-Volume Intro-
"I didn't realize the last thing we watched would be the intro," Ruby exclaimed.
The episode continues where they left off. Airships proceed to land on their docks near Beacon.
Right as the door opens, Jaunes runs out to find the nearest trash can to throw up in.
"Though gross, that is amazing will power you have." Jaune turned to Yang, not knowing what she was referring to by power until he actually remembered. Yeah, that would have been a nice movement to forget, but nope, his luck was never the best.
Yang and Ruby make their way off the ship and begin to marvel at the sight before them. "The view from Vale's got nothing on this." Yangs says, crossing her arms in the process.
Ruby becomes 2-D and geeks over everyone's weapons, Yang just looks at her sister weirdly. "Oh, sis! That kids got a collapsible staff, and she's got a fire sword!" Ruby starts drifting away, Yang being the one having to reel her back into reality by her hood.
"Easy there little sister, they're just weapons." Ruby took this as an offense, "Just weapons? They're an extension of ourselves, they're a part of us! Oh, they're so cool."
Changes to only show Yang, "Well, why can't you swoon over your own weapon, are you happy with it?" The sound of metal is heard before going back to Ruby. "Of course I'm happy with Crescent Rose, I just really like seeing new ones. It's like meeting new people, but better."
Some were confused on what Ruby meant by that, but they weren't going to question it because it seems like one of those things that is hard to explain.
"Ruby, come one. Why don't you try and go make some friends of your own?" Yang says, grabbing Ruby's hood and pulling it down over her sister's head.
"But why would I need friends when I have you?" She says, correcting her hood.
"Well, actually my friends are here now, gotta go catch up. Kay see you bye!"
"Wait, where are you going?"
Yang and four others run off. Yang zooms past Ruby, causing her to spin around, leaving her dizzy. Yang and her friends only get farther and farther away.
"Wait, aren't we supposed to go to our dorms?" Ruby yells after to Yang. "Where are our dorms? Do we have dorms? I don't know what I'm doing." Ruby continues to back up, until she trips over a luggage cart, falling to the ground with the suitcases flying everywhere.
Raider snaps her finger and points at the Schnee in the front, "Cue Weiss Schnee!"
The camera zooms back, showing a white shoe. "What are you doing!?" Comes Weiss's voice.
Ruby raises her head, and faces the girl, "Sorry." Weiss just yells out at her in outrage, "'Sorry'!? Do you have any idea of the damage you could have caused?"
Weiss could only wince at her past self. She tried to shrink herself as much as possible, wanting to avoid the gazes of the others in the room right now. Had she really been this vain the whole time?
"Ruby, I should be the one to apologize, not you."
"Don't worry about it Weiss. I guess in hindsight it was both of our faults," Ruby reassured her partner, telling her she had nothing to be sorry about.
Ruby hands Weiss one of the suitcases, but she just rudely takes it from her hands. "Give me that! This is dust, mined and purified from the Schnee Quarry. What are you, braindead? Dust! Fire, water, lightning, energy!" Weiss shakes around the dust capsule that isn't fully closed.
Ruby proceeds to inhale the dust through both her mouth and nose. "Are you even listening? Is any of this sinking in?"
"I'm really sorry Ruby, I-" Weiss went to say sorry once more but Ruby only cut her off.
"It's fine Weiss, this is all in the past. I know you've gotten better."
Weiss could do nothing more than send her leader a grateful smile. In all honesty, Weiss thought she shouldn't deserve Ruby's forgiveness.
"What do you have to say for yourself?" That dust was the last straw as Ruby let out an enormous sneeze. Causing a massive explosion with fire, ice and a little bit of lightning.
The dust capsule flew in the air and bounced over to Blake's feet. She picked up the capsule while reading her book. She turned the capsule to see a snowflake. Turning to face the sound of Weiss screaming at Ruby.
"Unbelievable!" Weiss is covered in soot everywhere. "This is exactly the kind of thing I was talking about." Ruby is standing in front of her silent, twiddling her index fingers together. "I'm really, really sorry!"
"You complete dolt!"
Weiss winced more at how aggressive she was. Yang honestly couldn't help her urge to protect her sister, but Ruby was right, it was all in the past and Weiss was and is making the effort to change.
"What're you even doing here? Aren't you a little young to be attending Beacon?"
Though it was meant to be an insult, Ruby's friends were proud of her that she moved up two grades.
"Well, I-uh I…" Ruby looks down nervously, and Weiss only continues berating her. "This isn't your ordinary combat school. It's not just sparring and practice you know. We're here to fight monsters, so watch where you're going!"
It was then Ruby began to stand up for herself and talk back. "Hey, I said I was sorry Princess!"
It was then, Blake joined the argument between the two. "It's heiress actually. Weiss Schnee, heiress to the Schnee Dust Company. One of the largest producers for energy propellant in the world."
"Kinda a little scary how she knows all that on a whim," Nora says with a bit of a freaked out expression.
"Gotta agree, that is a little creepy Blakey." Yang says, looking towards her partner. She just rolled her eyes affectionately.
"Sure, might be disturbing for some, but Weiss didn't see it that way when I told her that," Blake states in her defense.
"Finally, some recognition-" Weiss continued, but Blake wasn't quite finished yet. "The same company, infamous for its controversial labor forces and questionable business partners."
"Yep, I deserved that," Weiss says with a light chuckle. The others join in knowing that Weiss also finds the humor in Blake's retort.
"Wha-! How dare-! The nerve…!" Weiss snatches the capsule and storms off in a huff. Ruby calls after her, trying to deflate the situation, "I promise I'll make this up to you!" Weiss doesn't turn around and continues her stride.
"I guess I'm not the only one having a rough first day."
"All people will have rough first days Ruby, it's inevitable." Pyrrha says, trying to comfort her friend.
Ruby bounces back, "So what's…" But trails off when she sees Blake walking away.
"I'm sorry Ruby." The girl only waved her faunus friend off, "Don't worry about it, I'm sure you had places to be anyways."
She really didn't, which was part of the reason why Blake wanted to apologize to the girl.
Ruby drops to her knees and just lies on her back, "Welcome to Beacon." Closing her eyes before she is met with a shadow.
She looks up to see Jaune, lending out his hand for Ruby to take. "Hey, I'm Jaune."
"The start of a brand new friendship!" Ruby yells happily, Jaune following suit.
Ruby gratefully takes his hand, "Ruby." She then gives a snort before asking, "Aren't you the guy that threw up on the ship?"
Scene: The two are walking side by side down a stone path. "All I'm saying is that motion sickness is a much more common problem than people let on."
"Look, I'm sorry, Vomit-Boy was the first thing that came to mind." Jaune just scoffed, "Oh yeah? Well, what if I called you Crater-Face."
"Hey! That explosion was an accident!"
"Well, the name's Jaune Arc, short, sweet, rolls off the tongue. Ladies love it."
All the women in the room turn to Jaune. Said boy was trying to avoid all of their gazes.
"Do they?"
"Asking the question that we were all thinking about," Yang says with a smirk.
"They will, well, I hope they will. I mean, my mom always says that… nevermind." He waves his hand towards Ruby, dropping the subject.
"Sooo, I got this thing," Ruby says, pulling out Crescent Rose.
"Is that how you always introduce your weapon?" Weiss asks.
"No, it's not. I would be hilarious though," Yang answers for her sister.
Jaune jumps back in surprise, "Woah! Is that a scythe?"
"It's also a customizable high impact sniper rifle." Juane blanks and Ruby tries again. "It's also a gun." Jaune lets out a noise of understanding. "That's cool!"
Ruby asks excitedly, "So what do you got?"
"I got this sword." Ruby looks at it with amazement, "Yeah, I got a shield too."
"So what do they do?" Ruby asks as Jaune retracts his shield, but just drops it. "The shield gets smaller, so when I get tired of carrying it… I can just put it away."
"But wouldn't it weigh the same?" Jaune just nods and confirms it disappointingly.
Pyrrha pats the boy's shoulder, telling him that the classics are great.
"Well, I'm kinda a dork when it comes to weapons, I guess I did go a little overboard designing it." This gives Jaune pause, "Wait, you made that?"
"Of course! All students at Signal forge their own weapons. Didn't you make yours?" Jaune takes a look at the sword before answering, "It's a hand-me-down. My Great-great grandfather used it to fight in the war."
"That just means your sword has character." Ren also attempts to cheer up his leader. Jaune appreciates it, smiling.
"Yeah, we think your sword is awesome!" Nora exclaims.
"Sounds more like a family heirloom to me. Well I like it! Not many people have an appreciation for the classics these days." Ruby says, trying to reassure the boy. It has the desired effect when Jaune lets out a small chuckle. "Yeah, the classics."
Changing the subject, Ruby asked Jaune. "So, why'd you help me out back there, in the courtyard."
"Eh, why not. My mom always says, strangers are just friends you haven't met yet."Ruby then asked Jaune the big question, "Hey, where are we going?" Jaune shrugged, "Oh I don't know, I was following you."
The screen starts to fade.
"You think there might be a directory, maybe a food court? Some sort of recognizable landmark?"
Ruby just continues to snort as Jaune keeps the questions going.
"Is that a 'no'?"
Ruby answers plain and simple, "That's a no."
*End Credits*
"I think that turned out to be a great first day at Beacon, what do you think, Jaune?" Ruby asks the boy with a bright smile.
Jaune returns it, more than happy to agree with the girl. "Yeah, it was a good first day."