Chapter 6: Slices of Life and Secrets

Ruby (3rd Person)

"Come on, Weiss!" Ruby yelled from the doorway. She had asked permission to use Beacon's kitchen for the afternoon, and wanted to get there before the kitchen crew started to make dinner.

Weiss walked into the kitchen. "You still haven't told me what we're-" she stopped. "We're making cookies?" she asked.

"We're making cookies!" Ruby said energetically. She had remembered to get out the flour, sugar, eggs, butter, the scale, a stand mixer, and all the other ingredients and tools needed. Although when she found the chocolate chips, the jar was covered in Dust and had a note stuck to the top saying 'Let Weiss handle these. -Azure'. "Come on, it'll be fun!"

Weiss (3rd Person)

Five Minutes Later

"How was I supposed to know it would do that?" Ruby protested as she ducked behind the countertop.

"The note said 'Let Weiss handle these'!" Weiss shouted back, making a glyph to defend against lightning.

"EXTERMINATE!" yelled the somehow now flying, talking, and aggressive chocolate chip jar in a mechanical voice. It used some gravity Dust to levitate another batch of knives and sent them flying at the two trainee Huntresses. Weiss rolled into an area with some fish in it… including a swordfish that looked similar to Myrtenaster. She quickly grabbed the swordfish, and reinforcing it with her aura, dashed at the jar.

The second the swordfish touched the jar, it made a 'ping' noise and stopped moving. "Aura recognized: Weiss Schnee. Disabling." it said mechanically. The jar flew back onto the counter, and the lid popped open.

Ruby walked over to stand next to Weiss. Most of the knives were embedded in the walls, various ingredient stockpiles had been turned into pulp, and yet somehow their cookie dough was left untouched, just in the state they had left it - ready for chocolate chips.

The two started laughing. They had come down to make cookies, and ended up wrecking the kitchen.

Weiss recovered first. "We should probably put the chocolate chips in now."

"Yeah," Ruby agreed. After mixing in the chocolate chips and putting the cookies in the oven, Weiss had a thought and voiced it.

"I wonder what Blake and Yang are up to?"

Yang (3rd Person)

"Hurry up! I need to use the bathroom!"

Blake's voice came out of the bathroom. "No! Let me poop in peace!" It almost sounded like a hiss.

Pyrrha (3rd Person)

"Hey, what caused the Dust shortage in 5 AGW?" Jaune asked. "I remember it had something to do with the war, but…"

"Most of the Dust mines were in Mistral, and several were destroyed during the war. Either denial of enemy assets or simple Grimm attacks." Pyrrha responded. They (meaning team JNPR) were working on a history project on Dust usage. Or rather, Jaune, Pyrrha, and Ren were working on the project while Nora tried to. She kept getting distracted by random thoughts, and had wandered off at least twice.

Jaune looked at Nora with his I-have-a-plan face. "Nora, I have an idea that might help you focus."

"Hm?" Nora looked at him.

"It's the weekend tomorrow right?" Jaune asked. They all nodded. "So, why don't we go out and do something fun tonight? After we get, I don't know, half a page of notes each?" His voice took on a persuasive tone. "We could get some maple syrup…"

Nora had already started scribbling notes.

A morning finishing some homework, an afternoon with her friends, possibly followed by a rooftop spar with Jaune this evening?

This was the perfect way to spend the day.

Ozpin (1st Person)

I looked across my desk at the one teenager I never thought I would have to talk to like this. "Mr Azure, can you explain your behavior with Team CRDL?"

He looked pensive, and then started speaking. "Are you talking about the cafe, or class, or shoving Cardin into a pit full of Creeps -."

"Yes!" I snapped.

"I thought it was the best option! It was funny, and they are competent enough to fight off a few Creeps!" Azure protested. "Plus, there isn't enough money in the budget for antiracism seminars because of an anony… the money went to Amber's pod, didn't it."

Oh, crap. "How do you know about that?" I asked forcefully calmly.

Azure started grinning. "Just assume that I know everything." He leaned close to my ear and whispered, "Ozma."

Oh, crap!

Azure leaned back in his chair. "Don't worry, I won't start randomly spouting off secrets." He said. "I actually want to help you, like I offered back when you hired me. Who knows, maybe we can try just throwing the Wicked Witch into the sun or something."

"I…" I thought about what he had said, and decided to focus on the least plan-disrupting option. "How would we get her into space? Dust doesn't work in space."

He shrugged. "I don't know. Maybe just knock her out, stick her in a pod with a ton of gravity dust attached, and press go. We're not trying to get to orbit, just send something in one direction. You just need enough force to escape the gravity well. And even if it doesn't kill her, she'd be stuck in the sun. If she could do anything meaningful to the sun, we would all be dead anyway."

I considered this. "There is also the matter of the chocolate chip incident from a few hours ago."

Azure sighed. "Okay, that one I don't really have an explanation for except for being bored and not wanting Ruby to go into a food coma from eating chocolate chips. Tell you what. You don't mention it, and I'll go help clean up the kitchen, and give you some of that really good cocoa mix. After that, we can start working on patching up your plans. Deal?" He held out his hand.

"Are you willing to tell me where you got your information from? There could be a security risk." I asked.

He grinned again. "There isn't a security risk. As for how I got the info… Let's just say space is warped, time is bendable, and the multiverse is vast and full of wonders. Now, deal?"

I shook his hand. "Deal."

A/N: And that's the chapter, everybody! Next time, we get Plot with a capital P. Please review, I like to know if people are reading this or not.