Chapter 4

Bart slowly opened his eyes, taking in his surroundings, Ruby was already awake and just about to blow into a whistle. Bart groaned and covered his ears. PPPPEEEEEEEPPPPP!

"Aawww!" Weiss screamed a she woke with a fright.

"Come on sleepy heads it's time to wake up!" Ruby yelled.

"Wait where's Clark?" Bart asked after noticing that the older teen was nowhere to be seen. At this moment the door opened and Clark walked in dressed in his new school uniform ready for the day ahead.

"Morning," Clark greeted his team mates.

"Where have you been?" Bart asked.

"Shower," Clark answered as he moved over to his bed.

"What, did you wake up with the sunrise?" Ruby asked as a joke.

"Actually yeah. Growing up on a farm really got me into the habit of waking up early," Clark explained. The four girls stared at him in silence thinking about how strange this mild mannered boy was. "Now that you're awake you can unpack and we can clean this place up," Clark began. "Since there are six of us we can all have one row out of the two bookshelves. I also thought that it'd be better if we turned the beds into bunk beds that way this place can be a little less cramped." Clark's teammates pondered this and decided it was the best cause of action. After unpacking they made there way to breakfast keen to stop their stomachs from grubbing.

The school day was as normal as any school. The students sat in class, took notes and recorded their homework. When lunch came around the team regrouped and discussed the events of their first morning. Everyone seemed really happy about the day, except for Weiss that is. She gave one word answers to any questions she was asked and even refused to talk to the others at times.

"This is gonna be a fun year," Bart predicted.

"And nothing is gonna stop team KRWBBY," Ruby added.

"Lead by the amazing Clark Kent," Yang continued. Weiss couldn't take anymore. She jumped up and stomped away in a huff.

"What's her problem?" Ruby asked as the group watched Weiss leave the hall.

"No idea," Bart answered. Clark decided that not only as a leader but as a friend that he should find out what was wrong with her.

"Excuse me," he said to the others as he got up and followed Weiss. "Weiss!" He called out to her. She acted as though she hadn't heard him and continued to walk away speeding up now. Clark refusing to let it end there jogged up to her until they were walking side by side. "Weiss, what's wrong?" Clark asked again.

"Nothing!" She shouted still walking.

"I know something's bothering you." Clark started.

"Oh, and you know everything! Maybe that's why your team leader!" Weiss yelled.

"Wait. Is that was this is about. All because your not team leader?" Clark asked. Finally Weiss stopped walking and turned to look at him.

"I've studied, trained and prepared for this my whole life," she told him. "And who are you? A farm boy from the middle of nowhere who just decided it would be good to slay monsters!"

"Weiss, it wasn't my decision to be team leader. It was professor Ozpins. Maybe he sees something in me that you don't. Or maybe he made a mistake, either way the decision has been made," Clark argues.

"Oh it is a big mistake!" Weiss screams. "You have done nothing to earn the spot of leader which is rightfully mine!" With that she stomps away refusing to look back at Clark. Clark stands there stunned for several seconds before making his way back to the others.

"What was wrong with her?" Yang asked.

"She thinks she should be team leader," Clark explained. "She was saying that she trained and practiced for the role and that I've done nothing to deserve the spot."

"That's a load of rubbish!" Bart blurts out. The others all agreed with Bart and said so.

"Besides, who managed to get us to work as a team back in the forest, and use all our strengths to defeat the Nevermore," Blake added.

"Yeah even if Clark's part of the plan didn't go so well," Yang teased how he got trapped.

"Sorry, the Nevermore trapped me. There was nothing I could do. Besides you all did okay," Clark explained. He hated lying and definitely didn't won't something like what happened between him and lex to occur again. The rest of the day was completely normal without anymore arguments or issues. However whenever Weiss saw Clark she refused to look at him and would completely ignore him when he attempted to make conversation with her. This got Clark thinking, did he deserve to be leader. Weiss had trained more than him and probably deserved the role more as well. After school Clark decided to go see Professor Ozpin, in hopes to change his position as leader. It was only fair, she deserves it a lot more than he does. Being leader wasn't even that important to Clark. All he cared about was helping people.

He knocked on the professors door.

"Come in," came a voice from inside. Clark walked in and was greeted by a smiling Professor Ozpin. The office was a large room with filling cabinets and bookshelves all over the place. At the far end of the room was a large desk where Ozpin sat sipping on a mug of steaming coffee. "Hello Clark. What can I do for you?" He asked the young boy.

"Hello professor," Clark greeted the man. "I'm here to see if Weiss could be team leader instead of me?" Clark asked. Ozpin remained silent for a few moments before answering Clark with another question.

"Now why on Earth would you want to do that?"

"Well you see, Weiss has trained and studied her whole life and she definitely has a better knowledge than me at this kinda stuff. She's also been rather mad at me because she didn't get the role. I don't care about whose leader and who isn't. I'm here to help people and I can start by helping my teammates," Clark explained why he wanted to swap positions. Professor Ozpin thought this over for a few seconds. "That is one of the reasons why I chose you to be leader," he began. "You don't care about your position and despite your ancestry, who consider yourself equal to everyone else."

"Because I am," Clark added, which he truly believed. Ozpin smiled at this comment.

"Not only do you see yourself as an equal but you have the amazing ability to uplift everyone's spirits, you can make them see the light and give them hope. However if you think that the best action is to give away your position to Weiss than I suppose it can be allowed." "Are you sure this is what you want?"

"Yes," Clark answered. Suddenly a shout came from the other side of the door.

"Nooo!" The voice yelled out. Clark knew the voice, it belonged to Weiss. Weiss came barging through the door and ran up to Clark and Professor Ozpin.

"Sir wait, I shouldn't become the leader. Clark should keep the role." She looked each of them in the eye. Behind her came in the rest of the team. They had all been listening in on the conversation. Clark knew of course, his super hearing had picked up them coming. At first Weiss didn't believe Clark would give up his role, but after listening to what was said and what Clark was going to do decided that she wasn't the best person to be leader. "Clark I'm sorry for yelling at you. I understand now that being leader isn't just about knowledge and tactics. You have to be someone who can get people motivated, who can make a team out of any group of people. You need to be someone who people can look up to and strive to be like. I, I just don't have what it takes. Especially compared to you," She explained.

"Thank you Weiss. Just because your not the leader doesn't make you any less important than me," Clark explained.

"You are so awesome," Yang mumbled in reference to Clark. They all laughed, even Professor Ozpin gave a little chuckle.

"I think you have all learned something today," Ozpin noted. "The qualities of a good leader and how to become one." The team all looked at each other with smiles spread across their faces and agreed with the professor.

There second day was much better than the first, with zero arguments, and after the previous days events they had definitely come closer, not only as a team but also as friends. For their first class Clark ended up fighting a monster that looked like a lot like a hog. Although finding it slightly difficult without the use of his powers Clark managed to defeat the beast using his sword. The rest of the day was rather uneventful.

Clark sat next to Ruby in there final Class for the day. The teacher, Mr Milton Fine was talking about how evil isn't just in the Grim, but can also be found in people.

"Hitler, Stalin," he listed off evil men from history. "Or perhaps someone a little more recent, Lex Luther." Weiss definitely agreed. Luthor Corp had been the biggest rivals to her fathers company and she absolutely hated them. Clark was discomforted by this and rose his hand. "Yes Mister Kent?" Fine asked.

"Sir, I don't think it's fair to compare Lex to these men. Sure Lex isn't the best person in the world but he isn't as bad as Hitler. He's not trying to take over the world."

"That is a good argument Mr Kent," Professor Fine began. "The two of you used to be close friends didn't you?" Before Mr Fine could continue the bell rang signalling the end of the school day. "Okay then, study page 121 and answer questions 1 to 20," Milton concluded. A great majority of the class sighed at the amount of homework they had just received.

"You know Lex Luthor," Yang expressed her shock that Clark knew a billionaire As they left the class room.

"He doesn't just know him. They're friends," Ruby added recalling what Fine had said.

"We used to be friends," Clark admitted clearly sad thinking about it.

"What happened?" Blake asked curious as to what could make Clark, this guy who always seemed to be happy, friendly and caring sad.

"We changed." That's all Clark said before making his way back to his room.

"Do you know anything?" Yang asked Bart.

"Nah sorry." Bart responded.

A few hours later they sat in the dinning hall together eating dinner.

"C'mon guys it's our first weekend together. We have to do something fun and exciting." Yang tried to win the others over. She desperately wanted to do something fun with her new friends for their first weekend together.

"Yang it's only been one week. We can do something when the holidays come around," Clark tried to reason with her.

"That's ages away," Yang complained.

"I agree with Yang. We should do something, go somewhere." Bart added his opinion.

"It would be fun," Ruby admitted. "Plus this kind of adventure could really make us grow as a team." Ruby tried to show Clark the beneficial side to Yangs idea.

"Weiss?" Clark asked for her opinion.

"I suppose it could be fun," Weiss admitted. "Plus there are some guys around here that I would love to get away from, even if it is just for a weekend."

"Blake?" Clark asked her.

"Sure," she decided.

Clark let out a sigh.

"Where do you want to go," he succumbed to their wishes.

"It can't be to expensive, some place simple but where we can have some fun." Yang explained her plan. Suddenly it hit her. "Clark what was the name of the town you came from?" Yang asked.

"Smallville," he replied.

"Hhhmmmm," Yang thought to herself.

"Now hang on a minute, Smallville isn't the best place to visit, there isn't really much there," Clark tried to argue.

"Yeah but it's only a few hours outside of metropolis and I know this great club we can go to." Yang explained why going to Smallville is a good idea.

"Hello, Bart and I are to young," Ruby pointed out the flaw in Yangs plan.

"Oh my dear Ruby. Have a bit of faith in your big sister," Yang replied.

"Okay, but where will we stay," Weiss asked. They sat there for several moments thinking up an answer.

"We could always stay at my place," Clark offered.

"Are you sure your parents won't mind?" Bart asked.

"Of course not," he responded.

"Alright team KRWBBY is going to Smallville." Ruby squealed with delight.

Authors note: Milton Fine is teaching at Beacon, nothing's gonna go wrong there is it. Next up the gang visits Smallville where they meat up with some old friends an family of Clark's.