A loud groan filled the room. Yang fell onto the desk. "This is so boring."

Weiss was a bit beyond irritated with the brawler. "Maybe, if you hadn't destroyed the classroom, we wouldn't have detention!"

Ruby attempted to calm her partner and her sister, but to no avail.

How did they get here? Well, Team RWBY had been given detention after an incident in the dust lab. Yang decided to try to mix some dust, despite her teacher's warnings, and caused a massive explosion that engulfed the room. Thanks to their auras, no one was hurt. It helps that the dust was a weaker variety which just created a concussive blast rather than a real explosion. They were sent to detention as a team, as per Professor Justinian's style of punishment. To Justinian, the actions of one member of a team effects the team as a whole at all times. So, Weiss is a bit mad at her teammate for getting detention in one of Justinian's classes. Now, the team was just waiting for Professor Goodwitch, the usual teacher in charge of detentions. They thought that a detention with Goodwitch would be the worst thing they could imagine.

They were wrong. When the door opened, it wasn't the disciplinarian sorceress, it was Justinian himself with a case in one hand and his 5 foot sword/heavy rifle combo weapon, the Colossus, in the other. He turned to look at team RWBY and walked over to the desk at the head of the class. He placed his sword on the side of the desk and the case on the desk itself. "Hello girls. Ready for detention?"

"Um… Professor?"

"Yes, Miss Belladonna?"

"If this is detention, why would you bring your weapon?"

"Excellent observation. You shall soon learn that my detentions are far from normal." He opened the case and pulled out four sets of wrist bands. He walked over and grabbed each students' arm and placed the band on their wrist. "These are special devices of my creation. While you wear them, you will be subject to their effects."

"And these effects are?" Weiss asked, but soon got her answer. The strength in her limbs had been drained and she was unable to move. A glace to her teammates revealed they were suffering similar effects.

"That." He picked up his weapon. He looked back to them and smiled. "Now… run."

"W-what?"

Weiss soon found a sword embedded in the desk in front of her. "You see, Miss Schnee, I always saw myself as a sporting man. I'm giving you four a chance to get out of detention. You four run, and I chase you. If you can evade me for the duration of a normal detention, you can go free. If I catch you, your detention sentence and duration will be doubled."

"That hardly seems fair. We can barely move."

"No. You can't fight. If you attempt to run, the device won't stop you."

Sure enough, Weiss attempted to stand and was unhindered. Her team all stood and started for the door.

"Oh, before you leave, I'm going to give you a warning."

The team stopped.

"I'm not alone. I have two other teachers hunting you down. They won't try to catch you, but they will relay your position to me. Good luck."

With that, the team ran. Behind them was the sound of Justinian's laugh. To most, it would be boisterous, good-natured, and even honest. Here, in this situation, it was the laugh of a twisted predator, hunting his prey.

Ten minutes had passed and team RWBY found no sign of their hunter. Weiss spoke quietly, but still possessing a hint of an angry yell. "This is crazy!"

Blake nodded. "I know, but there's not much we can do. Just try to run."

Ruby looked around a corner. She moved her hands in an intricate pattern. He team was lost. She just sighed. "No sign of him."

"Why didn't you just say that in the first place?"

"RWBY?" the team turned to the voice and found one of their professors. It was a taller man wearing a combination of pink and white. Pink hair and eyes made it painfully obvious who it was, Professor Alexander Peach. "What are you doing out here, shouldn't you be in detention?"

"We kind of are." Ruby answered.

"Let me guess, Justinian?"

The whole team nodded at this.

"Oh… Good luck. You'll need it."

A sound from the hallway caught their attention. It was the sound of metal scraping across the floor. A quick glance showed the blue haired professor walking down the hallway with his sword dragging across the ground. "Come out, come out, where ever you are." His singsong tone was menacing to team RWBY.

"Sorry, Professor Peach. We have to go!" With that, the team ran off.

Alexander stood there as Justinian approached. "So, think they'll pull it off?"

Justinian picked up his sword and placed it over his shoulder. "At this rate, they might just."

"Think they'll figure out your little game?"

Justinian smiled. "Maybe."

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With the end of the hour, a normal detention would have ended. Team RWBY made it to the end and were free to go. However, the bracelets were still on, making it impossible to fight normally. As they walked, Weiss was venting about the device and how they could remove them.

Yang was just as upset. Strangely, however, she spoke with more of a level head. "Weiss, all we have to do to go back to the classroom and he'll remove them."

"About that…" The team looked around at the sound of their teacher's voice. Only to find it coming from the bracelets. "I have a proposition for you. Here you have two options. You can return to the room and wait for me to return to remove them…"

"See?"

"…Though, I am rather busy as of late. It could take quite a while for me to return."

"Oh…"

"Or, you can come to me in the arena and fight me to remove them."

The team looked to one another. It was clear they all made the same decision.

Sitting in the arena was Justinian, flanked by Professor Peach and his wife. He stretched and lied back on the ground. "Which option do you think they'll pick?"

Alexander looked toward the door. "Knowing Miss Xiao Long, she'll want to fight. Miss Belladonna and Miss Schnee are more patient and will likely try to wait it out."

Celia looked to her husband. "What about Ruby?"

"Miss Rose is the wild card. As both the leader and the odd one out in the votes, her decision will influence the others."

Accompanied by this was the sound of the doors opening to reveal team RWBY. The team leader stepped forward. "Professor Justinian."

The young professor jumped to his feet and looked toward his students. "I see you choose to fight."

Ruby's serious face changed into an innocent smile. "Nope."

Justinian raised an eyebrow.

"We're here for option three. Kindly asking you to remove the bracelets."

"Fairly certain that wasn't an option." Justinian smiled. "However, you came to this conclusion and confronted me as a team. Even creating another option with what you knew." He reached into his pocket and held up a small remote. With a press of a button, the bracelets unlocked and fell to the ground. "I'm proud of all of you and your detention is null and void. I'll see you in class tomorrow."

Ruby jumped for joy. Her team all had similar reactions, with Yang pulling her team into a group hug. As they left, Justinian just watched and smiled.

Alexander looked toward Justinian. "Was that what you were expecting?"

"Not specifically, but in the ball park."

Celia chuckled. "So, what did you expect, exactly?"

"I didn't expect the decision; but I knew that, one way or another, they would act as a team. And that's all I wanted out of this."

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King: Hello there everybody! Hope you had fun in detention with the team. Let's hope this is the last time we have detention with Justinian. Remember, not every teacher is as cool as Justinian. Stay out of trouble, everybody.