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 "Neo. See to him."

Neo nodded and stepped forward, slipping under his arm when he tried to stop her. She pushed a hand to the back of his neck, and although she didn't do anything, the threat was clear. Their intention, however, was not.

"What are you doing?" Jaune asked. "If you want to kill me, kill me. Don't drag it out."

[...]

"I'm afraid," Roman smiled, "You don't have a choice. Neo… bring him along. Once he's complicit, he'll have nowhere to go. He'll be stuck with the only people who won't kill him on sight. Us."

Jaune lunged forward. He tried to tackle Roman down, but a lithe arm slipped around his neck before he could and brought him to a stop. The tip of Neo's blade tickled the underside of his chin. Her face was next to his, cheek to cheek.

[...]

"What the hell are you doing!?" Jaune roared. His voice was lost over the roar of the cannons, followed by explosions from the other ships. He tried to pull forward, but Neo had a steadying hand on his shoulder and wouldn't let him. Instead, he fell back on his ass, eyes wide.

"Cleaning house," Roman said, one hand on the control panel. "You think they'd have let us stay in the air once I failed to transmit their security codes? It was either us or them… and I think you know my view on that by now."

Jaune gritted his teeth together. If only he could break free from Neo he could… he could do what? He was a fraud and a fake, but even at his best he was still facing the person who taught him to be what he was today. Roman knew his every move, and what he didn't know, Neo did. She'd been the one to knock him around in the name of sparring. Nothing he could do was going to stop this.

Nothing physical, anyway.

[...]

Grimm… to Beacon? His heart constricted, and this time he nearly broke his shoulder trying to break free from Neo.

[...]

"What was that…?" Roman asked dangerously.

Jaune didn't care. He strained against Neo's hands, his skin flushed and his eyes wild. All his rage, his anger, his fear, moulded into one thing as he struggled to break free. "I said, fucking act like it," he spat.

[...]

Roman growled and aimed a kick towards his shoulder. It struck hard, knocking him down.

Neo quickly let go and moved to stand between the two of them. She shook her head frantically.