Wow, interesting response to the first chapter. I love you guys, all you favoriters and followers and especially the reviewers, gotta love the reviewers. I've been working on this one for all of literally five hours and I think it's time to show it to y'all.

Obviously, considering how little anyone aside from Monty himself knows about Beacon, I've done a lot of things that may seem strange, but seem to fit into the RWBY Universe from my perspective. If you have any questions about it, make sure to review and ask or simply PM me and I'll answer the questions.

Also, I have created several random students in order to help with the whole team exchange thing, but you'll only see them a handful of times, maybe once or twice a chapter.

That being said, enjoy the fic.


The third years filed into the auditorium they had first arrived in the first day at Beacon. The RWBY-JNPR mash group walked to roughly the middle of the room, watching the other students come in behind them. Up on the stage were four people and the group felt chills run down their spines at seeing Headmaster Ozpin, Professor Goodwitch, Professor Port and Professor Oobleck watching them all wander in.

Blake cocked her head at her teammates as they stood around nervously. Yang's leg was bouncing excitedly, the blonde ready to jump into action at any second. Ruby clutched tight to Crescent Rose as she shared a glance with Weiss, the heiress surveying the surrounding area just in case of danger.

Blake shook her head at her friend's paranoia and turned to Team JNPR. Jaune kept shifting his feet every few seconds, fingering his scabbard absently. Nora was bouncing around Ren as the pink-eyed boy simply stood statue-still aside from his eyes following Nora cautiously whenever she was in his line of sight. Pyrrha simply stood beside her leader, hands folded behind her back as she waited patiently for what the professors were going to tell them.

Remembering the incident mere minutes ago, the brunette quickly averted her eyes from the redheaded athlete and turned her attention to the stage instead.

Professor Ozpin was walking to the microphone in the front of the stage while the other teachers stayed back quietly.

"Hello, students." The headmaster said, the speakers helping his voice carry around the room. "You are probably wondering why we gathered you here today. As you can see, several of you are with your teammates and others of you have merged teams to form larger groups." His eyes passed over teams RWBY and JNPR before he continued.

"It has come to the attention of the staff and myself that you are all comfortable with the teams you are a part of. Therefore, we are temporarily disbanding your teams."

There was an immediate uproar as students spoke against this change in their routine. Professor Ozpin moved aside for Professor Goodwitch to further explain the arrangement.

"The point of this exercise is to further accommodate you to working outside of your comfort range. In the real world, you will not always have your initial team that you received here. The partners will not always be the same. And so, we are assigning you new partners among the people in this room."

There was another shout of disapproval, but Goodwitch ignored it. "All of you are to move to one side of the room and leave the other side bare. If you would kindly?" There was a grumble as all of the students nodded and began moving. Most of the students began heading for the right side of the auditorium so Teams JNPR and RWBY followed suit, all of the students squishing each other to one side of the room.

Professor Goodwitch nodded and cleared her throat to gain attention. "When your pair is formed, both partners are to move to the opposite side of the room and stand beside each other. Further instruction will be given when all pairs have been formed. Now then, let us begin."

Now, Blake's ears twitched nervously at the thought of being partnered with someone other than Yang. Yang was relatively easy-going and therefore wouldn't question her love of books. What if her new partner was nothing like Yang in the slightest? Well, that would technically be someone like Ren and he's not that bad...

Professor Goodwitch began calling out new pairs and Blake kept her ears poised for familiar names. "Dove Bronzewing and Yang Xiao Long." Yang's eyes narrowed as they zeroed in on the equally as furious CRDL member. The pair walked to the other side of the auditorium, standing side-by-side as requested.

Blake felt sorry for her partner, wondering how she was going to cheer Yang up once this operation was over. She turned her attention to the book in her hands as Goodwitch continued calling out pairs. Slowly, bit by bit, the stifling crowd on one side thinned out and began accumulating on the other. It was quite some time before Blake's ears twitched at another familiar name.

"Nora Valkyrie and Kristina Tomasi." Nora grinned and bounced over to the slightly timid-looking girl as Weiss stared in disbelief and sadness. Blake suppressed a chuckle when the sadness morphed into horror as Goodwitch called, "Weiss Schnee and Jaune Arc." Jaune shot Weiss a grin and a wink as the two of them moved to the other side of the room.

A few more pairs were called out and Blake felt her ears twitch when a frightened-looking Velvet Scarlatina accompanied a furious Cardin Winchester over to the other side. She cocked her head when Ruby moved off to pair with Sky Lark and Ren nodded to Russel Thrush as they departed.

Finally, Blake's ears perked up as she heard her name. "Blake Belladonna and Pyrrha Nikos." Amber eyes widened in shock and Blake turned to find the redhead standing right next to her, waiting to walk over. Swallowing the sudden lump in her throat, Blake nodded and matched Pyrrha's stride as they crossed the room. Yang shot her a wink and Ruby gave her a thumbs up as Weiss smiled encouragingly at the brunette, but that did nothing to help Blake's nerves.

Keeping two feet of space between Pyrrha and herself, Blake fought to remain calm and not show any apprehension or fear, lest Pyrrha take notice and ask her what was wrong. When the last pair had been called, Goodwitch stepped down and Professor Port stepped up, a large smile on his face, indicated by the upward turn of his mustache.

"Now then, students. It is time to assign you to your teams. These will be your teams for the next six months and there will be no exchanges. Unlike your teams before, these teams will have two word names in order to differentiate the new team from the old original one. For the first team, Ruby Rose, Sky Lark, Maccoto Swordfish..."

Blake lost her senses as Pyrrha turned and placed a hand on her shoulder. Keeping her expression monotone, Blake turned to her expectantly. "I am very happy to have gotten someone like you as a partner, Blake." the redhead murmured quietly, a small smile playing on her lips.

"Me?" the brunette inquired.

"You are familiar. I know a bit more about you than I do most of the other students, whom I don't associate with very often." Blake nodded in understand and tried to speak around the lump in her throat that continued to reappear.

"It's nice having someone I know relatively well for a partner too. Thank you, Pyrrha."

Blake's entire body tingled at the beaming smile that lit her new partner's face and she completely ignored Professor Port until her ears twitched once more at her name.

"Cardin Winchester, Velvet Scarlatina, Blake Belladonna and Pyrrha Nikos. Your four will be known as Cadaver Blackphase." Blake groaned softly, Pyrrha putting a hand to her forehead as their friends gave them mixed glances of sympathy, Nora making the 'break his legs' motion with a malicious grin on her face.

"Cadaver Blackphase?" Blake asked in confusion. "That's an odd name for a team."

"You should have heard the one he gave Weiss and Jaune." Pyrrha giggled, seeming to understand that the other girl had been lost to the world for a few minutes. "Jabberwauk Padfoot."

"Is he trying to use the craziest names he could come up with?" Blake sighed.

"It seems he wishes to show us the fact that we will always be named by someone else and we have to live with that name being our team title." Pyrrha cocked her head with a soft giggle.

Blake shook her head with a soft sigh and waited for the last team to be assembled before Professor Port finally stepped down and Professor Oobleck moved up.

"Each team has been assigned-assigned one person who was already a team leader." Professor Oobleck took a moment to sip his coffee before zooming across the room and beginning to shout. "People who were-who were leaders of their original teams are to take their new-new teams to their dorm rooms." Another sip of coffee and back up to the stage in front of the microphone. "We expect all of you to be packed and moving into your new rooms within an hour."

As one the four teachers stated, "Dismissed."


And that's pretty much the almost last bit of exposition. Events have been set into motion so there's not much more I can tell before we get into the real stuff. Next chapter's going to involve Team CRDL's thoughts on things, Team JNPR's thoughts on things, Team RWBY's thoughts on things and then the move-in scenes with the different characters (in that order) so it's going to be a little longer.

Also, and I'll say this at the beginning of next chapter for the other fics as well, but I am tired of using caps lock so often. It's too unlike my natural style. So, just like with Black Velvet, for this fic, I'm going to write out team names. That's only for this fic and Black Velvet though. For others, it just wouldn't feel right making it different.

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