(Roderick's POV)

"Remind me again why we're doing this?" Leichter asks me. "One of the most important lessons life will teach you is that there is strength in numbers. By having an expansive friend circle, we'll be able to contact our allies with relative ease. In addition, camaraderie is important on maintaining a high morale." I explain my intentions. "Are you sure it's not because they seem to be outcasts? They don't exactly socialize with anyone outside of their respective teams." Stella says. "Trust me. Besides, we're not going to be alone. Teams RWBY and JNPR are going to be with us." I assure. "I-I guess there's no harm in trying." Chihiro meekly speaks. "Alright then. Let's go."

We met with RWBY and JNPR at the courtyard, exactly where we said to rendezvous. "You did invite them, right?" I ask. "Team ECRU should be here any second." Ruby confirms. "HYDW should also be here any second." Jaune supports. "So, now what? Just wait?" Blake asks. "We shouldn't have to wait long. Nothing important is happening today, and it's the weekend so we have quite a bit of time." Pyrrha speculates. "Well this is unexpected. I didn't expect this to be a large group." I hear a solemn voice behind me. Team HYDW had arrived. "Neither did I. What's going on?" A pleasant voice asks. On the other side, Team ECRU had approached us. "I gathered you here to get to know all of you better. Having a good camaraderie with our peers should positively affect our efficiency when we are on missions. I assume you would all agree." Murmurs and whispers of agreement resound in our circle. "Alright then. Shall we begin? Who will start?" I suppose. As long as tensions don't go negatively, this should go relatively well.

"I suppose I should." I hear to my right. "Hello. My name is Herald Razzmatazz. I'm the leader of Team HYDW." Herald had messy auburn hair and wore red reading glasses over his brown eyes. He wore a royal blue vest over his maroon long-sleeve shirt. His brown belt held up a slightly oversized pair of beige jeans. His shoes were denim grey with white laces. His symbol was on the back of his vest, the suit of clubs with the leaves of the clover being replaced with targets. "My weapon of choice are throwing knives, and my Semblance makes me the pen-ultimate master of sleight-of-hand. Watch." He took out a playing card from his pocket. With a snap of his fingers, it was gone. "I do enjoy a good magic show." He states. "Cool. I'll call it Trick-Touch!" Stella blurts. Herald seemed a bit surprised. "I, um, didn't know you named Semblances." He tells us. "WE don't. STELLA does." Leichter explains. "I personally see nothing wrong with it." The pleasant voice says again. "It shouldn't be a problem to unnamed Semblances." Weiss notes. "Okay then… Here's my signature knife, Youxi." He claps his hands and a checkered throwing knife appears in his palms. The blade was checkered silver and nickel, and the handle was checkered red and black. "Ooh…" I see Ruby ogle over it a little. "Isn't it just another throwing knife?" Blake asks. "Not really. It also serves as a silenced pistol with light Dust bullets. Though, I rarely fire it, seeing as I'm more used to throwing knives." He closes his left hand into a fist with the knife in it, he makes a throwing motion with it to the air, and Youxi vanishes. "Well, I believe it's your turn Midori."

"Oh, ok! Hi everyone! I'm Midori Yochu!" Midori seemed to be the shortest out of all of us, tied with Chihiro. Midori's hair was pitch black. She had it in pigtails and two strips of hair were made to resemble antennae. She was heterochromatic with her left eye being lime green and her right being bronze. She wore an olive-green poncho that extended only to her exposed navel. She seemed to have long, white sleeves under her poncho and her fingernails were painted orange. She also wore bell-bottom pants that were spiral in color, alternating from yellow and blue. She also wore black socks and red sandals. On the front of her poncho was her symbol; a pair of monarch butterfly wings attached to a string. "Oh, and I'm a Faunus!" She then unfolds a pair of butterfly wings. It was a kaleidoscope pattern of many shades of green, orange, brown, and yellow. "Uh, you sure you should be doing that?" Blake asks a bit too cautiously. "Yeah, why show that off considering how much controversy Faunus have been stirring?" One of ECRU asks. "I say let the haters hate. No skin off my back. Or wings. I show off who I am, loud and proud!" I see smiles across almost everyone's face. Namely, Weiss's wasn't smiling. She didn't seem to be hateful either, though. "Oh, here's my weapon. I weaponized this yo-yo with Aicho-power! Behold my beloved Kyutai!" She pulls out a yo-yo with sawblades etched into the wheel of the weaponized toy. It had a spiral pattern of red and blue on it. Ruby was once again in awe. "Cool…" She mewed. "Thanks! I didn't give it a gun feature. I figured it'd have enough range anyway. Especially since longer-range attacks are usually Dust-based. Which leads into my Semblance! I can use my wings to blow away any and all attacks that utilize Dust! Name me please!" Midori seems eager to have her Semblance named. "You got it! Hey! Let's work together more often! I want to see Wing-Ding in action!" Stella has now named Midori's Semblance. "Awesome!" Midori shouts. "Oh great, there's THREE of them…" Ren and Leichter deadpan.

The other girl of HYDW clears her throat. Everyone stops what they were doing to look at her. "Thank you. My name is Diane Limerick." Diane had straight limerick green hair extended down to her shoulders and had jade green eyes. She wore a seafoam green hooded sweater and left the hood down. She also wore chartreuse open finger gloves like my own. She wore moss green sweatpants and white combat boots. Her symbol was on her shoes; a plug with a battery symbol on it. "I'd advise you not to get too close to me physically. My Semblance is simple, but powerful. I can create electricity with my own hands, like arcane magic." She then made a gripping motion with her left hand, and sparks could be seen from her fingertips. What happened next surprised all of us; Nora just up and went and grabbed her hand while it was electrified. "That's amazing!" Nora said with a bright smile. Everyone, except Ren was flabbergasted when Nora felt almost nothing from the voltage. "W-What? How are you withstanding my?" Diane was cut short by the answer she was asking for. "MY Semblance allows me to channel electricity though my body." Nora's Semblance being this explained everything. No wonder she has s much energy. "That's… interesting…" Diane says, still in shock- oh great, Yang's puns are rubbing off on me. "Well, you've got Zap-Finger. What's your weapon?" Stella asks, naming Diane's Semblance. "Oh, right. Nora, can you please let go?" Diane asks politely. Nora complies. Diane then pulls out a necklace from under her sweatshirt. She pulls it off her neck ant the orb on the necklace turned into a rod. "This is Sifon. It is a lightning rod that pulls electricity towards it and channels that energy into compressed spheres of non-elemental damage. In a pinch, it can also be used as a bludgeoning tool." Ruby, unsurprisingly, gazes in awe. Diane then retracts Sifon and the strings that comprised of her necklace were soon rematerialized, as if they were never broken off in the first place. "Well then Mr. Wheatley. You are the last of us to introduce yourself."

"Oh, uh, right. Hello. I am Kallyn Wheatley, and, yeah that's it." Kallyn had light grey hair and had a simple buzz cut as his hairstyle. His eyes were an azure blue. He wore a mechanical-like light chest-piece. The interior part of the armor was true blue, and the plating was canary yellow. His leggings had a different color scheme. It was mechanical-like, same as his chest-piece, but the interior was instead a normal green and the plating was carrot orange. His boots were mechanical-like as well and the interior was iris purple and the plating was apple red. His gauntlets, however, were not mechanical. They appeared to be the same as a medieval knight's and was wheat brown in color. "I'll get it out of the way now. My Semblance basically turns me into a projector. When I look at something detailed from far away, I can project the object in perfect detail with my eyes." He looked toward Cardin's armor as he walked by. He then projected the armor from his eyes. It was the exact same chest-piece. "Nice! You're really good with that Sight-Screen of yours." Stella names his Semblance. "That's how you saw Ruby's drawing!" Chihiro exclaims. "You what?" Ruby asks. "It was quite a laugh we had. That was brilliant." Kallyn compliments. "Eheh, thanks…" Ruby says solemnly. "Oh, something happen to turn that into a sore subject? My bad. Hey, I know what will cheer you up! My weapon!" Kallyn pulls out a metal stick from his armor. It quickly becomes a trident of lemon yellow. "Behold: Kernehus!" Ruby's face instantly lights up. "All is forgiven!" Kallyn lets out a hearty laugh. "I also outfitted it to be an assault rifle as well! It fires water Dust rounds with spot-on accuracy!" He quickly retracts Kernehus and puts it back in his armor. "Well, that's all of us. Now it's your turn." Herald gestures to Team ECRU.

"Very well then. My name is Emmet Vio. I lead Team ECRU." Emmet Vio had curly black hair, but it wasn't very long, and his eyes were a bright violet. He wore a plum-colored leather jacket, kept it unzipped, and a tiffany blue shirt underneath. His silver belt fastened itself onto his black jeans with lavender trim. His sneakers were wine purple and ash grey. His symbol was on his undershirt and it was a sound wave resonating off a cube. "My Semblance, called Reverb, is pretty much the ultimate form of echolocation. With a snap of my fingers, I'll know exactly where someone is instantly." Emmet snaps his fingers while saying this. "Boo, I don't get to name it…" Stella pouts. Emmet lets out a small chuckle. He then proceeds to pull out a solid cube that looks like a microphone windscreen. Said cube was attached to a black string. "And this is my weapon. Risonanza. Not only is it very durable, it is the end of my flail, and it serves as a semi-auto handgun with gravity Dust shots when I need it. It's also my music player." This got a lot of people's attention. Except for Ruby who was fawning over the flail itself. "Why a music player? Wouldn't that disrupt your Semblance?" Chihiro asks. "Good question. There is an answer, and it's no. The music does help me focus in battle. In fact, the type of music I have playing in my ears can reflect how I fight in battle. With a rock song playing, I fight aggressively. But in a more delicate song, I fight a bit more gracefully." Emmet's fighting style mimics what song he listens to? He sure is interesting. "I believe that is the end of my turn. You're next, Clive."

"Very well. My name is Clive Gronn. Ever at the ready." Clive wore an entirely shamrock green set of armor. Chest plate, leggings, boots, and gauntlet. His blonde hair was flat, but parted at the center of his forehead. His eyes were basil green and he had a mole below the left side of his lip. His symbol was a pear green spearhead with a pineapple yellow circle around it. "My Semblance is called Bluster Balm. It allows me to control wind, and manifest its energy into compressed blades of tempestuous winds." Clive demonstrates by forming a small tornado on one of the palms of his hands. He then launches a wind cutter into the air with his other hand. Stella once again seemed upset that she couldn't name another Semblance. "I commonly use it for movement since my defensive armor does weigh me down a bit." Clive states. "That's actually very practical. With such a heavy defense, using your Semblance to increase your mobility can get you to the frontlines faster." Ren speculates. "Precisely. And this is my weapon. Behold; Vaengr!" Vaengr was a spear. The spearhead seemed to be made of emerald and the pole was jade green. Ruby looked at it in wonder, to the surprise of no one. "I use it as a sniper rifle with wind Dust bullets if I have to fight at long distance, but my trusted spear hasn't let me down once." Clive, what have you done? "Oh! My Crescent Rose is also a sniper rifle! Look!" Ruby pulls out her scythe and attempts to demonstrate it for everyone to see. "Woah! Easy Ruby! It's not our turn yet! Show it off later." Yang tells her sister. Ruby pouts a little before retracting Crescent Rose. "Thank you. I think I'm done now. Ruediger, you may begin."

"Hey. I'm Ruediger Rosa. Most people call me 'Reau'. You can call me Ruediger if you want to." Ruediger had very short brown hair and sky-blue eyes. He wore a red sweatshirt and orange shorts. Odd fashion choice, but I'm not one to judge that. His socks were basic white, and his gym shoes were pink and black. His symbol was sewn on the back of his sweatshirt, a cross inside the dark side of a crescent moon. "These are my weapons. Byt and Zgon" Ruediger pulls out his pair of obsidian claws from the pockets of his sweatshirt. Once again, Ruby was more than impressed. They were spiked where the fingers bend on the top of the hands. There seemed to be a pair funnels where the wrists are as well. "In addition to being claws, they are also mini double-barrel shotguns for dark Dust shells." He does a few battle-poses while explaining his weapons. "Cool. Just like me. Up close and personal!" Yang comments. Oh dear. "My Semblance is actually kind of useless in combat. Ghostly Whisper allows me to communicate with the dead. That's all it can do sadly." Everyone's faces became a little bit sullen. I guess there are some people who died in everyone's life that they wanted to speak with again. Nobody seemed to be willing to push Ruediger to talk with them though. "Sorry for ruining the mood. Uhai, would you mind?"

"Uhai Machun." He seems to be a blunt kind of person. He wore a white bandana on his head covering his umber brown hair. He wore a ginger orange jacket with wide sleeves. The sleeves ended in a pattern of red triangles, and the zipper was pitch black. His walnut brown jeans seemed a little bit too big and they were tucked into tiger orange boots. On the front of his bandana, lied his symbol. It was a quiver with a paintbrush in it instead of arrows. "My Semblance lets the art I make become real." He pulls out a piece of paper which had a drawing of an apple. He then took the apple outside of the drawing and proceeded to bite it. There were 'oohs' and 'ahs' all around us. Then Stella realized something. "Your Semblance doesn't have a name!" Uhai nods. "Correct." Stella makes a wide smile. "Well now it does! I dub thee, Still-Life." Stella seems proud of herself. "I like it." Uhai says. "My weapon. Kutisha. It is a bow. I can use it as a dual-sided blade if necessary. The string is unbreakable." Uhai seems to be a man of few words. Kutisha was a feathered bow. The bow itself was rust orange and the feathers were apricot-colored. The arrows seemed to be non-elemental Dust based. He then put his bow away after showing it off a little. And yes, Ruby enjoyed the mere sight of it. "We are done. It is your turn." That's right. Now that HYDW and ECRU had introduced themselves, WE had to introduce OURSELVES to THEM. "Okay then! We'll go next! Here's Team RWBY!"

(No POV)

After RWBY, JNPR, RSCL introduced themselves, Semblance and weapons and all, they started talking amongst ourselves for a while. The five teams were getting along rather well. Eventually, it became dark. The five teams departed for their dorms after exchanging contact information. The five teams of Huntsmen and Huntresses in training had just started a grand friendship.

Author's Notes

And with that, Teams ECRU and HYDW have been fully revealed. Yeah, I know this is a filler chapter, but I did need to show ECRU and HYDW, and now was as good a time if ever. They will become more important later on in the story, but the main focus will be on RSCL. However, there may be spin-off stories about them later down the line. Speaking of stories; new stories are on their way to the Enigmatic Library. You'll find out what they are on 9/20. I'll tell you this; a new story is on the horizon and will be here in two weeks' time. However, that won't be before this story gets its next chapter; The Jaundice Arc. Like I said earlier, this is one of my least favorite arcs in RWBY since the 'useless Jaune' character trait was something that rubbed me the wrong way. Hopefully, I'll be able to do it some justice for those of you who like it. Anyways, expect it to come out between 9/18 and 9/22. I do not own RWBY or any of its characters. I only own Teams RSCL, ECRU, and HYDW. Until next time, I'll stay Enigmatic.

-UltimateEnigmatic