A ship flies through the skies over Vale. The owner of the Dust shop "From Dust Till Dawn" is hanging a sign declaring its re-opening. As he climbs down from his ladder, he stumbles and falls. A woman appears next to him. The woman giggles and asks, "'Scuse me, sorry. I'm not really from around here." She helps him to his feet. "Would you mind pointing me in the direction of this shop?" The woman produces a piece of paper with writing on it and the shopkeep looks it over. The shopkeep replies, "Hmm? Mm-hmm." The woman walks away from the shop owner as both wave goodbye and passes a man at a corner. The man says, "I knew you were lost." The woman replies, "Mercury, I will seriously pay you to shut up." She produces a wallet with Lien and waves it in Mercury's face. Mercury says, "That's not your money." The woman replies, "But it can be yours for 5 minutes of silence." Mercury says, "Mmmm...no deal." The woman replies, "Fine." The woman takes the Lien and tosses the wallet, turning to walk away. Mercury says, "Whatever. You want me." More of the city is shown, including a café where two extras sit chatting. Mercury and the woman are walking through the city. Mercury asks, "So, how much farther?" The woman replies, "A few blocks." Mercury says, "Ugh...this place is so dull." The woman replies, "Eh, I kinda like it. Tall buildings, diverse culture…" Mercury says, "And nice dopey people who are easy to pickpocket." The woman stops and says, "That's every city." Mercury play acts as a victim, "Ooh, Emerald! Master thief! Please don't take my money! I barely have enough to get by!" Emerald glares at him, groaning angrily. She then walks away from him. Mercury replies, "Ugh...you're no fun today."
Mercury follows behind Emerald. Emerald and Mercury enter a shop full of books. The shop owner can be heard humming a tune. Mercury stops near the door to look at books while Emerald approaches the counter and rings a service bell. Tukson, the owner of the store says, "Be right there!" Emerald looks back at Mercury. The shop owner is seen through a set of double doors carrying stacks of books as he walks backwards and out toward the counter. "Welcome to "Tukson's Book Trade", home to every book under the sun!" He sets the stacks down. "How may I…" He turns around, gasps and hesitates upon recognizing the two of them. Mercury is now holding a book. "How may I help you?" Although the book is open, Mercury is looking at Tukson and says, "Just browsing." He shuts the book. Emerald asks, "Actually, I was wondering, do you have any copies of "The Thief and The Butcher"?" Tukson replies, "Yes we do." Emerald says excitedly, "That's great." Tukson asks, "Would you...like a copy?" Emerald replies, "No, just wondering." Mercury closes another book. "Oh, oh! What about "Violet's Garden"? In paperback?" Mercury replies, "He's got it. Hardback too." Mercury produces a book. Emerald says, "Ooh, options are nice." Mercury says, "Eh, no pictures." Mercury closes the book. "Hey! Do you have any comics?" Tukson replies, "Near the front." Emerald says, "Oh, no, wait! What...about..."Third Crusade"?" Tukson hesitates, visibly unnerved, "Um...I…" Mercury and Emerald are shown to be eyeing him carefully. "...don't believe we carry that one." Mercury slams another book shut and says, "Oh." Emerald asks, "What was this place called again?" Tukson replies, "Tukson's Book Trade." Emerald asks, "And you're Tukson?" Tukson replies, "That's right." Emerald asks, "So then I take it that you're the one that came up with the catchphrase?" Tukson replies, "Yes." Mercury asks, "And, what was it again?" Tukson replies, ""Tukson's Book Trade, home to every book under the sun."" Mercury says, "Except the Third Crusade." Tukson says, "It's just a catchphrase." Mercury replies, "It's false advertising!" Emerald says, "You shouldn't make a promise you can't keep, Tukson." Mercury activates a switch near the entrance causing a front window to darken. "I hear that you're planning on leaving. Moving all the way to Vacuo." Mercury activates another switch and the window in the front door darkens. "Your brothers in the White Fang won't be happy to hear that." Mercury activates the third and final switch, darkening the last window as he smiles creepily at Tukson. "And neither are we...You know who we are, don't you?" Tukson replies, "Yes." Emerald asks, "And you know why we're here?" Tukson replies, "Yes." Emerald asks, "So...are you going to fight back?" Tukson replies, "Yes!" Tukson produces claws from his fingers and yells a battle cry. Tukson leaps atop his counter in a threatening manner. Mercury and Emerald back up slightly and he leaps at Emerald and slashes at her, but she dodges. He looks forward and is surprised at Mercury as he raises one leg for a kick with his shotgun-greaves. Mercury and Emerald exit "Tukson's Book Trade". Emerald stretches her arms overhead. Mercury is carrying a comic. Emerald asks, "What's with that?" Mercury replies, "I like the pictures."
A series of sketches and notes mark the pages of a notebook. These include the White Fang insignia, a possible picture of Adam Taurus, and Adam's rose. In the Beacon Academy cafeteria, Teams RWBY and IVRY are sitting together as Blake looks over some notes. Yang then slides up next to her partner. Yang asks, "Whatcha doing?" Blake replies, "Nothing." Blake closes her book. "Just going over notes from last semester." Yang catches a grape in her mouth. Yang then says, "Lame." Yvette says, "And this is why you ask me to do your homework." Nora giggles as she continues to toss grapes at Yang with her spoon. Yang catches the fruit with ease, giving Nora the thumbs up. Ruby, giving an enormous heave, slams a binder onto the table, catching everyone off guard, with Ivory letting out a "Whoa!" in surprise. On the cover of the binder is written "Vytal Festival Activities, Property of Weiss Schnee". This has been hastily crossed out with a red marker pen, and with the same pen, a new title, "Best Day Ever Activities", has been written underneath. Ruby clears her throat, and gestures to everyone at the table, "Sisters...friends...Weiss." Weiss yells, "Hey!" Ruby says, "Four score and seven minutes ago, I had a dream." Yang replies, "This ought to be good." She catches another grape in her mouth. Ruby continues, "A dream that one day, the eight of us will come together, as a team, and have the most fun anyone has ever had...ever!" Weiss asks, "Did you steal my binder?" Ruby makes "peace" signs with both hands and replies, "I am not a crook." Blake asks, "What are you talking about?" Ruby replies, "I'm talking about kicking off the semester with a bang!" She points her finger at Blake. Yang says, "I always kick my semesters off with a Yang! Eh? Guys? Am I right?" An apple is tossed at Yang and hits her in the face. She glares at Nora. Nora yells, "Boooooooooooooooo!" Rebel adds, "Please, don't." Ruby says, "Look guys, it's been a good two weeks and between more exchange students arriving and the tournament at the end of the year, our second semester is going to be great! But, classes start back up tomorrow! Which is why I've taken the time to schedule a series of wonderful events for us today." Weiss replies, "I don't know whether to be proud or scared of what you have in store." Yang, still glaring, picks up an apple and tosses it across the room. A random voice shouts "Hey!" and Nora can be heard giggling. Ivory states, "Well, I think it'll be fun. What do you guys think?" Vanessa nods with a smile on her face. Yvette agrees, "Yeah, it'll be great!" Rebel adds, "Why not?" Blake says, "I don't know. I think I might sit this one out." Weiss says, "Sit out or not, I think that however we spend this last day, we should do it as a team!" Nora shouts positively, "I got it!" Weiss says, "I for one think that…" Weiss is interrupted by a pie landing on her face. Nora is shown to be the one who threw the pie, she sits down and points at Ren who has his head in his palm. Pyrrha's hand is over her mouth and Jaune simply sits staring wide-eyed while covering his ear with his palm.
Outside the cafeteria, Sun and a blue haired student are walking together as Sun relates the events which recently took place. The student responds, "Man, that's harsh." Sun continues, "I know, we were fighting side by side. She was super fast and I threw a banana at the guy, which sounds gross, but it was awesome. It became amazing when the other one turned into a giant wolf." The student replies, "Nice!" Sun says, "Right? And the best part is, they're Faunus'. But Blake being one is a secret, okay?" The student replies, "Got it." Sun leans in close in order to stress the importance of this secret. Sun continues, "And not a, "I'm gonna go tell Scarlet the second Sun turns his back secret", I'm talking secret secret." The student replies, "Whoa, chill out, man, okay? I got it." Almost whispering. "I got it!" Sun says, "You better." Food is being splattered into the panes as students run around. At one point, Jaune is the one splattered into the window. "I just don't want to screw this up, you know? The people here are the coolest! No offense to you guys." The student replies, "None taken." Sun asks, "They're just in here. I'm really excited for you to meet them. So be cool, okay? You're gonna be cool, right?" The student replies, "Dude." The student's teeth gleam as he smiles. Sun says, "Good point."
Sun and the student enter the cafeteria where students are heard screaming. A Beacon Student yells, "Food fight!" Many students are shown stampeding out the door past Sun and the student, the latter of whom is looking quite worried. Nora laughs an evil laugh. Team JNPR are shown to be standing atop a tower of tables stacked in a ramshackle manner. Nora says in sing-song, "I'm queen of the castle! I'm queen of the castle!" Ruby stomps her foot on a table and pointing at Team JNPR while yelling, "Justice will be swift! Justice will be painful!" Ruby crushes a carton of milk in her hand. "It will be delicious!" Team RWBY raises their fists simultaneously and yell, "Yeah!" Team IVRY is cowering behind some knocked over tables. Rebel and Yvette nod at each other and Rebel says to Ivory, "Yvette and I bet all of next weeks meals on RWBY." Ivory looks at Vanessa who puts two fingers up, and Ivory replies, "Vanessa and I take that bet and double it for JNPR." Nora yells, "Off with their heads!" Nora jumps down from the top of her tower, and the food fight begins. Ruby yells, "Yang! Turkey!" Yang rolls over to the turkeys and sticks her fists inside them, proceeding to block and punch the melons as they speed toward her. Blake front flips to grab two baguettes and she and Yang run forward. Blake blocks some watermelons with the baguettes, while Yang kicks one and punches the turkeys toward her opponents. Pyrrha flips out of the way with a baguette while Jaune gets hit by both turkeys. Pyrrha and Blake do some sword fighting with their baguettes until Blake throws one toward Pyrrha, who dodges and breaks Blake's other baguette. She then throws baguettes like javelins, which Yang breaks the first two, but is knocked down by the third. Ruby surfs in on a tray, dodging food while using the tray to deflect a baguette back at Pyrrha, who dodges the attack. Ruby continues tray surfing until she gets to Pyrrha, who pushes her out of the way, but is knocked down after doing so. Ren and Nora charge, so Ruby flips to reveal Weiss with a bottle of ketchup, which she squirts out on the floor, making Ren slip and crash. Nora jumps through the obstacles, grabs a random pole, and sticks it into a watermelon. She attempts to hit Weiss, but Ruby protects Weiss and takes the hit instead. Weiss grabs a swordfish and attempt to attack Nora. After some fighting, Nora knocks Weiss into a pillar. The impact knocks her out and Ruby holds her in her arms as the pillar collapses around them. Ruby says while cradling Weiss, "Weiss, Weiss! Don't leave me! Nooo!" Yang runs back into the fight, putting two turkeys on her hands again as Ren jumps out and grabs two leeks. Yang and Ren charge towards each other, with Yang kicking the leek without breaking it. After some fighting, Yang punches Ren into the air, making him throw the leeks at her. They miss and Yang punches Ren into the ground. After she lands, Yang is attacked by Nora. Yang and Nora charge at each other, and as Yang is about to punch Nora, Nora hits Yang with her weapon so hard, she flies through the roof. Blake dodges the debris and grabs a link of sausages, and uses them to knock Nora into a soda machine, which knocks out several sodas. Nora uses the soda cans as grenades, throwing them at Blake, who dodges them. Pyrrha looks around, sees the cans, and uses her Semblance to throw a barrage of cans at Blake, who is unable to dodge them as she is thrown against the wall. Ruby, being the only member of RWBY left, uses her Semblance to force all the objects to go in her direction. Pyrrha, Nora and Ren look on in fear as Ruby spirals herself past team JNPR so fast, they are blown against the wall. Ruby leaps out of the way as all the object pushed forward by Ruby's speed hit JNPR, making Ruby the winner of the food fight. After she lands in a crouch, Team JNPR slides off the wall, leaving only their outlines.
Sun says, "I love these guys." The blue haired student is drenched with soda and is not pleased. After Team IVRY stands up, Yvette looks toward a disappointed Ivory and says, "I believe you owe us meals for the next two weeks." The doors behind Sun and the student open and Glynda enters the room growling. She proceeds to use telekinesis to re-organize the room. Glynda says, "Children, please." She adjusts her glasses. "Do not play with your food!" Nora burps aloud as both Teams JNPR and RWBY try and fail to compose themselves, with Team IVRY in the background. A screaming Yang then crashes from the ceiling into one of the tables. Glynda grumbles. Ozpin approaches and places a hand on her shoulder. Ozpin says, "Let it go." Glynda sighs and replies, "They're supposed to be the defenders of the world." Ozpin says, "And they will be, but right now they're still children." Teams RWBY and IVRY are shown laughing together. "So why not let them play the part?" Ozpin walks away from Glynda. "After all, it isn't a role they'll have forever."
In an old warehouse, the White Fang are moving crates as Emerald and Mercury enter. Roman says, "Oh, look! She sent the kids again! This is turning out just like the divorce!" Roman approaches the two from behind and wraps his arms around them in a group hug. Emerald shivers in disgust and says, "Spare us the thought of you procreating." Emerald and Mercury pull away from Roman. Roman replies, "That was a joke. And this...just might tell me where you two have been all day." Roman produces a piece of paper. Emerald asks, "What!? Agh…" Roman replies, "I'm a professional, sweetheart. Pay attention, maybe you'll learn something." Holding up the piece of paper. "Why do you have this address?" Emerald asks, "Wouldn't you like to know?" Roman replies, "Yeah, I would. Now where have you been all day?" Mercury replies, "Cleaning up your problems. One of them, at least." Roman says, "I had that under control." Mercury replies, "Two packed bags and a ticket out of Vale said otherwise." Roman says, "Listen, you little punk. If it were up to me, then I would take you and your little street rat friend here and…" A woman asks, "Do what, Roman?" A woman appears on a platform above them. She steps onto an automated lift, riding it down to their level. Roman laughs nervously, "I'd, uh...not kill them?" Emerald says excitedly, "Cinder!" Cinder says, "I thought I made it clear that you would eliminate the would-be runaway." Roman replies, "I was going to…" Emerald says, "He was going to escape to Vacuo! Mercury and I decided to take it upon ourselves to kill the rat." Mercury says, "I think he was some sort of cat, actually." Emerald asks, "What? Like a puma?" Mercury says, "Yeah, there ya go." Cinder asks, "Quiet. Did I not specifically instruct you two to keep your hands clean while in Vale?" As Cinder speaks, Roman points a finger at the pair while laughing in agreement. Emerald says, "I just thought…" Roman uses his fingers to mime having a slit throat. Cinder replies, "Don't think...obey." Emerald says apologetically, "Yes ma'am. It won't happen again." Cinder turns to Roman and asks, "And you. Why wasn't this job done sooner?" As he speaks, Roman points to his right, then to his left, then behind him saying, "Uh..? Eh..? Eh..? EHHHHH! Sorry if I've been busy stealing every speck of Dust in the Kingdom!" Mercury says, "You're an inspiration to every punk with a gun and a ski mask." Emerald laughs at the remark. Roman says, "Look around, kid. I've got this town running scared! Police camping out at every corner, Dust prices through the roof, and we're sitting pretty on an old warehouse with more Dust crystals, vials, and rounds than we know what to do with! Speaking of which, if you guys wouldn't mind filling me in on your grand master plan, it might actually make my next string of robberies go a little smoother!" He emphasizes the last word by clenching his fist. Cinder approaches Roman and says, "Oh, Roman. Have a little faith." She places her hand on his face. "You'll know what you need when you need to know it." Roman seems entranced, but then looks away with a grunt. "Besides, we're done with Dust." She begins to walk away. Roman asks, "O-okay, then what now?" Cinder replies, "We're moving. Have the White Fang clear out this building. I'll send you details and coordinates tonight." Roman asks, "Coordinates?" Cinder looks back at Roman and replies, "We're proceeding to phase two." Cinder, Mercury and Emerald begin to walk away. Roman attempts to light a cigar, but realizes Emerald has stolen his lighter. She turns back to face him and sticks her tongue out defiantly.