Cinder: Now you understand.
Cinder Fall was sitting on a boulder, flicking her dagger and changing its form.
Cinder: I've got to get the Relic before it can be secured in . It's the only way that......It's the only way we can accomplish our goal.
Neo looked back at Cinder.
Cinder: You're not the only one who wants her dead. But unfortunately, Salem does not feel the same way...and she has a new friend, one with unbelievable power...
Neo places her umbrella on her shoulder and walks toward Cinder.
Cinder: I've been... instructed not to kill her and another boy, But you... You have no such orders. You can do as you please.
Cinder's dagger disintegrates and she stood up to walk towards Neo.
Cinder: Help me get to Atlas, help me find her... and the rest is up to you.
Neo pondered Cinder's words for a moment before smiling at her and holding her hand out. Cinder takes Neo's hand with her own, sealing the deal with a handshake.
Wind howled. In a mountainous region, a lone, cloaked feminine figure with a skull mask concealing her face crosses a rickety bridge. Halfway across the bridge, she heard the screech of a Nevermore. She turned to her left to see the appear from the fog, and she drew her weapons - a pair of sickles.
The young Huntress backflipped off the bridge just as the Nevermore rammed through it, splitting the bridge in half. She threw one of her sickles at one of the Nevermore's wing and uses the gravity Dust imbued in it to pull herself back up, while also dragging the Nevermore down. She grabbed her other sickle on her way back up, getting above the Nevermore, and used the recoil of her weapon to spin and grapple onto the Nevermore.
She then threw one of her sickles to a mountain, pulling the Nevermore with it. The Nevermore crashed into the mountainside, losing its balance, before crash landing to the ground. Maria's other sickle was called back and landed on the ground in front of it.
Maria took out the sickle from the Nevermore's wing, catching her breath. She looked over to the Nevermore's head, whose eyes stare back at her, causing her to gasp. The Nevermore tried to snap its beak at Maria, forcing her off. It swiped at her, knocking Maria back and forcing her to drop her sickle. The Nevermore charged forward, but Maria's eyes glowed brightly, engulfing the area around her. She stood back up and notices the Nevermore petrified in midair, before dropping down and crumbling. Maria walked over to her sickle to pick it up, using the gravity Dust to call her other sickle back to her.
Suddenly, Maria deflected a bullet aimed at her. She notices three men - one with a giant hammer, one carrying a rifle, and one with a machete - come out of hiding. Another woman, a crocodile Faunus named Tock , then walk up behind her.
Tock: Well, that's a fancy trick now, innit? 'Fraid it comes with a price though, love.
Maria turned around to face Tock, while the three men ready their weapons.
Maria: I don't think you realize who I am.
Tock: Course I do. You're the Grimm Reaper, and these... are the last sixty seconds of your life.
Tock hit the button on her clock, starting the timer's countdown. She then drew a pair of saber swords and activated her Aura. The ticking clock was be heard in the background as the battle begins. Tock rushes forward and clashed blades with Maria. Maria struck back, but Tock's Aura knocked her sickle out of her hand. Tock kicked Maria back, with the latter summoning her other sickle back to her hand. She then proceeded to fight the three men, deflecting their bullets. She cut down the rifle-wielding man, knocks out the machete-wielder, and dodges out of the way of the hammer user before cutting him down. She then blocks another attack from Tock, who managed to push Maria back, causing her Aura to flicker.
