Cinder observed the few recent candidates that the White Fang have brought in. So far, they seemed to be what she needed for her weird blueprints but even then, they could barely make heads or tails of the infernal scribbles of this mysterious ASGL organization. She even glanced it over herself. She may not know much about advance science but she could tell it seemed to be extremely complex equations. So far it looked to be they needed high ended scientists and engineers to fabricate the strange device.

Angered with the lack of progress she decided to call on an old acquaintance to send a copy to a few corrupted Atlas Engineers. Even then they never heard back. She sat in her office overlooking her main goal the dust collection she had been growing. Even if she won't admit it. Eliza has been a huge help in the gathering of the rare material. All she asked for were two "competent" bodyguards. She began reflecting on both Eliza's and Roman's numbers to even verify what she though. Thanks to the foul power in her it seems she simply out does the trench coat heister in every way. She naturally would cut loose ends for slacking, but her distrust in the three-faced diva is one even she would not dare trifle with, not without thorough planning anyway. She looked at Roman and decided to change his task for the time being. "Roman, I have a new task for you." She spoke quick. He was listening as he watched his recent payoff get unloaded. "It is obvious that neither of us trust Eliza normally we would kill her ourselves but we have no clue what she is capable of."

Torchwick's face was unamused. "That's the understatement of the decade." His disdain towards the subject showed his view.

"Her ability can't be ignored. It's time to face facts she needs to be disposed of." She continued to speak as Torchwick pulled out a cigar. Cinder lit it for him as he guested gratitude toward her. "It may be best to finish up our deal with her and go our separate ways with her." Torchwick nodded in agreement as he continued watching the process of unpacking.

"It's not easy to do." Torchwick's voice was muffled by the Cigar as he thought on it. "We'll need to kidnap some of the top lead engineers and scientists in the world to decipher those markings." Cinder nodded as she continued eyeing him. He immodestly let out a sigh and looked back at her. "I'll get on it but I'm taking those two with me." He angrily demanded his requirements for this assignment. Cinder though reluctant agreed to it as he left.

Beacon's training arena.

Ruby entered the arena last. She had a few things to answer for mainly why her and Jaune's teams decided to hold a war in the cafeteria. She had to report how in actuality it was Yang starting it on a bet with Samson he could catch grapes from where Nora's sits without his shapeshifting abilities. It got out of hand however when Nora and Carol grew tired of the Yang and Ms. Fortune's puns. Apparently based on some reports the fight finally broke out before Filia returned from somewhere but she was dealing with a few known bullies that have caused her a few grievances ever since they found out she was a host.

Ruby sat in the audience chamber with Wiess, Lie, and Filia. Most of them seemed to be waiting for the first match of the day, Jaune vs Peacock. based on her absence Pyrrha must be giving him advice based on how she saw her fight in the lunch room. Ruby recalled one of Filia's stories of Peacock she wondered if she had watched her fight before. "Hey Filia." She asked only to get no response She looked over She looked terrible. Not just her Samson was not looking well either. Her hair had a sick dull tone to it her eyes, were shut, and she simply looked exhausted. "Filia? Hey, Filia." Ruby began to get worried. Samson began to revert into Filia's head as he did on some occasions. He shortened himself to a form of buzzcut then bite her hard.

"She shot up jolting in pain. "GAH!" She shrieked panicking. she looked left and right before exhaustion began taking her again. "Huh? Wha? OH?." She looked noticing Ruby as well as Wiess and Lie.

"Are you okay?" Wiess asked as she looked over her. She showed not physical illness but she was showing other signs.

Filia nodded. "It's just Para-nutrition-sycosis. I get it a lot after Samson stunt like that off." She spoke as she caught her head in her hand against the back of the bench. The three looked at her with confusion. she looked up almost dozing off until Wiess tapped her a few times trying to think of a way to describe it. "In combat the most dangerous people have these kinds of moves. Spectators regard as blockbusters, they do a lot more damage at two costs revealing your strongest attacks and physically and mentally taxing on the person." She began to nod again staying awake was going to be a problem for her. Ruby tapped her this time. She shot up at attention to continue her explanation. "The move I did was a move stemming from Samson's Parasitism. He called it Tricobezoar I think."

Ruby looked at her with concern "Are you going to be okay?" She asked. Filia nodded before falling back a sleep.

"Just need to... hold out till... Lunch" She muttered before going out cold again.

"Guests." Goodwitch spoke up getting all but an exhausted Filia's attention. "Today we are here for Peacock's team dubbed the Avery Unit trained in understanding how Aura and Semblance work." She looked to him left and saw Peacock grinning as she waited for the fight to get underway. "The first two to fight is Team Captain Peacock against Team Captain Jaune." Jaune shivered as she said her name. "Students take your positions."

Peacock walked up to the line she was instructed to approach. Jaune clumsily stumbled toward it not sure how much trouble he was in with her. Goodwitch eyed the two of them "Peacock, are you ready?" She asked Peacock gave a thumbs up as she took her usual fighting stance. Goodwitch looked at Jaune.

Before she could ask Jaune sighed "Let's just get this over with." he muttered looking at his cartooned opponent.

"Wait!" a female voice could be heard. Pyrrha was behind Jaune dressed in combat. "Peacock I wish to challenge you in his stead." She demanded throwing the everyone off count. "You have no quarrel with the one that tried telling you it was not a Pizza parlor. I was the one who told you otherwise." She bowed humbly as she gave her reason for the intrusion of her request.

Peacock lifted from her combat stance and looked up at Avery who was expecting her answer. "She's not wrong boss, Short stop over dare said he thought you got the wrong number." Avery spoke to the debating Peacock. Peacock eyed the two of them for her conclusion.

"You that willing to lose for him?" She asked then began to smile mischievously "Bet chu fancy him eh." Pyrrha took a step back slight anger in her eyes at that remark. Peacock saw the slight glint her eyes and it proved all she needed. "Alright Red, I'll fight you instead. Ya look funner anyway." Jaune looked at Pyrrha with confusion.

Pyrrha took her position as the two waited for the fight to begin. She hunched over hiding most of her self behind her shield. a thing she noticed during her fight in the cafeteria was Peacocks fighting style. From what she could tell it was an improvised slap stick like fighting style enhanced by cartoon like abilities and an emphasis on range. Meaning when the clock says begin...

Begin

"GARBAGE DAY!" Peacock Yelled as she quick drew her revolver and rapid fired three shots quickly at Pyrrha. Luckily, she predicted her first move and blocked it with her shield. She looked at the ground as the three shots it to see small rubber balls.

"(She's using rubber bullets?)" She asked herself before looking toward her opponent to see her missing. She must have used that Black hole teleport ability. She kept her guard up waiting for her to strike. She couldn't predict Peacock this maybe her toughest opponent. Suddenly she felt a tap on her shoulder. She turned around to get a heavy cream pie to the face followed by a baseball bat to her side. Pyrrha went sailing across the room crashing into the wall. She looked at Peacock as she jumped down and resumed her stance.

Peacock held her own ground watching from a distance as well. An idea came across Peacock's head though as she waved two flags throwing Pyrrha off guard. They weren't white flags but they were flags she was waving as if giving a signal of some sort. Out of nowhere a biplane came through the air. it was tiny and it looked like an RC toy being piloted by a bomb. Pyrrha saw it and already knew that this was not a friendly sign. she began to target it with her spear's gun formation only to feel her feet on fire. She looked down to see peacock there with a magnifying glass that was cooking her foot as well as a few ants. She grinned as Pyrrha kicked her away. she saw the bomb plane coming in as well as another on a go cart. She jumped quickly as the plane and cart collided resulting in an explosion. She dashed at Peacock who looked at Pyrrha curiously. She let out what appeared to be a blue pulse. She wasn't sure what it was but she was about to get caught in it.

The blue shockwave hit her. "(What did Peacock do.)" She asked herself looking at for an answer. suddenly when she landed on the ground she saw Peacock looking in shock as well. it seemed neither was aware of what that was. She shrugged and quick drew her revolver. She went to fire but froze in confusion looking to the right of Pyrrha. She noticed and turned to see a blue image of herself run before dissipating. She looked at Peacock who was about to fire again but instead of going right the image went left. Pyrrha looked at it before realizing what the ability did. "(it's some form of foresight. not very strong though looks like it only effects those in the radius of the initial ring.)" she concluded realizing it takes predictions every time she goes to move. She ran and the image fore sighted her which Peacock took advantage of and shot her in the leg. Her aura protected her as she continued her dash studying Peacock's new ability. It seemed she was beginning to understand it as well. She went to take aim and shot at Pyrrha again this time however Pyrrha fired back disarming Peacock. She dashed while she grabbed her hand and struck her hard enough to breach her aura field in few simple hits.

"Enough." Goodwitch yelled looking at Peacock puzzled. "Why did your aura give out so easily?" She muttered to herself looking at the footage.

"Hey military." Peacock yelled looking at her. "What's this white shield stuff work off of.?" She asked when she overheard her mumbling.

"Aura and Semblance are like a manifestation of one's soul." she explained Peacock looked in the air before realizing something.

"Oh, looks like I'll be keeping my distance." She said getting her attention. "One Parasite is tasking on a person. I'll bet Spiky hair's were not that great in comparison either but you passed it off as inexperience. I have two so I bet mine is far off worse because of that. Eggheads said the things run off a person's Soul Matrix, I don't know who made the names I just know it okay." Peacock finished her theory as Goodwitch wrote it on an email to send to Oobleck to see if it could be possible.

She walked off to get farther evaluated. As Goodwitch looked at her monitor for the next two opponents. "Nora Valkyrie and Cerebella, you are up next please being ready shortly."

Undisclosed location.

Atlas lab four nine delta has been studying Grimm in the Vale kingdom for a long time recently they think they made a break through with a form of Grimm storage and study. The head lab technician professor Richard was the one that managed to in vent the new machine and method that had come into some surprising effectiveness.

He was sitting quietly going over data that the Huntsmen on duty could deliver until a knock on the door to his office. "At this hour?" he asked himself puzzled as he walked up to the door curious. Behind the door was a man in a black baller hat He looked at him Grinning. the good doctor recognized him immediately. He fell backwards scared. "What do you want? We don't have dust here." He panicked as he fell to the ground.

Torchwick laughed as he approached him. "Thank you for pointing out the obvious but I'm afraid you are my target today." He menacingly announced as he pulled a sack over his eyes.

The arena.

Nora and Cerebella were standing against one another One was goofily waving to the crowd as the other one was essentially was doing the same. Peacock and Pyrrha were watching confused noticing the two just casually waving as if they were not about to fight.

Filia was still out cold though some of her color had returned to her cheeks luckily. Samson however seemed to be even shorter than before. If what she said was true he may be going into a low power like mode. Pyrrha looked into the arena watching the two seem to clown around as Goodwitch got ready. "Okay This will be the last one for the day." She spoke in a heavy concise tone. "Nadia Fortune and Carol Painwheel have unexpected arrangements happen to them. Nadia claimed she needed time to prepare. and Carol's trial is to be concluded tonight she wishes to know what they have concluded." The audience Nodded as they settled in for the fight. "Now the next two opponents. Nora Valkyrie, are you ready?" Goodwitch asked looking in her direction.

Nora flipped her grenade launcher into a giant war hammer and she smashed it downward before grinning at her opponent.

Goodwitch took that as a yes as she turned back to the circus performer turned hired muscle. "Cerebella, are you ready?" She asked watching her spin her hat on her finger.

Cerebella grinned as she strapped her hat on. "IT'S SHOWTIME!" She shouted with delight as two giant hands came from the hat and took a wrestler's stance. hunching low to the ground all four arms waiting for the perfect time to grab.

Fight

Nora went first with several rapid swings at Cerebella. She dodged most of them by jumping from left to right only to get hit by an upward strike strong enough to throw her ten feet into the air. naturally her training in gymnastics paid off as she back flipped and landed on her feet and looked right at her opponent her eyes filled with joy toward the match. She charged at Nora and swung two heavy fist at her throwing her off balance for the high kick.

Nora was pushed back a few feet looking at her confused as to how she shrugged off the hammer. Cerebella knew what it was about and shrugged her shoulders as her two giant arms reached toward Nora and grabbed on to her. Nora then grabbed her Cerebella's shoulders locking them into a standstill.

Cerebella was slightly impressed at how well Nora was holding her own in this standoff neither where moving but they were both feeling the force they were doing to one another trying to wrestle the other one to the ground. She gritted her teeth as the veins in her hat became visible in the arms. It over powered Nora and she was slammed into the ground then picked up by the giant hand. She crashed repentantly into the ground before she managed to break the orange arm's grip. She Dashed toward her Hammer and swapped it to a grenade launcher mode proceeding to fire it at Cerebella. She dodged left barely getting hit by it. The explosion tossed her forward close in the gap between her and Nora.

"(Crap.)" she was thinking to herself "(I gotta end this fast.)" She began to charge at Nora aiming for an opening. She cocked her arm which the orange hand replicated with a shotgun cock replicating from it. To her this was not new unexpectedly the uppercut the arm delivered set Nora flying skyward as a poorly made cat popped out of nowhere. She stopped and looked at it in confusion just for Nora to slam her hammer right on her head.

The force of the swing was enough to make Cerebella see triple but thanks to her time at underground fight clubs she shook off the confusion from the hammer with some ease. She turned to face her grabbing at the ground with her two hands and slammed downward. the force caused by the two massive palms shook the arena. While she has done that before she did not expect the brief yellow field that surrounded the strike. Nora stopped in place watching the yellow wave of energy cascade across the ground. striking her in the process. She was frozen in place like it was a form of paralyses. Cerebella froze looking at the stuck in place Nora curious as to what happened. "I'm guessing my semblance has to do with paralyses" She said looking at Nora who was looking with pure confusion.

"It can't be that." She said looking at her. "I would have taken that energy since my is conductivity." she explained as she began to refeel movement in her body.

"Could be force freeze type of thing." She said. looking at Goodwitch who had shut down the program since they were done fighting trying to figure out what Cerebella just did. She leaned back before grinning and tapping Nora's shoulder. "You certainly can kick ass though I'll tell ya that much. Any time you wanna throw down my arms are game." She said as she headed toward the lockers to freshen up.

Warehouse

Roman exited the car he had boosted for his recent mission. He walked up to the trunk to open it where the Professor was being held. "This way if you would." He spoke calmly as the Atlas researcher entered the belly of the beast.

The scared researcher was looking in fear at the many White Fang members sorting out the types of dust or just standing guard. "Why am I here?" he demanded an answer.

Roman grew agitated from this man's persistence. "I told you before you'll know when you see it." He pushed him up a set of stairs to the catwalks. As they entered Cinder was sitting on the desk in there looking at them She gave of a menacing presence for intimidation purposes.

"Greetings." Cinder spoke getting up to approach the terrified scientists. "I imagine you have a few questions as to why you were kidnapped." She presumed as he shook his head. "If you must know the White Fang is out sourcing for a new more dangerous project." She began to explain. "A, kind benefactor has given us a job in exchange she promised us something in return." She seemed to be straining herself. If the scientists were to guess She really did not like this person. "All I need of you is to create this." she gave her request as she gestured to a set of blueprints on the wall.

The man eyed the designs. It was a strange looking machine with a hoop in the middle. It looked to run on a hard power source likely needing an engine strong enough to power two apartment complexes. He saw the calculations scribbled in the notes. Most of it revolved around forms of quantum theory. "What are you trying to make?" He muttered to himself as he continued looking at the designs. He noticed it had a name on the design. PROJECT CROSSROADS was written there. His eyes widened as he looked at Cinder and Roman. "You two are mad. The science behind this is preposterous."

"Do it or die. We don't really care." Roman said walking out of the room. to continue his current hitlist.