This had to be split for digestability. Part 2 will be up tomorrow.
"What do you mean none of you closed the window!?" Cardin asked glaring down at his teammates.
"Cardin, I swear none of us closed it. Sky and I weren't even in the room!" Russel said holding his hands up and Sky nodded in agreement. Cardin looked at Dove, who raised an eyebrow and shrugged.
"I was in the shower, you know that," he said and returned to eating his breakfast.
"So you're telling me that the window shut and locked itself, which led to me falling off the roof and breaking my ass on a tree branch, through sheer bad luck?" Russel and Sky both shrugged and Cardin sighed in frustration, rubbing his eyes with the palms of his hands for a moment before sitting straight and waving it away with a small smirk. "Well whatever, I'm not going to let something like that get me down today. Especially after the good things that happened last night."
"What do you mean?" Sky asked.
"I'll tell you guys later, but trust me it's good. I got a couple of ideas for what we can do now."
"I WILL NOT LOSE TO YOU SUMMER!" The shout drew Cardin's attention a ways down the tables to where Team STRQ was sitting, where Summer and Raven were engaged in some kind of children's game of clapping their hands together while Taiyang watched in amusement and Qrow focused more on his food.
"Watch your rhythm Raven," Summer said keeping an eye on Raven's face twisted in concentration, "it's important."
"DON'T DISTRACT ME!"
"I still don't understand how they are our upperclassmen," Russel said gesturing at the girls, "I mean seriously?"
"I heard they were supposed to be some kind of hardcore badasses," Dove said with a shrug, "but I'm not seeing it."
"They piss me off, and that apple really hurt," Cardin said shaking his head, "But don't worry, they'll get theirs soon enough." With that he resumed watching Summer and Raven's weird game which only came to an end when Raven barely missed one of Summer's hands.
"I win Rae," Summer said with a smile while her partner pounded a fist on the table with a shout of "Dammit!" No doubt Raven would have continued pounding the table until there was a hole in it if it weren't for Coco clearing her throat behind them to get their attention to her and her team.
"I would ask what you guys were just doing, but I can probably guess," she said and gestured at the table. "It ok for us to sit here?"
"Sure," Taiyang said with a wave as CFVY sat down next to Summer. "We haven't seen you guys around in a while."
"Oh we've been around, but you guys have been too busy playing the good upperclassmen to Team JNPR. You aren't doing that today?"
"They have some dumb drama going on and we don't want any part of it," Qrow explained as he took apart a sandwich for anything he didn't want. "God I hate pickles."
"But knowing your luck you will get involved somehow," Velvet said, which got tired nods from STRQ. Velvet clapped her hands together, grinned slightly, and said, "So I think I figured out your airship story thanks to what happened yesterday."
"Oh did you?" Raven asked resting her head on one of her hands, her eyes half closed from boredom.
"Mhmm, and honestly I don't blame you for keeping quiet about it if it ended with you surrounded by a Grimm horde. A hundred strong, is that what you said?"
"Yup," Taiyang said stretching his hands over his head, "And honestly I don't really remember some of it. Rae and I got knocked out at some point and woke up in the infirmary."
"In the middle of a Grimm horde," Yatsuhashi said shaking his head, "Most Huntsman would have trouble fully conscious. How did you survive that?"
"Luck worked in our favor for once," Qrow said looking at Summer with a smirk, "And our 'radiant' leader showed off her chops."
"Don't oversell me," Summer said shaking her head, "I didn't do much."
"And yet, I somehow believe quite the opposite," Coco said tilting her glasses down a little to meet Summer's eyes. "And let me guess, what you did is a secret?"
"Kind of, not really," Summer said shaking her hands in a 'maybe' gesture.
"Then I'll assume it's some kind of ninja technique and move on with my life."
"Close enough I guess."
"And the airship crash?" Fox asked.
"That's a story in itself. Short version is the Grimm don't care who you are or if you called them, Huntsman or Mafia Don."
"No way."
"Yes way, and he brought that trouble on himself," Qrow said and pointed at Velvet with his now pickle free sandwich, "And speaking of trouble, you still having any your way Velvet?"
"I'm fine," she replied soberly looking down at her food.
"Winchester again?" Coco asked looking at Velvet, a distinct edge now in her voice.
"I said I'm fine!"
"I know that, but I hope you also know that we all have your back if you need it." Coco glanced at Yatsuhashi and Fox, who both nodded in agreement, and then looked at STRQ holding her fingers up in a pinching motion. "I'm seriously this close to doing something about Cardin anyway."
"Coco…"
"Maybe we should do something," Taiyang said looking at where Cardin was seated. 'The hell's he looking at us for?'
"TAI!"
"I'm serious. That kind of behavior isn't good coming from kids and even more so for Huntsman. If it isn't curbed soon, someone will get hurt."
"Bullying doesn't belong in a place where even simple spars could end in serious injury," Fox agreed.
"And it would be a good way to kill some time," Raven added collapsing onto the table with her head in her arms. "These damn remedial lessons man, it's sucking the soul right out of me."
"So glad I paid attention in class," Yatsuhashi said with a small smirk.
"Fuck you Yats."
"In any case," Summer said shaking her head at Raven, "while I agree Cardin needs to be dealt with, I can't think of a way to do something about it without getting in trouble ourselves. I would say leave it to the staff, but they can't do anything about what they can't see."
"True enough," Coco agreed with a shrug. "I gotta say, you certainly calmed down since last year. You used to get pissed off at everything."
"And I remember when you hated me on principle," Summer said, sharing a small smile with Coco, "and I'll have you know I've always been calm. It takes a lot to make me mad."
Suddenly a muffin hit Summer on the side of the head (ineffectually, it might as well have made a squeaking sound on impact) and bounced onto the table in between her and Raven while someone was chuckling in the distance. Taiyang and Qrow stared at the muffin in confusion, along with most of CFVY, and Raven shook her head in annoyance.
"A muffin? You think people trying to start something would at least use something hard, right Sum?" An almost deafening silence from next to her slowly drew her attention to her partner, along with most everyone else, as Summer slowly reached for the muffin and picked it up. She sat for a moment glaring a hole into the muffin.
"Uh… Sum?" Qrow asked tilting his head, "You ok?"
That question was answered when Summer jumped to her feet and bellowed "WHO'S RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS!?" loud enough to echo through the dining hall and causing Fox, Velvet, and a few other Faunus students who were close by to cover their ears (the ones that had them at least) and drew the attention of most of the other students.
"Careful with the shouting!" Coco said rubbing her ear and earning a glare from Summer, "and I saw Cardin throw it, for what it's worth." Summer's head snapped and her glare focused on the leader of Team CRDL, who had the good sense to face his team and try to look innocent even if he still looked like a deer caught in headlights.
"S-so, those essays are kinda crazy huh?" Cardin said nervously.
"We don't have any essays right now," Dove said.
"Shut up stupid and follow along!" Cardin whispered harshly just a flurry of white petals shot past him and someone grabbed his tray and flipped it away scattering the food all over the table. Cardin stood up and started saying, "What gives!?" as he turned around only to suddenly find himself knocked backwards onto the table and heard his team jump away from him. A knee jabbed into his stomach and his head pulled up by his uniform's tie until he was eye to eye with a very pissed off Summer radiating malice and rose petals.
"Summer!"
"Ah shit!"
"Kick his ass!"
"You think you're a big dog Winchester?" Summer asked glaring right into Cardin's eyes, the hardness killing any reply from the boy. "You think you're hot shit!? Guess what, you're wrong!" She pulled Cardin's tie just a little more and she bared her teeth as she said, "I've tolerated a lot of your bull shit over the last couple of months; the blatant idiocy, the bullying and tormenting my friends, your awful fucking cologne, but THIS," Summer held up the offending muffin, "picking a fight with me!? THAT IS UNACCEPTABLE!"
"You go girl!" Raven shouted as Summer shoved the muffin into Cardin's mouth, grabbed him by the collar of his uniform jacket, and pulled him up closer to her face.
"If you want to be a big fish, be ready to fight sharks, but we're far worse than you'll ever be. I hope you enjoyed your days of peace Cardin, because they'll be the last you'll ever have!" Summer let Cardin go, letting him fall to the table and spit out the muffin, and hopped off the bench she was standing on and walked the few steps to her team that had been standing ready to pull her off him if need be.
"You ok now Sum?" Taiyang asked.
"NO! I'm pissed off!" she replied and pointed at each of her teammates and back at Cardin, "You three are off the leash! He's your target! Have fun." Summer then pushed her way past Taiyang and Qrow, who stared at her in shock, and Raven who seemed a little confused.
"Seriously?" Raven asked.
"Yes!" Summer replied with a wave. Raven looked at Qrow and Taiyang and, after taking a few seconds to absorb what happened, each shared a mischievous smile and followed after their leader.
"Oh no…" Velvet said watching STRQ leave, which the rest of her team nodded in agreement to.
"The hell was all that?" Cardin said sitting up and watching Summer, though a sudden clanging of metal being dropped drew his attention to a nearby Team MRGD, the leader of whom was the one who dropped the tray.
"R-Redd, you heard that right?" she asked, her hands still shaking.
"Yup," she replied, her body a little too still all things considered.
"That's what I thought," Maribelle nodded before screaming, "STRQ'S GOING TO THE MATRESSES!" The words echoed through the hall for a moment before it was quiet again.
Then chaos. The majority of the students started screaming and shouting as they started running out of the dining hall, more than a few dropping trays and spilling food on the floor. "What happened!? Why are they on the warpath!?" one of them shouted.
"Cardin provoked them!" Maribelle shouted in reply, pointing at him as her team carried her away.
"GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME!" A third year that had been running by shouted and dove over a table to get away from Cardin. Soon the hall was emptied, save for a bunch of confused first years and CFVY, with only one last cry of "Oh god, the east dorms still smell from last year!" to fill the air as the stampeding students left. The first years started whispering among themselves as Coco started laughing and looked at Cardin as she stood up.
"You know, I would feel sorry for you guys, but I don't. I guess that punishment I thought of won't be necessary." Coco continued chuckling as she waved at her team and started walking out of the dining hall, Fox and Yatsuhashi doing so silently. Velvet looked back at Cardin, their eyes meeting for a split second, before she pulled her lower eyelid down with her middle finger and stuck her tongue out at him and continued after her team.
"Um… you ok Cardin?" Sky asked leaning over the table at Cardin.
"…Yeah, I'm fine," Cardin said brushing off his uniform sleeves. "Sure squirt, let's see how 'worse' you are."
"Yeesh," Nora said still holding the tray she had barely gotten when that all happened, Ren and Pyrrha next to her. "All that over a muffin? Some people."
"Agreed," Ren said shaking his head and led the way to a table. Pyrrha simply sighed and followed her teammates, suddenly finding her appetite gone.
"Alright guys," Raven said turning on the lights in a secret meeting room, Qrow and Taiyang sat at a small table in the middle of the room watching her, "I hope you guys are ready for this, because this has been a long time coming. Free reign to do what we want and a clear target, what more could we want?"
"Unlimited food from Simple Wok?" Taiyang asked.
"…Well, yeah, but let's focus on what we need and not what we want. So let's go round table and see what we come up with. Let's start with you Tai."
"Why not start small and put a tack on his seat or something?"
"Lame," Qrow replied sinking his head into his arms.
"Agreed," Raven said crossing her arms into an X, "We'll never get a chance like this again and you want to start small? Think bigger!"
"I'll need a minute then."
Raven sighed and looked at her brother. "You got any ideas that are worthwhile Qrow?"
"I've been kicking one around for a while. You got a pen and paper?" Raven knelt down for a moment before coming back up with a book of sketch paper and a pencil and held them out to Qrow. He took them, opened the sketch book on the table, and started drawing out his idea. "Here's what I was thinking."
"Nice work Jaune," Cardin said nodding at the essay in his hands, "you can barely tell I didn't write this. I knew this friendship would work out for the both of us."
"Right," Jaune said quietly as Cardin stowed the essay in his jacket and wrapped an arm around his shoulders and started leading him down the hall to the stairs.
"Don't be like that Jaune. Come on, let's get some drinks. Your treat."
"Whatever." Jaune looked up from the floor to see Summer and Qrow walking up the stairs mid discussion.
"A hot dog is not a sandwich Qrow," Summer said shaking her head in disgust.
"It's a collection of ingredients encased in bread. That's what a sandwich is!" Qrow defended just as they passed Cardin and Jaune. Once they were past Qrow quickly spun around and slapped Cardin's back, startling the first year, before settling back into his stride and going back to his discussion. "Next you'll say gyros aren't a sandwich."
"That's a whole other discussion."
"What was that about?" Cardin wondered watching the pair.
"He put something on your back," Jaune pointed out trying not to smile.
"What?" Cardin started reaching behind him, barely noticing Raven drag a laundry cart to the top of the stairs before walking away to lean against a wall stretching her arms over her head. After a moment Cardin got a hold of something and took it off his back. When he looked at it his confusion turned to annoyance when he saw it was a simple 'kick me' sign with 'dummy' written on it with an arrow pointing at a crude drawing of him. He shook his head and started to turn around. "Seriously? You guys need to try harder than-"
He stopped and his eyes widened when he saw Taiyang sprinting at him with a manic grin before jumping and drop kicking Cardin in the chest, the small kick of his semblance enough to send Cardin flying backwards. Jaune watched in surprise and Raven with a smug smirk as Cardin screamed through the air and into the laundry cart, which was when Raven rushed and kicked the slightly rolling cart down the stairs.
The cart, carrying a screaming Cardin, bounced down the stairs with a couple students jumping out of its way on the way down. Somehow it made it to the first landing without falling over and rode an improvised ramp that turned it around and sent down the other set of stairs. Halfway down that it did catch on a step and launched Cardin out of it, through the air, and face first into a kiddy pool filled with honey at the bottom that had been surrounded by confused students a few moments before. Cardin pushed himself out of the sticky substance and stood up, trying to wipe the honey off his face when he heard a whistle above him. Like a fool he looked up in time to see Qrow push a bag off the railing and onto his head, which exploded in a burst of feathers that covered him head to toe.
If Cardin could have gotten away with not taking the bag off his head in order to avoid the looks and laughter of the students around him, he would have. No such luck, so he tore it off and threw the bag at his feet and looked up at the culprits, who were laughing just as hard as the others.
"Now you look like how you are on the inside!" Taiyang howled leaning against the railing.
"Good luck going to class like that shithead!" Raven called as Cardin stormed out of the honey, through the crowd that parted for him, and down the hall away from the scene. Once the center of attention was gone the students quieted down and started heading their own ways, Raven Qrow and Taiyang among them. The three of them gave a short wave to Jaune on their way out. The first year returned the wave and watched them leave for a moment before looking over the railing at the kiddy pool.
"Where'd they get all that honey?" Jaune wondered aloud.
"Wouldn't you like to know!"
Cardin would later find that the essay in his jacket got covered with honey.
"That's sounds like fun," Raven said once Qrow finished explaining his idea, but shook her head a little and said, "It'd take a good deal of prep work though."
"Like we've been bad at that," Qrow responded, which Raven shrugged in agreement to, and looked at Taiyang. "So you think of anything?"
"I'm no good at these complex pranks," Taiyang replied shaking his head, "Can't I just do something simple?"
"Simple and big are not mutually exclusive," Raven said stretching her arms to her side, "I don't care what you come up with, as long as it's big." Taiyang sank down and buried his head in his arms, groaning into them for a solid few seconds.
"If we still had some of those stink bombs I could use those."
"Yup, it really is too bad that Glynda confiscated the rest we had after the laundry room," Raven said before smirking and polishing the knuckles of her right hand on her chest, "that is unless some clever bitch thought that far ahead and hid a few of them around the school. Eh?"
"How did-?" Taiyang started before shaking his head, "no never mind, I'm fine not knowing how or when you did that. Spare a couple?"
"If you tell me what you need them for," Raven said cocking an eyebrow.
"Well… I just need you to move them somewhere else really."
Cardin was still getting snickers from the students after what happened yesterday, though he barely managed to avoid getting in trouble for missing that essay. It was still baffling that 'my homework got covered in honey' was not an unusual occurrence here. Still Cardin wasn't about to let something like that keep him down for long, especially when he had his own little plan cooking. So when he and his team (plus Jaune) walked into Professor Goodwitch's class and saw that she wasn't in the classroom, he nodded at Russel who separated from the group as they took their seats.
"Um…?" Jaune started as Russel messed with one of the seats before quickly joining them.
"Don't worry about that Jaune," Cardin said clapping a hand on Jaune's shoulder and giving him the most fake grin, "just focus on the class. I'm depending on you to help with the homework, right?"
"R-right." Jaune nodded and held his breath when he saw Qrow and Taiyang head for the seats that Russel had been at. He watched nervously while Cardin and a few of the students that had come in before them watched with interest as they started to sit down.
"Tack Qrow," Taiyang said simply as he sat down.
"What?" Qrow asked looking down at his seat and narrowed his eyes at the tack sitting point up where he was about to sit. He grabbed it and held it up, giving a sardonic laugh as he said, "Ha, that's adorable! He's trying to step!" Qrow then looked at Cardin, who's eyes widened as Qrow reared his hand back and threw the tack with a shout of "Amateur!" at him. Cardin barely had time to react, which wasn't much of a problem since the tack missed him and embedded itself in the wood behind his head. Cardin and Jaune looked at the tack then back at Qrow pointed at both of his eyes and then at Cardin, eliciting an 'ooh' from the rest of the class.
"That's enough, sit down!" Glynda Goodwitch shouted once she was in the classroom, her sharp eyes running over every student as they quickly took their seats. After all, Professor Goodwitch was not the kind of teacher you wanted to make angry. Once everyone was seated and quiet she walked behind the desk and set her crop on top of it, her gaze once again scanning the room.
"While I understand you all are excited for the Vytal Festival, that is still a very long time from now. Focus less on that and more on your studies, understood?" The students either nodded or said 'Yes Professor' and Glynda crossed her arms before continuing. "Speaking of lessons, let's start todays. Last time we discussed and demonstrated the uses of Aura in combat, primarily as a shield. Today we'll take a closer look at a specific aspect of Aura that you all should be familiar with: Semblances. Now you all are aware of your Semblances and how to use them, being able to creatively apply them can be the difference between victory and defeat in a battle.
"As always, the best way to learn this is to see it firsthand. Do we have any volunteers for a quick spar, preferable those with versatile Semblances." She looked over the classroom as student after student raised their hands until she settled on Taiyang. "You, Mr. Xiao Long? I wouldn't say your Semblance is-"
"Fighting is more than just punching people Professor," Taiyang said lowering his hand and pushing himself up, "And I'm very good at fighting."
"…That you are," Glynda reluctantly agreed. "As for your opponent, how about Mr. Bra-"
"I want to spar against Cardin," Taiyang interrupted, causing Glynda to look at him curiously and Cardin to freeze up in shock.
"Mr. Winchester? Wouldn't your partner be a better match for you?"
"I can't fight. I have a cold," Qrow said resting his head in his hand.
"…A cold. Do you think I'm stupid?"
"I'm asymptomatic."
"Then how would you know, and even if you were why would you come to class?"
"Nothing will make me miss getting rid of remedial credits, not even death!" Qrow and Glynda stared at each other for a moment before Glynda closed her eyes and sighed as she looked at Cardin.
"Well then, Cardin and Taiyang will be sparring today. Go get your gear and meet in arena 2."
"U-um…" Cardin started as the students started getting up and following Glynda out of the classroom, his eyes warily on Taiyang.
"If you're not confident in your skills, you can back out and I'll just par with Jaune," Taiyang said as he passed by where Cardin was sitting.
"What!?" Jaune shrieked.
"Are you saying this pipsqueak is a better fighter than me?" Cardin said angrily standing up and pointing at Jaune.
"Yes," Taiyang replied with a nod.
"THAT'S IT! I'm not going to take that lying down!" Cardin shouted and proceeded to storm away from the desk, down the stairs, and out of the classroom ignoring the laughs from his classmates.
Taiyang chuckled to himself and looked up at Jaune and the rest of CRDL and said, "It really is too easy sometimes," before he crossed his arms behind his head and sauntered out of the class whistling a tune.
"Uh oh," was Dove's response to that, something that Russel and Sky silently agreed to.
When Taiyang got to the locker room he found Cardin at his locker getting out of his uniform and pulling his weapon out of his locker, muttering and grumbling to himself about something or other. Taiyang walked to his own locker, quickly checked around it for one thing or another, and then opened it to change. In a few minutes Taiyang was out of his uniform and in his usual combat clothes, shut his locker, and looked to find Cardin almost done.
"I hope you're ready," Taiyang said as he massaged the knuckles on his hand, "I won't go easy on you."
"Like you have been," Cardin said shaking his head and turning to face Taiyang, "and honestly I don't get it. You declare a prank war on me and knock me down a flight of stairs into honey and feathers over a muffin?"
"The muffin is incidental and far beside the point. Your attitude and the things you've been doing don't belong here. Frankly Cardin, you're kind of an asshole and deserve to be knocked down a peg or two." Taiyang crossed his arms and shrugged as he added, "But we're also nice. I'm sure if you apologize to Summer and promise never to do that stuff again, she'll take the target off of you."
"What 'stuff' do you mean? If you got the strength to get away with something, then why not do it? Isn't that what your buddy Raven always says?" Cardin asked with a smirk. Taiyang rolled his eyes with a sigh and quickly shoved him into his locker, Cardin gave a surprised shout when Taiyang shut the door on him. "Hey, what gives!?"
"That attitude is what I'm talking about!" Taiyang shouted and marched over to his locker to get the string of five stink bombs Raven left for him. With the bombs in hand he went back to Cardin's locker and opened the door to look the redhead in the eye. "You will learn the rights and wrongs here Cardin, it's only a question of how hard we have kick your ass for it to set in. Hold these please."
"What?" Cardin asked as Taiyang handed him the string of bombs before yanking on the string connecting the pins together, which pulled them out, and shut the locker door again before running for his life out of the locker room. Cardin, for his part, fully realized what was going on a second later and could only mutter out "Oh son of a bi-" before the bombs blew up in his hands.
"Whew, barely made it," Taiyang muttered as soon as he got out of the locker room. He put his hands on his hips and sighed heavily. "I'm so getting in trouble for this."
"Oh god," Taiyang looked at the door to the locker room as Cardin's voice echoed from inside, "I think it got into my clothes!"
"Meh, worth it."
"Wow, that's dirty as hell Tai," Raven said smiling at her blonde teammate, "I didn't think you could be such a bad boy. It's kind of hot."
"Oh shut up," Taiyang rolled his eyes and jabbed a finger at the paper he used to illustrate his idea. "We doing this or not?"
"Sure thing, I'll put the bombs where you said. I'll have to remember to dig those up."
"Alright then," Qrow nodded and pointed at Raven, "So what's your idea?"
"Huh? I'm helping mastermind all of this and helping you guys."
"So you don't have any ideas of your own?" Taiyang asked.
"I can think of something! I just… need a minute." Raven pressed a finger to her forehead and started humming in thought, Qrow and Taiyang watching in anticipation.
Meanwhile, Summer was busy with homework. "The Creatures of Grimm are dangerous in several ways even for experienced Huntsman. While fangs and claws are their tools for offense, defensively they have a near impenetrable bony…" Summer paused in her writing to stare at the word she just wrote down. "Are they actually bones? Technically the Grimm don't have bones and the like, they're basically just living shadows… oh whatever." Summer shook her head and finished the sentence about Grimm armor. "There are several ways around this armor, such as-"
The door to the bathroom suddenly creaked open and attracted Summer's attention as Raven poked her head out. "Hey Summer, you got a minute?"
"Are you finally done with your stupid 'meeting'? I have to use the bathroom."
"Almost. We're kind of stalled for ideas, so do you have one?"
"All of you or just you?" Summer asked getting a glare from Raven. She laughed a little and spun the pen in her hands for a minute before pointing at Raven with it. "I saw a video of some guys filming themselves jumping onto a trampoline covered in mouse traps in slow motion. Maybe something like that or off brand gelatin?"
"Hm, that's interesting," Raven said rubbing her chin, "We'll have to workshop it."
"But can I-" Summer started just as Raven shut the door, leaving Summer to glare at the door before sighing and looking back at her homework. She just about ready to start writing again when her scroll started ringing, leaving her to sigh and answer the call cutting off the song. "Summer Rose."
"Hello Ms. Rose, it's Professor Peach," the woman on the other end said rather energetically.
"Professor? Why are you calling so late?"
"I would have called or seen you sooner, but work caught up with me. As for why I'm calling, I want to offer you an extra credit assignment to clear your team of any remedial credits you have in my class. It shouldn't be that much by now right?"
"I'm listening," Summer said pushing away from the desk to pace around the room.
"I checked my store rooms earlier today and found that I'm running dangerously low on Red Sap from Forever Fall. I talked to Professor Ozpin and we scheduled a field trip for the first year students to collect some for me. However, you should know how Forever Fall is."
"Yes, I remember camping there last year. So you want my team to accompany them for security against the Grimm?"
"And to collect sap yourselves. Do a good enough job and you won't owe me any more remedial credits and you'll be that much closer to freedom."
"I'm certainly inclined to accept Professor, but let me run it by my team first. I'm sure they'll accept too."
"I'm waiting." Summer lowered the scroll and walked over to the bathroom door and opened it, stopping their discussion about gelatin.
"Hey idiots, want to knock out the rest of Professor Peach's remedials in one swoop?" she asked. Raven looked at Qrow and Taiyang before they all looked at Summer, Raven leaning against the table in the middle of the bathroom.
"I mean, sure, but what's the catch?" Raven asked.
"No real catch, we just have to collect sap in Forever Fall and make sure our underclassmen don't die. We do that and we won't owe her anything else."
"Really? That's easy, we can do that."
"A day of relaxing in the woods? Sounds like fun," Qrow said with a nod.
"Forever Fall should look amazing at this time of year," Taiyang nodded.
"Forever Fall looks the same all year long."
"Exactly."
"Great guys," Summer said lifting her scroll back up to her ear, "we're in Professor."
"Excellent!" Professor Peach exclaimed happily. "The trip will be this Saturday, so make sure you're all ready the night before."
"Understood. Um, can you make sure that our inclusion is set in stone? You know, just in case?" The other end was silent for a few moments before Peach sighed tiredly.
"What are you four planning?" she asked flatly.
"Planning? We're not planning anything. I just… don't want to miss the trip," Summer replied grabbing her upper arm with her free hand and looking over at her team. After another moment Peach sighed again.
"Just don't blow up the school and I'll see what I can do," she finally said.
"Understood."
"I'll see you in class tomorrow. Good night." The line went dead and Summer shut her scroll before jumping happily in the air.
"So we're good?" Qrow asked.
"Yup! In four days we'll go to Forever Fall and be that much closer to being done with this mess."
"That works out," Raven nodded and turned to face Qrow and Taiyang. "Ok, we'll go with Qrow's plan tomorrow, Tai's the day after since I'm sure that's the only time we have spar classes this week."
"Checked it and yes," Taiyang nodded.
"We'll rest on the third day to prepare for the trip, then the trip itself. All good?" Taiyang and Qrow nodded in agreement.
"Excellent!" Summer said smiling sweetly at her teammates. "Now, pretty please, GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE BATHROOM!" The sudden shout caused the three to recoil away as Summer Blinked toward them. After a short struggle Raven, Taiyang, Qrow, and the table were thrown out of the bathroom in that order and Summer shut the door after them.
"Talk about touchy," Taiyang said as Qrow got off of him and he got off Raven, "so what are we going to about the gelatin?"
"Forget the gelatin," Raven said smiling evilly, "I got a better idea just now." Qrow and Taiyang could looked at each other worriedly at that.
