RWBY: Penny and the Tin Man

Round 1 Part 3

Realizing that where he was standing was no longer a great place to be, Russel kicked off the ground to propel himself backward and away from the enemy base. He had moved just in time to escape the minefield and the impending chaos.

Ruby on the other hand wasn't nearly as lucky and this was made apparent not a moment later when the glyph below her feet exploded and a massive pillar of ice shot up from the ground. Ruby let out a high pitched yelp as she jumped out of its path only to nearly back into another raising up behind her. And it was quickly preceded by several more explosions and icy pillars shooting up in all other directions, both blocking her path and threatening to incase her and turn her into a human ice sculpture.

Suddenly wanting to be anywhere else but here, Ruby activated her semblance and instantly began moving at lightning fast speed in a desperate attempt to avoid her icy fate. With each movement she made she left frozen rosé petals in her wake. She rushed to her right as another pillar nearly took her out and dived under two more pillars that shot up at an angle and when the two collided they burst sending icy shards in every direction. Seeing the icy shards coming towards her and noticing that she was currently standing on another glyph, she jumped back just as the new pillar shot up into the air shielding her from the shards but had to break into a sprint again when several more glyphs triggered.

Ruby was avoiding the worst of it and though it was an impressive display of agility and instinct it all seemed futile in the end. Each time she dodged one icy prison another would be set off under her feet. It was clear whoever set these up understood her movement patters and how to counter them. And counter them they did since before long Ruby found herself completely boxed in, there was no more room to maneuver in any direction and all she could do now was to wait for her cold fate. However much to her surprise there was nothing, no glyph under her feet she was in the clear or so she thought. She scanned her surroundings there was no pathway out of the ice. The pillars were now over twenty feet tall and created a wall between her and the outside world.

"You think this will hold me!" Ruby yelled to nobody in particular. She had an inkling as to who had set up this little trap but, had no way idea if she was even in ear shot of this place so there was no reason to call her out directly. Not wanting to spend any more time here than necessary she went to work examining the ice for a way out. It only took her a few minutes of failed attempts to realize that the ice was far too thick to cut through with her weapon, too tall to jump, and it was too slick to climb. And on top of that, even if she could scale them their peaks were covered in jagged spikes of ice. Ruby shivered at the thought of falling onto one of those things.

Without many options open to her Ruby began racking her brain for any kind of solution but before she could come up with anything good, a stern almost mocking voice rang out across the field. "You really are a dolt aren't you?" Ruby's eyes snapped upward to see her white clad Heiress of a teammate appeared from on top of the cliff side.

"Weiss is that you?" Ruby yelled out to the other girl.

Though Ruby couldn't make out the gesture from such a distance Ruby got the feeling Weiss was rolling her eyes as she responded. "Who else would it be?! And isn't this just great, I can't believe you really fell for such an oblivious trap like this! Your our leader, how are the rest of us going to look if you can't when you do dumb reckless stuff like this!?" Weiss hissed.

"Hey this is not my fault! If Russel followed orders like he was supposed to, then this wouldn't have even happened! It's not fair I tell you! Not fair!" Ruby yelled in a defensive tone.

"Hey don't pin this on me! Nobody told you to start stomping around like that!" Russel retorted from somewhere beyond the icy blockade.

This outburst didn't go unnoticed by the white clad heiress and she took a moment to sign before drawing her weapon Myrtenaster and bringing it to the ready. "Sorry about this Ruby, I am going to send you packing now!" She declared before she spun the barrel of her rapier sword activating one of its dust chambers.