"Oh man, that was a great battle last night!" Nora smiled as her childhood friend and definite lover, Ren, was waking up. "We beat up that zombie monster dude! Shame we still must do that entrance exam. I mean, we've proven ourselves! Everyone else either ran away or got killed."
"Yeah, but rules are rules," Ren sighed as he loaded his gun, "besides, there's still the matter of partnering up."
"Oh! Right! We need to make signals while we're in the woods!" Nora began to make sloth noises, as though mocking the fact that we just missed out on a cool and epic fight that would have been the debut of Jaune using the power of the Gashat.
That or I'm just pissed that we missed out a cool and epic fight. Well, we're in the locker room, so let's cut to Ruby and Yang.
"Man, that was some sick fight last night." Ruby grinned as she cuddled with her scythe.
"Yeah, you're becoming the talk of the college." Yang patted Ruby on the back.
"Mmmm…" Ruby then shut the locker.
"This is a good thing, Ruby. With the way you fought, people will definitely want to team up with you for this exam." Yang got some of her things out of the locker.
"But… I dunno. I don't like people dragging me down. You're the only person I would consider teaming up with." Ruby frowned.
"Ruby, I'm not always gonna be around to help you. I may always have your back, but you're gonna have to prepare for when I might not be able to." Yang said.
"That's not gonna happen, though… Right?" Ruby just looked at Yang who gave her a soft smirk.
"I promise." Yang laughed and pulled Ruby into a hug. Daaaaw, well, let's focus on Jaune's scene now.
"Pyrrha, you were amazing." Weiss said as she readied her dust.
"Thanks, but the credit should go to those masked dudes last night." Pyrrha smiled.
"Yeah, but you were able to shield the students and have them run away to safety." Weiss smiled back.
"But I wasn't the one who took down the monster. That goes to-"
"Me! Jaune Arc, nice to meet you." Jaune suddenly slid in between Weiss and Pyrrha, offering his hand to the whitette… That's a word, right? Whitette?
"What? You? You got to be kidding me!" Weiss scoffed.
"I-it's true! Look! I have the Gashat and everything!" Jaune whipped out Mighty Action X. "See!? That's the dude I became!" He pointed to the small pink chibi mascot, Mighty, on the sticker.
"I believe him." Pyrrha said. Jaune cocked his head to Pyrrha.
"Yeah, sure," Jaune rolled his eyes before focusing on Weiss, "so anyways, you wanna join up?
"Uh, you do realize you just brushed off Pyrrha Nikos, four-time champion of the Mistral Regionals and top graduate of Sanctum, right?" Weiss raised an eyebrow.
"… Who?" Jaune asked.
"The cover girl of Pumpkin Pete's Marshmallow Flakes?" Weiss sighed.
"… HOLY SHOOT! THAT'S YOU!? OMIGOSHOMIGOSHOMIGOSH!" Jaune turned around and grabbed Pyrrha's hands, causing her to blush.
"Look, even if I were to believe you were one of those… Masked men… You said you were that pink chubby guy. The guy that just tripped and fell everywhere while that gold monster knight dude did all the work." Weiss said. Jaune just frowned and sighed, though Pyrrha placed her hand on his shoulder.
"Well, you still put in the effort to stop that monster," Pyrrha said, "so if I were to join a team, I can see if I'll join yours." Jaune then turned around.
"Well, spots are filling up, you in?" Jaune cocked a grin.
"Pyrrha! Get this guy off me!" Weiss shouted as Pyrrha lanced Jaune's hoodie. Alright, now let's focus on me- I mean, Midori.
"So, you mean to tell me that people get sick from a deadly virus that came from glitchy video games and that the only people who are able to beat them up use video game cartridges to become mascots to said games?" Blake asked.
"… Well, when you put it like that, it sounds silly…" Midori chuckled.
"Compared to all the other crap we had to put up with, though, I'm willing to believe it." Blake said.
"Oh! Good! Oh, I'm also from another world-"
"That, however, I'm willing to call complete bullcrap for whatever arbitrary reason. I believe video game viruses can kill us faster than Grimm, but parallel universes? That's next grade science stuff." Blake said.
"Erm… Okay." Midori shrugged, not knowing why he is able to simply tell people he's from another world and not have chapters and chapters of angsting over that. "Not that I even care." Suddenly, the PA's went off.
"IT'S TIME FOR THE PIPOPAPO EXAMINATION!" Poppy declared as Midori sighed.
"Well, on with the show." Midori got up and walked to the cliff.
Midori breathed in the fresh air as he stood on the cliff of Beacon that overlooked a large forest. He stood next to nineteen other people, some of whom he already acquainted with.
"In spite of last night's – ahem – mishap, we will be going forward with the examination. There's enough people for this test. The object is to get to the center of the forest, grab a relic, then head back to the cliff. You will be graded based off your efforts," Ozpin cleared his throat, "however, do try and not to get yourselves killed. Most people barely make the landing."
"Pipopapoor Gretchen…" Poppy faked a sad face, then looked at the group. "WELP! TIME TO FLY!" Everyone began to get onto the launch pads, including Jaune and Midori.
"Okay, this is gonna be a huge problem…" Jaune began to hyper ventilate.
"We fought a zombie monster last night. This is literally a stroll in the woods!" Midori said.
"Oh, by the way, the forest is filled with deadly Grimm, so good luck with that," Ozpin smirked as Midori and Jaune both gulped, "and one more thing: the first person you make eye contact upon landing with will be your partner for the next four years."
"WELP!" Both Jaune and Midori said as the launchpads went off. "SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!" They shouted as they got launched into the woods.
SEE YOU NEXT GAME!
