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Chapter 5: Homework
One week had passed in Anime High, and thanks to the first set of disasters that plagued the school, this one was bound to be even worse, especially since some of the students' well known motives were exactly that. Luckily for the teachers, they had the perfect solution to solve this problem.
"We have a test tomorrow?!" Ruby shouted in surprise, "And we're only hearing this just now?!"
"I do apologise for not giving an announcement about this earlier Miss Rose," Professor Ozpin replied to the young freshmen, "But we must provide unexpected problems— a challenge if you will— to prepare our students for the future."
"Well this is just great." Ruby mumbled, sitting back down and focusing on the practice sheet. There wasn't any time to work on it now the bell had already rung, and she needed a tutor to help her out on this subject in time for the test.
Standing up, she walked to Yang's seat to see if she could get help. "Hey Yang." The young sister greeted, , a little glum but still happy to see her sister.
The fighter noticed her, "Oh hey Ruby. Do you need a tutor to help you study for the test?"
"Maaaybe?"
"I would love to, but unfortunately I have some business with that classy chick to deal with. The uh... one with the handbag." Xiao Long stood up and stuffed her items in a bag, "It'll probably take all night so you'll might need to find someone else."
"Well okay then, just don't get yourself in huge trouble again. Do you know how hard it is to explain exploding alpacas?" Ruby asked seriously.
"Okay sis, see you tomorrow!" Yang carried her belongings and was out of the classroom after waving goodbye. "And by the way, that was one time. One time."
As Ruby said her goodbyes, she looked around the room again and noticed Weiss, and thought that she'd make a good tutor, so she walked towards her. "Hey Weiss."
"Hi Ruby, what do you need?" Weiss asked, feeling unruffled by the announcement of the test.
"Since you know that we have a test to do and my sister is going to do something dangerous, I was wondering if you would be able to help me study tonight? Maybe? Please?" The reaper asked, pleading for her to accept.
Weiss responded, "I guess since you've been struggling a little in this subject already, I'll be your tutor then. Only for tonight."
"Sounds good to me! Where should we meet?"
"In the school parking lot once the day's done." Weiss packed her belongings and started heading out the doorway, "I'll see you there."
"See you Weissy!"
Thanks to the surprise announcement of the test, Blake was in a bad mood again. She was about to sit up when Clodfelter came to her side.
"Hi Blake." He smiled.
"Hello Nicolas, what do you want?" The cat faunus asked coldly.
"I was just thinking it'd be a good idea if I'd come to your house tonight and study together, what do you say?" Nic explained, hoping to get to know her a little more.
The cat faunus shook her head, "Sorry, but I'd prefer working alone." The girl was already heading to the door.
"Oh...okay." Clodfelter sighed.
"Hey Nicolas." Someone said, Nicolas turned to see Jaune next to him.
Thinking he was going to say something about his plan for Blake, he tried to deny it, "Oh Jaune, I wasn't trying...I mean I'm not thinking about her and me together...I mean!"
"I... didn't say anything about you and Blake together? Whatever, I was gonna ask if you would like to come with me and Pyrrha to study. Sometimes she gets just a little crazy if you know what I mean."
"N-no thanks, I'm practically a wizard at math back at my old school, so I can handle this with no problem!"
At this moment, Velvet overheard him, "T-then can you be my tutor tonight?"
Clodfelter didn't expect her to show up, but he agreed to her proposal anyways just to keep him in the clear, "Yeah, definitely Ms..."
"Scarlatina. T-Thanks."
"Okay, then we'll see you tomorrow." Jaune told the two, while Pyrrha said "Goodbye," and left the classroom.
'Isn't that just wonderful,'Nic thought to himself, 'I have to teach someone on a subject that I absolutely hate! And I just wanted to talk to Blake too!' He said,
"Alright Velvet, I'll see you after Cooking class! Can't wait to help you with math..."
"Bye." The shy bunny faunus nodded and left the room along with the others.
The next period was going to start soon, and so far, nothing bad had happened other than a few complaints about the test. The Headmaster's plan to prevent a disaster was working.
The Schnee Mansion was the most obvious place to find Weiss and her family if anyone wants to see them. The heiress was the only person who lived here, since her parents were on a business trip and her older sister was somewhere else. In the living room, Ruby and Weiss were already working on the practice sheet, and they of course started on the first problem.
"Problem 1," Weiss recited, "Find x if 2x = 4"
"I can already see that we're on the advanced part." Ruby said without a hint of humor.
"Not really, this should be easy for you to do." She allowed Ruby to think for a bit before she figured it out.
"Well...since you can't multiply it with anything or even subtract or add it," Ruby began to say, "We could try and divide the two across the entire problem... Is that right? "
"Only one way to find out, try it."
The student was already doing so, her pencil scribbling underneath the numbers and her solution came up, "X would equal 2."
"Correct." answered Weiss.
"Great, so far so good."
"Now for the second question. What are the factors of (x^2-81)?"
"Uh, what?" Ruby was now stumped. Given the fact that they were at a somewhat more difficult problem, Weiss understood why.
"Don't worry, you can do this." She encouraged.
And just In case that wasn't encouraging enough to allow Ruby to find the answer, she allowed a hint, "The last number is squared."
"Nope, that's not helpful at all."
"You're not gonna get anywhere unless you solve this."
"Easy for you to say, you grew up with a Calculus book as a pillow!" Ruby said with a dissatisfied look.
Schnee objected, "No I didn't," She sighed and continued, "Just do this question, it's simple enough for you to solve it."
In the background, a phone started ringing, "I'll get it, just keep trying."
One minute later…
"Okay Ruby, did you finish?" Weiss returned to her young friend as Ruby was raising the worksheet like it was a flag.
"Yep! It was a lot easier than I thought. That hint really uh... helped." She told her dishonestly after putting her scroll away.
"Good, I knew you could do it." Weiss nodded, slightly surprised she actually had gotten it without her help, "Now let's continue to the third problem. What is the square root of 0?"
"Uh…." Again, Ruby was stumped. "Can I use my scroll for this?"
Schnee replied, rolling her eyes, "No, it's the easiest one in the whole page."
"But it's three times as difficult as the last one!"
"I've been studying these questions for many years, and they are the less advanced kind of Algebra questions anyone could go through." Ruby was wanting to protest again, but since Weiss was a nerd, she decided to not do so.
"Okay then, whatever you say." The sneaky huntress was also thinking of using her scroll for this, but had second thoughts because cheating wasn't going to help out much in this situation. She already felt bad about skimping on the one before it. Ruby tapped the pencil on the paper and began to think.
In a random apartment that Clodfelter was residing, he was just using the internet to work, while Velvet was trying to work the paper with her pencil. In fact, she was wondering whether Nic was just telling the truth, or if he was just wanting company.
"N-Nicolas," Velvet spoke to him, "Are you sure you're a 'math wizard'? I-I mean not to doubt you or anything..."
He expected this question for a while, but he tried to hide the truth, "Y-yeah, I'm the only few wizards that can accomplish all math problems with no problem? That's right."
"But you've been on the computer for an entire hour, I'm not sure you know what you're doing."
"Nah, I was just checking on the reddit to see what kind of stuff they're talking about. Besides, the test is going to be way too easy for us Freshmen, they're not even trying."
"Then how come you're not helping me?" Her tone was the same, and she wasn't forcing him to answer, but he did so anyway,
"Because...Uh..." Figuring out that this lie couldn't help him out anymore, he admitted the truth, "Okay I lied about the whole math wizard thing, I'm not an expert on this crap!"
Scarlatina was unfazed but raised an eyebrow. "T-then why would you agree to help me study?"
"Because I wanted to make sure no one gets suspicious of me. I was wanting to have some alone time with Blake."
"S-she's not doing so well now, you might need to give her another week to settle down."
Nic asked, "Wait, what do you mean by that?"
"Blake broke up with Adam a month ago, and since then, he's been trying to bring back their relationship before Sun steals his spotlight...again. She's not so happy about that."
"So she's been dating him...and Sun for a long time?"
"Y-yes."
'Dammit, how am I supposed to fall in love with her now if she's pissed off about having a boyfriend?!' Nic thought to himself angrily.
Velvet continued, "Sun was her first boyfriend before she broke up with him and she's still not interested in another relationship."
"Sounds like she needs to speak with a therapist...not in a offensive way." Clodfelter said quickly, "Surely, maybe a certain Faunus...character can help get her spirits up, and even develop an unbreakable relationship with her."
"I-I'm not sure it would work out for her. She's about as outgoing as me." Velvet laughed nervously at her joke, trying to lighten the conversation.
"Don't worry, she'll be okay soon enough."
'As soon as I become her boyfriend, then everything will be alright for me... right? I think so?' Nic thought uncertainly.
Meanwhile, Coco was walking down the street wearing a large coat and holding a Tranquilizer with a casual grip. "Yang, what's your location?" She asked through their comms.
"I told you! My name is, 'mama bird'. We need to use code names on the comms. But right now I'm entering the 'nest', are you sure that the guy is in there?" Yang asked, wearing her usual fighting gear.
"Yeah, I'm pretty sure...if not then we'll have to check the docks. And I'm not calling you 'mama bird'."
"Fine…" Yang opened the door and stepped inside. "Go find the guy to set up some random story arc, and I'll go set up mine." She mumbled, walking into a security guard who of course wore shades at night that were blacker than the pavement below them.
"Hold up, let me see some ID." He ordered smoothly, but all it did was make Yang smile and crack her knuckles.
Ruby was on the floor, feeling defeated by the last and most difficult question she ever faced; What is the square root of a square root.
"This is too hard!" She shouted, while Weiss watched the girl with a displeasing look, "Why can't you just do this one for me?!"
"I know this may be difficult Ruby, but it's really not that hard-" Weiss had to duck down as a calculator nearly hit her. "I swear! It isn't!"
"You know that this questions is a lot harder than the sixth one, how am I supposed to know this answer if there is no answer?"
"That's right! That's the right answer!"
"Wait, it is?" Ruby quickly wrote down the answer, breaking the pencil "Yeah! Woo!" She jumped for joy and then hugged her friend tightly, "Thank you so much for helping me!"
"You're welcome." The Schnee girl responded, pleasantly shocked.
Ruby released her friend and said, "You're the best! How about we celebrate a little? I mean it wasn't easy, and I know I would looove cookies right now."
"I'm good, you should probably get some rest though."
"Wait, what time is-" The fifteen year old looked at the clock to see that it was nine forty-six. "Wow, it's that late? I should be in bed." She quickly gathered her stuff and placed it in her bag. "Thanks for the help, see you tomorrow. Bye!"
"Bye." Weiss closed the door after her and walked back to the kitchen to clean up the small mess that was made. "Ruby should know to clean herself up in someone else's house."
The test had finally started during fifth period, and the students were surprisingly doing well. Ruby was confident in herself that she was going to pass this with flying colors. The others were doing quite well, but some of them weren't due to some hijinks from last night, with Yang and Coco nowhere to be found.
After the test, the students turned in their sheets and after the quick grading, they got them back. Then came the reactions.
"I got a B plus!" Ruby cheered and then ran to Weiss to hug her. "Thank you Weiss, thank you sooo much."
She squeezed with all the force her little body could muster.
"Y-Yeah, you're welcome." Weiss was a little confused at this, but she accepted the appreciation with struggle.
"For the love of-, how do I have a C minus?" That was Nicolas complaining about his grade, "I got most of them right...next time don't use some stupid fake website to help you. Anyway, Velvet what's your grade?"
"Oh, it's a B." She said with no negative response, "Thanks for being my tutor Nicolas." She bowed down and started walking to her seat.
"Wait, what? We used the same thing! How is that possible?!"
The door opened suddenly, everyone watching as Coco fell flat on the floor, "I'm here." She sounded exhausted and tried to crawl to her seat, "Get over here Yang!"
"I'm coming women, don't rush me! And it's 'mama bird'!"
Yang entered the classroom, drunk and with blood on her face. Unable to reach for her seat, she fell on the floor right next to Coco, "What's the lesson teach?"
"Ms Xiao Long, you are thirty-seven minutes late, where have you been?" Ozpin asked the blonde brawler, gaining only laughter in return as she remembered something.
"Ohhhh no." Ruby muttered and got to Yang's side. "Not again." As she started to bring her sister to her feet, then the alarm suddenly started ringing.
"Warning: A flying magic school bus is approaching the school." The alarm system explained. "Please remain calm."
"Wait, we have a warning for flying buses?" Someone asked amidst the clamor.
In the auditorium of the building, students were being the opposite of calm and were panicking left and right while the soldiers started to stand guard and prepare the defense against the school bus.
And it appeared all right. It crashed in the room, leaving a hole in the roof and the school's bank account. The rest of the students had emerged from the classrooms and walked towards the bus with extreme caution, and that was when one of the windows opened up and someone popped out of it,
They were revealed to be a Nebula Violette who was dressed in a school uniform. "We're here!" She said, wobbling slightly from the ride.
"Nebula?" The aussie questioned.
The purple-haired girl shook her head and saw the bunny faunus, "Oh hey Velvet, how have you been?"
"G-good...but what's going on, why are you here?"
"Oh...well, me and my friends have been accepted to join Anime High." Nebula smiled,
"Wait...there's more of you guys attending our school?" Ruby asked in case she heard that correctly, when suddenly a Mustang crashed right into the room and landed next to a bus. "Oh...and these three guys appeared as well...so...there's that."
"No more!" Someone got out of the car and he felt sick as well.
"Wait is that..?" Nicolas started to say.
Ironwood, who had just seen the footage of the bus and car crashing in the room, put his head down, "This cannot be good." He muttered to himself.
To be continued..