"WHAT?! The cool upper class team, Team CFVY is gonna help us?!" Ruby exclaimed. "This is gonna be so cool!" she beamed with excitement.
Coco seemed to be looking at the four girls and assessing them based on their reactions to this.
Blake immediately took a shining to Velvet and greeted her politely.
Yang just waved tiredly to the whole team.
Fox seemed to be glancing in Weiss's direction which startled her a little bit considering the fact that he was blind.
"Well, I hate to be the breaker of bad news girls, but we gotta ring you freshies in the hard way." Coco smirked. "By the time Team CFVY is done with you, you'll be a fully functional team!"
With that, Ozpin dismissed the two teams and Team CFVY Provided them with a slightly altered schedule for their off times. They'd still have time to get assignments done, but now a lot of their other off time was dedicated to hanging out with the members of Team CFVY.
Yang brushed this off like it was nothing and continued on as normal back to their dorm room wanting to get some rest. Weiss was understandably trying to figure out how the new Schedule could work with all the other tasks she had already planned for herself.
Ruby on the other hand was talking at about 100 miles per hour to Coco. "Oh my God you're so cool, your team is so cool, show me how to be a cool leader!" Ruby squeed as Coco just chuckled a little and ruffled the eager young huntress's hair. "Easy there. We gotta see how bad your situation is." Coco explained. "Which is why..."
"We're going to have a sparring match!" Coco smirked as she held her purse over her shoulder, the two teams facing off against one another in the amphitheater much to Yang's annoyance as she was just about to get some rest for later when she was pulled into this.
Ruby smirked as the match would begin. She would immediately fire off a few rounds at Coco, who in turn would dodge them and hit them with her purse. "Ya gotta try harder than that, Ruby." Coco chuckled as Ruby transformed her weapon into it's scythe form and swung at her, Coco backflipping away from it as she then hit Ruby with her purse.
"Ouch! W-What's in that thing, a ton of bricks?!" Ruby asked, rubbing her arm.
"You wouldn't believe me if I told you." Coco chuckled as she looked to her other teammates.
Weiss was steadily holding her own against Fox, keeping the other at bay, but Fox kept breaking through her defense whenever she made an attempt to use one of her more advanced glyphs.
"C'mon Schnee, you really gotta know I'm not gonna stop to let you use your semblance!" Fox stated as he ducked under another glyph and hit Weiss in the gut, knocking her back several feet.
Blake was dodging and ducking around attacks from both Velvet and Yatsuhashi who seemed to be working almost perfectly in sync with one another. "Yang!" she called out as Yang fired off a shot before yawning. The shot completely missed Yatsuhashi and instead hit Blake, which angered her. "What are you doing?!" she spoke up for once which woke Yang up as Blake then took a kick to the gut from Velvet as Yatsuhashi finally turned his attention to the blonde.
"Are you awake enough now?" Yatsuhashi asked, clearly a bit of concern in his voice as Yang rubbed the sleep from her eyes and straightened herself out.
"Yeah. Readier than I'll ever be." Yang stated as she ran forward and threw a punch out at Yatsuhashi that was blocked with his sword.
Coco let out a sigh as it was clear these freshmen were going to need a lot of work. "Alright, Fox, on me!" Coco ordered as the two of them were now standing side by side against Ruby and Weiss who were very clearly not working well together, and almost against each other.
"Ruby I told you to watch my back!" Weiss yelled.
"Sorry, Ice Queen, I'm the team leader here and I'm telling you to watch my back!" Ruby stated in defiance, swinging her scythe and firing a shot through one of Weiss's Glyphs that in turn crystallized the shot that thankfully Fox and Coco were both able to dodge as it hit the wall and created a large shard of ice.
"You dolt, watch what you're doing!" Weiss glared before Coco ran at her, only for Ruby to again get in Weiss's way, swinging at Coco with her scythe only for Fox to knock it out of her hand. Weiss then attempted to lunge forward at Fox only for her to get disarmed as well by Coco who then smirked to Fox as he then in a single punch knocked both of the girls out of the arena. which made Weiss even angrier at Ruby, and Ruby just looked away.
The two turned towards Yang and Blake who were fighting Yatsuhashi and Velvet separately before running forward at the last two members of RWBY. Fox punched Yang in the gut which made her smirk as her hair started to glow now.
Blake left a clone of herself behind to take the hit from Coco who jumped in suddenly at her. She then transformed her weapon and threw it out at Yatsuhashi in an attempt to help Yang, Yatsuhashi however could hear it and ducked out of the way as Yang sprinted forward only to meet Blake's weapon that now wrapped around her wrist.
"What?!" Yang's eyes went wide as Blake had already motioned to try pulling back but now was flinging Yang around the arena in a circle on her ribbon. "W-WHOA!" Yang tried to slow herself down with shots but that only accelerated her as the members of Team CFVY ducked out of the way of this attack before Blake tripped over a bullet casing from Ruby's crescent Rose and now was being flung around with Yang right out of the arena and into a hard wall.
Ruby watched in awe at what just happened while the two girls groaned upon finally getting up. Yang was trying to free her arm of Gambol Shroud's ribbon, but Blake rushed over and helped her. "Yang, are you okay?" Blake asked.
"I think I'm gonna hurl..." Yang groaned, holding her stomach. "You faring any better?"
"Well, I've barely eaten all day." Blake stated with a slight chuckle as Team CFVY stepped out of the arena and over to them as well as the other two members of their team.
"That was crazy!" Ruby chuckled a little. "That was so cool! You gotta try that again!"
Coco shook her head. "That was probably the craziest thing I've seen a Freshman around here do. You guys are alright. On your own you seem to be capable fighters, but as a team." Coco shook her head.
"As a team you leave much to be desired." Yatsuhashi stated.
"You know you got a problem when the blind man can read your attacks." Fox chuckled.
"Not to mention you had a hard time fighting together." Velvet noted with Blake looking down.
"What were those cool moves you did when you were teaming up together?!" Ruby asked eagerly.
"Those were team attacks. Just some stuff that I coordinated with my teammates." Coco explained as Ruby looked to her teammates, her eyes lit up with ideas.
Coco merely adjusted her glasses slightly as Yang and Blake got up. "Yang, no more partying as long as you're under our tutelage." she stated.
Yang grumbled a bit in disappointment but nodded her head in agreement.
"Now that everything's cleared up. You'll be meeting with us tomorrow after sparring sessions in the library." Coco stated as she then lead her team out.
Team RWBY had to get ready for their last class of the day, and this was one of the more difficult ones to keep up with.
It was Dr. Oobleck's class and he talked at a speed that just about everyone had a hard time keeping up with. He served as the history professor, explaining events such as the great war and it's atrocities to his class so as that history wouldn't repeat itself. Today's class was on the topic of the Battle at Fort Castle during the faunus rights revolution.
"Now then class, what was the one error General Lagune made that caused his defeat in the Faunus rights revolution?" Doctor Oobleck asked as he took a sip from his expresso.
Cardin chuckled a little. "He didn't keep his animals on a leash?"
"Mr. Winchester your racist attitude isn't appreciated in this classroom, where all students have an equal opportunity to learn! Now then, would any student care to provide a real answer to my question?!"
Weiss raised her hand, thinking now. "Um perhaps it was that the faunus sabotaged his weaponry with their sneaky tactics?"
Dr. Oobleck merely shook his head. "Ms. Schnee I'm disappointed, you're usually brighter on these sorts of topics."
Weiss grunted and started flipping through her own notes before another hand shot up, albeit unintentionally. It was Jaune.
He was confused now. "Do you know what Mistake General Lagune made that cost him the Battle of Fort Castle?"
"Oh um..." Jaune looked around Pyrrha was pointing to her eyes and was trying to figure out what she was trying to say. "... He forgot..." Jaune was nervous now, Nora was now making a motion, pointing to the window where the sun was setting. "He forgot his binoculars?!"
The rest of his team face palmed while Cardin laughed. "Incorrect! Everyone who answered wrong now owes me an essay, but you Mr. Winchester..." Oobleck glared at him. "For your disrespectful attitude this class, you have to submit to me an extra 5 pages, explaining why Faunus rights are important." He took another sip of his expresso before turning to Pyrrha who raised her hand.
"Yes, Ms. Nikos."
"He attacked at Night and Faunus are known for having Night Vision." Pyrrha explained.
"Perhaps if he had paid attention in class..." Blake was glaring at Cardin now. "He would have known." Cardin rolled his eyes at Blake's remark, Jaune chuckling a little at Cardin's expense now before Dr. Oobleck added another 5 pages on Jaune's assignment as well.
With that class had ended and Jaune let out a sigh as Cardin shoved him down upon exiting class. Pyrrha immediately helped him off the ground and brushed him off. "You know, Nora and I WILL break his legs if you ask us to."
"N-No it's fine." Jaune let out a sigh as he turned away from them. "I should probably go see if he needs any help."
Pyrrha then finally grabbed his arm, pulling him aside. "Wait just a second. You're going to come with me."
"W-What for?!" he asked.
"Just follow me." she lead him to the roof of their dorm building, as it was now rather late.
"Pyrrha, I understand that I'm hopeless, but I don't think I'd jump. I could always take up another career like farming or something." Jaune sighed.
"Oh, N-No!" she pulled him away from the roof's edge. "I just... I see you're struggling and I want to help you." she admitted. "I can train you if you'd be-"
Jaune cut her off. "Pyrrha, with all due respect I want to be able to do this on my own." he stated.
"Oh? Is that why you're letting Cardin push you around then?" she crossed her arms.
"It's... more complicated than that Pyrrha." Jaune sat himself down at the edge of the roof.
"What is it then? What could he possibly have over you that would make you have to do his bidding?" Pyrrha crossed her arms.
"He knows how I got into Beacon." he began.
"What do you mean? You're just as qualified as everyone else is, aren't you?" Pyrrha sat down next to him and put a hand on his shoulder.
He moved her hand off his shoulder and stood back up. "I'm not though. I lied."
"I'm sorry, what?" Pyrrha looked up at him.
"I lied. I'm not a legitimate student at all. I faked my transcripts and got myself accepted here. Cardin found out about it and he's been using that as leverage over me. He'll have me expelled if I even try to do anything about it." his eyes darted downwards as he turned to walk back inside.
"Let me help you Jaune, surely there's something-" Pyrrha was cut off.
"Just stop it. I can't let you put your own career on the line for a wannabe like me." he walked towards the exit and opened the door, turning back to face Pyrrha before closing the door behind him.
"Jaune..." her scroll then lit up with a message. It was a message from Ren about pancakes. "Oh... I better get down there before Nora starts a fight again."
Jaune let out a sigh as he had received numerous texts and calls from Cardin. He finally called back. "Hello?"
"Finally you got back to me, Jaune! I was worried you'd jump off the roof or something." Cardin joked. "Anyways, I need you to get my assignment for Professor Oobleck done and also get me a box of Rapier wasps before our trip to Forever Fall next week. Remember, your secret's safe with me." he taunted as he then hung up and Jaune let out a sigh before sitting down right outside of his team's dorm.
"What a joke... I'm a failure..." he held his head low.
"Nope." came the voice of Ruby as she sat down right across from him in the hallway, only wearing her pajamas.
"What do you mean? I'm not a good fighter, my teammates carried that battle back during the initiation."
"Hmm..." Ruby paused for a moment." Nope." she poked his nose. "Jaune, you're an excellent strategist and still a far better leader than I am. Your team at least hasn't been fighting with each other constantly." Ruby chuckled. "I've also had my miss-steps as a leader recently." she admitted.
"But... We can't give up in trying." Ruby stated. "We have to be better because the others depend on us. Sometimes, you just have to put your team first." she looked back to the door to her team's room. "We both still have a long way to go in that sense I suppose. But, it's the burden we have to carry as leaders." Ruby stood back up and offered a hand to Jaune. "If you try your hardest, then I'll try my hardest too. How's that for a deal?"
"What's in it for me?" Jaune joked.
Ruby thought for a moment. "I'll help you upgrade your weapon." she offered.
"Alright, it's a deal. But, I will say, I don't really want anything extravagant, oh and you don't have to do it right away." he assured.
"That's fine, just lend it to me whenever you'd like and I'll see if I can work my magic!~" she made a motion with her hands like she was casting a spell. Jaune chuckled a little.
"T-Thanks for that Ruby." he looked to his team's dorm room.
"It's no problem." she smiled before opening the door to her team's room. "Good luck out there." she closed the door.
Commentary: With team CFVY's help here, Team RWBY's able to start ironing their own problems out. Although there is still going to be some underlining issues. We also get a hint at team attacks with those accidental moves. Also some more moments from Jaundice here.
