Beacon academy
Ozpin's office
(The Day before classes start/ July 27)
Ozpin had been up for several nights, still dealing with the events that transpired in the past few days. In just a few days, Rex's powers had been exposed on the news and he had already been getting phone calls from people and he's been stressed trying to deal with them. They were all about Rex and he had tried to deter people away from him.
Some of the calls were still about parents asking about their child's safety after seeing Rex's powers and those students mentioning that he goes to Beacon Academy. Some parents still weren't comfortable with having a boy with the power to grow metal out of his body and already picking fights with the White Fang. He tried to reason with them but the parents were...very persistent.
Ozpin had become very stressed as to how to deal with this situation. How could he prove to the parents of his students that Rex wasn't a bad person. That he can be trusted. At this rate, his options were limited, so he could only think of one thing that could show people he was on their side.
Move the Vytal Festival to September 15, instead of having it on October 15. He had already told the other headmasters about his plan and they weren't exactly happy about the idea. The other headmasters of the other huntsmen academies were Professor Theodore, the Headmaster of Shade. Professor Lionheart, Headmaster of Haven Academy. And Professor James Ironwood of Atlas.
It had now been three weeks since he told them his plan and he hadn't heard anything at all from them.
Until now.
Ozpin had finished some paperwork for classes and had sat back in his chair in relief when suddenly, he had gotten a message on his computer. He scooted his way over and saw that it was and video call from all three other headmasters.
Ozpin took a deep breath as he then clicked the call.
Timeskip(Close to the end of the call)
"Ozpin, we understand that you wanted to move the Vytal Festival closer because you wanted people to understand that that boy of yours, but we still have out doubts" said Lionheart.
"I agree. Moving it this early would cause some problems for our school's schedule and stuff. We did some experimenting and we were able to try and fix our schedule to work with your idea but we still don't like that you're only doing this just for one boy" said Theodore.
Ozpin sighed as he said "I understand that but if I can't show people that he's trustworthy by showing him that he's on our side, then the parents telling us to bring their children back will continue and if I can't show them that he's a more responsible kid, then I'll lose my students. And we know what will happen if Beacon isn't guarded by students."
Hearing made everything go quiet as no one said a word.
"Yes we are aware. Which is why we chatted together without you to talk about it and we figured that it would be beneficial for you. But there's another reason that we've decided to accept your request" said Theodore.
This made Ozpin raise and eye brow as he asked "And what would that be?"
"When we talked to our students about possibly moving the Vytal Festival sooner to September 15, some of our own Faunus students were pretty excited with the idea. I had asked mine and they said they wanted to go to Beacon to thank the young boy who stopped the White Fang. They were happy that someone was willing to stand up to them to stop their evil plans. And the thought of seeing him sooner was something they were wanting to do. So my students say that its a good idea, though this'll give me a headache with paperwork but I guess my student's happiness is something to strive towards" said Theodore.
"It was the same on my end, though even some regular students wanted to meet him. Heck, even some girls really wanted to go just to see him. Can't imagine why?" joked Lionheart but he said in it in a sarcastic way.
"So I guess my students are all for it too, well most of them are, but I think we can say that we are able to agree with your decision. After all, it is happening in Vale, so all the paperwork and detail will be left to you" joked Lionheart again.
Ironwood just sat there quietly as Ozpin said "Well, James. Theodore and Lionheart seem to agree with my decision. What about you?"
Ironwood just said "My students are ok with it too."
Hearing this, Ozpin could tell that Ironwood had more pressing matters to talk about but he wanted to do it face to face.
"I see. Well, I'm happy that you're all about to accept my request. Now, I better get to work on making preparations sooner than before" said Ozpin.
Theodore then rubbed his eyes as he said "I sure hope you do know what you're doing Ozpin. If you really believe that much in this boy, then I pray that you are able to convince others that he's not a criminal or anything of that nature. And that this change might make that happen" as he disappeared from the screen. Soon Lionheart exited the screen, and all that was left was Ozpin and Ironwood.
Silence had filled the air as Ozpin kept staring at Ironwood's screen as they said nothing for a good while.
Ozpin decided to break the silence by saying "Is there something on your mind, James?"
Nothing happened for a short amount of time as Ozpin began to feel nervous about what was to happen or what James was going to say.
"I still expect some answers when I show up at Beacon" said James as his screen turned off.
Ozpin sighed as he knew he would say something like that. James Ironwood may be a close friend/ colleague of his but he had his doubts about him. He was still a general and he tends to make things more difficult then they need to be. He just hoped that he wouldn't have any irrational ideas for Rex and his powers.
But he didn't have time for that. He had to work on telling his whole school that the Vytal Festival would be moved one month early and some things were going to have to change.
The Next Day(July 28)
It had been three weeks since Rex's talk with Tai, and it soon became time for three members of Team RRWBY to head back to school, much to their dismay. They had so much fun at home that they didn't want it to end.
More than 4 weeks had gone by since the fight with Torchwick and Team RRWBY had finally come back to Beacon after their semester break. Even though Rex did have fun at his teammates house, he still hated that it was a break, meaning that he had to go back to the academy. But he knew that going back, people still seemed to be happy to see him again. But when Rex came back, he had been mostly been thinking on something that was more important to worry about.
Salem.
She was still the main thing that he was worried about. From what Ozpin told him, she wanted the relics to recreate the world in her image if she got her hands on them.
Rex knew that if this villain was as bad as Paradox says and if he had to be the only one to defeat her, then he was scared to get his friends involved. He knew they can fight grim but with the possible threat looming ahead of them, he thought it'd be best just to keep them out of it. And now with Tai's plea to make sure Yang and Ruby were safe, Rex knew the he couldn't tell them about Salem.
Maybe if just he and the teachers knew, it would be for the best. Not to mention that ever since he had found out he ended up on the news, he had been getting more attention in Beacon. People kept asking what it was like out in the field and that just gave him more head aches. But some people had became wary of him. He expected it but it still hurt a bit for him.
But now he was back at the academy and back to stupid school work.
That was one of the things he didn't enjoy about this world. School work. Even far from his own world, he couldn't even escape school. Bad enough Dr. Holiday had tried tutoring him in school work ever since he had a good score on a trigonometry test to play in a ping pong tournament, but now he had to do it again and he had no choice but to do it.
Now after Rex and his team made it back to the dorms and were chatting, they were stopped by Glynda over the intercom saying "Would all students please report to the amphitheater?"
After hearing that, they began making their way down to the amphitheater.
"Well, lets get this over with" said Yang as she stretched her arms out and began popping her back.
"What do you suppose its about?" asked Ruby.
"Probably just school events and stuff. Like that dance coming up soon" said Blake as she began reading her book.
"I just want it to be lunch already" said Rex as he had his hands in his coat pocket.
"Ugh, you are so lazy" said Weiss in an annoyed manner.
"Yea well I don't see that problem under there" said Rex, trying to hold his chuckle.
This made Weiss question what he meant by that and asked "Under where?"
This made Rex, Yang, and Ruby burst out laughing.
Weiss was so confused by the sudden laughter and wondered what was so funny. She began to think on what Rex just asked. And then grew a tick mark as she just realized what she said.
"I swear, you three are like children" huffed Weiss.
"Well you better not swear. Because there are children in here" laughed Rex as he placed his hand on Ruby, making Ruby scoff.
"Ok I may be height challenged but I'm not a kid, you big meanie" yelled Ruby as she began slapping his arm.
Blake just rolled her eyes at what was happening next to her.
The group then entered the auditorium with other students. They made their way through the crowd and made it over to Team JNPR.
Glynda then stepped out on stage and yelled "Quiet! Quiet please. Professor Ozpin has brought you all here because he has something important to tell you. If you would, Professor" as she began to walk off stage, and Ozpin came on.
"Greetings, students. I have brought you all here today because I have bene talking to some of the other headmasters and I decided to make a change to an event coming soon. The Vytal Festival" said Ozpin, and hearing those words made the whole theater area go quiet.
"The time for it was to happen in late October but due to some matters that I've had to deal with, me and the other headmasters have decided to move the Vytal Festival one month early to September 15. So we've had to change some things around with the schedule. The school dance will now happen on August 17. And the job shadowing event will happen one day after the dance, either the 18 or 19, we'll iron out the details later" informed Ozpin as he wasn't sure what was going to happen.
But after he said that, students began to mumble and talk amongst one another and he could tell some were concerned by the sudden change.
"Students!" boomed Ozpin, making them hush.
"I understand that some of you are concerned but this matter was one I thought really hard on and its a problem that needed to be done. For reasons I don't want to bother going in, but I want you all to think about this as you think on the new change to our schedule. When we stand together, we stand united. You came to this academy to beach huntsman and huntresses and are you really going to let a change like this make you concerned" said Ozpin, as the class still stood there in silence.
"It is merely a time change to the schedule and we can show our other schools that we can preserver through anything in life. So I encourage you all to think this as not a stress thing that'll make you over think things, but a way to show that no matter what changes, whatever life curveballs at us, we can make it through" said Ozpin, truthfully just going along with what he said. He knew students would be worried about the time change but he didn't want that to make things harder for him to deal with.
He soon heard the students roar with applause at his words of encouragement.
Ozpin nodded to his students as he then said "That will be all this meeting. Now head to your next classes" as he stepped away as the students all began to leave the theater.
Rex and his gang soon began to walk away but not before he was stopped by a hand grabbing his shoulders.
He turned and saw it was "Sun?"
Cafeteria
After their classes, Team RRWBY, minus Rex, were currently sitting in the cafeteria with Team JNPR. Blake was looking at a book with details of things she wishes she could forget.
"Whatcha doin" said Yang as scooted closer to Blake.
Blake flinched as she quickly reacted and shut her book saying, "Just looking over notes from last semester."
Yang moved over quickly as she caught a grape that Nora flung.
"Boring" said Yang.
Jaune looked at team RRWBY and noticed they were missing the other R as he then asked "Hey where's Rex? Isn't he suppose to be here?"
"Well Sun had stopped by earlier and said he wanted Rex to meet one of his teammates. He said his name was Neptune and he also said that he knew that they'll get along. So he'll be here shortly."
They were then all interrupted by a giant "BAMM" as it shook the table and drawing their attention to the front of the table as to see Ruby had dropped a big book on it.
"Sisters, friends,... Weiss" said Ruby in a boastful voice.
"Hey" whined Weiss.
"Four score and seven minutes ago, I had a dream" said Ruby, like she was giving a speech.
"This should be interesting" said Yang as she caught another grape.
"A dream that the four, Sorry, 5 of us would become a team and have the most fun any team had ever had... EVER" said Ruby with excitement.
"Did you steal my binder?" was all Weiss said.
"I was meaning staring off this semester with a bang" said Weiss.
"I always start off a semester with a... Yang" punned Yang as she tried to get a standing ovation by saying, "Huh? Huh? Come on guys" said Yang waiting for laughter but just got an apple to the head followed by a "booooo" from Nora.
"Guys, it's been a good few weeks and with more exchange students coming and the tournament at the end of the year, our semester is going to be great but classes start tomorrow, which is why I've made a list of fun activities to do today" said Ruby.
"I don't know whether to be happy or scared of what you have in store" said Weiss as Yang just threw an apple back at Nora.
"I think I'll just sit this one out" said Blake holding her book.
"Well I think that not matter what, whatever we do, it will be fun as a..." SPLAT went a pie at Weiss's face. The team looked at JNPR and saw Nora hiding behind Ren.
Meanwhile outside
Outside Beacon Dining Hall, Sun and Rex were walking next to a teenage boy with tan skin, dark-blue eyes and messy light-blue hair that was shaved on the sides and in the back, aka, an undercut.
He wore a white dress shirt and black tie under a red jacket adorned with a wide, upturned, black collar, and a silver reticle across the back. He also sported a pair of gray jeans with black padding strapped to the sides, as well as black shoes fastened with straps instead of laces.
His notable accessories within his attire included black fingerless gloves and a pair of yellow-tinted goggles typically worn on his forehead. However, when necessary, he won't hesitate to make practical use of the latter, protecting his eyes from wind and sand in high-speed chases and battles.
This was Neptune Vasilias, Sun's best friend and teammate of Team SSSN at Haven Academy.
Right now, they are walking while Sun told Neptune about Rex's powers. Of course, he didn't believe him until Rex formed his Boogie pack and flew into the sky and then landed with his Punk Busters. Neptune was shocked at what he saw and tried asking him what his powers were.
Rex just said "I got them from a crackerjack box" said, not wanting to spill his secrets to some one he just met. Neptune just chuckled at his response.
He was also surprised to see someone else but him wearing goggles. The two instantly hit off as they began describing what their goggles can do. Sun just chuckled at how nerdy the two were being. They got closer to the cafeteria as Sun continued the battle story at the docks.
"Man, that's harsh" said Neptune as he commented about something Sun said to him.
"I know, we were fighting side by side. She was super fast and I threw a banana at the guy, which sounds gross, until he threw a fireball, but it was awesome!" explained Sun, ranting about the dock events that happened.
"Nice!" said Neptune in remark.
"Right? And the best part is, she's a Faunus" as he then realized he done goofed.
"Way to got there genius" said Rex sarcastically.
"But that's a secret, okay?" said Sun, as he was serious that Neptune won't tell Blake's secret.
"Got it" replied Neptune before Sun leaned in close in order to stress the importance of this secret.
"And not a "I'm gonna go tell Scarlet the second Sun turns his back secret", I'm talking secret secret" added Sun, completely serious about keeping Blake's secret well a secret.
"Whoa, chill out, man, okay? I got it. I got it!" replied Neptune as he almost whispered as he and Sun continued to walk.
"You better" said Sun, not seeing the windows into the cafeteria where food splatters into the panes as students run around. At one point, Jaune is the one splattered into the window.
"I just don't want to screw this up, you know? The people here are the coolest! No offense to you guys" said Sun.
"None taken" replied Neptune.
"They're just in here. I'm really excited for you to meet them. So be cool, okay? You're gonna be cool, right?" asked Sun.
"Come on man. Dudes already cool. He got the goggles so you know he's going to be chill" said Rex with his hand on Neptune's shoulder as Neptune nodded in response.
"You two are dorks" said Sun giggling.
"Hey!" said Neptune as Rex put his arm in front of him saying,
"It's not worth it man. He just doesn't get us" said Rex as he patted Neptune's shoulders.
"Yea you're right. Not worth the effort" huffed Neptune.
The three of them walk in and as they entered the Dining Hall where the students were screaming.
"Food Fight!" cried the students of Beacon before all students are shown stampeding out the door past Sun and Neptune, the latter of whom is looking quite worried.
All that is not are the remaining members of Team RWBY and JNPR.
"Ahahahaha!" laughed Nora from her position that she and her teammates were in right now.
Team JNPR are shown to be standing atop a tower of tables stacked in a ramshackle manner.
"I'm queen of the castle! I'm queen of the castle!"sung Nora at the top of the tables.
Ruby then stomped on the table, causing some food to fly in the air while she pointed at the opposing team with the shaking of her left index finger and a carton of milk in the other hand while saying.
"Justice will be swift! Justice will be painful!" said Ruby before crushing the milk carton saying, "IT WILL BE DELICIOUS!" as she fist pumped with the rest of her team.
"Yeah!" cried out her other teammates, bursting with energy.
Nora Valkyrie begins the battle, yelling "Off with their heads!" while Team JNPR grabs a ridiculous number of watermelons and starts throwing them at Team RWBY minus the other R.
"Yang! Turkey!" ordered Ruby to her older half-sister.
Yang rolled over to the two turkeys from the ground and used them like gloves to punch through the barrage of watermelons thrown off a table by Nora; upon completion, Blake then leapt in front of Yang and picked up two baguettes.
She then threw her turkeys at Pyrrha Nikos, who dodged out of the way and grabbed a single baguette, leaving Jaune to take the blows.
Pyrrha and Blake then dueled in a one-on-one fight and despite Blake's attempt to disorient Pyrrha with her shadows, Pyrrha knocked her back and threw three more baguettes to Yang, with the last knocking her down as well.
Ruby then used a food tray to slide towards Pyrrha across the table and hit a baguette back at her with the same tray.
Pyrrha managed to dodge the shot, but was unable to stop Ruby from knocking her backwards with the same food tray.
Ren and Nora then charge at Ruby, but Weiss intercepted them and uses ketchup to cause Ren to slip and crash with a group tables which are launched because of the impact.
Nora jumped through these tables to grab a metal flag pole and attach a watermelon to it, making a makeshift hammer. She then attacked Weiss but hit Ruby instead, who managed to stand between them to protect her partner from the assault; however, the force of this impact knocked her down. Weiss grabbed a swordfish and engaged Nora in a one-on-one, but endsed up being defeated after Nora threw her against a pillar, knocking her down, and causing the pillar to break. Before the pieces crush Weiss, Ruby jumps in and saves her partner.
"Weiss, Weiss! Don't leave me! Nooo!" cried Ruby dramatically as the rest of the pillar fell, creating a bigger mess.
Yang then grabbed two more turkeys and dueled Ren, who wielded a pair of leeks blocking Yang's kick.
Ren managed to recover from the strikes and thew his leeks at the two in the air, but she managed to dodge them while Yang deflected them and then proceeded to finish Ren by jumping high enough to punch him toward the floor, knocking him out.
Nora intervened immediately afterwards and sent Yang flying through the roof with her makeshift watermelon hammer, but destroyed the weapon in the process, leaving her defenseless.
Blake then got back up to dodge the debris of the roof and grabbed a link of sausages. She then whipped it at a disarmed Nora, throwing her against two soda machines.
These leaked out some soda cans that Nora threw at Blake, who managed to dodge them all as Pyrrha then used her Semblance of Polarity on the puddle of soda cans, causing all the soda cans on it to rise after Blake and the boys, barraging them with soda as well as taking them out of the fight.
Ruby, the last remaining member of both, then used her Semblance of Speed to dash through the food court, causing everything to follow her through the tailwind caused by her overwhelming speed.
She spun like a torpedo, creating a hurricane of food that comes back at JNPR, knocking all four members out. They then peeled off the wall and fell down.
"I love these guys" said Sun while somehow being completely spared from the food fight, but the same cannot be said from Neptune who is covered in purple or grape soda who glared at him. And Rex, who was unfazed since he had formed his block party and kept the food away from him.
Upon the end of the fight is a certain Glynda Goodwitch entering the room growling.
She then proceeds to use her Semblance of Telekinesis to reorganize the Dining Hall.
"Children, please. Do not play with your food!" stated Glynda as she adjusted her glasses.
Her dramatic moment was ruined by Nora burps aloud as both Teams JNPR and RWBY try and fail to compose themselves as a screaming Yang then crashes from the ceiling into one of the tables.
Glynda grumbles as Ozpin approached her and placed a hand on her shoulder.
"Let it go" said Ozpin, appearing out of nowhere.
Sighing from whether she's annoyed or tired is unclear, but the fact remained that she doesn't like how her boss lets these kids get away with things like this.
"They're supposed to be defenders of the world" said Glynda in frustration at her headmaster.
"And they will be, but right now they're still children" said the headmaster, watching as all the team members were laughing together and having a good time.
"So why not let them play the part?" asked Ozpin, taking his hand off her shoulder.
"After all, it isn't a role they'll have forever" added Ozpin as they then saw Rex stomping his way over to his teammates and he seemed be very mad as an angry aura surrounded him
He glared at them as he said, "I can't believe that you girls decided to fight your friends over there, cause a ruckus, scare everyone out of the building and think to have a food fight..." scolded Rex at his team.
Ruby tried to say something "uh well... uh you see uh" was all she could say.
"...Without Me" complained Rex.
The team's fear turned into glee as they saw that he was joking and smiled at his response and looked toward the opposing team. They then grew a look of fear on their face as they knew that at this point, they were screwed.
Rex stood in front of his team and held his right arm out and formed his Slam Cannon.
The maw on the back opened up and took a big chunk of ground and food saying
"We're going to need a clean up on isle 4" as he shot at JNPR.
His team then joined in and began attacking them. This just made Glynda angry and began walking over to the kids, trying to calm them down but they were back too engaged in their food fight.
Ozpin just chuckled as he began walking away from the crowd. Well, tiny crowd of kids.
Later that night
Out in a loading area, Mercury and Emerald were walking in as they saw the White Fang members unload some shipments as they made their way towards Roman, who had a couple of bandages from the dock battle. He turned to them and said
"Oh great. She sent the kids again. Feels just like the divorce" as he draped his arms around their shoulders.
"Ugh. Stop giving us nasty thoughts, will you" groaned Emerald.
"It was a joke. But this might tell me where you've been all day" said Roman holding a white piece of paper. Emerald gasped as she realized she had that in her pocket.
"I'm a professional, sweetheart." He glanced at the paper and said "Where did you get this address".
"Wouldn't you like to know?" snarked Emerald.
"Yes I would. Now where have you been all day?" asked Roman.
"Cleaning up your mess. One of them at least" pointed Mercury at Roman.
"I had that under control" retorted Roman.
"Yea until you got your butt handed to you by a couple of kids" said Emerald.
"And two tickets and a bag said otherwise" said Mercury in a suspicious tone.
"Listen here you little punk, if it were up to me I would take you and your little friend here and..."
"Do what Roman?" said a voice from above, making everyone look up, which turned out to be Cinder.
"Uh, not kill them" said Roman.
"Cinder" said Emerald.
"I thought I told you to eliminate that would-be runaway" said Cinder walking towards him.
"Well, I was trying to..."
"He was going to try escape. Mercury and I thought it would be best to kill the rat" said Emerald acting smug.
"Silence. Didn't I tell you to keep you hands clean while in Vale" scolded Cinder as Roman made hand gestures at the teens.
"Remember don't think. Just obey" said Cinder.
"Yes ma'am" said Emerald backing away.
"And you" said Cinder pointing at him "I understand why our first mission failed, but why isn't the other one done."
Roman relied by pointing at the crates behind him.
"Sorry if I've been busy trying to find workers that aren't afraid to go out. That kid has them worried that if they go with me, they'll get clobbered by him and his special powers. It's because they've seen what he can do that they don't want to work with me now. So of course things are more hard on my part. Sheesh" said Roman as he swung his sen around in annoyance at Cinder.
"But you're still alive and well. Not to mention that you can walk fine" Mercury pointed out.
"Don't start with me on that kid. It's all cause of those stupid kids. And ooh that boy. He may have gotten the first punch line, but I'll get the last laugh " said Roman as he began to laugh hysterically.
"Please, don't start making jokes like that. They are just bad. And yes, we are well aware of your situation, though I have yet to see these strange kids" said Cinder in a carefree attitude.
"Speaking of which, would it kill you to tell me your grand master plan so then my operations will go a lot smoother" complained Roman.
"Oh Roman. You'll know what you need to know when you need to know. But never mind that. We've decided to scrape the dust idea and now we're going to be doing something else" said Cinder walking away.
"Have the white fang move everything out. I'll send you coordinates" said Cinder as she began walking away.
"Coordinates?" questioned Roman as Cinder turned around saying "We are going to be going to a phase 2. Hopefully this one will make more damage."
Mercury and Emerald followed her as she continued "As for us three, we are going to Beacon. Turns out that our informant says that the festival will be moved one month early than usually so get to working fast, Roman" said Cinder as she kept walking away as Roman just grumbled.
"But that means we'll have to work even harder as well. But I must say I am rather excited this time around" said Cinder in a smirking manner.
"Why are you excited to go there of all places" questioned Emerald.
"Because I'm curious as to see this boy that gave Roman quiet the trouble" said Cinder as they got on an airship. "I'm curious as to see his powers up close in person." Then Cinder finished her sentence in an devious voice.
"I'm curious as to see how well he does in battle" as the door closed and they took off for Beacon.
