One Swing Victory for Team JNPR!
Team JNPR and BRNZ stare at each other getting themselves ready for the moment of their match to start, the audience are also getting themselves ready to be excited to see how this match will go.
"Ren, Nora, you both do well!" Karin cheered for them.
"3... 2... 1..." Port started the countdown of the match.
"Come on, guys!" Jaune raised his sword as he mentally promised himself to do his very best in this match with his team.
(Music: Honest Eyes, Black Tides)
"BEGIN!" Port shouted the start of the match.
Team JNPR charge forward to face their opponent while BRNZ did the same though only three of them charge forward while one of them stayed behind and turns around running into the forest side getting her rifle gun ready while her team do the rest of the close up fighting.
"Hey, that one isn't charging in with the others?" Sun confused a bit.
"Probably to get a better view of the battle readying herself to attack with long-range." Emerald guessed which Cinder nods in agreement.
"(Alright, time to shoot these punks down.)" May Zedong thought smirked.
"(Time to see what the champ can do.)" Brawnz Ni thought smirked staring at Pyrrha wanting to see if the rumors about her are true.
Brawnz attacks Pyrrha with a knee-kick as she blocks it with her shield and blocks another strike with her xiphos, she jerks her sword away making her opponent jump back.
May found herself a nice branch for a good sniping position as she hook on one branch with her rifle gun swinging herself on top and turns around to see the battle going on.
Nolan Porfirio is currently fighting off against both Ren and Nora as they are making him move back a few feet with their teamwork, Ren moves in swinging his blade-guns as Nolan who blocks it with his Cattle Prod and barely dodges a slam from Nora's hammer.
Jaune is defending against a barrage of strikes from Roy Stallion and his buzzsaw glows being pushed back a foot or two, but he was able to parry one strike away to get in one slash on the chest and Jaune tackles him back with his shield.
"Yeah! I did you like them apples!" Jaune smiled.
"Personally, I like them slices!" Roy threw his buzzsaws at Jaune.
Jaune quickly blocks them with his shield and his instincts took over for a second with his head leaning on the right to dodge an unexpected bullet, this confuses the Arc boy until he looks at the forest side and notice a small shiny within the leaves of a tree.
"(Oh shit!)" Jaune thought realized the big disadvantage his team is at right now.
"Guy, retreat!" Jaune called out.
Team JNPR hurry over to their mountain side hiding behind some rocks that haven't been blasted by May's sharp shooting, but they also know that they can't hide behind the rocks forever for they have a match to win.
"What do we do?" Pyrrha asked.
Jaune looks over the rocks to see three of the close fighters of team BRNZ charging towards them while they're sniper is still shooting from a distance.
"Spread out! Try to keep moving!" Jaune ordered.
The team spread out as much as they can to keep the sniper from locking on to them, Jaune saw Brawnz jumps at Jaune to punch him in the face but only punch his face and got pushed back.
Pyrrha charges in attacking Brawnz again to keep him away from her leader as Jaune ready himself against Roy again.
Nolan walks calmly toward Ren who just got in his fighting stance, he turns his head a little to May giving her a nod to shoot, May does so aiming a few shoots for Ren's feet.
"(The sniper is gunning for me!)" Ren thought seeing threw the shooter's aim.
Ren flips over to his left o dodge the bullets and quickly look up seeing Nolan coming in to attack with his cattle prod, but he was able to block it just in time and jumps back though Nolan wouldn't let him go that easy as he runs in and ducks down from a swing kick and smack Ren's leg and hit him on the chest that shocks him down with electricity.
"Ren!" Nora gasped. No one hurts her precious best friend/brother and gets away with it.
Nora goes in swinging her hammer at Nolan to attack, but he dodges the hammer and hits his electric cattle prod to the girl, but it doesn't seems to be hurting her for some reason.
"Oh-ho! Looks like one of my favorite students, Nora Valkyrie, is charging up to use her Semblance!" Port smirked.
"What?" Nolan started to feel panic upon hearing that.
"Yes, Ms. Valkyrie's Semblance lets her produce, as well as channel, electrical energy straight to her muscles! This allows her to jump explosively into the air, wield her mighty hammer, or in this case, absorb Nolan's attacks and send the young man flying!" Oobleck explained about Nora's Semblance.
"What?!" Nolan panicked even more now.
Nora pulls back her hammer to flex her muscles, as a way of showing the guy what to fear from him with pink electric sparks dancing around her body.
Nolan holds up his hands for mercy with a horrified look, but Nora doesn't have any mercy for him and head her hammer on the guy sending him bouncing back across the field and crashes through a large rock.
"Whoa!" Jaune impressed with Nora's feat of strength and turns around to see the thundercloud at the top of the mountain. This gave the Arc Knight an idea that will get his team the big win they need.
"Nora! Get to the mountain!" Jaune ordered.
"You got it!" Nora saluted, already liking this plan and sprints for the mountain.
"Ren! Try and distract the sniper!" Jaune ordered his other teammate.
One sniper shot nearly miss Ren's head as he looks on toward the tree where May is.
"Sure... Why not." Ren slouched sarcastically, he knew this was gonna be a hard task to pull off, but he'll give it his best to help Nora and not look bad with Karin still watching.
Roy threw his buzzsaws again at Jaune and he charges through making the buzzsaws bounce off his shield and clashes against his sword, Roy swings his arms Jaune meets the chains of attacks blocks most of them with his shield.
"Nice, that extra training I helped him with is finally paying off." Sun smiled.
"Wait, you helped train that dorky knight wannabe?" Emerald surprised.
"Yeah, he had a lot more aura than even a fully licensed Hunter would have and I thought about helping him use it to the fullest." Sun nodded.
"You do know you were helping a potential enemy of the tournament?" Mercury pointed out.
"Sometimes I like to have a good challenge, and there is also the fact that Pyrrha was also training him too." Sun shrugged.
"Man, I was pretty surprised when I saw how high his aura level is when I checked." Sun chuckled which got Cinder's attention a bit.
Back in the battle, May spotted Ren coming towards her and tries shooting at him but the green ninja of Team JNPR dodges them and made his way to the forest side and Nolan stood in his way.
Ren first fired some shots at Nolan as he dodges them and they attack with their weapons and block his cattle prod with the blade of his gun, kick Nola on both sides and use that prod to hold him into a lock hold keeping Nolan in front so that May can't fire at him.
May can see that her teammate is being held hostage and tries to think of something, but then she saw the hammer girl climbing up the mountain heading for the thunderclouds. Remembering what those old teachers said about her Semblance, she takes aim to her enemy.
"Nora!" Ren worried with the sniper now having her attention on Nora.
"That's not good, let's hope your leader will act fast." Karin concerned, but still feel confident for Nora and Ren's team to win this fight.
Jaune clash his sword against Brawnz's claw gloves holding him back and turns his head to see that Nora is in danger and look to see Pyrrha easily fighting off Roy.
"Pyrrha, up!" Jaune called out and pushes Brawnz away.
Pyrrha goes under Roy and towards Jaune as she jumps over Brawnz to land on the Arc shield and is thrown high into the air.
May has the target in sight and pulled the trigger to fire the Dust bullet, but the shot never met with Nora because of Pyrrha getting in the way and her shield taking the shot.
With that taken care of, Nora finally arrives at the top of the mountain with her hammer held high and the lightning bolt hitting the hammer charging up her Semblance, Nora twirls her hammer a bit and change it into its grenade launcher mode firing all six rounds to where May is.
May looks up in shock that the six missiles are coming at her and they strangely forming into a pink cloud heart, and a huge pink explosion erupted on impact.
Fortunately for May, she barely had time to dodge the incoming attack seeing the damage this girl has done.
"Has your friend always been this destructive with lightning?" Raven asked her daughters and friends.
"Well, we haven't seen this much of her destructive side during training." Yang scratched the back of her head.
"But there was this one time I accidentally shot her with a lightning Dust round, I totally panicked thinking that I killed her only for Nora to come right up and screaming "Awesome!" right as rain." Ruby explained.
"I'm not so sure about the right as rain part." Weiss commented.
May has shown to be okay as she was able to get away from the explosion though barely and the black smokes from the scorch mark going up causing her to cough up and force to jump down from the nearby tree she got on.
Brawnz, Roy, and Nolan turn around and look up behind them to see Nora jumped off the mountain and coming at them literally like a pink meteor with a large pink electric aura forming around her.
"NORA SMASH?!" Nora screamed and slammed her hammer on the ground causing a powerful pink shockwave that send the three flying and crashing near May who coughing from the smoke.
"This is it, guys! Let's finish 'em with team attacks! Ren! Nora! Flower Power!" Jaune commanded.
"Wait, what?" Nora asked.
(Music End)
Jaune gasp in shock that Nora just asked a question she should already know what that is, but as he turns around to notice the confusion look on their faces as they have no idea of what he is talking about.
"F-Flower Power." Jaune said, his friends just shrug as they still don't have a clue.
"That's your team attack name!" Jaune tried to remind them.
"Since when?" Ren asked as he doesn't feel confident with the name.
"Guys, we've been over this! Flower Power is Ren and Nora! Ren brings the flower; Nora brings the power!" Jaune explained with his hands gesturing between Nora and Ren.
"How do I bring a flower?" Ren asked, feeling confused of this while scratching the back of his head.
"No, silly, not a flower! Flour, like in baking!" Nora believed, but completely misunderstanding the purpose of the name.
"Why would I bring that?" Ren wondered what does baking has anything to do with battling and team attacks.
"I- Uh- No, it's your symbol!" Jaune stated.
"Sooo, what are we?" Pyrrha asked if she and Jaune have a team attack name too.
"Pyrrha!" Jaune gasped of how his own partner could question him like that.
"Sorry! I just want to make sure it's clearly defined." Pyrrha said.
"Those guys do remember they're in a middle of a tournament, right?" Emerald questioned if these guys are being serious right now, especially with Pyrrha Nikos being the Undefeated Champion has now fallen to their stupidity.
"If they realize that soon, Jaune is probably just gonna send Nora in." Sun stated.
"What makes you think she'll end it herself?" Mercury asked.
"Let just say I know how strong girls win." Sun smirked as he looks at Cinder making her giggle softly.
"Pyrrha, you and I are Arkos. It's that thing when we take our shields? Remember?" Jaune reminded her of their own little combo name.
Team BRNZ were readying themselves for fight against their opponents some more, but notice that team JNPR had actually stop fighting and just start talking like there wasn't any fighting to begin with which felt a tiny bit insulting to them.
"Arkos?" Pyrrha surprised and feeling a little conflicted of the name.
"Yeah! It's our names put together!" Jaune explained.
"Right, no, I get it..." Pyrrha said, suddenly feeling a little fluster of their combined name almost like a couple, even thought their not and not sure if the name is suited for a team attack.
"What, do you not like it?" Jaune asked.
"No, no! It's... good?" Pyrrha hesitated to give Jaune a clear answer.
"Mmm, I sense hesitation." Nora teased with a smirk.
Feeling this has become a total waste of time and something so stupid right before their eyes, Brawnz could not wait any longer and just calls out to his opponents.
"Hey!" Brawnz shouted getting team JNPR's attention.
"What do you think you're doing!?" Brawnz asked.
"Trying to have a team meeting, thank you very little!" Jaune answered.
"Yeah! Team ears only!" Nora said pointing at her own ears. This seems to only upset team BRNZ as they struggle to process this.
"WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF A FIGHT!" Brawnz yelled of reminding those idiots.
"AND WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF A CONVERSATION! WHAT DON'T YOU GET ABOUT THAT!?" Jaune shouted back louder and angry.
"Um, Jaune?" Pyrrha talked to her leader.
"Yes, Pyrrha?" Jaune responded, still annoyed with these guys.
"I think that he means that we're all in the middle of a fight." Pyrrha gestured around about the people who are in the stadium watching the whole thing.
Then the realization of the Vytal Tournament and the actual fight they were supposed to do have finally sink into Jaune Arc's head, cursing himself for getting so worked up over something so stupid like team names (even though he still thinks the ones he comes up with are cool).
"Oh, so now he finally get his shit together." Raven rolled her eyes.
"Now Raven, I'm sure Jaune was just being concern about the names and what purpose they hold." Summer proclaimed.
"Like how you wanted to give Zwei the name "Sir Tiny Butt" when we first got him?" Raven recalled that time.
"Hey, that has nothing to do with it!" Summer yelled angry a bit.
"I thought it was a funny name." Ruby commented.
"Nora, just... hit them with the hammer." Jaune sighed.
"Got it." Nora smirked evilly which scares team BRNZ.
Nora jumps over to team BRNZ before they could react and she is right in front of them, and she swings her mighty Magnhild hitting all four of her enemies sending them all crashing right onto the forcefield of the audience seats. And their bodies are bent in positions they shouldn't be doing.
"And with that, it appears Team JNPR wins by knockout, literally! ...Can someone go make sure they're okay?" Port asked.
(Crow Bar)
At a local bar where one dark gray-haired man has been watching the fight between team JNPR and team BRNZ and seeing the former team won, and the bartender was also watching the match and seem to like team JNPR kids.
"Huh, those kids weren't half bad!" The bartender smiled while cleaning an empty cup.
However, the gray hair man didn't react much just giving a "meh" expression and took another drink.
(With Sun)
"Now that was awesome match, wouldn't you agree?" Sun asked Cinder.
"It was… quite the unexpected, I give them that." Cinder said.
"Well, now if you excuse me, I'm going to get ready to kick some butt with my team! I hope to hear some cheering from you." Sun smirked.
"Maybe I could give you a little something after your fight." Cinder smirked back, and pulls him in for a quick peak on the lips shocking both Emerald and Mercury.
"Knew it." Mercury smiled.
KO a new chapter is done and hope you all enjoy it!
This battle with team JNPR was a bit different than in the anime show with Jaune being able to do better in the fight, but the whole thing with the talking of team attack names and Nora ending the fight with one hammer swing is too cool to change. Don't you agree?
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