"I swear to heavens Ozpin do it to drive me insane!" Glynda complained a she drunk a cup of tea at the teacher's lounge. "They destroyed the mess hall! And he asks me to let it go with just a warning!"
"Ozpin always was very lenient. That's why he hired you, after all, to cover this weakness of him." Chifuyu offered in support as she drank her coffee and reviewed the students' files. "You were a bit like him a few years ago, before he hired you to be headmistress."
"Maybe I was, but here isn't me playing babysitter. They won't be safe in school forever, one day they will be out there fighting Grimm, and those distractions…"
"Won't come often, I know, we both know and probably Ozpin knows more than us. And I think they do know, or at least they feel it." The new teacher said with a bit of nostalgia in her voice. "Do you remember when we were their age? How much we enjoyed pestering the old headmaster?"
"I do remember, of course. It wasn't that long ago. And I remember my first real mission… How I wasn't prepared for it…" Glynda lamented and Chifuyu sighed.
"I'm not sure if any of us would be prepared. I think that Xiao Long girl and the black-haired Faunus have an idea… Something about the orange haired girl and her boyfriend also tell me they aren't exactly unaware. Nikos, Jaune and the Schnee girl… I don't think they really know what to expect, but they don't expect breakfast and bed for certain. I worry more about Summer's daughter. She's too much like her mother…"
…
"So, I'm Sun. Sun Wukong. This is my pal Neptune. We're here for the festival and man you all had the coolest food fight ever!"
The group stared at the newcomers with different feelings. Weiss was utterly surprised on how the monkey Faunus came to them so carefree, but the boy by his side did have her attention with his bright and confident smile. Ruby was shyly staring between them and her friends, her introverted side showing. Yang was smirking seeing the two boys, a good chance to see what the competition was able to do. Pyrrha and Ren were pretty neutral about it, while Nora kept murmuring about the tail and the abs. Jaune was a little bit like Ruby on that, but was curious.
Blake didn't like how close the monkey Faunus sat by her side.
"I remember you! The cute girl from the docks!"
"And we remember you, the good for nothing stowaway." Weiss was the first to talk something.
"I'm not a good for nothing stowaway! I'm a great stowaway!" Sun defended himself without showing any anger towards the heiress.
"I apologize for my friend. He lack class but is good hearted. He was too excited to come to Vale to meet the Beacon students. He just failed to realize most of you would be gone for summer break too." Neptune said and Weiss softened towards the blue haired boy.
"Well, I think introductions are in order then." Jaune started and shook hands with Sun. "I'm Jaune, leader of team JNPR. My friends and teammates are Nora, Pyrrha and Ren."
"Hey, the cereal girl!" Sun shouted as he recognized Pyrrha, making her blush a little and her smile to slight falter. "Is it true you receive a lifetime supply of Pumpkin's Pete if you get the cover?"
"Well, they do send a couple boxes every week… But I can't eat it due to it being mostly corn covered in flavored sugar." She admitted, slightly happier the question wasn't personal.
"That's a bummer." Sun nodded sagely.
"And that's why I'm the brains of our team." Neptune chimed in. "She is also the current Mistral champion, undefeated since… ever. They even call her Invincible Girl." Neptune's addition made Pyrrha frown a little bit more.
"Well, not this year as we'll win the tournament!" Sun declared as matter of fact.
"If anyone will defeat P-money here it will be me, Yang Xiao Long!" The brawler bragged at the same time that she introduced herself.
"Confidence much?" Weiss added. "I am…"
"Weiss Schnee, heiress to the Schnee Dust Company. But snow angel makes you more justice." Neptune said and the heiress giggled pleased, while Jaune rolled his eyes at how she changed her attitude over the nickname.
"How about you?" Sun stared directly at Blake, whose eyes were the only thing showing from over her book.
"Blake." She said dryly, but apparently Sun was still too excited to notice it.
"Cool name! It fits you greatly!" She just nodded slightly and returned to her book.
"And this one is my little sister Ruby! She got ahead two years!" The brawler hugged his sister despite her protests, generating a few laughs on the table.
"It's no big deal!" Ruby shouted as she escaped her sister's vicious grip. "I'm just younger…"
"I say it's pretty darn cool." Sun added and Ruby blushed a little. "So, since my pal and I will be stuck with Beacon for a few weeks, how about some pointers? Gossips? What will make us sick on the cafeteria?"
"Don't let Prof. Port tell you a story, it will take hours. Never mess with a teacher's coffee; they get really angry if they do." Yang started. "Ms. Goodwitch is the judge, jury and executor if she gets you doing something 'wrong'. Whatever you do, do not eat the meatballs or the strawberry pudding!"
"I'm pretty sure that isn't meat and they aren't even balls! They are more like… sausage shaped?" Nora added making a 'blergh' face.
"And the strawberry pudding… bathroom for the day…" Ruby said with a green face as war flashbacks crossed her face.
"On the other hand, good to get revenge if you can feed an unsuspecting target." Yang concluded with an evil smirk, having done that a few times with the right food dye.
"Gotcha!" Sun nodded in understatement. "How about the other teachers?"
"Port likes to talk about himself, but when he starts you can literally start a card game in his class and he won't notice." Jaune said and they turned to Ren. "You still owe me ten lien."
"Oobleck on the other hand notices everything. And while he does stick on the subject, he talks quite fast. I'll pay you next week." Ren answered.
"And then there's Prof. Peach… we never saw her." Pyrrha supplied the info and both newcomers took a moment to digest that.
"You… how you never saw a teacher?"
"She only hands mandatory readings and field work. Some of us aren't even sure she actually exists." Ruby completed. They would have talked more if they didn't noticed Chifuyu approaching the group with her on scroll pad on hand.
"Ah, here you are. Sun Wukong and Neptune Vasilias." She said as she checked her pad. "I'm in charge of showing the transfer students and tournament participants their rooms."
"Why, isn't that nice of you." Neptune started in a flirting tone, missing Jaune's wild gestures to cut it out. "I'm Neptune, the cool one of us two. Say, what about after you show us our room you show me the city? Maybe we can even go for dinner?"
"Oh? Aren't you a smooth talker?" Chifuyu asked as she rested her hand on his shoulder, and then his smile disappeared as he contorted in pain, and they could hear the sound of bones being crushed. "Flirting with a teacher in the very first day, too. I'm not sure if you're confident or just plain stupid."
"Chifuyu-nee…" Jaune started but gulped at the angry look she spared him. "Orimura-sensei… I think he learned his lesson…"
"Oh." She assented emotionless as the boy was on the verge of fainting, so she let go of him. "Now you would kindly follow me…"
"Yes, ma'am!" Sun prompted, scared shitless of the new teacher, and helped Neptune up as they followed her.
"That was a thing." Yang commented as the newcomers disappeared from the mess hall.
"They were funny." Nora added.
"Your aunt though… is scarier than Goodwitch." Blake added as she finally put down her book.
"She always takes her job seriously. She isn't like that outside it though." Jaune answered and sighed. "Just… never talk about her age or marriage, and everything will be fine."
"Whatever…" Blake sighed and put her book down. "I'm going back to our dorm." She said and left without looking back.
"She have being weird since the incident on the docks…" Nora commented, eyeing team RWBY.
"Don't look at us like that; we already made all amends needed. But she is doing stuff by herself and not sharing with us." Weiss admitted with a worried stare towards the doors.
"Let's give her time. It was quite shocking discovering something you believed for so long as being right have deviated so much to be wrong." Yang finished that conversation.
…
"Are we at war or something?" Jaune asked the next day as they were walking to class early in the morning and a fleet of airships approached Beacon. The white airships stood there like menacingly clouds over their heads, casting an unpleasant shadow on them.
"Atlas military… I heard they are here to… support Vale as the White Fang have being active here." Blake said with a little disgust in her voice. She sounded tired, but Jaune decided to not pry since her team was on it.
"That looks a bit heavy handed." Weiss agreed as she searched one specific ship between those, but failing to see it, and she frowned a little.
"They are cool looking though. And I bet they can take down like a thousand Grimm!" Ruby tried to see the positive side of it.
"Heavy cruisers… troop transport, ship to ship battles, taking down enemy fortress…." Jaune murmured to him, remembered a few lessons Tenryuu told him back home about battleships, and those definitely weren't made with Grimm in mind.
"Hey, it's auntie!" Nora proclaimed as they saw Chifuyu staring at the airships too with a stoic expression. "Auntie!"
Nora rushed towards her waving…
*THWACK*
Only to be hit on her head by Chifuyu's fist.
"Orimura-sensei." She stated as the rest of the group joined them and Ren tended a dazed Nora.
"What's this about?" Pyrrha asked pointing at the fleet, also not pleased with the presence of a foreign army around. It usually meant bad news.
"A message… though the recipient might be more than one." She commented dryly, only slight annoyance coming from her voice. "James Ironwood is here."
"Who?" Ruby asked.
"General James Ironwood, he's both Atlas top military commander and headmaster of their Hunter's academy." Blake informed her friend. So if the general was here the situation was worse than they expected.
"He was always one to show off power. I worked for Atlas for a few years." Chifuyu informed them. "And I see nothing changed in the last twenty years."
"Twenty years? So how o- HMPH!" Jaune covered Ruby's mouth gently before she could get herself in trouble.
"You all go to class; this is nothing you children should worry about." Chifuyu ordered and they started walking again, while the teacher gave on last look at the ships. "Charlotte might want to know about this…"
…
James Ironwood walked back to the ships and sighed. Dealing with Ozpin was always difficult, as both had completely different visions of the world, and to the general the one the headmaster of Beacon held was naïve and optimistic, which would land them all in trouble, and that was why the Vale Council called him to offer support. As always he hoped for the best, but came prepared for the worst.
"You're scaring my students." He turned to see a familiar face waiting in the middle of the path between the main buildings and the landing area and a small smile formed on his lips.
"I thought you said you'd never work for Ozpin, Orimura."
"And I don't. I work for Beacon, not for its headmaster." Chifuyu said as a matter of fact as they approached each other. "This little show of yours is making people uneasy."
"On the contrary, it's showing them that they can be protected." Ironwood said as they now walked together. "But I'm curious why you're here. I thought after Atlas you'd never teach outside your settlement again."
"Settlement, uh? I see Atlas still call it that, despite all things. Not that the other three Kingdoms want to admit reality too. But for the reason I'm here, it's because my nephew enrolled here." Chifuyu informed and James stared at her surprised.
"Do they know?"
"Of course the staff does know. His friends and almost everyone else don't, and we're better like this."
"If something happens…"
"Isn't that why you're here, James? To make sure nothing happens? Because that is why I'm here." Chifuyu stopped and smiled dryly at the general. "But don't worry; we're not your enemies, as long as you avoid becoming ours."
As she finished talking she walked back to beacon, while Ironwood worried about the situation.
…
"Blablablablablaba..." Port kept ranting about what was supposed to be a lesson on how to clear an area from Grimm to establish a settlement. Any lesson there was now drowned by his self-praising as he told them how he alone secured a huge area for farming purposes.
"Professor!" Weiss interrupted the babbling teacher with her hand raised and Port turned to her. "Why not simply bombing the area instead of painfully cleaning it with Hunters?"
"Ah, I see the typical Atlesian mind set at work." Port declared with a brief laugh. "This could work if all you want is to create a new mining spot, Ms. Schnee, but if you want farming land or a new place to build a city, bombing will turn the land into a wasteland where nothing grows, and therefore useless for those purposes. That's why Huntsmen and Huntresses like you are better to secure a perimeter while walls and other defenses are installed."
"Doesn't it make hard to create big settlements?" Ruby asked after Weiss.
"Indeed. Vale, Atlas, Mistral and Vacuo are both the oldest and biggest settlements, expanding themselves little by little thanks to the hard work of us Hunters. But bigger settlement attempts have being… mostly not successful." Port admitted with a frown… if one could consider he could do it with that moustache.
"Don't some people say there are hidden kingdoms around?" Cardin asked from his seat. "People that decided to get out of the kingdoms so they could do as they pleased?"
"Fairytales." Port then laughed loudly, while Jaune groaned internally for a moment. "There are some relatively big settlements around, Mr. Winchester, but nothing compared with Vale, for example. Now, as I was saying blablabla…"
…
"Jaune?" Pyrrha asked as the boy absent mindedly turned the page in an old book he found.
"Hm?"
"Is something troubling you?" She asked and he stared at the book then at her close face, and both blushed a little. He gave her a weak smile that didn't dispel her worried look.
"Home sickness." He admitted. "I know my aunt is here and all, but I was thinking of my sisters." Pyrrha put a supporting hand on his shoulder and he smiled more this time. They would have talked more about it if Yang and Weiss didn't started a ruckus over some kind of card/board game Ruby brought to the library.
"Hey guys!" They all turned to see Neptune and Sun approaching. "Aren't libraries supposed to be used for reading?"
"Thank you!" Ren shouted with hands in the air.
"Don't be a nerd!" Sun chastised his friend.
"Intellectual!" The nerd defended himself before returning his attention to the group, especially towards a certain heiress. "So, Sun and I were thinking… would you girls take us in a tour through the academy… maybe the city?"
"Yeah, we don't know our way around here!" Sun added as he sat by Blake's side and smiled at her, missing how annoyed she got by his gesture.
"What do you say, snow angel?" Neptune asked Weiss and she giggled at the flirt, while everyone else rolled their eyes.
"Maybe that's what I need…" Jaune spoke more to himself than to them. "Hey, Pyr, how about we go get some cake in town? I also need to buy some stuff."
"I'd love to go to town with you." She said just a little more excited than expected. Yang casted her eyes on them and felt something she couldn't believe she was feeling. Jealousy.
"I'll pass." Blake declared plainly as she put her cards down. If she wasn't so busy she would've done that, but she couldn't help but worry about the White Fang.
"Come on, let's go together! It'll be fun!" Sun tried to convince the Faunus girl and her bow twitched in annoyance.
"Sorry, I have more important things to do." She said in a clearly displeased tone before hurrying outside the library.
"Woman." They all turned to Nora in surprise.
...
"I'm not paying for you, Yang." Jaune stated clearly as they sat around the table of the coffee shop with their cakes.
"What? Why not? You're paying for P-money and Ruby!"
"First, I invited Pyrrha, so it's just the polite thing to do. Second…" He pointed to Ruby's puppy face. "Can you say no to this face?"
"Point taken…" She admitted as she poked her cake a little, still feeling jealous she wasn't the one invited. "I wish Blakey was here."
"What's wrong with her?" Sun asked as he ate the banana cake. "She was a little off."
"She has being like that for a while…" Ruby admitted then she took a bit of cake. "So good! Thanks big bro!"
"Brother?" Neptune asked with surprise.
"Actually, Yang and I are sisters, Jaune is our childhood friend, but it's like the brother I never had." Ruby said happily.
"That's really cool!" Sun nodded.
The talk around the cake veered to family and studies for a while, with Neptune mostly interested in Weiss and vice-versa, while Yang noticed the interest Sun was manifesting over Blake and found it great material for later. Nora and Ruby talked mostly with each other while Ren just nodded here and there, but Jaune and Pyrrha spoke little to each other, the boy still not much into it.
Soon the girls, something the guys would never really understand, took off to the restroom together, leaving the guys alone.
"So, Jaune, Ren, who's with who?" Sun asked eagerly to the surprise of both boys.
"What?" Both answered at the same time.
"The girls! Do they have someone they are interested on? Are you two interested in someone? I mean, Ren is clearly with that Nora girl…"
"We aren't together, together." Ren deadpanned.
"Yeah, and I'm a squid!" Sun retorted while Ren sighed. "How about you, Jaune? Any girl on your heart?"
"I don't think so?" Jaune answered with not much conviction. He would be lying if some of the girls didn't mess with his head a little.
"Nice. It means no one is attached to anyone! Except for Nora and Ren." Neptune declared and Ren sighed, giving up on fixing the situation. "I must say, Beacon girls are top notch. From bombshells to cuties."
"Can you don't talk of them like that…" Jaune commented a little annoyed about how Neptune referred to them. They were important friends to the knight, after all.
"Chill, man. We won't hurt any of them; we're just saying they're pretty." Neptune defended himself, hands in the air.
"They are, but they are more than that too and YANG!" He blushed madly as a pair of soft arms hugged him from behind. And a pair of two soft other things on his back.
"How you knew it was me?" She asked curiously.
"I think he had two big hints OUCH!" Sun stared at Neptune that gave him a dirty look after kicking him under the table.
"Well, it's true." Yang admitted with a laugh, pressing her chest more on the boy's back, glad he wasn't wearing armor but his school uniform that day. "Look, Jauney, the girls and I are worried about Blakey all alone in Beacon so we're going back. Thanks for the cake." She pecked his cheek and left him to blush tremendously while Sun and Neptune gave him thumbs up.
The other girls left, followed by Neptune and Sun. Jaune groaned when he discovered that Yang left the bill for him to pay, but Pyrrha demanded to split the part of Ruby and Yang with him, though they would get the money from Sun and Neptune some way. Nora and Ren (mostly Nora) decided to go to the park where the energetic girl decided she would find sloths, allowing Pyrrha to spend some time with Jaune.
…
"And that's why I wear armor." Jaune explained to Pyrrha as they returned to Beacon, and the champion couldn't stop but laugh at his antics with his family. She loved those stories a lot.
"I really want to meet them some day." She commented as they walked, staring at her own feet.
"They really want to meet you too and everyone. So, I'm already trying to see if I can get you to come with me next time we have a break." He added and she blushed again, and stared at his free arm, the other carrying a bag with supplies. A sudden desire to just grab his arm came over her, but she was too embarrassed to do so, afraid he would shun her away.
"Your family sounds wonderful…" She said and memories of her childhood made her frown, but then she felt Jaune's hand on her arm and a worried expression from him and blushed madly. "It's just… my family is just my mom and me, and… I spent so much time training that my memories of my childhood are mostly training and competing…"
"Harsh." Jaune admitted before putting his arm around her shoulder and pulling her closer to him, missing her going a shade of red that could be named after the girl. "But I'll be sure we make some nice ones now. Besides, you won't ever forget my family."
"You're right." She said simply and stared at his face, a weird desire to kiss the boy on spot coming over. She would even do it if he didn't stare at the distance beyond her, forcing her to stare back. "Is that Neptune hanging on the wall just outside RWBYs room?"
…
"Bad idea. The worst I ever heard." Jaune commented to team RWBY. "This is a job to the police… or graduated Hunters. Tell Ms. Goodwitch or at least my aunt!"
"Jaune, we can't go to the police, they'll ask how we do know what we know and that would put Blake in a tight spot." Weiss affirmed and the knight growled knowing she was right.
"Then let us go with you." Pyrrha said as she eyed the newcomers. "Let us help."
"You can help by keeping the teachers out of our tails." Blake said as she adjusted her clothes and weapons. "Look, we don't know what's happening, why the White Fang is helping a common criminal like Torchwick, calling the authorities now probably will just make them be more careful."
"But I want to fight the bad guys too!" Nora said as she pouted towards them. "Break some legses, deliver painful justice and all the jazz!"
"Jaune, you're our backup." Ruby said with a certain maturity unusual for her. "If we all go and we fall in a trap, there won't be anyone to help us. But with you here, if something goes wrong we know you will come to our rescue."
"In that case…" He said extending his small finger to Ruby, who smiled and wrapped hers with his. "I want a promise, of all of you, to be careful and that you will call for help as soon as things get complicated."
"We promise!" She said and stared at the others that agreed with it.
"Don't worry, pal. We'll take care of the girls." Sun said while winking at Blake, while she just rolled her eyes.
"You better do. Or else I'll let you have a close encounter with Nora's hammer." Jaune threatened the two boys.
"He means I'll hurt you." Nora said way too happily for the two newcomers comfort.
…
"No one is sleeping, right?" Jaune asked as he sat in his bed, wearing his onesie as a way to comfort himself.
"No." Pyrrha answered plainly as she sat too, grabbing her scroll and checking the time. "I hope they're being careful…"
"They are skilled, but a bit too eager." Ren said from his bed, but without moving from his spot. "Going blind at an enemy like that is worrisome."
"I'm sure they're fine, I bet soon they'll be walking the corridors and telling us of their amazing adventures!" Nora tried to say in an upbeat tone, but her voice didn't come as confident as she wanted.
"You know what?" Jaune said as he got up and got his clothes from under the bed.
"It took you too long!" Nora said as she also grabbed her clothes from under her bed, and so did Ren and Pyrrha in a second. The boys got inside the bathroom to change and waited the clear sign for them to come out, and soon they found themselves ready to go.
"How will we find them?" Ren questioned as they finished fixing their clothes.
"Yang commented something about going to a club owned by a guy named Junior. If I'm not wrong I know where it is." Jaune commented as Pyrrha helped with his armor.
"How do you know?" She questioned.
"I helped two girls carry their shopping bags once. Twins actually, cute, so I memorized the place OUCH!" He complained when Pyrrha tightened the straps a little too hard.
"I'm sorry!" She said with fake honey on her voice.
"We start from there and follow the trail of destruction." Jaune concluded as he approached the door. "We need to be very quietly, I don't want to…" He opened the door and saw his friends face change to surprised and scared ones. "Chifuyu-nee? OUCH!"
"It's Orimura-sensei." She deadpanned after hitting him with her pad. "Where are you children thinking of going at this hour?"
"Hmm… you see… we..." Jaune started mumbling on his words.
"Pancakes!" Nora shouted.
"Pancakes?" Chifuyu questioned with an arched eyebrow.
"Y-yeah! Nora sometimes wants a late snack and it have to be pancakes or she get crabby in the morning and tend to discount it on everyone!" Jaune said and everyone nodded in agreement.
"Oh. Late night pancakes sounds delicious. We should call team RWBY then." She said and moved to their door to team JNPR's panic.
"I think they might be sleeping and Yang and Weiss don't like to have their beauty sleep cut short…" Pyrrha jumped in rescue, and Chifuyu stared at them. It was in that moment that Jaune saw red, white, black and gold heads popping from the corner.
"Y-yeah, right. Come-on, Chifuyu-nee, I'll make you something." He said gently trying to take her arm.
"You do have a talent for cooking… Very well, I'm the mood for a late snack. And I wanted to talk with you anyway." She conceded and walked with team JNPR. With the coast clear the girls from RWBY sighed in relief and walked to their rooms.
"That was close." Yang murmured and stretched. "A shame we won't taste Jaune's cooking. He does know his way in the kitchen."
"We will convince him to prepare something for us tomorrow… I'm dead tired." Ruby said with a yawn.
"Me too. You know… we should reward Jaune for getting his aunt of our back." Weiss said as she unlocked their door. Then as she entered…
"Where were the four of you?" Glynda Goodwitch asked as she stood in the middle of their room. "Some students reported seeing you and the exchange students leaving Beacon at night, so I came to check on you."
"What? How… How you even…" They started asking at the same time.
"I can open any door at Beacon if I believe I had enough suspicion students are using the dorms to activities against the rules or in danger. Which of course remind me to question what you did with the beds?"
…
"Rough night?" Jaune asked as they sat for breakfast, with zombie team RWBY on the other side.
"We didn't sleep. Ms. Goodwitch decided to keep her sermon on why curfew is important and why improvised bunker beds are dangerous…" Ruby lamented as she lazily ate a cookie. The rest wasn't faring better. In fact, Blake was napping right there while Yang was drifting and Weiss looked even more crabby than usual.
"But did she discover of your little incursion?" Ren asked soon after.
"No, to her we just spend the night showing the city to Sun and Neptune… Which reminds me we haven't saw them since the giant robot." Ruby added and team JNPR exchanged stares.
"Giant robot?" They questioned at the same time.
"I can't believe I missed giant robots!" Nora complained to her not-boyfriend.
"You got late night pancakes instead." Ren affirmed.
"Yeah, we got the better deal and a good night of sleep. Jaune's auntie is cool when relaxed, she told little Jaune's stories." Nora smiled and Jaune groaned.
"They were cute stories." Pyrrha tried to comfort him but he blushed and groaned again.
"And we're going to visit Jaune's mommy next break!" Nora added with both arms in the air in a victorious gesture.
"What?" Ruby, Weiss and Yang asked, while Blake kept sleeping peacefully.
"Oh yeah, about that…" He perked up and smiled. "Next break mom will send an airship to get us there; she said she want to meet everyone. I think it will be just after the dance, so we will spend a week with her."
"Are we going to the lake again or that nice farm?" Ruby was now energetic again and vibrating in her seat.
"This time it will be my house." Jaune said a little nervously. Yang and Ruby never gone to his house, just the lake cabin and a farm house they had.
"If it's as nice as the lake cabin, I wouldn't mind. Thanks for inviting us, Arc." Weiss commented and drank some coffee, but yawned the same as the others.
"You four are lucky first class is Port." Pyrrha said with a comforting smile. "You can sleep during all of it and he won't notice a thing."
"Thank the heavens." Yang said then she eyed Jaune. "I demand your lap as my pillow."
"W-what? B-but…" Jaune blushed madly but Yang kept saying she wouldn't sleeping in the hard wooden table and he was going to allow her on his lap or else!
"Hey guys!" They turned to see Sun and Neptune, well rested and smiling, joining them on the table, loud sitting with them, the monkey Faunus by Blake (who didn't woke up at all) and the cool guy by Weiss' side.
"Last night was really something." Neptune said as he tried to eat a cupcake, only to have it taken by Yang.
"And where you two disappeared to?" She asked as her eyes flicked red.
"Well, after the giant robot tossed us from the highway, we noticed we wouldn't be able to catch you guys…" Sun started.
"And considering how skilled you were, we knew we didn't have to worry, so we grabbed some noodles to eat and then we returned here." Neptune finished with a winning smile that wasn't winning anyone right there.
"That's it… you two are not going with us in our next undercover mission. We will take team JNPR and let you two to cover for us!" Ruby said with a pout, grabbing her cookies and leaving.
"Oh come on! You're all unhurt! Come on, Blakey, you're on our side, right?" Her answer was to hit him with a straight right fist, sending him unconscious to the table.
"He woke me up…" She lamented in a sad tone, rubbing her eyes with the back of her left hand.
"Come on Blake, we have Port's class and you can nap there." Jaune offered and she jumped on his back, forcing him to hold her in place. "Huh…"
"Zzz…" She slept right on his back, and he smiled and carried her with him, missing pouts from Ruby, Pyrrha and Yang.
"And you!" Weiss pointed a finger to Neptune. "You and your banana eating friend better think in a very good way to apologize!" She stormed off following her friends, leaving the two newcomers sitting there alone.
"Man, I think we screw up back there…" Sun admitted to himself. "But that ramen really hit the spot last night."
"Sure did." Neptune admitted and they fist bumped… them Chifuyu grabbed their fists and they squirmed in pain.
"The transfer students need a lesson about Beacon rules." She stated simply and dragged the two with her, while the rest of the mess hall watched and lamented their fates.
OMAKE
"Ahahahaha!" Nora laughed evilly standing atop a makeshift castle of tables "I'm Queen of the castle! I'm Queen of the castle!"
"Justice will be swift! Justice will be painful! It, will be, DELICIOUS!"
A determined team RWBY let out a battle cry in support of their leader and prepared to charge.
"Off with their heads!" Nora ordered as JNPR prepared to counter attack.
Ren kicked three watermelons towards the opposing team, Jaune tossed one while Pyrrha tossed two. Nora flipped an entire table topped with watermelons at the group.
"Yang! Turkey." Ruby ordered her sister.
The blonde nodded and armed herself with two cooked turkeys as gauntlets to power through the rain of large fruit. Luckily as they came faster Blake somersaulted over her and picked up two baguettes and smashed the fruits which were too fast for Yang.
When the fruit bombardment was dealt with Yang launched her turkeys at Pyrrha. The Invincible Girl was able to dodge the flying meat but left her partner exposed, luckily Jaune deflected the turkeys from himself with a kick for each sending them right back at Yang who was sent flying backwards as the turkeys smashed her in the stomach.
Blake began dual-wielding against Pyrrha who easily kept up with the attacks, flipping over and around Blake tried to gain an advantage but Pyrrha held firm. Blake tried to pin her with a throw one of the baguettes only to be speared by the Invincible Girl's better aim.
Ruby then launched herself forward to skid on table tops over a food tray, dodging a volley of apples from Jaune. She threw another tray at Pyrrha to distract her in order to throw herself and her tray at the champion. Both were sent skidding backwards from the kick.
Ruby stood up and saw Ren and Nora running at them.
Weiss held the ketchup and mustard bottles and sent a wave of condiments across the floor at the opposing pair. Ren is unable to alter his course, and slipped on the floor before crashing into a nearby barricade of tables Nora leapt into the air and snapped an iron rod off the wall and stabs it into a nearby watermelon, wielding the formidable weapon like a giant hammer that she used it to swing at Weiss who was pushed out of the way at the last second by Ruby who took the hit and was smashed backwards.
Weiss quickly up a swordfish and dashed at the Valkyrie with a fencer like lunge, however Nora easily kept up and pushed back her on the defensive with powerful swings of her makeshift War hammer. Eventually Nora broke through Weiss defenses and sent her flying back into a column.
Ruby caught her partner as the column she had smashed into fell apart and smashed into the ground.
"Weiss! Don't leave me!" The red leader begged as the heiress goes limp in her arms, "Nooooo...!"
Emerging from the rubble, Yang dashed out and armed herself with two more turkeys as Ren dashes across the room and met her in the middle, he grabbed two large celery sticks, he is able to block Yang's kick but she smirked at her stoic foe as their hold against each other intensified.
Yang cried out as she attempted a roundhouse kick that was blocked by Ren, frustrated she returned to using a pair of turkey gauntlets, after a block and a combo to the gut Yang smacked Ren on the back of the head sending him to his knees.
She then unleashed powerful uppercut which sent Ren into the air, but the pink eyes boy is able to readjust his trajectory and throw his celery at Yang. Sadly he missed her by mere an inch, he could only watch helplessly as she leapt above him and delivered a painful meteor smash that caused him to crash into the floor with such force that everyone had a ringing in their ears.
However, Yang is unable to get a chance to celebrate as Nora is on her in an instant with her fruity war hammer. Yang attempted to counter attack only for Nora to her in the chin and send her crashing upward through the roof and out of sight.
Nora was so distracted with watching Yang fly away that Blake was able to whip her with a chain of sausage links into the soda machines at the foot of JNPR's makeshift castle.
Nora quickly retaliated by picking up the sugary soft drinks, she then unleashes a volley of soda grenades at Blake, pushing her back as Ruby and Weiss begin dodging the cans and charged their opponents.
"Pyrrha, semblance!" Jaune ordered as he picked up a bag of frozen peas. "Nora, throw at that pudding at Ruby's face on my command."
Nora grinned and picked up a discarded pudding bowl and aimed for Ruby, awaiting Jaune's command.
Punching the ground under her, the Spartan used her semblance to control the mass of soda constructs, whipping them around herself into a frenzy of metal and liquid before launching like a pair of rivers at the opposition, the force threw Weiss and Blake back into the far wall.
Ruby watched this and prepared to use Semblance. "Now Nora!" Until Jaune gave his signal and Nora blinded her with chocolate pudding to the face.
As Ruby attempted to clear her eyes herself Jaune tore open the frozen peas and scattered them around the girl's feet. When she did regain her sight the Rose did attempt to use her semblance but found herself going nowhere fast, she looked down to realize the frozen peas were keeping her from gaining any traction. Horror covered her face as Pyrrha' army of soda was swirling behind JNPR a smug look on the controller's face.
"Pyrrha, if you would." Jaune requested with a smirk.
The wave of soda flew at Ruby slamming her into the wall near the doors painting it and the remaining members of team RWBY with different sodas. Eventually when the bombardment ended the three slid off the wall leaving outlines in on the soda painted wall.
The doors behind them open and Professor Goodwitch promptly entered the room growling. She proceeds to use telekinesis to repair the room.
"Children, please. Do not play with your food!" Professor Goodwitch requested as fixed her glasses.
Nora burped loudly as both Teams JNPR and RWBY tried and failed to compose themselves. A screaming Yang then crashed from the ceiling into one of the tables.
"Let it go." Ozpin said putting a hand on Glynda's shoulder.
"They're supposed to be the defenders of the world." Professor Goodwitch objected with a sigh.
"And they will be, but right now they're still children. So why not let them play the part?" Ozpin asked as he walked away from Glynda. "After all, it isn't a role they'll get to have forever."