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Apologies for this taking longer than usual to get out. I can't say it was the fault of any one thing, rather a mix of concern for writing this chapter properly, thoughts on what I'm going to do in the upcoming chapters (particularly in terms of Roman and Neo) and real-life stuff getting in the way. Sorry to say this but expect more delays in the future, though I'll try to AT LEAST get one or two chapters out each week, possibly more on the weekends depending on... well, everything, I guess.

Volume 2, Chapter 1, 'Best Day Ever'


Having already eaten her share of the cafeteria's banquet, Blake sat at one of the back tables in the cafeteria and lightly sketched another curve around the petals of the large rose in the middle of her notebook. Her vision went fuzzy as she looked at her other sketch, drawn from memory of one of the last times she could remember seeing that figure.

'What about the crew members?'

Adam turned towards her, his expression unreadable behind his Grimm mask. When he spoke, his voice also provided no insight into his thoughts.

'Look, Blake. Either when blow up this section and derail the whole train, or we throw the crew members off a speeding train so that they don't die in the explosion. This requires less work.'

Blake knew this already; she knew she'd never be able to change Adam's mind, yet she couldn't help looking away and shutting her eyes…

"Whatcha doing?"

Blake's eyes flew open and she reflectively jolted back from her blonde partner's invasion of her personal space. "Nothing," she replied, closing the notebook quickly, "Just going over notes from last semester."

Weiss, who was sitting on her other side, looked over at Yang and then at Blake when she spoke up. Concern seemed to fill her eyes even as she kept quiet. Her gaze instinctively drew to the white ribbon in the brunette's hair.

Yang bit back a comment on how ridiculous that excuse was, partly because she believed Weiss might snap at her for mocking studying and draw them away from the main point of the conversation. Despite moving back to catch a grape in her mouth (in a game she and Nora were playing; one that most of Team JNPR seemed to be enjoying,) Yang decided to push a little further. "You sure? The both of us can lend an ear if you need one," she assured her partner, noting their other teammate. Blake turned her head to look at the mentioned girl.

It took a lot of willpower for Weiss to stop herself from turning away, mostly due to the knowledge that such a gesture might be interpreted as rude or hurtful by her friend. Somehow managing to lock her gaze with Blake's without looking away, she accepted the transfer of focus. "S-she's right. Blake, we're here for you. You know that, right?"

The Faunus girl couldn't help but smile, returning a grateful look to Weiss and then Yang. "Thanks guys, but I can handle it myself."

Neither of the other girls felt satisfied with this answer, but neither pressed any further, fearing Blake might push them away and retract further into herself where they couldn't reach her. Yang managed to catch another airborne grape from Nora and gave a thumbs-up, bringing up her teammates' spirits a little bit.

All three girls reeled back into each other when a large binder hit the table, rattling nearby silverware. Their 'fearless' team leader cleared her throat before beginning her speech, gesturing to the two groups.

"Sisters. Friends. Weiss…"

"HEY!"

Blake, Yang and Team JNPR managed to stifle their laughter. Even though Ruby was often on the short end of Weiss's temper, she tended to get her revenge in amusing, if roundabout, ways.

"Four score and seven minutes ago, I had a dream."

"This ought to be good," her sister said sarcastically to the other two, moving to catch yet another grape with incredible coordination and eliciting a giggle from the thrower.

Their leader continued, completely ignoring the collective groans. "A dream that one day, the four of us would come together, as a team, and have the most fun anyone has ever had, EVER!"

With the break in Ruby's speech, Weiss suddenly noticed something. "Did you steal my binder?"

"I am not a crook." Ruby gave off two peace signs.

Blake was incredibly confused, what with her mind having been somewhere else just a minute ago. "What are you talking about?"

Ruby, happy to indulge her teammate, explained in simpler terms. "I'm talking about kicking off the semester with a bang!"

Yang was quick to capitalize on her sister's statement. "I always kick my semesters off with a YANG!"

Neither Blake nor Weiss were not in the mood to put up with Yang's puns right now. Weiss set her head on her hand as Yang received a (much too big to catch with her mouth) apple to the face and a boo from Nora.

Ruby, on the other hand, was not willing to lose the attention of her teammates.

"Look guys, it's been a good two weeks, and between more exchange students arriving and the tournament at the end of the year, our second semester is going to be great! But classes start back up tomorrow. Which was why I've taken the time to schedule a series of wonderful events for us today."

Still slightly concerned about how her binder played into this, Weiss spoke up again. "I don't know whether to be proud or scared of what you have in store."

She heard Ren let out a cry of shock as Yang returned her gift to its sender, conjuring another laugh from the other mischief maker.

Blake, who was still thinking back to her memory, wasn't really in the mood for games at the moment. "I don't know. I… think I might sit this out." She said, turning towards Weiss and looking for agreement.

While Weiss normally would prefer a nice, quiet day in the room, she also knew that Ruby would not be so willing to back down from her planned events. Taking another glance at Blake's white ribbon, she decided to try a tactic that could keep her on the good side of all of her teammates.

"Sit out or not, I think however we spend this last day, we should do it as a team!" Weiss exclaimed, prompting a look of surprise from her teammate, as well as attracting the attention of her leader. For some reason, Yang's focus was on something else, but she decided to ignore this and got out of her seat, feeling the need to continue vocalizing the idea she had just come up with to the rest of her team.

"I, for one, think that-"

*SPLAT*

The idea she'd had immediately vanished as she tried to process what had just happened. Weiss managed to blink some sort of substance out of her eyes and look across to see a stunned-looking Team JNPR. Pyrrha had her hand over her mouth and was sharing a terrified look with Jaune. Nora, the likely culprit, immediately tried to push the blame onto her facepalming partner with a childish point of her finger.

Having lost her train of thought and suddenly worried about how stupid she looked, Weiss wiped the creamy dessert off her face before grabbing a handful of food off of the tray in front of her and launching it at the suspect. It hit Nora square in the face and sending her flying back in a slightly more dramatic effect than one would have actually been expecting from the hardy girl.

Normally, Weiss would have NEVER done something so rude at home. But she wasn't at home. And, quite frankly, it was a bit satisfying to see the crazy redhead getting launched out of her seat.

Not a moment later, someone let out a loud cry that could easily be heard throughout the cafeteria.

"FOOD FIGHT!"

Immediately, the room exploded into a calamity of shouts and flying produce. The heiress quickly hid under her table with the rest of her team, being incredibly thankful that she was thousands of miles from her family in Atlas right now.

She was startled when Blake suddenly spoke up next to her. "Don't think I would have ever expected something like that out of you." She whispered with a smirk.

Weiss huffed. "What can I say? A Schnee ALWAYS gets even."

Suddenly, both girls heard a cry of shock from behind the Faunus. Turning around, the monochromatic duo managed to catch their leader being pelted with what appeared to be chicken nuggets. The two shifted their gaze to a certain blonde fool across from their table, looking quite content with his shot. Off to the side, Weiss hear a growl and Jaune's face suddenly fell as another blonde figure rushed forward and grabbed the foolish boy by his arm, throwing him over their table and into a large window.

Weiss smiled to herself. Any guilt from having started this mayhem suddenly vanished from her mind. She turned to Blake.

"This is gonna be fun."


For some reason, it wasn't until Nora's loud cackling echoed over the cafeteria that most of the other students fled the immediate vicinity. Sun and Neptune stepped into the arena as many kids ran past them, screaming in terror.

"I'M QUEEN OF THE CASTLE! I'M QUEEN OF THE CASTLE!"

Having survived her initial pelting, the wacky redhead had immediately determined that the best way to obtain a strategic advantage in a food fight was with superior terrain. So, naturally, this translated into her team building a massive castle out of cafeteria tables and vending machines.

Below, only Team RWBY stood firm against this impregnable fortress. Ruby Rose, leader of the rebellion against the tyranny of JNPR, aimed her finger at the evil queen and cried out for her wounded comrade, who had been the first casualty of the war. "Justice will be swift! Justice will be painful!" She crushed the milk carton in her hand for dramatic effect. "It will be DELICIOUS!"

"YEAAAH!" Her fellow teammates gave out a mighty hurrah as the group charged forwards.

"Off with their heads!" Queen Nora ordered, hopping down to the ground as she and the rest of her team hurled about a dozen watermelons at their opponents.

"FREEZERBURN!" The rebellious leader shouted, ducking as the duo in question cleared over her, Weiss grabbing a long baguette and Yang wielding two turkeys as gauntlets. The two girls shared a smile before looking back at the incoming ordnance, ready to try out their newly developed techniques on real adversaries.

Yang took the lead, charging forward and jumping, with the assistance of one of Weiss's glyphs, at one of the melons. She punched through the large dessert, reducing it to a red mist and began bashing her way through the rest, achieving a rhythm as she smashed through each and every melon before setting her sight on their first victim, Jaune. She brought back her arm and threw one turkey at the boy, quickly followed up by the other.

Wielding a large tray, the blonde leader of Team JNPR narrowly dodged the first bird and managed to deflect the second before charging forward, followed by Pyrrha. Yang came up to meet him and delivered several thorough punches and kicks against the tray, though Jaune managed to hold firm thanks to his training.

Suddenly, a strike came from below his opponent as Weiss lunged upwards and sent the brave if outmatched boy flying, landing hard on his back.

"BUMBLEBEE!"

Weiss pulled back as Pyrrha reached Yang and made a thrust forwards with her own bread sword. Yang threw the blow off to her side and responded with a punch that Pyrrha dodged and a sweep of the legs that forced the ace back. She managed to look up just in the nick of time to dodge yet another attack, this time from Blake who was wielding two baguettes.

Pyrrha once again lunged forwards only to catch one of Blake's shadow clones and block a hefty punch from Yang, who came flying through the disintegrating copy. Blake attempted to flank the red-haired girl only to just block an overhead strike from Jaune's tray, the boy already having managed to recover.

Yang managed to swipe away another strike from Pyrrha and grapple her arm, throwing her around in a circle before launching her back towards the mountain of tables. Blake, meanwhile, managed to grab a hold of her attacker's weapon and throw it over her head while simultaneously sweeping his legs and delivering a kick directly to his chest, sending Jaune tumbling back once again. She then immediately jumped back, dodging a leek that embedded itself into the floor. Looking up, she crossed her arms to block a blow from Ren as the boy landed a kick on her and flipped backwards before lunging at her again.

"ICE FLOWER!"

As Pyrrha got up, she barely managed to react as a large tray struck her outstretched arms. Ruby pushed off the other side of the plate and sent the top student skittering back as she brought up her baguette to block Weiss, who was now wielding a large swordfish.

Nora aired over Pyrrha and struck Ruby, who was still in the air, with a mallet made out of what appeared to be a large steel pole and a watermelon. The cloaked girl crashed into one of the table with a cry of shock as silverware flew in every direction. The redhead landed and charged forwards, only to trip up as her feet met ketchup that had been shot from a bottle wielded by Weiss. Pyrrha, who was supposed to be holding off the heiress, was now engaged with Yang who, having lacked an opponent, had charged forwards again. Wielding her two turkey gauntlets once more, she made several more punches at the ace, each strike being blocked with another tray as her baguette had been destroyed in by a previous hit from the blonde girl.

As Nora moved to block a strike from Weiss's swordfish, Blake had grabbed a chain of sausages and began whipping it at Ren, who blocked the strike and landed before sprinting back towards Yang, jumping off of the handle of Nora's hammer as she swing at her opponent once more, the heiress flipping back to just miss the heavy strike.

"LADYBUG!"

Jaune had just managed to get to his feet when Ruby hopped off his shoulders and sent him reeling, tackling Ren in the air as Blake did the same, the trio falling back to the floor with a crash as both girls crushed their opponent under their combined weight. The blonde boy was able to regain his footing only to be bowled over by Weiss, who herself had taken a hit from the mad queen's improv hammer. Tumbling to a halt, Jaune looked up and smiled warily at his crush, whose pnly response was a grimace. Grabbing him by the hoodie, she sent him flying back at Nora. The redhead simply ducked under her teammate as she shot forwards.

Before she could reach the white-haired girl, however, she was intercepted by Yang, who had managed to knock Pyrrha back against one of the soda machines. However, as she had already been winding up the shot, Nora simply struck the brawler instead, despite the larger girl's attempt to block the strike with her edible gauntlets, and sent her flying into the back wall.

As Blake and Ruby returned to their feet, the Faunus dodged a soda can, shot by Pyrrha, with one of her clones. The can exploded into grape soda as it hit the place she had just been standing. The red-haired girl began using her semblance to launch the (apparently magnetic) soda cans at Team RWBY.

Ruby used her own semblance to shoot back and catch her older sister, shouting her final command over her shoulder.

"CHECKMATE!"

Weiss, who had just ducked under one of Nora's strikes, snagged the smaller girl's leg and sent her face first into the ground, letting out a surprised shriek. She quickly created a glyph platform in front of her that Blake landed on, grabbing the heiress's arm with her black ribbons and throwing the girl over her shoulder.

In an incredible show of skill and expertise, Weiss assumed a diving position and smashed a vial of dust in front of her, encasing herself in ice. Pyrrha managed to narrowly dodge the living bullet only for it to strike one of the vending machines at the base of the fort.

The resulting explosion of soda sent cans and tables flying. Pyrrha let out a cry as she flew forwards from the blast, everyone else hitting the deck as soda rained down. Thankfully, most of the tables landed closer to the windows than the space at the middle of the cafeteria.

As everyone got up, all covered with different colors of soda, a sound echoed from the entrance which caused both teams to turn towards it. Sun was applauding loudly before elbowing Neptune. The blue-haired boy's only response was a glare, hidden under the coating of purple soda that covered his… well, everything.

"I love these guys." The blonde Faunus beamed as Neptune's glare began to relax.

The two moved back as Professor Goodwitch entered the cafeteria, growling loudly as she used her telekinetic semblance to rearrange and return the tables back to their original positions. Fixing her glasses, she let out a strained demand.

"Children, PLEASE, do not play with your food."

As audacious as it was to do so right in front of a teacher that was angry with them, all eight students burst out into laughter. This promised detention for all of them but they couldn't help themselves.

Blake, who helped Weiss up, clasped the heiress's hand with a huge grin on her face. She was glad she'd stayed for the fight; not only had it distracted her from her negative thoughts from before…

…it had actually been fun!

However, as soon as this thought crossed her mind, her smile began to fade.


Initially when I wrote this chapter, I was just going to do everything up to Weiss getting pied and leave the food fight alone, since I didn't feel anything needed to be added. Instead, I decided to do the fight so I could properly incorporate the team attacks from last chapter and practice doing fight scenes. And because it was awesome. This can be used to justify Jaune thinking up the combo attacks for JNPR in Volume 3.