Ruby and Yang were wandering around Beacon, getting the lay of the academy as it were, when they ran across Summer in the courtyard. Naturally they picked up speed to catch her, Ruby faster than Yang, and waved at her to catch her attention.

"Hey Summer," Ruby said, stopping next to Summer once she had gotten to her with Yang not too far behind, "you look like you're busy today."

"Eh, more or less," Summer said with a shrug, "I just finished feeding the chickens out back, so I'm just trying to figure out what to do for the rest of the day."

"I'm sorry, chickens?" Yang asked, visibly confused.

"Yeah, we got a big chicken coop out back."

"Why?"

"I don't know, but it's relaxing to feed them. You should try it sometime."

"Maybe some other time," Ruby said before putting her hand together and pointing at Summer, "So, since you got some free time, do you mind showing us your room?"

"You're being pretty pushy on that Ruby. Do you really want to see it that bad?"

"Yeah even I think that's a little weird," Yang said and crossed her arms, "what's the deal there?"

"There's no 'deal', I just want to see her room!" Ruby said and thought to herself, 'And get a good look at my enemies living situation, maybe discover a weakness or two, but she doesn't need to know that.' "So what do you say Summer? Please?"

"Well, I do have to go to my room to get something anyway." Summer rubbed her chin in thought before shrugging, "Eh, I suppose there's no harm in showing you my room for a bit. Just don't get too excited and don't touch anything. I might be kind, but that doesn't mean my team will be. Understand?"

"Yes ma'am!" Ruby and Yang said and saluted Summer. She shook her head and silently led them through the campus to her dorm room. When they got inside they ran across the blonde with the footie pajamas (Ruby tried hard not to cringe at the sight of him, but only succeeded in fighting it down to an eye twitch) and a girl with red hair. The boy shouted to try and get Summer's attention, but only got a polite wave from Summer as she continued on.

"Kinda reminds me of someone else huh?" Yang asked looking back to take in the silent misery from the pair while the girl tried to comfort the boy.

"Shush," Ruby replied even if she silently agreed. Soon the trio were at STRQ's dorm where Summer unlocked the door and walked inside with Ruby and Yang hanging back to peek through the doorway and spotted Qrow laying on a bed.

"Hey Qrow, don't mind me grabbing my weapons," Summer said as she gave Qrow a wave, who lazily waved back before turning the page of a comic he was reading. "Which comic is that by the way?"

"I don't know, one of your old ones. I'm just enjoying my day off," he replied.

"I get that feeling. You should at least say hi to the guests who wouldn't leave me alone by the way." With that Summer returned to looking for her weapons while Qrow looked up and promptly did a double take when he saw Ruby and Yang. The former dashed over to inspect the makeshift bunk bed while the latter took in the room as a whole with her hands on her hips.

"What the fuck?" Qrow said as he closed the comic and got up to his feet.

"Swear jar," Summer said, holding York up and started tying it to her belt.

"You're not seeing this!?" Qrow nearly shouted and pointed at Ruby, "she looks just like you, if a little younger!" He then pointed at Yang and added, "And do I even need to point her out!? Even you should see it!" Summer looked back at Ruby and Yang, who looked back at her, and finished tying her sword to her belt and moved it behind her back.

"You know, I actually did notice that," Summer said crossing her arms, "I just thought they were fangirls or something."

"What? How does that make any sense?"

"I noticed that too," Ruby said, "I guess good style is universal." Ruby then shrugged and turned back to the bunk bed and asked, "So is this something you came up with yourself Summer?"

"Yeah, we had too much crap and not enough space. I got the top bunk because I'm the leader." Summer polished her knuckles on her dress proudly before she turned and knelt to dig through a dresser. "Now where did I put Soleil?"

"I never thought about this," Ruby said, utterly enraptured by the bunk bed and slowly ran a hand up and down one of the posts. "I wonder if we could do this?"

"Stop touching things," Summer chided without looking back which caused Ruby to jerk her hands away and hold them straight over her head. "Damn, where is it?"

"Characters, am I right?" Yang asked as she smiled at Qrow, who only now managed to tear his eyes off the two cloaked girls and looked at Yang as she moved closer to him and held her hand out. "So you're Qrow huh? Ruby's heard nothing but good things about you from Summer. Nice to meet you."

"Er, yeah. Nice to meet you too," Qrow said and shook Yang's hand, flinching just slightly at the blonde's grip, and shook his hand when the handshake was done. "God you got a grip! You could give Tai a run for his money."

"I would hope so. I pride myself in my strength, second only to my hair." Yang smirked and Qrow rolled his eyes just as Summer pounded her fists on the dresser top and stood up.

"Qrow, did you hide my dagger!?" Summer shouted looking at Qrow.

"No. Why would I do that?" Qrow replied.

"Because everyone touches my stuff. If you didn't hide it, then where is it?"

"I don't know, I don't keep track of your stuff. I have a hard enough time keeping track of my own belongings."

"Ooh, what's in this closet?" Ruby asked as she approached a closet next to the bunk bed.

"Some of my old weapons, don't touch it," Summer answered and shook her head, "Well maybe one of our children hid it. Where's Rae and Tai?"

"You think I would know? Training maybe, I haven't seen them since breakfast." Qrow spotted Ruby starting to open the closet and looked to watch her fully.

"Fine then, I'll just call Rae and ask-"

"OH NO!" Ruby suddenly shouted followed by a large crash as several weapons fell out of the closet on top of her. Yang looked at where Ruby was lying while Summer simply sighed and gave the flattest look at the girl while Qrow shook his head.

"I told you not to touch it," she said and moved to the pile with Yang. There she grabbed the shaft of a halberd and lifted it up to lift enough of the pile off Ruby so Yang could pull her out and pick her back up to her feet. Ruby's head rolled around dazedly until she shook it, blinked a couple of times, and gave a V sign.

"Don't worry, I'm A-Okay!" she said and shook off Yang's hands. She started rubbing the back of her head and stuck her tongue out slightly. "All those weapons really caught me off guard."

"I told you not to touch anything!" Summer scolded, Ruby flinching back as the bigger girl advanced on her and waved a finger in her face, "As you can well see, I have a lot of weapons in there! Very pointy weapons! You're lucky you weren't hurt in that!"

"It would take more than that to hurt me," Ruby whispered looking off to the side.

"I don't care!"

"You only have yourself to blame for this Summer," Qrow said, moving past the girls to tap a shoe against the weapons. "Someone was bound to get hurt like this the way you hoard this crap."

"Every one of those weapons are an extension of my soul Qrow!" Summer said pointing at the pile, "I can't just get rid of them!" Summer then did a double take at the pile and perked up as she walked over to it. She knelt down and picked up a pair of chained kusarigama and smiled widely. "Oh hey, I was wondering where these two had gone off to!"

"I don't think I've seen those before. Where did those come from?"

"I think I made these when I was… 13 I think?" Summer answered as she looked over the weapons. "I can't remember why I passed on them though."

"Kusarigama huh? You don't look the type to be into that Summer," Yang said as she tapped the blade of one of the kama.

"Oh, interested huh? Well check this out!" Summer pressed a switch on both of them that transformed them into a pair of submachine guns that she then aimed away from the group horizontally on top of one another. Ruby and Yang let out a 'Ooh' at the sight and Summer grinned wider as she started spinning one around on a finger while resting the other on her hip.

"These babies can transform into submachine guns. 9mm with an option of fully automatic or three round burst, and able to chamber any kind of Dust round. Fire and Ice at the same time was a great idea of mine. I even rigged it so they can fire while I'm swinging it around on the chain."

"Wow, that's innovative!" Ruby said.

"And dangerous as hell," Qrow added, shaking his head and stepping back when Summer started spinning one of the weapons around on the chain, Ruby and Yang doing the same. "Maybe that's why you shelved it?"

"No, I remember getting good enough at the chain shooting that it wasn't much of a problem. No, it was something-" the spinning weapon took that moment to clip the side of Summer's bed, sending it careening in a way that it started wrapping the chain around Summer. She gave a shriek of surprise and fell over when the chain was done tying her up and she rolled onto her back to see Qrow, Ruby, and Yang looking down on her. "I think I just remembered why I shelved them."

"Yeah, I can tell. Let me help you," Qrow said as he started to help untie Summer from her linked bondage.

"Those aside, there are a lot of weapons in here," Ruby said as she picked up a long-pole axe from the pile. "You must fight around a lot huh?"

"It did take me a while to pick a style I was comfortable with, yes," Summer said as Qrow got her arms free and she pushed herself back onto her feet. "Even then I still try to keep my skills sharp on those fronts." Qrow handed her the kusarigama and Summer put them on the dresser near the window and sighed. "And there's one style that I want to learn, but that somebody won't let me."

"I'm not teaching you scythe combat," Qrow said forcefully.

"Scythe?" Ruby asked.

"And why not?" Summer asked, crossing her arms, "the way you swing Harbinger around is so cool and effective! It shouldn't take-"

"Wanting to learn a weapon style because it's 'cool' is really dumb, especially with scythes. Most people who try to learn end up either cutting off a limb or their heads. So the answer is no."

"I fight with a scythe," Ruby said casually and crossed her arms behind her head, "It's not that hard when you get used to it. It did take a while though."

"…How do you…?"

"Self-taught."

"Figures."

"Well there you go," Summer said with a smirk, "if someone as young as Ruby can learn to fight with a scythe then so can I."

"I won't believe that until I see it, and the answer is still no in any case!"

"Fine then, we'll settle this the usual way," Summer said as she turned on her feet and walked to their holo-tv. "A set to 10 fair?"

"Just because you can beat Raven consistently doesn't mean you'll beat me." Qrow shook his head and pulled out his scroll, "but sure, you're on."

"We'll definitely have a lot of fun here Ruby," Yang said as she moved to sit on one of the beds.

"Oh yeah," Ruby agreed with a nod and added, "hey can we get in on this when you're done?"

"Sure thing, just sit down," Qrow answered.

Summer did not win the set in the end.