//------------------------------// // The Fight // Story: RWBY vs. SPAR // by Inthretis //------------------------------// A boom started it. Right as the announcement came, Rainbow Dash shot up into the air. Her jetpack, powered by dust and loaded with more dust rounds than Pinkie could count, roared to life. With Rainbow’s semblance, this happened in the blink of an eye. Once she was a dozen feet in the air, she turned and sped towards Ruby Rose. Rainbow smirked. Twilight mentioned how the red hooded girl had a speed semblance, and the intrepid flier wanted a challenge. She reached to her holsters on her side and pulled out two pistols, which she called “Thunder” and “Lightning”. Or “Pew-Pew” and “Bang-Bang” if you were Pinkie. She cocked both of them and aimed at Ruby Rose. Before anyone else could react, Ruby saw Rainbow Dash right above, guns pointed at her. Ruby blinked before activating her semblance and sped backwards, pulling out Crescent Rose. The hail of bullets grazed her weapon, but she escaped unscathed. She pulled her sniper scythe up at Rainbow Dash and fired, hoping to disrupt her attacker’s rhythm. Manipulating her jetpack, Rainbow easily avoided the sniper rounds. She kept smirking, directing her jetpack down. She dove towards Ruby and took her two pistols and combined them together, transforming it into a submachine gun, which used to immediately block the scythe swing. The impact was powerful, and Rainbow felt the shockwave travel up her arms. Both of them pushed away from each other, going back several feet before taking a breath. Then, they charged at each other, their weapons brandished. At the same time, Yang wound up her right fist and slammed it into the ground beneath Applejack, who dodged the cracking ground by a hair’s width. Applejack then swung around and propelled a kick into Yang’s side, who took the hit before grabbing the leg and pulling Applejack close and launching another fist. Applejack contorted her body as Ember Celica skinned her shoulder. Applejack immediately parried, throwing her own fist at Yang, distracting her long enough to pull her leg out of Yang’s grasp. As she pulled, Applejack swung her leg out again, building enough momentum to strike Yang’s face as she yanked out her rope. With barely enough time, Yang blocked with her forearms, taking the brunt of force. But immediately, a noose surrounded both fists, tightening as Yang saw that the cowgirl had lassoed her. Yang growled as she charged forward. Meanwhile, Blake and Pinkie were at a stalemate. Slashes by Gambol Shroud, both sword and sheath, were effortlessly dodged and deflected by Pinkie Pie’s never ending assortment of trinkets and party favors. Aim for her shoulder: Pinkie threw out a rubber chicken to take the hit. Slash at her chest: blocked by a party hat. Attempt to shoot her: blinded by confetti. All of that happened while Pinkie wore a manic grin, making wild and ecstatic movements with every object thrown. Then she started giggling. “This is fun!” The pink haired girl yelled as she pulled out a pie and threw it at Blake, who easily dodged, “I think I’m gonna call you Blakey! Blakey Belladonna!” Pinkie paused briefly before countering a bullet with a balloon, “Wait your last name is Belladonna? That sounds familiar!” Blake’s eyes widened when she remembered that Team SPAR was from Menagerie. Her homeland, and also the continent her father was chieftain of. Before she could say anything to prevent being outed on live television, the bubbly girl continued. “Oh my gods! You were at Ninja-Con last year, weren’t you? I must’ve seen you there when I went with Twilight!” Blake briefly paused to say, “What,” before Pinkie slammed an entire cake into her face. Above them, Twilight Sparkle and Weiss Schnee launched powerful dust rounds at each other. For every fire dust strike Weiss made, Twilight countered with ice. While Weiss used Myrtenaster, Twilight was seemingly launching dust rounds into the air with her mind, as flicks of her wrists translated into flying explosive projectiles. Weiss used her glyphs to hasten her escapes and dodged the flood of attacks, sprinting back and forth as time sped up for her. She created more glyphs to bring herself into the air. Once she was high above Twilight, Weiss proceeded to release her own bombardment below. As she rained down fire and lightning, Weiss was hit by a bullet and heard a cocky boast. “The skies are my place, princess,” the rainbow-haired woman shot a flurry of bullets at her, passing from above. For Weiss, it was like the sun was blotted out as a cloud of lightning dust bullets hit her. The heiress fell to the ground as she felt gravity around her increase. She tilted her head to see Twilight motion her hands as if pulling her to the ground. “Weiss!” Ruby sped up and jumped into the air and caught her partner, breaking her free from Twilight’s pull. She turned around and ran away from their competitors, avoiding the other fighters. When far away enough, Ruby dropped off her partner from her arms, only for both of them to be bombarded by gunfire. Rainbow Dash had caught up to them. At that moment, Twilight yelled out, “Apple Pie!” That signaled to Pinkie, who responded while throwing streamers into Blake’s face, “Okie dokie loki!” Pinkie bounced away from Blake, who was still cleaning off the cake and streamers. Finally able to see again, the cat faunus was then telekinetically pushed to the ground by Twilight. The pink-haired dynamo jumped up into the air, landing a kick onto Yang’s face, who had narrowly dodged one of Applejack’s own. Yang growled at the hit and tried to sock Pinkie, missing by an inch. Yang then blocked another of Applejack’s kicks and then countered with her own fist, firing off Ember Celica at the same time. The shotgun round burned away Applejack’s hat. Pinkie threw a pie into Yang’ face, blinding her. Applejack, her hat destroyed and her rope in tatters, charged forward, slamming the sole of her foot into Yang’s side. At that moment, Oobleck spoke up, “Weiss Schnee’s aura has dropped below 15% after Rainbow Dash bombarded her and Ruby Rose, and is unable to continue! At this rate Ruby Rose will also be unable to battle!” “What!?” Yang’s semblance activated, burning away the pie on her face, eyes red. She grabbed Applejack by her ankle and rammed her fist into the other blonde’s face, triggering Ember Celica at the same time. Yang turned and fired at Pinkie Pie, who quickly dodged and countered with another pie, which was immediately destroyed by Yang’s fist. Yang began clobbering Applejack, who was unable to dodge her hits anymore. She jammed Ember Celica into the farmer’s stomach and fired repeatedly. Applejack lost consciousness. “And that’s a knockout! Apple Jacqueline was taken out by Yang Xiao Long in a brutal fashion.” The blonde bombshell ignored Oobleck and turned around to hit Pinkie, who ducked immediately and proceeded to narrowly dodge Yang’s combo of punches. Pinkie easily ducked and twisted, missing Ember Celica by mere inches. “Stay. Still. Damnit!” Yang screamed as Pinkie wore on. The bright smile on Pinkie’s face never left as she continued avoiding. Yang raged and roared, putting all of her strength into a right hook, slamming into the ground and sending shockwaves that threw Pinkie off balance. But before she could take advantage, a hail of bullets cut her off, followed by lightning from dust. The pink-haired girl jumped out of the blast radius while flailing her arms, the explosion destroying everything that Pinkie had pulled out of nowhere. “Yang Xiao Long is out of aura! She is unable to battle!” Peter Port bellowed. “And the cavalry comes again! What will you guys do without me,” Rainbow boasted. “Let’s find out.” “Huh?” Rainbow turned around to see Blake pulling her down to the ground with a black ribbon, only to then be slashed with a scythe and Gambol shroud. Then to make matters worse, the hooded girl stuck her hand inside Rainbow’s jetpack and pulled out a few wires. “Whoops,” Ruby said with a smile. Rainbow Dash paled when her jetpack began sputtering and the two other huntresses evacuated. She groaned. Rarity was right, there was such a thing as too much dust. Out in the stands, Fluttershy covered her eyes as she heard the explosion. Rarity tsked as she quietly whispered, “I told you so.~” “And it looks like Rainbow Dash’s extraordinary amount of ordinance backfired on her, hasn’t it Bart?” “Indeed it has Peter! This leaves us with only two members on each team remaining: Pinkamena Diane Pie and Twilight Sparkle for Team Spark.” “And Ruby Rose and Blake Belladonna for Team Ruby!” Ruby and Blake had sequestered themselves in a far off corner. Blake whispered, “This is bad. Their leader is too powerful,” she looked up at the scoreboard above them, “Twilight Sparkle has only used half of her aura, and her semblance is just overwhelming.” The red huntress nodded, “Yeah. But I bet when she runs out, she’ll be easy to beat. No, I think we have to deal with Pinkie first.” Blake agreed, “Yes. She’s incredibly agile. It has to be a semblance. Her aura was petering down while we fought, even though I never hit her. I don’t think either of us can take her on alone.” Ruby nodded, “If it’s down one on one, Pinkie will win because she’s too hard to hit. We have to take her out now.” “I need a break,” Twilight said as she massaged her own shoulder, “Pinkie-“ “Don’t worry, I’ll handle those two,” Pinkie said, chipper as ever. “I’ll help as soon as I can,” Twilight assured. Blake Belladonna, the daughter of Menagerie’s chieftain was tough. She created a rock copy of herself and slammed it into Twilight, allowing herself to escape. Twilight was definitely hurt from the sudden rock blast, but nothing too bad occurred. She just needed a bit of time to recover. “Now!” Ruby and Blake ran to the center of the arena, charging forward as they saw Pinkie gleefully skipping up to them. The duo brandished their weapons and got ready to slash. Right before they could hit, Pinkie slammed Blake in the side with a large blue barrel. “Iiiiiiiitt’s party time!” Pinkie shouted as the barrel unfolded itself to become a very large cannon. It was big enough to hold Ruby’s entire top half, and looked heavy enough to seriously damage Blake. Ruby winced. Rainbow’s bulletstorm did a number on her aura, so she had to be careful with what she had left. That being said, defeating Pinkie Pie was their top priority. The red reaper charged. She swung her scythe out, slashing at Pinkie, who slid back just enough to miss the blade. The pink-haired girl ducked to avoid one of Blake’s bullets, then sprung her cannon to smash through Blake’s clones. Once one clone shattered, Blake jumped in to slash again at Pinkie’s head with her right blade, her left one going for the side. Crescent Rose came in and swiped at Pinkie’s feet. The pink faunus contorted out of the way, her boot scraped by the scythe and her hair cut by Blake. “Witty one-liner!” Pinkie shouted. She grabbed her cannon on the ground and pushed it towards the sky, ducking another one of Blake’s clones’ sword slashes to the head. Pinkie pulled out a dust canister, but that was shot out of her hand by Ruby. Pinkie took a step back as another clone jumped in front of her. She tossed out a deflated balloon before throwing a canister into the cannon. She threw an egg at Blake and pulled out a bag of flour. Pinkie rushed up to Ruby and dumped it. The red huntress coughed before wildly swinging at Pinkie, who ducked both the scythe and a clone’s sword. She hopped back to her cannon, only to be shot at by Blake. Pinkie grit her teeth and pulled the cord. A fiery ball erupted and flew up into the air. With trepidation, Blake watched it reach its highest point, and then… it exploded. It was a firework. She looked back to Pinkie to see that she had reloaded and fired at Ruby. Blake was out of dust, and low on aura. She ran and took the shot. A second later, her body crumpled to the ground. “Blake Belladonna is out of aura! She is no longer able to to battle!” Pinkie breathed out an exhausted sigh of relief and wiped some sweat off her brow, then hurriedly reloaded. But by then, it was too late. Ruby rushed up and with a single slash, cut down Pinkie’s aura. “And Miss Pie is also out! Only two combatants are left. Both team leaders: Ruby Rose and Twilight Sparkle!” Ruby missed that last word as a barrage of explosions blasted around her feet. She jumped out of the way, taking only minor damage. The red huntress took a deep breath and ran behind some rocks. The reprieve lasted only a second before the boulders she hid behind were lifted into the air, each surrounded by a purple glow. For the second time, the two leaders made eye contact. Ruby stared at Twilight. The faunus’ hair was flowing in nonexistent wind and her eyes glowed purple. A shiver ran across Ruby’s back as she rolled out of the way of the falling boulders. She pulled out Crescent Rose and shot at Twilight. The bullet rushed at the purple-haired girl’s head. Twilight barely dodged it before launching a rock at Ruby. The young reaper ran behind a miniature mountain. Surely she can’t lift this. Ruby looked up at the monitor. Each barrage of attacks costed more aura than one of her bursts of speed. If she could hold out long enough- “If you’re thinking I’m going to waste all my aura trying to blow you up, I won’t,” Twilight yelled out, “Come on, we’re the last two. Let’s see if we can talk this out.” What? Ruby was trying to figure out what she meant by that. Like a tie? Because you can’t have ties in this. “I just wanted to say you’ve put up a good fight. And that after this is over, we could be friends.” Wait a minute… Is she as socially awkward as I am? Ruby’s epiphany led to her reply, “Sure! I’d like that!” “Great!” the purple light left Twilight’s eyes and her hair settled down. She walked up to the large boulder her adversary was behind. For the third time, the two of them locked eyes. With a wiggle of Twilight’s fingers, the gravity around Ruby doubled, then doubled again. A monumental amount of strength was needed by Ruby just to take a step. She took a haggard breath and activated her semblance. In an instant, she transformed into a flurry of rose petals, whirling at Twilight. No matter how much power she put in, Twilight couldn’t stop the red-haired girl, but she was slowed down enough for Twilight to dodge the storm of petals. She took a deep breath, and changed her semblance to shoot shards of dust at Ruby. The younger girl had just returned to normal form as gravity returned to normal, only to speed up again to dodge the explosions. She pulled out Crescent Rose and ran up to Twilight, preparing to slash at her side. That was when Ruby felt a pull on her scythe. With all her might, Twilight tried to wrench away Ruby’s powerful weapon. The human girl pressed down, attempting to retain control of Crescent Rose. The tug-of-war continued for a full minute before Twilight’s eyes glowed, a surge of power finally ripping the scythe out of Ruby’s hands. Twilight flung the scythe through the air and out of the arena bounds. Sweat dripped down Ruby’s forehead as she panted breath after breath. She rubbed her sore hands and looked up at her opponent. Twilight was in the same situation, haggardly breathing as she pushed her semblance to its limit. They both looked at the floating screen above. They were each low on aura, too low to use their semblances. Both of them were out of dust, and neither had weapons. It was now… “Damn it, it’s now a fist fight,” Jaune groaned, “This is going to be terrible for Ruby.” Next to him, Pyrrha wanted to support Ruby, she really did, but this was almost a lost cause. The leader of Team RWBY just couldn’t do melee combat at all. She simply nodded along with her partner. Rarity shook her head, “No, I’m afraid Twilight is in trouble. She was never particularly good at fisticuffs. Her semblance was her entire fighting style.” “Well, Ruby is kind of useless without her weapon,” he awkwardly scratched his head, “Even I have a fair chance of beating her without it.” “Hmph, and Twilight could probably be defeated by Fluttershy in hand-to-hand combat. Who knows, maybe this will be a learning experience for them,” Rarity said as they looked down at the arena. One look and Rarity had to fight the urge to face palm. “Ow! Stop it! Stop grabbing my hair!” Ruby yelped out as Twilight elbowed her in the neck. She responded in kind by kneeing the faunus in the stomach. Twilight growled, “Not until you quit going for my groin!” she wrapped an arm around the younger girl’s neck, who grabbed at Twilight’s wrist and stomped her feet on Twilight’s toes. The purple-haired girl yelped and let go of Ruby’s head. The reaper threw out a fist at Twilight’s ribs, who parried it, only to be kicked in the groin, “That’s what Yang always taught me to do against boys!” “I’m a girl!” Twilight yelled out and socked Ruby with a right hook. “I know that!” Ruby backed up and rubbed her arm, dodging a left punch. She grabbed Twilight’s bicep and pushed her to the side, tripping her. Twilight grabbed Ruby’s cloak and they both tumbled to the ground. They both groaned once they hit the floor, then quickly began grabbing each other and kicking. “Get off me!” “No, you get off me!” “No, you!” Twilight began clawing at Ruby’s neck while her boot was jammed into Twilight’s stomach. The two of them just continued yanking at each other and throwing weak fists. The entire stadium above them was silent. Everyone in the world was watching them struggle against each other in silent bewilderment. Inside a bar in Vale, Qrow Branwen just groaned into his drink. Everyone stayed silent as the two girls’ auras slowly dwindled. The two huntresses untangled themselves and stood back up. Twilight slapped Ruby in the face, who responded by punching her in the gut. Twilight wheezed before tackling Ruby. The red-haired girl dug her elbow into Twilight’s shoulders. Ruby grabbed Twilight’s neck before she was swung into the air and slammed into the ground. Twilight huffed out her breath, “And that’s what my brother taught me.” “Ruby Rose’s aura has dropped below 15%! Twilight Sparkle of Gallopmaufry wins!” Oobleck yelled into his microphone. It took a few seconds for the crowd to regain their senses and cheered. Twilight gave a weak smile before collapsing on the ground next to Ruby.