes from Zenith. A world which is going around conquering and destroying other ones, to steal the energy from their anima mundi. Boosting their own power, the more worlds they take down." Neo couldn't handle more their words and started instead to construct team RWBY with her semblance, before the rabbit girl resumed her attack.
Never mind. You are just making matters more confusing and leaving me with more questions. We will talk more about this whole Zenith issue later.
Using the same move Neo saw team RWBY land on the Curious Cat in their fight one year ago, she hoped that the rabbit monster wouldn't be able to properly handle multiple enemies at once.
If I make it out alive from this fight.
The Ruby construct attacking head-on, jumped quickly in direction of the hill, while The Rabbit chose to jumped backwards, to start dodging the scythe attack in advance.
Got you! Weiss do your thing.
The characteristic Schnee Glyphs that team RWBY constantly used to jump on and ricochet around, while accelerating and winning momentum, manifested all around The Rabbit. Behind her, the Yang and Blake constructs appeared. She was fully surrounded and about to be the victim of a team chain attack.
"Wow, you can do this by yourself? Not bad." The Rabbit sounded amazed. "But there's still room for improvement."
What did you just say?
As Neo heard this, The Rabbit quickly opened her Sakura umbrella and threw it behind her. The umbrella's spinning edge cut down with a horizontal slice the Blake construct, before continuing to 'fly' and cut down next the Yang one. At the same time, with her wakizashi, The Rabbit stopped Ruby's scythe swing and her momentum, holding her in place, so that she couldn't defend from Sakura's slice. The umbrella finished flying around its owner, before returning to her hand, as if it were a boomerang. Just the Weiss construct next to Neo was spared.
How?
Neo wanted to ask, but couldn't. Even if Neo weren't mute, she couldn't have done that, due to how surprised she was by her enemy's abilities.
As if reading her thoughts, The Rabbit replied. "At first glance, the enemy placement is intimidating, but the constructs lacked perfect coordination. If they aren't well synchronized, it's easy to tell which one is better to deal with first. Red one was the fastest and counted with a medium-range weapon, which made the top priority to personally stop her trajectory first. Second fastest and with a blade, was the black construct, but she was behind me, along the yellow one, so I had to prioritize destroying that one with Sakura. Yellow one was the slowest and had a very close-range weapon. Pretty much the obvious second choice to destroy. Finally, taking advantage of Sakura's increasing orbit, as it was flying around me, I cut down the immobilized red one."
Oh. Makes sense. Assassin from another world, 1. Power of friendship, 0.
The Weiss construct looked worried at Neo, waiting for a new order. Neo, gently putting a hand on Weiss's shoulder and giving her a sweet sympathetic look, decided to unsummon her.
Sorry, Schnee. I got your friends killed. You must live on, to honor their memory.
Neo then moved Hush around with her hand, with a puzzled look.
How did you control Sakura so efficiently around you?
The Rabbit understood what she wanted to ask. "With my AAIS bracelet. Advanced Aura Interlink System. It allows me to extend my aura to Sakura and control its flying trajectory easily, even without touching my weapon. They don't have those around here or whatever world you come from?"
Neo looked at the silver bracelet around The Rabbit's right wrist. Neo shook her head, although she wasn't sure if The Rabbit would understand the meaning of that gesture.
She also noticed that The Rabbit had a second one in her left arm, and wondered if it was also meant to be used with Sakura or another weapon. "Second one is for Ranran. You saw her earlier. Red and big ears."
Zenith. Neo couldn't help, but imagine what kind of world the rabbit girl came from. The Polendinas would have loved to learn about this.
"By the way, are you by any chance mu-" As The Rabbit was about to finish her question, Neo raised her hand, showing her open palm toward her rival. "Oh, I understand. My bad."
She's not only more powerful and capable than anyone I met back in Remnant, but also as perceptive as Roman. Too bad she's on the enemy side.
•
"I should have her executed via firing squad or hara-kiri, for revealing this much to an enemy from a nadir world." The Wolf irritated said, while watching everything from the commanding room.
"I think she's trying to win the clown girl over, Grand Admiral. Instead of just treating her harshly or killing her." The Boar replied to The Wolf, while doing her best to suppress her disdain for him.
"Sir, sadly we need that girl alive. To analyze the frequency of her aura and invade her world next. In case she's not an Ever Afteran." The Monkey complemented his partner's reply.
"The Tree is what really matters." The Wolf said, while dismissing the statements of his two subordinates. "Why is that thing taking its time to show up?"
•
"You got no chance to beat her." The Blacksmith said to Neo, as objectively as possible.
I know. It's impossible for me to win alone in a fair fight against her, even with my enhanced semblance.
"I will try to open another portal for you to escape." The Blacksmith tried proposing a plan.
Not now. It's going to get bombed by those Minotaurs, when I try to cross it. Neo rejected the proposal. Besides, I don't think she's letting me get away easily. We need to catch her off guard, again.
"She's too fast for The Tree's roots to ascend." The Blacksmith reminded Neo.
Then we need to work together. Coordinate our attacks, as best as possible.
"Teamwork? With The Great Tree?" The Blacksmith asked Neo with astonishment.
Why not? Even a tree cannot be a worse fight partner than Cinder.
"Ha. You always find a way to surprise me, Neo." The Blacksmith gladly replied to the proposal.
I simply miss that feeling. Having a real partner. It's been a while since Beacon's Fall.
"... Regarding that agreement from earlier, I'm planning on fulfilling my end of the bargain, at all cost." The Blacksmith said with a calm, yet determined voice.
Thanks.
•
"Oi, cute doll. Do you hear me?" The Rabbit asked, as she noticed that Neo was a bit too immersed in her thoughts. Somehow, Neo had developed enough trust on the rabbit girl, to not be afraid of lowering her guard a bit against her. But just a moment after The Rabbit delivered her question, Neo started running toward the hill.
Third time is the charm. Now!
What followed took not only The Rabbit, but also the crew of the Monoliths by surprise. As Neo was 10 meters away from reaching the hill, a root started to sprout from the ground, just where she was going to step on next. The strength of The Great Tree's root and Neo's aura combined, launched her fast toward The Rabbit, covering faster the distance that the Ruby Rose and Ursa Major constructs had failed to cross.
"No way, you can touch The Tree without getting ascended, but how!?" The Rabbit once again made a question that Neo wasn't planning on answering.
Time for Nora Valkyrie's hammer, Magnhild. Through her semblance, Neo turned Hush into a big hammer, which she used to attempt swinging it down on The Rabbit's head.
"Still too slow." The Rabbit once again jumped backwards to dodge an attack, but it was all part of the plan. As the hammer landed and destroyed the hill The Rabbit was standing on, another root started to sprout from the ground located behind her. It was going to hit her in the back.
"Got that covered too." The Rabbit declared, as she opened Sakura to shield her back and deflect the root, away from her body.
But what about this? Neo turned the hammer into its grenade launcher mode and started shooting explosive projectiles at her target.
"The hell?" The Rabbit quickly used her wakizashi to destroy the grenades, but slicing them in half didn't stop the projectiles from releasing tons of pink smoke, which surrounded her body and made it harder to see the battlefield.
Blacksmith, now!
Two trees with big branches, located next to what used to be the hill both girls were fighting on, started to bend and abruptly fell on top of where The Rabbit, surrounded by smoke, was standing on.
That's got to do the tri- As the trees were falling, the Minotaurs flying around the area started to shoot at them. Making both fall backwards and miss The Rabbit entirely.
No, we were so close!
Frustrated, Neo quickly activated her semblance again, to summon a bunch of green swords, flying horizontally in a circle formation around her body, Penny's Floating Array. While in her hands, she summoned Ironwood's Due Process.
Blacksmith, Plan B. Prepare and wait for my signal.
"That wasn't bad, doll. But you must do better, if you want to catch me." As she was speaking, Neo started running forward and shooting at her with both guns. It's not a fighting style she loved to use, but it was doing the trick. The Rabbit decided to jump over her to dodge her shots, into the main clearing, where The Door used to be located.
Neo followed her enemy, shooting and keeping Penny's swords flying around her body. But as she approached The Rabbit, her sword constructs started to vanish and the bullets were stopped midair. It was The Rabbit, swinging both of her weapons so fast, she easily was destroying Penny's swords and cutting down bullets. Neo could barely see her movements. Just as she was preparing to take a couple of more shots, The Rabbit sliced horizontally her wakizashi again, cutting in half both of Ironwood's guns.
Are you kidding me? Really!?
Just as Sakura was about to hit her body, Neo took the remaining two green swords flying around her, to stop the enemy's attack. She reinforced them with an extra dose of her aura. The truth was that Neo was honing her senses and reflexes as best as possible. Never in her life, she had fought this seriously before.
The impact of the hit was still enough to send her flying a few meters back, but without losing her balance. She elegantly managed to land on her heels.
"Goodness, you are so adorable and stylish." The Rabbit said, as she was beginning to get ready again to slash at Neo.
Weiss, Blacksmith, now!
As The Rabbit was about to charge ahead, a Schnee glyph appeared below her feet and froze them in place. "Wait, don't these glyphs belong to the beautiful white girl from earlier?" As she asked this, Weiss Schnee's figure reappeared by Neo's side.
"When did you summon her again?" The truth is that Neo had never unsummoned the Weiss construct. Earlier on, all she did was turn Weiss invisible with her semblance. Saving the construct for later, in case something went wrong. "Unless she was still there the entire time!"
It's over. This time the Minotaurs cannot save her. The ground below the glyph started to shake. A root was about to come out soon.
"Wow, doll girl. You really are incredible." The Rabbit said joyful.
Just for a moment, even if she doesn't want to admit it since that fateful day, Neo felt bad for what was about to happen to the rabbit girl. The truth is that Neo never imagined that an opponent would ever treat her so kindly and politely.
I wish I had known you for longer and under better circumstances. Truth is that I was also beginning to find you adorable. Maybe if we both ascend together, we can become friends in our next lives. Thanks for not belittling me... and goodbye, cute bunny.
"Boost!" Just as Neo was getting herself depressed, she heard The Rabbit said something.
Um, pardon?
"AAAAAAH!" As the Rabbit screamed, strong gusts and shockwaves started to come out from her body. Neo noticed that the entire clearing was beginning to shake, and that her opponent's body was emitting a strong violet light, which soon grew into a big and tall flame that illuminated the entire place.
Is that her aura? The clearing's ground started to crack all over the place, as Neo and her Weiss construct looked scared at each other.
"NOW!" As The Rabbit screamed, her frozen legs started to vibrate at insane speeds, breaking the ice and undoing the glyph that immobilized her. She ran in Neo and Weiss's direction, barely escaping from the root that was aiming at her, but possibly due to her legs being frozen for so long, quickly lost her balance and tripped. Disastrously rolling several times forward, she crashed against her frightened rivals, who were hugging each other as they saw the insane and terrifying feat of the rabbit girl. The three collapsed on the ground. Neo's construct began to crack from the impact.
"Ah, barely made it." The Rabbit once again relieved, had managed to escape ascension. As the root that sprouted in the clearing tried one more time to reach The Rabbit's body, it was shot down and reduced to shreds by the Minotaurs' machine guns.
"What did you just do now?" The Weiss construct asked in Neo's stead, with clear signs of pain. Neo was busy, also recovering from the crash between the three.
"Your constructs can talk!? Cool!" The Rabbit briefly ignored Weiss's question, to throw another compliment at her rival. "Anyway, I just boosted my aura's level temporarily and concentrated it on my legs, to increase their strength. Aura boost. It's a basic fighting technique, back in Zenith." Neo and Weiss alike were surprised by The Rabbit's casual response.
People in her world can do that!? I knew that special cases in Remnant, such as Jaune Arc or Yang Xiao Long, could pull off similar abilities, but that was relying on semblances. I didn't know that it was possible for a technique to boost or decrease your aura level at will, especially to this degree.
"So, still not giving up?" The Rabbit asked both girls, crouching to see them at eye level, while they were on their knees, still struggling to stand.
Will never give up. You are the reason the Ever After is under attack and I cannot ascend now.
Neo gave a determined and angry look at her opponent, while forcing herself to stand up. Unfortunately, her Weiss construct couldn't do the same, as more pink cracks were starting to appear across its entire body.
"This beautiful construct of yours is certainly a troublesome one, so I will..." The Rabbit pulled Sakura again, and raised it over Weiss's head. "Ah!" The construct released a small scream, as it closed its eyes and covered its head with both arms. But the hit never landed.
"You are making me feel like the villain of the story." The Rabbit stated, as she stopped Sakura a few centimeters away from hitting Weiss's head.
Your side is nuking this place. You are the villain of the story. Well, not like I'm the one to talk, in every sense of the phrase. Neo thought, hoping the message would come across her rival's head.
You did better than I was expecting. You can rest now, Weiss. Neo gave a head pat to her construct, who opened her eyes and smiled at Neo, as she was being tenderly dispelled.
"A dear friend of yours?" The Rabbit inquired, as she noticed Neo contemplating the last vanishing shards of her construct. But Neo ignored the question.
"Jacques Schnee. Jimmy Vanille. Both of you always shared a common ground that she was never made aware of. That night party is a memory that still haunts you." The Blacksmith said, inside Neo's mind.
Stop. It's already too late for that.
Neo didn't want to admit that she was aware, since long ago, that maybe if she hadn't been so obsessed with her vengeance, an opportunity to get along with the Schnee heiress could have risen.
I rather forget entirely about my parental issues and my life as a Vanille. Another reason to beat the enemy in front of me. Neo decided to stop the current train of thought that the three of them were having.
Anyway, time for Plan C.
The Blacksmith, taken aback, answered. "We didn't come up with a Plan C."
I know, we will make it up as we go. Don't think. Imagine. Neo confidently 'thought'.
"You are surprisingly stubborn, once you make up your mind."
Now you know how I ended up all the way over here, trapped in another dimension, fighting a world that wants to nuke a big tree. Neo thought, trying to cheer The Blacksmith and herself, despite the odds being against them.
"Ha. Certainly, that stubbornness is a quality that Roman and you shared. Now I get why both of you were partners." The Blacksmith said.
You are also kind of my partner now, so let's keep being stubborn together.
•
"Where the hell is that damned thing? This is taking too long!" The Wolf, watching the fight unfold at the commanding center, impatiently said. "Perhaps we need a more aggressive approach."
"Grand Admiral?" The Boar tried to call his attention.
"Reprogram the Minotaurs. We will begin to destroy the acre and attack The Great Tree."
"But Usagi and the priority target are still down there." The Boar protested.
"Which increases the chances of the plan working." The Wolf answered, mocking her concern.
