Symbiote Knight
Chapter 22: Street Fight
When Jaune knocked the big guy on his ass it was like a starter pistol had gone off. The street gang forgetting their previous actions were quick to step up. They did have a reputation to keep up, if it got out their gang got pushed around by teenagers well, they would never live this down. Yang and Nora were already eager for a fight and rushed in towards the gang.
Nora drop kicked one member into another as Yang yelled out as she came in with a superman punch knocking one out immediately as she started to take on two others.
Not wanting to be left behind Jaune jumped in as did the rest.
Ruby not being the best at hand to hand as she preferred her weapon was keeping to the back using her semblance to help her zip around and find targets of opportunity. Pyrrha was like a living buzzsaw as she made it look easy as she took on multiple gang members with hand-to-hand combat abilities. Weiss for her part while like Ruby preferred to fight with her weapon did still have her semblance to help.
The thugs would charge as glyphs would form under them, gravity glyphs would made them crash into the ground or float up into the air, one was slowed down by her as Blake would come in with a flying kick to them.
Ren and Jaune were fighting back-to-back as Jaune had never seen Ren fight without his weapons before now. The boy's movement flowed more than anything as he would redirect, counter, or just use their force against them.
~Eyes front~ Valor warned him.
Jaune turned his attention to one member who had a crowbar in hand. Jaune easily dodged him and gave him a punch to his liver, something he had picked up from both Yang and Valor in his training. The guy dropped like a stone from it as hitting the liver was nearly always a way to down an opponent, at least one without aura.
'Got to be careful,' He mentally thought as he was way stronger than a normal person and he didn't want to hurt them too much. Just enough to make take the fight out of them for the cops to show up. They had to show up eventually, he could hear the alarm of the store going off, but they had no idea how long that was.
What Jaune didn't know was that this wasn't the only store front being hit, the full week gang violence had rocketed up and the police were being stretched thin. The city council was even thinking of hiring Huntsmen to help deal with the rise in crime.
But these were events that Jaune and the others wouldn't know about.
Still, a group of even students like them were still more trained in combat, some of them had even seen and gone up against Grimm before coming to Beacon. Thugs that only knew street violence weren't used to fighting against such people.
One of the men in the back was seeing how badly they were losing the fight in fact it wasn't really a fight it was more of a one-sided beat down. He pulled out his scroll to call the bosses because they were nearby, and they needed the help.
Two streets over another group of the same gang were causing issues with two larger bald men in matching clothing stood by and watched, their large arms crossed over barreled chests as the twin brothers watched their 'boys' get to work.
"Looks like they're having a lot of fun Dee," one stated.
"Yean and we're getting paid for this makes it better too DD," Dee said to his twin brother.
They were known as the D's, their full names were Desmond (Dee) Twiddle and Donald Devon (DD) Twiddle. They ran the Red Boys gang hance the red clothing the gang wore. He and a few other gangs like their rivals the Egg Boys (mainly because of an argument on who came first) were causing trouble all over the city.
D's scroll range as his brother watched him pick up.
"Yeah what?...What do you mean you need help? You're being attacked by what!? I swear this better be a joke…okay where are you? Hold on we're coming." D's anger was written all over his face.
"Trouble?" DD asked knowing there was.
"Yep, seems Jericho and his boys are in the thick of it," D blew out a hard whistle getting the attention of everyone else. "Boys, get a move on your brothers got into some trouble and are calling for a rescue, get a move on!"
With the Reds gathering up the Twins led the way, thankfully it wasn't far, and they could make out sounds of fighting when they got there but what they saw was most of their gang already on the ground and not getting up. Not dead but they had taken a beating by what looked like a group of teenagers. This for the men was unacceptable, if this got out the other gangs would mock them for it.
Pyrrha was first to notice the new arrivals, given their similar colored clothing she guessed someone had to had called for help. "Everyone, I think more have arrived."
"Oh good, because I think I'm warmed up now," Yang rolled one of her shoulders. The gang members weren't exactly difficult for all of them together. She was pretty sure half of them could still have easily dealt with it. Being a huntress in training with aura was a huge advantage over most other people.
"Well now I see," D looked them over and pegged them as students from Beacon, they had to be as their combat style was clearly not the kind of thing normal people would be trained in, and it wasn't the typical brawling he had seen in street fights. "Looks like some students form Beacon brother."
"Indeed, it does brother," DD nodded. "But they look unarmed, shouldn't pose too much of an issue then."
Yang raised an eyebrow at that, were they getting called out by street punks? Well, she was going to teach them not to underestimate them. She rushed in as she cocked a fist back, but the large brothers just smiled as they fist bumped each other. There was a glow about them as when she struck them there was shine and she suddenly felt the full force of her punch hitting her back.
She landed on her back a few feet away blinking not understanding what just happened.
"They have a semblance?" Pyrrha asked surprised.
"Didn't think you were the only ones, did you?" DD asked.
"Now you're in for a real fight kids," D finished.
Now while most people that did have their aura unlocked went on to become Huntsmen or Huntresses, a very low number did not. Some were people who through illegal means had their aura activated, others had been trained to be hunters but failed, dropped out or were kicked out of their schools. Then there were the rare ones that activated naturally as well. Those that didn't make the cut usually went on to other fields, some however for whatever reasons fell into crime.
That was how the D Twins got to be leaders of their gang, they were the strongest members and overthrew the old leader and took their spot. Most major gangs or organizations were led by something with their aura unlocked because they were naturally just more powerful than most other members.
The twins being twins had a special semblance, by tapping each other they created a field that would counter any physical attack that came their way and sending it back at that person. They sometimes joked that their souls were just one soul shared in two bodies because they were identical twins.
The two twins gave a high five as they glowed again and charged the students. Yang ducked under a right cross but as soon as she countered with a body blow, she felt right back at her, stepping back she was caught with a backhand to her face sending her down.
Blake stepped in with a flying kick only for when it landed to feel the force of the kick being send back up her leg. The other twin was already dealing with Team JNPR as Pyrrha was easily dodging his attacks, he was large and bulky, so he wasn't as fast and nimble as she was. However, she was running into the same issue with his semblance.
She also found that he had too little metal on his body to manipulate as he wasn't using a weapon. Normally she could control her opponent's metal-based weapons. She also didn't have hers with her as well. Nora went for a drop kick only to be repelled and land hard on the ground, Ren helped to pick her up as he tried to assess things. They weren't looking good for any of them as this semblance was not something to easily overcome, especially as they were all unarmed.
Weiss made a gesture to create a gravity glyph and noticed that one of the twins was being affected by it. "My semblance got through!"
"Get the white haired one boys!" DD said trying to get up, the gravity was actually holding him down as their semblance only worked on physical attacks and this was something else entirely. They weren't used to fighting against people with semblances, especially ones like Weiss' where her glyphs were not a physical attack.
Weiss' concentration was broken by this as a group of the fresh gangs that came with the twins came after her. This caused her glyph to disappear as the gang leader was now no longer held down.
"I got this," Ruby put up her fists like Yang once tried to teach her before muttering to herself. "I hope."
She wasn't all that confidence in her hand-to-hand fighting skills, sure she could use her semblance to be super quick but without her weapon her fighting power was lacking. Her dad and sister always told her to work more on her fighting skills, but she just assumed she could always have her weapon on her. Now she was starting to wish she listened to them about it.
Jaune looked and saw that they were in trouble, the twins were enough of a problem but with Weiss they could use her semblance at least but now she was being threatened.
~I can only do so much hidden~
'I know,' Jaune mentally sighed. He couldn't just run away and come back with the symbiote since it would be too odd a timing. Sure, that might work in comic books, but this was real life. There was also the fact he didn't want team RWBY to think he was some kind of coward that would abandon his friends.
'Looks like we got to do this the hard way,' Jaune noticed that Pyrrha was of course holding her own.
~I don't think she's attacking him with full force, I think she's holding back her attacks to reduce the feedback trying to find a weakness~
Jaune smiled knowing that was Pyrrha all right. Blake was using her clones to try and keep the other one busy which thankfully it looked like the clones didn't send any damage back to her, too bad all they did was just kind of stand there and couldn't attack.
A yelp got his attention to Ruby who had taken a nasty punch to the side of the face making her stagger back.
'We got to help them,' he realized as he quickly ran over to help Ruby and Weiss.
Yang was getting frustrated to her this kind of semblance was a pure cheat in her books. They could take any kind of blow and just immediately send it back? How fair was that? She had to actually take damage for her semblance to build up for her to use it effectively.
She activated her gauntlets as they extended and covered her forearms. She was so glad she chose to keep them on this trip. With all the rise in gang crime lately she hadn't wanted to leave unprepared. Since these guys had aura, she could go all out on them and didn't need to hold back like with non-aura users.
"Blake, heads up!" She shouted giving her partner a warning as Blake heard the cocking of Yang's weapon and made it so that she dodged last minute as the glowing projectile missed her not giving the twin in front of her any time to react. The round hit him in the chest as both twins suddenly flared a bit.
"Huh, interesting." Yang grinned.
While say a regular bullet wouldn't do much with their semblance, a pure fire dust round like what Yang preferred to use was another matter because of its elemental nature.
Both twins looked at her knowing that while their semblance took care of the damage it would chip away at their aura. Yang fired at both twins, but they were on to her now and were moving targets, the others tried to get in their way, but it was hard with any time you attacked them they would just send it back at you.
Yang soon found herself being double teamed by the twins. She fired at them also allowing the force of her weapon to keep herself out of range. A few of the other gang members tried to attack her from her blind spots but Nora and Ren having changed things up were covering her back.
Then suddenly the glow around the twins faded as they paused because slapping each other's hands again to get it going.
Yang's eyes widened as she realized they had a time limit, she wished she had been keeping count because she could use that to her advantage.
They were quickly on her again as one of them got in close but suddenly bent down as the brother jumped over him trying to surprise her. Yang only grinned as she easily side-stepped but suddenly something hit her in the eyes. She had hadn't know what it had all been a distraction as the brother that had been kneeling pick up some dirt and small stones and threw them at her eyes.
The brothers were experts in fighting dirty after all. While half blinded one of them managed to get a punch in face making her turn and felt a large hand gripping the back of her hair with another punch to her kidney. She grunted in pain as she could hear Blake call out as she managed to get one eye open to Blake trying to help as she was sent back from the blowback of their semblance, Pyrrha there caught her partner thankfully.
Yang fired both of her weapons at the feet of the one holding her as he cried out in pain the force sending her forward, but she felt a sharp pain in her scalp. Looking back, she saw the one now on the ground had some of her hair in his hand. Her eyes went red at the sight as did her vision. She loved her hair, she put so much care and effort into it and seeing this triggered something inside of her.
She activated her semblance as she ran forward but the other brother stepped in.
"Yang don't!" Pyrrha called out but it was too late. Yang's rage was over coming her common sense as her fist landed on her target only to get blown back to where Jaune was helping Weiss and Ruby out.
"Yang!" Ruby saw her sister but thankfully she slowly got up.
"Damn it," Yang groaned that blowback had nearly taken out all her aura. She mentally swore at herself to getting tunnel vision like that, she knew it was a problem when she activated her semblance, her dad tried to get her to overcome it and sometimes she could but when she activated her semblance it was like this raging fire was inside of her. She would get what her dad called 'combat blindness' and just attack without really thinking it through.
Jaune stepped in front ready to hold off the brothers as Blake and Pyrrha were behind them.
Suddenly a glyph appeared by the side of one of the brothers as D was sent flying into his brother DD. Weiss wasn't sure if the brothers' semblance would activate if one brother 'attacked' the other but even if it didn't, well she was finally free enough to cast her semblance. Ruby and Jaune had taken down most of the thugs allowing her to concentrate on the twins.
It turned out the semblance wouldn't work against the other brother but the two did fall into a heap trying to untangle from each other. Both twins managed to get up as now there was a stand off between the gang and the students how had regathered up ready to continue the fight.
That was when sirens were heard as it sounded like the police were finally going to show up.
"Damn it, it's the cops!" one of the gang members stated.
The twins looked at the group they were fighting and knew they wouldn't be able to take them down before the cops show up. They would have to deal with this another time. "Boys, scatter and meet up back home!"
With that everyone that could move were running off in multiple directions.
"What do we do?" Ruby asked looking around not sure what to do with all the scattering gang members. "Do we go after them or wait for the police."
"I say we get out of here," Yang stated as everyone looked at her. "Hey, do you all want to explain this to Miss Goodwitch?"
"But we did nothing wrong!" Weiss stated. "We were defending ourselves!"
"Um…" Ruby started to speak up remembering what had happened when she had "defended" herself at the dust store before joining the school. "That didn't go over well for me, I spent a few hours in a police interview room and got yelled at by her."
"Oh great…she'll put us in detention for the full semester, won't she?" Nora lamented.
"Only if she knows it's us," Yang told them.
"I'd…rather not get involved with the police," Blake wasn't sure how well known her history with the White Fang was, but she had been arrested before at rallies, so she had a record. She really didn't want to deal with that, plus they would find out she was a faunus if they demanded she take off the bow or looked it up in her records. Not to mention once it got out who her parents were, sure Belladonna was used by other people as a last name but the fact it was on record that the daughter of Kali and Ghira Belladonna was named Blake Belladonna it wouldn't take a genius to put two and two together.
She really should have tried to go under a different name, but she couldn't have gotten a hold of any fake IDs before submitting herself to Beacon.
"We did nothing wrong, I'm sure if we explain things then everything should work out," Pyrrha calmly stated.
"That's right," Weiss nodded believing in the system.
"You think your family will be that easy if we get a record out of this?" Yang asked knowing that Weiss and her family had some tension there. She wasn't sure what as Weiss didn't go too deep into it, but she could read between the lines and knew something was up in her family and figured they at least wouldn't like it if their daughter was taken into the police for questioning.
Weiss suddenly felt like her stomach drop, she was sure nothing bad would happen but if on the off chance her father found out that the law enforcement was even looking to charge her with something…the thoughts of what he might do froze her. Then the thought of the media, once someone found out (and they would find out) that THE Weiss Schnee was brought in for questioning by the police it would be all over the news in time for the late-night news, another thing her father would not be happy about.
"Maybe we should leave," Weiss slowly stated.
Jaune could see that many of them had worries over this and decided discretion might be the best way out of this. "Okay all those wanted to leave, hands up?" Only Ren and Pyrrha kept their hands down, and the sirens were getting too close now.
"Okay that's settles it, everyone run!" Yang yelled out taking Ruby's hands and dashing off as everyone else followed suit. The streets of Vale were usually busy but with the increase in gang crime lately certain areas were being less traveled. However, down the street they could see more flashing lights.
"Should we split up?" Ruby asked looking to see two other streets.
"We should," Blake stated knowing full well how to avoid the police. "They'll be most likely looking for large groups. We split off into two person groups and meet up at the Bullhead station."
Blake couldn't believe she was using her old White Fang training and experience to run from the cops…again.
Teams JNPR and RWBY nodded as they split off, later they would split off again into groups. Yang stuck with Ruby as she wanted to make sure that her little sister did not get into trouble. Blake and Weiss were fine with the split at any rate as team JNPR went into split up by partners.
-Not far away-
Neo was a bit bored they had been causing trouble to get that white suited person to show up again but so far, no luck. She was starting to think that maybe they should escalate things, start a fire or two maybe?
"Well, there's a face we haven't seen in a while," a bored and familiar voice caught Neo's attention.
She looked behind her to see a pair of female twins dressed in white and red. The twin in white was Melanie and the other one in red being her sister Miltia Malachite.
"Long time no see Trivia," Miltia stated.
"She goes by Neo now remember," Melanie reminding her sister.
Neo had a very long and complicated history with the twins. They met up at Lady Browning's Preparatory Academy for Girls. On the surface it was a prep school for young women but in reality, it was secretly run by the Spider organization being run from the shadows by their mother Lil' Miss Malachite.
At first the twins had been bulling her when she first got to the school but eventually, they became good friends. Then things soured when in order to save Roman, she had exposed the school to the news and it was shut down and the Spiders had left the city, well those that hadn't been arrested. There had been some violence between Neo and the twins near the end of that whole mess as well.
For some reason they started to work at Junior's instead of leaving the city. She had run into them from time to time because of her association with Junior and there had been a bit of a tense relationship between her and the twins since then. They hadn't been violent, but it wasn't exactly easy to repair a friendship that ended badly.
Neo decided to just wave politely to them and see where things landed.
The twins weren't sure what to make of Neo, she had always been an odd one. The whole mute thing made communicating with her troubling at times but there had been a time they had gotten along well with the slightly younger girl. Plus, her semblance was actually a very powerful and useful one and from their fight they both knew that Neo wasn't a pushover anymore.
"Just so you know we've been talking," Miltia started the conversation.
"And while we really don't like what you did to our mother's plans," Melanie continued crossing her arms.
"We know why you turned against us." Miltia finished. "We know that Roman means a lot to you and you couldn't let him go down, so we get it."
The twins did get it, they would fight to the death for each other and over the years they had seen just how closer Roman and Neo were with each other. They weren't sure if they were an actual couple or just really close, it was hard to pin down their relationship but looking at them they both eventually came to the conclusion that those two would go to hell and back for each other. Once they realized that they could see why Neo had done what she had done.
It wasn't like they could just ignore her forever either, Neo and Roman were customers of Junior's and they had to deal with them on and off over the years. There might come a time they might actually need the two of them so after talking it out they resolved that next time they had the chance they might as well see if they could patch some things up.
"Although we are still a bit pissed off at you," Melanie told her but then shrugged. "That was a few years ago so we've mostly gotten over it."
Neo was surprised to hear this as she took out her scroll to type something that she showed them.
[Why did you two stay? Never understood that]
"Because we like Vale," Melanie shrugged. "Our mom wanted us to go all the way back to Mistral to some back-alley place where she's currently set up shop. No thanks, we prefer Vale, and the club is a much nicer place to work out of.
"Also, we managed to convince her that having a set of eyes still in Vale will be helpful," Miltia finished.
[So what now?]
The twins shrugged again, "No idea." Bothe said at the same time.
"We just figured since you two are always doing business with Junior we can't keep holding a grudge forever." Miltia stated.
Neo thought about it, she did miss those days when they were all friends. In fact, they had been the first friends she had ever made in her whole life. Well, her first real friends and not her imaginary one she had as a child. While she would never regret her choices in life, she did regret losing a friendship over it.
[Start over?]
The twins looked at each other silently communicating with each other before turning their attention back to her.
"Maybe," Melanie started only for her sister to finish it. "But if you screw us over one more time we're coming after you."
Neo could live with that in fact she would do the same to them and they knew it. She stuck out her hand as the girls shook on it.
"Well now that's over with, you want to help us cause some trouble like the old days?" Melanie asked her. "Since you and Roman put out the word and the money to help cause a lot of trouble we've been wondering on what to do."
"Hold off on that sister," Miltia stated as she nodded to across the street. "I think I see something else to occupy our time with."
The other two women looked to see a girl with long blond hair with a smaller girl in a red hood and cape trying to quickly run off.
"Was that…?" Melanie asked.
"It was, the blonde bimbo that smashed up the club," her twin stated narrowing her eyes. The blonde had not only trashed the place but embarrassed them in combat. Although from the looks of it she didn't look to be in top shape.
Neo also noticed the girl and she matched the description Roman gave of the "Little Red" that got in his way from the dust shop a while ago. Maybe she could make a present out of the hood and cape? Neo smirked and jerked her thumb at the two running off and then make a cutting her throat motion with it.
The twins grinned at her.
"I think this new friendship is off to a good start," the twins said as one.
TBC…
Yep I added in Neo's backstory from the expanded stuff into this and yeah Yang and Ruby are going to be in trouble. I kind of got the idea of the Twins semblance from a boss fight I had in the Guardians of the Galaxy game. So don't forget to leave a review as I do wonder what people think and I do listen to ideas given out or stuff as long as it's respectful that is.