I hope this is okay... It feels a little weird.

"Begin!"

Cardin moved first, taking a swing at Coco which she swatted away with her bag before delivering a swift punch to his face. The larger boy was sent flying back and onto his rear. He stood back up a second later and slammed his mace onto the ground in front of him, causing the ground to explode which Coco barely dodged.

"Come on Winchester, you even trying?" Coco taunted, dodging under a sideways strike.

Cardin swung again in a downward strike but instead of dodging Coco grabbed the shaft of the mace, stopping the strike and delivering a swift kick to his crotch.

"Ha!" He laughed when the kick didn't seem to phase him all that much. Why? Well, he wears a very, very sturdy sport's cup.

While she was slightly confused, he punched her hard in the gut before butting his head against her's. She stumbled backwards, a hand against her forehead.

Cardin was about to take this opportunity to strike again but stopped when a computerized voice came over the loud speaker.

"Terrain shift, ice."

The ground beneath them changed to that of slippery ice.

Coco and Cardin weren't very worried about the ice, both knowing very well how to fight on it.

Jaune and Hei however...

"Arc, hands off!" Cardin ordered.

"Shikbane. Release. His. Ass. Now!" Coco yelled.

Jaune and Hei didn't handle the ice well. They were both clinging to each other to keep from falling while their weapons lay at their feet. Jaune had his arms wrapped around her shoulders while Hei held onto the first thing she grabbed... His rear.

Coco and Cardin looked furious.

"Eep!" Hei released Jaune's butt and moved her hands to the small of his back.

Coco seemed to relax. "That's better."

Cardin was still furious and was slowly making his way towards the two.

"O-Okay." The blond stammered out as both he and Hei released each other... It lasted for only a brief second when they both began to slip so they embraced again much to Cardin's dissatisfaction.

"ARC!"

Cardin had his mace ready to pummel Jaune when music started playing over the loud speaker.

Start (Rules of nature instrumental-Platinum mix)

A light grey and green Atlas military Spider-droid fell from the ceiling, almost crushing Coco who rolled out of the way in time.

"Get out of there!" Glynda screamed from the arena's entrance/exit, readying her riding crop.

Cardin put away his mace before slinging Jaune and Hei over his shoulders and making his way quickly towards the exit. Coco followed close behind.

They reached the exit but were stopped. The protective force field was still active with Glynda on the other side desperately trying to deactivate it. All the while the Spider droid drew closer.

"Dammit!" Cardin cursed, dropping Jaune and Hei before spinning to face the droid with his mace drawn.

Coco also faced the droid, transforming her bag into it's Gatling gun form. "Both of you, stay back." Coco ordered Jaune and Hei who were struggling to stand up on the ice. "You are weaponless and unable to fight on the ice, we'll distract it until the force field is lowered."

"Wait!" Jaune tried to stop them, but they were gone. Back in the arena to distract the droid.

"We're not just going to stay here and do nothing, right?" Hei asked as she and Jaune watched Cardin and Coco narrowly dodging the green energy shots from the droid.

Coco managed to come to a stop. "Eat it!" She yelled, unloading on the droid only for her shots to harmlessly bounce off of it. The droid combined it's cannons and landed a direct hit on Coco, sending her flying into the wall of the arena.

"COCO!" Jaune screamed as he saw her fall to the floor after hitting the wall.

Cardin took this opportunity to attack the droid in the back with an explosive strike. He landed the strike but didn't look like it did anything. The droid retaliated by kicking Cardin away with one of it's legs, sending the guy back to the entrance opposite of where Jaune and Hei were.

The droid then turned it's attention to Jaune and Hei, walking towards them slowly.

"What do we do!?" Jaune asked, looking to Hei, then Glynda who was still trying to deactivate the force field around the arena and...

"BK two zero one Atlas prototype shield generating Spider droid." Simon said from next to Glynda, tapping away at his customized black scroll. He wore a black trench coat, pants, shoes and fingerless gloves. "The shield generator itself is located underneath and unprotected."

"Underneath?" Jaune asked which Simon responded with a nod, not looking up from his scroll.

"Okay... How are we supposed to do this?" Hei asked.

The droid stopped, standing directly over Jaune and Hei's weapons. It's cannons were combined again and was charging up to fire at the pair.

It wasn't looking good... Jaune reached into the small brown leather pouch tied to the right on his belt. He pulled out what looked like three solid colored marbles. Black, white and red. He threw the red one towards Cardin and the black over towards Coco.

"Get ready and don't drop this!" He ordered, grabbing Hei's hand while giving her the white marble to hold.

"Re-" They disappeared in a flash of white just before a green energy shot was fired from the droid.

The droid un-combined it's cannons and observed the area around it, searching for it's targets.

*Sound of chain swords revving up.*

The Spider droid surged with green electricity before it's green coloring turned red.

There were another two flashes of white underneath, one right after another. Hei seemed to just appear next to the downed Coco, armed with her weapons.

Jaune appeared next to a downed Cardin with his sheathed sword in his left hand. He placed his right hand on Cardin before they both vanished in a white flash, reappearing by Coco and Hei.

The droid turned it's attention to the four teens and started to make it's way towards them.

Jaune reached into his pouch again and pulled out two more marbles. Blue and yellow. He placed the blue one on the ground and threw the yellow one at what he assumed was the droid's face. He then placed a hand on Hei's shoulder and they both disappeared in a white flash, appearing again in the air in front of the droid.

Midair, Jaune drew his sword while Hei revved up her chain swords. They both cut clean through the droid's four cannons before landing on the ground.

The droid made the attempt to crush the two but Hei pointed at Jaune with her right hand weapon, a black cable shooting out from her sleeve to wrap around the blond's left wrist. Another white flash and they were next to Coco and Cardin again, avoiding the droid's attack.

"Revert terrain."

The computerized voice came over the loud speaker again and the ice covering the floor melted, the resulting water drained away quickly.

Not a second later, several purple colored projectiles struck the side of the droid. "Get away from my students!" Professor Goodwitch screamed. She waved her riding crop in front of her and several more projectiles flew at the droid, a few of them punching straight through it's armor, damaging it enough to make it deactivate.

(End Rules of nature)

Once certain that the Spider droid was down, Glynda quickly made her way over to the four students that were trapped in the arena. She checked to make sure they were alright before contacting the infirmary to get them admitted.

So, next we'll meet Coco's parents.