Ruby and Weiss were sitting in a tall tree, resting in cover. They had patrolled around the north and east sides of the camp for almost 2 hours now without any sightings of an enemy scout or Grimm.
"Gah, Weiss, something is going to have to happen soon. I'm going to go insane with waiting." Ruby complained to Weiss.
"I know Ruby, but 24 hours is a long time. The enemy will probably take all the time that they can to tire us out and to try to make a plan to capture our base."
"Weeeiisss I knoowww. I'm just so bored. Maybe one of the other teams has seen something since we last checked in." Ruby reached for her mi button to call in a progress report from everyone else.
"Ruby Rose!" Weiss said sternly. "You called for a report 10 minutes ago. If they see something, they will report. It won't do any good annoying the others."
"..." Ruby sat there pouting at Weiss. Weiss didn't give any ground and Ruby conceded. "Fiinneee. I'll wait patiently."
Weiss softened her look and smiled softly at her. It was only a small gesture, but it made Ruby smile too, and she looked a little less bored.
"It makes it better that you're here, you know," Ruby said, her eyes on the leaves above her.
Weiss blushed a little. "What? Is my discipline rubbing off on you and you have more control over how you feel?"
Ruby laughed at this and looked at Weiss, "nah ... " Then Ruby smirked and taking a mocking tone said, "I just spend so much thinking about not upsetting you that I have less time to think about how bored I am!"
"You dolt!" Weiss exclaimed. She was the one pouting now with arms crossed and back towards Ruby.
Ruby came up behind her and put a hand on her shoulder, turning Weiss to look at her. Still with the mocking tone she said, "looks like a might not have spent enough time thinking about that huh?"
Ruby was giving Weiss her best 'forgive me' smile.
It worked, Weiss softened up immediately and laughed a little. "No, you didn't spend enough time thinking about." Said Weiss, trying to play along with Ruby's joke.
Ruby's eyes glinted as she said a little too sweetly, "I'm sorry Weiss, I just get so distracted by how cute you are."
Weiss was not ready for that, she had no response, she just sat there speechless and frozen, a deep red blush brightening her cheeks.
"You're so cute when you're flustered, Weiss!" Ruby laughed, allowing Weiss to recover enough to stutter a respond.
"R-Ruby, w-why do y-you always do this to me during an I-important mission. You d-dolt."
The radio cracked then, saving Weiss from any more of Ruby's schemes.
"Hello? This is Pyrrha." Came Pyrrha's voice over the radio.
Ruby's eyes lit up with excitement, finally something was happening, though she was enjoying teasing Weiss.
"Yes!" Ruby said a little excitedly. "What do you have to report, Pyrrha?"
"Well ... nothing really ..." Ruby's eyes lost the spark they just had. "I wanted to say that maybe we should convene at the camp and discuss what's happening and maybe adjust our plan. 24 hours is a long time, and we didn't account for having to rest."
"Tired already, Pyrrha?" Nora's voice said sarcastically, followed quickly by Yang. "Pyrrha? More like Pyrr-dud" this was followed by ridiculous laughter from the vanguard group.
"That's enough you two," came Blake's voice. She was amused, but tried to sound annoyed in order to shut Yang up.
"I know you love me, kitty cat!" Yang said, getting the last word. Blake gave an exaggerated "ugh" and Ruby jumped on before any more mischief could happen.
"Pyrrha, that's a good idea. Alright everybody, let's meet up at the base of the flagpole and decide what we'll do from there, ok?"
Everyone agreed, and Ruby and Weiss got up to head back to base
Everyone got there before Ruby and Weiss. As the walked up, Yang turned towards them looking devilish and asked, "did you guys take a break to get a quick smooch in?" Putting a lot of emphasis on the word smooch.
Ruby stopped dead turning as red as her cloak and waving her arms, "n-no no it wasn't that at all," she said franticly.
Weiss couldn't help but laugh and whispered to Ruby, "who's the one that's flustered now?"
Ruby just hung her head and sighed "gaahhh" and joined the group a little embarrassed.
"Alright," Ruby started the meeting. "What were you thinking Pyrrha?"
"Well, like I said earlier, 24 hours is a long time to hold this position. And if we don't get any rest during this time, we won't be very effective defenders when the war game comes to its end game. So I suggest alternating groups on patrol while the other gets rest. And including our vanguard group in some patrol."
"AWWW YEEAAAHH!" Nora shouted.
"We also have to make sure Blake and Jaune get some rest too. When they rest, we should tighten our patrol so nobody can sneak through." Pyrrha finished.
"Some rest would be good for me," said Blake. "I won't be much help to you as your eyes if I can barely keep mine open."
"Ok, well the time we are going to need you the most is at night. That's when we'll be able to take advantage of your night vision. So why don't we tighten patrol now, and Blake, do you think you can get some sleep?" Asked Ruby.
"Yeah I could sleep for a bit, but I won't be able to make it till evening." The Faunus responded.
"Ok, then sleep for now, and then you and Jaune will take over on patrol. Yang, Nora. You guys also rest for now. We'll switch patrol in an hour. And then every two hours after that until night fall."
Everyone agreed, and this is how they passed the time until night fall.
Twice an enemy scout was spotted, one was a member of team CRDL, the other was a team they hadn't had a lot of experience with, team DSRT, pronounced desert.
Each scout was surrounded by a patrol team and taken out. They were tied up to a tree on the outside of the perimeter of the base. They wouldn't give any information on their teams strategy or if there were more than two teams, even after letting Yang and Nora toy with with them. They were then left to their own devices till the end of the match.
There was also an incident with Grimm. Two Ursas had roamed two close to camp. Which delighted Ruby to no end. Her and Weiss quickly disposed of the Grimm.
Twilight was starting to fall, and anticipation kept all the members of team RWBY and team JNPR from being able to get any more rest. So Blake took her original position as eyes. Yang and Nora were posted by the flag, and Ruby, Weiss, Pyrrha, and Ren were positioned a small distance off in their respective teams.
Night slowly crept into the sky, and stars came to life. The moon floated near the horizon, not giving a lot of light. This would be a perfect time for the three teams to attack.
"Keep your guard up," came Janine's whispered voice over the radio. "This is going to be the darkest hours of the night. Expect them to attack soon."
Everyone clicked their radios to indicate the understood.
Not soon after, Blake came on, sounding nervous. "Guys. I see movement in three different locations. It's little movements, slow. Not Grimm, they're hunters and huntresses. They're making their first move on the base."
"Finally," Ruby answered back. "Alright guys, we are ready for this! Blake, do we have enough time to attack each group Individually, or will we need to split up?"
"They're a small distance off still, and moving slowly, you should be able to each team as a unit," Blake offered.
"Wait wait, me and Nora request you let one through so we can have some fun." Yang said.
"It isn't about fun Yang, it's about winning and doing things right." Blake rebuttaled.
"Yeeeaaahhh I knooowww, but winning is no fun if you can't enjoy it! Cut us some slack, us girls just wanna have fun!"
Ruby jumped in, "Alright Yang, we'll leave the closest team to you guys, but you gotta let them get close, I don't want you out of sight from the flag."
"WOOHOO!" Yang and Nora shouted into the radio.
"Shhh, you two!" Ruby hissed into the radio.
"Sorry," said Yang and Nora happily.
"Alright, let's go win this thing!" Ruby said.
The battle for the base was finally beginning.
