So as you may have guessed, the upload schedule isn't working for me anymore, and I'm afraid I'll have to write and upload when I can. Sorry about that.

Anyways, nobody guessed this chapter's premise correctly since last time, but someone did come close. Not that I can actually find who that was, since it has vanished into the sea of messages I have.

I'd also like to start by saying that this one is going to be a bit off from the other chapters I have planned, but for a different reason. Instead of the characters acting mostly normal, and the scenario being crazy, I tried to ease into the insanity-to-come by making the situation more normal. However, this ended up meaning that all the characters acted differently from normal, so not everything ended up working as well as I'd hoped.

Inspiration for this comes partly from my chemistry teacher. He's a machine that runs solely on Pepsi-max, and I'm not convinced he actually sleeps.

Chapter 2: Wake-up Call

"Zzzzz…. Mmm, pancakes…." Nora mumbled in her sleep as her team members stood in front of her bed. The three of them had been debating whether or not to wake the sleeping Valkyrie.

"It seems as if Nora has been tired ever since the arrival of the Plot Hole. Sleep is important to one's health, perhaps it is best if we allow her to rest. Besides, since I no longer need to spend every waking second with her, I've been more productive than ever before." Ren pointed out.

"But think about her grades," Jaune argued, "she's already one of the lower scores in the class. Now you and I know that studying's not really Nora's thing, but it wouldn't be good for her if they got even worse! Just because the world as we know it is falling apart doesn't mean we get the day off. Which, I'm with you, is really stupid. I mean, what's Port going to do? Is he just going to walk around the Hole while he puts everyone to sleep?"

Pyrrha rested a hand on the boy's should, a slight blush on her face, though he didn't notice. 'He never does.' She thought sadly. "Don't worry Jaune, I'm sure you'll make the right choice." The blonde sighed.

"Yeah, I just wish there was some way we could stop her from being so sleepy all the time now." A crack of thunder sounded out, a wolf howled at the moon, and the grandfather clock on the wall struck midnight, all at the same time.

"Well, that's odd." Pyrrha stated the obvious. "It's a nice clear morning, and it's not even 8:50… and when did we get a clock there?" The door behind her swung open and Beacon's new resident headache stepped through.

"Did somebody say 'Faustian?'" Chaos said happily as he wore a wide smirk on his face. The children, not understanding what he meant, stood in silence, until Jaune finally replied. "U- Um… no?" The man's grin didn't falter, though the gleam in his eye clearly looked as if he was in on a joke that just went over Jaune's head.

"Well, it's come to my attention that one of your team mates is having trouble keeping awake! You wouldn't want to be late to class, now would you? Let me help with this." Not waiting for an answer, he brushed past Jaune and entered the room.

Pulling out a large cup with the words 'Team Gulp' on the side, he set it down on the bedside table. Taking a bucket of water that had magically appeared at his side, he turned it upside down over Nora's head, soaking her in freezing cold water.

"Aaaah!" Nora's rage-filled scream echoed through the halls of Beacon academy, causing students everywhere to dive to the ground in case she was headed their way. "Who's spine am I removing with their own weapon!?" She screeched.

"Oh good, you're awake." Chaos commented, completely unfazed by the bloodthirsty cry of the soaking wet girl. "While you're up, drink this. It'll help keep you going through the day."

Suspicious of him, Nora took the cup from his hands. "What's in this?"

"That, my dear girl, is 128 ounces- one gallon- of condensed '5-hour energy'. I filled it to the brim, evaporated the liquid to leave just the powder behind, then filled it again with more of the stuff. I did that twice. Before you drink it, be sure to shake really well- otherwise the powder will all clump at the bottom and you'll need to eat it. It's so saturated no more of the powder can dissolve."

Nora stared at in as if were the Holy Grail, while the rest of her team gazed upon it in horror, not fully believing that even someone as crazy as Chaos would really unleash Nora upon the world with this concoction. "Are you sure I'll even survive drinking this?" The hammer-wielder asked.

"Yeah… like, 95 percent sure."

Needing no more encouragement, the girl brought the massive cup to her lips and began to gulp it down. Her team turned and ran out of the room, shouting warnings to anyone who could hear as they went. When Nora lowered the now empty container from her mouth, her pupils were the size of pins and her entire body vibrated quickly enough that a light humming could be heard.

"WowthisstuffissocoolChaoswhere'dyougetitnevermindI'lljustcheckValemyselfandpicksomemoreupIonlyhavetosearchacouplehundredsquaremilesIcancoverthatafterclassanywaysseeyoulaterpalIgottagettomyclassesforthedayorJaunewillbemadbye!"

With that, the girl rocketed down the hall too fast for Chaos to even noticed she started moving before he could hear see a pink streak shoot across Beacon outside. He cackled to himself. "Oh, yes… this will be easier than I thought."

"Do you think Glynda will blame us for Nora being absent if we say it's Chaos's fault?" Jaune asked just before a pink tornado flew past them and into the classroom. The three members of JNPR stood in shock for a moment before Ren asked a better question. "Do you think Goodwitch will blame us for Nora being present if we say it's his fault?"

The three first-years entered the class and sat next to their hyperactive teammate. Her leg was bouncing up and down so quickly, she was beginning to leave an indent in the floor. Glynda came around the room, placing test booklets and answer sheets on the desks in front of each student. "Attention students," their professor called from the front of the classroom, "you will have an hour to complete the exam. Once you are done, please turn it in on my desk and leave quie-"

"DoneI'mdoneIfinishedcanIgonowhere'smypaperseeyoulaterI'mgoingtolookforsomethingfuntodomaybeI'llaskChaoshehaslotsofgoodideasseeyoulater!" The pink whirlwind from before returned as the Valkyrie bolted to the front of the class and then out the door in just seconds.

Goodwitch looked down at the answer sheet in front of her, and sighed. Rubbing her temples, she approached Jaune's desk. "Mr. Arc, I do not feel the need to grade this. I can only hope this is the doing of that trouble-maker that arrived recently. Please tell Miss Valkyrie that she must retake the test when she is more subdued."

Looking down at the answers Nora had turned in, Jaune slumped forward and banged his head on the table. 'She filled in all the bubbles.'

Jaune and his friends finished their tests and left the room after about 45 minutes, though he was pretty sure Ren and Pyrrha spent extra time checking their answers so that they didn't leave him behind. Once they got out, they started making their way back to the dorm when they noticed a huge pile of dirt in the middle of Beacon's lawn.

Walking around it, they found a large, square hole in the ground lined in tiles and concrete. "Is… is that a pool?" JNPR's leader asked incredulously.

"It sure is!" Nora responded cheerfully, popping her head up from within. She climbed out of the empty pool and walked over to Chaos who was holding a fire-hose for her. She grabbed it from his hands and started walking back to the empty hole in the ground.

"Did she make this all herself?" Even Ren was surprised. "Does she have permission do make it? Did you convince her to do this?" Chaos smirked mischievously.

"Yes, no, and of course! You might have noticed she's speaking at a… relatively normal speed. You wouldn't believe how hard it is to dig a 1,050 cubic foot hole in the ground. It took a lot out of her, but don't worry, I've got a contingency plan if she gets tired again." If he said anything else, it was drowned out by the roar of the fire-hose being turned on and pumping out nearly 2 gallons of water per second.

Soon enough, the pool was nearly full, and the crazed girl shut off the flow of water. Resuming his conversation with Chaos, Ren began asking more questions. "So why did you suggest a pool?"

"I'll be needing it later." Chaos answered cryptically. The pink eyed boy raised an eyebrow. "You wanted a pool, to use later, so you had her do it?"

"Something like that…." The man trailed off, but Ren could tell he wasn't quite getting the pools real purpose. "Oh, by the way, that drink she had, eventually she's going to crash. And if I'm not mistaken it appears to be coming right... about… now."

Looking back at his partner, Ren saw Nora dragging her feet and hanging her head. Eventually, she dropped to the ground, and rolled into the pool. "Nora!" He yelled, fearing for his partner's safety, but he was beaten to it by Chaos.

"It's okay, I was prepared for her falling into the water. It pays to plan ahead!" Saying this, he plugged a bug zapper into an extension cord, then threw the device into the pool; sending electricity coursing through the water. Immediately the girl woke up and swam to the edge. Once out, the girl zipped toward her team, clearly feeling the effects of her recent exposure to electricity.

"You were prepared specifically for if she passed out and fell into the pool you convinced her to make?" Jaune asked incredulously. The infuriating man responded with a smirk, "weird, right? Most people would have to... plan, that sort of thing."

Chaos's smile had somehow gotten bigger. When Nora arrived, Chaos spoke excitedly, as if talking to a dog about giving it a treat. "Did that feel good?"

"Yeah!"

"Do you want your friends to feel good too!?" Jaune and the others paled at this. 'Why does he hate us?'

"Yeah!"

Chaos pulled a small black box from his pocket, and Ren recognized it. 'Oh no… he's given her a dust-taser!'

"Get 'em, Tiger!" He yelled as his little prodigy firmly grasped her new toy.

Nora held it tenderly, pressing the button to activate it a couple times, and smiling as an arc of electricity shot across the two metal prongs. Her gaze slowly raised from the contraption to her team mates, each of whom stood a short distance from her.

"Nora, why don't you put the taser away, and we can all calm down." Pyrrha tried to diffuse the situation, but it wasn't meant to be. Any part of rational thought that lived in Nora's brain was pushed out when she had been energized to such a degree for the second time that day.

"Why…" Jaune whispered, "Why would you do this?"

Chaos just shrugged. "I thought it'd be funny. So far, I'm right. What do you think, Nora?" The ginger girl twitched a little, but didn't respond, her eyes focused on her team like a predator waiting for its victim to flee.

Nora was gone. Right now, only an electric-powered, pancake-loving monster stood in her place. Her terrifying smile had her friends frozen in place; until Jaune broke under the pressure, that is. "Everybody run" he screamed in terror before bolting off to the right. Pyrrha turned around and ran, but Ren knew Nora would catch them quickly. He had to buy them some time- Nora was his friend, and his responsibility.

Instead of charging off, the ninja leapt straight at the orange-haired menace. He had expected to catch her off guard, but in her current state, she was much too fast. Dodging his first attack, the Valkyrie quickly retaliated by jabbing her weapon into Ren's side.

As he fell to the ground in uncontrollable spasms, Ren decided then and there that tasers were his least favorite weapon to face. But Nora's crusade was not over yet. Ren was already on the ground relaxing, but she had more friends to play with. 'I wonder where they ran off to… ooh, this should help! Oh well, I can't wait to let them try this!'

Jaune Arc was not a coward. Sure, he might be hiding in the library, terrified of a member of the team he leads, but it's not his fault. Nora was scary two times- when she was mad, and when she was hyper. The craziness in her eyes was enough to make him flee, but it was the super-strength and dust-taser that kept him in hiding.

He was alone in the room, most students were in class, and it was rare to find them in here unless a research paper had been assigned. Currently hiding behind the shelves on the upper level of the building, Jaune planned on waiting for a few hours to let the hammer wielder work off her newfound energy.

Then, the door opened.

The silence had been comforting, it meant he was alone –and therefore- safe. This meant that someone was in the library with Jaune, and knowing his luck, they planned on electrocuting him.

His suspicions were confirmed shortly thereafter when he caught the sound of his friend saying "Jaune? Oh Jaaaune? I have something I want to shooow yooou!" in a sing-songy voice. It was horrifying.

The sound of her footsteps echoed through the large room, Jaune cowered in fear behind the bookshelf. Nora called out, "Jaune, I know you're in here, I just want to let you try this! It feels amazing, I think I might go make a hot-tub next to the pool once I'm done! It'll be awesome!"

'She's bluffing,' the blonde thought to himself, 'there's no way she could know I'm in here, right?' The boy sat completely still, not moving a muscle for fear of alerting her to his presence. All of that went out the window with just four words.

"Oh, there you are!"

JNPR's leader screamed in terror, and leapt to his feet. It was then that he saw Nora on the other side of the room, smiling smugly. 'She didn't see me at all… I feel like such an idiot.' The Valkyrie ran over to her friend, grinning widely as he tensed in anticipation of the pain. 'That was one of the stupidest things I could have done… I deserve this.'

'Two down, one to go.' The hammer-wielder thought happily as she skipped toward Pyrrha. Her team may have run across the school, but they forgot to turn off their scrolls- finding them was easy. The champion was currently in some teacher's classroom, Nora didn't know which, but that wouldn't stop Nora. Her friends deserved to have fun and relax too, class or no!

Skipping merrily through the halls, occasionally jolting an unsuspecting familiar face, Nora approached the room that Pyrrha was hiding in. Kicking the door open, the orange haired girl cheered, "Pyrrha, your turn!"

Looking around, she saw her team mate, standing beside Professor Port. "Miss Valkyrie, I understand that you and Pyrrha have a slight disagreement to address." The hyperactive girl hesitated, unwilling to leap at her partner when she might accidentally hit the teacher.

"No, sir! I just wanted to show her how fun this is! She's being a baby about it, but once she tries it she'll see how great it feels!" The girl explained in what she was sure was a sound argument.

"But that is not what she wants." The old man said. "Maybe she would enjoy it, however unlikely, but that does not matter. If someone is uncomfortable with something, you cannot force it upon them. You may be a defender of Remnant, but you are still a child; and as one, you must learn many lessons beyond the classroom. Miss Valkyrie, it is crucial that you learn other people's boundaries, and respect them. For as a huntress, it is your duty to ensure-"

Nora hit the ground with a dull thud, fast asleep.

"That was amazing, Professor! How did you do that?" Pyrrha asked in awe.

The rotund teacher chuckled. "My dear girl, that is my semblance. I am capable of lulling almost anything to sleep, given the chance. Do you really think that I don't notice my classes falling asleep? I am keeping my skills honed, always practicing in case my talents are needed! How else would I capture Grimm with such ease? Hopefully, when she wakes up, she won't remember that any of this happened, and you can all return to your normal routines."

Pyrrha nodded in understanding, before her face scrunched up I confusion. "But… wait, if you know your lectures are putting us to sleep, then you know you're not actually teaching anything. Why haven't you been replaced with someone who actually does their job?"

Port paused for a moment. "You see, when I was a young lad-"

*Thud*

"Phew, that was too close."

The room grew brighter suddenly, and the professor turned around. The plot hole was slowly growing larger, before it stopped, only marginally wider. "That... that does not bode well."

Okay, there we go! Chapter 2, down! Remember, the characters will generally be more normal than this, unless the premise is specifically that their personalities are changed in some manner.

Now, I'm sorry this took so long, but I promise you this: I will have some special things ready for my profile's anniversary on November 13th, and Hollow Fragment's 1 year anniversary on December 21st!

Now, with that out of the way, remember 2 things. You can request chapters, and you can guess when the next one will be! Here's a relatively easy one for you.

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