Jeff looked at the message on his 'scroll' Ozpin gave him. No it was not a handy, it was not a tablet, these people called it a scroll. Because you can just rolle it up and keep it in your pocket, for convinience. Oh wait you can not, and this name was stupid. It was a glass display, that only a idiot would try to rolle up. That was just one of the many problem Jeff had at the moment.
Looking around, he could see that LJ got a message to, so did Tobby on his scroll, which was about 10 minutes newer than the rest of their scrolls. He had the most problems learning his new tool/toy because his hands where in bandages, he cut his hands on some glass while putting his first scroll into his pocket without looking.
The message, which came from Ben, reflected Jeff's mood perfectly. "Please kill me or this Prof, whichever you can do faster." Professor Port or so was a real pain in the ass. He was the elected teacher to teach them about the world of Remnant while also bringing them up with the corriculum of Beacons entrance level. This he did, or at least tried to do, by going of on one story after the other, how he fought Grimm in his youth, or he collected dust (their power supply, whoever came up with this stupid name) or how he was a weapon smith in his youth. 'He probably could build a portal gun which would get us back home, if he was in his youth.', Jeff thought sarcasticly.
Their was a silver lining, according to Velvet, Miss Goodwitch made sure that you would never have him more than 90 minutes at a time, because no sane person could stand listening to him longer than that. Did he already say that they needed to listen to him from 8am to 2pm? 6 days a week? Yes saturdays to so they could catch up? Appearrently she asked all the teachers if they had time to spare in their summer break and like any sane person would answer they mostly said no. Except for one, who took it upon himself to adjucate 4 poor outcasts so they could achieve their dreams to become great huntsman and be a upstanding pillar of society.
When he first explained this to them, Ben and Tobby where hard pressed to stop Jeff from leaping over his desk, who tried to stop the lessons before they could really begin. And somehow that guy thought that this was a signe that Jeff could not wait in his pursuid of knowledge. But that was 6 weeks ago, back when Jeff still had a will to live left. Now he accepted his stay in purgatory, together with some of the people he hated most on this godforsaken planet. It was so fucking godforsaken, their oldest religion literaly said that they had 2 gods and both noped out of this shithole called Remnant. How much do you need to hate your planet to call it 'Remnant' anyway. Earth was not much better, but it would at least win against whatever this fucking planet was called. These guys hated this place probably enough, if they knew about the climate crisis in their world, the people of Remnant would try to copy it.
There where at least some upsides in this place, every sunday Jeff could go out stabbing black things, Grimm or whatever and according to Ben, they have never heard about the concept of firewall in this world. Appearently, because most criminals tried a more hand on approach due to the fact that they could rely on aura to get them out of trouble. Meaning, digital crime except for illegal copys of videogames, music and film was pretty low here. Paired with only 4 major citys, which doubled as countrys, there was little in terms of stock market, at least compared to earth. Meaning someone who could play these two games on earth could get rich easily in Remnant.
Jeff had no understanding of either of these things, apart of basic knowledge. A living computer virus, which doubled as camera removel as well as money management for Slender, a.k.a. Ben, did. Meaning while the rest of them where stuck in this lecture, Ben, while physicly present, used his time to get filthy rich, as usual. This meant, if they ever needet to flee from this place, because someone, Tobby, fucked up, they had the money to do so. Meaning that little shit, who could at least do something during this hell, was the first today to talk shit about it. Jeff would put this little fucker in handcuffs, throw him in Emerald Forrest and than say Glynda that he is off drinking. Jeff looked at his scroll. Did really only 3 minutes pass, this lesson needs to stop please. Glynda Goodwitch was a different problem altogether. She did not like them in the least, which was understandable. This Ozpin guy decided to let us stay here for the time beeing, creating a huge headache in the organisation department, which he than left her to deal with. While you could argue that this was not their fault, it would be hard to argue when they did mess shit up while they where there. Like destroying the interior, ruining their gardens, ignoring curfew and so on. Looking up he could see that LJ was putting flowers into the hole in the desk Tobby made for this purpose. Jeffs problem was not that they where doing this, he did not really care if Goodwitch liked them or not. For all he cared she could scream at them for 3 hours flat, he could ignore her easily. No what he was mad about was that Tobby truly did not seem to realise that his action made her mad. 'What do you mean distruction of property, I just thought it was stupid to walk all the way around the flowerbed infront of the school, thats why I put some stones into it, so now there is a shortcut you see? This will make it easier for people to get from and to beacon fast.'
Goodwitch thought Tobby was playing silly to mess with her, Jeff knew it better. Tobby did not need to play at all, these things came natural to him. At this moment, his ears witnessed the most beautiful sound Jeff ever heard in his live. No singer could match it, not even a siren song could be so lovely, the enticing than those words that he witnessed this day. "This leads to the conclussion of our final lesson together, you will have free untill initiation, which will happen on tuesday, the other members of this school year will be here on monday in the great hall. You should take your stuff in your room with you, you may not stay in the same room for the rest of the year. I wish you a wonderful rest of the day."
Jeff could not hear the last part, the shook of finally beeing free was to great. But not all where as immobilized as him, Tobby decided for the more direct approach by jumping out of the window on the third floor, without picking up any of his stuff, or looking if someone was under him. While this became somewhat of a pattern, to the surprisingly lack of concern of Professor Port, the startled cry that could be heard from Professor Goodwitch was out of the ordinary.
'Well', Jeff thought, 'it was not him in detention for the first week of school, if not longer'.

"So just once more, we have to take a bullhead from Beacon to Vale, get out for 2 hours, get back on, wait for another like 30 minutes for everyone to get on to finally fly back to Beacon with the rest of the students. All the while we have to take our luggage and bring it with us. Is this correct."
"I see you have grasped the plan you four are supposed to follow."
'I fucking hate this school' Ben thought to himself, 'can someone please explain to me why we are doing this, it is literally waisted livetime for everyone involved.'
Even so, Ben opted for a seat close to a window. 'If he was already wasting his livetime, he should at least have a good few while doing so.' With this in mind, he looked for precisly 0.54 seconds out of the window, before he took out his scroll to play some random video games. Sadly, he had no access to his favorite titles like Donkey Kong, Mario and, of course, Zelda. With this beeing the case he had to look for alternative gaming option and it amazed him how many of them had something to do with Grimm. A jump and run in which you jumped on Beowolfs to kill them, a merge 3, where your damage against the Grimm was in relation to your combo and so on. At least they where somewhat enjoyable...
That beeing said, he had the last 6 weeks more than enough time to play most of the good ones. He also tried hacking into different national security systems, the only challenging one was Atlas and he exploited it already in 3 different ways. After reading most interresting files he could get his grip on, where the only really interresting was one about some roboter come to live project he could not find to give enough care to actually find out what was going on there. At least he got his first bucks from selling some of their data to this Torchwick guy. Big baddy in Vale, runs the underground of this place, was defeated by a fifteen year old Ruby Rose which lead to her beeing admissioned to Beacon 2 years early. He did not look into other candidates for this school year any further. It did not really matter to him anyway, they just needed a way back home. Slendy, after getting over the fact that yes they where fucked in another world, was like "Do try to not get too much attention to yourself, it could end bad for you. Also it would seem wise to me if we looked at this problem of a long term issues, therefore it would be best to first understand this world and get a foothold in society, this should allow you to later find help for our problem easier. I will talk to the other if they have any idea."
6 weeks of the Port-special later and he was ready to reanimate the people creating the ritual in the first place to kill them again. But this has to wait for another date, first he needed to leave the plane again, to waste another 2 houres. As soon as they where of it he said:
"I am off to the arcade, nobody follow me please, I wish for no human interaction today. I know that this will most likely not be achieveable but I hope I can at least delay it as much as possible." With this, he left the rest alone, Ben knew his goal and how he would get there. He was probably also the only one who looked at a map since they where here, so he was probably also the only one who knew where anything was here. Another reason to abandon them. 'Another left turn and then he should be already, there it is,' 'Vale Arcade' was written with yellow neon signs above the entrance, the place he could feel true bliss in, for at least a hour before he had to return to whatever shit was happening in Beacon. As soon as he entered he could hear a kid whaling or at least someone his age acting like one. "But Ren you said I could have a sloth."
"Yeah Nora but we already spend all of our lien we have, we will get some more once we are in Beacon and then we can come back and try again."
"But what is if someone else already took the sloth, it would be gone forever."
Wait, she wants to go to Beacon, a school in which you learned to kill monsters while facing death. And she was crying at her boyfrinds legs because she could not get a sloth plushy, from a rigged machine designed to not giving her anything. Really now? Ok they will probably stop it and leave any minute now, so he could play his games in peace. Any minute now.
Any minute...

10 minutes later:
Ah fuck it. "I can get you your sloth if you want" Ben could hear himself say.
"Really now, can you can you can you pleaaaaase?"
"Girl did you drink like 20 energy drinks? Just calm down and do not shake the machine and everything will be alright."
The boy, Ren, send him a thankfull gaze. 'I just saved his ass from a crying girlfriend.' Ben realised. After spending more time Ben would ever admit to in LJ's haunted park playing the different arcade games and spending enough money for LJ's to get the matirials to build a bigger water slide, Ben knew perfectly what to do. With the skill that comes from doing something more often than you ever should do, he easily managed to single out the sloth and placing it in a way that on his second attempt he could lift it even with a grab arm that could not hold onto anything heavier than a piece of paper. And like it was planned, he managed to gain hold on the object of desire. He could see the arm lift it, how it came dangoursly close to falling of again, because it was always the case with these machines to screw you over. But the prize stayed in his grasps till the moment it was above the luke that spelled victory. And just like that, he did what so many before him failed to achive: get the girl the plushy. .

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What Ben failed to release at the time, was that, while close and not related, Ren and Nora where in fact, in no relationship. This meant this was not a date and a new friend could be added to the little group. Something Ren and especially Nora where happy to do, all the while defeating the purpose of Bens action in the first place. His peace before the schoolyear rests in this acarde to this day. It will be missed by one person, but this persone will miss it rather strongly. .

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Meanwhile, closer to the bullhead Yang was currently in the process to leave her beloved motorbike Bumblebee behind. She endored driving it around, enjoying the freedom it gave her, but sadly, she could not take it with her to Beacon. While, not really a school rule, there was this slight issue with roads, or absence of them to the school building. Beacon was positioned a bit outside the City and could only be reached by Bullhead for some reason. Yang neither understood why, nor did she care. All she knew was that her bike would be staying here while she would be at the school. 'Here' by the way was a garage, sponsored by the school so people could still have access to cars in their freetime. Meaning Yang could come down here within like 1 hour if she felt like it. Some might say she makes a bigger issue out of it than it needs to be, but what do they know? Lost in thought she did not realise the person behind her, looking at her, with axe in hand. "Nice bike you got there, how much so I can take it for a ride?"
Turning around, she could tell that first, this guy was probably a student like her and second that he was not that bad looking. She did not feel threatend by him because she had also Ember Celica equiped, so it would be hypocritical from her to be anoyed by his desplay of his weapon. "Sorry sweaty, but thats not gonna happen. We have to get to the Bullhead now anyway."
"Yeah is probably for the best, i don't know how to drive anyway. Names Toby by the way."
With this, the duo started to walk back towards the bullhead. "Mines Yang and why would you ask to drive if you can't do it?"
"Hey I said I do not really know how to, doesn't mean I don't do it." If Yang wasn't sure that this guy would be trouble before, now she was. Definitly not a stickler for rules than. But hey neither was she really so what gives. "Why are you here if you have nothing that would require you to be at a garage?" "Trying to kill time, while not wanting to be near Jeff."
"Whos this, a friend of yours?"
"Friend is such a strong word, I would rather say that we can stand our pressence. Wait we cann't even do that. He is a asshole I like? He is asshole I know? Yeah that seems fitting lets go with that."
"Wow I can feel the love there, than I hope you don't end up on the same team as him."
"Actually I have planned to team up with him, he has his redeeming qualitys and knows how to fight. When hard comes to hard, the only knive you have to fear in your back is the one from Jeff himself, thats a plus in my book."
"You have weird ideas how this whole partner stuff should work, have you not?"
"How about you, do you know anyone here already?"
"Well there are some from my old school called Signal who transfered to Beacon, but nobody I would consider a close friend. And there is my sister of course, Ruby, who managed to get in two years early by beating Roman Torchwick while he tried to rob a store."
"Attacking famous robbers, thats the shit I signed up for, not for this class shit. But I guess the good comes with the bad. Is your sis already at the bullhead?."
"Yeah I told her to go there to make some friends. While she is great, she is a bit shy. I hope Beacon will break her out of her shell for a bit. Told her she should start of by talking to one or two persones at a time and be friendly, than thinks could not go wrong."
At this Toby suddenly stopped.
"A shy girl trying to make friend and you basically told her to start with Jeff. Well shes fucked."
They where just outside the area they should meet, the scenery was overflowing with students from all years and regions. You could also see many different kinds of Faunus as well as merchant trying to make a quick buck with the amount of teenagers and young adults around. And after a short second, you could also see a black haired girl, who seemed to be a bit younger than the rest crying in a corner. Immediatly after spotting her, Yang rushed towards her sister, Tobby following close behind her. "Ruby what happened?"
"Everybody already hates me."
Yang was pissed, but she reigned in her anger to take Ruby into her arms.
"Not everybody hates you, just because one or two assholes are out there does not mean you will make no friends."
Meanwhile Toby saw the solution to problem crying sister of hot blond: LJ was running around putting kick me signs on the back of every second person he walked acrosse. Somehow, he always had just one more so everybody in front of him thought they would be spared from his actions before someone would find the joke funny and kick them. "He said he hopes I drop out of the Bullhead and get eaten by a Grimm." Ruby sobbed. "Had the guy black hair and a grey and dirty hoody?" Tobby asked.
"Yes, do you know him?"
"Well yeah, it would be wrong to say everybody hates you, rather I'd say he hates everybody so don't take it personal kid."
"I am not a kid, I drink milk." Ruby protested. To which Toby prombly failed to hold in his laughter. And a pouting Ruby did not help it one bit. In the meantime LJ arrived took one look at the scene and decided to ask the most important question first.
"Anybody some candy?", with this he oppend his hand and a mountain of candy seemed to appear in it. "Dad always told me not to take candy from strangers."
"Then let me tell you that I am the laughing Jack or LJ for short and I only grant my favourite candy to my friends, so what do you say young Ruby, will you take a candy of friendship from me?" While saying this, he threw his candy up in the air, bevor catching it again, letting in fall in a pocket that was hard to notice if you did not know where to look and opened another one with mainly golden and blue wrapped candy. But before she could decide on one to take, she was stopped again, this time from Toby. "I am Toby just so you know and when you get Candy from LJ always avoid the stripped ones. Those are joke candys and are not good to eat."
With this warning in mind Ruby reached for a Candy and Yang looked up to the new arrival. If Toby looked like he had worn out his clothes LJ looked like he stole the used clothes from a dumpster and somehow made clothes from that. Yang realised she probably just introduced her innocent sister to the dark side of Vale by accident. At least they seemed ok. Meanwhile LJ said: "A crying fair maiden, on the first day of school, who would do something so atrocious, something so downright evil? Who am I kidding it was Jeff right? What did this piece of shit say?"
"Bad word!" Ruby screamed immediatly, to which Tobby and LJ looked at her in shook. Did she just try to stop them from swearing, yeah thats not gonna happen.
"Well you see, in order to discurage the use of swear language at home, she was tasked to collect a dollar for every swear." Yang explained, "By the way normaly you would take the collection jar out right now, why don't you?"
"Jeff." Toby answered immediatly.
"He used a swear word, she tried to do the same and he took the money out of the jar and threw the jar against something."
"He trew it against a wall behind him, how did you know, where you there?"
"No but I do know Jeff." Toby answered. At this point there conversation was stopped due to the announcament that the bullhead would soon lift of and every student should go on board.