Despite what I said early, I am going to include Weiss in the ship, making this a Frosensteel fic (seriously how is there names for every ship...). As to why, I simply liked both of them and couldn't choose either. Now I'm still deciding if that is the only change to a ship I will make.

"I'm just sayin' there's more members of JNPR in this team than RWBY. It just makes sense to go with that one." Nora said.

"But 'junior' isn't a color. Or at the very least doesn't imply one" Ren retorted.

They were currently in the woods, waiting for something.

Nora groans. "How can I be more clear?" Nora pulls out a paper and pencil from… somewhere, and writes on it. She showed it to Ren, the words JNRR on it. She points to the first three. "One, two, three." She then points to the R. "That's more than one."

"But we're helping Ruby with her objective." Ren said, grabbing the paper writing the letters RNJR. Ren points to the first R. "Wouldn't that make her the leader?"

"Guys!"

Ren and Nora turn their heads toward Jaune, who is crouched and watching something. "We need to focus…. Also, JNRR is way cooler."

"Exactly!" Nora cheered.

Ren goes to speak, but instead just groans.

Suddenly, there's a rumble.

"It's here." Jaune said.

"Be the bait, they said. You're faster than all of us, they said." Ruby said, jumping from tree to tree using her semblance. "Next time, Ruby, think twice about being bait when YOU'RE RUNNING AWAY FROM A GIANT GRIMM!"

Behind her, A collection of floating boulders with a Grimm mask moves the trees aside, clearly chasing her. She jumped off the trees and turned around, using Crescent Rose to fire at it, not making a lot of damage.

But then, Ruby realized she just jumped off a cliff. "Oh, crap baskeeeeeee…" She yells as she falls, crashing against tree limbs along the way.

Ruby lands on her feet on a big tree branch strong enough to hold her weight. "Guess I know why we need a landing strategy…" She mutters before she uses her Semblance to fly past the Grimm, who destroyed the tree she landed.

"Let's get that thing off her." Jaune said as he ran towards the fight. Ren jumps up into the trees.

"Don't forget me!" Nora says as she pulls out Magnhild and shoots it at the ground, propelling herself into the air with excited whooping. She lands right beside Ren in his branch.

"We need to draw its attention away from Ruby!"

"Please do!" Ruby said, flying past them as a stream of rose petals.

Nora began shooting the Grimm in the back as Ren hops around on branches, shooting it as well. The Grimm tries to hit Ren, but uses this to run up its rock arm, flies into the air, and comes down upon the Grimm, striking at it with the blades from StormFlower.

"Gotta get in closer!" Jaune says, trying to find a way to attack.

Ren lands beside Jaune. "My blades don't hurt him!" He stated.

The Grimm turns to the two of them. "Crap!" Nora shouted

"How about this?!" Ruby yelled as she loaded a magazine with an image of a lightning bolt on its side into Crescent Rose. She uses her semblance to run in front of Grimm and fire at its arm. Electric bolts encase one of the Grimm's arms, but it does nothing.

Ruby forgot that Electric is weak to Rock.

The red lines on the arm glow brighter, and the Grimm slams it into the ground. All are sent flying backwards, but Ren, Nora, and Ruby manage to land on their feet. Jaune tumbles along the ground painfully until he hits a boulder between his legs and falls forward.

"You'll be fine without a weapon, he said. You're the strategist, he said." He groaned in pain. "Last time I take advice from a blacksmith…"

"That's it!" Nora shouts as she runs forward, tossing Magnhild into the air and transforming it into hammer mode. She jumps into the air and hits it, breaking its arm apart, but it manages to grab a large piece and throw it straight toward Nora. Luckily, Ruby gets between them and knocks it away. The Grimm uses its other arm to strike at the two girls.

Jaune straightens and stretches and soon has to dodge a barrage of rocks.

"Hey! Be careful!"

A rock the size of his head hits him in the face and sends him into a tree. Jaune lands in a crouch and shakes his head to clear the pain. "Why do I feel like comedy relief right now…"

The Grimm continually tries and fails to hit an evasive Nora.

Jaune stands up, leaning on a nearby tree, and looks up at the Grimm as its armless shoulder gains a glowing red circle with a symbol of an eye in the middle. The circle spins, and then a black, elongated arm with clawed fingers emerges from it. The arm rears back.

"Uh-oh…"

The Grimm shoves its new arm into the tree Jaune was leaning against and lifts it from the ground.

Jaune begins running "His arm is a tree! His arm is a tree!"

"Big mistake!" Ruby shouts as she spins Crescent Rose and loads another magazine into it - this one with imagery of fire on its side. She fires, and the flaming projectile swings around to the tree arm. Jaune fist pumps, believing it to be destroyed. However, the Grimm reveals the arm to be on fire

"Big mistake!" Jaune shouted back.

The Grimm chases Jaune, swinging the flaming arm at him. It misses twice, but then Jaune falls. One of StormFlower spins through the air and makes a cut across the Grimm's mask, making it fall.

Ren lands beside Jaune and catches his gun. Ruby and Nora come up behind their teammates.

"Okay, how do we do this?" Jaune asked, realizing they had time to take a breath and strategize.

"His body is too thick to break through." Ren added

"It doesn't care about its body…"

"Plus it can keep grabbing new limbs!" Nora said.

"But it keeps protecting its face…"

"We can't break it!" Ruby screamed.

"Ugh, if we just knocked all of its limbs off at once and went for the…" Jaune said before his eyes lit up with an idea and he turned to face his team. Behind him, the Grimm gets up.

"Guys, I got it! We hit it harder!"

"...That's it?" Ruby asked, confused. Why does it feel like something Sun would say?

"No, seriously. It's trying to keep us from its face. If we kill the limbs, we'll have a shot to kill the whole thing!" He explained clearly now.

"Alright! Come on, team, let's do this." Ruby said, with both Nora and Ren nodding.

Jaune began directing positions. "Ren, left. Ruby, right. Nora, ready to try out the new upgrade?" Nora nods and runs. "Right. And I will—"

Jaune nearly got hit in the back by the Grimm, so he decides to do what he's been doing and runs.

Ruby attacks the right side while Ren attacks the left.

Meanwhile Nora activates a mechanism that generates a current of electricity across the hammerhead of Magnhild. Jaune runs around to make himself a target, waving at the Grimm.

The Grimm goes after Jaune but switches targets as Ruby and Ren continue to attack it.

Nora charges Magnhild even more and braces her feet.

"Ready!" She shouts to the group.

Ruby lands next to Jaune after another wave of attack.

"Use everything you've got!" Jaune yells out.

Ruby uses her Semblance to fly at the Grimm, taking Nora with her, and the red and pink swirls go right for the tree arm. Ruby slices the tree in half, opening the way for Nora to hit the mask with Magnhild. The rock body shatters, only the one with the main body remaining and the Grimm rises out of it and flies off.

Ruby raised her scythe and shot it, destroying the Grimm.

Jaune breathes heavily before posing with his hands on hips. "Another victory for Team JNRR!"

Silence fills the forest. Even the wind decided to be quiet, only rolling a tumbleweed.

"Yeah, okay. Ren, I think you're onto something. I-it's just not sounding great anymore." Jaune said. "Anyway, let's go back. Hopefully next time I will actually have my SWORD AND SHIELD!"

That fight would have been over with my Silver-Eyes.

That was the thought that plagued Ruby's mind every time they finished a Grimm. She kept wondering how much faster the fight would have been if she used her new power. How much easier if she just activated them.

But she doesn't, because of her promise to Qrow. She almost broke it once and regretted it. Yes she is curious about it and her connection with her mom, Summer, and how much more powerful she can get. But she also doesn't need them since she has Jaune, Ren and Nora with her and so far everything is going fine.

But she can feel it. The urge to activate the Silver-Eyes. She feels something in her eyes, something wanting to get out, like an itch she can't scratch. She ignores that dark part of her that is waiting for something more powerful than her friends to come along so she can use them. Instead she focused on her task which was shaking hands with the town Mayor.

"We truly can't thank you enough." He said.

"Just doing our job, sir." Ruby waved him off.

"That Geist had been plaguing our village for weeks. We were beginning to wonder if we'd have to relocate." He said.

"Well, we are on our way to Mistral. You could always come along with us if you don't feel safe." Ruby offered, looking around the town.

People buying fresh produce from a cart, stand and chat on open balconies overlooking the roads, tend to their horses and generally go about their daily lives peacefully. The village has plentiful trees and green spaces and cobbled roads.

Mayor, amused, chuckled. "Ha. I take it you're not from these parts. Anima is a large continent. I'm afraid our people would never survive the long trek to Mistral. It may be safer in the Kingdoms, but we prefer our way of life. I just wish we could pay you more."

"Our previous arrangement is more than sufficient." Ren said as the now dubbed Team RNJR bows respectfully before making their way to a blacksmith shop.

A burly man with horns, most likely a faunus, slams down a set of armor.

"There you go, son. It's going to be heavier than what you're used to, but you'll thank me the next time you go up against a set of claws."

"Wow. That… I don't know what to say." Jaune said, at a loss for words.

"Don't gotta say anything! Just put it on! I'll go get the rest." The Faunus blacksmith said before he turned around and went out back.

"So, what are you waiting for?" Nora asked.

"Oh, uh, right!" Jaune says as he takes off his old chestplate. "Guess I was going to grow out of it eventually."

"A sign of progress." Ren said.

"Progress…" Jaune muttered as he turns around.

Suddenly Ruby gasps then covers her mouth and tries not to giggle.

"What is it?" Jaune asked, confused.

Ruby pointed to his chest "What is that!?" She asked.

Jaune looked down, seeing the face of a bunny on it. "What, my hoodie? I've always had this."

Ruby kept snorting "It's got a cute little bunny rabbit!" She shouted as she began to laugh.

"It's Pumpkin Pete! You know, from the cereal?" Jaune defended himself.

"What did you do?! Send in a box top for a prize?" Ruby said, holding her sides.

"Yeah! Fifty!"

"Oh, I can't breathe!" Ruby continues to laugh hysterically before she falls onto the floor.

Ruby chortles from the floor, feet in the air. The blacksmith returns from out back.

"Can't have a Huntsman without his weapon." He stated as a wide sword sheath is stuck into the countertop. Ruby managed to stop laughing and got up to inspect the sword.

"Made all the modifications you asked for." He said as the blade expanded into a shield.

"You can thank Ruby for that." Nora said. "She was the one who came up with that."

"Along with other things…" Jaune added.

Ruby rolled her eyes. "Well excuse me if I wanted to try and make the sword"

"Ruby, not everything has to be a gun."

"LIES! BLASPHEMY! TRAITOR!" Ruby proclaimed, pointing dramatically at Jaune.

Blacksmith laughed at their antics. "That was some fine metal you brought me. Accents the white nicely. Where'd you get it from?

Jaune stared at the gold accents on the shield. "From a friend."

Ruby stared at the shield, specifically the bottom part.

Ruby watched in horror as Pyrrha's entire body incinerated, turning to ash in a matter of seconds, scattering to the wind, the only thing left of her being her shield, sword and a few pieces of armor.

Her arm and lips began to tremble, but she quickly grabbed it with her other arm and bit hard enough on her lip she could taste blood. Don't. She thought. I don't have any right to mourn her…

They all decided to give Jaune some privacy, so they all waited outside the shop for him. He comes out wearing the armor. He pulls out the sword and expands the shield.

"He cleans up alright, don't you think?" The Blacksmith complimented.

"He certainly does." Ren added.

"Nothing's gonna stop Team RNJR now!" Ruby shouted.

"Team JNRR!" Nora shouted the other team name

"Still not a color."

"It doesn't matter what we're called." Jaune said. "As long as we're together."

"You kids sure you won't stick around?" The Blacksmith asked. "You've been real good to this town."

"Sorry, but we've got another mission." Ruby rejected the offer.

"Make it to Haven Academy, no matter what." Nora explaiend

"We've heard the next village over has a working Airship." Ren said.

"Mmm, no way to know for sure. Scroll signals were weak enough out here back when Beacon Tower was still up. Haven't heard from Shion Village in a while." The Blacksmith answered, a bit concerned.

"Well, there's only one way to find out." Ruby said.

With a wave, Team RNJR turns and leaves. The blacksmith waves back and grunts.

"Food?" Jaune asked

"Check!" Nora answered.

"Water?" He asked again.

"Check!" She answered again.

"How about ammo?"

"Locked and loaded! Thank you, Schnee Dust Company!"

Schnee… Ruby wonders how Weiss is doing. She hasn't been able to contact her, despite her many attempts, someone else always intercepting communication, either Atlas or someone from the company. She almost considered sending a carrier pigeon, something that made Qrow terrified for some reason. She missed everything about her, from seeing her in the morning to hearing her voice. Heck, She missed her voice so much she bought her records! She has such a lovely voice…

"Got the map?" Jaune asked.

"Ren's got it." Nora said.

There was no response. Ruby turned to the black-haired boy, only to notice him staring at her.

"Ren, is there something wrong?" Ruby asked, blinking.

Ren seemed to snap out of his thoughts as he looked elsewhere. "Uh, nothing…" He said, shaking his head. "And yes, I have the map."

He quickly moved in front of the group and opened up the map, guiding them without a word. The three stared at one another, confused by the sudden action, but thought nothing of it.

The episode was mostly the same, but with a few twists there that I added. Gotta plants the seeds of a plot somewhere!