*Volume Intro*
The episode starts off with Ozpin and Glynda, still on the same cliff they launched the students off of. The two of them are looking at monitors. "Our last pair has been formed, sir, Nora Valkyrie and Li Ren. Poor boy, I can't possibly imagine those two getting along."
"You'd be surprised how long we have been by each other's side. With that kind of time, nothing will tear us apart." Ren turned to Nora, who gave him a large smile. The boy returned it with a small, more content one.
"Still, he's probably better off than Ms. Nikos." Ozpin hummed in acknowledgement. "I don't care what his transcripts say, that Jaune fellow was not ready for this level of combat. I guess we'll find out soon enough."
"Man, even Professor Ozpin didn't have that much faith in me," Jaune says, but his voice wasn't hurt. Again, this was his past self, before he accepted Pyrrha's training.
"At their current pace, they should reach the temple within just a few minutes. Speaking of which, what did you use for relics this year?" Glynda asks, though he doesn't respond. "Professor Ozpin?"
He's too busy looking at his monitor, brows furrowing in the process. One the screen shows Weiss pacing behind a bored Ruby, who's sitting criss-cross-applesauce. "It's definitely this way." Says Weiss in a speaker voice.
Now it fully shows what's happening between the two. "I mean this way," repeating herself but turning in the other direction. Ruby tossed around a little leaf as Weiss went on. "It's definitely this way." She says, walking in the same direction.
"Alright," Weiss starts, Ruby getting up with annoyance. "It's official, we passed it."
"Why can't you just admit that you have no idea where we're going?" Ruby finally says, crossing her arms.
Sheesh, I was such a spoiled little brat… Weiss winces once more, and she knew it wouldn't be the last time she'd do so.
"Because I know exactly where we're going. We're.. going… to the forest temple!" Ruby groans in frustration. "Oh stop it, you don't know where we are either!"
"Well, at least I'm not pretending like I know everything!" "What is that supposed to mean?" Weiss saying her iconic line.
"It means you're a big, stupid jerk and I hate you!" Ruby yells. Weiss just lets out a loud sigh. "Just keep moving."
" Just keep moving, hurry up, wah watch where you're going." Ruby says, mocking Weiss in her own voice, really sounding like a child. "Why are you so bossy?"
"I'm not bossy!" Weiss retorts indignantly, turning around "Don't say things like that!" "Stop treating me like a kid!" "Stop acting like a kid!"
Weiss turned her head to apologize once more but the look Ruby gave her made her think better doing so.
"I'm. Not. Perfect. Not yet, but I'm still leagues better than you." Ending the argument, Weiss walks off. "You don't even know me," Ruby mutters to herself dejectedly.
Team Bmblb make their way towards the forest that they find themselves in front of. "Think this is it?" Yang asks. Blake just gives Yang a 'Really?' look.
"Right, seems pretty obvious." Blake subconsciously gave onscreen Yang the same look. Yang caught whiff of it and combed her fingers through her hair nervously. Blake rolled her eyes and smiled softly at the Yang sitting next to.
Blake initiated their walk down the hill, Yang following not too far behind. The two study the 'relics'. "Chess pieces?" "Some of them are missing, looks like we weren't the first ones here," Yang analyzed.
"Well, I guess we should pick one."
The screen changes to show Pyrrha and Jaune standing in front of the mouth of a dark cavern. "You think this is it?"
Jaune firmly shook his head, nope it was not the temple, not even close.
The two are then seen walking through the cave, Jaune holding a torch and lighting up the path. "I'm not sure this is it," says Pyrrha, her voice filled with uncertainty. "Pyrrha, I made the torch, could you at least humor me for five more feet?" Jaune trips, dropping the torch in what was mostly a puddle of water. Leaving the area around them pitch black. The only thing visible on screen were their eyes. "Do you feel that?" Pyrrha asks. "Soul-crushing regret?" Jaune replies.
"No, it's…warm."
"Gross Jaune," said boy, looking at Raider with offense. "I didn't- Oh really!" Pyrrha eyed Jaune with genuine curiosity, "Did you-?"
"Of course not!"
Yang eyed the golden knight, then picked it up. "How about a cute little pony?" Blake smiles with amusement "Sure." The two walked closer to each other, "That wasn't too hard!"
"Well, it's not like this place is very difficult to find."
Blake fidgeted, wanting to avert everyone else's gaze as they all gave her a 'seriously' kind of look.
"So it might have been a bit more difficult for others," Blake says in her usual soft voice.
Jaune and Pyrrha continued walking until they ran into a source of light, but the shape looked similar to a stinger. "That's the relic!" Jaune yelled in excitement.
Jaune groaned with Pyrrha patting his back with a sympathetic smile.
Jaune tried to reach for it, but it moved out of his reach. "Hey, bad relic." He tries it a second time but gets the same results. In his final attempt, he jumps onto the tip, holding on by its edge. "Jaune…" Pyrrha calls out in worry. The face of the creature is shown.
"The relic moving from your grasp should have been your fist red flag," Yang says with a snort.
From the skies, Blake and Yang are seen from the ground, and the sound of a horrified girl scream was heard in the distance.
"Some girl's in trouble!" Yang calls out.
The room was silent before Yang and a bunch others began to laugh at Jaune's expense. Blake slapped Yang's arm, who was reasonably dying of laughter. "That's your scream?"
Jaune wanted to dig a hole, then bury himself in it.
The more mature were either feeling sympathetic for the boy or holding in their laughter much better than the rest. Ruby wasn't in that category. "Bhahahaha! You scream like a little girl!"
"I know, can we just move on, please?"
"Fine, hehe, it is hilarious how Yang responded to it though," Ruby said, wiping a tear away from her eye.
Blake looked up at the sky, her brows furrowed. "Blake?" Yang calls out to her when she doesn't say anything.
From the outside of the cave, Pyrrha was running from the mouth, the screams sounding more prominent. Rocks burst everywhere from the cave as the size and creature was shown, and Jaune is seen hanging on for dear life to the scorpion grimm's stinger. "Pyrrha! Pyrrha, this is not the relic! It's not!" Jaune cries as the grimm tries its best to shake Jaune off. "Do something!"
"Jaune whatever you do, don't let-" Pyrrha was cut short as the grimm got enough momentum to fling him past the large expanse of trees. "Go…" She finishes. She turns back, as she faces the enemy, but rubs the back of her head with a nervous grin, ultimately fleeing from the encounter.
"Blake, what should we do?" Yang asks again. She turns towards the girl and sees her looking up at the sky with an open mouthed frown. Falling from the sky is Ruby, yelling, "Heads up!!!" As she plummets. Then, the screen goes black. The outro is it's usual, but, like last time, it showed a different pair; Nora and Ren.
"Ruby!" Yang shouts with horror spread across her face.