A new dawn in Remnant: Volume 3

New Challengers

We see the familiar shot of Team JNPR 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 Port over the crowd's cheering.

Port: 3... 2... 1...

Jaune: *raises his sword* Come on guys!

Port: BEGIN!

All four members of JNPR charged forward, but only three fighters from BRNZ do the same; the beanie-wearing May Zedong turned around and headed into the trees, cocking her weapon. In the center of the field, leader Brawnz Ni delivered a knee kick to Pyrrha's shield that sended her skidding back, right before she blocked the claws on his fists with her xiphos. She jerked her sword away and made him leap back, just as the sniper jumped up into the branches of the forest with the bladed butt of her sniper rifle. Ren readied his StormFlower to attack Nolan Porfirio, who almost got blindsided by Nora's swing with Magnhild before he ducked under the attack and attempted to hit her with his cattle prod. The sniper girl finally took aim from her spot and managed to fire off two rounds near Ren, destroying the rocks behind him. Jaune managed to block the buzzsaw gloves of Roy Stallion with his own shield before he noticed the bullets flying and saw the glint of the gun in the leaves.

Jaune: *wide-eyed and stumbles over his order* R-R-Retreat!

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

Pyrrha looked at Jaune as projectiles kept coming overhead.

Pyrrha: What do we do?

Jaune: *looks over the edge to see the melee fighters closing in* Spread out! Try to keep moving! 

His team followed this just as Brawnz landed a punch on Jaune's shield.

May got even higher in the tree and smiled from behind her scope as she looked at the fight below. Brawnz and Pyrrha continued to duke it out while Nolan slowly advanced on Ren when he slided into his path. The prod-wielding warrior looked back at the trees and nodded to his hidden ally, who shot at Ren's feet again and made him jump around trying to dodge them. Just as he landed, Nolan hit him upside the head with his weapon and was able to easily dodge the retaliatory kick while landing another blow to Ren's knee and a final hit to the chest using the business end of his prod. Electricity shot through Ren's body before he collapsed to the ground beside his childhood friend.

Nora: Ren!

Scowling, Nora took a swing at Nolan, who promptly dodged it and again unleashed his weapon's power into her corset, though this caused a quite different reaction from the grinning redhead.

Port: Oh-ho! Looks like one of my favorite students, Nora Valkyrie, is charging up to use her Semblance!

Nolan: *looks up at the screen with a panicked look* What?

Oobleck: 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!

Nolan: *turns back to his opponent* What?!

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