Chapter 45 - Painting The Town (3)

Ruby: "Freezer Burn!"

Ruby and Blake jump back out of the way as Weiss performs her same ice-circle trick, but backs out of Yang's way when she jumps into the air and hits the epicenter with her Ember Celica, creating a wave of mist that surrounds Roman.

Immediately, the Paladin activates its laser sensors to make up for the lost sight, but it barely sees the afterimage of Blake and narrowly misses the dashing Yang. A gun manages to fire at the area between Blake and Yang, but out from the blast comes Ruby, who slashes the metal with her blade, causing it to falter.

Roman: 'This damn thing is too clunky to fight multiple people. I need to take that into account for when Shallot asks about how it moved.'

Ruby: "Checkmate!"

Blake and Weiss go in this time, each girl going for the feet until Weiss jumps up and stabs a sensor before leaping off of a white glyph. Roman lifts the Paladin's foot to crush Blake, Blake was planning to catch it with ki infused into her arms but Weiss summons another glyph under her teammate to launch her backward before the crushing blow can land.

Blake: 'We need to work on who's doing what I could have held it in place. Maybe I should just let them do most of the work'

Shallot: "I bet she's getting lazy again just like a cat."

Neo is just watching everything before typing on her scroll again.

[Neo]: I don't think we should use this mech. It's far too clunky and wouldn't be useful for anyone that can use ki to a certain extent.

Shallot: "That might be the case but we are getting the chance to disassemble it without Cinder thinking someone is onto her plans and we can build our own that don't have this weakness."

Roman growls and fires off the missiles, but Weiss and Blake flip backward as the explosions merely hit where they were.

Blake: "This is getting really easy. You should be this predictable Roman."

Finally, Weiss jumps up too high, and Roman fires a double energy blast at her. Myrtenaster absorbs the damage, but Weiss is thrown back, so she casts a beam of light from her weapon to the ground under Blake, forming a yellow clockwork circle that's absorbed into the Faunus girl and lets her slice through each launched missile with ease in a flurry of super-fast slashes.

Weiss: 'She's not being lazy this time.'

Blake: 'So much for taking it easy.'

Ruby dashes in joining the assault

Ruby: "Ladybug!"

Ruby shoots herself forward and cuts at the robot's legs feeling faster than she usually should be, then turns as Blake aims herself at the giant's feet as well.

They both dash forward and attack at the same time, circling each other around the Paladin with each strike until they both launch themselves into the air and come down one coming down on the left shoulder while the other aiming for the right shoulder.

Blake's side is cut off completely with Ruby's side hand on only by a couple of cables.

Yang doesn't waste a second, jumping onto the Paladin's back and punching the top with fiery shotgun blasts. Roman got knocked around in the cabin, but seeing as he can't reach her with his remaining mechanical arm which is pretty much useless, he runs backward through two columns and leaves her embedded in a third before backing away and turning towards her.

Just as she is falling, Roman sends a kick crashing into her and she flies through the column and doesn't get up.

Blake: "Yang!"

Ruby: "Don't worry! With each hit, she gets stronger, and she uses that energy to fight back! That's what makes her special."

Yang slowly gets back on her feet, hair burning a brilliant white as she clenches her fists. Sensing victory, Roman throws a kick, but Yang catches it in her own hand (despite the ground cracking beneath her) and, eyes red with rage, smashes her knuckles into the right leg, obliterating it under her force making the robot fall over.

Getting desperate with his armless and one leg robot, Roman immediately pushes with the remaining legs launching the robot trying to headbutt her, but as she passes her sister and teammates...

Ruby: "Bumblebee!"

Blake throws her Gambol Shroud out for Yang to catch while flying, and the Faunus uses the momentum to swing the glowing girl around for a final hit to the robot. Roman, however, kicks out of the way just in time to avoid complete destruction.

Shallot: "He seems to be pushing that robot really hard. I'm surprised the thing still works at this point. Maybe Atlas actually knows what they are doing."

Neo just nods her head also pretty impressed that Roman just hasn't come out of the robot yet.

Roman: 'Damn! I was trying to save this but he said to push them as far as I can.'

Roman activates his semblance and places his hands directly on the metal of the inside of the robot and the dust power that was inside of the rockets starts coming out and molding into a makeshift leg to support the weight of the robot before hardening and an arm to push it up before the dust falls back off.

Shallot: "OH SHIT! He was holding out on me! Neo, when could he do that."

[Neo]: After he knew you were in the town when you came to the docks he went to find someone that could unlock his aura.

Blake: "That's new."

Roman: 'This is so exhausting; I just want to go to sleep.'

Ruby: "We have to slow it down!"

Weiss: "And how do you propose we do that?"

Ruby: "Ice Flower!"

Twirling their weapons so they both point at Roman, Weiss creates a series of glyphs in front of the scythe's sniper barrel, and a single shot through the circles creates a dazzling spiral of energy that creates large icicles upon impact with the Paladin.

Ruby continues to shoot as Weiss freezes the fire, and as the ice completely envelops the robot's body, Blake swings her partner around in a circle one more time, but with Roman unable to move, the Paladin is hit by the speed and power of Yang's fists, flying into the air before crashing down in a hundred pieces.

Roman Getting up, slightly dazed and lightheaded from pushing his semblance, but unharmed after covering himself with ki since his aura broke, as he inspects the damage while brushing himself off

Roman: "Just got this thing cleaned..."

He looks up just in time to see Yang, still burning with her absorbed power, fire a single shot at the now defenseless thief, but he's saved at the last instant when the two-toned girl seen before drops in front of him and merely opens Hush, deflecting the blast entirely.

Right after she appears another figure comes crashing down landing and cracking the ground beneath them. This person had a Grimm mask that had a slightly different shape that seemed to fit completely to their face. The new arrival hangs the weapon over her shoulder as Roman addresses the victors and the other stands while laughing.

Masked Figure: "Gurarararara."

Roman: Ladies, Ice Queen...

Weiss: Hey!

Roman: Always a pleasure! Neo, if you would...

The pink-and-brown girl curtsies her enemies with a bow, but Yang tries attacking, charging forth with fists raised to strike the outlaws... only to break their image as if made out of a mirror and turn just in time to see them escape in a Bullhead. The rest of team RWBY runs up to Yang's side, now cooled down with the end of the fight.

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