Remnants of a World I Once Knew: Volume 2

Chapter 15

"So! There we were! In the docks! Slugging it out against Roman Torchwick and the White Fang!," Sun began. "Wait wait. Aren't the White Fang racist to humans or something?," his friend, a rather tall figure with a red jacket, black pants, and blue hair asked. "I think they're misguided but besides the point! We were slugging it out and I was beating up this faunus and he stumbled back. So he ends up slipping on the banana peel and guess where the peel went, Neptune?," Sun asked. "Where?," Neptune asked. "On Torchwick's face!," Sun laughed. "Nice!," Neptune jeered on. "But yeah, I had help from Blake, a Faunus. But don't tell anyone that!," Sun replied. "Dude. It's me," Neptune reminded. "....Fair point," Sun nodded. They kept walking, unaware of the fight happening in the cafeteria. "So when can I meet this Blake?," Neptune asked. "Oh! In a few minutes! Trust me! You'll love her and the team!," Sun nodded. They entered the door. Only to be met with people running out. Sun was practically ignoring the panicked kids as Neptune was more or less worried. Standing on 7 tables stacked high was Nora laughing maniacally.

"I'm queen of the castle! I'm queen of the castle!," she sang. "Justice will be swift! It will be painful. It shall be DELICIOUS!," Ruby squealed. "Yeah!," Weiss, Blake, and Yang jeered on. "Off with their heads!," Jaune ordered. Nora kicked a table's edge, sending 7 watermelons soaring to the air. The same with Jaune, Pyrrha, and Lie Ren. "Yang! Turkeys!," Ruby yelled. Yang smirked and punched into the cooked turkeys. Using them as boxing gloves, she began punching the melons, breaking them in pieces. Weiss and Pyrrha each picked up a loaf of bread and began sword fighting. Jaune and Blake did the same as well while Nora took a pipe, stabbed a watermelon and began to wield it like her Magnhild with Yang was blocking each swing and countering with punches as if she was using her Embler Celica. Jaune also picked up a loaf of bread. Weiss picked up a swordfish and the two locked blades. "Shall we dance?," Jaune spoke in a rather coy sounding voice. Weiss did a roundhouse kick, sending Jaune back and falling flat on his back. "Dance is over," Weiss replied. Nora then appeared out of nowhere and strikes Weiss in the stomach, sending her back and hitting a wall. Ruby saw this and used her semblance and caught the unconscious Weiss. "Weiss! Weiss! Stay with me. No!," Ruby squealed as Blake kicks Lie Ren back but had to duck as Nora swung the makeshift hammer at her. Pyrrha shoves Yang back and towards the path of the hammer. The watermelon connected with Yang, sending her flying in the air, skyrocketing and through the ceiling. Nora brought the watermelon down on Blake. Blake was able to dodge it but the impact sent her hurtling back and falling next to Weiss.

Ruby lowered Weiss down and then began to charge towards Team JNPR. She then transformed into her semblance, a blur of red with rose petal trails. The speed of her semblance cause Team JNPR to hurtle back and into a wall. Not only that but soda cans, condiments and food began to fly towards Team JNPR, showering then with all colors. When the dust settled, Team JNPR were on the floor, drenched in several colors of food and drinks. "These guys are a lot of fun," Sun looked at Neptune. "This is your style of fun?," Neptune looks at Sun, his clothes drenched like Team JNPR's clothes. The door burst open behind them and Glynda came storming in, very upset. She began to wave her Disiplinarian to revert everything back to its' cleaning state. The tables and everything else finally fell back go their pre-messy places. "Children. Do not play with your food," Glynda growled as Fives approached next to her. The two teams were quiet, only to be interrupted when Yang came falling through the roof and landing next to Ruby, startling Weiss. They slowly began to laugh.

"Surely you can't find this amusing," Glynda looked at Fives. To her surprise and disdain, she found Fives chuckling. "You find this childish nonsense funny? They're supposed to be the next defenders," Glynda glares. "I agree. But right now, they're kids. So let's let them enjoy it while being a kid lasts," Fives reassures them as Yang gave them a thumbs up, not caring that she was sent hurtling through the ceiling and sent falling down. "After all. They won't stay as kids forever. Before you know it, they'll be adults," Fives began to leave. "You would know something about childhood, wouldn't you?," Glynda asked. Fives stopped walking and remained silent. She reminded him of his childhood. Spent in physical training rooms, preparing to fight, computer rooms, understanding tactics, training simulations, firing at simulation droids and even live firing training. As a young clone, he was birth with a mindset to serve the Republic, nothing more. However, his mind would ponder out to a life where he wasn't trained as a soldier. A life where he wasn't a child soldier trained for war in a fragmented Galaxy. "Yeah. I would know something about childhood. Something that should not be wasted. Something that should be savored. Because before you know it, childhood'll be nothing more than a memory. A memory wanting to be relived," Fives replied before leaving.