SS21

"Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow," Mercury cried, face flat on the table and his arm – the one that had been coming down – bent painfully behind his back. "I give, I give. Fuck, Neo, it was just a joke, I swear. Argh. You're going to dislocate my shoulder if you keep pulling."

Neo didn't seem to upset at the possibility, oddly enough. She stood behind the much taller, stronger and heavier teen with one knee dug into his spine, right above his rear end. Her other was on the floor but she had a hand on his wrist twisting it, and the other gripping a silver blade to Mercury's face, right below his eyeball.

Jaune blinked. "Wait, is that one of my dessert spoons?"

Neo blinked, looked down at it, and then nodded happily. She made a scooping motion with it, and it being so close to Mercury's exposed eyeball, the action didn't do much to calm the guy down.

"Hey, call her off already," he yelped. "It was just a trick to help you unlock your aura. I wasn't actually going to go through with it!"

"Knowing you, you were," Emerald scoffed.

"Oi! Whose side are you on?"

Jaune moved quickly, snatching the spoon from Neo's hands and untangling her from Mercury. She seemed surprised enough that she let him do it, though the surprise might have had something to do with the fact he'd used both hands to do so.