Weiss looked at us after slamming the door on Jaune. "What?!" She demanded.
"And THAT is why they call you the Ice Queen." Yang said, Ruby looking at her sister, then looking down to see there was no way physics would allow her to keep leaning like she did, causing her to fall to the floor.
"I'd hate to say it, but FOR ONCE, I actually approve of her actions." Damion said.
"All my life, boys have only cared about the perks of my last name." Weiss said.
"Can't blame them, since it SOUNDS like 'sneeze.'" I said.
"Besides, I already have a date in mind." She said.
"Date or no date, none of this will matter if we don't get Blake to go." Ruby said.
"Oh, ain't this a pickle?" Draco said as all members of team BDSS adopted thinking poses.
Meanwhile, on the roof...
Pyrrha and Jaune were training like normal, Jaune mostly being on the offensive and Pyrrha simply defending herself, until she got a smirk, crouching and spinning, Jaune striking at her, but her shield on her back deflecting it, then sweeping his feet out from under him. She laughed a bit at this as she walked up, holding a hand out to him. "Well done. Your swordplay's improved immensely." She said.
"Couldn't have done it without you." He said, dusting himself off.
"So, are you ready to move on to aura?" She asked.
"I was actually thinking we'd skip aura tonight. Maybe go on a jog or something." He said, rubbing the back of his neck.
"Come on! I know you get frustrated, but you must keep trying. I'm sure you'll discover your semblance any day now." She said.
"That's not it... It's just... It's dumb." He said.
"What is it? Jaune, you know you can tell me." She said, walking up and putting a hand on his shoulder.
"It's Weiss." He said.
"Oh... What about her?" She asked, her happy mood dropping a bit.
"I asked her to the dance tonight and... she shot me down. Big surprise, right?" He asked.
"Oh... Well, I believe the saying goes, there's plenty fish in the sea." She said.
"That's easy for you to say. I bet you've got guys clamoring over each other just to ask you out." He said.
She giggled nervously at this. "You'd be surprised." She said.
"Oh, please. If you don't get a date to the dance, I'll wear a dress." He said, giving a small laugh at the end as he walked away.
In the bad guy's dorm room...
"Pyrrha Nikos." Emerald said, looking at a picture of Pyrrha on her scroll.
"Ah, the invincible girl." Cinder said in her usual ominous tone.
"We didn't manage to get any information on her thanks to that punk in the trench coat." Mercury said angrily.
"Well, if I'm not mistaken, that punk kicked your ass and you couldn't even land one kick on him." Emerald taunted.
"He got lucky." Mercury snapped.
"Or, perhaps he's just better than you." Cinder scoffed, earning a growl from her male subordinate. "Did we pick up any information on him?" She asked.
"He likes being flashy and showing off. That can be used against him. And he holds himself in pretty high esteem. A guy like that should be easy to throw off and make mistakes." He replied.
"Indeed. If he leaves even the slightest opening, I can exploit it." She said.
"You should be able to take him no problem." He said.
"I don't know, he seemed pretty powerful." Emerald said.
"It's not about what about overpowering your opponent, it's about taking away what powers they have." She said darkly. "Add them both to the list. And I will, in time." She told Emerald, who did so.
"I hate waiting..." Mercury said, laying down on his bed.
"Don't worry, Mercury. We have a fun weekend ahead of us." Cinder smirked, holding up some form of needle or something.
In what will be the dance hall...
Ruby was at a table, drifting into space, when Weiss slammed her hands on the table. "I need you to pick a table cloth." She said, sliding two samples in front of her young leader that looked exactly the same.
"Aren't they both the same?" Ruby asked.
Weiss scoffed at this. "I don't even know why I asked." She said, walking off as Yang walked up, carrying a giant stereo.
"That kinda reminds me of that scene from Attack on Titan where Eren is trying to lift one crate and Mikasa's easily carrying 3." I said as she set it down.
"Nice work, babe. Here." Damion said, handing her a glass of iced tea.
"Aww, how sweet." Yang said, kissing him.
"Get a room, you two." Nicolas said, to which Yang blasted his head off with a shot from her gauntlets and Damion sliced him in half at the waist.
"Man down! Man down!" Draco said, him and I rushing in and trying to put our teammate back together.
"So, have you picked out a dress yet?" Yang asked her little sister.
"What's the point? Who cares about the dance if Blake isn't going?" Ruby asked.
"Yeah, it won't be the same without Blake. Nobody else will eat the sushi." I said.
"Oh, don't worry. She's going." Yang said, before turning to see what Weiss was doing, but was horrified of the answer.
"Weiss! We agreed no doilies!" Yang and I said at the same time.
"If I don't get doilies, you don't get fog machines and you don't get alcohol." Weiss said, pointing to Yang about the fog machines and me about the alcohol.
"Curses! You've won this round, woman!" I said, crossing my arms.
Suddenly, we heard the door open. "Your dance is gonna have fog machines?" Neptune asked.
"We were thinking about it." Weiss said in a sweet/docile tone as she walked up to him.
"Yep. And probably laser lights for when Team BDSS preforms a couple of our newest hits: Hell's Diner and Dracula's Bloodbath." I answered.
"That's pretty cool." He said.
"Yeah, we've been working on these songs all month." Damion said.
"You ladies all excited for dress-up?" Sun asked as he walked up.
"Pfft. Yeah right." Ruby grumbled.
"Laugh all you want. I'll be turning heads tomorrow night." Yang said confidently.
"Definitely mine." Damion said.
"I'm trying to decide if that sounds dirty or not." I said.
"What are you two wearing?" Weiss asked them.
"Uh... This." Sun said, pointing to his usual attire.
Neptune's eyes widened a bit at this, holding his hand up in front of him. "Ignore him, for he knows not what he says." He said.
"Hey, I may have moved to Mistral, but I grew up in Vaccuo. It's not exactly a shirt and tie kind of place." The monkey faunus defended himself.
"I told you it was the boonies of Remnant." I said.
"Yeah, we've noticed." Yang said, then turned to look at me. "So, what are you wearing, then, Hot Shot?" She asked.
"Hot Shot, not a bad nickname for me. Anyway, I'll be proud to show you." I said, reaching into my pocket and spinning around at speeds none of the others could keep up with, tossing my trench coat over Weiss once I finished changing, now standing before my friends in black dress shoes, a white tuxedo with a red tie and my hair slicked back and matted down and I formed a sweet goatee out of nowhere (look up Rias Gremory father in Google images, you'll see the goatee, at which point I smiled, flashing my teeth. "I'm sexy and I know it." I said.
"Damn! Our boy cleans up good!" Draco said, wide-eyed.
"And what will be your casual attire, mon ami?" I asked him.
"I didn't know you speak Spanish." Nicolas said, to which Damion slapped him.
"One moment, please." He said, melting down into a puddle of blood, coming back up in blood red dress shoes, a matching tux and a black tie.
"Nice. Damion?" I asked. To my surprise, he had already changed when none of us were looking, now wearing exactly what I was, but with mostly opposite colors: Black shoes like mine, but then a black tux with a white tie.
"I always preferred one or two colors at most." He said.
"We're entitled to our own opinions. I think I look good just like this." I said.
"Yeah, not bad. Nick, what are you wearing?" He asked.
"Be right back." The necromancer said, stepping through a portal, coming back a second later dressed like the predator.
"Please tell me you put on the wrong outfit." I said.
"Meh. I don't know. I think it looks good." He said. At this point, I pushed him back through the portal so he was wearing what he was before he went through. "Here, try this on. It was Michael Jackson's." I lied, handing him a pinstripe suit.
"No way! Awesome!" He said, snagging it and holding it closely and protectively.
"So, what does Blake think of all this? Is she still being all... You know, Blake-y?" He asked.
"Obviously." Weiss said, throwing my trench coat back at me.
"I still can't think of a way to change her mind." Ruby said.
"Hypnosis or mind control?" I asked, pulling out a pendulum and a mind control ray gun.
"No, I think I can handle this." Nicolas said.
"I'll help, too. Trust me, guys. Blake WILL be at the dance tomorrow." Yang said as she walked off with the cryomancer.
"So, you got a date yet?" Damion asked Draco and I.
"Yeah, I asked a random girl from Port's class." Draco said.
"Somehow, I'm not surprised. How about you there, Mr. Harem?" Damion asked, looking at me.
"Nora's taking Ren, so I'm planning on asking Pyrrha, but..." I started, stopping nervously.
"But?" Everyone asked, even Ruby and Weiss.
"I don't know how to dance. The closest thing I can do to dancing is Capoiera." I confessed.
"You are NOT doing Capoiera at the dance." Damion said.
"I know that. Not enough room and this tux isn't flexible enough." I said.
"So, what are you gonna do?" Weiss asked.
"Do you know how to dance?" I asked her.
"Of course. I'm from one of the richest, most regal families in Remnant." She said.
"I mean, he didn't really ask you all that." Draco said.
What I did next shocked everyone. I got on my knees in front of her and clasped my hands together. "Oh, please, Weiss Schnee! Teach me how to dance!" I begged.
She got a smug look on her face at this. "It's nice getting the treatment I deserve. Very well, let's begin." She said.
In the library...
Blake was at a computer, doing something, but we don't see what. Suddenly, we see a red dot on the screen, which she watched closely, but was clearly annoyed at the same time. It then moved to her hand, which she looked at closely, before looking at the crowd in the library, but no one was paying attention to her, so she went back to what she was doing, but then the dot came back and moved all over, irritating her. She growled a bit, standing up and turning, looking for who could be doing it. The dot then appeared on the floor. She followed it closely, when it suddenly went around a corner. She followed it again until she bumped into Yang (wait... How could Yang shine it at those angles if she was around a corner the entire time? She'd have to peek out to shoot it at Blake and see where it was going, at which point Blake should've been able to see her). "Hellooooo~" Yang said in sing-song like the first time they met.
"What are you-!?" Blake started.
"We need to talk." Yang said, grabbing her wrist, zooming off, causing her to shriek in surprise as they took off.
Meanwhile...
Ren got out of the shower room, a pink towel wrapped around his lower body. "Ah..." He sighed in content, walking off, looking at his shampoo or something, before Jaune appeared in front of him. "Eh?!" He asked.
"We need to talk." The blonde said, grabbing his wrist and zooming off, causing him to shout in surprise as they took off, dropping his shampoo, which spun in the air a few times before falling to the ground. They were now in their dorm, sitting down on one of the bed's, I'm gonna guess Ren's based on something later. "Ren, I'm just gonna come out and say it (Whoa! He's not coming out, is he!?): You are one of my best friends (not really getting rid of my suspicion). These past couple months, it feels like we've REALLY bonded (he's TOTALLY coming out right now), even though you don't say much. I mean, you're REALLY quiet (probably a side-effect of hanging with Nora for so long). To be honest, I don't know much about you personally, but DARN IT, I consider you to be the brother I never had (okay, that makes it sound a bit better)." Jaune spoke. I should mention, he hasn't given Ren the chance to get dressed yet, the dark-haired boy with the pink highlight sitting next to him still only covered by a pink towel.
"And I, you." Ren said, in other words he feels the same, but clearly from the look on his face, he felt uncomfortable about the situation. Why are we here again? I thought we were supposed to be focusing on BLAKE'S problems, not Jaune's.
"WHICH is why I wanted to get your advice on... girls." Jaune said, looking down at the ground. We now see that Ren's outfit is hanging on the door beside him (which is why I think the bed they're sitting on is Ren's), just at the end of his reach.
"Girls?" He asked, before reaching for his clothes as he was sure Jaune wasn't looking.
"I just... Don't know... How to... Girls, um... I- *sigh* I guess what I'm asking is... How did you and Nora..." Jaune stammered.
"Uh..." Ren said awkwardly, stopping his reach for his clothes, stammering as well.
We then hear the sound of someone clearing their throat, looking over to see Nora blushing madly and laughing nervously, looking away from her book or diary. "We're not actually... TOGETHER together. I'm dating Sai, anyway. I'm just going to the dance with Ren because we're friends and Pyrrha wants to go with Sai, but she's waiting for him to ask her." She explained sheepishly.
"NORA! I SAID HEADPHONES ON!" Jaune screamed, pointing at her.
"Oop!" She squeaked, to which she put back on the headphones around the back of her neck.
"Jaune, what is this all about?" Ren asked, looking at his team's leader.
Jaune sighed at this. "It's Weiss. I'm completely head over heels for her and she won't even give me a chance." He said (she is not interested). "She's cold, but... also incredible. She's smart and graceful and talented... I mean, have you heard her sing?!" He asked (the only time we know she's ever sung is in her "White" trailer and I think everyone was more focused on her fighting a giant armored knight). "I just with she would take me seriously, you know? I just wish I could tell her how I feel... without messing it all up." He finished.
"Then do it." A new voice rang out. The two boys looked up and Nora took off her headphones and looked up to see Pyrrha there.
"Uh... What?" He asked.
"Tell her exactly what you just said. No ridiculous schemes, no pick-up lines, just... be honest." She said.
"But what if-" He started.
"Jaune... You can't get it wrong if it was the truth." She said with a smile.
"Thanks, Pyrrha. Good talk, Ren." Jaune said, waving to the other male in his team as he left, who waved back.
"Practice what you preach, Pyrrha." Nora said as the Spartan girl walked over to her desk.
Back in the ballroom...
"Well, I'm impressed, Sai. Despite you're usual uncaring, bored, foolish-" Weiss started.
"I think I get it." I threw in, but it fell upon deaf ears.
"disrespectful, disregarding and downright idiotic behavior, you've managed to master formal dancing in only an hour." She said.
"... You could've just said that last part, but thanks, anyway. When the subject intrigues me and I'm genuinely determined, I can understand it in no time." I said, going off to find my redheaded warrior princess.