Hey Guys and Gals! Welcome to a very late chapter of Team RCWY! I apologize to everyone who was waiting for this for a while. Life has been kind of hectic lately and it has finally started to calm down some, allowing me to write again. I actually like to thank MadnessDH98 for inspiring me to not 'beat the african children.' ;)

and after some consideration I have decided to bring back responding to the reviewers in the next chapter, albeit without posting their review, and just my response.

So this chapter is a bit of a filler one, with a look into an event that happened in the three month time skip, and an experiment at the end.

So enjoy!

Excerpt from the journal of Weiss Schnee

I frankly don't understand what those two see in those buffoons. They have no sense of class or nobility or anything! But even Pyrrha is starting to get a crush on that damn bird brained idiot! I just… don't get it…

End of excerpt

It was roughly half way through the first semester, Teams RCWY and JNPR were having a small get together like they did on most Fridays. As per usual, the group made a truckload of pancakes… No that isn't an exaggeration, they literally made enough to fill the bed of a truck in order to keep Nora contained.

The weekly 'Pancake Palooza' as the valkyrie called it, was held in a smaller unused classroom. Roughly half the size of the normal ones and with school desks instead of rows. Ruby brought her favorite board game, a strategy game that reminded Cyan of Risk, and numerous snacks were passed around and munched on.

Now one might have thought that it would be silly to have a party with just a board game and snacks but to the two teams, it was the best thing. Well.. for all except one anyways.

"Weiss."

"No."

The engineer tugged on her arm childishly, causing the signature icy glare to be leveled at him. The heiress was in the middle of reviewing Oobleck's lesson. "Weiss, you didn't go last time, so you should go this time. You can talk to Pyrrha the entire time if you want to." The heiress 'humphed' haughtily, "I fail to see why I should attend. I don't socialize with them."

"But, Pyrrh-"

I don't think she's going to budge.

This isn't like the show were she is forced to socialize with them constantly and eventually start to like her team. I need to give her a little push.

"Is the only one. Now if Pyrrha set apart a time for just the two of us. I would accept."

Told you so.

"..Fine."

Weiss internally hailed her victory over her partner. The heiress's head snapped around when she heard the door to their dorm open. She glared at the engineer, "Where do you think you are going?!" The teen raised an eyebrow, "To the party..?" The white haired beauty scowled, "No, we need to study. Professor Oobleck has a test next week." Instead of cowing like she expected, Cyan glared right back, "I'm going to the party, with or without you and your approval." and then promptly shut the door.

The white haired teen stared at the door for a moment, still processing the fact the Cyan, of all people, had challenged her, before returning to her studies with noticeable lack of gusto.

Cyan walked into the party, still a little miffed from his partner's disgust with their team. "Cyan!" Ruby appeared out of nowhere and grabbed him by his hand, something the engineer was still getting used too. "C'mon, we've already started!"

The only boy of team RCWY gave her a noncommittal shrug, "I'm not exactly sure. She studying when I left." Ruby raised an eyebrow, "You mean you two didn't leave together?" The engineer gave her a curious look.

"Well she isn't here now is she? Besides, she didn't even want to come." At the angle he was standing at it was easy to see the out of character irritation on Pyrrha face, when the spartan noticed he was looking over she shook her head and gave him a small smile.

"O-oh really?" Ruby seemed a little relieved at that revelation, "… but.."

"But what?"

The young leader looked at the ground, "It's kinda weird." This time it was the male's turn to raise a brow, "How so?" Ruby kicked her feet shyly. "Well.. uh.." Yang interrupted, "What she's trying to say is that you two have been attached at the hip for awhile now," The brawler ignored her team mates irritated expression, "So it's a little weird not seeing you two together."

Cyan snorted, "I like to think that five hours of studying is by far enough for one test, besides…" The the brown haired teen let a rare grin form on his face, "You guys are my friends too."

Soon after, the engineer stopped worrying about his partner, and had a great time with the rest of his friends. Cyan stood up slowly and popped his back, observing in awe and some horror at the carnage caused by Nora and Aurelius. Multiple desks were stacked on top of each other, forming two tall piles on separate ends of the room.

The two hyperactive students glowered at each other menacingly each holding a pastry in their hand primed to throw, "My castle is much better than yours." Nora stood proud, while Aurelius scoffed, "Your's is lacking structural integrity. How long do you suppose that Jaune can keep holding up the northern end." Said knight was already becoming awash with fatigue, but he gave his team mate confident nod, "I can hold it. Just win the war!"

And thus began the second greatest food fight in Beacon history, the fighting became so intense that Cyan was forced to throw down a Bubble Shield to prevent 'civilian casualties'. Pastries, pancakes, cookies, and Ren were all thrown and thrown back. The war was hitting a crescendo when the door was slammed open causing both of the warring parties to turn and fire at the sound.

The temperature of the room dropped, Professor Goodwitch slowly peeled a pancake off of her face. The look in the blonde witch's eyes were unreadable.

The rest of the night was spent cleaning up the mess. Cyan briefly recalled how in the series the professor had cleaned up the lunch room in an instant. Ah, well. The timeline had been changed after all. Luckily for the group they, actually managed to finish at a reasonable time.

The engineer waved goodbye to his friends before beginning the trek back to his dorm, suddenly remembering all about the furious Weiss inside. As the poor boy reached for the door, he felt a tingle go up his spine.

Cyan opened the door cautiously, only to sigh in relief when he saw his partner's form in her bed, seemingly asleep. The engineer wasted no time in grabbing his sleepwear, a pair of shorts and a t-shirt, and headed to the bathroom. He had just finished putting on his stuff when his Omni-Tool let the level introduction theme from the classic Mega Man games, signifying a text message. He cursed softly at the noise, hastily checking to see if it woke up Weiss. When he was confident that she was still asleep

The engineer's Omni-Visor appeared. Apparently the message was from Yang.

hey engi wuz the ice princess mad?

The sole male of team RCWY strode slowly to his bed, Verdant sending out his reply instantly without the use of a keyboard.

I don't know. She was asleep when I got here.

He threw himself into the succulent sweet comfortness (he wasn't actually sure if that was a word, but it did accurately describe it.) that only a bed could provide for an tired person. He silenced the ringtone on his Omni-Tool just in time.

it wuz bout time u stood up to her i thought that u would never find ur guts

I'm glad that you have so much faith in me...

lol nah its the weekend tomorrow and i wuz wondering if u would like to come to vale with me and hang out

Sorry. I actually have to finish a project for Ozpin tomorrow after training. Both Jaune and I need to.

oh maybe the day after then?

"I swear to Dust if you don't shut off that blasted light, I will kill you… slowly."

Cyan quickly shut off his blue Omni-Tool, and tensed in fear. Weiss was sitting up in her bed, with that oh so familiar glare. "Uh, sorry…" The engineer squeaked out, hastily turning away from the heiress.

Cyan would only admit this to himself and Verdant, but he actually thought that, even when his partner's icy blue eyes leveled in that terrifying glare, she was, by far, one of the most beautiful women that he had ever seen.

The engineer's crush had grown from mere physical attraction to more once he got to know the girl underneath the ice.

Cyan's train of thought was destroyed by the object of his affections shaking his shoulders vehemently. "What have I told you about zoning out when I'm talking to you?! I swear it's the same thing everyday, you have your head in the clouds and don't pay attention to what you are doing." The blush died down quick after that and Cyan's eyes narrowed in a rare show of irritation.

"And furthermore, you skipped studying for a very important test to go to some lame party."

The engineer's mouth formed into a frown, "There my friends, even if I do prefer to be alone sometimes, I still make time to hang out with them." Weiss scoffed, "The degenerates? Pyrrha is the only worthwhile person in your group."

And that night was the first time she actually saw her docile and quiet partner angry. His brown eyes blazed as he stiffly about faced, to his bed and climbed in it without another word. Normally, this would queue Weiss screaming something along the lines of 'Don't you dare turn away from me when I'm talking to you!' but she decided that was enough conflicted for the day.

Cyan laid, quietly seething in his bed, and that right there was the irritating part. Admittedly the heiress was much better than she was before. Cyan climbed laid back in his bed staring at the ceiling in a frustrated silence. On the first day the pair had met Weiss had told him that she hated being alone, then why did she push everyone away except a select few? It made no sense.

The next morning the pair had to get up earlier for team only time Ruby could reserve the gym for was eight in the morning, and Cyan wasted no time grabbing his his Jet Boots and quickly leaving before his irritable partner could scold him again.

He idly thought about how silly it was that he, a support unit that isn't suppose to be in direct combat, had weapon designed for melee combat. Maybe he would have a talk with Ruby later and get her input.

Said mini-reaper and her sister were already in the gym, warming up. Ruby waved a hello, while Yang gave him a mock scowl. "You didn't text me back." She poked him playfully in the gut.

"Weiss woke up and told me to shut off the light from my Omni-Tool." The brawler nodded understandingly, then looked around questioningly, "Where is our resident Ice Princess any way?"

Cyan shrugged, "Still in the room I guess." He ignored their concerned looks and began stretching out his legs. What he didn't see was the slight content look from Yang.

When Weiss arrived she didn't say anything to her team mates, she stood silently, glowering at everyone. Ruby shifted uncomfortably under the tension, being as socially awkward as she was, this kind of social conflict was out of her element. "U-uh let's begin!" Much to the team leader's chagrin, even Yang raised an eyebrow at her stutter.

Training went about as well as it always did… which was terrible. Weiss was barely listening to her and they still wasn't a semblance of healthy team communication between them, which frustrated Ruby to no end.

The current strategy she was working on was called 'Freezer Burn'. It involved a combination attack between Yang and Weiss. Even the icy heiress begrudgingly agreed that it would be very effective against larger groups of enemies, like a Beowolf pack.

In fact Ruby had a lot of winning strategies revolving around herself, Yang, and Weiss, she was quite proud of them actually. But if there was one thing that made her want to tear her hair out it was how the lone engineer/medic in their group didn't fit into any offensive plays she could think of.

The young crimsonette often holding him back away from the fight keeping a 'safe zone' with turrets, dispensers, and other machines that he had. while his turrets definitely had the best crowd control ability of the group's assets, they had to stay in place, and took a great deal of time to be brought to maximum potential.

In short, he was a support unit on a team that was pure offensive power.

Ruby internally hit her smacked herself in the face for not realizing this sooner. It wouldn't be so bad if he had some long range, hard hitting weapon like a…

The leader stopped and became very still, slowly but surely a maniacal grin grew on her face. Of course! Cyan himself didn't have a main weapon besides turrets and those (admittedly super awesome) Jet Boots. Some kind of gun or something similar would be perfect.

"Hey, uh, Yang?"

Said brawler looked up from her gauntlets, "Yeah?"

Cyan pointed at the leader who was beginning to let out a cackle, "Is she…" he paused in order to find the correct wording, ignoring Yang's impatient 'come on, say it!' gesture, "... alright in the head?"

The blonde snorted and looked at her sister out of the corner of her eye. "That's generally the face she makes when she thinks about weapons." Further discussion was cut off by an irritable Weiss. "If you two are done talking then can we please continue with practice?" She turned to Ruby and yelled, "Snap out of it!"

The horrible training session continued for another few hours before Ruby abruptly called it quits. "Cyan! I need to ask you something!" The engineer tilted his head curiously before striding tiredly up to his vibrating leader, ignorant of the dirty glare his partner had trained on him.

"What's up?"

The engineer suddenly got a very bad feeling about that smile she had.

Excerpt from the journal of Ruby Rose

Oh this is so exciting! Making Cyan a weapon using all the equipment and supplies he has down there is a dream come true! I wonder if they would let me use some things to upgrade Crescent Rose?! Sure getting up early and coming back in late sucks but it will all be worth it.

End of excerpt

Alright that's the chapter! So I have been thinking of adding an Omake-ish like section inspired by DarkElucidator. So far I have a few ideas in mind that I will list for you guys.

Alternate:

Characters: Anyone

Maybe you guys wanted to see something in the story pan out differently? This is you chance to tell me and I can write small bit about it.

The Smash Brothers (and Sister!):

Characters: Cyan, Ruby, Jaune, Ren, Aurelius

For any of you competitive Smash fans out there that might want to see some funny stuff from the streams and Salty Suites.

OG RWBY:

Characters :Ruby, Weiss, Blake, Yang

Moments in between the the original team that were the main characters.

Engineer Escapades:

Characters: Cyan, Aurelius, Fish, Verdant, Saint and Wolf

A good example of this is down below, Fish isn't in this one though.

JNPR:

Characters: Jaune, Nora, Ren, Pyrrha

Self explanatory (I hope…)

Fish's Ladies:

Characters: Fish

I have feeling that you guys won't take this one seriously but it's there if you want it. :P

So go ahead and tell me what you would like to see!

Engineer Escapades Ep. 1

"You're absolutely sure that this is going to work?" Cyan asked cautiously, eyeing all the haphazardly connected wires. Aurelius gave his signature crap eating grin, "Of course! Sure it may look a little unorthodox but that's because the mechanisms are more complex than we originally thought."

The cyborg glanced at the massive arm cannons that his faunus friend had based off of Mega Man. They were designed to latch on his mechanical arms and allow his to shoot concentrated dust in concentrated 'pellets' or, alternatively one could charge the 'pellet' to make a bigger blast that caused more damage.

In other words it was a perfect real life version of the Mega Buster.

Now one might be curious as to why exactly Aurelius and Cyan came up with this idea in the first place. I could tell you the intricate tail of Cyan wanting to emulate his favorite gaming hero from a young age, dreaming of shooting Robot Masters and Mavericks in the face finally coming true due to Remnant's far superior technology. Aurelius being the fellow gaming nerd agreed to help.

But that would be a lie, it was all inspired one day by Cyan destroying everyone in the new Smash Brothers with Mega Man, and both of them deciding spontaneously to make said cannons.

"Yeah… I get that, but it looks potentially dangerous. Some of those wires don't look like they were insulated properly."

"Nonsense, I had Rock do it while we ate lunch."

"As in the same Rock that works with us?"

"Yes."

"The same one electrocuted himself trying to get a piece of toast out of his toaster with a fork because he forgot to unplug it from the wall?"

"The same."

"And you thought this was a good idea… why?"

Aurelius shrugged, "He owed me like... five lien. and I was feeling lazy."

If one listened carefully from the outside the centrifuge you could hear the dull echoes of Cyan slamming his head against the wall repeatedly.

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