Chapter 15: Extracurricular

It was Tuesday in Beacon, the day where students managed to knock off the weekend rust and start taking their work seriously. On a similar note, it was second period.

Which meant Nora was attending Ms. Sustrai's class at the moment. She was very happy about this, as she had just learned who she was about to face. Nora sat in the locker room, equipping her gear in anticipation for her approaching fight with Team CFVY.

She clasped on her greaves, adorned with tiny wings at the ankles. Her gauntlets felt as light as feathers, and fit like a glove. Stepping out of the room, she walked down the the long tunnel to the arena. The dark pathway slowly became brighter as she made her way down, and the voices of the crowd grew stronger in anticipation of the fight.

Metal screeched and warriors buckled from her assault.

Her arrival was met with cheers, as if she was the gladiator fighting for others' entertainment. With a simple determination she drew her hammer.

The air was charged with electricity and adrenaline.

Nora examined the opposition in front of her. The four teenagers in grunge stood in a cloud of animosity, their resentment towards the famous warrior was obvious to everyone. All this did was make Nora smile.

She was going to enjoy this.

Nora charges at Coco, leaping into the air before she slams her hammer towards her. Coco for her part hops backwards, the hammer head missing her by inches. Her handbag folded shut, she takes a diagonal swing at Nora's head. Instantly analyzing this, she turns her hammer upside down and in the opposite direction as Coco's swing, to where if if looked at the two of them straight on Coco's swing and Nora's hammer would form an X.

As Coco swung down, Nora stepped sideways, shoving the bottom end of the handle through the opening between Coco's hand holding the briefcase and the briefcase itself. Pinned down, Coco quickly meets eyes with Nora.

Nora pops a smirk.

Hearing the quiet footsteps of Fox running towards her from behind, she fires off her hammer to both crack Coco in the midsection and use the momentum to throw the team leader at the bewildered faunus, who had no time to dodge out of the way.

The two were thrown aside, leaving Velvet and Yatsuhashi to deal with the champion fighter. Velvet had created a sword and shield, seeming the same as Jaune's. She rushed forward first, shield raised in an attempt to pin Nora down. Not even allowing a chance at that to happen, Nora slides to the ground and lays her hammer flat against the ground, only holding it at the very end of the shaft.

As Velvet reached her, she fires off her weapon and in the blink of an eye she spins on the spot. The hammer clips Velvet in the knees, sending her spinning through the air before landing with a thud.

Yatsuhashi roars forward, no-dachi raised above his head. Nora pushes herself off the ground to her left, narrowly avoiding the giant's blade as it crashed into the ground. The blade had, however, slashed into Nora's hammer and smacked it out of her grasp.

He follows this up by swinging his blade horizontally, but his awkward positioning meant that his swing had only enough force to just barely lift his sword off the ground. With little effort Nora jumps over him and his attempt at an attack.

After landing, she grabs her hammer again and quickly turns around, swinging at him. Nora must have underestimated his reflexes, though. Just as soon as she had struck, Yatsuhashi had turned around and blocked with his sword. The two were locked in equal strength, Nora's hammer with Yatsuhashi's massive blade.

"Hold her there!"

Nora looks behind her to see Coco and Velvet standing beside each other, Velvet having unfolded her machine gun and Coco had copied it. The barrels revved up and were about to unleash an immense hail of bullets. Oh, and Fox was starting to come to.

Nora didn't sweat it though, she knew what to do.

Still holding her weapon with her left hand, she uses her right to grab Yatsuhashi's arm. He looks at her in confusion. Smiling, she jumps up and over him once more, landing behind him while still holding his arm as to drag his arms and his weapon behind him.

"WAI-"

Coco and Velvet realized what Nora was doing only a moment too late. They let go of the trigger almost instantly, but in that split second a hundred bullets shot towards Nora, only to hit Yatsuhashi instead. The force of the gun fire blasted the two to the wall.

"Yatsu!"

"Sorry!"

Nora pushes the now passed out man to the ground, and the next Coco and Velvet see of Nora is her figure jumping off the wall and into the air, flourishing her hammer as it transforms into it's grenade launcher form.

With a smile and a wink, she takes aim at the three remaining members of CFVY. The expressions of Coco, Velvet, and Fox could all be neatly summarized as, 'Oh, crap'.

A pink, miniature heart-shaped explosion fills the arena, blasting away the competition and depleting their Auras.

Cheers fill the air, and Ms. Sustrai enters the arena. "Alright, nice one, Nora. Don't worry about the tournament, you'll get in no problem."

Nora nods enthusiastically. "Thanks!"

As Coco and her team shuffle away, she can't help but mutter her annoyance. "Show off... Oww..."

Emerald looks to the stands of students. "Okay, so, we still have another... Ten minutes. Should be enough for one more sparring match. Who's in?"

She scans the rows of students, eventually settling on a woman with snow-white hair. "Weiss?"

The woman in question quickly tears her eyes open, lifting her head and staring back with silent shock after having been woken.

"You seem to be really into what you were reading, so let's get you back into class and-"

"I volunteer!"

Caught mid-sentence, she glares at the direction of the voice. It belonged to a young man with shock-blue hair and an overconfident mug. "R-really? Neptune Vasilias? I was actually gonna- You know what? Whatever. Better to have willing fighters. So who do you want to fight? Miss Schnee? 'Cuz I was thinking she should-"

"No actually." Neptune says, cutting her off again, much to her annoyance. "I was hoping I could fight the legendary 'Goddess of Lightning' herself."

Nora was surprised, but not overly so. She looks at Neptune, and then behind herself before pointing at her own head.

"Yeah, you! My friends talk about you all the time. I want to see how I stack up to perfection."

"Well," Emerald says, getting ticked off. "Nora already fought a match. You know, the four versus one match she won not a minute ago? So you're going to have to fight someone else."

Nora shrugs off the statement. "Eh, I don't mind. Didn't really have to break a sweat for that last match, so I'm still roarin' and ready to go!"

Neptune smiles. "Perfect."

As Neptune makes his way into the arena, Nora readies herself for round two. She re-tightened her greaves, and reloaded her grenade launcher. Neptune enters the arena in all-smiles, seemingly not taking the fight very seriously. Retrieving the spear holstered to his back, he lets it hang in his hand casually. The two combatants stared the other down, sizing each other up for when the fighting actually started.

Yang looked on excitedly, eager to see her friend kick more butt. Vernal merely sat back in exasperation, wondering what the point of it all is.

Nora made the first move. Rushing forward, she grabbed her hammer right below it's head, swiping towards Neptune several times. For each, he either side-stepped them or parried with his spear.

After a few moments of this, he eventually managed to parry Nora's attack far enough away to break her momentum. He quickly jabs at her, scoring a glancing blow to her side that honestly didn't really do much.

Adapting to this, Nora steps back, readjusting her grip on her hammer and preparing to counter whatever Neptune's next move was. For his part, he didn't do much. Slowly advancing forward, he would occasionally thrust at Nora, poking and prodding to try and find any weaknesses. Such slowly and deliberate strikes were not difficult to block, Nora perfectly deflected each one.

Vernal got bored of this quick. "Why are you even bothering with this...?" She had to asked herself, since their biggest responsibility right now was to keep a low profile.

This sort of skirmish lasted for about two minutes. Neptune continued to test the waters, and Nora waited.

"Come on, why don't you show us a little lightning? It's kind of what you're famous for..." Neptune said, trying to goad Nora on.

"Oh, you want lightning? I'll show you lightning..." She warns, still smiling in an attempt to get in his head.

In this battle, every inch counted. Any advantage to be had were ones the two would strive for. In this case, it had all boiled down to psychological warfare. Whoever cracked first would give the other an advantage. Neptune seemed to be a master at this because of his casual facade and safe-distanced weapon.

Nora wasn't as trained for this kind of fight, and her weapon wasn't made to fight slow, or methodically. Knowing she couldn't make any progress like this, she throws caution to the wind.

When she made her next parry she struck. Flicking Neptune's weapon off to his side and away from her, she then swings her weapon towards his head.

Neptune leans back, dodging the attack by less than an inch. Jumping backwards, he condenses his spear into an energy-charged rifle and begins to fire. The shots of electricity shoot by Nora, but with either a dodge or a whacking from Magnhild almost none of them connected with Nora. One did, however, clip her knee. She staggered for a moment, but rose again almost instantly, even more ferocious than before.

She rushed forwards with her hammer held high, crashing down with enough force to crack the floor. But Neptune side-steps this, twirling over to the side while unfolding his rifle back into a spear. Holding it like a halberd above his head, the spearhead folds apart into three prongs, like a trident. Electricity sparks out from it, with each crack of energy almost coming off as a warning.

He brings the blade down, striking Nora in her shoulder.

"Gah...!"

Nora simply stayed there, on one knee for the next few moments, but Neptune almost didn't catch what happened next. Before he could prepare a defense, or even properly react Nora had retaliated. She surged forward, striking a heavy blow right in his jaw, the impact of which sent him flying a few feet outwards. His whole body was charged with electricity

He found himself laying on the ground, facing towards the ceiling. He started to get up, but was stopped by Ms. Sustrai's voice. "Alright, then. Looks like Neptune lost, good job again, Nora." Surprised, he looks at his scroll.

Aura was critical. "In one hit...?"

Neptune looked back up to see Nora standing there with a slightly smug look on her face. "Not bad. You had me going for a little bit, want to fight again sometime?" She offered her hand.

Neptune smiled, and accepted her help. "Sounds great."

Weiss, who had fallen asleep during the match was brought out from her sleep as the bell for next period rang.

"Alright, I know the dance is this weekend, but don't forget that your first missions will be on Monday, so don't go staying up till five in the morning doing whatever, because you have work to do in the morning!"

Team Rwby leaves the classroom, while Vernal waits outside the door. As Neptune walks out, she stops to question him. "What the hell were you doing?!" She asks in an angry but hushed tone.

"... My father used to say that, 'The best way to get to know someone, is by fighting them.' And you know..." He says, a look of unchallenged smugness dancing across his features. "I couldn't agree more."

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The four girls exit the building and begin making their way to their next class. As they walk on, a voice calls out to them, or at least one in particular. "Hey, Weiss!"

Weiss slowly turns around to see Adam running towards her. "Hey." He says again, not sure quite how to start the conversation. "So what's been going on? You have any idea of who you're bringing to the dance?"

Her mind clouded and slow without having had a restful night's sleep, Weiss was unable to get out a coherent response. "W-What?"

"... Haven't really thought about it? I get that. I wasn't going to go, but Arslan won't stop badgering me until I find a date..." He answers, not realizing the two were on different wavelengths.

"And, about that..." Adam leans in slightly, apparently embarrassed. "Do you know anyone I could go with? I'm clueless when it comes to finding a date..."

Weiss stood silent for a few moments, trying to comprehend what he was saying. "Are... you serious?" She asked, much to Adam's surprise. "Adam, I don't have time to find you a date for this stupid dance. I have to focus on how we can stop the Fang. WE have to focus on stopping the Fang. Worry about goofing off later."

Without another word to the conversation, Weiss storms off. She didn't even wait for her team, who had stopped to watch their conversation. Yang winced, worried about her teammate.

Adam also seemed worried. "She's taking it this hard, huh...? This isn't healthy for her." The rest of the team couldn't agree more.

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"You want me to go to the dance."

A few hours had passed, and Team Rwby was sitting in their dorm trying to have an intervention with Weiss. Weiss didn't ask this as a question, it was a statement. A sort of confirmation that yes, this was really what she was hearing.

"We want you to unwind!" Ruby nearly yells, to which Yang nudges her to quiet down. "I know that stopping the White Fang is important to you, Weiss, but you're running yourself ragged."

"You've haven't been able to sleep and you can barely stomach breakfast." Blake informs her. "Your wasting away, Weiss! You need to relax a bit, start worrying about yourself!"

"I don't have TIME to be worrying about myself!" Weiss snaps, rising to her feet. "Right now, as we speak, the White Fang are teaching kids how to be terrorists! To become murderers! It doesn't matter if I pass on a few hours of sleep, or miss a few meals. The faster I can finish this, the better!"

In that moment she decided to end the conversation. The ex-Fang makes her way to the door, only stopping to say one more thing. "We know that their operation is somewhere in southeast Vale, and that right now they're targeting Vale specifically. I'm going to the library to see if there's any notable landmark around there."

The Ice Queen leaves, and the rest are unable to stop her.

Yang sighs. "I get how this is a big deal for her, but how can she take it this far...?"

"Beats me." Ruby replies, trying to think of a way to get to her.

Blake was about to speak, but a knock on the door stops her. For some reason, she could feel some dread permeating from behind the door. She opens the door to find...

Ren, standing there awkwardly. "Uhhhh... Hi."

That was pretty much it. Blake tries to close the door, but Ren quickly stops it, and scrambles to try to explain himself. "Wai-Wait! I know what it looks like, but I really just want to talk to you three as a group!"

Blake let's go of the door and allows Ren in. He lets out a short sigh of relief. "Thank you."

"What do you want, Ren?" Blake asks, short on patience. Meanwhile, Yang motions Ren forward, inviting him further inside the room.

As he walked inside, he explains. "So, I actually want to talk about a few things, like what's going on with Weiss? We haven't seen her at all since the day before, but when I walked by her just now she seemed so tired-"

"REN!"

Nora's resounded through the halls and into the dorms, the sheer shock of it snapping Ren from his thoughts and leaving the room in silence. He cups his hands to his mouth and whispered: "Alright, everyone stay quiet... She doesn't know I'm-"

It didn't matter what he was going to say. It was proven wrong, anyways. Nora busted through the door with Magnhild in her hand, a fiery look in her eyes and a determined grin on her face. "There you are! Trying to skip practice, are we?"

The sheer power of her entrance knocked Ren to the ground, and intimidated RWBY into the corners of the room. "Please, Nora! We already practiced earlier today, so can't we please take a break, if only for tonight?"

Nora shakes her head furiously. "No-sir-y-Bob! We're going to make you the strongest freaking fighter in this school! And that means we're not skipping Jack-diddly-squat! Let's go!"

She reaches out and grabs Ren's arm, pulling him out of the room and towards the rooftop. "Help...!" The door closed behind them, leaving only the three shell-shocked members of Team RWBY behind.

"Weeeell..." Ruby says slowly. "That was weird."

Blake shakes her head. "Yeah, it was. Anyways, Ruby, I was hoping to ask you about a few of the things we need for the dance..."

Yang perks up at this, only just now remembering that Cardin and Russel had asked them to organize the dance while their team was busy on a mission. "Oh yeah, you guys are organizing. Are... you sure you guys want to do this...?" While she didn't want to be rude, she couldn't help but see how Ruby and Blake's personal styles clashed.

"Of course." Blake answers with utmost confidence. "With my refined tastes..."

"And my totally awesome ideas!" Ruby joins in.

"People will be talking about the dance for years!" Blake boasts, having written down all of her ideas in a notepad she carries around.

Yang can't help but sigh at this. "I'm sorry, but it almost feels like a waste if Weiss isn't coming with us."

"I know." Blake sympathizes. "But if there's really nothing we can do to convince her, then we shouldn't let Weiss's absence detract from our fun this weekend. I suppose... she's made her decision."

Ruby was still unconvinced, though. "I mean, there's got to be SOME way we can convince her!" As the words left her mouth, she realized what she needed to do.

But she didn't say anything else. She didn't have to tell them just yet.

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Having reached the rooftops, Nora and Ren were well into their training exercises. Despite Nora having dragged Ren up there, it didn't mean she didn't take his words into consideration. She kept the exercises light, and mainly focused on having Ren dodge her attacks.

Most of the attacks Nora performed were easy to telegraph, but not very hard hitting. These were to test his sense of timing. Ren needed to tell apart the small and safe attacks she threw out from her stronger and riskier strikes, and punish mistakes accordingly.

She spins around, swiping her hammer towards Ren's legs. He flawlessly hops over her weapon, the exact kind of maneuver Nora had been wanting to see. Ren counterattacks, raising both of his sidearms and slashes downwards at Nora.

This was exactly the opposite of what Nora had wanted to see. She raises her hammer to block his attack, and the two knives clicked around the metal handle of the hammer.

"Hey! Don't do that!"

The exclamation brought Ren out of his training mindset, and he quickly began to holster his weapons. Nora stops him however.

"No, wait! I want to show you what you did wrong, and why you shouldn't do it! You're going to make mistakes, so I need you to learn from them." She reasons, holding her hammer as if she was blocking the previous attack again.

"Put your knives back where they were, that way I can show you, instead of just telling you."

Embarrassed, but seeing the logic behind her reasoning, Ren raised no objections. As he replicated the previous scenario, she explained.

"You don't want to use both of your weapons to attack the same place at the same time. It looks neat, but if your opponent manages to block, then you get into a situation like this."

"And in a situation like this..." She slowly motions her hammer towards Ren's head. "I can hit back by swinging the end of my hammer, or I can kick you or hit you with my knee." At this point she disengages their stance.

"Can I see your weapons real quick?" Nora asks, another demonstration coming to mind.

"Of course." Ren hands over his weapons, but is surprised when she hands him her hammer. "Okay, now hold Magnhild over your head, like your going to block my attack."

He does so, and Nora pretends to attack with her left weapon. "The whole point of being able to use two weapons is to be able to use one weapon to attack in one direction-" She then reaches around with her right arm and taps Ren in the side with her right weapon. "- and attack with the other weapon somewhere else. Your best strength with your weapons is your ability to outmaneuver people. Did you get all that?"

Ren, while still mulling over the advice she had given him, could still understand everything she said. "Yeah, I think so. Thanks Nora, you're a great teacher."

The statement inspires some pride from Nora. She places her hands on her hips and smiles. "Well, thanks! I do the best I can. Anyways, I think that should be enough today."

At this, Ren lets out a sigh of relief and sits down on the roof. "Thank the gods... I'm so tired..."

"Oh, come on, don't collapse on me now! We still need to get something to eat! Wonder what they're serving tonight...?" As she begins to leave, Ren's voice stops her.

"Actually, Nora, I was hoping we could talk for a bit?"

She turns around to see Ren laying on the ground, staring off into the night sky. A few moments of looking at him like that convinces her. "That looks nice. I'm joining you!"

Nora hops down, laying a few feet from Ren. "What do you want to talk about?" She had asked this is a softer voice than previously. It must have been a fairly serious conversation if he wanted to talk privately.

Ren stays silent for a moment, trying to figure out how to put this best. "Alright. So..." He takes a deep breath. "You know... how I have tried to... w-win Blake's affection?"

When Nora heard this, she felt her heart sink a little. She didn't like to think about his attempts to woo Blake, or how ruthlessly she puts him down. But the stutter he gave revealed to Nora how embarrassed he was to talk about this, and she would give her friend the best support she could. "Yeah...? Did something happen? Did I... interrupt anything?"

This made Ren blush. "N-No! Nothing like that. It's just..." He pauses, and second guesses whether he should reveal this or not. Looking over to Nora, he saw that her expression was one that he wasn't quite sure he had seen before. Her expression was calm and patient, willing to listen to what he needed to get off his chest.

His worries assuaged, Ren revealed what he needed to say. "I'm done trying to win Blake over."

This was something Nora had never expected to hear. She was left confused, and... hopeful? 'Oh, shush, me! Stop thinking about that and listen to him!'

"At this point..." Ren explains. "I think Blake thoroughly dislikes my presence. I've tried what I can to convince her to give me a chance, but... I realize that's a decision only she can make. At this point, I might just be making her uncomfortable. I think I should stop talking to her to her altogether..."

"No! I mean..." At this point, Nora leans over to look at Ren. Resting on her arm, she vents her annoyances. "You don't have to go that far. I'm glad that you've recognize that Blake is annoyed when you flirt with her, but you shouldn't just stop talking to her COMPLETELY! It's okay talk to her! It's okay to ask for her help! It's okay to be her friend! I guarantee that if you apologize to Blake, she'll be happy that she can have a normal conversation with you."

Ren was surprised by her sudden outburst. Nora was passionate about most things, but for some reason this was something he didn't expect. "Nora..." He smiles. "Thank you, you're right. I knew you were the right person to talk about this with."

She smiles back. "You're welcome! But you know what? I have something else to say! If, after the apology, she still doesn't want to talk to you, then that's her problem! She obviously doesn't appreciate the effort you've put forward! She hasn't noticed the fact that you straighten out your hair before each of your classes with her, or how you instantly remembered that her favorite instrument is the piano, and that you tried to learn how to play..."

Ren starts getting confused again. "Wait, Nora..."

"Or that you always wear the nicest shirt you have during school days, and that because of this you never wear your Strawberry Sloth hoodie to school even though it's adorable!"

Nora stands up, completely invested in what she was saying. "Ren, you deserve someone who appreciates you, and what you do for them!"

Ren chuckles good natured-ly, smiling up at his partner. "Well, it sounds like you appreciate my attempts to impress Blake more than she did!"

Nora's face goes blank, the realization of what she said hitting her. After a few seconds of silence, her face glows bright red. "W-W-WHAT?!"

Seeing how flustered she was, he tried to back track. "Sorry, I was just joking..."

"Yeah, no, I know! It was a really funny joke! I'mreallyhungryIgottagoseeyouatdinner!"

And like that, Nora disappeared from Ren's view. Not so sure what to make of her reaction, Ren continued to lay on the balcony, trying to reach an answer for himself. It took him a few minutes, but he did.

"Someone who appreciates me..."

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In one of the dorm rooms, Glynda, Vernal, and Neptune sat around and planned their next move. Currently, they were covering the data on each of the students.

"Alright... So now we have Nora Valkyrie." Vernal reads off.

"The so-called 'Goddess of Lightning'? What info do we have on her?" Glynda asks while reading over other info.

"I got something interesting." Neptune says, sitting on his bed while reading a book. "As it turns out, she doesn't create any lightning with her Semblance, like people say she does. She absorbs any electricity she touches during a fight, and gets stronger."

"Yeah. Neptune had been hitting her with his electric attacks, so when she finally got a hit off, it instantly knocked out his Aura." Vernal confirms.

"Hmmmm..." Glynda ponders this for a moment. "Yes, we could use that. Add her to the list, we might just be able to find a use for her..."

Vernal does so. "So, when are we joining the operation...?" She asks, having quickly gotten bored of their stay in Beacon.

"This weekend." Glynda answers, small smile appearing on her features. "Bring your nicest outfit, we want to look our best for our 'coworkers'..."

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Author's Notes: So Fire Emblem: Three Houses released about a month ago, and I think I can say from my already 100+ hours of playtime...

It's freaking amazing.

I mean, it's basically Fire Emblem meets Persona. If you like both, I don't see how you wouldn't like Three Houses. If you have a Switch and like strategy games, I'd absolutely recommend buying it. Good luck finding a physical copy, though. I've heard that it's sold out pretty much everywhere!

Also, on an unrelated note, does anyone reading know how to insert those lines between paragraphs? I would really like to know so that I don't have to keep repeating z's over and over again.

GrimmDzzzy:

I just realized, who's going to be the body for Salem when she inevitably dies in Volume 3?

Can't say.

DarkDevilKnight:

Glad to see that this story is alive and kicking, so looking forward to see how that dance and intruder event that is coming up real soon.

Glad to see you back, Knight! Can't wait for the... dance... scene...

'Sweats as I try to figure out how the heck I write a dance scene.'

Shiranai Atsune:

Yey! A new update! I love this so much!

I'm glad you're enjoying this! Thanks for reading!

Heavyarms150:

Ya know i never understood the overprotective yang trope. It only exists in fanfiction. In canon shes like a real life sister. She cares for her sister but doesn't smother her being overprotective like fanfic yang. I have never figured out where the trope came from as it has no basis in canon. Usually fanfiction tropes are found in canon like ruby being a nerd or weiss being snobby or blake reading erotica. All those have canon basis but the overprotective yang is just out of left field.

If cfvy is crdl am i gonna have to dislike them? But i loved coco.

I do realize that Yang doesn't really seem all too concerned about Ruby doing anything bad, but the half the point of the fic is too swap some important features of the characters. I've always took Ruby as the more responsible of the two siblings, and so in RWBY:SWAP this is flipped with Ruby being a reckless younger sibling and Yang being the responsible older sister. As a result it also only makes sense that Yang will be more concerned about Ruby and her behavior.

And don't worry, Coco's on her way to redemption. : )

Royal2:

Okay and its good to have you back.

Thanks, Royal!

merendinoemiliano:

Really epic chapter, can't wait for more. But i would put past Huntsmen to kill when REALLY necessary, and i think they explain It ti the students. Good work.

Thanks, and sorry for being confusing this chapter, Yang didn't intentionally miss Hei Xiong in the final attack of the fight. She just attacked the mech as well as she could, and just so happened to miss him by a hair. She also couldn't shoot at him or the chopper without potentially endangering civilians, because even if she did shoot it down, the helicopter would crash into a building.

Thanks everyone for reading, and I'll see you next chapter!