Author's Note:

Ever wonder what happens after Sun says to Team JNPR "then you can party with us tonight"? I know I do...

Suggested by: Author's Original Creation

Drabble location in R.W.B.Y. timeline: Volume 2, Episode 9: Search and Destroy

Basic Scenario: Team JNPR gets to know Sun and Neptune while Team RWBY is off on their mission

*BOOP*

"Oh no, Nora!" Pyrrha gasped, "Looks like we're outnumbered."

"Ha!" Nora put up her fists, "We can take 'em!"

Pyrrha laughed, "I think it might be better if they're left in one piece for tomorrow."

"Awww..."

"You know," Jaune cut in, "from being surrounded by seven sisters at home to surrounded again with only Ren as a company, it's a nice change of pace to have more guy friends..."

"Wait 'til you meet our other teammates," Sun smirked.

"Will they be joining us?" Pyrrha asked.

Neptune laughed, "they would have... but they blew off the dance last night and partied a little too hard."

"I warned them about the students from Vacuo..." Sun had a glint in his eye, "we're a wild bunch."

"So..." Jaune paused at the airship, "Where to?"

"Ooh! Ooh!" Nora waved her arm, "How 'bout Red's Arcade on Blue Street?"

"I'm game." Neptune quipped.

His companions groaned.

"Someone's been around Yang too much..."

*BOOP*

Nora gasped, "Ren! Ren! Ren!" She pulled him towards a large game, "I haven't seen one of these in forever!"

"Is that..." Ren's eyes widened.

"Dance Busters 3000!" Nora bounced up and down, giggling madly.

Ren had an astonished look on his face, lost in memories of the game.

Unlike the competitive dance games typically in arcades, this one was a co-op game. The premise: two hunters that activated their semblances using dance to battle ridiculously colourful Grimm.

"Oh my god, we used to be so bad at this game..." Nora snorted, "Remember how the guy with a giant afro -Dave or something- would save you if you missed too many notes?"

Ren smirked, "And he would blast away the Grimm..."

Nora skipped up onto the game's stage, "Come on, Ren!"

"Nora," Ren groaned, "it's been years."

"Reeeeen," She leaned against the bar that surrounded the back of the platform, a safety measure should dancers step too far back, "we can't be as bad as when we were kids."

Ren crossed his arms over his chest.

"Pleeeeeeeeeeeease?"

That did it...

Ren sighed, stepping forward to the platform and took the left side. "Hope you're prepared to be reacquainted with our old friend..."

"Yeah right!" Nora slipped some lien into the machine, "He'll be thanking us for vanquishing the Grimm by the time we're done."

The opening screen queued and their dancing avatars popped up. Looks like the graphics were still outdated and cheesy as ever...

"Did you... just set us to 'Master' level?"

"I always set it to Master." Nora stretched out her arms, "It's more fun that way."

Ren shook his head, "no wonder we were so bad."

"Ready?" Nora hovered her hand over the 'go' button. When Ren hesitated to answer, Nora gave a cheeky grin, slammed the button -just like old times- and laughed, "Too baaaaad!"

3...

Ren gulped, recognizing the slow piano opening to a deceptively difficult song. For all of the games they had played, never once had they completed this final song.

2...

Nora rubbed her hands together, unafraid -as always- at a challenge.

1...

Ren caught their companions in his peripheral vision. Great... now they had an audience.

Daaaaaaaaaance Bust 'Emmmmmmm!

Ren took the first few steps of the dance entirely by muscle-memory. Nora followed next to him; her eyes were closed and a smile on her face. She laughed, twirling on the spot to hit a series of combo notes, and Ren was brought back to a simpler time.

When he was just a scrawny loner who didn't talk to anyone; and Nora was his ray of sunshine with a mouth that could run the Atlesian fleet.

Just as the beat was about to drop and the tempo pick up, Ren glanced in Nora's direction. She gave him a dazzling smile that made his heart skip a beat.

Well... maybe some things didn't change with time.

The brass flared and the two friends battled against the stream of notes. The pacing was steady, but Ren knew what was coming up. The first transfer combo.

Despite herself, Nora giggled, and grabbed Ren's hands. With a fluid motion and deceptive strength only Nora seemed to possessed, she twirled them both around, swapping sides on the platform, and jumped right back into the beat of notes. Ren's reflexes kicked in and he saved himself from stumbling off the platform; surprisingly without missing a note.

Nora's smile widened as the chorus allowed them both to catch their breath.

They were doing pretty well, certainly leagues better than they had as children. Her eyes narrowed, she knew as much as Ren did that the last part of the song had been impossible for them to get through; several transfer combos, and a merciless onslaught of notes.

"Ready?" Ren asked suddenly as the tempo began creeping up.

He glanced at Nora and saw a rare look of doubt in her eyes.

He smiled to her, "Too bad," before pulling her into the first twirl of a transfer combo.

Caught off-guard by Ren's playfulness, Nora laughed, stepping between Ren's legs to hit a note that he would've missed. They continued through the battle of notes, hordes of colourful Grimm leaping at their dancing avatars.

The final transfer, no matter how often they had practised as children, always tripped them up. Even now having longer legs to reach the notes on the opposing platform didn't help.

Nora slipped, her arms hooking around Ren's neck and pulling him down. Ren reacted instantly, one hand grabbing Nora by her waist and the other hitting the platform to support them. What neither of them had realized was that they're feet -and Ren's hand- were positioned perfectly to hit the final note.

Ren's heart was hammering so loudly in his ears that he barely registered the echoing game announcement, followed by roaring cheers from their audience.

Flawless Victory!

Ren couldn't help think as they got back to their feet, noticing that Nora's face matched her skirt, that perhaps the game wasn't the only victory of the day.

Author's Note:

The song I imagined them playing on Dance Busters 3000 would be some sort of a techno-remix of "Boop". ^_^