"Why are we experimenting with dust again?" Ruby asked.

"Because it's part of our Dust Studies project, Ruby." Her partner, Weiss Schnee, replied. "Now will you please get me all the dust on this list? And don't mix it up, please. Last thing I want to do is fail this assignment because of your clumsiness."

"Okay, geez..." Ruby puffed as Weiss gave her the list of needed dust.

"That's a good dolt." The heiress patted the leader of Team RWBY''s head, earning am annoyed but cute growl from the girl. "Now go to my dust case and get what we need."

With an angry puff that Weiss promptly ignored, Ruby grumpiness went across their dorm room to get the dust. "Okay, let's see here..." She began to quietly read the list to herself once she reached the case. "Earth Dust? Check!" She grabbed the brown vial containing said dust, and she'll repeat this process as she continued checking down the list. "Wind Dust? Check!" Another off the list. Water Dust? Check! Uh... rock Dust? Hmm, oh! Check!" She chirped after a bit of confusion. Now she was on the final type of dust needed.

"Last but not least! Bluuuuee..dust? Bl-Blue? B-lue?" She tried sounding the name out in confusion, brows raised and gears turning in her brain over why 'blue' was misspelled and why it was so vague. At least she thought it was misspelled. "Blue dust? Like ice dust or water dust?" She wondered to herself over the vagueness of the really simple name. All the vials of dust were labled, but none of them had the name of what she was looking for on it. "Maybe there's more dust hidden here..." She reasoned, and began thoroughly searching through the case of dust. Ruby didn't want to just pick out any blue colored dust and have it not be the right one for Weiss to get mad at her.

Her search was in a bit of a rush since she was taking a little long to do something so simple. Without even noticing, she accidentally activated a switch that revealed a secret compartment. Ruby was horribly confused with what she just did, and even more so with the unmarked dust within. "Is this it?" The Cape wearing girl asked no one in particular when she gently picked up anow unmarked vial of blue dust. "Maybe Professor Peach just made a typo..." She reasoned, as the list Weiss gave her was from the class itself and not of her own notes.

"Ruby! What is taking so long?" Weiss called, startling Ruby and making her toss the vials she held up in the air. Poor girl frantically fumbled around to snatch all the vials up before they hit something and released their elemental contents in Team RWBY's dorm, where she would no doubt be forced to clean it up. "You better not be messing with my dust! That's straight from the SDC quarry you know!"

"Uh, don't worry! I got it!" Ruby shouted over her shoulder and gave the heiress a nervous smile. She quickly got the dust in order and shut Weiss' case before returning to her partner. "Okay! Here's the dust we need!" Ruby gave a fake smile to hide her nervousness which really wasn't convincing, as she hoped she got the right kinds of dust.

Her partner gave her a bit of a suspicious look, but waved it away as Ruby's usual clumsy and shy behavior. Ruby stood by and watched Weiss work with the dust. This was definitely more her thing than Ruby's, being heiress to the world's largest producer of dust energy and all. That and Weiss was sure Ruby's gonna find some way to mess this up if she even attempted to do this relatively simple project. While Weiss got to work mixing the dustsame together to make a compound form of all the types, her whole body froze when she saw the unmarked blue vial.

"Ruby, where did you get this?" Weiss asked slowly and without turning to look at her, as if she was afraid of what she was holding. The way she asked that question scared Ruby. She was afraid she just did something very wrong as it seemed like bringing that particular vial here was making Weiss act like this. "I said, where did you get this?" The heiress asked once more, this time turning to face her so that her blue eyes met Ruby's silver ones.

"...um, from your dust collection?" Ruby nervously laughed. Technically, she's telling the truth.

"Is that So? Then tell me, did you find a secret compartment where you found this?" She held up the blue vial, making Ruby gulp in fear.

"Y-yeah..."

"Ugh..." The heiress sighed. Ruby internally prepared herself for a rant against her. "Ruby, that secret compartment was hidden for a reason! How did you even find it is beyond me, but what makes you think randomly taking dust from a hidden space like that was a good idea?"

"Well, the list said we needed blue dust but none of the stuff in there had anything saying that. Sooo... I just took that one!" She sweated. "Because it's blue! Just like what the list said!"

"Yeah, but did you forget that it's also unlabled? And you thought just taking any blue colored dust was okay? Why-you know what, give me that list!" She ordered Ruby, who gave the paper to her with unsteady hands. "Earth, wind, water, rock..." Weiss trailed off, not finishing the list and saying the last type of dust.

"Um, is there something wrong?" Ruby asked after a moment of nothing happening.

"Ruby, do you need glasses?" Weiss gave her an unimpressed look. "This says 'blyoo', like the flower from Mistral."

"...oh." Well, Ruby certainly felt dumb. "Well, it's not my fault that stupid flower's name looks like someone spelled the color blue wrong!"

"Don't you know anything about Mistral? That place is so diverse that there was like a hundred different languages before everyone started speaking the same language. Well, I suppose you don't really pay attention much in history anyway, but I suppose you can't help it if you're such a dolt." The heiress said in a matter of fact way, which made Ruby a little mad.

"What's that got to do with anything!?"

"Uh, the flower's name comes from one of those languages, duh! I swear you can't put two and two together, can you?" The heiress shot back to which Ruby really didn't have much to say.

"Whatever! Just why is this such a big deal anyway? If it's not the right kind then I'll just put it back! What's so wrong about that?"

"Because, this dust you grabbed from that secret compartment, which I'm still gonna complain to you about, is shrinking dust." The heiress lightly shook the vial in front of Ruby's face. What Weiss just said horribly confused Ruby as she never heard of that kind of dust before nor thought it was even a possibility.

"Uh...shrinking, dust?" Ruby said slowly. "Are you sure that's a real thing?"

"Yes!" Weiss exclaimed. "Here, let me give you a little demonstration..." Weiss began looking for something to test it on. Preferably something not worth a lot to them. After a bit of a search, she settled on a pen on the desk. "Watch this..." Taking the pen, she put a few grains of the dust on it and let it sit. Ruby patiently waited for something to happen, and to her surprise, the pen began shrinking until it was barely noticeable in Weiss' palm!

"WHOA!" Ruby exclaimed in wonder, taking the little pen from Weiss' palm and looking it over like a child with a pebble. "This is awesome! How come I never heard of this before!?"

"I suppose it is pretty neat, but to answer your question, this kind of dust is banned and outlawed across the planet." Weiss stated, getting Ruby to pay attention to her. "It is extremely dangerous. The slightest amount can shrink you, so long as there's a bit of prolonged contact, ingestion, or other means applied to you. I don't know how small you can get, but I'd rather not find out."

"Well... when you put it that way, then I guess this stuff is pretty dangerous..." Ruby said, eyeing the blue dust vial with a look that was a mixture of fear and wonder. "Um...can we shrink something else?"

"What? Why? Did you not here what I just said?"

"But this is a once in a lifetime opportunity! It's not every day when you get a chance to shrink stuff!" Ruby exclaimed. Before Weiss can argue with Ruby about how this wasn'the something yiu can just play with, Blake came into the room. She and Yang had been out for the whole day, but Yang was elsewhere doing whatever with some other friends she had here in Beacon.

"Hey Ruby, Weiss." The cat greeted them, seemingly not noticing Ruby and Weiss tense up at her coming into the room while they had illegal materialike in their possession. "Have you seen Velvet's pen? She let me borrow it in class and she wants it back."

"Um...is this it right here?" Ruby held her palm up, not noticing Weiss scream internally from how she's just letting this secret out to Blake so casually. "Hehe...sorry..." The brunette rubbed the back of her head and nervously giggled, while Blake couldn't believe what they just did to Velvet's pen.

"W-what? What did you two do? Why is it so tiny?" The cat took the tiny pen with two fingers, careful not to crush it.

"Shrinking dust!" Ruby chirped, not noticing the internal screaming from Weiss becoming more audible.

"Shrinking dust?" Blake tilted her head.

"Yes, okay!? This is shrinking dust! Now will you two please keep your mouths shut and promise not to tell anyone about this!?" Weiss finally exploded. "We can get in seriously deep trouble for having this stuff!"

"Then why do you have it to begin with?" Blake questioned, seriously suspicious of why she would have something so illegal. Ruby also just realized this, and she and Blake both looked at Weiss and waited for a response while the heiress appeared to be growing more nervous.

"Yeah, why do you have this stuff anyway if it's so dangerous?" Ruby asked with the same suspicion as Blake.

"Uh, well, it's not like it's that much more dangerous compared to the more regular kinds of dust!" Weiss reasoned, trying to save herself.

"Doesn't change the fact that it's still illegal." Blake stated, completely unconvinced.

While an argument between the three teenage girls soon happened, Yang was listening outside the door. She was going to enter and mind her own business, but the fun-loving blonde had a devious idea came to mind when she heard all three of her teammates in there. Yang was going to scare theme. A simple prank where she'll just quietly slip in while they were arguing and startle the Hell out of them, but the expected reaction was priceless in Yang's book.

However, there was a problem. The three inside were facing each other in such a way that Weiss can easily see her if she tried to slip in through the door, and if she tried to slip through the window everyone will see her. Hell, there's a chance that Blake can even hear her footsteps if she somehow got through the door without being seen. Eventually, Yang decided there was only one logical way to scare her team in this situation and gain some much needed lull after a hard day of being herself. Unfortunately, she didn't quite hear through the door correctly or she didn't really pay their argument any mind other than letting her know they were in there...

"Are you trying to say that me, Weiss Schnee, the heiress to the Schnee Dust Company, is guilty of being in possessions of illegal dust?"

"Well, yeah. It's right there, Weiss." Blake shrugged.

"That doesn't prove anything! Somebody planted that in my belongings!"

"But it was in that secret compartment you were going to yell at me for finding later!" Ruby pointed out, earning a glare for Weiss as the Ice Queen's defense was falling apart.

Then, something terrible happened...

"HEY GIRLS!" Yang screamed loudly, throwing the door open and completely startling the three girls inside the room to the point where they jumped. This was bad because Weiss was still holding the unsealed bottle of shrinking dust, and it got all over the three of them...

Yang had closed her eyes and laughed while she waited for the annoyed and angry remarks from her teammates to come at her, but she got nothing.

"Hmm? Huh? Guys? Where'do you go?"She blinked, at seeing the three of them had disappeared.

This is a random story idea that popped into my mind a few centuries ago. And by that I mean months. Just gonna be something fun with shrunken adventure. Hope those of you who read it will enjoy, and so with that, I am out.