New Challengers...

Team JNPR are readying themselves against their opponents in the Amity Colosseum, the mountains to their back and forest on the other side. A large holographic screen counts down with Peter Port over the crowd's cheering.

"3...2...1…" Port said.

"Come on guys!" Jaune said, raising his sword.

"BEGIN!"

All four members of JNPR charge forward, but only three fighters from BRNZ do the same; the beanie-wearing May Zedong turns around and heads into the trees, cocking her weapon. In the center of the field, leader Brawnz Ni delivers a knee kick to Pyrrha Nikos' shield that sends her skidding back, right before she blocks the claws on his fists with her xiphos. She jerks her sword away and makes him leap back, just as the sniper jumps up into the branches of the forest with the bladed butt of her sniper rifle. Lie Ren readies his StormFlower to attack Nolan Porfirio, who almost gets blindsided by Nora Valkyries swing with Magnhild before he ducks under the attack and attempts to hit her with his cattle prod. The sniper girl finally takes aim from her spot and manages to fire off two rounds near Ren, destroying the rocks behind him. Jaune manages to block the buzzsaw gloves of Roy Stallion with his own shield before he notices the bullets flying and sees the glint of the gun in the leaves.

Jaune is wide-eyed and stumbling over his order, "R-R-Retreat!"

Ren glances back at his leader as a shot hits the ground by his feet. He and Nora start running back into the mountains as Jaune and Pyrrha cover their escape by blocking the bullets with their shields. The four leap over a rocky outcropping for cover.

"What do we do?" Pyrrha asked, as projectiles keep coming overhead.

"Spread out!" Jaune said, looking over the edge to see the melee fighters closing in. "Try to keep moving!"

His team follows this just as Brawnz lands a punch on Jaune's shield.

May gets even higher in the tree and smiles from behind her scope as she looks at the fight below. Brawnz and Pyrrha continue to duke it out while Nolan slowly advances on Ren when he slides into his path. The prod-wielding warrior looks back at the trees and nods to his hidden ally, who shoots at Ren's feet again and makes him jump around trying to dodge them. Just as he lands, Nolan hits him upside the head with his weapon and is able to miss the retaliatory kick with another blow to the knee and a final hit to the chest using the business end of his prod. Electricity shoots through Ren's body before he collapses to the ground beside his childhood friend.

"Ren!" Nora said.

Scowling, Nora takes a swing at Nolan, who promptly dodges it and again unleashes his weapon's power into her corset, though this causes a quite different reaction from the grinning redhead.

"Oh-ho!" Port said, speaking from his spot on the giant hologram screen overhead with Doctor Bartholomew Oobleck beside him. "Looks like one of my favorite students, Nora Valkyrie, is charging up to use her Semblance!"

"What?" Nora asked, looking up at the screen with a panicked look.

"This is why I let Nora take the defensive for me when I'm up against Cybermen." Jared said, looking over at Ruby. "Her semblance comes in handy."

"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 said, happily.

"What?!" Nolan exclaimed, turning back to his opponent.

Nolan finally takes his cattle prod away, but the damage is done: Nora flexes her arms as pink lightning is seen coursing through her body. Nolan attempts to lift his hands up in surrender, but thunder starts sparking from Nora's Aura as she rushes at him. There's a split-second where Nolan's horrified face and Nora's victorious smile are seen close-up on the sides of the screens before the hammer hits head-on and Nolan bounces back across the field, crashing through a rock and staying there when he's stopped moving.

Jaune looks back at the mountaintop on his team's side as a dark storm cloud appears over it, crackling with lightning. He looks over at his energized teammate, "Nora! Get to the mountain!"

"You got it!" Nora said, saluting as she sprints off to start her climb.

"Ren! Try and distract the sniper!" Jaune said.

"Sure...why not." Ren said, slouching sarcastically and another shot nearly misses his head.

The remaining three members of JNPR run forward as Nora hops up and rapidly ascends the mountain. Roy throws the saws from his gloves into Jaune's shield, which still manages to bend the metal and slam the leader's own defense in his face before the weapons return back to their master. Pyrrha gets up close to him, and he delivers a series of spinning swings with his arms into Akoúo̱ as Jaune shakes off his disorientation and charges into battle yet again.

"Yeah! Go get 'em, Jaune!" Ruby said, from her seat in the stands with the rest of Team RWBY and Jared.

"Well, he's certainly improved." Weiss said.

"Yeah, but he ain't got nothing on Pyrrha!" Yang said.

"Then again, Madoka ain't got nothing on Homura!" Jared said, agreeing with Yang.

"Like with Kirito and Asuna. And so on."

Back in the fight, Yang's statement is proven true with Pyrrha taking on both Brawnz and Roy, delivering a kick to one as she deftly dodges and blocks the discs of the other, throwing her javelin to distract the latter while she somersaults back to use both feet in landing a blow on Brawnz. May attempts to shoot Ren while he dashes his way toward her position, leaping out of the way of her shots, the flying saws, and even sliding under Pyrrha before he runs at Nolan, weapons blasting until he's close enough to start swinging his blades away. He ducks and deflects each of the cattle prod's attempted hits until he manages to hold it in the pistol's blades and double kicks his opponent, giving him the opportunity to catch Nolan's weapon in his own as the prod is forced behind Nolan's head and leaves him trapped. Ren hides behind the teammate of the sniper, who stops aiming at him and lifts her barrel up to another target.

"Nora!" Ren said, as he keeps the struggling Nolan in place.

"Pyrrha!" Jaune said, as he catches Brawnz's claws with his blade while Nora lifts herself higher and higher to the top. "Up!"

His partner rushes towards him, dodge rolling to avoid a launched saw until she bounds over Brawnz and lands on Jaune's shield. He manages to throw her into the air with her own shield raised to block the kill-shot aimed at Nora. This gives the redhead just enough time reach the peak, and she lifts her hammer up as a bolt of lightning hits the weapon directly. She changes it back into grenade-launching form and pops the front off to reveal six explosives that shoot out over the field in a heart-shaped formation onto the sniper. The poor girl barely has time to gawk before she leaps over to a nearby tree just as the one she was in goes up in pink flames, leaving only a giant scorch mark billowing smoke to block out the coughing sniper's view. She jumps down from the branches just as her three teammates look up and behind them at Nora coming down on them like a meteor, slamming her hammer into the ground and sending the enemies back at the feet of their disoriented teammate.

"This is it, guys! Let's finish 'em with team attacks!" Jaune said, raising his sword. "Ren! Nora! Flower Power!"

"Wait, what?" Nora asked.

Jaune is lowering his blade as he looks back at his befuddled team, "F-Flower Power." His lost friends shrug. "That's your team attack name!"

"Since when?" Ren asked.

"Guys, we've been over this!" Jaune said, gesturing at his teammates, not noticing the other team getting up, ready to fight again. "Flower Power is Ren and Nora! Ren brings a flower, Nora brings the power! Jared helped me come up with this idea, one day, when we were all together."

"How do I bring a flower?" Ren asked, rubbing the back of his head with one of his guns.

"No, silly, not a flower! Flour, like in baking!" Nora said, happily.

"Why would I bring that?"

"I...uh...no, it's your symbol!" Jaune said.

"It really is your symbol you two!" Jared yelled, right from his seat next to Team RWBY.

"Sooo, what are we?" Pyrrha asked.

"Pyrrha!" Jaune said, annoyed.

"Sorry! I just want to make sure it's clearly defined."

Jaune is trying to be patient while Team BRNZ looks more confused than their opponents, "Pyrrha, you and I are Arkos. It's that thing when we take our shields? Remember?"

"Arkos?"

"Yeah! It's our names put together!" Jaune said.

"Right, no, I get it…" Pyrrha said.

"What, do you not like it?"

"No, no! It's...good?"

"I like it!" Jared yelled, right from his seat again. "It's a good shipping name too!"

"Mmm, I sense hesitation." Nora said, smiling.

Brawnz is finally calling out to Team JNPR, "Hey!"

"Huh?" Team JNPR asked, looking back collectively.

"What do you think you're doing!?"

"Trying to have a team meeting, thank you very little!" Jaune said, as if it's extremely obvious.

"Yeah! Team ears only!" Nora said, pointing to her own ears to demonstrate.

Brawnz looks at his shrugging teammates before he goes back to yelling, "WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF A FIGHT!"

"AND WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF A CONVERSATION! WHAT DON'T YOU GET ABOUT THAT!?" Jaune exclaimed, turning back to scream even louder.

"Um, Jaune?" Pyrrha asked.

"Yes, Pyrrha?" Jaune asked, annoyed.

"I think that he means that we're all in the middle of a fight."

The sound of the crowds around them come back in full volume as Jaune remembers the real situation.

"Ugh…" Jaune said, putting his sword up to his forehead in exasperation. "Nora, just...hit them with the hammer."

"Got it." Nora said, giving one more evil smirk.

"Wait, what?!" Brawnz exclaimed.

Before anyone can react, Nora jumps over in front of Team BRNZ, then brings her hammer around to collide with all four screaming fighters as they soar straight into the forcefield surrounding the arena's rim, sliding down to the ground with arms and legs in bent positions they really shouldn't be.

"And with that, it appears Team JNPR wins by knockout, literally! ...Can someone go make sure they're okay?" Port asked.

Crow Bar...

At the appropriately-named Crow Bar, a gray-haired figure in a tattered red cloak is sitting at the counter with a collection of empty glasses to his side. He takes a swig from another drink as he looks up at the screen above, displaying an image of the victors with the caption "Team JNPR Defeats Team BRNZ!"

"Huh, those kids weren't half bad!" The bartender said, as he wipes the surface of a glass in his hands.

"Meh." Qrow said, as he raises the beverage back to his lips.

Kirito and Asuna's house…

"Nora with that hammer smack." Sayaka said, looking at the holographic TV. "She whacked them out good!"

"Yeah." Lisbeth said. "She did. What now?"

"We watch the entire thing." Homura said. "Because he doesn't want us to get into any battles yet. Or any adventuring."

Amity Colosseum...

The scene flashes to a blue background with white particles gathering into the united tournament symbol of the four kingdoms as it revolves to the left of Oobleck, back in the announcer's box.

"Ah, well, Vacuo fans are sure to be hurting after that one, but this next one will have them on the edge of their seats!" Oobleck said, with an image of Team BRNZ at the moment they all felt the force of Nora's hammer.

"Team NDGO of Shade is certainly a crowd favorite, but these lovely ladies are going against some of the toughest, testosterone-filled teammates we've seen so far! I'm of course talking about…" Port said, displaying a picture of the four new challengers to his right. "Team SSSN!" The camera cuts to the view of a few spectators in the stands holding up signs with each male's face decorated with hearts, the exception being a simple image of a certain set of abs. "Sun Wukong and his team are certainly a force to be reckoned with, and although he'll be representing the Mistral Academy of Haven, I'm sure his friends and family back in Vacuo will be cheering him along!"

Team SSSN walks into the center of the field, waving to the cheering crowds as they do so.

Weiss is cupping her hands to sweetly call out, "Good luck, Neptune!"

Neptune is his waving continues until he spots his four beautiful opponents, which causes him to develop a confident attitude as he addresses them, "Ladies."

"Oh boy, the ice queen is jealous." Jared said, looking at the shocked Weiss at this simple word turns to her shaking with rage until she angrily gets up and points into the arena. "Like uber jealous. I wonder how Kirito and Madoka are doing with the others."

"Break his stupid face, NDGO!" Weiss said, angrily.

"I'm sure they're fine." Yang said.

"Alright, girls, try and remember...hands above the waist." Neptune said, while the crowds get ready and the teams stand on opposite sides from one another

"Ignore him, for he…" Sun said, grasping Neptune's arm and he apologized for his teammate's behavior. "Yeah, he's dumb."

Neptune simply gives a sparkling wink to the disgusted females as the holographic roulette shows up again, landing on a yellow image of sunny dunes and stone formations until the real thing emerges from below. A small circular light even appears overhead, causing most of the crowd to don sunglasses.

"Alright! Home field advantage!" Nebula said, laughing as she looks back at their selection.

"Don't get too cocky! That's my turf, too!" Sun said.

"I hope I don't get sand in my shoes." Scarlet said, looking down at his attire as the roulette begins again on the other side.

"Be cool, man." Neptune said, leaning over and whispering to Scarlet.

"Hey! The ocean!" Dew said, when the spinning images stop on a blue symbol of tidal waves.

"Crap!" Jared said, looking down for a moment, remembering what Neptune is afraid of. "His name is Neptune and…"

"Huh?" Neptune asked, turning around and sees the random pick for himself, eyes dilated at his goggles reflect the terrifying image, a slight whimper escaping him.

"Uhh, what's wrong with Neptune?" Ruby asked, turning to her teammates and Jared.

"Oh, no." Blake said, as her face is in her hand, unable to look as the sandy beach and pirate shipwreck rises into the arena while Neptune stiffens up with fear until she confides to a surprised Yang. "Neptune's...afraid of the water."

"3, 2, 1, BEGIN!" Oobleck said.

As soon as the word is said, Neptune zooms through the enemy team and skids up the mountain behind them.

Sage is calling out to the fleeing teammate, "Neptune, what are you doing?!"

Neptune, now standing on a ledge near the top of the formation, yelling down to his friends, "Uh, you know, just gaining the higher ground!"

"On the enemy's side?!" Sun exclaimed, exasperatedly.

"They would never expect it!" Neptune said.

"He's not wrong." Dew said, turning to her allies.

"Open fire!" Nebula said, calling out her first order.

Team NDGO goes forward into their turf as Team SSSN follows them, Sage with his sword raised and Scarlet having ditched his coat. He comes upon Octavia Ember emerging out from a nearby arch and tries to slice her with his cutlass. She ducks under the swing and continues sliding away, past the middle of Dew and Sage getting ready to rumble. Sage hefts his giant blade overhead, only to get knocked back by Dew's spear. He glances up in time to see the blonde wave her weapon over the sand to create three small twisters that kick up dust in Sage's face. He looks around as they surround him, but doesn't realize the danger until they coalesce into one big tornado that picks him up off the ground. With his weapon torn out of his grip and screaming in panic, he's totally helpless as the winds throw him and his blade out of the arena.

"And NDGO gains the advantage!" Oobleck said, as Sage slams the ground with fists upon seeing his image now crossed out on the holographic board.

Octavia slides in front of Sun and Scarlet, who ready themselves to fight her just as she spins her sword around and produces a wave of flame that kicks up dust in their faces. Sun manages to jump out of the cloud just in time to call for his replacement in fighting the redhead.

"Neptune!" Sun said, angrily.

Seeing his leader run from the duel, Neptune leaps down from his position and cocks his gun. Octavia attempts to use another fire attack to blind Neptune, but he simply puts on his goggles and fires a bolt as his opponent, who blocks it with her blade right before seeing Sun leap out of nowhere to deliver a neck-snapping kick to her face. Now furious, Octavia brings her blade onto Sun's Ruyi Bang and Jingu Bang in its staff form as he spins it all around his body while hitting several parts of hers. He ends it with a jab that knocks Octavia on her back in the sand.

"Oh! And we're down to 3-on-3!" Port said.

Sun looks at Neptune fighting with Gwen Darcy as she circles him with her flying knives and Scarlet attempting to go weapon-to-weapon with Dew. She merely calls upon another sandy cyclone to lift Scarlet up, and he revolves around the spiral until it launches him over the shipwreck. It seems like he's about to be eliminated at well, but he extends his arms and manages to dive onto a part of the mast, almost losing his balance once the pole's under his feet. He eventually finds his balance right when Nebula closes in and launches an arrow with her crossbow at the mast, using it to jump right up to where Scarlet is. She folds up the sides of her weapon into a blade to cross swords with her opponent, the both of them ducking and missing or getting hit by the hilts until Nebula slams her metal over Scarlet's and forces him to lean back on the post. Luckily, he manages to get his sword back out from the trap and feign a swing at Nebula's feet before knocking into her with his elbow, causing the NDGO leader to fall into the sand below.

From his position, Scarlet sees Gwen continue to throw her knives, and he smirks before whipping out his pistol and shooting the hilt guard as a grappling hook to get her by the ankle.

"Gotcha!" Scarlet said, using the cord to lift Gwen into the air while he slowly comes down to the ground, only to land directly beneath her as she attempts to protect her modesty while knives start raining down from her dress.

Scarlet quickly adopts a pose that somehow allows him to miss every single blade that comes crashing down into the sand at his feet, which he gives a sigh of relief to. His luck doesn't hold when Dew leaps near Sun, causing the monkey Faunus to find his new improvised weapons in the form of two coconuts he knocks out the palm tree beside him, which he throws at his opponent only to get them knocked right back at him, now spontaneously catching fire as they travel. Sun narrowly misses them both, but Scarlet gets one straight to the face, and the other lands in a place that makes him squeal in unimaginable pain while dropping his Aura levels into elimination.

"Nuts!" Sun said, sighing as he looks from Scarlet to Dew as she summons a few water blue tornadoes that he tries to dodge around. "Uh, Neptune? Could use some help, buddy!"

"Uh, you know, uh, it would probably be better if you came over here! Yeah, I can guard this...sector! We're in lockdown mode!" Neptune said, calling back to his leader with his excuses.

"What are you talking about? There's nothing to lock down!" Sun said, looking around infuriated as Nebula managed to shoot the cord holding Gwen up.

"Lockdown! Right! You got it!"

"Dude, I know you're afraid of water, but you gotta…" Sun said, jumping out from Dew's attempt to pierce him with her spear, and he stops yelling when a blue shot knocks an attacking Dew out of midair and into the water.

"There! I helped! Are you happy now!?" Neptune exclaimed. "Also, I am not afraid of water, and I have no idea what you are talking about!"

Dew manages to get back up as Nebula and Gwen join their comrade, lifting their weapons and ready to fight once more.

"NEPTUNE!" Sun said, angrily.

"Okay, fine! Just get out of the water!" Neptune said, jumping over to a spot near the coastal line next to Sun, and he unfolds his weapon into its trident form before tip-toeing forwards and, eyes closed, plunges the sparking prongs into the water.

Kirito and Asuna's house…

"This is the most ridiculous fight I've ever seen." Kirito said, sadly.

Amity Colosseum...

The energy surges through the deep until the remaining members of NDGO are electrocuted and kneel in the water, smoking and defeated with the sound of the buzzer.

"And with that, Team SSSN moves on to the doubles round!" Port said, while Sun and Neptune chest bump each other in celebration. "You know what I call that victory?"

"Shocking?" Oobleck asked.

"No, well earned. What you said is stupid."

Oobleck turns away, frowning.

Crow Bar...

"Now that was a match!" The bartender said, whistling at the screen, back in his establishment with its one customer.

"Heh, that was a mess!" Qrow said, with a light slur in his words.

"Come on man, you didn't like them, the Vale kids, or any of the rounds before that? What fight are you here for?"

Qrow sees an aircraft with elegant ribbons flying from its wings behind him, "That one."

Qrow finishes his drink as the world sways with the happily inebriated Huntsman until he slams the glass down on the counter and tosses a few Lien alongside it.

"Happy Vytal Festival!" Qrow said.

"Aw, gee darn it!" The bartender said, watching as his sole patron staggers away and puts down the glass he just finished cleaning, only to knock it down and shatter it when he reaches for another one.

Amity Colosseum…

"Aw, that was so close!" Ruby said, leaning back in her seat and sighs.

"Looks like the dorks made it to the next round!" Yang said.

Blake looks down in the arena where Sun and Neptune are dancing like fools before the fellow Faunus gives her a special double-gun gesture with a wink, eliciting a blush and a small smile from his target, "Emphasis on dork."

"That concludes the matches for today. Please leave the Coliseum IN A CALM AND ORDERLY FASHION!" Oobleck said, over the sound system.

"I don't know what to think of that match." Jared said, looking down at Team SSSN. "It was dumb and stupid. More in person."

"It really was." Blake said, crossing her arms.

"Come on, let's go congratulate 'em." Yang said, as she is after Team RWBY and Jared stops flinching from the unexpected volume change.

The four girls and the time traveler get up from their seats and start to head out just as the same ribbon-adorned craft passes over the Colosseum, causing Weiss to stop in her tracks and Ruby and Jared to bounce into her.

"Uh, what are you viewing?" Ruby asked.

"She's here!" Weiss said, looking up at the craft with a strange expression and strain in her voice.

Jared looked around to see that time has stopped with Homura standing in front of him. He looked back to see that the Schnee heiress' face displays a mix of joy and anxiety.

"What's up?" Jared asked, walking towards Homura.

"You're not taking Kazuto Kirigaya and Asuna Yuuki to the moon with you. You're taking me and Madoka Kaname with you." Homura said, walking towards Jared. "That's how it's gonna be."

"There's no fighting you, is there? Homura Akemi."

"Only if you value the life you currently have with us. No, there isnt."