"Don't hold this against me, Ms. Rose." Oobleck said loudly as the match sounded off.

Evidently, this was not the best predicament to find oneself in. It carried all sorts of risks which may or may not bend the fabric of reality. Ruby couldn't help it really, things starting going wrong the moment she set foot in the past. It was, however, true that she was the cause of whatever the hell was happening to her. None of these seemingly hypothetical scenarios would have happened if she hadn't somehow find herself stuck in the past with no way out. Granted, she didn't really object to having a second chance — but this shouldn't have happened in the first place. Clearing her head of any stray and philosophical thoughts, she focused on the task ahead of her. What was she going to do?

Well, it was blatantly obvious for the most part — defeat the two opponents in front of her. Which shouldn't have been too hard. If she focused on dodging while delivering a series of relentless slashes and swings with her scythe, she should have been able to knock out at least one before having to jump back. However, Ruby did not account the fact that the two worked like cogs in a machine. They acted in unison, attacked in unison, and thought in unison — much like the late Team RWBY. So, if one were to attack her and miss, the other would go after the opening created by the first.

She swore under her breath as she narrowly dodged Port's axe as it passed by her, narrowly cutting a strand of hair off her head.

'Must have been on the same team.' The huntress thought to herself as she began to analyze the situation thoroughly.

She eyed the giant display above the stands. All three of their bars were still completely full. No hits taken, but no attacks landed. Teamwork gave the two professors an edge over her. She had no one else to rely on besides her at the time being. The sighed sourly as the memories of her team passed by in her head. She really didn't enjoy losing them at all. How lucky of them to have retained their team members.

"You seem far too cautious of us, perhaps you fear the great and all powerful Peter Port! Hoho!" Port's voice bore into Ruby's mind like someone had just started kicking her head while she was asleep.

"Oh shut it." The huntress scowled back at the flamboyant huntsman before her, before eyeing Oobleck behind him, his thermos extended.

'What's the matter, scared? Hoho!" Peter said loudly, causing the crowd to go into an uproar.

Okay. Now this was just getting annoying.

Shifting her scythe into its alternate form, she disappeared into a cloud of white rose petals that rose high up into the air, much to the crowd's surprise. Oobleck raised an eyebrow before his eyes widened as he sees a blur speeding towards him at inhuman speeds. Pushing Port out of the way, they narrowly escaped being impaled by a future Ruby stabbing her scythe into the ground next to them, causing it to cave in slightly. The professor eyes immediately locked with the huntress' silver eyes as she ripped her scythe out of the ground as rushed towards the two of them.

Narrowly dodging a few thrusts from Crescent Rose, he immediately parried it to the side and tried to land a hit with his thermos kanabo only for it to lock with Crescent Rose. Reeling back, Ruby spun and shifted her scythe back into its original form in order to slash at the professor — only to jump back as she sees Port's axe almost strike her once again.

"Tsk." Ruby said sourly while she shifted Crescent Rose into rifle form.

Firing rounds of fire dust at the two professors, she quickly sees them whizz past the two professors as they expertly dodge the incoming projectiles. Aiming behind her, she grunted as she blasted herself towards the two, shifting forms in midair back to her scythe. Seeing this, the two began firing upon Ruby with their weapons — only for it to amount to nothing as the incoming fire did nothing to slow her as Ruby spun herself to deflect the incoming shots. A visible white hurricane could be seen speeding the two as they made an attempt to dodge the incoming force of Ruby — only for them to get sucked up into the vortex.

Inside, the two professors are whirled about as they are caught inside of the raging twister. As they are sent spiraling to the top of the storm, Ruby abruptly stops her rotation and peers up at the two red and green ragdolls above her. The audience watches as the vortex subside and sees the two professors seemingly suspended midair above the white cloaked huntress.

Immediately, Ruby shifts her weapon back into rifle form and fires at the sods above her. Much to her amusement, all shots landed as giant clouds of smoke engulfed the area above her. Finally, she uses the recoil from Crescent Rose to send her rocketing towards the ground. She lands on her feet as she hoists her unofficial firstborn over her shoulder for a splendid finish. However, as the crowd remained silent, something began stirring within her stomach.

Something was off.

Peering up towards the giant, black smoke clouds, she could see two things plummeting back down to the arena. Much to her dismay, she sees the dastardly duo crack the ground they landed on. She sees Oobleck and Port seemingly unharmed, save for the ashen color their clothing had taken from the explosions.

"How…!?" She said, dumbfounded.

"Sheer Tenacity!" Professor Port shouted out as he laughed heartily.

"It'll take more than that to take out two huntsman, Ms. Rose." Oobleck says, giving Ruby a raised eyebrow.

Glancing at the display, her eyes widened considerably as she saw her opponent's aura gauges.

Oobleck's was inched to around 95%. Green.

Port's was inched to around 92%. Green.

Her own was sitting at a slightly chopped 85%. Green.

This couldn't be possible. Those dust rounds normally tore through almost everything she fired them at. She stared at the two dusting themselves off with fearful eyes. How in the hell did..?! What?! Ruby could understand losing some aura after seemingly deflecting those projectiles, but how did they remain less scathed than her?! Was it a product of their semblances?! What kind of semblance did they have, then?!

Suddenly, the sound of gunfire yanked her out of her thoughts. Quickly approaching were balls of ignited fire dust. Swiftly, she evaded the incoming barrage of projectiles before fading away into three separate balls of white rose petals. One of them whizzed to the left while the other dashed to the right. The third and final cloud of white rose petals rose above the gunfire. All three sped towards Professors Oobleck and Port, much to their surprise.

They glanced at one another before firing at the two clouds to the left and right. Both igniting into a massive fire before immediately burning out. So that must mean… The both of them immediately shot at the third remaining cloud of rose petals — only to be rammed by an opposing force to their right. Gritting his teeth at the sudden impact to his side, all push forces were immediately stopped as he activated his semblance before swatting back his attacker, knocking the seasoned huntress back a few meters.

A stunned and confused Ruby Rose stared at her two opponents. What was that? How did he stop all of the incoming force that easily?! She jumped back even further, taking a furtive glance at the aura gauges on the display.

Oobleck's gauge was at roughly 86% after taking the brunt of the attack. Still Green.

Port himself did not take it, but was still faced with the initial force. 79%. Still Green.

The huntress then glanced at her own.

76%. Closer to Yellow than Green. Shit.

Hold on, she had to figure out something. Oobleck had seemingly stopped all the force of Crescent Rose's attack after the initial impact, which possibly meant that he had pooled his aura into that one side. No, that would mean his aura would be more exhausted that it is right now. It was the work of his semblance. Something about his semblance stopped all the incoming force by hardening his aura at no expense. So would that mean it was something akin to him wearing heavy, reinforced plate armor laced with some type of dust?

No, that would mean he would have trouble moving around. Perhaps it only activated at first impact, thus rendering the user fully mobile until then. Which meant that he had some sort of force absorbent force field and full control over his movement. Now that she thought about it, when she crashed into her after trying to escape Port's class, he wasn't entirely fazed by the sudden impact. Shit. Were there really no downsides to it?!

And what about Port? His aura should've gone down further after being struck by the rounds she fired at the both of them!

'SHEER TENACITY!'

Oh dust damn it.

Ruby's eyes widened as she saw what was laid out in front of her. Her amazing, super-duper awesome mother was actually losing!

"Yaaaang!" She whined.

"I know, I know, Rubes!" Yang said, peering towards her sister, then at the aura gauges.

"Huh. I didn't think he was actually being serious during his lectures." A low voice said to the left of them. Blake had just begun to speak after being silent for most of the fight.

"Who knew?"

Team RWBY stayed quiet, immediately realizing what Blake had meant. She was right, though. The tales Port usually told during his lectures class were actually showing true during this match, much to Team RWBY's surprise and disdain.

"She's actually fairing pretty well against those two." Weiss said as she studied the older Ruby contently.

"But she's losiiing!" Ruby said, grabbing Weiss by the shoulders.

"Get your hands off me!" Weiss said, brushing Ruby's hands off of her in disgust. "I meant that she's doing better than what I expected!"

"What's that supposed to mean?" Yang said, giving Weiss a glare.

"Well, when you think of how well Oobleck and Port work together in unison like that, you'd expect them to mop the floor with whoever stood in their way!"

"Heeey! That's my mom you're talking about!" Yang said in annoyance.

"Heeey! That's our mom you're talking about!" Ruby chimed in.

"Don't get me wrong, she's amazing for being able to hold on for this long!" Weiss says, waving her hands in front of her face.

"Weiss is right." Blake said as she stared at the fight intently.

"Blake!" Yang said as she saw her partner's betrayal.

Ruby had had it up to here with the duos' outstanding teamwork. After not being able to do substantial damage to Oobleck by only whittling down his aura to 78% with Port's still being at a cozy 79% after a solid 5 minutes while her own just plummeted to a pitiful 65% in the yellow, she just about had it.

She lowered her guard, much to her opponents' confusion.

"Finally decided to give up, miss?" Port bantered on.

Huntress stood there, batting no eye to the intentions of the two opponents in front of her. The crowd goes silent as the three hunters stood there unmoving, waiting for one to make a move. Slowly, white rose petals began to come off of Ruby's cloak unendingly and began to circle around the arena as if an air current was guiding their way. These seconds passed on, the petals slowly scattering into the air around them, much to the professors' confusion.

"..White?" The younger Ruby said to herself as the crowd remained silent throughout the strange ordeal.

Finally, the huntress opened her eyes and what her opponents saw made them stagger back in shock. Ruby's silver eyes were leaking a strong, white light from their sockets. Gasps and screams could be heard from crowd as the light seemed to leak out more and more from the huntress' eyes. Port's eyebrows shot up to his hairline, finally revealing his rarely seen eyes, as he sees Ruby give a faint smile at the two.

She had never really been able to master this. Master the power that was passed down through the generations of her family. She never had a tutor. Never had access to this power. Hell, never really knew she had it until several months had passed when she was in Beacon. It first awoke when during the first catastrophe that destroyed Beacon itself, making it a home for countless creatures of Grimm. Since then, she wasn't sure what had happened at all. Until shortly after, her uncle finally gave her a cryptic explanation that made her rattle her brain around in an attempt to understand. But now, after everything that had happened to her, she could finally use it on command.

Well, not to the extent where she could freeze a Grimm dragon within mere moments. There seemed to be always a drawback to using the powers of her silver eyes. The moment she first used it, she let loose every inch of power within her which made her collapse from all the energy expended from her emotional outburst. It was almost akin to a double edge sword. The more she indulged in it, the more energy she expended almost to the point of exhaustion. So, little by little, she tested how far she could let it go. After years of trial and error, she had finally found the limit.

As her the light around her eyes stabilized themselves, she took a low stance with Crescent Rose. Quickly, she professors began to brace themselves for an incoming attack — only to see that the huntress was already in their faces. The power of the silver eyes was a sort of booster for her aura. It made her aura's overall strength double along with any already occurring bonuses in strength, speed, and defense from having an aura active in the first place. Ruby was already in position to start slashing. In a panic, Oobleck raised his extended thermos to his defense — only to stop dead in his tracks as a barrage of almost invisible attacks hit him head on.

Port, seeing his comrade in trouble, spun around in an attempt to use his momentum to add extra force to his axe swing — only to tumble back as a high speed kick to the face struck him in mere milliseconds.

Ruby continued to wail on Oobleck with unyielding fury in rapid succession. Oobleck's desperate attempts to activating his semblance had been for naught as he couldn't retain his focus through the storm of Crescent Rose's slices and dices. It wasn't long until his vast surplus of aura drained from his form.

Much to his surprise, his attacker threw their own weapon in the air. His focus still on the scythe spinning in the air above him, he didn't realize that he had just been entitled to an entire second to a flurry of punches, jobs, uppercuts, hooks, and kicks from the huntress in front of him.

She shouted angrily as she finishes her combo with her reeling her fist back as far as possible, seemingly creating an opening for her hapless victim in front of her for a counterattack. Which in fact, Oobleck did take as a logical decision only to not see Ruby pouring all of her enhanced aura into the foot below her reeled back fist into a finishing strike that sent him flying across the arena. Upon impact, the shield that had been protecting the audience had cracked dangerously, much to the crowd's surprise.

Glancing to the display, Ruby grinned slightly as she sees Oobleck's aura meter drop drastically into an tiny sliver upon the impact. Looking back to the last standing professor to the left of her, he sees him still standing defiantly as he brandished her axe.

"I'm afraid I can't let you get away with that, miss!" Port said in a serious tone as he fired a few shots from his weapon and then began to rush in.

Catching Crescent Rose as it almost struck the ground below her, she took a low stance as she adjusted her grip with her unofficial firstborn. She had learned this trick from a certain bastard who allegedly almost killed several times over. Pouring her remaining aura into the soles of her feet and activating her semblance once more, she rocketed forward in an instant and passed a surprised Port. The crowd waited in silence as they saw Ruby standing there as if she had just swung her scythe with one hand. Port seemed frozen in place, unable to move. Then, after a grueling moment, the professor collapsed on the floor as his weapon fell from his grip and landed with a solid clang.

Standing up straight, she took a good look at the aura meters, sighing in relief at what she saw.

Summer Rose: 35%. Yellow.

Bartholomew Oobleck: 3%. Red.

Then to Port's.

Peter Port: 7%. Red.