Early in the morning, as the sun starts to rise on a new day, Reginald is happily laying in his bed asleep in his bed, wearing only a pair of silver pajama pants with matching socks. Persi is doing much the same, but making a fair amount of noise as he snores with his mouth wide open as he lays on his back, arms and legs spread out like he's a starfish, revealing the light orange pajama pants he's wearing with his matching tank-top. Sapphire, however, has her head buried under her pillows, trying to hide her ears from Persi's monstrous snoring. She's wearing a simple pair of blue shorts with a matching t-shirt with a black wing logo on the back of it.
Suddenly, their slumber is ripped away from them as an alarm goes off in their room. Persi jumps up at the sudden noise and looks around the room in a panic, asking, "What the hell is making all that noise!?"
He finally finds the answer when he hears a muffled groan as Sapphire reaches over to her scroll and slams her fist on it, calming the alarm. She slowly sits up, holding her head as she lets out a pain-filled groan. As her pillow falls on the floor, Persi is horrified to see her hair is a complete mess, causing him to stare at her in complete terror.
When their eyes meet, she glares at him before grunting, "What the hell are you looking at?" He just points to her hair and as she turns to the nearby full body mirror, she begins to ask, "What? Is something on my-", and stops right when she sees her hair in a complete knotted mess. She lets out a tired sigh and reluctantly asks herself, "Again? Really?", before getting out of bed and walking over to the mirror with a brush. "I knew I shouldn't have drank that much last night. Damn you Yang!", she growls under her breath as she starts brushing out the knots in her hair.
Persi and Sapphire are both surprised when they hear Ash say, "That was definitely a mistake." They both turn their gaze to see him sitting on his bed with the blankets and pillows seeming untouched in a meditative state with his legs crossed and his eyes closed. He opens his eyes to glance at Sapphire before saying, "You came back last night beyond drunk and passed out face first into your bed." He's wearing his usual outfit, though he isn't wearing a shirt, which reveals his entire body is wrapped in a grey gauze from head to toe.
As Sapphire finishes brushing out the last of the knots in her hair, she runs her fingers through her hair, checking for the slightest inconsistency before finally being satisfied with the end result. The three are then distracted by the sound of tossing and turning from across the room. They all glance over to see Reginald is still sound asleep throughout their entire conversation and her alarm going off. He's covered in his warm blankets, sleeping happily in his bed as the others glare over at him.
Persi facepalms before saying, "This guy... How is he still asleep after that annoying alarm?", before Sapphire just rolls her eye and heads to one of the side doors in the room.
As she holds her aching head, she tells them, "I'm grabbing something to kill this hangover. We still have a few things we need to do, so why don't you guys wake up Sleeping Beauty?"
When she goes through the door, she sees a decent sized kitchen with a dinner table in the middle with eight chairs, two on each side. Yang is sitting at one of those chairs in her tank-top and shorts, downing a glass of strange green goo before slamming the glass down next to another glass, which is full of the goo.
"Ehh, this stuff is gross!", Yang says to herself as she shudders from the aftertaste. Sapphire lets out a slight chuckle at Yang's dismay, causing the blonde to grin up at her before saying, "It's your turn now, Sapphire." Yang hands the girl her glass, causing the goo to slosh around a little, before saying, "Go on, drink up~"
Sapphire sheepishly takes the cup into her hands, trembling as she looks down at the strange green goo in the glass before letting out a loud gulp. "What? Is the great Sapphire Cobolt trembling? You don't fear Grimm, but you're afraid of Uncle Qrow's 'special remedy'?", Yang jokingly asks with a wink.
Through the horrid smell, Sapphire manages to down half the glass in one quick go, but before she can finish the rest, she hears Persi shout, "Wakie wakie, eggs and WAKE THE FUCK UP!"
Yang begins to ask, "Is that your-", before hearing a loud crash from the other room. The two girls look to each other before rushing into SAPR's room to see Reginald laying on the ground with his bed flipped over on him.
"What the hell was that for!?", Reginald exclaims from under the flipped over bed as he shakes his fist at Persi.
Ash, still sitting calmly on his bed in the same position as he was before, simply says, "You didn't wake up when he called your name or when he tried to shake you awake. You're quite the heavy sleeper, Reginald."
"If you woulda just woken up the first time, I wouldn't've had to flip your bed! Now get up already! We got shit ta do!", Persi nags, causing Reginald to let out a loud groan.
Yang just chuckles at this before saying, "At least we aren't the only ones with a heavy sleeper on our team. We still haven't been able to wake up Weiss. Every time Ruby tries to nudge her awake, she shoves her away. I think she thinks Ruby is one of her butlers trying to wake her up!" She waves them off before saying, "Welp, I'll see ya guys later at class. Ruby wants to remodel the room a bit after we get Weiss up, so if you hear some odd noises, it's probably that.", and leaving the room through the door to the kitchen.
Reginald, still laying on the ground, raises a finger and asks, "Why is that big boobed babe in our kitchen? I'm not mad, I'm just curious."
"That's one of neighbors from Team RWBY, and my childhood friend, Yang Xiao Long. She's more than a hand full, so I wouldn't try my luck with her if I were you.", Sapphire explains, causing Reginald to chuckle. "I guess you don't know my kind of luck then.", he replies with a cheeky grin as he looks over at the door, plotting something. She glares over at him before he makes the quip, "But she's definitely more than a hand full. Am I right, Persi?" He looks to his partner and holds his hand up for a high five, which he responds with a slap to the back of the head.
"Stop being an idiot and get up already! We have shit ta do!", Persi growls, scolding the boy as he lifts the bed off of him.
"Wait, what exactly do we have to do? We don't have classes until nine.", Reginald asks, causing Persi to pause.
Persi glances over to Sapphire and curiously asks, "Actually, what did we have ta do?"
"Perhaps we should get to know one another? We are on a team together after all, no?", Ash suggests as he uncrosses his legs and stands up from his bed.
Sapphire snaps her fingers and says, "That's a great place to start. Let's start with that." She goes to her bed then pulls a case out from under it, laying it down on the bed before opening it. Inside they see her Azure Drakes in their sheaths, which are all connected by a long belt that goes around her waist. As she draws one of the blades, she holds the blade up to them and says, "My name's Sapphire Cobolt. These are my Azure Drakes, designed them myself."
Reginald snickers to himself and sarcastically asks, "What is this, show and tell?"
Ash follows suit and pulls his blade out from under his pillow before pointing the weapon, sheath and all, toward the tip of her blade, holding the weapon by its sheath and meeting the tip of her blade with the blade's pommel. "Ash Ghent. This is Dragoon. It may not be as fancy as your weapons or use Dust, but it's more than enough for me.", Ash says as he holds his weapon against hers.
Persi does the same as he reaches under his bed and grabs his axe, holding the tip of the blade against the tips of their weapons. "Persi Pumpkin, and this fine piece of work goes by The Judge, a battle axe that can turn into a pump-action shotgun for mid to long range combat!", Persi explains as their weapons meet.
Reginald lets out a laugh and says, "This is beyond dumb...", but this only earns him a slight glare from his team-mates. He lets out a reluctant sigh before reaching into his pockets and pulling out his weapons, his pair of gloves. As he puts them on, he reluctantly explains, "Name's Reginald, Reginald Wolfe. And these are Silver Lining. With these, I can manipulate the wires in the backs of each of them like extensions of my body. They can also be combined with the Dust in the cylinders on the back to give them different effects." He then looks at the conglomerate of weapons and asks, "So, what do I do? Do I just...", before making a fist with his right hand and placing it with the weapons, almost fist bumping them.
Sapphire lets out a slight sigh before muttering, "Good enough..." "Whether we like it or not, we're team-mates now. We're Team SAPR. Since we're stuck with each other, we might as well try our best to get through these coming years in one piece.", Sapphire suggests to them, earning a nod from each of them.
As she lowers her weapon, the others do the same and Persi asks, "Okay, what now?"
"Well, we need to get a head start on our strategies, so while we're getting changed, we'll have to figure out what our roles will be.", Sapphire explains as she grabs a pair of folded clothes from the nearby dresser. She walks over to the bathroom while saying, "I'll change in the bathroom, but I should be able to hear you guys from in there." As she opens the door outward, she looks back at her team and says, "Go on, I'll be right in here.", before walking inside and locking the door as it closes behind her.
The boys all look to one another before Persi says, "Well, I guess I should be the damage of the team then?"
"Why?", Ash bluntly asks him as Reginald sneaks up to the bathroom door.
"Well, my Semblance allows me to get stronger with my emotions, so if I'm pushed hard enough I can do some serious damage.", Persi explains as he grabs his clothes from his bag and starts to get dressed.
Ash starts to get ready as well as he says, "That would make sense. I'm not sure what I should be..."
"You'll be our hit-and-run fighter, Ash. Based on what I saw yesterday, your fighting style suits it almost perfectly.", Sapphire suggests through the door as she continues to get dressed.
Once the two boys finish getting dressed, they look over to the bathroom door to see Reginald standing next to it, looking at them. He puts his finger to his lips before going to peek through the keyhole, but he's met with a doorknob to the face as Sapphire swings the door open, as she's already finished equipping her blue combat outfit.
She looks down at the boy as he lays on the floor in pain before she says, "Honestly, that was too easy to predict, Reginald. If you wanna sneak a peek at me naked, you'll have to try a lot harder than that."
The boy just snickers to himself before saying, "I guess I'll just need to try a little harder next time, huh?" He rolls over to his bed before grabbing his briefcase and opening it to reveal his usual uniforms inside.
"I think I saw some bowls and stuff in the kitchen, so maybe they gave us some food to start with too. We'll start breakfast while you get changed.", Sapphire explains as she walks to the kitchen. As Ash and Persi follow her, Reginald gives her a salute before sarcastically replying with, "Ai ai, Captain!"
When they get into the kitchen, Sapphire searches through the fridge as she points to the cupboards and suggest, "You guys check what supplies we have. I'll see what we got in here." The two simply nod before going to the cupboards, Persi taking the higher up ones as Ash takes the ones on the ground.
Persi opens one and finds a few boxes of cheap cereal and oat meal, which he pulls out and puts on the table while saying, "Well, at least they got us something."
Sapphire responds by adding, "We got some milk in here too. We might be able to have some cereal. You find anything over there, Ash?"
Ash opens another one of his cupboards and finds only cans, responding with, "It seems like this one's full of cans. I think they have vegetables and fruits in them."
As he closes the cupboard, they hear someone shout, "Wait! Don't pull tha-", before hearing a loud crash. The three all look to each other before Ash looks back to the cupboard he just closed.
"Was that...Yang..?", Sapphire asks with a raised eyebrow as they all turn to the cupboard door. He opens it oncemore to find a head stuck through the wall. Unsurprisingly, it's Yang, who's still spitting out dust from the drywall.
"Eww, I don't know which tastes worse, Qrow's concoction, or this drywall. Bleh!", she growls to herself before realizing that she's been found. She lets out a slight chuckle before saying, "Hey guys...CAN I get a hand here? It looks like I got a bit AHEAD of myself." Ash only gives her a blank stare as Sapphire lets out a loud groan of disapproval. "Come on Sapphire, that was a good one!", Yang says with a grin on her face.
Ruby and Blake come rushing into the kitchen, dressed in their combat uniforms, as Ruby shouts, "Yang! Did you find any cookies down there!?"
"Ruby, your sister just took a whole bed frame to the face and went head-first through the wall and you're worried about cookies?", Weiss furiously growls as she walks into the kitchen as well.
Ruby holds her stomach and replies with, "But I'm sooooooo hungry!"
"Shouldn't we be more worried about getting expelled for vandalism?", Blake suggests with a worried look on her face before the three RWBY girls look to each other then to the members of SAPR.
Sapphire simply facepalms before saying, "Come on, let's get her out of there. Then we'll figure something out about hiding the hole."
"That's my home girl!", Yang happily shouts with a smile.
Sapphire looks to Ash and asks, "Ash, you think you can cut a hole in the wall for Yang's fat head to fit through?"
"Hey! My head isn't fat! I just have a big brain!", Yang growls in retaliation.
Ash puts his head into the cupboard to get a better look at the wall before saying, "The wall can't be too thick. I think I should be able to cut through it with little trouble."
Sapphire nods her head before saying, "Do it.", giving Ash the green light.
He uses one hand to lift up Yang's head a bit before saying, "Try to stay still. If you move too much, I'll end up slicing your aura or possibly break it."
With one hand cupped behind her head, lifting it gently, he points to the wall with his other hand and small knives made from his aura appear out of nowhere and starts slicing into the wall. The blades are only a few centimeters from the girl's neck, which causes the blonde to look up at Ash with a hint of worry as she starts to shake a bit with fear.
"You're shaking.", Ash points out, causing the blonde to say, "You'd shake too if some guy was holding your head with knives to your throat! Just get me outta here already!" As the blades suddenly disappear, he flicks the drywall with his free hand, causing it to fall out, making a perfect hole for her head to fit through.
"The hole is finished. Did someone want to pull her out?", Ash says as he pops his head out of the cupboard.
Ruby, Blake and Weiss look too each other before looking to Persi. Sapphire lets out another sigh before saying, "Fine, come on Persi. I'll help you pull her out from the other side. Ash, when I say 'Go' you start pushing."
As Sapphire and Persi go into the next room, Ruby goes over to Ash's side and says into the cupboard, "Don't worry Yang, you'll be out of there in no time!"
Yang suddenly lets out a quick yelp before Ruby panics and asks, "What happened!? Are you alright, Yang!?"
She quickly nods with a slight grin before saying, "Yeah, they just grabbed my legs so suddenly is all! Perfectly fine!"
With that, Sapphire says, "We're ready on our side, Ash. Tell us when you're ready and I'll count down.", and Ash starts to move into position.
He crawls halfway into the cupboard and places his hands on Yang's head before saying, "I think I'm ready."
"Hey, you better be gentle!", Yang exclaims before Sapphire says, "Alright, counting down!"
"Three.", Sapphire starts as Yang says, "Hey, are you listening to me?" Sapphire seems to ignore her, continuing to count as she says, "Two."
"I swear if I lose a single hair, I'm kicking someone's ass! You hear me!?", Yang shouts before Sapphire says, "One!"
And as soon as Sapphire shouts, "GO!", Ash pushes Yang's head toward the hole as Sapphire and Persi pull her to the other side. In just a second, she's back in her room, looking up at Sapphire and Persi with a grin on her face.
"You could say that was a HAIRY situation...eh? Eh?", Yang jokingly says, which earns a slight chuckle from Sapphire. She holds a generous hand out to Yang, and as she quickly takes it, Sapphire pulls her up to her feet. "Thanks for the save guys.", Yang says as Ash and the rest of her team comes walking into the room.
"Yeah, but what are we going to do about the hole in the wall?", Blake bluntly asks with a slight frown on her face.
Weiss looks the the hole in the wall and says, "I think I have something for that." She goes to the boxes she has stacked up in the corner of the room before picking up a thin, yet tall box and laying down on her bed. When she opens it, they see it's a standing mirror as she says, "This should fit over that hole quite nicely. And none of the Professors will be curious about it. Such an average thing will do perfectly, don't you think?"
Ruby and Blake both look to each other and nod before going over to the mirror and placing it in front of the hole, hiding it completely. Sapphire lets out a sigh of relief before saying, "Great, now we need to get some breakfast. Don't want to be starving through our classes today, right? I just wish we had something other than oat meal and Dusty O's."
Reginald walks into the room and says, "Hey guys, look what I found!" His team looks over to them to see him with a plate full of pancakes!
"W-what!? Where did you get those!?", Persi asks in disbelief, causing Reginald to grin.
"The black haired guy across the hall made them. He and his team wanted to be friendly and made these for us. Pretty cool, right?", he explains as he points across the hall with one hand while holding the plate of delicious pancakes in the other.
They suddenly hear a knock on team RWBY's door and when Ruby opens the door, they see Ren standing there with Nora next to him as he holds out a plate full of pancakes. "Greetings, Team RWBY. We from Team JNPR would like to extend an olive branch to our fellow first years. Please accept these pancakes as a show of good faith. Let's get along well through our years at Beacon.", Ren says to the team as he holds the plate out for Ruby to take.
Ruby takes the plate from him, but doesn't know what to say and stumbles to form her words, only saying, "Umm, uh.. thank you..?"
Weiss slaps the back of Ruby's head before scolding the young girl as she growls, "Ruby, they're giving us a gift. Be more grateful!" Weiss does a curtsy before saying, "We of Team RWBY are thankful for your gift and look forward to working with you as well, Team JNPR."
Nora quickly grabs Ren's arm and says, "REN! We gotta hurry! Our pancakes are gonna get cold! Cold pancakes are SAD PANCAKES!", before dragging him back to their room.
Ruby looks down at the pancakes and pumps her fist with a grin. "Yes! Now we don't have to eat oat meal! Yang, go see if we have syrup!", Ruby exclaims as she shuts the door and turns to take the pancakes into the kitchen.
As they all finish their pancakes in the kitchen, they pile their dishes all together in the center of the table. With a burp, Ruby happily rubs her belly before saying, "That has to be the best breakfast I've had in weeks!"
Yang finishes her glass of orange juice before wiping her face and adding, "Yeah, Dad can't make food that good! It's good to be treated to a good meal every now and then~"
Persi leans back in his chair and says, "That was pretty good. Is that Ren guy a professional cook or something?" His glance wanders to a white clock on the wall and his eyes widen in fear before he quickly stands up, gaining everyone's attention. "Shit! We need to get moving, now!", Persi exclaims as he starts for the door to his team's room.
"What are you-", Sapphire begins to ask before turning to see the clock. "8:55!?", she exclaims in disbelief as she shoots up from her seat, causing everyone to turn to see the time in horror.
"We're gonna be late for class!", Weiss exclaims before rushing off into her team's room. Her team-mates follow quick behind her before the rest of Team SAPR rush into their room, grabbing their weapons before rushing out the front door to their room.
They speed through the hallways and around the school grounds before finally coming to a classroom, sitting down together in a row of seats in front of team RWBY.
At the front of the classroom is a pudgy, wise old man with grey hair and a majestic mustache. "Ah, Team RWBY, Team SAPR! So you've finally arrived! I was worried that you perhaps got lost, but it seems like you've finally made your way here to me! Now I can finally start my lecture, but first, I'd like to introduce myself!", the professor notes before walking up to the blackboard and grabbing a piece of white chalk.
As he starts writing on the board, Sapphire glances around to see many posters of Grimm hanging from the walls, seeming to have every variety of Grimm known to man on display. He writes, "Professor Port", on the board before setting down his chalk and turning to his students and saying, "For those of you who do not know, I am Professor Port, and this is Grimm Studies. In this class, you will learn many things that will help in your coming careers as Huntsmen and Huntresses!"
As he walks around his classroom, he goes on with his lecture, saying, "As many of you know by now, there are many theories as to where the creatures of Grimm first came from. Some speculate that they're demons, others believe they're a byproduct of a vengeful God, and a choice few believe that they're aliens from some distant planet. All of these theories, however, lack any basis and are just that, theory. Due to their odd tenancy to disintegrate after a certain amount of time in captivity, we only have a limited amount of data on these creatures." Jaune raises his hand, causing Port to point at him and say, "Yes, boy? What is it?"
"Why would somebody want to capture a Grimm in the first place? They're the most dangerous thing on the planet, right?", Jaune asks, earning an honest nod from his professor.
Port looks to the boy with a pleased glance and replies with, "That is a very good question, Mister Arc. Thank you for bringing that up. Yes, since Grimm are quite dangerous, it seems quite irrational to try and capture one, but there is some reasoning behind it. These include capturing the beast out of a hunter's pride, to show everyone your abilities. Back in my day, this was almost a test of manhood, which I passed with flying colors if I do say so myself. Though that isn't practiced as much in the current era, the more realistic reason to capture one of these creatures is to study its behavior and anatomy, aiming to find each species' weaknesses and whatnot. Again, Mister Arc, an outstanding question."
"Now that you mention it, I captured one of these beast this very morning for this lecture in fact!", Port reveals as he pulls a curtain off of a sealed cage. He taps the cage with his weapon, an odd combination of a blunderbuss and an axe, which causes the beast inside to growl wildly before slamming into the cage, causing it to rattle and shake uncontrollably. This causes most of the students to flinch, which makes Port chuckle to himself. "These creatures tend to only survive in captivity for less than one day before disintegrating into nothing. This gives us very little time to study their kind as thoroughly as we'd like. Though, there is a way to learn about the Grimm in the outside world...", he continues as he keeps a keen eye on his students.
Out of the corner of his eye, he sees Ruby doodling something on her paper, not paying attention to his lecture, but he ignores it, not wanting to disrupt the flow of his first lecture of the semester. As he continues on his lecture, going on about the different species of Grimm, Ruby continues to doodle. Once she's done, she taps on Weiss' shoulder to show her the masterpiece she just finished creating, only earning an annoyed roll of the eyes from the heiress. Ruby only grins at her masterpiece as she holds it up for both Yang and Blake to see, earning a slight chuckle from her sister before suddenly stopping and looking at something behind her.
Ruby, not sure what they're looking at, glances over her shoulder to see Port looking at her drawing. "Do you find my figure amusing, Miss Rose?", he bluntly asks, causing her to nearly jump out of her seat in fear, which causes an uproar of laughter in the room at Ruby's expense.
He leaves Ruby be, seeming pleased with himself and his results, before walking back down the stairs to the main floor to continue his lecture, but not before scolding the girl, saying, "Now, please do pay attention to this part, Miss Rose. It's very important." As he walks over to the cage, he looks up at the clock on his wall while saying, "Almost exactly twenty four hours ago, I captured this very Grimm and locked it inside this cage. So, once it hits the twenty four hour mark-", but stops mid sentence as he uses his axe to cut off the lock to the cage, revealing the Boarbatusk inside. Before it can step out of the cage, however, the beast disintegrates into nothing before everyone's eyes. "-the beast will completely disintegrate.", he finishes as he places his axe on his desk.
Some of the students in the class start clapping and he takes a bow, humbly accepting their praise. "If I could give all of you a single piece of advice to help you through your careers as Huntsmen, it would be timing is everything both in combat and in life. Now, I believe you are dismissed.", he says right before the dismissal bell sounds, and the students all go to their next classes.
Grimm Studies is quickly followed by Hunter Regulation and Law, taught by the Green Blur: Bartholomew Oobleck, and Sparring and Team Building, taught by the Headmaster's second hand: Glynda Goodwitch. Their final class of the day finally rolls around and it's Dust Applications and Study, taught by a Miss Peach, who's running a bit late as the teacher isn't present in the classroom.
As they're waiting for the teacher to arrive, Sapphire asks, "So, anybody know where the teacher is or-", and before she can finish her sentence, there's a sudden explosion on the teaching floor behind the teacher's desk.
As the fans in the ceiling turn on, the smoke clears and they see a woman with slightly tan skin and peach colored hair standing there wearing a white lab coat, protective goggles, and black latex gloves and boot that reach up to her elbows and knees respectively. "Good Morning, students! Welcome to Dust Applications and Study. From this moment forward, I will be your Professor. And who am I, you ask?", she says before pausing dramatically. She quickly throws a few Dust crystals of many colors up into the air before pulling the syringe from her pulled up hair and shooting at the crystals, causing them to explode like miniature fireworks! As they explode, their colorful blasts form a name above her in a pinkish color: 'Peach.' "You may call me Professor Peach! It's nice to meet you all!", the professor says with a smile, as she fixes her hair and pins it in place with her weapon.
Ruby, along with most of the other students are amazed by this feat and clap for her, leading to a cocky smile to come across the professor's face. "Wow, this teacher's so... so awesome! I love this class!", Ruby exclaims in her excitement.
Professor Peach smiles up at the amazed girl before saying, "The fun doesn't end there, Miss Rose! There's even more fun to come!" As soon as she finishes fixing her hair, Professor Peach goes behind her podium and says, "Well, now that the introductions are out of the way..Dust! Dust is the backbone of our society. We use it in weapons, ammunition, machinery, and even some clothing, but these aren't the only uses for Dust. Dust, as you know, doesn't need to be refined to be useful. In fact, you can use it quite easily in its raw form. Just by crushing the crystal in your hand, you can activate its properties, though this can be incredibly dangerous depending on the type of Dust crystal you're using."
This causes Ruby to squint at the teacher suspiciously before sitting straight in her seat with her arms crossed, waiting. She leans over to Yang, who's sitting to her left, and whispers, "I think she doesn't know what fun is..."
This causes Yang to snicker before Weiss shushes them to silence. The Professor notices this, however, and says, "Getting bored already, Miss Rose? Don't worry, the fun part is finally here." She then goes to the nearby closet and pulls out a large box, which she opens in the middle of the room. As she empties its contents, everyone sees it's full of more boxes.
"There should be enough boxes for each team to share, so will each team leader please come down and grab a box and we'll get started with our first experiment of the semester!", she explains as she motions for them to come down and grab a box. As each leader collects their team's respective box, they return to their team's table to open their box, revealing it's full of lab equipment and different kinds of Dust.
"An experiment on the first day? That's definitely quick.", Reginald says to himself as Sapphire and Persi unload the boxes contents.
Professor Peach lets out a giggle before saying, "It's a nice little introduction to the fun we'll be having in this class. Now, go right ahead and start experimenting!"
As Team JNPR gets their station together, Jaune seems confused as to what he should be doing, but Pyrrha helps him by putting down a small beaker and handing him two vials of Dust, one light blue and the other green. When he pours the two in at the same time, Pyrrha quickly closes the beaker with a quark and a small blizzard forms on the inside, amazing Jaune and Nora.
Team SAPR is working with a light bulb and a chunk of yellow Dust. Sapphire connects one end of the wire to the yellow chunk and the other to the end of the light bulb and the bulb lights up instantly. Reginald takes this moment to strike, chipping a small bit of the Dust off and hiding it in his hand before moving over behind Persi, who's messing around with a bowl of crushed black Dust. He quickly crushes the yellow chip in his hand and pokes Persi in the back of the neck, shocking him, which causes the bear to suddenly sit up straight before turning to give Reginald a death glare. Reginald simply grins before rubbing the back of his head, but is surprised when Persi flicks a light blue cloud of crushed Dust at him, which freezes his arm in place, causing the bear to let out a hearty chuckle.
Sapphire lets out a chuckle when she sees Reginald frozen before tapping Ash on his shoulder to show him, but Ash doesn't seem to respond. Instead, he seems lost in thought as he looks down at the red crystal in his hand. She taps his shoulder oncemore, saying, "Hey, Remnant to Ash? You in there, partner?", which brings him back to reality. The boy shakes the cobwebs out of his head before looking to Sapphire with a confused glance. "You alright, Ash? You zoned out there for a second...", she asks him, but he only replies with a quick nod before gently placing the crystal back in the box. With that, she simply goes back to her project, though, she glances back to Ash every now and then to make sure he's not zoning out.
On the other side of the room, Team RWBY is working pretty hard on their projects. Yang and Blake are working with red and black Dust, Weiss is working with blue Dust crystals and a small amount of yellow Dust chips, and Ruby is completely bored out of her mind. Weiss glances over to her partner to notice she's doing nothing for the team before nudging her and saying, "Ruby, why don't you at least make it look like you're doing something. Here, use some of these." She hands the girl the box of remaining Dust crystals and RWBY rummages through it.
Ruby finds a few white crystals and puts them on her upper lip before muttering to herself in her best Professor Port impression, "Miss Rose, you should pay more attention during class. If you don't, you might miss a story about my father smelling like cabbages.", before chuckling to herself. This earns her a slightly raised eyebrow from Weiss and Ruby continues on, saying, "And you Miss Schnee, you're on the way to becoming a great Huntress! Maybe one day you too will smell as cabbagie like my father?"
Weiss lets out a slight snicker, which causes the girl to grin before rummaging through the box of crystals for more props. As she pulls her head from the box, Weiss sees Ruby's hair is full of green Dust crystals and two thin white lens-like crystals cover her eyes. She quickly pulls out a green, cylinder shaped, Dust crystal before pretending to drink from it and saying, "Ah, I do love a nice warm cup of jo in the morning. Or is this tea? Hot cocoa? I can't see through my special white sunglasses. Dreadful, simply dreadful."
This, surprisingly earns another snicker from the Ice Queen, though this time she hides it behind her hand before telling Ruby, "Ruby, stop it! You're going to get us in trouble!" Ruby doesn't take her advice and sees the perfect opportunity to make one last joke. She quickly pulls out a couple half sphere shaped crystals before shoving them down the front of her shirt before starting to pose in her seat.
"Hey Weiss, guess who I am now~", Ruby says with a wink as she pretends to whip the desk with a wire she pulled from the box, causing Weiss to actually laugh. This doesn't end well, however, as when she laughs leans back, and since she's sitting sideways in her seat she runs back first into Yang. Yang just so happens to have just finished making an inferno combination with Blake's help, sealing the blast behind the cork, but Weiss bumping into her causes her to drop the beaker.
As the beaker seems to fall in slow motion, Yang barely manages to say, "Oh fuc-", before there's a small explosion in the room. The room is filled with smoke and dust, blocking everyone's sight until, through the ringing in their ears, they all hear the ceiling fan start up. It sucks out the all of the smoke and dust in the room, revealing a few scorched desks and a generally unharmed team RWBY, though their faces are all covered in dirt and dust.
Yang and Blake are glaring at Weiss as Weiss is glaring at Ruby, who's combat skirt is on fire. She panics and tries frantically to blow it out like a candle, but to no avail. Professor Peach, seeing this, simply uses a handy fire extinguisher to put out the flames on her chest before saying, "I'm sorry, but you four will have to go to the Headmaster's office now..." At this point, her whole team is glaring down Ruby, who simply rubs the nape of her neck and says, "Oops..."
Later during lunch, Team SAPR and Team JNPR are sitting together eating lunch. Persi is eating grilled salmon, Reginald is eating a piece of cake, Sapphire is eating a burger, and Ash isn't eating anything. "You sure you aren't hungry, Ash? The food here's actually good, you know?", Sapphire worriedly asks as she glances over to her partner, but he shakes his head no.
"Come on! There's no point in lying about not being hungry to keep us from seeing your face. You'll have to take that stuff off eventually.", Reginald says with a curious glance.
Ash tilts his head and says, "I don't wear this to hide my face. I have a skin condition."
"Mmhmm, that's what they all say. I'm calling it now, he's super handsome under that toilet paper and he's just trying to avoid being swarmed by girls! Am I right, Ash?", Reginald jokingly replies as he leans closer to the boy, but Ash simply shakes his head no.
Sapphire scolds him though, saying, "Reginald, you don't need to be doing that. If he really has a condition, we should respect that."
Reginald rolls his eyes though and goes on to take another bite of his cake before saying, with his mouth full of cake, "I was only joking. I really don't care what he does, as long as he doesn't get in my way."
Persi goes to say something about his manors, but stops when they hear someone yelps, "Oww!", from behind them.
They all glance over to see what's going on and see that it's Cardin and the rest of Team CRDL bullying a Faunus girl, one who seems to have brown rabbit ears that Cardin is so happily tugging on. "Please, stop!", the bunny begs, but Cardin only pulls harder, saying to his team, "I told ya they were real!"
"Hey, I wonder if she's got a tail!", Russel says, causing Cardin to grin before replying, "There's one way to find out." This causes the girl's eyes to widen as she starts to tug away even harder, desperately trying to escape. Her struggling causes Persi to grind his teeth, while only earning a concerned glance from the rest of his team.
As Cardin continues to torture the poor girl, he goes to feel her butt, but his hands are quickly slapped away. Furious, he thinks, "Who the fuck wants to die!?", before glaring around to see Persi towering over him. "What the hell do you want, freak?", Cardin spits at him, furious that a Faunus would dare touch him.
Persi pulls the girl out of Cardin's grasp and tells him, "Just shut the hell up and leave her alone. It's people like who that piss me off the most." As Persi starts walking her back to his team, he begins saying, "Are you alright? He didn't hurt you too bad did h-", before being cut off by a sudden shattering of glass. This causes the noisy cafeteria to go dead silent as pieces of glass hit the ground. Sapphire and the rest of her team are surprised to see Cardin standing up from his seat, having just chucked a plate full of food at the back of Persi's head. Persi stops everything he's doing, letting go of the girl and placing one hand on a nearby vending machine before placing the other on the back of his head. As he pulls his hand back to look, he sees his hand is now coated in a red liquid. He licks the liquid off his fingers and to his surprise, it's blood!
"Did you just aim for my head just now?", Persi asks him without any emotion or even turning to Cardin.
Cardin just smirks before saying, "Whatcha gonna do about, furball?"
As blood starts to drip down the back of Persi's head, he activates his aura and the wound starts to heal as he asks, "Ya know ya could kill someone by hitting a vital spot in their head, right? Since ya probably know that, then ya were trying to kill me, right?" This causes Cardin's grin to fade before turning into a anger-filled scowl. Persi turns around, his aura glowing a bright orange as he shouts, "Then ya can't really complain no matter what I do ta ya, RIGHT!?"
Cardin's eyes widen as Persi, with one hand, lifts up the vending machine with one arm and chucks it at him! Cardin barely manages to dodge out of the way before Persi rushes him, his aura flaring as he lets out a bloody roar. He throws a punch at the bully, but it's blocked by Russel and Dove, who've drawn their weapons at the very last second to block the bear's onslaught.
"Get the hell outta my way!", Persi roars as he grabs the table CRDL was eating at and uses it to knock the two across the room, sending Dove through a window and Russel head first into a wall, knocking him out cold. Cardin draws his weapon, a mace like weapon, before swinging it at Persi. Persi, still full of uncontrollable rage, swings the table to meet his attack, but it's cut into pieces when Sky rushes by with his halberd as Cardin swings his mace down at the bear!
Before Cardin's weapon can hit Persi, however, it's stopped! Cardin furiously growls, "You wanna put your flee-bag in a cage?", as he glares at Sapphire, who's blocked his attack with her three sword style.
"It's cute how you think you have some sort of advantage, but you don't!", they hear Reginald say as Sky goes flying. Cardin glares over to see Reginald with his wires whirling around him like an impenetrable barrier. "It seems you need to learn your place: The Garbage!", Reginald shouts as he rushes in for an attack, but Cardin jumps back into the air, dodging his attack. Reginald anticipated this however, and as Cardin is stuck helplessly in the air, he shouts, "Now mummy boy!"
Cardin's eyes widen as he watches Ash leap up into the air and springboard off of Sky's back to get enough height to reach him. His expression quickly turns into a smug grin as he says, "Nice try, but no." With a bright flash, Ash is pushed back, but lands on his feet next to his team-mates. They all look up and as the flashing light dies down, they see the unbelievable. Cardin...is flying! He has wings made of his aura sprouting from his back, keeping him suspended in the air!
"You think you can take me on!? I'll completely obliterate you idiots here and now!", Cardin exclaims before his wings reel back and with one swift movement, he sends feather like blades made of his aura flying toward them!
"Move!", Sapphire shouts and they all dodge the attack, splitting up to keep him on his toes before all attacking at once.
"Attacking from different angles? Nice try, but still useless!", Cardin pridefully exclaims as he releases a powerful nova blast, pushing everyone and everything back. He starts to laugh uncontrollably as he watches all of Team SAPR getting sent flying by his nova blast. He's suddenly met by a table flying straight for him, which he slaps out of the air with his mace before looking for where the thing came from.
He sees Persi's still standing, but barely, before grinning at the wobbling bear below him. As he aims the top of his mace at Persi, cylinders inside the weapon begin to turn and a small flame begins to burn at the end of his weapon. "I guess I'll just have to get rid of this roadkill myself then.", he says before going to fire his weapon. Right before he can pull the trigger, his wings suddenly disappear and he's quickly slammed to the ground with an unbelievable amount of force, shattering his aura in one hit!
"W-who the-", he begins to mutter to himself before managing to lift his head just enough to see the bunny girl he was bullying standing there with Professor Goodwitch and Professor Oobleck. Oobleck has removed his glasses and is focusing his concentration on all members of Team CRDL and SAPR.
Dove is sitting unconscious at Glynda's feet as she says, "You all are in serious trouble."
"Yes, you all will be immediately heading to the Headmaster's office, immediately.", Oobleck adds in a more serious tone than usual before taking a sip from his thermos.
As Glynda and Oobleck arrive at the door to Ozpin's office, they see Team RWBY still waiting there. Oobleck holds the door to waiting room open and Glynda steps aside and motions for someone to come through, causing RWBY to all raise their eyebrows in confusion. They're beyond shocked to see both Team CRDL and Team SAPR walking in with Glynda taking their weapons from them as they enter the room.
"You four sit over there, and the rest of you, here. And don't you dare move! You're all in serious trouble when-", Glynda begins to scold them as she places teams SAPR and CRDL on opposite sides of the room before a familiar voice asks, "Oh, someone's already getting on your nerves, Miss Goodwitch?"
She turns to the doorway and scolds them, saying, "Three teams on the first day! That's three times the amount of problems we had last semester!"
As the figure walks through the doorway, the students all see it's Ozpin as he takes a sip from his coffee mug. He looks through the faces in his waiting room and sternly says, "I'll speak with you all in my office. All of you.", before heading into his office.