We open to an overhead view of Emerald Forest, where a black bird is flying slowly and magnificently, right up to the moment it gives a final shriek and Ruby crashes through it in a burst of feathers as she plummets downward. Ruby then yells, "Birdie, no!" Ruby fires off a few rounds from Crescent Rose to slow her down, then turns the weapon into its scythe form to catch the branch of a tree in her blade and fall downward at a slower pace. Weiss, armed with Myrtenaster, summons a white snowflake circle under her and leaps off of it to the forest below. We see Vanessa and Ivory fly by at faster speeds. Ren descends, with Nora briefly being seen next to him at a faster speed, and spins in the air, eventually using StormFlower's blades to spiral around the trunk of a large tree and hit the ground, brushing off his clothes before looking up to see Yang yelling, "Woo-hoo! Yeah! Alley-oop!" Yang, soaring right over the treetops, is using her gauntlets and its fiery force to push her through the air further and further north, spinning and laughing with each blast, even when she crashes through the leaves of a tree and leaps off two trunks to tumble to the ground. As she lands, she says, "Nailed it!", to herself, and then she runs off. Pyrrha, her weapon in sword form and armed with a shield, crashes through several trees and rolls on a branch, immediately shifting her blade into a rifle and looking through the scope at Jaune as he continues to scream and fall helplessly. Pyrrha coolly transforms her weapon again to its spear form, takes a moment to evaluate her throw, and rockets the javelin deep into the forest until a "THUNK!" is heard. We hear Jaune yell in the distance, "Thank you!" Pyrrha yells while waving, "I'm sorry!"
In the middle of the forest, Ruby lands in a crouch, then darts off with a single mantra in her mind, "Gotta find Yang! Gotta find Yang, gotta find Yang, gotta find…" She shouts, "Yang! Yang!" She says internally, now seeing herself partnered with various people, "Oh, this is bad, this is really bad...What if I can't find her? What if someone finds her first? Well, there's always Jaune. He's nice. He's funny! ...I don't think he's very good in a fight, though. Ooh! What about Blake?! So mysterious, so calm...Plus she likes books! Then again, I'm not sure I'd be able to hold a conversation with her...Ugh! What about Ivory? She probably wants a different partner. Vanessa? It'd be difficult to communicate with her. Rebel? She seems too fierce. Yvette? She'd be too much for me." She shakes her head of daydreams) "Okay...Who else do I know in this school? There's Yang, Jaune, Blake, Ivory, Vanessa, Rebel, Yvette, and…" Time seems to slow down as Ruby skids to a halt in front of Weiss as she is turning to face her. She stops just in time for their eyes to meet and a pregnant pause follows. This ends when Weiss turns on her heel and walks the other way. Ruby follows her slightly and yells, "Wait! Where are you going?!" She stops and kicks the ground dejectedly. "We're supposed to be teammates…" Weiss is seen struggling through the forest, giving an occasional grunt or "Ow!" as she pushes plants out of her way. She brushes herself off and sighs in relief when she hears a voice above her. Jaune, apparently struggling to free himself, says to himself, "Come on, come on! Stupid...!" Weiss sees Jaune hanging a few feet in the air by the spear embedded in his hood and the tree behind him. As he gives up trying to pull it out, he looks down and sees Weiss, giving an embarrassed wave. Weiss simply heads back in the direction she came from and Jaune groans in dejection. Weiss says to Ruby as she passes Ruby and pulls on her hood, "By no means does this make us friends." Ruby shouts while overjoyed as she's dragged away into the bushes, "You came back!" Jaune shouts while seeing the scene and waving his arms, "Wait! Come back! Who's going to get me down from here?!" Pyrrha says from below "Jaune?" He looks down at his savior. "Do you...have any spots left on your team?" Jaune says while crossing his arms, "Very funny…" He eventually looks down at her and gives a smile, which she returns.
Ivory looks around and asks, "Ruby, where are you?" We hear something from the bushes. Ivory then jumps as a couple of black boars jump out from the bushes. Ivory looks at them and sees that they are Boarbatusks, creatures of Grimm. She looks at them and says, "I'm guessing you're gonna get in my way." Ivory runs towards them with Quarter Stone in its staff form and runs towards the two creatures. She sees them roll up and charge at her. She then jumps out of the way again, and lands on the ground as a Boarbatusk crashes into a boulder. Ivory takes this opportunity and rams Quarter Staff into the belly of the Boarbatusk. We see that the other Boarbatusk is going to run into her, when something hits it out of the way. Ivory turns around at the noise and asks, "Huh?" We then see Vanessa use Icy Vengeance in its fan form to swipe at its feet as it falls to its side. She then slices open the stomach to kill the beast. She then hears, "Who knew a fan could make such a great weapon?" She turns around and sees Ivory. Vanessa then curtsies. Ivory then says, "Well Vanessa, looks like we're partners. We'd better go before more show up." Vanessa nods her head and she follows Ivory.
We then change to Weiss trudging through the forest, with Ruby back a ways behind her. Ruby asks Weiss, "What's the hurry?" Weiss replies with, "I will not let my mission be delayed because you're too slow! I swear, if I get a bad grade because of your—" A smiling Ruby suddenly appears next to her, waving her hands like dog paws. "What the...?" Ruby replies, "I'm not slow, see? You don't have to worry about me!" Weiss says while looking back, slightly amazed, "When did...?" Ruby continues, "Weiss, just because I don't exactly know how to deal with people doesn't mean I don't know how to deal with monsters!" She gets an arm around a skeptical Weiss' shoulders. "You're about to see a whole different side of me today, Weiss, and after it's all over, you're going to be like, "Wow! That Ruby girl is really, really cool…" She continues, somewhat mousily, "...and I wanna be her friend!"" Ruby disappears in a shower of rose petals, which Weiss waves away from her face just as she hears crackling and rustling in the bushes around her. Weiss calls out to Ruby, "You may be fast, but you still excel at wasting time!" There is silence, save more noises. "Ruby?" The forest darkens, forcing Weiss to lean in to try and find her new partner as a pair of red eyes are seen glaring behind her. "Ruby...?" We revolve around Weiss, as multiple pairs of red eyes stare at her from the bushes and a deep growl is heard. She turns around until she spots a large, jagged Beowolf emerging from a bush and approaching her. Weiss yells out for her partner, "Ruby!" The Beowolf roars.