Alright before we get started on this one I need to make a small announcement to my Golden Paladin readers if they read this one too. I'm sorry to say that I'm gonna take a short Hiatus on that one. I've been working on the current chapter for it for weeks now but I've written myself into a corner. I truly do apologize to you fans of the series and I hate to do it. I am going to get the 9th chapter done first but I can't say how long it will be till the next one. Again guys I'm really sorry but like Miles Luna says, sometimes you just gotta take a break from writing one to get the inspiration back.

Anyway I hope you all enjoy this chapter of Energy Rise!

The day had not been an easy one for our favorite Arc as he laid his chin in his arms for the last period of the day. Well that wasn't all true, the morning had gone pretty smoothly for him. After the meeting he and Coco had gone back to their dorms to get some sleep before the sun came up. He had still woken up early because he wanted to see his friend and her team off before their long away mission. Unfortunately Coco, being the responsible team leader as she put it, had told Velvet about them getting caught the night before. Say anything you wanted about the bunny faunes, but you really don't want to get on her bad side. While she wasn't overly mad they got caught, she was more mad at his little stunt with Goodwitch.

Velvet had found out about their nightly training sessions not long after they started. She had noticed Coco sneaking out of the room at night, not something she had done before he had started coming to the school, as well as bruises appearing on her those mornings after. She had decided to tail her one night and well. Her reaction was in itself hilarious. 'How the hell are you two flying!?' He could of sworn he had seen her eyes almost pop out that night. So after a quick explanation she and, by proxy because the bunny didn't think it was fair, the rest of team CFVY knew about what they could do and had kept it quiet.

"...kind of mote now..." He mumble into his arms and ignoring the weird look from Weiss, who had been sitting next to him.

The rest of the day should have and would have been easy. It should have been simple, since he and his team had tickets to go to see the new Spruce Willis movie tonight. He had an extra ticket and thought about asking Weiss to go with them, but he was to damn tired to care now. That was the other problem. He was tired, dead tired right now. He had planned to sleep through all his classes today so that he would have the energy to go out with his team tonight.

But Nora had other plans... All day. All damn day, the hyperactive girl has been messing with him to keep him awake in the classes. She even found away to do it when she was sparing Dove from team CRDL during combat class. 'Miss fired grenade my ass... She did it intentionally, the grin she had proved it.' While it didn't hurt it was annoying as hell. Although he wasn't mad at Nora for having a bit of fun at his expense, it was starting to bug him. That or it was the lack of a good amount of sleep making him more irritable. The latter sounds about right.

Weiss silently stared at the clock as Prof. Port continued to drag on about his golden days. She had given up on really paying attention in this class quite some time ago. But this wasn't the reason for her watching the clock. Team RWBY's "operation" as Ruby kept calling it, to find out what the White Fang was up too started after class. She would lie if she wasn't just a bit excited about the idea. Sure she still didn't feel like they were ready for this kind of thing, but that didn't mean it wasn't an exciting thought. Of course she had to make it out of this class first, and the Arc was not helping making it go faster. She stole a quick glance at the blonde boy who seemed to grumble every so often and was simply glaring forward. It wasn't hard to figure out what was causing his annoyance. A quick glance up showed Nora aiming another pencil at his head. 'Why is she even messing with him... Did he eat her pancakes this morning or something?' You could never really know what set the girl to mess with one person for the day, but normally it was Ren. Why was Jaune suddenly her target?

A sudden outburst from Nora caught her and most of the class', barring Port of course, attention. Up in her seat they watched in surprise as Nora seemed to be in a tug of war with the air for her pencil.

"Hey! Come on let go invisible man!" She cried out, though she did seem to be laughing, while pulling on the pencil. Many would have assumed that she was just putting on a show to spice the class up a bit, but the fact that she had her feet firmly planted on the edge of the desk for leverage and the creaking sound the wood made as she pulled disproved that theory.

Weiss and the others could only watch in shock at the situation. What could be pulling on the other end of the pencil? She started looking around for anyone that may have been using their semblance to do it, maybe a telekinetic one. But as she looked around she found that every one was staring in complete surprise, all but one. She looked down wide eyed to Jaune who was laying exactly where he had been, completely unfazed by the current situation. Was he doing this? No that couldn't be possible. A quick yelp caught her attention causing her to look up to see Nora had lost her footing and been pulled over the edge of the desk.

Crash!

And landing in the empty seat next to Jaune. Her back was in the chair letting her stare at the ceiling and her legs landed on the desk itself. She just sat there giggling as she held onto her pencil that seemed to no longer be pulled on.

"Hey there Nora, you okay?" Jaune's voice while tired had a hint of amusement in it, shocking the stunned classroom even further.

"Sure am, boss man." She giggled back at him, wiggling her legs for good measure.

"Gonna stop messing with me now?" He gave her a quick sideways glance.

"Sure am, boss man."

"Good, I'm going to sleep then..." He quickly plopped his head back down into his arms and attempted to fall asleep as Nora rushed back up to her desk. Prof. Port still acting none the wiser as he continued his "lecture" for the day.

I say attempted as just when he was about to pass out the bell to end the class went off. "Greh... Screw it... I'm just going to bed..." He quickly gathered his stuff and trudged out of the classroom intent on curling up in his bed and not waking up for a long time.

The others just stared at him as he left the classroom. "Okay so anyone got any idea what's up with Vomit Boy?" Yang turned to the remains of team JNPR as she thumbed toward where he made his exit.

"Oh I know! I know!" Nora jumped forward raising her hand excitedly.

"What did you do Nora...?" Ren sighed as he shook his head at the red head.

"Well~" She smiled brightly. "I saw that he was really really tired today, I mean like Extra Super tired and he was trying to fall asleep in our classes. Soooo~ As a good teammate I couldn't just let our leader miss out on a whole day of fun. So I kept him awake all day by messing with him." She smiled triumphantly only to falter at both Pyrrha and Ren's looks of disappointment. She softly scratched the back of her head trying to look innocent. "Was that a bad?"

"You hit him with that grenade on purpose didn't you..." Ren only received a stuck out tongue as a response.

"Oh I'm sure Jaune will be fine~" Ruby smiled and brought the attention onto herself. "What I wanna know is what happened with the pencil Nora? That was really weird."

"I know right!" She jumped over to Ruby holding her had. "I was getting ready to throw it at Jaune to wake him up-"

"Nora!"

She easily ignored Pyrrha's outburst and continued. "When all of a sudden it started to pull out of my hand. I tried as hard as I could to pull it back but then I lost my footing and ended up next to Jaune. So I took it as a sign that I should stop." She grinned before adopting a thinkers pose. "I don't know what pulled on it though... Oh! Maybe there's a ghost haunting the school. OOOooohhh~" She was suddenly in front of Weiss with a flashlight and making spooky sounds.

Weiss quickly pushed her away and scoffed. "I highly doubt it. It was probably just another student who decided to mess with you. Look we've all got stuff to do this weekend, so let's just let it go. Okay?"

The others, not really having a better explanation nodded simply letting it drop for now.

Team JNPR Dorm

Jaune closed the door to the dorm behind him as he stumbled his way into the room towards his bed. Not even bothering to change out of his school uniform he flopped onto the bed face down laying at a diagonal angle with his legs still dangling off the edge.

"Bed, oh sweet bed... How I missed you so..." He was now completely beat and unable to stay awake any longer. That trick he pulled with Nora had taken all but a very small amount of his left over energy. He hated using telekinetic ki, mostly because he was terrible at it and always wasted far more energy then it should. But it was the only way to get her to stop and now he had his reward. His bed and the great grace of sleep.

Of course as we all know all things are fleeting, especially sleep for one young Arc today, as he was awoken by his dubstep ringtone on his scroll.

"Grrrr... Should have silenced phone..." He lazily grab at the scroll on his side table and lifted his head, before answering he took a quick note of the time. It was just after 10 pm. "Hello..."

"Heh hey Jaune! It's Sun." He immediately noticed a bit of hesitation in the monkey Faunus' voice, oh and the sound of gunfire, yeah definitely gunfire. "So um... How you doing...?" He couldn't be serious could he?

"Sun just get to the point!" Oh hey Neptune was there too, great sounds like just another party he wasn't invited too. Oh wow he was still tired that joke was terrible.

"Alright alright, keep your shirt on man. So we were out helping team RWBY try to figure out what the white fang was up- Oh shit!" Jaune heard a quick explosion and a sigh, well he was okay at least. "Okay short version it is. We got separated by a giant robot and now me and Neptune are pinned down by White Fang forces in an old warehouse district. Ruby said to call you for back up if we need it and-"

"We need it!"

"What he said. Can you and your team get here to help."

Jaune quickly stood keeping the phone at his ear. "I can, but my team can't. They're in a movie right now and have their scrolls off I'm sure." He moved over to the window and opened it getting ready to jump out. He still didn't bother to change out of his uniform as it would take to much time. He opened the blazer and undershirt, showing his red weighted shirt underneath and tossed his tie to the side. "Listen I need you to hold them off for like five more minutes."

"Five minutes? Dude we're on the other side of Vale, there's no-"

"Sun just five minutes man. I'll make it." His tone left no room for argument as he jumped out the window.

"Y-yeah we can do it man. Just hurry."

With that Jaune quickly ended the call and stashed his scroll in his pocket before his ki formed a visible blue aura around him as he sped off to help. After a minute he was already over Vale, expanding his senses he started searching for Sun or Neptune's energy. "Come on guys where are you... Should of asked what end of town they were on. There's like fifty warehouse districts in Vale!" He stopped expanding his search and after a one more minute. "Found them!" With a powerful burst he sped off once again.

With Sun and Neptune

There weren't a great many things that Sun regretted doing through out the course of his life. Being a Faunus, nah. Stealing every now and then, Not a chance. But letting himself and Neptune get separated from team RWBY. Yeah he was regretting that a lot. He'd so much rather be fighting a giant robot right now. These idiots just kept coming. Every time you knocked out one White Fang member two more attacked you. They where like cockroaches in Halloween masks.

"Yo Neptune! How you holding up man?!" He quickly converted his nunchucks into there staff form to block a pair of White Fang grunt's blades before ducking down and sweeping there legs out from under them, and then having to quickly dodge another hail of gun fire.

"About as well as you'd expect!" Neptune was currently pinned behind some boxes he was using for cover as he returned fire on the grunts that had him pined. "How much longer do we have to hold out before back up gets here!"

"Well if he wasn't just trying to sound cool. I'd say another-" A sudden hail of glowing balls of energy rained down on the hoards of grunts before him. A chain of explosions erupted as they made impact with the ground sending their enemies flying and screaming into the air. Seconds later Jaune landed in front of Sun in a crouching position. "second... Holy shit dude..."

Jaune stood looking over to Sun and smirking. "Hey, hope I'm not too late for the party."

"Nah man. We just decided to bust out the party favors."

Thanks to Jaune's entrance the amount they had been fighting had been cut down by a third. Neptune was able to get out of his cover and join up with the two blondes while forming his trident. Jaune quickly fell into a starting pose as they waited for the next move by the grunts. Both Sun and Neptune took a quick note that he didn't have his weapon on him but decided to shrug it off til after they survived this.

Jaune studied the remains of the hoard carefully, after a second he saw one flinch to raise their gun. He shot towards that grunt ramming his elbow into the man's gut sending him flying back and taking a few of the ones behind him with him. Not taking the time to enjoy his handy work he did a quick double spin kick to his left, first knocking the sword from the hands of the nearest one and the second being a swift kick to the face. Pulling his hand close to his chest he channeled ki to us palm before launching it forward with a yell. The resulting shock wave launching all those that were in front of his hand back leaving a large gap between the White Fang forces.

"Holy shit, Neptune, you seeing this...?" Sun couldn't believe what he was seeing right now. Not only was the guy that most deemed as the weakest at Beacon literally plowing through the White Fang forces with ease. But he was also doing it with out a weapon.

"Yeah man... It kinda reminds me of whenever Sage fights." Neptune for his part was more impressed then shocked. He hadn't been hanging around team RWBY as much has Sun had so he didn't really have any opinion of his own on the guy. "I gotta say man. I think he might be an adept..."

Jaune stood before a the now smaller group of grunts feeling a bit disappointed. With the way Blake fought and her being a former member of the White fang he had been expecting almost all of them to be decent fighters. But every one of these guys were easy to take down. Maybe a few were able to dodge his first attack but didn't make it past the second. Something he had really missed ever since coming to Beacon was being able to go all out in a fight. Sure Coco was great to spar with but she was still working on utilizing the Turtle Hermit style, so there spars were more about him pointing out what she was doing wrong and helping her fix it rather then a real all out fight.

With a quick reflex he shot his arm up blocking and deflected a green ball of energy that was shot at him from his left. He quickly looked to were it came from and saw a tall muscular man walking out of the nearby warehouse. He wore what seemed to be the standard White Fang outfit though it lacked sleeves. Poking out from underneath his, what seemed to be an Ursa mask were a pair of tusks, more then likely a boar Faunus judging by that. Looking down Jaune saw his hand was smoking slightly. 'So that was a ki blast...'

"General Tous! You didn't-" one of the downed grunts called out to the man as he tried to stand.

"Quite you idiot! I sent you all out here for a simple job. Get rid of a couple of brats while we clear out the warehouse, and what do I come out here to find?" He yelled cutting off the grunt who shrunk back in fear. "You're all out here getting your asses handed to you by some damn human. YOU'RE ALL PATHETIC!" He turned to Jaune who could feel the man's glare from behind the mask. "And you must be one of the nuances... Hm, I have to say that was pretty impressive how you blocked my attack like that." He quickly charged at Jaune an aura of Ki enveloping him. "But that won't happen twice!" He cocked his fist back launching a heavy punch aimed for Jaune's head.

Jaune acted quick flaring up his own ki and raising his arm blocking the incoming strike. The resulting collision caused the ground behind Jaune to crack and explode. He was struggling to keep from being pushed back. Well this guy was no joke, but something felt off about the attack. He just couldn't put his finger on it as the two struggled to gain ground on each other.

"Not bad kid. You got some strength to you too." Tous laughed before throwing a quick upper cut into Jaune's gut. Jaune's eyes widened as the air was forced out of his lungs and he was lifted off the ground. Tous didn't waist time before bringing the next hit, a powerful right sent the blonde flying into a stacked tower of crates not far from them.

"JAUNE!" Sun and Neptune called out after seeing him crash into the stack. It had been so fast. He was near that General guy and the next he was smashing and being covered crates and debris.

Tous gave a dark chuckle as he rub his arm. "Though some strength ain't gonna be enough against me." He smirked looking over to the Haven boys. "Now for the rest of the trash."