Jaune was down, his shield discarded and his sword useless. His opponent, Cardin Winchester, stood over him. "Jauney-Boy, do you know what time it is?"

Jaune hazarded a guess. "Adventure time?"

Cardin raised his mace. "It's Goofy time!"

"No Dad! No!"

"Alright, enough with the jokes." The room brightened up, revealing that this was a training stage. Glynda looked over her reports even though the two displays at the corner showed that Cardin had a full green bar and Jaune had a depleted red bar. "Jaune, what the hell? Cardin is the kind of guy that looks like a mook. If our animation budget was lower, he would be demoted to one of these shadowy people."

"Hey!" Cardin heard that.

"Onto a different matter, there's a tournament coming up. Yes, it's going to be run by Monty, but people want to see an actual fight, even if it's one-sided." Glynda glared at Jaune. "So I recommend you actually train for it."

Obviously, Jaune was not happy with this.


"Fumofuu!" Nora muttered, her face covering the whole screen.


"What are you doing?" Ren asked as Team RWBY and JNPR ate breakfast together.

"I'm trying to do that one anime intermission thingy." Nora said.

Ren was tempted to shrug. "I'm sure people have forgotten about it already."

Jaune did not seem interested in the conversation. In fact, he was not interested in breakfast. Naturally, Pyrrha was concerned. "Jaune, are you okay?"

"Uh, yeah, nothing's bothering me." Jaune still looked bothered.

"Yeah right. You got your ass kicked by that guy." Ruby pointed out a commotion at another table. It seems like Cardin Winchester and his team were picking on a bunny girl.

"Yeah, someone should stop his bullying." Jaune looked around, seeing that the girls were staring at him. "Wait, me? You sure that's a good idea?"

"Don't worry, it's not like he can get away with things."


Cardin chops Jaune's book out of his hands.


Cardin kicks Jaune in his little Jaune.


Cardin stuffs Jaune in a locker.


Cardin presses a button on Jaune's sheath, making it expand and wedge itself in the doorway.

"You were wrong!" Jaune whined as he falled to get through his shield. "So very, very wrong!"


Jaune looked around. "...At least he's not picking on the bunny anymore."

Blake took one look at him. "Fail."

"Cheer up!" Yang said. "This is your 'arc', Arc. I bet by the end of all this, Cardin will actually respect you."

Cardin grinned as he looked over at their table.

"Uh, no." Jaune got up and left. "I think I'll wait until he bullies someone else."

Cardin continues to smile at him.