Earlier...
Professor Ozpin laughed as he watched his future pupils fly helplessly into the sky. Hopefully he wouldn't have to go down there to free any who's parachutes got stuck in the thick branches of the Emerald Forest. That'd happened once. Ruined initiation. He turned his back to the children.
"If you'll excuse me Glynda, I'd like to watch initiation sitting in my chair in an air conditioned office on a large screen that the sun isn't shining off, and within reasonable distance of a coffee machine."
Ms. Goodwitch wasn't sure why he'd decided to declare that; it hadn't exactly been a surprise that he always watched initiation from his office. She followed him there, trying to hurry so as to not miss any of the upcoming battles. The new blading students had been given instructions to battle and partner up with the first person they made eye contact with. Then they'd find another pair of partners, fight them in a team battle, then make their way north to a temple where a helicopter would take them back to Beacon. That added up to, as Ozpin put it, a nice amount of battles to watch and examine.
They arrived in time to see Jaune calling out "Wait! Who's going to get me down? My parachute's stuck!"
Weiss dragged Ruby to one of the small stadiums that littered the forest.
"By no means does this make us friends."
"Don't worry. Just because I'm not a people person doesn't mean I can't blade," replied Ruby, readying her launcher. "By the end of this, you'll be thinking 'That Ruby girl is really really cool. And I want to be her friend.'"
"Doubt it. Three!"
"Two!"
"One!"
"Let it rip!"
Back at Jaune's tree, Pyrrha Nikos, the Invincible Girl, had used her bey to cut Jaune free.
"It was unfortunate that you got entangled in those strings. Your arms weren't even able to grab your launcher to free yourself."
"Uh, yeah, that's what happened."
"I saw a stadium on the way here. We should battle like Professor Ozpin told us to."
"Sure, sure. I'm always up for a battle." They soon took their own sides of the stadium.
"My bey is a Flame Byxis 100F," announced Pyrrha, secretly very pleased to have had to introduce her world-famous bey for the first time in a long while. She held up her crimson and golden bey for Jaune to see.
"So you do have a Byxis like Ice Queen. Maybe she had a point about you being partners.
He paused, and fumbled his bey out of his pocket.
"Rock Perseus WD130B. Ancestors used it in the Great War. Think you can beat a bey with a win streak like this?"
Pyrrha savored the idea of a person that didn't know who she was or what she accomplished. She was just about ready to go over there and kiss him.
"Three?" said Pyrrha, hinting at Jaune to put his bey into his launcher, which he had not yet done.
"Oh right. Two."
"One!"
"Let it rip!"
Byxis and Perseus crossed each other, landed, and made their way to the bottom of the bowl. Byxis blew away it's white and gold opponent like it was nothing more than a pebble. Perseus flew to the edge of the stadium, and luckily wasn't thrown out. Perseus made it's way to the center of the stadium again. This time Pyrrha left her bey still as Jaune charged it.
But the resulting attack was no more powerful than a cherry falling from a tree.
"How was Byxis able to blow Perseus away like that? I've never seen a bey do that!"
Pyrrha's bey retreated to the edge, where she circled Perseus, still unsure if this was a clever ruse or not. Flame Byxis zig-zagged to the center, where she tilted her bey downwards, then pushed up against Perseus' Rock fusion wheel.
"How did your bey do that?" Jaune exclaimed. His face turned pale with fear and awe. "No way! You can... you can... control that bey with your mind?"
Next it was Pyrrha's turn to go pale. She summoned Byxis back into her hand.
"Jaune? Do you even know how to blade?"
"Psh, of course."
"But you didn't have control of your bey."
"Hey, you're the weirdo who CAN control her bey."
"You're supposed to able to control your bey. What did you think beyblade was, a betting game? This isn't horse racing, this is a battle!"
"I'm not following."
Pyrrha sighed and put her hand to Jaune's shoulder.
Not too far away, Weiss checked her scroll to see the notifications about the progression of the battles.
"PYRRHA NIKOS LOST TO HIM?!"
