RWBY: MRRN

Volume 2, Chapter 2: The New Semester

Disclaimer: I do not own RWBY. All rights go to Rooster Teeth.

"I told you, Ruo, it was an accident!" Math replied defensively as he took a bite of his burger, sitting next to his Faunus teammate at lunch.

"It was an accident that there was a bottle of blue paint with an agitated Dust crystal in the bathroom stall I was using?" Ruo questioned his team leader.

"It was meant for Sun," Math replied.

"Your little prank ruined my robe," Ruo reminded.

"I already said I'd pay for the dry-cleaning," the swordsman responded.

"Hello," Pyrrha greeted. Math turned to see her and her team approaching their table. He and Pyrrha had been dating for almost a month now and was well known around their friends that they were now an official couple.

"Hey, Pyrrha," Math responded as she sat directly in front of him. "How're you doing, beautiful?"

"Doing well, thank you darling," she replied. There was a quiet chuckle coming from Nasser's mouth. Math looked over with annoyance in his eyes.

"Darling," he chuckled.

"Shut up," Math spoke. Nasser smirked and went on to eat his lunch.

"What were you two talking about?" Jaune asked out of curiosity.

"Math pulled a prank by putting a bottle of paint in the bathroom with an agitated Dust crystal, which blew up and ruined my robe," Ruo answered.

"One, it was meant for Sun," Math defended himself. "Two, I already said I'd pay for the dry cleaning."

"Why were you pulling a prank on Sun?" Pyrrha asked.

"He stole my sword and I couldn't find it," Math answered. "When I had to use my Semblance to bring it back, Sun was holding onto the handle. Apparently, he wanted to use it, so he just upped and took it without my permission."

"So you pulled a prank on Sun for stealing your sword?" Robin asked.

"Robin, it wasn't the first time he's stolen it," Math responded. "I got tired of it, tried pulling a prank on him as payback and it went wrong."

"Very wrong," Ruo stated. "However, I can understand. Sun is quite a kleptomaniac and it's getting very annoying."

"Why didn't you just leave it at their dorm?" Nasser suggested.

"Because any of his teammates could've been splashed," Math replied. "I just wanted it to happen to Sun, so when I knew he was heading to the restroom, I set it up so only he would get it, but…"

"Again, it went wrong," Ruo reminded.

"I know," Math replied.

"Well, it may not have been the best decision to do it all," Pyrrha suggested. Math sighed.

"Yeah, you're right," he admitted. "I'm just getting fed up with him taking our stuff without asking."

"Like that time he took my jacket for the school uniform because his was dirty," Robin brought up.

"Or when he stole my knives to cut up a pineapple," Nasser brought up as well. "He could've gotten one from the kitchen."

"Alright," Ruo spoke out. "It's obvious that Sun's kleptomaniac tendencies are really getting on our nerves and the attempt to get back at him-"

"Went wrong," Math finished. "I know."

"Well, have you spoken to him about it, darling?" Pyrrha suggested.

"We tried, but he won't listen," Math answered.

"He's from Vacuo," Nasser informed. "That's a place where rules don't really apply."

"Hey, guys," Yang called out as she, Blake and Weiss joined up with them and sat down. She winked at Ruo and he quickly turned his head away, managing to hide the blush on his face.

"What's going on?" Robin greeted. "Where's Ruby?"

"She said she had to go get something," Weiss answered as she sipped her coffee. "She said she had a plan for how to start off the new semester."

"Well, we could start it off with a 'Yang'?" Yang punned. Everyone groaned in annoyance to Yang's puns.

"Hey, come on, guys," Yang continued. "The Vytal Festival Tournament is coming up soon. Don't you think it's 'vytal' that we start off this year right?" Everyone groaned much louder.

"You can hear me, right?" Yang asked, considering how loud the cafeteria could be sometimes.

"Unfortunately," Math responded.

"Okay," Yang spoke. "That pun was a little…" She knocked on the table. "Wooden?"

"Yang, I will pay you 20 Lien if you stop telling puns," Math offered.

"Hmmmmm…no," she answered shamelessly. The swordsman laid his head back, groaning in agony.

"Math, darling," Pyrrha giggled. "Yang's puns aren't that bad."

"See?" Yang pointed out. "Don't you love your girlfriend enough to enjoy my puns?"

"I'd rather keep my sanity intact," Math responded, pointing to his head.

"Well, you've certainly got a 'point'," Yang punned yet again.

"Yang thinks she's funny, but she's only funny LOOKING," Nasser joked. Yang looked over at Nasser, her eyes burning red.

"What did you say?" she growled.

"Yang, calm down," Ruo insisted, getting up from his seat and placing his hands in front of Yang. Surprisingly, she breathed and her eyes returned back to her normal lilac color.

"Well, Math," Pyrrha called out to her boyfriend. "Are you available tonight? I was wondering if you'd like to go to the movies."

"Sounds good," Math answered. "Did you have one in mind?"

"I know you said you had been wanting to see 'The Last Warriors', so I thought we could go see that," Pyrrha suggested.

"I'd definitely be up for that, but are there any others that caught your attention?" he offered.

"Not really," Pyrrha answered.

"Then 'The Last Warriors' it is, then," Math smiled. He stood up, leaned over the table and landed a peck on his girlfriend's cheek, making her blush.

"Aww, that's so cute~" Yang replied. "If only there was a man who'd kiss my cheek, but alas-"

"Ruo will do it!" Robin offered. He tried reaching for his Faunus teammate, but realized he was just grabbing air. Everyone looked to see that Ruo was gone.

"Did he just run off?" Math chuckled. Their answer was proven wrong when Ruo returned to the table with six slices of meat pizza.

"The hell?" Nasser gasped. "Two or three slices, but six!?"

"My body can handle it," Ruo replied. He saw Nora trying to take a slice and smacked her hand away.

"We thought you had run off," Robin brought up.

"Right, I forgot; Ruo never runs away on pizza day at the cafeteria," Math joked, earning a cold glare from the White Tiger Faunus. Suddenly, the table shook, the reason being Ruby placing a gigantic binder in the center of the teams.

"Friends!" Ruby addressed. "Sisters! Weiss…"

"Hey!" Weiss called out.

"Four score and seven minutes ago, I had a dream," Ruby proclaimed.

"Was it that you had all the cookies in the world?" Math joked.

"Well…I want to have that dream, but for some reason, I can't!" Ruby whined. "Anyway, a dream-"

"Is that my binder?" Weiss questioned. "Did you steal it?" Ruby looked nervously to the side and smiled awkwardly.

"I'm not a crook," she assured. "A dream-"

"What is 'The Last Warriors'?" Ren asked. Both Math and Jaune gasped.

"You don't know what 'The Last Warriors' is?" they asked in unison. "Only the greatest TV series ever to become a movie!" Pyrrha giggled at the silliness of her boyfriend and her team leader.

"Yeah, that's great!" Ruby spoke, annoyed. "I had a dream-"

"What are you looking at, Blake?" Yang asked her teammate.

"Just going over notes from last semester," Blake answered.

"Will you let me finish!?" Ruby demanded, prompting the table to silence.

"I had a dream…a dream that one day, the four of us would come together, as a team, and have the most fun anyone has ever had…ever! We shall kick off this year with a-"

"NO!" almost everyone, except Yang and Blake, shouted as they stopped Ruby from finishing her sentence in fear of Yang saying another pun. Ruby just looked at everyone, her eyes shooting at every person before they sat back down.

"Team RWBY, since classes start up tomorrow, I've taken the time to schedule fun and amazing events for us today," Ruby informed.

"Let's not wait 'Xiao Long' to do it," Yang punned again. Nora threw an apple at her head, prompting her to throw another at the hammer user.

"Well, regardless of what we choose, I think we should spend this day as a team," Weiss suggested.

"Whatever suits-" Before Math could finish, a pie landed straight in his face, having been thrown by Yang; she had meant to throw it at Nora, but instead hit him. The swordsman pulled the pie off and glared at the blonde member of Team RWBY.

"Math, no," Yang warned.

"Math, yes," Robin insisted.

"Guys, we're in the cafeteria, can we please-?" Blake tried to stop them, but was instead hit in the face with the pie. She looked over at Math, giving him a death glare.

"FOOD FIGHT!" Nasser shouted and all hell broke loose. As food was thrown around the place, Teams RWBY, MRRN and JNPR grouped up and took up different sections of the cafeteria; JNPR taking the left, MRRN taking the center, and RWBY taking the right.

"I'm queen of the castle!" Nora chanted from atop her throne of tables.

"We're here to dethrone you, you hyperactive tyrant!" Robin shouted.

"However, in honor of my love for your teammate, I'm willing to consider an unconditional-" Math was hit in the face with a watermelon before he could finish his sentence.

"Ruo, shouldn't we offer an unconditional surrender to Team RWBY?" Robin teased his teammate.

"There will be no surrender!" Math declared as he crushed a large piece of watermelon. "There will be no truce! No prisoners! No mercy! We shall have victory or death!" All of Team MRRN cheered behind him.

"Justice will be swift!" Ruby shouted. "Justice will be painful! Justice will be delicious!" All of Team RWBY cheered behind her.

"Robin, Nasser, take care of Team RWBY!" Math ordered. "Ruo and I will take Team JNPR!"

"Let's take them!" Robin cheered as he grabbed several pieces of celery and threw them at the members of Team RWBY.

"Off with their heads!" Nora commanded as she and her teammates unleashed several watermelons on both teams.

"Get down!" Math told Ruo as he grabbed a lunch tray and they both took cover behind tables. As soon as the barrage stopped, Math grabbed a bread loaf and Ruo wrapped two long pieces of bacon around his arms. The White Tiger rushed to take on Lie Ren, but Math was ambushed by Blake while Yang went onto fight Nora.

"Here we go!" Nasser shouted as he grabbed two long pieces of sausage links and swung at Weiss and Ruby. The heiress grabbed a ketchup and squirted it at him, managing to knock him off balance and send him crashing into a set of tables. Ruby was about to slide down the tables on a lunch tray, but Nasser recovered and threw one of the sausage links and tying her feet, knocking her to the ground.

Weiss charged at Robin with a swordfish while the archer kept throwing celery at her, but she deflected all of the projectiles. He grabbed a longer piece of celery and blocked Weiss's attack, engaging her in a swordfight.

Blake, wielding two loaves, fought both Math and Pyrrha, with the MRRN member holding a lunch tray and loaf and Pyrrha with one loaf. Despite her agility and proficiency, Blake was the first of the three to be knocked out of the fight. Math swung his loaf and clashed with Pyrrha.

"I offered a surrender," Math reminded. "You should've taken it."

"I'm afraid I must refuse, my love," Pyrrha replied as she swung again and knocked him back a few feet.

"Hya!" Ruo cried out as he engaged Ren in a martial arts fight, bacon still wrapped around his arms and Ren wielding two long celery. The two traded blows with their fists until the Faunus gained the advantage after breaking one of Ren's celery sticks. Before he could deal a finishing blow, a chicken hit him in the back of the head, alerting him to Yang's incoming attack.

The blonde brawler picked the chicken back up and unleashed a barrage of attacks on the White Tiger Faunus. He dodged and deflected all of them until he managed to grab Yang's arm and then wrap his around her neck.

"Care to surrender?" he asked with a playful tone. To catch him off guard, she planted a kiss on his lips. Before he could melt into it, she broke free of his grasp and sent him flying into a pile of tables.

"Dirty trick, Yang!" he called out.

"Oh, please, you wanted that," the blonde brawler claimed. Distracted by her gloating, Yang didn't catch Nora swinging a watermelon hammer at her until it was too late, sending her flying out of the cafeteria.

"Goodwitch is going to be so pissed!" Nasser brought up as he fought Blake, both armed with sausage links.

"Goodwitch is always pissed!" Nora replied.

"Not always," Math protested as he fought against Nora. In the course of a few minutes, all of Ruby's teammates had been knocked out of the fight, along with Robin, Jaune and Ruo. Ruby knelt down and Math suspected immediately what she was going to do.

"Take cover!" he shouted. He and Nasser quickly took cover behind tables as Ruby unleashed her Semblance, knocking Team JNPR to the wall and becoming pelted by all the food caught up in the wind of her Speed.

"Whoa," Math gasped as he saw Team JNPR sliding to the floor.

"I love these guys," a voice was heard. Math and Nasser looked from behind cover to see Sun Wukong and Neptune Vasilias. Sun was completely clean, but Neptune had purple all over his face and shirt.

"Sun?" Nasser called out. "How are you clean and he's not?"

"I guess I got lucky," Sun said as he took out a bag of chips and started eating them.

"Are those my chips?" Nasser shouted, to which Sun nervously stopped. Angered, the knife user grabbed some food and threw it at Sun. Just then, Goodwitch burst into the cafeteria, an angry scowl on her face. She used her Semblance to stop the thrown food and then to rearrange the entire cafeteria.

"Children…please do not play with your food," she calmly spoke, trying to contain her angry disbelief.

"It was worth it," Math spoke as he helped Pyrrha onto her feet. "You okay?"

"I'm fine, darling," she assured.

"Where's Ms. Xiao Long?" Goodwitch asked.

"Oh, I sent her through the roof," Nora replied. A loud crashing noise was heard, Ruo being the first to respond. He saw Yang fall back down and he leapt forward, catching her.

"Okay, she's a little heavier than I thought," Ruo thought to himself.

"My hero," Yang replied as she hugged him. He then let her down on her feet so he could wipe the food off of his uniform.

"Great, so now both my uniform AND my robe are ruined," he groaned.

-0-

After almost spending two hours cleaning up the food from the cafeteria as punishment for their food fight, the three teams went their own ways. Pyrrha took Math to the library to study together while Ruo-Jian was going to the Beacon store to get some new clothes, leaving Robin and Nasser by themselves.

"You ready for the Vytal Tournament?" Robin asked his teammate.

"Hell yeah," Nasser replied with a somewhat arrogant smile. "Think of all the fans we could get!"

"Agreed," Robin chuckled.

"Hello," Gaspar spoke as he approached the two of them. By now, nearly everyone had become more trusting of the Dorado heir, though Nasser was still a little on edge around him.

"Hey, Gaspar," Robin greeted. "Are you going to try and enter the Tournament?"

"Unfortunately, I can't," the Dorado informed solemnly. "Because of Linen's arrest, we now only have three teammates and the rules clearly state that in order to enter, it must be a full team of four."

"That sucks," Nasser commented. "Ruo's told us you've improved ever since you came back from your suspension. That's cool to know."

"Thanks," Gaspar replied, holding the scabbard of his rapier. "What about you? Do you plan on entering?"

"Sure do," Robin answered. "We're looking forward to taking part. My beautiful Coco will be able to see all angles of me at once."

"What a nightmare," Nasser joked, making the archer glare at him.

"Well, I should get going," Gaspar said. "I need to speak with Orchid." The Dorado heir walked away in the direction of the dorms.

"Man, I really feel bad about pointing a finger at him during the whole mystery thing," Nasser admitted. "I'm a jackass."

"Sure are," Robin agreed teasingly. Nasser groaned at his teammate until he caught sight of someone from his past. His angry scowl quickly turned into one of worry and anxiety.

"Nas?" Robin asked by his nickname. The knife wielder quickly took off in the opposite direction, hiding behind the corner of the nearest building. Robin looked in the direction his teammate was before he had run off.

He saw a team of four girls sitting together at a table. The first had short violet hair with a right shoulder pauldron with a long light blue coat over a gray shirt. The second has dirty blonde hair wearing a green dress with golden scales. The third had curly black hair wearing a dress similar to that of a ballerina. The fourth had long red hair with a blue top and orange layered skirt.

He recognized them as Team NDGO, who had become quite popular despite only being first year students.

"Get over here!" Nasser called as he used his Semblance to rush over to Robin and then pull him behind the corner.

"What is going on?" Robin asked, unsure of how to react as he had never seen Nasser anxious before.

"Do you remember when I told you there was a girl I was friends with?" Nasser reminded. Robin thought for a minute and remembered him saying about a girl he liked back in Vacuo. He put two and two together and realized that the girl was a member of Team NDGO.

"Which one is it?" he asked as he and his teammate looked over the corner at the four girls. "The one with the violet hair?"

"No," Nasser answered, pointing a finger. "You see that girl with the red hair, olive green eyes and blue top?"

"Yeah," Robin replied. "Is that her?"

"Yeah," Nasser confirmed. "Her name's Octavia Ember. She and I were good friends back when I loved in Vacuo. When she starts fighting, she's very aggressive, but when she's not, she's probably as sweet as Pyrrha."

"So you like her~" Robin teased with his usual cocky smirk. Nasser glared at his teammate.

"It's not that, I…I just haven't seen her in years," he replied, but Robin wasn't buying it.

"Come on, I played this game almost all semester with Math," the archer spoke. "Are you telling me we need to do this too?"

"There's no game to be played," Nasser snarled. "I…I simply don't know how to approach her again. It's been so many years since I've seen her-"

"Last I checked, you said 'a girl you were sweet on'," Robin reminded.

"Well…I didn't mean 'like a girlfriend' or something like that," Nasser denied.

"Go say hi," the archer insisted. Nasser looked up at him with a shocked expression and nervously shook his head.

"Do it," he demanded. Again, Nasser refused.

"Okay, I'll go talk to her," Robin decided.

"Aren't you forgetting that you're dating Coco, stupid?" the knife wielder tried to dissuade.

"I said 'talk', not 'flirt'…stupid," Robin shot back. Nasser lunged and wrapped his arms around the archer, stopping him from approaching Octavia.

"Why is this such a big deal for you?" Robin grunted as he tried to break free.

"I don't want you embarrassing me in front of her," Nasser replied as a very lame excuse.

"How would I embarrass you?" the archer replied. "If anything, you'd just embarrass yourself from how you're acting."

"You're the one who kept getting slapped by girls before you went out with Coco," Nasser reminded him of his flirtatious tendencies before becoming a thing with the leader of Team CFVY.

"Knock it off!" Robin grunted. The two continued fighting, safe from the sight of others viewing them. In a minute, Nasser was thrown from the corner and into plain sight, unknowingly landed at someone's feet.

"You okay?" a female voice asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine," Nasser replied. As he got off the ground, he realized that he was looking into the eyes of the same girl he had tried to avoid.

"Nasser?" Octavia gasped.

"Hey…Octavia," the knife wielder replied. There was an awkward silence between them for a little bit. Nasser was about to speak, but Octavia cut him off by hugging him.

"It's so good to see you again," she said. Nasser couldn't help but wrap his arms around her, returning the embrace.

"You know him?" her blonde teammate asked.

"Yeah, Dew," Octavia replied. "This is my old friend, Nasser Achdarr." She then turned to the member of Team MRRN.

"Nasser, these are my teammates," she started to introduce. "This is Nebula Violette, our leader. Dew Gayl, our heavy hitter. Gwen Darcy, our best at ranged combat."

"Nice to meet you," Nebula greeted, shaking Nasser's hand. Gwen shook his hand as well, but Dew simply nodded her head.

"Where are your teammates?" Octavia asked.

"Well, one of them is right here," he said, pointing to his archer teammate. "This is Robin Kendrick. Our other teammates are Mathdon Kendrick, who's with his girlfriend, and Ruo-Jian Bai Hu, who's at the Academy store."

"What's up?" Robin greeted.

"Hello," Nebula replied.

"How've you been, Octavia?" Nasser asked.

"Been good," she replied. "Glad to be here for the Vytal Tournament."

"You entered the Tournament?" Nasser asked.

"Why else would we be here?" Dew asked, her tone giving away an immediate dislike for Nasser and Robin.

"Well, I'll need to catch up with you later," Octavia replied. "We just got here and we need to find out where our dorm is."

"Yeah, that sounds okay," Nasser replied.

"Alright, then," Octavia departed with her team. "Talk to you later." She walked off with her teammates while Dew gave him a scowl of disapproval.

"What's with her?" Robin asked, gesturing to Dew.

"I have no idea," Nasser responded. "It's good to see Octavia again, though."

"You do like her~" Robin teased. The knife user glared at him and his hands curled into fists.

"I'll beat you into the ground!" he shouted as he chased the archer across the school grounds. Robin laughed as he ran away from his angry teammate and couldn't wait to tell Math and Ruo.

-0-

Team NDGO had arrived at their dorm and settled in. Nebula saw Octavia looking out the window and smiled.

"So he's an old friend of yours?" she asked.

"We're still friends," Octavia replied with no doubt in her tone. "We were very close in our childhood days before he left."

"If you want some pointers on dating-" Gwen started.

"No!" Octavia denied. "We're not like that! We're just good friends."

"Hopefully, it stays like that," Dew suggested as she tended to her spear.

"Back off, Dew," Octavia replied offended. "He's not like the pretty boys you love to hate."

"Alright, knock it off," Nebula demanded before her teammates could start an argument. "If Octavia trusts this guy, then we should trust her."

"Whatever," Dew replied, not liking the idea of Octavia and Nasser together.

"So, what do we want to do?" Gwen asked. "I saw a swimming pool on our way here."

"Sounds good to me," Dew agreed.

"I'm in," Nebula replied.

"Me too," Octavia agreed as well. The four girls continued unpacking their belongings before going down to the Beacon pool. While they were, Octavia kept thinking about Nasser.

How had he changed in the time they had not seen each other? Was he still the same person she knew? She wanted to know, even if her teammate didn't approve. He was her childhood friend and she wanted to be that way with him again, maybe even more as much as she denied it to her teammates.