Detective Training Lesson 1

Sun, Neptune and Soren all stood outside a busted door on a dorm room; a strange brown liquid was stuck to the floor in front of it while the door had a massive whole busted through the wood itself. Sun and Neptune stroked their mustaches as Soren smoked his bubble pipe with a contemplative look on his face.

Sun: Lesson one newbie! Clearly this room has been broken into.

Neptune: Note the hole in the door.

Sun: Exactly! Now, what else is here to be used as a clue?

Soren: How about the syrup stain on the rug.

Neptune: Ha! Only an amateur would focus on that! How about this!?

Neptune pulled out Nora's hammer from behind the door and held it up as Soren gasped.

Sun: Or this!

Sun reached into the room and pulled out a pink fingerless glove making Soren look cautiously at everything.

Neptune: Or this!

He reached in and pulled out Nora before throwing her on the ground.

Soren: Who's room is this!?

Nora shook her head before raising her hand.

Ren: Nora.

Everyone looked over to see Ren holding a stack of pancakes as he approached them.

Ren: You locked yourself out again didn't you?

Nora: Yeah, had to bust a hole in the door…I think I spilled some syrup too.

Ren: Of course you did…come on, let's go get more syrup.

As they walked off Soren turned to the two 'ace detectives' and glared.

Neptune: It…REALLY…looked like a crime.

The Ponytail club

Weiss banged a small gavel on a stand making both Alice and Pyrrha turn to her.

Weiss: The fifth meeting of the ponytail club shall now come to order. First we shall read the minutes of our last meeting.

Weiss reached under and drop the clipboard onto the podium before clearing her throat.

Weiss: Three-fifteen: Proper hair care and hair band tying was discussed and debated. Four-twenty: Discussion of applicants was discussed and we are all agreed; Jaune is not allowed to join.

Alice and Pyrrha nodded before the door suddenly bust open with Jaune's hair put up in a small ponytail.

Jaune: How about now ladies!?

Weiss: NO!

Weiss pulled her rapier out and swung it activating her semblance and slamming the door shut in Jaune's face.

Alice: Can I just bring up the fact that besides keeping Jaune out of our group we've done almost nothing with this club?

Pyrrha: I…wasn't going to say anything but…yeah.

Weiss: …Coffee?

Pyrrha and Alice looked at each other before nodding and everyone stood up.

Weiss: Another successful meeting!

Alice: Just like it always ends.

Story Time

Soren, Alice, Lily and Gareth all practiced together in the field working on their team moves in perfect harmony before ending in an impressive pose that left the other teams slightly in awe while Team RWBY and JNPR both just looked skeptically at them.

Ruby: You know…you guys are pretty well coordinated.

Soren: Thanks.

Gareth: Yeah, we rock.

Pyrrha: I must ask, how did you get to that level of trust in battle.

The team looked at each other before busting out laughing.

Soren: Well…I guess it started when Alice tried to kill me.

Alice: Hey, I wasn't the only one. Gareth and Lily almost killed you too.

Lily: Yeah but it came close when he almost took me out.

Gareth: Yeah…almost killing each other really creates a bond.

As they laughed the others just stood there with their mouths agape; Weiss was the first one to break out of her surprise and place her hand on Soren's shoulder.

Weiss: Have you ever heard of masochism?

Soren just looked at her quizzically.

Really good friends

Jaune, Soren, Gareth and Ren all sat at the same table in the cafeteria enjoying the days lunch as they all talked about various matters.

Jaune: That test almost destroyed my brain.

Gareth: Tell me about it.

Soren: It was like every test was crammed into one.

Ren: I will admit that it had its own challenges…and then some.

Jaune: 'Whew' I tell ya, if Pyrrha hadn't helped me study then I would have been dead meat.

Gareth: Yeah, Lily went over everything three times to make sure I got it.

Soren: Me and Alice had to pull an all-nighter just to be prepared in time for it, I don't think I've slept yet…does anybody else have dancing soda cans?

Ren: Even Nora was willing to help me with this one…I do appreciate it, I felt like my score was even better because of her.

Soren: …You know what? All the girls who helped us…are awesome friends.

Jaune: Definitely right there.

Gareth: No question!

Ren: I am in full agreement.

A few tables away from them sat Alice, Pyrrha, Lily and Nora. Lily moved her finger in a circle along the table with a sullen look while Pyrrha smiled as her right eye twitched slightly and Alice rubbed her temple with her fingers while Nora gripped the table hard enough to make the sound of snapping wood.

Alice: 'Sigh'…Idiots…

Secret Books

Blake stood on the corner of Tungsten's Book Store (Home to every book under the sun) tapping her foot as she waited for someone to show up. Blake turned as she heard whistling and looked to see Gareth slowly approaching her.

Gareth: …Did you get it?

Blake: Yep.

Blake held out a copy of a book titled, The Shattered Moon before handing it to Gareth who then handed her a small stack of Lien.

Gareth: Yesssssss!

Alice: What are you two doing outside the book shop?

Gareth jumped slightly as Alice walked out of the book store with a bag. She looked over them before noticing the book in Gareth's hand.

Alice: You read Gareth?

Gareth: Yeah of course. Is it that surprising?

Alice: …Yes!

Alice shot forward and wrench the book from Gareth's hand before skimming through it. As her eyes widened Blake walked off completely removing herself from the situation. Alice closed the book and peeled the front cover off to reveal another title underneath; Pillage, Plunder and Love.

Gareth: …I was just…holding it for-

Gareth whipped around looking for Blake before growling.

Alice: This is pure blackmail gold.

As she skimmed through it giggling to herself her bag slowly ripped open and a book bounced out before landing at Gareth's feet.

Alice: Ah! No!

Gareth: What's this?

Gareth snatched it up and scanned the title.

Gareth: The innocent boy and the experienced woman…

Alice: …Let's just agree to keep this secret…and move on.

Gareth nodded before they both slowly exchanged books and backed away from each other slowly maintaining skeptic eye contact.

Remodeling

Weiss and Lily rushed around Team RWBY's room cleaning fervently; Weiss was vacuuming the rug as Lily made the beds and replaced the covers with clean ones. As she lied down Ruby's new sheets a snap could be heard before the bed slammed down and sent Lily crashing into the other bunk beds making them fall apart and making both top bunks crash to the ground.

Weiss: Lily!

Lily: Ow.

Weiss: What happened?

Lily: Your bunk beds fell apart. Why are they set up like that?

Weiss: Ugh, it was Ruby's idea.

Lily: But still, there are better ways to do that…what about your ice powers?

Weiss thought for a moment before they placed the beds in place and she created ice beams to keep them in place.

Weiss: It's…elegant.

Lily: And efficient.

Ruby & Yang: Bonzai!

Ruby and Yang burst through the room door and jumped onto their upper bunks making the ice shatter and smashing the upper beds into the lower ones completely destroying the lower beds.

Weiss: My bed!

Lily: Then again…I forgot to account for the wild factor.

Dogs and Cats

Soren and Gareth walked down the hall with a large bag before moving into Team RWBY's room and setting it down making everybody turn to them.

Gareth: The festival was awesome!

Soren: We won everything!

Yang: How did you pull that off?

Soren: We owe Nora quite a bit.

Gareth: Yeah but she got banned so they gave us all her prizes.

Alice: So what did you get?

Soren: Most of it was basic carnival junk. Goldfish, cheap stuffed animals and the like.

Soren riffled through the bag before he pulled out a Pyrrha doll and stared at it quizzically. Gareth pulled the string on the back.

Pyrrha Doll: I'm Sorry.

Soren shrugged before tossing it in the pile and reaching back into the bag.

Soren: Oh cool! Gareth, come here!

Gareth moved in and Soren handed him something before they both snapped on a mask and turned around to reveal Soren wearing a cat mask as Gareth wore a dog mask.

Gareth: What do you think!?

Blake hissed before leaping out the open window as Zwei growled and leapt at Soren sending them both tumbling out of the room.

Soren: NO! DOWN BOY! HEEL! HEEEEEEEL!

Clear your mind

Ren and Lily sat cross legged at a pond as they both took deep, calming breaths as the bugs and crickets made various noises around them.

Ren: Clear your mind.

Lily: And clear your soul.

The sounds dissipated from their ears and they both seemed to float in the center of the universe.

Ren: I feel…peaceful…

Lily: Yeah…so do I…

Gareth: I wonder if ducks hate books.

Lily: NOT MY JOURNAL!

Lily scrambled up and rushed off after Gareth.

Ren: …Peaceful…

Nora: Hey Ren! I found a false floorboard under your bed! And there's this weird box with a triple X logo.

Ren: NORA, DON'T TOUCH THAT BOX!

Ren shot up and rushed across the field towards the dorms.

Flu Buddies

Soren and Ruby were lying in the same bed in Team RWBY's room as they groaned; they were each slightly red and were wearing ice bags on their foreheads.

Ruby: Uuggh…

Soren: You said it.

Alice approached the bed with two bowls of hot soup on a tray.

Alice: Seriously. While everyone was getting flu shots you two just had to go and play 'who can survive in the freezer the longest' didn't you?

Ruby & Soren: I won.

They both looked at each other with wide eyes before Alice hit both of them.

Alice: Knock it off! Now drink your soup.

She set the tray down and Soren picked up the spoon as Ruby broke open the saltine packet.

Ruby: Wait…where's the milk?

Alice: Milk!? You want to gunk up the works even more!?

Yang: I've got it!

Yang slid in next to Alice and placed a glass of milk next to Soren and Ruby's soup bowl.

Alice: Are you insane!?

Yang: What? This is what our dad did when we were sick.

Yang stretched up and placed a motivational poster above the bed; it had Cinder looking over a ruined Vale cackling maniacally as it burned to the ground with the title 'You can do it!' underneath it.

Yang: I also have your favorite video game and a copy of your favorite comic books.

Soren: Camp Camp!

Yang: You know it!

Ruby: Yes!

Alice: This is ridiculous.

Soren took a long drink of milk and snuggled into the bed with a content sigh.

Soren: This is nice.

Ruby: Welcome to the Rose and Xiao Long way of recovery.

Soren: I always want to be sick with you.

Ruby: And I you…you gonna eat your crackers?

Alice: You're both morons.

Jokes from a true pro

Gareth stood on a wooden stage with a microphone stand up to his mouth as he held a small stack of flash cards. The rest of the group sat at the tables all waiting for Gareth to start his act.

Sun: Why are we back here? Didn't we get it bad enough from Yang!?

Alice: Because it's Gareth. Odds are he'll have better material.

Yang: I can hear you!

Sun: Then get better material!

Soren: I didn't know Gareth had any jokes.

Lily: Apparently he took a few lessons in joke telling.

Blake: Please tell me it wasn't from Yang.

Lily: No…I can't exactly remember their name.

Gareth: Alright folks, it's good to see so many familiar faces out here! You know I don't normally do the shopping but one time I went to the grocery store for some milk and the cashier asked if I'd like it in the bag…I told him no, just leave it in the carton.

A collective groan washed over the group.

Sun: Come on man!

Gareth: But I didn't just go there for milk. I also had to pick up some noodles. I couldn't find any real noodles though; everything they had was just an impasta.

Alice: Boo!

Gareth: Although I suppose it's better than what happened to the coffee section, I hear they got mugged.

Lily: Please stop.

Gareth: Now that I think about it, I probably should have just left after the milk. I ended up stepping on a grape and it gave out a little wine.

Yang: Ha!

Alice: Shut it Yang! Who taught you!?

Gareth: Quiet in the front row! Now I want to give a big shout out to my mentor, Tai Xiao Long!

Tai burst from the back of the club and walked up to the stage as everyone booed and heckled him.

Tai: Thanks Gareth. You know, I had my own material to present tonight.

Gareth: Really?

Tai: Yeah, I came here on my bike so I was 'cycling' through all my jokes…but none of them seemed right.

Gareth: Then I guess you decided to 'brake'?

Suddenly a can was thrown at Gareth.

Alice: GET OFF THE STAGE!

Tai: I'd be careful if I were you. If you did that at your job you'd get 'canned'!

Soren lunged and grabbed Alice as she almost burst from her seat towards the stage.

Soren: You might want to run!

Yang got up from her seat and jumped on stage and pulled a side lever opening up a trap door under all three of them making them all fall through.

Yang: Out with a Yang!

Favorite Flavor

Soren walked down the city streets as the hot, humid air beat down on him without any mercy. He wiped his brow before hearing the jingle of an ice cream truck and turning to see it slowly approaching him.

Soren: Oh thank god! Stop! I want to buy ice cream!

The truck came to a stop and the vendor opened the side window before whipping out the different flavors of ice cream he served. Before Soren could order he suddenly heard someone panting behind him and looked to see Neo crouched over and breathing heavily as her cheeks had a dark red color.

Soren: Neo? What happened to you?

She immediately pointed at the truck while glaring at the truck owner.

Soren: You were chasing after the truck?

She nodded.

Soren: …Might have helped if you had called out to the truck.

Neo gave him a mean glare.

Soren: Right…anyway, I'll have a plain vanilla and…what would you like Neo?

Neo smiled widely at Soren's offer.

Neo: 'Neapolitan!'

Soren: That's how you spell your name?

Neo frowned and vigorously shook her head before smacking the sign.

Soren: Oh, that's not how you spell your name? I thought it had an O.

Neo gave a silent sigh and held up a picture of Neapolitan ice cream.

Soren: That's the ice cream you want?

Neo nodded.

Soren: Great, what flavor is it?

Neo stood there dumbfounded before hitting Soren with the sign making him fall to the ground before she stepped over him and held up the picture to the vendor. The man handed her a cone of vanilla and Neapolitan which she smiled in return handing a few lien to him from Soren's wallet. Neo dropped the wallet and vanilla cone on Soren's head before skipping away licking her ice cream happily.

Band Practice

Alice and Lily were walking through the courtyard as birds and students made various noises around them.

Alice: And so I said, 'Maybe we shouldn't do this again.' Then we came back and spent the rest of the evening cleaning blood out of our clothes.

Lily: That explains the news report.

Suddenly a cord strum made both Alice and Lily vibrate slightly before they looked around in confusion.

Alice: What was that?

Lily: Sounded like an electric guitar.

Alice: Cranked up to eleven.

Both Lily and Alice gave a look of realization before rushing over to the large grass field to see Yang strumming on a guitar with Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Nora all fiddling with their own instruments.

Lily: It was Yang.

Alice: What are you five doing?

Ruby: We've formed a girl band for the battle of the bands.

Lily: Oh yeah, there were leaflets for that in the halls.

Yang: Well we're the Yangtastics!

Weiss: That's not the final name.

Blake: Anyone else want to take the tambourine?

Alice: …Why is Tai here?

Alice motioned to the spot where Tai had set up a tripod camera and had it pointed directly at the band.

Tai: Like I'm going to miss out on my little girl's first band rehearsal.

Alice: You're like every embarrassing dad rolled into one.

Yang: It's true.

Tai: Well too bad.

He reached up and hit the record button on the camera.

Tai: Now go ahead sweetie…Ruby, don't pick your nose.

Ruby: Sorry.

Nora: Come on, let's start! A five, six, seven eight!

Yang gave a single strum and everyone expect Yang lifted off the ground before falling onto their backs.

Alice: Stop that!

Yang: I can't help it. My rock has to be epic!

Alice: It's too loud! Turn it down!

Lily: Hmmm…

Lily fiddled with the knob on the amp before nodding.

Lily: There, that's loud enough to…'rock' and you won't turn the academy into a school for the deaf.

Yang: Wow, not bad…hey guys. I think I found our manager.

Lily: What!?

Alice: Have fun.

Alice quickly speed walked away leaving Lily dumfounded.

Yang: Here's the invoice for my soundwave damages.

Lily looked it over before her eyes went wide.

Lily: Is…is it too late to say no?

Flu Buddies 2

Alice gave a sniffle as she lied in bed with Weiss next to her also looking haggard and sick with both their hair uncombed and slightly rustled.

Soren: Man, how did you two get sick?

Alice and Weiss glared at him.

Soren: Right…thanks for taking care of us by the way. Ruby would be here but…

Weiss: It's probably better she isn't. Her methods are…strange. You got my list right?

Soren: Yep.

Soren reached down and pulled up a bag before opening it.

Soren: Cold medicine, nose spray, ice packs in an ice box, and cough lozenges.

Alice: At least you understand the finer points of medicine.

Weiss: Of course. I am not an idiot.

Soren: I got better didn't I?

Alice: No, it just transferred.

Weiss: What about the rest?

Soren: Oh…um…okay. Here's the coffee pot, beans and mugs.

Alice: Coffee sounds perfect.

Weiss: Right? They all called me crazy.

Alice: Are you kidding!? Coffee is great for colds.

Soren: And you called Ruby and me freaks.

Getting the band together

Pyrrha strolled through the hall humming to herself as a guitar cord suddenly strummed through the air making her jump and look around frantically. She opened the nearby door to see Gareth sitting in the classroom and tuning an electric guitar.

Pyrrha: Gareth?

Gareth: Huh? Oh, hey Pyrrha.

Pyrrha: What are you doing in here?

Gareth: Holding rehearsal for my band.

Pyrrha looked around finding the room lacking in any bandmates.

Pyrrha: Um…

Gareth: I know, I need other people for my band but I can't find anyone to join me. Soren can't play an instrument, Lily is managing Ruby's band and Alice won't even try it.

Pyrrha: Well…I'll join your band!

Gareth gave a long inhale as his eyes got wider.

Gareth: Really!?

Pyrrha: Sure. Although the only musical instrument I know is clarinet.

Gareth: That's fine. I barely know the guitar!

Pyrrha: What?

Gareth: Let's do this!

Gareth gave a long strum across the guitar making the room shake before the door burst open with Yang on the other side.

Yang: Hey! That's my shtick Gareth!

Window watching

Alice, Lily and team RWBY all sat in their room relaxing. Blake sat on her bunk reading her new book while Weiss studied with Lily; Alice was busy playing games with Ruby and Yang sat looking out the window with a pair of binoculars.

Alice: Come on…yes, super combo!

Ruby: What!? How did you pull that off!?

Alice: Don't underestimate me Rose.

Weiss: Hmm…what is with Professor Peach and these grimm studies?

Lily: It's always the most obscure things too. Remember the sap thing?

Weiss: Don't remind me.

Blake: …

Yang: …Come on boys; that's long enough in the showers.

Weiss: Yang what are you doing?

Yang: I found out you can see into the boy's locker room window from our room.

Alice: You're kidding right?

Yang: Nope. In fact…if I angle myself correctly…I can see a small area of the showers.

Weiss: Yang, don't be creepy.

Ruby: All you're going to see is shadowy figures anyway. I swear, shadow people are three fourths of our society.

Yang: …Hang on! I've got actual boy in my sights!

Lily: Really? Who?

Yang: I…can't tell. But based on the hair…it's either Soren or-

Before she could finish her though both Weiss and Alice had pulled her out of the way and were looking intently through the binoculars.

Alice: …

Weiss: …

Alice: …I think it's him.

Weiss: …Let's make double sure it's him.

Alice: Let's make triple sure…j-just for security purposes.

Weiss: R-Right…quadruple sure.

Yang: Can I have my binoculars back?

Alice & Weiss: NO!

King of Games

Ozpin and Soren sat across from each other with a chess board in between them. The board was set up with Ozpin being reduced to a corner spot with only his king left while Soren had all his pieces with four pawns turned into queens. Soren picked up one of his queens and put it into position right across from his king.

Soren: Checkmate.

Ozpin: How did you achieve such a ruthless victory?

Soren: Well…not to be mean but…my pieces were working in a pretty obvious pattern while you focused on my constantly moving knight you couldn't even catch…it wasn't going well for you since the beginning .

Ozpin: I figured without the knight you wouldn't be able to make any crafty moves without me noticing.

Soren: …You're not very good at chess are you?

Ozpin: Unfortunately.

Soren: …This puts any tactical decisions you've made into major questioning.

Ozpin: Now, now Soren. I may not be good at chess but I'm no fool.

Feeling a tap on his shoulder Ozpin turned around to see Cinder behind him.

Cinder: Excuse me headmaster but where are all your dangerous artifacts and doomsday weapons?

Ozpin: They're in the faculty building. Here's the key.

Cinder: Thank you.

Ozpin: Be safe.

With that Cinder walked away as Ozpin turned back to Soren.

Soren: …I think I'll start working on a makeshift bomb shelter.

Picture Perfect

Velvet sat in the courtyard with Lily as Velvet swiped through various pictures she'd taken of people's weapons. She scrolled from Soren's Twin Soul to Alice's Enchantress to Gareth's Earthbreaker and finally on Lily's Reaper.

Lily: So that camera can recreate matter it captured?

Velvet: Yep, I can recreate any weapon I've taken a picture of. And their weightless on top of that.

Lily: That's amazing…hey, what if you tried recreating a person from a picture?

Velvet: I…actually don't know…I've never tried it.

Lily: This sounds like a good experiment opportunity!

Velvet: Well, let's see if I can even pull it off…hmm.

Velvet fiddled with the camera settings making the recreation machine glitch and fritz before it closed completely.

Velvet: I think I've got it!

Lily: Perfect! Who should we recreate?

Velvet: Hmm…how about…Gareth?

Lily: Sure. That should be simple.

Velvet pressed a button on her box making it pop open before a holo-image of Gareth showed up. With another press of the button it dropped to the ground and Lily led it by the hand as it stepped forward.

Lily: This is amazing…

Gareth2: What's happening?

Velvet: It's sentient!?

Gareth2: …I sense another me out there…

Lily: …And?

Gareth2: I have to destroy him.

With that declaration the dopple-Gareth rushed off towards the dorm at breakneck speed. Suddenly a crash could be heard followed by a scream.

Gareth: This is new! I've never had to fight my double to the death before!

Lily: Gareth!

With a worried look Lily rushed towards the dorm as Velvet gave a long sigh.