Fate's of the Trade

Chapter 7, Episode 13: The Enemy of Trust

Jaune: Give up. We've got you outnumbered.

Nora Valkyrie, Lie Ren, Oscar Pine, ChaoticDementio, Pyrrha, and Jaune are standing together in a hallway in Atlas Academy, facing Neopolitan with their weapons drawn. She flicks her umbrella down to make the hidden sword blade protrude from the top, and the others respond by getting ready to fight.

Nora: All right, then.

ChaoticDementio: Don't take her lightly. She's one of the best close-quarters combatants I know, and believe me, I've meet quite a few.

Pyrrha: We'll keep note of that.

Ren shoots at Neo, while Nora fires two grenades from Magnhild. However, Neo opens her umbrella, turns around, and blocks the attacks with her umbrella by resting it over her shoulder. When the smoke clears, she smirks and turns to face them again. Ren runs toward her, firing his guns again, and she blocks the bullets with her umbrella, then runs on and jumps from the wall. Just as Ren begins to aim at her, she comes down from the air and swings her closed umbrella down at him, only for him to block by crossing his guns.

He pushes her away, and she uses her umbrella on the floor to bounce further down the hall. Nora charges at Neo and swings her hammer, but Neo ducks down, scoops Nora up with her open umbrella, and dumps Nora on the floor behind her. Neo then strikes a pose, winking and flashing a crooked grin. Pyrrha throws her shield, which ricochet's of the walls before flying to Neo, who closes her umbrella and casually deflects the with one arm behind her back. The shield gets imbedded into the ground behind Neo, as Pyrrha swings Miló at her.

Neo does an exaggerated gasp gesture, smirks and drops to the floor by doing the splits. While on the floor, she flips her umbrella in her grasp. As Pyrrha passes over her, Neo rises up next to her, hooks her weapon with her umbrella and pulls, causing her to be turned in mid-air by her own weapon. Unable to right himself, Pyrrha slams into the wall.

ChaoticDementio charges towards Neo with Excalibur drawn, and slashes twice at Neo, who dodges and kicks his sword away. Neo then swings her umbrella and hits CD straight in the jaw before she flip kicks CD and makes him slide away.

ChaoticDementio: Heh, glad to see you've gotten stronger since we last met.

Neo smirks at CD from the compliment, before Oscar charges toward Neo with his cane drawn. She takes him by surprise by thrusting her umbrella between his arm and his side. She then moves her arm up and hooks it under his arm before flipping over him. When her feet return to the floor, she uses the momentum to throw Oscar into the air, causing the Relic of Knowledge to fall off of his belt. Seeing her chance, she thrusts her umbrella toward the Relic, only for Pyrrha to throw her weapon through the Lamp's ring first.

As soon as Oscar lands on the floor, he grabs the Lamp and throws Pyrrha's weapon back at her, as Neo begins stabbing her umbrella's blade at the Relic's ring with her other arm behind her back, while Oscar can only defend himself. With a crooked grin, she swings her blade at him, only for Jaune to slip in between them with his shield at the ready. The emblem on his shield glows pinkish-purple and emits a blast that knocks Neo away from them. She lands on her feet and takes a moment to glare at them before ChaoticDementio starts firing energy blast at her, with his hands glowing red. Neo flips through the blasts before she activates her semblance, teleporting behind CD with a shattering glass effect, as she axe-kicks CD in the back of the head, slamming him into the ground.